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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03250	Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1609 (1609)	STC 13366; ESTC S119729	272,735	468

was the first that strung the Lute 4 Nables and Regals holy Dauid found Dirceus an Athenian Clarious shrill And these the Lacedemons did first sound When the Messenians they in armes did kill Vnto the Dulcimer first danced round The Troglodites after the Rebeck still Th' Archadians fought Pises Tyrhenus was The first that fashiond Trumpets made of Brasse 5 Which some to Myses attribute and say The Haebrewes with a Siluer Trumpet led Marcht and retyrd were taught to keepe array When to fall off when on fly or make head Dromslades the Romans taught the Cretans they After the Lute their hostile paces tread Great Haliattes with his sword and shield Marcht not without lowd pipers in the field 6 This as it hath the power in dreadfull Warres Mongst soft effeminate breasts to kindle rage and to relenting grace all entrance barres So hath it power the rudest thoughts t`asswage To musicke moue the Plannets dance the stars It tempers fury makes the wilde man sage In this consent of stringes he that can well May with harmonious Orpheus enter hell 7 We left Queene Ceres in her Daughters Quest Measuring the earth from one side to another Yet can she find no end to her vnrest Her Daughter lost shee is no more a Mother The earth once cherisht she doth now detest Gainst which her spleene she can no longer smother She cals it barbarous vnthankefull base And no more worthy of her Souer●…gne grace 8 And much against her ancient pleasure speakes For what she fauour'd earst she now dislikes In euery place she comes the Ploughes she breakes The laborous Oxen she with Murraine strikes Vpon the toyling Swaines her spleene she wreakes Cattell and Men choake vp their new-plasht Dykes The barraine fieldes deceiue the Plow-mans trust The vsuring seede is molded vnto dust 9 Which rather in the parched furrow dries Layd open vnto euery rigorous blast Else to the theeuish Byrds a prey it lies Or if it hap to gather root at last Cockle and Tares euen with the Corn-eares rise Else by the choaking Cooch-grasse it is past Thus through her griefe the earth is barraine made The hoped haruest perisht in the blade 10 Meane time Euridice the new made Bride Of Orpheus with a princely traine consorted As in a Meddow by a Riuers side Vnto her Husbands Harpe one day she sported And by his tune her measured paces guide In a swift Hadegay as some reported She shricking starts for whilst her Husband singes Vnto his Harpe a Snake her Ankle stings 11 In Orpheus armes she dyes her soule discends Ferryed by Charon o're the Stigian Lake The woefull Bridegroome leaues his house and friendes Vowing with her the loath'd world to forsake To the Tenarian part his course he bends And by the way no cheerefull word he spake But by ten thousand pathes turning doth crosse Through Tartary and through the blacke Molosse 12 There is a steepe decliuy way lookes downe Which to th' Infernall Kingdome Orpheus guides Whose loouer vapors breathes he sits not downe But enters the darke Cauerne with large strides With thousand shadowes he is compast round Yet still the suffocating Mists diuides Millions of Ghosts vnbodied bout him play Yet fearelesse Orpheus still keepes no his way 13 Hels restlesse Ferriman with Musicke payd Is pleas'd to giue him waftage too and fro The triple Hell-hound that his entrance stayd Charmed with Musicke likewise lets him go So through the ayry throng he passage made Th' immortall people that remaine below And tuning by the way his siluer stringes To the three fatall Sisters Thus he singes 14 You powers Infernall full of awfull dread Whose dietyes no eye terrestriall sees I know all Creatures that are mortall bred At first or last must stand to your decrees I come not as a spy among the dead To blab your doomes or rob you of your fees I onely pierce these vaults voyd of all crime To seeke my Bride that perisht fore her time 15 By loue whose high commaund was neuer bounded In Earth or Heauen but hath some power belovv By your blacke Ministers by Orcus rounded With Styx whose pitchy Waters ebbe and flow By those three Kings by whom all doomes are sounded The Elisian pleasures and the Lake of Woe By all the dreadfull secr●…ts of the dead Fayre Parcae knit againe her vitall thread 16 I seeke not to exempt her from your doome This is our generall home heare we must stay Though now releast as all things hither come So must she too and heare abide for aye Graunt that she now may but bespeake her roome And to her death allot a longer day Or if th'immoued Fates this will not doe Before my time with her detaine me to 17 This with such moouing accents Orpheus sung That Chin-deepe Tantalus forgot to bow Vnto the shrinking Waue Ixion hung Vntost vpon the Wheele and Sisiphe now Rests him vpon his stone His Harpe was strung With such rare art the Danaes knew not how To vse their empty tubbes Stix breath'd not fire Nor can the vulture on Prometheus tyre 18 The Sisters weepe Hels Iudges appeare mild And euery tortur'd Ghost forgets his paine Proserpine laught and the drad Pluto smild To see her chang'd of cheere no soul●…s complaine Hels Senate to his grace is reconcild And all agree she shall suruiue againe Through million-Ghosts his Bride is sought found And brought to him still haulting on her wound 19 He takes her with this charge at Plutoes hand Not to looke backe till he Auernus past And the large limits of the Stygian Strand Through darke and obscure wayes through deserts vast Steepe hils and smoaky Caues his Wife he man'd Vntill he came where a thin plancke was pla'st O're a deepe raging Torrent where dismayd Orpheus lookes backe her trembling arme t' haue staid 20 Which the three-throated Cerberus espying Snatches her vp and beares her backe to hell In vaine are all his sighes his teares his crying Lowder then he can play the Dog can yell He blames his too much loue and almost dying Is ready with his Bride mongst shades to dwell So long vpon the barren plaines he trifled Till with hels vapors he was almost stifled 21 At length the Rhodopeian Orpheus turnes His feeble paces to the vpper earth Which now with discontented Ceres mournes The rape of Proserpine still plagu'd with Dearth Either the Sun the gleby Champion burnes Else too much raine doth force abortiue birth To the ranke Corne the world forcst to complaine With widdowed Orpheus and the Queene of Graine 22 Who hauing searcht Earth of her child to know She finds her no where on the earth abiding And skaling heauen Heauen can no daughter showe Therefore both heauen and earth the Queene is chiding Onely she left vnsought the vaults below But heares how Orpheus hath by Musickes guiding Past through Auernus and the Stygian fires Therefore of him she for her childe inquires

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 cea●… 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 ●…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 Vall●…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