Inuades in Arthur Duke of Brittons name Whose powers the English Iohn surprisd by chance Imprisoning Arthur whence these Garboyles came The Persians Dauid to the Throne aduance Who with his Indian Troopes marcht with much Fame Of Parthia and Armenia Conqueror And of Tartaria the first Emperor 35 Fiue Moones were all at once in Torkeshire seene After which portent many stormes insude prince Iohn hauing incurd the popes fell spleene Stands with his Land accurst which some allude To Byshop Lanchton who at Rome had beene And sought in Canterbury to intrude In Suffolke was a strange Fish tooke that bore The shape of man and six months liu'd a shore 36 The Maior and Shrieffes in London were first made Wales twice rebelling was by warre appeasd Th'English at Sluce the Nauy of France inuade A thousand twenty sayle at once they ceasd Pope Innocent great Coesars pompe all aide Making such Lawes as searce the Empire pleasd Onely such princes should as Emperors stand As should receiue their Crownes at the popes hand 37 Of whom the Saxon Duke Otho was first Venice subdues Coreyra and the Iles Adiacent Otho by the popeaccurst For taking to himselfe the Empires stiles Against him Menace warre pope Innocent durst and traind into these broyles by prayers and smiles Fredericke the second who the Diadem weares after Duke Otho three and twenty yeares 38 Iohn for a yearely tribute to Rome payde Of twice fiue hundred Markes absolues his Land King Alexander is the Scotch King made After deceased William to command He twenty and foure yeares the kingdome staide Against King Iohn the English Barons stand And to their faction the French Lewes bring Whom in Iohns stead they seeke t'elect as King 39 Amidst these tumults Iohn by fate expires As some suppose by poyson whom succeeds Henry his sonne him more the Land desires Then Lewes hated for some bloody deeds For him the people make triumphant fires A generall ioy his hye instalment breeds at nineteene yeares the kingdome hee attained and fifty fix yeares o're his subiects raigned 40 Our Ladies Church in Westminster he reared Now Hocata the second puissant King Of great Tartaria was renownd and feared He first the Title of great Caan did win The drooping Scotch King was by Henry cheared To whom he gaue his Sister next of Kin Faire Ioane Robert Graciaes Empire swayd Who to his Empresse tooke a beautious Mayd 41 She was before betroth'd to a great peere Of Burgoine he the Emperours pompe despysing Entred his armed pallace without feare The Damsell in the Emperors armes surprising He first cut off her nose reuenge seuere And from that place himselfe disguising To her'fore bribed Mother posting fast Th'in constant Dame into the Seas he cast 42 The Scots in Cathnes their proud Byshop burne Because he curst such as their tythes denide Wards were first graunted Frederick doth returne Towards Asia and the Souldan puft with pride Vanquisht in field and now no longer mourne Those Christians that in Palestine abide England with France makes warre and after peace Tumults in Wales arise but soone surcease 43 Frederick King Henries Sister takes to wife Cald Isabell Henry takes Elanour Daughter to th' Earle of Prouence ending strife Twixt them before begun about that houre His spousals were solemniz'd and ioyes rife In th' Element appear'd a war like power Of men in armes of diâ—…ers wings compacted The Merton Statute now was first enacted 44 This yeare the famous faction first begun Of Guelfes and Gibelines Tartarian Caan Inuades the Hungars and their kingdome won Where their King Bela was in battaile slaine The Mother eats her Childe and Sire the Sonne So great was hunger mongst the Hungars than Now London Aldermen were first elected and Frederick once more by the pope reiected 45 Pope Innocent the fourth from th'Emperour flying To Lyons to the Cardinals first gaue Red hats A Iew in Spaine Christs faith denying picrst a huge rocke there found a hallow Caue In it a Marble stone which with Steele trying He finds a Booke inclosd with praecepts graue Which spoke of Christ by which the Story saith The stiffe-neckt Iew was turn'd to Christian faith 46 Henry with London Citty late displeasd For sentence gainst one Margaret Viell past Into his power the Cities Charters ceasd Which by submission they regain'd at last Young Alexanders Father long diseads Expir'd in Scotland the young prince in hast at nine yeares Crownd to whom Henry affide His Daughter Mary whom he tooke to Bride 47 In Italy bloud issued out of bread As out of woundes French Lewes was surprisd By the great Souldan Mango Caan 's made head Of the rude Tartars who being well aduisde Receiued the Christian Fayth and after sped against the Turkes in Crosses red disguisde Alphons of Spaine bestowes his Daughter fayre On young Prince Edward Henries hopefull heyre 48 Richard of Cornwall Brother to the King At Aquisgraue was Emperor elected and Alphons of Castile the State affecting Was by the Electors from the State reiected Albertus Magnus flourisht in his spring And Michael Paleologus respected For his great warres in Greece who Baldwin slew and thirty fiue yeares in the Empire grewe 49 At Oxford the mad Parlement began King Henry with his Barons doth contend They fought neare Lewes many a valiant man Of Noble bloud came to a timeless end The King against his Peeres the best he can Striues by the Sword his Barons to offend Who Manger all his force the battaile wonne Surprisd the King his Brother and his Sonne 50 Prince Edward entred Asia and there fought against the Turkes where he atchieued much fame at length his life was by a Sarazan sought Who with a Knife to his Pauilion came Empoysoned and his death had almost wrought For in his princely arme he fixt the same Richard King Henries Brother and Romes king First dyes and after Henry the same spring 51 Next whom Prince Edward Long-shankes was inucsted and thirty foure yeares raign'd admir'd and feared Th'vsurping pride of Priests he much detested Bounty and Vertue in this Prince appeared Nicholas the third made Pope from th' Empire wrested Two Kingdomes for two Nephewes much indeered Of lewes at once that in their wealth tooke pride Two hundred eyghty foure for Coyning dyde 52 Lewellen next rebeld slaino by the hand Of Roger Mortimer After not long Dauid his Brother did gainst Edward stand A daungerous Rebell and infaction strong Yet perisht likewise with his warlike Band Of Welch reuolted other things among King Edward ioyes to quell the French-mens scorne and for Prince Edward at Carnaruan borne 53 Alexander Issu-lesse fell from his Steed And brake his necke the Carmelites began Phillip the fayre in France was King decreed Two Women in Heluetia liued than Who in their Wombs did two
of whom Corinth tooke first name Electra daughter to King Athlas marryed From Lybia hath he fetcht the louely Dame And thence to Naples this rich purchase carried Corinth and Naples are indeed the same One Citty though by Time their names be varried These dying left behinde them to succeed Two Princes Lords of many a vahant deed 3 Whilst Corinth there Memnon all Egypt swayde In Italy Atleus Harbon Gaul Hesperus Spaine the Argine King was made Crassus in France King Ludgus gouern'd all Arming himselfe gainst such as did Inuade Syrus in Syria Assyrias crowne doth fall To Mancaleus which whilst he maintaind Orthopolis in Pelloponessus raign'd 4 Moyses was borne the selfe-same happy yeare That faire Electra was made haplesse Queene Who spake with GOD and saw the bush burne cleare By whom the Israelites deliuered beene From Pharaohs bondage whom the fiery spheare Guided by night when in the day was seene The Cloud to vsher them In whose blest daies Corinthus yssue their proud fortunes raise 5 One Dardanus that other Iasius hight Who strongly for their Fathers Crowne contend And to their aydes assemble many a knight By force of Armes their challenge to defend But Armes nor bloudy battell force nor fight Can vnto this vnnaturall warre giue end Till at the length a Treaty was appointed Which by accord should be the King annointed 6 Iasius to Parlee comes vnarm'd his brother Vnder his Robes of peace bright Armor wore And being met his vengeance could not smother But slew him dead The Lords his death deplore Thus pitiously the one hath kilde the other Iasius vnto his Sepulcher they bore But Dardanus that him so basely slew Vnto the Pallaee Royall they pursue 7 The people such a Traiterous practise hated And vow his blood shall for his murder pay Such as lou'd Iasius the rest animated And round begirt the place where Dardan lay Who cals such friends as on his person waited And in the dead of night steales thence away For well he knowes they Iasius lou'd so deerely That they his murder will reuenge seucrely 8 Before the dawne of day they shipping take The darkenesse of the night their purpose aideth Through the vast Ocean a swift saile they make But as the morning riseth and night fadeth The sterne Corinthians to their fury wake And euery man th'vngarded house inuadeth But when they entring found the brother fled They curse the liuing and lamâ—… the dead 9 Long they their weary Fortunes haue in chase Still in the mercy of the Seas and winde But where to harbor they can find no place Or in the seas wilde deserts comfort finde At length they touch at Samos Isle in Thrace A soile which yet contents not Dardans minde Ballast fresh water victuals he takes in And hoysing saile seekes further shores to win 10 By this the Asian Seas his ships hath past And now within the Helle spont he rides The Marriners the shore discry at last Where calling all their Sea-gods to their guides To their discouery they apply them fast And now their vessels neere the cost abides Not long about the briny beach they houer But Dardan landes the Iland to discouer 11 He finds it fruitfull pleasant and a soile Fit to inhabit hie woods champion fields He holds this countrey worth her former toile The place he likes and to this clime he yeilds And after all his trauell and turmoile He plants himselfe a Citty here he builds He casts a huge Ditch first then layes a frame And after cals it Dardan by his name 12 The time the groundsils of great Troy were layd Was Lacedemon built by computation In Athens Ertchthonius King was made And Danaus ruler ore the Argiue Nation Hercules Dasinas Phenitia swayde Egiptus Egypt now the first foundation Of great Apollos Temple was begun By young Eristhones King Cecrops sonne 13 In processe is much people there conuented Being a Citty well and fairely seated And all such people as this place frequented Were by him and his followers well intreated No stranger from the King past discontented No Marchant in his traffique was defeated In time his wealth and people both abound And here in Dardan Dardanus liues crownd 14 This Dardan on Candame got a sonne Eruton hight who the same state maintained Time keepes his course away the swift howers run The second King in Arts and Warres is trained Imagine seauen and forty Winters dun So long Eruton in this Citty raigned Troos his sonne the kingdome doth enioy And of this Troos came the name of Troy 15 A puissant King in Armes his valors fame Through all the Asian confines stretched far Kingdomes he doth subdue Invadors tame By him the two first kings ecclipsed are And the Dardanians change their auncient name And of King Troos so renowmd in warre Are Troyans cald for so King Troos chargeth And with his fame his new-built towne enlargeth 16 Now all the Graecian Citties Troy out-shineth Whose glory many neighbour kings enuy Yet none so bold that outwardly repineth Or date in publicke tearmes king Troos defie The strongest people he by loue combineth The weaker he by armes doth terrifie King Tantalus that liues in Phrigia crownd Most enuies Troy should be so farre renown'd 17 But leaue we him in enuy Troy in glory For enuy still lookes vpward seldome downe And turne to that which most concernes our story How Iupiter attain'd his fathers crowne How Sybill â—…oyfull was but Saturne sorry To heare his sonnes suruiuing in renowne How Tytan war'd on Saturne how Ione grew And in his fathers aid his Vnckle slew 18 Twixt the Pelagians and Epiriens riseth Contentious warre in Epire raigned then King Milleseus who in armes surpriseth Certaine Pelagians king Lycaons men Lycaon with his watlike troopes aduiseth By pollicy of warre both how and when He may awaite th' Epiriens the like domage And make their king vnto his state do homage 19 At length Ioues Guardian the great Epyre king Vnto the son of Titan offers peace In signe whereof they Oliue branches bring To signifie their hostile Armes surcease Lycaon sonne to Tytan whom wars sting Had likewise gald and spoild his lands increase Applauds the motion sweares to this accord Condition'd thus to leaue an Epire Lord. 20 An Epyre Lord as Hostage straight they take And in Pelagia with Lycaon leaue him There to abide till they amends shall make For all the spoiles th' Eperiens did bereaue him The King the daies doth watch the nights doth wake Least his Epirien hostage should deceiue him Lycaon of his couenant naught doth slacke The time expires the Lord should be sent backe 21 And to that purpose Melliseus sends Ambassadors from Epire to Pelage Who to Lycaon beares his kind commends Lycaon full of spleene and warlike rage To quit his former inâ—…ury intends And with much paine his fury doth asswage Yet giues them outward welcome they desire Their Hostage Lord to
such Tortures anguish smart That Gods aboue nor Deuils damd could beare That stung his breast and pierst his Noble hart he growes Impatient that could neuer feare Infernall panges Infusde in euery part he striues the poysonous Shirt away to teare But with the cleauing Linnens forst to draw The Brawnes from off his armes and leaue them raw 101 The poysond boyles and he that could confound Gyants so late to his immortall fame Now from the head to heele is all one wound The raging venom-drops his flesh inflame Sometimes he grouels on the senceleâ—…e ground Sometimes those powerfull hands that Monsters tame plucks down huge rocks cleaues theÌ„ with his stroaks And sometimes by the roots rends vp huge Oakes 102 Mad with these Torments Oeta Mount he traces Where creeping in a hole he Lychas spies When stalking to his Caue with leasurd paces About his head he wheeles him in the skies And that being done the whole Mount he defaces A groue of Trees dispoyld about him lies A thousand Oakes he heapes vp on a pile And kindling thâ—…m sayes with a fâ—…ornfull smile 103 Whom neither Iunoes wrath nor Plutoes hell Whom neither Lyons Buls Dogs Dragons Whales Whom neither Tyrants grim nor Gyants â—…ell against that spirit a womans gift preuailes Her iealousie hath power that hart to quell Whom Serpents feare with their â—…uenomed skales Since none on earth deserues our blood to spill The great Alcides shall Alcides kill 104 The fire burnes bright he Philocletes cals And vnto him bequeaths his shasts and bow Who at his warlike fâ—…et confounded fals The Club and Lyons case his bold hands throw Into the flame then he whom noughts appals Cries Ihoue I come and boldly leaps in so That life that mortall did the heauens aspire Now with Immortall wings climes heauen by fire 105 Alcides dead and Priam backe returnd From his successefull Battailes in the East He sees his Country spoyld his Citty burnd His Father slaine which most his griefe increast These losses with his Sisters rape he mournd Nor are such weighty sorrowes soone surceast we for a while will leaue him to his care His Syre t'intoombe his Citty to repaire MEdea some thinke to be the daughter of Eta some the daughter of the Sun some the Daughter of Hecare Apollod lib. 3. Cals her Aeea Heraclides writes her to be the daughter of Neaera of the Nereides Dionisius Milesius cals her the daughter of Eurelytes others of Ipsaea that Chalciope was her sister She had a sonne cald Medus by Aegeas Demodocus a Harpers name in Homer of whom the Country Medea tooke name Iopas a King of Affrica one of