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B07424 The great Plantagenet. Or, A continued succession of that royall name, from Henry the Second, to our sacred soverainge King Charles. By Geo. Buck, Gent.. Buck, George, fl. 1623-1646.; Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623. Daphnis polystephanos. 1635 (1635) STC 3997; ESTC S106071 21,009 66

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continually seized thereof untill this day * His Maiesties Title to France see it more at large in the Argument So likewise his title to the crowne of France sheweth it selfe cleerely in the ancient possessions of these royall Plantagenets here presented His Majesties Progenitors first Dukes of Normandy then of Aquitaine Earles of Poictou of Aniou of Maine of Touraine and of Britaine and after Angolesme and lastly Kings of all France in the right of † Vide Iohn Froissard Tom. 3. Isabell or Elizabeth sole Daughter and Heire of Philip le bell King of France Mother of King Edward the third who made a most renowned and happy entry upon that his Royall inheritance And he his great Heires were not onely Titular Lords but also Actuall possessors of France many yeares and yet to this day in token of that ancient right have seisin of a * Gersey Gernesey Alderney c. are parcels of Normandy so consequently of France yet possessed by the King of England part of that Kingdome notwithstanding that counterfeit-heathnish law Salica maintained by al the power of France many ages against them His Majesties title and descent from the ancient Kings of Great Britaine and which is least knowne may thus readily be derived * His Majesties Title frō the British Kings The Welch Bardes as also our best Heralds Record that 1 Ruffin Rhese-ap-Gruffith surnamed Argluid Prince of South-Wales about the yeare of our Lord 1196 and issued from Cadwallader the last British King had a Daughter named 2 Faire Iulian Gwenlhiam married to 3 Edmund Edneuet Vachan Lord of Bransencle and chiefe Justice of Wales and bare to him a sonne called 4 Gerion or Jeronim Grono this Grono had 5 Theodore Tedor Tedor had Grono Grono had Tedor Tedor had 6 Veridik Meredith Meredith had Owen which Owen married Katherine Widdow of King Henry 5 and Daughter of the French King Charles the sixt by whom he had Edmond created Earle of Richmont by King Hen. 6. his Brother Vterine And this Edmond was father of King Hen. 7 who was Father of Queene Margaret his Majesties great Grandmother And lastly to finish his Majesties Titles to all those Diadems mentioned in this Poësie His Majesties title from the Saxon Kings I have inserted a Genealogie of the Saxon Kings drawne from the first uniter of the Heptarchy and the Godfather of Anglia King Egbert unto Matilda the Empresse Daughter and Heire of King Hen. 2. Ancestour of all the English Kings untill this day from whom this Poësie is a continued Pedegree unto his Majesty and his most excellent Sonne c. But it may be objected why I derive not his Title and Genealogie from some of the ancient Monarchs of this Isle Britons or Saxons or at the least from K. William the Conqueror I must answere that to have chosen any of the most ancient Kings I must have looked so farre backe as I should not onely have beene too tedious but also lost my selfe in obscure wayes as they know which know what our ancient Stories bee But as for William the Conquerour there bee many reasons why I should not begin with him although I goe as neare him as his Sonnes Daughter for first he was a Bastard Vide Lib. 5. Stephani Cadomensis de Gulielmo Conquestore editum An. Dom. 1603. and yet not that of the blood Royall of England his chiefe Title to the Crowne being but violence and his Sword as he confessed with remorse of conscience at his Death Secondly he was never possessed of one halfe of Britaine for hee had neither Scotland nor Wales and in Ireland not one foote Furthermore Girard Du. Haillan and other French Antiquaries according to their Salike Heraldry say that his line ended in his Sonne King Hen. 1. Philosalicus for all they hold as a Maxime La famille se cotinuè es masles et se finist aux filles and yet Du. Haillan notwithstanding or forgetting this affirmeth in another place that the race of the Kings of England issued out of the house of Aniow viz. from our great Henry and his ancestours continueth untill this day from