Vpstarts and all Were ouercome So Spencers both from heauen to hell did fal Put to a fowle and shamefull death with others that misled The King in Out-rages more great than earst in England bred Prolers Blood-thirstie Parasites Make-shifts Bawdes did thriue Nor was an ancient English Peere vnbanisht or aliue For forraine and domesticke Swords Plague Famine and Exile Did more than tythe yea tythe the Tythe of men within this I le Of Baldricks Hoodes Tabrides and Furres from Knights disgraded tore Attaintures of Nobilitie and Armes reuersed store So many Spurres hewen off the heeles and Swords broke ouer head Were through a King so light and lewd a Councell neuer read The King in prison and depos'd tyrannised he dide By Trecheries of Mortimer that ruld the Roste that tide Whilst Edward in Minoritie his Fathers throne supplide CHAP. XXVIII THIS third of that same Name as yet in Nonage for a time Although a King was vnder-kept by some that ouer-clime Queene mother proude Mortimer familiar more than should Did and vndid more than they might not lesse than as they would Till Edward better counselled hong Mortimer the death Of many a Peere who Earle of March and haughtie for his birth Was Lord of nine skore dubbed Knights his other traynes except For greater pompe than did his Prince this Lord of VVigmore kept But more he had bene happie though lesse hautie in his Halls More honour in humilitie than safetie in walls Proud Climers proue not monuments saue onely in their falls The senselesse pride of Fooles therefore whome reuerently we ride Should lessen at the least because that earth their earth shall hide The Countrie purg'd of Fleecers and of Flatterers the Court The King became a Mars for Armes a Iupiter for Port Th Olympâ—ds the Pythea and the prowesse of the Earth Did seeme euen now and not but now to haue in him their birth East South and North gaue ayme farrc off admiring so the West As if that Mars discarding them had set our Realme his Rest. Philip Valois Dauid Bruz of power and courage more Than any French or Scottish Kings since or of long before Confedrate with three other Kings and Princes farre and neere Warre all at once on Edward but did buy their warring deere Dauid debelled left his land but lastly did returne And whilst our King did war in France much did he spoyle burne And proud of mightie Troopes of men of vnresisted prayes And Edwards absence prosperously he on aduantage playes Vntill not sending hence for helpe the Queene did muster Knights And with the Foe though tripled-wise victoriously she fights The Scots for most did perish and their King was Prisner taine And Scotland wholly for a pray to England did remaine Meane while was Paris scarcely left to rescue Philips Goale Whom Edward ferrits so from hold to hold as Fox from hoale That Melancholie he deceast and valiant Iohn his sonne Was crowned King of France and then the wars afresh begonne But after many fieldes vnto the Foes continuall wracke The French King captiuated to the English Monarke backe His Victor sayles the Prince of VVales Edward surnamed blacke The flower of Chiualrie the feare of France and scourge of Spaine Wheare Peter dispossest of Crowne was crownde by him againe Fower yeeres the French eleuen yeres was the Scotch K. prisners heere Whose the Dolphines ransomes were as great as good their cheere PRince Edw. Iohn of Gaunt all their Fathers sonnes might boaste Of famous Sier and he of sonnes matchlesse in any Coaste Howbeit King and Prince at last misled by counsell ill Through Taxes lost a many hearts that bore them earst good will Thence finding Fortune contrary to that she was before Yeat either dying seaz'd of French and Scottish Conquests store Yea Callice late and Barwick yet of their Exployts is lest Though Sonne before the Sier and both of liues long since bereft When Barwick was besieged and stood brauely at defence Sir Alexander Seiton theare chiefe Captaine had pretence To linger forth the Siege till Scots should draw the English thence In rescue of Northumberland and therefore sent his sonne A Pledge of treated Truce and when the guile-got Truce was done And Barwick not releeued nor resigned as it ought Two sonnes of Seiton were before the walls besieged brought They ready for the Iybbet and their Father for his Graue For eyther he must yeeld the Towne or them he might not saue In griefe he then his Countries cause and Childrens case reuolues But partiall vnto either he on neither Choyce resolues To be a loyall Subiect and a louing Father too Behooued him but both to bee was not in him to doo Nature and honour wrought at once but Nature ouer-wrought And but his Ladie it preuents to yeeld the Towne he thought O what pretend you Sir quoth she is Barwick woorth no more Than error of such loue I ioy that I such Children bore Whom cruell Edward honoureth with such a cause of death For that especiall cause for which we all receaue our breath Euen for their Countries cause they dye whose liues for it be dewe Why see their faces constantly she did their faces viewe The same my Seiton seeme so farre from dreading any woe As if they skornde that Barwicke should redeeme them from the Foe Full deere they were to me vnborne at birth and borne and now And Mother like I moane their death and yet their death allow Moe Sonnes and such you may beget your honour if you staine Defected honour neuer more is to be got againe Preuent not then your selfe your Sonnes and me so great a blis Adiew dye sweet Sonnes your soules in heauen shall liue for this With such perswasions did she win her husband from the walls And Edward executes their Sonnes and to assault he falls So long that Barwicke yeelds at length and still vs master calls THese were the dayes when English armes had eu'rie where request And Edw. knights throughout the world had prick praise for best Not Knights alone but Prelates too Queenes whereof were twain The quondam in esse Queenes by Armour honour gain By Warre the Queene that was did cease her husbands tragicke Rayn And by the Queene then being was the Scotch King Prisnet tayne It followes then that as the Pawnce doth circkle with the Sonne So to the vice or vertue of the Prince are people wonne O that our Muse might euermore on such a Subiect ronne But Vulcan forgeth other Tooles and sharpneth deadlier swords For little els then ciuill warres our following Penne affords French Expeditions badly thriue whereof we cease to speake Not forraine but Domestick warres grew strong to make vs weake Melpomen here might racke her wits Sylla Marius hate Pharsalian Fields were gentle Frayes regarding this debate The second Richard sonne vnto the blacke Prince Edward dead Was crownde an Infant and from him the Stratagem was bread The bace attempts of Ball
