TROIA BRITANICA: OR, Great Britain's Troy. A Poem Divided into XVII. several Cantons, intermixed with many pleasant Poetical Tales. Concluding with an Universal Chronicle from the Creation, until these present Times.  
Written by Tho: Heywood.  
Et prodesse solent, & Delectare Poetae.  
LONDON; Printed by W. Jaggard, 1609.   

To the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Worcester, Lord of Chepstoll, Ragland, and Gower, Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter, Master of the Horse, and one of the Kings most Honourable Privy Council.  

TO you, whose Favour gave my Muse first breath,  
To try in th' Air her weak unable wing,  
And soar this pitch, who else had tasted death  
Even in her birth, from the Castalian spring  
She dedicates her labours (as they are)  
Though as you see, poor, featherlesse, and bare.   

Your Noble hand, to her, supportance gave,  
Even in her Pen-lesse Age about to fall,  
Her Cradle then had been her Infant grave,  
Had not your power and Grace kept her from thrall:  
Then by the Muse, by your high bounty raised,  
Y'are by your Merit and my duty praised.   

Her power (though weak) yet to her sickly strength  
Is willing, your past Graces to record,  
Though smothered long, yet she finds time at length  
To show her office to her Patron-Lord,  
Wishing (for your sake) that upholds her still,  
Her worth, had correspondence to her will.   

Then had her Theme, that treats of foreign deeds,  
Been only tuned to your desert and Merit,  
And you, from whom her nonage Art proceeds,  
Should by her Pen, Eternity inherit:  
But since (great Lord) her best fruits are but words,  
Prize what her heart, not what her Art affords.   

'tis fit those Lords which we from Troy derive,  
Should in the Fate of Troy remembered be,  
For since their Grandsire virtues now survive,  
And with the Spirits of this Age agree,  
It makes us fill our Cantons with such men,  
As liumg now, equaldtheyr virtues then.   

Homer (long since) a Chronicler Divine,  
And Virgil, have redeemed old Troy from fire,  
Whose memory had with her buildings line  
In desolate ruin, had not their desire  
Snatched her fair Title from the burning flame,  
Which with the Towhe had else consumed her name.   

Had they surviude in these our flourishing days,  
Your virtues from the ancient Heroes drawn,  
In spite of death or black oblivions rage,  
Should live for ever in Fame's glorious fawn,  
Ranked next to Troy, our Troy-novant should be,  
And next the Trojan Peers, your places free.   

Nor let your Honour my weak style despise,  
That strives to Register your names with theirs;  
For could my numbers like blind Homersrise,  
I would create you, Fame's eternal heirs:  
Accept my strength, (my weakness I bewray)  
Had I like Art, I would as much as they.   
Your Honours ever faithfully devoted,  
Tho: Heywood.   

TO the twofold Readers: the Courteous, and the Critic.  
THe favourable and gracious Reader, I salute, with a submiss Congee both of heart and knee: To the scornful, I owe not so much as an hypocritical entreat, or a dissembled courtesy. I am not so unexperienced in the envy of this Age, but that I know I shall encounter most sharp and seucre Censurers, such as continually carp at other men's labours, and superficially perusing them, with a kind of negligence and scorn, quote them by the way, Thus: This is an Error, that was too much stretched, this too slightly neglected, here many things might have been added, there it might have been better followed: this superfluous, that radiculous. These indeed knowing no other means to have themselves opinioned in the rank of understanders, but by calumniating other men's industries. These Satirists I meet thus: It were (in my opinion) more honour and honesty for them, to betake them seriously to the like studies, and the time they wast in detracting others, rather spend in instructing themselves, and by some more excellent work (moulded out of their own brains) give the foil to others of less Fame and consequence: This were a commendable and worthy detraction, savouring of desert; the other, a mere rancorous folly, grounded on nothing but malicious ignorance. For who more apt to call coward then the most timorous, but he only merits a name among the valiant, that hath actually and personally won his reputation by some deed of same and Honour. But since these Critics are a general Subject in the front of subject book, I am content to neglect them, as those Ireguard not, and to the friendly and best judging Reader, thus turn my Apology.  
I have adventured (right Courteous) to publish this Poem, and present it to thy general acceptance; If it be gently received, and favour ably ceusured, it may encourage me to proceed in some future labour; if any way distasted, I am so far from troubling the world with more, that I shall hold this little, much too much. Yet if you understandingly consider this project, you shall find included herein a brief memory or Epitome of Chronicle, even from the first man, unto us, this second time created Britons, with a faithful Register, not only of memorable things done in Troy and this Island, but of many, and the most famous accidents happening through the World, In whose reign and what year of the world they chanced (with which we have conferred the Histories of the Sacred Bible) & the truth of the times so even, that who so ever will deign the perv sall of these, shall not only perceive such things were done, but be also-satisfied in whose Reign (than successively governing in the kingdom of Britain) they happened. In all which, I have tasked myself to such succinctness and brevity, that in the iudisiall perusal of these few Cantons (with the Scolies Annexed) as little time shall be hazarded, as profit from them be any way expected.  
Accept then (I entreat you) this mingled Subject (as well home-born as foreign) and Censure it as favourably, as I have offered it freely. Though something may perhaps distaste, something again I presume will please the most curious palate: Let that which pleaseth, mittig at the harshness of the other. He that speaks much, may (excusably) speak somewhat Idly, and he that in unknown Climates travails far, may (by misadventure) wander out of the way: but where the main intent and purpose is honest and good, it is pardonable to expect the best. And in that hope, I prostrate these my barren industries to your kindest and gentle Constructions.   

Proemium.  
I Hold it necessary as a Preface to this general History, to remember some Antiquities touching the ages of the World, with the first peopling of kingdoms, and of the four Monarchies which may illustrate this Poem, if in any place it appcate dark and intricate. they are 16 56. from the Creation, Noah entered the Ark, and the Vntuerse was destroyed by the Deluge, with all mankind (Noah and his family excepted) of his three sons Sem, Ham, and japheth, were all Nations procreated. The posterity of Sem inhabited 
Carion.  the East by the River Euphrates; Cham, the places near Irodan & Nile, towards the Meridian; japheth, the less Asia towards the West, whence many Nations of Europe proceeded.  
Sems' sons were five; Elam, of whom came the Persians, from him Xenophon 
Xenophon.  deriveth Cyrus. Assur, of him came the Assyrians. Ninus, of him the Niniuttes and Badilonians. Arphaxad, of him the Chaldeans, and from his Nephew Fber, were d●…riued the Herbrues; (the word signifieth travelers or Strangers) Of this line came Abraham, David, and the Messias. Aram, of him the Syrians descended, of which Damascus is the metropolis; therefore it was thus written; The head of Aram is Damascus.  
The posterity of Cam was Chus, of whom came the Aethiopians in the farthest 
Ptolometes.  Coasts of Aphrica, and the Libyans called to this day Chirsita: The sons of Chus were Saba of whom the Sabaans', and Euila, of wheme the Indians descended. Nemrod first reigned in Babylon, Misraim occupied Egypt, which the Arabians and Turks to this day call Mizri: The sons of misraim were Lydas, who pcopled Lydia, a Nation that after seated themselves in some parts of Itahe, and Labain of whom the Sunburnt Lybians are thought to descend: Of Eua●…m came 
Pin●…us. Herodo●…. Pliny  the Cyrenians, who built the City Cerenaica, of who came the Mauritanians, and of him a famous River that still bears his name. Of Canaan came the Sydonians and Tyrians: Heath built Hebron where Abraham dwelled and was buried: jebuseus possessed Gaba and jerusalem. japheths' sons were Gomor or Togerma, of whom the Cinerians take their original, They are seated beyond Thrace, near the Meotiden fen, where the Bosphort inhabit, not far from Cimbrica Chersonessus: Of Magog came the S●…thians, and of them the Turks: and to prove the Turk to be in God and Magor, Ezechiell saith, the Nations of Magog lie toward the south, which in the latest days shall seek the fall of Israel. And the Apocalip. Magog 
H●…dotus  shall lastly Emperise the world: Of Madai came the Medes: Of javan or jabu, the jovians or Grecians, The sons of javan, were Elisa, of whom came the Aeolians in Asia minor. Tharsis. built Tharsis the chief City of the Cilicians: Of Cethim came the Macedonians: Of Adodanim the Dodoneans in Epire. javan, was that janus that reigned in Italy. Of Tubal came the Hispani and Iberi. Of Mosoch came the Muscovites. Of Tyrus the Thracians. The Sons of Gomer were Ascanes, Riphat, and Togorma. Of Ascanes came the 〈◊〉, who after shifted themselves 
Apollonius in Argonant justinus posthum. Isliad. 2 〈◊〉.  into other Provinces, and ofthem came the Cimbrians, the Bythinians, the Cancoves, the 〈◊〉, and Heveti: Of Riphat came the Riphei, Giants that inhabited the Riphean Hills, where the Sanromass then lived. By the 〈◊〉 are meant all such as speak in the 〈◊〉 tongue: From Riphat came also the Paphlagonians, these 〈◊〉 themselves into Europe, some inhabiting Russia, Lytuania and Polonia, from the Adriatic shore unto Illusria. Likewise Fistula, Albis, and Bohemia, 
〈◊〉  where before lived the Hermaduri and Boij.  
Among the Sons of Sem Gether is numbered, of whom came the Geteses, 
Paralip:  they were called Gotti or Goths, who inhabited Wallachia, these speak the Almain tongue, and mixed themselves with the Germans, whose name is derived of Gerim and Any, which signifieth, miserable Strangers. The French are called 〈◊〉 
〈◊〉.  of Wallen, which in the Almain tongue signifies, Wanderers. From Brute came the Britons, since called Angli.  
In Nemrod was the first Monarchy established, he lived a hundred years after the Flood, after 200. years Ninus built Ninivy in 〈◊〉, whose wife Semiramis 
First Mon.  after his death erected the walls of Babylon. Ninius her son succeeded, in whose time Abraham came into Palestine, Him succeeded Amraphel king of Sennaar or Babylon, Of these Assyrian monarchs Sardanapalus was the last, whose proud name we thus derive; Sar, a Captain; Dan, a judge; 〈◊〉, a Destroyer; He was overthrown by phul-Belochus a Babylonian, and Arbaces a Medean when Osia reigned in juda, phul belochus reigned over the Babylonians and Ninivites forty years. Arbaces over the Meads and Persians. Belochus warred upon Israel, whom succeeded his Son Phal Assur, called in the Scriptures Tiglat Peilassur: He reigned 23. years, him Salmanasser succeeded, and reigned ten years, he besieged Samaria, of him Hosea speaks, Chapter 10. 〈◊〉 succeeded Salmanasser, who besieged Jerusalem, and reigned ten years, his Army was overthrown by the Angels: Assur haddon next ruled, ten years. In him 
Esay. 39 Kings, 4. 23 Paral. 35 I eremy 39 Daniel 〈◊〉  declined the Monarchy of Assiria, and Merodach became Monarch over the Chaldees, Benmerodach reigned after his Father 21. after him Nabuchednezzar Primus 35. He warred against Egypt, Nabuchadnezzar Magnus reigned forty, in Zedechias time he besieged Jerusalem, a 〈◊〉 and six months, him succeeded evil Merodach, who released jeconias: he dead, Balsaar succeeded fourteen 〈◊〉, he was a greet Blasphemer. In his time Babylon was razed, and the Monarchy transferred to the Persians: he himself being slain by Cyrus. The kings 
Died: 〈◊〉  of Egypt in the times of this Monarchy, were these. Osiris with his Wife Isis, who lived in the time of Abraham. Orus, Bochoris, Busyris, Miris, 〈◊〉, who 
Herodotus.  lived in the time of Samson. pherones, of whom all the Kings of Egypt were 
Kings 3, 14 〈◊〉 46  called pharaohs. Proteus whom some call Cetes, to him Paris and Helen sailed in their return from Greece. Rampsinitus, Cephus, or Cheops, Cephris, Mycerinus, Anycis. Sabachus, called in the Bible Sesach, Sethen, Psamneticus. Nechos who overcame josia by the City Megeddo, and was after slain. Nabuchadnezzar, 〈◊〉, Apries, who sacked 〈◊〉, and slew the Prophet jeremiah. Amasis, in whose time the Monarchy came to the Persians.  
In Greece in the time of this Monarchy lived japethus, the Son of Noah, after whom reigned helas, now was the expedition of the Argonats, Erictheus, Perseus and his Acts. The wars of Troy. 〈◊〉, with the Theban History, notorious in Oedipus and jocasta, with the deaths of the two Brothers Eleocles, and Polynices. Now were the 〈◊〉 famous. Rome in the time of this first Monarchy, 
Lactantius. Dionysius 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. The second Monarchy.  was bullt the tenth year of Achas, King of juda, It was 〈◊〉 by Kings 6244 years. Rhomulis reigned 38. Numa 43. Tullius Hostilius 32. Aucus Martius 2 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 37. Servius Tullius 44. In the last part of his reign began the Persian Monarchy: 〈◊〉 the proud 25. He was repulsed his Kingdom by the Consul Brutus, because his Son Sextus had 〈◊〉 ravished 〈◊〉, the wise of Collatyne.  
The Persian Kings were, first Cyrus, who reigned 29. he overcame Croesus of 
Metasthenes. Xenophon. 〈◊〉.  Lydia, besieged Babylon, and was after slain by Tomyris, Queen of Scythia In his time lived Thales Milesius, Pythagoras borne in Samos, Solon, and Draco, who first ordered the year, 〈◊〉 the months, added the Epact, and collected first the Poems of Homor. Cambyses the second King, who reigned 7. years, added Egypt to his Empire, and covered the judgement Seat with the skin of his false judge Sisamnes. The third Darius he by the neyhing of his 〈◊〉, was elected Emperor, reigned 36. He by the craft of his Friend Zopyrus, won Babylon, and added to his Dominions the Geteses, Cymerians, and 〈◊〉. Now lived Hippias, the Son of Pysistratus in 〈◊〉, and Miltiades. This Darius was the Son of Histaspes, called in the Scripture Ashuerosh, Husband to Hester, called by 〈◊〉 Aristona, as the Name of Vasts was Atossa. Some refer the History of judith to these times, Fourth Xerxes reigned 20. He 〈◊〉 Greece with 
〈◊〉.  an Army of 10000000. Soldiers, his cheese Captain was Mardonius, his chief Counsellor Artabanus. He was first repulsed by Pausanias of Sparta, after 
〈◊〉  expelled Greece by 〈◊〉. In these wars were famous, Artstides and Cimon. 4. Artaxerxus with the long hand ruled 40. He was thought to be the Son to Darius and Hester. In his time lived Esdras, Haggeus, Zachartus, and Nehemiah. About the time of the Pelloponesian War. And now was Rome governed 
Demosthe.  by the 〈◊〉 form of government infamous, in the lust of 〈◊〉, to the chaste Roman Lady Virginia. Darius' Nothus reigned 19 In his time hued famous Alcibiades: and Sophocles, & Euripides, two famous Tragedians. Artaxerxes Memnon 40. he loved the famous Lady Aspasia, the Noblest Greekes in his days were Clearchus, Anaxilaus, Lisander, who conquered Athens (after governed by 30. Tyrant's) who were suppressed by the 〈◊〉 of Thrasibulus. Now happened the Wars between the Phocenses and the Locri: with 〈◊〉 Leuctricum. And now 〈◊〉 Conon, and 〈◊〉 Epamaminondas in Greece, about the 〈◊〉 that English Brennus sacked Rome. Artaxerxes Ochus next Memnon, reigned 26. In his time happened the War which was called Bellum sacrum. 〈◊〉 reigned four years, he was slain by Bagoas. Him Darius succeeded, & in the sixth year 
The third Monarchy.  of his reign, was slain by Alexander the Great, in whom began the third Monarchy translated to the Grecians.  
Alexander by his Father Philip deriveth his birth from Hercules, by his Mother Olympus from Aeacus, He conquered the World, reigned as Emperor 12. years: In the 32. of his age. He dead, the Monarchy was d●…ded into four parts, Egypt, Syria, Asia Mynor, and Macedon. The Kings of Egypt after Alexander, were these: Ptolomeus the Son of Lagus: Ptolomeus, Philodelphus, Alexander, Philopater, Epiphanes, Philometer, Euergetes; Phiscon, Alexander, Lathurus, Auletes, Father to C●…patra, Dionysius her Brother, in whom ended the race of the Ptolomees, and now Egypt came under the I●…risdiction of the Romans.  
The Kings of Macedon were Perdiccas, Craterus, Antipater, Cassander, Antigonus 1. Antigonus 2. Demetrius, Philippus, and Perseus, who was surprised by the Romans.  
The Kings of Syria, who after the death of Alexander possessed Babylon, Syria, and Asia Minor, were Antiochus Soter, Antiochus Theos, Antiochus Magnus, who had these three Sons, Seleucus Philopater, Antiochus Epiphanes, and Demetrius. Demetrius after his Brother's decease, had two Sons: Demetrius Nicanor, and 
Polibises  Antiochus Sedetes. The Son of Nicanor was Antiochus Griphus. The Son of Sedetes was Antiochus Cyzenius. These having slain each other, from their Issue, Tygranes King of Armenia re●…t the Kingdom of Syria, which first Lucullus, and after Pompeius Magnus annexed to the Roman Empire.  
These in the time of the third Monarchy, were Captains and Governors among the jews. Nehemiah, joconias, Selathiel, Zorobabel Resa Mesollam, ●…ohanna Ben Resa, judas Hircanus primus: (in his Dukedom Alexander flew Darius.) josephus primus, Abner Semei, Eli matathai, Asa mahat, Nagid Artaxad, Haggai, Eli Maslot Nahum, Amos Sirach, Matathia Siloah, josephus Iun●…r, janua secun●…s Hircanus. And then began the race of the Maccabees in Matathias, whose Sons succeeded him, judas, jonathas, Simon, johannes Hercanus. The Kings of that line were Aristobulus, son to Hercanus, Alexander I●…neus, Queen Alixandra his Wife, (otherwise called Salome.) The Sons of Alexander, were Hircanus and Aristobulus, in their death ended the line of the Maccabees. Succeeding these in the 30. year of the reign of Herod Tetrache, was borne the Saviour of the World, unto which we have studied to reduce the best known Nations of the Earth, leaving the 4. Monarchy among the Romans, who by this time awed 
The fourth Mo●…hy.  the Earth, whose wars and Fortunes being so commonly from many worthy Writers, translated into our modern tongue, We here om●… letting this short Epitome only serve in the Front of our Book, to instruct your memories, and guide your thoughts through those unknown Deserts, in which without this direction, many Readers may lose themselves: be this therefore their Pilot to direct them to the harbour of these latter Ages more familiarly known.   

Argumentum 
The year of the Lord above the line.   
TITAN and Saturn differ, their great strife, 
The year before Christ under the line.   
Is by their careful mother (VESTA) ended:  
Saturane, his Sister Sibyl takes to wife,  
And the heyre-males that are from them descended  
He dooms to death: fair Sibyl saves the life  
Of jupiter, grim Saturn is offended,  
And to the Oracle at Delphos hies,  
Whiles Titan through the earth his fortune tries.  
ARG. 2.  
The World's Creation, gold from the earth's veins,  
Neptune and Pluto's birth, ALPHA contains.  
CANTO. 1.  

THis VNIVERSH with all 
The opinions of the old Philosophers touching the creation. Thales Milesi. Haraclitus  therein contained,  
Was not at first of Water fashioned,  
Nor of the Fire, as others oft have fcyned,  
Nor of the Air, 
Hyppasus  as some have vainly spread.  
Nor the four Elements 
Anaxamines  in order trained.  
Nor of Vacuity and Atom's bred. 
Empedocles   
Nor hath it been Eternal (as is thought 
Epicurus   
By natural men) that have no further sought.   

2  
Neither hath man in perpetuity been, 
M●…rdorus   
And shall on earth eternally persever  
By endless Generation, running in  
One circuit; (In corruption lasting ever)  
Nor did that Nation first on earth begin, 
Di●…dorus   
Under the mid Equator: some endeavour  
So to persuade; that man was first begun,  
In the place next, to the life-giving Sun.   

3  
Neither was he of Earth and water framed, 
Empedocles   
Tempered with lively heat (as others write;) 
Anaximander   
Nor were we in a former world first named, 
Democritus   
As in their curious Problems (some recite:)  
Others, more ripe in judgement, have proclaimed, 
Z●…   
Man framed of clay, in fashion exquisite;  
In whom were breathed sparks of Celestial fire,  
Whence he still keeps his Nature, to aspire.   

4  
But this most glorious Universe, was made 
M●…yses   
Of nothing, by the great Creator's will;  
The Ocean bounded in, not to invade  
Or swallow up the Land, so resteth still  
The azure Firmament, to over-shade  
Both Continent, and Waters, which fulfil  
The Maker's word, one God doth sole extend  
Without beginning, and shall see no end.   

5  
That powerful Trinity created man  
Adam, of Earth, in the fair field Damask,  
And of his rib he Eva, form than,  
Supplying them with all things they can ask;  
In these first two, Humanity began;  
In whom, confined IHBHOVAHS' fix-da●…es task.  
From Adam then and Euahs' first Creation,  
It follows we derive our British Nation.   

6  
Inspire me in this task (Ihoves seed I pray)  
With Hippocrenes drops besprinke my head,  
To comfort me upon this tedious way,  
And quicken my cold brain nigh dull and dead;  
Direct my wandering spirits, when they stray,  
Lest foreign and forbidden paths they tread:  
My journey's tedious, (blame not then my fears)  
My voyage, aims at many thousand years.   

7  
Oh give me leave, from the World's first Creation,  
The ancient names of Britons, to derive  
From Adam, to the World's first Inundation,  
And so from Noah, to us that yet suru●…e:  
And having of Troy's Worthies made relation,  
Your spurs the Chariot of my Muse must drive  
Through all past Ages, and precedent times,  
To fill this new World with my worthless rhymes.   

8  
Oh, may these Artless numbers in your ears,  
(Renowned JAMES) seem Musically strung,  
Your fame (oh Ioves-stared Prince) spread every where,  
First gave my still and speechless Muse a tongue:  
From your Majestic virtues (prised dear,)  
The infant life of these harsh metres sprung;  
Oh, take not then their industry in scorn,  
Who, but to emblaze you, had been yet vnbo●…e.   

9  
Not let your Princely Peers hold in disdain,  
To have their Auncestry stild'e and enrolled  
In this poor Register, a higher strain  
Their merits ask, since brazen leaves unfold  
Their never-dying Fame, yet thus much deign,  
Not to despise to hear your virtues told  
In a plain style, by one, whose wish and heart,  
Supplies in zeal, want both of Skill and Art.   

10  
Times faithfully conferred, the first invention  
Of most things now in use, hear you shall find,  
Annexed with these, the use and comprehention  
Of Poes●…, once to the Gods desceind,  
Suffer our bluntness then, since our intention  
Is to good use, sent from a zealous mind.  
If Stones in Lead set, keep their virtues: then,  
Your worth's the same, though blazed by a rude Pen.   

11  
In the worlds Childhood, and those Infant-days,  
When the first earth was in her strength and prime, 
The Golden Age.   
Ofher own nature yielding plants and Sprays,  
Flowers, both for smell and Medicine: when each time  
The cheerful beams of the bright Sun displays, 
Hessed. in operibus & disbus.   
To ripen fruits in their convenient time;  
Before the labouring Swain with'is iron plough,  
Made furrowed wrinkles in the Earth's smooth brow.   

2  
When men were governed more by Will, than Art, 
Pherecrates.   
And had their appetites by Nature swayed,  
When Fraud was unbegot, and had no part  
In the world's Empire; before Coin was made, 
Tremigistus.   
When man his mutual fortunes did impart  
Without Extortion, Guile, or usurers trade;  
Before smooth Cunning was to ripeness grown, 
Marcil. ficinns.   
Or devilish Wax and Parchment yet were known.   

3  
I mean the golden world, the purest Age, 
Tibullus.   
That knew not brazen war, or fatal steel,  
For war was in his cradle: iron age  
Bred but his teeth: yet did the world not feel  
His ravenous fangs, no man did battle wage,  
Or try the inconstant course of Fortune's wheel;  
There was twixt king and king no grim defiance,  
Nor bands (save of affection and alliance.)   

4  
Then lived Uranus a great Lord in Crect, 
Uranus and Vesta. 1954.   
To Aethra and great Demogorgon heir,  
He married with a Lady bright and sweet,  
Vesta through all those climes (surnamed the fair) 
2009. Hiberius son of jubal governed Spain. Nynus Assyria Mogus Gallia   
With two young lads she did her Husband greet,  
Titan and Saturn, at two births she bore:  
Titan the eldest, crooked, and il-faced,  
Saturn well shaped, fair spoke, and comely graced.   

5  
Uranus, in his hopeful issue famed, 
Uranus' called also Crect.   
Begot on Vesta two fair Daughters more,  
The first Sibilla, the last Ceres named,  
Fairer were never seen in Crect before.  
Both were by Nature in her cunning framed,  
Out of her beauty's choice, and purest store:  
Titan, was for his ugly shape abhorred,  
But Saturn, for his comeliness adored.   

6  
This Saturn, was the first by whose invention  
The Earth was Tiled, and Eared, and gave increase,  
Before his fruitful days, was never mention  
To sow, or plant; Till then a general peace  
Was made twixt th'earth and us, our apprehension  
Stretched not to know her secrets: Now 'gan cease  
Blind Ignorance in man, Saturn first found,  
To till, to plow, to sow, to reap the ground.   

7  
He likewise was the first that strung the bow,  
And with a feathered Arrow pierced the Air,  
Ph●…bus at first, admired, and did not know  
What new made Birds could fly so swift and fair,  
Mistaking Saturn's shafts, for who would trow,  
Man's wisdom could invent a thing so rare,  
(Being earthbred) to stretch his brain so high,  
As teach his shafts way through the empty sky.   

8  
And now began th'amazed Earth to admire,  
To see such strange fruits in her bosom growing;  
To see her head wear such unknown attire,  
To see the Swains, some planting, others sowing;  
Now first began the birds to perch them hire,  
And shun man's sight, still wondering, but not knowing,  
How men below on th'earth's verdure lying,  
Should reach into the air, and sttike them flying.   

9  
To kill the Savage beast he likewise taught,  
And how to pierce the Serpent's scale from far,  
By him, the wilde-swift-running Hart was caught,  
He first devised for us the use of war;  
He showed which mines of earth be good, which nought,)  
Which be the veins of Gold, which silver are;  
He Minerals first found, and from the mould,  
To deck his Palace, brought refined gold.   

10  
Yet some great Saturn's glory would deface, 
Pliny.   
And say, that Cadmus' first this metal found  
In high Pangeus, a huge hill in Thrace,  
Else Thoas and Eaclis searched the ground 
Herodotus   
For gold over; and Panchaia was the place,  
Known in such precious metals to abound:  
Some, twixt Erichthon and Ceacus divide,  
Finding bright silver (first in Athens tried.)   

11  
Idei Dactili Iron metal wrought  
In Crect: some deem, two jews in Cypress made it,  
Selmentes and Damnameneus brought 
Clement.   
The Ore from thence, and to their use assayed it;  
For yellow Brass the fly Pannonians sought,  
The Scythian Lydus, with the fire allayed it, 
Aristotle.   
And taught it first to melt; which some suppose,  
The Phrygian Delos did by Art disclose. 
Theophrast.    

12  
Midacritus a Mineral more than these 
Strabo.   
Brought from a Province that belongs to Spain,  
Led: from the islands Cassiterides,  
Which some would Attribute to Tuball-Caine.  
Glaucus' all Metals brought beyond the seas  
Taught how to sother, (else their use were vain.)  
The first Smiths-forge, the black Calibians made,  
And after taught the Ciclopes their trade.   

13  
Cyniras': the Stythee, lever, Tongues and File, 
Polycron. Polidor.   
Pyrodes was the first from flint stroke fire,  
Which how to keep in matches longer while  
Prometheus taught: This Vulcan did acquire:  
The bellows: Anacharsis in the Isle  
Called Scitheses, and thus men did still aspire  
For knowledge; and in several Countries nursed  
These Arts, of whom we hold king Saturn first.   

14  
Therefore the Cretan people much esteemed him,  
And called him God on earth for his rare wit;  
Much honour he received which they beteemed him,  
And in their popular judgements held it fit  
To burn him Myrrh and Incense, for they deemed him  
Worthy alone amongst the Gods to sit,  
Persuaded such a high inventious strain,  
Could not proceed from any Mortals brain.   

11  
As these rare gifts the giddy Commons noted,  
So in his mother's heart they took Impression,  
Who on her sons perfections inly doted,  
Making for him her daily intercession,  
Thus in a Sea of sweet content he floated;  
For who, but of his virtues made confession?  
In process, and the chief of Saturn's pride,  
The old Uranus crazed, fell sick and died.   

12  
After a few sad funeral sighs and tears  
By Vesta, o'er her husband's body shed,  
In crooked Titan, to the world appears  
A strong intention, to empale his head  
With his dead father's Crown: This Vesta fears,  
And calling Saturn, thus to him she said:  
My dearest son, 'tis by the Lords decreed,  
That in Uranus' Princedom, thou succeed.   

13  
Thy brother Titan, though in Age before thee,  
Yet in thy wisdom thou hast him outstripped;  
Thou hast the popular love, they all adore thee,  
His blasted hopes, are in the blossom nipped;  
With Coin, with Men, with Armour, I will store thee,  
Let him stand fast, or he shall sure be tripped:  
Both Lords and people, join with me thy mother,  
To invest Saturn, and depose thy brother.   

14  
With that, before her son could make reply,  
Where they were speaking, rushed bold Titan in,  
A storm was in his brow, fire in his eye, 
Difference twixt Tyta●… and Saturn.   
After some tempest, he doth thus begin:  
Must then young Saturn reign? Oh, tell me why?  
Am I a Bastard, and begot in sin?  
Hath Vesta played the strumpet with my Father,  
That you despise me, and elect him rather?   

15  
Was I not of that Virgin-wombe the first?  
And lay I not as near your heart as he?  
Was I not of those breasts before him nursed?  
And am I not his Elder in degree?  
What have I done, you should affect me worst?  
Your Mayden-birth, and your first progeny:  
Before him I was borne, and to be plain,  
(By all the Gods) I will before him reign.   

16  
Had I not in your womb, the self-same being?  
Am I not of the self-same blood created?  
Is not my Royalty with his agreeing?  
Is not my birth before his Antedated?  
Is elder Titan, now not worth the seeing?  
Must in my right, that young boy be instated?  
Hath he so well, or I so ill deserved:  
No: first I came, and I will first be served.   

17  
And turning to young Saturn, with an eye  
Threatening revenge, and ruin to his life,  
Prin-cox (quoth he) must you be placed so high,  
The only darling of Vranu wife?  
Canst thou so soon out-leape me? Thou shalt die,  
And in thy fatal obits end this strife;  
Then, with his fatal blade he blest his head,  
Had the blow fallen, it had struck Saturn dead.   

18  
But Vesta staid it coming, and withal  
Came Ceres and Sibilla thrusting thither,  
They hug young Saturn, but on Titan fall,  
Thundering on him with clamours, altogether,  
The younger brother they their Sovereign call,  
And bid the elder pack, they care not whither:  
The people second them: thus in disgrace,  
The Stigmatic is forced to leave the place.   

19  
But having better with himself advised, 
Erythea Sibylla.   
Titan and Saturn thus the strife decide,  
That Titan (for his shape so much despised)  
Should leave the Sceptre unto Saturn's guide, 
Their strife compounded.   
And so to stint all malice enterprised;  
But after Saturn's death, the Crownet'abide 
Lu●….   
To Titan and his heirs, by his last will;  
So Saturn swears all his heirs male to kill.   

20  
King Saturn must not let a son survive 
Apollonius li. 2 Argonant.   
To keep his brothers I ssue from the Crown,  
Only his Daughters he may save alive,  
These Covenants are betwixt them both set down:  
Henceforth, no more these haughty brothers strive,  
For either by Indenture knows his own:  
The Crown is Saturn's, due to Titan's seed,  
To make which good, all Saturn's sons must bleed.   

21  
The elder brother, thus o'reswaide with might,  
Cannot endure that Clime, but seeks another,  
To see his younger throned in his right,  
Or to be called a Subject to his brother,  
And therefore full of anger and despite,  
He leaves his Country, Sisters, and his mother;  
And to be rid at once of his disgraces,  
He seeks adventures strange, in foreign places.   

22  
Where Fortune his attempts so much befrended,  
That many Warlike Nations he subdud'e,  
No quest, save Arms and valour, he intended,  
And how by Usurpation to intrude  
Into the rights of others, who defended  
Their Honours, both by strength and multitude:  
Thus he of many Islands reigns sole King,  
And all the World, of Titan's Acts doth ring.   

23  
Yet into Crect he daily sends espial,  
To know if Saturn made his Covenant good,  
Forcing his sly scouts (maugre all denial)  
To bring him word, how Saturn's glory stood,  
Whether of Marriage he had yet made trial,  
Or having Children male, had spilled their blood;  
Knowing himself to be sufficient strong,  
By force of Arms, to right his former wrong.   

24  
So with his five and forty Sons makes thence, 
Diod. S●…lus.   
With fair Tytea, mother to seventeen  
Of that large brood; all these with rage dispense,  
And by their late atonement, Exiles been.  
With patience they depart (but with pretence)  
Hoping well Armed once more to be seen,  
And with their brood of Tytanois to meet,  
And tug with Saturn, for the Crown of Crect.   

25  
Rhea (of all the beauteous daughters fairest)  
Brides with Hyperion, her best-loved Brother:  
He likewise, for his feature was the rarest  
Of Titan's sons (there lived not such another)  
Oh sweet Hyperion, thou in shape comparest  
With all the Giant issue of thy mother;  
At feveral births, two Babes she childed soon,  
The male she called the Sun; Female, the Moon.   

26  
The other Tytans fearing, to these two  
Their Father's Conquests should in time descend,  
A monstrous Act they have intent to do,  
Whose scandal shall beyond both Poles extend,  
And none but Parricides would yield unto,  
For they that should their Brother's life defend  
Conspire together, and 'gainst right or reason,  
In dead of night, they seek his death, by Treason.   

27  
But first they take his little son, the Sun, 
Pausanias' in Corinthiacis.   
And to the flood Eridanus (well known,  
That streams along their Coast:) In haste they run,  
Where the young Lad amongst the waves is thrown,  
This, when his tender Sister knew was dun,  
From a high Rock, herself she tumbled down:  
In pity of whose beauties, grace, and years,  
The Gods translate them, to the brightest Spheres.   

28  
Mean time, the new made King of crete's renown  
Increased so much, that he was termed a God, 
Of Titan mor Can 3 stan. 27   
He was the first that ware a Laurel Crown,  
The first that ventured on the Scas, and rod  
In triumph on the waters; (this being known)  
They held them happiest, that could make abode  
In his blessed Province, which being well conducted,  
Kings sent their Sons to him, to be instructed.   

25  
Saturn in those days was held only wise,  
Many young Princes in his Court wer●… trai●…d,  
He taught them both the use of Seas and ●…es,  
And what h●…d wealth within the Earth remained;  
Then 'gan he Cities build, and Laws devise,  
for an Irregular people he disdained:  
The mineral mountaine-veines he undermined,  
And was the first, that perfect Gold refined.   

26  
Yet never did this King in aught miscarry,  
Having what Earth, and Sea, and Air could yield,  
Happy in all things, save, he durst not marry,  
He sees the gorgcous house, he late did build  
Shine with reflecting Gold (his objects vary)  
He sees his ripe corn, growing in the field,  
He sees the wild Birds by his Archers caught,  
Pierced with those shafts, whose use before he taught.   

27  
He sees the vast Seas, by his Oars divided,  
And the decepe waters, without danger past,  
By Art of Sail and Rudder, they are guided,  
(What greater happiness could Mortal taste?)  
But when the Covenant long before decided  
Twixt him and Titan he records, at last,  
It pierced his heart with sorrow: for his life  
Seems to him tedious, led without a wife.   

28  
What boots him all his Honours and rich state?  
His wealths-increase, and all his worldly pleasure?  
For whom doth he rise early, and sleep late?  
Having no heir, to inherit all his Treasure:  
He knows he hath incurred his Brother's hate,  
Yet must his seed, make of his kingdom seazure:  
He envies his own wealth, because he knows,  
All his life time he toils, t'enrich his foes.   

29  
He loves his Sister Sibyl (yet not so  
That if she ch●…dren have, their bloods to spill)  
And yet his timorous passions hourly grow,  
Nor can he on her beauty gaze his fill:  
Feign would he marry her, and yet doth know  
If she have Issue, he her sons must kill,  
So that he wishes now, (but all too late)  
That for his vow, he might Exchange his state.   

30  
In this distraction many days he dwelled,  
Till Love at length in Saturn's heart prevailed,  
Such fervent passions in his breast he felt,  
That spite his Oath, (which he so much bewailed)  
He feels his soft thoughts in his bosom melt:  
(Needs must he yield whom such fair Jookes assailed)  
And now upon this desperate point he stood,  
To wade t'her bed, though through his children's blood.   

31  
This can great Apis witness, who that time  
Peloponessus governed: This records  
jubalda, who the Spanish seat doth clime;  
This Craunus kneeled to by th'Italian Lords:  
This Satron, who the Gauls ruled in his prime,  
Now to Semiramis Assyria affords  
The Monarchy: who after Ninus died,  
Married her Son, and perished by his pride.   

32  
The marriage rights with solemn feasts are done, 
Saturn marrieth his Sister Sibyl.   
Sibyl both wife and sister; the first Queen  
That reigned in Crete, hath now conceived a son,  
Never hath less applausive joy been seen 
2000   
At such a Bride's Conception: the time's come 
1963.   
The long suspensive days expired been:  
For if a male, his blood the Earth must stain,  
A male she brought forth, and the Lad was slain.   

33  
For so the King commanded, being a King,  
He thought it base if he should break his word,  
Oh golden days, of which the Poets sing,  
How many can this Iron age afford  
That hold a promise such a precious thing,  
Rather to yield their children to the sword,  
Then that the world should say, thy oath thou brakest,  
Or wast so base, to eat the word thou spakest.   

33  
Such difference is twixt this, and that of gold,  
We in our sins are stronger; Virtues weaker;  
Words tie them fast, but us no bonds can hold;  
They held it vild, to be a promise breaker;  
A Liar was as strange in times of old,  
As to find out amongst us, a true speaker:  
Their hearts were of pure metal, ours have flaws,  
Now laws are words; in those days, words were laws.   

34  
The Funeral of the first slain infant ended,  
And the sad days of mourning quite expired,  
At which the piteous Queen was most offended,  
But now her spirits with dull sorrows tired,  
The King a second metting hath intended,  
And the Queen's nuptial bed again desired;  
Sibyl conceives, and in her womb doth cherish,  
More children, ready in their birth to perish.   

35  
And growing near her time, the sorrowful father,  
Displeased to see his wife so apt to bear,  
Who for his vowes-sake wish her barren rather,  
(The murder of his first son touched him near,)  
Sends through his Land, a kingly train to gather,  
And makes for Delphos, hoping he shall hear  
Some better comfort from the Delphian shrine,  
Whose Oracles the king esteems divine.   

36  
He therefore first his sacrifice prepares,  
And on Apollo's Altar Incense burns,  
Then kneeling to the Oracle, his prayers  
Mount with the sacred sum, which near returns,  
Tell the pleased God acquainted with his cares  
Looks down from heaven, & sees him how he mourns,  
Desiring that his power would nothing hide,  
But tell, what of her next birth should betide.   

37  
With that there fell a storm of Rain and Thunder,  
The Temple was all sire, the Altar shook,  
The golden roof above, and pavement under,  
Trembled at once, about 'gan Saturn look,  
To see what heavenly power had caused this wonder,  
Feign he the holy place would have forsook,  
When th'Oracle thus spoke: thy wife grows great,  
With one that shall depose thee from thy seat.   

38  
For from her royal womb shall one proceed,  
That in despite of thee in Crect shall dwell;  
So have the never-changing fares decreed,  
Such is the Oracles (thrice sacred) spell;  
A son shall issue from king Saturn's seed,  
That shall enforce his father down to Hell,  
This heard, the discontented king arose,  
And (doubly sad) away to Crect he goes.   

39  
What shall he do, fair Sibyls time draws near,  
And if the Lad which she brings forth survive,  
The news will stretch unto his brother's ear,  
To whom he swore to keep no male alive,  
Besides a second cause he hath to fear,  
Lest he his father, from his kingdom drive,  
Then, to prevent these ills, he swears (on high,)  
Inspite of fate, the infant borne shall die.   

40  
Yet when the King his first sons death records,  
In his resolved thoughts it breeds relenting,  
The bloody and unnatural act affords  
His troubled thoughts, fresh cause of discontenting,  
None dare approach his presence, Queen, no●… Lords,  
That to his first child's death had been consenting:  
The first unnatural act appears so wild,  
The king intends to save his second child.   

41  
So oft as he the murder calls to mind,  
So oft he vows the second son to save,  
But thinking on his covenant, grows unkind,  
And dooms it strait unto a timeless grave;  
Again, the name of son would pity find,  
And for his oath some refuge seeks to have:  
But when the Oracle he doth recall,  
The very thought of that, confounded all.   

42  
So dear to him his Crown and state appeared  
That he his pomp before his blood preferred,  
It joys him to command, and to live feared,  
And now he thinks his foolish pity erred,  
And setting light his issue, seems well cheered,  
His fortune to the Gods he hath referred,  
Rather than lose his Sceptre, 'tis decreed, 
Sib●… versus.   
Had he ten thousand brats, they all should bleed.   

43  
Resolved thus: news is brought him by his mother,  
That Sibell (late in travel) is delivered 
The birth of jupitey and juno.   
Of two fair Twins, a Sister, and a Brother,  
At this report, his heart is well nigh shivered, 
2014.   
Go, spare the ●…one (quoth he) and kill the tother;  
Alas (saith she) we women are pale-liuered 
1946.   
And have not heart to kill: no beast so wild 
Abraham enters Cana●… 24, years after Circumcision was commanded: and Sodom and Gomorrah burned.   
Or brutish, but would spare so sweet a child.   

44  
And shall a father then so madly fare  
With his own issue, his child's blood to spill?  
And whom the Tigers and fell beasts would spare,  
Shall reasonable man presume to kill?  
The birds more tender o'er their young ones are,  
Fishes are kind unto their issue still.  
Fish, bird, and beast, in sea, Air, ●…arth, that breedeth,  
Though reasonless, her tender young ones feedeth.   

45  
Further she was proceeding, when the son, 
Lycophron.   
An ireful frown upon his mother threw,  
Away (quoth he) and to Sibilla run,  
And let the same hand that my first borne slew  
Destroy this to, for as we have begun,  
We will persist, the Lady sad, withdrew,  
Afraid and grieved at once, to see him moved,  
Whom, as her King (she feared) her son; she loved,   

46  
No sooner was she out of fight, but he  
One of his trusty servants calls on high,  
Who waits his pleasure on his bended knee,  
Quickly (quoth Saturn after Vesta fly,  
Say, if the brat survive, Sibyl and she  
As Traitors to our person, both shall die:  
he's gone, and little in the King doth lack,  
At his departure to have called him back.   

47  
Twice was the word half out, and twice kept in,  
Feign he would have it done, and fain neglected,  
He thinks damned Parricide on ugly sin,  
But worse he thinks from State to be dejected,  
Never hath Prince in such distraction been,  
His blood he loved, his kingdom he affected:  
But since he cannot both at once enjoy,  
His state he'll save, his issue he'll destroy.   

48  
Ambition to his fiery rage gave fuel,  
He now remembers not his Sibyls tears,  
Whose tender heart laments, to lose her jewel,  
No spark of pity in his look appears,  
It sport's him only to be termed cruel,  
At name of Father, now he stops his ears;  
Had not his Crown, more than his covenant temmpted,  
Sibyl, thy son had been from death exempted.   

49  
But the command is gone, and in his breast  
He now revolues the vileness of the deed,  
Sceptre, and Crown, and life he doth detest,  
Within him, his remor cefull entrails bleed;  
And now at length, the King would think him blest,  
Might he together perish with his seed:  
And that which most his Melancholy furthers,  
He knows, the world condems him for his murders.   

50  
No joy can cheer, no object make him glad,  
The days in sighs, the nights in tears he spends,  
Nothing can please him: (be it good or bad)  
His troubled and crazed senses it offends,  
That he is now surnamed, Saturn the Sad,  
He sets not by alliance, strangers, friends;  
Here leave him in the depth of his despairs,  
A melancholy King, composed of cares.   

51  
And to the Queen return who sadly waits  
Her Infant's execution or rep●…ue,  
Did Saturn see this boy (she thus debates)  
That he would kill him, I can scarce believe?  
Alas: poor infants borne to woeful fates,  
What corsic heart such harmless souls can grieve;  
Thus lies the Queen, till from her Lord she hear,  
Half cheered with hope, and half destroyed through fear.   

52  
In Vesta comes; her sad cheer Sibyl spies,  
And in her bed (though weak) herself sh'aduanced,  
She might have read the Message in her eyes,  
For as upon the smiling Babe she glanced,  
She filled the chamber with loud shrieks and cries,  
At which the woeful mother was intranced:  
The Grandam, in her eyes the kings will showing,  
The mother, by her looks, her meaning knowing.   

53  
Not long in this strange sorrow they remained,  
But the king's servant 'mongst the women presleth,  
A general flush the Matron's cheeks hath stained,  
And his own blush ●…ng with theirs, confesseth  
That place unfit for him; yet none complained,  
For every one his cause of coming guesseth;  
Knowing the gentle knight, would not present him  
In such a place, unless the king had sent him.   

54  
On whom, as more attentively they gaze,  
Thus wills the king (quoth he) my son shall die;  
In vain with sorrowful tears your eyes you glaze,  
Or fill this chamber with a general cry,  
He for the heart of his young infant stays;  
Which if his mother, or his Queen deny,  
They shall abide like doom, he'll have their hearts;  
The message ended thus: the knight departs.   

55  
So long in sorrows sympathy they mourned,  
That with excess of grief their souls were tired,  
Now for a space they have their fears adiourned,  
And of the king's displeasure more inquired,  
At length their mourning into madness turned,  
(Quoth Sibell) no base murderer shall be hired  
To work this outrage, so the king hath wild,  
And by my hand the ●…weete babe shall be killed.   

56  
With that a knife the wrathful Sibell snatched,  
And bent the point against the infant's breast,  
Thinking to have his innocent life dispatched,  
And sent his soul unto eternal rest;  
The Lad his mother by the bosom catched,  
And smiling in her face, that was addressed  
To strike him dead, away she hurls the knife,  
And faith (sweet babe) that smile hath saved thy life.   

57  
Then give it me quoth Vesta, for take heed,  
My son hath charged us on our lives, to slay him,  
The infant by his Grandams hand shall bleed,  
So wills the king (what's she that dares gainsay him?)  
My aged hand shall act this ruthless deed,  
And I that should protect him, will betry him,  
She aims to strike, at which the infant smiled,  
And she instead of killing; kissed the child.   

58  
Are you so timorous (quoth the Midwife by?)  
Or do you count this babe so dear a treasure?  
Know you not, if we save him we shall die,  
And shall wehazard death in such high measure?  
Though you would slight it, by my life not I;  
I am more fearful of the king's displeasure:  
With that, a keener blade the Beldame drew,  
The babe still smiled, away the knife she threw.   

59  
When they behold the beauty of the Lad,  
They vow within themselves his life to save,  
But then the king's Injunction makes them sad,  
And strait (alas) they doom it to the grave;  
Now with their blades in hand, like Beldame's mad,  
They menace death: then smiles the pretty knave,  
Then fall their knives, than name they the kings will,  
And then agai●… they threat the babe to kill.   

60  
Three times by turns the Infant past their hands,  
And three times thrice, the knives point touched his skin,  
And each of them as oft confounded stands,  
(Such pity did his smiling beauty win)  
That more than they estecme their lives or lands,  
They all abhor the vileness of the sin;  
At length they all consult with heedful care, 
jupiter saved.   
To save the●… own lives, and the child to spare.   

61  
Saith Vesta, in the bordering Province dwells 
Melliseus' king of Epyre.   
Old Mellisseus, a renowned King,  
His daughters I brought up in sacred Spells,  
And taught them Chares, to sow, to weave, to sing,  
No Lady living these bright Dames excels  
In virtuous Thews, good graces, euery●… thing;  
To these my little Grandchild I will send,  
And to their trust, this prectious charge commend.   

62  
Fair Almache and Mellissee I know, 
Alias, Advastea, and Idas   
(For so these virtuous Ladies have to name)  
Will when they understand what Queen doth owe 
Apollon. Rhod. lib. 3. Arg. Pausanias in Messemacis. Lactan. lib de falsa religione.   
This royal issue, and from whence it came,  
Their best and choicest entertainment show,  
And to no ear our secret Act proclaim;  
Thus they conclude, all needful things are fatcht,  
And on her way a trusty maid dispatched.   

63  
Who in the City Of on safe arriving, 
Apol. Atheniensis gramat.   
To the two Sisters she her charge presents,  
They glad to hear of Vesta still surviving, 
Eusebius.   
Yet grieved at her cause of discontents,  
Welcome the Damsel, In their honours striving  
To cheer her, who as doubtful still laments,  
Not knowing yet how the young Prince shall speed,  
Or what the provident sisters have decreed.   

64  
The courteous virgins, hearing the sad story  
Of virtuous Sibyl and her son related,  
Both for the mother and the Son, are sorry,  
And having with themselves a while debated,  
They hold their womanish pity much more glory  
Then to be rude, and cruel estimated,  
And now their studies are, the Babe to hide,  
And for his careful fostering to provide.   

65  
They bear him to a Mountain, in whose brow,  
A C●…ue was digged, the round mouth was so straight,  
That at the entry, you of force must bow,  
But entered once, the room was full of State,  
This Caverne for the darkness, they allow  
To sh●…eld the Infant from the Father's hate;  
Which being selected as a place most meet,  
The Damsel is again sent back to Crect.   

66  
With milk of Goats they nursed him for a space, 
Paus●… in Ar●…as   
Till Fortune on a time so well provided,  
That when to still the Babe (who cried apace) 
Aratus●… in phanomenis.   
They sounded Cymbals, and with tunes divided  
Struck on their Timbrels, by some wondrous grace, 
●…nus in Sacri●…   
A swarm of Bees was by, that Music guided  
Into the place, who made the Cave their Hive, 
Virg. 4 Greg. 2. sastor.   
And with their Honey, kept the Child alive.   

67  
By this the Damsel is returned again,  
And all the news to Vesta ha●… related,  
What provident care the royal Dames have tan●…  
To save the Prince, how well they have requited  
Her former love; still Saturn thinks it sla●…ne,  
Being with the terror of his death affrighted,  
Which in the King's opinion, to make good,  
Vest a salutes him with a cup of blood.   

68  
An Abbest stone into the bowl was brayed,  
It show'd like the Babes heart, beaten to powder,  
The Dowager in funeral black arrayed,  
With re●…erence to her Son and Sovereign bowed her,  
(Women have tears at will) their wiles to aid,  
And she hath plenty to her plot allowed her;  
See here (quoth she) and as she more would say,  
Grief strikes her mute, and tu●…s her head away.   

69  
Again she would proceed, again she faileth,  
But the third time begins her sad Oration:  
See here thy son, whose loss thy wife bewaileth,  
Murdered and massacred in piteous fashion;  
In vain against the froward fate she raileth,  
In vain she tears her eyes in extreme passion,  
Saturn hath to this cruel act constrained her,  
And see of thy young son the poor remainder.   

70  
Now mayst thou keep thine oath with Titans feed,  
Yet that thou cruel art, I needs must tell thee,  
Never did Tiger father such a deed,  
In tyranny the Wolves cannot excel thee?  
Now mayst thou safely wear thy imperial weed,  
(Can this thy issue from thy throne expel thee?)  
This blood can never govern in thy stead,  
Alas poor Grandchild, thou too late hast bled.   

71  
Th'unwelcome news seem welcome to his cares,  
And yet he wishes they awhile had staid;  
That the vild deed is done, he glad appears,  
Yet in his gladness, he seems ill paid:  
She moves the king with her laments and tears,  
(What cannot weeping women men persuade?)  
The king in sorrow of his son late dead,  
Vows ever to abjure Queen Sibels bed.   

72  
And whilst the warm blood recked before his eyes,  
No wonder if he purpost as he spoke,  
But when the beauty of his Queen he spies,  
Her graces moved him, and his vow he broke:  
Such charming virtue in her beauty hes,  
That he forgets the rash oath he did make;  
And rather than his nuptial sweets forbear,  
he'll sac●…ce a young son every year.   

73  
These storms blown over, and their sorrows spent  
(For violent tempests never long remained)  
The king young juno to Parthemia sent,  
There amongst Prince's daughters to be trained,  
To do her honours, is his whole intent,  
Since his sons blood by timeless Fate is drained:  
Nor marvel, if to honour her he strive,  
Knowing (save her) no Issue left alive.   

74  
Time keeps his course, the King and Queen oft meet,  
And once again she hath conceived a Male,  
The Lad in secret is conveyed from Crect  
To Athens, in a vessel swift of sail;  
Th' Athenian King, they with the Infant greet,  
Who the Babes fortunes sadly doth bewail,  
And the young Neptune fairly doth entreat,  
And trains him like the son of one so great.   

75  
The husband-King, who no such guile surmised,  
Is by the crafty women mocked again;  
New tears are coined, a second trick devised,  
To make him think that Issue likewise slain:  
Once more the King with sadness is surprised,  
Once more appeased (for tears he knows are vain,)  
Again the King and Queen are met in bed,  
And in small process, she again is sped.   

76  
A son and daughter at this birth she bore,  
The son she hides, the daughter she discloseth, 
The birth 9f Pluto & gla●…a   
The son she Pluto named, the wind stood fair,  
And him into The ssalia she disposeth,  
The messenger applies with earnest care  
Her tedious journey, for no time she lofeth:  
Wh●…st the twin-brother she is forced to hide,  
Her daughter Glauca in her childhood died.   

77  
Neptune was nursed by Aruo, after growing  
To manhood, fairefoot Amphitrite he  
would have espoused, but she her beauty knowing,  
Despised the Sea God, thinking to live free,  
wherefore he sends the Dolphin, who strait showing  
His master's thoughts, the Lovers soon agree, 
Higinius in fab Stellarum.   
For with the Dolphin's sign to Heaven was ●…orne,  
And placed on high, not far from Capricorn.   

78  
The untamed Genn●…t he did first bestride, 
Pausanias' in Arcadicis.   
And made him servant to the use of Man,  
(Before him) no man durst presume to ride,  
(Famous alone he was in Athens then)  
He coupled first the Steeds, and curbed their pride,  
And by his Art, the armed Chariot ran: 
Pam●…. Himnographus.   
Therefore, as greatest honour to his state,  
The Horse to him was freely consecrate. 
S●…phocles    

79  
And when he travels o'rc the foamy waves,  
With four Sea-palfreys he is drawn along,  
By sundry Nymphs and Girls, (whose love he craves,) 
Apollen. lib. 4.   
Four-score fair sons he got, surpassing strong, 
Zezes in by. 〈◊〉.   
Who Cities built, and mena●… Hostile braves 
Plutarch   
'Gainst Tyrants, that usurped their States by wrong: 
Herodotus.   
He Riders graced, and Seamen gladly cheered,  
And by his hands, the walls of Troy were rear●…d.   

80  
To him three Temples consecrated were, 
H●…. in 〈◊〉.   
Of great Magnificence; In Isthmus one,  
In Tenarus a second did appear, 
Plut. in vita Pompeia.   
A structure (in that Isle) famous alone,  
A third to him the stout Calabrians rear, 
Hom. lib. 5. odis   
Semblant to these, through all the world were none;  
Upon these shrines to make his glories full, 
Virg. 5.   
The people used to sacrifice a Bull.   

81  
Pluto (whom some call Mammon) God of gold, 
Pau. in Atticis●… Atticis   
Who (after) did the Tartar kingdom seize,  
As ●…oue a Sceptre in his hand doth hold,  
Neptune the Trident, so he grasps the Keys:  
Some think this God inhabited of old  
Hiberia, him the Pyren mountains please, 
Hiberia called Spain.   
Of whom and Proserpina his ravished Btide,  
Desist; to speak what juno did betide. 
Strabo lib. 3. Geographca.    

82  
Thus eldest I●…piter lives in a Cave  
Near Oson, nursed with Honey from the Bees,  
Th' Athenian King did the young Neptune save,  
In Athens, where great Clerks have ta'en degrees; 
2250.   
Athens the well of knowledge, and the Grave 
1913.   
Of Ignorance, where Neptune safety sees  
Pluto the youngest of the three, doth dwell  
In lower The ssaly, since termed Hell.   

83  
The time these lived, was Patriarch Isaac borne,  
In Lybia Affer reigned, Brigus in Spain,  
By Inachus, the Argive Crown is worn:  
Aratus doth the Assyrian state maintain;  
Now Sodom and Gomorrha to ashes turn,  
Pelloponesus doth Aegidius gain,  
Germania is upheld by Herminon,  
And Aethyopia swayed by Phaeton.   

84  
Saturn, that of his three sons nothing knew,  
Doted on lovely juno, and oft sent  
Unto her place of Nurture, where she grew  
Fair and well featured, there her youth she spent,  
Whose sojourn in Parthemia Saturn drew  
To visit her (on earth his sole content)  
Many rare presents, and rich jousts he brought her,  
Where leave him in Parthemia with his daughter.   
Our Poem, though familiarly known to them of judgement and reading, yet because it may not seem intricate to the less capable, I thought it not altogether impertinent to insert some few observations to the end of every Caate.  
Touching this Uranus, from whom our History takes life, some Writers (and those not of the least authority) think in him to be figured Chanaan, son of Cham, son of Noah, whom Noah cursed, but spared his son Cham, because God had once blessed him.  
This Canaan for sundry benefits by him bestowed upon many Nations, was called by some Ogyges, by others Fenix, as also Coelum, Sol, Proteus, janus, Geminus, junonius, Quirinus, Patulcius, Bacchus, Vortumnus, Chaos, Ileton or the seed of the Gods. Also his wife Vesta, for her bounty, they called Tellus, Opis, Aretia, and Cibilla, the mother of the Gods  
And these lived in the third generation after the Flood. From this Vesta, came the virgin Vestals in Rome. This Cham father to Canaan, was called Egyptian Saturn, and Nembroth, Babylonian Saturn. I'm was also called Saturn in Italy, who came thither to dwell, in the time that Comerus the Scythian usurped there: a neighbour to old janus that dwelled in Laurentum: And this was in the year of the world 1898. the year before Christ 2065. but rather than enter too deep into antiquity, the sequel of our history we derive from Saturn of Crect.  
There were two jupiters', the first jupiter Belus, from 
Cicero de natura deorum.  whom Nilus descended and first Idolatrised to him: the second jupiter of Crect, who was after instiled Olympian jupiter, and supreme king of the Gods.  
Titan, Saturn's brother, is often by the Poets taken for the Sun, he is likewise called Hyperion, and ruler of the 
Bochas.  Planets: but Bochas writes Hyperion to be Titan's son, and not a name solely attributed to the Sun.  
Where Saturn makes his expedition to the Oracle: I read of two Oracles, one spoke in Delphos from the mouth of Apollo, the other in Egypt, from jupiter Belus, who is likewise called the Son of Saturn, and the second Emperor of Babylon after Nembroth.  
Oson a City and mountain in Epire where jupiter was nursed. This Epire is a Country in Greece, having on the North Macedonia, the East Achaya, the West the sea jonium: It cannot be the mountain Ossa, because Ossa is in Thessaly.  
Saturnus was the first father of the Gods, who begat 
Lactantius.  jupiter, juno, Neptune, Pluto, and Glauca, by his wife Ops, otherwise called Sibylla.  
Demogorgon, signifieth Earth, and Aethra Air, supposed Uranus' father and mother.  
Cadmus' son to Agenor king of Phenicia, who being sent by his father to seek his sister Europa whom jupiter in 
Ovid. meta. 2.  the shape of a Bull had ravished, and not finding her, durst not return to his Country but stayed in Boetia, where be built the famous City Thebes, brought letters first into Greece, and found the casting of metals in Pangeus a promontory in Thrace.  
Panchaia a sandy country of Arabia, where is plenty of Frankincense. In a high hill of this Country, Thoas and Aeaclis first found out gold Ore.  
Erichthon other wise Erichtheus, he was nursed by Minerva, after instated king of Athens, he first invented the Chariot, and is supposed to be the first that tried metals, part of which skill, some take from him, and attribute unto Ceachus.  
Idaei Dactili otherwise called Corybanthus, were certain priests of Cibell, these are sayae to find out the use of Iron.  
Salmentes and Damnamenecus, two jews, S. Clement speaks of, who first found out the use of Iron in Cypress.  
Lydus the son of Atis, and brother to Tyrrhenus, of him Lydia took the name: he first melted brass, and made it pliable to the hammer: a cunning which Theophrastus would bestow upon one Delos the Phrygian, but Aristotle yields it to Lydus.  
Cassiterides are ten Istandes in the Spanish sea, in these Midacritus (by the opinion of Strabo) first found out the use of Lead.  
Cynaras', aritch King of Cypress, who unawares lay with his daughter Myrrah, and on her begat Adonis. He first devised the Stithce, Tongues, File and Leaver.  
Pyrodes was son to Cilix, of whom Cicilia took name, and Cilix was son to Phenicia, he was the first struck fire from the flint.  
Prometheus' son to japetus, who for stealing Fire from heaven to inspire life in his Images, was by jupiter tied unto the mount Cancasus, where an Eagle still gnaweth his entrails.  
Anacharsis a great Philosopher, borne in Scythia, he first devised the bellows, and as some suppose the Potter's wheel.  
Apis King of the Argioes, he taught first the planting of vines, and after his death was worshipped in the shape of an Ox.  
jubalda governed Spain.  
Craunuis Italy.  
Satron the Gauls.  
Semiramis Assyria. At the same time Saturn married his Sister Sibyl. This was in the year of the World 2000 and the year before Christ 1963. Seven years after this, which was 250. years after the Deluge, Noah paid his due to Nature.  
Almache and Mellisee, are supposed to be Adrastea and Isde.  
THus it is our purpose to be are along with us the best known Kingdoms of the World, that the truth of an History being countenanced with their credit, may purchase the better belief.  
The end of the first CANTO.   

Argumentum  
Young Dardanus his brother jasius slew,  
And leaves the Country where he sought to rain  
War twixt th' Epirians and Pelagrans grew,  
Lycaon is by jove exiled, not slain:  
jupiter of Calisto taking v●…ew,  
A votaress, and one of Diane's train;  
Loves, and is loathed, the Virgin is beguiled,  
Clad like a maid, he gets the Maid with child.  
ARG. 6.  
TH'Epirian slain: Troy's first foundation laid,  
chaste Diane's vows in Dcta are conveyed.  
CANTO. 2.  

OH blind Ambition and desire of Reign,  
How camest thou by this rule in mortal breasts?  
Who gave thee this dominion o'er the brain?  
Thou murder'st more, than plagues or fatal pests;  
Thy drink Man's blood, thy food dead bodies slain,  
Treason and Murder are thy nightly guests:  
Ambition knows no law, he that aspires,  
Climbs by the lives of brothers, sons, and Sires.   

2  
Corinthus, of whom Corinth took first name, 
2425.   
Electra daughter to King Athlas married,  
From Lybia hath he fetched the lovely Dame, 
1538.   
And thence to Naples this rich purchase carried:  
Corinth and Naples are indeed the same,  
One City; though by Time their names be varried:  
These dying, left behind them to succeed,  
Two Princes, Lords of many a vahant deed.   

3  
Whilst Corinth there, Memnon all Egypt swayde,  
In Italy Atleus: Harbon Gaul,  
Hesperus Spain, the Argine King was made  
Crassus: in France King Ludgus governed all  
Arming himself 'gainst such as did Invade,  
Syrus in Syria: Assyrias crown doth fall  
To Mancaleus which whilst he maintained,  
Orthopolis in Pelloponessus reigned.   

4  
Moses was borne the self-same happy year,  
That fair Electra was made hapless Queen:  
Who spoke with GOD, and saw the bush burn clear,  
By whom the Israelites delivered been  
From Pharaohs bondage, whom the fiery sphere  
Guided by night, when in the day was seen  
The Cloud to usher them: In whose blessed days,  
Corinthus issue their proud fortunes raise.   

5  
One Dardanus, that other jasius height, 
Dardanus and Ias●…s.   
Who strongly for their Father's Crown contend,  
And to their aids assemble many a knight,  
By force of Arms their challenge to defend,  
But Arms nor bloody battle; force nor fight 
Now Cecrops built Athens.   
Can unto this unnatural war give end:  
Till (at the length) a Treaty was appointed,  
Which (by accord) should be the King anointed.   

6  
jasius to Parley comes unarmed: his brother  
Under his Robes of peace bright Armour wore:  
And being met, his vengeance could not smother  
But slew him dead; The Lords his death deplore,  
Thus piteously the one hath killed the other:  
jasius unto his Sepulchre they bore,  
But Dardanus that him so basely slew,  
Unto the Pallaee Royal they pursue.   

7  
The people such a Traitorous practice hated,  
And vow his blood shall for his murder pay,  
Such as loved jasius, the rest animated,  
And round begirt the place where Dardan lay,  
Who calls such friends as on his person waited,  
And in the dead of night steals thence away,  
For well he knows, they jasius loved so dearly,  
That they his murder will revenge seucrely.   

8  
Before the dawn of day they shipping take,  
The darkness of the night, their purpose aideth,  
Through the vast Ocean a swift sail they make,  
But as the morning riseth, and night fadeth,  
The stern Corinthians to their fury wake,  
And every man th'ungarded house invadeth,  
But when they entering, found the brother fled,  
They curse the living, and lam●… the dead.   

9  
Long they their weary Fortunes have in chase,  
Still in the mercy of the Seas and wind,  
But where to harbour they can find no place,  
Or in the seas wild deserts comfort find;  
At length they touch at Samos Isle, in Thrace,  
A soil, which yet contents not dardan's mind,  
Ballast, fresh water, victuals he takes in,  
And hoisting sail, seeks further shores to win.   

10  
By this the Asian Seas his ships hath past,  
And now within the Helle spont he rides,  
The Mariners the shore descry at last,  
Where calling all their Sea-gods to their guides,  
To their discovery they apply them fast,  
And now their vessels near the cost abides,  
Not long about the briny beach they hover,  
But Dardan lands, the Island to discover.   

11  
He finds it fruitful, pleasant, and a soil  
Fit to inhabit, high woods, champion fields,  
He holds this country worth her former toil,  
The place he likes, and to this clime he yields,  
And after all his travel and turmoil, 
2485.   
He plants himself: a City here he builds, 
1478. The first foundation of Troy   
He casts a huge Ditch first, then lays a frame,  
And after calls it Dardan by his name.   

12  
The time the groundsils of great Troy were laid,  
Was Lacedaemon built (by computation)  
In Athens Ertchthonius King was made,  
And Danaus' ruler o'er the Argive Nation:  
Hercules Dasinas, Phenitia swayde,  
Egiptus Egypt; now the first foundation  
Of great Apollo's Temple was begun  
By young Eristhones, King Cecrops son.   

13  
In process is much people there convented,  
Being a City, well and fairly seated,  
And all such people as this place frequented,  
Were by him and his followers well entreated,  
No stranger, from the King past discontented;  
No Merchant in his traffic was defeated:  
In time, his wealth and people both abound,  
And here in Dardan, Dardanus lives crowned.   

14  
This Dardan on Candame got a son,  
Eruton hight: who the same state maintained,  
Time keeps his course, away the swift hours run,  
The second King, in Arts and Wars is trained,  
Imagine seven and forty Winters dun,  
So long Eruton in this City reigned:  
Troos his son the kingdom doth enjoy, 
Troy named of king Troos   
And of this Troos, came the name of Troy.   

15  
A puissant King in Arms, his valours fame  
Through all the Asian confines stretched far;  
Kingdoms he doth subdue, Invadors tame,  
By him the two first kings eclipsed are;  
And the Dardanians change their ancient name,  
And of King Troos, so renowned in war  
Are Troyans called, for so King Troos chargeth,  
And with his fame, his new-built town enlargeth.   

16  
Now all the Grecian Cities Troy out-shineth,  
Whose glory many neighbour king's envy,  
Yet none so bold, that outwardly repineth,  
Or date in public terms, king Troos defy:  
The strongest people he by love combineth,  
The weaker he by arms doth terrify,  
King Tantalus that lives in Phrigia crowned,  
Most envies Troy should be so far renowned.   

17  
But leave we him in envy, Troy in glory,  
For envy still looks upward, seldom down,  
And turn to that which most concerns our story,  
How jupiter attained his father's crown;  
How sibyl ●…oyfull was, but Saturn sorry  
To hear his sons surviving in renown;  
How Titan warred on Saturn, how jone grew,  
And in his father's aid, his Uncle slew.   

18  
Twixt the Pelagians and Epiriens riseth  
Contentious war, in Epire reigned then 
War betwixt the epirians & Pelagians.   
King Milleseus; who in arms surpriseth  
Certain Pelagians, king Lycaon's men:  
Lycaon with his watlike troops adviseth,  
By policy of war, both how and when  
He may await th' epirians the like damage,  
And make their king unto his state do homage.   

19  
At length Ioues Guardian, the great Epire king,  
Unto the son of Titan offers peace,  
In sign whereof they Olive branches bring,  
To signify their hostile Arms surcease: 
Ly●…aon.   
Lycaon son to Titan whom wars sting,  
Had likewise galled and spoiled his lands increase;  
Applauds the motion, swears to this accord,  
Conditioned thus, to leave an Epire Lord.   

20  
An Epire Lord, as Hostage strait they take,  
And in Pelagia with Lycaon leave him,  
There to abide, till they amends shall make  
For all the spoils, th' Eperiens did bereave him,  
The King the days doth watch, the nights doth wake,  
Lest his Epirien hostage should deceive him:  
Lycaon of his covenant nought doth slack,  
The time expires the Lord should be sent back.   

21  
And to that purpose Melliseus sends  
Ambassadors, from Epire to Pelage,  
Who to Lycaon bears his kind commends,  
Lycaon full of spleen and warlike rage  
To quit his former in●…ury, intends,  
And with much pain his fury doth assuage,  
Yet gives them outward welcome, they desire  
Their Hostage Lord to bear back to Epire.   

22  
Unto a morrows banquet he invites them,  
Saying they shall receive him at that feast:  
The morrow comes (full ill the kings requites them)  
He makes th'Epirian to be killed and dressed,  
Part to be sod, part to be roasted, which incites them  
To horror and amazement, they detest  
So hor●…ible an object: Then the King  
Thus says; Behold your Hostage here I bring.   

23  
Young jupiter was at the Table seated,  
Sent with the rest, by his great soster-Father  
On th'embassy: he having heard repeated  
A deed so monstrous, or inhuman rather,  
As one that brooked not to be so in●…reated,  
His lofty spirits he to his heart doth gather:  
And rising from the Table, draws his sword,  
And bears away the mangled Epire Lord.   

24  
Into the Market place his load he bears,  
Before the amazed people to dis●…lose it:  
The bold undaunted Worthy nothing sears,  
But bears the body, and in public shows it;  
Some roasted, and some sod, some baked appears,  
And cucry soul abhors the deed that knows it:  
Who wondering whence so wild a mischief came,  
Behold (quoth he) your King Lycaon's shame.   

25  
Behold the prince, the son of Titan kept,  
Upon his honour safely to deliver,  
Some were ashamed, some threatened, and some wept,  
Some of their trembling ●…arts with terror shiver,  
Which Saturn's son espying, forth he stepped,  
And saith: shall such a Tyrant and badliver?  
Shall such a bloody and insatiate devil  
Unpunished escape, for practise of this evil?   

26  
The infamy of this inhuman act,  
〈◊〉 to you; it hath defamed your nation,  
Where ●…re report shall blazon this base fact,  
Of our Epi●…tan murdered in such fashion,  
It will appear that you the Tyrant bact,  
And that it was your deed; This short Oration,  
took such eff●…ct, that each man blushed w●…hin,  
Feeling himself touched with that horrid sin.   

27  
Much more he spoke, to bring the king in hate  
With such his subrects as had never loved him,  
That fell Lycaon but usurped his state,  
And brought a scandal on them all, he proved him,  
Thus of his murderous act he doth dilate,  
To which his tyranny and ranker moved him,  
His ●…ormer cruelty, this bloody sight,  
And Ioues persuasions, makes them bend to fight.   

28  
Saturn's bold son will no adu●…ntage lose,  
But with his many tyrannies proceeds,  
He makes such burn, whose hearts before did freeze,  
At the recital of his bloody deeds:  
Then bears again the course, which none that sees  
But his heart fires with rage, or Inly bleeds,  
Then cries aloud: you bound that would be free,  
Cast of your servile yoke, and follow me.   

29  
You whom the bloody Tyrant hath oppressed,  
Now (whilst you may revenge you) arm, and strike,  
You that have seen th'Epirian killed and dressed,  
Let him not on your bodies act the like:  
Aim all your weapons 'gainst the tyrants breast:  
With that, this catched a javelin, that a Pike,  
One takes an Axe, another snatched a Spade,  
Some Swords, some staves, the palace to invade.   

30  
Their youthful Captain they attend, and meet  
With the fierce Tyrant, armed and well prepared:  
They Barricado both ends of the street,  
Then to the battle (where they no man spared)  
By this jove lays Lycaon at his feet;  
And there had slain him, but his spleen was barred  
By one of his best Captains, who did bring  
Happy supply, and so preserved the king.   

31  
Th'enraged multitude esteemed nought  
The dancing Courtiers when they came to blows,  
They watily, the people madly fought,  
And every man his dauntless courage shows,  
Whilst all about, young jove his kinsman sought,  
And still the clamour of the battle rose  
So loud, that it rebounded 'gainst the skies,  
And heaven itself did Echo with their cries.   

32  
Yet jove triumphant in the first rank stood,  
His foes fixed battle he by force displaces,  
It rains sharp Arrows till the ground flows blood,  
And yet no knight his honoured fame disgraces:  
It did th'Epiriens and their Captains good  
To see the streets paved with their enemy's faces:  
In this high tumults heat, Lycaon's fled, 
Lycaon va●…quisht by jupiter   
And sprightly jove left Conqueror 'mongst the dead.   

33  
The Tyrant when he saw his servants slain,  
To save his life, works for his secret escape,  
And to the forest flying from his train, 
Hecatcus Mileseus lib. 2. genealogiarum.   
He strangely feels himself trans-form`d in shape,  
Both wolvish form and mind, he doth retain,  
And in the woods he lives by spoil and rape:  
He lived a Tyrant whilst his kingdom stood,  
And changed into a Wolf, still thirsts for blood.   

34  
Where we will leave him in the desert Grove,  
Transformed in body, but not changed in mind.  
And as my story leads, return to jove  
Who sees Lycaon fled, none left behind,  
But such as whilst they breathed, in valour strove,  
And dying, to the fire there corpses resigned:  
To the Pelagians turning he thus says:  
Be yours the Conquest, but to heaven the praise.   

35  
But they his honours back to him resign,  
And with a general shout their caps up fling,  
Saying (o jove) thy valour is divine;  
And thou of us Pelagians shalt be king, 
jupiter made king of the Pelagians.   
They guard him to the palace, and in fine  
The Crown and Sceptre to his hand they bring:  
And after search, finding Lycaon fled,  
They Saturn's son invested in his stead.   

36  
King jupiter had not yet reigned an hour,  
But with his trusty followers searcheth round  
About the Palace royal, for the power  
Of king Lycaon, but he no man found;  
(Death spares the king, that doth his folk devour,)  
Yet jealous of his state, like kings new crowned,  
To abide all future garboils and assaults,  
He searcheth all the Sellers, nooks, and vaults.   

37  
And breaking up a strong bard iron door,  
He spies a goodly chamber richly hung,  
Where he might see upon the catelesse flower,  
A discontented Lady rudely flung:  
Her habit suiting with her grief she wore,  
Her eyes reigned tears, her ivory hands she wrung:  
Herrobes so black were, and her face so fair,  
Each other graced, and made both colours rare.   

38  
The Virgin looked out of her sad attire,  
Like the bright sun out of a dusky cloud;  
Her first aspect set the king's heart afire,  
Who veiling first his bonnet, he low bowed,  
And to have seized her fingers presseth nigher,  
But she at fight of strangers weeps aloud,  
Her drowned eye she to the Earth directeth,  
And no man save her own sad woes respecteth.   

39  
The youthful Prince whom Amorous thoughts surprise,  
With comfortable words the Lady cheers,  
Supports her by the arm, entreats her rise,  
And from her bosom to remove her fears,  
Yet will not she erect her downcast eyes:  
Nor to his smooth-sweete language lend her cares,  
Till from the Earth he raised her by the arm,  
And thus with words, begins her grief to charm.   

40  
Bright Damsel, did you know the worth of all  
Those precious drops you prodigally spill,  
You would not let such high-prized moisture fall,  
Which from your heart your Conduit-eyes distill;  
Oh spare them though you count their value small,  
To have them spar'de I'll give you (if you will)  
Although not in full payment, yet in part,  
A Prince's favour, and a Soldiers heart.   

41  
You dim those eyes that sparkle fire Divine,  
By whom this melancholy room is lighted,  
The place were dark, and but for their bright shine,  
We in this Dungeon should be all benighted:  
Oh save your beauty then and spare your eyen:  
Why should you at our presence be affrighted;  
we come not with our weapons drawn to fear you,  
But with our comfortable words, to cheer you.   

42  
But say, our hostile weapons were all bent  
Against your breast; yet why should you be mated?  
Bewty's sword-profe, no forcible intent  
But by a face so fair is soon rebated,  
Your beauty was unto your body lent,  
To be her Secretary; where instated,  
It is as safe as if a wall of Iron  
Impreguable, your person should environ.   

43  
With that the woeful maid uplifts her eye,  
And fixed it first upon the Prince's face,  
But there it dwelled not long, for by and by  
It wandered wildly round about the place,  
Yet coming to herself, when she 'gan spy  
Herself 'mongst strangers with a modest grace,  
Having her raging grief awhile restrained,  
Thus blushing, she her sad estate complained.   

44  
My father, oh my Father, where is he?  
To whom these Subjects should of right belong:  
You are the Limbs, the head I cannot see,  
Oh, you have done the king some violent wrong,  
What Stranger's this that doth solicit me?  
How dare you thus into my chamber throng?  
And fright me, (being a Princess) with your steel,  
Or where's the King, that to this youth you kneel?   

45  
If King Lycaon live, why do you bow  
Unto a stranger, he surviving still?  
If he be slain, why am I hindered now,  
Upon his Coarse my Funeral tears to spill?  
I may lament by Law, no laws allow;  
Subjects by Treason their liege Lords to kill,  
My tears are natural, and come in season, '  
Your treacherous act is mere unnatural Treason.   

46  
By these her words, the Amorous Prince doth gather  
This Lady to be king Lycaon's daughter,  
It grieves him now he hath exiled her father,  
And once again of favour he besought her,  
But she all sorrow now entreats him rather  
To leave the Chamber, since his coming brought her  
Nothing but news of death, and words of care,  
Her Father's ruin, and her own despair.   

47  
By many fair persuasions the Prince moves her,  
To stint her passion, and to stop her tears,  
He whispers in her ●…are how much he loves her,  
But all in vain, his tongue he idly wears:  
By all Rhetoric and Art he proves her,  
Which makes her at the length lend her chaste ears,  
And thus reply: I cannot love, until  
You one thing grant me, the Prince swears he will.   

48  
Remember (quoth the Lady) you have sworn,  
Being a Prince, to break an oath were base:  
Were't in a Peasant, it were hardly borne,  
But in a Prince it seems a worse disgrace:  
The greater y'are, the greater is your scorn,  
If you should taint your honour in this case:  
'tis nothing if a poor Stars beams be clouded,  
But we soon miss the Moon in darkness shrouded.   

49  
Princes are earthly Gods and placed on high,  
Where every common man may freely gaze  
On them, the people's universal eye,  
Is hourly fixed to scan their works and w●…ies,  
They look through spectacles your deeds to spy,  
Which makes the Letters of your shame, or praise  
Grosser to be discerned, and easier scanned,  
(A king should be a light to all his Land.)   

50  
These words sight out, have fanned the amorous fire,  
Which did the breast of Saturn's son inflame:  
He that at first her beauty did admire,  
Now wonders at the wisdom of the dame,  
And museth how from such a devilish Sire  
As king Lycaon, such an Angel came:  
Now he entreats her ask, with spirit undaunted,  
For as he is a Prince, her suit is granted.   

51  
Be it (quoth he) the fortunes of this day:  
Be it myself, myself sweet Saint am thine:  
Be it this kingdom, and this Sceptres sway,  
Behold my interest I will back resign;  
We have no power to say such beauty nay,  
Being but mortal, and that face divine,  
What's your demand (sweet Saint?) It is quoth she,  
That I a consecrated maid may be.   

52  
Oh, had she asked more gold than would have filled  
Her father's Palace, packed up to the roof,  
Or in her sad boon had the Lady wild,  
Of his resolved spirit to see large proof,  
Monsters he would have tamed, and Giants killed,  
And from no stern adventure kept aloof,  
In hope to have won her love: but being thus coy,  
This one request, doth all his hopes destroy.   

53  
The Prince is bound by Oath to grant her pleasure,  
Yet from her will, he seeks her to dissuade,  
Hoord not (quoth he) unto yourself such Treasure,  
Nor let so sweet a flower ungathered vade:  
Nature herself hath took from you fit measure  
To have more beauteous Creatures by you made,  
Then crop this flower before the prime be past,  
Lose not the Mould that may such fair ones caft.   

54  
Let not a Cloister such rare beauty smother,  
Y'are Natures may ster-peece, made to be seen;  
(Sweet) you were borne, that you should bear another,  
A Princess, and descended from a Queen,  
That you of Queens and Princes might be mother:  
Had she that bore you still a virgin been,  
You had not been at all: Mankind should fade,  
If every Female, lived a spotless maid.   

55  
You ask, what you by no means can defend,  
In seeking a strict Cloister to enjoy,  
Ye wish to see the long-liu'de world at end,  
And in your heart you mankind would destroy,  
For when these lives no further can extend,  
How shall we people th'Earth: Who shall employ  
The Crowns we win? the wealth for which we strive?  
When dead ourselves, we leave none to survive.   

56  
You might as well kill Children, as to hold  
This dangerous error: Nay I'll prove it true:  
For Infant-soules that should have been cnrold  
In Heavens predestin'de book, begot of you,  
Are by your strangeness, to oblivion sold,  
You might as well your hands in blood embrew,  
Nay better too, for when young Infants die,  
Their Angel souls live in Eternity.   

57  
And so the Heavens make up their numbers full,  
You (Lady) heaven and carths' right disallow;  
What Gods conclude, shall mortals disannul?  
So many as you might have had ere now:  
So many Angels from heavens throne you pull,  
From earth, so many princes by your vow:  
Now could I get a son, but you being coy,  
Fair murderess (that you are) have killed the boy:   

58  
Much more (but all in vain) the amorous youth  
Thinks in his smooth sweet language to dissuade her,  
But nothing that he pleads she holds for truth,  
Though by all gentle means he sought to have stayed her,  
She urgeth still his oath: he thinks it ruth  
To have such beauty cloistered, and had made her  
Virginity, for Venus sweets to have changed,  
Had not his Oath that purpose soon estranged.   

59  
Now fair Celisto by Ioues gtaunt is free 
Diana   
To be admitted one of Diane's train,  
Diana a Huntress, the broad shadowy tree  
The house, beneath who roof she doth remain,  
Venison her food, and Honey from the Bee,  
The flesh of Elkes, of Bears, and Boars new slain,  
Her drink the pearled brook, her followers, maids,  
Her vow, chaste life, her Cloister, the Cool shades.   

60  
Her weapons are the javelin, and the Bow,  
Her garments Angel like, of Virgin-white;  
And tucked aloft, her falling skirt below  
Her Buskin meets: buckled with silver bright:  
Her Hair behind her, like a Cloak doth flow,  
Some tucked in rolls, some loose with Flowers bedight:  
Her silken veils play round about her slack,  
Her golden Quiver falls athwart her back.   

61  
She was the daughter of an ancient king  
Caldoro jupiter, that swayed the Attic sceptre,  
To her as suitors, many princes bring  
Their Crowns: which scorning, she a virgin kept her,  
Yet as her beauty's fame abroad doth ring,  
Her suitors multiply, therefore she stepped her  
Into the forest; meaning to exempt her  
From such, as to their amorous wills would tempt her.   

62  
This new religion famous in a Queen,  
Of such estate and beauty, drew from far  
Daughters of Princes, they that late were seen  
In Courts of kings, now Diane's followers are,  
Where they no sooner sworn and entered been,  
But against men and love they proclaim war:  
Many frequent the groves, by Diane's motion,  
For fashion some; and some too for devotion.   

63  
The old Plateenses holding her divine,  
Gave her the sacred name of Euclia, 
Plut. in Arist.   
Their maids ere married, offered at her shrine,  
And then they freely choosed their marriage day,  
Without her leave they never tasted wine,  
Or durst in public with their husband's play: 
The Temple of Diana at Ephesus.   
Whole Asia joined to make a Church of stone,  
Built by the Architector Chersiphrone.   

64  
To this th'egyptian high Pyramids,  
Nor the great jovial portrait could compare, 
The 7. Wonders.   
Mausolus' Tomb the Manes to appease,  
Reared by the Carian Queen, but trifles are:  
The huge Colossus that bestrid the seas,  
And made Rhodes famous for a work so rare:  
Great Babel's Tower, nor Pharos stately Isle,  
Could rank with this, for cost, or height of style.   

65  
Two hundred twenty years it was in framing,  
In length, four hundred five and twenty feet;  
In breadth, two hundred twenty: Thus proclaiming  
Their fear of her, they chaste Diana greet:  
Of all fair Damsels her the Goddess naming,  
And to her service, in her Temple meet:  
A Fabric famous, both for height and length,  
Proportion, beauty, workmanship, and strength.   

66  
A hundred seven and twenty Collumbs great,  
All of white Marble, in fair order stand:  
Six hundred feet in height, both huge and neat,  
The like were never wrought by mortal hand:  
Princes of sundry Kingdoms that entreat  
Her Divine grace, and yield to her command:  
Each one, a high and stately pillar brings,  
Full thirty six, reared by so many Kings.   

67  
All these contend, which should the rest exceed  
In large expense, to make it more admired,  
Herostratus that never did glad deed,  
Neither with wit, nor gracious Thews inspired,  
Knowing no means his own renown to breed,  
In devilish spleen, this royal wonder fired;  
The purpose why he did this deed of shame,  
Was, that the world should Chronicle his name.   

68  
This when despoiled Ephesus once knew,  
They made a law, with fine to him that broke it,  
To make him lose the fame he did pursue,  
His very name, was death to him that spoke it,  
For many years it died, but times renew  
And from oblivious dusky Caves awake it,  
Else had their silence from these ages kept,  
This strange report, that long amongst them slept.   

69  
The world, the very day it lost the grace 
Plutarch in vita Alexand.   
Of this rare work, another Wonder bred  
Greater than this, from royal Philip's race,  
That then took life, when this in fire lay dead:  
In Macedon, a much renowned place,  
Young Alexander in that Temples stead  
Entered the world, whose glories did aspire  
Above this structure, then consumed with fire.   

70  
Now is Calisto one of Diane's train,  
And to th' Arcadian Forest newly flitted,  
Her beauty can scarce equalled be again,  
'mongst all the Huntresses where's she's admitted:  
Mean time Ihove cheers his friends: Inters the slain,  
And all his business is by order fitted:  
The State established, Time in triumph spent,  
And news of all, by posts to Epire sent.   

71  
His great affairs determined: the Prince now  
Hath leisure to bethink him of that face,  
To which his future actions he doth vow,  
Now he remembers each particular grace:  
That Love that makes the Idle spirits bow,  
Still gives occasions way, and business place:  
Abandon sloth, and Cupid's bow unbends,  
His brands extinguist, and his false fire spends.   

72  
For idleness makes Love, and then maintains  
What it hathmade, when he that well employs  
His busy hours, is free from Venus' trains,  
And the true freedom of his thoughts enjoys:  
He had no time to sigh, that now complains,  
The good his business did, his sloth destroys:  
Love from the painful flies, but there most thrives,  
And prospers best, when men lead slothful lives.   

73  
Being alone, Calistoes' shape impressed  
So deeply in his heart, lives in his eye:  
she's lodged both in the Forest, and his breast,  
And (though far off) she is imagined nigh,  
Phabe abroad beholds her 'mongst the rest,  
Young Ihove at home, in his blind fantasy:  
And now too late he wishes (but in vain)  
Her still at Court, or him of Diane's train.   

74  
He haunts the Forests and those shadowy places,  
Where fair Dyana hunteth with her Maids,  
And like a Huntsman the wild Stag he chases,  
Only to spy his Mistress 'mongst the shades:  
And if he chance where bright Calisto traces,  
He thanks his fate, if not his Stars upbraids,  
And deems a tedious Summer's day well spent,  
For one short sight of her, his soul's content.   

75  
At length, he thus concludes: I am but young,  
No downy heir upon my face appear,  
I'll counterfeit a shtill effeminate tongue,  
And don such habit as the Huntress wears,  
When my guilt Quiver cross my breast is hung,  
And boarspear in my hand such as she bears:  
My blood being fresh, my face indifferent fair,  
Modest my eye, and never shorn my hair.   

76  
Who can discover me? Why may not I  
Be entered as an Ancresse 'mongst the rest?  
This is the way that I intent to try,  
(Of all my full conclusions held the best)  
My habit I'll bespeak so secretly,  
That what I purpose never can be guessed,  
My Lords assemble, and to them show reason  
Why I of force must leave them for a season.   

77  
Th'excuse unto the Nobles currant seems,  
He takes his leave and travels on his way,  
Of his intended voyage no man deems,  
Now is he briskt up in his brave array,  
So preciously his mistress he esteems,  
That he makes speed to where the Virgins stay,  
And by the way his womanish steps he tried,  
And practised how to speak, to look, to stride.   

78  
To blush and to make honours (and if need)  
To pule and weep at every idle toy,  
As women use, next to prepare his weed,  
And his soft hand to Chare-workes to employ:  
He profits in his practice (heaven him speed)  
And of his shape assumed grant him joy,  
Of all effeminate tricks (if you'll believe him,)  
To practise tears and Sempstry did most grieve him.   

79  
Yet did he these 'mongst many others learn,  
He grows complete in all things (saving one)  
And that no eye can outwardly discern,  
Unless they search him, how can it be known?  
But come unto the place, his heart doth earn,  
Twice it was in his thought back to have gone:  
But I am jove (quoth he) and shall I then  
Of women be afraid, that fear no men.   

80  
With that he boldly knocks, when to the gate  
A royal virgin comes, to know his will: 
Atlanta that first struck the Caledonian Boar.   
This Lady after was a Queen of state,  
And in Arcadia the fierce Boar did kill:  
Atlaula she was called, admitted late,  
Who thinking to have there remained still,  
King Meleager in Achaya reigned,  
And to his nuptial bed this Queen constrained.   

81  
Fair Virgin (quoth Atlaula) what's your pleasure?  
jove, after bows and Cuttsies, thus bespoke her;  
Bright Damsel, if you now retain that measure  
Of grace, you have of beauty from your maker,  
Pity a maid, that hath nor Gold, not Treasure,  
And to your sacred order would betake her:  
Know, from a Noble house I am descended,  
That humbly pray to be so much befrended.   

82  
Prefer me to the Mistress of these shades,  
Diana, whom I reverence, not through folly,  
But as divinest Goddess of all maids,  
To whose chaste vows I am devoted wholly,  
Atlaula says she will, and strait invades  
Diana thus. Oh thou adored solely  
Of Virgins: (fairest Cynthia) will you deign,  
To make this stranger Lady of your train.   

83  
Diana takes her state, about her stand  
A multitude of beauties, 'mongst the rest  
As jove about him looks, on his right hand  
He spies Calisto, Diane's new come guest,  
She, for whose sake he left th'Epirian Land:  
At sight of her, fresh fires inflame his breast:  
And as he stands, walled in with beauteous faces,  
He most commends Calisto for her graces.   

84  
So many sparkling eyes were in his sight,  
That hedged the sacred Queen of Virgins round,  
That with their splendour have made noon of night,  
Should all at once look upward, the base ground  
Might match the sky, and make the earth as bright,  
As in that even, when Ariadne crowned,  
was through the Galaxia in pomp led,  
Millions of stars all burning o'er her head.   

85  
Diana, Ihove in every part surveys,  
Who simpers by himself, and stands demurely,  
His youth, his face, his stature she doth praise,  
(A brave virago she supposed him surely)  
Were all my train of this large size (she says)  
Within these Forests we might dwell securely:  
'mongst all, that stand or kneel upon the grass,  
I spy not such another Manly Lass.   

86  
So gives her hand to kiss: Ihove grace doth win,  
With Phabe and Atlanta, who suppose  
Him what he seems, and now received in,  
With all the Maids, he well acquainted grows,  
They teach him how to Sow, to Card, and Spin,  
Calisto for his bedfellow he chose:  
With her all day he works, at night he lies,  
Yet every morn, the maid, a Maid doth rise.   

87  
For if he glanced but at a word or two  
Of Love, or grew familiar (as Maids use)  
She frowns, or shakes the head (all will not do)  
His amorous parley she doth quite refuse:  
Sometime by feeling touches he would woe;  
Sometime her neck and breast, and sometime choose  
Her lip to dally with: what hurt's in this?  
Who would forbid a maid, a maid to kiss?   

88  
And then amidst this dalliance he would cheer her,  
And from her neck, decline unto her shoulder,  
Next to her breast, and thence descending nearer  
Unto the place, where he would have been boulder:  
He finds the froward Girl so chastened bear her,  
That the more hot he seemed, she showed the colder,  
And when he grew immodest, oft would say:  
Now fie for shame, lay by this foolish play.   

89  
Alas (poor Prince) thy punishments too great,  
And more than any mortal can endure,  
To be kept hungry in the sight of meat,  
And thirsty, in the sight of Waters pure:  
Thou seek'st the food thou most desirsed to eat,  
Which flies thee most, when most thou thinkst it sure,  
'tis double want, 'mongst Riches to be poor,  
And double death, to drown in sight of shore.   

90  
Besides, the Prince too boldly dares not prove her,  
As ignorant, how she may take his offer,  
Nor dare he tell her he is Ihove, her Lover,  
Though she at first might deem, the Prince did scoff her:  
Yet if she should his secrecy discover,  
He fears what violent force the Queen might proffer  
To one, that with such impudence profane,  
Should break the sacred Orders of her train.   

91  
He therefore a convenient season watched,  
When bright Diana the wild Stag would chase,  
The beauteous Virgins were by couples matched,  
And as the lawns they were about to trace,  
Their pointed javelins in their hands they latcht  
About their necks, in many a silken lace  
Their Bugles hung, which as the groves they trip,  
Were oft-times kissed by every Lady's lip.   

92  
And in their ears the shrilling Music tingled,  
Which made the echoing hills and Vales resound,  
Ihove and Calisto 'mongst the rest was mingled,  
Until the youthful Prince occasion found  
To shrink behind: him fair Calisto singled,  
And throws herself by Ihove upon the ground,  
And says: how comes it you so soon are tired?  
(Oh Ihove thou now hast, what thou long desired)   

93  
He chose a place, thick set with broad-leaved bows,  
Which from the grassy earth screened the bright Sun,  
Here never did the wanton he-Goat browse,  
Nor the wild Ass for food, to this place run,  
This seat as fit for pastime he allows,  
And longs withal until the sport be dun,  
For whilst the game flies from them, here he lags,  
Covered with trees, and hemmed in round with flags.   

94  
Nor are they within heating of the cries  
Of the shrill Bugles th'huntress Virgins wear,  
When the bold Prince doth 'gainst Calisto rise,  
Resolved to act what he did long forbear,  
Nothing to hinder his attempt he spies,  
Being alone, what should the bold youth fear?  
Now with his Love, he once more 'gins to play,  
But still she cries; nay prithee (sweet) away.   

95  
H●… 'gins t'vnlace him, she thinks 'tis for heat,  
And so it was for heat, which only she,  
And none but she could qualify: His seat  
He changed, and now his dalliance grows more free,  
For as her beauty, his desire is great,  
Ye●… all this while no wrong suspecteth she:  
He heaves her silke-coats, that were thin and rare,  
And yet she blushed not, though he see her bare.   

