Frontispicij & seqq. Enarratio Historica, Or a Declaration of the Frontispiece or first Page, wherein in intimated the whole Scope of the Poem, and not obscurely, the complete platform of this ensuing History.  
A Stately Nymph of Nereus' train,  
Wave-bred in the Virgivian Maine,  
Cleped Albion, kept ere-whiles,  
So famous erst the Fortunate 
a Under which name of beatarum Insularum, & Fortunatae, alluding to Hesiods words and other Fables of the greeks, it seems the ancient Romans pointed out these British Isles; see more in the end of the 5. Ode.  Isles!  
Whose treasures, as of equal price,  
With Hesperid's Fruit and Colchos Fleece,  
Brave Knights to seek Adventures came,  
To win this wealth, and court this Dame;  
From 
b Samothes supposed to be Mesech.  Syria one, a next from 
c Albion, son of the Greeks, (if not some other) Neptune.  Greece,  
The third 
d The Giant Race of Inhabitants.  a homebred churlish piece,  
A Brute from 
e Brutus' descended of Aeneas.  Troy, the 
f Mulmutius descended of the same Trojan Line, and near kin to the last Kings, descended from Brute.  fifth near kin,  
The one quells Devils, 
g Brutus overcame the Giants, reputed of Antiquity to have been the Race of Danaus' Daughters and Devils; Mulmutius the seditious Britons in the Heptarchy.  t'other Men;  
A sixth from 
h Caesar.  Rome, and next from 
i Hengist the Saxon, of the Germane Nation, whose chief River is the Rhine.  Rhine,  
The eighth 
k Sweno with his Danes inhabiting Gimbrica Chersonesus.  from Cymbria, ninth from 
l William the Conqueror; from Normandy a Duchy of France.  Seyne:  
All these were Warriors, all these came,  
By dint of Sword to purchase Fame!  
But comes a 
m King james crowned King of Scotland at a year old.  tenth in show more mild,  
A crowned King even from a Child,  
And though new-Lords, new-Lawes! yet strange,  
New-Lord, nor Law nor State did change;  
Because, perhaps this peaceful Imp,  
Or so loved Albion, or fair Nymph  
Most loved by her: To see their Glories,  
Whereof they vaunt; behold their Stories.  
To win this Nymph, her wealth or favour,  
The 
n Samothes, whose dark antiquity representeth a bright shine of Honour.  Syrian first, who came to crave her,  
Bore Arms through eld, obscure and dark,  
Seems his great Grandsire Noah's Ark;  
Next 
o Albion, whose father Neptune's trident Mace, was the token of his chief Honour, and rule, as god of the Sea.  Neptune's son of Paynim Race,  
Talks of his Father's Trident Mace,  
The third a Gyant-Satyr wild,  
Pan-like in show, and Chambered styled!  
The fourth from Troy, Venus his Guide,  
Brute doth one crown in three divide.  
The 
p Mulmutius son of Clotenus Duke of Cornwall, who established Peace after a bloody Schism.  fifth again of five makes one,  
Happy Cornish Prince, blessed union.  
sixth Caesar vaunts his 
q From whence they gloried to be descended.  gods at Rome,  
His Eagle and Troy's Trophies some:  
The 
r Hengist, whose Saxon Successors conquered all England, but divided the same among them into seven petty Kingdoms till Egbert who erected it to a Monarchy.  seventh next with his seven fold Crown  
And Saxon Horse, would bear all down.  
The eighth the 
s Whose Arms & Ensigne were ordinary the Raven, Emblem of rapacity, for such were the Danes Rapines rather then Conquests.  Dane, in arms by stealth,  
Sought win, or wed, or wear her wealth.  
And 
t William the Conqueror, then taking advantage of grievous broils.  ninth, advanced amongst these Misrules  
His Norman Leopards, bathed in Gules!  
But now the 
u King james uniting the long divided and dissentious Realms of England and Scotland.  tenth sans strife or Wars,  
Brings Peace and Union, stints all jars.  
Give sentence then, if any crave;  
Who best deserves this Nymph to have.   


THE HISTORY OF GREAT BRITTANY from the first peopling of this Island to this present Reign of our happy and peaceful Monarch K: JAMES, by Will: Slatyer.  
London Printed by W: Stansby. for Rich: Meighen, and are to be sold at his shop at St. Clement's Church.    

POTENTISSIMO, SIMULAC SERENISSIMO, JACOBO, Magnae Britanniae Monarchae, cui se suamque PALAE-ALBIONEM dicat, consecrátque, Authoris Epiphonema.  
GReat Britain's King, sprung from great'st wights;  
Who claym'st just right, in all their rights,  
From JAPHETS' sons first, comes thy Grace,  
As all our Northern people's Race!  
And as for ALBION his intrusion,  
And Chambered Giants fell confusion,  
Disclaim it. All the rest of them,  
That e'er wore England's Diadem,  
Danes, Saxons, British, Romans came,  
With Normans Arms, and TEVDOR'S Name,  
Derived to thee, whom Scotland's Throne  
With all her Isles, calls her dear own:  
To thee my humble Muse doth bend  
These Stories of thine own thus penned.  
Deign to receive, she prays, in worth,  
Till graver golden Pens step forth,  
To blaze praiseworthy acts, whose posies  
French Lillyes with the English Roses,  
Shall sweetly wreath about that Lyre,  
Which we and all the World admire.  
And for great'st persons oft, great'st grace  
Afforden: makes me bring in place,  
And lay what of their rights I sing,  
Just at thy feet, great Britain's King.   

Odarum ordo, numerus, & nomina Disticho comprehensa.  

Vestra Mesech ¹, Chemnita ², Gygas ³, laus Brute ⁴, tuique ⁵  
Laurea jule ⁶, Angli ⁷, Sueno ⁸, Celtaque ⁹; Oliva Iacobi10.   

With Samothes ¹, Albion ², Giants ³, Brute ⁴, comes peaceful ⁵ Prince Donwallo,  
Caesar ⁶, Hengist ⁷, Sweno ⁸, William ⁹, JAMES ¹⁰, fair Vnion-Iem done follow.    

TO THE WELL-AFFECTED AND INGENIOUS, OR NO MORE CURIOUS THAN COURTEOUS READERS.  
Fairly disposed Friends: Since the world (of Critics) for custome-sake at least, would take it else in scorn; it being grown so coy and squeamish, or, good City-Dame, so much affecting, as we see, Court fashion, that with an oily tongue she must be complemented with; otherwise in stead of courtesy nothing but curiosity can be expected. Bowing therefore to, rather than of singularity offering to infringe her doted-on Darlings customary proceedings, that Momus so might have less cause to carp and mow at what he cannot mend, or Zoilus to bite and snarl at it, by this importunity I yield to be thus ceremonious, Preface-wise to salute a World of (some captious and capricious, no doubt, others more friendly) Readers; and thyself, perhaps, a more judicious, and so less supercilious Censurer: for satisfaction to such thyself, being somewhat here is to be said of this ensuing Treatise; let me find favour to be borne with, in speaking these few words, more for fashion sake then else, of that thou knowest before, or canst not but streightways collect, from the but viewing the first Pages of this present History.  
History her Encomium needs not far fetching, so frequent in our mouths, the Life, Light, and Mistress of Prudence: Life of past; Light of present; Directress of future actions: memorizing Monument, and Trophy of the world's ages and minority; Glass of Time; History so conspicuous in itself, enueyled in the robes of Poesy, if worthily commendable, in many a famous foreign Nations gests, I may well think it no ways disallowable in our own; however obscurity like a Cymmerian night, hath overclouded the infancy of this our Island! still bearing sway with most, thereby yet proving us not degenerate in that, from our not curious Ancestors, in conservation of Antiquities, we quit as little, if not less industrious to observe and note the same! when notwithstanding, with the envious Man's, and curious, our eyes gaze on our Neighbour's ground, his manners, seldom looking to ourselves, near home. We better skill the wars of Troy and Thebes, with the Pharsalian fields, the halfe-feyned fights of Hercules, Achilles Turnus, Hector and Aeneas, (I will not say of Amadis, Don Quixot, and such like) then as Heroic, if not more warlike, and worthy to be renowned martial spirits of our own; Danes, Saxons, Romans, Normans, Britons, and other noble Captains here at home; the great Britannicus Caesar's, Cassivelane, Guider, Hengist, Arthur, Egbert, Rollo, Alfred, Marcia's, Elfled's, and their equals, as truly glorious and worthy Wights, in this our Sea-encompast little Bryttaine-World, as ever were those halfe-deified and Pagan-sainted Heroes, of whose acts Homer and Hesiods, the Mantuan and Theban Poets lays in that so famous and triumphant wise resound! yet than I fear, we should not be the true, plain, downright, shall I say, or fantastic Englishmen, if Apes, Toys, Monkeys, Parrots, and Baboons, or yond-sea Owls, other Country-far-fetcht and newfangle fashions, were not more fancy-able to our brainsick humours, and plausible to our nice palates, than wiser and better objects, more profitable and fitting matters, in stayed and settled judgements, nearer concerning both ourselves and native home. Which being so, sans envy be it spoken, for correcting our too generally corrupted judgements, in applause of any novel monstrous (I might say Monsters) manners, as more especially strangers gugawes, and to the present purpose, foreign stories near or far before our own; whereby the same lie more untrimd and trodden under foot; since, what Scholars study see we? as nor Merchants traffic for those things, how good soe'er, that are but seldom sought for, want vent, and are not saleable. This yet, incited me the more to try new ways, that Novelty itself, and Novelists fancying fancy pleased, and others, the best at least, contented, Albion and her Worthies might by this means, at all hands receive some, though the meanest part of their true lustre, due, ancient and deserved glory.  
The aim of this discourse, the full scope of our British history, so divided, that according to the ten great Real or apparent changes of Estate, each several Book or Ode, from such mutation, take their subject and beginning in historical order, and from some party of prime note, denomination; the first treating of our first Founder Samothes and his succession called Samothes; the second Albion, of him chief actor in the same; the third the Giants of their rude regiment; the fourth named Brute, of his next stablishing a Kingdom; fifth Mulmutius, of his reuniting the distracted Provinces; sixth Caesar, of his conquest, and the Roman Caesar's government; the seventh entitled Hengist, of his foundation of the Saxon Heptarchy; eight Sueno, of his, and the then rapines and oppressions of the Danes; ninth Gulielmus, of his Norman conquest; tenth jacobus, of him a plant of that pacifique Olive, fortunate Peacemaker, of famous memory HENRY the seventh; now anew also planting peace, and uniting four Kingdoms; whose other stories on that occasion are briefly there displayed. In all which passages, what is less lightsome, or delightsome, impute it, if not to the obscurity and harshness of the matter, to his weakness, that yet was and is willing, far as able, to give all best contentment in that kind. That Poesy should shadow History, such 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and pleasant study, I may hope to find out Patrons for protection, as well as patterns, and those right ancient and worthy, for imitation and excuse! What novel is should not for novelty distaste; the English Poem gloss to the stranger Idiom, that speaks perhaps such barbarous States-matters, like our English Laws, but rude; the marginal notes serving for illustration to them both, supplying the defects, guiding and supporting the course of History: other Annotations, analysis, or Explications proposing order, pointing at method, light and life of all discourse; as they cannot but yield some profit, however painful and laborious to me, I wish to thee as useful and commodious, not doubting then thy well acceptance of the same! The Title, suiting to the Treatise, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉- Albion, or Antiqua-Albion, should seem to promise Albion's antiquities, and ancient story of our Isle! if alluding to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉- Olbion, as thou favourest one, happily enjoy the other; and as a Favourite of Albion mayst thou be favoured in the highest Olbion; for whose sakes I say, and wish to say,  
Sentio quâ Natale solum dulcedine Cunctos  
Sentio quâ Coeleste solum dulcedine Sanctos  
Ducit, ut immemores non sinat esse sui.  
Not censuring before thou read; not reading with prejudicate opinions of thine own or others; and not condemning all, before thou have read all. As I shall much expect such censure, and approve it; so shall I most respect the Censurer! I will not be so rash or harsh to say, commend, or else comemend; yet do conclude thus with the Poet,  
Siquid novisti rectius istis,  
Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.  
GULIEL. SLATYER.   

Typus brevis, sive Analysis totius operis, poematis scilicet Historici, quae PALAE-ALBION inscribitur.  
This Treatise or Poem, according to the ten several great mutations and changes of the state or name of this Island, is divided into ten Books, or  

Odes, Whereof the  
1. Containeth, after an assertion of the story, a brief description of Britain and Ireland, with the first succession of Kings from Samothes descended, A. M. 1787. till Albion, A. 2200. by the space of 400. years.  
2. A second race of Kings: Albion and Bergion, with their descent; according to the ancient and Greek Histories, also an illustration of the present and domestic, as well as some foreign Antiquities and Genealogies, together with their defeat by Hercules, circa Annum 2250.  
3. The Anarchy or Interregnum of the Giants, that succeeded Albion and Hercules, from A. 2300. till Brute, A. 2850. being 500 years & upwards.  
4. Brute, and his succession, Kings of this Island, from A. 2850. till Malmutius Dunwallo, A. 3500. above 600. years.  
5. Malmutius and his race Kings here, till the Romans Conquest under julius Caesar, which was A. 3900. about 400. years.  
6. Caesar's Conquest, and the Romans Government in Britain, by their Precedents, and Deputy-Kings, from julius Caesar's to Valentinians days, A. 4400. near 500 years.  
7. The seven Kingdoms of the Saxons: begun in Hongist, A. 4400. And reduced from Heptarchy into Monarchy, by Egbert, King of West- Saxons, A. 4800. after near 400. years.  
8. The often invasions and rapines of the Danes, so continually vexing the Land, and the Kings of England from Egberts' time, till Harold and William the Conqueror, Anno Christi 1060. near 300. years.  
9 The Norman Conquest: William the Conqueror and his issue, Kings of England: with the bloody faction and schism between the houses of Lancaster and York, ended in Henry the seventh, in whose issue also the Realms of England and Sotland grew united, after 500 years from the Conquest.  
10. The happy descent of King james from Henry the seventh, whereby the union of the two Kingdoms of England is accomplished, as under one Prince, so flourishing under one name of great Britain. In the end a brief touch of the Scottish, Irish, and French Histories.    

A more perfect and particular Type or Analysis of the first Book or Ode.  
The first Ode containeth,  
1. As a Proaemium, a general deducing of History from the beginning, and Noah: with an assertion of the story, and antiquities of this Island, compared with those of other Nations, especially of these Neighbouring and Northern Countries.  
2. A brief description, both of the People's and Situations of the Lands of great Britain and Ireland: according to the Rules (in so compendious limits) of chorography, Geographie, and History.  
3. The History and succession of the first race of Kings here, viz. Samothes, A. M. 1800. his son Magus, his son Sarron, his son Druis, his son Bardus, his son Longho, and successor Bardus 2. in whose time Albion and Bergion obtained the Dominion of Britain and Ireland.   


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode prima, Inscripta SAMOTHES.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Prima palaephatiâ Samothen Sobolemque papyro, 
Series Poematis in hac margine.   
Samotheae Dominos ceu not at Oda canit;  
Albion adveniens fatalia donec in arua,  
Pellit eos, statim pulsus & ipse cadit.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Institutum operis: & occasione arreptâ, opera Creationis; Rerum tam omnium, quam impraesentiarum primordia.  
VIsam Laurigero sacrata palatia Phoebo,  
Dodonique jovis patulas, Oracula Graijs,  
Quercus! Parnassi Colleis, & Phocidos aruae,  
Sacrorum saltus Memorum, Hyantaeaque Rura;  
Pierij Laticis Decus ô Decus omne, Sorores,  
Nymphae, noster Amor, Libethrides, Aurea Virgo,  
Gorgophora, 
Institutum operis & Votum.  & Paeon, linguis animisque favete;  
Et Dea Mnemosine, pandens ab Origine primâ,  
Mecum Dic Britoneses, populos & Praelia Reges:  
Heroumque Ducumque Britannûm parta Trophaea;  
Monstraiter! Aonios superabo, Te Duce, Saltus.  
quam fuit aut Tellus, aut Quod tegit omnia, Coelum,  
Sive aequor glaucum, 
Narratio, in qua exquirltur origo Mundi, secundo Gentium, ac De●nceps Britonum.  Chaos & Lis omnis in Orb est!  
Liteque Dir●ptâ, fulserunt sydera Coelis;  
Fronde tegi syluas, cingi Labentia rivis  
Flumina, protendi Campos, surgescere Colleis  
Fecit: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Valles subsidere. Littora fluctus  
Insano fremitu pulsando tumescere Ventis.  
Terra feris, aqua pisce, repletus & Alite fulgens  
Aer, non Regio ulla suis animalibus Orba;  
Aureus egit iter super aethera Apollo, Madentes  
Nube cadunt Imbres submota, 
Creationis series.  Maximus Atlas  
Sydereis humeris levat astra cadentia, Prodit  
Res Quaevis, Quocunque Modo aedita Lucis in Oras!  
Tum Zonis Coelum, omnipotens pater ille, 
Mundi, per parteis, ordinatio & dispositio.  secari  
jussit; Parte gradus istâ nix altaretardat,  
Parte aliâ torrent sudantis Brachia Cancri:  
Innocuas vireis, exercent flamine venti,  
Persidaque Eurus adit, Nabathaeaque regna; recessit  
Auster ad Aethiopes; positique sub axe tepentes  
Hesperio Zephyri! Boreae spirantia Thracis,  
Frigora saeva Scytho-taurûm famulantur in oris.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Hominis formatio, lapsus, Gygantes, & Diluvium.  
TErra recens partu, producens Plasma decorum, 
Prima hominis formatio.   
Induit ignotas hominum (res mira) figuras:  
In se fusaque habet Divinae semina mentis.  
Natus homo è terrâ colit ex quâ creverat ipse,  
Glebam, tuta sedet Pinus, non montibus altis  
Caesa erat, ut poterat peregrinam visere terram;  
Non tuba, bella canunt, strepitu non cornuarauco;  
Aurea tunc vere fuerant ea pristina saecla: 
Descriptio Paradisi, sive Aureae aetatis. & Lapsus hominis. ac demum Gygansomachiae.   
Poma cibi, fruticesque; fluebant Nectare Rivi,  
Lacte greg●s, duro stillabant roscida mella  
Cortice, dona Ceres nullo cogente ministrat.  
Fraga rubent nascentia humi, lapidosaque Corna;  
Ver tepet aeternum! sed iam meliore cadebat,  
Ante statû, quo natus homo; verumque fidesque,  
Fugêre, instrârunt furor & sine lege libido:  
Affectando, ferunt, Coelestiaregna Gyganteis,  
Velle jovem superis regem detrudere Regnis.  
Hij sceleraimponunt sceleri, super Ossan Olympum,  
Multaque moliti Diuûm conscendere sedes;  
Quae Pater ac summa vidit Lucetius Arce,  
Insidias hominum iratus probitate carenteis,  
Foeda Lycaoneae referens convivia mensae,  
Consilium stetit humanum genus efferum & excors,  
Perdere aquis! Nymbis Auster flwialis anhelis, 
Diluvij caussa, & Descriptio.   
Suffultus celer Aeolio de carcere fugit:  
Flumina non iniussaruunt per rura, per agros,  
Perque hominum villas; Latis spaciatur in oris,  
Aequor caeruleum! migrans Neptunus in arua,  
Campos & colleis spissâ perfundit arenâ!  
Cumque satis arbusta rapit, pecudesque virosque;  
Nat Lupus inter Oueis, Fuluos vehit unda Leones,  
Tigres aqua! ablato minime velocia Ceruo  
Prosunt crura; diuterris ubi sistere posset  
Quaesitis, lassis volucris vaga decidit alis:  
Omnia Pontus erat, nec habent quae littora pulsent,  
Flumina Nereides sub aquis, urbeisque domosque  
Mirantur, syluis ludunt Delphines in altis:  
Qui vir de tot erat modo millibus ecce superstes,  
Cnm consorte thori, sibi coniugibusque receptis,  
Pignoribusque datis, vectus rate sospes adhaesit,  
Montibus Armenijs! Edocti ita Moseos ore, 
Diluvij cessatio & Mundi inter Nohae posteros divisio.   
Crediderant Patres; Monumentaque sacra revoluunt;  
Prole sua toto qui restaurabat in orbe,  
Humanum genus, ut mundi melioris origo!  
Nec lamen ut cautum est, scelerata evanuit aetas,  
In meliúsue redacta fuit, Gygantúmue  
Anguipedum soboles, prodeunt sceleraomnia in aewm;  
Ille suae soboli terras partitur, & unus,  
Relliquiae miserae mersae, primordia Gentis,  
Alterius renovae, prolem dimisit in omnem  
Terram, sole suo lustratam ubi vertitur axis  
Fulgidus & minimè freta stricta gelu aurea tingunt  
Sydera, 
Historia Nohae, & Gnatorum.  Bubsequa neué cadentia plaustra secutus;  
Aethiopes ultra nigros Garamantas & Indos.  
Corniger unci Apis primus monstrator aratri,  
Mizriam ad Aegypti devenerat ora fluentis  
Nyli; sub Zephyro colit Hespera limina Tubal;  
Magog adit Tanais ripas Scythiamque nivosam;  
Ille quoque Europam, dictus quod finijt illam,  
Quam recolunt homines terram, Gomer; Arcades illic,  
Climate in Arctoo potiuntur sede & Olympo.  
Teque canunt prolemque tuam, res dignarelatu,  
Nos canimus Grandaeve Mesech; Quem saecla subacta,  
Illustrem norunt Rhutupino in littore Regem.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Vt Europaearum, ac Borealium magis ita Britanniarum Gentium Origo, & Laudes.  
QVid Cretes Britonen? Quae Nympha inferre parantem,  
Vim Minoa sibi, fugit; commisit & undis  
●leutenerum Corpus rapidis! Quid Pryton Araxes  
Gnatum, Brytannis memorem dare nomina Regnis?  
Vestra japhet Samothen soboles! Chem creta Gygantes,  
Albiona! Bruti proles sedêre Brytannis  
Oris! Angliacis habitârunt finibus Angli.  
Sed quid ego moror hisce, 
Vt nom●● Brit sonat.  recenseoque ab Ioue gentem?  
Seu Bruti soboles, seu Picti, * seu Gomeraei,  
Dives opum patria est, nec si generosa probatis  
Stemmata, 
De Britannicae gentis Nobilitate, discertatio, quorum laus petita, & satis conspicua.  nonne sat est quod sint sine crimine Mores;  
Nec tam aversus equos nostro sol iungit ab orbe,  
Non obtusa adeò gestamus pectora, Néue  
Ingenia illepidus septentrio frigore stringit!  
Quid doteis animi referam? 
Ex Moribus, Dotibus Animi, & Corporis, Sosijs; & eiusdem Rei Amplificatio, à patriae situ,  Corpúsue labores  
Posse pati? certè populi, quos despicit Arctos,  
Viribus utque animi invictis, ita corpore pollent;  
Flectere ludus equos & mittere spicula cornu,  
Sive forum retinet, sive unctae dona palestrae,  
Enitet utraque laus! & nunquam ociosa iwentus  
Venatu invigilant; modo rus geniale colendo  
Exercent vireis; & concutere oppida bello:  
Durum à stirpe genus Maeotiacasque paludeis,  
Qui circa Tanain habitant, & Phasios undas:  
Massagetes qui fugit equo, Pictusque Gelonus,  
Et fera quos homines producit Taurica Tellus,  
Noruagenus, Dacus, Scythicus trucis incola jernes,  
Sauromataeque leues, & quos Germania mittit,  
Dalmata, Maenapî, Cymbri! virideisque Britannos  
Adiungam; longisque leveis Axônas in armis:  
Caussa nec est, cur heîc despecta habeatur origo,  
Arua quòd haec late Boreas, septemque Triones  
Stringunt! solantur mentem Rhodopeiae arces,  
Altaque Pangaea, & Rhaesi mavortia tellus:  
Hebrus itemque Getae! nunquam viduata pruinis,  
Riphaeis, perfusa nivis conspergine tota  
Arua ora: Claróue celebria quae loca fastu,  
Edita iam quae non neque laeserat Inuida fama; 
Sua aliarumque gentium origine,   
Gentibus his Italus natus, Longiusúe remotis  
Exoritur Francus, Germanus, laesus Iberus;  
Pannonius satus, eque hoc stemmate Alemanus ortus:  
Quasque ferunt Arceis Antenora condere: (qui de  
Troia prosiliens olim, medijsque Mycenis,  
Turbae urbem fessis, 
Periculis, & tum suis, aliorumque consimilibus casibus,  posuit super ora Timavi:)  
Sanguine misceri Scythico, rea Iberaque tellus.  
Illius immunis non Anglica terra pericli,  
Quando Scythae toto debacchabantur in orbe:  
Quòd modò contulerint, fari horret perbreue tempus,  
Hellespontiacâ damnum numerosius Alga!  
Laevaque siqua fuit, sors semper laeva meorum,  
Dente Theomno si velles laedere laudem,  
Sunt urbes captae, sunt terrae, deijcere auram  
Fama adulatricem; ut cnm iam praedixeris omnia,  
Obtrectes aliis famam quoque, liuide morsor,  
Morsor habes quodque Inuideas, praeclara nepotum  
Stirpis avita suae gesta! & modo certius illo,  
Cum virtute patrum semper memorabile nomen;  
Ergo ubi livor abest, quae belli palma Britannis  
Mansit adhuc, steteratque diu fuit aut vigor ingens  
Ille animi! ut micuitque patrum longe inclyta virtus,  
Consule scripta virûm clarorum, & Carmina vatum:  
Namque uti non semper fautrix, neque semper acerba,  
Caeca sibi Diua, & Dociles non parcerc parcae,  
Persa potens olim! & iam Media concutis orbem,  
Duxque Philippiades Macedum, 
& Infortunijs ac denuò,  ditione premebas;  
Gentibus ille Ninus qui transtulit omnibus arma,  
Caedit awm, incoluit primus qui Persidos oris,  
Bactra auro, ac gemma pretiosa ditia Regna,  
Assyrioque prior rex Rege Aegyptus & alter,  
Sarmaticus Tanais vastant vicinia Bello!  
Sed neque Persepolis, nec quam ipsa Semyramis urbem  
Conduit, coctilibus Babylon circundata muris;  
Perpetuò sua colla superba levarit ad astra:  
Néue suo assuescat diffuso gurgite in ora  
Septem, Nilus aquis, spolijs gazisque repletas,  
Ferre rateis Ebeno Indo oneratas; Quamque tulisse  
Telam depectunt sylua Gangetide Scres!  
Semper Saurobates fugiatné, Semiramis, Iras?  
Flumine deiectum quem viderat Indus aquoso;  
Subdita vel Scythico Pontus virosa Tyranno?  
Roma ingum imposuit populis, Lassisque resurgens  
Viribus, usque potens per saecula Graecia multa!  
Sed fugit, & mundi volat irreparabilis aetas,  
Quodque fuit non est, neque erit, quod perstet in orbe.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive infortuniorum quorundam excusatio.  
ILle graveis Persas, qui subijcit, atque superbus,  
Fine redit Lybies, victor, Gangetide terra,  
Portando palmas, 
per Romanos subiugatione;  Brytannicus esse superbit;  
Cum neque adhuc sciret, quid sit pendere tributuns  
Romanis rerum Dominis, Brito! Moenia Troiae,  
Quae modo despectis, duce cumque Atriade, Achivis,  
Olympia Aurorigena nigro sub Memnone in Armis,  
Defendere diu, non tanti erat Indica bello  
Agmina vicisse, & Parthos superare fugaces,  
Medosué Italidas Generosos! ut Latijsue  
Hospes Dardanius, profugus, fera bella colonis,  
Concitet! Indomitis, plus, julius arma Britannis,  
Intulit & potuit bello domuisse feroceis!  
Quis Deus opposuit Phrygibus Phrygas? aut duce quo vel  
Numine vel furia, 
Epiphonema.  vertêre in viscera ferrum?  
Ilus & Assaracus Genitor sua stemmata clara,  
Trosque parens faciunt, & Troiae Cynthius author!  
Vtque suae stirpis, nostri sis carminis! O ter  
Principe te dignus fuero, Sol Candide, foelix:  
Phoebeiae Comites, Parnassi favete Choraea;  
Combibat & vates Latices è fontibus haustos,  
Sic ego, sic qui Delon amat, velit, & juga Cynthi,  
Idque Canam, quod non Deus ipse referre recuset!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Britanniae Topographia.  
TRans Gessoriacum mare, Gallica littora contra,  
Insula in Oceano est, 
Britanniae Illustratio. à  divisa Britannia ab orbe,  
Gallûm in conspectu tellus; notissima Fama!  
Faucibus angustis, Gemini heic ubi janua Ponti,  
Caerulus ille pater spumantia littora fluctû  
Concutit irato; Morinûm de littore ad Anglos,  
Traiectus brevis: usque citò, 
situ & situatione, à  prora illita hiulcet,  
Littus utrumque maris, Dorobe●●●● finibus Anglis,  
Labenteis undas, Gallorum à parte Caletae,  
Mirantur, celerique vident freta concita cursu;  
Nereus aequoreos Britannos ambit, & huius  
Forma triquetra patet residentis rupibus albis  
Insulae, 
qualitate loci postea, unde  Hybernos quae sustinet undique fluctus!  
Angulus ad Gallos, quibus Auster nubila anhelat,  
In mare progreditur, Rhutupinum littus apertum;  
Promontoriolum, sed longè, flumina Ibera,  
Belerium, Zephyri qua molles, spectat Hybernos!  
Ora ubi Iwernae cincta est sub sole cadenti,  
Vergivio Oceano: Scotiam secluserit Orcas,  
A Scythi Hyperboreas turbante Aquilonibus undas:  
Orcades & validum positae inter Scotum & Hybernen,  
Aebudes Oceano apparent, ut Sporades inter  
Aegaeos fluctus, Terrarumque ultima Thule:  
Germanùm terras, Euri si respicis Ortum,  
Vidimus Aurorae iuga subdita Matutinae!  
Germanisque Ortus, Phoebus cadit inter Iberos,  
Oceani immergens liquidis caput aureus undit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Encomium Britanniae.  
SEd nimium neque stricta gelu, 
Laudes.  neque sydere ferues,  
Insula, Dives opum, studijsque asperrima belli,  
Sedes antiqua, atque satis famosa cygantum;  
O nostrae regionis opes! ô florida prata,  
Pascuaque & Colles, dumi, campique virences!  
Cincta ô frondoso nemore, alta cacumina montium,  
Vmbrosaeque specus, liquentia flumine rura!  
Frugiferae valles, zephyri praedulcia anheli,  
Flamina, syluarum saltus, flwijque, lacusque,  
Muscosi fontes, & quae circumfluus humor  
Irrigat arua, hortos, mandataque semina terrae;  
Totius ac terrae Tempe celebrata per oras  
Thessala! cuius opes si possem ac ditia dona,  
Dicere, 
Vberior expatiatio, in Britanniae laudibus, argumento sumpto,  si cultus operosos, denique floreis,  
Ordine contextos & iunctas vitibus ulmos!  
Arbor●s aura comas, hominum tua carmina, Aedon,  
Turturis & gemitus dimulcent suaviter aureis:  
Alma quies, 
〈◊〉 opum ac deliciarum suarum 〈◊〉 Coeli ●um ●eli natura & ben●● 〈◊〉,  cum mobilibus sopita susurris,  
Aurae, inter frondes densas, umbrasque virenteis,  
Praetentat sensus suadenti languida somno,  
Ponere membra, super viridi lanugine ripam,  
Praetextam, lenè labentis murmure rivi;  
Colle Lyaeo vuae, Bacchi pendere Racemo;  
Vellus ovis manibus tondentis, ut Indica Serûm  
Lanugo! Dea Gargaridas succidier uncâ  
Falce stupet messeis! Tellus mitissima frugeis,  
Producit! nostra ô Coeloque soloque beata  
Insula: Quid Scythicis nascens aconiton in oris,  
Nescia, quid posset Pontus virosa venenis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Stirps prima Regum, seu regni Britannici origo.  
GRatulor huic orbi, 
& Incolatum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: Historica relatio, de  quod non sata dentibus Hydrae  
Monstrosis, enata, sinu terra alma fovebat,  
Neu creu●re hominum, veteres uti, corpora, bullae  
Instar, vulgârunt, plunialibus edita fungis!  
Ipse pater Samothes qui regna prioribus annis,  
Transtulerat Gallos super aequoreosque Britannos:  
Namque uti flumineâ Cymba pater omnibus undis,  
Elatus vidit nemorosa Cacumina montium,  
Fluctu submersa, iratisque evaserat olim  
Fluminibus, sedem soboles quaesivit ubique,  
Tuncque nepos japetiades, iuga Pontica Mesech,  
Transgressus, queis fata dabant consistere terris,  
Vltra Cappadoces positam & Bithynica Regna,  
Inuenit sedem; sancit sua regna quibusque  
Alps Aerei latis spaciantur in oris:  
Non procul hinc, triplici famosi corpore, Ibero  
Geryones Tauros lauêre, & saltibus herbam,  
Nequic quam insoliti, nullo pascente per arua,  
Gramineis errare boves carpsêre! Rapinae,  
Dignae eo, ut Allectus Tirynthius attigit oras!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Samothae Britanni Regis primi Imperium ac sedes.  
VEnimus ad Samothen! 
Samothe Rege, quod aiunt, Britanniarum primo.  diducunt stemmata ab ipso,  
Quique Pyrenaeis habuerunt montibus ortum,  
Quique sub Alpinis oriuntur collibus: aut qui  
Burgundam iuxta Sequamam; statuisse priusquam  
Ripis Parisios fertur Marcomyrus urbem!  
Lenem Ararim, Rhodanumque bibunt, Gensque ultima littus 
Deinceps de   
Quae colit, extremas ubi pandit Gallia terras,  
Supremis hominum Morinis, regnisque Britannis.  
Ille iugis totis superatis venit in arua  
Sorte data! & Gallum requievit littore; Rheni  
Alpini cum iam super ora, & adusque Pyrenen,  
Regna pater sibi venturisque nepotibus olim,  
Obtinuit Samothes! agnoverat Insula Regem,  
Quamlibet ignoto sita nostra Britannia Ponto.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Samothidarum Regna.  
DIuinam norat Sophiam Rex primus in oris  
Britannis Samothes! Qui non moritura reliquit, 
Samothidis: Samothae sc. Nepotibus ac posteris.   
Regna Mago! Populisque suis Magus ille dedisse  
Arteis & Sophiam, quas à patre caeperat ante;  
Fertur! ut ornârit studijs non saecula docta:  
Assyricis arteis, 
Magia, & Magi.  adeò ut magiamque professis,  
Astrologis Persis, dubium est, dederit ne sacratas.  
Defunctoque Mago, populis patriaeque dicatus,  
Succedit Sarron! & non sine honore gerebat,  
Imperium; instituit primus Gymnasia; lumen,  
Adrectum virtutis opus! ter nobile sydus;  
Quod Parnassiacos colleis, 
Academiarum prima institutio.  Phoebaeaque Templa,  
Visere, Castaliosque det●ore bibisse liquores:  
Haec, ó Samothides, non rerum oblite tuarum,  
Vt gentem Sophiae studijs, & moribus ornes.  
Sarronides Druis, Arctoos, ubi Sarron ad astra  
Conscendit, 
Druidarum origo, secta, Autoritas, & literatura,  populos rexit! Dicuntur ab illo,  
Quorum prima foret publicis pro rebus agendis,  
Atque vigil semper communis cura negotî:  
Hij cultus docucre Dei immortalis; & ipsum  
Norunt, pectore dum probitas innata maneret,  
Nedum ficta iwet Fanis idola tueri;  
Sive 
* Doc●nt●s Metem●suchosim.  senis Samij temerassent dogmate sectas:  
Praeriptunt liteis populo, praesaga futuri  
Mens erat; & viscum Druides clamare solebant.  
Graecano● ita manu Druidum, 
Apud Gallos, Graecoes.  illustrataque Athenis,  
Pallados A●●aeis, Timagenis arte; choraeis  
Litter●: Qui ritu Druides periêre profano  
Gallia quos olim, quos fovit & Anglica tellus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
De Bardo, & Bardi sectatoribus Poetis.  
VLtimus usque feros fertur rexisse Britannos,  
Samothidum Bardus! Musarum dulcis Alumnus;  
Qui cum suanisonas tentaret pollice chordas, 
Bardorum   
Detinuit ripis mirantibus agmen aquarum,  
Et tacitos pisceis: captae modulamine syluae,  
Exoptant vatem, modò quae Phoebaea sonoro  
Efferret cantu, stupet inscia turba ferarum  
Carmina, magne Poeta, tui vestigia, Bardi  
Sectantur! forteis animas belloque peremptas,  
In longum innumeris, 
Poetarum nomen & origo, apud antiquos Gallos & Britannos, eorumque institutum sectae primum, perquam laudabile, & Moors, sed & ab instituto Defectio & deflectio, satis illaudata & vilis, Vnde querimonia.  qui ducunt laudibus aewm,  
Gesta Ducum, Calamo, & Regum recinendo triumphos;  
Gratiaque illa fuit, Quam non aboleverit aetas  
Vatibus! Ingenium fuluo pretiosius auro;  
Ennius emeruit Calabris in montibus ortum;  
Hic decus, ille lares, & non moritura per igneis  
Nomina! Priamiden, quis, si latuisset Homerus,  
Noverit Haemoniûm vi ducier Hectora equorum?  
Quis Campos, ubi Troia stetit? Quis Moenia Troiae  
Inclyta Dardaniae? Diwm domus, Ilium ingens  
Gloria quae Teucrùm est? Quis fortem nosset Achillem?  
Anni quis Solisque vias? Lunaeque labores  
Compertos, primamque ratem quae nesciat aetas?  
Carmine ni celebrata forent, fidibusque canoris!  
Gratia tanta lyrae est, Reges Regumque triumphi,  
Hijs cedunt! sed tam periêre favorque decusque;  
Occubat Augustus vatum solatia pascens,  
Moecenae obijt, nunquam rediturus ab Orco!  
Sunt quoque, stulti-loquis, dicant, quae praemia Musis?  
Efficite ut redeant Moecenae, & Deus ille,  
Qui secùm abstulerat discedens vatibus omnia;  
Ingenij vires, modò venerit ipse, redibunt!  
O vatum praedulce decus! Libata priusquam,  
Phoebo grata, mero cithara est; & Bacchica festa,  
Absynthi ac celebret prope flumina Thracia Bacche!  
Cum neque sic Furijs, Idaeis, Moenades actae,  
Bacchavere iugis, sacer ut chorus iste Camoenis.  
Heu quid inest pretij Musis! ubi grata venustas,  
Queis venit Alma Thaleia modis? periêre Camoenae;  
Nos malè devoti, grex hic imbellis, inersque,  
Vatum, Moeonij mirabimur ora Magistri:  
Et laudem ipsius canimus, qui monte potitus,  
Ridet anhelantem dura ad fastigia turbam.   

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Irreligiosa feritas Samothidarum, eversio Imperij.  
VIx dum, qui rigidas quercus atque ardua cantu,  
Saxa movere suo quivit, volucreisque ferasque  
Mollijt indomitae durissima pectora plebis;  
Quid iwat ad surdas si cantet Pythius aureis?  
Namque irrepsit acerba lues, 
Samothidarum,  ubi Longus, & alter  
Bardus, Samothei gessêrunt sceptra nepotes:  
Effera colla iugo populus detraxerat, aris  
Submouêre igneis, 
utique & aliorum quorundam vanitates, & Improbitates superstitiosae, easdemque securae poenae, &  infandum! Relligioque  
Ter pia cum probitateiacet, neglectaque iura,  
Sancta patrum, & Legum semper veneranda potestas!  
Quis stupet in peius si vel meliora residant,  
Caepta? quod in piscem Seiren formosa superné?  
Molis erat tantae, impatientia subdere fraeno  
Colla, aut conceptus animi mutare proteruos.  
Aurea sic Latijque abiêrunt saecula Regis;  
Regnaque Samothidum verita est quos Anglica tellus,  
Quondam! deperit & multos sacrata per annos  
Relligio, hijs terris, Divinique aetheris haustus  
Mentis; Sarronides quid enim Bardique Magique  
Samotheique omnes, docuêre nisi ista? Remotis,  
Qui colitis lucis, ritus, moremque sinistrum,  
Barbaricos, Druides, Coeli quid numina prosunt,  
Orbe alio, quándo reget idem spiritus artus?   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
De Magis & Idololatricae gentium superstitionis origine.  
ET Galli Druidas, Bardosque habuêre canoros;  
Arsacidaeque Magos! sed non Samothes, neque Sarron,  
Hos certe docuêre Deos, quos impiae honore  
Afficiunt Gentes! Phoeben neque Apollina divos,  
Martem, ipsumque jovem: quis eorum nomina norat?  
Donec erant Belus Saturnus & omnis Ogyges,  
Vestaque Dij Gentium! quando ignorantia caeca,  
Nomina Nymbrotes, magni occuluitque japeti,  
Tum iwat à divis proavorum duce re turmas;  
Et Saturnus erat Genitor, dein Corniger Hammon,  
In fanis passim colitur, Crocodilon adorat  
Aegyptus, saturamque pavet serpentibus Ibin!  
Inscia plebs Divos ignotaque nomina Diuûm,  
Immaneis statuas stupet, ingenteisque Colossos:  
Barbara Memphitim miratur pubes Osyrim!  
Heu scelus infandum! miseraeque piacula plebis,  
Quosque suo sacris peragendis sanguine tristeis  
Inficiunt Ritus! placatur sanguine diro,  
Teutates; horrensque feris altaribus Haesus;  
Taranis & Scythicae non mitiorara Dianae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Samothidarum regni finis.  
TE Duce, qui poteras resona testudine quercus,  
Carmine blandiri Rupes, atque agmina Tygres,  
Omne nefas latuit scelus & sentina malorum; 
Pernicies.   
Quin Duce de medio sublato, & lumine casso,  
Vulgus iners neque ius, neque fas exercuit! ingens  
Pestis & exitiosa lues, patriaeque suique  
Supplicium fatuo dominatur ubique popello!  
Nox aeterna ruit, terras Astraea relinquens  
Magnanimique jovis superas conscendit in aedes:  
Astra fides sua distulit! omine purpureus Sol  
Perquam fatidico, miseris mortalibus, orbem  
Perstrinxit radijs, hij contempsêre Gygantes  
Cum superisque jovem; non fabula notior ulla!  
Pyndo imponebant Ossan, & Pelion Ossae,  
Anguipedum soboles, Phlegraeis horrida castris;  
Non minus Albionis per inhospita littora, non iam  
Dictae, at dicendae nuper, ferus incola, turba,  
Nequitiae addentes fraudem scelerique Rapinas,  
Accelerant certam amotâ pietate ruinam;  
Scilicet improbitas semper scelerata, rescindens  
jussa patrum, Legesque sacras transgressa, pericli  
Immunis nunquam evasit! neque honoribus unquam  
Quis Reges, 
Exaggeratio, in qua  putet, exutos putet ignibus Aras  
Nudatas, lusosúe Deos impune tulisse  
Monstra diu! non fata sinent, quin, improbe, poenas  
Heu dabis haud miteis, laesas violator adaras!  
Sic Bacchi Pentheus, sic Brennus Apollinis iras  
Senserat occisus, comixtâ grandine Nymbo:   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de impietate, occasione sumptâ ex Samothidarum improbitate.  
SIc Reges commissa suûm, commissaque Regum  
Saepe luunt populi; 
●ffectus scelerum commissorum monstratur in privatis & publici●, tam  rapta vel imagine divae,  
Palladio è Troiâ; potiusné exurere classem  
Argiuûm, atque ipsos voluit submergere Ponto,  
Vnius ob noxam, & furias Aiacis Oilaei,  
Aegide Pallas ovans? Tholosano haud segnius auro,  
Dux populusque perit, violati ob nummis iram.  
O igitur caeci, & rerum coelestium inanes,  
Si genus humanum & mortalia temnitis arma,  
At sperate Deos, memores fandi atque nefandi.  
Aut si sacrilegis manibus rapere omnia Templis,  
Sacra, aras, igneis, census, donaria, honores,  
Vsque adeò libitum, sanctisque illudere divis,  
Aspicite at celebres dantem Salmonea paenas!  
Vsque adeò haud licite forsan fieri ista docebit,  
Detonat ac magno miseris mortalibus ore,  
Discite iustitiam moniti & non temnere divos!  
Et quis non solos pacisque piaeque patronos,  
Omnimodae fateatur eos, 
Personis, quam Rel●us; Regnis scilicet, & Imperijs.  fontemque salutis?  
Ecquis item nisi mentis inops jovis omnia plena  
Ceu videat, summos non illi affingit honores?  
Quando igitur vacuas video jovis ignibus aras,  
Neglectisque suis, divina humanaque, sacris,  
Misceri, ruere, ac sine numine, nomine nudos  
Consilijque inopes, suetos rapere omnia Templis;  
Turpiter infameis cunctis, Ire omnia pessum  
Ex factis liquet hisce satìs: videorque videre  
Sedibus & populis Reges, populosque tumenteis  
Regibus atque sibi saevam intentare ruinam.  
Relligione equidem spretâ sequiturque Deorum  
Contemptus, 
Eiusdem rei amplificatio, & confirmatio, per rationes.  spretoque deûm ter numine sacro,  
Quis pudor? in sanctos Diuûm sub imagine Reges,  
Quis timor? in moreis vergit Natura deorsùm  
Damnatos prona, & mutari nescia, ut ante,  
In melius, neque saepe prehensa, recedere donec  
Regna ruant, nimiumque frequens suae sero pericla,  
Sentiat Impretas, ausa & temeraria damnet.  
Quandoquidem ille auro patriam, charosque penateis  
Vendidit, hic Leges fixit pretio, atque refixit,  
Vt facile haud quenquam contentum videris uno  
Flagitio, aut finem ponat sibi, caeca libido,  
Peccandi & furiosus amor quem coepit, & omnem  
Excussit semel attrito de fronte ruborem,  
Regna haec una, eademque domos subvertit & urbeis;  
Funditus Impietas: vos, ô mea dicta, tyranni,  
Percipite haec animis, multumque ignobile vulgus,  
Instabile, Oceani refluis velut unda marinis,  
Fluctibus, assiduos vel passa Diana labores:  
Percipite haec animis quanquam indignantibus, usque  
Dura, at ver a tamen, imisque reponite sensis.  
Impietas, mirum, nisi debita praemia dignis  
Non dabit; eijciet populos, everterit urbeis;  
Facta Ducum scelerata luunt, Regumque cruentas  
Saepe manus, soboles, temerata palatia, & arces.   

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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de improbis.  
HAec mea Samothidûm velut extera linea Regum  
Eruta saepe docent; quasi talia saepe perennis,  
Moliri improbitas non desinat ante supremos  
Credo ità si posset mundum eversura, 
Experimenta, & Exempla.  novosque  
Semper in exitium sibimet motura tumultus!  
Sicubi Samothei cedunt Neptunia proles,  
Succedunt similisque cadunt cito conscia culpae,  
Post igitur Samothen qui regnat adusque Pyrenen,  
Persis ut nostris Magicae pater artis & author,  
Quando penes Persas Magus est, qui syderanôrit,  
Qui sciat herbarum vireis, cultusque Deorum,  
Persepoli clarus! Sarronque, Druisque Poetûm  
Carminibus magno Bardus celebratus honore,  
Longus & à longè sequitur, Bardusque secundus,  
Ordine postremi! quibus usque gerentibus aurea  
Sceptra manu magni Samothae cessere nepotum.  
Regna Britanniacis quondam celeberrima in oris:  
In Gallijs regnante Lyco! qui proximus illis  
Fertur apud Celtas regnasse; ubi venerat olim  
Albion Albionis, jernes uti Bergion Oras.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Hyberniae Descriptio.  
AC velut Albionis tractum quasi praepete pennâ, 
Hyberniae brevis illustratio.   
Lustrata es dudum & sita Littora rupibus albis,  
Ogygiaeque situm, peramaenaque limina jernes,  
Nostra referre precor non dedignere Thalia!  
Vtraque ab Aequatore Brittannias Insula distat, 
Chorographia, Forma, Situs, & Nomina, Loci Natura, Mira, Incolarum suorum Mores, Habitus, Opes, ac Divitiae.   
Quinquaginta gradus, ter quinque Canariâ Eoos!  
Vergivioque iacens minor Insula Hybernia Ponto,  
Cingitur Occiduo: Primas tenet omnibus undis,  
Indica Taprobane, dicente Geographo, eidem  
Succeditque secunda Britannia, tertia jerne!  
Oblonga, in Boream protensa, simillimaque ovo,  
Forma rotunda patet, plenae stagnantibus undis,  
Insulae, Hyperboreo quae cingitur undique ponto.  
Hesperiaque plagâ, procul haud se iungit ab Anglis,  
Quam modo virgivius circumquâque alluit aestus.  
Virginia in Zephyrum, longè iacet, Anglia ad Eurum,  
Thule Aquilonari, oppositoque Hispania tractu:  
Dicta eadem antiquis, jerne, & Iwernia & Iris,  
Quae Tartessiaco propior setingere Soles,  
Conspicit Oceano! Cauris subiecta procacis,  
Flatibus Aeolijs, quamuis, Hiemisque fragori!  
Cui Deus aut melior Natura, hoc muneris Almi,  
Concessit chara cum Cretâ altrice tonantis  
Solis nulla suis edant uti sibila in oris,  
Terrifici tabo creti Phorcynidos angues:  
Fortè quoque illati compressis faucibus atris  
Viroso pariter vitam cum sanguine ponant.  
Degentesque ferox inclultis horrida syluis  
Gens habitat, saevo mavortia pectora bello,  
Qui cursu Alipedes norunt praevertere Ceruos  
jerna feris faecunda, fovet! Generosa Caballos  
Egregios; Armenta boum, pecorisque niuosi,  
Lactea dona sui; miratur, & educat vuas,  
Pampineis ramis, quamuis nec amata Lyaeo,  
Nec Cereri nimiùm: Laedaeos flumine cygnos,  
Piscososque lacus profert; voiucrumque paludeis  
Omnimodûm lustris faetas! stannique fodinas,  
Et puri argenti venas, quas terra refossis  
Visceribus maneis imos visura recludit,   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Albionis adventus in Britanniam.  
QVin redeo ad susceptum opus! A dominisque verendis  
Dicta ferunt Samothe, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive Regressio, ad propositam de Samothedarum exitio, & Albionis adventu, ac denuo  nostra Anglia; iamque Britannis  
Plusquam tercentos annos dominantur in oris,  
Samothei Celtae: donec freta caerula pando  
Myoparone secans. Neptunius Albion oram,  
Milite stipatus forti turmisque suorum,  
Attigit Albionis: fataliaque invenit arua,  
Regna heu Samothidûm miserè vastata furentûm;  
Cumque Britanniaco proles Neptunia Rege,  
Bergion advenit, cui subdita Ogygia jerne!  
Haebus & Ila suâ atibusque imperuia Thyle,  
Sub ditione iacent. japetiadasque furore  
Neptune geniti per litora saeva Tyranni  
Exagitant fessos lucemque oculosque perosos:  
Quos super accumulat Chemnita per invia rura,  
Infand●s strageis, miseranda piacula Dirae  
Sortis uti exortae propter contagia pestis.  
jam verò ingemuit tellus, cladisque miserta est;  
Albion inque sinus placidos accepit opimos,  
Heroes Titaniadas, quibus usque vocata est  
Albion, à dominis deducens nomina! dudum  
Virgineo cultu, speciosaque colla comasque  
Ornata: in qualem iussu Sirena Deorum  
Formosam posses mutari credere Nympham,  
Nautis invisam, quam perdidit acer Ulysses,  
Neritius quondam; cum iam Scironia saxis  
Fluctibus in medijs mutarier à Ioue possent  
Ossa, Severinis, ità nostra Britannia nummis,  
Rupibus unà ac Nerëidum super insidet albis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad sequentem librum & Historiam.  
NVnc Caelireserate vias Heliconacolentes  
Divae! opis indigeo vestrae, 
Transitio ad seq.  iwat ire per astra,  
Iwerit astrigeris humeris insistere Atlantis,  
Hinc homines, instar pecudum, rationis egenos,  
Despectare procul lubet, 
De ortu & interitu eiusdem, necnon regno ac regni extirpatione, quae in Oda proxima describuntur, historiam.  & contemnere curas,  
Rerum humanarum fluxus ediscere, Coelos  
Sperare, & ferriclarum super aethera ment.  
Musavola, & resonis pete candida sydera pennis;  
Dic antiquum Argos, Argiva Aegyptaque castra,  
Quamque papyriferi septemflua flumina Nili,  
Rege novo Graiam fluctu innuectare carinam,  
Fama refert! Tellus, uberrima cuius inundans  
Littora Nilus aquis immersit & arua meatu,  
Illa virum novit, cui coniux Inachis Io,  
Memphitis Dea; funeribus qui raptis iniquis,  
Non styga perpessus, 
Osiris.  Phlegetontideué obrutus undâ  
Surripuit Templis altaria lucida flammis;  
Considet inque epulis Diuûm, coeloque receptus,  
Numen habet terris, genitus jove, magnus Osiris.  
Odae primae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION.  
The first Ode, Entitled SAMOTHES.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
First Ancientest records that we find  
Enrolled in the Tower of Fame, 
Synchronismus, sive computatio annorum sequitur in hac scrie.  Samothes and his by Fates assigned  
TO our I'll, 
Supplementum Historia in isto latere.  thence call'● Samothea, came;  
Who long time herc as Kings did reign,  
Till cha●t hence by rude Albion's train.  

CANT. I.  
The scope of the Poem, and by deducing Story from the beginning, the Creation touched.  
Feign would I visit Phoebus' shrine,  
And Dodon Oracles divine,  
Parnassus' hill, and Phocis' fields,  
That sacred Cells and Solace yields:  
Pierian sisters, honoured Nymphs,  
Loved and adored, by Learning's Imps.  
Pallas, fair Sol, and Memnosine,  
O Gently favour my designs,  
And show me out of stories old  
The warlike acts of Britons bold;  
Or guide me to the Tower of Fame,  
To find their first birth: Ere heaven's frame,  
Or Earth, or Sea was, Chaos was!  
And out of that Confused Mass,  
Nature's Commander 
a Principio creavit Deus, etc. Gen. 1. The works of the Creation: the spring and original of all things, and so consequently of the Kingdoms of the Earth: and therein the Kindred's, Peoples, and Nations. Coelum & Terra.  did produce, 
Opera primorum sex dierum.   
Bright star's for heaven, heaven for earth's use;  
The flowery vales, the hills and woods,  
Fresh Riverets, and salt swelling floods,  

b Under this truth of the Creation of Heaven and Earth, the Poets would needs involve great mysteries and fictions of their own, concerning Uranus or Coelum, and Terra called Vesta, the most ancient of their Panym Gods, being indeed in regard of their Pagan and Idolatrous worship, truly Terrae filij. Sol.  And earth, and air, and sea, brought forth  
Their wondrous Creatures, sundry sorts!  
The golden Sun appears in sky,  
And dainty showers in Clouds on high.  
Whiles Atlas on his shoulders bears  
The burden of the starry Spheres.  
Then mighty jove, cuts earth and heaven  
By zones, degrees, 
Zonae.  and portions even:  
far North or South are frosts and snows,  
I'th' midst sweat Cancers scorched paws,  
Both sides been temperate zones: the winds  
Eurus and Zephyr, to both Indeses, 
Venti.   
Austere to th' Aethiops hies apace,  
Boreas to Scythia, North, and Thrace.   

CANZ. II.  
The creation of Man, his Fall, the Giants, Flood, and World repeopled.  
THen new borne earth puts on Man's feature  
Of all, the last, but perfitt'st Creature.  
Inspir'de by 
* Formavit Deus hominem de limo terrae, & inspiravit in faciem eius spiraculum vitae, Genes. 2.  God's immortal Breath,  
Though set, whence ta'en to till the Earth,  
The stately Pine on Hills remains;  
Not forced to plough up th' Ocean plains.  
No Trumpets sound doth Mars enrage  
In this the truly golden 
a Aurea aetas, The golden Age, under which term, the Poets seem to set forth Paradise, and the happy estate of Man in his creation and innocency: as under the title of the Iron Age, the fall of him at first, with his degenerating more, to these present times.  Age,  
But Apples, Milk, and Honey there  
Pure Nectar, and Ambrosia were;  
Whiles Ceres with her golden Tresses,  
Glads many a Field which no man dresses.  
Eternal Spring, on Earth abode  
With Man, till Man forgot his GOD:  
Then Virtue fled; then Paradise  
Did fade away; and in came Vice.  
Men-devils then, a Giant race,  
Heaped sin on sin, Heaven to outface.  
Like Ossa laid on 
b Gygantes autem erant super terram in diebus illis, Genes. 6. So in these Giants, as in the story of the Flood, the Poets seem to allude to the history of the Bible, having perhaps read the same, as may be gathered by Orpheus in his Hymns.  Olymp high,  
To pull down jove, and scale the sky;  
Till Heaven's dread Roy to mock their pride,  
Remembering fell Lycaon's deed,  
To quench their malice, thought it good, 
Vniversale Diluvium Nohae, erat A. M. 1656.   
T'orewhelme the World with 
c Whence the fabulous greeks stealing and forging all Antiquities of others, and usurping all such things to the glory of their Nation, would shadow this universal Deluge, under the colour of their Deucalion's flood, which was but an inundation of some, though perhaps a great part of Thessaly.  noah's flood!  
The Winds sent from th' Aeolian Caves,  
From Sea to Shore bring Nereus' waves.  
And Neptune with his Sea- Nymph trains, 
Diluvium Ogygium, circa An. 2250. apud Thebas sub Ogyge R.   
Doth drive the Land- Nymphs from the Plains.  
The crystal Brookes and their clear Springs,  
Let loose to hurt, help drown all things:  
And sweep from Fields and Mountains steep, 
Deucalionis Diluvium à Poetis tantummodo celebratum in parte Thessaliae, circa An. 2440.   
Wolves, Lions, and whole flocks of Sheep;  
Swift Tigers, nor the winged Choir,  
Could scape the furious 
d Some have been of opinion, that the breaking of Sicilia from Italy, of England from France, and the like, were the effects of this furious Deluge, though there want not reasons alleged to the contrary, which may be these and other like strange events of that nature, the accidents of later ages.  Ocean's ire.  
No Shores appear, but all's wild Sea;  
O'er Town's tops wanton Dolphins play;  
And Mermaid monsters of the floods,  
Dance in the highest Hills and Woods.  
When all flesh says the sacred spell,  
Di'de, save what No, in's Arke-like 
* Noah's building of the Ark, h●s entrance into, and coming forth of the same, Gen. 7. & seq.  Cell  
Saved, whose Ark lastly rested at  
Th' Armenian Mountains 
a Quicuit Arca in montibus Armenijs vocatis Ararat, Genes 8. Supposed a branch of the Mountain Caucasus, where Prometheus is feigned to be tied in chains by jupiter, for stealing fire from heaven: where indeed Noah sacrificed first, whether derived or having such holy fire stolen to profane and Heathenish Rites, by Cham, in all likelihood their founder, therefore cursed, and as afterwards perpetuo patris Anathemati subiectus.  Ararat.  
Whence sprung this newer latter race,  
That now ore-spreads the Earth's broad face.  
Yet who so looks on this our Time,  
Might scarce think, th'Adder-footed line  
Of Giants were extinct, to see  
Heavens scorn so rife on earth to be.  
The second world's first Father then, 
A. M. 1750. quo tempore Peleg natus est, circa 100 annos post Diluvium.   
Into all Lands that now again  
Their heads above the floods show 
b Because of the wild beasts abounding anciently in Albion, and diverse sea fish shells & great bones found in the upper skirts of Germany and France, Master Verstegan is of opinion that the Low Countries, and those inferior parts of Germany have been recovered from the Sea since the flood, there having been an Isihmos between Albion & Gallia, and of later ages broken up, and the higher Seas towards Denmark unburdening themselves into the lower towards Spain, those Provinces appeared; the like inequality having been noted by the Kings of Egypt of the Red Sea above the Mediterran, and of late of Mardel zur, above the Atlantike Ocean.  forth,  
Sends out his Sons, East, West, and North,  
As far as frozen Charlsiz-Wayne,  
That never diues in th'lcy maine:  
To Lybia and the Lands that show  
The Moors and Indians black of hue.  
Mizraim to Nile, Tubal to 
c Of this first plantation and peopling of the world, and the Isles of the Gentiles, Gen. 10. of the further divisions and distributions of the Princos among the sons and posterity of Noah. Vide joseph. de antiquit. Berosum, & al.  Spain,  
Magog to Scythia; Gomer gains,  
Furd'st Europe, 
A. M. 1787. post Diluvium 131.  where th' Arcadian Bears  
Are placed by jove, ith'heauenly Spheres.  
Then Mesech named in holy 
d Mesech, Mo●och, or Samothes, came, as is said, with Gomer and Fuisco, or Aschenas, founders of the Western Gauls and Germans, about Anno 1787. what time twenty other Dukes of the sons of Noah, are supposed sent, who peopled Europe and these parts.  Writ,  
Our Samothes, they say, did sit  
By-North the Alps as Monarch o'er  
The Gaulish and our British shore.   

CANZ. III.  
European Nations, and especially the Britons original, with all deserved praises in their honour.  
WHat need our Isle then hunt for fame,  
From Britoneses and Prytus name?  
Since Samothes from japhet 
* The four names that this Kingdom of Britain successively took from her Lords and inhabitants at several times: viz. Samothea, of Samothes or Mesech: Albion, of Neptune's Son Albion: Britain, of Brute: And lastly, the chiefest part, Engla-lond, Anglia, or England, from Egbert, and the Angles: To which may fitly be added, with that addition, the renovation of her ancient name, or new naming, now great Britain; Emblem of the joyful union of her long distracted Kingdoms, in the reign and person of her happy and peaceful Prince, and Monarch, King JAMES.  sprung,  
First ruled Samothea! 
Samothes, A. M. 1787. post Diluvium 131.  and e'er long  
Cham's Son of's own name called it Albion.  
Brute, 
Ante Christum, 2158.  Britain names, brings Troy from Ilium:  
And English England's Sceptres sway, 
Albion, A. M. 2200.   
Till Normans wore the Victor's bay!  
But whether sprung from Brute or jove, 
Brutus, A. M. 2850.   
jove, sure, himself their Land doth love;  
Their Country's rich, their manners civil, 
Egbert, A. 4750.   
And though far North their chance not evil, 
Gulielmus Conquestor, A. M. 5020.   
Since Phoebus doth their breasts inspire  
With sacred and celestial Fire; 
A. Christi 1070.   
How for their worth can I set forth  
Those fairest peoples of the 
* All Naturalists affirming, the more Southern peoples to be subtle, politic, and ingenious: neither can they, if they would, deny, but that all our part of the North, being but the temperate Zone, affordeth people's ingenious, bold, & warlike, and for outward lineaments of body, strong, goodly, and beautiful; that no Nation can deservedly have greater praises, than they ●aue at all times purchased and however the Proverb stupidus Thrax, may intimate very far North, more dull of apprehension, it hath been ever seen that these have been in diverse gifts admirably excelling.  North, 
jacobus Primus in magna Britaniâ.   
Whose minds as free as bodies fair,  
Though bred i'th' cold and frozen air, 
A. M. 5550.   
To ride, 
A. Christi 1602.  to run, to plead, or fight,  
Their laurel Crowns, and martial might  
Were such, all Nations far and ●eere,  
Have seen or felt, or sore did fear,  
Those hotter climes yield frozen bloods,  
When North of Tanais frozen floods,  
Been fiery spirits, warlike brutes,  
The Massagetts and painted jutes;  
Numberless as Hybla's swarms, the Scytheses,  
Danes, Swevians, Norway's, Moscovites,  
Gauls, Germans, and the folk that held  
The North and British 
Under the name of British Isles, or Insulae Britannicae was anciently comprehended both Britain and Ireland, and all the adjacent Isles of Orcades, Haebudes, and the rest.  Isles of eld:  
Who th'off springs justly can despize,  
That from the Northern climes did rise?  
Since there is Rhodopeian Thrace,  
Pangaea Mount, fierce Rhcsus place,  
Swift Hebrus, and the warlike Geteses,  
With cold Riphaean snowy seats,  
So graced erst and famous now,  
As Envy ne'er could disallow.  
From these, or farther North than these,  
Whole Armies oft did southward press,  
Whence 
f The Spaniard will not endure to be accounted sprung from 〈◊〉 Moor, or other stranger inhabitants of Spain, than the Goth; which he much applaudeth, affirming in his own tongue, Io soy del antigo Gotho.  Spaniard and Italian both,  
Are said descended of the Goth;  
The courtly French, and Almain stout,  
From Picts and Hun's that Scythian Rout,  
Then Britain was not free from harms,  
When Picts and Huns were up in arms.  
Who came down with their furious 
g Wbence many great Warriors and Armies, hurrying over and harrying in very furious sort Greece, Italy, Spain, and the Southern Countries, have oftentimes come, as Danes, Cymbrians, Gauls, Goths, Vandals, Huns, under the conduct of Totyla, Alarik, Attyla, Brennus, etc.  Hosts,  
From Norway and the Scandian Coasts;  
And then, if others were not free  
From envious fate, what if not we?  
When fury of these Northern blasts,  
Our Cities, Land, and Country wastes!  
Yet if for this bites Zoilus,  
Zoilus bites others more than us.  
To read, what Envy shall repine  
To read! see but the British line;  
Their valiant acts and deeds of old,  
Their Bards our Poets erst 
h Bards were the ancient Gaulish and British Poets, as Druids their Priests and Philosophers, who also were Magistrates.  have told:  
So clear their praise, and palms their prize,  
Their brightness blears dim Envy's eyes.  
Sometimes, 
Assyr. Monarchia.  perhaps, they were cast down:  
On whom did Fortune never frown? 
Belus, A. M. 1750.   
So various are the change of State,  
So fickle Fortune, 
Nium, A. 1790.  doubtful fate!  
Sometime the 
* The first Monarchy or Empire of the World, was that of Assyria begun by Ninus, and ended in Sardan ●palus, or the Babylonians; the second, of the Medes & Persians, begun by Arbaces, but flourishing to the greatest height under Cyrus: the third of the Grecians, begun by Alexander: the fourth of the Romans, begun in the nature indeed of an Empire by the Consuls and Magistracy, but perfected and reduced from Aristocracy to Monarchy by Caesar, who first of the Romans entered Britain.  Persian Empire flourished,  
And Media Eastern Monarches nourished, 
Medorum, Arbaces, A. 3076.   
Then Macedonian Scanders' Court,  
Was the World's Empires whole resort; 
Persarum, Cyrus, A. 3400.   
Though first th' Assyrian Monarches wore  
Th'imperial Purple long before! 
Graecorum, Alexander, A. 3620.   
Yet kept they not their Honours won,  
Persia, 
Romanorum, Caesar, A. 3907.  nor towered Babylon;  
For Fame hath left this now long while  
Euphrates shores, and sevenfold Nile, 
Carolus M. 4750   
The Seres with their silken woods, 
A. Christi 800.   
And those that dwell by Ganges floods,  
Might lastly sit and take their rest,  
By Western Warriors long oppressed!  
Being Pontus and the Regions nigh,  
Set free from 
i Of Mithridates and anciently the Amazon's and other ●●cythian Warriors, did ever out of the North disturb the Empires of the Medes, Persians, Greeks and Romans; as of later years the Vandals, Goths, Huns, etc. from almost the same coasts; and since, the Turk, Tamerlane, and the Tartars.  Scythian slavery:  
But Rome at last bore all the sway,  
When Greeks had lost their Phoebus' bay;  
Thus Ages, Empires, wondrous strange,  
The world, and we, and all do change!   

CANZ. FOUR  
Excusing, as also incident to the greatest Nations, their misfortunes.  
But Conquerors with Laurel crowned,  
That Persia turned to Roman ground,  
Indus and Lybia's desert shore;  
In 
k And with their Titles of Imperator, Foelix, Augustus, Triumphator, etc. in●erted Britannicus: many time triumphing for their Conquests, gotten here.  British titles gloried more;  
A much graced style! when ne'er erst they  
Tribute to Roman Lords did pay:  
Nor was it held so great a grace  
T'have held those Indian troops in chase,  
Whose Ancestors, to Greeks annoy,  
Stoutly defended stately Troy;  
Or Parthians put or Medes to flight,  
Or Turnus' powers in bloody fight;  
As julius' deeds, who Britain pierced,  
And tamed her brood, untamed 
l By Caesar supposed to be Gauls; though sin●e consisting of ●oure Nations especially, using so many different sorts of speech within the compass of the Island, viz. the first & ancientest the Welsh, being the very Britons: The second, the Cornish, part Britons, as their Dialect argueth, and likely to be withal the remnant of the Gauls, if any were, as Caesar intimateth, and their corner or part of the Land called Cornugallia, doth seem to sound: The third and greatest, Angles and Saxons, now called Englishmen: The fourth, Scots, the very race of the Irish; Ireland being first Scotia and Scotia Magna: Tamaris divideth Cornwall from the rest of England, whereof it is now accounted but one of the forty shires or countries: Severne and Dee do naturally divide the Welsh & their Wales from us: Tweed now parteth us from Scotland.  erst;  
But what or God, or power, did send  
trojans with Troyans' to contend?  
Tros, Ilus, and Assaracus,  
Being Parents both to them and us!  
And thou, Troy's founder, both our glories  
Author, bright Phoebus in these stories,  
Whiles I the Britons acts rehearse,  
Deign to be Patron of my Verse!  
With such sweet influence thy trains  
Shall then perhaps inspire these strains,  
That thyself, fair Sol, at my suit,  
Shalt sing them to thy Ebon Lute.   

CANZ. V.  
The description and site of Britain.  
BEyond the Main and shores of France,  
British Isles their chalky tops 
* Of which whiteness of the Rocks, appearing to passengers, Antiquity hath supposed her called Albion.  advance:  
Short being the passage 'twixt both Strands,  
From Dover Cliffs to 
m Not past thirty miles.  Callaice Sands;  
Whence floods in narrow Seas with force,  
Do beat upon both Britain's shores;  
And Nereus every way doth bound  
Our Island with the Ocean round:  
Whose whitish Rocks and threesquare 
n One and the narrowest flat-side lying against France, South: the second, East, against Denmark: the third, West, against Ireland: and the Ebudes, the angles or corners pointing as followeth.  form,  
Feel th'ocean's rage, and sore Sea storms.  
Right South is France, Southeast doth lie,  
One angle towards 
o From which Corner, viz. Sandwich in Kent, over against German●▪ to 〈◊〉 Mount in Cornwall (o● fr●m Saint David's to Yarmou●h) bring the breadth of the Island, extending from East to West, 〈◊〉 ned 200 miles and upwards; and from the sa●d Corners to the farthest 〈◊〉 of Scotland reaching among the Orcadeses, being the length of Britain●, extending from South to North, is 800. miles' ●r better, so that it very near 〈◊〉 with Cae●ars account, to be 2000 miles in compass, or much more according to the now Italian miles.  Germany,  
At second corner Michael's Mount,  
South-west doth Spain and Ireland front:  
The last third angle pointeth forth,  
Amongst Orkney Scottish Isles just North!  
Ireland is West, more North therewhiles,  
Ebudes, furd'st Thyle, and Orkney Isles:  
Denmark is East, and Germany,  
Norway North-East; so heavens bright eye  
Rising, as 'twere, from Germans East,  
'twixt Spain and Ireland seems to rest!  
South narrow Seas, North frozen be,  
Th'East German, West Vergivian Sea.   

CANZ. VI.  
The quality and richness of the soil.  
THus lies our Isle, our pleasant seat,  
Nor vexed with cold, nor 
p In the temperate Zone, the South parts of Britain, about the Degree of 50: of North latitude, reaching thence 10. Degrees North: the longitude thereof being from the Degree 17. to 25. o● thereabouts. So the Degrees of latitude measuring the length, of longitude the breadth of the Island.  Cancers heat.  
Doubtful whether for Giant's bold,  
Or wealth, or war, most famed of old!  
O, our rich flowery Fields and Plains,  
In Summer's pride, when Flora reigns,  
Green meadows, mountains, dales & downs,  
Whom many a grove with shadows crowns,  
Lakes, Riverets, Floods, and Fountains fair,  
Where Zephyr breathes his sweetest air!  
Plenty and pleasure tempered are,  
So sweet, scarce Tempe may compare,  
Those famous fields of Thessaly,  
With this our pleasant Arcady:  
Such beds of flowers and Hybla Thyme,  
The loving Elm with spreading 
q That there have been flore of Vines and Vine-yards in England, as at Windsor, and other places, appeareth in the Records kept by the Clerk of the Pleas for that Castle, the Honours and Forests; where is set down the charge of the Vineyard in the little Park, and making the Wine, whereof tithe was paid to the Abbot of Waltham.  Vine,  
Soft gentle air, sweet Philomela,  
Kind Turtles moans, and shady Cells,  
Entire ones yielding ears and eyes,  
To taste such daintiest novelties:  
Or rest or sleep by River's sides,  
Whose streams with gentle murmur glides.  
Our Land doth yield Lyaean 
* To these praises of the Land, for the people's honour, add this as a corollary: since Arts taught scarce any Nation more ingenious: since Christianity, more zealously given and religious; witness the many Schools of learning, the Universities, besides those in Scotland, two in England, comparable with any in the world; the fair Churches, Buildings, Hospitals, Monasteries, Religious houses and Colleges, though a multitude swept away and defaced, in the reign of King Henry the eight, yet monuments of the piety, art, wisdom and industry of our Ancestors, in such abundance, as scarce any Nation able to equal, at least, to surpass them.  Vines,  
The golden fleece, or twist as fine,  
Almost as Indian Seres weave;  
Pomona's fruit, and Ceres sheaves,  
Thrice happy soil for Earth and Aire,  
Scarce knowing what (the less her care!)  
To Scythian Aconitum strong,  
Or Pontus' poisons doth belong.   

CANZ. VII.  
First entrance and inhabiting thereof.  
THis joy we more, that not our Land  
From teeth of Hydra sown in sand,  
Received her People's, 
Gomer supposed founder of the most Western Gauls. Tuisco or Aschenaz, of the people of the more Southern coasts, & higher Germany. Mesech, Mosoch, or Samothes, of the more North and East parts of Gaul, Germany and Britain, with other the sons of Noah, are said to come into Europe, A. M. 1787. post Dilwium 131. Ante Christum 2158.  they their birth,  
Like wat'ry 
* As the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greece, and Aborigines in Italy, were supposed to have had there beginning: And the old Germans affirmed their first founder Tuisco, to be the son of the Earth; all Pagan antiquity derived their Gods and great Men, from Uranus and Vesta, signifying, Coelum & Terra, which might be No, and Arezia his wife, Arez signifying the Earth in Hebrew. So did the West Indians, the Americans, of ●ate time, about Peru, worshipping their gods Pachacama and Con, suppose, and were taught they were sons of the Sun and the Earth.  Mushrooms from the earth!  
Since Gauls and Britons, both of these,  
Are said to come of Samothes,  
Great Noah's Nephew; for when he  
Saw one world drowned, and scaping free,  
With wooden Horse, not winged Steed,  
Unto th' Armenian Hills did speed.  
Our Sire, his Nephew, japhets' son,  
So twice all Nations sprung from one,  
Mesech called Samothes that time,  
Passing beyond the Pontic clime,  
In Europe placed his seat between  
The snowy 
a From whence it is said, with Colonies sent over, be peopled and ruled Britain, as Caesar in his time perceived affinity between those neighbouring Countries.  Alps and frozen Rhine:  
Not far from whence by Iber's side,  
The Geryons Herds, famed far and wide,  
Long since did feed! till Victor-wise,  
Alcides took them for his prize.   

CANZ. VIII.  
Samothes Rule and Empire here, the first King of this Island.  
NOw sing we Samothes, whose Race  
Held th' Alps, 
* Or at least the more Northern parts of France, Gallia Belgica, and Britain; if the Westerns parts (as they are by some) be assigned for Gemers habitation, or Kingdom, according to the fashion of reigning of those first Kings, in the ruder age of the World.  Pyrene, and all the space  
'twixt that and Seyne, where now aspires,  
Fair Paris, built by Marcomyre;  
And Rhine, and Rhosne, and Arar's source,  
And farthest French and British shores.  
First Samothes came from the East,  
Whither Fate assigned him place of rest;  
Who sat him down, sole Lord between  
The Pyrene Hills, and Alpine Rhine:  
For unto Samothes they say,  
Both France, and British Isles obey:  
Who was to all or Sire or King,  
That with him came, or from him spring.   

CANZ. IX.  
Samothes issue, Kings after him, Magus, Sarron, Druis; of whom the Druids took their name, and beginning.  
IN Samothes sacred wisdom shone; 
Samothes, A. M. 1787.   
Next him sat 
* Magus now signifieth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Sapiens, a wise man: and so were the Philosophers in Persia, and the East named: And of them were chosen the Kings or chief Counsellors to the Kings. This Magus is said to have built amongst the Gauls, the Cities of Neomagus, Sitomagus, Rhotomagus, Noviomagus, etc.  Magus in his Throne;  
And with his Father's Crown inherits,  
His prudence, just and best demerits!  
Diviner Arts he loved, and taught  
Those Magis of the East, 'tis thought!  
Magus son, 
Magus.  Sarron, next succeeds  
Heir, both to's Crown, and virtuous Deeds.  
He founded Schools, 
Sarron.  the Lodestar bright,  
That virtue guides with loving 
a First, Schools and Universities, founded by Sarron, the tbird King of this Land.  light.  
Then Parnasse Nymphs, and Phoebus' Shrine,  
And learning's Lamps seemed here to shine.  
O, well becomes it 
b A pious and Princelike ear●.  Royal blood,  
And Prince, to care for people's good!  
Sarrons son, 
Druis.  Druis, next is King,  
From whom the 
c Of the Druids, Priests, or chief Philosophers and Statesmen among the ancient Gauls and Britons, how they governed the state, determined matters, sacrificed to the gods, and therein used Mis●●-toe, called Viscus, which they accounted a most holy branch, taught the people, and their own Sect; their learning consisting chief of a great number of Verses, said and learned by heart, with others of their behaviours & superstitions, Tacitus, Suetonius, and other latin Authors, abundantly do mention.  Druid's name did spring,  
Whose care and state was understood,  
For people's worth, and public good.  
These taught divine Philosophy,  
What Virtue meant, what Piety,  
Ere they in Temples Idols placed,  
Or with strange Sects their own disgraced.  
They judge the people, prophetize,  
Used Misle-toe at sacrifice.  
Greek literature, from them, 'twas thought,  
By 
d Philosophie●nd ●nd good Letters, brought from whence, and by whom, to Athens.  Timagen, to Athens brought:  
Though since they fell, that sometimes flourished,  
Whom Gallia erst, and Britain nourished.   

CANZ. X.  
Bardus, last absolute Lord and King of that race here, of whom the Bards, the ancient and graver Poets, glory to have been followers.  
THe last of these Samotheans race,  
Druis son, 
Bardus.  Bardus, takes his place;  
The 
* Bardus, according to his excellent qualities, the honourable Author of both their Poem, and the British Poet's name: of him afterwards called Bardi, and Barthes' to this day.  Grace's Darling, Muse's Friend,  
Whom choicest virtues did commend.  
Like Orpheus with his dainty Lute,  
The Woods, Fields, Floods, and Fishes mute,  
He held attentive, and among,  
The savage Beasts with his sweet song.  
French Bards, great Poet, and Welsh would grace  
Their name, when theirs, in thine they trace!  
Who souls to rest departed sing,  

* It was their practice, the recounting of the exploits of noble Captains, and famous men; Genealogies, such was hesiod, Theogonia, and singing them to their Instruments of music, in very stately sort, as followeth.  Heröes acts and gests of Kings:  
Once wit was prized more worth than gold,  
And once these flourished! so of old,  
japigian Mountains won much honours  
For Ennius' birth, Athens for Homer's!  
And who had known or Priam's glory,  
Or Hector stout, or Troyans' story,  
Dardanian Troy, or Ilium Towers,  
Great Thetis son, or Ida's Bowers.  
The various motions of the Spheres,  
And all those acts of elder years,  
If 
g More may be said in the honour of true Poetry, that elsewhere as well as here, 〈◊〉 authors and favourites were of the greatest and best Princes & Personages of the World: and the Divines, Priests, and Philosophers with Princes, were of the chiefest Poets, or at least well skilled in poefie: To leave those more sacred Poets, David, Solomon, the author of jobs book, Deborah, Moses, etc. witness Phoebus and King Pierus Daughters, Chiron, Achilles, Hesiodus, Orpheus, Pythagorus, Phocylides, Tyrtaeus, Aristotle, Augustus, with a multitude of the worthiest, dedicating themselves to it, or most delighted in the same.  Poets had not sweetly song,  
And so preserved their fames thus long!  
Kings with their triumphs may give place  
To laureate poesy that doth grace,  
Their worth's with praise! the worthies names  
With trump of never dying Fame.  
But some have said 'twixt spite and hate,  
That poesy now is out of date:  
Indeed, Moecenae he is dead,  
And great Augustus leapt in lead;  
But let such live again, and see,  
If ever fades the Laurel Tree.  
Yet more, I muse not much, if Phoebus  
And gentle Nymphs the Muses leave us,  
Since these our Poets more adore  
Their Bacchus feasts, than Phoebus' lore:  
Whose follies fits, as furious 
h Not to suppose many licentious, bald, and ribald rhymes, wherewith much paper hath been stuffed, worthy to pass under the name of Poesy; being more distant from true Poetry, them Sinon's subtlety, from wisdom: foolebardy acts, or Aiax impatient attempt of murdering himself, from true valour: such being indeed but sterquilinium velamento Aureo-se●ico obductum. A varnish of words, or scarce that: Apes in outward imitation, Parats for verbal pronunciation, else, nothing partaking of the gravity, wisdom, and moderation of the former.  been  
As Moenad ' froes, on Ida's green!  
Let best admire but ne'er come near,  
That grave, sweet, old Moeonian choir.   

