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A17119	Daphnis polystephanos An eclog treating of crownes, and of garlandes, and to whom of right they appertaine. Addressed, and consecrated to the Kings Maiestie. By G.B. Knight.	Buck, George, Sir, d. 1623.; I. W. S., artist.; Woutneel, Ioan, engraver.	1605 (1605)	STC 3996; ESTC S104803	24,580	61

of Edmond Ironside King of England Anno Dom. 1016. This Edmond was sonne and heyre to King Etheldred who in ancient charters is written Totius Britanniae rex quod nota because a late Anonymus in a little booke dedicated to his Maiesty affirmeth that neuer any Prince was king of this whole Isle vntill now But he is deceiued for besides Constantius Chlorus and his sonne our countriman Constantine the great Constans Aurelius Ambrosius Vter others which were Lords of all great Britaine Edgar also the father of this King Etheldred was absolute Monarke of this Isleland and so puissant in forces both by land and sea as hee was surnamed the Great and was stiled Totius Albionis basileus Anglici orbis basileus as G. Malmesburiensis Florentius Wigorniensis witnesse Whereupon to note also by the way some thinke that the word Anglia was sometimes vsed for the whole Isle and which Ion Lidgate disertly asseuereth in King Arthurs complaint in these words Great Britain now called England so likewise doth Geffrey Chaucer in the Franklins tale viz. In England that Clepid was Britain And Ranulfus Cestrensis a grauer Authour peremptorily affirmeth that King Egbert after his conquests ordained and commaunded that the Saxons and Iutes should bee called Angles and that Britain should bee called England But I leaue this to be discussed by antiquaryes And to returne to the ancient Saxon Kings progenitors of this Henry and also possessors of this whole Isle as I will shew for the better confirmation of that which I haue said against the opinion of this Anonymus In diuers ancient records and charters of donations of these kings to Monasteries and to Cathedrall Churches and in other ancient monuments I haue obserued these seuerall stiles Ego Athelstanus rex Anglorum anno Dominicae incarnationis D. CCCCXXX r●gni verò mihi gratis commissi VI. Indictione III. Epactae xviii Concurrente iiii Nonis mensis Aprilis iii. Lunae rotigerae vaga tionis i. per eiusdem omnipatrantis dextram totius BRITANNIAE regium solio sublimatus c. Ego Eadmundus rex Anglorum ceterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium Gubernator et rector An. Dom. 945. Ego Edredus rex terrenus sub imperiali potentiaregu seculorum aeternique principis magnae Britanniae temporale gerens imperium c. An. Dom. 948. Ego Edgarus totius Albronis monarcha c. An. Dom. 966. And in another Ego Edgarus totius Albionis finitimorumque regum basileus An. Dom. 974. These three last stiles I finde in the history of Ingulfus Abbot of Croyland transcribed by him from the Charters of that Monastery And the other two before going are copyed out of the records of the Cathedrall Church of Chicester as also these three next following Ego Eadwis basileon totius Albionis c. An. Dom. D. CCCC.LVI imperii autem 1. An in another Ego Eadwin rex gentium Albionis c. And in the date of a charter of Bishop Brighthelmus Anno 2. imperii Eadwin totius Albionis insulae imperantis I finde also in Asser Meneuensis Aelured or Aelfred a more ancient Saxon King then these written Omnium Britān insulae Christianorum rector An. Dom. 872. And Edward surnamed Pius and Confessor was from the yeare of our Lord 1050. King of this whole Isle if there be any credite to be giuen to our stories and was stiled rex Albionis as Ion Twine auoweth out of his charters giuen to the Abby of Abingdon And that same King Etheldred before cited was stiled in the charters of Glastonbury Aetheldred Anglicae nationis caeterarumque gentium triniatim intra ambitum Britān insulae degentium c. basileus and another K. in old inscription Britanniae Anax and many such more which were too long to recite And some kings of the Norman race which is more rare haue been so stiled For the Lord Bishop of Bristow voucheth a coine of King Ion wherein is stamped Ioānes rex Britonum but that coine which his Lordship shewed to me had the armes of little Britain vpon the reuerse but his grandchild King Edward the firsty after him king Edward the third were greater monarkes here then he But this great Henry Plantagenets