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A19170	The life and death of Hector One, and the first of the most puissant, valiant, and renowned monarches of the world, called the nyne worthies. Shewing his jnvincible force, together with the marvailous, and most famous acts by him atchieved and done in the great, long, and terrible siege, which the princes of Greece held about the towne of Troy, for the space of tenne yeares. And finally his vnfortunate death after hee had fought a hundred mayne battailes in open field against the Grecians: the which heerein are all at large described. Wherein there were slaine on both sides fourteene hundred, and sixe thowsand, fourscore, and sixe men. VVritten by Iohn Lidgate monke of Berry, and by him dedicated to the high and mighty prince Henrie the fift, King of England.	Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent. Historia destructionis Troiae.; Benoît, de Sainte-More, 12th cent. Roman de Troie.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Troy book.	1614 (1614)	STC 5581.5; ESTC S119764	480,848	336

Owle by night to flie and slay Young children or to beare them cleane away And changlings in their cradles vs'd to leaue The singles of a greedy Wolfe that can As some report himselfe of shape bereaue And when he list take on him forme of man The slimes of water-snailes the which she found With labour great within the Indian ground The liuer of a Hart that liues so long And of a Crow that loathsome carrion beast The which by cause the nature was so strong Had liued then Nine hundred yeares at least The head and bill of all which when she had An admirable composition made To lengthen Aesons aged yeares withall A withered bough the which not long before Downe from an Oliue tree did chance to fall In hand she tooke and with the same did pore And stir the liquor till the sticke waxe greene And sodainly both leaues and buds were seene To spring thereon straight did berrie● beare And where the fire the skum thereof did throw Vpon the earth where it had drop● euen there The ground began as fresh and green to show As it in summer did and flowers to rise Out of the same Wh●h wh●●n Medea spies She tooke a knife and with a courage stout Did cut old Aesons throat where presently His aged bloud did all come gushing out And with the boy ling iuce did new supply Which when to Aesons corps she had powr'd in His haire that was so gray did straight begin To turne and wax as blacke as any coale His leane pale withered skin grew faire and fresh The wrinckles in his face and euery hole Therein were fild with yong and lusty fresh His limbs waxt lith and all his ioynts did grow So supple that he plainly then did show To be a man of yong and youthfull yeares At which when to his sences Aeson came He was abasht but casting off all feares He knew at forty yeares he was the same And as backe from old age to youth he drew A youthfull spirit did in his heart renew By which so strange deuise she did restore King Aeson vnto strength and former youth With wit and reason as he had before In each respect as much if it be truth But be it true or false I haue not spar'd To write it as the story hath declar'd And after on his wife he did beget A valiant Sonne that Iason had to name In whose creation nature did not let To shew hir skill and to incurre no blame For neuer man mord perfectly was form'd Nor with more graces inwardly ado●n'd If I should striue here to describe at will His strength his beauty and his comlinesse His good behauiour and his perfect skill His wisedome vertue and his gentlenes To all and euery one both high and low Like as mine Author plainly doth it show My art and wit therein would be to little His qualities so pleased mens desire That he obtained praise of all the people For young and old each one did him admire Iudge then what he would proue in elder yeares That in his childhood such a one appeares But while he was of age and stature small And far vnfit as then to rule the Land His Vnckle Peleus by consent of all Still held the Crowne and Scepter in his hand From whom in ought he neuer seem'd to vary Nor his prcepts at any time contrary So diligent was he in euery thing To please and serue his Vnckle at a becke As is the child held vnder tutors wing And seareth to incurre his Maisters checke In heart no● outward shew whats'ere him toucht He neuer did repine nor at it grutcht And though his Vncle held his heritage And rul'd his Princely Scepter at his will While he remained still in tender age Yet was he neuer mooued vnto ill Nor once of him a bad conceite to haue In any wise his honour to depraue But Peleus he contrarie mind did beare And ●ullie had his heart to enuie bent