tast But when the Couenant long before decided Twixt him and Tytan he records at last It pierst his hart with sorrow for his life Seemes to him tedeous led without a wife 28 What bootes him all his Honours and ritch state His wealths-increase and all his worldly pleasure For whom doth he rise early and sleepe late Hauing no heyre to inherite all his Treasure He knowes he hath incur'd his Brothers hate Yet must his seed make of his kingdome seazure He enuyes his owne wealth bicause he knowes All his life time he toyles t' enrich his foes 29 He loues his Sister Sybill yet not so That if she châ—…dren haue their blouds to spill And yet his timerous passions howerly grow Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill Faine would he marry her and yet doth know If shee haue Issue he her sonnes must kill So that he wishes now but all too late That for his vow he might Exchange his state 30 In this distraction many dayes he dwelt Till Loue at length in Saturnes hart preuailed Such feruent passions in his brest he felt That spight his Oath which he so much bewailed He feeles his soft thoughts in his bosome melt Needs must he yeild whom such faire Jookes assailed And now vpon this desperate point he stood To wade t' her bed thogh throgh his childrens blood 31 This can great Apis witnesse who that time Peloponessus gouern'd This records Iubalda who the Spanish seat doth clime This Craunus kneel'd to by th' Italian Lords This Satron who the Gaules rul'd in his prime Now to Semiramis Assyria affords The Monarchy who after Ninus dide Married her Sonne and perisht by his pride 32 The marriage rights with solemne feasts are done Sybill both wife and sister the first Queene That raign'd in Creete hath now conceiu'd a sonne Neuer hath lesse applausiue ioy bin seene At such a Brides Conception the time 's come The long suspensiue daies expired beene For if a male his blood the Earth must staine A male she brought forth and the Lad was slaine 33 For so the King commanded being a King He thought it base if he should breake his word Oh golden dayes of which the Poets sing How many can this Iron age afford That hold a promise such a precious thing Rather to yeeld their children to the sword Then that the world should say thy oath thou brakest Or wast so base to eate the word thou spakest 33 Such difference is twixt this and that of gold We in our sinnes are stronger Vertues weaker Words tide them fast but vs no bonds can hold They held it vil'd to be a promise breaker A Lyar was as strange in times of old As to find out amongst vs a true speaker Their harts were of pure mettall ours haue flawes Now lawes are wordes in those daies wordes were lawes 34 The Funerall of the first slaine infant ended And the sad daies of mourning quite expir'd At which the pittious Queene was most offended But now her spirits with dull sorrowes tired The King a second metting hath intended And the Queenes nuptiall bed againe desired Sibill conceiues and in her wombe doth cherish More children ready in their birth to perish 35 And growing neere her time the sorrowfull father Displeas'd to see his wife so apt to beare Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather The murther of his first sonne toucht him neare Sends through his Land a kingly traine to gather And makes for Delphos hoping he shall heare Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine Whose Oracles the king esteemes diuine 36 He therefore first his sacrifice prepares And on Apollos Altar Incense burnes Then kneeling to the Oracle his praiers Mount with the sacred sume which neare returnes Tell the pleas'd God acquainted with his cares Lookes downe from heauen sees him how he mourns Desiting that his power would nothing hide But tell what of her next birth should betide 37 With that there fell a storme of Raine and Thunder The Temple was all sire the Alter shooke The golden roofe aboue and pauement vnder Trembled at once about gan Saturne looke To see what heauenly power had caus'd this wonder Faine he the holy place would haue forsooke When th' Oracle thus spake thy wife growes great With one that shall depose thee from thy seat 38 For from her royall wombe shall one proceed That in despight of thee in Creet shall dwell So haue the neuer-changing fares decreed Such is the Oracles thrice sacred spell A sonne shall issue from king Saturnes seed That shall enforce his father downe to Hell This heard the discontented king arose And doubly sad away to Creet he goes 39 What shall he do faire Sibils time drawes neere And if the Lad which she brings forth suruiue The newes will stretch vnto his brothers eare To whom he sware to keepe no male aliue Besides a second cause he hath to feare Least he his father from his kingdome driue Then to preuent these ils he swears on hie Inspight of fate the infant borne shall die 40 Yet when the King his first sonnes death records In his resolued thoughts it breeds relenting The bloudy and vnnaturall act affords His troubled thoughts fresh cause of discontenting None dare approach his presence Queene noâ—… Lords That to his first childs death had bin consenting The first vnnaturall act appeares so vilde The king intends to saue his second childe 41 So oft as he the murder cals to mind So oft he vowes the second son to saue But thinking on his couenant grows vnkind And doomes it straight vnto a timelesse graue Againe the name of sonne would pitty find And for his oth some refuge seekes to haue But when the Oracle he doth recall The very thought of that confounded all 42 So deare to him his Crowne and state appeared That he his pompe before his blood preferred It ioyes him to commaund and to liue feared And now he thinkes his foolish pitty erred And setting light his issue seemes well cheared His fortune to the Goddes he hath referred Rather then loose his Scepter t is decreed Had he ten thousand brats they all should bleed 43 Resolu'd thus newes is brought him by his mother That Sibell late in trauell is deliuer'd Of two faire Twins a Sister and a Brother At this report his heart is well nigh shiuer'd Go spare the â—…one quoth he and kill the tother Alas saith she we women are pale-liuer'd And haue not heart to kill no beast so wilde Or brutish but would spare so sweete a childe 44 And shall a father then so madly fare With his owne issue his childs blood to spill And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare Shall reasonable man presume to kill The birds more tender ore their young ones are Fishes are kind vnto their issue still Fish bird and beast in sea Aire â—…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45