Empire extended beyond the bounds of the Britannish world and his greatnes so farre exceeded all other kings his ancesters that he was stiled Maximus Britanniae regum as I will shew by and by and by good right for besides this his great Britain and Ireland he was possessed of a great part of France and by these titles He was Duke of Normandy by right of inheritance from his granfather King Henry the first Duke of Normandy c. He was Duke of Aquitain that is Gascoin and Guien sometimes a kingdome and Earle of Poictow by the mariage of Queene Elianor daughter heire of William Duke of Aquitain and Earle of Poictow whose wife Ieanne was daughter of Dauid king of Scots he was Earle of Aniow seminary of kings of Touraine and of Maine his natiue country by right of enheritance from his father Geoffrey Le Bel Earle of them all He swayed all in litle Britain which authority he acquired partly by the mariage of Constance daughter and heire of Conan Earle of Britain with his third sonne Geffrey Earle of Richmont but chiefly by his swoord as it appeareth by Gu Neuburgensis who then liued and thus writeth Cum a potentioribus in Britannia inferiores premerentur regis Anglorum auxilium expetentes eius seditioni spontaneè subdiderunt c. ipsosque potentes viribus subegit sicque in breni tota Britannia potitus est He also conquered Auuergne and thus much for his possessions in France and now to Ireland He twise inuaded that kingdome and by armes seconded with the letters of fauour of his good friend Pope Adrian an Englishman hee brought the discording Princes there to submit theyr differents and their tytles to him and so obtained the possession of the Isle And as for those parts partyes in this our great Britain viz of Engl. Scotl. and Wales which did not acknowledge his souerainty hee reduced them in good time to the ancient subiection and obedience which they owed to the British Saxon kings his progenitors The Welshmē in their stories acknowledge this in their loyalty dueties as the English liuely expresse it euery day But for the other if any doubt be made G. Neuburgensis veridicus autor as Polidore Vergill obserueth him will thus satisfie him speaking of this K. Henry of Dauid K. of Scots his prisoner being then both at Yorke Occurrit eirex Scotorum cum vniuersis regni nobilibus qui omnes in ecclesia beatissimi apostolorum principis regi Angliae tanquam principali domino hominium cum ligeantia id est solemni cautione standi cum eo et pro eo contra omnes homines rege

English Kings vntill this day And from him this poesy is a continued pedegree vnto Queene Elizabeth the first and from Her to your Maiesty and to your Maiesties most excellent Sonne Henry The Prince of Great Britaine Now it resteth that I answere or excuse some faults found in this Poesy for some note that I am too long in my induction notwithstanding I propound in the first stanze Others reproue me because I began no higher Others charge me that I haue concealed and coloured the faultes of bad Princes ANGLIAE REGVM PROSAPIA A TEMPORE QVO ANGLIA APPELLARI CAEPIT NIMIRVM AB EGBERTO REGE PRIMO EIVSDEM MONARCHA VSQVE AD HENRICVM 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I. W. S. delineauit But to conclude shortly whatsoeuer be the faults of the booke or of the Buc I most humbly submit them to your Maiesties most gracious censure who next to the omnipotent Lord of Lords are vitae necis Arbiter and not onely the supreme and highest iudge but which is best the best iudge i. the most wise the most learned and the most clement iudge And so therefore eftsoones prostrating my selfe my small talent or rather mites and all at your sacred feete not seeking either praise or thankes nor so much as one branch or leafe of any of these your many Garlands but with the old Poet Veniam pro laude peto laudatus abundé Si fastiditus non tibi Daphnis ero And with the new inauguratorie hymne still pray to the Almighty that Your happy dayes may not be done Till the great comming of his Sonne And that your health your ioyes your peace May as your raigne and yeres increase AMEN THE PREFACE OR Argument of this Poësy DAmaetas hauing long bin a woodman had obserued the natures propertyes of many trees and apprehended there was some mistery and some peculiar maiesticall matter in the Genest more then he could discipher Whereupon hee went to Silenus a man of great learning and authoritie