whom there be many reasons on the other side why I should deduce the Genealogies of our Kings passed K. Henry 2. the greatest King c. and of our present Soveraigne Lord King Charles for this great Henry was not onely rightfull Heire and King of England but also the greatest King of whom there is any credible Story extant which hath beene in this Isle of Britaine since the time of the Roman Emperours who were reputed Lords of all the World which thus I demonstrate briefly He was King of England in the right of his Mother Matilda King Malcolm Knighted this King Henry 2. at 15. yeares of age Neubrig who writeth much in the honour of this K. Malcolm lib. 2. Cap. 20. the Empresse Daughter and Heire to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona Daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir and of Margaret his wife who was the Daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the Sonne of Edmund Ironside King of England Anno Dom. 1016. This Edmund was Sonne and Heire to King Etheldred who in ancient Charters is written Totius Britanniae Rex quod nota because an Anonymus in a little booke dedicated to King Iames affirmeth that never any Prince was King of this whole Isle untill then but hee is deceived for besides Constantius Chlorus and his Sonne our Country-man Constantine the great Constans Aurelius Ambrosius Vter and others which were Lords of all great Britaine Edgar also the Father of this King Etheldred was absolute Monarch of this Island and so puissant in forces both by Land and Sea as he was surnamed the Great and was styled Totius Albionis Basileus Anglici Orbis Basileus as G. Malmsburiensis Florentius Wigorniensis witnesse Britaria ab adventu Saxonum in insulam appellatur Anglica Ioan. Salisb. in Policratico Whereupon to note also by the way some thinke that the word Anglia was sometimes used for the whole Isle and which Ion Lidgate disertly assevereth in King Arthurs complaint in these words Great Britaine now called England and so likewise doth Geoffry Chaucer in the Franklins tale viz. Ranulfus Higeden in Polichronic in England that Clepid was Britaine and Ranulphus Cestrensis a graver Authour peremptorily affirmeth that King Egbert after his Conquests ordayned and commanded that the Saxons and Iutes should be called Angles and this Britaine should be called England but I leave this to be discussed by Antiquaries And to returne to the ancient Saxon Kings Progenitors of this Henry and also possessors of the whole Isle it is to be shewed for the better confirmation of that which hath beene said against the opinion of the Anonymus in diuers ancient Records and Charters of Donations of these Kings to Monasteries and to Cathedrall Churches Ex archiv is Ciscestrensis
of his Majesties device for the Knights of the Bath Whilst bright renowne builds trophies of his fame Unto the Southerne and the Northerne bound And all the Muses consecrate his Name Whose Wisedome Justice Piety hath given His acts a monument shal endure with Heaven 45. And Britaine had no sooner faith and force Combin'd but her Dolphin in tender age Henry Prince of great Britaine K. Henry 2. buried in Frōtenalx King Charles hath so many so ancient so lawfull Titles to this Empire as never any Prince Heire general of this Kingdome had He married Mary Daughter to Henry 4. of France Vowes to redeeme from Gallike bonds the Cors Of his Grandsire the Great Plantagenet And seise upon his southerne heritage And boūds trophies in the Pyrens set Stay Muse here drop a teare for deaths blacke cloud Too soone his glory our hopes did shrowd 46. But turne our eyes now from the clouded west And see the new Sun rising in the East With what auspicious browes the heavens exprest Their glad praesages the Coelestiall signes With holy Auguries shin'd Saturne did feast With sprit'ly Icve whil'st Apollo divines In Delphicke raptures the Age renu'd againe And tooke new influence from bright Charles his waine 47. The Stars of all yet were not absolute And Fates conspir'd to keep thē in their wants But Gods and Fates desert and publicke brute Have all pronounc'd him sole the worthy one To weare the Garland made of many plants And adde eternall Scepters to his Throne Of whom Apollo in his sacred rage Did as you heard such wondrous things praesage 48. And to accomplish full his happinesse Heavens have to him a royall Spouse