CANZ. XI.  
The irreligious and barbarous acts of the Samotheans, their overthrow.  
But our Prince-Poet Bardus, when  
He could move Rocks, could scarce move Men.  
With his so sweet enchanting tongue;  
Deaf ears despise even Phoebus' song!  
For when next age, in France they say,  

* The wa●ing of the British Monarchy under Longho, and second Bardus, Kings in France and here, with the causes of the fame.  Longus, and second Bardus reign;  
Britons rude lawless wild desires,  
From th'altars hur'ld, their hallowed fires,  
And Piety being thrust out of Grace,  
Policy yet stepped not up in place;  
Thus oft begun well, sometimes fails,  
And Siren's forms have fishes tails:  
So great a work of weight and wonder,  
'Twas now to bring these peoples under.  
That Saturn's golden Age is vanished,  
And from the British coasts are banished,  
Samothes and his; fall what may fall,  
Religion, Sceptres, Monarches, all!  
Which Monarches then both Priests and Kings,  
Melchisedek-like did rule all things,  
Guiding both sacred and profane,  
Teaching things heavenly and humane.   

CANZ. XII.  
The original of Idolatry and Heathenish superstition.  
FRom Samothes and Sarron sprung,  
Druid's for State-matters, Bards for Song;  
And Magis so for wisdom named  
In Persia, or to Persia famed:  
Did flourish long: that yet not taught  
Those fables fond with dotage fraught  
Of Saturn, jove, Pan, and Apollo,  
And all those Heathen gods that follow;  
Whose 
* The beginning of Pagan and Heathenish Idolatry, by letting up and honouring the Statues of their deceased Kings, in some places; otherwhere by other means & devilish illusions. So among the old Germans and Saxons were the ●dols & Statues in their Temples of the Sun and Moon, and of their ancestors, Tuisco, Woden, their Mars or Mercury, Thor their jove, Frea th●ir Venus, and Seater, of whom the Week days, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sat●rday, continued from the Saxons to us, do yet retain their names, with the Idols of E●menseal, like Hermes or Mercury, Fl●nt, standing on a flint stone, and in a sheet, like Death: Helmsteed, Prono, Fidegast, Siwe, and diverse others, to whom, even till late times, they sacrificed Creatures, and in extremity their sons & daughters, in Germany, Norway, and those Septentrional Regions.  names were never heard nor known,  
Till blindness blossoms were full blown,  
And Ignorance had with their fames  
Almost hid both themselves and names;  
Of No, Nimrod, and the rest,  
Of those great Worthies, then at least,  
Each one with might and main did strive,  
From Gods their Lineage to derive;  
Then jove and Saturn honoured were,  
For Gods, some are so wise, they fear  
Huge Idols, stocks and floods, as Nile,  
Anubis, and the 
a So did the Egyptians & their superstitions did overspread a great part of the world; Busiris also King of Egypt, did offer stranger's blood to his gods, the like was done in these North Countries and Scythia, to Taranis, and Di●na Taurica; they offered their children's blood, in Syria, Egypt, and elsewhere, the Bible showeth.  Crocodyle:  
And with their own, or strangers bloods,  
Foil th'altars of their Scythique gods.   

CANZ. XIII.  
The end of the Samotheans Kingdom.  
WHile thou didst live, whose sweetest voice,  
Made rocks, wild beasts, & woods rejoice,  
All ill was hushed! when thou 
* Bardus, being so excellent & Musician and Poet, and King of this Island.  didst die,  
Stepped in foul rude impiety,  
And all what plagues or deadly smarts,  
Could pierce such lawless people's hearts.  
Eternal night might cloud our sky,  
To heaven when justice seemed to high,  
And Faith was fled! might Phoebus' beams  
Well fail or faint, when such foul streams  
Of loathed vice, in heaven's disgrace,  
Both heaven and him seemed to outface,  
As if those Giants had been revived,  
Noah's flood erst of life deptiued;  
These Monsters now of men, so much  
Degenerate, their rudeness such,  
Vice heaped on vice, they godless grow,  
And haste on fast their overthrow.  
Yet marked who will, when orders meet,  
And Laws been trodden 
a To this tune was that sung by the famous Poet of our Land, When faith fails in Priests saws, And Lords lusts been held for laws, When robbery is holden purchase, And lechery is counted solace; Then shall the Land of Albion▪ Be brought to great confusion,  under feet,  
It never passed unpunished quite,  
Or God or King disrob'de of right,  
Heaven suffered long such lawless rage  
To prosper! or at lest next age,  
Done rue, or damn, to lowest night,  
Deeds so ill sped to heaven's despite!  
Pentheus, to Bacchus, Bren t' Apollo's  
Ravished shrin● fearful vengeance follow's.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
Wickedness, the destruction of Empires.  
KIngs have rued people's faults, they Kings,  
Whence State & Realms oft ruin springs,  
So for one Greeks fault, Pallas ire  
Thousands drowned or consumed with fire,  
Of sacred Rapined hapless gold,  

* Where not one of the Soldiers or others that spoiled the Temples or took, or had share of their gold, escaped a most fearful end, insomuch, that like pennae Aquilinae, or Sejanus horse, Tholosanum aurum, was taken up proverib-wise, for an unfortunate possession, or an execrable and unhappy spoil, such as all rapines from Churches and hallowed uses are.  Tholouze for meed shall e'er be told.  
O foolish Mortals most unwise,  
Can you so Heaven and Hell despise,  
And think with sacrilegious hands  
To heap up treasures, leave fair lands,  
And not heaven and her Saints fell dooms  
Revenge wronged Altars, Temples, Tombs!  
That 'tis not safe to jest at Saints,  
Or mock heaven's Host, thy wretched plaints,  
Salmoneus, show, and Miser's notes,  
Yelled through their hellish bellowing throats,  
Who heaven nor hoped nor feared, now dwell  
In dungeons deep of darkest hell!  
When I see some so much want grace,  
As Church and God's right would deface,  
How needful were't to call out then,  
Dare not God, though you dread not men!  
All things must run to ruin 
* For where they dare be so busy with God, it is likely they will be bold with mortal men; and the despising and despite of Religion, which is the b●nd of peace, and things pertaining to the same, in very moral observation leaving the divine justice, decaying the ordinary Fidelity and Integrity of men, subverteth Kingdoms, the only neglect thereof working confusion and disorder, being the way leading to the assured ruin of Crowns, and all settled estates.  needs,  
Whereso foul swelling tumour breeds;  
Nor to sole private state this tends,  
Such Comet kingdom's fall portends!  
For the that pulls God's honours down,  
From King's head pulls withal the crown:  
Or does what ere he can to tread  
Down Virtue, and lay Honour dead.  
Many poor weeping states can tell  
How ill Kings fared, where God not well;  
God builds their houses that build his,  
And pulls down theirs that pull down this;  
Or if God should not vengeance take,  
Sense shows how senseless they mistake,  
With Tyrannous and Turkish might,  
Or policy rather than right,  
That think to rule; give leave, but mark,  
'Gainst mild Religions cause that bark,  
How carnal, and on how weak grounds  
They build, selfe-wit selfe-weight confounds!  
See they that most religion spite  
Or wrong the Church, Fooles-motto right,  
They cut the bough they stand on! take  
Religion down, shall not crowns shake?  
For God not worshipped, to his Image,  
Kings, who will reverence do or homage?  
Who then shall govern, how protect,  
Lives or lands in such law's neglect?  
And who will fear to sin, when sin  
May go unpunished? who begin  
To care for goodness when there's naught  
That's good, or God, or Conscience taught?   

CANZ. XV.  
Exemplified in these Samotheans, and not unpunished.  
SEe then, you Tyrants, that misconstrue  
Religion! many-headded 
* Vulgus bellua multorum capitum, as the Proverb says, and so called, as also instabile vulgus, of their folly and unconstancy.  Monster  
That barks at thine own bowels: theirs,  
Is thine, and thine may be their heirs!  
Time will show truth. Most famous men  
Most graced God's House, that theirs again;  
When they that pulled it down most fast,  
Swinelike must live, most miseries taste.  
Small strokes leave small impressions! greater  
Make the great givers ne'er the better!  
Experience of this truth, they say,  
Samotheans irreligious train,  
Grown orderless and lawless feels;  
Albion to scourge them hard at heels:  
That wrought their ruin; what time came  
Bergion to Ireland, so says Fame.   

CANZ. XVI.  
A short description of Ireland, occasioned by Bergions coming in with Albion, and possessing the same.  
NOw gentle Muse, since in thy flight  
Thou Albion coasts didst touch! but light:  
And 
* The description of Ireland briefly, and of her situation and people.  Ireland now her neighbour near  
Comes thus in place! Touch also here,  
Lightly her site! since ancients style  
By name of British either I'll:  
Fifty degrees North; East fifteen  
Both lie, or but small difference seen;  
Third chief Isle placed by Ptolomey,  
Next Britain and Taprobane,  
Seated in the Vergivian Main,  
Full of Lakes and of Egge-forme plain.  
Ireland is North-extended! East  
England at hand; Virginia West.  
Aloof in that 
a Ireland is almost round, the length that is so varying from a direct round, is extending from North to South, accounted 300. Miles.  Verginian Main,  
Island far Northward, South lies Spain.  
Iwerna, jerne, and Iris height;  
Subject to wind and winter's spite,  
Sees the Sun's set, in Iber's flood:  
Whom God and Nature gave this good  
With Candy Ioues own foster place,  
Equal, that none of Python's race,  
Do breed there; and if thither brought  
They die! a secret not 
b Whence they have supposed it called anciently, as Ogygia, so Banno, and holy Island; being no such venomous Creatures live there; and it is said, the roof of Westminster Hall framed of Irish Oak, and ●imber brought from thence, so breedeth neither Cobwebs nor Spiders.  unsought;  
From venom's free! The men for wars,  
Swift runners, nimble swimmers; Mars  
Their e'en ord'narie play-mate takes,  
For Towns or Cities, Loughes or Lakes,  
That been with Fish and Fowl replete,  
And snowwhite Swans their pleasant seat,  
Whole herds of beasts both wild and tame,  
In pastures large 
c The commodities of Ireland.  for goods and gain,  
Much milch-store and famed Hobbies race;  
Their grounds for Corn and Wine less grace!  
By Ceres nor Lyaeus loved,  
Their ill-late-ripened fruits well proved;  
Her Plutus pelf near Pluto's Cell,  
Th'Earth hides in mines even half at Hell.  
But to retire to Albion, whence  
We came, return, dear Muse, from hence  
With Proserpina, to th' Oriental,  
Ioues Palace, from this Occidental.   

CANZ. XVII.  
Albion, Neptune's son, coming hither, destroyeth the Samotheans, Bergion ruleth in Ireland.  
NOw Samothes Son in France and here,  
Had reigned well-nigh three hundred year!  
Of whom our Island first took 
* Samothea, and since that time called Albion, as some say, of the Greek word, Olbion, Happy; others, ab Albis Rupibus, white Rocks, appearing to to them that on the South coast sail by it; others of Albion, Neptune's son; and lastly, some but most fabulously of Albania, Dioclesian's supposed Daughter; the name of Britain, some derive from Britone, a Nymph of Crete; others of one Prytus; some, as Sir Thomas Eliot, of the Greek Prytaneia; Master Lluid, of Welsh Prydcain, a fair form; Master Camden, of Birth, a painting, that the old Britons used; Goropius Becanus, of Free-Dania, or Bry-Dania, as it were, Free Denmark, but quite besides the mark, as well as they that suppose the name to have come from little Britain, for that it was ancienter of name then either of them, and little Britain received name from hence, the common received opinion is, that it is so named of King Brute, as England of the English.  name,  
Samothea cleped, so says Fame;  
Yet now their rule was in the wayning,  
Longus, and second Bardus, reigning  
In France among the Celts, before  
Albion found out our British shore;  
As soon as this our Britain shore;  
As soon as this our Britain stoops  
To Neptune's Albion and his 
a The end of the Samotheans reign, and the coming in of Albion & Bergion, who henceforth ruled this Island and Ireland.  troops,  
His Brother Bergion sails for Thyle,  
Haebudes, Ireland, Orkney, and I'll;  
But still Cham's issue, Albion's train,  
From Neptune sprung, in great disdain,  
Massacre their lawless caitiffs, and  
Chase them through their misgoverned land,  
Weary of their lives, in all their borders  
Doing penance for their foul disorders;  
So heaven took vengeance whiles earth stood,  
Amazed to see't even drunk with blood;  
And Albion, her new Lords that came,  
Gently receives and keeps their name.  
Fair I'll, whose flowery bosom is  
A Paradise of earthly bliss,  
So fair, so sweet, that all men's eyes,  
Thy Siren beauty doth entice,  
O, sure some Nymph thus turned by jove,  
Drowned for unkind Ulysses' love,  
For Siren-like with waving 
b The Emperor Severus did so describe this Island of Albion in his Coy●●.  locks,  
Severus seats thee on white rocks.   

CANZ. XVIII.  
A descending to the seeking out of Albion's descent, which, with his acts and fall, are the subjects of the second Ode.  
NOw, aid me Muses, for I long  
To rest on Atlas' shoulders 
* The Transition to the Story (in the second Ode) of Albion, and his train, next inhabitants of this I'll, who came from Greece and Egypt, where Osiris reigned, whose Cousin or Grandchild Albion was.  strong,  
Whence jaloofe, with careless eye,  
Viewing poor mortals misery,  
May earth despise, and rapt above  
Those starry battlements of jove,  
On contemplations spotless wings,  
To heavens clear light the souls fair spring,  
Taste, feed, and feast on, o best good,  
Heavenly Ambrosia, Angel's food;  
My mind most free, whiles I in verse  
Do Albion's due descent rehearse,  
Should then survey Egyptian Nile,  
And ancient Argos where some while,  
Osiris raig'nd, and Isis' Queen,  
Alcides' Tutoresse, Albion's teen,  
Who placed in heaven, for just 
* With holy Vows were sacrificed and prayed unto, for their propitious aid, by their devout Clients, thereby to obtain their Petitions, and just desires: A reverend salutation and hailing of the Deities, being then accustomably used.  desires  
Were hailed on earth, with hallowed fires.  
The end of the first Ode.     

A brief type of the second Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called ALBION.  
The second Ode containeth,  
1. AN Apology for Poesy in general, and more expressly in respect of some moralising fictions, and supposed escapes in this present, or the like modern History of our Land of great Britain.  
2. An asseveration of the peopling of this Island soon after the flood, as were the rest, by Noah, the great Belus or Saturn of Assyria, and his sons: whose stories are compared with those ancient Panym fictions of Saturn, of Crect, and under him the flourishing golden Age.  
3. The coming in of Albion, and his descent from Neptune, the son of Osiris, jupiter, or Saturn of Egypt, the son of Cham, the son of Noah, who with his brother Bergion, were Kings of this Island, Ireland, and the Orcadeses.  
4. The overthrow of Albion and Bergion, by Hercules, the son of jupiter, Europs or Osiris of Egypt, who with his mother Isis came into Germany and France, where he espoused the daughter of Lycus, King of Celts: whose issue reigned there, and from whom the people and many of the chiefest places took their names.   


PALAE ALBION. 
Series Poematis & Artificium sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Ode secunda, Inscripta ALBION.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Proximus Albionis ceu nominet Albion oras,  
Et genus & proavos Oda secunda refert:  
Ambo, sed Alcides, fratremque ipsumque coegit,  
Noctis adire nigrae, tecta inamoena, domos.  

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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 antiquitatum, & inde occasione oblatâ, Poese 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Apologia.  
SAmotheam Samothes, velut Albiona, Albion olim,  
Insulam uterque suo dixit de nomine; Fama est.  
Quis tamen aut Samothes, aut quis fuit Albion ille,  
Clariùs ut referam, cum res vix clara vel usquam  
Quaesita antiquis, aut orbi cognita nostro;  
Cymmerijs videar tenebris anquirere solem; 
Antiquitatum,   
Fama malum, mendax! quid non? veneranda vetustas  
Occubuit, solùm ignorantia caeca superstes!  
Cum ne hominum aetatem, quis mundi saecula norit?  
Prima obscura aetas, 
Contra suos exagitatores, & eorum molestias.  nugisque referta secunda,  
Tertia sola fidem historijs polita meretur.  
At Pol ego Magnis quae sunt libanda Poetis,  
Carmina, vel cedro digna, aut linenda cupresso,  
Gesta legens magnûm monumentaque prisca virorum, 
Defensio.   
Semideûm laudes Heroum fortia facta,  
Celsa quibus viguit fulgens super aethera virtus, 
Vn●   
Sic soleo afficier, hausto quasi caelitus igne,  
Ambrosijsque epulis iussus consistere Diuûm; 
cum   
Et cupio hijs fieri similem, 
Poeseos verae ac genuinae, ut & vetustissimae vindicatione à calumnijis! cuius laudes & approbatio, vel ideò elucescant & clariores fiant Argumentis inde sumptis.  vel ad astra levari,  
Sedibus hijs miseris hominum socijsque relictis;  
Vt cum ijsdem placidam possem traducere vitam;  
Nam vel erant homines, nunc dij, hominesue deceret,  
Taleis esse, sient Divino uti munere Diui,  
Sancti Immortales, aeternâ pace beati.  
Sive igitur figmenta forent, ea seria sive,  
Namque, fatebor enim, fuerant dignissima lectu,  
Plurima virtutum fomenta, repagula pravae  
Nequitiae, stimulusque exempla illustria laudi.  
Desine mirari, 
Laudabilibus & miris suis effectibus,  res ingeniosa Poeta est;  
Ornatu miro, varijsque coloribus usus,  
Plusquam Parrhasiâ depictis arte tabellis,  
Tum menteis, 
in Viventibus  oculosque hominum demulcet & aures,  
Si bonus est; natum inter spelaea ferarum,  
Quem nutrijt Rhodope, aut horrenti Caucasus antro,  
Ingenuumque hominemque facit, praeceptaque tradit,  
Non bene formatae, verè moralia vitae.  
Fictaque res persaepe iwat, si vera relatu  
Defuerint, summi ne desint semina honoris,  
Neu ' pia virtuti, deessent sua praemia laudes:  
Hinc merito debetur honos, 
& Mortuis satis ex voto conspicuis:  diuine Poeta,  
Chie Melesigenes tibi suaviloquisque Camoenis.  
Qui canitis magnos Heroes, gesta, triumphos!  
Hij Ioue prognatos cecinêre Deosque Ducesque  
Ne quisquam aut proprio, aut digno fraudetur honore,  
Hinc iwat à Divis proavorum Ducere turmas;  
Nec cito crediderim, qui stemma suum, ab Ioue summo,  
Deduci cupidè vellet, quin protinus Idem  
Vellet item cupidè, nato Ioue dignus haberi,  
Virtutisque ergò, Herculeos perferre labores.  
Nobilitas populi, Maiestas urbis & orbis,  
Clara trophaea, vocant mundi miracula, vulgus,  
Atria, Templa, Domus, Statuae, ingentesque Colossi,  
Magnatum elato praetendunt nomina fronte; 
Cuius etiam ut monumentorum antiquitatis aliorum consimilium vis tanta,   
Gloria quanta ijsdem fuerat, pictasque fidesque,  
Quos fundatores praeconia splendida iactant.  
Accensus velut hijs animus stimulatur ad omne  
Virtutum genus, 
& Energeia,  esse cupit primordia gentis  
Clara suae, meritis uti laudibus omne per aewm,  
Maiores super astra ferens, se immisceat illis.  
Aura nec ista levis, vanâ spe lactat hiantem  
Famae! etenim in dubijs constans fiducia rebus,  
Mentem hominis firmat, ut maiorum & gloria semper  
Fida Comes, praesens oculis, animoque figuras,  
Exhibet haud tristeis! neque deserit illa labanteis,  
Donec in Elisios migrarint se Duce Campos.  
Durior at siquis dicat mihi forsan, 
Omnes praesertim ingenuos sui dulcedine & amore captos  ut ille,  
Malo pater tibi sit Thersites, dummodo tu sis,  
Aeacidae similis, vulcaniaque arma capessas,  
quam te Thersitae similem producat Achilles! 
Rapiant, & Alliciant.   
Nobilitas equidem, sola est atque unica virtus,  
Ingenuè fateor! sunt & sine crimine mores;  
Neué obtusa adeò gestamus pectora; soli  
Virtutisque rudes, soboles & inhospita Musis!  
Sin etiam cupimus meritis clarescere avorum,  
An vitio nobis vertat, quod Graecia laudi,  
Docta sibi, Aegyptus, Babylon, Roma, Ilium, Argos!   

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A thesi ad hypothesin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉! & ita historiae & antiquitatum Britannicarum assertio excusatoria.  
HIjsce superbire, & saltem virtutis amorem  
Prae se ferre homines perhibent, praesagia honoris;  
Nobilitatis enim propriae, 
Ipsissimae Apologiae,  ceu conscia mens est,  
Vt stirpis generisque sui! Non saepe videmus  
Maiorique ardore cieri, atque impetu in ipsam  
Virtutem? & quasi iam sibi debita praemia poscat?  
Nec vana, 
Item Apologetici, sicut &  aut fallax haec talis opinio nostris,  
Censeri possit, ceu fabula inutilis, Anglis!  
Certa utique è tenebris cum redditanuper in Auras,  
Canicies veneranda, acceptaque grataque multis,  
Anglos effulsit super aequoreosque Britannos! 
Apologizatorum quorundam aliorum Apologia, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
saxons à No, Thurstoque parente & Odeno;  
Quos medios I●tasque olim inter-creuerit Anglus;  
Britttones à Bruto, pictóue colore Agathyrsi,  
Quem Brith dixerunt patrio sermone Britanni!  
Caesar Aborigines quos sensit, serior aetas  
Inuenit Bruti sobolemque, Hunnosque Scythasque;  
Tum Samothenoris, primum, Albionemque Britannis.   

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Nohae tanquam Saturni historiae adumbratio: plurimarum●ue hinc inde gentium antiquitates & Origo.  
DIcitur, 
Instituti primi resumptio, & Nohae, sub Saturni persona, Historiae hypo●ypose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  in toto, notissima Fabula Coelo,  
Saturni ut mundo cessêrunt Aurea saecla,  
Treis Regna in parteis olim divisa fuisse;  
Coelica sceptra jovi, Neptuno caerula, Diti  
Infera sorte data! 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, anné negabit  
Esse quis Assyrium No? qui totius orbis  
Dividit imperium Gnatis tribus? Indica cedunt,  
Regna Asiae Semo! japhet Europa; Africa Chamo!  
Divino eloquio, citò pagina sacradocebit.  
Coeli Oriens typus Illustris! sic, forsitan ille  
jupiter Assyrijs, oris Sem iustus Eois,  
Sceptra gerens pacis! qui Melchi-sedekque Salemque  
Ante Ninum & Belum, infameis; qui iam duo vidit  
Divisos ab aquis mundos! cui nescia vitae  
Principij aut finis, series numerosa Dierum.  
Coeli Oriens dixi Typus! Orcus & infera forsan,  
Aegyptus Chusijqueque nigri, Loca; Torrida Zona,  
Chamo ceu diti, cessit, maledictio patris!  
Hesperioque Mari, quae dicitur Insula Gentium,  
Ceu medio, jonio, Euxino, & Maeotidos undis,  
Cincta loca, japeto quasi Neptuno data! 
A●plior  summi  
Vates decantant; & norunt omnia Vates!  
Quod siquis niveos interstrepit Anser Oloreis,  
Vates hic dicet; quis enim non clarius ipso  
Sole, 
Eiusdem rei illustratio, & confirmatio, ab Anxia dub●tatione, confusione, & incertitudine, omnium aliarum antiquitatum, nisi istuc reducantur: unde nostrarum vel●● & principaliorum Gentium Orientalium, & aliarum primordia, huc referuntur, hinc deducuntur  videt tenebris se errorum involuere caecis?  
Creta Iouis geniale solum! fateorque benignè!  
At quis non videat, captus nisi ment & ocellis,  
Saturnosque jovesque Deosque per oppida plureis,  
Promiscuè cultos? Alcidas novimus ipsi,  
Et Lybicum, & Gallum, & Graiugenam Amphitryonis!  
Antiquo de more, etenim, Gens quaelibet olim,  
Saturnumque jovemque habet incunabula stirpis  
Prima suae! hosce canit multum admirata vetustas:  
Hos solita est numeris mirè celebrare canoris.  
jupiter in Cretâ est! Aegyptius alter, Osiris!  
Hammon in Lybia! Durstus quoque fortè & Odenus,  
jupiter & Saturnus erant Germanici! eisdem  
Sic placet Hebraeis pater Aschenas! Aschenes ipsi,  
Hebreis hodie dicti! Sic Graecia, javan,  
Ionios populos habet! ut Dodanim, Dodonaeo  
Sacra jovi Quercus, feret aut tua nomina Dedan!  
Eque Tyrash Tyrij, Thraxuè; Eque Gomer Gomeraei,  
Antiquo historicis dicti quoque nomine Cymbri:  
Quos Belgij Gallos, quos nunc vocat Anglia Wallos,  
Se Cumero, Cumeraeg, quo usi Idiomate dictant:  
Stemmatis antiqui memores, quasi per dere nomen,  
Indignè aut minimè, cum agris & sede ferentes!  
Haud secus ac miseri ex aruis & arce Syonis,  
Quae Gens rapta tuo, Salmanasar impie, iussu,  
Tartaricis ultra Babylonem agit hospes in oris;  
Fama refert, uti eis, Solymorum flebilis inter  
Cantica prorumpti Gemitus, Io, Ierushalaim;  
Sic genus & Natale solum, patria alma, Penates,  
Nescio quâ, at video, ut rapiant dulcedine cunctos.  
Vtque minus mirere, meis quasi fabula verbis,  
Et non vera fides, adsit, precor, adspice Gentes,  
Eoas, quae sunt Semi de sanguine cretae,  
Quaeque Austrum coluêre, satae de stemmate Chami.  
Nonne Madai Medès, Paras sua nomina Persis,  
Sicut Elam, dedit? Assur, Aram, Saba, Havila, Sydon,  
Samarithes, Chanaan, Hethus, jebus, Amor, Hevaeus,  
Qui magnas dixêre suo denomine Genteis.  
Mizraim in Aegypto, qui sedit ad ora fluentis  
Nili, Niliacae imposuit sua nomina terrae:  
Testibus Hebraeis, Hebraeoùe idiomate gnaris.  
Aethiopes Chusios, genuit Chu●! At Lybicos nè,  
Coniectare licet Lehabim; ceu saba Sabaeos?  
Cumque Lydi Ludim; jones & Graecia javan;  
Ryphath, Ryphaeis qui habuere in montibus ortum;  
Moschus habetque suum Mosoch, & Turca Togarmah:  
Serius è tenebris velut eruta Nomina! quid nî,  
jam pulsis nebulis orientis lumine Phoebi,  
Verior elicior: videatur & hinc tua Gomer,  
Progenies? Cumeri, ceu Cymbri seu Gomeraei,  
Quae gens relliquiae cupide audit Cambro-Britannae;  
Et sedes? siquidem tua nomina, terminus! inter  
Sedem habeas, Morinos, hominum extremosque Britannos.  
Sive Gomer, 
& explicantur.  sive ille Mesech, Germanica, & ista  
Litora Samotheae, tenuêre, & forsan uterque,  
Ambo japetiadae; quem primum Europa Monarcham  
Agnovit! soboles forsan Germaniae in Oris  
Eois Mesech, Hesperijs Gomer, Aschenes austro,  
Sub tepido! primos utcunque Britannia Gallis  
Germanisué suos, debet de iure colonos.  
Trans mare in Albionem, deducta colonia multa,  
Caesareis visa est! Samothes quoque littore utroque  
Regnavit, perhibent, Celtasque superque Britannos:  
Quippe Mesech Samothes dictus fuit! Insula nomen  
Traxit & inde suum; sic vos cecinisse sorores  
Aoniae memini! Cur dicta sit Albion olim,  
Musa rogata, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 &  refer! ceu quis fuit Albion ille,  
Vnde etiam nomen praenobilis Insula, dudum  
Caeperat; a toto seclusa Britannia mundo.   

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De Osyridis, Albionis avi, Aegypti regno, & urbe Memphi, vetustissimis.  
VRbs antiqua fuit; 
Deductio historiae ad Nohae posteros, in persona Chami.  prisci tenuere Coloni,  
Illius Authores, soboles Chamique nepotes,  
Ad Nili ripas positam, 
& Osyridis Aegyptij.  qua postea fertur  
Ostentasse superba procul, miracula Memphis!  
Hîc olim regnasse ferunt, genitum jove Osyrim,  
jupiter ille idem, dictusque Aegyptius ijsdem,  
Cui dea memphitis, coniux erat Inachis Io  
Isis dicta eadem, 
Cuius Regnum & Civitas vita.  perque omneis inclyta Gentes;  
Ille Aegyptiaci, qui venit ad ostia Nili,  
Et sua Niliacis relliquit nomina terris  
Mizram, apud nostros magnus reputatur Osiris!  
Qui Serapis & Apis erat; ceu corniger Hammon  
In Lybijs! uncique puer monstrator Aratri,  
Fortè Aegyptiacae Gentis Saturnus! ut olli  
Nepthum erat genitus, monstrat sacra pagina! quidam  
Neptunum dixere; itidem satus Albion illo  
Qui dedit Albioni nomen, sic Fama, Brytannae.   

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Loquacitas & fabulae Graecorum hîc praesertim de Iside, Argo, & Osyride.  
HIc tamen incertam, in caecos impingere Cymbam  
Errorum scopulos, video; ut ne plurima fando,  
Aut tractus lustrando omneis, attingere portum,  
Securus possim; Miris adeoque referta est,  
Fabellis, monstris, mundi haec obscurior aetas;  
De se, 
& de eodem figmenta apud Graecoes Aegyptios recitantur.  deque aliis, res mira, at dignanotatu;  
quam propè nil audet non dicere Graecia mendax!  
Seque suosque canendo, nimis dum iactat abundè,  
Sic certa incertis, veris sic falsa remiscet,  
A summo ut medium, à toto quoque discrepet imum.  
Omniavae miserè, quantùm haec facundia, plusquam  
Libera, turbarit, cupit omnia, perdidit omma;  
Ingeniumque decusque suis famamque perennem.  
Hij regem Argiuûm, Argivis Regnoque relictis,  
Aegyptum migrasse, rudeis docuisseuti sulcis  
Mandarent cererem, & reliquas faeliciter arteis?  
Vnde bovis formâ, monstrator Osiris aratri,  
Dein colitur; referunt: deberi ita singula doctis,  
Gloriolam certè, primùm omnia cognita Graecis,  
A jove deceptamque canunt, namque omnia vellent  
De jove dicta suo, vaccae sub Imagine terris  
Errantem ignotis, venisse ad flumina Nili,  
Quae furijs agitata dolis junonis iniquae,  
Aegypti implevit falsis mugitibus agros;  
Reddita forma prior, donec, fit Osyridis Isis,  
Io dicta prius! genitus quoque creditur Eius,  
Esse Epaphus! cuius dicta est de coniuge Memphis!  
Quanquam alij Lybien, referunt, de nomine dictam.   

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Beli Nohae, cum reliquis Beli nomine insignitis, collatio.  
CRedo equidem ante alios Rex Antiquissimus omnes, 
Accommodatio praemissorum ad praesentem locum & materiam,   
Assyrijs Noe est dominus sic dictus in oris;  
Belus enim dominum sonat, hoc quoque nomine Belus,  
Aegypti Danaique pater, quos postea gentes  
Aegypti Danaûmque canunt, Beloque priori,  
Dico satas omnes, 
de●n  docet hoc sacra pagina, genteis!  
Hocque satus Belo, fortè est antiquior Apis,  
Illo Divae Iûs famoso coni●ge; & Ille,  
Forsan ut alter erat, siet alteraque Isis, Osiris!  
Aegialeus Frater, Coniux fuit Inachis Io,  
Eius qui histoijs tantum est celebratus Osiris. 
Prosecutio historiae propositae de Osyride & posteris.   
Eque Ioue hoc sata, iam soboles Neptuni●, multis  
Coeperat esse locis celebris, & sceptra gerebant  
Quacunque est toto circum diffusa profundo  
Insula! magnus enim fratreis sic iusserat Apis,  
Triginta aut plureis, varijs dominarier oris.  
Lestrigo Italiam colit; Hespera limina habebant  
Geryones! aliosque inter, maria omnia lustrans,  
Bergion Ogygiam Iernen atque Orcades; omnem  
Albion Albionis tractum capit, insula nomen  
Cum dominis recipitque nowm, dominosque priores  
Aut fugat aut caedit miseros, duráue subactos  
Seruitute premit, Neptunius Albion omneis.   

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Ob Samothidarum per Albionem extirpationem querela, 
〈◊〉  amborumque nequitia, adnotatur.  
HEu, heu, Samothidûm periêrunt gloria, nomen,  
Heu grandaeué Mesech tua iam cecidêre decusque  
Et sceptra, in manibus quae olim gessêre nepotes,  
Tum lauro Phoebaâ, 
Albion contra Samothidas molitur machinationes bellicas  hederaque revincta decoris!  
Cum pia Relligio, & probitas deserta, fidesque,  
Tum iacuêre simul, desertaque splendida sceptra;  
Relligio basis est nexusque & vincula pacis,  
Hanc ubi neglexere, homines Astraea reliquit;  
Insequitur vindicta scelus! & rabiesque Cigantum,  
Contemptus superûm; pestis mortalibus aegris!  
Nequitiam improbitas superat! se Daemones ipsi  
Excruciant: 
& cum populorum subiugatione & Tyrannide, alia nefanda sceleta,  claws clavo, undâ pellitur unda.  
Albion invisus superis, reliquique Tyranni,  
Neptuno-geniti longè lateque per omneis  
Terras, haud secus ac vasti Titanides olim,  
Viperea proles, omni pietate remota,  
Accumulare scelus sceleri, ceu Pelio Ossan,  
Aggressi, 
Tum ipse & reliqui Gigantes  atque Ossae frondosum involuere Olympum;  
Donec aws, sic fama refert, grandaews Osiris,  
Magnus & annoso multum venerabilis aevo,  
Iratus diro scelere & furialibus ausis  
Increpat hos, graviter culpans crudelia facta.  
Vnanimi consensu omnes, hunc tollere censent  
Evivis, aetate gravem, curuumque senectâ!  
Nec mora, uti cautum est, ubi coniuratio facta est,  
Immaneis inter, 
contra Osyridem insidias struunt, & perimunt:  sceleratosque hosce Giganteis,  
Exequitur scelus ipse Tryphon; tibi frater Osiris!  
Et clam, è conspectû dilectae coniugis Iûs,  
Crandaewm perimit (sceleri scelus additum,) Osyrim:  
Isis ut absentem, longâ spe caeca, Maritum  
Non videt, 
At verò  horrendae male sedula, nescia fraudis,  
Per syluas & agros atque inviarura, furenti  
Persimilis, solis, comitata timore & amore,  
Nî sociam addiderat, timidaeque superuenit, Eccho  
Errabat quaerens socium, pia Nympha, ingalem;  
Scissa comas, laniata genas, incessibus agros,  
Atterit illa suis, querulis ululatibus auras!  
Donec ut omne nemus, fontesque & flumina Nili,  
Murmure clamarent magno, tua nomina Osiris.  
Ipsa sed in somnis inhumati venit Imago,  
Ostendensque scelus, transfixaque pectora ferro,  
Vindictam hinc animo, mandat, suaque ossa sepulchro.   

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Osiridis à funere tymbus, sacra & exequiae.  
EXilit e somno, somnis exterrita, 
Contra hos omneis Alcides,  & umbram  
Persequitur verbis, quòd non se sistat ocellis;  
Et fugis ô Coniux, inquit, miseramque relinquis?  
Ibimus ô Coniux pariter, pariterque Tyranni,  
Sanguine perfusi, pulsabimus ostia Ditis:  
Tum vero quibus ipse locis monstraverat antè,  
Inuenit, atque rogo imponit, consumptaque flammis,  
Cum celebri pompâ, capit ossa recondita in urna,  
Insula in Aegypto, quae Abatos accincta palude,  
Quam dicunt stygiâ, Divae contermina Memphi.  
Indè bovem Aegyptus colit, inventumque quotannis,  
Barbara Memphitim miratur pubes Osyrim:  
Forsitan & Lybicis qui corniger Hammon in oris!  
Parta dolo, vi regna Tryphon sceleratus habebat;  
At Regina gravi iam dudum saucia curâ,  
Multa animo secum tacitoque in pectore voluit!  
Vindictam meditatur ovans, ad caetera moesta.   

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Alcidae contra Gigantes bella & belli occasio.  
HErculis adsciscens cunctos perferre labores  
Virtutem invictam, 
Matre dea Iside, instigatus,  socium comitemque pericli,  
Nympha suum Lehabim, Lybium quoque fortè vocatum;  
Alter hic Alcides, multumque antiquior illo  
Alcidâ, Alcmenae gnato; sed forsitanidem  
Cum Gallo, quòd ibi, Celtarum in littore, saevos  
Albionis stravit, faelici marte Tyrannos:  
Huic Dea, dum scelera enarrat, caedemque parentis,  
Vsque adeò exacuit mentemque irasque querelis; 
Bellum movens, necem & ex●●um parat?   
Vis excelsa viri emicuit, velut ignea flammis  
Fax è coelo ardens, vindictam exposcit ab omni  
Peste Tyrannorum; virtutis verae & honoris  
Accensus stimulis: horrentiaque intulit arma  
Hijs hominum monstris, totúmque ad bella per orbem  
Provocat immaneis horrenda mole Gigantes.   

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Alcidae profectio, pereg●inatio, & gesta contra Gigantes.  
TVm clara Alcidae virtus, à Gadibus usque  
Auroram & Britoneses, caedit superatque Tyrannos,  
Dijs gratus superis; victricia utique per omneis  
●am coeli plagas circumtulit arma; serenam  
Restituens mundo pacem: primumque Typhonem  
Verius Italiae referam Aegyptine Tyrannum,  
Anth●um in Lybia domuit, 
Vnde eius ex Aegypto per Lybiam in Europam, & has mundi plagas pro●ectio,  propriasque columnas  
Transgressus Calpen & diverso in littore Abylen,  
Vltima in Hesperiâ: fingunt tria corpora in uno,  
Geryonem informem, superat, seu treis ita dictos  
Neptuni potius gnatos! Lestrigona contrâ,  
Faucibus Italiae saevos prolemque tyrannos,  
Vnde Anthropophagi saeclis venientibus orti,  
Alcidae virtus parat ire! Alpeisque nivosas,  
Dum transit, cupiens Celtarum invisere regna,  
Celtarumque Lycum regem, 
ubi inter alios incidit in Albionem unum è Gigantibus Britanniae tunc Regem, quem vita ac regno spoliat.  cui iam ferus hostis  
Imminet, Aëreas posuit qui castraper Alps,  
Albion! è coelo veniens divinus & hospes  
Alcides videare Lyco! & iam terga premebat  
Hostis agens raptas quaecunque per oppida praedas;  
Sollennes epulae, convivia festa parantur,  
Hospitibus levet ut curas fessisque laborem;  
Laetitia tonat ingenti, 
Interea  cum Regia Celtae,  
Vulgus item festas passim duxêre choraeas;  
Phoebus ut Eurotam, plaudente, vel ad iuga Cynthi,  
Sic populo, Didûsue recepti Troes in urbem:  
Et Galathaea genas roseo suffusa nitore,  
Gnata Lyco, formam faciemque simillima Divae,  
Nympha rosas potis & Ledaeos vincere cygnos,  
Ornatur, niveae ut deceptus amore puellae,  
Alcides patrem & populos defendere possit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Inter Herculem & Albionem belli motus & praeparatio.  
COniugio hunc stabili vinctum charisque Hymenaeis, 
Hospitium apud Lycum regem Galliae, memoratur, & utriusque apparatus belli, tum foederis & Sociorum,   
Praesidium tutum esserati, firmataque in aewm,  
Foedera, sceptra, sibi, serisque nepotibus olim,  
Rex cupit hoc, populus, pariter pulcherima Nympha;  
Hinc iurata prius clades & nobile lethum,  
Albion Herculeâ, tua certa accitaque dextrâ!  
Efferus interea gentis populator opimae  
Celtùm Gomereae sobolis, furiosior Adriâ,  
Et fratrum Impatiens necis, & quasi percitus oestro,  
Herculis adventu fratrum occisoris, & arcto  
Foedere cum Celtis inito; malus aestuat Iris!  
Accersens fratrem, in fratrum occisoris inultûm  
Perniciem, ex jerne, Scotica Orcade, & Acmode, & ultimo  
Ex Britonum tractu, Tamesino aruoque Sabrino,  
Albion in Campum secum rapit agmina! Gallûm  
Littora ceu tota insolito sonuêre tumultu.  
Excitat Ogygiam Iernen, Scythicam Orcada & omnem,  
Quâ patet acris hiems, ratibusque imperuia Thule,  
Insulam, in auxilium fratris, fretusque suorum  
Bergion acer adest turmis; junguntque Phalanges,  
Inuisi superis fratres; & cedere nescij!  
Magni utrique duces, solùm, duo fulmina belli,  
Bergion Herculeis, vincendus & Albion armis.  
Impiger Alcides iam notum limen Amicae,  
Amplexus molleis benè concessasque relinquens  
Delicias, quas ferre solent dulces Hymenaei;  
Quos celebrare parat devictis hostibus! haud iam  
●●ditus imbelli Cytharae; sed Cornua rauco  
Cum stridore iwant; clavo exwijsque Leonis  
Hordidus, & teneris nequicquam amplexibus aptus  
Coniugis! Arma vocat, justasque exasperat Iras,  
Heroicae plenus virtutis, dignus honore  
Summo, dimeritus pia serta, trophaea, triumphos,  
A saevis totum monstris qui liberet orbem:  
Tum comites Celtaeque simul multo agmine facto, 
ac   
In sua castrarunt, pectus dedit Inclyta famâ,  
Magnanimi ducis, & foelix celebrataque virtus!  
Qui prius attoniti ut lepores, vix hiscere nuper  
Ausi prae dubio, infandum, nimioque pavore;  
Ac timidi sic fortè aliquando, ad pocula Damae,  
Cum canibus venient, velut hij sua tecta Domosque;  
Nunc virtus menti, mens insita pectore, cunctis  
Vis Inuicta viris, certae spes una salutis:  
Tantae molis erat Ducis inclyti honosque Decusque!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Praelij commissi apparatus, & Albionis eversio.  
IAm properant acies, toruis aspectibus ambae, 
Demum praelij commissi descriptio: Eiusdem euentu● & consequentia, Herculis sc. triumphi   
Herculis ex unâ, diversâ ex parte Gigantum,  
Inficere Herbosos cum caede & sanguine Campos;  
Ac nisi vana fuit Phlegraeis fabula castris,  
Aggressi superos, jovis ut nunc filium in armis,  
Horrendo fremitu stolidi immanesque Gigantes,  
Ceu Boreas bello, plwiosus & Auster aperto,  
Congressi magno turbantes murmure coelum,  
Exercent vireis, & terras turbine perflant;  
Crebrosque excutinunt attritis nubibus igneis!  
Sic fremitu ingenti, & telorum nubibus aether  
Turbidus, infestos reddunt solemque diemque,  
Et quasi misceri, coelumque solumque videres,  
Laxa est terra cruore, fluunt de sanguine rivi,  
Nescit habere modum rabies, studiumque nocendi;  
Donec permissù superûm Neptunia proles,  
Virtuti Alcidae cessit, caesisque tyrannis,  
Cum socijs; maduit fraterno sanguine tellus;  
Ceu fato cecidêre pari, & quasi turbine missis  
Imbribus è coelo. Comitum pars maxima Saxis,  
Narbonensi agro, Lapidoso in littore Le-Craux;  
Ad Rhodani ripas; diverso in limine, quidam  
Dixêre, ad Scaldim, vel amoeni fluminis Albis,  
Bergion Herculeis, uti pressus & Albion armis.  
jamque aderant festusque Dies, laetique Hymenaei;  
Magnificum Paeana canunt, celebrantque triumphos,  
Pax quoniam Arcto●, & liberta● reddita mundo.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Herculis de Albione triumphi, & cum Galathaea Hymenaei.  
TVm bonus Alcides clavo, spolijsque Leonis  
Depositis, Nymphae dulceis meditatur amores  
Formosae; Dryades, Fauni, Satyrique petulci,  
In syluis, iwenes, 
& Nuptiae cum Galathae●, ubi  passim, innuptaeque puellae,  
In Thalamis Galathaes tuis! tum pronuba juno,  
Atque Hymen hanc celebrant pompam taedasque ingaleis.  
Nascitur ex illâ Calates, qui nomina Celtis  
Imposuit! Celtum verò e Celtice & Hercule natum,  
Parthenius Nicaeus ait, dare nomina Celtis;  
Illa autem Bretani gnata est! Bretanoque Britannos  
Deduci perhibent! ceu nomina Graeca sonarent,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ue;  
Quòd si ita sint, & certa fides adhibenda Nicaeo,  
Quid Britonen Cretes Nympham? qu● Pryton Araxes  
Gnatum, 
Dissentientes quorundam opiniones aliquatenùs reconciliantur; In fine.  Brytannis memorent dare Nomina regnis?  
Vel Brutum? vel ubi Galates, Galathaea, Lycusque?  
N● Bretanus Lycus ille foret, Galathaeaque dicta  
Celtica, ceu Galates Celtus; ceu nomina rebus,  
Aut alia, aut intorta nimis, data saepe videmus.  
judicium hic alios, per me, penès esto licebit!  
Fama etiam victis domitisque Gigantibus olim,  
Alciden cum matre deâ, (quae gloriagentì;)  
Germanis venisse, simul docuisse feroceis  
Tunc populos, arteis, & commoda plurima vitae.  
At quidam venisse, ferunt, cumque Iside Osyrim,  
Ad Marsum Regem; sed non ego credulus illis;  
Serior hic nisi Osyris erit, siet alteraque Isis;  
Aut illo genitus, pro illo ponatur Osiris!  
Trans Rhenum atque Alpeis qui iam pervenit adusque  
Germanos, vel quae gens illi proxima Gallos,  
Ac fudit, dum quaerit ovans, toto orbe Giganteis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Transitio ad seqq. obiter tamen adnotatis Herculis sobole, postea Francorum Regibus.  
INclytum apud Gallos, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad sequentia, obiter verò recensitis Herculeis posteris, Francorum Regibus, ad Brutum usque & Corynaei tempora.  charae teneraeque sodalis,  
Implicitum Thalamis, reliquósue domare Gigantes,  
Forte paraturum, Alciden rel●sinquimus! Orti,  
Gallorum ex illo Reges, per saecula multa,  
Nati natorum, quique enascuntur ab illis,  
Perpetuâ serie, Galates, & Lugdus, Harbon,  
Beligius jasiusque ferox, serique nepotes  
Herculei, Allobroges, Romus, Paris, atque Lemanus,  
Olbius, hoc, Galatesque secundus in agmine, Nannes,  
Et Remis, & Francus, & longo post ordine Pictus.  
Odae secundae Finis.    

PALAE 
Synchronismus, sive supputatio Annorum.  ALBION. 
Supplementum historiae.   
The second Ode, Entitled ALBION.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
The second Ode, sings Albion's acts,  
Whose downfall and his brother Bergions,  
Been famed for Gaule-Alcides facts;  
Their remnant issue, in these Regions,  
On Danaus' Daughters, got the race  
Of Cyclops huge, that haunt the place.  

CANT. I.  
An assertion of approved Antiquities, with an Apology in defence of History and Poesy.  
SAmothes Samothea's, Albion's style,  
Albion, says Fame, gave this our Isle.  
Who Samothes or Albion were  
To make report, of eld more clear,  
When doubts like mists do seem t'arise,  
And overcast our clouded skies,  
We will seek what those Ancients say  
To show the cause of truth more plain,  
Although we know some said not late,  
Fame's rumours want, most, their true date;  
Her monuments all save last unsure,  
Flatteries or fables or obscure;  
One scarce knows th' acts of present ages  
How much less th'old worlds half lost pages?  
Yet in their venerable dust  
Like Ennius' leaves, 
Ennius.  lies gold sans rust.  
And when I read those stately Poesies,  
Whence Phoebus with his train discloses  
A gracious splendour, and affords  
Th'old Heroes fame, among old records,  
Their honour's gests though mixed with fables,  
Worthy Cypress, or Cedar tables,  
Engraven there; I so admire,  
And feel such sparks of heavenly fire,  
To hear their legends, read their 
* The good use to be made of Poetical sables and figments for honourable ends devised.  story,  
Spectacles of old, spur's to new glory,  
What more repast? how more refrest,  
If set at Ioues Ambrosian feast?  
That I then only wish that I,  
Might with those Worthies live and die:  
And rest where in th' Elysium blest,  
Their spirits possess all peace and rest.  
For whether truth, or feigned Trop●aea's  
Plato's Eutopian world's Idaea's,  
Yet such as should be; whose heart scant  
As soft as steel, or Adamant,  
Not moved, or not inflamed to hear  
Those honoured acts of elder years?  
When Poets, when they please, impart  
To liveless things such living Art!  
That one might say, yet Hector lives,  
And great Achilles' fame 
* Great Alexander, who visited Achilles' tomb, wished that he had such a trumpet of his fame, as Achilles had, meaning that mellifluous Homer, that preserved his glory in a more divine manner, then that his decaying and defaced monument; whose works he so delighted in, that he was seldom without th●m, but carried them in his bosom.  survives,  
His marble Monument! whence they say,  
Great Scander wished like fate, full fain.  
And laurel crowned be all those pen's  
That are incitements to great'st men,  
Through Virtue's Temple most divine  
To tread the way to Honour's 
a So was the Temple of Honour in Rome placed, that the way into it lay through the Temple of Virtue: the moral of it 〈◊〉, as it were, No comm●●● to honour, but by virtue; 〈◊〉 truly noble, that were not worthily virtuous.  shrine!  
Have we not known of Ioues blood some  
Supposing only they had come,  
As Poets told them, in that height  
Of courage and auspicious might,  
Such toil have ta'en worthy to raise,  
From Homer's pen Herculean praise;  
For who but generous spirits aspires  
To be famed with their famous Sires?  
Dumb shows, which admiration sunders  
From common things! the 
b Antiq.  world's rare wonders,  
Whose high forefronts hunt after fame,  
Showing proudly forth their founder's name,  
Towns, Cities, Castles, and Colossi,  
As well as th' Hesperid's read in Poesy:  
And hanging Gardens in the East  
Th' Assyrian Monarch's presence blest.  
Colleges and Temples, built for love  
Of virtue, and those Quires above,  
With what content, and sweet satiety,  
They feed the Eye; with what variety,  
They feast a free and honest mind,  
That needs must wish praise in this kind!  
Whom like them honoured for good deeds  
Olymph may crown! whose mind not heeds  
Such heavenly height: but base earth tombs,  
Must needs be most ignoble 
c The baseness and ignobleness of their minds, that heed not such honourable and virtuous designs, doth yet more appear in those, who doing no good themselves, in envious sort repining at others fame, themselves only worthy with Herostratus, to be chronicled for infamy: defacing and pulling down Monuments of others honour, do what they can to despite and control the devoires of any flourishing, or sp●rred on by the triumphant incitements of magnanimity and heroical virtue.  Grooms.   

CANZ. II.  
Applied to the present matter of our own Nation.  
IF Momus tax me, that I tax  
Not their great worthis and noble acts,  
Of vanity! Ungracious days!  
Nor good deeds done, nor none will praise;  
And more than most ingrateful we,  
If snatch the fruit, yet scorn the tree!  
Which if we mend not, 'twill not miss,  
Next age must want much of our bliss:  
For had these men their minds, too late  
Wretched experience shipwrecked State,  
Might weep, with had I wist, to see,  
What confused Chaos things would be.  
Thus natures, arts, dumb, all records,  
Sweet solace to good minds affords:  
Whence many Nations for their fame,  
Traverse out their first founder's name;  
Britons there find as well as these,  
Brute, Albion, and old Samothes;  
Whiles Saxon too for company,  
On Thurstus and great 
a Woden, from whom all our Saxons do derive their Genealogies, as the Welsh from Be●●maur: like as all other Nations had some great Man 〈◊〉 Prince, from whom they gloried to be descended, the very jews their Abraham and patriarchs; Egyptians, Osiris; Syrians, Belus; Greeks, Danaus; jove or Hercules, or some of the race; Latins, Romulus & Aeneas: and generally all European nations, of a kind of fancy which they had from Troy, or one of her wand'ring and distressed pilgrim Captains.  Woden cry.   

CANZ. III.  
The History of No shown, shadowed in the fables of Saturn, with the original of diverse, if not most Nations, and consequently of Albion and the Britons.  
Envy them not; Rome, Babylon  
Greece, Egypt, and fairest Ilium,  
Curious in far-fetched Pedigrees  
Censure that finds us, them not frees!  
Yet sure this fault if t'any bee,  
Best deserves Grace, for aught I see:  
Since such too curious though, must needs  
Love honour that delight her deeds.  
Britain's name and Albion's, whence derived  
Many men have many a means contrived:  
Britt's, some of Birth, their painted 
a For they were altogether given to painting themselves with woad, enter-chased with diverse and strange figures, in Caesar's and the Romans time.  hue  
In their own tongue called! Caesar 
b Which the Latins called Indigenae or Aborigines, borne and bred in the same soil, not knowing whence their Ancestors were descended, but as if they had there right, like Mushrooms grown or sprung out of the earth.  knew,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only! latter ages,  
With Brutus' line, have filled whole pages:  
Albion's descent, no less dissented  
On, as if 'twere too strange invented;  
Truth rest to try! Gauls, Scytheses or Huns,  
Brutes, Samothes, all's, or Albion's sons:  
Needs must I, fair Sol, guide my ways  
Begin at Saturn's golden days.  
That famou'st Legend under 
a The description, and perhaps also the true moral or interpretation of Saturn's time, and the Golden Age.  Sun, 
Nohae dilwium, A: 1656. Shortly after which must needs be Saturn's golden Age.   
That Saturn's reign ends, Ioues begun,  
The golden world's Realms parts betwixt  
jove, Neptune, and the Lord of Styx;  
Were Noah, Saturn! cursed 
b Noah, to be Saturn; blessed Sem, jove; cursed Cham, Pluto; japhet, Neptune, being japhets', part Europe, called by the jews, Insula Gentium, or the Isles, as Neptune's part was the Seas: Saturn also like Noah, was a great planter of Vines, witness Arcadia & Italy, whither it is said Noah likewise came: Cham and Chus, like Pluto, had the lower and black Sunne-burnt Regions of Egypt, Lybia, and Ethiopia and Sem like jove, in most honourable sort succeeded his Father, being Melchisedek: a King in the East, the Orient being 〈◊〉 manner the type or figure of Heaven, whence Phoebus and the Planets daily ascend, mounting thither, as it were, in our Hemisphere.  Them,  
Black Dis, 
Noah lived almost to the year 2000  with th' Aethiops! blessed Sem  
Salem's Melchisedek, Zion says,  
Sans years' beginning or end of days; 
Sem died, A. 2158.   
jove in the Orient, 
His name Melchisedek, signifieth King of justice; Salem, also whereof, it is said, he was King, signifieth Peace.  heaven's Type! whiles  
japhet hath Europe shores; they th'isles  
O'th' Gentiles called! Just Neptune's part;  
How stories fit? or if nice Art,  
Call Candy Ioues own foster-place;  
'tis true! yet must they grant this grace,  
More joves than crete's! more, Hercules,  
Then that Amphitryo's son of Greece;  
And many Saturn's more by odds,  
As every Country had their gods:  
From whom they drew their stem's! though Greece,  
Stole their great'st Gests, from most of these,  
In Crect jove! Lybia, Hammon he,  
In Egypt, Apis Altars be.  
Durstus or Woden, Germane 
c Where note, though Seater was acknowledged lately for the Idol Saturn, as also appeareth by that week day, alluding to both the names, yet in another sense, as founder of a Family or Nation. Tuisco and Thurstus or Woden, were their jove and Saturn, for every Nation, or for the most part, and those the chiefest, had of their own homebred founders, their Mercuries, Mars, Venus, Hercules, and others, especially Ioues, and Saturn's of their own: of own: of Woden, was Wodensdeag or Wedensday, called as Tuisday of Tuisco; Seater-deag, of Seater, their Saturn; Frige-deag, of their Friga, Pray, or Venus; Thusday, called yet of the Swedians, Thorsday; of the Dutch Dunders-dagh; of the old Saxons, Thunres-deag, of Thor or Thur, abreviated, as it were (like the Latin Tonans for jupiter) of Thunre, which we write Thunder.  jove,  
Or Saturn may, most likely prove!  
Then who'll deny, No was at least  
Th' Assyrian Saturn in the East:  
From whose sons sent to farthest Seas,  
All Nations draw their Pedigrees!  
As th' Iönes, 
Inachus, A. 2090. King of Argos: iam senex, and therefore likely to be javan.  javans' imps; sure joves,  
Or Inach's! those 'bout Dodon Groves,  
Of Dedan come; of Tyrash, 
d So is it written by josephus, Berosus, and many other Antiquaries.  Tyrians,  
Or Thracians; of Gomer, Gomerians.  
Haply, our Cambrians, who called long  
Themselves Cumero, Cumeraeg their tongue,  
Like Syon's sons, were't loath to lose  
Their name, though borne on tides of woes!  
Banished and carried from their own,  
To Tartars, beyond Babylon;  
To mirthful music yet proclaim,  
In mournful wise 
e And so do the Hebrews write and pronounce jerusalem! there are also where they use this kind of song, among the H●rdes of the Tartarians, which places from judaea lie right beyond old Babylon, provinces and peoples called Danites, Assareth, and the like, as it were, arguing there to be the seats of those Tribes, carried into perpetual captivity, whose names they do yet seem to preserve.  jerushaläym:  
As hands should fail, and heart break, ere  
They would forget their Country dear!  
Sweet secret sympathy between,  
One and ones native soil thus seen.  
But you'll less wonder at these new,  
And strange reports, yet likely true,  
If you but heed seems Eastern Nations,  
Or sunburnt Chams sons, South generations,  
There Madai, Paras, Amor, Heth,  
Assur, Elam, Saba, Samareth,  
Lud, Lehabim, Canaan, Sydon, and  
A many more named each his land:  
As Mizraim his on Nilus' streams,  
And Chus the Ethiopian 
c The Hebrews call Egypt Mizraim; Greece and lonis, javan: Aethiopia, the Land of Chus, and the like the others; as Germany & the Germans, Aschenez to this day.  Realms;  
What lets it japhets' sons likewise,  
Should not their names to lands devose;  
Both to posterities! as 'tis thought,  
javan his name, t' jonia brought;  
Riphath to cold Riphaean bounds,  
Mosoch to Moschi; Twisco 
d The Italian calleth the Germane Tudesco at this day; this Tuisco, by some, at Sebastian Munster, is held the son of No, by his wise Arezia or Tythea, borne after the flood; by others to be the s●nne of Aschenez, Grandchild to japhet: that ancient Germans held him for the son of the Earth, at the Aborigines thought themselves, all approved Authors; as Tacicitus and whers, hold him the first great Commander among the Germans, whom they honoured for one or chief of their Gods, as was the Pagan fashion in old time.  sounds,  
Near the Duttch, Aschenez, they say,  
Th' Hebrues so call them to this day.  
And yet with Aschenez might well  
Mesech and Gomers Cambrians dwell,  
Gomer in Gaul, Mesech more East,  
Higher Aschenez; all right Germans 
e As brothers or so near kin.  rest.  
So well thought Caesar that of yore,  
From Germane, Gaul, or Belgic shoot,  
Colonies to us transplanted were,  
From these thus Germane 'tis most 
f For German and Germany, are thought by some to be names imposed by others, not themselves; others think of themselves imposed for terror to the Romans, and other Invaders, Germane & Alman signifying a stout warrior, Gar being the same with all, as Gar●ans (whence our Carouse) all is out, or off: so German or German, and Alman, wholly a Man or a stout Man! The like name took the Sycambers, or Sigh-Campers, of Sigh-Victorie or Victorious, and Campers, Fighters, or Combatters in the old Teutonic tongue, in which language, Istaenoves seem to sound outerest-woners, in English, Outermost-dwellers; Ingaevones, Inner-woners, or Inward dwellers; Burgundiones, Bourgh-woners or Dwellers in Boroughs or fenced places; Hermiones, Herst-woners or dwellers in or near Woods, all of them ancient appellations of peoples in Germany.  clear;  
For Samothes Mesech thought, reigned o'er  
Our Britons both and Belgian shores.   

CANZ. FOUR  
Of Osiris, Albion's Grandfather, and his most Kingdom of Egypt and City of Memphis.  
TIll Albion! whose descent ere-whiles  
We meant to seek o'er seven fold Niles,  
And Neptune's floods, where Memphis fair  
Advanced her stately pride in th'air,  
Her towering spires, built by Cham's seed,  
Whom Egypt's fruitful womb did breed;  
Here sometimes reigned, Osiris, 
* Osiris was called jupiter Europs, and Mizraim in Hebrew, first Egyptian King.  first  
Egyptian King, called Saturn erst  
Or Ancient jove; 
Osiris the first or Mizraim, A. M. 1800.  some think, the same,  
That Misraim Hebrw writ doth name,  
Who had to spouse, Iö fair Greek,  
Whose Deiti's said so oft to seek,  
Serapis hight! If Nephthuim  
His son be Neptune, then from him;  
We straight do bring our Albion, whoe,  
So named our Isle so long ago.   

CANZ. V.  
The truth of which story is conferred with the fabulous narrations of the Greeks  
But hear of Apis I'm to seek  
More then ere they; the fabulous Greek  
Hath so involved these ancientest years  
With tales of his ten modern 
* The Grecians would have this story understood of their love of Crect, who was many hundred years after this Osiris, and the time that same part of the story was indeed truly ordered.  Peers,  
That all that ere was spoke may be, 
jupiter Belus of Assyri●, and jupiter Europ● or Osiris of Egypt, circa An. 1800 or very shortly after. jupiter of Crect, A. 2400. or not much before.   
Spoke of his jove and none but he,  
It much obscures most things, that clear  
Might else to all the world appear.  
But give them leave, for thus they sing,  
That leaving Greece, an Argive King  
Went into Egypt and there taught  
Them to sow Corn, poor souls, who thought  
His Godhead worthily t'adore  
In Apis Oxe-like form therefore.  
Then sing they how, Iö fair dame,  
Cow-turned for fear of farther shame, 
Inachus or javan, A. M. 2090 iam senex, King of Argos. Io the first, called of her father Inachis, of her brother Phoronis, flourisheth about An. 2000 she lived 400. years.   
No sooner jealous juno spies  
For jealousy hath an hundred 
c Whence grew the fable of Argus hundred eyes, being by jealousy, that is ever waking enjoined to keep watch over Io.  eyes,  
Argus set sentinel, Ioues fair love,  
As far as Nilus' streams did rove!  
And like one in forlorn despair,  
With bellowing sounds she fills the 
d Understand hereby the brutish sensuality of those who are led by their lust and appetite.  air.  
Till juno reconciled was s●ene,  
Ioues Paramour Isis Egypt's Queen,  
Wed to Osiris, and their son  
Epaphus built Memphis walls anon;  
And of his wise so called the same,  
Yet some say Lybia wears her name:  
And I do find, at least there been  
Hundreds of years these joves between.   

CANZ. VI.  
As that of the Assyrian Belus, Noah, with the other Bele's of Egypt and Greece.  
SO from this Labyrinth turns to wind,  
Ariadne's clew, 
Belus of Egypt circa A. M. 2400  one had need find:  
This make me then say th' ancientest Bele,  
No, ruled th' Assyrian commonweal:  
Nimrod was Belus too, which word,  
In Hebrew signeth King or 
* Belus and Baal, are all one, and in Hebrew signify King, Lo●d, or Master, whence both the Assyrians Kings and Idoll-gods were so named; and Noah might well be so called there, as he is in Italy supposed to be janus, by Berosus and others, of his coming thither and planting Vines, jajin signifying wine in Hebrew: so he might be Uranus to the Greeks, as father of their and all other Satutnes, 〈◊〉 wife being called, as Authors report, Tythea or Arezia, which seemeth to be the Hebrew Arez or Are●s, for Earth, as Uranus or Coelum and Vesta, interpreted by Ovid, terra, à vi stando, were the Heathens reputed first gods, and greatest ancestors.  Lord;  
Danaus' sire, and Aegyptus, 
Danaus', An. 2●70. King of Argives.  he's  
A latter Belus far then these,  
And others more, raised great, this same  
jupiter Bele's so ambiguous 
e By reason of the many Baal's, or Beles', Nimrod, Ninus, or Assur, and other Emperors there, aswell as the Kings of Ty●e, Dido's ancestors, and Danaus' father ●o called, and many of them accounted loves, or Saturn's, to their succeeding generations.  name,  
Our Mizraim oldest Belus Imp  
Or grandchild, and that beauteous Nymph  
Inachus or javans' Daughter been,  
Aegypt's much famed, first King and Queen.  
And these perhaps did teach good Arts,  
So deified for their great deserts,  
Their nephews, Neptune's sons it seems,  
Their Grandsire placed in diverse realms;  
Italy Lestrigo's, Geryon's Spain  
Antaeus' Lybia; Albion reigns  
And Bergion in the British Isles,  
Where they having set foot ere while,  
Wretched Samotheans thence they chac'te;  
And well-nigh laid their country waste.   

CANZ. VII.  
Albion having made havoc of the Samotheans, and the other Giants Neptune's Imps, tyrannising everywhere, reprehended by Osiris the most ancient Belus of Egypt, cause him to be murdered.  
GReat Samothes, 
Samothes 1787.  as oft as I  
Think on thy sons, whose progeny  
Might have worn Crowns, borne sceptres gay,  
With ivy wreathed, and Olive spray?  
I see that Kings and greatest 
* As Horace said, Stultitiam pariuntur ope●● they afford no privilege nisi per accidens, for the owners to be better or wiser than others.  ones,  
May hap to have ungracious sons!  
When on their Phaeton-fall; I think,  
Some great ones now how soon they'll sink;  
When these would heaven and hers outface,  
Contemn Religion, and disgrace  
Astraea; Albion, scourge of God,  
Bruised them, 
Albion 2200. reigned 44. years.  though jove soon burned this rod;  
So Devils to Devil's torments 
f Sic claws clavo, sic unda superuenit undae Omnium rarum vicissitudo: cum tamen hora horam pell●t, dies diem docet.  been,  
Naile drives out nail, stream drives on stream.  
Albion and all the Giant crew,  
So godless then and graceless grew,  
That were they not, they might well be  
Th' earth's sons, whom heaven abhorred to 
g Terrae filij, for ignoble and base creatures, in prou●●bium cessir; opposite to such contemptible ones, albae Gallinae filius, is taken for an honourable or fortunate person.  see;  
Like Titan's brood, that in their Pride  
Laid hills on hills, and heaven defied,  
Heaped sin on sin, e'en seemed to strive  
How Virtue least, most Vice might thrive.  
Till great Osiris, quite ashamed  
To hear their lewdness, them much blamed!  
Who though, despised his counsels sage,  
With all his grave and reverend age,  
And all, with one consent conspire,  
'Gainst his grave years, their lewd desires  
Sole obstacles! whom they mean to kill,  
So graceless ones, quit good withill!  
Tryphon his brother, with the rest,  
Well ware of their unnatural hest,  
The secret Tragic stroke than gave,  
Hasting his grey hairs to their 
h And this Tryphon did usurp the Crown of Egypt, till he was slain by Hercules.  grave;  
Lest minding such perfidious vows,  
Isis laments her absent spouse,  
Not known where he's become, her voice,  
Nile's banks redouble with Echoing noise;  
So oft, so shrill, groves, floods, good Dame,  
Might seem t'have learned Osiris name,  
Whose pale Ghost, in nights shady gloom,  
Told her their treasons, points h●●ombe.   

CANZ. VIII.  
His carcase is sought, found, and honourably entombed by his wife the Goddess Isis, and divine honours entitled to him by his subjects.  
She much amazed at that horrid sight,  
Yet fain t'have caught the fleeting spirit,  
Sought and found out, where he did show  
His mangled corpse, the Tyrants slew:  
And good Queen in that heavy dump,  
Bringing him back, with funeral pomp,  
Addressed in Ceremonious sort,  
And state to fit his Kingly Port,  
His urn and ashes tombed; where he  
Pale Ghost pointed himself to be:  
In Abatos I'll, near Memphis walls,  
Girt with a lake, some Stygian calls;  
These Nilanders the Memphians since,  
In memory of their so lost Prince,  
And his good deeds! seek, and 
i The people of Memphis and Egypt, did honour Mercury under the form of the 〈◊〉 Anubis, or the winged Ibis, Osiris of an Ox; whom after ascertain time, having made away or drowned the Priests, went up and down howling with the people, to find another so spotted and like the former, and then with great joy and honour they brought him in triumph to Memphis, thenceforth applauding him as the Idol of Osiris.  adore,  
Serapis found, with honour's store.   

CANZ. IX.  
Isis' revenge on the Tyrants by her son Hercules or Lehabims' means.  
NOw Tryphon 
Tryphon.  wears the kingly style,  
With force maintained what got with guile;  
Whiles heavy Isis, woeful Queen,  
Wants time and means to wreak her teen  
On all that Parricidious crew,  
Which though they think not, well she knew,  
With patience armed awhile, till some  
Revenge resolved on, might strike home;  
And therefore breaks her mind anon,  
To Hercules her warlike son,  
Caldoro Lehabim! ancienter than he,  
Blazed so Alcmena's son to be,  
The Lybian, or as may seem true,  
The Gaul, since there, he Albion slew.   

CANZ. X.  
Hercules overthroweth and slayeth these Giants everywhere, and cometh into Gaul, where he encountreth Albion.  
TO him as whom 't concerned chief,  
Having laid down her cause of grief,  
He 'stonisht at such strangest words,  
Just courage, so just cause affords;  
As quick as lightning, and as fierce  
As thunder, clouds and towers that tears,  
Straight vows revenge, and soon proclaims  
Th'inhumane Tyrants, Traitor's 
* The occasion that Hercules slew the Giants, and sought so many strange adventures, in emulation of whom the Greeks set forth their Alcides, long after being Amphytrio's and Alcmena's son.  names!  
Then 'gan his glory shine as fair,  
As Phoebus from his golden Chair,  
From whose clear orient Ganges east,  
As far as Gades Pillars west,  
Hercules his honour was heard famed,  
For peace protected, tyrants tamed!  
Then Tryphon fell! in Libia's slain,  
Giant Antey; Geryons in 
e divers other the Giants that Hercules overthrew, about the time that he slew our Albion and Bergion.  Spain:  
Lestrigo and his sons, from whom  
Th' Anthropöphagi Italian Cannibals come,  
'Bout Italy they say did fall!  
And he prepares to visit Gaul:  
Where Albion near the Alps by chance,  
Then sore vexed Lycus King of 
f Lycus succeeded Bardus junior or second, that followed Longho and Bardus, the last King over both Gaul and Britain.  France. 
Lycus' King of France, A. 2200.   
Divine Alcides at that time,  
How did thy presence bless their clime,  
To Lycus one so near oppressed,  
Nor unwish't, nor unwelcomed guest.  
The people's then of Gauls all round  
We guests were glad, and Palace crowned  
With triumphs; Court and Country even  
Joyed, as he had come down from heaven:  
That Phoebus might not, with more joy,  
To Cynthus come, Venus to Troy.   

CANZ. XI.  
He is entertained by Lycus' King of Gaul, Albion being professed enemy to them both whom Hercules prepareth to overthrow.  
Fair Galathaea, that more fair,  
Then Leda's Cygnet, might compare  
With th'orient beauty, and sweet roses 
Lehabim or Hercules, King of Gaul, circa An. 2250. about what time Albion fell, having reigned 44. years.   
Aurora's morning blush discloses;  
With sweetest Art, as lovers do  
Did spread her wanton plumes to woo,  
And win their guest to be their Prince,  
Her spouse, her sires and lands defence.  
Dumb eloquence that conquers hearts,  
Where Love and Beauty play their parts!  
So, willing he was easily won,  
To do what else he would have done,  
Doubly bound by love, honour; all,  
To work Gauls freedom, Albion's fall.  
Albion was now vexed many ways,  
His Brother's death's, the victor's 
* For his conquests of the other Giants in Lybia, Italy, and those other parts before he came to pass the Alps into Gaul.  bays;  
This league with France and what great joy,  
The Gauls conceived, for their new Roy!  
'Twas need aswell for his own good,  
As for revenge of others blood,  
Of fresh supply from British realms,  
From Trent, Thames, and fair Scuernes streams,  
Fierce enemies to encounter thee,  
And force of such a furious foe!  
His Brother Bergion comes from 
m Whose dominion all those Northern Lands and Ireland, were said to be.  Thyle,  
With powers of Irish, Orks, and I'll;  
Joined like two Thunderbolts of wars,  
Mated to be by none but Mars.  
Alcides' leaving then his Love,  
Ioues Eagle takes for Venus' Dove,  
His Lyon-skin stead of softer tire,  
And wound Horns for warbling lyre.  
So from her Chamber to his charge,  
His just designments shown at large,  
Draws with him of his presence fain,  
Celts mingled troops with his own 
n For Albion, who warred now in France, having called the Island Albion of his own name, had also banished the name of Samotheans or Celts, call them how you will, into Gaul.  train,  
Who late more fearful than the Deer  
Hunted to toil; though now of cheer,  
To front their proudest foes; his fame  
Their fainting hearts did so inflame,  
Signs of true valour shown they forth;  
Such courage gives, the Captain's worth!   

CANZ. XII.  
Albion and his powers vanquished and slain.  
BOth sides prepared now for these wars, 
Albion and Bergion slain, circa An. 2250. having reigned in Albion and the Isles adjacent, about 44. years.   
Alcides and those twins of Mars,  
Neither of them ever matched till now,  
Eith'r aiming others overthrow,  
Haste on right sore, with might and main  
Green fields with purple gore to stain,  
Fierce as the Giant-troopes that strove  
From heavens high towers to pull down jove;  
For Albion's tree-like trains did yield  
Like monsters as fought Phlegra 
* The battle wherein the Giants warred with the Gods, whereof Ovid & other Poe●s make mention; when the Gods having the worst, jove hid under the f●●me of a Ram, in which form Hammon is honoured for jupiter in Lybia, Mercury of a ●ag, Phoebus a Cow, Venus a Fish, juno a Cow, Diana a Cat, Bacchus a Goat, whence 〈◊〉 P●●nims since honoured them in these forms some of them.  field;  
These met on Frances floury pride,  
Like raged boisterous winds that tide,  
Whose furious force, sends flames of fire  
From blows redoubled in their ire:  
Their steele-strokes glittering, lightning seem,  
Their clamours thunder, and between,  
Heaven clouded with hurled weapons store,  
Th'air filled with groans, ground filled with gore!  
When as'twere heaven's cause 'gainst these rude  
Heavens and earth's outlaws! that fell feud,  
Against right raised, God's good hests and Ioues!  
jove showered down from his realms above,  
Such storms of stones, with vengeance mixed,  
Sent many of these fiends to Styx.  
The place they say as yet is 
o Le-Craux is indeed so stony a shore as if it had rained 〈◊〉 there; as this fi●●ion pretends! but that those Giants were s●ay●e thereabouts, an indifferent ancient writer, Pomponius Mela beareth witness.  shown,  
Le-Craux, in Narbone coasts by Rho'ne,  
Monument as 'twere of that strange shower,  
The stony Shore called to this hour:  
The rest of them that so not fell,  
Hercules sent with their Lords to hell.   

CANZ. XIII.  
Hercules marrieth Galathaea Daughter to that Lycus King of France, which of their son Galates or Celtes, took name. divers stories hereof are here reconciled.  
ALbion and Bergion slain; was so  
France freed from fear of Giant-foe,  
And almost all the world was cleared  
Of Cy●lops-monsters whom they feared;  
Hercules returns incontinent,  
To Venus' bower, from Mars his Tent.  
Then Court, and Country Nymphs not coy,  
And Fawns and Sylvans sung with joy  
Their nuptial Hymens; sweet Napaeas',  
Hercules' Love and fair Galathaea's;  
Queen juno too, chief precedent  
Of marriage rites, gave all content.  
So from this noble pair there came,  
Galates that gave the Celts their name;  
Niceus though, says Celts they 
p The names conferred together, of Bretanus supposed Lucus or Lycus, Celtica or Galathea, as Celtus or Galates, of whom the Galatae or Celts may have their name; se●me thus reconciled, and the rather since you shall observe our Oxonians 〈…〉 discourse of Tully, 〈…〉 Cant●brigians wholly 〈◊〉, and why not 〈…〉 especially of 〈…〉, through diversity of Name, Surname, and other addition, as Hercules Alcides, Artaxasta Xerxes, Chasmonai Machabaei, and so perhaps Bretanus and Lycus.  be  
Of Celtus, Celtices son; and she,  
Hercules wife, Bretanus Imp, who names  
Us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, as Greek Idiom frames.  
where's Prytus then Araxe's Imp?  
Lycus, Brute, or Britone Candyes' 
q She fl●d from Minos, who would have ravished ●er, of whom some would derive the name of Britain, as others from Pretus, the son of Arax●: others of the famous Prytanaeum of Athens.  Nymph?  
Unless Bretanus may Lycus be,  
Celt Galates, Celtica Galathey?  
As oft we see names so much changed,  
Wondrously from themselves estranged!  
Let others judge hereof! there been  
Say Hercules and his mother Queen  
Dame Isis came into these parts,  
And Gauls and Germans taught good Arts, 
Marsus King of Germany, A. M. 2190, and reigned near 50. years.   
Others Isis and Osiris bring  
To Marsus ancient German 
r Marsus the sixth from Tuisco, first King of Germany, or at least the higher parts of the same.  King:  
Makes me think their son Hercules, so,  
His name might be Osiris too.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
Their issue Kings in France afterward, whose names only there recorded; the next Ode pursueth the story of the remainder of those Giants in this I'll of Albion.  
But leave we Hercules now to seek  
Adventures whether Gaul or Greek,  
With his fair charge, his tender spouse,  
Whose race, French Kings, old story 
* After Lycus Hercules and his son Galates succeed, than all a-row, Harbon, Lugdus, Beligius, jasius, Allobrox, Romus, Paris, Lemanus, Oibius, Galates the second, Nannes, Remis, Francus, and Pictus, who was discomfited by Corynaeus and Brute; of these the peoples & diverse parts of France, are said to be named; as was done by Suews, Vandalus, Teuto, Alman & his sons Noricus, Hunnus, Helue●us, Boiu●, etc. being Marsus issue in Germany.  shows,  
With Lugdus and a number more,  
Belgius that named the Belgic shore,  
Paris, Reme, and Francus, till they say,  
Pictus by Coryne ta'en or slain.  
The end of the second Ode.     

A brief type of the third Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called GIGANTES.  
The third Ode containeth,  
1. THe description of the confused Chaos of a Kingdom not well ordered: Seen in the Anarchy or Inter-regnum of the Giants, the race or remnant of Albion, and Samothes trains, living disorderly like brute beasts, many hundreds of years without any discipline of State or politic Government in their Land.  
2. The coming in of Danaus' daughters to these Giants, whence were descended those monstrous Creatures, that Brute and Corynaeus found at their arrival here; by reason whereof the stories of Belus and Danaus, with the occasion of these Ladies coming, are briefly touched and set down.  
3. The arrival of Brutus in this Island, and his adventures and travels to Greece, and other parts of the world before he came hither: with a short Apology, both for his and the other precedent Histories of Albion and Samothes.   