Didoes wooers a skilfull Musition Iason committed to the charge of his Vnkle Pelius in his minority because Pelus was loath to resigne to him his kingdome deuised for his Nephew the dangerous enterprize of the golden Fleece which lason contrary to his Vnckles supposition with his Argonants valiantly atchieued In memory of Absyrtus there are still certaine Islandes in the Venetian Sea cald Absyrtides of Absyrtus there slaine by his sister Medea Phrixus was sonne to Athamas and Brother to Helles of whom the Ram that bore the golden fleece was named Phrixeus Helle with her Brother Phrixus was drowned Of whom that Sea is still called Hellespontus Because we onely remember 〈◊〉 and the Mynotaur and haue no further Trafficke in our History with his life I holde it not much amisse in these Annoaations to remember that History and how the Mynotaure was begot Ouid arte Amandi Ida of Caedars and tall Trees stand full Where fed the glory of the Heard a Bull Snow-white saue twixt his hornes one spot there grew Saue that one staine he was of milky hew This faire Steare did the Heyfers of the Groues Desire to beare as Prince of al the Droues But most Pasiphae with adulterous breath Enuies the wanton Heyfers to the death T is saide that for this Bull the doting lasse Did vse to crop young boughes and mow fresh grasse Nor was the Amorous Cretan Queene affeard To grow a kind Companion to the Heard Thus through the Champion she is madly borne And a wilde Bull to Minos giues the horne T is not for by auery he can loue or loath thee Then why Pasiphae doest thou richly cloath thee Why shouldst thou thus thy face aâ—…d lookes prepare What makest thou with thy glasse ordering thy haire Vnlesse thy glasse could make thee seeme a Cow But how can hornes grow on that tender brow If Mynos please thee no Adulterer seeke thee Or if thy husband Mynos do not leeke thee but thy la â—…ciutous thoughts are still increast Deceiue him with a man not with a beast Thus by the Queene the wilde Woods are frequented And leauing the Kings bed she is contented To vse the groues borne by the rage of mind Euen as a ship with a full Easterne wind Some of these strumpet-Heyfers the Queene slew Their smoaking Alters their warme bloods imbrew Whilst by the sacrificing Priest she stands And gripes their trembling entrailes in her hands At length the Captaine of the Heard beguild With a Cowes skin by curious Art compild The longing Queene obtaines her full desire And in her infants byrth bewrayes the Sire This Mynotaure when he came to groath was inclosed in the Laborinth which was made by the curious Arts-maister Dedalus whose Tale likewise we thus pursue When Dedalus the laborinth had built In which t' include the Queene Pasiphaes guilt And that the time was now expired full To inclose the Mynotaure halfe man halfe Bull Kneeling he sayes Iust Mynos end my mones And let my Natiue soile intoombe my bones Or if dread soueraigne I deserue no grace Looke with a pittious eye on my sonnes face And graunt me leaue from whence we are exild Or pittie me if you dâ—…ny my Child This and much more he speakes but all in vaine The King both Sonne and Father wil detaine Which he perceiuing saies Now now tisfit To giue the world cause to admire thy wit Both Land and Sea are watcht by day and night Nor Land nor Sea lie open to our flight Onely the Ayre remaines then let vs try To cut a passage through the ayre and fly Ihoue be auspicious to my enterprise I couet not to mount aboue the skies But make this refuge since I can prepare No meanes to fly my Lord but through the ayre Make me immortall bring me to the brim Of the blacke Stigian Water Styx I le swim Oh human wit thou canst inuent much ill Thou searchest strange Artes who would thinke by skill A heauy man like a light Bird should stray And through the empty Heauens find a fit way He placeth in iust order all his Quils Whose bottoms with resolued waxe he fils Then binds them with a line and being fast tyde He placeth them like Oares on eyther side The tender Lad the downy Feathers blew And what his Father meant he
Knights to bring All expert Archers with whom Stupex traded A valiant Duke and in his youthfull spring Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus Duke Samnus and the bold Duke Ausernumus 25 These led twelue hundred Knights next whom tooke Two Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
the Messean Land where Theutram raign'd Was fettile they from thence demand supply Of Victuall for the hoast but he disdaind T' assist them therefore him the Greekes defie The Kings hye blood Achilles Faulchion stain'd Theutram alas by him is forest to dye And Telephus crown'd King from whose rich Coast With store Victuall he relieues the hoast 45 Twelue Moones were past since first the Greeks took land When Duke Palamides at th' host ariues Whose absence murmur'd long yet the command Of the whole Army with the Princes liues Are made his charge none seeming to withstand his principality this Duke deriues His byrth from Naulus and is made the head Of the stout Greekes in Agamemnons stead 46 But in desaster houre Vlisses friend To Agamemnon by his crafty fraud Both to his life and his command gaue end He that but late the Argiue Princes aw'd And foyld the common foe cannot defend his owne deere life but whilst the hoast applaud Atrides honor in vnhappy season Is forcst to perrish for suspected Treason 47 Tenedos sackt the Greekes insult vpon 't And from that place made leuell with the plaine The Fleet disanchors whose proud Nauall front Prothesilaus proudly doth maintaine Hoysing the first Sayles in the Hellespont A hundred Ships whose Flags and Pendants staine The Ayre with various Colours he commands And twice repulst vpon the Beach he Lands 48 His ships tough ribs vpon the sands he brake And many Greekes some drown'd some landing fall As well the boldest that the Ship forsake As those that keepe aboord must perish all Onely the bold King makes the Troians quake Who whilst his maymed traine for rescue call Makes good the place till with an hundred more Archelaus and Prothenor mans the shore 49 Now growes the battle hot for the rude rout Of the disordered Troians madly flocke To impeach their Landing who with courage stout Leape on the shore and there abide the shocke Of the proud Foe who murder all about And with rude taunts their proud Inuasion mocke But Askalus and Agabus draw neare Two Kings whose landed souldiers change their chear 50 Yet at the length into the Sea driuen backe Till Nestor seconds them with fresh supply and now th'astonisht Troians suffer wracke Yet still make good the shores with fresh supply againe repulst the Greekes made good the lacke Of more arm'd men Vlisses Ships prest ny Whose dreaded Ensignes on the Margent spred Conquer the Beach the whilst the Troians fled 51 King Philomenes enuious of his Fame A pointed Speare brake on Vlisses face and stounded him but when the bold King came T'himselfe againe he quitted that disgrace So much did wrath his Noble thoughts inflame he wounded him in such a speeding place That had not Ihoue kept backe his Weapons force The late victorious had dropt downe a Corse 52 Whilst these two Kings contend the Greekes retire And backe into the blood-stain'd Sea are driuen When Thoas with his fleet doth Land desire Now Agamemnons Ships are all to riuen Vpon the Strond his men halfe blood halfe mire Tugge for the shore whilst many die vnshriuen Next Menelaus hath vnmand his Ship And from his Barke doth stormy Aiax skip 53 At whose approach neere to the brinish brinke Th' amazed Troians yeild him Landing free Beneath his ponderous Arme the strongest shrinke Before his sword th' affrighted people flee Their soules below the waues of Lethe drinke Whose deeds of valor when King Perses see He with a band of Moores their violence stayde Making th'astonisht Greekes expect more ayde 54 When the great Duke Palumides discends Vpon the Continent and in his traine A thousand Armed Knights his Noble Friends Whose swords the Beach with blood of Troians slaine Palumides gainst Symagon extends His pointed Iauelin Symagon lies slaine A valiant Moore to Perses neere alide Though strong he by the sonne of Naulus dide 55 Now gainst the beaten Troians rose lowd cries Which puissant Hector hearing from the Towne Issues from forth the gates and soone applies His fortitude where Warre seem'd most to frowne His armor Siluer-white his shields deuise A Lyon Gules the field Or after knowne And dreaded mongst the Greeks where ere he marches The Flowers grasse with blood of Greeks he parches 56 Prothesilaus him encounters first and at his Steely Beauer aymes his Speare The King his Staffe vpon his Visor burst But from the Worthy Hector past not cleare All that encounter him must tast the worst The steel-head Lance from off his steed doth beare The dreadlesse King who rose by great indeuour But Hector cleft his head quite through his Beauer 57 So passeth on strowing his way with Corses That in a while his smoaking blade was feared Whom ere he meets he to the ground inforces His valour hath the drooping Troians cheared He without riders leaues fiue hundred horses Whose broken limbes lie on the earth besmeared Death Marshals him the way where ere he traces Pauing the Margent of the Sea with faces 58 His courser Galathee the Noblest Steed That euer Knight bestrid i' th morning white In euery bare place seemes from farre to bleed His valiant ryder shun'd no dangerous fight Hee 's flak't all ore and where no wounds indeed Were hewed great gashes grisly to the sight Appeare vpon him Galathee still stood Sound and yet stain'd all ore with Gracian blood 59 Nor wonder if his white Steed were so painted When his sharpe sword so many Riuers shed This day a thousand Knights beneath him fainted And on the verdure by his hand lye dead With this mortality the ayre is tainted The spatious plaines with wounded Greekes are spred Charon the sweat wipes from his ghastly face And neuer wrought so hard in so short space 60 Hels Iudges and the Gods of Darkenesse wonder What 's now to do on earth that such a throng Of Ghosts whose threds the fatall Sisters sunder Presse in such multitudes for sentence long The Princes of the Vaults and regions vnder Were not so troubled to iudge right and wrong For neuer in one day it hath befell So great a Sessions hath bin seene in Hell 61 Th'inuincible Dardanian Heroe tyr'd With purple Massacre towards night with-drew Horse Armes and Plumes the brightest morne admir'd For whitenesse at his yssue purple grew And he returnes Vermilion all attir'd In Crimson scarce the royall Priam knew Great Hector from the Torras where he stood Seeing his onset white Retrait all blood 62 Soone was the Noble Troian mist in field For with his Myrmidons proudly attended Achilles Lands and that renowned sheild God Vulcan made in which his art extended He vaunteth yet the daunted Troians yeild Th'vnconquered shores Hector so late defended Lie open to inuaders whole Greece Lands For gainst the great Achilles no man stands 63 Euen to the Citty wals the Troians fly Whom the maine hoast with hostile showtes pursude And had not Noble Troylus heard the cry Paris and Deiphebus where they view'd So
swayes A generall peace is through the world debated The Brittaines next King Cimbelinus raise And fiue and thirty yeares he is instated And now the Sauiour of the world was borne Th' eternall King Crownd with a wreath of Thorne 35 Hortensius Lyuy Salust Ouid all Were Fam'de in Rome valiant Guiderius next The Brittaines as their soueraigne Liege install Twenty eight yeares he gouernes much perplext With Roman warre now chanc'st Seianus fall Vnder Tyberius now as saith the text Iohn Baptist preacht and by King Herod dide Pylate was Iudge and Christ was Crucifide 36 Now Aruiragus raignes and takes to wife Th'Emperour Clodius daughter Iâ—…wries King Was eat with wormes Graue Seneck breath'd this life And Simon Magus did his Money bring To buy the Holy-ghost his Fame was rife Amongst the Romans now did Nero sing Vpon a hill Troyes burning to his Lyre Hauing before set stately Rome a fire 37 Saint Marke in Alexandria Martyrd was At ' Ierusalem Iames for the Gospell dide Paule suffred too whose boldnesse did surpasse Peter likewise in Rome was Crucified Queene Voada a gallant Brittish Lasse Marcht with fiue thousand Ladies by her side and in one battaile if report be true Full fourscore thousand valiant Romans slew 38 Next Aruiragus Brittan Marius guided Now was the Temple of the highest defaced His City sackt and those that Christ derided Burnt staru'd or slaine Ierusalem quite raced Iosephus liu'd Domitian Rome deuided and after Tytus in the Throne was placed Ignatius life in Rome mongst Lyons vanisht Saint Iohn whom Christ lou'd was to Pathmos banisht 93 In Rome now liu'd Cornelius Tacitus Suetonius younger Pliny Iuvenal Valerius Flaccus and Patauius and the Lasciuious Poet Martial and vnder Traian Aulus Gellius Plutarch and Apuleius now the wall From Tyne to the Scotch Sea was made for strength Being one hundred and twelue miles in length 48 Coylus built Colchester now Iustine wrote and with his Bookes and Life Christs Fayth defended Egyptian Ptolomee the Starres did note and Mathematickes found Lucius ascended The State next Coyll who first set aflote Baptizme in England by the Church commended For our first Christian King he mounts the Spheares and without King leaues Brittan fifteene yeares 49 Seuerus th' Emperor did fiue yeares supply The Brittish Throne then of the Goute he dyde At Yorke to Bassianus his ally Leauing both Rome and Brittans Islle to guide Six yeares this Caracalla lifted high His Crowned state in Tirany and pride Tertullian now and Origen were knowne Carassus next assumes the Brittish Throne 50 Gouernd eight yeares then by Alectus dide After three yeares bold Asclepiodale Alectus slew in hight of all his pride And Roman Wallus by whose timelesse fall Walbrooke tooke name He thirty yeares supplide The kingdome then exchangd his Mortall state Artabanus great Artaxerxus slew S. Albon martyr'd left this life for new 51 COill kild Asclepiodale and raigned Twenty seuen yeares Constantius succeeds By marraying Brittish Hellen hauing gained The Roman Diadem His vertuous deedes The fauour of the multitude attained Next Constantine sur-nam'd the great who reads The Bible first in Brittan Arrius preacht And th'Arrian errors through the whole world teacht 52 Now at Ierusalem Queene Hellen found The very Crosse whereon our Sauiour dide And the three nayles his feet and hands did wound Octauius next fifty foure yeares supplide The Diadem and then was laid in ground Three hundred eighteene Byshops now applide The Nycene Counsell now did Ambrose reed And Athanasius that set downe the Creed 53 With learned Basill and about their dayes Iulian-Apostat liu'd the next adâ—…anced Was Maximus whom the bold Brittans rayse To Vrsula a pittious Fortune ehanced With eleuen thousand Maids passing the Seas To Brittaine lesse their liues were all intranced S. Ierom flourisht writing Bookes Deuine So did in Hyppone learned Augustine 54 GRatian succeeds whom the bold Brittans slew After foure yeares in whose vnhappy â—…aigne Ambrose the Millein Byshop famous grew And Chrisostom did the true faith maintaine In Constantinople a Doctrine new Th'Hereticke Pellâ—…ges did in Carthage faine Where all his errors to his pride imputed Were by two hundred and seuen Clarkes confuted 55 Algelmond raign'd first King of â—…ombardy at Millen th' Emperor Theodâ—… dide Alaricus sackt Rome The Monarchy and Throne of France first â—…mond supplide The Scots and Picts vnpeople Brittany But Constantine the Brittaines valiant guide Who came from Brittaine leâ—…e the Throne ascâ—…nds and rules ten yeares 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Romes tribute ends 59 COnstans a Foole the sonne of Constantine Was from a Monke by Vortiger made King And hauing one yeare gouernd did resigne To the Duke Vortiger who gouerning Eighteene whole yeares two Lords of Saxon line Hâ—…ngest and Horseus cald an army bring To Land in Brittaine where not long they tarried Till Vortiger Prince Hengists daughter maried 57 For which the Brittaines him deposd electing Young Vortimer his sonne to sway the state He the allyans of those Lords reiecting Whom Vortiger his Father raisd so late Gouern'd six yeares the land in peace protecting Whom his faire Step-dame brought to timelesse Fate By cursed poyson which no sooner chanced But Vortiger was once againe aduanced 58 In these dissentious dayes Gensericus The Vandall King tooke Cartage Attila King of the Hunnes euen to Thermopilus Ore-came all Greece Illyria Thracia Against whom brauely fought Meroneus The most renowned King of Gallia Nam'd Gallia France and till King Pepius time All the French Kings discended of his line 59 Venice was now first founded and begun Of such poore people as to shun the rage Of Tyrant Attila the samous Hun From Aquilea fled whose pride to asswage The Roman Aetius a braue battaile won Slew eighteene thousand Hunnes in his young age Aetius enuide for raising Romes Dominion Was murdred by his Maister Valentinian 60 Which Emperor at Thrasila was slaine By one of Etius souldiers Vortiger Of Brittaines awfull seat possest againe The Saxons with the Brittish Peeres conferre VVhere at a VVatch-word giuen by Hengists traine Foure hundred Brittish Barons murdred were The King surprisde and being in prison pent Gaue to them Norfolke Suffolke Sussex Kent 61 And of this Hengist Brittan chang'd the name Was cleaped-Hengists Land since England cald Next Constantines two younger Sonnes proclaime Their rights in England being naught appald at Hengists might stird by their Fathers Fame Ambros and Vter seeke to be instald They land at Totnes Vortiger they burne Kill Hengist too for whom the Saxons murne 62 Now Merline Aurelius Aurelius Ambres raign'd Thirty three yeares made Stone-henge which till now Hath on the plaine of Salsbury remaind He dead the Brittans to
