can she not depart From what she flies for what she most doth feare She carries all the way the shape of Beare 26 And though a perfect Beare yet Beares affright her So do the Wolues though mongst their sauage crew Her Father liues how should a Wolfe delight her Vnlesse Lycaon in such shape she knew Meane time young Archas proues a valiant fighter And in all Martiall practise famous grew Adding seaueu Summers more vnto his age Hee seats him in the kingdome of Pelage 27 Where leaue him raigning in his Grandsiressted Changing his kingdome and his peoples name Whether by loue or fate I know not led Themselues Arcadians they abroad proclaime After the name of Archas now their head Pelage a Citty too of ancient fame They Archad call a stile that shall perseuer Vnto the people and the Towne for euet 28 Archas in Archad liues in Epyre Ioue Saturne in Creet the God of Earth proclaimed Tytan through forren Seas and Lands doth roue Hauing by Conquest many Nations tamed For time still gaue him Conquest where he stroue which made him through the world both fear'd famed Yet with a world the Tyrant seemes not pleasd Till he haue Creet his Natiue birth-right ceaâ—… 29 By strict inquiry heat length hath found His periur'd Brother hath kept sonnes aliue against the couenant he by oath was bound Which was that no male issue should suruiue This of his future war must be the ground He vowes in Irons his Brothers legs to gyue His hands to Manacle his necke to yoake In iust reuenge that he the league hath broke 30 His sonnes all Gyants and by nature strong He sends to assemble to this dreadfull warre Who like their father apt for rape or wrong Without the cause demaunding gathered are Vnnumbred people in their armies throng Brought by the Big-bon'd Titanoys from farre Where he and all his Gyant-sonnes assemble They make the groning earth beneath them tremble 31 Lycaon was not there him Ioue before Had from th' Arcadian kingdome quite put downe There was the Gyant Typhon he that wore The Ciprian wreath and the Cicillian crowne Huge Briareus that the scepter bore Of Nericos a monster at whose frowne Nations haue quak't whole armies stood agast And Gods themselues shooke till his rage were past 32 Coeon likewise king of great Coeas Isle A fellow of a high and matchlesse size Who the rough Ocean calmed with a smile And with a frowne hath made the billowes â—…ise Aegeon too that hath inlarg'd his stile Through many a kingdome from whose raging eies Bright lightning flames haue in his furious ire Afore a storme of thunder flasht out fire 33 Of him the great Mediterranean Ocean Is cald th' Aegean Sea it doth deuide Europe from Asia and hath further motion a long the greatest part of Greece beside This Gyant to the Gods scorn'd all deuotion Therefore was cal'd Brianchus for his pride The next Hyperion of the selfe-same breed All these haue sworne the death of Saturnes seed 34 There likewise came vnto these wars Japetus Calum and Terraes son in Tytans aide He brought with him his sonne Prometheus Whom Tytan the first houre a Captaine made His brother Athlas too and Hesperus Their royall Ensignes in the field displai'd And ouer diuers seas their armies ferried From Mauritania Lybia and Hesperied 35 Their Randezvouz in Sicily they made And thence by sea they rigge a royall sleet The flourishing realme of Saturne to inuade In time their countlesse hoast takes land in Creet Vallâ—…es by them are fil'd hils euen are laid Townes burnt high Castles leuel'd with their feet Where ere they turne fite from their eye-bals flashes Which townes and villages consumes to ashes 36 Saturne their bold inuasion much admires Not knowing whence their quarrell may be grounded He cals his Counsell and of them inquires How their immense ambition may be bounded How with his enemies blood to quench the fires And by what power the soe may be confounded Aduise is giuen to make a generall muster To beat them backe that in such numbers cluster 37 And as the king thron'd in his chaire of state Sits in his pallace all his chiefe Peeres by him On these affaires to Counsell and debate In thrusts a Knight from Tytan to desie him And mongst the Lords that bout him circled fat He rudely throngs and presseth to come me him But being kept backe aloud he lifts his voice And thus greets Saturne from the Tytanoys 38 Thus sayes imperious Tytan Saturnes Lord Like a low vassaile from my Throne discend Or I shall chase thee thence by fire and sword And with thy glory to thy daies giue end For thou hast broke thy oath and Princely word And therein made an enemy of thy friend My Crowne I but resign'd vpon condition And thou those bands hast broke by thy Ambition 39 Whilst Saturne his male-children kils so long He is the King of Creet but that neglected He weares the Cretan Diadem by wrong Thy periury is to the world detected And therefore with an army great and strong Shall Saturne from his high throne be deiected Thus Tytan doth the king of Creet defie And by these Summons to submit or die 40 Bold spirited Saturne doubly mou'd appeareth At his proud Message with disdaine and wonder Disdaine as being a Prince that nothing feareth To heare his scorned enemy-threatnings Thunder With admiration when he strangely heareth Of sonnes aliue which makes him deepely wonder And taking Sibell by the hand thus say Hauing commanded first his traine away 41 Sister and wife I charge thee by the zeale Thou owest to me thy husband and thy brother The truth of all this practise to reueale And what I next demaund thee nothing smother Since it concerns th' estate of all our weale Art thou of any liuing sonne the mother The trembling Queene low kneeling thus repli'de You charge me deepe and I will nothing hide 42 I am a woman and full well you know A woman hath a soft and tender brest But more I am a mother can you show A mother that in this kind hath transgrest Stranger may stranger kill Foe murder foe Which mothers to their children most detest Was it for murder you espous'd me first To be a wife of all good-wiues accurst 43 I 'de rather be a pittious mother helde Then through the world a Murdresse be esteem'd Be my selfe murdered rather then compeld To murder those for whom this womb hath teem'd This wombe with three faire Princely sons hath sweld Which dead to Saturne and the world are deem'd Yet all three liue but cruell husband where Saturne shall neuer know nor Tytan heare 44 Th' amazed king immagines by her looke Her feruent tongue doth on her hart-string strike Necessity at this time makes him brooke What his disturbed soule doth most dislike Without reply the sad Queene he for sooke It pierst his hart as if an
tast But when the Couenant long before decided Twixt him and Tytan he records at last It pierst his hart with sorrow for his life Seemes to him tedeous led without a wife 28 What bootes him all his Honours and ritch state His wealths-increase and all his worldly pleasure For whom doth he rise early and sleepe late Hauing no heyre to inherite all his Treasure He knowes he hath incur'd his Brothers hate Yet must his seed make of his kingdome seazure He enuyes his owne wealth bicause he knowes All his life time he toyles t' enrich his foes 29 He loues his Sister Sybill yet not so That if she châ—…dren haue their blouds to spill And yet his timerous passions howerly grow Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill Faine would he marry her and yet doth know If shee haue Issue he her sonnes must kill So that he wishes now but all too late That for his vow he might Exchange his state 30 In this distraction many dayes he dwelt Till Loue at length in Saturnes hart preuailed Such feruent passions in his brest he felt That spight his Oath which he so much bewailed He feeles his soft thoughts in his bosome melt Needs must he yeild whom such faire Jookes assailed And now vpon this desperate point he stood To wade t' her bed thogh throgh his childrens blood 31 This can great Apis witnesse who that time Peloponessus gouern'd This records Iubalda who the Spanish seat doth clime This Craunus kneel'd to by th' Italian Lords This Satron who the Gaules rul'd in his prime Now to Semiramis Assyria affords The Monarchy who after Ninus dide Married her Sonne and perisht by his pride 32 The marriage rights with solemne feasts are done Sybill both wife and sister the first Queene That raign'd in Creete hath now conceiu'd a sonne Neuer hath lesse applausiue ioy bin seene At such a Brides Conception the time 's come The long suspensiue daies expired beene For if a male his blood the Earth must staine A male she brought forth and the Lad was slaine 33 For so the King commanded being a King He thought it base if he should breake his word Oh golden dayes of which the Poets sing How many can this Iron age afford That hold a promise such a precious thing Rather to yeeld their children to the sword Then that the world should say thy oath thou brakest Or wast so base to eate the word thou spakest 33 Such difference is twixt this and that of gold We in our sinnes are stronger Vertues weaker Words tide them fast but vs no bonds can hold They held it vil'd to be a promise breaker A Lyar was as strange in times of old As to find out amongst vs a true speaker Their harts were of pure mettall ours haue flawes Now lawes are wordes in those daies wordes were lawes 34 The Funerall of the first slaine infant ended And the sad daies of mourning quite expir'd At which the pittious Queene was most offended But now her spirits with dull sorrowes tired The King a second metting hath intended And the Queenes nuptiall bed againe desired Sibill conceiues and in her wombe doth cherish More children ready in their birth to perish 35 And growing neere her time the sorrowfull father Displeas'd to see his wife so apt to beare Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather The murther of his first sonne toucht him neare Sends through his Land a kingly traine to gather And makes for Delphos hoping he shall heare Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine Whose Oracles the king esteemes diuine 36 He therefore first his sacrifice prepares And on Apollos Altar Incense burnes Then kneeling to the Oracle his praiers Mount with the sacred sume which neare returnes Tell the pleas'd God acquainted with his cares Lookes downe from heauen sees him how he mourns Desiting that his power would nothing hide But tell what of her next birth should betide 37 With that there fell a storme of Raine and Thunder The Temple was all sire the Alter shooke The golden roofe aboue and pauement vnder Trembled at once about gan Saturne looke To see what heauenly power had caus'd this wonder Faine he the holy place would haue forsooke When th' Oracle thus spake thy wife growes great With one that shall depose thee from thy seat 38 For from her royall wombe shall one proceed That in despight of thee in Creet shall dwell So haue the neuer-changing fares decreed Such is the Oracles thrice sacred spell A sonne shall issue from king Saturnes seed That shall enforce his father downe to Hell This heard the discontented king arose And doubly sad away to Creet he goes 39 What shall he do faire Sibils time drawes neere And if the Lad which she brings forth suruiue The newes will stretch vnto his brothers eare To whom he sware to keepe no male aliue Besides a second cause he hath to feare Least he his father from his kingdome driue Then to preuent these ils he swears on hie Inspight of fate the infant borne shall die 40 Yet when the King his first sonnes death records In his resolued thoughts it breeds relenting The bloudy and vnnaturall act affords His troubled thoughts fresh cause of discontenting None dare approach his presence Queene noâ—… Lords That to his first childs death had bin consenting The first vnnaturall act appeares so vilde The king intends to saue his second childe 41 So oft as he the murder cals to mind So oft he vowes the second son to saue But thinking on his couenant grows vnkind And doomes it straight vnto a timelesse graue Againe the name of sonne would pitty find And for his oth some refuge seekes to haue But when the Oracle he doth recall The very thought of that confounded all 42 So deare to him his Crowne and state appeared That he his pompe before his blood preferred It ioyes him to commaund and to liue feared And now he thinkes his foolish pitty erred And setting light his issue seemes well cheared His fortune to the Goddes he hath referred Rather then loose his Scepter t is decreed Had he ten thousand brats they all should bleed 43 Resolu'd thus newes is brought him by his mother That Sibell late in trauell is deliuer'd Of two faire Twins a Sister and a Brother At this report his heart is well nigh shiuer'd Go spare the â—…one quoth he and kill the tother Alas saith she we women are pale-liuer'd And haue not heart to kill no beast so wilde Or brutish but would spare so sweete a childe 44 And shall a father then so madly fare With his owne issue his childs blood to spill And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare Shall reasonable man presume to kill The birds more tender ore their young ones are Fishes are kind vnto their issue still Fish bird and beast in sea Aire â—…arth that breedeth Though reasonlesse her tender young ones feedeth 45
face And euery thing the white sheete durst betray That done into her siluer armes he crept And all this while the amorous Virgin slept 109 Imagine how she waking grew amazed Imagine him a double Rhetoricke vsing Action and words sometimes her selfe she raised To call for helpe his dalliance quite refusing Imagine then how he his loue imblazed He at her scorne she at his boldnesse musing His gifts his name his loue plead on his part Gainst him her fame her feare and her chast hart 110 Loue makes him eloquent and sweet occasion Makes him bold too shee 's bashfull and withstands He laies to her both battry and perswasion And much ado she hath to passe his hands Being girt in Armes how can she scape invasion Or breake the compasse of his Iuory bands She would be gon he wooes her to lye still So hee 'l no violence vse she sayth she will 111 Oh banquerupt Ihoue in midst of all thy blisses Ioylesse and yet with pleasures â—…ing'd about He wooes againe with Court-ship mixing kisses A thousand batteries Danae hath held out And still the siedger his irruption misses They parly but conclude not both are stout Sometimes he striues then she begins to threat Then hee from striuing falles againe t' entreat 112 What cannot opportunity and place Bed-fellowship and loue if they conspire A comely feature and a Courtly face Courâ—…-ship and Name of King to win desire All these in Iupiter intreat for grace All these haue set her amorous hart a fire And gainst all these the least of which command Saue bashfulnesse sh' hath nothing to withstand 113 And that 's too weake gainst things of their ability Yet is it of a temper not to yeeld For though it be subdude with much facility T' will proudly seeme still to maintaine the field It raignes in many that professe ciuility Who all their pleasures on compulsion build For bashfull women long since â—…arnt this skill What they would giue to grant against their will 114 Women are weake and weake ones must obey Faire Danae is but woman and must fall Her glory is that she hath held him play And kept her friendly soâ—… so long from all What should she doe the Prince will haue no nay Her guard 's asleepe if she for help should call What with compulsion louâ—… force and faire words She lyes confus'd and he the Princesse bords 115 This night the warlike Perseus was begot And now the early day-star gins to rise Who cals the Prince vp least the Beldam trot Should find his night-walke with her gealous eyes But she their priuate sport suspected not Nor knew the King in his assumd'e disguise Teares when they part are in aboundance shed When he must leaue the Princely Danaes bed 116 It is compounded and betweene them sworne That Ihoue must come in Armes by such a day By whom the Lasse must be from Arges borne So takes his leaue he dare no longer stay The Sunne is cal'd vp by the early Morne High time to send the Pedler on his way They praise the largesse of their bounteous guest But of his Iewels Danae keepes the best 117 Leaue Ihoue towards Creet and Danae in sad plight For his departure whom she tenders deerely She neuer lou'd vntill this Ominous night And now to see him part she riseth early Gladly with him she would haue tane her flight But feares her father would reuenge seuearly Her bold attempt and backe returne her weeipng To spend her future youth in stricter keeping 118 Besides she sâ—…ares that which indeed was trew That she of Ihoues seed might conceiue a sonne Which if the gealous King Acrisius knew At these sad tidings he would franticke run The Princesse to her charuber now withdrew Arm'd with this hope that Ihoue the deed had done Th' only renownd ritch puissant and of power By force of Armes to free her from the Tower 119 Now to record what I remembred earst How Troos in Troy his neighbor Kings out-shined And in the same place where it was reuerst How all Troys fame King Tantalus repined But how the Phrigian forces were disperst By Troas is to another place assignde Here should I speake how Troy to fame aspired But my Muse flags and my dull pen is tired ESculapius the sonne of Apollo and the Nymph Coronis others thinke of Arsiona the daughter of Leusippus Hee was taught his Physicke of Chiron the Centaur which Zezes chil 10. and Lactantius lib. de falsa Religione both affirme he had a sister called Eriope a wife Epâ—…one a sonne Machaon and Podilarius He was called Antonius Medicus oucaeata Leuctricus Cortineus Corilaeus Agnitas Booueta and he was borne among the Epidaurians Iupiter wan from Aeâ—…culapius the â—…sle Paphos and gaue it to his daughter Venus Paphos was built by Aeos sonne to Typhon In Saturne ended the golden world and in his sonne Iupiter began the Brazen age Acolus was son to Acesta and Iupiter because the clouds and mysts rising about the seauen Eolian Islands of which he was king did alwaies portend tempestuous gusts and blasts therfore the Poets feigned him to be king god of the winds Epaphus the sonne of Isis and Iupiter Belus builded the famous Egyptian Memphis the yeare before Christ came into the world 1492. Orosius writes that the fifty marriages concluding in nine forty murders was the year before Chr 1473. for which Daunaus was expulst his Realme and fled to the Argiues where he spent the remainder of his age The yeare after this vnnaturall massacre Aaron deceased amongst the Israelites By Isis some say is meant Io and by Iupiter Belus Iupiter of Creet Ovid in his metamorph Hince Epaphus magni genitus de semine tandem Creditur esse Ihouis Epaphus and Phaeton the one the sonne of Iupiter by Io the other the sonne of Phaebus by Clymenen beeing at some difference about their blouds Phaeton leaues his mother to trauaile to the Pallace of the Sunne where asking his vnhappy boone as a sure testimony of his discent from phaebus he by his rashnesse and pride fired the world and was strooke headlong from the Chariot of the Sunne by one of Iupiters thanderbolts Of Iupiter it is thus remembred of Europa he begot Minoes and Rhadamant Archas of Calisto Pelasgus of Niobe Scarpedon Argas of Laodomeia Hercules of Alcmena Taygetus of Taigetes Amphion and Zetes of Antiope Castor Helena Pollux and Clitemuestra of Laeda Perseus of Danae Deucalia of Iodoma Britamart of Carme the daughter of Eubulus Aethilius the father of Endimion of Protogenia Epaphus of Ione Aegina of the daughter of Asopus Arcecilaus and Carbius of Terrebia Colaxes of Ora Cirnus of Cirna Dardanus of Electra Hiarbus of Garamantius Preces Proserpina and the Titiae with infinite others too long to recount Fit Taurus Cignus satyrasque aurumque ob amorem Europa Laedes Antiopae Danaes Zeus kvknos Tavros Satvros krusos di e'rata
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
