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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

whatsoere betide I haue thee told and openly let know What danger thou art sure thereby t' abide Which if I could I would haue kept thee fro But truth to say I can it not deny To any man that sekes the same to try Then to conclude sith now thou dost perceiue What danger lies herein take heed in time Of her that turnes the wheele least she bereaue Thee of thy life while it is in the prime Doe as thou wilt thou getst no more of mee Of weale or woe the choise consists in thee With that the King did rise out of his seat When time drue neare for dinner to provide Whereto the preparation was so great That care of all things els being set aside Each Officer was busied to see That nothing whatsoere should wanting bee The tables couered stately to behold And Cubbards well and costly garnished With store of plate of silver and of gold Whereof the King was richly furnished And Trumpets sounding every man to call When as the meat was brought into the hall The King set downe with in his Royall seate With Hercules and Iason at his bord Great store of sundrie kinds of dainty meate Were served in as time did then afford That done the Marshall placed all the rest Each one in his degree as he thought best Where every man was entertaind so well That wonder t' was to see their costly fare Which in each thing did there so much excell By reason that the King no cost did spare That all the Court admir'd his noble mind Cause he to strangers shew'd himselfe so kind And more for to delight their minds withall Musitions never ceased still to play On Citern Lute Bandore and Base-Viall Cornet and Flute to passe the time away With pleasant notes and in such stately wise As it had been an earthly Paradize For truth to say such plenty there was found That Oetaes liberalitie was prays'd And so extold in all things to abound That his great fame vnto the skies was rays'd For entertaining strangers in such wise By all the wayes and meanes he could devise To tell each severall kind of meate by name Or halfe thereof in order to descrie Impossible it were to do the same There was so much and great diversitie It shall suffice to say such was the store That wit of man could well devise no more And to be briefe the King did so excell In every point of liberalitie That rightly might be sayd in him did dwell The patterne of true magnanimitie No marvell then as it did well appeare He made the Greekes so great and royall cheare And more for to augment his fame withall He caus'd his onely Daughter to be brought Out of her chamber downe into the hall Whose beautie if the world throghout were sought Could not be matcht so much it did excell That to describ't were hard for me to tell Whose Princely presence wrought no smal delight Within the hearts of all the company When in most stately wise each Grecian Knight She gan salute and no man did deny Hir courteous entertainment to afford As she did passe along from bord to bord And chiefely to behold hir comely face For whitenes like to Alablaster cleare With Roseat cheekes yet mixed with such grace That no accesse of colour did appeare Wherein dame Nature plaid so kind a part That well she proved mistresse of her Art This Princesse cald Medea as we read Was th' only child King Oeta had aliue And rightly in his Kingdome should succeed If she her father chanced to suruiue So ripe of yeares and gallant to behold That nature neuer fram'd a finer mold But notwithstanding this her beauty rare And youthfull yeares sufficient to inspire Her heart with loue yet was her onely care To read and study with no small desire All kind of books that might or could be found Whereby she learn'd of euery Art the ground So perfectly that neuer yet was found A man that did attaine vnto her skill Her learning was so great and so profound For to discusse of euery thing at will And nothing what so e're but she could tell Concerning things in heauen earth and hell No secrets of the earthly globe so round But she could well disclose them at her will The course of Starres and Planets she had found And did attaine vnto so lofty skill That by their motion she could truely show What should befall vpon the earth below She was so learned in Astronomie The Nigromancian Art she knew so well And thereto did her mind so well apply That by her charmes she called out of hell Th' infernall spirits and forst them to obay Her word and will they durst it not denay With words shee vsd to say in sundry wise First casting incense sweet into the fire And doing of some diuelish sacrifice With Goat horns milke bloud her whole desire She could attaine when time conuenient She knew would be to worke Inchantement Such was her skill and eke so well she had The heauenly and celestiall bodies found How to discerne that times both good and bad By them she chose to make and to compound Her drugs wherby she brought to passe her will In euery thing what euer good or ill She could command the winds to storme blow And make the ground to freeze in euery vaine And cause it thunder lighten haile snow And when she list it sodainly should raine And turne the day full cleare to vgly night And then againe cause Sun to shine most bright She could the waters make to rise and rage With huge and lofty billoes to the skye And then againe make calme eke asswage The tempest were it nere so great and hie She could yong trees dry vp both root rind And them reuiue againe in selfe same kind And in the deepest time of Winter cold When buds and blossomes wither and decay And euery thing doth fade and waxeth old She could the earth make greene eke array The fields with flowers of euery seuerall kind And colours as in Summer we them find And when she list she could the Summer cleare Cleane alter and convert to Winter cold And make it looke with darke glooming cheare Strange woonderfull and vgly to behold Old men she could to youth againe restore And make them fresh and lusty as before And yong men that no haire on face could show Soone would she cause appeare both gray and old Such was her skill that bought on earth below But she could change and secrets all vnfold And trees with fruit she would at will make bare Of barke and leafe a secret strange and rare She could the Sun and Moone ' gainst nature stay And cause ecclipses out of time by force For no man that is learned can denay But they are tyed vnto a certaine course As by the Lord ordain'd at first it was The which they may nor can by no means passe For till the Sun with glistering beames