PALAE ALBION. 
Series Poemat's: siue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Ode tertia, Inscripta GIGANTES.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Terti●que Oda canit, quota inhospita saecla, Gigantum  
Relliquiae saevae, littora nostra tenent!  
Queis Neptunigenis ortam, Danaique puellis,  
Cyclopeam sobolem, trans Styga, Brutus agit.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Odae propositum, & proaemium.  
NVnc interregnum Albionis, rabiemque Gigantum,  
Albione occiso, & nullo dominante per arua,  
Musa refer! Sine Regerudeis, sine lege Britannos  
Viventeis, Satyrûm in syluis aut more ferarum;  
Quos Neptunigenas inter, Danaique puellas,  
Ceu sama est, oritur malè sana Gigantea moles,  
Quos aliquot post saecla, accedens Troius Heros,  
Littoribus nostris Plutonis ad ostia Brutus,  
Praecipitesque nigro misit Corinaeus averno!  
jam chorus alme faueto precor, 
Institutum libri;  dum singula paucis  
Expediam, cunctique sciant quid Numina possint  
Castalides mecum castae, doctaeque sorores.  
Et quanquam in tenebris privati lumine caecis  
Errabundi agimur, tamen eruite ista Camoenae,  
Vt tandem videant nostri sua stirpis avitae,  
Gesta, Gigantaeos contra, reliquûmque furores!  
Siqua fides dubijs, chorus alme referre stupendam,  
Annuite ô, sobolem, vatique haec diciite vestro.  
Albione Albionis, caeso, jernesque Tyranno,  
Foelicem heu nimiùm, quae diceris Olbion olim,  
Si poteras Dominos non agnovisse Tyrannos,  
Insula, sed Dominis nimiùm nudata severis  
Amplius invenit nullos, 
Votum & seqq. Historiarum cum praecedentibus, connexio.  moderamina rerum  
Qui caperent, quid sanctum esset, iustúmue docerent;  
Nec quis erat tantâ fretus probitatè fideque  
Qui regere Imperio, vel Lege, rudique popello  
Aut premere, aut laxas sciret dare iussus habenas!  
Donec uti perhibent, Troiano sanguine cretus,  
Longum post tempus, quingentos plus minùs annos,  
Brutus in Angliacas serò devenerat Oras.  
Tum rudis usque adeoque ferox Gens, 
unde  Daemonas esse,  
Credimus Historijs dictos, pietate carenteis,  
Nulla Lege, (nefas) aut Relligione revinctos,  
Inter se sociosque; hinc fabula forsitan illa,  
Daemonas, in Danai gnatis, genuisse Giganteis!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Danai & gnatarum Historia.  
ALtiùs ut repetam pandens ab origine primâ:  
Beli Epaphus pater, 
Exordium à Danao  & Reginae filius Iûs,  
Phoebi fortè aliis, Chusiué caloribus usti,  
Neptuni & Lybies gnatum, cognomine Belum,  
Dixêrunt alij; Gnatûm pater ille duorum  
Aegypti Rameses dicti, Danaique parentis  
Argiuûm Danaûm; Rex factus uterque tenebat  
Niliacae partem terrae, Aegyptoque fuêrunt  
Quinquaginta aiunt gnati, 
& eius Gnatis 50.  pulcherrima proles,  
Et Danao gnatae totidem! ut sibi firmet in aewm  
Imperium, 
Quae  sobolique suae, concedere gnatis,  
Postulat Aegyptus gnatas, Danausque recusat;  
Audierat quoniam, & vatum responsa timebat,  
Deberi fato generum sibi, sceptra animamque,  
Qui non impavido, auferret, sic voluere Parcas!  
Armis Aegyptus cupidè, 
Ex Aegypto primùm profugae,  belloque parabat,  
Indignum, quod pace nequit precibusque potiri;  
Moliturque fugam, regno patriaque relictis,  
Cum gnatis Danaus! aurisque faventibus usus  
Appulit Argos, ubi populis solióque receptis,  
Liquit adhuc, prius ignotae sua nomina Genti,  
Cognatae tamen, ut cui atavo, grandaews Osiris.  
Insequitur pulchrâ, profugos, cum prole parentem,  
Aegypti soholes! Europae limina & Argos,  
Ingressi, lento vastant sua regna duello,  
Vique coactus erat Danaus, 
ob earum  tam tradere charas  
Inuisis gnatas sollenni more maritis,  
Quod se facturum simulat, sed consciamens est  
Egregij sceleris! somno vinóque sepultos,  
Prima nocte viros, 
Nowm & inauditum facinus caede●d●co iuges prima nuptiarum nocte.  gnatas deper dere iussit,  
Saewm & inauditum scelus, omneis! omnibus una,  
Sors manet, in Thalamis sponsi iacuere cruentis,  
Praeter Hypermnestra, 
Excepto  seruatum Lyncea amore;  
Vt curae est capitis Nisi non purpura Scyllae,  
Minoem ac sectata, timet non Minoa patrem  
Cnossia amans decepta dolo, à te pessime Theseus,  
Vt nec Hypermnestra agnoscit pia iussa parentis,  
Fidaluit poe●as, caecoque in Carcere clausa est;  
Vincula amor menti, dederat, quoque vincla lacertis,  
Pro nimiá pietate pater! 
Lynceo, qui solus beneficio 〈…〉 ●eruatus est, novo & inaud to modo expositae, &  ceu Lynceus omnem  
Euasit dubij casumque metumque pericli,  
Aegyptum remeans celeri pede reppetit Argos,  
Vindictae causâ, ingenti comitante Cateruâ:  
Et Danaum, Regno spoliatum & lumine cassum  
Infera Taenarij detrudit in atria Ditis:  
Fato sic refragus transuersum agit omnia fato;  
Liberat è vinclis inclusam Carcere, charam  
Coniugem Hypermnestram, Lynceus! turbamque sororum,  
Caede maritorum Infameis; non caedere motus  
Suae prece Hypermnestrae, 
in exil 〈◊〉: ●ortè fortuna, in  duce remigioque carenti  
Imposuit navi, pelagoque immisit aperto:  
Acnè undis Remos dederat, neque Carbasa ventis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Gnatarum Danai in Albionem Aduentus.  
TRistis Amymone Phrygijs Errabat in agris; 
Britannias appellunt Insulas,   
Expositaque iris ventûm Oceanique furentis,  
Myrmidone Scylla, Scea, Trite, Chrysothemisque  
Glaucippe, Polybe, formosa Urania, Chlio,  
Euridiceque, Erato, Danaë, Philomela canora,  
Demophile, Hypareta, Hyale, Hero, Electra, Pyrene;  
Has certè, plureisque canunt Neptunio in alto,  
Absque Gubernaclo, per Caerula Flumina Lembo,  
Huc fore delatas; non Oris Assyris illa  
Attulit impulsa Albine sua nomina nostris.  
Has etiam Albionis Nymphas ad littora fato  
Ventisque appulsas, 
ubi Monstiosis Samothidarum & Albionis lociotum reliqu●s app●imè Barba●is 〈◊〉 incultis, nubunt, proge 〈◊〉 sic parentes factae Monst●●sioris.  vastisque Gigantibus olim  
Relliquijs caesùm Herculea virtute Cyclôpum,  
Daemonijs forsan magnâ ex feritate vocatis,  
Commixtas, syluis, montiumque horrentibus antris,  
Historiae Immaneis referunt peperisse Gigantes.  
Hac quoque stirpe satos, olim domuisse feroceis,  
Monstra hominum, Albionis inculta per aura colonos,  
Creditur à nostris mira celebratus honore,  
Nomine non celebri, at famoso Carmine Brutus;  
Brutus ab Aenea, 
Quae ad Bruti nostri tempora perrexerunt, qui delevit eos.  Troiano stemmate clarus.  
His quoque temporibus, simul-atque sequentibus Annis,  
Carleon urbs celebris florensque Leone Gavero,  
Fundatore suo gaudet; famosa Gigantis, 
Cuius   
Mox Italûm, Arx belli, Britonumque sat inclyta sedes!  
Antraque saxosaeque domus, monumenta lacertûm,  
Roboris invicti; atque effossa stupenda sepulcris  
Ossa, docent quales fuerint! scelera usque Latrones  
Monstra malos monstrant, hominumque Deûmque perosos.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
In Bruti Historiam praefatiuncula invocatoria, 
Historia proximo in loco habetur:  & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
NVnc mihi Musa virum memora, qui primus ab oris  
Italiae, fato profugus, Brytannica venit  
Littora; qui multum terris iactatus & alto,  
Vi superum & saevae memorem junonis ob Irae●, 
〈◊〉   
jugiter ac Phrygios miserandâ strage fatigat;  
Multa quoque & bello passus, dum Littora nostrae  
Quaereret Albionis; veteres, vastosque colonos  
Dijs genus invisum superis, superaret, alumnos  
Martis, terribiles horrendâ mole Gigantes.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti natalitia, Exilium & in exilio Gesta.  
SYluius in Syluis Aeneae posthuma proles, 
Primò quibus ortus est ipse Brutus, tempore, natali solo, & parentibus,   
Nascitur Aeneas, quo tempore clara fuere  
Regna sub Ascanio, in longâ quam condidit Albâ;  
Huius & Aeneae soboles, sic Fama, parentem  
Obruit Imprudens! patriaeque è finibus Exul,  
Brutus agens vitam, Assaraci venit hospes in urbem,  
Troiani Ducis in Graia ditione potentis, 
Eiusdem Deinde infortunia, in Graeciam fuga, & ibidem casus,   
Nec minus hospes erat gratus modo fratribus olim,  
Hectoris Andromache, Pyrrhoque parentibus ortis,  
Pergameo, Pyleo, iam Chaoniaeque Molosso  
Principibus, qui castra Olli sedemque dedêre.  
Bruto aderant iam multa manus de sanguine Troûm  
Mancipijs nati, & iuga sub seruilia missi,  
Fatali Bello oppressi, Troiaeqúe ruinis.  
Qui Brutum vn● omnes Regemque ducemque salutant,  
Et dulci ut donet se Libertate requirunt,  
Se sociosque rogant; quorum pars plurima, tractu  
Finitimo pressi, Pandrasi regis in Aulâ,  
Seruitute gravi. 
& praecipuè contra Regem Pandrasum gesta,  Firmato pectore Brutus,  
Pandrasum infestum Phrygibus Troiaque profectis,  
Regem Acheloigenam rogat ut dimittere vellet,  
Troes, immiti quos iam ditione premebat.  
Infensumque superque minantem plu●●ma verbis,  
Compulerat belli dubio discrimine victor,  
Brutus agens laetis, victricia captaque signa,  
Vecta triumphali currû Regemque trophaeis.  
Fratre etiam Antigono capto, ingenuâque puellá  
Innogenâ egregiae formae, iam virgine Regis  
Gnatâ; quam pater ac Bruto pro coniuge spondet, 
Quem Bello vincit, sed Regis filia Innogena in uxorem ducta; Magnis▪   
Immenso argenti dotatam pondere & auri.  
Caussaque tum belli sublata erat omnis; ab hoste  
In generum Conuersus; honoris praemia Brutus  
justa tulit, dignos celebrans dulceisque Hymenaeos!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Peregrinationis Bruti Apparatus & socij.  
FOrmosa Brutus cum Coniuge, divite dote,  
Muneribusque datis, socijsque & classe receptis,  
Regali Illustris pompa comitumque decoro  
Incessu, 
cum Honore ac divitijs è  multo stipantibus Agmine, turmâque  
Ingenti, ipse animi excelsi, eximijque nitoris  
Ante omneis, auro decoratam, & dentibus Indis,  
Conscendit navem, 
Graecia ad quaerendum novas sedes navigaturus, in itinere.  sequitur dein omnis & ipsum  
Ipse Iwentutis Regni flos; omine fausto  
Laeti; Regna & non arctatas quaerere sedes,  
Brutus ovans Graio Classem de Littore soluit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Brutus Leogetiam appellit oracula Dianae consulturus.  
INde Leogetiam vectus, iacet Insula ponto  
In medio, Immenso circum diffusa profundo;  
Non bene nota frequensué viris; sed templa Dianae,  
Struxerat ecce pia, & multùm devota vetustas.  
Brutus ut è ratibus descendit, 
In Leogetiam Insulam, & inibi Dianae templum incidens.  littore curuo  
Rellinquens classem, comites vocat ordine longo;  
Et quae conspexit, non marmore clara, neque Auro,  
Sed luco, & nemore umbroso, plane invia, sacris  
Templa adit orba diu, & pompa viduata frequenti;  
Inuenit hic sine thure focum, atque altaria Divae;  
Thura aras super accendens, spumantia Baccho  
Brutus utrisque levat manibus Carchesia, 
It Oracula consultum.  ceruae  
Sanguine tum niveae, gratae olli, altaria spargit,  
Et genibus flexis, sistens se, oracula Divae  
Consultûm! Magnum prece supplice Numen adorat:   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti oratio, & Oraculi ad eundem responsa!  
O Comes errorum, 
Vndè tulit  Arcadicis dea Cynthia lucis,  
Parthenijsque potens in saltibus Ilithyia;  
Bruto ait, & socijs, sedes da diua quietas:  
Nosti etenim Dea, quae, toto Sol Aureus orbe  
Despicit, & Genteis, incultaque margine ponti,  
Littora; dic sedes igitur quocunque sub axe,  
Queis olim nos fata sinant consistere terris;  
Dic sedes ubi Templa tibi de marmore ponam,  
Templaque dicabo, tibi, virgineisque choraeis.  
Cui Dea sic, placidis, demulcens pectora verbis,  
In somnis responsa tulit; simul Atria tota,  
Signa Deae adventus, nebulis perfusa & odour  
Divino Ambrosiae; aethereoque nitore refulsit  
Diua potens! haud talis equos Threissa fatigat,  
Harpalice; haud talis Pharetraeta Semyramis olim,  
Quantúmuis speciosa! Duci quintalia fatur,  
Troiano; placidis, demulcens pectora verbis:  
Zephyreo terra est celebris sub sole cadenti, 
Responsa dex perquam be●igna, &   
Tota oram insana Oceani collisa fragore,  
Insula, trans Rheni or a Alpini, antiqua Gigantum  
Illa domus! modò desertam lege littoris oram,  
Chare nepos; locus est Idaeis Gentibus aptus;  
Hanc pete, namque tibi sobolique erit illa perennis  
Sedes, & surget nova Troia tibique tuisque,  
Hic de prole tua Reges nascentur, & omnis  
Subdita terra sibi, quam Phoebe accingo rotatû,   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti & sociorum ob Oraculi responsum gaudia.  
INtonuere simul ad●tusque atque Atria divae,  
Cum strepitu ingenti, penetraliaque intima Templi;  
Brutus at in terram pronus, 
inde  comitesque silenti  
Murmure, fas, magno Numen venerantur honore;  
jamque egressi omnes venerandae Limina Divae,  
Instructisque Pyris, vin●que & aromate pastis,  
Fragranti magnum perfundunt aëra odore;  
Ingeminant responsa Deae, reboantia circum  
Littora, cum fremitu, quae è syluis rettulit Eccho  
Plaudentis populi, voxque aurea syderatangit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti Brytanniam versus navigatio & cursus.  
CLasse iterum totâ, 
Classem soluens  è portu & statione solutâ,  
Cursu dum Brutus celeri, maria omnia lustrans,  
Alter ut Aeneas, fatalia tendit in arua;  
Puppibus oram Africae attingunt, ultraque columnas  
Herculis egeressi, sinuosa ad littora Troes,  
Classe, Pyrenaeis loca subdita montibus, ipsos  
Gallos Hesperiosque inter Confinia Iberos,  
Appellunt! Magno, hîc sociati foedere certo  
Cum Corinaeo, alijsque antiqua stirpe creatis,  
Troianâ, sibi cognatis; duce, creditur, Illo  
Qui Illyricos penetrare sinus, atque intimatutus  
Regna Liburnorum potuit, fontemque Timavi,  
Venêre è Troiâ! & Garamantica sydera contra,  
Nunc oram Illyricos ultrâ, Gallosque Pyrenen,  
Incoluêre; 
cum Antenoris socio, nobili quoda●● Troiano, duce Corinaeo, foedere inito,  Vbi descendentem è montibus, Eccum,  
Hijsce Pyrenaeis Brutus, sociumque ducemque  
Adsciscit, comitemque viae: Dein littora Gallûm  
Lustrando, Ligeris superora Aquitannici; aperto  
Marte, (tulit quippe indignè sua barbara iussa,  
Pictonûm insulsi Regis,) virtute Corini, 
& Spoliato Galliae Rege Goffario qui eis insidiatus est, & ad Herculem Genus suum referebat:   
Goffarium fudit Celtam, cognomine Pictum,  
Herculea, quem stirpe satum cecinêre poetae.  
Ind dato cursu, Brutus comitatus Achate  
Fido, ceu Phrygiâ Corinaeo stirpe nepote,  
Gallorum spolijs cumulatis navibus, aequor  
Exarat, & superis aurâque faventibus usus,  
Littora Foeliccis intrat Totnesia Portus.  
Brutus at Albionis, placidâ iam sede sinuque,  
Per varios casus, per tot discrimina rerum,  
Albionem tendens, fatalia in arua receptus,  
jonioque mari, Maleaeque sequacibus undis  
Erutus & Lybicis tutus, 
Citò Brytanniam appulit,  Arisque Philenûm  
Gadibus Herculeis visis; altáque Pyrene,  
Gallis ceu Graecis superatis, Ocyor Aurâ  
Damnoniae portum simulac ingressus; inoram  
Prosiliens! Salue O fatis mihi debita tellus,  
Vosque ait, ô fidi Troiae saluete penates;  
Heic domus, haec patria est, sic dixit Cynthia Divae.  
Nunc repeto! heic rutilis, altaria lucida flammis,  
Diua tibi, festosque dies denomine Phoebes,  
Instituam! 
ubi Enumeratis periculis, vota precelque fudisse, & Dijs propte●ea litatum fuisse.  duce te magnas obcuntia terras,  
Tota maria intravi, Gades penitusque repostas  
Massylûm Genteis, praetentaque syrtibus arua,  
jam tandem Albionis fugientem prendimus Oram!  
Sic deinde effatus frondenti tempora ramo  
Implicat, & geniumque loci, primamque deorum  
Tellurem, Nymphasque, & adhuc ignota precatur  
Flumina, tum Noctem, noctisque Deam ●ithyiam;  
Idaeumque jovem, Phrygiosque ex ordine Divos,  
Inuocat ore pio; 
Nemo non credat.  cum Laomedontia pubes  
Gramineo Ripae religavit ab aggere classem,  
Fluminis ignoti; fusique in littore toto,  
Instituêre dapes, & adorea Liba per herbas,  
Subijciunt epulis! sic tandem, Numine Diuûm,  
Laetus in Albionis consedit limine Brutus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: ac primò Samothae & Albionis Historiae.  
AC velut antiquum Samothen, 
Exinde sequitur,  è stemmate Noes;  
Neptuni & Nerei Albionem, rabiemque Gigantum,  
Vidimus immaneis (ita fama palaia) Tyrannos  
Non minùs ad Bruti venientes tempora, Brutum,  
Si non Graiugenis direptae & littore Troiae;  
Finibus Italiae, saltem, Troïaeque propinquis,  
Incolumem Angliacis nuper diduximus oris:  
Quum tamen Albionem, 
sicut Samothae & Albionis, it●  Neptunigenasque Gigantes,  
Grandaewmque suis malè sedula turba Britannis  
Vexârunt Samothen, conati expellere Regnis.  
Primus ut à primo No, sibi stemma parent,  
Traxerit; an dubitare locus? fideine sacratae,  
Danda, vel Historiae violandae erit ansa proteruis?  
Et Neptunigenas, toto quibus Insula Ponto,  
Praedia ubique patent, uno quasi nomine Nautas,  
Quis minimè vocat, aut quae non Fabella vocabit?  
Sive igitur pirata fuit, sive Albion unus  
Neptuni illius vero sic nomine dicti,  
Filius! In nostris ausim memorare nepotes,  
Et Nerei sobolem, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sedisse Brytannis;  
Nec meruisse fidem minùs hoc videare quod olim,  
Albiona Herculeis, Mela, Bergionemque sub armis  
Occubuisse refert! Rhodani prope flumina, quando,  
Albion Historijs, haec nostra Brytannia Graijs,  
Dicitur, & passim Monumentis: Rupibus albis,  
Quî magis, ac Domino, foret aut Domitore superba?  
Quandoquidem hos constet, mundi dominarier ●ris  
Arctoi, extremas quâ pandit Gallia terras.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti Historiae Apologia: seu defensio.  
SEd venio ad Brutum! cumque haec. Aporetica iniquis,  
Secta adeò invaluit, ceu non rata, sanctaque firmè,  
Temporibus nostris, 
Bruti historiae vindicatio à quibusdam calumnijs, non minùs noviter quam verisimiliter falsò aspersis.  satiùs dubia omnia credit,  
Res quasi vel libitu, levium argutijsque sophorum  
Essent delectu sine, subijcienda procaci  
Quaelibet ingenio cuiusuis! Gredo sagaces,  
Prudenteisque viros sapere hijs meliora; malisque  
Consilia in melius maturè adhibendo, mederi!  
Hijs igitur levibus, levis argumenta sophistae,  
Persando; 
Ac  liceat, tumidis occurrere verbis  
Non probro vacuis, Eurisque faventibus usos,  
Cursum eius contra velis volitare secundis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Dubitationes variae contra Brutum, & earundem solutiones.  
SCilicet extenuant Brutumque aditumque Brytannis  
Littoribus; 
Primò propter Casa●is aliorumque authoritatem & gravitatem.  tum prisca fides, tum certa recentis  
Notitia historiae; Monumentaque muta reclamant;  
Caesar ovans, Tacitusque tacent! Extinguere laudes,  
Qui cupit, in tenebris involuere nomina caecis,  
Velle etiam & genus & proavos & stemmata clara,  
Quis dubilet? Caesar forsan conatus utrumque;  
Ce● prius! Et dolus, an virtus quis in host requirat?  
Obscurare aliis Famam, 
A silentio & taciturnitate eorum, Elumbes negati●ae ●ationes,  quibus inclyta gesta  
Off●scare suam, videat, queis stemmata, stirpi,  
Officiant splendore suo, si certa notentur.  
Sin Druidae, in Cambros fineis, Monaeque recessus,  
Secum prisca suae Patriae & ditionis Auitae,  
Seu Regum, retulêre! patriae ecquis crederet hosti  
Munimenta suae, & clarûm monumenta penatum?  
Caesareos siquando citi aufugere Triumphos!  
At miranda magis revirescit vulnere virtus;  
Et rursum è Cambris Oris, 
& earum appositae dilutiones,  Bardisque furentum  
E sobole Druidum, superas venit omnis in Oras,  
Progenies caelata diu! Brutique nepotes,  
Cum Cadwalligenis, nigri prope limina Ditis,  
Detrusi nuper, soboles, caput extulit Orci,  
Sedibus umbriferis. Quod si non extera nostrae,  
Saxonica historiae meminit neque pagina Cambrae:  
Quando levi Calamo percurrere Cambro-Britannûm  
Gesta solent; mirum quid, si latuisset in atris,  
Brutus, & Arthurus velut & Cadwallader umbris?  
Anglorum hîc muti Annales, licet omnia chartis,  
Libroso hoc saeclo, 
quatenus ex vetis  scateant, nugisque sonoris;  
Ergo minùs miror Monumenta prioribus Annis,  
Muta magis! si non Anglus, non extera Musa,  
Scilicet id populus curet! 
& verisimilibus coniectare licet, aut datur, ac  Quasi vulgus & exter!  
Cambrica nunc Monumenta quidem vix inspicit Anglus,  
Vix quisquam Historias; meritò ergo vel omnia lustrans,  
quam potes, ignoras Britones fortissime Caesar;  
Aemula sive latent cupido, monumenta, vel hosti,  
Inuida Caesareae doctrinae! Druidaene laborent  
Inuidiâ turpi? An cuperet premere Arte vel Armis,  
Maximus ille putem? placeat sententia neutra!  
Quin Druides siquidem chartis minùs, omnia verò  
Mandârunt menti, memores; Hinc Caesaris error;  
Siqua magis visa est, res circa incuria nostras.  
Siquis & in sensa illius iurare paratus,  
Sensit Aborigines; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esse, Britannos.  
Caesaris at Domini vestigia, verba Magistri,  
Sectatur Taecitus! 
denuo post alia quorundam obiects,  Doctissimus ille Latinus,  
Varro, ubi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prius, post 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, solùm  
Tertiaque Historiae adsignârit tempora certae;  
Quid nî alios, aequè ac nos convenit? Italus olim,  
Italicas Maro! Graeca tuba, Smyrnaeus Homerus,  
Res Phrygias Graiûmque 
& similiter solutiones, & aliquorum adversariorum recriminationes,  canit. De nomine Cambrae  
Queis magis ac Cambris, credam, vel origine Gentis?  
Aeneamque aliquis Gnati, neget esto, cruento  
Vulnere confossum Bruti, cecidisse, fidemque  
Deroget historiae; videat tamen ille quod usque  
Fermè simul duo Syluij erant, Gnatusque paterque,  
Aeneae Reges Itali, minimeque priori  
Si satus est, quis item neque posteriore docebit?  
Sin minùs arrident nimis aspera Nomina nostris  
Auribus; insuauis foret ac quasi Barbara, Bruti,  
Vox, minimeque Latina; neges licet, optime Caesar,  
Inuenio tamen, Italiae antiquissimae in Oris,  
Et Brutios populos, tractusque & nomina Bruti.  
Hijs neque jejunis forsan, 
in 〈◊〉.  neque prorsùs ineptis,  
Aut levibus modò coniecturis; adde, quod olim,  
Nostra Sibyllinis memorata Brytania libris,  
Dicta quasi à Bruto, foret; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 
Attexitur.  sive excusatio, & Metabasis ad seqq.  
CVi minùs haec placeant, neque picta Britannia 
* Vt Camdenus luculenti●●, Britanniae illustrationis, ita derivationis à colore Brith, quod sciam, author est.  veris,  
Clara tuis Camdene coloribus! omnibus unus,  
Doctior, aut veniam, dabit, aut meliora rogamus!  
Sic mihi, sic nostris, modò nomina, stemmata Cambris,  
Concedat clarosque olim magnosque Monarchas,  
Albionis Dominos, Troiano sanguine cretos,  
Priamidas, 
Metabasis, sive transitio ad commodiorem historiae continuationem spectans.  sobolemque Heleni, sociosque levatos  
Pandrasijs odijs, feret alta per aethera Brutus.  
Odae tertiae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION, 
Supplementum historiae.   
The third Ode, 
Synchronismu●, sive computatio A●●●rum.  Entitled GIGANTES.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
The third Ode, th' Interregnum sings,  
Of Sylvan swarms, that baunten here,  
Whiles Danaus' Daughters brood, of Kings  
The Royal style unworthy were;  
Where Brute, that brought these caitiffs down,  
Established Throne, Sceptres, Regal Crown.  

CANT. I.  
The Subject proposed of the present discourse, shadowing the turbulent and confused state of a disordered kingdom, here represented in Albion.  
NOw sing we th' Interregnum next  
Of Albion, never more perplexed,  
Then now for want of Lords & laws;  
Faith failing Priests, truth all men saws;  
For Albion slain, sans guide or grace,  
The remnant of his Giant race  
Like Satyrs lived in savage wise,  
Of whom and Danaus Daughters rise  
Those monsters rude, were here, the same  
Time Brute and Corinaeus came.  
Thou sacred Choir that sits and sings  
Amids Parnassus pleasant springs,  
Turn o'er the dusky leaves of fame,  
And let me, pray, o'relooke the same;  
That I may th'vn couth Lords repeat,  
That sometimes held this floury seat.  
When Albion, Albion's scourge, ere while,  
And Irish Bergion fell, our Isle,  
How truly Olbion, happy 
* Olbion, signifieth in Greek, Happy, whence some derive, others only allude thereto, the name of Albion.  then,  
For Tyrant Lords had she found men?  
But they vnkinged, were found none,  
Were fit to sit on regal Throne;  
That knew what longed to Moral piety,  
Much less to high and holy Deity,  
Or could teach, guide, or rule; till here  
Brute after many a hundred year,  
Came in and found so rude a race,  
As Devils seemed haunt, not men the place.  
And for they were so rude a crew, 

Of these Giants, as no acts, but their rudeness, so neither can Chronologie be registered, saving only thus generally.  
Albion slain and Hercules lived in Gaul, about, or before, An. 2300.  
Brute came not till after, An. 2800. so this Interregnum continued five or six hundred years.    
From thence the fables haply grew,  
How they, to Lady's strange (God wot)  
Right ragged Saluages, begot  
Like Devils on Danaus' Daughters then,  
That Paynim race, of monstrous Men.   

CANZ. II.  
The story of Danaus and his fifty Daughters that murdered their husbands, with the event thereof.  
THese Cyclops pedigrees to bring  
Derived from their ancientest springs;  
Bele's son t' Io's son, 
* The common received opinion is, that he was son of Lybia, daughter of Epaphus, son of Io the second, who was grandchild to Argus, of whom the Argives took their name; which Argus is reckoned the fifth in descent from Inachus.  Epaphus;  
Some Sols, some thine black sun-burt Chus,  
Some Neptunes him, and Lybia's sayne;  
Bele, his two son's divide in twain,  
Aegypt's so much famed fruitful soil,  
Placed on his-bankes-neglecting Nile.  
Aegyptus t'one, 
Aegyptus and Danaus' Kings of Egypt, circa An. 2500.  that Egypt named,  
And Danaus, 
s Of whom they gloried to be called Danai, he did establish so flourishing a Kingdom, and Commonwealth amongst them.  Argives founder famed.  
Aegyptus he had fifty sons;  
As many Daughter's gallant ones,  
Had Danaus, whom Aegyptus craves  
Wives for his sons, fair Nymphs, to have!  
But Danaus' nild, who had heard told  
A son in law vnking him 
t Some blind prophecy, which he had heard, and seeking to shun it, as the fashion of such is, more surely entangled himself therein and hastened, if not so framed the event.  should:  
Which by Aegyptus and his train,  
Was taken in so foul disdain,  
That father both and Daughters be  
fain fly to Greece, 
Danaus', King of Argives, carca An. 2500.  where Danaus he,  
Reigns Argive King, till to these Dames  
Aegyptus sons maken fresh claims.  
And last by war forced Danaus gives  
In solemn sort, long-wished their wives!  
But fie on falsehood, with bloodshed  
Each bride she stains her bridal bed,  
First night, so father willed! save one,  
Hypermnestra's love, saved, 'scaped and gone!  
Whilst she's poor soul honouring love's deity,  
Wronged, prisond, for her too much piety;  
So Scylla prized Minos welfare,  
'Boue her sire Nisus purple 
u Which hair she for love betrayed to Minos, though therein consisted the slay and welfare of her father, and his whole Kingdom.  hair;  
And Minos Daughter skilled the same  
Lesson for Theseus' love, fair 
* Who guided him by a clew of thread into the Labyrinth, whereby he slew the Minotaur and freed his Country of Athens, from the bloody tribute and servitude to Minos and the Candians.  Dame.  
Lynceus thus by his fair love's means,  
'Scaped from his treacherous Uncle's Realms,  
Returning soon, with so strong hand,  
As Argos powers could not withstand,  
In fell revenge of brothers slain,  
Wrought Danaus' still-fled, sore-feard bane;  
Who flying found fate following fast  
Spurred on with winged speed for haste. 
Lynceus, King of Argos, An. 2525.   
Lynceus thus by this conquest won,  
Set on his Uncle's Argive throne,  
His fair love frees, who prisoned long,  
For his sake had sustained much wrong;  
But had fordon th'ungracious sisters,  
Save, for his loved Hypermnestra's  
Suit, at whose prayers, he set them in  
A ship, sans helm, sails, oars, or men!  
And so the abandoned Ladies went,  
THE Atlantic seas to 
y A like story (but more uncertain, as having no probable author or ground) is told of Dioclesian's daughters, a King or Emperor of Assyria, whereas there was never any such; and one Albina, amongst them that should give name to this Island Albion.  banishment.   

CANT. III.  
They are banished to the Sea, and arrive in Albion; where they become the mothers of the succeeding race of Giants, of whom nothing is memorable, besides their rudeness, disorder, and over throw by Brute, save that Leon-gavere built Carleon.  
THis makes me think; not Dioclesian  
His Daughters, nor the fair Assyrian,  
Albina brought our Albion's Name,  
Since likelier these Nymphs hither came,  
Haled by winds, waves, and Nereus' force,  
To Neptune's son's on Albion's shores!  
Who though long since in Celt-land dead  
His name's yet on our white-rockes read. 
These Ladies must come, circa an. 2525. for at that time Lynceus was King of Argives.   
Their weatherbeaten Bark, being cast  
On British coast, right sore aghast,  
Amymone-like, sad, left alone,  
On Phrygian mountains making 
* Where she is said to have wandered comfortless, till jupiter pitied her or took her for his Paramour.  moan:  
These meet such mates in our wild Groves  
You'd think unfit for Lady's loves,  
Fair greeks! Urania, Scylla, Scaea,  
Hero, Hyale, Glauce, Galathaea,  
And twice three times as many more,  
By Aeolus brought to Albion's shore;  
Which passing prize with merry glee,  
The Syluan's seize, pretty to see,  
Such Nymphs keep Sheep upon the Downs,  
Such Ladies laid by such right Clowns.  
So their halfe-Greeke, halfe-barbarous brood,  
Brutish before ere British blood,  
From Trojan Brute derived, they say,  
These Centaur-like huge monsters reign. 
This only act and name of Leon Gavere, but without express mention of time when he built Carleon, now called Chester, is found during those many hundred years, of their rude misgovernment or Anarchy.   
Leon Gavere, builds Carleon's bowers  
Other tracts shown crophees of their powers,  
Whose tombs portend, in equal range,  
With monstrous might their statures strange.   

CANT. FOUR  
An Exordium to the History of Brute.  
NOw Muses sing the Man, whose might,  
Italian Tents in Albion pight;  
Who long kept off, turmoiled and tossed  
To many a far and foreign Coast,  
By Juno's ire, 
The History of King Brute, and his coming towards Britain.  and wreakfull spleen, 
Troi● excidium, A. M. 2767.   
Or Gods that Troyans' torturers been:  
Our second wand'ring Prince of Troy,  
As great adventures, with great joy,  
Sought, as his Grandsire; and at last,  
That big-boned brood, from Britain chased.   

CANT. V.  
The descent of Brutus, the cause of his exile, and travails and adventures in Greece.  
WHen after great Aeneas death,  
Silvius in savage Woods took breath,  
Did his half-brother, cleped Iùle,  
In newbuilt Alba Longa rule. 
Ascanius' builded Alba-Longa, A. 2774. reigned there 38. years.   
Brute then, they say, this Silvius son  
Had by mischance his sire 
* Brute slew his father by misfortune as they were bu●●●ng in the Forest together, and so fled or banished from Italy, went into Greece into exile.  fordone,  
And fled to Greece, where Hector's once  
Andromache's and Pyrrhus' sons,  
His noble Cousins now lived, and  
Were Princes of Chaonia land,  
Pergameus, Pyleus, and Molossus,  
Whose welcome cheers, whom fortune 
a The like friendly entertainment, he found at the hands of another Trojan Prince there, named Assaracus.  crosses!  
Who had by them, lands given him then,  
But that a numerous band of men,  
From Troy descended, captived all  
By King Pandrasus kept in thrall,  
A neighbouring Prince; did him importune,  
To free them, and if th'hand of Fortune  
So friended them; they once set free,  
Vassals to him their Prince, would be.  
First then, Pandrase he gently 
b These captived Troyans' and their race, prayed Brute to be their Captain, saith the Story, as desirous to seek adventures, and weary of their servitude in Greece.  prays,  
Who with proud threats, their suit denayes;  
Which caused him force the Tyrant feel,  
The strokes of unrelenting steel:  
And Pandrase and his children then,  
Antigonus, and Innogen,  
Captived, the victor's price had 
c King Pandrasus City Spartianum, was taken by Brutus, and many of his men drowned in the River Schel●u●, and 〈◊〉 after the King brought into 〈◊〉 hands, was glad to buy his Lands and freedom at that friendly rate.  paid,  
But that Brute for the beauteous Maid,  
Fair Innogens sake, set them free,  
And marrying her, for dowry he  
May have, but what he'll crave! so strange,  
Foes to friends; wars to weddings change!   

CANT. VI  
Brute marrying King Pandrasus daughter with great provision of Ships and company, seeketh fortune, and other larger dominions, wherewith his remnant Trojan troops to inhabit.  
THen Brutus and his beauteous Make, 
Brutus' setting forth from Greece.   
To ship and Seas themselves betake,  
With money, men, munition, and  
The youth's choice flowers of all the land;  
All seeking fame, and with new seats,  
Adventures strange, by warlike feats:  
That not those Peers of Argo famed,  
Set forth with courage more inflamed,  
To Colchos for the golden fleece,  
Then Brute, and his they done from Greece.   

CANT. VII.  
He falleth with an Island called Leogetia, where he sacrifizeth, prayeth, and asketh counsel at Diana's Oracle.  
THence sailing forth with prosperous course,  
They light on Leogetia 
* Leogetia, one of the Lands about Greece or Italy, where it seems ●●ood one of Diana's Temples, and so Brute doing sacrifice, seeketh to the Oracle.  shores;  
An Island in an unknown Ocean;  
There founded by zealous devotion,  
Brute found, where one of Phoebe's shrines,  
With gold nor sparkling jewels shines,  
But o'er top't by the dangling trees  
And fenced with thorny passages.  
here calling out his Mates a-row,  
He sacrificed a milk-white do,  
And mighty bowls of wine there been  
Crowned by him to nights shady Queen;  
And 'fore her Oracle whiles he stays,  
For her propitious aid thus prays.   

CANZ. VIII.  
He receiveth answer, to bend his course for Britain.  
GReat Goddess that th' Arcadian groves,  
Parthenian hills and Cynthus 
* The places where she was principally resident and most honoured, as luno at Samos; Pallas at Athens; Phoebus at Delphos, etc.  loves,  
Give gracious Audience to my suit,  
And gently guide thy Beadsman Brute,  
That o'er rough Seas with prosperous wind,  
Their seats of rest by fates assigned  
For him and his, he may attain;  
To thee then and thy virgin train,  
Great Ocean's Queen, we'll to thy praise,  
That right'st our course, fair Temples raise!  
The Goddess then in Vision-wise,  
Sleep having now seized Brutus 
a As was the manner to sleep before to● Oracle, on the skins of the beasts that were slain for sacrifice.  Eyes,  
Showing clear tokens of divine  
Majestic presence, in her shrine,  
Herself more stately to be seen,  
Then th' Amazon, or Assyrian Queen,  
Most ravishing bright, with heavenly look,  
She thus bespoke the valiant Duke.  
In western Sea's an Isle is placed,  
Subject to gentle Zephyr's 
b The answer of Diana's Oracle, concerning his voyage and adventures, directing his course for Britain, then called Albion.  blast,  
Neptune's sons, Seamen say'ne of yore  
Huge Cyants held that wealthy shore:  
Dear Nephew that's a place right fit,  
For Ida's People's there to sit,  
Where I divine New-troy shall rise,  
And Kings, whose fames shall pierce the Skies,  
Thy son's! beyond th' Herculean straits  
Seek out those seats assigned by fates   

CANZ. IX.  
The general applause of his whole company, and the●r preparation for the same.  
THe Chapel with her words seemed shake,  
And Brutus from his trance awake,  
With his companions half aghast,  
Perfumes up to the Heavens they cast,  
Of Frankincense, and costly spice,  
Th'air Echoing forth, and open skies,  
These saws; with their glad shouts for joy  
In hope of their new-builded Troy!   

CANZ. X.  
Their meeting with Corynaeus and other Troyans' near the Pyrenine mountains, overthrow of Guffar King of Poytewes in France, and arrival in Britain.  
THence putting forth to seas again,  
The Lybian Syrts and Midland main,  
He leaves, passing by Hercules  
Pillars into th' Atlantic Seas;  
Aeneas-like perhaps by kind,  
Seeks foreign shores, New-Troy to find:  
And casting by the coast of Spain,  
Before he met with Frances maine,  
Where Pyrene hills divide both lands,  
he's seen by Corynaeus 
* A man of approved wisdom and valour, tha● was Captain of a remnant of these that came from Troy with Antenor, to seat themselves in Illyria, and the Western coasts: and now had light on the borders of the Pyrenine Hills, inhabited by a people called Nomades.  bands,  
A Captain that at great Troy's foil,  
Changed Ilion's for Illyrian soil,  
And with Antenor noble Prince  
Came to Timaus springs! and since,  
Leaving Lyburnian Kingdoms quite,  
To South and Indies opposite,  
On Spain and Frances bounds  
At foot of Pyrene hills was found,  
Whose tops fired by the Nomad 
e The Nomads having their name of feeding cattle, to whose pastures the woods being no friendly neighbours, they fired the s●me on those Pyrene Mountains, of which great burning of the vast woods, the Hills took their name: Pyr, signifying fire in Greek, not much distant fr●m the Dutch, and English Saxon words, Fire, and Br●n, that is, Burn.  Nation  
Thence named, or'elooke the vast west Ocean.  
This Corynaeus and his train  
Both sides of such Colleagues full fain,  
All of one stock, one Trojan Kin,  
All near Allies, Brute takes him in,  
Complice Copartner and Companion  
Of Travels, who on th' Aquitanian  
King Guffar, come of Hercules blood,  
Proof of his valour showed right 
f Arriving in the mouth of Loire, and receiving some discourtesy from king Guffar, called Pictus, of whom the Pictones, quasi picti, or Poytewes, some would derive; they overthrew 〈◊〉 and some of his confederate neighbour Princes And so with wealthy spoils set sail for Albion.  good:  
Whose ransacked towns and subjects slain,  
When King to fly himself was fain,  
Dear did abvy, th'opprobrious words  
He proudly gave those Trojan Lords.  
From hence with wealthy spoils, 
Brute, circa An. 2850. cousque peregrinatus est.  they say,  
Embarked again withouten stay,  
They make for Devon and Totnesse strand,  
Albion's foretell long-lookt-for land,  
Thus having past the dangerous Syrteses  
And Altars on famed Afrique 
g 
Arae Philenûm as the Syrteses and like dangerous places, were so called, it might be, for that the ships ommin● near, could hardly escape from being sacrificed to Aeouls and the Ocean's fury, of them Virgil sings,  
Treis' Notus abreptas, in Saxa latentia torquet; Saxa vocant Itali, medijs quae in fluctibus, Aras.   skirts  
Malaea's gulf, and lately seen  
Furd'st Gades Pillars and Pyrene:  
No sooner safe from vunder sail,  
But touched, but leaping forth, All hail,  
All hail, cries Brute, thou sacred seat,  
Fair I'll which Cynthia goddess great;  
Promised to me and mine for ay,  
This is the place; here must I pay  
My vows to her, whose gracious hand  
From unknown Peoples, and strange 
* Brutus' travails and navigation in that Age were great, being over all the Mediteriane Sea, and a great part of the Atlantic Ocean: Vlys●es and Aeneas wondered at adventures, lying all within the narrow compass of the former.  Lands,  
And Seas, and Syrts, and dangers store,  
Hath brought us safe to Albion's shore.  
And then, as was the manner, crowned,  
With levy sprays his temples round,  
Devoutly he by prayers doth call  
On Phrygian gods in order all,  
jove, Cybele, Sun and Moon, and Night,  
And what or Genius god or spirit,  
Was hallowed there, or haunts the place.  
His Mates their business ply apace,  
All got ashore, glad of sweet rest,  
On Albion's flowery fields they feast.   

CANZ. XI.  
An Apology for the story of Samothes or Mesech, and Albion.  
NOw Brutus' in Britain; 
Apologia.  Noah's brood,  
Though fetched from th'universal flood,  
Nor Neptune's sons escaped not free,  
From Zoilus carping, much less he;  
How secretly so ere he came,  
From Troy, some that malign his fame,  
Have made sore search! they'll not endure,  
That he should flourish, they 
* Herostratus would have a name, were it for burning so goodly a Monument, as the Temple of Diana was reputed among the Ephesians and Heathen; so do some now nothing more, then hunt for Name, though by undermining truth.  obscure!  
Samothes, whose stories nearest fit  
With verities of sacred Writ,  
That from great Noah's Ark do bring,  
The second World's newbirth and spring,  
'Bout whose obscure and ancient days,  
Few'st scruples sure, deserve most praise.  
For Neptune's sons and Albion he,  
'Twas e'er the guise, and e'er will be,  
That those, that furrow th' Ocean 
2 Oceano-geniti, and Neptunia proles, though sometimes otherwise taken, do most fitly point out Seafaring men, who must needs be the first inhabiters of this I'll, and if any more doubt were (but Mela's report makes all clear) whence this allusion could not choose but have original.  floods,  
Been termed by Poet's Nereus' brood!  
And these must needs possess of yore,  
Waves-all-encircled Albion shore.  
But more to make their story plain,  
Mela reports of Albion slain,  
Near Britain; why not he the while  
As rather as white Rocks, names this I'll?   

CANZ. XII.  
The like for that of Brute, his descent and race.  
ANd now to Brute; since some in game  
Or spite, will sport at others fame;  
But sure I know not how to please,  
Such curious quaint conceits as these;  
And certes! th' Aporetique 
* Aporetici, a brainsick sect of Philosophers, that not trusting any known verity, foolishly doubting of all things, would call all things, even the most certain truths, into question.  Sect,  
In all establish Laws neglect,  
Hath too too much prevailed in this  
Sick Age of ours, and much amiss,  
When nothing once, so firm was thought,  
That now's not under Quaere's brought:  
Though more stayed heads will one day see,  
Such too much meddling should not be;  
Or by experience learn, at last,  
That he's not wisest, prates too fast.   

CANZ. XIII.  
All ordinary Objections to the contrary answered and clearly refelled, and the Sibyl's Oracle-verses cited to that purpose.  
But now, pray hear, what they can say,  
That Brutus' Detractors parts would play! 
* Objections against the story of Brute, urged by some.   
Caesar, forsooth, was wondrous mute,  
And Tacitus, in not naming 
* The first Objection answered, and the reasons following, why Caesar might be ignorant of the British stories and antiquities, as well as their present estate, notwithstanding he should then seek the same, which may be doubted of.  Brute.  
Indeed, I think, 'twas wisest art,  
For Caesar, to conceal some part;  
And not the best of them to say,  
From whom he bore the worst away:  
His glory was obscured too much,  
To lose the day, his luck was such!  
Or if he truly had good will  
To say the truth! he had small skill  
To read the British Annals o'er,  
And leisure less he had therefore,  
I doubt! or if he had; I 
* Caesar's conquest in Britain, as it seems not very fair extended, for fours of the King's ●ee conquered were only of Kent, and Cassiue●anes City of the T●inobantes, or London his most feigned opposite, on the very edge thereof, at whose submission his conquest was determined.  ween,  
In Kent alone his conquests been.  
And our chief Monuments, they say,  
far off in Mona secret lay;  
Among the Druids: And who,  
Would wish or trust such with his foe?  
When they themselves from Romans ire,  
To their remotest Cells retire?  
But now from Mona's secret 
* The British story revived and flourished from those parts and parties, that were fled and hid from Caesar.  Cells,  
And Druid ' Priests involved spells,  
The Bard's the Druid's offspring have,  
Raised Brute and Arthur from their grave;  
Where they yet slept, forgotten long,  
In the Bard's songs, and British tongue.  
See, now in these great lett'red 
* The Saxons and English, even to this day, do little intermeddle with the Britons gests: insomuch that more obscure are they to them, and less minded by them, than the story almost of any other Nation.  days,  
We scarcely mind those British lays,  
Or heed their gests and modern acts,  
Much less those ancient times and facts.  
No marvel then if Latin story,  
Or Saxon silence Brutus' glory:  
Less wonder too, that Caesar should  
Not find these matters though he would.  
For grant the Druid's not enuy'de  
This, so to balk great Caesar's pride,  
Yet we find they committed 
* And this use of committing the greatest matters to memory rather than writing, could not but much increase Caesar's ignorance of the state.  than  
Most things to memory, lest to pen,  
Whence he t'affirm them knows not whether,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or from France come thither;  
And Tacitus may-be sought no more,  
Then his great Lord observed before.  
Th' Obscure first Age doth Varro call,  
Next Fabulous, third Historical:  
The learned Latin too, 
The second Objection, Sol. per concess.  says true,  
But toucheth all both us and you!  
And if great Maro merit 
* And what lets it that we should not take the British story on their credit, with the like applause, at the Britons hands: since the Maxim is, unicuique in sua arte ●redendum? The third Objection answered: cum recriminatione Polydoristarum.  Bays,  
For Rome's first Lords, in Latin lays!  
And Homer like-graced, when he sings  
His own Greek Peers, and Dardan Kings!  
Whom rather for their stories else,  
Seek we to then, then Britons selves?  
More, some object, in Roman 
* In the ancient Roman story, even of their Kings, is much obscurity, I may say contrariety & apparent contradiction, which if it shall condemn the rest, their story must be exploded as well as ours! but then, saving the holy Writ, I know not what history should be saved.  writ,  
Brute, nor his slain Sire, read in it;  
And Brutus' name barbarous seems! We may,  
If Brutus' name be not found, well say,  
They writ but barely of their own  
Much more, of foreign more unknown,  
Their Kings even clouded! specially  
In those first Ages; and yet I,  
See diverse Syluij; if not one's  
Son, who can yet show Brute was nonce?  
And Brutij, with Caesar's good 
* Brutij, were an ancient people in Italy.  grace,  
In ancientest Italy had place.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
A transition to the next, and conclusion of this present Ode.  
MOre, to confirm us to our Brute,  
Since sacred Sibyls seem not 
* And it is certain, the Oracles delighted in naming the places after the most ancient, and sometimes obscure and enigmatical names.  mute;  
Whose books well worthy best respect,  
Frame Brutus Isles in Greek 
b Aethicus translated by Saint Jerome, above 1000 years since, calleth them Insulas Brutanicas: the Greeks writing it by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, it soundeth our u And the Welsh do the like, as is seen in Brytys, by them pronounced Brutus: Also English Writers that are above an hundred years since, call it Brutaine. J. Mandevill.  Dialect:  
Needs, such as this, nor aught will please,  
We pray them better show, or cease,  
And give us leave, and Welsh to raise,  
Aswell our Brutes, as Arthur's praise.  
The end of the third Ode.     

A brief type of the fourth Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called BRUTUS.  
The fourth Ode containeth,  
1. A brief recapitulation of Brutus story, his descent & travels with the adventures he found here, when he came into this Island: Quelling the Giants, and establishing his Kingdom in Albion, called since Britannia or Brutania of his own name.  
2. Brutus' Acts, Race, and succession of Kings here: viz. Brute, 2855. he reigned 24. years, and divided his Kingdom among his three sons.  

1. Locrine King of Loegres, or England, reigned 20. years; His wife was Guendoline; His Paramour the beauteous Estrild.  
2. Camber King of Wales or Cambria.  
3. Albanak King of Albania or Scot●and.   

Madan his son, and Gwendoline, reign. 55. years.  
Mempritius his son, reigned 20. years: He slew his brother Manlius.  
Ebranke his son, reigned 60. years: His sons conquer Germany: He builded Oxford.  
Brute Greene-sh●eld his son, reigned 12. years.  
Lei● his son, reigned 25 years.  
Ludrudibras his son, reigned 29. years.  
Bladud his son, reigned 20. years: A Magician, he founded Bath.  
Leir his son, reigned 40. years. Expelled by his elder Daughters, Gonorilla and Ragan, and their husbands; Is restored by Cordyla his youngest Daughter whom he had rejected.  
Cordyla, daughter to King Leir, reigned 5. years.  
Cunedagius, son to Ragan, slew his Cousin Morgan, son of Gonorilla, and possessed the Kingdom, and reigned 33. years.  
Rivallo his son, reigned 46. years.  
Gurgius his son, reigned 38. years.  
Syssylth, Riuallo's son, reigned 49. years.  
Iago, Gurgius son, reigned 15. years.  
K●mac●, son of Syssylth, reigned 54. years.  
Gronodugo or Gorbodugus, reigned 63. years: His sons Ferrex and Porrex being slain, began the Pentarchy or five Kingdoms in five several parts of the Land, which M●lmutius Dunwallo, son of Clotenus Duke of Cornwall, reduced into Monarchy, after fifty years.   
3. A remonstrance opposed to the erroneous retection of some supposed Errors, by Polydore Virgil, an Italian writer, of our English Annals: refelling some of his errors; detecting and rectifying his wrong computation of times and calculating the K. reigns according to the same.  
Also showing how unjust his & some of his Followers calumniations are, that are made against the British & our Histories.   


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode quarta, Inscripta BRUTUS.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Brutus ut Albionem, Brutoque Brytania Nomen,  
Coepit, & excisus, quarta dat Oda, Gygas!  
At Mulmutiadae, stirps altera, Bruto oriundis,  
Sceptra licet serò, surripit illa tamen.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Prooemij joco, istius Odae Hypothesis.  
SAmotheam exorsi primùm, 
Series Poematis, sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  lustravimus! Oram  
Desertae Albionis promovimus inde; Brytannos  
Nunc tractus, utique olim etiam indita nomina nostris  
Temporibus rediviua vigent, benè nota recensens,  
Musa veni, & resonis pete candida sydera pennis!  
A Mauris, Luso, vel aquis, quae Tania dicta est,  
Aut venit, aut videt, aut vicit Brutus! Amoenae  
Albioni, 
Institutum libri,  impositum, à Bruto Brytania Nomen:  
Hic claruêre eius per saecula multa nepotes,  
Brutigenûm, donec acer Romanus in oras  
Devenit, Gallûmque manu spolijsque superbus,  
Demptaque cognatis populis è sanguine Troûm,  
Ortis, Tarpeiâ suspendit in Arce trophaea,  
Ca●sar in aequoreos, qui transtulit arma Brytannos.  
Nota canam! vati linguis animisque faventes,  
Annuite Aonides! 
& votum,  Brutus trans Gallica Regna,  
Lustrans fata, solum geniale invenerat olim.  
Pandite Daedaliae fonteis Heliconaque Divae,  
Vos meministis enim Nymphae, quibus Anglica iam tum,  
Floruerit terra alma viris, quibus arserit Armis▪  
Ad nos vix tenuis famae perlabitur aura.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti in Brytanniam adventus.  
CVm pius Aeneas sociorum flebile fatum,  
Occasum Troiae supremaque funera vidit,  
Monte sub Attandro molitur utique biremes, 
Ind post recapitulationem brevem, praecedenuum ante Bruti adue●tum,   
Tendensque in Latium, sedes ubi fata quietas  
Ostendebant, fas ubiregna resurgere Troiae,  
Getulis Lybicisque ereptus Syrtibus, exul,  
Impulerat sospes Laviua ad littora classes;  
Nec citius Latijs tuto consederat Agris,  
Quam fuit Allecto, stygijs infecta venenis,  
Quam fuit Allecto & coniux jovis effera juno,  
Quae Phrygas & Rutilos miseranda strage fatigent.  
Sed postquam Aeneiâ deiectus cuspide Turnus,  
Concidit, 
etiam reliqua Bruti historiae series & gesta, attexuntur;  & sero facta est Liuinia Coniux,  
Silvius in Syluis ex hac tua posthuma proles,  
Nascitur Aeneas; hoc saeclo, recta fuêre,  
Regna sub Ascanio, & quae dicitur Alba; sed huius  
Aeneae soboles, diversa per aequora vectus,  
Brutus in Angliacas tandem devenerat oras.  
Has etiam terras meministis ut antea sanctae  
Aonidum turmae, vasti tenuere Gygantes!  
Neptuni filij: nam postquam regna fuêrunt,  
Olim Saturni divisa, habet aethera summus  
jupiter, infernum styga Dis; maria omnia lustrans  
Caeruleis dominaris aquis Neptune, nepotes  
Cuius, regna patris, per Caerula flumina nando,  
Oras invenêre, & finibus incoluêre  
Desertae Albionis, faelicia rura, Gygantes:  
Quorum aliquam partem disiecit littore Celtûm  
Virtus Alcidae; hic reliquos Aeneia proles;  
Damnoniae attingens Totnesia littora Brutus, 
Ac primo cum   
Ecce tenet portum; iam stabant littore curuo  
Naues; quam primum summis de montibus hostis,  
Apparet tanquam nemorosa, proceraque sylua;  
Sic nautae vidissle ferunt in montibus olim  
Trinacriae Cyclopas, & hic è Collibus astra  
Sublimi ceruice ferit; Navalia Bruti,  
In mare progreditur lustrans, ut consitaripâ  
Populus Eridani, verritque Cacumime nubes.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Bruti cum Gygantibus praelium & praelij eventus.  
NEc mora, quin stricto cernuntur praelia ferro;  
Vndique concursant vasto clamore Gygantes,  
Ac nisi vana fuit Phlegraeis fabula castris,  
Dijs infestae acies, certarunt Pelio Ossan,  
Insuper atque Ossae frondosum involuere Olympum,  
Imperio Divos premere, & supera astra tenere; 
Gigantibus congressus; initoque praelio,   
Praelia Brutus init, tremit horrida terra tumultu,  
Euolat interea certis victoria pennis,  
Brutigenûm turmis, relevans sua pectora! ut hostis  
Aufugit, insequitur Brutus, nec rara Gigantum  
Corpora sternit humi; ut secus haud respersa videres,  
Passim per terras & per Genialia rura,  
quam vel in Autumno, Boreali flamine frondes:  
Nituntur Bruti Comites, & puluere condunt,  
Quoscunque aspiciunt, ac caesa cadavera campis,  
Rellinquunt lanianda Lupis; sic Iupiter altus,  
Centimanumque Gygen, Briareaque & obruit Aetnâ,  
Enceladum: è campis Phlegrae, Titanidaque Olim  
Condidit Inarines aeterna mole Typhaea.  
Neu prius è regno extirparunt martis alumnos,  
Neptuni & Nerei sobolem, 
opera Corinaei, à quo Cornubia nomen traxit, Victeria.  quam summus honore,  
Dux Corinaeus opem tulit; huic pro munera tanto,  
Arua dedit Brutus, Corinaeaque rura vocavit;  
Proxima Damnonijs, quâ inter confinia currit,  
Loegriae Tamaris diuisor Cornubiaeque;  
Quo tractu montes aiunt Titanibus illis,  
Antiquis famulosadomus, quibus uda ferarum  
Terga dabant vestes, cruor haustus pocula trunci,  
Antra lares, dumeta thoros, Caenacula rupes,  
Praeda cibos, raptus venerem, spectaculacaedes,  
Imperium vires, animos furor, impetus arma,  
Mortem pugna, sepulcra rubus: monstrisque gemebat  
Monticolis tellus, sed eorum plurima tractû,  
Pars crat occiduo; terror, maiorque premebat  
Te furor, extremum Zephyri Cornubia limen;  
Fortè quia huc multo occursarunt agmine Teucris,  
Tunc ità perculsi, insolito terrore Gigantes.  
Hos avidum belli robur Corinaeus Auerno  
Praecipites misit, 
Et deinde  cubitis ter quatuor altum  
Gogmagog Herculeâ suspendit in Aere luctâ;  
Anthaeumque suum, scopulo detrusit in aequor,  
Qua Tamaris glauco immiscet sua flumina Ponto,  
Potavit fuso Thetis ebria sanguine fluctus,  
Divisumque tulit corpus mare, Cerberus umbram.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Vortigerin facinorosa regni occupatio, & Romani Imperij finis.  
REge brevi, à famulis Pictoque satellite, caeso,  
Vortiger hac princeps in proditione Tyrannus, 
Ingenio pollens, diadema & regnum per traudem occupat; & heic Ode, est Romani apud Britones imperij, meta & periodus. in Epiphonemate isto, conclusionis aut corollarij vice, quasi involutae.   
Euadens, potitur sceptris, solioque Brytannis.  
Uther & Aurelius, defuncti Regis uterque  
Frater, Aremoricum vicino littore tractum  
Cesserunt, neque iam totam cum Scotus Hybernen  
Movit, & infesto spumavit Remige Tethys,  
Te modo vicinis percuntem Gentibus, olim  
O Nympha aequoras inter celeberrima divas,  
Ferro picta genas, cuius vestigia verrit  
Caerulus, immenso Brytannia cincta profundo,  
Defendit rapidis acer Romanus in armis,  
Ampliùs, aut reprimit Pictûmve, Scotûmve tumultus:  
Caesar abes; ter Consul opem negat Aetius! hostis,  
Britannum Oceano, Oceanusque repellit in hostem.  
Quo nunc? Caesar eras, non deserere ausus Alumnos,  
Quo ruit Imperium? deserta quod Insula jule,  
Parta trophaea tuâ, quondam fortissime, dextrâ.  
Scilicet ingenium, senio, mens, forma, laborant  
Cunctae sue! Imperijque suis iacet aegra ruinis,  
Maiestas; multum languens annosa veterno.  
Imperij in nostros heic meta! à Caesare primo,  
Postquam quingentos, lustris labentibus, annos,  
Seu propè Brytannis Itali dominantur in oris.  
Odae sextae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION,  
The fourth Ode, Entitled BRUTUS.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
The fourth Ode brings in Trojan Brute  
Mong's sons, that parts his Realms in three,  
Scot'sh yet and Cambrian Kings ow'n suit  
And service t' England's Primacy,  
That in right Line a-row descends  
T'his Heirs, till Schism their glory ends.  

CANT. I.  
The intention of the present Book discovered.  
SAmothea first, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive supputatio Annorum.  next Albion shore  
Now so, both now and named of yore, 
Supplementum Historiae.   
Great Britain shows! new days forth brings,  
Th'old names, and ancient race of Kings.  
Thou soughtest, dear Muse, how Mauritane,  
Spanish Lusitane, French Aquitane,  
Coasted or kend' or conquered ', last  
Brute at Brute-tania anchor cast!  
Called Albion erst; where many a-day  
His issue reigned, 
Caesar.  till Caesar's way  
Hither lay through France; so French and ours  
With Trophey's decked Tarpaeyan towers;  
Nor booted kindred: Mars decides  
Th'alliance, lands by lot divides.  
Then Pallas and my Muse that sings  
Their Roman Lords or Trojan Kings,  
How Brute who quelled the Belgic host,  
Found entertainment on our coast;  
Divine Dames you remember when  
He came, his chance, the means, the men,  
With whom he fought, that Giant race:  
Now briefly, that both time and place,  
And all things else I may rehearse,  
Pray, prompt my pen, tune well my Verse.   

CANZ. II.  
A brief recollection of the precedent story of Brute, continuing it to his encounter with the Giants that he found in the Island.  
WHen once the wand'ring Trojan 
* A brief recapitulation of the former story of Brute, ere he came at Britain; and so proceeding on, and descending to his acts here.  Duke  
To salt Sea woves himself betook, 
Troiae excidium, A. M. 2767.   
In Barks ybuilt ' in Ida, and  
Leaving furious Dido's love, and land,  
Had safe set foot in ●●●ium, where  
Fates had decreed, 〈◊〉 Troy to rear,  
And Rome's great 〈◊〉; soon were seen,  
Fell Furies raised 〈…〉 high Queen.  
But tumults laid, and Turnus dead,  
Troy's Prince he doth Lavinia wed,  
Whose late-born Babe, since Father's death,  
Silvius in savage woods took breath;  
From him whose brother half of blood,  
Built Alba-Longa, t'goes for good,  
Came our first founder Brute; what time  
Vast Giants did possess this Clime; 
Ascanius' King in Italy, A. 2774   
Great Neptune's sons; for Saturn's 
* The golden Age, and division of the world under Saturn's heirs; whereby Neptune and his sons came to be Lords of the Seas and Iles.  lands,  
When they came to his children's hands,  
Been had by them, thus, Poets please;  
jove Heaven, This Hell, Neptune the Seas.  
So Neptune's sons held this our shore,  
And many a wealthy I'll of yore:  
Of which race, hercules some in France  
Did quell; these here, 'twas Brutus chance;  
Who striking in at Totnesse Strand, 
Brute King bear, A. 2855.   
In Deuo●shire brought his Barks to land!  
But scarce had time to view the coasts,  
Ere from the Hills he spies huge hosts,  
And Cyclops swarms, as 'twere great woods  
Come from their fields to th'Neighbouring floods:  
Such, Seamen sayne, they used to see  
'Bout Mongibell, in 
* Mont-Gibello, the modern name of the anciently so much famed Mountain, A●tna.  Sicily.  
Such statures strange, they say'n, of eld,  
Both their and our Trinacria held,  
Th' Aetnaean Monsters, matching tho  
Tall Poplar's on the banks of Poe.   

CANZ. III.  
The Giants overthrown, and Gogmagog the greatest slain by Corinaeus, who hath Cornwall assigned to him; their manners deciphered.  
WIth these, whose tree-like tops did scar  
The fluttering clouds, must Brutus war;  
Not much unlike such match, I ween,  
In Phlaegra fields there once was seen,  
Where Ossa laid on Pelion high,  
Made Olymph tops out-towre the sky;  
Whiles for to win, fell Monsters striven,  
Those starry battlements of jove  
These liveless, breathless, chased and slain,  
Brute strews their corpses o'er the plain;  
Like ears of corn while harvest lasts,  
Or leaves borne down by Boreas' blasts!  
A prey for Wolves, and dainty feasts  
For ravenous Birds, and for wild Beasts.  
So jove dealt with the 
* The sons of Titan, and their adherents, the Giants that warred with jupiter, and the Gods.  Tytannoys,  
Th'huge Monsters quelling, lays the poise  
Of Aetna on this Giant's breast;  
Of Isles and Sea-rocks on the rest;  
Of Inarine's burden sore and straight,  
Typhaeus feels the endless weight.  
But Albion's coasts were not set free,  
From Albion's brood; e'er brave Knight he,  
Duke Corinaeus took in hand,  
To rid these uncoth Creatures, and  
Had fair lands given him, called, they say,  
Of his name 
* Corn-wall so called of Corinaeus name; some say of the fashion of it lying out like a horn into the Sea, opposite to Gaul, and held by ancient Gauls in Britain, thence called Cornugallia; which western parts were accounted the chief receptacle & abode of these Giants, where also are reported most stories of them, and most monuments yet appearing, tokens of their monstrous strength and hugeness.  Cornwall to this day;  
Where on the banks of Tamaris,  
Which now the Cornish confines is,  
He with Herculean might o'erthrew  
Gogmagog, Chieftain of that crew;  
Who hurled down headlong, Doris deep  
His corpse, Styx had his soul to sleep.  
And it was thought that western coast,  
Of this our Island pest'red most,  
With those huge-limbed Centaurs, who  
In stead of house and harbour, do  
On Mountains live in dens and caves  
That summer's sun, and winter saves:  
The running Rivers, Herbs, and Roots,  
Right savage-like, raw flesh and fruits,  
And skins of wild beasts, such their 
* Therudenesse of the Giants.  states,  
Their meat, drink, cloth, and finest cates,  
And greatest strength bore greatest sway,  
Till Corine chased them quite away!   

CANZ. XV.  
Vortiger steppeth up dispossessing the right heirs, and ●bteyneth the Crown; the Roman E●pire waning and fully ended in Britain.  
VOrtiger for wisdom by report, 
Vortiger King of Britain, A. 447. reigned in all 20 years.   
Gracious with all, but most at Court,  
Amidst these broils so laid his train,  
The King by a Pict in's Guard was slain,  
And himself crowned: both the right heirs,  
King's brothers fled to France for 
* Aurch●s 〈…〉 afterwards returned and 〈…〉 Vortiger and the Saxon Hengist 〈◊〉 there in Law, of the Crown  fear.  
And now, alas, this noble I'll,  
Albion's that wert, since Britain's style,  
Admired of all, nor loved in vain,  
By Nereus' beauteous Sea-Nymph train,  
In their soft arms wave-circled round,  
By th'other powers with pleasures crowned;  
Now laid and left, at lowest 
d For in former times 〈◊〉 in vain 〈◊〉 to Rome for aid; and a letter to Aetius in Franee, the 〈◊〉 whereof was (Aetio●er Consult; the 〈◊〉 of the Britons; The 〈◊〉 enemy drives us to the Sea, the Sea back to the enemy, between these tw●i●e arise two deaths, we are slain or drowned) but the Romans could afford them small succour, being over laid by Bleda and ●ttyla Kings of Huns and others, and so ended the Roman Empire here, with the beginning of Vortigers and the Saxons reign.  bay,  
For Hunn's, Picts, and wild Scots a pray;  
Rome's Lords nor Aetius eftsoons proved  
By piteous plaints t'aide Britons moved,  
Prime trophies erst of Caesar's glory, 
julius Caesar came hither, about A. ante Christum 51. Vottiger began since Christ 447. so the whole time of the Romans rule & stay here was within two years of 500   
And rarest Lords, once, in Romans story:  
Though't seems the wayning Empires state  
Through very eld, leaves them; and late  
Languishing placed her reigns period here,  
From julius nigh five hundred 
c Meta Romani apud nos Imperij.  year;  
Where then Rome left, rose Saxon Kings,  
Whose race, and acts, my Muse next sings.  
The end of the sixth Ode.     

A brief type of the seventh Ode of PALAE-ALBION, Entitul● HENGISTUS.  
the seauen● Ode containeth,  

2. The Heptarchye, ●eauen Kingdoms of the Saxons, with their seue●●●eginnings, extent, increase, continuance ●●●●ding, viz.  
1. The original & call●●g●n of the Saxons under Vortiger, and the end of the B●ytons reign, under their 〈◊〉 Kings. v●z.  
Vortiger, A. 417. R 20 v. V●●●mer, his son, dead in his father's life time.  
Aureli ' Ambrose, son of Constantine, late King. R 32 years Uther Pendragon, his brother, r. 18.  
Arthur. surnamed the Great. Uther's son, R. 26 years. Constantine, duke Cador's son, reigned 3 years. Conan. Arthur's Nephew, R. ●3 Vortiporus, his son R. 4.  
Malg● R. 5. Car●●cus, R. 3 years. Cad●ar, R. 22 years. Cadw●●●, R. 48 years.  
Cadwallader his son, last King of the Brytons R. only 3 years 

1. The Kingdom of Kent, Anno 456. under Hengist, who reigned 24. years.  
Octa, his son R. 24.  
Otho. his son, R. 22.  
Ermenrike, his son, reigned 25.  
Ethelbert, his son, reigned 56. In his time Saint Augustine came into England converting the Saxons.  
Eadbald, his son, a notable Pagan, reigned 24 years.  
Ercombert, his son, a good Prince, reigned 20.  
Egbert, his son, reigned 9  
Luthere, Egberts' brother, reigned 11. years.  
Edr●●g, his Cousin, 2.  
Guthred, son of Egbert, reigned three years.  
His three sons. 〈◊〉, R. 23. Eth●●●●, 11. A●●●, ●4.  
〈…〉  
Cuthred, R. 8 years, Al●ed, alias Balared, expelled by Egbert, King of west Saxons, Anno 827. he read his son Assistance Duke thereof.  
2 The Kingdom of Mercia began, A. 586. under Crida, who reigned 9 years: his son Wibba reigned 20 years. Ceorlus, his son, reigned 10.  
Penda, son of Wibba, reigned 30. flame by Oswy, K. of Northumber's.  
Wolfere, his son. R. 17.  
Ethelred, Wolferes son, R. 29. He warred with Egfride of Northumberland, and Lothaire of Kent.  
Kenred, son of Wolfer, reigned 5.  
Celred, Ed●reds son, reigned 8. He warred with Ina.  
Ethelbald, of the blood of Eopa, brother of Penda, reigned 40. slain by  
Bernred, that R. 10. y.  
Offa, a bloody King reigned, 39  
Egfride, his son, reigned 4 months.  
Cynewolf, of Penda's line, reigned 24 years.  
Kenelm, his son, ●ame by his sister Quindred.  
C●●wulf, brother to K. Cynewolf, reigned two years, expelled by ●●nulf who was vanquished by Egbert, and s●aine by the East-Angles, afterwards Ludicenus, reign. 2. y. and Whitlafe, 15 years, made tributary to Egbert, about, Anno 827.  
3. The Kingdom of Northumber's began ●●der Ida, A. 547. he reigned 12 years: af●● his death his Kingdom was divided into t●● petty Kingdoms or Provinces: 

In 

Bremcia.  
Ada, his son, and his brothers, reigned 30 years.  
Deira.  
Ella, the son Histria, a 〈◊〉 Duke, R. 30      
Ethelfride, nephew to Ida, expelleth Ed●● son of Ella, heir of Deira, and reigneth ●●uer both Provinces 22 years:  
Edwine afterwards overthrew Ethelfride, and reign. over all 17 

Eaufride, son of Ethelfride, R. 1. y.  
Osrijc, son of Ethelfride, R. 1. 〈◊〉    
Oswald, son of Ethelfride, the Cadw●●● and was slain by Penda King of M●● he reigned over both Provinces 8 years▪  
Oswy, brother of Oswald, after Oswine slain, reigned over both the Provinces, which were never again after 〈◊〉 joined, as they had before been, 28 year● 

Oswine, son●●  
Osrijc, slain●  
Oswy, R. 8    
Egfride, son of Oswye, reigned 15 years  
Alfride, his brother, reigned 20 years.  
Osred, his son, reigned 11 years, slain  
Kenred, his Cousin, who reigned 2 years.  
Osrijc, his other Cousin, reigned 10 yearego  
Ceolf, brother of Kenred, reigned 8 yearego  
Egbert, reigned 24.  
Osulfus, reigned 1. murdered.  
Edilwald, reigned 11. slain by the Vsu●●●  
Alred who reigned 10 years.  
Edilbert, son of Edilwald, expelled    
2. Dukes 

Ethelbald, and Herebert, 

but after 10 ye●●● reign of A●● son.      
Aswald, slain by one Siga, and his bree●●●  
Osred, that reigned 1 year: expelled, reigned again many years, etc.  
But the Northumber's sore vexed by these 〈◊〉 other intestine wars of their Kings or Du●● and also by the Danes, submit to Egbert. Circa Anno 820.  
● The Kingdom of the East Saxons, A. 527. under Erchenwine, who reigned 60 years.  
●●dda, his son, reigned 17.  
●●●ert, his son, reigned 13.  
●●●red, his son, ●●●red, his brother,  
●●●bald, his brother,  
Paruus●nne ●nne of Sew●rd, ●●●bert, son of ●●igebald.  
●deline.  
●●gaire. son of ●●igebert' Paruus. ●●lbius, Associate of Sigaire.  
●●●gard, and Sew●●●red, sons of ●●elbius, and 〈◊〉 son of Sigaire, from,— Anno 617. ●●●ill— Anno 717. 

R. all of them 100 years    
●●●red, son of Sige●●●t, reigned 38 years.  
〈◊〉 then followed ●●●thelwald, Albert, ●●ena, and Suthred, vanquished by Egbert, ●●●f west Saxons, having ●eigned there till the year 800, or after ut dicitur.  
5. The Kingdom of East Angles, began An. 492. under Vffa, of whom his Successors were called Vffing: he reig. 7 years.  
Tytullus, his son, R. 20.  
Redwald, his son, R. 25. he aided Edwine of Northumberland, against Ethelfride.  
Eorpwald, his son, R. 12.  
Sigebert, his brother, who founded Cambridge, and  
Edrike, his cousin, R. 60. y.  
Anna, son of Ewide, brother of Redwald, R. 20 years: All these three last Kings were slain by Penda of Mercia.  
Adilherus, brother of Anna, slain by Oswy, with Penda, R.  
Edilwald, his brother, R. 9  
Aldulf, sons of Adilhere Reign 25. Eluold, 12. Hisbern, or 26. Beornas,   
Edilred, a good Prince, reigned 52 years.  
Ethelbert, his son, about An. 790. a very godly Prince, treacherously slain by Offa King of Mercia; whose Lands taken by Offa with the Kingdom of Mercia, came to the west Saxons Crown, & Egberts' hands, about Anno 827.  
6. The Kingdom of the South Saxons began A. 478 the first of all the other kingdoms next to the Kingdom of Kent, in Hengists' life-time, under Ella, who reigned 36. years.  
Cissa, his son, who builded Chichester, reigned 76. years.  
After them Edilwalcus, reigned 25 years.  
Berthunus, & Anthynus, were slain by Cedwalla, K. of west Saxons, and Aldwyne by his Successor Ina; so this Kingdom came first of all the rest into the west Saxons hands: Circa Annum 713.  
7. The Kingd. of west Saxons began, A. 499. under Cerdic, who reigned, or was in Britain, 27.  
Kenrik, his son, R. 25. v.  
Ceauline, his son, R. 33 y. dyeth in exile.  
Celrijc, his grandchild by Cutwyne, reigned 5 years.  
Ceolfus, son of Cutha brother of Ceauline, reigned 12.  
Cunegulf, son of Ceola, son of Cutha, brother of Ceauline, reigned 31 years.  
Guthred, son of Guicheline, son of Kingulf, R. 3 years.  
Kenwal●, son of Kingulf, r. 30 Sexburga his wife, R. 1 y. Elckwyne and Centwyne, sons or nephews of Kingulf, r. 11.  
Cedwalla, nephew to Cutwine, reigned but 3 years and went to Rome.  
Ina, his cousin, reigned 37 y.  
Ethelard, reigned 14 years.  
Cuthred, reigned 17 years.  
Sigebert, reigned 1 year.  
Kenulf, R. 29. slain by Cyneard one of the blood Royal.  
Brytricus, poisoned by his wife Eadburga, reign. 17 y.  
Egbert, who before had been a petty King among the west Saxons, and fled into France for fear of Brytricus, recalled, was made King, A. 802.  
He reduced all the Kingdoms to one, under his obedience, and reigned 37 years.  
3. The union of the seven Kingdoms of the Saxons under the west Saxon King Egbert, into Monarchy again, who at a general Council, or Parliament, assembled at Winchester, Anno— caused himself to be crowned King over all the seven Provinces; and by his Edict-Royall, commanded the land to be called from thenceforth Engla-Lond, as the Saxons write, and as we pronounce England: he reigned 37 years, and died about, Anno 839. first King of England, he also subdued the Danes, Wales, and a part of Scotland.    

 
HENGIST and HORSUS, Britons harms,  
Their Ensigns signing both their names,  
The Saxon Horse their Arms,  
Brave warriors hither came.  
Whose mighty stock,  
Like Hydra bud,  
So huge a flock  
Of Saxon brood;  
That Britain bends  
To th' Pagan force,  
But late as friends  
Called to their shores.  
Kent first, her Kings,  
West- Saxons then,  
And Sussex sings  
As Essex men:  
East- Angles, and  
Northumber's wild;  
Last Merken-land  
Greatest Kingdom styled.  
So while these reign,  
Britons race fails:  
When Welsh-men fain,  
Fly into Wales,  
Leave Albion's fair  
And best parts free  
To th' Foe, to rear  
Their Heptarchye;  
Which flourished long with fame  
Till EGBERTS' warlike force  
Brought all to one; and England names,  
Fair speed to th'honoured Saxon Horse.   