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
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
Aeres or Calciope thou tookest No aid from them who thou before forsookest Or say thou didst alas they cannot beare Thy sad complaints yet I no such thing feare No more Medea did good hopes ingage Themselues so farre they faile in their presage You see the ships that in the Mayne are tost And many times by Tempests wrackt and lost Had at their launching from the Hauens mouth A smooth sea and a calme gale from the South Besides the brand your mother dreampt she bare The night before your byrth breeds me fresh care It Propheside ere many yeares expire Inflamed Troy must burne with Greekish fire As Venus fauours you because she gained A double prize by you yet the disdained And vanquisht Goddesses disgracst so late May beare you hard I therefore feare their hate Nor make no question but if I consort you And for a Rauisher our Greece report you Warre will be wag'd with Troy and you shall rue The sword alas your conquest shall pursue When Hypodamia at her bridale feast Was rudely rauisht by her Centaur guest Because the Saluages the Bride durst ceaze War grew betwixt them and the Lapythes Or thinke you Menelaus hath no spleene Or that he hath not power to auenge his teene Or that old Tyndarus this wrong can smother Or the two famous Twins each lo'ud of other So where your valour and rare deedes you boast And warlike spirits in which you tryumph most By which you haue attaind mongst Souldiers grace None will beleeue you that but sees your face Your feature and fayre shape is fitter farre For amorous Courtships then remorselesse warre Let rough-hevv'd Souldiers warlike dangers proue T is pitty Paris should do ought saue loue Hector whom you so praise for you may fight I le finde you warre to skirmish euery night Which shall become you better Were I wise And bold withall I might obtaine the prize In such sweete single Combats hand to hand Gainst which no woman that is wise vvill stand my Champion I le encounter breast to breast Though I vvere sure to fall and be o'repreast In that you priuate conference intreat me I apprehend you and you cannot cheat me I know the meaning durst I yeeld thereto Of what you vvould confer What you would do You are too forward you too farre would vvade But yet God knowes your haruests in the blade My tyred pen shall heere his labour end A guilty sence in theeuish lines I send Speake next when your occasion best perswades By Clymenea and Aethra my two maydes 1 THese enter-changes of theyr Amors past And Menelaus absent they compound That in some place an ambush shall be plac't With which the Queene shall be incompast round And willingly surpriz'd seeming agast and at theyr armes to weepe to shrieke to sound But all in vaine the Troyan seemes to feare her and force perforce vnto his Fleet to beare her 2 Shee in her frightfull agony seemes dum Yet when shee was past helpe for helpe she cride She cals for rescue that had rescue come Euen at the sight of Spartan armes had dide Shee seemes affrighted at the Troian drum and at theyr stearne allarmes terrifide Shee cals on Father Husband Brother Friend Naming them most who could her least defend 3 This vprore made the bold Pannomians guard The passage to their ships still Hellen cryes Vpon th' Acaians from her rescue bar'd The rumour of her Rape through Sparta flyes Whilst Paris with his Souldiers keepes strict ward Launching at length with his desired prize Her two Twin-brother-Kings that nothing doubt At the same season soiournd thereabout 4 And hearing of their Sisters Rape make hast The Rauisher with fury to pursue They disimbogue hoping to gaine at last Sight of the Troâ—… Nauye which now grew neere to the Hellespont hauing quite past Th'Aegean Sea the Windes against them blew The Surges swell and with the rough Winds meet Conspiring both the ruyne of the Fleet. 5 Ships Sailes and men are swallowed in th' Abisse The brothers to two Starres the Gods translate One of the Poles by Castor named is The tother Pollux to record theyr fate Where now they shine in theyr Celestiall blisse But so farre distant in theyr blest estate As neither hath the power to see his brother For when we rayse the one we loose the other 6 By this time with his Troian Rape arriues At Tenedos the amorous Troian Lad Which Priam vnderstanding nobly striues To welcome her at her arriuall glad The Queene attended with the Noble Wiues Of all the Troian Princes richly clad Issues from Troy with thousands following after To entertaine bright Ladaes rauisht daughter 7 Behold where on an aumbling Palfrey mounted White as her mothers feathers she appeares Now one of Priams daughters counted For with that stile young Paris Hellen cheeres At meeting the old King himselfe dismounted and with soft kisses dryes her feigned teares Old Hecuba next Priam cheeres her mone and after her her daughters one by one 8 Hector and Troylus with the Lords of Troy Kisse her by turnes and with kind armes embrace her The people with applauses crowne theyr ioy Whilst Priam 'fore the multitude to grace