96  
Ihove takes th'advantage, by his former vow  
And force perforce, he makes her his sweet prize: 
Calisto deflou red.   
Th'amazed Virgin (searce a virgin now)  
Fills all the neighbour-groves with shrieks and cries,  
She catches at his locks, his lips, his brow,  
And rends her garments, as she struggling lies:  
The violence came so sudden and so fast,  
She scarce knew what had chanced her, till 'twas passed.   

97  
As when a man struck with a blast of Thunder,  
Feels himself pierced, but knows not how, nor where,  
His troubled thoughts confused with pain and wonder,  
Distracted twixt amazedness and fear,  
His foot removes not, nor his hands doth sunder,  
Seems blind to see, and being deaf to hear,  
And in an ecstasy so far misled,  
That he shows dead alive, and living dead.   

98  
Even so this new-made woman, late a maid,  
Lies senseless after this her transformation,  
Seeing in vain she had implored heavens aid,  
With many a fearful shriek, and shrill Oration,  
Like one entranced upon the ground she's laid,  
Amazed at this her sudden alteration:  
She is she knows not what, she cares not where,  
Confounded with strange passion, force and fear.   

99  
Ihove comforts her, and with his Princely arm,  
He would have raised her from the settled grass,  
With amorous words he feign her grief would charm,  
He tells her what he meant, and who he was,  
But there is no amends for such shrewd harm,  
Nor can he cheer the discontented Lass,  
Though he oft swore, and by his life protested,  
She in his Nuptial bed should be invested.   

100  
But nothing can prevail, she weeping swears,  
To tell Diana of his shameful deed,  
So leaves him, watering all her way with tears,  
Young Ihove to leave the Forest hath decreed,  
He would not have it come to Diane's cares,  
And therefore to the City back doth speed:  
She to the Cloister with her checks all wet,  
Alone, as many, as when first they met.   
IAsius reigned in Italy, at whose marriage, the famous Egyptian Io was present. This was in the year of the world 2408. It was just six years after that Moses at the age of forty, having slain the Egyptian, fled from the sight of Pharaoh.  
Eleven years after Moses departed out of Egypt, the two brothers Dardanus and jasius waged wars in Italy: jasius was assisted by the janigenes (so called of janus,) Dardanus was aided by the Aborigines, so called by Sabatus saga, who succeeded Comerus Gallus the Scythian in certain conquered Provinces of Italy.  
At this time Lusus reigned in Spain, Allobrox in france, Crothopus the 8. king of the Argives, now reigned: Craunus the second king of Athens: and at this time Aaron was consecrated high Priest among the Israelites.  
jasius was slain in the year of the world 2457. in whose place Coribanthus his son succeeded.  
Dardanus sojourned certain years in Samothracia, & erected his City Dardan called Troy, in the 31. year of the Dukedom of Moses, receiving that Province where his city 
Barotus  was erected, from Atho prince of Moeonia.  
About the same time, by equal computation, Archas & Calisto subduing the Pelagians (by the help of jupiter) called the whole province Arcadia.  
Tantalus ruled the Phrygians, who were before his time, called Moeones: This Moeonia is now called Lydia, under which climate Arachne was borne, by Pallas turned into a Spider.  
Diana was thought to be daughter to an ancient king called jupiter of Attic, which Itake to be jupiter Belus before spoken of. She was the first that instituted a professed order of Virginity. The Poets call this Diana Cynthia, and phoebe, figuring in her the Moon, and that her brother phoebus & she, were borne of their mother Latona, daughter to Caeus the Giant in the Iste of Delos.  
Atlanta was daughter to jasius, sister to Coribantus, she first wounded the Caledonian Boar, and was after espoused to Meleagar son to Oeneus the king of Calydon, by his wife Althaea.  
Lycaon was the son of Pelasgus, the son of jupiter and Niobe, and of Melibea, or as some think Cillene. He had many sons by many wives, Moenalus, Thesprotus, Nectinnes, Caucon, Lycus, Maevins, Macareus. In Arcadia, Menatus that built the City Menatus. More leneus that built Moeleneus not far from Megapolis. Acontius, that built Acontium. Charisius, that gave name to Charisium, and Cynethus to Cynetha: he had besides Psophis, Phthinus, Teleboas, Haemon, Mantinus, Stimphelus, Clitor, Orchomenus, and others.  
Some reckon them to the number of fifty, others to many 
Apollodorus.  more. Amongst all these, he had but two daughters, Calisto and Dia.  
Touching Ariadne's crown, it is thus remembered, 
Arat. in astron  
At 〈◊〉, corona nitet clarum inter sidera signum,  
Defunct a quem banchusibi dedit esse Ariadnae.  being for saken of Theseus in the Isle Naxos, whom before she had delivered from the Mynotara, she was espoused by the God Bacchus, and by him had Thoas oenopio, Staphilus, Exanthes, Latramis, and Tauropolis. 
Theopompus.   
The end of the second CANTO.   

Argumentum  
CAlista known to be with Child, is driven  
From Diane's Cloister: Archas doth pursue  
His mother: unto him Pelage is given,  
Now termed Archady: when Titan knew  
Saturn had sons alive, his heart was riven  
With anger: he his men together drew  
To Battle: the two brothers fight their fills,  
jove saves his Father, and his Uncle kills.  
ARG. 2.  
Transformed Calisto, and the Gyant-kings,  
Ioues Combat with great Typhoon, Gamma sings  
CANTO. 3.  

1  
WHen I record, the dire effects of War,  
I cannot but with happy praise admire  
The blessed friends of Peace which smooths the scat  
Of wounding steel, and all consuming fire,  
Oh, in what safety then thy Subjects are, 
King james.   
Royal king james, secured from Wars fierce ire,  
That by thy peaceful government alone,  
Studrest divided Christendomet'attone.   

2  
To thee, may Poets sing they're cheerful lays,  
By whom their Muses flourish in soft peace:  
To thee, the Swains may tune eternal praise,  
By whom they freely reap the earth's increase;  
The Merchants through the earth applaud thy days,  
Wishing their endless date may never cease,  
By who they through the quartered world may traffic.  
Asia, Europe, America, and Africa.   

3  
Thy liege-men thou hast placest as on a hill,  
Free from the Cannon's reach, from far, to see  
Divided Nations one another kill,  
Whilst thy safe people as Spectators be,  
Only to take a view what blood they spill,  
They near to ruin, yet in safety we  
Alone in peace, whilst all the realms about us,  
Envy our bliss, yet forced to fight without us.   

4  
So did the Neuter Londoners once stand  
On Barnet-Heath, aloof, to see the fight  
Twixt the fourth Edward, Sovereign of this land, 
Warwick & Oxford.   
And the great Duke of Warwick in the right  
Of the sixth Henry, in which, hand to hand,  
Brave john of Oxford a renowned knight  
Made many a patting soul for lives-breath pant,  
And vanquished many a worthy Combatant.   

5  
So stood the Kentish men to view the main,  
In the year Eighty eight, when th'English fleet 
The Spanish Armado, sent to invade Enland.   
Fought with the huge Armadas brought from Spain,  
With what impatience did they stand to see't  
On the safe shore, willing to leave the train  
Of such faint Cowards, as think safety sweet  
In such a quarrel, where invaders threat us,  
And in our native kingdom seek to beat us.   

6  
Where Royal England's Admiral, attended  
With all the Chivalry of our brave Nation,  
The name of Howard through the earth extended  
By Naval triumph o'er their proud Invasion,  
Where victory on the redcrosse descended,  
In Lightning and Earths-thunder, in such fashion  
That all the sheafed feathered shafts of Spain,  
Headed with death, were shot them back again.   

7  
It showed as if two Towns on th'Ocean built,  
Had been at once by Th'heaven's lightning fired,  
The shining waters with the bright flames guilt,  
Breathed Clouds of smoke, which to the spheres aspired,  
The blood of Spanish Soldiers that day spilled,  
Which through the Portholes ran, Neptune admired,  
And took it for the Red-sea, whilst the thunder  
Of English shot, proclaimed the Sea-gods wonder.   

8  
But least this Ordinance should wake from sleep,  
Our ancient enmity, now buried quite,  
The grave of all their shame, shall be the deep,  
In which these peopled Sea-townes first did fight;  
Yet that I may a kind of method keep,  
And some deserving Captains to recite:  
Live famous Hawkins, Frobisher and Drake, 
S. Fran Drake S. 10 Hawkins S. Mart. Frobisher.   
Whose very name, made Spain's Armadas quake.   

9  
Now to return unto Pelagia back,  
Which Ihove hath made to him and to his seed,  
Then takes his leave: the people loath to lack  
The Prince, that from a Tyrant hath them freed  
Who of their lives and Honours sought the wrack,  
would change his purpose, but he hath decreed  
Pelagia to forsake, and I must leave him  
To Epire's King, who gladly will receive him.   

10  
And to the Forest to Calisto turn,  
Whose sorrow with her swelling belly grows:  
Alas, how can the Lady choose but mourn?  
To see herself so necre her painful throws:  
'tis August, now the scorching Dog-starres burn,  
Therefore the Forrest-Queene a set day chose  
For all her train to bathe them in the flood,  
Calisto 'mongst them by the river stood.   

11  
The Queen with jealous eyes surueies the place,  
Lest men or satires should be ambushed by them,  
The naked Ladies in the flood to face,  
Or in their cloth-lesse beauty to espy them,  
Now all at once they gi'en themselves t'vnlace:  
(Oh ravishing Harmony) had I been by them,  
I should have thought so many silken strings,  
Touched by such white hands, music fit for kings.   

12  
They doff their upper garments: each begins  
Unto her Milk-white Linen sinocke to bare her,  
Small difference twixt their white smocks and their skins,  
And hard it were to censure which were fairer:  
Some plunge into the River past their chins,  
Some fear to venture, whilst the others dare her,  
And with her tender foot the river feels,  
Making the water's margin rinsh her heels.   

13  
Some stand up to the Ankles, some the knees,  
Some to the Breast, some dive above the Crown,  
Of this her naked fellow nothing sees,  
Saving the troubled waves, where she slid down:  
Another sinks her body by degrees,  
And first her foot, and then her leg doth drown,  
Some their faint fellows to the deep are craving,  
Some sit upon the bank their white legs laving.   

14  
One only discontented, shrinks aside,  
Her saint unbracing idly the doth linger,  
Full fain the Lass her swelling breast would hide,  
She pins and unpins with her thumb and finger,  
Twice Phabe s●…nds, and musing she denied  
To bathe her: she commands the rest to bring her,  
Who betwixt mirth and earnest, force and play,  
All but her Cobweb shadow, snatched away.   

15  
Diana at first perceives her breasts to swell,  
And whispers to Atlanta what she found,  
Who strait perceived Calisto was not well,  
They judged she had her Virgin's belt unbound,  
But when her vail beneath her navel fell,  
And that her belly show'd so plump and round,  
They little need to ask if she transgressed,  
Calistoes' guilty blush, the act confessed.   

26  
Therefore she banished her, nor suits nor tears,  
Can with the Queen of Damsels ought prevail,  
Who when by strict inquiry made, she hears  
` Of jupiter and his deceitful stale,  
Who seemed so like a Virgin: Phebe swears,  
Because her judgement thenceforth shall not fail,  
And to avoid occasion of like venture,  
To search all such as to her train shall enter.   

17  
Thus is Lyc●…ns daughter banished now  
The City, by her late assumed profession,  
Banished the Cloister by her breach of vow,  
For by no prayers, tears or intercession;  
Diana her reentrance will allow  
After exilement, for her late transgression,  
Therefore ashamed, through dark shades she doth run,  
Till time expires, and she brings forth a son,   

18  
So did our Cynthia Chastity prefer, 
Queen Elizabeth.   
The most admired Quee●…ne that ever reigned;  
If any of her Virgin train did err,  
Or with the like offence their honours stained  
From her Imperial Court she banished her,  
And a perpetual exile she remained,  
Oh bright Elisa though thy dated days  
Confine: there is no limit to thy praise.   

19  
Calistos son imagine seven years old,  
Brought up 'mongst Lions, Tigers, Wolves, & Bears,  
The savage imp grows day by day more bold,  
And (half a bruit) no beast at all he fears,  
He brooks both Summer's heat and Winter's cold,  
And from the Wolf his prey by force he tears,  
Upon a time his mother crossed his will,  
Whom he enraged pursued, and sought to kill.   

20  
She flies, he follows her with furious rage,  
Till she is forest the Forest to forsake,  
And seeing no means can his spleen assuage,  
She doth the way unto the city take,  
The neighbour City which is called Pelage,  
Where jupiter by chance did merry-make;  
Whose hap it was, then crossing through the street,  
The mother and th'enraged son to meet.   

21  
Calisto spies jove, and for help she cries,  
And at his Royal feet she humbly throws her,  
He stops the savage, and with heedful eyes,  
Viewing Calisto well, at length he knows her,  
Though clad in bark and leaves, (a strange disguise)  
For a king's daughter, and a Realms disposer:  
Help jove (quoth she) and my pursuer stay,  
Archas thy son his mother seeks to slay.   

22  
jove gladly doth acknowledge the bold Lad  
To be his son, for all the gifts of nature,  
Patterned and shaped by jupiter he had,  
And of him nothing wants, but age and stature,  
He caused him in rich garments to be clad,  
And then he seemed to all, a goodly creature,  
For being attired in cloth of Gold and Tissue,  
He may be easily known to be Ioues Issue.   

23  
The strife betwixt the mother and the child,  
Is by the father and the husband ended,  
Calisto hath again herself exiled,  
Scorning the grace that jove to her extended:  
She hies her to the groves and forests wild,  
With general mankind for Ioues sake offended,  
But in her flight as through the fields she ranged,  
She feels her figure and proportion changed.   

24  
Her upright body now 'gan forward bend, 
Hecateus,   
And on the earth she doth directly stare,  
And as her hands she would to heaven extend,  
She sees her finger's claws, o'ergrown with hair,  
And those same lips jove did of late commend  
To be for colour pe●…relesse, kissing rare,  
Are rough and stretched in length, her head down hangs  
Her skins a rough hide, and her teeth be fangs.   

25  
And when she would her strange estate bewail  
And speak to heaven, the sorrows of her heart,  
Instead of words she finds her Organs fail,  
And grunts out a harsh sound, that makes her star,  
She fears her shape, and over hill and dale  
Runs from herself, yet can she not depart  
From what she flies, for what she most doth fear  
She carries all the way: the shape of Bear.   

26  
And though a perfect Bear, yet Bears affright her, 
Calisto transformed into a Beat.   
So do the Wolves, though 'mongst their savage crew  
Her Father lives, how should a Wolf delight her  
Unless Lycaon in such shape she knew?  
Mean time young Archas proves a valiant fighter,  
And in all martial practise famous grew, 
Pauson, in Arcadicis.   
Adding seaveu Summers more unto his age,  
He seats him in the kingdom of Pelage.   

27  
Where leave him reigning in his Grandsiressted, 
Pelagia called Arcadia of Archas.   
Changing his kingdom and his people's name,  
Whether by love or fate (I know not) led  
Themselves Arcadians they abroad proclaim,  
After the name of Archas now their head  
Pelage a City too of ancient fame,  
They Archad call, a style that shall persever  
Unto the people and the Town for evet.   

28  
Archas in Archad lives, in Epire jove,  
Saturn in Crect, the God of Earth proclaimed,  
Titan through foreign Seas and Lands doth rove,  
Having by Conquest many Nations tamed,  
For time still gave him Conquest where he strove,  
which made him through the world both feared & famed  
Yet with a world the Tyrant seems not pleased,  
Till he have Crect his Native birthright cea●….   

29  
By strict inquiry, heat length hath found  
His perjured Brother hath kept sons alive,  
against the covenant he by oath was bound,  
Which was, that no male issue should survive:  
This of his future war must be the ground,  
He vows in Irons his Brother's legs to give,  
His hands to Manacle, his neck to yoke,  
In just revenge that he the league hath broke.   

30  
His sons all Giants, and by nature strong,  
He sends to assemble to this dreadful war,  
Who like their father apt for rape or wrong,  
Without the cause demanding gathered are, 
Tytons' sons all Giants.   
Unnumbered people in their army's throng,  
Brought by the Big-boned Titanoys from far,  
Where he and all his Gyant-sonnes assemble,  
They make the groaning earth beneath them tremble.   

31  
Lycaon was not there, him jove before  
Had from th' Arcadian kingdom quite put down,  
There was the Giant Typhon, he that wore 
Typhon.   
The Cyprian wreath, and the Sicilian crown, 
Briareus.   
Huge Briareus that the sceptre bore  
Of Nericos, a monster, at whose frown  
Nations have quaked, whole armies stood aghast,  
And Gods themselves shook till his rage were passed.   

32  
Coeon likewise king of great Coeas Isle, 
C●…on.   
A fellow of a high and matchless size,  
Who the rough Ocean calmed with a smile,  
And with a frown hath made the billows ●…ise, 
Aegeon.   
Aegeon too that hath enlarged his style  
Through many a kingdom: from whose raging eyes  
Bright lightning flames have in his furious ire,  
Afore a storm of thunder flashed out fire.   

33  
Of him the great Mediterranean Ocean  
Is called th' Aegean Sea, it doth divide  
Europe from Asia, and hath further motion  
a long the greatest part of Greece: beside,  
This Giant to the Gods scorned all devotion,  
Therefore was called Brianchus for his pride:  
The next Hyperion of the self-same breed;  
All these have sworn the death of Saturn's seed. 
Hyperion.    

34  
There likewise came unto these wars Japetus,  
(Calum and Terraes son) in Titan's aid, 
japetus   
He brought with him his son Prometheus,  
Whom Titan the first hour a Captain made,  
His brother Athlas too, and Hesperus,  
Their royal Ensigns in the field displayed, 
Promesheus.   
And over divers seas their armies ferried,  
From Mauritania, Lybia, and Hesperied.   

35  
Their rendezvous in Sicily they made,  
And thence by sea they rig a royal sleet,  
The flourishing realm of Saturn to invade,  
In time, their countless host takes land in Crect,  
Vall●…es by them are filled, hills even are laid,  
Towns burnt, high Castles levelled with their feet,  
Where ere they turn, fire from their eyeballs flashes,  
Which towns and villages consumes to ashes.   

36  
Saturn their bold invasion much admires,  
Not knowing whence their quarrel may be grounded,  
He calls his Counsel, and of them inquires  
How their immense ambition may be bounded,  
How with his enemy's blood to quench the fires,  
And by what power the so may be confounded,  
Advise is given to make a general muster,  
To beat them back that in such numbers cluster.   

37  
And as the king throned in his chair of state,  
Sits in his palace, all his chief Peers by him,  
On these affairs to Counsel and debate,  
In thrusts a Knight from Titan, to defy him,  
And 'mongst the Lords that 'bout him circled fat,  
He rudely throngs, and presseth to come me him,  
But being kept back, aloud he lifts his voice,  
And thus greets Saturn from the Tytanoys.   

38  
Thus says imperious Titan, Saturn's Lord,  
Like a low vassal from my Throne descend,  
Or I shall chase thee thence by fire and sword,  
And with thy glory, to thy days give end,  
For thou hast broke thy oath and Princely word,  
And therein made an enemy of thy friend:  
My Crown I but resigned upon condition,  
And thou those bands hast broke by thy Ambition.   

39  
Whilst Saturn his male-childrens kills: so long  
He is the King of Crect, but that neglected, 
The occasion of this wa●…e.   
He wears the Cretan Diadem by wrong,  
Thy perjury is to the world detected,  
And therefore with an army great and strong,  
Shall Saturn from his high throne be dejected:  
Thus Titan doth the king of Crect defy,  
And by these Summons, to submit or die.   

40  
Bold spirited Saturn doubly moved appeareth,  
At his proud Message, with disdain and wonder,  
Disdain; as being a Prince that nothing feareth  
To hear his scorned enemy-threatning Thunder;  
With admiration: when he strangely heareth  
Of sons alive, which makes him deeply wonder,  
And taking Sibell by the hand thus say,  
(Having commanded first his train away.)   

41  
Sister and wife, I charge thee by the zeal  
Thou owest to me thy husband and thy brother,  
The truth of all this practice to reveal,  
And what I next demand thee nothing smother,  
Since it concerns th'estate of all our weal,  
Art thou of any living son the mother?  
The trembling Queen, low kneeling, thus replied,  
You charge me deep, and I will nothing hide.   

42  
I am a woman, and full well you know,  
A woman hath a soft and tender breast,  
But more, I am a mother: can you show  
A mother that in this kind hath transgressed?  
Stranger may stranger kill: Foe murder foe,  
Which mothers to their children most detest:  
Was it for murder you espoused me first,  
To be a wife, of all goodwives accursed?   

43  
I'd rather be a piteous mother held,  
Then through the world a Murderess be esteemed,  
Be myself murdered rather, then compelled  
To murder those for whom this womb hath teemed:  
This womb with three fair Princely sons hath swelled,  
Which dead to Saturn and the world are deemed,  
Yet all three live, but cruel husband where,  
Saturn shall never know, nor Titan hear.   

44  
Th'amazed king imagines by her look,  
Her fervent tongue doth on her heartstring strike,  
Necessity at this time; makes him brook  
What his disturbed soul doth most dislike,  
Without reply the sad Queen he for sook,  
It pierced his heart as if an enemy's pike  
Had by the aim of some strong hand been cast,  
And side to side through all his entrails past.   

45  
He comes where all his Lords in counsel sat,  
And tells them of three sons preserved to life,  
The Peers at first seem much amazed thereat,  
Yet all commend the pity of his wife,  
And praise her virtue: (intermitting that)  
They next proceed to Titan's hostile strife,  
And thus conclude their enemies to expel,  
Whom they know Barbarous, bloody, fierce and fell.   

46  
When calling him that the defiance brought,  
This answer back to Titan they return,  
That they his braving menace set at nought,  
That their own bloods shall quench the towns they burn  
That their immediate ruins they have sought,  
And they no longer can revenge adjourn,  
But the next son shall see strange vengeancetane  
Of all his Cretan subjects they have slain.   

47  
The Messengers dismissed, while they prepare  
Arms and munition for the morrows field,  
Mean time great Titan's sons assembled are,  
Who all their Fortunes on their fury build,  
Their haughty looks their spleenful hearts declare,  
Each brandishing his sword, and ponderous shield,  
Longing to hear from Saturn such reply,  
That on his men they may their valours try.   

48  
Nor do they tempt the Deities in vain,  
They have what they desire: to them behold  
The bassled messenger gallops amain,  
But ere the Knight his message hath half told,  
So much the Giant kings their braves disdain,  
That with their scornful feet they spurn the mould,  
Their brows they furrow, and their teeth they grate,  
And all the Gods blaspheme, to show their hate.   

49  
Now hath the Sun slid from his fiery Car,  
And in cold Ister quenched his flaming head,  
Black darkness risting from the earth afar,  
You might perceive the welkin to o'erspread,  
Orion's blazing locks discovered are,  
Pale Cynthia governs in Apollo's stead,  
Boots his wain, about the pole hath driven,  
And all the stars borne bright that spangle heaven.   

50  
The morning comes, Titan in field appears  
In complete harness, armed from head to toe,  
Next him Aegeon, who no corselet wears 
The Armour of the giants.   
Or coat of Arms to encounter any foe,  
Unarmed as he is, he no man fears,  
A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow,  
Made of the peacocks train, his arms is strong,  
In which he shakes a skein, bright, broad, and long.   

51  
Creous huge sinnowy Arms, and brawny thighs  
Are naked, being tawnied with the sun,  
Buskins he wears that 'bove his ankles rise,  
Puffed with such curled silk as Arachne sp●…n,  
A coat of Arms well mailed that fits his size,  
Laceth his body in, these Arms he won  
Of a huge Monster, in the Isle of Thrace,  
Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace.   

52  
His knotted beard was as the Porphir black,  
So were the fleecy locks upon his crown,  
Which to the middle of his armed back,  
From his rough shaggy head descended down,  
His fiery Eyeballs threaten Saturn's wrack,  
Stern vengeance roused herself in Caons' frown,  
His shield, a broad iron door, his Lance a beam,  
Oft with his large stride he hath Arched a stream.   

53  
Typhon in skins of Lions grimly clad,  
Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds,  
The hides of these imperious beasts he had,  
From th'Erithmanthian forest, where his deeds  
Live still in memory, like one half mad  
The Giant shows in these disguised weeds,  
The lions jaws gnawing his Helmet stood,  
And grinning with his long fangs stained in blood.   

54  
And yet his own fierce visage lowering under,  
Appears as full of terror as that other,  
Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder,  
Next him appears Euceladus his Brother,  
Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder  
(This was the only darling of his mother,)  
His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oak,  
With which he menac'st death at every stroke.   

59  
Hyperion in an armour all of Suns,  
Shines like the face of Phoebus o'er the rest:  
This Giant to his valiant Brothers runs,  
Crying to Arms, base linger I detest,  
Damned be that Coward soul that damage shuns,  
Or from apparent peril shrinks his breast,  
Behold where Saturn 'mongst his people crowned,  
His horns and Clarions doth to battle sound.   

56  
Saturn appears as great Hyperion spoke,  
Borne in an ivory chair with bright stones stoodded,  
'mongst which in trails ran many an Antic flake,  
With rich Inamell, azur'd, green and rudded,  
At the first push their enemy's ranks they broke,  
He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded:  
About him round their bows his Archers drew,  
A fight which yet their Foe-men never knew.   

57  
The big-boned Giants wounded from a far,  
And seeing none but their own soldiers by them,  
Amazed stand at this new kind of war,  
To receive wounds by such as came not nigh them,  
From every wing they hear their loses jar,  
They knew not where to turn, or how to fly them,  
The showers of Arrows reigned so fast and thick,  
That in their legs, thighs, breast, and arms they stick   

58  
So long as their strong Bows of trusty Ewe  
And silken strings held fast, so long fresh rivers  
Of Crimson blood the Champion did embrew,  
For every shaft the Archers Bow delivers,  
Or kills or wounds one of their countless crew,  
But when they once had emptied all their quivers,  
And that the enemy saw their arrows wasted,  
To blows and handy-strokes both armies hasted.   

59  
Thou famous English Henry of that name 
Henry the 5.   
The fifth: I cannot but remember thee  
That won unto thy kingdom endless fame,  
By thy bold English Archers Chivalry,  
In Agin-Court: when to the Frenchmens shame, 
Agincourt.   
King, Dolphin, and the chief Nobility  
Were with the odds of thousands forced to yield,  
And Henry Lord of that triumphant field.   

60  
But such success king Saturn had not then,  
He is in number and in strength too weak,  
His people are but one to Titan's ten,  
Nor are his guards so strong their spleen to wreak,  
The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men,  
Into their foes battalions rudely break:  
Their Pole-axes and Clubs they heave on high,  
The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly.   

61  
The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaves,  
and enter the great City (Havoc crying)  
In Cretan blood they drown their Chariot Naves,  
And slaughter all the poor Saturniens flying,  
One hand sharp steel, the other firebrands waves,  
In every place the groans of people, dying  
Mixed with the Conqueror's shouts, to heaven aspire,  
and in their harsh sound, make a dismal Quire.   

62  
The city's ceizd, Saturn and Sibyl bound,  
Whilst Titan Lords it in the Cretan Throne,  
His reveling sons for Pillage ransack round,  
And where they hear Babes shriek, or old men groan,  
They shout for joy; mean time King Saturn's wound  
Sibyl binds up: and being all alone  
In prison with her Lord, to him relates  
The fortunes of her sons, and their estates.   

63  
She tells him that young Ihove, in Epire famed  
For Martial triumphs, is their natural son:  
He that Lycaon quelled, Pelagia tamed,  
And many spoils for Milliseus won:  
No sooner did the King hear young Ihove named,  
But he reputes the wrongs against him done;  
and proud of such an Issue so far praised,  
Hopes by his hand to have his Fortunes raised.   

64  
He therefore by the careful Damsel sends,  
(The self-same Damsel that to Oson bore him  
as from a sorrowful father kind commends)  
The Damsel having found him, kneels before him,  
And the whole project she begins and ends  
Of Saturn's fall, and prays him to restore him:  
Ihove (that till now) a father never knew:  
amazed at first, himself a space withdrew,   

65  
And having in his heart her words debated  
And every thing conferred: his birth unknown  
Which from his infancy the maid related  
Even to the time that he to years was grown,  
Knowing the day and hour exactly dated,  
His mother's pity, and his father's frown,  
To which her words she doth as witness bring  
The two fair daughters of the Epire King.   

66  
The youthful Prince is to the full persuaded,  
It glads him to be son to one so great,  
He swears his Uncle shall be soon disgraded,  
And tumbled headlong from his Father's seat,  
And all that have the Cretan Clime invaded  
Shall be repulsed with scandal: In this heat  
The Epire King he doth of aid implore,  
And Archas, whom he late had crowned before.   

67  
Were he a stranger, yet he holds it sin,  
Not to pursue his rescue being oppressed,  
But being his father, and his next of Kin,  
That by a Tyrant's hand is dispossessed,  
His mother to, that had his ransom been  
And kept the bloody weapon from his breast:  
All these incite his valour, and the rather  
To seem kind son, to so unkind a Father.   

68  
Posts are to Archas in Arcadia sent,  
His father with two thousand men to meet,  
Who musters up his troops incontinent,  
Proud that his valour shall be known in Crect:  
The bold Parthemians likewise to Ihove sent  
Of their own voluntary minds a Fleet  
Of ships well stored with men, who both admire  
His valour, and his amity desire.   

69  
The men of Oson round about him flock,  
Glad by so brave a Captain to be guided,  
Known to be issued from a Regal stock,  
Mean time King Milleseus hath provided  
His stout Epiriens, who have vowed to block  
The Cretan streets, with trunks of men divided,  
So with the remnant of their forces troup  
To make proud Titan and his Issue stoop.   

70  
Their Army they transport, and on the beach  
Of the rich Cretan shore securely land it,  
No man appears their entrance to impeach,  
The selfe-opiniond Foe so slightly manned it,  
They think their fortunes out of dangers reach,  
And that their power's so great, none can withstand it,  
The covetous Princes more intend the spoil  
Of one rich town, than loss of all the soil.   

71  
But when the watch from the high City walls,  
Sees all the neighbour plains with Armour spread,  
Aloud to Titan and his sons he calls,  
To arm with speed: the Giants strait make head  
Tidings of bloody broils them nought appalls,  
With courage they their business managed,  
And having each addressed his sword and shield,  
Issue from forth the gates, and take the field.   

72  
Into three Battles jupiter divides  
The Royal Army he conducts: The main  
King Melliseus by appointment guides,  
Th' Osoniens and Epyriens fill his train,  
Some from Alacre he received beside,  
A City subject unto Epire's reign:  
Ihove the Parthemians in the vaw doth bear,  
Young Archas with th' Arcadians leads the rear.   

73  
six Battles Titan makes, the great'st he leads,  
And in the other five his sons employs,  
It cheers him when he sees his Army spreads  
So many furlongs, led by his bold boys:  
He swears, the ground whereon his enemy treads  
Shall drown the host that he this day destroys  
In their own gore: and after in small while,  
Yield to their mangled trunks a funeral pile.   

74  
By this young Archas twixt the Camps appears,  
A trumpet all the way before him sounding: 
jupiters' Embally to 〈◊〉   
For Titan through the army he inqucers,  
The Tyrant with all pride and spleen abounding  
Admits him, in the presence of his Peers,  
Legions of armed men his person rounding:  
His sudden coming, much amazement breeds,  
When Archas with his message thus proceeds.   

75  
Thus saith Prince jupiter, king Saturn's son,  
Stay there (quoth Titan) for thou hast confessed,  
That what I do, is all by justice done,  
And by good right myself I here invest:  
The Cretan Crown I have by conquest won,  
In which I have a filial Interest:  
The name of Satur's son, Saturn excludes,  
And Titan justly enters (not intrudes.)   

76  
When Archas thus replies: Great Saturn's seed  
And issue Male survives, to see thee slain,  
The blood thou sought to shed, shall make thee bleed,  
And all the Giant Princes of thy train,  
So hath the Epire King with Ihove decreed,  
Therefore before your bloods this verdure stain  
Leave (these usurped Confines) and release  
My Graundfire King, that hostile arms may cease.   

77  
Else, thus thy Nephew Ihove by me hath sworn,  
By me his soon Archas, th' Arcadian King,  
To pluck that Crown from off thy brows, in scorn,  
And thee from that Tribunal headlong fling,  
and such as thy usurped state suborn  
He shall to tuyne and destruction bring:  
Titan, whose rage darts fire out of his eyes,  
Thus to the bold undaunted youth replies:   

78  
Princox, Thou thinkst by thy despiteful brave  
To daunt us, but thou giv'st us greater spirit:  
Thou comest from Saturn's son: Thou dost deprave  
In that one word, his Title, not my Merit:  
Thou tellest us we our natural Kingdom have,  
Which as our father's eldest we inherit,  
For just so old as Ihove is, just so long,  
Satarne usurped upon my right, by wrong.   

79  
Go tell thy Father, that his life is mine,  
And I that life am now come to bereave,  
So is thy life too which thou must resign;  
When he got thee, he should have asked me leave,  
His death was at his birth due, so was thine,  
Which then deferred, you now come to receive:  
Reply not: the proud braucs thou hast commenced,  
Hath us and all our Issue much incenccd.   

80  
Archas departs: Titan his Soldiers cheers,  
And tells them the directness of his cause;  
That 'tis Tranus Sceptre which he bears,  
And he his eldest by all Nature's laws,  
The true successor to the Crown he wears,  
They sign his ave with a shrill applause,  
And by these motive arguments persuaded,  
Threaten their lives, that have his Clime invaded.   

81  
So thoue and Milleseus having heard  
His peremptory answer, both prepare  
For imminent vengeance, not to be deferred,  
Loud shouts and cries from both sides pierce the air, 
The Battle.   
In every battle dauntless rage appeared,  
The Champions in their hot blood proudly far:  
A confused noise drums in their halfe-deafe ears,  
Of trumpets, drum's, shouts, swords, shields, splintered Spears.   

82  
Out of this battles Chaos and confusion,  
Of undistinguished valour Prince Ihove springs,  
And where he Titan spies makes rough intrusion,  
Maugre the strength of all the Gyant-kings:  
This prologue was to some the full conclusion  
Of that days Tragedy: their darts and Slings  
From every part with envious hands they cast,  
And Ihove through thousand weapons points hath past.   

83  
Proceeding still, his sword prepares the way  
Even to the Chariot where his Uncle sat,  
And spite of those that would his violence stay,  
He strikes him on the Helm, and lays him flat,  
There had he slain him dead, but to the fray  
Encelad comes, and much enraged thereat  
Assails the Prince, whilst he the fight intends,  
The rescue Titan his high chair ascends.   

84  
The noise of his surprisal, in small space  
Was spread through every wing of this large field,  
Such as beheld him fall, ran thence apace,  
And to his sons reported he was killed:  
In haste they draw their forces to this place,  
And Ihove is round encompassed (Heaven him shield)  
Saturn from his high turret looked, and wondered,  
To see one Knight hold battle, 'gainst an hundred.   

85  
And calling Sibyl to the Battlement,  
From whence they might the doubtful skirmish view,  
They may perceive how Ihove incontinent,  
Twenty tall Soldiers of King Titan's slew:  
Amazed they stand at his great hardiment,  
One asked another, if this Knight they knew:  
When noting well the bold deeds he had done,  
(Quoth Sibyl) may not this be Ihove, our son?   

86  
Whilst in this hopeful doubt they stand confounded,  
Behold, young Archas having understood  
His Father Ihove with thousand foes was rounded  
And 'mongst the Giants fought, all guled in blood,  
He caused a loud charge to be shrilly sounded,  
And thither makes where Ihove environed stood:  
Now grew the battle hot, bold Archas pierces  
Through the mid-hoast, & strews his way with hearses.   

87  
And at first shock, breaks through th'Iron ring  
Of armed men, that had his Father penned,  
Whose sword by this emboweld the proud King  
Enceladus, and to his days gave end:  
But when he saw his son fresh succours bring,  
And to large proof his dreadless spirit extend,  
With such essential joy the Prince doth cheer him,  
Each blow deals death and not a man dares near him   

88  
Save Titan, who 'mongst many Corpse's lying,  
O'er which his Armed chariot swiftly ran,  
Amongst the rest Euceladus espying,  
The blood forsook his cheek, his face looked wan,  
He stamps, he stars, he strikes, still vengeance crying,  
And in disordered fury spares no man,  
Pl●…mmets of Lead, he from his Chariot threw,  
And many of the bold Archadians slew.   

89  
jove wondering whence so great a cry should grow,  
Or who so many of his men had slain,  
Spies Titan coming on, him jove doth know,  
And with all speed makes towards him again:  
Now is the war at height, for many a blow  
Deals wounds and death, thick showers of arrows rain,  
Quarters of men, and heads, with Helmets battered,  
Half hid in blood through all the fields are scattered.   

90  
Titan encounters jove, jove him defies,  
And from his Steely Burgon beats out fire,  
By Titan's side doth proud Hyperion rise,  
Against him Archas doth the field desire,  
And now each other bravely doth despise,  
They combat son to son, and Sire to Sire,  
But jove and Archas best in power and skill, 
Titan & Hyperion slain.   
Old Titan and the young Hyperion kill,   

91  
Just as they fall, comes Typhon, having late  
King Milleseus and his battle chased,  
His enemy's swords had hewed off many a plate  
From that iron coat in which his sides wear laced,  
Who letting out the nails that bound him strait,  
Waikes in a cloud of his own smoke, unbraced,  
And as upon his father's trunk he gazed,  
He plucks his bold foot back, and starts amazed.   

92  
But when he further looking, 'gan espy  
The proud Hyperion weltering in his gore, 
The Combat twixt jupiter and 〈◊〉   
And huge Enceladus besides him lie,  
He quite forgets their Obits to deplore:  
The Earth he curses, and blasphemes the sky,  
And from his knotty head the black locks tore:  
With that enraged, his Axe aloft he heaved,  
And Ihoves broad shield justin the middle cleaved.   

93  
Both armies give them field-roome, two such spirits  
Beget in their encounter preparation,  
If Ihove survive, King Saturn Crect inherits:  
If Typhon live, great Typhon rules that Nation:  
Both parties stand Spectators of their merits,  
To view this Combat with high admiration,  
Forgetting fight, their weapons down they bend,  
To see these two (the best on earth) contend.   

94  
Huge Typhon is unweeldy, Ihove more quick,  
and better breathed, doth oft-times traverse round,  
(To speed him with a blow, or with a prick)  
Till he hath worn a bloody circle, round  
about his bulky foe: Typhon strikes thick,  
But his vain blows dig Trenches in the ground,  
Had they fallen right, they to the waast had cleft him,  
and both of Father, Crown, and life bereft him.   

95  
Two tedious hours lasts this renowned fray,  
Yet neither Victor: with this fight compared  
All the days bloody broil appeared but play,  
Both ward, both strike, both scorn to be out-dard,  
Ihove with one blow, quite through his Targe makes way  
It cuts the steele-bars, the guilt studs it pared:  
Typhon to be aueng'de of this disgrace,  
Aims a stiff stroke full at his armed face.   

96  
It crossed his Visor, and so down it glanced,  
And only rac'st his Gorget: when Ihove stands  
A Tiptoe with his arms on high advanced,  
Holding his conquering sword in both his hands,  
He falls it on his Beaver as it chanced,  
The massy stroke unrevets all the bands  
That locked his Helm, his wounded face appears,  
He mad, with his sharp nails his Armour tears.   

97  
And now both strike at once, steel against steel,  
And armour against armour: their loud strokes  
Make the woods tremble, and the earth to reel,  
Such blows, cleave Rocks, and fell the mountain-Oakes,  
At length they close and grapple, Typhon's heel  
Twines about Ihoves midleg, his arms he yokes  
about his Gorget: active Ihove le's slip,  
and by fine slight, catched Typhon on the hip.   

98  
The Giant escapes the fall, and both let go,  
Their weapons lost, they buffet fist to fist,  
and at advantage lie: now high, now low:  
To close again, Ihove catched by Typhon's wrist,  
Typhon by his, both tug, both cunning show:  
Typhon makes play, Ihove catched him by the twist,  
Heaves him aloft, and in his arms he brings him  
To a high Rock, and in the Sea he flings him.   

99  
Typhon thus dead, their bands disordered fly,  
Ihove, Archas, and the Epire King pursue them,  
Aegeon escapes, hereafter kept to die  
By him that with his brothers fought and slew them,  
Bri'reus, japet, Athlas, Hespery,  
Prometheus too disguised, that no man knew them,  
Fled with the rest: Ihove tired in the chase,  
Returns to Crect, his parents to embrace.   

100  
Oh in what joy was Sibyl 'bove the rest,  
And Grandam Vesta freely to behold him,  
They weep their tears of joy upon his breast,  
And thousand sighs in their strict arms enfold him,  
Saturn for juno sends, with Ihove to feast,  
And his two sons (of whom his wife hath told him)  
With Archas and the Epire King to meet,  
At general Triumphs, to be made in Crect.   
HEr virgin belt unbound, Stanzo 15. It was the custom in those days, the day of every virgin's marriage, to have her girdle loosed, by him that should be her husband.  
In the 26. Stanzo, where Calisto is said to be turned into a Bear, Phurnutius saith, that the Lady hunting, was devoured of a Bear, and being seen no more, was thought to be metamorphosed into a Bear. There be two Bears in the heavens, the greater and the less, into which Ovid saith, Atchas and his mother were translated: one of them Nauphus first observed, the other Thales Milesius. Homer calls them Helicopes.  
The wars twixt jupiter and the Tytanoys, is called by the Poet's Gygantomachia, Of which Ovid the first of his Metamor: 
Aff: class ferunt regnum coeleste gigantes,  
attack congestes struxisse ad sidera mantes, etc.  Of this there are divers Fables extant.  
Briaceus they called Centimanem Gigantem, the Giant with a hundred hands, alluding to his valour and his creditious strokes, which he gave so thick, as if he had struck with an hundred hands at once.  
And of Typhon, Ovid in his Metamorph. 5. most ingeniously thus speaks; 
Vasta Gyganteis juierta est Insula memoris,  
Tynacris & magnis subiectum motibus urgit,  
Aethercas ausum sperare Typhocaledes,  
et sic deinceps   
japetus is certainly thought to be son of japhet, the 3. son of Noah. 
Euseb. 2. eu●…g. prepar.   
Tantalus some think to be the son of jupiter and the Nymph Plota: Others, of jupiter and Plutus: as johannes Diaconus and Didimus: Others have thought him to be the 
Lucian in dial. de dipsad.  son of Imolus King of Lydia: as Zezes: Others, the son of Aethon. 
Talia far Puto quoque Tantalou aethone natum,  
Qui nullo potuit font levare sitim  Tantalus being to feast the Gods, for the more magnificence of the banquet and as the richest dish, slew his son Pelops, and served him in: which the Gods knowing, all refused to 
Pind. in Olimp.  eat, only Ceres, almost distraught with the loss of her daughter, rashly eat of the shoulder: The Gods pitying the murder of his son, floung all his limbs intoa Cauldron, which 
Lycophron.  boiling a space, they restored him again to life, whom because he came out of the Cauldron younger than when he was slain, he was called Pelops, but when his shoulder wanted (of which Ceres had hungerly fed) the Gods made up the place with 
Isacius.  ivory, which shoulder of ivory, was after, a badge of all the Pelopidans. Of his torments in hell, the report is common. His children were Broteus, Pelops and Niobes.  
The end of the third CANTO.   

Argumentum,  
Ihove Esculapius kills, Apollo drtues  
To keep Admetus' sheep in Thessaly,  
And next his beauteous sister juno wives,  
At her return from Crect to Parthemy,  
The father with the son in battle strives,  
But by his puissance is insorst to fly:  
Acrisius keeps his daughter in a Tower,  
Which amorous Ihove scales in a golden shower  
ARG. 2.  
To divine physic: Gods made first of men,  
And Perseus birth, swift Delta guides my pen  
CANTO. 4.  

THou divine Art of Physi●… let me sing  
Thy hononred praise, and let my pen aspire  
To give thee life, that unto life canst bring  
Men half departed: whether thy first Sire  
Was that Prometheus, who●…om the heavens King  
Stole by his skill part of the vital fire  
That kindles life in man, thereby to save  
Sick men, that stand with one foot in the grave.   

2  
Or whether Aesculapius was thy father,  
Son to the Sun-god, by whose lively heat  
Simples and Plants, their saps and virtues gather,  
Let it suffice I know thy power is great;  
And my unable muse admires thee rather,  
Then comprehends thy worth, let them entreat  
Of thy perfection, that with fame profess thee,  
And in their Arts unto the life express thee.   

3  
As famous Butler, Pady, Turner, Poe,  
Atkinson, Lyster, Lodge, who still survive:  
Besides these English Gallen thousands more,  
Who where they come, death and diseases drive  
From pale sick creatures: and all Cordials know,  
Spirits spent and wasted to preserve alive,  
In this with Gods and Kings they are at strife,  
Physicians Kings and Gods alone give life.   

4  
Some hold young Mercury devisd the skill  
Of Physic first, and taught that Art abroad,  
Some unto Arabus impute it still,  
Someyeild that honour to th' Egyptian God, 
Arabus son to Apollo.   
Called Apis or Serapis, others will  
Apollo chief, what time he made abode  
With king Admetus, but mostvoyces run,  
The first renowned was Esculap his son.   

5  
Hypocrates reduced it to an Art,  
Galen and Auicenna him succeed,  
Cassius and Calpitanus too, impart  
His sovereign skill, Rubrius taught first to bleed,  
Antonius Musa cheered the wasted heart,  
Aruntius too helped every grief at need:  
Archagathus professed this first in Rome,  
But all submit to Noble Gallen doom.   

6  
The first that did this sacred Art renown,  
And gave it fame on earth was as I read, 
The tale of Aesculapius.   
Great Aesculape who tracing up and down  
To gather Simples in the flowery Mead,  
Hard by a rock that wears a bushy crown,  
And 'bove the neighbour champion lifts his head,  
He spies a Swain in habit neat and brisk,  
Hold battle with a dreadful Basilisk.   

7  
A monster that kills only with his eye,  
Which from th'unarmed Shepherd shrunk and ran,  
Apollo's son with wonder stands him ●…e,  
And thinks, or that no beast, or this no man,  
Admiring by what hidden Deity  
The piercing Cockatrice outgaze he 'gan,  
Unless by chance there lodged a Virtue rare,  
In some one simple in the wreath he ware.   

8  
All the strong armour 'gainst this horrid beast,  
Was but a Chaplet which begird his brain,  
Which Esculape suspecting, much increased  
His Ardency, to know what hidden strain  
Slept in strange working herbs (thus being possessed)  
He begs the Garland from the ignorant Swain,  
Who now unwreathed, again the beast defies,  
Who strait returns, and kills him with her eyes.   

9  
Apollo's son by certain proof now finds  
Th'inverted herbs have 'gainst such poison power,  
To combat with th'eye-killing Beast he minds,  
(Thirsting for fame) the wreath with many a Flower,  
And herb, and plant, about his brain he binds,  
And so with speed hasts to her Rocky tower,  
scaleth her foul den, and threatens present war,  
T'out-gaze her near, who seeing, kills from far.   

10  
The big-swollen Serpent with broad eyelids stars,  
And through the air her subtle poison flings,  
The Sunnes-hearbe charmed, soon her venom dares,  
And shrinks not at her persant eyeballs stings,  
The Basilisk in her own strength despairs,  
And to fly thence, she shakes her flaggy wings,  
But his Dart takes her as she meant to rise,  
And pierced her heart, that pierced hearts with her eyes.   

11  
Proud of this Trophy, he returning sees  
The harmless Swain upon the ground lie dead,  
Whom pitying, he descends unto his knees,  
Taking the virtue Chaplet from his head,  
And herb by herb into his mouth doth squeeze,  
And down his throat their powerful liquor shed,  
But when the juice of one pure herb was drained,  
The new departed life it back constrained.   

11  
Nor wonder if such force in herbs remain,  
What cannot juice of divine Simples bruised?  
The Dragon finding his young Scrpent slain,  
Having th'herbe-Balin in his wounds infused,  
Restores his life and makes him whole again.  
Who taught the Heart how Dettany is used?  
Who being pierced through the bones and marrow,  
Can with that herb expel th'offensive arrow.   

13  
Who taught the poor beast having poison tasted 
Dictamum.   
To seek th`hcarbe Cancer, and by that to cure him?  
Who taught the Boar finding his spirits wasted  
To seek a branch of ivy to assure him?  
The Tortoise spied a Dragon, and strait hasted 
Savoury or Maioram.   
For savoury, armed with which he can endure him,  
Chiron found Centery, whose use is holy,  
Achilles Yarrow, and great Hermes, Moly.   

14  
The Stork having a branch of Orgamy,  
Can with much ease the Adders sting eschew,  
And when the little Weasill chaste, doth fly  
The Dragon, he defends himself with Rew,  
Much might be done by their rare purity,  
By such as all their operations knew:  
No marvel then if such as know their skill,  
Find by their practice, Art to save or kill.   

15  
The Basilisk and the revived Swain,  
With all the powerful herbs that life restore,  
He bears to Paphos: they beholding slain  
So horrible a Monster known before,  
Perceiving likewise how he called again  
Men dead to life: his person they adore,  
Now Esculapius name is sounded high,  
Through the vast compass of the spacious sky.   

16  
And whether envious of this Prince's name,  
Fitting the humorous world with such applauses,  
Or whether for receiving such as came  
From the last field: or at what carping clauses  
jove was aggrieved at Esculapius fame,  
I find no certain ground but for some causes  
Unknown to me, he Paphos doth invade,  
And great Apollo to his son gives aid.   

17  
But Saturn's seed prevails: much blood he spills  
To quench the heat of his incensed ire,  
Paphos he sacks, and Esculapius kills,  
Oh, where's the Art that made thy name aspire?  
Whose fame, Sea, Earth, and Heaven with clangor fills,  
To others thou gavest life, now life desires,  
(In vain alas) when heaven hath doomed thy date,  
Prepare thy soul, all physic comes too late.   

18  
Besides this sentence, I pronounce or high  
There is no strife with heaven: when their hours call,  
Physicians must as well as patients die,  
And meet at the great judgement general,  
Paphos is spoiled, Apollo forced to sly,  
The Cretans him pursue, he escapes them all  
Disguised, and is in exile forced to keep  
In Thessaly, the king Admetus' sheep.   

19  
I told you erst, how Saturn reinvested  
Into Parthemia, for bright juno sent  
There, with her unknown Brothers to be feasted,  
And how Athenian Neptune had intent  
To meet with Pluto there. Things thus digested,  
Triumphant jove, now full of grief Ostent,  
For his late conquest, in his breathed defiance,  
Is in all pomp received by his alliance.   

20  
Chiefly by twin-born juno, not alone  
His Sister, now his troth-plight Queen and Bride, 
jupiter matied to juno.   
Their long divided bodies they atone  
And enter amorous parley, which espied  
By Saturn, speedy Pursuivants are gone  
To all the bordering Kings to them allied,  
Unto their solemn spousales to invite,  
King, Prince, Duke, marquess, Baron, Lord, and Knight.   

21  
Metis the daughter of Oceanus 
Apol. lib. 1. bib.   
They say, was Ioues first wife, whom being great  
He swallowed: lest of her being childed thus, 
Hes●…odus.   
One should be borne to lift him from his seat; 
Ibo. Draconus.   
By this the God grows more than Timpanus,  
And swelling with the same, with throws did sweat,  
Till after anguish, and much traveling pain,  
The arrned Pallas leapt out of his brain.   

22  
Metis deuouted, he Themis takes to bed,  
Espousing her within the Gnossean Isle, 
Orpheus in arg.   
There where the flood Theremus lifts his head, 
Paus●…n corinth.   
His third wife juno, whom he won by guile,  
jove knowing it unlawful was to wed  
His sister: by his God-hood in small while  
Transforms himself, and like a Cuckoo flies; 
Apol. Rhodius.   
Where juno tastes the pleasure of the skies.   

23  
But at his beck the King of Gods and men,  
Commands a storm the Welkin to o'ercast,  
At which the Cuckoo trembling, shrinketh then  
Her legs beneath her wings, juno at last  
Pities the fearful Bird, who quakes again,  
And wraps it softly, till the storm was past,  
In her warm skirt, when jove within few hours  
Takes heart, turns God, and the fair Queen deflours.   

24  
After which rape, he takes her to his Bride,  
And though some think her barren without heirs.  
Some more judicious, have such tales denied,  
(Gods that know all things, know their own affairs)  
And what they will, their powerful wisdoms guide, 
Hermesinax eleg. scriptor.   
Their children Preces were, whom we call Prayers,  
These dwell on earth, but when they mount the spheres  
Have free access to jove their father's ears.   

25  
Imagine all the pomp the Sea can yield,  
Or air afford, or earth bestow on Man,  
Seas-fish, Ayres-Fowle, beast both of Park and field,  
Rar●…eties flowed in abundance than,  
Nature and Art strive which is deeplier skilled,  
Or in these pompous Nuptials better can:  
Twixt these (being more than mortal) seem small odds,  
And the high sumptuous shows made by the Gods.   

26  
Night comes, a daughter is begot, and named  
Hebe, the long-lived Feast at length expires, 
Hebe.   
Great jupiter and juno are proclaimed  
Parthemian King and Queen: Neptune desires  
To visit Athens, being likewise named  
Th'Athenian King, (his blood Ambition fires,)  
Pluto departs, in Tartary to dwell,  
There found'st a devilish Town, and calls it Hell.   

27  
No day so clear but dark night must ensue,  
Death is the end of life, and care of pleasure:  
Pain follows ease, and sorrows joy pursue,  
Save (not to want) I know not what is Treasure,  
The Gods that scourge the false, and crown the true,  
Darkness and Light in equal balance measure:  
Tides fall to ebbs, the world is a mere grange,  
Where all things brook decay, and covet change,   

28  
Not long these triumphs last, when Saturn seeing  
Parthemian Ihove such general fame achieve,  
Outshining him, he envies at his being,  
(Still fear is apt things threatened to believe:)  
But when the Oracle with this agreeing  
He calls to mind: his Soul doth inly grieve,  
For this is he whom Delphos did foretell,  
Should Saturn from his Crown and Realm, expel.   

29  
Now turns he love to hate: his joy to Sadness,  
His Fathers-pitty, to a Foeman's spite,  
His pleasure to despair, his mirth to madness,  
In tears he spends the day, in sighs the night,  
To spleen his fears convert, to grief his gladness,  
And all to Melancholy is sad affright,  
Nor can his troubled senses be appeased,  
Till as a Traitor he Prince jove hath ceased.   

30  
He therefore musters up a secret power 
War twixt Saturn and lupiter.   
Of his unwilling Subjects, to surprise  
jove in Parthemta, jove ascends a Tower  
At the same time, and from a far espies  
Their armed troops, the fields and Champions scour,  
From every quarter clouds of thick smoke rise,  
No way he can his eyes or body turn,  
But he sees cities blaze, and Hamlets burn.   

31  
More mad with anger, then with rage dismayed,  
From that high Tower he in haste descends,  
To know what bold foe dares his realms invaid,  
And 'gainst his peaceful kingdom envy bends,  
Tidings is brought, great Saturn hath displayed  
His hostile fury, and his wrack intends:  
But jove, that in his Father's grace affide,  
Swears he shall die, that hath his name belied.   

32  
It bears no face of truth, no shape of reason,  
A father should a guiltless son pursue,  
A son that hath his father saved from Treason,  
And but so late his dangerous enemies slew,  
From whose embracing arms he for a season,  
With much unwillingness himself withdrew,  
All things well poised, he cannot yet debate,  
How such hot love so soon should change to hate.   

33  
But whilst he argues thus, behold his foes  
With armed ranks begirt Parthemia round,  
'mongst whom the prince his father Saturn knows,  
And hears his warlike tunes to battle sound,  
He now forgets the filial zeal he owes,  
And cries (to arms) their fury to confound,  
But then again into himself retiring,  
He to his Father sends, his peace desiring.   

34  
Twice his submission to King Saturn came,  
Twice his submission he returns in scorn,  
Then Ihove his protestation doth proclaim,  
That with unwillingness his Arms were borne,  
Loath with his Sire to fight, more loath with shame  
By his bold foes, to have his Kingdom torn:  
Which to make good as Saturn erst had vowd'e,  
They charge and (cry Assault) with clamours loud.   

35  
Since no entreaty can prevail, he rather  
Than trust to certain death, must battle wage,  
Archas with him their stern Parthemians gather,  
And issue boldly, to withstand the rage  
Of their known malice: Twice Ihove meets his Father,  
Twice gives him place, yet nothing can assuage  
His settled hate, he threats the Prince to kill,  
Who whilst he strikes, bears off, and guardeth still.   

36  
And seeks out other Conquest 'mongst the troops,  
Of men unnumbered, where his valour shines,  
The strongest Champion to his fury stoops,  
And where he proffers war his stand resigns,  
That now the pride of Saturn flags and droops,  
Archas his forces with Prince Ihove combines,  
And make one host of able strength and fear,  
Before them as they fight the field to clear.   

40  
So have I seen a storm of hail and rain,  
With thick tempestuous clouds of night and smoke,  
Before it lay the fields of standing grain,  
And top the stiff bows from the tallest Oak:  
So where they come these Princes smooth the plain,  
Making the green leaves wear a Crimson cloak:  
The scarlet drops that from the wounded slide,  
Into deepered, the spring-tidings livery died.   

38  
They still pursue the slaughter, Saturn flies,  
Him Archas hotly to the Seaside chases,  
But in a creak a new-rigd ship he spies,  
And scapes by sea, his swift steps Archas traces,  
But all in vain, the gentle gusts arise  
and bear him from the sight of his disgraces,  
Leave we the conquered Father basely fled,  
The conquering son, triumphant 'mongst the dead.   

39  
Who from Parthemia posts in haste to Crect,  
To seize unto his use his Father's Crown,  
The Cretans him with olive branches meet,  
(For who at prosperous Fortunes dare to frown?)  
The Sceptre and themselves too, at his feet  
With one consent and voice they prostrate down,  
His person with applause they circled round,  
Thus Ihove & juno, King and Queen are crowned.   

40  
So without threatened arms or rude hostility,  
In greater pomp, and more degrees of State,  
By England's Commons, and our high Nobility,  
Was Royal james 'mongst us received of late, 
K. james and Queen Anne   
With his Queen Anne, to the realms large utility,  
Oh, may their days on earth have endless date:  
In stead of olive branches, entertained  
With zeal, with loyal thoughts, and hearts unfeigned.   

41  
Some say, Ihove gelded Saturn, and surrendered  
His procreative parts into the Ocean,  
Of which the Goddess Venus was engendered,  
Betwixt them and the Seas continual motion  
I think such superstitious people tendered  
Unto these idle dreams too much devotion:  
Else by this Moral, signify they would,  
He 'mongst his Soldiers dealt his Father's gold.   

42  
And from this plenty surfeits 'mongst them grew,  
Lascivious gestures, Lust that had no measure,  
And in this kind, appears the Moral true:  
For oft excess, begets unlawful pleasure;  
And so the Froath-borne Venus might accrue,  
and be begot by Saturn's gelded treasure:  
So sacred spells are writ in parchment Tables,  
So golden truths are meant, in Leaden Fables.   

42  
Opinion, strongly 'mongst the Heathen reigns,  
And hath continued from the longest season,  
I searched the judgements of some idle brains,  
(That no Religton like, but built on Reason:)  
To know what strength it hath, when it restrains  
Some men in loyal bonds, fills some with Treason:  
But found their censures vary from the right,  
For thus th'Irregular profanely wright.   

43  
Opinion judgeth all by apparition,  
And from Opinion, shame or Honour springs, 
The opinion of some idle discontents.   
(Opinion) Thou that art all Superstition,  
Thou makest Beggars, or pronouncest Kings,  
For why should man to man, make low submission;  
Since each of us, his line from Adam brings?  
Having at first, one Father, and one mother,  
What duty owes a brother to a brother.   

44  
What's wealth to him that nothing doth esteem it?  
What's to the dunghill Cock the Pearl he found?  
Give him a grain of Barley and he'll deem it  
A richer prize: What differs gold from ground  
To him that hath no judgement to esteem it?  
Or Diamonds from Glass? Search the world round,  
Nothing is precious held, but what's thought best,  
Nothing acquired, but what's in most request.   

45  
Opinion all: Say, I this man adore:  
He is to me a King, (though but a Slave,)  
Or if a King, of him that bows no more  
Or holds him none, the style he cannot have.  
Religion is Opinion too: Before  
Religion was, Man worshipped every Grave,  
And in these days, through all the world's dominions,  
We see as many Churches as Opinions.   

46.  
Opinion first made Kings, first founded Laws,  
First did divide the Gentle from the Base,  
First bounded Man in compass for, because  
Men thought it good, they gave Opinion place:  
From this comes all contempt and all applause,  
Reverence to some, and unto some disgrace:  
This, Peace compounds, or Concord turns to odds,  
This, first damned Devils, first created Gods.   

48  
This, breeds the Atheists scorn, the Christians fear,  
The Arrians error, Pagans misbelief,  
This makes the Turk his Alcoran to hear,  
Breeds in the bold, presumption: penitent, grief:  
This made the jews their saviour Christ forswear,  
Despising him, choose Barrabas the Thief:  
Hence came the Persian Haly (long agone)  
Differing from him the sect of Praester-Iohn.   

49  
Hence comes the Protestant to be divided  
From Triple-crowned Rome: a long-lived war  
Not yet by arms or Arguments decided:  
Hence came the Catholics 'mongst themselves to jar,  
Hence, divers orders, divers ways are guided:  
Some jacobins, and some Franciscans are:  
Templars, Capoochians, Friars both black and grey,  
Monks, and the jesuits, bearing the most sway.   

50  
In our reformed Church too, a new man  
Is in few years crept up, in strange disguise  
And called the selfe-opinioned Puritan,  
A fellow that can be are himself precise,  
No church supremacy endure he can,  
No orders in the bishops diocese:  
He keeps a starched gate, wears a formal ruff,  
A nosegay, set face, and a poted cuff.   

51  
He never bids God speed you on the way,  
Because he knows not what your bosoms smother,  
His phrase is, Verily; By yea and nay,  
In faith, in truth, good neighbour, or good brother,  
And when he borrows money, near will pay,  
One of th'elect must common with another,  
And when the poor his charity entreat,  
You labour not, and therefore must not eat.   

52  
He will not Preach, but Lector: nor in white,  
Because the Elders of the Cburch command it,  
He will no cross in Baptism, none shall fight  
Under that Banner, if he may withstand it,  
Nor out of ancient Father's Latin cite,  
The cause may be, he doth not understand it,  
His followers preach all faith, and by their works,  
You would not judge them Catholics, but Turks.   

53  
He can endure no Organs, but is vexed  
To hear the Quirristers shrill Anthems sing,  
He blames degrees in th' Academy next,  
And 'gainst the liberal Arts can Scripture bring,  
And when his tongue hath run beside the text,  
You may perceive him his loud clamours ring  
'Gainst honest pastimes, and with piteous phrase,  
Rail against Hunting, Hawking, Cocks, and plays.   

54  
With these the Brownists in some points cohere,  
That likewise hold the marriage ring profane,  
Commanded prayers they'll not endure to hear,  
and to subseribe to Cannons they disdain:  
They hold more sin a corner'd cap to wear  
Then cut a purse: leave these as wild and vain,  
By thee (Opinion) Realms have been confounded,  
What darest not thou, where thou art firmly grounded?   

55  
To the first world now let my muse retire,  
And see how strong thou wast Opinion then,  
To create deities I must aspire  
And give eternity with my frail pen,  
Such as the world did in those days admire,  
It deified, and so made Gods of men:  
The Cretan jupiter, to heaven translated,  
And Saturn, sire of all the Gods instated.   

56  
Made juno Queen of heaven, Venus of pleasure,  
Ceres of Corn, and Bacchus God of wine,  
Cupid of Love, Mars War, and Mammon treasure,  
Pallas of wisdom, and of speech divine,  
God Mercury: men did their Godhoods measure  
By their own thoughts, and unto such resign  
Their special honours, in whose hearts they guest  
Most power in that, which they on earth professed.   

57  
This made the Heathen kings by jove to swear,  
Their Queens at juno's sacred Altar kneel:  
childbearing women, chaste Lucian fear,  
Soldiers at Mars his shrine, to hang their steel,  
The Swains to honour Ceres, by whose cheer  
Their grain decayed or prospered: this made kneel  
Drunkards to Bacchus, Orpheus strung his Lyre  
To Phoebus' God of Music, and of Fire.   

58  
To Esculapius the Physicians prayed,  
Shepherds to Pan, and Poets to the Muses,  
A God of Neptune Navigators made,  
And he that gardens loves, Pomona chooses,  
chaste Virgins still implore Diana's aid,  
And who that loves, God Cupid's name refuses,  
Vulcan commandeth smith's, Flora Flowers,  
Aeolus winds, and Pluto infernal powers.   

59  
The Poets write, three brothers lots did cast  
For th' Vn●…uersall Empire: To jove fell  
Th' Olympic heavens, which all the rest surpassed,  
Great Neptune with his three forked Mace must dwell  
Within the bosom of the Ocean vast  
And guide the Seas, black Pluto governs hell,  
Opinion, whence these Gods build all their glory,  
Must be the Base, to our succeeding story.   

60  
Whilst thus Egyptian Belus was instated,  
The reverend Moses in Mount Nebo died,  
And Captain jossua second judge created,  
The Thractan Boreas, from his Mother's side  
Stole fair Orithia, having long awaited,  
To make the beauteous Virgin his sweet Bride,  
From whose rude arms she never could be freed:  
But leaving these, of Belus we proceed.   

61  
The blustering winds before they had a king  
To lock them fast within his brazen Caves,  
Great devestations o'er the earth did bring,  
Tossing black tempests on the curled waves:  
'tis said rough Boreas shaked his flaggy wing,  
'Gainst his three brothers with opposed braves,  
Who with such mortal hate, at variance fell,  
They made heaven shake, earth reel, the Ocean sw●…l:   

62  
No Mediterren Sea, before this brawl, 
How the Medeterranean sea first came.   
Was known in the earth's arms to be enclosed,  
The Seas tossed by the winds, broke down the wall,  
Which for his bounds the fates had interposed,  
At such dissension, the four Brothers fall:  
Having the rains of all their gusts unloosed,  
They cloven the Earth, the Ocean full of pride,  
Thrusts in, and two main Lands shoulders aside.   

63  
His train of waves by Calpes he brought in,  
And through his deep Abysms leads them to war,  
He people every place where he hath been  
With his broad waters: who are still at jar  
With the torn earth, more roomth and space to win,  
For his unbounded limits (stretched so far)  
That they have p●…rst the aged Tellus' heart, 
The middle-earth sea that parts Europe from Africa.   
And from Europa, Africa still part.   

64  
So was Italia and Sicilia one,  
Till the rough gusts the Ocean did invade,  
Who forced a channel, where before was none, 
Valer. Flaccus lib. 1. Argon.   
And twixt these kingdoms large irrnp●…ion made,  
Therefore the God's th'unbridled winds t'atone,  
That their commaundlesse furies might be stayed,  
Surprised them, and to Aelous bound in chains  
Gave them, and he their roughness still restrains.   

65  
With Ioues lascivious pastimes I proceed,  
As chiefly to the fall of Troy allied,  
Oh you joves daughters borne of heavenly seed,  
My brain and pen by inspiration guide,  
That what the fates have against Troy decreed  
Of Priam's glory, and Achilles' pride,  
Of Hector's valour, and bright Helen's fate,  
With all your aids I may at large delate.   

66  
Not how on Semele, jove Bacchus got,  
Nor in the shape of Bull Europa stale,  
Of Swan-transformed Loeda speak I not,  
Nor of Mnemosine frame I my tale,  
Nor how Esopis did her honour blot,  
Nor Astery by jove turned to a Quail,  
Nor how for Nicteis he himself transformed,  
Nor joes' rape, at which Queen juno stormed.   

67  
But how he ravished Danae that bright Lass,  
By many suitors (but in vain) assailed,  
How she was closed in a Tower of Brass,  
Which with a golden Ladder the prince scaled:  
What cannot gold? whose brightness doth surpass,  
How oft hath Gold 'bove women's strength prevaled?  
Laps that have had 'gainst all temptation's power,  
Have spread themselves wide, to a golden shower.   

68  
From jupiter of Archad, and a dame  
Called Isis did one Epaphus proceed,  
To him was borne a son of ancient fame,  
hight Belus, who great part of Egypt freed  
From tyranny; and after swayed the same,  
He had a Sister too, who soon decreed  
Archad to change for Africa, and her name  
Lybia, from whom the grim Busyris came.   

69  
Belus two children had (so the fame runs) 
Dena●…s. Egiptus. 2409.   
Danaus and Egiptus: Danaus he  
Had fifty girls, Egyptus fifty sons,  
Twixt whom, these Brothers a full match decree, 
1473.   
All parts are pleased, not one the marriage shuns,  
False Danaus, with his daughters doth agree,  
As with their Bridegrooms in their beds they lay,  
The fifty husbands in one night to slay.   

70  
(Save young Ypermenestra not a maid,)  
But in her husband's bosom sheathed her knife,  
And she alone the bloody plot bewrayed,  
And to her Lynceus proved a loyal wife,  
Of all Aegisthus sons, he by her aid,  
Alone did from the murder scape with life,  
Of whom, as they in nuptial love remained,  
He Abas got, Abas in Argos reigned.   

71  
Abas Acrisius got, from him descended 
The tale of l●… pit●…r & Danae.   
Bright Danae, of whom we now entreat,  
Whose beauties fame is through the earth extended,  
Acrisius jealous of his Father's seat  
To Egypt hies, and there his prayers commended,  
Offering large quantities of Gold and Wheat.  
At the God Belus his great Grandsire's shrine,  
Of his fair daughters fortunes to divine.   

72  
This answer he returns: Away, be gone  
Thou son of Abas, Danae forth shall bring  
A gallant boy, shall turn thee into stone,  
And after thee in Argos rain sole-King:  
Acrisius now hath turned his mirth to moon,  
From whence his joys should grow, his sorrows spring,  
His hoped Issue and successive heir,  
Late, all his pleasure, now is all his care.   

73  
He intimates that from her womb shall rise  
A gallant boy, that shall his Grandfire kill,  
And Argos Crown by force of arms surprise,  
He swears the maid shall live a Virgin still,  
And to prevent his fate, doth strait devise  
A Tower impregnable, built on a hill, 
The building of Barreia tower   
Strong of itself: but yet to make it sure,  
He girts it with a treble brazen Mure.   

74  
The guiltless Lady wonders at the state  
Of this new work, not knowing why 'tis built,  
To see sharp pinnacles themselves elate  
So high towards heaven, the Arches richly guilt,  
Huge Marble collumnes to support the gate,  
In every place rich tinctures largely spilled,  
The Terrace with white ivory pillars railed,  
And the Crosse-ebon bars, with guilt stoods nailed.   

60  
It seems too strong for pleasure, and for war  
It shows too neat: but now the work is ended,  
Who that beholds it shining from a far,  
But with admiring thoughts the work commended?  
The nearer you approach, the more you are  
Inflamed with wonder, not a stair ascended  
But of white Marble, not a door but Brass,  
The windows glazed with Cristals, not with glass.   

61  
All things prepared, the King will Danae carry  
To view the Tower, she gives it due with praise,  
He thus proceeds; Child thou shalt never marry,  
But in this place of pleasure end thy days,  
And in this brazen circuit ever tarry,  
The Lady starts, and thinks too long she stays  
In that loathed place which now to her appears  
No Palace, but a dungeon full offeares.   

62  
And ask why she must be kept a slave,  
Or how she hath deserved so strict a doom,  
To be so young put in her Marble grave,  
(For what's a Prison, but a living Tomb?)  
Or for what cause she may no husband have,  
But live an Ancresse in so strict a room,  
Knowing herself a Princess ripe and sit,  
Wronged (as she thinks) not to be married yet:   

63  
Acrisius tells her what great Belus spoke,  
When he with Orisons kneeled at his throne,  
That from her womb the world a son should take,  
That shall his Grandsire change into a stone,  
She interrupts him, and thus silence broke,  
Oh would you be eternal lived alone?  
And never die? What would Acrisius have,  
More than an heir to lodge him in his grave.   

79  
Did you not into stone great Abas turn,  
And Abas to his Father Lynceus so,  
Their funeral trunks to sacred ashes burn,  
O'er which their monumental marbles grow,  
Oh Father, no man can his Fate adjourn,  
Shall these your eyes be closed up by a Foe?  
Or can you deem your own blood shall betray you?  
Who are more fit within your stone to lay you?   

80  
What you did to your Father, let my son  
Performe'to you: successively succeed:  
Your Father's glass is out, yours must be run,  
Leave then your Crown to one of Abas breed:  
In vain (quoth he) we cannot thus be won,  
To alter what's unchangeably decreed;  
Here shalt thou live, but royally attended,  
Like a bright Queen, and from a King descended.   

81  
So leaves her guarded with a troup of Maids,  
And envious Beldames that were past their lust,  
These, with rewards and threats the King invades  
In his high charge, to be severe and just,  
But most the Matrons, (fittest for such trades)  
Rather than wanton wenches, he dare trust:  
Lovers may Lovers favour, Crones are passed it,  
and envy, but not pity those would taste it.   

82  
So doth the full-fed stomach meat deny  
Unto the famished: So the Drunkard spills  
Wine in abundance, which would cheer the dry,  
Cold age the appetite of hot lust kills,  
Danae thy beauty's fame is sounded high,  
'mongst many other Kings: Ihoves ears it fills,  
He loves her by her fame, and longs to see her,  
Nor are her thoughts at peace before he see her.   

83  
A thousand bracelets, jewels, Pearls and Rings,  
With gold of sundry stamps, the King prepares,  
And having readied all these costly things,  
In a poor peddlers truss, he packs his wares,  
So hies to Danae's Tower (love gave him wings)  
Hope sometime cheers him, sometimes he despairs:  
At length arrives there, in an evening late,  
And falls his rich pack at the Castle gate.   

84  
Where two lean wrinkled Crones stand Sentinel,  
To give the watchword to Acrisius' guard,  
Appointed strait to ring the alarm Bell,  
If any man once near the Castle dared,  
The peddler asks, who in that palace dwell,  
Or how they call the place? Hast thou not heard  
Of Danae quoth the Beldame (looking sour)  
Whom Argos King, closed in this-brazen Tower.   

85  
He views the place, and finds it strongly seared,  
Not to be won by arms, but scaled by slight,  
I came from Crect, quoth he, and was entreated  
here to deliver tokens of some weight  
From great king jupiter: their cold bloods heated  
With hope of gain, they cheer their age-duld sight,  
And with a covetous longing, earn to view  
What precious knacks he from his Hamper drew.   

86  
A thousand several Trinkets he displays,  
If this be Danae's Tower quoth he, than these  
Belong to you: the Crones his bounty praise,  
And in their hands two costly lewels cease,  
The younger Ladies now are come to gaze,  
Not one amongst them but he seeks to please:  
Some Gold, some stones, some Rings, some Pearls he gave,  
And all have something, though they nothing crave.   

87  
Bleared with these gifts, their charge they quite forget,  
And every Lady's e●…e dwells on her prize,  
Coming fore Danae, she beholds them set  
With sundry brouches sparkling in her eyes,  
And ask whence they had them, they bid fet  
The peddler up, who hath of fairer size,  
Brighter Aspect, and for a Queen to wear,  
In worth not to be valued, yet not dear.   

88  
Danae commands him up, he glad ascends,  
And through their bribed hands freely is admitted  
Even to her chamber: Gold, thy might extends  
Beyond all opposition, the best witted  
Thou canst corrupt; dive through the hearts of friends,  
By thee are walled Towns entered, sconces split,  
By thee are armies swayed, Camps overrun,  
Children the Father's spoil, and Sire the son.   

89  
No wonder then if Gold the peddler brought,  
To enter, where besides him, no man came,  
Behold the Goddess this great King hath sought,  
Oh how her bright eye doth his soul inflame!  
Pearls, jewels, Rings, and Gold, he sets at nought,  
yea all the world, if valued with this Dame,  
Variety of costly gems he shows her,  
And makes her of them all, the free disposer.   

90  
So wills the Cretan King, not will he take  
One mite in way of Chaffer or set price,  
She thanks the peddler for his masters sake,  
And how to please him, asks her maid's advice,  
But they so much of their own Ouches spoke,  
Whose brightness did their thoughts imparadice,  
That they contend whose jewel rarest glisters,  
Whilst jove in Danae's ear, thus softly whispers.   

91  
Behold what love can do: that King of Crect  
That prizes Danae above any rate,  
Wrapped in course Garments (for a King unmeet)  
(For Danae's Love and grace, despising state)  
Proftrates himself at thy Imperial feet,  
Resolved before he entered Darrains' gate,  
Thy beauty, virtue, youth, and fame to save,  
Buried already in this brazen grave.   

92  
For Lady, to what purpose are you fair?  
as good to have a tan`d and wrinkled hide,  
Why is your hands so white, your brow so rare?  
An Ethiopes face masked, shows as full of Pride,  
These brazen walls that only judges are  
Of your bright looks, all wonder are denied,  
Your Goddesse-shape is to the senseless stone  
No better than the beauty of yond Crone.   

93  
What difference makes the dead twixt grace and scorn?  
What lustre gives Apollo to the blind?  
What are the choyseft dainties if forborn?  
What's music to the ears whom deafness bind?  
What is the costlyest garment if not worn?  
Or being worn, if none his riches mind?  
What shows in jewels hid behind a screen?  
What's state unknown? what's beauty if not seen?   

94  
The Princess sighs, as knowing all is true,  
When jupiter proceeds: Renowned Dame,  
Set this rich beauty to the broad-worlds' view,  
These rare perfections let the world proclaim,  
Whom thousand Kingly Suitors shall pursue,  
Unmask this beauty: to that end I came:  
Oh, lead not here a base condemned life!  
That may abroad, live a free Queen and wife.   

95  
Pity your servant jupiter, whose treasure,  
Whose life, whose Crown, whose fortunes are all yours,  
Rob not yourself of all earth's glorious pleasure,  
Pity your youth, whose pride a jail devours,  
A dungeon takes of such perfections ceasure,  
That should command all free enthroned powers:  
And die not here, t'eternal bonds betrayed,  
Robbed of all sweets, that for your taste were made.   

96  
You are a woman desperate here, and lost,  
Kept from man's sight, for which you were created,  
And beauteous Princess (which should touch you most)  
Your jealous father by the world is rated  
As one that coops you but to spare his cost,  
And envying you a Queen fhould be instated,  
A Tyrant, that prefers his jealous fears,  
Before your virtue, beauty, youth and years.   

97  
Grant me your love (oh grant it) blush not Queen,  
That love, shall be your ransom from this place,  
This prisoned beauty shall abroad be seen,  
and Empresses shall homage to your face,  
and then this gail where you have cloistered been  
You will despise, and term Acrisius base,  
That gold in Brass, and pearl in stone would shroud,  
Muffling the bright Sun in so base a cloud.   

98  
Her tender heart relents, his amorous shape  
Appears out of his base unknown disguise,  
and if her heart his sweet words cannot scape,  
No wonder if his feature charm her eyes,  
She knows no Peasant dares attempt her rape,  
Nor any base thought aim at her surprise:  
and save King jupiter by fame held peerless,  
She knows no prince so bold, so rich, so fearless.   

99  
But as she would reply, her Virgin-guard  
Began to leave their conference, and draw near them,  
Which jupiter espying, strait prepared  
His bounteous pack with more rewards to cheer them,  
and whilst they asked the Princess how she fared,  
He ransacks for more trifles, and doth bear them  
Unto the female waiters, Danae's train,  
So with fresh toys he bribe's them once again.   

100  
They throng about him round, to be served first,  
and as they taste his bounty start aside,  
Comparing which is best, and whose the worst,  
More words and wagers must the strife decide,  
and whilst these gems are by the Lady's pu●…st,  
and none near Danae and the King abide:  
She views the amorous Prince with more satictic,  
and he the Princess courts with fresh variety.   

101  
She neither gives him promise, nor denial,  
Neither repulse, nor grant, (so Women use)  
When men (in sight of others) make their trial,  
They will not say you shall: lest you abuse  
Their friendly grant, but take them free from espial,  
And say withal, they shall nor will, nor choose,  
Than you shall find them weakly, fight fall,  
And willingly, unwilling prostrate all.   

102  
Give lovers opportunity, their loves  
Are half won to their hands without more suit,  
The man that verbal Courtship only moves,  
Shall all his life time in vain words dispute,  
When one that proffers fair, and fine force proves,  
Speeds with his Action, though his tongue be mute,  
For every maid, taketh one thing from her mother,  
Whilst her tongue one thing speaks, to think another.   

103  
The night grows old, and the bright Lamps of heaven,  
Are half burnt out: the Beldames call to rest,  
What shall the peddler do, so late be driven  
Out of his Inn, the lodge that likes him best,  
To lie with Charles-wain, and the Hyads seven,  
He hath deserved more grace they dare protest,  
To turn him out at this time might seem cruel,  
That bought his bed with many a high prized jewel.   

104  
And yet to harbour him, they needs must fear,  
Because they shall incur Acrisius' ire,  
If such a tiding should arrive his care,  
Their bodies all were doomed unto the fire,  
But by what means can King Acrisius hear?  
Beside, what peasant peddler dares aspire  
To Danae's bed? and all their lives betray,  
Feign they would have him gone, and fain to stay.   

105  
His bounty hath prevailed, and he provided  
A private lodging in a place remote,  
Danae unto her Princely couch is guided,  
So much her Handmaids on their favours dote,  
They careless pluck her door too, the lock flided  
Besides his fastening place, which none doth note,  
Then take their toys, and to their beds they bear them,  
Longing for day, that they in sight may wear them.   

106  
A general hushtnesse hath the world possessed,  
And all the Tower surprised with golden dreams,  
Alone King jupiter abandons rest,  
Still wishing for Apollo's Golden beams:  
Desperate of hope, he knows not what is best,  
When rising, from a far he spies bright gleams  
Pierce from his window, as from Danae's Tower,  
In th'humid nights most taciturnall hour.   

107  
He knows sad sleep hath ceased upon the many,  
He hears no waking clock, nor watch to jar,  
He venter's forth, and searching, finds not any,  
And in his way to this new blazing-starre,  
He lays his ear to every ri●…t and cranny,  
Till he with fearful strides hath won so far,  
That he must now these Marble steps ascend,  
Which led unto the bower of his fair friend.   

108  
Where coming, with a soft and trembling pace,  
To touch the door, he feels it yield him way,  
And freely gives him entrance to the place  
Where his divinest Mistress Danae lay,  
He kissed her finger, hand, neck, breast, and face,  
And every thing the white sheet durst betray,  
That done, into her silver arms he crept,  
And all this while the amorous Virgin slept.   

109  
Imagine how she waking grew amazed,  
Imagine him a double Rhetoric using,  
Action and words: sometimes herself she raised  
To call for help, his dalliance quite refusing,  
Imagine then how he his love imblazed,  
He at her scorn, she at his boldness musing,  
His gifts, his name, his love, plead on his part,  
'Gainst him, her fame, her fear, and her chaste heart.   

110  
Love makes him eloquent, and sweet occasion,  
Makes him bold too, she's bashful, and withstands,  
He lays to her both battery and persuasion,  
And much ado she hath to pass his hands,  
Being girt in Arms, how can she scape invasion,  
Or break the compass of his ivory bands:  
She would be gone, he woos her to lie still,  
So he'll no violence use, she saith she will.   

111  
Oh bankrupt Ihove, in midst of all thy blisses  
joyless, and yet with pleasures ●…ing'd about:  
He woos again with Courtship mixing kisses,  
A thousand batteries, Danae hath held out:  
And still the siedger his irruption misses,  
They parley, but conclude not, both are stout:  
Sometimes he strives, than she begins to threat,  
Then he from striving, falls again t'entreat.   

112  
What, cannot opportunity and place  
Bed-fellowship and love, if they conspire?  
A comely feature and a Courtly face,  
Cour●…-ship and Name of King to win desire?  
All these in jupiter entreat for grace:  
All these have set her amorous heart a fire,  
And 'gainst all these, the least of which command,  
Save bashfulness, sh'hath nothing to withstand.   

113  
And that's too weak 'gainst things of their ability,  
Yet is it of a temper, not to yield,  
For though it be subdued with much facility,  
'Twill proudly seem still to maintain the field:  
It reigns in many that profess civility,  
Who all their pleasures on compulsion build:  
For bashful women long since ●…arnt this skill,  
What they would give, to grant against their will.   

114  
Women are weak, and weak ones must obey,  
Fair Danae is but woman, and must fall,  
Her glory is, that she hath held him play,  
And kept her friendly so●… so long from all:  
What should she do, the Prince will have no nay,  
Her guard's asleep, if she for help should call:  
What with compulsion, lou●…, force, and fair words,  
She lies confused, and he the Princess boards.   

115  
This night the warlike Perseus was begot,  
And now the early daystar 'gins to rise, 
Perseus.   
Who calls the Prince up, lest the Beldame trot  
Should find his night-walk with her jealous eyes,  
But she their private sport suspected not,  
Nor knew the King in his assumd'e disguise:  
Tears when they part are in abundance shed,  
When he must leave the Princely Danae's bed.   

116  
It is compounded and between them sworn,  
That Ihove must come in Arms by such a day,  
By whom the Lass must be from Argos borne;  
So takes his leave, he dare no longer stay,  
The Sun is called up by the early Morn,  
High time, to send the peddler on his way:  
They praise the largesse of their bounteous guest,  
But of his jewels, Danae keeps the best.   

117  
Leave Ihove towards Crect, and Danae in sad plight,  
For his departure, whom she tenders dearly,  
She never loved until this Ominous night,  
And now to see him part, she riseth early,  
Gladly with him she would have ta'en her flight,  
But fears her father would revenge sevearly  
Her bold attempt, and back return her weeipng,  
To spend her future youth in stricter keeping.   

118  
Besides she s●…ares (that which indeed was true)  
That she (of Ihoves seed) might conceive a son,  
Which if the jealous King Acrisius knew,  
At these sad tidings he would frantic run:  
The Princess to her charuber now withdrew,  
Armed with this hope, that Ihove the deed had done:  
Th'only renowned, rich, puissant, and of power,  
By force of Arms, to free her from the Tower.   

119  
Now to record what I remembered erst,  
How Troos in Troy his neighbour King's out-shined,  
And in the same place where it was reversed,  
How all Troy's fame King Tantalus repined,  
But how the Phrygian forces were dispersed  
By Troas: is to another place assigned:  
Here should I speak how Troy to fame aspired,  
But my Muse flags, and my dull pen is tired.   
ESculapius the son of Apollo and the Nymph Coronis 
Homer bymno. P●…son. in m●…ssemacis.  others think, of Arsiona the daughter of Leusippus. He was taught his Physic of Chiron the Centaur, which Zezes chil. 10. and Lactantius lib. de falsa Religione, 
Me●…nus.  both affirm he had a sister called Eriope, a wife, Ep●…one, & a son Machaon and Podilarius. He was called Antonius, 
Orpheus in bym  Medicus oucaeata, Leuctricus, Cortineus, Corilaeus, Agnitas Booveta, and he was borne among the Epidaurians.  
jupiter won from Ae●…culapius the ●…sle Paphos, and gave it to his daughter Venus. Paphos was built by Aeos' son to Typhon.  
In Saturn ended the golden world, and in his son jupiter began the Brazen age.  
Acolus was son to Acesta and jupiter, because the clouds and mists rising about the seven Eolian Islands, of which he was king, did always portend tempestuous gusts and blasts, therefore the Poets feigned him to be king & god of the winds.  
Epaphus the son of Isis and jupiter Belus, builded the famous Egyptian Memphis, the year before Christ came into the world 1492. Orosius writes, that the fifty marriages concluding in nine & forty murders, was the year before Chr: 1473. for which Daunaus was expulsed his Realm, and fled to the Argives, where he spent the remainder of his age. The year after this unnatural massacre, Aaron deceased amongst the Israelites.  
By Isis some say is meant Io, and by jupiter Belus, jupiter of Crect, Ovid in his metamorph: 
Hince Epaphus magni genitus de semine tandem,  
Creditur esse Ihoviss.   
Epaphus and Phaeton, the one the son of jupiter by Io, the other the son of Phoebus by Clymenen, being at some difference about their bloods, Phaeton leaves his mother to travail to the Palace of the Sun, where ask his unhappy boon as a sure testimony of his descent from phoebus', he by his rashness and pride fired the world, and was struck headlong from the Chariot of the Sun, by one of jupiters' thanderbolts.  
Of jupiter it is thus remembered, of Europa he begot Minoes 
Calimachus de coaditis insulis.  and Rhadamant, Archas of Calisto, Pelasgus of Niobe, Scarpedon & Argas of Laodomeia, Hercules of Alcmene: Taygetus of Taigetes: Amphion and Zetes of Antiope: Castor, Helena, Pollux, and Clitemuestra of Leda: Perseus, of Danae: Deucalia of jodoma: Britamart of 
Archelaus lib. de fluminibus.  Carme the daughter of Eubulus. Aethilius the father of Endymion of Protogenia. Epaphus of jone. Aegina of the daughter of Asopus. Arcecilaus and Carbius of Terrebia: Colaxes of Ora: Cirnus of Cirna, Dardanus of Electra, Hiarbus of Garamantius: Preces, Proserpina, and the Titiae, with infinite others, too long to recount. 
Fit Taurus Cignus satyrasque aurumque ob amorem,  
Europa, Laedes, Antiopae, Danae's.  
Zeus kuknos Tauros Saturos krusos di e'rata  
Ledes, Eurotes, A'ntiopes', Danae's.  Apollo exiled by jupiter kept Admetus' sheep, which Pindarus in pithicis affirm, or his Oxen, as Horace 1. carminum. 
Lucianns in dial. Calim. in hymn.  And therefore he had the title to be called ever after, the god of pastures. As Virg. 3. Georgic.  

Te quoque Magne pales & te memorande Canemus pastor ab Amphriso.   
The end of the fourth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
KIng Tantalus before the Troyans' flies,  
Saturn arrives in Crect and by Troas aided  
Once more intends his Kingdom to surprise,  
Crect is by Trojan Ganymede invaded,  
In aid of jupiter the Centaurs rise,  
Aegeons ful-fraught Galleys are disladed:  
Danae and her young son are turned afloat,  
By Argos King, into a Mastless boat.  
ARG. 2.  
PElops, the two Atrides and Aegeon,  
Vulcan the Gorgones in Epsilon.  
CANTO. 5.  

1  
WHose inspiration shall my heavy brain  
Implore, to make my dull Invention light,  
Or to a loftyer key my pen constrain,  
Or raise my Muse, that takes so low a flight,  
Thou Ihove-borne Pallas o'er my numbers rain,  
And musical Apoll●… give me sprite,  
With the bright rays that from thy temples shine,  
To show me way unto the Muses nine.   

2  
Of whom the eldest Clio first devisd  
To Chronicle the Royal gests of Kings,  
Strutting Melpomene in Gules disguised  
In theatres, 'mongst Tragic Actors sings,  
But soft Thalya hath such strains despised,  
And to her Comic scenes shrill laughter brings,  
Wind Instruments Entirpe best affects,  
Terpsichore the stringed Lyre directs.   

3  
The Geometric figures Erato  
Hath in her charge, as first by her disclosed,  
But from Calliope hie Stanzoes' flow,  
For the Heroik numbers first composed,  
The course of stars are by Urania know,  
And how the Planets we above disposed,  
But Polihimnia smooth Rhetoric chooses,  
The youngest of Ioues daughters, and the Muses.   

4  
All these at once their sacred gifts aspire,  
That may give beauty to my task in hand,  
Affording help when I their aid desire,  
To guide my tost-Bark to desired Land,  
A slender bark, slow sailed, and apt to tyre,  
And founder in the Sea: weak, and unmanned,  
Apollo with the rest, my voyage speed,  
Whilst to Troy's fatal ruin we proceed.   

5  
King Tantalus the son of jupiter,  
That reigned in Attic, brought an host 'fore Troy,  
Which his son Pelops led: how can he err,  
Being directed by so brave a Boy  
That undertakes his army to transfer,  
And Troos with his new City to destroy,  
This Pelops with the King of Elis ran,  
And in the course bright Hyppodamia won.   

6  
Her Father Oenemaus was betrayed  
My Myrtolus his treacherous Chariot-driver,  
And in the race slain, Pelops by his aid,  
Of many suitors dead the sole survivor,  
After the goal obtained, enjoys the maid, 
2617.   
Intending with all pompous state to wive her, 
1346. Eliud of the tribe of Benjamin, slew Eglon K. of Moab.   
Th'espousals ended, Time with swift pace runs,  
And she in process, hath producst two sons.   

7  
Thyestes and Atreus named: the first  
O'ercome with burning lusts insatiate heat,  
Ravished Atreus' wife (oh deed accursed)  
For which Atreus doth him home entreat,  
And takes his Children where the Babes were nursed,  
To dress their bodies for their father's meat,  
Some baked, some roast, some sod (oh bloody deed!)  
To make a father on his own child feed.   

8  
Atreus two sons had, the eldest height  
Agamemnon, who was after Mycenae king, 
The progeny of Menelaus and Agamemnon non.   
And Greekish General of the ten years fight,  
Twixt Greece and Troy, which we must after sing:  
The second Menelaus, in whose right,  
The Argive Dukes their puissant Armies bring,  
Husband to Helen, when prince Paris sought her,  
And Helen, jupiter and Leda's daughter.   

9  
But we digress: 'gainst Pelops and his Sire  
Ilium and Ganymede from Troy appear,  
These are the sons of Troos, many a bold squire  
They led with them to Ilium, the first year  
He reigned in Troy in bright celestial fire,  
Came the Palladium down from heavens high sphere,  
Which Ilion's Towers long after did enjoy,  
Continuing till the utter sack of Troy.   

10  
Their hostile Instruments to battle sound,  
Ten thousand hands at once to heaven are raised,  
Which in their falls, as many strike to ground,  
Cowards are scorned, none but the bold are praised,  
The Trojans have begirt the Phrygians round,  
Pelops above the rest his fame imblazed,  
And Ganymede that doth bold Pelops see,  
Fights, as if none need kill a man but he.   

11  
Such was the valour of this Trojan youth,  
Though Troos and Ilium both did wondrous well,  
He only stands, defends, breaks, and pursueth  
Their standing battles: by his valour fell  
The Phrygian host, now murdered without ruth:  
Charon is tired, with ferring souls to hell:  
The Troyans' follow with victorious ●…ries,  
Whilst Tantalus and valiant Pelops flies.   

12  
This was that Tantalus bright Plota bare,  
(Whom for a special grace) the Gods admit 
Tantalus in Hell.   
To their high Counsel, where they oft repair,  
He blabs their secrets, therefore they held fit  
To punish him in hell with torments rare,  
In Lethe chin-deep he must ever sit,  
Hungry, whilst Apples touch his lips: and dry,  
Whilst from his thirsty chin the waters fly.   

13  
And this that Pelops whom his father slew, 
Pelops death and life. 1642.   
And hewed his body into gobbets small,  
Whose Massacre the Gods in mercy rue,  
And gathering up his limbs to match them all, 
1321.   
They miss that piece to join his body new,  
Which from the throat doth to the shoulder fall;  
Which they with ivory piece, and who more bolder  
Than new-made Pelops, with his ivory shoulder.   

14  
And yet enforced to fly: but had his men  
B●…n every one a Pelops, none had fled,  
He was the last in field, preferring then  
Fore Coward runners, the resolved dead,  
But what can one alone 'gainst thousands ten?  
Led by so brave a Prince as Ganymede,  
Leave we triumphant Troos, now let our hand  
Direct sea-toyled Saturn safe a Land.   

15  
Who from his son in the last battle flying,  
his Grandchild Archas to the seaside chaste, 
Saturn's arrive in Troy.   
We left him in a ship the Ocean trying,  
Where he hath ploughed strange Seas: great dangers past:  
Now entering th' Hellespont, from far espying  
(After his tedious course) a Town at last;  
His Martiners to shore their sails employ,  
And Sea-beat Saturn touches land fore Troy.   

16  
Which Troos amidst his plausive triumphs seeing,  
With Ilium, Ganymede, and thousand more,  
Makes towards the harbour, whilst old Saturn freeing  
His men from shipbord hath impressed the shore,  
He makes his habit with his style agreeing,  
The Trojans wonder at the state he bore:  
Himself so well prepared, his ships so fair,  
Both to the barbarous Troyans' seeming rare.   

17  
So small a number can no war pretend,  
Therefore their strange arrive they need not fear,  
As far as doth their Hemisphere extend,  
They view the sea, but see no shipping near,  
Which makes the King salute him as a friend,  
And ask the reason of his landing there,  
Saturn replies: Behold poor strangers thrown,  
To unknown people, on a Land unknown.   

