Glendoure raysd armes Hotspur rebeld Woorster Northumberland with others moe Whom Edward met at Shrewsbury and queld Giuing those Lords a Mortall ouerthrow The Milleine Duke that many yeares exceld In Tyranny at length was layde full low Leauing to Iohn his Sonne the Dukedomes Seat This yeare was stated Mahomeâ—… the great 74 Charles of Cremona by the Treason dide Of base Cabrinus Fundulus his slaue Th'Arch-Byshop Scroope that Edward late defide Surprizd in field came to a timelesse graue In Poland at Cracouia full of pride Was founded th'Accademy some depraue The Burgoin Duke that did his hands imbrew In Orleance blood whom he by Treason slew 75 Saint Andrewes Vniuersity begon In Scotland Iohâ—… the Milleine Duke is slaine Of his owne Subjects Ladislaus won The Citty Rome which he gaue vp againe King Edward dying left vnto his son Henry the fift a faire and prosperous raigne Ten yeares he did his Royall fame aduance and to his Crowne annext the Realme of France 76 Great Amurath sway'd Turky Iohn Castile The sixt Charles France Pope Martin Peters Chaire at Henries claime to France the French-men smile With many taunts they Englands puissance dare King Henrie crost the seas and in small while at Agin-court manag'd a fight so rare That in one battaile he the Land ore-tun Leauiug the Crowne successiue to his son 77 Ieremy Prague and Iohn Husse dye by fire about religious causes Ziscaled The Thaborytes and further gan aspire against the Emperour to list his head French Katherine was Crownd Queene by great desire Of all our English peeres Duke Clarens sped against the Dolphin but alas in vaine By multitudes he was ore-set and slaine 78 Henry t' auenge his Brothers death prepares againe to inuade France where he breaths his last Pale death that in his rigour no man spates Beteaues him life his infant sonne not past Eyght months of age assumes the Lands affayres Vnder protection Bedfards Duke was great With Regency of France a Sorceting Maide Fought on the Dolphins part and brought him ayde 79 Who in small time was King of France proclaymde at Orleance braue Mountacute is slaine Prince Sigismond is Roman Emperor nam'd Eugenius doth the papall Sea maintaine Phillip guides Milleine now was Talboot fam'd Who many lost Townes did in France regaine Now flourisht Francis Forza in his pride The Lyons in the Tower this yeare all dyde 80 Zeuza liues Persiaes King for Sorcery Dame Elen Cobham the Protectors Wise With diuers others were found treacherously To haue cnnspyred against King Henries life Dame Margaret to the King of Scicily Sole-Daughter which began much future strife To Henries Bed with Suffolke crost the Scas now liu'd the braue Prince Huniades 81 Humphrey the Duke of Gloster was depriu'd His harmelesse life at Bury Suffolke now Was banisht England where he long had striu'd By the Kings grace to make the Barons bow Iacke Cade a mutit ous Rebell now suruiu'd Dating the Kings Edicts to disalow This was the yeare of Iubilee In Menz Faustius first printed at his owne expence 82 The Turkish Mahomet sackt and despoylde Constantinople at this time was fought Saint Albons battaile where the King was foyld and by the Duke of yorke a prisoner blought To London the sixt Henry being much toyld With Kingdomes cares his peace and quiet sought Making proud yorke protector now was fam'd George Castriotus Scanderbag sir-nam'd 83 Great Warwicke at Northampton the King met In battaile of the Barons many slew Surpri'd the King in person without let The Duke of Torke reuiues his claime anew Whom many of the chiefest Lords abet And in the Parlement his right pursue Being Titled heyre apparant to the Crowne at Wakefield him King Henries Queene put downe 84 Great Warwiâ—…ke at Saint Albons she made flie Rescuing the King her husband in small space Torkes sonne the Earle of March gan to defie and sought by armes King Henry to displace Neere Torke both powers each other soone discry Where the fourth Edward hath the King in chace and now the victors Lord it where they please Whilst Margaret with her young son crost the Seas 85 Twelue Kingdomes and two hundred Citties more Great Mahomet subdues next Exham field Was fought by them that Henry would restore But to King Edwards powers perforce they yeild Who wiues the Lady Gray she that before Was wife to Sir Iohn Gray Warwick his shield aduancst against the King whom he had Crownd and for French Bona seekes him to confound 78 Edward flyes England Henry is restord and Edward with an army Lands againe Where Warwickes pride vpon his shield is scord Edward ore-comes his powers on Barnet plaine Earle Warwicke by the Commons is deplord Edward the fourth once more vsurpes his raigne Gloster kils Henries sonne then madly fares Gainst Henrie whom he murdred at his Prayers 87 Cassanus gouernd Persia Mistris Shore Was famous for her beauty Hungary Mathias ruld The Pope not knowne before at twenty fiue yeares made the lubily The Duke of Clarens is lamented sore Being in a Wine-but murdred treacherously Edward expyres two sons he leaues behind Three Daughters and a Brother most vnkind 88 The eleauenth of Aprill and the eleauenth sad yeare Of his young age fift Edward gins his raigne But eare he yet was Crown'd Richard too neare His Vncle did his hands with murther stayne Both Edwards Children by his doome seuere Were Butcherd in the Tower and fouly slaine now famous wearc Gaza Sabellicus Pycus Myrandula Aldus Minutius 89 George Valla Hermolaus Barbarus Pelitian Platine with a many moe Marcilius Ficinus Pomponius Latus With Iohannes de monte regio Now Venice and Ferara peace discusse Great Baiazeth sustaines an ouerthrow By the bold Souldan next instated came Vsurping Richard cald third of that name 90 Two yeares two months and two dayes he inioyes Regality whilst Charles the eyght swayes France And Innocent the eyght his power imployes In Rome his Bastards to inhance Richard the Duke of Buckingham destroyes Who thought the Earle of Richmond to aduance Henry Earle Richmond Mâ—…lford Hauen sought Where landing he the field of Bosworth fought 91 Richard there slaine Henry the seauenth sits Crown'd Twenty three yeares Vgnerus Persia guides Fredericke the Empire Henry to make found The breach that Torke and Lancaster deuides a happy nuptiall contract doth propound With fayre Elizabeth whom soone he brides She heyre to yorke This yeare a disease new The Sweating sicknesse first in England grew 82 Spaines Ferdinand the kingdome of Granade Wan from the Sarazens Lambert a Child Taught by a Priest cald Simon came to inuade England with a new stile by him compil'd As Sonne to Clarens in this claime were made Chiese Leaders Francis Louel once exil'd Broughton and Lincolnes Earle with whom took
de Thessalia Dailochus Pherecides Zezes histo 45. Pyragmon Berountes and Sâ—…pes the three Ciclops that attend on Vulcan Achilles armor Achilles shield A Battaile Apollodorus lib. 3. Hesiodus in Theogonia Simonides Poeta K. Memnon slain by Achilles King Hupon slaine King Philos slaine Three Kinges slaine by Hector The Sagittary slaine by Diomed King Polixenes slaine Andromaches dreame Astianax Hectors Sonne Aiax Telemon Prince Margareton flaine D. Coriphus Duke Bastidius slaine Leocides slain Policeus slaine Achilles wouÌ„ded The death of Hâ—… Ouid. Metamerpho 6. Apollonius lib. 1 Argâ—… Appolo lib. 2. Suidas Homer Isacius Horatius lib. 2 Carminum Artimesia Camna Edward the 3. Q. Margaret wife to Henry the 6. Laide Mary Countesse of Penbrooke Sister to Sir Phillip Sidney Prince Arthur elder brother to Prince Henry after Henry the 8. M. F. Cicero The battaile The valour of King Priaâ—… Troylus The death of Troylus Archilochus the sonne of Nestor The death of Achilles and Archilochus penthisâ—… Neoptoâ—…mus A tale of a chast Queene amongst the Amazons The death of Paris The death of Deiphebus and Amphiemachus The death of Pâ—…nthisilea Dares The Palladiâ—… bought by Vlisses of the Priest of Pallas for a great sum of mony Plutarchus libde virtutibus Mulierum Antimachus Lycophron in Alexandra Ibicus Herodotus in Euterpe Diognetes in rebus Smernais Harmonidaâ—… 〈◊〉 Duris 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Alexandar in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 3. Q Elizabeth Doctor Parry Babington his 〈◊〉 Percy and Catesby with their Conâ—…ederates Guido Vaux Virgils Eneids The horse of Troy Synons Tale Hectors ghost Panthus Otriades Androgeos The death of Chorobus The death of Polytes The death of Priam. Creusaes death Helenus Italy The death of Astianax The death of Polyxeua Polymnestor K. of Thrace The death of Polidore The death of Hecuba The number of Greckes Troians slaine at the siedge Ironia Ouid metamâ—… The death of Aiax Telegonus son to Vlisses and Circe otherwise cald Calipso Vlisses slain by his Bastard son Telegonus The death of Agâ—…memnon The death of Cletemenestra The death of Pytrhus The death of Hellen. Pausa in Atticis Heredotus in Melpom. Apollonius lib. 4. Arg. nanc slefichorus Luciaâ—…s Strabo lib. 14. Apollodorâ—…s Athenodorâ—…â—…izantius zozes Cic. de nature deorum Callimachus in Himn Homer Simonides Coeus 2. geneal Isacius Horâ—… I. carnium Stesicherus Calliâ—… Dares Dictes 2. De Arte Amand Vlisses Circo Deâ—… remedio Amoris lib. 1. Mm 2 Zczeshistor 16. Chil. 5. Hesiodusin Theog Homerus libr. odiss Dionisius Milctus Hesiodus in Theog onea Lycophron Strabo lib. 9. Tymaus siculus De arte Amandi 2. De remedio Amoris I. Dardanus Son to Jupiter and Electra Turnus King of Tuskaine Innogen Daughter to Pandras Hugh Genesis and Harding Albion of Albania the eldest Sister The yeare of the world aboue the line The yeare before â—…hri vnder the line Brute 2855. 1108. 2878. 1085. Locrine 2889. 1074. 2889. 1704. Guendoline Madan 2916. 1047. Meâ—…prisius 2954. 1009. Ebranke 2972. 991. Brute Green 3033. 930. 3034. 929. Leill 3046 917. Lud Hurdibras 3071 892. 3097 896 Bladud 3109. 854. Leir 3123 840. Cordeilla 1358. 805. Morgan Cunedadgius 3162. 801. Riuallo 3196. 767. Gurgustius 3242. 721. 3252 711. Sisillus 3279. 084. 3299 668. 3311. 652. Iago 3327. 636 3351. 612. Kinimachus 3369. 594. Gorbodug 3404 559. 3417. 546. 3430. 533. Forrex Porrex 3467. 496. 3475. 488 3513. 450 3522. 441 Mulmutius 3550. 413. Beline Bren. 3563. 400. 3568. 395. 3586. 377. Gurguintus 3588 375. 3595. 368. 3604 359. Guintheline 3607 356. 3628. 311. Cecilius Kimar 3633. 330. Elanius Morindus 3,652 311. Gorbomanus 3660. 3660. 303. Archigall 3671. 292. Elidure 3676. 287 Archigallo 3681. 282. Elidure 3691. 272. Vigenius Peridure 3693. 270. Elidure 3702. 261. 3684. 279. 3705. 258. Gorboman Morgan Emerianus 3736. 227. 3756. 207. Rimo Geruntius 3771 192 Catellus 3790. 173. 3795. 168. Coill 3800. 263. 3820 140. Porrex Cherimus Fulgen. Eldred Androgeus Dedantius Detonnus 3843. 120. 3835. 128. 3848. 115. Vrianus Eliud Mâ—…rianus Bladunus Capenas Ouinius Sisilus Bladgabred 3857 109 3869. 94 Archemac Eldotus Rodianus Redargius Samillus Penesillus Pirrhus Caporus Diuellus Heâ—… 3893. 70. Lud 3894. 69 â—…belan 3911 52 Caesar. 3916 47 3919 44 3921 42 Tenancius 3934 29 3944. 19 Cimbeline The yeare of the worldboue the line The yeare after Christ vnder the line 3962. 1. 3978. 17 Guiderius 3985 24. 3994. 33. 4006 45 Aruiragus 4017 56. 4019. 58. 4029 68 4024. 73. Marius 4024 73 4070 108 4087 126 Coyll 4141. 180. Lucius 4169. 208. Seuerus 4174. 213. Caracalla 4179. 218. Carassus 4187. 226. Alectus Asclipiodale 4193. 232. 4223 262. Coill 4250 289. Constantius 4271. 310. Constantine 4284. 325 4290. 329. Octauius 4344. 383. Maximus 4388. 387. 4352. 391. Gratian 4380 419 4381 422. 4394. 443. Constantine 4404. 443. Constans 4409. 448. Vortiger Vortimer 4426. 465. 4432. 471. Vortiger 4402. 441 4411. 450. 4417 456 4418. 457. 4432. 471. Hengist 4442 482. Aurelius Ambros. 4461 500. Vter Pendragon 4478. 517. Arthur 4504. 533. Mordred 4504 543 Constantine 4482 521. 4488 527 4505 545 4507. 546. Aurelius Conanus 4509. 548. Vortigorus 4513. 542. Malgo. 4539. 578. 4577. 586. Careticus Ethelfrid 4574. 613. Cadwan 4549. 588. 4586 625. 4596 335. Cadwallin 4644. 683. Cadwallader 4684 723. Iue raigned 37 yeares Ethelard 4685 724 4690 729. Cuthred 4706. 745. Sigebert 4709 748. Kinulphus 4702 749 4739 778 Brithricus 4756 795 Egbert 4793 832 Ethelwolf 4804. 843. Os Porci 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 4816. 845. Ethelwald 4817. 856. Ethelbert 4824. 863. Etheldred 4833 872 Alured 4862 901 Edward 4872 911. 4886 925 Adelstane 4896 915 4901 940 Edmond 4907 949 Eldred 4915 954 4916 955. Edwin 4920. 959 Edgar 4927 966 4939. 975. Edward 4936 978 Etheldred 4961 1000 Edmond Iron-side 4977 1016 4978 1017. Canutus 4993. 1032. 4896 1038. Harrold Harefoote 5002 1041 Hardicanutus 5004 1043 Edward 5008 1047 5016 1055 5014 1053 5027. 1066. Harrold 5028 1067. William Lanquet Stow. Harding Hugh Genesis Marian. By Mirandula Virgil. Eusebius William the Conqueror 5028 1067 Roger Earle of Hertâ—…ord 5037 1076 5042 1081 5050 1089 5030 1069. 5031. 1670. Otho Duke of Bauaria Pope Gregory the seauenth 5030 1069 5037 1079 Robert Byshop of Rauenna made pope by the name of Clement 5047 1089 Will. Rufus 5050 1089 5051 1090. 5055. 1044 5061 1100. 5060 1099 5060. 1099 5062. 1101 Henry Beuclarke 5062 1101 5067 1106 Adelisia daughter to the Duke of Louaine 5071 1110 5081 1120 5096 1135. Gazim and Damascus 5083 1122. Rhodes Chiuâ—… Samos Lesbos Mitelene 5085 1125 5086 1125 K. Stephen 5102 1141 5107 1136 Eustace son to King Stephen 5114 1153 5115 1154 Henry the 2 5116 1155 5118 1157 5120. 1159 5132. 1171. 5133 1172 5137 1176. 5143. 1183 5144 1183 5149. 1186 5150 1189. Richard Cordelion 5151 1189. 5152. 1191 5151 1190 5154. 1193 5154 1193. 5159 1198 5161 1200 King Iohn 5162 1201. 5164 1203 5167 1206. 5170 1209 5173 1212 5174 1213 5177. 1216. Henry the 3. 5179. 1220 5181 1220. 5182 1221 5183 1222 5184. 1223 5186. 1225 5190 1229 5196 1235. 5198 1237 5201 1240 5202 1241 5203. 1242 5204 1243. 5206 1245 5209 1248 5213. 1252. 5214 1253 5219 1254 5218 1257 5219 1258. 5221. 1260. 5225 1264. Richard of Cornwayle Brother to the King and Emperor 5233. 1272 5233 1272 Edward the first 5235 1274 5238 1277 5240 1279 5246 1285. 5247 1286. 5248 1287 5253. 1292 5254 1293 5255 1294 5260 1299 Edward the 2. the 1. Prince of Wales 5261 1300 5267. 1306. 5268 1307. Edward 2. 5269 1308 Henry 7. Em. 5270 1309. 5076. 1315 5283 1322. 5â—…84 1323 5287 1326 Edward the 3. 5288 1327 5291 1330 5293 1332 5301 1340. 5309 1348 5317. 1356 5324 1363. 5327 1366 Iohn a Gaunt Duke of Lancaster 5334 1373. 5337. 1376. Richard 2. 5341 1380 5342 1381 5343 1382 5346 1385 5347 1386 5349 1389 5350 1389. The Academy of 〈◊〉 leine fouâ—…d 5356 1395 The Duke of Gloster and Earle of Arundell 5359 1398 Edward the fourth 5360 1399 5362 1401 Galiazo Duke of Milleine 5363 1402 5367 1460. 5368 1407 5372 1411 Henry the S. 5374 1413. 5377. 1416 5378 1417 5382 1421 5383 1422 Henry the sixt 5389 1428 Ioane de pusill 5394 1433. Eug. 4. 5398 1437 5399 1438 5420 1441 5406 1445 5408 1447 5411 1450 5413 1452. 5414 1453 5415 1454 5416 1455 5420 1459 5421 1460 Edward 4. 5224 1463 5225 1464 5431 1470 5432 1471 5435 1474 5436 1475 5444. 1483 Edward the 5 5445 1484 Richard the 3. 5446 1485 Henry the 7. 5448 1487 5450 1439 5451 1490. 5453 1492 5456 1495 5457 1496. 5459. 1498 5461 1500 1462 1501 5460 1502 5469 1508 5470 1509 Henry the eyght 5471 1510. 5473 1512 5474 1513 5475 1514 5476 1515 5478 1517 5479 1518 5481 1520 5481 1520 5483 1522. 5484 1523 5487 1526. 5488 1527 5490 1528 5491 1530 5493 1523 5494 1533 5494 1536 5498 1537. 5499 1538 5500 1539 5501 1540. 5504. 1533 5505 1544. 5507 1546 1508 1547 Edward the 6. 5509 1548 5500 1549 5512 1551 5514 1553. Cuâ—…ford Dudley to the D. Northumberland Q. Iane. Q. Mary Bourne Cannon of Paules Ridley Bishop of London Craâ—…mer Archbishop of Câ—…terbury Carâ—…al Poole 5515 1554 Coortney earle of Deuonshire 5516. 1555 5517 1556. 5510. 1558 K. Phillip 5520 1959. Q Elizab. Henry the 2 5521. 1560. 5525. 1564 5246. 1565. 5227 1566. 5528 1567 5530 5569 5531. 1570 5532 1571. 5533. 1572 5524 1373. 5435. 1576. 5542 1582 5543. 1582 5544. 1583. 5546 1585. 5547 1586 His twn ships the Desire and Content 5549 1588. Henry 4. kild 5552 1591 5553 1592 5555 1594 5557 1596. 5558 1597 5559 1598. 5560 1599 5561 1600 5563. 1602. The death of Q. Elizabeth 5594 1603. King Iames.