Made of Enuy Pride and Lustes Woe to the man that to thy weakenesse trusts 64 My hopes quoth Perseus I on this haue layde And thinke her heart to be her beauties peere Nor where I trusted most am I betrayde Andromeda I know still holds me deere The stranger Knight quoth she that doth vpbrayde Our sex so much me thinkes is too seuere To blame all women for one Ladies deedes At this all silence made whilst he proceeds 65 In Pricus Court my Child-hood I haue spent And there the grace of many Ladies gained But I whose thoughts were all on Knight-hood bent Regardlesse of their lookes their loues disdained Among the rest Queene Aurea often sent Gifts and smooth Letters fraught with lines vnfaigned This beautious Q. whose thoughts were at such strife Was my dread Soueraigns spouse King Pricus wife 66 Morethen her rauishing beauty could intice Th' allegiance to my King with me preuailed The more the wanton Queene incites to vice The more her sighes and amorous Courtships failed I held my name and honor of more price Then basely yeild when womanish lust assailed At last with such hot flames her entrailes burnd Thar being disdain'd her loue to rancor turnd 67 She that before held of my person deerely Now damnes my presence to the deepest hell And in her hart vowes to reuenge seuerely My loyall scorne I know no hate so fell As that which was once Loue It toucht her neerely Where loue once log'd such poysonous hate doth dwell That now she aimes her enuy at my head Nor can she liue Belerephon not dead 68 Forthwith she cites me to King Pricus throne And as a Rauisher I am accusd She sweares that when I found her all alone I would her royall person haue abusd And then round pearles about her eyebals shone Which dropt downe by her cheeks such craft she vsd Oh heauen what cannot cunning women doo By oaths and teares to win their husbands too 69 I pleaded Innocence but what God wot Could my weake plea against her teares preuaile And to accuse her spouse-breach booted not Her whom teares helpt could protestations faile Besides in honor I could lay no spot Vpon her loyalty rather bewaile Her want of grace and the hy-Gods importune To assist my Innocence and guide my fortune 70 When I askt witnesse of such foule abuse She thus replide commixing words with teares When lustfull men aime at such horride vse They watch all spyal-eyes and listning eares Nor can the want of witnesse plead excuse For who that to a woman fancy beares Will when he seekes t' inforce her gainst all reason First call his witnesse to such hated Treason 71 Rather he watcheth the most silent houre When man and beast is sunke in leaden slumbers And Morpheus he that hath on midnight power The world with vniuersal darkenesse cumbers When sauing Lust and Murder al the powers Of earth lie husht and charmd vvhen no man numbers The yron toongs of Clockes such a blacke time Should haue bin guilty of his more blacke crime 72 For double vvitnesse in this case I stand Pricus you are my Husband and my King And where should Aurea if not at your hand Seeke Iustice at that word fresh sourses spring From her drownd eies what need the cause be scand With more sufficient proofe What needs she bung More arguments Since euery teare she split Perswades her loyalty my heinous guilt 73 The King though inly mou'd with wrath and spleene Yet in his calme lookes moderates his Ire He cals to mind how faithfull I haue bin Since when I seru'd as Knight before as Squire Loath would he vnreuenged leaue his Queene As loth doth he my Innocent blood desire Therefore twixt both this rigorous doome he gaue That the Chimeraes wombe should be my graue 74 His tale thus ended the two Princes vow To lend him all assistance by their aide Belerephon hath made Chimera bow Which done they ioyntly Pricus Realme invaide Acrisius by their armes is raised now And Pricus slaine In Arges they are staide By old Acrisius who repents at last Of Danae mongst the ruthlesse Billowes cast 75 The Noble Perseus he adopts his sonne And makes him Heyre aparant to the Crowne Sorry for all the spight against him done And now bright Danae he accounts his owne Sending young Danaus and Bellerephon With royal gifts soone to the Princesse knowne Shewing by these his reconciled hart But with the warlike Perseus hee 'l not part 76 Whom the same day he Arges King creates Himselfe in Darraine liues a life retyred Perseus Andromeda his Queene instates In the like pompe a Lady much admired Fiue children he begat so would the Fates More valiant with their Fathers gifts inspired Rich Scelenus great Bachmon and bold Demon Noble Erictreus and faire Gorgophon 77 This Gorgophon is held to be the first That in those daies was knowne to marry twice Her husband dead alone this Lady durst Proue second spousals which was held a vice The chasest Matrons her example curst Who held their constant loue in Soueraigne price Our hinder widowes Saint her name in heauen Some foure some fiue nay some haue told to seauen 78 His sonnes takes wiues Acrisius still suruiuing Who glories in his warlike Grand-childs seed Their honors from their Fathers acts deriuing For by their swords did many Tyrants bleed But leaue them in their deedes of valour striuing And of Acrisius timelesse fate proceede Forgetting what was told him long agone That Danaes Sonne must turne him into stone 79 When Perseus had in Arges gouernd long Vpon a night he much desird to see Acrisius and to Darraine that was strong With triple gates alone ascended he There knocks the Porters had forgot his toong and with bold words denyde him entrance free At which inrag'de the Prince his Harpe drew And at first stroke th'Ill-languad'g Guardian slew 80 The vprore flowes apace Clamors arise From all parts of the Fort to the Kinges eare They come at last who with the Warders cryes Astonisht to the tumult preaseth neere Thinking t' appease the broyle and riotyze But haplesse man vnwares he perisht there The inraged Prince that mad-like layde about Struck with a blow his Grand-sires life-bloud out 81 Perseus the vnauoyded fates now blames And layes Acrisius in his Marble graue He that on earth intoyes the hy'st-stilde-names Vnto theyr doomes must yeeld himselfe a slaue From all delights the Prince himsefe reclaymes In Arges Throne he no delight can haue But for his sake that th' Argiue Scepter bore he leaues the Prouince neare to see it more 82 His Court vnto Mecenes he transported But thither did his sorrowes him pursue and therefore with a huge hoast brauely sorted himselfe into the Orient he withdrew his army he with warlike phrase exhorted Gainst Lyber-Pater whom in armes he slew and where the Easterne Monarchs bloud lay spilt Persepolis a stately Towne he built 83 He cals the prouince
Knights to bring All expert Archers with whom Stupex traded A valiant Duke and in his youthfull spring Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus Duke Samnus and the bold Duke Ausernumus 25 These led twelue hundred Knights next whom tooke Two Brother-Kings the bold Boetes first place The other Epistemus of one race Both Princes in the Realme of Burtia nurst They brought a thousand Knights the Greekes to chace Men of great spirit and such as all things durst Next them was set a Gyant dreaded sore Philemus of the Realme of Paphlagore 26 The Aethiopian Perseus Rauen-blacke And the King Thiclion of the selfe-same hue With Symagon in whom there was no lacke Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue These Kingly Moores that Priam come to backe Next to the lofty Gyant sit in view Three thousand sunburnt knights that brauely fought From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought 27 This State was full and lower one degree Another longer Bench runs crosse the Hall Where mixt with Priams valiant sonnes you see More of these leagued Kings in order fall First of the ranke was Hector next him be Two potent Kings Thelemus hye and tall And young Archilochus a valiant Boy These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy 28 Paris next them and by his amorous side Two Princes raigning in Argrestes Land They brought twelue hundred Knights to see them tride Next these was Troylus plac'st on the left hand And Deiphebus full of warlike pride Mixt amongst these a King of great command Epistropus that beyond Scythia came Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclame 29 He brought a thousand Knights and a strange Beast Halfe horse halfe Man two perfect shapes deuided A Sagittary cal'd not dreaded least An expert Archer his strong shafts were guided With wondrous ayme and cunning which increast His dread among the Greekes at first derided Next great Epistropus rankt by their yeeres Sat Priams Bastard-sonnes next them his Peeres 30 Next them a Prince in Iewels rich and Gold That many Knights brought from Meander flood The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told By whom vpon a costly foot-pace stood Tentumidas by some sirnam'd the Bold Now aged in his prime a Souldier good By him Prince Pindarus aduanct his head Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread 31 Adrastus Amphius Merops Princes three Are ranked then by whom Ennonius sits And Chronius vnder whom the Mysians bee Pylemen the next empty place well fits Prince o're the Paphlagonian Chiualry Pyrechmes next whose fiery Horses bits The Paeons manage Good Euphemes then Whom the Cicintans led all expert men 32 Ascanius and Dius who doth guide The Halizonians next in order fall Then Pyrous who his Thracian Souldiers tride And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all Pyleus and Hypothous them beside These the Pelasgians vnto battle cal Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race Next whom the Lords and Barons take chiefe place 33 Anthenor with Polydamus his sonne The glistering Ladies keepe another State Aboue them all Priams hye throne begun To lift it selfe where he in glory sate Benches of Dukes and Earles from all sides run Apparel'd in rich Robes of greatest rate Thus was the King prepar'd when the two Greekes Presse forward to his throne with blushlesse Cheekes 34 At their approach the Lords amazed rise And at their bold intrusion musing stand Vpon these two the Kings fix all their eyes Prepar'd for some strange Nouell when his hand Vlisses wafts for silence and applyes His speech to Priam thus Hee whose command Rauisht from Sparta great Atrides wife Forfeits to Greece his Country Crowne and Life 35 If thou beest he whom all these Lords adore I summon thee in Agamemnons name Backe to her Lord Queene Hellen to restore With full amends done to the rauisht Dame And to present thy lustfull sonne before The bench of Argiue Kings t' abide such shame That he in after times to our successors Be made a terror to the like Transgressors 36 Else shall th' inraged Princes spoile thy Townes Thy Matrons in their husbands armes defloure Slaughter thy Sonnes and bury their renownes And with thy peoples blood the channels scoure Of these confederate Kings ceaze all the Crownes When death that swallowes them must thee deuoure Say wilt thou to preuent this and much more Punnish thy sonne and Hellen backe restore 37 To this th' incensed King replies againe Th'vnable Greekes alas are much too weake Wanting the power thy proud vants to maintaine Or to make good what thou doost rashly speake They rauisht our faire Sister whom in vaine We re-demanded her despights to wreake Our Sonne the amorous Paris crost the deepe To fetch thence Hellen whom the Boy shall keepe 38 Haue they not slaine our Father spoyld our Citty Pillag'd our people wiues nor Matrons spared Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pitty And in their barbarous rigor all things dared Then in faire Hellens rape what wrong commit I Since not the least of these Greece hath repair'd Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpets life Hellen is grac'st to be young Paris wife 39 You shall repent King Diomed replies This insolence which we will punish deerely By vs the Generall of the Greekes defies Priam and Troy whom wee 'l chastice seuerely Vnto whose ruines seauenty Princes rise Whose forces shall begirt you late and earely These words promist the Troians so disdaine them That many drew their Faulchions to haue slain them 40 But euer Honoured Hector qualified The sudden vprore and appeas'd the brall Their passage by the multitude denide Hector makes free and Vshers them through all Yet many proud braues past on either side Twixt the strange Kings and them i' th Pallace Hall At their departure casting vp his eye King Diomed by chance doth Cresseid spy 41 As she with Hecuba and Hectors wife Creusa and Pollixena was plac'st Him thought he neuer saw in all his life A Lady better form'd or Sweet-lyer grac'st His mutinous thoughts are in themselues at strife To see a face so faire an eye so cha'st Beauty so full of charme with which inchanted He craues her name by whom he seemes so danted 42 When vp starts netled Troylus and thus sayes Her name is beautious Cressid whom you seeke And Troylus Mistresse to whose heauenly praise My soule hath bin deuoted many a Weeke And if thou aym'st my graces thence to raise I challenge thee the combat valiant Greeke He would accept it but he needs must part His body goes he leaues behind his hart 43 The dantlesse Troians now prepare for warre Whilst to th'incamped hoast the Legat Kings Relate King Priams answere and how farre He stands from peace the Grand-Duke now begins Like a good Captaine to foresee what barre May lie twixt him and safety with swift wings Achilles is dispatcht to crosse the Scas With Telephus the sonne of Hercules 44 Because
can defend his life When th'vnauoyded destinies assayle against the Sisters bootlesse wee make strife Mortall preuention then of force must fayle In vaine then hast thou laboured Peleus wife To guirt his body in a steely wall Since thy Achilles must by Paris fall 21 No sooner was he borne but the fayre Queene Plung'd him into the Sea all saue the heele By which she held him fast that which was seene Beueath the waues was wound-free against Steele Had she but drown'd her hand the Prince had beene Sword-proofe euen there her nicenesse would not feele The coldnesse of the waues therefore that part Was left vnarm'd for Paris poysoned Dart. 22 Who therefore would against the Fates contend By whom our elementall parts are swayde Since euery thing that 's borne must haue his end and Nature still decayes what she hath made T is Heauen not Earth that can our liues defend The hygh powers must in all things be obayd But leaue the fayre-foot Thet is and proceede To what the Campe hath against Troy decreed 23 By this great discords monges the Gracians fall Twixt Duke Palamides and Mecenes King But no man knowes the byrth of this great brall Or from what Fountaine these dissentions spring Achilles thinkes his warlike meed too small He will not fight not Diomedes bring His Men to battayle while their Soueraigne head Is Nawlus sonne the generall Palamed 24 Whom some affirme the amorous Paris slew In euen Incounter of opposed hate But others say gainst him Vlisses drew Such points of Treason as concern'd his fate About Palamides strange rumours flew Twixt whom and great Atrides fell debate About the Soueraigne sway enuies fire nurst Long in their bosomes into flashes burst 25 The King of Ithaca marryed but newly Vnto the chastest Queene that hath beene crown'd When all the Grectan Kings appointed duly To make their meeting and assemble round Gaue out he was turn'd Frantique but not truely Which craft of his the Son of Nawlus found For comming where Vlisses Plowd the Sand and steer'd the crooked Rafter with his hand 26 Palumides iust in the Mad-mans way Layd young Telemachus his first borne Son Which made the Greeke his yoaked teeme to stay and where his Issuelay the place to shon Palumides dilcouers his delay Finds that his Lunacy by craft was don That whilst the Gracians were with Troy at strife He might at home sleepe with his constant wife 27 In ill time did the Son of Nawlus this The vengfull King rouz'd from so fayre a Bride who by this meanes now quite abandon'd is Doth in his bosome spleene and rankor hide and for the losse of euery amorous kisse Threatens a wide wound in the Princes side Oh treacherous Greeke to want thy wife in Bed Mustat Troyes siedge cost the great Generals hed 28 Arnea was Sole-Daughter to the King Icarius and faire peribea his wife who feeles a young Babe in her VVombe to spring The Father when he knew th'Infant had life after conception doubting some strange thing To Delphos hyes where answers then were ryfe When th' Oracle thus spake the princely Dame Shall child one full of Honor full of Shame 29 A beauteous Maide the troubled Mother beares The Father misinterprets Phoebus minde And to auoyde her shame his future feares Commits her to the rage of Seas and Wind The Birds that bred of Meleagers teares Cald Meleagrides by Nature kind With their broad wings about the Cock-boat houer And from all stormes the beautious Infant couer 30 And hauing nourisht her for a certaine space Into the selfe-same Port her Barke they driue Where the sad King without paternall grace First launcht it forth and finding her aliue Circled with Birds of Meleagers race Their melting harts against their furies striue They take the young Arnea from the Sea And call her of those Birds Penelope 31 In beauty stature and in wit she growes But when her Father findes her apt to marry Fearing the Oracle whom still he knowes Sooth in his words perswades the dame to tarry A safer course to keepe her chast he chose Virginiti's a heauy loade to carry And to deuise to haue her nobly sped At a high rate he sets her Maiden-head 32 When all the Graecian Princes sought her grace And lay their Crownes and Scepters at her feete Icarius leades them to a Martiall race where the young Kinges in hot incounter meete Aboue them all Vlisses won chiefe place The shamefast Queene must her new Husband greete The bashfull modesty of this chast Dame The earefull Father did misconster shame 33 For woman-hood this Lady had no Peere witnesse her many Suters in the time Her Husband absent was some twice ten yeare who though much woo'd and in her youthfull prime Yet in their force or fayre meanes could appeare Not the least taynt of any amorous cryme Though many Suters through her doores intruded They by her Bow and Web were all deluded 33 Whether Vlisses breast doth malice shrowde And being at full groath now out it must Whether his loue to Agamemnon vowde Bred in the Nawlian Prince some great distrust Or whether great Palamides grew proude And in the Ballance of his awe vniust But the great Duke vnto the Barre he brings And there arraignes him by a Bench of Kings 34 Vnto this royall Sessions men are brought That sweare Palamides would Greece betray And that King Priam had by Factors wrought To make the Argiue Campe the Troyans pray The Generals priuate Tent is forthwith sought Where Bags of Troyan Coyne conceiled lay This euidence condems the Prince betrayd For there that Gold before Vlisses layd 35 And Agamemnon is againe restord With whose election the late Truce expires The maimd are cur'd the victors are ador'd The bodyes slaine receiue the funerall fires The Obits on both sides are full deplord And eyther party the fayre field desires The great Atrides Martials his fayre hoast Who shine in Steele by the Sygean Coast. 36 Vpon the aduerse party Hector leades His m◅n to battaile flanct with sleeues and winges His nimble Horsemen forrage round the Meads The maine well-fen'st with Skirts of Shafts and Slings In forehead of the battayle Hector treads This day the Generall ouer thirty Kings The charge is giuē arm'd knights meet breast to breast Striking bright starres out of each others Crest 37 The doughty Greekes after their long tru'st ease Are full of breath and vigor they fight well The Troyans that but late droue to the seas The scattred Camp thinke likewise to excell Euen Ballan'st is the field as the Scales please who Victors be who vanquisht none can tell On both sides some are conquer'd some subdue And as the day increast the conflict grew 38 Broad breasted Diomed gainst Paris rides and lifts him from his Saddle with his Speare The Prince the Buttockes of his Horse bestrydes And hardly can the Troyan keepe him there Whilst Diomed his quicke remoue derides
Achiaces next the field asâ—…nded 100 These with the other Princes proudly fare Disordred ruine ruffles on each side Thousands of eyther party slaughterd are In this incounter Deiphebus dide And bâ—…aue Amphimachus forward to dare And able to performe a Souldier tride And now on Priams party onely stand The Scithian Damsels to protect his Land 101 Troy droopes and 〈◊〉 aspyres full foureteene dayes Penthisilea hath vphâ—…ld her fame Both Campe and Câ—…ty surfâ—…it with her prayse and her renowne deseruedly proclayme The best of Greece her hardiment assayes Yet shrinke beneath the fury of the Dame None can escape her vigour vnrewarded Troy by this sterne Virago's soly guarded 102 But destiny swayes all things Troy was founded To endure a third wracke and must fate obay Therefore euen those that with most might abounded Cannot reprieue her to a longer day The Sâ—…ythian Dames by many Princes wounded Were with the Queene at length to Greece a pray Her too much hardinesse her selfe inmur'd Admidst her foes in Armour well assur'd 103 And when her Launce was â—…plinter'd to her hand Her warlike Pollax hew'd to pieces small Her selfe round guirt with many an armed band Euen in her height of Fame she needs must fall The warlike Wench amongst the Greekes doth stand Vnbackt by Troy left of her Damsels all The battery of a thousand swords she bides Till her yron plates are hew'd off from her sides 104 Thus brâ—…athlesse and vnhaâ—…est fresh in breath And strong in armor Pyrrhus her inuades At these aduantages he knowes t is eath To cope with her quite scuered from her Maids His baleâ—…ull thoughts are spur'd with rage and death Close to her â—…ide in blood of Greekes he wades Blood sluc'st by her and naked thus assayles her Whilst a whole Campe of foes from safety railes her 105 After much warre th'Amazonian fals Whom Pyrrhus lops to pieces with his Glaue And â—…ing pâ—…-meale hew'd her lowd he cals To haue her limbes kept from an honoured graue But to be strow'd about the sieged wals She dead the Troians seeke themselues to saue By open flight her Virgins fighting dye Scorning the life to gaine which they must flye 106 Now Troy's at her last cast her succors fayle Her souldiers are cut off by ruthlesse warre Her Sea-ports hemd in with a thousand sayle In her land fiedge two hundred thousand are They close their Iron gates their liues to baile And strengthen them with many an yron barre After that day they dare no weapons weild Or front the proud Greekes in the open field 107 Aeneas and Antenâ—…r now conspire As some suppose the Citty to betray And with the Greekes they doome it to the fire But whilst the rich Palladium's seene to stay In Pallas Temple they in vaine desire King Priams ruin or the Lands decay Therefore the slye Vlisses buyes for Gold The Iewell that doth Troy in safety hold 108 Oh cursed Priest that canst thy selfe professe Seuere in habit but in heart prophane Would of thy name and Order there were lesse That will not sticke to sell their friends for gaine Who but that knowes thy Treason once would gesse Such treacherous thoughts should taint a Church-mans braine But many to the Gods deuoted soly In harts are godlesse though in garments holy 109 Whether by purchase or by stealth Heauen knowes But the Palladium now the Greekes inioy And by a generall voyce the Campe arose From their long â—…ege their ships againe t' inioy The Greekes vnto the sea