A MONUMENT of Remembrance, ERECTED IN ALBION, IN HONOUR OF THE MAGNIFICENT DEPARTURE FROM BRITANNY, and honourable receiving in GERMANY, namely at HEIDELBERGE, of the two most Noble Princes  

FREDERICK, First Prince of the Imperial blood, sprung from glorious Charlemaigne, Count Palatine of Rhine, Duke of Bavier, Elector and Arch-sewer of the holy Roman Empire, and Knight of the Renowned order of the GARTER. &  
ELIZABETH INFANTA of ALBION, Princess PALATINE, and Duchess of BAVIER, the only Daughter of our most gracious and Sovereign Lord CHARLES-IAMES, and of his most Noble and virtuous Wife, Queen ANNE.   
Both of them being almost in one and the same degree of lineal descent from 25 Emperors of the East and West, of Romans, Greeks', and Germans, and from 30 Kings of divers countries.  
By JAMES MAXWEL.  
LONDON, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Henry Bell, and are to be sold at his shop within Bishopsgate. 1613.   

A Summary view of the Historical Points, and Poetical Conceits occurring in this present Monument.  

1 THAT Prince Frederick is in one and the same degree of descent with our most gracious Sovereign JAMES the Concorder, from 20 Emperors of Romans, Greeks', and Germans, and from 24 Kings of divers countries.  
2 That Prince Frederick is in one and the same degree of descent with our most noble Queen ANNE, from four Emperors, and three Kings.  
3 That Prince Frederick is in one & the same degree of descent with Princess ELIZABETH, his spouse, from one Emperor, and eight Kings, of divers countries, besides the former.  
4 That Prince Frederick is descended from Edward the Elder, Edmund Ironside, Henry the 1. and 2. and Edward the 3. Kings of England, and likewise from Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland.  
5 That Prince Charles, & Prince Frederick, brothers in Law, are collinially descended from two borne brothers, to wit, Frederick Prince Palatine being the elder, from Henry Prince Palatine, and Duke of Saxe, who was likewise the elder of the said two brothers: and Prince Charles, Duke of York, being the younger, from the younger brother Otho, once Earl of York, and Emperor.  
6 That the Pope did presumptuously and wickedly abuse Otho Earl of York and Emperor.  
7 That there have been as yet, but only two Emperors of the Palatine family, the one a younger brother, named Lodowicke, Duke of Bauiere; the other an elder brother named Robert, Count Palatine: and that from both of them, and their Empresses, Margaret and Elizabeth, Prince Frederick, and Princess Elizabeth are lineally descended.  
8 That the said two Emperors, chosen of the Palatine Family, have had an exceeding different Fortune in their acceptance towards the Pope, the one being highly hated of three evil Auinion-popes'; the other as highly beloved of one good Rome-Pope.  
9 That the Palatine Princes have been very officious at all times to the Kings of England, and their children: namely in electing some of them to be Emperors, hoping that they shall yet hereafter prove more officious and forward in the same kind, then ever they have done before.  
10 That our most gracious Sovereign, by the means of the most Illustrious house of Lorraine, is lineally descended, as from divers of the Germane Emperors, so from one who was both Prince Palatine, and Emperor, named Robert the Noble: and consequently, that being both of the German and Imperial blood, that he is capable of the Imperial dignity.  
11 That Albion's Island, though it be her fortune to be deflowered of two flowers in one year, a Lily and a Rose, yet must she not be altogether discouraged, so long as there remaineth a Lilly-Rose behind.  
12 That there have been divers matchings of the daughters of this Island with foreign Princes, namely of Germany, France and Spain, and the cause why they have been all issueless and fruitless.  
13 That there have been three divers union-endeavours of three Maries, of three divers countries, English, French and Scottish; and that the third Mary was she, who with Mary in the Gospel did choose the better part.  
14 That of this late Alliance is to be expected an Union of Northern Princes, long ago foretold, (as shall be showed in our Sibylla Britannica) whereby the Turk must be totally overthrown; and that, as some have thought, near the River of Rhine.  
15 That among all the Prophecies or Predictions that do promise any glorious exploit to be brought to pass by any Prince, not as yet fulfilled, that is the most notable which hath been uttered concerning a Prince of the name of Charles; with the Author's ardent wish for Prince Charles, which is more fully expressed is a poem upon his hopeful Nativity.  
16 That peerless Prince Henry seemeth to invite and adjure all the Worthies of Britanny, by their most ardent love towards him dead and alive, to glorify the day of his dear sister's departure for Germany, that her day may be as celebrious as ever Gonilda's was, and more.  
17 That jasons Sydereall ship, which once fetched from Colchos to Greece the Golden Fleece, looketh as if she did desire to descend from her starry Haven into our Thames, thence to transport the Golden Fleece of JAMES.  
18 That Castor and Pollux, those two loving Twins, borne in April to banish Piracy, do look down from their starry Tabernacle, as if they meaned to grace and guard ELIZA'S Argo, named Prince-Henry, till she be safely arrived at the Shore of Germany.  
19 That Astraea, or the Celestial Virgin, under whose sign ELIZA was borne, and likewise Prince FREDERICK; and who hath been so liberal of her best influences in her Graceful behalf, (as may appear more amply by our poem made upon her Nativity) commands too of her greatest lights to attend Eliza to her ship, and to light her so many nights as she shall chance to stay upon the sea.  
20 That Aeolus, Neptunus, Tethys, and Doris, with the rest of the Marinall powers, endeavour each of them to do Eliza some good office: the one perfuming the air with Muskie-breath for her sake; the others calming and sweetening the Seas for her sake.  
21 That the loving Dolphins desire to flock about Eliza's Argo, with many demonstrations of greatest joy, both for her own sake, and for her Grandames sake, who was once a Dolphin's dearest dear, with Historical examples of their rescuing of many persons from Sea-danger.  
22 That Rhine gins to revel for joy of Eliza's arvivall, and the admirable nature thereof, in discerning of such barns as have been gotten with false play.  
23 That Cybele the mother of the Gods, that is, of Kings, because she was the first Queen-mother in the world, together with Flora Queen of May, are both of them busied in contriving of Aprill-carpets, and May-coronets, and Flowry-pearly-canopies in honour of Eliza, the one to lay along under her feet, the other to hang and bear above her head at her entry to Heidelberge.  
24 That the sylvan Pan, together with the dainty Nymph Deiope, are both gone to Palestine, to fetch a Marriage-maypole for our Palatine-paire, of two loving palm-trees: and of the wonderful love that Histories do record to be between the Palms, male and female.  
25 That the three Graces resembling the three faces of three famous British Queens, suited in three divers colours, are to present Eliza with three Roses of three divers kinds.  
26 That the Mirtle-nymph of Heidelberge, mounted upon her crowned Lion, is to meet our Rosy Nymph at the Citties-gate, to do their several obeisances; with divers notable things of the nature and Arms of the Lion.  
27 That the fragrant Myrtle-tree of Egypt is due to Eliza, no less than the Mirtle-berry-hill of Heidelberge, with the crowned Lion thereof, as being of the Royal Egyptian blood of Osiris, Isis, and Hercules, who first bore the Lion in his Arms.  
28 That Eliza is another Myrsina, who for her worth was once Minerva's dear.  
29 That the Matrons and Maids of Heidelberge shall praise Eliza above all the daughters of Emperors and Kings that have been married to their Princes in former times, and that the Muses there are to do as much, some in Poesy, and other some in prose.  
30 That the Church-Holy-Ghost of Heidelberge, founded by the Prince Palatine, and Emperor Robert, and Elizabeth the Empress, shall exceedingly rejoice at Elizabeth's entry, wishing withal, that she could sing as sweetly as doth London's St. Paul's by the mouth of her Organ-quire of surplised singingmen for sweet Elizabeth's sake.  
31 That upon Pantheon hill, hard by Heidelberge, the most renowned Persian Princess Panthaea, is to present Eliza sprung from a Panthaea, with a Lilly-garland made of such sweet Lilies as do grow about her Lilly-citty of Susa.  
32 That Panthaea is to be honoured of all Matrons and wives, as their Patroness, most worthy of imitation: and that her dear Abradate ought to serve for a Patron and pattern unto all husbands of loving their wives dearly, and thinking always of them worthily; with divers notable examples of the fond jealousy of some husbands, how that it hath turned highly to their harm, shame, and highest dishonour.  
33 That upon S. Abraham's hill, hard by Heidelberge, Abraham and Sara seem to meet Frederick and Elizabeth, whom they bless with the blessings of Isaac and Rebecca, jacob and Rahel, wishing they may long live in highest honour, besides S. Abraham's hill on earth; and in the end be translated gloriously to S. Abraham's bosom, and Gods holy hill in heaven. Which is likewise the ardent wish of their right denoted and humble servant.   
james Maxwell.   

TO THE RIGHT ILLUSTRIOUS HOUSE OF howard's, HONOURED WITH THE CONFLVENCE OF TWO AND FOURTY STREAMS OF PRINCELY BLOOD, DERIVED FROM TWELVE IMPERIAL, AND THIRTY ROYAL HEAD-SPRINGS:  
HIS ESSAYS, LATIN AND ENGLISH, DON AND TO be DON, IN HONOUR OF OUR MOST GRACIOUS KING & QUEEN AND OF THEIR MOST HOPEFUL CHILDREN, HUMBLY DEDICATETH]  
JAMES MAXWEL.   

