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A19170	The life and death of Hector One, and the first of the most puissant, valiant, and renowned monarches of the world, called the nyne worthies. Shewing his jnvincible force, together with the marvailous, and most famous acts by him atchieved and done in the great, long, and terrible siege, which the princes of Greece held about the towne of Troy, for the space of tenne yeares. And finally his vnfortunate death after hee had fought a hundred mayne battailes in open field against the Grecians: the which heerein are all at large described. Wherein there were slaine on both sides fourteene hundred, and sixe thowsand, fourscore, and sixe men. VVritten by Iohn Lidgate monke of Berry, and by him dedicated to the high and mighty prince Henrie the fift, King of England.	Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent. Historia destructionis Troiae.; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent. Roman de Troie.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Troy book.	1614 (1614)	STC 5581.5; ESTC S119764	480,848	336

for feare did shake And sayd to him how can you now sustaine And beare this great and cruell iniurie To soe your men before your face thus lie Dead on the ground and slaine in cruell wise Within your tent and take therof no heed But stay still here when as your enemies Haue sworne and with full intent decreed To kill you thus disarmed as you stand If by your mighty force and puissant hand You doe them not resist and valiantly Shew forth your courage and ere hence they passe Requite them for the extreame cruelty Which they haue showd to vs herein this place Which when Achilles heard with furious ire Which in his brest did burne as hot as fier He armd himselfe and soming like a Bore Forgetting that whereof so much he drempt And thought vpon vnto himselfe he swore To be reuengd for loue was cleane exempt Out of his mind and Pollicene also For whom he had endured so great wo And for her beauty felt such griefe in hart Vpon the Troians for their crueltie That suddenly vpon his feet he start And calling for his horse road speedily Into the field where in short space he had So great a slaughter of the Troians made And did so furiously vpon them set For like a greedy woolfe that seeks for pray He kild and spared none that with him met Or that durst him witstand along the way Whereas he road That in a little space He made the Troians flie before his face And shun his sword all died with their blood Wherewith he had so many of them slaine For there was none that him as then withstood But he was soone layd dead vpon the plaine Till Troielus that by fortune did behold How he the Troians slew with courage bold Ran at him with most great and puissant force Whose comming when Achilles did espie He likewise spurd his strong and gallant horse And ran at him with like dexteritie And met together with such puissant might That each the other to the ground did smight Both pierced in their brests but differently Achilles with a wound most daungerous Whereof he was constrained long to lie Within his tent to heal't but Troielus A little prickt and so that day till night And six daies more ensuing they did fight And neuer ceast in furious wise to kill And to destroy each other valiantly And in that time great store of blood did spill Vnto no little damage certainely On either side for many a worthy Knight Was brought vnto his end with great despight In that same time But cause I doe not know Their names nor of what dignities they were For Guydo in his Booke doth it not show To write them I must likewise now forbeare And let their names and titles with them die And in obliuion rest perpetually But when King Priamus was certified How fierce Achilles in the field had been That day to fight and thereby falsified His promise made for loue of Pollicene Sore grieud he was and did himselfe perswade Achilles with his words had him betraid But truth to say t' was neither fraud nor guile Nor any treason secretly decreed But heat of loue which lasteth but a while Which for that time did vex Achilles head And made him sweare to do more then he could And like the wind that none by force can hold Let words from his dissembling mouth be heard Contrary vnto that he ment to do The which a man that 's wise should not regard And make as though he gaue no eare thereto For though Achilles had tofore been gotten In Cupids snare he had it then forgotten And card not in his furie to displease His Lady whom so much he seemd to flatter He had not any will the warre to cease As he had sayd but cleane contrary matter Was in his head then he made shew to meane And promist to the Queene and Pollicene And for that cause King Priam did vpbraid And cast her in the teeth with light conceit Of false Achilles loue wherein she layd Her trust whereas he ment nought but deceit For which she was sore grieud because that shee Did to the Queene her mothers will agree To marry with Achilles to th' intent That by her meanes and marriage there might be A peace for euer made But t' was not ment By trecherous Achilles for when he Was healed of his wounds he did deuise And in his traitrous heart a way surmise To be reuengd on Troielus who still Stake deepely in his cruell heart and mind If that he might haue meanes t' obtaine his will And him at some aduantage take or find Such hatred in his heart to him he bare That day and night he tooke no other care Nor set his mind vpon no other thing But onely how to quench the burning fier Of enuy gainst him borne and how to bring The same t'eflect according t' his desire For he had sworne and bound it with a vow That Troielus should die he card not how Nor by what meanes by his hand and none other And to that end with purpose fully bent T effect his will he cald his Knights together And when they were assembled in his tent One morning when the Grecians forth did go Into the field with braue and warlike sho To fight against their Tr●●● enemy Who in like sort out of the towne were come With all their force the Grecian to defie And ready stood with sound of fearefull drume And trumpets shrill to call and to invite The Grecians to a fierce and cruell fight He did to them of Troielus complaine For th' iniuries that he to him had done And prayed them that they would take the paine That day to let all other things alone And onely watch on Troielus to hold And to enclose him round if that they could In midst of them and when they had don so In furious wise t'assayle him altogether And not by any meanes to let him go But yet to saue his life till he came thither That with his sword alone he might him kill To satisfie his fierce and cruell will Lo here the valor of this worthy Knight Who enviously with rancor and in pride By treason and with rage and great despight All honor and true Knight-hood layd aside Doth seeke to kill a worthier Knight then he Alas that ere such trechery should be Within the heart of any man aliue That doth professe to be a valiant Knight And honor seekes to win and to achiue Most valiant acts and who is bound by right And law of armes while life in him doth rest All falsehood and fowle treason to detest And to maintaine all truth and equitie For now he doth in secret wise conspire The death of him by great disloyalty That onely vnto honor did aspire And he that was the braust and worthiest knight That euer ware or put on armor bright But that which by Gods will ordained is Though nere so much men seeke it to withstand

