Ledes Evrotes A'ntiopes Danaes Apollo exilde by Iupiter kept Admetus sheepe which Pindarus in pithicis affirme or his Oxen as Horace 1. carminum And therefore he had the title to be called euer after the god of pastures As Virg. 3. Georgic Te quoque Magne pales te memorande Canemus pastor ab Amphriso The end of the fourth CANTO Argumentum KIng Tantalus before the Troians flyes Saturne arriues in Creet and by Troas ayded Once more intendes his Kingdome to surprise Creet is by Troian Ganimede inuaded In ayde of Iupiter the Centaures rise Aegeons ful-fraught Gallies are disladed Danae and her young sonne are turnd afloate By Arges King into a Mast-lesse boate ARG. 2. PElops the two Atrides and Aegeon Vulcan the Gorgones in Epsilon CANTO 5. 1 WHose inspiration shall my heauy brayne Implore to make my dull Inuention light Or to a loftyer key my pen constraine Or raise my Muse that takes so low a flight Thou Ihoue-borne Pallas o're my numbers raine And musicall Apollâ—… giue me spright With the bright rayes that from thy temples shine To shew me way vnto the Muses nine 2 Of whom the eldest Clio first deuisd To Chronicle the Royall gests of Kings Strutting Melpomene in Gules disguisd In Theaters mongst Tragicke Actors sings But soft Thalya hath such straines despisd And to her Commicke sceanes shrill laughter brings Wind Instruments Entirpe best affects Terpsichore the stringed Lyre directs 3 The Geometricke figures Erato Hath in her charge as first by her disclosed But from Calliope hie Stanzoes flow For the Heroik numbers first composed The course of starres are by Vrania know And how the Planets we aboue disposed But Polihimnia smooth Rhetoricke chuses The youngest of Ioues daughters and the Muses 4 All these at once their sacred gifts aspire That may giue beauty to my taske in hand Affoording helpe when I their aide desire To guide my tost-Bark to desired Land A slender barke slow sayl'd and apt to tire And founder in the Sea weake and vnmand Apollo with the rest my voyage speed Whilst to Troyes fatall ruine we proceed 5 King Tantalus the sonne of Iupiter That rain'd in Attique brought an host 'fore Troy Which his sonne Pelops led how can he erre Being directed by so braue a Boy That vndertakes his army to transferre And Troos with his new Citty to destroy This Pelops with the King of Elis ran And in the course bright Hyppodamia wan 6 Her Father Oenemaus was betraid My Myrtolus his treacherous Chariot-driuer And in the race slaine Pelops by his aide Of many suters dead the sole suruiuer After the goale obtaind inioyes the maide Intending with all pompous state to wiue her Th'espousals ended Time with swift pace runnes And she in processe hath producst two sonnes 7 Thyestes and Atreus nam'd the first Ore-come with burning lusts insatiate heat Rauisht Atreus wife oh deed accurst For which Atreus doth him home intreat And takes his Children where the Babes were nurst To dresse their bodies for their fathers meat Some bak't some rost some sod oh bloody deed To make a father on his owne childe feed 8 Atreus two sonnes had the eldest hight Agamemnon who was after Mycenes king And Greekish Generall of the ten yeares fight Twixt Greece and Troy which we must after sing The second Menelaus in whose right The Argiue Dukes their puisant Armies bring Husband to Hellen when prince Paris sought her And Hellen Iupiter and Laedaes daughter 9 But we digresse gainst Pelops and his Sire Ilion and Ganimed from Troy appeare These are the sonnes of Troos many a bold squire They led with them to Ilion the first yeare He rain'd in Troy in bright celestiall fire Came the Palladium downe from heauens high spheare Which Ilions Towers long after did inioy Continuing till the vtter sacke of Troy 10 Their hostile Instruments to battell sound Ten thousand hands at once to heauen are raised Which in their fals as many strike to ground Cowards are scorn'd none but the bold are praised The Troyans haue begirt the Phrygians round Pelops aboue the rest his fame imblazed And Ganimed that doth bold Pelops see Fights as if none need kill a man but he 11 Such was the valour of this Troian youth Though Troos and Ilion both did wondrous well He onely stands defends breakes and pursueth Their standing battailes by his valour fell The Phrigian host now murdred without ruth Charon is tyr'd with ferring soules to hell The Troians follow with victorious â—…ries Whilst Tantalus and valiant Pelops flies 12 This was that Tantalus bright Plota bare Whom for a speciall grace the Gods admit To their high Counsell where they oft repaire He blabs their secrets therefore they held fit To punnish him in hell with torments rare In Laethe chin-deepe he must euer sit Hungry whilst Apples touch his lips and dry Whilst from his thirsty chin the waters flie 13 And this that Pelops whom his father slew And hewd his body into gobbets smal Whose Massacre the Gods in mercy rew And gathering vp his limbes to match them all They misse that peece to ioyne his body new Which from the throat doth to the shoulder fall Which they with Iuory peece and who more bolder Then new-made Pelops with his Iuory shoulder 14 And yet inforst to flie but had his men Bâ—…n euery one a Pelops none had fled He was the last in field preferring then Fore Coward runners the resolued dead But what can one alone gainst thousands ten Led by so braue a Prince as Ganimed Leaue we triumphant Troos now let our hand Direct sea-toyled Saturne safe a Land 15 Who from his sonne in the last battaile flying his Grand-child Archas to the sea-side chast We left him in a ship the Ocean trying Where he hath plowed strange Seas great dangers past Now entring th' Hellespont from farre espying After his tedious course a Towne at last His Martiners to shore their sailes imploy And Sea-beat Saturne touches land fore Troy 16 Which Troos amidst his plausiue triumphs seeing With Ilion Ganimed and thousand more Makes towards the harbor whilst old Saturne freeing His men from ship-bord hath imprest the shore He makes his habit with his stile agreeing The Troyans wonder at the state he bore Himselfe so well prepar'd his ships so faire Both to the barbarous Troians seeming rare 17 So small a number can no warre pretend Therefore their strange arriue they neede not feare As farre as doth their Hemisphere extend They view the sea but see no shipping neare Which makes the King salute him as a frend And aske the reason of his landing there Saturne replies Behold poore strangers throwne To vnknowne people on a Land vnknowne 18 Yet would you haue his Countrey Nation name That knowes not on whose earth his bold feet tread Nor with what breath he may his stile proclaime From his owne Natiue ayre so farre being fled If you perhaps haue relisht Saturnes
Menelaus his sad howers in anguish wasts By this the Graecian Kinges his sorrowes know And of themselues assemble offering free Theyr hostyle ayde and in Troyes fall agree 14 To bring so huge a Nauy on the Seas Behooues vs know theyr names that first deuisde These noble vessayles whether for their ease Whether Ambitious they the Land despisde Whether the Creatan Minos did first please The sutges God or Neptune enterprise The foaming billowes being by Saturnes motion Made Admirall of all the brinish Ocean 15 Whether Ericthris in the red Sea sayled And first made Boats which others would impute To the Meones such as neuer sayled In th'Hellespont or whether the pursuit Of Danaus in the Egyptian Sea preuailed An honour which to him most attribute Or whether Navigators first had place In Atlas kingdome or in Samo-Thrace 16 This I averre his Arke first Noah made Fore th' vniuersall Deluge since his dayes Iason the Greeke who Colchos sought to invade Composde the Galley which next him assayes Sesostris King of Aegypt In this Trade Eytheus flourisht whom our Anthors prayse For Marine skill his Barge did first deuide The Surges with two Oares on eyther side 17 First with three course of Oares Amocles rowed The Carthagens with foure as many write With fiue Nesichthon These were first bestowed By the bold Romans in the great Sea-fight At the first battayle Punicke He that owed The sixe-Oard barge to do Zenagaras right Must yeld it him in Siracusa dwelling For ship-wrights Craft all other much excelling 18 Hyppias the Troyan the broad Lyter framed The Cyrenens the Hoy which some more fine The Gallioon call with Barks the Cyprians tamed The rude sea-Rouers Cockboates some diuine Th' ◅lyrians built the Keele and Craer were named By the Phenetians first the Brigandine The Rhodians rear'd the Canoas now in trade In India by the Germans were first made 19 The Copians found the Rudder the broad Oare The sly Plateans by their Art composed Young Icarus the saile not knowne before Which some affirme King Aeolus disclosed With Masts and Sayle-yards Dedalus did store The Cretans but the sterne Typhis disposed The stemme Pyseus Anacharsis wrought The Tackle Anchors first the Tyrhens sought 20 Athens first ferried men whether we must draw Th'Graecian fleete the great'st that hath bin seene Such store th' amazed Neptune neuer saw No not when France and England met betweene Callice and vs where after many a flaw Phillip gaue place to the third Edwards spleene Before the blacke Prince by wars prosperous chance Quater'd our Lyons with the Flowers of France 21 Nor when the stout Venetian Gallies frame Their expedition gainst the Turkes Armade Nor when Sea-wars Malta or Rhodes proclaime Whose ponderous hulkes the Oceans backe nie swayde Nor when th'◅uincible huge Nauy came In the yeare Eighty eight England t' inuade Were there so many Vessailes well prouided As by the Argiue Pylots are now guided 22 Great Agamemnon they Grand-Duke create Of all their powerfull hoast who in the ayde Of Menelaus as one of hyest estate With full an hundred ships at Athens staide All stuft with Armed Knights sworne to the Fate Of threatned Troy whome they with scornes vpbraid With forty ships faire rig'd and well supplide In Athens road doth Menelaus now ride 23 For Athens was their Randeuous and there King Archelaus and Prothenor stay With fifty Ships that of Boetia were With fifty Ships from Orconomies bay Helmius and Duke