18  
Yet would you have his Country, Nation, name,  
That knows not on whose earth his bold feet tread,  
Nor with what breath he may his style proclaim,  
From his own Native air so far being fled:  
If you perhaps have relished Saturn's fame,  
Whose glory lives, although his state be dead:  
Then view that Saturn with respective eyes,  
Whose far-spread beams set, at his sons uprise.   

19  
Saturn hath spoke enough, whose longing ears  
Have not been filled and cloyed with his renown,  
The Heavenly music of th'Harmonious spheres,  
Climb to his praise: by him the fields are sown,  
(The Archers shoot) and Childing-Tellus bears,  
In what remote climb is not Saturn known,  
By him are seas past, heady ships controlled,  
He first Tilled, Ploud, Sowed, Reaped, and fined Gold.   

20  
He need not of his Ominous wars possess him,  
Troos knows his issue's triumph, and his flight,  
Inspired with supernatural gifts they gesle him,  
And hold themselves heaven favoured in his sight:  
He vows in Crect again to r●…pollesle him,  
Where Ihove usurps 'gainst all paternal right,  
After few days in feasts and triumphs ended,  
A puissant host is to his charge commended.   

21  
Of twenty thousand soldiers, Troyans' all,  
Commanded by the valiant Ganymede, 
Ganimeds' war against jupiter.   
A better war-exployted General  
Never appeared in sight of Ersignes spread,  
They pass the Aegeon seas (which men so call)  
Of the Grand Thief Aegeon, he that fled  
From jupiter, when all the Tytans perished,  
Now on these Seas by murderous Pirates cherished.   

22  
Saturn directs their landing, as best knowing  
The safest harbours: and their army guided  
Through many furlongs of his ancient sowing,  
Never till his days by the Plough divided;  
But as their host to Crect is nearer growing,  
With hope to take the Cretans unprovided,  
King jupiter is by the scouts descried,  
With many Centaurs that on horseback ride.   

23  
But not expecting any hostile power,  
Or to beat back invaders, doth he gather  
This puissant host, he's for the brazen Tower  
Where Danae lives, cooped by her ruthless father,  
But now that host the Cretan soil must scour,  
Which amorous Ihove would have conducted rather  
To scale the brazen for●…sse, the dark screen,  
Twixt courtly freedom, and his cloistered Queen.   

24  
To this employment the stout Centaurs came  
Under Ixion's conduct, twice two hundred,  
Who first devised Thessalian steeds to tame,  
They seemed at first, half horse, half man unsundred,  
At whose strange manage, and admired name,  
(Unknown till now) th'amazed Troyans' wondered,  
The battles join, and both the hosts discover,  
About Ihoves Tent, a Princely Eagle hover.   

25  
He takes it for an Ominous sign of good,  
The Troyans' for some heavy sad presage,  
By this, a thousand quarters swim in blood,  
And from both sides the heated Champions rage,  
In a deep red they die the neighbour flood,  
Never did bolder spirits battle wage,  
The dying groan, the feare-confounded shriek,  
The wounded bleeding fall, the standing strike.   

26  
The Centaurs boldly fight, the Prince of Troy  
Shines both in Arms and valour above all,  
Having both Art and strength his steel to employ,  
And many half-dead limbs about him sprawl, 
The Combat twixt I●…ne and Ganymede.   
To him Ihove makes, and is remet with joy,  
On either part whole troops before him fall,  
So have I seen two burning Meteors fare,  
Breaking through divers clouds to tilt in th'air,   

27  
Two fiery Meteors I may call them right,  
For they were both in gilded Armours laced,  
And had they fought in a dark cloudy night,  
With such rough blows their shields and helms they razed  
And forced from them such store of fiery light,  
With steel encountering steel, and blows well placed,  
The two main Armies might have fought in view,  
By the bright sparks that from their Armours flew.   

28  
This Monomachy lasted not, for yonder  
Comes Saturn on the part of Ganymede,  
On th'other side, the hoofed centaurs thunder,  
And Character deep half Moons where they tread,  
By whom the Champions are enforced asunder,  
And all confused that was in order led,  
Thus in this tumult and disordered brawl,  
By scotes and hundreds they drop down and fall.   

29  
Saturn assails his son, but is refused,  
He shuns th'unnatural combat with his Sire,  
Amongst the Troyans' he his Champions choosed,  
The Hostile stranger shall his worth admire,  
Against whose Armies he such valour used,  
That force, p●…force, their vaward must retire:  
Mean time Prince Ganymede King Saturn righting,  
Alone, is midst a hundred Centaurs fight.   

30  
Encountering Aeson, armed at every piece,  
Aeson well mounted, 'gainst the Trojan ran,  
This Aeson. son was after known in Greece, 
jason.   
'twas he that did the stately Argos man,  
And in his bold quest of the golden fleece,  
With the rich Sheep deep spelled Medea wan,  
Who after old, decrepit, weak, and hored,  
Was by his daughter to his youth restored.   

31  
Him Ganymede unhorsed, and in despite  
Of the bold Centaurs mounted on his steed,  
Proving the manage of this unknown fight,  
And in the proof mad●… many Centaurs bleed,  
(But all in vain) his troops are put to flight,  
Saturn is shrunk, and left him at his need,  
And ●…o their ships in t●…oopes his sould●…s fled,  
Whose shameful steps, the Prince of force must tread.   

32  
The Centaurs and the Cretan king pursue them  
Unto the Ocean's Margin, and even there,  
Twixt Sea and shore, in countless heaps they slew them,  
Such as escape, their course to Troyward bear,  
For Saturn's men, the Cretans cannot view them,  
Another unknown tract (alas) they steer:  
Whether the winds and waves their vessaile drive,  
Twice driven from Crect ('gainst heaven in vain we strive)   

33  
jupiter and the Centaurs such ships take,  
As should have been employed for Darraynes Tower,  
And after Ganymede to Sea they make,  
Pursuing them to Troy with all their power,  
They Land at once, the fearful Troyans' quake,  
Doubting if earth or sea, shall them devour,  
Troos with an host descends, as one that guessed,  
The Prince his son, was by his foes distressed.   

34  
The battle is renewed, the king intends  
To rescue son and Subjects in such state,  
But (over valiant) Ganymede extends  
His valour beyond wisdom, all too late  
The King of Troy his puissant fury bends,  
In rescue of his son, now in sad fate:  
The Cretans him surprise, and he being ta'en 
Ganymede taken.   
With this rich prize, they make to Sea again.   

35  
Leave Troos and Islion mated at this cross,  
The pride of Troy is not to be re-won,  
He ra●…s him much above his kingdoms loss,  
And all Dardania mourneth for his son,  
How in the guard of those that from Molesse  
Came with Ixion, and on horseback run,  
jove gives command (being at Sea assured)  
The Prisoners to be cheered, the wounded cured.   

36  
And calling now to mind the Bird that soared 
The first ensign borne in Battle.   
About his rich Pavilion, he ordained  
Her picture should be drawn and quaintly skored,  
Upon a Crimson Ensign richly stained,  
Which since that fight, to all that Mars adored,  
As a perpetual instance hath remained:  
Till then, they bore no flags, no Scutcheons drew,  
Ioues Eagle was the first, in field that flew.   

37  
He now remembers Danae, and commands  
His Pilots to direct his waftage thither,  
But what the king enjoins, the wind withstands  
With boisterous gusts it folds their sails together,  
And hurries them along by divers Lands,  
They bear their wandering course they ken not whether 
Aegeon.   
At length, they in the sea, Aegean wander,  
Of which, the Thief Aegeon was commander.   

38  
The blustering tempest hath divorced their Fleet,  
Only the Ship wherein the Centauris sail,  
With Ihove and Ganymede, the Pirates meet,  
The rest were strayed, and of their Voyage fail,  
Yet some amongst the rest take land in Crect,  
Some bandied too and fro, by every gale,  
Yet all their barks live, none so near to die,  
As this the Pirates from the shore descry.   

39  
Six Galleys they disanker from the Isle  
Caldoro Desert, and their Bark encompass round,  
Ihove and the Centauris arm them in small while,  
And all their Martial notes to battle sound,  
Which the bold Trojan hearing, 'gan to smile  
In scornful guise, to see his arms fast bound:  
Oh when (quoth he) stood Ganymede thus still  
To hear the Martial music of Kill, kill?   

40  
Is my opinion of known Arms so weak?  
My name so poor, the Centauris scorn mine aid?  
Did we for this their main battalions break?  
And with our Armed breast their hosts invade?  
Why may I not in this case boldly speak?  
Shall I stand still, to see my life betrayed?  
Although a Prisoner, yet this favour show,  
To guard mine Honour, 'gainst a common foe.   

41  
Not fight against Troy, we are a friend,  
These Pirates with your honours cou●… mine:  
Oh let the King of Cre●… such grace extend,  
That by his side I may in Armour shine,  
To see how well I can my head defend:  
Some desperate Act unto my charge assign:  
They hale us near, our ship the pirates board,  
For honours sake, give me my Arms and sword.   

42  
These words charm jupiter, and draw a vail  
Betwixt his heart and Ganimeds' disgraces,  
The King relents, the Prince's words prevail,  
His bands he looseth, and with kind embraces  
Swears to him friendship that shall never fail,  
Armed as they are, they take their pointed places,  
Ihove in the Prow, the Centau●…s at his beck,  
To face their foes, girt round their upmost deck.   

43  
Their golden Eagle is displayed: the Galleys  
Grapple on every side their hooked steel,  
Some from the Beak-heads, some the waist make sallies,  
But those the Centauris make like Drunkards reel,  
And drop down to the Sea, here no man dallies,  
Some, with long pointed Irons bore their Keel  
To sink them, others by the Ship sides crawl,  
The Centauris lop their hands off, down they fall.   

44  
Twice they are forced t'vngrapple and unhooke  
Their double chains: To this I may compare, 
Sir Richard Greenvield.   
Thy boarding (valiant Greenvild) thou didst brook,  
A hotter skirmish than the Pirates dare,  
Who keeping one good Ship, scornest to be took  
By a whole Fleet of Spanish men aware,  
Fight till powder, shot, and men were wasted,  
And these consumed, even till thine own life lasted.   

45  
As often as they boarded thee, so oft  
Bravely repulsed, their sides bored through and through,  
And three times with thy three Decks blown aloft,  
As high as heaven (what more could valour do?)  
Now thy proud Ship hath all her Ensigns doffed,  
Those sails the Amorous winds with court woo  
To tinder burnt: thou proffered life despising, 
Revenge, one of Q. Elizab. ships Royal.   
Leav'st thy (Revenge) even with the waters rising.   

46  
The Galleys fasten still: (a watchword given  
By jupiter,) at once they headlong skip  
(Dispersed) into such vessels as were driven  
Within their teach, and leave their Cretan Ship,  
Now many a pirates skull is bruised and riven,  
Some heaved o'er board, some softly slip  
Into the sea for fear, their lives to smother,  
So, by avoiding one death, seek another.   

47  
Th'undaunted Gyant-Theefe-Egeon now  
ken jupiter, him jupiter espies,  
And facing him in his own Galleys prow,  
Thus with undaunted language he defies:  
Behold thy fate, see Ihove thy ruin vow,  
Whom thou by Coward-ods sought to surprise,  
Thou, that by land my ruthless fury fled,  
Shalt now by Sea be forced t'abide me dead.   

48  
I am the son of Saturn, by whom fell,  
Titan, with all the earthbred Giant seed,  
Thy Sire and brothers I have sent to Hell,  
and thy destruction I have next decreed:  
At this, th'inflamed Aegeon 'gan to swell,  
Rage makes his language lag, his fury speed:  
Action proceeds his words, before he spoke,  
With his huge Axe upon Ihoves helm he struck.   

49  
The blow was put to loan, while they two strive,  
Prince Ganymede hath all the Galley cleared,  
and 'mongst them all he leaves not one alive,  
Save the graund-theefe, who now not to be feared  
Ihove hath subdued, and 'gins his legs to gyeve,  
Since in the Giants rescue none appeared,  
Bulk, hands, legs, thighs, the Prince at once environs 
Aegeon ●…nrprised.   
and leads him with an hundred chains of Iron.   

50  
In these the harmless travelers he bound,  
(Now his own plague) they that survive are fled,  
and on the Seas dispersed, now doth Ihove ground  
His love upon his new friend Ganymede,  
He enters his own ships and wanders round  
The spacious Vast, where wind and waters led,  
Crossing both Torrid and the frozen lines,  
By this the Sun had compassed all the Signs.   

51  
The Ram of Helles, and Europa's Bull,  
Castor and Pollux, Cancers burning Sign, 
The 12. Celestial Sign●….   
Th' Herculean Lion, and the Virgin-Trull,  
The scale of justice, and the Scorpion's line,  
Chiron the Centaur, with the horned skull  
Of watery Capricorn, next whom doth shine  
The Trojan lad, that from his laver powers,  
Last the two Fishes drilling Southern showers.   

52  
And at the years end taking land in Crect,  
After his tedious progress on the stream,  
Queen juno welcomes him with kisses sweet,  
His subjects kneel to him as their supreme,  
Five hundred Steeds presenting at his feet,  
But he whose thoughts harp on another theme,  
Prisons Aegeon, Ganymede sets free,  
And in his grace (save juno) who but he?   

53  
But juno, when his mind on Danae ran,  
Showed like a Crow unto a silver Dove,  
Rose to a Black-berry, Raven to a Swan,  
It makes him mad he cannot aid his Love,  
Twelve Moons are filled and waind, since hapless man  
The day expired, he should his valour prove,  
And now (though late) he'll try his best endeavour,  
To fetch her thence (for better late than never,)   

54  
But lo, amidst his hosti●…e preparation, 
The rest of the history of Danae   
By chance a Lord of Argos road that way,  
Who, known to be a stranger of that Nation,  
The King demands of Danae, to bewray  
What he hath heard: he 'gins a sad Oration  
Which doth the Prince's host from waftage stay,  
In what remote Clime, if by Rumour blown,  
(Quoth th' Argos Lord) was not bright Danae known?   

55  
When she was Danae, and whilst Darrain Tower  
Enclosed earths-Beauty in her brazen hold,  
But now she's cropped, and that sweet smelling flower  
Is vaded quite and withered, wrapped in mould:  
The King at this lost all his vital power,  
His blood forsakes his heart, his brain grows cold,  
His thoughts confuse, his soul within him bleeds,  
When th' Argos Lord of Danae thus proceeds.   

56  
Of the Tower, Darrains' strength, Acrisius' guard,  
Within how many gates of brass enclosed,  
Of their nocturnal watch, Diurnal ward,  
Twixt man and her, what strong bars enterposed  
To keep her chaste, what deaf man hath not heard:  
Yet all these locks are with those bolts unlosed:  
Oh heavens! what mortal wit? what human skill  
Can keep a woman chaste, against her will?   

57  
Thou jealous fool, why dost thou jail thy wife?  
When Darrains' strong Tower cannot love expel? 
The fruits of controversy.   
Better thou hadst to grant her a free life,  
If she be honest, she will guide it well:  
If otherwise addicted, vain is strife  
Though in the circuit of Brass walls she dwell,  
Immure her body fast as thou canst think,  
she'll make thee Cuckold, be't but through a chink.   

58  
Perhaps her body in strict bonds thou hast,  
Yet canst thou not the thoughts within her stay:  
Not she that dares not sin, is counted chaste,  
Not she that's matched, and cannot step astray:  
Not she that fears, is 'mongst the virtuous placed:  
" Alone she's chaste, that will not, though she may:  
Their Natures are, to covet things deemed,  
And in forbidden paths to tread aside.   

59  
Oft have I seen a Steed would keep no Tract,  
But fling, and bound, when he was too much reigned,  
But when he felt his curb and bridle slacked,  
Play with the Bit, that he so much disdained,  
And so that Steed by gentle means is backed  
Which brooks no Rider, being much constrained,  
So doth a sick man still, though he be chid,  
Most covet, what the Doctors most forbid.   

60  
Had Danae 'mongst a thousand suitors played  
And reveld in her Father's palace, than  
I doubt not but she still had been a maid  
And (as she did before) despised men:  
Her ruthless Father her fresh youth betrayed,  
When he enclosed her in her brazen den:  
Though thousand gates and doors her beauty smother  
Love breaks through all, to make the maid a mother.   

61  
Her time expires, her father spies her great,  
And threats the Beldames to consuming fire;  
New Guardiens are appointed in this heat,  
Acrisu●… doth by sundry means inquire  
Of her, and of her guard, by no entreat  
Or forced torment, made to glut his ire:  
Will they confess, the Ladies all dare swear,  
(Sa●…th ' unsuspected peddler) none came there.   

62  
Nor will bright Danae yet disclose her shame,  
Until the long lamented hour draw near,  
Nine Moons o'erpast, her hour of Childing came,  
Denial boots not, when such signs appear;  
And now 'gainst Cretan Ihove she 'gins t'exclaime,  
And 'gainst all them that will themselves forswear: 
The birth of Perseus.   
A child is borne, the Lad she Perseus names,  
Clears all her maids, and on herself exclaims.   

63  
Th'offended King hath doomed them both to die,  
And (being inexorable) that doom stands;  
The Seas they in a mastless boat must try,  
Where both th'Imperious wind and wave commands,  
The piteous Mar●…ers themselves apply  
To their unwilling task: In their loath hands  
They Perseus take, and the fair Danae guide,  
To taste the mercy of the rigorous tide.   

64  
The Argive Lord here sighs, but here Ihove rages,  
Threatening Acrisius, cursing his delay,  
But Ganymede at length his spleen assuages,  
And aims his threatened thoughts another way,  
Having lost Danae quite, he now engages  
His love to juno, and beside her lay,  
Of whom he got a son; In small time after,  
From his Aunt Ceres he derived a daughter.   

65  
None comes amiss to him, stranger nor kin,  
Of his own Nation, or of climes remote,  
His daughter Venus tells him 'tis no sin  
For men to practise dalliance where they dote,  
Prince Ganymede that long in grace had been,  
And did this looseness in his Behaviour note,  
Demanded how he could his thoughts divide,  
To love so many, thus the King replied:   

66  
I will not in my own vain errors stand,  
Nor boldly that (which some condemn) maintain,  
The fault is great, if it be truly scanned,  
I knew it bad, but can it not refrain;  
For madman like I strive to plow the sand,  
In seeking my free humour to restrain:  
I burn, and seeking ease, run to the fire,  
I loathe my fault, and yet my guilt desire.   

67  
I want the power to govern mine own will,  
My headstrong appetite bears all the sway,  
I know my ways loss, yet I wander still,  
I see the path, and yet I turn astray:  
Thus like a Ship misguided without skill,  
Whom a stiff violent Tempest bears away,  
To wrack it on some Rock or shallow sounds,  
I am transported quite beyond my bounds.   

68  
I love, but yet I know not in what fashion,  
I love a thousand, for a thousand reasons,  
My moving thoughts abide in no firm station;  
My heart is subject to my blind thoughts Treasons,  
For every sundry Lass I enter passion,  
And am of love provided at all seasons:  
That wench is modest! oh she's in my Books,  
I only love her for her modest looks.   

69  
Yond lass is bold, (see, see) my heart she easeth,  
I like her, she's not like a Milksop bred,  
And strait this thought my apprchension seyseth,  
She will be much more pliant in the bed,  
This is a Shrew: her sharpness my soul pleaseth,  
Because no sheep, I would the Damsel wed;  
And in that thought I scale her amorous fort,  
Sharp Noses are all Shrews, yet apt for sport.   

70  
Is she a Scholar? Then her Art delights me:  
Is she a Dunce? Her simpleness contents me:  
Doth she applaud my love? Her praise incites me:  
Or discommend me? Yet she represents me  
With matter of new love: Admit she spites me,  
I love her: for her spite no whit torments me;  
For though her words be rough, smooth is her skin,  
What in the first I lose, the last, I win.   

71  
Hath she a tripping gate? Her short steps move me,  
And in her quicker motion I take Pride:  
Takes she large steps in going? As you love me  
Let me have her, I like her for her stride:  
Sings she? I am enchanted, let her prove me,  
I on her lips can quaver and divide:  
Is she vnwe●…ldy? Yet my heart she charms,  
And may be much more active in my arms.   

72  
Her I affect, she is so sweet a Singer,  
And I love her, though she can tune no note:  
She plays upon the Lute, that n●…mble finger  
Would please me better in a place remote:  
Yo●… dances; I affect a lusty springer,  
And on such capting legs who could not dote.  
This cannot dance; yet when she lies in bed,  
She will find Art to have thy fancies fed.   

73  
All things Enchant me that these Ladies do,  
And in my frozen breast bright bonfires make;  
Thou art a Bona-roba, and I woe  
Thee for thy breadth and length: thy Stature sake:  
Thou art a little Lass, I like thee too,  
And were I sleepy thou wouldst keep me wake:  
Not one can come amiss, I can find sport,  
Both with the fat and lean, the long and short.   

74  
You Lady manners wants, I strait suppose,  
Would she learn Courtship, how it would beseem her:  
This courtship hath, and I must needs disclose  
What love I for her manners can bet ●…me her,  
That hath a whitely face, and a long nose,  
And for them both I wondcrous well esteem her:  
This the green sickness hath, I long to prove her,  
This looks not green, but black, I therefore love her   

75  
Is her hair brown? So lovely Ladaes' was,  
Browne trameld locks best grace, the brightest hue:  
Are her locks yellow? Such Aurora's glass,  
Presents in her attiring to her view:  
Is haite orient bright? It doth surpass,  
If Chesnu●… coloured? Such do I pursue:  
My eyes still aim at beauties rare perfections,  
and I all colours love, and all complexions.   

76  
My love can fit itself to every story,  
I love a young girl, and a woman stayed,  
Her fresh years please me, and I should be sorry  
To lose her youth: who would not love a Maid,  
another's looks are Matron-like, I glory  
In her: and I her person must invade:  
To end as many as the world can hold,  
M'ambitious love likes, be they young or old.   

77  
Now to proceed of Danae and her son,  
Long tossed upon the Ocean's ruthless streams,  
at length her bark th' Apulian shores hath won,  
about the hour when Phoebus dons his beam,  
and to ascend the Eastern hill begun,  
When she new waked out of her horrid dreams:  
Herself half dead with cold, her Babe near frozen,  
Finds that her bark hath a fair harbour chosen.   

78  
Which a poor Naples Fisherman espying,  
Kenning a Bark that had nor Oar nor sail,  
He leaves the nets that on the shore were drying,  
and puts to Sea the mastless boat to hale,  
Which boarding on the bare planks, he sees lying  
A beauteous Goddess, covered with a vail,  
And on her knee a babe, or dead, or sleeping,  
To which she sang not, but was softly weeping.   

79  
It moved the poor man to behold her tears,  
He sees th'extremity they both are in,  
Her sailesse boat unto the Land he steers,  
And her young infant that was bare and thin  
A wraps in his Capootch, and softly bears  
Unto his cottage, where no Prince hath been,  
He makes a cheerful Fire, and in a while,  
The half-starved babe doth on his mother smile.   

80  
And being refreshed with what the Cottage lent,  
Their Native beauties repossessed their faces,  
Whose rareness the poor man admiring; went  
To acquaint the King with one so full of graces,  
Who sends for her to Court incontinent,  
And having seen her beauty Danae places,  
In his throne Royal, swearing by his life,  
The bounteous seas have sent him this rare wife.   

81  
This King Pelonnus hight, who gently prays,  
To acquaint him with her birth and fortunes past,  
The blushing Dame her modest eye 'gan raise,  
And to his fair demand replies at last,  
She tells him she hath spent her youthful days  
In Argos: next how she to Sea was cast:  
Of Darraines Tower, of her untimely fate;  
Of jupiters' forged love, Acrisius hate.   

82  
Discoursing orderly the sum of all,  
At which the King oft wept, her fortunes ruing,  
blaming the cause of her untimely fall,  
At every Inter-medium love renewing,  
He thinks Acrisius hate too great: too small 
Pelonnus ma rieth Danac & begat Danaus.   
●…houes love, that left such beauty for pursuing,  
he woos, she yields, that did the King besot,  
And married, Danaus is between them got.   

83  
Of whom and of young Perseus forbear,  
To speak of Saturn through the world notorious,  
And jupiter subduing Climates ncare,  
As Cecil, Lemnos, Cypress (still victorious)  
Piercing large Italy, and welcomed there  
By janus, for 'mongst Kings his style was glorious,  
This janus byfrons was of ancient name,  
Of him our january took first name. 
jaunary.    

84  
janus tells Ihove King Saturn dwells them by,  
Teaching rude Nations Tillage, there unknown  
And held in reverence, for the Princes nigh  
Receive his exiled people as their own,  
He shows him ploughs, teems, yokes and harrows lie,  
And fields of ripened grain, already grown:  
This King at length brought Saturn to Ihoves view, 
〈◊〉 & I●…piter accord.   
And by his means, atonement twixt them grew.   

85  
The good old janus in Taurentum reigned,  
So did Evander in Mount Aventine, 
janus E●…der.   
Since one of Rooms seven hills, and proudly named  
By these King Italus of ancient line,  
This Italus from Ciracuse constrained 
Italus.   
Built the great City Albe, by which shine  
Bright Tiber Streams, all these at once desire,  
Peace and accord between the son and Syrc.   

86  
Saturn surrenders Crect, having erected  
A City, where Rooms Capitol now stands,  
And a chaste Virgin to his wife elected, 
Satur's second m●…are.   
Philicis called, colleagued in nuptial bands,  
Of whom he Picus got, Picus protected  
That City after Saturn, and commands  
The Realm adjacent, Faunus was his son,  
and from this Faunus did Latinus come.   

87  
The Poets make this Faunus for his care  
O'er husbandry, the ancient Sire and Father  
Of all the Rural-gods: His Queen was fair  
And Fatua height, who would have bedded rather  
With Hercules supposed Amphitrites heir,  
But our dispersed story we must gather,  
And of Nicostrate, wife to evander,  
A little speak, before too far we wander.   

88  
Who dotes on jupiter, and laughed him charms,  
With Necromantic Characters, in which  
He expert grows, and having left off arms,  
Studies the black spells of this sorcering Witch,  
Abandons horrid sound of shrill alarms,  
Now only labours to be wise and rich,  
And leaves the jatian Kings, where long he stayed,  
After the league twixt him and Saturn made.   

89  
To Ce●…t returning, where Queen Iun●… was 
The birth of Vulcan and Proserpina.   
Delivered of a foul misshapen Lad,  
Caldoro Vulcan, Ceres of a lovely Lass,  
Hight Proserpina: the envious Queen grows sad,  
To see her Aunt's child in bright looks surpass  
Hers in deformed foulness: Ihoue's more glad  
Of Proserpina then Vulcan, which espied,  
The jealous Queen doth with her husband chide.   

90  
She chafes, he laughs, she blames his wanton ryat,  
He gives her liberal scandal a deaf ear,  
She counts herself food to suffice his diat,  
and tells of all his 'scapes, how, when, and where,  
That he is forced to keep his Queen in quiat,  
To marry Ceres to a great Lord there,  
With whom he gave t'augment his name and power  
Sicill and Syracuse for her dower.   

91  
To Vulcan he the Isle of Lemnos gave,  
To be instructed in his Geomancy,  
In the deep bowels of the earth to rave,  
To learn the force of fire in Pyromancy,  
Taught by Beroutes, and Piragma grave,  
The third Sceropes red him Negromancy,  
Himself the God of Smiths, Lemnos his seat,  
Where these three Cyclops on his Anvils beat:   

92  
And frame Ihoves trisulck thunders, some dcuine  
Lame Vulcan in his birth was strait and fair,  
And being in Ihoves lap where Planets shine 
How Vulcan became lame.   
And stars like golden studs stick round his chair,  
The Mansion of the Gods, th'heavens Crystalline,  
Dandling his smiling babe, he spies the air  
Al in guilt flames, earth burn, the Meteors drink  
The boiling Seas, and heavens huge Collumes shrink.   

93  
For Phaeton had set the world on fire,  
At which Ihove rising from his throne in haste,  
To thunderstrike the youth that durst aspire,  
Down drops his son towards earth, and falling, past  
Through all the Planets, by Apollo hire  
Then all the rest, So by the Moon at last,  
Twixt heaven and earth, who can describe the way?  
When he was falling a long Summer's day.   

94  
He lights in Lemnos, nor can Vulcan die  
By this occase, being borne of heavenly seed,  
Though on the earth amazed the infant lie  
He breathes at last, (so have the Fates decreed)  
Of Vulcan's craft, and how he did affy  
Venus (loves Queen) how Mars did twixt them breed  
Strife and dissension: how the winged boy  
Was borne, belongs notto the tale of Troy.   

95  
Yet that I may not slightly let them pass,  
Without some small remembrance of my pen,  
Whose history so oft recorded was,  
By ancient Poets, hie-renowned men,  
To Thracian Mars, and the bright Paphian Lass  
A little space we must look back again;  
And speak how she her bridal bed did blot,  
The very night young Cupid was begot.   

96  
When Mars and Venus made appoint to meet,  
And to that end a private Conclave found,  
To dally out the hours in kisses sweet,  
And sports in which the loves-queene did abound,  
That no sly tell-tales should their pastimes greet,  
The obscure Cave they first perused round,  
To shun disturbance till their game was done,  
jealous of all: but fearing most the Sun.   

97  
Knowing his searching eye is prying still  
Through every Casement, loope-hoole, chink, or cranny,  
Therefore to blind him they must use their skill,  
The blabbing Phoebus they dread most of any:  
A noble youth on Mars attended still,  
Whose secrecy he had preferred 'bove many:  
Gallus they call him, whom God Mars will have  
To watch the Sun at th'entrance of the Cave.   

98  
The Lovers enter, Gallus stays behind,  
All the night long his eyelids never close,  
But towards the dawn, dull sleeps his senses bind  
In their soft chains: his powers to rest dispose;  
He neither fears Fawns, Nymphs, stars, moon, or wind,  
Nor any other eye: the Sun God rose,  
And in his mounting through th' Olympic sky,  
He that sees all things, did the lovers spy.   

99  
The Tell-tale Sun strait to the Smith discovers  
Th'adulterate practice of this amorous pair,  
Who strait devised a net to catch the lovers;  
Mean time Mars wakes, sees Venus lie all bare,  
(Both over-slept themselves) for Phoebus hovers  
Over their cave, and in his face doth stare:  
Th'astonished War-god knows not what to think,  
Seeing the Sun still peeping through a chink.   

100  
Th'astonished God first gently Venus wakes,  
Who blushed to think the Sun their stealth had spied,  
Then by the curled locks he Gallus takes,  
And thus he says; Since than we are descried  
By thy default, behold (poor Gallus quakes  
Before his sentence, and his face would hide)  
be thou transformed, thou that hast wrought our shame  
Unto a bird, that still shall bear thy name.   

101  
This new made Bird (the Cock in shape translated)  
Yet in his heart his ancient thoughts retains,  
For every morn the Sun by him is rated;  
He by his crowing to God Mars complains,  
Before the Sun is in his chair instated,  
Or in his hand takes the Celestial rains,  
He 'gainst his sides still with his wings, is drumming,  
And tells to all the world the Sun is coming.   

102  
Of Perseus next, and of the Gorgon slain,  
And of Acrisius, by young Danaus' aid  
Restored to Argos, and the Tower Darraine,  
And of Andromede the lovely maid  
My muse sings next: In Hespery called Spain,  
Porcus (supposed a Sea-god) often prayed  
On harmless Strangers, who their voyage bore  
Along by Spain, upon th'Hesperian shore.   

103  
This Porcus three sweet daughters leaves: Medusa,  
Euriale, and Scennio, their names; 
The Gorgon's.   
All fair at first: the glorious eye of day  
Saw never three more bright and stately dames,  
These did the spacious Dorcad Islands sway:  
The eldest 'gainst Mynerua war proclaims,  
At which the Goddess high displeasance takes,  
And turns their golden heirs to crawling snakes.   

104  
She leaves them all no more save one broad eye,  
Placest in Medusa's forehead, and to shine  
Like sulphur, whose Aspect infects the sky,  
Parches the grass, and blasts both Rose and Spine,  
It hath the Basilisks true property,  
To kill far off, her head is Serpentine:  
And by the pest, that on her forehead burns,  
All that behold her face, to stones she turns.   

105  
About her Palace thousand pictures stand,  
Once men, now Images of senseless stone;  
Of all that in the Dorcad Islands Land,  
If by these Gorgon's seen survives not one:  
More than Medea's rod, or Circe's wand,  
her poisonous eyeball hath transformed alone:  
armies of men have compassed her at one's,  
Armies of men her eye hath turned to stones.   

106  
Throughout her kingdom you may people see  
Dispersed and taking stands in sundry places,  
But neither move hand, arm, head, foot, or knee,  
For they have stony limbs and Marble faces,  
That oft-times Travelers deceived be,  
To see dead stones retain such lively graces:  
Some ask them the climate, some the way,  
Others to know th'uncertain time of day.   

107  
Nay sometimes quarrels have betwixt them grown,  
Receiving to their answers no reply,  
one angry fellow draws upon a stone,  
And swears deep Oaths he'll make it speak or die,  
others more patient yet displeased are gone,  
And say they skill no points of honesty:  
Nor wonder if these strangers so mistook,  
When every dead face had a living look.   

108  
Hear one was going, and in going spied  
By Adder-haird Medusa, and so stays,  
Even as one leg did fore another stride,  
and as his hindmost heel he 'gan to raise  
To draw it after, both his legs abide  
Fixed to the earth, his arms beside him plays:  
his body forward bends, the picture showing,  
The shape of one on earnest business going.   

109  
Another digging as the Queen came by,  
Stoops still with one Hand 'bove the other placed,  
The right foot fixed, the left advanced high  
To drive the dull Spade in, another faced  
the Gorgon-monster, as his love passed by,  
Who spreads his amorous arms t'infould her waist:  
and smiling in her face, his Image stands,  
Laughing with halfe-shut eyes, & broad-spread hands.   

110  
here stands a Fisher by the water's brink,  
The Angle-hand stretched forward to the ri●…er,  
And there a Shepherd heaved his hands to drink  
On his black bottle, both his lips unsever,  
His head bends back, legs stride, and you would think  
He drank still, but this draft must last for ever:  
His bottles gone, still stands he strangely faring,  
Hands heaved, neck bend, mouth yawning, eyes broad staring.   

111  
Of Marble Statuës many thousands more,  
In Field, Groves, orchards, Highways, houses, streets,  
Some naked, others in the robes they wore,  
So hardly doth she deal with all she meets,  
This man she takes conferring, but before  
He can conclude his tale, his spirit fleets:  
Some she finds chafing, laughing, striking, riding,  
All ●…urn'd to stones in self-same shape abiding.   

112  
I fear my pen hath with Medusa met,  
For on the sudden it grows stiff and dull,  
And cannot now defray my promised debt,  
And with the Gorgon's stain this Margin full,  
here therefore this days journey shall be set,  
And blame me not, if my tired hand I pull  
From his Diurnal task, at our next view,  
I bring him on this stage, that Gorgon slew.   
IXyon was King of Thessaly, who being by jupiter taken up into Heaven, and comforted of certaines griefs there, fell in love with juno, which jupiter perceiving, deceived him with a cloud, made in the likeness of juno, of which Ixion begat the Centauris: After adjudged by the Destinies to be tortured with the wheel in hell.  
I hold Ganymede rather surprised by jupiter in battle, then as some write to be stolen by him as his minion, & after this rape made his Cupbearer.  
Apulia where Danae was cast upon the shore, is now a part of Italy bordering upon the Adriatic sea.  
Vulcan was jupiters' Smith, an excellent workman, on whom the Poet's Father many rare works, among which, I find one, not unnecessary to be remembered, which Ovid speaks of, and I thus English.  

This Tale is blazed through heaven, how once unware  
Venus and Mars were took in Vulcan's snare: 
Mars & Venus.   
The God of War doth in his brow discover  
The perfect and true pattern of a Lover:  
Nor could the Goddess Venus be so cruel  
To deny Mars: (soft kindness is a jewel  
In any woman, and becomes her well)  
In this the Queen of love doth most excel:  
(Oh heaven) how often have they mocked and flouted  
The Smith's polt-foot (whilst nothing he misdoubted)  
Made jests of him and his begrimed trade,  
And his smooged visage, black with Coaldust made:  
Mars, tickled with loud laughter, when he saw  
Venus like Vulcan limp, to halt and draw  
One foot behind another, with sweet grace  
To counterfeit his lame uneeven pace.  
Their meetings first the Lovers hide with fear,  
From every iealons eye, and captious ear.  
The God of War and loves lascivious dame,  
In public view were full of bashful shame;  
But the Sun spies how this sweet pair agree,  
(Oh what bright Phoebus can be hid from thee?)  
The Sun both sees and blabs the sight, forthwith,  
And in all post he speeds to tell the Smith:  
(Oh Sun) what bad examples dost thou show?  
What thou in secret seest, must all men know?  
For silence, ask a bribe from her fair treasure,  
she'll grant thee that shall make thee swell with pleasure.  
The God whose face is smooged with smoke and fire,  
Placeth about their bed a net of Wiar  
So quaintly made, that it deceives the eye  
Strait (as he feigns) to Lemnos he must high,  
The Lovers meet, where he the train hath set,  
And both lie fast catched in a wiry net:  
He calls the Gods, the lovers naked sprawl  
And cannot rise, the Queen of Love shows all:  
Mars chafes, and Venus weeps, neither can flinch,  
Grappled they lie, in vain they kick and winch:  
Their legs are one within another tide,  
Their hands so fast that they can nothing hide:  
Amongst these high Spectators, one by chance  
That saw them naked in this pitfall dance:  
Thus to himself said: If it tedious be  
Good God of war, bestow thy place on me.   
Of the Gorgon's, because there are many opinions, we will a little insist upon their particular discovery. Of them there is a 
Hesiodus in Theogon.  double; kind some hairy, some bald, yet all born of Phorcus & Cetus. These three Sisters had but one common eye, and one 
Aeschilus' in 〈◊〉.  common tooth to feed with. The Latins call them Lamiaes, à gutteris amplitudine, which Lamia some think to be the 
〈◊〉 in Phoricis.  daughter of Neptune, and the first Prophetess, called Sibilla among the Aphrians. They were also called Pemphrado Prito 
Athen. Apollodor. lib, 2.  and Dino, to whom some have likewise added jaeno, whose name both Aeschilus' and Hesiod in their works remember. 
Melanthes lib, de mysterijs.  They were called Greae, and live in the utmost Islands of Iberia 
Apollod. Menander lib, de mysterijs.  towards the West. Some likewise number Silla amongst the Gorgon's; Others describe them not with snaky locks, but 
Nimphodorus Theopompus. Poleme.  heads of Dragons and Girdles (about their wastes) of Vipers. All concluding in this, that their sight was immediate death, which Aeschilus' signified in this. 
Sunt tres sorores his volucres non procul  
Serpentibus dir●…sque comptae Gorgones  
Quas intuens nemo diu spiraverit.  The Beast Nomades in Libya hath likewise the name of Gor-gon, 
Alexander, M●…dius lib, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  somewhat resembling a sheep, which others describe more like a Sea-calf, It is said this monster by the infection of his eyes kills what beast soever he meets. His hair covers his brows. Many of Marius Soldiers marching against jugurth, followed 
〈◊〉, 2  this beast, mistaking him for a sheep, and presently fell down dead: by these Greae, Phorci, these Gorgon's & monsters of the sea, is understood nothing else but that knowledge and wisdom, which is acquired by experience, to purchase which it behoved Perseus to use the aid of Pallas, the helm of Pluto, and the sword of Mercury, by virtue of which, he subdued those monsters. Which the Poets have amongst others thrust into hell. 
Centauri in foris stabulant, 〈◊〉; biformes.  
Et centum geminus Briareus, ac belua Lernae 
Virgil.   
Hor●…ndum stridens, flammisque armata chimaera  
Gorgones Harpiaeque & forma tricorporis umbrae.    

Argumentum  
Perseus' the Gorgon kills, then takes his way  
To joppen, on his flying horse alone,  
Destroys the Monster, frees Andromeda,  
Acrisius saves, turns Atlas into stone:  
King Pricus Wife, the beauteous Aurai  
Dotes on the valiant Knight Bellerephon:  
The Troyans' are with fearful pests annoyed,  
By Hercules, great Troy is first destroyed.  
ARG. 2.  
IN Zeta Phineus falls, Chimer is slain,  
This acts his rape: Queen Ceres doth complain.  
CANTO. 6.  

1  
Minerva, thou that hadst the power to make  
Monsters of them, that thy high Name despise,  
To turn a golde-Wire to a crawling Snake,  
And change the beauty of bewitching eyes,  
The Patronage of all my labours take,  
More sacred Names, thy God-hood may comprise  
Religion, Virtue, Zeal, we may thee call,  
Whose foes are ugly, and with Adders crawl.   

2  
The three foul Gorgon's by thy power disguised,  
Were Lust insatiate, Avarice and Pride,  
These Sisters in Hisperia tyranised,  
All looking with one eye, who can divide  
Their powers and Natures, being three comprised  
Within one head, and Sisters near allied,  
All such as on their strength themselves assure,  
Senseless of good, as stones they soon obdure.   

3  
Therefore to arm us 'gainst this horrid fiend,  
behooves us to implore Myneruaes' aid,  
Perseus' bright shield unto our arm to bind,  
And then we boldly may such foes invade,  
His shield was Crystal, and so bright it shined, 
Perseus killeth the Gorgon. 1497   
It dimmed the Gorgon's eye, and whilst she played  
In darkness, and her kill sight forsook,  
Her monstrous head he from her shoulders struck: 
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4  
About the time Perseus the Gorgon slew, 
〈◊〉 lib. 3. 〈◊〉. Theopompus lib 17. Pegasus.   
Busyris governed in Egiptia,  
Cadmus ruled Thebes: to Komos France was due,  
Belochus Emperor of Assyria,  
Othoniall Trumpets before Israel blew,  
Prince Radamant reigned King in Lycia:  
Tyrhenus Italy, and Triton Spain,  
Whilst Liber Pater all the East doth gain.   

5  
The Gorgon's head with power to turn to stone,  
Upon his shield he fixed, and of the blood  
That Issued from the wound, swift Pegas shone,  
And neigde out of the earth a Stallion good,  
Whom Perseus backed, and out of sight is gone,  
Flying o'er Mountain, Valley, rock, and flood,  
From Arctos unto Cancers burning track,  
And from hot Cancer to cold Arctos back.   

6  
In his high Airery progress over all  
The Provinces and climes beneath him spreading,  
Where ere the purple drops from Gorgon fall,  
Adders and Snakes are bred, the people treading  
Their secure steps, see ugly Serpents crawl,  
Their venomous stings, and fearful hisses dreading:  
Africa doth Snakes in most abundance store, 
Africa most abounding with snakes.   
Because he longest did o'er Africa soar.   

7  
Yet whilst his venomous spoils were bleeding new,  
But leaving Africa, forward Pegas flies,  
He now the Raemme, now doth the Fish's view,  
And mounts and stoops as the winds fall or rise:  
At length he leaves the Orient to pursue,  
The far Septemtrion keeping still the skies:  
Till falling with Hyperion in the West,  
He with the day-tyrd Phoebus covets rest.   

8  
And stooping with the Sun into these Seas,  
Where night by night he sleckes his fiery Car,  
And Atlas of that Orchard keeps the keys, 
Atlas.   
Where golden Apples in abundance are;  
Thus Perseus greets him: May your Highness please  
To be my royal Host, who come from far:  
If greatness may my welcome more approve,  
Know thou in me receivest the Son of Ihove.   

9  
If novelty in strangers thou acquirest,  
Behold, my flying steed and covered shield,  
Hence groom (quoth Atlas) thou hat rest desirest,  
Lodge with the waking stars in the broad field,  
To thee that to our Palace thus aspirest,  
We scorn all succour and relief to yield:  
Thou comest, as Prophets did long since reveal,  
From Hespery my golden fruit to steal.   

10  
One of Ihoves issue our D●…uiners say,  
Must perpetrate such theft, and thee I fear, 
This prophesy had his end in Hercu les.   
Thou look'st like one that aims at golden prey,  
And I my Aurea Mala, hold so dear,  
That I have stopped up each accessive way:  
Instead of pales, high mountains their heads rear  
About mine Orchard, by a Dragon kept,  
A wakeful Mon●…ter, one that never slept.   

11  
With that he violent hands on Perseus lays,  
To beat him from his Palace, but Ihoves son  
The Gorgon-sheild unto the King displays, 
Atlas' transformed.   
Who instantly turns to a hill of stone,  
His hairs and beard increase to Trees and sprays,  
His Bulk and Shoulders into hills are grown:  
His head a Promontory top, o'erpeering  
The neighbour Rocks, and other Mountain's neering.   

12  
His bones to stones, his blood to Crystal springs,  
And by the God's decrees he so increaseth,  
And with his growth such height and vastness brings,  
That heavens huge weight, the two strong poles releaseth  
To rest them on his shoulders: the Lark sings  
The Sun his early note, the night surceaseth:  
Acrisius Grandchild doth with Phoebus rise,  
And to his arm his shield Gorgonian ties.   

13  
His hooked skeyne he fastens to his thigh,  
So 'mongst the clouds on Pegas back he sores,  
The Swain below that fills his wandering eye,  
Leaves off his labour, and the help implores  
Of powers divine, t'explain this novelty,  
He passeth divers Seas and sundry shores:  
Even to th' Aethiopian Clime, and thence,  
To where Cepheus makes his residence.   

14  
There for her Mother's guilt, Andromeda; 
The tale of Perseus and Andromeda. 2589   
By unjust Hammon was condemned to die,  
Whom as young Perseus in his Eyrie way,  
Did from amongst the racking clouds espy, 
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Save that the winds her golden hairs display,  
And drops of Pearl rain from her watery eye,  
He had mistook her, being chained alone,  
For some fair Image of white Marble stone.   

15  
But when he saw no Marble was so white,  
Nor ivory to her skin to be compared,  
He rains his winged Steed and stays his flight,  
And greedily upon her beauty stared,  
To shake his flaggy wings forgetting quite;  
He loves, and grieves to see how ill she fared,  
And now his tongue no longer he refrains,  
But says: oh you, unworthy these rude chains,   

16  
Much fitter for a lovers kind embrace,  
Tell me your stock, your Nation, and your name,  
And why such beauty should possess this place?  
Or for what crime into these bands you came?  
feign would the bashful girl have hid her face,  
Save that her hands were bound: she blushed for shame:  
Twice did he urge her, she was silent still,  
Yet the third time tells all, against her will.   

17  
How bright Casseipe her beauteous Mother, 
〈◊〉 in Perseide.   
Knowing her daughter to be wondrous fair,  
The pride her heart conceived could not smother,  
But with Nereids must needs compare, 
Aratus.   
For which they ●…l complained to Ihoves great Brother  
Neptune, who with infection taints the air,  
Nor can the pest cease, or the Town be spared,  
Till she there die, that was with Nymphs compared.   

18  
But in the midst of her discourse, behold,  
Ere she can end her lamentable tale,  
A huge Sea-monster with his long train rolled  
In curled knots, makes the poor Girl look pale,  
The frowning billows are by him controlled,  
Bo●…e which h'aduanceth many a shelly scale:  
She shrieks: her Sire and Mother, both despair,  
The people with shrill outcries pierce the air.   

19  
Which Danae's son espying, thus he says  
Unto the Queen and the lamenting King:  
The time you see is short, the Monster stays  
Assured destruction to yond maid to bring,  
If then Ihoves son his towering fames can raise,  
And pierce yond huge Sea-Dragons skaly wing,  
Destroy the Monster, and presetue her life,  
Shall the bright Virgin be my troth-plight wife?   

20  
Who doubts, but the sad Parents soon agree?  
They paw ne their honours to this sudden motion;  
Phineus besides, the Maid doth promise free,  
Resigning up his right with much devotion;  
The Covenantsmade, and now from far they see  
The Whaly Monster bear abreast the Ocean,  
And driving with his Fins whole Seas afore,  
In making to the Virgin on the shore.   

21  
When suddenly young Perseus mounts the skies,  
His shadow danc'st upon the silver waves,  
Which when the wrathful Serpent did espy,  
Against the idle shape he fumes and raves,  
And as his drowned train appears on high  
Above the brine, in which so oft he laves:  
The dauntless Prince, whose courage never fails,  
Strikes with his Falchion, fire out of his scales.   

22  
And as you see a towering Eagle, when  
She spies a speckled Serpent, soon her spangles  
Upon the green breast of some Moorish Fen  
Stoops down, and in the Dragon's Crest entangles  
Her talents: lest his jaws turning again,  
Cease her proud Sears, and whilst in vain she wrangles  
And threatens ruin to the princely Fowl,  
She tires on every knot and curled roll.   

23  
So Perseus sowses on the horrid Beast  
He hews and beats him, till he makes him reel,  
Possessing still his back, which much increased  
The Monster's fury, such strange weight to feel,  
Sometimes above the Sea he lifts his breast,  
And Perseus still pursues him with his steel,  
Sometime beneath the bloodstained waves he shrinks,  
The whilst his wounds like graves, whole billows drinks.   

24  
Whilst he the Sea, the Prince the Air supplies,  
Waiting aloft to see the fiend appear,  
Whose yawning chaps above the Billows rise,  
Ready to swallow all the Confines near,  
Whom as the valiant Prince again espies,  
He makes to him amain, all void of fear:  
And on his winged Steed against him tilts,  
Shoving bright Harp up even to the hilts.   

25  
The wounded Whale casts from his hillish jaws  
Rivers of Waters, mixed with purple gore,  
But from their force the wary Prince withdraws,  
And strikes behind, on both sides and before,  
In many a place his shelly Armour flaws,  
Still biting Harp, makes the Hellhound roar:  
And tired at length, the brutish Monster drowns,  
In the black blood that issued from his wounds.   

26  
The God of Seas quaked at the frightful sound  
His Monster made: the Gods above look pale,  
The waters in the which his bulk lay drowned,  
With fear shrunk from him: now the slaughtered whale  
Receives from Perseus many an unfelt wound,  
Whom Keene-edged Harp pierced from head to tale:  
The parents now clap hands: the Maid rejoices,  
The people lift to heaven their plausive voices.   

27  
And whilst the multitude their wondering eyes  
Cast on the Monster, Perseus rains his steed,  
And from the Marble rock the Maid untyes,  
By his late valour from the Hell-●…ound sreede,  
How can Cepheus or his Queen ●…enise, 
Cepheus.   
Or the bright Maid to give sufficient meed  
To Perseus for his merit, who desires,  
With quick dispatch to kindle Hymen's f●…es.   

28  
The year Andromeda from death was freed,  
Pheamone first in Pythia prophesied,  
Cadmus found Letters: taught the greeks to reed: 
〈◊〉.   
Cecrops th' Athenian Monarchy supplied,  
Rhomnus the Spanish Sceptre (in the weed  
Pontificke.) Ranses did through Egypt ride,  
Achaio did Achaya first instaure,  
Now breathed in Crete, the two shaped Mynotaur.   

29  
The palace is prepared, in every place  
Loud Music sounds, the Bride is richly clad,  
The Father his bold Son in Law to grace  
Invites the Neighbour Kings: but Phineus mad,  
From this high feast absents himself a space,  
Till of his friends, great troops he gathered had,  
To force the Virgin, freed on joppens shore,  
Now Perseus' Bride, though plight to him before.   

30  
Behold, the Palace Court thronged with a crew,  
Of men in Armour glistering: The loud sound  
Of Nuptial Music, through the Hall that flew,  
With shrill confusions on the sudden drowned,  
And still their shouts and cries more violent grew,  
Till all the Bridal guests, encompassed round  
With hostile fi●…dge, amazedly descend,  
To know what foes their powers against th' 'em bend.   

31  
With wrath untamed, the hurrying multitude  
Rageth, and grows Impetuous: some cry, bring  
That Stranger hither, whom we will exclude  
From the fair Court: some cry, le's have the King:  
Others the Bride: some 'mongst the rest more rude,  
Say, come, the Palace to the ground le's fling:  
And whilst these several clamours pierce their ears,  
Proud Phineus first, before them all appears.   

32  
And shaking in his hand an Oaken Spear  
Headed with Brass: he thus bold Perseus greets:  
Behold, th'avenger of my nuptial Fere,  
Whom thou wouldst force. The Palace Court & streets  
Glister in arms, and canst thou hope to bear  
Andromeda from hence, Him Cepheus meets,  
And as he was about his Spear to cast  
At warlike Perseus, Thus replies at last.   

33  
Oh! what will Phineus do? What hellish rage  
Mads thee to mischief? Who begot this strife?  
Is this for Danae's Son sufficient wage,  
Whose valour hath preserved my Daughter's life?  
Why dost not thou, thy love with ours engage,  
For saving her that should have been thy wife?  
Whom not bold Perseus but the Gods bereft thee,  
The fates, and not the prince, hath wifeless left thee.   

34  
When she was married to the Marble rock,  
The fastening of those chains thy bands untied,  
Was't not enough, thou borne of Cepheus stock,  
Her husband and her Kinsman necre allied,  
Saw'st all this people round about her flock  
To see the sea- Whale in his bowels hide  
And bury her? Her freedom not pursuing,  
Unworthy thou didst leave her to her ruin.   

35  
Is Phineus sorry that she did not bleed,  
That her Redeemer he pursues with ire?  
Or if thou hold'st her such a high-prized meed,  
Why didst thou not her from the Rock desire?  
Or else, to him that hath my daughter freed,  
Why dost not yield her? Phineus eyes spark fire:  
Doubtful at whom he shall his javelin fling,  
His Rival Perseus, or his Kinsman King.   

36  
The uproar like the raging sea increaseth,  
Where thousand Rebels are by Perseus slain,  
Till tired with slaughter his tough arm surceaseth,  
With multitudes of men to strew the plain,  
For not a daring soldier near him presseth,  
But dies by Harp, and yet all in vain  
Such throngs of Phineus friends his valour cumber,  
That Noble virtue must needs yield to number.   

37  
Therefore the Prince his Gorgon shield uncases,  
And says aloud (since you compel me) see,  
Revenge sufficient for my foul disgraces,  
For where strength fails we must use policy,  
All that are Perseus' friends, turn hence their faces,  
My foes all perish in their surquedree:  
Fright Babes with bugbeares, quoth the next that stands,  
aiming a spear at Perseus with both hands.   

38  
But as on Gorgon's head he casts his eye,  
His limbs grow stiff, and he is changed to stone:  
Another strikes the next that stands him by,  
And pierced him through the breast, who now doth groan  
His soul to Air: this done, he meant to fly,  
But feels his active spirits fled and gone:  
His Marble arm hath lost his nimble speed,  
To draw it from the bulk which he made bleed.   

39  
Behold a Prince borne by the sevenfold Nile,  
Crying to Perseus thus: See here thy bane,  
Be proud, that we who dallied all this while,  
Will at the length vouchsafe thy blood to drain:  
And as he spoke such words, a scornful smile  
His visage casts, intending to have slain  
The Ihoue-stared prince, his frozen Statue shows  
Like one still smiling, and still threatening blows.   

40  
What? Stand you at the Gorgon's sight amazed?  
(Quoth Moble Erix;) or hath Witchcrafts spell  
Such power upon the valiant, who have blazed  
Their arms in many conflicts, and fought well?  
Le's see what devil in this shape is raised,  
Whom my steele-pollax cannot prostrate fell,  
But in his pressing forward, he soon feels  
Cold leaden numbness give his senseless heels.   

41  
Amongst the rest, one ofbold Perseus crew,  
Glancing his eye upon his masters shield  
Turned stone: him one of Phineus soldiers knew,  
And thought to cleave him standing in the field,  
But with the stroke fire from the Marble flew,  
His forehead sounded like a brazen shield;  
At which the Soldier musing, Gorgon spies,  
So stands transformed, with wonder in his eyes.   

42  
So that at last Phineus reputes his spleen  
And unjust war made for Andromeda,  
Two hundred of his train his eye hath seen,  
All Statuës: unto some he calls (Away)  
Follow to some: Where lives that envious teen,  
With which you threatened Perseus? Wherefore stay  
Your paces from pursuit? Where's the defying?  
So claps them on the shoulders, Courage crying.   

43  
But when he felt their hardened limbs offend  
His aching hand, and yield it no impression,  
And that their mockery shapes did idly bend  
Their threatening arms, now finds he his transgression:  
His penitent hands he doth to heaven extend,  
Praying that they would aid his intercession  
To great Acrisius' Grandchild, who strikes dead,  
So many bold spirits with his Gorgon's head.   

44  
Now as with oblique paces, and his eyes  
Turned from the conquering Prince, he kneeling, speaks;  
Hoping t'appease him with submissive cries,  
The implacable Prince his rage thus wreaks,  
Behold what doom the Impartial Deities  
Allot the wretch that Laws of honour breaks:  
So with his shiled Gergonian him pursued,  
Hardening the face which he behind him screw.   

45  
At th'instant his retorted neck waxed hard,  
His spread Arms stiff, his fixed eyes showing fear,  
And you would think his shape all sense debarred,  
Spoke as it stood, words that a man might hear:  
These tumults done, and Hymen's rights prepared,  
The Prince intends another course to bear:  
He takes his leave, consorted with his Bride,  
And to his Mother his swift steps applied.   

46  
In the Midway he youthful Danaus meets,  
(His hopeful Brother) who at the first sight  
Salutes him and his wife, with kind regreets,  
In many a sweet discourse they spend that night:  
At length the Murk and Palped darkness fleets  
From the skies azurd forehead: with the light  
The Princes rise, and speed them to the shore,  
To which the mastless boat their mother bore.   

47  
Now Phrygian Midas (famous for his ears,  
In giving Apollo's honour to God Pan,  
And for his golden wish) the Sceptre bears  
Of Phrigia: In Israel that good man,  
Samgor was judge, whose power so great appears,  
He of the Philistyns killed many a man;  
And in one battle whilst the Trumpets blew,  
With an Oxe-goade six hundred Heathen slew.   

48  
But in these passages great Saturn's Son,  
That with the Troyans' was at broad hostility,  
At Ganimeds' request, a league begun,  
Now Ihove and Troos are one: he whose ability  
Could not defend his Troy from being o'errun,  
Now can command Troy's foes with much facility:  
So, to yield way, rebates the greatest stroke,  
So, softest walls, hard bullets soon choke.   

49  
betwixt England and great Spain, two potent Nations,  
Like enmity, hath long time been commenced, 
The league twixt Englád and Spain.   
And whilst Eliza lived, her proclamations  
Opposed their pride, and her own Province fenced,  
But now with mutual kind Congratulations,  
All injuries on both sides are dispensed,  
And our great England's Ihove for Spain's best use,  
Hath at their suit, granted a termine Truce.   

50  
Troos yields his due to Nature, him succeeds 
2856   
Ilium his Son, who Ilion's high Towers reared, 
1307   
More famous for his buildings, then brave deeds,  
A royal Prince, and more beloved then feared,  
He for a present, sends four milk-white Steeds  
To Cretan Ihove (a Present much endeared)  
Who by the Knight that such a treasure brought,  
Resends a precious gold-branch quaintly wrought.   

51  
Much richer gifts in interchange of state,  
Our Sovereign to the lofty Spaniard gave  
The warlike Constable, who came of late  
From Hespery: a five years truce to crave:  
More precious presents and of dearer rate, 
The L. High Admiral Imb. for Spain.   
Bare England's Admiral: both rich and brave,  
When from K. james sent with a princely train,  
He was the great Ambassador for Spain.   

52  
Ihoves branch (called the Palladium) the King placest  
In Pallas royal Temple, where it stood  
Till Troy's proud walls were quite deject and rac'st,  
And Islions lofty Turrets swum in blood:  
Great Islion dies, and he that next him graced  
The Trojan Crown (a prince not all so good)  
Laomedon, of whom we here will stay,  
To bear the Sons of Danae on their way.   

53  
Who as they passed the desert, from a far  
They might espy a goodly Knight lie spread  
Upon the grass, he seemed a man of War,  
For he was armed at all points (save the head)  
On his fair brow appeared no soldier scar,  
It seems he had not Arms long managed:  
Exchanges past of many a kind salute,  
Thus speaks the ●…med Knight, whilft they stand mute.   

54  
Who hath not of the great Acrisius hard?  
Acrisius, hem that built the brazen Tower?  
Now Argos King no longer, but debarred  
His nat●…e kingdom by his Brother's power,  
His Brother Pricus hath against him ward,  
And all his glor●…s reft him in an hour:  
Stay there (quoth Perseus) you have touched me nearly  
Acrisius wrongs, King Pricus shall buy dearly.   

54  
Wear Acrisius Grandchild, and descended  
From beauteous Danae, and that fort of Brass  
That Lady Rumour hath so far commended,  
Who in Gold-liquid-showre-drops courted was;  
Oh! where was I Acrisius, t'have defended,  
With Pricus blood to have stained the Argive grass:  
Both Abas sons, a Prince frugal and thrifty,  
He, Lynceus son, the sole remain of fifty.   

56  
Is Brotherhood abroad so light esteemed,  
That kingdoms can such holy knots untie?  
Let me no more Ihoves Royal soon be deemed  
But for Acrisius wrongs, King Pricus die,  
He that in all the world austeerest seemed,  
And stood upon most points of honesty,  
Hath proved the greatest Hypocrite: like those,  
Without precise: within, religious foes.   

57  
Assist me Noble Knight in this adventure,  
(Quoth the great Gorgon-tamer:) when replied  
The armed stranger, by the firm Inde●…ture  
Of honour, I am elsewhere bound to ride;  
But if with me you will my voyage enter  
And see what shall my Chivalry betide,  
My Noble task achieved, I then will lead you  
To Pricus, where my knowledge much may stead you.   

58  
When I the Triple-shapt Chimere have slain,  
Whose dreadful form makes all Sicilia quake, 
Bellerephon.   
Bellerephon will then return again,  
And your attempt 'gainst Pricus undertake:  
The Prince's wonder at chimeras name,  
And that one knight his desperate life should stake  
Against such odds, ask what Imposition  
Hath sent him on this dangerous expedition.   

59  
Or whether uncompelled he be so mad  
To seek assured destruction, and to scale  
The devils den, where nothing can be had  
But certain ruin, his tough skin is Male,  
A terrible huge lions head (which dread)  
A Chieures body, and a Serpent's tale,  
Him whose vast gorge whole armies cannot fill,  
Why should one desperate Knight attempt to kill?   

60  
Bellerephon replies, by Pricus doom, 
K. Pricus Brother to Acris●….   
Not my own will I am compelled to go,  
Else in my growing years that yet but bloom,  
I'd flesh my sword on a more equal foe  
But in Sicilia I must seek my Tomb,  
Or kill the triple-Monster, dreaded so,  
(Saith Perseus then) What makes him so severe?  
Attend (quoth he) great Princes you shall hear.   

61  
Oh! Why did Nature frame these Women fair? 
Bellerephons' tale.   
And make their outward features Angell-bright?  
When their black insides stained and spotted are,  
With Lust, with Pride, Contempt, disdain, & Spite?  
Why should the snowy Swans in beauty ●…re  
Have such black feet? Why should the Lily white  
Bear such rank smell? Can men withstand their fates,  
When golden vessailes bring in poisoned cates?   

62  
I thought I might have gathered a fresh Rose,  
And not have pricked my finger with a Thorn:  
Or a sweet flower out of the Garden chose,  
But not a Nettle in my hand have worn:  
Still, next the sweetest flower, the Nettle grows,  
The rarest beauty hath the rudest scorn:  
The Rovers Ship bears the best promising sails,  
The foulest Serpents the most golden scales.   

63  
By a fair Woman is my youth misspent,  
My Innocent youth that never love embraced,  
Her devilish mind to malice wholly bend,  
My fortunes hath o'er turned, my Name disgraced,  
And I, through her maleuol●…t intent  
Like a poor exile from my Country chased:  
Oh woman! Made of Envy, Pride, and Lusts:  
Woe to the man, that to thy weakness trusts.   

64  
My hopes (quoth Perseus) I on this have laid,  
And think her heart to be her beauty's peer,  
Nor where I trusted most am I betrayed,  
Andromeda I know still holds me dear,  
The stranger Knight (quoth she) that doth upbraid,  
Our sex so much, me thinks is too severe,  
To blame all women, for one Lady's deeds,  
At this all silence made, whilst he proceeds.   

65  
In Pricus Court my Childhood I have spent,  
And there the grace of many Ladies gained,  
But I whose thoughts were all on Knighthood bend,  
Regardless of their looks, their loves disdained:  
Among the rest, Queen Aurea often sent  
Gifts and smooth Letters, fraught with lines unfeigned:  
This beauteous Q. whose thoughts were at such strife,  
Was my dread sovereigns spouse: King Pricus wife.   

66  
Morethens her ravishing beauty could entice,  
Th'allegiance to my King with me prevailed:  
The more the wanton Queen incites to vice,  
The more her sighs and amorous Courtships failed:  
I held my name and honour of more price,  
Then basely yield, when womanish lust assailed:  
At last, with such hot flames her entrails burnt,  
Thar (being disdained) her love to rancour turned.   

67  
She that before held of my person dearly,  
Now damns my presence to the deepest hell,  
And in her heart vows to revenge severely  
My loyal scorn (I know no hate so fell  
As that which was once Love) It touched her nearly,  
Where love once lodged such poisonous hate doth dwell,  
That now she aims her envy at my head,  
Nor can she live, Belerephon not dead.   

68  
Forthwith she cities me to King Pricus throne,  
And as a Ravisher I am accused,  
She swears that when I found her all alone,  
I would her royal person have abused:  
And then round pearls about her eyebals shone,  
Which dropped down by her cheeks, (such craft she used:)  
Oh heaven! what cannot cunning women do?  
By oaths, and tears, to win their husbands too?   

69  
I pleaded Innocence, but what (God wot)  
Could my weak plea against her tears prevail?  
And to accuse her spouse-breach booted not,  
Her whom tears helped, could protestations fail?  
Besides in honour I could lay no spot  
Upon her loyalty, rather bewail  
Her want of grace, and the hy-Gods importune,  
To assist my Innocence, and guide my fortune.   

70  
When I asked witness of such foul abuse,  
She thus replied, commixing words with tears:  
When lustful men aim at such horrid use,  
They watch all spyal-eyes and listening ears:  
Nor can the want of witness plead excuse,  
For who (that to a woman fancy bears)  
Will, when he seeks t'enforce her 'gainst all reason,  
First, call his witness, to such hated Treason?   

71  
Rather he watcheth the most silent hour,  
When man and beast is sunk in leaden slumbers,  
And Morpheus he that hath on midnight power,  
The world with universal darkness cumbers:  
When (saving Lust and Murder) all the powers  
Of earth lie hushed and charmed: when no man numbers  
The iron tongues of Clocks: such a black time  
Should have been guilty of his more black crime.   

72  
For double witness in this case I stand,  
Pricus (you are my Husband and my King)  
And where should Aurea if not at your hand  
Seek justice: at that word fresh sources spring  
From her drowned eyes: what need the cause be scanned  
With more sufficient proof? What needs she bung  
More arguments? Since every tear she split,  
Persuades her loyalty: my heinous guilt.   

73  
The King though inly moved with wrath and spleen,  
Yet in his calm looks moderates his Ire,  
He calls to mind how faithful I have been,  
Since, (when I served as Knight) before (as Squire)  
Loath would he unrevenged leave his Queen,  
As loath doth he my Innocent blood desire:  
Therefore twixt both, this rigorous doom he gave,  
That the chimeras womb should be my grave.   

74  
His tale thus ended, the two Princes vow  
To lend him all assistance: by their aid  
Belerephon hath made Chimaera bow,  
Which done, they jointly Pricus Realm invaide:  
Acrisius by their arms is raised now,  
And Pricus slain: In Argos they are staid  
By old Acrisius, who reputes at last,  
Of Danae, 'mongst the ruthless Billows cast.   

75  
The Noble Perseus he adopts his son,  
And makes him Heir apparent to the Crown:  
Sorry for all the spite against him done,  
And now bright Danae he accounts his own,  
Sending young Danaus and Bellerephon  
With royal gifts (soon to the Princess known)  
Showing by these his reconciled heart,  
But with the warlike Perseus he'll not part.   

76  
Whom the same day he Argos King creates,  
Himself in Darraine lives a life retired, 
Perseus' Issue. Herodot●… in Polimnia.   
Perseus, Andromeda his Queen instates  
In the like pomp (a Lady much admired)  
Five children he begat (so would the Fates)  
More valiant, with their Father's gifts inspired:  
Rich Scelenus, great Bachmon, and bold Daemon,  
Noble Erictreus, and fair Gorgophon.   

77  
This Gorgophon is held to be the first, 
Pausanias' in 〈◊〉   
That in those days was known to marry twice,  
Her husband dead, alone this Lady durst  
Prove second spousals, which was held a vice,  
The chastest Matrons her example cursed,  
Who held their constant love in Sovereign price:  
Our hinder widows, Saint her name in heaven,  
Some four, some five, nay some have told to seven.   

78  
His sons takes wives, Acrisius still surviving,  
Who glories in his warlike Grand-childs' seed,  
Their honours from their Father's acts deriving,  
For by their swords did many Tyrants bleed:  
But leave them in their deeds of valour striving,  
And of Acrisius timeless fate proceed:  
Forgetting what was told him long agone,  
That Danae's Son must turn him into stone.   

79  
When Perseus had in Argos governed long,  
Upon a night he much desired to see  
Acrisius: and to Darraine that was strong  
With triple gates, alone ascended he,  
There knocks, the Porters had forgot his tongue,  
and with bold words denied him entrance free:  
At which enraged, the Prince his Harp drew,  
And at first stroke th'Ill-languad'g Guardian slew.   

80  
The uproar flows apace, Clamours arise  
From all parts of the Fort: to the kings ear  
They come at last, who with the Warders cries  
Astonished, to the tumult presseth near,  
Thinking t'appease the broil and riotyze,  
But hapless man unwares he perished there: 
2657.   
The enraged Prince that madlike laid about, 
1306.   
Struck with a blow, his Grandsires' lifeblood out.   

81  
Perseus the unavoided fates now blames,  
And lays Acrisius in his Marble grave,  
He that on earth intoyes the hy'st-stilde-names,  
Unto their dooms must yield himself a slave,  
From all delights the Prince himself reclaymes,  
In Argos Throne he no delight can have:  
But for his sake that th' Argive Sceptre bore,  
he leaves the Province, near to see it more.   

82  
His Court unto Mecenes he transported,  
But thither did his sorrows him pursue, 
Theseus' inrebus Corinthiacis.   
and therefore with a huge host bravely sorted,  
himself into the Orient he withdrew:  
his army he with warlike phrase exhorted  
'Gainst Lyber-Pater, whom in arms he slew,  
and where the Eastern Monarch's blood lay spilled,  
Persepolis a stately Town he built. 
Persepolis.    

83  
He calls the province Persia by his name,  
Where Bachmon in the kingdom him succeeds,  
Erictreus did all the Nations tame  
By the red Sea, and there his honoured deeds  
Are Chronicled: great Scelemus thy fame  
lives in Mecenes: the Pontificke weeds  
Are for thy Royalty reserved alone,  
In Thebes, remains twice-married Gorgophon.   

84  
Alceus and Electrion from his line  
Descend, Alceus was Amphitrioes' Sire, 
The genealogy of Hercules   
Electrion as Bochas doth divine,  
Alcmene got, whose face all eyes admire,  
Alcmene and Amphitryo combine  
Themselves by Hymen's ceremonial fire:  
Of this bright Theban dame through Greece commended,  
This Monster-tamer Hercules descended.   

85  
But how great Ihove with bright Alcmene lay,  
Himself transforming to Amphitrioes' shape,  
Adding three nights together without day:  
How juno envious of her husband's rape,  
Alcmena's Childbirth hindered, and did slay  
The unborn infants who with wonder scape  
Her Hellborn charms, how by Galantis smile,  
juno was mocked, Alcmene scaped her guile. 
Galantis Alcmena's nurse.    

86  
How young Alcides in the Cradle lying,  
Checked two envenomed Snakes, by juno sent  
To strangle him: how Ypectens dying 
●…pectent Herules twinne-Brother and son to Amphitryo   
By those charmed Serpents, to Elysium went,  
And how the Ihoue-stared Lad his valour trying  
Upon th'olympic mount: disgraced sent  
All such as came to have their valours tried,  
To leap, to run, to wrestle, or to ride.   

87  
How by the K. Eristeus he was taught,  
Loved beauteous Megaera, and famed all Greece,  
And through the world renowned adventures sought,  
Conquered great Cacus and the golden fleece:  
How Achelous he to ruin brought,  
Doted on Deianeira that fair piece,  
And jole, who the more fame to win,  
Made great Alcides on a distaff spin. 
jole daughter to Cacus.    

88  
All these we leave as tales too often told,  
And rubs that would our running voyage let,  
Not that our thoughts despise them being old,  
(For to antiquity we owe much debt)  
But because Time that hath his acts enrolled  
To many a Common sale his deeds hath set,  
Therefore (though no part of his worth to reave him)  
We now for matters more allied, must leave him.   

89  
And now look back to Troy: Laomedon  
Intends new walls about his Town to rear,  
But wanting coined Gold to deal upon,  
Solicits all the Gods, such as dwelled near,  
Chiefly those two that rule the Sea and Sun,  
Neptune and Phoebus Mony-maisters were,  
Of whose rich Priests for so much coin he calls,  
As may repair his cities ruin'd walls.   

90  
They dispuruey their vestry of such Treasure  
As they may spare, the work now being ended 
Herodot●….   
Demand their sums again: but out of measure  
At their request the Monarch seems offended,  
And says he means to pay them at his pleasure:  
The Gods (by whom Troy was with walls defended,)  
Enraged at his ingratitude, conspire,  
With joint revenge to wreak their spleenful ire.   

91  
The wrathful Neptune first his Billows raised  
Above the high-built-Wals, thinking to drown  
Those lofty spires whom all the world hath praised,  
Hurrying his brinish waters through the Town:  
Now Dolphins play, where barbed Steeds have grazed,  
In every pau'd-street Neptune's Billows frown,  
Till being weary with the cities sack,  
He draws himself into his Channels back.   

92  
For by the fate's appointment the proud God  
Must keep his falling ebbs as well as flow,  
Else pale-fac'st Cynthia, at whose dreadful nod  
Obedient Neptune shrinks, her rage will show,  
For she commands his waves, and his abode  
Is pointed by the Moon, whether below  
In his Abysm, or rocks appearing hire,  
He guides his looks by her immortal fire.   

93  
But as he shrinks his waters at her beck,  
He leaves much slimy filth upon the shore,  
Now 'gan the God of Fire his beams reflect  
Upon the drowned Continent that wore  
The sea-Gods wrath, and now must bide his check,  
A hot contagious stem (not known before)  
Poisons the Clime, and as the heat increased,  
The infectious pest consumed both man and beast.   

94  
Halfe-perisht Troy unable to withstand  
Their double wrath, her people from her fly,  
Knowing they both offended Sea and Land,  
And to abide their vengeance must needs die,  
The King himself that wants power to command,  
The all-consuming Plague, fears to come nigh,  
The walls he reared, but must to Delphos travel,  
To excuse his Pride, that with the Gods durst cavil.   

95  
His due Oblations ended: 'tis returned,  
That he must seek th'offended Gods t'appease,  
Else the hot plague (his people's entrails burnt,)  
Shall all the remnant of his subjects cease,  
Nor must his fearful penance be adiournd:  
Nothing can Neptune and Apollo please,  
But monthly to a Monster of the flood,  
To yield a beauteous maid of the King's blood.   

96  
This covenanted, the Trojan King prepares  
Allotted Virgins, now th'infection slakes,  
At length alas (for bold Fate all things dares,) 
Hesione daughter to Laomedom   
The lot the beauteous maid Hesione takes,  
The King's sole Daughter, Fortune nothing cares  
For him, whose hand th'imperial Sceptre shakes.  
The hoodwinked Goddess dare on all sides strike,  
Beggars and Kings, in lots are both alike.   

97  
Imagine her with thousand Virgins guided  
Unto her fearful Tomb, her Monster-grave:  
Imagine how the hulky Devil slided  
Along the Seas smooth breast, parting the wave:  
Alas poor naked Damsel, ill provided,  
Whom Millions, without heavens help cannot save:  
Yet see, help comes: behold the pride of Greece  
Decked in the conquest of the Golden fleece.   

98  
Along the glassy Hellespont by chance  
Alcides sailing, sees upon the Land  
The all-dispoyled Virgin in a Trance,  
Wailing her ruin on the bryny Strand,  
Above the Waves he sees a Whale advance  
His dreadful shape: at whose sight all that stand  
Upon the Beach, some sounding, as half dead,  
Others dismayed, back to the City fled.   

99  
Such only, whom the cause concerned most,  
And unto whom the Virgin was allied,  
Attend her swallowing, on the Marine coast,  
For whom (no Mortal) safety can provide,  
Now great Alcides with his Greekish host  
Lands on the Continent unterrifide:  
And while the Trojan King with terror shakes,  
The Virgins Rescue boldly undertakes.   

100  
Two barbed Steeds, the best that Asia bred,  
Are by the King ordained the Victor's me●…d,  
By whose strong hand the Sea-Whale shall fall dead,  
The Virgin live, and Troy from pest be freed;  
Now falls his huge Club on the Monster's head  
With such impetuous weight, and violent speed:  
As if heavens greatest Column should down fall,  
That bears the high roof of th'olympic Hall.   

101  
The hydious Augur slain, and she released,  
The perjured King, the promised meed denies,  
And seeing Troy both walled, and free from pest,  
Excludes the Greek for his bold enterprise:  
Who sails from Greece: after few months of rest  
Doth burn Larisse, and Tenedos surprise,  
Ruinates Troy, expels Laomedon, 
The first destruction of Troy.   
Beats down the walls made by the Sea and Sun.   

102  
In which achievement Philicteles fought,  
(Made of Alcides' vanquished foe his friend)  
The King Eristheus there for honour sought: 
Cr●…on K. of Thebes.   
And Creon to this dreadful fight gave end,  
The Noble Theseus his assistance brought,  
Theban Amphitryo did his arm extend  
'Gainst Asia's pride, and with the rest returning,  
Aided great Hercules in Troy's first burning.   

103  
These as they were a Shipboard, having filled  
The vast Wombs of their Barks with wealthy spoils,  
Insulting in the Trojan blood they spilled,  
Discoursing of their fights and dangerous broils,  
And such great victories attained but seld,  
Though with more labours, and Insudate toils:  
Cups of Greek Wine unto this Conquest crowned,  
Thus King Eristheus board's the Princes round.   

104  
Now the first Vigil of the night is entered,  
With some discourse le's overtake the Sun,  
Who flying, is by this beneath us centred,  
And whilst the waking Stars their courses run,  
Discourse, who first the Tartar gates adventerd,  
And by whose hand that bold attempt was done,  
Of Orpheus and Eurydice, and in fine 
Pluto and Proserpina.   
Of Pluto, and the ravished Proserpina.   

105  
When Theseus thus: Since you desire to know  
The true report of these Tartarian bralles,  
Which none can better than Alcides' show,  
Or Theseus Present: by th' Aetnean Walls,  
The Waters of Pergusa gently flow,  
And thence into the Neighbouring Ri●…er falls:  
Crowned with a grove, through which the lake doth run,  
Making his bows a Bon-grace from the Sun.   

105  
Hither fair Proserpina repairing still,  
With Daisies, Daffodils, and Lilies white,  
Roses and Marygolds her lap to fill,  
And to return home laden (a sweet sight)  
Chaplets to make, or Garlands by fine skill;  
By chance the God of shades in edge of night  
In his black Ebon Chariot hurrying by,  
Upon the Virgin casts a Ravishers eye.   

106  
He spies, and loves, and catches up at ones,  
Th'affrighted Virgin, who lets fall her flowers,  
he bears her over hills, Dales, Rocks, and stones,  
She, calls on Mother, Friends, and (tears she powers,)  
Mother nor friend can hear her shrieks and groans,  
Through pools and Lakes the God of Tartar skoures,  
he yerkes his hot Steeds with his wyery strings,  
And from his Coach Wheels rusty darkness flings.   

107  
And calls his jetty Stallions by their Names,  
Whose hard hooves make the vaulted Center-sound,  
his rattling Chariot, through the air proclaims  
his fear and flight, with burnished Brass shod round,  
Nor once looks back the dreadful God of flames,  
Or thinks his rape safe on the upper ground:  
But with his Ebon-Mace the earth enforces,  
Which cleft, sinks him, his Chariot, and his horses.   

108  
The Queen of Plenty, she that crowns the land 
Ceres   
With several grain, and Neptune's Kingdom bounds,  
Searches about, but cannot understand  
Of her fair Daughter, yet the world she rounds,  
And day by day she takes this task in hand,  
But in her bootless search herself confounds:  
Aurora finds her in her travels rising,  
The setting Sun still sees her, ease despising.   

100  
But in our labours we our pen must rest,  
Least in her search, we our Invention loose,  
Which finding tired with travel, we hold best  
A while to cherish, (therefore rest we choose)  
here therefore let us breath, ere we digest  
Troy's second fall, as that which next ensues:  
Our Muse with Phoebus sets, and with the Sun  
To Morrow rising, is our task begun.   
THe Gorgon's were called by other names, Pemphrado, Erito 
Apoll●…d. Athen. lib. 2, Melanthes lib. de misteryns.  and Dino, to whom was added a third jaeno.  
Pegasus taking his flight out of Helicon, striking the earth with his hooves, there presently sprung out the pleasant Fountain Hippocrene, after consecrate to the Muses. Some moralise this winged Horse to a swift-saild Ship, in which Perseus sailed in all his foreign adventures.  
Aurea Mala, which the Latins construe golden Apples, the greeks call golden Sheep, the word importing so much.  
Atlas for his exquisite skill in Astronomy was said to bear heaven on his shoulders.  
Of this Sea-monster S. Augustine speaks in his Book de 
S. Augustine.  Civitate Dei, affirming that one of the bones, was in his time still uncon sumed and kept.  
The monster Chimere described with a lions head, a Goat's belly, and a Serpent's tail, was a mount aine in Sicily, whose top was full of wild Lions, the middle of Goats, and the foot and lower part swarmed with serpents: This hill Belerephon by the aid of Perseus, cleared of all these Savadges, & after made it habitable.  
Where jupiter is said to put three nights into one, some have ingeniously imagined it, to be about that time, when at josuahs' prayer the Sun staid his Diurnal course (till he had the slaughter of his enemies) which being kept away from a Country so far remote, must of force lengthen the night by his absence, as it prolonged the day by his presence.  
Galanthis by her craft deceiving juno, was by her after in 
●…uid Metamorph.  her anger transformed into a Weasill.  
Philocletes son to Paean, and after his surprisal, companion with Hercules in all his travels, to whom at his death he gave his arrows, poisoned in the blood of Hydra.  
The length of that night before mentioned, may else be alluded to that in the 2. Kings, Chap: xx. where Zedekiah being promised by God fifteen years life after his extreme sickness, and craving a sign, God commanded the shadow of the Sun to go back ten degrees, which was incontinently performed in the Dial of Ahuz: as it was promised him by Isaiah the Prophet.  
The Nereids with whom Andromeda was compared, 
Hes●…. in Th●…g.  were the daughters of Nereus the son of Oceanus & Thetis': his daughters were nymphs of the sea: he had by the nymph Doris these three children, Halia, Spio, Pasithae & Ligea, with others to the number of fifty, whose names Hesiodus re-members, and Apollodorus.  
Laomedon, besides Hesione, whom he best loved, had 3. daughters more, Aethasa, Astioche, and Medicastes, but 
Apollodorus Athen.  Hesione being dearest to him, Neptune and Apollo choose her to be devoured of the Sea-monster.  
The end of the sixth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
EVridia stung with a Snake and dying,  
Sad Orpheus travels for her sake to Hell,  
Among th'Infernals Musics virtue trying,  
Much honoured (even where fiends & devils dwell)  
Ceres to Hercules for vengeance crying,  
Th'undaunted Greek, seeks Pluto to expel:  
jasons rich Fleece, & proud Troy once more racst  
By Hercules, in our next skeades are placed.  
ARG. 2.  
WHo Music found: hell sakt: Pirithous harms  
etam describes, with great Medea's charms.  
CANTO. 7.  

1  
MVsicke by which the Spheres are taught to move,  
And tune their motion to their maker's praise,  
Approves itself divine: first found above,  
After bequeathed frail man, to cheer his days:  
Whether 'twere taught us by the Birds, that prove  
Their harmony, in their sweet-Chirping lays,  
Or whether found by man: of this I am sure,  
It hath been Ancient, and shall long endure.   

2  
Let Homer's Demodocus witness bear,  
And Virgil's jopas: with this heavenly skill, 
Eusebius.   
Some say Amphion ravished first the ear,  
Which Zephus did with Notes and Crotchets fill,  
But others Dionysius hold most dear,  
As one that made his Ayers loud and shrill, 
〈◊〉   
Men diversly derive Musics soft feet,  
Some from Arcadia; likewise, some from Crect.   

3  
On Shawms Trezenius Dardanus first played, 
Solinus   
On Crane's legs first, but after framed of Reed,  
Bright Mayaes' son on a parched Tortoise made  
Th'unshaped Harp: most Writers have agreed  
That Tubal gave it form, with pins that stayed 
Mercury:   
The tuned strings, to make his Music speed:  
Pan found the Pipe, to play at Syrinx suit,  
Tymarias, was the first, that strung the Lute.   

4  
Nables and Regals, holy David found,  
Dirceus an Athenian, Clarious shrill,  
And these the Lacedaemon's did first sound,  
When the Messenians they in arms did kill:  
Unto the Dulcimer first danced round  
The Troglodytes: after the Rebeck still  
Th' Archadians fought: Pisceses Tyrhenus was  
The first that fashioned Trumpets made of Brass.   

5  
Which some to Myses attribute, and say  
The hebrews with a Silver Trumpet led,  
Marched, and retyrd: were taught to keep array,  
When to fall off, when on; fly or make head: 
〈◊〉   
Dromslades the Romans taught: the Cretans they,  
After the Lute their hostile paces tread:  
Great Haliattes with his sword and shield,  
Marched not without loud pipers in the field. 
●…liattes king of Lydia.    

6  
This, as it hath the power in dreadful Wars  
'mongst soft effeminate breasts to kindle rage,  
and to relenting grace all entrance bars,  
So hath it power the rudest thoughts t`asswage:  
To music move the Planets, dance the stars,  
It tempers fury, makes the wild man sage,  
In this consent of strings, he that can well,  
May with harmonious Orpheus enter hell.   

7  
We left Queen Ceres in her Daughter's Quest,  
Measuring the earth from one side to another,  
Yet can she find no end to her unrest,  
Her Daughter lost, she is no more a Mother:  
The earth once cherished, she doth now detest,  
'Gainst which her spleen, she can no longer smother:  
She calls it barbarous, unthankful, base,  
And no more worthy of her Souer●…gne grace.   

8  
And much against her ancient pleasure speaks,  
For what she favoured erst, she now dislikes,  
In every place she comes, the Ploughs she breaks,  
The laborious Oxen she with Murrain strikes,  
Upon the toiling Swains her spleen she wreaks,  
cattle and Men choke up their new-plasht Dykes:  
The barren fields deceive the Ploughman's trust,  
The usuring seed is moulded unto dust.   

9  
Which rather in the parched furrow dries,  
Laid open unto every rigorous blast,  
Else to the thievish Birds a prey it lies,  
Or if it hap to gather root at last,  
Cockle and tars, even with the Corn-eares rise,  
Else by the choking Cooch-grasse it is past:  
Thus through her grief, the earth is barren made,  
The hoped harvest perished in the blade.   

10  
Mean time Eurydice, the new made Bride 
Orpheus and Eurydice.   
Of Orpheus, with a princely train consorted,  
As in a Meadow by a rivers side,  
Unto her Husband's Harp one day she sported,  
And by his tune her measured paces guide,  
In a swift Hadegay (as some reported:)  
She shricking starts, for whilst her Husband singes  
Unto his Harp, a Snake her Ankle stings.   

11  
In Orpheus' arms she dies, her soul descends,  
Ferried by Charon o'er the Stygian Lake,  
The woeful Bridegroom, leaves his house and friends,  
Vowing with her the loathed world to forsake,  
To the Tenarian part his course he bends,  
And by the way, no cheerful word he spoke:  
But by ten thousand paths, turning doth cross  
Through Tartary, and through the black Molosse.   

12  
There is a steep declivy way looks down,  
Which to th'infernal Kingdom Orpheus guides, 
Molossia a part of Epire, so called of Molo●…us Son to Pyrrhus and Andro●…ch.   
Whose lover, vapours breaths: he sits not down,  
But enters the dark Caverne with large strides,  
With thousand shadows, he is compassed round,  
Yet still the suffocating Mists divides:  
Millions of Ghosts unbodied, 'bout him play,  
Yet fearless, Orpheus still keeps no his way.   

13  
Hells restless ferry-man with Music paid,  
Is pleased to give him waftage too and fro,  
The triple Hellhound, that his entrance stayed,  
Charmed with Music, likewise lets him go,  
So through the airy throng he passage made,  
(Th'immortal people that remain below:)  
And tuning by the way his silver strings,  
To the three fatal Sisters, Thus he singes:   

14  
You pours Infernal, full of awful dread, 
M: 〈◊〉 s. rerum Astronomicarum.   
Whose dietyes no eye terrestrial sees,  
I know all Creatures that are mortal bred,  
At first or last, must stand to your decrees,  
I come not as a spy among the dead,  
To blab your dooms, or rob you of your fees:  
I only pierce these vaults (void of all crime)  
To seek my Bride, that perished fore her time.   

15  
By love, whose high command was never bounded  
In Earth or Heaven, but hath some power below  
By your black Ministers: by Orcus' rounded 
Minos, Eac●…, Rhodamant.   
With Styx, whose pitchy Waters ebb and flow,  
By those three Kings, by whom all dooms are sounded,  
The Elysian pleasures, and the Lake of Woe:  
By all the dreadful secr●…ts of the dead,  
Fair Parcae knit again her vital thread.   

16  
I seek not to exempt her from your doom,  
This is our general home, hear we must stay,  
Though now released, (as all things hither come)  
So must she too, and hear abide for ay,  
Grant that she now may but bespeak her room,  
And to her death allot a longer day:  
Or if th'immoved Fates, this will not do  
Before my time (with her detain me to.)   

17  
This with such moving accents Orpheus sung, 
Hell's torments   
That Chin-deep Tantalus forgot to bow  
Unto the shrinking Wave: Ixion hung  
Vntost upon the Wheel: and Sisiphe now  
Rests him upon his stone. His Harp was strung  
With such rare art, the Danae's known not how:  
To use their empty tub, Styx breathed not fire,  
Nor can the vulture on Prometheus' tire.   

18  
The Sisters weep, Hell's judges appear mild, 
Clotho, 〈◊〉 Atropos.   
And every tortured Ghost forgets his pain,  
Proserpina laughed, and the dread Pluto smiled  
To see her changed of cheer, no soul●…s complain,  
Hell's Senate to his grace is reconciled,  
And all agree, she shall survive again:  
Through million-Ghosts, his Bride is sought & found,  
And brought to him, still halting on her wound.   

19  
He takes her, with this charge at Pluto's hand,  
Not to look back till he avernus past, 
In Argonanticis.   
And the large limits of the Stygian Strand,  
Through dark and obscure ways, through deserts vast,  
Steep hills and smoky Caves, his Wife he man'd,  
Until he came where a thin plank was placed  
O'er a deep raging Torrent, where dismayed,  
Orpheus looks back, her trembling arm t'have stayed.   

20  
Which the three-throated Cerberus espying,  
Snatches her up, and bears her back to hell,  
In vain are all his sighs, his tears, his crying:  
louder than he can play, the Dog can yell,  
He blames his too much love, and almost dying  
Is ready with his Bride 'mongst shades to dwell,  
So long upon the barren plains he trifled,  
Till with hell's vapours he was almost stifled.   

21  
At length the Rhodopeian Orpheus turns  
His feeble paces to the upper earth,  
Which now with discontented Ceres mourns  
The rape of Proserpina, still plagued with Dearth,  
Either the Sun the gleby Champion burns,  
Else too much rain doth force abortive birth  
To the rank Corn, the world forced to complain,  
With widowed Orpheus and the Queen of Graine.   

22  
Who having searched Earth, of her child to know,  
She finds her nowhere on the earth abiding;  
And scaling heaven, Heaven can no daughter show,  
Therefore both heaven and earth the Queen is chiding,  
Only she left unsought the vaults below,  
But hears how Orpheus hath by Musics guiding  
Past through Avernus and the Stygian fires,  
Therefore of him she for her child inquires.   

23  
He tells her of her Daughter new translated,  
Whom in the vaulted Kingdoms he had seen  
With Pluto, in th'infernal Throne instated,  
Where though against her will she reigns as Queen:  
Oh Ihove (quoth she) and hath that God (most hated  
Of Proserpina) the hellish raptor been!  
Monarch of Devils, since thou dost constrain me,  
Unto the Gods above I must complain me.   

24  
This was (quoth Hercules) about the season  
When Hyppodamia matched with Theseus' friend,  
Noble Pirithous by the centaurs Treason,  
Was ravished and repurchased: But an end,  
Our watre-toyld limbs we keep against all reason  
From Native rest, I feel soft sleep descend  
and close my eyelids with his downy wings,  
I must to rest; For this time, farewell Kings.   

25  
Whether being weary of his hoftile pain  
took in the former fight, he covets rest,  
Or whether modesty made him refrain,  
To hear his praise where he deserved best:  
But his return the Kings entreat in vain,  
When Theseus thus proceeds at their request;  
Ceres displeased the high Olympus mounts,  
And to the ear of Ihove this rape recounts.   

26  
Revenge great Ihove (quoth she) thy wrongs and mine,  
And if mine cannot move thee, let thy own,  
For ours betwixt us is fair Proserpina,  
(By devilish Pluto into Orcus thrown)  
Long lost, long sought, my daughter's found in fine,  
Rather not found, her loss is certain known:  
For how alas can I well term her found  
Whom I still lose, kept low, beneath the ground.   

27  
In the rude arms of the black Dis she's placest,  
Hells Adamantine gates besides enclose her,  
Let not thy Aunt great Ihove be thus disgraced,  
But of my own child make me free disposer,  
Else let my name be from thy Bead-roll rac'st,  
and be no more a Goddess, if I lose her:  
But Ihove by fair words seeks t'appease the Mother,  
and reconcile her to his Stygian Brother.   

28  
But th'unappeased Goddess hates the Thief,  
That with her daughter all her pleasure stale,  
and since heaven gives no comfort to her grief,  
she'll try what Mortal can her daughter bale,  
She comes where Hercules and all the chief  
Of Greece assembled, where she tells this tale:  
And weeping, swears to be at stern defiance,  
With the Tartarian Dis, and his alliance.   

29  
Before Alcides on this journey went  
unwares to him, my friend and I prepare,  
(Noble Pirithous) to this one descent,  
Thinking to cheer the Queen oppressed with care,  
But fate was opposite to his intent,  
We scarce (well armed) had touched the lowest stare:  
But Cerberus, my friend untimely slew,  
and me half-dead upon the Pavement threw. 
●…rithous slain.    

30  
Unto my rescue great Alcides came,  
To Hyppodamias' husband much to late,  
The Ihoviall youth that can all Monsters tame,  
Ere he finds leisure to lament our Fate,  
Or on the murderous Hellhound to exclaim,  
He falls his huge Club on the Monster's pate,  
Which with such violent fury pashed his brains,  
It stounds him, so he leaves him bound in chains.   

31  
Adventuring forward in his lions case,  
Th'unbodied Ghosts affrighted from him fly,  
Who see such terror in his ireful face,  
Poor souls they fear by him again to die,  
Hell's Marble gates he beats open with his Mace  
And manly might amongst the Devils try,  
Who as they stop his way, his Club makes reel,  
Whilst Furies fly him with their whips of steel.   

32  
Vast hell is all in uproar, Pluto wonders  
To see his black-fac'st ministers afraid,  
he fears th'imperial Lord of fire and Thunders  
Attempts his lower Kingdoms to invade:  
From Proserpina, his twined arms he sounders,  
Takes up his sable Mace of Porphyr made:  
And with his black Guard forward marcheth still,  
where greatest was the press, the cry most shrill.   

33  
Hell had been sacked, and all hell's right displayed,  
had not the Fates whom Gods and Men obey,  
The fury of th'adventurous Grecian stayed,  
and with their reverent paces stopped his way,  
(Those whom the Gods incline to, he obeyed)  
In their Brass rolls that never shall decay,  
Alcides (by their licence) reads his Fate,  
and arms laid by, more mildly they debate.   

34  
Pluto inquires the cause of his arrive,  
He tells him for the ravished Proserpina,  
Whom as he hears, the King intends to wive,  
Whose heavenly face must among Angels shine,  
Not be amongst the Devils damned alive,  
Of this the Fate twixt him and his define:  
And thus amongst them they compound the cause,  
According to their never-changing Laws.   