THE AUTHOR TO THE courteous READER, TOUCHING THE Reason's of this present Dedication to the Illustrious House of HOWARDS'.  
MY Muse, courteous Reader, having meditated certain Historical and Poetical Essays, as well in Latin, as in English, in honour of our most gracious King james, his most Noble wife Queen Anne, and of their most hopeful children, Prince Charles, Princess Elizabeth, and Prince Frederick her Spouse, in whose common extraction & descent, I have remarked no fewer than 25. Emperors, and 30. Kings of divers Countries, I resolved with myself to commend the same to the honourable Patronage of the Illustrious house of Howard, for these reasons following.  
First, because of the singular excellency of this name, in whose extraction no fewer than 12. Emperors, and 30. Kings of divers Countries, are contained, whereof most part are the same Emperors and Kings which do occur in the extraction common to the abovenamed, two most Noble Princes, as shall be showed, God-willing, in our Latin work: and truly it must needs be a thing that doth much illustrate and commend, the exceellencie and honour of our King and Country, to have such Subjects as this worthy house doth yield, being so Nobilitated by the means both of their Princely descent, and of their public deserts, as they are.  
Secondly, because of a certain kind of honourable, and notable similitude, and affinity, that the Noble name of Howard hath with the Royal name of Steward; for both names do signify, in the old Saxon tongue, as much as the Warden, or Governor of a a Place, Fort, or Castle; both being at the first imposed by reason of the charge, preferment and place, the two first people, that were so named, did bear in the Commonwealth.  
So that these two Sur-names, may truly say, that which many other Sur-names cannot say; which is, that the first two Wights, that ever bare the names of Steward and Howard, as they were both borne in South-britanny, so were they both men of quality, reputation and rank, and even such, as we commonly name Gentlemen, and noblemans.  
Moreover, as both names give the Lion Rampant, though different in colour, for their badge or Arms; so both can fetch their Pedigree from divers of the same Emperors, and Kings of divers Countries, and namely from Kings of England, and Scotland. Likewise both names have been matched with the Royal blood of England; for as Margaret, a daughter of England, was married to a Royal Steward of Scotland, King james the 4. (in the which business a Noble Howard had an especial employment) so Katherine, a daughter of the house of Howard, was married to a King of England, Henry the 8. Besides, that famous Queen Elizabeth was descended from this Illustrious house on her mother's side, the Lady Anne Bolen, whose mother was the Lady Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormond, daughter to Thomas, the first of this name, Duke of Norfolk. As also the foresaid two Names, have had the fortune to seek and aim at a threefold matrimonial Union one with another. The first attempt and design of marriage (but hindered) was between a Royal Steward, even a matchless Queen Mary, and a Princely Howard, Thomas the third of this name, Duke of Norfolk, brother to Henry, Earl of Northhampton, Lord Privy-seal, father to Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, Lord Chamberlain, & Grandfather to Thomas Earl of Arundel, the son of Earl Philip. The second attempt, or design of marriage, was between the son and daughter of the foresaid two Princes, to wit, between Charles-Iames ●…ward Prince of Scotland, and the Lady Margaret Howard, which was likewise hindered with the former. The third design only took effect, by the uniting-meanes of our Concording-King, the Maker of the marriage between Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral, and the Lady Margaret Steward daughter of james Earl of Murrey.  
Thirdly, it hath been the common fortune of both these names to reap much good luck, and preferment, either of them by the means of three Ladies, being both of the same Country, and of the same names, to wit, either of them by two Margaret's and one Elizabeth. The three English Ladies, which brought good fortune to the Royal name of Steward, were these; first, Margaret, the daughter of Prince Edward, surnamed the Outlaw, son of King Edmond Ironside, who being married to Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland, brought to King james, the first right of succession to this Crown; secondly, Elizabeth, of the house of York, daughter to King Edward the 4. married to King Henry the 7. of the house of Lancaster: Thirdly, Margaret, their eldest daughter borne in the blessed white-red Vnion-bed of the two Roses, who being married to james the fourth, king of Scotland, brought the second right of succession to our most gracious King james, the happy Vniter of the two Kingdoms. To these three Ladies of Britanny, we may add other these of Germany, bearing the same names, from the which King james, and his hopeful children, namely, Prince Frederick, are collineally descended, and they are these; first, Margaret Countess of Holland, Duchess of Bavier and Empress, wife to Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bavier and Emperor; secondly, Elizabeth, Princess Palatine & Empress, wife to Robert Prince Palatine and Emperor, thirdly, Margaret Duchess of Lorraine their daughter. And it is my ardent wish that the foresaid two German Margaret's and Elizabeth, may prove as lucky to King james, and his hopeful children for their Imperial preferment in Germany, as the two English Margaret's and Elizabeth have done for his Royal preferment in Britanny.  
And the three Ladies of the same names which brought good fortune and preferment to the house of Howard, were these; first, Margaret Plantagenet Duchess of Norfolk, the only daughter and heir of Thomas Plantagenet, Earl of Norfolk, son to King Edward the 1: secondly, Elizabeth Lady Segraue, the daughter and heir of the said Lady-duchess Margaret, & of john Lord Segrane; thirdly, Margaret Mowbray, daughter of the said Lady Elizabeth, and of john Lord Mowbray, married to Sir Robert Howard Knight, the father and mother of john Lord Howard Duke of Norfolk. So that as a Robert was the first Royal Progenitor of the Royal Stewards, King Robert the Bruce surnamed the Noble, being the Grandfather of Robert the first King of the Stewards; and as a Robert Prince Palatine and Emperor, likewise surnamed the Noble, is he, from whom King james and Prince Frederick are descended both in the 9 degree (as our late published Pedigree doth show) so was a Noble Robert the first Progenitor of the Dukes of Norfolk, of the honoured name of Howard, unto whose worthy Patronage, we thought good, for the reasons aforesaid, and others we might mention, to commend our Essays in Latin and English (whereof these Presents are but a scantling) undertaken by us, in honour of a number of most Noble Princes: And thus, Courteous Reader, craving thy favourable construction of these our endeavours, we having no other intent, but only thereby to do honour in a schollar-like kind, to such as are worthy of honour, we bid thee heartily farewell.   

ALBION'S Remembrance of FREDERICK and ELIZABETH.  

1  
SITH North's bright Nymph, and Albion's Rosy  
The sweetest, meekest of the Lady-kind  
Must bond from us to build her Summer's bower Flower  
At Heidelberge, now in this flowery time;  
And that for Rhine, she must abandon Thames,  
For Germany leaving the land of JAMES:   

2  
And sith Her presence sweet we must no more  
Enjoy, (alas) which was the joy of hearts  
To all Her sex, as HENRY'S was before  
To those of His, men, women of all parts;  
Which came to Court, to view the worth, and State  
Which their did shine through Him and Her of late:   

3  
Sigh that, I say, now Hymen doth her call  
From th'isle of GEMS to dwell in Germans ground;  
So that her face no more hence see we shall,  
Her face, the grace of Country, Court and Town;  
What rests? but that we wish her as much joy  
As by her absence we must reap annoy.   

4  
For like as did dear Henry by his death  
Make men to mourn, but mirth to Angels bring;  
So the departure of Elizabeth  
Make Britan's sigh, but Germans for to sing:  
Thus in one year, we drink of double woes,  
By losing first our Lily, than our Rose.   

5  
Which double loss might well our Island drown  
In sorrows sea, except there did remain  
A Lilly-Rose with joy our land to crown,  
To salve the sorrows which we do sustain:  
Henry, Eliza: both their flowers bequeath,  
To make for Charles a Lilly-rosie wreath.   

6  

Castor and Pollux of all brothers that have been were the most lovingest, as Aratus, Apollodorus & Hyginus do write, & even so loving, that the one would needs halve with the other his immortal State. Plutarch doth likewise tell how that Cleomenes of Lacedemonia did love his brother Enclides so dearly, that he made him his coequal in the Kingdom: and in our time or memory, there was never one that loved his brother more dearly than our peerless Prince Henry did his brother Duke Charles.  For like as Pollux to his brother dear  
Castor by name, his glory did impart;  
halving with him his own Immortal Sphere,  
So much had Castor of Prince Pollux heart:  
Even so would Henry halve his Princely State,  
That his loved Charles might it participate.   

7  
methinks I see sweet HENRY with his hand  
Plucking the choicest flowers of Paradise;  
One day to deck this twice deflowered Land  
With Zion's store, to make it happy thrice;  
Even now he makes a Garland for the day,  
That CHARLES shall bear Constantixes' crown away.   

8  
Likewise Eliza goes to breed and bring  
Forth to the light, sons of a noble kind,  
Whose worth one day, shall make us Britan's sing,  
When they with CHARLES unanimely combined  
(
* This shall be showed in our Sibylla Britannica containing Prophecies in siue sundry Languages, which seem to promise no less.  As is fore-rold) in spite of Turkish might  
Shall once regain great Constantine his right.   

9  

Gonilda the fair, daughter of Canute the Danish King of England, married to Henry the 3. Emperor, & Mathilda or Maud, the daughter and heir of Henry the 1. K. of England, married to Henry the 5. Emperor; read hereof William of Malmesbury, and Roger Hoveden their Histories.  A better hap, we hope this Match shall have,  
Then once two English-Germaine Matches had,  
That to their Countries did no Issue leave;  
Which made Gonilda and Mathilda sad:  
Kings daughters both, the second England's Dame,  
To Emperors matched, both HENRY'S by their name.   

10  
And better than had once that match in France,  
Twixt Francis and our Scotland's noble Queen,  
That Mary hight; and yet a better chance  
Then of that Match for to ensue was seen  
Twixt Spain and England, when Queen Mary thought  
With Philip a great Union to have wrought.   

11  

Robert surnamed the Noble, Prince Palatine & Emperor, had by his wife Elizabeth the Empress & goodly children, five sons & three daughters, whereof read in Custinianus, Munsteru●, & Reusnerus: and from them two, Prince ●…dericke and Princess Elizabeth are both lineally descended, he in the ninth, and she in the tenth degree, as may be seen in the Pedigree I have lately published) the which numbers in them united make up King JAMES his auspicious & lucky number of Nineteen, which is likewise the number of the celestial Lion, according to Hyginus, & Germanicus Caesar writing upon Aratus; as also of the Kingdoms & Princedoms into which the Isle of Britanny, with Ireland, in former ages, have been divided; the which are now all happily united in One, in the person of the Lilly-Lyon of the North, and in this united State long may they continue, aye until all the Kingdoms of the earth be fully united in the glorious person of the Lion of the Tribe of judah, who delighteth to feed among the Lilies; as it is in the Canticles.  The heavens Eliza will with Issue bless  
By Frederick her Spouse from Caesar's sprung,  
Such is our hope, and such shall be our wish,  
That songs may be of their sweet Issue sung;  
When as it shall befall them as it hath  
Before to * Robert and Elizabeth.   

12  

The two Henry's Kings of England the 1. and the 2. had either of them a daughter named Mathilde or Maud, and both of them were married to two Henry's of Germany: the first King Henries Mathilde was his only daughter and heir, and was wedded at five years old to Henry the 5. Emperor, and was crowned Empress at Mentz, on Saint james his day, in the year 1114. being of the age as said is of 5. who after the decease of her husband, dying without issue, annó 1116. returned to her father King Henry, bringing with her the Imperial Crown, and Saint james his hand, in honour whereof he founded the Abbey and Church of S. Mary in Reading, as William of Malmsbury, William of Gemite, Roger Hovedon, and Thomas Walsingham do write. The which deed of this North-South descended Lady (for her father was King of England, and her mother another renowned Mathildis was a daughter of Scotland borne of S. Margaret, and King Malcolme) me thinks did bear this good signification; that once a james, and he the son of a Matchless Mary, both of them having in their persons united the Royal bloods of both Countries, should even at the feast of the Annunciation of the glorious Virgin MARY, enter to the uniting of these Kingdoms, and that he should at the Feast of Saint james receive the Imperial Crown of the same united Kingdoms on his happy head: Whereof there is more to be read in our Poem, that showeth both by Theology & Astrology the auspiciousnesse of his majesties entry to this Crown; for whereas there have been three divers designs attempted before at three divers times, to unite this Island with three divers Nations, Germany, France, & & Spain, by the means of the Marriages of three Queene-heires, Maud and the two Maries, it was the great union-makers will to make the foresaid three Matches all fruitless, to the end that it might be first fully and perfitly united with, and in it own self, before any other such Union with any foreign Nation should be made, as by those three marriages was intended and expected; and when I compare the designs & deeds of the three Maries together; first of Mary of England by her Marriage with King Philip, labouring to unite this Island in whole, or in part with Spain; next of Mary of Lorvaine by the Marriage of her young daughter Mary of Scotland with Francis the Dolphin, to devouring to unite it with France, and lastly of the same Mary of Scotland, by her second Marriage with her dearest cousin, Henry, Lord Darly, Earl of Rosse, and Duke of Albuny, great-grand-child of King Henry the 7. intending to unite this Island with itself, in her happy Issue, when as I compare together, I say, the foresaid three divers designs and endeavours of the foresaid three Maries, I am constrained to give out this verdict and censure concerning the same; that the first two Maries were with Martha in the Gospel cumbered about many things, but that the third Mary, with Mary in the same Gospel, had chosen the better part, which was not to be taken from her. 
The other Mathildis or Maude, married into Germany, was the daughter of King Henry the second, wedded to Henry surnamed the Lion, Duke of Bavier and Saxe, and bore him divers children, namely Henry Duke of Saxe, etc. and Prince Palatine in right of his wife Agnes, heir of the Palatinate, by means whereof Prince Fredricke is descended from the said King Henry the 2. in the 17. degree. Another of their said children was Otho Lord of Brunswick, and Earl of York, created by his uncle King Richard, surnamed Lyons-heart, who also was chosen Emperor afterwards, and from him Prince Charles Duke of York, is both on his fathers and his mother's side descended, in the 13. and 14 degrees, though some have written, that he left no Issue by any of his wives. He is much wronged by Historians, for that he was an enemy to the Popes usurped super-Imperiall power, and his. Temporal usurpations; for when as he did feast Pope Innocent the 3. in Rome, being then his friend, it chanced that he made a motion to have some things restored to the Empire, which the Pope did possess, wherewith he was so highly offended, that he presumptuously took up a sword to have stricken the Emperor, and afterwards did both Excommunicate him, and pronounce the sentence of deposition against him, whom before he had advanced to that dignity: read Vrspergensis, Cuspinianus, Carion, Pedro de Mexia, and others.   Heavens her vouch safe both the Mathilda's fate  
Two Henries girls both of South-britanny,  
Betrothed to Henry's, two of greatest state  
They Germans both; that Britanes once may see,  
When with the first Mathilde Eliza shall  
Wear on her head the wreath imperial.   