her Betrothes the Spartan to his amorous boy And in 's returne on his right hand doth place her Aeneas and Anthenor highlie praisde Kneele to the King and by his hand are raisde 9 The long diuorced Peeres now enterchange Their free embracements whom with kisses sweet Theyr wiues to whom such fauours were grown strange with theyr long absence wirh like language meete The Troyans eyes on Hellen freely range With prayse and wonder they her welcome greet Her beauty euen so deepe in Hector strake He now repines that he against her spake 10 The ground is strewd with sweet and various flowers In euery place is Musicke heard to sound From Tenedos in lesse then two short howers They enter Troy whose Walles are peopled round She wonders at their buildings and hye Towers The like to which in Sparta are not found Wals wealth and people Pallace all appearing Richer to th' eye then theyr report in hearing 11 She treads not but on Arras Casts her eyes But on ritch hangings beautyes rooffes of Gold Iewels State Garments Now she doth despise The pouerty of Sparta as things old The nouelties of Troy she gins to prise But most delights in her sweet armes to infold Inamoured Paris who as much excels her husband as Troy Sparta in ought else 12 The morrow coms by Priam shee is led To Pallas Temple and espoused there To Paris and at night conueyde to bed By Hecuba her bright Attendants were Andromache Crevsa and instead Of hand-maydes Polyxene and Cressyde deare To Troylus None saue Ladyes of estate Are suffred on the Spartan Queene to waite 13 Eyght entyre dayes and nights the hye feast lasts And Troy's all mirth whylst Sparta is all woe With swiftest speed a winged Curror hasts As farre as Creet Queene Hellens Rape to show
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
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
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
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
With his dead fathers Crowne This Vesta feares And calling Saturne thus to him she sed My dearest sonne t is by the Lords decreed That in Vranus Prince-dome thou succeed 13 Thy brother Tytan though in Age before thee Yet in thy wisedome thou hast him out-stript Thou hast the popular loue they all adore thee His blasted hopes are in the blossome nipt With Coine with Men with Armor I will store thee Let him stand fast or he shall sure be tript Both Lords and people ioyne with me thy mother To invest Saturne and depose thy brother 14 With that before her sonne could make reply Where they were speaking rusht bold Tytan in A storme was in his brow fier in his eye After some tempest he doth thus begin Must then young Saturne raigne Oh tell me why Am I a Bastard and begot in sinne Hath Vesta playd the strumpet with my Father That you despise me and elect him rather 15 Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first And lay I not as neere your heart as he Was I not of those breasts before him nurst And am I not his Elder in degree What haue I done you should affect me worst Your Mayden-birth and your first progeny Before him I was borne and to be plaine By all the Goddes I will before him raigne 16 Had I not in your wombe the selfe-same being Am I not of the selfe-same bloud created Is not my Royalty with his agreeing Is not my birth before his Anti-dated Is elder Tytan now not worth the seeing Must in my right that young boy be instated Hath he so well or I so ill deseru'd No first I came and I will first be seru'd 17 And turning to young Saturne with an eye Threatning reuenge and ruyne to his life Prin-cox quoth he must you be plac't so hye The only darling of Vranu wife Canst thou so soone out-leape me Thou shalt die And in thy fatall obits end this strife Then with his fatall blade he blest his head Had the blow falne it had strooke Saturne dead 18 But Vesta staide it comming and withall Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither They hugge young Saturne but on Tytan fall Thundring on him with clamors altogither The yonger brother they their Soueraigne call And bid the elder packe they care not whither The people second them thus in disgrace The Stigmaticke is forst to leaue the place 19 But hauing better with himselfe aduised Tytan and Saturne thus the strife decide That Tytan for his shape so much despised Should leaue the Scepter vnto Saturnes guide And so to stint all mallice enterprised But after Saturnes death the Crownet'abide To Tytan and his heyres by his last will So Saturne sweares all his heyres male to kill 20 King Saturne must not let a sonne suruiue To keepe his brothers I ssue from the Crowne Only his Daughters he may saue aliue These Couenants are betwixt them both set downe Hence-forth no more these haughty brothers striue For eyther by Indenture knowes his owne The Crowne is Saturnes due to Tytans seed To make which good all Saturnes sonnes must bleed 21 The elder brother thus o'reswaide with might Cannot indure that Clyme but seekes another To see his yonger throned in his right Or to be cal'd a Subiect to his brother And therefore full of anger and despight He leaues his Countrey Sisters and his mother And to be rid at once of his disgraces He seekes aduentures strange in forren places 22 Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e No quest saue Armes and valour he intended And how by Vsurpation to intrude Into the rightes of others who defended Their Honors both by strength and multitude Thus he of many Islands raignes sole King And all the World of Tytans Actes doth ring 23 Yet into Creet he daily sendes espiall To know if Saturne made his Couenant good Forcing his slye skouts mauger all deniall To bring him word how Saturnes glory stood Whether of Mariage he had yet made tryall Or hauing Children male had spilt their bloud Knowing himselfe to be sufficient strong By force of Armes to right