But ere he rests him in his earthy bed He is renown'd for many buildings rare Dunstable Priory Reading Abbey and Windsore fayre Castle that on hye doth sland 15 Duke Bohemond in Asia warres maintaining Was by the Turkes surpriz'd restor'd againe By Tanered who in Puell after raigning Infinite Turkes were by his valour slaine Baldwin defies the Souldan thereby gaining Two famous Townes Now Alphons rules in Spaine Lawes the groâ—…e in France in Scotlands rights Malcolms first 〈◊〉 that Alexander â—…ight 16 Alexius did the Gracian Empire sway Henry in Rome the Pope-â—…om Pascall guids In Hungary 〈◊〉 Stephen about that day A blazing-Starre appeares and long abides Two Moones are seene and in Flaminia Blood raignes Michaell the Duke of Venice rides Against the Pagans who were made his pray At â—…oppen After in his 〈◊〉 feturne He many of the Emperours townes did burne 17 Charles Earle of flaunders in the Church was slaine By the proud Bâ—…ggis prouost which related William the sonne of Cort-hose did complaine And by French Lewes was next Earle instated Balach the Parthian did proud warres maintaine Gainst Baldwin which was by rough steele debated Baldwin surprizd fayre Stons Towers quite raced And faire Ierusalem once more defaced 18 Stephen Earle of Bulloin sonne to th' Earle of Bloys and Addela next Henry rules as King Though Maud the Empresse had th'applausiue voyce Of many English peeres through which warres spring Gloster and Chester Earles after much choise Of fields and battailes such an Army bring That Stephen is tooke and vnto Bristow sent After releast by London and by Kent 19 These Counties rayse an army and surprize Gloster for whom the Barons change King Stephen Dauid of Scotland doth gainst England rife after much warre then discords are made ecuen By th' Empresse meanes his Barons him despise First Stephen preuailes the Lords their Lands bereauen But gathering head at Wilton they preuaile Where the King flyes whom Gloster doth assaile 20 Henry Maâ—…ds sonne after K. Stephens decease Is proclaim'd King which soone attones their strife By which mild Stephen raignes all his dayes in peace His sonne the French Kings Sister takes to wife Gersa the sonne of Bela gan encrease His fame among the Hungars and his life Was fearefull to the Germans Lewes swayd France The Turkes grim Alaph to their Crowne aduance 21 Earle Roger rul'd Sicilia Almany Great Barbarosse Romes Empery Conrade Adrian of England held the Papacy In Scotland raignd Malcolm a beautious mayd The English Iewes at Easter Crucifie A Christian child and life for life they paid Next Stephen King Henry second of that name Sonne to the Empresse Maud the Peeres proclame 22 Thirty fiue yeares his prosperous raigne doth last In which he Englands 〈◊〉 augmented With Scotland Ireland and then further past To th'Orcad Isles whose forces he preuented Brittaine Poictou and Guien he made fast To th' English Crowne 〈◊〉 that but late dissented His sword appeasd and after well protected Which done great Rutland Castle he erected 23 Two Sunnes at once within our skies apeare And in the Moone a bloody Crosfe was seene Lewes of France sent ouer Margaret heere His daughter to be made young Henries Queene By which the discords that both Realmes did feare In this alliance quite dispersed beene Once more the King gainst Scotland is prouoked Pope Adrian drinking with a Fly was choked 24 Vradislaus for his valour showne At Milleins siedge was by the Emperour made Bohemians second King his Armes well knowne A faire red Rampant Lyon Baldwin layde On his blacke hearse Almerious is growne King of Ierusalem who brauely staid Th ` Aegiptian power and in one gloriouâ—…day Wan from the Souldan Alexandria 25 Now Thomas Bâ—…ket who before had fled To Rome and there complaind him of the King Was to his Sea restor'd after strooke dead In Canterbury Church a pâ—…tious thing Him Rome Cannoniz'd for a Saint which bred Much superstition Salladine doth bring A puissant host â—…his Conquests he began And by the sword Egipt and Sarry wan 26 Henry King Henries sonne was twice instated And Crown'd in England in his Fathers dayes By which much vprore was by warre debated The sonnes against the father tumults raise The Pope gainst th'Emperour Fredericke animated Fredericke submits and at his foot he layes His princely head whilst with a Lordly checke The Pope his foot sets on the Emperors necke 27 Andronicus hauing his Maister slaine The childe Alexius left to his tuition Three yeares the Gracian Empire doth maintaine Baldwin the fift a Chiln of faire condition Is Crowd in Syon Saladin againe Gainst Palestine doth make new expedition Subdues Ierusalem and â—…nce his dayes The Infidell the holy kingdome sways 28 Henry the sonne before the Father dyes Whose warres his Brother Richard takes in hand And by hostility the King defies Vnable gainst his puissant sonne to stand Sickenesse and griefe of thoughts the King surprise Who dying to Prince Richard leaues the Land Richard in Aâ—…nes a bold reputed Knight Who for his stout heart Cordelyon hight 29 Eleuen full years nine months and twenty dayes He sat inthrâ—…'d Now Bayliffes first begun In London many Christian princes raise Fresh powers to gaine Ierusalem late wun Almaine France England Burgoine whom most praise To this Sicilia Venice Pysa run And quell the Pagans Richard Cipresse tooke And Acon where the French King him forsooke 30 Frederick the Empetor hauing late subdude The lesse Armenia where his Fame was sowned Through greatest part of Asia gan inttude And of that Tri-part world was soueraigne Crowned But by misfortune or by rashnesâ—…ude Was after in the flood Selephins drowned Richard exchang'd with Gui of Lessingham The Crowne of Cipresse for Ierusalem 31 Grac'st with the title of the holy King Returning with a small and slendet traine Towards England where his Brother Iohn vsurping Tooke to himselfe a short rebellious raigne The Austrich Duke King Richard enuying Surpriz'd him first then gaue him to be slaine To s fierce Lyon whom vnarm'd he beat And from his bulke his warme heart tore and eat 32 Thence ransom'd after warre prince Iohn submits Whilst Saphandenus Egipts Empire swayde In Spaines Tribunall the eight Alphons sits Emericus Hungariaes King is made To Innocent the third th'Emperour submits Who eighteene years the Papall Crosier staide He first deuisd Auricular confession Which since his time the Popes keepe by succession 33 Richard besideging Gailerd long with Steele Was with an Arrow from the Castle wounded Shot by the hand of one Peter Bazeele He slaine Retrait the valiant English sounded His want the Cleargy Peeres and Commons feele In whom Religion power and state abound Next him King Iohn succeeds by the Lands doome Who whilst he raign'd despisd the threats of Rome 34 Raign'd seuenteene years him phillip King of France
Glendoure raysd armes Hotspur rebeld Woorster Northumberland with others moe Whom Edward met at Shrewsbury and queld Giuing those Lords a Mortall ouerthrow The Milleine Duke that many yeares exceld In Tyranny at length was layde full low Leauing to Iohn his Sonne the Dukedomes Seat This yeare was stated Mahomeâ—… the great 74 Charles of Cremona by the Treason dide Of base Cabrinus Fundulus his slaue Th'Arch-Byshop Scroope that Edward late defide Surprizd in field came to a timelesse graue In Poland at Cracouia full of pride Was founded th'Accademy some depraue The Burgoin Duke that did his hands imbrew In Orleance blood whom he by Treason slew 75 Saint Andrewes Vniuersity begon In Scotland Iohâ—… the Milleine Duke is slaine Of his owne Subjects Ladislaus won The Citty Rome which he gaue vp againe King Edward dying left vnto his son Henry the fift a faire and prosperous raigne Ten yeares he did his Royall fame aduance and to his Crowne annext the Realme of France 76 Great Amurath sway'd Turky Iohn Castile The sixt Charles France Pope Martin Peters Chaire at Henries claime to France the French-men smile With many taunts they Englands puissance dare King Henrie crost the seas and in small while at Agin-court manag'd a fight so rare That in one battaile he the Land ore-tun Leauiug the Crowne successiue to his son 77 Ieremy Prague and Iohn Husse dye by fire about religious causes Ziscaled The Thaborytes and further gan aspire against the Emperour to list his head French Katherine was Crownd Queene by great desire Of all our English peeres Duke Clarens sped against the Dolphin but alas in vaine By multitudes he was ore-set and slaine 78 Henry t' auenge his Brothers death prepares againe to inuade France where he breaths his last Pale death that in his rigour no man spates Beteaues him life his infant sonne not past Eyght months of age assumes the Lands affayres Vnder protection Bedfards Duke was great With Regency of France a Sorceting Maide Fought on the Dolphins part and brought him ayde 79 Who in small time was King of France proclaymde at Orleance braue Mountacute is slaine Prince Sigismond is Roman Emperor nam'd Eugenius doth the papall Sea maintaine Phillip guides Milleine now was Talboot fam'd Who many lost Townes did in France regaine Now flourisht Francis Forza in his pride The Lyons in the Tower this yeare all dyde 80 Zeuza liues Persiaes King for Sorcery Dame Elen Cobham the Protectors Wise With diuers others were found treacherously To haue cnnspyred against King Henries life Dame Margaret to the King of Scicily Sole-Daughter which began much future strife To Henries Bed with Suffolke crost the Scas now liu'd the braue Prince Huniades 81 Humphrey the Duke of Gloster was depriu'd His harmelesse life at Bury Suffolke now Was banisht England where he long had striu'd By the Kings grace to make the Barons bow Iacke Cade a mutit ous Rebell now suruiu'd Dating the Kings Edicts to disalow This was the yeare of Iubilee In Menz Faustius first printed at his owne expence 82 The Turkish Mahomet sackt and despoylde Constantinople at this time was fought Saint Albons battaile where the King was foyld and by the Duke of yorke a prisoner blought To London the sixt Henry being much toyld With Kingdomes cares his peace and quiet sought Making proud yorke protector now was fam'd George Castriotus Scanderbag sir-nam'd 83 Great Warwicke at Northampton the King met In battaile of the Barons many slew Surpri'd the King in person without let The Duke of Torke reuiues his claime anew Whom many of the chiefest Lords abet And in the Parlement his right pursue Being Titled heyre apparant to the Crowne at Wakefield him King Henries Queene put downe 84 Great Warwiâ—…ke at Saint Albons she made flie Rescuing the King her husband in small space Torkes sonne the Earle of March gan to defie and sought by armes King Henry to displace Neere Torke both powers each other soone discry Where the fourth Edward hath the King in chace and now the victors Lord it where they please Whilst Margaret with her young son crost the Seas 85 Twelue Kingdomes and two hundred Citties more Great Mahomet subdues next Exham field Was fought by them that Henry would restore But to King Edwards powers perforce they yeild Who wiues the Lady Gray she that before Was wife to Sir Iohn Gray Warwick his shield aduancst against the King whom he had Crownd and for French Bona seekes him to confound 78 Edward flyes England Henry is restord and Edward with an army Lands againe Where Warwickes pride vpon his shield is scord Edward ore-comes his powers on Barnet plaine Earle Warwicke by the Commons is deplord Edward the fourth once more vsurpes his raigne Gloster kils Henries sonne then madly fares Gainst Henrie whom he murdred at his Prayers 87 Cassanus gouernd Persia Mistris Shore Was famous for her beauty Hungary Mathias ruld The Pope not knowne before at twenty fiue yeares made the lubily The Duke of Clarens is lamented sore Being in a Wine-but murdred treacherously Edward expyres two sons he leaues behind Three Daughters and a Brother most vnkind 88 The eleauenth of Aprill and the eleauenth sad yeare Of his young age fift Edward gins his raigne But eare he yet was Crown'd Richard too neare His Vncle did his hands with murther stayne Both Edwards Children by his doome seuere Were Butcherd in the Tower and fouly slaine now famous wearc Gaza Sabellicus Pycus Myrandula Aldus Minutius 89 George Valla Hermolaus Barbarus Pelitian Platine with a many moe Marcilius Ficinus Pomponius Latus With Iohannes de monte regio Now Venice and Ferara peace discusse Great Baiazeth sustaines an ouerthrow By the bold Souldan next instated came Vsurping Richard cald third of that name 90 Two yeares two months and two dayes he inioyes Regality whilst Charles the eyght swayes France And Innocent the eyght his power imployes In Rome his Bastards to inhance Richard the Duke of Buckingham destroyes Who thought the Earle of Richmond to aduance Henry Earle Richmond Mâ—…lford Hauen sought Where landing he the field of Bosworth fought 91 Richard there slaine Henry the seauenth sits Crown'd Twenty three yeares Vgnerus Persia guides Fredericke the Empire Henry to make found The breach that Torke and Lancaster deuides a happy nuptiall contract doth propound With fayre Elizabeth whom soone he brides She heyre to yorke This yeare a disease new The Sweating sicknesse first in England grew 82 Spaines Ferdinand the kingdome of Granade Wan from the Sarazens Lambert a Child Taught by a Priest cald Simon came to inuade England with a new stile by him compil'd As Sonne to Clarens in this claime were made Chiese Leaders Francis Louel once exil'd Broughton and Lincolnes Earle with whom took