for he was held a Pro●het and exposeth to him his conceit and prayeth earnestly his ayde Silenus entertaineth him curteously and is very willing and by the meanes of a late accident well able to rese●ue him for saith he there was a complaint mad●●ately to our great God Apollo against certaine vnworthy fellowes which presumptuously tooke garlands of his ancient tree the Laurell without leaue Whereat he hauing indignation determined to take order for that and such like abuses And foorthwith calling the Muses to counsell in Helicon established ordinances for the due wearing of that of al other Ghirlands And because the ancient Ghirlands were abused prophaned with common and vnworthy vse hee made choice of a new tree viz the Genest and instituted Ghirlands thereof and gaue to them praerogatiues aboue the rest appropriated them to one imperial family seated in Leuceessa with expresse defence that none else should weare them And that not all the Princes of this family should haue Garlands hereof but to some of them better deseruing should be permitted a chappelet and to the rest but a branch or Plante of the Genest But the chiefe Garland of Genest complete and adorned with diuers sacred flowers should be reserued for his fauorite Daphnis the most puissant and the most vertuous and in briefe the most true heroycall Prince of that imperiall race ordained long-since by the highest aeternall wisedome to reconcile the olde and vnnaturall fewd betweene Locrine and Albanact to reduce all the Britannik Isles into one entyre monarchy to restore the ancient vnity of religion lawes and language in this great Iland and finally to extend the limit of his Empyre as farre as they were in the times of Albion of Brutus of Artur of Edgar or of any other our monarkes whose dominions were largest Thus farre Apollo's decree After this Silenus declareth more particularly who and what these royall Worthyes were which should beare or weare Chappelets or Garlāds of the Genest tree and lastly the Garland complete Beginning with that great Henry sonne of the Empresse Matilda the first King of this Iland surnamed Plantagenet and so deducing a genealogy from him through his royall posterity to our present sacred Soueraign IAMES his now next heire and nephew whom the Prophet herein styleth the true Polystephanus the Peace-maker King Arturs successor great Aedgars heire high Seneschall of Albion the great Briton c. And crowneth his head with this imperiall Polyanthine Ghirland and his raigne with all the blessings of peace victory long life a rare fayre wife hopefull Princely issue and a perpetuall succession of their posterity in the Empire of great Britain And now to that obiection touched in the dedicatory and made because I deriue not this title and genealogy from some of the ancient monarkes of this Isle Britons or Saxons or at the least from King William the Conquerour I must answere that to haue chosen any of the most ancient Kings I must haue looked so farre backe as I should not onely haue made this Eclog ouer-long and tedious but also haue lost my selfe in the cloudes of obscurity by soring too high amongst them as they know which know what our ancient storyes bee But as for William the Conquerour there be many reasons why I should not begin with him although I goe as neere him as his sonnes daughter for firstly he was a bastard and yet not that of the blood royall of England hauing no title to the Crowne but violence and his sword as he confessed and thereof had remorse of conscience at his death Secondly he was neuer possessed of the one halfe of Britain for hee had neither Scotland nor Wales and in Ireland he not one foote Furthermore Girard Du-Haillan and other French antiquaries according to their Salike heraldry say that his lyne ended in his sonne King Henry the first for all they holde as a maxime La famille se continué es masles et se finist aux filles And yet Du-Haillan notwithstāding or forgetting this affirmeth in an other place that the race of the Kings of England issued out of the house of Aniow viz from our great Henry and his ancesters continueth vntill this day From whom there be many reasons on the other side why I should deduce the genealogy of our Kings passed and of our present Soueraigne Lord King IAMES for this great Henry was not onely rightfull heire and King of England but also the greatest King of whom there is any credible story extant which hath been in this Isle of Britain since the time of the Romaine Emperous who were reputed Lords of all the world and which thus I demonstrate and briefly He was King of England in the right of his mother Matilda the Empresse daughter and heire to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir and of Margaret his wife who was the daughter of Edward Exul the Saxon Prince the sonne

