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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

his Sonne he sayd not quite forlorne am I Whose life hath had so much of gréefe thus graciously to dye Add more thy vertues glad my death yet two things gréeue among To leaue my Kingdome thus in Warres and thée for Warres so yong So may these troubles waer to none as thou doest wax I pray And so possesse thy fathers Seate that all approue thy Sway. Not to be made a King my Sonne is so to make thée proude For mildnes fitteth Maiestie high mynds are disaloude Sée me thy father now a King and by and by but earth Nor thinke that euery King hath happ to dye a happie death Let Nature for perfection mold a Paragon each way Yet Death at least on finest lumpes of liuing flesh will pray For Nature neuer framed it that neuer shall decay The brauest are as Blossomes and the longest Liuer dyes And dead the louelest Creature as the lothsomst Carrion lyes Then thinke not but that Kings are men and as the rest miscarrie Saue that their fame or infamie continually doth tarrie Déeme past Examples Sentences and which did fayle in me Make vse of those not now in vse for now will cease to be Attempt not things beyond thy reach ioyne Fortune to thy will Least Phaebus Chaire doe els surcharge rash Phaoton his skill If Fortune helpe whom thou would'st hurt freat not at it the more When Aiax stormed then from him the Prize Vlisses bore Trye friends by Touch a feeble friend may proue thy strongest Foe Great Pompeis head to Caesars hand it was betrayed so Admit thou hadst Pactolian waues to land thée Gold at will Knowe Craesus did to Cyrus knéele and thou maist spéede as ill Abandon lust if not for sinne yet to auoyde the shame So Hoggs of Ithacus his men the Latian Witch did frame Be not to modie in thy wrath but pause though Fist be bent Oft Phillips Sonne did rashly strike and leisurly repent Content thée with vnthreatned Meane and play not AEsops Dogg The Gold that gentell Bacchus gaue was gréedie Midas Clogg Be valiant not to venterous but fight to fight againe Euen Hercules did hold it ods for one to striue with twaine Be not ambiciously a King nor grudgingly decline One God did roote out Cis his stocke and raise vp Iesses line Iest not with edge tooles suffer Saincts let mightie Fooles be mad Note Seneca by Neros doome for Precepts pennance had Haue care to whom of whom and what to speake though spéech ●e trew That Misse made Phaebus contrary his Rauens Swan-like hew He frameth torments to himselfe that feedes a Tyrants vayne Perillus was by Phalaris adiudg'd to selfe-taught payne Praise not the beautie of thy wife though she of forme be sped For Gyges moued so did graft on Candaules his head Shunne Ielosie that hart-breake Loue if Cat will goe to kinde Be sure that Io hath a meane that Argus shalbe blinde Commit not Treasure with thy Childe to greedie mynded men Thou leauest Polydor a Spoyle to Polymnestor then Occurrants giue occasions still of like in which be sure To serue thy God to saue thy selfe and well to all procure Be vertuous and assure thy selfe thou canst not then but thriue In only Uertue is it sayd that men themselues suruiue As for the vicious such they are as is the heedlesse Flye That killes it selfe and hurts his sight that hath her in his Eye Farewell my Sonne England farewell thy neuer happie Prince Doth take his leaue an happie leaue if taken so long since And Edmund burying not with me thy vertues nor my speech I blesse thee in his blessed name whom I of blesse beseech Sayd Egelred and shortly gaue a quiet gaspe or twayne And being dead his noble Sonne succeeded him in Rayne THis like himselfe euen knightlike and an English-man in deede Did quicken Englands quayling Prowes and Mars-like did proceed A brauer Captaine then was he not any Band might haue And yet a Mars did match this Mars Canutus was as braue These Wonders of that age for Armes and Dirij of those daies Did often battell equally to eithers losse and praies Now after many bloodie Fieldes when none might estimate The better or the worser parte a Knight that sawe the state Then present and by likelihoodes presaged what might fall Sayd hearing it the diffring Kings and Soldiours almost all We euer warre and neuer winne Edmund hath Fortitude Canutus Fortune neither thus of other is subdude Death feares not vs nor for their liues our Contraries doe crare It followes then that all must dye where all so despret are If all be slayne then who shall serue our Princes that suruiue Or fence out