a great Rebellion in England occasioned by a Priest Of Queene Elizabeth wife to Edward the Fourth chap. 35. pag. 168 Of Perken Warbeck and his rebellious Complottors Of the malicious Duchesse of Burgoine Of the great Constancie of a chast Ladie wise vnto the same Perkin pag. 169 Of a Scottish Knight distraught through his Ladies disloyaltie Of his mad passions and speeches of his Death and of her euill ending chap. 36. pag. 171 A Tale of the Bat and the Moole c. chap. 37. pag. 179 Of the Cuckooe and the Owle part of the former Tale. pag. 185 Of Perken Warbecks End Of a Third rebellion pag. 187 Of Empson and Sutton aliàs Dudley pag. 188 The Eight Booke OF King Henry the Eight Of his Sister Mary the French Queen and Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk chap. 38. pag. 190 Of Queene Katherine Dowager c. pag. 191 Of King Edward the sixt his vertuous Raigne c. chap. 39. pag. 192 Of Edward Seimer and Lord Protector Duke of Somerset chap. 40 pag. 195 Of Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland pag. 195 Of the Lord Gilford Dudley and Lady Iane his wife pag. 196 Of Queene Mary chap. 41. pag. 198 Of fayre Rosamund and King Henrie the second pag. 199 Of a Ladie who by patience and quiet policie reclaimed her Lord from wantonnes chap. 42. pag. 202 A Catalogue or Epitomie of all the most valiant and famous Kings of this Land and of their Acts from Brute to her now Maiesties most blessed Raigne chap. 42. pag. 206 An obseruation touching the letter H. pag. 208 The ninth Booke A Fiction alluded to our now most gratious Soueraigne Queene Elizabeth her Persecutors Persecution and her passage thereout chap. 44. pag. 212 More of her Maiesties Troubles wonderful deliuerie pa. 212. c. Of the vntimely Ends of most our English Dukes since the Conquest by way of Caueat to Parasites Rebels and Conspirators chap. 45. pag. 214 The Tale of Narcissus and Eccho chap. 46. pag. 216 A Fiction of their Authoritie from Hell Their present corrupting of Mankind and wherein pag. 218 Of the Chat passed betwixt two old Widowes concerning new Fangles now vsed by women chap. 47. pag. 220 More of their Chat. chap. 47. pag. 222 Of Spaynes ambitious affecting Kingdomes chap. 48 What the Spanyards in Councell cōcluded touching English Papists at their pretended Inuasion of England and of the small securitie wherein Spayne standeth pag. 225. c. The ouerthrow of the Spanish Armada that anno Dom. 1588. threatned the Conquest of England chap. 49. pag. 227 How Sathan by the only sinne of Pride hath euer preuailed cap. 50. pag. 229 The Legend of S. Christofer Of the Popes Drifts and Infirmities pag. 230. and 231 Of the Spanish Inquisition chap. 51. pag. 232 Of the beginning of Iesuists An admonition to such of them as bee our Natiues Of chiefe poynts wherein the Papists dissent from vs in Opinion pag. 233. and 234 Of the Combat betwixt the Flesh and the Spirit chap. 52. pag. 235 How our Religion is autenticall Of the chiefe poynts wherein we dissent from the Papists pag. 236. c. A Commendation of our prosent Gouernment With a remembrance of somewhat that in some Persons faulteth cap. 53. p. 239 Of the Hypocrites of our time pag. 240. c. The Tenth Booke HOw the King of Spayne and Pope first quarrelled vs receiued armed abetted our Rebels and Fugitiues Of the Popes arrogant Bull and of the Scottish Queene c. pag. 242. c. Of the Scottish Queene he Pretexts and intemperate affecting the Crowne of England Her many and most daungerous Conspiracies with a Catalogue of most her trayterous Complottors c. chap. 55. pag. 245. c. Of her lawfull and orderly Triall Of the most deliberate and mercifull handling of her cause c. chap. 56. pag. 248. c. Of her Death c. pag. 250. c. Of what Councell the ciuill warres in France had Originall chap. 57 The beginning of the same ciuill warres By whom and against whom pag. 253. c. How the Spanyard in those Tumults drifted for France The Popes incharitable acting therein Of our Queene her charitable and necessarie succours to the oppressed French and the Progresse of those ciuill warres c. chap. 58. pag. 255 The tragicall historie of King Dauids Children applied c. chap. 59 pag. 256 More of the same Historie chap. 60. pag. 263. c. Of the warres in the Low Countries c. chap. 61. pag. 265. c. The Eleuenth Booke OF Sir Iohn Mandeuil and faire Elenors loue his Prowesse for her sake performed and his departure to trauell strange Countries pag. 296. c. Of Sir Hugh Willough by his Voyage and death Of Chancelor performing the same Voyage pag. 273 Of Discoueries by Chancelor his stately Intertainment and succesfull dispatch of affayres in Russia pag. 274 More of Mandeuil and Elenor and of his Letter sent vnto her c. pag. 275. c. A description of Russia Somewhat of their Manners Religion and Policie c. chap. 65. pag. 278 More of Chancelors laudable Actions and of his death pag. 279 Of Elenor her speeches to one Stafford in answer of Mandeuils Letter c. chap. 66. pag. 281 Of Burrough his Discoueries c. chap. 67. pag. 283 Of Ienkinson his Discoueries and succesfull imployments pag. 284 More of the same pag. 285 Of Mandeuil offered a great Marriage in Aegypt Of Women and Marriage and a Censure of Either chap. 68. pag. 286 More of Ienkinson labouring our affaires in Persia c. chap. 69. pag. 289 The Twelfth Booke OF the meanes whereby Elenor thereof before ignorant had notice that Mandeuil was her Knight beloued cap. 70. p. 292 Of East South Southeast Discouerers and Discoueries c. chap. 71. pag. 295. c. A Woman simply deliuering the Soothe concerning her owne Sexe c. chap. 72. pag. 297 Of the Seuenteene Kingdomes in Tymes by-passed whereof her Maiestie is now sole Monarch c. chap. 73. pag. 300. c. Old Rome discribed in her Ruines chap. 74. pag. 302 Of Romes politicke Gouernement from the Originals vnto Constantines Donation c. pag. 304 Of the Gouernors and Gouernment of Rome since the Papacie chap. 75. pag. 305 Of the free-States in Italie pag. 306. c. A new Reuiuer of an olde Merriment of one crossed in his amorous drifting chap. 76 pag. 307. c. Of Mandeuil and Stafford met at Rome c. pag. 309. c. The residue of the former Merriment chap. 77 pag. 312 Mandeuil and Elenor met and of their loues Euent c. pa. 304 c Aeneidos in Prose pag. 317. c. FINIS ALBIONS ENGLAND THE FIRST BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. I. I Tell of things done long agoe of many things in few And chiefly of this Clyme of ours the Accidents pursue Thou high Director of the same assist mine artlesse pen To write the gests of Brutons stout and actes of English
Or Earth giue passage that at least with men he might not dwell But I my selfe euen I my selfe their slacknesse will supplye And Mothers name and Nature both to such a Sonne denye Dead night was come when Iden found the King her sonne a sleepe And all was still not then as now did Guards their Princes keepe Admit they had who would haue fearde such mischiefe in a mother She whispring softly sleepe thy last yea sleep as doth thy brother Did gash his throte who starting vp wheÌ„ strength speech were goÌ„e Lifts vp his faynting hands and knewe the Tyrannesse anone And maketh signes as who would say ah mother thou hast done A deede as neuer mother earst did practise on her Sonne But name of Son nor signes did serue him still with wounds she plyes Nor more than Monster did it please that simplie so he dyes But that his bodie peecemeale tore about the Lodging flyes And thus from noble Brute his line the Scepter then did passe When of his bloud for to succeede no heire suruiuing was FOwer Dukes at once in ciuill broyles seiunctly after raine Neere when the Scottes whoÌ„ some accuse by Ante-dates to gaine Did settle in the Northerne Isles These people bring their line From Cecrops and that Pharo he that euer did decline From Moses seeking Hebers house from Aegypt to conuay His daughter Scota Gathelus their Duke brought thence away When Pharos sinne to Iacobs Seede did neere that Land decay And Cecrops son brought theÌ„ froÌ„ thence as Scottes inforce the same The Stone that Iacob slept vpon when Angels went and came Of it was made their fatall Chaire of which they beare in hand That whearesoere y e same is found the Scottes shall brooke y t land At Westminster that Monument doth now decaying stand In Lusitania Gathelus did first his Kingdome found And of his race of Scota Scottes when Spanish Scottes abound