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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11416	The colonies of Bartas VVith the commentarie of S.G.S. in diuerse places corrected and enlarged by the translatour.; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 3. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1598 (1598)	STC 21670; ESTC S110847	58,951	82

Carion Melact Peucer Althamer Lazius Coropius and others But the Poet holdes that a simple resemblaunce of words is no good ground for a story His reasons are first that hils riuers and seas change their names as by Ortelius his treasure of Geography doth appeare comparing the bookes and tables of Ptolomie Strabo Mela other ancients with the maps of Gemma Frisius Vopelius Mercator Postel Theuet Cellarius and other late writers Secondly that cities and countreys are not alwayes called by the names of their founders and first inhabitants Thirdly that no stocke or nation hath sure hold of any place in the world because of the many chaunges that befall this life Fourthly that as in the sea one waue thrusteth on another so the people and chiefly those of old time haue driuen each other out of place and in a maner played In docke out nettle All stories proue these reasons to be true for the last the Author shewes three notable examples to confirme it 15 Th' old Bretton It is aboue 1200 yeares ago since Vortiger king of England then called great Brettaine or Albion that is a white-sand Isle hauing warre with his neighbors the Scots sent for ayd to the Saxon-English a people of Germany who after they had done him good seruice playd as the Turks did in Greece for they seated the selues in a part of the Island on the East where few yeares after they kept such a coyle that the old Bretton the naturall Inbred of the countrey was constrained to forsake it So with a great multitude passed the sea and landed in Armoricke now called litle Brittaine where they gathered more and more together and increased much by succession of tune See more hereof in the Chronicles of England Brittaine The riuer Loyre fals into the trench of Nantes and so voids into the Ocean 16 The Lombard About the yeare of Christ 568 Alboin king of Lombardes hauing heard of the fruitfulnesse of Italie left Pannonia or Hungarie where he dwelt in gard of certaine Huns vpon conditions and in few weekes after made a rode into Italy with a mightie armie and got many townes chiefly in Insubria now called Lombardy of those Lombards who raigned there aboue 200 yeares till they were ouercome and brought to thrall by the Emperour Charlemaine about the yeare 774. Looke the histories of France and the second part of the Librarie of N. Vignier I shall speake anon of their beginning more particularly 17 Th' Alaine About the yeare 412 when Ataulphe king of Gothes had driuen away the Alaines and Vandals frō Cordway and Seuill which they possessed as also most of the prouinces of Spaine the Vandals sate downe in Betica which after was of their name called first Vandolosie and then shorter Andalosie The Alaines in Lusitania and the prouince of Carthage or as some say betwixt the riuers Iberus and Rubricatus whereabouts in time past dwelt a people called Iacetani not vnlikely to be the men of Arragon afterward they ioyned and went both together into Affricke where they raigned a long time But in the yeare 534. the Emperour Iustinian who caused the Romane lawes to be gathered together into one bodie sent an armie against them vnder the command of Belissarius he regained Affricke tooke Carthage and led Gilimer king of Goths prisoner vnto Rome After all this the Romanes the Mores also were constrained to giue place in Affricke to the Arabians who preassed in there and encamped them selues in sundrie places 18 This hunger n'ere suffiz'd The Poet saith that desire of rule reuenge and vainglorie ambition and couetousnesse haue chiefly caused so many people to remoue change their dwellings As also manie stories of Scripture and others plainlie shew Seneca rekened diuerse other causes in his booke de Cōsolatione ad Elbiam where he saith The Carthaginians made a road into Spaine the Greekes into Fraunce and the Frenchmen into Greece neither could the Pyrene mountaines hinder the Germanes passage ouer wayes vnknowen and vntroad the light-headed people haue caried their wiues and childrē and ouer-aged parents some after long wādering vp down seated themselues not according to their free choise but where they first might when they waxed wearie of trauell some on other mens possessions seized by force of armes some as they sought vnknowen places were drowned in the sea some there sat downe where they first began to want prouision And all forsooke not their coūtreys or sought other for the same causes Many after their cities were destroyed by warre fled from their enemies and so bereft of their owne possessions were faine to preasse vpon other mens manie left their dwellings to auoide the disquiet of ciuill warres and manie to emptie Cities of their ouercreasing multitude some by pestilence or the earthes often gulfing or like vnsufferable faultes of a bad soile were cast forth and some were entised from home by report of a larger and more fruitfull ground some for one cause and some for another c. 19 I doe not speake-of here The Poet hath Scoenites which I translate Arabes because they were a people of Arabia great robbers harriers of Aegypt and the coast of Affrike the shepheardes Nomades are as I take them the Numidians Moores or as some think a kind of Scythians The Hordies are the Tartariās who liue in the field in chariots tents Now the Poet leauing the vncertaine course of these roguing nations who haue had no more staie in them then swallowes and other wandring birds intendeth to speake of a more warlike people whereof he alledgeth some notable examples 20 Right such that Lombard was He setteth downe much matter in few wordes concerning the Lombardes There are diuerse opinions of their pedegree Melancthon and Peucer in the third fourth booke of Carions Chron. hold they dwelt in Saxonie by the riuer Albis about where now are the Byshoprickes of Meidburg and Halberstad and a part of the Marquessie of Brandburg from thence vnder the conduct of Alboin entred Italie and in the time of the Emperour Iustin the 2. seated themselues betweene the Appenine hilles and the Alpes where they begā a kingdome They were called Lombards either because of their long Iauelines for thence it seemes are come the names of Halbards and Iauelines de barde or because they dwelt in a countrey slat and fruitfull as the Dutch word Bord may signine Som other Authors coūt thē far-northerne people yet shew not their anciēt aboad Ptolomee in the 4. table of Lurope deriues them from the coūtrey of Swaube as also he noteth in the 2. booke and 11. chap of his Geogr. with whom agreeth C. T acitu●● in his Histories But Lazius in the 12. booke of his ●●grationes of the Northern people Vignier in the first part of his Labratie pag. 905. and our Poet here followes the opinion of Paulus Diaconus they differ not much but onelie about the time of their staie and place of their first aboad