Ascalaphus appeare The Kings Epistrophus and Sedius way Their Anchors next and to the Spartan King Thirty tall ships rig'd from Phociden bring 24 King Telamon launcht fifty Souldierd well From Salamine and in his princely traine Duke Theuter Polyxeme and Thebes fell With Duke Amphimachus from Pylon came With three-ag'd Nestor fifty ships t' expell The Troians from the Hellesponticke Maine Thoas with fifty ships the harbour sought whether K. Doxunois likewise fifty brought 25 King Telamon Chileus three times ten And six good Ships rig'd in the Spartans Quest Amphimachus and Polibetes men Of high rcsolue accompany the rest With thirty saile King Idumeus then And Cretan Mereon their loues exprest They fourescore and two Frigots brought in place And thirty two Vlisses weighed from Thrace 26 Twelue Ships from Phrygia Duke Tynelus brings And from Phtlaca fifty two arriue at the great charge of two imperious Kings Prothocathus The Prince to that did wiue Laodomeia faire whose praise Fame sings Prothesilaus Collesis seeks to driue With foure and twenty Craers th'opposed fleets Whom King Machaon by appointment meets 27 Machaons Sonne Pollydris thirty three Achilles two and twenty hath in store King Thelaphus as many these agree By their ioynt Armes to win the Troian shore Eruphilus hath likewise vowd to free The rauisht Queene with two and fifty more Anthipus and Amphimachus are seene From Rustican with Hulkes and Hoyes thirteene 27 King Polybetes that from Rythee came Bring sixty two and in his friendly ayde His Brother the Duke Lopius mou'd with fame Of these great warres seekes Phrygia to i◅ade King Diomed of Arges threats the same Fourescore and two tall Vessailes he displaide Eurialus and Thelanus in sight Of all the hoast beneath his Ensignes sight 29 Thirteene K. Fureus Polyphebus nine Prothoylus fifty two as many led The King Carpenor of the Bresseian line Theorius foure and twenty colours spread In foure and twenty ships all these in fine In the Athenian part meet and make head Twelue hundred twenty Ships make th' Ocean trēble In whom full sixty nine bold Kings assemble 38 But ere we further enter or proceed In these Heroike wars we hold it fit Before the Graecians or the Troians bleed To memorize their shapes ere we admit The Argiue Peeres all in one thought agreed To be reueng'd on Troy and ransacke it Hellen the first as Pearelesse through all Lands As Venus picture that in Coos stands 31 She was nor dwarfe-like statur'd nor too tall Nor foggy fat nor yet Consumptiue leane Her Wast not grosse nor yet too slender-small Her saire proportion was smooth quaint and cleane Her habit shadowed no extreame at all She was all shaped by the Golden meane So rare that neuer eye dwelt on her Checke But lost it selfe and had his light to seeke 32 What should I with harsh Language slubber o're Exact perfection Shall my ragged quill In seeking Natures cunning to explore Iniure the worke in which she shewes such skill T' expresse such Graces as the Gods adore In Hellen would a spacious Volume fill And asko should I her beauties al recite A world of Paper and an Age to write 33 And all my Subiect should be Hellen she That in the Vniuerse can find no peere Hellen the scope of all my
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-Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
the Messean Land where Theutram raign'd Was fettile they from thence demand supply Of Victuall for the hoast but he disdaind T' assist them therefore him the Greekes defie The Kings hye blood Achilles Faulchion stain'd Theutram alas by him is forest to dye And Telephus crown'd King from whose rich Coast With store Victuall he relieues the hoast 45 Twelue Moones were past since first the Greeks took land When Duke Palamides at th' host ariues Whose absence murmur'd long yet the command Of the whole Army with the Princes liues Are made his charge none seeming to withstand his principality this Duke deriues His byrth from Naulus and is made the head Of the stout Greekes in Agamemnons stead 46 But in desaster houre Vlisses friend To Agamemnon by his crafty fraud Both to his life and his command gaue end He that but late the Argiue Princes aw'd And foyld the common foe cannot defend his owne deere life but whilst the hoast applaud Atrides honor in vnhappy season Is forcst to perrish for suspected Treason 47 Tenedos sackt the Greekes insult vpon 't And from that place made leuell with the plaine The Fleet disanchors whose proud Nauall front Prothesilaus proudly doth maintaine Hoysing the first Sayles in the Hellespont A hundred Ships whose Flags and Pendants staine The Ayre with various Colours he commands And twice repulst vpon the Beach he Lands 48 His ships tough ribs vpon the sands he brake And many Greekes some drown'd some landing fall As well the boldest that the Ship forsake As those that keepe aboord must perish all Onely the bold King makes the Troians quake Who whilst his maymed traine for rescue call Makes good the place till with an hundred more Archelaus and Prothenor mans the shore 49 Now growes the battle hot for the rude rout Of the disordered Troians madly flocke To impeach their Landing who with courage stout Leape on the shore and there abide the shocke Of the proud Foe who murder all about And with rude taunts their proud Inuasion mocke But Askalus and Agabus draw neare Two Kings whose landed souldiers change their chear 50 Yet at the length into the Sea driuen backe Till Nestor seconds them with fresh supply and now th'astonisht Troians suffer wracke Yet still make good the shores with fresh supply againe repulst the Greekes made good the lacke Of more arm'd men Vlisses Ships prest ny Whose dreaded Ensignes on the Margent spred Conquer the Beach the whilst the Troians fled 51 King Philomenes enuious of his Fame A pointed Speare brake on Vlisses face and stounded him but when the bold King came T'himselfe againe he quitted that disgrace So much did wrath his Noble thoughts inflame he wounded him in such a speeding place That had not Ihoue kept backe his Weapons force The late victorious had dropt downe a Corse 52 Whilst these two Kings contend the Greekes retire And backe into the blood-stain'd Sea are driuen When Thoas with his fleet doth Land desire Now Agamemnons Ships are all to riuen Vpon the Strond his men halfe blood halfe mire Tugge for the shore whilst many die vnshriuen Next Menelaus hath vnmand his Ship And from his Barke doth stormy Aiax skip 53 At whose approach neere to the brinish brinke Th' amazed Troians yeild him Landing free Beneath his ponderous Arme the strongest shrinke Before his sword th' affrighted people flee Their soules below the waues of Lethe drinke Whose deeds of valor when King Perses see He with a band of Moores their violence stayde Making th'astonisht Greekes expect more ayde 54 When the great Duke Palumides discends Vpon the Continent and in his traine A thousand Armed Knights his Noble Friends Whose swords the Beach with blood of Troians slaine Palumides gainst Symagon extends His pointed Iauelin Symagon lies slaine A valiant Moore to Perses neere alide Though strong he by the sonne of Naulus dide 55 Now gainst the beaten Troians rose lowd cries Which puissant Hector hearing from the Towne Issues from forth the gates and soone applies His fortitude where Warre seem'd most to frowne His armor Siluer-white his shields deuise A Lyon Gules the field Or after knowne And dreaded mongst the Greeks where ere he marches The Flowers grasse with blood of Greeks he parches 56 Prothesilaus him encounters first and at his Steely Beauer aymes his Speare The King his Staffe vpon his Visor burst But from the Worthy Hector past not cleare All that encounter him must tast the worst The steel-head Lance from off his steed doth beare The dreadlesse King who rose by great indeuour But Hector cleft his head quite through his Beauer 57 So passeth on strowing his way with Corses That in a while his smoaking blade was feared Whom ere he meets he to the ground inforces His valour hath the drooping Troians cheared He without riders leaues fiue hundred horses Whose broken limbes lie on the earth besmeared Death Marshals him the way where ere he traces Pauing the Margent of the Sea with faces 58 His courser Galathee the Noblest Steed That euer Knight bestrid i' th morning white In euery bare place seemes from farre to bleed His valiant ryder shun'd no dangerous fight Hee 's flak't all ore and where no wounds indeed Were hewed great gashes grisly to the sight Appeare vpon him Galathee still stood Sound and yet stain'd all ore with Gracian blood 59 Nor wonder if his white Steed were so painted When his sharpe sword so many Riuers shed This day a thousand Knights beneath him fainted And on the verdure by his hand lye dead With this mortality the ayre is tainted The spatious plaines with wounded Greekes are spred Charon the sweat wipes from his ghastly face And neuer wrought so hard in so short space 60 Hels Iudges and the Gods of Darkenesse wonder What 's now to do on earth that such a throng Of Ghosts whose threds the fatall Sisters sunder Presse in such multitudes for sentence long The Princes of the Vaults and regions vnder Were not so troubled to iudge right and wrong For neuer in one day it hath befell So great a Sessions hath bin seene in Hell 61 Th'inuincible Dardanian Heroe tyr'd With purple Massacre towards night with-drew Horse Armes and Plumes the brightest morne admir'd For whitenesse at his yssue purple grew And he returnes Vermilion all attir'd In Crimson scarce the royall Priam knew Great Hector from the Torras where he stood Seeing his onset white Retrait all blood 62 Soone was the Noble Troian mist in field For with his Myrmidons proudly attended Achilles Lands and that renowned sheild God Vulcan made in which his art extended He vaunteth yet the daunted Troians yeild Th'vnconquered shores Hector so late defended Lie open to inuaders whole Greece Lands For gainst the great Achilles no man stands 63 Euen to the Citty wals the Troians fly Whom the maine hoast with hostile showtes pursude And had not Noble Troylus heard the cry Paris and Deiphebus where they view'd So