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode septima, Inscripta HENGISTUS.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Septima septenis sub Regibus Anglica vixdùm,  
Oda regi recitat Regna, Britanna cadunt!  
Egbertus, tot sceptra tamen, coalescere in unum  
Rex west-Saxo facit, iamque monarcha gerit.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Institutum Odae, & Prooemium.  
ILle ego qui Samothem, 
Series Poematis, sive materiarum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Albiona, immaneisque Gigantes  
Brutum Brytannis, cecini, agminaque Italain oris;  
jam venio ad parteis Anglorum, & saxons Anglis  
Vicinos, primumque in littora nostra vocatos,  
Rege iubente, rudeis contra hostilesque tumultus,  
Gentis Hyperboreae, Pictûmque Scotûmque rapinas.  
Quaesitos igitur toties, totiesque negatos,  
Numine Phoebeis, 
Praesentis instituti Exegesis.  primos ostendere fonteis,  
Saxonici illustris generis, concedite vati  
Vestro, augescentis florescere germen honoris,  
Percupienti; & tandem archaia, arcana reclusa,  
Pandite Daedaliae nobis Oracula Divae.  
Sic ego, sic Britoneses, Iuitae, Angli, saxons, omnes,  
Florea serta simul, sollemni more feremus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Anglum, & Saxonicae gentis, ut & nominis Origo.  
SAxones à Sacis, ducunt sua stemmata; Sacae,  
Sarmatiam coluêre, Getae iuga Pontica; Iuitae  
Dicti, 
Vbi primùm,  ac terra illis concessa est Cymbrica sedes;  
Vicinae heic gentes! cum juitis Saxonas olim,  
Periustrasse ferunt, pandis freta caeca Cyulis;  
Hos praedae intentos contra, tumidosque furores,  
Saxonicae Comites orae instituere Quirites;  
E contrà, 
S●xonum Archaiologia & 〈◊〉 exquiritur,  hos Comites sibi Vortiger evocat! Atquî,  
Vimine texebant puppeis, alnosque cavatas,  
Flumina senserunt; direptaque terga iwencûm,  
Fluctibus insiliunt ratibus velamina pandis.  
Vix Venetus stagnante Pado, ceu Saxo furenti  
Navigat Oceano! talem videt Indus in alueo,  
Saurobatis perhibent contextam vimine Cymbam,  
Primùm ubi Semiramis summo fluitantia malo,  
Caeruleis Regnis victricia signa leuârat.  
Vtcunque hos primùm video esse necesse fateri,  
Sarmatiam, aut Scythiae partem, aut confinia Sacas  
Incoluisse; Getae sedêre ad littora Ponti,  
jutae nunc dicti, & Iuit-landia, Cymbrica Nesos,  
Sedes percelebris Boreali in Cardine mundi:  
Sauromatûm & Sacûm sedem, Scythiam, Europaeamque  
Olim Sarmatiam, Poloni, alijque Polonis  
Vicini lota tota tenent; Scythiam ulteriorem, 
qui è Scythiâ forsan Europaeâ aut proximè adiacenti Asiaticâ, & Oris   
Hordae Tartaricae gentesque Hierosolymitanae;  
Suntque ingressi Europam, aiunt, Scytha, Sarmata, Sacae:  
Sacasque è Scythiâ redeunteis subripuisse  
Paulatimin Cymbriâ sedes; neque Negnone natum  
Saxona commemorem! qui certè Sassones altâ  
Chersone so primùm posucrunt maenia Cymbriâ;  
Quos medios juitasque oliminter-creuerit Anglus,  
Flens-burgum propè; quod Saxonia protulit Anglos,  
Hoc patet in linguâ niveoque colore! & ibidem  
Anglia, aiunt, vetus est, locus, & sacer angulus Anglis;  
saxons inque suâ & nostrûm linguâ, quasi Sacûm  
Progenies sonat, & nos Saxones indè vocamus:  
Sedemque Armenijs Sacas invallibus olim  
Sacacenam habuisse ferunt, magnumque Monarcham  
Ante Cyrum Sacas fugisse, Cyrumque fugasse,  
Inque vicem victum & victorem, ait invida Fama!  
Indè olim Persae, Sacaeaque festa quotannis,  
Instituunt celebri, Eustathio referente, triumpho.  
Persa Scythas quamuis uno omneis nomine Sacas, 
Perfidi vicinis oriundi, in Germaniam, exinde in Britanniam transmigrârunt:   
Saepe vocet; nosmet tamen hijsce parentibus ortos  
Scilicet è Sacis; Persisque potentibus olim,  
Contiguas habuisse domos, neque forsitan illa  
Coniectura levis, quam multa vocabulain usu  
jam nostris hodie, cumque hijs communia Persis,  
Arguerent; 
A  ijdem historijs recinentibus, Albim  
Transuecti Sueuos turbârunt, & modò Gallos,  
Et Salicam Gentem, delataque postea ad illas  
Gens Anglûm recolit dictas de nomine sedes.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
saxons à Vortigerno accersiti, praemijs, & praedijs donati.  
VOrtiger Imperio ac sceptris velut ante receptis,  
Circumlustranteis pandis freta caeca Cyulis, 
Vortigerno, sc. evocati; qua oblata occasione cum   
saxons accersit sibi, praesidiaria, turbas  
Hostileis contrâ, socia agmina, Scoto-Hybernûm;  
Namque ferunt Britonesque feros, in montibus olim,  
Finibus expulsos Italo regnante per urbeis,  
Secessu è longo, extremique Aquilonis ab Axe  
Agresteis homines, Dumisque horrentibus ortos,  
Pingendi Pistos prisco de more vocatos,  
Affore & antiquis sibi reppetere Arua Colonis  
jure sua! Hybernis, turmisque Scotûm inter-mixtis;  
Odêrunt quippe Britoneses, cane peius & Angue,  
Italionatos, antiquior illa Brytannûm  
Veraque progenies; quanquam horrida, picta, rudisque,  
Quanquam etiam agnatos viventeis iure Quiritum;  
Vortiger hos reprimit duce Saxone; pace p●titus,  
Praemia militiae Hengisto, fatalia dona,  
Cantia rura dedit; quae Saxone Saxo replevit;  
Inque tenent hunc usque diem, pater atque nepotes.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Vortigerni & Rowennae Hengisti filiae, amores & nuptiae.  
HVic erat Hengisto, 
Duce Hengisto, ibi sedem fixêrunt; unde paulatim,  pulcherrima filia Nympha,  
Nomine dicta Ronix, alij dixêre Roennam;  
Illa adeò insigni formâ, vultuque decoro,  
Vt Venerem potuisse putes, & vincere Cygnos  
Ledaeos iurare velis, ità candida virgo  
Pectoribus niveis totum spirabat amorem,  
Qualis in Arcadiâ Phoebe, Cytheraea sub Idâ,  
Visa, vel Aurora est in vertice montis Hymetti,  
Talis erat Ronix, talem se Regis ocellis,  
Praebuit, & gestû & formae splendore superba,  
Lilia sic amicita rosis, sic vere tepenti,  
Flora rubens pratis; 
& praecipuè Rowennae gratiâ, potestas & autoritas eorum crevit, Brytannorum vero  Roseos diffundere odores  
Est quoque visa Ronix, anniverisque decore  
Florida; sic teneris, Veneres, Charitesque labellis  
Spargere: cum pendens placidè ridentis ab ore,  
In mensis medijs, Dapibus vinoque repletis,  
Vortiger immensam rapuit sub pectore flammam;  
Illic saepe animos iwenum rapuêre puellae,  
Illic Rex positis pro virgine concidit armis.  
Tum primum spumante cypho, pulcherrima Was-heil  
Instituit Regi Ronix! Rex impiger uno  
Vinum haustu veneremque simul, Lenaeum & Amorem  
Libavit! Proceres, Cives, ignobile vulgus,  
Quis credat? facti memores, hucusque quot-annis,  
Concelebrant Was-heil, & Bacchica festa coronant;  
Cum bene me, bene te, bene nos, bene vos, bene nostram  
Et dominam ingeminant, cassâque salute salutem:  
Sicubi eam visamque cupit potiturque cupitâ,  
Reginâ gnatisque tribus, vel carcere clausis  
Vel saltem spretis; ad virginis omnia nutum,  
Saxonicae genti Regni permisit habenas:  
Omnia iam poterant; & nil non Saxones audent.  
Paganos minimè passi, (sic namque vocabant  
saxons;) ulteriùs Brytanni! Rege sepulto,  
Aut vitijs quasi sopito, sibi pro patre Gnatum  
Vortimerum ex primâ statuebant coniuge Regem.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Belli inter Britannos & saxons initium, & regni Brytannici finis.  
IAmque parant miseri plusquam civilia Cives  
Bella, heu innumeros non extinguenda per annos;  
saxons à Patris, a Gnati stant parte Brytanni,  
Rexque Octam accersit & ex Scotica Orcade Ebusam;  
Spectatrix prima miserûm Deruentio cladis,  
Saxonum, & Anglorum; queis non benè fata favebant,  
Bellorumque duces, saevo periêre Duello, 
in peius in dies prolabens; ex conflictatione cum Saxone, iam hoste, turmatim, in   
Magnanimi, mutuo confossi vulnere, fratres  
Wodenî Hengisti, & Britannûm Regis; acerbo  
Funerc submersos, pulcherrima corpora bello,  
Deflerunt Briiones, & versis Saxones armis.  
saxons ac pugnis fracti cecidêre cruentis  
Rex fugit, atque penes Britones victoria mansit;  
Turbas sedatura sed ipsa Noverca, privigno  
Pocula Vortimero Medaeis miscuit herbis;  
Qno simul ablato▪ ac Hengisti fraude doloque  
Delet● fuerant proceres; Rex pace quiesset,  
Nî nova Aremoricus movisset praelia tractus;  
Nam Constantini fratres modò Regis uterque  
Uther & Aurelius socias iunxêre Phalanges;  
juraque poscebant, & pro diademate certant  
Vortigeri; 
Angliam confluente, tandem sub posterioribus Regibus  à domino quam dempserat antè coronam.  
Hisce lacessitus bellis, lassusque cruentis,  
Victori Aurelio linquens sibi debita jura  
Voriger aufugiens, Eboraci ad Moenia tendit.  
saxons Aurelius Regemque à Saxone factum  
Vortigerum insequitur, nec destitit antè ruinis  
Horum inhians, solio sese firmasset Eburno.  
Vortigerum perijsse iniectis undique flammis.  
Castro in Mont-Cloarijc dicto, prope flumina Guanae,  
Hengistumque ferunt virtute superstitis Eldol,  
Qui unus ab Ambriaco evasit stratagemate sospes:  
Vitâ Octam donatum, aiunt, Scotiamque remissum.  
Bis senos tamen Hengistum occidisse tremendo  
Marte Duces Britonum audimus; Britonesque fugasse,  
Quos domitos bello, Creisfordia vidit aperto;  
Ac tandem placida compostum pace quiesse:  
Inque vicem perhibent, Octa, Otho, Irmenricus olli  
Post successores sua Cantia Regna tenebant.  
Non tamen inficias eo, Regem quippe vocatum  
Aurelium Ambrosium, Britonum sibi splendida sceptra  
Acquisita manu, insigni virtute tueri;  
Ac laudis monumenta suae, 
Arthur● qui aliquandiu labantis patriae columen extitit, succedentibus, in nihilum recidit,  praeclara trophaea  
Relliquisse, uti Saxonico bene tincta cruore.  
Illoque extincto post bis tria lustra venenis,  
Uther successit; modò Merlinaeâ ope fratris,  
Ambrosij-buriae ad fineis, ex urbe Dablanâ  
Allata est lapidum structura, Choraea Gigantum  
Dicta! Guilo-mauro jernes, tum Saxone fusis.  
Illoque extincto post bis duo lustra veneno,  
Proximus Arthurus, Constantinusque Cadori  
Filius insequitur; Constantinoque Conanus  
Aurelius, cui Vortiporus, cui Maglonus, olli  
Cathericus, 
Et penitus evanuit.  Cadwanus ei, Cadwallo, puerque  
Qui Brito-Romanûm longo ultimus ordine Regum.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Heptarchiae, sive septem Regnorum heic Saxonicorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
SAxones interea, 
saxons autem rerum potiti, septem locis, Regna Minutula, Regno●úmve Idaeas sibi con●●nxêrunt,  Aurelio regnante & Vthero,  
Sub Ducibus, si●i, quisque suis, sua Regna parârunt;  
Diversisque locis florere Heptarchia coepit:  
Prima equidem Cantij; sed flore●tissima Merciae;  
Nerthumbriaeque fuêre, Essexiae splendida sceptra,  
East-Angliae parua, at Sussexia quam propè nulla:  
Verùm uni tibi soli omnes West-Sexia cedunt.  
Cantij erant Cantiae ditionis & Insula Vectis,  
Parentque Hengisto Hengistique nepotibus ●lim. 
quorum sc. Cantij,   
Merciae; Herefordi, fuerintque Vigorina, Glewm,  
Lectodorum, Oxonium, Staffordi, Hertfordia, Leyri  
Castra, Notinghamia, & quos Buckinghamia saltus,  
Northamptoniaque habet, Varuicum; Erythraeaque rura,  
Cestria, Salopia, Huntingdonia, Derbia, Lindum,  
Quae Trentam, 
Merciae,  & Tamisim, Sabrinae & flumina Devae,  
Prata bibunt; quaquâ vergens media Anglica tellus:  
Quas genteis Latiâ dixti fortissime Caesar  
Voce Catechlaunos, Coritanoes, atque Dobunos,  
Cornaviosque, omnes Merciae sub lege iugoque,  
Primum habuêre Cridam, & gnatos sibi postèa Reges.  
Northumbriae amplexû Lancastria 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Atque Eboracenses, 
Northumbriae,  Dunelmia, Cumbria & omnes  
Westmoriae, lateque tui Northumbria fines  
Contenti; & Regio Borealis tota, Marinis  
Scotiae Edinburgi contermina adusque fluentis:  
Ipsi, ora haec omnis, sobolique obtemperat Idae.  
Essexiae Regnum, Trinobantes Caesaris olim  
Hertfordiae partem, cum Middel-sexiam, & ipsam  
Essexiam amplectens, 
Essexiae  fuit Vffae, Vffaeque nepotum.  
East-Anglûm genteis, quos iam Norfolcia diues,  
Cantabrite, 
East-Angliae,  Suffolcia, Eliensis & Insula pavit,  
Vffa habuit; Tityla, & Titylae tenuere nepotes.  
Primos sed paucos profert Sussexia Reges,  
A Cissâ quamuis, 
Sussexiae,  Ellaque parente oriundos  
Surreiam sibi iunctam habuit Sussexia, ubi Ella,  
Primus ab Hengisto Rex: at citò postea Regnum,  
Cum West-Saxonico, perhibent, coalevit in unum.  
West-Sexiae Regnum est, Dorsetia, Danmonijque,  
Bercheria, Hamptonia, Wiltonia, amoenaque sedes  
Aestatis, 
& West-Sexiae regnorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●iue Hypotyposes carptim hic proponuntur:  satis & Cornubia clara metallis;  
Cerdicus est à quo, West-Saxones ordine longo  
Nascuntur Reges! pater Ella; a●us unde Gewisses.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Saxonum, & votum.  
NVnc Heleconiades, in tanto turbine rerum,  
Saxonieos Reges memorate, 
& eo ordine, paulo fusiùs▪ in seqq. elucidantur.  trophaeaque Divae:  
Dijs genitos equidem se oriundos Saxones omnes  
Inclamant, magno attollentes nomina fastû!  
Saturnus Seater, quocum Sol, Luna, Deaque  
Dijque dies, sacro, Hebdomadae de nomine censent;  
Mars Tuisco, 
undè  Cytheraea Frea, Geta Apollo, Thor ipse  
jupiter esse, Herm●sque adeo celebratus Odenus,  
Creditur! hinc oritur tam verè Martia proles;  
Orti à Seth, & Adam; & avi numerantur avorum.  
Cantia nunc Primâs, Regnique Metropolis olim,  
Primi Saxonici; primùm ergo canenda camoenis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Cantij Regni & Regum primorum origo, & ordo.  
Grandaevi, 
primò inter Cantios Reges tanquam omnium primos, & Vthe●um gesta,  ut perhibent, Hengistus noster Odeni,  
Progenies, Magnique Getae; modò quartus ab illo!  
Cantia Regna tenet; successit filius Octa;  
Quicum Pen-dragon exercet lachrymabile bellum,  
Rexque in praelio apud Mont-Badon concidit Octa;  
Cornubiae Ducis Igernae, ce● captus amore  
Victor utique suos minime citò Pendragon igneis  
Vicerat, 
ut & Arthurum posteà recitantur,  omnificas Merlini consulit artes;  
Mentiturque Ducis habitus, & Rege latente,  
Induit absentis praesentia Gorlois ora.  
Est locus Abrimi sinuoso in littore Ponti,  
Rupe situs mediâ, refluus quem circuit aestus,  
Fulminat heic latè turrito vertice Castrum  
Nomine Tyndagium veteres dixêre Corini:  
Hac specie tectus, hoc nomine falsus adulter,  
Tyndagel irrupit; ex illo Arthurius ingens  
Concubitu genitus; Brytannûm gloria! Cuius  
Mira frequensque canit laudes Lyra! 
cuius Arthuri sc, natale●  Martis alumni.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Tempore primorum Cantij Regum, Arthuri gesta & laudes.  
OCtae Otho successit, aiunt, Irmenricus olli  
Tempestate istâ fusis ubicunque Britannis,  
Northumbriam Ida regit, South-Saxones Ella, Gewisses  
Cerdicus, & paullò Crida posteà Merciam, & ambos  
Gnati Orientaleis Anglos & saxons Vffae:  
Haec mala tot Britonum, capita ac quae pullulat Hydra,  
Atque renascenteis vires quasi sanguine Lernae  
Debellare aggressus eras Arthurius omneis,  
Namque Scotûm turmas atque agmina Pictica Loti, 
gesta   
Cui data Connubio Arthuri soror Anna, Ducemque  
Nor danhumbrorum Colgernum Saxona, fudit,  
Bis, deciesque aiunt Anglos; viresque repressit.  
Formosam hinc Nympham Guinheram nomine dictam  
Accipit in socias sibi taedas! Scoto-Hybernis,  
Vsque metu micuêre sinus, quando algida jerne,  
Brutigenum adventu spumantem remige Tethym  
Sensit! eum norant, Islandiae, quaeque, Britanno,  
Insula in Oceano, Germani, Gallia, Gothae,  
saxons & Daci confecti caede cruenta,  
Gallia at Infidum redeunti, è transque marinis,  
Cantia Lotiden Mordredum bella fugarunt;  
Quem videt ac stratum Zephyri Cornubia limen,  
Arthurusque cadit; mutatam ubi Cambula fontis  
Naturam stupet esse sui; ceu transit inundans,  
Sanguineus torrens ripas, & voluit in aequor  
Corpora caesorum: cognatum ac perculit hastâ  
Comminus accepit lethalia vulnera Princeps;  
Mellodunusque ubi aquas confundit Dulios undis, 
Domi & foras occasus Tymbus, Gloria & Encomi●, virtutis praemia, recensentur.   
Cuius conversim per Rivos perque paludeis  
Pont-perilos recipit fluctus remeantis; in illis  
Ille locis ensem Calibur Arthurius alto  
Vulnere confossus proiecit! jamque levare  
Desierat fuso morientia membra cruore;  
Somersettiae agris! Pomorum ubi in insulâ Auallon,  
Glasconiâ tumulatus humo, iacet inclytus Hector;  
Saxonicas toties, qui fudit Marte cruent●,  
Turmas, fulmineo qui Pictos ●ontudit ense,  
Qui Scotos, Gallos; Germanos quique feroceis  
Perculit, & Dacos bello confregit aperto;  
Dum tumuli Elogium, & canet hos tibi tymbus honores,  
Perpetuo celebrata vigescent fortia facta,  
Militiae clarum decus & virtutis Alumne!  
O igitur proles Gentis generosa Brytannae,  
Ceu facitis, Regiter magno assurgite vestro,  
Et tumulo sacro R●seas inferte Corollas,  
Officij testes redolentia munera vestri.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Reliqui Reges, & regni Cantij finis.  
ARthuro extincto, simul-ac ruit omne Brytannis  
Imperiale decus, virtusque refloruit Anglis:  
Postquam lustra decem, Otho, atque Irmenricus eiu●  
Successor, rexêre, aut iam latuêre per Arua  
Cantij; Ethelbertus sequitur! pia nupserat ●lli  
Francorum Regis Chereberti filia Berta:  
jisdem Augustinus, 
Ind Cantiorum Regum, tum inter eos, pientissimi Ethelberti,  vice Apostoli, ut Angelus Anglis,  
E Coelo, Christique fidem, cum Chrismate sacro,  
Attulit in terris summum vir sanctus honorem.  
Immanis tamen huic solio Paganus in alto,  
Gnatus Eadbaldus successit; Apostata saews!  
Cui sor●r, Edwino Ethelburga pijssima Nympha,  
Northumbro, Nupta est, Christi serua optima, secum  
Paulinumque ferens & non mortalia dona.  
Olli Ercumbertus; satus illo Ecbertus; & illi  
Successor Lotherus erat; furialia bella  
Merciae Ethelredus quicum gerit! 
& Reliquorum, siqua precipua, memorantur gesta,  Edricus illum  
Filius Eeberti, belli armorumque perosum  
Cognatus perimit, solumque duo Edricus annos  
Rex, in civili simul occubat ipse tumultû:  
Tum Cedwalla potens West-Saxo, Cantia Regna  
Vast abat miserè; Cui postea visere Romam  
(Fratre sed amisso West-Saxonis antè,) volenti  
Filius Ecberti Guithredus lenijt iras,  
Immensum soluens Argenti pondus & Auri.  
Guithredus ille Edrici frater, tresque ordine Gnati,  
Pace Ethelredusque Edbertus, & Alricus almâ  
Cantia sceptragerunt, centum vel circiter annos;  
Alter & Edbertus sequitur, Cynewolfus at illum  
Deturbat solio, Rex Merciae; eique Cuthredum  
Substituit; 
ad Egberti tempora, qui sibi Cantios cum reliquis Regnis subiugavit.  perhibent, iam proximum & ultimum in isto  
Ordine successorem Alredum è limit pulsum  
Liquisse Egberto fatis sibi debita Sceptra,  
Angliaco Regi primo! cui serius uni,  
Heic omneis parere, 
Exinde  vitas & saxons; Anglûm  
Regna simul septena, audimus, sic voluere Parcas.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Merciaci regni, primorumque Regum origo & ordo.  
ETiam Merciacos mihi Musa recense Tyrannos!  
A Crida exorsi, 
Merciae Regum & inter eos praecipuè,  Guifa proximus; inde Ceorlus,  
Bellatorque potens, terrorque pudorque Brytannûm;  
Proximus ast illi successor Penda, Brytannis  
Foedere coniunctus Northumbrûm fortiter armis,  
Opposuit Regem Edwinum, Gnatosque Ceorli  
Gnatae Quinburgae Edwino prius anteà nuptae; 
Pendae,   
saxons Occiduos Bellonae turbine vexat,  
Quippe quòd indigna est iniuria lata sorori,  
Sponsae â Rege suo spretae; at pax alma secuta est.  
jamque orientalis Anglos treis ordine Reges,  
Et solio & vitâ spoliarat; denique quarto  
junctus foedere, cum socio simul occubat ipse,  
A Rege Oswio Northumbro, victus uterque;  
Occupat Osuuius Regnum, minimèque ferentes  
Aequo animo proceres, sua subdere colla Tyranno,  
Externo tanquam Merciae de sanguine creto,  
Wolpherum in Regno statuunt, 
Woferi,  Regemque salutant;  
Saxone qui fuso occiduo, Vectamque subegit,  
Quam dat Edilwalco, Regi Sussexiae! at ●lli  
Frater Edilredus successit, Cantia Rura,  
Crebris qui spoliat bellis; 
Edilredi  regnante Lothero:  
Nec minùs Egfridi Northumbrica sceptra, perempto  
Egfridi fratre Alcwino, prope flumina Trentae;  
Atquî operae-precium! Accensos in praelia Reges,  
Ecce Theodorus placat, dat Mercia D●ron:  
Wolferi at soboles simulac Rex ille cucullum  
Induerat, Diadema capit Kenredus; & olli,  
Gnatus Edilredi; quicum fera bella gerebat  
Ina! 
&  Ceolredus succedit: proximus illi,  
Ortus Ethilbaldus fratris de sanguine Pendae,  
Eopides! Wallos qui contudit atque Meatas,  
Occiduo tamen à Cuthredo Saxone fusus,  
Bernredo occisus; quem sustulit Offa tyrannum.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Regni & reliquorum Regum Merciacorum acta & exitus.  
WAlli Offa veniente tremunt, 
Offae Regis nequam gestorum Catalogus  & Cantia Regna,  
saxons occidui, & Northumbria tota tumultû;  
East-Anglûm Regem, in generum taedasque paratas,  
Conscius egregiae fraudis, scelerisque vocatum  
Interimi iubet, & Regnum rapit; at pia Nympha,  
Alfreda, heu lachrymis tumulum decorata Mariti  
Sperati, & facinus crudele exosa parentis,  
Incusans patrem, Monacham induit! Anglo-Eoûm,  
Caeso ità Ethelberto, meta haec fuit ultima Regni;  
Inque manus venit Egberti, cui Mercia venit:  
Offa utique Alcuinum, ad Carolum cognomine Magnum,  
Misit, ut illius sibi conciliaret amorem.  
Et quid non illi facanda Lutetia debes?  
Vix latuit quater, & toto quater orbe recrevit  
Luna, 
ad Egberti tempora usque protenditur, proximè  ubi post patrem cito funere raptus acerba,  
Filius Egfridus Offa satus appulit umbras:  
Succedis Cynewofe, satus de sanguine Pendae.  
Edbertum stravit, dat Cantia Regna Cuthredo;  
Quem soror & latis Quindreda reliquit in aruis.  
Confossum. Infelix sequitur puer ipse Kenelmus;  
Ind Ceolwolphus Cunewolfi frater; at illum  
Bernulph●s pellit, Regno mox pulsus & ipse,  
Fusus ab Egberto, sed ab Anglis caesus Eois;  
Et quamuis Ludicenus ei, ceu Guthlacus olli,  
Successêre, iugo tamen ambo Egbertus adegit,  
Subdere colla, sibique ratum pendere tributum  
Angliaco Regi primo: sic Fata volebant.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Regnorum Breniciae ac Deirae, Regumque Northumbrorum Origo & admodum varia successio.  
IAmque Ottadinos, dabis ordine Diua Toparchas!  
Ida regit primus Northumbros; 
Northumbriae Regum, & inter eos praecipuè celebratorum  nomine clarus,  
Regio! & imperij fineis promovit ab Humbro  
Flumine, adusque fretum Scoticum; socio agmine victis,  
L●tho Pictorum, ac Conrano Rege Scotorum;  
Intra bis senos spacium quo rexerat annos. 
Id●   
Idae Ada Breniciae; at Histriae, Rex Ella Deirae:  
Regnum Ellae cis, Adae, Scoticos tendebat in agros  
Glappa, Theodulphus, Freodulphus, Adamque secuti  
Ter modo Theodoricus denos, & Ethelricus omnes,  
Breniciam! Deiros unus rexisse tot annos,  
Dicitur Ella suos! Ellae tamen unicus haeres,  
Vix ab Ethelrici Ethelfrido, 
Ellae,  tutore maligno,  
Euadens sospes, Redovaldi Regis, & oras  
East-Anglum venit Edwinus; charissimus olli!  
Cuius ope fretus solio sceptrisque potiri  
Bello Ethelfridum aggreditur, sternitque furentem;  
Quanquam & pace forent firmata sibi omnia, postquam  
Imperij extendens fineis, 
Ethelfridi,  Britonesque fugara●,  
Et Scotum Ethelfridus, Pictumque & ab Orcade Regem;  
Quo caeso, in Scotiam se proripuêre tenelli,  
Quinque cius Gnati, Don-Waldi Regis ad aulam,  
Osricus, Oswaldus, Eufridus, Oswius, Offa,  
Ebbaque virgo soror! Longè hic Scotica aura & Hybernas  
Ebrides imperio adiecit; pulchrâque Ceorli  
Merciaci ex Gnatâ Quinburgâ, mascula bina,  
Nata sibi soboles; Gnataeque ex coniuge binae,  
Cantia Ethelburgâ! 
Edwini,  quae Christum, candida Nympha,  
Attulerat secum dotem, & coelestia dona:  
Primùm ibi tum fundata fides, & Cantia sedes,  
Aemulam habet Famae mater sanctissima gnatam,  
Inuidet Edwino infaelix West-Saxo Ceolphus,  
Interimique cupit, bello tamen occubat ipse.  
Penda sed & Britonum Princeps Cadwallinus, armis  
Edwinum & Gnatos Quinburga ex coniuge caedunt,  
Offredum, Edfredumque: Offredum cum patre aperto  
Marte, 
sanctissime  aliumque datae violato faedere pacis:  
Queis caesis, misera Ethelburga in Cantia Rura,  
Heu virgo infelix, natis comitata duabus,  
Venit Eadbaldum ad fratrem, transfixa dolore,  
Et teneram prolem externas pia mater in oras  
Misit, ubi aethereis desiêrunt vescier auris.  
Breniciae ac Deirae, Eufridus & Osricus Accâ,  
Sponsa Ethelfridi, Edwinique sorore creati,  
Regna adeunt; ab Adâ veniunt, & ab Histriâ & Ellâ;  
Finibus è Scotiae reduces! sed concidit Osrijc,  
Concidit & positis, Wallo Duce, Eufridus armis.  
Tertius Oswaldus venit acrem infensus in hostem  
Vlturus Fratreis crudelia vulnera passos;  
Conuersam in cin●res patriam, charosque Penateis.  
Est locus; Oswaldi, Heauen feildia nota trophaeis,  
Dictus, ubi caedit victor, domuitque Britannos:  
Neu Britonum ignoras O Denisbornia clades,  
Rex ibi Saxonicis Cadwallinus occidit armis;  
Quem sequeris Britonum Cadwallader ultime Regum. 
Oswaldi.    

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Oswaldi pientissimi regis gloria, & nepotum gesta.  
POsteà pacificus sine caede aut sanguine Pictos,  
Continuitque Scotos, Britannos, saxons omnes,  
Foedere; Brenicios simul unanimique Deiros,  
Pace suos! queis vixdum animis concordia concors:  
Pacis amans, summa pietate insignis, egenis  
Dans Elcemosynas largis, manibusque quod aiunt,  
Ambabus, populo Ecclesias, donaria templis;  
Haud secùs ac Anius, Rex ille, Deique Sacerdos.  
Rex ipse Oswaldus sacer interpresque Deorum;  
Quando ex Aidani venerandi praesulis ore,  
Verba sacra excerpens, 
Regis honoratissimi, & Oswij gesta, ac  populi spargebat in aures.  
Tandem Merciacus multâ feritate tyrannus  
Saews, & immanis Christiani nominis hostis,  
Oswaldum superat Penda, & transmisit ad umbras:  
Osrici at Oswino, Oswalditam Deira nepoti  
Obtigit, Oswio, Oswaldi Brenicia fratri;  
Atque ita Brenicios inter-cidit atque Deiros,  
Schisma iterum; quanquam, non multùm ità postea capto,  
Caesoque Oswino, Oswium penes utraque mansit,  
Breniciae Deiraeque simul Provincia: Pendae  
Oswius bellumque movet; belloque peremit;  
Datque Peda Pendae Gnato, pro coniuge Gnatam,  
Australemque plagam Merciae; sibi caetera victor,  
Rettinuit, moriensque Egfrido sceptra relinquit;  
Gnato, â Merciacis victo, Pictisque peremt●;  
Qui sponsae, florens quamuis iwenilibus annis,  
Virgineam haud soluit Zonam, Monachamque remisit:  
Frater at è gelidis rediens Elfridus Hybernis,  
Ad cultum ingenij capiendum eousque profectus;  
Succedit: sequiturque Osredus filius, ●lli,  
Cognati Kenredus & Osricus; inde Ceolphus,  
Egbertusque pius, Monachi ambo, Deoque dicati;  
Egbertoque satus, turbisque excisus Osulphus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Regni Northumbrici per bellicas turbas dissipatio.  
NOrthumbris ubi iam discordia turpis oriri  
Coepit, Eidwaldus cadit, Alredusque Tyrannus;  
Factus Ethelbertus bis Rex totiesque reiectus, 
postremò turbae civili odio defl●gran●ium, ad Egberti ufque tempora, facinora explicantur,   
Oswaldus, fraterque Osredus eosque secuti,  
Post Alfwoldum Ardulphus, & isto turbine, fato,  
Aut pulsi, aut capite plexi, cecidêre tremendo,  
Omnes postremi Reges: uti Sceptra iacebant,  
Visa Seianeio magis infortuna Caballo  
Quando duces inter, multos viduata per annos  
Regibus; ut praeda infestis Northumbria Dacis,  
Occubuit, sua fatagemens crudelia; cumque  
Bella cient miseri, plusquam civilia cives.  
Quis cladeis etenim miseras, quis funera fando,  
Explicet, aut possit lachrymis aequare dolores?  
Sylva nemusque omnis, deiectis frondibus arbos,  
Aethereus montium tractus, scit & ardua rupes,  
Quos gemitus; qualeisque Tigreis, rapidosque Leones,  
Posse movere putes, silices adamantaque durum,  
Instar Arioneae citharae! 
Deinde  Egbertoque movente  
Praelia, Palladios pacis praetendere ramos,  
Legatos mittunt, Regemque uno ore salutant;  
Et quanquam Egberto incipiunt pendere tributum,  
Vix tamen à Dacis, tutos fore, fata ferebant.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Essexiae Regnum; & Regum series.  
NVnc claros mihi Pande tuos Essexia Reges;  
Et primus magno venit Erchenwinus ab Vffâ, 
Essexiae Regum, inter quos Erchenwinus primus,   
Sledda deinde, sacroque Sebertus chrismate tinctus,  
E Sleddâ satus ille fuit, Riculaque sorore,  
Cantij Ethelberti; sceptrisque inglorius haeres,  
Serredus; sequiturque nepos cognomine Paruus  
Atque alter Sigebertus; eumque subinde secuti  
Suithelinus, simulac Regni socioque Sigerus  
Cum Selbio, Monachum induto, Gnatisque Sigardo,  
Seufredoque suis; 
Offa pijssimus habentur,  multumque pijssimus Offa,  
Vrbis visendae studio, veniaeque petendae  
Romam primâ aetate profectus, ibique sepultus.  
Offae Celredus perhibent, successeraet olli  
Clarus Edilwaldus; Alberto, Vmbêna; cadebat,  
Regum East-Saxonicâ supremus ab arce Suthredus, 
Egbertum ●sque catalogus perducitur, sed &   
Qui West-Saxonico linquens sua Regna tyranno,  
Cesserat Egberto! longè cui Martia virtus,  
Sic micuit reliquos inter, sociosque Dynastas  
Vndique vicinos; quos iam malè fata fovebant,   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
East-Angliae sive Angliae Regnum orientalis & Regis.  
NEc minus O recine Alma tuos East-Anglia Reges; 
East-Angliae Reges recensen, tu●, 〈◊〉 quos Vffa primus   
Exoritur magno, primoque Tytullus ab Vffâ,  
Filius huic Redoualdus erat, qui flebile bellum  
Movit Ethelfridum contrâ. Edwinoque fauêbat;  
Ol●● Forpwaldus; Sigebertus proximus; illo,  
Plurima patrono sibi Cantabrigia gaudet: 
Sigebertus Cantabrigiae sundator cla●●simus,   
Tresque adeò à Pendâ saevo, veluti ordine Reges  
Continuo occisi, prior hic ingressus Eremum,  
Cognatusque Edricus, nec fortunatior Anna;  
Hosque secutus Edilherus dat sanguine poenas  
Cum Pendâ Osuu●, Christi pro Dogmate spreto.  
Ordine Edilwaldus sequitur; succedit Adulphus, 
Ethelbertus ultimus ab Offa Merciae Tyrannoc● cumuentus: qui East-Ang●●r regnum occupavit; & successores ambo, Egberto relinquunt.   
Gnatus Adilheri; Eluoldusque, illisque Beornas;  
Clarus Edilredus, & chara pro coniuge ab offâ  
Caesus Ethelbertus, Rex ultimus Anglo-Eoûm.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Sussexiae Regnum, & siqui supersunt Reges.  
IAm paucos numerare potes Sussexia Reges:  
Saxonum ab adventu, vix dum trigesimus annus.  
Voluitur, ac solio regnantem viderat alto,  
Austri Ellam plaga! Plettigero, Cissâ, atque Cymene, 
Ind Sussexiae pauci qui sunt Reges & gesta recitantur.   
Cum gnatis tribus; egregijs, Rex ille Britannos,  
Afflixit damnis; successit Cissa parenti,  
Eius Cissan Cestria opus: West-Saxone cuncti  
Posteâ Edilwalcus, mox & Berthunus, Athuno  
Cum socio caesi à Cedwalla, Aldwinus ab Inâ:  
Hos West-Saxonici primùm absorpsere Tyranni,  
Mox Reliquos: 
Vltimo  quos Musa olim memorate Monarchas.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Dynastiae & regum West-Saxonum historia.  
CErdicus est, 
West-Saxonum Regum & inter eos claridimorum, praecipuè,  à quo, West-Saxones ordine longo  
Nascuntur Reges! Britoneses, serò advena ab axe  
Zephyreo eiecit; sobolesque huic Kenricus, olli  
Rexque Ceaulinus, 
Cerdici,  ferus hostis uterque Brytannis:  
jisque Ceaulini frater Cutha, tristia beila  
Intulit, & villas rapuit, domuitque feroceis;  
Treisque fudit Britonum Reges! 
Ceaulini,  at Regia proles,  
Cutwinus tamen occubuit, Regni unicus haeres:  
Illiusque patris vice filius, ortus ab illo,  
Celricus exuli avo successit; eique Ceolphus;  
Cuius in Edwinum mala Machina, se opprimit ipsum!  
Succedit Cynegillus ei Ceolaeque Cuthaeque  
Filius, hic Ceolae ipse Cuthae: Kenovalchius olli;  
Armat in exitium sibi, vindictamque sororis,  
Spretae, iras iustas Pendae; mediante sed Annâ,  
East-Anglo, sponsamque & pristina regna re●epit!  
Septra gerit Segburga manu, moriente marito:  
Posteaque egregij luuenes, Elewinus, & alter,  
Centwinus Cuthwino orti; domat ille Britannos,  
Merciacos prior. Et post hos Cedwalla, reversus  
Exilio, 
Ceadwallae,  invidiam propter quo missus abijsset,  
Ipse etiam Cuthwino ortus! temerarius ausu,  
Primus Edilwalkus, mox & Berthunus Athuno,  
Cum socio, heic fusi, Sussexiae utrique Tyranni;  
jamque feris bellis vastabat Cantiae Regna,  
Cum tamen à Cantio, amisso sed fratre Molone,  
Pacatus grandi nummorum pondere cessit;  
Sceptris substituens Inam! Romamque profectus  
Sacro ubi chrismate eum tinxit, 
Inae,  Petrumque vocavit,  
Sergius Antistes, sanctâ iacet urbe sepultus.  
Fusoque Alwino, Regnum Sussexiae in unum  
Cum West-Saxonico coalescere, Cantia fecit  
Regna suo subiecta iugo, pendere tributum,  
Atque Ceolredum! & Wellijs, iam pace potitus  
Sanctorum Monumentum ingens Rex Ina laborum,  
Condebat templum; Benedictinisque celebre  
Coenobium Monachis, cum praedia templaque ponit;  
Olim ubi Glasconiae, fore Arymathiense sacellum,  
Fama refert, Christi, velantis syndone corpus:  
Dormieruntque Deo, Rex Romae ingressus eremum,  
Berchyngaeque domi, Ethelburga pijssima coniux.  
Successêre Ethelardus ei, domuitque rebellem  
Oswaldum; Cuthredus ei, domuitque ferocem  
Merciae Edilwaldum; primo Sigebertus at anno,  
Turbatus solio; 
Brytrici,  fususque Kenulphus ab Offâ,  
Posteaque à Regum Cyneardo è sanguine creto,  
Caesus, & occisore suo comitatus ad umbras.  
Ind salutatus fuerat Rex Brytricus! olli,  
Valde suspecta est, orti de sanguine Regum,  
Egbertivirtus! suspectam Galliae in oras,  
Cogit in exilium; fato cedente sed ipso,  
Hunc omnes reducem expectant, Regemque salutant.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Egberti Regnum & cum unione 7. regnorum gesta florentissima.  
MErciacos statim aggressus, 
Egberti gesta celebrantur,  Wallosque rebelleis,  
Ambos West-Saxo, & sibi Cantia Regna iugavit;  
Ind Orientaleis, devicto Rege Suthredo,  
saxons imperio adiecit; sed & Anglo-eoos,  
Merciaco, spretoque ingo, stratoque tyranno  
Bernulpho, ad se ultrò venienteis, omine perquàm  
Fatidico recipit: Ludicenus & Vthlacus olli  
Merciaci Reges succumbunt; praelio uterque  
Ille occisus, & hic iuga sub seruilia missus.  
jamque Ottadinos contà conversus, Oliuâ  
Palladiâ circùm redimitos tempora, 
utique eiusdem Egberti operâ, Danorum tunc saevientium profli●t●atio, &  amicè  
Legatos recipit, Rexque ipse receptus ab illis;  
Et sibi promittens tutelam, è limine toto,  
Dispulit, 
Heptarchiae, septem scil. Regnorum in unam politeian reductio,  & bello Dacos confregit aperto;  
Tunc Northumbriacis solum quasi finibus hostem  
Totius A●bionis miserandam posteà pestem.  
Vicit & Ordouices velut antè Silures, & urbem  
Carleon ad flumen Devae: sic Cantia rura,  
Mercia, Northumbri, Walli, Anglo-Saxones omnes,  
Vni iam parent Egberto; Florida rerum  
Angliacarum erat haec facies! Heu parcere Parcas,  
Indocileis divas, atque invida fata! paterent,  
Quorsùm ea Normannûm spolijs Danûmque rapinis?  
Wintoniamque regressus, ubi proceresque Ducesque  
Hospitio excipiens laetos per cuncta benig nè  
Concilio indicto, 
undè ab ipso, gen●re Anglo,  Diademate clarus & auro,  
Totius Albionis nostrae, Rex inde creatur.  
Totam etiam illius, quae dicitur Anglia, partem  
Publico eam edicto, iussit, sermone vocari  
Saxonico Engla-lond; 
Anglia & Angli, Edicto eius publico, nomen suum, & eo cum Oda haec finem, sortiuntur.  nostro contractiús England;  
Rex West-Saxo, genus ducens Egbertus ab Anglis.  
Anglis sic effulsit honos, quo tempere primùm,  
Desijt Heptarchia, florere Monarchia coepit.  
Odae septimae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION,  
Entitled HENGIST. The seventh Ode,  
THE ARGUMENT.  
Seven Saxon Kings this seventh Ode tells,  
And Hengist how, against Pictish pride,  
By Britons called in, both expels,  
And Conquerour-like their Lands divides:  
But Egbert brought all Crowns to one,  
Erecting new styled England's Throne.  

CANT. I.  
The scope proposed of this present Ode.  
I That late sung, 
Synchronismus sive computatio Annorum.  in humble strain, 
Supplementum Historiae.   
Samothes, Albion, Brute, Romans train;  
Sing now the warlike English, and  
Saxons near kin, Kings of this Land,  
Called in by Vortiger, t'oppose  
Picts rapines first, and other foes!  
Whose Ancestors and Gentry's ground  
Not so rare sought, as seldom found,  
Deign, gentle Phoebus, to rehearse,  
And be thou Patron of my Verse:  
Brits then, juits, Saxons, we and they,  
Will deck thy shrine, with Garlands gay;  
So honouring thee, that honour'st them  
With Blazon of their Royal stem.   

CANZ. II.  
A summary discovery of the Saxons original and honourable antiquity.  
FRom Sacae comes the Saxons name,  
The Sacae they from Scythia 
* All those Country's East and North, Sarm●tia, Polonia, Moscovia, Tartary, etc. were anciently called Scythia, the hithermost Europaea, the other Asiatica; like as the southeast Countries, all India's: the Southern termed Lybia's.  came,  
Inhabiting erst Sarmatia, where,  
The Pontic Geteses, near neighbours were;  
And now, since placed in Cymbrike 
a Cymbrica, Chersonesus, Denmark, and a great part of Scandia.  seats,  
As nigh been set, the juites or Geteses;  
And roving since, Romans against these  
Set th'earls of Saxon shores, and 
b Comites Saxonici littoris; such was Carausius.  seas:  
Though roving so, Vortiger, he prayed,  
Against Picts, and Scots, these Pirates aid,  
Whose boats of so small bulk, to row,  
Venice scarce would venture on her Poe;  
As these compact of twigs of willows,  
Covered with skins, to cut salt b●llowes;  
Much like Saurobates Indian fleet,  
Semiramis did in triumph meet:  
First sea-fight first time land-reft woods  
Seem quarrel on famed Indus floods.  
These Saca's son's their Scythian style,  
Inhabiters of the Scandian 
c Scandia and Scandinavia, are all those Countries called North of Germany, Prussia, and Polonia, which the Danes, juits, Swedians, Norway's, and their Northerly neigbhours do inhabit.  I'll,  
Saxons and modern jutes; old Geteses,  
For juit-land and their Cymbrian seats;  
Left their erst home, more eastern site,  
To th' Pol●, 'tis thought or Moscovite;  
Perhaps, Tartarian Hordes! say 
d Where the Hordes have names of Assareth, Danitae, and the like, as if derived from the tribes of Israel, carried that way captive by Salmanasat beyond Babylon.  some,  
That from fair Zion's Towers did come.  
Geteses, Goths, jutes, Saxons, all sat in  
The Baltique sea-coast, all near kin,  
And midst these juites and Saxons, near  
Flensburge, old Anglia's found we 
e The place from whence the Angles, Angli, or English took their name, situate between Flensbuge and the flood Sly, whereon Sleswike standeth, from which place came those people's, called Saxons or English, or English Saxons, saith Ranzovius.  here,  
What need's then, seek th' English to bring,  
From other, than the Saxon spring;  
Whose manners, beauty, speech and guise,  
Betrays it! nor need they devose,  
Negnon's Saxo, or other 
f Saxo is said to be the son of N●g●o, who was brother of Vandalus, of whom, according to some, the Vandals were named.  grace,  
Then their true ancient Saca's race,  
Which Saca's sons spoke short and 
g 
Sac's sons, is Saxons: x. valuing c. s. They were also anciently written Sal●ones, with ss. Verstegan will not allow of this, but will have them called Seaxen or Seaxes, of their skeynes they used to w●are, as we call Lances, Carabines, Pikes, Muskets, the bearers of those weapons, so these for distinction sake, named of their Seaxen, as the Verse goeth,  
Quip brevis gladius apud illos Saxa vocatur,  
Vnde ●uum nomen Saxo traxisse putatur. And the like of this he urgeth of the Gallowglasses in Ireland.   round,  
Saxons, their very name doth sound:  
And in th' Armenian bounds was seen  
Saca's old City Sacacene;  
Where conquering Cyrus, conquered oft,  
Was lastly by Thomyris scoffed:  
For Persians they promiscuously,  
Sacae, and Scythians call; 
h As it may be seen in Eustathius Commentaries upon Dionysius, de Situ, or descripcione Orbis.  whereby,  
Triumphs memorizing Scythian gests,  
Been named by them Sacaean feasts.  
More to confirm this our assertion  
Of their so bordering on the Persian,  
Travelers and skilful Linguists may  
Gather from their speech, good proofs, they 
i Having been neighbour Nations; many of their words, as Feadar, Madar, Breadar, Doctear, Star, Bawd, for father, etc. and the very Idiom, like, or the same; which may argue their original from thence.  say!  
So thence, first Germany, now longwhile,  
Since have they held fair Albion's Isle.   

CANZ. III.  
Their calling in and first plantation here under Vortiger.  
VOrtiger, 
Vortiger, Anno Christo 447. reigned first 7. years, afterwards 12. years or mo●t.  as was before set down,  
Having by fraud gained Britain's Crown,  
Called in these Saxons t'help 
* The Saxons to the number of 9000. came in certain long Vessels they called Keels, with their Leaders, two brothers, Hengist & Horse, nobly descended, whose ensign, as was an usual and honourable device of antiquity, alluded to their names (Hengst, signifying a stoned horse; Horse, as the word importeth) their Banner, being a white or silver Horse, in a field Gules, Arms which the noblest Families of Saxons, and other thence descended, have borne.  with stand  
Irish, Scots, and Picts, that spoiled the Land;  
Some holden th'ancient Britons race,  
When Roman Lords reigned in their place,  
Retired to Scotland's Mountains 
h As being not Romanized; for it was Agricola's policy to have had the Britons brought up after the Latins fashion, so to have them more tractable, and leave their rudeness.  wild,  
And Irish Orks, thence been Picts styled,  
Because they, as they used, e'er  
Since Caesar's days, bepainted 
i Who reported this their guise; that they died themselves with w●ad, of a wan and bluish colour, to make themselves seem more terrible in battle, the hair they ware being long, but shaved all saving the head and upper lip: then taking their name of Britt's or Britons, of their own word Brit, from their painting, since Picti of the Latins, as on like occasions Longa-bardi of their long beards; Gallia togata and Braccata, with the peoples of their habit there, wearing Togae and Braccae, took their name.  were,  
Notes of their Gentry such! this wise,  
Retaining still th'old Brytons guise;  
Hating th' Italianate new brood,  
As we say, worse, than Turk or Toad!  
Proud of their painting! none true Britons,  
Else held; most painted, so most Great-ones.  
Vortiger repressed these Picts rude trains,  
By th' Saxons aid; and for his 
k The Saxons had only the I'll of Thanet first given them, where they first landed, and whither Vortimer afterwards chased them out of the rest of the Land, till he and the Barons were slain, than Hengist bade all Kent assigned him, Geffrey of Monmouth saith, Vortiger first gave him ground to build a Castle, so much as could be composed in a thong of a Bull's skin, which is Thong-Castle by Sittingbourne in Kent.  pains,  
Gave Hengist Kent, 
Hengist began his reign 8. years after his first arrival, about Anno 456 he reigned 34. years.  whose sons, they say,  
Held since, and hold it to this day.   

CANZ. FOUR  
Vortiger taking Rowen, Hengists' Daughter, to wife more establisheth the Saxons power and authority, whereat the Britons repine.  
But fairest Rowen, Hengists' Imp,  
Some call her Ronix, beauteous Nymph,  
Whose rarest parts, so ravishing are,  
As one would swear, were no compare,  
Like Leda's Swans; and Venus Doves,  
The Queen of soft and wanton loves;  
Or else fair Lilies; mix with those,  
The orient beauties of the Rose,  
When Zephir's gentle breath makes sweet  
Th'air, and strew's flowers at Flora's feet.  
So sweet was Rowen, fair her face,  
Such Nymph-like gate, and goddess grace,  
Her Springtime fresh, and gallant youth  
So lively blooms, and lovely shew'th:  
That but her Peers on Ida's green,  
Cynthus e'er or Arcadia seen;  
Less wonder then, that one so 
* By her means the Saxons chiefly got the great favour and sure footing in the Laud, as well as by their favour in repulsing the Picts, and other enemies.  sweet,  
At feasts where Love and Bromius meet,  
Should snare the King! unwares so ta'en,  
took many a heedless youth their bane.  
This gallant Dame, with courtly grace,  
Was-heall mine Liege, they say her phrase,  
Drank to the King; who pledged so deep,  
That love his senses lulled asleep;  
And Venus with Vines-bloud he reached,  
Love and Lenaeus, at one draught.  
Was-heill 
a Wassail, or 〈…〉, wa●s heal hlaford Gyning, 〈◊〉 in Saxon, ●e of health Lord King, to which the King directed by his Interpreter, answered, Drinke-heall, or Drink health; whence the like words of health, and especially wassail, may well be supposed to take original.  perhaps ta'en up from hence,  
In City, Court, and Country since,  
Health's plied so round, till quaffing healths  
To Mistress fann's, craze healths and wealths.  
The King bewitched, as 'twere and thrall,  
For Rowens 
b The King for her sake divorced himself from his lawful wife, by whom he had three sons, for which cause most of the Britons forsook him.  sake abandons all,  
Spouse, Sons, Friends; Saxons only guide,  
The State, that rues their Pagan pride;  
Which made the Britons in disgrace,  
Make his first wife's son, King in's 
c Vortimer, at which accidents, and by the counsel of the good Archbishop Vodinus, of London; Vortiger lamenting his ill acts and life; Hengist perceiving it, sl●e the said Vodinus, the 13. and last Archbishop of that See, and defaced and spoilt all the Churches and religious houses in Kent.  place.   

CANZ. V.  
War's flaming between the Saxons and Britons, Vortiger is dispossessed of the Kingdom.  
ANd now began that mortal feud, 
Vortimer, son to Vortiger, by his former wife, began, An. 454. & was poisoned by Rowen, his stepmother, having reigned 6. years.   
Many years assuaged not, nor much blood▪  
That 'twixt Britons and Saxons here  
Endured above a thousand year.  
Octa and Ebysse, sent for from th' Ork,  
At Derwent made first woeful 
* The second battle was fought at Crocan-ford, or Craford in Kent; the third at Weppeds' Fleet; a fourth at Colmore.  work:  
In King and Hengists' aid; these done  
Defend the Sire, Bryttons the son.  
In this first fight their bane, brave 
e Horsus, Hengists' brother, & Cattigern, Vortimers: whose tombs are showed; Horsus, at Horsteed, within two miles of A●glesthorpe, or AElsford in Kent, where, some say, the battle was fought, and the inhabitants affirm, Horsus was there slain. And at the same AElsford, is also showed a monument, which the people call corruptly, Citt's Cattihons', very likely to be● Cattigernes  Dukes  
Vortimers and Hengists brothers took,  
But Saxons faylled, and were o'er awed,  
Till Vortimer fell by Rowens fraud,  
And Hengist the Welsh Barons slew,  
Whose fate, strange Stonedge stones yet 
f The hanging stones on Salisbury Plains, near Amsbury, or Ambresbury, where the chiefest Brytons being invited to a feast or parley, being a watchword given by the Saxons, Nimen eot Seaxen, which is, take your Sexes, with short skeynes ●id under their clothes, 300. or more of the Brytons Nobility were slain, and that monument there erected by Merlin's art, in remembrance of the same.  show.  
Then Vortiger had gained rest, but for  
Fresh broils from th' Aremorique shore,  
The last slain King Constantius brothers,  
Uther and Aurelius, no more smother  
Their title, hoping t'have the Crown,  
And Vortigern, and Hengist down;  
Vortiger even weary of all 
f Of Vortigers flying into Wales building has Castle, the lo●g let of the same, his Prophet Me●line, and the Fairy; Geffrey of Monmouth and others speak many and miraculous things.  wars,  
Calling to mind his ancient scars, 
Aurelius, son of Constantine A. 466. reigned 32. years.   
Flying towards York, did in plain field  
Bayes and gold-wreath t' Aurelius yield;  
But so hard chased by th' Britons train,  
T' his Castle placed on River Guane  
Mont-Cloarik called, burnt in it there,  
T' Aurelius leaves his regal Chair.  
And Hengist was by Eldol slain, 
Hengist, A. 456 reign. 34. years.   
Alone that scape from Salisbury plain:  
Octa was saved, 
Osca, succeeded his father Hengist, A. 490. reign. 24. years.  but sent away  
To Scotland back, the Britons say.  
Though we do hear that Hengist slew,  
Twelve Britton Dukes; and Britons crew,  
From Creisford fled; 
Otto, his son, A. 514. R. 22. y.  since when, wars cease,  
And he lived, rested, slept in 
t So saith Marianus Scotus, he died honourably, having reigned 34. years, though Peter de Icham says, Eldol, Duke of Gloste●, by the counsel of Eldad Bishop there, smote off his head at Conesborow.  peace:  
And his sons Octa, Otho, and  
Irmenrike reigned in Kent their land. 
Irmenrik, ●is son, A. 536. reigned 25.   
I think no less, though, gathered hence,  
Aurelius was a worthy Prince,  
And by strong powerful hand maintained, 
Uther Pendragon, brother of Aurelius, A. 498. R. 18. y.   
The British sceptres which he gained;  
With swords point hewing tokens fresh  
Of honours on the Saxons flesh. 
Arthur, Uther's son, A. 516, reigned 26.   
Whom poisoned, thirty years' King succeeds  
Uther, 
Constantine, Cador's son, A. 542. R. 3. y.  much-famed for Merlin's deeds,  
That t' Amesbury from Dubline 
u That were also brought out of Africa thither, and placed on Mount Kyllare.  translates,  
That trophy of the Welshman's fates, 
Conan, Arthur's nephew, A. 545. R. 33.   
Those hanging stones, the Giant's bower,  
Saxons slain, 
Vortiporus, Conans son, A. 578. reign. 4.  and King 
x King of Ireland.  Guilla-moure;  
Him poisoned, twenty years' King succeeds  
Arthur most famed for martial deeds; 
Malgo, reign. 5.   
Next Constantine Duke Cador's son, 
Caretic, ●eig. 3.   
Conan, 
Cadwan, R. 22.  Vortiporus, and Malgwn,  
Catherik, 
Cadwallo, 48.  Cadwane, Cadwallo, 
y Cadwalladar.  and  
His son last King of Britons land. 
Cadwallader, reigned 3. years.    

CANZ. VI.  
The seven Saxon Kingdoms their arise and extent.  
ANd now the Saxons 
* All these seven Kingdoms; by three of the Nations of the strongest in Germany: The juits or Vites; Saxons and Angles; of the Vites came the Kentish, part of the Westsaxons and I'll of Wight, of whom it took name: of the Saxons of old Saxonia, came the East and rest of South and West Saxons; of the Angles came the East-Angles, Mercians, and Northumber's.  everywhere, 
The Heptarchy or seven Kingdoms, began 456.   
Their Kingdom's plant! first Kentish were, 
THE HEPTARCHY.   
Fairest Merke-lands and Northumber's been;  
East-Angles were not so much seen;  
Essex less, Sussex small or none;  
All yield last to Westsaxons one.  
Kent with the I'll of Wight 
z The Kingdom of Kent, with the bounds, and race of Kings.  repairs, 
Kingdom of Kent began, A. 456. ended A. 827. endured 371. years.   
To Kent's throne, her Kings, Hengists' heirs.  
To Merk-land long, Hereford, Chester,  
Wor'ster, Gloster, Warwick, Salop, Leyster,  
Northampton, 
Kingdom of Mercia began, A. 586. ended in A. 875. unau. Al●red.  Lincoln, Derby, 
a The Kingdom of Mercia, & race of Kings, with the bounds thereof and Nations, how styled in Caesar's time.  Nottingham,  
Huntingdon, Hertford, Bedford, Buckingham,  
Oxford, Rutland, and Stafford be,  
The Thames and Severne, 
Kingdom of Northumber's began, A. 547. ended, A. 940. under Adelstane and Edmond, in Sithriks' sons.  Trent and Dee,  
Within her march! These Cattechlauni,  
Cornavij, and wit▪ Corytani,  
Caesar's Dobuni been! their Prince,  
Crida first King, and his sons since.  
Been in Northumber's circuit 
b Northumber's, their King, race, and bounds of their Kingdom.  named  
Lancashire, 
Kingdom of East Saxons began, A. 527. ended about A. 800. in Suthred.  for faite women famed;  
York; Durham; erst a Kingdom, Cumberland  
Westmoreland, and our now Northumberland;  
E'en almost to Scot'sh Frith! and once  
Ida's dominions, 
Kingdom of East-Angles began, A. 492. ended A. 885. in Edmond, slain by the Dane Hinguar under Alfred.  since his sons.  
Eastsaxons, perhaps, 
c Eastsaxons kingdom and Kings.  Trinobantes  
Of Tre-nuidh called or Troy-novant;  
Vffa, and his, o'er Essex were,  
Middlesex and part of Hertford-sheere.  
East-Angles Kings and kingly 
d East-Angles.  style,  
Cambrige admires and Elye I'll, 
Kingdom of South Saxons began, A. 478 ended A. ●13. in Alwine under Ina.   
Norfolk, and Suffolk; Vffa there;  
Tytila, and his son's Princes were.  
Southsaxons, Sussex, Surrey, 
e South Saxons kingdom and race of Kings, who were first Kings of Saxons here, saving the Kentish, the first overthrown by the West Saxons,  show,  
Though the next first Kings, yet but few, 
Kingdom of West Saxons began in Cerdic who arrived here A. 499. and subduin▪ the others, hath continued hitherto, though interrupted somewhat by the Danes rapines & Norman Conquest.   
Great Ella's sons! whom first the West  
Saxons devoured, since all the 
f The kingdom of West Saxons, the bounds and race of Kings, who lastly conquered all the other kingdoms of the land, and reduced it to Monarchy.  rest.  
Westsaxons Kingdom though not great,  
Devon, Dorset; flowery Sommers-seat,  
Corn-wall with mines stored, Hampshire full,  
Berks and Wilt-shire, with corn and wool:  
From Ella's son, called Cerdijc, came  
Their Kings! Gewisse his Grandsires' 
g Of whom the people were called Gewisses.  name.   

CANZ. VII.  
The Saxons glorying in their Ancestors and Gods.  
ANd now great Heliconian Dames,  
Our Saxon Kings trophies and fames,  
From gods descended all-arow,  
jove, Woden, Geta, Tuisco 
* With the Saxons Thor, or Thurstus, is said to be jupiter; Tuisco, Mars: Woden (who is far ancienter than Hengists' great Grand father Woden) Mercury, by some Mars: Geta, Apollo; Frea, Venus; Seater, Saturn, who with the Sun and Moon, and others, had their several Idols and peculiar worships: from whom also the days of the Week were called Sondeag, Moondeag, Tuis-d, Wondens-d. Thursdeag, 'Fraid. Scaterdeag: as we now say, Sunday, Monday, etc. for the Germans and Saxons than worshipped the Planets aswell as their ancient founders for their gods.  show,  
Seater, with Sun and Moon, from whom  
Th'old Saxon weekdays names did come;  
And what Seth's martial brood did here,  
Reigning since many hundred year;  
Prime Kingdom once, as Primates See,  
Kent was, and my first song shall be.   

CANZ. VIII.  
The story of the first Saxon Kentish Kingdom, continued till Arthur's birth.  
WOdens and Geta's son, 
Hengist, first King of Kent, A. 456. R. 34. y.  the fourth, 
The Kingdom of KENT.   
From him was noble Hengists' worth;  
Who first wore Kentish 
g This was the chief of the seven Kingdoms, and to whom the rest were in a sort Feodaries, for that Vortiger at the defeat upon Salisbury plain, deliu red seis● of the whole to Hengist; whence the Kings of Kent challenged Sovereignty of the whole Countri● from thence to Humber.  Diadem:  
Octa, his son succeeds! with him,  
Pendragon waging war, 
Octa, A. 490. reign. 24. years.  they tell,  
How at Mont-Badon Octa 
h Mont-Badon supposed to be Bannar-downe, by where tokens of battle, bones and teeth of men are ploughed up in great abundance.  fell.  
But the late Conqueror conquered proves,  
Captived by fair Igerna's love,  
The Cornish Duchess; 
Vther-Pendragon, A. 498. reign. 18. years.  Merlin's art  
Helped the King play his Lover's part;  
Like jove transformed t' Amphytrio's shape,  
To Goylen's he, commits this rape;  
And in the absent Gorlois 
i This Duke of Cornwall was after slain by the King at Dwilioc.  place  
Did his deceived fair Spouse embrace:  
So Tyndagel whose towering pride  
Is placed on flowery Seuernes 
k The place of Arthur's birth.  side,  
Great Arthur got; whom in their Lays  
Welsh Harps, and Poets, loudly praise.   

CANZ. IX.  
Great Arthur's prowess, life and death.  
OTho succeeded Octa; than, 
Otho, alias O●ta, A. 514. reign. 22. years.   
Irmenrijck: and right now 
* The Heptarchy began: The first Kingdom was Hengists in Kent, A. 456. The last, but greatest, of Mercia, began under Crida, An. 586. About which time reigned Cadmane grandfather of Cadwalladar, last King of Britons, it being then the very wane of the British Monarchy.  began  
Th'Heptarchy; 
Irmenrik, son to Otho, A. 536 reign. 25. years.  amongst Northumber's Ida,  
South Saxons Ella, Mercyan Crida,  
West Saxons Cerdic, Vffa's sons  
Won Essex, and East Angles Crowns;  
Britons weak powers could now no good  
Against those Hydra's heads that bud,  
Though Arthur rose with powerful hand, 
Arthur, surnamed the Great, A. 516. R. 26. y.   
The Saxon foe-men to withstand;  
And in twelve fierce-fought fields, 
* Whereof the first was at the water of relief or Gledy; the second, third, fourth, and fifth, near the ●●uer Douglasse, in the Country of Lineux; the s●xt at River Bassus; the seventh at C●r-c●i● Cal●don, or the wood Calydon: the eight at Castle Gwineon●the ●the ninth at Carlee●: the tenth by the Seaside, at a place called ●●achen-Rith, or R●ther-wood: the eleventh on t●e hill Agned-Cathergonien: the twelfth at Badon hill, Bath Town or Hill.  they say,  
Did bravely bear the bell away:  
His wife was fair 
a Guinhe●● was Cousin to Cador Duke of Cornwall, Go●●en or Gorlois son; but daughter to the King of Biskay.  Guinhera, famed  
For beauty! By his prowess tamed  
Great Saxon Colgerne, and the Scot,  
With's sister Ann's Spouse Pictish Lot,  
Island and Ireland, utmost 
b Having overcome the Saxons or abated their courage, be instituted the order of the Round Table for his Knight's honour; which he kept at Carleen, and Winchester, and Camelot, a place near south Cadbury in Somersetshire. There is a place hew●n out of the Rock at Lansannan in Denbighshire, which the inhabitants call Arthur's Round Table.  Thyle,  
French, Germans, Scottish, Orks and I'll,  
Goths, Danes, and Saxons: Welshmen needs  
Will have to rue his warlike deeds;  
With whom at his return from France,  
The treacherous Mordred tries wars 
c Having quieted the Saxons, they say, he made an expedition into Norway, which ●ee conquered with the Regions adjoining, so far as Lapland and Russi●, causing them to be baptised, and obtained of the Pop● to hau● them confirmed to the Crown● of this Realm, calling Norway the Chamber of Britain: 〈◊〉 ●●tring France, overcame the Governor, and in war slew Lucius Hiberus, who demanded tribute, and sent his body to the Senate of Rome for tribute; in which mean time his Kinsman Mordred, to whom he betook the rule of Britain, combined with Ge●dic and the Saxons against him.  chance,  
At first in Kent; and after slain  
Where bloody Rivers did distain  
Cambula's fresh Fountains waters clear,  
In Cornwalls confines! Arthur here,  
Had his death's wound, but after died  
By Mellodunes low Lake-ish side;  
Into whose troubled streams he throws,  
Accustomed to wars deadly blows,  
His conquering sword, and amongst those Lakes  
His farewell of the world he 
d The rivers below Glastenbury in Somersetshire, where for the plenty of fruit Aualo● took name, signifying Insula Pomorum.  takes.  
In Somerset-shire! and Aualon I'll,  
That of her Orchards wears that style,  
Glastenbury now called, doth enfold  
His liveless corpse, there laid in 
e At his return from beyond seas, the traitor Mordred gave him battle at Sandwich near Richborow, where were slain Angussel of Scotland, Gawen, & Cador, whence thewarre translated into Cornwall by their returning thither; where Mordred was slain, and Arthur received his death's wound; near the River Alanne or Camblan, thence conveyed into Somersetshire, he died and was buried at Glastenbury.  mould;  
He that subdued by restless pains,  
French, Picts, Scots, Germans, Saxons, Danes,  
Though closed up in his marble tomb,  
His dust, her everlasting home;  
His fame yet lives, and with fleet wings,  
O'er the world's surface nimbly flings:  
And that dumb monument though, doth blaze  
Such things to his immortal 
f Saith William of Malmesbury, a Prince worthy to have had his acts recorded in true History rather than fables, which have made his story doubtful, being in his time the only prop and pillar of his Country and decaying Nation, by credible Historians report; a very martial Prince, borne where he was slain in Cornwall, crowned at Carleen, or Caer-Seguent, an old decayed Town in Hampshire, called Cilicester, by Dubricius Archbishop of Caer-Legionum; tombed with his wife Guinhera at Glastenbury, as his tomb digged up in the reign of Henry the second witnessed, wherein were found their bones, and this inscription, Hic iacet sepultus Rex Arthurus in Insulâ Aualoniae. the tresses of Guinhera's hair seemed whole, and finely plotted of colour like to gold; but being touched fell away to dust.  praise,  
As rosy Garlands and fairest flowers  
Been fittest to deck his deadman's bowers.   

CANZ. X  
The story pursued to the end of the Kingdom of Kent with the first plantation of Christian faith among the Saxons.  
WIth Arthur, 
Ethelbert, son to Ermenrik, A. 562. R. 53. Bede saith 56.  Britons hopes decay,  
And Saxons now bear all the sway;  
Otho, and Irmenricus, had reigned  
Forty years; and Ethelbert, next gained  
His sire's throne; weds French Cherebert's Imp,  
The Lady Bertha, 
Augustine sent by Pope Gregory, A. 596. since the Saxons first arrival 147. in the year of Ethelberts' R. 33.  beauteous Nymph,  
And gracious Queen, for Saxons good  
Her means, here heavenly Angels 
* Queen Berta brought with her a godly Bishop named Leta●dus, by whose means the King was made tractable to the receiving the Christian Faith: when Pope Gregory, A. 596. sent Augustine, who was founder of S. Augustine's, and Archbishop of Canterbury, with Melitus, justus, and john, and other zealous men to preach the Faith, who were proudly withstood by the Monks of Bangor, & Britain, on whom Gildas doth complain. Melitus made Bishop of London, preached to the East Angles: justus was Bishop of Rochester, where Ethelbert built the Church of Saint Andrew's, at he did Paul's in London for Mellitus or Miletus.  food  
Christ's faith by Augustine had plantation,  
Apostle of the English nation:  
A monstrous Pagan though their son, 
Eadbald, son to Ethelbert, a notable Pagan, and vicious King A. 616. R. 24.   
Edbald succeeds in's father's throne,  
Whose sister to Northumber's King,  
Edwine wed! Christian faith did bring. 
Ercombert, a good Prince, A. 641. R. 25.   
Ercombert his son next; Ecbert 
m About Ercomberts' time Honorius Archbishop of Canterbury, divided his Province into Parishes, as is recorded among the Antiquities of Christ-Church in Canterbury.  his,  
And then Lothaire! To war with this, 
Ecbert, Etcomberts' son, A. 666. R. 9   
Mercian King Ethelred begun,  
But Edrike slew him Ecberts' 
n The Lady Dompneva right heir to the Crown from Eadbald, about this time founded the Monastery of Minster in Thanet, and was first Abbess there herself.  son:  
Edrike his cousin, 
Loathaire, Ecberts' brother, A. 674. R. 13.  too, left his life  
Within two years by civil strife.  
West-Saxon Ceadwall now in's 
o Ceadwalla's brother Mollo being slain by the Kentish men, he was furious against them, till Guthred with great sums of money purchased peace, this Guthred founded the Monastery of Saint Martin in Dover, with him one King Sebherd did reign jointly in one part of the Kingdom.  ire  
Wasted Kent's towns with sword and fire; 
Edrik, son of Ecbert, A. 688.   
Till Guthred Ecberts other son  
Appeased his wrath and wars begun; 
R. 2. years. After whose death the West Saxons many years sore vexed Kent. Guthred. a. 698   
This Guthred and his three sons then  
Ethelbert, Edbert, and Alrijc 
p In Edberts time strange Comets were s●ene, the Pagans the while cruelly infesting France and Spain.  been  
Kentish Kings, 
R. 33. years. Edbert, A. 731.  and that Diadem wore,  
An hundred years, 
R. 23. years. Ethelred, A. 754. R. 11. years. Alrije, A. 765.  in peace, or more.  
another Edbert, follows next,  
Whom Merklands King unthroned and vexed,  
Cynewolfe, 
R. 34. years. Edbert, alias Prens; did usurp and was pulled down, and Cuthred made King, A. 799.  that to his great'st disgrace,  
Did set up Cuthred King in's place;  
Next Alred, last King, leaves by fate,  
T' England's first Egbert Crown and state;  
So last, 
R. 8. years, Alred, alias Baldred, heir to A. 807. after 20. years, expelled by West Saxon Egbert.  Kentish, all the rest  
Submitten to th' Westsaxons hest.   

CANZ. XI.  
The Mercian Kings their original and order till Offa.  
ANd now sing Merklands Lords dear Dames;  
First Cried, 
Crida, A. 586. R. 10 years.  than Guipha, 
The Kingdom of MERCIA.  third place 
* This Kingdom was the greatest though latest 〈◊〉 of all the re●t, the first King whereof Crida, was the 〈◊〉 from Woden.  names  
Ceorlus Britons fell foe; 
Wibba, his son, R. 20 years.  next  
Britons friend Penda, 
Ceorlus, Wibba's son, &. 10.  that sore vexed  
Northumbrian Edwine, 
Penda, son of Wibba, A. 626. reign. 30. years.  and his once  
First spouse Ceorlus daughters sons;  
With Kenwalke then, Westsaxons King,  
War's for his sister's sake did spring;  
But she and all received to 
q Anna King of East-Angles.  grace,  
By Anna's means, sweet peace took place!  
Yet two East-Angles Kings beside,  
And Anna fell, for Penda's 
r Boto Sigebert that founded Cambridge, turned Monk in his old age, but drawn out into the field, and his 〈…〉 and 〈◊〉 Anna, all three successively Kings of East-Angles.  pride:  
But being confederate with a 
s Ad●●here, brother to 〈◊〉, next King.  fourth  
Both fall, 
Peda, son to Penda, and Oswy, A. 656. R. 3. or 4. years.  by noble Oswyes worth;  
Northumber's King: who having gained  
Penda's dominions thus; there 
t Three years but gave all the fourth parts from 〈◊〉 to Penda's son Peda, with his 〈…〉, who 〈…〉 King, who 〈…〉 Christianity, which O●wy and Peda had begun: but ●ee 〈◊〉 his two sons for frequenting the holy man Cedda's Cell, whose bodies their mother Ernenelda buried at Stone in 〈…〉 a Church to be built there, she afterwards became a Nun at Ely, under her mother Sex. burga, sometime Queen of west Saxons; and here penting that deed, among other pious works in building Churches and Monasteries, bestowed great cost on Medishamsted or Peterborow, which Penda's sons & daughters (though he were a Pagan) did build from the foundation.  reigned:  
Till Merklands Nobles loath t'obey  
Others then of Merklands blood, made way,  
For Wolphere, 
Wolfere, Penda's son, A. 660. R. 17.  who Northumber's yoke,  
Westsaxons war attempts too, broke;  
T' Edilwalke Sussex King gives Wight,  
Leaves Merklands Crown t'his brother, hight  
Edilred! that vexed Lothaire of Kent;  
And having slain Alcwine by Trent, 
Edilred, son to Penda, A. 677. R. 30.   
Brother to Egfride Northumber's King, 
Kenred, Wolferes son, A. 707. R. 5. and went to Rome.   
York's Primate stints the strife that spring:  
Edilred turned Monk then, Wolferes 
u Edilred founded the bishopric of Worcester, turned Monk at Bardoney in Lincolnsture.  son  
Kenred possessed the 
x Kenred went to Rome and was Monk in the Church of S. Peter, he founded the Monastery of Euesham.  regal throne;  
Edilreds' son Celred that succeeds, 
Celred, son of Edilred, A 711. R. 8.   
And Ina, tried their martial meeds.  
Ethilbald next King, 
Ethelbald, descended of Eopa brother of Penda, A. 719 R. 41.  from Penda numbers  
His descent; Welsh quells, and 
y This King Ethelbald by the procurement of the Po●es Legate, Boniface Archbishop of Mentz, an English man borne; with advice of Cuthbert Archbishop of Canterbury, made good Church laws, giving Churches and Monasteries great privileges and exemptions from taxes and tributes, be also founded the Abbey of Crowland.  Northumber's  
But by West-Saxon Cuthred foiled  
Bernred of crown and life despoiled. 
Bernred usurped 10. years.    

CANZ. XII.  
The end of the great Kingdom of Mercia.  
OFfa then Tyrant Bernred slew, 
Offa nephew to Ethelbald, A. 760. R. 39 his son not one year.   
Northumber's doth and Kent 
* He made a Dike called Offa-dike, to bond his Kingdom against Wales, extending from the South part near Bristol, over the Mountains towards Flint and the North Sea to the mouth of 〈◊〉, see ●ounded the Monastery of Bath, translated the 〈◊〉 See to Lichfield, caused the 〈◊〉 of Saint Alban to be laid in a 〈◊〉 at old Verulam, which he 〈…〉 adorned with gold and 〈◊〉 stones: and raising there a Princely Abbey, he gave 〈◊〉 to it: the Charter dated, 〈◊〉 79●. of his reign 33. witness 〈◊〉 self, Eg●●ide his son, nine Kings, 15. Bishops, 10. Dukes, etc.  subdue,  
Welsh foiled; West-Saxon Kenulfe slain,  
He by pretence of marriage, 
The Chapel where the said Offa was buried being demolished by the River Ouse at Bedford, his leaden tomb, as it were some fantastical thing, appears often to them that seek it not, but to them that seek it, saith Rouse, it is invisible.  trains  
Ethelbert East-Angles King t'his Court,  
And slew him there, in cruel sort:  
Fowl fell act! which his promised spouse  
Fair Alfred so much disavows,  
With hands wrung, and dishevelled hair  
Distilling many a pearly 
y He was slain at Sutton-wallis or Kenchester, 〈◊〉 Offa's Palace was: and buried on the River Lugg's bank, where Maurd●●e Church 〈◊〉: whence removed to Hereford, over him is builded the Church of the Bishops See, dedicate to the same Ethelbert.  tear  
At her love's hearse, poor soul, so grieves,  
She her fires Court, and Palace leaves,  
And vowed t'avoid all farther strife,  
To live, and led an Anchoress 
z At Crowland she prophesied against 〈◊〉 mother, who caused Ethelberts' death, and against her brother; all which sell out according to her words: of her brother Alcuine wrote, that for his father's bloody deeds, his reign and days were the shorter.  life!  
East-Angles Kingdom that here ends,  
This Tyrant took! Alkuine he sends,  
To France to famous Charlemagne:  
His son Egfrids' scarce foure-month's reign  
Kynewolfe succ●eds, 
East- Angles Kingdom fell so to Offa and the Mercians, A. 790. or 800. and with the Mercians Crown to the West Saxons afterwards.  that down did 
a Some say that on the day of the dedication of the Church of Winchelcombe, which he built, he released the said Edbe●t, the founded the Church of Saint Ethelbert in Hereford.  bring  
Edbert, made Cuthred Kentish King.  
His hapless young son next doth reign  
Kenelm, by's sister Quindred 
b He is accounted the Martyr, his body was found by a scroll cast on the Altar, thus written in Saxon, Kenelm King barn, lie under thorn Heaved-bereaved, that is, Kenelm King's child lieth under a thorn, bereft of the head or life.  slain!  
Kenulfs brother, 
Kenulf, nephew in the fifth degree to Penda, A. 799. R. 23.  next wore the Crown  
Ccolwolf, by Bernulf; he put down  
By Egbert; to whom Ludicene,  
And Whitlafe, Tributaries been:  
And ever-since Westsaxons 
c Fridulf, Burthred, and others, being set up by the West Saxons and Danes afterwards, scarce worthy the name of Kings rather Dukes.  count  
Themselves Merklands Lords Paramount. 
Ceolwol●e, expelled by Bernulf, A. 820 reigned 〈◊〉. Bernulf subdued by Egbert, A. 824. R. 3. Ludicene expelled the East- Angles, A. 825. Whitlafe, A. 826. reigned 13. years.    