proprio praecipiente fecerunt Ipse quoque rex Scotorum coram vniuersa multitudine nobilium vtriusque regni regem Anglorum modis solemnibus dominum suum seque hominem et fidelem eius declarauit eique tria praecipua regni sui munimina scilicet Rokesburk Berwik et Castellum puellarum loco obsidum tradidit c. But Ion Bishop of Chartres maketh his Empyre yet much greater for hee boundeth it to the Southward with Spaine and to the Northward with the Isles of Orkney and mought as well if it had pleased him with the North pole as Giraldus Cambrensis did and then styleth him Maximum Britanniae regum 1. the greatest of the Kings of great Britaine vt supra And Giraldus goeth further for he compareth him with the great Alexander and ascribeth as some interpret the first discouery of the West Indies which was made by Madok a yonger son of Owin Gwineth Prince of Northwales An. Dom. 1170. to this King because it was done by his auspices as we may as well also attribute to him the redeeming of our great Artur from the iniurious imputation of a fabulous Heros because he caused his monument to be sought out which was sunk deep within the ground in the Isle of Aualon by the occasion of a Bardes song which he heard in Pēbroke But I will set downe Giraldus his owne words written in maner of a Panegyrick to this king and in my conceit elegant enough for those times Certant cum orbe terrarum victoriae vestrae a Pyrenaeis enim montibus vsque in occiduos et extremos Borealis Oceani fines Alexander noster occidentalis brachium extendisti Quantum igitur his in partibus natura terras tantum et victorias extulisti si excursuum tuorum metae quaerantur prius deerit orbis quam aderit finis Animoso enim pectori cessare possunt terrae cessare nesciunt victoriae non deesse poterunt triumphi sed materia triumphandi Qualiter titulis vestris et triumphis Hibernicus accesserit orbis Quanta et quàm laudabili virtute Occani secreta et occulta naturae deposita transpentraueris c Qualiter fulguranti aduentus vestri lumine attoniti occidentales reguli tanquam ad lucubrum auiculae ad vestrum statim imperium conuolauerunt And much more which for breuity I omit That which the Bishop of Chartres writeth of him before mentioned and promised is thys Rex illustris Anglorum Henricus secundus regum Britanniae maximus c. circa Garumnam fulminat et Tolosam falici cingens obsidione non modò prouinciales vsque ad Rhodanum et Alpes territat sed munitionibus dirutis populisque suba●lis quasi vniuersis praesens immineat timore principes cōcussit Hispanos et Gallos And to these I will adde onely Will. of Neuboroughs elogie for a Corollarie Regis supra omnes qui vnquam hactenus in Anglia regnasse noscebantur latius dominantis hoc est ab vltimis Scotiae finibus ad montesvsque Pyrenaeos nomen in cunctis regionibus celebre habebatur c. Hunc finem habuit inclytus ille rex Henricus ● inter reges terrarum nominatissimus et nulli eorūvel amplitudine opū vel faelicitate successuū secundus And thus much for the testimony of the greatnes of his conquests of his Empire as for his other greatnesses viz of his wisedome of his iustice of his magnanimity of his bounty and other heroycall vertues I shall not need to produce any proofe for his wise and politik administration of his great affayres and estate his victoryes and hygh acheeuements secretly intimate them at the full He was also well learned as Giraldus affirmeth and which was his best prayse he was very charytable and pious incomparabilis Eleemosynarum largitor et praecipuus terrae Palestinae sustentator And Radulph de Diceto writeth that in the time of an extreame dearth in Aniow and Maine hee releeued with bread ten thousand people dayly from Aprill till haruest And William of Newborough addeth that he receiued with great deuotion the character of the sacred Militia for the recouery of the holy land And afterward because he was not able to goe by reason of infirmities and for the great daungers wherein his estate should stand