of Troy Oh can you trust the presents of a foe Who came from Greece these high wals to destroy And ten whole yeares haue wrought your ouerthrow What can you in the Danauish Treasons ioy Amongst you all doth none Vlisses know Either this swelling wombe is big with childe Of armed Greekes or gainst your wals compild 16 These brazen hoofes are made to 〈◊〉 your mure The trusty pale that hath so long defended Your sonnes and wiues where they haue liu'd secure Maugre the ruine by the foe intended Against your trusty Guards no wrong endure Whose Bulwarkt strength you haue so oft commended This said against the brazen Steed he flung A steele-head speare which through his entrailes rung 17 The trembling Mole from forth his Cauernes gaue A horrid grone a noyse of armor iar'd Through his transfixed brest if ought could saue Ill-fated Troy this had their ruin bard And they had ript the bowels of that graue From which the sad confused sound was heard Behold the Dardan shepheards with lowd cries Before the King bring bound a Greekish prise 18 Dispersed Troy assembles and attend Some vncoth Nouell manacled now stands The surprisd Greeke his eyes to heauen extend To heauen he likewise would exalt his hands Whilst showers of teares downe by his cheekes discend And thus he sayes Haue I 〈◊〉 the bands Of armed Greekes to 〈◊〉 heere in Troy And whom my foes haue spar'd must foes destroy 19 Relenting Priam is soone mou'd to ruth His misery and teares woo him to passion He thinkes such lookes such teares should harbor truth And pitties him disguisd in wretched fashion With comfortable words he cheares the youth Askes him of whence he is and of what Nation When to the passionate king he thus replide Priam commands and I will nothing hide 20 Who hath not heard of the Duke Palimed By the Pelasgian Princes doom'd to dye Whom false Vlisses to the scaffold led Him aboue all the rest most loued I He was my Kinsman but alas hee 's dead With that swift watry drops drill from his eye Him when I guiltlesse saw condemn'd of Treason I mourn'd my Kinsmans death as I had reason 21 Not could I keepe my tongue vnhappy man But priuate whispering haue I breath'd gainst those That sought his death to threat them I began Who to my friend had bin opposed foes Fox-like Vlisses first obseru'd me than Whom Calchas seconds why should I disclose My miserable state vnhappy wretch Since their reuenge as farre as Troy doth stretch 22 I had but dide there and I heare am dying Griefe stops his speech he can no further speake Still what he wants in words with teares supplying Till they with interruptions silence breake When after farre-fecht sighes himselfe applying To further processe he proceeds the wreake They threatned then since now I must not flye Witnesse you Troians Synon cannot lye 23 Oft would the warre-tyr'd Greekes haue left this Towne But still the Morrow tempests them restraine Threatning their Nauy in the Abisme to drowne And they attempt their wisht returne in vaine But most the angry Neptune seemes to frowne When old Epeus had vpon this plaine Builded this Monumentall Steed of late To the Deuinest Pallas Consecrate 24 Euriphilus is straight to Delos sent ' To know the Oracles aduice heerein He thus returnes A Virgins blood is spent To appease the tempests when these warres begin And in their end the Gods haue like intent That you with sacrifice shall purge your sin In your pursute they humaine bloud desire and you with bloud must purchaso your retyre 25 This when the vulgar knew not one but feares Whose dreaded life offended Phabus craues Oh! Hence proceedes the force of all my teares All prophesie his ruine that depraues The Oyle-tong'd Greeke Vlisses Calchas cheares To point him out that must appease the Waues Ten dayes he scilence kept as loath to name His destin'd life whom Phabus seemes to clayme 26 Scarce with Vlisses clamors is he won To sentence any till with vrgence great He doomes me to the flames the people ron To see him that must tast the Alters heate all glad that this denounced doome is don That I th offended God-hood must intreat And that my bloudy slaughter answers all Which each one feard vpon himselfe might fall 27 The day was com my brows with wreaths wer crown'd and I made ready for the sacred fire My hands behind as you behold them bound The Priest in his Pontificall attyre Ready to strike and I incompast round With fire and death yet Mortals life desire The truth I le tell alasse sinne cannot lie I lcapt from of the Altar thence I fly 28 Pursude in vaine feare gaue my body winges In a deepe saggy couert I obseure me Vntill the night had with her aiery stringes Drawne her blacke vaile o're Heauens face to assure me Hoping to hide me till the Argiue Kings Had sayld from thence but thinking to seeure me Poore wretch I from the Gracians fled a way and now alasse 〈◊〉 made the 〈◊〉 pray 29 Whom neither Heauen nor Earth nor Greece nor Trâ—…y nor ayre nor Sea will take to their protection But all conspire poore Sâ—…non to destroy Then ayre Come lend me part of thy infection Heauen Earth and Sea all your 〈◊〉 powers imploy and like confederates 〈◊〉 in my deiection and then he beates his breast weeps sighes grones Whose griefe King Priâ—…m and all Troy bemones 30 The good old Priâ—…m bids his hands vnbind and cheares him thus Of Greece thou art no more Thou shalt be ours thy Countrey hath resign'd Thy life to vs which freely we restore Then say What meanes this Monster we here find Vpon our Beach Whom should this guist adore Or what Religion 's in t Whence is he bred Or for what cause doth he our Confines tred 31 When with his new loosd hands to heauen vpreard Thus Synon Witnesse you eternal Fires Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which but late I feard and all you powers to whom our zeale aspytes That I hate Greece and Troy that hath me cheard I am ingra'st too Trâ—…y hath my desires I am a Child of Troy Greece I desye Witnesse you Gods that Synon cannot lye 32 The false pelâ—…gians in great Pallas 〈◊〉 Her Diomed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 offended By stealing from her charge with guile vniust Herrare Palladium for which she extended Reuenge gainst Greece they to appease hir must By some Oblation see their guile amended That her commensed 〈◊〉 may be withdrawne From them whose violence spard not her â—…wne 33 And now to make the 〈◊〉 borne Pallas smile Whose anger made the Tempests gainst them war Chalchas 〈◊〉 the high Equinall pile That his huge 〈◊〉 might all entrance bar Through your percullist Gates such was his guile For should you on this Horse print the least 〈◊〉 Of an offensiue hand being for her made You by your 〈◊〉 haue your liues betrayd 34 If you deny it entrance through your wals Or this
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
haue by these warres bin de◅oured which haue left the certainty of our first Antiquity doubtfull to the world and not truely re◅embred by any that haue undertooke her first discouery Here moreouer wee could haue tooke fit occasion to haue recorded all the Genealogies before the flood with a briefe report who after the floud peopled euery other Kingdome and from whom euery Region tooke her Name but it had bin a course too strange and different from our purpose which is onely to finde out such thinges as haue alliance to this Land of Brittan and the memorable things best knowne to us We infist not much in Aeneas trauels of his landing at Carthage his loue to Queene Dldo her killing her selfe at his departure from her land the funer all of his Father Anchises with his warres against king Turnus for the beautious Laninia These because they are amply set downe in Virgils 12. Bookes of his Aeneids wee thought better rather superficially to passe them ouer with a bare remembrance then to bee too palpably tract in a History so common to all men Which we the rather to omit because we hasten to the antiquittes and the successiue Souer aigneties of our natiue Island whose age our purpose is to deriue from the first Inhabitantes and so to continue it euen to this present government The Antiquity of London was helde to bee longe before Rome For Brute landed here in the yeare of the Lord 2855. in the yeare before Christ 1108. Rome was built long after in the time that Riuallo ruld in Brittain the yeare after the floud 155◅ after Comerus the first king of Italy 1414 after the destruction of Troy 432 after Brute arriuedin in this Land of B◅tain 355. The end of the sixteenth CANTO Argumentum OF all great Brittans Kinges truely descended From the first Conqueror next we shall intreat How they haue sayld or how their hands extended Through any forraine Realmes by Conquest great How they begun and how their raignes they ended Till royall Iames claymes his Monarchall Seate In whom three kingdomes first by Brute deuided Vnited are and by one Scepter guided ARG. 2. From Norman William a true note collected Of all the kinges and Queenes that here protected CANTO 17. 