Ariue in Ireland and in it a second Empire ground And thirdly when their broodie Race that Isle did ouer-store Amongst the Islands Hebredes they seek out dwellings more These Irish sometime Spanish Scots of whence our now Scots be Within the Isles of Albion thus whilst Brutaines disagree Did seat themselues nestle too amongst the Mountaine groundes What time a Scythian people Pichtes did seaze the middle bounds Twixt them and vs these did prooue to Brutaine double wounds The Penthland people and the Scots alying friendlie liue Vntill the Pichts by Brittish wyles contrarie cause did giue Then from their Captains fell the Scots and chose to them a King And Fergus out of Ireland did the Chaire of Marble bring In which instald the first Scotch King in Albion so he wrought That Pichts and Scots then vp in Armes were to attonement brought Three valiant people thus at once in Albion Empire hold Brutes Scots and Pichts the latter twaine lesse ciuil but as bold The Pichts were fierce and Scythian like much like the Irish now The Scots were then couragious both Nor them I disallowe That write they fed on humane flesh for so it may be well Like of these men their bloudie mindes their natiue stories tell But to our Brittish busines now to shew what theare befell Not how the tri-partited Rule vnto his quartarne Rayne Dunwallo after fortie yeres did Monarchize againe Not what precedent Kings in France and Denmarke did obtaine Speake I. From Porrex fortie Kings in silence shall remaine Alonelie valiant Brennus and his brother Beline thay Vnpraised for their warres and works shall not escape away CHAP. XVI THese Brothers thirsting amplier Raignes did martiallie contend Till Brenn his force was not of force his brothers to defend To Norway sayles hee wheare he got an Armie and a prize The Prince of Norwaies Daughter whom hee winneth in this wise The King of Denmarke stoode with him vntill the States decreede That both should plead before their Prince and better Pleader speede And when the Norgane Prince and Peeres were seated for their strife The King of Danes beginning first thus pleaded for a wife Not yet a King King Philips son with none but Kings would cope His reason was inferiour strife of glorie giues no hope I am a King and graunt the Prize in question worthie mee But grudge that my Competitor a banisht man should bee Doe grant him what he hath for-gon and neuer more shall giâ— Yeat were he but a Demi-king to challenge me vnfit Dunwallos yonger Sonne that hath his brother to his Foe And worthelie his trecheries haue well deserued soe And yet audacious that he is he blusheth not to heare The troth of his vntroth nor yeat an heere-Repulse doth feare Would she for whom I must contend were not to me the same She is or he that stands with me a man of better fame But since in this vnequall Plea I must my selfe imbace Knowe Norwaies that my pleaded cause coÌ„cernes your publique caâ—e It is the King of Denmarke doth your Prince his daughter craue And note it is no little thing with vs Allie to haue By league or Leigure Danske can fence or fronte you friend or foe Our neighborhood doth fit to both your wel-fare or your woe Combine therefore in needfull League our neere conioyned States I may your good nought lesse can he that thus with me debates He is a Bruton if Exile allow wee call him so And farre from aiding you that knowes himselfe not to bestoe Admit he were receiued home what Empire doth he sway A sorrie Ilands Moyetie and farre from hence away Her Dowrie is your Diademe what Ioynter can he make Not anie giue not then to him from whom you cannot take And Ladie She for whom they stroue was present well I woâ— My loue doth claime a greater debt than so to be forgot I wish mine Opposite his want that Armes might giue the right It is not dread but doom'd sweet wench that thus with tongue I fight Proude Bruton frowning so on Brenn disclaime in her my dewe Els thou repining shalt repent doe make thy choyce a newe At least amend thine Error and mine enuie shall haue end I neede not force so weake a Foe seeke thou so strong a friend Norwaies consent and Ladie be no Counter-mand to this Discent not Brenn conclude her mine els my Conclusion is If not for worth by force perforce to winne her from you all Yea though our banisht Copes-mate could his Brittish Succours call The King of Danes concluded thus and after silence short The Brutaine Heros vailed and did answere in this sort Most gracious Norgane Peeres you heare the ouer-tearming taunts Of this Appelant that himselfe and Scepter ouer-vaunts It lesser greeueth he should grudge that I with him co-riue Than his so peremptorie speach in your despight to wiue It greeues in troth not for my selfe but for he beardeth you And seemes disdaineful of your aide that doth so proudly wowe How captiously he derogates from me and mine estate And Arrogates vnto himselfe to
Belles offend the Romaine eares When Caesars oft succesles fight had tyred him and his Inringed with his mayhmed Campe the Romane speaketh this Are these same Bands those selfe-same Bands that neuer fought in vaine And ye the men that following still my Standard still did gaine Euen these and ye are verie those nor can I discommend Your manhoodes that with lesser work brought greater Wars to end But not as was my wont to wright the Senate now shall reede I came I sawe I ouer-came such Foes forbid such speede Nor let the Senate muse for Troy with Troy doth here contend This warlike people fame is so from whence sprong we discend Yea if Aeneas had not left the Phrygian Gods to vs And Greekes Palladium Shipt to Greece this Fortune foyling thus I would haue thought those very Gods had followed our anoy But them haue we these onely haue vndanted harts from Troy But what shall Caesar doubt to fight against so brauea Foe No Caesars Tryumphes with their Spoyles shall giue the brauer shoe Ye Gods that guide our Capitoll Mount Palatin thou Throne Of stately Rome ye Followers too of her affayres each one Delay not but depriue me quite my Triumphes now in hand Nor let me liue if so I leaue vnconquered this Land This Land the last of Westerne Isles an Isle vnknowen ere this Which famous now through Caesars fight and our misfortune is Enough my fellow friends in Armes enough we Romaines haue To seeke reuenge your Conquest loe a Countrie rich and braue And which perswadeth victorie in Troynouant there bee That hold that Citie to our vse the Brutons disagree No Scot or Pichte assisting them in these our Warres I see Their ciuill strife will proue their scourge how stout soere they seeme And perpetuitie doth faile in euery thing extreeme Not Fortune still is good or bad and now let be our day Too long we liue if that so long we shall on trifles stay Said Caesar. And with such his words did so inflame his men That with lesse patience did they liue than linger battell then The Romaines bid the Bace and then did cruell Warre begin And little wanted that the Brutes the better did not win But Caesar so foresawe Supplies and Succors here and theare Perswading this disswading that controuling flight and feare That after many Romaines slaine the Brutons tooke their flight To Southerne Shores whereas to proofe Cassiuelan did fight With oft Eruptions out of Woods vntill the traiterous Knight The Earle of London yeelds his Charge and Citie to the Foe Through which disloyall president did other Cities soe And then with hard-won Tribute hence the Conquerour did goe BVt he that wonne in euery Warre at Rome in ciuill Robe Was stab'd to death no certaintie is vnderneath the Globe