Meridian Iapheth the lesse Asia towards the West whence many Nations of Europe proceeded Sems sonnes were fiue Elam of whom came the Persians from him Xenophon deriueth Cyrus Assur of him came the Assyrians Ninus of him the Niniuttes and Badilonians Arphaxad of him the Caldeans and from his Nephewe Fber were dâ—…riued the Herbrues the word signifieth Trauellers or Strangers Of this line came Abraham Dauid and the Messias Aram of him the Syrians descended of which Damasco is the metropolis therefore it was thus written The head of Aram is Damascus The posterity of Cam was Chus of whom came the Aethiopians in the farthest Coasts of Aphrica and the Libians cald to this day Chirsita The sonnes of Chus were Saba of whome the Sabaans and Euila of wheme the Indians descended Nemrod first raignd in Babylon Misraim occupied Aegypt which the Arabians and Turks to this day call Mizri The sonnes of misraim were Lydas who pcopled Lydia a Nation that after seated themselucs in some parts of Itahe and Labain of whom the Sun-burnt Lybians are thought to descend Of Euaâ—…m came the Cyrenians who built the Citty Cerenaica of who came the Mauritanians and of him a famous Riuer that still beares his name Of Canaan came the Sydonians and Tyrians Heath built Hebron where Abraham dwelt and was buried Iebuseus possest Gaba and Ierusalem Iapheths sons were Gomor or Togerma of whom the Cinerians take their originall They are seated beyond Thrace neer the Meotiden Fenne where the Bosphort inhab te not farre from Cimbrica Chersonessus Of Magog came the Sâ—…thians and of them the Turks and to proue the Turke to be in God and Magor Ezechiell saith the Nations of Magog lie toward the south which in the latest dayes shall seeke the fall of Israell And the Apocalip Magog shall lastly Emperise the world Of Madai came the Medes Of Iauan or Iabu the Iouians or Graecians The sonnes of Iauan were Elisa of whome came the Aeolians in Asia minor Tharsis built Tharsis the chiefe Citty of the Cilicians Of Cethim came the Macedonians Of Adodanim the Dodoneans in Epire. Iauan was that Ianus that raignd in Italy Of Tubal came the Hispani and Iberi Of Mosoch came the Muscouites Of Tyrus the Thrasians The Sons of Gomer were Ascanes Riphat and Togorma Of Ascanes came the 〈◊〉 who after shifted theÌ„selues into other Prouinces and ofthem came the Cimbrians the Bythinians the Cancoues the 〈◊〉 and Heueti Of Riphat came the Riphei Gyants that inhabited the Riphean Hilles where the Sanromass then liued By the 〈◊〉 are meant all such as speake in the 〈◊〉 tongue From Riphat came also the Paphlagonians these 〈◊〉 themselues into Europe some inhabiting Russia Lytuania and Polonia from the Adriaticke shoare vnto Illusria Likewise Fistula Albis and Bohemia where before liued the Hermaduri and Boij Among the Sonnes of Sem Gether is numbred of whom came the Getes they were called Gotti or Gothes who inhabited Wallachia these speake the Almain toung and mixt themselues with the Germans whose name is deriued of Gerim and Ani which signifieth miserable Strangers The French are cald 〈◊〉 of Wallen which in the Almain toong signifies Wanderers From Brute cam the Britons since called Angli In Nemrod was the first Monarchy establisht he liued a hundred years after the Floud after 200. yeares Ninus built Niniuy in 〈◊〉 whose wife Semiramis after his death erected the walles of Babilon Ninius her sonne succeeded in whose time Abraham came into Palestine Him succeeded Amraphel king of Sennaar or Babylon Of these Assyrian Monarches Sardanapalus was the last whose proud name we thus deriue Sar a Captaine Dan a ludge 〈◊〉 a Destroyer He was ouerthrowne by phul-Belochus a Babilonian and Arbaces a Medean when Osia raignd in Iuda phul belochus raigned ouer the Babilonians and Niniuites forty yeares Arbaces ouer the Meades and Persians Belochus warred vpon Israel whom succeeded his Sonne Phal Assur called in the Scriptures Tiglat Peilassur He raigned 23. yeares him Salmanasser succeeded and raigned ten yeares he besiedged Samaria of him Hosea speakes Chapter 10. 〈◊〉 succeeded Salmanasser who besiedged Hierusalem and raigned ten yeares his Army was ouerthrowne by the Angels Assur haddon next ruld ten yeares In him declined the Monarchy of Assiria and Merodach became Monarch ouer the Chaldees Benmerodach raigned after his Father 21. after him Nabuchednezzar Primus 35. He warred against Aegipt Nabuchadnezzar Magnus raigned forty in Zedechias time he besiedged Hierusalem a 〈◊〉 and sixe monthes him succeeded euill Merodach who releast Ieconias he dead Balsaar succeeded foureteene 〈◊〉 he was a greet Blasphemer In his time Babylon was raced and the Monarchy transferred to the Persians he himselfe being slaine by Cyrus The kings of Aegypt in the times of this Monarchy were these Osyris with his Wife Isis who liued in the time of Abraham Orus Bochoris Busyris Miris 〈◊〉 who liued in the time of Samson pherones of whom all the Kinges of Egypt were called pharoes Proteus whom some call Cetes to him Paris and Hellen sayled in theyr returne from Greece Rampsinitus Cephus or Cheops Cephris Mycerinus Anycis Sabachus called in the Bible Sesach Sethen Psamneticus Nechos who ouercame Iosia by the Citty Megeddo and was after slaine Nabuchadnezzar 〈◊〉 Apries who sackt 〈◊〉 and slew the Prophet Ieremiah Amasis in whose time the Monarchy came to the Persians In Greece in the time of this Monarchy liued Iapethus the Sonne of Noah after whoÌ„ raigned Hellas now was the expedition of the Argonats Erictheus Perseus and his Acts. The warres of Troy 〈◊〉 with the Theban History notorious in Oedipus and Iocasta with the deathes of the two Brothers Eleocles and Polynices Now were the 〈◊〉 famous Rome in the time of this first Monarchy was bullt the tenth year of Achas King of Iuda It was 〈◊〉 by Kings 6244 yeares Rhomulis raigned 38. Numa 43. Tullius Hostilius 32. Aucus Martius 2 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 37. Seruius Tullius 44. In the last part of his raigne began the Persian Monarchy 〈◊〉 the proud 25. He was repulst his Kingdome by the Consull Brutus because his Sonne Sextus had 〈◊〉 rauished 〈◊〉 the wise of Collatyne The Persian Kings were first Cyrus who raigned 29. hee ouercame Cresus of Lydia besiedged Babylon and was after slaine by Tomyris Queene of Scithia In his time liued Thales Milesius Pithagoras borne in Samos Solon and Draco who first ordred the yeare 〈◊〉 the monthes added the Epact and collected first the Poems of Homor Cambises the second King who raigned 7. years added Egypt to his Empire and couered the Iudgement Seate with the skinne of his false Iudge Sisamnes The third Darius he by the neyhing of his 〈◊〉 was elected Emperor raigned 36. He by the craft of his Friend Zopyrus wan Babylon and added to his Dominions the Getes Cymerians and 〈◊〉 Now liued Hippias the Sonne of Pysistratus in 〈◊〉 and Miltiades This Darius was the Sonne
With his dead fathers Crowne This Vesta feares And calling Saturne thus to him she sed My dearest sonne t is by the Lords decreed That in Vranus Prince-dome thou succeed 13 Thy brother Tytan though in Age before thee Yet in thy wisedome thou hast him out-stript Thou hast the popular loue they all adore thee His blasted hopes are in the blossome nipt With Coine with Men with Armor I will store thee Let him stand fast or he shall sure be tript Both Lords and people ioyne with me thy mother To invest Saturne and depose thy brother 14 With that before her sonne could make reply Where they were speaking rusht bold Tytan in A storme was in his brow fier in his eye After some tempest he doth thus begin Must then young Saturne raigne Oh tell me why Am I a Bastard and begot in sinne Hath Vesta playd the strumpet with my Father That you despise me and elect him rather 15 Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first And lay I not as neere your heart as he Was I not of those breasts before him nurst And am I not his Elder in degree What haue I done you should affect me worst Your Mayden-birth and your first progeny Before him I was borne and to be plaine By all the Goddes I will before him raigne 16 Had I not in your wombe the selfe-same being Am I not of the selfe-same bloud created Is not my Royalty with his agreeing Is not my birth before his Anti-dated Is elder Tytan now not worth the seeing Must in my right that young boy be instated Hath he so well or I so ill deseru'd No first I came and I will first be seru'd 17 And turning to young Saturne with an eye Threatning reuenge and ruyne to his life Prin-cox quoth he must you be plac't so hye The only darling of Vranu wife Canst thou so soone out-leape me Thou shalt die And in thy fatall obits end this strife Then with his fatall blade he blest his head Had the blow falne it had strooke Saturne dead 18 But Vesta staide it comming and withall Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither They hugge young Saturne but on Tytan fall Thundring on him with clamors altogither The yonger brother they their Soueraigne call And bid the elder packe they care not whither The people second them thus in disgrace The Stigmaticke is forst to leaue the place 19 But hauing better with himselfe aduised Tytan and Saturne thus the strife decide That Tytan for his shape so much despised Should leaue the Scepter vnto Saturnes guide And so to stint all mallice enterprised But after Saturnes death the Crownet'abide To Tytan and his heyres by his last will So Saturne sweares all his heyres male to kill 20 King Saturne must not let a sonne suruiue To keepe his brothers I ssue from the Crowne Only his Daughters he may saue aliue These Couenants are betwixt them both set downe Hence-forth no more these haughty brothers striue For eyther by Indenture knowes his owne The Crowne is Saturnes due to Tytans seed To make which good all Saturnes sonnes must bleed 21 The elder brother thus o'reswaide with might Cannot indure that Clyme but seekes another To see his yonger throned in his right Or to be cal'd a Subiect to his brother And therefore full of anger and despight He leaues his Countrey Sisters and his mother And to be rid at once of his disgraces He seekes aduentures strange in forren places 22 Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e No quest saue Armes and valour he intended And how by Vsurpation to intrude Into the rightes of others who defended Their Honors both by strength and multitude Thus he of many Islands raignes sole King And all the World of Tytans Actes doth ring 23 Yet into Creet he daily sendes espiall To know if Saturne made his Couenant good Forcing his slye skouts mauger all deniall To bring him word how Saturnes glory stood Whether of Mariage he had yet made tryall Or hauing Children male had spilt their bloud Knowing himselfe to be sufficient strong By force of Armes to right his former wrong 24 So with his fiue and forty Sonnes makes thence With fayre Tytea mother to seuenteene Of that large broode all these with rage dispence And by their late attonement Exiles beene With patience they depart but with pretence Hoping well Armed once more to be seene And with their brood of Tytanois to meet And tug with Saturne for the Crowne of Creet 25 Rhea of all the beauteous daughters fairest Brides with Hiperion her best-lou'd Brother He likewise for his feature was the rarest Of Tytans sonns there liu'd not such another Oh sweet Hiperion thou in shape comparest With all the Gyant yssue of thy mother At feuerall byrths two Babes she childed soone The male she cald the Sunne Female the Moone 26 The tother Tytans fearing to these two Their Fathers Conquests should in time descend A monstrous Act they haue intent to do Whose scandall shall beyond both Poles extend And none but Parricides would yeild vnto For they that should their Brothers life defend Conspire together and gainst right or reason In dead of night they seeke his death by Treason 27 But first they take his little sonne the Sunne And to the floud Eridanus well knowne That streames along their Coast In hast they run Where the young Lad amongst the waues is throwne This when his tender Sister knew was dun From a high Rocke her selfe she tumbled downe In pitty of whose beauties grace and yeares The Gods translate them to the brightest Spheres 28 Meane time the new made King of Creet 's renowne Increast so much that he was term'd a God He was the first that ware a Lawrell Crowne The first that venter'd on the Scas and rod In triumph on the waters this being knowne They held them happiest that could make abod In his blest Prouince which being well conducted Kings sent their Sonnes to him to be instructed 25 Saturne in those daies was helde onely wise Many young Princes in his Court werâ—… traiâ—…d He taught them both the vse of Seas and â—…es And what hâ—…d wealth within the Earth remained Then gan he Citties build and Lawes deuise for an Irregular people he disdained The mynerall mountaine-veines he vnder-minde And was the first that perfect Golde refinde 26 Yet neuer did this King in ought miscarry Hauing what Earth and Sea and Ayre could yeild Happy in all thinges saue he durst not marry He sees the gorgcous house he late did build Shine with reflecting Gold his obiects varry He sees his ripe corne growing in the field He sees the wilde Birds by his Archers caught Pierst with those shafts whose vse before he taught 27 He sees the vast Seas by his Oares deuided And the decepe waters without danger past By Art of Sayle and Rudder they are guided What greater happinesse could Mortall
tast But when the Couenant long before decided Twixt him and Tytan he records at last It pierst his hart with sorrow for his life Seemes to him tedeous led without a wife 28 What bootes him all his Honours and ritch state His wealths-increase and all his worldly pleasure For whom doth he rise early and sleepe late Hauing no heyre to inherite all his Treasure He knowes he hath incur'd his Brothers hate Yet must his seed make of his kingdome seazure He enuyes his owne wealth bicause he knowes All his life time he toyles t' enrich his foes 29 He loues his Sister Sybill yet not so That if she châ—…dren haue their blouds to spill And yet his timerous passions howerly grow Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill Faine would he marry her and yet doth know If shee haue Issue he her sonnes must kill So that he wishes now but all too late That for his vow he might Exchange his state 30 In this distraction many dayes he dwelt Till Loue at length in Saturnes hart preuailed Such feruent passions in his brest he felt That spight his Oath which he so much bewailed He feeles his soft thoughts in his bosome melt Needs must he yeild whom such faire Jookes assailed And now vpon this desperate point he stood To wade t' her bed thogh throgh his childrens blood 31 This can great Apis witnesse who that time Peloponessus gouern'd This records Iubalda who the Spanish seat doth clime This Craunus kneel'd to by th' Italian Lords This Satron who the Gaules rul'd in his prime Now to Semiramis Assyria affords The Monarchy who after Ninus dide Married her Sonne and perisht by his pride 32 The marriage rights with solemne feasts are done Sybill both wife and sister the first Queene That raign'd in Creete hath now conceiu'd a sonne Neuer hath lesse applausiue ioy bin seene At such a Brides Conception the time 's come The long suspensiue daies expired beene For if a male his blood the Earth must staine A male she brought forth and the Lad was slaine 33 For so the King commanded being a King He thought it base if he should breake his word Oh golden dayes of which the Poets sing How many can this Iron age afford That hold a promise such a precious thing Rather to yeeld their children to the sword Then that the world should say thy oath thou brakest Or wast so base to eate the word thou spakest 33 Such difference is twixt this and that of gold We in our sinnes are stronger Vertues weaker Words tide them fast but vs no bonds can hold They held it vil'd to be a promise breaker A Lyar was as strange in times of old As to find out amongst vs a true speaker Their harts were of pure mettall ours haue flawes Now lawes are wordes in those daies wordes were lawes 34 The Funerall of the first slaine infant ended And the sad daies of mourning quite expir'd At which the pittious Queene was most offended But now her spirits with dull sorrowes tired The King a second metting hath intended And the Queenes nuptiall bed againe desired