Dissembling that in face and outward cheare Which inwardly was whollie his intent Like Adder lurking closely in the grasse To sting all those that throgh the same doth passe His heart and tongue contrary each to other For with pretence of faire and friendly show He seem'd to loue the Son of his deare Brother When inwardly his heart did ouerflow With malice though not outwardly espy'd So cunningly he did his malice hide For no man could by any meanes per●●au● That he to Iason bare an enuinous eie No cause he had but feare he should bereaue Him of his Crowne and regall dignitie And at the time of riper yeares obtaine The right succession of his fathers raigne Which he as then vnjustly occupied And daily did devise how that he might On Iason whome in heart he envied Worke his pretended malice and despight Which made him oft build Castles in the aire Like one that liu'd in feare and great despaire Still compasing some way or meanes to find T' intrap and take his Nephew in a snare Which secretly ●e kept still hid in mind Yet ceased not his engins to prepare Like Sathan cuery minute day and hower Deuising how mans soule he may deuour And as the Sun shines hot when raine is past So did his enuie burne more feruently And vext him sore till he deuis'd at last To execute his wilfull trechery A Lambe in shew a Lyon in his heart Fell Tiger like to play a double part A sugred face but false and bitter mind None might of him conceaue suspition That he should to his Nephew be vnkind And priuily worke his destruction Pretending loue but hatred was the end Description true of foule dissembling frend His bad intent disclosed might not be It was so well conceal'd within his heart So is all close and priuy enmity And yet although he playd so well his part His enuy still encreasing more and more Did inwardly torment and vexe him sore Attending time t' effect and bring about That which he did in heart so much desire And so to be cleane freed from care and doubt The only ioy that enuy doth require But Iason he did not conceaue in mind His Vncle would vnto him proue vnkind Their thoughts were cleane contrary in effect The Cousin simply seeking Vncles good The Vncle he all friendship doth reiect Deuifing how to shead his Nephews blood Pro●ok't by malice and desire of gaine The roots of mischiefe sorrow woe and paine For many Realmes and Cities old do feele The poyson of the serpent Avarice But let all those that cruelly will deale Learne this of me and thinke it good aduic● That what so euer mischiefe they intend It 's sweet at first but bitter in the end And though the world doth flatter for a while Let not the enu●ous man be proud withall For he that thinks another to beguile Perhaps may chance in selfe same pit to fall But let vs enuy leaue as fiend of hell And of King Peleus further to you tell Who all this

doe descend Which women are that future fortunes tell And things foreshow as we in scripture find That one did raise the ghost of Samuell At Saules desire to please his wicked mind And in this Church the which is now so old There was a mighty Image all of gold Wherein the Divell by his pollicie A fowle infernall spirit placed had The which gaue answere with great subtiltie To each demand that vnto him was made And not the Image dumbe as people thought And by Illusion foolishly were taught And thus into great error they were brought And in the same did wilfully persever Addoring stocks and stones and neuer sought Vnto th' eternall God that liues for ever And in this wise Idolatrie began And through the world was vsd by sinfull man Whereof I meane a true discourse to make And show how long it did mongst men remaine And when they left and did the same forsake The holy scripture tels and showes vs plaine That at the birth of Christ our Saviour All Images which God doth so abhorre Downe from their Altars fell and brake in ●under And they were then esteem'd as things of nought Which moved man vnto no little wonder For when for Christ King Herod strictly sought And cruelly by persecution Brought many Children to destruction An Angell in a vision did appeare To Ioseph as he slept and bad him hast And into Aegypt Christ and Mary beare Till Herods cruell wrath was overpast And when as Christ in Aegipt entered The Images in pieces shiuered And suddenly did fall vnto the ground As holy scripture doth vs certifie And Esay long before as it is found Fore-showed in his ancient Prophesie That when as Christ in Aegypt should descend All worshipping of Images should end But as the Iewish histories doe say Ismael Abrahams bastard Son should be The first that made an Image all of clay With his owne hands and vs'd Idolatrie And Heathens sayd Promotheus did invent