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A14783	Albions England a continued historie of the same kingdome, from the originals of the first inhabitants thereof: and most the chiefe alterations and accidents there hapning: vnto, and in, the happie raigne of our now most gracious soueraigne Queene Elizabeth. VVith varietie of inuentiue and historicall intermixtures. First penned and published by VVilliam VVarner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same author.; Albions England. Book 1-12	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1597 (1597)	STC 25082A; ESTC S119589	216,235	354

liue To fault is then their murdrous fact that first defect doth giue He had not faulted or I falne hadst thou hild faith to mee Ah little feele we in regard of Plagues prepar'd for thee Thus sayd he and for thus he sayd I for the ruth of this Did vow that who so once were mine I would be onely his Well Madame quoth the Gentleman be this so or a shift I see to frustrate my demaund is honestly your drift Then so or not so or what so you shall inferre of this It matters not Perkin is yours and be you onely his For sooth to say weare all saide false it were indeed a hell To haue a Loues-Coryuall and as none could brooke it well So none should aske and none should yeeld to alter loue begun Therefore sweet Ladie I conclude such il is well vndun Mine amorous sute hath here an end and would you might preuaile With Perken too that proudly striues to beare too high a sayle So may you if perhaps you haue for him so apta tayle As this you tould to me for mee although more hardly trew As this which I shall tell that doth include a morall view Of matter worth the note for him the rather tould by you Then heare it for our leisure and the order of my Q CHAP. XXXVII SVppose for so must be suppos'd that Birdes and Beasts did speake The Cuckooe sometimes lou'd the Owle and so with her did breake Then flew the Owle by day so did the Cuckooe all the yeare So did the Swallow and the Batte but howe it hapned heare The Cu●kooe by the Swallow then the Swallow was his Page Did send the Owle a sucking Mouse a tydie for the age The Bat the Bat then seru'd the Owle preferd the Bringer and The Present to her Mistres sight that in her Tod did stand My maister to your Owleship quoth the Swallow sends by me This Modicum desiring you to take the same in gree The Owle that neuer till that day had tasted flesh of Mouse Had quickly lopte a Limbe or two and feasteth in her house The Swallow with a cut see of her then disgorged wheat When talking of the daintie flesh and elswhat as they eate The Bat then waiting at the boorde fetcht sighes a two or three The Owle did aske the cause And doe you aske the cause quoth she Why thus I sigh when thus in sight my kindred murthred be My selfe was sometimes such and such am still saue now I fly With that she freshly wept and thus proceeded by and by A fresh quoth she now comes to minde mine Auncestors ill hap Whō pride made praies to Kestrels Kites Cats Weasels Baē trap My Grandsier for wheare Nature failes in strength she adds in wit Was full of Science But insooth he misapplied it The Weasell Prince of Vermen though besides a vertuous Beast By shrewdnes of my Grandsiers wit his Holes with hoords increaste And seem'd to conn him thankes whō none besides had cause to thank For Princes Fauors often make the fauored too cranke Not only Mice but Lobsters Cats and noble Vermen paide In comming Coram Nobis for some crime against them laide But God it is a world to see when purposes be sped How Princes hauing fatted Such are with their fatnes fed The Weasel seru'd my Grandsier so and euery Vermen laught To see himselfe in Snare that had in Snares so many caught Now also liue some wylie Beasts and fatly do they feede Mongst Beasts of chace birds of game with lesse then needfull heed My Graundsier dead my Father was in fauour nerthelesse Nor did his Father more than he for high Promotion presse And though I say it long time he deserued fauors well For quayling Foe men and at home such Vermen as rebell And for the same the Weasell did him mightily preferre But Honors made him haughtie and his haughtines to erre I will be plaine he waxt too prowd and plotted higher drifts Than fitted him or fadged well for who haue thriu'd by shifts Nor will I say because his sonne he wrong'd the Weasell but The Weasell died and that that did succeede to shifts he put For which his Fathers Fortune did oretake him at the last Such fickelnesse in earthly pompe which flowing ebs as fast This double warning might haue i●kt vnto my wit but I Did follow Kinde Nay more I did importune Dis to fly And he did giue me these blacke wings resembling him that gaue the A proper Gift and hardly got to shame me now I haue them But know yee Dis some Pluto him or Limbos God doe call Or aptlier said in Hell of diuels the Chiefe and Principall And somwhat now of him and how I changed say I shall I hapned on a Cranny whilst my Mouse-daies lasted which I entring wandred crooked Nookes and pathes as darke as