decree'd All those fraile Saints and flatter'd Goddesses Shall kneele to her so wise so faire so loyall So great yet meeke as doth her sexe exceed And both thrice blessed in their issue royall For he and they which shal from them descend Shall raigne in Britaine till the world have end Charles Prince of great Bricaine 49. Away prophane sinke to the lowest Hells With your detracting murmurrs and hoarse Envy wil yeeld that fame not paralels spleens The fate of this great pair which doth out shine The luster of all former Kings and Queenes Strengthned with al the powers hands divine And in so just a scope their soules are spheard None ever liv'd more lov'd admir'd and fear'd 50 And every Nimph and Goddesse of the plaines Shall weare rich favours of Genesta's plants And that no common injury prophanes The sacred priviledge of her blest abode The Muses there shall keep their solemne hants And in her shades sing many learned Ode Whilst Poëts make her garlands more diuine Then that which doth for Ariadne shine Damaetas 51. Thanks blessed Prophet praised be thy art Which hath so much resolv'd my travailed minde My wish is satisfied in every part My thoughts and doubts are ridled every one And I confesse his name thou hast divin'd To whose high worth this garlands due alone For whose immortall raigne and happy fate Let all our vowes and prayers be consecrate VPON KING HENRIE THE SECOND the first Plantagenet of ENGLAND c. WHen Warlike HENRY by his Puissance Had set his Foote upon the brest of France Scepter'd Hibernia without Blood or sweat And by his Conquests made his Name so great That it found way to Victory and Fame And burft the gall of War where ere he came To Crowne his fate and make him greater yet There was no Title but PLANTAGENET To whose immortall linage Fame could adde No greater glories then from him they had A Name so Great in Destiny and Fate Rome would haue envi'd or have trimbled at And her proud Tryumphs too looke pale set By the brighter honors of PLANTAGENET whilst their imperial bayes as checkt with thūder Dropt frō their swelling tēples even with wōder To see their Fate so farre out shin'd by odds And Pedigree of all their Demy-gods And to be heire unto great Henries fame Would not be Rome but change her fate name FINIS
Hiberniae Cap. 47. 48. distinct 3. Certant cum orbe terrarum victoriae vestrae à Pyrenaeis enim montibus usque in occiduos extremos Borealis Oceani fines Alexander noster occidentalis brachium extendisti Quantum igitur his in partibus natura terras tantum victorias extulisti si excursuum tuorum metae quaerantur prius deerit Orbis quàm aderit finis Animoso enim pectori cessare possunt terrae cessare nesciunt victoriae non deessse poterunt triumphi sed materia triumphandi Qualiter titulis vestris triumphis Hibernicus accesserit Orbis Quantâ quàm laudabili virtute Oceani secreta occulta Naturae deposita transpenetraveris c. Qualiter fulguranti adventus vestri lumine attoniti occidentales reguli tanquam ad lucubrum aviculae ad vestrum statim imperiū couvolaverunt And much more Jo. Salisbur in Policratico lib. 8. cap. 24. which for brevity I omit That which the Bishop of Chartres writeth of him before mentioned and promised is this Rex illustris Anglorum Hen. secundus Regum Britaniae maximus c. circa Garumnam fulminat Tolosam faelici cingens obsidione non modo provinciales usquè ad Rhodanum Alpes territat sed munitionibus dirutis populisquè * Profligatis subactis quasi universis praesens immineat timore Principes concussit Hispanos Gallos And to these adde onely William Neuburoughs Elogie for a Corollary G. Neubourgh Lib. 11. Regis supra omnes qui unquam hactenus in Anglia regnasse noscebantur latius dominantis hoc est ab ultimis Scotiae finibus ad montes usque Pyrenaeos nomen in cunctis Regionibus celebre habebatur c. hunc finem habuit inclytus ille Rex Henricus 2. inter Reges terrarum nominatissimus nulli eorum vel amplitudine opum vel faelicitate successuum secundus Thus much for the testimony of the greatnesse of his conquests and of his Empire as for his other greatnesse his Wisedome Justice Magnanimity Bounty and other Heroicall Vertues I shall not neede to produce any proofe for his wise and politicke administration of his great affaires and estate his Victories and high atchivements secretly intimate them at the full Gyral Cambr. He was also well learned as