CANZ. XIII.  
The original of the Kings and Kingdom of Northumberland and the many devisions thereof before good King Olwal●is ti●e.  
Northumbers' Kings Muse next relate! 
The Kingdom of NORTHUMBERS.   
Ida first founder of the state, 
Octa, Ebysse & Saxons sent by Hengist into the North, it seems long time molested by the Picts, Scots, & Britons, before they were fully possessed of any Kingdom for 99 years' space, and after Hengists' 〈◊〉 60 years, being A. 547. that Ida began, being the 10. from Woden, 〈◊〉 reigned. 2. years.   
From Tine to Cluid reigned; 
* Lot was father to Mordred, allied both, yet enemies to great Arthur.  vanquished Lots  
Pict- troops, and Conrane King of Scots;  
But after twelve years' reign divided,  
Been his lands! his son Ada 
d The Kingdom of Brenicia, extende● from Edenborow ●rith to Tyne; Deira from the said Tyne to 〈◊〉: but they were quite united again in Oswy, Ethelfrides' son.  guided  
Brenicia's North! South Deira took, 
Ida's sons 559.   
Histria's son Ella, 
Ada, reign. 7. Glappa, 5. Tidwald, 1. Fridulf, 7. Theodorik 7. in Brenicia, whiles Ella, son of Histria, reig. 30. in Deira. Ethelrik, R. 5. partly in both Provinces.  Saxon Duke;  
Glappa, Tydwald, Fridulf, Thyery, and  
Ethelrik in Brenicia's land  
Scarce thirty years reigned: Ella alone  
Sat so long on Deira's 
e He was surnamed the 〈◊〉  Throne.  
Ethelriks' heir though, Ethelfride,  
Had almost set Edwine beside  
Ella his Sires seat! who was made  
Fly to East- Angles King for aid. 
Ethelfride, son of Ethelrik, A. 589. R. 27. over both Provinces; Ella's son Edwine being young or expelled.   
Redwald that loved him dear well,  
Holp him, so that Ethelfride 
f 〈…〉.  fell,  
Though grown so great, that all Kings hear,  
Wales, Scots, and Orkeys stood in 
g 〈…〉  fear.  
Ebba, Oswy, Oswald, Eaufride,  
Osrijc, 
Edwine, Ella's son, A. 616. R. 17. over both Provinces; the sons of Ethelfride being ●led into Scotland.  and Offa, fled that tide;  
His tender daughter and five sons,  
To th' Scot'sh Kings Court, poor little ones!  
Edwine possessed, of all what state  
Longed to Northumber's both Crowns late,  
Th' Ebrides he did t'his Empire add;  
By Mercian Ceorles daughter had  
Two sons, 
Paulinus Bishop of Rochester went with queen Ethelburga, A. 626. And Edwine and the Northumber's generally received the Faith, A. 627 o●gni 11.  as many female Imps  
By Ethelburga, Cantian Nymph,  
Who brought Christ's Faith, and great 
h The king gave Pauline the Bishops See at York, and began to build Saint Peter's Church there which was finished by Oswald; and Paulinus founded the great Church of Lincoln.  Pauline  
To Yorks See, chief, next Kent's fair shrine.  
Edwine, West- Saxon Ceolph 
i He sent a desperate fellow named ●omer, to murder Edwine; and continually vexing all his neighbour Princes with war, was slain in the quarrels he moved, and Edwine was slain by Cadwallo and Penda.  sought  
To wrong, but fell by th'wiles he wrought;  
But Penda and the Britons Prince,  
Slew Edwine and his both sons since,  
Mercyan Quinburga's issue, 
k Edfred and Off●ed: Offered with his father Edwine 〈…〉 battle at Hatfield, 〈◊〉 fell with them Eadbaldus King of the O●keyes: Edfred 〈◊〉 afterwards. Edwines' reign had been so peaceful that a woman with a sucking child might have traveled free from violence over all his Dominions; yet so triumphant that Banners displayed were borne before 〈◊〉 both in war and peace.  these  
First in fierce war, next in false peace!  
Kent's Nymph with her Imps from wars chance  
Fled into Kent; failed, sent to France.  
From Scotland now returned at once,  
Ethelfrides' and Edwines sister's sons:  
Fair Acca's Royal offspring, 
Osrijc and Eaufride, A. 633. reigned a very small time.  so  
From Ella sprung, and 
l Who fled into Scotland to king Donald when Edwine got the Crown; they being the sons of Ethelfride (from Ida descended) and Acca, sister to Edwine, daughter to Ella, the kings both of Brenicia and Deira.  Ida too,  
Eaufride Brenicia's, Osrijc glad  
Deyra's Crown and Sceptres had,  
Whom Cambrian Prince Cadwall● slew,  
Whose cause doth Oswald fresh pursue,  
Where near Picts wall, is Heaven-field named,  
The place by Oswalds' conquest famed, 
Oswald, son of Ethelfride, A. 634. R. 8. y.   
And Denisbournet that saw in plain  
Field Bryttons King Cadwallo slain;  
Cadwallader, his son, next in place,  
Last King of Camber's of that race.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
The rest of the continuance till the subversion of that factious Kingdom.  
ANd now good Oswald fain makes peace  
'Twixt his two factious 
* So virtuous & godly a prince, that after his death 〈◊〉 was Canonised for a Saint.  Provinces,  
Brenicia and Deyra; since,  
They late scarce brook one Law or Prince:  
Both whom, with Picts, Scots, Britons bold,  
He did in due subjection hold.  
His plenteous alms the sumptuous shrines  
He built, and whence his glory shines;  
Such power hath Faith, such grace affords  
Interprets reverend Aidans' 
m A holy & learned man, whom the King for propagation of the Gospel had sent for out of Scotland, and given him Lindis●ern or holy Island for his Bishops See.  words,  
T'his men, 
Oswine reigned with Oswy about 8. years.  seems Anius-like for these,  
Priest of th'high GOD, and Prince of Peace.  
But Pagan Penda, Mercians King,  
T'vntimely death good 
n At Maserfield, or Oswalstre, the Town now so called of his name.  Oswald brings.  
Then Oswald's brothers, Osrijc's son,  
Oswine had Deira, 
Oswye, son of Ethelfride, A. 642. reign. 28.  Oswye won  
Brenicia; and betwixt these twain,  
New wars, and schism, began now again,  
Till Oswyne slain, Oswye alone  
Had Deira's and Brenicia's Throne.  
He Penda slew, and Mercians 
o At which time Oswy vowed great lands to 〈…〉 from York.  Crown,  
As Fortune would, annexed t'his 
p And by this means the M●rcians received the Faith: he founded the Bishops See of Mercia at Lichfield; and Dwina Bishop at Lindesferne was also Bishop of the same.  own;  
Whereof part, Peda, Penda's Imp  
Dower with his daughter had, false Nymph.  
Egfride succeeded next, 
Egfride, Oswyes son, A. 670. R. 15.  his son  
Who leaves his Virgin-Spouse, a 
q Her name Mildred or Etheldred, after twelve years, she became Nun at Ely, where she founded the Monastery whereof she was Abbess.  Nun,  
Though in youths prime! when th' Irish rue  
Mercians foil, Picts King 
r At a place called Nectansmore, he was buried in Saint Columbes Island.  Brudeus slew.  
Next than his brother Alfride rules,  
Taught, 
Alfride, base son of Osway, A. 685. R. 20.  and trained up in Irish 
s Where learning then flourished more than in Britain, it being the fashion to send the noblest youth thither, as now to our Universities.  Schools;  
Osred his son next, 
Osred, A. 705. reigned 10.  Osrijc then,  
His cousin, and Kenred crowned been;  
Ceolfe and Egbert soon, 
Kenred & Osrijc, reign. 13. Ceolf, A. 728. reigned 8. years, Egbert, A. 736. reigned 20.  that, 
t Ceolf or Ceolnulf, became Monk in holy Island: in his time glazing, painting, and Masons were brought into the land by the Monk Bennet, or Benedict: venerable Bede dedicateth his Ecclesiastic history to this king. Egbert also became Monk, and his brother of the same name, was Archbishop of York; which See he greatly advanced, and founded the Library, worthily furnished with all good Authors.  strange  
Royal Robes done for Regular change.   

CANZ. XV.  
Their last encumbrance by the Danes, and submission for relief to the Westsaxons.  
Egberts' son Osulfe then, 
Osulfe, reigned 1. year.  and next  
Whiles grievous civil wars sore vexed  
Northumber's, after 
Edilwald or Mo. l, A. 758. reigned 11. Alred, reign. 11. Ethelbert, son of Mollo, A. 780 reigned first 5. y. and after Alswald or Oswald 11. & Osred 1. he reigned 4. all the others bare but the titles of Dukes rather than Kings.  after 
* Or Mollo who slew Earl Oswine that rebelled, and himself slain by Alred, that usurping succeeded.  Ethelwald,  
Alred! and twice down, twice enstaled,  
King Ethelbert; since those two 
a Sons of Alred, than Ethelbert again, after him Ardulf Al●wold, Eandred, Etheldred, Readulf, Osbright, and Ella; which last Kings were slain by the Danes, Hinguar and Hubba, incited to that by the Lo. Beornas whose wife Osbert or Osbright had ravished: most of these latter Kings or Dukes acknowledging Egbert of west Saxons, and his sons Lo. Paramount.  brothers  
Oswald, Osred; since diverse others.  
For this poor Kingdom more of late,  
Then Sejan's horse unfortunate,  
As if she kingly style not brooks,  
Was a while governed by her Dukes.  
Scarce any of the latter train  
Of Kings that scap't and was not slain,  
Such tragic ends and fearful fate  
Pursued the Princes of that 
b Partly fallen by the Danes invasion, but more by civil wars: last Kings of all were Ri●siga the Dane, than Cuthred and Sythrik, to whom Ad●lsane gave his daughter in marriage; but their sons were finally expelled by Edmond and the succeeding Kings, about, A. 950.  State;  
The flowery dales, the fields and floods,  
Fresh stained with streams of purple blood,  
And Echo piteous plaints affords  
What she could though she wanted words,  
Earth's face showed forth her graves like scars  
Part the Danes work, part civil wars.  
Northumber's therefore took, Fame sings  
Westsaxons Egbert for their King.   

CANZ. XVI.  
The Kings and Kingdom of Eastsaxons.  
Eastsaxons Kings, 
Erchenwine, A. 527. R. about. 60. years. Sledda, son of Erchenwine, A. 587. R. 17. Sebert, son to Sledda, A. 604. reigned 13. from An. 617. by the space of 100 y. reigned Serred, Seberts' 〈◊〉, with his brothers and their sons. Sigebert, son of Seward, & Sigebert. son of Sigebald, the brothers of Serred; and Swideline, Sigaire with Sebba or Selbius, and his son's Sigard and Sewfred; and Offa, son of Sighere, till A. 717. In Selbius time Erkenwald builded the Monastery of Croteley in Surrey for himself, and Berking in Essex for his sister Edilburga, Queen of West Saxons; he was after Bishop of London, about A. 700. Celred, A. 718 reigned 30. Edilwald, Albert, Vmbena, and Suthred, reigned till A. 800. or after.  may now next 
* Erchenwine the 8. from Woden, son of Vffa, his son Sledda married Ricula daughter of Ermenrik King of Kent, and to their son Sebert first Christian King there, came Miletus from Augustine and Ethelbert King of Kent, who preached the Faith, converted and baptised the King and his people, who then builded a Church in honour of Saint Peter at Westminster then called Thorney, where he & his wife were buried.  song; 
The Kingdom of EASTSAXONS.   
First Erchenwine from Vffa sprung,  
Sledda, and Sledda's Sebert, since,  
And Ricula's son, first Christian Prince:  
Ignoble Serred, than a pair  
Of Sigeberts', Swithline, 
c Serred and his brethren, sons of Sebert, enemies of Christianity, were slain by Kynegilfus King of West Saxons, but the second Sigebert, son of Sigebald brother of Serred, called the holy man Cedda to him, making him Bishop of East Saxons; he baptised Swideline, Anna King of East Angles being his Godfather.  Sigaire,  
And Selbius, Sigaires' consort, once,  
Monke-profest turned! next his two 
d Sebba or Selbius, Monk at Saint Paul's in London.  sons  
Sigard and Sewfred: after them  
Good Offa wears the Diadem,  
That of devotion visits 
e He endued the Church of Saint Peter in Westm. with fair possessions and buildings: and leaving his wife Geneswede, Penda's daughter, went to Rome with Kenred King of Mercia, and Edwine Bishop of Worster, and there lived in a Monk's habit.  Rome,  
And youths best good, found there his tomb.  
Next Celred, and then Ethelwold,  
Albertus, and Vmbena, hold  
East-Saxon sceptres, Suthred 
f Subdued by Egbert, about the very time that he conquered Kent.  last  
West-Saxon Egbert quite displaced;  
Their trophies do, with all else, meet,  
Thus at victorious Egberts' feet,   

CANZ. XVII.  
The Eastangle Kings and their time of government.  
EAst-Angles Kings would next be told! 
Vffa, A. 492. reign. 7. years. Tytullus, a. 499. R. 20. Redwald, R. 25. Eorpenwald, reigned 12. Sigebert, son of Redwald, A. 569. and his cousin Edrik, R. 60. years, slain by Penda. Anna, son of Ewide brother of Redwald, R. 20. years. slain by Penda. Adelhere, brother of Anna, slain with Penda, A. 656. Edilwald, brother to Anna, reigned 9 years' Sons of Adilhere, Adalphe reigned 25. Eluold, Hisbern, Edilred, Ethelbert, son of Edilred, A. 790.   
Vffa's son Titylla's first 
* Vffa: the 8. from Woden.  enrolled; 
The Kingdom of EAST-ANGLES.   
His Redwald, that on Edwines' side,  
Wars with Northumbrian 
g Whom he slew, and repossessed Edwine of the Kingdom.  Ethelfride,  
His Carpwald, and Sigebert, whoot's ●aid,  
Learned Cambrige first foundation 
h He also pla●ted Christian saith there by the h●lpe of Foelix a Burgundian, sent by Honorius Archbishop of Canter whom he made B●shop of Dunwich: an 〈◊〉 of Suffolk, which 〈◊〉 was after divided by one Bisi bishop t●ere into two, viz Dunwich and Holmham.  laid:  
But old, and leaving kingly weeds  
For Monk's cowl, Edricus succeeds  
His cousin, and Anna next doth reign,  
By Mercyan Penda, all three 
i Sigebert, founder of Cambridge was fetch out of the monastery into the field against Penda, where both he and Egricus were sla●ne; and so was Anna afterwards.  slain:  
Brother though thus slain, and kinsmen were,  
By th'wretch, with him joined, Edilhere,  
Christ's enemies fell by Oswyes 
k Both 〈◊〉 and Penda, A. 656. near the River jewet: his wife was 〈◊〉, daughter to Hereticus, and sister to Abbess Hilda; his daughter Etheldred founded Saint Peter's Church in the I'll of Ely, A. 674.  hand!  
Edilwald then, Adulfe, Alfwold, and  
Beorn, Edilred, and last King slain,  
Ethelbert falls by false Offa's 
l King of Mercia, in whose hands and his successors the chief Kingdom remained till Egbert.  train;  
East-Angles so, with Mercyan lands,  
Came to West-Saxon Egberts' hands.   

CANZ. XVIII.  
The ancient Southsaxon Kings with their short dominion.  
NOw Sussex next in order brings  
Her few indeed, 
Ella, with his 3. sons and three ships, landed at a place called Cymenshore, An. 470. in Hēg●sts life time his kingdom beg●n, R. 36. years. Cisia, A. 514. reigned 76. Edilwalcus, A. 590 R. 25. Aldwine. slain by Ine, and Sussex united to the West Sax. crown about, A. 713.  though next first Kings, 
The Kingdom of SOUTHSAXONS.   
When Ella, within thirty 
* Ella, the 8. from Woden, wit● his sons put the Britons to flight first at Cymens-shore, where he landed, then at Macroeds' bourn, after won A●dreds-ceaster, and so began his Kingdom.  year  
Of Saxon Hengist reigned here,  
Who with his three sons, Cymen, Plettinger  
And Cissa, that built 
m Which is called Cissanceaster in the Saxon tongu●.  Chichester,  
Sore vexed the Brytons; after them  
Edilwalcus wore the 
n He gave 〈◊〉 to Wilfride Archbishop of York, who came to plant the Faith in Sussex, where Wilfride set a Monastery for Episcopal S●e; yet Sussex was since sometimes under Winchester, and the See translated also to Chichester.  Diadem;  
Last Tyrants Berthune and 
o Ceadwalla overthrew Edi●walke in his younger years before he went into exile, Berthune and Anthyne after, when he came to be King of West Saxons.  Anthyne,  
By Cedwal slain, Aldwine by Ine;  
West-Saxon Kings thus swallowed them,  
Westsaxons Kingdom my next theme.   

CANZ. XIX.  
The west-Saxon Kings and whole time of government under the Heptarchy until Egberts' time.  
WEst-Saxon Monarches! 
Cerdic and his son Kenrik with 5 ships arrive at a place called Cerdic-shore, A. 499. slew Natanl●od, K. of Britons, and 5000. men, and conquered the I'll of Wight, he reign 17. years.  Cerdic 
* Cerdic, the 10. from Woden, vanquished the Britons first at Cerdics-ford, then at Cerdicks lege, and at Withgar-birg in the I'll of Wight, which he gave to his Nephew Withgare, who reigned there, and was buried at the Withgar-birg, or Withgares City.  first 
The Kingdom of WESTSAXONS.   
From the west drove the Welshmen erst;  
Kenrik his son, his Ceauline,  
And Cuthe, and Ceaulines slain Cutwine,  
All Britons foes, but Cutha 
p They vanquished the Brytons five times, and took from them the Cities of Gloucester, Giren-Cester, Bathan-Cester, and diverse other ●ownes, but at last Geaulines son and heir Cutwine was slain by them, and he expelled by his brother Cuthas son (Ceoli and Cutwolf) but his grand child Celrijc succeeded, and after him Geolfe, that vexed all the neighbour Princes, which was slain by the South Saxons.  most,  
By whom the Britons three Kings lost.  
Next Cuthwines Celrijc, then, whose wiles,  
Against Edwine, Ceolph's own self spoils.  
Gutha's Ceola's son next Kingulfe springs  
Berinus convert Christian 
q With Kingulf his son Guicheline, christened, and jointly reigned and died, and his son Guthred reigned no● past 3 or 4 years after his father and grandfather, whom Kenwalk succeeded that founded the Cathedral Church and Bishops See of Winchester.  King; 
Kenric, A. 526. reigned 25.   
Kenwalcus then, 
Ceauline, An. 552. R. 33.  whom Penda chased  
From thence, 
Cel●ik, A. 588. reigned 5.  for sister's sake disgraced;  
But by Eastangle Anna's means,  
Wife, 
Ceolf, son of Cutha, brother of Ceauline, A. 594. R. 14.  Kingdom, Crown and all regains.  
Sexburga reigns her husband 
r She founded a Monastery in the I'll of Shepey, and became a Nun, & after Abbess there, and in the I'll of Ely, whither also came her daughter Ermenilda, wife sometime to Wolfere King of Mercia.  gone;  
And Elewine, next sat on his throne,  
And Centwine, 
Kingulf, son of Ceola, son of Cutha, brother of Ceauline, A. 603. R. 31. his son Guicheline and his son Guthred, reign in Kingulfs life time and four years after. Kenwalkus, son of Kingulf, A. 643. R. 30.  both of Cutwines race,  
This Britons, that Mercians disgrace;  
Then Cedwall much envied, from long  
Exile returned, from Cutwine sprung,  
That Edilwalcus erst o'erthrew,  
Now Berthune and Anthunus 
s The Britons confound the stories by falsely supposing this Cedwal●s, to be their last King Cadwalladar, and so attributing Cedwalla's acts, and going to Rome to him.  slew,  
Sussex Kings: and with fatal feuds  
Bathed flowery Kentish fields in blood,  
Till leaving more with loss, then gain  
Of spoil, his brother Mollo slain,  
Peter, 
Saxburga, reig. a small time. Elkwine, Nephew of Kingulf A. 673. R. 2.  he by Sergius Pope of Rome,  
Baptised there found both fount and tomb.  
His Cousin Ina King in's place  
Rootes Aldwine out, 
Kentwine, Kingulf Nephew, or●eire, reigned 9  Sussex King's race;  
For Ceolreds Mercyan Crown and Kent,  
Makes the Kings pay him tributary rend;  
With fair Saint Andrew's Church in * Wells,  
Glastenburies' Benedictine Cells, 
Cedwalla, Nephew to Cutwine & Ceauline, A. 685. R. 3 years and went to Rome.   
Where Arymathean joseph lurks  
Archorite of ●ld! his pious works;  
Who pays to God his life and vows  
At Rome; 
Ina, a kinsman of Cedwalla's, of the line of Cerdic, A. 688. reigned 37.  at Berking his fair spouse.  
Next Ethelard doth Oswald tame,  
And Cuthred Earl Adelme o'ercome,  
With Mercians, 
Ethelard, An. 724. R. 14.  and the Kings of Wales;  
Then Sigebert one sole year King fails:  
Foiled Kenulph, 
Cuthred, An. 739. R. 17.  fled from Offa fain,  
Cyneard o'th' King blood slew, 
Sigebert, anno 757. R. 1.  though slain. 
Kenulph, anno 758 R. 29.  
t He bulded it for a College, but his successor Kenulf turned it to a Cathedral Church and Bishops See, for Ina had divided the Bishopric of Westsaxons into two Sees, Winchester & Shirburne, and erected Selsey by Chichester to a Bishops Se●, and made Abbot Gadbert Bishop there; he gave to the Monastery of Glastenbury, which he erected, in ornaments, as Censer, Chalice, Paten, Bason and Vessels of gold and silver for the Altar, with a Pall for the same, Candlesticks; and the Images of Christ and our Lady, and the 12. Apostles, with other ornaments for the Monks, with precious stones inserted, to the weight 264, pounds of gold: and 2640. pounds of silver, he also made Peter pence to be paid to Rome, where he died a Votary, as his wife at Barkin●.   
Whence Brytricus obtained the Crown, 
Brytricus, of the line of Cerdic, A. 786. R. 17   
Envious at Egberts' high 
* Brytricus of the Blood-royal, a lover of peace rather than war, advanced to the Crown, married Ead●urga daughter to Offa K. of Mercia, by whose power he expelled Egbe●t, 〈◊〉 was a petty King among the West Saxons, but being poisoned by his wife, in detestation of the f●ct the Nobles ordained that the King's wives should not be called Queens, nor sit with them in 〈◊〉 of Estate: she fled into France, where she ●ued lewdly, and died miserably; whence Egbert was recalled home.  renown,  
Whom more blood-royal did advance;  
Who fled, to free suspect, to France,  
Till Brytrike was, unheardof fact,  
Slain, his false Spouses loathed act.   

CANZ. XX.  
Egbert King of Westsaxons, reducing the seven Kingdoms to one, and calling it England, with the beginning of his Monarchy concludeth this Ode and the Heptarchye.  
THen Egbert all with one consent  
Wished, 
Egbert, A. 802. R. 37. years and 7. months.  throned, crowned King, incontinent,  
The Marks, Welsh, Cornish, Kentish all,  
Yield, bow, or down before him fall;  
East- Saxon Suthred could not stand,  
East- Angles left Mercians command,  
Submiss to him; Bernulfe was slain,  
Ludicenus vanquished, Whitlafe 
* All three, Kings or Usurpers of the East Angles and Mercians Crown●.  ta'en.  
Northumber's, doubtful which, perplexed,  
By Danes, or civil wars, more vexed,  
With Pallas peaceful Olive spray,  
Their Legates crowned, did Egbert pray  
To be their King, and free them from  
Bloodthirsty rapines rise at home:  
Who their Liege, they his Liege-menta'ne,  
England's plague since, expulsed the 
a He fought with & overthrew the Danes at Carham; at Hengisten-doune, and the I'll Thanet in Kent, he vanquished the Mercians, and Bertult at Hellan-dune: he subdued the Kentish-men and East- Saxons, and received to his protection the East Angles, and Northumber's: he broke down the brazen Image of Cadwalline King of the Britons, and commanded the land to be called Anglia or Engla-lond and not Britain; he was crowned and buried, having reigned 38. years, at Winchester.  Dane:  
Thus Mercyan, Danes, those by cold Tweed,  
Trent, Tyne, and Humber's pleasant side,  
Welsh, East, Westsaxons, Angles now,  
All Subjects been, or to him bow.  
Brave state of things! pity that e'er  
Danes spoils they should or Normans fear.  
At Winchester with Royal feasts,  
He entertains his Lordly guests,  
Nobles and Knights; where with consent  
Of a than held full Parliament,  
Egbert Crowned, Throned, in greatest state,  
Was of all England King create;  
His 
b This Edict, and new ●a●ing the Land by him, was about A ... and the ... year of his reign.  Edict-Royall published then,  
That England named, us Englishmen;  
So Egbert first brought into one,  
Seven Kingdoms, reared one Regal Throne.  
The end of the seventh Ode.     

A brief type of the eight Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called SWENO or SWANUS.  

The eight Ode containeth,  
1. The Original of the Danes, from old Dacia, by Danubius' side, whose offspring in Scandia sere vexed the Realm of England, first by Rovers, then by the King. juarus in Ethelreds' time, after by Hinguar and Hubba in alfred's time, and after, till Sweno made a conquest, though lost again by the succeeding Kings.  
2. The story of the chief Kings of England, viz. Egbert, A. 830. who left his son's 

Ethelw●lf King, A. 839. he reigned 18. years. 

Adelstane Duke of Kent.    

Ethelbald, his son, reigned 3.  
Ethelbert, his brother, reign. 5.  
Ethelred, his brother, reign. 7.  
Alfred, his brother, R. 29. he had great war with the Danes, & made Oxford an University.  
Edward Senior, his son, R. 24. y.  
Adelstane, his son, R. 15. years.  
Edmond, his brother, R. 5. years.  
Eldred, his brother, R. 9 years.  
Edwine, edmond's son, R. 4. y.  
Edgar, his brother, R. 16. y. A right worthy Prince, especially in his latter years.  
Edward, his son, surnamed the Martyr, reigned three years.  
Ethelred, his brother, he reigned in all 38. y. In his time Sweno got the conquest of this land and tribute, and exiled him into Normandy.  
Edmond, his son, surnamed Ironside, after the Danes were again expelled, reigned 2. years. Canute, the son of Sweno, reigned 20 years.  
Harold, his son, R. 3. years.  
Hard●Knute, his brother, R 2. y.  
Edward, son of Ethelred, surnamed Confessor, R. 23. years, a good Prince.  
Harold, the son of ●arle God●ine, and Thyra, as some say, the after of Canute, usurpeth one ear, and is dispossessed by William the Conqueror, An. 1066.     
3. Certain fragments of the stories of the tributary and petty Kings of diverse Provinces, set up, and for the most part subject to the former, viz. Of 

East-Angles 


King Offa, about the time of Ethelwolf.  
King Edmond, his adopted son martyred by the Pagan Danes.  
K. Guthrum, set up by the Danes, R. 12.  
King Edrike, also set up by the Danes and last King of the East-Angles, reigned 14. saving that some name Turkillus or Turketillus the Dane, King of East-Angles, about Adelstanes time.     
Mercians. 


Whitlafe, R. 15. y.  
Fridulf, R. 13. y. overthrown by the Danes, whom Ethelwolf vanquished in Surrey.  
Burthred, made King by Ethelwolf, married Ethelswide the King's daughter, but at last he fled from the Danes to Rome about alfred's time.  
Eldred, made King by Alfred, espoused the noble Lady Elslede, who also after her husband's death governed the Mercians with great honour, & defended them right nobly against the Danes: her brother King being much holpen by her martial aid and politic counsels, after whose death K. Edward took the land of Mercians wholly the Crown.     
Northumber's. 


Osfride and Ella rebel against Ethelred, and are slain by the Danes, about the beginning of alfred's reign,  
Egbert, made King by the Danes, expelled by the Northumber's.  
Ricsiga, King under the Danes, R. 3. years.  
Egbert, a second, under the Danes, R. 7. y.  
Guthred or Gormo a Dane, but Godson to King Alfred, reigned 11.  
Sythrik, his son, reigned next, and espoused Edyth daughter to King Edward, sister to Adelstane: but Aulafe and Godfride their sons, for moving some sedition against Adelstane, were expelled, and fled, Aulafe into Ireland, God fridus into Scotland; where they raised some powers, but were notwithstanding at several times vanquished by Adelstane and Eldred. After that one Edrike did claim the Kingdom of Northumberland: but was overcome by Eldred, about, An. 950. since when, Northumberland hath only remained an Earldom or Dukedom.         


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode octava, Inscripta SVENO.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Oda velut varijs, Anglos, octava procellis  
Iactatos canit, huc Danica turba ruit;  
Duraque Suenc l●cèt pensa imperet, omne retrorsum  
Cessit at Angligenis Imper●ale decus.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Prooemio Odae, inserta hypothesis.  
BRitannos Latij▪ 
Series Poematis, sive historiae Syntaxe●s ratio.  cum Italis modò Sax● Brytannos,  
Sedibus è patrijs & finibus expulit ambos:  
saxons è solio, simul omnia turbine versant,  
Daci disijciunt. Nostris ita saepè minutis,  
Ludit in humanis divina potentia rebus.  
Sicque vices Fortuna fovet, Naturaque cursu  
Omnia perpetuo varians, sicque explicat annum;  
Ver fugit aestates, aestatum terga lacessit  
Pomifer Autumnus, Nymbis cessurus & undis.  
Vtque canit Samius, 
Prooemio,  sic nos, sic omnia verti,  
Nunc has, nunc alias videas florescere genteis;  
Celsaolim, veteres nunc Troia, humil●sque ruinas,  
Et pro divitijs tumulos estendit avorum;  
Clara fuit Sparte, quondam viguêre Mycenae,  
Cecropis, & Pr●ami, necnon Carthaginis arces:  
Vile solum Sparta est, clarae cecidere Mycenae, 
〈◊〉   
Celsaque Carthago, Thebae celeberrimae & Argos.  
Laomedonteae, quid nunc nisi nomina Troiae?  
Quid Pandionijs restant nisi nomina Athenis?  
Tam variat Fortuna vices, tot mille figuris,  
Vt quod erat non est, 
inconstantis Fortunae accu●●tione constanti,  neque erit quod perstet in orbe.  
Imperiale decus, saeclo isto, pessim● Hirene,  
Transferre ad Gallos, velles insana Monarcha.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Dacorum sive Danorum & Daciae domen & origo.  
SAxones Egberto florent regnante, cruento  
Mox ipsi praedae Daco, miseraeque rapinae;  
Vnde igitur Dani veniunt, quibus incola terris  
Olim Dacus erat, qui tot modo coedibus Anglo  
saxons affecit; pandens ab origine primâ  
Musa rogata refer! 
stati● subtexitur Archaiologia sive origo Danorum è Dacia veteri ●uxta Danub●um sitâ,  Fuit olim Dacia propter  
Ripam Istri, Gothique Getaeque ad littora Ponti,  
Contiguas Dacis sedes habuêre, sed intus  
Daci Danubicis iuxta adsedêre fluentis:  
Contiguas quoque nunc Boreali in cardine mundi  
Quaesiuêre sibi sedes; nam Gotthia fineis  
Dacorum attingit, quâ tendit Cymbrica Nesos.  
Illi multoties Romano à milite victi,  
Trajani ac iussu Caracallae: postea bellis  
Romani Imperij fineis regnante Philippo,  
Turbârunt miserè, Europamque, Asiamque remiscent,  
Donec ab Aurelio victi, validisque fugati,  
Aut propè deleti, irruentùm à gente feroci  
Hunnorum, Eoas dominante Valente per oras:  
Exin cessêre, atque ubi iam sedêre, potiti  
Sede, ex quâ Marius Cymbros deleverat, inter  
Arctoos mundi populos numerantur: Eorum  
Dacia Pannonijs vicina, Valachia nuper  
Dicta, tulit Danos dudum, Dragulasque sibjipsis  
Infestos; parilique odio flagrànte, vocatus  
Turca iugum imposuit collis, Danosque trucidat  
Instinctu Dragulûm! Sic turpè utrisque subactis,  
Possidet arua ferox hostis; 
unde in Cymbricam Chersonesum,  celeberrima donec,  
Rettulit Hunniades, à Turcis capta trophaea,  
Extitit ac patriae vindex, Lunasque repressit;  
Sicque vetus, perhibent, produxit Dacia Dacos,  
jam Danos Dragulasque; hodiernaque Dania dudum,  
A sibi cognatis Danis, aut sede potitis  
Antiqua Istriacâ, nomen traxisse putatur.  
Crebraque eos inter commercia utrosque fuisse,  
Dacosque & Danos, olim Edgaris acta docerent;  
Eque sinu quamuis, quidam autumat hosce Codano,  
Danos iam dictos; sive haec seu verior illa  
Summi utriusque authoris erit sententia, Dacos  
Sive vocare lubet Danos, de nomine quippe  
Sollicitè minùs Orator monet esse severos,  
Cum dere constet: suo enim diplomate Regem  
Dacûm s● profitetur ovans, 
Ind● ad nos transierunt; Quibus tamen  Rex Daniae! ab illis  
Littoribus certum est venisse, ubi Scandia in Arcton  
Brachia protendit, tum limina nostra rapinis,  
Infestasse diu! sunt Oceanoque propinqui  
Dani, Baltiacique sedentes margine Ponti,  
Eoumque per Oceanum, sua littora contrâ,  
Hostibus infestis; brevis hinc traiectus ad Anglos;  
Hic fons, hoc flemma, haec Dacûm celebratur origo.  
jamque Deà unde fores digressa, revertere tempus,  
Et mecum Albionis placidam lege littoris oram.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Egberti dominatus, & Dynastiae finis.  
PRimum quem canimus, 
Angliae Reges, ut hic ordine 〈◊〉, restit●runt▪  Egberto Principe primo,  
Gaudet nata recèns, roseas induta Corollas  
Anglia, pace choros celebrans, laurumque triumphos.  
Saxonum ab adventu, quadringentesimus annus  
Est propè coeptus agi, Egberto iam Rege salutisque  
Octingentesimus, 
Egbertus, &  tricesimus, Ogdoos idem,  
Postquam Merciacis Wallisque Monarcha subactis,  
Eurique & Zephyri, Anglo-Saxones atque Meatas,  
Septem Regna suis adiunxerat; exteraque arma  
Finibus è totis repulit; cum stamina vitae  
Ruperunt Parcae, & florentia Sceptrarelinquit  
Filio Ethelwolfo: hic Romam proficiscitur, urbis  
Visendi studio, & votis Monachoque solutus,  
Quo prius indutus fuerat, 
filius Ethelwolfus,  Regalia iura,  
Sceptra capit, soliumque sibi, & Diademata Patris.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Egberti filij Ethelwolphi Regnum & gesta,  
DVctâque Osburgâ formosâ coniuge, Gnatos  
Bis duo suscepit, totidem ordine postea Reges.  
Huic Diws Swithinus, Adelstanusque celebres,  
Consiliarij erant; Egbertus & anteà Gnato,  
Cantia rura Duci dedit Adelstano, uti fama est.  
Dotibus egregij naturae instructus & artis,  
justiciaque suos & multâ pace fovebat, 
fortiter profligârunt;   
Cum subitò Oceani emergens quasi fluctibus ingens  
Dacorum numerus, turbantes omnia, Regni  
Fineis invadunt! quos Damnoniaeque Ceorlus,  
Vicit, Adelstanusque per aequora tota fugavit;  
At prius & villas multùm populantur & agros,  
Et Thamesim ingressi, Londinum, & Mercica rura,  
Cum, duce Merciaco, dicto modò Rege, Fridulph●,  
A Dacis fuso; comiti pro coniuge Gnatam  
Rex dat Ethelswidam, Burthredo; & Marcia donat  
Sceptra, & quam potuit magno conamine iwit,  
Infestos contra Dacos, inimicaque tela,  
Donec eos multâ discedere strage coegit. 
reliqu● Reges   
Sicuti iam radijs, aliquot obscura per annos,  
Dispergens nebulas, Anglis pax alma refulsit:  
Rex Iuditham duxit Francam, solioque locarat  
Contrâ quam Proceres Regesque ipsi antea contrâ  
Brytici Eadburgam statuissent Regi-Cidam:  
Wintoniaeque iacet post bis duo lustra sepultus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Ethelbaldi, Ethelberti & Ethelredi, trium Ethelwolfi Gnatorum regna.  
REgnat Ethelbaldus cum patre & fratre, 
VI  sibique  
judittham malus, uxorem patris, omine diro,  
Concubitu incesto, 
Ethelbaldus,  male tum copulavit & audit:  
Despectusque suis, paucosque superstes in annos  
Vixit; 
Ethelbertus,  Ethelbertusque olli successit; in illum  
Danica turba ruit; valida at virtute repressit,  
Ac citò post moritur, vix quintâ aestate peractá.  
Frater Ethelredus sequitur, 
Ethel●edus,  quem Dania totis  
Viribus aggressa est: etenim Rex Dacus juarus,  
Cum classe ingenti Angliacas simul appulit oras;  
Temporis intereâ Merciosque parumque fideles,  
Regi Ottadinos perhibent; ipsosque regebant,  
Burthredus Mercios, Osfridus & Ella Meatas;  
Rex tamen & Dacos superat, Regemque cecidi●:  
Under duces, 
multùm rapinis eorum infestatieos tamen repressunt.  cum fratre Agnerus Hubone creati.  
Quanquam alij referunt Regem haud perijsse, sed ipsum  
Pace impetratâ, terrâque hoc nomine quantum  
Tergo, ceu Corio circundare posset equino,  
Doncastrum posuisse, domumque measse, subortos  
Ad compescendum motus & furialia bella;  
Atque ita substituit fratreis, sed foedere nullo,  
Foedifragi poenis Daci magis usque stetêrunt:  
Vnde brevi post bellum oritur, ingensque secuta est  
Dacorum strages! cum, 
At sub primis Alfredi temporibus,  accepto vulnere, paullò  
Posteà Ethelredus, animam exhalavit in auras.  
Et minimus natû Alfredus, moderamine rerum  
jam potitur; 
Rebelles reguli Northumbriae & Merciae Dacis succumbunt,  potitisque domi circùm undique pace  
Compositis; votíne ergô, an faciebat honoris,  
Romam abiens, diadema verendo à praesule coepit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Quarti Ethelwolphi filij Alfredi Gesta florentissima.  
PErfidiae interèa fuso dant sanguine poenas,  
Merciacique infidi, Ottadinique rebelles;  
Namque per id tempus Northumbria paruit Ellae,  
Offridoque Anglumque iugo sua colla leuârat;  
Cum ducis infoelix spensam violare Beorni,  
Haud cunctatus erat Northumbricus ille Tyrannus  
Osfridus; vindexque Thori laesique pudoris  
Coniugis assertor, vocat in confinia Dacos,  
Aspergensque odijs commissa ob crimina Reges,  
Vallo ipsos Eboraci intra sua moenia cingit,  
Nec vita & solio, ac spoliarat, destitit ambos:  
Crimen adulterij Osfridus cum sanguine pensat,  
Et pr●pè Vro-uicum locus est qui dicitur Ellae  
Campus, ubicaesus cum sanguine nomina liquit.  
Nacti opportunum Daci tempusque locumque, 
Qui vice illorum regulo● alios substituunt, &   
Nunc Regum ac scelus infandum quo pellere Reges  
Nulli non libitum; illorum sibi Regna iugarunt;  
Regique Egberto cuidam Northumbrica sceptra  
Mandarunt! pulsoque illo, Ricsiga, secuti,  
Egbertusque alius! Gormo successerat illis,  
Guthredusque aliâs dictus, charissimus unus  
Alfredo quandam; Daci omnes Regna gubernant.  
Atque ità Northumbris dominati sedibus, ultrâ  
Merciacis agris latè populantur, & Anglos  
Inuasere etiam fineis; lentoque duello,  
Corruente Edmond● sanctae pietatis alumn●,  
Alkymondâ orto, Norymbergaque Sywarâ;  
Regem sive ducem sibi substituêre Guthormum;  
Eois sequiturque novissimus Edricus Anglis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Daci & eorum Duces saepiùs ab Alfredo profligati.  
BVrthredo haud Mercio minus, Alfredoque furentes  
Multùm perfidiosi ingentia damna tulerunt  
Daci; qui nullis pacto neque foedere, 
Alfredus ipse quamuis Dacis saepius fusis, ac pulso  stantes,  
Exoniam Alfredo ●ripiunt, inopinaque Regi  
Struxêre insidias; Rex, impiger arma capescens,  
Bristoliam propè primò, Abingdoniaeque secundò  
Praelio eos, magnumque ducem modo stravit Hubonem:  
Atque iterum à bellis sancito foedere cessit.  
Tempestate istâ Dacis veniebat ab oris  
Rollo, 
Rollone,  & ab Alfredo victus, ceu littora longè  
Neustriaca aspiciebat, apumque examine, gente  
Mellificâ, ductore, procul, sed debita fato,  
Regna petit, flwios Ligerim super atque Garumnam,  
Et Sequanam usque sitam sedem! 
Neustriae & Normannorum ●rimo Duce;  à quo postea Reges  
Neustriae, & Angliacis qui olim dominantur in oris.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Alfredi infortunia, sed & eorum foelix exitus.  
PErpetua intereà Dacis-cum bella fuisse,  
Sancitum quamuis esset foedusque fidesque  
Irrita cum votis, notum satis omnibus; uni  
Tota varios rerum casus, tot adire labores  
Contigit Alfredo invicto! cui mixta dolori,  
Gaudia semper erant, spes semper mixta timori,  
Cui vestes sudore iugi, cui sica cruore  
Tincta iugi, quantum sit onus regnare probârunt,  
Vixque foret quisquam immensi per climata mundi  
Cui tot in adversis vel respirare liceret,  
Nec tamen aut ferro contritus ponere ferrum  
Decrevit! quanquam à Burthredo Regia Dacis,  
Merciaque exposita est praedae; confinia Regis  
Alfredi, cum se Romam modò contulit, ausus  
Vlterius tumidis sese haud committere bellis;  
Inque manus Dacûm sic Mercia venit; ut antè  
Desertis Ducibus Northumbria; totaque Eoûm  
Rura, 
i● angustias deductus,  & Londinia East-Anglûm pulcherrima sedes:  
Hisce malis pressum & cingentibus undique Danis,  
Alfredum, perhibent, per devia rura vagantem  
Haud secus ac Phoebum Admeti inter prata, paludeis,  
Somersetiae agris, tanquam loca tuta tenentem;  
Insula Nobilium, per id tempus Athelnea texit  
Hostium ab incursu! & speratae penè salutis  
Immemorem: at Cutheberto, aiunt, hortante labantem,  
(Posteà cui, 
In Somersetiâ latuit, donec à S. Cutheberro solatus, & cohortatus,  (pario positum est de marmore templum  
Ingens Cestriae Ei;) donaria multa dicavit,  
Dunelmense solum, Cuthebertique arua!) palude  
Rellicta, in fuluam, contrà, descendit arenam.  
Post toties fractâmque fidem, iurataque frustrâ  
Numina Rex totis insurgens viribus, hostem  
Finibus è patrijs repulit! mox Mercica Regna  
Ingressus subigit sibi; 
resumptis armis Dacos & quoscunque hostes eiecit,  Noruegiosque ferenteis  
Praesidiariam opem, sternit, Dacumque cohortes;  
Et quem Burthredi vice substituêre Ceolphum  
Merciacis Daci, indignum vel nomine Regis,  
Infimae uti sortis, musis neque Martis alumnum.  
Cestria dein redit ad Regem, & Northumbria! Dacus  
Praeficitur quibus, Alfredi ex baptismate Gnatus,  
Gormo! fugâ, quaquâ versum sibi consulit hostis,  
Pars patriam repetens, pars munijt aggere fossas;  
Praeterèa ac nemo bellis tot victor apertis,  
Vno, uti qui septies Dacis-cum cerneret anno:  
Londinium, ereptam Dacis ubicunque fugatis, 
& inter alia ipsius,   
Merciacique soli partem, cum coniuge Gnatâ,  
Dat Duci Ethelredo, Elfledae Rex nomine dotis:  
At bellis simulac Dacumque furore quiescens,  
Tum Monachis aedes, 
opera magnificentissima Oxonium Academiam inst●tuit.  Cuthebertoque arua dicavit,  
Rex Tinam atque Athesim inter flumina; debeat olli  
Quicquid habet Phoebi & Musarum splendida sedes,  
Oxonium studijs florens, mihi dulcis alumna:  
Qui primùm instituens gymnasia, praemia fixit,  
Pallados, Hesperidumque sacri cultoribus horti,  
Wintoniaeque iacet post bis tria lustra sepultus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardi Senioris regnum & gesta.  
GNatus Eduardus sequitur, 
Eius soboles,  Wallumque Scotumque  
Hic primo Imperio & fratrem, 
Eduardus Senior, &  Dacosque cecîdit,  
Fratris Athelwoldi insigni feritate rebelleis:  
Northumbrosque armis domat, East-Anglûmque Guthormì  
Successorem Ericum, ereptis cum sanguine sceptris:  
Mortuo & Eldredo, Augustam, Oxoniumque recepit;  
Merciâ at in reliquâ populos Elfleda feroceis  
Inclyta Amazoniâ plusquam virtute coercet:  
Varuicum huic multum, 
Elfleda▪  Staffordia, Cestria debent,  
Salopia, atque aliae posuit queis moenia villae:  
Scilicet & Wallos domuisti, insigniaque armis  
Bellica Northumbris, Dacisque trophaea tulisti,  
O Elfleda potens, ô terror virgo virorum,  
Penthesilaea Phryges, Italos pharetrata Camilla  
Inter & ipsa tuos Dacisque verenda virago!  
Merciaque hac vitâ functâ, estrevoluta Coronae  
Fratris, & imperium Scoticos, penetravit inagros;  
Daci etenim & Walli, Eduardo, atque Anglia tota,  
Praeter, 
posteà.  quae Sythrico solum Northumbria Daco  
Guthredi Gnato, parent! sexusque utriusque,  
Sex Gnatas, sed non ex una coniuge▪ treisque  
Suscepit Gnatos, totidem ordine postea Reges:  
Nupta Editha est Sythrico, Northumbro; Elgina Monarchae  
Francorum Carolo, Elysi●s Rex visere campos  
Tendit, Wintoniaeque habet ossa recondita Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Adelstani & fratrum, splendidum solis Imperium.  
GNatus Athelslanus sequitur, 
Adelstanus  Regemque Scotorum,  
Arma vocantem, armis reprimit; Binosque nepotes,  
Defuncti Sythrici Gnat●s, furialia bella  
Ad minimum tacitè de seditione moventeis  
Consilia, è regno pellit, solioque paterno:  
Godfridusque Scotos, fugiens, Aualassus Hybernos,  
Movit Adelstanum contra; sed utrosque manebat  
Belli eadem fortuna; Scotûmque exercitus ingens  
Concidit, illorumque etiam Regesque Ducesque  
Non pauci! 
cum Dacis, Wallis, Scotis, alijsque regno in●●diatoribus fortiter & ●●liciter praeliatur.  Repetitque suos Aualassus Hybernos.  
Non impunè Scotos rupisseque foedera Dacos,  
Passus Athelstanus, Dacos subsidere, & ipsum  
In sua verba facit Regem jurare Scotorum:  
Vimerumque cepit, Wallosque, aggressus Hwallum,  
Regnis restituens ipsos; domitosque rebelleis  
Exus Cornubios, 
similiter ●ecêrunt  mox pulsos flumine ab Exi,  
〈◊〉 operâ turrita Excestria vidit;  
Cui Tamarisque datum est recipit Cornubia limen,  
Florente Imperio illius quoque tempore florent,  
Wolstanus Deirae, sanctus Cantuariae Adelmus,  
cum Monachis aedes, sibi nomina clara, parabat,  
Et fratri moriens sobole sine, splendida sceptra  
Permisit; Dacos qui perculit atque rebelleis  
Northumbros Edmondus ovans: Rursusque nepotem  
Fudit, 
Edmondus &  si ex Scoticâ redit idem Aualassus Hyberne!  
At breve fata nimis tempus vitaeque dierumque  
Indulsere sibi! cuius post flebile bustum  
Bina superstes erant soboles, Edwinus & Edgar;  
Frater ei successit, adhuc impubere prole,  
Eldredus; tenerisque datur Rex tutor Alumnis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eldredi & pupillorum dominium, & gesta.  
VNus hic Angliacos Reges celeberrimus inter,  
Eldredus! cui tanta hominis sapientia, virtus  
Bellica & integritas, 
Eldredus Reges meritò honoratissimi;  morum candore, parata,  
Vt facilè hostileis audito nomine solùm  
Sedaret motus! Hunc Odo, duosque sequenteis,  
Edgarum & Edwinum fratres; treis ordine Reges;  
Odo coronavit, Cantuariae Episcopus! Ormi  
Rursum Aualassus ope soceri, Northumbrica Regna  
Inuasit, rursumque petens, reppulsus ab ipsis  
Northumbris; posthaec Ericum sibi denuo sceptris  
Successorem habuit! Quem nigro immersit averno,  
Impiger Eldredus: Quem post duo lustra secutus,  
Edmondi puer Edwinus; qui insignia praeter  
Sumptamanu, 
Edwinum verò infamem,  sanctosque viros, meliora monenteis  
Candidè, in exilium pulsos, ea●propter & iras,  
Praeter & incestum, haud quicquam memorabile gessit,  
Dignum Rege nihil: Quare Northumbria & omnis  
Mercia, mirati teneris adeò Edgaris annis  
Eximias doteis claro sat stemmate dignas,  
Asciuêre ducem sibi eum, Regemque salutant;  
Quo facto, irarum, curisque ingentibus, aeger,  
Fluctibus, 
sequitur Edgar frater,  occubuit frater citò; coeptaque Regis  
Fama nec immeritò volitare per ora virorum:  
Dictus eras Edgar-Etheling pulcherrime rerum  
●los, honor, Anglorum sydus ter nobile gentis,  
Deliciae, patriae decus, & virtutis alumnus!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Edgaris Acta famosissima.  
VNdè equidem reliquos super, inclyta fama, Monarchas,  
Edgaris eximijcelebratur, & ardua virtus;  
Disposuit classem, munimina, littora circùm,  
Dunstanum revocat, Wallumque Scotumque subegit:  
Regum octo, Cumbriae, Wallûm, Scotiae, Orcadum, Hybernes,  
Vsque remigio, 
cuius gesta florentissima, nisi  est transuectus flumina Devae;  
Classe etiam aequoreos tractus solitum ire per omnes,  
Et Regni fineis circum-lustrare quotannis,  
Florentem perhihent suprâ omneis antea Reges!  
Is Wallûm Regem Luduuallum nomine, iussit,  
Trecentos, res bella, lupos, de more quotannis,  
Noxium ità, id genus, omne animal perdendo, tributi  
Nomine pendere. At mullum illi infamiae amores  
Inspersère leues; spaciatus amasius Edgar  
Rure & Vere novo, deceptus amore puellae,  
Quae Ioue digna rapi visa est; pulcherrima Nympha;  
Sollicitusque suos Matri dum narrat amores,  
Percupiens praedam, Danaes disponderat Imbrem.  
Mater ut, & natae illibato virgine flore,  
Posset Amatorem placasse, auroque potiri,  
Construxit Thalamum, at Nympham subduxit amanti,  
Ancillamque suam pro virgine Regis in ulnas  
Ignari dedit! ignoscenteque nomina fassae  
Edgaro, ab imperio dominae fit libera! uti illam  
Prostituisse iwet, turpi pro foenore corpus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Amoris Edgaris infames, aliáque gesta.  
ORgerijque Ducis Gnatae, 
Q●òd levioribus nimiùm indu●serit amoribus; quae eius intamia est,  postquam improba fama,  
Eximiam formam illius retulisset ad aures,  
Misit Ethelwoldum Comitem satis antè fidelem,  
Aequè formosam ac famosam visere Nympham:  
It, videt hanc, visamque cupit, potiturque cupitâ  
Mentitus Regi; Alfredae pulcherrima▪ amatae  
Formamque faciemque atque ora simillima Divis,  
Ceu Rege indigna, aut potius sibi congrua Nymphae  
Connubia; atque istis non absona caetera fingens,  
Rege petit veniam, Gnatam patre, virgine amorem,  
Quam capit in sociam, accelerans sua fata, iugalem:  
Mox ubi fama iterùm est formam admirata puellae,  
Se Rex infido delusum sensit amico,  
Spectatumque suis quo certior esset ocellis,  
Cornubiae Ducis, Orgerij patris, omnibus uni  
Praeter Ethelwoldo, 
Regem alioqui satis inclytum demonstrârunt.  valdè exoptatus in aedes,  
Edgarus ecce venit! Tyrioque nitentior ostro  
Interfusa genas roseo formosa pudore  
Constitit ante oculos, heu talis ut alma Dione,  
Candidior nive, pulchra suos. Alfreda decores  
Ostentans; quamuis coniux secus antè rogasset;  
Causasque exposuit delusi Regis amores:  
Quo magis illa stupet, magis & formosa videri,  
Falsa, sui similis, leviorque fugacibus auris,  
Deperit! Hancce movent, non pignora chara precesque;  
Mollicieque animi indutâ, illaqueatus amore,  
Rex sponsum interimi curat, votisque potitur:  
Decept●que prius Domino simili arte, rapinam,  
Inter venandum transfixus arundine liquit.  
Wilfreda● ex Monachâ, Monachamque habet Edgar Edytham,  
Wiltoniae primam Abbatissam; dijsque relatam;  
Edgaris ista iwenta fuit; quapropter abundè  
Sancto à Dunstano est reprehensus; serior aetas  
Sanctior! heic Monachis indulgentissimus aedes  
Extruxitque novas, 
Eius filij  veteresque alioque receptas  
Transtulit iis, auxitque alias, reparatque vetustas;  
Ijsque tulit leges, Regnoque apprime salubreis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardi Martyris & Ethelredi regna diversimodè infoelicia.  
LEgitima ex Elfredâ Edouardus coniuge natus,  
Ex Alfreda alter Copronymus! Edgarus auris  
Aethere mutatis, Edovardo sceptra relinquit.  
Fraude sed ille suae impettitus & arte Novercae, 
Eduardus Martyr ●adit,   
Occubuit rediens venatu incautus ab agris,  
Impia Ethelredo Gnato, dum regna pararet  
Alfreda; 
Ethelredus Copronymus prophetante S. Dunstano,  hunc tanquam emergentem ex sanguine fratris,  
Diris deuouet; at, tandem sacrare coactus  
Diws Dunstanus, sacra ceu baptismata vates,  
Foedantem, Angligenis insignia damna ferentem:  
Ignawm atque malum, fore iam praedixit, ut olim.  
Eius Ethelredi vitia, & simul Anglia Nympham,  
Te vitâ demptam Guinthildida luget in aewm.  
Dacus enim hinc fineis armis invaserat Anglos,  
Atque agitat praedas per littora curua; paratam  
Proditor insignis classem dedit Aelfricus hosti;  
Tum primùm, hisce malis, fractis Rex Sueno Britannis  
Imposuit vectigal, & icto foedere cessit.  
Brictius at postquam flêrunt madidique Nouembres  
Danorum interitum, quos puncto temporis uno,  
Fraudis Ethelredi memorant insigne trophaeum  
Excisos! dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat?  
Sueno iterum Angliacas venit indignatus in oras;  
Totoque Eoo tractu, Thamisim inter & Humbri  
Flumina, tum populis ripam extra utriusque subactis,  
Rex fugit ad socerum, Richardum, coniugis Emmae  
Patrem, Normannûm Regem; regnoque potitus  
Sueno erat, 
vitijs & ignaviâ suâ, Angliam miserijs oppletam, Dacis Suenone Rege, tributariam praestitit,  Angliacis Dacûm Rex primus in oris:  
Quo vitâ functo, insulsûm misera Anglia Danûm  
Lassa iugo, revocatque domum, recipitque misellum  
Rursus Ethelredum! miseranda strage peremptis  
Dacis, Sueniades sua trans mare regna Canutus,  
Moxque reversurus furiali more recessit.  
Regiâ Ethelredus praeter spem sede potitus,  
Postquam lustra suos propè rexerat octo Britannos,  
Ceu prius Edmondum, ex Elginâ, postmodo Regem  
Eduardum Alfredumque ex coniuge ceperat Emmâ,  
Londinij morbo, 
at recuperato regno, filius Edmondus; fraude  an curis confectus acerbis,  
jam Diui Pauli tumulatus in aede recumbit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Edmondi Regis immaturè extincti nobilissima progenies.  
REgna adit Edmondus, qui littora ad ista reversum,  
Impiger excipiens horrendo marte Canutum,  
Multa quoque est bello passus, stratagemmate multa  
Indigno, malè fidi Edrici, cognomine dicti  
Stratonici! tandem ad Sabrinae fluminis undas,  
Monomachia duos inter suscepta Tyrannos,  
Litem aufert! socijs utrinque astantibus armis,  
Oluea, Sabrinae in medio sita fluminis Alueo,  
Insula vidit eos lentum admirata duellum,  
Pugnando fessos demumque itaque convenit actis,  
Inter eos publicis; Borealior ora Canuto,  
Edmondo Zephyri atque austri subiecta procellis  
Cessere, 
tamen proditoris Edrici occumbit,  & socias iunxerunt foedere dextras.  
At citò fraude Edrici Edmondus cadit, Anglia flevit  
Flore iwentutis raptum! sunt Regia proles  
Daciam adusque suam ablegati à Rege Canuto:  
Et fieri sic firmaratus sibi sceptra tyrannus,  
Quo Daca effuso fratrum conspersa cruore  
Terra foret, 
unde Canutus Suenonis filius regnat,  premere incautos nece Knutus alumnos  
Impius ac voluit, frater concedere nollet;  
Rex Dacus, factum crudele perhorruit intus,  
Pannonico Regi externam qui misit in oram  
Imberbes iwenes, ubi cessit vescier auris  
Edmondus superis! Agathaeque suique hymenaeos  
Eduardus celebrat; voluuntur ut omnia fato!  
Pannonicae illa soror Reginae, filia Neptis,  
Regum & Alemaniae dominorum; oriuntur ab illo  
Stemmate, Qui Reges, Scoticis dominantur in oris:  
Hijs satus Edgar erat, Margaretaque nupta Scotorum  
Regi Malcolmo, 
& Edmondi puelluli, exilio degentes vitam, temporis tractu tamen, & longa post successione ad Angliae & Scotiae coronam, in suis posteris adspirârunt.  Scotiae quibus ordine longo  
Nascuntur Reges; Mariaque sorore, Mathildis  
Henrici primi coniux, sed & illa Mathildam  
Induperatricem genuit, fuit illa secundi  
Henrici genitrix; comiti quoque nupta Maria  
Bononiae Eustathio, Stephani hijs sata sponsa, Mathildis  
Alteza! sicque Scotis dominata & ubique Britannis,  
Spreta licet, despecta quasi, insidijsque petita,  
Progenies toto longè celeberrima mundo.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Kanuti Daci apud Anglos Imperium.  
SIc Ferreo-latere extincto, 
Ipsi verò Canuto,  simul exule prole  
Sceptra Canutus habes, iam totius Anglia; Olavo  
Noruegiam pulso subigens, Scoticosque rebelles,  
Noruegiae, Dacûm, Scotiae, Angliae, unus & idem  
Quatuor ingentûm populorum habeare Monarcha!  
Cui viduâ Emmâ uxore, dataque sorore vicissim,  
Normanno; illius sobolem succedere celso  
Pactus erat solio: egregiè hic maris imperat undis,  
Stulto adulatori illudens; 
duo ipsius Gnati.  Christoque Coronam  
Dedicat, imperiumque pedes pius antè resignat;  
Poenituit scelerum ac commissûm! invisat & urbem  
Romanam, in cineres post bis duo lustra reversus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Canuti & Emmae Gnatorum successionis ordo & dominia.  
TReis Regna in parteis, 
Haraldus cognomento Harefoot,  soboles, divisa capescit,  
Noruegium Sueno; satus Hardi-Kanutus ab Emmâ,  
Vulgo sic dictus, Daciam; sed & Anglica sceptra,  
Suppositus, perhibent, Gnatus invasit Haraldus;  
Regnum & confratreis vexans odijsque Novercam,  
Rexque triennis obit! 
& Hardi-Kanutus, ac tandem  Solio successor in alto  
Rex Dacus sequitur, satus Hardi-Canutus ab Emmâ  
Rexque triennis obit! solioque Edouardus Eburno  
Successit, sanctus Confessor! & ipse Canuto,  
Ex Emmâ frater; 
Ethelredi Gnatus Eduardus Confessor dictus, succedunt,  geminisque parentibus ortus,  
Emmâ & Ethelredo: Godwini huic filia nupta est,  
Pulchra adeò pia Nympha, pudica, modesta, decensque;  
Ac quasi spina rosam, perhibent, Godwinus Edytham  
Barbarus atque ferox genuit, pater improbus! Eius,  
Godwini malè consilijs, Rex saepius usus,  
Multa minùs rectè, matremque aliosque fideleis  
Contra equidem falsò insimulatos crimine, amicos,  
Gessit; donec erant, Gnatique paterque rebelles  
Pulsi, 
Quo  & in exilium missi, pia nuptaque eorum  
Culpâ Wiltoniae Monachis est reddita Nymphis.  
Rexque manens virgo cum virgine coniuge, fama est,  
Praedam aliis moriens, sobole sine, sceptra reliquit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardo Confessore sine prole decedente, varij suborti motus in Anglia.  
POstea at in Regis, Gnatique paterque favorem,  
Depositis redeunt obijs; ipsoque iubente  
Rege, per insolitos saltus, tractusque nivosos  
Victor agens currus Snowdonis montibus hostem  
Perculit, 
sobole sine decedente,  & bello minimè confregit aperto,  
Contectos Wallos nemore atque silentibus umbris,  
Godwino satus acer Haraldus! utique Sywardus  
Disiecit Scoticum, Ottadinus Comes ipse Tyrannum  
Machutam! Et Regum Scotiae de sanguine cretum  
Malcolmum statuit Regem; cui postea nupsit  
Edmondi neptis, soror Edgaris! Angliae in oras  
Qui modò cum patre, matre Agatha, atque sororibus, unâ  
Accessurus erat, 
Regnum tanquam praedae expositum, inter Competitores,  Rege accersente: sed ecce  
Interèa Eduardus moritur pater; exulis ergò  
Dicti, Edgar-Etheling Gnatus, Regni audijt Haeres,  
A Rege Eduardo, Angliaci; & Protector Haraldus.  
His ità compositis, 
Edgarum,  cui plurima sanctaque virtus  
Emicuit, sanctâ Eduardus Rex pace quievit.  
At dubij Proceres, & quò se vertere nescij,  
Seu fugere antè suam, 
Haraldum Godwini Gnatum  sive expectare ruinam,  
Normannas metuunt vireis, iactataque vulgo  
Facta Duci promissa; at Godwineius Haraldus  
Ingentem populi sibi conciliarat amorem:  
Et iam Pannonico, fato ecce superstes ab orbe  
Nobilitate potens, dudùm Edgar, Regia proles,  
Venerat Angliacas, patre condecoratus in oras;  
Sed puer Edgar adhuc, & nondùm aetatis adultae,  
Nec tam acri, 
& Gulielum, denuò Conquaestorem, dilaniandum & discerpendum reliquit,  aut tanto potis est occurrere morbo,  
Nascentisue mali infenfas restinguere flammas!  
Hijs ità suspensis animo; Protector habendus  
S●u genere, anne magis hoc audax nomine Regnum  
Nemine eum prohibente, ferox invadit Haraldus!  
Sceptra manu rapiens, frontem Diademate cingit:  
Bisque fidem fractam, pueroque Ducique, parabat,  
Armatàque manû, 
cuius  aut quavis ratione tueri.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Sub adventum Gulielmi Normanni, valdè tumultuantis Angliae descriptio.  
AT iam corda hominum terrent, 
Miseriae hypotyposis ad sequent●m Odam, fit quasi Metabasis.  visusque Cometes,  
Hijque novi motus, fata & contraria fatis!  
Anglia, & accensis furialibus undique flammis,  
Insula tota ferè flagrat! civilibus armis  
Frater Tosto furit; Venetâ iracundior Adriâ.  
Addidit infestas vireis, plaga frigida mundi,  
Noruegiaeque manus, Scotia, Orcades, ultima Thule;  
Nec Gulielmus abest longè, quem Flandria totis,  
Neustria quem sequitur, quem Gallia viribus: Olli  
Charta sacrata mea est, illi haec mea carmina! Terris  
Qui decus, Oceano Dominos, genus addit Olympo.  
Odae octavae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION, Entitled SWENO.  
The eighth Ode.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
Th'eighth Ode the rapines of the Dane,  
And Swane's supposed conquest sings,  
Who here imposed Dane-gu●t, but taken  
Away by Fate, few Danes were Kings,  
For English as they back regain  
Their Phoebus' Bay, again did reign.  

CANT. I.  
The Exordium drawn from the various changes of all humane things.  
Britons the Latian Lords of eld, 
Synchronismus sive computatio Annorum.   
Them Saxons, Danes 
Supplementum Historiae.  them both expelled:  
So jove, King's crowns like ba●s in sport,  
Tosses in Fortune's tennis-court;  
Whiles she her shapes and vassals tornes  
Vortumnus-like t'a thousand forms.  
So Nature her things; nothing strange,  
Doth yearly vary, hourly change:  
Spring, Summer; Fall, doth Winter chase,  
Live take Deads', Young their Elders place.  
Of Souls, Seas, Empires, Us and all,  
Pythagoras 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or the transmigration of souls from one body to another, and sometimes of diverse and strange kinds, as of the souls of men into Apes, Swine, etc. for punishment, among the various changes of things, wa● the doctrine of the Pythagorians.  sang the Rise and Fall,  
How, now this King, anon that Nation  
Triumphs; soon, suffers alteration:  
Troy now for towers may tell her tombs,  
Whose ruins take their stately rooms;  
That buried in their own falls been;  
Thebes, learned Athens, fair Mycenae,  
Sparta, Argos, Carthage; arms, pride, fame,  
What news? where now? seen nought, save name.  
Th'old Samians saying, so, not 
* Pythagoras' ●is saying.  strange,  
Towns, 
Hirene the Empress, A Christi 800.  We, States, World and all do change.  
Hirene mad now more to change States,  
Greeks Empire would to French translate.   

CANZ. II.  
The original of the Danes that so molested England.  
EGbert now flourished, 
Egbert, A. 802. reign. 37. years.  and his reign  
Free from the rapines of the Dane:  
Who whence they came that England vexed  
So, be't thy task, dear Muse, now next.  
Old Dacia lay by Donow, 
* The original of the Daci o● Danes, now Dani; their Country being called Dac●a, or Dania.  where  
Goths their near Pontic neighbours were:  
These though not far, Danes nearer bide  
To Swan-loued Ister's pleasant side;  
Southern of eld; the self same seen  
Now Northern Nations, neighbours been;  
Goth-land and Denmark dwellers, near  
The Baltique now, erst th' Euxine Mere.  
These Daci, oft the Romans thralls  
By Traian's power and Caracalls, 
Trajanus, anno 100   
Vexed th'Empire sore in Philip's reign  
Till by Aurelius foiled or slain,  
Th' Huns too, o'er ran them with huge hosts,  
When Valens ruled ith'easterne coasts;  
So, fain to seek this northern 
b The old Daci of Dacia, by Ister or Donow, oppressed and expulsed by the Romans and Huns, were fain to seek new seats about Cymbrica Chersonesus, and the Baltique Ocean, whence Marius expelled the Cymbrians.  Cell  
Whence Marius did the Cymbri quell.  
That ancient Dacia, that since hight  
Valachia, lately brought to light  
Two factious families, t'one of Danes  
Tother Draguli; that their own banes  
Wrought by uncivil civil flames  
To their great loss, and Christians shames,  
Whiles Turk devours with ravening Kite,  
Those frogs and mice-like warriors quite,  
Though soon Don john of Austria famed  
From Mahound's moons their lands reclaimed.  
Thus Dacia once her Daci, now  
Her Danes and Draguli did show,  
Whence modern Denmark, name and race,  
From those on Donow's banks they trace:  
Whose old mutual commerce and love,  
Since, Edgar's acts and theirs, seem prove.  
Though Danes name nor mean authors some  
Would have from Codane gulf to 
c Sinus Codanus being all that Sea and Gulf, bordcring the now Dania or Denmark. vide Ortelium.  come;  
So here's inventions choice! less need,  
Strive o'er names, things themselues-on greed:  
Since Danes King, King of Daci writes,  
And his Danes from (t'us) eastern sites,  
Their Dacian seats on Scandian coasts  
Harrowed England erst, with furious ●oasts;  
And 'tis but from their shores to these  
A short cut o'er the Germane Seas.  
Such their old seats, their stock and stem;  
Leaving a while their lands and them,  
Go we whence we digressed before,  
Back to our best known Britain shore.   

CANZ. III.  
The flourishing reign and Monarchy of King Egbert, uniting the seven Kingdoms of Saxons, and subduing the Danes.  
COmes that now first in place to sing  
Egbert first new made England's 
* The whole Land being then newly by his Edict called Anglia or Engla-lond, of the Angles or English, of whose stock the King was.  King; 
The latter end of Egberts' reign, he being t●●n King of all England, who began, A. Christi 802. and R. 37. was, ●. 838. and 839. And from Hengists' coming 390. years; who came about the 450. year of Christ.   
His due for Peace the myrtle spray  
And Rosy wreath's, for wars the bay!  
Fourhundreth from first Saxons here,  
Eight-hundreth and nigh fortieth year  
Of grace it was; and Egbert reigned  
O'er all seven Saxon Kingdoms gained,  
And Danes driven out, t'him England's King  
Angles all-haile, and Saxons sing;  
Having so subdued both Welsh and them,  
He dies, and leaves his Diadem  
And sceptres flourishing full fair  
To Ethelwolfe, his son and heir:  
Who went to visit Rome; where 
* He was Bishop of Winchester, saith john B●ompton, Abbot of Ia●uaux; at Rome●e ●e repaired the English School, founded by Offa King of Mercia.  freed  
From vowed does on the regal weed.   

CANZ. FOUR  
His son Ethelwolphes acts and reign.  
THen marrying fair Osburga, 
Ethelwolfe, son of Egbert, A. 839. ●. 18.  springs  
From them, twice two sons, after Kings;  
Saint Swithine, and good Ethelstane,  
Were his chief council; this they sayne  
As was his father Egberts' mind,  
Had for his Earldom Kent affigned.  
This good King's time saw justice reign  
And peace; till troubled by the Dane;  
Whom when Ce●rle by land o'ercome,  
Athelstane did by sea the same;  
Though they had first borne Fridulfe down,  
And sacked and fired his Merk-land towns,  
Being come so far as London, 
* The Dane having entered the Thames with 530 ships, spoilt London, ouer-ran Mercia, and entered Southrye, there foiled by the King and his son Ethelbald, at a place called Aolca, and in the West; and after by Adelstane, and Earl Calchere, at Sandwich in Kent, where 9 of their ships were taken.  and  
Her Thames the pride of all the land.  
Merk-land her dower, for Buthred's bride,  
Her sire then gave fair Ethelswide;  
And with joint-powers opposing thee,  
They done repress the Danish foe,  
So peace again in's latter days  
'Gan to show forth his golden 
* Saving that his son Ethelbald rebelling, divided his Kingdom with him, and made him take the worse half.  rays;  
French judith made his Queen anon  
The King set her on regal Throne,  
Contrary to what was decreed  
For Brytrik's Queen's King-quelling deed,  
Eadburga's act; Winchester deigns,  
Her King tomb for twice ten years' 
* Where he was sometimes Bishop as some write, before he was King.  reign.   

CANZ. V.  
Ethelbalds, Ethelbert and Ethelreds' times sore pestered with incursions of the Danes;  
NExt Ethelbald, 
Ethelbald reigned with his father; and his father dying, An. 857. he reigned 3. years after.  Ethelwolphes son,  
Succeeds, and amongst his deeds ill done,  
Fowl acts befit incestuous beds,  
His father's wife French judith weds;  
But lives not long. His brother next  
Ethelbert whom the Danes sore vexed,  
Reigns but five year! chased hence the Dancs.  
Ethelred than third brother reigns, 
Ethelbert, An. 860. R. 5. years, buried at Shirburne. Ethelred, An. 866. R. 7. years, buried at Wimbourne.   
Who was much pestered with those hosts  
Of Pirates from the Scandian 
* In his time the Danes harrowing England, overthrew the famous Monasteries of Bardoney, Croyland, Medishamstede, or Peterborow and Ely: the Abbess of Coldingham, cut off her own nose, and upper-lip, persuading her sisters to do the like, thereby to become audible to the Danes so to preserve their Virginity; which made the Danes in despite burn both the Monastery and Nuns therein.  coasts;  
More, Merklands Duke Burthred rebels,  
And Humber's Lords Offride and Elle;  
But Ethelred quenched all these flames,  
Danes, faithless friends, and enemies tames,  
When Danes King slain, famous Agner●  
And Hubbo, Dukes created 
a Or Hinguar or Hubba, who overthrew the valiant Earl among the East-Angles, Walketulus, and shortly after the holy king Edmond, whom they bound to a stake, shot himfull of arrows as be was making his prayers to God; and lastly strake off his head.  were;  
Though some say, he with England's peace  
Went hence home civil broils to cease:  
But first from Ethelred procured,  
Land where those brothers them immured,  
Like Byrsa, Carthage Castle strong,  
What might be compassed by one 
b Like to this was done by Queen D●do at Carthage, and by Hengist at Thong near Sittingburne in Kent.  thong,  
Whence Thong-Castle or Doncaster  
As soon suppose, surnamed were.  
But Danes broke truce; whence to those Danes  
Wars dismal chance, brought all their banes;  
And Ethelred hurt in the 
c After a battle at Basin he was slain or deadly hurt at Whitingham, and buried in the Monastery of Wimbourne, his Arms were a Cross Florye.  fight,  
Died shortly after; whose crowns right,  
Did to fourth brother Alfred come,  
For honour's sake then fetched at Rome.   

CANZ. VI.  
Alfred made King of Northumberland and a great part of England beside, being ruled by the Danes.  
But now Northumber's in this tide, 
Alfred, the 4. son of Ethelwolf, A. 872. R. 29.   
And Mercians paid dear for their pride,  
Who left the English yoke, and ta'en,  
Were made slaves to the Lordly Dane.  
Northumber's tyrants, one of them  
That then usurped the Diadem,  
Osbright, ravished Beorna's spouse,  
A Lords! that solemn vengeance vows;  
When Danes called in, within York walls  
With hostile arms girt, Osbright falls.  
Nor distant is far from the 
* The place called Elles-Croft.  same  
Where Ella left, both life and name.  
Northumberland then, 
Osbright and Ella, Kings of Northumberland, slain.  these two slain,  
Was forthwith subject to the Dane;  
One Egbert first, next Ri●sige, 
d King's set up by the Danes in Northumberland.  than  
Another Egbert bring they in,  
And Guthred's made the Crown to wear,  
Sometimes by Alfred loved dear.  
The Danes thus amongst Meatae they  
Reigning, was Merkland made their prey,  
East-Angles too, their good King 
e His predecessor Offa, though of mean estate, King of the Fast- Angles, making his voyage to the holy Land, went by Saxony and Norymberge, to visit his cousin Alkymond, and young nephew Edmond, whom he promised to make his heir, and did accordingly, sending him his ring in token thereof, from the place where he died in the journey; wh● bringing diverse learn; 〈◊〉 over with him, reigned in East- Angle, till he was so overcome by Hingu●r and Hubba, and in profession of the Faith martyred by the merciless Pagan Danes: his Psalter in the Saxon tongue was long kept as a monument in the Monastery of Saint Edmondsbury.  gone,  
Edmond great Alkymonda's son, 
King Edmond of East-Angles the Martyr.   
And Queen Sywares! by holy vow,  
King Offa's heir, whom Danes overthrow.  
And Guthrum in his place they bring,  
And Edrick last East-Angles King.   

CANZ. VII.  
Alfred forsaken of some of his rebellious Dukes, yet vanquisheth Rollo the Dane, great ancestor of the Normans.  
THerewhiles as one of friends forsook,  
Alfred alone though, could not brook  
Those reckless rapines of the Dane,  
Trothless truce-breaks, that had ta'en  
Exeter by such craft; and laid wait  
For the King's life: who therefore straight  
With his few Southern forces, did  
First battle nigh to Bristol bid;  
And next, near Abingdon he slew,  
Great Hubbo, Chieftain of the 
* A great beape of stones was copped up in the place where he was buried, which is yet called of his name Hubbes●ow.  crew.  
So Danes sought peace! and Rollo came  
Foe-like, but was repulsed with shame;  
And hony-bees their gentle guides  
By Loyr's, and by Seynes floury sides,  
He and his warlike Danish host  
Placed themselves in fair Frances coast,  
Which Northmen Normans been! 
Rollo the Dane, A. 890.  whence springs,  
Their Neustrian race of 
* The ancestors of William the Conqueror, Dukes of Normandy, descended from this Rollo the Dane, the 〈◊〉 of Guion, being then expulsed hence by king Alfred.  English Kings.   

CANZ. VII.  
Afterwards brought to the lowest ebb of fortune, and fain to lurk unknown in the marshes in Somerset shire, yet again recovereth the Monarchy of the whole Island: he founded Oxford.  
NOr yet can noble Alfred cease  
From wars, though Danes themselves crave peace;  
Whose trothplight promise broken still,  
Done raise fresh broils and farther ill,  
That scarce one found, more truly bore  
A crown of thorns than Alfred ware,  
Whose head from care, nor hands from blood,  
Or he from toil, ere vacant stood;  
Each passed pain, seeming t'have been  
Prologue, t'a more prodigious scene!  
That he, almost, and none but he  
Could lived, or have been half so free  
From fear, or farther danger, when,  
His foes so false and faithless been.  
For Burthred, by this time to 
b Where he died, and was buried in the Saxons School, founded by Offa King of Mercia, and since repaired by his father in law, King Ethel●ol●e.  Rome  
From Merk-land fled and native home,  
Left palace, lands, and what remains  
Exposed to th'rapines of the Danes:  
East-Angles and Northumberland  
More, ere this, held by Danes strong hand.  
Good Alfred too, by frowns of fate  
At lowest ebb; in stead of state  
In Athelney the Nobles 
c So called of King Alfred and his Nobles, lurking there and ●●ding them from the Danes cruelty.  I'll,  
In ragged poor attire, a while,  
Wearied by war, in Somerset-sheere,  
Among the marshes hid him 
d Where it is said, a poor woman the wife of a Cowherd, baking cakes on the co●es, as the King was in the house dressing his bow and shafts by the fi●● she threw them away 〈…〉 & saying, Why dost not thou turn the bread 〈◊〉, but lette●● it burn, and yet wilt be ready to eat it e'er it behalf baked: not knowing it to be the King that had fought so many shar●e● 〈◊〉 against the Danes for them.  there,  
And Sol-like with his lyre, that song  
TO Admetus' herds, he too among  
Those rushy pastures, seems, was glad  
In minstrell-like mean habit clad  
With Harp in hand, so to spy out  
The riots of the Danish rout.  
Whom holy Cuthbert cheering, and  
Persuading to take arms in hand,  
Had Cuthberts' lands vowed, and in fine  
Dedicate to him Chester's sumptuous shrine;  
Alfred much like the spark that came  
From cinders rak't, resumes new 
e And first at a battle sought at Exeter, the Danes ensign called Rea●an, a Banner with the Raven, held by them in great estimation, for that it was embroidered by the daughters of Lodbroke, the three sisters of Hinguar and Hubba, with rich spoils was taken; after they were defeated at Ethan-dune, then at Rhoaf-ceaster or Rochester which they besieged; after that at Farnham in the Parish of Alesford in Kent, and thence chased into Essex through the Thames; then at Beaufleet, a place which the Dane Hasting●● new come over with 80. ships ●ad fortified; and lastly, quite discomfited at Bultinga-tune, by Scuerne, at the I'll Mersig or Mersey in Es●ex, at the River Ligea or Ley that goeth up to Ware, which carried up their ships, but by Alfred trenched and dried that they could not bring them back; but so forced to 〈◊〉 into Northumberland, and thence home to Denmark.  flame,  
And first from his own realms the Danes,  
Next most ignoble King that reigns,  
Ceolfe he sets from supreme seat  
Merks Dane-King since Burthreds defeat!  
Fresh Norway powers foiled, Chester failed,  
Northumber's then, and London quailed,  
He Humber's flowery banks betook  
This godson Gormo Danish Duke;  
Eldred, 
Eldred, or Ethelred, King of Mercia.  with Kings-child, Elfled flower  
Of maids, hath Merklands part her dower!  
So foes fallen or fled, news to bring  
To th' Neth'rlands or their Norway King,  
In peace Monks cells he placed and 
* This most victorious and virtuous Prince, well seen in the liberal Sciences and Poetry, a careful justicer and provider for the Poor, and Orphans, and Widows, most vigilant and devout in the service of God; sent for Grimbald a learned man, and by the counsel of Neotus erected common Schools of the liberal Sciences in Oxenfourd, turned the Laws and diverse books into English; divided the Day, eight hours to his study and prayer, eight to bear his subjects causes, and eight to his sleep and repast: his revenues likewise, part to his servants, part to building, part to Schools, strangers, Monasteries, by him built and others; he also founded the Monasteries of Ethelingsey, Shaftsbury, and Winchester, where he was buried: his wife Alfwida founded the Monastery of Nuns in Winchester.  signs  
Saint Cuthberts' lands 'twixt Tees and Tyne.  
More honouring Oxfords Pallas-towers  
With Sols and Muses sacred bowers,  
My dearest nurse ere his praise will sing,  
Whom Cairguent tombs these ten years King.   

CANZ. IX.  
King Edward Senior, and the Princess Elfleda's warlike acts.  
WHen Alfred who made Mars rage cease  
In war triumphant, 
Edward, surnamed Senior, A. 900. R. 24. his brother Adelwold rebelling fled to the Danes & made their King, was slain, and the other Kings of the Danes, Healden & Eovils, at Wodens' field by Wolfrune-hampton, in Staffordshire, A. 910.  slept in peace,  
His son first Edward, Danes Welsh, Scots,  
Northumber's and false brother's plots  
With Edrike last East-Angles King  
Subdued! and Eldred dead, did bring  
From Merklands back t'his England's crown,  
London and Oxford, Thames chief towns.  
Though Elfled, Amazonian Dame,  
His sister governs with great fame  
Her Mercians! that not more feared been  
Camilla, nor those Scythian 
* The Amazons.  Queens;  
Whiles Danes, Welsh, and Northumber's yield,  
Her warlike trophies in the 
a This Lady after she had once felt the pains of childbirth, leaving her husband's company, wholly gave herself to such martial actions, much aiding the King his brother by her powers and counsel and policy in the wars, she took a Queen of the Welsh in battle, diverse times chased the Danes, and in person took and entered Derby, being fortified by them; besides those other Towns she fairly repaired Tamworth, Lichfield, Watersbury, Eldesbury, Leycester, the Town and Castle of Runcorne, builded Brymsbury, and a Bridge there ever the Severne she overcame the Yorkshire men, and having nobly governed eight years, she died and was buried at Gloucester in the Church which her husband and she had builded.  field;  
And Shrewsburies', 
Turketillus, likewise counted King slain, A. 915. with other Danish Earls and Dukes of Bedford, Buckingham, etc. And Edrike also after Guthrum made King of East-angles by the Danes.  Staffords, Chester towns  
With Warwikes walls, this Queen renowns:  
Who dead; t'her brother King, do fall  
Both Mercia, Danes, and Welsh and all,  
To Scotland borders; save alone  
Northumbrian Sythrik's, Gormo's son,  
T'whom was wed Edith, Edward's Imp,  
As Elgine to French Charles, fair Nymph;  
Four daughters more he had, and sons  
All three Kings; 
b Winchester by the Britons called Caerguent.  Cairguent, tombs his bones.   