Thelaphus that did by chance perceiue What he would doe to him in hast did call And stepping forth did on his shield receaue The stroake and did Achilles friendly pray At his request his furious mood to stay And for a while in Knightlie curtesie To grant him life sith wounded sore he lay Before his feet and ready was to die For every Knight saith he his wrath should stay And on his foe some pittie ought to haue When he in humble wise doth mercie craue To whom Achilles said I marvaile why You seeme to craue that I should mercie show To him and spare his life who furiously With pride which in his heart did overslow Would not vnto our just request giue eare But without cause did armes against vs beare And with disdaine and meere presumption The Grecians in most furious wise assaild Though now against his expectation He findeth that it hath him nought availd And he himselfe is fallen into the snare Which for vs as he thought he did prepare Though we deseru'd no such thing at his hand As having no intent him to molest Nor yet by force t' invade him or his land So that if now he finds himselfe opprest He can it not deny but must confesse His rash attempt deserved hath no lesse But Thelaphus againe did him require Of knight-hood to take pittie on the King And for that time to grant to his desire For while said he my father was living He and king Tentran were confederate Though here as now he lies in woefull state With pale and deadlie face vpon the ground Expecting when his soule shall hence depart And for that heretofore I haue him found To beare a noble mind and Royall heart When I by chance past through his countrey Where he with all his Lords and chivalry Received and feasted me most Royally In every place where I did ride or goe Within his land So that humanitie Binds me the like vnto him now to show And in my mind his curtesie to beare Least men should say that to vnkind I weare Which might heereafter turne to my disgrace Wherefore that I in part may him requite I you beseech take pittie on his case And spare his life as yo' are a noble knight Whereto Achilles presently did yeild And there before his souldiers in the field King Tenteran vnto Thelaphus did giue To do with him as he should thinke it best Who to behold him in that case did grieue And at his heart with sorrow was opprest To see there was no other remedie But that of force he could not choose but die And when the sonne vnto the Westerne part With speed declind the battaile at an end And Tenteran did feele great paine and smart Yet no reliefe his woefull state could mend For that his wounds still more more did bleed His men made all the hast they could with speed To beare him thence vnto his court with ease And to that end they for a litter sent And layd him in 't and while he past the prease Thelaphus and Achilles by him went And to his Royall Pallace him contraid Where in his bed when as they had him laid Perceiving that he drew vnto his end For that his vitall spiri●s 〈◊〉 to faile And nature vnto him no force could lend Nor surgery no● Phisike ought prevaile Nor any comfort no● reliefe was left To him as then of worldly joyes bereft For Thelaphus and Achilles he did send And with a voice most feeble faint and weake And sighs and teares fast drawing to his end In woefull wise he did vnto them speake And said my Lords health honor high degree All worldly joy and great prosperitie I wish vnto you both with all my hart But specially to thee Prince Thelaphus Who at this time such favor doth ●mpart To me and art so kind and gratious That in my paines so grieuous and so strong Thou seek'st my life if 't might be to prolong But now alas there is no remedie But die I must and can it not withstand For as you see here prostrate I doe lie Expecting th'hower when from deaths cruell hand The fatall blow will come to pierce my hart And that my soule out of my corps shall part To make an end of all my miserie Which so much more increaseth in my hart To see the hower of death approach so nie And that out of this world I must depart And leaue no heires within this Isle to raigne The Crowne and Scepter thereof to maintaine When I am dead which by that meanes alas I feare will soone be spoyld and ouer-run Which I full loath would be should come to pas Sith that at first with labour great I won And conquered it and ever since by might And warlike force maintained haue my right Gainst all my foes for many yea●es now past Yet once it had been lost without recure And I from thence had vtterly been chast But that I did the aid and helpe procure Of Hercules the stout and valiant Knight Who by his extreame force and passing might Which at this day is fresh in memorie And while the world indures shall ever bee Orecame and vanquished my enemie And did againe restore this Isle to mee And while he liu'd the feare of him was such And every man respected him so much That spight of all my foes I did enioy My Scepter and my Crowne in peace and rest And no man durst by word and deed annoy My quiet state nor me in ought molest Whereby it doth appeare this little Isle Belongs vnto the Kingdome of Cicile Where Hercules did place two pillars great Which at this day are extant to be seene And for perpetuall memorie there set To show how farre he in that land had beene Which pillars some men cald Columnia And others did them name Herculea Which Island once was in subiection Vnto the Mores and long time so remaind But after by the valiant Romaines won When they th'jmperiall diadem obtaind Of all the world and by their puissance Their names fames did farre wide advanc● And after many valiant Conquerors Succeeded had each other by degree And of the Towne of Roome been Emperors And therein ruld with power and Majestie One Fredericke the second of that name That sometime was an Emperor in the sam● And King of Cicile by inheritance Because he did a great affection beare Vnto that Isle and in remembrance Perpetuall of him therein did reare And make a huge and mightie Tower of bricke With wal●es that were exceeding strong thicke And cause the aire was pleasant good sweet And that therein great store of flowers were Some Authors doe report he named it The new faire land which name long time it beare And was therein by vse continued Till that the Emperor Fredericke was dead But to returne vnto King Tenteran Whē he had vs●●●e speech which you haue heard And that he did perceiue his life began To draw vnto an end