The good are enuied of the bad and glorie finds disdaine And people are in constancie as Aprill is in raine Whereof amidst our serious penne this Fable intertaine An Asse an Old-man and a Boye did through a Citie passe And whil'st the wanton Boye did ride the Old-man led the Asse See yonder doting foole said Folke that crauleth scarce for age Doth set the Boye vpon his Asse and makes himselfe his Page Anon the blamed Boy alightes and lets the Old-man ride And as the Old-man did before the Boye the Asse did gide But passing so the people thē did much the Old-man blame And told him Churle thy limbes bee tough the Boye should ride for shame The fault thus found both Man and Boye did backe the Asse and ride Then that the Asse was ouer-charg'd each man that met them cride Now both a-light and goe on foote and leade the emptie Beast But then the people laugh and say that one might ride at least With it they both did vndershore the Asse on either side But then the wondring people did that witles pranke deride The Old-man seeing by no waies he could the people please Not blameles then did driue the Asse and drowne him in the Seas Thus whil'st we be it will not be that any pleaseth all Els had bin wanting worthely the noble Caesars fall CHAP. XVIII AVgustus quayling Anthonie was Emperour alōe In whose vn-focd Monarchie our cōmon health was knowne The Brooser of the Serpents head the Womans promisd Seede The Second in the Trinitie the Foode our soules to feede The Vine the Light the Doore the Way the Shepheard of vs al Whose Manhood ioynd to Deitie did Raunsome vs from thrall That was and is and euermore will be the same to his That sleepes to none that wake to him that turns our Cursse to blisse Whom yet vnseene the Patriarkes saw the Prophets haue foretold Th'apossles preacht the Saints adore and Martyres doe behold The same Augustus Emperour in Palestine was borne Amongst his owne and yeat his owne did crosse their Blisse in skorne Bi-formed Ianus then in Mewe so would this Prince of Peace That Caesars Edict euerie wheare should Mars his enuie ceace THen raigned here King Cymbelyn King Theomantius sonne Next him Guiderius that with-held the Tribute Caesar wonne The Romaines that in our respect neglected Misia Spaine Armenia France and Siria then Recusants of their Raine Not by their Captaines but himselfe the Emperour of Rome Into relapsed Brutaine with imperiall Ensignes come Then hotter than the Punike Warres to Romaines did begin And Claudius looseth valiantlie all that the Brutons win But Romish Hamo from whose death Southhampton had that name In Brittish Armes salutes the King and slewe by guile the same Duke Aruiragus vsing then the Armor of the King Maintained fight and wonne the field ere Brutons knewe the thing This hardie Knight his Brother slaine was Crowned in his place And with his winnings also wonne the Emperour to grace Who sending for his daughter faire Genissa so did ende The Warres in Wedding and away did Claudius Caesar wende But Aruiragus after this reuolted and to stay The hauocke made of Romaines here came succors euery day His Queene Genissa childing died when his Reuolt she knew And Voada deuorsed late became his Queene of new Then he that at Ierusalem the fatall siege begonne Was sent from Rome and warring here the wonted Tribute wonne And through his gentle Victorie bound Aruiragus still A friend to Caesar whome the King adopted heire by will I here omit the dismall Warre in Isle of Mona made Against the Romaines whome the Priests the Druides inuade With banning words and women with their haire vntrussed stand With brands of fire in furious wise about their desperat Band. The King deceased Voada and her two daughters they Abused by the Romaine Lords doe hotter warres assay THe noble Scot King Corbred he confedrates with the King of Pichts and they and Brittish Peeres to field their Armies bring To aide the Queene of Brutes that like the Amazonian Dame That beating downe the bloodie Greekes in Priams succour came Had pight her Iauelin at her feete when entred in among The fearce confedrates
thus she spake amidst the silent throng My state and sex not hand or heart most valiant friends with-hild Me wretched Cause of your repaire by wicked Romans I ld From that reuenge which I do wish and ye haue cause to worke In which suppose not Voâ—da in female feares to lurke For Loe my selfe vnlike my selfe and these same Ladies faire In Armor not to shrinke an ynch wheare hottest doings are Euen we do dare to bid the Base and you your selues shall see Your selues to come behind in Armes the Romaines too that bee Such Conquerors and valiantly can womankind oppresse Shall know that Brittish women can the Romish wrongs redresse Then Arme ye with like courages as Ladies shall present Whom ye nor wounds nor death the praise of Onset shall preuent Nor enuie that our Martiall rage exceeds your manly ire For by how much more we endure so much more we desire Reuenge on those in whose default we are vnhallowed thus Whilst they forget themselues for men or to be borne of vs. Ye yeeld them Tribute and from vs their Legions haue their pay Thus were too much but more then thus the haughtie Tirants sway That I am Queene from being wrong'd doth nothing me protect Their Rapes against my daughters both I also might obiect They maydes deflower they wiues enforce and vse their wils in all And yeat wee liue deferring fight inferring so our fall But valiant Brutons ventrous Scots and warlike Pichts I erre Exhorting whom I should dehort your fiearcenes to deferre Lesse courage more considerate would make your foes to quake My heart hath ioy'd to see your hands the Romaine Standards take But when as force and Fortune faild that you with teeth should fight And in the faces of their Foes your women in despight Should fling their sucking Babes I hild such valiantnes but vaine Inforced flight is no disgrace such Flyers fight againe Here are ye Scots that with the King my valiant brother dead The Latines wondring at your prowes through Rome in triumph lead Ye Mars-stard Pichtes of Scythian breed are here Colleagues more Ye Dardane Brutes last named but in valour meant before Iâ— your conduct most knightly friends I superseade the rest Ye come to fight and we in fight to hope and helpe our best Scarce did this braue Bellona end when as the Battailes ioyne And life and death was bought sould with courage not with coine Aboue the rest the Queen of Brutes through blood did cut her way Sixe thousand Ladies Lyons-like exployting like Afray Till Cattus with his Romaine Armes subdewed fled away Of Romains seuentie thousand died of Brutons then were slaine Twise fifteene thousand and the rest their ceased freedome gaine When valiant Plancius President in Gallia heard such newes He waffes an Armie out of Fraunce and Voada pursues The Albinesâ—s to aid the Queene assemble at her call And then began a second Warre nor was the slaughter small The Brutons barring flight had clos'd themselues with waines about In which the awles women stood suruaying who was stout Controuling Cowards and among did fill the aire with dinne But valiant though the Brutones were the day the Romaines winne In vaine the furious women then on Sonnes and Husbands call Themselues with Sonnes and Husbands did by aduerse weapons fall Queene Voada past helpe and hope betooke her selfe to flight Till looking backe vnfollowed then and hauing in her fight The senseles Tronkes of slaughtred friends shee leaning on her Lance Did power forth teares and grew at length impacient of the chance And said my