take offence what ere fell out Although it vext and grieu'd him at the hart But stood as mute at last he turnd about And vnto all his fellowes did jmpart What message Laomedon had him sent And how to him and them he seemed bent And willing them about him to draw neare He thus began his words and speech to frame My friends and fellowes whom I loue so de●●e Know that King Laomedon doth vs blame For entring as he saith within his land Before we craved licence at his hand And for that cause a messenger hath sent With threatning words to let vs know his mind That to driue vs from hence is his intent If here we stay Wherefore he doth vs bind And straightly charge eft-foones without delay All scuses set apart to packe away Behold said he what blindnes he doth●●e And how he doth on honor set his mind That vnto wearied strangers doth refuse To giue them leaue a little ease to find In their distresse who nothing lesse pretend Then him or his in any wise t' offend But where is antient libertie become Is neigher loue nor kindnes to be found Both which in Princely harts should haue a roome And where is honor gon that vs'd t' abound In Princes minde who of an antient right Still mooved them with care and great delight To entertaine all strangers that resort Vnto their Courts or countreys whatsoere That afterward they might of them report What Princely and what noble minds they beare But neither loue nor libertie are found In this Kings Court or countrey to abound For if he were of noble heart and kind He could not chuse ●ot in them both delight And to shew forth his great and Princely mind He would command his subjects to their might To succour men opprest with woe and griefe And not haue sent vs hence without reliefe For if that he had chanced from the seas By fortune or adventure whatsoere T' ariue and set his foot on shoare for ease Where any Grecian Prince doth Scepter beare With much more honor like to his degree He should not faile by vs receau'd to bee But sith that he for ought I can espie Hath banisht out of mind and doth disdaine All freedome honor and humanitie And cleane contrary vices doth retaine We must and will his mind herein fullfill Because as now our power 's not like our will For this is sure and so it shall be found That this disgrace which to vs now is don In th' end may chance vpon himselfe rebound Sith that he hath of malice thus begon And peradventure it may chance fall out Ere Phebus thrice the Zod●ack runnes about For let him trust and thereof be assurd We will him serue with such as he hath sent And if I liue and what he hath procurd He shall not faile thereof by my intent Albeit now I set no time nor tide Sith longer here I mindd not to abide Till I haue better leisure to soiorne And so with stearne and yet with liuely cheare At that same word began about to turne And suddenly vnto the messenger That from the King as then to him was sent In this wise he declared his jntent My friend quoth he know well and vnderstand The message which as now thou bringst to me From Laomedon King of Tr●i●● land Vnfit doth seeme from such a Prince as he For by each point thereof I doe perceaue How he doth vse of strangers to conceaue And cannot chuse but deepely in my mind Thinke much on his great favor to vs showne And of his liberalitie so kind And gifts which on vs now he hath bestowne Nor can I well let slip out of my thought The least reward that thou to vs hast brought For trust me well I can it not forget But needs must deepe jmprint it in my mind How by his honor he so much doth set As that he studieth onely to be kind That by thee now doth send vnto vs here Such intertainment great and dainty cheare Cleane contrary to that we did expect From such a worthy famous Prince as he But god which doth all secrets deepe detect Can beare vs witnes jnnocents to be From any hurtor any bad pretence That we ere ment gainst him to cause offence And Gods to record in this case I call With my whole heart to justifie the same Whatsoever may hereafter chance to fall We haue not once deserved any blame Nor violently taken any thing From man or boy so mayst thou tell the King But being forst by great and stormy wind Necessity compelled vs to land Vpon this coast some succour here to find And rest our wearied limmes vpon the strand Intending but a day or two to stay And then againe with speed to go away Vnto the place where we desire to bee Which thou vnto thy Lord for truth maist say And further that the time he shall once see When as perchance more thanks receiue he may From vs or els it may be from some other So go thy waies and farewell gentle brother When Iason thus an answere had returnd And bad the Tr●●an messenger depart The noble Knight stout Hercules that burn'd With rage and fury inwardly in hart As he was gon●●ad him againe turne backe Disdainefully and thus to him he spake Good fellow thou that art the messenger Of thy good Lord who hath thee hither sent Content thy selfe and stand thou not in feare That here to stay is ought of our jntent For that before the Sunne shall rise againe We will be gon and so I tell thee plaine And not a man of ours on sho●re shall be To morrow at this time what e●e befall And therevpon my troth I pledge to thee And Gods to witnes to the same I call For we intend no longer here t'soiorne But to our ships againe with speed returne As soone as it is dawning of the day On paine to suffer fowle reproch and blame But ere three yeares shall fully passe away Who euer saith contrary to the same We will returne againe into this land And cast our Ankors here vpon this sand Take heed thereof and note full well the time And let this now suffice and warning be That some new change shall follow of this Prime Which if Iliue thy King shall plainely see And when his power gainst vs shall not extend For his safe conduct we will scorne to send And then I tell thee plainely for no lie We will no more regard him then a straw Nor of his words nor threats that are so hie The least of vs shall stand in any awe Till when because we will him not deceaue We mind not once of him to take our leaue For that of vs he seemes to make a jest As though we were not worthy better cheare But though he now doth thinke to liue at rest I sweare by God he shall abide it deare Which in the end shall turne vnto his shame And see that to the King you tell

