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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

her Homager may England Scotland call Which ouer-passe not now possest in this Accompt we shall Of either Land the Marches and much more for most now Ours The warlike Picts possessing Here built Castles Towns Towers 〈…〉 tes Scots and Romaines then our Lords oft daunting with their Powers T●●●●stly ciuil Strife Scots disskingdom'd thē frō Hence Whom Orkney Ilands as is sayd haue harbour'd euer sence The Br●●aines by these Picts of long opprest with thraldome sore To be deliu'red of such Foes did Saxon Aides implore So playing as did Aesops Horse that angrie with the Hart To be reueng'd did craue in ayde of Man to take his part Till when the Horse was neuer back't nor bitted Either now He hauing suffered would haue helpt but then he knew not how The Brataines hauing called so the Saxons to their aide Could not be rid of them to whom they had themselues betraide But by the same were they at length debelled into VVailes Each of whose Kings of long time Three in Englands Monarch failes The Saxons getting Brutaine thus which they did England name At once of them in seuerall Parts Seauen Kings did rule the same All which by VVesterne Adelstane in Monarchie was got Which since saue Iron-sids the Danes once Deuidēt chang'd not Fiue Irish Kingdōs likewise add now drown'd in Englands Crowne The Seauenteenth was the Isle of Man in Ours now also downe Our Mandeuil here cited of Earle Mandeuil exact In Stephens Raigne so famous Man in Scots Possession sack't And with the Spoyle of al that Isle thence and his Brother pack't Consent of times Names and Records affirme may seeme no lesse But Monteacute Count Salsburie it wonne and did possesse Of Percies after Stanlies next and still gesse I holds Man From honorable long Descents and from they first began All loyall hospitalious lou'd still powre-full and I pray That in that Noble house those Termes may neuer-more decay This Man was diuers hundred yeares a Kingdome and not small Rul'd Hebrides the Orcades to Thul the Islands all And chances there and Changes worth the note did oft befall As how the naturall Incolants the Iselanders subdew Them Norses ●rish them them Scots and English them in few Beauchamp the Earle of VVarwick first and last and but a while Was King of VVight Sixt Henries Gift that Honor and that I le VVhich added Eighteene Kingdoms al possest ieke Englands Stile These now thus couched all in One saue Parcell Scots withhold Of Penthland and some barren Isles subdu'd to Man of old Since hath one Monarch ruled vs hath rendered secure VVhereas Pluralitie of Kings did euer Losse procure Twise ioyn'd our Ilanders in one when twise did Caesar faile Disioyning He Picts Saxons Danes and Normaines did preuaile The Spanyard in Conceit deuoures our Countrie in no hope But of Disiunctiues who thinks he lesse loue their Prince than Pope Let France admonish England turn'd Religion turnes not Spayne From thirsting France Neutralitie brought late-lost Calice Baine And Spanish't-French liue Peasants-like that French did Princes raign Our Elders illy did they well for so should not be done Much lesse to causeles Armes against their Prince ought Subiects ron So badly brook't this Spanyards fam'd Espousall with their Queene That euen at VVestminsters Law-Barres were harnest Pleaders seene Fear'd with the trooped Bands y t wold that Banes with swords forbid Of which were pittied those that dide the Rest winkt-at and hid Their meaning had it Praise had not the Manner bin in fault The Manner now doth hold may none in selfe-same Meaning hault But arm'd be euery hand and heart hence Englishly to beate Spayn that our Bodies wold inthral Rome that our Soules doth threat Yeat which hath blinded bridled and beguil'd them many a day Their Inquisition wish I from the Spanyards rid away What good remaines to wish the Pope this that had none bin borne From him to steale his ill-got Coyne from vs to ship our Corne. The best things brought from Rome to vs conuert troe I to ill But new Rome left of old Rome now abreuiat we will CHAP. LXXIV WHen Stafford and his double Charge to Italie were come In health and rich for hence brought they in Coine no little Some With Iewels of rare estimate and else-what of great worth For Mandeuil they seeke and him at last did listen forth That in Constantinople yet he was a Marchant saide And thither Staffords Letter was to him with speed conuaide Purporting only that himselfe at Rome his comming staide Meane while in Rome the Mistris once of all the world they view Such wonders couch't in Ruins as vnseene might seeme vntrew Once was it compast as is read with fiftie miles of wall Now some to twentie some to lesse in that accompt doe fall It hauing Towers so many as the yeare hath dayes in all From fortie miles was water brought in Pipes o● Arches thether Were vaulted walkes through euery Streete gainst Sunne and rainy weather The sumptious Bathes with Pallaces thereto of rare delight The roomesome Ponds where very Ships some Festiuals did fight The Trophie Arches where to life Triumphants were purtraide The Statures huge of Porphyrie and costlier matters made The Theaters Pyramides the Hill of halfe a mile Raisde but of tribute Pot-sheards so to boast their Power long while The Obelisks of one whole Stone neere fortie yards or more Huge Pillers caru'd in Masonrie with Prowse of Knights before The stately Bridges sometimes Eight now fewer Tyber crosse The Thirtie goodly Gates of which is now of number losse The huge Colosses Conduites and else-what that shew'd a State Beyond beleefe of ruin'd Rome in part repair'd of late They wonder at how the world could yeeld such Pomp debate Though some the seauen inclosed Hils did ancient Rome containe Lye waste or Vine-yards more doth yeat of Maiestie remaine Euen in the Rubble of the old than in the now renew'd Though Rome retaines a Statelines nor fairer Pyles are view'd The round Pantheon once the House of all the Heathen Gods Stands yet a Temple but lesse deckt for rich by too much ods On Auentine the down-fals are of Temples store to see On Tarpie of the Capitol were wont their Guild to bee On Palantine of Pallaces on Caelius signes of Playes Quirinall Exquell Viminall of Bathes shew braue decayes These Hils with Vatican and old Ianiculum ore-past Shew we how Rome did rule was rul'd and ruin'd at the last FRom Ianus called Noe of some ●aphet of some Noes Sonne And Iaphets sonne of others Rule in Tuscan first begonne Raign'd in sixe hundreth twentie yeares of Latines Twentie one Son of the Eight of which was Brute first Soueraign of our Throne The last of these Numitor was whome Romulus did kill And building Rome slew Remus there to lord-it at his will * This Citie then Receptacle for all how vile skils not Of Italie by one and one the Sixteene State-Lands got Tarquinius raign'd the Seauenth in Rome

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

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