Souldiors hart 41 You dimme those eyes that sparkle fire Deuine By whom this melancholy roome is lighted The place were darke and but for their bright shine We in this Dungeon should be all benighted Oh saue your beauty then and spare your eyen Why should you at our presence be affrighted we come not with our weapons drawne to feare you But with our comfortable words to cheare you 42 But say our hostile weapons were all bent Against your breast yet why should you be mated Bewty's sword-profe no forceable intent But by a face so faire is soone rebated Your beauty was vnto your body lent To be her Secretary where instated It is as safe as if a wall of Iron Impreguable your person should inuiron 43 With that the wofull maide vplifts her eie And fixt it first vpon the Princes face But there it dwelt not long for by and by It wandered wildly round about the place Yet comming to her selfe when she gan spy Her selfe mongst strangers with a modest grace Hauing her raging griefe awhile restrain'd Thus blushing she her sad estate complain'd 44 My father oh my Father where is he To whom these Subiects should of right belong You are the Limbes the head I cannot see Oh you haue done the king some violent wrong What Stranger 's this that doth sollicite me How dare you thus into my chamber throng And fright me being a Princesse with your steele Or where 's the King that to this youth you kneele 45 If King Lycaon liue why do you bow Vnto a stranger he suruiuing still If he be slaine why am I hindred now Vpon his Coarse my Funerall teares to spill I may lament by Law no lawes allow Subiects by Treason their liege Lords to kill My teares are naturall and come in season ' Your treacherous act is meer vnnaturall Treason 46 By these her words the Amorous Prince doth gather This Lady to be king Lycaons daughter It grieues him now he hath exil'd her father And once againe of fauour he besought her But she all sorrow now intreats him rather To leaue the Chamber since his comming brought her Nothing but newes of death and words of care Her Fathers ruine and her owne dispaire 47 By many faire perswasions the Prince moues her To stint her passion and to stop her teares He whispers in her â—…are how much he loues her But all in vaine his tongue he idly weares By all Rhetoricke and Art he proues her Which makes her at the length lend her chast eares And thus reply I cannot loue vntill You one thing grant me the Prince sweares he will 48 Remember quoth the Lady you haue sworn Being a Prince to breake an oath were base Wer 't in a Peasant it were hardly borne But in a Prince it seemes a worse disgrace The greater y' are the greater is your scorne If you should taint your honour in this case T is nothing if a poore Stars beames be clouded But we soone misse the Moone in darknes shrowded 49 Princes are earthly Gods and placst on high Where euery common man may freely gaze On them the peoples vniuersal eye Is howerly fixt to scan their workes aud wâ—…ies They looke through spectacles your deeds to spy Which makes the Letters of your shame or praise Grosser to be discernd and easier scand A king should be a light to all his Land 50 These words sight out haue fan'd the amorous fire Which did the brest of Saturnes sonne inflame He that at first her beauty did admire Now wonders at the wisedome of the dame And museth how from such a deuilish Syre As king Lycaon such an Angell came Now he entreats her aske with spirit vndanted For as he is a Prince her sute is granted 51 Be it quoth he the fortunes of this day Be it my selfe my selfe sweet Saint am thine Be it this kingdome and this Scepters sway Behold my interest I will backe resigne We haue no power to say such beauty nay Being but mortall and that face deuine What 's your demand sweet Saint It is quoth she That I a consecrated maide may be 52 Oh had she askt more gold then would haue fild Her fathers Pallace packt vp to the roofe Or in her sad boone had the Lady wild Of his resolued spirit to see large profe Monsters he would haue tamde and Gyants kild And from no sterne aduenture kept aloofe In hope to haue woon her loue but being thus coy This one request doth all his hopes destroy 53 The Prince is bound by Oath to graunt her pleasure Yet from her will he seekes her to disswade Hoord not quoth he vnto your selfe such Treasure Nor let so sweet a flower vngathered vade Nature her selfe hath tooke from you fit measure To haue more beautious Creatures by you made Then crop this flower before the prime be past Loose not the Mould that may such fayre ones caft 54 Let not a Cloyster such rare beauty smother Y' are Natures may ster-peece made to be seene Sweet you were borne that you should beare another A Princesse and discended from a Queene That you of Queenes and Princes might be mother Had she that bare you still a virgin beene You had not beene at all Mankind should fade If euery Female liu'd a spotlesse mayde 55 You aske what you by no meanes can defend In seeking a strict Cloyster to enjoy Yee wish to see the long-liu'de world at end And in your hart you mankinde would destroy For when these liues no further can extend How shall we people th' Earth Who shall employ The Crowns we win the wealth for which we striue When dead our selues we leaue none to suruiue 56 You might as well kill Children as to hold This dangerous error Nay I le proue it true For Infant-soules that should haue beene cnrold In Heauens predestin'de booke begot of you Are by your strangenesse to obliuion sold You might as well your hands in blood imbrew Nay better too for when young Infants die Their Angell soules liue in Eternitie 57 And so the Heauens make vp their numbers full You Lady heauen and carths right disallow What Gods conclude shall mortals disannull So many as you might haue had ere now So many Angels from heauens throne you pull From carth so many princes by your vow Now could I get a sonne but you being coy Faire murdresse that you are haue kil'd the boy 58 Much more but all in vaine the amorous youth Thinkes in his smooth sweet language to disswade her But nothing that he pleads she holds for truth Though by all gentle meanes he sought to haue staid her She vrgeth still his oath he thinkes it ruth To haue such beauty cloister'd and had made her Virginity for Venus sweets to haue chang'd Had not his Oath that purpose soone estrang'd 59 Now faire Celisto by Ioues gtaunt is free To be admitted one of Dians traine Dian a Huntresse the broad shadowy tree The house beneath who roofe she doth
farre praisd Hopes by his hand to haue his Fortunes raysd 64 He therefore by the carefull Damsell sends The selfe-same Damsell that to Oson bore him as from a sorrowfull father kind commends The Damsell hauing found him kneeles before him And the whole proiect she begins and ends Of Saturnes fall and prayes him to restore him Ihoue that till now a father neuer knew amaz'd at first himselfe a space withdrew 65 And hauing in his hart her words debated And euery thing conferd his birth vnknowne Which from his infancy the maide related Euen to the time that he to yeares was growne Knowing the day and houre exactly dated His mothers pitty and his fathers frowne To which her words she doth as witnesse bring The two fayre danghters of the Epyre King 66 The youthfull Prince is to the full perswaded It glads him to be sonne to one so great He sweares his Vncle shall be soone disgraded And tumbled headlong from his Fathers seat And all that haue the Cretan Clyme inuaded Shall be repulst with scandall In this heat The Epire King he doth of ayde implore And Archas whom he late had crownd before 67 Were he a stranger yet he holds it sinne Not to pursue his rescue being opprest But being his father and his next of Kin That by a Tyrants hand is dispossest His mother to that had his ransome bin And kept the bloudy weapon from his breast All these incite his valour and the rather To seeme kind sonne to so vnkind a Father 68 Posts are to Archas in Archadia sent His father with two thousand men to meet Who musters vp his troopes incontinent Proud that his valour shall be knowne in Creet The bold Parthemians likewise to Ihoue sent Of their owne voluntary minds a Fleet Of ships well stor'd with men who both admire His valour and his amity desire 69 The men of Oson round about him flocke Glad by so braue a Captaine to be guided Knowne to be issued from a Regall stocke Meane time King Milleseus hath prouided His stout Epiriens who haue vowd to blocke The Cretan streetes with trunkes of men deuided So with the remnant of their forces troope To make proud Tytan and his Issue stoope 70 Their Army they transport and on the beach Of the ritch Cretan shore securely land it No man appeares their entrance to impeach The selfe-opiniond Foe so slightly mand it They thinke their fortunes out of dangers reach And that their power 's so great none can withstand it The couetous Princes more intend the spoyle Of one ritch towne then losse of all the soyle 71 But when the watch from the high Citty wals Sees all the neighbor playnes with Armor spread Alowd to Tytan and his sonnes he cals To arme with speed the Gyants straight make head Tydings of bloudy broyles them nought appals With courage they their businesse managed And hauing each addrest his sword and shield Issue from forth the gates and take the field 72 Into three Battailes Iupiter diuides The Royall Army he conducts The mayne King Melliseus by appointment guides Th' Osoniens and Epyriens fill his traine Some from Alacre he receiued besides A Citty subiect vnto Epires raigne Ihoue the Parthemians in the vaw doth beare Yong Archas with th' Arcadians leades the reare 73 Syx Battailes Tytan makes the great'st he leades And in the other fiue his sonnes employes It cheeres him when he sees his Army spreads So many furlongs led by his bold boyes He sweares the ground whereon his enemy treads Shall drowne the hoast that he this day destroyes In their owne gore and after in small while Yeeld to their mangled trunks a funerall pile 74 By this young Archas twixt the Camps appeares A trumpet all the way before him sounding For Tytan through the army he inqucers The Tyrant with all pride and spleene abounding Admits him in the presence of his Peeres Legions of armed men his person rounding His sudden comming much amazement breeds When Archas with his message thus proceeds 75 Thus saith Prince Iupiter king Saturnes sonne Stay there quoth Tytan for thou hast confest That what I do is all by Iustice done And by good right my selfe I here invest The Cretan Crowne I haue by conquest won In which I haue a filiall Interest The name of Saturns sonne Saturne excludes And Tytan iustly enters not intrudes 76 When Archas thus replyes Great Saturnes seede And yssue Male suruiues to see thee slayne The bloud thou sought to shed shall make thee bleed And all the Gyant Princes of thy traine So hath the Epire King with Ihoue decreed Therefore before your blouds this verdure staine Leaue these vsurped Confines and release My Graundfire King that hostile armes may cease 77 Else thus thy Nephew Ihoue by me hath sworne By me his soone Archas th' Arcadian King To plucke that Crowne from off thy browes in skorne And thee from that Tribunall headlong fling and such as thy vsurped state suborne He shall to tuyne and destruction bring Tytan whose rage darts fire out of his eyes Thus to the bold vndaunted youth replies 78 Princox Thou thinkst by thy despightfull braue To daunt vs but thou giu'st vs greater spirit Thou comst from Saturnes sonne Thou dost depraue In that one word his Tytle not my Merit Thou telst vs we our naturall Kingdome haue Which as our fathers eldest we inherit For iust so old as Ihoue is iust so long Satarne vsurpt vpon my right by wrong 79 Go tell thy Father that his life is mine And I that life am now come to bereaue So is thy life too which thou must resigne When he got thee he should haue askt me leaue His death was at his byrth due so was thine Which then deferd you now come to receiue Reply not the proud braucs thou hast commenced Hath vs and all our Issue much incenccd 80 Archas departs Tytan his Souldiors cheeres And tels them the directnesse of his cause That t is Tranus Scepter which he beares And he his eldest by all Natures lawes The true successor to the Crowne he weares They signe his Aue with a shrill applause And by these motiue arguments perswaded Threaten their liues that haue his Clyme inuaded 81 So thoue and Milleseus hauing heard His peremptory answer both prepare For iminent vengeance not to be deferd Lowd showts and cryes from both sides pierce the ayre In cuery battell dauntlesse rage appeard The Champions in their hot bloud proudly fare A confusd noyse drums in their halfe-deafe eares Of trumpets drums shouts swords shields splintered Speares 82 Out of this Battailes Chaos and confusion Of vndistinguisht valor Prince Ihoue springs And where he Tytan spies makes rough intrusion Maugre the strength of all the Gyant-kings This prologue was to some the full conclusion Of that daies Tragedy theyr darts and Slings From cuery part with enuious hands they cast And Ihoue through thousand weapons points hath past 83 Proceeding still his sword prepares the way
Ledes Evrotes A'ntiopes Danaes Apollo exilde by Iupiter kept Admetus sheepe which Pindarus in pithicis affirme or his Oxen as Horace 1. carminum And therefore he had the title to be called euer after the god of pastures As Virg. 3. Georgic Te quoque Magne pales te memorande Canemus pastor ab Amphriso The end of the fourth CANTO Argumentum KIng Tantalus before the Troians flyes Saturne arriues in Creet and by Troas ayded Once more intendes his Kingdome to surprise Creet is by Troian Ganimede inuaded In ayde of Iupiter the Centaures rise Aegeons ful-fraught Gallies are disladed Danae and her young sonne are turnd afloate By Arges King into a Mast-lesse boate ARG. 2. PElops the two Atrides and Aegeon Vulcan the Gorgones in Epsilon CANTO 5. 1 WHose inspiration shall my heauy brayne Implore to make my dull Inuention light Or to a loftyer key my pen constraine Or raise my Muse that takes so low a flight Thou Ihoue-borne Pallas o're my numbers raine And musicall Apollâ—… giue me spright With the bright rayes that from thy temples shine To shew me way vnto the Muses nine 2 Of whom the eldest Clio first deuisd To Chronicle the Royall gests of Kings Strutting Melpomene in Gules disguisd In Theaters mongst Tragicke Actors sings But soft Thalya hath such straines despisd And to her Commicke sceanes shrill laughter brings Wind Instruments Entirpe best affects Terpsichore the stringed Lyre directs 3 The Geometricke figures Erato Hath in her charge as first by her disclosed But from Calliope hie Stanzoes flow For the Heroik numbers first composed The course of starres are by Vrania know And how the Planets we aboue disposed But Polihimnia smooth Rhetoricke chuses The youngest of Ioues daughters and the Muses 4 All these at once their sacred gifts aspire That may giue beauty to my taske in hand Affoording helpe when I their aide desire To guide my tost-Bark to desired Land A slender barke slow sayl'd and apt to tire And founder in the Sea weake and vnmand Apollo with the rest my voyage speed Whilst to Troyes fatall ruine we proceed 5 King Tantalus the sonne of Iupiter That rain'd in Attique brought an host 'fore Troy Which his sonne Pelops led how can he erre Being directed by so braue a Boy That vndertakes his army to transferre And Troos with his new Citty to destroy This Pelops with the King of Elis ran And in the course bright Hyppodamia wan 6 Her Father Oenemaus was betraid My Myrtolus his treacherous Chariot-driuer And in the race slaine Pelops by his aide Of many suters dead the sole suruiuer After the goale obtaind inioyes the maide Intending with all pompous state to wiue her Th'espousals ended Time with swift pace runnes And she in processe hath producst two sonnes 7 Thyestes and Atreus nam'd the first Ore-come with burning lusts insatiate heat Rauisht Atreus wife oh deed accurst For which Atreus doth him home intreat And takes his Children where the Babes were nurst To dresse their bodies for their fathers meat Some bak't some rost some sod oh bloody deed To make a father on his owne childe feed 8 Atreus two sonnes had the eldest hight Agamemnon who was after Mycenes king And Greekish Generall of the ten yeares fight Twixt Greece and Troy which we must after sing The second Menelaus in whose right The Argiue Dukes their puisant Armies bring Husband to Hellen when