35  
That if Queen Proserpina hath kept strict fast,  
And since her entering Hell not tasted food,  
as she hath once the Stygian river past,  
So back to earth she may resaile the flood;  
Inquiry made, the girl alas did taste  
Some few Pomegranate grains, which understood,  
Her doom the fates amongst themselves compoun d,  
That Proserpina must still live under ground.   

36  
Atonement made with hell, the glorious Greek,  
Armed with his club returns the way he came,  
Upon the earth achievements new to seek,  
Since hell is filled with his victorious name,  
Through many a winding path, and turning creak,  
He comes at last where my dear friend lay slain:  
I wounded, and the triple Hellhound laid  
Bound in those gives which he for others made.   

37  
To mournful Hyppodamia he presents  
The murderous Dogs with her dear husband's coarse,  
She sings his Dirge in many sad Laments,  
But at the fiend that slew without remorse  
Her husband, she aims all her discontent,  
And on his face imprints her womanish force:  
here Theseus wept, nor could he longer hide  
His private sorrow for his friend that died.   

38  
This is the Noble Theseus Aethraes' son,  
By King Egeus, that durst hell invade,  
In battle th' Amazonian Baldric won,  
And stout Hippolyte his Duchess made,  
Who when King Minos closed Pasiphaes' Son 
The lal or inth made to D●…alus.   
The Mynotaure in the Dedalian shade:  
He by her help, to whom she proved untrue, 
Look in the Skolly.   
Released the Tribute, and the Monster slew.   

39  
Eristheus, and the valiant Theban King,  
That knew the Prince Pirithous, much lament him,  
But with their tears the day began to spring,  
They wish the Fates a longer date had lent him,  
With kindled Lamps th'attendant Pages bring  
The Princes to their Cabins: He that sent him  
On this attempt, at parting they desire  
To bless their shores, whilst they the seas aspire.   

40  
Our thoughts must land them which their Trophies brought  
From ruin'd Troy, on several Coasts of Greece,  
Remembering jason, who with honour sought  
The famed adventure of the golden Fleece,  
Duke Aeson in this voyage spared nought,  
Many bold Knights well armed at every piece  
Assist the Noble Greek in this adventure,  
Off●…ng the Argo with the Prince to enter.   

41  
Duke Peleas gave it furtherance, to whose Court  
Where jason feasted, than Alcides came 
Peleas King of Thess●…ly, and Uncle to ●…son.   
With Philocletes, as his dear Consort,  
From strange adventures that Imblaze his fame,  
Disankring from the fair Thessalian Port,  
Accompanied with many Knights of fame:  
Castor and Pollux, bold Amphitrion,  
Amphion, Zetus, and stern Telamonius.   

42  
Amphion was a fair Harmonious Youth,  
Well skilled in Music, Zethus was his Brother, 
Am●…ion. Zethus.   
Begot by Cretan Ihove one happy night,  
Upon the fair Antiopa his Mother,  
She Lychus Wise, yet ravished with the sight  
Of jupiter, her love she could not smother:  
These her fair sons built Thebes, with large extent, 
Thebes.   
Two years before they on this voyage went.   

43  
With all the Grecian chivalry attended  
They disimbogue, the gentle B llowes smile,  
Th' Aegean Seas they pass, but late defended  
By the Grand Thief, that gave those Seas their style,  
No wind or wave their well-tiged ship offended,  
But the calm looking Thetis harbours guile:  
Her fawning front she wrinkles with a frown,  
A●…d thinks th'ambitious Argonants to drown.   

44  
At the black Evening close, the Sea looked white, 
A tempest.   
The storme-presaging Wave begins to swell,  
And blustering Eurus rising now at night  
With his flag Wings, upon the waters fell.  
The Master bids slack sail, but 'gainst the might,  
Of his commanded Mates, the winds rebel:  
The Boatswayne brals, the Mariners are chid,  
For what they would, the stubborn gusts forbid.   

45  
All fall to labour, one man helps to steer,  
Others to slacken the big bellied Sail,  
Some to the Cap-string call, some pray, some swear,  
Some let the Tackles slip, whilst others hale:  
Some cling unto the mainmast, and cleave there,  
Some chafe with anger, some with fear look pale:  
Some ply the Pomp (and that which would devour  
Their ship in time) Sea into Sea repoure.   

46  
Sharpe-b●…ting winter grows, and on each side  
The four sedit●…ous Brothers threaten war,  
and toss the Billows, who in scornful pride  
Spit foaming Brine, the winds with waters jar,  
The breaking seas, whose entrance were denied,  
Bea●…e 'gainst each Pitchy-rib and calked spar:  
and by their Oaken strength denied Intention,  
Fall where they were begot, to mere confusion.   

47  
Now as the shrieking Billows are divided,  
Low Valleys tween two mighty Mountains fall,  
From whose steep breasts the shaken vessaile slided,  
Burying in Sea, sails, Tackles, Masts, and all:  
But ●…here remains not long, the Bark well guided,  
Climbs up those cliffs, a dreadful watty wall:  
That to themselves, amazed with fear they show,  
Like men in th'air surveying hell below.   

48  
It seemed as if the Heavens and Seas had Wars,  
And that the one the other did defy,  
Twixt whom the mutinous winds make greater jars,  
Th'ambitious Billows seem to threat the sky,  
And fling their brine-waves in the face of Stars,  
Who therewith moved, melt all the Clouds on high,  
And such tempestuous showers of rain thaw down,  
As if their drops meant the vast Seas to drown.   

49  
The waters both of Heaven and Earth are mixed,  
Flagging their sails to make them brook no blast,  
No Lamp of heaven appears (wandering or fixed)  
Darkness hath o'er the face of both heavens past,  
And left his ugly blindness them betwixt,  
Whose horrid presence makes the greeks aghast:  
The heavens bright fire, the troubled Water braves,  
singeing with lightnings force the Gulfy waves.   

50  
Unto these Argonants I may compare  
Our Island-voyages, alike distressed, 
The Islands voyage.   
With whelming seas, thick Mists, and troubled air,  
Loud claps of Thunder: Lightning from the West,  
so dreadful, that their Pilots lose their care,  
Through fear, forgetting what should stead them best:  
The sea, to quench Heavens glorious Lamps aspyres,  
Heaven burns the Ocean with her lightning fires.   

51  
As brave a General Martiald our great Fleet,  
as that bold Greek that sought the fleece of Gold,  
hoping by sea an enemy to meet,  
Fiercer than jasons, and more warlike bold,  
Renowned Essex, at whose warlike feet  
Spain's countless spoils and Trophies have been told,  
Who from Hesperia brought to England's Greece,  
More Gold than would have weighed down jasons fleece.   

52  
Grim Terror with the greeks a shipboard lies  
All night: some weep, some rage, the boldest fear,  
Soliciting the Gods with Prayers and cries,  
Seeing their Fates and hopeless ruins near,  
They think on Fathers, Children, Wives, Allies,  
But whom they fain would see, they wish not there:  
Grim terror in the Morning forward sped,  
The Sun begins to wake, the tempest fled.   

53  
Who as from forth the Spanish Seas he raised  
His burnished locks, and 'bout his shoulders shook them,  
and (as his custom is) about him gazed  
To view fair Thetis bounds, and overlook them,  
He spies th'embarked greeks, with fear amazed,  
So sore the rough tumultuous Sea had took them:  
He sees their Pendants torn, their Sheets all rent,  
Their Hatches broken, and their mayne-mast spent.   

54  
Therefore he angry, Neptune doth entreat,  
as he would have him gild his silver streams,  
Or thaw his frozen Waters with his heat,  
Or cheer his cool Waves with his gorgeous beams,  
Th'adventurous greeks (his charge) not to defeat,  
But they may safe review their Native Realms:  
Neptune is pleased, his Trident calms the Seas,  
And grants them waftage to what coast they please.   

55  
Who entering th' Hellespont acquire some shore  
Where they may land, their Fortunes to repair,  
at Tenedos they touch (known long before  
By great Alcides, since he battayld there)  
Where great Laomedon the Sceptre bore,  
and to prevent like dangers threatening care,  
Re-builds his battered holds, and with supplies,  
Man's every Sea-skout, that adjacent lies.   

56  
These Garrisons, the Grecian Peers deny  
Relief or Anchorage, till the King's mind  
Be fully known: Who hears his foes so nigh  
That had so late his forces overthrown,  
Therefore enraged, he sends them to defy,  
And from his Coasts to get them quickly gone,  
Or 'mongst them all he'll leave no living Greek  
For golden Pillage on the seas to seek.   

57  
Undaunted Hercules at this offended,  
Swears (by his Father Ihove) Troyes second wrack,  
And with his Argonants had then descended  
maugre the King, but jason kept him back,  
Who being chief Commander, hath intended  
A golden coarse, the Colchons' first must sack,  
Therefore (though much against Alcides will)  
Put from that shore, the Conqueror threatens still.   

58  
Vowing if Fate afford him safe return,  
In whose adventure all the Peers unite,  
Troy's walls to batter, and their City burn,  
And be the King's eternal opposite,  
To whose disgrace Troy shall in ashes mourn,  
Th'ungrateful King be forced to death or flight,  
And all these lofty Towers, at his next Landing,  
Not have one stone upon another standing.   

59  
Resolved thus, they make to hoist up sail,  
Weigh Anchor, and their tackles hale and pull,  
Their lofty spleens 'gainst Troy they now avail,  
And only aim at the Phrixean wool,  
The God of winds affords them a calm gale,  
Making their wave-washt sheets show swelling full,  
Whose gentle Gusts the Grecian Heroës' bring 
Phasis a town in 〈◊〉 and a River: Medea.   
To Colchos, welcomed by the Phasian King.   

60  
At whose arrive, Medea jason viewing,  
Oh heaven (quoth she,) what passion's this I feel?  
Shall yond fair Grecian youth his fame pursuing,  
Die by enchanted fire, or tempered steel?  
Oh save thy fame (by this attempt eschewing)  
Thy arm wants power to make the Dragon reel:  
Thy amorous hand (alas) too soft and white,  
with Brasse-hooued Bulls (that breath out fire) to fight.   

61  
More fitter 'twere a Lady to embrace,  
T'imprison beauty in a crystal fold,  
Oh why should one that hath so sweet a face,  
(Made to be loved and love) seek acts so bold?  
Too venturous Greek, for loves sake leave this place,  
Thou know'st not what thou seek'st, the fleece of Gold  
A royal prize it is, yet amorous stranger,  
It hath not worth to countervail the danger.   

62  
For the least blood shall drop down by thy skin,  
Or in the combat stain the Colchian grass,  
Is of more worth than all that thou canst win,  
Yet doth the riches of this Fleece surpass:  
But stay: What blind maze am I entered in?  
What loving labyrinth? Forgetful Lass:  
Oh canst thou to a stranger's grace appeal,  
Who comes from far, thy Father's fleece to steal?   

63  
This jason is our foe: dwells in a Land  
Remote, and of another Clime indeed,  
If thou wilt love, about thee Princes stand  
Of thine own Nation, let this stranger bleed,  
Despise him then, and all his foreign band,  
That in thy Father's pillage have agreed:  
Instead of love, the amorous Greek defy,  
And by th'enchanted Monsters let him die.   

64  
But shall Medea view that Tragic sight?  
And see his fair limbs by her Monsters rend?  
Shall his white fingers with grim Hellhounds sight,  
That might Medea in her love content?  
Apollo may I never taste thy light,  
Partake thy earthly rise, or low descent,  
But by my Art I shall so well provide,  
To be the Gold-Fleece-conquering jasons Bride.   

65  
But how Medea? Wilt thou then forsake  
Thy Country, Father, Friends: All which are great,  
and (to thy Lord) a roving Pirate take,  
One that perchance hath no abiding seat?  
Fond Girl thou wrong'st him these faint doubts to make  
A Royal Prince and in all acts complete,  
Thy Country, Father, Friends, trifles but small,  
And this one warlike jason worth them all.   

66  
That he is lovely; witnesseth mine eye,  
And valiant: what can better record bear  
Then this attempt, whose fame to heaven will fly,  
T'amaze the Gods that shall this Novel hear,  
I leave a barren kingdom, to descry  
A populous Nation, what then should I fear?  
In seeking with this amorous Greek to dwell,  
I ask Elisum, in exchange for Hell.   

67  
A Land, where if his people him resemble  
Humanity, and all good Thews are rife,  
Who if they love their Lord, cannot dissemble  
Their hearts to her that shall safeguard his life,  
Th'enchanted Bulls whose bellowing made heaven tremble,  
Shall by their ruins make me jasons wife,  
Whom all the fair and potent Queens of Greece,  
Shall better welcome than the conquered Fleece.   

68  
Opinioned thus; at their next interview,  
(After their divers oaths between them past)  
That he the famed adventure shall pursue;  
Whose conquests with enchantments she binds fast,  
And when his hands these monsters shall embrew,  
He to receive her as his Bride at last:  
Night passeth on, at the next birth of day,  
Aurora frights the Feare●…ll Stars away.   

66  
Much confluence of people throng together, 
Dionis. Milesius.   
In the large field of Mars they take their places,  
The Princes of the Land in Scarf and Feather  
And Triumph robes, expect the greeks disgraces,  
The burdened earth groans with spectators: whether  
The King himself martiald with golden Maces  
In person comes, his Ba●…ns him invest  
In a high Throne, degr●…d above the rest.   

70  
To such prepared joys the Frenchmen came,  
To see the valiant Mount-morensi run, 
Charles Bran●…on Duke of Suffolk.   
against Charles Brandon, who for England's fame,  
Vanquished their Knight, at which their joy was done,  
The French, who to disgrace the English came,  
Saw how bold Charles at one encounter won  
Their Champion's arms, the French Qu. to his pheer,  
Which changed their promised mirth to sadder cheer.   

71  
Behold where Polymelaes' son undaunted, 
jason son to E●…on and Po●…nela.   
against the brazen-hoofed Beasts appears,  
How (richly armed) his sword aloft he vaunted,  
T'encounter with the two infernal steers,  
Who as he strikes, still breathes out words enchanted, 
Antimachus 〈◊〉. 3. 〈◊〉.   
The Grecians stand amazed, Medea fears  
To see young jason Lord of her desire,  
Betwixt two Bulls, their Nostrils breathing fire.   

72  
And lest her Incantatious force might fail,  
She mumbles to herself more powerful charms,  
Still doth the dreadless Greek those Bulls assail,  
ready to scorch him in his twice-guilt arms,  
His sharp edged sword their horned crests makes vail,  
That fire that scaldeth others, him scarce warms,  
(Such power hath Magic) the fell Bulls grow tame,  
And jason tugs with them amidst the flame.   

73  
And first he by the dangling dew-laps takes them,  
Who force perforce his valour must obey,  
He twixt his sinnowy arms together shakes them,  
They bellowing yield themselves his glorious prey,  
To bow their stubborn neck, bold jason makes them,  
On which th'obedient yoke he gently lay,  
The greeks applaud his conquest with shrill cries,  
The Colchians show their sorrows in their eyes.   

74  
But all's not furnished yet, he makes them draw  
The teemed plough, to furrow up his field,  
The rusty iron doth the green verdure flaw,  
Quite vanquished now, the conqu●…d Oxen yield,  
Yet more than this the Colchian Princes saw,  
The Viper's teeth he cast upon his shield,  
And sowed them in the furrows: they strait grew,  
To armed men, and all on jason flew.   

75  
The greeks dismay, th'encouraged Colchians shout,  
Only Medea doth their joy detest,  
With magic she assists her Champion stout,  
Her Exorcisms have power to arm his breast,  
Those that but late encompassed him about,  
And with their steel struck Stars out of his Crest,  
Seek mutual arms, amongst themselves they brawl,  
So by seditious weapons perish all.   

76  
It now remains the three-tongued venomous Snake,  
The River-waking-serpent to make sleep,  
Whose horrid crest, blue scales, and ounces black,  
Threat every one a death (unto his keep  
The Fleece is put) Medea bids him take  
Grass in black Lethe, laid three nights to steep,  
Uttering such powerful charms as calm the winds, 
Apolon. lib. 3.   
And the moved Billows in their Channel binds.   

77  
Those drops being spinkled on the Dragon's head,  
The words thrice spoke (the wakeful Serpent lies)  
Drowned in forgetful slumbers, seeming dead,  
and sleep (till now not known) seals up his eyes,  
jason in safety may the Mansion tread  
Where Colchos long preserved the golden prize,  
and now at length fair Polimelaes' son,  
Enjoys the Fleece that he with danger won.   

78  
Proud of this purchase, but of her more glad,  
That by the Virtue of a powerful word,  
More hy command upon these Monsters had,  
Then he in use of his remorseless sword,  
Unto his Argo he Medea Lad  
Commanding all his merry mates aboard  
But secretly, lest when King Aeta knew,  
his daughter's rape, he might her flight pursue.   

79  
Which to prevent the Negerous Lady takes  
The young Absyrtes, a fair hopeful youth, 
Absyrtus Brother to Medea Strabo lib. 7.   
And when her father after jason makes,  
And with rough fury her escape pursuth,  
She chaps the Lads limbs into bits and flakes,  
and in the King's way strews him without ruth, 
Atusilaus. Ph●…cides lib 7   
And whilst he gathers up with watery eyes  
His piece-meal body, she in safety flies.   

80  
With triumphs they in Greece are welcomed all, 
Timaut 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
And jason famous for his royal Quest,  
The Bed red Father will his son install  
In his own kingdom, and with him his guest  
Deepe-speld-Medea, at whose Magic call  
The Seas and winds, or travel, or find rest:  
Oh Magic, by thy power what cannot they,  
To whom the Seas submit, the winds obey?   

81  
Amongst those Princes that with jason went,  
and were at home received, the great Alcide  
amidst this general joy seems discontent,  
His spleen to Troy he can no longer hide,  
To be revenged he holds his firm intent,  
He that to their distress relief denied,  
Must know whatt'is to scorn his firm alliance,  
So through all Greece he breathes 'gainst Troy defiance.   

82  
And with a gallant army taking Land,  
attains the shore perforce, and in his way,  
No Village, n, Town, or Tower can stand,  
But to his ruthless fury must give way:  
This hearing, King Laomedon hath manned  
a Noble army, to make good the day:  
Which ere the Sun into the West-sea fall,  
Must see ten thousand Troyans' killed and thrall.   

83  
Laomedon remembering what great wrack  
Twelue-labord Hercules before time made,  
Recounts to them his wrongs, his cities sack,  
Their tyrannies to all whom they invade,  
Therefore incites them to repulse those back,  
That have too long upon his confines stayed:  
Behold (quoth he) these would your freedoms bar,  
Then with a general shout prepare for war.   

84  
The host of greeks that hear their exclamation,  
Wait but to hear Alcides' watchword given,  
Who cheers them thus: You are that warlike Nation  
Whose fame fills all the Climates under heaven,  
Sinc●… you are strangers, let your salutations  
Be with your swords, not words; for yet ere Even  
You standing host in their own bloods we'll drown,  
And part the rich spoil of yond rampired Town.   

85  
Lowd cheering Instruments on both sides sound,  
The battles join, both greeks and Troyans' sink:  
They that but late the firm Earth proudly bound,  
Now must below the waves of Lethe drink,  
The great Alcides borne to sway the ground,  
Against his strength opposed, all mortals shrink:  
Who being more than man, must needs have odds.  
To fight with any that are less than Gods.   

86  
Him whom th'all-dooming Fates will have to sway,  
How can Laomedon in arms subdue,  
Though Troy be strong, yet must it Greece obey,  
Alcides with his Club whole thousands slew,  
By his sole-strength the greeks obtain the day,  
And to the City gates the foe pursue,  
Who mingled with their troops, in this adventure,  
Slaughter the bold, and with the Cowards enter.   

87  
So by the English was great Cales suprisd 
Cales.   
And entered, with the Spaniards that retire,  
they that at first the generals name despised,  
Now at the last are forced his fame t'admire,  
English and Dutch in Spanish wealth disguised, 
Cales twice taken once by Sir Francis Drake, since by the Earl of Essex.   
Laden their fleet with pillage, whilst bright fire  
Consumes the Town, which twice the English take,  
As Greece did Troy, great Essex and bold Drake.   

88  
Stout Ajax Telamonius amongst the rest,  
Set his first foot in Troy, but him succeed  
Ten thousand Greeks, and many a warlike breast,  
Pierced with the Argive weapons, freshly bleed:  
They sack the populous Town from East to West,  
Troy's second sack is by the Fates decreed:  
They sack and ransack, spoil, and freely kill,  
And all the Town with shrieks and clamours fill.   

89  
Amongst the rest that perished in this broil,  
Laomedon falls by Alcides' hand,  
Whilst every where the conquering Grecians spoil,  
No man so bold that dares against them stand,  
Great is the booty in so rich a soil,  
They pillage all the substance of the land,  
Beat down the walls, the Temples ruin quite,  
And kill poor infants in their mother's sight.   

90  
The Matrons in their husband's arms deflow●…,  
The reverent Virgins in their parent's eye,  
And such as interdict their awful power,  
By their remorseless bloody weapons die,  
High looking Troy is ruined in an hour,  
Those Towers quite racst, whose sharp spires mocked the sky  
and that proud town the Asian glory ones,  
Is now a confused heap of men and stones.   

91  
Al-conquering Hercules revenged at last  
Of Troy's ingrateful Sovereign, takes full ceasure  
Of Asia's Monarchy: his fury past,  
amongst his host he parts the cities treasure,  
But Telamonus Ajax most he graced,  
and gave him her that pleased him above measure,  
The bright Hesione his valour's meed,  
The beauteous Virgin from the sea-Whale freed.   

92  
Well was it for young Priam the King's son, 
Hercules Lybicus   
That he was elsewhere in the East employed,  
The Lybian else that Asia over-ronne  
and conquered Troy, had likewise him destroyed,  
Th●… laden greeks after the conquest won,  
Are fraught with wealth, with pleasure overjoyed:  
Poor Troy, whilst they in their full mi●…h abound,  
lives desolate, and leveled with the ground.   

93  
The Monster-master having filled the sky  
With martial clangor in the loudest strain,  
After revenge on Cacus Tyranny,  
and the great Giants of Cremona slain,  
King Pricus death, King Affer raised high,  
And the two Collumnes that he reared in Spain,  
To include in few his many deeds; we thus  
In narrow room, his labours twelve discuss.   

94  
1. The Eremanthion Boar, 2. and the fire-breathing Bul, 
The 12 labours of Hercules.   
3. The Lernan Hydra. 4, and the winged Hind,  
5. Stymphalidus. 6. The Amazonian trull:  
7. Th' Aegean stables, the seventh task assind,  
8. The Cleonean Lyon. 9 with the skull  
Of Diomedes, who fed his Steeds 'gainst kind:  
10. The golden fruit made ripe by bright Heperion,  
11. Grim Cerbarus, 12. and triple-headed Geryon.   

95  
These tasks by juno's imposition ended,  
Whilst he on Ictes attractive face  
Doted, and her deserts alone commended,  
Fair Deyaneyr imputes it her disgrace,  
With such great wrongs unto her bed offended,  
Because his vassal had supplied her place.  
She sends a shirt, (and means her husband good)  
Dipped in the poison of the centaurs blood.   

96  
The traitor Nessus passing a deep ford  
With Deianeyre, away with her he flies,  
Alcides cannot reach him with his sword,  
But after him his wounding arrow hies,  
The dying Centaur speaks this latest word,  
Fair Deiancyre, before death close mine eyes,  
Receive a gift, in sign I loved thee dearly,  
Which though I die, in time may stead thee nearly.   

97  
I know thy Lord a Conqueror, yet subdued  
By women's beauty: therefore when you find,  
The lustful Prince 'mongst Foreign Queens intrude,  
and that their amorous Courtships change his mind,  
Send him a Shirt, with this my blood Imbrued,  
The virtue is, to make Alcides' kind:  
This said, his life he ended in a trice,  
She (for it was his last) trusts his advise.   

98  
Hearing fair jole the heart had seized  
Of her dear Lord, and that she kept away,  
She feels her thoughts within themselves diseased,  
and hopes to call him back that went astray,  
The centaurs dying gift the Lady pleased,  
Her servant Lichas posts it without stay:  
Oh! Thou weak woman, thou his death mayst vaunt,  
Whom Hellhounds, Giants, Monsters, could not daunt.   

99  
Hoping (alas) his favour to regain,  
The Innocent Lady her dear Lord destroyed,  
He d'ons her present, whose envenomed Bane  
Cleaves to his bones (Oh! Who can Fate avoid?)  
More than a man before he would complain  
Alcides bears, and no whit seems annoyed:  
Such tortures as the strongest might strike dead  
he brooks: yet no part of his colour fled.   

100  
But when he felt such Tortures, anguish, smart,  
That Gods above, nor Devils dammed could bear,  
That stung his breast, and pierced his Noble heart,  
he grows Impatient, that could never fear  
Infernal pangs, Infused in every part,  
he strives the poisonous Shirt away to tear:  
But with the cleaving Linens forced to draw  
The Brawns from off his arms, and leave them raw.   

101  
The poisoned boils, and he that could confound  
Giants, so late to his immortal fame,  
Now from the head to heel, is all one wound,  
The raging venom-drops his flesh inflame,  
Sometimes he grovels on the sencele●…e ground,  
Sometimes those powerful hands that Monsters tame,  
plucks down huge rocks, & cleaves them with his strokes  
And sometimes by the roots rends up huge Oaks.   

102  
Mad with these Torments Oeta Mount he traces,  
Where creeping in a hole he Lichas spies,  
When stalking to his Cave with leasurd paces,  
About his head he wheels him in the skies,  
And that being done the whole Mount he defaces,  
A grove of Trees despoiled about him lies,  
A thousand Oaks he heaps up on a pile,  
And kindling th●…m, says with a f●…ornfull smile,   

103  
Whom neither juno's wrath, nor Pluto's hell,  
Whom neither Lions, Bulls, Dogs, Dragons, Whales,  
Whom neither Tyrant's grim, nor Giants ●…ell,  
against that spirit a woman's gift prevails,  
Her jealousy hath power that heart to quell,  
Whom Serpents fear with their ●…uenomed scales,  
Since none on earth deserves our blood to spill,  
The great Alcides shall Alcides kill.   

104  
The fire burns bright, he Philocletes calls,  
And unto him bequeathes his shafts and bow,  
Who at his warlike f●…et confounded falls,  
The Club and lions case his bold hands throw  
Into the flame, than he whom noughts appalls,  
Cries Ihove I come, and boldly leaps in so: 
The death of 〈◊〉.   
That life that mortal did the heavens aspire,  
Now with Immortal wings climbs heaven by fire.   

105  
Alcides dead, and Priam back returned  
From his successful Battles in the East,  
He sees his Country spoiled, his City burnt,  
His Father slain, which most his grief increased,  
These losses with his Sister's rape he mourned,  
Nor are such weighty sorrows soon surceased:  
we for a while will leave him to his care,  
His Sire t'intoombe, his City to repair.   
MEdea some think to be the daughter of Eta, some the daughter of the Sun, some the Daughter of Hecare. Apollod lib. 3. Calls her Aeea. Heraclides writes her 
Eripid, in Med 〈◊〉. Andron Teius. 〈◊〉. Epist.  to be the daughter of Neaera of the Nereids: Dionysius Milesius, calls her the daughter of Eurelytes, others of Ipsaea, & that Chalciope was her sister. She had a son called Medus by Aegeas. Demodocus a Harper's name in Homer, of whom the Country Medea took name.  
jopas a King of Africa, one of Dido's wooers, a skilful 
Cithara canitus 〈◊〉. per 〈◊〉 Aurata 〈◊〉 quae maximus Atlas. 〈◊〉 canit errā tem Lunam 〈◊〉 labores. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 et pecuder unde imber et Ignes. S. 〈◊〉. Timonax in rebus 〈◊〉.  Musician, jason committed to the charge of his Uncle Pelius, in his minority, because Pelus was loath to resign to him his kingdom, devised for his Nephew the dangerous enterprise of the golden Fleece, which jason contrary to his uncles supposition, with his Argonants valiantly achieved.  
In memory of Absyrtus, there are still certain Islands in the Venetian Sea, called Absyrtides of Absyrtus, there slain by his sister Medea.  
Phrixus was son to Athamas, and Brother to Helles, of whom the Ram that bore the golden fleece, was named Phrixeus: Helle with her Brother Phrixus was drowned. Of whom that Sea is still called Hellespontus.  
Because we only remember 〈◊〉 and the Mynotaur, and have no further Traffic in our History with his life, I hold it not much amiss in these Annoaations, to remember, that History, and how the Mynotaure was begot: Ovid arte Amandi.  

Ida of Cedars and tall Trees stand full, 
Pasiphae.   
Where fed the glory of the Herd (a Bull  
Snow-white) save twixt his horns one spot there grew,  
Save that one stain, he was of milky hue.  
This fair steer did the Heifers of the Groves  
Desire to bear as Prince of all the Droves,  
But most Pasiphae with adulterous breath,  
Envies the wanton Heifers to the death,  
'tis said that for this Bull the doting lass  
Did use to crop young boughs, and mow fresh grass,  
Nor was the Amorous Cretan Queen afeard  
To grow a kind Companion to the Herd:  
Thus through the Champion she is madly borne  
And a wild Bull, to Minos gives the horn,  
'tis not for by avery he can love or loathe thee,  
Then why Pasiphae dost thou richly cloth thee?  
Why shouldst thou thus thy face a●…d looks prepare?  
What makest thou with thy glass ordering thy hair?  
Unless thy glass could make thee seem a Cow,  
But how can horns grow on that tender brow?  
If Minos please thee, no Adulterer seek thee,  
Or if thy husband Minos do not leek thee,  
but thy la ●…ciutous thoughts are still increased,  
Deceive him with a man, not with a beast:  
Thus by the Queen the wild Woods are frequented,  
And leaving the King's bed, she is contented  
To use the groves, borne by the rage of mind,  
Even as a ship with a full Eastern wind:  
Some of these strumpet-Heyfers the Queen slew,  
Their smoking Altars their warm bloods embrew,  
Whilst by the sacrificing Priest she stands,  
And gripes their trembling entrails in her hands. 
Zezes' histors 19   
At length, the Captain of the Herd beguiled  
With a cows skin, by curious Art compild,  
The longing Queen obtains her full desire,  
And in her infant's birth bewrays the Sire.   

This Mynotaure, when he came to groat, was enclosed in  
the Labyrinth, which was made by the curious Arts-maister  
Dedalus, whose Tale likewise we thus pursue:  
When Dedalus the labyrinth had built,  
In which t'include the Queen Pasiphaes' guilt,  
And that the time was now expired full,  
To enclose the Mynotaure, half man, half Bull: 
Dedalus and Icarus.   
Kneeling he says, Just Minos end my moans,  
And let my Native soil entomb my bones:  
Or if dread sovereign I deserve no grace,  
Look with a piteous eye on my sons face, 
Ovid 2. de arte Amandi.   
And grant me leave from whence we are exiled,  
Or pity me, if you d●…ny my Child:  
This and much more he speaks, but all in vain,  
The King both Son and Father will detain,  
Which he perceiving says: Now, now, tisfit,  
To give the world cause to admire thy wit,  
Both Land and Sea, are watched by day and night,  
Nor Land nor Sea lie open to our flight:  
Only the Air remains, then let us try  
To cut a passage through the air and fly,  
Ihove be auspicious to my enterprise,  
I covet not to mount above the skies:  
But make this refuge, since I can prepare  
No means to fly my Lord, but through the air,  
Make me immortal, bring me to the brim  
Of the black Stygian Water, Styx I'll swim:  
Oh human, wit thou, canst invent much ill?  
Thou searchest strange Arts, who would think by skill.  
A heavy man, like a light Bird should stray,  
And through the empty Heavens find a fit way.  
He placeth in just order all his Quills,  
Whose bottoms with resolved wax he fills,  
Then binds them with a line, and being fast tied,  
He placeth them like Oars on either side,  
The tender Lad the downy Feathers blue,  
And what his Father meant, he nothing knew:  
The wax he fastened with the strings he played,  
Not thinking for his shoulders they were made,  
To whom his Father spoke (and then looked pale)  
With these swift Ships, we to our Land must sail:  
All passages doth cruel Minos stop,  
Only the empty air he stills leaves open.  
That way must we, the Land, and the rough deep  
Doth Minos bar: the air he cannot keep,  
But in thy way beware thou set no eye  
On the sign Virgo, nor Bootes' high:  
Look not the black Orion in the face  
That shakes his Sword, but just with me keep pace.  
Thy wings are now in fastening, follow me,  
I will before thee fly, as thou shalt see  
Thy Father mount, or stoop, so I aread thee,  
Take me thy Guard, and safely I will lead thee:  
If we should soar to near great Phoebus' seat,  
The melting Wax will not endure the heat,  
Or if we fly to near the Humid Seas,  
Our moistened wings we cannot shake with ease.  
Fly between both, and with the gusts that rise,  
Let thy light body sail amidst the skies,  
And ever as his little son he charms,  
He sits the feathers to his tender Arms:  
And shows him how to move his body light,  
As Birds first teach their little young ones flight:  
By this he calls to Counsel all his wits,  
And his own wings unto his shoulders fits,  
Being about to rise, he fearful quakes,  
and in this new way his faint body shakes:  
First ere he took his flight, he kissed his son,  
Whilst by his cheeks the brinish waters run:  
There was a Hillock not so towering tall  
As lofty Mountains be, nor yet so small  
To be with Valleys even, and yet a hill,  
From this thus both attempt their uncoath skill:  
The Father moves his wings, and with respect  
His eyes upon his wandering son reflect:  
They bear a spacious course, and the apt boy  
Fearless of harm, in his new tract doth joy,  
and flies more boldly: Now upon them looks  
The Fishermen, that angle in the brooks,  
and with their eyes cast upward, frighted stand,  
By this is Samos Isle on their left hand,  
Upon the right Lebinthos they for sake,  
Astipalen and the Fishy Lake,  
Shady Pachime full of Woods and Groves,  
When the rash youth too bold in venturing, roves;  
Loseth his guide, and takes his flight so high,  
That the soft wax against the Sun doth fry,  
and the Cords slip that kept the Feathers fast  
So that his arms have power upon no blast:  
He fearfully from the high clouds looks down  
Upon the lower heavens, whose curled waves frown  
at his ambitious height, and from the skies  
He sees black night and death before his eyes,  
Still melts the wax, his naked arms he shakes,  
and thinking to catch hold, no hold he takes:  
But now the naked Lad down headlong falls,  
And by the way, he Father, Father, calls:  
Help, Father help, I die, and as he speaks,  
A violent surge his course of language breaks.  
Th'unhappy Father, but no Father now,  
Cries out aloud, Son Icarus where art thou?  
Where art thou Icarus, where dost thou fly?  
Icarus where art? When lo he may espy  
The feathers swim, aloud he doth exclaim,  
The earth his bones the Sea still bears his name.   
But lest we in●…st too much on these impertinent tales, we will proceed in our proposed History.  
The end of the seventh CANTO.   

Argumentum  
THE twice sacked Troy with all abundance flows,  
Her walls mlarged, her spacious bounds augmented,  
Fortune on Priam all her favour strews,  
Her populous streets from all parts are frequented,  
Proud of his sons, the King impatient grows,  
And with all Greece for wrongs past, discontented:  
Warlike Anthenot by Embassage seeks,  
To have the King's fair Sister from the Greeks  
ARG. 2.  
THe worth of Poets. Who first weapons found,  
Troy & the Troyans', Theta makes her ground  
CANTO. 8.  

1  
Fair Poesy, both ancient and Divine,  
Tell me thy true Divinity and age,  
Emmius oft calls thee Sacred, thou didst shine  
In Moses days, a Prophet wise and Sage,  
Who sang sweet Hymns composed in measured line,  
To great jehova. Oft David did assuage  
His melancholy cares in many an Oade,  
Tuned to the praises of th'almighty God.   

2  
A sweeter verse then good Isaias wrote,  
Or Solomon in his divinest song,  
For Number, Accent, Euphony or note  
Were never set with pen, or aired with tongue,  
Greek Pindarus, whose metres made men dote,  
Nor Sappho vain so Musically strong,  
Could in their fluent Verse, or sweet invention,  
Better delight the ravished ears attention.   

3  
The rising and soft Cadens of a verse,  
In Deutronomium lively is expressed,  
He that shall David's Haebrew Psalms rehearse,  
Shall find true number in his words professed,  
Not Orpheus, Horace line could sooner pierce  
Th'enchanted brain: not Homer whom so me guessed  
To be chief Poet, this approves it holy,  
Not as some hold derived from Apish folly.   

4  
In verse Hexamiter did Moses praise  
The heavens Creator (through the red sea flying,) 
S. Hi●…roms.   
Archilochus iambics first 'gan raise,  
Apollo meetred Verse, all Prose denying,  
Daphne the son of Mercury assays  
The Elegeick verse (soon after dying,)  
Thespis: Quintilian Tragedies devisd,  
Which Sophocles soon after enterprised.   

5  
A Poem is the richest Monument,  
And only lives when Marble tombs decay,  
Showing Kings deeds, their merit, and descent,  
Notstabed by time, whom sepulchres obey,  
Thou proud Achilles with thy great ostent,  
Where stands thy Monumental grave this day:  
Toome-makers die disgraced, than Homer trust,  
By whom thy fame lives, now thy grave is dust.   

6  
By Poem Troy's name is preserved from fire,  
Which else long since had perished with the town,  
Who in these days would for her fame inquire?  
Had not divine wits Chronicled her down,  
Those flames that eat her buildings with like Ire,  
Had burnt her Name, and swallowed her renown:  
But Poësy apt all such things to save,  
Redeems her glory from oblivions grave.   

7  
Poets are Makers, had great Homer pleased  
Penelop had been wanton, Helen chaste,  
The Spartan King the mutinous host appeased,  
And smooth Ulysses with the horn disgraced,  
Thersites had the Imperial Sceptre seized,  
And Agamemnon in his rank been placed:  
Oh! Homer, 'twas in thee Troy to subdue,  
Thy pen, not Greece; the Trojans overthrew.   

8  
Achilles, durst not look on Hector when  
He gulled his Silver arms in Greekish blood,  
Homer that loved him more than other men,  
Gave him such heart, that he 'gainst Hector stood,  
'twas not Achilles' sword, but Homer's pen  
That drew from Hector's breast a Crimson-flood:  
Hector his Myrindons, and him subdued,  
In such hye-blood faint hands were not imbrued.   

9  
'twas Poesy that made Achilles bold,  
Stout Ajax, valiant, and Ulysses wise,  
By Homer's gift the great Alcide controlled  
The host of greeks: all such as highly prize  
The sacred Muse, their Names are writ in gold,  
Thersites was well featured, but denies  
The Muse her honour, therefore to his shame,  
The Muse hath made him Stigmatic and lame.   

10  
This made great Scipio Affricanus bring  
Dead Ennius from the rude Portuguese Coast, 
Pompey gave Theoptanes a City.   
placing his statuë, that his praise did sing,  
In Rome's high Capitol, who now can boast  
Of such rich meed, worthy the greatest King?  
So Pompey guerdoned learning to his cost:  
And gave a large Town rounded with a Wall,  
And thought it for the Muse a gift to small.   

11  
Art thou a Tyrant? to thy service take,  
Some heliconian Scholar, whose fine quill  
To after times thy reign, may gentle make,  
And give them life, whom thou in rage didst kill?  
Art thou a Usurer? Wilt thou not forsake  
A hundred for a hundred? Learn this skill:  
To some one fluent Poet pension give,  
And he shall make thy famous bounty live.   

12  
Had Thais favoured Arts, the Arts had raised her,  
and made her chaste as Fair: This Lucrece knew, 
Thais a Courtesan of Ath●…nt.   
Because she loved the Muse, the Muse hath praised her,  
Lending the knife, with which herself she slew:  
Who Lais can accuse? Though fame hath blazed her  
For wanton? who can say report is true? 
Lais a Courtesan of Corinth   
Haply though chaste, all Poets she eschews,  
And now lives only famous 'mongst the Stews.   

13  
Art thou a Coward? Exhibitions lend  
To Scholars that shall make thee venturous bold;  
Art thou a Glutton? Make the Muse thy friend?  
Or a loose Lecher? Give thy Poet Gold,  
he'll clear thy Fame, and give thy scandal end,  
He can redeem renown, to ruin sold,  
Make Ryoters frugal, the dull blind to see,  
The Drunkard temperate, and the Covetous free.   

14  
Th'ambitious meek, the Lofty minded low,  
Th'inconstant stable, and the Rough, remiss;  
Women that your defective humours know,  
Are likewise by your bounty helped in this,  
Some special grace unto the Muse's show,  
That have the power t'inthrone your names in bliss:  
Had fair faced Helen this opinion cherished,  
Overwhelmed Troy, had not for her sake perished.   

15  
They can make wantoness Civil, the Fool wise,  
The stooping Strait, the Tawny coloured fair,  
The merry, Modest, and the Loose, precise,  
and change the colour both offace and hair,  
All your Mercurial mixtures then despise,  
For your vermilion tinctures take no care:  
What need you far for coloured unctions seek,  
When our black Ink can better paint thy cheek.   

16  
Some of this Artful colour now I want,  
Which from the Muses I desire to borrow,  
In Melancholy Priam to dispaint  
The perfect Image and true face of Sorrow,  
At sight of ruined Troy his spirits faint,  
Yet after gathers strength, and on the morrow  
Resolves himself with bootless cares to strive,  
To inter the dead, and cheer those that survive.   

17  
In process, taking truce with all Vexation,  
Priam intends a fairer Troy to rear  
Of larger bounds, so lays a firm foundation  
So strong, that being mounted they need fear  
Nor Phoebus' wrath, nor Neptune's Inundation,  
Nor any other bordering Neighbour near:  
His Town repayrd, King Priam in small space,  
Takes to his Wife a Princess, borne in Thrace.   

18  
Great Aegipseus Daughter, Hecuba  
Proves Mother of five Sons, the first in Row 
Aegipseus King of Thrace. Hecuba's Issue.   
Hector, the boldest Knight in Asia,  
Paris the fairest, expert in the bow,  
Then Deiphobus, named by Phoebus' ray,  
Helemus taught all hidden Arts to know:  
Bold Troilus youngest of his Mother's store,  
Hath Bastard-Brothers five and forty more.   

19  
Some think young Polidore from her descended,  
And Ganymede that stands in Aebes place,  
Her Eldest Girl Creusa, much commended  
Matched with Aeneas, of a Noble race,  
Whose puissance next: Priam most extended  
Then sweet Cassandra, one of regal grace,  
A Prophetess: but Polyxena surpassed,  
Fairest of all the world, and Hee●…bs last.   

20  
But now since Arms, and Battles, Swords, & Spears,  
With other warlike Engines we must use,  
Before Troy's rich abundance touch our ears,  
With some delay we must restrain our Muse,  
To show what people the first Armour bears  
And who they were first broke the general Truce:  
In the first age, erae men keen weapons knew,  
They fought with naked fists, but no man slew.   

21  
Some say, the Thracian Mars first Armour brought, 
Diodorus.   
Others, that Pallas was of wars the ground, 
Tully.   
Others, that Tubal-Cayne for weapons sought, 
Ihosephus.   
And taught the way how to defend and wound,  
Most think Lame Vulcan on the Styth first wrought 
Homer.   
Helmets, Swords, Spears, the Lacedaemon's found:  
The Haberion Midias, Messenius filled,  
javelins and Darts Aetolus first compiled, 
A●…tolus Son to Mars.    

22  
Yet were not Soldiers armed at every Piece, 
Herodotus.   
Some think th' Egyptians flourished in this trade,  
And Helmets and bright Salads brought to Greece,  
leg-harness by the Carians was first made, 
Polidor,   
These jason used in Conquest of the fleece,  
Great Fuluius Flachus justings Spears assayed:  
At Capua first, by old Tyrhenus framed, 
Plutarch.   
For the brown Bill, the Thracian was first named.   

23  
Pyses the hunting Staff, the warlike Queen  
Penthesilea, taught the Pollax-fight,  
Crossbows were first among the Cretans seen,  
Quartyes and Bolts the Syrians bring to sight,  
The ever-bold Phenetians furnished been 
Dares. The first that was seen to use the snield.   
With Brakes and Slings to Chronicle their might:  
In lists appointed, in the Argive fields,  
Acrisius and bold Pretus fought with shields.   

24  
Epeus at Troy's siege the Ram devised,  
The Tortoise City walls to undermine,  
Artemon Clazemonius enterprised  
Bellerephon, to imitate the sign  
Caldoro Sagitarius, Footmanship despised, 
Peletronians a nation of Thessaly.   
And backed the jennet: after some Divine:  
Bridles, Bits, Trappings, to adorn a Steed,  
Served first the Peletronians warlike speed.   

25  
But of all Hellish Engines, he whose brain  
By Devilish practice first devisd the Gun,  
The world shall universally complain  
A general murder, by that, Almain done,  
By which the strong men are by Weaklings slain,  
By him hath many a Mother lost her Son: 
Machevil history Flore●…tina.   
This Hellborn Art, sinceby the Devil must  
Venice against the Genoes' practice first.   

26  
Of Priam now, and of his royal seed, 
Priam:   
Their fashions, and their features Dares writes,  
The aged King of puissance in his deed,  
And in his prime-age expert in all fights:  
Tall, but well shaped, Mounted on his Steed,  
In Horsemanship excelling all his Knights:  
Grisled his heir, grey-eyde, Beard full and long,  
Soft voy'st, his limbs, though slender, rare and strong.   

27  
In enterprises dreadless: early rising,  
Eating betimes, with Music highly pleased,  
Not rash to execute, but with advising,  
Sound in his body, and no way diseased,  
Upright in sentence, flattery despising,  
Apt to be angry, and as soon appeased:  
Even to the last, in arms his body proving,  
Amorous of Ladies, and Soldiers dearly loving.   

28  
Hector the eldest of King Priam's race, 
Hector.   
Past in his puissance all Knights of that age,  
An able body, and a pleasant face,  
Affable, and not much inclined to rage,  
Big-limbed, but featured well, which added grace  
To his proportion, young, but gravely sage:  
His flesh tough-hard, but white, his blue veins eyrie,  
His quick eye fiery bright: his skin much heyry.   

29  
His head short curled: his beard an aburne brown,  
His pleasant Language lisping, but not loud,  
(Save in the wars) he was not seen to frown,  
Save to his Gods and King, he never bowed,  
In field a Lion, but a Lamb in town,  
Strong without equal, but in Arms not proud,  
Was never known to speak felonious word,  
Or but against Troy's foes to use a sword.   

30  
Adventurous bold, but with discreet advice,  
Patient of travel, with no labour tired,  
In the Pannonian wars he triumphed thrice,  
And more the Tent, than walled town desired,  
Oft hath his pillow been a Cave of Ice,  
Oft hath his sword his foe's Cask proudly fird  
To warm him by, when he before app●…ard  
With Icicles low hanging at his beard.   

31  
Forth of Troy's gates near issued man so strong,  
So double virtue, Chivalrous and mild,  
Or better Usher through a Mattiall throng,  
'mongst foes a Giant, to his friends a Child,  
Dreaded and loved, and sooner bearing wrong,  
Then known t'oppress: he never grace exiled  
From Captives, whom in arms he overthrew,  
He never fled the strong, or yielding slew.   

32  
A Homer's fluence, or a Virgil's pen,  
behooves him that should give great Hector due,  
Whom with this Title, Valian●…est of Men,  
I now forbear his Brothers to pursue: 
Paris.   
Next Alexander surnamed Paris, when  
His Mother's ominous dream 'mongst Shepherds threw  
The infant Prince. In him you may discover  
The true proportion of a perfect Lover.   

33  
Strait bodied, mid-statu'rd, wondrous fair,  
A pleasant look, his eye both great and grey,  
Round visaged, soft, and Crispe at end his hair,  
Smooth skinned, well spoke, effeminate every way,  
No Coward, eloquent, an Archer rare,  
Swift, a good Huntsman, and much given to play,  
Cunning at Chess, which as most voices run,  
Was by King Priam first in Troy begun. 
Daris. Ches-play first devised in Troy.    

34  
Loving gay clothes, and go richly clad,  
Costly in jewels, and stones highly rated,  
Quick-witted, jesting, dallying, seldom glad,  
Who above all things Melancholy hated:  
At loose lascivious speeches seeming sad,  
And by all Starre-coni●…cture fairly fated,  
A Courtly carriage, and a promising face,  
A manly look mixed with a womanish grace.   

35  
Bold Deiphobus, and wise Helenus, 
Deiphobus.   
Were scarce to be distinguished, both so like:  
The last a Clerk, saws hidden to discuss, 
Helenus.   
The first not taught to pray so well as strike,  
The one devout, the other Chivalrous,  
One grubbed his pen, while th'other tossed his Pike:  
Though several births, yet twins they seemed rather  
And both the true proportions of their Father.   

36  
The most redoubted Troilus youngst of five, 
Troilus.   
Next after Hector was esteemed in field,  
(Save this bold brother) the best Knight alive,  
Most expert in the use of sword and shield: 
Cressida.   
Amorous of Calchas daughter: Ladies strive  
Which to his sweet embracements soonest may yield:  
Never was Knight in valour better proved,  
Or Courtier amongst Ladies deerlyer loved.   

37  
Then in one word, his aprises to comprise,  
He was another Hector, shape, look, gate,  
Stature, proportion, fashion, hair, and eyes;  
Martial encounter, or for Courtly state,  
Aeneas a bold Knight, a State's man wise,  
Lover of peace, and foe to stern debate:  
A Counsellor and Soldier, who imparts, 
Aeneus.   
Inequalized proportion, Arms and Arts.   

38  
Large stature, and broad set, divinely skilled,  
His hair by Nature brown, but grayed with years,  
Clear eyed, sharp visaged, but with colour filled,  
One of King Priam's best esteemed Peers,  
Sober in speech, and seen to laugh but seld,  
Whom Paphian Venus by Anchises bears,  
Preferring much the Counsels of the old,  
And Beards of Silver, before Hairs of Gold.   

39  
Antenor, second to Aeneas, black, 
Antenor.   
Long, and lean visaged, whom the King affected  
And much esteemed his Counsel, in the sack  
And fall of Troy, by Priam much suspected,  
Polydanus his son, in whom no lack 
Polydanus.   
Of virtue was, or valour well directed:  
Of Counsel with his Father in Troy's fall,  
Resembling him, lean visaged, swart, and tall.   

40  
Menon of all the Kings that Priam aided 
Menon.   
With best assistance, and most valiant Knights,  
Broad-brested, and big-limbed, not soon dissuaded  
From hostile oppositions, and stern sights,  
By him was many a Grecian Knight disgraded,  
Whom hope of Honour, more than gain incites:  
Queen Hecuba, Religious, Grave, well staid, 
Hee●…ba.   
A Manly Woman, somewhat rudely made.   

41  
Andromache, well shaped, looking aloft, 
A dromache.   
Exceeding fair, her eyeball broad and clear,  
Her Alabaster skin, white, smooth, and soft,  
A worthy Wife to such a worthy Peer,  
As full of Grace as Beauty, praying oft,  
A visage Lovely, but withal severe:  
Promising love, but with so chaste an eye,  
That what her beauty grants, her looks deny.   

42  
Creusa like her Mother bodied well, 
Creusa.   
But nothing fair, her grace is manly rude;  
Only the wise Aeneas happy fell  
Into her favour, with good Thews endued,  
Her inward, more than outward gifts excel,  
Unapt young amorous Courtiers to delude,  
A gracious, affable, kind, modest Creature,  
Loved for her Virtues, more than for her feature.   

43  
Cassandra, Hecubs second, chaste and wise,  
A professed Virgin, and Devinely red, 
Cassandra   
In Divinations, Saws, and Prophecies,  
She for her life abandons Hymen's bed;  
Faire-haired, Meane-statured, Round-mouthd, steadfast eyes  
Sometime her yellow Locks about her spread:  
(Rapt with Divinest fury) oft she wears,  
Like a rich cloak, woven of her golden hairs.   

44  
But young Polixena among the rest,  
Most Beautifully perfect, Ravishing sweet, 
Polyxena   
Of all Terrestrial graces, lo the best,  
In one exact and Complete creature meet,  
Celestial coloured veins, Swan-downy breast,  
And from her Native golden crown to feet  
Spotless, her brow the whitest, eye the clearest,  
And her Rose coloured Cheek of all Dies dearest.   

45  
One Ladies beauty lies most in her hair,  
Another's in her Check, this in her brow,  
Her eye is quick, another colour's rare,  
To which the Knights their deeds of Honour vow,  
Foot, skin, or hand: and all esteemed fair,  
The least of these best judging wits allow:  
And where but one of all these are extended,  
For that one gift bright Ladies are commended.   

29  
On such quick feet as makes you Lady praised,  
Polixena doth lightly touch the ground,  
Such hands as make another's name imblazd,  
White, azure-vained within her Gloves are found;  
A body on two ivory collumnes raised,  
A breast so white, a Globe-like head so round:  
a hair, so bright-hewed Breasts so softly swelled,  
Save in this maid no Mortal hath beheld.   

47  
She is all beauty, Nature show'd her skill  
To have this Maid made in all parts complete,  
her Storehouse, the Creator first did fill,  
The Prodigal Queen, doth for the Lady cheat  
her Surplus, than the world lamenteth still  
The Trojan ladies Largesse was so great:  
That hye-borne women yet in many places,  
Are forced since her, to have hard-favoured faces.   

48  
But lest we dwell upon her shape too long,  
From her unto the buildings we look down,  
Leaving the ladies fair, the Prince's strong,  
It follows, that we next survey the Town,  
How Priam sought to quit Hesione's wrong,  
His Sceptre, State, and his Imperial Crown:  
These by th'assistance of th'all-guiding Fate,  
And by the Muse's help, we next relate.   

49  
The glorious Towers and Spires of Tray look high,  
Six principal Portcullised Gates admit 
The six gates of Troy.   
The people in and out: first Dardany,  
Fimbria the second (but scarce finished yet)  
Hely the third: we Cheta next descry,  
Troyen the fifth, with Marble Turrets fit:  
The sixth and last, but of like state with these,  
Called by Antenor, Antenorides.   

50  
Unnumbered Palaces, houses of State,  
With their guilt covers seem to mock the Sun,  
Which towards heaven their high tops elevate,  
Staples of Foreign Merchants now begun,  
Free Traffickt-Marts, and Wares of every rate,  
By which, much wealth may be acquird and won:  
Nothing is wanting in this New-built-Towne,  
That may acquire Troy Riches or Renown.   

51  
Midst this young cities heart, a River glides, 
The River Simois.   
Bleeding her Azure veins through every street;  
Whose meeting streams a spacious Channel guides  
To the main Ocean, where the Trojan fleet  
In all tempestuous sea-storms safely rides,  
The Merchant ferried for his pleasure, meets  
His laden Lyters, Barks, and ships of trade,  
Whom at their rich keys they with Cranes unlade.   

52  
Upon the highest hill the rest o'erpeering  
The Palace royal doth the King erect,  
On her wind-moving vanes Troyes Scutcheon wearing,  
Whose shining guilt upon the Town reflect,  
The Marble posts, and Porphyr-Collumnes bearing,  
Roofs of puregold from the best Mines select;  
By good advise they Islium Towers invest,  
A Citadel to overlook the rest.   

53  
The glorious Sun, from whose allseeing eye,  
Nothing on earth can be concealed long,  
In his Diurnal travels through the sky,  
Saw never Palace built so fair and strong,  
The square Pyramids appeared high,  
As if they had been reared the Clouds among,  
The Porches, Terrace, windows, Arches, Towers,  
Resembling one of Ihoves Celestial Bowers.   

54  
More than the rest his great Hall men admire,  
Built like th' Olympic palace, where Ihove feasts,  
Paved with bright Stars, like those of Heavenly fire,  
On which he treads, when he invites his guests,  
The roof hung round with Angels (a rich Choir)  
With Diamond eyes, red Rubies in their breasts,  
Holding like Grapes long branches in their fists,  
Of Emeralds green, and purple Amethists.   

55  
At one end of the Hall stands Priam's Throne,  
To which by twelve degrees the King ascended,  
His chair all Gold, and set with many a Stone,  
By curled Lions, and grim Bears defended,  
Who seemed to fawn on him that sat thereon,  
The curious Graver all his Art extended:  
The savage Monsters that support his chair,  
Even to the life, cut and proportioned are.   

56  
Next this, from twenty high steps looking down  
Towards the Screen aloft enthroned stands  
Ihoves Statuë, on's head a glorious Crown,  
An universe and Sceptre graced both hands:  
His length full fifteen foot, his colour brown,  
His front Majestic, like him that commands:  
His state, as when with Gods he was coversing,  
His face so dreadful, and his eye so piercing.   

57  
By his Stone-shining Altar, rooted grows  
The rich Palladium, the two Thrones betwixt,  
Whose golden root enameled Branches strews  
Through the vast Hall, the leaves with blossoms mixed:  
'mongst which ripe Fruits their coloured sides dispose,  
As mellowed with the Sun, Devinely fixed;  
A wonder 'twas, this Arbour to behold,  
The Fruit and blossoms Stones, the branches Gold.   

58  
Of self-same Metal was his dining board,  
Where with his Sons and Peers oft times invested  
He eat in state, and sometimes would afford  
That stranger Peers were at his Table feasted;  
In stead of plate they precious Liquors poured  
Into bright hollowed Pearl, rarely digested,  
Gold was thought base, and therefore for the nonce,  
They dived for Pearl, and pierced the rocks for stones.   

59  
With as great state as Trojan Priam could,  
I have beheld our Sovereign, Stranger's feast,  
In Bowls as precious, Cups, as dearly sold,  
and hy-prizd liquors equal with the rest,  
When from the Landsgrave and the Browns-wicke bold,  
The Archduke and the Spaniard Legates priest:  
But chiefly when the royal British james,  
at Greenwich feasted the great King of Danes.   

60  
No King for wealth was to this King compared,  
Fortune showered all her bounties on his head,  
No King had bold Sons that like Priam's dared,  
Or Dames with greater beauties garnished,  
Kings and Kings sons were in their eyes ensnared,  
Whom their imperious beauties captive led:  
Prince Hector more his Father's Crown to grace,  
Adds by his sword, Pannonia, Phrigia, Thrace. 
Three kingdoms conquered by Hector.    

61  
Full with all plenty, with abundance stored,  
Seeing his walls so strong, his Town so fair,  
Himself by foreign Potentates adored,  
And his Exchequer rich without compare,  
Fifty tall sons, the least to use a sword,  
And most of them in Martial Attorneys rare:  
His Counsel grave, his Lords of high degree,  
As provident, as full of Chivalry.   

62  
He therefore now bethinks him of his shame,  
Done by the Argives in Alcides' days,  
Therefore against all Greece will war proclaim,  
And to their opposition, forces raise,  
He summons all his Lords, who forthwith came,  
To whom assembled thus King Priam says:  
Oh! which of all this fair and princely train,  
Hath not (by Greece) a friend or Kinsman slain.   

63  
Show me the man hath not enriched their Treasure  
With his own substance by his Father lost,  
Whose wives & daughters have not served their pleasure,  
If they be rich, they Revel at our cost,  
Their Barbarous Tyrannies exceed all measure,  
They spoiled our Navy on the salt Sea Coast;  
Beat down our Walls, they pillaged all our goods,  
And waded knee-deep in our Father's bloods.   

64  
Amongst unnumbered of your near allies,  
My royal Father treacherously they slew,  
Were not your Fathers in the self-same wise  
Butchered and mangled by that murderous erew?  
I see my words confirmed in your wet eyes,  
(Remembrance of these wrongs their moist tears drew)  
Besides they slew my Sister in their spleen,  
A free borne princess, Daughter to a Queen,   

65  
Behold my state, survey your private powers,  
Is it for Priam's honour this to bear?  
Being your Sovereign, my disgrace is yours,  
And that which troubles me, should touch you near;  
We have deferred revenge to these last hours,  
Till we had gathered Arms, strength, wealth, and fear:  
And now since heaven supplies our general need,  
I ask your Counsel: Is revenge decreed?   

66  
So deeply did the King's words pierce their breasts,  
That with a general voice, Revenge they cry,  
Now every man the invasive Greek detests,  
And thinks it long, tili they-can Greece defy,  
Soon after this, the King his Nobles feasts,  
Longing till some advantage they can spy  
To make their war seem just, at length devise  
This colour to their Hostile enterprise.   

67  
That Priam shall in courteous manner, send  
To all the Grecian Kings, to ask again  
His captive Sister, like a royal friend:  
(Which if they grant,) in friendship to remain:  
But if this Embassy their ears offend,  
And they the fair Hesione detain;  
To Menace war: Antenor Nobly manned,  
At Priam's urgence, takes this task in hand.   

68  
In Thessaly where Peleus that time reigned,  
Antenor after some few months a●…iues,  
And of Hesione's estate complained,  
That her return might save ten thousand lives,  
But if to bondage she were still constrained,  
Her Brother that as yet by fair means strives,  
Must in his Honour seek by arms to gain her,  
Unto their costs, that proudly dare detain her.   

69  
Peleus enraged, commands Antenor thence,  
Nor will he grace the Trojan with reply,  
That dare to him so proud a suit commence,  
He therefore makes with speed from Thessaly,  
Great Telamonis Ajax to incense,  
Who keeps the Princess in base Slavery:  
In Salamina's Port he Anchor casts,  
And thence unto Duke Ajax Palace hasts.   

70  
Mildly of him the Ambassador demands  
Hesione, or if he keep her still,  
With her to enter Hymen's Nuptial bands,  
Not as a Slave to serve his lustful will:  
When Telamon this Message understands,  
He was in thought, the Trojan Lord to kill:  
So scornfully the Duke his Message took,  
His face looked pale, his head with anger shook.   

71  
He tells him he is not allied at all  
With twice-won Troy, nor any league desires;  
The beauteous Princess to his lot did fall,  
Whom he will keep (and maugre all their ires,)  
For scaling first Troy's well defended Wall,  
She was his Trophies prise: He that aspires  
To take her thence, or once demand her back,  
Is but the means their Troy again to Sack.   

72  
And so commands him thence, who still proceeds  
Unto Achaia, where the famous Twins  
Castor and Pollux have aduanc'st their deeds,  
And by their Valours were both crowned Kings;  
Unto their Court in haste Antenor speeds,  
And to their ears his Embassy begins:  
But they with Telamon's rude scorns reply,  
And charge him strait out of their Confines high.   

73  
With like contempt Duke Nestor sends him back,  
So did the two Atrides; So the rest  
Of all the Argive Kings, command him pack  
Out of their bounds, as an unwelcome guest,  
Since Troy deservedly endured such wrack:  
Antenor answered thus, esteems it best,  
Back to resaile, and to King Priam tell,  
What in his bootless voyage him befell.   

74  
The King at this reproach inflamed with rage,  
Assembles all his people, Sons, and Peers,  
Intending by their aids new war to wage,  
To which the youthful Gallants wanting years,  
Freely assent, but those of riper age,  
Out of their graver wisdom, not pale fears,  
Seek by their Counsels Priam to persuade,  
To reign in peace, and not proud Greece invade.   

75  
Among the rest, great Hector, from whose tongue  
Did never issue proud discourteous word,  
Whom Greek nor Trojan can accuse of wrong,  
Nor they within whose bloods he glazed his sword,  
Raiseth himself above the populous throng,  
And thus he says: Who rather should afford  
Vengeance on Greece, than I your eldest son, 
Hector's Oration.   
To whom these rough injurious wrongs are done.   

76  
But if we well consider what a foe,  
And what great wrath upon our heads we pull,  
Not Greece alone, but all that homage owe,  
Asia and Africa make their numbers full,  
The odds is too unequal, therefore know,  
I am of thought all wars to disannul.  
Troy's but a City, and though rich and strong,  
Yet 'gainst the world opposed, must needs take wrong.   

77  
Why will Rich Priam hazard his estate,  
Being in peace? what need we covet war?  
What can we more desire, then fortunate?  
So Priam, Troy, and all our people are:  
Why should we seek t'incur the Argive hate,  
Of which remains so incurable a scar?  
Wisemen in their revenges should foresee  
What ends may fall, not what beginnings be.   

78  
My Grand-sire's dead, perhaps he did offend,  
But howsoever he cannot now survive?  
To seek his life we vainly should contend:  
Methinks in this against the Gods we strive,  
What the greeks marred, the Gods themselves amend,  
Whence should we then our detriments derive?  
Our Troy is since her second fall, much fairer,  
Her people richer, and her buildings rarer.   

79  
Troy lost a King, that loss your Grace supply,  
And though (your son) of this I proudly vaunt,  
He is in you received with usury,  
They pillaged us, and yet we nothing want,  
Of all their wounds, we not one scar can spy,  
Unless Hesione our Princely Ant:  
Whose bondage long since happening, we may guess,  
The custom and continuance makes seem less.   

80  
But how soever near to me allied,  
I do not hold her freedom of that meed,  
That for her sake Troy should in blood be died,  
Priam or any of his issue bleed:  
And for this cause do I myself divide  
From their rash Counsel, that Revenge decreed:  
Knowing all war is doubtful, and foreseeing  
Of Troy, what it may be, not of Troy's being.   

81  
If any hot blood prouder than the rest,  
Accuse my words, and think I speak through fear,  
I wish that man the boldest Grecian guest  
That ever with Alcides Anchored hear,  
That I might print my valour on his Crest,  
And on his armed Vaunt-brace prove my Spear:  
This said, great Hector Congeed to the King,  
Then takes his place, when up doth Paris spring.   

82  
And to the King his Ida's dream relates,  
And how he judged three beauties for the ball;  
How far he Venus 'bove the rest instates,  
The fairest Greek unto his lot must fall,  
A fit revenge for those whom Priam hates:  
For if the King will make him General,  
He makes no doubt, from Greece a Queen to bring,  
Shall equalize the Sister of the King.   

83  
Now all the people's voice on his side flows,  
In every ear his famous dream is rife,  
When ranked next Paris, Deiphobus grows,  
Persuading still to give these discords life,  
As one that by presumptions thus much knows,  
His voyage can procure no further strife:  
Then if the promising Fates assist his Brother,  
To prove th'exchange of one Queen for another.   

84  
But Helenus with sacred spells endued, 
The prophesy of Helenus.   
Seeks this prepared voyage to restrain,  
He saith, the greeks shall with their hands imbrued  
In Troy's blood royal, conquer once again,  
Entreating Paris, he will not delude  
Their reverent ears, with dreams and visions vain:  
Assuring him, that of this Quest shall grow  
The cities universal overthrow.   

85  
When youthful Troilus thus: Who ever heard  
A bookish Priest persuade to hostyle Arms,  
Let such as are to Fates and Saws endeared,  
Crouch by the fires that smoking Altars warms,  
And cherish their faint sinews (much afeard)  
Dreading their own, not Soldiers threatened harms:  
He that's a Priest, amongst priests let him pray,  
We Soldiers cry Arm: and a glorious day.   

86  
What lets the King my Father, but to grant  
My Brother Paris a right royal fleet?  
That in revenge of our surprised Aunt,  
He Warlike prays among the Grecians meet?  
Shall timorous Clerks our Martial Spirits daunt?  
No royal Father: know revenge is sweet:  
Which since the Fates by visions promise bear:  
Not to obey their Hests, we Cowards were.   

87  
Troilus prevails, and Hector is persuaded  
To shun the imputation of base fear,  
With which his courage should be wrong upbraided,  
A timorous thought came never Hector near,  
Si●…ce 'tis agreed that Greece must be invaded,  
he'll guard his honour with his sword and Spear;  
Or if the Gerekes will on the Troyans' pray,  
Through his bold body they shall first make way.   

88  
Without his fair applause it had not past,  
So reverent was th'opinion of his brain;  
His words were Oracles, so sweetly graced,  
They general murmur in all Counsels gain,  
His free consent they having w●…on at last,  
The King appoints them a well furnished train,  
With two and twenty Ships well rig'd and man'd,  
In any part of Greece freely to Land.   

89  
Which when the Prophetess Cassandra hears,  
Indu'de with divine wisdom, she exclaims,  
Her yellow Trammels she in fury tears,  
And cries aloud: poor Troy shall burn in flames.  
Oh had not changeless Fate made deaf their ears  
They had been moved: Th'unhappy King she blames:  
The credulous Queen, rash Paris, and all Troy,  
That give consent their City to destroy.   

90  
But as her Divinations never failed,  
So were they never credited for true,  
Till Troy unwares with mischief was assailed,  
And then too late their misbelief they rue,  
They that now held her mad, ere long bewailed  
Their slack distrust, when threatened Ills ensue:  
But 'twas a Fate their Saws were still neglected,  
and till proved true by process: false, suspected.   

91  
Apollo, in whose sacred gift remains  
The true presage and ken of future things, 
Phoebus and Cassandra.   
Dotes on Cassandra's beauty, and complains,  
To her chaste ears he tunes his golden strings;  
The crafty Girl that in her heart disdains  
The gold, as she had erst despised Kings,  
Demands a boon, which Phoebus hath decreed  
To grant Cassandra, in sure hope to speed.   

92  
He swears by Styx, an oath that cannot change,  
That he will grant what she shall next impose him,  
She asks to know the skill of secrets strange,  
And future Prophecies; withal she shows him  
Her beauty where his eyes may freely range:  
The amorous God of Fire securely throws him  
In her fair lap, and on her ivory breast,  
Lays his bright head, so grants her her request.   

93  
But when she feels a divine spirit infused  
Through all her parts, (this Phoebus did inspire,)  
She fled his loose embraces, and refused  
By any means to accomplish his desire:  
He mad with anger to be thus abused,  
Thus says: Thou think'st to mock the God of Fire:  
Thy Saws, though sooth, yet shall do no man good,  
Not be believed, or else not understood.   

94  
This was the cause the King remained unmoved,  
The Queen untouched with her lamenting cries,  
And all those Princes that their safeties loved,  
Though long for-warned, her Counsel yet despise,  
Her Spells have credit, when th'events are proved,  
Till then, though true, they are esteemed lies:  
But leave Cassandra to her ceaseless care,  
And Paris to his Trojan Fleet prepare.   

95  
Who with his Brother Deiphobus sends,  
To haste Aeneas to the Seas with speed,  
Polydamus, Antenor, and such friends,  
As in this general voyage were agreed,  
His Soldiers most Pannonians, he intends  
Shall rather see his Aunt from Ajax freed,  
Or some bright Grecian Queen, for her disgrace  
Shall Captive live in fair Hesione's place.   

96  
Embarked, and passing divers Seas, at last,  
In Lacedaemon's Port they safely Land,  
But what twixt Paris and bright Helen past,  
What favours he received from her fair hand,  
How the Greek Spartan Queen the Trojan graced,  
You in the sequel Book must understand,  
Some small retirement at this time we crave,  
What you want here, another place shall have,   
TOuching the Dignity of Poets, I refer you to Ovid's 3. Book, De arte Amandi, omitting others, translating him thus: 
SEe, see, What alterations rude time brings,  
Poets of old, were the right hands of Kings,  
Large were their gifts, supreme was their reward,  
Their meeterd Lines with fear and reverence hard,  
Honour, and state, and sacred Majesty,  
Belonged to such as studied Poetry:  
Ennius (by Scipio the great) was sought,  
And from the Mountains in Calabria brought:  
Dishonoured now, the ivy Garland lies,  
The Ancient worship unto Poets dies,  
Yet should we strive our own fames to awake,  
Homer an everlasting work did make,  
His Iliads called, else who had Homer known,  
Had Danae in her Tower an old wife grown,  
And never unto publish view resorted,  
How had her beauty been so far reported?  And in another place proceedeth thus: 
We in our flowing numbers beauty praise,  
And in our Poems your deserts can raise:  
We first bestowed on Nemesis a name,  
Cynthia by our admittance keeps her fame,  
Lycoris never hath been known before,  
By us she sounds in every foreign shore,  
And many proffer me large gifts, to know  
Who my Corinna is, whom I praise so:  
In us there is a power shall never perish,  
Us the Pierideses and Muses cherish:  
A Godhead reigns in us, & with the stars,  
We have Traffic and acquaintance, holding wars  
Which none save Barbarism, our Sacred spirit,  
We from the buy Divinest powers inherit.   
POlydor was son to Priam and Hecuba, who was committed to Polynestor, to be kept in the time of the Trojan wars, with a great sum of money.  
The description of the Troyans' be according to Dares the Trojan, who lived in the wars of Troy, and writ their utter subversion.  
The Peletronij were the Lapiths, who first found the use of Bridles, Bits, and Snaffels, so called of Peletronium a Town in Thessaly.  
Castor and Pollux were two twins, whom jupiter begot of Leda, Kings in Achaya, Brothers to Helena.  
The Fortunes of Paris, his casting out to be a Shepherd after the ominous dream of his Mother, with the vision of the three Goddesses in the mount of Ida, are more at large expressed in his Epistle to Helena.  
Cassandra's Prophecies true, and never credited, allude to the Prophet Tiresias a Soothsayer of Thebes. Who with striking two Adders engendering, became forthwith a Woman. Seven years after, he likewise finding two Serpents, struck them, and was immediately turned again into a man, and participated both the affection of man and woman.  
It so fell out, that jupiter and juno arguing, fell into great difference: She holding obstinately Women less wanton than men: He affirming men less Lascivious than Women: and who can better moderate this dissension than Tyresius, that had felt the desires of both, to him they appeal; He took jupiters' part, and averd Women to be most Luxurious: At which juno enraged, struck him with blindness, which because jupiter could not help (for one Godde cannot undo what another hath done) she gave him the gift of prophesy: to which, the spiteful Goddess added also this, that his Prophesies (though true) yet they should never be believed.  
Clazemonij were people of jonia. Of that Country, Artemon, was called Clazemonius: It was the name of a Physician in Pliny, also a beautiful young man much loved of all Women.  
Mideus wat called Messenius of Messe, a Town in Peloponesus.  
Of Acrisius we have spoke before, the Father of Danae ' his Brother Praetus, sought to dispossess him of his kingdom, and they are said to be the first that used a shield in battle.  
Of the Palladium, what it was, many writers differ: Palladia, are all such Images as are made without hands, or such 
Pherecides.  as fell from heaven to Earth: such was the Palladium of I roy, and light first in the City Pessinus, a Mart-Towne in Phrygia, where Sibell had a Temple. Others think it to be given 
Dio, Drodorus.  by jupiter to Icus the Brother of Ganymede, whose censure we most allow. Though others write this Palladium to be made by Asius a great Philosopher, and a mathematician, of 
I●…hanes Antioch●…s.  whom the third part of the world was called Asia, being modelled with this Virtue, that the City which enjoyed it, should for the time be invincible. The like things was attributed to the shafts of Hercules, given to Philocteres by dying Hercules in the Mount Oeta, between Thessaly and Macedonia, when the Delphian Oracles had signified to the Greeks, that Troy could never be surprised without the shafts of Hercules, they sought Philoctetes, and demanding of him those spoils (which he was bound by oath to conceal) being extremely urged, he pointed with his foot to the place where they were buried, which the joyful Greeks enjoying, they received by them victory, and the Troyans' the overthrow.  
The end of the eight CANTO.   

Argumentum  
Parish departs from Troy, & Greece doth enter  
Whom Menelaus welcomes, having seen;  
The King is called thence by a strange adventure  
And to his Troian-guest he trusts his Queen:  
Paris fair Helen loves, & doth present her  
With a long suit, to heal his wound yet green:  
First Paris writes, she answers; Then with joy  
Greece they for sake, & both are shipped for Troy  
ARG. 2.  
BRight Helen courted, Paris birth and Fate,  
With his Love-tricks, jota shall relate.  
CANTO. 9  

WHo can describe the purity of those,  
Whose beauties are by Sacred Virtues guided,  
Or who their ugly pictures that oppose  
Their beauti●…s against Chastity divided,  
Proud Lucifer an Angel was, but chose  
Vice: Virtue to eschew: and from heaven slided:  
Women like him (in shape angelical)  
are Angels whilst they stand, Devils when they fall.   

2  
Their gifts well used, have power t'inchant the wise,  
To daunt the bold, and ruinate the strong,  
Which well applied, can make the ruin'd rise,  
The Coward valiant, weak to taste no wrong,  
They are all poison, when they wantonize,  
All Sovereign, where there's Virtue mixed among:  
chaste, nothing better; wanton, nothing worse,  
The grate-fulst Blessing, or the greatest Curse.   

3  
Had Spartan Helen been as chaste as fair,  
her Virtue sooner might have raised a Troy  
Then her loose gestures: great without compare,  
Had power so rich a City to destroy:  
By this time all the Troyans' Landed are,  
and Paris of the Queen received with joy:  
To whom th'enamoured Prince in private sends  
These lines, in which his duty he commends.   

The Epistle of Paris to Hesten.  
HEalth unto Leda's daughter, Priains' son  
Sends in these lines, whose health cannot be won  
But by your gift, in whose power it may lie,  
To make me whole or sick; to live, or die:  
Shall I then speaks? Or doth my flame appear  
Plain without Index? Oh, 'tis that Ifeare:  
My Love without discovering smile takes place,  
And more than I could wish shines in my face.  
When I could rather in my thoughts desire  
To hide the smoke, till time display the fire:  
Time, that can make the fire of Love shine clear,  
Untroubled with the misty smoke of fear:  
But I dissemble it, for who I pray  
Can fire conceal, that will itself betray?  
yet if you look, I should affirm that plain  
In words, which in my countenance Imaintaine:  
I burn, I burn, my fault I have confessed,  
My words bear witness how my looks transgressed.  
Oh pardon me that have confessed my error,  
Cast not upon my lines a look of terror,  
But as your beautic is beyond compare,  
Suit unto that your looks (oh you most fair)  
That you my Letter have received, by this  
The supposition glads me, and I wish  
By hope encouraged, hope that makes me strong,  
you will receive me in some sort ere long,  
I ask no more than what the Queen of Beauty  
Hath promised me, for you are mine by duty,  
By her I claim you, you for me were made,  
And she it was my journey did persuade:  
Nor Lady think your beauty vainly sought,  
I by divine instinct was hither brought,  
And to this enterprise, the heavenly powers,  
Have given consent, the Gods proclaim me yours,  
I aim at wonders, for I covet you,  
yet pardon me, I ask but what's my due,  
Venus herself my journey hither led,  
And gives you freely to my promised bed:  
Under her safe conduct the seas I passed,  
Till I arrived upon these Coasts at last:  
Shipping myself from the Sygean shore,  
Whence unto these Confines my course I bore:  
She made the Surges gentle, the winds fair,  
Nor marvel whence these calms proceeded are,  
Needs must she power upon the salt-Seas have,  
That was seaborn, created from a wave,  
Still may she potent stand in her ability,  
And as she made the seas with much facility  
To be through-saild, so may she calm my heat,  
And bear my thoughts to their desired seat:  
My flames I found not Here, no, I protest,  
I brought them with me closed in my breast,  
Myself transported then without Attorney,  
Love was the Motive to my tedious journey;  
Not blustering Winter when he triumphed most,  
Nor any error drove me to this Coast,  
Nor led by Fortune where the rough winds please,  
Nor Marchantlike for gain crossed I the Seas:  
Fullness of wealth in all my Fleet I see,  
I am rich in all things save in wanting thee.  
No spoil of petty Nations my Ship seeks,  
Nor Land I as a spy among the greeks,  
What need we? See of all things we have store,  
Compared with Troy (alas) your Greece is poor,  
For thee I come, thy fame hath thus far driven me,  
Whom golden Venus hath by promise given me,  
I Wished thee ere I knew thee, long ago,  
Before these eyes dwelled on this glorious show:  
I saw thee in my thoughts, know beauteous Dame,  
I first beheld you with the eyes of Fame,  
Nor marvel Lady I was stroke so far,  
Thus Darts or Arrows sent from ●…owes of war  
Wound a great distance off: so was I hit  
With a deep smarting wound that rankles yet,  
For so it pleased the Fates, whom lest you blame,  
I'll tell a true Tale to confirm the same.   

When in my Mother's womb full ripe I lay,  
Ready the first hour to be hold the day,  
And she at point to be delivered straight,  
And to unlade her of her Royal freight,  
My Byrth-houre was delayed, and that sad night  
A fearful vision did the Queen affright,  
In a sons stead to please the aged Sire,  
She dreamt she had brought forth a Brand of fire,  
Frighted she rises, and to Priam goes,  
To the old King this ominous dream she shows:  
He to the Priest, the Priest doth this return,  
That the Child borne shall stately Islium burn:  
Better than he was ware the Prophet guest, 
Hecuba's dream.   
For lo a kindled Brand flames in my breast,  
To prevent Fate a Peasant I was held,  
Till my fair shape all other Swains exeld,  
And gave the doubtful world assurance good, 
To prevent the Oracle, Para was cast out among the shepherds of Ida.   
your Paris was derived from royal blood.   

Amid the Idean Fields there is a place  
Remote, full of high Trees, which hide the face  
Of the green mantled Earth, where in thick rows,  
The Oak, the Elm, the Pine, the Pitch-tree grows:  
here never yet did browse the wanton Ewe,  
Nor from this plot the slow Ox lick the dew:  
The savage Goat that feeds among the Rocks  
Hath not grazed here, nor any of their Flocks,  
Hence the Dardanian walls I might espy,  
The lofty Towers of Islium reared by,  
Hence I the Seas might from the firm Land see,  
Which to behold, I leaned me to a Tree:  
Believe me, for I speak but what is true, 
The vision of Paris.   
Down from the skies with feathered pinions flew  
The Nephew to great Atlas, and doth stand  
With Golden Caducens in his hand,  
(This as the Gods to me thought good to show,  
I hold it good that you the same should know:  
Three Goddesses behind young Hermes move  
Great juno, Pallas, and the Queen of Love;  
Who as in pomp and Pride of gate they pass, 
juno, Palles, and ●…enus.   
Scarce with their weight they bend the tops of grass:  
Amazed I start, and endlong stands my hair,  
When Mayus Son thus says, abandon fear  
Thou Courteous Swain, that to these groves repairest,  
And freely judge which of these three is fairest:  
And lest I should this curious sentence shun,  
He tells me by Iboves' sentence all is done.  
And to be judge I no way can eschew,  
This having said, up through the Air he flew:  
I strait take heart a grace, and grow more bold,  
And there their beauties one by one behold.  
Why am I made the judge to give this doom?  
Methinks all three are Worthy to overcome:  
To injure two such Beauties what tongue dare?  
Or preserre one where they be all fair:  
Now this seems fairest, now again that other,  
Now would I speak, and now my thoughts I smother,  
And yet at length the praise of one most sounded,  
And from that one my present Love is grounded:  
The Goddesses out of their earnest care  
And pride of Beauty to be held most fair,  
Seek with large Arrives, and gifts of wondrous price,  
To their own thoughts my censure to entice:  
Inno the Wife of Ihove doth first enchant me,  
To judge her fairest, she a Crown will grant me:  
Pallas her Daughter, next doth under take me,  
Give her the price, and valiant she will make me:  
I strait devise which can most pleasure bring,  
To be a valiant Soldier or a King:  
Last Venus smiling came with such a grace,  
As if she swayed an Empire in her face,  
Let not (said she) these gifts the Conquest be are,  
Combats and Kingdoms are both fraught with fear.  
I'll give thee what thou lovest best, (lovely Swain,)  
The furest Saint that doth on earth remain  
shallbe thine own, make thou the Conquest mine,  
Fair Leda's fairest daughter shallbe thine.  
This said, when with my se'se I had devised,  
And her rich gift and beauty jointly prized:  
Venus' victor, o'er the rest is placest,  
juno and Pallas leave the Mount disgraced,  
Mean time my Fates a prosperous course had run,  
And by known signs King Priam called me Son:  
The day of my restoring is kept holy  
Among the Saints-dates, consecrated solely  
To my remembrance, being a day of joy,  
For ever in the Calendars of Troy.   

As I wish you I have been wished by others,  
The fairest maids by me would have been Mothers,  
Of all my favours I bestowed not any,  
you only may enjoy the Loves of many:  
Nor by the Daughters of great Dukes and Kings  
Have I alone been sought, whose marriage Rings  
I have turned back, but by a strain more high,  
By Nymphs and Phairies. such as never die.  
No sooner were you promised as my due,  
But I (all hated) to remember you:  
Waking, I saw your Image, if I dreamt,  
Your beauteous figure still appeared to tempt  
And urge this voyage: Till your face excelling  
These eyes beheld, my dreams were all of Hellen.  
Imagine how your face should now incite me,  
Being seen, that unseen did so much delight me:  
If I was scorched so far off from the Fire,  
How am I burnt to Cinders thus much nigher:  
Nor could I longer owe myself this treasure,  
But through the Ocean I must search my pleasure,  
The Phrygian Hatchets to the roots are put  
Of the Idean Pines, (asunder cut)  
The woodland Mountain yielded me large fees,  
Being despoiled of all her tallest Trees,  
From whence we have squared out unnumbered beams,  
That must be washed within the Marine streams:  
The grounded Oaks are bowed, though stiff as steel,  
And to the tough Ribs is the bending Keel  
Woven by Shipwrights craft, than the Mainmast,  
across whose middle is the Sail yard placed.  
Tackles and sails, and next you may discern,  
Our painted Gods upon the hooked stern:  
The God that bears me on my happy way,  
And is my guide, is Cupid: Now the day  
In which the last stroke of the Hammer's herd,  
Within our Navy, in the East appeared,  
And I must now launch forth, (so the Fates please)  
To seek adventures in the Egean Seas.  
My Father and my Mother move delay,  
And by entreaties would enforce my stay:  
They hang about my neck, and with their tears  
Woe me defer my journey: but their fears  
Can have no power to keep me from thy sight:  
And now Cassandra full of sad affright,  
With loose dishevelled Trammels, madly skips,  
Just in the way betwixt me and my Ships:  
Oh, whether wilt thou headlong run she cries?  
Theu bearest fire with thee, whose smoke up flies  
Unto the heavens (Oh Ihove) thou little fearest  
What quenchless flames thou through the water bearest:  
Caffandra was too true a Prophetess,  
Her quenchless flames she spoke of (I confess,)  
My hot desires burn in my breast so fast,  
That no Red Furnace hotter flames can cast.   

I pass the City gates, my Bark I board, 
The entertainment of Paris.   
The favourable winds calm gales afford,  
And fill my sail●…s, unto your Land I steer,  
For whether else (his course) should Paris bear:  
Your Husband entertains me as his guest,  
And all this happeneth by the God's behest,  
He shows me all his Pastures, parts, and Fields,  
And every rare thing Lacedaemon yields,  
He holds himself much pleased with my being,  
And nothing hides, that he esteems worth seeing.  
I am on fire, till I behold your face,  
Of all Achayas' Kingdom, the sole grace,  
All other Curious objects I defy,  
Nothing but Helen can content mine eye,  
Whom when I saw, I stood transformed with wonder,  
Senseless, as one struck dead by Ihoves sharp Thunder:  
As I revive, my eyes Irowle and turn,  
Whilst my flamed thoughts with hotter fancies burn,  
Even so (as I remember,) looked Loves Queen,  
When she was last in Phrygian Ida seen,  
Unto which place by Fortune I was trained,  
Where by my censure she the Conquest gained:  
But had you made a fourth in that contention,  
Of Venus' beauty, there had been no mention:  
Helen assuredly had borne from all  
The prize of beauty, the bright Golden Ball.   

Only of you may this your Kingdom boast,  
by you it is renowned in every Coast:  
Rumour hath every where your beauty blazed,  
In what remote Clime is not Helen praised?  
From the bright Eastern Sun's uprise, Inquire  
Even to his downfall, where he slakes his fire,  
There lives not any of your Sex that dare,  
Contend with you that are proclaimed so fair;  
Trust me, for truth I speak. Nay what's most true,  
Too sparingly the world hath spoke of you:  
Fame that hath undertook your name to blaze,  
Played but the envious housewife in your praise:  
More than report could promise, or fame blazon, 
H●…en at nine years of age ravished by Theseus.   
Are these Divine perfections that I gaze on:  
These were the same that made Duke Theseus lavish,  
Who in thy prime and Nonage did thee ravish;  
A worthy Rape for such a worthy Man,  
Thrice happy Ravisher, to seize thee than  
When thou wert stripped stark naked to the skin, 
A custom in Pelepones●…, the Prou●… in which 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stands.   
(A sight, of force to make the Gods to sin:)  
Such is your Country's guise at seasons when,  
with naked Ladies they mix naked Men;  
That he did steal thee from thy Friends, I praise him,  
And for that deed, I to the Heavens will raise him:  
That he returned thee back, by Ihove I wonder,  
Had I been Theseus, he that should assonder  
Have parted us, or snatched thee from my bed,  
First from my shoulders should have pared my head:  
So rich a purchase, such a glorious prey,  
Should constantly have been detai'nd for aye.  
Could these my strong Arms possibly unclasp,  
Whilst in their amorous folds they Helen grasp,  
Neither by free constraint, nor by free-giving,  
Could you depart that compass, and I living:  
But if by rough enforce I must restore you,  
Some fruits of Love, (which I so long have bore you,)  
I first would reap, and some sweet favour gain,  
That all my suit were not bestowed in vain;  
Either with me you should abide and stay,  
Or for your pass your maidenhead should pay.  
Or say I spared you that, yet would I try  
What other favour, I could else come by,  
All that belongs to love, I would not miss,  
You should not let me both to clip and kiss.   

Give me your heart fair Queen, my heart you owe,  
And what my resolution is, you know,  
Till the last fire my breathless body take,  
The fire within my breast can never slake,  
Before large kingdoms I preferred your face,  
And juno's love, and potent gifts disgrace.  
To sold you in my amorous Arms I choosed,  
And Pallas virtues scornfully refused.  
When they with Venus in the Hil of Idc,  
Made me the judge their beauties to decide,  
Nor do I yet repent me, having took  
Beauty: and strength and Sceptered rule for sook:  
Methinks I choosed the best, (nor think it strange)  
I still persist, and never mean to change;  
Only that my employment be not vain,  
Oh you more worth than any Empire's gain,  
Let me entreat, lest you my birth should scorn  
Or parentage: know I am royal borne.  
By marrying me, you shall not wrong your State,  
Nor be a wife to one degenerate.  
Search the Records where we did first begin,  
And you shall find the Pleiads of our Kin:  
Nay Iho●…e himself, all others to forbear,  
That in our stock renowned Princes were:  
My Father of all Asia reigns sole-King,  
Whose boundless Coast, scarce any featheredwing  
Can give a girdle too, a happier Land  
A neighbour to the Ocean cannot stand:  
There in a narrow compass you may see  
Cities and Towers, more than may numbered be,  
The houses guilt, rich Temples that exell,  
And you will say I near the great Gods dwell.  
You shall behold high Issiums' lofty Towers,  
And Troy's brave Walls built by Immortal powers,  
But made by Phoebus the great God of Fire,  
And by the touch of his melodious Liar:  
If we have people to inhabit, when  
The sad earth groans to bear such troops of men:  
judge Helen, Likewise when you come to Land,  
The Asian Women shall admiring stand,  
Saluting thee with welcome, more and less  
Inpreasing throngs and numbers, numberless:  
More than our Courts can hold of you (most fair)  
You to yourself will say, alas, how bare  
And poor Achaya is, when with great pleasure,  
You see each house contain a cities Treasure.   

Mistake me not I Sparta do not scorn,  
I hold the Land blest where my Love was borne:  
Though barren else, rich Sparta Helen bore,  
And therefore I that Province must adore;  
Yet is your Land methinks but lean and empty,  
You worthy of a Clime that flows with plenty  
Full Troy, I prostrate it is yours by duty,  
This petty-seat becomes not your rich beauty;  
Attendance, Preparation, Curtsy, state,  
Fit such a Heavenly form, on which should wait,  
Cost, fresh variety, Delicious diet,  
Pleasure, Contentment, and Luxurious ryet,  
What Ornaments we use, what fashions feign,  
You may perceive by me and my proud train,  
Thus we attire our men, but with more cost  
Of Gold and Pearl, the rich Gowns are Embossed  
Of our chief Ladies, guess by what you see,  
you may be soon induc'st to credit me. 
Ganymede.    

Be tractable fair Spartan, nor contemn  
A Trojan borne, derived from Royal stemne:  
He was a Trojan and allied to Hector,  
That waits upon Ihoves cup, and fills him Nectar: 
Shafalus.   
A Trojan did the fair Aurora wed,  
And nightly slept within her Roseate bed:  
The Goddess that ends night and enters day,  
From our fair Trojan Coast stole him away, 
Anchises.   
Anchises was a Trojan, whom loves Queen,  
(Making the Trees of Ida a thick Screen  
Twixt Heaven and her) oft lay with, view me well,  
I am a Trojan too, in Troy I dwell:  
Thy Husband Menelaus hither bring,  
Compare our shapes, our years, and every thing  
I make you judgesse, wrong me if you can,  
you needs must say I am the properer man:  
None of my line hath turned the Sun to blood,  
And robbed his Steeds of their Ambrosial food:  
My Father grew not from the Caucasse Rock,  
Nor shall I graft you in a bloody Stock:  
Priam near wronged the guiltless soul, or further,  
Made the Myrtoan Sea look red with murder. 
Myrtoan is a part of the sea betwixt the joutum & Eg●…um.   
Nor thirsteth my great Grandsire in the Lake  
Of Lethe, Chin-deep, yet no thirst can slake:  
Nor after ripened Apples vainly skips,  
Who fly him still, and yet still touch his lips,  
But what of this? If you be so derived,  
You notwithstanding are no right deprived:  
You grace your Stock, and being so divine,  
Ihove is of force compelled into your Live.   

Oh mischief! Whilst I vainly speak of this,  
Your Husband all unworthy of such bliss  
Enjoys you this long night, enfolds your waist,  
And where he list may boldly touch and taste,  
So when you sat at Table, many a toy,  
Passeth between you my vexed soul t'annoy,  
At such high feasts I wish my enemy sit,  
Where discontent attends on every bit,  
I never yet was placest at any Feast,  
But oft it irkt me that I was your Guest:  
That which offends me most, thy rude Lord knows,  
For still his arm about thy neck he throws,  
Which I no sooner spy but I grow mad,  
And hate the man whose courting makes me sad:  
Shall I be plain? I am ready to sink down  
When I behold him wrap you in his Gown,  
While you sit smiling on his amorous knee,  
His fingers press, where my hands itch to be:  
But when he hugs you I am forced to frown,  
The meat I'm eating will by no means down,  
But sticks half way, amidst these discontents  
I have observed you laugh at my laments,  
And with a scornful, yet a wanton smile  
Deride my sighs and groans, oft to beguile  
My passions, and to quench my fiery rage,  
By quaffing healths I'have thought my flame t'assuage,  
But Bacchus' full cups make my flame burn higher,  
Add wine to love, and you add fire to fire.  
To shun the sight of many a wanton feat,  
Betwixt your Lord and you I shift my seat,  
And turn my head, but thinking of your grace,  
Love screws my bead to ga●…e back on your face.  
What were I best to do? To see you play  
Mads me, and I perforce must turn away,  
And to forbear the place where you abide,  
Would kill me dead should I but start aside:  
As much as lies in me I strive to bury  
The shape of Love, in mirth's spite I seem merry:  
But oh, the more I seek it to suppress,  
The more my blabbing looks my love profess.   

You know my Love which I in vain should hide,  
Would God it did appear to none beside,  
Oh Ihove how often have I turned my cheek,  
To hide th'apparent tears that passage seek,  
From forth my etes, and to a corner stepped,  
Lest any man should ask wherefore Iwept:  
How often have I told you piteous tales,  
Of constant lovers, and how Love prevails?  
When such great heed to my discourse I took,  
That every accent suited to your look.  
In forged names myself I represented,  
The Lover so perplexed and so tor●…ented,  
If you will know? Behold I am the same,  
Paris was meant in that true lovers name:  
As often, that I might the more securely  
Speak lose immodest words that sound impurely,  
That they offenceless might your sweet ears touch,  
I have lispt them out, like one had drunk too much:  
Once I remember, your loose veil betrayed  
Your naked skin, and a fair passage made  
To my enamoured eye, Oh skin much brighter  
Than snow, or purest milk, in colour whiter  
Than your fair mother Leda, when Ihove graced her,  
And in the shape of Feathered Swan imbrac'st her:  
Whilst at this ravishing sight I stand amazed,  
And without interruption freely gazed,  
The wreathed handle of the Bowl I grasped,  
Fell from my hold, my strengthless hand unclaspt,  
A Goblet at that time I held by chanee,  
And down it fell, for I was in a trance;  
Kiss your fair daughter, and to her I skip,  
And snatch your kisses from your sweet Child's lip.  
Sometimes I throw myself along, and lie  
Singing Lovesongs, and if you cast your eye  
On my effeminate gesture, I still find  
Some pretty covered signs to speak my mind,  
And then my earnest suit bluntly invades  
Aethra and Clim●…nca your two chief maids,  
But they return me answers full of fear,  
And to my motions lend no further ear.   