1 William the Norman Duke is next inuested Sixt of that Dutchy entring by sterne warre A troublous raigne he liu'd and sildome rested From rough rebellious armes yet euery barre His Sword remou'd Hertford his pride detested But for his Treason was confined farre Earle Walter too into that faction led Disclosde the plot and for it lost his head 2 Duke Robert Williams Sonne by th'instigation Of the French King doth Normandy inuade Against whom William raysde the English nation And when no Prince betwixt them could perswade They met and fought with much loude acclamation Robert vnhorst his Father and then stayde His warlike hand whom by his voyce he knew And raisd him for which peace betweene them grew 3 William inuading France in Caan expyerd And there lies buried by his warlike Peeres after he many Towers and Townes had fierd Raigning o're England one and twenty yeares Foure Sonnes he left one Danghter much admierd Robert and Richard who ascends the Spheares Before ripe age William who next doth sway Henry cald Bewclack and fayre Adela 4 Whilst our great Conqueror liu'd the King of Danes Canutus by the English Out-Lawes ayded Inuades the North but William him restraynes Henry the Emperor Bauaria inuaded Malcolm that ore the troublous Scots then raignes Peirces Northumberland at this time vaded The Saxons glory Otho them defaced after the Thuringas he by armes had chaced 5 Eudochia who had seuen yeares worne the Crown Of Graciaes Empyre was by maryage tyde Vnto Rhomanus one of high renowne Sir-nam'd Diogenes Gregory denyde Marriage to Priests the Russ. Duke was put downe By Prince Demetrius neare to him allyde William foure Castles built his Foes to tame At Yorke at Lincolne aud at Nottighame 6 Henry then Casar for some sinne detected Did by the Pope stand excommunicate and being of his Feudor King reiected To Gregory submits him and his State Now liu'd the famous Oswald much respected Byshop of Sarum Casar absolu'd late The second time condemnd gainst Gregory sped Stating Rauennaes Robert in his sted 7 Vradislaus was the first King made Of Boheme and of all the Countries neare Ansell who then Galisiaes Scepter swayed Did gainst the Sarazens in armes appeare And wan from them Tolledo by the ayde Of Christian Princes Rufus gouernd heer Next after conquering William thirteene springs He sat inuested in our Throne of Kings 8 Twice Robert made incursion but supprest By Williams power the Scots inuade againe But are appeasd the Welshmen Rees inuest Who in a conflict was by William slaine lerusalem by Pagan Armes opprest Th' assembled christiā kings by force maintain Where dide in battaile as the rumor ran The Babilonian Souldan Soliman 9 The Norman Robert chusd King by election Of Palestine refusd the Sacred stile Which Bulloin Godfrey tooke to his protection Scotch Malcolm with his sonne entring by guile Northumbers Marches came to the deiection By valiant Robert who was Earle that while Both slaine in field K. William the same yeare Erected the great Hall in Westminster 10 Duncan vsurpes in Scotland not two yeares He gouernd there but in his bed was slaine Donnald restor'd not long the Scepter beares But Edgar that ambitious was to raigne By armes supprest him and the Dia'dem weares Rufus being hunting Tyrrell of his traine By glauncing of an Arrow the King slew Henrie next gouernes by succession true 11 Thirty fiue yeares did Henry Beauclarke guide Th'Helme-Royall he for Thest strict lawes decreed Robert returnd from Palestine defide Henry who after parley were agreed Long their truce lasted not Beu-clarke denide His Brothers pension great dissentions breed After much warre Duke Robert they surprise Who for a prisons breach forfeits his eyes 12 Norwich Cathedrall Church is founded new S. Bartholmewes built by Reior a Musitian In Belgia great Inundations grew Being almost drown'd Now vpon good condition Peace twixt the Emperor and King Henry grew Whose daughter was with much hye superstition Made Empresse Maud the English Queen being dead Henry takes Adelisia in her stead 13 The King of England with French Lodwicke tryes Great discords where the English gaine the best In their returne by Sea great Tempests ryse Where all the yssue-Royall most and least Perisht with many Nobles grane and wise Where eight-score soules at once are sent to rest Of all the ship one Butcher and no more Escapt the seas and swam vnto the shore 14 Geffrey plantagenet the Emperour dead Wiues Maud the Empresse vnto whom she bare Two sonnes Henry and Geoffrey now life fled From Beu-clarke who to Stephen resignes his Chaire
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
part A valiant German that hight Martin-Swart 83 These Henry slew in battaile and arrear'd A Taxe of the Tenth-penny through the Land For which the Commons in the field appeard And kill Northumbers Earle with a strong band Henry inuaded France Columbus cleard The vnknowne Seas and boldly tooke in hand The Indies first discouery Insurrection By Perkin Warbeck in forraine protection 84 In Italy a Stone exceeding great Fell from the ayre Lord Audly now rebeld Henry and the Scotch King of peace intreat The Turke the bold Venetian forces queld Who at Dyrachium sought him to defeate Katherine of Spaine a Lady that exceld Was fianst to Prince Arthur Sforce subdude Milleine and all the French-men did exclude 85 Margaret King Henries Daughter was affyde Vnto Scotch Iames In Germany bloud raind Elizabeth the Queene in Child-bed dyde The French this yeare from Naples were constrainde By Ferdinand of Spaine Now in his pride Liu'd Prestor-Iohn Great Ismael Sophy gaind Vpon the Turke in many a warlike strife Henry the seauenth at Richmond ends his life 86 At eyghteene yeares Henry the eyght succedes And thirty eyght yeares raign'd his Brothers Wife He marries by the Popes dispence which breedes Among the Cardinals murmure and strife Emson and Dudley hated for theyr deeds To please the Commons were depriu'd of life Now Doctor Collet liu'd a man of fame Erasmus too deriu'd from Rhoterdame 97 The Turkish Tyrant Selimus by warre Two Aegiptian Souldans chast and slew The Muscouites the stoute Pollonians barre Some rights for which great battailes t'ween them grew France still retaines the memorable searre Of Henries valor who that time o'rethrew Turwin and Turney in whose streetes appeare Turrets as many as be daies â—…'th yeare 98 A peace with France King Lewes Mary wiues Sister to Henry and within few dayes Expyres Charles Brandon gainst the French-men striues At Tilt and Barriers where he won great prayse and fetcht the Queene thence Francis next suruiues The King of France Charles Brandon now assayes The Queene and marryes her in small while after Mary was borne King Henries eldest Daughter 99 Charles Duke of Austrich is made King of Spaine The Citties tumult chanc't on Ill-May-day Cardinall Woolsy flourisht now complaine The Popes allyes gainst Luther Turkes display Theyr Ensignes against Belgrade once againe Zuinglius began against the Pope t'inuaye Whose Doctrines learnd Erasmus seemde to abet Henry at Arde in France the French King met 100 Charles is Crown'd Emperor th'eyght Henry writ A Booke gainst Luther This yeare lost his head The Duke of Buckingham and now did sit In the Turkes Throne a Prince with fury led Who Belgraue did besidge and threatned it Great Solyman The Emperor Charles him sped For England where at Windsore he was called Vnto the Garter and there Knight installed 101 Christierne of Denmarke banisht with his Wife Enter this Land where they were well intreated The Earle of Surry in his Northerne strife In many sundry fights the Foe defeated Stormes and tempestuous Gusts this yeare were rife And in Granade a Prodince fayrely seared Were Citties swallowed the great Turke makes hed From whom the Hungars king drown'd as he fled 102 The Annabaptists sect was first begun Charles Burbons Duke sackt Rome and there was slaine Vaivad grew great in Fame this yeare the Sunne Appear'd three Sunnes at once Katherine of Spaine Before prince Arthurs wife the king is wun To be diuorst from this diuorse in vaine Cardinall Woolsie seekes by meanes to crosse Which to his ruine turnes and fauours losse 103 Tindall the holy Scripture now translated Th'arrested Cardinall at Leister dide And Ferdinand is King of Rome created Anne Bulloine next became King Henrtes Bride And Thomas Cromwell whom the Cleargy hated Made of the Counsell the Kings Sister tyde In marriage to Charles Brandon dyes forlorne Elizabeth was now at Greenewich borne 104 For Treason dyde the holy Mayde of Kent Lady Anne Bulloine like wise lost her head Erasmus after seauenty Winters spent Expi'd whose fame through Christendome is spread Lady Iane Seamors beauty did content The King so well he tooke her to his bed And on Saint Edwards Eeue this yeare tooke life noble Prince Edward by the kings late Wife 105 Fryer Forrest dyde for Treason One of Spaine For eating Flesh vpon a day of Fast Was hang'd in Paris and tooke downe againe His Lady burnt A full conclusion past Of Marriage tweene the King and Lady Anne Of Cleeue which solemne contract did distast The Kinges soone after who for her rare feature Wiu'd Lady Katherine Howard a fayer Creature 106 Cromwell next lost his head the disputation Begun at Rat'isbone Henry th'eyght is stiled The King of Ireland by his proclamation and Lady Katherine Howard who defiled Her vnchast body with much lamentation Led to her death now Luther was reâ—…led In the Popes Trident Counsell the King wed The Lady Katherine Lat'mer to his Bed 107 The Turkish Barbaressa famous grew In Germany at Mounster bloud did raigne Troubles with Scotland next these did insue The Counsell held at Spyre now once againe Henry inuaded France and did pursue The Bullenois since many did complaine Against the Stewes they were abandond quite The pope the Wormace Counsell did accite 108 Luther expyres soone after dyes the king Henry the eyght whom the sixt Edward then Succeedes at nine yeares old now first gan spring That reform'd Church which at first many men Impugn'd Masses no more the Church-men sing Next Musele-borrow field did happen when Much bloud was spilt a both-sides Bonner now Great in his Fathers dayes the king makes bow 109 Stephen Gardiner is cast into the tower The Brother Seamers falling at dissention By meanes of their proud Wiues begin to lower Each vpon other which without preuention Causd timelesse Fate both their sweet liues deuower First Arundell then Kit had firme intention To change the State but both were hang'd in chaines Bulloine was giuen vp by the French-mens traynes 111 At Feuersham was murdred by his Wife Arden by helpe of Mosby and Blacke-Will The Trade with Musco did now first grow rife Mong th' English Marchants by the Nauiall skill Of one Gabato he that first gaue life To these aduentures Many rumors fill The Land with newes that Edward lately dide Meane time the Lady Iane's made Guilfords Bride 112 Edward at sixteene yeares ofage deceast The Duke Northumberland proclaimes Queene Iane But soone her young and Infant title ceast The Commons by their power Mary maintaine Sister to Edward her high State increast And next her Brother she begins her raigne Guilford and Iane with whom the Queene 's offended Sent to the Tower where their sweete liues they enâ—…ded 113 Bourne preaching at Panles-Crosse the Masse maintaining A suddaine