prince Paris sought her And Hellen Iupiter and Laedaes daughter 9 But we digresse gainst Pelops and his Sire Ilion and Ganimed from Troy appeare These are the sonnes of Troos many a bold squire They led with them to Ilion the first yeare He rain'd in Troy in bright celestiall fire Came the Palladium downe from heauens high spheare Which Ilions Towers long after did inioy Continuing till the vtter sacke of Troy 10 Their hostile Instruments to battell sound Ten thousand hands at once to heauen are raised Which in their fals as many strike to ground Cowards are scorn'd none but the bold are praised The Troyans haue begirt the Phrygians round Pelops aboue the rest his fame imblazed And Ganimed that doth bold Pelops see Fights as if none need kill a man but he 11 Such was the valour of this Troian youth Though Troos and Ilion both did wondrous well He onely stands defends breakes and pursueth Their standing battailes by his valour fell The Phrigian host now murdred without ruth Charon is tyr'd with ferring soules to hell The Troians follow with victorious â—…ries Whilst Tantalus and valiant Pelops flies 12 This was that Tantalus bright Plota bare Whom for a speciall grace the Gods admit To their high Counsell where they oft repaire He blabs their secrets therefore they held fit To punnish him in hell with torments rare In Laethe chin-deepe he must euer sit Hungry whilst Apples touch his lips and dry Whilst from his thirsty chin the waters flie 13 And this that Pelops whom his father slew And hewd his body into gobbets smal Whose Massacre the Gods in mercy rew And gathering vp his limbes to match them all They misse that peece to ioyne his body new Which from the throat doth to the shoulder fall Which they with Iuory peece and who more bolder Then new-made Pelops with his Iuory shoulder 14 And yet inforst to flie but had his men Bâ—…n euery one a Pelops none had fled He was the last in field preferring then Fore Coward runners the resolued dead But what can one alone gainst thousands ten Led by so braue a Prince as Ganimed Leaue we triumphant Troos now let our hand Direct sea-toyled Saturne safe a Land 15 Who from his sonne in the last battaile flying his Grand-child Archas to the sea-side chast We left him in a ship the Ocean trying Where he hath plowed strange Seas great dangers past Now entring th' Hellespont from farre espying After his tedious course a Towne at last His Martiners to shore their sailes imploy And Sea-beat Saturne touches land fore Troy 16 Which Troos amidst his plausiue triumphs seeing With Ilion Ganimed and thousand more Makes towards the harbor whilst old Saturne freeing His men from ship-bord hath imprest the shore He makes his habit with his stile agreeing The Troyans wonder at the state he bore Himselfe so well prepar'd his ships so faire Both to the barbarous Troians seeming rare 17 So small a number can no warre pretend Therefore their strange arriue they neede not feare As farre as doth their Hemisphere extend They view the sea but see no shipping neare Which makes the King salute him as a frend And aske the reason of his landing there Saturne replies Behold poore strangers throwne To vnknowne people on a Land vnknowne 18 Yet would you haue his Countrey Nation name That knowes not on whose earth his bold feet tread Nor with what breath he may his stile proclaime From his owne Natiue ayre so farre being fled If you perhaps haue relisht Saturnes
fame Whose glory liues although his state be dead Then view that Saturne with respectiue eies Whose far-spread beames set at his sonnes vprise 19 Saturne hath spoke enough whose longing eares Haue not bin fild and cloy'd with his renowne The Heauenly musicke of th'Harmonious spheares Climbe to his praise by him the fields are sowne The Archers shoot and Childing-Tellus beares In what remote climbe is not Saturne knowne By him are seas past heady ships contrould He first Tild Ploud Sowd Reapt and fined Gold 20 He need not of his Ominous wars possesse him Troos knowes his issues triumph and his flight Inspir'd with supernaturall gifts they gesle him And hold themselues heauen fauoured in his sight He vowes in Creet againe to râ—…pollesle him Where Ihoue vsurps gainst all paternall right After few daies in feasts and triumphs ended A puisant host is to his charge commended 21 Of twenty thousand souldiers Troians all Commanded by the valiant Ganimed A better war-exployted Generall Neuer appear'd in sight of Ersignes spred They passe the Egeon seas which men so call Of the Grand Thiefe Egeon he that fled From Iupiter when all the Tytans perisht Now on these Seas by murdrous Pyrats cherisht 22 Saturne directs their landing as best knowing The safest harbors and their army guided Through many furlongs of his ancient sowing Neuer till his daies by the Plough diuided But as their host to Creet is nearer growing With hope to take the Cretans vnprouided King Iupiter is by the skouts discride With many Centaures that on horsebacke ride 23 But not expecting any hostile power Or to beat backe inuaders doth he gather This puisant host hee 's for the brazen Tower Where Danae liues coopt by her ruthlesse father But now that host the Cretan soile must scoure Which amorous Ihoue would haue conducted rather To scale the brazen forâ—…sse the darke skreene Twixt courtly freedome and his cloistred Queene 24 To this imployment the stout Centaures came Vnder Ixions conduct twice two hundred Who first deuis'd Thessalian steeds to tame They seem'd at first halfe horse halfe man vnsundred At whose strange manage and admired name Vnknowne till now th' amazed Troians wondred The battailes ioyne and both the hosts discouer About Ihoues Tent a Princely Eagle houer 25 He takes it for an Ominous signe of good The Troians for some heauy sad presage By this a thousand quarters swim in blood And from both sides the heated Champions rage In a deepe red they dy the neighbour flood Neuer did bolder spirits battaile wage The dying grone the feare-confounded shrike The wounded bleeding fall the standing strike 26 The Centaures boldly fight the Prince of Troy Shines both in Armes and valour aboue all Hauing both Art and strength his steele to imploy And many halfe-dead limbes about him sprall To him Ihoue makes and is re-met with ioy On either part whole troopes before him fall So haue I seene two burning Meteors fare Breaking through diuers clouds to tilt in th' aire 27 Two fiery Meteors I may call them right For they were both in gilded Armors laced And had they fought in a darke cloudy night With such rough blowes their shields and helmes they raced And forcst from them such store of fiery light With steele encountring steele and blowes well placed The two maine Armies might haue fought in view By the bright sparkes that from their Armors flew 28 This Monomachy lasted not for yonder Comes Saturne on the part of Ganimed On th' other side the hoofed Centaures thunder And Character deepe halfe Moones where they tread By whom the Champions are inforst assunder And all confus'd that was in order led Thus in this tumult and disordered brall By scotes and hundreds they drop downe and fal 29 Saturne assailes his sonne but is refus'd He shuns th' vnnaturall combat with his Sire Amongst the Troians he his Champions chus'd The Hostile stranger shall his worth admire Against whose Armies he such valour vs'd That force pâ—…force their vaward must retire Meane time Prince Ganimed King Saturne righting Alone is midst a hundred Centaures fighting 30 Encountring Eson arm'd at euery peece Eson well mounted gainst the Troian ran This Eson sonne was after knowne in Greece T was he that did the stately Arges man And in his bold quest of the golden fleece With the rich Sheepe deepe speld Medea wan Who after old decrepit weake and hored Was by his daughter to his youth restored 31 Him Ganimed vnhorst and in despight Of the bold Centaures mounted on his steed Prouing the manage of this vnknown fight And in the proofe madâ—… many Centaures bleed But all in vaine his troopes are put to flight Saturne is shrunke and left him at his need And â—…o ther ships in tâ—…oopes his souldâ—…s fled Whose shamefull steps the Prince of force must tred 32 The Centaures and the Cretan king pursue them Vnto the Oceans Margent and euen there Twixt Sea and shore in countlesse heaps they slew them Such as escape their course to Troy-ward beare For Saturnes men the Cretans cannot view them Another vnknowne tract alas they steare Whether the winds and waues their vessaile driue Twice driuen from Creet gainst heauen in vaine wee striue 33 Iupiter and the Centaures such ships take As should haue bin imploid for Darraynes Tower And after Ganimed to Sea they make Pursuing them to Troy with all their power They Land at once the fearefull Troians quake Doubting if earth or sea shall them deuoure Troos with an host discends as one that guessed The Prince his sonne was by his foes distressed 34 The battaile is renewed the king intends To rescue sonne and Subiects in such state But ouer valiant Ganimed extends His valour beyond wisedome all too late The King of Troy his puissant fury bends In rescue of his sonne now in sad fate The Cretans him surprize and he being tane With this rich prize they make to Sea againe 35 Leaue Troos and Islion mated at this crosse The pride of Troy is not to be re-won He raâ—…s him much aboue his kingdomes losse And all Dardania mourneth for his son How in the guard of those that from Molesse Came with Ixion and on horse-backe run Ioue giues command being at Sea assured The Prisoners to be chear'd the wounded cured 36 And calling now to mind the Bird that soared About his rich Pauillion he ordained Her picture should be drawne and quaintly skored Vpon a Crimson Ensigne richly stained Which since that fight to all that Mars adored As a perpetuall instance hath remained Till then they bore no flags no Scutchions drew Ioues Eagle was the first in field that flew 37 He now remembers Danae and commands His Pylots to direct his waftage thether But what the king inioynes the wind withstands With boysterous gusts it foulds their sailes together And hurries them along by diuers Lands They beare their wandering course they ken not whether At length they in the
Anchor casts And thence vnto Duke Aiax Pallace hasts 70 Mildly of him the Embassador demands Hesione or if he keepe her still With her to enter Hymens Nuptiall bands Not as a Slaue to serue his lustfull will When Tellamon this Message vnderstands He was in thought the Troian Lord to kil So scornefully the Duke his Message tooke His face lookt pale his head with anger shooke 71 He tels him he is not allyde at all With twice-won Troy nor any league desires The beautious Princesse to his lot did fall Whom he wil keepe and mauger all their yres For scaling first Troyes well defended Wall She was his Trophies prize He that aspires To take her thence or once demand her backe Is but the meanes their Troy againe to Sacke 72 And so commands him thence who still proceeds Vnto Achaia where the famous Twins Castor and Pollux haue aduanc'st their deeds And by their Valours were both crowned Kings Vnto their Court in hast Anthenor speeds And to their eares his Embassie begins But they with Telamons rude scornes reply And charge him straight out of their Confines hie 73 With like contempt Duke Nestor sends him backe So did the two Atrides So the rest Of all the Argiue Kings command him packe Out of their bounds as an vnwelcome guest Since Troy deseruedly indur'd such wracke Anthenor answered thus esteemes it best Backe to resaile and to King Priam tell What in his bootlesse voyage him befell 74 The King at this reproach inflam'd with rage Assembles all his people Sonnes and Peeres Intending by their aydes new warre to wage To which the youthfull Gallants wanting yeares Freely assent but those of riper age Out of their grauer wisedome not pale feares Seeke by their Counsels Priam to perswade To raigne in peace and not proud Greece inuade 75 Among the rest great Hector from whose tong Did neuer yssue proud discourteous word Whom Greeke nor Troian can accuse of wrong Nor they within whose blouds he glaz'd his sword Rayseth himselfe aboue the populous throng And thus he sayes Who rather should afford Vengeance on Greece then I your eldest sonne To whom these rough iniurious wrongs are done 76 But if we well consider what a foe And what great wrath vpon our heads we pull Not Greece alone but all that homage owe Asia and Affricke make their numbers full The oddes is too vnequall therefore knowe I am of thought all warres to disanull Troy's but a Citty and though rich and strong Yet gainst the world oppos'd must needs take wrong 77 Why will Rich Priam hazard his estate Being in peace what need we couet warre What can we more desire then fortunate So Priam Troy and all our people are Why should we seeke t' incurre the Argiue hate Of which remains so incurable a scarre Wisemen in their reuenges should forsee What ends may fall not what beginnings be 78 My Grand-sire's dead perhaps he did offend But howsoeuer he cannot now suruiue To seeke his life we vainely should contend Methinkes in this against the Gods we striue What the Greekes mar'd the Gods themselues amend Whence should we then our detriments deriue Our Troy is since her second fall much fairer Her people richer and her buildings rarer 79 Troy lost a King that losse your Grace supply And though your sonne of this I proudly vant He is in you receiu'd with vsury They pillag'd vs and yet we nothing want Of all their wounds we not one scarre can spy Vnlesse Hesione our Princely Ant Whose bondage long since hapning we may gesse The custome and continuance makes seeme lesse 80 But how soeuer neare to mee allyde I do not hold her freedome of that meed That for her sake Troy should in blood be dyde Priam or any of his yssue bleed And for this cause do I my selfe deuide From their rash Counsel that Reuenge decreed Knowing all warre is doubtfull and fore-seeing Of Troy what it may be not of Troyes being 81 If any hot blood prouder then the rest Accuse my words and thinke I speake through feare I wish that man the boldest Graecian guest That euer with Alcides Anchor'd heare That I might print my valour on his Crest And on his armed Vaunt-brace proue my Speare This said great Hector Congied to the King Then takes his place when vp doth Paris spring 82 And to the King his Idaes dreame relates And how he iudg'd three beauties for the ball How farre he Venus ' boue the rest instates The fairest Greeke vnto his lot must fall A fit reuenge for those whom Priam hates For if the King will make him Generall He makes no doubt from Greece a Queene to bring Shall equalize the Sister of the King 83 Now all the peoples voyce on his side flowes In euery eare his famous dreame is rife When ranckt next Paris Deiphebus growes Perswading still to giue these discords life As one that by presumptions thus much knowes His voyage can procure no further strife Then if the promising Fates assist his Brother To proue th'exchance of one Queene for another 84 But Helenus with sacred spels indude Seekes this prepared voyage to restrayne He saith the Greekes shall with their hands imbrude In Troyes bloud royall conquer once againe Intreating Paris he will not delude Theyr reuerent eares with dreames and visions vaine Assuring him that of this Quest shall grow The Citties vniuersall ouerthrow 85 When youthfull Troylus thus Who euer heard A bookish Priest perswade to hostyle Armes Let such as are to Fates and Sawes indeard Crouch by the fires that smoking Alters warmes And cherish their faint sinnewes much affeard Dreading their owne not Souldiers threatned harmes He that 's a Priest amongst priests let him pray We Souldiers cry Arme and a glorious day 86 What lets the King my Father but to grant My Brother Paris a right royall fleete That in reuenge of our surprised Aunt He Warlike prayes among the Graecians meete Shall tymerous Clarkes our Martiall Spirits dant No royall Father know reuenge is sweet Which since the Fates by visions promise beare Not to obey their Hests we Cowards were 87 Troylus preuailes and Hector is perswaded To shun the imputation of base feare With which his courage should be wrong vpbrayded A tymerous thought came neuer Hector neare Siâ—…ce t is agreed that Greece must be inuaded Hee 'l guard his honor with his sword and Speare Or if the Gerekes will on the Troians pray Through his bold body they shall first make way 88 Without his faire applause it had not past So reuerent was th' opinion of his braine His words were Oracles so sweetly gracst They generall murmur in all Counsels gaine His free consent they hauing wâ—…on at last The King appoints them a well furnisht traine With two and twenty Ships well rig'd and man'd In any part of Greece freely to Land 89 Which when the Prophetesse Cassandra heares Indu'de with deuine wisedome she exclaimes Her yellow Tramels she in fury teares