selfe my trustie friends wil with my dearest blood Keepe Obite to your happie Ghostes that for your Countries good Be as you be and I will be no Romaine sword shall boast Of my dispatch So on her Lance she yeelded vp the Ghoste Her Daughter then for to reuenge her friends vpon her foes Assisted by the vanquished against the Victors roes And slaughtring through the Romaine Tentes the braue Virago goes Till Plancius euer prouident of perils brought supplies What time Vodicia vrging wounds with constant courage dies SVch busines hanging Lucius here the first baptized King Died issulesse and for the Crowne did long contention spring At length Constantius Caesar for the Brutons yeelded so Did Helin Colis daughter wed Of her doe praises go For finding of the holie Crosse and for deuotion rare From these proceeded Constantine the most vndoubted heire Both to the Romaine Monarchie and this his Parents Reame He turn'd the Empires ebbing pompe into her flowing streame And was a Prince Religious yeat with reuerence be it said If lesse religious then not he the Empire had decaide By largesse to a pompeous Priest Apostolique ere then But now intruding euen on God insulting ouer men Nor sparest thou his natiue Realme that seazed thee of Rome Admit his franknesse were a fault as is their common doome That say he made a Paule a Saule that made a Priest a Prince And in that grace the Empires grace disgraced euer since Find thou no fault with such a fault wherby he fitted thee But if thou wilt vngrateful prooue vngracious cease to be A Traytors Tutor is a. K. nor force we such a. T. Let such a Prelate blesse or banne with Candle Booke and Bell He cannot raise himselfe to heauen nor rid a knaue from hell Vaine are his Bulles engendring Calues sent hither from his Stals To feede mad Sots the Foule that by his name the Sendor cals Nor thinke he dreamed this in vaine that dreamed thus of late One seemed to haue passed Stix and entring Plutos gate Saw Hecat new canonized the Sourantisse of hell And Pluto bad it holliday for all which theare did dwell Sterne Minos and grimme Radimant descend their duskie roomes The Docke was also cleare of Ghosts adiorn'd to after-doomes The Furies and the deadly Sinnes with their inuectiue Scroles Depart the Barre the Feends rake vp their euer-burning Coles The Elues and Fairies taking fists did hop a merrie Round And Cerberus had lap enough and Charon leasure found The airy Sprights the walking Flames and Goblins great and small Had theare good cheere and company and sport the diuell and all To Tantalus the shrinking flood nor starting fruit were such Nor Titius his bowels did the hungrie Vultur touch Vpon his Stone sat Cisaphus Ixeon on his Wheele The Belides vpon their Tubs no wonted toile they feele Till in this anticke Festiuall these last recited fiue Of dignities for dueties theare they earnestly did striue And then the quarrell grew so hot that hell was hell againe And flocking Ghosts did seuerally their Fauctors part maintaine With Cisaphus tooke part the Ghosts of minds that did aspire And by ambitious climing fell desarts vnlike desire With Tantalus hild starued Ghosts whose pleasure was their paine Whose euer Hords had neuer vse and gettings had no gaine To Besides assisted Soules of Vnthrifts whose supplies Did passe from them as Sea through Cieues whose wastes no wealthes suffise
frō me What lets since none may loue thee more vnles perhaps this Cell Too strict a place wherein thy selfe euē Beauties selfe shouldst dwell Let nature hide her barren formes and imperfections thus And in such Puritanes as thou commend her skill to vs. Thou wrongest Nature molding thee to molde by thee as faer Thou wrōgest mē that would beget the fruit which thou sholdst baer Thou wrong'st thy Countrie of increase thou wrōg'st me in like sort Thou wrong'st thy Kin of kindred thou wrong'st thy selfe of sport Shouldst thou but dreame what marriage were thou would'st not liue a maid One heart of two two Soules to one by wedlock is cōuaid An husbands open kissings and his secret coyings nay The very Soule of Loue more sweet then thou or I can say The ioy of babes which thou should'st beare the Seruice at thy becke The sweet consorted common weale of houshold at thy checke Would make thee seeme a Goddesse who because thou art not such Offendest God in hiding of thy Tallent Too too much Thou dotest on Virginitie permitted not impos'd On any saue on such as for no such thy selfe thou knoest Els what should meane this penning vp such vowing these Vailes Since Vessels onely are of worth that beare in stormes their sailes The Scedsters of thine Essence had they been as thou would'st be Thou hadst not been Then gratifie the same thy selfe and me And leaue these superstitious walles Thou profitst not hereby Nor are we male and female borne that fruitlesse we should dye Then loue me for beleeue me so will proue a Iubilie Her red disperst in shadowed white did adde to either more To her of beautie and to him Loue greater than before She claimes the places priuiledge and faintly cites a Tex She pleades her birth too bace and playes the No-I of her Sex And fighteth as she would be foyld But prized Durstone makes It Sacrilege and for to wife the Recluse Edgar takes In twelue yeeres would be not annoynt or crowne him King more Enioynes him seuen yeeres pennance and to edifie and store Great Monasteries fortie ere Indulgence could be got Thus Edgar for his Cloyster cheere did pay this costly shot CHAP. XXV IOhns murther bred such murmure But third Henry Iohn his sonne Assisted chiefly by the Pope his fathers Scepter wonne Who interdited Lewis till hee curst him into France And left to Henry prosperous raigne till hapned this mischance A Parliament at Oxenford did derogate so much From his prerogatiue as that the Quarrell grew to such That ciuill warres betwixt the King and Barronage began Not ending but with tragicke ends of many a worthy man Brother to brother sire to sonne and friend to friend was foe Al labouring which they should vphold their Countries ouerthrow Now was the King a Captiue and the Barrons by and by His Conquest and the ciuill strife too fast begot supply My heart vnapts mine hand to write the troth of it too trew Euen warres Idea more then tongue or eye can say or view But to conclude which still concludes the King he did subdue And shewes himselfe a gentle foe thus hauing wonne his peace And after liu'd in honour and did happily decease Whose death then warring with renowme in Syria being knowne To Edward he resailed and possest his fathers Throne THe hansell of his Scepter was the Welchmen did rebell Of whom to Edward though with losse the Victorie befell Then on the French he warred and a Winner did resayle And for that Baltoll whom he made the King of Scots did faile His Homage thence from Albanacke to England due and done Against the Scots he grieuous but a glorious warre begun Not Barwicke though for number bold vntill it flowed blood Nor any Scottish armes or hold though infinite and good Might stay his awing prowesse till he had their King his thrall And in that Land by Conquest made himselfe the Lord of all Then taking Scottish othes which they did breake and he reuenge With those Exploits he French attempts as gloriously did menge Yea Paganes French Cambries Scots remembring but his name Cannot forget their skarres he made though enuious of his Fame Matchles for Chiualrie and yeat his Iustice matcht the same Not partiall for the Prince his Sonne a rash vnbridled youth Whom he imprison'd hearing of his outrages the truth And vnto