his former wrong 24 So with his fiue and forty Sonnes makes thence With fayre Tytea mother to seuenteene Of that large broode all these with rage dispence And by their late attonement Exiles beene With patience they depart but with pretence Hoping well Armed once more to be seene And with their brood of Tytanois to meet And tug with Saturne for the Crowne of Creet 25 Rhea of all the beauteous daughters fairest Brides with Hiperion her best-lou'd Brother He likewise for his feature was the rarest Of Tytans sonns there liu'd not such another Oh sweet Hiperion thou in shape comparest With all the Gyant yssue of thy mother At feuerall byrths two Babes she childed soone The male she cald the Sunne Female the Moone 26 The tother Tytans fearing to these two Their Fathers Conquests should in time descend A monstrous Act they haue intent to do Whose scandall shall beyond both Poles extend And none but Parricides would yeild vnto For they that should their Brothers life defend Conspire together and gainst right or reason In dead of night they seeke his death by Treason 27 But first they take his little sonne the Sunne And to the floud Eridanus well knowne That streames along their Coast In hast they run Where the young Lad amongst the waues is throwne This when his tender Sister knew was dun From a high Rocke her selfe she tumbled downe In pitty of whose beauties grace and yeares The Gods translate them to the brightest Spheres 28 Meane time the new made King of Creet 's renowne Increast so much that he was term'd a God He was the first that ware a Lawrell Crowne The first that venter'd on the Scas and rod In triumph on the waters this being knowne They held them happiest that could make abod In his blest Prouince which being well conducted Kings sent their Sonnes to him to be instructed 25 Saturne in those daies was helde onely wise Many young Princes in his Court werâ—… traiâ—…d He taught them both the vse of Seas and â—…es And what hâ—…d wealth within the Earth remained Then gan he Citties build and Lawes deuise for an Irregular people he disdained The mynerall mountaine-veines he vnder-minde And was the first that perfect Golde refinde 26 Yet neuer did this King in ought miscarry Hauing what Earth and Sea and Ayre could yeild Happy in all thinges saue he durst not marry He sees the gorgcous house he late did build Shine with reflecting Gold his obiects varry He sees his ripe corne growing in the field He sees the wilde Birds by his Archers caught Pierst with those shafts whose vse before he taught 27 He sees the vast Seas by his Oares deuided And the decepe waters without danger past By Art of Sayle and Rudder they are guided What greater happinesse could Mortall
those bolts vnlosed Oh heauens what mortall wit what humane skil Can keepe a woman chast against her wil 57 Thou gealous foole why dost thou gayle thy wife When Darrains strong Tower cannot loue expel Better thou hadst to graunt her a free life If she be honest she wil guide it well If otherwise adicted vaine is strife Though in the circuit of Brasse walles she dwel Inmure her body fast as thou canst thinke Shee 'l make thee Cuckold bee 't but through a chinke 58 Perhaps her body in strict bonds thou hast Yet canst thou not the thoughts within her stay Not she that dares not sinne is counted chast Not she that 's matcht and cannot step astray Not she that feares is mongst the vertuous placst Alone shee 's Chast that will not though she may Their Natures are to couet things demde And in forbidden pathes to tread aside 59 Oft haue I seene a Steed would keepe no Tract But fling and bound when he was too much raynde But when he felt his curbe and bridle slackt Play with the Byt that he so much disdaind And so that Steed by gentle meanes is backt Which brookes no Ryder being much constraind So doth a sicke man stil though he be chid Most couet what the Doctors most forbid 60 Had Danae mongst a thousand suters playd And reueld in her Fathers pallace then I doubt not but she still had beene a mayd And as she did before despised men Her ruthlesse Father her fresh youth betraid When he inclos'd her in her brazen den Though thousand gates and doores her beuty smother Loue breakes through al to make the maide a mother 61 Her time expires her father spies her great And threats the Beldams to consuming fire New Guardiens are appointed in this heat Acrisuâ—… doth by sundry meanes inquire Of her and of her guard by no intreat Or forced torment made to glut his ire Will they confesse the Ladies all dare sweare Saâ—…th ' vnsuspected Pedler none came there 62 Nor will bright Danae yet disclose her shame Vntill the long lamented houre draw neare Nine Moones o'repast her houre of Childing came Deniall bootes not when such signes appeare And now gainst Cretan Ihoue shee gins t'exclaime And gainst all them that will themselues forsweare A childe is borne the Lad she Perseus names Cleares all her maids and on her selfe exclaimes 63 Th' offended King hath doom'd them both to die And being inexorable that doome stands The Seas they in a mastlesse boat must try Where both th' Imperious wind and waue commands The pitteous Marâ—…ers themselues apply To their vnwilling taske In their loth hands They Perseus take and the faire Danae guide To tast the mercy of the rigorous tide 64 The Argiue Lord heere sighes but heere Ihoue rages Threatning Acrisius cursing his delay But Ganimed at length his spleene asswages And aymes his threatned thoughts another way Hauing lost Danae quite he now ingages His loue to Iuno and beside her lay Of whom he got a sonne In small time after From his Aunt Ceres he deriu'd a daughter 65 None comes amisse to him stranger nor kin Of his owne Nation or of climes remote His daughter Venus tels him t is no sin For men to practise dalliance where they dote Prince Ganimed that long in grace had bin And did this loosenesse