Which he in hast did presentlie obay And vnto him his companie did call With whome he made no longer time of stay But thence did saile directlie to a ●owne Salerne nam'd which long'd to Telamon Whereas the King and all his Lords then were And to the Court Anthe●or straight did hie Where when he did before the King appeare At first he entertaind him courteouslie And without seeming once to take offence With present speed did grant him audience For Exions sake who then stood by his side For otherwise in heart he sore abhord All Troyans and by no meanes could abide To see or heare of them nor yet afford A friendly thought of them such was his rage Gainst thē conceau●d that nothing could't asswage This nere the lesse he was content to heare Anthenor speake and patientlie to stay Till that he had with words that see mely were Declared what as then he had to say Who hauing to the King his reuerence made With courage bold vnto him spake and said Most noble Prince sith that it pleases your Grace To heare the message which as now I bring With patience and t' afford me time and space For to declare the same and euery thing That 's giuen me in charge I will not stay But tell it you as briefly as I may Know then great King without offence be 't done That Priam King of Troye my soueraigne Lord Desirous strife and bloudie warre to shun Intreateth you in friendly wise t' afford This fauour vnto him to be content And thereto giue your full and free consent That Exion may her libertie obtaine And be deliuered from Captiuitie Whome you do hold as I must tell you plaine In slauish wise not like to her degree And to her great dishonour and her shame For which although he may you iustlie blame Yet he content all wrongs to pacifie And peace and loue with you and yours to hold Desireth that you will him not denie This his request and that vouchsafe you would For to restore her vnto him with speed Which doing you shall act a Princely deed And saue your honor now imblemished By wronging her whome you so much abuse Wherein you haue so long time been misled That truth to say you can it not excuse Yet he 's content to lay this wrong aside And many more so that you will prouide To send her vnto Troye without delay And this is all the sum and full effect Of that I had in charge to you to say The which if that you seeme now to reiect It will old hate and enmitie reuiue Speake now my Lord what answere you will giue When Telamon had heard Anthenor speake And knew King Priams will and his desire He did into such extreame chollor breake That both his eyes did shine like flaming fire And in his face was not a drop of blood So that with cheeks most pale and angry mood He lookt aside and turning vp the white Of both his eies with most disdainfull smile Gnasht all his teeth and seemd his tong to bite And after hauing paws'd a little while With furious voyce shewd forth the mortall hate That burnt within his heart most obstinate Saying my friend what euer that thou be I muse in heart what strange and sodaine thing Hath mooued Priam thus to send to me And that thou darst so proud a message bring I thinke thee but a foole or else starke mad That of thy selfe so little care hast had To put thy life in danger for his sake With whom I neuer had nor haue to deale Nor he with me and this account do make Neuer will haue and so thou mayst him tell And as we haue acquaintance very small He may be well assured I neither shall Nor will do any thing at his request For that it wholy is against my mind With him to deale and let that be his rest Which by experience plainly he shall find If so he list to try if that he may Fetch her by force of armes from me away This well I wot that but a while agoe I crost the seas with many Grecians more And saild to Troye and if that thou wilt know The cause it was for that not long before Laomedon had vs a trespasse done And for the same the Towne by force we wonne And slew the King and all that with him held Not cowardly as you perchance suppose But Knightly meeting him in open field And for I entred first vpon our foes Into the Towne by full consent of all The Grecian Lords vnto my share did fall This faire and Princely Lady Exion Of whome I presently was there possest And since that time haue held her for mine owne And euerwill let Priam doe his best To fetch her hence and therefore 't is in vaine For thee to send for her I tell thee plaine For be assur'd and trust me if thou wilt Thou getst her not from me if that I may And rather shall my dearest blood be spilt And many thousands more before that day Shall ere be seen that I will her forsake Though all the world her quarrell vndertake Thinkst thou I will so easly let her goe Whome for to win much of my blood was lost And for her did receaue so many a blow No sure for that full deare she hath me cost And in good faith I le let her if I can From going from me to another man So deare her person and her seemly grace Her beautie bounty and her comlinesse Her faire and passing amiable face And all her Princely gifts I must confesse Are printed in the closet of my heart That while I liue from thēce they shall not part Let Priam therefore doe the vttermost That he can do he shall but loose his paine For neuer did a thing so dearely cost As she shall do ere he haue her againe For nought can her redeeme but sword speare And deepe and gastly wounds that mortall are For there shall sure be raised such a strife And deadly warre ere she restored be That it will cost full many a man his life This is the answere that thou getst of me And bid thy Master when he list begin But I suppose he will but little win And for thy selfe as first to thee I told I thinke thee mad and more presumptuous Then thou shouldst be that darest be so bold To bring this message so audacious The noble Grecians therewith to offend But let him thee no more vnto me send On perill of thy life that may betide To thee for thy reward and now get hence With speed I thee command for if thou bide Here longer in my sight to breed offence Thou knowst the price who euer sayeth nay Therefore be gone and see thou make no stay Anthenor hearing this without delay Straight entred ship and put to Sea in hast And sailed to an Island nam'd Achay Where when that he on shore had anchor cast He heard that both the Kings as then abode