themselues dispose And make a show to bid farewell to Troy But of this Stratagem what next befell This Canto will not giue vs roome to tell ARtimesia Queene of Caria and wife to King Mansolus she is famous for her Chastity the loue to her husband after whose death she made so royalla Sepulcher for him that it was helde of the Wonders of the world and of that all stately buildinges haue since then beene called Mansolea Camna a beautious maide borne in Galatia the wife of one Sinatus she was religiously deuoted to the chaâ—… Goddesse Diana whom her Countrey held in great reuerence whome when Synorix had often sollicited with loue but coulde not preuaile he treacherously slew her husband Sinatus and after inforced her to his Marriage-bed to whom by the vrgent instigation of her friends and the promotion expected by the greatnesse of Synotix she seemed willingly to yeild he perswading her that for his loue to her he wrought the death of her beloued Sinatus When before the Altar of the Goddesse they were to be espoused she drank to Synorix as the custom was a Bowle of Wine in which when he had pledged her shee told him with a ioyfull countenance that in that draught they had both caroused their deaths being extreamely ouer-ioyed that before the chast goddesse Diana in the face of so great a people she had iustified her owne Innocence and reuenged the murder of her husband which incontinently appeared for the potion being commixt with poyson they both expired before the Alter When Achilles was slaine in the Temple by Paris it is remembred of him that the Graecians could not purchase his bodie of the Troians till to ransome him they waighed them downe ass much Gold as poysed the body of Hector T is sayde that for his death all the Muses Nimphes wept exceedingly Rursus redempto pro altero cadauere Pâ—…r pondus Auris splendidi partoâ—…j ferent The Isle Boristhenes was called Achilleides of Achilles that was there buried besides it is Poetised of him that in the Elisian field after his death he espoused Medea Paris that slewe Achilles and was after slaine by Aiax was sent into Greece with two and twenty saile whence hee brought the faire Hellen. His Shipmaister or he that built his ships was called Phereclus Some thinke he pierst Greece first by the Commandement of Venus and hauing 〈◊〉 Hellen carried her into Aegypt where he first lay with her Others are opinioned that he bedded with her in Athens and had by her these foure Sonnes Dunichus Carithus Aganus and Ideus Others thinke he first lay with her in Cranae one of the Spâ—…rad Islands which when Paris had done almost by violense and after many teares sbed for the leauing of her Husband it is said that of her teares grew the Hearbe Helenium which if women drinke in wine it prouokes mirth and Venery Of Helena it is thus recorded Menelaus being dead after their returne to Greece for her former luxuriousnes she was expulsed from Lacedemon by her Sonnes Nicostratus and Megapenthe She fled to her Cozen Polixo the Wife of Tlepolemus who gouerned Rhodes where shee soiourned for a space but Polixo after remembring that her Husband was by reason of the Adultery of Hellen stain in the wars of Troy she came vpon Hellen suddainely as she was bathing her selfe amongst her Maids and hurriyng her vnto a
Neptolemus from top to toc Satued in blood and slaughter in both hands Wauing a keene glaue Crimsond in the foe To bind with Cords her soft armes he commands That more red liues may on his Faulchion flow There the bright Mayde that bands did ill become He piece-meale howe 's vpon Achilles tombe 93 Thus is King Priam and Queene Hecubs race Extinct in dust young Palidore alone The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace Left in great charge with Gold and many a Stone Beyond all rate but Polymnestor base Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone False to the world and to his friend vntrew To gaino that wealth the louely Infant slew 94 Whos 's death when Hecuba reuenged had By tearing out the periur'd Tyrants eyes First she records the beauty of the Lad Then all the glories she beneath the skies Possest before which makes her Franticke-mad On her sloine husband daughters sonnes she crics Troy she bewaild and fatall Greece she curst Till her great heart with griese surcharged burst 95 Ten yeares ten months twelue dayes this siege indured In which of Greece before the Towne were slame Fourescoute hundred and sixe thousand all inured To steely warre Of Troians that maintaine The honour of their Citty well assured Besides the number that were prisoners tane Six hundred fifty and six thousand tride Omitting those that in the last night dide 96 Chiualrous Hector voyd of fraud or slight Eighteene great Kings slew by his proper hands No aduantagious oddes he vsd in fight Therefore his fame spreds farre through forraigne lands Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right Fell by his Bow next rankt Achilles stands Who besides Troylus and great Hector slew Seauen puissant Kings at Troy if Fame speake true 97 Foure Kings beside the Sagitary fell By Diomed two by Aeneas lost Their precious liues though many moe fought well Their warlike deeds are not so farte ingrost Blacke Pyrrhus acts aboue the rest excell Who thinking mongst them to be praised most Three Royall liues his Tragicke wrath obayd An aged King a Woman and a Mayd 98 Not how two worthy Greekes in words contended Who should the rich Vulcanian armor haue Now how from Aiax who had Greece defended Th' impartiall Iudges to Vlisses gaue To proue that Counsell aboue strength extended And had more power the Argine Campe to saue In griese of which great losse Aiax grew mad Slaine by the sword that he from Hector had 99 Nor of Vlisses trauels twice ten yeares Nor of his loue with Circe the faire Queene Who by her spels transform'd him and his Pecres And kept him thence where he desird t' haue beene With faire Penelope Fam'd mongst the spheares In liuing chast though Princes full of spleene Possest her kingdome and her pallace ceaz'd VVhom wanting power she by delaies appeasd 100 Nor how he after twenty winters came And in disguise his constant Lady proued How he by armes releast the beautious Dame And all her suiters from his Land remoued Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame Of him whom most the witch Calipso loued From his faire Mother Circe himselfe vvith-drevv And vnavvares his Royall Father slevv 101 Nor how King Naulus laide Traines on the Seas To aâ—…enge him on the Gracians for his sonne Palamides whose death did much displease The aged Prince since t was by treason donne Nor how such wandering Greekes as he could ceaze Who on his shores their ship-wrackt vessels ronne Naulâ—…s destroyd and vnto ruine brought Since they his sonnes deere life esteemed nought 102 Nor how King Agamemnon home returning Was by his faire wife Clitemnestra slaine How false Egistus in the Queenes loue burning Plotted with her to shorten the Kings raigne Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning Grew mad and slew Egistus that had laine With his faire Mother whoÌ„ when he had caught her Vnchild-like he did with his owne hands slaughter 103 Nor how blacke Pyrrhus Hellens daughter stalâ—… The faire Her mione she that before Was to Horestes troth'd and should Sance fayle Haue bin espousd to him who at the doore Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae Staining Apoltos shrine with Pyrrhus gore Not how that face for which the whol world wrangled To see it chang'd with age her selfe she strangled 104 Nor how the Greekes after their bloody toyles Antenor left to inhabit raced Troy And after th' end of their sad Tragicke broyles All Asiaes wealth within their flect inioy Robbing the Towne of all her richest spoyles Whose hye Clowd-peircing spyres the flames destroy nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather And ships with his young son and aged Father 105 Rigging to soa these two and twenty sayle That fetcht the fire brand that all Troy inflamd The selfe-same shippes in which the Troian stale The Spartan Queene gainst whome all Greece exclaimd Nor of Queene Didoes loue and Tragicke bate Nor of Aeneas trauels nobly fam'd Nor how Andromache was Captaine led Left to the hot lust of the Conquerors bed 106 With whom Cassandra was inforst to goe With Helenus that kend deuinest things And al these sad proceedings did fore-show and propheside to Troyes confedered Kings Nor of King Diâ—…meds sad ouerthrow Of Albions Isle first knowne my Muse next sings Her Chariot now I can no further driue Brittaine from conquerd Troy we next deriue Dolopes are a people of Thessaly in the borders of Phthiolis out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard Pallas whose name we have often vsed some take to be the Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis and liued in the time of Giges Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine as wee haue before remembred Palluda quandam Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissiâ—…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae The like many others affirme as also that when she leapt out of Ihoues brain at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth Of her birth many writers differ some affirme her to be the Daughter of â—…riton others to berather the Daughter of â—…upiter Thetis Others of Craunus differing from their opinions therfore I hold with Cicero who auers that there were more of the names One of the Mother of Apollo a second borne by Nyle and adored of the Egyptians a third of the braine of â—…upiter a fourth of Jupiâ—…er and Ceriphe the Daughter of Oceanus whom the Arcadians call Cerin and the Inuentor of the Chariot A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father to perserue her virginity Pallas and Minetâ—…a were one she was also by some called Tâ—…iloma Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia Both Greece and Troy highly honered her she is saide to inuent Armes and to haue aided her Father Jâ—…piter in the destruction of the Tytanoyes which the poets call Gigomantichia Of whom it is thus remembred Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue
Tros Tros Ilion next him stroue Laomedon and he got Priamus And when the Greekes from Troy Aeneas droue He by Creusa had Askanius Who after Carthaginean Dido past Vp through the Riuer Tiber â—…ayles at last 3 At Hostiaes Port the place the Gods behight Aeneas Landes Euander him receiues The Latines King whose Daughter at first sight Aeneas loues and for her sake bercaues The Tuskayne King of life in single fight Turnus being dead the fayre Lauinia leaues Her virgine vowes by whom the Troian Prince Siluius begot and Siluius Brutus since 4 Brutes Mother in her painefull throwes deceast Hâ—… his glancing Shaft his Father slew For which with melancholy griefes infest From Italy the Prince himselfe withdrew Ten thousand voluntary men vnprest Consort him strange aduentures to pursue Whom Corineus with many Troians more Mcetcs and assists new Countries to explore 5 Brute Grecian Pandras who denide him way And through his spacious Kingdome passage free O're-comes in battaile but denyes to stay Till he more Coasts and various Clymats see Fayre Innogen a Virgin fresh as May He marrieth and with Pandras doth agree For her rich Dower to haue a royall fleete Well furnisht for his Trayne with all things meete 6 He past Alcides Pillers euen to Guall Landing in Guien Guffor the proud King Denyes prince Brute to hunt but Mauger all He chac't his Deere and made his Buckes to spring Thence Albion he discries like a white wall Washt with the sea and longs his fleet to bring To a safe Harbour where he might suruay The long sought Isle where he his boues must lay 7 When Ayoth iudged Israell in the yeare Threescore and twelue of his command and state Aegiptian Danaâ—… daughters lauded heere After long search who for they had of late Theyr nine and forty husbands by th'austere Iniunction of their Sire brought to sad Fate Were in a Mastlesse ship to exile throwne And landinging heere cald this Isle Albion 8 Some say of these Viragoes spirits begot Gyants that were of huge and monstrous size Who when they grew to stature spared not Asfinity for Sonne with Mother lies Brother with Sister so the learned Scot Marian doth in his Chronicles comprize And of these lustfull Ladies in small while Twelue thousand Gyants peopled this large I le 9 PRince Brute with Corineus doth Albion enter At Totnes thirty monstrous Gyants kils And after much and dangerous aduenter Builds London cald new Troy his Throne he fils Twenty foure yeares then payes his last debenter To Nature Brittaine he to Locrine wils Scotland to Albanact Wales Camber swayes Israell was iudg'd by Samuell in their dayes 2 Locrine raign'd twenty yeares his wife him slew Because he Sabrine lou'd and her forsooke Mother and Child bold Guendolina threw Into the Seuerne streames who there name tooke From Sabrine In his dayes young Dauid grew And with a Sling the great Goliah strooke At Locrines death sterne Guendoline begun Her husband she succeeds and her her Sonne 3 Madan rul'd forty yeares and in his dayes Was beautious Absolom by Ioab slaine Memprisius twenty yeares the Scepter swayes Procuring first his Brother Manlius bane Whom Madan lou'd and had intent to raise In Lust and ryot he consum'd his raigne For which iust heauens their righteous vengeance powred Memprisius hunting was by Wolues deuoured 4 Him his sonne Ebranke in the Throne succeeds Who gouernes threescore happy Summers thorow Famous for many charitable deeds He builded Yorke Dunbar and Edenborowe Next him Brute Greene-shield don'd th' Imperiall weeds After twelue happy yeares his subiects sorrow For his vntimely Fate and in his raigne B'Elias prayer the Priests of Ball were slaine 5 L'Eill Brutes sonne raignd fiue and twenty yeares And Carleil built then did his seat resigne To young Lud Hurdibras lou'd of his Peeres Who gouernd Britaines Scepter twenty nine He Winchester and Canterbury reares With Shafts-bury then seekes a Throne deuine Whose Obits were in Brittaine long bemoned The propher Zachary in his dayes was stoned 6 BLadud Luds sonne raignd next and Bath erected A Sorcerer and did attempt to flye And hauing twenty yeare the Realme protected He brake his necke downe from a Steeple hie Amos and Amazia were directed In those dayes by the spirit of Prophesie Leir next him in whose time as Bookes say Ionas three dayes in the Whales belly lay 7 Leir built Leicester forty yeares was Crownd Famous in his three Daughters and their Loue The youngest most suspected faithfull found And they that promist most least thankefull proue Kindest Cordeilla that did most abound In filiall zeale next Leir sits aboue Morgan and Cunedadgius two false Peeres Depose their Aunt after fiue vnhappy yeares 8 They ioyntly raigne till Cunedadgius slew His Brother Morgan in Glamorgan-sheere From whom the Title of that Country grew And after gouernd three and thirty yeare Now Naum preacht Riuallo doth pursue The Kingdome next a Prince that had no peere In his dayes Propheside Esay Micheas The Prophets Adad Amos and Oseas 9 Forty six yeares he gouernd In his raigne Rome was first built wise Sibell gaue forth Sawes King Ezechy by God heal'd of hispaine Had fifteene yeares life promist for some cause The Sun full ten Degrees turnd backe againe Thales Milesius to the Greekes gaue Lawes In Brittaine it raind blood Riuallo wained And eight and thirty yeares Gurgustius raigned 10 Now Ioel taughts his Iliads Homer wrate And Glaucus Chius Sodering first inuented Sicillius next Gurgustius takes the state Forty nine yeares he gouernes well contented Amon in Iuda raind Zaleucus sate Iudge on his sonnes eye Ieremy lamented For the sad Tragedy of King Iosias Now flourish Olda Baruch Sophonius 11 Now Phalleris in Agrigentine swayde And thrust Perilles in his brazen Bull To tast the torment he for others made Iago next Sisillius makes vp full Twenty fiue yeares then in his Tombe was laide Nabuchadnezar sought to disanull The Hebrew Lawes susannaes fame increased By th'Elders wrongd by Daniels doome released 12 Fifty foure yeares Kinimachus was knowne After â—…ago in the Brittish Chaire Arion with his Harpe was o're-Boord throwne Whom through the Seas the pittious Dolphin bare Bell was cald God and fore him â—…rumpets blowne And the three Children in the robes they ware Cast in the fiery Furnace now I gesse Liud Solon Sapho the sweet Poâ—…tesse 13 Annaximander th' Horoscope first made Aesope in Birds and Beasts first figured men Next King Kinimachus Gorbodug swayde The Brittish Scepter In the Lyons den Daniell was cast Now Cyrus did inuade Cressus of Lydia t' was the season when Zacharias Aggeus Malack Propheside And the chast Lucresse by her owne hand dide 14 Next Gorbodug Ferrex and Porrex raigned
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
of Histaspes called in the Scripture Ashuerosh Husband to Hester called by 〈◊〉 Aristona as the Name of Vasts was Atossa Some refer the History of Iudith to these times Fourth Xerxes raigned 20. He 〈◊〉 Greece with an Armye of 10000000. Souldiers his cheese Captaine was Mardonius his chiefe Counseller Artabanus He was first repulsed by Pausanias of Sparta after expeld Greece by 〈◊〉 In these warres were famous Artstides and Cimon 4. Artaxerxus with the long hand ruld 40. He was thought to bee the Son to Darius and Hester In his time liued Esdras Haggeus Zachartus and Nehemiah About the time of the Pelloponesian Warre And now was Rome gouerned by the 〈◊〉 forme of gouernment infamous in the lust of 〈◊〉 to the chast Roman Lady Virginia Darius Nothus raigned 19 In his time hued famous Alcibiades and Sophocles Euripides two famous Tragedians Artaxerxes Memnon 40. he loued the famous Lady Aspatia the Noblest Greekes in his daies were Clearchus Anaxilaus Lisander who conquered Athens after gouerned by 30. Tyrants who were supprest by the 〈◊〉 of Thrasibulus Now happened the Wars betweene the Phocenses and the Locri with 〈◊〉 Leuctricum And now 〈◊〉 Conon and 〈◊〉 EpamaminoÌ„das in Greece about the 〈◊〉 that English Brennus sackt Rome Artaxerxes Ochus next Memnon raigned 26. In his time happened the Warre which was called Bellum sacrum 〈◊〉 raigned foure yeares he was slaine by Bagoas Him Darius succeeded in the sixt yeare of his raigne was slaine by Alexander the Great in whom began the third Monarchy translated to the Gracians Alexander by his Father Phillip deriueth his byrth from Hercules by his Mother Olimpius from Aeacus He conquered the World raigned as Emperor 12. years In the 32. of his age He dead the Monarchy was dâ—…ded into four parts Aegipt Syria Asia Mynor and Macedon The Kinges of Egypt after Alexander were these Ptolomeus the Sonne of Lagus Ptolomeus Philodelphus Alexander Philopater Epiphanes Philometer Euergetes Phiscon Alexander Lathurus Auletes Father to Câ—…patra Dionisius her Brother in whom ended the race of the Ptolomees and now Egypt came vnder the Iâ—…risdiction of the Romans The Kings of Macedon were Perdicas Craterus Antipater Cassander Antigonus 1. Antigonus 2. Demetrius Philippus and Perseus who was surprised by the Romans The Kings of Syria who after the death of Alexander possest Babylon Syria and Asia Minor were Antiochus Soter Antiochus Theos Antiochus Magnus who had these three Sons Seleucus Philopater Antiochus Epiphanes and Demetrius Demetrius after his Brothers decease had two Sonnes Demetrius Nicanor and Antiochus Sedetes The Son of Nicanor was Antiochus Griphus The Son of Sedetes was Antiochus Cyzenius These hauing slaine each other from theyr Issue Tygranes King of Armenia reâ—…t the Kingdome of Syria which first Lucullus and after Pompeius Magnus annext to the Roman Empyre These in the time of the third Monarchy were Captaines and Gouernors among the Iewes Nehemiah Ioconias Selathiel Zorobabel Resa Mesollam â—…ohanna Ben Resa Iudas Hircanus primus in his Dukedome Alexander flew Darius Iosephus primus Abner Semei Eli matathai Asa mahat Nagid Artaxad Haggai Eli Maslot Nahum Amos Sirach Matathia Siloah Iosephus Iunâ—…r Ianua secunâ—…s Hircanus And then began the race of the Machabees in Matathias whose Sons succeeded him Iudas Ionathas Simon Iohannes Hercanus The Kinges of that line were Aristobulus son to Hercanus Alexander Iâ—…neus Queen Alixandra his Wife otherwise cald Salome The Sonnes of Alexander were Hircanus and Aristobulus in theyr death ended the line of the Machabees Succeeding these in the 30. yeare of the raigne of Herod Tetrache was borne the Sauiour of the World vnto which we haue studyed to reduce the best knowne Nations of the Earth leauing the 4. Monarchy among the Romans who by this time awed the Earth whose warres and Fortunes being so commonly from many worthy Writers translated into our moderne tongue We here omâ—… letting this short Epitome onley serue in the Front of our Booke to instruct your memories and guide your thoughts through those vnknown Deserts in which without this direction many Readers may loose themselues bee this therefore their Pylot to direct them to the harbour of these latter Ages more familiarly knowne Argumentum TYTAN and Saturne differ their great strife Is by their carefull mother VESTA ended Saturane his Sister Sybill takes to wife And the heyre-males that are from theÌ„ descended He doomes to death faire Sybil saues the life Of Iupiter grim Saturne is offended And to the Oracle at Delphos hyes Whiles Titan thrugh the earth his fortune tries ARG. 2. The Worlds Creation gold from the earths veines Neptune and Plutoes birth ALPHA conteines CANTO 1. THis VNIVERSH with all therein conteined Was not at first of Water fashioned Nor of the Fire as others oft haue fcyned Nor of the Ayre as some haue vainly spred Nor the foure Elements in order trained Nor of Vacuitie and Atom's bred Nor hath it beene Eternall as is thought By naturall men that haue no further sought 2 Neither hath man in perpetuity bin And shall on earth eternally perseuer By endlesse Generation running in One circuit In corruption lasting euer Nor did that Nation first on earth begin Vnder the mid Equator some indeuour So to perswade that man was first begunne In the place next to the life-giuing Sunne 3 Neither was he of Earth and water framed Tempered with liuely heat as others write Nor were we in a former world first named As in their curious Problems some recite Others more ripe in Iudgement haue proclaimed Man fram'd of clay in fashion exquisite In whom were breath'd sparkes of Celestiall fire Whence he still keepes his Nature to aspire 4 But this most glorious Vniuerse was made Of nothing by the great Creators will The Ocean bounded in not to inuade Or swallow vp the Land so resteth still The azure Firmament to ouer-shade Both Continent and Waters which fulfil The Makers word one God doth sole extend Without beginning and shall see no end 5 That powerfull Trinity created man Adam of Earth in the faire field Damaske And of his rib he Euah formed than Supplying them with all things they can aske In these first two Humanity began In whom confinde IHBHOVAHS fix-daâ—…es taske From Adam then and Euahs first Creation It followes we deriue our Brittish Nation 6 Inspire me in this taske Ihoues seede I pray With Hippocrenes drops besprinke my head To comfort me vpon this tedious way And quicken my cold braine nigh dull and dead Direct my wandring spirits when they stray Least forren and forbidden paths they tread My iourney 's tedious blame not then my feares My voyage aymes at many thousand yeares 7 Oh giue me leaue from the Worlds first Creation The ancient names of Britons to deriue From Adam to the Worlds first Invndation And so from Noah to vs that yet suruâ—…e And hauing of Troyes