13  
And as the next Mathilda oft was seen  
To bless her Spouse with plenteous Progeny.  
Both with a Caesar and a Palatine,  
To rule in Brunswick, Rhine, and Saxony:  
So may Eliza with Mathilda bear  
Unto her Spouse a Caesar and a Peer.   

14  

jagello great Duke of Lithuany married Hedwigis heir of Poland, & daughter of Lodowick King of Hungary  And like as once the brave Hungarian Heir,  
Elizabeth did crown her Casimire  
Great Poland's King, when as she to him bare  
Six sons, beside as many daughter's dear;  
So may to our Elizabeth befull,  
Like fruitful fate to crown her Spouse withal.   

15  

Poland, on S. Valentine's day; and his son Casimire King of Poland married about the same time Elizebeth heir of Hungary, the daughter of Albert the 2. Emperor, Archduke of Austria, and King of Boheme and Hungary, by whom he had six sons, whereof four were Kings of Poland, Hungary, and Boheme, and as many daughters.  That even as he from Casimire doth spring,  
And from his wife twice Queen Elizabeth,  
So his Elizabeth may make him sing,  
When he by her such hopeful children hath;  
Like hap to both, sith both had hap to marry,  
Eliza's two about mid-February.   

16  
Henry who did his sweetest sister love  
With heart so pure, so sure, me thinks I see  
How he doth beg leave of the Powers above  
For to come down from heaven to Germany:  
Bringing with him a Garland for the day,  
That Heidelberge salutes her Queen of May.   

17  

Abraham's hill in Dutch, named Abrinsberge, is a hill on the right hand of Heidelberge, and is in the ancient Records of that City called S. Abrahami Mons, as Irenicus, Leodius, and Marquardus do witness.  methinks I see him, from Saint Abraham's hill  
By Heidelberge inspiring every wight,  
How to unite their Powers, wit and skill,  
Their Town to deck with greatest glory bright,  
Against the day that his dear Sister sweet,  
In greatest state must ride along the street.   

18  
But first I see him from his own Saint james,  
Inspiring all the Worthies of this Isle  
With greatest state to bring her to the Thames,  
In such array, that twice ten thousand mile  
Both tongues and Tribes may talk of that days glory,  
When she departs; and put it in some Story.   

19  
Come Nobles all, come Worthies, Beauties bright  
With your best things adorn Eliza's day,  
Flock from all parts, and grace you with her sight,  
Before that she, sweet one, be gone her way;  
Let every wight that any honour hath  
Come honour all-beloved Elizabeth.   

20  

William of Malmesberry and Matthew of Westminster in their Histories do make mention of the great magnificence was used of the Nobility of England in conveying of Gonilda the fair daughter of the Danish King of England Canute to her ship; it was so great, that they exhausted their whole treasure for costly apparel to themselves, and precious presents to the Bride at her departure: The musicans and Minstrels, at feasts and banquets, were always wont to celebrate the stately and Princely pomp thereof in their songs, thinking that they could never sufficiently magnify and extol the same.  Let not the glory of Gouilda's day  
So much extolled in English History,  
When as she did from England take her way  
To her Spouse Henry into Germany:  
Let not her day Eliza's day surpass,  
Sith she's as good, as e'er Gonilda was.   

21  
Flock men and women from the farthest parts  
To view Eliza's face, her grace, her glory;  
Come and adore this worthy Queen of hearts,  
And having seen her keep in memory  
What once ye saw, who ne'er shall live the hour,  
To see trans-planted such a gallant Flower.   

22  
Ye tender Virgins come before her face,  
Her face wherein all manner-worth doth shine,  
And with a song see ye salute her Grace,  
Lauding Eliza with her Valentine;  
Wishing that them as many days may crown,  
As there grows Vines upon the Rhenish ground.   

23  
And ye bright stars extend your influenter.  
And for her sake, so ye the Season frame  
That it obscure not her magnificence,  
But rather add some lustre to the same:  
Thou golden Phoebus bind thy brightest rays  
To last as long, as shall her progress days.   

24  
That as the skies her nuptial rites did grace,  
With sweetest smiles after a stormy time  
Of boisterous blasts, so every time and place,  
Both heaven and earth their bounties may combine,  
With Flora and her Nymphs of greatest state  
Beloved Eliza to congratulate.   

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But if our heavens will needs some sorrow show,  
And shed some tears when as she doth departed,  
And weep with us, as grieving to forego  
So sweet a wight, that cheered each eye and heart:  
Yet must heavens weeping end, when she shall rise  
Her cleeren esse been enough to clear the skies.   

26  
A Season sweet, to sweet Eliza's due,  
A Beamy time befits so brave a Wight,  
Fresh Flora flaunting in her garish hue  
And Violet weed, must tend her day and night,  
With all her train, till they Eliza crown,  

Heidelberge by interpretation is as much as a Hill or Town of Myrtles, from the which it takes the name, according to the opinion of Franciscus Irenicus, Michael Bohemus, and Paulus Melissus, because of the great abundance of Myrtle, berries which grow thereabout, they are called here in England Whirtle-berries, and in Scotland Bleaberries.  With Myrtle-wreath, amids the * Myrtle-towne.   

27  
The Argosy wherein Prince jason went  
To Colehos ground to fetch the golden Fleece,  
Once stellified amids the firmament,  
After that it had long decored Greece.  
This ship turned star, e'en 
* The Constellarion called Argo, in honour of jasons ship, consisteth of many stars, whereof 18. are of the first, second, & third magnitudes; it doth risein the Spring season according to the observation of Astronomers; the 13. of March after Ptolemy's Calendar, but somewhat sooner according to the Ephemerideses of the Moderns, and somewhat later according to the ancient Calendar of the Romans, which placeth the rising thereof upon the fifth of April: See Prolomeus, Aratus, Hyginus, Picolominaeus, Maginus, Stadius, and others.  now she doth arise  
To calm the seas, and for to clear the skies.   

28  
When I behold the twinkling of her face,  
She looks as if she had a deep desire  
To leave a while her high ethereal place  
Which she now holds amongst those flames of fire,  
For to descend amids our River Thames,  
Thence to transport the golden Fleece of JAMES.   

29  

* Castor & Pollux were borne the seventh of April, and on the same day anciently their birth was celebrated in honour of them, for that they did scour the seas from Pirates and Rovers, so that after their death they were held of Mariners and Sailors for their Patrons and Protectors from the danger of Pirates: See the ancient Pontifical Calendar, Arotus, Hyginus, and others.  Castor and Pollux which therein did sail,  
Borne in April to banish piracy  
Bid their stared ship take down herflags and vail  
To the Prince-Henry of great Britanny;  
You ship (say they) it bears a better Fleece,  
Then that which once our Arge fetched to Greece.   

30  
The Virgin-signe 
* Of Eliza's natruity in the sign of Virgo; see more in our Poem made upon that subject; & in a goodtime, two of the said Virgo's brightest stars, the one called Spica Virgins of the first magnitude, the other called Cingulum Virgins of the third magnitude, do arise at night, the one the seventh, the other the eighth of April, as it were for Eliza's sake, to light her all the nights of her voyage, chief upon the sea: See Hyginus, Maginus, Picolominaeus.  which did Eliza bear  
Bids fast arise two of her greatest lights,  
Her Zona-starre, and then her Spica clear  
To chase all languor from so many nights,  
As her dear daughter in her Ship must stay,  
And for her sake she turns the night to day.   

31  
Tethis commands her daughter Doris then  
Her wont bitterness to set aside,  
For fear to be rebuked of Gods and men,  
If any frowns should in her face be spied:  
Sith heaven and earth (saith she) do smile to day;  
It's meet that we put bitterness away.   

32  
The loving 
* Six famous Historians Plinius, Pausanias, Plutarch, Athenaeus, Elianus, & Solinus do relate admirable examples, of the affection of the Dolphins towards Mankind, and of their forwardness to rescue them from dangers on the sea: It is the swiftest of all creatures by land or sea, swifter than an arrow, or a swallow, it hath no gall, it delighteth in Music, and loves to be called Simon, it is always in motion, both sleeping and waking, and so is the tongue of it movable, contrary to the nature of Sea-creatures, it will eat out of a man's hand; it loves to leap and play about ships on the sea, it fore-smelleth Tempests and storms before they fall, they have borne little boys on their backs from shore to shore, they have rescued many from the danger of drowning in the sea, they have brought the bodies of the dead in the sea to the shore; they have proved many ways thankful to such as have delivered them from the hands of Fishers, as they did to Caeranus the Milesiane whom they delivered from shipwreck when all his fellows did drown, and when his funerall-fire was in making, near to the seaside of Miletus they were seen in the nearest they could come to the shore, to solemnize in their manner Coeranus their redeemers obsequies. There is such a kind of brotherly love amongst them, that when any one of them chanceth to be taken, they do in great troops repair before the Taker, making signs of entreaty for their fellows release. Aelianus doth write that there is, in divers respects, a great similitude and resemblance between the Lion, the King of land-beasts, and the Dolphin the King of sea-creatures▪ Finally, the Ancients had the Dolphins in so great veneration, for their admirable Mankind-nature, that they esteemed it a thing unlawful to take them, or to do them any harm; and therefore Oppianus exclaimeth against the Bizantins for their unkind kill & eating of so kind a creature: the which thing learned Casaubonus hath likewise observed in his Commentaries uponn Athenaeus.  Dolphins they do flock apace,  
From farthest coasts her Argo to attend;  
And that they may their fill behold her face  
Above the Masts they often bound and bend,  
Waiting if any dangerous storm should be,  
Them to rescue from shipwracks jeopardy.   

33  
As once they did that loving 
* The daughter of Smintheus loved by Aenalus as is in Plutarch.  Lesbian Lass  
With her dear Lad turned o'er into the seas  
Bring safe to shore, when greatest danger was,  
And that sour death with speed began to seize  
On their sweet fowls, which quite had drowned been;  
If that Ioues Dolphins had not been their friend.   