Oh that you were the prize of some great strife,  
And he that wins might claim you for his wife,  
Hyppomanes with swift Atlanta ran,  
And at one course the Goal and Lady won,  
Even she, by whom so many Suitors perished,  
Was in the bosom of her new Love cherished:  
So Hercules for Deianeira strove,  
Broke Achelous' horn, and gained his love,  
Had I such liberty: such freedom granted,  
My resolution never could be daunted,  
Yourself should find, and all the world should see,  
Helen (a prize alone) reserved for me.  
There is not left me any means (most fair)  
To Court you now, but by entreats and praire,  
Unless (as it becomes me) you think meet,  
That I should prostrate fall, and kiss your feet,  
Oh, all the honour that our last age wins,  
Then glory of the two Tyndarian Twins,  
Worthy to be Ihoves Wife, in heaven to reign,  
Were you not Ihoves own daughter, of his strain.  
To the Sygean confines I will carry thee,  
And in the Temple of great Pallas marry thee:  
Or in this Island where I vent my moans,  
I'll beg a Tomb for my exiled bones:  
My wound is not a slight race with an arrow,  
But it hath pierced my heart, and burned my marrow,  
This prophesy my Sister oft hath sounded,  
That by an heavenly dart I should be wounded:  
Oh then forbear (fair Helen) to oppose you.  
Against the Gods, they say I shall not lose you:  
Yield you to their behest, and you shall find,  
The Gods to your petitions likewise kind.  
A thousand things at once are in my brain,  
Which that I may essentially complain,  
And not in papers empty all my head,  
Anon at night receive me to your bed.  
Blush you at this, or Lady do you fear  
To violate the Nuptial laws austearc?  
Oh (simple Helen) Foolish, I might say,  
What profit reap you to be chaste, I pray?  
1st possible, that you a World to win,  
Should keep that face, that beauty, without sin?  
Rather you must your glorious face exchange  
For one (less Fair) or else not seem so strange:  
Beauty and Chastity at variance are,  
'tis hard to find one Woman chaste and fair,  
Venus will not have beauty over awed,  
High Ihove himself, stolen pleasures will applaud,  
And by such thievish pastimes we may gather,  
How Ihove 'gainst Wedlock's laws, became your father:  
He and your mother Leda both transgressed  
When you were got, she bore a tender breast.  
What glory can you gain loves sweets to smother?  
Or to be counted Chaster than your mother?  
Profess strict chastity, when with great joy,  
I lead you as my Bride-espousd, through Troy;  
Then jentreat you rain your pleasures in,  
I wish thy Paris may be all thy sin.  
If Cytherea her firm Covenant keep,  
Though I within your bosom nightly sleep,  
We shall not much misdo, but so offend,  
That we by marriage may our guilt amend.   

Your husband hath himself this business aided,  
And though (not with his tongue) he hath persuaded  
By all his deeds (as much) lest he should stay  
Our private meetings, he is far away:  
Of purpose rid unto the farthest West,  
That he might leave his wife unto his guest.  
No fitter time he could have found to visit  
The Chrisean royal Sceptre, and to seize it:  
Oh, simple simple Husband: but he's gone,  
And going, left you this to think upon.  
Fair Wife (quoth he) I prithee in my place,  
Regard the Trojan Prince, and do him grace:  
Behold, a witness I against you stand,  
You have been careless of his kind command.  
Count from his first days journey, never since  
Did you regard or grace the Trojan Prince;  
What think you of your Husband? that he knows  
The worth and value of the face he owes?  
Who (but a Fool) such beauty would endanger,  
Or trust it to the mercy of a Stranger.  
Then (royal Queen) if neither may entreat,  
My quenchless passion, nor loves raging heat  
Can win you, we are wooed both to this crime,  
Even by the fit advantage of the time,  
Either to loves sweet sport we must agree,  
Or show ourselves to be worse fools than he.  
He took you by the hand the hour he road,  
And knowing, I with you must make abode,  
Brings you to me, What should I further say?  
It was his mind to give you quite away.   

What meant he else? Then le's be blithe and jolly,  
And make the best use of your Husband's folly:  
What should we do? Your husband is far gone,  
And this cold night (poor soul) you lie alone:  
I want a bedfellow, so do we either,  
What lets us then, but that we lie together.  
You slumbering think on me, On you I dream,  
Both our desires are fervent, and extreme:  
Sweet, then appoint the night. Why do you stay?  
Oh night, more clearer than the brightest day,  
Then I dare freely speak, protest, and swear,  
And of my vows the Gods shall record bear:  
Then will I seal the contract, and the strife,  
From that day forward, we are man and Wife:  
Then questionless I shall so far persuade,  
That you with me shall Troy's rich Coast invade,  
And with your Phrygian guest at last agree,  
Our potent Kingdom and rich Crown to see:  
But if you (blushing) fear the vulgar bruit,  
That says, you follow me, to me make suit,  
Fear it not Helen; I'll so work with Fame,  
I will (alone) be guilty of all blame.   

Duke Theseus was my instance, and so were  
Your brother's Lady, Can I come more near  
To ensample my attempts by? Theseus' haled  
Helen perforce: Your brothers they prevailed  
With the Leucippian Sisters, now from these  
I'll count myself the fourth (if Helen please.)  
Our Trojan Navy rides upon the Coast,  
Rig'd, armed, and Man'd, and I can proudly boast,  
The banks are high, Why do you longer stay?  
The winds and Oars are ready to make way,  
You shall be like a high Majestic Queen,  
Led through the Dardan City, and be seen  
By millions, who your State having commended,  
Will (wondering) swear, some Goddess is descended.  
Where ere you walk the Priests shall Incense burn,  
No way you shall your eye or body turn,  
But sacrificed beasts the ground shall beat,  
And bright religious fires the Welkin heat,  
My father, mother, brother, sisters: all  
Islium and Troy in pomp majestical,  
Shall with rich gifts present you (but alas)  
Not the least part (so far they do surpass)  
Can my Epistle speak, you may behold  
More than my words or writings can unfold.   

Nor fear the bruit of war, or threatening Steel,  
When we are fled, to dog us at the heel:  
Or that all Graecia will their powers unite,  
Of many ravished, can you one recite,  
Whom war repurchased? These be idle fears,  
Rough blustering Boreas fair Orithea bears  
Unto the Land of Thrace, yet Thrace still free,  
And Athens raised no rude Hostility:  
In winged Pegasus did jason sail,  
And from great Colchos he Medea stale:  
Yet Thessaly you see can show no scar  
Of former wounds in the Thessalian war.  
He that first ravished you: In such a Fleet  
As ours is, Ariadne brought from Crect:  
Yet Minos and Duke Theseus were agreed,  
About that quarrel, not a breast did bleed:  
Less is the danger (trust me) than the fear  
That in these vain and idle doubts appear.  
But say rude war should be proclaimed at length,  
Know, I am valiant and have sinewy strength:  
The weapons that I use are apt to kill,  
Asia beside, more spacious fields can fill  
With armed men then Greece, amongst us are  
More perfect Soldiers, more beasts apt for war:  
Nor can thy husband Menelaus be  
Of any high spirit and Magnanimity,  
Or so well proved in Arms: for Helen I  
Being but a Lad, have made my enemies fly,  
Regaind the prey from out the hands of thieves,  
Who had despoiled our Herds, and stolen our beeves,  
By such adventures I my name obtained,  
(Being but a Lad) the conquest I have gained  
Of young men in their prime, who much could do,  
Deiphobus, Ilioneas to,  
I have o'ercome in many sharp contentions,  
Nor think these are my vain and forged inventions,  
Or that I only hand to hand can fight,  
My arrows when I please shall touch the white.  
I am expert in the Quarry and the Bow,  
You cannot boast your heartless husband so:  
Had you the power in all things to supply me,  
And should you nothing in the world deny men,  
To give me such a Hector to my brother  
You could not: The earth bears not such another:  
By him alone all Asia is well manned,  
He like an enemy against Greece shall stand  
Opposed to your best fortunes, wherefore strive you?  
You do not know his valour that must wive you,  
Or what hid worth is in me, but at length  
You will confess when you have proved my strength:  
Thus either war shall still our steps pursue,  
Or Greece shall fall in Troy's all-conquering view,  
Nor would I fear for such a royal Wife,  
To set the Universal world at strife:  
To gain rich Prizes, men will venture far,  
The hope of purchase makes us bold in war:  
If all the world about you should contend,  
Your name would be eternizd without end,  
Only be bold, and fearless may we sail  
Into my Country, with a prosperous gale,  
If the Gods grant me my expected day,  
I to the full shall all these Covenants pay.   
THese two Epistles being so pertinent to our History, I thought necessary to translate, as well for their elegancy as for their alliance, opening the whole project of the Love betwixt Paris and Helen, the preparation to his journey, his entertainment in Sparta, as also Hecuba's dream, Paris his casting out among Shepherds, his Vision, and the whole prosecution of his intended Rape.  
Leda was wife to Tindarus King of Laconia. The Poets write, that jupiter accompanying her in form of a Swan, she brought forth two eggs, of the one came Pollux and Helena, of the other came Castor and Clytaemnestra, after wife to Agamemnon.  
The Pleyades from whom Paris derives his progeny, are the seven stars, once daughters to Lycurgus the famous Lawgiver of Athens.  
Hermione was daughter to Menelaus and Helena, betrothed to Orestes, but married to Pyrrhus, for which cause Orestes slew Pyrrhus at the Altar, and after enjoyed his love Hermione.  
To prosecute the Tale of Ariadne's transformation after she had saved the life of ingrateful Theseus, who by her advise and providence slew the Mynotaur, Theseus in his return home for sook her, and left her upon a desolate Island.  

It so fell out,  
Mad Ariadne stayed that Isle about,  
Left desolate upon that harren plain  
Where the brook Dia pours into the Main,  
Who waking from her rest, her vail unbound,  
Her barefoot treading on the unknown ground,  
Her golden hair disheue'ld, loud she raves,  
Calling on Theseus to the deafened waves,  
On Theseus, cruel Theseus, whom she seeks,  
Whilst showers of tears make furrows in her cheeks.  
She calls and weeps, and weeps and calls at once,  
Which might have moved to ruth the senseless stones,  
Yet both alike became her, they both graced her,  
The whilst she strives to call him, or cry faster.  
Then beats she her soft breast, and makes it groan,  
And then she cries, What, is false Theseus gone?  
What shall I do? she cries, What shall I do?  
And with that note, she runs the forests throoe,  
When suddenly her ear might understand,  
Cymbals and Timbrels touched with a loud hand,  
To which the Forests, Woods, and Caves resound,  
And now amazed she senseless falls to ground.  
Behold the Nymphs come with their scattered hair,  
Falling behind, which they like garments ware,  
And the light satires, an unruly crew,  
Nearer and nearer to the Virgin grew.  
Next old Sylenus on his lazy Ass, 
Sylenus the Priest of Bacchus.   
Nods with his drunken pate, about to pass,  
Where the poor Lady all in tears lies drowned,  
Scarce sits the Drunkard but he falls to ground,  
Scarce holds the Bridle fast, but staggering stoops,  
Following those giddy bachinalian troops,  
Who dance the wild Lavolto on the grass,  
Whilst with a staff he lays upon his Ass.  
At length, when the young satires lest suspect,  
He tumbling, falls quite from his Ass' neck.   

But up they heave him, whilst each Satire cries,  
Rise good old Father, good old Father rise.  
Now comes the god himself, next after him  
His Vine-like Chariot, drawn with Tigers grim,  
Colour, and voice, and Theseus, she doth lack,  
Thrice would she fly, and thrice fear plucked her back,  
She trembles like a stalk the wind doth shake,  
Or a weak reed that grows beside the Lake,  
To whom the God spoke: Lady, take good cheer,  
See one more faithful than false Theseus here:  
Thou shalt be wife to Bacchus, for a gift  
Take the high heavens, and to the Spheres be lift,  
Where thou shalt shine a star to guide by night,  
The wandering Seaman in his course aright:  
This said, lest his grim Tigers should affray  
The trembling Maid, the God his Coach doth stay,  
And leaping from his Chariot with his heels  
Imprints the sand, and then the Nymph he feels,  
And hugging her, in vain she may resist,  
He bears her thence (Gods can do what they list)  
Some Hymen sing, some Io, Io cry,  
So Bacchus with the maid all night doth lie.  
Therefore when wine in plenteous cups doth flow,  
And thou the night unto thy Love dost owe,  
Pray to the God of grapes that in thy bed,  
The quaffing healths do not offend thy head.   
Agreeable to this, is that in the first book, de Art. aman. for from Paris he derives these Love-tricks in wine.  

Lo, I can teach thee, though thy tongue be mute,  
How with thy speaking eye to move thy suit:  
Good language may be made in looks and winks,  
Be first that takes the cup wherein she drinks,  
And note the very place her lip did touch,  
Drink just at that, let thy regard be such:  
Or when she carves, what part of all the meat  
She with her fingers touch, that carve and eat:  
Carouse not, but with soft and moderate sups,  
Have a regard and measure, in thy cups:  
Let both thy feet and thoughts their office know,  
Chiefly beware of brawling, which may grow  
By too much wine. From fight most abstain,  
In such a quarrel was Eurilion slain:  
Where Swaggering leads the way, Mischief comes after,  
junkets and Wine were made for mirth and laughter:  
Though to be drunk indeed, may hurt thy brain,  
Yet now and then, I hold it good to fayne:  
Instruct thy lisping tongue sometimes to trip  
That if misplacst, a word transgress thy lip  
It may be judged that quaffing was the cause, etc.   
The end of the ninth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
HEllen re-wrytes, the Troyans' suit prevails,  
And of the appointed Rape they both agree,  
Proud of so fair a purchase, Paris sails  
To Troy, from whence the Grecians seek to free  
The ravished Spartan: Menelaus bewails  
The absence of his Queen, longing to see  
Revenge on Troy, to which the Grecians meet,  
Castor and Pollux perish with the Fleet.  
ARG. 2.  
KAppa records her Rape, describes and brings  
To Aulis Gulf the powerful Grecian kings.  
CANTO. 10. Helen to Paris.  

NO sooner came mine eye unto the sight  
Of thy rude lines, but I must needs re-wright:  
Dar'st thou (Oh shameless) in such heinous wise,  
The Laws of Hospitality despise? And being a stranger,  
from thy Country's reach,  
Solicit a chaste wife to Wedlock's breach?  
Was it for this, our free Tenarian Port,  
Received thee and thy train, in friendly sort?  
And when great Neptune nothing could appease,  
Gave thee safe harbour from the stormy Seas?  
Was it for this, our kingdoms arms spread wide,  
To entertain thee from the waters side?  
Yet thou of foreign soil remote from hence,  
A stranger, coming we scarce know from whence,  
Is perjured wrong the recompense of right?  
Is all our friendship guerdoned with despite?  
I doubt me then, whither in our Court doth tarry,  
A friendly guest, or a fierce adversary:  
Nor blame me, for if justly you consider,  
And these presumptions well compare together,  
So simple my complaint will not appear,  
But you yourself must needs excuse my fear.  
Well, hold me simple, much it matters not,  
Whilst I preserve my chaste name far from spot,  
For when I seem touched with bashful shame,  
It shows how highly I regard my Fame:  
When I seem sad, my countenance is not feigned,  
And when I lower, my look is unconstrained.  
But say my brow be cloudy, my name's clear,  
And reverently you shall of Helen here:  
No man from me adulterate spoils can win,  
For to this hour I have sported without sin,  
Which makes me in my heart the more to wonder,  
What hope you have in time to bring me under,  
Or from mine eye what comfort thou canst gather  
To pity thee, and not despise thee rather:  
Because once Theseus hurried me from hence,  
And did to me a kind of violence,  
Follows it therefore, I am of such prize,  
That ravished once, I should he ravished twice:  
Was it my fault, because I strived in vain,  
And wanted strength his fury, to restrain?  
He flattered and spoke fair, I struggled still,  
And what he got, was much against my will:  
Of all his toil, he reaped no wished fruit,  
For with my wrangling I withstood his suit,  
At length, I was restored, untouched and clear,  
In all my Rape, I suffered nought (save fear)  
A few untoward kisses, he (God wot)  
Dry, without rhellish, by much striving got,  
And them with much ado, and to his cost,  
Of further favours, he could never boast:  
I doubt your purpose aims at greater blisses,  
And hardly would alone be pleased with kisses,  
Thou hast some further aim, and seek'st to do  
What (Ihove defend) I should consent unto:  
He bore not thy bad mind, but did restore me,  
Unblemished, to the place from whence he bore me:  
The youth was bashful, and thy boldness lacked,  
And 'tis well known, repent his bold fact:  
Theseus repented, so should Paris do,  
Succeed in Love, and in repentance to;  
Nor am I angry: Who can angry be  
With him that loves her? If your heart agree  
With your kind words, your suit I could applaud  
So I were sure your lines were void of fraud.  
I cast not these strange doubts or this dispense  
Like one that were bereft all confidence:  
Nor that I with myself am in disgrace,  
Or do not know the beauty of my face,  
But because too much trust hath damaged such  
As have believed men in their loves to much,  
And now the general tongue of woman saith,  
Man's words are full of Treason, void of faith.   

Let others sin, and hours in pleasure waste,  
'tis rare to find the sober Matron chaste:  
Why, say it be that sin prevails with fair ones,  
May not my name be ranked among the rare ones?  
Because my mother Leda was beguiled,  
Must I stray too, that am her eldest child?  
I must confess, my mother made a rape,  
But Ihove beguiled her in a borrowed shape,  
When she (poor soul) nor dreamt of god nor man,  
He trod her like a milk-white feathered Swan:  
She was deceived by error, If I yield  
To your unjust request, nothing can shield  
Me from reproach, I cannot plead concealing,  
'Twas in her, error, 'tis in me plain dealing:  
She happily erred, He that her honour spilled,  
Had in himself full power to salve the guilt;  
Her error happyed me to (I confess)  
If to be Ihoves child, be a happiness.   

To omit high Ihove, of whom I standin awe,  
As the great Grandsire to our Father in Law,  
To pass the kin I claim from Tantalus,  
From Pelopes, and from Noble Tyndarus.  
Leda by Ihove in shape of Swan beguiled,  
Herself so changed and by him made with ch●…ld  
Proves Ihove my Father: than you idly strive  
Your name from Gods and Princes to derive.  
What need you of old Priam make relation?  
Laomedon, or your great Phrygian Nation?  
Say, all be true: What then? He, of whom most  
To be of your alliance you so boast,  
Ihove (five degrees at least) from you removed,  
To be the first from me, is plainly proved;  
And though (as I believe well) Troy may stand  
Powerful by Sea, and full of strength by Land,  
And no Dominion to your State superior,  
I hold our Clime nothing to Troy inferior:  
Say, you in riches pass us, or in number  
Of people, whom you boast your streets to cumber,  
Yet yours a Barbarous Nation is, I tell you,  
And in that kind, do we of Greece excel you.  
Your rich Epistle doth such gifts present,  
As might the Goddesses themselves content  
And woe them to your pleasures, but if I  
Should pass the bonds of shame, & tread awry  
If ever you should put me to my shifts,  
Yourself should move me more than all your gifts:  
Or if I ever shall transgress by stealth,  
It shall be for your sake, not for your wealth;  
But as your gifts I scorn not, so such seem  
Most precious, where the giver we esteem.  
More than your presence, it shall Helen please  
That you for her have past the stormy Seas,  
That she hath caused your toil, that you respect her,  
And more than all your Trojan Dames affect her.   

But youare a Wag in troth, the notes and signs  
You make at Table, in the meats and Wines,  
I have observed, when I least seemed to mind them,  
For at the first my curious eye did find them.  
Sometimes (you wanton) your fixed eye advaunces  
His brightness against mine, darting sweet glances,  
Outgazing me with such a steadfast look,  
That my dazd eyes their splendour have for sook,  
And then you sigh, and by and by you stretch  
Your amorous arm outright, the bowl to reach  
That next me stands, making excuse to sip  
Just in the self-same place that kissed my lip.  
How oft have I observed your finger make  
Tricks and conceited signs, which strait I take?  
How often doth your brow your smooth thoughts cloak  
When (to my seeming) it hath almost spoke,  
And still I feared my Husband would have spied ye,  
In troth you are to blame, and I must chide ye:  
You are too manifest a Lover (Tush,)  
At such known signs I could not choose but blush,  
And to myself I oft was forced to say,  
This man at nothing shames. Is this (I pray)  
ought save the truth? Oft times upon the board  
Where Helen was engraven, you the word  
Amorett have underwit, in new spilled wine  
(Good sooth) at first I could not skan the line,  
Nor understand your meaning: Now, (oh spite)  
Myself am now taught, so to Read and write.  
Should I offend, as Sin to me is strange,  
These blandishments have power chaste thoughts to change  
Or if I could be moved to step astray  
These would provoke me to lascivious play:  
Besides, I must confess, you have a Face,  
So admirably rare, so full of grace,  
That it hath power to woe and to make ceasure,  
Of the most bright chaste beauties to your pleasure.  
yet had I rather stainelesse keep my Fame,  
Then to a stranger hazard my good name:  
Make me your instance, and forbear the fare,  
Of that which most doth please you, make most spare.  
The greatest virtues of which wise men boast,  
Is to abstain from that which pleaseth most.  
How many gallant Youths (think you) desire,  
That which you covet? Scorched with the self-same fire?  
Are all the World fools? Only Paris wise?  
Or is there none save you have judging eyes?  
No●… no, you view no more than others see,  
But you are plainer and more bold with me,  
You are more earnest to pursue your game,  
jyeeld you not more knowledge, but less shame  
I would to God that you had sailed from Troy,  
When my Virginity and bed to enjoy  
A thousand gallant princely Suitors came:  
Had I beheld young Paris, I proclaim,  
Of all those thousand I had made you chief,  
And Spartan Menelaus to his grief  
Should to my censure have subscribed and yielded,  
But now (alas) your hopes are weakly builded  
You covet goods possessed; pleasures foretasted,  
Tarde you come, that should before have hasted,  
What you desire, another claims as due.  
As I could wish t'have been espoused to you,  
So let me tell you, since it is my fate,  
I hold me happy in this present state,  
Then cease fair Prince, an idle suit to move  
Seek not to harm her whom you seem to love:  
In my contented state let me be guided,  
As both my stars and fortunes have provided,  
Nor in so vain a quest your spirits toil,  
To seek at my hands an unworthy spoil.   

But see how soon poor Women are deluded,  
Venus herself this covenant hath concluded,  
For in the Idaean Valleys you espy  
Three Goddesses, stripped naked to your eye,  
And when the first had promised you a Crown,  
The second Fortitude and wars renown,  
The third bespoke you thus: Crown, nor Wars pride  
Will I bequeath, but Helen to thy Bride,  
I scarce believe those high immortal Creatures,  
Would to your eye expose their naked features,  
Or say the first part of your Tale be pure,  
And meet with truth: The second's false I'm sure,  
In which poor I was thought the greatest meed,  
In such a high cause by the Gods decreed.  
I have not of my beauty such opinion  
T'imagine it preferred before Dominton,  
Or fortitude: nor can your words persu●…de me  
The greatest gift of all, the Goddess made me.  
It is enough to me, men praise my face,  
But from the Gods, I merit no such grace,  
Nor doth the praise you charge me with offend me,  
If Venus do not enviously commend me.  
But lo I grant you, and imagine true,  
Your free report, claiming your praise as due,  
Who would in pleasing things call Fame a liar,  
But give that credit, which we most desire.   

That we have moved these doubts be not you grieved,  
The greatest wonders are the least believed,  
Know then I first am pleased that Venus ought me  
Such undeserved grace: Next, that you thought me  
The greatest meed: Nor Sceptre, nor wars Fame,  
Did you prefer before poor Helen's name.  
(Hard-hart 'tis time thou shouldst at last come down)  
Therefore I am your valour, I your Crown,  
Your kindness conquers me do what I can,  
I were hard-hearted, not to love this man;  
Obdurate I was never, and yet coy,  
To favour him whom I can never enjoy.  
What profits it the barren sands to plow  
And in the furrows our affections sow,  
In the sweet theft of Venus I am rude,  
And know not how my Husband to delude;  
Now I these Lovelines write, my pen I vow  
Is a new office taught, not known till now,  
Happy are they that in this Trade have skill,  
(Alas I am a Fool) and shall be still,  
And having till this hour not slept astray,  
Fear in these sports lest I should miss my way  
The fear (no doubt) is greater than the blame  
I stand confounded and amazed with shame.  
And with the very thought of what you seek,  
Think every eye fixed on my guilty cheek,  
Nor are these suppositions merely vain,  
The murmuring people whisperingly complain,  
And my maid Aethra hath by listening slily,  
Brought me such news, as touched mine honour hily:  
Wherefore (dear Lord) dissemble, or desist,  
Being over-eyde, we cannot as we list,  
Fashion our sports, our loves pure harvest gather:  
But why should you desist? dissemble rather:  
Sport, (but in secret) sport where none may see,  
The greater, but not greatest liberty  
Is limited to our Lascivious play,  
That Menelaus is far hence away,  
My Husband about great affairs is pousted,  
Leaving his royal guest securely hoasted,  
His business was important and material,  
Being employed about a Crown Imperial:  
And as he now is mounted on his Steed,  
Ready on his long journey to proceed,  
Even as he questions to depart or stay,  
Sweet heart (quoth I) oh be not long away,  
With that he reached me a sweet parting kiss,  
(How loath he was to leave me, guess by this.)  
Farewell fair Wife (saith he) bend all thy cares  
To my domestic business, home affairs,  
But as the thing that I affection best,  
Sweet Wife, look well unto my Trojan guest.  
It was no sooner out, but with much pain,  
My itching spleen from laughter Irestraine,  
Which striving to keep in and bridle still,  
At length Iwrung forth these few words (I wil)  
he's on his journey to the Isle of Crect,  
But think not we may therefore safely meet,  
He is so absent, that as present I  
Am still within his reach: His Ear, his Eye  
And though abroad, his power at home commands  
For know you not Kings have long reaching hadst?  
The fame for beauty you beside have given me,  
Into a great exigent hath driven me:  
The more your commendation filled his care,  
The more just cause my husband hath to fear:  
Nor marvel you the King hath left me so,  
Into remoate and foreign Climes to go,  
Much confidence he dares repose in me,  
My carriage, haviour, and my modesty,  
My beauty he mistrusts, my heart relies in  
my face he fears, my chaste life he affies in.   

To take time now when time is, you persuade me,  
And with his apt fit absence you invade me:  
I would, but fear, nor is my mind well set,  
my Will would further, what my fear doth let.  
I have no husband here, and you no wife,  
I love your shape, you mine, dear as your life.  
The nights seem long to such as sleep alone,  
Our letters meet to interchange our moan:  
You judge me beauteous, I esteem you fair,  
Under one Roof we Lovers lodged are,  
And (let me die) but every thing consider,  
Each thing persuades us we should lie together,  
Nothing we see molests us, nought we hear,  
And yet my forward will is slacked through fear:  
I would to God that what you ill persuade,  
You could as well compel, So I were made  
Unwilling willing, pleasingly abused,  
So my simplicity might be excused:  
Injurious force is oft-times wondrous pleasing,  
To such as suffer ease in their diseasing,  
If what I will, you 'gainst my will should do,  
I with such force could be well pleased too.   

But whilst our love is young and in the bud,  
Suffer his Infant vigour be withstood,  
A flame new kindled is as easily quenched,  
And sudden sparkles in little drops are drenched:  
A travelers Love is like himself, unstaid,  
And wanders where he walks, It is not laid  
On any firmer ground, for when we alone  
Think him to us, the wind blows fair, he's gone:  
Witness Hypsipile, alike betrayed, 
Ariadnt.   
Witness with her, the bright Mynoyan maid:  
Nay then yourself, as you yourself have spoken  
To fair Oenone have your promise broken,  
Since I beheld your face first, my desire  
Hath been, of Trojan Paris to inquire:  
I know you now in every true respect,  
I'll grant you thus much then, say you affect  
Me (whom you term your own.) I'll grow thus far  
Do not the Phagian mariners prepare  
Their sails and Oars, and now whilst we recite  
Exchange of words about the wished night:  
Say that even now you were prepared to climb  
my long wished bed, just at th'appointed time  
The wind should alter and blow fair for Troy,  
You must break off, in midst of all your joy  
And leave me in the infancy of pleasure,  
Amid my riches, I shall lose my treasure.  
You will for sake the sweets my bed affords,  
T'exchange for Cabins, Hatches, and pitched boards,  
Then what a fickle Courtship you commence,  
When, with the first wound, all your Love blows hence.  
But shall I follow you when you are gone,  
And be the grandchild to Laomedon?  
And Islium see, whose beauty you proclaim?  
I do not so despise the bruit of fame,  
That she to whom I am in debt such thanks,  
Should fill the Earth with such adulterate pranks:  
What will Achaia? What will Sparta say?  
What will your Troy report and Asia?  
What may old Priam or his reverent Queen?  
What may your Sisters having Helen seen,  
Or your Dardanian brothers deem of me?  
Will they not blame my loose ●…nchastity:  
Nay, how can you yourself faithful deem me,  
And not amongst the losest dames esteem me  
No stranger shall your Asian Ports come near  
But he shall fill your guilty soul with fear.  
How often (angry at some small offence)  
Will you thus say; adulteress, get thee hence,  
Forgetting you yourself have been the chief  
In my transgression, though not in my grief.  
Consider what it is forgetful Lover,  
To be sins Author, and sins sharp reprover,  
But ere the least of all these Ills betid me,  
I wish the earth may in her bosom hide me.   

But I shall all your Phrygian wealth possess,  
And more than your Epistle can express;  
Gifts, woven gold, Embroidery, rich attire,  
Purple and Plate, or what I can desire?  
Yet give me leave, think you all this extends  
To countervail the loss of my chief friends?  
Whose friendship, or whose aid shall I employ,  
To succour me when I am wronged in Troy?  
Or whether can I, having thus misdone,  
Unto my Father or my Brothers run,  
As much as you to me, false jason swore  
Unto Medea, yet from Aesons door  
He after did exile her: Now poor heart,  
Where is thy Father that should take thy part?  
Old Aeres or Calciope? thou tookest  
No aid from them, who thou before forsookest.  
Or say thou didst (alas they cannot bear  
Thy sad complaints) yet I no such thing fear,  
No more Medea did, good hopes engage  
Themselves so far, they fail in their presage:  
You see the ships that in the Main are tossed,  
And many times by Tempests wracked and lost,  
Had at their launching from the havens mouth,  
A smooth sea, and a calm gale from the South.  
Besides, the brand your mother dreamt she bore  
The night before your birth, breeds me fresh care,  
It Prophesied, ere many years expire,  
Inflamed Troy must burn with Greekish fire,  
As Venus favours you, because she gained  
A double prize by you; yet the disdained  
And vanquished Goddesses, disgraced so late,  
May bear you hard, I therefore fear their hate:  
Nor make no question, but if I consort you,  
And for a Ravisher our Greece report you:  
War will be waged with Troy, and you shall rue,  
The sword (alas) your conquest shall pursue:  
When Hippodamia at her bridal feast,  
Was rudely ravished by her Centaur guest,  
Because the savages the Bride durst cease,  
War grew betwixt them and the Lapythes:  
Or think you Menelaus hath no spleen?  
Or that he hath not power to avenge his teen?  
Or that old Tyndarus this wrong can smother?  
Or the two famous Twins each loved of other.   

So where your valour and rare deeds you boast, 
Castor & Poll.   
And warlike spirits in which you triumph most,  
By which you have attained 'mongst soldiers grace,  
None will believe you that but sees your face,  
Your feature and fair shape, is fitter far  
For amorous Courtships, then remorseless war:  
Let rough-hevved Soldiers warlike dangers prove,  
'tis pity Paris should do aught save love.  
Hector (whom you so praise) for you may fight,  
I'll find you war, to skirmish every night,  
Which shall become you better: Were I wise  
And bold withal, I might obtain the prize,  
In such sweet single Combats, hand to hand,  
'Gainst which no woman that is wise will stand:  
my Champion I'll encounter breast to breast,  
Though I were sure to fall, and be o'repreast.   

In that you private conference entreat me,  
I apprehend you, and you cannot cheat me,  
I know the meaning durst I yield thereto,  
Of what you would confer; What you would do,  
You are too forward, you too far would wade,  
But yet (God knows) your harvests in the blade.  
My tired pen shall here his labour end,  
A guilty sense in thievish lines I send,  
Speak next when your occasion best persuades,  
By Clymenea and Aethra my two maids.   

1  
THese interchanges of their Amours past,  
And Menelaus absent, they compound,  
That in some place an ambush shall be placed,  
With which the Queen shall be encompassed round,  
And willingly surprised, seeming aghast,  
and at their arms, to weep, to shrieke, to sound:  
But all in vain, the Trojan seems to fear her,  
and force perforce, unto his Fleet to bear her.   

2  
She in her frightful agony, seems dumb,  
Yet when she was past help, for help she cried,  
She calls for rescue, that had rescue come,  
Even at the sight of Spartan arms had died:  
She seems affrighted at the Trojan drum,  
and at their stern alarms terrified:  
She calls on Father, Husband, Brother, Friend,  
Naming them most, who could her least defend.   

3  
This uproar made the bold Pannomians guard  
The passage to their ships, still Helen cries  
Upon th' Acaians, from her rescue barred,  
The rumour of her Rape through Sparta flies,  
Whilst Paris with his Soldiers keeps strict ward,  
Launching at length with his desired prize:  
Her two Twin-brother-Kings, that nothing doubt,  
At the same season sojourned thereabout.   

4  
And hearing of their Sister's Rape, make haste,  
The Ravisher with fury to pursue,  
They disimbogue, hoping to gain at last  
Sight of the Tro●… navy, which now grew  
near to the Hellespont, having quite past  
Th'Aegean Sea, the Winds against them blew,  
The Surges swell, and with the rough Winds meet,  
Conspiring both the ruin of the Fleet.   

5  
Ships, Sails, and men, are swallowed in th'abyss,  
The brothers to two Stars the Gods translate, 
Castor & Poll●… translated into the two Poles, the North and South, Pauson.   
One of the Poles by Castor named is,  
The other Pollux, to record their fate,  
Where now they shine in their Celestial bliss,  
But so far distant in their blessed estate,  
As neither hath the power to see his brother,  
For when we raise the one, we lose the other.   

6  
By this time with his Trojan Rape arrives  
At Tenedos, the amorous Trojan Lad,  
Which Priam understanding, nobly strives  
To welcome her (at her arrival glad)  
The Queen attended with the Noble Wives  
Of all the Trojan Princes, richly clad,  
Issues from Troy, with thousands following after,  
To entertain bright Ladaes' ravished daughter.   

7  
Behold where (on an aumbling Palfrey mounted  
White as her mother's feathers) she appears,  
Now one of Priam's daughters counted,  
For with that style, young Paris Helen cheers,  
At meeting, the old King himself dismounted,  
and with soft kisses dries her feigned tears,  
Old Hecuba next Priam cheers her moan,  
and after her, her daughters one by one.   

8  
Hector and Troilus with the Lords of Troy,  
Kiss her by turns, and with kind arms embrace her,  
The people with applauses crown their joy,  
Whilst Priam 'fore the multitude to grace her,  
Betrothes the Spartan to his amorous boy,  
And in's return on his right hand doth place her,  
Aeneas and Antenor highly praised,  
Kneel to the King, and by his hand are raised.   

9  
The long divorced Peers now interchange  
Their free embracements, whom with kisses sweet  
Their wives, to whom such favours were grown strange,  
with their long absence with like language meet,  
The Trojans eyes on Helen freely range,  
With praise and wonder they her welcome greet,  
Her beauty even so deep in Hector struck,  
He now repines that he against her spoke.   

10  
The ground is strewed with sweet and various flowers,  
In every place is Music heard to sound,  
From Tenedos in less than two short hours  
They enter Troy, whose Walls are peopled round,  
She wonders at their buildings and high Towers,  
The like to which in Sparta are not found,  
Walls, wealth, and people, Palace, all appearing  
Richer to th'eye, than their report in hearing.   

11  
She treads not but on Arras, Casts her eyes  
But on rich hangings, beauties, roofs of Gold,  
jewels, State, Garments: Now she doth despise  
The poverty of Sparta, as things old,  
The novelties of Troy she 'gins to prize,  
But most delights in her sweet arms to enfold  
Enamoured Paris, who as much excels  
her husband; as Troy Sparta, in aught else.   

12  
The morrow comes, by Priam she is led  
To Pallas Temple, and espoused there  
To Paris; and at night conveyed to bed  
By Hecuba, her bright Attendants were  
Andromache, Creusa, (and instead  
Of handmaids) Polyxena and Cressyde, dear  
To Troilus; None save Ladies of estate,  
Are suffered on the Spartan Queen to wait.   

13  
Eight entire days and nights, the high feast lasts,  
And Troy's all mirth, whilst Sparta is all woe,  
With swiftest speed a winged Curror hasts  
As far as Crect, Queen Helen's Rape to show,  
Menelaus his sad hours in anguish wastes,  
By this the Grecian Kings his sorrows know:  
And of themselves assemble, offering free,  
Their hostyle aid, and in Troy's fall agree.   

14  
To bring so huge a Navy on the Seas,  
behooves us know their names that first devised  
These noble vessayles: whether for their ease,  
Whether Ambitious, they the Land despised,  
Whether the Creatan Minos did first please 
Strabo. Diodo.   
The sutges God: or Neptune enterprise  
The foaming billows, being by Saturn's motion,  
Made Admiral of all the brinish Ocean.   

15  
Whether Ericthris in the red Sea sailed 
Pliny   
And first made Boats, which others would impute  
To the Meones, such as never sailed  
In th'Hellespont, or whether the pursuit 
Palydor   
Of Danaus in the Egyptian Sea prevailed,  
An honour which to him most attribute:  
Or whether Navigators first had place,  
In Atlas' kingdom, or in Samo-Thrace. 
Polichron.    

16  
This I aver, his Ark first Noah made  
Fore th'universal Deluge, since his days  
jason the Greek, who Colchos sought to invade,  
Composed the Galley, which next him assays  
Sesostris King of Egypt, In this Trade  
Eytheus flourished, whom our Anthors' praise  
For Marine skill, his Barge did first divide  
The Surges with two Oars on either side.   

17  
First, with three course of Oars Amocles rowed,  
The Carthagens with four, as many write, 
Amocl●…s of Corinth. Nesichthon of Salamis.   
With five Nesichthon: These were first bestowed  
By the bold Romans in the great Sea-fight  
At the first battle Punic: He that owed  
The sixe-Oard barge to do Zenagaras right  
Must yield it him (in Siracusa dwelling  
For shipwrights Craft, all other much excelling.   

18  
Hyppias the Trojan the broad Lyter framed,  
The Cyrenens the Hoy, which some more fine,  
The Gallioon call: with Barks the Cyprians tamed  
The rude sea-rovers, Cockboates (some divine)  
Th' ●…lyrians built: the Keel and Craer were named  
By the Phenetians first: the Brigandine  
The Rhodians reared: the Canoas' now in trade,  
In India by the Germans were first made.   

19  
The Copians found the Rudder, the broad Oar  
The sly Plateans by their Art composed;  
Young Icarus the sail not known before,  
Which some affirm, King Aeolus disclosed,  
With Masts and Sayle-yards Dedalus did store  
The Cretans: but the stern Typhis disposed:  
The stem Pyseus: Anacharsis wrought  
The Tackle, Anchors first the Tyrhens sought.   

20  
Athens first ferried men, whether we must draw  
Th'Graecian fleet, the great'st that hath been seen,  
Such store th'amazed Neptune never saw,  
No not when France and England met between 
A sea-battle fought betwixt Philip of France & Ed. the 3. in the year 1340. when there were slay●… French 30000, ships taken 200.   
Calais and us, where after many a flaw;  
Philip gave place to the third Edward's spleen,  
Before, the black Prince, by wars prosperous chance,  
Quatered our Lions with the Flowers of France.   

21  
Nor when the stout Venetian Galleys frame  
Their expedition 'gainst the Turks Armade,  
Nor when Sea-wars Malta or Rhodes proclaim,  
Whose ponderous hulks the Oceans back nigh swayed,  
Nor when th'●…uincible huge Navy came  
In the year Eighty eight, England t'invade:  
Were there so many Vessailes well provided,  
As by the Argive Pilots are now guided.   

22  
Great Agamemnon they Grand-Duke create 
Agamemnon   
Of all their powerful host, who in the aid  
Of Menelaus, as one of highest estate,  
With full an hundred ships at Athens staid,  
All stuffed with Armed Knights sworn to the Fate  
Of threatened Troy, whom they with scorns upbraid,  
With forty ships fair rig'd and well supplied 
Menelaus   
In Athens road, doth Menelaus now ride.   

23  
For Athens was their Rendezvous, and there  
King Archelaus and Prothenor stay, 
Arch●…laus.   
With fifty Ships that of Boetia were,  
With fifty Ships from Orconomies bay: 
Prothenor. Helmius. Ascalaphus.   
Helmius and Duke Ascalaphus appear,  
The Kings Epistrophus and Sedius, way  
Their Anchors next, and to the Spartan King, 
Epistropus.   
Thirty tall ships rig'd from Phociden bring. 
Sedius.    

24  
King Telamonius launched fifty Souldierd well 
Telamonius.   
From Salamine, and in his princely train 
Theuter. Thebus.   
Duke Theuter, Polyxeme, and Thebes fell,  
With Duke Amphimachus: from Pylon came 
Amphimachus   
With three-aged Nestor fifty ships t'expel 
Nestor   
The Troyans' from the Hellesponticke main;  
Thoas with fifty ships the harbour sought, 
Thoas   
whether K. Doxunois likewise fifty brought. 
Doxunois    

25  
King Telamonius Chileus three times ten 
Telam. Chyleus   
And six good Ships rig'd, in the Spartans' Quest, 
Amphimachus   
Amphimachus and Polibetes, men 
Polybetes.   
Of high rcsolue, accompany the rest  
With thirty sail, King Idumeus then, 
Idumeus.   
And Cretan Mereon their loves expressed, 
Mereon.   
They fourscore and two Frigates brought in place,  
And thirty two Ulysses weighed from Thrace. 
Ulysses    

26  
Twelve Ships from Phrygia Duke Tynelus brings, 
Tynelus Prothocathus   
And from Phtlaca fifty two arrive,  
at the great charge of two imperious Kings 
Protesilaos'   
Prothocathus: The Prince to that did wive  
Laodomeia fair, whose praise Fame sings.  
Protesilaos': Collesis seeks to drive 
Collosis.   
With four and twenty Craers th'opposed fleets  
Whom King Machaon by appointment meets. 
Machaon    

27  
Machaon's Son Pollydris thirty three, 
Pollydris Achilles. Thelaphus Eruphilus   
Achilles two and twenty hath in store,  
King Thelaphus as many, these agree  
By their joint Arms to win the Trojan shore,  
Eruphilus hath likewise vowed to free  
The ravished Queen with two and fifty more:  
Anthipus and Amphimachus are seen, 
Anthipus   
From Rustican with Hulks and Hoys thirteen. 
Amphimachus    

27  
King Polybetes that from Rythee came, 
Polybetes   
Bring sixty two, and in his friendly aid,  
His Brother the Duke Lopius moved with fame 
Lopius   
Of these great wars, seeks Phrygia to i●…ade: 
Diomedes   
King Diomedes of Argos threats the same,  
Fourscore and two tall Vessailes he displayed:  
Euryalus and Thelanus in sight,  
Of all the host, beneath his Ensigns sight. 
Euryalus Thelanus.    

29  
Thirteen K. Fureus, Polyphebus nine, 
Fureus Polyphebus   
Prothoylus fifty two, as many led  
The King Carpenor of the Bresseian line, 
Carpenor Theorius   
Theorius four and twenty colours spread,  
In four and twenty ships, all these in fine  
In the Athenian part meet and make head:  
Twelve hundred twenty Ships make th'Ocean tremble,  
In whom full sixty nine bold Kings assemble.   

38  
But ere we further enter or proceed  
In these Heroic wars, we hold it fit,  
Before the Grecians or the Troyans' bleed,  
To memorise their shapes; ere we admit  
The Argive Peers (all in one thought agreed)  
To be revenged on Troy, and ransack it: 
Helen   
Helen the first, as Peerless through all Lands,  
As Venus' picture that in Coos stands.   

31  
She was nor dwarfe-like statured, nor too tall,  
Nor foggy fat, nor yet Consumptive lean,  
Her Wast not gross, nor yet too slender-small,  
Her saire proportion, was smooth, acquaint, and clean:  
Her habit shadowed no extreme at all,  
She was all shaped by the Golden mean;  
So rare, that never eye dwelled on her Check,  
But lost itself, and had his light to seek.   

32  
What should I with harsh Language slubber o'er  
Exact perfection? Shall my ragged quill  
In seeking Natures cunning to explore,  
Injure the work in which she shows such skill?  
T'express such Graces as the Gods adore  
In Helen, would a spacious Volume fill:  
And asko (should I her beauties all recite,)  
A world of Paper, and an Age to write.   

33  
And all my Subject should be Helen, she  
That in the Universe can find no peer:  
Helen the scope of all my Verse should be,  
Yet to her worth my praise not once comes near;  
Therefore, since more them Helen call on me  
To speak their Valours, and insert them here:  
I leave her with this Title: Helen, fairest  
Of all the World, and for Perfection rarest.   

34  
Bold Agamemnon Duke of all the Host,  
Invoakes me next his features to set down,  
Tall statured, ably limbed, adored most  
Of all the Argives with th'imperial Crown:  
White-bodied, strait, trespuissant without boast,  
Hardy, well-spoke, Ambitious of Renown.  
Menelaus, of mean stature, his voice loud,  
Brown-haired, well set, Valiant in arms, not proud.   

35  
Achilles, he whose Myrmydons defended  
The host of greeks with a strong brazen Mure,  
From Thetis' Goddess of the Sea descended,  
Pourefull, expensive, on his Covenant sure,  
Bright-haired, his face and feature much commended,  
His eye much fiery, his Complexion pure:  
Broad shouldered, and big-armed, large breasted, strong  
His match in Arms, lived not the greeks among.   

36  
King Tantalus, broad, fat, and high withal,  
His head Crispe-blacke, his Beard-thicke, but not long,  
Affable, Courteous, and despising brawl,  
Delighting much in Music, and in Song:  
Al●… as broad as Tantal, and as tall,  
But in his deeds of Arms more active strong:  
He that alone by the greeks awful rector,  
Was chosen worthy to encounter Hector.   

37  
Ajax Oeleus was of smaller size,  
Of milder temper, Courteous, Black his hair,  
His Colour fresh, himself of fair Emptize,  
And a great part among the Prince's bare;  
Vlesses King of Ithaca most wise,  
A right Mercurialist, in discourse rare,  
An Orator, whom judging ears applaud,  
Yet Oily toonged, full of deceit and fraud.   

38  
King Diomedes, of Giantlike aspect,  
The largest Greek that menac'st Troy with steel:  
A Prince, whom all the Princes must respect,  
His ponderous blows make many Troyans' reel,  
Equally apt to fight, or to direct,  
Dreadless of Fortune, or her turning wheel:  
Comely, and decked with all the gifts of Nature,  
His heart having Correspondence with his stature.   

39  
The three-aged living Nestor, piteous King,  
Slenderly-tall, his Visage Sagely grave  
And promising Counsel, he whose Muse did sing  
Of King Protesilaos', to him gave  
The wreath, for quick and Active combating,  
Yet all his Art his body cannot save:  
His look effeminate, his Courage bold,  
His strength by might, but not by fear controlled.   

40  
Strout Neptolynus, in his Countenance grim,  
Blacke-haited, broad-eyed, his hairy win-browes meet,  
Armed at all points, deep Rivers he would swim,  
Though heavy bodied, active were his feet,  
They that most curiously decipher him,  
Report his Language stammering and unsweet:  
Palumides, faire-shapt, but sickly tender,  
His Colour cheerful, but his stature slender.   

41  
Nereus Ipasse, the fair Greek Homer loved,  
Penelaus, Leitus, Euryalus,  
Clovius Arcecilaus, Nobly proved,  
jalmen of Boetia, Ascalaphus;  
Bold Idomen, (a Fury) being moved,  
The Phocean Scedius, and Amphimachus,  
Prothous, jeonteus, Polybetes,  
Guneus, Aemilius, and great Philoctetes 
Philoctetes companion to Hercules.    

42  
Who brought the Arrows dipped in Hydra's blood,  
To Troy's sad siege, there was the brave Prothenor,  
By whom Podarces and King Merion stood  
Tlepolemus, Cteatus, and Alphenor,  
Phidippes', Anthipus a soldier good,  
With stout Alceus soon, K. Agapenor,  
Talpheus, Phetides, King Polyxemon,  
Muestheus, Stenetus, Thoas, son to Andremon.   

43  
Rough Polidarius, fat, and scornful proud,  
False of his promise, and yet warlike bold,  
Mathaon of mean stature, yet aloud  
For valiant to, and 'mongst the best enrolled,  
More princes did the Greek pavilions shroud,  
Whose shapes we leave, to have their merits told:  
Now come we to Crescida, Calchas daughter,  
So fair, that many warlike Princes sought her.   

44  
She was a worthy and a beauteous Dame,  
Whom Troilus loved, and Diomedes sought,  
To gain her Grace, they won immortal Fame,  
And still their glorious spoils to Cresseid brought,  
For her the mighty Persian Sophy came,  
To gain her Love, he 'gainst the Trojans fought:  
Filling the number of the Grecian host,  
Who wait but waftage to the Dardan Coast.   

45  
They call a Counsel, and dispatch away  
Achilles and Patroclus to the Isle  
Caldoro Delos, which our Cosmographers say,  
Stands midst the Cyclades: here of long while  
T●…e God Apolio, unto such as pray,  
Gives answer (by his Oracle:) His smile  
Cheers such as kneel, his frown strikes them with terror  
Such was the paynim Faith, the Pagans Error.   

46  
To this fair Clime (which some Ortigia call,)  
The Sun and Moon were in their Nonage seen,  
Latona brought them forth: here first of all  
Phoebus (the days God) and his Sister Queen  
Cynthia, that guides the night, both rise and fall:  
here stands the Temple, and the guilded Screen,  
On which Apollo's Statuë dwells for aye,  
pronouncing Oracles to such as pray.   

47  
here did Achilles and Patroclus find  
The Trojan Calchas, reverent Thystranes' son,  
Sent by King Priam to know Phoebus' mind,  
And what shall in these future wars be done:  
The Oracles hath by his priests assigned,  
That after ten years Troy shall be o'errun:  
Which Calchas hearing, with Achilles makes  
His speedy peace, and so his Troy forsakes.   

48  
Achilles proud of such a glorious prey,  
With these glad tidings to the Fleet returns,  
Who with all prosperous speed their Anchors way,  
And whilst Troy's King revolted, Calchas mourns,  
Whose grave advice was to his Realm chief stay,  
No longer th' Argive Duke his speed adjourns:  
But launcheth his Fleet royal: They set sales,  
And the calm Eurus yields them gentle Gales.   

49  
Diana (that was ever friend to Troy,)  
Neptune entreats, that may command his waves,  
The great Armade of Gracia to destroy  
And swallow them within his Briny graves,  
She takes it ill, the greeks depart with joy  
From Aulis Gulf, yet none her licence craves  
Or offers at her Altars, the due rights  
Of Sacrifice, amongst those Kings and Knights.   

50  
Amidst the wrathful Tempest Calchas prays  
To Neptune and the Moon, their Fleet to spare,  
Who not with words to be appeased, will raise  
His tumbling waves, and toss them in the air,  
Unless great Agamemnon Altars raise  
To angry Cynthia, and perform his Prayer,  
And on her bleeding Shrine, at Diane's feet,  
Kill Iphegenia to preserve the Fleet.   

51  
Loath is the General his Child's blood to spill  
Yet holds it better that one Lady die,  
(Although his Daughter) than the Seas to fill  
With Ships, bold Knights, and Kings advanced high:  
Calchas the Priest the Innocent Maid doth kill,  
T'appease Diana's wrathful Deity:  
The Sacrifice performed, the wind blows fair,  
The Seas are calmed, the Sun hath cleared the Air.   

52  
And now the wind plays with those swelling sails  
Which they but late in fury rend and tore,  
Calm Zephyr cheers their Fleet with gentle Gales,  
Which made but late the violent Surges roar,  
(This can the Gods) but ere proud Greece prevails,  
Or Land their powers upon the Phrygian shore:  
Or that Scamander field in blood be died,  
We from our task ourself a while divide.   
Aethra and Clymenen, were Helen's Chambermaids and employed in all her most private business.  
Some affirm that Paris only met Menelaus upon the sea, and haled him as he was in his voyage towards Crect, and by that means understanding his absence, thought it a fit opportunity for him to steal away his Queen. And that he ravished her out of the Temple dedicate to Cy●…herea, where Paris and she as strangers one to another, sacrificed together, but in this I●…mitate Ovid as my approved Author. That Menelaus was at home when Paris Landed in the Isle Cythere, and gave him friendly entertainment, though some seem to disprove, yet Ovid in divers of his works affirms it. 
WHen Menelaus from his house is gone,  
Poor Helen is afraid to lie alone; 
De Arte Amandi 2.   
And to allay these fears (lod'g in her breast)  
In her warm bosom she receives her guest:  
What madness was this? Menelaus, say  
Thou art abroad, whilst in thy house doth stay  
Under the self same roof, thy Guest, and Love?  
Madman unto the Hawk thou trusts the Dove:  
And who, but such a Gull, would give to keep  
Unto the Mountaine-Wolfe full folds of Sheep.  
Helen is blameless, so is Paris too,  
And did what thou, or I myself would do.  
The fault is thine, I tell thee to thy face,  
By limiting these Lovers, Time and Place.  
From thee the seeds of all thy wrongs are grown,  
Whose Counsels have they followed, but thine own?  
(Alack) what should they do? Abroad thou art,  
At home thou leavest thy Guest, to play thy part:  
To lie alone, the (poor Queen) is afraid,  
In the next room an Amorous stranger stayed,  
Her Arms are open to embrace him, he falls in,  
And Paris I acquit thee of the sin.  And in another place somewhat resembling this: 
Orestes liked, but not loved dearly  
Hermione, till he had lost her clearly:  
Sad Menelaus, why dost thou lament 
Deremedio Amoris 2.   
Thy late mishap? I prithee be content:  
Thou knewest the amorous Helen fair and sweet,  
And yet without her didst thou sail to Crect,  
And thou wast blithe and merry all the way,  
But when thou saw'st she was the Troyans' p●…ay,  
Then wast thou mad for her, and for thy life,  
Thou canst not now one minute want thy wife.  
So slout Achilles, when his lovely Bride  
Briseis, was disposed to great Atride,  
Nor was he vainly moved: Atrides too  
Offered no more than he of force must do:  
I should have done as much, to set her free,  
Yet I (heaven knows) am not so Wise as he.   
Hipsipile the Daughter to Thoas King of Lemnos, whom when all the women of that Island had slain their Husbands & Kinsmen, she only referued her Father alive, for which they after exiled her.  
By the Mynoxan Maid, is understood Ariadne forsaken by Theseus.  
The Meones are those, who are now called Troyans'. First Dardanians of King Dardanus.  
Coos an Isle in the Sea Icarium, not far from Rhodes, now called Langor. The chiefest City is likewise called Coos, where as some think, Apelles left his admirable unfinished Picture of Venus, so rarely begun, that not the most exquisite Art-maister (he dying before it was finished) durst enterprise to perfect it. 
Homer. Virgil.   
The assembly of the greeks was in the Haven of Athens, or Aulis Gulf, a port-town in the Country of Boetia.  
The names of the Grecian Princes, though they seem somewhat strange, yet are all remembered by Homer and others, that writ the History of Troy, which (though no question) divers Translations and sever all Languages have somewhat corrupted, yet they all meet in one Truth, that such men as are here remembered, were at this renowned siege.  
Legos where the Temple of Apollo stands: in the Navel of the world.  
It is likewise called Ortigia, of the Birds Ottiges. in English Quails, because those Birds (to us common) were first seen in that Island.  
Many differ about the Sacrifice which Agamemnon slew 
Metamor. 12.  to appease the wrath of offended Diana: some think it to have been a Hart: but Ovid avers is to be the daughter of Iphegenia. 
Theacritus in dioscuris Apollon, lib, 1   
Of Castor and Pollux there are many things extant, of their birth we have spoke before. They were the Sons of jupiter, not of Tyndaris, They went with jason to the Conquest of the golden Fleece, where Pollux slew hand to hand Amicus the Gyant-sonne of Neptune, who had before dared all the Argonantes to a single Combat, and after the Colchian voyage, when Theseus had ravished Helena, they warred upon Athens, and having recovered her, spared all the vanquished Athenians, and in their return these Brothers 
Zezes' hist, 46  ravished the two Daughters of Leucippus and Arsinoe. They were called Phebe and Falaira: Of Phebe Pollux begot Asineus: Of Falaira, Castor begot Amagon, whose former Husbands pursuing the ravishers, fought against them a bloody battle near to the foot of the mountain Taigetes, & when they had hid themselves within the body of an o'ergrown Oak, they were espied by Lynceus, of all mortal men the best 
Stasinus in rebus Ciprijs.  sighted, which an ancient poet thus describes.  
— Quo tempore Lynceus,  
Taygeti velox ascendit Culmina montis,  
Lustravitque oculis quicquid tenet insula magni,  
Tantalidae Pelopis: praeacuto lumine vidit,  
Hos ambos intra ventrosae robora quercus,  
Pollucem fortem & domitorem Castora equorum.  
Of their deaths we have already discoursed, they were after drowning, translated into Stars, to whom the Navigators of old did ordinary Sacrifice.  
The end of the tenth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
THe Grecians Land, Protesilaos' falls  
By Hector's sword, King Diomedes is sent  
With wise Ulysses to debate their brals,  
And fetch the Spartan to her Husband's Tent:  
Helen denied: the greeks begird Troy walls,  
But are by Hector raised incontinent:  
Troilus and Diomedes in Arms contend  
For Cressida, so the first battles end.  
ARG. 2.  
Our English Worthies, Fame & her rich Crown,  
With Troy's confedred Kings, Lambda sets down  
CANTO. 11.  

OH can we foreign Worthies Memorise,  
And our own Native Champions quite forget,  
Whose fame swift Clangor hath through pierced the skies,  
To whom due Honour still remains in debt:  
How many true victorious Peers arise  
From this fair Garden, midst the Ocean set:  
How many an English Knight hath borne his head  
As high as those, whom Troy or Greece hath bread?   

2  
Achilles, Ajax, Diomedes, or those  
Whom Homer hath extolled with Golden praise,  
Have not done greater spoil upon their foes,  
Then some that have survived even in our days,  
And had I spirit but like the least of those  
That writ the Grecian Acts, my pen should raise  
Our British Champious, and their acts proclaim,  
Above the greeks in the high Tower of Fame.   

3  
What could Achilles more than British Bren, 
Bren.   
That after many dangerous battles won,  
Fotraged France, Denmark, Germany, and then  
Sacked Rome, and high Parnassus overrun,  
And by the aid of his bold Englishmen,  
Laid siege unto the Temple of the Sun:  
Or what bold Grecian dare 'gainst Nennius stand, 
Nennius.   
That fought with twice-foyled Caesar hand to hand.   

4  
Renowned Arthur famous in his age, 
Arthur.   
In his round Table, and his thirteen Crowns,  
High Rome's Impetious Senate felt his rage,  
and paid him homage in their purple Gowns,  
His Came'lot Knights their hardiments engage,  
Through all the world to purchase their renowns:  
Of Noble Edgar, my dull Muse next sings, 
Edgar   
Rowed on the Thames by eight commanded Kings.   

5  
Bold Edmond (Surnamed Ironside) him succeeds, 
Edmond Ironside.   
a braver Spirit breathed not vital air,  
The Bastard William's Son, Duke Robert's deeds  
ask the next place, for his attempts were rare, 
Robert of No, mandy surnamed Cort-bise.   
By Cort-hose many a Tyrant Panim bleeds,  
By whom the Christians reinvested are:  
and whilst high Zion's Towers triumphant stand,  
He chosen Monarch o'er the holy Land.   

6  
Richard the first that Cordelyon hight, 
Richard Cordelyon. Edward long shanks. Edward 3. Black prince invested done Pedro in Spain. john a 〈◊〉   
and Edward Surnamed Longshanks, without Peer,  
Was never Dardan Prince or Argive Knight,  
That in their ages more admired were:  
Edward the third that Conquered France by fight,  
and Edward the Black Prince to England dear,  
He foraged France, for Pedro won all Spain,  
Which after john a-Gaunt subdued again.   

7  
Henry the fifth, than whom the world near bread  
A worthier Prince. Bedford and Talbot bold, 
Bedford. Talbot.   
Who in their foreign Regency so sped,  
That puissant France was by their powers controlled,  
Edward the fourth (though wanton misled) 
Edward 4. Richard 3.   
won ten set battles: The third Richard sold  
His name to scandal, else his warlike merit,  
Might with the rest, a Worthies name inherit.   

8  
The valiant Earl of Surrey often stayed 
Earl Surrey   
The Northern Enemies from filching hear: 
Charles Brandon.   
In the eight Henry's days Charles Brandon made  
England renowned, by his victorious Spear,  
And those whose Worths these late times have displayed  
Howard, Grey, Norris, Sidney, Essex, Veare:  
These, had they lived in aged Priam's days,  
Had dimmed the greeks, and matched the Troyans' praise.   

9  
Now to our hostile preparations, we  
Must arm our Pen, the greeks are under sail,  
There is a place from Earth, Sea, Heaven, stands free,  
And equally removed from them all:  
In the world's Navel, fixed where Concaves be,  
And hollow-sounding Vaults through Crannies small:  
Where the reports and rumours of all sounds,  
Give shrill Reverberat Echoes and rebounds.   

10  
here Fame her Palace builds by wondrous skill, 
Fame.   
Seating herself in her most lofty Tower,  
Yet is her house erected on a hill,  
A thousand loop-holes are within her Bower,  
A thousand doors and windows open still,  
Transparent every late and early hour,  
Full of Big-bellyed Vaults, and the walls such,  
Of sounding Brass that rings with every touch.   

11  
Whose empty womb continual murmur yields,  
And iterates again each word it hears,  
Within this place no toonglesse silence builds,  
No solitary dumbness spares the ears:  
A whistling wind flies round about the fields,  
Which shakes the trembling branches, but forbears  
All violent gusts: about this hollowed ground,  
There are perpetual calms, no Tempests found.   

12  
And though no silence, yet no clamours rise,  
Only a whispering murmur like the Seas  
Herd a far off, or when the troubled skies,  
(With remote Thunder moved) soft showers appease,  
The Courts are thronged with multitudes of spies,  
Light giddy people tattling what they please:  
Who (in and out) through every chamber pass,  
Whispering sometimes what is, and what near was.   

13  
Infinite Currors, Pursuivants, and Posts,  
Ambassadors, and such as hurry news,  
Heralds (such men as Traffic between Hosts)  
Walk too and fro, and no man Tales eschews,  
One speaks of Wars, of Combats, and rude boasts,  
Another serious talk of Peace pursues:  
All as they are disposed, this man is telling  
Of buying Land, that other speaks of selling.   

14  
Some talks of this man's Honours, that man's shames,  
Others of Storms, and many a boisterous flaw,  
Some men of their success and chance in games,  
One what he heard, another what he saw,  
Some men of Knights adventurers, some of Dames,  
Others how long their suits have hung in Law:  
Toys with things serious pass, grave things with babbles  
Lies mixed with truths, and truths discoursed with Fables.   

15  
Numberless rumours through the Palace fly,  
In every nook they make their free intrusion,  
here bashful truth doth face the bold faced lie,  
To fend and prove begets a mere confusion,  
Whilst some th'attentive ear with news supply,  
Others report Stale things, and in conclusion,  
Adds of his own, which bandied without ceasing,  
From every several tongue receives increasing   

16  
here you may see a dwarfe-like rumour grow,  
Even in an instant to a giants size,  
Whether the Nature of the winds that blow,  
Retains the power to make the tumours rise  
Or whether Fame all tidings apt to know,  
Gives to her train such Bombast Liveries:  
Their growth is strange, whom I compare aright,  
Unto the Mushroom, statured in a night.   

17  
here dwells credulity, rash error, fear,  
Doubt, volubility, and quick belief,  
There is no voice hath power to pierce the ear,  
But fame of brutes and rumours, Queen and chief,  
Shrieks through the world: From hence the Troyans' hear  
Th' Atrides' rage, King Menelaus' grief:  
Their expedition, and their Naval power,  
Ready the threatened Enemy to devower.   

18  
Their Frontier Towns that border next the waves  
Are fortified, three distant leagues from Troy 
Tenedos subverted.   
Stands Tenedos, whom with imperious braves  
The Argine Flect assault, race, and destroy:  
The wrathful Greek not one poor Phrygian saves,  
But to their ruins all their powers employ:  
This done, by general Counsel 'tis decreed,  
Two Kings to Priam shall on Message speed.   

19  
Into the Hall where th'aged King than sat,  
Attended with his Captains, Sons, and Peers,  
And such confedered Kings as to the Fate  
Of threatened Troy, brought Horsemen, Bows & Spears,  
On this high business to deliberate,  
And rid their hearts from all invasive fears:  
In, throngs Ulysses and bold Diomedes,  
Two Princes armed at all points save the head.   

20  
here sat the King Pandrastus' King Pandore, 
Pandrastus. Panodrus. Galior.   
And the King Galior, that to Priam's aid,  
Brought each of them a thousand Knights and more,  
Four Kings that from Tholosson waftage made,  
Carras, Amasius, Nestor dreaded sore, 
Carras. Amasius. Nestor. Amphimac.   
And stout Amphimachus: these Kings displayed  
Their warlike Ensigns, in all dreadful fights,  
Bringing along five thousand valiant Knights   

21  
Next these seven Kings, K. Glaucus took his place, 
Glaucus   
Three thousand bold Squires he from Lycia brought, 
Sarpedon.   
His Son Sarpedon of the Trojan race,  
In all King Priam's battles bravely fought,  
Next whom Eusemus sat, distant a space, 
Eusemus.   
Who with three thousand Knights Troy's honour sought,  
Lyconians all, Lyconias Realm he guided,  
Since into several parted Crowns divided.   

22  
Two puissant Kings to make the jury full,  
Came from Larissa, these had in their train 
Mystor.   
Knights sist●…ene hundred; Mystor, whose tough skull  
The Argive Princes bruised: Capidus slain 
Capidus.   
In battle too, about the Spartan Trull,  
Never to see her Native Clime again:  
On a rich bench sast by King Priam's State,  
These twelve bold Kings upon the right hand sat.   

23  
Upon the left, from Thahory that came,  
King Remus, who besides three thousand men, 
Remus.   
Brought four great Dukes, seven Earls of Noble fame  
All clad in Azure arms, well noted then;  
The King of Trachy, whom some Pylex name, 
Pylex.   
Was placest next him, this royal Monarch, when  
He entered Troy, had in his Princely train,  
Eleven hundred valiant Knights, all after slain.   

24  
With him Duke Achumus the Troyans' aided, 
Achamas.   
By whom Pessemus the Pannonian King 
Tessemus.   
Was seated, him great Hector had persuaded  
Unto these wars three thousand Knights to bring,  
All expert Archers, with whom Stupex traded, 
Stupex. Fortunus Samnus Ausernumus   
A valiant Duke, and in his youthful spring:  
Next him sat three Boetian Dukes Fortunus,  
Duke Samnus, and the bold Duke Ausernumus:   

25  
These led twelve hundred Knights, next whom took 
Bootes'.   
Two Brother-Kings, the bold Bootes' first, 
Epistemus.  place,  
The other Epistemus, of one race,  
Both Princes, in the Realm of Burtia nursed,  
They brought a thousand Knights the greeks to chase,  
Men of great spirit, and such as all things durst:  
Next them was set a Giant (dreaded sore) 
●…hilemus.   
Philemus, of the Realm of Paphlagore.   

26  
The Aethiopian Perseus Raven-blacke, 
Perseus. Thiction.   
And the King Thiclion of the self-same hue,  
With Symagon, in whom there was no lack 
Symagou.   
Of heart or skill his foe-men to pursue:  
These Kingly Moors that Priam come to back  
Next to the lofty Giant sit in view,  
Three thousand sunburnt knights, that bravely fought  
From Aethiopia they to Phrygia brought.   

27  
This State was full: and lower one degree,  
Another longer Bench runs cross the Hall,  
Where mixed with Priam's valiant sons, you see  
More of these leagued Kings in order fall:  
First of the rank was Hector, next him, be 
Hector.   
Two potent Kings, Thelemus high and tall, 
Thelemus.   
And young Archilochus a valiant Boy: 
Archilocus   
These with a thousand good Knights strengthen Troy.   

28  
Paris next them, and by his amorous side,  
Two Princes reigning in Argrestes Land, 
Two Kings from Argrest   
They brought twelve hundred Knights to see them tried,  
Next these was Troilus placest on the left hand, 
Tro●…lus. Deiphobus.   
And Deiphobus full of warlike pride  
Mixed amongst these, a King of great command:  
Epistropus, that beyond Scythia came, 
Epistropus.   
Twixt Greece and Troy his valour to proclaim.   

29  
He brought a thousand Knights, and a strange Beast  
Half horse, half Man, two perfect shapes divided,  
A Sagittary called (not dreaded least) 
Sagittarius.   
An expert Archer, his strong shafts were guided  
With wondrous aim and cunning, which increased  
His dread among the greeks (at first derided:)  
Next, great Epistropus ranked by their years,  
Sat Priam's Bastard-sonnes, next them his Peers.   

30  
Next them a Prince in jewels rich, and Gold,  
That many Knights brought from Meander flood,  
The barbarous Meones Duke Nastes told, 
Nastes.   
By whom, upon a costly footpace stood  
Tentumidas, by some (surnamed the Bold,) 
Tentumidas.   
Now aged in his prime, a Soldier good:  
By him Prince Pindarus advanct his head, 
Pandarus. Hyrtacides.   
Next him Hyrtacides in Sestos bread.   

31  
Adrastus, Amphius, Merops, Princes three, 
Adrestus. Amphius. Merops.   
Are ranked then, by whom Ennonius sits,  
And Chronius, under whom the Mysians be,  
Pylemen the next empty place well fits, 
Ennonius. Chronius. Pylemen Pyrechmes. Euphemes'.   
Prince o'er the Paphlagonian Chivalry:  
Pyrechmes next, whose fiery Horses bits  
The Paeons manage. Good Euphemes then  
Whom the Cicintans led, all expert men.   

32  
Ascanius and Dius, who doth guide 
Ascanius. Dius.   
The Halizonians next in order fall,  
Then Pyrous who his Thracian Soldiers tried, 
Pyrous. Mnemon. Pyleus. Hypothous.   
And warlike Mnemon boldest of them all:  
Pyleus and Hypothous them beside,  
These the Pelasgians unto battle call:  
Warlike Aeneas of the Noblest race,  
Next whom, the Lords and Barons take chief place.   

33  
Antenor, with Polydamus his son,  
The glistering Ladies keep another State  
Above them all: Priam's high throne begun  
To lift itself where he in glory sat,  
Benches of Dukes and Earls from all sides run,  
Apparelled in rich Robes of greatest rate:  
Thus was the King prepared, when the two greeks,  
Press forward to his throne with blushless Cheeks   

34  
At their approach the Lords amazed rise,  
And at their bold intrusion musing stand, 
Ulysses and Diomedes' Embassle.   
Upon these two, the Kings fix all their eyes,  
Prepared for some strange Novel, when his hand  
Ulysses wafts for silence, and applies  
His speech to Priam thus: He whose command  
Ravished from Sparta, great Atrides wife,  
Forfeits to Greece, his Country, Crown, and Life.   

35  
If thou be'st he whom all these Lords adore,  
I summon thee in Agamemnon's name,  
Back to her Lord, Queen Helen to restore,  
With full amends done to the ravished Dame,  
And to present thy lustful son before  
The bench of Argive Kings, t'abide such shame  
That he in after times to our successors,  
Be made a terror to the like Transgressor's.   

36  
Else shall th'enraged Princes spoil thy Towns,  
Thy Matrons in their husband's arms deflower,  
Slaughter thy Sons and bury their renowns,  
And with thy people's blood the channels scour,  
Of these confederate Kings cease all the Crowns,  
When death that swallows them must thee devour:  
Say, wilt thou to prevent this and much more,  
Punish thy son, and Helen back restore?   

37  
To this th'incensed King replies again,  
Th'unable greeks (alas) are much too weak,  
Wanting the power thy proud vaunts to maintain,  
Or to make good what thou dost rashly speak:  
They ravished our fair Sister, whom in vain  
We redemanded, her despites to wreak:  
Our Son the amorous Paris crossed the deep,  
To fetch thence Helen whom the Boy shall keep.   

38  
Have they not slain our Father, spoiled our City,  
Pillaged our people, wives nor Matrons spared,  
Eucn Babes and Infants mangled without pity,  
And in their barbarous rigour all things dared,  
Then in fair Helen's rape what wrong commit I,  
Since not the least of these Greece hath repaired:  
Since whilst our Sister leads a Strumpet's life,  
Helen is graced to be young Paris wife.   

39  
You shall repent: King Diomedes replies,  
This insolence which we will punish dearly,  
By us the General of the greeks defies:  
Priam and Troy whom we'll chastise severely,  
Unto whose ruins seventy Princes rise,  
Whose forces shall begird you late and early:  
These words promised, the Troyans' so disdain them,  
That many drew their Falchions to have slain them.   

40  
But ever. Honoured Hector qualified  
The sudden uproar, and appeased the brawl,  
Their passage by the multitude denied,  
Hector makes free, and Ushers them through all,  
Yet many proud braves passed on either side  
Twixt the strange Kings and them i'th' Palace Hall:  
At their departure casting up his eye,  
King Diomedes by chance doth Cresseid spy,   

41  
As she with Hecuba and Hector's wife,  
Creusa and Polyxena was placest,  
Him thought he never saw in all his life  
A Lady better formed, or Sweet-lyer graced,  
His mutinous thoughts are in themselves at strife,  
To see a face so fair, an eye so cha'st:  
Beauty so full of charm, with which enchanted,  
He craves her name by whom he seems so daunted.   

42  
When up starts nettled Troilus; and thus says,  
Her name is beauteous Cressida whom you seek,  
And Troilus Mistress? to whose heavenly praise  
My soul hath been devoted many a Week,  
And if thou aim'st my graces thence to raise,  
I challenge thee the combat valiant Greek,  
He would accept it, but he needs must part,  
His body goes, he leaves behind his heart.   

43  
The dauntless Troyans' now prepare for war,  
Whilst to th'incamped host the Legate Kings  
Relate King Priam's answer, and how far  
He stands from peace, the Grand-Duke now begins  
Like a good Captain to foresee what bar  
May lie twixt him and safety: with swift wings  
Achilles is dispatched to cross the Scas,  
With Telephus the son of Hercules.   

44  
Because the Messean Land where Theutram reigned 
Theutr●…m.   
Was fettile, they from thence demand supply  
Of Victual for the host, but he disdained  
T'assist them, therefore him the greeks defy:  
The King's high blood Achilles' Falchion stained,  
Theutram (alas) by him is forest to die,  
And Telephus crowned King, from whose rich Coast,  
With store, & Victual he relieves the host.   

45  
Twelve Moons were passed since first the Greeks took land,  
When Duke Palamedes at th'host arrives,  
Whose absence murmured long, yet the command  
Of the whole Army, with the Prince's lives,  
Are made his charge, none seeming to withstand  
his principality: this Duke derives  
His birth from Naulus, and is made the head  
Of the stout greeks, in Agamemnon's stead.   

46  
But in desaster hour, Ulysses friend,  
To Agamemnon by his crafty fraud,  
Both to his life and his command gave end:  
He that but late the Argive Princes awed,  
And foiled the common foe, cannot defend  
his own dear life, but whilst the host applaud  
Atrides honour, in unhappy season,  
Is forced to perish for suspected Treason.   

47  
Tenedos sacked, the greeks insult upon't, 
The first battle.   
And from that place made level with the plain,  
The Fleet disanchors, whose proud Naval front,  
Protesilaos' proudly doth maintain,  
Hoisting the first Sails in the Hellespont,  
A hundred Ships whose Flags and Pendants stain  
The Air with various Colours, he commands,  
And twice repulsed, upon the Beach he Lands.   

48  
His ships tough ribs upon the sands he broke,  
And many greeks, some drowned, some landing, fall,  
As well the boldest that the Ship forsake,  
As those that keep aboard must perish all,  
Only the bold King makes the Troyans' quake:  
Who whilst his maimed train for rescue call,  
Makes good the place, till with an hundred more,  
Archelaus and Prothenor man's the shore.   

49  
Now grows the battle hot, for the rude rout  
Of the disordered trojans madly flock  
To impeach their Landing, who with courage stout  
Leap on the shore, and there abide the shock  
Of the proud Foe, who murder all about,  
And with rude taunts their proud Invasion mock:  
But Askalus and Agabus draw near,  
Two Kings, whose landed soldiers change their cheer.   

50  
Yet at the length into the Sea driven back,  
Till Nestor seconds them with fresh supply,  
and now th'astonished Troyans' suffer wrack,  
Yet still make good the shores with fresh supply;  
again repulsed, the greeks made good the lack  
Of more armed men; Ulysses Ships priest nigh,  
Whose dreaded Ensigns on the Margin spread,  
Conquer the Beach, the whilst the Troyans' fled.   

51  
King Philomenes envious of his Fame,  
A pointed Spear broke on Ulysses face,  
and stounded him: but when the bold King came  
T'himselfe again, he quitted that disgrace:  
So much did wrath his Noble thoughts inflame,  
he wounded him in such a speeding place,  
That had not Ihove kept back his Weapons force,  
The late victorious, had dropped down a Corpse.   

52  
Whilst these two Kings contend, the greeks retire,  
And back into the bloodstained Sea are driven,  
When Thoas with his fleet doth Land desire,  
Now Agamemnon's Ships are all to riven  
Upon the Strand, his men half blood, half mire,  
Tug for the shore, whilst many die unshriven;  
Next Menelaus hath unmanned his Ship,  
And from his Bark doth stormy Ajax skip.   

53  
At whose approach near to the brinish brink,  
Th'amazed Troyans' yield him Landing free,  
Beneath his ponderous Arm the strongest shrink,  
Before his sword th'affrighted people flee,  
Their souls below the waves of Lethe drink,  
Whose deeds of valour when King Perses see:  
He with a band of Moors their violence stayed,  
Making th'astonished greeks expect more aid.   

54  
When the great Duke Palumides descends  
Upon the Continent, and in his train  
A thousand Armed Knights, his Noble Friends,  
Whose swords the Beach with blood of Troyans' slain:  
Palumides 'gainst Symagon extends  
His pointed javelin, Symagon lies slain:  
A valiant Moor, to Perses near allied,  
Though strong, he by the son of Naulus died.   

55  
Now 'gainst the beaten Troyans' rose loud cries,  
Which puissant Hector hearing, from the Town,  
Issues from forth the gates, and soon applies  
His fortitude, where War seemed most to frown;  
His armour Siluer-white, his shields devise  
A Lion Gules the field, Or after known  
And dreaded 'mongst the Greeks, where ere he marches  
The Flowers & grass with blood of Greeks he parches   

56  
Protesilaos' him encounters first,  
and at his Steely Beaver aims his Spear,  
The King his Staff upon his Visor burst,  
But from the Worthy Hector passed not clear:  
All that encounter him must taste the worst,  
The steel-head Lance from off his steed doth bear:  
The dreadless King, who rose by great endeavour,  
But Hector cloven his head quite through his Beaver. 
Protesilaos' slain.    

57  
So passeth on strowing his way with Corpse's,  
That in a while his smoking blade was feared,  
Whom ere he meets he to the ground enforces,  
His valour hath the drooping Troyans' cheered,  
He without riders leaves five hundred horses,  
Whose broken limbs lie on the earth besmeared:  
Death Marshals him the way where ere he traces,  
Paving the Margin of the Sea with faces.   

58  
His courser Galathee the Noblest Steed,  
That ever Knight bestrid, i'th' morning white,  
In every bare place seems from far to bleed,  
His valiant rider shunned no dangerous fight:  
he's flaked all ore, and where no wounds indeed  
Were hewed, great gashes grisly to the sight  
Appear upon him, Galathee still stood  
Sound, and yet stained all ore with Gracian blood.   

59  
Nor wonder if his white Steed were so painted,  
When his sharp sword so many Rivers shed,  
This day a thousand Knights beneath him fainted,  
And on the verdure by his hand lie dead,  
With this mortality the air is tainted,  
The spacious plains with wounded greeks are spread:  
Charon the sweat wipes from his ghastly face,  
And never wrought so hard in so short space.   

60  
Hell's judges and the Gods of Darkness wonder,  
What's now to do on earth, that such a throng  
Of Ghosts whose threads the fatal Sisters sunder,  
Press in such multitudes for sentence: long  
The Princes of the Vaults and regions under,  
Were not so troubled to judge right and wrong:  
For never in one day it hath befell,  
So great a Sessions hath been seen in Hell.   

61  
Th'invincible Dardanian Hero tired  
With purple Massacre, towards night withdrew,  
Horse, Arms, and Plumes the brightest morn admired  
For whiteness, at his issue, purple grew,  
And he returns Vermilion all: attired  
In Crimson, scarce the royal Priam knew  
Great Hector from the Torras where he stood,  
Seeing his onset white, Retreat all blood.   

62  
Soon was the Noble Trojan mist in field,  
For with his Myrmydons proudly attended  
Achilles Lands, and that renowned shield  
God Vulcan made, in which his art extended,  
He vaunteth: yet the daunted Troyans' yield,  
Th'unconquered shores Hector so late defended  
Lie open to invaders, whole Greece Lands,  
For 'gainst the great Achilles no man stands.   

63  
Even to the City walls the Troyans' fly,  
Whom the main host with hostile shouts pursued,  
And had not Noble Troilus heard the cry,  
Paris and Deiphobus where they viewed  
So great effusion from a Turret high,  
They'had won the Town, the streets had been imbrued  
With Native blood, but they in haste descend,  
Relieve th'oppressed, the City gates defend.   

64  
And issuing with three thousand Knights, compel  
Achilles to retreat, and when his face  
Looked back from Troy ward, there was none so fell  
Upon the Graectan party, but gave place:  
This day Prince Diomedes was seen t'excel  
In Arms: him Troilus met in equal race:  
They spur their Steeds that ran both swift and true,  
Encountering, both their staves to splinters flew.   

65  
Their Lances broke, they try their burnished blades,  
A thousand fiery stars at every rushing  
Fly from their helms, with fury each invades  
His opposite, their mutual Armours frushing,  
The big-limbed Diomedes himself persuades,  
Young Troilus cannot match his strength, and blushing  
A beardless Lad should hold him so long play,  
Doubles his blows and thinks to end the fray.   

66  
The Noble youth whom Cresseids love provokes  
To all achievements, beyond mortal power,  
(Though young,) his lofty spirit his rival yokes,  
Who thought his infant Virtues to devour,  
He doubles and redoubles warlike strokes,  
The battle lasts the best part of an hour:  
But whilst upon their helms each champion thunders  
Night that divides the host their fury sunders.   

67  
This even the greeks encamp, early the Morrow, 
The second days battle.   
They shine in armour with the rising Sun,  
The Trojan Princes from their Ladies borrow  
Rich favours, and withal to horseback run,  
A kind of fear begot twixt joy and sorrow,  
lives in their eyes, till the dread fight be done:  
To see their Champions proudly armed they joy,  
Grieve to behold so huge an host fore Troy.   

68  
Now are both Battles pitched, Menon appears  
First from the Argive host: from Troy forth stands  
Hector, who in his burnished Beaver wears  
Andromaches Glove, and now all Troy commands:  
These two begin the battle with their Spears,  
They broke, they toss their bright steel in their hands:  
Hector soon hurls King Menon from his horse,  
So passes on to prove his warlike force.   

69  
The two hosts join, ruffling confusion flies  
Through all Scamander field, the dying groans  
Are mixed with th'applausive Conquerors cries  
Troyans' and greeks conquer and fall at ones,  
Renowned Hector this day wins the prise,  
he sunders Males and Armours, flesh and bones:  
His al-deviding sword was made by charm,  
No steel so wrought but shrunk beneath his arm.   

70  
Thus like a raging storm he rusheth still,  
Over his Plume a Cloud of terror hung,  
And where he rides he doth on all sides kill,  
His bloodstained Falchion spares nor old nor young,  
Tired with his horse, his Chariot Mount he will,  
Now up he takes a Bow divinely strung,  
And shooting midst the Host, not one steelhead  
Iated from his Bow but stroke a Grecian dead.   

71  
Him the King Menon and king Glaution then,  
Huge Thesus and Archilochus defy,  
They in their squadron lead three thousand men,  
But Hector in his Chariot still sits high,  
Until his Brasse-shod wheels are purpled, when  
Their Naves are drowned in blood of men that die:  
Charioted Hector these four Kings assail,  
But his smart Steeds spring through their armed pale.   

72  
Menon that was too forward 'bove the rest,  
Pursues great Hector in his lofty Car,  
A dart the Trojan quivered through his breast,  
King Menon bids his last farewell to war, 
King Menon slain.   
With multitudes the Prince is overpress,  
And yet he kills the greeks near and from far:  
near, with his fatal sword he cleaves their hearts,  
And a far off, with his keen shafts and Darts.   

73  
Unto this rescue Prince Securabor,  
One of King Priam's Bastard sons soon came,  
And Noble Margarelon thirsting for  
Honour, and 'mongst the greeks to get a name,  
All Priam's issue cowardice abhor,  
Duke Menesteus envious of their fame,  
Against them comes, now clamours fill the sky,  
Whilst about Hector's Chariot thousands lie.   

74  
Unto this hostile tumour from Troyward,  
Three Kings with Noble Troilus the fourth man  
Make their incursions: King Sampitus fared  
Like a fierce Lion, King Maclaon won  
With anger, and the King that all things dared  
Alcanus: 'gainst whom Menesteus ran  
And bore him Nobly, yet alas too weak,  
Till Thesus came the Trojan ranks to break.   

75  
Troilus Menesteus singles, but his Horse  
Stumbled, and he enforced on foot to fight:  
Five hundred greeks begirt him, and enforce  
The youthful Trojan (now debarred from flight)  
To be their prisoner; Many a lifeless corpse  
Troilus first made, before compelled t'alight:  
When Hector heard but word of his disgrace,  
He slew on all sides till he won the place.   

76  
But first Alccenus had addressed his Spear,  
Against the Duke that led Prince Troilus bound,  
The Steel point took him twixt his cheek and eat,  
And made th' Athenian Duke a dangerous wound,  
Sampilus seconds him (a Steed was near)  
On which they mounted Troilus from the ground:  
Menesteus mad that he hath lost his prize,  
Pierced through the throng, and called for more supplies.   

77  
King Menelaus and Prothenor knowing  
Th' Athenians voice, press that way with their powers,  
But find Hyripsus and King Hapon strowing  
The earth with greeks, at which the Spartan lours:  
These four their forces join, many yet growing,  
Their swords supplant: death through the Champion scours  
At whom th'Olimpian Gods amazed stand,  
To see him with such quickness move his hand.   

78  
Anthenors' son Polydamus makes on,  
King Rhemus backs him with three thousand more,  
Their Speare-length (through the press he had not gone)  
But Celidus him from his Courser bore,  
A fairer Prince than Celidus lived none,  
By Venus' gift he Beauty's Livery wore:  
Polydamus remounted, soon addressed,  
A second course, and pierced him through the breast.   

79  
Which Menelaus seeing, soon assails  
Rhemus, and lays him stounded in the field,  
And but that stout Polydamas prevails,  
H'had borne him to his Tent upon his shield,  
Still was not Hector Idle, hills and Dales  
His Chariot skoures, to him the mightiest yield:  
For like a raging Torrent after Rain,  
Where ere he comes confusion fills the plain.   

80  
Now was he by the men that Ajax led  
Trooped in: the Salamines Thunder about him  
Like Ciclopes, as if his Noble head  
Were Vulcan's anvil (yet the boldest doubt him)  
And seeing store of Carcase 'bout him spread,  
Wish in their hearts to fight elsewhere without him:  
For like a baited Lion at a stake,  
he cuts them off, and makes the boldest qnake.   

81  
King Theuter somewhat rougher than the rest,  
as worthy Hector kept these Dogs at bay,  
Finding the Prince with two much task oppressed,  
against him with his Courser makes swift way,  
The brazen-headed staff glides by his breast,  
and 'gainst his rib he feels the javelin stay:  
King Theuter thou hast done a Noble deed,  
Thou art the first that mad'st great Hector bleed.   

82  
Well was it for thee that thou staidst not long,  
Those that grow next him for thy act must fall,  
Like a mad Bull he fares the greeks among,  
and whom he hits, beneath his Chariot sprawl,  
The Prince, the common man, the weak, the strong,  
The Bold, the Coward, taste confusion all:  
The Sun looks pale, heaven red, the green earth blushed  
To see their bones beneath his Chariot crushed.   

83  
Whose valour Thesus seeing, nobly spoke: 
Thesus.   
Great Hector, I admire thee, though my Foe:  
Thou art too bold, why dost thou undertake,  
Things beyond man, to seek thine overthrow?  
I see thee breathless, wherefore dost thou make  
So little of thy worth, to perish so?  
Fond man retire thee, and recover breath,  
And being thyself, pursue the works of death.   

84  
Prince Hector his debility now finding,  
Thanks royal Thesus, and begins to pause,  
And 'bout the field with his swift coursers winding,  
Unto a place remote himself withdraws,  
Mean time King Menelaus the battle minding,  
won in the dangerous conflict much applawse:  
here Celidonius valiant Moles slew:  
Moles that his descent from Oreb drew.   

85  
By Mandon, King Cedonius lost an eye,  
A Grecian Admiral, Sadellus kills,  
And Aix Telamonius doth defy  
Prince Margarelon, King Menestheus, spills  
The Galls red blood, Prothenor low doth lie  
By samuel's Spear, renowned Hector fills  
The field with wonder, he his Car forsakes,  
And Milk white Galathee again he takes.   

86  
At his first entrance he espies his friend  
Polydamas by thirty soldiers led,  
Amongst whom spurring, they themselves defend,  
But scarce one man hath power to guard his head,  
Unto their days great Hector's sword gave end,  
And freedom to Polydamas, nigh dead:  
With shame and wrath, next to the battle came  
King Thoas to redeem the Argives Fame.   

87  
With him the King Philotas who addressed  
Themselves 'gainst two of Priam's Bastard Sons,  
Young Cassilanus puts his Spear in rest,  
And with great fury against Thoas run,  
He broke his staff, but Thoas sped the best,  
As to their bold encounter Hector comes,  
He sees his young half-brother he held dear,  
Through-pierst (alas) by Thoas fatal Spear.   

88  
Hye-stomackt Hector with this object mad,  
hurries through the thick press, and there had slain  
Whole thousands, for the death of that young Lad,  
But his red wrath King Nestor did restrain,  
For with six thousand Knights in armour clad,  
he fortifies the late forsaken plain:  
'Gainst whom marched Philon, of the part of Troy,  
Their battles join, each other they destroy.   

89  
Polydamus and Hector taking part  
With Philon, aged-Nestor grows too weak,  
For Cassilanus death the greeks must smart,  
They through their flanks, wings, ranks, and squadrons break  
When Ajax Telamonius spied what huge wreak,  
The Trojan Worthy made: his men take heart,  
And with King Menelaus them dispose,  
To rescue Nestor, and assault their Foes.   

90  
'Gainst them Aeneas with the host arrives,  
And joins with Hector: on the Argive side  
Philoatas with three thousand soldiers strives,  
all proved greeks, whose valours had been tried:  
Aeneas and great Ajax gauge their lives  
To equal conflict, whom their troops divide:  
Philoatas on great Hector thinks to prove him,  
(In vain) he from his saddle cannot move him.   

91  
But him the Worthy stounded with a blow,  
A flatling blow that on his Beaver glancst,  
Ulysses and Humerus next in row,  
With twice five thousands Knights on Hector chanced,  
But Paris happened with as many more  
On Hector's part, where numbers lie intrancst:  
Paris a keen shaft from his Quiner drew,  
Whose fatal point the King of Cypress slew.   

92  
This Cyprian, Kinsman to Ulysses was,  
In whose revenge the Ithacan defies  
Prince Paris, who in Arch'ry did surpass,  
These two in field against each other rise,  
And with their mutual blood they stain the grass,  
But parted by the tumult, they devise  
On further massacre, near to this place,  
Troilus, Ulysses meets, and wounds his face.   

93  
Nor scaped the Trojan wound-free, in this stour  
Was Galathee beneath Prince Hector slain,  
And he on foot, the greeks with all their power  
Begird him, and assault the Prince amain;  
But he whose fame above the Clouds must lower,  
From all their battering strokes still guards his brain:  
Till Dynadorus Priam's Bastard son,  
Against well-mounted Polixemus ron.   

94  
A strong Barbed horse the Noble Greek bestrid,  
a Worthier Master now the steed must have,  
The Bastard youth 'gainst Polixemus rid,  
Unhorsed him, and his Steed to Hector gave,  
Who mounted, far more deeds of Honour did,  
Leaving the Greekes most Courses to engrave:  
a troup of Archers Deiphobus brings,  
Who expel the greeks with arrows, darts, and slings   

95  
At the first shock the Prince King Theuter hit,  
and car●…'d a deep wound on his armed face,  
The well steeled point his sword-proofe Beaver split,  
and now th'assaulted Greekes are all in chase,  
Some save themselves by swiftness, some by wit,  
Young Quinteline of Priam's Bastard race,  
and King Moderus have surprised by force,  
Thesus, and spoiled him both of arms and horse.   

96  
Whom when the Dardan-Worthy saw surpriz, d  
He calls to mind the cur'sie to him done,  
By whom nigh breathless, he was well advised,  
The future eminence of war to shun,  
King Thesus whom his Victors much despised,  
Hector released, and by the glorious Sun,  
Swears not to leave him, till he see him sent,  
With safe conduct unto his warlike Tent.   

97  
Here Thoas, by whom Cafsilan●… fell,  
Is by great Hector beaten from his Steed,  
Who razing of his Helm, to send to hell  
A soul he so much hated, was soon freed  
By Menesteus: who makes on, pell-mell  
With a huge host, and rescues with all speed  
Th'astonished King: not long the day he tried,  
Till Paris with an arrow pierced his side.   

98  
Humerus glanced a javelin through the sight  
Of Hector's Beaver, that it racst the skin,  
Th'enraged Prince on proud Humerus light  
And with one stroke he cleft him to the chin,  
Proceeding on, he still pursues the fight,  
The Grecians lose, and now the Troyans' win,  
They beat them to their Tents, where some inquire  
For pillage, whilst the rest the Navy fire.   

99  
In this pursuit Hector and Ajax meet,  
Who (after interchange of hostile blows)  
Part on even terms, and with kind language greet,  
For the two kinsmen now each other knows:  
Ajax entreats the Prince to spare their Fleet,  
And save theyrtents, whose flame to heavenward grows  
Which courteous Hector swears to undertake,  
For Ajax and his Aunt Hesione's sake.   

100  
Oh Il-stard Hector! Thou hast overseen  
A Victory, thou canst not reach to more?  
Hadst thou to him inexorable been  
Thou hadst saved Troy, and freed the Dardan Shore:  
Duke Ajax prayet hath wrought Troy's fatal teen  
And hath the power (lost Grecia) to restore:  
Oh, hadst thou ta'en the advantage of this day,  
all Greece had perished, that now lives for aye.   

101  
But there's a Fate in all things: Hector blows  
His wel-knowne horn, his Soldiers all retreat:  
The greeks to quench their Fleet themselves dispose,  
and re-instaure their tents, whose spoil was great:  
The next day from the camp to Priam goes  
A Herald, to surcease all hostile heat:  
Demanding truce till they the dead have grounded,  
And both of Camp and City cured the wounded.   

102  
'tis granted, from the Town with Coffins come  
Pale widows, winpled in their mourning weeds,  
To fetch their husband's corpses cold and nom,  
To whom they offer solemn Funeral deeds,  
The Children fetch their Sires, and Fathers some  
Their slaughtered sons, which general mourning breeds:  
The greeks likewise their fellow-mates desire,  
And yield their bodies to the hallowed fire.   