Sibill conceiues and in her wombe doth cherish More children ready in their birth to perish 35 And growing neere her time the sorrowfull father Displeas'd to see his wife so apt to beare Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather The murther of his first sonne toucht him neare Sends through his Land a kingly traine to gather And makes for Delphos hoping he shall heare Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine Whose Oracles the king esteemes diuine 36 He therefore first his sacrifice prepares And on Apollos Altar Incense burnes Then kneeling to the Oracle his praiers Mount with the sacred sume which neare returnes Tell the pleas'd God acquainted with his cares Lookes downe from heauen sees him how he mourns Desiting that his power would nothing hide But tell what of her next birth should betide 37 With that there fell a storme of Raine and Thunder The Temple was all sire the Alter shooke The golden roofe aboue and pauement vnder Trembled at once about gan Saturne looke To see what heauenly power had caus'd this wonder Faine he the holy place would haue forsooke When th' Oracle thus spake thy wife growes great With one that shall depose thee from thy seat 38 For from her royall wombe shall one proceed That in despight of thee in Creet shall dwell So haue the neuer-changing fares decreed Such is the Oracles thrice sacred spell A sonne shall issue from king Saturnes seed That shall enforce his father downe to Hell This heard the discontented king arose And doubly sad away to Creet he goes 39 What shall he do faire Sibils time drawes neere And if the Lad which she brings forth suruiue The newes will stretch vnto his brothers eare To whom he sware to keepe no male aliue Besides a second cause he hath to feare Least he his father from his kingdome driue Then to preuent these ils he swears on hie Inspight of fate the infant borne shall die 40 Yet when the King his first sonnes death records In his resolued thoughts it breeds relenting The bloudy and vnnaturall act affords His troubled thoughts fresh cause of discontenting None dare approach his presence Queene noâ—… Lords That to his first childs death had bin consenting The first vnnaturall act appeares so vilde The king intends to saue his second childe 41 So oft as he the murder cals to mind So oft he vowes the second son to saue But thinking on his couenant grows vnkind And doomes it straight vnto a timelesse graue Againe the name of sonne would pitty find And for his oth some refuge seekes to haue But when the Oracle he doth recall The very thought of that confounded all 42 So deare to him his Crowne and state appeared That he his pompe before his blood preferred It ioyes him to commaund and to liue feared And now he thinkes his foolish pitty erred And setting light his issue seemes well cheared His fortune to the Goddes he hath referred Rather then loose his Scepter t is decreed Had he ten thousand brats they all should bleed 43 Resolu'd thus newes is brought him by his mother That Sibell late in trauell is deliuer'd Of two faire Twins a Sister and a Brother At this report his heart is well nigh shiuer'd Go spare the â—…one quoth he and kill the tother Alas saith she we women are pale-liuer'd And haue not heart to kill no beast so wilde Or brutish but would spare so sweete a childe 44 And shall a father then so madly fare With his owne issue his childs blood to spill And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare Shall reasonable man presume to kill The birds more tender ore their young ones are Fishes are kind vnto their issue still Fish bird and beast in sea Aire â—…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45
at her cause of discontents Welcome the Damsell In their honors striuing To cheere her who as doubtfull still laments Not knowing yet how the young Prince shall speed Or what the prouident sisters haue decreed 64 The courteous virgins hearing the sad story Of vertuous Sybill and her sonne related Both for the mother and the Sonne are sorry And hauing with themselues a while debated They hold their womanish pitty much more glory Then to be rude and cruell estimated And now their studies are the Babe to hide And for his carefull fostring to prouide 65 They beare him to a Mountaine in whose brow A Câ—…ue was dig'd the round mouth was so strait That at the entry you of force must bow But entred once the roome was full of State This Cauerne for the darknesse they allow To shâ—…eld the Infant from the Fathers hate Which being selected as a place most meet The Damsell is againe sent backe to Creet 66 With milke of Goates they nurst him for a space Till Fortune on a time so well prouided That when to still the Babe who cride apace They sounded Cymbals and with tunes deuided Strook on their Tymbrels by some wondrous grace A swarme of Bees was by that Musicke guided Into the place who made the Caue their Hiue And with their Hony kept the Child aliue 67 By this the Damsell is return'd againe And all the newes to Vesta haâ—… related What prouident care the royall Dames haue tanâ—… To saue the Prince how well they haue requited Her former loue still Saturne thinkes it slaâ—…ne Being with the terror of his death affrighted Which in the Kings opinion to make good Vest a salutes him with a cup of blood 68 An Abbest stone into the bole was brayed It shew'd like the Babes hart beaten to powder The Dowager in funerall blacke arrayed With reâ—…erence to her Son and Soueraigne bowed her Women haue teares at will their wiles to ayde And she hath plenty to ber plot allowed her See here quoth she and as she more would say Griefe strikes her mute and tuâ—…s her head away 69 Againe she would proceed againe she faileth But the third time begins her sad Oration See heere thy sonne whose losse thy wife bewaileth Murdered and massacred in piteous fashion In vaine against the froward fate she raileth In vaine she teares her eies in extreame passion Saturne hath to this cruell act constrain'd her And see of thy young son the poore remainder 70 Now maist thou keepe thine oath with Titans feed Yet that thou cruell art I needs must tell thee Neuer did Tiger father such a deed In tiranny the Wolues cannot excell thee Now maist thou safely weare thy imperiall weed Can this thy issue from thy throne expell thee This blood can neuer gouerne in thy sted Alas poore Grand-child thou too late hast bled 71 Th' vnwelcome newes seeme welcome to his cares And yet he wishes they awhile had staide That the vil'd deed is done he glad appeares Yet in his gladnes he seemes ill apaid She moues the king with her laments and teares What cannot weeping women men perswade The king in sorrow of his sonne late dead Vowes euer to abiure Queene Sibels bed 72 And whilst the warme blood reck't before his eies No wonder if he purpost as he spake But when the beauty of his Queene he spies Her graces mou'd him and his vow he brake Such charming vertue in her beauty hes That he forgets the rash oth he did make And rather then his nuptiall sweets forbeare Hee 'l sacâ—…ce a young sonne euery yeare 73 These stormes blowne ouer and their sorrowes spent For violent tempests neuer long remain'd The king young Iuno to Parthemia sent There amongst Princes daughters to be train'd To doe her honors is his whole intent Since his sonnes bloud by timelesse Fate is drained Nor maruell if to honor her he striue Knowing saue her no Issue left aliue 74 Time keepes his course the King and Queene oft meet And once againe she hath conceiu'd a Male The Lad in secret is conveyde from Creet To Athens in a vessell swift of sayle Th' Athenian King they with the Infant greet Who the Babes fortunes sadly doth bewaile And the young Neptune fairely doth intreat And traynes him like the sonne of one so great 75 The husband-King who no such guile surmised Is by the crafty women mock't againe New teares are coin'd a second tricke deuised To make him thinke that Issue likewise slaine Once more the King with sadnesse is surprised Once more appeasd for teares he knowes are vaine Againe the King and Queene are met in bed And in small processe she againe is sped 76 A sonne and daughter at this birth she bare The sonne she hides the daughter she discloseth The sonne she Pluto named the winde stood faire And him into The ssalia she disposeth The messenger applies with earnest care Her tedious iourney for no time she lofeth Whâ—…st the twin-brother she is forst to hide Her daughter Glauca in her childhood dide 77 Neptune was nurst by Aruo after growing To manhood fairefoot Amphitrite hee would haue espousde but she her beauty knowing Despisde the Sea God thinking to liue free wherefore he sends the Dolphin who straight showing His masters thoughts the Louers soone agree For with the Dolphins signe to Heauen was â—…orne And plast on hye not farre from Capricorne 78 The vntam'd Gennâ—…t he did first bestride And made him seruant to the vse of Man Before him no man durst presume to ride Famous alone he was in Athens than He coupled first the Steedes and curbd their pride And by his Art the armed Chariot ran Therefore as greatest honor to his state The Horse to him was freely consecrate 79 And when he trauels o'rc the foamy waues With foure Sea-palfreys he is drawne along By sundry Nymphes and Girls whose loue he craues Four-score fayre sonnes he got surpassing strong Who Cittyes built and menaâ—… Hostile braues Gainst Tyrants that vsurpt their States by wrong He Riders grac't and Sea-men gladly cheared And by his hands the wals of Troy were rearâ—…d 80 To him three Temples consecrated were Of great Magnificence In Isthmus one In Tenarus a second did appeare A structure in that Isle famous alone A third to him the stowt Calabrians reare Semblant to these through all the world were none Vpon these shrines to make his glories full The people vsde to sacrifice a Bull. 81 Pluto whom some call Mammon God of gold Who after did the Tartar kindome seaze As â—…oue a Scepter in his hand doth hold Neptune the Trident so he graspes the Keies Some thinke this God inhabited of old Hiberia him the Pyren mountaines please Of whom and Proserpine his rauisht Btide Desist to speake what Iuno did betide 82 Thus eldest Iâ—…piter liues in a Caue Neere Oson nurst with Hony
Knights to bring All expert Archers with whom Stupex traded A valiant Duke and in his youthfull spring Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus Duke Samnus and the bold Duke Ausernumus 25 These led twelue hundred Knights next whom tooke Two Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
great effusion from a Turret hy They 'had won the Towne the streets had bin imbrude With Natiue blood but they in hast discend Releeue th' opprest the Citty gates defend 64 And yssuing with three thousand Knights compell Achilles to retrait and when his face Look't backe from Troy ward there was none so fell Vpon the Graectan party but gaue place This day Prince Diomed was seene t' excell In Armes him Troylus met in equall race They spur their Steeds that ran both swift and true Incountring both their Staues to splinters flew 65 Their Launces broake they try their burnisht blades A thousand fiery starres at euery rushing Fly from their helmes with fury each inuades His opposite their mutuall Armors frushing The big-limb'd Diomed himselfe perswades Young Troylus cannot match his strength and blushing A beardlesse Lad should hold him so long play Doubles his blowes and thinkes to end the fray 66 The Noble youth whom Cresseids loue prouokes To all atchieuements beyond mortal power Though young his lofty spirit his riuall yoakes Who thought his infant Vertues to deuoure He doubles and re-doubles warlike stroakes The battell lasts the best part of an houre But whilst vpon their helmes each champion thunders Night that deuides the hoast their fury sunders 67 This Eeuen the Greekes incampe earely the Morrow They shine in armor with the rising Sunne The Troian Princes from their Ladies borrow Rich fauours and withall to horse-backe runne A kind of feare begot twixt ioy and sorrow Liues in their eyes til the dread fight be done To see their Champions proudly arm'd they ioy Grieue to behold so huge an hoast fore Troy 68 Now are both Battailes pitcht Menon appeares First from the Argiue hoast from Troy forth stands Hector who in his burnisht Beauer weares Andromachs Gloue and now all Troy commands These two begin the battell with their Speares They broke they tosse their bright steele in their hands Hector soone hurles King Menon from his horse So passes on to proue his warlike force 69 The two hoasts ioyne ruffling confusion flyes Through all Scamander field the dying grones Are mixed with th'applausiue Conquerors cryes Troians and Greekes conquer and fall at ones Renowned Hector this day wins the pryse he sunders Males and Armors flesh and bones His al-deuiding sword was made by charme No steele so wrought but shrunke beneath his arme 70 Thus like a raging storme he rusheth still Ouer his Plume a Clowd of terror hung And where he rides he doth on all sides kill His bloud-staind Faulchion spares nor old nor yung Tyr'd with his horse his Chariot Mount he will Now vp he takes a Bow deuinely strung And shooting midst the Hoast not one steele-head Iat'd from his Bow but stroke a Graecian dead 71 Him the King Menon and king Glaucion then Huge Thesus and Archilochus defie They in their squadron lead three thousand men But Hector in his Chariot still sits hie Vntill his Brasse-shod wheeles are purpled when Their Naues are drown'd in blood of men that die Charioted Hector these foure Kings assaile But his smart Steeds spring through their armed pale 72 Menon that was too forward boue the rest Pursues great Hector in his lofty Carre A dart the Troian quiuer'd through his brest King Menon bids his last farewell to warre With multitudes the Prince is ouer-prest And yet he kils the Greekes neare and from farre Neere with his fatall sword he cleaues their harts And a farre off with his keene shafts and Darts 73 Vnto this rescue Prince Securabor One of King Priams Bastard sonnes soone came And Noble Margareton thirsting for Honor and mongst the Greekes to get a name All Priams yssue cowardice abhor Duke Menesteus enuious of their fame Against them comes now clamors fill the skie Whilst about Hectors Chariot thousands lie 74 Vnto this hostile tumor from Troy-ward Three Kings with Noble Troylus the fourth man Make their incursions King Sampitus far'd Like a fierce Lyon King Maclaon wan With anger and the King that all things dar'd Alcanus gainst whom Menesteus ran And bore him Nobly yet alas too weake Till Thesus came the Troian rankes to breake 75 Troylus Menesteus singles but his Horse Stumbled and he enforcst on foot to fight Fiue hundred Greekes beguirt him and enforce The youthfull Troian now debard from flight To be their prisoner Many a liuelesse corse Troylus first made before compeld t' alight When Hector heard but word of his disgrace He slew on all sides till he wan the place 76 But first Alccenus had addrest his Speare Against the Duke that led Prince Troylus bound The Steele point tooke him twixt his cheeke and eate And made th' Athenian Duke a dangerous wound Sampilus seconds him a Steed was neare On which they mounted Troylus from the ground Menesteus mad that he hath lost his prise Pierst through the throng and cald for more supplies 77 King Menelaus and Prothenor knowing Th' Athenians voyce presse that way with their powers But find Hyripsus and King Hapon strowing The earth with Greekes at which the Spartan lowers These foure their forces ioyne many yet growing Their swords supplant death through the Champion scowers At whom th'Olimpian Gods amazed stand To see him with such quicknesse moue his hand 78 Anthenors sonne Polydamus makes on King Rhemus backes him with three thousand more Their Speare-length through the presse he had not gon But Celidus him from his Courser bore A fairer Prince then Celidus liu'd none By Venus gift he Beauties Liuery wore Polydamus re-mounted soone addrest A second course and pierst him through the brest 79 Which Menelaus seeing soone assayles Rhemus and layes him stounded in the field And but that stowt Polydamas preuailes H 'had borne him to his Tent vpon his shield Still was not Hector Idle Hils and Dales His Chariot skoures to him the mightiest yeild For like a raging Torrent after Rayne Where ere he comes confusion fils the plaine 80 Now was he by the men that Aiax led Troopt in the Salamines Thunder about him Like Ciclopes as if his Noble head Were Vulcans Anuile yet the boldest doubt him And seeing store of Carcasse bout him spred Wish in their hearts to fight else-where without him For like a baited Lyon at a stake he cuts them off and makes the boldest qnake 81 King Theuter somewhat rougher then the rest as worthy Hector kept these Dogs at bay Finding the Prince with two much taske opprest against him with his Courser makes swife way The brazen-headed staffe glides by his brest and gainst his rib he feeles the Iauelin stay King Theuter thou hast done a Noble deed Thou art the first that mad'st great Hector bleed 82 Well was it for thee that thou staidst not long Those that growe next him for thy act must fall Like a mad Bull he fares the Greekes among and whom he hits beneath his Chariot sprall The Prince the common man the weake the strong The Bold the