pitch Theare hauing lost my selfe I sought the open aire in vaine Both wanting foode light and life well neare through travels paine The Moole by chaunce did crosse my way and as ye know her smell Supplies her want of sight and serues her purpose full as well I heard a tracting sownd and skar'd my haire did stand vpright Nor could I see or fly but feare and blesse me from a Spright She had me hild me questions of my being theare the cause And in meane while peruseth me with fauorable clawes I was about to pleade for life when she preuents me thus Ha Cosen Mouse what Fortune giues this meeting heere to vs. Feare not my Sonne I call thee Sonne because I loue thee much Doe hold thy selfe as merry heere as in a Pantlers hutch What know'st not me or see'st thou not with that she leadeth me Into an higher roome wheare her to be mine Eame I see I did my dutie and my heart was lightned when mine eie Encountered a friend whereas I made account to die Before me sets Shee Viands and my stomacke seru'd me well And hauing fed my Grandsiers and my Fathers ends I tell For She enquires for them ere I acquaint her what befell The reuerent Moole then sighing said ah let no Vermine thinke That Fortune euer fauors or that friends will neuer shrinke I did fore-smell their lostie flight would cost them once a fall And therefore Cosen see thou be forewarned therewithall Heere seest thou me I tell thee though I prise not Gentry now Thine Eame and of the elder house that long agoe did vow My selfe a Recluse from the world and celled vnder ground Least that the gould the precious stones and pleasures here be found Might happen to corrupt my minde for blindnes did I pray And so contemplatiuely heere I with contentment stay Admitte the Weasell graceth thee the more he doth the more The other Vermen will maligne and enuy thee therefore Himselfe perhaps will listen to thy ruine for thy store Or thou thy selfe to mount thy selfe maiest runne thy selfe a shore That Vermen that hath reason and his owne Defects

Vpstarts and all Were ouercome So Spencers both from heauen to hell did fal Put to a fowle and shamefull death with others that misled The King in Out-rages more great than earst in England bred Prolers Blood-thirstie Parasites Make-shifts Bawdes did thriue Nor was an ancient English Peere vnbanisht or aliue For forraine and domesticke Swords Plague Famine and Exile Did more than tythe yea tythe the Tythe of men within this I le Of Baldricks Hoodes Tabrides and Furres from Knights disgraded tore Attaintures of Nobilitie and Armes reuersed store So many Spurres hewen off the heeles and Swords broke ouer head Were through a King so light and lewd a Councell neuer read The King in prison and depos'd tyrannised he dide By Trecheries of Mortimer that ruld the Roste that tide Whilst Edward in Minoritie his Fathers throne supplide CHAP. XXVIII THIS third of that same Name as yet in Nonage for a time Although a King was vnder-kept by some that ouer-clime Queene mother proude Mortimer familiar more than should Did and vndid more than they might not lesse than as they would Till Edward better counselled hong Mortimer the death Of many a Peere who Earle of March and haughtie for his birth Was Lord of nine skore dubbed Knights his other traynes except For greater pompe than did his Prince this Lord of VVigmore kept But more he had bene happie though lesse hautie in his Halls More honour in humilitie than safetie in walls Proud Climers proue not monuments saue onely in their falls The senselesse pride of Fooles therefore whome reuerently we ride Should lessen at the least because that earth their earth shall hide The Countrie purg'd of Fleecers and of Flatterers the Court The King became a Mars for Armes a Iupiter for Port Th Olymp●ds the Pythea and the prowesse of the Earth Did seeme euen now and not but now to haue in him their birth East South and North gaue ayme farrc off admiring so the West As if that Mars discarding them had set our Realme his Rest. Philip Valois Dauid Bruz of power and courage more Than any French or Scottish Kings since or of long before Confedrate with three other Kings and Princes farre and neere Warre all at once on Edward but did buy their warring deere Dauid debelled left his land but lastly did returne And whilst our King did war in France much did he spoyle burne And proud of mightie Troopes of men of vnresisted prayes And Edwards absence prosperously he on aduantage playes Vntill not sending hence for helpe the Queene did muster Knights And with the Foe though tripled-wise victoriously she fights The Scots for most did perish and their King was Prisner taine And Scotland wholly for a pray to England did remaine Meane while was Paris scarcely left to rescue Philips Goale Whom Edward ferrits so from hold to hold as Fox from hoale That Melancholie he deceast and valiant Iohn his sonne Was crowned King of France and then the wars afresh begonne But after many fieldes vnto the Foes continuall wracke The French King captiuated to the English Monarke backe His Victor sayles the Prince