whom he dying spake words worth report and ruth My life quoth he a warfare right in body and in soule Resignes my robed carkasse to be rotted in the moule If well I did well shall I doe if ill as ill and worse And therefore Ned worke as I will vpon my blesse or curse When thou becom'st an earthly God mens liues to ouersee Forget not that Eternall God that ouerlooketh thee The least part of a King is his all owing him and none Lesse priuate than a Prince the weale or woe of euery one He and his People make but one a bodie weake or strong As doth the head the lims or lims the head assist or wrong Deriue thy lawes from wisest heads to be vpholden still Not adding or abstracting as conceited Tier-braines will Be cheerefull and in worke nor word be neither proud nor hot No sincere loue but seruile feare or neither so is got Encourage good Men by thy loue reforme the bad by lawe Reserue an care for either Plea and borrow least of awe Oppresse not rich men seeking so to please the poore for neither Is to be doomed but as right or wrong is found in either To loyter well deserued gifts is not to giue but sell When to requite ingratitude were to doe euill well And which saue for the ill-mist ill might els haue bene forgot Be choyce but chuse for wiuelesse haue each stranger place shot Their heire their home cost which saue the last indeed are not Reforme thee euen to day vnapt to day lesse apt to morrow Youth aptly offers vertues such as yeares vnaptly borrowe For he that plies the lappes and lippes of Ladies all his prime And falles to Armes when age failes Armes then also looseth time As if a Beare in Moone-shine should attempt the Moone to clime Well haue I driuen out my date and well thy dayes shall runne If thou proue not my Glories graue nor I plange in my Sonne The ouer-weening of thy wits doth make thy Foes to smile Thy Friends to weepe and Clawbacks thee with soothings to beguile Yea those thy Purses Parasites vnworthie thine Estate Doe loue thee for themselues nor will they leaue thee but too late I blesse thee if thou banish them and curse thee if they bide My blisse and curse be at thy choyce And so he shortly dide FOrth with a second Edward sonne to Edward wore the Crowne He to promote his Flatterers did put his Nobles downe So Robert Bruze then King of Scots found ingresse for his Armes Recouering Scottish forces and did spoyle our men by swarmes Barwicke in fine and all
than needeth that we kisse as stands the cace Rid hence yonn same your knauish Page you sent him with a Mouse To spie my secretes or belike to braue me in my house Gods pretious would you knew I beare a mind lesse bace then that I can disgest your Drudge with me so saucely should chat Iacke Napes forsooth did chase because I eate my Slaue the Bat. O what a world is this that we can nothing priuate haue Vncensur'd of our Seruants though the simplest Gill or Knaue Well rid him of your seruice Nay it skils not if of life At least if so you meane that we shall loue as man and wife For such Colecarriers in an house are euer hatching strife The Cuckooe hearing this complaint flew on his trusty Page And vndiscreatly gaue him strokes that kild him in that rage Yeat eare he left his life he thus vnto his Maister sayd Thus many honest Seruants in their Masters hastie brayd Are Dog-like handled either yeat like deare in Ioues iust eyes Of Harlots and of hastines beware sayd he and dyes When now her gluttony and spight had thus dispatched twaine The Cuckooe plying amorously her fauour to obtaine Euen then and looking very bigge in came the Buszard who Did sweare that he would kill and slay I mary would he doe If any Swad besides himselfe faire Madam Owle did wowe The Cuckooe seeing him so bog waxt also wondrous wroth But thus the Owle did stint the strife Shee cals them husbands both Now fie quoth she if so you could betwixt your selues agree Yee both should haue your bellies full and it no hurt to me The Buszard faintly did consent the Cuckooe sayd Amen And so was Hen inough for Cocke not Cocke inough for Hen For she deceyues them both and had besides them other game The Gende Buszard dying soone for sorrow of the same The Cuckooe wisely saw it and did say but little to it As nooting she was set on it and knowing she would doe it But what the Swallow warned him of Harlots proued trew For as was gessed also him by trecherie she slew The Goddesse Pallas to giue end vnto these tragicke deedes Descended and the dead reuiu'd to Sentence thus proceedes The Bat because begild of Dis See pittieth partly and Permits him Twy-light flight to giue thereby to vnderstand That to aspire is lawfull if betwixt a Meane it stand The Swallow for that he was trew and slaine for saying well Shee doomb'd a ioyfull Sommers Bird in Winter time to dwell Euen with Mineruas secrete store as learned Clarkes doe tell The Buszard for he doted more and dared lesse than reason Through blind bace Loue induring wrong reuengeable in seasō She eie-blur'd and adiudged Praies the dastard'st and least geason Vnto the Cuckooe ouerkinde to brooke Coriuals she Adiudg'd a Spring-times changeles note and whilst his yong ones be By others hatcht to name and shame himselfe in euery Tree But liue quoth she vnto the Owle ashamed of the light Be wondred at of Birds by day fly filch and howle all night Haue lazie wings be euer leane in fullen corners rucke When thou art seene be thought a signe to folke of euill lucke Nor shall thine odious forme vile Witch be longer on my Shield Whence racing forth her Figure so the Goddesse left the field IVst Guerdons for Ambition for poore Soules opprest for well For dastard Dotards Wittolrie and Harlots nice you tell Said Perkens Wife But thus now of her husbands pride befell At last when sundry Armes had end Henry victorious still And Perkens passage was fore-stald he yeelds of his owne will Himselfe from Churches Priuiledge to Henries Mercy who Did onely limitte his abode and lesse he could not doe But when he sought escapes he then had petite punishment And after for some new attempts to Tower was he sent Whence practising escape t' was sayd he won to his intent Young Edward Earle of Warwicke that indeed was Clarenes son And euer had been Prisner theare eare Henries raigne begon And now by law too strickt me seemes for this to death was don Perken was hang'd and hang may such but that the Earle should die Some thought hard law saue that it stood with present pollicie Sir VVilliam Stanley dide for this oft King-law is doe thus Deseruing better of the King but what is that to vs The last of our three Phaetons was tuter'd of a Fryer Who being fitted now by Art and nature to aspier The foresaid name of VVarwicke fain'd seduced folke thereby As I my selfe in Essex heard and saw a Traitor dye That fain'd himselfe sixt Edward and to grace-out such his lye Lookes bodie words and gesture seem'd heroycall to view He had like age like markes and all that might inforce it trew Whereby to him assisting minds of simple Folke he drew Our Cowle-mans foresayd Actor so preuailed that the Fryer In Pulpets durst affirme him King and Aydes for him requier But lastly both were taken both did fault in one same ill Yeat rope-law had the Youth the Frier liu'd Clergie-knaued still VVHen Armour ended Auarice began for then begins The slye Mercuriles◠and more by wyles then valour wins Beneuolences Taxes and sore Fines for penall lawes To Henry hoords from Henry hearts of many a Subiect drawes Empson Dudly fur'd Esquiers more harmefull being gown'd To Englands friends than Englands foes through Auarice profound