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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11408	Part of Du Bartas English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English. With the commentary of S.G. S. By William L'Isle of Wilburgham, Esquier for the Kings body.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1625 (1625)	STC 21663; ESTC S116493	251,817	446

Nomades Who gazing on in troopes disdained eu'ry fence And pitched where they list their bristle-hairy ten 's Like as with wing are wont black swarmes of swallowes swift Crosse o're th'embillowed sea their airy bodies lift And changing their abode as 't were on progresse goe For milder season'd aire twice yearely to and fro But other Nations fierce who for a war-renowne With often losse of Bloud haue roamed vp and downe Who better skill'd the way how t'ouercome then weild To conquer then to keepe to pull downe then to build And chosing rather warre than holy and lawfull rest Haue boldly diuers lands and one aft'r other prest Right such that Lombard was The naturall Countrey of the Lombardes their diuers remoues and conquests who borne in Schonerland Seiz'd on Liuonia thence went to Rugiland And hauing wrought reuenge vpon the Bulgar-men Of Agilmond his death he boldly ventur'd then Vpon Polonia so march'd on braue and fine To bathe his golden haire in siluer streame of Rhine Thence turning him about he setled in Morauie And so to Buda went and after flew to Pauie There raign'd two hundred yeares and honour'd Tesin so He princely dares compare streames with his neighbour Po. Such was the Goth Of the Goths who left the freezing-cold Finland Scanzie and Scrifinie Norway and Gottherland To sit on Wixel-bankes and for that aire did please As most in temper neare his owne of Baltick seas With his victorious hoste entring Sclauonia Supprised Zipserland and all Valachia Then fortifi'd in Thrace but scorning long to toile Among the beggar Greekes for hope of greater spoile Foure times the Roman tride God Mars his elder sonne To rob him of the crowne that he from all had wonne Led once by Radaguise led once by Alarick Then vnder Vidimare then vnder Dietrick And after dwelt in France then chased from Gascoine Aboade in Portugal Castile and Cataloine Such whilome was the French Of the ancient Gaules who roaming out as farre As darted are the beames of Titans firie carre Inuaded Italy and would in rage haue spilt The Tow'rs that Romulus or Mars himselfe had built Went thence in t ' Hungary then with his conquering plough He fallow'd-vp the soile cold Strimon runneth through The faire Emathick fields he then doth all-to-fleece And spareth not at all the greatest gods of Greece At last with Europe cloy'd he passeth Helespont Of th'Eunuck Dindym hill he wasteth all the Front Pisidia ruineth surpriseth Mysia And plants another Gaule in mid'st of Asia Of people most renown'd the darke antiquitie Is like a Forrest wide where hardy-foolery Shall stumbl ' at eu'ry step the learned Souuenance It selfe entangled is but blind-fold ignorance By blundring through the darke of her eternall Fogges Falls headlong downe in pits in dungeons and bogges 14 Th'Allusion They that in our time haue entreated of the Nations pedegrees haue much stood vpon the resemblance that one word or proper name hath to another and haue aptly framed coniectures of good import and likely-hood as man may note in Carion Melanc●hon Peuter Althamer Lazius Goropius and others But the Poet holds that a simple resemblance of words is no good ground for a story His reasons are first that hilles riuers and seas change their names as by Ortelius his treasure of Geographie doth appeare comparing the bookes and tables of Ptolomie Strabe Mela and other ancients with the maps of Gemma Frisius Vopelius Mercator Postel Theuet Cellarius and other late Writers Secondly that Cities and Countries are not alwaies called by the names of their founders and first inhabitants Thirdly that no stocke or Nation hath sure hold of any place in the world because of the many changes that befall this life Fourthly that as in the sea one waue thrusteth on another so the people and chiefly those of old time haue driuen each other out of place and in a manner played In docke out nettle All stories prooue these reasons to bee true and for the last the Author shewes three notable examples to confirme it 15 Th' old Britton It is aboue 1200. yeares agoe since Vortiger King of England then called Great Brittaine or Albion that is a white-sand Isle hauing warre with his neighbours the Scots sent for aid to the Saxon-English a people of Germany who after they had done him good seruice played as the Turkes did in Greece for they seated themselues in a part of the Island on the East where few yeares after they kept such a coile that the old Britton the natura●l Inbred of the Countrey was constrained to forsake it So with a great multitude passed the sea and landed in Armoricke now called little Brittaine where they gathered more and more together and increased much by succession of time See more hereof in the Chronicles of England and Brittaine The riuer Leyre falls into the trench of Nantes and so voids into the Ocean 16 The Lombard About the yeare of Christ 568. Alboin King of Lombardes hauing heard of the fruitfulnesse of Italy left Pannonia or Hungary where he dwelt in gard of certaine Hunnes vpon conditions and in few weekes after made a rode into Italy with a mightie armie and got many Townes chiefly in Insubria now called Lombardy of those Lombards who raigned there about two hundred yeares till they were ouercome and brought to thrall by the Emperour charlemaine about the yeare 774. Looke the Histories of France and the second part of the Librarie of N. Vignier Ishall speake anon of their beginning more particularly 17. Th' Aline About they yeere 412. when Ataulphe King of Gothes had driuen away the Alaines and Vandals from Cordway and Seuill which they possessed as also most of the prouinces of Spaine the Vandals sate downe in Betica which after was of thir name called first Vandalosie and then shorter Andalosie The Alaines in Lusitania and the prouince of Carthage or as some say betwixt the riuers Iberus and Kubricatus whereabouts in time past dwelt a people called Iacetani not vnlikely to be the men of Arragon afterward they ioyned and went both together into Affricke where they raigned a long time But in the yeere 534. the Emperour Justinian who caused the Roman lawes to be gathered together into one body sent an armie against them vnder the command of Belissarius he regained Affricke tooke Carthage and led Gllimer command of Belissarius he regained Affricke tooke Carthage and led Gllimer king of Goths prisoner vnto Rome After all this the Romans and the Moores also were constrained to giue place in Affricke to the Arabians who pressed in there and encamped themselues in sundry places 18. This hunger ne're sussiz'd The Poet saith that desire of rule reuenge and vainglory ambition and couetousnesse haue chiefly caused so many people to remoue and change their dwellings As also many stories of Scripture and others plainly shew Seneca reckoned diuerse other causes in his booke de Consolatione ad Elbiam where he saith The Carthaginians made a