CANZ. X  
King Adelstanes worthy reign under whom flourished famous Wolstane and Adelme.  
Reigns his son Athelstane next! who, 
Adelstane, A. 924. crowned at Kingston by Adelme, Archbishop of Canterbury, R. 15. y. was buried at Malmesbury.   
Foiled by the Scot'sh King, and those 
x And making Constantine king of Scots, he added this Princely word, that it was more honour to make a king then to be a king; one happening of fortune, so to be borne, the other being of worth and valour.  two  
Sons of dead Sythrike, that for wars  
Secretly sowed seditious jars;  
And fled though, mortal feud to cherish,  
Godfrey of Scots, Aulafe o'th' Irish  
Obtain whole troops, but both like sped  
For th' Irish fell, and Scots lay dead:  
And Scot'sh King on his knees brought down,  
Fealty fain swears to th' English 
z But in a second expedition in the said Auala●●us aid again, who had married his daughter, he was slain with five kings and twelve Dukes, Leaders of the army, consisting of Danes, Irishmen, Scots, and Islanders.  crown.  
Siferth too, and Howell Welsh Kings both,  
Ta'en and restored, ta'en the like 
a He made them also pay the yearly tribute of twenty pound gold, and three hundred pound silver, 2500. head of nea●e, with Hounds & Hawks to a certain number.  oath:  
Cornish rebels repelled to th' Exe,  
And from her river thence t'a next,  
Exeter, being towered by this King's means,  
Saw them confined at Tamaris streams.  
Athelstane flourishing, flourished then,  
Wolstane, and Adeline, holy men,  
York's Sees Primates, and Canterberies:  
This King builds diverse 
b He ●ounded Saint Germans in Cornwall, which was since a Bishops See, Saint Petrocus at Bodmyn; so likewise Pylton Priory, Middleton and Michelney; in his time Guy Earl of Warwick slew Colbrond the Danish Giant in Hide-meade by Winchester.  Monasteries,  
And dying issueless leaves the crown  
Too's brother Edmond! who put down,  
Danes and Northumber's first, 
Edmond, A. 940. R. 5. years.  and then  
His cousin, new-risen with th' Irishmen;  
But rapt alas too soon by 
c He was famed for a good justicer and virtuous Prince, he granted the privileges of Saint Edmondsbury: he was stain at Puckle Church, rescuing his servant from a thief, and buried at Glastenbury.  fate,  
Two tender Imps in pupils state,  
Edwine and Edgar, crown and heir,  
He left t'his brother Eldreds' care.   

CANZ. XI.  
Of King edmond's sons Edwine and Edgar brought up under their uncle Eldred, who nobly expelled the Danes.  
EDmond thus dead, 
Eldred, brother of Adelstane, A. 946. R. 9 y. buried at Win●hester.  his sons and throne,  
All left to's brother's charge alone;  
Eldred then reigned, whose very 
* He took on him only the rule as Protector at first, but was after crowned at Kingston; he founded the Bishops See of Cornwall at Saint Germans, where it continued till Edward the Confessor translated it to Exeter: he builded Mich at Abingdon, giving great lands & confirming them Charters with seals of gold.  name  
His foes did daunt, whose noble same  
For justice, and Prince-worthy parts  
Rebels repressed, won goodmen's heart;  
His cousin Aulasse that th' Irish prayed,  
By's fatherinlaw Duke Ormus aid;  
Invades: and after Erike 
d The Northumber's had received Aulafe for their king, and again rejecting him, set up Ericus, but Eldred repaid all their disloyalties according to their deserts.  claims  
Northumber's sceptres; but both slain,  
Next Eldreds' ten years' reign, 
Edwine, son of Edmond, A. 955. R. 4.  not long,  
Edwine as ill-disposed as young,  
Succeeded, famous for no facts  
Save vicious stead of virtuous acts;  
His Cousin, on's 
* And after slew her husband, so to enjoy her unlawfully the more! freely.  Coronation-day,  
He ravished! Dunstan fled away,  
And good men banished from his Court,  
Must leave him needs but bad report;  
Northumber's they, and Merkland 
* So being deprived by the Mercians and Northumber's, he died soon after for grief, and was buried at Winchester.  men,  
Chose for their Prince young Edgar then,  
Whose much admired, and princely parts,  
Had stolen their loves and all men's hearts:  
His brother died for very grief,  
Whose fams his infamy! 
Edgar, son of Edmond, A. 959. R. 16. he was surnamed the Peaceable.  Edgar chief  
Of English Kings; might all of eld,  
As well as latter times so held.   

CANZ. XII.  
Edwine being despised for his vice, Edgar obtaineth the Crown, a most fortunate and victorious Prince Monarch over all Britain.  
Fair flower though last, not least renowned  
Of three Kent's Primate Otho 
* Himself, his brother Edwine and uncle Eldred, were crowned by Archbishop Odo: he was crowned at Bath, interred at Glas●enbury.  Crowned  
Were't th' English Rose, and thence called Etheling,  
As country's virtues, honour's darling,  
He called home Dunstan, and o'requelled  
Both Scots and Welshmen that rebelled,  
And Ludwall yearly tribute 
* Which was not passed 3. or 4. years, ere no more could be gotten.  paid  
Three hundred Wolves till they decayed.  
Eight Kings, we read, rowed him on 
* There were the Kings, Rinoch of Scots, Malcolm of Cumberland, Macone of Man, Dyfn-wall of Dymetia, Siferth and Huwall other Kings of Wales, james of Galloway, and jukill of Westmoreland: his navy of 3600. ships, saving when be compassed the Island triumphantwise in the same, he disposed at three several places 1200. at a place, for defence of the Kingdom.  Dee:  
And oft in gallant fleet at Sea,  
In sommer-time he sails Britain round,  
'Twas thought his peer till than not found:  
Though wanton loves did much disgrace  
His royal person and his place;  
For at one time deceived by love,  
Or a wench worthy wanton jove,  
'Bout Andevor his fair love dwells,  
Whose mother charmed with golden spells  
By amorous Edgar; fain t'have found  
His gold, that saved her daughter sound,  
Laid in love's arms, by dark deceived,  
Her waiting maid; which when perceived  
By morning-sunne, this Lass he frees,  
And gave deserved her golden fees.   

CANZ. XIII.  
King Edgar infamed for his wanton loves.  
ANother time the Cornish Dukes  
Famed daughters fair enchanting looks  
For love and beauty, made him send  
Earl Ethelwold a faithless friend,  
To view; who went, and wooed and won  
For himself, not his Prince! This done,  
Returns, tells wanton Edgar than  
'Twas course stuff, fit for common men,  
Not Princes Chambers! fame belied her,  
(Or rather he,) to say beside her,  
Was none so fair! But pleased his grace,  
Her parents, portion, birth and place,  
More fit for him: and so with leave  
To wed, both Prince and self deceives!  
For fame again boasting too much  
Her peerless parts, as 'twere none such,  
Edgar mis-doubts, deceived, to prove  
Toofarre to trust false friends in love;  
Feigns there to hunt, rides to behold,  
Wished, welcomed t'all save Ethelwold,  
Who then disclosed t'his wondering bride,  
King's foul love crossed, by his false deed,  
And by what else, vows, love, or duty,  
Conjures her to conceal her beauty,  
Or cancel it by mis-attire,  
To blind the Kings else blind desire:  
But deaf as dumb, and wanton as  
Light lyther air, more fain she was  
To seem more fair, right woman too,  
Spreads all her Peacock's plumes to woe,  
Fresh as the morn fond Nymph, to gain  
Light love! her spouse a-hunting's slain.  
Fair Wilfride bore too, (for't he's tainted),  
Edyth first Wilton Abbess, Sainted:  
This youth displeased Saint Dunstan sore,  
Though in ripe years for virtues more,  
Freed from ill tongues, and envy's jaws,  
He built great Abbeys, made good 
* He restored and new founded 47. Monasteries, intending to make the number 50. In the presence of all the Nobility on Christmas day, A 974. he confirmed the Abbey of Ramsey, which his Kinsman Alwine had founded, made the Monastery which Bishop O●wald had builded, the Cathedral Church of that shire. Among other Laws he made some against Ale houses, and the number of them, and against Drunkards, & that none under a certain pain should exceed, in drinking, certain marks which were 〈◊〉 in ordinary drinking cups for that purpose.  Laws.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
His bastard son Ethelred obtaineth the crown from Edward Martyr poisoned, and Sweno King of Denmark expelleth him, but at Swenos death he regaineth the Crown.  
ELfiede his lawful wise bare one; 
Edward surnamed the Martyr, A. 975. R. 3. he was crowned by Dunstan Arch. of Canter. at Kingston; poisoned at the ●astle of 〈◊〉 in the il● of P●rbeck, by his stepmother, and buried first at Warham, after at Sha●tesbury.   
Alfred, bare Eldred his base son,  
Cornwall's Duke Orgar's Imp! when he  
Changed earth for heaven, than Alfred she,  
False stepdame greets with poisoned 
* Alfred afterwards doing penance, builded two Monasteries of Nuns, at Amesbury and at Warwell, where she lived a solitary life till she died.  potion  
The good King Edward, whose devotion  
With us the name of Martyr merits.  
So her base son the crown inherits,  
Ethelred, whom Dunstan forced, not el's  
Crowns, sacring execrates, and tells  
Prophet-like strange and fearful 
f He was crowned at Kingston by Dunstane, who refused to perform that 〈◊〉 for him, as one that rose 〈…〉 his brother 〈…〉 to it, in stead 〈…〉 king many 〈…〉 of the losses that England should sustain by the King, who also foiled the Fount at his baptism.  fate,  
To this fount-foyling King, 
Ethel●ed or Eldred, surnamed the Unready, A. 978. R. 38. y. but in the mean time was once expelled by the Danes, who reigned part of that time; he being in exile, ere he recovered the Crown again.  and state.  
This King's vice, sloth, and Guinchild slain  
Towards England made Danes flock amain,  
When treacherous Elfrike did betray  
The King's ships to the Dane by sea.  
So Eldred first sore pressed by th' Dane  
Admits Dane-gelt, submits to 
g About, A. 9●5, Ethelred●●countred ●●countred by Swain K. of denmark, and the King Olafe of Norway, was fain to admit 16000 pounds' tribute; but after the Danes were slain on Saint Brices' day, 13. Novemb. 1002. and Swans sister Guin●hildis; she in revenge of their deaths invaded so furiously, that in the year 1011. 48000. pounds tribute was imposed, and A. 1012. Ethelred notwithstanding fain to fly into Normandy, the Danes cruelty more & more raging both against Elsegus Archbishop of Canterbury, and the King.  Swain,  
Till Saint Brice wept and wet Novembers  
For the Danes dounfall in huge numbers  
Massacred in one minutes while  
Over all England; 
A. 995. the body of S. Cuthbe●● and the Bishopric of L●ndisf●n● or holy Island, were removed to Durham, and the year before, viz 994. the Bishops See of Exeter erected.  whether guile  
Or policy were't, then of a foe  
Some doubt! but wars fresh flaming thee,  
Made Ethelred to Duke Richard fly  
His father in law, in Normandy,  
And Swain, see Fortune, Fame proclaims  
First Dane-King here from Trent to Thames!  
But he dead; th' Englishmen revoke,  
Weary of the Lordly Danish yoke,  
Their exiled Ethelred; and Swains  
Son Knute, 
A. 1011. the body of Saint Edmond being brought into London through Cripplegate by Bishop Alw●ne, who fled from the rapines of the Danes in Essex, miracles were said to be done, and the lame that begged at the gate restored, praising God. Sueno or Swanus first Dane-King of England, A. 1012. R. 2. years.  home for to fly was 
h Having the like m●rcy showed to him and his followers, as 〈◊〉 father not long before had showed to the English, all put to fire and sword.  fain;  
Again despaired of late and gone,  
Ethelred set on regal Throne,  
Nigh forty years wore the Diadem;  
Two sons he had by Norman Emme,  
One by Elgine, next King in's room!  
In Paul's in London in his tomb.   

CANZ. XV.  
Edmond Ironside and his children's fortunes.  
EDmond, 
Edmond surnamed Ironside of his hardiness and valour, A. 1016. R. 2. y.  Elgina's son, suceeeds,  
Whose prowess and praiseworthy deeds  
Did Cnutus bravely 
* A full battle at Penham near Gi●●ngham; the second at Sher sta●e in Worstersh●re, the third, the 〈…〉 notwithstanding I drink did what he could to 〈◊〉 the English, blazing flasely in the 〈◊〉 of the fight, that the King was slain; the Danes flying thence to London, E●mond 〈◊〉, and at 〈…〉 elsewhere discomfited them, till 〈◊〉 the sixth battle at Assen dune in Essex near 〈◊〉, by the practice and plot of Ed●ike, who fled of purpose, losing the day, he was fain to fly towards Gloucester, where having gathered new powers, the war was yet ended by single combat.  entertain,  
That came to claim these Realms again;  
Bore down both Danes and by strong might,  
Edrike of Scattons' treacherous slights:  
When after many a well fought field,  
'Twixt the King this conclusion held,  
Their two sole duel should decide  
This difference by fair Seuernes side,  
Where lay their powers; and Olwey I'll  
Saw them fight hand to hand long while,  
Till breathless, pausing; peace broke forth;  
The South took Edmond, Knute the North:  
But peace though placed, Edmond o'retane  
By Traitor Edriks' fraud was 
a This Ed●cus de Streona, or Stratonicus, in edmond's reign, and Aeltri●us Duke of Mercia, in his father's time, were two notable Traitors: but Canute in recompense of his good services slew Edrike lest he should play his parts with him, as he had done with his Predecessors.  slain,  
Which moved all England to much ruth  
For him so rapt in prime of youth. 
Canutus the Dane, son of Sueno, A. 1018 reigned 20.   
Then his two sons young Princes were  
By Knute conveyed to Denmark, where  
He meant their deaths; but that his 
b Or as some say, a Prince of Suethland, who contrary to the trust reposed to kill them, so preserved their lives.  brother  
Denmark's King loathed so vile a murder,  
And sends them to Pannonia, where  
Edmond died, Edward married there  
Agatha, the Empress' sister, 
c Daughter to Henry the fourth Emperor.  nice  
To th' Almaigne Lords and Dukes! From these,  
Both English came and Scottish Kings;  
Edgar from these and Margaret 
d 
Edmond Ironside had two sons, 

1. Edward that married Agatha the Emp. daughter, & had by her 

1. Edgar surnamed Etheling who died without issue.  
2. Margaret wed to Malcolm, K. of Scotland, had issue 

Edgar, David, & Alexander, all three Kings of Scotland.  
Maud wife to Henry the first King of England, had issue 

divers children drowned in the Sea.  
Maud the Empress, mother to Henry the second.    
Marry wed to Eustace Earl of Boulogne, had issue Maud wife to king Stephen.    
3. Christian who was a Nun professed.    
2. Edmond, that died without issue.     springs,  
Margaret to Malcolm wed, their Imps  
Been Maud and Mary; Maud fair Nymph's  
First Henry's spouse, 
Their Race, though they were thus exiled, returning to be Kings of England, in the person of Henry the second, about 120. years after, in A. 1155.  Maud th'empress mother  
Whose son's next Henry! Marry t'other  
Weds Eustace Earl of Bolloignoys,  
Their Maud King Stephen then Earl of Bloys!  
And thus a race as royal springs  
Of Scotch and English Britain Kings,  
From this poor wracked despised stem.  
As e'er ware golden Diadem.   

CANZ. XVI.  
Canute the Danes famous reign over England, Scotland, Denmark and Norway.  
NOw Edmond slain, and his son's fate  
Exiled, Knute meant should mend his state,  
For Norwayes●oin'd ●oin'd to th' Danish Crown  
And King Olaue, and Scots pulled down,  
English, Scots, Danes and Norway's they,  
Four mighty people him 
* Canutus hath four Kingdoms under him: he was fani●d for a just Prince, in all saving his tyranny against the two young Princes, the sons of 〈◊〉.  obey;  
Moore to make friends to th' Norman Duke,  
His sister gives to wife, and took  
Ethelreds' widow Emme! 
e By th● means notwithstanding his conquest, the Crown did revert to the ancient 〈◊〉.  entails  
The crown, they say, t'her issue males;  
This Cnute commands the seas to 
f Sea●e Parasites in flattery calling him as a dem●-god, Lord of the Seas; becaused a chair to be set where the tide 〈◊〉 come, and commanding the 〈…〉 to wet his Kingly feet, stayed till the Sea keeping her 〈◊〉, well washed his flatterers and hi● self, who thus derided their f●llies: ●e gave great privileges to the Monastery of Saint Edmondsbury, which he founded a new: he died at Shaftesbury and was buried at Saint Swithins in Winchester where Queen Emma made her abode ever after.  show,  
His Sycophants flattering terms untrue,  
And knowledging Christ his only trust,  
Returned from Rome, returns to dust.   

CANZ. XVII.  
Harold Hardyknute, and Edward Confessors reign.  
MOngst his three sons his lands in three, 
Harold surnamed Harefoot, A. 1038. R; 3. y. he died at Oxford, and was buried at Westminster, after at Saint Clements without Temple bar. Hardy-Cnute, A. 1041. R. 2. y. was buried at Winchester.   
Divided; Bastard Harold, he  
Britain; Swain Norway; son to Emme,  
Hardiknute, has Denmark's Diadem.  
Harold then working his 
* Queen Emmas whom he accused grieu●ush, and bar●shi●g her, put one of her son, 〈◊〉, to death: Edward the Confessor hardly escaping by ●●ght.  stepmothers  
Discredit, vexing realms and brothers,  
Dies three years' King! likewise Emmes son  
Hardiknute, next set on England's throne  
Dies three years' King too; his half-brother  
Edward, by Norman Emme, their mother,  
Confessor called then reigns, th'offspring  
Of Ethelred, late England's 
g Son of Ethelred & Emma, borne at Is●p by Ox●ord, but brought up m●ch in Normandy; he is accounted chief founder & composer of the Common laws of the Land, collected from the ordinances and customs of those four principal Regiments that sometimes flourished here, viz. the Mercians, West Saxons, Danes and Northumber's; the Normans since added, or new broached others more rigorous & tyrannical ones, whence have diverse commotions been, for the abolishing of such, and reestablishment of these.  King;  
This King weds Edyth Godwines Imp, 
Edward the Confessor, An. 1043. R. 23. y.   
Kind, modest, comely, virtuous Nymph,  
So fair, so sweet, the byword goes,  
Her Sire the Briar, brought her the Rose;  
Earl Godwine; whose ill counsels long,  
King abused, friends and mother wrong,  
Till he, and's sons expulsed; she last 
h When they rebelled, because they could not in every thing have their mind, the father was fame to fly into Planders, the sons into Ireland.  of  
All into Wilton Nunnerie's cast off!  
Both loving too much virgin-life  
Exposed the Crown, to stranger's 
i In this Queen's commendations, Ingul us Abbot of Crowland wh● then flourished, speaketh much, for her wisdom, learning, humility, modesty, and behaviour, nothing savouring of the barbarousness of her father and brothers: she endowed that Monastery of Wilton with goodly buildings and fair possessions.  strife.   

CANZ. XVIII.  
Edward dying, Harold Earl Godwines son usurpeth against Clyto Edgar.  
But Godwine, and his sons reclaimed  
To the King's favour, 
A. 1050. was the Bishopric of Saint Germans translated to Exeter.  Harold tamed  
The Welshmen's powers on Snowdowne hills;  
Syward Northumber's Earl then kills  
Macbeth! which Scot'sh usuper gone,  
Malcolm his grandchild has his 
* Earl Sywards daughter was King Malcolmes mother, being also Duchess or Queen of Cumberland.  throne;  
Malcolm that married Margaret after,  
edmond's niece, Edward outlaws daughter,  
So called as outed by disseyssor  
Knute, called home though by the Confessor;  
He with his Children and his wife,  
Hitherwards returning ends his life.  
His son young Edgar though's set 
k He was called Etheling, a name proper only to the King's children in hope and possibility of the Crown.  down,  
As heir apparent t' England's Crown,  
And Godwin's son Protector; 
l He released the grievous tribute, called the Dane-gelt, affirming, he saw a Devil dancing about the money when it was brought in: he translated the Bishops See of Saint Germans to Exeter, founded the College of Saint Mary Otery in elevon, and the goodly Abbey of Westm. where he was buried.  these  
Things thus composed, good King in peace  
Edward he rests! 
Harold dispossesseth Edgar, and made King, A. 2066. reigneth not full one year.  but soon from's death  
Edgar's disrobed of's royal wreath;  
For Nobles doubt; and Normans threat  
Edgar but young: Godwines son 
m The reasons moving the Nobles to favour Harold's part the more.  great  
In all men's favours, and of might  
To match, if need, his foes in fight;  
Though Edward promising, Harold took  
Oath, some say, to the Norman Duke,  
As his Liege-lord; yet Nobles since,  
And vulgars', wish him for their Prince;  
As, being his trothplight promise 
n Now twice, once to the Duke, and since to King Edward, in the behalf of Edgar, who should have been by right, and was appointed King.  broke,  
Able to ward war's steely stroke:  
When Edgar heir by's father's side,  
Signed Prince and princelike else allied,  
As young, thought weak to quench the flame  
Of Normans fury if they came.   

CANZ. XIX.  
All England vexed with strange fears and uproars, at the coming in of the Conqueror.  
'TWas easy now for Harold, none  
Opposing, thus to gain the Throne;  
To make sure work, he quickly down  
Did set him, and does on the Crown;  
His twice-broke trust, and troubled State  
Armed to free, or meet Foes and Fate.  
Flame Stars, fume Tosto, not the 
* Tosto raised all those Northern Countries against his brother Harold: A Comet also was seen for many days together, in April, the same year, viz. An. 1066. being the year of the Conquest by the Normans, made of this Land.  while  
Powers of Scots, Norway's, Orks and I'll,  
Danes, Newstrians, maken him afraid;  
William, nor France, nor Flanders aid:  
His Goale's Crown! My Muse next sings  
His fall, than facts of Norman Kings.  
The end of the eight Ode.     

A brief type of the ninth Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called GULIELMUS.  

The ninth Ode containeth,  
1. The Original of the Normans with their Conquest, and the great alteration of the land under William the Conqueror, who was the son of Robert the second Duke of Normandy, who was the son of Richard the second son of Richard the first, son of William the first, son of Rollo the Dane, that in King alfred's time invaded England, and thence expelled, seated himself in Normandy, and became Duke thereof; who receiving Christianity, was baptised Robert, and so Robert the first, being the son of Guion a Noble man of Denmark.  
2. The Race and succession of the Normans, Kings of this Land. viz. 


William the Conqueror, A. 1066. who R. 20. years.  
William Rufus, his son, reigned 12. years.  
Henry Beauclerke, his brother, R. 35. y.  
Stephen, Grandchild to William the Conqueror by his daughter Adela, married to the Earl of Bloys, he reigned 18. years.  
Henry the second, grandchild to Henry the first by his daughter Maud the Empress, R. 34 y.  
Richard Coeur-de-Lyon, his son, R. 9 y.  
john, called Without land, his brother, R. 17. y.  
Henry the third, his son, R. 56. y.  
Edward the first, his son, R. 34. y.  
Edward the second of Carnarvan, his son, R. 19 y.  
Edward the third, his son, R. 50. y. he instituted the round Table, and first laid claim to the Crown of France.  
Richard the second, his grandchild by Edward the black Pr●nce, R. 22. y.  
Henry the fourth of Bolingbroke, son of john of Gaunt, fourth son of Edward the third, R. 13. y. he began the bloody schism between the houses of York and Lancaster.  
Henry the fifth, his son, conquered France, R. 9 y.  
Heney the sixth, his son, lost France, R. 50. y.  
Edward the fourth, of the house of York, descended of Lionel, third son of Edward the third: restored the house of York, and reigned 22. years.  
Edward the fifth, his son, murdered ere he was crowned, reigned not one year.  
Richard the third, his Uncle, usurped three years.  
Henry the seventh, descended of john of Gaunt, of the house of Lancaster, espoused Elizabeth elder daughter of Edward the 4, of the house of York, whereby the schism of the Houses, and Ro●es of Lancaster and York, was fully determined, and ended, A. 1485. which had endured almost 100 years, to the destruction of many hundred thousands.     
3. The Union of the long divided and bloody schism between the Houses and Roses of Lancaster and York (the red Rose being the cognizance of the House of York, as the white Rose was of Lancaster) by the marriage of Henry the seventh, with the Lady Elizabeth daughter to Edward the fourth, from whom also sprang the Lady Margaret, whose marriage into Scotland hath since produced between those two long foesworne Kingdoms of England and Scotland, a no less ha●py and blessed Union.    


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode nona, Inscripta GULIELMUS.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Nona ubi Neustriacos canit Oda trophaea, triumphos,  
Contrâ Anglis clades, perniciemque parat;  
Sceptra sed Angligenis sua restaurantur, uti ipsis  
Inque hunc usque diem nomine regna vigent.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Prooemio statim subijcitur, Ducum Normannorum stemmatis disquisitio.  
SIc Britones Latijs, 
Series Poematis, sive Marginalia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  saxons ipsis  
Cessêrunt Dacis; Daci sic Neustriae & Anglis.  
saxons & Dacos, Italos, Brutique Nepotes  
Neptuni & Nerei sobolem, immancisque Gigantes,  
Et Samothen cecinisti olim ter candida Peitho,  
Anglus ut Eois, oriundi, Dacus ab Istro,  
Vnde Itali, in toto notissima fabula coelo;  
Brutus & è Troiâ, sacrum, traxitque furenti  
Albion Oceano, Samothes genus omnibus undis:  
Nunc mihi Musa virum memora, prosapia in oris  
Cuius adhuc viget Angliacis; nisi nomina totis  
Inclyta iussa recèns, facerent magis esse Brytannis,  
Cui decus & debetur honos, quem postea Reges,  
Innumeri numerantque patrem & numerantur ab illo,  
Neustria quem genuit, Gulielmum, habet Anglica tellus,  
Nomine Conquastus clarum, sobolemque Monarchas.  
Illius repetens proavos ab origine primâ 
Auspicatur haec Oda,   
Diua veni, & resonis, super aethera lucida pennis,  
Tolle virum! Modò Danus, at idem oriundus ab Istro,  
Guionides Rollo, Dacis olim asper ab oris  
Infestus bello fineis invaserat Anglos:  
Rege sed Alfredo, Brytannûm littore pulsus,  
Postmodò sede sibi, Gallis, Regnoque potitus  
Dux, ibi consedit multos longaews in annos;  
Belligerae ex illo gentes nascuntur & ipsi  
Reges Neustriacis, 
à 〈…〉 Gulielmi Conquaesto●s,  dominati postea & Anglis.  
Ille Elephantiasi, lotus quasi fonte salutis  
Chrismate, curatà, dictus modò Rollo, Robertus;  
Ex Ope Bellovacûm comitis, sibi coniuge, Gantâ,  
Gnatum suscepti Gulielmum; haud simplicis olli  
Filia erat Caroli, in sponsam! sed & inclyta longè  
Fmicuit virtus Gulielmi; 
à Rollone Daco, cuius heic s●b●les No●ma●no●●m Duces reccul●ntur: indè  eiusque Richardus  
Primus erat, primique secundus & Emma, secundi  
Tertius insequitur, soboles, fraterque Robertus:  
Sponsaque Ethelredi fuit Emma; paterque Robertus  
Ille secundus erat, Gulielmi huisce secundi,  
Conquaestûs titulo heic clari, & cognomine primi:  
Illa Ducum series; Regum haec memoratur origo.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Haraldi, regni usurpatio, & Gulielmi in eum praeparatio bellica.  
SCeptra manu simul ac, 
●usdem Gulielmi  Regnique capescit habenas,  
Godwinoque satus Thyraque sorore Canuti,  
Omnibus ille cèbris populo adblanditur Haraldus:  
Neue sibi fraudem intentatam existimet Edgar,  
Scilicet egregio iwenem decoravit honore  
Oxonij titulos, Comitem huic pro Rege reponit;  
Legati sedenim, à Gulielmo multa monentes  
Praestò aderant, dominoque Duci, sua Regna reposcunt;  
Deque fide, fractis, iuramentoque querentes,  
Antè Duci factis, 
ad Haraldum, Angliae tunc Regem, Legatio,  responsa superba tulerunt;  
Quae iurat mens est, non coniuravimus: illa  
Cogor ut orba darem, atque dedi sine pectore vocem,  
Vrba fide! gnataeque Ducis simul atque rogassent  
De Thalamis, pactisque tuis Adeliza Hymenaeis;  
Néue istis meliora, tibi, responsa tulissent;  
Sumere perfidiae poenas, Sceptrisque potiri,  
Eximia Dux classe parat; magnâque manûm vi,  
Exorsus fineis, hostemque lacessere bello;  
Carperet ac Regnique Rosas, capitique Corollas,  
Conciliat Flandrûmque fidem Gallûmque cateruas.  
Tosto sed interè a Flandris è finibus exul  
Oram omnem Eoam, Bellonae turbine vexat,  
Quem iwenes verè regij, 
posteà in ipsum & Angiam vairs procellis agitatam  iuncto agmine fratres  
Northumbriae & Merciae Comites, Edoumus & unâ  
Malcherius fudère trucem, Scotiamque fugârunt:  
Vndè citò remeans reparatis viribus, omni  
Noruegiae, Scotiaeque & ab Orcade milite, circum-  
Cinctus adest; Comites, belli duo fulmina, fratreis,  
Cum turmis disiecit, & aspera praelia miscens,  
Northumbros populatur agros; Rex donec Haraldus,  
Marte aggressus, eos, Deruentae ad flumina fudit.  
Aufugêre leues turmae; Scotiamque reversi  
Noruegiae cum Rege-sato, Rex Orcadum, Olaue:  
Tostoque Noruegiaeque cadunt famosus Haraldus.  
Nec mora, ceu Normannûm acies, lectasque phalanges  
Audijt, Hastyngum prope, descendisse Carinis,  
Impiger in bello, 
Expeditio;  Rex, intrepidusque pericli,  
Sanguine fraterno tinctas, & caede recenti  
Conseruisse manus properans, festinus ad arma  
Concitat ore suos; pugnaeque immittere dextras:  
Vt vix, aut ne vix, iam respirare liceret  
Fessis assiduo, dudùm, lassisque labore:  
Sic bellum bello, sic vulnere vulnera condi  
Curat, & haud dubiam expectat cunctando salutem,  
Inuictus belli terroribus, acer Haraldus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Gulielmus victor, vulgò Conquaestor, evadens coronatur.  
SEd iam tempus adest, & ineluctabile fatum,  
Cum cecidit Princeps supremus in ordine Regum  
Saxonicae stripis; ducentos circiter annos,  
A Rege Egberto; sexcentos, Saxone primo:  
Vndecies sextoque supra millesime eodem  
Voluente, ut perhibent, à partu Virginis anno.  
Cunctanti haud similis, furijs agitatus iniquis  
Rex venit, Anglorumque ingens fuit edita strages,  
Duxque catus fugiens quò vincere posset, inoris  
Sussexiae stravit Regem: 
utique Haraldo profigato Conquaestus,  Rex illicò factus  
Rege cadente; ita fortè Ducem dea caeca beârat!  
Redditum erat Matri, caesi modò Regis Haraldi  
Corpus ab hoste, Thyraenè putem, lachrymansque sepulchro,  
Walthamiaes ipsa dedit, quam munijt antè Tyrannus:  
Vno, eodemque anno, iam primo utriusque Monarchae.  
Londinum Proceres turmisque ignobile vulgus  
Seque recepêrunt cives; Ducis Angliaiussu  
In cineres conversa flagrat! Scotiamque petebant  
Malcherius cum fratre, huc tempestate furenti  
Edgarus actus erat; pelagique tumentibus iris,  
Pannoniam repetens diversa in littora vectus,  
Nuptaque Marguerita fuit, soror una, Scotorum  
Regi Malcolmo; Monacham induit altera, Christi  
Serua, professa fidem velamine, nomine, Sanctam:  
jamque immiscuerat coelumque solumque favillis,  
Caede furens, lateque ferens, incendia totis  
Spargebat campis Gulielmus; denuò in urbem  
Londinum tendens, & principe sede receptus!  
Quae Christo carnem genialis, 
& die natah Christ coronatio.  & illa Coronam  
Induerat lux alma Duci; Aldredusque sacravit  
Illum Eboracensis praesul: Cantuariae alumnus  
Illustris virtute, sacris, pietate Stygandus,  
Praeclarum facinus satis, & me morabile pensat.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Stygandi & Gulielmi, Episcoporum in suos beneficia; reliquae verò Angliae miseria.  
PRessuro iam-iam Gulielmo Cantia bellis  
Rura feris; illi, contrâ, Archi-Praesul adortus,  
Ingentique manu stipatus, & agmine forti,  
Fronde, suis iussit, velarier arma comasque;  
Praetendunt manibus ramos, 
Cuius primis temporibus Cantium atte, & stratagemate Stygandi Archiepiscopi,  Regique propinquant;  
Rex cum Normannis gradientem cernere syluam  
C●u stupet, insolitùm monteis motare cacumen,  
Cignaea in valle est propè circumuentus ab hoste:  
Cui patriae intentus pro libertate Stygandus  
Arma movet, ni iura sibi sua pristina mâlit  
Concedi; abiectisque apparent frondibus arma,  
Et totis circùm densis seges horruit Hastis,  
In campis strictoque paratis cernere ferro:  
Annuit at votis Rex, proijcit arma Sacerdos.  
Moribus antiquis & consuetudine priscâ  
Hinc gaudent hodiè; hinc leges & pristina iura  
Cantia rura colunt! quae clare Stygande, perennis  
Laus tua: 
Londinum Gulielmi Episcoproperâ liberatibus & privilegijs suis gaudent.  Londinumque virum qui fovit amoenâ  
Libertate, suam Gulielmus Episcopus urbem,  
Acropolis canit; huic, vel adhuc plaga Cantia laudes.  
Quem tamen, integritas minimè, aut sacra infula texit  
Inuidiâ, at citò post disiectus culmine honoris,  
Carcere vir sanctus moritur; Cadomensis & Abbas,  
Lanfrancus Cathredâ successit homo Italus olli:  
Tum verò mulctis gravitèr, sine crimine no●os,  
Immeritùmque suis spoliabat honoribus Anglos  
Atque opthus, dedit atque suis Normannus! & agris  
Expulit antiquos, aliâ heic de gente Colonos, 
Reliqua verò Anglia vulgus,   
Induxitque feras alibi; Forresta vocatur  
Quâ nova, Wintoniae circùm loca plurima tractû,  
Templa aequans ac tecta solo, ludibrio haberet  
Diuûm acsi populique domos, dat ludere capris;  
Ceu viduae, haud lachrymis prolisúe patrisúe pepercit;  
Heu pueri hèic cecidêre Richardus, postea Rufus.  
Rexque malo ductus genio, mala plurima nectit,  
Feralcisque tulit, legisque apprimè nocivas  
Anglis: iamque Foro circum-sonat extera lingua,  
Quam qui non nôrit nedum generosus haberi  
Turpè, foret dignus; ità barbara verba Theatris,  
In querulis caussis, inter convivia, mensis  
Barbara tota strepunt: Anglosque idiomatis Angli,  
Paenè pudet; variasque fugit malè sedula in oras,  
Anglica nobilitas, 
Proceres  irrisaque spretaque terris,  
Hospite ut hoste suis; toto ludibria Coelo:  
Pars Scotiam penetrant, pars ad iuga Cymbrica Dacis.  
Hoc quoque praetextu, simulac ditionis avitae,  
Bella movens Dacus Normannis concidit armis,  
Cum profugis ducibusque 
〈…〉  suis Rex ipse Canutus,  
Fratresque è Scotià comites, Malcolmus & Edgar,  
Cum profugis turmisque Scotûm, confinia bellis  
Divexant crebris; Herewardus & agmina iungit:  
Rex parili fortuná omneis, Wallosque rebelles,  
Vicit & exegit iuramentum à Rege Scotorum;  
Appulûmque suûm trans-mittitur Edgar in oras,  
Ac redit in Regis, 
〈◊〉  donis decoratus, amorem.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Regis in suos etiam saevitia, & in Gallia tymbus.  
REgis crant fratres, Arlettâ ex matre oriundi,  
Verùm Herlovino, ignoto quasi patre; Robertus  
Mortonus Comes, & Bayocensis Episcopus Odo!  
Odo Comes Cantij, & Pro-rex à Rege creatus  
Bellis implicito, summâ virtute rebelleis,  
Northumbros, 
●rater Regis Odo, ut  aliosque domat; triplicique coronae  
Papa inhiat, vigili Hildebrando morte perempto,  
Augurio malus ac laevo cecinisset haruspex.  
Verùm ubi celsa sibi pretioque palatia Romae  
Praegrandi conducta forent, in carcere vinctum  
Detinuit frater, sua busta nec ante remisit.  
Rexque aedes monachis posuit iam pace potitus,  
Templaque, deque novo, Pauli celebre, inchoat, igne  
Consumptum prius; & tot castra, quot antea Regum  
Nemo unquam extruxit: censuque recognita ab illo  
Anglia tota, 
& filius Robertus, dant illi commissorum poenas,  domusque Dei liber extitit ingens.  
Saepius Armorico tractu, gnatoque Roberto,  
Intulit, & sibi finitimis fera praelia Gallis;  
Intestina patri, ceu moverat antè Robertus,  
Bella ipsum contra. Gallorum à Rege Philippo  
Adiutus fuerat, gnati ergo furore represso,  
Neustriaco insonuit, iam Gallia tota tumultu;  
Francorumque iterum fineis intrare parantem,  
Rothomagi morbo detentum irrisit acerbè  
Ignano quasi puerperio per Scomma cubantem  
Anglum, 
in Galliâ praeliatus occumbit,  Rex Gallus; iurataque numina frustrà  
Non sunt, Mille meis lucebunt ignibus Arae  
Cum valem, Anglus ait, mulierum more sacellis  
Ceu purgatum iëro; sua verba fidesque secuta est,  
Gallia ubique flagrat, sensêre Altaria flammas.  
Saliu ubi fractus equi, media inter praelia, morbo  
Correptus graviore perit; Cadomique negatus  
Vix capit octo pedum tumulus; quem Gallia nuper  
Vix tenuit; sed nudus humique relictus, & auro  
Terra emptâ, 
Cademi sepultus,  magnoque omnium terrore sepultus;  
Gallia quem nuper tremuit, Normannia nato  
Rege superba suo, Cenomania & Anglia, claro  
Conquaestu, Armoricus cui subdere colla Brytannus  
Gaudebat, Wallique Scotique fuêre triumpho:  
Sic cine regna abeunt? 
〈◊〉  sic flos? sic gloria mundi?   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Gulielmi Rufi non multùm laudata Dynastia.  
ANglica ceu Rufo, Normannica regna Roberto  
Thesauri Henrico cedunt; mox omnia! Gnatae,  
Caecilia Abbatissa fuit; 
progenies: inter quos  Stephanoque Blesensi  
Nupsit Adela soror; Comiti, Constantia Alano  
Armorici tractus, sponsa, Eleonoraque Regi  
Alphonso Hispano; 
Gulielmus Rufus, satis illaudatè,  sponsataque Haraldo Adeliza.  
jamque inter fratreis belli exorientibus addit  
Odo oleum flammis! sedenim cedentibus iris  
Foedere coniuncti, Wallûmque Scolûmque tumultus,  
Normannûmque premunt; sacra adit loca, bella, Robertus;  
Westque-Monasteriensis opus Rufi Aula; Donaldi  
Inque vicem, Rex fit Malcolmius Edgar ab illo;  
Lanfranco heic vivente minùs, moriente, Tyranni  
Vafricies visa est; populi, arae, templa, rapinae,  
Omnia erant, Sanctusque monens meliora remissus  
Praesul in exilium Anselmus! Dij sumere poenas  
Vellent: Templa quibus, fora civibus, arua colonis,  
Ceu pater antè, 
posseà  aiunt, Beaulensi in limine dempsit:  
Rex Ceruum insequitur, Regem vindicta, Tyrellus  
Transfixit; modo Rex, bis sex inglorius annos,  
Wintoniae pompâ sine, cassus honore recumbit.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici primi Dominium, & honorifica gesta.  
HEnricus sequitur, 
Heinricus cognomento Beuclerk, aliquanto melius: Regnum administra●un●  Musarum & Martis alumnus,  
Claram ob Doctrinam & doteis cognomine, Beuclerk;  
Sanctique hic placitis Edwardi indixit honorem;  
Quanquam etiam ingenio, genio, Martisque favore  
Insignis, tamen, ut mollis, crudelis, anarus,  
Audijt infamis: Revocat memorabilis aevi  
Anselmum, ac monitis, vix paruit usque verendis:  
Frater & è Solymis rediens sua iura Robertus  
Poscit, at in pacis conventum est pacta ab utrisque,  
Donec lite iteram exortâ, Dux captus, ocellis  
Privatus, longo Cardyffae carcere, fato  
Cessit, & illius Gnatus Gulielmus, ad arma,  
Gallisque & Flandris accitis, morte recumbit.  
Tum Wallos domat Henricus, primique Senatus  
Parliamenta vocat: Templarius incipit Ordo!  
Castraque Vindesorae surgunt in culmine ripae  
Piscosi Thamisis, iam posteà clara Georgî  
Militiâ ac titulis: Nostro pia Nympha Monarchae  
Filia Malcolmi, Scoti, soror Edgaris alma,  
Nupta Mathildis erat; queis sola Matilda superstes,  
Oceano absumptis reliquis, data nubere primùm,  
Induperatori Henrico, demùm Andegavensi  
Galfrido Comiti, pulchrâ illum prole parentem  
Henrico facit, atque aliis; hinc postèa Reges  
Angligenae, antiquâ de Saxone stirpe creati;  
Quippe Mathilda illi genitrix, 
〈◊〉  Margreta Mathildae,  
Margretae Eduardus pater Edmundique puellus,  
Angli olim Regis: tenerâ hanc cum prole Matildam  
Legitimos Regni haeredes statuebat, & oris  
Neustriae obit; septemque iacet post lustra Redyngae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Stephani Blesensis Regnum: omni ex parte turbulentissimum.  
IAm Stephanus, 
Stephanus succedit, quorum Mathilda, de iure Coronae certat pro filio suo.  Stephani Gnatus, Stephanoque dicato,  
Induerat Diadema die; satus ipse Blesensi  
Ex Conite, & Gnatâ modò Conquaestoris Adelâ:  
Hunc Proceres crebris, 
Qui  Augustaque Nympba Matildae  
Vexarunt bellis! Donec sua sceptra Mathildae  
〈◊〉 obitum, Henrico, ablegarat Regia Gnato;  
〈◊〉 vitâ tamen ipse sua durante, 
〈…〉  maneret:  
〈◊〉 post ferè his duo Fevershamia Tymbus:   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici secundi inquietum, alioqui foelix satis Dominium.  
PRimus at Angliacis Rex Plantaginêta, Matildae  
Filius Augustae, Henricusque secundus in oris,  
Succedit Stephano: Renovataque linea Regum  
Saxonicae stirpis, 
Henrici nomine 2. praeclara edidit facinora.  quasi iam videantur in illo,  
Alfredus Seniorque Edovardus, & inclytus Edgar,  
Stemmate materno satus hijs: Rex ille Britanno  
Orcades adiecit, 
Eius ditienes,  Wallosque Scotosque reduxit  
Imperio! virideisque super dominatur Hybernos,  
Primus: Dermitio vel ita exposcente Lageno.  
Materno haec, velut & Normannia; iure paterno,  
Turones in Galliâ ei, Cenomania & Andes  
Parebant, Gnatoque, ubi iam data Nympha, Conanis,  
Filia Galfredo, Armoricus Britannia tractus:  
Pictavia uxoris dos atque Aquitania, Franci  
Regis desertae modò coniugis Eleonorae;  
Pictonûm Comitum Gnatae, & ditionis avitae  
Haeredis! 
soboles,  sobole ex illâ Comite Armoricano,  
Susceptâ, simulac cum Rege johanne Richardo;  
Cumque immaturè, at iustè, & sine nomine Regis  
Olli obitum ante, coronato, atque rebelle perempto:  
Et gnatas habuit; quarum, Eleonora cubile  
Hispani ascendit Regis, Siculique johanna,  
Saxonici ducis Augustos genitura Mathildis!  
At Regem infamant veneres, nimiumque proteruae  
Cliffordis Rosamunda, 
jeviusculi amores,  Adelizaque Franca! loquelas  
Improba quid fingis; complens modò cantibus auras  
Blandiloqua, ah Siren, querulis! Si Regis ocellos  
Formâ, ut mellitis ore aut sermonibus aures,  
Ac Labyrinthaeo tenuisti in limine captum  
Anglica Cliffordis Circe, ceu Galla Calypso.  
Zelotypa at sensit Regina, irataque juno  
Inuenit in medio, & jove non praesente, Maeandro,  
Inficit aegra, datis, sibi pocula saeva venenis;  
Et gnatos in bella ciet! quâ ductus Erynni,  
Concidit Henricus: 
odia domestica flagrantia,  Rex illam, ac senserat iras,  
Carcere conclusit. Becketti at sanguine tinctas  
Criminibusque aliis, Divis fuit ille relatus,  
Ceu purgare manus Solymis de more sacratis,  
Ferre parabat opem, Gnatûmque odijsque Philippi  
Francorum Regis, 
Tymbus.  detentus Galliae in oris  
Occubuit; septem post lustra; Chinone sepultus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Richardi primi honorificentissima domi & fortis gesta.  
SVccessit patris in solio sceptrisque Richardus, 
Richardus eius filius   
Coeur-de-lyon dictus; Solymos qui visere colleis,  
Intentus, bellisque sacris ingentia movit.  
Insula Carpathio, circúm diffusa, profundo,  
Dives opum Cyprus, bello, & modo concidit Acon,  
Aca cadit, quam nos Ptolemaida dicimus urbem;  
Chaoniaque graveis, & divite merce repletas,  
Ille rateis, joppem, & quae munimina cepit  
Niliacus Princeps dudùm victricibus armis  
Instaurans victor, 
Hierosolymis & locis sacris opitulatus, Rex in reditu èterra Sanctâ,  virtute pericla refellit;  
Sed iuga Christicolis gravia imposuêre Tyranni  
Heu Saladinius, & Turcarum dira potestas,  
Excelsis Solymis impigro marte potiti.  
Quando sibi infestis coniunctus foedere Gallis,  
Infidus frater, tulerat socia arma johannes.  
Ille pedem retrò, 
ab Austriaco Duce nequam captiws injuriosisimè detinetur?  at Leopoldi Principis oris  
Austriaci, iratâ ventis dum navigat Adriâ,  
Naufragio eiectus, contraius fasque tenetur  
Captiws, donec, lutron persoluerat ingens,  
Ac posuit pulchrae sua moenia clara Viennae:  
At veniam supplex iam à Rege fratre reuerso,  
Matre inter cedente petit, petitamque johannes  
Obtinuit, miroque illum Rex fovit amore:  
Cui rapto, sobole sine, post duo lustra, tumultu  
Carleoli facto, 
I● Galliâ illatus, iniurias ulturus occ●mbit; & ibidem tumulatus est.  successit! humantur ibidem  
Viscera, Rothomagi cor, Caetera fontis Ebrardi.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Regis johannis, ob Baronum aliorumque odia, tempora turbis refertissima.  
REge johanne, 
johannes frater, eontrà  tuâ Galfridi prole reiectâ,  
Maioris natu fratris, comitisque Brytanni,  
Omnia pessum abeunt; Gallorum ope fultus at impar,  
Cesserat Arthurus: sedenim Rex iura johanni,  
Arte magis quam armis dempsit, 
Cognatos,  sibi Gallica Gallu●:  
Et Regni Proceres vulgo inclyta turma Barones  
Olli imentarunt turbas, 
Episcopos,  simulantque salutem,  
Ceu dulci patriae pro libertate reclament.  
Nec minùs immunis Stephani Archi-praesulis iris,  
Rex modò censurae Romanae fulmina sensit,  
Donec in Ecclesiae gremio iam pacereceptus,  
Papa Coronam aufert capiti, 
Papam cui Coronam tandem resignat, &  rursumque reponit;  
Pandulpho satagente, à quo consistere iussi  
Saeva manus Procerum, Rex Gallus & acer in armis  
Delphinus, Procerum causâ transgressus ad Anglos,  
Vix tamen â bellis compostâ ita pace quievit: 
Proceres suos tumultuatus, moriens,   
Qui●●●suâ raptis provirgine, coniuge, Nymphis,  
Zelotypi Proceres, quibus & lascivia Regis  
Probro erat, insanos multùm indignantur amores.  
Treis Gnatas equidem nuptas tot Regibus, unam  
Induperatori; Gnat●s duos, 
turbas filio  postea Reges,  
Henricum Angliae, habebat, Alemaniaeque Richardum;  
Post tria lustra veneno obijt, Vigornia tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici tertij benè diuturnum & foelix Regnum.  
RExque novennis adhuc infans, puer illius, Anglis,  
Lustris bis senis propè regnaturus in oris, 
Henrico tertio, & eius tutoribus sedandas & siniendas reliquit.   
Tertius Henricus sequitur; quem turma Baronum  
Infestant odijs, quem Gallia, Wallia, Bellis:  
Quos omneis superat, levibus non arte nec armis;  
Nobile sed bellum, imprimis curante Gualone  
Sedis Apostolicae legato! Regia proles, 
Eius filius   
Assyricas turmas Aegyptiaque agmina sternunt,  
Inuicti bello fratres! Solymisque reversi  
Rex fit Edovardus, fratri Lancastriacessit,  
Edmundo! simul-atque patri West-minstria tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardi primi Regnum & bene fortunata gesta.  
PRimus Edovardus Leolino Principe caeso  
Wallia Edovardum natum, 
Eduardus 1. Hierosolymis ante regnum adeptum, posteà  decoravit honore,  
Ac titulis, utimos, solitis! Scotiaeque johannem  
Baliolum praefert! Brusioque furente Roberto,  
Aduena civili qui semper crimine crevit  
Miles habet belli funesti praemiarura, 
In Walliâ & Scotiâ victor laureat ssimus,   
Angliaci ex dono Regis! post lustraque septem  
Ceupulchram ex Gallâ, numerosam ex coniuge cepit  
Hispaniâ sobolem, magnosque 
Coronam  aliquando Monarchas,  
In Scoticis morientis agris West-mynstria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Edwardi secundi dominandi ratio malé sana, & miserior exitus.  
ALter Edovardus sequitur, celebratque Isabellae,  
Procurante Petro Hispano, 
Eduard● se undo ●lio relinquit●● 〈◊〉 vaide insanienrem & 〈◊〉 ●●be getent●m plut●ma ad nutum Gauestom & al●●●●m.  connubia Gallae;  
Quem fudere leues Scoti, infamemque dedêre,  
Anté Gavestonus, mox & Spenserus uterque;  
Quorum adcò insulsùm perverterat omnia nutû;  
Heroes ac, proceresque, malé stomachantur opimi;  
Mortimerûmque odijs, 
Infida coniux & Amasius Mortimerus Regno & vita spoliant; filius  & saevae coniugis iris,  
Depositus post bis duo lustra; ubi morte misellâ  
Barkleyo in Castro perijt; Glocestria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardi tertij domi tum foras apud Scotos & Gallos splendor verè Martius.  
TErtius Eduardus, 
Eduardus tertius Rexfactus  obitum patris ante, Coronam  
Induerat; mollis deprensum in limine amicae  
Reginae matris, nimiumque tumentibus ausis  
Mortimerum interimi mandat: teneramque Tyrann●  
Sororem quamuis Davidi Brusio antè locârat,  
Consilio illorum ductus! seu scommate motus,  
Fama ait, 
In Mortimeri & matris nequitias animaduertit.  indigno, seviure fideque negatis;  
Baliolum iwit, Baruicum cingit, avitis  
Regem restituens regnis; Davidemque fugavit  
Ad Gallos': Bellonae horrenda Halydonia testis,  
quam nullâ Anglorum caede, 
Scotos subigit, anhela●s.  innumerâque Scotorum  
Percelebris. Cum iam tacito sub pectore voluit  
Maius opus, Rex Anglus ovans! celebrando Philippae  
Hannoviae Comitis Gnataeque suique Hymenaeos;  
Gallica Sceptra animo, nec spes malê fovit inaneis:  
Quippe soror Caroli, Bellique Isabel Philippi  
Eduardi genitrix, Haeres & filia Regum:  
Coniugis ac tenerae genitrix, soror ipsa Valesî,  
Qui iam Franca ferox rapuit sibi Regna Tyrannus.  
Ergo petens sua certa, ereptaque pristina avorum  
jura, faces belli Gallorum accendit in agris:  
Neustria Francorumque urbes in limine plures, 
ad Galliae coronam   
Hostileis timuitque superba Lutetia flammas,  
Auratis fulgens tectis! Quà lympidus Amnis  
Cresseidis syluae latus alluit, utraque gentis  
Tandem convenêre acies, & vallis amoenae  
Delectati opibus floreis, Martique dicatis,  
Conseruêre manus, rubeisque coloribus herbas  
Inficiunt virideis; 
famosissimis praelijs fudit Gallos;  sic lactea Lilia rubrae  
Tincta colore Rosae; atque oleo-flammantia signa,  
Sanguineis maculis conspersa Draconibus Anglis.  
Rex ibi consuluit certus fugiendo saluti  
Celta suae; Innumeri, vulgus, Comitesque, Ducesque,  
Maiorci, Regesque, aiunt, cecidêre Bohemi;  
Nomina dant syluae, his, loca famosissima bellis;  
Sic Cadomum, Guisnes, sic Tanker-villa, Caletae,  
Atque aliae haud paucae, 
Eius autem filius  nec parui Nominis, urbes  
Galliae, & occiduus circùm, citò posteà tractus,  
Reddita sunt Anglo Regi: Brusiusque Tyrannus,  
Bella movens, Celtâ suadente, in finibus Anglis,  
Captiws premitur! Rex foedera Gallus ab Anglo,  
Ceu petit, inducijs potitur; moriturque Philippus  
Cui Gnatus patrijs solio sceptrisque johannes  
Successit. Princeps Niger appellatus in oris, 
Eduardus Princeps Niger, five ex nigricantibus armis, five luctuoso & atro Gallorum fato, its appellatus,   
Iunior Eduardus, Gallis, Aquitaniam & omnem  
Hesperiae tractum Galliae, qua Phoebus Iberum  
Prospicit occiduum, patreità mandante, regebat;  
Gallorumque agros latè populatur & urbeis,  
Cum iwenes inter illustreis, laudis avitae  
Ceu Regni cupidos, summique Heroas honoris, 
ob expeditiones in Galliam,   
Certatum est acriter! Pictonûm in finibus Anglus  
Sed rerum potitur, Poyteusi ait accola bello;  
Et proceres Princeps Gallos, Regemque Brytannus  
Captivos duxit spectacula laeta Triumphi.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Vtriusque Eduardi patris & filij mors ultima vitae linea, fama finis nescia.  
I Amque ustae Lybies Indisque virentibus oris;  
Tempestate ista Armorum portenta furentûm,  
Apparent oculis sublimia in aëre Castra  
Quorum in conspectu ferus incola praelia gessit, 
Hispaniam   
Pars nigra Memnonijs, armis turma altera in albis;  
Rorantemque comam perfusaque sanguine cristas,  
Turma cadis positis niveo velamine & armis,  
Palma nigris remanet, locus Aethera deperit inter.  
Neustria, Burgundi, Britannia, Gallia tota,  
Principis ante pedes, tremuitque Nauarra tumultu;  
Castellaeque Petro, disiecto à fratre tyranno,  
Auxilio iwat, & frontem diademate cingit;  
Rexque Cypriposcebat opem; sic Principis Angli  
Captivi duo, Rexque Cypi famulantur in Aulâ.  
Ipse Periscelidi suras, 
omni bellicâ laude eumulatissimus ante patrem diem obijt.  Chlamydisque intenti,  
Ornatu fulgens, heu funere raptus acerbo,  
Occubuit Princeps; Anglûm decus! unde Richardus  
Ornatus titulis, patrijs & honore superbit.  
Rex tamen ante, auroque, datis, & Galliae in oris  
Terrarum ingenti tractu, modo pace remisit,  
Gallorum Regem & Delphinum: Brusius heros, 
Reliqu●   
Lutra dedit, Regesque inter pax alma refulsit;  
Clarensique Duci Leonello, candida Nympha,  
Mediolanensis Galeasî filia nupta est;  
Lataque cum spons â formosâ, possidet arua,  
Finibus Italiae, 
Proles  Leonellus Regia proles:  
Lancastroque Duci, Gandavo prima johanni,  
Regni haeres nupsit, Cantabrigiae altera fratri,  
Castiliaè Regis gnatae: quare Hespera Regna  
Dux petijt; Rexsque ipse nows, quo posset amorem  
Conciliare, 
multùm vigult.  johanne satam, socijs Hymenaeis  
Accepit, multoque Ducem donaverat auro.  
At miser héic claris Dux civibus atque sacratae  
Inuidus heu nimium Ecclesiae, macrescit opimis  
Praelatorum opibus, titulis & honoribus aeger,  
Hosque levare opibus dignatur, 
Rex ipse, omnium reliquorum qui in Angliâ floruêrunt, ut eius opera testantur, honoratissimus.  honoribus illos,  
Wicleafi incendens magno mala dogmata fastû,  
Quem tamen Ecclesiae, Wickhamo, civibus unum  
Conciliare student, Edovardus, Aliza, 
* Alizia Pierce ob cuius nimiam cum ipso consuetudine Rex audijt infamis.  Richardus.  
Huius Edouardi quasi Vindesorensia sacra,  
Festaque Regis opus! modò munereclara Georgî  
Cappadocis: quorum alma cohors chlamydata, superbas,  
Cincta periscelidi suras, sic laudibus illum  
Illustrat, tantis radijs perstringit & orbem  
Vt iam Phryxaeum prae illis Burgundia vellus  
Contemnat, Cochleis variatos Gallia torques, 
Nepotem   
Et Cruce conspicuas Pallas Rhodos, Elkala, & Elb●.  
Quinis foemineâ, septiens, prole virili,  
Laetus agens foelixque diem, Richmondiae obivit  
Rex pulcher, post lustra decem, Westminstria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Richardus secundus Regno temerè administrato, spoliatur; unde schisma.  
DEfunctis successit avoque patrique secundus  
Audit, 
Richardum 3. Edwardi Nigri Principis Gnatum  at heu nimiâ infamis levitate Richardus!  
Anna Bohema, novis vestitu habituque superba,  
Franca Isabel, etiam, sobole sine Regia coniux;  
Hic vulgi motus propè inauditosque furores,  
Ceu Wallûm, Scotûmque, trucesque domabat Hybernos!  
Sancti Edouardi aureis insignibus usus & albis.  
Quando ducis rediens ●ancastri filius exul  
Dux Herefordensis, Boling brokiusque vocatus,  
Excipit Henricus, 
Haeredem, quamuis Wallis, Scotis, & aliis hostibus debellatis, bellicosum satis, at longe aliis inf● liciorem reliquit; ut qui tandem  redeuntem è littore jernes,  
Regem armis, nudumque premit, nudatque Coronâ;  
Nobilis hinc oritur contentio, flebilis Anglis,  
Lisque tremenda viris, 
ab  niveaeque rubraeque Rosarum  
Factio, schisma Dueum, rerum & confusio Regum,  
Rexque fame Pont-fracti obit, ad Proto-Martyris aedes,  
Magnifici, quamuis mollis, Langleya Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici quarti tempore ob Coronae indebitam adeptionem variae inde secutae turbae.  
QVatuor Henricus quartus post lustra, 
Henrico 4. Coronâ & regno nudatus, in magn● miseriâ, fame perijt.  Richardum  
Deposuit; quem Mortimerusque & Wallus Oenus,  
Glendower dictus, primùm, Scoticique tumultus,  
Posteà turbárunt! sed concidtt acer Owenus,  
Mortimerusque gener! rursumque Halydonia fastis, 
Rex n●nus varijs lacessitus sedition bus & bellis, superat●● om●ibus, semper victor evadens,   
Damnata in Scoticis, Scotica agmina fudit, & Anglo,  
Albaniae Gnatum Ducis, Oceanusque jacobum  
Roberti Regis, dederant, Proceresque Scotorum  
Non paucos; qui sic in Caesaris arce vel arcto  
Detenti custode, Scotae flos ipse iwentae:  
Regi, Herefordensi ex Nymphâ, pulcherrima proles,  
Principe cumque satû Cambriae, Gnatisque duâbus,  
Bedfordi, 
Sceptra auctiora filio  Glevique Duces, Thomasque Clarensis!  
Inque Hierosolymis Cameris, ità fama, vocatis  
Terno obijt Regni lustro; Cantuaria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici quinti Gesta, triumphali curru dignissima.  
FIlius Henricus, 
Henrico 5. relinquit, quivitiis & societate improborum, quibus in prima iwenta, irretitu, fuerat, excussis,  Cambriad confinia, quintus,  
Monmuthiae ortus agro; vitijs, primaeque iwentae  
Rellictis socijs; irisque, odijsque furentûm  
Marte domi oppressis, veteris deliria Castri  
Vulgo sic dicti, celebris Wicklefia sectae  
Errorisque sati socios & dogmata damnat:  
Postèaque externas Celtae conversus in oras, 
Princeps optimus res domi pace composuit; &   
jam meditatur ovans, sua iura reposcere bello,  
Regis Edouardi titulis & honore superbus,  
Quondam atavi! Gallûmque olim domitoris, in armis  
Lilia qui socianda Rosis curârat amoenis.  
Proque pilis missis pessum dedit omnia pilis;  
Inque ferens totis inimica incendia campis, 
regnum Franciae recuperare aggressus, bellicosissimè se gessit,   
Galliae agros rapidis mandavit & ignibus urbeis;  
Claraque Agincourti, famosaque praelia, summis  
Laudibus Angligenas ornant, nitidisque trophaeis.  
Pars ibi magna cadunt Procerumque quam maxima Gallûm  
Nobilium capti, Angliacis decora alta triumphis;  
Victor at instat ovans, donec iam Gallia supplex  
Venerat, & Regi pulcherrima Regia virgo,  
Nubilis oblata est, Katharinaque Nobilis, Anglo,  
Filia Francorum Regis: Data nomine dotis,  
Gallica sceptra placent genero; oblectatus uterque,  
Rex, socero vivente regens, functo; audijt Haeres:  
Parrisijsque 
unde acceptâ coniuge Regis filiâ Ka ha●●â, haeres & administ●●●● regni Franc●ae institut●s est.  frequens pompas celebrante cateruâ  
Nobilium cum Rege suo, invenesque senesque,  
Foemineusque tener chorus, innuptaeque puellae,  
Pacificos laeti celebrant dulceisque Hymenaeos:  
Pace istâ, noxaque sibi Delphinus abhorret  
Solus! at insequitur totisque è finibus Anglus  
Pellit eum patrijs: Katherine inviserat Anglos  
Mutuaque Angliacis haec sedibus, illius infans  
Ortus Vindesorae Tamesini ad fluminis undas,  
Parrisijs Gallis, frontem Diademate cincti:  
Cum citò Rexmoriens tenerae heu propè flore iwentae,  
Faeliceis nuper, 
Florenti,  per Gallica littora, victor,  
Phoebeia insignis lauro, plantâque Mineruae  
Pulcher agens currus, febre iam correptus acutâ  
Res ità disponit, 
ver●  Gleui Ducis Anglia nutu  
Bedfordi Ducis & Burgundi, Gallia cessit;  
Et tenero Tutor datus est Excestrius Heros, 
aetate decedens; filius   
Qui monitisque pijs Regem educat, instruit, ornat;  
Parrisijsque obijt, cum vix duo munere lustra  
Functus erat regio, Heroicè; Westminstria tymbus:  
●arteriusque huius, Richmondia celsa, Syonis  
Claustraque Regis opus! quo iam moriente Monarchâ,  
Vix novimestris adhuc, Haeres modò, filius infans,  
Incipit Henricus sextus regnare Britannis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici sexti sanctissimi Regis egregia infortunia.  
CVi Burgunda tamen soror, 
Henricus 6, novimestris infans;  & Burgundio, coniux,  
Delphinum domuêre Duces! Gallosque fugaces;  
Donec fata suae ruperunt stamina vitae  
Bedfordi illustris: domitorque Richardus Hybernes,  
Dux Eboracensis regali stemmate clarus  
Olli successit, 
primò  citò Warwicensis & ●lli  
Sufficitur Comes! At Burgundio Celtaque Gallo  
Deficiunt Carolo; gens perfida! quando Britannis  
Dudum oriens furiosa domi dominatur Erynnis:  
Musa sile, 
Galliae (gliscente inter tuto●es discordiá) &  aut mussa infortunia temporis huius;  
Ceu Fortuna noverca furit, capit oppida Gallus  
Delphinus: facile est populum domuisse volentem  
Tendentemque manus ultro; nec clarior ornat  
Gloria vincentem fuso sine sanguine Regna.  
Dux Eboraci odijs & Somersettus in armis  
Flagrabant mutuis: queis tanta incendia flammit  
Vt vix dùm accensas poterant restinguere, multo  
Albionis fluerent quamuis, de sanguine rivi.  
Privatisque oriens, publicae cito certa ruinae  
Caussa agitata odijs; & de Diademate lis est.  
Ac gelidis redijt, domitisque Richardus Hybernis,  
Dux Eboracensis, claris velut anteà gestis,  
Inuidet Edmondus Dux Somersettus, uterque  
Aequè opibus, proavis, rerum splendore superbi:  
Inque vicem probris onerant, lacerantque scipsos.  
Sicuti saeva, animisque ingens discordia gliscit,  
Millia multa hominum, pulcherrima corpora bellis,  
Occubuére feris! 
ind● ingruente civili bello,  quasi regno incuria regnet,  
Ferre Richardus opem parat; hinc sua stemmata pandit,  
Rege suo potiora magis! huic Anna Rogeri  
Filia Mortimeri genitrix, huic Gnata Philippe  
Clarensis Leonelli, Edouardi hic tertia proles:  
Rex solum è quartâ, Gandavo prole johanne,  
Venerat Henricus Lancastro stemmate cretus.  
Ind Somersetti Verulamia prima cruore,  
Blore-hethi celebres & Northamptonia pugnae;  
Quarta Eboracensem dominum Wake-feildia sternit:  
Filius Eduardus quartus tamen occupat urbem  
Londinum, & Regio cinctus Diademate fulget;  
Intereà Henricus Scoticos fugit exul in agros, 
Angliae dominatum, cum vitâ & f●●o Henrico, amisit   
Margueritaque moesta Thori socia, inclyta Nympha,  
Neapolis Siculi & Solymorum filia Regis  
Reyneri, titulis Ducis Andegauensis onusti,  
Restaurare viro cupiens Gnatoque coronam,  
Instaurat bellum; rursum Verulamia caede  
Et Wallûm clarae, & Scotiae ad confinia pugnae:  
Haec fugat ad Gallos Edovardum, iterumque reponit  
Henricum in solio Regina; iterumque repressa  
Haec fugit ad Gallos, patriâque ope fulta, regressa,  
Varuici casum Barnetti in collibus audit;  
Dum parat ut reparando petat, pereundo salutem;  
Supremae, loca clara Theoci Curia, pugnae,  
Heic capitur cum matre tener, manibusque Tyranni  
Caeditur Eduardus, truce circumstante coronâ!  
cum partim Scoticis, partim Anglis, pauper & exul,  
Heinricus pater orbus agens in finibus, agris  
Lancastris latuit; Talbottus at obtulit illum  
Regi, ubi Caesareâ detentus & obrutus arce:  
In prece multus erat, sanctae pietatis alumnus,  
Pacis avens, 
Rex pijssimus.  virtutis amans, Rex summus honore,  
Tristia sanguinei devitans praelia campi,  
Se non si potis, immiscens civilibus undis,  
Captabat placidae securior ocia mentis:  
Octoque lustra prius, 
Cui  iam post duo lustra, monarchae  
Vix totidem menses, Castilia Georgica Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardus quartus & soboles, ludicrae fortunae specimina.  
QVartus ubi Edwardus Gallis fera bella Scotisque  
Intulit, hijs arceis, iis aurea pensa recepit.  
At Shori infamis famosa coniuge janâ;  
Et pulchrae perhibent, 
Eduardus quartus, ex Eboracensi familia, oriundus, incessit,  ceu mollis amator Elizae  
Graij equitis viduae nubens! Carolotta sorori  
Franca tuae Regina bonae, ducisque Sabaudi  
Illusit gnatae, 
qui levibus amoribus,  parilique illuditur arte;  
Filia Delphino iussu Elizabetha parentis  
Desponsata fuit, Margretta sed Austrica nupsit.  
Confixusque acri moriens, ità fama, dolore,  
Londini; liquit Gnatos duo, quinque puellas;  
Bis duo cui post lustra sacella Georgica Tymbus.  
Filius Eduardus quintus puer, anté coronâ  
Tempora cincta forent, Gleui Ducis arte Richardi,  
Intra aliqu●t menses, in celsâ Caesaris arce,  
Cum Duce fratre perit; rapit & sua Regna Tyrannus.  
Hoc metuens pater, 
& Fratris nece infamis, Richardo alteri fratri, moriens, suos puellulos in manus, quasi opptimendos tradidit,  antè nigris transmisit avernis,  
Clarensem, infandum, fratrem! quae machina Gleui  
Dicitur esse Ducis: meliùs quò fraude nepotes,  
Opprimere incautos poterat protector alumnos;  
Tertius inque manu terit aurea sceptra Richardus.  
At sequitur vindicta scelus; facinusque superbum,  
Odêrunt populi: 
undè Richardus tertius tyrannidem triennem exercuit,  monstrisque insomnia terrent,  
Manes, & horrendae ante oculos mala mille figurae;  
Tartareisque canes inferni ululare tenebris  
Visi, animaeque negant, irataque spectra quietem;  
Donec eis dederat scelerato sanguine poenas. 
donec    

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici septimi gesta: & connubia foelicissima.  
SEptimus Henricus Lancastro stemmate cretus,  
Margretâ venit ecce satus; Margreta johanne,  
Ille Thomâ, 
Henricus septimus Lancastrensis, eum solio deturbans, & Elizabetham Eboracensis familiae,  hic magno Grandavae stirpis alumno,  
Et Katharinâ olim dictâ Swinfordiâ! adepti  
Bewforti titulis iuga Somersettia; Wallus  
Huic Edmundus, eique parens, pulcherrima quinti  
Henrici Katherine, pater Theodorus Ocnus!  
Duxque Somersettus, Comes & Richmondius audit:  
Mater eum invitat Stanleyo nupta Baroni;  
Nymphae ambae regiae, materque & filia Elizae,  
Mortonusque pius, 
Edwardi quarti gnatam, in uxorem accipiens, sanguinolento schismati, cum hâc Odâ, finem imponit.  Buckinghamiusque Tyranno  
Infesti, accelerant remorantem Galliae in oris.  
Ille manu paruâ Britonum comitante, profectus,  
Milfordum Cambris in finibus, indé triennem  
Bosworthi in campis petit occiditque Tyrannum;  
Cui pompâ sine, vix lacero Leir-cestria tymbus.  
Clara dies, pia cuius ope, pax reddita mundo!  
Elizabetha etenim Dux & Richmondus eundem  
Conuenêre Thorum! jam Musa recense triumphans  
Germina dijs gratae pacis modulamine dulci;  
Hinc viget ambarum, niveae, rubeaeque Rosarum  
Vnio, Regnorum Anglo-Gallo-Hyberno-Scotorum!  
Hinc veniunt, certoque sequuntur in ordine Reges,  
Septimus, octawsque Henrici, Edovardus, & unae  
Hispano nupta, Hispanis oriunda Maria!  
Divaque virgo, satusque Anglis quasi virgine Diuâ,  
Tuque puerque tuus, ter Eliza beata, jacobus.  
Odae nonae Finis.    

PALAE ALBION,  
The ninth Ode, Entitled GULIELMUS.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
Ninth Ode, shows, Danish broils o'reblowne,  
How Norman William here set foot,  
Whose Conquest by that name's yet known;  
But th' English race again took root;  
Whiles Albion's Sceptres even t'our days  
Plantaginets name and Tewthors sways.  

CANT. I.  
The descent of William the Conqueror, from Great Rollo the Dane.  
Room, 
Synchronismus sive computatis Annorum.  Britons ruin, gave Saxons room, 
Supplementum Historia.   
Danes they, Danes stood at Normans doom;  
Normans, Danes, Saxons, Romans, Britons,  
Neptunes and Nereus' brood, huge Eattons',  
And Samothes, sang you, learned Sisters,  
Angles from th'East lands, Danes from Ister's,  
And Simois side, both ours and theirs  
Rome's Lords, you brought, and Britain's heirs;  
Albion from's Oars, and Samothes,  
From th'ark, when all the world was Seas.  
Now name the man, dear Nymphs, whose line,  
Reigns now, in Brutus' new Sainted shrine,  
Whom England and great Britain sings,  
So much-famed Conqueror, Sire of Kings!  
Whom Newstria bred, now Britain holds  
Him and his offspring Monarches bold.  
Sing we our Williams warlike feats,  
His conquests and atchivements great,  
And first his Stock from whence he came,  
Revolving elder years of Fame.  
From Istrian Daci, erst, 
* The descent of William the Conqueror, and Dukes of Normandy, from Rollo, and the Danes.  they say,  
Came Rollo Guion's son, great Dane,  
And England scaled, whom alfred's worth  
Repelled; but France shores, nearest North,  
Afford him land-roome, whence now springs,  
Their Norman Dukes race, England's Kings:  
This Rollo, christened Robert, th'earl  
Of Beavois, not Charles Simples, 
* As some have written, but not rightly, for he married Poupa, as some call her, daughter of Beenger Earl of Bessin and Beawoisie: but indeed another Norman Princes a little before, married Gilda Niece to Carolus Crassus, whence is supposed, sprang the error: William the first called Longsword, espoused Sporta, daughter of Herbert Earl of Senlis, by whom he had Richard the first, called, Without fear, who espoused Agnes sister to Hugh Capet, after Gunnor a Danish Lady, by whom he had Richard the second, who espoused first judith sister to the Earl of Britain, after Paula daughter to Sweine K of Denmark; by them he had Richard the third, never married, and Robert the second, who by his Concubine Arletta, a man's daughter of the Town of Fallaise, had William the Conqueror.  Girl,  
Weds, and hath issue, William; who  
Had Richard; he a next; he too,  
Another Richard, and his brother  
Robert, whose Aunt's Saint Edward's mother:  
Which second Robert was the father  
Of second William; with us rather  
Called first; of Norman Dukes the second;  
Amongst English Kings, the foremost reckoned!  
Such was this Dukedom, name and race,  
Comes now his Kingdom next in place.   

CANZ. II.  
The conquerors quarrel, claim, and preparation to gain the crown of England's.  
WHen fates had Edward's life-thread spon, 
Harold, son of Earl Godwine and Thyra, as some say, sister to King Canutus, whence was some pretended show of a title, An. 1066. reigned not full one year   
Soon Godwines Harold Thyra's son,  
Caught England's Crown; seeks all men's favours;  
And left, too gross fraud Edgar savours,  
Makes him some mends! part guilt, for pearl,  
For England's King, sooth, Oxford's 
* Edgar is by Harold made Earl of Oxford, a goodly recompense for his Kingdom taken away by him.  Earl;  
But now, besides his cancelled oath,  
To Edgar made, and Edward both,  
(More shame,) a harsh Embassage came,  
From Norman William, who much blame,  
His trothplight promise broke, which made  
He did the Dukes vowed right invade;  
But no expected words or deeds,  
For Duke or them, from him proceeds,  
Duke's daughter too, his promised spouse,  
Forsakes they say, forswears all vows:  
Which so incen'st the Duke's sharp spleen  
To work revenge, and wreak his teen,  
He men and ships to sea 
* His Navy 896. ships.  bequeathes  
To win the rosy royal wreathes.  
Flanders and France with him combined,  
Fierce Tosto was not far behind,  
To work his brother's bane, till those  
Two noble Earls against him rose  
Morcare and Edwine, who him 
* Malchere or Morcare Earl of Northumberland, Edwine of Mercia●  sent  
To th' Orks as 'twere to banishment;  
Whence Norway, Scot'sh and Orkey powers  
He drew, that not those martial flowers,  
Northumhers' Earl, and Merklands flame  
Could stay him till King Harold came;  
Who by fair River Darwents side,  
Foiled Scot'sh and Orkeyes Prince and pride,  
And Tosto sent and Norway's King,  
To Pluto's Palace news to bring;  
When more, straight, more might make him fear,  
He heard the Normans landed 
* At Pemsey in Sussex on the 28. day of September, in. 1066. and fought the great battle at Battle the 14. of October, and William was crowned in London on Christmas day next following.  were,  
Near Hastings! with undaunted spirit:  
Straight he calls forth his men to fight,  
Longing t'allay that fatal feud,  
With hands new dipped in's brother's blood;  
His wearied war-mates waxing faint,  
Vnbreathed, were fain yet fresh to paint  
Their scars with blood and wounds with gore,  
As daring Mars at deaths own door:  
So furious Harold hastes to meet  
His fate like fire with winged feet.   

CANZ. III.  
His success, conquest, and coronation, on Christmas day, Anno 1066.  
NOw comes that hour, 
William the Conqueror, after this victory, getting much of the Land and withal London was there crowned 25. Decemb. the same year 1066. died 9 September. 1087. having reigned 20. years, 8. months and 16. days.  and times full date,  
That wracked the Saxon Princes state,  
From Egberts' 
* Egbert began, A. 802. ended 838, whence to this year 1066. is 228 years. Hengist came almost 400. years before that, An. 449. began his reign, An 456. Whence to the present year 1066 is 610. years.  reign two hundred near,  
From Hengist nigh six hundred year;  
Since CHRIST, one thousand sixty six;  
When Fate or some foul Friend of Styx,  
Hastes Harold on! William 
a Towards the end of the day William caused his men to retire, which the English perceiving, thinking they had fled, breaking their ranks 〈◊〉 to pursue, were easily ouercome; where this battle was fought the Conqueror after found, ● Battle Abbey; there were slain of the Normans 6013. of the English 47944. or after some ●7974 scarce ever the like overthrow and number slain heard of among the English before.  that feigned  
To fly, both Crown and Kingdom gained;  
In Sussex battle th' English fell,  
Strange Comets did such change foretell.  
Harold's corpse (the Duke, now King, so doomed)  
By him built Waltham, has 
b In the college of S. Cross, which he had founded, and there placed a Dean and eleven Chann●ns  entombed,  
Thyra mourning! being, selfsame last year,  
As his first! First, first William's here.  
Then th' English fled to London fast,  
Whiles Normans did their Country's waist:  
Northumberlands and 
c Edwine and Morcare.  Merklands Lords  
For safety tending Scotland wards,  
Met there young Edgar, who set late  
Sails for Appulia, but by Fate,  
Or mighty Aeolus' Imps thus crossed,  
Cast on a quite contrary coast:  
Whose sisters, Margret's Malcolmes wife  
Scot'sh Queen! tother vows Monastique life.  
Now made the Norman Leopards pray  
On England's spoil, and took their way  
For London, which they friendly found,  
Where Christmas day, was William crowned  
By Aldred, York's Archbishop! 
* The famous exploit and stratagem of Stygandus, Archbishop of Canterbury: Eglesine Abbot of Saint Augustine's and the Kentishmen, at Swans-coomb two miles from G●auesend, whereby they gained the Freedom and Privileges of their Country.  whiles  
Famous Stigand, whom England styles  
Her other Primate, thus intends  
His Country's freedom to defend.   

