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A14779	Albions England Or historicall map of the same island: prosecuted from the liues, actes, and labors of Saturne, Iupiter, Hercules, and Æneas: originalles of the Brutons, and English-men, and occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion. Continuing the same historie vnto the tribute to the Romaines, entrie of the Saxones, inuasion by the Danes, and conquest by the Normaines. With historicall intermixtures, inuention, and varietie: proffitably, briefly, and pleasantly, performed in verse and prose by William Warner.; Albions England. Book 1-4	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 25079; ESTC S111586	85,079	130

the waies that men adoor And how Hippocrasie hath bred of God-like Deuilles stoer That speake to seeme that seeme to shift that shift to spoyle by gile That smooth and sooth and yet deceiue with Scriptum est meane while But let them heaue their hands to Heauen they haue their hier in Hell That seeme deuoute to cloke deceipt and say but doe not well The Rich are retchles in their willes their ●iking is for lawe The Poore repine and Goods not theirs by ydell Shiftings clawe The Lords and Landed ouer-rent and cunningly the same The Parrasite doth ouer-reach and beares away the game One riseth by an others fall and some doe clime so fast That in the Clowdes they doe forget what Esymates they haue past But Egell-winged mynds that flye to nes●ell in the Sunne Their loftie heads haue leaden héeles and end where they begunne It is a common poynt on which the aged grosely ronne On●e to haue dared sayd and seene more then was euer donne The Youth are foolish-hardie or lesse hardie then they ought Effeminate phantasticall in fewe not fewe are nought At Cypris not the wanton Sainct nar yet her wylie Sonne Did want their Orgies nor at Rome did Vesta lacke her Nonne The Lampsacens gaue Pryapus his filthie Rytes and Creat To Ioue his Bulles and Cicilie to Ceres tythed Wheat The Thracians with their Bachinales did Lybers Temple fill And Italie did blood of Babes on Saturns Alters spill And fatall wreathes of Myrtell boughes were sacred vnto Dys In fewe there was no Pagane God his Sacrafice did mys But English-men nay Christian men not only seeme prophayne But Man to Man as Beast to Beast holds ciuell dueties vayne Yea Pulpits some like Pedlers packes yéeld forth as men affect And what a Synod shall conclude a Sowter will correct The rude thus hosting Litrature one Sisme begets an other And grosely though a Sisme yet hath each Sismatike his Soother Meane while the learned want their Méede and none with profite heares The tedious Doult whose artles tongue doth preach to wearie Eares Here could I enter in a Feild of Matter more then much But gesse that all is out of frame and long tyme hath bin such And what shalbe let tyme disclose This only will I touch A Gréene Trée cut from withered Stocke deuided Furlongs thrée From proper Roote it shall reioyne and after fruitfull bée Thus sayd the King And thus doe some expound that Prophesie The Trée this Land the Stocke and Roote the thralled English line King Harold and the Williams twaine the Furlongs some define Henrie the Normane that begot one Mawde his English Quéene Mawde second Henries Mother was the Trées Returne to gréene KIng Stephen first though not so firme did in this Turne precéed● But second Henrie perfectly restalled Wodens Séede Nor supersticiously I speake but H. the Letter still Might be obserued ominous to Englands good or ill First Hercules Hesione and Hellen were the cause Of Warre to Troy AEneas seede becomming so Out-lawes Humbar the Hunne with forren Armes did first the Brutes inua●● Hellen to Romes imperiall Throne the Brittish Crowne conuaed Hengest and Horsus first did plant the Saxones in this Isle Hungar and Hubba first brought Danes that swayed here long while At Harolde had the Saxone ende at Hardi-knought the Dane Henries the first and second did restore the English Rayne Henrie Letigious Lancaster and Yorke vnites in peace Henrie the Eight did happely Romes Erreligion cease Much more escapes this Catalogue In Honor God increase Good double H. this workes Defence her Councell and Allie That ruleth vs and safe may rule long after I shall dye FINIS ¶ An Addition or Remaine in Prose to the Second Booke of ALBIONS ENGLAND contayning a Breuiat of the true Historie of AENEAS ACcept him friendly Reader where hée is not where he ought and as he speaketh not as hée should Misapplyed he is not for Matter preceadent howsoeuer the penning or misplacing may like or mislike for the English or Order The Printers forwardnesse presented me of seating AEneas in his 〈…〉 I the Taske to prosecute his Historie in Uerse howbeit rather hath my Remisnes borrowed of Decorum