103  
But whilst these odoriferous piles they rear,  
And sacrificed their friends in holy flames,  
And in perfumed Boxes, prized dear,  
Coffin their precious ashes, lest their names  
Should die in Lethe: Novel broils appear,  
And Ate through the Camp discord proclaims:  
But now to truce our spirits we have intention,  
Before twixt them we move a new dissension.   
TO omit all our English worthies, whose names we have only memorised, not having room to insert their deeds in so little a compass as we have prescribed to our History, we rather covet to touch matter more foreign, and less familiar to some, with whom our Book must necessarily Traffic.  
In the description of Fame, we have rather imitated Ovid then Virgil, his Fama malum quo non etc.  
In the description of King Priam's state, we must needs imagine it great, where so many foreign Kings assembled in his aid, in whose names we have conferred Dares, the Trojan Dictes, the Greek Homer, Virgil, and others, who though in some particular things (not momentarily they differ) yet they generally concur in this, that such Princes with such populous and almost invincible assistance succoured Troy.  
Telephus joined in commission with Achilles, to sail to the land of Mess, was son to Hercules, whom Theutam (having before in the battle received his death's wound) voluntarily adopted his successor, for the great love that he for many benefits formerly received) had borne to his father Hercules.  
The passages of Love betwixt Troilus and Cressida, the reverent Poet Chaucer hath sufficiently discoursed, to whom I wholly refer you, having past it over with little circumstance.  
The description of the first battles service, disordered and confused, we must excuse, with this necessity, that being to remember so many, and to employ them all, we could not do it with a director method, then to set down things done without order disorderly, and actions happening by accident accidentally, and confused things, confusedly.  
King Protesilaos' was the first King that perished before Troy, for though it were foretold by Oracle, that he that first set foot a shore, should perish by the sword of Hector, yet he fearless of death, first landed, and in his too much valour made the fair Laodomeia a desolate widow.  
Ate, Goddess of revenge or strife, she is called by Homer one of Ihoves daughters, Lesio. Homerus Iliad. 7.  
Presba dios thugater eaten H pantas a-atai,  
Ate prisca iovis proles quae leserit omnes.  
Mortales—  
The Tale of Shafalus and Procris, because I have omitted in my former Cantons, especially in that which seems to inveigh against jealousy, I think not altogether unnecessary to insert in this Skolia, knowing that which was ill forgot, cannot be amiss remembered at any seasonable opportunity, Here therefore (though out of his rank) I intent to admit him.  

BEneath Hymettus' hill well clothed with flowers,  
A holy Well her soft springs gently powers, 
The Tale of Cephalns and Procris.   
Where stands a Copse, in which the Wood-Nymphs shrove,  
(No wood) It rather seems a slender Grove,  
The humble shrubs and bushes hide the grass,  
here Laurel, Rosemary, hear Myrtle was,  
here grew thick Box, and Tam'rix, that excels,  
And made a mere confusion of sweet smells:  
The Triffoly, the Pine, and on this Heath  
Stands many a plant that feels cool Zephirs breath.  
here the young Shafalus tired in the chase,  
Used his repose and rest alone t'embrace,  
And where he sat, these words he would repeat,  
Come Air, sweet Air come, cool my heat●…:  
Come gentle Air, I never will for sake thee,  
I'll hug thee thus, and in my bosom take thee.  
Some double duteous Tell-tale happed to hear this,  
And to his jealous wife doth straightway bear this.  
Which Proctis hearing, and with all the Name  
Of Air, (sweet Air) which he did oft proclaim,  
She stands confounded, and amazed with grief,  
By giving this fond tale too sound belief.  
And looks as do the Trees by winter nipped,  
Whom Frost and cold, of fruit and leaves hath stripped,  
She bends like Corueile, when too rank it grows,  
Or when the ripe fruits clog the Quinch-tree bows:  
But when she comes to herself, she tears  
Her Garments, and her eyes, her cheeks, and hears,  
And then she starts, and to her feet applies her,  
Then to the Woods (stork Wood) in rage she hies her.  
Approaching somewhat near, her servants they  
By her appointment in a Valley stay,  
Whilst she alone with creeping paces steals  
To take the Strumpet whom her Lord conceals.  
What meanest thou Procris in these Groves to hide thee?  
What rage of love doth to this madness guide thee?  
Thou hopest the Arye he calls in all her bravery,  
Will strait approach, and thou shalt see their knavery,  
and now again it Irks her to be there.  
For such a kill sight her heart will tear,  
No truce can with her troubled thoughts dispense,  
She would not now he there, nor yet be thence:  
Behold the place, her jealous mind fortels,  
Here do they use to meet, and no where else:  
The Grass is laid, and see their true impression,  
Even here they lay: I, here was their transgression.  
A body's print she saw, it was his seat,  
Which makes her faint heart 'gainst her ribs to beat,  
Phoebus the lofty Eastern Hill had scald,  
And all moist vapours from the earth exhaled:  
Now in his noontide point he shineth bright,  
It was the middle hour twixt noon and night:  
Behold young Shafalus draws to the place,  
And with the Fountain water sprinkes his face,  
Procris is hid, upon the grass he lies,  
And come sweet Zephir, Come sweet Air he cries.  
She sees her error now from where he stood,  
Her mind returns to her, and her fresh blood,  
Among the Shrubs and Briars she moves and rustles,  
And the injurious boughs away she ●…stles,  
Intending, as he lay there to repose him,  
Nimbly to run, and in her arms enclose him:  
He quickly casts his eye upon the bush,  
Thinking therein some savage Beast did rush,  
His bow he bends, and a keen shaft he draws,  
Unhappy man, what dost thou? Stay and pause,  
It is no bruit beast thou wouldst reave of life;  
(Oh man unhappy) thou hast slain thy wife:  
Oh Heaven she cries, Oh help me I am slain,  
Still doth thy Arrow in my wound remain:  
Yet though by timeless Fate, my bones here lie,  
It glads me most, that I, no Cuck-quean die:  
Her breath (thus in the Arms she most affected,)  
She breathes into the Air (before suspected)  
The whilst he lifts her body from the ground,  
And with his tears doth wash her b●…eeding wound.   
The end of the eleventh CANTO.   

Argumentum  
A Chills transformation: Palimed  
Accused of Treason and condemned to die:  
After long battle, honour Hector led  
The boldest Argive Champion to defy:  
The Grecians storm to be so challenged,  
Hector and Ajax the fierce Combat try:  
A Truce, a Banquet: at this pompous feast,  
Queen Helen is invited a chief guest.  
ARG. 2.  
Deiademeias Love, Ulysses Spleen,  
Two Princely husbands claim the Spartan Queen  
CANTO. 12.  

1  
far beit, I so much on Hector dote,  
To rob the adverse part of any right,  
I am not to the Troyans' so devoate,  
(Though thence derived) that the least Argive Knight  
Should me accuse, or any passage coat,  
Guilty of flattering love, or partial spite:  
Lo to both parts we neutral hate profess,  
But equal love, as we can evenly guess.   

2  
I cannot flatter with smooth Virgil's pe●…  
Or give Augustus more than he should have,  
(With Ovid) bestow Deities on men,  
And where he hates or loves, condemn or save:  
Blind Homer, how shall I excuse thee then;  
That all the glory to Achilles gave,  
For wit and strength, to whom hast thou done wrong,  
Ulysses was as wise, Ajax as strong.   

3  
If Hector with Achilles thou comparest,  
Or rather wouldst prefer the valiant Greek  
As he whose valour and esteem was rarest,  
Needs must I cast a blush upon thy cheek:  
Because great Hector was thy foe, thou sparest  
To speak of him, (his praise must be to seek)  
And all thy skeads Achilles' Fame display,  
Whom Hestor hath unhorsed twice in one day.   

4  
I must confess Achilles highly blest,  
To have a Homer in his Country borne,  
Had Troy bred Homer, or had Greece possessed  
Renowned Hector, no Prince should have worn  
A wreath equal with his, Fame should invest  
The Trojan highest, maugre envies scorn:  
Show me the cause else, why to his disgrace,  
Hector's the worthy? he hath lost the place?   

5  
Or how can this through Gracia be digested,  
A Troyans' Fame should with such Luster shine,  
The general bench of judgements hath invested  
The Trojan Hector one amongst the nine,  
Though Homer for Achilles hath protested,  
Made his Fame Tower-lesse, and his birth Divine:  
Yet hath the world the Trojan so respected,  
Achilles is put by, Hector elected.   

6  
And reason too, for what Achilles won,  
Was by the valour of his armed train,  
When Hector fought, he buckled man to man,  
And by his proper hand lie thousands slain,  
But how Achilles' Fame at first began,  
And who first brought him to Scamander plain,  
My Muse sings next, Ihove-borne my brain inspire,  
Whilst I the Fate of Thetis son inquire.   

7  
Old Peleus issue by the Seas fair Queen, 
Lycomedes K. of Scyros.   
Thetis in Lycomedes Court abides  
Clad like a Gentle (for such his youth was seen)  
His warlike hand a Womanish distaff guides, 
Achilles and Deiademeia.   
A female shape obscures his Martial spleen,  
In stead of Cushes a long Kirtle hides  
His warlike limbs, those arms 'mongst Virgins played,  
That were indeed for Vulcan's armour made.   

8  
The careful Mother that pre-science had  
By Oracle, her sonne'fore Troy should fall,  
Seeks to prevent his Fate, and sends the Lad  
Unto the King of Sciros (being but small)  
He passes for a Girl, so was he clad,  
Such was his shape, gate, gesture, look, and all:  
And through the Court a general voice doth run,  
Of Thetis' daughter, not of Thetis son.   

9  
The King appoints him bedfellow to be  
With fair Deiademeia his sole-Child,  
So well the youthful pair in bed agree,  
That when Achilles laughed, the Lady smiled,  
And when he honoured, she would bend her knee,  
With him she tasted joy, or mirth exiled:  
His amorous gestures were to her a Law,  
To keep her actions and her looks in awe.   

10  
Achilles grows, so doth the Lady too,  
And as their years increase, so their affection,  
Custom and long continuance taught them do  
Pleasures to youth unknown (without direction)  
Without suspicion, he may freely woe,  
The opportunous night friends her complexion:  
When in her Arms the Prince doth rudely rush  
Night Curtains her and none can see her blush.   

11  
So long they use this dalliance, the young Lass  
Feels her breasts swell, and her lank belly grow,  
(No marvel) by the Prince with child she was,  
Of him that wrought Troy's fatal overthrow;  
Great Neptolemus who did surpass 
Neptolemus called Pyrrl●….   
In Martial prowess, and laid Islium low:  
Whilst these things are in process, 'tis decreed  
By Oracle, Troy's wars shall ill succeed.   

12  
For when th'invasive greeks demand th'event  
That in these expeditions shall betide,  
Answer is them returned, incontinent  
Without Achilles, Troy shall swell with pride,  
And therefore was Ulysses forthwith sent  
With Diomedes, to find the Prince, denied  
By Thetis, unto whom was then revealed  
Her sons short date, (the cause she him concealed.)   

13  
The crafty Greek the Mother's guile suspecting,  
To Lycomedes Court posts in disguise,  
His weeds of state and Princely robes rejecting,  
He Pedler-like attempts the enterprise,  
He bears along bright glasses, fair reflecting  
cawls, Laces, Tires, to please young Lady's eyes:  
Besides these women's toys, he bears along  
A bright sword, and a Bow surpassing strong.   

14  
In the Court-hall he opens his fair pack,  
And twenty several Ladies come to buy,  
The peddler needs not ask them what they lack,  
Not one, but with some trifle gluts her eye,  
Achilles (hanging at the peddlers back,)  
Spies a fair Bow, and by his Hamper lie  
A rich carved sword, the strong Steele-bow he drew,  
And shook the sword, by which the Prince he knew.   

15  
Then closing with Aeacides, persuades  
The valiant youth to suit him to his kind,  
His loose effeminate habit he upbraids,  
Tells him what honours are to him assind,  
with what disgrace he lives 'mongst wanton Maids,  
And what renown attends a valiant mind:  
Which in his noble thoughts takes such Impression,  
The Prince reputes his former loose transgression.   

16  
He tears his feminine Vales, rends off his tires,  
His golden Cawl and Fillet throws aside,  
and for his head, a Steele-wrought Cask desires,  
That hand that did so late a spindle guide,  
To brandish a bright lustred sword aspires,  
a sword that must in Hector's blood be died:  
His smooth Rebata from his neck he falls,  
and to the Greek, for a stiff Gorget calls.   

17  
From his large Limbs th'embroidered Robes he shakes,  
and leaps out of his Garments with proud scorn,  
In stead of which, he a rich Vaunt-brace takes,  
Which buckling on, grows proud to see it worn,  
The wanton Guirles first wonder what he makes,  
With sword and arms (his Garments having torn:)  
But when he frowned, the Ladies grow afraid  
Of him so armed, with whom but late they played.   

18  
But now Ulysses, Diomedes, and he,  
Leave (without leave,) both Sciros and the King,  
(Deiademeia most bewailed of thee)  
Whoseyssue in thy Womb thou feelst to springe.  
They pierce through Greece, whom when the Princes see,  
To their arrive, they Odes and Cantons sing:  
Praising their Gods, that have Achilles found,  
Whose hand must lay Troy leavell with the ground.   

19  
This Thetis hearing, that her royal son  
had left his secure habit of a Woman,  
and by Ulysses to the wars was won,  
She for his safety doth her wits still summon,  
To Lemnian Vulcan she doth post-hastronne,  
Whose art in forging arms she knew not common:  
at her behest, he for her Son did yield,  
a Speere-proofe-armour, and a Globe-like Shield.   

20  
What can a Mother's care 'gainst Fare prevail?  
Not Vulcan's Armour can defend his life,  
When th'unavoided destinies assail  
against the Sister's bootless we make strife,  
Mortal prevention then of force must fail,  
In vain then hast thou laboured (Peleus wife)  
To girt his body in a steely wall,  
Since thy Achilles must by Paris fall.   

21  
No sooner was he borne, but the fair Queen  
Plunged him into the Sea, all save the heel,  
By which she held him fast, that which was seen  
Beveath the waves, was wound-free against Steel,  
Had she but drowned her hand, the Prince had been  
Sword-proofe even there, her niceness would not feel  
The coldness of the waves, therefore that part  
Was left unarmed, for Paris poisoned Dart.   

22  
Who therefore would against the Fates contend,  
By whom our elemental parts are swayed,  
Since every thing that's borne must have his end,  
and Nature still decays what she hath made,  
'tis Heaven, not Earth, that can our lives defend,  
The high powers must in all things be obeyed:  
But leave the fayre-foot Thet is, and proceed  
To what the Camp hath against Troy decreed.   

23  
By this great discords monges the Grecians fall,  
Twixt Duke Palamedes, and Mecenes King,  
But no man knows the birth of this great brawl,  
Or from what Fountain these dissensions spring,  
Achilles thinks his warlike meed too small,  
He will not fight: not Diomedes bring  
His Men to battle, while their Sovereign head,  
Is Nawlus son, the general Palamed.   

24  
Whom some affirm, the amorous Paris slew,  
In even Encounter of opposed hate,  
But others say, 'gainst him Ulysses drew  
Such points of Treason, as concerned his fate,  
About Palamedes strange rumours flew,  
Twixt whom and great Atrides fell debate  
About the Sovereign sway, envies fire nursed  
Long in their bosoms, into flashes burst,   

25  
The King of Ithaca married but newly  
Unto the chastest Queen that hath been crowned, 
Ulysses and Palamedes.   
When all the Grectan Kings appointed duly,  
To make their meeting, and assemble round,  
Gave out he was turned Frantic, but not truly;  
Which craft of his, the Son of Nawlus found:  
For coming where Ulysses Ploughed the Sand,  
and steered the crooked Rafter with his hand.   

26  
Palumides just in the Madman's way,  
Laid young Telemachus his first borne Son,  
Which made the Greek his yoked team to stay,  
and where his Issuelay, the place to shone,  
Palumides dilcovers his delay,  
Finds that his Lunacy by craft was done:  
That whilst the Grecians were with Troy at strife,  
He might at home sleep with his constant wife.   

27  
In ill time did the Son of Nawlus this,  
The vengeful King roused from so fair a Bride,  
who by this means now quite abandoned is,  
Doth in his bosom spleen and rancour hide,  
and for the loss of every amorous kiss,  
Threatens a wide wound in the Prince's side:  
Oh treacherous Greek! to want thy wife in Bed,  
Mustat Troy's siege cost the great General's head.   

28  
Arnea was Sole-Daughter to the King  
Icarius and fair peribea his wife, 
Peribea daughter to Nais.   
who feels a young Babe in her Womb to spring,  
The Father when he knew th'Infant had life,  
after conception: doubting some strange thing, 
Oracle. Femine●… Peribea d●…s Peribeap●…dorem fort ●…ere.   
To Delphos hies, where answers than were rife;  
When th'Oracle thus spoke, the princely Dame  
Shall child one full of Honour, full of Shame.   

29  
A beauteous Maid the troubled Mother bears,  
The Father misinterprets Phoebus' mind,  
And to avoid her shame his future fears  
Commits her to the rage of Seas and Wind,  
The Birds that bred of Meleager's tears, 
Heredotus lib. de pierce & Andromeda.   
Called Meleagrides (by Nature kind:)  
With their broad wings about the Cockboat hover,  
And from all storms the beauteous Infant cover.   

30  
And having nourished her for a certain space,  
Into the self-same Port her Bark they drive,  
Where the sad King without paternal grace,  
First launched it forth, and finding her alive  
Circled with Birds of Meleager's race,  
Their melting hearts against their furies strive: 
Penelope's Grece sig. A brood of Indian hens.   
They take the young Arnea from the Sea,  
And call her of those Birds Penelope.   

31  
In beauty, stature, and in wit she grows,  
But when her Father finds her apt to marry,  
Fearing the Oracle, whom still he knows  
Sooth in his words, persuades the dame to tarry,  
A safer course to keep her chaste, he chose,  
(Virginiti's a heavy load to carry:)  
And to devise to have her nobly sped,  
At a high rate he sets her Maidenhead.   

32  
When all the Grecian Princes sought her grace,  
And lay their Crowns and Sceptres at her feet,  
Icarius leads them to a Martial race,  
where the young Kings in hot encounter meet,  
Above them all, Ulysses won chief place,  
The shamefast Queen must her new Husband greet:  
The bashful modesty of this chaste Dame,  
The earefull Father did misconstrue: shame.   

33  
For womanhood this Lady had no Peer, 
〈◊〉 in Chrisilla.   
witness her many Suitors in the time  
Her Husband absent was, some twice ten year,  
who though much wooed (and in her youthful prime)  
Yet in their force or fair means could appear,  
Not the least taint of any amorous crime:  
Though many Suitors through her doors intruded,  
They by her Bow and Web were all deluded.   

33  
Whether Ulysses breast doth malice shroud,  
And being at full groat, now out it must;  
Whether his love to Agamemnon vowed,  
Bred in the Nawlian Prince some great distrust;  
Or whether great Palamedes grew proud,  
And in the Balance of his awe unjust:  
But the great Duke unto the Bar he brings,  
And there arraings him by a Bench of Kings.   

34  
Unto this royal Session's men are brought,  
That swear Palamedes would Greece betray,  
And that King Priam had by Factors wrought,  
To make the Argive Camp the Trojans pray,  
The General's private Tent is forthwith sought,  
Where Bags of Trojan Coin concealed lay:  
This evidence condems the Prince (betrayed)  
For there that Gold before Ulysses laid.   

35  
And Agamemnon is again restored,  
With whose election the late Truce expires,  
The maimed are cured, the victors are adored,  
The bodies slain, receive the funeral fires, 
The third battle.   
The Obits on both sides are full deplord,  
And either party the fair field desires:  
The great Atrides Marshals his fair host,  
Who shine in Steel by the Sygean Coast.   

36  
Upon the adverse party, Hector leads  
His m●…n to battle, flanct with sleeves and wings,  
His nimble Horsemen forage round the Meads,  
The main well-fen'st with Skirts of Shafts and Slings,  
In forehead of the battle Hector treads,  
This day the General over thirty Kings:  
The charge is given, armed knights meet breast to breast  
Striking bright stars out of each others Crest.   

37  
The doughty greeks after their long truest ease,  
Are full of breath and vigour, they fight well,  
The Trojans that but late drove to the seas  
The scattered Camp, think likewise to excel,  
Even Ballan'st is the field, as the Scales please  
who Victors be, who vanquished none can tell?  
On both sides some are conquered, some subdue,  
And as the day increased, the conflict grew.   

38  
Broad breasted Diomedes 'gainst Paris rides,  
and lifts him from his Saddle with his Spear,  
The Prince, the Buttocks of his Horse bestrydes',  
And hardly can the Trojan keep him there,  
Whilst Diomedes his quick remove derides  
Unshaken, from the Prince he passes clear:  
Spurring from troup to troup, making intrusion,  
Where the hot fight was grown to most confusion.   

39  
Now in his Chariot stands Achilles high,  
And with his Spear before him, squadrons strews,  
Great Hector's puissance he longs to try,  
Or some that's able to withstand his blows,  
And whilst whole troops before his Chariot fly,  
The reins upon his steeds white neck he throws:  
Calling for Hector: Hector, fore him stood,  
His Chariot-steedes caparisoned in blood.   

40  
To whom Aeacides, what ere thou be  
That thus confronst me like the God of war?  
Know 'tis Achilles must thy life set free,  
And tumble thee from thy triumphant Car:  
This said, a pointed javelin he lets flee,  
Which Hector at his loose perceived to jar,  
And took upon his Targe: the Dart he cast,  
Pierced nine Steel folds, and in the tenth stuck fast.   

41  
Helme-graced Hector started at this blow,  
And emulous of great Achilles' Fame,  
Charged in his hand another dart to throw,  
But first he says: Inquirest thou Hector's name?  
Behold him here, see thy eternal foe,  
Hector thou seekest, and lo I am the same:  
His active arm his language doth pursue,  
For with his latest word his javelen flew.   

42  
Well was it his Orbicular Targe was strong,  
Which Vulcan by divine composure made,  
Else had it stretched the warlike Greek along,  
It hit against the Boss, and there it stayed,  
But with the force it broke the mighty thong  
In which his massy shield about him played:  
The affrighted Palfreyes' with so great a stroke  
Startle aside, and the proud Curb revoke.   

43  
Now when Achilles roused himself, and saw  
Illustrate Hector in his Chariot stand,  
Himself so basely, his hot Steeds withdraw,  
As if he meant to charge some other band,  
Thinks in himself it is too great a flaw  
To his clear metaled fame, and with his hand  
Wastes to Imperious Hector from afar,  
T'abide a second deadly shock of war.   

44  
Th'undaunted Heroë, who already wonders,  
The braving Greek so quickly should retire,  
And what strange fate their Brasse-bard chariots sunders,  
Since both so ardently the fight desire,  
Expects Achilles, who against him thunders,  
Whilst from the Flints his armed wheels beat fire:  
Now the two Chariot-drivers prove their might,  
The Prince with Prince, Horses with Horses fight.   

45  
This six-fold Combat hath not lasted long,  
When Archeptolemnus that guides the rains 
Archeptolemnus Hector's Charioteer. Antomedon Achilles Charioteer.   
Of Hector's Coach-Steedes, thinking them more strong  
Than those whom rough Antomedon constrains,  
Lashes his fiery Palphreyes', hot and young,  
Expert Antomedon his skill disdains:  
Yerkes his proud horse, whose fierceness he dares trust  
Till their white foaming mouths snowed all the dust.   

46  
The two stern Champions mounted in their Cars,  
Confront each other with their armed staves,  
Whose points on either's Vaunt-brace print deep scars,  
Sometimes they flourish them, with idle braves  
Dart them sometimes (like Knights well seen inwarr,)  
But when they join, they Combat with their Glaves:  
Sometimes they grapple, sometimes they retire,  
And at their meeting make their Helms all fire.   

47  
The grim Aeacides mad in his mind,  
The warlike Trojan should against him stand,  
Inradged, his teeth against his teeth doth grind,  
And beats his Arm'd-breast with his Gauntlet hand,  
About him through the field doth Hector wind,  
His fayre-maind Coursers have so well been man'd:  
That to retreat, or to assault the foe,  
He at his will can check, or make them go.   

48  
Antomedon hath taught his Steeds like skill,  
For traversing, he likewise takes the field,  
His jades are countermanded by his will,  
For with the Curb they both rebel and yield,  
Their Milky foam upon their breasts they spill,  
Being parted thus: great Hector vaunts his Shield:  
Achilles his: again their Coursers meet,  
And from the Earth beat Thunder with their feet.   

49  
In this rude justle is Achilles bruised,  
His high plumde Helm close to his skull is battered  
And he within his Chariot sits diffused,  
His Sword, his shield, his Darts about him scattered,  
Antomedon retraites, to have excused  
His second shock: and o'er the plains he clatterd:  
his barbed team o'er thousand Courses flies,  
In whose Red-blood, his Chariot Naves he Dies.   

50  
Great Hector scorns pursuit, nor takes he breath,  
But falls upon the next Greek that he finds,  
And prints on him the bloody stamp of death,  
The long imprisoned soul his Sword unbinds,  
Mean time Achilles roused, abroad surveith  
For Hector, th'object of all Noble minds:  
But when he found himself from Hector strayed,  
The Prince doth base Antomedon upbraid.   

51  
Who falling prostrate, soothes Achilles thus,  
Let not on me your deadly hate be grounded,  
Not I from him, but Archeptolemus  
Made way from me, for sure great Hector's wounded?  
With you retired the son of Priamus  
On equal points: our rich-mained Steeds have bounded:  
Over these plains great Hector welnie dead,  
By great Achilles, is to Troyward sped.   

52  
This calms the wrathful Greek who else had sought  
His opposite amidst the slaughtering troops,  
Disjoind from him th'enraged elsewhere fought,  
And where he rears his hand that Squadron stoops,  
His armed Chariot, midst their Phalany wrought  
Horrid effusion, Troy's proud faction droops  
Beneath Achilles' arm, nor can it yield,  
(Save Hector) one to stand him in the field.   

53  
The Archduke Agamemnon with his spear  
Encountered King Pandolus, till both bled  
King Thelamon priest to Sarpedon near,  
And with his blade he reached him on the head,  
By their rude force they both unhorsed were,  
Against Euryalus King Thesus sped,  
Neither scape wound-free; Carras bore him well,  
'Gainst Scenetus, till from their Steeds both fell.   

54  
King Philomenes made An●…henor fly,  
King Rhemus with the King Philotas ran,  
Before Ulysses doth Arastus' lie,  
Ajax this day hath slaughtered many a man,  
King Priam's Bastard sons themselves apply  
In many a skirmish since the charge began:  
Young Deiphobus and Aeneas stand  
'Gainst Hupon, and the three-aged Nestor's band.   

55  
Troilus and Diomedes fiercely assail,  
And bravely beat each other from their steeds,  
Both rescued by the press, else without fail  
There had been fixed the period of their deeds,  
Remounted Diomedes breaks through the pale  
Of his armed foes, and to his horse proceeds:  
So Troilus hews his passage through the rings  
Of harnessed foes, and to his Steed he springs.   

56  
Paris and Menelaus once more meet,  
And bring unto the battle fresh supplies,  
With thundering strokes upon their Helms they greet,  
Bretes the Admiral Hector defies:  
Bretes that did command their blacke-stemed Fleet,  
Against him doth Priamides arise,  
And with such violent rage upon him sped,  
That with one blow he cloven his Helme-deckt head.   

57  
The Admiral thus dead, Hector desires  
The goodly Steed, from whom the Greek was field,  
Which (as for deeds of honour he inquires)  
The King Archilochus by chance beheld,  
Who seeing Bretes dead, the wound admires,  
His face looked pale, his heart with anger swelled:  
And with his sword he covets to make bleed  
The Trojan Prince, who still pursues the Steed.   

58  
Who storming to be troubled in the chase,  
Against the King Archilochus returns,  
Enraged Mars is figured in his face,  
And in his looks the eye of Gorgon's burns,  
The greeks blunt sword can scarce his Helmet race,  
So weak a foe (inflamed Hector) scorns:  
Upon his Crest his Falchion he lets fall,  
And cleaves the Greek, helm, body, arms and all.   

59  
The emulous son of Thetis, crossed by chance  
The black gored field, and came to view this blow,  
And mad in mind, against him charged his Lance,  
In hope the towering Prince to overthrow,  
Him Thoas seconds, and doth proudly'aduance  
His reeking sword, late crimsoned in the foe,  
Both with remorflesse blows; the Prince offend,  
And his bruised Shield about his arm they bend.   

60  
Had not his helmet been of metal pure,  
With Axes they had hewed it from his head,  
But he that made it was an Artsman sure,  
Else had his brains been on his harness spread,  
Nor had he long been able to endure  
Such tedious battery, had not Fortune led  
Paris, Aeneas, Troilus and the rest,  
To rescue valiant Hector, thus oppressed.   

61  
At their approach the Achive bands retire,  
Whom to their palisadoes they pursue,  
By this, in heaven ten thousand Lamps of fire  
Shine through the air, and now both Hosts withdrew,  
The reassembled greeks Hector admire,  
And 'mongst themselves into sad counsel grew:  
Since not by force of Arms, by what sly train,  
The never-daunted Worthy may be slain.   

62  
More honoured Hector, in his royal brain  
Revolues on milder thoughts, how blood to save:  
It pities him to see so many slain,  
And come to such a general timeless grave:  
Then, that no more red blood may Simois stain,  
And change the colour of her silver wave,  
He by a general challenge will devise,  
For thousands safeties, one to Sacrifice.   

63  
Against all Greece he'll fling his hostile gage,  
And to a single Fight their Princes dare,  
That two bold Champions may the combat wage,  
And in their mutual Fury, thousands spare,  
Mean time, black night, from th'universal Stage  
Of Earth, is cha'st and driven: Now all prepare  
For th'early Field, and with Apollo rise,  
To shine in Armour by his rhadiant eyes.   

64  
The Princes to the place where Hector lay  
Throng in their Arms, and his command attend,  
After they had took and given the time of day,  
with him they to the aged King descend,  
Before whom Hector briefly doth display  
his purpost challenge, which they all commend,  
For well his Father and his Brothers know,  
Hector hath power t'encounter any foe.   

65  
The Sun, up the steep Eastern hills climes fast,  
Th'embattled greeks upon the plains appear,  
To them the faire-rankt Troyans' march in haste,  
Within the reach of Hector's armed spear:  
Both Hosts attend the charge: when unagast  
The Prince first wafts, that all the Campemay may hear,  
Then leaning on his javelin, makes this boast,  
Even in the face of their assembled host.   

66  
You curled Greekes, that have unpeopled quite 
Hector's challenge.   
Threescore vast Kingdoms of their ablest men,  
To throng our fields with numbers infinite,  
All hopeless of their safe return again:  
Among these sixty Kings that shine so bright  
In burnished Steel, upon this sanguine Fen:  
Can you select one boulder than the rest,  
T'encounter armed Hector, Crest to Crest?   

67  
Or if your Princes be too weak a number,  
Can all those threescore Climates yield one hand,  
Amidst this world that comes our Realm to cumber,  
That dares between these hosts 'gainst Hector stand?  
Or do you all fear deaths eternal slumber?  
As well your Kings. as those of common band,  
That with a brave, breathed in so many ears,  
No soul (more valiant than the rest) appears.   

68  
If any of these Princes prove so free  
His prodigal life against ours to engage,  
Know by exposing his, whole thousands be  
Saved from the spoil of wars infernal rage:  
Oh, let me then that thrifty Champion see,  
That will spare Grecian blood, with him ●…wage wage  
Equal contention: with my lives expense,  
I will maintain the Troyans' eminence.   

69  
A Prince shall meet that Prince: as near allied  
To thundering Ihove as he that's best degreed,  
If in his warlike Chariot he will ride,  
I in my Chariot will con●…tont his speed,  
March me these four white Coursers Greece hath tried,  
These fair Andromache doth mornely feed:  
With her white hand with bread of purest wheat,  
And waters them with Wine still when they eat.   

70  
Xanthus, Podargus, Lampus, Aethon dear, 
Hector's steeds   
To Hector, you my armed Coach shall draw,  
And in this fierce exposure shall appear,  
Before the best Steeds that the Sun ere saw,  
But all Greece cannot match your swift Carrere,  
Not Diomedes Steeds that fed on r●…w  
And mangled limbs, that in their Mangers bleed,  
Can equal you in courage or in speed.   

71  
Therefore I'll cease that odds, and once again  
Leaving the Kings to common men I turn,  
Among such clusters growing on this plain,  
In no warm breast doth so much valour burn,  
But shall so many showers of blood still rain  
On Simois bank: so many widows mourn  
For their slain Lords, so many Children cry  
For their poor Fathers that here slaughtered die.   

72  
If not for Love of honour, in despair  
Methinks some one our puissance should accost,  
For no●… two souls that here assembled are,  
Shall scape the ●…y of our Trojan host,  
Death and devouring ruin shall not spare  
One, of your infinites, you are engrossed  
All on destruction's File, then let some Greek  
(Despairing life,) a death with honour seek.   

73  
Yields our besieged Town a Nobler spirit  
Then sixty assembled Kingdoms can produce?  
That none dares interpose his hostile merit,  
But all put off this combat with excuse,  
Among such infinites will none inherit  
A name with us? Fears Greece our hand shall sluice  
Their Universal blood? That fear can slave  
So many Legions with one Hector's brave?   

74  
I beg it of you greeks, let some forth stand  
To try what puissancelyes in Hector's sword,  
If I be foiled by his all-daring hand,  
The Spartan Helen shall be soon restored,  
And all the spoils brought from the fertile Land  
Of Cythara, made good, and he adored  
With these ennobled arms, the sword and crest  
Of Hector, Honours more than all the rest.   

75  
If I subdue your Champion: Greece in peace  
Shall ease our burdened earth of this huge weight,  
Hostility between our hosts shall cease,  
You with your men and arms your ships shall fraught,  
And from our bloodstained soil free this large press,  
So shall illustrate Hector reach his height:  
When th'universal world hath understood,  
Hector gauged his, to save his cities blood.   

76  
Oh, let it not in after times be said,  
Twice thirty kingdoms could not one man find,  
Prince, Knight, or Swain, durst equally invade,  
A Trojan Prince in Arms, and height of mind,  
Nor let succeeding time the greeks upbraid,  
To hear such lofty spirits so soon declined:  
Behold, here stand I to abide the rage  
Of his armed hand, that dares but touch our gage.   

77  
These words thus breathed, a general shout is given  
Through all the Tr●…n army, which aspires  
And strikes against the Marble floors of heaven,  
Where fixed are ten thousand sparkling fires,  
The heart of whole Greece is asunder riven,  
Rude tumult springs out of their strange desires:  
A confused murmur flies along the shore,  
Which to the Tr●…yans ears, the calm winds boar.   

78  
The ●…ager soldiers mutiny: Some say,  
Oh would the Kings and Dukes were not in place,  
Our Darts through Hector's Cuirass should make way,  
But common-men must not the Peers disgrace,  
The rage-burnt Kings their furies cannot stay,  
They fix their fired eyes in each others face:  
Yet none presums the Gaunlet up to take,  
When thus the younger of th' Atrides spoke.   

79  
Is it my lot all Grecia to excuse?  
Greece, that far from these powers hath congregated?  
Shall Peasant cowardice the Camp abuse,  
Whilst Menelaus lives a King instated?  
It shall not: what these Princes all refuse,  
I will take up, the cause shall be debated  
Twixt me and Hector, for the general host,  
(And reason) since the cause concerns me most.   

80  
With that he ceased the gage, when his great Brother  
Blaming his rashness, makes him let it fall,  
And now the warlike Kings eyeing each other,  
The Spartans' words moved fury in them all,  
Their shame and rage they can no longer smother,  
About the Gauntlet they begin new brawl:  
Toward the ground nine royal Princes be●…d,  
And for great Hector's gage at once contend.   

81  
The Archduke first: then great Andremons' Son,  
Thoas, King Diomedes, King Idomen,  
Ajax the strong, surnamed Telamonius,  
Ajax Oleus: Eriphilus, and then  
The warlike Ithacyan, that always won  
The praise for eloquence, 'bove other men:  
Ulysses: King Meriones, all these  
Stoop to the earth, and would the gauntlet cease.   

82  
T'appease their wrath, thus Nestor doth devise  
Three several Lots into some Helm to throw,  
And that bold Prince whose hand extracts the prize  
Between the Armies to assault the foe,  
The Lots are made, and all with ardent eyes,  
Into the General's Cask iniect them so:  
Achilles was not there, till word was sent  
Whose the Lot was (that day he kept his Tent.)   

83  
The soldiers that had proved great Hector's might,  
Pray to the Gods the Combats chance may fall  
To Ajax Telamonius, that he may fight  
With Hector, for the greeks in general,  
If not on warlike Ajax, it may light  
On warlike Diomedes, broad set, and tall:  
Or if not these, yet to appease his rage,  
Great Agamemnon may the battle wage.   

84  
The Heralds from the general's Helmet drew  
The first Inscription, which being known, was laid  
At Ajax foot, the Prince the Paper knew,  
Glad of his Lot (as all the soldiers prayed)  
The Kings retired, only stern Ajax grew  
near to Dardanian Hector, nought dismayed;  
Armed at all points, he struts upon the plain,  
Like angry Mars, after an army slain.   

85  
His shape was huge, his presence full of fear,  
An angry Tempest sat upon his brow,  
A Sanguine Plume doth from his Helm appear,  
Which double arms his back, and seems to bow  
Beneath his Bases: armed with such a Spear  
His right hand was, that none can disallow:  
Athwart his breast a purple Bawdricke fell,  
Bearing a sword, which many had sent to hell.   

86  
The scabbard Crimson Velvet, richly embossed  
And chaped with Gold: upon the hilt was graved  
The battle of the Centaurs who were lost  
In that fierce war, and whom the conflict saved,  
This swotd was aged Telamon's and cost  
A cities prize, the bright Blade had been laved  
In many bosoms, many Prince's bloods,  
The handle was stuck round with Golden stoods.   

87  
The Pommel weighed a Talon, rarely wrought 
The combat twixt Archelous & Hercules.   
With Artful Modules, on that curious round,  
Grim Achelous with Alcides fought,  
And there in all his Proteus shapes was found,  
Thither the prize fair Deyaneyr was brought  
And placed aloft; beneath her, those that sound  
Unto the dreadful charge, with Clarious shrill,  
Sat with swollen cheeks their lofty pipes to fill.   

88  
Such Art th'enchaser showed, to mock the eye,  
That some would think their Reeds did Music yield:  
There sat the King her Father Throned on high,  
With him his Peers, and round about the field  
Th'unruly multitude still pressing nigh  
The bounded lists, to see their Champions wield  
Their dreadful Arms, and who the prize can win,  
One with a Club armed, and a lions skin.   

89  
The other with his God-hood and his power,  
To change himself to shapes of strange disguise,  
Sometimes he seems a Dragon, to devour  
His rival Prince, who doth his Art despise,  
For on his head his Club falls like a Tower,  
Next like a fire into his face he flies:  
Ali which the Noble Champion cannot tame,  
For with a Club he strait beats out the Flame.   

90  
Then like a grim mad-Bull the halfe-God raves,  
And with his horns Alcides thinks to gore,  
But he contemning such enchanted braves  
Flies to his head, and with his rude hands tore  
One horn quite off (at this the Workman grieves)  
The conquered Bull in falling seems to roar:  
Four Nymphs descend from a fair sacred hill,  
And this rich horn with Flowers and fruits they fill.   

91  
Which of the horn of plenty still bears name,  
This and much more the hye-prised Pommel bears  
A finer tempered blade, or of more fame 
Cornucopia.   
By his proud side no Princely soldier wears:  
With this armed Ajax to the combat came,  
And singly to the Dardan Prince appears:  
On his left arm a ponderous Targe he bore,  
Quilted with seven Oxe-hides all Tanned with hair.   

92  
Tycheus was the Currier drost those hides,  
Best of his trade that dwelled on Hyla then,  
Accootred thus, strong Atax with huge strides  
Stalks in the field before the best of m●…n,  
And fixing his bold foot, boldly h'abides  
Con●…onting him: the Argive army when  
They saw the Salamine Prince bear him so proud,  
Their souls rejoiced, their hearts his lot allowed.   

93  
Priamides that never was afraid,  
Of aught (save fear) his Combatant thus greets,  
Oh thou whose presence to my soul is made  
More pleasing than the most delicious sweets!  
Let me partake his name, who undismaide  
In such fair equipage great Hector greets:  
For since mine eye first knew Apollo's light,  
I never saw a more accomplished Knight.   

94  
Nor one whose presence better pleased mine eye,  
(Although my foe) I'll give thee all thy dew,  
If courage suit, by shape I can ●…spy  
No blemish in thee; either let me view  
Thy open Helm, or else thy name descry,  
When stormy Ajax up his Beaver drew,  
And thus replied: The Helmet I had on,  
Obscured the face of Ajax Telamonius.   

95  
And Cousin Hector, know I am the least  
Of many that our spacious camp contains,  
Who to thy fury dare oppose their Crest,  
And on even language charge thee on these plains,  
We come to fight, not brawl, then do thy best,  
The strongest hate that in thy bosom reigns  
power on my Shield, destruction be my share,  
If with my Sword or Spear, I Hector spare.   

96  
Gramercies Cousin, the Trojan Heroë spoke,  
Thou lov'st me best, to lay it sound on,  
These noble thoughts thy mixed birth did take  
From us of Troy, and not from Telamonius:  
Our Dardan blood thou in thy arm dost shake,  
But when thou fearest: thy Mother's heat is gone:  
And only that remains to i'll thy heart  
Which Troy disclaims, and yields Greece as her part.   

97  
And would to Ihove I knew where that blood ran,  
Unto those Veins I would direct my Spear,  
And those in which our Kindred first began,  
My hate should spare, as blood to Hector dear:  
Come Noble Ajax, bear thee like a man,  
And one of Hector's Kinsmen, scorning fear:  
(Fear) is a word in Troy not understood,  
A banished exile from all Priam's blood.   

98  
More, I could wish that I might prove my rage  
On some, whose vein no Trojan moisture guides,  
Thetis armed Son, whose heat we must assuage,  
Tetydes, or the Elder of the Atrideses,  
Save these lives, none can equal conflict wage  
With Hector: but behold, our fury rides  
On Horrors wings, our blood is up and high,  
Then guard thee Cousin, my javelin now must fly.   

99  
His words and spear together cleave the air, 
The Combat betwixt Ajax and Achilles.   
The Golden-headed-staffe as lightning flew,  
And like the swiftest Curror makes repair  
Whether 'twas sent, and doth his message true,  
Ajax huge shield hath interposed the bare,  
Which Hector's agitagious still pursue:  
Through six tough hides, it pier'st without respect,  
But the sharp point upon the seventh was checked.   

100  
Ajax then shakes his javelin, forth it flies,  
And through the Plates of Hector's Target pierces,  
The toughest metal that the anvil tries,  
Must at his force relent: a thousand hierces  
His rage hath filled, and now the Prince applies  
His Universal power, f●…ry dispierces  
Through all his veins, which to one force united,  
No wonder, Hector was so well requited.   

101  
The Combat is begun, which to descry,  
To their full virtues doth surpass my skill,  
Their blows so swift are, they deceive the eye,  
The least of thousands are of power to kill,  
At advantageous places they soon spy,  
Both seas and shores with their loud strokes sound shrill:  
Were never heard such blows, so sound, so thick,  
Or seen such Wards, so cunning, and so quick.   

102  
Such that save Hector and blunt Ajax, none  
On Earth could equal, then much less exceed  
These two Heroic spirits, spent and gone,  
To rival them, no age the like can breed;  
Nor marvel though these two excelled alone,  
They being both derived from Godlike seed:  
In whom th'imperial Dietyes contended,  
In two such men, to have two Hosts defended.   

103  
Infinite Charges pass from either side,  
From either part their nimble javelins sing,  
Both fix their bold feet, and such storms abide  
As with their force tempestuous fury bring,  
Even till their Noble bloods the Verdure Died,  
with Echoing rage, their vaulted Helmets ring:  
Whose deafening Clangor from the field rebowne,  
Through the best Arches of Troy's Marble Town.   

104  
Their spears being shivered in the empty air,  
The Truncheons swelling from their hands they take,  
with interchange of heat, they madly fare,  
Till the tough Oak even to their Gauntlets broke,  
And now their hands unseruiceably bare,  
For their bright Swords, their cracked staves they forsake,  
Behold their wrestling Steeles contend on high,  
And ●…ug for honour in the empty sky.   

105  
With lightning such as Ihoves Incensements breed,  
Swifter than thought, or sight, their furies meet;  
Both seeming doubly armed with such quick speed,  
Their bright swords guard them round, from head to feet,  
Their trusty Armours stand them much in steed,  
For with such wounding strokes their Casks they greet,  
So full of horror, that both armies wonder,  
how earthbred men, should make such jovial thunder.   

106  
The invincible Dardanian with one stroke,  
Reached Ajax Beaver, and vnplumed his head,  
The Steely Clasp (divinely wrought) it broke,  
Which in the Salmin Duke stern fury bred,  
Who striving now the Dardan Prince to yoke,  
His spleen and powerful Sword together sped,  
The point to Hector's breasted Armour flew,  
And from his Bulk vermilion drops it drew.   

107  
The Trojan grows inflamed, the Argive proud  
To see his bright Skeyne in such blood Imbrued,  
Th'invaders shout, and lift their cries aloud,  
To see their Champion with such power endued,  
For this (great Hector) in his Soul hath vowed  
Sudden revenge, he grows more fierce and rude:  
His Sword plied Ajax Helm, yet shining bright,  
As Cyclops hammers on their Anvils light.   

108  
So well 'twas tempered, and his strength so hy,  
That his tough metalled Blade in pieces flew,  
At self-same instant Ajax 'gan apply  
His trusty steel, and close to Hector grew,  
But as he thus pronounced (now Hector die)  
And heaves his arm aloft to make it true,  
his Sword upon his Cask fell as he spoke,  
And with the force close by the handle broke.   

109  
The Champions both disarmed save their shields,  
First Hector with his eye doth round inquire,  
And finds a scattered Rock left in the fields,  
Never till then removed, now all on fire,  
To avenge his wonnd, what no man else could wield,  
(His mind 'bove Mortal puissance 'gins t'aspyre:)  
His puissant arm advanceth at the last,  
And the huge Mass he towards Ajax cast.   

110  
He takes it on his shield, but with the power  
Of his compareless strength, the seven tough Hides  
were all to crushed and bruised, he thinks some Tower  
Of arched stone from his high structure slides  
Him to entomb alive, and to devour,  
Down drops his Targe to earth, and he abides  
Asto●…sht for a space, at length his eye  
Glan'st on a young tall Oak that grew fast by.   

111  
Whose sinnowy strings with shaking to and fro,  
He soon unloosed, and by the Earth up tears,  
And waving 'bove his Helmet, with one blow  
seeks to give end to all the dardan's fears,  
should it fall steady, he should lie full low,  
The threatening Oak still in the air appears:  
Menacing veng●…ance, but before it light,  
Here breathe my Muse, and cheer thy traveled spirit.   
Achilles' his concealment ofhi sex in the Court of Lycomedes: 
De Arte Aman●…. 1.  Ovid thus writeth.  

NOw from another World doth sail with joy,  
A welcome Daughter to the King of Troy,  
The whilst the Grecians are already come, 
Achilles and D●…a.   
(moved with that general wrong 'gainst ●…slium:)  
Achilles in a Smock, his Sex doth smother,  
and lays the blame upon his careful mother,  
What mak'st thou great Achilles, teazing Woo●…,  
When Pallas in a Helm should clasp thy skull?  
What doth these fingers with fine threads of Gold?  
Which were more fit a Warlike Shield to hold.  
Why should that right hand, Rock or Tow contain,  
By which the Tro●…n Hector must be slain?  
Cast off thy loose veils, and thy Armour take,  
And in thy hand the Spear of Pelias shake.  
Thus Ladylike he with a Lady lay,  
Till what he was, her belly must bewray,  
Yet was she forced (so should we all believe)  
Not to be forced so, now her heart would grieve:  
When he should rise from her, still would she cry,  
(For he had armed him, and his Rook laid by)  
And with a soft voice speak: Achilles stay,  
It is too soon to rise, lie down I pray,  
And then the man that forced her, she would kiss,  
What force (Deiademeia) call you this?   
Antomedon was Achilles' Charioteer, and Squire to Pyrrhus, 
Ovid de Arte Amandi lib. 1.  whose skill Ovid remembers.  

By art of Sail and Oar, Seas are divided,  
By art the Chariot runs, by art love's guided,  
By art are Bridles reigned in, or let slip,  
Typhis by art did steer th' Hemonian ship:  
And times succeeding, shall call me alone,  
loves expert Typhis and Antomedon.   
The reason why Achilles kept his Tent, and was not in the 
Homer.  field when Hector breathed his challenge, is not fully resolved: some think he was discontent about a difference betwixt the General Agamemnon and him, who kept away perforce Briseis, a beauteous Lady, claimed by Achilles as his Prize, which we rather follow in our History, then to lay his absence on his Love to Polixena, whom he had not yet seen, and the promise which for her sake he made to Hecuba, to keep himself and his M●…midons from the battle.  
Achelous was son to Oceanus and Tellus (viz) the sea and the Earth whence all Rivers are derived, who being 
Strabo lib. 10.  vanquished by Hercules, hid himself in the River, called of himself Achelous, a famous stoud in Greece, dividing Aetolia from Acatnavia. This Achelous was before called 
Plutarch lib. d●… fluminibus.  Thoas, and riseth from the Mount Pindus, but Plutarch calleth it Thestius, of Thestius the son of Mars and Pisidices who had three daughters. Calirhoe, Castalia and Dirce, of whom the famous Greek Poet 
Akeloou thugater diska, etc. 
Eurip. in Bachiss   
Oh Achelois filia, venerande Virgo dierce:  The Floods of Achelous were so famous that all the waters used in the divine sacrifices were by the Oracle called Aquae 
Heredot●… in Eutripe.  Acheloae.  
The Poets feign him to transshape himself in a Bull, because 
Hellanicus.  Riversplow the earth as Oxen make Furrows, or because Bulls draw near to the brinks of rivers when they bellow for fresh pasture: else because waters breaking violently through any fall, make a confused noise, like the roar of many Bulls together: He was ●…ald a Dragon by his many indented windings and turnings.  
Hercules being leagued with King Oeneus, undertook 
Strabe 10.  to suppress this raging river, whose many inundations had much damaged his Kiingdome, who extenuating his main stream, by enforcing it into many rivalets, by that means made the country more fertile, therefore it was moralised that Hercules breaking off his horn received in the same all fruits of plenty.  
To this Cornucopia or horn of abundance, jupiter gave 
Xanthus' in rebut Etolicis.  this property, that whosoever held it, and wished, should receive according to their desire. The rarieties of the most choice fruits and wines of all kinds, how delicious soever to taste the Pallat.  
This virtue was first proved by Amatthea daughter to Hemonius King of Aetolia, though some take Amatthea to 
Her●…genes lib de Phrygia.  be the Goat that nursed jupiter with her milk, when Rhea had given him to be brought up to Adrastea and Isde.  
The end of the twelfth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
A Chills dotes on beauteous Polixaine,  
And at her fair request refrains the field,  
The Truce expired, both Hosts prepare again  
For battle, with proud hearts, in valour steeled:  
The greeks are beat back, many killed and ta'en,  
Patroclus don's Achilles' Arms and shield:  
Him Hector, for Achilles took and slew,  
Whose Armour gone, his Mother seeks him new.  
ARG. 2.  
TRuce after Combat, Hecuba is won  
By Paris means, to league with Thetis son.  
CANTO. 13.  

1  
AWake soft Muse from sleep, and after rest  
Show thyself quick and active in thy way,  
Thy labouring flight and travel long oppressed  
Is comforted, no longer than delay,  
But with thy swiftest wings fly in the Quest  
Of thy prefixed goal: The happy day  
In which this Kingdom did her wide arms spread,  
To embrace king james, our Sovereign Lord & head.   

2  
And you (great Lord) to whom I Dedicate  
A second work, the issue of my brain,  
Accept this Twin to that you saw of late,  
Sib to the first, and of the self-same strain,  
That only crave the shelters of your state,  
To keep it from all storms of Ha●…le and Raine,  
Who neither dread the rage of winds or Thunder,  
whilst your fair roof they may be shadowed vnd●…r.   

3  
Your favour and protection decks my phrase,  
and is to me like Ariadne's clew,  
To guide me through the Laborinthean Maze,  
〈◊〉 which my brain's entangled: 'tis by you,  
That every vulgar eye hath leave to gaze,  
and on this Pro●…ct takes free enter view,  
Which, but t'express a due debt (yet unpaid)  
Had still remained unperfect and unmade.   

4  
Proceed we then, and where we left repair:  
About his head (the Tree) rough Ajax flings,  
Like to a threatening Meteor in the air,  
Which where it lights exitial ruin brings,  
Such seems th'ungrounded Oak, leavelesse and bare,  
Who shakes o'er Hector's Crest her rooted strings,  
And with such rude impetuous fury fell,  
T'have dinged him through the Centre down to hell.   

5  
But Hector with his broad shield waits the fall,  
Which shivers all the plates of his strong Targe:  
The Graectans too much fury, strikes withal,  
The plant from his own hands, in his rough charge,  
Unarmed once more they grapple, to make thrall  
Each others strength their arms sinnowy and large,  
About their sides with mutual strength they cling,  
and wrestling strive, which can each other fling.   

6  
When lo, the Kings on bothsides much admitting  
Their never equalled valour, loath to lose  
Such Champions, in whose charging or retiring  
Their spring of victory, declines or Flows,  
(Their Conquests droop towards earth, or rise aspiring)  
The general of each host his Warder throws  
Between the Combatants, who still contend.  
By slight of strength to give the difference end.   

7  
Two Guards from either Army step between  
Their heated furies, till their blood retired,  
For with fresh breath they both abate their spleen,  
And cease that Combat thousands late admired,  
Instead of blows their friendly Arms are seen  
T'infold each other (with new loves inspired)  
Ajax his Belt plucks from athwart his breast, 
An interchange of gifts betwixt Hector and Ajax.   
And gives to Hector (of all Knights the best.)   

8  
Who takes a good sword fleshed on many a foe,  
And interchanged with Ajax (but oh Fate)  
Two ominous Tokens these good Knights bestow,  
Which to themselves proved most unfortunate,  
To Hector's heels must Ajax Baldric grow,  
And three times drag him by each Trojan gate:  
Whose sight whole Troy with clamorous shricks shall fill,  
With Hector's sword, Ajax, must Ajax kill.   

9  
These passages of friendship given and took,  
Behold a Herald from the Town appears,  
Who greets the proud greeks with a friendly look  
From Priam, (reverent both in state and years:)  
Them, whom but late the Troyans' could not brook,  
Troy now invites, and for a space forbears 
A Truce.   
All hostile hate, between both hosts proclaiming  
A day of jubilee for feast and gaming.   

10  
The Faith of Hector as best hostage given,  
Th'invasive Kings in peace the City enter,  
Whom Priam feasts, with all that under heaven  
Can be found rare, or bred above the Centre,  
The Dames and Damsels all pale fear bereaven,  
Amongst the dreadful greeks dare freely venture,  
And they that late did fright them above measure,  
Have liberty to sport and Court their pleasure.   

11  
Vnpeered Hector (who had never seen  
Achilles, (but on Horseback armed) before,  
Eyes him with pleasure, and forgets all spleen, 
Dictes.   
And Thetis son that (but in blood and gore)  
Stained and besmeared, had never Hector seen,  
Freely surueighs his shape: his robes he wore:  
His brawny Limbs, broad bulk, his face, and stature,  
Nor can he but applaud the pride of nature.   

12  
To whom Achilles thus? Hector, I see  
A presence I could Love, but his Fame hate,  
'tis thy renown alone doth blemish me,  
And makes me in these wars unfortunate,  
I never yet dropped blood, but drained by thee,  
For which, my teen is grown inveterate:  
Nor could I relish pleasure, but still trusting  
To end thy days, by swordfight, or by justing.   

13  
To him the Heroë mildly thus replies:  
Aeacides pursues a double wrong,  
That comes from Greece our City to surprise,  
And race our walls that we have builded strong,  
Your Loves we hold dear, but your hates despise,  
(As opposites that dare not front us long:  
If more thou wouldst: To arms: refer the rest,  
Sat, (for thouart welcome) freely taste our feast.   

14  
Priam and Agamemnon take chief place,  
The rest are ranked unto their states or fames, 
The greeks feasted by Priam.   
Troilus and Diomedes, sit face to face,  
and gi'en to brawl, for Diomedes blames  
Troilus, and Troilus him, to his disgrace  
The jars appeased, for see the fairest Dames  
Of the best bloods of Troy, richly attired,  
Bring in the Queen, whose state the greeks admired   

15  
Helen, Troy's Firebrand sat at this high feast,  
Nor did she blush to see her husband there,  
Him, Paris thinks a bold unwelcome guest,  
and that to Helen he was placest too near,  
Alone he tastes no dainties, 'mongst the rest,  
Her very sight hath cloyed him without cheer;  
On Hecuba fair Pollixene attended,  
Whose beauty great Achilles most commended.   

16  
Now the revolted Cal●…has free time found  
'Gainst Trojan, lovely Cresseid to persuade,  
With Arguments and words so firm and sound,  
The Trojan now no more may Court the Maid,  
King Diomedes must henceforth be the ground  
Of all her passionate Love, she can be stayed  
In Troy no longer (though she wished it rather)  
she's but a Child, and must obey her Father.   

17  
Whilst all the Kingly Leaders had loud chat  
Of Chivalty, high Bloods, and deeds of war,  
(And as their humours led, of this or that)  
Of many a bleeding wound and grisly scar,  
Whilst some spoke much, and some sat mute thereat, 
Achilles' love to Polixena.   
Achilles' eye fixed on a brighter star  
Than any shines, fixed 'mongst the heavenly fires,  
The rarest Pollixene alone admires.   

18  
He neither can dilate of Noble deeds,  
Nor interchange discourse of slaughtered Kings,  
What comes of peace, or what of war proceeds;  
What profit rest, what hurt invasion brings;  
His new dissolved heart within him bleeds,  
And from his Rocky breast a Fountain springs  
Of passion, only by her sight engendered,  
In place of which, old hate is quite surrendered.   

19  
It now reputes him he hath lift a blade  
Against the Sire, that such a child hath bred,  
Or to the place that fostered that sweetmaide,  
His bloody Myrmidons to battle led;  
Or that his dreadful hand did once invade  
Her Brother (for whose Love he's well-nye dead)  
To gain whose beauty, he could find in heart,  
Greece to renounce, and take the Troyans' part.   

20  
Queen Hecuba observes Achilles' passion  
Thinking to make it useful to her good,  
That the most strong of all the Argive Nation,  
Shall for her daughter's sake spare Trojan blood:  
By this, the feast and Royal preparation  
Breaks up, the Kings that on their honours stood,  
With bounteous thanks take leave, bend on the morrow,  
This Truce-full joy to mix with hostile sorrow.   

21  
The self-same night by Hecuba's advice,  
Unto Achilles' Tent fair Paris sends,  
Offering his Sister's love (held at high price)  
Mixed with the aged Queens most kind commends,  
With courteous words the bold Greek they entice  
To leave the siege, which Thetis son intends  
Her nuptial bed being promised, with much joy,  
Answer's returned, he'll war no more 'gainst Troy.   

22  
Now while he rests him in his Idle Tent,  
And to his amorous Harp Love-ditties sings, 
A battle lasting 30 days   
Both Armies sundry Stratagems invent,  
Great Hector to the field his puissance brings,  
Upon the plain appears incontinent  
A gallant host led by th'encamped Kings:  
Wars Music sounds, Mars trots upon his Steed  
o'er thousand mangled sides, that freshly bleed.   

23  
Sometime the Trojan Leaders with their powers,  
Even to their palisadoes beat the Foe,  
Whence being repulsed, the camp the Champion scours  
And fore Troy's gates their purple Lances grow,  
Whom th'issue from the City soon devours,  
Again the Greek sustains great overthrow:  
Again relieved, the Trojan powers they face,  
Whom to their Tents again the dardan's chase.   

24  
Full thirty days together Fortune strives  
To make their Conquest doubtful, in which time  
Unnumbered Knights on both parts lost their lives,  
Some in their wain of years, some in their prime,  
Some slain outright, some captived put in gives,  
Some lose their Fame, and some to honours clime:  
Amongst whom Hector in the first rank stands,  
For deeds of name wrought by his warlike hands.   

25  
Though farre-feared Ajax did high works of Fame,  
And blacke-haired Agamemnon boldly fought;  
Though strong-limbed Diomedes his worth proclaim  
By Martial Acts midst fields of slaughter wrought,  
Though Nestor oft-times to the battle came,  
And (to his strength and age) for honour sought:  
Though Menelaus oft in field was seen,  
Ulysses too, more full of guile, than spleen.   

26  
Though these and more among themselves contended,  
With emulation to achieve most praise,  
Yet when great Hector to the field descended,  
Backed by his Brothers, their swift current stays,  
Above them all his glorious worth extended,  
The greeks grow warre-tyred after thirty days:  
And beaten to their Trenches much decayed, 
Achilles' his abstinence from battle.   
They jointly flock t'implore Achilles' aid.   

27  
Who with his Myrmidons from field abstains,  
In hope to gain the fairest Dame alive,  
Still through the fields remorseless slaughter rains,  
The greeks beyond their Parapets they drive,  
Still they entreat, he still their words disdains,  
Within the Camps skirts he may hear them strive:  
Yet (all this notwithstanding) he seems loath  
To Arm himself against a sacred oath.   

28  
But when he saw the wounded soldiers run,  
Their bleeding heads amongst the Tents to hide,  
Herd, by their swords so many slaughters done,  
Beheld some mangled, that before him died,  
Found how the foe their Camp had well nigh won,  
Perceived the fire burn bright on every side,  
Himself surcharged with Flames, in his tent sweeting  
And all the princes by his bed entreating.   

29  
He than relents, and at their fair request,  
he'll keep his oath, and yet afford them aid,  
For now the man whom he esteemed best,  
He whom alone his bosom friend he made,  
Patroclus don's his arms, his shield, his Crest,  
And to his thigh girts his victorious blade:  
And with three hundred Myrmidons attended,  
He issues where the Camp was least defended.   

30  
At his appearance when those arms were seen  
So well, among the Troyans' known and feared,  
They make him way, Patroclus had not been  
Long in the place, but all the greeks were cheered:  
They that before stood like a harvest screen,  
Gave back apace, for not a man appeared,  
Patroclus still aduanc'st Achilles shicld,  
And with his Myrmidons maintains the field:   

31  
Now horrid Massacre pursues apace  
Th'astonished Troyans' Paris, wonders most  
To see Achilles armed, makes good the place,  
And with such rage assault the Trojan host,  
That not a man dares their Pavilions face,  
Or 'gainst the Myrmidons his valour boast:  
He calls him trothless, perjured, false, forsworn,  
And as he speaks (withal) is backward borne.   

32  
The cry grows great, which Hector overhearing,  
He calls upon his men to cease base flight,  
And spying one above the rest appearing,  
Dreadful in shape, and all imbrued in fight,  
His quakefull hand and sword, so often rearing,  
He takes him for the warlike Pelean Knight  
Achilles, of the Grecians great'st in pride,  
Whom he had oft before in battle tried.   

33  
He chooseth from his Page an Oaken spear.  
Hewed from the heart of Ihoves relentless tree,  
And couching it, spurs with a full Career  
Against Patroclus: his proud Steed was free,  
And like a shot star doth his Rider bear,  
At every plunge the ground near kissed his knee:  
His constant aim, that never erred at need,  
Tops the proud Greek from off his Noble steed.   

34  
And now Achilles' armour strews the field, 
Patroclus slain   
Patroclus lies upon the Verdure spread,  
here lay his sword, and there his trusty shield,  
The Myrmidons (as had their Lord been dead,  
And never more victorious Arms should wield)  
All in disordered ranks retired and fled:  
Achilles arms ceizd, who durst longer stay?  
This was the cause the Dardan won the day.   

35  
When dead by Hector was Menetius son,  
And that his wounded body strewed the plain,  
(Quoth Hector) Now Achilles arms are won,  
These are mine own, and these will I maintain:  
He strips the fair Patroclus (new foredone,)  
And thought at first Achilles he had slain:  
But when he saw one not of Godlike kind,  
The Arms he takes, the body leaves behind.   

36  
Achilles frantic with so great disgrace,  
Loss both of friend, and of his glorious arms,  
Torments himself with fury for a space,  
Threatening to Princely Hector hostile harms,  
Yet when he thinks to have his life in chase,  
And rouse the Worthy with his wars alarms:  
He now records his friends disgrace in field,  
To combat him, he hath nor arms, nor Shield.   

37  
The bright-foot Amphetrite his fair Mother, 
Thetis otherwise called Amphetrite.   
Knowing the grief her son conceives at heart,  
Her true Maternal pity cannot smother,  
But with her care she seeks to cure his smart,  
Instead of these, she will provide him other  
Made by Divine composure, not Man's art,  
And thus resolved, to Lemnos she doth high,  
Where Vulcan works in heavenly Ferrarie.   

38  
She found him with his face all smooged and black,  
And labouring at his Forge quite hid in smoke,  
The stifling fume kept the fair Goddess back,  
About she was her soft steps to revoke,  
But whilst the C●…ps on their Anvils thwack,  
She spies fair Charis, and to her she spoke:  
That the Lame Mettall-God might understand,  
Thetis his friend, the Seas-Queene was at hand.   

39  
Charis the handmaid, grace whose Office still 
Charis.   
Is to strew Venus' lovely bed with Flowers,  
And to them both Celestial Nectar fill,  
As unto Ihove-himselfe fair Hebe powers,  
Prays the bright Goddess but to stay until  
The sweaty Smith his face and visage skowers;  
And whilst she tells the God of her repair,  
To ease herself in a rich golden Chair.   

40  
Charis departs, she mounts the Enameled seat, 
Homer Iliad   
The back of solid Gold richly engraved,  
Cut and inchac'st, it showed his skill was great,  
and in the Metal too, no cost was saved,  
So though the frame was large, his art was neat,  
The four supporters round about were staved  
With pillars of white silver, moulded so,  
That by the work, the workman you may know.   

41  
Mean time fair Charis to the Smith relates,  
How faire-foote Amphetrite stays without,  
at this report lame Vulcan thanks the Fates,  
Who had so well his business brought about,  
The Queen whose favour he so highly rates,  
Should take the pain to find his Concave out:  
Of whom, he (falling through the Planets seven,)  
Moore favour found, than all the rest in heaven.   

42  
With that his apron from his breast he takes,  
His airy bellows have surceased to blow,  
He sleckes his Coals, his smoky Forge forsakes,  
Sponges his hands and face, then 'gins to throw  
A rich Robe o'er his shoulders, and so makes  
On to the Queen, whose mind he longs to know:  
When after many a limping Curtsy made,  
Thus Amphetrite doth the Smith persuade.   

43  
If ever I was held worthy the name  
Of the seas-Queene, unfortunate alone, 
Apollodorus.   
For of the seed of Gods derived I came,  
Yet (married to a Mortal,) find you none  
Thetis except: yet be't to me no shame;  
Behold my Divine beauty, I was one  
Even Ihove himself loved, whom, cause I denied,  
In spite he gave me to a Mortals Bride.   

44  
Yet am I not esteemed amongst them least,  
For when my high espousals were first made 
Staphilus in lib de Thessalia.   
In the Mount Pelion, all the Gods increased  
My glory with their presence; for none stayed  
Or kept away from th'Hymenean feast,  
Saving the Gods discord, the Spheres played 
Dailochus. Pherecides.   
Music to us; my Peleus me contented  
To grace, whom all the Gods rich gifts presented.   

45  
Ihove gave us Graces on our bed to wait,  
Apollo, Ingots of the purest Gold, 
Zezes' histo 45.   
Pluto, a smaraged to be worn in state,  
juno, a lem worth, more than can be told,  
Neptune two Steeds, above all Mortal rate,  
Xanthus and Ballia, whom you may behold  
Still draw my Coach, a rich Knife rarely wrought,  
'mongst other presents you God Vulcan brought.   

46  
But what of these digressions, If my hap  
Hath ever been to do you any grace,  
When falling from high Heaven, in my soft lap  
I gently catched you, See: behold the place  
On which your head fell, which to fold and wrap  
In smoothest silks, my robes I did unlace:  
For this, and much more kindness by me done,  
Requite all, with an Armour for my son.   

47  
Enough (quoth Vulcan fetch Pyragmon strait)  
A parcel of the best and purest Steel,  
And you Berountes let it find the weight 
Pyragmon, Berountes, and S●…pes, the three cyclops that attend on Vulcan.   
Of your huge Hammers, and their ponders feel,  
The cyclops fetched a Plate six Cubes in height,  
So Massy, that the burden made him reel;  
Sceropes stained with smoke, the bellows blue,  
And all at once themselves to work withdrew.   

48  
They forged a Helmet with rich Flowers inchac'st 
Achilles' armour   
So curiously, that Art it much exceeded,  
Borders of sundry works about were placest,  
The precise sight of the best eye they needed,  
That could discern the closures, they were graced  
With Godlike skill (from God-hood it proceeded)  
For beauty, it was glorious to the sight,  
For proof, no Steel could on this Helmet bite.   

49  
The Gorget, Vaunt-brace, Backe-peece, breast, and all,  
Came from the self-same substance, and like skill,  
The Cushes that beneath the girdle fall,  
Impenetrable were, and Steele-proofe still,  
And though the thickness did appear but small,  
The Plates they with such strength of metal fill:  
It hath the force and puissance to withstand  
The sharpest Spears hurled from the strongest hand.   

50  
Above them all, his shield the rest surpassed,  
massy, and only for his Arm to wear 
Achilles' shield   
For whom 'twas made, upon the same was ra'st  
The great world Tripartyte: heaven and each Sphere,  
Thence all the high Circumference was placed  
Stars, Moon, and Sun, the signs that rule the year,  
The Ram, the Bull, and the Twin-brothers sign,  
The Crab, the Lion, and the Maid Divine.   

51  
The Scale, the Scorpion, and the Centaur fell,  
Stern Capricorn, and he that water powers,  
The Fishes: all these were engraved well,  
There Phoebus stood, about him days and hours,  
With the four Seasons: First the Spring 'gan swell  
With sweetest Buds: Summer that seldom lours  
Stood next in rank, well clad in freshest green,  
Autumn next her, in ragged Robes was seen.   

52  
There stood old Winter in high Furs attired,  
On whom the flakes of Snow like Feathers hung,  
He shyvering looks, as if he warmth desired,  
With chattering teeth, hands Palsied, quaking tongue  
Below the Earth, with Dales and Hills admired,  
Fields full of Grain, & Meads with Grass new sprung:  
Here Cities rarely built, there Hamlets stand,  
Here fallow-fields, besides them, New-tild Land.   

53  
Between the middle Earth, Seas ebb and flow,  
Whose Billows in their carving seem to move,  
Here the Leviathan huge waves doth throw  
From out his Nostrils to the skies above,  
The Dolphins, of a thousand colours show,  
Here Whales their heads above the waters prove:  
And sailing ships contrived by cunning rare,  
On which strange Fish, with wonder seem to stare.   

54  
A thousand sundry Objects made by Art,  
This huge Orbicular Shield in compass holds,  
What Heaven or Earth, or Seas to us Impart,  
His Globe-like compass to the eye unfolds,  
When Vulcan taking the fair Queen apart,  
(who with much wonder his strange work beholds:)  
Presents it her, made perfect for her Son,  
In whose rich arms, Troy seems already won.   

55  
At Vulcan's Cave she yokes her Chariot-steeds,  
which o'er the Ocean's rugged back make way,  
And as she freely on the Seas proceeds,  
About her Coach the Quicke-eared Dolphins play  
At her sons Tent (famed for his warlike deeds,  
She lights, and to the Couch on which he lay:)  
Tossed those rich arms, which when Achilles viewed,  
The half-dead spirit within his breast renewed.   

56  
He leaps from of his Pallet, to embrace  
The beauteous Queen, and soon entreats her aid,  
To arm his shoulders, and his head to grace,  
With that inchaced Helm God Vulcan made,  
Who now completely furnished, longs for place  
Where thus beseene, he Hector may invade:  
He cannot sleep for gazing on his Shield,  
In hope t'advance it in the morrows field.   

57  
Thetis departs, when th'early Cock gave sign,  
With his loud notes Aurora to dispose,  
Who leaves the Bedrid Tithon sunk in Wine,  
From whom the Gold haired Goddess blushing rose,  
To harness Phoebus' Coach-steeds, who in fine  
About his face, his Beams bright ghstring throws:  
To dry the Morning's tears, who weary still,  
To see th'unkind Sun climb th'eastern hill.   

58  
He had not left the forlorn Goddess long, 
A Battle.   
But from olympus top he may espy,  
Plaine-Crested Hector, his armed Troops among,  
Cheering them up the proud greeks to defy:  
Next him marched Noble Troilus, Memnon strong,  
Antenor and Aeneas mounted high:  
Young Deiphobus and Polydamas,  
Paris, whose aim in Arch'ry doth surpass.   

59  
Sarpedon, King Epistropus: beside  
Many more Kings that sundry battles led  
Against these soon the Curled Invaders ride,  
The grim Atrides first aduan'st his head,  
Achilles' next, passed with vainglorious pride  
For his rich armour, Nestor next him sped  
Menon, whose arms were set with many a stone,  
And (he that Hector stood) bold Telamonius.   

60  
The Ithacan, with Lacedaemon's King,  
The widowed Spartan: ground of all this broil,  
These to the field their several battles bring,  
With thousand followers, bend on death and spoil,  
Their barbed Steeds the earth behind them fling,  
Harness and quartered limbs block the smooth soil:  
Amongst the rest, Achilles' loftiest stood,  
and his new armour double-Guilds in blood.   

61  
With Memnon, ●…onne to Tithon and the Morn, 
Apollodorus lib. 3.   
Who came from Egypt in King Priam's aid,  
Aeacides encounters, change of scorn  
Between them past, bold Memnon nought dismayed,  
With that strong hand that had the Sceptre borne  
Of Persiaes' kingdom, and did once invade  
Susa, as far as where Choaspes flows,  
Upon his Helm thunders two perceant blows.   

62  
They stound him in his saddle, make him kiss 
Hesiodus in Theogonia.   
His Steeds curled Crest, ere he can Mount his head,  
Achilles who esteems no other bliss,  
But to behold his foes before him spread,  
(Waked from his sudden trance) espies by this,  
A Grecian Squadron 'bout King Memnon dead,  
And his bright sword still to wring over his Crest,  
Threatening in his third fall, Eternal rest.   

63  
The proud Greek sends a blush out of his face,  
as red as that in which his proof was lau'de,  
he now records his strength, his godlike race,  
and his rich armour with such artingrau'de,  
He knows it ill becomes his Name or Place,  
By any Mortal puissance to be braved;  
He doubles strength on strength, and stroke on stroke,  
Even till he mists himself in his own smoke.   

64  
Aurora's Darling proves to weak a Foe 
Simonides Poeta   
For him, on whose tough Shield no Steel can bite,  
His conquered Sword and Arms the field must strew,  
Achilles is too strong an opposite,  
His Red-cheeked Mother overcharged with woe, 
K. Memnon slain by Achilles.   
Laments her Son untimely slain in fight:  
In grief of whom, a Dusky Robe she wears,  
And fills the whole world with her dew-drop tears.   

65  
The death of Memnon even to Hector flies,  
That Tragic news cost many a Prince's life,  
Incensed, he seems all safety to despise,  
And where he spurs, he makes red slaughter rife,  
For every drop of blood, a bold Greek dies:  
Him Troilus seconds in his purpled strife:  
And (if as for a wager) they contend,  
Whose Sword most pale Souls can to Orcus send.   

66  
They break a Ring of Harness, making way  
Into the Battles Centre, where they see  
a Noble Knight maintain a gallant fray,  
'Gainst many Trojan Knights (in valour free)  
Yet of them all, this Champion gets the day,  
The strongest cannot make him cringe his knee:  
Polydamus against him bravely sped,  
Yet still his gazed at Shield, safeguards his head.   

67  
Against which Paris many arrows spends,  
But all in vain, they shiver 'gainst his Targe,  
and whom he best can reach his force extends  
as far as life, the prisoned Soul t'enlarge,  
Young Deiphobus to that place descends,  
and with his Speate in rest, doth 'gainst him charge:  
But the Dardanian fails in his intent,  
And from the Noble Knight is bleeding sent.   

68  
Victorious Hector at such deeds amazed,  
But more at the rich Armour that he ware,  
Mannadge and shape in heart he highly praised,  
and in his honours longs to have a share,  
Hupon Larissaes' King, that long had gazed  
Upon his valour, sees him fight so fair:  
A pointed Staff against his breast he proved,  
But from his Steed the bold Greek was not moved.   

69  
Unhappy Hupon could not stay the force 
King Hupon slain.   
Of his keen Sword, but soon before him falls, 
King Philos slain.   
King Philos, next against him spurred his Horse,  
And (turn thee valiant Greek) aloud he calls,  
But he was likewise slain without remorse,  
It seemed he was enured to such hot brals:  
Hector no longer can his rage forbear,  
But 'gainst the unknown Knight aims a stiff Spear.   

70  
Who when he Hector from a far espied,  
As if he had but sported with the rest,  
and that was he 'gainst whom he should be tried,  
He thrilled a javelin at the dardan's breast,  
'Twas terror to behold these Champions ride,  
and skorch the Plumes that grew in either's Crest,  
With fire that from their Steel in sparkles flew,  
No sooner dead, but still they forced new.   

71  
there's for Patroclus' death, the proud Greek says  
there's for my arms, which thou didst basely win,  
and as he speaks upon his shoulders lays,  
at every dint his bruised arms pinched his skin,  
Hector now knows his Champion by his phrase,  
and by his stroke (he thinks his arms too thin:)  
Such puissant blows, whose weight he scarce can like,  
None but Achilles' hand hath power to strike.   

72  
A well known Knight, in unknown arms he sees,  
against whose force he gathers all his might,  
His hye-stretcht arm contends to make him lose  
All forepast Fame, and hazard dreadful fight,  
But now the multitude like Swarms of Bees  
Between them flock, who far from all affright:  
Vex in their heated bloods to be so parted,  
So with their Steeds 'mongst other ranks they started.   

73  
Three puissant Kings beneath Prince Hector fell,  
Archilochus, a Soldier of high Fame, 
Three Kings slain by Hector.   
Prothenor, who in battles did excel,  
And with th' Atrides' to the field than came:  
King Archelaus too, a Champion fell,  
Who 'mongst the greeks had won a glorious Name:  
And whilst half tired, he from the throng withdrew, 
The Sagittary slain by Diomedes.   
King Diomedes the Sagittary slew.   

74  
Thoas took Prisoner, to the Town was sent,  
Whom Paris with his arrows had surprised,  
Antenor likewise to Ulysses Tent  
Was Captive led (whom he before depisde)  
Epistropus, his hostile fury bend  
'Gainst Polyxenes, in rich arms disguised; 
King Polixenes slain.   
They part, when Polixenes full of pride,  
Crost-hectors' course, and by his valour died.   

75  
Once more the dauntless Troyans' have the best,  
The night comes on, both Hosts themselves withdraw,  
The cities Captains take them to their rest,  
But th' Argive Kings (that nought but ruin saw  
Impendent still, whilst Hector's able breast  
Bucklered large Troy from each tempestuous flaw)  
At Agamemnon's Tenta Counsel call,  
To find some train, by which the Prince may fall.   

76  
Achilles oft-times Mated, vows in heart  
With his black Mirmid●…ns to girt him round,  
And never from a second field depart,  
Till Hector's length be measured on the ground,  
Th'assembled Kings, whose bleeding wounds yet smart,  
Vow by all means his puissance to confound:  
For well they know whilst Noble Hector stands,  
In vain 'gainst Troy they rear their armed hands.   

77  
Night passeth on, and the grey Morn appears,  
The greeks a six-months Truce of Troy demand,  
In which the Camp bloud-staynd Scamander clears  
Of Bodies slain by wars infernal hand,  
A Herald to the Camp King Thoas bears,  
Receiving back Antenor, Nobly man'd,  
The Truce expires, both parties now provide  
To have their Arms tied, and their Weapons tried.   

78  
Andromache this night dreamt a strange dream, 
Andromaches dream.   
That if her Husband tried the field that day,  
His slaughter should be made the general Theme  
Of Troy's laments, she fain would have him stay,  
She woos him, as he loves the populous Realm,  
Her Life, his Honours, safety, or decay:  
The aid of Troy, their Universal good,  
To save all these in keeping still his blood.   

79  
This (Hector censures) spoke from Womanish fear,  
He arms himself in haste and calls to Horse,  
Takes in his hand a bright Brasse-headed Spear,  
Longing for some on whom to prove his force,  
Andromache spends many a ruthful tear,  
His thoughts were fixed, they bred no soft remorse:  
He arms for field, she to the Kings proceeds,  
and tells his thus: If Hector fight, he bleeds.   

80  
Her dream and fear she to the King relates,  
and prays him to entreat her Husband fair,  
Or if soft speech his purpose nought abates  
To use his power: This said, she doth repair  
Where Hecuba and Helen kept their states,  
and where the rest of Priam's Daughters are:  
To whose requests she knows he'll soonest yield,  
Still urging them to keep him from the field.   

81  
The greeks Imbattayld are, and from the Town,  
The Troyans' Issue the Midway to meet,  
When from the lofty Palace hastening down  
Andromache, prostrate at Hector's feet  
Throws her fair self: and by King Priam's Crown,  
His Mother's love, her own embracements sweet:  
his Brothers, Sisters, and his little Son, 
Astyanax Hector's Son.   
Conjures his stay, till one days fight be done.   

82  
Hector bids one: she mingles words with tears,  
and once more casts herself to stop his way,  
(That he shall back) she begs, she woos, she swears,  
and shun the battle for that ominous day,  
her horrid dream hath filled her heart with fears,  
And hill she hangs on him, to have him stay:  
She weeps, entreats, clinges, begs, and Conjures still,  
(In vain) he's armed, and to the battle will.   

83  
King Priam by Antenor's mouth desires  
To unarm him straight, and to the Court return,  
For should his life fail: Troy's fair Sons and Sires,  
Matrons and Damsels, for his death should mourn,  
The Prince enraged, his Eyeballs sparkle fires,  
With inward rage his troubled Entrails burn:  
He knows from whence these Conjurations spring,  
And that his wives dream hath incensed the King.   

84  
Yet will he forward: when the aged Queen  
This hearing: with the Spartan makes swift speed,  
They ring his Horse: Entreat him cease his spleen,  
And for one day to act no warlike deed,  
The more they pray, the more they rouse his teen,  
a purpose irremoveably decreed:  
he'll put in action though they kneel and pray,  
and compass in his Steed to have him stay.   

85  
This Priam understanding, he descends,  
And in his face a graceful reverence brings,  
He stays his Courser by the Rains, and ends  
The difference thus: Oh! Thou the awe of Kings,  
Death to thy Foes, supporture to thy Friends,  
From whose strong arm our general safety springs:  
Refrain this day, tempt not the God's decree,  
Who by thy Wife this night forwarneth thee.   

86  
The discontented Prince at length is won,  
Yet will he not unarm him for them all,  
But to express the duty of a Son,  
With Priam and the rest he mounts the wall,  
To see both Armies to the Skirmish roone,  
Where some stand high, and some by slaughter fall:  
King Diomedes and Troilus from a far,  
Wafts to each other, as a sign of war.   

87  
They meet like Bullets, by two Soldiers changed,  
Their way as swift, their charge as full of Terror,  
Their Steeds keep even, they neither tripped nor ranged,  
Both Man and Horse are free from any Error,  
No art of War was from these Knights estranged  
In Troilus, might be seen a soldiers Mirror,  
In Diomedes, the pattern of such skill,  
as they desire that would their Foe-men kill.   

88  
The fayre-browde Sky shrinks up her Azure face,  
Lest their sharp splinterd staves should raze her brow,  
Both covet honour in this warlike race,  
and in their hearts they either's ruin vow,  
But Menelaus happily came in place,  
With him three hundred Knights that well knew how  
To manage battle, these between them grew,  
and they to further ranks perforce withdrew.   

89  
Miseres (King of Phrigia) met by chance  
The Spartan King, and shook him in his Seat,  
Against Duke Ajax, Paris charged a Lance, 
Ajax Telemon   
and him, the Sal'mine did but ill entreat,  
At the first blow he stounds him in a trance,  
Then midst the Trojan ranks doth ●…oyle and sweat:  
Striving behind, on both sides, and before,  
Even till his arms with blood were vermeiled o'er.   

90  
Prince Margarelon, unto Hector dear  
Knowing the slaughter Noble Ajax made,  
against his Vaunt-brace bravely proves his Spear,  
and to their vanquished Phalanx brings fresh aid,  
Ajax is forced his fury to forbear,  
The Troyans' powers on all sides him invade,  
Till Agamemnon comes with fresh supply,  
at whose approach, th'astonish Troyans' fly.   

91  
Yet Noble Margarelon keeps his stand,  
Nor can the strongest arm of Greece remove him,  
He feels the strength of Agamemnon's hand,  
Grim Ajax sword with a towers weight doth prove him,  
Yet shrinks not, till the place was Nobly man'd  
By Paris and Polydamus that love him:  
These hearing Margarelon much distressed,  
Rescue the Prince, who bravely guards his Crest.   

92  
It joys the King and Ladies, that on hy  
Stand on the Torras to behold the field,  
To see the Prince so full of Chivalry,  
And with such power to ule his Sword and Shield,  
Achilles (in a place where thousands lie  
Besmeared in blood, as if he meant to build  
a wall of Limbs and Quarters) bravely fought,  
And 'bout himself●… a siege of bodies wrought.   

93  
Where issuing after much effuse of blood  
To calm himself, remotely from the throng  
(Retyerd alike) young Margarelon stood  
Striving for breath, he had not rested long,  
Butspyes Achilles with a purple flood  
Powerd o'rehis arms, a javelin light and strong  
The valiant Trojan Prince against him bend,  
Whom the proud Greek receives incontinent.   

94  
From broken Spears they come to two-edged Steel,  
Oh! How stont Hector yernd to be in place,  
His very Soul doth all the puissance feel  
Of him that hath his Brother's life in chase,  
No stroke that makes Prince Margarelon reel,  
But (as he thinks) it tingles on his face:  
And from the wall in Armour he had leapt,  
Had not the King and Queen perforce him kept.   

95  
By this the youthful Priameian tired  
With odds of might, he wavers too and fro,  
Doubtful which way to fall, the Greek admierd  
To find so young a gallant plunge him so,  
and therefore with hisanclent rancour fired,  
He doubles and redoubles blow and blow:  
Till he (whose dear life was to Hector sweet) 
Prince Margarelon slain.   
sinks from his Horse beneath his ruthless feet.   

96  
Who with his barbed Steed tramples o'er his Coarse,  
Whose Iron hoof the Prince's armour raceth,  
This Hector seeing, breaks from all their force,  
He claps his Beaver down, his Helm fast laceth,  
With ●…mble quickness vaults upon his horse,  
(And issuing) where he rides, the enemy cheereth:  
For Margaretons' death, he vows that day,  
Achilles with a thousand more shall pay.   

97  
Two Noble Dukes he chargeth, and both slew, 
D. Coriphus & Duke Bastidius slain.   
Duke Cortphus, Bastidius big and tall,  
And forth like lightning 'mongst their squadrons flew,  
Where such as cannot fly before him fall,  
Leocides an Armour fresh and new,  
(He was amongst the greeks chief Admiral)  
Would prove 'gainst Hector, but in his swift race, 
Leocides slain.   
The Troyans' Spear broke on the Gr●…ns face.   

98  
A splinter struck the Greek into the brain,  
And down he sinks, Achilles' full of ire,  
Spying so many bold Pelasgians slain,  
Pricks on with Polyceus: both desire  
To prove themselves with Hector on the plain,  
The bold assailants need not far●…e inquire  
For the stern Prince: In that part of the host,  
theyare sure to find him where the cry grows most.   

99  
Both Menace him, 'gainst both he stands prepared,  
Duke Policeus to Achilles' dear, 
Policeus' slain   
(Whose Sister he was promised, had war spared  
His destined life) drew to the Troyans' near,  
At the first struck his Beauered face he bared,  
But with the next his sparpled brains appear,  
Achilles mads at this, and swears on high,  
For Polyceus' death, Hector shall die.   

100  
His threatened vengeance Hector did soon quail,  
For through his thigh he quivers a sharp Dart, 
Achilles' wounded.   
Achilles feels his bleeding sinews fail,  
And with all speed doth to his Tent depart,  
Where having bound his wound up, wan and pale,  
With fury, and the rancour of his heart;  
Three hundred Myrmidons that all things dared,  
he leads to field his person to safeguard.   

101  
Swearing them all theyrjoint-rage to bestow  
On Hector, and on him stern vengeance power,  
And saving him t'intend no Dardan Foe,  
That Heaven with him may on his Conquests lower,  
They listen where the clamours loudest grow,  
And there spy Hector, walled in like a Tower  
With heaps os men, that 'bout him bleeding lay,  
For not a li●…ng Greek durst necre him stay.   

102  
Now tired with slaughter, he was leaned upon  
The pommel of his bright victorious Blade,  
and for his strength and breath was almost gone,  
His Armour he had slacked, it loosely played  
about his shoulders (for he dreaded none:)  
Him now the bloody Myrmidons invade:  
In threefold rings about him they were guided,  
To take the Noble Hero●… unproulded.   

103  
Oh! Where is Paris with his Archers bow?  
Where's youthful Deiphobus now at need?  
Where's the invinced Troilus, to bestow  
His puissant strokes before Prince Hector bleed?  
Where is Aeneas to repulse the foe?  
You Troyes confedred Kings, where do you speed?  
Bring rescue now, or in his Mountain fall  
Bencath destruction, he will crush you all.   

104  
All these are absent, nought save death and ruin  
Compass the Prince, a triple ring of blades  
Inguirts him round, who still their ranks renewing,  
Threaten to send him to th'infernal shades,  
With bloody appetites his fall pursuing,  
Achilles as they shrink, on high persuades  
With promises: and some with threats, he swears  
To pay the base shame of their dastard fears.   

105  
A hundred Myrmidons before him lie  
Drowned in their own bloods, by his strong arm shed,  
The rest renew the charge with fresh fupply,  
and thunder on his shoulders, arms, and head,  
Achilles strongly ar●…'d and horsed, spurs by  
To see the hunger of his Bloodhounds fed:  
Was never Mortal, without might of Gods,  
That stood so long against such powerful odds.   

106  
They hue his armour piece-meal from his back,  
Yet still the valiant Prince ma●…taines the fray,  
Though but halfe-harnest, yet he holds them tack,  
And still the bloody Slaves upon him lay,  
Armour and breath at once the Prince doth lack,  
Stored with nought else save wounds (alack the day:)  
Yet like a steadfast rock the worthy stood,  
From whom ran twenty several springs of blood.   

107  
This, when the fresh-breathed Greek beheld, and saw  
So much effuse of blood about him run,  
He charged his warlike Myrmidons withdraw,  
And crying out aloud: Now Troy is won,  
(With shameful odds against all Knighthood's law)  
'Gainst naked Hector, well-armed Thetis son  
Aims a stiff javelin, and against him rides, 
The death of H●….   
The ruthless staff through picrst his Royal sides.   

108  
With him King Priam and whole Asia's glory,  
Queen Hecuba with all her daughters fair  
Sink into Lethe, even the Gods are sorry  
To see the man they made without compare,  
So basely fall, to make Achilles' story  
Reproachful to all ears that would not spare  
So great a Worthy, but with odds strike under,  
Him that atchi●…ud things beyond strength & wonder   

109  
Hector thus fallen, the Troyans' (whose whole power  
Lay in the arm of Hector) fly the field,  
And now th'encouraged Greekes Scamander scour,  
(The head subdued, the body needs must yield,)  
Behold the Prince that awed within this hour,  
Millions of greeks lies dead upon his shield,  
He gone, whose Atlas Arm upheld their states,  
Amazed Troy rams-up her sieged Gates.   

110  
At sight of which Achilles swelled with rage,  
From Hector's breast, the Belt Ajax him gave  
Snatcheth in haste, and his sad spleen t'assuage,  
Fetters his Legs, and like a conquered slave,  
Void of all honour, ruth, or Counsel sage,  
at his Horse-heels he drags him like a slave:  
Having Troy's wall first threetimes circled round,  
hurdling the Dardan Hero●… on the ground.   

111  
To think so brave a Peer should basely bleed,  
A Prince t'insult upon a slaughtered Foe,  
and ga●…nst a worthy act so base a deed,  
Makes my soft eye with Springs of Sorrow flow,  
Nor can I further at this time proc●…ede,  
The greeks black practice doth offend me so,  
Hear therefore I desist my Tragic verse,  
To mourn in silence o'er Prince Hector's hearse.   
Aeacideses, a name we sometimes give to Achilles, is a derivative of Aeacus, and is as much as to say, the Grand child of Aeacus, sometime we call him Pelias Issue (viz) the Son of Peleas, the Son of Aeacus.  
Patroclus a Noble Greek, son to Menetius and Sthevele, he was brought up under Chiron the Centaur with Achilles, who ever after entirely loved him.  
Chiron likewise, whom we ha●…e before in some places mentioned, is thought to be Son of Saturn. 
ovid. Metamerpho. 6.   
Vt Saturnus Equo geminum Chirona creavit. 
Apollonius lib. 1 Arg●….  His Mother was called Philyra: 
Ad mare descendit montis de part suprema  
Chiron Philerides.   
Saturn deflowering the fair Philiris, Daughter to the old Oceanus, and fearing left his ●…ife Rhea (otherwise called Sibilla) 
Appolo lib. 2.  should discover his wantonness, transshapes himself into a Horse, and then beg at in the Islands Philerides, Chiton the Centaur, from the Navel upwards having the perfect semblance of Man, the rest downwards the shape of an Horse. 
Suidas.   
Others have thought him to be the Son of Ixion, & Brother to the race of the Centauris. He taught Aesculapius' Physic, Hercules' Astronomy, and Apollo to play on the Lute or Harp. Of Thetis, otherwise called Amph 〈◊〉 it is thus reported, that she was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses, & when Apollo, Neptune, and Iu●…ter, contended about her 
Homer.  which should ●…ioy her bed (being all frustrate) jupiter enraged, doomed her to be a mortals Bride, because she had so peremptorily despised their God hoods. The Goddess much aggrieved to be so abjectly bestowed, despised Pelcus, who extremely doted on her beauty, and still when he would have compressed her, she metamorphised herself, sometimes to a flame of Fire, sometimes to a Lion, than a serpent, so dreadful, that he was still deterred from his purpose, till after by the advice of Chiron the Centaur, (neglecting all terror) she held her 
Isacius.  fast so long, till having run through all her Protean shapes, he wearted her in her transformation, till she returned into her own shape of the most beautiful Goddess, of whom he begat Achilles.  
Tithon for his beauty beloved of Aurora the morning, is said to be the son of Laomedon, and Brother to Priam, though by divers mothers, he got Pr●…am of Leucippe, and Tithon of S●…ma, or else of Rhoea the daughter of Scamander: Aurora begged of the Fates for her Husband Tithon Imortality, which being immediately granted her, she had for got with his length of life, to beg withal that he should never wax old and decrepit, wherefore he is said to be ever bed rid, till the Gods pitying his feebleness, turned him after into a Grasshopper. 
Horatius lib. 2 Carminum.  
Longa Tithonum minuit sen●…ctus.  su●…a a chief City in Persia, where the great Sophies keep their Courts, it is seated near the famous river Choaspes, and was builded by Tithon.  
Pclasgians are an ancient people of Greece dwelling in Peloponesus in the edge of Macedonia, of whom the general Grecians sometimes have usurped that name.  
The end of the thirteenth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
troilus, Achilles wounds, and is betrayed  
By his fell Myrmidons, which being spread,  
The bloody Greek still loves the beauteous Maid  
Polyxena, and for her love is lead  
To Pallas Church, whom Paris doth invade,  
And with an Arrow in the heel strikes dead:  
Penthesilea with her valiant Maids,  
Assists sad Troy, Greece lofty Pyrthus aids.  
ARG. 2.  
IN this last fight, fall by the Argive spleen,  
Paris, Amphimachus, & Scithiaes' Queen.  
CANTO. 14.  

1  
TO whom, Andromache may I compare  
Thy Funeral tears o'er Hector's body shed,  
If 'mongst late Widows none survive so rare  
To equal thee, le's search among the dead,  
The Carian Queen that was as chaste as fair,  
Bright Artimesia a wonder bred:  
Galathian Camna did likewise constant prove, 
Artimesia Camna.   
And ●…al'd her in firm Conjugal love.   

