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peace_n	england_n	king_n	scot_n	3,692	5	9.7269	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14779	Albions England Or historicall map of the same island: prosecuted from the liues, actes, and labors of Saturne, Iupiter, Hercules, and Æneas: originalles of the Brutons, and English-men, and occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion. Continuing the same historie vnto the tribute to the Romaines, entrie of the Saxones, inuasion by the Danes, and conquest by the Normaines. With historicall intermixtures, inuention, and varietie: proffitably, briefly, and pleasantly, performed in verse and prose by William Warner.; Albions England. Book 1-4	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 25079; ESTC S111586	85,079	130

my blisse or soone discharge my breath For if my prayers add no edge vnto thy begged doome The Uintage of my thristles loue is blasted in the bloome Be fauour able to my fier for thy swéet sake be bold I durst attempt euen Hell if hell so swéet a thing might hold Well thinke her coye or thinke her chaste my Censure I suspend Most women yeeld not at the first yet yeeld they in the end She gaue repulses to his lust and he Replies of Loue Not all the Wrights Diana had might Cupids Plaint remoue She countermaunding his demaund he ceased Courting now And did with her by vyolence what vertues disalowe And then departed leauing her in selfe-conceit disgraste More trespassed then some would thinke and yet perhaps as chaste Home came her Lord whose Browes had buds and found his wife in teares And foolish thing she told a troth for which reuenge he sweares But so the Man did proue a Beast he better might haue hid it Some such are mistically domme yet dombly doe forbid it His wifes Escapes done secretly if by the man detected Shewes hilled būpes supposed būpes mere hornes not hornes suspected At Denmarke in his Cosens Court he telleth of his wrong And gaines against his soueraigne Lord of Danes an Armie strong Hungar and Hubba and himself Conductors of this Oste Did with their forren Forces land and spoyle the Northerne Coste The vicious valiant Osbret that had vanquished ere then The King and Kingdome of the Scottes though wanting Armes men Thought skorne his Foes should beard him so barre him vp in walles And therefore issuing out of Yorke vpon the Danes he falles A bloodie Bargane then begonne no fight might fearcer bee And of the Danish parte were slayne for euery English three But manhood lost and number wonne the Danes they got the feelde And Osbret dyed valiantly that not to liue would yeelde MEane while the Danes with fresh Supplies ariue at euery Shore And warre almost in euery Shire infesting England sore With whom couragious Etheldred contended long in vayne By them was he King Ella and the holly Edmond slayne Nothing was done but all vndone till King Alured hée In daunger of his royall selfe did set his Subiects frée For euery day in euery place the Danes did so increase That he nor any English King enioye one day of peace Nor mightier men at Armes then they might any where be found Who in their diuers Warres els-where did diuers Realmes confound For as the Gothes the Vandales Hunnes and Saxons earst did range So now the Danes did plague the world as sent by interchange This Westerne and victorious King and greatest Monarke here Perceiuing of this spoyled Isle a toward Rewen nere Disguised like a Minstrell poore did haunt the Danish Tentes And with his feates and melodie the Enemie presents And of their sloth their gluttonie and Councels priuie so He tooke aduantage giuing them a sudden ouerthroe And slayeth Hubba Hungar and the Cause of their repaer And putteth all to Sword and Seas that vnbaptised waer Yet to Northumberland return'd fearce Gurmond with the Danes Meane tyme did King Alured dye the Hatchet of their Tranes But Adelstane one King betwixt not only clear'd the Land Of Danes but of all England had sole Empier in his hand Thus of this long dismembred Realme was he the only King In which till Egelred his raigne did prosper euery thing He raigning much of England then the Lordly Danes did hold Exacting Tributes euery yeare and selling Peace for Gold And which no doubt did hatch those Plagues the King a wicked one Did enter by his Brothers blood extorting thus his Throne KIng Edgar that subdew'd the Scottes and slaughtered the Danes And of the Welsh had Tribute Wolffes of whom it more remanes That as it were in Triumph-wise Eight Under-kings did roe Him Sterns-man on the Riuer Dee with diuers honors moe This Edgar by a former wife had Edward by an other This Egelred a Sonne vnto a kinde and cruell Mother For as she labors to preferre her owne by well and ill So to destroy her Sonne-in-law she wanted meanes not will And meanes did hit King Edward hunts and hunting lost his Trayne Whom Man-les at her Castell Corfe the Quéene did intertayne He hauing seene to whom he came in curtesie to see Made haste away in Quest of them that still a Hunting bee And mounted when he should departe to him his Stepdame drinkes Whom pledging him an Hierling stab'd and lifeles downe he sinkes Thus Egelred obtaynd the Crowne but for his crowning so His Subiects grudge and he became the Preface to their woe For when this proude and vicious King was neither lou'd of his Nor liued safely for the Danes his secret Edict is That suddenly in one selfe hower throughout the Land should passe A common slaughter of the Danes which so performed was And Welwyn called Wealth-wyn then for promptnes in that charge Beginning other Townes as it themselues from Danes inlarge CHAP. XXI THis common Massacre of Danes was common mirth to all The English whom they did oppresse with slaueries not small Compelling men by greeuous Draught as Beastes to plough their Land Of whom the English as of Gods or Feends in terror stand The Husband durst not vse his Wife if liked of a Dane Nor House nor Goods nor aught he had for who resistes was slane That prankes and feedeth daintely this pynes and fareth ill And of his Sweat that hath the sweete and is imperious still Each house maintayned such a Dane that so they might preuent Conspiracies if any were and grope how mynds were bent Lord Dane the same was called then to them a pleasing name Now odiously Lur-dane say we when ydell Mates we blame When Swayne the Dacian King did heare his Danes were murdred so With bitter vowes he shipt his men for Englands ouerthroe And landing spaerd no Shrine nor Sainct nor Sex nor any State Not wanting Ayders English-men that held their King in hate Especially false Edricus the Admirall deceiues His King and Countrie oftentymes and Bribes of Swayne receiues And Egelred his cowardisse incouraged the Foe Till Swayne at length by Masses great was bribed hence to goe But making short returne the Péeres of England that disdayne Th'indignities of such a King that did féebly rayne Submit them Subiects vnto Swayne and Egelred did flye Unto the father of his Quéene the Duke of Normandie And Swayne possessed of the Land did shortly after dye His sonne Canutus present here had Seazen of the Crowne Till Egelred returning backe by Armor puts him downe Who scarcely giueth breathing tyme but that he backe resayles From Denmarke and by force by friends and Fortune here preuayles For in this Warre King Egelred did sicken and decease And then the broyles Canutus King did for a tyme decrease Till Edmund sonne of Egelred did interrupt that peace COnferring Armes to Edmunds age when Egelred did lye On Death-bed to