in his absence which Giraldus sheweth hee gaue toward this expedition the summe of 47. M. li. or there abouts Iean de la Haye also writeth that hee built S. Andrews Church in Bourdeaux and S. Peters in Poitiers and founded a Bishops sea there and enlarged the towne by the one halfe Hee reedified the Abby at Waltham in Essex and the Charterhouse of Witham in Wiltshire He repaired and much beautified the Monastery of font Euerard or Fronteuaux neere Egle in Normandy and founded the Priories of Staneley and of Douer He also began the stone-worke of London bridge which was finished by his Sonne King Ion or caused to be finished for it is all one to a common wealth And he instituted the circuits of the Iudges and not to be tedious in the enumeration of such particulars in a word he was as Ion Carnotensis who knew him well testifieth rex optimus apud Britānias Normanorum et Aquitanorum dux faelicissimus et primus tam amplitudine rerum quam splendore VIRTVTVM Quam strenuus quam magnificus quam prudens et modestus quam pius ab ipsa vt ita dicam infantia fuerit nec ipse liuor silere nec dissimulare potest cum opera recentia et manifesta sint c. And after those his great workes and all his high achiuements his victoryes his trophees of his heroycall and christian vertues and a long and happy raigne he departed at Chinon in Touraine in the 35. yeere of his raigne and in the 61. yeere of his age An. Do. 1189. and was with all due funerall pompe enterred at Fronteuaulx and vpon his tombe had this inscription engrauen Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerat orbis Res breuis ampla satis cui fuit ampla breuis Rex inuictus eram mihi plurima regnasubegi Multiplicique modo duxque comesque fui Cui satis advotum fuerant haud omnia terrae Climata terra modo sufficit octo pedum Qui legis haec pensa discrimina mortis et in me Humanae speculum conditionis habe Quod potes instanter operare bonum quia mundus Transit et incautos mors inopina rapit Thus this great Henry left his great name and his glory to the world and his Kingdomes and his dominions to his posterity the Princes aranged and enrouled in this following Poesy Vnto which his Empire I dare affirme vpon the present allegata et probata conclude that neuer any Prince heyre generall of this kingdome had so many so ancient so lawfull titles as Hee to whose happy inauguration this humble verse is consecrated AN ECLOG Entituled

ΔΑΦΝΙΣ ΠΟΛΥΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΣ betwixt Damaetus a Woodman and Silenus the Prophet of the Shepheards DAMAETAS SILENVS Stanza 1. OF all the trees in heau'nly Siluan's guard wherwith the worthest brow 's were crown'd of yore There is but one or few O reuerend Barde Amid whose vertues maze I would require A line of any learned wiserds lore The Plante of Genest chiefly I admire Whose humble highnes makes me oft surmise That lowly steps be ladders to the ski's 2 For well I wist though Genest doth not dwell In proudest soile nor tops of mountaines hye She shews by this that she foreseeth well The perils which doe all extreames impend Th' aspiring pine whose top doth threat the sky Diuine Reuenge doth headlongs oft downe send When this is safe vpon her humble hill Not thrall to any proud Superiors will 3 Againe I know her gentle property To yeeld and bowe as reason shall aduise Loe here a type of true humility And therefore hath by kind the soueraine pow'r Of parts of man which onely duty tyes To bowe to Kings and to their Creatour O iust respects who can so well deserue For to commaund as one that knows to serue 4 And that the Genest doth by nature holde A speciall honour of aeternall green And that hir boughs be charg'd with flowr's of gold And many such like graces more I wot But in my minde long this conceit hath been That yet the greatest wonders I weet not And I am wont this tree oft to compare To that which is in all the world most rare 5 Now good Silenus as you are a man Endew'd with passing skill and mystick art Enforme me rightly for I know you can What be the other mysteries of this tree And by the way I pray you to impart Both which and what those other flowers be Whereof they say the praesident of light Hath made a garland for his fauorite 6 Thou hast long liu'd Damaetas in the woods And there for Woodman hast Genista serued To prune her plants and saue her tender buds As seasons did the charge to thee commend