Within the Isle and presently he road Vnto their Court which was not very far And there he found thē both to whom with speed He shewd the cause that made him to repaire To them as then and so gan to proceed With words most graue and courage bold stout To tell his mind without all feare or doubt And said my Lords whose power here extends For to command may 't please your Graces both To know that Priam King of Troye me sends To you in Princely wise as being loth To giue offence your ayd and helpe to haue T' obtaine a suite that he would gladly craue Of Telamon who gainst all equity Doth hold his Sister Princesse Exion As Concubine with great indignity Whose liberty and restitution To him againe is onely his desire Which to effect he humbly doth require You would vouchsafe your ayd therein t' afford Not doubting but as y' are discreet and wise That by your mediation and good word King Telamon will follow your aduise And Exion shall to him restored be Out of her long and hard captiuity Which his request he praies you not deny As you are Kings for valour high renownd Discreet and wise and of great maiesty And he shall thinke himselfe to you much bound And all his former wrong he will suspend For that to liue in peace he doth intend As he that is right prudent and discreet Forecasting what may after come to passe And seeth what perills and what dangers great Doe follow warre which neuer is nor was Without confusion misery and woe As Histories vnto vs plainly shoe Which to eschew he thinketh it the best And wisest way for euery man t' auoid The hatefull path of strife and it detest For by it many a Country is destroid Which by this meanes he is in hope to shun And that hath made him doe as he hath done In peace to craue your aid that Exion May be with speed sent home to him againe And thogh you may suppose that cause ther 's none Why he should you request to take this paine In his behalfe let this be his excuse That Princes ought to punish all abuse And by all meanes should seeke the same to stay He in like case desires your Princely aid And hopes you will it not to him denay And he will thinke himselfe full well apaid This is the summe of his petition Which he referres to your discretion When both the Kings Castor and Polux had Attentiuely heard what Anthenor spake King Castor sodainlie like one halfe mad Into such choller and impatience brake That by no meanes he could his furie stay But in most wrathfull wise to him did say I know not friend why thou of vs shouldst craue To haue amends for trespasse by vs done Vnto the King to whome we neuer gaue Cause of offence But when Laomedon First offring wrong to vs we did inuade And of his Towne a noble conquest made Wherein we did but right and equitie For had not he first offered offence To vs and ours with great indignitie We nere had sought for any recompence Nor he nor his been brought vnto their ends For which if that thy Master aske amends At our hands tell him 't is all too late For we with him desire no vnitie Peace nor accord but rather mortall hate Dissention strife and vtter enmitie Which he may chance hereafter for to feele If that he dare presume with vs to deale For we so little do his friendship prise That what he saith or doth I doe not care Therefore if that he 'le follow our aduise Let him prepare to enter into warre And it may chance to breed his owne decay And so from vs thou maist vnto him say And for thy selfe it seemeth vnto me Thy Lord and Master Priam loues thee not That sent thee messenger to vs to be And thou thy selfe hast foolishly oreshot To take on thee so perillous a thing As to the Grecians tydings such to bring Whereby thy life thou hast indangered But be thou rul'd by me if thou be wise Vnlesse thou art cleane voyd of feare and dread And get thou out my sight I thee aduise For if thou stayst mine anger is so bent That thou mayst chance thy follie to repent Anthenor to auoid the Court was glad And presentlie with speed from thence did goe And entring ship such hast from thence he made That though the wind contrarie then did blow He put to sea and failed prosperouslie To Pilon where Duke Nestor then did lie And there did hold a sumptuous Princelie Court Of whome he craued leaue submissiuelie To shew the cause that made him then resort To him and there withall to signifie King Priams mind as he had gin him charge From point to point as fullie and as large As he had done to other men before And all to one effect so that in vaine It were for me to show it any more Or to recite it word for word againe For his conclusion ended still in one As you haue heard concerning Exion Whereat Duke Nestor did so fret and fume And in so great a choller then did grow That all the bloud did presentlie consume Out of his face and he as pale did show As ashes and so grieued was in heart And therewithall did feele such inwardsmart Through wrath and ire that so possest each vaine And ioynt he had that he did seeme to shake Like Aspen leafe and hardlie could refraine Vpon Anthenor straight reuenge to take Like Lyon fell that hunteth after pray Whose furious course no man as then can stay So much his mind from him was alienate That t'yeeld himselfe by no meanes then he might And at his heart he was so passionate Which boyled with such ranchor and dispight That all that him beheld would iudge him mad So strange a looke and gesture then he had At last in midst of this perplexitie Into a sodaine choler out he brake And with a voice distraind from crueltie Vnto Anthenor furiously he spake With countenance so gastlie to behold That sure to make a man to feare it would Saying thou friend that canst so smoothly glose I think thou knowst not well whom thou hast told Thy needlesse tale nor yet dost thou suppose Who that I am that darest be so bold Thus to presume mine eares so to offend Pretending that King Priam did thee send Vnto the Greekes to aske them in his name Redresse for wrongs that nere by vs was done And turnst on vs the merit and the blame For iniuries wrought by Laomedon To vs and ours and in presumptuous wise Accusest vs with most notorious lies Which thy abuse most odious in mine eare So much doth fret and anger me at heart That by no meanes I can endure 't to heare And but I know a messenger thou art And that I do mine honour more respect Then thee I would in cruell wise correct And chastise thy so great temerity For by the rigour of our ancient law