In such exacting chiefly Act applaused of the King To whom their ciuill Thefts not Thrifts exceeding wealth did bring Yeat whē the gracious King found out their tacking Rich Poore He then did pardon much and much did purpose to restore But dying those two Harpies lost their hated heads therefore So hardly fauoured of Kings themselues in bownes containe That they securely stout at length doe perish through disdaine So hardly too some Princes are from priuate Lucar wonne As though their bags ore-flow they think no harme abroad vndone Henry acquite his latter dayes of Auarice fore named Deceast for Prowesse Policie and Iustice highly famed THE EIGHT BOOKE OF ALBIONS ENGLAND CHAP. XXXIV EIGHT Henry heire indubitate of Yorke and Lancaster Succeeded and with Kingly rites his Father did interr His mind his words his lookes his gaet his lynaments and Stature Weare such for Maiesties as shew'd a King compos'd by Nature All Subiects now of ciuill strife all counter-minds for Raigne All enuious of his Empier now weare rid weare pleas'd or slaine Rich weare his sundrie Tryumphs but his cost had foyzen than When Terwin and strong Turnay in resisting France he wan When Maximilian Emperour did vnder Henry fight When English Ships did often put the French Sea-powre to flight And that the French King was inforc'st to craue and buy his peace Who wiuing louely Mary so the warres for then did cease This sister to our King and then the French Kings goodly Queene Was welcommed with Tryumphs such as erst in France vnseene Iustes Barriers Tylts Turneyes were proclaymed
default that might his health impaer And Damsell quoth she for it seemes this houshold is but three And for thy Parents Age that this shall chiefely rest on thee Doe me that good else would to God he hither come no more So tooke she horse and ere she went bestowed gould good store Full little thought the Countie that his Countesse had done so Who now return'd from farre affaires did to his sweet-Heart go No sooner set he foote within the late deformed Cote But that the formall change of things his woondring Eies did Note But when he knew those goods to be his proper goods though late Scarce taking leaue he home returnes the Matter to debate The Countesse was a bed and he with her his lodging tooke Sir welcome home quoth she this Night for you I did not looke Then did he question her of such his Stuffe bestowed so Forsooth quoth she because I did your Loue and Lodging knoe Your Loue to be a proper Wench your Lodging nothing lesse I hild it for your health the house more decently to dresse Well wot I notwithstanding her your Lordship loueth me And greater hope to hold you such by queat then brawles I see Then for my duetie your delight and to retaine your fauour All done I did and patiently expect your better Hauour Her Patience Witte Aunswere wrought his gentle teares to fall When kissing her a score of times Amend sweete wise I shall He said and did it And your Grace may Phillip so recall But he whoso he was that thus had dubled Tales to cease Queene Maries griefe for Phillips guile as well had hild his peace Her no perswading might disswade from peâ—siuenes of hart Vntill that his Vnkindnes in her Deaths-Scene acts it part But howsoere or whatsoere her cause of death might seeme Her death did many a good mans life from Tyrannie redeeme For as in Passion so was she in Papistrie extreame And were not the abodement bad at her to end our Theame Our Cattell vnto stronger draughts we should and would vnteame But to the Head land shall our Plough vnles we breake our Beame Yeat ere we eare to it for it shall be our Holly-day Of somwhat sayd and somwhat scapt rests thus much by the way CHAP. XLIIII BEFORE we toucht little els what Courses hapt at home But now in few at forren Acts of Natiue Kings we rome Of Briâ—tish and of English Kings more famous than the rest This sparing Catalogue ensewes whose deedes we thus digest * Aeâ—eas Off-spring famous Brute did set from Greekish thrall Sixe thousand Phrygâ—an Knights by him did Guyan Guffer fall He conquering this Ile his Name vnto his Conquest gaue And of his Cornish Cambries men couragious yet we haue * Torkes Builder Ebranke that subdu'de the â—imbrians and the Gawles And built the best of Scottish Townes next in our Nomber falls * When Brennus and Belynus had Eight spacious Kingdomes wonne Had slaine two Consulls sacked Rome and matchles Armes had done And built ten Cities best that be in Italie this day Those Kinglie Brothers as must all their debt to Nature pay * Gâ—rgâ—â—nus slew the Dactan King wonne Tribute and the same Gaue Spanish Exiles Ireland whence our Scottish Nation came * Câ—ssiâ—â—lane did twice beate backe from Brittish Seas and Shore The worthie Coesar that but then was victor euermore And thirdly had preuailed but for Luds reuolted Sonne When as braue Nennius hand to hand of Caesar honor wonne * Guydar and Aruiragus wonne of Claudius Caesar spoyle The former in a second Field did sâ—out Vaspasian foyle * When as the wandring Scots and Pichts King Marâ—us had subdude He gaue the Liuers dwellings lesse than where they since intru'de * Constantiâ—s wedding Coyls heyre was Monarke of the West Who with this Ilands Scepter of Romes Empire was possest * Great Constantine that worthely a Worthie might be said The Brittish Romaine Emperour throughout the world obayd He made his Siege Bizantium that retaines his name ere since And made but so vnwitting marde the Priest of Rome a Prince * Maximian as Emperiall and as valerous as any With Brittish armour did subdue both Kings and Kingdomes many * What speake we of great Arthur of his Chiualrie or Court Precelling all sole President of vertue prow's and port A King of many Kings his Knights in all Exploits were seene He was in deede a Worthie and the Worthiest of the Neene * Fiue Crownes King Malgo prized * And in Battells fiftie fiue Against the Misâ—reants valiantly did King Alured thriue â—ollo whose Seede should conquer vs he hence did brauely beate That maâ—ger Fraunce in Normandie his Scythian Troopes did seate * He that re-monarchiz'd our Ile King Athelstone did slay Sixe Kings twelue Dukes and countlesse tale of Heathen in one day The one of Nyne his Knight Sir Guy we touch but by the way Omitting other Kings and Knights too long in few to say Of Brittish race a many and of Saxon Princes some Whose blood by Normaine Mixture now is tripartite become Oâ— For perhaps from such Consort the Brutes casseerd will be Three blended blouds of Nations three hath giuen vs Natures three The Saxon prowesse Danâ—sh pompes and Normaine Pollicee And of the Romanes and the Picâ—ts we are no portion small Foure of which Nations Scythia bred we thriuing in them all * KIng VVilliam Englands Conquerour from Rollo sixt with pray Of twice fiue hundred Townes in Fraunce vn-â—o-met sayld away * Henry the second vpon whom the Scotch-King tendant was Which Scots their often ouerthrowes we henceforth ouerpasse Who to our Kings Lords Parramounts not warres but vprores bring Spoylde Frauncè wonne Ireland and deceast of Iuda chosen King * Next Lyon-harted Richard he wonne Cypris Siria and Ierusalem debelling quite the Sowldan from his Land He skalde the strong Aegyptian Oste and king'd his Sisters sonne And plagued Fraunce and Austrich for the wrongs they had him don * First Edward made the Turks Sauoies the French Flemings treÌ„ble * The third so nam'd to them and moe did Mars himselfe resemble Whose Knights in 2. Richards dayes so tickeld France and Spaine And parts Lugdinian that no King but Richard seem'd to raine Ten thousand were his housholde Scotch digests we here disdayne * The fourth and * fifth of Henries were as actious as the rest Especially the latter was the formost with the best * Not yeat Fourth Edwards honor from his Ancestors digrest On these doo vulgar Eares and Eyes so brimlie waite and gaze As they distaske our priuate Penne notorious Laudes to blaze Our Catalogue omitteth some for Artes and Iustice good Some natur'de well aduised ill some worthie Laethe flood Not one fore-cited but deserues at least an Homers Muse Although with Agamemnons Vaile Apelles shift I vse But colours to that Painter Art vnto that Poet none So good to paint and prayse at ful our following Crowns saue one Since Tuders Seede Henry the Seauenth ariued Englands