And many of her vertues hast obserued Which vse or common mought apprehend But for to deem the doubt thou stick'st vpon Would aske some time bestow'd in Helicon 7 When first I went those sacred wells to see My will to good was harsh benumm'd and cold My head now white was then like eben-tree Dy'de in the sensuall sumes of youthfull will Loe now of each the contraries I hold For Time and trauaile and those springs of skill Of frost and snow haue made my sculls attire And warm'd my spirits with their holy fire 8 Now of these flames I will impart to thee And happily perhaps thou hast refer'd The resolution of this doubt to me For why this case was argued long-agone In Helicon and I my selfe it heard Where Phoeb amid the Muses on his throne Establish'd by those sacred maides aduise What Ghirlands should be ech acchiuements price 9 The question grew because Apollos suite Praeferd a plant against such as praesumed To weare a garland of his holy fruite Without desert or speciall grace diuine Apollo was much mou'd and chaf'd and fumed And went anone to counsaile with the Nine And when he had a leafe of Laurell eat Thus spake as I his speeches can repeat 10 The Laurel-crowne was giu'n and shall be still To peerelesse men to Clarks and Emperours And such as in a mood of metrik skill Could of my fauours make their vants at large And then that long-enduring Palme of yours Was due my sisters and my sacred charge To such as worthily to gaine the price Had suffer'd watching famine fire and Ice 11 And he which had with valiant hand preserued A citizen receiv'd a crowne of Oke But he a wreath of Oliue-leaues deserued Who had with Arts and plea's of peace beguiled The bitter times which discord had forspoke Or els some dangerous foe had reconciled And he who long had flam'd in true loues fire Receiv'd a crowne of Mirtle for his hire 12 I meane whose amorous flame is fed by grace By grace of hir who doth his deare perseuer I meane not one forlorne and in disgrace He must a wreath of bitter Willow weare For as that tree by buds doth promise euer A hope of fruite yet fruite doth neuer beare So vaine and fruitlesse is his hope and loue Who an inconstant womans loue doth proue 13 Of all the most authentik is of Grasse That crowne before I had my Bayes was vsed And with those words his colour alter'd was And fetch'd a sigh which would haue rent a rock So much his guilty conscience him accused Whose rape to scape a Maide was made a stock In briefe remorse did so with him preuale That he had much adoo to end his tale 14 Yet what he could his passions he subdu'de What could he not who was a wight diuine And for that he his purpose would conclude The Garland of the Grasse did serue quoth he For some such politik or Paladine Who from a seege should set a city free And then the hood of Cypresse-leaues was woorne Of such as had as I haue cause to moorne 15 For safe conuoy is borne the Veruain wreath Of foecials and Mars his oratours To Tuiscons race the Iuy I bequeath Lillis Chardons and sweets of Erycine Of seuerall Empires be the signall floures Symboles of beautie power and grace diuine And now I doe employ them to adorne The crowne which of my Daphnis shall be worne 16. The Pine is Pan's and hee bestoweth that Of herds which best can skill to tune an Ote Or wist to make their cartell soonest fat But more from this and from the rest I hast To speake more large of ONE as you may note The first in honour though in order last As it befalls with gold which is refin'de The worst comes first the best remaines behind 17. There is an Island Leucëëssa calld And in that Isle there growes a gentile tree Whose bough's bee all of carued Emerald And for hir flowrs my Raies I did employ For her abode she listeth not to be Where either heat or cold can hir anoy Whether the Bee of homagers most true Comes oft to yeeld his sute and seruice due 18. Vpon this tree is set my chiefest care Now thou faire Genest art my dearest tree Thy ghirlands now of all shal be most rare And I pronounce and make a solemne vow Sisters accord for so it must needs bee None shall pręsume to were hereof one bough But such as standing high in vertues grace Shal be aduanc'd to honours highest place 19. But to put on my new composed crowne It shall not fall to any but to ONE And such an one as merit and renowne Shall recommend vnto the supreme good Eu'n such a one as shall deserue alone