of VVales Edward surnamed blacke The flower of Chiualrie the feare of France and scourge of Spaine Wheare Peter dispossest of Crowne was crownde by him againe Fower yeeres the French eleuen yeres was the Scotch K. prisners heere Whose the Dolphines ransomes were as great as good their cheere PRince Edw. Iohn of Gaunt all their Fathers sonnes might boaste Of famous Sier and he of sonnes matchlesse in any Coaste Howbeit King and Prince at last misled by counsell ill Through Taxes lost a many hearts that bore them earst good will Thence finding Fortune contrary to that she was before Yeat either dying seaz'd of French and Scottish Conquests store Yea Callice late and Barwick yet of their Exployts is lest Though Sonne before the Sier and both of liues long since bereft When Barwick was besieged and stood brauely at defence Sir Alexander Seiton theare chiefe Captaine had pretence To linger forth the Siege till Scots should draw the English thence In rescue of Northumberland and therefore sent his sonne A Pledge of treated Truce and when the guile-got Truce was done And Barwick not releeued nor resigned as it ought Two sonnes of Seiton were before the walls besieged brought They ready for the Iybbet and their Father for his Graue For eyther he must yeeld the Towne or them he might not saue In griefe he then his Countries cause and Childrens case reuolues But partiall vnto either he on neither Choyce resolues To be a loyall Subiect and a louing Father too Behooued him but both to bee was not in him to doo Nature and honour wrought at once but Nature ouer-wrought And but his Ladie it preuents to yeeld the Towne he thought O what pretend you Sir quoth she is Barwick woorth no more Than error of such loue I ioy that I such Children bore Whom cruell Edward honoureth with such a cause of death For that especiall cause for which we all receaue our breath Euen for their Countries cause they dye whose liues for it be dewe Why see their faces constantly she did their faces viewe The same my Seiton seeme so farre from dreading any woe As if they skornde that Barwicke should redeeme them from the Foe Full deere they were to me vnborne at birth and borne and now And Mother like I moane their death and yet their death allow Moe Sonnes and such you may beget your honour if you staine Defected honour neuer more is to be got againe Preuent not then your selfe your Sonnes and me so great a blis Adiew dye sweet Sonnes your soules in heauen shall liue for this With such perswasions did she win her husband from the walls And Edward executes their Sonnes and to assault he falls So long that Barwicke yeelds at length and still vs master calls THese were the dayes when English armes had eu'rie where request And Edw. knights throughout the world had prick praise for best Not Knights alone but Prelates too Queenes whereof were twain The quondam in esse Queenes by Armour honour gain By Warre the Queene that was did cease her husbands tragicke Rayn And by the Queene then being was the Scotch King Prisnet tayne It followes then that as the Pawnce doth circkle with the Sonne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne O that our Muse might euermore on such a Subiect ronne But Vulcan forgeth other Tooles and sharpneth deadlier swords For little els then ciuill warres our following Penne affords French Expeditions badly thriue whereof we cease to speake Not forraine but Domestick warres grew strong to make vs weake Melpomen here might racke her wits Sylla Marius hate Pharsalian Fields were gentle Frayes regarding this debate The second Richard sonne vnto the blacke Prince Edward dead Was crownde an Infant and from him the Stratagem was bread The bace attempts of Ball

perish fewe disperse and all were out of harte Yea Brenn himselfe discouraged did change in euery parte He looking after and vpon the scattered and the slayne Did seeme a second Cadmus saue lesse patient of his payne And shaming to be seene to weepe deuoured sightles teares And in these words his heartie greefes did number to their Eares Sweet Soldiours leaue me to my selfe it likes me that ye leaue me More takes your tarriance frō my health than can these plagues bereaue me Each of these Masse of Corpses dead hath bin a death to me Deliuer then mine Eyes of you too many deathes I see Suruiue and tell the Westerne World what we exployted haue How that to Rome amidst her Roofe the mayden Sacke we gaue Tell of our Battels Booties and our Buildings lastly tell An honor to our Ouerthrowe that we at Delphos fell By wounds deuine no humane Armes But God who so thou be Lesse is thy courage than Commaund els would'st thou cope with me As Pluto with Alcides did and Mars sometimes with men Do me like honor and these Graues shall lightly greeue me then But thou full little darest so Nay I doe dare too much That with my so vnhallowed tongue thy Deitie dare touch Ah see these Slaughters and reserue aliue this small Remayne Let lastly me and only me eike number to the slayne But bootlesse on a ruthles God I see my prayers spent As haughtely doest thou