23 He tels her of her Daughter new translated Whom in the vaulted Kingdomes he had seene With Pluto in th' infernall Throne instated Where though against her will she raignes as Queene Oh Ihoue quoth she and hath that God most hated Of Proserpine the hellish raptor beene Monarch of Deuils since thou doest constraine mee Vnto the Gods aboue I must complaine mee 24 This was quoth Hercules about the season When Hyppodamia matcht with Theseus frend Noble Perithous by the Centaures Treason Was rauisht and re-purchast But an end Our watre-toyld limbes we keepe against all reason From Natiue rest I feele soft sleepe discend and close my eye-lids with his downy wings I must to rest For this time farewell Kings 25 Whether being weary of his hoftile paine Tooke in the former fight he couets rest Or whether modesty made him refraine To heare his praise where he deserued best But his returne the Kings intreat in vaine When Theseus thus proceeds at their request Ceres displeasd the hye Olimpus mounts And to the eare of Ihoue this rape recounts 26 Reuenge great Ihoue quoth she thy wrongs and mine And if mine cannot moue thee let thy owne For ours betwixt vs is faire Proserpine By diuellish Pluto into Orcus throwne Long lost long sought my daughter 's found in fine Rather not found her losse is certaine knowne For how alas can I vvell tearme her found Whom I still lose kept low beneath the ground 27 In the rude armes of the blacke Dis shee s plac'st Hels Adamantine gates besides inclose her Let not thy Aunt great Ihoue be thus disgrac'st But of my owne childe make me free disposer Else let my name be from thy Bed-role rac'st and be no more a Goddesse if I lose her But Ihoue by faire words seekes t' appease the Mother and reconcile her to his Stigian Brother 28 But th'vnappeased Goddesse hates the Thiefe That with her daughter all her pleasure stale and since heauen giues no comfort to her griefe Shee le try vvhat Mortal can her daughter bale She comes vvhere Hercules and all the chiefe Of Greece assembled where she tels this tale And weeping sweares to be at sterne defiance With the Tartarian Dis and his alliance 29 Before Alcides on this Iourney went Vnvvares to him my friend and I prepare Noble Perithous to this one discent Thinking to cheare the Queene opprest vvith care But fate was opposite to his intent We scarce well arm'd had tucht the lowest stare But Cerberus my friend vntimely slew and me halfe-dead vpon the Pauement threw 30 Vnto my rescue great Alcides came To Hyppodamias husband much to late The Ihouiall youth that can all Monsters tame Ere he findes leysure to lament our Fate Or on the murdrous Hel-hound to exclaime He fals his huge Club on the Monsters pate Which with such violent fury pasht his braines It stounds him so he leaues him bound in chaines 31 Aduentring forward in his Lyons case Th'vnbodied Ghosts affrighted from him flie Who see such terror in his yrefull face Poore soules they feare by him againe to die Hels Marble gates he beates ope with his Mace And manly might amongst the Deuils try Who as they stop his way his Club makes reele Whilst Furyes fly him with their whips of steele 32 Vast hell is all in vprore Pluto wonders To see his black-fac'st ministers afraide he feares th' Imperiall Lord of fire and Thunders Attempts his lower Kingdoms to inuade From Proserpine his twined armes he sounders Takes vp his sable Mace of Porphyr made And with his blacke Guard forward marcheth still where greatest was the presse the cry most shrill 33 Hell had beene sack't and all hels right displayd had not the Fates whom Gods and Men obey The fury of th'aduentrous Graecian stayde and with their reuerent paces stopt his way Those whom the Gods incline to he obeyd In their Brasse rols that neuer shall decay Alcides by their license reades his Fate and armes layde by more mildly they debate 34 Pluto inquires the cause of his arriue He tels him for the rauisht Proserpine Whom as he heares the King intends to wiue Whose heauenly face must among Angels shine Not be amongst the Deuils damnd aliue Of this the Fate twixt him and his define And thus amongst them they compound the cause According to their neuer-changing Lawes 35 That if Queene Proserpine hath kept strict fast And since her entring Hell not tasted food as she hath once the Stygian riuer past So backe to earth she may re-saile the flood Inquiry made the girle alas did tast Some few Pomgranat graines which vnderstood Her doome the fates amongst themselues compoun d That Proserpine must still liue vnder ground 36 Attonement made with hell the glorious Greeke Arm'd with his club returnes the way he came Vpon the earth archieuements new to seeke Since hell is fild with his victorious name Through many a winding path and turning creeke He comes at last where my deere friend lay slaine I wounded and the triple Hell-hound laid Bound in those Gyues which he for others made 37 To mournefull Hyppodamia he presents The murdrous Dogs with her deere husbands coarse She sings his Dirge in many sad Laments But at the fiend that slew without remorse Her husband shee aimes all her discontent And on his face imprints her womanish force heere Theseus wept nor could he longer hide His priuate sorrow for his friend that dide 38 This is the Noble Theseus Aethraes sonne By King Egeus that durst hell inuade In battaile th' Amazonian Baldrick wonne And stout Hyppolite his Dutchesse made Who when King Minos closd Pasiphaes Sonne The Mynotaure in the Dedalian shade He by her helpe to whom she proou'd vntrue Releast the Tribute and the Monster slew 39 Eristheus and the valiant Theban King That knew the Prince Perithous much lament him But with their teares the day began to spring They wish the Fates a longer date had lent him With kindled Lampes th'attendant Pages bring The Princes to their Cabins He that sent him On this attempt at parting they desire To blesse their shores whilst they the seas aspyre 40 Our thoughts must land them which their Trophyes brought From ruin'd Troy on seuerall Coasts of Greece Remembring Iason who with honor sought The fam'd aduenture of the golden Fleece Duke Aeson in this voyage spared naught Many bold Knights well arm'd at euery peece Assist the Noble Greeke in this aduenter Offâ—…ng the Argoe with the Prince to enter 41 Duke Peleas gaue it furtherance to whose Court Where Iason feasted then Alcides came With Philocletes as his deare Consort From strange aduentures that Imblaze his fame Disankring from the fayre Thessalian Port Accompanied with many Knights of fame Castor and Pollux bold Amphitrion Amphion Zetus and sterne Telamon 42 Amphion was a fayre Harmonious Youth Well skild in Musicke Zethus was his Brother Begot by Cretan Ihoue one happy night Vpon the fayre Antiopa his
great effusion from a Turret hy They 'had won the Towne the streets had bin imbrude With Natiue blood but they in hast discend Releeue th' opprest the Citty gates defend 64 And yssuing with three thousand Knights compell Achilles to retrait and when his face Look't backe from Troy ward there was none so fell Vpon the Graectan party but gaue place This day Prince Diomed was seene t' excell In Armes him Troylus met in equall race They spur their Steeds that ran both swift and true Incountring both their Staues to splinters flew 65 Their Launces broake they try their burnisht blades A thousand fiery starres at euery rushing Fly from their helmes with fury each inuades His opposite their mutuall Armors frushing The big-limb'd Diomed himselfe perswades Young Troylus cannot match his strength and blushing A beardlesse Lad should hold him so long play Doubles his blowes and thinkes to end the fray 66 The Noble youth whom Cresseids loue prouokes To all atchieuements beyond mortal power Though young his lofty spirit his riuall yoakes Who thought his infant Vertues to deuoure He doubles and re-doubles warlike stroakes The battell lasts the best part of an houre But whilst vpon their helmes each champion thunders Night that deuides the hoast their fury sunders 67 This Eeuen the Greekes incampe earely the Morrow They shine in armor with the rising Sunne The Troian Princes from their Ladies borrow Rich fauours and withall to horse-backe runne A kind of feare begot twixt ioy and sorrow Liues in their eyes til the dread fight be done To see their Champions proudly arm'd they ioy Grieue to behold so huge an hoast fore Troy 68 Now are both Battailes pitcht Menon appeares First from the Argiue hoast from Troy forth stands Hector who in his burnisht Beauer weares Andromachs Gloue and now all Troy commands These two begin the battell with their Speares They broke they tosse their bright steele in their hands Hector soone hurles King Menon from his horse So passes on to proue his warlike force 69 The two hoasts ioyne ruffling confusion flyes Through all Scamander field the dying grones Are mixed with th'applausiue Conquerors cryes Troians and Greekes conquer and fall at ones Renowned Hector this day wins the pryse he sunders Males and Armors flesh and bones His al-deuiding sword was made by charme No steele so wrought but shrunke beneath his arme 70 Thus like a raging storme he rusheth still Ouer his Plume a Clowd of terror hung And where he rides he doth on all sides kill His bloud-staind Faulchion spares nor old nor yung Tyr'd with his horse his Chariot Mount he will Now vp he takes a Bow deuinely strung And shooting midst the Hoast not one steele-head Iat'd from his Bow but stroke a Graecian dead 71 Him the King Menon and king Glaucion then Huge Thesus and Archilochus defie They in their squadron lead three thousand men But Hector in his Chariot still sits hie Vntill his Brasse-shod wheeles are purpled when Their Naues are drown'd in blood of men that die Charioted Hector these foure Kings assaile But his smart Steeds spring through their armed pale 72 Menon that was too forward boue the rest Pursues great Hector in his lofty Carre A dart the Troian quiuer'd through his brest King Menon bids his last farewell to warre With multitudes the Prince is ouer-prest And yet he kils the Greekes neare and from farre Neere with his fatall sword he cleaues their harts And a farre off with his keene shafts and Darts 73 Vnto