34  

Arion the Musician his rescuage by a Dolphin is celebrated by the common testimony of Historians, and both Herodotus & Hyginus do write, how that Pyranthus or Periander King of Corinth, who loved Arion for his melody and skill of Music, did rear up a stately monument & statue in honour of that Dolphin that rescued him, and made hang the merciless Mariners which had intended his death, before the said Monument. Finally, Stesichorus and Plutarch do report, how that Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, being saved by a Dolphin from drowning, his father in remembrance thereof ever bare thereafter the picture of a Dolphin in his Shield, Signet, and Sword pommel.  So did they once sweete-aned Arion save  
Amids the waves from Sailors hurtful hand:  
Telemachus nigh drowned they did not leave,  
But him rescued, and fet him on the land:  
The Spartan Captain Phalant they did free  
From mournful shipwreck present misery.   

35  
Now if the Mankind Dolphins had such care  
To shield and save the persons named before,  
With many others which recorded are  
In Histories; would they not yet much more  
Tamisis Nymph rescue from danger near,  
Whose Grandam was a Dolphin's dearest dear.   

36  
No sooner Neptune gets her in his bounds,  
But with his Trident, he doth calm the seas,  
Tethis his Queen her welcomes to their grounds,  
And in glad wise gives order for her ease:  
Aeol doth that, he never did before,  
With musky breath he blows her to the shore.   

37  
So soon as Rhine receives her Rosy smell,  
That pure chaste flood, wherein 
* Eustathius upon the Geography of Dionysius, julianus the Emperor in his Epistle to Maximus the Philosopher, and Politianus in his Epistle to jacobus Cardinalis Papiensis, with others more, doc make mention of the River of Rhines admirable nature, in judging of Wedlocke-breach, for if young children be set on the said water, if they have been wel-gotten, it beareth them up, and, as it were, sendeth them back again with her approbation to their honest mothers; where as such as have been begotten with any spot or blot, coming by false play, she overwhelmeth them, or rather swalloweth them up in the midst of her pools; showing thereby, that she would be avenged in the same manner upon their polluted mothers if they were in their place.  strange judgement lies,  
And finds how much she doth in worth excel;  
Rhine doth rejoice, and her salutes this wise:  
Welcome pure Nymph, most worthy to be Queen,  
Of all the shamefast faces I have seen.   

38  
Stately Tam-Isis might of thee be proud,  
That art another Isis and 
* That Gathelus and Scota were of the Argivian & Egyptian blood of Osiris & Isis, and that they were the true Progenitors of the most part of our Islanders, it shall be showed in our book of Britannish antiquities. According to Strabo, Berosus, Diodorus, Plutarch, Plinius, & others, Isis was the daughter of Inachus the first King of Argives, and the wife of Osiris her own brother's son; for Phoroneus King of Argives was his father, who was the son of Inachus. They reigned first amongst the Argives, and then amongst the Egyptians, whom they taught civility, Arts and Sciences, of whom they were honoured as their King and Queen during their life, and after their death as their Patrons and Gods, because of the great happiness which they enjoyed by the means of their government so long as they lived.  her child,  
For Scota was of honoured Isis' brood;  
So was Gathele once famous in your Isle;  
But look how dear thou wast to Thames before,  
As dear to Rhine thou art, and shall be more.   

39  
In sign whereof I swear by Tethys' Queen,  
I'll welcome thee with greatest cheer I can;  
For on thy day a wonder shall be seen,  
Which never yet was seen of any man.  
No wont water shall be seen in Rhine,  
For all my streams shall taste of Rhenish wine.   

40  
All day the Dolphins shall be seen to dance,  
And cut their capers on my floating flore,  
Fresh Tethys' Girls shall think't a happy chance,  
If they that day may fail along my shore  
To view the Face, the Grace and Majesty  
Of fair Tamisis Nymph of Britanny.   

41  
The Palsgrave's ground, the first that she shall touch  
At her arrival, shall be gaily spread  
With sweetest flowers, with choicest posies, such  
As Flora sets to make her softest bed:  
The dainties of each Garden, Wood and Dale,  
Shall kiss her feet, and say, Elizahaile.   

42  
The heaven-wrought hangings of the flowery Queen,  
Along shall lie the paths that she must place;  
Dame Vesta's Carpets wowne with blue and green,  
With red and white, shall think't their greatest grace  
Along to lie under Eliza's feet,  
In every highway, and in every streeet.   

43  
Likewise Cybele with her holy hands,  
Prepares a Garland for Eliza's day,  
Of Gems and Flowers, the best in any lands,  
For it's her mind to crown her Queen of May.  
Hark how she warns her Nymphs with siluer-bell,  
To gather flowers to crown her Rosimell.   

44  
The musky Rose, the Mari-gold and Lily,  
The Tulipan, the gallant Gilly-flowre,  
The Pink, the Primrose, Panse and Daffodil,  
The flowery Girls fetch home unto her bower:  
Each flower she sorts, as they do most excel,  
To crown the head of honoured Rosimell.   

45  

Cybele enstiled the mother of the Gods, because (belike) she was the first Woman that ever bare Kings in her belly, was pictured sitting in a Chariot drawn with Lions, crowned and clothed with gold and precious stones. See Albricus in his book de Imaginibus Deorum. The May garland that she makes for Eliza, consisteth of nine choice Flowers, and nine precious stones, representing the stars of Ariadne's Northern Crown, being nine in number, according to ovidius, Hyginus, and Germanicus Caesar writing upon the Astronomy of Aratus.  To every flower she joins an Orient Gem,  
The Diamond, the sapphire, Chrysolite,  
The Emerald, the Topaz, th' Opal then,  
The Turcas, lacynth, and the Margarite:  
Then in her Coach, with Lions drawn, she hies  
To Heidelberge, more glancing then the skies.   

46  
Lo how she comes, attired in greatest state,  
Attended on of all the flowery crew.  
The Hilly-vally-Nymphes so nice and neat,  
Some in their kirtles green, some in their blue;  
With violet Scarves to vail each Lilly-face,  
Till all unveil before Eliza's Grace.   

47  
The Sylvan Pan is gone to Palestine  
With Deiope, to bring a pair of Trees  
Palms of both kinds for our pair- Palatine,  
To make two Maypoles to present their eyes:  
Which so they plant, that their leaved tops may meet,  
And cheer each other with their kisses sweet:   

48  
For Heaven and Earth delight to see together  
Such as they join by holy bands of love,  
And would have each one for to cheer another;  
Whereas sad absence doth full often prove  
The break of hearts, the married couples bane,  
Which strongest love in many breasts hath slain.   

49  
A sign whereof wise Nature doth us show  
In the palm-trees, which being set asunder  
From mutual sight, no fruit is seen to grow  
Of either kind; but faint, as if some thunder  
Had blasted both; they pine and droop as dead,  
And have no heart once to hold up their head.   

50  
But look how soon that they may see each other,  
Or that the wind doth dust between them drive,  
As soon both he and she their hearts recover,  
Both flourish fast, both bear fruit and revive:  
As they would kiss, their levy lips they move;  
Thus do the Palms teach married folks to love.   

51  

Plinius, Philostratus, Diophanes, Pontanus, and others do write, that there is a certain secret sense of matrimonial love between the Palms, Male and Female, and that so vehement and earnest, that they do commonly droop, languish, and wax barren, except that they may either rouch, or at least see one another; and Theophrastus, Herodotus, and Athenaeus do witness, how that both fertility and maturity are much advanced and furthered in the Female-palme by the means of the flower and fruit of the Male-palme tied thereunto, or yet if the dust and powder of the Hee-palme be spread thereupon: and if two Palms Male and Female be planted on the twosides of a Brook or River, the one over against the other, they will stretch out their boughs and branches one to another, as if they would kiss or embrace, and therefore the learned Egyptians and Greeks', make the Palms to be the Heroglyphicke or ensign of love between man and wife. The Palm is likewise the Symbol of a godly life, according to S. Eucherius, because, whereas all other Trees, are seen to be smaller above, and greater below; the Palm contrariwise is smaller below, and greater above; resembling the godly and devote man, or woman, who is always great and strong in things heavenly which are above, but small and weak in things earthly which are below. S. Ambrose makes the Palm to be the Symbol of innocency, and Saint Hierome, of our Lord's Cross: Lastly, according to the common-consent of both Philosophers and Divines, it is the symbol, or sign, of triumphant victory, because as Aristoteles, Theophrastus, Plutarch, Gellius and others do deliver, it hath this admirable property, that if a great and huge weight of stones be laid upon the back thereof, it doth not yield, or bow downwards, as other Trees do, but it bendeth up-wards, and riseth up against the weight arch-wise; of the which excellent Tree, our Poem, called a mystical Maypole, presented to King james, makes further mention.  Philostratus doth celebrate a pair  
Of such kind Palms: the like Pontanus writes  
Of two such other trees both fresh and fair;  
Of Calabrie, which were the chief delights,  
Brunduse the one, Hydrunt the other bred,  
Both for their loves are highly honoured.   

52  

The three Graces are imagined to be three young comely and graceful Goddesses, going together, linked arm in arm, whereof read more in Phornutus, de Natura Deorum and others.  Near Heidelberge the Grace's three together  
Linked arm in arm, shall graced Eliza greet,  
Blessing the day that brought her Graces thither,  
(For in her face the choicest graces meet)  
Which Sisters three come dancing o'er the Green's,  
In grace and face much like three British Queens,   

53  
Aglaia bright, when first I her behold,  
Me thinks I see sweet Scotland's heir, Queen Mary,  
Such as she was, when all decked up in gold,  
The Dolphin Francis did her gladly marry  
In Mary's Church enstiled Notre dame  
Where first was sung their Hymen's Hymn and Psalm.   

54  
Euphrosynë when next I her consider,  
Looks like all-loved Eliza, England's Queen,  
When she was wooed of th'other Francis brother,  
named Francis Monsieur; such as have her seen,  
Do say forsooth, this land borne never hath  
A gracefuller than Queen Elizabeth.   

55  
Thalia doth the face and grace present  
Of graceful Anne, Queen of Great Britanny,  
Such as she was when King Iames to her went  
Beyond the sea, to wed her solemnly:  
Who as she hath the first twaines Titles joined,  
So their two worths she hath in her combined.   

56  
Thus the three Graces, in most gladsome guise  
In the three faces of three famous Queens;  
Linked arm in arm in rosy weed them hies  
Leaping and dancing o'er the downs and greene's:  
And thus they sing; All bail Eliza fair,  
Grandmothers, Mothers, and Godmothers heir.   

57  
Thrice graceful Lady welcome to our Clime,  
Welcome the Flower and Rose of Britanny,  
Welcome the hope and honour of our time,  
Welcome the pearl and praise of Germany:  
Long may thy face grace Germany and Rhine.  
Both us and ours, so may thy Valentine.   

58  

The three Graces are brought in presenting three Roses, the first a single white one, the second a single red one, the third a double one, white and red together; because that the Rose is held of the learned to be the Hieroglyphic, Symbol, or sign of gracefulness, comeliness, and love: And the Philosophers do think that the odour, and colour thereof doth proceed from the influence of the graceful Planet Venus. The Mages, or Sages of the Indians, and Persians, did much use the Rose, with the oil and water thereof, to conciliate the graceful & favourable aspect of Kings, Queens, Princes & Potentates. And we read how that Aelius Verus, the Emperor, was wont to lie on a bed of Roses, as it were to draw from thence a kind of graceful influence, which he might afterwards impart to his people. Read Orus Apollo, and Pierius in their Hieroglyphics.  Each of the three a Rose to her presents,  
The first a white Rose in milk-white array;  
The next in her carnation vestments,  
A red-carnation Rose, sweet, fresh and gay;  
The third, whose habit is of white-red hue,  
A white-red Rose, and says: Sweet Rose adieu.   