Neptolemus from top to toc Satued in blood and slaughter in both hands Wauing a keene glaue Crimsond in the foe To bind with Cords her soft armes he commands That more red liues may on his Faulchion flow There the bright Mayde that bands did ill become He piece-meale howe 's vpon Achilles tombe 93 Thus is King Priam and Queene Hecubs race Extinct in dust young Palidore alone The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace Left in great charge with Gold and many a Stone Beyond all rate but Polymnestor base Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone False to the world and to his friend vntrew To gaino that wealth the louely Infant slew 94 Whos 's death when Hecuba reuenged had By tearing out the periur'd Tyrants eyes First she records the beauty of the Lad Then all the glories she beneath the skies Possest before which makes her Franticke-mad On her sloine husband daughters sonnes she crics Troy she bewaild and fatall Greece she curst Till her great heart with griese surcharged burst 95 Ten yeares ten months twelue dayes this siege indured In which of Greece before the Towne were slame Fourescoute hundred and sixe thousand all inured To steely warre Of Troians that maintaine The honour of their Citty well assured Besides the number that were prisoners tane Six hundred fifty and six thousand tride Omitting those that in the last night dide 96 Chiualrous Hector voyd of fraud or slight Eighteene great Kings slew by his proper hands No aduantagious oddes he vsd in fight Therefore his fame spreds farre through forraigne lands Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right Fell by his Bow next rankt Achilles stands Who besides Troylus and great Hector slew Seauen puissant Kings at Troy if Fame speake true 97 Foure Kings beside the Sagitary fell By Diomed two by Aeneas lost Their precious liues though many moe fought well Their warlike deeds are not so farte ingrost Blacke Pyrrhus acts aboue the rest excell Who thinking mongst them to be praised most Three Royall liues his Tragicke wrath obayd An aged King a Woman and a Mayd 98 Not how two worthy Greekes in words contended Who should the rich Vulcanian armor haue Now how from Aiax who had Greece defended Th' impartiall Iudges to Vlisses gaue To proue that Counsell aboue strength extended And had more power the Argine Campe to saue In griese of which great losse Aiax grew mad Slaine by the sword that he from Hector had 99 Nor of Vlisses trauels twice ten yeares Nor of his loue with Circe the faire Queene Who by her spels transform'd him and his Pecres And kept him thence where he desird t' haue beene With faire Penelope Fam'd mongst the spheares In liuing chast though Princes full of spleene Possest her kingdome and her pallace ceaz'd VVhom wanting power she by delaies appeasd 100 Nor how he after twenty winters came And in disguise his constant Lady proued How he by armes releast the beautious Dame And all her suiters from his Land remoued Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame Of him whom most the witch Calipso loued From his faire Mother Circe himselfe vvith-drevv And vnavvares his Royall Father slevv 101 Nor how King Naulus laide Traines on the Seas To aâ—…enge him on the Gracians for his sonne Palamides whose death did much displease The aged Prince since t was by treason donne Nor how such wandering Greekes as he could ceaze Who on his shores their ship-wrackt vessels ronne Naulâ—…s destroyd and vnto ruine brought Since they his sonnes deere life esteemed nought 102 Nor how King Agamemnon home returning Was by his faire wife Clitemnestra slaine How false Egistus in the Queenes loue burning Plotted with her to shorten the Kings raigne Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning Grew mad and slew Egistus that had laine With his faire Mother whoÌ„ when he had caught her Vnchild-like he did with his owne hands slaughter 103 Nor how blacke Pyrrhus Hellens daughter stalâ—… The faire Her mione she that before Was to Horestes troth'd and should Sance fayle Haue bin espousd to him who at the doore Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae Staining Apoltos shrine with Pyrrhus gore Not how that face for which the whol world wrangled To see it chang'd with age her selfe she strangled 104 Nor how the Greekes after their bloody toyles Antenor left to inhabit raced Troy And after th' end of their sad Tragicke broyles All Asiaes wealth within their flect inioy Robbing the Towne of all her richest spoyles Whose hye Clowd-peircing spyres the flames destroy nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather And ships with his young son and aged Father 105 Rigging to soa these two and twenty sayle That fetcht the fire brand that all Troy inflamd The selfe-same shippes in which the Troian stale The Spartan Queene gainst whome all Greece exclaimd Nor of Queene Didoes loue and Tragicke bate Nor of Aeneas trauels nobly fam'd Nor how Andromache was Captaine led Left to the hot lust of the Conquerors bed 106 With whom Cassandra was inforst to goe With Helenus that kend deuinest things And al these sad proceedings did fore-show and propheside to Troyes confedered Kings Nor of King Diâ—…meds sad ouerthrow Of Albions Isle first knowne my Muse next sings Her Chariot now I can no further driue Brittaine from conquerd Troy we next deriue Dolopes are a people of Thessaly in the borders of Phthiolis out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard Pallas whose name we have often vsed some take to be the Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis and liued in the time of Giges Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine as wee haue before remembred Palluda quandam Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissiâ—…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae The like many others affirme as also that when she leapt out of Ihoues brain at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth Of her birth many writers differ some affirme her to be the Daughter of â—…riton others to berather the Daughter of â—…upiter Thetis Others of Craunus differing from their opinions therfore I hold with Cicero who auers that there were more of the names One of the Mother of Apollo a second borne by Nyle and adored of the Egyptians a third of the braine of â—…upiter a fourth of Jupiâ—…er and Ceriphe the Daughter of Oceanus whom the Arcadians call Cerin and the Inuentor of the Chariot A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father to perserue her virginity Pallas and Minetâ—…a were one she was also by some called Tâ—…iloma Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia Both Greece and Troy highly honered her she is saide to inuent Armes and to haue aided her Father Jâ—…piter in the destruction of the Tytanoyes which the poets call Gigomantichia Of whom it is thus remembred Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue
After fiue yeares bold Porrex Ferrex slew For which their Mother Porrex much disdained And in his blood did her blacke hands imbrew After their death sedition was maintained Full one and fifty yeares whilst no man knew Th'imediate heyre and whilst these wars were norisht Darius Xerxes and Queene Hestor flourisht 15 Th' Athenian Sophocles a Tragicke Poet Plato Cratinus Aristarchus were All Commicke Writers as their workes best show it Empedocles of Athens did acquiere Musickes full ground and made the world to know it Parmenides made Lodgicke first appeare Which in Mount Cancasus he first deuised Esdras the Scribe the Scriptures now comprised 16 MVlmutius Dunwallo sonne and heyre To Cloten Duke of Corweyle's next instated He did the foure broad High-wayes first repaire First Crown'd Paules Church first built and consecrated And after forty yeares from Brittaines Chaire To a new Throne in heaâ—… he was translated Now Socrates th' Athenian heaâ—… charmes Demosthenes famous for Arts and Armes 17 BEline and Bren the Brittish Crowne deuide Being by their Mother after wars attoned Whilst Bren in forraigne Armes his valour tride Beline built Belinsgate all Denmarke groned Beneath his yoake Bren to the Galles alide Sackt Rome burnt Delphos and was after stoned With Hayle and Thunder-stroke much blood was spilt In Italy ten stately Townes he built 18 Twenty sixe yeares hetwixt them they supply The Crowne and Sceptet Dionisius raignd In Sicily Damâ—…n and Pythias try Their mutuall friendship Xenophâ—…n maintained His schoole in Athens Platâ—… prized higher His Accademy rear'd Now was ordained For King Mansolus by the Carian Qneene A stately Tombe rankt mongst the wonders nine 19 GVrguintus Belins sonne ninâ—…teene yeares made The Brittaines homagers by euen Tradition Aristotle liu'd whose Fame shall neuer fade Sonne to Nichomachus a great Physition Now Macedonian Phillip gan t' inuade His neighbour-Kings in many an expedition The Noble Marcus Curtius for Romes sake Arm'd at all points leapt in the Curtian Lake 20 GVintheline six and twenty yeares made good His right in Brittaine Mercia his faire wife Deâ—…isde the Mercian Lawes by Tibur flood The clouds raind stones after Darius strife Which ended in effâ—…sion of much blood By poyson Alexander lost his life Next Guintheline seauen yeares Cecilius raigned Next him three yeares Kimar the state maintained 21 Nine yeares Elanius raign'd Morindus eight Deuour'd of a Sea-monster In their dayes Onias sonne of Taddus reacht the height Of the Priests Office Gorbomannus swayes Eleauen full yeares a Prince assisting right Symon Onyas sonne the Habrewes raise To the Priest-hood next iust Gorboman Fierce Archigall to Tyranize began 22 After fiue yeares depos'd his second Brother Succeeded in the stile of Elidure A vertuous Prince there sat not such another In Brittaines Chaire in life seuere and pure Fiue yeares himselfe did Archigallo smother And his deposing patiently endure At length by Elidurus met and knowne To Archigallo he resignes his Throne 23 Ten yeares the twice-Crown'd Archigallo now Gouernes the State in Honour and then dying To Elidure againe the Brittans bow After two yeares his Brothers him defying Keepe him in bonds the Brittaine Peeres allow Their double rule nine yeares their Conquesttrying Vigenius and Peridure are past And Elidure the third time Crown'd at last 24 Raigning foure yeares In this forepassed state Liu'd Epyre pyrrhâ—…s and Lisimachus The High-priest Eleasar chus'd oflate Receiues th' Egiptian league Now breath Seleucus And Ptolomy now by the Roman Senate Siluer was coyned first Theos-Antiochus In Syria raign'd blood sprang out of a Well And from the Clowds Milke in abundance fell 23 MAnasses liu'd high Priest among the Iewes Ten yeares ruld Gorboman Morgan 〈◊〉 Emerianus next to him pursues The Diadem a Tyrant full of spleene After seauen yeares deposd Inall insues A temperate Prince who twenty yeares was seene In Brittaines Throne Amilchar Carthage swaide Illyrian Teuca â—…id proud Rome inuade 26 RImo raignd sixteene yeares bold Hanniball And Scipio fought Wise Cato liu'd in Rome Next Rimo King Geruntius they install Him after twenty yeares his Lords intoome The losty Spaniards from Romes Empire fal And after stand to Fuluius Flaccus doome Ten yeares Catellus raign'd the Iewes were foyld And by Antiochus Gods Temple spoyld 27 The Mother and her seauen sonnes Martird were The worthy Iudas Machabeus fought Gods battailes Coill raigned twenty yeare Great Carthage was destroyd and Corinth brought To fall by fire The Doctrines first apeare The Pharisei and Sadducei taught Fiue yeares iust Porrex drunken Cherimus One Fulgen two one Eldred one Androgeus 28 Dendantius fiue yeares two Detonnus held The soueraignty then lest this life for new Nature a Monstrous byrth in Rome compeld Hauing foure hands foure feet Corne grew In Bonony on Trees whose tast exceld The Parthian Arsaces Demetrius slew Great Scipio Affricanus ends his life By salse Sempronia his disloyall wife 29 Young Vrianus three King Eliud fiue Two Meriaâ—…ns and Bladunus twaine Capenâ—…s three Ouinius doth next striue And his imperiall state two yeares maintaine Two Silius Bledgabredus â—…id suruiue Full twenty yeares in his auspitious raigne Hircanâ—…s gouernd in the high-Priests sted Marius â—…mpht o're Iugurth Captiueled 30 Archemachus raignd two Eldotus foure Two Rodianus three Redargius Samillius two the Brittaines next adore King penesellus three two princely pirrhus And after him Caporus two no more Now grew the watres twixt Scilla and Marius Diuellus foure Helyas Ely named Gouernd ten months when death his body claimed 31 Lvd Helyes sonne his happy rule began Nam'd Troynouant Luds-towne Ludgate erected Eleauâ—…n yeares raign'd then to Cassibelan Left his two infant sonnes to be protected Who till the Princes grew to state of man By all the Brittish Peeres was King elected Raign'd nineteene yeares in his dayes twice repeld The Roman Casar the bold Brittaines queld 32 Nennius wan Casars sword and had it brought To be hang'd ore his hearse Pompey the great With Iulius Casar in Pharsalia fought Iulius vsuâ—…pes in Romes Imperiall seat Was stab'd with Bodkins he that neuer fought But conqâ—…'d in all Martiall acts compleat Now flourisht Cicero with praise Deuine Hermius and seditious Cateline 33 And not the least grace to Triumphant Rome The rare Comadian Roseius Next in rowe Of Brittish Kings must young Tenancius come Twenty three yeares he raignd and then did owe No more to nature then th' adopted son Of Casar great Augustus now doth grow Romes Monarchy Marke Anthony through pride Rebeld by Aspes great Cleopatra dide 34 Virgil and Horace flourisht In these dayes Iesus Sabetes sonne was consecrated High Priest King Herod Iewries Scepter