and your patience then that a Patriarke of our Brutones should bee obruptly estranged Of AEneas therefore it thus followeth AEneidos WHen the reuengfull Flames of Troy properly called Ilion the thē Metrapolitaine Citie of Asia had perfected the more then Tenne yearrs Siege of the Gretians expugning the same then AEneas howsoeuer by some aucthorities noted of disloyaltie towards Priam in this not vnworthely surnamed vertuous burdning his armed Shoulders with his féeble and most aged Father Anchises that laboured also vnder his Loode of the Troyan Gods sacret Reliques AEneas as I say with such his Burthen leading by the hand his Sonne Ascanius of the age of twelue yeares followed not onely of the beautifull Creusa his wife the Daughter of King Priam but also of a many Troyans participating that common calamitie brake through the wastfull Flames mauger the wrothfull Foes into the fields of Phrigia There the Ayre emptied of downe-burnt Turrets and filled with smoke of fixed Buildings assured frō their hearts more teares to their eyes then the benefite of their present Escape could promise them comfort Troy therfore not to be rescued or Creusa in this businesse lost and perishing to be recouered AEneas and his Followers imbarking themselues in Simois after long and wearie Sea-faring arriued in a parte of Thrace called Cressa bounding on Mygdonia Here AEneas purposing an end of his tedious Saylings and not meanly furnished of Treasure conuayed from Troy layed Foundation of a Cittie after the Founder called AEnea This Cittie going forward lesse effectually then was expected AEneas supposing the Gods to bee yet opposite to the Troyans knocking downe a milk-white Bull pitched an Alter to doe Sacrafice Neere at hand were growing vltiers shrubbed Trees the Boughes whereof for the greater reuerence and exornation of the present Solempnetie he cutting and sliuing downe perceiued blood in great aboundance issewing from the broken Branches whereat long admyring and with great terror and deuotion intercessing the Gods on his knées to reueale y e meaning of that miraculous Accident at the length he heard a pittifull and feeble voyce for diuersly in those daies did the Deuilles aunswer and giue Oracles thus aunswering Reason were it AEneas that y e Graues of the dead should priuiledge their bodies from the tyrannie of the liuing but by so much the lesse doe I esteeme my preiudice by how much the more I knowe thee vnwittingly iniurious Thou tearest AEneas in these Braunches thou tearest the bodie of thy vnfortunate Brother-in-lawe Polydor Sonne to the like starred Priamus Troy as yet was only threatned not besieged whē my Father as thou knowest deliuered me with a world of Treasure to Polymnestor the barborous King of this Countrie here daungerles as he pretended to abide as the Conseruor and Restauration of his House

set his Kingdome frée By ouer-ruling of his Lords intreating long the same Least dying Issules he leaue succession out of frame He tooke to Quéene a Damsell faire howbeit by conscent In vowes of secret chastitie their louing liues they spent The Father of this Mayden-wife in sitting by the King And seeing one that stumbled but not falling vp did spring He laughing sayd the brother there the brother well hath easd His meaning was the Stumblers Feete And haddest thou so pleasd So had my Brother quoth the King bin easing vnto me The traytrous Earle tooke bread and sayd so this digested be As I am giltles of his death these words he scarcely spoke But that in presence of the King the bread did Goodwyn choke Harolde his sonne by Hardi-knoghts late daughter him suruiues He crossed by contrary windes in Normandie ariues There Goodwyns Sonne did take an oth Duke William vrging so To keepe vnto the Duke his vse when Edward hence should goe The Crowne of England clayming by Adoption and by blood But Harolde after Edwards Death not to his promise stood And for he was in wealth in friends in blood and Armor strong And title had his Mothers right he forced not the wrong But arming him against the Duke so vrged vnto wroth Did seaze the Crowne vnto himselfe contrary to his Oth. Whil'st William therfore works for Warre King Harolde had not rest For Harolde Hare-foote King of Danes and Norwaies much opprest The English with his pusant Bands But Harolde him assayles And after fearce and doubtfull fight most valiantly preuayles And with the Norgayne Prince he slewe his people almost all When for deuision of the Spoyle did much contention fall Betwixt the King and English-men and many a noble Knight Not only murmor and malinge but did forsake him quight Such mallice growing William with his Normanes taking land Found hot-spurr Harolde prest in Armes his pusance to withstand And either Battell Marshalled as either Captaine wild