at her cause of discontents Welcome the Damsell In their honors striuing To cheere her who as doubtfull still laments Not knowing yet how the young Prince shall speed Or what the prouident sisters haue decreed 64 The courteous virgins hearing the sad story Of vertuous Sybill and her sonne related Both for the mother and the Sonne are sorry And hauing with themselues a while debated They hold their womanish pitty much more glory Then to be rude and cruell estimated And now their studies are the Babe to hide And for his carefull fostring to prouide 65 They beare him to a Mountaine in whose brow A Câ—…ue was dig'd the round mouth was so strait That at the entry you of force must bow But entred once the roome was full of State This Cauerne for the darknesse they allow To shâ—…eld the Infant from the Fathers hate Which being selected as a place most meet The Damsell is againe sent backe to Creet 66 With milke of Goates they nurst him for a space Till Fortune on a time so well prouided That when to still the Babe who cride apace They sounded Cymbals and with tunes deuided Strook on their Tymbrels by some wondrous grace A swarme of Bees was by that Musicke guided Into the place who made the Caue their Hiue And with their Hony kept the Child aliue 67 By this the Damsell is return'd againe And all the newes to Vesta haâ—… related What prouident care the royall Dames haue tanâ—… To saue the Prince how well they haue requited Her former loue still Saturne thinkes it slaâ—…ne Being with the terror of his death affrighted Which in the Kings opinion to make good Vest a salutes him with a cup of blood 68 An Abbest stone into the bole was brayed It shew'd like the Babes hart beaten to powder The Dowager in funerall blacke arrayed With reâ—…erence to her Son and Soueraigne bowed her Women haue teares at will their wiles to ayde And she hath plenty to ber plot allowed her See here quoth she and as she more would say Griefe strikes her mute and tuâ—…s her head away 69 Againe she would proceed againe she faileth But the third time begins her sad Oration See heere thy sonne whose losse thy wife bewaileth Murdered and massacred in piteous fashion In vaine against the froward fate she raileth In vaine she teares her eies in extreame passion Saturne hath to this cruell act constrain'd her And see of thy young son the poore remainder 70 Now maist thou keepe thine oath with Titans feed Yet that thou cruell art I needs must tell thee Neuer did Tiger father such a deed In tiranny the Wolues cannot excell thee Now maist thou safely weare thy imperiall weed Can this thy issue from thy throne expell thee This blood can neuer gouerne in thy sted Alas poore Grand-child thou too late hast bled 71 Th' vnwelcome newes seeme welcome to his cares And yet he wishes they awhile had staide That the vil'd deed is done he glad appeares Yet in his gladnes he seemes ill apaid She moues the king with her laments and teares What cannot weeping women men perswade The king in sorrow of his sonne late dead Vowes euer to abiure Queene Sibels bed 72 And whilst the warme blood reck't before his eies No wonder if he purpost as he spake But when the beauty of his Queene he spies Her graces mou'd him and his vow he brake Such charming vertue in her beauty hes That he forgets the rash oth he did make And rather then his nuptiall sweets forbeare Hee 'l sacâ—…ce a young sonne euery yeare 73 These stormes blowne ouer and their sorrowes spent For violent tempests neuer long remain'd The king young Iuno to Parthemia sent There amongst Princes daughters to be train'd To doe her honors is his whole intent Since his sonnes bloud by timelesse Fate is drained Nor maruell if to honor her he striue Knowing saue her no Issue left aliue 74 Time keepes his course the King and Queene oft meet And once againe she hath conceiu'd a Male The Lad in secret is conveyde from Creet To Athens in a vessell swift of sayle Th' Athenian King they with the Infant greet Who the Babes fortunes sadly doth bewaile And the young Neptune fairely doth intreat And traynes him like the sonne of one so great 75 The husband-King who no such guile surmised Is by the crafty women mock't againe New teares are coin'd a second tricke deuised To make him thinke that Issue likewise slaine Once more the King with sadnesse is surprised Once more appeasd for teares he knowes are vaine Againe the King and Queene are met in bed And in small processe she againe is sped 76 A sonne and daughter at this birth she bare The sonne she hides the daughter she discloseth The sonne she Pluto named the winde stood faire And him into The ssalia she disposeth The messenger applies with earnest care Her tedious iourney for no time she lofeth Whâ—…st the twin-brother she is forst to hide Her daughter Glauca in her childhood dide 77 Neptune was nurst by Aruo after growing To manhood fairefoot Amphitrite hee would haue espousde but she her beauty knowing Despisde the Sea God thinking to liue free wherefore he sends the Dolphin who straight showing His masters thoughts the Louers soone agree For with the Dolphins signe to Heauen was â—…orne And plast on hye not farre from Capricorne 78 The vntam'd Gennâ—…t he did first bestride And made him seruant to the vse of Man Before him no man durst presume to ride Famous alone he was in Athens than He coupled first the Steedes and curbd their pride And by his Art the armed Chariot ran Therefore as greatest honor to his state The Horse to him was freely consecrate 79 And when he trauels o'rc the foamy waues With foure Sea-palfreys he is drawne along By sundry Nymphes and Girls whose loue he craues Four-score fayre sonnes he got surpassing strong Who Cittyes built and menaâ—… Hostile braues Gainst Tyrants that vsurpt their States by wrong He Riders grac't and Sea-men gladly cheared And by his hands the wals of Troy were rearâ—…d 80 To him three Temples consecrated were Of great Magnificence In Isthmus one In Tenarus a second did appeare A structure in that Isle famous alone A third to him the stowt Calabrians reare Semblant to these through all the world were none Vpon these shrines to make his glories full The people vsde to sacrifice a Bull. 81 Pluto whom some call Mammon God of gold Who after did the Tartar kindome seaze As â—…oue a Scepter in his hand doth hold Neptune the Trident so he graspes the Keies Some thinke this God inhabited of old Hiberia him the Pyren mountaines please Of whom and Proserpine his rauisht Btide Desist to speake what Iuno did betide 82 Thus eldest Iâ—…piter liues in a Caue Neere Oson nurst with Hony
from the Bees Th' Athenian King did the young Neptune saue In Athens where great Clearks haue tane degrees Athens the well of knowledge and the Graue Of Ignorance where Neptune safety sees Pluto the youngest of the three doth dwell In lower The ssaly since tearmed Hell 83 The time these liued was Patriarch Isaac borne In Lybia Affer raignde Brigus in Spaine By Inachus the Argiue Crowne is worne Aratus doth the Assyrian state maintaine Now Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes turne Pelloponesus doth Aegidius gaine Germania is vpheld by Herminon And Aethyopia sway'd by Phaeton 84 Saturne that of his three sonnes nothing knew Doted on louely Iuno and oft sent Vnto her place of Nurture where she grew Faire and well featur'd there her youth she spent Whose soiorne in Parthemia Saturne drew To visite her on earth his sole content Many rare presents and rich guists he brought her Where leaue him in Parthemia with his daughter Ovr Poem though familiarly knowne to them of iudgment and reading yet because it may not seeme intricate to the lesse capeable I thought it not altogither impertinent to insert some few obseruations to the ende of euery Caate Touching this Vranus from whom our History takes life some Writers and those not of the least authority thinke in him to be figured Chanaan sonne of Cham sonne of Noah whom Noah cursed but spared his sonne Cham because God had once blessed him This Canaan for sundry benefits by him bestowed uppon many Nations was called by some Ogyges by others Fenix as also Coelum Sol Proteus Ianus Geminus Iunonius Quirinus Patulcius Bacchus Vortumnus Chaos Ileton or the seed of the Goddes Also his wife Vesta for her bounty they cald Tellus Opis Aretia and Cibilla the mother of the Gods And these liued in the third generation after the Floud From this Vesta came the virgin Vestals in Rome This Cham father to Canaan was cald Aegiptian Saturne and Nemroth Babilonian Saturne C ham was also called Saturne in Italy who came thither to dwell in the time that Comerus the Scythian vsurped there a neighbour to olde Ianus that dwelt in Laurentum And this was in the yeare of the world 1898. the yeare before Christ 2065. but rather then enter too deepe into antiquity the sequele of our historie we deriue from Saturne of Creet There were two Iupiters the first Iupiter Belus from whom Nilus descended and first Idolatrised to him the second Iupiter of Creet who was after instiled Olimpian Iupiter and supreame king of the Gods Tytan Saturnes brother is often by the Poets taken for the Sunne he is likewise cald Hiperion and ruler of the Planets but Bochas writes Hiperion to be Tytans sonne and not a name soly attributed to the Sunne Where Saturne makes his expedition to the Oracle I read of two Oracles one spake in Delphos from the mouth of Apollo the other in Aegypt from Iupiter Belus who is likewise cald the Sonne of Saturne and the second Emperour of Babylon after Nemroth Oson a Citty and mountaine in Epyre where Iupiter was nurst This Epyre is a Countrey in Greece hauing on the North Macedonia the East Achaya the West the sea Ionium It cannot be the mountaine Ossa because Ossa is in Thessaly Saturnus was the first father of the Goddes who begatte Iupiter Iuno Neptune Pluto and Glauca by his wife Ops otherwise cald Sybilla Demogorgon signifieth Earth and Aethra Ayre supposed Vranus father and mother Cadmus sonne to Agenor king of Phenicia who beeing sent by his father to seeke his sister Europa whom Iupiter in the shape of a Bull had rauished and not finding her durst not returne to his Countrey but staied in Boetia where bee built the famous Citty Thebes brought letters first into Greece and found the casting of mettals in Pangeus a promontory in Thrace Panchaia a sandy countrey of Arabia where is plenty of Frankincence In a high hill of this Countrey Thoas and Aeaclis first found out gold Ore Erichthon other wise Erichtheus he was nurst by Minerua after instated king of Athens he first inuented the Chariot and is supposed to be the first that tryed mettalles part of which skill some take from him and attribute vnto Ceachus Idaei Dactili otherwise called Corybanthus were certain priests of Cibell these are sayae to find out the vse of Iron Salmentes and Damnamenecus two Iewes S. Clement speakes of who first found out the vse of Iron in Cipres Lydus the sonne of Atis and brother to Tyrrhenus of him Lidia tooke the name he first melted brasse and made it pliable to the hammer a cunning which Theophrastus would bestow vpon one Delos the Phrigian but Aristotle yeildes it to Lydus Cassiterides are ten Istandes in the Spanish sea in these Midacritus by the opinion of Strabo first found out the vse of Lead Cynaras aritch King of Cypres who vnawares laye with his daughter Myrrha and on hir begat Adonis Hee first deuised the Stithce Tongs File and Leauer Pyrodes was sonne to Cilix of whom Cicilia took name and Cilix was sonne to Phenicia he was the first strooke fire from the flint Prometheus sonne to Iapetus who for stealing Fyre from heauen to inspire life in his Images was by Iupiter tyde vnto the mount Cancasus where an Eagle still gnaweth his entrailes Anacharsis a great Phylosopher borne in Scythia he first deuised the Bellowes and as some suppose the Potters wheele Apis King of the Argioes he taught first the plantinge of vines and after his death was worshipt in the shape of an Oxe Iubalda gouerned Spaine Craunuis Italy Satron the Gaules Semiramis Assyria At the same time Saturne married his Sister Sybill This was in the yeare of the World 2000. and the yeare before Christ 1963. Seauen yeares after this which was 250. yeares after the Deluge Noah paid his due to Nature Almache and Mellisee are supposed to be Adrastea and Isde. THus it is our purpose to be are along with vs the best knowen Kingdomes of the Worlde that the truth of an Hystory being countenanced with their credit may purchase the better beliefe The end of the first CANTO Argumentum Young Dardanus his brother Iasius slew And leaues the Countrey where he sought to rayne Warre twixt th' Epirians and Pelagrans grew Lycaon is by Ioue exilde not slaine Iupiter of Calisto taking v◅ew A votresse and one of Dians traine Loues and is loath'd the Virgin is beguild Clad like a mayd he gets the Mayd with child ARG. 6. TH'Epirian slaine Troys first foundatiō layd Chast Dians vowes in Dcta are conveyd CANTO 2. OH blind Ambition and desire of Raigne How camst thou by this rule in mortall breasts Who gaue thee this dominion ore the braine Thou murdrest more then plagues or fatall pests Thy drinke Mans bloud thy food dead bodies slaine Treason and Murder are thy nightly guests Ambition knowes no lawe he that aspires Climbes by the liues of brothers sonnes and Syres 2 Corinthus
not how nor where His troubled thoughts confusd with paine and wonder Distracted twixt amazednesse and feare His foote remoues not nor his handes doth sunder Seemes blind to see and beeing deafe to heare And in an extasie so farre misled That he shewes dead aliue and liuing dead 98 Euen so this new-made woman late a mayde Lyes senslesse after this her transformation Seeing in vaine she had implor'd heauens ayde With many a fearefull shrike and shrill Oration Like one intranc't vpon the ground shee s layde Amazde at this her sudden alteration She is she knowes not what she cares not where Confounded with strange passion force and feare 99 Ihoue comforts her and with his Princely arme He would haue raisd her from the setled grasse With amorous words he faine her griefe would charme He tels her what he meant and who he was But there is no amends for such shrewd harme Nor can he cheere the discontented Lasse Though he oft sware and by his life protested She in his Nuptiall bed should be inuested 100 But nothing can preuaile she weeping sweares To tell Diana of his shamefull deed So leaues him watering all her way with teares Young Ihoue to leaue the Forrest hath decreed He would not haue it come to Dians cares And therefore to the Citty backe doth speed She to the Cloyster with her checkes all wet Alone as many as when first they met IAsius raigned in Italy at whose marriage the famous Egyptian Io was present This was in the yeare of the world 2408. It was iust six yeares after that Moyses at the age of forty hauing slane the Egyptian sledde from the sight of Pharao Eleuen yeares after Moyses departed out of Egypt the two brothers Dardanus and Iasius waged warres in Italy Iasius was assisted by the Ianigenes so cald of Ianus Dardanus was ayded by the Aborigines so called by Sabatus saga who succeeded Comerus Gallus the Scythian in certaine conquered Prouinces of Italy At this time Lusus raignd in Spaine Allobrox in france Crothopus the 8. king of the Argiues now raigned Craunus the second king of Athens and at this time Aaron was consecrated high Priest among the Israelites Iasius was slaine in the yeare of the world 2457. in whose place Coribanthus his sonne succeeded Dardanus soiourned certaine yeares in Samothracia erected his Citty Dardan cald Troy in the 31. yeare of the Dukedome of Moyses receiuing that Prouince where his city was erected from Atho prince of Moeonia About the same time by equall computation Archas Calisto subduing the Pelagians by the helpe of Iupiter cald the whole prouince Archadia Tantalus ruled the Phrygians who were before his time cald Moeones This Moeonia is now called Lydia vnder which clymate Arachne was borne by Pallas turned into a Spider Diana was thought to be daughter to an ancient king called Iupiter of Atticke which Itake to bee Iupiter Belus before spoken of She was the first that instituted a profest order of Virginity The Poets call this Diana Cinthia and phaebe figuring in her the Moone and that her brother phoebus she were borne of their mother Latona daughter to Caeus the Gyant in the Iste of Delos Atlanta was daughter to Iasius sister to Coribantus she first wounded the Calidonian Boare and was after espoused to Meleagar sonne to Oeneus the king of Calidon by his wife Althea Lycaon was the sonne of Pelasgus the sonne of Iupiter and Nyobe and of Melibea or as some thinke Cillene He had many sonnes by many wiues Moenalus Thesprotus Nectinnes Caucon Lycus Maeuins Macareus In Archadia Menatus that built the Citty Menatus Moe leneus that built Moeleneus not farre from Megapolis Acontius that built Acontium Charisius that gaue name to Charisium and Cynethus to Cynetha he hadde besides Psophis Phthinus Teleboas Aemon Mantinus Stimphelus Clitor Orchomenus and others Some recken them to the number of fifty others to many more Amongst all these he had but two daughters Calisto and Dia. Touching Ariadnes crowne it is thus remembred At 〈◊〉 corona nitet clarum inter sidera signum Defunct a quem banchusibi dedit esse Ariadnae being for saken of Theseus in the Isle Naxos whom before she had deliuered from the Mynotara she was espoused by the God Bacchus and by him had Thoas oenopio Staphilus Exanthes Latramis and Tauropolis The end of the second CANTO Argumentum CAlista knowne to be with Child is driuen From Dians Cloyster Archas doth pursue His mother vnto him Pelage is giuen Now termed Archady when Tytan knew Saturne had sonnes aliue his hart was riuen With anger he his men togither drew To Battayle the two brothers fight their fils Ioue saues his Father and his Vncle kils ARG. 2. TRans-formed Calisto and the Gyant-kings Ioues Combat with great Tiphō Gāma sings CANTO 3. 1 WHen I record the dire effects of Warre I cannot but with happy praise admire The blessed friendes of Peace which smoothes the scat Of wounding steele and al consuming fire Oh in what safety then thy Subiects are Royall king Iames secur'd from Warres fierce yre That by thy peacefull gouernment alone Studrest deuided Christendomet'attone 2 To thee may Poets sing the 'r chearefull laies By whom their Muses flourish in soft peace To thee the Swaines may tune eternall praise By whom they freely reape the earths increase The Merchants through the earth applaud thy daies Wishing their endlesse date may neuer cease By who they throgh the quartered world may traffick Asia Europe America and Affricke 3 Thy Liege-men thou hast plac'st as on a hill Free from the Cannons reach from farre to see Diuided Nations one another kill Whilst thy safe people as Spectators be Onely to take a view what blood they spill They neere to ruine yet in safety we Alone in peace whilst all the realmes about vs Enuy our blisse yet forcst to fight without vs. 4 So did the Newter Londoners once stand On Barnet-Heath aloofe to see the fight Twixt the fourth Edward Soueraigne of this land And the great Duke of Warwicke in the right Of the sixt Henry in which hand to hand Braue Iohn of Oxford a renowned knight Made many a patting soule for liues-breath pant And vanquisht many a worthy Combattant 5 So stood the Kentish men to view the maine In the yeare Eighty eight when th' English fleete Fought with the huge Armadoes brought from Spaine With what impatience did they stand to see 't On the safe shore willing to leaue the traine Of such faint Cowards as thinke safety sweet In such a quarrell where inuaders threat vs And in our natiue kingdome seeke to beat vs. 6 Where Royal Englands Admirall attended With all the Chiualry of our braue Nation The name of Howard through the earth extended By Naual triumph o're their proud Invasion Where victory on the Red-Crosse descended In Lightning and Earths-thunder in such fashion That all the sheafed feathered