gaze on These were the same that made Duke Theseus lauish Who in thy prime and Nonage did thee rauish A vvorthie Rape for such a vvorthie Man Thrice happie Rauisher to ceize thee than When thou vvert stript starke naked to the skin A sight of force to make the Gods to sin Such is your Countries guise at seasons vvhen vvith naked Ladies they mixe naked Men That he did steale thee from thy Friends I praise him And for that deed I to the Heauens will raise him That he return'd thee backe by Ihoue I wonder Had I bin Theseus he that should assonder Haue parted vs or snacht thee from my bed First from my shoulders should haue par'd my head So rich a purchase such a glorious pray Should constantly haue bin detai'nd for aye Could these my strong Armes possibly vnclaspe Whilst in their amorous Foulds they Hellen graspe Neither by free constraint nor by free-giuing Could you depart that compasse and I liuing But if by rough inforce I must restore you Some fruits of Loue which I so long haue bore you I first would reape and some sweet fauour gaine That all my suite were not bestowd in vaine Either with me you should abide and stay Or for your passe your maiden-head should pay Or say I spar'd you that yet would I try What other fauour I could else come by All that belongs to loue I would not misse You should not let me both to clip and kisse Giue me your heart faire Queene my hart you owe And what my resolution is you knowe Til the last fire my breathlesse body take The fire within my breast can neuer slake Before large kingdomes I preferd your face And Iunoes loue and potent gifts disgrace To sold you in my amorous Armes I chusd And Pallas vertues scornefully refusd When they with Venus in the Hil of Idc Made mee the Iudge their beauties to decide Nor do I yet repent me hauing tooke Beauty and strength and Scepter'd rule for sooke Methinkes I chusd the best nor thinke it strange I still persist and neuer meane to change Onely that my imployment be not vain Oh you more worth then any Empires gaine Let me intreat least you my byrth should scorne Or parentage know I am royall borne By marrying me you shall not wrong your State Nor be a wife to one degenerate Search the Records where vve did first begin And you shall find the Pleyads of our Kin Nay Ihoâ—…e himselfe all others to forbeare That in our stocke renowned Princes were My Father of all Asia raignes sole-sole-King Whose boundlesse Coast scarce any featheredwing Can giue a girdle too a happier Land A neighbor to the Ocean cannot stand There in a narrovv compasse you may see Citties and Towers more then may numbred be The houses guilt rich Temples that exell And you will say I neere the great Gods dwell You shall behold hie Issiums lofty Towers And Troyes braue Wals built by Immortall powers But made by Phoebus the great God of Fire And by the touch of his melodious Lyer If we haue people to inhabit vvhen The sad earth grones to beare such troopes of men Iudge Hellen Likevvise when you come to Land The Asian Women shall admiring stand Saluting thee with welcome more and lesse Inpreasing throngs and numbers numberlesse More then our Courts can hold of you most faire You to your selfe will say alasse how bare And poore Achaya is when with great pleasure You see each house containe a Citties Treasure Mistake me not I Sparta do not scorne I hold the Land blest where my Loue was borne Though barren else rich Sparta Hellen bore And therefore I that Prouince must adore Yet is your Land methinkes but leane and empty You worthy of a Clyme that flowes with plenty Full Troy I prostrate it is yours by duty This petty-seat becomes not your rich beauty Attendance Preparation Curtsie state Fit such a Heauenly forme on which should waite Cost fresh variety Delicious diet Pleasure Contentment and Luxurious ryet What Ornaments we vse what fashions faigne You may perceiue by me and my proud traine Thus we attyre our men but with more cost Of Gold and Pearle the rich Gownes are Imbost Of our chiefe Ladies guesse by what you see you may be soone induc'st to credit me Be tractable faire Spartan nor contemne A Troian borne deriu'd from Royall stemne He was a Troian and allyde to Hector That waits vpon Ihoues cup and fils him Nector A Troian did the faire Aurora wed And nightly slept within her Roseat bed The Goddesse that ends night and enters day From our faire Troian Coast stole him away Anchises was a Troian whom Loues Queene Making the Trees of Ida a thicke Screene Twixt Heauen and her oft lay with view me vvell I am a Troian too in Troy I dwell Thy Husband Menelaus hether bring Compare our shapes our yeares and euery thing I make you Iudgesse wrong me if you can you needs must say I am the properer man None of my line hath turn'd the Sun to blood And rob'd his Steeds of their Ambrosiall food My Father grew not from the Caucasse Rocke Nor shall I graft you in a bloody Stocke Priam nere wrong'd the guiltlesse soule or further Made the Myrtoan Sea looke red with murder Nor thirsteth my great Grand-sire in the Lake Of Lethe Chin-deepe yet no thirst can slake Nor after ripened Apples vainely skips Who flie him still and yet still touch his lips But what of this If you be so deriu'd You notwithstanding are no right depriu'd You grace your Stocke and being so deuine Ihoue is of force compeld into your Liue. Oh mischiefe Whilst I vainely speake of this Your Husband all vnworthy of such blisse Inioyes you this long night enfolds your wast And where he list may boldly touch and tast So when you sat at Table many a toy Passeth betweene you my vext soule t'annoy At such hie feasts I wish my enemy sit Where discontent attendes on euery bit I neuer yet was plac'st at any Feast But oft it irkt me that I was your Guest That which offends me most thy rude Lord knowes For still his arme about thy necke he throwes Which I no sooner spy but I grow mad And hate the man whose courting makes me sad Shall I be plaine I am ready to sinke downe When I behold him wrap you in his Gowne While you sit smiling on his amorous knee His fingers presse where my hands itch to bee But when he hugs you I am forc'st to frowne The meat I 'am eating will by no meanes downe But stickes halfe way amidst these discontents I haue obseru'd you laugh at my laments And with a scornefull yet a wanton smile Deride my sighes and grones oft to beguile My passions and to quench my fiery rage By quaffing healths I'haue thought my flame t' asswage But Bacchus full cups make my flame burne hyer Add wine to loue and you adde fire to
Menelaus his sad howers in anguish wasts By this the Graecian Kinges his sorrowes know And of themselues assemble offering free Theyr hostyle ayde and in Troyes fall agree 14 To bring so huge a Nauy on the Seas Behooues vs know theyr names that first deuisde These noble vessayles whether for their ease Whether Ambitious they the Land despisde Whether the Creatan Minos did first please The sutges God or Neptune enterprise The foaming billowes being by Saturnes motion Made Admirall of all the brinish Ocean 15 Whether Ericthris in the red Sea sayled And first made Boats which others would impute To the Meones such as neuer sayled In th'Hellespont or whether the pursuit Of Danaus in the Egyptian Sea preuailed An honour which to him most attribute Or whether Navigators first had place In Atlas kingdome or in Samo-Thrace 16 This I averre his Arke first Noah made Fore th' vniuersall Deluge since his dayes Iason the Greeke who Colchos sought to invade Composde the Galley which next him assayes Sesostris King of Aegypt In this Trade Eytheus flourisht whom our Anthors prayse For Marine skill his Barge did first deuide The Surges with two Oares on eyther side 17 First with three course of Oares Amocles rowed The Carthagens with foure as many write With fiue Nesichthon These were first bestowed By the bold Romans in the great Sea-fight At the first battayle Punicke He that owed The sixe-Oard barge to do Zenagaras right Must yeld it him in Siracusa dwelling For ship-wrights Craft all other much excelling 18 Hyppias the Troyan the broad Lyter framed The Cyrenens the Hoy which some more fine The Gallioon call with Barks the Cyprians tamed The rude sea-Rouers Cockboates some diuine Th' ◅lyrians built the Keele and Craer were named By the Phenetians first the Brigandine The Rhodians rear'd the Canoas now in trade In India by the Germans were first made 19 The Copians found the Rudder the broad Oare The sly Plateans by their Art composed Young Icarus the saile not knowne before Which some affirme King Aeolus disclosed With Masts and Sayle-yards Dedalus did store The Cretans but the sterne Typhis disposed The stemme Pyseus Anacharsis wrought The Tackle Anchors first the Tyrhens sought 20 Athens first ferried men whether we must draw Th'Graecian fleete the great'st that hath bin seene Such store th' amazed Neptune neuer saw No not when France and England met betweene Callice and vs where after many a flaw Phillip gaue place to the third Edwards spleene Before the blacke Prince by wars prosperous chance Quater'd our Lyons with the Flowers of France 21 Nor when the stout Venetian Gallies frame Their expedition gainst the Turkes Armade Nor when Sea-wars Malta or Rhodes proclaime Whose ponderous hulkes the Oceans backe nie swayde Nor when th'◅uincible huge Nauy came In the yeare Eighty eight England t' inuade Were there so many Vessailes well prouided As by the Argiue Pylots are now guided 22 Great Agamemnon they Grand-Duke create Of all their powerfull hoast who in the ayde Of Menelaus as one of hyest estate With full an hundred ships at Athens staide All stuft with Armed Knights sworne to the Fate Of threatned Troy whome they with scornes vpbraid With forty ships faire rig'd and well supplide In Athens road doth Menelaus now ride 23 For Athens was their Randeuous and there King Archelaus and Prothenor stay With fifty Ships that of Boetia were With fifty Ships from Orconomies bay Helmius and Duke Ascalaphus appeare The Kings Epistrophus and Sedius way Their Anchors next and to the Spartan King Thirty tall ships rig'd from Phociden bring 24 King Telamon launcht fifty Souldierd well From Salamine and in his princely traine Duke Theuter Polyxeme and Thebes fell With Duke Amphimachus from Pylon came With three-ag'd Nestor fifty ships t' expell The Troians from the Hellesponticke Maine Thoas with fifty ships the harbour sought whether K. Doxunois likewise fifty brought 25 King Telamon Chileus three times ten And six good Ships rig'd in the Spartans Quest Amphimachus and Polibetes men Of high rcsolue accompany the rest With thirty saile King Idumeus then And Cretan Mereon their loues exprest They fourescore and two Frigots brought in place And thirty two Vlisses weighed from Thrace 26 Twelue Ships from Phrygia Duke Tynelus brings And from Phtlaca fifty two arriue at the great charge of two imperious Kings Prothocathus The Prince to that did wiue Laodomeia faire whose praise Fame sings Prothesilaus Collesis seeks to driue With foure and twenty Craers th'opposed fleets Whom King Machaon by appointment meets 27 Machaons Sonne Pollydris thirty three Achilles two and twenty hath in store King Thelaphus as many these agree By their ioynt Armes to win the Troian shore Eruphilus hath likewise vowd to free The rauisht Queene with two and fifty more Anthipus and Amphimachus are seene From Rustican with Hulkes and Hoyes thirteene 27 King Polybetes that from Rythee came Bring sixty two and in his friendly ayde His Brother the Duke Lopius mou'd with fame Of these great warres seekes Phrygia to i◅ade King Diomed of Arges threats the same Fourescore and two tall Vessailes he displaide Eurialus and Thelanus in sight Of all the hoast beneath his Ensignes sight 29 Thirteene K. Fureus Polyphebus nine Prothoylus fifty two as many led The King Carpenor of the Bresseian line Theorius foure and twenty colours spread In foure and twenty ships all these in fine In the Athenian part meet and make head Twelue hundred twenty Ships make th' Ocean trēble In whom full sixty nine bold Kings assemble 38 But ere we further enter or proceed In these Heroike wars we hold it fit Before the Graecians or the Troians bleed To memorize their shapes ere we admit The Argiue Peeres all in one thought agreed To be reueng'd on Troy and ransacke it Hellen the first as Pearelesse through all Lands As Venus picture that in Coos stands 31 She was nor dwarfe-like statur'd nor too tall Nor foggy fat nor yet Consumptiue leane Her Wast not grosse nor yet too slender-small Her saire proportion was smooth quaint and cleane Her habit shadowed no extreame at all She was all shaped by the Golden meane So rare that neuer eye dwelt on her Checke But lost it selfe and had his light to seeke 32 What should I with harsh Language slubber o're Exact perfection Shall my ragged quill In seeking Natures cunning to explore Iniure the worke in which she shewes such skill T' expresse such Graces as the Gods adore In Hellen would a spacious Volume fill And asko should I her beauties al recite A world of Paper and an Age to write 33 And all my Subiect should be Hellen she That in the Vniuerse can find no peere Hellen the scope of all my