59  

In the ancient ensign of Heidelberge was painted a most comely and graceful Nymph, standing on a Myrtle-hill, and at a fresh fountain there. A monument thereof is to be seen in Marble; for a crowned Lion, or Lioness holds in its paws a Scutcheon, in the bottom whereof is the said Myrtle Nymph, painted with a bundle of Myrtle-berries in her hand. Read hereof Paulus Melissus, and Marquardus Freiherus  Brave Heidelbergs renowned Myrtle-Nymph,  
Whose comely face all comers do behold  
With much delight, at the fresh springing lymph,  
That fountain fair, so sweet, so clear, so cold:  
Mounted upon her Lioness of state,  
Shall meet Eliza at the City's gate.   

60  
The Nymph no sooner sees Eliza bright,  
But all amazed she bids her Lion stay,  
For I (quoth she) must from thy back alight,  
Tam-Isis Nymph for to adore to day.  
Stand still proud steed, for both must I and thou,  
This blisse-still-day before Eliza bow.   

61  
Uncrown thy head of thy gold Diadem,  
Thou best of beasts, thou stately Lyon-queene,  
For it is due unto a greater Dame,  
A sweeter yet than ever thou hast seen.  
See how she doth with glancing glory shine,  
Go honour her, and crown her Queen of Rhine.   

62  

The Lion is the Symbol of our Saviour, who is called the Lion of the Tribe of juda in the Revelation. And he is a Lilly-Lyon, because he feedeth among the Lilies, as it is in the Canticles. And the Lion environed with Lilies, is the Royal badge of our Sovereign. The Lion rampant is likewise the badge both of the Palatine Princes, and of the princely house of howard's, in whose Illustrious descent I have found 12 of the same Emperors, and twice 12 of the same Kings, which do occur in the Pedigrees common to King james and Prince Frederick, as shall be (God willing) showed otherwhere. The first that ere bore the Lion for his badge, was Hercules the Egyptian, as we may gather out of Herodotus, and Diodorus. And Gathelus, who was of the same blood that Hercules was of, brought this Ensign first into Britanny; and Agamemnon king of the Argives, who was of the same blood with Gathelus, whose father Argus Nilus was likewise King of the Argives, and had in him united the Arginian and Egyptian blood, he did likewise bear the Lion in his shield, as witnesseth Pausanias; who telleth how that Idomenous King of Crect bore a Cock in his Scutcheon, which is esteemed to be the Symbol of triumphant victory: for the Lion himself, though he be the most magnanimous and strongest of all beasts, so that S. Basil, with others, enstileth him King of beasts, yet he stands in fear of the Cock, chief the white, as St. Ambrose doth deliver, besides the ancients, Zoreaster, Plinius, Lucretius, Aelianus, Proclus, with others. The reason whereof Proclus thinketh to be thus, because that the Cock and the Lion, being both of them in a certain peculiar manner governed by the influence of the Sun, the Cock receiveth more of the force thereof (which doth appear by his accurate observing of the times of the night and day) than the Lion doth, and therefore being in that respect his inferior, the law of Nature tieth him to revere and fear the Cock as his superior. Others do add, that the Cock representeth the power Celestial and Spiritual; and the Lion the power terrestrial and temporal. Moreover the Lion is the Symbol, or Ensign, not only of magnanimity and strength, and of religious fear, but also of vigilancy and watchfulness; because that according to the common consent of the learned, namely Aristoteles, Manethon, Plinius, Aelianus, Plutarch, and Macrobius, he sleepeth with his eyes open, which do likewise shine as full of light and withal stirreth his tail in the mean time that he is asleep, of which he is never overcome. The Lion is likewise the Symbol of Clemency, because among all the wild beasts he alone spareth such persons as do prostrate themselves before him, and by signs and speeches do pray him to show pity, as Plinius, Aelianus and others do witness. It is also the Symbol of just revenge, because 〈◊〉 the said Authors, together with Oci●…na, do deliver, he marketh most diligently such as invade him, and hurt him; and though he be in never so great a throng, if he can, he pursueth him, and killeth him; whereas he only terrifieth, or throweth down the man that had only aimed at him, but not hurt him. Hanno of Carthage was the first man that tamed the Lion, which he used in the bearing of his baggage. Berenice Queen of Egypt had a Lion so tame, that she would suffer him to lick her face, and eat with her at the Table. Others have taken tame Lions to the field to fight against their enemies. But above all, the history of Androcles, reported by Aelianus, and Gellius, is notable, whom a Lion fed three years in the time he was fugitive; and afterwards being both taken, not only spared, when as he was casten to him for his prey, but also protected him from the the furious invasion of a Libbard, and folded himself at his feet, & showed all the signs of amity that he could, though some good space had past since they had lived together in the den. The ground and cause of all the which affection, was for that Androcles had pulled a thorn out of the poor lions foot, and healed his soar, at the very first time that he chanced to repose himself in the said den, not caring what became of him. The which matter being signified to Caesar, Androcles was restored to his liberty, and the Lion his old Host given him for his guerdon, of whom it was thus commonly said when as they went along the streets; Behold the man who was the lions Physician, and the Lion who was the man's Host.  The Lilly-lyon of the North to day,  
Sends to our Town his only daughter dear,  
Upon her Crown to bear thy crown away:  
Wherefore be sure, so soon as thou comes near  
To North's great Lions bright Elizabelle,  
Thou quit thy Crown, and call her Lyonnelle.   

63  
Come after me, and do all this and more,  
For this is but the thousandth of her due,  
Sith that the worth of all that went before  
She hath in her; I tell the thing that's true,  
In sign whereof I swear by 
* Venus, the Lady of love, is the patroness of the Myrtle-tree, & as Nicander writeth, she ware a Myrtle garland the day she won the Golden Apple by the judgement of Paris.  Myrtle-queen,  
I'll do the thing that never yet was seen.   

64  
For her sweet sake my well shall spring with wine,  
My streaming spouts to day shall not grow dry,  
But run such liquor as the land of Rhine,  
Doth brew for the best mouths of Majesty.  
And if I had as many pearls as vines,  
They should turn drink to these two Valentines.   

65  
The best Ambrosia ever Bacchus brewed,  
Fetched from Palerme of Italy and Greece;  
Those beauties bright shall be therewith bedewed,  
Which do attend upon this golden fleece:  
The strangest tun that ever wight did see,  
To welcome them, shall run with malmsey.   

66  
The Myrtle-bunch that I have borne so long  
With great applause Eliza's lap shall fill;  
For to Tamisis Nymph it doth belong  
Who now's the Nymph of this our Myrtle-hill:  
Wherefore let Hills and Dales resound her fame,  
Sith all the Nymphs must her Myrtilla name.   

67  

Because the Myrtles of Heidelberge are but wild, low shrubs, therefore the Nymph to congratulate Eliza, wisheth she had the Myrtle-tree, which Plinius and others do tell once grew in old Rome's first plot, and some of those Myrtles of Egypt, which according to Theophrastus and Athenaeus are the most fragrant of all other. The greater Myrtle groweth plenteously in Spain, and in Italy, about Naples, the smaller in Germany and France; the leaves are always green, the flowers fair and white. It is the only Tree that yieldeth both oil and wine, also the Myrtle-berries of old time served in steed of pepper. It doth likewise afford a kind of sweet perfume to he burned; it was chosen to make an atonement, and to rarefie the marriage between the Romans and the Sabins, because Venus is the patroness thereof. Hence it is, that the wise Egyptians and Greeks' have made the Myrtle-tree to be the Symbol of matrimonial love; and in a country of Greece called Trezenie, there is a kind of Myrtle whose leaves are full of holes, representing the wounds and heart-holes of languishing lovers. It is likewise the Symbol or Ensign of such honest mirth and gladness, as is used at Banquets and Feasts; For of old times, as Plutarch and Horatius do testify, at Banquets, a branch of Myrtletle went round about the Table, whereby, each one of the Feasters was invited to sing some honest song to rejoice the company: And the Myrtle-Nymph of Heidelberge wisheth that her Citizens should renew, or represent, this old custom at their Feasts made in honour of Elizabeth's arrival, by making her Myrtle-berry in steed of a Myrbranch go round about the Table to invire them to sing their best songs for Elizabeth's sake. The same Nymph likewise promiseth that her Myrtle-berries at Eliza's coming shall have the same virtue that the Myrtle-rod, by Plinius and others, is reported to have; which is to chase all weariness from folks limbs, come they never so far off to see Eliza's solemnities.  Or if I had the Myrtle-tree that stood  
In Rome's first plot, hard by Mount- Palatine,  
Or yet those Myrtles nigh to Nilus' flood  
Of fragrant smell, which there are to be seen:  
A Myrtle-May-pole, with a Myrtle-wreath  
Should grace the gates of loved Elizabeth   

68  
Oh, if I had the hands for to advance  
Myrtilla's state amidst as many Towns,  
As their are Myrtle-trees in Spain and France,  
In Italy, or yet in Germans bound;  
All should be hers to twice ten thousand score;  
For why, her worth deserves as much and more.   

69  
Yet for a sign, I wish her all the hap  
Which this my Myrtle-emblems sense resounds;  
Lo how I lay into her lovely lap,  
As many berries as be Towers or Towns  
Twixt purest Rhine, and fruitful Nilus' Flood,  
About whose Banks so many Myrtles stood.   

70  
Ye Virgin troops, which flock within our walls  
From many miles to view Myrtilla's glory;  
Forget not when my shower of Berries falls  
Upon her clothes to catch each Myrtle-berry:  
This Berry shall all weariness debar  
From your soft limbs, though ye come near so far.   

71  
Each worthy Burgess of the Myrtle-towne  
Keep ye a feast in honour of this day;  
Call all your poor to sing and dance the round,  
And strive who shall the Berry bear away:  
At all your feasts, this Berry ye present,  
In sign of gladness, glee, and merriment.   

72  
The Myrtle-bough befits 
* The Myrtle-Tree, saith D●d●naus, is called Myrsine in Greek, because of a young Lady in Athens so named, who in beauty excelled all the Lasses and Ladies of that City, and in strength and Activity all the lusty Lads and Gallants of Greece; for the which she was tenderly beloved of Minerva, or Pallas, the Patroness of Wisdom and Valour, who willed her to be always present at Turney and Tilt, running, vaulting, and other such exercises of Arms, to the end that fitting as judge of their Activity, she might give the Garland-prize to such as best deserved the same. But some of them which were vanquished, were so much displeased with her judgement, that they slew her. The which thing so soon● as Pallas perceived, she caused the sweet Myrtle to spring up out of her blood, and called it Myrsine, in honour and remembrance of her.  Myrsina's Peer  
Eliza loved, in whom the worth doth dwell,  
Which once Myrsina had minerva's dear,  
That did in wit and valour both excel:  
She gave the prize as judge of Chivalry  
Till her sweet blood turned to a Myrtle-tree.   

73  
Great jove vouchsafe us once to see the day  
When we shall reap such honoured victory  
Upon proud Turks, that our Myrsina may  
Sat down to judge of feats of Chivalry:  
As once she did, at Henry's sports of war,  
Reward two Wights, Montgomry, Lochinwarre.   

74  
When I consider the late fire-fight,  
show'd on the Thames twixt Christenmen and Turks,  
And how a Turk by kindled Cannons might  
Lost both his hands; met-thinkes that in it lurks  
This lucky sign; th'united Northern States  
Out of Turk's hands shall wring their Towns and seats.   