the conduct thereof gaue To Hupon and Andelius brethren twaine Both Knights couragious valorous and braue This Hupon of Larisse land was King And many men with him to Troys did bring To ayd them in their wars that were so long And sure he was a very valiant Knight Of stature huge and tall and passing strong And no man was like vnto him for might In all the great and spacious Troyan towne But onely Hector that braue Champion And gainst his foes he was so fierce and fell That he of them brought many to the ground Who spight their hearts did try his force too well Hector with these two brethren forth did send His bastard brother cald Dimarechus A stout and valiant Knight adventurous And to them to conduct with standards braue And to be led when they should come in field Twice sure and iust three thousand men he gaue All Knights well horst armd with speare shield Who taking leaue of Hector curteously Road forward to the field couragiously The fift ward which next orderly did stand Into the field against the Greekes to goe Was giuen vnto the King of Cesoyne land Whose name it seemes the Author did not know And to his Brother cald Pollidamas Those people named Cesoynes did surpasse The common sort of men for stature tall Proportion strength and great dexterity For which they were admir'd prais'd of all That them beheld and marked earnestly The colour of the shield the King then boare Was only gules and nothing in it more Who when his charge of Hector he had had His leaue he tooke and with his brother road Couragiously before his Knights that made A gallant show when they in order stood Meane while Prince Hector ceast not paines to take The sixt ward with all speed he could to make Which he vnto King Protemense gaue Who both in force and wisedome did excell And to a Duke cald Sterepes to haue The conduct of the people that did dwell In Poenie land and them to guide that day Which people vse of custome as men say Their enemies in furious wise t'assaile Onely with bowes and arrowes sharpely ground On horsebacke without armes or coate of male And thē cleane throgh their armors sore to wound And Hector with those people also sent His Brother Deiphobus to th' intent They might securitie into the plaine Where they should fight so they went their way But ere they past Prince Hector did ordaine A band of men to goe with them that day Well arm'd into the field least they shold venter Among the Greekes so nakedly to enter And be orethrowne which band of men he tooke Out of those Knights that from Agresta came And that they should the better to them looke And for to be conductors of the same He did appoint two valiant Kings to ride Along with them and by them to abide During the fight against the Greeks that day The one of them King Esdras had to name The other was King Philon but to say Where they did dwell or frō what place they came I cannot for mine Author doth not show Because as I suppose he did not know Or else I thinke he had it cleane forgot He saith that rich King Philon sumptuously Apparelled sat in a Chariot The which was made of pure white Ivory With wheeles of Heban wood most finely wrought Which wood out of the Indian land is brought And as men say is hard as any stone His Charet within was all inchast with gold And precious stones and pearles vpon the bone And was so rich and sumptuous to behold That as I thinke the like was never seene Before nor since within the world t' haue beene Two Knights this Chariot drew some did rid● About it strongly arm'd with speare shield For to defend their King on every side So he and Esdras road into the field Accompanied with stout Pithagoras That one of Hectors bastard brethren was Who of that wing to haue the chiefe command Of purpose sent him out with them to goe The battaile that next ready plast did stand Hector vpon Aeneas did bestow Which had no other Knights within the same Then those that with Ewphemy thether came So farre out of their natiue Country For Hectors sake to ayd King Pri●●●● The which were Knights of great activity Good horsemen and exceeding valorous Who being brauely horst and furnished Their Coronell Aeneas followed And went out of the towne couragiously As if each one God Mars himselfe had been Hector meane time the eight ward orderly Ordained had and rank't it out wherein No other Knights nor men but Persians That thither came to ayd the Troyans By him were plast which wing he did command Vnto his brother Paris to obay As Captaine over them and when they stand All ready to set forward on their way Hector his brother Paris kindlie staid And louingly spake vnto him and said Brother the thing that I of thee require And which for thine owne good to thee I moue Is that I doe thee heartilie desire If thou thine owne securitie dost loue When thou this day in field against thy foe Shalt fight see that thou ventrest not to goe Too farre amongst the thickst of them least they Intrappe thee vnawares as sure they will If that they can by any meanes or way For their inveterate hatred to thee still Encreaseth more and doth their hearts embrace So ferventlie that nothing can it race Out of their minds but thy destruction Which to prevent be thou not far from me In any wise least when thou art alone They should some hurt or mischiefe do to thee Before that I could come to thy reliefe Which vnto me would be no little griefe Keepe therefore neere to me at any hand That I may ayd and helpe thee in distresse And doubt not but we shall our foes withstand How furiously so ere on vs they presse To whome his brother Paris answere made And said that he in mind resolued had Vnto his hests in all things to obay And so his leaue of Hector hauing tane Withall his Knights in order road his way Out at the gate while Hector did ordaine The battaile that the ninth last should be Wherein he plast the flower of Chivalrie For in the same fiue thousand Knights there was Most worthy men and of most great renowne And such as for their valor did surpasse All other Knights that were within the towne And all of them right Troyans by discent Borne in the towne This battaile Hector men● Should by himselfe into the field be led And of his bastard brethren chose out ten To ride with him whome he much honored As knowing them to be right valiant men And such as for their prowesse their mights Of all men were esteemd most hardie Knights And when he had his battailes made plast In order as before I haue set downe And all of them one after other past In braue and warlike wise