his Brothers vow Like homage and in State haue entertaind Vter Pendragon to whose throne they bow Sixteene whole yeares He doats on Cornwayles wife and for her loue bereaues her Husbands life 63 Of her he Arthur got In France Clodouens Gouernd as King the first that was Baptiz'd In Italy great Theodoricus King of the Astrogothes who enterprisde Gainst Odeacer battaile bold Honoricus Gouernd in Affricke who so much despisde True Fayth that he for th' Arrians in one hower By shops exild three hundred thirty foure 63 Arthur the worthy next the State ascended Fought twelue set battailes and the order made Of the Round Table whose renowne extended Through all the world whilst Arthur doth inuade Forraine Dominious and Christs Faith desended Mordred at home his Crowne ' and Queene betrayde Twixt whom at Arthurs backe returne againe War was commenst in which both Kings were slain 65 Next Arthur Constantine Duke Cadors Sonne After his Vncle sixe and twenty years Had gouern'd England his estate begonne Slew Mordred Sonnes in fight with Saxon Peeres That ayded them in battaâ—…le these warres donne After foure Sommers he ascends the Spheares Iustine a Swine-heard by ambition fierd By crafty meanes th' Imperiall Seate aspyerd 66 Now liu'd in Italy the famous Dame Analasiantha with Athalarius Her Son by whom her Soueraignty first came She could both Greeke and Latine well discusse Whose reuerence many Histories proclayme Daughter to th' Emperor Theodoricus Iustinian the Gracian Empyre swayes The Persians to their State Cosroe rayse 67 Iustinian in his Captaines much renowned Narses the Eunuch a right 〈◊〉 Knight And Bellisarius whose name was crowned Through all the world Twice Carthage won in fight Twice rescude Rome his fame in Persia sowned Thrace Greece th'Affricke Gâ—…aths he put to flight For much more seruice th' Emperor from his head Tore out his eyes he for'st to beg his bread 68 Aurelius Conanus slew in field Constantine Arthurs Nephew three yeares swade Then did his due to death and nature yeild And Vortigore his Sonne is Soueraigne made Who did but foure yeares Brittans 〈◊〉 weild When Malgo did the 〈◊〉 inuade Who slew his first Wife her chast Bed for sooke And to his Bride his Brothers Daughter tooke 69 King Totylus sack't Rome the second time What in the first he spoyl'd he now repayred Altinus king of Lumbards full with Wine Cals for a Mazer which he might haue spared Of his Wiues Fathers Scull for which in fine She loath'd her Husband and yet further dar'd Vnto his loyall Bed she prou'd vntrue With Helme-child who after Albine slew 70 CAreticus by help of Irelands King Cald Gurmond Brittan Malgo did expell Whom after three yeares Ethelfrid did bring To ruine and in battaile prosperd well About this time Sybert th' East Saxon King Erected Westminster Ethelfrid fell And Cadwan Duke of Northwales him defeated And two and twenty yeares in peace was seated 71 Queene Tredegunde of France in the meane season Lawdry the Earle of Soysons deerely lou'd And for his â—…ake destroyd the King by Treason Gainst Gregory sir-nam'd the great was mou'd By â—…ohn the Patrâ—…arch against all reason The Churches Primacy which he improu'd Arabian Mahomet his Alkeron made Frensh Brunchild liu'd who had Princes ten betrayde 72 CAdwallin Cadwans Sonne next Bittan guided Benet the Monke Paynting and Glazing found The Sarasins by Mahomet prouided Wan Persia where Ormisda long sat crown'd And in short space hauing their powers diâ—…ided Conquerd all Aegypt with the Climats round Damascus likewise was subdude by them So was rich Antioch and Hierusalem 73 Three yeares Cadwallader esteem'd the last Of Brittan Princes gouernd and he dead The Kingdome wholly to West-Saxons past Of whom King Iue first impald his head And next him Ethelard whose raigne was grast By reuerent Beda of whose workes we read Of Clearkly Bookes on seuerall Subiects stil'd Threâ—…ore and eyghteene Volums well compil'd 74 Next Ethelard raign'd Cuthred whom succeeds Sigebert and he not one full yeare did raigne But was deposde for many tyrranous deedes And after besely by a Swine-heard slaine Kinulphus to the Kingdome next proceedes Who after by a man of Sigeberts traine Was murdred in the night as he should passe Vnto his Mistris a braue Brittish Lasse 75 The Sarasins pierce Europe Rhodes they wasted The Firmament two daies appeares to burne The Emperour Constantine his Army hasted The Sarasins by armes to ouerturne Where thirty thousand Pagans of death tasted When Constantine expites the Christians mourne His Throne and State Iustinian next maintained And from the Turkes Affricke and Libia gayned 76 The next West-Saxon King was Brithricus Who eyghteene yeares after Kinulphus fall Raign'd King came from the blooud of Cerdicus And queld the Danes in many a bloudy brall Wiu'd Ethelburgh by whom as Bookes discusse He poysond was yet whilst he gouern'd all S. Albons Winchcombe Abbeyes were both built Blood rayn'd which seem'd like Crosses where t' was spilt 77 Egbert the Sexon thirty seauen supplyde The Soueraignety now raign'd Prench Charles the great Eyghteene whole dayes the Sunne his light denyde Hyren the Empresse from th' Imperiall Seat Her young Sonne Constantine deposde through pâ—…de And after did him cruelly intreat She causd his eyes be torne out of his head And foure yeares after gouernd in his stead 78 King Ethelwolfe the fore-nam'd Egbert's Sonne As Chroniclers affirme Oxford erected a Priest at first in Orders he begon Till after marrying he the State affected The Warlike Danes his Kingdome ouer-ron But are expled Sergius is Pope elected Whose name Os Porcy seem'd so vile that they Chang'd it and from him all Popes to this day 79 Foure Sonnes each other in the State succeedes King Ethelwald who gouern'd not a yeare When Ethelbert his Brother don'd the Weedes Imperiall and next him doth appeare The third Sonne Etheldred whose body bleeds By the bold Danes who after slaughterd were By the fourth Sonne at Brixium as Bookes tell Three dayes together bloud in thicke shewers fell 80 Young Alured from Ethelwolfe the last Twenty nine yeares sixe monthes the Scepter bore Hungar and Hubba quite through Scotland past Bels were first vsde in Greece not knowne before In sixe set battailes Alured disgrast The warlike Danes then dyde The Peeres adore Edward his elder Sonne who nobly beares The Brittish Scepter foure and twenty yeares 81 Nine Popes in lesse then nine yeares were instald Adelwald Edwards Brother twice rebelling VVas by the Elders Prowesse twice appald And after slaine the Huns and Hungars quelling All Europe were much feard a Princesse cald Elflede King Edwards Sister much excelling after the throwes in her first Child-birth tryde For euermore her
of Histaspes called in the Scripture Ashuerosh Husband to Hester called by 〈◊〉 Aristona as the Name of Vasts was Atossa Some refer the History of Iudith to these times Fourth Xerxes raigned 20. He 〈◊〉 Greece with an Armye of 10000000. Souldiers his cheese Captaine was Mardonius his chiefe Counseller Artabanus He was first repulsed by Pausanias of Sparta after expeld Greece by 〈◊〉 In these warres were famous Artstides and Cimon 4. Artaxerxus with the long hand ruld 40. He was thought to bee the Son to Darius and Hester In his time liued Esdras Haggeus Zachartus and Nehemiah About the time of the Pelloponesian Warre And now was Rome gouerned by the 〈◊〉 forme of gouernment infamous in the lust of 〈◊〉 to the chast Roman Lady Virginia Darius Nothus raigned 19 In his time hued famous Alcibiades and Sophocles Euripides two famous Tragedians Artaxerxes Memnon 40. he loued the famous Lady Aspatia the Noblest Greekes in his daies were Clearchus Anaxilaus Lisander who conquered Athens after gouerned by 30. Tyrants who were supprest by the 〈◊〉 of Thrasibulus Now happened the Wars betweene the Phocenses and the Locri with 〈◊〉 Leuctricum And now 〈◊〉 Conon and 〈◊〉 EpamaminoÌ„das in Greece about the 〈◊〉 that English Brennus sackt Rome Artaxerxes Ochus next Memnon raigned 26. In his time happened the Warre which was called Bellum sacrum 〈◊〉 raigned foure yeares he was slaine by Bagoas Him Darius succeeded in the sixt yeare of his raigne was slaine by Alexander the Great in whom began the third Monarchy translated to the Gracians Alexander by his Father Phillip deriueth his byrth from Hercules by his Mother Olimpius from Aeacus He conquered the World raigned as Emperor 12. years In the 32. of his age He dead the Monarchy was dâ—…ded into four parts Aegipt Syria Asia Mynor and Macedon The Kinges of Egypt after Alexander were these Ptolomeus the Sonne of Lagus Ptolomeus Philodelphus Alexander Philopater Epiphanes Philometer Euergetes Phiscon Alexander Lathurus Auletes Father to Câ—…patra Dionisius her Brother in whom ended the race of the Ptolomees and now Egypt came vnder the Iâ—…risdiction of the Romans The Kings of Macedon were Perdicas Craterus Antipater Cassander Antigonus 1. Antigonus 2. Demetrius Philippus and Perseus who was surprised by the Romans The Kings of Syria who after the death of Alexander possest Babylon Syria and Asia Minor were Antiochus Soter Antiochus Theos Antiochus Magnus who had these three Sons Seleucus Philopater Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius Demetrius after his Brothers decease had two Sonnes Demetrius Nicanor and Antiochus Sedetes The Son of Nicanor was Antiochus Griphus The Son of Sedetes was Antiochus Cyzenius These hauing slaine each other from theyr Issue Tygranes King of Armenia reâ—…t the Kingdome of Syria which first Lucullus and after Pompeius Magnus annext to the Roman Empyre These in the time of the third Monarchy were Captaines and Gouernors among the Iewes Nehemiah Ioconias Selathiel Zorobabel Resa Mesollam â—…ohanna Ben Resa Iudas Hircanus primus in his Dukedome Alexander flew Darius Iosephus primus Abner Semei Eli matathai Asa mahat Nagid Artaxad Haggai Eli Maslot Nahum Amos Sirach Matathia Siloah Iosephus Iunâ—…r Ianua secunâ—…s Hircanus And then began the race of the Machabees in Matathias whose Sons succeeded him Iudas Ionathas Simon Iohannes Hercanus The Kinges of that line were Aristobulus son to Hercanus Alexander Iâ—…neus Queen Alixandra his Wife otherwise cald Salome The Sonnes of Alexander were Hircanus and Aristobulus in theyr death ended the line of the Machabees Succeeding these in the 30. yeare of the raigne of Herod Tetrache was borne the Sauiour of the World vnto which we haue studyed to reduce the best knowne Nations of the Earth leauing the 4. Monarchy among the Romans who by this time awed the Earth whose warres and Fortunes being so commonly from many worthy Writers translated into our moderne tongue We here omâ—… letting this short Epitome onley serue in the Front of our Booke to instruct your memories and guide your thoughts through those vnknown Deserts in which without this direction many Readers may loose themselues bee this therefore their Pylot to direct them to the harbour of these latter Ages more familiarly knowne Argumentum TYTAN and Saturne differ their great strife Is by their carefull mother VESTA ended Saturane his Sister Sybill takes to wife And the heyre-males that are from theÌ„ descended He doomes to death faire Sybil saues the life Of Iupiter grim Saturne is offended And to the Oracle at Delphos hyes Whiles Titan thrugh the earth his fortune tries ARG. 2. The Worlds Creation gold from the earths veines Neptune and Plutoes birth ALPHA conteines CANTO 1. THis VNIVERSH with all therein conteined Was not at first of Water fashioned Nor of the Fire as others oft haue fcyned Nor of the Ayre as some haue vainly spred Nor the foure Elements in order trained Nor of Vacuitie and Atom's bred Nor hath it beene Eternall as is thought By naturall men that haue no further sought 2 Neither hath man in perpetuity bin And shall on earth eternally perseuer By endlesse Generation running in One circuit In corruption lasting euer Nor did that Nation first on earth begin Vnder the mid Equator some indeuour So to perswade that man was first begunne In the place next to the life-giuing Sunne 3 Neither was he of Earth and water framed Tempered with liuely heat as others write Nor were we in a former world first named As in their curious Problems some recite Others more ripe in Iudgement haue proclaimed Man fram'd of clay in fashion exquisite In whom were breath'd sparkes of Celestiall fire Whence he still keepes his Nature to aspire 4 But this most glorious Vniuerse was made Of nothing by the great Creators will The Ocean bounded in not to inuade Or swallow vp the Land so resteth still The azure Firmament to ouer-shade Both Continent and Waters which fulfil The Makers word one God doth sole extend Without beginning and shall see no end 5 That powerfull Trinity created man Adam of Earth in the faire field Damaske And of his rib he Euah formed than Supplying them with all things they can aske In these first two Humanity began In whom confinde IHBHOVAHS fix-daâ—…es taske From Adam then and Euahs first Creation It followes we deriue our Brittish Nation 6 Inspire me in this taske Ihoues seede I pray With Hippocrenes drops besprinke my head To comfort me vpon this tedious way And quicken my cold braine nigh dull and dead Direct my wandring spirits when they stray Least forren and forbidden paths they tread My iourney 's tedious blame not then my feares My voyage aymes at many thousand yeares 7 Oh giue me leaue from the Worlds first Creation The ancient names of Britons to deriue From Adam to the Worlds first Invndation And so from Noah to vs that yet suruâ—…e And hauing of Troyes
can she not depart From what she flies for what she most doth feare She carries all the way the shape of Beare 26 And though a perfect Beare yet Beares affright her So do the Wolues though mongst their sauage crew Her Father liues how should a Wolfe delight her Vnlesse Lycaon in such shape she knew Meane time young Archas proues a valiant fighter And in all Martiall practise famous grew Adding seaueu Summers more vnto his age Hee seats him in the kingdome of Pelage 27 Where leaue him raigning in his Grandsiressted Changing his kingdome and his peoples name Whether by loue or fate I know not led Themselues Arcadians they abroad proclaime After the name of Archas now their head Pelage a Citty too of ancient fame They Archad call a stile that shall perseuer Vnto the people and the Towne for euet 28 Archas in Archad liues in Epyre Ioue Saturne in Creet the God of Earth proclaimed Tytan through forren Seas and Lands doth roue Hauing by Conquest many Nations tamed For time still gaue him Conquest where he stroue which made him through the world both fear'd famed Yet with a world the Tyrant seemes not pleasd Till he haue Creet his Natiue birth-right ceaâ—… 29 By strict inquiry heat length hath found His periur'd Brother hath kept sonnes aliue against the couenant he by oath was bound Which was that no male issue should suruiue This of his future war must be the ground He vowes in Irons his Brothers legs to gyue His hands to Manacle his necke to yoake In iust reuenge that he the league hath broke 30 His sonnes all Gyants and by nature strong He sends to assemble to this dreadfull warre Who like their father apt for rape or wrong Without the cause demaunding gathered are Vnnumbred people in their armies throng Brought by the Big-bon'd Titanoys from farre Where he and all his Gyant-sonnes assemble They make the groning earth beneath them tremble 31 Lycaon was not there him Ioue before Had from th' Arcadian kingdome quite put downe There was the Gyant Typhon he that wore The Ciprian wreath and the Cicillian crowne Huge Briareus that the scepter bore Of Nericos a monster at whose frowne Nations haue quak't whole armies stood agast And Gods themselues shooke till his rage were past 32 Coeon likewise king of great Coeas Isle A fellow of a high and matchlesse size Who the rough Ocean calmed with a smile And with a frowne hath made the billowes â—…ise Aegeon too that hath inlarg'd his stile Through many a kingdome from whose raging eies Bright lightning flames haue in his furious ire Afore a storme of thunder flasht out fire 33 Of him the great Mediterranean Ocean Is cald th' Aegean Sea it doth deuide Europe from Asia and hath further motion a long the greatest part of Greece beside This Gyant to the Gods scorn'd all deuotion Therefore was cal'd Brianchus for his pride The next Hyperion of the selfe-same breed All these haue sworne the death of Saturnes seed 34 There likewise came vnto these wars Japetus Calum and Terraes son in Tytans aide He brought with him his sonne Prometheus Whom Tytan the first houre a Captaine made His brother Athlas too and Hesperus Their royall Ensignes in the field displai'd And ouer diuers seas their armies ferried From Mauritania Lybia and Hesperied 35 Their Randezvouz in Sicily they made And thence by sea they rigge a royall sleet The flourishing realme of Saturne to inuade In time their countlesse hoast takes land in Creet Vallâ—…es by them are fil'd hils euen are laid Townes burnt high Castles leuel'd with their feet Where ere they turne fite from their eye-bals flashes Which townes and villages consumes to ashes 36 Saturne their bold inuasion much admires Not knowing whence their quarrell may be grounded He cals his Counsell and of them inquires How their immense ambition may be bounded How with his enemies blood to quench the fires And by what power the soe may be confounded Aduise is giuen to make a generall muster To beat them backe that in such numbers cluster 37 And as the king thron'd in his chaire of state Sits in his pallace all his chiefe Peeres by him On these affaires to Counsell and debate In thrusts a Knight from Tytan to desie him And mongst the Lords that bout him circled fat He rudely throngs and presseth to come me him But being kept backe aloud he lifts his voice And thus greets Saturne from the Tytanoys 38 Thus sayes imperious Tytan Saturnes Lord Like a low vassaile from my Throne discend Or I shall chase thee thence by fire and sword And with thy glory to thy daies giue end For thou hast broke thy oath and Princely word And therein made an enemy of thy friend My Crowne I but resign'd vpon condition And thou those bands hast broke by thy Ambition 39 Whilst Saturne his male-children kils so long He is the King of Creet but that neglected He weares the Cretan Diadem by wrong Thy periury is to the world detected And therefore with an army great and strong Shall Saturne from his high throne be deiected Thus Tytan doth the king of Creet defie And by these Summons to submit or die 40 Bold spirited Saturne doubly mou'd appeareth At his proud Message with disdaine and wonder Disdaine as being a Prince that nothing feareth To heare his scorned enemy-threatnings Thunder With admiration when he strangely heareth Of sonnes aliue which makes him deepely wonder And taking Sibell by the hand thus say Hauing commanded first his traine away 41 Sister and wife I charge thee by the zeale Thou owest to me thy husband and thy brother The truth of all this practise to reueale And what I next demaund thee nothing smother Since it concerns th' estate of all our weale Art thou of any liuing sonne the mother The trembling Queene low kneeling thus repli'de You charge me deepe and I will nothing hide 42 I am a woman and full well you know A woman hath a soft and tender brest But more I am a mother can you show A mother that in this kind hath transgrest Stranger may stranger kill Foe murder foe Which mothers to their children most detest Was it for murder you espous'd me first To be a wife of all good-wiues accurst 43 I 'de rather be a pittious mother helde Then through the world a Murdresse be esteem'd Be my selfe murdered rather then compeld To murder those for whom this womb hath teem'd This wombe with three faire Princely sons hath sweld Which dead to Saturne and the world are deem'd Yet all three liue but cruell husband where Saturne shall neuer know nor Tytan heare 44 Th' amazed king immagines by her looke Her feruent tongue doth on her hart-string strike Necessity at this time makes him brooke What his disturbed soule doth most dislike Without reply the sad Queene he for sooke It pierst his hart as if an