Giraldus affirmeth and which was his best praise hee was very charitable and pious incomparabilis Eleëmosynarum largitor et praecipuus terrae Palestinae sustentator And Radulph de Diceto writeth that in the time of an extreame dearth in Aniou and Maine hee relieved with bread An. Domini 1176. tenne thousand people dayly from Aprill till harvest And William of Newburrough addeth that hee received with great devotion the Character of the sacred Militia for the recovery of the holy land And afterward because he was not able to goe by reason of infirmities and for the great dangers wherein his estate should stand in his absence which Giraldus sheweth he gave towards the expedition the summe of 47. Jo. Stoan annal M. l. or thereabouts Iean de la Hay also writeth that hee built S. Andrewes in Bourdeaux and St. Peters in Poitiers and founded a Bishops sea there and enlarged the Towne by the one halfe Fabian he reedified the Abby at Waltham in Essex and the Charter house of Witham in Wiltshire He loved hunting and hawking exceedingly Giral he first kept Lyons made of the armes of Normandy viz. the 2 Leopards and of the single Lyon of Aquitaine one Coat of armes for England as it is yet borne Nic. Vpton John Carnoten Lib. 16. Cap. 18. hee repaired and much beautified the Monastery of Font Everard or Fronteaux neare Ogle in Normandy and founded the Priories of Staneley and of Dover Hee also beganne the stone worke of London bridge which was finished by his sonne King Iohn or caused to bee finished for it is all one to a common wealth and hee instituted the circuit of the judges and not to bee tedious in the enumeration of such particulars in a word he was as Iohn Carnotensis who knew him well testifieth Rex optimus apud Britanias Normanorum et Aquitanorum Dux faelicissimus et primus tam amplitudine rerum quam splendore virtutum quam strenuus quam magnificus quam prudens et modestus quam pius ab ipsa ut ita dicam infantia fuerit nec ipse livor silere nec dissimulare potest cum oper a recentia et manifesta sint c. And after these his great workes his high Atchievements his victories Trophees of his Heroicall and Christian vertues a long and happy Raigne he departed at Chinon in Touraine the 35 yeare of his raigne and the 61 yeare of his age An. Dom. 1189. and was with all due funeral Enterred at Fronteuaux and upon his Tombe had this inscription ingraven Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerat orbis Res brevis ampla satis cui fuit ampla brevis Rex invictus eram mihi plurima regna subegi Multiplicique modo duxque comesque fui Cui satis ad votum fuerant haud omnia terra Climata terra modo sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis et in me Humanae speculum conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operare bonum quia mundus Transit incautos Mors inopinarapit Thus this great Henry left his great name and his glory to the world and his Kingdomes and his Dominions to his posterity the Princes aranged in this following Poesy AN ECLOG BETWEENE DAMAETAS a Woodman and SILENUS a Prophet of the Shepheards Written by Geo. Buck Gent. Published by Authority LONDON Printed by Nicholas and Io. Okes. Anno Dom. 1635. AN ECLOG BETWEENE DAMAETAS and SILENVS STANZ 1. OF all the Trees in heavenly Silvans guard The ancient wise men of Britaine were called Bardi Diodor. Sic. Wherewith the worthiest browes were crown'd of yore There is but one or few oh reverend Barde In whose peculiar Vertues my desire Hath studied much and observed more But chiefly I the Genest doe admire Whose humble Highnesse makes mee oft surmise That lowly steps be ladders to the Skies Humilitas scala coeli Bernard 2. Her gentle nature doth not climbe to dwell In proudest soile nor tops of mountaines hie By that shee shews that shee fore-seeth well The perills which doe all extreames impend Flexit Pinum ferox astris minantem de nube media vocat Seneca Th' aspiring Pine whose top dos threat the sky Divine revenge doth headlong oft downe send When this is safe upon her humble hill Not thrall to any proud superiours will 3. The Cedars tremble when th'enrag'd winds blow Which shake not her such peace safety lies In sweet Humility yet she will gently bowe To pliant hands which shews some hid effects And parts of man Genuum doloribus medetur hinc Genista dicta Fuchsius that duty onely ties To bow to Kings and pay their due