Achiaces next the field asâ—…nded 100 These with the other Princes proudly fare Disordred ruine ruffles on each side Thousands of eyther party slaughterd are In this incounter Deiphebus dide And bâ—…aue Amphimachus forward to dare And able to performe a Souldier tride And now on Priams party onely stand The Scithian Damsels to protect his Land 101 Troy droopes and 〈◊〉 aspyres full foureteene dayes Penthisilea hath vphâ—…ld her fame Both Campe and Câ—…ty surfâ—…it with her prayse and her renowne deseruedly proclayme The best of Greece her hardiment assayes Yet shrinke beneath the fury of the Dame None can escape her vigour vnrewarded Troy by this sterne Virago's soly guarded 102 But destiny swayes all things Troy was founded To endure a third wracke and must fate obay Therefore euen those that with most might abounded Cannot reprieue her to a longer day The Sâ—…ythian Dames by many Princes wounded Were with the Queene at length to Greece a pray Her too much hardinesse her selfe inmur'd Admidst her foes in Armour well assur'd 103 And when her Launce was â—…plinter'd to her hand Her warlike Pollax hew'd to pieces small Her selfe round guirt with many an armed band Euen in her height of Fame she needs must fall The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand Vnbackt by Troy left of her Damsels all The battery of a thousand swords she bides Till her yron plates are hew'd off from her sides 104 Thus brâ—…athlesse and vnhaâ—…est fresh in breath And strong in armor Pyrrhus her inuades At these aduantages he knowes t is eath To cope with her quite scuered from her Maids His baleâ—…ull thoughts are spur'd with rage and death Close to her â—…ide in blood of Greekes he wades Blood sluc'st by her and naked thus assayles her Whilst a whole Campe of foes from safety railes her 105 After much warre th'Amazonian fals Whom Pyrrhus lops to pieces with his Glaue And â—…ing pâ—…-meale hew'd her lowd he cals To haue her limbes kept from an honoured graue But to be strow'd about the sieged wals She dead the Troians seeke themselues to saue By open flight her Virgins fighting dye Scorning the life to gaine which they must flye 106 Now Troy's at her last cast her succors fayle Her souldiers are cut off by ruthlesse warre Her Sea-ports hemd in with a thousand sayle In her land fiedge two hundred thousand are They close their Iron gates their liues to baile And strengthen them with many an yron barre After that day they dare no weapons weild Or front the proud Greekes in the open field 107 Aeneas and Antenâ—…r now conspire As some suppose the Citty to betray And with the Greekes they doome it to the fire But whilst the rich Palladium's seene to stay In Pallas Temple they in vaine desire King Priams ruin or the Lands decay Therefore the slye Vlisses buyes for Gold The Iewell that doth Troy in safety hold 108 Oh cursed Priest that canst thy selfe professe Seuere in habit but in heart prophane Would of thy name and Order there were lesse That will not sticke to sell their friends for gaine Who but that knowes thy Treason once would gesse Such treacherous thoughts should taint a Church-mans braine But many to the Gods deuoted soly In harts are godlesse though in garments holy 109 Whether by purchase or by stealth Heauen knowes But the Palladium now the Greekes inioy And by a generall voyce the Campe arose From their long â—…ege their ships againe t' inioy The Greekes vnto the sea themselues dispose And make a show to bid farewell to Troy But of this Stratagem what next befell This Canto will not giue vs roome to tell ARtimesia Queene of Caria and wife to King Mansolus she is famous for her Chastity the loue to her husband after whose death she made so royalla Sepulcher for him that it was helde of the Wonders of the world and of that all stately buildinges haue since then beene called Mansolea Camna a beautious maide borne in Galatia the wife of one Sinatus she was religiously deuoted to the chaâ—… Goddesse Diana whom her Countrey held in great reuerence whome when Synorix had often sollicited with loue but coulde not preuaile he treacherously slew her husband Sinatus and after inforced her to his Marriage-bed to whom by the vrgent instigation of her friends and the promotion expected by the greatnesse of Synotix she seemed willingly to yeild he perswading her that for his loue to her he wrought the death of her beloued Sinatus When before the Altar of the Goddesse they were to be espoused she drank to Synorix as the custom was a Bowle of Wine in which when he had pledged her shee told him with a ioyfull countenance that in that draught they had both caroused their deaths being extreamely ouer-ioyed that before the chast goddesse Diana in the face of so great a people she had iustified her owne Innocence and reuenged the murder of her husband which incontinently appeared for the potion being commixt with poyson they both expired before the Alter When Achilles was slaine in the Temple by Paris it is remembred of him that the Graecians could not purchase his bodie of the Troians till to ransome him they waighed them downe ass much Gold as poysed the body of Hector T is sayde that for his death all the Muses Nimphes wept exceedingly Rursus redempto pro altero cadauere Pâ—…r pondus Auris splendidi partoâ—…j ferent The Isle Boristhenes was called Achilleides of Achilles that was there buried besides it is Poetised of him that in the Elisian field after his death he espoused Medea Paris that slewe Achilles and was after slaine by Aiax was sent into Greece with two and twenty saile whence hee brought the faire Hellen. His Shipmaister or he that built his ships was called Phereclus Some thinke he pierst Greece first by the Commandement of Venus and hauing 〈◊〉 Hellen carried her into Aegypt where he first lay with her Others are opinioned that he bedded with her in Athens and had by her these foure Sonnes Dunichus Carithus Aganus and Ideus Others thinke he first lay with her in Cranae one of the Spâ—…rad Islands which when Paris had done almost by violense and after many teares sbed for the leauing of her Husband it is said that of her teares grew the Hearbe Helenium which if women drinke in wine it prouokes mirth and Venery Of Helena it is thus recorded Menelaus being dead after their returne to Greece for her former luxuriousnes she was expulsed from Lacedemon by her Sonnes Nicostratus and Megapenthe She fled to her Cozen Polixo the Wife of Tlepolemus who gouerned Rhodes where shee soiourned for a space but Polixo after remembring that her Husband was by reason of the Adultery of Hellen stain in the wars of Troy she came vpon Hellen suddainely as she was bathing her selfe amongst her Maids and hurriyng her vnto a
vnweildy frame in ought despise Well guarded Troy by Pallas anger fals The Greekes returne and long-liu'd 〈◊〉 dies But if this Steede for whom the 〈◊〉 cals Pierce through your 〈◊〉 mure or if it rise And mount aboue your wals to Pallas shrine Troy still shall stand and Greece the wracke is thine 35 Priam and his consederate Kings shall then To Sparta and Meceane the Greekes pursue Deuast their losty spyring Cittiâ—…s when The clamorous Land shall their destruction rue Loosing by Troy whole infinites of men Witnesse you Gods poore Synons words are true Such lookes such teares such protestations chiefe Wins in all Troy remorse the King beliefe 36 What many a well-rig'd barke and armed Keele What not the bloudy â—…edge of ten whole yeare To make Troy tast inconstant Fortunes wheele Vlisses wisedome nor Achilles Speare What not King Diomeds through piercing Steele All this did periurd 〈◊〉 with a teare Bâ—…old whilst all the rowt on Synon gaze a dread portent that doth all Troy amaze 37 Along the troubled Billowes towards the shore Two Blacke-scal'd Serpents on their bellyes glide at whose approach the foaming Surges rore These â—…ery Serpents to the Beach applyde and in Laocons bloud who that time wore The Priest-hoods roabes their arming Scales they dide Their winding traines they with loud hissinges roule About his breast till they inlarg'd his Soule 38 The Monster-multitude before dismayd At the recourse of these infernall Snakes Thinke bold Laocon to be iustly payd Because he yet his harmefull Iauelin shakes Some Cables fetch some with their Leauers stayd The Pondrous Engine which deepe â—…urrowes rakes Along the Earth others the Wals hurle downe To giue the Horse free passage to the Towne 39 Wide stand the yron-bard gates whilst all the rout Buckle to worke the fatall Muchine climes Thâ—…thronged Bulwarkes big with Souldiers stout Ready to be deliuered hallowed rimes The Virgins sing and nimbly dance about Myneruas Steed the wonder of these times Thinking themselues boue others highly blest That can be more officious then the rest 40 Foure times the Brazen Horse entring stuck fast Anenst the ruinde guirdle of the Towne Foure times was armour heard yet vnagast The fatall Beast with sacred wreathes they Crowne Sunke in blind ignorance and now at last Before Mineruaes shrine they place it downe In Himnes and Feasts the ominous day they spend Offring to her that must their liues defend 41 Meane time heauen turnes night from the Ocean fals Inuoluing with blacke darkenesse earth and ayre And call the Gracian craft about the wals The scattred Troians slumber far from care and now his Pilots great Atrides cals Who backe to Tenedos with speed repayre The Vniuersall Phalanx lands in hast And through the silence of the Moone are past 42 Now startles Synon and a flaming-brand He wafts from top of one of 〈◊〉 Towers Which like a Beacon in the night must stand To guide the Greekes and their nocturnall powers Then with a Key graspt in his fatall hand Feareless he through the palped darknesse scowres To the big bellied Stallion turnes the spring and through the doore the Harnest Grecians fling 43 First blacke-hayrd Pyrrhus fixes in the ground His Oaken Speare and from the loft he slydes Vlisses next yet halting of his wound and then the younger of the two Atrides Tysandar from the structure next doth bound Thoas and Athanas two warlike guides With Stheuelus downe by a Cable fall and bruisde with leaping on the Pauement sprall 44 Pelidus followes these and then the man That in his braine first cast this fatall mould Epeus th'enginer whom Synon than Did in his blacke and penurd armâ—…s in fould Their sweatty browes they with the darknesse fan Each chearing vp his Mate with courage bould Strip their bright Swords by whose quicke glimering light They find their way in the darke star-lesse night 45 The Citty sunke in Wine and Mirth they'nuade Slaughter the Watch that on the ground lie spred Then through the broken Wals but late decayde The Generals Army is by Synon led And Agamemnons coulours are displayde Now tumults and confusions first are bred Hauocke begins loude showtes and clamors rise Lifting their Tragicke vprore through the skyes 46 Heauens lamps were halfe burntout t' was past midnight When to Aeneas in his bed appear'd Sad Hector 〈◊〉 and wan full of affright His hayre clotterd with bloud his ruffled Beard Disordred all those deepe caru'd wounds in sight Which in defence of Trâ—…y and his indeard Were graude vpon his flesh behind him fall Those thongs that drag'd him round about Troyes wall 47 Oh how much from that great King-killer chang'd Hye spirited Hector when being proudly deckt In great Achilles spoyles he freely rang'd Through guards of Steele whilst from his Helme reflect Trophies of Greece Oh me How much estrang'd From him that did all Asiaes pride protect Euen to their Fleet the Achiue Kings pursue And mongst their ships round Bals of Wild-fire flew 48 When to the sleeping Prince approaching nye He with a sigh from his decpe intrailes fetcht Thus sayes Thou Goddesse sonne Aeneas flye And from these burnings that by this are stretcht Quite o're your glorious buildings climbing hye Deliuer thee the Arme of warre hath retcht Euen to the Crest of Troy and with one blow Giuen it a sad and certaine ouâ—…throw 49 Greece hath your wals the Vniuersall roofe Of Troy is sunke and falne her bearers fayld Destruction that hath houered long aloose Hath ceaz'd her towers and her spires auayld Could might haue kept her by the manly proofe Of this right hand the Prisoner had bin bayld But Troy alas is sentenc'st and must dye Then from her funerall Flames Aeneas flye 50 To thee her Gods and Reliques she commends Thee that must her posterity râ—…uiue For though her glory heere in seeming end Yet dying Troy in thee is kept aliue Now cleaues the earth and the sad Ghost discends Aeneas with dull sleepe begins to striue And waking heares a noise of clattering Warre And many 〈◊〉 Clamors 〈◊〉 and farre 51 When mounting on a Turret he might spy The Citty all on Flame and by the light A thousand seuerall Conflicts sparkles flye As farre as to the Sea the waues shine bright And now at length he sees Synon can lie His Treasons manifest still this blacke night Clamors of men and Trumpets clangors grow Whilst with warme recking blood the chanels flow 52 Aeneas armes in hast graspes in his hand A two-edg'd Semiter to guard his life Knowes not to whom to run or where to stand In euery 〈◊〉 is danger rage and strife Yet longes for skirmish and on some proud band To proue his strength now whilst the tumults rife For since th'Achiue fires such splendor giue To dye in armes seemes sweeter then to liue 53 Behold where from the forraine slaughter flying Panthus Otriades Priest of the Sunne Scoures through the streetes Aeneas him espying Cals to him thus Whether doth Panthus run
Neptolemus from top to toc Satued in blood and slaughter in both hands Wauing a keene glaue Crimsond in the foe To bind with Cords her soft armes he commands That more red liues may on his Faulchion flow There the bright Mayde that bands did ill become He piece-meale howe 's vpon Achilles tombe 93 Thus is King Priam and Queene Hecubs race Extinct in dust young Palidore alone The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace Left in great charge with Gold and many a Stone Beyond all rate but Polymnestor base Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone False to the world and to his friend vntrew To gaino that wealth the louely Infant slew 94 Whos 's death when Hecuba reuenged had By tearing out the periur'd Tyrants eyes First she records the beauty of the Lad Then all the glories she beneath the skies Possest before which makes her Franticke-mad On her sloine husband daughters sonnes she crics Troy she bewaild and fatall Greece she curst Till her great heart with griese surcharged burst 95 Ten yeares ten months twelue dayes this siege indured In which of Greece before the Towne were slame Fourescoute hundred and sixe thousand all inured To steely warre Of Troians that maintaine The honour of their Citty well assured Besides the number that were prisoners tane Six hundred fifty and six thousand tride Omitting those that in the last night dide 96 Chiualrous Hector voyd of fraud or slight Eighteene great Kings slew by his proper hands No aduantagious oddes he vsd in fight Therefore his fame spreds farre through forraigne lands Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right Fell by his Bow next rankt Achilles stands Who besides Troylus and great Hector slew Seauen puissant Kings at Troy if Fame speake true 97 Foure Kings beside the Sagitary fell By Diomed two by Aeneas lost Their precious liues though many moe fought well Their warlike deeds are not so farte ingrost Blacke Pyrrhus acts aboue the rest excell Who thinking mongst them to be praised most Three Royall liues his Tragicke wrath obayd An aged King a Woman and a Mayd 98 Not how two worthy Greekes in words contended Who should the rich Vulcanian armor haue Now how from Aiax who had Greece defended Th' impartiall Iudges to Vlisses gaue To proue that Counsell aboue strength extended And had more power the Argine Campe to saue In griese of which great losse Aiax grew mad Slaine by the sword that he from Hector had 99 Nor of Vlisses trauels twice ten yeares Nor of his loue with Circe the faire Queene Who by her spels transform'd him and his Pecres And kept him thence where he desird t' haue beene With faire Penelope Fam'd mongst the spheares In liuing chast though Princes full of spleene Possest her kingdome and her pallace ceaz'd VVhom wanting power she by delaies appeasd 100 Nor how he after twenty winters came And in disguise his constant Lady proued How he by armes releast the beautious Dame And all her suiters from his Land remoued Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame Of him whom most the witch Calipso loued From his faire Mother Circe himselfe vvith-drevv And vnavvares his Royall Father slevv 101 Nor how King Naulus laide Traines on the Seas To aâ—…enge him on the Gracians for his sonne Palamides whose death did much displease The aged Prince since t was by treason donne Nor how such wandering Greekes as he could ceaze Who on his shores their ship-wrackt vessels ronne Naulâ—…s destroyd and vnto ruine brought Since they his sonnes deere life esteemed nought 102 Nor how King Agamemnon home returning Was by his faire wife Clitemnestra slaine How false Egistus in the Queenes loue burning Plotted with her to shorten the Kings raigne Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning Grew mad and slew Egistus that had laine With his faire Mother whoÌ„ when he had caught her Vnchild-like he did with his owne hands slaughter 103 Nor how blacke Pyrrhus Hellens daughter stalâ—… The faire Her mione she that before Was to Horestes troth'd and should Sance fayle Haue bin espousd to him who at the doore Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae Staining Apoltos shrine with Pyrrhus gore Not how that face for which the whol world wrangled To see it chang'd with age her selfe she strangled 104 Nor how the Greekes after their bloody toyles Antenor left to inhabit raced Troy And