neither tript nor rang'd Both Man and Horse are free from any Error No art of Warre was from these Knights estrang'd In Troylus might be seene a Souldiers Mirror In Diomed the patterne of such skill as they desire that would their Foe-men kill 88 The fayre-browde Sky shrinkes vp her Azure face Least their sharpe splinterd Staues should race her brow Both couet honor in this warlike race and in their hearts they eythers ruine vow But Menelaus happily came in place With him three hundred Knights that well knew how To manage battaile these betweene them grew and they to further ranks perforce withdrew 89 Miseres King of Phrigia met by chance The Spartan King and shooke him in his Seat Against Duke Aiax Paris charg'd a Launce and him the Sal'mine did but ill intreat At the first blow he stounds him in a trance Then midst the Troian rankes doth â—…oyle and sweat Striuing behind on both sides and before Euen till his armes with bloud were vermeil'd o're 90 Prince Margareton vnto Hector deare Knowing the slaughter Noble Aiax made against his Vaunt-brace brauely prooues his Speare and to their vanquisht Phalanx brings fresh ayde Aiax is for'st his fury to forbeare The Troians powers on all sides him inuade Till Agamemnon comes with fresh supply at whose approach th'astonish Troians fly 91 Yet Noble Margareton keepes his stand Nor can the strongest arme of Greece remoue him He feeles the strength of Agamemnons hand Grim Aiax sword with a towers weight doth proue him Yet shrinkes not till the place was Nobly man'd By Paris and Polydamus that loue him These hearing Margareton much distrest Rescue the Prince who brauely guards his Crest 92 It ioyes the King and Ladyes that on hy Stand on the Torras to behold the field To see the Prince so full of Chiualry And with such power to vle his Sword and Shield Achilles in a place where thousands lye Besmeard in bloud as if he meant to build a wall of Limbes and Quarters brauely fought And bout himselfâ—… a siedge of bodies wrought 93 Where issuing after much effuse of blood To calme himselfe remotely from the throng Retyerd alike young Margareton stood Striuing for breath he had not rested long Butspyes Achilles with a purple flood Powerd o'rehis armes a Iauelin light and strong The valiant Troian Prince against him bent Whom the proud Greeke receiues incontinent 94 From broken Speares they come to two-edg'd Steele Oh! How stont Hector yernd to be in place His very Soule doth all the puissance feele Of him that hath his Brothers life in chace No stroake that makes Prince Margareton reele But as he thinkes it tingles on his face And from the wall in Armour he had lept Had not the King and Queene perforce him kept 95 By this the youthfull Priameian tyerd With oddes of might he wauers too and fro Doubtfull which way to fall the Greeke admierd To find so young a gallant plunge him so and therefore with hisanclent rankor fierd He doubles and redoubles blow and blow Till he whose deere life was to Hector sweet Sinkes from his Horse beneath his ruthlesse feete 96 Who with his barb'd Steede tramples o're his Coarse Whose Iron hoofe the Princes armor raceth This Hector seeing breakes from all their force He cla ps his Beauer downe his Helme fast laceth With â—…mble quicknesse vaults vpon his horse And yssuing where he rides the enemy cheareth For Margaretons death he vowes that day Achilles with a thousand more shall pay 97 Two Noble Dukes he chargeth and both slew Duke Cortphus Bastidius big and tall And forth like lightning mongst their squadrons flew Where such as cannot flye before him fall Leocides an Armour fresh and new He was amongst the Greekes chiefe Admirall Would proue gainst Hector but in his swift race The Troians Speare brake on the Grâ—…ns face 98 A splinter strooke the Greeke into the braine And downe he sinkes Achilles full of yre Spying so many bold Pelasgians slaine Prickes on with Polyceus both desire To proue themselues with Hector on the plaine The bold assaylants need not farâ—…e inquire For the sterne Prince In that part of the host Th' are sure to find him where the cry growes most 99 Both Menace him gainst both he stands prepared Duke Policeus to Achilles deare Whose Sister he was promist had warre spared His destin'd life drew to the Troians neare At the first stroke his Beauer'd face he bared But with the next his sparpled braines appeare Achilles mads at this and sweares on hye For Polyceus death Hector shall dye 100 His threatned vengeance Hector did soone quaile For through his thigh he quiuers a sharpe Dart Achilles feeles his bleeding sinnowes faile And with all speed doth to his Tent depart Where hauing bound his wound vp wan and pale With fury and the rancor of his hart Three hundred Myrmidons that all things dar'd he leads to field his person to saue-gard 101 Swearing them all theyrioynt-rage to bestow On Hector and on him sterne vengeance power And sauing him t' intend no Dardan Foe That Heauen with him may on his Conquests lower They listen where the clamors loudest grow And there spy Hector wald in like a Tower With heapes os men that bout him bleeding lay For not a liâ—…ng Greeke durst necre him stay 102 Now tyrd with slaughter he was lean'd vpon The Pomell of his bright victorious Blade and for his strength and breath was almost gone His Armour he had slackt it loosely playde about his shoulders for he dreaded none Him now the bloudy Myrmidons inuade In three-fold rings about him they were guided To take the Noble Heroâ—… vnproulded 103 Oh! Where is Paris with his Archers bow Where 's youthfull Deiphebus now at need Where 's the inuinced Troylus to bestow His puissant stroakes before Prince Hector bleed Where is Aeneas to repulse the foe You Troyes confedred Kings where do you speede Bring rescue now or in his Mountaine fall Bencath destruction he will crush you all 104 All these are absent naught saue death and ruine Compasse the Prince a tripple ring of blades Inguirts him round who still their rankes renewing Threaten to send him to th' infernall shades With bloudy appetites his fall pursuing Achilles as they shrinke on hye perswades With promises and some with threats he sweares To pay the base shame of their dastard feares 105 A hundred Myrmidons before him lye Drownde in their owne blouds by his strong arme shed The rest renew the charge with fresh fupply and thunder on his shoulders armes and head Achilles strongly arâ—…'d and horst spurres by To see the hunger of his Blood-hounds fed Was neuer Mortall without might of Gods That stood so long against such powerfull ods 106 They hew his armour peece-meale from his backe Yet still the valiant Prince maâ—…taines the fray Though but halfe-harnest yet he holds them tacke And still the bloudy Slaues vpon him lay Armour and breath
at once the Prince doth lacke Stor'd with nought else saue wounds alacke the day Yet like a stedfast rocke the worthy stood From whom ran twenty seuerall springs of blood 107 This when the fresh-breath'd Greeke beheld and saw So much effuse of blood about him run He chargd his warlike Myrmidons withdraw And crying out alowd Now Troy is won With shamefull oddes against all Knight-hoods law Gainst naked Hector well-arm'd Thetis son Aymes a stiffe Iauelin and against him rides The ruthlesse staffe through picrst his Royall sides 108 With him King Priam and whole Asiaes glory Queene Hecuba with all her daughters faire Sinke into Lethe euen the Gods are sorry To see the man they made without compare So basely fall to make Achilles story Reproachfull to all eares that would not spare So great a Worthy but with oddes strike vnder Him that atchiâ—…ud things beyond strength wonder 109 Hector thus falne the Troians whose whole power Lay in the arme of Hector flye the field And now th'incourag'd Greekes Scamander scower The head subdude the body needs must yeild Behold the Prince that aw'd within this hower Millions of Greekes lyes dead vpon his shield He gone whose Atlas Arme vpheld their states Amazed Troy rams-vp her sieged Gates 110 At sight of which Achilles sweld with rage From Hectors breast the Belt Aiax him gaue Snatcheth in hast and his sad spleene t' asswage Fetters his Legges and like a conquerd slaue Voyde of all honor ruth or Counsell sage at his Horse-heeles he drags him like a slaue Hauing Troyes wall first three-times circled round hurdling the Dardan Heroâ—… on the ground 111 To thinke so braue a Peere should basely bleede A Prince t'insult vpon a slaughter'd Foe and gaâ—…nst a worthy act so base a deede Makes my soft eye with Springs of Sorrow flow Nor can I further at this time procâ—…ede The Greekes blacke practise doth offend me so Heare therefore I desist my Tragicke verse To mourne in silence o're Prince Hectors hearse Aeacides a name we sometimes giue to Achilles is a deriuatiue of Aeacus and is as much as to say the Grand childe of Aeacus sometime we call him Pelias Issue viz the Sonne of Peleas the Sonne of Aeacus Patroclus a Noble Greeke sonne to Menetius and Stheuele he was brought up under Chiron the Centaure with Achilles who euer after entirely loued him Chiron likewise whom we haâ—…e before in some places mentioned is thought to be Sonne of Saturne Vt Saturnus Equo geminum Chirona creauit His Mother was cald Philyra Ad mare descendit montis de parte suprema Chiron Philerides Saturne deflowring the faire Philiris Daughter to the old Oceanus and fearing leaft his â—…ife Rhea otherwise cald Sibilla should discouer his wantonnesse transhapes him selfe into a Horse and then beg at in the Islands Philerides Chiton the Centaure from the Nauell vpwardes hauing the perfect semblance of Man the rest downewards the shape of an Horse Others haue thought him to be the Sonne of Ixion Brother to the race of the Centaurs He taught Aesculapius Phisicke Hercules Astronomy and Apollo to play on the Lute or Harpe Of Thetis otherwise cald Amph 〈◊〉 it is thus reported that she was the most beautifull of all the Goddesses when Apollo Neptune and Iuâ—…ter contended about her which should â—…ioy her bed being all frustrate Iupiter inraged doom'd her to be a mortals Bride because shee had so peremptorily despised their God hoods The Goddesse much agrieu'd to be so abiectly bestowed despised Pelcus who extreamely doted on her beauty and still when hee would haue comprest her she metamorphised her selfe somtimes to a flame of Fire sometimes to a Lyon then a serpent so dreadfull that he was still deter'd from his purpose till after by the aduice of Chiron the Centaure neglecting all terror she helde her fast so long till hauing run through all her Protean shapes he wearted her in her transformation till she return'd into her owne shape of the most beautiful Goddesse of whom he begat Achilles Tython for his beauty beloued of Aurora the morning is said to be the son of Laomedon and Brother to Priam thogh by diuers mothers he gat Prâ—…am of Leucippe and Tython of Sâ—…ma or else of Rhoea the daughter of Scamander Aurora begd of the Fates for her Husband Tython Imortality which being imediately graunted her she had for got with his length of life to beg withal that he should neuer wax old and decrepit wherefore he is said to be euer bed rid till the Gods pittying his feeblenesse turn'd him after into a Grashopper Longa Tithonum minuit senâ—…ctus suâ—…a a chiefe Citty in Persia where the great Sophies keepe their Courts it is seated neare the famous riuer Choaspes and was builded by Tython Pclasgians are an auncient people of Greece dwelling in Peloponesus in the edge of Macedonia of whom the generall Graecians sometimes haue vsurpt that name The end of the thirteenth CANTO Argumentum TRoylus Achilles wounds and is betraid By his fell Myrmidons which being spredd The bloody Greeke still loues the beautious Maid Pollixena and for her loue is lead To Pallas Church whom Paris doth inuade And with an Arrow in the heele strikes dead Penthisilea with her valiant Maydes Assists sad Troy Greece lofty Pyrthus ayds ARG. 2. IN this last fight fall by the Argiue spleene Paris Amphimachus Scithiaes Queene CANTO 14. 1 TO whom Andromache may I compare Thy Funerall teares ore Hectors body shed If mongst late Widdowes none suruiue so rare To equall thee le ts search among the dead The Carian Queene that was as chast as faire Bright Artimesia a wonder bred Galathian Camna did likewise constant proue And â—…al'd her in firme Coniugall Loue. 2 What Fathers griefe could equall Priams teares Who lost a sonne no age no world could match Whose arme vpheld his glory many yeares Whose vigilant eye did on his safety watch Englands third Edward in thy face appeares Like griefe when timelesse death did soone dispatch Thy braue sonnes life Edward Sirnam'd the blacke By whom Spaine flag'd and France sustained wracke 3 Noâ—… Margaret when at Teuxbury her sonne Was stab'd to death by Tyrant Glosters hand Felt from her riueld cheekes more Pearle drops ronne Then Hecuba when she did vnderstand The thred of Hectors life already sponne Whose glories stretcht through Heauen aire sea land Though he of semblant hope to England were With him whom Asia did account most deare 4 Nor could the Countesse Mary sorrow more To heare her Brother the braue Sidney wounded Whose death the seuenteene Belgian states deplore Whose Fame for Arts and armes the whole world sounded Then did Cassandra who her garments tore Creusa who with extreame griefe confounded With whom Polyxena bare a sad straine To heare a third part of the earth complaine 5 Nor when the hopefull youth Prince Arthur dide Leauing his Brother both his