this rescue Prince Securabor One of King Priams Bastard sonnes soone came And Noble Margareton thirsting for Honor and mongst the Greekes to get a name All Priams yssue cowardice abhor Duke Menesteus enuious of their fame Against them comes now clamors fill the skie Whilst about Hectors Chariot thousands lie 74 Vnto this hostile tumor from Troy-ward Three Kings with Noble Troylus the fourth man Make their incursions King Sampitus far'd Like a fierce Lyon King Maclaon wan With anger and the King that all things dar'd Alcanus gainst whom Menesteus ran And bore him Nobly yet alas too weake Till Thesus came the Troian rankes to breake 75 Troylus Menesteus singles but his Horse Stumbled and he enforcst on foot to fight Fiue hundred Greekes beguirt him and enforce The youthfull Troian now debard from flight To be their prisoner Many a liuelesse corse Troylus first made before compeld t' alight When Hector heard but word of his disgrace He slew on all sides till he wan the place 76 But first Alccenus had addrest his Speare Against the Duke that led Prince Troylus bound The Steele point tooke him twixt his cheeke and eate And made th' Athenian Duke a dangerous wound Sampilus seconds him a Steed was neare On which they mounted Troylus from the ground Menesteus mad that he hath lost his prise Pierst through the throng and cald for more supplies 77 King Menelaus and Prothenor knowing Th' Athenians voyce presse that way with their powers But find Hyripsus and King Hapon strowing The earth with Greekes at which the Spartan lowers These foure their forces ioyne many yet growing Their swords supplant death through the Champion scowers At whom th'Olimpian Gods amazed stand To see him with such quicknesse moue his hand 78 Anthenors sonne Polydamus makes on King Rhemus backes him with three thousand more Their Speare-length through the presse he had not gon But Celidus him from his Courser bore A fairer Prince then Celidus liu'd none By Venus gift he Beauties Liuery wore Polydamus re-mounted soone addrest A second course and pierst him through the brest 79 Which Menelaus seeing soone assayles Rhemus and layes him stounded in the field And but that stowt Polydamas preuailes H 'had borne him to his Tent vpon his shield Still was not Hector Idle Hils and Dales His Chariot skoures to him the mightiest yeild For like a raging Torrent after Rayne Where ere he comes confusion fils the plaine 80 Now was he by the men that Aiax led Troopt in the Salamines Thunder about him Like Ciclopes as if his Noble head Were Vulcans Anuile yet the boldest doubt him And seeing store of Carcasse bout him spred Wish in their hearts to fight else-where without him For like a baited Lyon at a stake he cuts them off and makes the boldest qnake 81 King Theuter somewhat rougher then the rest as worthy Hector kept these Dogs at bay Finding the Prince with two much taske opprest against him with his Courser makes swife way The brazen-headed staffe glides by his brest and gainst his rib he feeles the Iauelin stay King Theuter thou hast done a Noble deed Thou art the first that mad'st great Hector bleed 82 Well was it for thee that thou staidst not long Those that growe next him for thy act must fall Like a mad Bull he fares the Greekes among and whom he hits beneath his Chariot sprall The Prince the common man the weake the strong The Bold the
when thou fearest thy Mothers heate is gon And onely that remaines to chill thy hart Which Troy disclaymes and yeilds Greece as her part 97 And would to Ihoue I knew where that blood ran Vnto those Veines I would direct my Speare And those in which our Kindred first began My hate should spare as blood to Hector deare Come Noble Aiax beare thee like a man And one of Hectors Kinsmen scorning feare Feare is a word in Troy not vnderstood A banisht exile from all Priams bloud 98 More I could wish that I might prooue my rage On some whose veine no Troyan moysture guides Thetis arm'd Son whose heate we must asswage Tetydes or the Elder of the Atrides Saue these liues none can equall conflict wage With Hector but behold our fury rides On Horrors wings our bloud is vp and hye Then guard thee Cooze my Iauelin now must fly 99 His words and speare together cleaue the ayre The Golden-headed-staffe as lightning flew And like the swiftest Curror makes repayre Whether t' was sent and doth his message true Aiax huge shield hath interpos'd the bare Which Hectors agitagious still pursue Through sixe tough hydes it pier'st without respect But the sharp point vpon the seauenth was check't 100 Aiax then shakes his Iauelin forth it flyes And through the Plates of Hectors Target pierces The toughest Mettall that the Anuile tryes Must at his force relent a thousand hierces His rage hath fild and now the Prince applies His Vniuersall power f◅ry dispierces Through all his veynes which to one force vnited No wonder Hector was so well requited 101 The Combat is begun which to descry To their full vertues doth surpasse my skill Their blowes so swift are they deceiue the eye The least of thousands are of power to kill At aduantagious places they soone spy Both seas and shores with their lowd strokes sound shrill Were neuer heard such blowes so sound so thicke Or seene such Wards so cunning and so quicke 102 Such that saue Hector and blunt Aiax none On Earth could equall then much lesse exceed These two Heroicke spirits spent and gone To riuall them no age the like can breed Nor maruell though these two exceld alone They being both deriu'd from God-like seed In whom th' Imperiall Dietyes contended In two such men to haue two Hoasts defended 103 Infinite Charges passe from eyther side From eyther part their nimble Iauelins sing Both fixe their bold feet and such stormes abide As with their force tempestuous fury bring Euen till their Noble blouds the Verdure Dyde with Ecchoing rage their vaulted Helmets ring Whose deafning Clangor from the field rebowne Through the best Arches of Troyes Marble Towne 104 Their speares being shiuered in the empty ayre The Truncheons swelling from their hands they take with interchange of heate they madly fare Till the tough Oake euen to their Gauntlets brake And now their hands vnseruiceably bare For their bright Swords their crack't staues they forsake Behold their wrastling Steeles contend on hye And ◅ug for honor in the empty sky 105 With lightning such as Ihoues Incensements breede Swifter then thought or sight theyr furies meet Both seeming doubly arm'd with such quicke speede Theyr bright swords guard them round frō head to feet Theyr trusty Armours stand them much in steed For with such wounding strokes theyr Caskes they greet So full of horror that both armies wonder how Earth-bred men shold make such Iouiall thunder 106 The inuincible Dardanian with one stroke Raught Aiax Beauer and vnplum'd his hed The Steely Claspe deuinely wrought it broake Which in the Salmin Duke sterne fury bred Who striuing now the Dardan Prince to yoake His spleene and powerfull Sword together sped The point to Hectors breasted Armour flew And from his Bulke Vermillion drops it drew 107 The Troian growes inflam'd the Argiue proud To see his bright Skeyne in such bloud Imbrude Th'Inuaders showte and lift theyr cryes aloud To see their Champion with such power indude For this great Hector in his Soule hath vowde Suddaine reuenge he growes more fierce and rude His Sword plyde Aiax Helme yet shining bright As Cyclops hammers on theyr Anuiles light 108 So well t' was tempered and his strength so hy That his tough mettal'd Blade in pieces flew At selfe-same instant Aiax gan apply His trusty steele and close to Hector grew But as he thus pronoun'st now Hector dy And heaues his arme aloft to make it true his Sword vpon his Caske fell as he spake And with the force close by the handle brake 109 The Champions both disarmed saue their shields First Hector with his eye doth round inquire And findes a scatter'd Rocke left in the fieldes Neuer till then remou'd now all on fire To auenge his wonnd what no man else could weild His mind boue Mortall puisance gins t'aspyre His puisant arme aduanceth at the last And the huge Masse he towards Aiax cast 110 He takes it on his shield but with the power Of his comparelesse strength the seauen tough Hides were all to crusht and bruisd he thinkes some Tower Of arched stone from his high structure slides Him to intombe aliue and to deuour Downe droppes his Targe to earth and he abides Asto◅sht for a space at length his eye Glan'st on a young tall Oake that grew fast by 111 VVhos 's sinnowy strings with shaking to and fro He soone vnloos'd and by the Earth vp teares And wauing boue his Helmet with one blow seekes to giue end to all the Dardans feares should it fall steddy he should lye full low The threatning Oake still in the ayre appeares Menacing veng◅ance but before it light Here breath my Muse and cheere thy traueld sprite Achilles his concealement ofhis sex in the Court of Lycomedes Ouid thus writeth NOw from another World doth saile with ioy A welcome Daughter to the King of Troy The whilst the Graecians are already come mou'd with that generall wrong gainst ◅slium Achilles in a Smocke his Sexe doth smother and layes the blame vpon his carefull mother What mak'st thou great Achilles teazing Woo◅ When Pallas in a Helme should claspe thy Scull What doth these fingers with fine threads of Gold Which were more fit a Warlike Shield to hold Why should that right hand Rocke or Tow containe By which the Tro◅n Hector must be slaine Cast off thy loose vailes and thy Armour take And in thy hand the Speare of Pelias shake Thus Lady-like he with a Lady lay Till what he was her belly must bewray Yet was she forst so should we all beleeue Not to be forst so now her heart would greeue When he should rise from her still would she cry For he had arm'd him and his Rooke laid by And with a soft voyce speake Achilles stay It is too soone to rise lie downe I pray And then the man that forst her she would kisse What force Deiademeia call you this Antomedon was Achilles Charioter and Squire to Pyrhus