in his Hauior note Demanded how he could his thoughts deuide To loue so many thus the King repli'de 66 I will not in my owne vaine errors stand Nor boldly that which some condemne maintaine The fault is great if it bee truely scand I knew it bad but can it not refraine For mad-man like I striue to plow the sand In seeking my free humor to restraine I burne and seeking ease run to the fire I loath my fault and yet my guilt desire 67 I want the power to gouerne mine owne will My head-strong appetite beares all the sway I know my waies losse yet I wander still I see the path and yet I turne astray Thus like a Ship misguided without skill Whom a stiffe violent Tempest beares away To wracke it on some Rocke or shallow sounds I am transported quite beyond my bounds 68 I loue but yet I know not in what fashion I loue a thousand for a thousand reasons My mouing thoughts abide in no firme station My hart is subiect to my blind thoughts Treasons For euery sundry Lasse I enter passion And am of loue prouided at all seasons That wench is modest oh shee s in my Bookes I onely loue her for her modest lookes 69 Yon lasse is bold see see my heart she easeth I like her shee s not like a Milke-sop bred And straight this thought my apprchension seyseth She will be much more plyant in the bed This is a Shrew her sharpenesse my soule pleaseth Because no sheepe I would the Damsell wed And in that thought I skale her amorous fort Sharpe Noses are all Shrewes yet apt for sport 70 Is she a Scholler Then her Art delights me Is she a Dunce Her simplenesse contents me Doth she applaud my loue Her praise incites me Or discommend me Yet she represents me With matter of new loue Admit she spights me I loue her for her spight no whit torments me For though her words be rough smooth is her skin What in the first I loose the last I win 71 Hath she a tripping gate Her short steps moue me And in her quicker motion I take Pride Takes she large steps in going As you loue me Let me haue her I like her for her stride Sings she I am inchanted let her proue me I on her lips can quauer and deuide Is she vnweâ—…ldy Yet my hart she charmes And may be much more actiue in my armes 72 Her I affect she is so sweet a Singer And I loue her though she can tune no note She playes vpon the Lute that nâ—…mble finger Would please me better in a place remote Yoâ—… dances I affect a lusty springer And on such capting legges who could not dote This cannot dance yet when she lies in bed She will find Art to haue thy fancies fed 73 All things Inchant me that these Ladies do And in my frozen breast bright bon-fires make Thou art a Bona-roba and I wo Thee for thy bredth and length thy Stature sake Thou art a little Lasse I like thee too And were I sleepy thou wouldst keepe me wake Not one can come amisse I can find sport Both with the fat and leane the long and short 74 You Lady manners wants I straight suppose Would she learne Court-ship how it would beseem her This court-ship hath and I must needs disclose What loue I for her manners can bet â—…me her That hath a whitely face and a long nose And for them both I wondcrous well esteeme her This the greene sicknesse hath I long to proue her This lookes not greene but black I therfore loue her 75 Is her haire browne So louely Ladaes was
make him way Patroclus had not beene Long in the place but all the Greekes were cheared They that before stood like a haruest screene Gaue backe apace for not a man appeared Patroclus still aduanc'st Achilles shicld And with his Myrmidons maintaines the field 31 Now horrid Massacre pursues apace Th' astonisht Troians Paris wounders most To see Achilles arm'd makes good the place And with such rage assault the Troian hoast That not a man dares their Pauillions face Or gainst the Myrmidons his valour boast He cals him troth-lesse periur'd false forsworne And as he speakes withal is backward borne 32 The cry growes great which Hector ouer-hearing He cals vpon his men to cease base flight And spying one aboue the rest appearing Dreadfull in shape and all imbrude in fight His quakefull hand and sword so often rearing He takes him for the warlike Pelean Knight Achilles of the Graecians great'st in pride Whom he had oft before in battaile tride 33 He chuseth from his Page an Oaken speare Hewed from the hart of Ihoues relentlesse tree And couching it spurres with a full Carriere Against Patroclus his proud Steed was free And like a shot starre doth his Ryder beare At euery plunge the ground neere kist his knee His constant ayme that neuer er'd at need Tops the proud Greeke from off his Noble steed 34 And now Achilles armour strowes the field Patroclus lyes vpon the Verdure spred Heere lay his sword and there his trusty shield The Myrmidons as had their Lord bin dead And neuer more victorious Armes should weild Al in disordred rankes retyr'd and fled Achilles armes ceizd who durst longer stay This was the cause the Dardan wan the day 35 When dead by Hector was Menetius son And that his wounded body strowed the plaine Quoth Hector Now Achilles armes are won These are mine owne and these wil I maintaine He strips the faire Patroclus new foredone And thought at first Achilles he had slaine But when he saw one not of God-like kind The Armes he takes the body leaues behind 36 Achilles franticke with so great disgrace Losse both of friend and of his glorious armes Torments himselfe with fury for a space Threatning to Princely Hector hostile harmes Yet when he thinkes to haue his life in chace And rowse the Worthy with his warres alarmes He now records his friends disgrace in field To combat him he hath nor armes nor Shield 37 The bright-foot Amphetrite his fayre Mother Knowing the griefe her sonne conceiues at hart Her true Maternall pitty cannot smother But with her care she seekes to cure his smart Instead of these she will prouide him other Made