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
Euen to the Chariot where his Vncle sat And spite of those that would his violence stay He strikes him on the Helme and layes him flat There had he slaine him dead but to the fray Encelad coms and much inrag'd thereat Assayles the Prince whilst he the fight intends The rescude Tytan his high chayre ascends 84 The noyse of his surprisall in small space Was spread through euery wing of this large field Such as beheld him fall ran thence apace And to his sonnes reported he was kild In hast they draw their forces to this place And Ihoue is round incompast Heauen him shield Saturne from his high turret lookt and wondred To see one Knight hold battell gainst an hundred 85 And calling Sybill to the Battlement From whence they might the doubtfull skirmish view They may perceiue how Ihoue incontinent Twenty tall Souldiors of King Tytans slew Amaz'd they stand at his great hardiment One askt another if this Knight they knew When noting well the bold deedes he had done Quoth Sybill may not this be Ihoue our sonne 86 Whilst in this hopefull doubt they stand confounded Behold young Archas hauing vnderstood His Father Ihoue with thousand foes was rounded And mongst the Gyants fought all gul'd in blood He causd a lowd charge to be shrilly sounded And thither makes where Ihoue inuiron'd stood Now grew the battell hot bold Archas pierses Thrugh the mid-hoast strewes his way with herses 87 And at first shocke breakes through th'Iron ring Of armed men that had his Father pend Whose sword by this emboweld the proud King Enceladus and to his daies gaue end But when he saw his sonne fresh succors bring And to large proofe his dreadlesse spirit extend With such essentiall ioy the Prince doth cheare him Each blow deales death and not a man dares near him 88 Saue Tytan who mongst many Corses lying O're which his Armed chariot swiftly ran Amongst the rest Euceladus espying The blood forsooke his cheeke his face look't wan He stampes he stares he strikes still vengeance crying And in disordered fury spares no man Plâ—…mmets of Lead he from his Chariot threw And many of the bold Archadians slew 89 Ioue wondering whence so great a cry should grow Or who so many of his men had slaine Spies Tytan comming on him Ioue doth know And with all speed makes towards him againe Now is the warre at height for many a blow Deales wounds and death thicke shewers of arrows rain Quarters of men and heads with Helmets battered Halfe hid in blood through all the fields are scattered 90 Tytan encounters Ioue Ioue him defies And from his Steely Burgon beates out fire By Tytans side doth proud Hyperion rise Against him Archas doth the field desire And now each other brauely doth despise They combat son to son and Sire to Sire But Ioue and Archas best in power and skill Old Tytan and the young Hyperion kill 91 Iust as they fall comes Typhon hauing late King Milleseus and his battell chaced His enemies swords had hewd off many a plate From that iron coat in which his sides weare laced Who letting out the nailes that bound him straite Waikes in a cloud of his own smoake vnbraced And as vpon his fathers trunke he gazed He pluckes his bold foote backe and starts amazed 92 But when he further looking gan espy The proud Hyperion weltring in his gore And huge Enceladus besides him lie He quite forgets their Obits to deplore The Earth he curses and blasphemes the sky And from his knotty head the blacke locks tore With that inrag'de his Axe alost he heaued And Ihoues broad shield iustin the middle cleaued 93 Both armies giue them field-roome two such spirits Beget in their encounter preparation If Ihoue suruiue King Saturne Creet inherits If Typhon liue great Typhon rules that Nation Both parties stand Spectators of their merits To view this Combat with high admiration Forgetting fight their weapons downe they bend To see these two the best on earth contend 94 Huge Typhon is vnweeldy Ihoue more quicke and better breath'd doth oft-times trauerse round To speed him with a blow or with a pricke Till he hath worne a bloudy circle round about his bulky foe Typhon strikes thicke But his vaine blowes dig Trenches in the ground Had they falne right they to the waast had cleft him and both of Father Crowne and life bereft him 95 Two tedious houres lasts this renowmed fray Yet neither Victor with this fight compard All the dayes bloudy broyle appeard but play Both warde both strike both skorne to be out-dard Ihoue with one blow quite through his Targe makes way It cuts the steele-bars the guilt studs it pared Typhon to be aueng'de of this disgrace Aymes a stiffe stroke full at his armed face 96 It crost his Visor and so downe it glanced And onely rac'st his Gorget when Ihoue stands A Tip-toe with his armes on high aduanced Holding his conquering sword in both his hands He fals it on his Beauer as it chanced The massiy stroake vnreuets all the bands That lockt his Helme his wounded face appeares He mad with his sharpe nayles his Armour teares 97 And now both strike at once steele against steele And armour against armour their lowd strokes Make the woods tremble and the earth to reele Such blowes cleaue Rocks and fell the mountain-Oakes At length they close and grapple Typhons heele Twines about Ihoues mid-legge his armes he yoakes about his Gorget actiue Ihoue le ts slip and by fine slight catcht Typhon on the hip 98 The Gyant scapes the fall and both let goe Their weapons lost they buffet fist to fist and at aduantage lie now hie now low To close againe Ihoue catcht by Typhons wrist Typhon by his both tugge both cunning show Typhon makes play Ihoue catcht him by the twist Heaues him alost and in his armes he brings him To a high Rocke and in the Sea he flings him 99 Typhon thus dead their bands disordred fly Ihoue Archas and the Epyre King pursue them Aegeon scapes hereafter kept to die By him that with his brothers fought and slew them Bri'reus Iapet Athlas Hespery Prometheus too disguis'd that no man knew them Fled with the rest Ihoue tyred in the chace Returnes to Creet his parents to embrace 100 Oh in what ioy was Sybill boue the rest And Grandam Vesta freely to behold him They weepe their teares of Ioy vpon his breast And thousand sighes in their strict armes infold him Saturne for Iuno sends with Ihoue to feast And his two sonnes of whom his wife hath told him With Archas and the Epyre King to meet At generall Triumphs to be made in Creet HEr virgin belt vnbound Stanzo 15. It was the custome in those daies the day of euery virgins mariage to haue hir girdle loosed by him that shoulde bee her husband In the 26. Stanzo where Calisto is sayde to bee turned into a Beare Phurnutius sayth that the Lady hunting was
And when he borrowes mony nere will pay One of th'elect must common with another And when the poore his charity intreat You labour not and therefore must not eate 52 He will not Preach but Lector nor in white Because the Elders of the Cburch commaund it He will no crosse in Baptisme none shall fight Vnder that Banner if he may withstand it Nor out of antient Fathers Latine cite The cause may be he doth not vnderstand it His followers preach all faith and by their workes You would not Iudge them Catholickes but Turkes 53 He can endure no Organs but is vext To heare the Quirristers shrill Antheames sing He blames degrees in th' Accademy next And gainst the liberall Arts can Scripture bring And when his tongue hath runne beside the text You may perceiue him his loud clamors ring Gainst honest pastimes and with pittious phrase Raile against Hunting Hawking Cockes and plaies 54 With these the Brownists in some points cohere That likewise hold the marriage ring prophane Commanded prayers they 'l not indure to heare and to subseribe to Cannons they disdaine They hold more sinne a corner'd cap to weare Then cut a purse leaue these as vilde and vaine By thee Opinion Realmes haue bin confounded What darst not thou where thou art firmly grounded 55 To the first world now let my muse retire And see how strong thou wast Opinion then To create dieties I must aspire And giue eternity with my fraile pen Such as the world did in those daies admire It deified and so made Gods of men The Cretan Iupiter to heauen translated And Saturne sire of all the Gods instated 56 Made Iuno Queene of heauen Venus of pleasure Ceres of Corne and Bacchus God of wine Cupid of Loue Mars Warre and Mammon treasure Pallas of wisedome and of speech deuine God Mercury men did their God-hoods measure By their owne thoughts and vnto such resigne Their speciall honours in whose harts they guest Most power in that which they on earth profest 57 This made the Heathen kings by Ioue to sweare Their Queenes at Iunoes sacred Altar kneele Child-bearing women chast Lucian feare Souldiers at Mars his shrine to hang their steele The Swaines to honor Ceres by whose cheare Their graine decaide or prosper'd this made kneele Drunkards to Bacchus Orpheus strung his Lyre To Phaebus God of Musicke and of Fire 58 To Esculapius the Physitians prai'd Shepheards to Pan and Poets to the Muses A God of Neptune Nauigators made And he that gardens loues Pomona chuses Chast Virgins still implore Dianaes aide And who that loues God Cupids name refuses Vulcan commandeth Smiths Flora Flowers Aeolus winds and Pluto infernall powers 59 The Poets write three brothers lots did cast For th' Vnâ—…uersall Empire To Ioue fell Th' Olimpicke heauens which all the rest surpast Great Neptune with his three fork't Mace must dwell Within the bosome of the Ocean vast And guide the Seas blacke Pluto gouernes hell Opinion whence these Gods build all their glory Must be the Base to our succeeding story 60 Whilst thus Egiptian Belus was instated The reuerend Moyses in Mount Nebo died And Captaine Iossua second Iudge created The Thractan Boreas from his Mothers side Stole faire Orithia hauing long awaited To make the beautious Virgin his sweet Bride From whose rude armes she neuer could be freed But leauing these of Belus we proceed 61 The blustring winds before they had a king To locke them fast within his brazen Caues Great deuestations ore the earth did bring Tossing blacke tempests on the curled waues T is said rough Boreas shak't his flaggy wing Gainst his three brothers with opposed braues Who with such mortall hate at variance fell They made heauen shake earth reele the Ocean swâ—…l 62 No Mediterren Sea before this brall Was knowne in the earths armes to be inclos'd The Seas tost by the winds brake downe the wall Which for his bounds the fates had interpos'd At such dissention the foure Brothers fall Hauing the raines of all their gusts vnlos'd They cleft the Earth the Ocean full of pride Thrusts in and two maine Lands shoulders aside 63 His traine of waues by Calpes he brought in And through his deepe Abismes leads them to warre He people euery place where he hath bin With his broad waters who are still at iarre With the torne earth more roomth and space to win For his vnbounded limits stretch't so farre That they haue pâ—…rst the aged Tellus hart And from Europa Affrica still part 64 So was Italia and Sicilia one Till the rough gusts the Ocean did inuade Who forcst a channell where before was none And twixt these kingdomes large irrnpâ—…ion made Therefore the Gods th'vnbrideled winds t' attone That their commaundlesse furies might be staid Surprisd them and to Aelous bound in chaines Gaue them and he their roughnes still restraines 65 With Ioues lasciuious pastimes I proceede As cheefely to the fall of Troy allide Oh you Ioues daughters borne of heauenly seed My braine and pen by inspiration guide That what the fates haue against Troy decreed Of Priams glory and Achilles pride Of Hectors valor and bright Hellens fate With all your aydes I may at large delate 66 Not how on Semele Ioue Bacchus got Nor in the shape of Bull Europa stale Of Swan-transformed Loeda speake I not Nor of Mnemosine frame I my tale Nor how Esopis did her honour blot Nor Astery by Ioue turnd to a Quaile Nor how for Nicteis he himselfe transformed Nor Ioes rape at which Queene Iuno stormed 67 But how he rauisht Danae that bright Lasse By many suters but in vaine assailed How she was closed in a Tower of Brasse Which with a golden Ladder the prince skaled What cannot gold whose brightnesse doth surpasse How oft hath Gold boue womens strength preualed Laps that haue had gainst all temptations power Haue spred themselues wide to a golden shower 68 From Iupiter of Archad and a dame Cal'd Isis did one Epaphus proceed To him was borne a sonne of ancient fame Hight Belus who great part of Egipt freed From tirrany and after swaide the same He had a Sister too who soone decreed Archad to change for Affricke and her name Lybia from whom the grim Busyris came 69 Belus two children had so the fame runnes Danaus and Egiptus Danaus he Had fifty girles Egyptus fifty sonnes Twixt whom these Brothers a full match decree All parts are pleas'd not one the marriage shunnes False Danaus with his daughters doth agree As with their Bridegroomes in their beds they lay The fifty husbands in one night to slay 70 Saue young Ypermenestra not a maid But in her husbands bosome sheath'd her knife And she alone the bloudy plot bewraid And to her Linceus prou'd a loyall wife Of all Egistus sonnes he by her aide Alone did from the murther scape with life Of whom as they in nuptiall loue remained He Abas got Abas in Arges raigned 71 Abas Acrisius
got from him discended Bright Danae of whom we now intreat Whose beauties fame is through the earth extended Acrisius iealous of his Fathers seat To Egipt hies and there his prayers commended Offering large quantities of Gold and Wheat At the God Belus his great Grandsires shrine Of his faire daughters fortunes to deuine 72 This answere he returnes Away be gone Thou sonne of Abas Danae forth shall bring A gallant boy shall turne thee into stone And after thee in Arges raine sole-King Acrisius now hath turn'd his mirth to mone From whence his ioyes should grow his sorrows spring His hoped Issue and successiue heire Late al his pleasure now is all his care 73 He intimates that from her wombe shall rise A gallant boy that shall his Grandfire kill And Arges Crowne by force of armes supprize He sweares the maid shall liue a Virgin still And to preuent his fate doth straight deuise A Tower impregnable built on a hill Strong of it selfe but yet to make it sure He girts it with a treble brazen Mure. 74 The guiltlesse Lady wonders at the state Of this new worke not knowing why t is built To see sharpe Pynacles themselues elate So high towards heauen the Arches richly guilt Huge Marble collumnes to support the gate In euery place rich tinctures largely spilt The Tarras with white Iuory pillers rail'd And the Crosse-ebon bars with guilt stoods nail'd 60 It seemes too strong for pleasure and for warre It shewes too neat but now the worke is ended Who that beholds it shining from a farre But with admiring thoughts the worke commended The nearer you approach the more you are Inflam'd with wonder not a staire ascended But of white Marble not a doore but Brasse The windowes glaz'd with Cristals not with glasse 61 All things prepard the King will Danae carry To view the Tower she giues it due with praise He thus proceeds Child thou shalt neuer marry But in this place of pleasure end thy daies And in this brazen circuit euer tarry The Lady starts and thinkes too long she staies In that loath'd place which now to her appeares No Pallace but a dungeon full offeares 62 And asking why she must be kept a slaue Or how she hath deseru'd so strict a doome To be so young put in her Marble graue For what 's a Prison but a liuing Toombe Or for what cause she may no husband haue But liue an Ancresse in so strict a roome Knowing her selfe a Princesse ripe and sit Wrongd as she thinkes not to be married yet 63 Acrisius tels her what great Belus spake When hee with Orisons kneeld at his throne That from her wombe the world a sonne should take That shall his Grandsire change into a stone She interrupts him and thus scilence brake Oh would you be eternall liu'd alone And neuer die What would Acrisius haue More then an heire to lodge him in his graue 79 Did you not into stone great Abas turne And Abas to his Father Linceus so Their funerall trunkes to sacred ashes burne O're which their monumentall marbles grow Oh Father no man can his Fate adiorne Shall these your eyes be closed vp by a Foe Or can you deeme your owne bloud shall betray you Who are more fit within your stone to lay you 80 What you did to your Father let my sonne Performe'to you successiuely succeed Your Fathers glasse is out yours must be run Leaue then your Crowne to one of Abas breed In vaine quoth he we cannot thus be wun To alter what 's vnchangeably decreed Here shalt thou liue but royally attended Like a bright Queene and from a King descended 81 So leaues her guarded with a troope of Mayds And envious Beldams that were past their lust These with rewardes and threats the King invades In his high charge to be seuere and iust But most the Matrons fittest for such trades Rather than wanton wenches he dare trust Louers may Louers fauour Crones are past it and enuy but not pitty those would tast it 82 So doth the full-fed stomach meate deny Vnto the famisht So the Drunkard spils Wine in aboundance which would cheare the dry Cold age the appetite of hot lust kils Danae thy beauties fame is sounded hie Mongst many other Kings Ihoues eares it fils He loues her by her fame and longs to see her Nor are her thoughts at peace before he see her 83 A thousand bracelets Iewels Pearls and Rings With gold of sundry stamps the King prepares And hauing readied all these costly things In a poore Pedlers trusse he packs his wares So hies to Danaes Tower loue gaue him wings Hope sometime cheeres him sometimes he dispaires At length arriues there in an euening late And fals his rich packe at the Castle gate 84 Where two leane wrinkled Crones stand Centinell To giue the watchword to Acrisius guard Appointed straight to ring the larum Bell If any man once neere the Castle dar'd The Pedler askes who in that pallace dwell Or how they call the place Hast thou not heard Of Danae quoth the Beldam looking sower Whom Arges King closd in this-brazen Tower 85 He viewes the place and finds it strongly seared Not to be won by armes but skal'd by slight I came from Creet quoth he and was intreated Heere to deliuer tokens of some weight From great king Iupiter their cold blouds heated With hope of gaine they cheare their age-duld sight And with a couetous longing earne to view What precious knackes he from his Hamper drew 86 A thousand seuerall Trinckets he displaies If this be Danaes Tower quoth he then these Belong to you the Crones his bounty praise And in their hands two costly lewels cease The younger Ladies now are come to gaze Not one amongst them but he seekes to please Some Gold some stones some Rings some Pearles he gaue And all haue something though they nothing craue 87 Blear'd with these gifts their charge they quite forget And euery Ladies eâ—…e dwels on her prize Comming fore Danae she beholds them set With sundry brouches sparkling in her eyes And asking whence they had them they bid fet The Pedler vp who hath of fairer size Brighter Aspect and for a Queene to weare In worth not to be valewed yet not deare 88 Danae commands him vp he glad ascends And through their brib'd hands freely is admitted Euen to her chamber Gold thy might extends Beyond all opposition the best witted Thou canst corrupt diue through the hearts of friends By thee are wal'd Townes entred skonces splitted By thee are armies swayed Camps ouer-runne Children the Fathers spoile and Sire the sonne 89 No wonder then if Gold the Pedler brought To enter where besides him no man came Behold the Goddesse this great King hath sought Oh how her bright eie doth his soule inflame Pearles Iewels Rings and Gold he sets at naught yea all the world if valewed vvith this Dame Variety of costly gems he shewes her And makes her of them