reuenge as humbly I repent Well God of Delphos since our teares this Incense nor these Graues Appease thine yre persist to plague this flesh that henceforth craues No pitie to the Hebrewe God of power exceeding thyne Men say appeale I and bequeath the Soules of me and myne Accept my simple Legacie O Godhood most deuyne Sayd Brenn. And with a selfe-wrought wound did perish and his men Departing wonne and left the name to Gallo-Grecia then The righteous Gorboman might add fresh Subiect to our Muse But skipping to his Fathers Sonnes of them it thus ensewes FIue yeeres 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 Theare Elidurus hunting found his wretched Brother and They gasing each in others face with sighes and weepings stand A King as Elidurus is once was I thinkes 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-hearted in my charge but euer lackt the one Nor hath the other likelihood for quietler ruleth none Yeat Kings may thinke their heads too weake their Dyademes to sustaine For endles cares concurre with Crownes a bitter sweete is Raine Howbeit Subiects falsely iudge their Princes blessed are When both of peace and perils they containe the common care And yeat for this they grudgingly from Pounds a Penny spare Not these my Lords make me disclaime in it which all pursue But Iustice bidds my Brothers right I should commend to you This one Request includes I knowe exceeding dangers twaine To me if for a priuate life I change a publique Rayne To you if whom ye haue depriu'd ye shall restore againe But for I haue done right no wrong though Iustice wants not foes And though vnto a Magistrate disgrading bringeth woes Yeat gainst the bad a conscience good may safe it selfe oppoes Nor be ye fearefull of reuenge that did no more than right Euen Archigallo will confesse his sinne and cleare your spight Whose restitution were he wrongd at least shall you acquite You hassard lesse re-kinging him then I vn-king'd to bee And Danger ouer-dares if it from Iustice disagree Then good my Lords doe right his wrong at least-wise doe him right Whose smarte no doubt hath wrought in him a reconciled spright Iust Gorboman his brotherhood succeeding in their Line Then Archigallo should be King to him let me resine So much the King did vrge this Text that Archigallo rayn'd And Elidurus willingly in priuate life remaynde The one restored for his late depriuing nothing mou'd The other wonders tell I now dis-crowned yeat belou'd Tenne yeares did Archigallo raigne beloued well and dyed And Elidurus once againe the Kingly Throne supplyed Vntill his Brothers secondly depose him of his raine But they deceasing thirdly he was crowned King againe And so vntill his Dying day with honor did remaine A many Kings whose good or bad no Wrighter hath displaide Did follow Lud and Hely for their stately buildings made Rest chiefly famous Nor forget King Bledgrabed I shall Whom Brutons did their Glee-god for his skill in Musicke call The next whose dayes gaue famous deedes Cassiuelan is sayde Whom Caius Iulius Caesar did with Armour thus inuade CHAP. XVII THis Conquerour of Gallia found his Victorie prolong'd By Brittish Succours and for it pretending to bee wrong'd Did send for Tribute threatning els to bring the Brutons Warre The latter going forward first the Albinests to barre A common foe concurre as friends and now was come the Spring When Caesar out of War-wonne France victorious Trowpes did bring But easlier wonne the Grecians land at Pargama by much Than got the Latines footing heere their Contraries were such Yee might haue seene of Hectors race then thousand Hectors heere With pollicie on either part the Romanes buying deere The bloodie Shore the water yeat lesse deerer than the land To them whom valiantlie to proofe the Ilanders withstand Ofte battell they the Brutons still victorious and in vaine Their foes were valiant onelie heere was Caesars force in waine And as our men vnto his men were as tempesteous Thunder So did his ankred Shippes on Seas by Tempest dash in sunder But twice quoth Caesar Fortune thou wert opposite to mine But thirdlie heere to Caesars selfe thou wontles dost decline Conuaying then his wearie men into his wasted Shippes To Gallia there to Winter them he miscontented slippes Of this same Victorie did spring securitie and strife The Scottes and Pichtes did sunder hence the Brutons ouer-rise In Largesse making frollike Cheere a quarrell then aroes Betwixt the King and Luds false Sonne and they dis-ioyne as foes That Caesar slippes Aduantage such were error to suppoes Euen of the Brutons some there were recalling backe the Foe And Winter past with doubled power he backe againe did roe The Romaines more the Brutons they farre fewer than before Offend defend fight for fence from to winne and warde the Shore But Caesar landed and ensew'd continuall cruell fight Thrice put the fierce Cassiuelanes the Caesarines to flight And still the King incouraging in euerie wing appeares So giuing needlesse spurres to fight his Souldiours brooke not feares Nor little did the Cornish