CANZ. FOUR  
The Archbishops Stygands famous stratagem whereby he procured Kent's liberties and ancient freedom, all England else groaning under the Normans tyranny.  
AS William weened with warlike powers  
To o'er run Kent; in greene-wood bowers  
Th'archbishop he, his men arrays  
Covering their arms, with leavy sprays:  
Saint Austin's Abbot Eglesine  
Did in this act with him combine,  
The King at Swans-coombe kend, who stood  
Mazed thus to meet this moving wood,  
By which sleight they encompassed round  
His Normans on unequal ground,  
Who casting down their boughs, appears  
Their Kentish force, to Normans fears:  
But Stigand only praying peace  
And country's freedom, so to cease  
All wars, and farther strife; which thing,  
The King grants, and they greet him King.  
Hence Kent enjoys (our Lawyers say)  
Her ancient customs to this day.  
London's Charter Bishop William 
* The same first year of the Conqueror, the Archbishop Stygand so procured the liberties of Kent, William Bishop of London procured the Charter and privileges thereof.  names  
Her favourite! Kent-freed Stygand fames.  
Yet such his faith nor fame defends  
His worth from Envy, subtle fiend;  
But dying disrobed in prisoners weeds  
Cane's Abbot Lanfrank him 
o To Lanfranke, and the See of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York at this time made a k●nde of submission for him and his See; Scotland was then under the Province of York.  succeeds.  
And now began our, th' English, bane,  
Some fyn'd, some punished; som's lands ta'en  
And given to strangers, many a place  
To wildbeasts, fair fields made a chase:  
Hampshiere towns on New-forrest 
p Many Towns, Villages, and Churches in Hampshire were unpeopled and ruined, to make the King's Chase of new Forest, not without the grief and many bitter curses of the poor wronged owners.  side  
Could witness well this Normans pride,  
Where Church and all, laid level ground,  
Wild Deer or Satyr's dance around,  
Where plagues for Widows, Orphan cries,  
Richard Kings-child and Rufus dies.  
No less the Nobles for their parts  
Or fear, or feel, as grievous smarts,  
Feel present wrongs, fear future dangers,  
Their fellowesmade footstools for 
q which made the English Nobility, as Morcare & Edwine, Gospatrik Earl of Cumberland, Walthe of Earl of Northampton, Syward, Hereward, Clito Edgar, and Bishops, and the rest, attempt many insolences against the State, joining sometimes with the Scots, otherwhiles the Danes, end doing many outrages, till at last most of them were slain and came to untimely ends.  strangers,  
When each jack jets for gentleman  
That skill of French or Norman can,  
Stage, Court, Laws turned French, strange to see  
How brag French beggars Englished be.  
So great and small, scorned or scared sore,  
All fear, some fled their native shore,  
And joining with the warlike Dane,  
Who claimed the crown his right, were slain:  
Others joined with th'invading Scots  
In Edgar's quarrel, chanced like lots.  
Both Welsh and Scot'sh and Herewards 
* Hereward, his father Leofrike Earl of Leycester, being dead, came out of Flanders to claim has lands that were given to Normans; he was a valiant and right worthy warrior, and long time defended h●ms●lfe is the I'll of Ely, being made Knight by his Uncle Brand, Abbot of Peterborrow; the fashion then being that the Knight to be made, after Confession and Absolution, watching afore the Altar all night, then offereth his sword, which receiving again with a benediction from the Abbot or Bishop, he was thenceforth accounted a lawful Knight, which order as well as 〈…〉 with golden cross●s, the Normans abolished, substituting others in their places.  powers  
The brother Earles brave martial flowers,  
Have all like Fortune, Welsh are tamed,  
The rest quite fled, foiled, or reclaimed.  
Malcolm does homage, Edgar too,  
And his as ta'en to favour, do  
Receive the King's rich gifts! all friends  
His course thence for Pannonia bends.   

CANZ. V.  
The King's tyranny also against his brother, his death and strange funeral in France.  
THe King's half brothers were by's 
* Arlotta, why before the Duke his father's death, married one Herlewine of Gantrevill of mean estate; & as proceeding of her immodest behaviour towards the Duke, some allude the name of Harlot as it were descended.  mother,  
Robert Earl of Morton, and his brother  
Odo Bayon's Bishop, Earl of Kent,  
Who viceroy made, when William went  
To war in France, Northumber's wild,  
With th'rest of's King's foes bravely foiled;  
But gaping for the Papal Crown,  
When fates great Hidebrand pulled down,  
Was prisnored by his brother-King,  
Envy pared proud Ambition's wing,  
Doubly deceived by lying Augury  
Lost triple-Crowne, and long time liberty!  
Peace gained, the King did Paul's repair,  
Built many a Church and Abbey 
e The Abbeys of Battle in Sussex, Gane in Normandy, to which he gave his Crown and Ornaments, which King Henry the first redeemed at a great rate▪ Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, Saint Nicholas Priory in Exeter: he gave lands and privileges to the College of Saint martin's le grand; ten Monasteries built by his Ancestors in Normandy he enlarged: in his time were 2●. in diverse parts with his consent and confirmation founded, with the greatest part of Paul's Church and the Tower of London, and many other Castles in England and Normandy.  fair,  
And castles, and of England took  
The great survey, in Doomsday 
f It was called the Roll of Winton, of being laid up at Winchester; the book of Bermondsey saith it is called Domus Dei Book, of lying in the King's Treasury called Domus Dei, at Westminster, such a Rolhad, Alfred before set forth, all England thereby taxed by Shires, Hundreds, and T●●ings.  book.  
Last time King William France invaded,  
Because French Philip against him aided  
Robert his so unnatural Son;  
Fallen sick at Rouen, the French begun  
And King to scoff, as if his sickness  
Were Childbed faintness, women's weakness;  
Which made him mad-chased vow, should shrines  
And altars with burnt-offrings shine,  
At his safe Church going; saves his oath,  
Th'Altars flame, towns, and temples both:  
Amongst which war tumults, bruised 
g At the firing of the City of Meux.  fore  
By his horse leaping; sickening more,  
Soon after dyes! when (woeful 
* Dying at Rouen, he was left by his servants who fled, his body was found naked on the floor, and most of his stuff an 〈◊〉 stolen; thence conneyed to C●ne, one Fitz Arthur denied the K. burial in the Abbey Church (as ground which was wrongfully taken by the King from father) till he had 100 pounds paid him for it; the King's Coffin there breaking, to the fear and amazement of those present, there issued so 〈◊〉 a stench of the body not bowelled, that the Priests and Monks could scarce abide to finish the ordinary Kites and funeral duty; the end and emblem of all flesh though never so proud or stately.  case)  
Great Cane scarce yields him burial place;  
A spacious Empire, so small room,  
To fit her Monarch's eight-foote tomb,  
Till 'twas with loathsome need for gold  
To all beholders terrors sold!  
Whom Normandy nursed, France did fear,  
England and Picards, conquests were,  
Less Brytaine bows to, Scot'sh, Welsh, both  
Triumphed! Ah, world's pride, glory, froth!   

CANZ. VI.  
The smally-praised government of William Rufus.  
HIs death makes Robert Normans 
* So was the Kings will, lying on his death bed, when he ●●●willed all prison doors to fly open, & all prisoners to be released saving his brother Odo, whose contentious nature, and ambition, he feareds but at the last gave consent to his release also.  Duke;  
Rufus our King; 
William Rufus 9 Septemb. A. 1087. R. 12. y. 11. months wanting 8. days, cowned at Westminster by Lanfranke Archbishop of Cant. sline by Terrell in the new Forest in Hampshire, 2. August. A. 1100.  youngst Henry took,  
His treasures; Stephen Earl of Bloys  
Adela weds! the Britannoy's  
Earl Alum, Constance; Spain's Alfonso  
Elinor; Adeliza and his throne so,  
Both Harold left! they Cicely call  
Canes Abbess; William's issue all!  
Now Odo freed by's Brother's 
k The Nobles and he setting up Robert for King against Rutus: but being reconciled, Duke Robert went with Godfrey of Bolloigne to the holy Land, were they achieved many honourable victories against the Saracens: whiles William at home, overcame the Usurper Donald, and made Edgar King of Scots: also the contention growing hot in Wales between lestin & Prince Rees, William and the English overcame them, and took many goodly Lordships and Territories, in the chiefest parts of Wales from them.  fate  
Nursed fell flames till wit dear bought late,  
Unites the Nephew's powers, that quelled  
Welsh, Scot'sh and Normans that rebelled.  
Then Robert gone to th' Holy-land  
Rufus makes Edgar Scot'sh King; and  
Builds Westminster great Hall; but lead  
A most loose life, being Lanfrank 
l During Lanfranks life he so lived, saith the story, that he might have been a mirror of Princes, though afterwards his rapines, sacrileges, and synonies exceeded: of his variableness is noted this, That to the jews who brought him presents, encourageing them to fight against Christians, he would say; if they overcame, and swore by Saint Luke's face, which was his oath, he would be one of their sect. A note of his prodigality is recorded, his rating his Chamberline for bringing him a pair of hose that cost but three shillings; who fetching a worse pair, and saying, they cost a mark, he was pleased: which may with more wonder tax the excess of meaner persons in this age.  dead,  
Who ruled him much: and exiled flies  
Reverend Anselm who taxed his vice!  
Though rapine nor of Church nor State  
Scaped scot-free. Terrell, such his fate,  
On the new Forest, ill-got ground  
From Gods and men, gave him death's wound;  
Whom Collier's Carts, uncourtly bring,  
Winchester tombs th'eleven years ᵐ 
Sir Walter Terrell that slew the King escaped, other of the King's servants fled, his body laid on a Collier's Cart, was by a silly lean jade drawn into Winchester, & there in Saint Swithins church entombed.  King.   

CANZ. VII.  
Henry the first called Beuclerks honourable reign.  
NExt, youngest Henry, 
Henry the first, called Beuclerk, of his learning, third son of the Conqueror, borne at Selby in Lincolnshire, brought up in study at Cambridge; began his reign 2. August, was crowned 5. August 1100. at Westminst. by Maurice Bishop of London, being Anselm then in exile; he reigned 35. y. 4. m. A. 1116. the first Parliament at Salisbury. A. 1122. the king went to Po●ysland, being Coman of North-wales in peace with him, but Meredith ap Blethin, and Eneon, Madok and Morgan, the sons of Cadugan, pursuing the wars awhile, at last sought peace.  the first, restoring  
Saint Edward's Laws, and most adoring  
Arts, arms, and honour, Beauclerk styled;  
Famed yet for covetous, wanton, wild;  
He banished Anselm back doth call,  
Regards his counsels yet but small.  
Robert, now from jerusalem  
Comes, claims his royal Diadem;  
But peace took place, till last, fresh broils  
Captived the Duke, whom Cardiff spoils  
Of eyes and life: his son that 
* William called Earl of Flanders, the King's nephew, a worthy young Captain; he was stain at the siege of the castle of Angeou.  flies  
To th' Dutch, and French for aid, soon dies.  
First Parliaments, and Templars 
a The first convocation of the State: Prelates, Nobles, and Commons of the Land, was 19 Aprilis, A. 1116 and A. regni 16. when beforetimes the Kings made their Laws by the advice of the learned without altogether such solemn meetings. Of Templars, the first were the honourable men Hugo Paganus and Galfridus de Saint Andemate, under Baldwine King of jerusalem: their white habit they had from Pope Honorius; their red Crosses from Eugenius, their name from their first Mansion ●ard by the Temple at jerusalem.  first  
Under this Henry heard! who erst  
Build Windsor Castle, after famed  
So by Saint George! He Welshmen tamed;  
Weds Maud, Scot'sh Edgar's sister, whose  
Sole heir, (the rest sea-swallowed!) spouse  
Maud too, to th'Emperor, after took  
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Angeou's 
b Maud was first married to Henry the Emperor, then to jeffrey Plantagenet Earl of Angeou, whose issue Plantaginets reigned in England, till Henry the seventh.  Duke:  
Whose issue, second Henry brings  
In, th'ancient race of Saxon Kings,  
His mother th'empress Maud! hers too  
Maud Scot'sh-Queene Margret's Daughter, who  
Had to sire Edward, edmond's son  
named Ironside, King here long agone!  
These heirs! Henry beyond-sea 
c In Normandy, 1. Decembr. 1135. his bowels, brains, and eyes, buried at Rouen, the rest at Reading where he founded an Abbey of black Monks in place of a Nunnery which he suppressed: so he converted a rich College of Prehends at Cicester to an Abbey: he sounded the Priory of Dunstable, the Hospital of S. john in Cicester, and Castle and College at new Windsor; he is noted to have been better disposed at the beginning, than end of his reign.  dies;  
Thrice twelve years' King; at Reading lies.   

CANZ. VIII.  
King Stephens altogether troublesome time.  
But Stephen Earl of Bloys his son, 
Stephen, son of Stephen, Earl of Bloys, and Adela the conquerors daughter, crowned on S. Stevens day, 1135. did found an Hospital by the west gate of York: two Nunneries at Carew, and Higham by Gravesend, the Abbey of Cogshall in Essex, furnace in Lancashire, and Feversham in Kent, where he was buried, having reigned 18. years, 10. months, and odd days, he died 25. Octob. 1154.   
On Stephen's day crowned his reign begun,  
By's mother Adela, Conquerors Imp;  
Whose Nobles, and the Imperial Nymph  
So vexed him, fain at last, as 'twere  
Adopts her son, young Henry 
* For during all his reign England was full of broils, Ranulph Earl of Chester, Robert Earl of Gloster, Miles & Roger Earls of Hereford, and many others of the ●obles & Bishops, and King of Scots, holding with the Empress; & once took the King prisoner; but this conclusion procured peace at the last.  heir:  
Yet he, for's life King, wears the Crown  
Nigh twenty years; tombed at Feversham town.   

CANZ IX.  
Henry the second his partly unquiet, otherwise fortunate and flourishing government.  
SEcond Henry, 
Henry the second, son of Maud the Empress, in whose person revived the ancient race of Saxon kings, that were before the Conquest, began 25. Octobr. A. 1154. crowned at Westm. 17. of Decemb. following, he died in France at Chinon, having R. 34. y. 7. m. wanting 11. days. This Henry that rebelled against his father, was at the age of seven years married to the French K. daughter Margaret, being but three years old, An. 1160. and crowned A. 1170 but in his father's life sime rebelling, slain, died before his father A. 1183. A. 1185. Maud the Empress did found the Abbey of Brodesley, she was buried at Reading, with this epitaph Ortu magna, viro maior, sed maxima partû, Hic iacet, Henrici, filia, sponsa parens: being daughter to Henry the first, wife to Henry Emperor, mother to Henry the second king of England.  first Plantagenet, son  
To th'empress; new as 'twere begun  
Th'old Saxons line; in him exemplared  
Seemed famous Edgar, Alfred, Edward;  
By's mother's side from these descended,  
O'er Scotch, Welsh, Orkeys, he 
* A. Regni 10. Malcolm K of Scots, and Rees K. of Wales did homage to him at Westminst.  extended  
His British Empire; conquering foot  
In Ireland sets, at Mac-mor'gh's 
a Dermon Mac-Morough K. of Leymster, go of the K. Richard Strongbow Earl of Chepstoll for ●is aid with Welsh & English, who repossessed him of his land, and married his daughter Eve, and brought Ireland with the Kings thereof, Maurice K. of Meth, Dwenald K. of Limerik, and all the other Kings and Bishops to the subjection of the king of England, who came over from Pembroke, and received their sealty, & built a Princely Palace it Dubline: these acts were confirmed by ●ove Adrian the fourth an English man succeeded Anastasius, his name being Nicholas Breakespeare, borne at Langley in Hart●ordshire; he had been Bishop of Alba, Cardinal and Legate to the Norway's whom be converted to Christianity.  suit;  
All these were his, with Normandy  
In's mothers right! Towers, Picardy  
And Angeou, were his father's lands,  
Less Brytaine too came to his hands,  
jeffrey his son, wedding the Girl,  
Daughter and heir to Conan Earl.  
Yet more his land in Frances main  
Extends; Poytew, and Aquitaine,  
Being his wife's dower; did Elinor bring,  
Forsaken though by Frances King,  
Poytew's Earl William's issue, 
b William a name almost hereditary with those Dukedoms, wherefore her first son was named William, but he lived not long.  their  
Earldoms and Dukedoms both sole heir.  
By her were Richard, jeoffrey, john  
And Henry's crowned, slain rebel son;  
Girls Elinor, Spain's Queen; Sicill's 
c jone Queen of Sicily.  t'other;  
Maud Saxons Duchess, Caesar's Mother.  
But subtle Sirens, two fair dames  
Light love our wanton King defames;  
French Adeliza, and 
d Adeliza daughter to the king of France, espoused to Richard the king of England's son, trained to the king's lust after Rosamonds' death, whose ancestors were Clyfford, then & since Earls of Cumberland, h●r tomb was at Godstow by Oxford, with these Verses thereon,  Rosamond,  
Of Clifford's race; who held him bound,  
In her loves Labyrinih; Woodstock bowers  
Shrouding her, their loves, & love-stolne hours.  
But jealous juno, 
Hic iacet in tumbâ Rosa Mundi, non Rosa Munda,  furious Queen,  
Found a fit time to work her teen, 
Non redolet, sed olet, Quae redolere soler. But cast out of Godstow Church, by Hugh bishop of Lincoln, who said, That monument of shame befitted not so hallowed a place.   
In her Lord's absence, as he goes  
To French war's; on his beauteous Rose:  
Whom she did poison; and sets on  
In arms against the sire his son;  
But younger Henry falls, both crowned  
By's father's life, and laid in ground.  
Which furious acts of hers, when seen  
The King imprison's th'angry Queen;  
And hands thought stained with Beckets' 
e Who was slain by William Tracy, baron of Mort●n, and other knights, as was thought with the king's privity; though the king took it on his oath he was not therewith acquainted, and was so assoiled of the same.  blood  
Means purge by wars for Holy-lands good:  
But French broils staying him, fates assign,  
Chinon, thrice twelve years' King, his 
f He died at Chinon and was entombed at Fount-Eucrard, in a Monastery of Nuns, which he there founded: he also built the Priories of Stanley, Dover, and Basingwarke, and the Abbey of Regular Canons at Waltham: he began London Stone-bridge, now the Thames course, being turned by a trench, beginning at Redrife, and ending at Battersey.  shrine.   

CANZ. X.  
Richard the first: called Cuor-de-Lyon and his victorious acts.  
SVcceedes brave Richard Cuor-de-lyon, 
Richard surnamed Coeur de Lion, of his valiancy, began his reign 6. july 1189. he died the 6. of April 1199. having reigned 9 y. 9 months: he rejected his wife, the French K. sister, supposed his father's Coneubine, and espoused Berengaria the king of 〈◊〉 daughter.   
Who as his sire, means visit Zion,  
And from the Babylonian 
* The Sultan, or Soultan, signifieth in Hebrew, and likewise Arab, or Morisco, Lord or Prince.  Prince,  
Cyprus, Acon, and joppa wins,  
And ships, town, towers, and forts regains,  
With warlike and victorious trains;  
Though Sultan yet, and Saracens bold,  
The fair jerusalem still did hold!  
But wo-worth those crossed such designs,  
False brother john, with France combines  
To quench with flames, retiring 
b Being withdrawn from the holy Land wars, by the conspiracy of his brother, & the French king Philip, who fell out with him and departed from Aco●; he thus taken was fame for his ransom to pay a great sum (for which the Bishops, Abbots, and Prelates, brought the fourth part of their revenues, and all the Chalices of silver and gold and ornaments of their Churches) and promised more: which being showed to the Pope h●e excommunicated the Duke, who refused to y●eld restitution, and after back his leg, and dying to great anguish, remained unburied till his 〈◊〉 released the pledges taken of king Richard, and swore to obey the decrees of the Church of Rome.  fast,  
'Bout Austria coasts by tempest cast,  
Ignobly by Limpoldus Duke,  
Against law of nations pris'nor taken,  
Great ransom gives; 
Vienna and her walls the bulwark of Christendom, against the invasions of the Turk these many ages.  fain too, as ' tfalls  
To build the fair Vienna's walls.  
Safe when returned, false brother sought  
And mothers mediation, wrought  
Such peace, that he, being Richard gone  
Sans issue, obtained his ten-yeeres throne;  
Who 
c Being so envied by the Emperor and French king, for that he showed more v●lour in his expedition to the holy Land then any other. In his time were those famous outlaws, called Robin-hood, and Little john, and a seditious Preacher called William with the Beard: also Hubert Archbishop of Cant. chief justice Viceroy and Lieutenant in the king's absence, set peace amongst the Welshmen being at variance among themselves, and vanquished them after when they did rebel.  fallen i'th' French wars, Chalne contains  
His bowels there, where he was slain  
By Bertram Gordon's venomed dart,  
His corpse Founteuerard, Rouen his hart.   

CANZ. XI.  
King john's unfortunate reign, and troubles by the Baron's wars.  
KIng john scarce crowned; 
K. john, though not right heir, was elected and crowned by Hubert Arc●h. of Cant. 26. May, 1199. who was made Lord Chacellor of England though in king Richard's life time he had both resisted the tyranny of the now king, & excommunicated him, and preferred the title of Arthur, Geofreyes' son: K. john died the 19 of Octob. 1216 having reigned 17. y. and 5. m. lacking 8. days. K. john had continual wars with either the French or Emperor, or his Barons at home, partly for their liberties and Saint Edward's Laws, and partly other private 〈◊〉 he had wars in Scotland, and with his son in law Leoline of Wales; he died in the heat of the wars: the K. of France having taken up 〈◊〉 a second time, in the Baron's behalf, and Lewes the Dolphin being then come over into England.  when France will needs  
(The elder brother's son 
* But King john soon got his nephew Arthur, that had espoused the King of Frances daughter, and was right 〈◊〉 to the Crown, into his hands and murdered him.  indeed!)  
Set Arthur up; but got but harms,  
If aught, 'twas more by art then arms;  
Till more his Baron's wars him vexed,  
For countries good, fair foul pretext.  
Th'Archbishop Langton too, raked th'ashes,  
Whence Romish thundering censure 
p The Bishop's, William of London, 〈◊〉, of 〈◊〉, and Malgor of Winchester, executing the Pope's 〈…〉 upon the Realm, it came, that the dead were buried in 〈◊〉, and corners, bylaymen, like dogs: King john then seized the Abbeys and Ecclesiastical livings, and put them in Laymens' hands: Pope Innocent then absolved all Princes and others from subjection to King john, incited the King of France and Dolphin to seize England, as they did all beyond the Seas: and his Nobles and the Welshmen conspiring against him, he was forced to call home diverse exiled Bishops, recall diverse unjust laws, and put Saint Edward's laws in execution, Pandulph the Legate chief actor herein, to 〈◊〉 in the Pope's behalf he resigned the Crown.  flashes;  
Nor reconciled to them, till when  
Vnkinged, uncrowned, the Pope again  
Put on his Crown; Pandulpho the means  
Who blest, vexed, cursed, and calmed the Realms.  
Lewis of France the Dolphin then  
Who came to th'aid o'th' English men  
Ith' Baron's cause, although called home, 
King john's 3. daughters were Isabel, wed to the Emperor Fredrick, johan espoused Leoline Prince of Wales, janc espoused Alexander King of Scots.   
Scarce stints all strife! his Nobles some  
For ravished wives, for daughters other,  
Fell rage conceived, can scantly 
h And among others Maud the Fair, daughter of Robert Fitz-Walter, who not consenting to his unlawful love, was by him poisoned, where she was buried at Dunmow.  smother;  
Henry England's, Richard Almains been,  
Kings both his sons; three daughters Queens  
Princely wed! when john, poisoned 
i As it is said, by a Monk in Swynstead Abbey: yet he had founded the Abbey of Beauly in Hampshire; the Monasteries of Farenden, & of Hales Owen, in Shropshire; he redified Godstow, Wroxhall, and the Chapel of Snaris borough.  dies  
Thrice six years' King! at Worster lies.   

CANZ. XII.  
Henry the third his acts, and his sons warlike exploits at the holy Land.  
THird Henry than his infant son, 
Henry the third borne at Winchester, King john's eldest son, but 9 years of age, began his reign 19 Octob. A. 1216. crowned at Gloucester by Peter Bishop of Winchester, & joseline Bishop of Bath: in presence of Walo the Pope's Legate 28. Octob. 1216. and after peace concluded with the Barons, by Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster on Whitsonday, A. 1219. he died 16. Novemb. 1272. having lived 65. years and 28. days.   
His nigh threescore-yeeres reign 
* Gualo the Pope's Legate, the Bishop of Winchester, and William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, being Protectors of the Realm and King's person, so wrought that the Barons were quieted. Lewes the Dolphin departed, and things setied in peace: of this William Martial is read this Epitaph, in his honour, Sum quem Saturnum sib● sensit Hybornia, solemn Anglia, Mercurium N●rm●nnia, Gallia Martem: towards the end of his reign the Parons taking up arms again: Simon Montfort Earl of Leicester, & Gilbert de Clare; principal actors therein, under pretext of the Acts of the Parliament, called, The mad Parliament of Oxford, A. 1258. to the ruin of many of the Nobility; but the war was ended partly by the battle of Euesham, partly by Legate Othobone, and the Acts of the Mad Parliament repealed at Winchester, 1265. A 1268. was the Parliament of Marleborow, and the Statutes enacted, called, Of Marlebrige.  begun;  
Whose Barons wars, with Welsh and French  
He all, scant easily though did quench;  
Legate Gualo chiefly managing,  
The Realm's affairs, for the young King;  
Whose valiant Imps long after spoil  
The Souldan's towns, and Syrians foil,  
And safe returned from Zion's aid,  
First Edward King of England's made;  
Lancaster's Duke his brother Edmond,  
To Westminster their sire being 
k He builded the Hospital of Saint john's in Oxford, a house and Church for Converts of jews and Pagans in London, the Chapel at Westminster, whither Saint Edward's the Confessors bo●es were translated out of the Choir by him, and himself buried.  summoned.   

CANZ. XIII.  
Edward the first, and his deciding the right of the Crown of Scotland. Edward his son first English Prince of Wales.  
BY Edward's hand Prince Leoline falls, 
Edward the first, surnamed Longshanks, being in the parts beyond the Seas towards jerusalem, began his reign 16. Novemb. 1272. and came into England, was crowned at Westminster by Rob. Kilwarby Archbishop of Cant. 15. August. 1274. he died 7. july 1307. R. 34. y. 7. m. & odd days.   
And Edward's son's born 
* And called Edward of Carnarvan; for the Welshmen after Leolines' death, earnest with the King for a Prince of their own Countrymen; the King told them they should have a Prince there borne that could speak no English, which they contented with, he named his ●fant Son; who, of this policy, the Queen being brought to Carnarvan, was borne there: he divided Wales, incorporated into England, into Shires and Hundreds.  Prince of Wales,  
And Robere Bruise by him put down, 
A. 1292. 18. Novemb. Alex. K. of Scots being dead without issue: the K. of England, as Lord Paramount, having heard all the titles and claims of the 12 Competitors, as beires to the Crown of Scotland, adjudged the Crown to To. Balliol, of whom he took homage; who rebelling, K. Edward entering Scotland and Edenborow, took all the regal ensigns, and offered the Chair, Crown, and Sceptre of the Scottish King to Saint Edward at Westminster.   
john Balliol's right bears Scotland's Crown!  
But Scottish broils s'mbrewed all hands,  
That th' English Lords divide their 
a To whom the King gave Manors and Signio●tes with great liberties throughout all parts, even to the farthest end of all Scotland whence took root there many English customs and names.  lands.  
Made sire t'a race of royal 
b By ●●ianor of Spain, he had Prince Edward, and four other sons, and 10. daughters: for this Qucenes sake were builded the Crosses of Cheapside and Charing-cross, and diverse others, as all the places where her Hearse rested being brought from Lincoln (where she died in the King's journey to Scotland) to Westm. By Margaret the K. of Frances daughter, he ha●● two sons, and one daughter.  Imps,  
By's two Queens, Spain's and Frances Nymphs  
Elinor and Margaret! Westminster's  
Shrine, him five-seven-yeeres King interres.   

CANZ. XIIII.  
Edward the second called of Carnarvan, an unfortunate Prince, much wronged by Gaveston, the Mortimers, and Spensers' means.  
NExt Edward; Frances heir, as't fell, 
Edward the second, named of Carnarvan, began 7. july, 1307. deposed 25. january, 1326. R. 19 y. 6. months and odd days.   
(Peter Hispan's plot) weds 
* Daughter to Philip le Beau, and heir to France, all her brothers being dead without issue.  Isabella;  
Him Scots chased home, and Gavestone,  
And Spensers, made him loved of 
c For their insolences the Barons took up arms against him, but he was by the Queen at last, and Mortimer her Minion deposed: and most lamentably used and murdered at Barkley Castle, on 5. Matthews day, 21. Septemb. 1327, then buried at Gloster.  none;  
Whose pride the mis-ruled State much rues,  
Till they fled. Then whom they abuse,  
King twenty years, Queen & Mortimer doomed  
Him; Barkley murdered, Gloster toombed.   

CANZ. XV.  
Edward the third his warlike acts, and conquest of France.  
THird Edward crowned ever's father's death, 
Edward the third, borne at Windso. e, began 25. jan. 1326 and crowned at Westminster by Walter Reginalds Archbishop of Cant. 1. Feb. next, in his father's life time: he died at Sheen, now Richmond, 21. june, 1377. having reigned 50. years, 4. months, and odd days. Edward Balliol was crowned K. of Scots, 27. Septemb. 1332. there were then slain at Halidon of the Scots, 8. Earls, 1300. horsemen, and of common Soldiers 35000.   
As he the Earls overboldness seeth,  
Slew Mortimer, whiles he 
* Causing him to be condemned by his Peers, but never brought to his answer, like as hec before had served diverse others.  disapproves,  
His, and his mother's wanton loves.  
And married though with his consent,  
But their appoint, his sister went  
To Scotland; yet for homage, not  
Performed, or scoffs given by the 
d Among others this rhyme is said to be cast abroad by the Scots about that time, 
Long bearers heartless,  
Painted bo●ds witless,  
Gay coats graceless,  
Makes England thriftless.   Scot,  
Beleaguring Berwick, David Bruise  
His brother in-law, so hard pursues  
To Halydon hill, Scots great'st disgrace,  
He Balliol kinged, in Bruse his place;  
Who fled for France, whither angry fate  
Brought our King soon, to claim's estate,  
Laying title to Frances Lilies  
Of right his mother 
e Edward the third, his mother, daughter to Philip le Bel, sister to Charles the fifth, and Lewes Hutin, whose heir she was, they dying without issue.  Isabella's,  
Charles sister, and Philip the Fair  
Last King of Frances daughter and heir,  
Valois, the usurpers sister Impe.  
Queen Philip, our King's wife, fair 
f 〈◊〉 was daughter to 〈…〉 of Henault, 〈…〉 Philip de Valo●s, who new usurped France against Edward the third, 〈◊〉 his mother 〈…〉 title.  Nymph,  
Brought Henault, and with th'earl her sire  
Flanders with England fierce 
g The Flemings●●●●tted ●●●●tted themselves to the King of England's obeisant and 〈…〉 the Earl three times, and King Edward was 〈◊〉 of the Empire, 1339. clected also 〈◊〉 Emperor, 13●● 〈…〉.  conspire,  
That Newstria, and her neighbour France  
Began hope war's, helpless, haplessechance;  
Paris even felt for fear the fire,  
Of English warriors in their ire,  
And Cresseid flowery vale beheld  
A famous, fierce-fought well-pitcht field,  
When greene-grasse beds, with gore were spread,  
White milky Lilies died blood-red;  
And mercy ne're-taught 
h Oyly-flame, was 〈…〉 the French KIng 〈…〉 ●sying, No merry, but upon 〈◊〉 of death, of prisoner's to the 〈◊〉, against this the King of England 〈◊〉 his Banner of the Dragon, noting 〈◊〉.  Oyly-flame  
Learned th' English Lions were untame.  
The French King fled, his Lords they tell,  
Kings of Maiork, and Beme, they 
i With the Kings of Maiork and Beme sell, the Archbishop Zanximus; the Bishop of Noyoune, the Dakes of 〈◊〉 and Bourbon, the Earls of Alenson, Ha●ecourt, Aumarle, Savoy Noy●, Mont byliard, Nivers and Franders, the Grand Prior and 4000 men of arms, besides that innumerable multitude of the commons.  sell;  
With troops of Commons numberless  
In this famed battle named of Cress;  
Tankeruill, Guisnes, Cane, Callaice, and  
Many a fair town that late did stand  
For Philip then, and all the west  
Submit to th' English Conquerors hest.  
Bruis in French cause afresh French aided,  
Was ta'en as England he 
k At the battle of Durham or Nevil's Cross, William de la Zouch, Archbishop of York, vicegerent for the King in the Marches, giving him battle; the said David King of Scots, was taken by john Copland Esquire and so sent to the Tower, where he remained many years.  invaded:  
The Pope for French-King treating peace,  
Takes truce, whiles did th'old King decease,  
Whom his son john succeeds, with whom  
Young Edward, called in Frence whilom  
The Black-Prince; who ruled France full far  
And Aquitane, moves mortal war;  
whether noble youths for crowns or praise  
You strove, or both, and Phoebus' bays;  
When Poyteu fields were scarlet 
l In this battle of Poytew, were slain the Dukes of Bourbon, Dafines, the Marshal of France, and many Lords; and taken prisoners, the King and his son Philip the Dolphin, the Archbishop of Senon, the Earls of Pontue, Ewe, Longvile, Tankeruill, Daa●tet, Vendadour, Vindome, Wademont, Slancer, juyney, Don-Martin, Sa●so, Selabrase: Viscounts, Nerbon and Belemont: and many Lords, who were by the Prince brought prisoners into England, in triumph: the King of France was lodged in the Savoy; and all the Kings and Princes, the King and Prince of England, the captive kings of France and Scotland, the Dolphin and king of Cyprus, with many of the Nobility, were sumptuously entertained and feasted by Henry Pyeard Vintner, Mayor of London.  died,  
When fell the chief of Frances pride,  
Were Dolphin, King, and many a Lord  
Captived by Black-Prince Edward's sword,  
Trophies of triumph, high that raise  
England's both Prince and soldier's praise.   

CANZ. XVI.  
Edward the black Prince his honourable atchivements, and untimely death.  
GReat signs o'er south and Indian shores  
Seems to foreshow such strange uproars,  
White troops against Aethiopians black  
In Azure skies to threat fierce wrack;  
But while they fell, whether Mahound's powers,  
Or else, were shown by Memnon's Moors.  
For now great wars in Normandy  
Less Britain were, and 
* Being invaded by the Kings of England and Navarre.  Burgundy;  
France fell before our Prince's feet  
Trembleth Navarre, Spain doth entreat  
For her King Pedro, who's new 
m He was expelled by Henry his bastard brother; but being restored by Prince Edward, he was shortly after treacherously murdered; the two daughters of the said King Peter, were after married to john Duke of Lancaster, and Edmond Earl of Cambridge, the King of England's sons; & john of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, who married the elder sister Constance, wrote himself King of Castille, and challenged it; and aided the King of Portugal against bastard Henry: but receiving a large sum of money, gave his daughter in marriage to the said King, and quitted all claim to his kingdom.  made  
King by brave black-prince Edward's aid,  
Came Cyprus King his help t'obtain  
Against Turks; were then in's royal train  
Worth registering on fames fair wings  
Two captives and the Cyprus Kings; 
A. 1350. was celebrated the first feast of S. George at Windsor. A. 1376. the Prince died.   
Whiles he thus glorious Knighted shines  
Both at Saint George, and Mars' shrines,  
Pale foe to honour, winter-power  
Of death, nipped this fair springing flower;  
Whence Richard, black-Prince son's made Prince.  
French-King, and Dolphin, Bruise too, since,  
Tributaries and ransomed join 
n The King of France, was to deliver the lands of Gascoigne, Guienne, Poyt●ers, Limosin, Balei●le, Exante●, Galaice & Guisnes, freely to the King of England, and three millions of Florence's, for his ransom, David king of Scots, was to pay 100000 marks in ten years' next following his release.  hands;  
So peace shone fresh, on all three lands.  
Clarence Duke Lionel, weds the fair  
Milan's Duke Galease, his 
o Violentis her name, the sumptuousness of which marriage, whereat Francis Petrarch was present, and the magnificence seeming to equal, if not surpass, the state of the greatest and wealthiest Princes.  heir,  
Having with her goodly lands! his brother  
john of Gaunt, Lancastrian Duke, and t'other  
Cambrige Earl Edmond, wed two Nymphs  
Castille King Pedro's beauteous ●mpes,  
Whence claimed the Duke the Crown; but gives  
Only his daughter, and receives  
Of the new King, a mass of 
p Of Henry the bastard.  gold,  
From lucre of which drossy mould,  
Against City's wealth, and Church's state,  
His envy first grows to such hate,  
Might Wicklifes' words work Wicham's dole  
Or theirs, he'd gladly blow the 
q He was a great enemy to the Bishops, City, and Clergy, bolstering Wicklife against his Ordinary the Bishop of London, with such intolency, that had not the Bishop, requiting evil with good, entreated the Citizens in his behalf, they would have slain him at his Palace of the Savoy.  coal;  
Scarce King, or Prince, for him long space  
Gained Wichams Church, or Citizen's grace.  
This our third Edward's Windsores round  
Saint George's feasts with honour crowned,  
And Garter his inventions; 
a He instituted the most noble Order of the Garter, and round Table at Wi●dsore; & on Saint George's day, A. 1350. kept the first Saint George's feast, with the beginning of that institution of Knighthood: the King of Frace in imitation of him than began a like order of round Table, to keep the noble men of Italy & Spain from the King of England's, but with no success. He almost new built the said Castle of Windsor; to the eight Channons there, he added a Dean and fifteen more, and 24. Knights: he builded the new Abbey by the Tower of white Monks, and one for Nuns at Dertfort in Kent, and King's Hall in Cambridge, and Maison de Dieu, an Hospital in Callaice, and augmented Saint Stevens Chapel in Westminster, giving it more 500 pounds per annum.  since  
So famed: let th'orders of no Prince, 
Edward the third his issue were Edward the black Prince, William of Hatfield, Lionel Duke of Clarence, john of Gaunt, William of Windsor, Thomas of Woodstock: Isabel, joan Queen of Spain, Blanch, Mary, and Margaret.   
Contend, or not compare with these,  
Rhodes Palls, nor Colchos golden Fleece.  
Seven sons, five daughters, royal state  
Showed him thrice blest and fortunate;  
At Richmond, fifty years' King he dies,  
At Westminster there tombed lies.   

CANZ. XVII.  
Richard the second stripped of the crown by Henry Bolingbrooke; whence grew the schism.  
BOth's father Prince, 
Richard borne at Bordeaux, began 21. junij, 1377. crowned at Westminster by Simon Sudbury Archbishop of Canterbury, the 16. of july next: what time he made four Earls and nine Knights: he was deposed 29. September 1399. having reigned 22. years 3. months and odd days: he was murdered at Pomfret, 14. Februarij following, buried at Langley by Saint Albon, and after removed by Henry the fifth to Westminster.  and Grandsire King,  
Richard succeeeds, for many a thing  
Infam'd! Sans heir die both his Queens,  
French Is'bell, and proud Anne of 
* She is said to have been the first bringer in of many strange attires for women, and also the use of side-saddles, and Gowns with long trains.  Beme.  
The Commons he, unheardof 
b Wat Tyler the master of the Kentish rebels, was slain with a dagger by William Walworth Mayor of London, close by the King's side, in the King's defence, who was therefore knighted and the City since giveth for arms the Dagger: at that time john Litistar a rebel in Norwich, and his crew were dispersed by the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Spensers' valour: the like rebellion in other parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, with their Captain a Priest one john Wraw, who intended to kill all Gentlemen, Lords, knights, Bishops (and began with the archbish) Abbots, and all the Orders of religious, saving begging Friars together with the King himself, and especially the Lawyers whom they termed the Oppressors of the poor: but they were, not without great ado, and much bloodshed▪ suppressed.  broils,  
Wat-Tylers, Scot'sh and Welsh turmoils,  
And Irish tamed! 'mong whose rude trains  
Saint Edward's arms the garland 
c The Irish are said to have much honoured and admired the memory and arms of Saint Edward the Confessor, which were, a cross Paton Gold and Gules, with four white Martellets; insomuch that four of the Irish Kings came and voluntarily submitted.  gains:  
Whom, thence returning, Hereford's Duke,  
Late banished Henry of Bolingbrooke,  
Captived, and soon unkinged; whence rose  
Those woeful flames 'twixt either Rose!  
In which so many thousands bane,  
Kings, Dukes, and noble Captains slain;  
Poor King, at Pomfret, famished dyes,  
At Langley, near Saint Albon lies.   

CANZ. XVIII.  
Henry the fourth his most unquiet government.  
FOurth Henry, 
Henry the fourth borne at Bolingbrooke, son of john of Gaunt, fourth son of Edward the third, began 29. September 1399. crowned at Westminster by Thomas Arundale, Archbishop of Canterbury, 13. October, prox. he died 20. Martij, 1412. having reigned 13. years, 6. months lacking 10. days.  after twice ten year  
Proclaimed, deposed Richard, heirs;  
In Wales with Owen Glendowers 
r This King's reign was full of tumults and troubles, among which that of Owen Glendor, & Henry Hotspur of the North were not the least; Owen (called of the place where he dwelled, Glen being a Vale; Dour, Water, or the River of Dew, in the Partest of Corwen, in Me●onethshire.) having married his daughter to the Earl of March, who had title to the Crown.  dew, 
Westm. by Tho. Arundale, archbishop of Cant. 13. Octob. prox. he died, 20. Martij, 1412. having reig. 13. y. 6. m. lacking 10. days Henr. 4. his issue were Henr. 5. Thom. Duke of Clar●ce, john Duke of Bedford, Humphrey Duke of Gloster, Blanch Duchess of Baviere, and Philip Queen of Denmark.   
Mort'mer his son in law o'er threw;  
Th' English too, sore, and oft rebel,  
Scots at unfortunate Halydon fell,  
Where Dukes-son's ta'en of Albancy,  
Many Lords and King's son james by 
s james son of Robert King of Scots, was detained in England prisoner, till A. 2. Henr. 6.  sea;  
Which Scotch nobilities youths choice flower  
Were long detained in London's Tower;  
Kings hearse three sons, three Dukes, bewails,  
Two daughters, and the Prince of Wales!  
Twice seven-yeeres King, than Henry dies,  
At Canterbury, entombed 
t He founded a College at Battle field in Shro●shire, was a benefactor to Christ Church in Canterbury where he was buried, his half brothers Thomas Beufort was made Earl of Somerset, and Henry Beufort, Car●●all and Bishop of Winchester, in his time were the two famous Poets Chaucer and Gower.  lies.   

CANZ. XIX.  
Henry the fifth, his short, but victorious reign and conquest of France.  
fifth Henry of Monmouth, 
Henr. 5. borne at Monmouth, began 20. Martij, 1412. crowned at Westm. by Tho. Arundale, Archb. of Canterbury. In his younger years he had kept such company as his father much misliked, and one of the judges for his misse-dem●●ors in defence of his fellows, commanded him to the prison of the King's bench, but now utterly abandoning the lewd company, he became a just and good Prince; he died in France 31. August 1422. having reigned 9 y. 5. m. and ●dde days,  much infamed,  
In's younger years, but now reclaimed,  
Stints many civil strifes at home,  
With Wickliefs' sect, Old castles 
* They were stubborn and seditious, both against the Bishops and the King, insomuch that it was threatened that Sir Io. Oldcastle and Sir Rich. Acton would bring 25000. men into the field to def●●d Wiclifes' sect, but they were dispersed and many of them by the Kings care executed: and Sir Io. Oldcastle himself that incited the Scots to invade, was taken and hanged whiles the King was in France.  doom!  
Then casting o'er his eyes ' towards France,  
Soon th' English arms did there advance,  
In his great Grandsires' right, whose posies  
French Lillyes joined with th' English Roses;  
Though scoffed; against Frances proudest town walls  
Sent bullets back, for 
u Charles the Dolphin of France, bearing of the King's intent for the conquest of France, in mockage sent him over a present of Tennis-balls, as it were, that he should bestow his time as he had done, and let ●●ance alone, to which he returned answer, He would send th●m such 〈◊〉 should make Franc● shake.  Tennis-balls;  
And Agincourts' first famous day  
Adorned his brows with victor's Bay,  
Where most part of the French Kings train  
Of Nobles were or ta'en or slain,  
Brave men at arms, who late played cards  
For English prisoners, now their 
x Which was right triumphum c●nere ante victoriam, overnight the Nobles of France, 〈◊〉 they had already conquered 〈◊〉 English, played at Cards for them, being the next day almost all slain or taken prisoners by them; there were slain, one Archbishop, three Dukes, six Earls, Barons and the like 80. Knights 1500. Esquiers and Gentlemen 7000. besides 〈◊〉 multitude of the meaner sort: taken prisoners the Dukes of Orleans and Bourbon, of Earl's 〈◊〉 others 1500.  guards;  
Trophies of England's triumphs! nor  
Henry so held his hand, before  
France sued for peace, and humbly proffers  
Her child and crown with fairest offers,  
Regent proclaimed, for th'old Kings life,  
He took! France him heir! he to wise  
The Princess Katherine, France her dower,  
Whose royal marriage stately Lower,  
Peers, nobles, commons, young and old  
As first to hear, glad to behold;  
At these, all these, seemed to clap hands  
So peaceful Hymen's joyful bands!  
Only the Dolphin he 
f This Charles the Dolphin had slain the Duke of Burgoine treacherously, wherefore the young Duke clave so steadfastly to the English, and the King his father now disinherited him the more willingly: but both the Kings dying within two years, left their sons to wrestle for the French Crown; when Henry the sixth lost it through the contentions and dissensions that burst forth and flamed then in England.  abhors,  
This present peace; whom th' English force,  
From France expulsed; whiles Kath'rine Queen  
Crowned was by Thames, 
Queen Katherine was crowned at Westminster 14. Februar. 1421. her young son at Paris, 7. Decembr. 1431.  her son by Seyne!  
Whom Windsor borne, his father than,  
Too true prophetic dying Swan!  
Divines to reign long all to 
g His father, it is said, hearing he was borne at Windsor, broke forth into this speech, I Henry borne at Monmoth, shall small time line and gain much, but Henry borne at Windsor, shall long time live and lose all: which he did, his Realms first of France, than England, and his life in the Tower.  lose;  
Himself short-lived; all too-right! whose  
Triumphant Car, late decked with bays  
Now herse-wise shaden Cypress sprays!  
By his last will, old Exeter took  
Care of the young King: Gloucester's Duke  
Doth govern England; Frances land  
Burgundy and Bedford Duke's command.  
More, Bethlem, stately Richmond 
h He builded fair his Manor of Sheen, called Richmond, and hard by founded two Monasteries, by the Thames, of Carthusians called Bethlem, and of the order of Saint Bridget, called Zion, with the Brotherhood of Saint Giles without Cripplegate, and ordained Garter principal king at Arms: He also gave 1000 marks and diverse ornaments of much price, to the Chapel of Westminster; whither he was conveyed out of France, and laid at the feet of Edward the Confessor.  tower's  
Sheen, and religious Zion's bowers  
And Garter, as his founder, doth  
Admire him; who in's flowers of youth  
At Paris fair, of fever dies,  
At Westminster entombed lies.   

CANZ. XX.  
King Henry the sixth his wonderful misfortunes.  
sixth Henry, 
Henry the sixth began, ult. Augusti, A. 1422. crowned at Westminster 6. November, 1429. at Paris 7. December, 1431. Deposed 4. Martij, 1461. Restored 6. Octobr. 1470. Again deposed and sent to the Tower, and murdered 21. May next following.  eight months old made King,  
Did by his noble Tutors bring  
The Dolphin down, till Bedford dies,  
Whom Richard Duke of York supplies  
And Warwick! what time 
* The occasion of breaking being his too much familiarity with the Countess of Salisbury, which the Earl took in ill part; and his alliance with Bourbon and Clerimont, contrary to the English men's liking.  Burgundy  
'Gan to play false, and French fast fly  
From th' English rule; whiles English broils  
Lost France, and self hand-selfe-bloud 
i Dissensions arising between Richard Duke of York, and Edmond younger son of john, and then Duke of Somerset, in A. 1451. when Richard returned out of Ireland with conquest; after grew to greater quarrels, and claim laid to the Crown.  soils.  
Be silent, or bemoan, sweet Muse,  
These times and these sad times abuse!  
Well might the Dolphin conquest gain  
When none opposed, or few but fain  
To leave us left: small glory crownes  
Such pains to take such yielding towns!  
For th' English hied home, all divided  
Parts-take, with one or other sided:  
The Dukes of Somerset and York,  
Did first begin this woeful work,  
Whose private quarrels bred too rather  
A world of mischief, public scathe,  
Whiles Richard Duke of York, who 
* He came thence 1451. but from A. 1448. when the King's great uncle the Cardinal died, France was but negligently looked unto; and as it were on losing: the Commons at home rebelled in Kent and Essex under jack Cade, and was slain at Hothfield in Sussex; but these mutinous courses of the Nobles raised all the land to arms, whence lastly King Henry lost his Crown.  came  
From Ireland's conquest with great fame,  
Envied by Somerset, ne'er smothers  
His wayward tants, not his King's brothers;  
For words first, next for Crowns the game,  
Rivers of blood not quenched the flame!  
Richard, the world in hand doth bear,  
The Realms they how misgoverned 
b Such was his protestation at the first, An. 1453. but afterwards and at the Parliament, An. 1460. he insisted on other things, and set forth his title to the Crown, as followeth.  were,  
Protector so, by force proclaimed,  
So not content, the Kingdom claimed,  
And this his right! Anne his, her mother  
Philip, her sire being elder brother  
Lionel, third Edward second son  
King came, but from his next son john!  
Hence Somersets' fall first Verlam yields  
Blore-heath's famed and Northampton fields.  
And though York's Dukes at Wakefield 
c The battle of Saint Albon was, A. 1455. where the Duke of Somerset was slain: of Bloreheath, 1459. at 1460. where the King was taken, and in the Parliament next holden allowed the Duke's title, and proclaimed him Protector, and heir apparent to the Crown, reserving it to himself only during life; which Q. Margaret disliking and renouncing, gathering power gave the Duke battle at Wakefield 1461 where the Duke was slain. The same year the Queen's party had the soil at Mortimer's Cross near Ludlow, by the Duke's son the Earl of March; and whiles the Queen got another victory at S. Albon: the Earl of March attained London, & was there crowned, 4. Martij, 1461.  slain,  
His son fourth Edward, London gains,  
There crowned; whiles hapless Henry flies  
Towards Scotland, noble Queen she hies  
T'her sire! Angeous' Duke Reyner's child,  
Naples, Sicills, Zion's King so styled;  
Whence fresh supplies, wrought foes fresh harms  
And Margaret warlike Nymph at arms,  
Yet once again wins Henry's crown,  
Who yet again is soon put down;  
But after many a grievous loss,  
Barwick, York, Barnet, Mortmers' 
d The battle at Mortimer's Cross was fought immediately before Edward the fourth gained London and was crowned: next at Towton was a great field fought on Palmesunday, 1461. King Edward victor, and 35000 slain. In An. 1463. many light skirmishes and sieges of York, Barwick, and other Castles by the Queen, and Scots, and French, and Normans, with their Captain Pierce le Brasile, that came to aid the Queen. Hexham field 1464. Edgecote field 1469. and shortly thereupon was K. Edward taken at Northampton by the Archbishop of York, but escaped at York and flying beyond Seas: Henry the sixth was crowned 6. Octob. the same year: but Edward returning, Warwick of the Queen's part was slain at Barnet, the King and Queen taken prisoners, and their son, Prince Henry slain at Teuxbury.  cross:  
At Tewksbury last, herself was ta'en  
And her young son Prince Edward slain;  
Henry the sixth, poor King, oppressed  
Goodman, scarce ere one more distressed;  
Ta'en in the north, to London sent,  
From Caesar's to Ioues towers he went;  
Used so mild speech, such often prayer,  
Loved peace, lived virtuous, heavenly care  
On contemplations spotless wings  
Rapting his thoughts to holier things;  
His heart so void of hate or strife,  
On earth he led an Angel's 
e The Bishop his Confessor avouching in ten years that he was Confessor, he committed no mortal crime; he used no oaths nor made any show of revenge against any that wronged him, he founded the King's College in Cambrid●e and Eton College, and gave large gifts to Allsoules College in Oxford: he abhorred vice, and was honoured by the name of holy king Henry: his red velvet hat was accounted even to work miracles of healing; he should have been canonised: what is now become of his body, at Windsor is scarce known.  life,  
Nigh forty years' King, first time, but then  
Not forty week's next, though crowned again;  
Long prisond, poor, exiled, last, death-doomed,  
At Chertsey first, than Windsor toombed.   

CANZ. XXI.  
Edward the fourth and his sons, true spectacles of envious fate.  
FOurth Edward, 
Edward 4. borne at Rouen, began 4. Martij, 1461. crowned 12. Martij prox. expulsed 6. months in A. 1470. died 9 Aprilis 1483. having reigned 22. y. one month and ●dde days. Edward the fourth his issue. Edward 5. Richard murdered in the Tower. Elizab. espoused Henry the 7. Cicely espoused Viscount We●ls. Bridget, a Nunue at Dertford. Anne espoused Tho. Howard Earl of Surrey, Duke of Norfolk. Katherine espoused William Lord Courtney, Earl of Devon. Edward 5. begins 9 April. 1483. but the preparation for his coronation was turned to the setting the Crown on his treacherous Uncle's head, 6. july following, by whose means he and his brother were soon after murdered in the Tower.  Earl of March, the fourth  
Of March was crowned, whose martial worth  
sixth Henry, French, and Scots so wields  
T'ons' Crown, next Crowns, third 
* He had Henry the sixt's crown, and 72000. crowns paid him by the French King, A. 1475. and tribute of 50000. yearly granted▪ from the Scots he took Barwick & Bamburgh Castles, & others.  Castles yields!  
But Shore's fair wife; & widow Grace,  
So wooed, so wed! and Bona gay,  
Left, being the love-embassage 
f Whiles the Earl of Warwick was in France to treat the marriage with the Lady Bona, sister to the French Queen, & daughter to the Duke of Savoy: he married the widow Lady Elizabeth Grace: which made Warwick take part against him, and the French King afterwards married the Dolphin (who was to wed king Edward's daughter Elizabeth, by him called often the L Dolphinesse) to Margaret of Austria, daughter to Duke Maximilian.  there,  
Made French King fume, and Warwick swear,  
Both vow revenge; so Edward's Imp,  
The Dolphin woos, weds th' Austrian Nymph:  
Which Edward took so ill, that tide,  
For very grief, 'twas thought he died!  
Five Girls, and two sons left behind,  
Thrice seven years' King, at Windsor 
g In the new Chapel which he builded, he erected the College there, and repaired the Castles of Nottingham, Dover, the tower of London, and the house of Eltham.  shrined.  
His sons, fifth Edward few-moneths King  
With's brother Duke, did Gloster bring  
T'vntimely end in London's Tower,  
Unknown where tombed to this hour;  
This their sire fearing, cursed plot,  
Though Gloucester's guile, the crown that got,  
Made Clarence dye a maulmesey 
h Drowned in a Butt of Malmsey by the Duke of Gloucester's means, as was thought; who with his own hands, it is said, murdered Henry the sixth there in the tower.  death  
And by this means, must needs bequeath  
To murderous tyrant Crookbacks hand  
Guiding both of his sons and land;  
Which opportunity gave to 
i The King hearing of a certain prophecy, that G should dispossess his children of the Crown, was consenting to his death; interpreting G to be George Duke of Clarence, which fell out to be Gloster, to whose tyranny he left them by this ungodly means.  act  
By Gods and men, s'abhored a fact;  
That furies, fiends and spectres fell,  
Fore's death, gaves conscience taste of hell.   

CANZ. XXII.  
Henry the seventh concludeth this Ode with the conclusion of the schism, by the union of the long divided Roses and houses of York and Lancaster.  
SEuenth Henry now, 
Richard the third, surnamed Crookbacke, about 22. junij, 1483. was first called King and crowned, 6. july next: slain at Bosworthfield in Leicestershire, 22. Augusti, A. 1485. having usurped 2. years 2. months.  whose mother is  
Margaret, her sire john, Thomas 
* They were made legitimate in the Parliament, 1397. under Richard the second, and called Beuforts', and by him was Thomas made Earl of Somerset; by Henry the fourth Marquis Dorset, A. 1411. by Henry the fifth, A. 1416. Duke of Exeter; his son john Earl of Somerset, is made Duke of Somerset, his sole daughter and heir Margaret, espoused Edmond son of Owen Tewther and Queen Katherine, Duke of Somerset, (after Edmond and Henry, john's brother and his son) he was slain at Tewxbury, A. 1470. and this Henry his son now lived in France for safety sake, with the Duke of Britain.  his,  
Iohn-a-Gaunt's by Kath'rine Swinfords' race,  
Bewfort's! whom Som'rsets' titles grace;  
Owen Teuthors and Queen Katherine's son,  
Edmond his sire too, that in one  
Th'earl Richmond's wore and Som'rsets' style,  
Living in France; his friends the while,  
Buckingham, Morton, and mother dear,  
With both Elizabeth's wished him here;  
T'one th'eld'st of Edward's forlorn 
k Elizabeth, as was said, promised heretofore to the Dolphin of France, and by her father Edward the fourth, at that time appointed, to be called the Lady Dolphinesse.  Imps,  
Queen mother, and daughter, royal Nymphs!  
Th'earl, though with few, French Britton bands,  
At Milford haven, in Wales he lands!  
At Bosworth field, with warlike crew  
Than three-year's Tyrant Richard slew, 
Henry the seventh overthrew the Tyrant Crookbacke at Bosworth-field, and so began his reign, 22. August, A. 1485.   
Whose carcase torn, to th'horse-tail doomed,  
Leyster scarce deigned to see it toombed.  
So Henry and Elizabeth,  
jointly wore England's royal wreath,  
And York and Lancaster in 
l The uniting of the long divided Roses; from whence also springeth the Union of the Realms of England and Scotland.  these,  
Were wed; thrice happy lasting peace,  
That bloody schism betwixt the Roses,  
And Kingdoms too, in union closes!  
Which so begun, so heaven's King frames,  
Planted then, full complete in james.  
The end of the ninth Ode.     

A brief Type of the tenth Book or Ode of PALAE-ALBION, called JACOBUS.  
The tenth Ode containeth,  
1. The succession of the Kings of England, from Henry the 7. in whose issue were united the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, viz.  
Henry the 7. reigned 23. years.  
Henry 8. his son, reigned 37. years.  
Edward 6. his son, reigned 6. years.  
Q. Marry, his sister, reigned 5. years.  
Q. Elizabeth, her sister, R. 44. years.  
james, the son of Mary, Q. of Scots, daughter of james 5.  
K. of Scotland, (son of james the 4. and Margaret, eldest daughter of Hen. 7.) now reigneth, & Diu. V. R.  
2. The descent of the Kings of Scotland from Ferguse 2. in the Romans time or before, and so down consequently to this present age, with the original of the Scottish Name & Nation; according to the judgement of the most approved authors, that have written of the same.  
3. The beginning and descent of both Irish and Scottish Nations, more amply set down, with the Original of the now Irish and their several Conquests by the English made of latter times, whereby the Kings of England came first to be Lords, and since Kings of Ireland, as they are at this present day.  
4. The descent of the Kingdom & Crown of France, to the king of England, whereby are touched the descent of the Merovingians, kings of France, from Pharamont; the Carlovingians, from Carolus Martellus, & Pepin: The Capevingians or Hugonetts, (so termed for diverse respects, and partly in the worst sense by the Guise) being the modern K. of France, from Hugh Capet; of whose Line, Isabel the Heir, was wife to Edward the second, King of England, in whose right Edward the third claimed, Henry the sixth wore the French Diadem.   