Forrens better one then none of both should thriue To thriue therefore were not a-misse that seeing one of twayne Will Owner all that only they the quarrell doe maintayne Or if Combattansie not please the Land is rich and large And they Coperciners may liue and vs of death discharge If Combate nor Partition be then will this Warre reuiue Till one suruiuing all of vs wants one with whom to striue This sayd the Kings did marke and make a profite of the same And did conclude by Combacie to loose or winne the Game Within a little Island nere round which the Armies stand The Kingly Champions trye their force by fighting hand to hand They spurre their Horses breake their Speares and beate at Barriars long And then dismounting did renewe a Battell braue and strong Whil'st either King thus Martially defends and did offend They breathing King Canutus sayd we both I see shall end Ere Empier shall begin to one then be it at thy choyce To fight or parte With it their Knights crye out with common voyce Deuide most valiant Kings deuide enough ye haue of sight And so the Champions did imbrace forgetting Mallice quight Partition equally was made betwixt these Princes twaine And brother-like they liue and loue till by a deulish traine Earle Edricus a Traytor to the Father and the Sonne Did murther Edmund and his head supposing to haue wonne The fauour of Canutus so presenting sayd O King For loue of thee I thus haue done Amazed at the thing Canutus sayd and for that thou hast headded him for mee Thy head aboue all English heads exalted it shall bee The Earle was headded and his head poolde vp for all to see Of England Danske and Norway then Canut was perfect Lord And in his triple Regment all with vertue did accord Harolde and Hardi-knought his Sonnes each did succeede Of either which small certen Fame of well or ill we reede Saue by their Raynes to English-men did gréeuous thraldome bréed But after Hardi-knought his death the Danes were chased hence Not intermedling with the State of England euer sence CHAP. XXII OF forsayd Egelred his Sonnes Alured and his brother Was Edward King for Goodwyns gile had made away that other Religious chaste wise fortunate stout franke and milde was he And from all Taxes wrongs and Foes did

to our Muse But skipping to his Fathers Sonnes of them it thus ensewes FIue yeres had Archigallo raign'd when hated doing wrong He was depriued of his Realme and liued vagrant long And fearing all that frended none kept close the Woods among There Elidurus hunting found his wretched Brother and They gasing each in others face with sighes and wéepings stand A King as Elidurus is once was I thinks his brother A wretch as Archigallo is I may be thinkes the other The lowlie King alights anon and when they had imbrac'd Then Archigallo secretly in Ebranks Towne was plac'd In which the King commaunding so the Nobles did conuent To whom did Elidurus thus informe of his intent If Fortune had bin crosse my Lords to me or any feare Of Armor were approching vs I should perchaunce appeare Faint and false-harted in my charge but euer lackt the one Nor hath the other likelihood for quietler ruleth none Yet Kings may thinke their heads to weake their Dyademes to sustaine For endles cares concurre with Crownes a bitter sweete is Rayne Howbeit Subiects falsely iudge their Princes blessed are When both of peace and perrilles they containe to common care And yet for this they grudgingly from Pounds a Penny spare Not these my Lords make me disclame in it which all pursue But Iustice biddes my Brothers right I should commend to you This one Request includes I knowe excéeding dangers twayne To me if for a priuate life I change a publique Rayne To you if whom ye haue depriu'd ye shall bestoore agayne But for I haue done right no wrong though Iustice wants not fooes And though vnto a Magistrate digrading bringeth woes Yet to the bad a conscience good may saue it selfe oppoes Nor be ye fearefull of reuenge that did no more then right Euen Archigallo will confesse his sinne and clear your spight Whose restitution were he wrong at least shall you acquire You hassard lesse re-kinginge him then I vn king'● to be And Danger ouer-dares if it from Iustice disagrée Then good my Lords doe right his wrong at least-wise doe him right Whose smarte no doubt hath wrought in him a reconsciled spright Iust Gorboman his brotherhood succeding in their Lyne Then Archigallo should be King to him let me resyne So much the King did vrge this Text that Archigallo raynde And Elidurus willingly in priuate life