neither tript nor rang'd Both Man and Horse are free from any Error No art of Warre was from these Knights estrang'd In Troylus might be seene a Souldiers Mirror In Diomed the patterne of such skill as they desire that would their Foe-men kill 88 The fayre-browde Sky shrinkes vp her Azure face Least their sharpe splinterd Staues should race her brow Both couet honor in this warlike race and in their hearts they eythers ruine vow But Menelaus happily came in place With him three hundred Knights that well knew how To manage battaile these betweene them grew and they to further ranks perforce withdrew 89 Miseres King of Phrigia met by chance The Spartan King and shooke him in his Seat Against Duke Aiax Paris charg'd a Launce and him the Sal'mine did but ill intreat At the first blow he stounds him in a trance Then midst the Troian rankes doth â—…oyle and sweat Striuing behind on both sides and before Euen till his armes with bloud were vermeil'd o're 90 Prince Margareton vnto Hector deare Knowing the slaughter Noble Aiax made against his Vaunt-brace brauely prooues his Speare and to their vanquisht Phalanx brings fresh ayde Aiax is for'st his fury to forbeare The Troians powers on all sides him inuade Till Agamemnon comes with fresh supply at whose approach th'astonish Troians fly 91 Yet Noble Margareton keepes his stand Nor can the strongest arme of Greece remoue him He feeles the strength of Agamemnons hand Grim Aiax sword with a towers weight doth proue him Yet shrinkes not till the place was Nobly man'd By Paris and Polydamus that loue him These hearing Margareton much distrest Rescue the Prince who brauely guards his Crest 92 It ioyes the King and Ladyes that on hy Stand on the Torras to behold the field To see the Prince so full of Chiualry And with such power to vle his Sword and Shield Achilles in a place where thousands lye Besmeard in bloud as if he meant to build a wall of Limbes and Quarters brauely fought And bout himselfâ—… a siedge of bodies wrought 93 Where issuing after much effuse of blood To calme himselfe remotely from the throng Retyerd alike young Margareton stood Striuing for breath he had not rested long Butspyes Achilles with a purple flood Powerd o'rehis armes a Iauelin light and strong The valiant Troian Prince against him bent Whom the proud Greeke receiues incontinent 94 From broken Speares they come to two-edg'd Steele Oh! How stont Hector yernd to be in place His very Soule doth all the puissance feele Of him that hath his Brothers life in chace No stroake that makes Prince Margareton reele But as he thinkes it tingles on his face And from the wall in Armour he had lept Had not the King and Queene perforce him kept 95 By this the youthfull Priameian tyerd With oddes of might he wauers too and fro Doubtfull which way to fall the Greeke admierd To find so young a gallant plunge him so and therefore with hisanclent rankor fierd He doubles and redoubles blow and blow Till he whose deere life was to Hector sweet Sinkes from his Horse beneath his ruthlesse feete 96 Who with his barb'd Steede tramples o're his Coarse Whose Iron hoofe the Princes armor raceth This Hector seeing breakes from all their force He cla ps his Beauer downe his Helme fast laceth With â—…mble quicknesse vaults vpon his horse And yssuing where he rides the enemy cheareth For Margaretons death he vowes that day Achilles with a thousand more shall pay 97 Two Noble Dukes he chargeth and both slew Duke Cortphus Bastidius big and tall And forth like lightning mongst their squadrons flew Where such as cannot flye before him fall Leocides an Armour fresh and new He was amongst the Greekes chiefe Admirall Would proue gainst Hector but in his swift race The Troians Speare brake on the Grâ—…ns face 98 A splinter strooke the Greeke into the braine And downe he sinkes Achilles full of yre Spying so many bold Pelasgians slaine Prickes on with Polyceus both desire To proue themselues with Hector on the plaine The bold assaylants need not farâ—…e inquire For the sterne Prince In that part of the host Th' are sure to find him where the cry growes most 99 Both Menace him gainst both he stands prepared Duke Policeus to Achilles deare Whose Sister he was promist had warre spared His destin'd life drew to the Troians neare At the first stroke his Beauer'd face he bared But with the next his sparpled braines appeare Achilles mads at this and sweares on hye For Polyceus death Hector shall dye 100 His threatned vengeance Hector did soone quaile For through his thigh he quiuers a sharpe Dart Achilles feeles his bleeding sinnowes faile And with all speed doth to his Tent depart Where hauing bound his wound vp wan and pale With fury and the rancor of his hart Three hundred Myrmidons that all things dar'd he leads to field his person to saue-gard 101 Swearing them all theyrioynt-rage to bestow On Hector and on him sterne vengeance power And sauing him t' intend no Dardan Foe That Heauen with him may on his Conquests lower They listen where the clamors loudest grow And there spy Hector wald in like a Tower With heapes os men that bout him bleeding lay For not a liâ—…ng Greeke durst necre him stay 102 Now tyrd with slaughter he was lean'd vpon The Pomell of his bright victorious Blade and for his strength and breath was almost gone His Armour he had slackt it loosely playde about his shoulders for he dreaded none Him now the bloudy Myrmidons inuade In three-fold rings about him they were guided To take the Noble Heroâ—… vnproulded 103 Oh! Where is Paris with his Archers bow Where 's youthfull Deiphebus now at need Where 's the inuinced Troylus to bestow His puissant stroakes before Prince Hector bleed Where is Aeneas to repulse the foe You Troyes confedred Kings where do you speede Bring rescue now or in his Mountaine fall Bencath destruction he will crush you all 104 All these are absent naught saue death and ruine Compasse the Prince a tripple ring of blades Inguirts him round who still their rankes renewing Threaten to send him to th' infernall shades With bloudy appetites his fall pursuing Achilles as they shrinke on hye perswades With promises and some with threats he sweares To pay the base shame of their dastard feares 105 A hundred Myrmidons before him lye Drownde in their owne blouds by his strong arme shed The rest renew the charge with fresh fupply and thunder on his shoulders armes and head Achilles strongly arâ—…'d and horst spurres by To see the hunger of his Blood-hounds fed Was neuer Mortall without might of Gods That stood so long against such powerfull ods 106 They hew his armour peece-meale from his backe Yet still the valiant Prince maâ—…taines the fray Though but halfe-harnest yet he holds them tacke And still the bloudy Slaues vpon him lay Armour and breath
led Though Martial'd in their best and proud'st array Could not repell his swift and violent speed he by his guard his ruine hath Decreed 25 The selfe-same charge that he gainst Hector vsd Gainst Troylus he his Myrmidons perswades Behold where he with Hectors spirit infusd The warlike Thous in euen course inuades Him whom his strength of armes might haue excusd The Treian sends vnto th' Elisian shades The Athenian Duke against him spurres his horse But quite through-piercst the Greeke drops downe a corse 26 Foure Princes in as many coarses tasted Like Fate yet still the Dardan Prince sits hye No coarse no towring blow he vainly wasted In his great heart an hoast he dares defie King Diomed once more against him hasted And long'd with him a warlike course to try But horse and man were in the race ore-throwne Normaruell now the princes strength was growne 27 The elder of th' Atrides next him grew And tryes the vigour of his arme and Speare Him likewise Troylus brauely ouerthrew And forth vnshooke himselfe he past on cleare Now well-nigh breathlesse he himselfe with-drew Whom then the spleenefull Pelean watched ncare And as he lights to rest him on the ground Him the blacke Myrmidons incompasse round 28 With mercilesse keene glaues they siege the youth Whom all at once with fury they assaile In them is neither Honoured grace not ruth Nor is one Troian neere the Prince to bale Achilles with the rest his blood pursuith Thousands against one man must needs preuaile Who seeing nothing else saue death appearing Euen gainst all oddes contemnes despaire or fearing 29 But through their squadrons hewes a bloudy trackt And lops the formost that before him stands Had Deiphebus now his Brother backt Or had the place bin by Sarpedon mand Or had Epistropus whom he now lackt Vpon his party tear'd his conquering hand Had their brigat Faulchions-brandisht by his side The Myrmidons had fayl'd Troylus not dide 30 But hee 's alone rouud guirt with death and ruin And still maintaines the battel though in vaine On euery side a bloudy passage he wing To worke himselfe out through a dismall Lane Of Myrmidons Achilles still pursuing Who keepes the hindmost of his rough-hair'd traine Yet had Prince Troylus markt him where he stood And almost wrought to him through death and blood 31 But ods preuail'd he sinkes downe the mid-way Euen in his fall his sword against him darting That did both Hectors and his life betray Boasting a Noble spirit in his departing By Troylus death the Greekes obtaine the day The Myrmidons their many wounds yet smarting Cure in their Lords Tent whom the Greekes aplaud For Troylus death gainst honour wrought by fraud 32 Now the deiected Troians dare no more Enter the field the Greekes approach the gates And dare them to grim warre who still deplore Hector and Troylus in their Tragicke fates Queene Hecuba yet keepes reuenge in store Of which at length with Paris she dabates Vowing to catch his life in some flye traine That by like fraud her two bold sonnes had slaine 33 She clas to minde the great Athilles pride Withall the loue he to her Daughter beares A thing in zeale she can no longer hide Since in Polyxena like loue appeares Troyes weake deiection she makes knowne besides Disabled by a siege of many years Therefore intreats him to accept her loue And in a generall truce the Argiues moue 34 The lofty Greeke proud by so great a Queene To be sued to when he records withall How much hee s fear'd he gins to slake his spleene And the Maids beauty to remembrance call What