Wherein they did agree and said they would Preuent King Priam by some meanes before He should proceed to that gainst them swore They would reuenged be on him and make Him and his son both rew they had done so And did among themselues an order take That if the King sent for them they would go So strongly vnto him they should not need Of him nor of his friends to stand in dread Of such great power and might Aeneas was And in the towne so well alyed and had Such store of wealth that he did farre surpas All men therein whereby the people made So much account of him that they did feare And honor him as much and to him weare As dutifull almost in euery thing Which he desird or asked of them as They in a manner were vnto the King For he in wealth and power equall was Vnto him And Anthenor also had Almost as much for euery man was glad To follow them and durst not well deny Whatsoeuer they would haue or did command And did conspire betweene them secretly To yeild the towne into the Grecians hand Vpon condition of security That when t was done they would haue liberty With goods and liues of them their children And kindred borne within the towne to go Or stay securely where they list and when They had agreed among them so to do And scarce had made an end of parlieng They were sent for to come vnto the King Who fully was determined and bent That night to kill them as he purposed And straight Aeneas and Anthenor went And with them such a troope of Troians led To guard them that when as King Priamus Saw them he sent vnto Amphimachus And willed him no further to proceed In that which he had bidden him do that night For that the thing between them two decreed He sayd reuealed was to their despight And as he feard to his destruction For when with more aduise he thought thereon And did perceiue Aeneas with so great A power to come and saw the people so To fauor him he knew he could not let His purpose for he made no more a do But proudly to the King did flatly say That spight of all that thereto would say nay There was no other remedy to be had Whereby they might escape destruction Then peace The which he said should straight be made Wherewith the common people euery one With shouts and cries commended his aduise And praised and extold it to the skies And yet the King was thereunto contrary And would not graunt to yeild vnto his foes But then Aeneas would no longer tarry To argue with the King but fiercely rose And told him whether he were liefe or loth Well pleas'd therewith or angry wroth He must content himselfe for it should be No otherwise and that to his despight And gainst his will and mind they would agree To enter into treaty ere t' were night Of peace to be concluded and set downe Forthwith betweene the Grecians and the towne Which when the King did heare and saw how hot Aeneas and the people were therein He thought to striue with them it was no boot And therefore for the time he did begin With wisedome to dissemble when he saw And knew well that necesty hath no law And for because he could himselfe not mend He told Aeneas fainedly that he Would with them at that time no more contend And also that he was content to be Ruld by them and t' allow and to maintaine Whatsoeuer they in his name should ordaine And so dissembling with them gainst his mind For as the case then stood he could not choose When as he saw that he no meanes could find To shun the snare layd for him nor refuse To yeild vnto their willes he did consent Though faintly that Anthenor should be sent In all their names to parle for the towne And to conclude a Peace as they desird The which before in manner was set downe And with the Greeks agreed and conspird By him and them that of his partie were Contrary to the message he should beare Who going to the Greeks that knew his mind And purpose in that case before he came Was by them entertaind with countnance kind And while he staid with them about the same The Troians in the towne with ioyfull cheare Went on the walles and in their hands did beare Greene Oliue branches signes of perfect peace Which when the Greeks did see that stood below Vpon the plaine their hope therein t' increase With false pretence the like to them did show And to confirme them in opinion Thereof their Generall Agamemnon That no suspition might among them breed Appointed three Commiss●●ners to treat Of peace with him which were King Diomed Ulisses and Taltabius King of Creet Esteeming them sufficient to agree Thereon for them and whatsoere should be Done therein by them all to be allowed For good and giuing them commission large When they had sworne on either side and vou'd Vprightly to do that they had incharge Anthenor and they three together went To parle by themselues into a tent And when they were together closely set Within the same alone and priuately Where no man was to hinder them nor let Their busines Anthenor traiterously With envious heart which he to Priam bare In few words did his mind to them declare And said he would giue Troy into their hands That they thereof might at their willes dispose Conditionally that they should put in bonds To him that he Aeneas and all those That were of their affinitie and bloods Should freely with their bodies liues goods Goe where they list or if they would stay still Within the towne as they should thinke it best To take their choise it should be at their will Without all let And therewith did protest That that which he had promist he would do If they would in such sort agree thereto Wherewith the Greeks in solemne wise did sweare T' obserue the same in all things as he made Condition so that no varying weare On either side from that they promist had Vpon the perill of their liues And when They had in that sort sworne to do it Then He charged them to keepe it secretly Vnto themselues and not to make it knowne To any man till with security T' were brought vnto effect least it were blowne To some abroad by those that could not keepe Their tongues from vttring of such secrets deepe And so they might be crost therein before They were aware And therefore did agree That he and they three onely and no more Of what estate soere they were should be Made priuie to the same on neither side And then Anthenor sayd my Lords to hide Our purpose and t' auoid suspition I thinke it good that King Taltabius Should go with me into alone the towne To countnance me vnto King Priamus Who being civile old demure and sad And very wise there will no doubt be made Of him by