Browne trameld lockes best grace the brightest hew Are her lockes yellow Such Auroraes glasse Presents in her attyring to her view Is haite orient bright It doth surpasse If Chesnuâ—… coloured Such do I pursue My eies still aime at beauties rare perfections and I all colours loue and all complexions 76 My loue can fit it selfe to euery story I loue a young girle and a woman staid Her fresh yeares please me and I should be sorry To loose her youth who would not loue a Maid anothers lookes are Matron-like I glory In her and I her person must inuade To end as many as the world can hold M'ambitious loue likes be they young or old 77 Now to proceed of Danae and her sonne Long tost vpon the Oceans ruthlesse streames at length her barke th' Apulian shores hath won about the houre when Phoebus dons his beame and to ascend the Easterne hill begun When she new wakt out of her horrid dreames Her selfe halfe dead with cold her Babe neare frozen Finds that her barke hath a faire harbor chosen 78 Which a poore Naples Fisherman espying Kenning a Barke that had nor Oare nor saile He leaues the nets that on the shore were drying and puts to Sea the mastlesse boat to hale Which boording on the bare plankes he sees lying A beautious Goddesse couer'd with a vaile And on her knee a babe or dead or sleeping To which she sange not but was softly weeping 79 It mou'd the poore man to behold her teares He sees th' extremity they both are in Her sailesse boat vnto the Land he steares And her young infant that was bare and thin A wraps in his Capootch and softly beares Vnto his cottage where no Prince hath bin He makes a chearefull Fire and in a while The halfe-staru'd babe doth on his mother smile 80 And being refresht with what the Cottage lent Their Natiue beauties repossest their faces Whose rarenesse the poore man admiring went To acquaint the King with one so full of graces Who sends for her to Court incontinent And hauing seene her beauty Danae places In his throne Royall swearing by his life The bounteous seas haue sent him this rare wife 81 This King Pelonnus hight who gently praies To acquaint him with her birth and fortunes past The blushing Dame her modest eye gan raise And to his faire demaund replies at last She tels him she hath spent her youthfull dayes In Arges next how she to Sea was cast Of Darraines Tower of her vntimely fate Of Iupiters forg'd loue Acrisius hate 82 Discoursing orderly the sum of all At which the King oft wept her fortunes ruing blaming the cause of her vntimely fall At euery Inter-medium loue renewing He thinkes Acrisius hate too great too small â—…houes loue that left such beautie for pursuing he wooes she yeelds that did the King besot And married Danaus is betweene them got 83 Of whom and of young Perseus forbeare To speake of Saturne through the world notorious And Iupiter subduing Climats ncare As Cecill Lemnos Cipres stil victorious Piercing large Italy and welcom'd there By Ianus for mongst Kings his stile was glorious This Ianus byfrons was of auncient name Of him our Ianuary tooke first name 84 Ianus tels Ihoue King Saturne dwels them by Teaching rude Nations Tillage there vnknowne And held in reuerence for the Princes nie Receiue his exilde people as their owne He shewes him plowes teemes yokes and harrowes lie And fields of ripened graine already growne This King at length brought Saturne to Ihoues view And by his meanes attonement twixt them grew 85 The good old Ianus in Taurentum raignde So did Euander in Mount Auentine Since one of Roomes seauen hils and proudly nam'd By these King Italus of auncient line This Italus from Ciracuse constraind Built the great Citty Albe by which shine Bright Tyber Streames al these at once desire Peace and accord betweene the sonne and Syrc 86 Saturne surrenders Creet hauing erected A Citty where Roomes Capitoll now stands And a chast Virgin to his wife elected Philicis cald colleagued in nuptiall bands Of whom he Picus got Picus protected That Citty after Saturne and commands The Realme adiacent Faunus was his sonne and from this Faunus did Latinus come 87 The Poets make this Faunus for his care O're husbandry the auncient Sire and Father Of all the Rural-gods His Queene was fayre And Fatua hight who would haue bedded rather With Hercules suppos'd Amphitrites heire But our dispersed story we must gather And of Nicostrate wife to Euander A little speake before too farre we wander 88 Who dotes on Iupiter and laught him charmes With Negromanticke Charracters in which He expert growes and hauing left off armes Studies the blacke spels of this sorcering Witch Abandons horrid sound of shrill alarmes Now onely labours to be wise and rich And leaues the Iatian Kings where long he staid After the league twixt him and Saturne made 89 To Ceâ—…t returning where Queene Iunâ—… was Deliuered of a foule mishapen Lad Cald Vulcan Ceres of a louely Lasse Hight Proserpine the enuious Queene growes sad To see her Aunts child in bright lookes surpasse Hers in deformed foulenesse Ihoue's more glad Of Proserpine then Vulcan which espide The iealous Queene doth with her husband chide 90 She chafes he laughes she blames his wanton ryat He giues her liberall scandall a deafe eare She counts her selfe food to suffice his diat and tels of all his scapes how when and where That he is forst to keepe his Queene in quiat To marry Ceres to a great Lord there With whom he gaue t' augment his name and power Sicill and Syracusa for her dower 91 To Vulcan he the Isle of Lemnos gaue To be instructed in his Geomancy In the deepe bowels of the earth to raue To learne the force of fire in Pyromancy Taught by Beroutes and Piragma graue The third Sceropes red him Negromancy Himselfe the God of Smiths Lemnos his seat Where these three Cyclops on his Anuiles beat 92 And frame Ihoues trisulck thunders some dcuine Lame Vulcan in his birth was straight and faire And being in Ihoues lap where Planets shine And stars like golden studs sticke round his chaire The Mansion of the Gods th' heauens Christaline Dandling his smiling babe he spies the ayre Al in guilt flames earth burne the Meteors drinke The boyling Seas and heauens huge Collumes shrink 93 For Phaeton had set the world on fire At which Ihoue rising from his throne in hast To thunder-strike the youth that durst aspire Downe drops his sonne towards earth and falling past Through al the Planets by Apollo hier Then al the rest So by the Moone at last Twixt heauen and earth who can describe the way When he was falling a long Summers day 94 He lights in Lemnos nor can Vulcan die By this occase being borne of heauenly seed Though on the earth amaz'd the infant lie He breaths at last so haue
and Snakes are bred the people treading Their secure steps see vgly Serpents crall Their venomous stings and fearefull hisses dreading Affrique doth Snakes in most aboundance store Because he longest did o're Affrique soare 7 Yet whilst his venomous spoyles were bleeding new But leauing Affrique forward Pegas flyes He now the Raemme now doth the Fishes view And mounts and stoopes as the winds fall or rise At length he leaues the Orient to pursue The farre Septemtrion keeping still the skies Till falling with Hyperion in the West He with the day-tyrd Phoebus couets rest 8 And stooping with the Sunne into these Seas Where night by night he sleckes his fiery Carre And Atlas of that Orchard keepes the keyes Where golden Apples in aboundance are Thus Perseus greetes him May your Highnesse please To be my royall Host who come from farre If greatnesse may my welcome more approoue Know thou in me receiuest the Sonne of Ihoue 9 If nouelty in strangers thou acquirest Behold my flying steed and couered shield Hence groome quoth Atlas thou hat rest desirest Lodge with the waking starres in the broad field To thee that to our Pallace thus aspirest We scorne all succour and reliefe to yeeld Thou com'st as Prophets did long since reueale From Hespery my golden fruit to steale 10 One of Ihoues yssue our D◅uiners say Must perpetrate such theft and thee I feare Thou lookst like one that aymes at golden pray And I my Aurea Mala hold so deere That I haue stopt vp each accessiue way Instead of pales high mountaines their heads reare About mine Orchard by a Dragon kept A wakefull Mon◅ter one that neuer slept 11 With that he violent hands on Perseus layes To beat him from his Pallace but Ihoues sonne The Gorgon-sheild vnto the King displaies Who instantly turnes to a hill of stone His haires and beard increase to Trees and sprayes His Bulke and Shoulders into hils are growne His head a Promontory top o're-peering The neighbour Rockes and other Mountains neering 12 His bones to stones his bloud to Christall springs And by the Gods decrees he so increaseth And with his growth such height and vastnesse brings That heauens huge weight the two strong poles releaseth To rest them on his shoulders the Larke sings The Sun his earely note the night surceaseth Acrisius Grand-child doth with Phoebus rise And to his arme his shield Gorgonian ties 13 His hooked skeyne he fastens to his thigh So mongst the clouds on Pegas backe he sores The Swaine below that filles his wandering eye Leaues off his labor and the helpe implores Of powers deuine t'explaine this nouelty He passeth diuers Seas and sundry shores Euen to th' Aethiopian Clime and thence To where Cepheus makes his residence 14 There for her Mothers guilt Andromeda By vniust Hammon was condemnd to die Whom as yong Perseus in his Ayery way Did from amongst the racking clouds espy Saue that the winds her golden haires display And drops of Pearle raine from her watry eye He had mistooke her being chain'd alone For some faire Image of white Marble stone 15 But when he saw no Marble was so white Nor Iuory to her skin to be compared He raines his winged Steed and staies his flight And greedily vpon her beauty stared To shake his flaggy wings forgetting quite He loues and greeues to see how ill she fared And now his toong no longer he refrains But sayes oh you vnworthy these rude chains 16 Much fitter for a louers kind embrace Tell me your stocke your Nation and your name And why such beauty should possesse this place Or for what crime into these bands you came Faine would the bashful girle haue hid her face Saue that her hands were bound she blusht for shame Twice did he vrge her she was silent still Yet the third time tels al against her will 17 How bright Casseipe her beauteous Mother Knowing her daughter to be wonderous faire The pride her hart conceiued could not smother But with Nereides must needs compare For which they ◅l complaind to Ihoues great Brother Neptune who with infection taints the ayre Nor can the pest cease or the Towne be spared Til she there dy that was with Nimphs compared 18 But in the midst of her discourse behold Ere she can end her lamentable tale A huge Sea-monster with his long traine rold In curled knots makes the poore Girle looke pale The frowning billowes are by him controld Bo◅e which h'aduanceth many a shelly skale She shreekes her Sire and Mother both dispaire The people with shrill out-cries pierce the ayre 19 Which Danaes sonne espying thus he saies Vnto the Queene and the lamenting King The time you see is short the Monster staies Assur'd destruction to yon maid to bring If then Ihoues son his towring fames can raise And pierce yon huge Sea-Dragons skaly wing Destroy the Monster and presetue her life Shal the bright Virgin be my troth-plight wife 20 Who doubts but the sad Parents soone agree They paw ne their honors to this sudden motion Phineus besides the Maide doth promise free Resigning vp his right with much deuotion The Couenantsmade and now from farre they see The Whaly Monster beare a-brest the Ocean And driuing with his Fins whole Seas afore In making to the Virgin on the shore 21 When suddenly young Perseus mounts the skies His shadow danc'st vpon the siluer waues Which when the wrathfull Serpent did espy Against the idle shape he fumes and raues And as his drowned traine appeares on high Aboue the brine in which so oft he laues The dantlesse Prince whose courage neuer failes Strikes with his Faulchion fire out of his scales 22 And as you see a towring Eagle when She spyes a speckled Serpent soone her spangles Vpon the greene brest of some Moorish Fen Stoopes downe and in the Dragons Crest intangles Her talents least his Iawes turning againe Ceaze her proud Sears and whilst in vaine she wrangles And threatens ruine to the princely Fowle She tires on euery knot and curled rowle 23 So Perseus sowses on the horrid Beast He hewes and beats him till he makes him reele Possessing still his backe which much increast The Monsters fury such strange weight to feele Sometimes aboue the Sea he lifts his brest And Perseus still pursues him with his steele Somtime beneath the blood-stain'd waues he shrinks The whilst his woūds like graues whol billows drinks 24 Whilst he the Sea the Prince the Ayre supplies Waiting aloft to see the fiend appeare Whose yawning chaps aboue the Billowes rise Ready to swallow all the Confines neare Whom as the valiant Prince againe espyes He makes to him amaine all voyde of feare And on his winged Steede against him tilts Shouing bright Harpe vp euen to the hilts 25 The wounded Whale casts from his hillish Iawes Riuers of Waters mixt with purple gore But from their force the wary Prince withdrawes And strikes behind on both sides and before
In many a place his shelly Armour flawes Still byting Harpe makes the Hell-hound rore And tyrd at length the brutish Monster drownds In the blacke bloud that yssued from his wounds 26 The God of Seas quak't at the frightfull sound His Monster made the Gods aboue looke pale The waters in the which his bulke lay drownd With feare shrunk from him now the slaughterd whale Receiues from Perseus many an vnfelt wound Whom Keene-edged Harpe pierst from head to tale The parents now clap hands the Mayde reioyces The people lift to heauen their plausiue voyces 27 And whilst the multitude their wondring eyes Cast on the Monster Perseus raines his steede And from the Marble rocke the Mayde vntyes By his late valour from the Hell-â—…ound sreede How can Cepheus or his Queene â—…enise Or the bright Mayde to giue sufficient meede To Perseus for his merite who desires With quicke dispatch to kindle Hymens fâ—…es 28 The yeere Andromeda from death was freede Pheamone first in Pythia propheside Cadmus found Letters taught the Greekes to reede Cecrops th' Athenian Monarchy supplyde Rhomnus the Spanish Scepter in the weede Pontificke Ranses did through Aegypt ride Achaio did Achaya first instaure Now breath'd in Creete the two shapt Mynotaur 29 The pallace is prepard in euery place Lowd Musicke sounds the Bride is richly clad The Father his bold Sonne in Law to grace Inuites the Neighbour Kings but Phineus mad From this high feast absents himselfe a space Till of his friends great troops he gathered had To force the Virgine freed on Ioppens shore Now Perseus Bride though plight to him before 30 Behold the Pallace Court throngd with a crew Of men in Armour glistring The loud sound Of Nuptiall Musicke through the Hall that flew With shrill confusions on the sudden drownd And still their showtes and cryes more violent grew Till all the Bridall guests incompast round With hostile fiâ—…dge amazedly discend To know what foes their powers against th em bend 31 With wrath vntam'd the hurrying multitude Rageth and growes Impetuous some cry bring That Stranger hether whom we will exclude From the fayre Court some cry le ts haue the King Others the Bride some mongst the rest more rude Say come the Pallace to the ground le ts fling And whilst these seuerall clamors pierce their eares Proud Phineus first before them all appeares 32 And shaking in his hand an Oaken Speare Headed with Brasse he thus bold Perseus greets Behold th'Auenger of my nuptiall Pheere Whom thou wouldst force The Pallace Court streets Glister in armes and canst thou hope to beare Andromeda from hence Him Cepheus meets And as he was about his Speare to cast At warlike Perseus Thus replyes at last 33 Oh! what will Phineus do What hellish rage Mads thee to mischiefe Who begot this strife Is this for Danaes Sonne sufficient wage Whose valor hath preserud my Daughters life Why doest not thou thy loue with ours ingage For sauing her that should haue bin thy wife Whom not bold Perseus but the Gods bereft thee The fates and not the prince hath wiuelesse left thee 34 When she was married to the Marble rocke The fastning of those chaines thy bands vntide Wa' st not enough thou borne of Cepheus stocke Her husband and her Kinsman necre allide Saw'st all this people round about her flocke To see the sea Whale in his bowels hide And bury her Her freedome not pursuing Vnworthy thou didst leaue her to her ruine 35 Is Phineus sorry that she did not bleed That her Redeemer he pursues with ire Or if thou holdst her such a high-priz'd meed Why didst thou not her from the Rocke desire Or else to him that hath my daughter freed Why dost not yeeld her Phineus eyes sparke fire Doubtfull at whom he shall his Iauelin fling His Riual Perseus or his Kinsman King 36 The vprore like the raging sea increaseth Where thousand Rebels are by Perseus slaine Till tyr'd with slaughter his tough arme surceaseth With multitudes of men to strow the plaine For not a daring souldier neere him preaseth But dies by Harpe and yet all in vaine Such throngs of Phineus friends his valor cumber That Noble vertue must needs yeeld to number 37 Therefore the Prince his Gorgon shield vncases And saies aloud since you compell me see Reuenge sufficient for my foule disgraces For where strength failes we must vse policy All that are Perseus friends turne hence their faces My foes all perish in their surquedree Fright Babes with Bug-beares quoth the next that stands ayming a speare at Perseus with both hands 38 But as on Gorgons head he casts his eye His limbes grow stiffe and he is changed to stone Another strikes the next that stands him by And pierst him through the brest who now doth grone His soule to Ayre this done he ment to fly But feeles his actiue spirits fled and gone His Marble arme hath lost his nimble speed To draw it from the bulke which he made bleed 39 Behold a Prince borne by the seauen-fold Nyle Crying to Perseus thus See here thy bane Be proud that we who dallied all this while Will at the length vouchsafe thy blood to draine And as he spake such words a scornefull smile His visage casts intending to haue slaine The Ihoue-star'd prince his frozen Statue showes Like one still smiling and still threatning blowes 40 What Stand you at the Gorgons sight amazed Quoth Moble Erix or hath Witchcrafts spell Such power vpon the valiant who haue blazed Their armes in many conflicts and fought well Le ts see what deuill in this shape is raised Whom my steele-pollax cannot prostrate fell But in his pressing forward he soone feeles Cold leaden numbnesse gyue his sencelesse heeles 41 Amongst the rest one ofbold Perseus crew Glancing his eye vpon his maisters shield Turnd stone him one of Phineus souldiers knew And thought to cleaue him standing in the field But with the stroke fire from the Marble flew His fore-head sounded like a brazen shield At which the Souldier musing Gorgon spyes So stands transformd with wonder in his eyes 42 So that at last Phineus repents his spleene And vniust warre made for Andromeda Two hundred of his traine his eye hath seene All Statuës vnto some he cals Away Follow to some Where liues that enuious teene With which you threatned Perseus Wherefore stay Your paces from pursuite Where 's the defying So claps them on the shoulders Courage crying 43 But when he felt their hardned limbs offend His aking hand and yeild it no impression And that their mockery shapes did idly bend Their threatning armes now finds he his transgression His penitent hands he doth to heauen extend Praying that they would ayd his intercession To great Acrisius Grand-childe who strikes dead So many bold sprites with his Gorgons head 44 Now as with oblique paces and his eies Turnd from the conquering Prince he kneeling speakes Hoping t' appease him with submissiue cries The
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
gaz'd Vpon his valor sees him fight so fayre A pointed Staffe against his breast he prooued But from his Steed the bold Greeke was not mooued 69 Vnhappy Hupon could not stay the force Of his keene Sword but soone before him fals King Philos next against him spurd his Horse And turne thee valiant Greeke aloud he cals But he was likewise slaine without remorse It seem'd he was invr'd to such hot brals Hector no longer can his rage forbeare But gainst the vnknowne Knight aymes a stiffe Speare 70 Who when he Hector from a far espyde As if he had but sported with the rest and that was he gainst whom he should be tryde He thrild a Iauelin at the Dardans brest T' was terror to behold these Champions ride and skorch the Plumes that grew in eithers Crest With fire that from their Steele in sparkles flew No sooner dead but still they forced new 71 Ther 's for Patroclus death the proud Greeke sayes Ther 's for my armes which thou didst basely win and as he speakes vpon his shoulders layes at euery dint his bruisde armes pincht his skin Hector now knowes his Champion by his phrase and by his stroake he thinkes his armes too thin Such puissant blowes whose weight he scarce can like None but Achilles hand hath power to strike 72 A well knowne Knight in vnknowne armes he sees against whose force he gathers all his might His hye-stretcht arme contendes to make him leese All fore-past Fame and hazard dreadfull fight But now the multitude like Swarmes of Bees Betweene them flocke who farre from all affright Vex in their heated bloods to be so parted So with their Steedes mongst other rankes they started 73 Three puissant Kings beneath Prince Hector fell Archilochus a Souldier of hye Fame Prothenor who in battailes did excell And with th' Atrides to the field then came King Archelaus too a Champion fell Who mongst the Greekes had won a glorious Name And whilst halfe tyerd he from the throng withdrew King Diomed the Sagittary slew 74 Thoas tooke Prisoner to the Towne was sent Whom Paris with his arrowes had surprisde Antenor likewise to Vlisses Tent Was Captiue led whom he before depisde Epistropus his hostile fury bent Gainst Polyxenes in rich armes disguisde They part when Polixenes full of pride Crost-Hectors course and by his valor dyde 75 Once more the dauntlesse Troians haue the best The night comes on both Hoasts themselues withdraw The Citties Captaines take them to their rest But th' Argiue Kings that naught but ruine saw Impendent still whilst Hectors able brest Bucklerd large Troy from each tempestuous flaw At Agamemnons Tenta Counsell call To find some traine by which the Prince may fall 76 Achilles oft-times Mated vowes in heart With his blacke Mirmidâ—…ns to guirt him round And neuer from a second field depart Till Hectors length be measured on the ground Th' assembled Kings whose bleeding wounds yet smart Vow by all meanes his puissance to confound For well they know whilst Noble Hector stands In vaine gainst Troy they reare their armed hands 77 Night passeth on and the gray Morne appeares The Greekes a six-months Truce of Troy demaund In which the Campe bloud-staynd Scamander cleares Of Bodies slaine by warres infernall hand A Herald to the Camp King Thoas beares Receiuing backe Antenor Nobly man'd The Truce expires both parties now prouide To haue their Armes tight and their Weapons tride 78 Andromache this night