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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03250	Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1609 (1609)	STC 13366; ESTC S119729	272,735	468

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 ●…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 H●… 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 Dana●… 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 ●…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 ●…rumpets blowne And the three Children in the robes they ware Cast in the fiery Furnace now I gesse Liud Solon Sapho the sweet Po●…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

deuoured of a Beare and being seene no more was thought to be metamorphosed into a Beare There be two Beares in the heauens the greater and the lesse into which Ovid saith Atchas and his mother were translated one of them Nauphus first obserued the other Thales Milesius Homer cals them Helicopes The warres twixt Iupiter and the Tytanoys is called by the Poets Gygantomachia Of which Ovid the first of his Metamor Aff classe ferunt regnum coeleste gigantes Attaque congestes struxisse ad sidera mantes c. Of this there are diuers Fables extant Briaceus they cald Centimanem Gigantem the Gyant with a hundred hands alluding to his valour and his creditious strokes which he gaue so thicke as if he had strook with an hundred hands at once And of Typhon Ovid in his Metamorph. 5. most ingeniously thus speakes Vasta Gyganteis Iuierta est Insula memoris Tynacris magnis subiectum motibus vrgit Aethercas ausum sperare Typhocaledes et sic deinceps Iapetus is certeinly thought to be sonne of Iaphet the 3. sonne of Noah Tantalus some thinke to be the sonne of Iupiter and the Nymph Plota Others of Iupiter and Plutus as Iohannes Diaconus and Didimus Others haue thought him to be the sonne of Imolus King of Lydia as Zezes Others the son of Aethon Talia ferre Puto quoque Tantalou aethone natum Qui nullo potuit fonte leuare sitim Tantalus being to feast the Gods for the more magnificence of the banquet and as the richest dish slew his sonne Pelops and serued him in which the Goddes knowing all refused to eate onely Ceres almost distraught with the losse of hir daughter rashly eate of the shoulder The Goddes pittying the murder of his sonne floung al his limbes intoa Caldron which boyling a space they restored him againe to life whom bicause he came out of the Caldron yonger then when he was slaine he was called Pelops but when his shoulder wanted of which Ceres had hungerly fed the Goddes made vp the place with Iuory which shoulder of Iuory was after a badge of all the Pelopidans Of his torments in hell the report is common His children were Broteus Pelops and Niobes The end of the third CANTO Argumentum IHoue Esculapius kils Apollo drtues To keepe Admetus sheepe in Thessaly And next his beautious sister Iuno wiues At her returne from Creet to Parthemy The father with the sonne in battell striues But by his puissance is insorst to fly Acrisius keepes his daughter in a Tower Which amorous Ihoue skales in a golden shower ARG. 2. To deuine physicke Gods made first of men And Perseus birth swift Delta guids my pen CANTO 4. THou deuine Art of Physi●… let me sing Thy hononred praise and let my pen aspire To giue thee life that vnto life canst bring Men halfe departed whether thy first Syre Was that Prometheus who●…om the Heauens King Stole by his skill part of the vitall fier That kindles life in man thereby to saue Sicke men that stand with one foot in the graue 2 Or whether Aesculapius was thy father Sonne to the Sun-god by whose liuely heat Symples and Plants their saps and vertues gather Let it suffice I know thy power is greate And my vnable muse admires thee rather Then comprehends thy worth let them intreat Of thy perfection that with fame professe thee And in their Arts vnto the life expresse thee 3 As famous Butler Pady Turner Poe Atkinson Lyster Lodge who still suruiue Besides these English Gallens thousands moe Who where they come death and diseases driue From pale sicke creatures and all Cordials know Spirits spent and wasted to preserue aliue In this with Gods and Kings they are at strife Physitians Kings and Gods alone giue life 4 Some hold young Mercury deuisd the skill Of Phisicke first and taught that Art abroad Some vnto Arabus impute it still Someyeild that honour to th' Egiptian God Cal'd Apis or Serapis others wil Apollo chiefe what time he made aboad With king Admetus but mostvoyces runne The first renown'd was Esculap his sonne 5 Hippocrates reduc't it to an Art Gallen and Auicenna him succeed Cassius and Calpitanus too impart His soueraigne skill Rubrius taught first to bleed Antonius Musa chear'd the wasted hart Aruntius too helpt euery griefe at need Archagathus profest this first in Rome But all submit to Noble Gallens doome 6 The first that did this sacred Art renowne And gaue it fame on earth was as I read Great Aesculape who tracing vp and downe To gather Simples in the flowry Mead Hard by a rocke that weares a bushy crowne And boue the neighbour champion lifts his head He spies a Swaine in habit neate and briske Hold battell with a dreadfull Bassiliske 7 A monster that kils onely with his eie Which from th'vnarmed Shepheard shrunke and ran Apolles sonne with wonder stands him ●…e And thinks or that no beast or this no man Admiring by what hidden Diety The piercing Cockatrice out-gaze he gan Vnlesse by chance there lodg'd a Vertue rare In some one simple in the wreath he ware 8 All the strong armour gainst this horrid beast Was but a Chaplet which begirt his braine Which Esculape suspecting much increast His Ardency to know what hidden straine Slept in strange working herbs thus being possest He begs the Garland from the ignorant Swaine Who now vnwreath'd againe the beast defies Who straight returnes and kils him with hir eies 9 Apolloes sonne by certaine proofe now finds Th'inuertued hearbes haue gainst such poyson power To combate with th'eie-killing Beast he minds Thirsting for fame the wreath with many a Flower And hearbe and plant about his braine he binds And so with speed hasts to her Rocky tower Skales her foule den and threatens present warre T'out-gaze her neare who seeing kils from farre 10 The big-swolne Serpent with broad eye-lids stares And through the aire her subtle poison flings The Sunnes-hearbe charmed soone her venom dares And shrinkes not at her persaunt eie-bals stings The Basiliske in her owne strength dispaires And to flie thence she shakes her flaggy wings But his Dart takes her as she meant to rise And pierst her hart that pierst harts with her eies 11 Proud of this Trophy he returning sees The harmelesse Swaine vpon the ground lie dead Whom pittying he discends vnto his knees Taking the vertued Chaplet from his head And hearbe by hearbe into his mouth doth squeeze And downe his throat their powerfull liquor shed But when the iuice of one pure herbe was draind The new departed life it backe constraind 11 Nor wonder if such force in hearbs remaine What cannot iuice of deuine Simples bruisd The Dragon finding his young Scrpent slaine Hauing th'herbe-Balin in his wounds infusd Restores his life and makes him whole againe Who taught the Heart how Dettany is vsed Who being pierced through the bones and marrow Can with that hearbe expell th'offensiue arrow 13 Who