75  

Of such Prophecies, God-willing, shall be abundantly spoken in our Sibylla Britannica; in the mean time, it is to be noted, that johannes Leunclavius in the Preface of his Mussulmane History, Dedicated to the Prince-electors, doth deliver, how that old Oracles do promise that the Turk shall be finally and totally overthrown at the River of Rhine, by the united forces of three Kings. And Michael Nostradamus telleth, how that the day shall be, when the Princes of the Pole-article, or the North, to the number of six, shall join with the chief, or Prince of Scotland, and that they shall bring great terror and tribulation to the Mahumetane Turks. Lastly, the most glorious prophesy that I find of any Prince, is of a Prince of the name of Charles, the which, Carrion in his Chronicle hath applied to Charles the fifth, King of Spain and Emperor; but truly, that most worthy, valorous, and victorious Prince hath left the accomplishment thereof to some other Charles then himself, as the tenure of the prediction conferred with his deeds, howsoever glorious, may testify: and it hath been always my most ardent wish ever since I began to be somewhat curious in this kind, that that Prophesy alleged by Carion out of the old Chronicles of Magdeburg, might have one day his full accomplishment in the person of Prince Charles, and that as he doth Symbolise with Castriote, alias Scanderbag, in the common style of Prince, or Duke of Albany, so may he likewise with him in his Prowess against the Turks, and in his Titles of Christ's Champion, and the terror of Turks. Whereof, who will, may read more in our Poem made upon Prince Charles his Nativity.  No less is promised by old Prophecies,  
Which we have seen in Latin, Greek, and French,  
With other tongues, which promise victories  
To Northern hands, how they combined shall drench  
Constantinople in a foaming flood  
Which shall be made of spilled Barbarian blood.   

76  
O happy sight to see Prince Charles one day  
Together with the States of Germany,  
Against proud Turks his Banner to display  
That as he's named the Duke of Albany;  
So men may him a Scanderbag enstyle,  
Th'horror of Turks, the Hercles of this I'll.   

77  
CHRIST JESUS name sweet Charles of Britanny  
With Scanderbag, thy Champion, and thy Knight,  
Add unto his one Northern Albany,  
Six Albanies; choose him thy fields to fight  
'Gainst Mahomet, and grant him for his hire,  
Constantine's Town, with the proud Turk's Empire.   

78  
That our Myrsina may her Brother Crown  
With Palmy-wreath in sign of victory,  
And like Deborah sing his high renown,  
Thanking great love for the felicity;  
It pleased him to her brother Charles to give,  
In whose sweet face loved Henry still doth live.   

79  
The Maids and Matrons shall with cheerful voice  
Extol Myrsina and her honour raise  
Up to the skies; both aged men and boys  
Shall hop and dance, and loud resound her praise;  
agnizing her to be the sweetest Wight  
That ever lodged in Heidelberge all night.   

80  

Three Emperors 3 daughters, of the name of Mathilde or Maud, have been married to three Palatine Princes; the first Mathildis was the daughter of Otho the second, Duke of Saxe and Emperor, married to Siffrid Prince Palatine; the second, was the daughter of Rodulph the first, Earl of Habspurg and Emperor, married to Prince Lodowicke, surnamed the Severe; & the third Mathildis was the daughter of Adolph Earl of Nassaw and Emperor, married to Rodolph Prince Palatine: And as for King's daughters that have been married to the Palatines, we read in Henninges, David Rorarius, and Marquardus Freherus, how that Blanch, the eldest daughter of Henry the fourth King of England, was the first wife of Lodowicke the fourth, Prince Palatine, son to Robert the Emperor, who, as Fabian and Cooper in their Chronicles do write, came here into England, Anno, 1403, and was received of the said King Henry with great Triumph. Our English Writers, though they agree that the said Lady Blanch was married about this time to a Duke of Bavier, and he the emperors son, yet they make no particular mention of any such Match, as the above named Germans do avouch, but rather otherwise: Ranulph of Chester, Walsingham, Fabian, and Stow, do not express the Duke's name that married her; Polydorus erroneously calleth him john, son to the Duke of Bavier; Hal, and Hollinshed name him William Duke of Bavier, son to Lewis the Emperor, but this could not be; for both English and Dutch Historians and Genelogicians write, that the said Duke William married Maud daughter to Henry Duke of Lancaster, whose other daughter Blanch married john of Gant Earl of Richmond, and in her right, Duke of Lancaster, and that she survived her husband four years, and that he died Anno 1377. some 25. years before the marriage of Blanch, the eldest daughter of Henry the fourth; who, according to the truth, was married to Lodowicke Duke of Bavier, the son of Robert Prince Palatine and Emperor, who had been chosen but a short space before, by the Electors, and came here into England, as is said above. And as for the rest of the King's daughters, mentioned in the Poem, Ludomille of Boheme, was the daughter of Primislay the 2. King of Boheme, and of Constance his wife, the daughter of Bela the third, King of Hungary, she was married to Lodowick the father of Otho the Illustrious Prince Palatine, and Duke of Bauiere. Beatrice of Sicily, wife to Robert the second, Prince Palatine, was the daughter of Frederick King of Sicily, according to Cuspinianus, Carion, Rheusnerus, Marquardus and Brunnius: as for Munsterus, he doth not express his proper name, but Henninges, and Albizius make her the daughter of King Peter. Dorothy of Denmark, the wife of Frederick the second Prince Palatine, was the daughter of Christiern the second, King of Denmark. Elizabeth of Hungary was wife to Heary Duke of Bavier, the younger brother of Lodowicke called the Severe, Prince Palatine, and Daughter and Heir of Bela, the fourth, King of Hungary. Lastly, Anne of Polony, was the daughter of Conrade, Prince of Poland, and one of the three wives of the foresaid Lodowicke the Severe, so called, for that out of an undiscreet humour of jealously, he practised a filthy cruelty upon his wife Mary of Brabant, in causing her head to be cut off, for that she had written a letter to a Captain of his own, named Henry Rucco, which came into his hands: for the which abominable fact, he was so terrified with an horrible vision by night, that his head became before the next morning as white as wool, so that he repenting him of his jealousy and cruelty, founded the Monastery of Furstenfield, and endowed the same with rich possessions, as Cuspinianus and Henninges do write. Thus we see, how that it fared much more hardly with this good Lady Mary of Brabant, than it did, with Cunegunde the sister of Henry Prince Palatine, married to Henry the second, Emperor, who got leave to purge herself of the like false suspicion, by going barefoot (as she did, without hurt) upon a number of Ploughshares red hot, as the same Cuspinianus with Vrspergensis do write. And in William of Malmesbury, and Ranulph of Chester we read how that Queen Emme, mother to King Edward the Confessor, being accused of adultery with Edwin, Bishop of Winchester, purged herself in the same manner. Semblably we read in Cuspinianus, Paulus Emylius, and Francis de Belle-forest, how that Charles the Gross King of France and Emperor, accused his wife Richarda, a daughter of Scotland, of playing false play with Luitwald Bishop of Vercelle in Lombary, her chief Councelor, but she cleared herself to her great honour, and her jealous, yea, impotent husbands great shame. So did Gonilda the fair, daughter of Canute King of England, accused to her husband Henry the third Emperor, of the like fault, who when as she could find none to fight in the defence of her honesty against her slanderous accuser, being so strong and of so huge a Statute, it pleased God to inspire a little boy with David's courage, whom she had brought out of England with her, who encountering with the reproachful Goliath, first cut his knee, and being fallen to the ground, cut off his head, and brought it to the good Empress Gonilda, who thanked God with great rejoicing for working such a wonder for her sake by the hands of a boy, being of so low a Stature, that he was commonly called Mimecan, or the Dwarf, as William of Malm●ssbury, Matthew of estminster, and Ranulph of Chester have written.  The three Mathilda's Girls of Caesar's three  
Which wedded were to Princes three of Rhine,  
Had not more worth, more grace, more Majesty  
Than loved Eliza Princess Palatine:  
Blanche once a daughter of South-britanny  
Was not her match, nor Anne of Polony.   

81  
Nor yet Bohemies Lady Ludomille,  
Nor Beatrice the Girl of Sicily,  
Nor she of Bavier, whom they name Sybille;  
No more her Match was Denmark's Dorothy:  
From Hungary and Bavier Ladies two  
Eliza's both might t' our Eliza bow.   

82  
The Muses then of Heidelberge shall come  
Before her face, with Pamphlets full of praise,  
Some Dutch, some French, some Latin, other some  
In Greek, her name and same abroad to blaze:  
Some shall in Verse, and other some in Prose  
Record the worth of such a gallant Rose.   

83  
Church-Holy-Ghost which Caesar Robert framed  
Prince Palatine and King of Germany,  
With his Empress, Elizabeth surnamed;  
When it receives the Rose of Britanny:  
Shall pray great jove that she see never death,  
Till she be styled Empress Elizabeth.   

84  
Methinks I see how Robert from his shrine  
With his Eliza sleeping in that place  
Awake to welcome their sons Valentine  
Wishing them both all health, wealth, hap, and grace:  
That as they both do from them jointly spring,  
So may them jove to all their honours bring.   

85  
One thing will want, which much I wish were there  
An Organd-quior of Surplized Saints to sing,  
Such as we hear in Paul's and Westminster,  
Heavens, earth's delight; but thou Concording King  
To Holy-Ghost-Church help for to restore  
Such holy-state as once she had before.   

86  
O if S. Giles which Edinburgers holds  
With Heidelbergers' holy-ghost could sing  
Such Organd-anthems shall be sung in Paul's  
Of Londoners, the day that they shall bring  
This Lady home, whose worth and dignity  
Should be solemnized of these Cities three.   

87  

On the left hand of Heidelberge is a Hil called Heiligenberg which is by interpretation, the Hill of all Saints, where, according to Franciscus Irenicus, and Thomas Leodius, was anciently a Temple erected in honour of all the Heathen Gods called Pantheon, like unto that of Rome, mentioned in Dion Cassius, which Pope Boniface, as Platina testifieth, converted into a Church called Al-Saints.  When first Myrsina mounts Pantheon Hill  
By Heidelberge, methinks a Lady-bright  
Panthaea named, Myrsina comes until,  
Adorned with beauty, modesty, and might:  
Such as she had, when her loved Abradate  
In pierce was Lord of Susas' Lilly-state.   

88  
This Princely Dame whom Xenophon doth praise  
Both for her beauty and her chastity,  
When to King Cyrus she a captive was,  
Who had good proof of her pudicity:  
As soon as she doth her Myrsina meet,  
She in this manner her gins to greet.   

89  
Welcome Myrsina to Pantheon Hill,  
Welcome pure Pearl, whom I Panthaea love;  
Welcome to me, and shall be ever still,  
To Wights below, and unto Gods above:  
Blessed be the feet that fetched this glass to me  
Of thy sweet face, wherein mine own I see.   

90  
As ardent love may last between you twain,  
As did 'twixt me, and my dear Abradate,  
jove from above his blessings power amain  
Down on your heads, and make so mount your state  
Amongst your Peers, as much as Juno's Lily  
Surmounts the Primrose, Panse or Daffodil.   