life and Crowne Could the prince Henry lesse his sorrowes hide Then Hectors Brothers who still guard the Towne The vniuersall Citty doffes her pride The King himselfe puts on a Mourners gowne The Queene and Ladies with their leagued Kings Bury with him their best and costliest things 6 So when from Rome great Tully was exild Full twenty thousand Cittizens the best In garments Tragicke and in countenance wild For twelue sad Moones their loues to him profest But Troy euen from the Bed-rid to the Child From Crutch vnto the Cradle haue exprest A generall griefe in their lamenting cryes Lookes gestures habits mournefull harts and eyes 7 Now when the Fountaine of their teares grew dry And Men and Maâ—…ons him bewayld their fill With one Ioynt-voyce for iust reuenge they cry On him that did the Prince by Treason kill They lay their sad and Funerall Garments by The souldiets long to proue their Martiall skill And try their strengths vpon Scamander plaine Thinking themselues too long Inmut'd in vaine 8 T is Questionable whether greater woe In Troy then glee within the Campe abounded They hold themselues free from that late dread foe Who with his Steed had oft their trenches rounded And neuer but to th' Argiues ouerthrow appear'd in field or to the battaile sounded With shrill applause they proud Aehilles Crowne And with Brauadoes oft-times front the Towne 9 Thus when re-spirited Greece had Dominear'd and brau'd the fieged Troians at their gates Old Priam for his age now little fear'd With Troylus and the rest of warres debates For Hectors slaughter to them all indeer'd They vow reuenge on those hye Potentates That were spectators of the ruthlesse deed When Hectors coarse thrice round the wals did bleed 10 And yssuing with their power the aged King Puts acts in execution much aboue His age or strength he youthfully doth spring Vpon his Steed and for his Hectors loue Amongst the throng of Greekes dares any thing Himselfe gainst Diomed he longs to prone and scapes vntoucht then gainst Vlisses rides and still his age doth equipage their prides 11 Forthwith gainst Agamemnâ—… he contends and on his Beauer raught him many a blow Who like a souldier his renowne defends amazd that weake age should assacult him so The King his puissance further yet extends Against the Spartan King an equall foe Whom with his speare he did so ill inrreat Faire Hellens husband sits beside his seat 12 From them he further to the throng proceeds And deales about great Larges of grim wounds Admir'd alone for his renowned deeds Some with his sword vpon the Caske he stounds This day old Nestor by his Iauelin bleeds With many more and still the field he rounds Against old Priam not a Greeke dare stay Who soly claimes the honour of that day 13 Yet the meane time the King was in this broyle Bold Deiphebus kept the rest in fee With bloods and death whilst Paris made great spoyle Of such as in their valour seem'd most free Aeneas strongly mounted gaue the foyle Vnto th' Athenian Duke whose warlike knee Bended to him yet in an vpright hart Achilles in his rescue claimes a part 14 The King Epistropus amongst them fought So did Sarpedon gainst th'incamped Kings The stout Pelasgian strength they dreaded nought Now mongst their renged squadrons Treylus flings And on their foyl'd troopes much effusion wrought In him the life and spirit of Hector springs Twice he Achilles met and twice him feld Who all the other Kings of Greece exeld 15 A hundred thousand Troians were that day Led to the field to auenge Prince Hectors life Double their number on Scamander stay To entertaine them in their aemulous strife Duke Aiax Telamon then kept in play Troylus whilst murder through the field grew rife The sterne Polydamas did Nobly fight And was the death of many a gallant Knight 16 But Troylâ—…s that succeeds Hector in force In courage and in all good Thewes beside Whom ere he met that day did braueâ—… vnhorse Till his white Armour was with Crimson dide For Hectors sake his sword vsd no remorse His warre-steel'd spirits to slaughter he applyde No man that saw him his bright weapons weild But sware another Hector was in field 17 This day is Troyes and now repose they borrow From the still night to giue the wounded cure And such of note as dide t'intombe with sorrow They that 〈◊〉 themselues with armes assure And so prepare for battaile on the morrow Some to be siedge the rest the siedge t' indure Or if they can to their eternall praise The forren Legions from their Trenches raise 18 Six Moones gaue nightly rest to th'Hostile paines Ofiust so many dayes for full so long Troy without respight the proud Campe constraines Howerly to proue whose puissance is most strong Blood-drops by Plannets on Scamander â—…nes Horrid destruction flyes the Greekes among Troylus still held the Noblest Armes professor And Hectors equall though his late successor 19 T'omit a thousand Combats and Contentions Hostile Encounters Oppositions braue Such as exceed all human apprehensions Where some win liuing honour some a graue With Stratagems and sundry rare inuentions The Towne to fortefie the Campe to saue And contrary to stretch all human reach The Hoast t'indamage and the Towne t' impeach 20 In all which Troylus wondrous Fame atchieued His sword and Armour were best knowne and feared Aboue the rest the Argiue Dukes he gricued By his sole valour were the Troians cheared In acting wonders scarce to be beleâ—…ud The life of Hector in his blood appeared Priam and Troy now thinke themselues secure So long as Troylus mongst them may indure 21 Achilles by his valour mated oft And as he thinkes much blemisht in renowne To see anothers valor soare aloft But his owne bruitfull fame still sinking downe His downy bed to him appeares vnsoft He takes no pleasure in his regall Crowne The best delights to him are harsh and sower Since in one arme rests a whole Citties power 22 The Greekes thinke Hector in this youth aliue To stop whose honors torrent they deuise For since by force of armes in vaine they striue To catch at that which soares aboue the skies They to the depth of all their Counsels diue How they by cunning may the Prince surprise Being well assur'd that whilst his honors grow In vaine they seeke Troyes fatall ouerthrow 23 The sonne of Theâ—…is feeles his armes yet sore By the rude stroakes that from his fury came His armour heere and there be sprinkt with gore Of his owne wounds that he is well-nye lame With often iustles and can no more Indure the vertue of his strength or Fame For since his brest 's in many places seard Hee 'l flye vnto the rescue of his guard 24 Since neyther the broad-brested Diomed Can in the course his rude incounter stay Since last when Telamon against him sped He was perforc'st to giue his fury way Since all those 〈◊〉 Agamemâ—…
Easy as Silkes his griefe conuerts to rage He dons those armes forgetfull of his age 73 To whom the sad Queene with wet eyes thus sayes What meanes my wofull Lord in his weake hand To tosse this burdenous Steele There is no prayse For men to fight when the high Gods withstand Liu'd puissant Hector in these Fatall dayes Yet could not his stronge Limbs protect thy Land Much lesse these Saplesse branches poore and bare Then let the reuerent Priam keepe his Chayre 74 Heere at these holy Altars let vs cling The Gods if they be pleasd our liues may guard If not we all will perish with the King and die at once there shall not one be spard Behold where broken through th'all-slaughtring ring Of Pyrrhus Myrmidons Slaues rough and hard The young Polytes well-ny breathlesse rons Polytes one of Priams best-lou'd Sons 75 Through many an Entry and blind-turning path The burning Pyrrhus hath the Lad pursude Longing vpon the Youth to vent his wrath now both at once before the King intrude The slaughterd-thoughted Greeke all bale and scath In the Childs bloud his satall Blade imbrude Which plucking from his wounds in the same place Sparkled the Sons bloud in the Fathers face 76 To whom the arm'd King thus You Gods aboue Whose diuine eyes all deedes of horror see as you are â—…ust and actes of pitry loue Behold how this rude man hâ—…th dealt by me What God worthy Heauens Pallace can approue So blacke a deede as this that 's done by thee Before the Fathers eye the Child to kill and in his face his Innocent bloud to spill 77 Thou art a Bastard not Achilles Son Of some she Wolfe or Hyrcan Tygresse bred not to be shrin'd in Heauen would he haue don So horrible a deede so full of dred The shame and scandall thou this night hast won More then Achilles honors shall be spred Thy Father honor'd liude and dide in fame Dishonored thou shalt perish in thy shame 78 With that the Iaâ—…elin in his hand he threw Th' vnprofitable strength of his weake arme Though it had art to guid the Weapon true It wanted power to doe blacke Pyrrhus harme Against the long skirt of his Targe it flew But the round Bosse as if composd by charme Shooke off the ydle steele which on the barre That tooke the blow scarce left the smallest scarre 79 Inflamed Pyrrhus thus to him replies Priam thy soule shall straight discend to hell Euen to the place where great Achilles lyes And my sad deeds vnto my Father Father With that all wrath in Prisms face he flies The prostrate King at Ihoues hye Altar fell With such hot rage he did the King pursue That though he mist the whiske him ouerthrew 80 When being groueled in Polites gore Grim Pyrrhus with his left hand takes the king By his white lockes neuer prophand before His reuerent head against the ground to ding His proud right hand a smoaking Curtlax wore Which to perpetuall rest must Priam bring With which against the good old King he tilts Till his hart bloud flowed much aboue the hilts 81 This was old Prisms Fate his fatall end And ending glory he that Asâ—… swayed Whose spreading Fame did through the earth extend Liu'd till he saw both him and his betraid Euen till he had no subiect Sonne or friend And saw Troyes spyres euen with the groundsils laid Who now before loues golden face lyes dead A namelesse coarse a Trunke without a head 82 All this when good Aeneas saw from farre The ends of Troy and Priam burnt and slaine And no abatement yet of heat or warre To his owne Pallace he returnes againe Where gathered on a heape together are His wife Creausa showring teares amaine His seruants old Anchises and his sonne Askanius these about Aeneas ronne 83 After some short discourse of their affaires Aeneas on his backe Anchises takes For young Askanius he his left hand spares In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes Creusa followes close with teares and Prayers So through the fire and foe Aeneas makes He with his sonne and Syre the right way choose But in the darkenesse they Creusa loose 84 Whom missing they Creusa call alowd Creusa for whose safety they 'l returne But sorne blacke Fate doth her in darkenesse shrowd Either Troyes Funerall fires the Lady burne Else is she stifled in the Hostile crowd For her the Father sonne and husband mourne And seeking her amidst the wrathfull flames They encounter Helenus who thus exclaimes 85 Keepe on Aeneas to the Seâ—…n shore The heauens on Troy and vs haue vengeance powred Onely thy ruind fortunes they restore They smile on thee that haue on Priam lowred The faire Creausa thou shalt see no more Her the none-sparing slaughter hath deuowred But in her stead the Gods to thee shal giue A wife in whom deceased Troy shall liue 86 Follow yon starre whether his Bearded beames Directs thy Nauigation on the fand Thousands attend thy conduct through the streames Whom ruin spares for thee and thy command Obserue yon blazing Meteor whose bright gleames Points thee vnto a rich and fertile Land Where after many strange aduentures past Storme-driu'n Aeneas shall arriue at last 87 They to a spacious Climate thee restore A Prouince which the Gods and fates hold best The Meditteren Sea beats on the shore With the Scicilian waters South and East The Adriaticke Billowes North-ward rore With the hye Alpes incompast on the West These Countries it containes Latium Liguria The Climates of Campania and Hetruria 88 With Fertill I stria and Calabria Full peopled Craunia and Apentium Aemilia else cald Rhomandtola With Gallia Cisalpina and Pycenum Iapidia Vmbria and Venetia Flauinia Apulia Sumnium All these are Italy with great Lucania Which shall in times to come be cald Rhomania 89 Farewell and thriue but leaue vs to our Fates This saide the Deuine Helenus retires And shuts himselfe within those fatall gates Where none commands but foes and raging fires Aeneas hasts to meet his promist Mates And on the Coast their fellow-ship desires Who through the street hewes out a bloody tracke With old Anchises hanging at his backe 90 Still â—…stium burnes nor are the ruthlesse Flames Yet quencht Ihoues sparpled Alters licke the blood Of slaughtred Priam the bright vestall Dames Are puld from Pallas Statuë where they stood About their golden lockes with lowd exclaimes Rough souldiers wind their armes and through a flood Of gore and teares in which the pauement flowes Drag them along that faint beneath their blowes 91 The young Astianax from that hye Tower On which his Fathers valour oft he saw Is tumbled headlong on the rough-pau'd flower His all to bruised limbes lye broke and raw To wofull Hecuba in thrust a power Of blood-staind Greekes without regard or awe and from her aged armes snatcht by rude force Polixena whose beauty begs remorse 92 Shee s hurried to Achilles tombe where stands Sterne
Tros Tros Ilion next him stroue Laomedon and he got Priamus And when the Greekes from Troy Aeneas droue He by Creusa had Askanius Who after Carthaginean Dido past Vp through the Riuer Tiber â—…ayles at last 3 At Hostiaes Port the place the Gods behight Aeneas Landes Euander him receiues The Latines King whose Daughter at first sight Aeneas loues and for her sake bercaues The Tuskayne King of life in single fight Turnus being dead the fayre Lauinia leaues Her virgine vowes by whom the Troian Prince Siluius begot and Siluius Brutus since 4 Brutes Mother in her painefull throwes deceast Hâ—… his glancing Shaft his Father slew For which with melancholy griefes infest From Italy the Prince himselfe withdrew Ten thousand voluntary men vnprest Consort him strange aduentures to pursue Whom Corineus with many Troians more Mcetcs and assists new Countries to explore 5 Brute Grecian Pandras who denide him way And through his spacious Kingdome passage free O're-comes in battaile but denyes to stay Till he more Coasts and various Clymats see Fayre Innogen a Virgin fresh as May He marrieth and with Pandras doth agree For her rich Dower to haue a royall fleete Well furnisht for his Trayne with all things meete 6 He past Alcides Pillers euen to Guall Landing in Guien Guffor the proud King Denyes prince Brute to hunt but Mauger all He chac't his Deere and made his Buckes to spring Thence Albion he discries like a white wall Washt with the sea and longs his fleet to bring To a safe Harbour where he might suruay The long sought Isle where he his boues must lay 7 When Ayoth iudged Israell in the yeare Threescore and twelue of his command and state Aegiptian Danaâ—… daughters lauded heere After long search who for they had of late Theyr nine and forty husbands by th'austere Iniunction of their Sire brought to sad Fate Were in a Mastlesse ship to exile throwne And landinging heere cald this Isle Albion 8 Some say of these Viragoes spirits begot Gyants that were of huge and monstrous size Who when they grew to stature spared not Asfinity for Sonne with Mother lies Brother with Sister so the learned Scot Marian doth in his Chronicles comprize And of these lustfull Ladies in small while Twelue thousand Gyants peopled this large I le 9 PRince Brute with Corineus doth Albion enter At Totnes thirty monstrous Gyants kils And after much and dangerous aduenter Builds London cald new Troy his Throne he fils Twenty foure yeares then payes his last debenter To Nature Brittaine he to Locrine wils Scotland to Albanact Wales Camber swayes Israell was iudg'd by Samuell in their dayes 2 Locrine raign'd twenty yeares his wife him slew Because he Sabrine lou'd and her forsooke Mother and Child bold Guendolina threw Into the Seuerne streames who there name tooke From Sabrine In his dayes young Dauid grew And with a Sling the great Goliah strooke At Locrines death sterne Guendoline begun Her husband she succeeds and her her Sonne 3 Madan rul'd forty yeares and in his dayes Was beautious Absolom by Ioab slaine Memprisius twenty yeares the Scepter swayes Procuring first his Brother Manlius bane Whom Madan lou'd and had intent to raise In Lust and ryot he consum'd his raigne For which iust heauens their righteous vengeance powred Memprisius hunting was by Wolues deuoured 4 Him his sonne Ebranke in the Throne succeeds Who gouernes threescore happy Summers thorow Famous for many charitable deeds He builded Yorke Dunbar and Edenborowe Next him Brute Greene-shield don'd th' Imperiall weeds After twelue happy yeares his subiects sorrow For his vntimely Fate and in his raigne B'Elias prayer the Priests of Ball were slaine 5 L'Eill Brutes sonne raignd fiue and twenty yeares And Carleil built then did his seat resigne To young Lud Hurdibras lou'd of his Peeres Who gouernd Britaines Scepter twenty nine He Winchester and Canterbury reares With Shafts-bury then seekes a Throne deuine Whose Obits were in Brittaine