by Deuine composure not Mans art And thus resolu'd to Lemnos she doth hie Where Vulcan workes in heauenly Ferrarie 38 She found him with his face all smoog'd and blacke And labouring at his Forge quite hid in smoke The stifling fume kept the faire Goddesse backe About she was her soft steps to reuoke But whilst the Câ—…ps on their Anuiles thwacke She spies faire Charis and to her she spoke That the Lame Mettall-God might vnderstand Thetis his friend the Seas-Queene was at hand 39 Charis the hand-maide grace whose Office still Is to strow Venus louely bed with Flowers And to them both Caelestiall Nectar fill As vnto Ihoue-himselfe faire Hebe powers Prayes the bright Goddesse but to stay vntill The swetty Smith his face and visage skowers And whilst she tels the God of her repaire To ease her selfe in a rich golden Chaire 40 Charis departs she mounts the Inamel'd seat The backe of solid Gold richly ingrau'd Cut and inchac'st it shewed his skill was great and in the Metall too no cost was sau'd So though the frame was large his art was neat The foure supporters round about were stau'd With pillers of white siluer moulded so That by the worke the worke-man you may know 41 Meane time faire Charis to the Smith relates How faire-foote Amphetrite stayes without at this report lame Vulcan thankes the Fates Who had so well his businesse brought about The Queene whose fauour he so highly rates Should take the paine to finde his Concaue out Of whom he falling through the Plannets seauen More fauour found then all the rest in heauen 42 With that his apron from his brest he takes His airy Bellowes haue surceast to blow He sleckes his Coales his smoaky Forge forsakes Spunges his hands and face then gins to throw A rich Roabe ore his shoulders and so makes On to the Queene whose mind he longs to know When after many a limping Curtsie made Thus Amphetrite doth the Smith perswade 43 If euer I was held worthy the name Of the seas-Queene vnfortunate alone For of the seed of Gods deriu'd I came Yet married to a Mortall find you none Thetis except yet i st to me no shame Behold my Deuine beauty I was one Euen Ihoue himselfe lou'd whom cause I denide In spight he gaue me to a Mortals Bride 44 Yet am I not esteem'd amongst them least For when my hye espousals were first made In the Mount Pelion all the Gods increast My glory with their presence for none stayed Or kept away from th'Hymenean feast Sauing the Goddes discord the Spheares plaid Musicke to vs my Peleus me contented To grace whom all the Gods rich gifts presented 45 Ihoue gaue vs Graces on our bed to wait Apollo Ingots of the purest Gold Pluto a smarag'd to be worne in state Iuno a lem worth more then can be told Neptune two Steeds aboue all Mortall rate Xanthus and Ballia whom you may behold Still draw my Coach a rich Knife rarely wrought Mongst other presents you God Vulcan brought 46 But what of these digressions If my hap Hath euer bin to do you any grace When falling from hye Heauen in my soft lap I gently catcht you See behold the place On which your head fel which to fold and wrap In smoothest silkes my robes I did vnlace For this and much more kindnesse by me done Requite all with an Armour for my sonne 47 Inough quoth Vulcan fetch Pyragmon straight A parcell of the best and purest Steele And you Berountes let it finde the waight Of your huge Hammers and their ponders feele The Ciclops fetcht a Plate six Cubes in haight So Massie that the burden made him reele Sceropes stain'd with smoake the Bellowes blew And all at once themselues to worke withdrew 48 They forg'd a Helmet with rich Flowers inchac'st So curiously that Art it much exceeded Borders of sundry workes about were plac'st The precise sight of the best eye they needed That could discerne the closures they were grac'st With God-like skill from God-hood it proceeded For beauty it was glorious to the sight For proofe no Steele could on this Helmet bite 49 The Gorget Vaunt-brace Backe-peece brest and all Came from the selfe-same substance and like skill The Cushes that beneath the girdle fall Impenetrable were
After fiue yeares bold Porrex Ferrex slew For which their Mother Porrex much disdained And in his blood did her blacke hands imbrew After their death sedition was maintained Full one and fifty yeares whilst no man knew Th'imediate heyre and whilst these wars were norisht Darius Xerxes and Queene Hestor flourisht 15 Th' Athenian Sophocles a Tragicke Poet Plato Cratinus Aristarchus were All Commicke Writers as their workes best show it Empedocles of Athens did acquiere Musickes full ground and made the world to know it Parmenides made Lodgicke first appeare Which in Mount Cancasus he first deuised Esdras the Scribe the Scriptures now comprised 16 MVlmutius Dunwallo sonne and heyre To Cloten Duke of Corweyle's next instated He did the foure broad High-wayes first repaire First Crown'd Paules Church first built and consecrated And after forty yeares from Brittaines Chaire To a new Throne in heaâ—… he was translated Now Socrates th' Athenian heaâ—… charmes Demosthenes famous for Arts and Armes 17 BEline and Bren the Brittish Crowne deuide Being by their Mother after wars attoned Whilst Bren in forraigne Armes his valour tride Beline built Belinsgate all Denmarke groned Beneath his yoake Bren to the Galles alide Sackt Rome burnt Delphos and was after stoned With Hayle and Thunder-stroke much blood was spilt In Italy ten stately Townes he built 18 Twenty sixe yeares hetwixt them they supply The Crowne and Sceptet Dionisius raignd In Sicily Damâ—…n and Pythias try Their mutuall friendship Xenophâ—…n maintained His schoole in Athens Platâ—… prized higher His Accademy rear'd Now was ordained For King Mansolus by the Carian Qneene A stately Tombe rankt mongst the wonders nine 19 GVrguintus Belins sonne ninâ—…teene yeares made The Brittaines homagers by euen Tradition