after th' end of their sad Tragicke broyles All Asiaes wealth within their flect inioy Robbing the Towne of all her richest spoyles Whose hye Clowd-peircing spyres the flames destroy nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather And ships with his young son and aged Father 105 Rigging to soa these two and twenty sayle That fetcht the fire brand that all Troy inflamd The selfe-same shippes in which the Troian stale The Spartan Queene gainst whome all Greece exclaimd Nor of Queene Didoes loue and Tragicke bate Nor of Aeneas trauels nobly fam'd Nor how Andromache was Captaine led Left to the hot lust of the Conquerors bed 106 With whom Cassandra was inforst to goe With Helenus that kend deuinest things And al these sad proceedings did fore-show and propheside to Troyes confedered Kings Nor of King Diâ—…meds sad ouerthrow Of Albions Isle first knowne my Muse next sings Her Chariot now I can no further driue Brittaine from conquerd Troy we next deriue Dolopes are a people of Thessaly in the borders of Phthiolis out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard Pallas whose name we have often vsed some take to be the Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis and liued in the time of Giges Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine as wee haue before remembred Palluda quandam Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissiâ—…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae The like many others affirme as also that when she leapt out of Ihoues brain at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth Of her birth many writers differ some affirme her to be the Daughter of â—…riton others to berather the Daughter of â—…upiter Thetis Others of Craunus differing from their opinions therfore I hold with Cicero who auers that there were more of the names One of the Mother of Apollo a second borne by Nyle and adored of the Egyptians a third of the braine of â—…upiter a fourth of Jupiâ—…er and Ceriphe the Daughter of Oceanus whom the Arcadians call Cerin and the Inuentor of the Chariot A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father to perserue her virginity Pallas and Minetâ—…a were one she was also by some called Tâ—…iloma Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia Both Greece and Troy highly honered her she is saide to inuent Armes and to haue aided her Father Jâ—…piter in the destruction of the Tytanoyes which the poets call Gigomantichia Of whom it is thus remembred Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue
Husbands Bed denide 82 And proouing armes by them she honor sought She tam'd the VVelch-men and the Danes disgraced Next Edward Adelstane the battailes fought Of the bold English and the Castles raced as the proud Danes reard and to ruine brought The Sarafins euen from Hetruria chased Th Italian Guards they Gâ—…n ouerthrow VVhere bloud three dayes out of a VVell did flow 83 Now Gui of Warwick Danish Colebrand slew And England of all Tribute quite releast King Edmond did the Soueraignety pursue When Adelstane at Malmsbury deceast Slaine after fiue yeares by succession true Eldred his Brother raignes whose pomp increast Edmonds two Sons being young the Peeres coÌ„plaine and thinke their Vncle of more worth to raigne 84 France Tuskaine Germany the Hungars wast Hugh King of Italy by Fire destroyes The nauy of the Sarazens then past To Traxinetum Edwin next inioyes The Scepter Eldred hauing breath'd his last At Kingstone crown'd whose hart was set on toyes He Dunstan banisht his Landes and Treasure lauisht and his neere Nâ—…c vpon his Crowne-day rauisht 85 And next he slew her Husband for all which after foure yeares he was depriude his state Edgar his Brother a Prince wise and rich In all things â—…ust seuere and Fortunate ascends the Throne no Sorcerer nor Witch His sentence spard Theeues Bribers he did hate To him Ludwallis Prince of Wales obayd Three hundred Wolues for Tribute yearely payd 86 Forty seauen Monasteryes this King erected Red Crosses made and on mens Roabes were seared When Duffus had foure yeares the Scots protected Donewald a Scotch Lord that no bad thing feared Him basely slew and from his Throne derected From which â—…xe monthes no Moone or Sunne appeared The Turkes by Euecus Earle of Bygar Were Spaine expold he first King of Nauar. 87 King Edgar in his sixteenth yeare expyres When his Sonne Edward was at Kingstone crownde Slaine by his trayterous Stepdame who desires The Crowne for her Sonne Etheldred he founde Exter Abbey Swayne of Denmarke fires Citties and Townes in England burning round King Etheldred raign'd in this Kingdome free Thirty eyght yeares His murdred Brother three 88 Now Stephen was made first King of Hungary And thirty nine yeares raign'd Alphons of Spaine Besiedging great Visenum valiantly Was with an arrow kild and strowed the plaine All the Lord-Danes that liu'd here tyranously Were by the English Wiues in one night slaine Ierusalem was by the Turkes possest Whom twice the bold Venetian Duke distrest 89 King Edmond sir-nam'd Iron-side next his Father Inioyes the Kingdome gainst whom Swanus Son The bold Canutus all his Danâ—…s doth gather Twixt whom were many battayles lost and won After much bloods effusion they chose rather By single strife to end the broyles begon Theyr valors were in epuall ballance tryde and after Combat they the Land deuide 90 Edrick of Stratton valiant Edmond slew And from Canutus had a Traytors meede The valiant Dane in Stiles and Honors grew He Scotland wan and Norway To his seed Leauing foure Kingdomes Vice he did eschew Nor euer did a juster Prince succeed English and Danâ—…s he atton'd vnto his doome and after went on Pilgrimage to Roome 91 Robert the Norman Duke for valor famed Hyes to the holy warres in Palestine He gone his young Sonne William is proclaymed The Norman Duke Now seekes a Throne deuine Canutus when he twenty yeares had raigned and Harrold Harefoote vnto whom incline The Danâ—…s in England next the Scepter swayes and three yeares past at Oxford ends his dayes 92 Hardi-canutus the same number fild and drinking dide whom the good Edward Sainted For holy workes succeeds no bloud he spild Nor with knowne sinnes his high profession taynted He married as the great Earle Goodwin wild Th'Earles Daughter Edgitha and nothing wanted That a iust Prince should haue one and twenty years In zeale and clemency the Crowne he weares 93 This Goodwin Alphred Edward younger Brother Traytorously slew and by his power he yoaked The King himselfe betray de his Soueraigne Mother By Byshop Robert to these illes prouoked But Heauen no longer could such mischiefe smother Swearing by Bread he by the bit was choaked The swallowing Sea deuour'd all his Lands Which to this day beare name of Goodwins sands 94 William the Bastard Duke first landing heare Was by the King receaued and Englands Crowne Promist by Edward which no English Peere Was knowne to contradict after lenthome With greatest pompe and Harrold the same yeare Earle Goodwins sonne a man of great renowne Arriude in Normandy and with oathes deepe Sware the King dead for him the Crowne to keepe 95 But Edward dead Harrold vsurpes the seate Whom Fauston and the Norwey King inuade Vpon the North both whom he did defeate And brauely slew in battaile William made A new Incursion gainst whom in t' is heare Harrold his Ensignes in the field displayde The Norman Duke preuaylde and Harrald slaine William the first so cald begins his raigne In Brutes time whilst he gouernd Brittan Anaeus Siluius raigned amongst the Latines Dercitus in Assyria Athletets in Corinth Pipinus in Thusâ—…an Codrus in Athens in whose dayes the Arke of God was taken by the Philistims In Locrynes raigne Dauid was annoynted King ouer Israel In Guendolins raigne he 〈◊〉 Vriah and marryed Bersheba In Madans dayes Salomon built the Temple c. From Brute to Caelar the Brittans were not Tributary to any the gouernment of the Romans from Caesar to Theodosius lasted 483. years In Theodosius the youngers raign the yeare of Christ 443. the Tribute 〈◊〉 The gouernment of the Saxons continued the space of 600. yeares in continuall warre and hostility either with the Brittans the Danes or the Normans The opinions of those that write of the first inhabiting of this Iland are diuerse and how it came first to receiue the name of Albion some thinke of the Chalky and white Cliffe which seemes to wall it in from the Sea But Hugh Genisis a Roman Chronicler writing of all the Kinges and Kingdomes of the World from the Vniuer sall Deluge to Christ. Writes that Danaus King of Greece had fifty Daughters and Aegiptus as many Sonnes who being married and the women the first night murdring their Husbands were for the offence banished and sayling on the Seas were driuen vpon this Island which Albiana called after her Name Albion vvith these Ladies he reports that Spirits engendred and begotte Gyants who laie with their Mothers and Sisters led onely by their lustes till they had multiplyed themselues to the number of twelue thousand But Idoubt not but that this Land may contend with any other whatsoeuer for her antiquity being inhabited with the first which beeing continually vexed within it selfe with ciâ—… 〈◊〉 and forraine inuasions her Monuments and remembrances
haue by these warres bin de◅oured which haue left the certainty of our first Antiquity doubtfull to the world and not truely re◅embred by any that haue undertooke her first discouery Here moreouer wee could haue tooke fit occasion to haue recorded all the Genealogies before the flood with a briefe report who after the floud peopled euery other Kingdome and from whom euery Region tooke her Name but it had bin a course too strange and different from our purpose which is onely to finde out such thinges as haue alliance to this Land of Brittan and the memorable things best knowne to us We infist not much in Aeneas trauels of his landing at Carthage his loue to Queene Dldo her killing her selfe at his departure from her land the funer all of his Father Anchises with his warres against king Turnus for the beautious Laninia These because they are amply set downe in Virgils 12. Bookes of his Aeneids wee thought better rather superficially to passe them ouer with a bare remembrance then to bee too palpably tract in a History so common to all men Which we the rather to omit because we hasten to the antiquittes and the successiue Souer aigneties of our natiue Island whose age our purpose is to deriue from the first Inhabitantes and so to continue it euen to this present government The Antiquity of London was helde to bee longe before Rome For Brute landed here in the yeare of the Lord 2855. in the yeare before Christ 1108. Rome was built long after in the time that Riuallo ruld in Brittain the yeare after the floud 155◅ after Comerus the first king of Italy 1414 after the destruction of Troy 432 after Brute arriuedin in this Land of B◅tain 355. The end of the sixteenth CANTO Argumentum OF all great Brittans Kinges truely descended From the first Conqueror next we shall intreat How they haue sayld or how their hands extended Through any forraine Realmes by Conquest great How they begun and how their raignes they ended Till royall Iames claymes his Monarchall Seate In whom three kingdomes first by Brute deuided Vnited are and by one Scepter guided ARG. 2. From Norman William a true note collected Of all the kinges and Queenes that here protected CANTO 17. 1 William the Norman Duke is next inuested Sixt of that Dutchy entring by sterne warre A troublous raigne he liu'd and sildome rested From rough rebellious armes yet euery barre His Sword remou'd Hertford his pride detested But for his Treason was confined farre Earle Walter too into that faction led Disclosde the plot and for it lost his head 2 Duke Robert Williams Sonne by th'instigation Of the French King doth Normandy inuade Against whom William raysde the English nation And when no Prince betwixt them could perswade They met and fought with much loude acclamation Robert vnhorst his Father and then stayde His warlike hand whom by his voyce he knew And raisd him for which peace betweene them grew 3 William inuading France in Caan expyerd And there lies buried by his warlike Peeres after he many Towers and Townes had fierd Raigning o're England one and twenty yeares Foure Sonnes he left one Danghter much admierd Robert and Richard who ascends the Spheares Before ripe age William who next doth sway Henry cald Bewclack and fayre Adela 4 Whilst our great Conqueror liu'd the King of Danes Canutus by the English Out-Lawes ayded Inuades the North but William him restraynes Henry the Emperor Bauaria inuaded Malcolm that ore the troublous Scots then raignes Peirces Northumberland at this time vaded The Saxons glory Otho them defaced after the Thuringas he by armes had chaced 5 Eudochia who had seuen yeares worne the Crown Of Graciaes Empyre was by maryage tyde Vnto Rhomanus one of high renowne Sir-nam'd Diogenes Gregory denyde Marriage to Priests the Russ. Duke was put downe By Prince Demetrius neare to him allyde William foure Castles built his Foes to tame At Yorke at Lincolne aud at Nottighame 6 Henry then Casar for some sinne detected Did by the Pope stand excommunicate and being of his Feudor King reiected To Gregory submits him and his State Now liu'd the famous Oswald much respected Byshop of Sarum Casar absolu'd late The second time condemnd gainst Gregory sped Stating Rauennaes Robert in his sted 7 Vradislaus was the first King made Of Boheme and of all the Countries neare Ansell who then Galisiaes Scepter swayed Did gainst the Sarazens in armes appeare And wan from them Tolledo by the ayde Of Christian Princes Rufus gouernd heer Next after conquering William thirteene springs He sat inuested in our Throne of Kings 8 Twice Robert made incursion but supprest By Williams power the Scots inuade againe But are appeasd the Welshmen Rees inuest Who in a conflict was by William slaine lerusalem by Pagan Armes opprest Th' assembled christiā kings by force maintain Where dide in battaile as the rumor ran The Babilonian Souldan Soliman 9 The Norman Robert chusd King by election Of Palestine refusd the Sacred stile Which Bulloin Godfrey tooke to his protection Scotch Malcolm with his sonne entring by guile Northumbers Marches came to the deiection By valiant Robert who was Earle that while Both slaine in field K. William the same yeare Erected the great Hall in Westminster 10 Duncan vsurpes in Scotland not two yeares He gouernd there but in his bed was slaine Donnald restor'd not long the Scepter beares But Edgar that ambitious was to raigne By armes supprest him and the Dia'dem weares Rufus being hunting Tyrrell of his traine By glauncing of an Arrow the King slew Henrie next gouernes by succession true 11 Thirty fiue yeares did Henry Beauclarke guide Th'Helme-Royall he for Thest strict lawes decreed Robert returnd from Palestine defide Henry who after parley were agreed Long their truce lasted not Beu-clarke denide His Brothers pension great dissentions breed After much warre Duke Robert they surprise Who for a prisons breach forfeits his eyes 12 Norwich Cathedrall Church is founded new S. Bartholmewes built by Reior a Musitian In Belgia great Inundations grew Being almost drown'd Now vpon good condition Peace twixt the Emperor and King Henry grew Whose daughter was with much hye superstition Made Empresse Maud the English Queen being dead Henry takes Adelisia in her stead 13 The King of England with French Lodwicke tryes Great discords where the English gaine the best In their returne by Sea great Tempests ryse Where all the yssue-Royall most and least Perisht with many Nobles grane and wise Where eight-score soules at once are sent to rest Of all the ship one Butcher and no more Escapt the seas and swam vnto the shore 14 Geffrey plantagenet the Emperour dead Wiues Maud the Empresse vnto whom she bare Two sonnes Henry and Geoffrey now life fled From Beu-clarke who to Stephen resignes his Chaire