long bemoned The propher Zachary in his dayes was stoned 6 BLadud Luds sonne raignd next and Bath erected A Sorcerer and did attempt to flye And hauing twenty yeare the Realme protected He brake his necke downe from a Steeple hie Amos and Amazia were directed In those dayes by the spirit of Prophesie Leir next him in whose time as Bookes say Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly lay 7 Leir built Leicester forty yeares was Crownd Famous in his three Daughters and their Loue The youngest most suspected faithfull found And they that promist most least thankefull proue Kindest Cordeilla that did most abound In filiall zeale next Leir sits aboue Morgan and Cunedadgius two false Peeres Depose their Aunt after fiue vnhappy yeares 8 They ioyntly raigne till Cunedadgius slew His Brother Morgan in Glamorgan-sheere From whom the Title of that Country grew And after gouernd three and thirty yeare Now Naum preacht Riuallo doth pursue The Kingdome next a Prince that had no peere In his dayes Propheside Esay Micheas The Prophets Adad Amos and Oseas 9 Forty six yeares he gouernd In his raigne Rome was first built wise Sibell gaue forth Sawes King Ezechy by God heal'd of hispaine Had fifteene yeares life promist for some cause The Sun full ten Degrees turnd backe againe Thales Milesius to the Greekes gaue Lawes In Brittaine it raind blood Riuallo wained And eight and thirty yeares Gurgustius raigned 10 Now Ioel taughts his Iliads Homer wrate And Glaucus Chius Sodering first inuented Sicillius next Gurgustius takes the state Forty nine yeares he gouernes well contented Amon in Iuda raind Zaleucus sate Iudge on his sonnes eye Ieremy lamented For the sad Tragedy of King Iosias Now flourish Olda Baruch Sophonius 11 Now Phalleris in Agrigentine swayde And thrust Perilles in his brazen Bull To tast the torment he for others made Iago next Sisillius makes vp full Twenty fiue yeares then in his Tombe was laide Nabuchadnezar sought to disanull The Hebrew Lawes susannaes fame increased By th'Elders wrongd by Daniels doome released 12 Fifty foure yeares Kinimachus was knowne After â—…ago in the Brittish Chaire Arion with his Harpe was o're-Boord throwne Whom through the Seas the pittious Dolphin bare Bell was cald God and fore him â—…rumpets blowne And the three Children in the robes they ware Cast in the fiery Furnace now I gesse Liud Solon Sapho the sweet Poâ—…tesse 13 Annaximander th' Horoscope first made Aesope in Birds and Beasts first figured men Next King Kinimachus Gorbodug swayde The Brittish Scepter In the Lyons den Daniell was cast Now Cyrus did inuade Cressus of Lydia t' was the season when Zacharias Aggeus Malack Propheside And the chast Lucresse by her owne hand dide 14 Next Gorbodug Ferrex and Porrex raigned
strange Monsters breed One bore a Child that had the face of man and body of a Lyon th' other bred One with two bodies from the Girdle-sted 54 The Scotch King dying Issulesse contention In Scotland grew who should succeede the State The strife Edward atton'd and after mention Made of their Title which these Lords relate He arbitrates theyr fierce and hot dissention And to Iohn Balioll priz'd at hyest rate He giues the Crowne which pleased Scotland well Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebell 55 Edward thrice war'd gainst Scotland and preuayled The French Kings Sister Margaret tooke to Wife and to his Sonne the Princedome he entayled Of Wales proud Ottoman began great stufe With Christendome and many Townes assayled In him the Empire of the Turkes tooke life Pope Boniface the eyght suruiued than He first in Rome the Iubilee began 56 Creat Tamor Caâ—… gouernd Tartaria Albert the Empire France King Phillip guided Prince Ladislaus ruld Hungaria Clement the fift the seat of Rome deuided Transporting it to France which from that day Seauenty foure yeares continew'd vndecided Seraph th' Egiptian Souldan-ship supplide Edward the first in his Scotch garboiles dide 57 The second Edward him succeeds and raignes Full eighteene yeares a Prince of no renowne He ryots Lusts and wantonnesse maintaind Mongst priuate vnthrifts and his peeres put downe Henry the Emperour hauing brauely gaind Many great fields was with an yron Crowne at Milleine Crownd where he aduancst his name The Crutched Fryares first into England came 58 Peirs Gaueston twice banisht by the Peeres Was by the King recald Iohn Tamer rose In rebell armes destroyd by his owne feares Phillip the long their King the French-men chose The hauty Spencers triumpht many yeares Ouer the Nobles who themselues oppose against their pride the Spencers they exile Whom the loose King reuoked in small while 59 Twenty two Barons for the Spencers loue The King cut off the Sun six houres appeared Of sanguine hew his glorious brightnesse stroue with his red Maske which at the last he cleared Edward his force did twice gainst Scotland proue Both times the soyle with English blood besmeared The Queene and Prince the Spencers could not brook And like two exiles their owne Land forsooke 60 Sir Iohn of Henault Lands in the Queenes ayde And hy the Barons helpe the King pursued who after in strong Barkley Castle layde Sir Roger Mortimer a man indude With Pride and Tyrrany the King betrayde and with the Kings bloud 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrude Baldock the Spencers Minions to the King The Conquering Peeres vnto destruction bring 61 Edward King Edwards Sonne fifty yeares bore Englands rich Scepter Charles the French King dide Leauing no issue of the Royall store Therefore King Edward being next alyde Claymes France to which the Doncipeeres restore Phillip Valois and Edwards clayme deride Sir Roger Mortimer long graft boue reason By the Kings Mother was condemn'd of Treason 62 Edward the Blacke-Prince was at Woodstocke borne King Edward fought the fiâ—…ld cald Haldonne Hill In Scotland After some few dayes out-worne The King his clayme to France doth menace still Petrach the Laureat liu'd the French in scorne Foure hundred Sayle with armed Souldiers fill These Edward meetes at Siuce whom fame hath sounded Thirty three thousand of French t' haue slain drowned 63 The order of the Garter was first made Soone after was the famous Cressie field Don Petro by his Spanish Peeres betrayde Was to their violent fury forst to yeild Edward wan Callis Iohn next Phillip swayde In France and mena'st with his warlike Shield The braue Black-Prince at Poytieres battayle wonne The field the French King Prisoner and his Sonne 64 Melchella was now Souldan Amurath Emperor of Turky and with Conquest fought A persecutor of the Christian Fayth The French King-Iohn hauing his peace now bought at Sauoy dide and Charles the sixt next hath The Crowne of France Don-Peter ayde besought Who late exiled from the Crowne of Spaine Was by the Black-Prince repostest againe 65 The Duke of Laâ—…caster France ouer-run Vnfought withall Sir Robert Knowles likewise Marcht by the Citty Paris now begun Great Baiazeth among the Turkes to rise The braue blacke Prince from France where he had won So many Noble fields returning dyes The King himselfe as our best writers say Expird of Iune the two and twentith day 66 Richard the second sonne to the bold Prince Edward sit-namd the Blacke at yeares eleuen Began his rule whom many men conuince Of wanton ryot and a course vneuen Well tutor'd in 's minority but since He manag'd state too much neglecting heauen Gunnes were deuisd first by a Germaine Fryer France doth the Kingdome of Nauar desire 67 Queene â—…ane of Naples flourisht Bohemes King Vinceslaus was Almaine Emperor made Twixt Portugall and Castile discords spring Two Popes contend the Genowayes inuade The bold Venetians and to battaile bring Their Nauall powers both Ensignes flye displaid Iacke Straw dyes stabd in Smithfield by the care Of William Walworth at that time Lord Maior 68 A wondrous Earth-quake did whole England shake King Richard thâ—… Almaine Emperors daughter wiude The Turkes in Christendome great vprores make Iohn Galeazo in those dayes suruiu'd Duke Iohn of Gaunt doth a braue voyage take To conquer Spaine and in his purpose thriu'd The Barons of the Realme themselues with-drew And many of the King seducers slew 69 The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate Married to Henry Castiles eldess sonne His second daughter had the Queene-like state Of Portugall by which all warres were done The Turke in Hungary suppreft but late Seekes by his power all Gâ—…eece to ouer-ron Against Constantiâ—…opolis he layde at eyght-yeare siedge now Colleines Schoole was made 70 Robert of Scotland dying Iohn his heyre Succeedes next Richard Queene Anne beiug dead Espousd French Isabel then did prepare For Ireland where 's voyage slowly sped He put to death his Vncles for the care Of him and his Realmes safty sore misled Hereford and Norfolke Dukes the Combat clayme and both are banist in King Richards name 71 The Sâ—…ithian Tamberlaine the Turkes subdude and kept theyr Emperor in an Iron Cage Hereford against his sentence durst intrude Himselfe int'England and gainst Richard wage A threatned warre the Peeres Richard exclude From gouernment who in his strength of age Resignes his Crowne his Dignity and Fame To Henry Bullingbrooke fourth of that name 72 Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter Richards Brother The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspyre With Glocester who his hatred cannot smother And Salsbury all these his life conspyre and for it lost their lyues with many other Of the same faction seeking to aspyre Richard is slayne in Prison after showne Through London streets to haue his death wel known 73 Owen
tumult at his Sermon raisde A man vnknowne his Doctrine much disdaining Threw at his face a Dagger Ridley praysd Mongst protestants and Cramner fauour gaining In Edwards dayes were for Arch-traitors blaz'd And dide by fire Northumberland that sped To Cambridge on the Tower-hill lost his hed 114 The Turkish Solyman with his owne hands Slew his sonne Mustapha the Cardinall In Henries dayes but late exild his Lands Was by the Queene reâ—…cald now gan to fall The protestants against them strictly stands The Catholicke Cleargy the proud Genowayes brall With the French King who after in small while Wan by the Turkes ayde the rich Corsicke I le 115 Englands great Queene espousd Phillip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wyat for rebellion dide Duke Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane Was at the Tower beheaded Coortney allyde To the blood Royall once more they restraine Of Liberty the fourth Paule full of pride Supplies the pope-dome the same year did chance Much warrâ—… and trouble betweene Spaine and France 116 Lady Elizabeth was keptin hold and by the Queene committed to the Tower There harshly vsd her life to danger sold By souldiers theâ—…ce remooud to Wood-stocke Bower Sir Henry Benning-field somewhat too bold Vpon her iust proceedings looking sower a blazing Comet twelue full nights appeared Great Lones of Money by the Queene were reared 117 Great dearth in England For base murder dide at Salisbury Lord Sturton Callis lost Which was by England many yeares supplide Since the third Edward the proud Clergy mgrost all the spirituall fruits to glut their pride Phillip tooke fea and left the English Coast For griefe of which Mary soone after craisd and dide with Cardinall Poole in England raisd 118 Next whom the faire Elizabeth is Crownd a Princesse with all gracious Thewes indude She did the Gospell quicken and confound Romes Antichrist all such as he pursude With fire and Inquisition she guirt round With safety and her Lands pure face imbrude With blood of Innocents her prospetous raigne Cleard and wipt off each foule and bloody staine 119 Henry the French King in the â—…ilt was layde Breathlesse at Paris Paules is burnt a peace Betweene the Realmes of France and England made Newhauen siege and a great plagâ—…les increase Lord Henry Stewart to the hests obayd Of the Scotch peeres whose vâ—…gings neuer â—…ease Till to their generall comforts he was seene Espousd to Lady Mary Scotlands Queene 120 Now came the Baden margraâ—… with his wife To London she heere brought him a new sonne Whom the Queene Christend breathing a new life In his decaid estate Now was begun The Burse on Cornhill whose renowne grew rife In euery place where Traffickes gaine is won In Scotland to restore a kingdome torne Iames of that name the fixt this yeare was borne 121 Henry of Scotland was by Traytors slaine And Shan Oneile in Ireland put to flight By bold Sir Henry Sidney with the gaine Of a great battaile where theyr Treasons light Vpon the Traytors with a gallant trayne The Muscouite lands in his Emperors right T' establish Trafficke now as rebels stand Th'Earles of Nor thumber land and Westmerland 122 Debate with Scotland and in Norfolke grew Conspiracy the Queene in person came To Gressams Burse to take a princely view To which she gaue at his request a name Royall Exchange this yeare the Christians slew Many proud Turkes and beate them backe with shame Into theyr Foretresses and Citties walled This was the battaile of Lepantho called 123 A massacre in Paris now their heads The Norfolke Duke lost and Northumber land A blazing starre six months together spreds Her fiery rayes now by the violent hand Of one George Browne who murdrous futy leads Was Maister Saunders slaine the matter scand Anne Dreury for that fact and Saunders wife George Browne with trusty Roger lost his life 124 By Furbusher Cathaia was made knowne The Essex Earle this yeare at Dinelon dide In Ireland where his Fame was dreadfull growne Ioh 〈◊〉 Cassimerus did through London ride Desmond rebeld Drake that had compast rowne The world and many dangerous Fortunes tride Was Knighted by the Queene Mounsier arriued Thinking the English Monarchesse t' haue wiued 125 William the Prince of Orenge was betrayde And with a Pystoll by a souldier slaine Poland Musco into England made avoyage and did six months heere remaine Purser and Clinton Pyrars that denaide allegiance to the Queene at length were tane By William Barrowes Antwerpe sackt and spoyld By Parmaes Duke who long against it toyld 126 Northumberland himselfe in the Tower slew Iago Domingo and Carthagen By Drake and Furbusher whom most men knew Carletle and many gallant Englishmen Surprisd and â—…ckt the Earle of Liester grew Great in the Land and sayld to Flushing then Where his Commission he at large relates Being made chiefe Generall to the Belgian states 127 Embassadors from Denmarke gratulate Her highnesse raigne the Earle of Arundell Conuict aleague twixt England and the state Of Scotland Noble Candish furnisht well In two good ships well mand and builded late Compast the world the foureteene Traitors fell and suffer'd for the guilt at Zutphen dide Noble Sir Phillip Sidney souldiers pride 128 His death a generall griefe mongst souldiers bred a Parlyment The great At made of Spaine Rode on the English Coast and gainst vs sped But by our Fleet they were repulst againe at Tilbery the Campe was brauely led By Elizabeth in person in whose traine all Englands Chiualry mustred and met Leister meane time to Nature paid his debt 129 Portugall voyage Lodwicke Grewill prest For murder the bold Duke of Guise betraid And slaine by the third Henry when he least Suspected Death a Fryer no whit dismaid Incouragd by the Guisians as t is ghest Murdred the King then Henrie Burbon laid Claime to the Crowne whom England so supplies That by her ayde his warlike Fortunes rise 130 Whom Essex Willoughby Norris assist Sir Roger Williams with a many moe Strong Paris they besiege and as they list March thorough France maugre the common foe Hacket is hangd in Cheape who did persist In blasphemy In London gan to grow a grieuous Plague Lopes arraind and tride Drawne from the London Tower at Tyburne dide 131 Cales sieg'd and won the Duke of Bulloine lands In England th' Islands voyage this yeare came Embassadors from Denmarke from whose hands The Queene receiu'd rich presents Now with Fame Th' Earle Cumberland renownd in forraigne Lands Wan Iohn de Porterico sackt the same Lord Burleigh Treasurer submits to fate Since the sixt Edward Counsellor of state 132 Essex is sent for Ireland gainst Tyrone a Muster at Mile-end Essex comes backe With a small traine of followers after whom Lord Montioy speeds against the dangerous packe Of Irish Rebels whose braue valours showne In