Aristotle liu'd whose Fame shall neuer fade Sonne to Nichomachus a great Physition Now Macedonian Phillip gan t' inuade His neighbour-Kings in many an expedition The Noble Marcus Curtius for Romes sake Arm'd at all points leapt in the Curtian Lake 20 GVintheline six and twenty yeares made good His right in Brittaine Mercia his faire wife Deâ—…isde the Mercian Lawes by Tibur flood The clouds raind stones after Darius strife Which ended in effâ—…sion of much blood By poyson Alexander lost his life Next Guintheline seauen yeares Cecilius raigned Next him three yeares Kimar the state maintained 21 Nine yeares Elanius raign'd Morindus eight Deuour'd of a Sea-monster In their dayes Onias sonne of Taddus reacht the height Of the Priests Office Gorbomannus swayes Eleauen full yeares a Prince assisting right Symon Onyas sonne the Habrewes raise To the Priest-hood next iust Gorboman Fierce Archigall to Tyranize began 22 After fiue yeares depos'd his second Brother Succeeded in the stile of Elidure A vertuous Prince there sat not such another In Brittaines Chaire in life seuere and pure Fiue yeares himselfe did Archigallo smother And his deposing patiently endure At length by Elidurus met and knowne To Archigallo he resignes his Throne 23 Ten yeares the twice-Crown'd Archigallo now Gouernes the State in Honour and then dying To Elidure againe the Brittans bow After two yeares his Brothers him defying Keepe him in bonds the Brittaine Peeres allow Their double rule nine yeares their Conquesttrying Vigenius and Peridure are past And Elidure the third time Crown'd at last 24 Raigning foure yeares In this forepassed state Liu'd Epyre pyrrhâ—…s and Lisimachus The High-priest Eleasar chus'd oflate Receiues th' Egiptian league Now breath Seleucus And Ptolomy now by the Roman Senate Siluer was coyned first Theos-Antiochus In Syria raign'd blood sprang out of a Well And from the Clowds Milke in abundance fell 23 MAnasses liu'd high Priest among the Iewes Ten yeares ruld Gorboman Morgan 〈◊〉 Emerianus next to him pursues The Diadem a Tyrant full of spleene After seauen yeares deposd Inall insues A temperate Prince who twenty yeares was seene In Brittaines Throne Amilchar Carthage swaide Illyrian Teuca â—…id proud Rome inuade 26 RImo raignd sixteene yeares bold Hanniball And Scipio fought Wise Cato liu'd in Rome Next Rimo King Geruntius they install Him after twenty yeares his Lords intoome The losty Spaniards from Romes Empire fal And after stand to Fuluius Flaccus doome Ten yeares Catellus raign'd the Iewes were foyld And by Antiochus Gods Temple spoyld 27 The Mother and her seauen sonnes Martird were The worthy Iudas Machabeus fought Gods battailes Coill raigned twenty yeare Great Carthage was destroyd and Corinth brought To fall by fire The Doctrines first apeare The Pharisei and Sadducei taught Fiue yeares iust Porrex drunken Cherimus One Fulgen two one Eldred one Androgeus 28 Dendantius fiue yeares two Detonnus held The soueraignty then lest this life for new Nature a Monstrous byrth in Rome compeld Hauing foure hands foure feet Corne grew In Bonony on Trees whose tast exceld The Parthian Arsaces Demetrius slew Great Scipio Affricanus ends his life By salse Sempronia his disloyall wife 29 Young Vrianus three King Eliud fiue Two Meriaâ—…ns and Bladunus twaine Capenâ—…s three Ouinius doth next striue And his imperiall state two yeares maintaine Two Silius Bledgabredus â—…id suruiue Full twenty yeares in his auspitious raigne Hircanâ—…s gouernd in the high-Priests sted Marius â—…mpht o're Iugurth Captiueled 30 Archemachus raignd two Eldotus foure Two Rodianus three Redargius Samillius two the Brittaines next adore King penesellus three two princely pirrhus And after him Caporus two no more Now grew the watres twixt Scilla and Marius Diuellus foure Helyas Ely named Gouernd ten months when death his body claimed 31 Lvd Helyes sonne his happy rule began Nam'd Troynouant Luds-towne Ludgate erected Eleauâ—…n yeares raign'd then to Cassibelan Left his two infant sonnes to be protected Who till the Princes grew to state of man By all the Brittish Peeres was King elected Raign'd nineteene yeares in his dayes twice repeld The Roman Casar the bold Brittaines queld 32 Nennius wan Casars sword and had it brought To be hang'd ore his hearse Pompey the great With Iulius Casar in Pharsalia fought Iulius vsuâ—…pes in Romes Imperiall seat Was stab'd with Bodkins he that neuer fought But conqâ—…'d in all Martiall acts compleat Now flourisht Cicero with praise Deuine Hermius and seditious Cateline 33 And not the least grace to Triumphant Rome The rare Comadian Roseius Next in rowe Of Brittish Kings must young Tenancius come Twenty three yeares he raignd and then did owe No more to nature then th' adopted son Of Casar great Augustus now doth grow Romes Monarchy Marke Anthony through pride Rebeld by Aspes great Cleopatra dide 34 Virgil and Horace flourisht In these dayes Iesus Sabetes sonne was consecrated High Priest King Herod Iewries Scepter