dreampt a strange dreame That if her Husband tryde the field that day His slaughter should be made the generall Theame Of Troyes laments she faine would haue him stay She wooes him as he loues the populous Realme Her Life his Honors safety or decay The ayde of Troy their Vniuersall good To saue all these in keeping still his blood 79 This Hector censures spoake from Womanish feare He armes himselfe in hast and cals to Horse Takes in his hand a bright Brasse-headed Speare Longing for some on whom to proue his force Andromache spends many a ruthfull teare His thoughtes were fixt they bred no soft remorse He armes for field she to the Kings proceeds and tels his thus If Hector fight he bleedes 80 Her dreame and feare she to the King relates and praies him to entreat her Husband fayre Or if soft speech his purpose naught abates To vse his power This said she doth repayre Where Hecuba and Hellen kept their states and where the rest of Priams Daughters are To whose requests she knowes hee 'l soonest yeild Still vrging them to keepe him from the field 81 The Greekes Imbattayld are and from the Towne The Troians Issue the Mid-way to meet When from the loftie Pallace hastning downe Andromache prostrate at Hectors feet Throwes her fayre selfe and by King Priams Crowne His Mothers loue her owne imbracements sweete his Brothers Sisters and his little Sonne Con-iures his stay till one daies fight be done 82 Hector bids one she mingles words with teares and once more casts her selfe to stop his way That he shall backe she begs she wooes she sweares and shun the battaile for that ominous day her horrid dreame hath fild her heart with feares And hill she hanges on him to haue him stay She weepes intreats clinges begs and Coniures stil In vaine hee 's arm'd and to the battayle will 83 King Priam by Antenors mouth desires To vnarme him streight and to the Court returne For should his life fayle Troyes fayre Sons and Sires Matrons and Damsels for his death should mourne The Prince inrag'd his Eye-bals sparkle fires With inward rage his troubled Entrails burne He knowes from whence these Coniurations spring And that his Wiues dreame hath incenst the King 84 Yet will he forward when the aged Queene This hearing with the Spartan makes swift speede They ring his Horse Intreat him cease his spleene And for one day to act no warlike deed The more they pray the more they rouse his teene a purpose irremoueably decreede Hee 'l put in action though they kneele and pray and compasse in his Steede to haue him stay 85 This Priam vnderstanding he descends And in his face a gracefull reuerence brings He stayes his Courser by the Raines and ends The difference thus Oh! Thou the awe of Kings Death to thy Foes supporture to thy Friends From whose strong arme our generall safty springs Refraine this day tempt not the Gods decree Who by thy Wife this night forwarneth thee 86 The discontented Prince at length is wonne Yet will he not vnarme him for them all But to expresse the duty of a Sonne With Priam and the rest he mountes the wall To see both Armies to the Skirmish roone Where some stand hye and some by slaughter fall King Diomed and Troylus from a farre Wafts to each other as a figne of warre 87 They meete like Bullets by two Souldiers chang'd Their way as swift their charge as full of Terror Their Steedes keepe euen they
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
his Brothers vow Like homage and in State haue entertaind Vter Pendragon to whose throne they bow Sixteene whole yeares He doats on Cornwayles wife and for her loue bereaues her Husbands life 63 Of her he Arthur got In France Clodouens Gouernd as King the first that was Baptiz'd In Italy great Theodoricus King of the Astrogothes who enterprisde Gainst Odeacer battaile bold Honoricus Gouernd in Affricke who so much despisde True Fayth that he for th' Arrians in one hower By shops exild three hundred thirty foure 63 Arthur the worthy next the State ascended Fought twelue set battailes and the order made Of the Round Table whose renowne extended Through all the world whilst Arthur doth inuade Forraine Dominious and Christs Faith desended Mordred at home his Crowne ' and Queene betrayde Twixt whom at Arthurs backe returne againe War was commenst in which both Kings were slain 65 Next Arthur Constantine Duke Cadors Sonne After his Vncle sixe and twenty years Had gouern'd England his estate begonne Slew Mordred Sonnes in fight with Saxon Peeres That ayded them in battaâ—…le these warres donne After foure Sommers he ascends the Spheares Iustine a Swine-heard by ambition fierd By crafty meanes th' Imperiall Seate aspyerd 66 Now liu'd in Italy the famous Dame Analasiantha with Athalarius Her Son by whom her Soueraignty first came She could both Greeke and Latine well discusse Whose reuerence many Histories proclayme Daughter to th' Emperor Theodoricus Iustinian the Gracian Empyre swayes The Persians to their State Cosroe rayse 67 Iustinian in his Captaines much renowned Narses the Eunuch a right 〈◊〉 Knight And Bellisarius whose name was crowned Through all the world Twice Carthage won in fight Twice rescude Rome his fame in Persia sowned Thrace Greece th'Affricke Gâ—…aths he put to flight For much more seruice th' Emperor from his head Tore out his eyes he for'st to beg his bread 68 Aurelius Conanus slew in field Constantine Arthurs Nephew three yeares swade Then did his due to death and nature yeild And Vortigore his Sonne is Soueraigne made Who did but foure yeares Brittans 〈◊〉 weild When Malgo did the 〈◊〉 inuade Who slew his first Wife her chast Bed for sooke And to his Bride his Brothers Daughter tooke 69 King Totylus sack't Rome the second time What in the first he spoyl'd he now repayred Altinus king of Lumbards full with Wine Cals for a Mazer which he might haue spared Of his Wiues Fathers Scull for which in fine She loath'd her Husband and yet further dar'd Vnto his loyall Bed she prou'd vntrue With Helme-child who after Albine slew 70 CAreticus by help of Irelands King Cald Gurmond Brittan Malgo did expell Whom after three yeares Ethelfrid did bring To ruine and in battaile prosperd well About this time Sybert th' East Saxon King Erected Westminster Ethelfrid fell And Cadwan Duke of Northwales him defeated And two and twenty yeares in peace was seated 71 Queene Tredegunde of France in the meane season Lawdry the Earle of Soysons deerely lou'd And for his â—…ake destroyd the King by Treason Gainst Gregory sir-nam'd the great was mou'd By â—…ohn the Patrâ—…arch against all reason The Churches Primacy which he improu'd Arabian Mahomet his Alkeron made Frensh Brunchild liu'd who had Princes ten betrayde 72 CAdwallin Cadwans Sonne next Bittan guided Benet the Monke Paynting and Glazing found The Sarasins by Mahomet prouided Wan Persia where Ormisda long sat crown'd And in short space hauing their powers diâ—…ided Conquerd all Aegypt with the Climats round Damascus likewise was subdude by them So was rich Antioch and Hierusalem 73 Three yeares Cadwallader esteem'd the last Of Brittan Princes gouernd and he dead The Kingdome wholly to West-Saxons past Of whom King Iue first impald his head And next him Ethelard whose raigne was grast By reuerent Beda of whose workes we read Of Clearkly Bookes on seuerall Subiects stil'd Threâ—…ore and eyghteene Volums well compil'd 74 Next Ethelard raign'd Cuthred whom succeeds Sigebert and he not one full yeare did raigne But was deposde for many tyrranous deedes And after besely by a Swine-heard slaine Kinulphus to the Kingdome next proceedes Who after by a man of Sigeberts traine Was murdred in the night as he should passe Vnto his Mistris a braue Brittish Lasse 75 The Sarasins pierce Europe Rhodes they wasted The Firmament two daies appeares to burne The Emperour Constantine his Army hasted The Sarasins by armes to ouerturne Where thirty thousand Pagans of death tasted When Constantine expites the Christians mourne His Throne and State Iustinian next maintained And from the Turkes Affricke and Libia gayned 76 The next West-Saxon King was Brithricus Who eyghteene yeares after Kinulphus fall Raign'd King came from the blooud of Cerdicus And queld the Danes in many a bloudy brall Wiu'd Ethelburgh by whom as Bookes discusse He poysond was yet whilst he gouern'd all S. Albons Winchcombe Abbeyes were both built Blood rayn'd which seem'd like Crosses where t' was spilt 77 Egbert the Sexon thirty seauen supplyde The Soueraignety now raign'd Prench Charles the great Eyghteene whole dayes the Sunne his light denyde Hyren the Empresse from th' Imperiall Seat Her young Sonne Constantine deposde through pâ—…de And after did him cruelly intreat She causd his eyes be torne out of his head And foure yeares after gouernd in his stead 78 King Ethelwolfe the fore-nam'd Egbert's Sonne As Chroniclers affirme Oxford erected a Priest at first in Orders he begon Till after marrying he the State affected The Warlike Danes his Kingdome ouer-ron But are expled Sergius is Pope elected Whose name Os Porcy seem'd so vile that they Chang'd it and from him all Popes to this day 79 Foure Sonnes each other in the State succeedes King Ethelwald who gouern'd not a yeare When Ethelbert his Brother don'd the Weedes Imperiall and next him doth appeare The third Sonne Etheldred whose body bleeds By the bold Danes who after slaughterd were By the fourth Sonne at Brixium as Bookes tell Three dayes together bloud in thicke shewers fell 80 Young Alured from Ethelwolfe the last Twenty nine yeares sixe monthes the Scepter bore Hungar and Hubba quite through Scotland past Bels were first vsde in Greece not knowne before In sixe set battailes Alured disgrast The warlike Danes then dyde The Peeres adore Edward his elder Sonne who nobly beares The Brittish Scepter foure and twenty yeares 81 Nine Popes in lesse then nine yeares were instald Adelwald Edwards Brother twice rebelling VVas by the Elders Prowesse twice appald And after slaine the Huns and Hungars quelling All Europe were much feard a Princesse cald Elflede King Edwards Sister much excelling after the throwes in her first Child-birth tryde For euermore her
Worthies made relation Your spurs the Chariot of my Muse must driue Through all past Ages and precedent times To fill this new World with my worthlesse rymes 8 Oh may these Artlesse numbers in your eares Renowmed IAMES seeme Musically strung Your fame oh IOVES-star'd Prince spread euery where First gaue my still and speech-lesse Muse a tung From your Maiestike vertues prised deare The infant life of these harsh meeters sprung Oh take not then their industrie in skorne Who but to emblaze you had beene yet vnboâ—…e 9 Not let your Princely Peeres hold in disdaine To haue their Auncestry stild'e and inrolde In this poore Register a higher straine Their merits aske since brazen leaues vnfold Their neuer-dying Fame yet thus much daine Not to despise to heare your vertues told In a plaine stile by one whose wish and hart Supplies in zeale want both of Skill and Art 10 Times faithfully conferd the first inuention Of most thinges now in vse heare you shall finde Annext with these the vse and comprehention Of Poesâ—… once to the Goddes desceind Suffer our bluntnesse then since our intention Is to good vse sent from a zealous mind If Stones in Lead set keepe their vertues then Your worth 's the same though blazde by a rude Pen. 11 In the Worldes Child-hood and those Infant-daies When the first earth was in her strength and prime Ofher owne nature yeilding plants and Spraies Flowers both for smell and Medicine when each time The chearefull beames of the bright Sunne displaies To ripen fruites in their conuenient time Before the labouring Swaine with' is iron plow Made furrowed wrinkles in the Earths smooth brow 2 When men were gouernd more by Will then Art And had their appetites by Nature swayde When Fraud was vnbegot and had no part In the worlds Empire before Coyne was made When man his mutuall fortunes did impart Without Extortion Guile or Vsurers trade Before smooth Cunning was to ripenesse growne Or diuellish Wax and Parchment yet were knowne 3 I meane the golden world the purest Age That knew not brazen warre or fatall steele For war was in his cradle yron age Bred but his teeth yet did the world not feele His rauenous phangs no man did battell wage Or try the inconstant course of Fortunes wheele There was twixt king and king no grim defiance Nor bands saue of affection and alliance 4 Then liu'd Vranus a great Lord in Creet To Aethra and great Demogorgon heire He married with a Lady bright and sweet Vesta through all those climes sur-nam'd the faire With two young lads she did her Husband greet Tytan and Saturne at two births she bare Tytan the eldest crooked and il-fac't Saturne well shap't faire spoke and comely grac't 5 Vranus in his hopefull issue famed Begot on Vesta two faire Daughters more The first Sibilla the last Ceres named Fairer were neuer seene in Creet before Both were by Nature in her cunning framed Out of her beauties choise and purest store Tytan was for his vgly shape abhord But Saturne for his comlinesse adord 6 This Saturne was the first by whose inuention The Earth was Til'd and Ear'd and gaue increase Before his fruitfull daies was neuer mention To sowe or plant Till then a generall peace Was made twixt th' earth and vs our apprehention Strecht not to know her secrets Now gan cease Blind Ignorance in man Saturne first found To till to plow to sow to reape the ground 7 He likewise was the first that strung the bow And with a feathered Arrow pierst the Aire Phâ—…bus at first admired and did not know What new made Birds could flie so swift and faire Mistaking Saturnes shafts for who would trow Mans wisedome could inuent a thing so rare Being Earth-bred to stretch his braine so hie As teach his shafts way through the empty skie 8 And now began th' amaz'd Earth to admire To see such strange fruites in her bosome growing To see her head weare such vnknowne attire To see the Swaines some planting others sowing Now first began the birds to pearch them hier And shun mans sight still wondering but not knowing How men below on th' earths verdure lying Should reach into the aire and sttike them flying 9 To kill the Sauadge beast he likewise taught And how to pierce the Serpents skale from farre By him the wilde-swift-running Hart was caught He first deuis'd for vs the vse of warre He shewd which mines of earth be good which naught Which be the veines of Gold which siluer are He Minerals first found and from the mold To decke his Pallace brought refined gold 10 Yet some great Saturnes glory would deface And say that Cadmus first this mettall found In high Pangeus a huge hill in Thrace Else Thoas and Eaclis searcht the ground For gold ore and Panchaia was the place Knowne in such precious mettals to abound Some twixt Erichthon and Ceacus deuide Finding bright siluer first in Athens tride 11 Idei Dactili Iron mettall wrought In Creet some deeme two Iewes in Cipres made it Selmentes and Damnameneus brought The Ore from thence and to their vse assaide it For yellow Brasse the fly Pannonians sought The Scithian Lydus with the fire allaid it And taught it first to melt which some suppose The Phrigian Delos did by Art disclose 12 Midacritus a Minerall more then these Brought from a Prouince that belongs to Spaine Lead from the Ilands Cassiterides Which some would Attribute to Tuball-Caine Glaucus all Mettals brought beyond the seas Taught how to sother else their vse were vaine The first Smiths-forge the blacke Calibians made And after taught the Ciclopes their trade 13 Cyniras the Stythee leuer Tongs and File Pyrodes was the first from flint stroke fire Which how to keepe in matches longer while Prometheus taught This Vulcan did acquire The bellowes Anacharsis in the Isle Cal'd Scithes and thus men did still aspire For knowledge and in seuerall Countries nurst These Arts of whom we hold king Saturne first 14 Therefore the Cretan people much esteemed him And cal'd him God on earth for his rare wit Much honor he receiu'd which they beteem'd him And in their populer iudgements held it fit To burne him Mirrhe and Insence for they deem'd him Worthy alone amongst the Gods to sit Perswaded such a high inuentious straine Could not proceed from any Mortals braine 11 As these rare guifts the giddy Commons noted So in his mothers hart they tooke Impression Who on her sonnes perfections inly doted Making for him her daily intercession Thus in a Sea of sweet content he floted For who but of his vertues made confession In processe and the chiefe of Saturnes pride The old Vranus craz'd fell sicke and dide 12 After a few sad funerall sighes and teares By Vesta o're her husbands body shed In crooked Tytan to the world appeares A strong intention to impale his head
With his dead fathers Crowne This Vesta feares And calling Saturne thus to him she sed My dearest sonne t is by the Lords decreed That in Vranus Prince-dome thou succeed 13 Thy brother Tytan though in Age before thee Yet in thy wisedome thou hast him out-stript Thou hast the popular loue they all adore thee His blasted hopes are in the blossome nipt With Coine with Men with Armor I will store thee Let him stand fast or he shall sure be tript Both Lords and people ioyne with me thy mother To invest Saturne and depose thy brother 14 With that before her sonne could make reply Where they were speaking rusht bold Tytan in A storme was in his brow fier in his eye After some tempest he doth thus begin Must then young Saturne raigne Oh tell me why Am I a Bastard and begot in sinne Hath Vesta playd the strumpet with my Father That you despise me and elect him rather 15 Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first And lay I not as neere your heart as he Was I not of those breasts before him nurst And am I not his Elder in degree What haue I done you should affect me worst Your Mayden-birth and your first progeny Before him I was borne and to be plaine By all the Goddes I will before him raigne 16 Had I not in your wombe the selfe-same being Am I not of the selfe-same bloud created Is not my Royalty with his agreeing Is not my birth before his Anti-dated Is elder Tytan now not worth the seeing Must in my right that young boy be instated Hath he so well or I so ill deseru'd No first I came and I will first be seru'd 17 And turning to young Saturne with an eye Threatning reuenge and ruyne to his life Prin-cox quoth he must you be plac't so hye The only darling of Vranu wife Canst thou so soone out-leape me Thou shalt die And in thy fatall obits end this strife Then with his fatall blade he blest his head Had the blow falne it had strooke Saturne dead 18 But Vesta staide it comming and withall Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither They hugge young Saturne but on Tytan fall Thundring on him with clamors altogither The yonger brother they their Soueraigne call And bid the elder packe they care not whither The people second them thus in disgrace The Stigmaticke is forst to leaue the place 19 But hauing better with himselfe aduised Tytan and Saturne thus the strife decide That Tytan for his shape so much despised Should leaue the Scepter vnto Saturnes guide And so to stint all mallice enterprised But after Saturnes death the Crownet'abide To Tytan and his heyres by his last will So Saturne sweares all his heyres male to kill 20 King Saturne must not let a sonne suruiue To keepe his brothers I ssue from the Crowne Only his Daughters he may saue aliue These Couenants are betwixt them both set downe Hence-forth no more these haughty brothers striue For eyther by Indenture knowes his owne The Crowne is Saturnes due to Tytans seed To make which good all Saturnes sonnes must bleed 21 The elder brother thus o'reswaide with might Cannot indure that Clyme but seekes another To see his yonger throned in his right Or to be cal'd a Subiect to his brother And therefore full of anger and despight He leaues his Countrey Sisters and his mother And to be rid at once of his disgraces He seekes aduentures strange in forren places 22 Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e No quest saue Armes and valour he intended And how by Vsurpation to intrude Into the rightes of others who defended Their Honors both by strength and multitude Thus he of many Islands raignes sole King And all the World of Tytans Actes doth ring 23 Yet into Creet he daily sendes espiall To know if Saturne made his Couenant good Forcing his slye skouts mauger all deniall To bring him word how Saturnes glory stood Whether of Mariage he had yet made tryall Or hauing Children male had spilt their bloud Knowing himselfe to be sufficient strong By force of Armes to right his former wrong 24 So with his fiue and forty Sonnes makes thence With fayre Tytea mother to seuenteene Of that large broode all these with rage dispence And by their late attonement Exiles beene With patience they depart but with pretence Hoping well Armed once more to be seene And with their brood of Tytanois to meet And tug with Saturne for the Crowne of Creet 25 Rhea of all the beauteous daughters fairest Brides with Hiperion her best-lou'd Brother He likewise for his feature was the rarest Of Tytans sonns there liu'd not such another Oh sweet Hiperion thou in shape comparest With all the Gyant yssue of thy mother At feuerall byrths two Babes she childed soone The male she cald the Sunne Female the Moone 26 The tother Tytans fearing to these two Their Fathers Conquests should in time descend A monstrous Act they haue intent to do Whose scandall shall beyond both Poles extend And none but Parricides would yeild vnto For they that should their Brothers life defend Conspire together and gainst right or reason In dead of night they seeke his death by Treason 27 But first they take his little sonne the Sunne And to the floud Eridanus well knowne That streames along their Coast In hast they run Where the young Lad amongst the waues is throwne This when his tender Sister knew was dun From a high Rocke her selfe she tumbled downe In pitty of whose beauties grace and yeares The Gods translate them to the brightest Spheres 28 Meane time the new made King of Creet 's renowne Increast so much that he was term'd a God He was the first that ware a Lawrell Crowne The first that venter'd on the Scas and rod In triumph on the waters this being knowne They held them happiest that could make abod In his blest Prouince which being well conducted Kings sent their Sonnes to him to be instructed 25 Saturne in those daies was helde onely wise Many young Princes in his Court werâ—… traiâ—…d He taught them both the vse of Seas and â—…es And what hâ—…d wealth within the Earth remained Then gan he Citties build and Lawes deuise for an Irregular people he disdained The mynerall mountaine-veines he vnder-minde And was the first that perfect Golde refinde 26 Yet neuer did this King in ought miscarry Hauing what Earth and Sea and Ayre could yeild Happy in all thinges saue he durst not marry He sees the gorgcous house he late did build Shine with reflecting Gold his obiects varry He sees his ripe corne growing in the field He sees the wilde Birds by his Archers caught Pierst with those shafts whose vse before he taught 27 He sees the vast Seas by his Oares deuided And the decepe waters without danger past By Art of Sayle and Rudder they are guided What greater happinesse could Mortall