can he more Since he hath dreaded beene And seene his ablest Foes before him fall But yeild to beauties soft inchaunting charme Knowing weake Troy dares not conspire his harme 35 The day drawes on a peace hath bin debated To which Achilles the proud Greekes perswades Some thinke it needfull others hyer rated Their honours and this Concord much vpbraides Alone Achilles longs to be instated In her faire grace the beautifulst of Maids And with the sonne of Nestor makes repaire Where Priam with his sonnes and Daughters are 36 Truce is proclaim'd the Damsell richly clad And by the Troian Ladies proudly attended Whom none that saw but admiration had As at a Goddesse from hye heauen discended The innocenr Maide was still in count'nance sad For losse of those that Tray but late defended Yet guiltlesse in her soule of any spleene Dreampt gainst the Prince by Paris or the Queene 37 Vnarm'd Achilles to the Temple goes Whom Nestors sonne attends to Pallas shrine and all the way with Gold and Iewâ—…ls strowes Prising them Earthy but his Bride Deuine and nothing of their Treacherous act he knowes When Paris from a place where he had line With arm'd Knights yssues and a keene shaft drew Which in the heele the proud Achilles slow 38 Who when he sees himselfe and friend betraid and wounded to the Death whilst he could stand Brandisht his sword and mongst them slaughters made But now he wants his Myrmidons at hand and his strong armour Paris to inuade Alacke the Temple was too strongly man'd his strength that cannot bandy gainst them ali at length must sinke and his hye courage fall 39 There lies the great Achilles in his gore and by his side the Sonne of Nestor slaine Amongst the Trotans to be feard no more His body to the Greekes is sent againe Whom they for Hectors change and long deplore his death by Treason wrought vpon the plaine For him a Monumentall Toombe they reare and for his death a ioynt reuenge they sweare 40 The siedge still lasts vpon the part of Troy Penthisilia with a thousand Maydes Vowes all their Amazenian strength to imploy and for the death of Hector Greece vpbraides Whilst in the Campe with much applausiue ioy Grim Pyrrhâ—… is receiu'd Pyrrhâ—… that trades In gore and slaughter with reuenge pursuing Euen to the death Troy for his Fathers tâ—…ine 41 No longer tâ—…e he will delay but streight Dare them to battaile by the Morrowes Sunne The Scythian Damsels long to shew their height and imitate theyr deedes before-time dunne They know they enterprise a worke of weight and long for Signall now to battaile runne The 〈◊〉 Greekes that were of Pyrrhus traine Whom th' Amazonians soone repulse againe 42 Penthisilea was not that fayre Queen Of Amazons of whom we now intreate That made a Law what Man so'ere had beene Within her Court to make a byding Seate aboue three dayes he might not there be seene Though his power mighty and his State were great For if within her Court he longer dwelt The penall Law was he should sure be gelt 43 So much she feared the supposed traines With which soft Women-kind vs men accuse That our society she quite disdaynes Nor shall our fellowship her Ladies vse To this decree she their applause constraines Because false men their weaker Sex abuse
strange Monsters breed One bore a Child that had the face of man and body of a Lyon th' other bred One with two bodies from the Girdle-sted 54 The Scotch King dying Issulesse contention In Scotland grew who should succeede the State The strife Edward atton'd and after mention Made of their Title which these Lords relate He arbitrates theyr fierce and hot dissention And to Iohn Balioll priz'd at hyest rate He giues the Crowne which pleased Scotland well Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebell 55 Edward thrice war'd gainst Scotland and preuayled The French Kings Sister Margaret tooke to Wife and to his Sonne the Princedome he entayled Of Wales proud Ottoman began great stufe With Christendome and many Townes assayled In him the Empire of the Turkes tooke life Pope Boniface the eyght suruiued than He first in Rome the Iubilee began 56 Creat Tamor Caâ—… gouernd Tartaria Albert the Empire France King Phillip guided Prince Ladislaus ruld Hungaria Clement the fift the seat of Rome deuided Transporting it to France which from that day Seauenty foure yeares continew'd vndecided Seraph th' Egiptian Souldan-ship supplide Edward the first in his Scotch garboiles dide 57 The second Edward him succeeds and raignes Full eighteene yeares a Prince of no renowne He ryots Lusts and wantonnesse maintaind Mongst priuate vnthrifts and his peeres put downe Henry the Emperour hauing brauely gaind Many great fields was with an yron Crowne at Milleine Crownd where he aduancst his name The Crutched Fryares first into England came 58 Peirs Gaueston twice banisht by the Peeres Was by the King recald Iohn Tamer rose In rebell armes destroyd by his owne feares Phillip the long their King the French-men chose The hauty Spencers triumpht many yeares Ouer the Nobles who themselues oppose against their pride the Spencers they exile Whom the loose King reuoked in small while 59 Twenty two Barons for the Spencers loue The King cut off the Sun six houres appeared Of sanguine hew his glorious brightnesse stroue with his red Maske which at the last he cleared Edward his force did twice gainst Scotland proue Both times the soyle with English blood besmeared The Queene and Prince the Spencers could not brook And like two exiles their owne Land forsooke 60 Sir Iohn of Henault Lands in the Queenes ayde And hy the Barons helpe the King pursued who after in strong Barkley Castle layde Sir Roger Mortimer a man indude With Pride and Tyrrany the King betrayde and with the Kings bloud 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrude Baldock the Spencers Minions to the King The Conquering Peeres vnto destruction bring 61 Edward King Edwards Sonne fifty yeares bore Englands rich Scepter Charles the French King dide Leauing no issue of the Royall store Therefore King Edward being next alyde Claymes France to which the Doncipeeres restore Phillip Valois and Edwards clayme deride Sir Roger Mortimer long graft boue reason By the Kings Mother was condemn'd of Treason 62 Edward the Blacke-Prince was at Woodstocke borne King Edward fought the fiâ—…ld cald Haldonne Hill In Scotland After some few dayes out-worne The King his clayme to France doth menace still Petrach the Laureat liu'd the French in scorne Foure hundred Sayle with armed Souldiers fill These Edward meetes at Siuce whom fame hath sounded Thirty three thousand of French t' haue slain drowned 63 The order of the Garter was first made Soone after was the famous Cressie field Don Petro by his Spanish Peeres betrayde Was to their violent fury forst to yeild Edward wan Callis Iohn next Phillip swayde In France and mena'st with his warlike Shield The braue Black-Prince at Poytieres battayle wonne The field the French King Prisoner and his Sonne 64 Melchella was now Souldan Amurath Emperor of Turky and with Conquest fought A persecutor of the Christian Fayth The French King-Iohn hauing his peace now bought at Sauoy dide and Charles the sixt next hath The Crowne of France Don-Peter ayde besought Who late exiled from the Crowne of Spaine Was by the Black-Prince repostest againe 65 The Duke of Laâ—…caster France ouer-run Vnfought withall Sir Robert Knowles likewise Marcht by the Citty Paris now begun Great Baiazeth among the Turkes to rise The braue blacke Prince from France where he had won So many Noble fields returning dyes The King himselfe as our best writers say Expird of Iune the two and twentith day 66 Richard the second sonne to the bold Prince Edward sit-namd the Blacke at yeares eleuen Began his rule whom many men conuince Of wanton ryot and a course vneuen Well tutor'd in 's minority but since He manag'd state too much neglecting heauen Gunnes were deuisd first by a Germaine Fryer France doth the Kingdome of Nauar desire 67 Queene â—…ane of Naples flourisht Bohemes King Vinceslaus was Almaine Emperor made Twixt Portugall and Castile discords spring Two Popes contend the Genowayes inuade The bold Venetians and to battaile bring Their Nauall powers both Ensignes flye displaid Iacke Straw dyes stabd in Smithfield by the care Of William Walworth at that time Lord Maior 68 A wondrous Earth-quake did whole England shake King Richard thâ—… Almaine Emperors daughter wiude The Turkes in Christendome great vprores make Iohn Galeazo in those dayes suruiu'd Duke Iohn of Gaunt doth a braue voyage take To conquer Spaine and in his purpose thriu'd The Barons of the Realme themselues with-drew And many of the King seducers slew 69 The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate Married to Henry Castiles eldess sonne His second daughter had the Queene-like state Of Portugall by which all warres were done The Turke in Hungary suppreft but late Seekes by his power all Gâ—…eece to ouer-ron Against Constantiâ—…opolis he layde at eyght-yeare siedge now Colleines Schoole was made 70 Robert of Scotland dying Iohn his heyre Succeedes next Richard Queene Anne beiug dead Espousd French Isabel then did prepare For Ireland where 's voyage slowly sped He put to death his Vncles for the care Of him and his Realmes safty sore misled Hereford and Norfolke Dukes the Combat clayme and both are banist in King Richards name 71 The Sâ—…ithian Tamberlaine the Turkes subdude and kept theyr Emperor in an Iron Cage Hereford against his sentence durst intrude Himselfe int'England and gainst Richard wage A threatned warre the Peeres Richard exclude From gouernment who in his strength of age Resignes his Crowne his Dignity and Fame To Henry Bullingbrooke fourth of that name 72 Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter Richards Brother The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspyre With Glocester who his hatred cannot smother And Salsbury all these his life conspyre and for it lost their lyues with many other Of the same faction seeking to aspyre Richard is slayne in Prison after showne Through London streets to haue his death wel known 73 Owen
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