2  
What Father's grief could equal Priam's tears?  
Who lost a son, no age, no world could match,  
Whose arm upheld his glory many years,  
Whose vigilant eye did on his safety watch,  
England's third Edward in thy face appears  
Like grief, when timeless death did soon dispatch 
Edward the 3.   
Thy brave sons life, Edward Surnamed the black,  
By whom Spain flagged, and France sustained wrack.   

3  
No●… Margaret, when at Teuxbury her son 
Q. Margaret wife to Henry the 6.   
Was stabbed to death by Tyrant Gloucester's hand,  
Felt from her riveled cheeks more Pearl drops run,  
Then Hecuba, when she did understand  
The thread of Hector's life already spun,  
Whose glories stretched through Heaven, air, sea, & land  
Though he of semblant hope to England were  
With him, whom Asia did account most dear.   

4  
Nor could the Countess Mary sorrow more,  
To hear her Brother (the brave Sidney wounded,) 
lay Mary Countess of Pembroke, & Sister to Sir Philip Sidney.   
Whose death the seventeen Belgian states deplore,  
Whose Fame for Arts and arms the whole world sounded,  
Then did Cassandra, who her garments tore,  
Creusa who with extreme grief confounded,  
With whom Polyxena bore a sad strain,  
To hear a third part of the earth complain.   

5  
Nor when the hopeful youth Prince Arthur died, 
Prince Arthur elder brother to Prince Henry, after Henry the 8.   
Leaving his Brother both his life and Crown,  
Could the prince Henry less his sorrows hide,  
Then Hector's Brothers who still guard the Town,  
The universal City doffes her pride,  
The King himself puts on a Mourners gown:  
The Queen and Ladies with their leagued Kings,  
Bury with him their best and costliest things.   

6  
So when from Rome great Tully was exiled,  
Full twenty thousand Citizens the best, 
M. F. Cicero.   
In garments Tragic, and in countenance wild,  
For twelve sad Moons their loves to him professed,  
But Troy even from the Bedrid to the Child,  
From Crutch unto the Cradle, have expressed  
A general grief in their lamenting cries,  
Looks, gestures, habits, mournful hearts and eyes.   

7  
Now when the Fountain of their tears grew dry,  
And Men and Ma●…ons him bewailed their fill,  
With one joynt-voyce for just revenge they cry  
On him, that did the Prince by Treason kill;  
They lay their sad and Funeral Garments by,  
The souldiets long to prove their Martial skill,  
And try their strengths upon Scamander plain,  
Thinking themselves too long Inmuted in vain.   

8  
'tis Questionable whether greater woe  
In Troy, than glee within the Camp abounded,  
They hold themselves free from that late dread foe,  
Who with his Steed had oft their trenches rounded,  
And never but to th' Argives overthrow  
appeared in field, or to the battle sounded  
With shrill applause, they proud Aehilles' Crown,  
And with Bravadoes oft-times front the Town.   

9  
Thus when re-spirited Greece had Domineared  
and braved the fieged Troyans' at their gates,  
Old Priam for his age now little feared,  
With Troilus and the rest, of wars debates,  
For Hector's slaughter (to them all endeared)  
They vow revenge on those high Potentates  
That were spectators of the ruthless deed,  
When Hector's coarse thrice round the walls did bleed   

10  
And issuing with their power, the aged King  
Puts acts in execution, much above 
The battle.   
His age or strength, he youthfully doth spring  
Upon his Steed, and for his Hector's love,  
Amongst the throng of greeks dares any thing, 
The valour of King Pria●…   
Himself 'gainst Diomedes he longs to prone,  
and escapes untouched, then 'gainst Ulysses rides,  
and still his age doth equipage their prides.   

11  
Forthwith 'gainst Agamemn●… he contends,  
and on his Beaver reached him many a blow,  
Who like a soldier his renown defends,  
amazed that weak age should assacult him so,  
The King his puissance further yet extends,  
Against the Spartan King (an equal foe)  
Whom with his spear he did so ill inrreat,  
Fair Helen's husband sits beside his seat.   

12  
From them he further to the throng proceeds,  
And deals about great Largesse of grim wounds,  
Admired alone for his renowned deeds,  
Some with his sword upon the Cask he stounds,  
This day old Nestor by his javelin bleeds  
With many more, and still the field he rounds:  
Against old Priam not a Greek dare stay,  
Who solely claims the honour of that day.   

13  
Yet the mean time the King was in this broil,  
Bold Deiphobus kept the rest in fee  
With bloods and death, whilst Paris made great spoil  
Of such as in their valour seemed most free,  
Aeneas strongly mounted, gave the foil  
Unto th' Athenian Duke, whose warlike knee  
bended to him, yet in an upright heart,  
Achilles in his rescue claims a part.   

14  
The King Epistropus amongst them fought,  
So did Sarpedon 'gainst th'encamped Kings,  
The stout Pelasgian strength they dreaded nought,  
Now 'mongst their renged squadrons Treylus flings,  
And on their foiled troops much effusion wrought,  
In him the life and spirit of Hector springs;  
Twice he Achilles met, and twice him field,  
Who all the other Kings of Greece exeld.   

15  
A hundred thousand Troyans' were that day  
Led to the field to avenge Prince Hector's life,  
Double their number on Scamander stay,  
To entertain them in their emulous strife,  
Duke Ajax Telamonius then kept in play  
Troilus, whilst murder through the field grew rife,  
The stern Polydamas did Nobly fight,  
And was the death of many a gallant Knight.   

16  
But Troyl●…s that succeeds Hector in force,  
In courage, and in all good Thews beside,  
Whom ere he met that day did braue●… unhorsed,  
Till his white Armour was with Crimson died,  
For Hector's sake his sword used no remorse,  
His warre-steeled spirits to slaughter he applied:  
No man that saw him his bright weapons wield,  
But swore another Hector was in field.   

17  
This day is Troy's, and now repose they borrow  
From the still night, to give the wounded cure,  
And such of note as died, t'intombe with sorrow,  
They that 〈◊〉, themselves with arms assure,  
And so prepare for battle on the morrow,  
Some to be siege, the rest the siege t'endure:  
Or if they can, to their eternal praise,  
The foreign Legions from their Trenches raise.   

18  
Six Moons gave nightly rest to th'Hostile pains,  
Ofiust so many days, for full so long  
Troy without respite the proud Camp constrains,  
Hourly to prove whose puissance is most strong,  
Blood-drops by Planets on Scamander ●…nes,  
Horrid destruction flies the greeks among;  
Troilus still held the Noblest Arms professor,  
And Hector's equal, though his late successor.   

19  
T'omit a thousand Combats and Contentions,  
Hostile Encounters, Oppositions brave,  
Such as exceed all human apprehensions,  
Where some win living honour, some a grave,  
With Stratagems and sundry rare inventions,  
The Town to fortify, the Camp to save:  
And contrary, to stretch all human reach,  
The Host t'indamage, and the Town t'impeach,   

20  
In all which, Troilus wondrous Fame achieved,  
His sword and Armour were best known and feared,  
Above the rest the Argive Dukes he gricued,  
By his sole valour were the Troyans' cheered,  
In acting wonders scarce to be bele●…ud,  
The life of Hector in his blood appeared:  
Priam and Troy now think themselves secure,  
So long as Troilus 'mongst them may endure.   

21  
Achilles by his valour mated oft,  
And (as he thinks) much blemished in renown,  
To see another's valour soar aloft,  
But his own bruitfull fame still sinking down,  
His downy bed to him appears unsoft,  
He takes no pleasure in his regal Crown:  
The best delights to him are harsh and sour,  
Since in one arm rests a whole cities power.   

22  
The greeks think Hector in this youth alive,  
To stop whose honours torrent they devise,  
For since by force of arms in vain they strive  
To catch at that which soars above the skies,  
They to the depth of all their Counsels dive,  
How they by cunning may the Prince surprise:  
Being well assured that whilst his honours grow,  
In vain they seek Troy's fatal overthrow.   

23  
The son of The●…is feels his arms yet sore,  
By the rude strokes that from his fury came,  
His armour here and there be sprinked with gore  
Of his own wounds, that he is well-nye lame  
With often justles: and can no more  
Endure the virtue of his strength or Fame:  
For since his breast's in many places seared,  
he'll fly unto the rescue of his guard.   

24  
Since neither the broad-brested Diomedes  
Can in the course his rude encounter stay,  
Since last when Telamonius against him sped,  
He was perforc'st to give his fury way,  
Since all those 〈◊〉 Agamem●… led,  
Though Martial'd in their best and proudest array,  
Could not repel his swift and violent speed,  
he by his guard his ruin hath Decreed.   

25  
The self-same charge that he 'gainst Hector used,  
'Gainst Troilus he his Myrmidons persuades,  
Behold where he with Hector's spirit infused, 
Troilus.   
The warlike Thou in even course invades,  
Him, whom his strength of arms might have excused,  
The Treian sends unto th'elysian shades:  
The Athenian Duke against him spurs his horse,  
But quite through-piercst, the Greek drops down a corpse.   

26  
Four Princes in as many corpses tasted  
Like Fate, yet still the Dardan Prince sits high,  
No coarse, no towering blow he vainly wasted,  
(In his great heart an host he dares defy)  
King Diomedes once more against him hasted,  
And longed with him a warlike course to try:  
But horse and man were in the race o'erthrown,  
(Normaruell) now the prince's strength was grown.   

27  
The elder of th' Atrideses next him grew,  
And tries the vigour of his arm and Spear,  
Him likewise Troilus bravely overthrew,  
And forth (unshooke himself) he passed on clear,  
Now well-nigh breathless he himself withdrew,  
Whom then the spleenful Pelean watched ncare:  
And as he lights to rest him on the ground,  
Him the black Myrmidons encompass round.   

28  
With merciless keen glaves they siege the youth,  
Whom all at once with fury they assail,  
In them is neither Honoured grace not ruth,  
Nor is one Trojan near the Prince to bale  
Achilles, with the rest his blood pursuith,  
(Thousands against one man must needs prevail)  
Who seeing nothing else save death appearing,  
Even 'gainst all odds, contemns despair, or fearing.   

29  
But through their squadrons hews a bloody tracked,  
And lops the foremost that before him stands,  
Had Deiphobus now his Brother backed,  
Or had the place been by Sarpedon manned,  
Or had Epistropus (whom he now lacked)  
Upon his party, teared his conquering hand,  
Had their brigat Faulchions-brandisht by his side,  
The Myrmidons had failed, Troilus not died.   

30  
But he's alone rowed girt with death and ruin,  
And still maintains the battle, though in vain,  
On every side a bloody passage he wing,  
To work himself out through a dismal Lane  
Of Myrmidons: Achilles still pursuing,  
Who keeps the hindmost of his rough-haired train:  
Yet had Prince Troilus marked him where he stood,  
And almost wrought to him through death and blood   

31  
But odds prevailed, he sinks down the midway, 
The death of Troilus.   
Even in his fall his sword against him darting,  
That did both Hectors and his life betray,  
Boasting a Noble spirit in his departing  
By Troilus death the greeks obtain the day,  
The Myrmidons their many wounds yet smarting,  
Cure in their Lord's Tent: whom the greeks applaud,  
For Troilus death ('gainst honour) wrought by fraud.   

32  
Now the dejected Troyans' dare no more  
Enter the field, the greeks approach the gates  
And dare them to grim war, who still deplore  
Hector and Troilus in their Tragic fates,  
Queen Hecuba yet keeps revenge in store.  
Of which at length with Paris she dabates,  
Vowing to catch his life in some fly train,  
That by like fraud her two bold sons had slain.   

33  
She clas to mind the great Athilles' pride,  
Withal, the love he to her Daughter bears,  
A thing in zeal she can no longer hide,  
Since in Polyxena like love appears,  
Troy's weak dejection she makes known beside,  
Disabled by a siege of many years:  
Therefore entreats him to accept her love,  
And in a general truce the Argives move.   

34  
The lofty Greek proud, by so great a Queen  
To be sued to, when he records withal  
How much he's feared, he 'gins to slake his spleen,  
And the Maid's beauty to remembrance call,  
What can he more? Since he hath dreaded been,  
And seen his ablest Foes before him fall:  
But yield to beauties soft enchanting charm,  
Knowing weak Troy dares not conspire his harm.   

35  
The day draws on, a peace hath been debated,  
To which Achilles the proud Greekes persuades;  
Some think it needful, others, higher rated  
Their honours, and this Concord much upbraids,  
Alone Achilles longs to be instated  
In her fair grace (the beautifulst of Maids)  
And with the son of Nestor makes repair,  
Where Priam with his sons and Daughters are. 
Archilochus the son of Nestor.    

36  
Truce is proclaimed, the Damsel richly clad,  
And by the Trojan Ladies proudly attended,  
Whom none that saw, but admiration had,  
As at a Goddess from high heaven descended,  
The innocenr Maid was still in countenance sad,  
For loss of those that Trey but late defended:  
Yet guiltless in her soul of any spleen  
Dreamt 'gainst the Prince, by Paris or the Queen.   

37  
Unarmed Achilles to the Temple goes,  
Whom Nestor's son attends to Pallas shrine,  
and all the way with Gold and Iew●…ls strews,  
Prising them Earthy, but his Bride Divine,  
and nothing of their Treacherous act he knows,  
When Paris from a place where he had line  
With armed Knights issues, and a keen shaft drew,  
Which in the heel the proud Achilles' slow,   

38  
Who when he sees himself and friend betrayed,  
and wounded to the Death, whilst he could stand,  
Brandished his sword, and 'mongst them slaughters made,  
But now he wants his Myrmydons at hand,  
and his strong armour Paris to invade, 
The death of Achilles and Archilochus.   
Alack, the Temple was too strongly man'd:  
his strength that cannot bandy 'gainst them all,  
at length must sink, and his high courage fall.   

39  
There lies the great Achilles in his gore,  
and by his side the Son of Nestor slain,  
Amongst the Trotans to be feared no more,  
His body to the greeks is sent again,  
Whom they for Hector's change, and long deplore  
his death (by Treason wrought:) upon the plain  
For him a Monumental Tomb they rear,  
and for his death a joint revenge they swear.   

40  
The siege still lasts, upon the part of Troy  
Penthisilia with a thousand Maids, 
penthis●…   
Vows all their Amazenian strength to employ,  
and for the death of Hector, Greece upbraids,  
Whilst in the Camp with much applausive joy, 
Neopto●…mus   
Grim Pyrrh●… is received, Pyrrh●… that trades  
In gore and slaughter, with revenge pursuing,  
Even to the death, Troy, for his Father's t●…ine.   

41  
No longer t●…e he will delay, but straight  
Dare them to battle by the morrows Sun,  
The Scythian Damsels long to show their height,  
and imitate their deeds beforetime done,  
They know they enterprise a work of weight,  
and long for Signal, now to battle run:  
The 〈◊〉 greeks that were of Pyrrhus' train,  
Whom th' Amazonians soon repulse again.   

42  
Penthesilea, was not that fair Queen 
A tale of a chaste Queen amongst the Amazons.   
Of Amazons, of whom we now entreat,  
That made a Law, what Man soe'er had been  
Within her Court, to make a biding Seat  
above three days, he might not there be seen,  
Though his power mighty, and his State were great:  
For if within her Court he longer dwelled,  
The penal Law was, he should sure be gelt.   

43  
So much she feared the supposed trains,  
With which soft Womenkind us men accuse,  
That our society she quite disdains,  
Nor shall our fellowship her Lady's use,  
To this decree she their applause constrains,  
Because false men their weaker Sex abuse:  
From which her words, nor warning can restrain them,  
She choosed this way, the only means to tame them.   

44  
This stri●…kt decree kept many from her Coast,  
That else had flocked as Suitors to the place,  
Their Angel beauties which men covet most,  
Must from the eyes of man receive no grace,  
Many too bold their dearest jewel lost,  
And were made eunuchs within three days space:  
Else they were thought unfit for the Queen's diet,  
Who held that the first way to keep them quiet.   

45  
Some that could well have ventured their best blood,  
Were loath to hazard what they needs must pay,  
The Queen so much upon this Edict stood,  
That she had driven her Suitors quite away,  
And still (to be at rest) she held it good,  
Vowing t'observe it to her dying day:  
Having this proved, those men that came most bold,  
Their forf●…it pay, none more submiss and cold.   

46  
So that in process few approached their shore,  
But such as had no means to hue elsewhere,  
Whom their own Countries did esteem no more,  
But pay their fine, they may be welcome here,  
And have good place, and Lands, and livings store,  
Nothing the Court hath, can be held too dear:  
Amongst the rest that held a Sovereign place,  
Their lived a Baron of a Noble race.   

47  
He that was from his Nat●…e Country fled,  
For some offence that questioned his life,  
and as a refuge to secure his head,  
He shunned the deadly Axe to taste the Knife,  
But time outweares disgrace, his course he led  
Among the Damsels, free from feminine strife:  
Doubtless the Woman that's suspicious most,  
Would be resolved to see what he had lost.   

48  
The Noble Eunuch left a Son behind  
In his own Country, who being grown to years,  
Grew fairly featured, of a generous mind,  
and in his face much excellence appears,  
He vows the world to travel, till he find  
His banished Father, whose estate he fears:  
At length by search, he's made to understand,  
Of his late sojourn in the Scythians Land.   

49  
Thither he will, for so his vow decrees,  
But when he knows an Edict too severe,  
he's loath to pay unto the Land such Fees,  
Which he hopes better to bestow elsewhere,  
In this distraction, lo from far he sees  
A nimble Fairy, tripping like a Deer:  
and as holies strowde on the grassy plain,  
With sw●…st speed she makes to him amain.   

50  
And greets him thus: (Fair Youth) boldly proceed,  
I promise thee good Fortune on thy way,  
Among the Scythian Dames thou shalt not bleed,  
Only observe and keep still what I say,  
My counsel now may stand thee much in steed,  
and save thee that, thou wouldst be loath to pay:  
Receive this Handkerchief, this Purse, this Ring,  
The least of them a present for a King.   

52  
These virtues they retain: when thou shouldst eat,  
Upon the Board this curious Napkin spread,  
It straight shall fill with all delicious meat,  
Fowl, Fish, and Fruits, shall to th●… place be led,  
With all delicious Cates, costly, and neat,  
Which likewise shall depart when thou hast fed:  
This Ring hath hath●… stone, whose virtue, know  
Is to discern a true Friend, from a Foe.   

52  
In this thou mayst perceive both late and early,  
Who flatters thee, and who intends thee well,  
Who hates thee deadly, or who loves thee dearly:  
The virtue of this jewel doth excel,  
Out of this Purse if I may judge severely,  
and in few words the worth exactly tell:  
Value it rightly, it exceeds the rest,  
and of the three, is rated for the best,   

53  
So oft as thou shalt in it thrust thy hand,  
So oft thy Palm shall be replete with Gold,  
Spend where thou wilt, travel by Sea or Land,  
The riches of that Purse cannot be told,  
Use well these gifts, their virtues understand,  
Thank my divinest Mistress and be bold:  
Add but thy will to her auspicious aid,  
she'll sure thee that which others late have paid.   

54  
Encouraged thus, he pierces their cold Clime,  
Where many hot Spirits had been calmed of late,  
And enters the great Court at such a time,  
When he beheld his Father sit in State,  
They that ●…uriew the Youth now in his prime,  
Not knowing his decree, blame his hard Fate:  
And wish he might a safer Country choose,  
Not come thus far, his dearest things to lose.   

55  
For not a ladies eye dwells on his face,  
Or with judicial note views his perfection,  
But thinks him worthy of their dearest grace,  
They praise his look, gate, stature, and complexion,  
And judge him Issued of a Noble race,  
A person worthy of a Queen's election:  
Not one among them that his beauty saw,  
But now at length too cruel think their Law.   

56  
After some interchange of kindest greeting  
Betwixt the Father and the stranger Son,  
Such as is usual to a sudden meeting,  
With ecstasies that Kindred cannot shone,  
To omit their height of joy, as a thing fleeting,  
For greatest joys are oft-times loohest done:  
The Fath●… of his sons ability,  
Asks, If 〈◊〉 brooked his 〈◊〉 loss with facility.   

57  
For well he knows, he cannot anchor there,  
Or sojourn on that rude and 〈◊〉 barous Cost,  
But his free harbourage must cost him d●…ate,  
(Censuring his Son) by what himself had lost,  
she gentle Youth, whose thoughts are free from fear,  
Saith he is come securely there to host:  
and spite the Queen and Ladies (with oaths deep)  
Swears to his Father (what he hath) to keep.   

58  
By this th' Amazonian P●… hears  
Of a young stranger in her Court arrived,  
She sends to know his Nation, Name, and years,  
But being told his Father there survived,  
A reverentman, one of her chiefest Peers,  
She will not as the custom have him gyued:  
But takes his Father's promise, oath, and hand,  
To have his Son made Freeman of her Land.   

59  
Three days the limits him, but they expired  
As others carst, he must the Razortry,  
all things determined, the fair Queen desired  
The Stranger to a banquet instantly,  
Who at his first appearance much admierd  
Her state, her port, proportion, face, and eye:  
Nor had he (since his Cradle) seen a Creature  
So rich in beauty, or so rare in feature.   

60  
Down sat the Queen and Damsels at the board,  
But the young Stranger stands by, discontent,  
They pray him sit: He answers not a word,  
Three times to him the Queen of Scythia sent,  
But still the Youth would no reply afford,  
The rest not minding what his silencement:  
Leave him unto his humour, and apply  
Themselves to feed and eat deliciously.   

61  
But when he saw the Ladies freely eat,  
and feed upon the rude Cates of the Land,  
At a withdrawing board he takes his seat,  
and spreads his curious Napkin with his hand,  
Straight you might see a thousand sorts of meat,  
Of strangest kinds upon the Table stand:  
What Earth, or Air, or Sea, within them breeds,  
On these the Youth, with looks di●…dainefull feeds.   

62  
The Queen amazed to see such change of cheer,  
Whose beauty and variety surpassed,  
Longing to know the news, could not forbear,  
But rose with all her Damsels at the last,  
To know from whence he was supplied, and where,  
With Cates so rich in show, so sweet in taste:  
The like in Scythia she had never seen,  
The least of them a service for a Queen.   

63  
For now she hath in scorn her own provision  
And calls her choicest banquet, homely fare,  
Her dainty Cates she hath in proud derision,  
Since she beheld the Stranger's food so rare,  
The Youth, who hopes by this t'escape incision,  
Tells her (if so she please) he can prepare  
A richer feast (yet not her Treasure wrong)  
With any dish, for which her grace may long.   

64  
She grows the more Inquisitive, and straight  
Swears, if he will her royal Cater be,  
she'll in her Kingdom raise him to the height  
Of all high state, and chief Nobility:  
For well she knows, it is a work of weight  
To furnish her with such variety:  
Since her cold Climate, with ten Kingdoms more,  
Cannot supply her board with half that store.   

65  
When up the Stranger riseth, and thus says:  
Madam, for your sake was I hither guided,  
Whom I will freely serve at all assays,  
For you this diet have I here provided.  
Sat then, and as you like, my bounty praise,  
These no illusions are to be derided,  
But meats essential, made for your repast,  
Sat down and welcome, and wher't please you taste.   

66  
The more she eats, the more she longs to know  
Whence this strange bounty of the heavens proceeds,  
They prove as sweet in taste, as fair in show,  
The more she wonders, still the more she feeds,  
The more she eats, the more her wonders grow,  
She vows her Land shall Chronicle his deeds:  
And make him Lord of all his present wishes,  
Excepting Love, and what belongs to kisses.   

67  
The stranger than his Napkins virtue tells,  
What wonders it affords when it is spread,  
Without all charms or Negr●…ticke spells,  
Or invocations made unto the dead,  
Only in native Virtue it excels  
(A secret power by inspiration bred)  
This he'll bestow with all their virtues store,  
To save his forfeit but for three days more.   

68  
Th'ambitious Queen loathe her Decrees should slack,  
More loath to lose a jewel of such prize,  
That can afford her all things she doth lack,  
To make a feast as with the Deities,  
Vows for three days he shall sustain no wrack,  
But then her law of force must tyrannize:  
Mean time her Court is for the stranger free,  
Upon these firm conditions they agree.   

69  
Glad was the Queen, more glad the amorous stranger,  
For neither at their bargain was aggrieved,  
She for her gift, he to escape such danger,  
Having his Manhood for three days reprieved,  
In her fair Park he longs to be a ranger,  
Where fed such store of Deer (scarcely believed)  
Till he by tried experience had beheld,  
How many beauties in the Court excelled.   

70  
Now trusting to the virtue of his Ring,  
He longs to prove; who hate, who mean him good,  
Who only to his ear smooth flatteries bring,  
Who with the Queen upon his party stood,  
For flattery is like an oily Spring,  
Whose smooth soft waters waxing to a flood:  
Entice fond men, his Silver streams to crown,  
But he that proves to swim, perforce must drown.   

71  
Among the rest, one Beldame near in place,  
Unto the lustless Amazon, he knows  
Persuades the Queen to his especial grace,  
and stands in plea b●…weene him and his Foes,  
With her he grows acquainted in small space,  
And in her lap a liberal Treasure throws:  
He gives h●… Gold in every place he finds her,  
And by large bounty to his Love he binds her.   

72  
The time wears on, his three-days Lease expires,  
In which he ●…s the things, to which he's borne,  
His own Fee simple, yet the Queen requires  
To have the forfeit since, the day's outworn,  
But still his precious gifts the Youth inspires  
With cheerful hope, he shall not live forlorn:  
But trusts by promise of the fairy Dame,  
A Man to part thence, as a Man he came.   

73  
The day fore th'Execution, he was viewing  
His precious Ring, the like was never seen,  
Finding the time so near, he sits still ●…ewing  
His rashness, for he fears the Knife is keen,  
Each man he thinks a Barber him pursuing  
To have him Enunched; when in comes the Queen  
And spies this glorious Ring upon his Finger,  
(The Beldame, to this troubled youth did bring'er.)   

74  
Of this she falls in Question, much admiring  
The Splendour, and beside she longs to know  
What vertueed hath, with ●…gency desiring  
If it be rare in worth, as rich in show,  
The Youth into his former hopes retiring,  
Recounts to her what Sovereign Virtues grow  
From this bright Love, a means ordained by Fate,  
Only by which she may secure her State.   

74  
In this her Friends she may discern and try,  
On whom she may rely her certain trust,  
Who in her charge their utmost wills apply,  
Who in her Seat of judgement prove most just:  
Next, she by this all Traitors may descry,  
Such as against her virtues arm their lust:  
Such as intend their Sovereign to depose,  
Briefly, it points her Friends out from her Foes.   

76  
No marvel if the Queen were much in love  
With such a jewel, and for it would pay  
What he would ask, as that which much behooves  
To keep her doubtful Kingdom from decay,  
To buy it at the dearest rate she proves,  
He only craves but respite for one day:  
That she but one day more his Youth would spare,  
Ear he came bound unto the Barber's Chair.   

77  
The match is made, his gifts are known abroad,  
and from all parts they come this man to see,  
The multitude esteem him as a God,  
That to their Sovereign Queen hath been so free,  
A starely S●…eede he mo●…s and thereon road  
About the Court, wherethrongs of people be:  
and from his Purse, of Gold whole handfuls flings,  
A bounty that is seldom seen in Kings.   

78  
A thousand times his arm abroad he stretched,  
as oft the figured plates of coyn'd-Gold fly  
about their ears, still to his Purse he reached,  
And still to his applause the peoply cry,  
The more they shout, the greater store he fetched  
From his divine unending Treasury:  
The news of this unto the Queens soon came,  
Wondering whose praise her people thus proclaim.   

79  
In comes th'admired Stranger and alighting,  
The Queen him meets, and takes him by the hand  
To lead him up: he by the way reciting  
The Project she much longs to understand,  
The Scythian Queen in his discourse, delighting  
Upon the virtue of this Purse long scanned:  
Thinking if this third Prize she might enjoy,  
She by her wealth might all the Earth destroy.   

80  
But Treasure cannot gain it, for 'tis Treasure  
Even of itself, in vain she offers Gold  
above all wealth, the Youth esteems his pleasure,  
One thing will do't, that in her ear he told,  
The covetous queen's, perplexed above measure,  
To buy the price that will be cheaply sold:  
Only to bed with her, he doth desire,  
But till two Pears be roasted in the fire.   

81  
Oh! Gold, what canst not thou? Long she doth pause,  
How great's the Wealth, how easy 'tis to buy  
She knows, beside she is above her Laws,  
And what she will, no Subject dares deny,  
Why should she lose this jewel? What's the cause  
She to her own Land should prove Enemy?  
Whose weal, since she may compass with such ease,  
Why should she not herself somewhat displease?   

82  
The time's but little that the Youth doth ask,  
Besides, she'll cause her Maid her charge to hast,  
If she compare her wages with her task,  
She knows her time will not be spent in waist,  
The friendly night will put a blushless Mask  
Upon her brow, then how can she be trast?  
The fire is made, the Pears placed, both agreed,  
To Bed they go, good Fortune be their speed.   

83  
The trusted Hag, he knows to be his friend,  
and one whom he had bribed long before,  
It pleased her well, that his desires have end,  
To have had him Eunuched, would have grieved her sore,  
In bed mean time the loving pair contend,  
To prove the game she never tried before,  
And still she calls to make a quicker fire,  
And prithee sweet Nurse let the Pears be nigher.   

84  
They shall (quoth she,) yet let them roast at ●…easure,  
The wayward Queen yet thinks the time too long,  
And that she pays too sweetly for his Treasure,  
(For yield she must) the stranger proves too strong)  
Yet still she calls (not yet?) 'tis out of measure,  
Nor yet, nor yet, she sings no other song,  
Alack the Beldame's slackness quite betrays her,  
(The only means to keep him from the Razor.)   

85  
The youth prevailed, the queen's somewhat appeased,  
And for there is no help the utmost tries,  
Since her the stranger hath by wager seized,  
Before the watchword given she must not rise,  
The Beldame thinks at last the Queen t'have pleased,  
Oh Madam they are roasted now (she cries:)  
Are they indeed? Let them roast on (quoth she,)  
And prithee Nurse put in two more for me.   

86  
I know not what effect this wager took,  
But the next day she canceled her strict Law,  
She that men hated: Eunuches cannot brook,  
Command was given that all such should withdraw,  
And not presume within her Court to look,  
That could be found touched with the smallest flaw,  
And this Decree among the Scythians grew,  
Till the sad day that they their husbands slew.   

87  
For when their flying men were quite disgraced,  
And sailed in battle, they disdained their yoke,  
And scorning all subjection, proudly faced  
Their foes themselves with many a boisterous stroke,  
From Scithiaes' bounds all men they clean displaced,  
And strongly armed, through many Regions broke:  
Thus reigned successively many a bold Dame  
In Scythia, whence Penthesilea came.   

88  
Their Pole-axes, whose use the greeks near knew,  
Thunder upon their losty Casks and fell them,  
The greeks st●…ll guard the field, although some few  
Perished at first, and striving to excel them,  
Being but Women, they some Damsels slew,  
And with the odds of number they repel them,  
But when the Queen into the battle flings,  
Where ear she comes, she bloody Conquest brings.   

89  
King philomines Combats by her side,  
With many a bold Knight brought from Paphlagone,  
'Gainst whom the King Cassilius fierce can ride,  
Srriving that day to have his valour known,  
Between them was a fair and even course tried,  
Amphimacus to Priam dear alone  
Since Troilus death, thrust in amongst the greeks,  
Forcing their flight with many clamorous shrieks.   

90  
Him Ajax Telamonius encounters then,  
And stays the fury of his barbed Steed,  
Acting that day, deeds, more than comen men,  
Such as through both the Armies wonder breed,  
Whom Noble Deiphobus meets again,  
The youthful Prince, whose valour doth exceed,  
The fearful slaughter of his puissance stays,  
Whose discipline his Focs could not but praise.   

91  
And had not wrathful pyrrhus now led on  
His Father's Myrmydons, and quite forsook  
His untryde Knights, the day had sure been gone,  
But where they marched, the Earth beneath them shook,  
And to withstand their vigour, they found none,  
Till Paris with his Archers that way took:  
and now began a fierce and Mortal fray,  
In Emulation who should fly, who stay.   

92  
Paris prevails, his forces gain the best,  
And Lycomedes Grandchild must retire,  
Behold, where 'gainst the Troyans' Ajax Crest  
Seems above all his Soldiers to aspire,  
His huge seaven-folded Targe still guards his breast,  
For Paris through the field he doth inquire:  
Whom as the Sal'mine fight, spies from far,  
He hears a Steele-shaft from his Crossbow jar.   

93  
It aims at him, and where his Armour parted  
Between the Arm and Shoulder, there it fell,  
Ajax observed the man by whom he smarted,  
And pressing forward, vows to quite him well,  
Through the mid-throng the nearest way he thwarted,  
No opposition can his rage expel:  
Till he had passed through Groves of growing Spears,  
To come where thousand Shafts sung by his ears.   

94  
Yet past them all, even till he came where fought  
The amorous Trojan, and to him he makes  
His guard of Archers, the Greek dradded nought,  
But o'er his Helm his reeking Glave he shakes,  
Which in his fall assured ruin brought 
The death of Paris.   
Upon the Earth, the dying Trojan quakes:  
And in his death leaves all terrestrial joy,  
Fair Helen, Priam, Heeuba, and Troy.   

95  
Oh! Haddit the Raptor in his Cradle died,  
Millions of lives had in his death been saved,  
and Asia's glory, that late swelled in pride,  
Had not with siege and death so long been braved,  
O'er his dead Coarse the warlike Greek doth stride,  
and works his way through harness richly engraved:  
Whose curious works he blemished where he stood,  
Blurring their Fingers with wide wounds and blood.   

96  
The dardan's fly at Brute of Paris fall,  
The greeks with dreadful march their flight pursue,  
Even to the very skirts of Troy's fair wall,  
But between death and them the Scythians grew,  
Squadrons of greeks before the Damsels fall,  
Now the re-spirited Troyans' fight ren●…w:  
Twice fore the Scythian Queen did Pyrrhus stand,  
Yet twice by her repulsed, hand to hand.   

97  
Night parts the battle upon equal odds,  
In Paris death, the Troyans' have the worst,  
Helen and Troy bequeath him to the Gods,  
His death less mourned, then hath his life been cursed,  
The morning comes, the greeks make their abode  
Before the gates, through which the Scythians burst:  
And scorning to be Cooped, each with her shield  
Bravely advanced, make roomth into the field.   

98  
Them Deiphobus follow●…s with his train,  
The Sole-remainder of King Priam's race,  
By whom at first a valiant Greek was slain,  
That in the Camp enjoyed a Sovereign place,  
Amphimachus next him spurs on the pla●…ne,  
With Philomines who ranks on apace:  
Aeneas and Antenor, these contend,  
With all their powers to give the long siege end.   

99  
In vain: for lo, upon the adverse part,  
Girt with his Father's Myrmydons appears,  
Stern Pyrrhus, whose late bleeding wounds yet smart,  
Next him Pelides, with a band of Spears,  
Then marched Tysander with a lions heart,  
Ulysses, Stevelus, and (proud in years:)  
Nestor: the two Atrides well attended,  
The two Achiaces next the field as●…nded.   

100  
These with the other Princes proudly fare,  
Disordered ruin, ruffles on each side,  
Thousands of either party slaughtered are  
In this encounter, Deiphobus died,  
And b●…aue Amphimachus, forward to dare, 
The death of Deiphobus and Amphiemachus.   
And able to perform (a Soldier tried)  
And now on Priam's party only stand,  
The Scythian Damsels to protect his Land.   

101  
Troy droops, and 〈◊〉 aspyres full fourteen days,  
Penthesilea hath vph●…ld her fame,  
Both Camp and C●…ty surf●…it with her praise,  
and her renown deservedly proclaim,  
The best of Greece her hardiment assays,  
Yet shrink beneath the fury of the Dame:  
None can escape her vigour unrewarded,  
Troy by this stern Viragoes solely guarded.   

102  
But destiny sways all things: Troy was founded  
To endure a third wrack, and must fate obey,  
Therefore even those that with most might abounded,  
Cannot reprieve her to a longer day,  
The S●…ythian Dames (by many Princes wounded)  
Were with the Queen at length to Greece a pray,  
Her too much hardiness herself inmured,  
Amidst her foes, in Armour well assured.   

103  
And when her Lance was ●…plinter'd to her hand,  
Her warlike Pole-axe hewed to pieces small,  
Herself round girt with many an armed band,  
Even in her height of Fame she needs must fall,  
The warlike Wench amongst the greeks doth stand  
Unbacked by Troy, left of her Damsels all,  
The battery of a thousand swords she bides,  
Till her iron plates are hewed off from her sides.   

104  
Thus br●…athlesse, and vnha●…est, (fresh in breath  
And strong in armour,) Pyrrhus her invades,  
At these advantages he knows 'tis each  
To cope with her quite scuered from her Maids,  
His bale●…ull thoughts are spurred with rage and death,  
Close to her ●…ide in blood of greeks he wades:  
(Blood sluc'st by her) and naked thus assails her,  
Whilst a whole Camp of foes from safety rails her.   

105  
After much war th'Amazonian falls,  
Whom Pyrrhus lops to pieces with his Glave, 
The death of P●…nthisilea.   
And ●…ing p●…-meale hewed her, loud he calls  
To have her limbs kept from an honoured grave,  
But to be strowed about the sieged walls:  
She dead, the Troyans' seek themselves to save  
By open flight, her Virgins fight die,  
Scorning the life, to gain which, they must fly.   

106  
Now Troy's at her last cast, her succours fail,  
Her soldiers are cut off by ruthless war,  
Her Seaports hemmed in with a thousand sail,  
In her land fiedge two hundred thousand are,  
They close their Iron gates their lives to bail,  
And strengthen them with many an iron bar:  
After that day, they dare no weapons wield,  
Or front the proud greeks in the open field.   

107  
Aeneas and Anten●…r now conspire,  
(As some suppose) the City to betray, 
Dares.   
And with the greeks they doom it to the fire,  
But whilst the rich Palladium's seen to stay,  
In Pallas Temple, they in vain desire  
King Priam's ruin or the Lands decay:  
Therefore the sly Ulysses buys for Gold,  
The jewel that doth Troy in safety hold.   

108  
Oh cursed Priest, that canst thyself profess, 
The Palladi●… bought by Ulysses of the Priest of Pallas for a great sum of money.   
Severe in habit, but in heart profane,  
Would of thy name and Order, there were less,  
That will not stick to sell their friends for gain,  
Who (but that knows thy Treason,) once would guess  
Such treacherous thoughts should taint a Churchman's brain,  
But many to the God's devoted solely,  
In hearts are godless, though in garments holy.   

109  
Whether by purchase, or by stealth, (Heaven knows,)  
But the Palladium now the greeks enjoy,  
And by a general voice the Camp arose  
From their long ●…ege, their ships again t'enjoy,  
The greeks unto the sea themselves dispose,  
And make a show to bid farewell to Troy:  
But of this Stratagem, what next befell,  
This Canto will not give us room to tell.   
ARtimesia Queen of Caria, and wife to King Mansolus, she is famous for her Chastity & the love to her husband, after whose death she made so royalla Sepulchre for him, that it was held of the Wonders of the world, and of that, all stately buildings have since then been called Mansolea.  
Camna a beauteous maid borne in Galatia, the wife of 
Plutarch libde virtutibus Mulierum.  one Sinatus, she was religiously devoted to the cha●… Goddess Diana, whom her Country held in great reverence, whom when Synorix had often solicited with love, but could not prevail, he treacherously slew her husband Sinatus, and after enforced her to his Marriagebed, to whom by the urgent instigation of her friends, and the promotion expected by the greatness of Synotix, she seemed willingly to yield, (he persuading her, that for his love to her, he wrought the death of her beloved Sinatus.) When before the Altar of the Goddess they were to be espoused, she drank to Synorix (as the custom was) a Bowl of Wine, in which when he had pledged her, she told him with a joyful countenance, that in that draft they had both caroused their deaths, being extremely overjoyed, that before the chaste goddess Diana, & in the face of so great a people, she had justified her own Innocence, and revenged the murder of her husband, which incontinently appeared, for the potion being commixed with poison, they both expired before the Altar.  
When Achilles was slain in the Temple by Paris, it is remembered 
Antimachus.  of him that the Grecians could not purchase his body of the Troyans' till (to ransom him) they weighed them down ass much Gold as poised the body of Hector. 'tis said that for his death all the Muses & Nymphs wept exceedingly 
Rursus redempto pro altero cadavere 
Lycophron in Alexandra.   
P●…r pondus Auris splendidi parto●…j ferent.  The Isle Boristhenes was called Achilleides of Achilles that 
Ibicus.  was there buried, besides it is Poetised of him that in the Elysian field, after his death, he espoused Medea. 
Herodotus in Euterpe.   
Paris that slew Achilles, and was after slain by Ajax, was sent into Greece with two and twenty sail, whence he brought the fair Hellen. His shipmaster, or he that built 
Diognetes in rebus.  his ships, was called Phereclus. Some think he pierced Greece first by the Commandment of Venus, and having 〈◊〉 
Smernais Harmonida●…  Helen, carried her into Egypt, where he first lay with her. Others are opinioned, that he bedded with her in Athens, and 
〈◊〉, Duris 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉.  had by her these four Sons, Dunichus, Carithus, Aganus, and Ideus. Others think, he first lay with her in Cranae, one of the Sp●…rad Islands, which when Paris had done almost 
Alexandar in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  by violense, and after many tears sbed for the leaving of her Husband, it is said, that of her tears grew the Herb Helenium, which if woman drink in wine, it provokes mirth and Venery.  
Of Helena it is thus recorded, Menelaus being dead, after their return to Greece, for her former luxuriousness, she was expulsed from Lacedaemon by her Sons, Nicostratus and Megapenthe. She fled to her Cousin Polixo, the Wife of Tlepolemus, who governed Rhodes, where she sojourned for a space, but Polixo after remembering, that her Husband was by reason of the Adultery of Helen, stain in the wars of Troy, 
〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  she came upon Helen suddenly, as she was bathing herself amongst her Maids, and hurriing her unto a tree, upon the same she strangled her.  
Others report, that Helen waxing old, & seeing her beauty wrinkled, and quite faded, in grief thereof hanged herself, as a just reward of her former incontinence.  
Some think the Palladium to be bought by Ulysses of the priest of Pallas. Others, that it was stole by Ulysses and Diomedes, others that it was Merchandized by Aeneas and Antenor, In which sale, the famous City of Troy was betrayed to 
〈◊〉 lib. 3.  the greeks. These opinions are uncertain, but when Ilus was to build the Palace of Islion, following a party-couloured Ox, he prayed to the Gods, that some auspicious sign might satisfy him from the Heavens, that his buildings were pleasing to the dietyes: then to him descended the Palladium, an Image of three Cubits height, which seemed to have motion, and to walk of itself; in the right hand holding a Spear, in the left hand a Distaff, or Rock and a Spindle, and where he further proceeded to the Oracle to know the virtue of this Palladium, it was them answered him, that as long as that was kept free, inviolate, and unprofaned, so long TIOY should be in peace and security, which accordingly happened. For till Ulysses had either bought or stolen away the Palladium, the greeks had never any apportunity or means to use any vielence upon the City.  
The end of the 14. Canto.   

Argumentum  
ON th'hellespontic Sands Ep●…us rears  
A brazen horse: the Grecians hoist up sail  
And feigning to depart: Sinon with tears  
Tells to the invaded King an ominous tale,  
The Fleetereturnes by night: After ten years  
Troy is surprised, and the proud Greeks prevail,  
The City a burnt, and after tragic broils,  
The greeks return, laden with Asia's spoils.  
ARG. 2.  
LAocon and Polites, Hector's Ghost.  
K. Priam's death, Troy's Fate, Creusa lost.  
CANTO. 15.  

1  
TReason, whose horrid Front I must unmask,  
And pluck the Vizor from thy Fiendlike face,  
To paint thee out in colours is my task.  
And by thy cloven foot thy steps to trace,  
In which (I still Di●…ine assistance ask)  
Hell gave thee Birth, and thou 〈◊〉 thy race  
From the grand Prince of darkness, in whose Cell  
Thou first tookst life, and 〈◊〉 return to dwell.   

2  
T●…y thou wast strong, and thy defence was good,  
But Treason through thy strength made bloody way,  
Hadst thou not harboured Traitors, thou hadst stood,  
And to thy age annexed the longest day,  
But Treason that most thirsts for Prince's blood,  
And of the highest kingdoms seeks decay,  
Enters thy Court, and covets to destroy  
With thy proud buildings (even the name of Troy.)   

3  
Thy envy stretched to our chaste Maiden-Queene, 
Q Elizabeth.   
Whose Virtues, even her foes could not but praise,  
Yet 'gainst her graces didst thou Arm thy 〈◊〉,  
Thinking by Parries' hand to end her days, 
Doctor Parry.   
But God and Truth (whose Patron she was seen,)  
Against their Cannons did high Bulwarks raise,  
Such Bullet-proofe, that neither private Train  
Could reach her, ●…or the open arm of Spain,   

4  
What Parry missed, fourteen fierce Traitors more 
Babington & his 〈◊〉   
Stirred up by Rome, took Sacramental vows,  
That God that kept her 〈◊〉 th'invasive foe,  
Against these bloody Butchers knit their brows;  
Heaven gave them all a fatal overthrow,  
(For heaven no such 〈◊〉 act allows:)  
But to all them a black end hath appointed,  
Whose bold hand dares to touch the Lords anointed.   

5  
If such Aeneas and Antenor were, 
Percy and Catesby with their Con●…ederates.   
That would for Coin their King and Country sell,  
Like plots with them our late Arch-traitors bear,  
To whom for aye they may be ranked well, 
Guido Vaux.   
And thou (Gui 〈◊〉) that never yet foundst peer  
(For a damned purpose) bred in Earth or hell:  
He whom all pens with most reproaches taint  
Simon, (with thee compated) is found a Saint.   

6  
He told a forged tale to a foreign King,  
With hope his King and Country's fame to raise;  
But thou, from strangers didst thy complots bring,  
He a strange Country, not his own betrays,  
The poisons from the head of Treason's spring,  
False Guide sucked, which fed him many days:  
Treasons, Milked, tasted, seems to quench the thirst,  
But once took down, it 〈◊〉 men till they burst.   

7  
That fate which he and his confederates had,  
May all receive that bear their Treacherous mind,  
Their purpose evil, and their ends were bad,  
A Fate to all men of their rank affignd,  
And that great King whose safety hath made glad  
The hearts of three great Kingdoms, 〈◊〉 confined:  
Long may he reign, still guarded by those powers,  
Whose hands Crown Virtue, & her foes devowers   

8  
That the same state that was in hazard then,  
May in this peaceful Kingdom long endure,  
The King to guide his Peers: Peetes, Common men:  
Whose summoned Parliaments may plant secure  
Britain's fair Peer, for many a worthy pen  
To Chronicle: These acts black and impure,  
We cannot justly on Aeneas lay,  
In whose reproach we must our Censures stay.   

9  
Since some, whose hy works to the world are dear,  
Whose gravity we reverence and admire 
Virgil's Eneids.   
His Fame, unto posterity would clear,  
And in his Innocent applause desire,  
'Twere pity he that two New-troyes' did rear,  
As famous as that one consumed by fire:  
(Rome and our London) for the double gain  
Of one lost Troy, should wear a traitors stain,   

10  
The bruised greeks 〈◊〉 with rough storms of War,  
By Pallas art, 〈◊〉 a Timber-steede, 
The horse of Troy.   
Whose Backs Tree, 〈◊〉, of such huge vastness are,  
That they in all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wonder breed,  
The Mountain structure may be seen from far,  
Which finished, they amongst them have agreed:  
To stuff his hollow 〈◊〉 with great store  
Of Harnessed men (so 〈◊〉 it on the shore.)   

11  
This done, their new-calkt Navy they wind thence,  
As if they to My●…ne would back repair,  
Beneath a promontory not far thence,  
They Anchor East, where they concealed are,  
Now Troy secure and dreadless of offence,  
Loseth herself from her Diurnal care:  
Wide stand the Ports, the people issue free,  
Th'unsoldiered fields and Deserts, plain to see.   

12  
Where Hector did 〈◊〉 invade,  
Where Nestor pitched, where Troilus won the day,  
Where grim Achilles lodged, where Ajax made  
His hot incursions, hewing out his way,  
Where Agamemnon with his forces played,  
Where with his 〈◊〉 Ulysses lay:  
Where such men fought, and such their valours tried,  
Where some men conquered, others bravely died.   

13  
Some wonder at Myneruaes' stately piece,  
Saying 'twere good to place it in her fawn,  
Since the Pelasgians are returned to Greece,  
Their brazen horse may through their walls be drawn,  
Other more staid know they are come to Fleece  
And pillage them, this leaving as a pawn  
Of some strange Treason, whose suspected guile,  
Seems to frown inward, though it outward smile.   

14  
Thus is the multitude in parts divided,  
Some wonder at the Module being so rare,  
Others, whose brains are with more i●…dgement guided,  
would rip his womb, which some desire to spare,  
Ardent Laocoon thinking to have decided  
This general doubt (as one that all things dare)  
Is seen from top of a high Tower descending,  
A threatening spear against the Machi●…e bending.   

15  
Crying from far, you foolish men of Troy,  
Oh, can you trust the presents of a foe?  
Who came from Greece these high walls to destroy,  
And ten whole years have wrought your overthrow,  
What can you in the Danavish Treason's joy?  
Amongst you all, doth none Ulysses know?  
Either this swelling womb is big with child  
Of armed greeks: or 'gainst your walls compild.   

16  
These brazen hooves are made to 〈◊〉 your mure,  
The trusty pale that hath so long defended  
Your sons and wives, where they have lived secure,  
Maugre the ruin by the foe intended,  
Against your trusty Guards no wrong endure,  
Whose Bulwarkt strength you have so oft commended:  
This said, against the brazen Steed he flung  
A steelhead spear which through his entrails rung   

17  
The trembling Mole from forth his Caverns gave  
A horrid groan, a noise of armour jarred  
Through his transfixed breast, (if aught could save  
Ill-fated Troy) this had their ruin bard,  
And they had ripped the bowels of that grave,  
From which the sad confused sound was heard:  
Behold the Dardan shepherds with loud cries,  
Before the King bring bound a Greekish prize.   

18  
Dispersed Troy assembles, and attend  
Some uncouth Novel, manacled now stands,  
The surprised Greek, his eyes to heaven extend,  
To heaven he likewise would exalt his hands,  
Whilst showers of tears down by his cheeks descend,  
And thus he says: Have I 〈◊〉 the bands  
Of armed greeks, to 〈◊〉 here in Troy?  
And whom my foes have spared, must foes destroy.   

19  
Relenting Priam is soon moved to ruth,  
His misery and tears woe him to passion:  
He thinks such looks, such tears should harbour truth,  
And pities him, disguised in wretched fashion,  
With comfortable words he cheers the youth,  
Asks him of whence he is, and of what Nation:  
When to the passionate king he thus replied,  
Priam commands, and I will nothing hide.   

20  
Who hath not heard of the Duke Palimed,  
By the Pelasgian Princes doomed to die,  
Whom false Ulysses to the scaffold led,  
Him above all the rest most loved I,  
He was my Kinsman (but alas he's dead)  
With that, swift watery drops drill from his eye:  
Him when I guiltless saw, condemned of Treason,  
I mourned my Kinsman's death, (as I had reason)   

21  
Not could I keep my tongue (unhappy man)  
But private whispering have I breathed 'gainst those,  
That sought his death, to threat them I began,  
Who to my friend had been opposed foes,  
Foxlike Ulysses first, observed me than,  
Whom Calchas seconds (why should I disclose  
My miserable state) unhappy wretch?  
Since their revenge as far as Troy doth stretch.   

22  
I had but died there, and I hear am dying,  
(Grief stops his speech, he can no further speak)  
Still what he wants in words, with tears supplying,  
Till they with interruptions silence break,  
When after farre-fecht sighs himself applying  
To further process, (he proceeds:) the wreak  
They threatened then, since now I must not fly, 
Sinon's Tale   
(Witness you Troyans', Sinon cannot lie.   

23  
Oft would the warre-tyred greeks have left this Town,  
But still the Morrow tempests them restrain,  
Threatening their Navy in the Abysm to drown,  
And they attempt their wished return in vain,  
But most the angry Neptune seems to frown,  
When old Epeus had upon this plain,  
Builded this Monumental Steed, of late  
To the Divinest Pallas Consecrate.   

24  
Euriphilus is strait to Delos sent',  
To know the Oracles advice herein,  
He thus returns: A Virgin's blood is spent  
To appease the tempests when these wars begin,  
And in their end the Gods have like intent,  
That you with sacrifice shall purge your sin:  
In your pursuit they humane blood desire,  
and you with blood must purchaso your retire.   

25  
This when the vulgar knew, not one but fears,  
Whose dreaded life offended Phoebus craves,  
Oh! Hence proceeds the force of all my tears,  
All prophesy his ruin, that depraves  
The Oyle-tonged Greek: Ulysses Calchas cheers,  
To point him out that must appease the Waves:  
Ten days he silence kept, as loath to name,  
His destined life, whom Phoebus seems to claim.   

26  
Scarce with Ulysses clamours is he won  
To sentence any: till with urgence great,  
He dooms me to the flames, the people ron  
To see him that must taste the Altars heat,  
all glad that this denounced doom is done,  
That I th' offended God-hood must entreat:  
And that my bloody slaughter answers all,  
Which each one feared, upon himself might fall.   

27  
The day was come, my brows with wreaths were crowned,  
and I made ready for the sacred fire,  
My hands behind (as you behold them) bound,  
The Priest in his Pontifical attire,  
Ready to strike, and I encompassed round  
With fire and death, (yet Mortals life desire)  
The truth I'll tell, alas sin cannot lie;  
I lcapt from of the Altar, thence I fly.   

28  
Pursued in vain, fear gave my body wings,  
In a deep saggy covert, I obseure me,  
Until the night had with her airy strings  
Drawn her black vail o'er heavens face, to assure me,  
Hoping to hide me, till the Argive Kings  
Had sailed from thence, but thinking to seeure me:  
Poor wretch, I from the Grecians fled a way,  
and now (alas) 〈◊〉 made the 〈◊〉 pray.   

29  
Whom neither Heaven, nor Earth, nor Greece, nor Tr●…y,  
nor air, nor Sea, will take to their protection,  
But all conspire poor S●…non to destroy,  
Then air, Come lend me part of thy infection,  
Heaven, Earth, and Sea, all your 〈◊〉 powers employ,  
and like confederates 〈◊〉 in my dejection:  
and then he beats his breast, weeps, sighs, & groans,  
Whose grief King Pri●…m and all Troy bemoans.   

30  
The good old Pri●…m bids his hands unbind,  
and cheers him thus: Of Greece thou art no more,  
Thou shalt be ours, thy Country hath resigned  
Thy life to us, which freely we restore,  
Then say; What means this Monster we here find  
Upon our Beach? Whom should this gift adore?  
Or what Religion's in't? Whence is he bred?  
Or for what cause doth he our Confines tread?   

31  
When with his new loosed hands to heaven upreard,  
Thus Sinon: Witness you eternal Fires,  
Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which but late I feared,  
and all you powers to whom our zeal aspytes,  
That I hate Greece, and Troy that hath me cheered  
I am ingra'st too, Tr●…y hath my desires:  
I am a Child of Troy, Greece I desye,  
Witness you Gods, that Sinon cannot lie.   

32  
The false pel●…gians in great Pallas 〈◊〉  
Her: Diomedes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 offended,  
By stealing from her charge with guile unjust,  
Herrare Palladium for which she extended  
Revenge 'gainst Greece: they to appease her, must  
By some Oblation see their guile amended:  
That her commenced 〈◊〉 may be withdrawn  
From them, whose violence spared not her ●…wne.   

33  
And now to make the 〈◊〉 borne Pallas smile,  
Whose anger made the Tempests 'gainst them war,  
Chalchas 〈◊〉 the high Equinal pile,  
That his huge 〈◊〉 might all entrance bar,  
Through your portcullised Gates (such was his guile)  
For should you on this Horse print the least 〈◊〉  
Of an offensive hand (being for her made)  
You by your 〈◊〉 have your lives betrayed.   

34  
If you deny it entrance through your walls,  
Or this unwieldy frame in aught despise,  
Well guarded Troy by Pallas anger falls,  
The greeks return, and long-lived 〈◊〉 dies:  
But if this Steed for whom the 〈◊〉 calls  
Pierce through your 〈◊〉 mure, or if it rise  
And mount above your walls, to Pallas shrine,  
Troy still shall stand, and Greece the wrack is thine?   

35  
Priam and his confederate Kings shall then  
To Sparta, and Meceane the greeks pursue,  
Devast their losty spyring Citti●…s, when  
The clamorous Land shall their destruction rue,  
Losing by Troy whole infinites of men,  
Witness you Gods, poor Sinon's words are true,  
Such looks, such tears, such protestations chief,  
Wins in all Troy remorse: the King belief.   

36  
What many a will-rigged bark, and armed Keel,  
What not the bloody ●…edge of ten whole year,  
To make Troy taste inconstant Fortune's wheel,  
Ulysses wisdom, nor Achilles' Spear,  
What not King Diomedes' through piercing Steel?  
All this did perjured 〈◊〉 with a tear;  
B●…old (whilst all the rout on Sinon gaze)  
a dread portent that doth all Troy amaze.   

37  
Along the troubled Billows towards the shore,  
Two Blacke-scaled Serpents on their bellies glide,  
at whose approach the foaming Surges roar,  
These ●…ery Serpents to the Beach applied,  
and in Laocons' blood who that time wore  
The Priesthoods robes, their arming Scales they died:  
Their winding trains, they with loud hissinges roll  
About his breast, till they enlarged his Soul.   

38  
The Monster-multitude before dismayed  
At the recourse of these infernal Snakes,  
Think bold Laocon to be justly paid,  
Because he yet his harmful javelin shakes,  
Some Cables fetch, some with their levers stayed  
The ponderous Engine which deep ●…urrowes rakes  
Along the Earth: others the Walls hurl down  
To give the Horse free passage to the Town.   

39  
Wide stand the yron-bard gates, whilst all the rout  
Buckle to work, the fatal Muchine climbs,  
Th●…thronged Bulwarks (big with Soldiers stout)  
Ready to be delivered: hallowed rhymes,  
The Virgins sing, and nimbly dance about,  
Myneruas' Steed, the wonder of these times:  
Thinking themselves 'bove others highly blest,  
That can be more officious than the rest.   

40  
Four times the Brazen Horse entering, stuck fast  
Anent the ruined guirdle of the Town,  
Four times was armour heard (yet unagast)  
The fatal Beast with sacred wreaths they Crown,  
(Sunk in blind ignorance) and now at last,  
Before Minerva's shrine, they place it down:  
In Hymns and Feasts the ominous day they spend.  
Offering to her that must their lives defend.   

41  
Mean time heaven turns. night from the Ocean falls,  
Inuoluing with black darkness, earth, and air,  
And call the Gracian craft about the walls,  
The scattered Troyans' slumber, far from care,  
and now his Pilots (great Atrides calls,)  
Who back to Tenedos with speed repair:  
The Universal Phalanx lands in haste,  
And through the silence of the Moon are past.   

42  
Now startles Sinon, and a flaming-brand,  
He wafts from top of one of 〈◊〉 Towers,  
Which like a Beacon in the night must stand  
To guide the greeks, and their nocturnal powers,  
Then with a Key grasped in his fatal hand,  
Fearless, he through the palped darkness scours  
To the big bellied Stallion, turns the spring,  
and through the door the Harnessed Grecians fling.   

43  
First, blacke-hayrd Pyrrhus fixes in the ground,  
His Oaken Spear, and from the fit he slides,  
Ulysses next, yet halting of his wound,  
and then the younger of the two Atrides:  
Tysandar from the structure next doth bound  
Thoas and Athanas, two warlike guides:  
With Sthevelus down by a Cable fall,  
and bruised with leaping, on the Pavement sprawl.   

44  
Pelidus follows these, and then the man  
That in his brain first cast this fatal mould,  
Epeus' th'engineer, whom Sinon than  
Did in his black and penurd arm●…s in fold  
Their sweaty brows, they with the darkness fan,  
Each cheering up his Mate with courage bold:  
Strip their bright Swords, by whose quick glimmering light,  
They find their way in the dark starless night.   

45  
The City sunk in Wine and Mirth they'nuade,  
Slaughter the Watch that on the ground lie spread,  
Then through the broken Walls (but late decayed)  
The General's Army is by Sinon led,  
And Agamemnon's colours are displayed,  
Now tumults and confusions first are bred:  
Havoc begins, loud shouts and clamours rise,  
Lifting their Tragic uproar through the skies.   

46  
heavens lamps were half burntout, 'twas past midnight  
When to Aeneas in his bed appeared  
Sad Hector, 〈◊〉 and wan, full of affright,  
His hair clottered with blood, his ruffled Beard 
Hector's ghost   
Disordered, all those deep carved wounds in sight,  
Which in defence of Tr●…y and his endeared:  
Were graude upon his flesh, behind him fall,  
Those thongs, that dragged him round about Troy's wall.   

47  
Oh, how much from that great King-killer changed,  
high spirited Hector, when being proudly decked  
In great Achilles' spoils, he freely ranged  
Through guards of Steel, whilst from his Helm reflect  
Trophies of Greece: Oh me! How much estranged,  
From him that did all Asia's pride protect,  
Even to their Fleet the Achive Kings pursue,  
And 'mongst their ships round Balls of Wildfire flew.   

48  
When to the sleeping Prince approaching nigh,  
He with a sigh from his decpe entrails fetched,  
Thus says. (Thou Goddess son, Aeneas fly)  
And from these burnings, that by this are stretched  
Quite o'er your glorious buildings, climbing high,  
Deliver thee: the Arm of war hath retcht  
Even to the Crest of Troy, and with one blow,  
Given it a sad and certain ou●…throw.   

49  
Greece hath your walls, the Universal roof  
Of Troy is sunk and fallen, her bearers failed,  
Destruction that hath hovered long aloof,  
Hath ceased her towers, and her spires avayld,  
Could might have kept her, by the manly proof  
Of this right hand, the Prisoner had been bailed:  
But Troy (alas) is sentenc'st, and must die,  
Then from her funeral Flames (Aeneas fly.)   

50  
To thee her Gods and Relics she commends  
Thee, that must her posterity r●…uiue,  
For though her glory here in seeming end,  
Yet dying Troy in thee is kept alive,  
Now cleaves the earth, and the sad Ghost descends,  
Aeneas with dull sleep begins to strive:  
And waking, hears a noise of clattering War,  
And many 〈◊〉 Clamours, 〈◊〉 and far.   

51  
When mounting on a Turret, he might spy  
The City all on Flame, and by the light,  
A thousand several Conflicts: sparkles fly  
As far as to the Sea, the waves shine bright,  
And now at length he sees, Sinon can lie,  
His Treasons manifest, still this black night  
Clamours of men, and Trumpets, clangors grow,  
Whilst with warm recking blood the channels flow.   

52  
Aeneas arms in haste, grasps in his hand  
A two-edged Scimitar to guard his life,  
Knows not to whom to run, or where to stand,  
In every 〈◊〉 is danger, rage, and strife,  
Yet longs for skirmish: and on some proud band  
To prove his strength, now whilst the tumults rife:  
For since th'Achiue fires such splendour give,  
To die in arms, seems sweeter than to live.   

53  
Behold, where from the foreign slaughter flying 
Panthus Otriades.   
Panthus Otriades, Priest of the Sun?  
Scours through the streets: Aeneas him espying,  
Calls to him thus. Whether doth Panthus run?  
What mean these flames, these groans of people dying?  
This frightful iarte of battles new begun?  
When Panthus thus: Aeneas lets away,  
Of Troy and us, this is the latest day.   

54  
Troy was, and 〈◊〉 was, but they are passed,  
Great Ihove hath from th'earth's bosom swept us all,  
Th'insulting greeks have conquered us at last,  
And foreign Steel now menases our wall,  
The Brazen Horse that midst our Meure sticks fast,  
Hath powered an army forth: whole thousands fall  
And drop down from his sides, whilst Sinon stands  
Warming amidst the flames his treacherous hands.   

55  
The Gates are seized, the broken walls made good  
With bright Death-pointed Steel, Irruption's bard,  
Behold my passage was Knee-deep in blood,  
Crossing the street from great Atrides guard,  
Such as escape this purple falling flood,  
Fire or the Sword consumes, our choice is hard:  
Ruin beguirts us, and what most we fear  
We cannot fly, death rageth every where.   

56  
Now hurries strong Aeneas, madly faring,  
Through flames, through swords, whether Erinys calls,  
Egged on by rage and fury, no man sparing,  
On every side are fires, wounds, Clamours, brals,  
To him armed Ripheus joins (and wonders daring)  
Iphilus, Hypanis, and Dimas, falls  
In the same tank: youthful Chorebus tried,  
Doth likewise glister by Aeneas side.   

57  
Chorebus, who for fair Cassandracs' Love,  
Came from Megdomia to the Dardan broils,  
These seeking, flying death, all dangers prove,  
And task their valours to all desperate toils,  
To places of most slaughter they remove,  
Even where the greeks commit most horrid spoils:  
Armed with this Saw; This only Captives cheers,  
When safety flies, all-resting death appears.   

58  
Thus seek they certain death amidst the heart  
Of Flame-guilt Troy, whilst the black fatal night  
Flies hoodwinked twixt the poles, her iron Cart  
Rusty with darkness, oh what Mortal wight  
Can half the terror of that hour impart,  
Such howls, sighs, groans, wounds, slaughters & affright:  
In every street, Lives-blood, death, murder, fear,  
The reeking Falchion, and the fatal Spear.   

59  
With Armed Androgeos they encounter first, 
Androgeos.   
Androgeos who mistakes them for his mates,  
And cheers them thus, we have already burst,  
and made irruption through the battered Gates,  
Now let your Swords that for their live-blouds thirst,  
Glut them with purple healths, behold their Fates:  
But when from them he looks some fire apply,  
With armed hands upon his trains they fly.   

60  
And put them all to massacre: the while  
Chorebus says. Some comforts in despair,  
Fortune upon our first endeavours smiles,  
The Foes are vanquished, and we victors are,  
Then come; Make use of their Pelasgian guiles,  
Put on their arms, and to their Guards repair:  
Their proper arms shall 'gainst themselves contend,  
Where virtue fails, use fraud, (to God and friend.)   

61  
With that he dons Androgeos shining Cask,  
Which like a Bearded Comet glisters far,  
The rest in foreign Helms their faces mask,  
And mingled with the greeks, began new war,  
Still Fortune smiles on their Nocturnal task,  
Where greeks with Greekish arms confounded are:  
And 'mongst their frighted guards, great uproar grows,  
Since from their Friends, they cannot ken their Foes.   

62  
A thousand fall to Hell, a thousand fly,  
Some to the Navy, others to the shore,  
and many Pale-fast greeks afraid to die  
Run to the Horse where they were lodged before,  
and in his dark conceited entrails lie,  
See fair Cassandra from the Temple door,  
Dragged by black Myrmidons: her Son espies  
Frightful Chorebus, and that way he flies.   

63  
They after him, adismall conflict now  
Grows in the entrance of the Temple, when  
Their friends mistaking their disguised brow,  
Rout from the battle, meets by strength of men  
Huge stones, and Webs of Lead stounding below  
Their Greece-armed Friends, whose craft's deceived again:  
(By Ignorance) they call their friends on high,  
and by their tongues the gr●…cians them descry.   

64  
For now rough Ajax revels in the place,  
The two Atrideses with their armed Bands,  
And sly Ulysses too: yet in the face  
Of all their guards the bold Chorebus stands, 
The death of Chorobus.   
Till number o'er sways might: Migdoniaes' race  
Is now extinct by force of thousand hands:  
Then Ripheus falls, then is bold Dimas breast  
Through-pierst: so one by one declive the rest.   

65  
Alone 'scapes bold Aeneas by a cry  
Raised at King Priam's Palace, whether hying  
More Mutiny and broils he may espy,  
More Tragic sight of wretched Troyans' dying,  
The massacre seems dreadful in his eye,  
Before the assaulted Gates are thousands lying:  
The havoc did so v●…olent appear,  
as had their been no place of death but there.   

66  
The untamed Mars upon his Altars groans,  
high crowned in blood: some greeks though Palace scale,  
The Laders cleave unto the lettying Stones,  
Whose Marble Columns bend, and seem to fail  
Beneath the weight of fire and Steel at ones,  
and still the Banicadoed Gates the assail:  
Where able armed Pyrrhus stands before,  
Th'inflamed Porch (his armour slacked in gore)   

67  
The enclosed Prince's broil, doubly penned in  
With flames and steel, enclosed on every side  
With eminent death, yet no irruption win  
Though they di●…olue, the high roof beautified  
With Gold and figures (which to touch were sin)  
The Geometric ridge of Silver tried:  
Fires o'er their heads, and drills down by the walls,  
Which scalds the Princes as it melting falls.   

68  
Sterne Pyrrhus sweats, and with Antomedon  
His father's Charioteer assaults the place,  
Scarce able to endure the arms they hau●… on,  
So overheat with Flames, in whose bright face  
They stand with naked swords to gaze upon  
Those shrinking Monuments the fires embrace:  
at length with beams shocking by strength of hand,  
They shake the walls, unable to withstand.   

69  
Which tumbling in, like a Bay-window shows,  
Whose gaping mouth seems vast, (oh) now appears,  
The gorgeous Courts, whose floor each Lady strews  
With her torn garments, hair, and pearly tears,  
Still, still, their shrieks and feminine clanger grows,  
as the Breach waxeth, so increase their fears;  
Their cries pierce heaven, slake Fire, and soften stones,  
Yet move not Pyrrhus and his Myrmidons.   

70  
For neither Priam's Guard, the door of Brass,  
Nor trusty Marble can withstand the Foe,  
But through them all by force of arms they pass  
The heavy Gates, they from the henges throw,  
Shivering their plated leaves like pains of Glass:  
Which with the fury of their burnings glow:  
and breaking in, the spacious Courts they fill  
With bloody Soldiers, who on all sides kill.   

71  
King Priam, when he saw his Town invaded,  
His Troy sitting in fire, not to be freed,  
and all those Gods that long had Islium aided,  
Shrunk from his help, and in his fall agreed,  
That his far shining beams at last were faded,  
and the Vniverfall heart of Troy must bleed:  
The alarm Bells of death on all sides ringing,  
His shrieking wife and Daughter 'bout him clinging.   

72  
Expecting help from him in whom remained  
No help at all, he first dissolves in tears,  
But casting up his eye to have complained  
His grief to Heaven, his Sword and Helm appears,  
Hung by the Walls, with rust and Canker stained,  
Now burdens to his arm, in former years  
Easy as Silks, his grief converts to rage,  
He dons those arms, forgetful of his age.   

73  
To whom the sad Queen with wet eyes thus says:  
What means my woeful Lord in his weak hand  
To toss this burdenous Steel? There is no praise  
For men to fight, when the high Gods withstand,  
Lived puissant Hector in these Fatal days,  
Yet could not his strong Limbs protect thy Land:  
Much less these Sapless branches, poor and bare,  
Then let the reverent Priam keep his Chair.   

74  
here at these holy Altars let us cling,  
The Gods, if they be pleased, our lives may guard,  
If not, we all will perish with the King,  
and die at once, there shall not one be spared:  
Behold, where broken through th'all-slaughtering ring  
Of Pyrrhus' Myrmydons, Slaves rough and hard:  
The young Polites well-nigh breathless rons,  
Polites, one of Priam's best-loved Sons.   

75  
Through many an Entry and blind-turning path,  
The burning Pyrrhus hath the Lad pursued,  
Longing upon the Youth to vent his wrath,  
now both at once before the King intrude,  
The slaughterd-thoughted Greek, all bale and scathe  
In the Child's blood his satal Blade imbrued  
Which plucking from his wounds: in the same place  
Sparkled the Son's blood in the Father's face.   

76  
To whom the armed King thus: You Gods above,  
Whose divine eyes all deeds of horror see,  
as you are ●…ust, and acts of pitry love,  
Behold how this rude man h●…th dealt by me,  
What God (worthy heavens Palace) can approve  
So black a deed as this, that's done by thee?  
Before the Father's eye the Child to kill, 
The death of Polites.   
and in his face his Innocent blood to spill.   

77  
Thou art a Bastard, not Achilles' Son,  
Of some she Wolf, or Hyrcan Tigress bred,  
not (to be shrined in Heaven) would he have done  
So horrible a deed, so full of dread,  
The shame and scandal thou this night hast won,  
More than Achilles' honours shall be spread:  
Thy Father honoured, lived and died in fame,  
Dishonoured thou, shalt perish in thy shame.   

78  
With that the Ia●…elin in his hand he threw,  
Th'unprofitable strength of his weak arm,  
Though it had art to guide the Weapon true,  
It wanted power to do black Pyrrhus' harm,  
Against the long skirt of his Targe it flew,  
But the round Boss, as if composed by charm,  
shook off the idle steel, which on the bar  
That took the blow, scarce left the smallest scar.   

79  
Inflamed Pyrrhus thus to him replies:  
Priam, thy soul shall strait descend to hell,  
Even to the place where great Achilles lies,  
And my sad deeds unto my Father Father,  
With that (all wrath) in Prisms face he flies)  
The prostrate King at Ihoves high Altar fell:  
With such hot rage he did the King pursue,  
That though he missed, the whisk him overthrew.   

80  
When being groveled in Polites gore,  
Grim Pyrrhus with his left hand takes the king,  
By his white locks (never profaned before,  
His reverent head against the ground to ding,  
His proud right hand a smoking Curtle-axe wore, 
The death of Priam.   
Which to perpetual rest must Priam bring:  
With which against the good old King he tilts,  
Till his heart blood flowed much above the hilts.   

81  
This was old Prisms Fate, his fatal end,  
And ending glory, he that As●… swayed,  
Whose spreading Fame did through the earth extend,  
Lived till he saw both him and his betrayed,  
Even till he had no subject, Son, or friend,  
And saw Troy's spires even with the groundsils laid,  
Who now before loves golden face lies dead,  
A nameless coarse, a Trunk without a head.   

82  
All this, when good Aeneas saw from far  
The ends of Troy and Priam: burnt, and slain,  
And no abatement yet of heat, or war,  
To his own Palace he returns again,  
Where gathered on a heap together are,  
His wife Creausa showering tears amain:  
His servants: old Anchises, and his son  
Askanius, these about Aeneas run.   

83  
After some short discourse of their affairs,  
Aeneas on his back Anchises takes,  
For young Askanius he his left hand spares,  
In his right hand his guardant sword he shakes,  
Creusa follows close, with tears and Prayers,  
So through the fire and foe Aeneas makes:  
He with his son and Sire, the right way choose,  
But in the darkness they Creusa loose.   

84  
Whom missing, they Creusa call aloud, 
Creusaes' death   
Creusa, for whose safety they'll return,  
But sorne black Fate doth her in darkness shroud,  
Either Troy's Funeral fires the Lady burn,  
Else is she stifled in the Hostile crowd,  
For her, the Father, son, and husband mourn:  
And seeking her amidst the wrathful flames, 
Helenus.   
They encounter Helenus; who thus exclaims.   

85  
Keep on Aeneas to the Se●…n shore,  
The heavens on Troy and us have vengeance powered,  
Only thy ruined fortunes they restore,  
They smile on thee, that have on Priam lowered,  
The fair Creausa thou shalt see no more,  
Her, the none-sparing slaughter hath devoured:  
But in her stead, the Gods to thee shall give  
A wife, in whom deceased Troy shall live.   

86  
Follow yond star, whether his Bearded beams  
Directs thy Navigation: on the found  
Thousands attend thy conduct through the streams,  
Whom ruin spares, for thee and thy command,  
Observe yond blazing Meteor, whose bright gleams  
Points thee unto a rich and fertile Land:  
Where, after many strange adventures passed,  
Storme-driu'n Aeneas shall arrive at last.   

87  
They to a spacious Climate thee restore, 
Italy   
A Province which the Gods and fates hold best,  
The Meditteren Sea beats on the shore,  
With the Sicilian waters, South and East,  
The Adriatic Billows Northward roar,  
With the high Alps encompassed on the West:  
These Countries it contains, Latium Liguria,  
The Climates of Campania and Hetruria.   

88  
With Fertile ay stria and Calabria,  
Full peopled Craunia and Apentium,  
Aemilia, else called Rhomandtola;  
With Gallia, Cisalpina, and Pycenum,  
japidia, Vmbria, and Venetia,  
Flavinia, Apulia, Sumnium:  
All these are Italy, with great Lucania,  
Which shall in times to come be called Rhomania.   

89  
Farewell and thrive, but leave us to our Fates:  
This said, the Divine Helenus retires,  
And shuts himself within those fatal gates,  
Where none commands but foes and raging fires,  
Aeneas hasts to meet his promised Mates,  
And on the Coast their fellowship desires,  
Who through the street hews out a bloody track,  
With old Anchises hanging at his back.   

90  
Still ●…stium burns, nor are the ruthless Flames  
Yet quenched, Ihoves sparpled Altars lick the blood  
Of slaughtered Priam, the bright vestal Dames  
Are pulled from Pallas Statuë where they stood,  
About their golden locks (with loud exclaims)  
Rough soldiers wind their arms, and through a flood  
Of gore and tears, in which the pavement flows,  
Drag them along, that faint beneath their blows.   

91  
The young Astyanax from that high Tower, 
The death of Astyanax.   
On which his Father's valour oft he saw,  
Is tumbled headlong on the rough-paued flower,  
His all to bruised limbs lie broke and raw,  
To woeful Hecuba, in thrust a power  
Of blood-stained greeks, without regard or awe,  
and from her aged arms, snatched by rude force  
Polixena, whose beauty begs remorse.   

92  
she's hurried to Achilles' tomb, where stands  
Stern Neptolemus, from top to toc  
Satued in blood and slaughter, in both hands  
Waving a keen glaive, Crimsoned in the foe,  
To bind with Cords her soft arms he commands,  
That more red lives may on his Falchion flow: 
The death of Polyxeva.   
There the bright Maid that bands did ill become,  
He piecemeal howes upon Achilles' tomb.   

93  
Thus is King Priam and Queen Hecubs race,  
Extinct in dust, young Palidore alone,  
The youngest Lad is with the king of Thrace  
Left in great charge, with Gold and many a Stone 
Polymnestor K. of Thrace.   
Beyond all rate, but Polymnestor base,  
Hearing the pride of Troy was spent and gone,  
False to the world, and to his friend untrue, 
The death of Polidore.   
To gaino that wealth, the lovely Infant slew.   

94  
Whose death when Hecuba revenged had,  
By tearing out the perjured Tyrants eyes,  
First she records the beauty of the Lad,  
Then all the glories she beneath the skies  
Possessed before, which makes her Franticke-mad,  
On her sloine husband, daughters, sons, she crics:  
Troy she bewailed, and fatal Greece she cursed, 
The death of Hecuba   
Till her great heart (with grief surcharged) burst.   

95  
Ten years, ten months, twelve days this siege endured,  
In which of Greece before the Town were slain, 
The number of Greckes & Troyans' slain at the siege.   
Fourescoute hundred and six thousand, all enured  
To steely war: Of Troyans' that maintain  
The honour of their City, well assured,  
(Besides the number that were prisoners ta'en)  
Six hundred fifty, and six thousand tried,  
Omitting those that in the last night died.   

96  
Chivalrous Hector void of fraud or slight,  
Eighteen great Kings slew by his proper hands,  
No advantageous odds he used in fight,  
Therefore his fame spreads far, through foreign lands,  
Three Kings to do the amorous Paris right  
Fell by his Bow, next ranked Achilles stands:  
Who (besides Troilus and great Hector) slew  
Seven puissant Kings at Troy (if Fame speak true)   

97  
Four Kings beside the Sagitary fell  
By Diomedes, two by Aeneas lost  
Their precious lives, though many more fought well,  
Their warlike deeds are not so far engrossed,  
Black Pyrrhus acts above the rest excel,  
Who thinking 'mongst them to be praised most:  
Three Royal lives his Tragic wrath obeyed, 
Ironia.   
An aged King, a Woman, and a Maid.   

98  
Not how two worthy greeks in words contended,  
Who should the rich Vulcanian armour have, 
Ovid metam●….   
Now how from Ajax, who had Greece defended,  
Th'impartial judges to Ulysses gave,  
To prove that Counsel above strength extended,  
And had more power the Argine Camp to save:  
In grief of which great loss, Ajax grew mad,  
Slain by the sword that he from Hector had, 
The death of Ajax.    

99  
Nor of Ulysses travels twice ten years,  
Nor of his love with Circe the fair Queen,  
Who by her spells transformed him and his Pecres,  
And kept him thence, where he desired t'have been,  
With fair Penelope, Famed 'mongst the spheres  
In living chaste: though Princes full of spleen  
Possessed her kingdom, and her palace ceased,  
Whom (wanting power) she by delays appeased.   

100  
Nor how he after twenty winters came, 
Telegonus son to Ulysses and Circe, otherwise called Calypso.   
And in disguise his constant Lady proved,  
How he by arms released the beauteous Dame,  
And all her suitors from his Land removed, 
Ulysses slain by his Bastard son Telegonus.   
Nor how Telegonus won with the Fame  
Of him whom most the witch Calypso loved  
From his fair Mother Circe himself withdrew,  
And unawares his Royal Father slay.   

101  
Nor how King Naulus laid Trains on the Seas,  
To a●…enge him on the Grecians for his son  
Palamedes, whose death did much displease  
The aged Prince, since 'twas by treason done,  
Nor how such wandering greeks as he could cease,  
Who on his shores their shipwrecked vessels run,  
Naul●…s destroyed, and unto ruin brought,  
Since they his sons dear life esteemed nought.   

102  
Nor how King Agamemnon home returning,  
Was by his fair wife Clytaemnestra slain, 
The death of Ag●…memnon   
How false Aegisthus in the Queen's love burning,  
Plotted with her to shorten the King's reign,  
Nor bow Horestes for his Father mourning  
Grew mad, and slew Aegisthus that had lain 
The death of Cletemenestra   
With his fair Mother, whom when he had caught her,  
Vnchild-like he did with his own hands slaughter.   

103  
Nor how black Pyrrhus Helen's daughter stal●…  
The fair Her mione, she that before  
Was to Horestes trothed, and should Sans fail,  
Have been espoused to him, who at the door  
Of Delphos Templeflew him without blae, 
The death of Pytrhus.   
Staining Apoltos' shrine with Pyrrhus' gore:  
Not how that face for which the whole world wrangled 
The death of Hellen.   
To see it changed with age, herself she strangled.   

104  
Nor how the greeks after their bloody toils,  
Antenor left to inhabit razed Troy,  
And after th'end of their sad Tragic broils,  
All Asia's wealth within their flect enjoy,  
Robbing the Town of all her richest spoils,  
Whose high Clowd-peircing spires the flames destroy,  
nor how Aeneas doth his forces gather,  
And ships with his young son, and aged Father.   

105  
Rigging to soa these two and twenty sail,  
That fetched the fire brand that all Troy inflamed,  
The self-same ships in which the Trojan stale  
The Spartan Queen, 'gainst whom all Greece exclaimed,  
Nor of Queen Dido's love and Tragic bate,  
Nor of Aeneas travels nobly famed:  
Nor how Andromache was Captain led,  
Left to the hot lust of the Conqueror's bed.   

106  
With whom Cassandra was enforced to go  
With Helenus that kend divinest things,  
And all these sad proceedings did fore-show,  
and prophesied to Troy's confedered Kings,  
Nor of King Di●…meds sad overthrow,  
Of Albion's Isle first known, my Muse next sings,  
Her Chariot now I can no further drive,  
Britain from conquered Troy, we next derive.   
Dolopes are a people of Thessaly, in the borders of Phthiolis, out of which province Ulysses made choice of his Guard.  
Pallas whose name we have often used, some take to be the 
Pausa. in Atticis Heredotus in Melpom. Apollonius lib. 4. Arg. nanc.  Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis, and lived in the time of Gyges'. Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoves brain, as we have before remembered.— Palluda quandam 
Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissi●…a patuam  
laverunt Tritonis aquae.  The like many others affirm, as also that when she leapt out of 
slefichorus Lucia●…s.  Ihoves brain, at the said time it reigned a shower of Gold on the Earth. Of her birth many writers differ, some affirm her 
Strabo. lib. 14.  to be the Daughter of ●…riton: others to berather the Daughter of ●…upiter & Thetis: Others of Craunus, differing from 
Apollodor●…s. Athenodor●…●…izantius. zozes Cic. de nature deorum  their opinions, therefore I hold with Cicero, who avers, that there were more of the names. One of the Mother of Apollo, a second borne by Nile. and adored of the Egyptians, a third of the brain of ●…upiter, a fourth of Jupi●…er and Ceriphe, the Daughter of Oceanus, whom the Arcadians call Cerin, and the Inventor of the Chariot. A fifth that was supposed to kill her Father, to perserue her virginity.  
Pallas and Minet●…a were one, she was also by some called 
Callimachus in Hymn. Homer. Simonides Coeus 2. geneal. Isacius. Hor●… I. carnium  T●…iloma. Ihoviss filia gloriosa Tritonia.  
Both Greece and Troy highly honered her, she is said to invent Arms, and to have aided her Father J●…piter in the destruction of, the Tytanoyes, which the poets call Gigantomachia. Of whom it is thus remembered.  
Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue progenitam magno quae destruit urbes. 
Stesicherus.   
And of another thus: 
Sed prius illa fugis fum●…tia soluit equorum 
Calli●….   
Colla lavans alti fluctibus Oceani.  And so much of Pallas or Minctua, to whom the Troyans' dedicated their chief Temple.  
Migdonia is a part of Phrigia, next Troas by the River Rhindacus, of this Country Prince Chorebus, that loved Cassandra, was called Mygdonides.  
The Scaean sbore: Scaea is a gate of Troy, opening to the West, where Laomedon was buried, of that Gate the Sea & shore adjacent, bear the name of Scaea.  
The Names of the 18. Kings slain by Hector, are thus, though somewhat corruptly by an●…ient Writers remembered: K. Archilochus, K. Protesilaus, K. Patroclus, K. Menon, 
Dares. Dictes.  K. Protenor, K. Archimenes, K. Polemon, K. Epistropus, K. Ecedius, K. Doxius, K. Polixenus, K. Phibus, K. Anthiphus, K. Cenutus, K. Polibetus, K. Humerus, K. Fumus, K. Exampitus Achilles slew 7. Kings, K. Cupemus, King Yponeus, K. Plebeius, K. Austerus, K. Cymonius, K. Memnon, K. Neoptolemus, besides Hector, Troilus, and Margarelon, with other of Priam's Bastard Sons.  
Some likewise, contrary to the assertion of Ovid and others, affirm that Paris slew the Emp. Palumides, Ajax and Achilles. Aeneas slew K. Amphimachus, and K. Mereus, the fair Greek whom Homer so much loved. ●…yrrhus the son of Achilles, slew K. Priam, an aged man, Queen Penthesilea, awarlike woman, Polites a young Lad, and Polyxena a beauteous Maid. K. Diomedes slew the Sagittary, K. Antipus, K. Escorius, K. Obstin●…us, and K. Protenor. Many others were slain in the disordered battles, but how, or by whom, it is not particularly registered. Of Ulysses love to Circe Ovid in divers places toucheth it, part whereof I h●…e thus English. (Calypso as they on the sea bank stood, 
2. De Arte Amand.  
Casting her eyes upon the Neighbour flood,  
Desires the acts and bloody deeds to bear,  
Done by th'Odrisean captains sword and spear,  
When holding twixt his fingers a white wand, 
Ulysses & Circo   
What she requests he draws upon the sand,  
Here's Troy (quoth he) (for here the Town is meant)  
Think Simois that, Imagine this my Tent,  
Here Scythian Rhesus Tents are pitched high,  
This way his Horsemen slain, returned I.  
Here Dolon died, when on the sudden ●…oe,  
A climbing Wave the showers doth overthrow,  
And as the drops upon his work doth fall,  
It washed away his Tents, his Troy, and all:  
To whom the Goddesses dares Ulysses trust  
These senseless violent waves that are so cursed,  
And darestthou with these waters be annoyed,  
By whom such great Names are so soon destroyed?  
How could her magic potions Circe please, 
De●… remedio Amoris lib. 1.   
When ●…ise Ulysses Ships float on the Seas,  
All exorcisms the loving Witch doth try,  
To stay the greeks, whilst he away doth fly.  
All Spells and Charms the loving Witch assayed,  
That such hot flames might not her thoughts invade,  
But spite the cunning Hag, and charm her best,  
Ulysses flies, Love scorns to be suppr●…st:  
She that men's shapes could from themselves estrange,  
Had not the power her own desires to change.  
'tis said, that when Ulysses would away  
With such like words she did entreat his stay:  
What I hoped erst, I do not now entreat,  
That you with me would make a lasting seat  
And be my Husband, yet if I my race  
Call but to mind, I might deserve that place.  
Despising me, a worthy Wife you shun,  
A Goddess, and the Daughter of the Sun,  
All that I beg, my humorous Love to feed,  
Is only this: you would not make such speed.  
Stay but a while, it is an east task,  
What less thing can you grant? What less I ask?  
Behold, the deep Sea rageth: Neptune fear,  
Stay till a Calm, and then begin to steer,  
Why shouldst thy fly? Thy fore sheate, and thy Mizzen,  
Why swell they with the Wind? No Troy is risen,  
For thee again to sack, hear are no brals,  
No man thy Mates, and thee to battle calls:  
here true Love rains, here peace is firmly grounded,  
In which myself, and only I am wounded,  
My heart is thine, and shall be thine for ay,  
And all my Land is in thy Kingly sway:  
She speaks, he lancheth, and the self same wind, 
Mm 2   
That fills his sails, blows thence the words and mind.  Of Circe, otherwise called Calisso, he begot Telegons', who 
Zczeshistor. 16. Chil. 5. Hesiodusin Theog. Homerus libr. odiss. Dionysius Milctus.  afterward unawares slew his Father Ulysses. She was the Daughter of the Sun and Perses. Others have imagined her the Daughter of Hecate, or of Aeeta: others to be the Daughter of Asteripes and Hyperion, as Orpheus in Argonantis. 
Aeetae affinis coniunctaque sanguine, solis  
filia quam proprio dixerunt nomine Circen  
Astropey, patuus Hiperiony est aws, illa, etc.  She had by Ulysses these sons, Agrius & Latinus: Telegons' 
Hesiodus in Theog onea. Lycophron.  and Auson, of whom Ausonia (alias Italia) bears the Name, with Casiphon, with Marsius, of whom the Marsiaus took Name, and Rhomanus: Her tomb was in one of the Pharmacusan Islands, not far from Salamine.  
Diomedes, the manner of whose death we have not touched 
Strabo lib. 9 Tymaus siculus  in our History, was killed by Danaus, whose Country he had before freed, and in the same slain a huge Dragon, who threw his body with all the statues that were reared to his honour (Ingratefully) into the sea where they perished.  
Of Clytaemnestra's Adultery Ovid saith: 
De arte Amandi. 2. De remedio Amoris. I.  
Whilst Agamemnon lived with one contented,  
His Wife lived chaste, and neither it repented.  
His secret blows her heart did so provoke,  
Wanting the Sword, she with the Scabbard stroke:  
She hears of Criseis, and the many jars  
About Lyrnesis, to increase the wars,  
And therefore mere revenge the Lady Charms,  
To take Thyestes' in her amorous Arms.  And in another place; 
Why could not his blind lusts Aegistus bridle?  
will you needs know, th' Adulterer was still Idle,  
When others laboured Islion to annoy,  
And lay strong siege about the walls of Troy,  
Abroad he warred not; nor at home he lawed,  
His thoughts no naval office could applaud:  
what he could do he did, (for so it proved)  
Lest he should nothing do, he therefore loved,  
So is this love begot, so is he bred,  
So cherished, so at length be gathers head,   
The end of the 15. Canto.   

Argumentum  
Having the sight of our wished harbour gained,  
The years from Brute to Christ: what famous Kings  
Governed in Britan, & how long they reigned,  
From Christ to Norman William, and what things  
Of specill note were in their da●…es contained,  
In a brief Chronicle, our Muse next sings:  
Much matter in few words: swift runs our Glass,  
We many Ages in one instant pass.  
ARG. 2.  
A Genealogy exactly found,  
From the first man, to Norman William crowned.  
CANTO. 16.  

1  
ADam got Seth: Seth, Enos: Enos, Cain,  
Cain, got Melaliel: jareth next begun,  
From jareth Enoch, that to Heaven was ta'en,  
He got Methusalem, whose line doth run  
To Lamech: of him Noah, and from Noah came  
Ihapheth: then Cichem, who was japheths' Son:  
Cichem got Cipre: Cipre, Crete, and so  
Crete, Saturn: from whose branch great Ihove doth grow.   

2  
Dardanus is immediate Heir from Ihove, 
Dardanus Son to Jupiter and Electra.   
And by Candame, got Erichthonius,  
Erichthon Tros: Tros Ilium: next him strove  
Laomedon, and he got Priamus,  
And when the greeks from Troy Aeneas drove,  
He by Creusa had Askanius:  
Who after (Carthaginean Dido passed)  
Up through the River Tiber ●…ayles at last.   

3  
At Hostiaes' Port (the place the God's behight)  
Aeneas Landes: evander him receives  
The Latins King, whose Daughter at first sight  
Aeneas loves, and for her sake, bercaves  
The Tuskayne King of life in single fight, 
Turnus' King of Tuskaine   
Turnus being dead, the fair Lavinia leaves  
Her virgin vows, by whom the Trojan Prince  
Silvius begot: and Silvius, Brutus since.   

4  
Brutus' Mother in her painful throws deceased,  
(H●…) his glancing Shaft his Father slew,  
For which with melancholy griefs infest  
From Italy, the Prince himself withdrew,  
Ten thousand voluntary men unpressed,  
Consort him, strange adventures to pursue:  
Whom Corineus with many Troyans' more  
Mcetcs, and assists, new Countries to explore.   

5  
Brute (Grecian Pandras' who denied him way,  
And through his spacious Kingdom passage free)  
O'ercomes in battle, but denies to stay  
Till he more Coasts and various Climates see,  
Fair Innogen, a Virgin fresh as May, 
Innogen Daughter to Pandras.   
He marrieth, and with Pandras doth agree,  
For her rich Dower to have a royal fleet,  
Well furnished for his Train: with all things meet.   

6  
He past Alcides' Pillars, even to Guall,  
Landing in Guien, Guffor the proud King  
Denies prince Brute to hunt, but (maugre all)  
He chased his Deer, and made his Bucks to spring,  
Thence, Albion he descries, like a white wall  
Washed with the sea, and longs his fleet to bring  
To a safe Harbour, where he might survey,  
The long sought Isle where he his boves must lay.   

7  
When Ayoth judged Israel, in the year 
Hugh Genesis and Harding.   
Threescore and twelve, of his command and state,  
Egyptian Dana●… daughters lauded here  
After long search, who for they had of late,  
Their nine and forty husbands by th'austere  
Injunction of their Sire, brought to sad Fate: 
Albion of Albania the eldest Sister.   
Were in a Mastless ship to exile thrown,  
And landinging here, called this Isle Albion.   

8  
Some say of these Viragoes spirits begot  
Giants, that were of huge and monstrous size, 
The year of the world above the line./ The year before ●…hri: under the line.   
Who when they grew to stature, spared not  
Asfinity, for Son with Mother lies,  
Brother with Sister: so the learned Scot  
Marian, doth in his Chronicles comprise:  
And of these lustful Ladies, in small while,  
Twelve thousand Giants peopled this large I'll.   

9  
PRince Brute with Corineus doth Albion enter, 
Brute.   
At Totnes, thirty monstrous Giants kills,  
And after much and dangerous adventure, 
2855./ 1108.   
Builds London (called new Troy:) his Throne he fills  
Twenty four years, then pays his last debenter  
To Nature; Britain he to Locrine wills:  
Scotland to Albanact, Wales, Camber sways, 
2878./ 1085.   
Israel was judged by Samuel in their days.   

2  
Locrine reigned twenty years, his wife him slew, 
Locrine.   
Because he Sabrine loved, and her forsook, 
2889./ 1074.   
Mother and Child bold Guendolina threw  
Into the Severne streams, who there name took  
From Sabrine. In his days young David grew, 
2889./ 1704.   
And with a Sling the great Goliath struck:  
At Locrine's death, stern Guendoline begun, 
Guendoline.   
Her husband she succeeds; and her, her Son.   

3  
Madan ruled forty years, and in his days 
Madan.   
Was beauteous Absolom by joab slain, 
2916./ 1047.   
Memprisius twenty years the Sceptre sways, 
Me●…prisius.   
Procuring first his Brother Manlius bane 
2954./ 1009.   
Whom Madan loved, and had intent to raise:  
In Lust and riot he consumed his reign,  
For which just heavens their righteous vengeance powered,  
Memprisius hunting was by Wolves devoured.   