excedeth in comparison All other kinds of treason whatsoere And no man can vprightly with it beare But God will them assuredly confound And bring vnto an end vnfortunate For they are worse then Cerberns the hound Who though that he of malice doth vs hate He barks before he bites but such as lie In wait to kill a man will sodainly Assaile and set on him ere he 's aware But bloud so shead vndoubtedly doth crie To God for iust revenge on those that are The actors and will fall assuredly On them which though sometimes he doth prolong Yet he is iust and punisheth all wrong Done vnto every man but specially To mighty Kings as this Agamemnon In his time was of such authority That comparable to him there was none In all the Grecian campe but fate so wrought That when vnto his house he came thought To liue in peace he should there end his life By vnexpected murther which was done By policy and mischiefe of his wife For that when to the shore he came assoone As ever foot vpon the land he set In seemely wise Clytemnestra with him met Who outwardly with countenance bening And friendly show did welcome him with much Great courtesie and honour whome the King In loving wise embrast and thought no such False treason had vnto him then been ment And straight with her vnto his Pallace went Where she no whit respecting faithfull vow Nor promise made in wedlocke set aside All duety and respect she ought to show Vnto the king and shamelesly vntide The knot of loue and proued so vnkind That she did set her heart and all her mind Vpon a knight that in her favor stood Whose name Egistus was though truth to tell He neither came of noble birth nor blood Nor yet in armes nor knighthood did excell But cause he did his businesse well by night She tooke in him such pleasure and delight That he her loue from all men else had wone Which moued her her husbands blood to shed And for because she could not he alone She made him her copartner in her bed And by him at the last a Daughter had Cald Exion and promise to him made Vpon the paine of loosing of her head That should be her Lord and King when as Her husband King Agamemnon was dead The which accordingly to bring to passe Agamemnon next night by him was slaine Whereof the Queene exceeding glad faine No longer time delayd but presently Did marry with Egistus and did bring His purpose so to passe by treachery That he was of Messena crowned King And gaue him thereof full possession And thereby disinherited her Son And lust with her abounded in such wise That reason bore no sway within her mind For they are alwaies deadly enemies And wrong and falshood now more favor find Then equity true dealing righteousnes Honor estate desert or worthinesse For by her beastly foule adultery A sin which never raignes in man alone She practised with false conspiracie To murther her deare Lord wrong her Sonne And thereby heapt one sin vpon another Which down to hell with her did sinke together And to her did erelasting woe procure Which she full well deserued for her paine Who can himselfe here in this life assure When Kings in traiterous wise are falsly slaine To make and stirre vp alteration In kingdomes great by wrong succession Which they that are the authors may pretend To do with colour of some equitie But God the Iudge of Iudges in the end Will right all false intrusions speedily On those that seeke by force and violence To wrong such as nere did to them offence For though thereby she thought her selfe secure As having all the Country at command And dreamt long in that happy state t' endure Yet she cold not the punishment withstand Which God for her prepar'd for when 't was known That she her selfe s'vnnaturall had shown Vnto her Lord and King Agamemnon As so to murther him and afterward So falsly disinherited her Sonne And had him from his lawfull right debard Her Son that was of yong and tender age Horestus cald to shun his mothers rage Was secretly convaid and sent away Out of the Land by King Taltabius Into the Isle of Creet̄e where he did stay And nourisht was by King Idumeus And Carkasis his Queene whose onely heire A daughter was of beauty passing faire Climenea cald and by them vs'd as well As their owne child where he continued Till he waxt great and did in armes excell And with him thence a puissant army led To conquere his inheritance by might Which false Egistus held without all right And equity from him But for a while I le let him stay where he was nourished In tender yeares for I must change my stile And tell you somewhat of king Diomed Who for his part likewise great woe endur'd The which to him was enviously procur'd And falsly brought to passe by Oetes traine Which he for him and many others more Prepared had of malice and disdaine Which he vnto the Grecian Princes bore To take revenge on them for murthering Pallamides the which to passe to bring Though 't were vntrue yet he and Naulus both Perswaded otherwise would 't not belieue But in their minds conceaued so much wrath And hatred gainst the Greeks that to bereaue Them of their liues was all their care thought Thus gainst the said king Diomed they wrought Within the great and spacious Grecian land There was a mighty kingdome long and large Which towards the Easterne parts therof did stand Composed of Calido●ie and Arge Both ioynd in one abounding in great store Of wealth whereof he that the scepter bore And raignd therein Polentus had to name To whome his wife a son daughter bare The sonne Assandrus called was whose fame Both far and neere was spred for knighthood rare His daughter faire the name of Egra bore Who cause he had two children and no more He did vpon his death bed so provide That when he should depart the world All strife they two his kingdome should divide to cease Betweene them and together liue in peace Whose daughter afterward he being dead Was married vnto king Diomed. Who while he did at Troy in siege remaine Lou'd Cressida that Calchas daughter was And for her sake endur'd much griefe and paine But I will let his loue to her orepasse As nothing to the matter pertinent Who not long after they were married went Vnto the siege of Troy accompanied With Assandrus her brother who together Vpon the seas out of the way were led And driven too and fro with stormie weather And cleane contrary wind they had which bore Them forcibly vpon Boetia shore Whereas they did as glad a while to stay And rest themselues take land there remaine Till Thelaphus the King thereof heard say That they were there and thereat much disdaind Because that they to land thereon would venter Before that he did