An Image first with full and sole intent To worship it and vse thereof did bring Mongst men on earth which after did increase For Sinulachrum signifies no thing But onely a similitude t' expresse The forme of men and doth the likenes beare Of them when as vpon the earth they were And by that meanes and wicked fond devise The Heathens did adore the shapes of men And to them vsd to pray and sacrifice Some doe affirme King Belus first began Within his land t' erect Idolatrie As all the Assirian Histories specifie And after his sonne Ninus for his sake Mou'd therevnto by great affection Did of pure gold his Fathers Image make Whereto with foolish fond devotion And ignorance he offered sacrifice And vnto it did pray in Pay-nim wise And not content to do 't himselfe alone Commandement gaue throughout all Babilon And all Th'assirian land that every one Should honor him as God and call vpon His name and say that he was Deified Which of no man in time durst be deni'd And not long after that within a while A fowle infernall spirit therein crept Who seeking man by all meanes to beguile In such an error blind the people kept That whatsoere of him they sought to know Or aske he did it plainly to them show And answere made vnto each mans demand Whereby in fine through all that countrie The people did obay to his command And offring vnto God great iniurie Still more and more did into error fall This Image Belus and some Bell did call Some Belphegod and some God Bala●● But most of all the people commonly The name of Belzebub did giue to him Of Bell and Zebub which doth signifie The God of Flies and by this meane● we find Idolatry crept in amongst man-kind For some vpon old Saturne vsd to call Who while he liu'd on earth was King of Creet And did esteeme him to be principall Of all the Gods and from the Planet great That hath so large a circle in the heauen As Poets faine that name to him was giuen This Saturne by his skill did well perceiue For that he could of future things foretell That he a sonne by Iuno should conceiue That our of Creet by force should him expell When he did once attaine to perfect age Which made him fall into so great a rage That to prevent the mischiefe as he thought When it was borne he did expresly will His wife that it to him should straight be brought But she in doubt and feare he would it kill In stead thereof a stone vnto him gaue And so her silly infants life did saue Which stone with over great melancholly Supposing it indeed to be his child He did deuoure and eat vp gredily And so for all his skill he was beguild Three sonnes he had as stories witnes beare Who Iupiter Neptune and Pluto were And but one daughter Iuno cal'd by name The eldest sonne all men did most esteeme Cald Iupiter attain'd to so great fame For of him all the world so well did deeme That they cald him the God of fier and aire As being Saturnes eldest sonne an heire The Paynims did likewise great honour beare To Mars whom they the God of battailes call And also to Apollo bright and cleare The cherisher of herbs and trees and all The flowers and fruits that earth doth vs afford And as I sayd in Delos him adord Some vnto faire Dame Uenus vs'd to pray Esteeming her a Goddesse of great might That power hath t' asswage and to delay The fervent heat of pleasures fond delight And t' ease the hearts of lovers that complaine And are fast bound in Cupids fiery chaine As she whom they did thinke great rule to beare In every place throughout the world so wide Because there is no countrey whatsoere But hath her mighty force and power tride And next to her to Mercury they praid Which is the God of Musicke as they said And of all Eloquen ceand Poetrie Esteem'd to be the onely patterne Some others did vnto Diana crie And cald for helpe which is the forked Moone Which oftentimes is named Lucina bright And was esteem'd a Goddesse of great might And Lady of all mutabilitie Because she is addicted vnto change And wholy giuen to varietie Delighting much in woods and wells to range And so are those of such a quallity That vnder her haue their nativitie Their whole delight is in new fanglednesse And wauering still in their affections Do addict their minds vnto vnstedfastnesse And by this meames in sundry Regions Idolatry began and much increast And calling on the name of God decreast For as I find the Moores or Morians On Iubam long ador'd and worshipped The most Idolatrous Egiptians With great devotion Isis honoured Who was the first that vnto them did show The manner how the land to till and sow And how they should their letters make and frame Thereby to read and wright for which th'extold And did so highly magnifie her name That for a Goddesse great they did her