our pollicie wear small That they should florish nay should liue could we procure their fall Theare be they great alreadie wheare we only great must be Whom should they equall woe to vs when we shall disagree Now that therefore which we cannot with honestie contriue Our Foes shall finish if of them they leaue not one aliue Thus said he not gaine-saide for hang who shall so they may thriue This Maxime hath hild and good wheare they haue ouerthrone By trecherous Agents of the same they haue not trusted one Adde than the Spaniard prouder and more cruell People none Euen Cortes that with cost and payne rich India did subdew And gaue to Spayne his Conquest found false Meede for Seruice trew So they that wonne them Portugale and Naples spead in few And too imperiously doe they oppresse their Conquests new Yeat boast not perpetuitie but Spayne this Patterne vew Caldea priz'd Assiria and Assiria priz'd the same The Medes and Persians both and them the Macedons orecame The Romaines theÌ„ that Empier next had France the Germaines now Which onely Title hardly doe the Spanyards them alowe Spayne hath Nauarre that once had Spayne wheare once crown'd wee their King And once did Spanish-Irish-Scots vs to subiection bring We Scots French Irish too and fro thus often Scepters flye Yea to Posterities old names of Lands and Peoples dye Sicambries Gawles Picts Vandels Gothes Astrogothes known late In Europ by these names haue chang'd those names Europs State And with the Spanyards part of those may alter in like rate Each Birde shall then remaunde her Plumes and naked leaue your Iaye At least when Phillip shall decease and why not eare that daye For power and prowse lacke Turnus Peere yeat when his Fates withstoode Iturna no not Iunos-selfe could doe him any good But Godhoode none in Indian Golde pope-buld hopes shall mis Nor Macedonian Phillips Sonne Castilian Phillip is But one who whil'st he warres for ours hath lost euen part of his Not onely Spayne thinke destinate in Pompe not to impaier Our liued long that breathes enuied not els but odious Ayer And which is monstrously too trew Religion is pretext Where through the Spanyard and the Pope all Christendome haue vext Witnes their Powers by Land and Seas that threatned vs er'while Of it a word and note how God did patronize our Ile CHAP. XLIX THe Spanyards long time Care Coste inuincible surnam'd Was now a flote whilst Parma to froÌ„ Flanders hither aim'd Like Fleete of eightscore Ships od the Ocean neuer bore So huge so strong and so compleate in euery Strength and Store Carikes Gallions Argosies and Galliasses such That seem'd so many Castels and their tops the cloudes to tuch These on the Lizardes shewe themselues threaten Englands fall But theare with Fistie Shippes of ours that Fleete was fought withall Howbeit of a greater sorte our Nauie did consist But parte kept Dyet in the Porte that might of health haue miste Had Spayns Armada of our wants in Plimmouths Hauen wiste The rest had eye on Parma that from Flanders armour threates Meane while Lord Charles our Admiral and Drake did worthy Feats Whose feareles fiftie Moole-hils bod their trypeld Mountaines bace And euen at first so pleas'd it God pursewde as if in chace By this for ouer-idle seemd to English hearts the Shore Our Gallants did imbarke each-wheare and made our Forces more But in such warlike Order then their Shippes at Anker laye That we vnles we them disperse on bootles labor staye Not lacked Pollicie that to that purpose made vs waye Ours fyred diuers Shippes that downe the Currant sent so skaerd That Cables cut and Ankers lost the Spanyards badly faerd Dispersed thus we spare not shot and part of them we sinke And part we boord the rest did flye not fast enough they thinke Well guided little Axes so force tallest Oakes to fall So numbrous Heards of stately Hearts flye Beagles few and smal Nine dayes together cha'ste we them not actious saue in flight About Eight thowsands perished by famine sea and fight For Treasure Shippes and Carrages lost Honor Prisners tayne The Spaniards hardly scaping hence scapt not rebukes in Spaine Well might thus much as much it did cheere England but much more Concurrancie from one to all to stop that common Sore Euen Chatholiques that erred name doth please the Papists waer As forward in this Quarrell as the formost Armes to bear Recusants and Suspects of noote Of others was caer And had not our God-guided Fight on Seas preuailed yet The Spaniards land whereso they could had with our Armies met Our common Courage wisht no lesse so lightly feard we Foes Such hope in God such hate of them such hearts to barâ—er bloes Heere flam'd the Cyclops Forges Mars his Armorie was heere Himselfe he sheads in vs and with our Cause our selues we cheere But which had scarâ—â—fide our wounds if wounded with the Balme Of her sweete Presence so applaus'd as in Sea-stormes a Calme Her royall-selfe Elizabeth our Soueraigne lawfull Queene In magnanimious Maiestie amidst her Troupes was seene Which made vs weepe for ioy nor was her kindnes lesse to vs. Thinke nothing letting then that might the common Cause discus Wheare Prince and People haue in Loue a Sympathie as thus Howbeit Force nor Policie but Gods sole Prouidence Did cleare fore-bosted Conquest and behighted Thraldome hence He in Saneherib his nose did put his hooke and brought Him backe againe the way he came without performing ought He fought for vs Alonely we did shout and Trumpets sound When as the Walles of â—â—rico fell flat vnto the ground Yâ—a least for earst did neuer heere like strong Supplies befall Like loyall hearts in euerie one like warlike mindes in all Lesse spaer of Purses more Fore-sight and valiant Guides to act As shewde our hardie littell Fleet that battell neuer slackt Leaste these I say might haue been sayd the cause that we subdew'de Euen God to Glorifie himselfe our gayned Cause pursew'de Without our losse of Man or Mast or Foe once touching Shore Saue such as wrackt weaâ—e Prisnors or but landing liu'd not more And as in publique Praiers we did his defence implore So being Victors publiquely we yeelded thanks therefore Her Highnes selfe good cause she had in viewe of euerie Eie On humbled Knees did giue him thanks that gaue her Victorie Remaineth what she wonne what Spaine Rome did lose in fame Remaineth Popes vse Potentates but to retriue their Game CHAP. L. IF not with minds preiudicate but holding in suspence A while the Papacie that takes and giues so much Offence With single hearts and Eies and Eares al christian Princes would Peruse the sacred Scriptures as in verie deede they should Then might they iustly censure how in â—owlines or Pryde In Charitie or Crueltie how straite to God or wide In Doctrine and in Discipline Rome hath and now doth guide With still Prouisoes from the Laie the Scriptures light