remaynde The one restored for his late depryuing nothing mou'de The other wonders tell I now dis-crowned yet belou'd Tenne yeres did Archigallo rayne beloued well and dyed And Elidurus once againe the Kingly Throne supplyed Untill his Brothers secondly depoose him of his rayne But they deceasing thirdly he was crowned King agayne And so vntill his Dying day with honor did remayne A many Kings whose good or bad no Wrighter hath displayde Did followe Lud and Hely for their stately buyldings maide Rest chiefly famous nor forget King Bledgabred I shall Whome Brutons did their Glée-god for his skill in Musike call The next whose dayes gaue famous deedes Cassiuelan is fayde Whome Caius Iulius Caesar did with Armor thus inuayde CHAP. XVII THis Conquerour of Gallia found his Uictory prolong'd By Brittish Succoures and for it pretending to bee wrong'd Did send for Tribute threatning els to bring the Brutons Warre The former going forward first the Albinests to barre A common fooe concurr as friends and now was come the Spring When Caesar out of War-wonne France victorious Trowpes did bring But eassier wonne the Grecians land at Pargama by much Then got the Latines footing heer their Contraries were such Yée might haue séen of Hectors race tenn thousand Hectors heer With pollicie on either part the Romanes buying deer The bloddy Shoore the water yet lesse déerer then the land To them whom valiantly to proofe the Ilanders withstand Oft battell they the Brutons still victorious and in vaine Their fooes were valiant onely heer was Caesars force in wayne And as our men vnto his men were as tempestious Thunder So did his ankred Shippes on Seas by Tempest dash in sonder But twise ꝙ Caesar Fortune thou weart opposite to myne But thirdly heer to Caesars selfe thou wontles doste declyne Conuaying than his weerie men into his wasted Shippes To Gallia there to Winter them he miscontented slippes Of this same Uictorie did spring securitie and strife The Scottes and Pichtes did sunder hence the Brutons ouer ryffe In Largesse making frollike Cheer a quarrell then aroes Betwixt the king and Luds false Sonne and they dis-ioyne as fooe● That Caesar slippes Aduantage such were error to suppooes Euen of the Brutons some there were recalling backe the Foe And Winter past with dubled power he backe againe did roe The Romaines more the Brutons they farre fewer then before Offend defend fight for fence from to winn and warde the Shore But Caesar landed and ensew'd continuall cruell fight Thrise put the fearce Cassiuelanes the Caesarines to flight And still the King incouraging in euery wing appeares So giuing needles spurres to sight his Soldiours brookt not feares Nor little did the Cornish Belles offend the Romaine eares When Caesars oft successes fight had tyred him and his Inringed with his mayhmed Campe the Romaine speaketh this Are these same Bands those self-same Bands y t neuer faught in vaine And ye the men that following still my Standard still did gaine Euen these and ye are very those nor can I discommend Your manhoodes that with lesser work brought greater Warres to end But not as was my wont to wright the Senate now shall réede I came I sawe I ouer-came such Foes forbid such spéede Nor let the Senate muse for Troy with Troy doth here contend This warlike people fame is so from whence sprong we discend Yea if AEneas had not left the Phrygian Gods to vs And Greekes Palladium shipt to Greece this Fortune foyling thus I would haue thought those very Gods had followed our anoy But them haue we these onely haue vndanted harts from Troy But what shall Caesar doubt to fight against so braue a Foe No Caesars Tryumphes with their Spoyles shall giue the brauer shoe Ye Gods that guide our Capitall Mount Palatin thou Throne Of stately Rome ye Followers too of her affayres each one Delay not but depriue me quite my Triumphes now in hand Nor let me liue if so I leaue vnconquered this Land This Land the last of Westerne Isles an Isle vnknowne ere this Which famous now through Caesars fight and our misfortune is Enough my fellowe friends in Armes enough we Romaines haue To seeke reuenge your Conquest is a Countrie rich and braue And which perswadeth Uictorie in Troynouant there bée That hold that Cittie to our vse the Brutons disagrée No Scot or Pichte assisting them in rhese our Warres I sée Their ciuell strife will proue their skourge how stout soere they seeme And perpetuitie doth fayle in euery thing extreeme Not Fortune still is good or bad and now let be our day To long we liue if that