tumult at his Sermon raisde A man vnknowne his Doctrine much disdaining Threw at his face a Dagger Ridley praysd Mongst protestants and Cramner fauour gaining In Edwards dayes were for Arch-traitors blaz'd And dide by fire Northumberland that sped To Cambridge on the Tower-hill lost his hed 114 The Turkish Solyman with his owne hands Slew his sonne Mustapha the Cardinall In Henries dayes but late exild his Lands Was by the Queene reâ—…cald now gan to fall The protestants against them strictly stands The Catholicke Cleargy the proud Genowayes brall With the French King who after in small while Wan by the Turkes ayde the rich Corsicke I le 115 Englands great Queene espousd Phillip of Spaine Sir Thomas Wyat for rebellion dide Duke Suffolke Father to the Lady Iane Was at the Tower beheaded Coortney allyde To the blood Royall once more they restraine Of Liberty the fourth Paule full of pride Supplies the pope-dome the same year did chance Much warrâ—… and trouble betweene Spaine and France 116 Lady Elizabeth was keptin hold and by the Queene committed to the Tower There harshly vsd her life to danger sold By souldiers theâ—…ce remooud to Wood-stocke Bower Sir Henry Benning-field somewhat too bold Vpon her iust proceedings looking sower a blazing Comet twelue full nights appeared Great Lones of Money by the Queene were reared 117 Great dearth in England For base murder dide at Salisbury Lord Sturton Callis lost Which was by England many yeares supplide Since the third Edward the proud Clergy mgrost all the spirituall fruits to glut their pride Phillip tooke fea and left the English Coast For griefe of which Mary soone after craisd and dide with Cardinall Poole in England raisd 118 Next whom the faire Elizabeth is Crownd a Princesse with all gracious Thewes indude She did the Gospell quicken and confound Romes Antichrist all such as he pursude With fire and Inquisition she guirt round With safety and her Lands pure face imbrude With blood of Innocents her prospetous raigne Cleard and wipt off each foule and bloody staine 119 Henry the French King in the â—…ilt was layde Breathlesse at Paris Paules is burnt a peace Betweene the Realmes of France and England made Newhauen siege and a great plagâ—…les increase Lord Henry Stewart to the hests obayd Of the Scotch peeres whose vâ—…gings neuer â—…ease Till to their generall comforts he was seene Espousd to Lady Mary Scotlands Queene 120 Now came the Baden margraâ—… with his wife To London she heere brought him a new sonne Whom the Queene Christend breathing a new life In his decaid estate Now was begun The Burse on Cornhill whose renowne grew rife In euery place where Traffickes gaine is won In Scotland to restore a kingdome torne Iames of that name the fixt this yeare was borne 121 Henry of Scotland was by Traytors slaine And Shan Oneile in Ireland put to flight By bold Sir Henry Sidney with the gaine Of a great battaile where theyr Treasons light Vpon the Traytors with a gallant trayne The Muscouite lands in his Emperors right T' establish Trafficke now as rebels stand Th'Earles of Nor thumber land and Westmerland 122 Debate with Scotland and in Norfolke grew Conspiracy the Queene in person came To Gressams Burse to take a princely view To which she gaue at his request a name Royall Exchange this yeare the Christians slew Many proud Turkes and beate them backe with shame Into theyr Foretresses and Citties walled This was the battaile of Lepantho called 123 A massacre in Paris now their heads The Norfolke Duke lost and Northumber land A blazing starre six months together spreds Her fiery rayes now by the violent hand Of one George Browne who murdrous futy leads Was Maister Saunders slaine the matter scand Anne Dreury for that fact and Saunders wife George Browne with trusty Roger lost his life 124 By Furbusher Cathaia was made knowne The Essex Earle this yeare at Dinelon dide In Ireland where his Fame was dreadfull growne Ioh 〈◊〉 Cassimerus did through London ride Desmond rebeld Drake that had compast rowne The world and many dangerous Fortunes tride Was Knighted by the Queene Mounsier arriued Thinking the English Monarchesse t' haue wiued 125 William the Prince of Orenge was betrayde And with a Pystoll by a souldier slaine Poland Musco into England made avoyage and did six months heere remaine Purser and Clinton Pyrars that denaide allegiance to the Queene at length were tane By William Barrowes Antwerpe sackt and spoyld By Parmaes Duke who long against it toyld 126 Northumberland himselfe in the Tower slew Iago Domingo and Carthagen By Drake and Furbusher whom most men knew Carletle and many gallant Englishmen Surprisd and â—…ckt the Earle of Liester grew Great in the Land and sayld to Flushing then Where his Commission he at large relates Being made chiefe Generall to the Belgian states 127 Embassadors from Denmarke gratulate Her highnesse raigne the Earle of Arundell Conuict aleague twixt England and the state Of Scotland Noble Candish furnisht well In two good ships well mand and builded late Compast the world the foureteene Traitors fell and suffer'd for the guilt at Zutphen dide Noble Sir Phillip Sidney souldiers pride 128 His death a generall griefe mongst souldiers bred a Parlyment The great At made of Spaine Rode on the English Coast and gainst vs sped But by our Fleet they were repulst againe at Tilbery the Campe was brauely led By Elizabeth in person in whose traine all Englands Chiualry mustred and met Leister meane time to Nature paid his debt 129 Portugall voyage Lodwicke Grewill prest For murder the bold Duke of Guise betraid And slaine by the third Henry when he least Suspected Death a Fryer no whit dismaid Incouragd by the Guisians as t is ghest Murdred the King then Henrie Burbon laid Claime to the Crowne whom England so supplies That by her ayde his warlike Fortunes rise 130 Whom Essex Willoughby Norris assist Sir Roger Williams with a many moe Strong Paris they besiege and as they list March thorough France maugre the common foe Hacket is hangd in Cheape who did persist In blasphemy In London gan to grow a grieuous Plague Lopes arraind and tride Drawne from the London Tower at Tyburne dide 131 Cales sieg'd and won the Duke of Bulloine lands In England th' Islands voyage this yeare came Embassadors from Denmarke from whose hands The Queene receiu'd rich presents Now with Fame Th' Earle Cumberland renownd in forraigne Lands Wan Iohn de Porterico sackt the same Lord Burleigh Treasurer submits to fate Since the sixt Edward Counsellor of state 132 Essex is sent for Ireland gainst Tyrone a Muster at Mile-end Essex comes backe With a small traine of followers after whom Lord Montioy speeds against the dangerous packe Of Irish Rebels whose braue valours showne In