Agamemnon And true and lawfull heire thereto by right Though Clytemnestra sought his destruction And disposed him thereof hy might Which hauing sayd Duke Nestor hastely Stood on his feet and for him did reply And said that he would for Horestus sake That had don nought but that which shold be don And lawfull was his quarrell vndertake Against all those that held opinion Contrary therevnto but none repli'd To him againe for euery man espi'd That Horestus had reason so to do And therefore all agreed and gaue consent To Crowne him King and did proceed thereto Which don they did dissolue their Parlament And so Horestus by his subiects true Was crowned King againe with honor due To his estate and after that was made Good friends with old King Menalus againe Whereof King Idi●●us being glad That friendship long betweene them to maintaine By mediation twixt them brought to pas That Hermion that Helens daughters was By Menalus was maried vnto King Horestus and by that alliance So made and surely knit betweene them two They ceased all their strife and variance And afterward did liue and raigne in peace And more and m●re in honors did encrease Meane time Egistus daughter Exion Whom he on Queene Clytemnestra had begot Did fall into such desperation That she all worldly pleasures cleane forgot And did endure so great extreamity That she did hang her selfe vpon a tree But here I must digresse and turne my stile From Horestus to King Ulisses and Of his most strange adventures speake a while Which endurd both on the sea and land Who when he did to Greece againe repaire A while he found the weather cleare faire And then againe when as the skies did frowne And did begin to thunder to raine He was vpon the seas cast vp downe And had no more ships with him then but twaine The which like marchant ships were furnished That he might sayle the safelier without dread Yet nerethelesse for all his policy The wind so much contrary gainst him was That he was forced by extremity To fall vpon the shoare land whereas King Thelamon that was so falsely slaine By night within his bed some time did raigne Where he no sooner got vnto the land But he was tane and into Prison throne And bound with Iron chaines both foot and hand Because he murthered King Thelamon As they suspicion had but he del●so With them that at the last they let him go But yet with losse of all that ere he had Within his ships and after that againe He put to sea and was exceeding glad To haue escaped so but all in vaine For Fortune so contrary to him was That as he on the seas along did pas Vnhappily he fell into the hand Of Naulus who watch long his coast had layd To spoyle the Greeks that thereon chanst to land And by him there against his will was staid And into cruell prison cast againe Because he did suspect that he had slaine Pallamindes his Son but being bold Of spirit and of wit and wisedome great So smothly for himselfe his tale he told That he againe at liberty was set And out of Naulus danger safely got But by what me anes the story telleth not And hauing well escaped from the same He trauailed in simple poore array A foot throughout the land till that he came To King Idumeus court and there did stay Who seeing him in such a meane estate And barely clad did wonder much thereat Yet nerethelesse disdaind him not therefore But welcomed him with glad ioyfull cheare And honord him although he came so poore And when they two alone together were Ulisses his complaint vnto him made And told him what vnto him chanced had And in this wise with sad and heavy cheere Vnto him sayd my Lord the gentlenes You shew to me that thus distessed heere Vnto you came imboldneth me t' expresse The manner of my fortunes and to tell You how in what sort they on me fell First when I did the Troian land forsake With wind at will which at that time did blow And entred ship my course for Greece to take I sayled to an Isle I did not know Cald Mirma which with all things did abound That are to be desird wisht or found And which for gold or siluer may be bought Wherein for certaine time aboad I made And all the while I staied wanted nought That needfull was for man with me had The treasure which I won in Troy men Good store to serue my turne withall when I did perceiue that Isle to be so sound And wholsome aire I purposely did stay Therein and all that while no creature ●ound That once molested me Till on a day When we did find the weather faire still And wind to blow according to our will We went abord straight did put to seas And in a little space made so good way That we ariued at Clanstafages Where with our ships we for a while did stay And had the wind weather cleare faire But who may put his trust in wind or aire For in good hope to haue a pleasant skie And roome at will as I had found before And entred ship and fast againe did hie To sea where when for three daies and no more I ●ayled had with wind still at my backe At last it turn'd about th' aire waxt blacke And such a hideous tempest did arise Vpon the sea that I was in despaire To loose my life it thundred in such wise And lightning flasht so fast out of the aire And in that sort being driuen to and fro In danger great and knew what to do It was our chance at last to spie out land Whereto we made and found the same to be An Island cald Cicile and out of hand Cast anker forth with great extreamitie And got to shoare with labor sore and paine Wherein at that same time two kings did raigne Whereof the one was cald Sorigones Who vnto vs prou'd cruell and vnkind The other had to name King Coclopes Who likewise had a fierce bloody mind Both brethren and both like for difference none Betweene them was for bad condition For both of them at once vpon vs set And cruelly a prey of vs did make And all the goods out of my ships did fet And forcibly the same from me did take And left me nought wherewith my selfe t'relieue But that which most of all my mind did grieue Was that when they perceiud I had no more Left in my ships for them away they went And vnto vs such cruell minds they bore That they their Sons two mighty Giants sent Downe to our ships the one 〈◊〉 The other huge and strong Poliphe●●●s Who being both of body mighty great And therewith all exceeding tall and strong In fierce and cruell wise vpon vs set And did assayle vs so that ere t' was long A hundred of my men they slew that were Not