91  

Alcestis loved so entirely & dearly her loving husband Admetus, King of Thessaly, that she choosed to die, thereby to deliver her said husband from imminent death, as is in Euripides, or as writeth Palaphatus more probably, that she made herself the captive of Accastus, to deliver her husband from his captivity, who was afterwards delivered by Hercules, and restored to her loving husband. And as for Pericles, Prince of Athens, he loved so dearly his loving Aspasia, that he never went out a doors from her, but he kissed her, as writes Plutarch.  Such unquenched fire as once the breasts did burn  
Of Admetus and his Alcestis dear,  
Burn both your breasts till both to ashes turn,  
Or both turn stars amidst pure Venus' sphere:  
So live, so love, that time you surname may  
A Pericles, and an Aspasia.   

92  
Then for a token of her love so dear,  
Towards Myrsina, for whose sake she came,  
She her bequeathes a Lilly-crowne to wear,  
And her entreats not to neglect the same:  
And that this sign her grace should never leave,  
For Panthaea, who her that garland gave.   

93  

The Lily is the King of Flowers, in regard both of the fairness, & the tallness thereof. In salomon's Canticles it is the Symbol of our Saviour, In S. Hilary it is the Symbol of the glorious Angels. It is likewise the Symbol, or Ensign of public hope, as may appear by the Imperial Medals of Alexander Pius, Aemilianus, Claudius, Tiberius, Adrianus, and others. Finally, it is the Symbol of beauty and pudicity, according to S. Hierome, and great store thereof did grow in the Persian fields about Susa, the delicate and most sweet winter-seat of the Kings of Persia. The which Cities name is by interpretation, a Lily, as Athenaeus doth witness, and was so named according to the testimony of Stephanus in Vrbibus, from the abundance of fair Lilies there growing. It was once the City of Abradate and Panthaea, who are so highly praised by Xenophon, & afterwards by St. Hierom. When Cyrus had overcome the Assyrians, this Persian Princess was taken, her husband Abradate, Prince of Susa, being then absent in Bactria, he being the most worthy and valorous Chieftain of his time, and she both the most virtuous and the most beauteous Lady of all Asia; who when as some of King Cyrus his Courtiers did comfort her the best way they could, telling her amongst other matters, that in steed of an Abradate, she was to be honoured with the love and society of a Cyrus, no sooner heard she these words, but she began to beat her breast, to tear her hair, and to rend her clothes, and vail from top to toe, taking up amids her mournful maids, a most bitter lamentation. The consideration of whose incomparable beauty and worth, made Cyrus to forbear to come into her sight, as fearing to be overcome with the vigour of her virtue. Her husband being returned, and having received tokens from her, with letters, letting him to understand, how that he should be welcome to Cyrus, he made all possible haste of coming to Cyrus his Court, accompanied with a thousand horsemen in goodly array. Unto whom Panthaea having made report of the religion, virtue, temperancy, continency and compassion of King Cyrus, showed in her behalf, when as it lay in his power to do with her what he would, Abradate replied, saying; and what wouldst thou (my dear Panthaea) that I did to requite these courtesies of Cyrus? Who answered; what shouldst thou do else (my dear Abradate) but follow the footsteps of his virtue, in labouring to be like unto so worthy a wight. And being come before Cyrus, he saith; for the inestimable courtesy thou hast showed in the behalf of my Panthaea, thy prisoner, I can make thee no other requital, but offer unto thee myself, my friendship, my society and service ever hereafter, for the advancing of thine honour. And afterwards, when as Abradate was to go to fight against the Egyptians in the cause & quarrel of Cyrus, Panthaea had prepared for him a costly Chariot, with most gorgeous and glorious armour, which when he did put on, she exhorted him to show himself a stout chieftain for Cyrus his sake, who had been so favourable to them. With which speech Abradate being highly delighted, clapping her head, and kissing her lips, he cast his eyes upwards to heaven, using these words: Vouchsafe great jove, that I may show myself a husband worthy of such a wife as Panthaea, & a wight worthy of the friendship of such a one as Cyrus. Who had heard this matchless Lady encourage her loving husband to show all possible prowess for the honour of Cyrus, or had seen her kissing the very Chariot wherein her sweetest one did sit, would have much wondered; but much more by many degrees, who had heard her entreating, & adjuring her Nurse by her love towards her, to sow her up in one winding-sheet with her slain husband: Or who had seen her laying his head on her lap, and pouring her own heart-blood into his wounds: For when as Cyrus' understanding of his most worthy friends fall in the field, fight most valiantly, he used all the means he possible could of comforting & cheering up his peerless widow Panthaea, telling her how that there should be nothing left undone in honour of Abradate, that was due unto a most valorous and chivalrous Chieftain; and praying her to persuade herself of his most fervent and constant affection, both for Abradates' sake, and her own, he likewise prayed her to tell him unto whom she had a liking to be carried. Who answered; Do not ye trouble yourself, noble Cyrus, give me but leave a little more to be mourn my dear husband, and ye shall know then to whom I desire to go, when I have put an end to my mourning. And so it fell out within a few hours, that the end of her mourning, and the end of her life was all one; Abradate was the man whom she loved as much as her own soul, and more than all the men in the world, while he was alive; and Abradate was the man whom she loved more than her own self when he was dead. In one word, it was Panthaea's death to be alive without Abradate, and her sweetest life to die with her dear Abradate.  Panthaea thus she takes her leave, and says:  
Adieu dear One, more sweet than Juno's flower,  
To thee most due; as many be thy days,  
As once grew Lilies round about my bower  
In Persian fields, and in my Lilly-towne,  
As many days wear thou the Lilly-crowne.   

94  
When I Panthaea's Lilly-face behold,  
Her rosy lips, her teeth of ivory,  
And when I look upon her locks of gold,  
And how her eyes are clearer than the sky,  
I call to mind our Mary Clarabell,  
The all-graced Grand-dame of fair Rosimell.   

95  
methinks she looks as Mary did that day  
The Lilly-prince did her so lovely wed  
In peerless Paris; such as saw her, say:  
That near a sweeter Saint to Church was led  
In any Age, in any Land, or Clime:  
For of all Princes, Mary was the prime.   

96  

Michael Eyzingerus in his Thesaurus principum, most worthily affirmeth, that there was in this most noble Queen, a gracious kind of contention between good Nature and Grace, which of the two should bestow most of their perfections upon her princely person; Nature striving to heap on her head the height of exquisite beauty; and Grace on the other part, replenishing her heroical heart with the very comble and heap of virtue & bounty.  Nature and Grace did each of them contend,  
Which of the two should most her magnify;  
Both of them did their utmost strength extend  
Her Mind and Body for to beautify.  
But her I leave to my Muse Clarabell,  
For to conclude with her child Rosimell.   

97  

Abrinsberg is a hill on the right hand of Heidelberg, and both in the Dutch appellation, & the Latin records it is called St. Abraham's hill; & by Trithemius it is named also St. Michael's mount.  Then views Eliza holy Abrah'ms' hill,  
Which men do likewise term Saint Michael's mount,  
And there (me seems) an Angel's choir doth fill  
Their ears with airs, even such as they were wont  
To warble forth, when souls from sinful ways,  
Turn to the path that leads to paradise.   

98  
Abrah'm and Sarah there do seem to meet,  
joint hand in hand as married folks befits.  
Fred'ricke and his Elizabeth to greet,  
And then a while both down beside them sits,  
Talking of duties between man and wife,  

Of the ardent and constant love that should be between man & wife, the Author hath discoursed more amply in his Golden Legends of Abraham & Sara, Isaac, and Rebecca, jacob & Rahel, upon which it pleased her Grace to bestow the reading some while ago.  How they should shun all jealousy and strife:   

99  
Then bless they them with Isaac, and his mate  
Rebecca loved, whom beauty did commend,  
But bounty more; they wish a happy fate  
Unto them both, with life that may not end,  
Till many years them and their seed do crown,  
With highest hap amidst the Mirtle-towne.   

100  
Live Princely-paire in health and honour still,  
Live Princely-paire in concord, peace, and love,  
Live Princely-paire to grace your Abrah'ms hill,  
Till ye exchanged with Abrah'ms' hill above.  
Be honoured all your days, and after death,  
Be honoured ay, Fred'ricke, Elizabeth. * ⁎ *    