The King of England eagerly the Normane Oste behild And with his chearfull speeches thus his men with courage fild Sée valiant Warr-friends yonder be the first the last and all The Agents of our Enemies they henceforth cannot call Supplies for weedes at Normandie by this in Porches groe Then Conquer these would Conquer you and dread no further Foe They are not stouter then the Brutes whom we did hence exile Nor stronger then the sturdie Danes our Uictorie erwhile Not Saxonie could once contayne or scarce the world beside Our Fathers who did sway by Sword where listed them to bide Then doe not ye degenerat take courage by discent And by their Buryalles not abode their force and flight preuent Ye haue in hand your Countries cause a Conquest they pretend Which were ye not the same ye be euen Cowards would defend I graunt that parte of vs are flead and linked to the Foe And glad I am our Armie is of Traytors cléered so Yea pardon hath he to departe that slayeth Mal-content I prize the mynd aboue the man like zeale hath like euent Yet troth it is no well or ill this Iland euer had But through the ill or well Support of Subiects good or bad Not Caesar Hengest Swayn or now which nertheles shall fayle The Normane Bastard Albion true did could or can preuayle But to be selfe-false in this Isle a selfe-Foe euer is Yet wot I neuer Traytor did his Treasons Stypend mis. Shrinke who will shrinke let Armors wayte presse downe the burdned Earth My Foes with wondring eyes shall see I ouer-prize my death But since ye all for all I hope a-like affected be Your Wiues your Children liues and Land from Seruitude to frée Are armed both in shewe and zeale then gloriously contend To winne and weare the home-brought Spoyles of Uictorie the end Let not the Skinners daughters Sonne possesse what he pretends He liues to dye a noble death that life for Fréedome spends As Harolde hartned thus his men so did the Normane his And looking wishly on the Earth Duke William speaketh this To liue vpon or lye within this is my Ground or Graue My louing Soldiours one of twaine your Duke resolues to haue Nor b●ye Normanes now to seeke in what ye should be stout Ye come amidst the English Pykes to hewe your Honors out Ye come to winne the same by Launce that is your owne by lawe Ye come I say in rytious Warre reuenging Swords to drawe Howbeit of more hardie Foes no passed Fight hath spead ye Since Rollo to your now Abode with Bands victorious lead ye Or Turchus Sonne of Troyelus in Scythian Fazo bread ye Then worthy your Progenitors ye Séede of Priams Sonne Exployt this busnesse Rollons doe that as ye wish be donne Thrée People haue as many tymes got and for-g●n this Shore It resteth now ye Conquer it not to be Conqured more For Normane and the Saxon Blood conioyning as it may From that consorted Séede the Crowne shall neuer passe away Before vs are our armed Foes behinde vs are the Seas On either side the Foe hath Holds of succour and for ease But that Aduantage shall returne their Disaduantage thus If ye obserue no Shore is left the which may shelter vs And so hold out amidst the Rough whil'st they hael in for Lée Whereas whil'st men securely sayle not seldome Shipwrackes bée What should I cite your passed Acts or tediously incence To present Armes your faces shewe your hearts conceiue offence Yea euen your Courages deuine a Conquest not to fayle Hope then your Duke doth Prophesie and in that hope preuayle A People braue a terren Heauen hath Obiects wroth your Warres Shall be the Prizes of your Prow's and moun● your fame to Starres Let not a Traytors periur'd Sonne extrude vs from our right He dyes to leaue a famous life that doth for Conquest sight By this the furious Battelles ioyne a bloodie day to either And long they fight the Uictorie inclyning vnto neither At length the English had the ods who kéeping close aray Unto the Duchie Forces gaue no entrance any way Then fayning feare and Martially retyring as opprest The English so became secure and followe on disperst To which aduantage furiously the Normanes did returne And got a bloodie victorie In vayne the English th●●ne Amidst the Pykes against the pricke 〈◊〉 Harolde then was slayne From him began the Normanes sole but soone ●●●ioyned ray●e For second Henrie Mawde her Sonne fréed Englands blood agayne Since whence and euer may they so that Of-spring ruled vs Of whose Coniunction in the Crowne the Genalogue is thus King Edmund Irne side Issue had Edward the Our-law he Had Margret Mawde by Mancholyn the King of Scottes had she Mawde to the Conqueror his Sonne first Henrie Mawde did beire This second Mawde the Angeos wife had second Henrie heire EDward King Harolds Preregnant of this same Change foretold Who present and succéeding tymes thus dying did vnfold It is a World to note quoth he