Coward tast confusion all The Sun looks pale heauen red the green earth blusht To see their bones beneath his Chariot crusht 83 Whos 's valour Thesus seeing nobly spake Great Hector I admire thee though my Foe Thou art too bold why dost thou vndertake Things beyond man to seeke thine ouerthrow I see thee breathlesse wherefore dost thou make So little of thy worth to perish so Fond man retyre thee and recouer breath And being thy selfe pursue the workes of death 84 Prince Hector his debility now finding Thankes royall Thesus and begins to pawse And bout the field with his swift coursers winding Vnto a place remote himselfe withdrawes Meane time King Menelaus the battaile minding Wan in the dangerous conflict much applawse Heere Celidonius valiant Moles slew Moles that his discent from Oreb drew 85 By Mandon King Cedonius lost an eye A Graecian Admirall Sadellus kils And Aix Telamonius doth defie Prince Margareton King Menestheus spils The Galles red blood Prothenor low doth lie By Samuels Speare renowned Hector fils The field with wonder he his Carre forsakes And Milke white Galathee againe he takes 86 At his first entrance he espies his friend Polydamas by thirty souldiers led Amongst whom spurring they themselues defend But scarce one man hath power to guard his head Vnto their dayes great Hectors sword gaue end And freedome to Polydamas nye dead With shame and wrath next to the battell came King Thoas to redeeme the Argiues Fame 87 With him the King Philotas who adrest Themselues gainst two of Priams Bastard Sonnes Young Cassilanus puts his Speare in rest And with great fury against Thoas ronnes He brake his staffe but Thoas sped the best As to their bold encounter Hector comes He sees his young halfe-brother he held deare Through-pierst alas by Thoas fatall Speare 88 Hye-stomackt Hector with this obiect mad hurries through the thicke prease and there had slaine Whole thousands for the death of that young Lad But his red wrath King Nestor did restraine For with six thousand Knights in armor clad he fortifies the late forsaken plaine Gainst whom marcht Philon of the part of Troy Their battailes ioyne each other they destroy 89 Polydamus and Hector taking part With Philon aged-Nestor growes too weake For Cassilanus death the Greekes must smart They through their flankes wings rankes and squadrons breake When Aiax Telamon spide what huge wreake The Troian Worthy made his men take hart And with King Menelaus them dispose To rescue Nestor and assault their Foes 90 Gainst them Aeneas with the hoast arriues And ioynes with Hector on the Argiue side Philoatas with three thousand souldiers striues all proued Greekes whose valors had bin tride Aeneas and great Aiax gage their liues To equall conflict whom their troopes deuide Philoatas on great Hector thinkes to proue him In vaine he from his saddle cannot moue him 91 But him the Woorthy stounded with a blow A flatling blow that on his Beauer glancst Vlisses and Humerus next in row With twice fiue thousands Knights on Hector chancst But Paris hapned with as many moe On Hectors part where numbers lye intrancst Paris a keene shaft from his Quiner drew Whose fatall point the King of Cipresse slew 92 This Ciprian Kinsman to Vlisses was In whose reuenge the Ithacan defies Prince Paris who in Arch'ry did surpasse These two in field against each other rise And with their mutuall blood they staine the grasse But parted by the tumult they deuise On further massacre neere to this place Troylus Vlisses meets and wounds his face 93 Nor scapt the Troian wound-free in this stower Was Galathee beneath Prince Hector slaine And he on foot the Greekes with all their power Begirt him and assault the Prince amaine But he whose fame aboue the Clouds must lower From all their battering strokes still guards his braine Till Dynadorus Priams Bastard son Against well-mounted Polixemus ron 94 A strong Barb'd horse the Noble Greeke bestrid a Worthier Maister now the steed must haue The Bastard youth gainst Polixemus rid Vnhorst him and his Steed to Hector gaue Who mounted farre more deeds of Honor did Leauing the Greekes most Coarses to ingraue a troope of Archers Deiphebus brings Who expell the Greekes with arrowes darts and slings 95 At the first shocke the Prince King Theuter hit and carâ—…'d a deepe wound on his armed face The well steel'd point his sword-proofe Beauer split and now th' assaulted Greekes are all in chace Some saue themselues by swiftnesse some by wit Young Quinteline of Priams Bastard race and King Moderus haue surpriz'd by force Thesus and spoyl'd him both of armes and horse 96 Whom when the Dardan-Worthy saw surpriz d He cals to mind the cur'sie to him done By whom nye breathlesse he was well aduis'd The future eminence of warre to shunne King Thesus whom his Victors much despis'd Hector releast and by the glorious Sunne Sweares not to leaue him till he see him sent With safe conduct vnto his warlike Tent. 97 Here Thoas by whom Cafsilanâ—… fell Is by great Hector beaten from his Steed Who razing of his Helme to send to hell A soule he so much hated was soone freed By Menesteus who makes on Pell-Mell With a huge hoast and rescues with all speed Th' astonisht King not long the day he tride Till Paris with an arrow pierst his side 98 Humerus glaunst a Iauelin through the sight Of Hectors Beauer that it racst the skin Th' inraged Prince on proud Humerus light And with one stroke he cleft him to the chin Proceeding on hee still pursues the fight The Grecians loose and now the Troians win They beate them to their Tents where some inquire For pillage whilst the rest the Nauy fite 99 In this pursute Hector and Aiax meete Who after interchange of hostile blowes Part on eeuen tearmes and with kind language greet For the two kinsmen now each other knowes Aiax intreats the Prince to spare theyr Fleet And saue theyrtents whose flame to heauen-ward grows Which courteous Hector sweares to vndertake For Aiax and his Aunt Hesiones sake 100 Oh Il-stard Hector Thou hast ouerseene A Victory thou canst not reach to more Hadst thou to him inexorable beene Thou hadst sau'd Troy and freed the Dardan Shore Duke Aiax prayet hath wrought Troyes fatall teene And hath the power lost Grecia to restore Oh hadst thou tane the aduantage of this day all Greece had perisht that now liues for aye 101 But there 's a Fate in all things Hector blowes His wel-knowne horne his Souldiers all retreat The Greekes to quench theyr Fleet themselues dispose and re-instaure their tents whose spoile was great The next day from the campe to Priam goes A Herald to surcease all hostile heat Demanding truce till they the dead haue grounded And both of Campe and Citty cur'd the wounded 102 T is granted from the Towne with Coffins com Pale widdowes winpled in their mourning weeds To fetch their husbands coarses cold and nom To
whom they offer solemne Funerall deeds The Children fetch their Sires and Fathers some Their slaughtred sons which generall mourning breeds The Greekes likewise their fellow-mates desire And yeild their bodies to the hallowed fire 103 But whilst these odoriferous piles they reare And sacrifiz'd their friends in holy flames And in perfumed Boxes prized deare Coffin their precious ashes least their names Should die in Lethe Nouell broyles appeare And Ate through the Campe discord proclames But now to truce our spirits we haue intention Before twixt them we moue a new dissention TO omit all our English worthies whose names wee haue only memoriz'd not hauing roome to insert their deeds in so little a compasse as we haue prescrib'd to our History we rather couet to touch matter more forraigne and lesse familiar to some with whome our Booke must necessarily Traficke In the description of Fame we haue rather imitated Ouid then Virgill his Fama malum quo non c. In the description of King Priams state we must needes imagine it great where so many forraigne Kings assembled in his ayde in whose names we haue confer'd Dares the Troian Dictes the Greeke Homer Virgill and others who though in some particuler thinges not momentarily they differ yet they generally concurre in this that such Princes with such populous and almost inuincible assistance succored Troy Telephus ioynd in commission with Achilles to saile to the land of Messe was sonne to Hercules whom Theutam hauing before in the battayle receiued his deaths wound voluntarily adopted his successour for the great loue that he for many benefits formerly receiued had borne to his father Hercules The passages of Loue betwixt Troylus and Cressida the reuerent Poet Chaucer hath sufficiently discourst to whom I wholy refer you hauing past it ouer with little circumstance The description of the first battailes seruice disordred and confused we must excuse with this necessity that beeing to remember so many and to imploy them all we could not do it with a directer method then to set downe things done without order disorderly and actions hapning by accident accidentally and confused things confusedly King Prothesilaus was the first King that perisht before Troy for though it were foretold by Oracle that he that first set foot a shore should perish by the sword of Hector yet hee fearelesse of death first landed and in his too much valor made the fayre Laodomeia a desolate widdow Ate Goddesse of reuenge or strife she is cald by Homer one of Ihoues daughters Lesio Homerus Iliad 7. Presba dios thugater ate H pantas a-atai Ate prisca Iouis proles quae leserit omnes Mortales The Tale of Cephalus and Procris because I haue omitted in my former Cantons especially in that which seemes to inueigh against Iealousie I thinke not altogither vnnecessary to insert in this Skolia knowing that which was ill forgot cannot be amisse remembred at any seasonable opportunity Here therefore though out of his ranke I intend to admit him BEneath Hymettus hill well cloath'd with flowers A holy Well her soft springs gently powers Where stands a Cops in which the Wood-Nymphs shroue No wood It rather seemes a slender Groue The humble shrubs and bushes hide the grasse Heere Lawrell Rosemary heare Myrtle was Heere grew thicke Box and Tam'rix that excels And made a meere confusion of sweet smels The Triffoly the Pine and on this Heath Stands many a plant that feeles coole Zephirs breath Heere the young Cephalus tyr'd in the chace Vsd his repose and rest alone t' embrace And where he sat these words he would repeate Come Ayre sweet Ayre come coole my heatâ—… Come gentle Ayre I neuer will for sake thee I le hug thee thus and in my bosome take thee Some double dutious Tel-tale hapt to heare this And to his Iealous wife doth straight-way beare this Which Proctis hearing and with all the Name Of Ayre sweete Ayre which he did oft proclaime She stands confounded and amazd with griefe By giuing this fond tale too sound beleefe And lookes as doe the Trees by winter nipt Whom Frost and cold of fruit and leaues hath stript She bends like Corueile when too ranke it growes Or when the ripe fruits clog the Quinch-tree bowes But when she comes to her selfe she teares Her Garments and her eyes her cheekes and heares And then she starts and to her feet applies her Then to the Woods storke Wood in rage she hies her Approaching somewhat neare her seruants they By her appointment in a Vally stay Whilst she alone with creeping paces steales To take the Strumpet whom her Lord conceales What mean'st thou Procris in these Groues to hide thee What rage of loue doth to this madnesse guide thee Thou hopst the Arye he cals in all her brauery Will straight approach and thou shalt see their knauery and now againe it Irkes her to be there For such a killing sight her heart will teare No truce can with her troubled thoughts dispence She would not now he there nor yet be thence Behold the place her iealous mind fortels Here doe they vse to meet and no where els The Grasse is layd and see their true impression Euen heere they lay I heere was their transgression A bodies print she saw it was his seat Which makes her faint hart gainst her ribs to beat Phoebus the lofty Easterne Hill had scald And all moist vapours from the earth exhald Now in his noone-tide point he shineth bright It was the middle houre twixt noone and night Behold young Cephalus drawes to the place And with the Fountaine water sprinkes his face Procris is hid vpon the grasse he lyes And come sweet Zephir Come sweet Ayre he cryes She sees her error now from where he stood Her mind returnes to her and her fresh blood Among the Shrubs and Briars she moues and rustles And the iniurious boughes away she â—…stles Intending as he lay there to repose him Nimbly to run and in her armes inclose him He quickly casts his eye vpon the bush Thinking therein some sauage Beast did rush His bow he bends and a keene shaft he drawes Vnhappy man what doost thou Stay and pause It is no bruite beast thou wouldst reaue of life Oh man vnhappy thou hast slaine thy wife Oh Heauen she cries Oh helpe me I am slaine Stil doth thy Arrow in my wound remaine Yet though by timelesse Fate my bones heere lye It glads me most that I no Cuck-queane dye Her breath thus in the Armes she most affected She breaths into the Ayre before suspected The whilst he lifts her body from the ground And with his teares doth wash her bâ—…eeding wound The end of the eleuenth CANTO Argumentum A Chilles transformation Palimed Accusd of Treason and condemnd to die After long battaile honor Hector led The boldest Argiue Champion to defie The Graecians storme to be so chalenged Hector and Aiax the fierce Combat try A Truce a Banquet at this pompous feast
Queene Hellen is inuited a chiefe guest ARG. 2. Deiademeias Loue Vlisses Spleene Two Princely husbands claime the Spartan Queen CANTO 12. 1 FArre beit I so much on Hector doate To rob the aduerse part of any right I am not to the Troians so deuoate Though thence deriu'd that the least Argiue Knight Should me accuse or any passage coate Guilty of flattering loue or partiall spight Loe to both parts we newtrall hate professe But equall loue as we can euenly gesse 2 I cannot flatter with smooth Virgils peâ—… Or giue Augustus more then he should haue With Ouid bestow Dieties on men And where he hates or loues condemne or saue Blind Homer how shall I excuse thee then That all the glory to Achilles gaue For wit and strength to whom hast thou don wrong Vlisses was as wise Aiax as strong 3 If Hector with Achilles thou comparest Or rather wouldst preferre the valiant Greeke As he whose valour and esteeme was rarest Needs must I cast a blush vpon thy cheeke Because great Hector was thy foe thou sparest To speake of him his praise must be to seeke And all thy skeads Achilles Fame display Whom Hestor hath vn-horst twice in one day 4 I must confesse Achilles highly blest To haue a Homer in his Country borne Had Troy bred Homer or had Greece possest Renowned Hector no Prince should haue worne A wreath equall with his Fame should inuest The Troian hyest maugre Enuies scorne Shew me the cause else why to his disgrace Hector's the worthy he hath lost the place 5 Or how can this through Gracia be digested A Troians Fame should with such Luster shine The generall bench of Iudgements hath inuested The Troian Hector one amongst the nine Though Homer for Achilles hath protested Made his Fame Tower-lesse and his birth Deuine Yet hath the world the Troian so respected Achilles is put by Hector elected 6 And reason too for what Achilles wan Was by the valour of his armed traine When Hector fought he buckled man to man And by his proper hand lie thousands slaine But how Achilles Fame at first began And who first brought him to Scamander plaine My Muse sings next Ihoue-borne my braine inspire Whilst I the Fate of Thetis sonne inquire 7 Old Peleus yssue by the Seas faire Queene Thetis in Lycomedes Court abides Clad like a Gitle for such his youth was seene His warlike hand a Womanish distaffe guides A female shape obscures his Martiall spleene In stead of Cushes a long Kirtle hides His warlike limbes those armes mongst Virgins plaid That were indeed for Vulcans armor made 8 The carefull Mother that pre-science had By Oracle her sonne'fore Troy should fall Seekes to preuent his Fate and sends the Lad Vnto the King of Sciros being but small He passes for a Girle so was he clad Such was his shape gate gesture looke and all And through the Court a generall voyce doth ronne Of Thetis daughter not of Thetis sonne 9 The King appoints him Bed-fellow to be With faire Deiademeia his sole-Child So well the youthfull paire in bed agree That when Achilles laught the Lady smild And when he honor'd she would bend her knee With him she tasted ioy or mirch exild His amorous gestures were to her a Lawe To keepe her actions and her lookes in awe 10 Achilles growes so doth the Lady too And as their yeares increase so their affection Custome and long continuance taught them doo Pleasures to youth vnknowne without direction Without suspicion he may freely woo The opportunous night friends her complexion When in her Armes the Prince doth rudely rush Night Curtens her and none can see her blush 11 So long they vse this dalliance the young Lasse Feeles her brests swell and her lanke belly grow No maruell by the Prince with childe she was Of him that wrought Troyes fatall ouerthrow Great Neptolemus who did surpasse In Martiall prowesse and laide Islium low Whilst these things are in processe t is decreed By Oracle Troyes warres shall ill succeed 12 For when th'inuasiue Greekes demaund th' euent That in these expeditions shall betide Answere is them return'd incontinent Without Achilles Troy shall swell with pride And therefore was Vlisses forthwith sent With Diomed to finde the Prince denide By Thetis vnto whom was then reuealed Her sonnes short date the cause she him concealed 13 The crafty Greeke the Mothers guile suspecting To Lycomedes Court posts in disguise His weeds of state and Princely robes reiecting He Pedler-like attempts the enterprise He beares along bright glasses faire reflecting Cawles Laces Tyres to please young Ladies eyes Besides these womens toyes he beares along A bright sword and a Bow surpassing strong 14 In the Court-hall he opens his faire packe And twenty seuerall Ladies come to buy The Pedler needs not aske them what they lacke Not one but with some trifle gluts her eye Achilles hanging at the Pedlers backe Spies a faire Bow and by his Hamper lye A rich caru'd sword the strong Steele-bow he drew And shooke the sword by which the Prince he knew 15 Then closing with Aeacides perswades The valiant youth to suite him to his kind His loose effeminate habit he vpbraids Tels him what honors are to him assind with what disgrace he liues mongst wanton Maides And what renowne attends a valiant minde Which in his noble thoughts takes such Impression The Prince repents his former loose transgression 16 He teares his feminine Vales rends off his tyres His golden Cawle and Fillet throwes aside and for his head a Steele-wrought Caske desires That hand that did so late a spindle guide To brandish a bright luster'd sword aspires a sword that must in Hectors bloud be dyde His smooth Rebata from his necke he fals and to the Greeke for a stiffe Gorget cals 17 From his large Limbs th'Imbrodered Roabes hee shakes and leapes out of his Garments with proude scorne In stead of which he a rich Vaunt-brace takes Which buckling on growes proud to see it worne The wanton Guirles first wonder what he makes With sword and armes his Garments hauing torne But when he frown'd the Ladies grow affrayde Of him so arm'd with whom but late they playde 18 But now Vlisses Diomed and he Leaue without leaue both Sciros and the King Deiademeia most bewailde of thee Whoseyssue in thy Wombe thou feelst to springe They pierce through Greece whom when the Princes see To their arriue they Oades and Cantons sing Praysing theyr Gods that haue Achilles found Whose hand must lay Troy leauell with the ground 19 This Thetis hearing that her royall sonne had left his secure habit of a Woman and by Vlisses to the warres was won She for his safety doth her wits still sommon To Lemnian Vulcan she doth post-hastronne Whose art in forging armes she knew not common at her be-heast he for her Sonne did yeild a Speere-proofe-armour and a Globe-like Shield 20 What can a Mothers care gainst Fare preuaile Not Vulcans Armour