THE sum OF DIVERS Pedigrees common to the two most Noble Princes FREDERICK and ELIZABETH, Collected by the Author, in Honour of their Highnesses.  
IT is the common consent, and constant opinion, of Hystorians, and Genelogians, that the Palatine Princes are lineally descended from glorious Charlemaigne, once the most Augustious Emperor of Romans & Germans, & King of France, most Christian, and it was chief in consideration hereof, that they were preferred before many other Princes, & Potentates of great power in Germany, in the election of the Emperor, & namely before the Duke of Saxe, a Prince of great puissance, authority and command; notwithstanding that both Otho the 3. Emperor, & Pope Gregory the 5. which did ordain the sanction of the seven Electors (according as Blondus, Polydorus, Bergomensis, Nauclerus, Crantzius, Balaeus, and Egnatius do deliver) were both of them Princes of the house of Saxe, for the said Emperor Otho, belike considering with himself, how that he had done a greater wrong to Charlemaigne in bereaving his race of the Golden Crown of the Empire, by the means of his foresaid Electionary sanction or decree, them he had done, when as he opened his Sepulchre, and bereft his Corpse of the Golden Cross did hang about his neck (as Ditmarus, who lived in those days, doth write) for the which it is said that he was in his sleep visited & affrighted with a revengeful vision of the said Charlemaigne, menacing him with death, which shortly after did ensue: Otho, I say, considering the wrong aforesaid, done to Charlemaigne and his Race, endeavoured by all means to yield them some competent satisfaction, and therefore preferred the Count Palatine of the Rhine, being of the Imperial blood, and Male Race of Charlemaigne, before the Duke of Saxe, and the rest of the Princes of the Empire, in the foresaid Election. Besides, that the first Emperor, which was elected by the seven Electors, which was Henry the second, Duke of Bavier, being likewise a Prince of the Saxon blood, and afterwards enstiled Saint Henry, for his singular Piety & Chastity, as Vrspergensis, Frisingensis, Egnatius, Cuspinianus, & others do witness, he to make yet some further satisfaction to charlemagne Race, did both marry the daughter of Siffrid, Prince Palatine, named Cunegunde, and did likewise restore unto his brother-in-law Henry the first of this name, Prince Palatine, the Dukedom of Banier, as we learn out of Ditmarus & others. And it was, no doubt, in regard of their foresaid descent from Charlemaigne, that a certain super-Imperiall privilege was conferred unto the Palatine Prince, which is, as the golden Bul of the Emperor Charles the 4. doth bear, that he may, in some case, cite and summon the Emperor to appear and answer before him judicially.  
And because that in honour of the two most Noble Princes, lately married, Frederick & Elizabeth, we have drawn divers Pedigrees & descents, both from glorious Charlemaigne, and from many other Emperors, & Kings of divers countries, common to them both, especially seven; therefore me thought it good, to exhibit unto the readers a summary view of the same, reserving the more special handling thereof to another labour and work in Latin. In the first four of the said seven Pedigrees, common to both the said Princes, our most gracious Sovereign King james, & his most Noble son-in-law Prince Frederick are in one & the self same degree of descent from the 20 Emperors, and 24. King's therein mentioned. In the fifth Pedigree, our most gracious Queen Anne, and the said Prince, are likewise in one and the same degree of Descent, From the 4. Emperors and 3. King's therein named: And in th' sixth and seventh, Prince Frederick, and Princess Elizabeth do happily and jointly fall into one and the same degree of descent from the Emperor and 8. Kings contained therein: Likewise Prince Charles, and Prince Frederick, two brothers-in-law, are colineally descended from two-borne-brothers, to wit, from Henry prince Palatine, and Duke of Saxe the elder of the two, from whom Prince Frederick is in the 15. degree; and from Otho Earl of York and Emperor, the younger brother, from whom P. Charles Duke of York being likewise the younger, of the said two brothers-in-law, is descended, both on his fathers and his mother's side, in the 13. and 14. degree; though, as I noted otherwhere, some do hold that he had no children by any of his wives.  
The first of the foresaid seven common pedigrees containeth fifteen Emperors of Romans, Greeks', and Germans, with eight Kings of divers Countries, as namely, Germany, Bavier, (for anciently it was a Kingdom) Hungary, Boheme, Sicily, and England, whereof two Kings are therein specified: to wit, Edward the elder, and Henry 2. from whom P. Frederick is descended by both his daughters; to wit, Maude the elder, married to Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxe and Bavier, and Leonora the younger, married to Alphonse the 8. King of Castille, Whereby we may see that like as P. Frederick is descended from the Kings of England, so is King james likewise descended from divers of the German Emperors, especially by the means of his most Noble mother, and the most Illustrious house of Lorraine, whence it doth follow, that he is capable of the Imperial dignity, as being of the blood of Germany, and of the Empire.  
The second common Pedigree, containeth five Emperors of Constantinople, together with seven Kings of France, Hungary, Arragon, Valence, and Sicily.  
The third common Pedigree containeth seven Kings of England, Scotland, jerusalem, Castille, France, Naples, and Sicily; of which number, are Edmond Ironside, and Henry the first Kings of England, (besides King Henry the 2. mentioned in the first Pedigree) together with Malcolme Cammore King of Scotland.  
The fourth common Pedigree is from S. Lod●wicke, or Lewis the incomparable King of France, from whom King james, and Prince Frederick on their most Noble mother's side, Marry, and Lucy-Iuliane, are lineally descended in one and the same degree with King Lodowick the 13. of this name, being all three in the 12 degree.  
The fifth pedigree containeth four Emperors, and three Kings of Boheme, and Poland.  
The sixth pedigree containeth seven Kings of Arragon, Valence, France, Navarre, England, Castille, and Leon, of which number are Edward the 2. and Edward the 3. Kings of England, and john of Gant his son, Knight of the renowned Order of the Garter, Earl of Richmond, Derby, Leicester, and Lincoln, Palatine of Chester, Great Constable of France, and High Steward of England, Duke of Aquitane and Lancaster, and King of Castille and Leon; from whom prince Frederick, and princess Elizabeth are lineally descended, the one by his son. john Earl of Somerset, Marquis Dorset, the other by his daughter Philippe married to john King of Portugal, & both in the tenth degree, which is the eleventh from King Edward the 3. as the pedigree I have lately published doth show.  
The seventh and last Pedigree common to both the said Princes, is from Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bavier and Emperor, and his wife Margaret the Empress, and Countess of Holland; together with King john of France, from the which Emperor and Empress they are both in the 12 degree. So that the number of the Emperors contained in the said seven pedigrees. common to both, falleth out to be twenty & five; and the number of the Kings of divers countries therein specified, is thirty, and above; and even so many Kings besides 12. Emperors, have we found in the Princely descent of the Illustrious house of howard's, as we shall (God willing) show in another work.  
One thing there is, which the special affection I do bear to the honour of the name of james, will not suffer me to smother up, and that is; That our most gracious soveraign King james, the first of this name in Britanny, and likewise the first Christian uniter of the two kingdoms thereof, and the son & heir of a Matchless Q. Marry, together with his Noble son-in-law, P. Frederick are both of them in the 13. degree of lineal descent from james the first of this name, surnamed the Fortunate, son and heir of a worthy Queen Mary, and the uniting King of Arragon and Valence, of whom six famous Spanish Chroniclers, Rodericus Toletanus, Rodericus Sanctius, Alphonsus à Carthagena, Franciscus Tarapha, Lucius Marinius, and Damianus à Goes make most honourable mention. And from the same uniting King of Arragon, james the Fortunate, who was likewise the Author of two several Orders of Knighthood (as Polydorus, Zuingerus, and others do write) Prince Frederick, and Princess Elizabeth, are yet another way lineally descended, and that both in one & the same degree, of the number of fifteen. It is likewise worthy of observation, that whereas there have been but only two Emperors of the Palatine Family he●…●…e; the one a younger brother, and Duke of Baui●… 〈◊〉 Lodowicke the 5. the other an elder brother 〈◊〉 ●ount Palatine, which was Robert, surnamed t●… 〈◊〉 ●hat the two Princes lately married, are descended equally from them both, with their Empresses, Margaret and Elizabeth; from the first two, both in the 12 degree; and from the other two, He in the 9 & She in the 10 degree. And my hearty wish is, that these two names aforesaid, Margaret and Elizabeth may prove as lucky Imperially, for frederic and Elizabeth's Imperial preferment in Germany, as the same names have heretofore done royally for King james their father's royal preferment in Britanny.  
It is also worth the noting, that as there have been as yet but only two Emperors of the Palatine family, so have they had a very different fortune in their acceptance towards the Pope; for Lodowicke the 5. Duke of Bavier, and Emperor, as is said before, from whom Prince Frederick is the 12, was highly hated of Benedict the 12, and before him, yet more, of john the 22 (whose name is so numerous, that he might have well said with the unclean spirit in the Gospel, my name is Legion) and yet after him of a third pope, Clement the 6. The which three pope's (most like the three Furies) did no other thing else, from day to day, but heap hellish sentence upon sentence of excommunication & deprivation against the good Emperor; who not withstanding all their Infernal fulminations, and Cerbereall oblatrations, received more honour in Rome, at the hands of both Clergy & Laity there, than they all three did in Avignon; and in spite of the Devil, lived longer in the Empire, than they all three did in the Papacy. But who list to learn more of the quarrels and contentions between the good Emperor Lodowick, and the foresaid three evil pope's of Avignon, let them read the histories of Blondus, Sabellicus, Merula, Cuspinianus, and Thomas Walsingham, who likewise do tell, how that Edward the third, King of England, who went over into Germany to salute the said Emperor, & to treat of an alliance with him against France, was met of the said Emperor at Colein, and admitted to be his Vicar general in the Empire. And the same lodowick's father, named Lodowicke the Severe, Prince Palatine, together with his brother Henry, Duke of Bavier, had likewise chosen Richard, Earl of Cornwall, son of King john, to be Emperor; like as Robert the first of this name, Prince Palatine, (for this Title is in Aurea Bulla as well as that of Count Palatine) did choose the foresaid King Edward the third, to be Emperor after the death of Lodowicke the 5. though he (too modestly indeed) refused the said dignity. By which particulars we may espy how that the Palatine Princes have been in former times very officious to the Kings of England, and their children; hoping that they shall hereafter prove yet more officious & forward in the same kind, then ever they have done before, to the end that old prophecies may take effect, which do promise, that the Imperial dignity shall for many years continue in Britanny, as our Sibylla Britannica shall largely show.  
The other Emperor of the Palatine house, was Robert, surnamed the Noble, who reigned in great honour, 9 years and 9 months, from whom prince Frederick is the 9) as the pedigree lately published doth show) and who was so highly beloved of pope Boniface the 9 that he not only furthered and confirmed his election, but also granted him, towards a subsidy, one years tithes of the Clergy, through all Germany, as Cuspinianus and others do write. So that this good Pope in doing this good office, and in using so well the worthy Emperor, did answer to his name, and was a Boniface indeed, far otherwise then did Benedictus the 12. and Clement the 6 in the behalf of the other Palatine Emperor named before. And for mine own part, I wish with all my heart that many such Bishops may sit in the Apostolical Chair, as may both in their own persons give unto God the things that are Gods, & unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and with blessed S. Peter, teach all Christians to fear God, & honour the King. The foresaid Robert the good Emperor, & who was so highly beloved of the good pope Boniface the 9 was a prince renowned for his great spirit, quick wit, heroical courage, for his love and study of justice, (for the which cause he was surnamed Robertus justimanus) & for his careful endeavouring to repair the ancient glory of the Empire. He came into England with a goodly company (as Fabian & Cooper do write) in the year 1403. to see the magnificence of the Court, and the commodities of the Country, who of King Henry the 4. was honourably & triumphantly received & feasted; and during his abode lodged at S. john's by Smithfield: & lastly conveyed towards the seaside, where either departed from other with exchange of rich & precious gifts: for this Robert (saith our said English Author) was a prince of great bounty, liberality, and magnificence, and showed divers effects thereof towards the English at his departure. He was likewise the first Emperor that ever aware S. George's renowned order, commonly called, The Order of the Garter, as Maximilian the 2. another glorious Emperor was the eighth. He was likewise the first of the three Palatines, which have been honoured with the foresaid noble Order; john Casimire being the second, who received it at the hands of famous Queen Elizabeth, about the same time of the year, & day of the month, (to wit, the 8. of February) that P. Frederick being the third, received it at the hands of our gracious K. james. The said Emperor Robert's wife was named Elizabeth the Empress, & princess Palatine, and was a Lady of singular virtue, piety, bounty, chastity & charity towards the poor; who brought forth to her worthy husband many fine children, to wit, five sons, by the means of the youngest whereof, P. Frederick is descended from the said Emperor & Empress in the 9 degree; & three daughters, by the means of the eldest whereof, named Margaret, princess Elizabeth is likewise descended from them in the 10 degree; the which numbers in them united, make up K. james his luckily number of Nineteen. Thus we see; that like as our most gracious King james, with his hopeful children, prince Charles, & princess Elizabeth are lineally descended from two Margaret's, and one Elizabeth of Britain, being the renowned daughters of prince Edward, surnamed the Outlaw: K. Edward the 4. and K. Henry the 7. in whose tripled right (the two Margaret's being married to two kings of Scotland, Malcolme Cammore, and james the 4.) he doth at this day happily and rightfully enjoy this Crown. So are they likewise descended lineally from other two Margaret's & an Elizabeth of Germany, to wit, from Margaret Countess of Holland, Duchess of Bavier, & Empress, wife to Lodowicke the Emperor, from Elizabeth Duchess of Bavier, princess Palatine, and Empress, wife to Robert the Emperor: and sustly, from Margaret, Duchess of Lorraine, the eldest daughter of the said Robert the Emperor, and Elizabeth the Empress, and who was married to the most noble and valorous prince Charles, surnamed Marcelle, or the warlike Duke of Lorraine, from whom I have derived our hopeful P. Charles his pedigree; and that as well on his noble mothers as on his happy father's side, and yet more from Emperors, Kings and Princes of the name of Charles, to the number of 9 besides those of other names, as also I have done from P. Albert, Marquis of Brandeburge, who for his incomparable courage was called the Achilles of Germany; wishing with all my heart, that like as prince Charles was borne on his day, & doth participate of his blood, so he may likewise inherit his heroical prowess, and so one day be enstiled the Achilles of Britanny: the which our hearty wish is more fully expressed in an Astrological and Historical poem made upon his Nativity. And thus for the present are we contented to shut up this genealogical sum with this six-line-Epigram, in honour of Frederick and Elizabeth, whom the God of heaven prosper and preserve.  
Both from Augustus and Augusta spring  
Lodwicke-Margret, Robert-Elizabeth,  
Both in one month jove to the light did bring.  
Augustus' named, which this good presage hath:  
AUGUSTUS' fate one day must them befall,  
And him AUGUSTUS, her AUGUSTA call.  
FINIS.