4  
Him his son Ebranke in the Throne succeeds, 
Ebranke.   
Who governs threescore happy Summers thorough, 
2972./ 991.   
Famous for many charitable deeds,  
He builded York, Dunbar, and Edenborowe, 
Brute Green   
Next him Brute Greenshield donned th'imperial weeds,  
After twelve happy years his subjects sorrow 
3033./ 930.   
For his untimely Fate, and in his reign,  
B'elias' prayer the Priests of Ball were slain. 
3034./ 929.    

5  
L'Eill, Brutus' son, reigned five and twenty years 
Leill. 3046/917.   
And Carlisle built, then did his seat resign  
To young Lud Hurdibras, loved of his Peers, 
Lud Hurdibras.   
Who governed Britain's Sceptre twenty nine,  
He Winchester and Canterbury rears,  
With Shaftsbury, then seeks a Throne divine: 
3071/892.   
Whose Obits were in Britain long bemoaned, 
3097/896   
The prophet Zachary in his days was stoned.   

6  
BLadud, Luds son reigned next, and Bath erected, 
Bladud.   
A Sorcerer, and did attempt to fly,  
And having twenty year the Realm protected,  
He broke his neck down from a Steeple high, 
3109./ 854.   
Amos and Amazia were directed  
In those days by the spirit of prophesy. 
Leir.   
Leir next him, in whose time (as Books say) 
3123/840.   
jonas three days in the Whale's belly lay.   

7  
Leir built Leicester, forty years was Crowned,  
Famous in his three Daughters and their Love,  
The youngest most suspected, faithful found,  
And they that promised most, least thankful prove,  
Kindest Cordeilla that did most abound 
Cordeilla.   
In filial zeal next Leir sits above: 
1358./ 805.   
Morgan and Cunedadgius two false Peers, 
Morgan. Cunedadgius   
Depose their Aunt after five unhappy years.   

8  
They jointly reign, till Cunedadgius slew  
His Brother Morgan in Glamorgan-sheere, 
3162./ 801.   
(From whom the Title of that Country grew)  
And after governed three and thirty year,  
Now Naum preached: Rivallo doth pursue 
Rivallo.   
The Kingdom next, a Prince that had no peer:  
In his days Prophesied, Esay, Micheas, 
3196./ 767.   
The Prophet's Adad, Amos, and Oseas.   

9  
Forty six years he governed: In his reign  
Rome was first built, wise Sibell gave forth Saws,  
King Ezechy by God healed of hispaine,  
Had fifteen years life promised: for some cause  
The Sun full ten Degrees, turned back again:  
Thales Milesius to the greeks gave Laws:  
In Britain it rained blood, Rivallo waned, 
Gurgustius.   
And eight and thirty years Gurgustius reigned. 
3242./ 721.    

10  
Now joel taughts, his Iliads Homer wrote, 
3252/711.   
And Glaucus Chius soldered first invented,  
Sicillius next Gurgustius takes the state, 
Sisillus.   
Forty nine years he governs well contented, 
3279./ 084.   
Amon in juda rained: Zaleucus sat  
judge on his sons eye: jeremy lamented  
For the sad Tragedy of King josias, 
3299/668.   
Now flourish Olda, Baruch, Sophonius.   

11  
Now Phalleris in Agrigentine swayed, 
3311./ 652.   
And thrust Perils in his brazen Bull,  
To taste the torment he for others made,  
jago next Sisillius makes up full 
jago.   
Twenty five years, then in his Tomb was laid,  
Nabuchadnezar sought to disannul 
3327./ 636   
The Hebrew Laws. susannaes fame increased,  
By th'elder wronged, by daniel's doom released.   

12  
Fifty four years Kinimachus was known 
3351./ 612.   
After ●…ago in the British Chair, 
Kinimachus   
Arion with his Harp was o're-Boord thrown,  
Whom through the Seas the piteous Dolphin bare:  
Bell was called God, and fore him ●…rumpets blown,  
And the three Children in the robes they ware 
3369./ 594.   
Cast in the fiery Furnace, now I guess,  
Lived Solon: Sappho the sweet Po●…tesse.   

13  
Annaximander th' Horoscope first made, 
Gorbodug.   
Aesop in Birds and Beasts, first figured men:  
Next King Kinimachus, Gorbodug swayed 
3404/559.   
The British Sceptre: In the lions den  
Daniel was cast. Now Cyrus did invade 
3417./ 546.   
Croesus of Lydia, 'twas the season when  
Zacharias, Aggeus, Malack Prophesied, 
3430./ 533.   
And the chaste Lucrece by her own hand died.   

14  
Next Gorbodug, Ferrex and Porrex reigned, 
Forrex   
After five years, bold Porrex Ferrex slew.  
For which their Mother Porrex much disdained, 
Porrex   
And in his blood did her black hands embrew, 
3467./ 496.   
After their death sedition was maintained  
Full one and fifty years, whilst no man knew  
Th'immediate heir, and whilst these wars were nourished 
3475./ 488   
Darius, Xerxes, and Queen Hestor flourished.   

15  
Th' Athenian Sophocles, a Tragic Poet,  
Plato, Cratinus, Aristarchus, were 
3513./ 450,   
All Comic Writers, as their works best show it:  
Empedocles of Athens, did acquiere  
Musics full ground, and made the world to know it,  
Parmenides made Lodgicke first appear:  
Which in Mount Cancasus he first devised, 
3522./ 441,   
Esdras the Scribe the Scriptures now comprised.   

16  
MVlmutius Dunwallo, son and heir  
To Cloten's Duke of Corweyle's next instated, 
Mulmutius.   
He did the four broad Highways first repair,  
First Crowned: Paul's Church first built and consecrated,  
And after forty years from Britain's Chair  
To a new Throne in hea●… he was translated, 
3550./ 413.   
Now Socrates th' Athenian hea●… charms,  
Demosthenes, famous for Arts and Arms.   

17  
BEline and Bren the British Crown divide, 
Beline. Bren.   
Being by their Mother (after wars) atoned,  
Whilst Bren in foreign Arms his valour tried,  
Beline built Belins-gate: all Denmark groaned  
Beneath his yoke, Bren (to the Galls allied,) 
3563./ 400.   
Sacked Rome, burnt Delphos, and was after stoned,  
With Hail and Thunderstroke, much blood was spilled,  
In Italy ten stately Towns he built.   

18  
Twenty six years hetwixt them they supply 
3568./ 395.   
The Crown and Sceptet: Dionysius reigned  
In Sicily, Dam●…n and Pythias try  
Their mutual friendship. Xenoph●…n maintained  
His school in Athens, Plat●… prized higher  
His Academy reared: Now was ordained 
3586./ 377.   
For King Mansolus, by the Carian Qneene,  
A stately Tomb ranked 'mongst the wonders nine.   

19  
GVrguintus, Belin's son, nin●…teene years made 
Gurguintus.   
The Britons homagers, by even Tradition, 
3588/375.   
Aristotle lived, whose Fame shall never fade,  
Son to Nichomachus, a great Physician, 
3595./ 368.   
Now Macedonian Philip 'gan t'invade  
His neighbour-Kings in many an expedition, 
3604/359.   
The Noble Marcus Curtius for Rome's sake,  
Armed at all points, leapt in the Curtain Lake.   

20  
GVintheline six and twenty years made good 
Guintheline.   
His right in Britain, Mercia his fair wife 
3607/356.   
De●…isde the Mercian Laws: by Tibur flood  
The clouds rained stones: after Darius' strife, 
3628./ 311.   
Which ended in eff●…sion of much blood, 
Cecilius. Kimar.   
By poison Alexander lost his life:  
Next Guintheline, seven years Cecilius reigned,  
Next him three years Kimar the state maintained. 
3633./ 330.    

21  
Nine years Elanius reigned, Morindus eight, 
Elanius. Morindus.   
Devoured of a Sea-monster: In their days  
Onias son of Taddus, reached the height 
3,652./ 311.   
Of the Priest's Office: Gorbomannus sways 
Gorbomanus 3660.   
Eleven full years, a Prince assisting right, 
3660./ 303.   
(Simon Onyas son), the Habrewes raise 
Archigall.   
To the Priesthood, next just Gorboman,  
Fierce Archigall to tyrannize began. 
3671./ 292.    

22  
After five years deposed, his second Brother  
Succeeded in the style of Elidure, 
Elidure   
A virtuous Prince, there sat not such another  
In Britain's Chair, in life severe and pure;  
Five years himself did Archigallo smother, 
3676./ 287   
And his deposing patiently endure:  
At length by Elidurus met and known, 
Archigallo.   
To Archigallo. he resigns his Throne. 
3681./ 282.    

23  
Ten years the twice-crowned Archigallo now,  
Governs the State in Honour, and then dying,  
To Elidure again the Britain's bow, 
Elidure.   
After two years his Brothers him defying,  
Keep him in bonds: the Britain Peers allow, 
3691./ 272.   
Their double rule, nine years their Conquesttrying: 
Vigenius. Peridure.   
Vigenius and Peridure are past, 
3693./ 270.   
And Elidure the third time Crowned at last, 
Elidure.    

24  
Reigning four years. In this forepast state  
Lived Epire pyrrh●…s, and Lysimachus, 
3702./ 261.   
The Highpriest Eleasar choosed oflate,  
Receives th'Egyptian league: Now breath Seleucus  
And Ptolemy; now by the Roman Senate  
Silver was coined first, Theos-Antiochus 
3684./ 279.   
In Syria reigned, blood sprang out of a Well,  
And from the Clouds Milk in abundance fell.   

23  
MAnasses lived high Priest among the jews, 
3705./ 258.   
Ten years ruled Gorboman, Morgan 〈◊〉, 
Gorboman. Morgan. Emerianus.   
Emerianus next to him, pursues  
The Diadem: a Tyrant full of spleen,  
After seven years deposed: Inall ensues, 
3736./ 227.   
A temperate Prince, who twenty years was seen  
In Britain's Throne: Amilchar Carthage swayed,  
Illyrian Teuca ●…id proud Rome invade. 
3756./ 207.    

26  
RImo reigned sixteen years, bold Hannibal 
Rimo.   
And Scipio fought, Wise Cato lived in Rome:  
Next Rimo King Geruntius they install, 
Geruntius   
Him after twenty years his Lords intoome,  
The losty Spaniards from Rome's Empire fall,  
And after stand to Fuluius Flaccus doom: 
3771/192   
Ten years Catellus reigned: the jews were foiled, 
Catellus   
And by Antiochus God's Temple spoiled. 
3790./ 173.    

27  
The Mother and her seven sons Martyred were, 
3795./ 168.   
The worthy judas Machabeus fought 
Coill.   
God's battles, Coill reigned twenty year, 
3800./ 263.   
Great Carthage was destroyed, and Corinth brought  
To fall by fire: The Doctrines first appear 
3820/140.   
The Pharisei and Sadducei taught:  
Five years just Porrex, drunken Cherimus 
Porrex. Cherimus Fulgen. Eldred Androgeus Dedantius Detonnus   
One, Fulgentio two, one Eldred, one Androgeus.   

28  
Dendantius five years, two Detonnus held  
The sovereignty, then lest this life for new,  
Nature a Monstrous birth in Rome compelled,  
Having four hands, four feet: Corn grew  
In Bonony on Trees, whose taste excelled, 
3843./ 120.   
The Parthian Arsaces, Demetrius slew. 
3835./ 128.   
Great Scipio Affricanus ends his life,  
By false Sempronia his disloyal wife. 
3848./ 115.    

29  
Young Vrianus three, King Eliud five, 
Vrianus Eliud. M●…rianus Bladunus Capenas Ouinius Sisilus. Bladgabred.   
Two Meria●…ns, and Bladunus twain,  
Capen●…s three, Ouinius doth next strive,  
And his imperial state two years maintain,  
Two Silius, Bledgabredus ●…id survive  
Full twenty years in his auspicious reign  
Hircan●…s governed in the highpriests stead,  
Marius ●…mpht o'er jugurth, Captiveled. 
3857/109    

30  
Archemachus reigned two, Eldotus four, 
3869./ 94   
Two Rodianus, three Redargius, 
Archemac. Eldotus. Rodianus Redargius Samillus Penesillus Pyrrhus Caporus Divellus He●….   
Samillius two: the Britain's next adore,  
King penesellus three, two princely pirrhus,  
And after him Caporus two, no more,  
Now grew the waters twixt Scylla and Marius:  
Divellus four, Helyas, Ely named,  
Governed ten months, when death his body claimed. 
3893./ 70.    

31  
Lord, Helyes son, his happy rule began,  
named Troynovant, Luds-towne, Ludgate erected, 
Lud   
Eleau●…n years reigned, then to Cassibelan 
3894./ 69   
Left his two infant sons to be protected, 
●…belan   
Who till the Princes grew to state of man,  
By all the British Peers was King elected:  
Reigned nineteen years, in his days twice repelled 
3911/52   
The Roman Caesar, the bold Britons quelled. 
Caesar.    

32  
Nennius won Caesar's sword, and had it brought  
To be hanged o'er his hearse: Pompey the great  
With julius Caesar in Pharsalia fought, 
3916/47   
julius vsu●…pes in Rome's Imperial seat,  
Was stabbed with Bodkins, he that never fought,  
But conq●…'d, in all Martial acts complete:  
Now flourished Cicero with praise Divine,  
Hermius and seditious Catiline. 
3919/44    

33  
And not the least grace to Triumphant Rome,  
The rare Comadian Roscius, Next in row  
Of British Kings, must young Tenancius come, 
3921/42   
Twenty three years he reigned, and then did owe 
Tenancius   
No more to nature, than th'adopted son  
Of Caesar, great Augustus: now doth grow  
Rome's Monarchy: Mark Anthony through pride 
3934/29   
Rebelled, by Asps great Cleopatra died.   

34  
Virgil and Horace flourished: In these days  
jesus Sabetes son was consecrated  
High Priest: King Herod jewries' Sceptre sways,  
A general peace is through the world debated,  
The Britons next, King Cimbelinus raise, 
3944./ 19   
And five and thirty years he is instated: 
Cymbeline.   
And now the Saviour of the world was borne,  
Th'eternal King Crowned with a wreath of Thorn. 
The year of the worldbove the line./ The year after Christ under the line.    

35  
Hortensius, Lyvy, Sallust, Ovid, all 
3962./ 1.   
Were Fam'de in Rome, valiant Guiderius next,  
The Britons as their sovereign Liege install,  
Twenty eight years he governs, much perplexed 
3978./ 17   
With Roman war: now chanced Sejanus fall. 
Guiderius.   
Under Tiberius, now as saith the text: 
3985/24.   
john Baptist preached, and by King Herod died, 
3994./ 33.   
pilate was judge, and Christ was Crucifide.   

36  
Now Arviragus reigns, and takes to wife 
4006/45   
Th'emperor Clodius daughter: I●…wries King 
Arviragus.   
Was eat with worms: Grave Seneck breathed this life,  
And Simon Magus did his Money bring  
To buy the Holy-ghost, his Fame was rife  
Amongst the Romans: now did Nero sing  
Upon a hill Troy's burning to his Lyre,  
Having before set stately Rome a fire.   

37  
Saint Mark in Alexandria martyred was,  
At ' jerusalem james for the Gospel died,  
Paul suffered too, whose boldness did surpass, 
4017/56.   
Peter likewise in Rome was Crucified, 
4019./ 58.   
Queen Voada a gallant British Lass,  
Marched with five thousand Ladies by her side,  
and in one battle (if report be true,) 
4029/68   
Full fourscore thousand valiant Romans slew. 
4024./ 73.    

38  
Next Arviragus, Briton Marius guided, 
Marius'   
Now was the Temple of the highest defaced,  
His City sacked, and those that Christ derided, 
4024/73   
Burnt, starved, or slain, jerusalem quite razed,  
josephus lived, Domitian Rome divided,  
and after Tytus in the Throne was placed: 
4070/108   
Ignatius life in Rome 'mongst Lions vanished,  
Saint john whom Christ loved, was to Pathmos banished.   

93  
In Rome now lived Cornelius Tacitus,  
Suetonius, younger Pliny, juvenal,  
Valerius Flaccus, and Patavius,  
and the Lascivious Poet Martial,  
and under trajan: Aulus Gellius,  
Plutarch and Apuleius: now the wall  
From Tyne to the Scotch Sea was made for strength,  
Being one hundred and twelve miles in length.   

48  
Coylus built Colchester: now justine wrote, 
4087/126   
and with his Books and Life Christ's Faith defended, 
Coyll.   
Egyptian Ptolomee the Stars did note, 
4141./ 180.   
and Mathematics found. Lucius ascended  
The State next coil, who first set afloat  
Baptizme in England, by the Church commended 
Lucius.   
For our first Christian King: he mounts the Spheres,  
and without King, leaves Briton fifteen years.   

49  
Severus th'Emperor did five years supply 
4169./ 208.   
The British Throne, then of the Gout he died 
Severus.   
At York, to Bassianus his ally, 
4174./ 213.   
Leaving both Rome and Britain's Islle to guide  
Six years this Caracalla lifted high, 
Caracalla.   
His Crowned state in Tyranny and pride: 
4179./ 218.   
Tertullian now and Origen were known, 
Carassus.   
Carassus next assumes the British Throne, 
4187./ 226.    

50  
Governed eight years, then by Alectus died, 
Alectus. Asclipiodale   
After three years bold Asclepiodale,  
Alectus slew, in height of all his pride,  
And Roman Wallus, by whose timeless fall  
Walbrooke took name. He thirty years supplied 
4193./ 232.   
The kingdom, then exchanged his Mortal state,  
Artabanus great Artaxerxus slew,  
S. Albon martyred, left this life for new. 
4223/262.    

51  
COill killed Asclepiodale, and reigned 
Coill.   
Twenty seven years: Constantius succeeds 
4250/289.   
By marraying British Helen, having gained 
Constantius.   
The Roman Diadem: His virtuous deeds  
The favour of the multitude attained 
4271./ 310.   
Next: Constantine (surnamed the great,) who reads 
Constantine   
The Bible first in Briton: Arrius preached, 
4284./ 325   
And th'Arrian errors through the whole world teached   

52  
Now at jerusalem Queen Helen found  
The very Cross whereon our Saviour died, 
4290./ 329.   
And the three nails his feet and hands did wound, 
octavius   
Octavius next fifty four years supplied  
The Diadem, and then was laid in ground,  
Three hundred eighteen Bishops now applied  
The Nycene Counsel, now did Ambrose reed,  
And Athanasius that set down the Creed.   

53  
With learned Basill, and about their days  
julian-apostat lived: the next ad●…anced 
4344./ 383.   
Was Maximus, whom the bold Britain's raise,  
To Ursula a piteous Fortune ehanced,  
With eleven thousand Maids passing the Seas 
Maximus   
To Britain less, their lives were all intranced:  
S. jerom flourished, writing Books Divine, 
4388./ 387.   
So did in Hyppone learned Augustine.   

54  
GRatian succeeds, whom the bold Britain's slew 
4352./ 391.   
After four years, in whose unhappy ●…aigne 
Gratian   
Ambrose the Millein Bishop famous grew,  
And Chrisostom did the true faith maintain  
In Constantinople, a Doctrine new  
Th'heretic Pell●…ges did in Carthage fain,  
Where all his errors to his pride imputed,  
Were by two hundred and seven Clerks confuted. 
4380/419    

55  
Algelmond reigned first King of ●…ombardy,  
at Millen th'Emperor Theod●… died,  
Alaricus sacked Rome. The Monarchy 
4381/422.   
and Throne of France first ●…mond supplied,  
The Scots and Picts unpeople Britain,  
But Constantine the Briton's valiant guide, 
4394./ 443.   
Who came from Britain le●…e, the Throne asc●…nds, 
Constantine   
and rules ten years, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rome's tribute ends.   

59  
COnstans a Fool, the son of Constantine, 
4404./ 443.   
Was from a Monk by Vortiger made King, 
Constans.   
And having one year governed, did resign 
4409./ 448.   
To the Duke Vortiger, who governing 
Vortiger.   
Eighteen whole years, two Lords of Saxon line,  
H●…ngest and Horseus called, an army bring  
To Land in Britain, where not long they tarried,  
Till Vortiger Prince Hengists' daughter married.   

57  
For which the Britons' him deposed, electing  
Young Vortimer his son to sway the state, 
Vortimer.   
He the allyans of those Lords rejecting, 
4426./ 465.   
Whom Vortiger his Father raised so late,  
Governed six years, the land in peace protecting,  
Whom his fair Stepdame brought to timeless Fate,  
By cursed poison, which no sooner chanced, 
4432./ 471.   
But Vortiger was once again advanced. 
Vortiger.    

58  
In these dissentious days Gensericus  
The Vandal King took Cartage. Attila 
4402./ 441   
King of the Huns, even to Thermopilus  
Overcame all Greece, Illyria, Thracia,  
Against whom bravely fought Meroneus,  
The most renowned King of Gallia, 
4411./ 450.   
named Gallia, France, and till King Pepius time,  
All the French Kings descended of his line.   

59  
Venice was now first founded and begun, 
4417/456   
Of such poor people, as to shun the rage  
Of Tyrant Attila the famous Hun,  
From Aquilea fled: whose pride to assuage,  
The Roman Aetius a brave battle won,  
Slew eighteen thousand Huns (in his young age) 
4418./ 457.   
Aetius envied for raising Rome's Dominion,  
Was murdered by his Master Valentinian.   

60  
Which Emperor at Thrasila was slain  
By one of Etius soldiers, Vortiger  
Of Britain's awful seat, possessed again,  
The Saxons with the British Peers confer,  
Where at a Watchword given by Hengists' train, 
4432./ 471.   
Four hundred British Barons murdered were; 
Hengist.   
The King surprised, and being in prison penned,  
Gave to them Norfolk, Suffolk, Sussex, Kent.   

61  
And of this Hengist Briton changed the name,  
Was cleaped-Hengists Land; since England called,  
Next Constantine's two younger Sons proclaim  
Their rights in England, being nought paid  
at Hengists' might, stirred by their Father's Fame, 
4442/482.   
Ambros and Uter seek to be installed: 
Aurelius Ambros.   
They land at Totnes, Vortiger they burn,  
Kill Hengist too, for whom the Saxons mourn.   

62  
Now Merline Aurelius, Aurelius Ambres reigned  
Thirty three years, made stonehenge, which till now  
Hath on the plain of Salisbury remained,  
He dead, the Britain's to his Brother's vow  
Like homage, and in State have entertained  
Uter Pendragon, to whose throne they bow 
4461/500.   
Sixteen whole years: He dotes on Cornwayles wife, 
Uter Pendragon.   
and for her love bereaves her Husband's life.   

63  
Of her he Arthur got: In France Clodovens 
4478./ 517.   
Governed as King, the first that was Baptized  
In Italy: great Theodoricus 
Arthur.   
King of the Astrogothes, who enterprised  
'Gainst Odeacer battle, bold Honoricus  
Governed in Africa, who so much despised  
True Faith, that he for th' Arrians in one hour,  
By shops exiled, three hundred thirty four.   

63  
Arthur the worthy, next the State ascended,  
Fought twelve set battles, and the order made  
Of the Round Table, whose renown extended  
Through all the world, whilst Arthur doth invade  
Foreign Dominious, and Christ's Faith descended, 
4504./ 533.   
Mordred at home, his Crown ' and Queen betrayed: 
Mordred.   
Twixt whom, at Arthur's back return again,  
War was commenced, in which both Kings were slain.   

65  
Next Arthur, Constantine, Duke Cador's Son, 
4504/543   
After his Uncle six and twenty years 
Constantine.   
Had governed England, his estate begun,  
Slew Mordred Sons in fight, with Saxon Peers,  
That aided them in batta●…le, these wars done  
After four Summers, he ascends the Spheres: 
4482/521.   
justine a Swineherd, by ambition fired,  
By crafty means th'imperial Seat aspyerd.   

66  
Now lived in Italy the famous Dame 
4488/527   
Analasiantha, with Athalarius  
Her Son, by whom her Sovereignty first came,  
She could both Greek and Latin well discuss,  
Whose reverence many Histories proclaim,  
Daughter to th'Emperor Theodoricus:  
justinian, the Gracian Empire sways,  
The Persians to their State Cosroe raise.   

67  
justinian in his Captains much renowned, 
4505/545   
Narses the Eunuch, a right 〈◊〉 Knight,  
And Bellisarius, whose name was crowned  
Through all the world: Twice Carthage won in fight,  
Twice rescued Rome: his fame in Persia swooned,  
Thrace, Greece, th'afric G●…aths, he put to flight:  
For much more service th'Emperor from his head,  
Tore out his eyes, he forced to beg his bread,   

68  
Aurelius Conanus slew in field, 
4507./ 546.   
Constantine, Arthur's Nephew, three years suade, 
Aurelius Conanus.   
Then did his due to death and nature yield, 
4509./ 548.   
And Vortigore his Son is Sovereign made,  
Who did but four years Britain's 〈◊〉 wield, 
Vortigorus.   
When Malgo did the 〈◊〉 invade, 
4513./ 542.   
Who slew his first Wife, her chaste Bed for sook, 
Malgo.   
And to his Bride, his Brother's Daughter took.   

69  
King Totylus sacked Rome the second time,  
What in the first he spoiled, he now repaired, 
4539./ 578.   
Altinus king of Lumbards', full with Wine,  
Calls for a Mazer (which he might have spared)  
Of his wives Father's skull, for which in fine,  
She loathed her Husband, and yet further dared:  
Unto his loyal Bed she proved untrue  
With Helme-child, who after Albine slew.   

70  
CAreticus by help of Ireland's King, 
4577./ 586.   
Caldoro Gurmond, Briton Malgo did expel, 
Careticus. Ethelfrid.   
Whom after three years Ethelfrid did bring  
To ruin, and in battle prospered well,  
About this time Sybert th'East Saxon King,  
Erected Westminster: Ethelfrid fell, 
4574./ 613.   
And Cadwan, Duke of North-wales, him defeated, 
Cadwan.   
And two and twenty years in peace was seated.   

71  
Queen Tredegunde of France in the mean season, 
4549./ 588.   
Lawdry the Earl of Soysons dearly loved,  
And for his ●…ake destroyed the King by Treason,  
'Gainst Gregory, (surnamed the great) was moved  
By ●…ohn the Patr●…arch (against all reason)  
The Church's Primacy which he improved, 
4586/625.   
Arabian Mahomet his Alkeron made,  
French Brunchild lived, who had Princes ten betrayed.   

72  
CAdwallin, Cadwans Son next Bittan guided, 
4596/335.   
Benet the Monk, Painting and Glazing found, 
Cadwallin.   
The Saracens by Mahomet provided,  
won Persia, where Ormisda long sat crowned,  
And in short space having their powers di●…ided,  
Conquered all Egypt with the Climates round:  
Damascus likewise was subdued by them,  
So was rich Antioch and Jerusalem.   

73  
Three years Cadwallader (esteemed the last 
4644./ 683.   
Of Briton Princes) governed: and he dead, 
Cadwallader   
The Kingdom wholly to Westsaxons past, 
4684/723.   
Of whom King Ive first impald his head, 
Ive reigned 37 years. Ethelard.   
And next him Ethelard, whose reign was graced  
By reverent Beda, of whose works we read:  
Of Clearkly Books on several Subjects styled,  
Thre●…ore and fifteen Volumes well compiled. 
4685/724    

74  
Next Ethelard, reigned Cuthred, whom succeeds 
4690/729.   
Sigebert, and he not one full year did reign, 
Cuthred.   
But was deposed for many tyrannous deeds, 
4706./ 745.   
And after busily by a Swineherd slain, 
Sigebert.   
Kinulphus to the Kingdom next proceeds,  
Who after by a man of Sigeberts' train 
4709/748.   
Was murdered in the night, as he should pass 
Kinulphus.   
Unto his Mistress, a brave British Lass.   

75  
The Saracens pierce Europe, Rhodes they wasted, 
4702/749   
The Firmament two days appears to burn,  
The Emperor Constantine his Army hasted  
The Saracens by arms to overturn,  
Where thirty thousand Pagans of death tasted,  
When Constantine expites, the Christians mourn:  
His Throne and State justinian next maintained,  
And from the Turks, Africa and Libya gained.   

76  
The next Westsaxon King was Brithricus, 
4739/778   
Who eighteen years after Kinulphus fall 
Brithricus.   
Reigned King, came from the blooud of Cerdicus,  
And quelled the Danes in many a bloody brawl,  
Wived Ethelburgh, by whom, as Books discuss  
He poisoned was: yet whilst he governed all  
S. Albon, Winchcomb Abbeys were both built,  
Blood rained, which seemed like Crosses where 'twas spilled.   

77  
Egbert the Sexon, thirty seven supplied 
4756/795   
The Sovereignty, now reigned Prench Charles the great, 
Egbert.   
eighteen whole days the Sun his light denied,  
Hyren the Empress from th'imperial Seat  
Her young Son Constantine deposed through p●…de,  
And after did him cruelly entreat:  
She caused his eyes be torn out of his head,  
And four years after governed in his stead.   

78  
King Ethelwolfe, the forenamed Egbert's Son, 
4793/832   
As Chroniclers affirm, Oxford erected, 
Ethelwolf.   
a Priest at first, in Orders he begun,  
Till after marrying, he the State affected,  
The Warlike Danes his Kingdom overron, 
4804./ 843.   
But are expled: Sergius is Pope elected: 
Os Porci 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Whose name Os Porcy seemed so vile, that they  
Changed it, and from him all Popes to this day.   

79  
Four Sons each other in the State succeeds 
4816./ 845.   
King Ethelwald, who governed not a year 
Ethelwald.   
When Ethelbert his Brother donned the Weeds 
4817./ 856.   
Imperial, and next him doth appear 
Ethelbert.   
The third Son Etheldred, (whose body bleeds 
4824./ 863.   
By the bold Danes) who after slaughtered were 
Etheldred.   
By the fourth Son: at Brixium as Books tell,  
Three days together blood in thick showers fell.   

80  
Young Alured from Ethelwolfe the last, 
4833/872,   
Twenty nine years six months, the Sceptre bore, 
Alured.   
Hunger and Hubba quite through Scotland passed,  
Bells were first used in Greece (not known before) 
4862/901   
In six set battles, Alured disgraced 
Edward.   
The warlike Danes, then died: The Peers adore  
Edward his elder Son, who nobly bears  
The British Sceptre four and twenty years.   

81  
Nine Popes in less than nine years were installed,  
Adelwald, Edward's Brother, twice rebelling  
Was by the Elders Prowess twice paid,  
And after slain, the Huns and Hungars quelling  
All Europe, were much feared: a Princess called 
4872/911.   
Elflede, King Edward's Sister much excelling:  
after the throws in her first Childbirth tried,  
For evermore her Husband's Bed denied.   

82  
And proving arms, by them she honour sought,  
She tamed the Welshmen, and the Danes disgraced, 
4886/925   
Next Edward Adelstane the battles fought, 
Adelstane.   
Of the bold English, and the Castles razed  
(as the proud Danes reared) and to ruin brought  
The Sarafins even from Hetruria chased: 
4896/915   
Th' Italian Guards: they G●…n overthrow,  
Where blood three days out of a Well did flow.   

83  
Now Gui of Warwick, Danish Colebrand slew,  
And England of all Tribute quite released,  
King Edmond did the Sovereignty pursue, 
4901/940   
When Adelstane at Malmsbury deceased, 
Edmond.   
Slain after five years: by succession true  
Eldred his Brother reigns, whose pomp increased: 
4907/949   
edmond's two Sons being young, the Peers complain, 
Eldred.   
and think their Uncle of more worth to reign.   

84  
France, Tuskaine, Germany, the Hungars waste, 
4915/954   
Hugh King of Italy, by Fire destroys  
The navy of the Saracens, then past  
To Traxinetum, Edwin next enjoys 
4916/955.   
The Sceptre (Eldred having breathed his last) 
Edwin.   
At Kingston crowned, whose heart was set on toys,  
He Dunstan banished, his Lands and Treasure lavished,  
and his near N●…c upon his Crowne-day ravished.   

85  
And next he slew her Husband, for all which  
after four years he was deprived his state,  
Edgar his Brother, a Prince wise and rich, 
4920./ 959   
In all things ●…ust, severe, and Fortunate,  
ascends the Throne, no Sorcerer nor Witch 
Edgar.   
His sentence spared, thieves, Bribers he did hate:  
To him Ludwallis, Prince of Wales obeyed,  
Three hundred Wolves for Tribute yearly paid.   

86  
Forty seven monasteries this King erected  
Red Crosses made, and on men's Robes were seared,  
When Duffus had four years the Scots protected, 
4927/966   
Donewald a Scotch Lord, that no bad thing feared,  
Him basely slew, and from his Throne derected,  
From which, ●…xe months no Moon or Sun appeared:  
The Turks by Euecus Earl of Bygar,  
Were Spain expold, he first King of Navar.   

87  
King Edgar in his sixteenth year expyres, 
4939./ 975.   
When his Son Edward was at Kingston crowned, 
Edward   
Slain by his traitorous Stepdame, who desires  
The Crown for her Son Etheldred: he found  
Exter Abbey, Swayne of Denmark fires 
4936/978   
Cities and Towns in England, burning round: 
Etheldred.   
King Etheldred reigned in this Kingdom free,  
Thirty eight years: His murdered Brother three.   

88  
Now Stephen was made first King of Hungary,  
And thirty nine years reigned. Alphons of Spain 
4961/1000   
besieging great Visenum valiantly,  
Was with an arrow killed, and strewed the plain:  
All the Lord-Danes that lived here tyrannously,  
Were by the English Wives in one night slain:  
jerusalem was by the Turks possessed,  
Whom twice the bold Venetian Duke distressed.   

89  
King Edmond (surnamed Iron-side) next his Father 
Edmond Iron-side.   
Enjoys the Kingdom, 'gainst whom Swanus Son  
The bold Canutus all his Dan●…s doth gather,  
Twixt whom were many battles lost and won, 
4977/1016   
After much blood's effusion they chose rather,  
By single strife to end the broils begun:  
Their valours were in epuall balance tried,  
and after Combat they the Land divide.   

90  
Edrick of Stratton, valiant Edmond slew, 
4978/1017.   
And from Canutus had a traitors meed,  
The valiant Dane in Stiles and Honours grew, 
Canutus.   
He Scotland won, and Norway: To his seed  
Leaving four Kingdoms, Vice he did eschew,  
Nor ever did a juster Prince succeed: 
4993./ 1032.   
English and Dan●…s he atoned unto his doom,  
and after went on Pilgrimage to Room.   

91  
Robert the Norman Duke, for valour famed,  
Hies to the holy wars in Palestine,  
He gone, his young Son William is proclaimed 
4896/1038.   
The Norman Duke: Now seeks a Throne divine 
Harrold. harefoot.   
Canutus when he twenty years had reigned,  
and Harrold harefoot unto whom incline  
The Dan●…s in England, next the Sceptre sways,  
and three years past: at Oxford ends his days.   

92  
Hardicanutus the same number filled, 
5002/1041   
and drinking died: whom the good Edward (Sainted 
Hardicanutus   
For holy works) succeeds, no blood he spilled,  
Nor with known sins his high profession tainted, 
5004/1043   
He married as the great Earl Goodwin wild, 
Edward   
Th'earls Daughter Edgitha, and nothing wanted:  
That a just Prince should have, one and twenty years,  
In zeal and clemency the Crown he wears.   

93  
This Goodwin, Alphred Edward younger Brother,  
traitorously slew, and by his power he yoked  
The King himself, betray the his Sovereign Mother,  
By Bishop Robert to these ills provoked, 
5008/1047   
But Heaven no longer could such mischief smother, 
5016/1055   
Swearing by Bread, he by the bit was choked:  
The swallowing Sea devoured all his Lands,  
Which to this day bear name of goodwin's sands.   

94  
William the Bastard Duke first landing hear, 
5014/1053   
Was by the King received, and England's Crown  
Promised by Edward, which no English Peer  
Was known to contradict, after lenthome  
With greatest pomp, and Harrold the same year  
Earle goodwin's son, a man of great renown:  
Arrived in Normandy, and with oaths deep,  
Swore (the King dead) for him the Crown to keep.   

95  
But Edward dead, Harrold usurps the seat, 
5027./ 1066.   
Whom Fauston and the Norwey King invade 
Harrold.   
Upon the North, both whom he did defeat,  
And bravely slew in battle. William made  
A new Incursion 'gainst whom in 'tis hear,  
Harrold his Ensigns in the field displayed:  
The Norman Duke prevaylde: and Herald slain, 
5028/1067.   
William (the first so called) begins his reign. 
William.    
In Brutus' time whilst he governed Briton, Anaeus Silvius reigned amongst the Latins. Dercitus in Assyria, Athletets in Corinth: Pipinus in Thus●…an, Codrus in Athens, 
Lanquet.  in whose days the Ark of God was taken by the Philistims.  
In Locrynes' reign David was anointed King over Israel.  
In Guendolins' reign, he 〈◊〉 Vriah, and married Bersheba.  
In Madans' days, Solomon built the Temple, etc.  
From Brute to Caelar, the Britain's were not Tributary 
Stow.  to any, the government of the Romans from Caesar to Theodosius, lasted 483. years. In Theodosius the youngers' reign, the year of Christ 443. the Tribute 〈◊〉.  
The government of the Saxons continued the space of 600. years in continual war and hostility, either with the Britain's, the Danes, or the Normans.  
The opinions of those that write of the first inhabiting of 
Harding.  this Island are diverse, and how it came first to receive the name of Albion, some think of the Chalky and white Cliff which seems to wall it in from the Sea. But Hugh Genisis, a 
Hugh Genesis.  Roman Chronicler, writing of all the Kings and Kingdoms of the World, from the Vniver shall Deluge, to Christ. Writes, that Danaus, King of Greece, had fifty Daughters, and Aegiptus as many Sons, who being married, and the women the first night murdering their Husbands, were for the offence banished, and sailing on the Seas, were driven upon this Island, which Albiana called after her Name Albion: with these Ladies he reports that Spirits engendered, and begot Giants, who lay with their Mothers and Sisters (led only by their lusts) till they had multiplied themselves to the number of twelve thousand. But Idoubt not, but that this Land may contend with any other whatsoever, for her antiquity, being inhabited with the first, which being continually vexed within itself with ci●… 〈◊〉 and foreign invasions, her 
Marian.  Monuments and remembrances, have by these wars been de●…oured, which have left the certainty of our first Antiquity doubtful to the world, and not truly re●…embred by any that have undertook her first discovery.  
Here moreover, we could have took fit occasion to have recorded all the Genealogies before the flood, with a brief report, who after the flood peopled every other Kingdom, and from whom every Region took her Name: but it had been a 
By Mirandula.  course, too strange and different from our purpose, which is only to find out such things as have alliance to this Land of Briton, and the memorable things best known to us.  
We infist not much in Aeneas travels, of his landing at Carthage, his love to Queen Dldo, her killing herself at his departure from her land, the funer all of his Father Anchises, with his wars against king Turnus, for the beauteous Laninia These, because they are amply set down in Virgil's 12. 
Virgil.  Books of his Aeneids, we thought better rather superficially to pass them over with a bare remembrance, then to be too palpably tracked in a History so common to all men Which we (the rather to) omit, because we hasten to the antiquittes, and the successive Sooner aigneties of our native Island, whose age (our purpose is) to derive from the first Inhabitants, and so to continue it even to this present government.  
The Antiquity of London was held to be long before Rome. For Brute landed here in the year of the Lord 2855. in the year before Christ 1108. Rome was built long after, 
Eusebius.  in the time that Rivallo ruled in Britain, the year after the flood 155●…. after Comerus, the first king of Italy, 1414 after the destruction of Troy, 432 after Brute arrivedin in this Land of B●…tain 355.  
The end of the sixteenth CANTO.   

Argumentum  
OF all great Britain's Kings, truly descended  
From the first Conqueror next we shall entreat,  
How they have sailed, or how their hands extended  
Through any foreign Realms by Conquest great,  
How they begun, and how their reigns they ended,  
Till royal james claims his Monarchal Seat;  
In whom three kingdoms, first by Brute divided,  
United are, and by one Sceptre guided.  
ARG. 2.  
From Norman William a true note collected,  
Of all the kings and Queens that here protected.  
CANTO. 17.  

1  
William, the Norman Duke is next invested, 
William the Conqueror.   
sixth of that Duchy entering by stern war, 
5028/1067   
A troublous reign he lived, and seldom rested  
From rough rebellious arms: yet every bar  
His Sword removed, Hertford his pride detested, 
Roger Earl of Hert●…ord   
But for his Treason was confined far:  
Earl Walter too, into that faction led, 
5037/1076   
Disclosed the plot, and for it lost his head.   

2  
Duke Robert, Williams Son, by th'instigation 
5042/1081   
Of the French King, doth Normandy invade,  
Against whom William raised the English nation,  
And when no Prince betwixt them could persuade,  
They met and fought, with much loud acclamation,  
Robert unhorsed his Father, and then stayed  
His warlike hand, whom by his voice he knew,  
And raised him: for which, peace between them grew.   

3  
William invading France, in Khan expyerd, 
5050/1089   
And there lies buried by his warlike Peers,  
after he many Towers and Towns had fired,  
Reigning o'er England one and twenty years,  
Four Sons he left, one Danghter much admierd:  
Robert and Richard, who ascends the Spheres  
Before ripe age: William who next doth sway,  
Henry called Bewclack, and fair Adela.   

4  
Whilst our great Conqueror lived, the King of Danes, 
5030/1069.   
Canutus by the English Outlaws aided,  
Invades the North, but William him restrains,  
Henry the Emperor Bavaria invaded, 
5031./ 1670.   
Malcolm that o'er the troublous Scots than reigns  
Pierces Northumberland, at this time vaded  
The Saxons glory, Otho them defaced, 
Otho Duke of Bavaria.   
after the Thuringas he by arms had chased.   

5  
Eudochia who had seven years worn the Crown  
Of Graciaes' Empire, was by marriage tied 
Pope Gregory the seventh.   
Unto Rhomanus, one of high renown,  
(Surnamed Diogenes.) Gregory denied  
Marriage to Priests, the Russ. Duke was put down 
5030/1069   
By Prince Demetrius, near to him allied:  
William four Castles built, his Foes to tame,  
At York, at Lincoln, and at Nottighame.   

6  
Henry then Caesar for some sin detected, 
5037/1079   
Did by the Pope stand excommunicate,  
and being of his Feudor King rejected,  
To Gregory submits him and his State,  
Now lived the famous Oswald much respected,  
Bishop of Sarum: Caesar absolved late:  
(The second time condemned) 'gainst Gregory sped, 
Robert Bishop of Ravenna, made pope by the name of Clement.   
Stating Ravennaes' Robert in his stead.   

7  
Vradislaus was the first King made  
Of Boheme, and of all the Countries near,  
Ansell who then Galisiaes' Sceptre swayed, 
5047/1089   
Did 'gainst the Saracens in arms appear,  
And won from them Toledo, by the aid  
Of Christian Princes: Rufus governed here  
Next after conquering William, thirteen springs 
Will. Rufus   
He sat invested in our Throne of Kings. 
5050/1089    

8  
Twice Robert made incursion, but suppressed 
5051/1090.   
By William's power, the Scots invade again  
But are appeased, the Welshmen Rees invest,  
Who in a conflict was by William slain: 
5055./1044   
lerusalem by Pagan Arms oppressed,  
Th'assembled christian kings by force maintain: 
5061/1100.   
Where died in battle as the rumour ran,  
The Babylonian soldan, Soliman.   

9  
The Norman Robert, choosed King by election  
Of Palestine, refused the Sacred style,  
Which Bulloin Godfrey took to his protection,  
Scotch Malcolm with his son entering by guile  
Northumber's Marches, came to the dejection  
By valiant Robert, who was Earl that while: 
5060/1099   
(Both slain in field) K. William the same year,  
Erected the great Hall in Westminster.   

10  
Duncan usurps in Scotland, not two years  
He governed there, but in his bed was slain, 
5060./ 1099   
Donnald restored, not long the Sceptre bears,  
But Edgar (that ambitious was to reign)  
By arms suppressed him, and the Dia'dem wears, 
5062./ 1101   
Rufus being hunting, Tyrrell of his train,  
By glancing of an Arrow, the King slew,  
Henry next governs, by succession true.   

11  
Thirty five years did Henry Beauclarke guide 
Henry Beuclarke.   
Th'helm-royal, he for Thest strict laws decreed,  
Robert returned from Palestine, defied  
Henry, who after parley were agreed, 
5062/1101   
Long their truce lasted not, Beuclarke denied  
His Brother's pension, great dissensions breed: 
5067/1106   
After much war, Duke Robert they surprise,  
Who for a prison's breach forfeits his eyes.   

12  
Norwich Cathedral Church is founded new,  
S. Bartholomew's built, by Reior a physician,  
In Belgia great Inundations grew,  
Being almost drowned: Now upon good condition  
Peace twixt the Emperor and King Henry grew,  
Whose daughter was with much high superstition  
Made Empress: Maud the English Queen being dead  
Henry takes Adelisia in her stead. 
Adelisia daughter to the Duke of Louvain.    

13  
The King of England with French Lodowick tries  
Great discords, where the English gain the best,  
In their return by Sea great Tempests rise, 
5071/1110   
Where all the yssue-Royall most and least  
Perished, with many Nobles grain and wise,  
Where eight-score souls at once are sent to rest: 
5081/1120   
Of all the ship, one Butcher and no more,  
Escaped the seas, and swum unto the shore.   

14  
Geffrey plantagenet (the Emperor dead)  
Wives Maud the Empress, unto whom she bore  
Two sons, Henry and Geoffrey: now life fled  
From Beuclarke, who to Stephen resigns his Chair,  
But ere he rests him in his earthy bed, 
5096/1135.   
He is renowned for many buildings rare:  
Dunstable Priory, Reading Abbey, and  
Windsor fair Castle, that on high doth stand.   

15  
Duke Bohemond in Asia wars maintaining,  
Was by the Turks surprised, restored again  
By Tanered, who in Puell after reigning,  
Infinite Turks were by his valour slain,  
Baldwin defies the soldan, thereby gaining 
Gazim and Damascus,   
Two famous Towns: Now Alphons rules in Spain:  
Laws the gro●…e in France, in Scotland's rights,  
malcolm's first 〈◊〉, that Alexander ●…ight.   

16  
Alexius did the Gracian Empire sway,  
Henry in Rome, the Pope-●…om Paschal guides,  
In Hungary 〈◊〉 Stephen: about that day  
A blazing-Starre appears, and long abides,  
Two Moons are seen, and in Flaminia  
Blood reigns; Michael the Duke of Venice rides 
5083/1122.   
Against the Pagans, who were made his prey 
Rhodes, Chiu●…, Samos, Lesbos, Mitelene.   
At ●…oppen: After in his 〈◊〉 feturne,  
He many of the emperors towns did burn.   

17  
Charles Earl of flanders in the Church was slain  
By the proud B●…ggis provost, which related, 
5085/1125   
William the son of Cort-hose did complain,  
And by French Lewes was next Earl instated,  
Balach the Parthian did proud wars maintain 
5086/1125   
'Gainst Baldwin, which was by rough steel debated:  
Baldwin surprised, fair Stones Towers quite razed,  
And fair jerusalem once more defaced.   

18  
Stephen Earl of Bulloin son to th'earl of Bloys, 
K. Stephen   
and Addela next Henry rules as King,  
Though Maud the Empress had th'applausive voice,  
Of many English peers, through which wars spring,  
Gloster and Chester Earls, after much choice 
5102/1141   
Of fields and battles, such an Army bring,  
That Stephen is took, and unto Bristol sent,  
After released, by London and by Kent.   

19  
These Counties raise an army and surprise  
Gloster, for whom the Barons change King Stephen, 
5107/1136   
David of Scotland doth 'gainst England rife,  
after much war then discords are made ecuen,  
By th'empress means his Barons him despise,  
First Stephen prevails, the Lords their Lands bereaven:  
But gathering head, at Wilton they prevail,  
Where the King flies, whom Gloster doth assail.   

20  
Henry, Ma●…ds son, after K. Stephen's decease,  
Is proclaimed King, which soon atones their strife  
By which mild Stephen reigns all his days in peace, 
Eustace son to King Stephen.   
His son, the French Kings Sister takes to wife,  
Gersa the son of Bela 'gan increase  
His fame among the Hungars, and his life  
Was fearful to the Germans; Lewes swayed France,  
The Turks grim Alaph to their Crown advance,   

21  
Earl Roger ruled Sicilia. Almany 
5114/1153   
Great Barbarosse, Rome's Empery Conrade,  
Adrian of England held the Papacy,  
In Scotland reigned Malcolm a beauteous maid, 
5115/1154   
The English jews at Easter Crucify  
A Christian child, and life for life they paid:  
Next Stephen, King Henry, second of that name, 
Henry the 2   
Son to the Empress Maud the Peers proclaim. 
5116/1155    

22  
Thirty five years his prosperous reign doth last,  
In which he England's 〈◊〉 augmented,  
With Scotland, Ireland, and then further passed  
To th'Orcad Isles, whose forces he prevented,  
Britain, Poictou, and Given he made fast  
To th'English Crown, 〈◊〉 that but late dissented,  
His sword appeased, and after well protected,  
Which done great Rutland Castle he erected.   

23  
Two Suns at once within our skies appear,  
And in the Moon a bloody Crosfe was seen, 
5118/1157   
Lewes of France sent over Margaret here,  
His daughter, to be made young Henry's Queen,  
By which the discords that both Realms did fear  
In this alliance quite dispersed been:  
Once more the King 'gainst Scotland is provoked,  
Pope Adrian drinking, with a Fly was choked. 
5120./ 1159    

24  
Vradislaus for his valour shown,  
At Milleins' siege, was by the Emperor made  
Bohemians second King, his Arms well known,  
A fair red Rampant Lion: Baldwin laid  
On his black hearse, Almerious is grown  
King of jerusalem, who bravely stayed  
Th' ` Egyptian power, and in one gloriou●…day,  
won from the soldan Alexandria.   

25  
Now Thomas B●…ket who before had fled  
To Rome, and there complained him of the King,  
Was to his Sea restored, after struck dead  
In Canterbury Church (a p●…tious thing)  
Him Rome Cannonized for a Saint, which bred 
5132./ 1171.   
Much superstition: Salladine doth bring  
A puissant host ●…his Conquests he began, 
5133/1172   
And by the sword Egypt and Sarry won   

26  
Henry, King Henry's son, was twice instated  
And Crowned in England in his Father's days,  
By which much uproar was by war debated,  
The sons against the father tumults raise,  
The Pope 'gainst th'emperor Frederick animated,  
Frederick submits, and at his foot he lays  
His princely head, whilst with a Lordly check, 
5137/1176.   
The Pope his foot sets on the Emperor's neck.   

27  
Andronicus having his Master slain, 
5143./ 1183   
(The child Alexius left to his tuition)  
Three years the Gracian Empire doth maintain,  
Baldwin the fifth, (a Chiln of fair condition)  
Is Crowd in Zion: Saladin again 
5144/1183   
'Gainst Palestine doth make new expedition:  
Subdues jerusalem, and ●…nce his days,  
The Infidel the holy kingdom sways.   

28  
Henry the son before the Father dies, 
5149./ 1186   
Whose wars his Brother Richard takes in hand,  
And by hostility the King defies,  
Unable 'gainst his puissant son to stand,  
Sickness and grief of thoughts the King surprise,  
Who dying, to Prince Richard leaves the Land: 
5150/1189.   
Richard in A●…nes a bold reputed Knight,  
Who for his stout heart Cordelyon hight. 
Richard Cordelion.    

29  
Eleven full years, nine months and twenty days 
5151/1189.   
He sat inthr●…'d Now Bailiffs first begun  
In London: many Christian princes raise  
Fresh powers, to gain jerusalem late won,  
Almain, France, England, Burgoine (whom most praise)  
To this, Sicilia, Venice, Pysa run, 
5152./ 1191   
And quell the Pagans. Richard Cypress took,  
And Acon, where the French King him forsook.   

30  
Frederick the Empetor, having late subdued  
The less Armenia, where his Fame was swooned,  
Through greatest part of Asia 'gan inttude, 
5151/1190   
And of that Tri-part world was sovereign Crowned,  
But by misfortune or by rashnes●…ude,  
Was after in the flood Selephins drowned:  
Richard exchanged with Gui of Lessingham  
The Crown of Cypress, for jerusalem. 
5154./ 1193    

31  
Graced with the title of the holy King,  
Returning with a small and slendet train  
Towards England, where his Brother john usurping,  
took to himself a short rebellious reign,  
The Ostrich Duke, King Richard envying,  
Surprised him first, than gave him to be slain  
To s fierce Lion, whom unarmed he beat,  
And from his bulk his warm heart tore and eat.   

32  
Thence ransomed, (after war) prince john submits, 
5154/1193.   
Whilst Saphandenus Egypt's Empire swayed,  
In Spain's Tribunal the eight Alphons sits,  
Emericus Hungariaes' King is made,  
To Innocent the third, th'emperor submits,  
Who eighteen years the Papal Crosier staid, 
5159/1198   
He first devisd Auricular confession,  
Which since his time, the Popes keep by succession.   

33  
Richard besideging Gailerd long with Steel,  
Was with an Arrow from the Castle wounded, 
5161/1200   
Shot by the hand of one Peter Bazeele,  
He slain, Retreat the valiant English sounded,  
His want, the Clergy, Peers, and Commons feel,  
In whom Religion, power, and state abound:  
Next him King john succeeds by the Lands doom, 
King john   
Who whilst he reigned despised the threats of Rome.   

34  
Reigned seventeen years, him philip King of France 
5162/1201.   
Invades, in Arthur Duke of Britons name,  
Whose powers the English john surprised by chance,  
Imprisoning Arthur whence these Garboils came,  
The Persians David to the Throne advance,  
Who with his Indian Troops marched with much Fame,  
Of Parthia and Armenia Conqueror,  
And of Tartary the first Emperor. 
5164/1203    

35  
Five Moons were all at once in Torkeshire seen,  
After which portent many storms insude,  
prince john having incurred the pope's fell spleen,  
Stands with his Land accursed, which some allude  
To Bishop Lanchton, who at Rome had been, 
5167/1206.   
And sought in Canterbury to intrude:  
In Suffolk was a strange Fish took, that bore  
The shape of man, and six months lived a shore.   

36  
The Mayor and Shrieffes in London were first made, 
5170/1209   
Wales twice rebelling was by war appeased,  
Th'English at Sluice the Navy of France invade,  
A thousand twenty sail at once they seized,  
Pope Innocent great Coesars' pomp all aid,  
Making such Laws as scarce the Empire pleased,  
Only such princes should as Emperors stand,  
As should receive their Crowns at the pope's hand.   

37  
Of whom the Saxon Duke Otho was first, 
5173/1212   
Venice subdues Coreyra, and the Isles  
Adjacent, Otho by the popeaccurst,  
For taking to himself the Empire's styles,  
Against him Menace war pope Innocent durst,  
and trained into these broils by prayers and smiles:  
Frederick the second, who the Diadem wears  
after Duke Otho, three and twenty years.   

38  
john for a yearly tribute to Rome paid,  
Of twice five hundred Marks, absolves his Land,  
King Alexander is the Scotch King made, 
5174/1213   
(After deceased William, to command,)  
He twenty and four years the kingdom staid,  
Against King john the English Barons stand,  
And to their faction the French Lewes bring,  
Whom in john's stead they seek t'elect as King. 
5177./ 1216.    

39  
Amidst these tumults john by fate expires,  
(As some suppose) by poison: whom succeeds  
Henry his son: him more the Land desires  
Then Lewes, hated for some bloody deeds, 
Henry the 3.   
For him the people make triumphant fires, 
5179./ 1220   
A general joy his high installment breeds:  
at nineteen years, the kingdom he attained,  
and fifty fix years o'er his subjects reigned.   

40  
Our Lady's Church in Westminster he reared, 
5181/1220.   
Now Hocata the second puissant King  
Of great Tartary, was renowned and feared,  
He first the Title of great Khan did win,  
The drooping Scotch King was by Henry cheered,  
To whom he gave his Sister (next of Kin) 
5182/1221   
Fair joan Robert: Graciaes' Empire swayed.  
Who to his Empress took a beauteous Maid.   

41  
She was before betrothed to a great peer  
Of Burgoine, he the emperors pomp despising,  
Entered his armed palace without fear, 
5183/1222   
The Damsel in the Emperor's arms surprising,  
He first cut off her nose (revenge severe)  
And from that place himself disguising:  
To her'fore bribed Mother posting fast,  
Th'inconstant Dame into the Seas he cast.   

42  
The Scots in Cathnes their proud Bishop burn,  
Because he cursed such, as their tithes denied, 
5184./ 1223   
Wards were first granted, Frederick doth return 
5186./ 1225   
Towards Asia, and the soldan puffed with pride,  
Vanquished in field, and now no longer mourn  
Those Christians that in Palestine abide; 
5190/1229   
England with France makes war, and after peace,  
Tumults in Wales arise, but soon surcease.   

43  
Frederick, King Henry's Sister takes to wife, 
5196/1235.   
Called Isabella: Henry takes Elanour,  
Daughter to th'earl of Provence, ending strife  
Twixt them before begun, about that hour  
His spousals were solemnized, and joys rife,  
In th'Element appeared a war like power 
5198/1237   
Of men in arms, of di●…ers wings compacted,  
The Merton Statute now was first enacted.   

44  
This year the famous faction first begun 
5201/1240   
Of Guelfes and Gibelines, Tartarian Khan  
Invades the Hungars, and their kingdom won, 
5202/1241   
Where their King Bela was in battle slain,  
The Mother eats her Child, and Sire, the Son,  
So great was hunger 'mongst the Hungars than:  
Now London Aldermen were first elected, 
5203./1242   
and Frederick once more by the pope rejected.   

45  
Pope Innocent the fourth from th'emperor flying 
5204/1243.   
To Lions: to the Cardinals first gave  
Red hats. A jew in Spain Christ's faith denying,  
picrst a huge rock, there found a hallow Cave,  
In it a Marble stone which with Steel trying,  
He finds a Book enclosed with precepts grave, 
5206/1245   
Which spoke of Christ, by which the Story saith,  
The stiffnecked jew was turned to Christian faith.   

46  
Henry with London City late displeased,  
For sentence 'gainst one Margaret Viell past, 
5209/1248   
Into his power the City's Charters seized,  
Which by submission they regained at last,  
Young Alexander's Father long diseads  
Expired in Scotland, the young prince in haste  
at nine years Crowned, to whom Henry affide, 
5213./ 1252.   
His Daughter Mary, whom he took to Bride.   

47  
In Italy blood issued out of bread 
5214/1253   
As out of wounds, French Lewes was surprised  
By the great soldan: Mango Caan's made head  
Of the rude Tartars, who being well advised, 
5219/1254   
Received the Christian Faith, and after sped  
against the Turks, in Crosses red disguised:  
Alphons of Spain bestows his Daughter fair  
On young Prince Edward, Henry's hopeful heir.   

48  
Richard of Cornwall, Brother to the King, 
5218/1257   
At Aquisgrave was Emperor elected,  
and Alphons of Castille the State affecting, 
5219/1258.   
Was by the Electors from the State rejected,  
Albertus Magnus flourished in his spring,  
And Michael Paleologus, respected  
For his great wars in Greece, who Baldwin slew, 
5221./ 1260.   
and thirty five years in the Empire grew.   

49  
At Oxford the mad Parliament began, 
5225/1264.   
King Henry with his Barons doth contend,  
They fought near Lewes, many a valiant man  
Of Noble blood came to a timeless end,  
The King against his Peers the best he can,  
Strives by the Sword, his Barons to offend: 
Richard of cornwall Brother to the King and Emperor.   
Who Manger all his force the battle won,  
Surprised the King, his Brother, and his Son.   

50  
Prince Edward entered Asia, and there fought 
5233./1272   
against the Turks, where he achieved much fame,  
at length his life was by a Sarazen sought,  
Who with a Knife to his Pavilion came  
Empoisoned: and his death had almost wrought,  
For in his princely arm he fixed the same:  
Richard, King Henry's Brother, and Rome's king 
5233/1272   
First dies, and after Henry, the same spring.   

51  
Next whom, Prince Edward Longshanks was inucsted, 
Edward the first.   
and thirty four years reigned, admired and feared,  
Th'usurping pride of Priests, he much detested, 
5235/1274   
Bounty and Virtue in this Prince appeared,  
Nicholas the third made Pope, from th'Empire wrested 
5238/1277   
Two Kingdoms for two Nephews, much endeared: 
5240/1279   
Of Jews at once (that in their wealth took pride,)  
Two hundred eyghty four, for Coining died.   

52  
Lewellen next rebelled, slaino by the hand  
Of Roger Mortimer. After not long  
David his Brother did 'gainst Edward stand, 
5246/1285.   
A dangerous Rebel, and infaction strong,  
Yet perished likewise, with his warlike Band  
Of Welch revolted: (other things among)  
King Edward joys, to quell the Frenchman's scorn,  
and for Prince Edward at Carnarvan borne.   

53  
Alexander Issueless fell from his Steed  
And broke his neck, the Carmelites began. 
5247/1286.   
Philip the fair, in France was King decreed,  
Two Women in Helvetia lived than,  
Who in their Wombs did two strange Monsters breed,  
One bore a Child that had the face of man,  
and body of a Lion: th'other bred 
5248/1287   
One with two bodies, from the Girdlested.   

54  
The Scotch King dying Issueless, contention  
In Scotland grew, who should succeed the State,  
The strife Edward atoned, and after mention 
5253./ 1292   
Made of their Title, which these Lords relate,  
He arbitrates their fierce and hot dissension,  
And to john Balliol prized at highest rate 
5254/1293   
He gives the Crown, which pleased Scotland well,  
Madock and Morgan now in Wales rebel. 
5255/1294    

55  
Edward thrice warred 'gainst Scotland, and prevailed, 
5260/1299   
The French Kings Sister Margaret took to Wife,  
and to his Son the Princedom he entailed 
Edward the 2. the 1. Prince of Wales.   
Of Wales, proud Ottoman began great stufe  
With Christendom, and many Towns assailed,  
In him the Empire of the Turks took life: 
5261/1300   
Pope Boniface the eight survived then,  
He first in Rome the jubilee began.   

56  
Create Tamor Ca●… governed Tartary,  
Albert the Empire, France, King Philip guided, 
5267./ 1306.   
Prince Ladislaus ruled Hungaria;  
Clement the fifth the seat of Rome divided,  
Transporting it to France, which from that day  
seventy four years continued undecided: 
5268/1307.   
Seraph th' Egyptian Souldan-ship supplied, 
Edward 2.   
Edward the first in his Scotch garboils died.   

57  
The second Edward him succeeds, and reigns 
5269/1308   
Full eighteen years, a Prince of no renown,  
He riots, Lusts, and wantonness maintained  
'mongst private unthrifts, and his peers put down,  
Henry the Emperor having bravely gained, 
Henry 7. Em.   
Many great fields was with an iron Crown 
5270/1309.   
at Milleine Crowned, where he advanced his name,  
The Crutched Fryares first into England came.   

58  
Peirs Gaveston twice banished by the Peers,  
Was by the King recalled: john Tamer rose 
5076./ 1315   
In rebel arms, destroyed by his own fears,  
Philip the long, their King the Frenchmen chose,  
The haughty Spencers triumphed many years  
Over the Nobles, who themselves oppose  
against their pride: the Spencers they exile,  
Whom the loose King revoked in small while.   

59  
Twenty two Barons (for the Spencer's love) 
5283/1322.   
The King cut off: the Sun six hours appeared  
Of sanguine hue, his glorious brightness strove  
with his red Mask, which at the last he cleared,  
Edward his force did twice 'gainst Scotland prove,  
(Both times the soil with English blood besmeared:) 
5●…84/1323   
The Queen and Prince the Spencers could not brook  
And like two exiles their own Land forsook.   

60  
Sir john of Henault Lands in the Queen's aid,  
And by the Baron's help, the King pursued,  
who after in strong Barkley Castle laid  
Sir Roger Mortimer, a man endued  
With Pride and tyranny the King betrayed, 
5287/1326   
and with the King's blood 〈◊〉 Tower Imbrued:  
Baldock, the Spencer's Minions to the King,  
The Conquering Peers unto destruction bring.   

61  
Edward King Edward's Son, fifty years bore 
Edward the 3.   
England's rich Sceptre: Charles the French King died,  
Leaving no issue of the Royal store, 
5288/1327   
Therefore King Edward being next allied,  
Claims France, to which the Doncipeeres restore  
Philip Valois, and Edward's claim deride:  
Sir Roger Mortimer (long grafted 'bove reason 
5291/1330   
By the King's Mother) was condemned of Treason.   

62  
Edward the Black-prince was at Woodstock borne, 
5293/1332   
King Edward fought the fi●…ld called Haldonne Hill  
In Scotland, After some few days outworn,  
The King his claim to France doth menace still,  
Petrarch the Laureate lived, the French in scorn,  
Four hundred Sail with armed Soldiers fill: 
5301/1340.   
These Edward meets at Siuce, whom fame hath sounded,  
Thirty three thousand of French t'have slain & drowned.   

63  
The order of the Garter was first made,  
Soon after was the famous Cressie field,  
Don Petro by his Spanish Peers betrayed,  
Was to their violent fury forced to yield,  
Edward wan Calais: john next Philip swayde 
5309/1348   
In France, and mena'st with his warlike Shield:  
The brave Black-Prince at Poitiers battle won 
5317./ 1356   
The field, the French King Prisoner, and his Son.   

64  
Melchella was now soldan, Amurath  
Emperor of Turkey, and with Conquest fought, 
5324/1363.   
(A persecutor of the Christian Faith)  
The French King-Iohn having his peace now bought,  
at Savoy died: and Charles the sixth next hath  
The Crown of France, Don-Peter aid besought: 
5327/1366   
Who late exiled from the Crown of Spain,  
Was by the Black-Prince repostest again.   

65  
The Duke of La●…caster France overrun. 
john a Gaunt Duke of Lancaster   
Unfought withal: Sir Robert Knowles likewise  
Marched by the City Paris: now begun 
5334/1373.   
Great Bajazeth among the Turks to rise,  
The brave black Prince (from France where he had won  
So many Noble fields) returning dies: 
5337./ 1376.   
The King himself (as our best writers say)  
Expired, of june the two and twentieth day.   

66  
Richard the second, son to the bold Prince 
Richard 2.   
Edward (sit-namd the Black) at years eleven  
Began his rule, whom many men convince  
Of wanton riot, and a course uneven,  
Well tutored in's minority, but since 
5341/1380   
He managed state, too much neglecting heaven:  
Guns were devisd first by a German Friar,  
France doth the Kingdom of Navarre desire.   

67  
Queen ●…ane of Naples flourished, Bohemes King  
Vinceslaus, was Almain Emperor made,  
Twixt Portugal and Castille discords spring,  
Two Popes contend; the Genoese invade  
The bold Venetians, and to battle bring  
Their Naval powers, both Ensigns fly displayed: 
5342/1381   
jack Straw dies, stabbed in Smithfield by the care  
Of William Walworth, at that time Lord Maior.   

68  
A wondrous Earthquake did whole England shake, 
5343/1382   
King Richard th●… Almain Emperors daughter wiude,  
The Turks in Christendom great uproars make, 
5346/1385   
john Galeazo in those days survived,  
Duke john of Gaunt, doth a brave voyage take  
To conquer Spain, and in his purpose thrived:  
The Barons of the Realm themselves withdrew, 
5347/1386   
And many of the King seducers slew.   

69  
The Duke of Lancaster his daughter Kate, 
5349/1389   
Married to Henry Castile's eldess son,  
His second daughter had the Queenlike state  
Of Portugal, by which all wars were done,  
The Turk in Hungary suppreft but late, 
5350/1389.   
Seeks by his power all G●…eece to overron: 
The Academy of 〈◊〉 leine fou●…d.   
Against Constanti●…opolis, he laid  
at eyght-yeare siege: now Colleines School was made.   

70  
Robert of Scotland dying, john his heir 
5356/1395   
Succeeds next: Richard (Queen Anne beiug dead)  
Espoused French Isabel: then did prepare  
For Ireland, where's voyage slowly sped, 
The Duke of Gloster and Earl of Arundel.   
He put to death his Uncles, for the care  
Of him and his realms safety (sore misled)  
Hereford and Norfolk Dukes the Combat claim, 
5359/1398   
and both are banist in King Richard's name.   

71  
The S●…ithian Tamburlaine the Turks subdued,  
and kept their Emperor in an Iron Cage,  
Hereford against his sentence, durst intrude  
Himself int'England, and 'gainst Richard wage  
A threatened war: the Peers Richard exclude  
From government, who in his strength of age  
Resigns his Crown, his Dignity, and Fame, 
Edward the fourth.   
To Henry Bullingbrooke, fourth of that name.   

72  
'Gainst whom the Duke of Exeter, Richard's Brother, 
5360/1399   
The Dukes of Surry and Aumarle conspire,  
With Gloucester, who his hatred cannot smother,  
And Salisbury, all these his life conspire,  
and for it lost their lives, with many other  
Of the same faction, seeking to aspire:  
Richard is slain in Prison, after shown  
Through London streets, to have his death well known.   

73  
Owen Glendoure raised arms: Hotspur rebelled,  
Woorster, Northumberland, with others more, 
5362/1401   
Whom Edward met at Shrewsbury, and quelled,  
Giving those Lords a Mortal overthrow,  
The Milleine Duke, that many years excelled 
Galiazo Duke of Milleine.   
In Tyranny, at length was laid full low:  
Leaving to john his Son the dukedoms Seat, 
5363/1402   
This year was stated Mahome●… the great.   

74  
Charles of Cremona, by the Treason died 
5367/1460.   
Of base Cabrinus Fundulus, his slave,  
Th'archbishop Scroop, that Edward late defied,  
Surprised in field, came to a timeless grave,  
In Poland at Cracovia full of pride,  
Was founded th'academcy: some deprave 
5368/1407   
The Burgoin Duke, that did his hands embrew  
In Orleans blood, whom he by Treason slew.   

75  
Saint Andrew's University begun 
5372/1411   
In Scotland, Ioh●… the Milleine Duke is slain  
Of his own Subjects: Ladislaus won  
The City Rome, which he gave up again, 
Henry the S.   
King Edward dying, left unto his son  
Henry the fifth, a fair and prosperous reign: 
5374/1413.   
Ten years he did his Royal fame advance,  
and to his Crown annexed the Realm of France.   

76  
Great Amurath swayed Turkey: john, Castille:  
The sixth Charles, France; Pope Martin, Peter's Chair:  
at Henry's claim to France the Frenchmen smile,  
With many taunts they England's puissance dare,  
King Henry crossed the seas, and in small while 
5377./1416   
at Agin-court, managed a fight so rare:  
That in one battle he the Land ore-tun,  
Leaviug the Crown successive to his son.   

77  
jeremy Prague, and john Husse die by fire 
5378/1417   
about religious causes, Ziscaled  
The Thaborytes, and further 'gan aspire  
against the Emperor to list his head,  
French Katherine was Crowned Queen by great desire  
Of all our English peers: Duke Clarens sped 
5382/1421   
against the Dolphin, but (alas) in vain,  
By multitudes he was ore-set and slain.   

78  
Henry t'avenge his Brother's death, prepares 
5383/1422   
again to invade France, where he breathes his last,  
Pale death that in his rigour no man spates,  
Beteaves him life: his infant son not past  
Eight months of age, assumes the Lands affairs 
Henry the sixth   
Under protection: Bedfards' Duke was great 
5389/1428   
With Regency of France, a Sorceting Maid, 
joan de pusill.   
Fought on the Dolphin's part, and brought him aid.   

79  
Who in small time was King of France proclaimed,  
at Orleans brave Montacute is slain,  
Prince Sigismond is Roman Emperor named, 
5394/1433.   
Eugenius doth the papal Sea maintain, 
Eug. 4.   
Philip guides Milleine: now was Talboot famed,  
Who many lost Towns did in France regain: 
5398/1437   
Now flourished Francis Sforza in his pride,  
The Lions in the Tower this year all died.   

80  
Zeuza lives Persiaes' King: for Sorcery 
5399/1438   
Dame Elen Cobham the Protectors Wise,  
With divers others were found treacherously 
5420/1441   
To have cnnspyred against King Henry's life,  
Dame Margaret to the King of Sicily  
Sole-Daughter (which began much future strife) 
5406/1445   
To Henry's Bed, with Suffolk crossed the Scas,  
now lived the brave Prince Huniades.   

81  
Humphrey the Duke of Gloster, was deprived 
5408/1447   
His harmless life at Bury: Suffolk now 
5411/1450   
Was banished England, where he long had strived  
By the King's grace to make the Baron's bow,  
jack Cade, a mutinous Rebel, now survived,  
Dating the King's Edicts to disallow:  
This was the year of jubilee: In Menz, 
5413/1452.   
Faustius first printed, at his own expense.   

82  
The Turkish Mahomet sacked and despoylde 
5414/1453   
Constantinople: at this time was fought 
5415/1454   
Saint Albon's battle, where the King was foiled,  
and by the Duke of york a prisoner blought  
To London: the sixth Henry being much toiled 
5416/1455   
With kingdoms cares, his peace and quiet sought,  
Making proud york protector: now was famed  
George Castriotus, (Scanderbag surnamed,)   

83  
Great Warwick at Northampton the King met  
In battle, of the Barons many slew,  
Surpried the King in person without let, 
5420/1459   
The Duke of Torke revives his claim anew,  
Whom many of the chiefest Lords abet, 
5421/1460   
And in the Parliament his right pursue:  
Being Titled heir apparent to the Crown,  
at Wakefield him, King Henry's Queen put down.   

84  
Great Warwi●…ke at Saint Albon she made fly,  
Rescuing the King her husband in small space,  
Torkes son the Earl of March 'gan to defy,  
and sought by arms King Henry to displace,  
Near Torke both powers each other soon descry,  
Where the fourth Edward hath the King in chase: 
Edward 4.   
and now the victor's Lord it where they please,  
Whilst Margaret with her young son crossed the Seas.   

85  
Twelve Kingdoms, and two hundred Cities more, 
5224/1463   
Great Mahomet subdues: next Exham field  
Was fought by them that Henry would restore,  
But to King Edward's powers perforce they yield, 
5225/1464   
Who wives the Lady Grace, she that before  
Was wife to Sir john Grace: Warwick, his shield  
advanced against the King, whom he had Crowned,  
and for French Bona seeks him to confound.   

78  
Edward flies England, Henry is restored, 
5431/1470   
and Edward with an army Lands again,  
Where Warwick's pride upon his shield is scored,  
Edward o'ercomes his powers on Barnet plain,  
Earl Warwick by the Commons is deplord, 
5432/1471   
Edward the fourth once more usurps his reign:  
Gloster kills Henry's son, then madly fares  
'Gainst Henry, whom he murdered at his Prayers.   

87  
Cassanus governed Persia, Mistress Shore 
5435/1474   
Was famous for her beauty: Hungary  
Mathias ruled, The Pope (not known before) 
5436/1475   
at twenty five years made the lubily  
The Duke of Clarens is lamented sore, 
5444./ 1483   
Being in a Wine-but murdered treacherously:  
Edward expyres: two sons he leaves behind,  
Three Daughters, and a Brother most unkind.   

88  
The eleventh of April, and the eleventh sad year 
Edward the 5   
Of his young age, fifth Edward 'gins his reign,  
But ear he yet was Crowned, Richard (too near)  
His Uncle did his hands with murder stain,  
Both Edward's Children by his doom severe,  
Were Butchered in the Tower, and foully slain:  
now famous wearc, Gaza, Sabellicus  
Pycus Myrandula, Aldus Minutius.   

89  
George Valla, Hermolaus Barbarus,  
Pelitian Platine, with a many more,  
Marcilius Ficinus, Pomponius Latus  
With johannes de monte regio,  
Now Venice and Ferara peace discuss, 
5445/1484   
Great Bajazeth sustains an overthrow  
By the bold soldan, next instated came  
Usurping Richard, called third of that name. 
Richard the 3.    

90  
Two years, two months, and two days he enjoys  
Regality, whilst Charles the eight sways France,  
And Innocent the eight his power employs  
In Rome, his Bastards to enhance  
Richard, the Duke of Buckingham destroys,  
Who thought the Earl of Richmond to advance: 
5446/1485   
Henry Earl Richmond, M●…lford Haven sought,  
Where landing, he the field of Bosworth fought.   

91  
Richard there slain, Henry the seventh sits Crowned, 
Henry the 7.   
Twenty three years: Vgnerus Persia guides:  
Frederick the Empire: Henry, to make found  
The breach that Torke and Lancaster divides,  
a happy nuptial contract doth propound  
With fair Elizabeth, whom soon he brides:  
She heir to york: This year (a disease new)  
The Sweeting sickness first in England grew.   

82  
Spain's Ferdinand, the kingdom of Granade 
5448/1487   
won from the Saracens: Lambert a Child  
Taught by a Priest called Simon, came to invade  
England with a new style, by him compiled  
As Son to Clarens: in this claim were made  
Chiese Leaders, Francis Lovel once exiled: 
5450/1439   
Broughton, and Lincoln's Earl, with whom took part,  
A valiant Germane that hight Martin-Swart.   

83  
These Henry slew in battle, and arreared  
A Tax of the Tenth-penny through the Land, 
5451/1490.   
For which the Commons in the field appeared,  
And kill Northumber's Earl: with a strong band  
Henry invaded France: Columbus cleared 
5453/1492   
The unknown Seas, and boldly took in hand  
The Indies first discovery: Insurrection 
5456/1495   
By Perkin Warbeck, in foreign protection.   

84  
In Italy a Stone exceeding great  
Fell from the air: Lord Audly now rebelled, 
5457/1496.   
Henry and the Scotch King of peace entreat,  
The Turk the bold Venetian forces quelled, 
5459./ 1498   
Who at Dyrachium sought him to defeat,  
Katherine of Spain, a Lady that excelled,  
Was fianst to Prince Arthur, Sforce subdued 
5461/1500   
Milleine, and all the Frenchmen did exclude. 
1462/1501    

85  
Margaret King Henry's Daughter was affyde  
Unto Scotch james: In Germany blood rained, 
5460/1502   
Elizabeth the Queen in Childbed died,  
The French this year from Naples were constrained 
5469/1508   
By Ferdinand of Spain: Now in his pride  
Lived Prestor-Iohn, Great Ishmael Sophy gained, 
5470/1509   
Upon the Turk in many a warlike strife,  
Henry the seventh at Richmond ends his life.   

86  
At eighteen years Henry the eight succeeds  
And thirty eight years reigned, his Brother's Wife 
Henry the eight.   
He marries by the Pope's dispense, which breeds  
Among the Cardinal's murmur and strife,  
Emson and Dudley hated for their deeds, 
5471/1510.   
To please the Commons were deprived of life:  
Now Doctor Collet lived, a man of fame,  
Erasmus too, derived from Rhoterdame.   

97  
The Turkish Tyrant Selimus by war, 
5473/1512   
Two Egyptian soldans chaste and slew,  
The Muscovites the stout Pollonians bar,  
Some rights, for which great battles t'ween them grew,  
France still retains the memorable searre  
Of Henry's valour, who that time o'erthrew 
5474/1513   
Turwin and Turney: in whose streets appear,  
Turrets as many as be days ●…'th year.   

98  
A peace with France, King Lewes, Mary wives,  
Sister to Henry, and within few days 
5475/1514   
Expyres, Charles Brandon 'gainst the Frenchmen strives,  
At Tilt and Barriers where he won great praise,  
and fetched the Queen thence: Francis next survives  
The King of France: Charles Brandon now assays  
The Queen, and marries her, in small while after, 
5476/1515   
Mary was borne, King Henry's eldest Daughter.   

99  
Charles Duke of Ostrich is made King of Spain, 
5478/1517   
The cities tumult chanced on Ill-May-day,  
Cardinal Woolsy flourished: now complain  
The Pope's allies 'gainst Luther: Turks display 
5479/1518   
Their Ensigns against Belgrade: once again 
5481/1520   
Zuinglius began against the Pope t'inuaye:  
Whose Doctrines, learned Erasmus seemed to abet,  
Henry at Arde in France, the French King met.   

100  
Charles is Crowned Emperor: th'eight Henry writ 
5481/1520   
A Book 'gainst Luther: This year lost his head  
The Duke of Buckingham, and now did sit  
In the Turks Throne, a Prince with fury led, 
5483/1522.   
Who Belgrave did besidge, and threatened it  
Great Solyman: The Emperor Charles him sped  
For England, where at Windsor he was called  
Unto the Garter, and there Knight installed.   

101  
Christian of Denmark banished, with his Wife 
5484/1523   
Enter this Land, where they were well entreated,  
The Earl of Surry in his Northern strife,  
In many sundry fights the Foe defeated,  
Storms and tempestuous Gusts this year were rife,  
And in Granade, a Prodince fairly seared, 
5487/1526.   
Were Cities swallowed, the great Turk makes head,  
From whom the Hungars king, drowned as he fled.   

102  
The Annabaptists sect was first begun, 
5488/1527   
Charles Bourbon's Duke sacked Rome, and there was slain,  
Vaivad grew great in Fame, this year the Sun  
Appeared three Suns at once. Katherine of Spain,  
(Before prince Arthur's wife) the king is won,  
To be divorced from; this divorce in vain 
5490/1528   
Cardinal Woolsie seeks (by means) to cross,  
Which to his ruin turns, and favours loss,   

103  
tindal the holy Scripture now translated, 
5491/1530   
Th'arrested Cardinal at Leicester died, 
5493/1523   
And Ferdinand is King of Rome created,  
Anne Bulloine next became King Henrtes Bride,  
And Thomas Cromwell whom the Clergy hated,  
Made of the Counsel, the King's Sister tide  
In marriage to Charles Brandon, dies forlorn, 
5494/1533   
Elizabeth was now at Greenwich borne.   

104  
For Treason died the holy Maid of Kent, 
5494/1536   
Lady Anne Bulloine like wise lost her head,  
Erasmus after seventy winter's spent  
Expied, whose fame through Christendom is spread,  
Lady jane Seamors beauty did content  
The King so well, he took her to his bed, 
5498/1537.   
And on Saint Edward's Eeve this year, took life  
noble Prince Edward, by the king's late Wife.   

105  
Friar Forrest died for Treason: One of Spain, 
5499/1538   
For eating Flesh upon a day of Fast,  
Was hanged in Paris (and took down again)  
His Lady burnt: A full conclusion past,  
Of Marriage tween the King and Lady Anne 
5500/1539   
Of Cleeve, which solemn contract did distaste  
The Kings soon after: who for her rare feature,  
Wived Lady Katherine Howard, a fair Creature.   

106  
Cromwell next lost his head: the disputation 
5501/1540.   
Begun at Rat'isbone: Henry th'eight is styled  
The King of Ireland, by his proclamation,  
and Lady Katherine Howard, who defiled  
Her unchaste body, with much lamentation  
Led to her death: now Luther was re●…led 
5504./ 1533   
In the Pope's Trident Counsel, the King wed  
The Lady Katherine, Lat'mer to his Bed.   

107  
The Turkish Barbaressa famous grew  
In Germany, at Monster blood did reign,  
Troubles with Scotland: next these did ensue  
The Counsel held at Spire: now once again  
Henry invaded France, and did pursue 
5505/1544.   
The Bullenois, since many did complain  
Against the Stews, they were abandoned quite,  
The pope the Wormace Counsel did accite.   

108  
Luther expyres, soon after dies the king, 
5507/1546   
Henry the eight, whom the sixth Edward than 
1508/1547   
Succeeds at nine years old, now first 'gan spring  
That reformed Church, which at first many men 
Edward the 6.   
Impugned: Masses no more the Churchmen sing,  
Next Musele-borrow field did happen, when  
Much blood was spilled a bothsides, Bonner now, 
5509/1548   
(Great in his Father's days) the king makes bow.   

109  
Stephen Gardiner is cast into the tower,  
The Brother Seamers (falling at dissension  
By means of their proud Wives) begin to lower  
Each upon other, which without prevention,  
Caused timeless Fate, both their sweet lives devower, 
5500/1549   
First Arundel, than Kit had firm intention  
To change the State, but both were hanged in chains,  
Bulloine was given up by the Frenchman's trains.   

111  
At Feversham was murdered by his Wife 
5512/1551,   
Arden, by help of Mosby and Blacke-Will, 
5514/1553.   
The Trade with Musco did now first grow rife, 
Cu●…ford Dudley to the D. Northumberland.   
'Mong th'English Merchants, by the Naviall skill  
Of one Gabato, he that first gave life  
To these adventures. Many rumours fill  
The Land with news, that Edward lately died,  
Mean time the Lady Iane's made Guilford's Bride.   

112  
Edward at sixteen years ofage deceased,  
The Duke Northumberland proclaims Queen jane, 
Q. jane.   
But soon her young and Infant title ceased,  
The Commons by their power Mary maintain, 
Q. Mary.   
Sister to Edward: her high State increased,  
And next her Brother she begins her reign:  
Guildford and jane, with whom the queen's offended,  
Sent to the Tower where their sweet lives they en●…ded.   

113  
Bourne preaching at Panles-Crosse, the Mass maintaining, 
Bourne Cannon of Paul's   
A sudden tumult at his Sermon raised,  
A man unknown his Doctrine much disdaining,  
Threw at his face a Dagger: Ridley praised  
'mongst protestants: and Cramner favour gaining 
Ridley Bishop of London Cra●…mer Archbishop of C●…terbury.   
In Edward's days, were for Arch-traitors blazed  
And died by fire, Northumberland that sped  
To Cambridge: on the Tower-hill lost his head.   

114  
The Turkish Solyman with his own hands  
Slew his son Mustapha, the Cardinal 
Car●…al Poole   
In Henry's days but late exiled his Lands,  
Was by the Queen re●…cald, now 'gan to fall  
The protestants; against them strictly stands  
The Catholic Clergy: the proud Genoese brawl  
With the French King, who after in small while,  
won by the Turks aid the rich Corsic I'll.   

115  
England's great Queen espoused Philip of Spain, 
5515/1554   
Sir Thomas Wyatt for rebellion died, 
Coortney earl of Devonshire.   
Duke Suffolk Father to the Lady jane,  
Was at the Tower beheaded, Coortney allied  
To the blood Royal once more they restrain  
Of Liberty: the fourth Paul full of pride  
Supplies the popedom, the same year did chance,  
Much warr●… and trouble between Spain and France.   

116  
Lady Elizabeth was keptin hold,  
and by the Queen committed to the Tower, 
5516./ 1555   
There harshly used, her life to danger sold,  
By soldiers the●…ce removed to Woodstock Bower,  
Sir Henry Benning-field (somewhat too bold)  
Upon her just proceedings looking sour: 
5517/1556.   
a blazing Comet twelve full nights appeared,  
Great Lones of Money by the Queen were reared.   

117  
Great dearth in England: For base murder died  
at Salisbury Lord Sturton: Calais lost, 
5510./ 1558   
Which was by England many years supplied,  
Since the third Edward, the proud Clergy mgrost  
all the spiritual fruits, to glut their pride,  
Philip took sea, and left the English Coast, 
K. Philip.   
For grief of which Mary soon after craisd, 
5520/1959.   
and died, with Cardinal Poole, (in England raised)   

118  
Next whom the fair Elizabeth is Crowned;  
a Princess with all gracious Thews endued, 
Q Elizab.   
She did the Gospel quicken, and confound  
Rome's Antichrist, all such as he pursued  
With fire and Inquisition, she girt round  
With safety, and her Lands pure face imbrued  
With blood of Innocents', her prospetous reign  
Cleared, and wiped off each foul and bloody stain.   

119  
Henry the French King in the ●…ilt was laid 
Henry the 2   
Breathless at Paris, Paul's is burnt, a peace 
5521./ 1560.   
Between the Realms of France and England made,  
Newhaven siege, and a great plag●…les increase,  
Lord Henry Stewart to the hests obeyed  
Of the Scotch peers, whose v●…gings never ●…ease: 
5525./ 1564   
Till to their general comforts, he was seen  
Espoused to Lady Mary Scotland's Queen.   

120  
Now came the Baden margra●… with his wife 
5246./ 1565.   
To London, she here brought him a new son,  
Whom the Queen Christened, breathing a new life  
In his decayed estate. Now was begun 
5227/1566.   
The Burse on Cornhill, whose renown grew rife  
In every place, where Traffickes' gain is won:  
In Scotland to restore a kingdom torn,  
james (of that name) the fixed, this year was borne.   

121  
Henry of Scotland was by Traitors slain,  
And Shan Oneile in Ireland put to flight 
5528/1567   
By bold Sir Henry Sidney, with the gain  
Of a great battle, where their Treason's light  
Upon the Traitors: with a gallant train,  
The Muscovite lands in his Emperors right 
5530/5569   
T'establish Traffic: now as rebels stand  
Th'earls of Nor thumber land and Westmoreland.   

122  
Debate with Scotland: and in Norfolk grew  
Conspiracy, the Queen in person came 
5531./ 1570   
To Gressam's Burse, to take a princely view,  
To which she gave at his request a name,  
Royal Exchange: this year the Christians slew  
Many proud Turks, and beat them back with shame 
5532/1571.   
Into their Foretresses, and Cities walled,  
This was the battle of Lepantho called.   

123  
A massacre in Paris, now their heads  
The Norfolk Duke lost, and Northumber land, 
5533./ 1572   
A blazing star, six months together spreads  
Her fiery rays, now by the violent hand  
Of one George Browne, who murderous fury leads, 
5524/1373.   
Was Master Saunders slain (the matter scanned)  
Anne Dreury (for that fact) and Saunders wife,  
George Browne, with trusty Roger lost his life.   

124  
By Furbusher, Cathaia was made known, 
5435./ 1576.   
The Essex Earl this year at Dinelon died  
In Ireland, where his Fame was dreadful grown,  
Ioh 〈◊〉 Cassimerus did through London ride,  
Desmond rebelled, Drake that had compassed rowne 
5542/1582   
The world, and many dangerous Fortunes tried,  
Was Knighted by the Queen, monsieur arrived,  
Thinking the English Monarchesse t'have wived.   

125  
William the Prince of Orange was betrayed, 
5543./ 1582   
And with a Pystoll by a soldier slain,  
Poland Musco into England made 
5544./ 1583.   
avoyage, and did six months here remain,  
Purser and Clinton Pyrars, that denied  
allegiance to the Queen, at length were ta'en  
By William Barrowes: Antwerp sacked and spoiled  
By Parmaes' Duke, who long against it toiled.   

126  
Northumberland himself in the Tower slew, 
5546/1585.   
jago, Domingo, and Carthagen,  
By Drake and Furbusher (whom most men knew)  
Carletle and many gallant Englishmen  
Surprised and ●…ckt, the Earl of Liester grew  
Great in the Land, and sailed to Flushing then: 
5547/1586   
Where his Commission he at large relates,  
Being made chief General to the Belgian states.   

127  
Ambassadors from Denmark gratulate  
Her highness reign, the Earl of Arundel  
Convict, aleague twixt England and the state  
Of Scotland, Noble Candish furnished well  
In two good ships well manned and builded late, 
His twn ships the Desire and Content.   
Compassed the world: the fourteen Traitors fell,  
and suffered for the guilt, at Zutphen died,  
Noble Sir Philip Sidney soldiers pride.   

128  
His death a general grief 'mongst soldiers bred, 
5549/1588.   
a Parlyment. The great At made of Spain  
Road on the English Coast, and 'gainst us sped,  
But by our Fleet they were repulsed again,  
at Tilbery, the Camp was bravely led  
By Elizabeth in person, in whose train  
all England's Chivalry mustered and met,  
Leicester mean time to Nature paid his debt.   

129  
Portugal voyage; Lodowick Grewill priest  
For murder: the bold Duke of Guise betrayed  
And slain, by the third Henry, when he least  
Suspected Death, a Friar no whit dismayed,  
(Incouragd by the Guisians as 'tis guest) 
Henry 4. killed   
Murdered the King, than Henry Bourbon laid  
Claim to the Crown, whom England so supplies,  
That by her aid, his warlike Fortunes rise.   

130  
Whom Essex, Willoughby, Norris assist,  
Sir Roger Williams with a many more,  
Strong Paris they besiege, and as they list 
5552/1591   
March through France, maugre the common foe,  
Hacket is hanged in Cheap, who did persist  
In blasphemy: In London 'gan to grow 
5553/1592   
a grievous Plague: Lopes arraigned and tried,  
Drawn from the London Tower, at Tyburn died.   

131  
Cales sieged and won, the Duke of Bulloine lands 
5555/1594   
In England: th'Islands voyage, this year came 
5557/1596.   
Ambassadors from Denmark, from whose hands  
The Queen received rich presents: Now with Fame  
Th'earl Cumberland renowned in foreign Lands 
5558/1597   
won john de Porterico, sacked the same:  
Lord Burleigh (Treasurer) submits to fate, 
5559/1598.   
Since the sixth Edward Counsellor of state.   

132  
Essex is sent for Ireland, 'gainst Tyrone,  
a Muster at Mile-end: Essex comes back 
5560/1599   
With a small train of followers, after whom  
Lord Montioy speeds, against the dangerous pack  
Of Irish Rebels, whose brave valours shown  
In his high Conquests, and their fatal wrack:  
The treacherous Gowry 'gainst King james conspired, 
5561/1600   
whose safety heaven couserud, the world admired.   

133  
Peace betwixt Spain and France: from Barbary,  
and from the Russian Emperor Legates come,  
To gratulate the Queen's high Sovereignty;  
A sudden Insurrection, for which some  
Suffered, some Find, some set at Liberty,  
Suppressed without the clamour of the Drum:  
Ambassador from Scotland, th'earl of Marre,  
Desmond sent Prisoner from the Irish war. 
5563./ 1602.    

34  
martial Byron arrives from France: great joy  
For victories in Ireland, since their pride  
Was quelled by th'English, who their powers employ  
To end the wars: soon after the Queen died 
The death of Q. Elizabeth.   
At Richmond, in her death she did destroy  
All former mirth, this Virgin Queen supplied,  
Forty four years, five months a prosperous rain,  
To England's honour, and the fear of Spain.   

133  
To Register her virtues, I should spend  
An age of time, yet think my scope too small,  
The pages of this Volume would extend  
Beyond strict number, yet not quote them all,  
Therefore her praises, in her death I end,  
They are so boundless that they cannot fall  
Within the compass of my apprehension,  
Being sub●…ect to no limit, no dimension.   

136  
And to attempt that task, I should alone  
My own sick weakenesle to the world bewray,  
And of her worth the smallest part or none,  
Unto the Readers covetous eyes display,  
Therefore since she hath left an earthy Throne,  
For heavens high Mansion (there to reign for aye)  
I leave her shrined 'mongst Angels, there to sing 
5594/1603.   
Vnending praises to th'eternal King.   

137  
KIng james the sixth in Scotland, of that name  
In England first, her true and lawful heir,  
Next Queen Elizabeth the peers proclaim, 
King james.   
And gladly plant him in fa●…e England's Chair,  
Whose Virtues, Graces, Royal gifts, and Fame,  
Zeal, justice, Learning, all without compare:  
For thousands such, my Muse must ' needs adore him,  
Vnrivald yet, by such as reigned before him.   

138  
His praise is for my pen a strain too high,  
Therefore where he begins I make my pause,  
and only pray that he may still supply  
Great Britain's Empire with the Lands applause,  
That as he hath begun to rectify  
This Commonweal, and st●…blish virtuous Laws:  
He still may'inioy his Queen, and issue Royal,  
'mongst subjects ever true, and Peers still loyal.   

139  
But where's the harbour and the happy Bay,  
Where after storms I may in safety ride,  
The Gusts and Tempests now begin t'allay,  
Whose many boisterous flaws my Bark hath tried,  
A gentle Land-wind with my sails doth play,  
and (thanks to Heaven) I now my haven have spied,  
And maugte the Seas wrath: Behold at last,  
here doth my shaken Ship her Anchor cast.   
HE that expects in this brief Epitome of Chronicles, that infiniteness of laber, to survey all the particular kingdoms of the earth, and every destinct accident happening in the, must not only allow me an Age's limit (and all too little) but with all assist me in the search of many Authors, whose works are (some rare to be found) & others not at all extant. But my purpose was not to trouble the world with such prolixity or confusion of History, only in a brief Index, or short Register, (to comprise many and the most noted things) & to confer their times with our history of England: In which, if I have any way failed the Readers expectation, by inserting things frivolous, or omitting things Material, I must excuse it thus; I have more will than Art, and more Endeavour then Cunning; yet, I make no question, he that shall succeed me in the like labour, will use some mitigation of his judgement against me, and say at the least: It is done, though not well done: Only thus much let me speak in my own behalf: With Ages passed I have been too little acquainted, and with this age present, I dare not be too bold.  
FINIS.