PALAE ALBION.  
Ode decima, Inscripta JACOBUS.  
ARGUMENTUM.  
Vltima iam Myrto dignum, vel fronde Mineruae,  
Innuba cui circum tempora laurus eat;  
Oda virum recinens, velut Anglica sceptra, trophaeis,  
jungit Hyberna Scotis, Lilia Franca Rosis!  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Primâ fronte, libri institutum, & Authoris votum, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
EXtremum hunc, Aracyntha, mihi concede laborem, 
Series Poematis: eiusdemque ratio sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Magna tui velata comas, Dea candida ramis!  
Dijs data dona fero! Theodorae nomina stirpis,  
Omnia pacis habent; Scoto-Anglis, Cambro-Brytannis:  
Septimus Henricus Theodori, & Regia coniux,  
Elizabetha, parens Anglorum postea Regum,  
Carminibus nostris celebrandi & mascula virtus,  
Heroicae sobolis, veniunt; nisi Diua faueres,  
Viribus huic impar tanto succumbo labori;  
Ergo feres mea, amabò, paterna per aethera tecum,  
Carmina, 
Odae  quae si non lauro, at decorabis Oliuâ.  
Quando Brytanniacis Astraea pijssima in oris,  
Et preciosa magis pax omnibus aequore Conchis,  
Inque dies aliae inveniantur & unio Gemmae, 
Hypothesi   
Littoribus nostris: Credo, sic voluere Parcas.  
Scilicet Heinricus, ambas coniunxit in unum  
Et niueam, rubeamque Rosas; 
Hypotyposi quasi recens natae & emergentis f●licitatis,  duo regna jacobus;  
Anglorum & Scotiae: Binae inter-vtrisque fuêre  
Foederibus, nuptura parens, innuptaque proles,  
Henrici octavi, ceu filia, mater, Elizae:  
Nupta Rosas vinxit, vincloque innupta iugali,  
Regna, piae pacis, pia filia, mater, utraeque  
Aeterna laude dignae, aeternumque beatae.  
Hinc Astraea meis, hinc unio fulserat Anglis,  
Et vigeat magis atque magis stirps inclyta, donec  
Cumeae redeant (precor) aurea saecla Sybillae: 
voto obsecundatur reliqua historiae series; ac primo unde tanquam ex fonte caetera emanârunt fortunatissima,   
Atque utinam ac toto quondam pax reddita mundo,  
Schismataque extirpata forent, velut Arius Hydrae,  
Pax nostris utique & simul effluat omnibus oris  
Constantina fides! Iterumque trophaea Britannis  
Debeat Arctois! iustis Deus annue votis:  
Vestrae opus est opis, Aonides, sacra turma fanete.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici septimi coniugium, proles, gesta, omnia meritò celebratissima.  
CEu cecidit toruus fatali Marte Tyrannus,  
Septimus Henricus, 
Henrici 7. connubia, & hinc orta soboles,  & foelicissima coniux,  
Maxima quae natu est Edouardi filia quarti,  
Haec nivei, rubei satus ille propagine floris,  
Nympha Eboracensis, Lancastri stemmatis Heros,  
Bellis regna, animos odijs, populosque leuârunt;  
Gnati queis duo, tot proles pulcherrima Gnatae,  
Hispanae Arthurus Katharinae sponsus, & olli  
Succedens titulis Thalamisque Henricus opimis;  
Marguerita Scoto, Gallo sponsata Maria,  
Hispano prius, at Brandonia postèa coniux!  
Derbia Stanleyum, Comitemque Deuonia cernit  
Courtneyum; citò, Bedfordi Pembrochia nomen  
Rege creante Ducis, simul induit ipse coronam.  
Mortonusque olim fidus, velut alter Achates,  
Cantuariae antistes, 
cuius Amicis honoratis,  Eliensis Episcopus audit!  
Tempore quo tellus fit ●berica libera Mauris.  
Qui cecidit seris modò Plantaginêta sub annis,  
Varuici Comitem Clarensi ex stirpe Georgi,  
A primis perhibent, sublimi in Caesaris arce  
Detentum simul ac simulat Lambertus Hybernis,  
Londini lanio satus, actus uterque furore,  
Debito eis fato cecidêre; 
Insidiatoribus ad pedes pro●olutis & profligatis;  aliusque Richardum  
Se simulans quinti fratrem, fore turre perempti  
Regis Edouardi; Comitissae ea Techna, ità famae est,  
Burgoniae puerorum amitae, Eduardique sororis  
Quarti, eius sobolem quasi; cum furialibus ausis,  
Primus ad arma feros, Rex primùm ibi natus Hybernos,  
Perkinus movit, notus cognomine Warbeck:  
Mox Flandros falsus, Francosque Anglosque Richardus,  
Egregiâ pollens formâ; at pulcherrima coniux,  
Heroina etiam secum Gordonia capti  
Ambo ruunt! Francisque movens fera bella & Hybernis,  
Iwit ope Armoricos, aliosque domique rebelleis  
Perdomuit! Monachis multas, aedeisque Sabaudas  
Pauperibus posuit; Petro pulchella sacella, 
Inter alia eius opera pijssim●,   
Treisque ubi viginti suprâ, regnaverat annos,  
Multa pace pius, patriae pater, Anglica gemma  
Vnio visa duûm niveaeque rubraeque Rosarum, 
pulcherima Westmonasteriensis Cape●la, ab ipso condita tymbus ●●●eleberrimus.   
Occubat, occiduique Petri sacra limina, Regis,  
Structa capella suapte operâ celeberrima, Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Henrici octavi gesta, omnium ore hominum, decantatissima▪  
PRincipis Arthurititulis, 
Filius  nimiumque propinquis  
In Thalamis, solioque patris successit Eburno,  
Filius Henricus, quem nos octavius! Olli  
Plurimus à teneris viguit decor inclytus annis: 
Henricus 8. primis temporibus, multa domi & foras praeclarè gelsit;   
Qui Papâ suadente ferox, & foedere Iberis  
Coniunctus Francos contrâ, fera bella movebat;  
Clara ubi laus, ubi Flander ovans, sub Rege Britanno  
Militat, & Castris meret Induperator in Anglis!  
Tornacum hoc ipso ceciditque Terouana bello:  
Rex utique ante alios, Glauco magè, Maior Achille  
Fulgidus atque furens, plumisque coruscat & auro.  
Intereà Scotus Anglorum confinia, Celtâ  
Rege iubente, armis vexat; sed vertice montis  
Floddonis quartus, quintusque Iacobus amoenae  
Carleoli cadit in conspectu, ubi fluminis, aiunt,  
Aufugiens tumidis solitò magis obrutus undis; 
quo Regnante, primùm   
Pars bona Caesaream capti mittuntur ad arcem  
Nobilium Scotiae; prius at data foedera Gallo,  
Henricique soror! Ducis, undè reversa, subintrat,  
Suffolci Thalamos, Celtâ moriente, Maria.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Wolsei, Wolseique alumni Cromwelli Legendae sub Henrico octavo ortus & occasus, celeberimi.  
HIc equidem spectare iwat memorabile in aewm  
Wolsaei fatum! fortunae insigne trophaeum: 
Tho. Wolsaeus Cardinalis,   
Heu Divae indignos ludibria, dona, dolores!  
Purpureus pater ille gravis; gravis ille Sacerdos,  
Fortunaque humili obscurisque parentibus ortus,  
Dorsetti Comitis primùm, mox Principis aedes  
Inuisarat; eumque Henricus septimus olim  
A sacris habuit, charumque, ubi Nuncius inter  
Induperatorem existens Regemque sat ingens  
Edidit ingenij specimen! meritoque recenti  
Indolis egregiae, multùm adquisivit honoris:  
Vndè Eleëmosynis olli, Lindique Decanus;  
jamque à Rege novo accipiens decora alta, vocatus  
Primum à consilijs, Tornacensis Episcopus audit,  
Trans mare Francorum bellis cum Rege profectus; 
mirum in modum   
Posteà Lincolnensis, Eboracensis, & idem  
Albionis Primas fulget, sumptoque Galero  
Rubro, conspicuus, prae Cardinis ordine, Papae  
Legatus fuit à latere! & celeberrimus unus  
Anglorum satrapas inter, facilè omnia nutu  
Regemque & populos, plebem proceresque gubernat:  
Regi à consilijs velut intimus, unicè amatus  
Consiliarius, & modò Cancellarius, Anglis  
justitiam indulgens alios supereminet omneis; 
elatus,   
Illustrisque adeo quasi saecula nulla priorem  
Vix ea nostra parem tulerint; facundia tanta.  
Bis Carolum quintum invisat, pompaque frequenti  
Regali planè excellebat; Caesar eundem  
Plurimùm honorificè accepit, donisque remisit  
Dotatum Regijs! Legatum Gallia serò  
Nec celebri minùs aut celebratum lumine vidit!  
Casum inopinatum paulò ante; ubi Regia coniux  
Est deserta suo Katherine Hispana marito,  
Ex illis foret ac Thalamis prognata Maria, 
posteâ   
Wolseius postquam pater & Campeius ambo  
Sensa reseruarunt Papae, titulis & honore  
Privatus citò post Legatus noster acerbo  
Confectus moerore obijt! paulò ante Tyrannis  
Clara Rhodos Turcis capta est; ceu Roma tumultu  
Papaque Borbonij Ducis; & Rex Celta sub armis  
Caesareis cadit: at iam Celta Navarrus & Anglus  
Foedere coniuncti, Papalia iura & Iberûm,  
Papae infensiomnes, uti Caesaris acta, rescindunt.  
Et quamuis gladium, sibi, Caesareamque tyaram  
julius, ut titulos decimus Leo, quando Lutherum  
Perstrinxit calamo, fidei Aegida, postea Clemens,  
Mirandique operis, 
Wolsae▪  aurata Rosaria misit;  
Wolseio moriente tamen, Romana recessit  
Relligio, citò Caesareis Henricus abhorrens,  
Papam trans Tyberim ablegarat, Iberica Nympha  
Deseritur. Dominique alter morientis ut haeres  
Fati & Fortunae, 
seru●●  Phaethon, Regisque favore  
Conspicuus, simili Cromwellus turbine demùm  
Mersus & elatus, verè Wolseius alumnus  
Aut meruit dici, aut poterat sucessor haberi.  
Nam fortunâ humili, obscurisque parentibus ortus,  
Mechanicen, perhibent, primis exercuit annis;  
Mox Wolsaei intrat solers, 
Cromwellus, similibus Iudi●●● fortunae blandimentis factus ●u●gidior,  mox principis Aulam,  
Wolsaeoque cadente, verendo praesule, eandem  
Ingressus, callensque viam, securior Arteis  
Seruus adeptus erat Domini, Regisque favorem:  
Regi à Consilijs, Clerum contra, omnibus unus  
Praelatis magis elatus, taxarier illos  
Imprimis mulctâ poenaeque gravedine curat;  
Destruit & Monachis aedeis; Regisque iubentis  
Promovet articulos clero; primùmque sigilli, 
m●serabili   
Dein Rotulûm custos, Regisque Vicarius, ipse  
Clerum ipsum, Cleri veluti caput, assidet inter:  
Hac pompâ ut bullâ turgens, hac lassus in umbrâ  
Laetitiae, demùm titulis & honore superbus  
Essexi Comitis, detectus Crimine laesae  
Maiestatis, 
casu periêunt.  erat, capite truncatus; hic illos  
Exitus, haec taleis mansit Fortuna Cometas.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Crebra Henrici octavi connubia, aliáque novissima ipsius gesta.  
REx Carolum quintum, accepit Scotûmque sororem  
Reginam hospitio; 
Sub regni finem, Rex varia & frequens valdè celebrat connub●a,  & Regem cum coniuge Dacos,  
Heinricus; iwit Flandros, repressit Hybernos:  
Hispanâque prius Katharinâ, matre Mariae,  
Annosi Thalami desertâ coniuge, quamuis  
Inuito Papa, neglecto Caesare, Ibero  
Dira vovente, acri, frustraque frement boatu!  
Cantia virgo licet, fremat, & mala millè licebit,  
Henrico datur Anna Bolonia, mater Elizae;  
Truncatamque caput, 
〈◊〉  sequitur Seymeria Nympha,  
Mater Edouardi, Thalamisque puerpera primis  
Pulchra obijt; Cliviensis ei successerat Anna,  
Olli desertae, Katherine Howardia, ut olli  
jam capite plexae, Katharinaque Parra, sub annos  
Illo cum seros mansura! 
i●em eius gesta, &  Novissima Scotis  
Ceu venit Hertfordus Comes & Dudleius Heros,  
Lythe, & Edinburgum; Rapiturque Bolonia Gallis,  
Rege ferente leveis, tectis incendia, flammas:  
Regnantisque octo propè lustra, suprema voluntas,  
Eduardum primò, Mariamque subindè & Elizam  
Legitimos Regnihaeredes ubi sanxerat; 
suprema voluntas, de regni haeredibus, hîc attexuntur.  annis  
Hinc olim seris, omnes velut ordine iusto,  
Inque vicem sibimet soboles successerat; olli  
Vindesorae praeclara Sacella Georgica Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Eduardi sexti, immaturo funere absumpti, dynasteia.  
SExtus Edovardus soboles Seymeria, 
Eius filius, Edwardus sextus, regno per tutores administrato,  Patris  
(Indolis egregiae puer) aurea sceptra capescit!  
Protectorque sui, Regis, Regnique nepotis,  
Pro Comite Hertfordo Dux Somersettius audit:  
Varuicique Comes primùm Dudleyus alumnus,  
Duxque tuus citò pòst claro Northumbria fastû  
Gestijt ac fieret; Kettumque aliosque rebelleis,  
Eximiâ virtute premit; turmasque Scotorum  
Muscelburgum iuxtâ, acri certamine vicit.  
Papa relegatus Romam malè audit ab Anglis,  
Et Calices & opes, nitidis donaria Templis,  
Erut●● Relliquijsque olim gazisque repletae  
Ecclesiae purgantur, haberet ut omnia Regis  
Fiscus, & in priscis, minùs aurea vasa sacellis,  
Psalmistûmque ferunt bona vendita siqua supersunt.  
Insimulatus at interea Dux crimine laesae  
Maiestatis erat Somersettensis, 
brevi moritur, non fine veneni suspicione;  & illo  
Purgatus, capite plexus tamen occubat umbris:  
Protectore cadente etiam citò posteà Rexque  
Concidit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; 
〈◊〉  olli Westminstria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
jana Graia Rivalis à Regina Mariâ profligatur, cuius celebrantur cum Philippo Hispano, Regnum & nuptiae.  
CVm tamen, heu, cui Graia, 
jana Graia, cum viro Guilfordo Dudley, parentum dolo, in regno succedere proclamati, capite plectuntur;  viro Suffolcia Nympha,  
Gilfordo Heroi Dudleio nupta; patenteis  
Regis & ostentant literas; succedere, nutû  
Suffolci Ducis, & Northumbri, utriusque parentum,  
Inuiti ambo, patrum facinusque patrare coacti,  
Perdebant miseri, acceptam, caput ante coronam!  
Et patres periêre Duces! Fratrisque Maria  
Sceptra capit, solioque patris succedit Eburno.  
Haec Papam revocat, 
& Maria, He●r. 8. filia, Regina evadens, Papam revocat,  lapsas instaurat & aedeis  
Quas potuit, Monachis, indulgentissima Princeps;  
Perceyumque videt Comitem Northumbria, Regni  
Gardinerusque sui fit Cancellarius. Ipsa  
Regina Hispano, consanguineoque Philippo,  
Reclamante Anglo quanquam & renuente Wiatt●,  
Nupsit; ubi titulis sat onustus uterque superbis;  
Anglia, 
Philippo Hispano nubit.  jerna, Zion, Neapolisque & Gallia Reges!  
Principem utrumque vocant Trinacria Iberaque tellus!  
Austriaca Archiduces! Burgunda, Brabantia, & arua  
Mediolana Duces claros, Comitesque salutant,  
Flandria, ut Aspurgus, celeberrima tota Tyrolis.  
Principibusque istis Legatio Regia Romam,  
Missa erat, & magnos Papa iis indulsit honores,  
Quos potuit! Polus Antistes Dorovernius audit;  
Principe cumque viget, moritur moriente Mariâ,  
Cognatâ! effecit quem Cardinis ordo celebrem:  
Quando iam Gallos inter florebat & Anglos,  
Paxque eadem Hispanos, Flandros, populumque Philippi,  
Continuit; Gallus subitò, sacra foedera rumpit,  
Devastans Flandros flammis hostilibus agros:  
Scota sub id tempus, Gallo, bona Nympha Maria,  
Nupsit Delphino! & iam Martius undique terror  
Emicuit latè: 
Eoque 〈◊〉 Galliâ absente, & bellis occupato, moritur, unde  Hispanus ceu belliger Anglus,  
Flandria & Aspurgus, Germanica terra, Tyrolis,  
Dalmata Burgundaeque acies, fortissimus Humus,  
Coniunctus contra Gallosque, Scotosque Philippo  
Militat acer, opemque tulit gens plurima apertis,  
Contudit ac Gallos bellis, capit, oppida Diui  
Quintini; quamque & salsis Thetis alluit undis,  
Nobile Conquetum! At Gallis rediêre Caletae,  
Anglo iniucundum facinus; moriturque Maria,  
Bellis implicito, Gallijsque absente marito,  
Quinquennis Regina! eius West-Mynstria Tymbus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Elizabethae pientissimae nuper Angliae Reginae, Regnum & gesta florentissima.  
ELizabetha suae post funera flenda sororis, 
Elizabetha, natù minima Hentici 8. filia regnum adit,   
Diua adeò ingenuas edocta fideliter Arteis,  
Aurea sceptra manu, frontem Diademate cincta,  
Candida virgo capit! solioque innexa paterno,  
Romanamque fidem, Papamque suosque repellit;  
Gessit & imprimis sociantibus agmina Gallis,  
Cumque Scotis fera bella; 
Quae Papae hostis infensi sima, cum Gallis, Scotis, Hispanis, crebra gessit praelia,  dein sacra foedera sancit;  
Depositis prius at titulis, quae sumpserat antè,  
Nympha Scota, & suasû Guisiorum, insignibus Anglis:  
Capta sed illa Anglûm modò limine, postea plexa est.  
Hispanos etiam contra, prece mota Monarchae  
Francorum fratris, Ducis Andegavensis, (hic idem  
Duxque D' Alenconius,) Germanica praelia gessit.  
Posteà & illustris lassos Leircestrius Heros  
Iwit ope Flandros iussu Dudleyus Elizae!  
Hêic pulcher Sydneie cadis, 
Flandris verò plurimùm opi●ulata est.  dilecte Camoenis,  
Cygnus ut Aonidûm, decus immortale Brytannis,  
Sydneij ingenium Musae, Germana trophaea  
Dudleyum, celebreis ambos canit Anglia alumnos.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
De viris aliis quibusdam claris, & famoso Anno 1588. navali praelio.  
NEc minùs insignes istis floruêre sub annis,  
Ille pererrati, notus cui terminus orbis  
Vltimus, 
Rei nauticae periti, ut  atque aliis incognita, cognita solis  
Phoebo meta sibique fuit; populosque patenteis  
Extra anni Solisque vias, ubi coelifer Atlas,  
Tenrifa, China, Gygas Chicae, extremisque sub Indis,  
Aetherei montes caput inter nubila condunt,  
Lustrans, Hesperijs, Austrinis clarus & Eurijs,  
Drakus, & Arctois monstra Frobisherus in oris;  
Drakus & armatae contra ausa immania classis,  
Hispanae, Caroloque sub-Admiralis Howardo,  
Magna patrans, magnum satis est sibi nomen adeptus;  
Mille ubi quingentosque à partu Virginis almae  
Octawsque suprâ venit octogesimus annus,  
Famosâ satis Angligenis, 
& Famosa 1588. navalis pugna toto orbe Christiano exp●ctatissima, inter Anglos & ●beros.  celebratus, Iberis  
Infami satis, Oceani refluentibus undis  
Navali pugnâ; cum tu dux magne Medinâ,  
Gloria cui celsumque decus Sydonia, tractus  
jam Scoticos fugis, atque Scotos transgressus Hybernos,  
Indè domum, indomitis ostendens terga Britannis.  
Tylbericis praeerat castris Leycestrius heros,  
Reginae adhaesit lateri, praenobilis Hunsdon,  
Pontus habet reliquas, Neptunia Regna cateruas,  
Classis Ibera quibus perijt! sic gaudia nostris  
Summa tulit celebris, mihi qui genialis & annus.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Reliqua Reginae Elizabethae praeclarissima Gesta.  
POstmodò Norricius penetrant, 
Aliáque  & Drakus Iberos,  
Seque Comes comitem dedit iis Essexius; hastam  
Armaque Vlyssiponae infixit qui martia portae:  
Cui pater antè truces, eques aureus, urget Hybernos,  
Gualterus D'Eureux, Ferrer, Chartleyus Heros;  
Quo satus iste Robertus erat, qui primus Iberis  
Bella; 
noui●●●mis regni temporibus  Navarraeo Regi, dein, agmina Gallis  
Auxiliaria, opemque tulit, modò calcat Hybernos;  
Angliaque heu raptum gemuit, decorantque trophaea  
Mount-ioyum, & spolia, & captus trucis incola jernes!  
Haec tua supremis gesta Elizabetha sub annis,  
Clara satis; 
praeclatè perpetrata facinora celebrantur;  seu pace tuis pietatis alumna,  
Sive geris bella, in bellis metuenda Virago.  
Eius & ornati Caesar, Rex Dacus & Anglâ  
Celta perisce●idi, Eliza indulgente favorem!  
Lustra novem dominata suis pia Nympha Britannis,  
Heu fugit Elisios Eliza invisere campos;  
Ossa licet brevis urna tegit, Westminstria Tymbus,  
Omnia non capit, at solum domus illa perennis  
Corpus habet, laus orbe viret, mens aurea Olympo.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Potentissimi jacobi Regi prosapia, undè Scoticae aliorumque historiae hic referuntur.  
CYnthia seu sol noster, Arabs, an Afra avis orbi,  
Mira canam, occubuit quanquam, mala nulla secuta!  
Mira loquar, sed vera tamen, recitando Hymenaeos  
Hinc ortos, saeclisque istis, velut ante cupitos,  
Annulus Oceanus, quibus Amphitheatrica mundus,  
Templa, fidem spondent duo regna, Monarcha Sacerdos.  
Antea nupta Rosas unijt, roseasque Corollas  
Virgine, 
Illâque decedente, regnorum Angliae & Scotiae, sub Potentissimo  quam nuptâ satus Irenarcha jacobus;  
Nupta parit sobolem, s●boles successit Elizae,  
Virgo parit certam minimè pariendo salutem,  
Et pacem Regnis, Scoto-Anglis-Gallo-Hybernis!  
Ceu venit è Scotia, Divae successor Elizae,  
Qui regit Angligenas, Gallisque Monarcha & Hybernis!  
quam potes ô lassis quanquam dea candida pennis, 
jacobo Rege, unio foelicissima.   
Tolle virum precor, & des stemmata clara, meisque  
Ceu titulos dederis, populos percurrere jernes,  
Dedignere levi calamo, neque carmine Gallos;  
Parcius in reliquis; Scotum sub origine primâ  
Ad mea perpetuum deducere tempora carmen  
Musa velis; nostris Cynthi Deus annue coeptis.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
De Pictis & Scotis, tum utriusque gentis origine.  
Under Scoti traherent, dubium est; Pharaonida pulchram,  
Vix ego crediderim Scotis dare nomina Scotam;  
Et Scotiâ magnâ, potius, quando Insula jerne,  
Exculta est Scoticis, per secla priora, Colonis;  
Vndè etiam his velutijs nomen, trucis incola terrae  
Postea pro Scoticis, narrabit, Hybernus Hybernis:  
Quando tamen nostras primùm Scotus appulit oras,  
Hic labor, 
Cuius Titulos & prosapiam prosequendo,  hoc opus, haec vel adhuc sub iudice lis est.  
Aruirago quondam aut Mario regnante Brytannis,  
Intra annos centum natae de Virgine Prolis,  
Moribus affineis Gothis, patriaque propinquos  
E Scythiâ populos, perhibent, appellere Iernen,  
Vndè citi, modò Hyberno-Scotis suadentibus, oram  
Albionis, gelidâ positam, petiêre sub Arcto:  
Híc postquam fixere pedem; neque foedera Pictis,  
Sive forent alij, sive ex Alcidâ Agathyrsi,  
Dignantur Britoneses; neque connubialia iura  
In thalamis socijs; ijdem cum Scoto-Hybernis,  
Picti ineunt foedus! 
Scotiae, aliorúmque  Haec talia gesta feruntur  
Roderigo Duce Pictorum; ex pactisque virili  
Deficiente olim Regum prosapiâ, Hybernos  
Ius penes esto Scotos, Regis de more creandi,  
Foeminea ex turmâ, aut Scoticâ, sibi nubere missis.  
Quanquam ego crediderim potius Romano-Britannos  
Hos verè Britones contrâ, Pictosque rudeisque  
In siluis rigidis, dumisque horrentibus ortos,  
Vsque adeò infesto, 
Antiquitat●●  Latio quasi sanguine cretos,  
Esse animo, ut Pictos vocitent, contemptui haberent;  
Visque repellendae causâ, cum Scoto-Hybernis,  
Foedus, amicitiamque ita contraxisse coactos:  
Agricola hos alijque frequens, Caesarque Severus  
His vallum obducens, Stilico propè dispulit olim.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Fergusijs magni Scotorum Regis natalitia, ut & gesta ac soboles.  
HIs quoque temporibus, cum praedabundus, Hybernes  
Littore Scotus adest, Latio tamen agmine turbas  
Italus amborum Pictûmque Scotûmque repressit,  
Reuda venit, testante Bedâ; qui primus in oris  
Imperium Scoticum, firmat Scotus advena nostris.  
At Scotici Annales referunt, 
& Historiae,  multò antè Gathelum,  
Aegypti generum Pharaonis, Iberica quondam  
Sceptra, eiusque Simon Brecho regnante, nepotes  
Scoto-Hyberna manu tenuisse, illoque creatum  
Sanguine Fergusium; illustrem modò candida partû  
Rocha, suo sobolem tulit Ercho, Daca, Marito,  
Fergusium! satus Erchus erat de stemmate Regum  
Albaniae; & Gothis Romam populantibus, armis,  
Fergusius, 
Fergusius Rex Scotorum famosissimus,  quo nomen habet Knok-Fergus Hybernis,  
Alarico Comes unus erat; fatalia secum  
Saxa ferens, Scotiamque petens, insignia rubrum  
Regia, aiunt, portat sobolesque secuta Leonem,  
Scoto-Britannorum Rex primus; ut indè nepotes.  
Reutheroque, (is Reuda Bedae) socijsque fugatis,  
Reutherum at redijsse ferunt, reditumque fuisse  
Reutheri, adventum minimè, Reudamque secutos,  
Eugenium primum, citò, Fergusiumque secundum,  
Eugeniumque eius gnatum; Dongardus at olli,  
Praeliaquem perimunt contra suscepta Britannos;  
Constantinus ei successit filius, illum  
Foedere Saxonico detentum, numinis almi  
Palladio suadente fidem, redijsse Britannis,  
Sanctiùs ac perhibent sumptis communibus armis  
Saxonicos contra Christiani nominis hosteis;  
Congallusque ex fratre nepos, illique Goranus,  
Tertius Eugenius, Conuallo, Anitellus & illis  
Aidanus, Cheneth, Eugenius, Ferquarra, Donaldus,  
Maldonus, Eugenijsque duo, Ambercletus ab hoste  
Picto interfectus, 
eiusqu● successores, & eorum acta, & ordo,  dein Eugeniusque, satusque  
Mordacus Ambercleto, Etsinus, vitijsque notati  
Eugenius cum Fergusio, Soluatus Achaiusque  
Etsini Gnatus, Caroli qui foedera Magni,  
Primus avet, Francisque manum dedit, undè perennis  
Forsan & inviolata fides, per saecula multa  
Inter eas mansit genteis! cumulatus & omni  
Laude ferunt, dignusque fuit cui Gallia dextram  
Porrigeret; Conuallus, ei, Dongallus, & olli  
Alpinus Pictis captus, nulloque verendae  
Maiestatis honore habito simulatque peremptus,  
Chennetho patris ulturo miserabile bustum,  
Pictorum, omnino crudelia fasta dederunt  
Ansam extirpandae sobolis; caedisque cruentae  
Pictorum, portenta quasi, casumque minati, 
adusque Pictos pen●tus ex Scotiâ deletos;   
Aetherei crebris implent hinnitibus auras  
Solis Equi, Zephyris Caurisque parentibus orti,  
Arma sonant, resonat plangoribus igneus aer.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Reliqui Scotiae Principes. adusque Malcolmum Gulielmi Conquestoris tempore Regem.  
DEletisque ità, Drusheno cum Rege, feroci  
Picto, Regna vigent uti nunc Scotiae! indè Donaldus  
Chennethum sequitur, quem Constantinus & Ethus,  
Quem citò Gregorius Regno spoliarat, & idem  
Dongalides domat, & domitis dominatur Hybernis;  
Ind Donaldus ei, 
Et Cons●quenter  Constantinus filius Ethi,  
Qui modò Edovardum contra, feralia bella  
Movit, Adelstanus iurare in verba coegit;  
Malcolmus, dein, Indulphus qui militat acer  
Alfredo Danos contra, Dufus, atque Culenus;  
Chennethusque alius, Constantinusque Tyrannus,  
Grimus, Malcolmus, Duncanus & ortus avorum  
Stirpe ducum, Regisque nepos, modò Glammius Heros,  
Macbethus intrusor, citò quem detrusit ab alto  
Malcolmus solio; crudeliaque illius olim  
Fata magos cecinisse ferunt, quae, flebile bustum,  
Sceptra gerenda manu, casusque fuisse suorum,  
quam vel in excelsi Dusitana cacumine montis,  
Castra forent syluae Byrnanae tegmine circum-  
Cincta, mori prius haud posse; at, neque faemina partû  
Quem tulit, invictis victum occubuisse sub armis  
Illius, ac cecidit: non eluctabile fatum.  
Dux sclerisque ultor rediens è finibus Anglis,  
Impetratâ ope Malcolmus, comitante Sywardo  
Northumbro Comite, ingens quò caelauerit agmen  
Hosti, frondoso socios cingebat amictû  
Ramum, 
ad Macbethi Tyrannidem,  etenim iussit velarier ora comasque  
Obuiàm in anfractu nemoroso ubi venerat altae  
Byrnanae syluae; hij nemoris decus omne renidunt!  
Quisque comam folijs ornatus, & arma, rewlsis  
Arboribus sylua alta tremit, vocesque canora  
Eccho tulit reboans verba ingeminantia clivis.  
Hijs acies instructa dolis, venére ubi castra  
Structa per excelsi nymbosa cacumina montis,  
Ecce comas folijs laxârunt, & cava fronde  
Tempora, dixit uti maga sedula saepius ista:  
Regi subrubet hoc viso mirabile dictû,  
Cor gemit, & caeci latitant sub corde dolores,  
Pectore vel quoties suspiria traxit ab imo, 
Malcolinum 3.   
Flectere si posset superos irataeque fatae,  
Si nequeat subiens armato corde labores;  
Quid fugis, ut vincas invictos? Mars tuus omen  
Vsque malum iam nunc habet, innuba non tua lauras  
Phoebi instar Clarij victricia tempora cingit:  
Albaniae Comes unus erat, qui saeva Tyranni  
Iuss●, suique manus fugiens, patriosque penateis,  
juit ad Angligenas; furiatâ hic ment tyrannum  
Insequitur veluti currus agitante choraeâ  
Eumenidûm: conscensus equo fuit Ocyor aurâ  
Macbethus, cursu donec praeverterat illum  
Macdufus, & sua stravit humi morientia membra;  
Mandit humum & saevo confossus vulnere terram  
Calcavit moriens; bustum docuêre sorores!  
O artis magicae nimiùm confise susurris,  
Neu pia cum gravidâ, 
& Gulielmi Conquestoris, tempora;  mater gestaverat illum,  
Edidit infoelix partû, sed caesus ab aluo!  
Praecinit ista truci veluti Magus antè tyranno.  
Pannonis huic nupsit, sata Regibus Edgaris almae  
Malcolmo Margreta soror! quibus ordine gnati,  
Edgar, 
cum  Alexander, David, totidem ordine Reges.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Reliqui omnes Scotorum Reges, adusque jacobum sextum, iam magnae Brytanniae Monarcham.  
RExque Dauid Scotiae, quando Anglûm Regis in Aula  
Consumpsit placidam, fato meliore iwentam.  
Nubit ei formâ pulcherrima Nympha Matildis  
Filia Northumbriae Comitis Hunting doniaeque  
Vndè Scotus petit hos comitatus; ille Mathildae  
Ceu favet Augustae, 
cito posteà  à Stephano superatur, & obses  
Filius Henricus datur; Heinricique Puellus  
Malcolmus successit avo, Gulielmus, & Olli  
Gnatus Alexander, cui gnata johanna johannis  
Angliaci data nupta fuit, modò filius illi  
Alter Alexander. 
Lis inter 12. Scoticae Coronae competitores, composita per Edw. 1. Angliae Regem,  Dedit ac pro coniuge gnatam  
Tertius Henricus; fato cedentibus ijsdem,  
Defecit quoniam prosapia Regia, Regno  
Primus Edovardus lites dirimendo, johannem  
Baliolum praefert! Brusiusque Robertus abegit:  
Baliolumque Edovardum Edouardus tertius, illum  
Deturbatque David Brusius, 
Indies renovatur,  suasûque Valesî,  
Bella movens Anglis, captus precioque redemptus;  
Tresque Roberti, aiunt, regnant! quo stemmate creti,  
Continuoque sequuntur in ordine quinque jacobi,  
Nullo inter posito, nosterque subinde, Mariâ  
Solùm interposita, Regina matre, 
〈◊〉  Monarcha  
Primus in Angliacis, Scotiae qui sextus in oris!  
Primus at ille olim Scotiae, 
per Brusios, qui Regis Edw. sententiam respueban●, quorum  Neptunio in alto,  
Sub quarto Henrico captus, sextoque solutus,  
Nupta Somersetti cui filia jana johannis,  
Gnatâ etiam centum Nymphis comitantibus illam,  
Margretâ ad Gallos missâ, sua Regna secundo, 
Ex stirpe ordinata Regum Scotiae successio, ad sextum lacobum, usque pertingit,   
Relliquit! quartique suo petit ille jacobo  
Caeciliam Eduardi gnatam, sed bella parandos  
Praeveniunt thalamos; neptis tamen una, nepoti  
Illius, Octavi quarto data Nympha jacobo  
Henrici Margreta soror; quintique jacobi  
Mater, at illa viri post funera flenda perempti  
Floddonijs campis, facta est Douglasia coniunx;  
Quo Margreta thoro Douglasia, nupta Matheo  
Leviniae Comiti, pettingit, satus hijs Darnleyus Heros,  
Cui demum quarti data nupta Maria jacobi  
Gnata, eadem Angliaci mater, pater ille Monarchae!  
Qui nows exoriens quasi sol, sacer, advena, nostras  
Nunc terras beat; adventum modò panditae Divae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Varij motus in Scotiâ Reginae Mariae temporibus.  
DEficiente equidem Regali stirpe sub istis,  
Henrici octavi, Eduardoque Mariâ & Elizâ  
Temporibus, Margreta soror, sobolesque Brytannis  
Totius Albionis Haeres velut unica, Sceptris  
Dijs data visa suis! Scotiae quae napta jacobo,  
Stirpe suâ, fratrisque Angli soror audijt haeres! 
cuius ab Hen. 7. 〈◊〉.   
Mater enim quinti, cui gnata Maria jacobi  
Regis erat; caesoque Scotûm victoribus Anglis  
Agmine, praenimio patre iam moriente dolore,  
Vix septem, Regina tamen, fit paruula Nympha,  
Nata Maria dies; litem tutela ciebat;  
Betaque cum socijs detruditur Imperiali  
Sede, ope maiorum minimâ, sibi suisque potitâ  
Inque vicem infantem Comes Arraneyus Hamilton  
Protegit. At miseram Franci infelicibus armis, 
Reginae Mariae matris regum turbulentissimum,   
Infestant Scotiam, furibundi, Dessius Heros  
Dandelotusque Duces Francorum; Strozzius agmen  
Italicum, & positis Gallûm furialibus armis,  
Ringravius populos quos Alemania nutrit  
In Scotiam duxit; ac nequa deesset Erynnys,  
Addidit infestas vireis Rhodos! omnia lento  
Sic miserè in Scotiâ corruebant undique bello.  
Verùm ubi Hamiltonus Gallis, Leviniaque Anglis  
Fauêre, ad Francos delata Maria tumenteis,  
Delphino nubit; tenerae heu fera fata puellae!  
Exposita à primis Martis terroribus, annis,  
Exul & extremis degens, patre mortuo, in oris  
Nupta viro virgo est: Neu gaudia vera; sed umbrae  
Laetitiae, inusto, rapta heu rapta omnia letho;  
Vir flendus, tumulata parens, & quaerere Regna  
Non nova, 
Varia  sed potior virtus fuit parta tueri!  
Scotica cum peteret lento vexata duello,  
Sceptra, acuit crebris Neptunia Regna procellis,  
Aeolus, & Nympham Angliacas coniecit in oras;  
Ac tenuit portum, invisat patriosque penateis,  
Bella manu parat, 
Infortunia, a●.  infensas restinguere flammas.  
Vtque erat in bello, bellis memoranda virago,  
Munia magna obiens, orbatà luce Mariâ  
Angliacâ, Angligenae, decorata superba Trophaeis,  
Induit & vestes Tyrias, circundataque auro  
Nympha Scota praefert atavorum insignia Regum:  
Hoc illi peperère decus, Heroes opimi  
Guisi, Quos genuit male sedula Gallia fovit,  
Errores Stygios, 
demùm  quos ia a sors atra premebat;  
Fovit abortivam prolem; non viscera bello  
Lugubrivastata diu, sed Scotica damna  
Sunt relevandamanu; viridi latet Anguis in herbâ!  
At positis odijs, Scotos vclut inter & Anglos  
Pax venit & cultus laxarunt ocia, mens est  
Apta capi; 
Fortunatior rerum status,  levis utque puer praeverterat illam,  
Constitit ante oculos Heros Darnleyus; ocellis  
Enitet ille genas roseas, annosque decusque  
Flagranteis vultus atque ora simillima divis:  
Ora rubor, virtus mentem, decet aurea pectus  
Integritas morum, succinctus tempora Myrto  
Littoreâ, victorque aureos egisse triumphos  
Fertur, 
Gum  amor, fingitque metus, illa omnia voluit,  
O non est quaestus, Didûsue audijsse furores,  
Roranteis oculos & moestas ore querelas;  
Ardet amans, fovet & velut altera Amasia Dido  
Flammas, dilecti iwenis iwat ora tueri!  
Talis Apollo fores, talis Lenaee, vtì Nymphae  
Gnossiados potiris thalamis, deserta ubi salsis  
Dia feritur aquis, Satyris clamantibus Euohe.  
Rosseyusque Comes, 
Heroe Darnleyo nuptiae,  Dux Albaniaeque creatus,  
Reginae ingreditur thalamos Darnleyus Heros,  
Leviniae Comitis gnatus, Scotiaeque Stuartûm;  
Rex magnus satus hijsce tuis Regina Hymenaeis,  
Angliae erat primus, Scotiae sextusque jacobus.  
Rege sed absumpto, Hepborno citò posteà nubit  
Bothwello Comiti; malé ceu suspecta necati  
Coniugis alterius, suaque ad pomaria caesi;  
Sistier ante suos Proceres Regnique Dynastas  
Indignata, adit armatos in praelia civeis,  
Nuda genu, nodoque sinus collecta fluenteis,  
Sola Duces belli alloquitur, feruensque morata est!  
Hanc tamen in caeco dimittunt carcere clausam;  
At fugit, 
& alia gesta memorantur.  & Dacis moritur Bothwellus in oris:  
In Proceresque, elapsa suis custodibus, armis,  
Saeva parat Regina necem; sed passa repulsam,  
Epatrio evadens manet Anglo in carcere; donec  
Effera fata suae ruperunt stamina vitae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
jacobi sexti sub tutela existentis, anni primi varijs procellis obnoxij.  
SEd neque Hamiltonij desiêre immanibus ausis,  
quam caperet manibus Rex aurea sceptra tenellis,  
Qui prius Annotinusque infans, sacra purpura sumpsit;  
Regis enim teneris, rerum moderamina, cunis,  
Ceperunt Comites Murreij, 
Eorum filius Iacobus sextus Annotitinus intans, Rex Scotiae creatut,  Leviniaeque  
Regis aws, Maris libatae Alemanio alto,  
Mortonusque Comes; capiebat quo Duce Regía  
Sceptra manû, populisque Ducem profitetur in annis  
Rex teneris; meritoque agnoscit Scotia Regem:  
Solus enim Ioue dignus eras, vel Caesare magno  
Ter sancte, ac venerande puer! memorabilis aevi;  
Coelesti sophiâ, primis imbutus ab annis,  
Totius Albionis, simul atque Monarcha Brytannus;  
Tutè jacobus eris, manibus date Lilia plenis!  
Ceu pulchrùm infertis Roseas de more corollas, 
posteà totius Brytanniae Monarcha   
Laurca serta simul, capiti imponatis honorem,  
Olli qut divae in solio successit Elizae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Anglis vicinae, Scotisque propinquae, gentis Hybernicae antiquitates.  
AT quoniam arctoo, Scotico sol noster ab orbe,  
Nec minùs Occiduis, perhibent, Scotus ortus Hybernis,  
Qui Britonum parent sceptris; 
& Hyberniae; cuius  mihi pauca recensens,  
Musa agè & Ogygios Iernes reserato colonos.  
Insula Virgivio circùm undique cincta profundo, 
Ideó   
Quae fuerat Graijs olim glacialis jerne  
jasoniaeque ferunt puppis benè cognita nautis  
Dicta etiam antiquis Iuuerne, & Hybernia, & Iris!  
Camber Yuerdhon, aiunt, Erin incola, Hybernus Hybernen  
Ipse suam vocat, Occiduo ceu nomina tractu  
Traxerit; Hesperio velut Hesperia, Austria Eoo,  
Ambo sitû! quando patrio sermone sonare  
Occiduum, 
Antiquitates variae,  Hiere, notant! & jerna, & jerne, & jernus,  
Hesperijs visuntur adhuc, loca, flumina, montes;  
Sive ibi perpetuis, & Hyberno tempore, nymbis:  
Sive Duce Irnaulpho, & for sand quis credat, Hybero,  
Sic dictam; Ogygiamque & sacram, uti Banno Poetis  
Multoties! Scotiamque olim cognomine magnam  
Allabanique, 
Nomina,  Albinque, aliam quasi Banno Brytannis  
Vt Scotiam paruam, nostris quae Albania in oris;  
Nam prima haec Scotia est, arctois unde Brytannis  
Paulatim Scotus irrepsit, Brytonesque fugavit;  
Quos Brito-Romanus Pictos, malè forsan alumnos  
Tractat & ipse suos, mores stomachatus agresteis,  
Ceu vidit, rudibusque notam cum nomine inussit.  
E Scythiâque venit, modò coniectura valeret,  
Ac fuerit populus, 
Gentes,  Scytha, origine, nomine, Scotus.  
Graeca 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, ubi lexis habet; Germanica Scutten,  
Ambo Scythasque Scotosque notat! Northumbria Scettes;  
Saxonicè Scyttan, Scyttan-Lond Scotia dicta est.  
Vtque Getae Geticique ijdem, Gothicique Gothique,  
Fortè Scythae Scythicique forent Scoticique Scotique:  
Et Scythiae populos tenuisse Hispanica Regna  
Sarmaticosque doces attollens Susana muros  
Et qui Massagatem, 
Moors,  monstrans feritate parentem  
Cornipedis fusâ satiaris Concane venâ:  
Hosce etiam Scythiae populos è finibus olim  
Cantabris perhibent appellere littora jernes;  
Hincque Scoti populi Scythici! quis crederet illos:  
Esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 
〈◊〉  obscuro nomine claros?  
Nomina sive dedisse sibi Pharaonida pulchram:  
Quem tamen aut nova delectant, aut mira relatû,  
Illius Historiamuè cupit Pharaonidos; Eccam!   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Hybernorum de suis relatio 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in principio, in seqq. vera & historica.  
Dilwij ante ferunt sacra tempora, Caesara Noes  
Neptis, adit gelidos, sed quâ rate nescio, Hybernos!  
Postmodò (te quid enim taceam, sobolemue silerem  
Bartolene tuam?) veniunt pater, 
Historia, suae originis, ipsissimis Hybernis talia referentibus;  atque Ruthurgi  
Stagna, quibus debent, aëreique Salangae  
Culmina, tum vetus, ut perhibent, Langinia nomen!  
Bergion atque venis, postque Oceanitida prolem,  
Syrus adest, Syrumque Gygantea turma Nemodum  
Dispellit! tamenecce Delas socijsque, Gyganteis  
Dispellunt Graij! Scythici, at sobolesque Nemodi,  
Noti utrique Delae; interea veniuntque Brytanni,  
Gurguntio regnante: sedô memorabile monstrum!  
Tempora Patricij, (quis credat?) adusque Ruanus  
Perrexit! quanquam fusoque Gygante, Gatheli  
Progenies aderant; qui Cecropis, anne Neoli  
Filius, Aethiopes contra Pharaone sub Or●  
Moseos, infamique tuo Israelita labore  
Militat; & gnatam pro coniuge praemia duxit!  
Nempe Scotam: Hispanae qui denuò margine Mundae,  
Turbae urbem fessaesocijs & moenia ponit!  
Hinc Gael, & Gaothel, sua lingua Gaoth-Lag Hybernis;  
Quippe Simone Brecho Scotis regnante; 
ac denuò  nepotes  
Hermion adveniunt & Hybernica littora Hyberus,  
Fatalem lapidem secum, quo, splendida quondam  
Supposito capiti, scala coelica visa jacobo;  
Fatalem lapidem secum, sobolemque ferentes.  
Saepiùs & Scythici, Cantabris finibus orti  
Certè aderant, populus Hispano limine pulsi;  
Fergusius venit hijs, veniunt Scotiaeque Coloni  
E Scotiâ magnâ; sic namque palaephata jerne!  
Parua velut Scotia est nunc Scotia; Scoto-Hybernos,  
Saepe olim Britones petiêre & saxons armis;  
Edgar, 
Variae eorundem per Anglos subiugationes, & dominij apud eos confirmationes,  Edovardus sanctus, primusque Richardus,  
Ceu penetrant, virideisque suprâ dominantur Hybernos!  
Dermitio sed opem Rege implorante Lageno,  
E patriâ pulso, Henrico regnante secundo,  
Sat magnas secum vires, Pembrochia vester  
Chepstoli●que Comes ducens, ubi fregit Hybernos,  
Dermitij accipiens terras gnatamque Lagêni  
Angli habet ut feodum Regis; dominusque johannes,  
A domino Papa, Henrico satus, audit Hybernes!  
Annulus & digitis Adriani Insignia iussû;  
Vrbani ex dono Iunonia vertice pavo,  
Emicuit cristis! pennisue corusca Corona.  
Poslea sed Papae reddens, pendebat Hybernis  
Trecentas Marcas! uti septinginta Brytannis, 
unde Hyberniae Dynasteia, Goronae Anglicae annexa est.   
Sceptris pro laceris: pater at velut anteà Hybernes,  
Rex audijt, Pauli bullâ id testante, Maria  
Cum Thalami socio, Rex & Regina creati;  
Elizabetha etiam titulos. nosterque jacobus,  
jam tenet, 
Postremò.  ut Francos! queis nomina Franca & origo,  
quam Salicae gentis sint libera; pandite Divae.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Francorum historiae, & Angli juris in eosdem commemoratio brevis.  
SEd tamen heîc Francum, 
Variarum in Franciâ Regiarum familiarum, Anglorumque itidem Regum,  Pictum, Herculeosque Nepotes,  
Ordine non referam! neque secula prisca, priusquam  
Parrisios pulchram posuit Marcomyrus urbem  
Ad Sequanae ripas; Marcomyrus ultimus Author  
Carminis esto mei; meta ultrâ incognita multis.  
Hoc patre iam veniens, Rheni super ora niuosi,  
Franconum an Francûm primus Pharamondus in oris,  
Firmatique sibi, serisque nepotibus olim,  
Fundamenta iacit Regni! Merovaeus adauxit;  
Perficit & primus Clodovaeus, 
ad Coronam Franciae  at ordine quintus,  
Illustratque modis, Christiano dogmate, miris:  
Floruit illorumque diu prosapia; donec,  
Altera progenies, Carolus sibi Sceptra suisque  
Transtulit à primis Martcllus! Eique Pipinus,  
Successit soboles, series numerosaque Regum,  
Tertia progenies; donec, sub Hugone Capeto,  
Hosce etiam solio, 
Atque ità serenissimi R jacobi hinc orti juris ipsamet retectio:  Lex Talio talis, abegit:  
Hac sata stirpe venit Francorum filia Regum,  
Floret adhuc Gallijs quorum prosapia, nostri  
Mater Edouardi! patre functo, & fratribus, Haeres  
Vnica Francorum Regni! Katharinaque quinto  
Heinrico secum Diademata, nupta ferebat,  
Purpuraque induerant, tenerâ cum prole parentes.  
Saepè etiam Angliacae, pendere coacta tributum  
Lilia iure Rosae, cedant, flos Celta Brytannae;  
Ceu Lyra, 
Cui  Walla Scotae! Cornubia, Cambria, jerne,  
Anglia, Celta, Scotus, vario sermone, jacobo,  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suum totidem linguis, aut pluribus edant.   

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Peroratio operis ad eundem jacobum, horum quatuor Regnorum potentissimum Monarcham.  
ET iam coelestes animae, 
Tanquam cui haec debentur omnia, Musa supplex  quibus aethera curae,  
Vivite ter magni Heroes, aeternumque valete,  
Vivite foelices, oro, nostrumque beetis  
Aspectu placido carmen; quando Anglia Reges  
Indigenas quandam vidit; Deus ille sed crrans,  
Qui nunc in terris, modò sedem adfectat Olympo,  
O valcat, vigeat, vivat, vincatque jacobus,  
Rexque velut sanctus nunc heîc, 
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  super Astrabeatus,  
Olim degat, eoque iugi florente Monarchâ,  
Desine Maenalios, mea desine Tibia versus.  
PALAE-ALBIONIS, Odae decimae ac ultimae finis.    

PALAE ALBION,  
The tenth Ode, Entitled JACOBUS.  
THE ARGUMENT.  
The tenth Odes task, though last, not least,  
Brings Teudor in, unites the Roses,  
Whence sprung that gem, that ever blessed,  
Two factious Realms in union closes,  
Britain's King JAMES! to ken whose glories,  
●eene epitomised French, Scot'sh, Irish stories.  

CANT. I.  
The Author's vow, and intention of the Ode.  
GReat Pallas, crown this Ode, 
Synchronismus sive computatis Annorum.  we pray, 
Supplementum Historiae.   
This last, grant, peaceful▪ Olive, may!  
Since 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, signifies, Dei donum, God's gift, which is, the name of Theodor, spoken briefly Teudor, or Tewther.  Theodor signs God's gift, & thine,  
Then warlike Neptunes more divine;  
British, Irish, Scot'sh, Welsh, all our lays  
Been peace and glories of our days;  
Then goddess gracious be; whiles I,  
Would fain sing most melodiously,  
This our great Theodor, and his Line,  
Whose beauties now in England shine;  
And Peace our Poem! if not Bay,  
Let Myrtle crowneed, or 
* Bay, a token of learning and victory, as Myrtle of joy, Oliuè of peace.  Olive spray.  
Ioues Imp and th' Oceans, peace and Pallas,  
Astraea, and Union meet, whose solace  
Our Nymphs well-wishing, for their head,  
Wreaths made of Roses white and red,  
And in their pearly chains unite  
Rarest gems with th' English Margarite;  
Seventh Henry, and Elizabeth  
Reunite both Roses in one wreath,  
Mayd'n Queen Elizabeth weds four Realms,  
For her Virginities son King james;  
Happy then, may both 
* The former Elizabeth and her spouse Henry the seventh, united the Roses or Families of York and Lancaster. The next Elizabeth, daughter of Henry the eight, by her not marrying produced the Union of the Realms of England, France, and Ireland, with Scotland.  Eliza's rest,  
That our great Britain so have blest!  
And till the golden age return  
Sibyl's foretold, ne'er be outworn,  
Such royal race, whence springs our peace.  
Might they, O might they, all wars cease,  
And second British Constantine,  
May he, as some, all schisms decline;  
Church, virtues, godliness sworn friend,  
Raze errors, truth and right 
s Such also was the first Constantine, called the Great, a Britton borne, under whom the heresy of Arius was extirpate, and the Church began to flourish triumphantly by his means.  defend.   

CANZ. II.  
Henry the seventh his marriage, offspring and honourable act related.  
NOw aid me Muses, 
Henry the seventh borne in Pembroke Castle, began 22. August 1485. crowned at Westminster by Thomas Bourchier Archbishop of Canterbury, 30. die Octobris, prox. espoused the Lady El●zabeth 18. lanuar. nex●: died the 22. of April, 1509 having reigned 23. years eight months; buried in the new Chapel of Westm. which he built and had bestowed thereon 14000 pounds.  whilst I tell,  
How after Tyrant Crookbacke fell,  
Seventh Henry victor, he o'th' house,  
Of Lancaster white Rose, his spouse,  
Fourth Edward's eldest daughter, heir  
Of York's red rosy Garland fair,  
Concluded such perpetual peace,  
As after ages all should 
* King Henry the seventh his children were, Prince Arthur that died in his father's life time. Henry the 8. K. Margaret wed to james the fourth of Scotland, and Mary promised to Char●es King of Cast●le, but wed to ●ewes the twelfth, King of France, after to Charles' Bra●don, whom Henry the eight made Duke of Suffolk.  bless;  
Hence Arthur, Henry; Margaret wed  
To Scotland, whence the union bred!  
And Mary trothed to Spain, but married,  
To th'bedrid French King, Brandon carried!  
Their Coronation day, 't did grace,  
Stanley with Derbies' Earldoms place,  
Courtney wi●h Devonshire's, Bedford's Duke  
Shines Pembroke! faithful Morton 
t jasper Earl of Pembroke the King's uncle made Duke of Bedford; Morton Bishop of Ely, who chiefly plotted be King's aid, and R●●hard th● third his overthrow, ●ent for by K. Henry 〈◊〉 of Flan●ers, succeeded Tho. Bourchier, who shortly after died in the See of Canterbury.  took  
For Elyes, England's Primates See;  
From heath'n Moors, now, was Spain set free!  
But to disturb such peace so praised  
Lambert in Ireland tumults raised,  
Personating in these plots begun,  
Warwick's Earl, drowned Duke Clarence son;  
Last, young Plantagenet, who waxed 
u The Londoner that personated Edward Earl of Warwick, son to George Duke of Clarence, that had been prisoner in the ●ower from the beginning of King Henry's reign till then, was hanged at Saint Tho. of Watering; P●rkin Warbeck that did counterfeit Richard Duke of York●, second son to Edward the fourth, at Tybourne; and the Earl of Warwick himself beneaded on the Tower bill, all three died within the compass of year 1499 Lambert that had before feigned himself to be the said Earl of Warwick in Ireland, was made the King's Falconer.  old  
Close kept in Landons' strongest hold;  
In like sort a mean London groom  
Feigning too; both fell by like doom!  
In Ireland Perkin Warbeck goes  
Currant, fore Lancaster's white Rose  
Fourth Edwards counterfeit youngest child:  
Yorks Duke, by's Aunt and Dam, so styled  
The Burgoine Countess; but both 
x Margaret Countess of Burgoine, sister to Edward 〈◊〉 fourth, set up both this Perkin, and that other Lambert, as envying the prosperous estate of Henry the seventh.  he,  
And his fair spouse ta'en, headed be!  
Henry both these, and all else flames  
Doth quench; and French and Irish tames;  
And against their foes, to make some mends  
Aids the Britons his ancient 
* Against the King of France, An. 1488.  friends:  
And for Religious, Abbeys store  
He decks the Savoy for the 
f He converted the Savoy built by Peter Earl of Savoy and Richmond, in Henry the third his time, (which long since belonged to the Dukes of Lancaster, and now to the Crown) to an Hospital for 100 poor people; he new builded Richmond & Baynard's Castle; founded three houses for Frantiscan Friars observants, at Richmond, Greenwich, and Newarke; three others for Franciscan Friars Conuentualls, at Canterbury, New Castle, and Southampton; he builded the fair Chapel of Westminster where he lieth entombed.  poor;  
When after twenty three years reign  
Fortunately famous, he is laid  
In Westminster's Saint Peter's trim  
And stately Chapel built by him.   

CANZ. III.  
The famous acts of Henry the eight.  
EIght Henry (being his brother dead) 
Henry 8. begins 22, April, 1509. crowned at Westminster with Q. Katherine, by William Warham Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor of England, 22. junij next following: he died 28. januar. 1547 having reigned 37. years 9 months and odd days, buried at Windsor.   
Prince Arthur's spouse, and crown doth wed,  
Whose tenderest years yield fairest hope;  
And wars with France as willed the 
* Who had dispensed with him for the marriage of Q. Katherine. Prince Arthur's wise.  Pope,  
Where th'emperor then, and Fleming they,  
Were waged, and took King Henry's pay!  
Turwin, and Tourney yet full well  
His pompous state, and train, can tell,  
That did in bravest sort behold  
Him glistering, and his troops in gold!  
Scots then invade, so French King will,  
England; but fell at Floddon 
g Where the King of Scots encamped, the field is by some called Bramston field, of a place there near adjoining. This victory was gotten by Tho. Howard Earl of Surrey, A. 1513. the same year that the King got Turwyn and Turney; where he made Tho. Wolsey, being one of his Council, Bishop of Turney.  hill;  
With james the fourth! so did fifth james,  
At Carliell's fresh swollen torrent streams;  
And Scotland's Nobles choicest flower,  
Are fafe bestowed in Caesar's bower.  
But Henry's sister Mary sent  
To France, doth stint much discontent;  
Whence being returned, Brandon that carried her,  
Suffolk's Duke made, soon after married her.   

CANZ. FOUR  
Cardinal Wolseys, and the Lord Cromwell's Comet-like blazing state, and falls.  
IN this King's reign the rise and falls  
Of two of Fortune's Tennis-balles,  
Were famous; Father Wolseyes' fate  
And Cromwell's Comet-blazing state,  
Well worth beholding! Wolsey 
* The strange fortunes of both Cardinal Wolsey and the Lord Cromwell, in this Kings reigns well worth the noting.  he  
From parents sprung of low degree,  
First Dorset Earles, than his King's Court,  
Henry the seuenth's were his resort;  
Whose Chaplain, being 'twixt King & Emperor  
Employed, won thereby no small honour;  
Then Almoner made, and Lincoln's Dean,  
The new King adds new honour, when  
In France first of his council graced him,  
Then Turney won, there Bishop placed him;  
To Lincoln's thence, and York translate,  
Princelike in Primates See he sat;  
More Cardinal made, his glories shine,  
And power transcendent Legantine,  
Won Prince and people's whole aspect,  
Both Lords and Laiety at his beck!  
So choicely privy Council, more  
Chancellor, almost King's paramour;  
So liberal loved, so just they dread him,  
So few come nigh him, none exceed him;  
So faire-spoke, such his oratory,  
At Charles the fift's hand gained much 
z Both his Embassies, and Court at home, were with such state beyond compare, the greatest of the Gentry and Nobility of the land attendant in his train.  glory,  
T'whom twice Embassaged, th'emperors Court  
That saw his state, can best report;  
France viewed his last brave pomp, even late  
Before his sudden fall and fate.  
Spain's Nymph, was then to be divorced,  
Which sentence cause the Cardinals crossed;  
Campegius stays not, Wolsey hied  
To York: disgraced, for grief he 
a As some say, he poisoned himself at Southwell, fearing more disgrace, as he was coming towards the King, who sent for him to London.  died!  
Then famous Rhodes by Turks was taken; 
Rhodes taken, A. 1523. Rome sacked, and the French King taken, before Pavye, A. 1525. the Duke of Bourbon was slain at Rome.   
The Pope and Rome by Bourbon's Duke;  
And French King falls at Caesar's foot,  
Which made France find a league to boot  
With England and Navarre, the scope,  
Against Spain her Emperor and the Pope!  
Though julius' Crown and Sceptres 
b Pope julius the second, sent a Cap of maintenance and a Sword to Henry the eight, which were received 19 May, 1514. with great solemnity. Leo the tenth gave him the Title, Defender of the Faith, for his writing his book against Luther 1521. Clement the seventh sent a Rose tree of gold, with buds and branches and a Rose, wherein was a rich Saphire; it was presented to the King at Windsor, 1524.  sent,  
Tenth Leo titles, when he lent  
Luther sore lashes, faiths Defender,  
And Clement golden gifts did tender;  
Yet Wolsey dead, the Pope to Rome,  
Spain, Caesar, all from hence fled home.  
Then Wolsey's man, his master's heir  
Of's fate, and fall, from Phaeton's chair,  
So Mushrome-like comes Cromwell, he  
From parents of as mean degree,  
To servile trade trained, growing great  
Mounts yet amain towards honour's seat,  
As Wolsey wan'd●, whose favours placed him  
In prince's Court, whose fall more graced 
c Who was, as some thought some part of the means of his Master the Cardinal's downfall, which was his raising to honour.  him  
If not disgraced him; but his Prince  
Favours such his double diligence,  
Whose counsels to the Clergies pain  
Brought the King's Coffers, no small gain;  
And more he says, t'enrich the 
d Though indeed it fell out clean contrary, as Tho. Arundel archbishop of Cant. said in a like case intended in a Parliament, Henr. 4. A. 1404. to the like evil Counsellors of the King; that not for all the Cells and Religious houses pulled down then, worth many thousands (now many millions) the King was the richer half a Mark, but rather the common Treasures and Weal of the Land, wherein lieth the King's chief wealth and State, impoverished, private persons having begged and appropriated them to themselves, converting that to private, and sometimes lewd uses, which was before to hospitality, and a general benefit & relief of the land.  Crown  
Pulls the Religious houses down,  
Whose ruins rear his greatness glory,  
To blow the bladder of his story.  
Secretary Comwell, amongst them sat  
As head of the spiritual state;  
Making his pride seen no small deal,  
Master of the Rolls, and privie-seale;  
Essex Earl and great Chamberlain,  
So swoll him that he braced again,  
For at the top and highest 
e The great Titles the Lord Cromwell possessed before his fall; when the King took displeasure against him about his marriage with the Lady Anne of Cleve, whom Cromwell had so commended, by which means the marriage was made, which proved after so distasteful to the King, and she not loved.  port  
Presume and Traitor cut him short;  
Thus blazed these Stars, and out again,  
Fell first to wax, grew then to wane.   

CANZ. V.  
King Henry the eight his latter time, several marriages, and last will concerning his heirs.  
Our King both Emperor 
* The Emperor Maximilian was in pay with the King of England before Turwyn, 1513. the Emperor Charles was royally feasted and entertained by him at Callaice, A. 1520. in London, 1522. the Queen of Scots, 1516. King Christie●● of Denmark and his Queen, 1523. the Palsgrave of Rhine Frederick, 1539. when he came to conclude the marriage between the King and the Lady Anne of Cleve.  entertains  
Scots Queen, & King and Queen of Danes:  
The Irish tames, and Frenchmen fain,  
And Fleming's aids in spite of Spain:  
When once his Spanish twenty years' spouse,  
Queen Mary's mother he disavows,  
Let Pope and Spain, and Caesar fret  
Holy maid of Kent, and spare not threat;  
Queen Eliza's mother soon was seen  
Pembroke's marchioness, England's Queen:  
And when Anne Bulloyne lost her 
f After the King was divorced from Queen Katherine of Spain Queen Mary's mother, with whom he had lived 20. years & more: he made the Lady Anne Boleine marchioness of Pembroke, and married her, 1533. by whom he had Queen El●zabeth: he married jane Seymer mother to K. Edward, An. 1536. Anne of Cleve, 1540 the Lady Katherine Howar●, the same year; the Lady Katherine Par, 1543.  head,  
jane Seymour next, in Childbirth dead  
King Edward's mother! next was taken,  
Fair Anne of Cleve, and she forsaken,  
Katherine Howard soon lost her head,  
Kathar'ne Parr, saw him lap't in lead.  
His last wars vexed France, and razed  
Bolloigne, till peace was bred, and blazed;  
Edenborow and Lieth were ta'en the while,  
By Shrewsbury, Seymour, and Lord lisle.  
By his last will, Edward first 
g King Henry the eight his last Will, partly contrary to some acts of Parliament made in his life time.  heir,  
Next Mary, third Eliza were;  
Many's fall, his reign nigh forty years;  
His fall, on Windsor monuments 
h Other Kings were famous for building many monuments of piety and Religion; he for defacing almost all that were raised, since the first planting and foundation of Christianity in this land.  rears.   

CANZ. VI.  
The short reign of King Edward the sixth.  
Seymors' Nymphs son his Sceptres took  
Whose uncle, 
Edward 6. borne at Hampton Court, began 28. lan●. 1547. crowned at Westminst. 20. February following; died 6. july, 1553. reigned 6. years, 5. months, and odd days, buried at Westm.  th'earl Protector, Duke  
Of Somerset's made, Dudley Lord lisle Wears Warwick, and Northumber's style;  
Kets he procured, and Rebels 
* Of whom there was then great store, there being commotions in Somersetshire, Lincolnshire, Devon, and Cornwall, Norwich and Yorkshire.  sorrow,  
And Scots disgrace, at Muscleborow.  
And now by Somersets' 
a In which battle, of the Scots were 14000. slain, 1500. taken prisoners; the English only having lost 60 men.  command,  
All not yet seized on Chauntry-land,  
All church reventions, treasure, plate,  
And tokens of her ancient state,  
Trophies of wealth, or worth that deck her,  
Been turned into the King's 
b Chauntries, Free-chappells, and Brotherhoods, as the remainder of religious houses that were not demolished in King Henr. 8. time, were pulled down about the beginning of K. Edw. 6. reign. And afterwards the jewels, cbalices, Vesseis and Ornaments of gold and silver, out of all Cathedral Churches and others, were called for into the Tower; Copes, Vestments, cloth of tissue, and the like, into the King's Wardrobe; money and pieces of plate sold, into the Exchequer. Many Churches and Chappells being pulled down, among other the Church of the Strand to build the Lord Protectors house, who was shortly after beheaded, 1552. after whose death the King lived not long.  Exchequer:  
Pope, Saints, and relics, have like doom,  
These banished, this dismissed to Rome.  
Somersets' Duke, about this season,  
Acquitted was, accused of treason,  
And yet soon after lost his head,  
Who failing; seems, full soon too, dead  
Not seven years' King, in bud of youth,  
Westminster tombs, to England's ruth.   

CANZ. VII.  
The Lady janes' downfall, Queen Mary's coming to the Crown, and marriage with Spain.  
WHen Suffolk's daughter Lady jane, 
Lady jane, daughter to Francis daughter to Mary, King Henr. 8. sister, was proclaimed Queen, 10. july, 1553. but Queen Mary prevailing, she & her husband were beheaded, 12. February next following. Marry daughter of Henr. 8. and Q▪ Katherine of Spain, began from the death of her brother, 6. july, 1553. (though interrupted by the Lady jane) she was crowned at Westm▪ by Bishop Gardiner of Winchester, Lord Chancellor, 1. Octob. following; she died 17. Novemb. 1558. R 5. y. 4. M. and odd days: the same day of her death deceased her cousin Card. Poole at Lambeth; she buried at West. he at Cant.   
With her spouse Guildford Dudley 
* He was fourth son to Sir Io. Dudley Lord Lisle, Earl of Warwick, and Duke of Northumberland, so created by king Edward the sixth.  ta'en  
For King and Queen, their sire's craft crossed,  
Their heads, life, Crown and Kingdom lost;  
Queen mary's right, so far prevailed,  
Both Duke's Imps, plots, pretences 
c The Duke of Northumberland was beheaded, 22. Augusti, 1553. Henry Grace Duke of Suffolk, father to the Lady jane, the 23. of February following.  quailed:  
Who set in sires and brother's throne,  
Rome her Religion here soon shone;  
Bishop Gardner's made Chancellor, and  
Piercy Earl of Northumberland.  
To Wyat's and English great 
d Sir Tho. Wyat's pretence of Religion, being to withstand the Queen's marriage with Spain; he was beheaded, 11. April. 1554.  disdain  
She weds her Cousin King of Spain,  
Whose style's so stately to be seen,  
Philip and Mary, 
e The style and royal Titles of King Philip and Queen Mary, proclaimed by the king of Heralds, at the time of their marriage, being on Saint james day, 1554.  King and Queen  
Of England, Ireland, and with them  
France, Naples, and jerusalem;  
Princes of Spain, Sicilia, Indies;  
Ostrich Arch-duke's; Dukes of Burgundy,  
Milan and Brabant! the low Country's  
tyrol and Haspurge, Earl and Countess.  
Their royal Embassy to Rome,  
The Pope returns much honoured home;  
Cardinal and Canterbury's Primate,  
Poole, with his cousin Queen, brave 
l The Queen sent for him from beyond the Seas, where he was in great estimation in the Court of Rome; and Cranmer being burned, he was made Archbishop of Canterbury, 1556. Queen Mary also restored and built what religious houses were in her power or possession, a sat Greenwich, Westminster, Zion, Sheen, the black Friars in Smithfield: all which were suppressed by Queen E●●zabeth.  Prelate  
Flourisheth and fadeth! once again  
Revives here the Religious train;  
Peace sweetly did herself advance  
'Twixt France, and Spain, and us; had France  
Not broken first, that'gan to board  
Philip's Flemish towns, with fire and sword.  
Thy'young Queen of Scots the Dolphin 
m Francis the Dolphin of France, espoused Mary daughter & sole heir to james the fifth King of Scots, 1558. 28. Aprilis at Paris. A marriage was heretofore intended between her, & King Edward the sixth.  weds,  
Whiles Mars his rage their Realms o'respreads:  
Dutch, English, Swissers, Pole, with Spain  
Walloons, too in his warlike train,  
And many a sort more to be seen  
That against his foes combined been  
With Philip, foraged France, and down  
Razed Conquer, and Saint Quintines towns;  
But that which most the English crossed,  
Callaice in lieu thereof was lost:  
Philip from home, our five years' 
n About this time also died Charles the fifth Emperor, father to King Philip, he being busy at his wars in France.  Queen  
At Westminster her tomb is seen.   

CANZ. VIII.  
Queen Elizabeth her admired and famous acts at the beginning of her reign.  
SO by her sister Mary's death, 
Elizabeth second daughter to K. Henr. 8. began 17. Novemb. 1558. crowned at Westm. by Doctor Oglethorpe Bishop of Carliele, 14. Ianu. next following. Died 24. Martij An. 1603 or according to the computation of the Church of England, 1602. buried at Westminster, reigned 44. years, 4. months, and 7. days.   
The Crown came to 
* She had been kept prisoner in the Tower, and elsewhere, a good part of her sister Queen Mary's reign.  Elizabeth,  
So Goddesse-like a maiden Queen,  
Seld-when or ne'er in England seen:  
She pulled down such religious cells  
Her sister built, and Pope expels;  
And warred with Scots and France and Spain,  
Till Scots and French craved peace full 
o Peace was concluded between all four Realms, A. 1. Eliz. between the Kings of Spain and France, the Dolphin and his wife Queen of Scots, & the Queen of England: but the Q. of Scots set on by the Guises of France, the peace broken, quarrels, and wars grew; and she being taken as she fled from her own subjects into England, long after suffered death at Fodringhay Castle, A. 1587. divers inroads in the mean time were made into Scotland by the English, against the Hamiltons, and in aid of the K. and likewise into France, but A. 1564. peace was again concluded with France, and the K▪ invested with the most noble order of the Garter.  fain.  
Scot'sh Queen then laid down England's arms  
She had ta'en up by th' Guise's charms!  
Though after ta'en i'th' English bounds,  
Her head flew off; such Crowne-lawes grounds!  
Eliza, by the Mounsieurs means  
And his French brother-King, then leans  
To Fleming's aid and French! when Dudley  
To Flanders went! with noble Sidney;  
Where Sidney fell, and Dudley's 
p Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, went over Lieutenant General and Governor of the Low Countries, A. 1585. where his Excellency (for so he was styled:) was entertained with great triumphs, and many worthy and warlike exploits were then done by him and Sir Philip Sidney Governor of Flushing; after whom Captain Norrys and Sir Francis Vere, were held for noble warriors, and in great estimation.  glories  
Read yet in the low Country's stories:  
He that with Mars might; Philip well,  
Sweet Sidney strive with Philomel:  
Both Britain's dearest Darlings; whose  
Fame no end, name no Period knows.   

CANZ. IX.  
divers other then memorable matters, and her wars with Spain.  
FAmous no less at this time were,  
Drake and far-trauailed 
* 15. junij, 1576. and the three years following, he made several voyages into the Northwest Seas, to seek that way a passage to Cathaia; and coming to the places called Queen Elizabeth's Foreland, Frobishers Streights, and meta incognita, brought thence Mineral at several times, which then were supposed to be gold o'er, but proved otherwise.  Frobisher,  
Frobisher that sailed North and East Seas;  
Tother by South-west passages,  
Sought the Sunnes-setting, 
This year 1588. by diverse forespoken, was called, Mirabilis Annus, in August, and the months following, were great rejoicings and triumphs in all England, London, and at Court, for their deliverance and the discomfiture of the Spanish fleet: In the years following were diverse voyages made to the Spaniards great loss, under the conduct of Sir Io. Norrys, Sir Francis Drake, and the Earl of Essex.  and strange lands  
Where Phoebus' steeds, and stable stands!  
Till rounding th'earth, comen back again,  
Lived one day less, than other men  
That lived as long as he! that 
d Captain Francis Drake with fi●e ships, of which the Pelican was Admiral, set out from Plymouth, 13. Decemb. 1577. passed by the coast of Brasile, Rio de plata, and entered the Magellane straits, came to the Molucco Isles and java; so returning by Cape de Buona esperanza, arrived in England A. 1580. the year following the Queen's Majesty dining at Detford in Kent, where the Vessel was laid up which he had so fortunately guided round about the World, going into the ship to see it, there in the same gave him the honour of Knighthood. The like voyage was performed by Captain Cavendish, and finished, An. 1588.  viewed  
Huge India's shore and monsters rude:  
Whose acquaintance great, with Neptune's realms,  
Wrought wondrous feats on Doris streams  
In eighty eight; when Spain's chief pride  
Did hithr'ward on Sea-horses ride!  
Sea- Nymph-rounds guiding o'er the main  
Great Duke Medeena's glorious train;  
That with less state soon after sees  
Both Scottish Orks, and Irish seas.  
Tilburie camp was Leyr'sters ᵉ ward, 
The Queen being at Tilbury Camp in Essex; the fight on the narrow Seas, was continued between the two fleets of Spain and England, from the 24. to the 28. of july, in which time Don Pedro, and other Nobles were taken; and many of the Spanish Galleys and Ships, burned, sunk, and spoilt: the Prince of Parma, that should have sent aid to the Duke, was hindered by the Hollanders, whose Fleet lay at the mouth of the River which he should pass, to join with the Duke: insomuch that 29. july, the Spanish fleet began to fly, the English men chase them Northwards towards Scotland, where about the Orkeyes and coasts of Ireland, many ships and men were lost, the Duke returning with greatest dishonour into Spain, had lost ships men.   
Hunsdon did the Queen's person guard;  
Charles Howard chief, vice-admiral Drake,  
Made Spain's huge great Armatha quake  
Flying faintly fast! So triumphs cheer,  
Our native soil; and my first year.   

CANZ. X.  
Lastly, her latest glorious atchivements, as Ireland's conquest finished, Virginia's plantation began before her death.  
NOr left we so; for Norys next  
And Drake again, and Essex vexed  
Spain's borders, thundering fire and fate  
To Sevills' shrine and Lisbon gates.  
Walter Devereux the sire, brave Knight  
That Lord Ferrer of Chartley 
f Walter Earl of Essex went into Ireland, Lord General of the war, 157●. Robert his son Earl of Essex, 1591. went into France with a band of men, sent from the Queen, to aid the French King. And An. into Ireland to suppress the rebellions there; he was wondrously loved and honoured by the Englishmen about all the Peers of his time.  hight,  
Pierced Ireland! this man went as far  
Having sped Na●arr's, French, Spanish war!  
But England dewed his tomb with tears  
Whiles Irish trophies Mount-ioy wears:  
Whose conquest and Virginia's gain  
Were last acts of this Virgin's reign.  
Been Caesar, French and Danes King dight  
Saint George's, so this maiden's 
g Charles the ninth of France 1566. Maximilian the Emperor, 1567. Freder●k the second King of Denmark, 1582. were by Queen Elizabeth invested Knights of the most noble order of the Garter.  Knights!  
And forty five years' Queen she fades  
Eliza to the Elysian shades;  
The world her praise, Westminster her 
h Her time being to all ages worthily memorable for her admired Maiden reign, her conquests abroad and peace at home.  dust,  
Heaven has her soul shrined with the just.   

CANZ. XI.  
By reason of her successor King james, is enforced the discourse following out of Scottish and other foreign histories.  
SVnne-rise did Cynthia's set disclose,  
And from her Phoenix ashes rose  
No fairer plumes, 
james the sixth in Scotland, the first in England, borne at Edenborrow, 19 junij, 1566. descended of the Lady Margaret, eldest sister of Henry the eight, began his reign in Scotland, 29. julij, 1567. crowned in Sterling church being but one year old: he began his reign in England, 24. Martij, 1602. crowned with Queen Anne his wife, daughter to the King of Denmark, on Saint james his day next following, at Westminst. by  more royal crest  
e'er found in princelyest Eagles nest,  
Th' Arabian bird, with spice-bed, then  
Decked Pallas bowers, our Hymen's, when  
The world the shrine, the sea the ring,  
Two Realms were wed, the Priest a 
* The Ocean, the Ring wherewith our whole Albion, or great Britain is encompassed; the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, wedded, united together by King james.  King:  
A Wife unites both Roses; james  
Both wives and Virgin's heir, both Realms!  
The married brings a son; her merit  
Th'qq leaves him crowns 
i Queen Elizabeth.  t'inherit.  
Hence our foure-crowned King james doth flourish  
O'er English, Scottish, French and Irish!  
Friend me dear Muses whiles I bring  
From Scotland's bounds our England's King;  
And when you have touched Scotland's glories,  
Briefly than France and Ireland's stories;  
Showing so King james his Majesty,  
Throned in his fourfold Monarchy.   

CANZ. XII.  
Of the Original of Scots and Picts.  
SCarce think I, th'race of Scottish Kings  
From Pharao's Daughter Scota 
* The most approved Authors hold the story of Scota, King Pharao's daughter supposed, wedded to the Argive Knight Gatholus; whence Scots would draw their name and pedigree, a mere fable; but certain it is Ireland was anciently called Scotia, and thence the Scots came; whence Ireland is called Scotia, of Scytheses or Scutten, is showed hereafter in the description of the Irish: these Scythe● or Scythians, came thither out of Spain, partly, where they were long planted, and partly, it is like, immediately from their Northeasterne Countries.  springs;  
Sure from great Scotland since of eld,  
Ireland so called, the Scottish held:  
Whence Ireland's called so, her relations  
Seruen both Scotch, and Irish Nations!  
When th' Irish Scots, though, Scotland won,  
The times unneath, most hard to skan;  
'Bout Marius, 
Marius, Anno Christi 73. reigned 53. in his time came Roderick or Reuda, saith Beda; and by him vanquished, the north parts of Scotland were assigned to them for place of habitation.  or Aruiragus reign,  
'Bout th'hundreth year of grace, they say,  
Came Scythian Goths, or neighbours near,  
First t' Ireland, thence t'inhabit 
d The Ge●es or Goths above Pontus, and all the Neighbouring Country's North and Northeast, Polonia, Sarmatia, Russia, and almost Scandia and Tattaria, were in ancient time called Scythia, a general name; as all the East, scarce known or called by other name than India.  here,  
With their Duke Roderick! Whether these  
Were of the race of Hercules,  
Th'old Agathyrsi; or whos'e're  
Fell feuds 'twixt them and Britons were;  
Which made them back to th' Irish fly,  
Then Scottish called, for fresh supply;  
So wives from greater Scotland 
e Which was Ireland: and they did covenant, that in case the King's blood did ●aile, the Irish should have a voice in the election of a new King; and the Irish to be eligible in regard of that affinity contracted with them, as having given them both aid and wives.  came,  
And aid; and lesser Scotland's name!  
Whence grew the guise, if King's blood fails  
In Scotland, Ireland's voice prevails  
In new King's choice; to be extract,  
From female race, as of compact;  
Though some have thought, th'old Britons rude  
Scorned by the Romanized brood,  
Of Britons new-come up, e'en hated,  
Of their own kin, italianated,  
As rudeness Emblems so were made  
To fly to th' Irish Scots for aid;  
Against these Caesar Severus wall  
Was raised, and wars not few nor small;  
Last Roman Lord being Gallio famed  
For both Scots, Picts, and Irish tamed.   

CANZ. XIII.  
The Scottish Kings numbered from Ferguse to the end of the Picts reign.  
REuda first reigned, says reverend 
* The Scots will only have ●im then a Pictish●ing ●ing, that reigned in some little p●rt of Scotland.  Bede,  
In British Scotland, though we read,  
In Scottish Annalls how th' Egyptian  
Pharao's Imp Scota, with her Grecian  
Husband Cathelus long did reign,  
With their succession Kings in Spain;  
Whence Scots were named! 
In this the Scots most ancient, though fabulous story. Fergusius antiquis. was Anno M. 3640. Durstus King of Scots that married Argasia, Daughter ●o Sici●ius King of Britain, Anno M. 3850. This Erchus espoused Rocha the Danish Lady, and by her ●ad Ferguse that was with Goth Alarick at Rome, circa annum 4350. & an. Christi, 400 This Fergu●●, An. Christi. 424. Dongard, Anno 470.  and Brechus King;  
Their Colonies they to Ireland bring:  
From whom the Great Fergusius 
a Being as they write a whole race of Kings before him and another Ferguse, almost of the same time with Mulmutius, 600, or 700 years since Brute, within few Descents of Gathelus; when this Ferguse is 700. years after the other, and 1400. years from Brute. What confusion is in the Story, about these things, I cannot but attribute it muc● to Polydore Virgil, who did his part to obscure our History to all sequent times, as much as lay in him; his Scottish History I follow, nevertheless since he is so much received in these succeeding Kings.  came,  
Whom to her Erchus bears, fair Dame,  
Danish Rocha, to her Spanish Spouse,  
Of Scotland's Kings ennobled House;  
He with Goes Alaricke made Rome flame,  
Ferguse that gave Craig-Fergus name;  
And brought with him so long agone,  
Scots gloried in the fatal Stone,  
jacob lay on, in the Land of Zion;  
With Brittish-Scotsh Kings Arms their 
b 
Hold they did this Stone in wondrous fatal admiration, for the Prophecy that they say went thus,  
Nempe Scotis fatum, (res mira) ubicunque l●catum.  
Inuenient lapidem, regnare tenentur ibidem.   Lion!  
Whom Reuther, Beda's Reuda, follows,  
Roderick, that put to flight, with's fellows,  
Came back again; whence call theyed right,  
Rew thers return, not his first flight!  
First Owen follows, Ferguse next:  
Second Owen then, and Dongard vexed,  
And slain by Britons; Constantine,  
His son in Christians Cause divine,  
Palladius Convert, 
c Palladius was sent by Pope Celestine to the Scots and the Island of the Brytons in the Ocean, he flourished at the beginning or a little before the Saxons entry here; who dying, Gaelestine ordained his Successor Patricius, borne in Cluides●ale, Scholar to S. Germane; accounted since as it were their Apostle.  warfare-goes  
In Britons aid, against Saxon foes!  
Next Congall, Conrane, Owen, Conuall,  
Aidan, Kenneth, Owen, Ferquard, Donwall,  
Maldwine, and with two Owen's more,  
Amberkeleth fall'n by Pictish foe,  
Owen, 
Donald. 632. to him King Ethelfrides' children of Northumberland fled, when their Father was slain by Edwyne.  Mordak, Ethfine, and less gracious,  
Owen and Ferguse, than Soluatius  
And Ethfines son, who entertains  
Amity with French King Charlemagne,  
Worthy of Frances friendship; 
d Which may be observed especially in their Wars with England, either affected with others distress, and helping other; Scotland the backdoor by which England was always molested in her Conquests of France; and France aiding the Scots in their Wars with the English.  whence  
Remains th'inviolate league ere since.  
Then Congall, Conuall, and sans true  
Respect to Excellency due,  
Or King-hoods Majesty divine,  
Alpine, butchered at Pasalpine,  
By bloody Picts; made them too late, 
Alpine 830. in his Father Athaius right K. of Scots, in his Mother Fergusia●a's heir of Pictland.   
To rue their cruel facts and 
e The utter ruin of the Picts in Scotland, with the cause thereof.  fate;  
For Kenneth kills them all, unneath,  
In fell revenge of Father's death;  
Whose overthrows, not un-fore-kend,  
Strange ●ights in Skies seen, seem portend;  
So Picts, with their King Drushen slain,  
Sole Scottish Kings, in Scotland 
f They then brought the fatal Stone into Pictland, and placed it at Scone; whence it was about Edward 1. time brought into England.  reign.   

CANZ. XIV.  
And so downward to Macbeth and Malcolm in William the Conqueror's time.  
NExt Kenneth, 
Chenneth. 834.  Donald, Constantine,  
And Ethus, by Gregour● in fine  
Deprived of Crown and Kingly style;  
Who won, they say, the Western 
* Ireland.  I'll.  
Then Donald, and late Ethus' son,  
Constantine, 
Constantine, Anno 903.  who fell feud begun,  
With Edward; but was homage ta'en  
From him subdued by 
* Having perfidiously aided the sons of Sythrick, last King of Northumberland, against the King of England.  Athelstane!  
Malcolm than next, 
Malcolm. 1. Anno 943. murdered at V●rine, buried at Colin.  and Indulph, who  
With Alfred wars against Danish 
* ●ather under E●dred or Edgar, unless it were in his younger years.  foe:  
Deaf, Cullen, Chenneth, Constantine,  
Grime, Malcolm, Duncane, and of Line  
Of th'ancient Princes and Blood-royal,  
Glamuis Lord; and yet most disloyal  
Intruder, 
Malcolm 2. Anno 1010. murdered at Glamuis.  Tyrant Macbeth, 
* He was son to Syne● Thane of Glamuis, by Doada, younger Daughter to Malcolm the 2.  whose  
Fate and fall, Wizards fore-disclose;  
But with so doubtful and obscure  
Aenigmas he thought him most sure; 
Malcolm. 3. Anno 1061. Son of Duncane, King of Scots, 1040. who was son of Beatrice, daughter to Malcolm. 2. Malcolm. 3. his Mother was E. Sywards of Northumber. Daughter, by whose aid, and K. Edward the Confessors, he slew the Usurper Macbeth, and gained the Crown.   
Till Dunsnane Castle high in th'air  
Encompassed were with th' Woods of Weyre  
He should not fall; being child nor other  
He should e'er fall by, borne by Mother:  
Which Riddle, 
* The Prophecy of a Witch, whereby he was deceived, for Mackdu●e that slew him, was not borne but ripe out of his Mother's Womb.  put him out of doubt,  
Though't fell, for him, too truly out;  
For Malcolm with revengeful hand,  
And Syward of Northumberland,  
His Grandsire, and their English aid,  
Coming thitherwards, in Weyr-woods stayed  
To deck and hide their armed array,  
In green-wood bowers, with levy spray;  
When so attired their troops drew nigh,  
To towering Dunsnane Castles hie,  
Throwing their levy Crowns away,  
Appeared they clad in Armour gay:  
Which sudden shows, unlooked for bale,  
Began make the Tyrant's courage quail;  
His towers so girt, with foes so dressed  
With Wyre-wood Crowns, straight armed Crest:  
Flying therefore fast, with feth'red speed,  
Sets spurs to his even winged steed,  
Macbeth, 
Macbeth the Usurper, 1046. R. 16. years.  t'avoid his foeman's ire.  
Mackdufe as furious as the fire,  
Who erst from Tyrant's anger 
* About this time also, Fleance, from whom the later Kings of Scotland are descended, fled from his tyranny into Wales; where by Nest Daughter to Griffi●● ap Lewlyn then Prince of all Wales, he had Walter, first Lord Steward of Scot this Fleance was son to Bianquo Thane of Loquhabar, an ancient House and allied to the Kings; who being invited by Macbeth to a Supper, was there murdered.  flew  
To voluntary Exile; new  
Returned, as swift as he that flies,  
Repays home all his courtesies,  
O're-taking him, fells him to ground,  
And so did Mackbeths' pride confound,  
Who vainly thus deluded dies  
By those prodigious Prophecies:  
Yet true they were, to thee, Fame tells,  
O too misled by Magic spells!  
Thy foe not timely borne, 
An. 1061. Malcolm. 3. R. 36. Y.  but ripped  
From Mother's womb, thus Macbeth tripped!  
This Malcolm marrying Margaret, Niece  
To Edmond Iron-side, Issue sees,  
Edgar, 
Edgar & Alexander, 1100. R. 29. years.  Scander, and David, who,  
Were Kings of Scotland all-a-row.   

CANZ. XV.  
The residue of the Scottish Kings until Queen Marie, Mother of King james the sixth.  
DAuid who led in England's Court  
His pleasant youth in Princely sort, 
David their Brother, 1125. R. 29. years.   
Whence Scotland claims them, weds the fair  
Huntingdons' and Northumber's 
* He married Maud Daughter to the Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon; whereby the K. of Scotland had th●se Earldoms or a pension for them; he favouring the right of Maud the Empress, was taken by K. Stephen, and fain to give his son Henry pledge for him, which Henry's son Malcolm, his Grandchild, did succeed him in his Kingdom.  heir  
The Countess Maud! Maud th'empress rights  
Favourite, 
Malcolm son of Henry, 1153 R. 12. years.  by Stephen foiled in fight:  
Gave his son pledge, whose son succeeds  
Malcolm in's Sire, and Grandsire's steeds;  
William then, and Scander who weds joan,  
Daughter to our England's King 
* Alexander the first espoused joan, Daughter to K. john; Alex. 3. marrieth Margaret daughter to Henry the third King of England, after whose death, rose twelve Competitors, laying claim to the Crown of Scotland.  john;  
And their son Alexander too,  
Had our third Henry's Daughter, who  
Dying Issueless; in King's account!  
England's Kings, as Lords Paramount,  
Edward the first john Balliol 
* As son of Devorguild, daughter of Margaret, daughter of David Earl of Angus, Brother to King William the Ly●●; Robert Bruse being also son of Isabel, another Daughter of the same David Earl of Angus.  placed,  
Robert Bruise all he could disgrac't;  
Third Edward, Edward Balliol's Crown  
Advanced, whom David Bruise pulled down,  
T'invade England, by Valois swayed,  
Captived, the Victor's price he paid!  
Three Roberts were, and next to them  
Five james from that Royal Stem,  
And next his Mother-queen; sixth james,  
First English, reigns from Tay to Thames.  
First Scottish james on surging 
* For grief whereof and of his son john's death, john K. of Scots, who named himself Robert, some say died.  Seas,  
Fourth Henry took, sixth Henry frees;  
Whom Somersets' fair Daughter jane,  
Had to her Husband! his, they sane,  
Went with a hundred Nymphs to France;  
And for third james, 'twas second's chance,  
Fourth's Edwards Cicely, t'ask to Wife;  
But mortal War's stint farther strife!  
T'one'sones Nephew yet, weds tother's Niece,  
Seau'nth Henry's Imps, such 
* james the second required Cicely, Daughter to Edward the 4. King of England, for Wife for his son james the 3. but Warves arising broke off that Marriage intended: yet james the 4. grandchild to james the 2. espoused Margaret grandchild to Edw, the 4. whence sprang the union of both Realms in the person of james the sixth, now King of all Britain.  Fates decrees,  
Fourth james Spouse; Mother to fifth james,  
Margaret, who after Floddon flames,  
Wed's Archibald Douglasse; whose Girl  
Margaret wed's Matthew, Lennox Earl, 
james the sixth an Infant of a year old; began his Reign in Sco●land, 1567. over all Britain 1602.   
Their son Lord Darnley, wed's fifth james  
Nymph, Mother to thy King, fair Thames;  
Who coming from beyond cold Tweed,  
Relate, dear Muse, with happy speed!   

CANZ. XVI.  
The troublesome State of Scotland in Queen Mary's time; her Marriage with the Lord Darnley.  
BEing in these our last times, our late  
Henry's Parenthesis of State,  
Mary, Edward, and Elizabeth,  
Vanished, and banished vital breath,  
Was Henry's Sister Margaret fair  
Their Aunt, whole Albion's sole heir,  
Fourth james Wife! so the Raceyclept hers,  
Sway Scotsh-Sites, English Mothers Sceptres;  
Her son fifth james; his tender Imp  
Scarce seven days old, yet Queen, poor Nymph,  
So left by'r Sires untimely end,  
Caused Mother Queen, and Peers contend  
For her and her Lands Government,  
So France to war with Scotland went;  
But Hamilton, from the French Faction  
obtains the Queen, and 
* The defection of the Hamiltons, and uproars made by the French in Scotland, in the beginning of Q. Mary's Reign.  Lands protection;  
Whiles furious French, in Scots despite,  
The Rhine-grave, and the Rhodian Knights,  
Fierce Almaigne and Italian bands  
Allure, to vex their late friends Lands,  
And gain th'young Queen, or lay the State  
Of Scotland, could they, desolate;  
But say'n they, soon as Lennox favoured  
Our English, th' Earl Protector wavered,  
And Mary Scot's young Queen was carried  
To France, and to the Dolphin married!  
Alas poor Nymph, as soon as borne  
She's crowned indeed, but with but thorn!  
And married now, but all her joys  
Soon marred or mixed with sore annoys;  
Soon dies her Spouse; her Sire 
* These accidents happening near about the first years of Queen Elizabeth.  long-since;  
Her Mother now, and she young Prince,  
In foreign shores, and scarce 'tis known,  
Where's Crown or Kingdom of her own:  
So vexed they were with civil Wars,  
So bruised beside by stranger's scars.  
As she was coming homewards, tossed  
By Aeolus' blasts to th' English Coast,  
And thence returned, domestic crosses  
She scarce regains but with great losses,  
Quenching those flames of fatal feud,  
With Rivers streaming Scottish blood;  
Yet soon as English Mary dies,  
Too forward, seems, swayed by the Guise,  
She took up th' English Ensigns! France  
Backs th' Errors she did first advance;  
Foolish France, must needs so much for strangers,  
Th'own breasts laid open t'a World of dangers.  
But after much their fruitless pains  
To either's loss, and neither's gains,  
Both Scot'sh and French o're-poized with harms,  
Both civil rued and foreign Arms.  
So Mars fled, and Peace sweetly smiled  
'twixt Scots and English reconciled,  
When in the Queen of Scotland's Court,  
Mongst other Lords of Princely port,  
Youthful Lord Darnley there was seen,  
New come from England's Court and Queen,  
Right well of Scotland's Prince beloved,  
And such her after favours proved;  
First Rothsey's Earl, than Duke create  
Of Albaney, and next her mate;  
Third son of Lenox Earl, there-while,  

* Henry Stevart, Lord Darnley, 3. son of Matthew Earl of Lennox, and Margaret Douglasse, Daughter to Margaret Henry the eighths' Sisters made Earl of Rothsey, and Duke of Albany, espoused Mary Q. of Scots, Daughter to Iames the fifth, and had by her Iames the 6. who is first of all Britain, being beire to the Kingdom of Scotland by his Mother's side; he●e to the Kingdom of England by Margaret his great Grandmother, and on both Fathers and Mother's side.  Wears Scotland's Crown, and Kingly style,  
Henry Lord Darnley, Stewart borne,  
Scotland's King made in youth's fresh morns;  
Their son anew Great Britain names,  
Scotland's sixth, England's first King james!  
But shortly Henry Stewart crowned,  
In the Queens Orchard's murdered found,  
And she to Bothwell's Earl soon wed,  
No small suspect of falsehood bred;  
When she not deigning to be brought,  
Fore her Realm's Peers to answer aught,  
Sans womanish fear, with threatening charms  
Affronts her subjects up in Arms!  
But boots no braves, she prisoned lies;  
Bothwell, to Denmark fled, there dies.  
And she from Keepers 'scaped prepares  
Her Peers sore bale; but ill she fares,  
From Scotland prisoned, flying strife,  
In England prisoned ends her life.   

CANZ. XVII.  
The government there in the minority of james the fixed.  
THen Scotland felt sore foes outrage,  
Before her young King came to age,  
Crowned one years' youngling, in his Realm  
His Grandsire Lennox, steers at helm;  
Morton, Murrey, and Marre help guide,  
The Vessel o'er rough-swelling tide;  
Till sore with surging billows tossed;  
The King took to his 
* The Realm of Scotland.  Bark nigh lost,  
And Pylot-like at greatest need  
Brought her to haven, with happy speed!  
Flourish great Prince, whiles thee fame raises  
Equal to Ioues, or Caesar's praises,  
Thy Reign since peaceful Olive-crownde,  
Thy brows Sols Bays done circle round,  
And more, t'adorn thy Kingly Posies,  
France shall bring Lilies, we will Roses;  
Since our Eliza did bequeath  
Thee Royal Garlands, at her death.   

CANZ. XVIII.  
As before of Scots, so here the History and original of their Ancestors the Irish, with diverse conjectures concerning the same.  
ANd for our Sun like summer time  
Rose from far North cold Scottish clime,  
In this oblike Horizon! 
* The Kings of England are now descended of the Scottish Kings, the Scottish no less and their Kings from the Irish, so that as the Realms are united, so are the Houses and Blood-royal, whereby the Kings of this Land are the true and natural Liege Lords over all these Nations.  whose  
Set, Rise, and Regiment Ireland knows,  
Ours comen from Scotsh-kings, theirs from them,  
All now but one King's Diadem;  
Ireland's both Imp, and Lord now; see,  
We th' Ancestors, they Posterity.  
That Western I'll, whose shores 
* A description of Ireland, with the site thererof, the old and modern names, and diverse other Antiquities.  do face  
Wild Camber's Cliffs; by her own race  
Caldoro Erin; by their Neighbours wild  
Yuerdhon; Ireland, English styled;  
From jasons' Greeks, 'tis thought we learn,  
To call Iwerna, Iris, jerne;  
Whether from her site, as Ostrich East,  
Spain West, so Heir should be guest  
So sounding, since more Ierne's 
* Called so of their Western site, jernus and jerna a Mountain, place and River in the West parts of Spain; as our jerne, the Western Isle or Ireland, as being west from England.  been  
Bywest, Hills, Rils, and places seen.  
Hybernia else of winter weather,  
Iber, or Duke Irnaulph, choose you whether;  
Ogygia, old, and holy I'll,  
Banno, and great Scotland, Poet's style!  
Albany, and Alban, as't were 
* Ireland called Banno, Albin, etc.  tother,  
Less Banno, sprung from this her Mother,  
Less Scotland from this greater; British,  
Scots, from these Irish Scots, and Pictish  
To think that Scots been Scythians Race,  
Conjectures may perhaps find grace  
Since greeks do Scythians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 call;  
The Germans, Scutten, Scots and 
* 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek, which seems the original of the rest, is so pronounced as Scutt●n, or Scyttan though the Latins have much varied from the suund pronouncing Sith, and not Sk●●ha, as the Greek original, and other Tongues do import, Master Verstegan would have Scytha derived from the Du●ch word Schietten, to shoot, quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, good Shooters, Archers.  all,  
Our Saxons, Scyttan; Goths, been Geteses;  
What let's it Scytheses, Northumber's Scettes?  
And Geteses and Scythian peoples held  
Spain's Towns and Cities sure of eld!  
Susana, and many places more,  
Scythian names, walls, and guises 
* Susana, the City, and the people Concani, Authors witness as they had Scythian names, had also their barbarous Customs in Spain; as that of drinking and sucking their Horse's blood: from Spain also is certainly known their transportation into Ireland.  wore:  
Whence Scythians into Ireland 
* Vt fabula, á side dignis historieis reprobatur; nec minus reliquae; adusque Fergusijs 2. tempora.  came,  
For Spanish dwellers did, says Fame!  
But some will say, believe't or smile!  
Scotos, from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, draw their style,  
Some say from Scota; but if you  
Would fain hear Fables, more than true,  
Or monstrous matters for disport,  
Her Legend you shall hear: but * short!   

CANZ. XIX.  
divers of their ancient historical Relations, and lastly, the late Conquests thereof made by the English.  
BEfore the universal flood,  
This Story now begins for good!  
Came Caesara, old Noah's Niece,  
Not known what ship, nor o'er what Seas;  
Next comes, (nor will I leave thy glories,  
Sublimate quintessence of Stories,)  
Bartolenus and his sons, whose 
* In the time of Corymbratus King of great Britain, Bartolenus or Partholinus Brother Cantaber, is said to have builded Cambridge.  names  
Their Cells, and Irish stations fames;  
Then Bergion comes! 
Bergion, Anno M. 2200.  Nemodus then;  
Whom Bergions' Race chased thence again:  
Greek Dela though the Giant's Mates,  
He Syrians knew, and Scythians States,  
Nemodus and his men's! what time,  
Gurguntius claims, the Irish clime!  
But mighty Monster! Rumour 
* Ruanus the Giant, they say, lived 2040. years, and instructed Saint Patrick.  says  
Ruan lived till Saint Patrick's days;  
Though 'twas thought, next Scota's brave Knight,  
Gathels Race, quelled those Giants quite.  
Against th' Aethiops, Moses and 
* Gathelus banished from Greece came into Egypr, where he had such fortunate success: & thence setting forth to seek Adventures, arrived in Spain; where he builded the City Briganta; his sons Hiberus and Himecus, went into Ireland, & his nephew Hermion son of K. Metellanus is said to have come thither afterwards in their aid.  Gathelus,  
Warring under Egypt's King, they tell us,  
Cecrops or Neols much praised heir, 
Gathelus, Anno M. 2400.   
Weds Pharao's Daughter Scota fair,  
Whence set for Seas, on Spain they light,  
Their tongue from him Gaoth-lag height;  
The Scots from her! from them derived  
In Simon Brechus Reign arrived  
In Ireland, Hermion and Hyberus,  
From Spain; from them, in hand they bear us,  
Came Ferguse; so from th' Irish train,  
Came Britain Scots, those Scots from Spain.  
Still understand, the fatal stone,  
Goes with them jacob slept upon!  
But true indeed all Stories sane,  
Scots came from th' Irish, 
Edgar, Anno Christi, 959.  they from Spain.  
These Ireland-dwellers, Edgar vanquished;  
Saint Edward loved! 
Edw. Confessor, Anno 1042.  first Richard's 
* The several Conquests of Ireland made by the English; both before and since the Norman Conquest.  Conquest;  
But in the second Henry's Reign,  
Dermon Mac-Morough did complain, 
Rich. primus, Anno 1189.   
Whom Strongbow Chepstols Earl relieves, 
Hen. secundus, Anno 1155.   
Wins his Lands, weds his Daughter Eve;  
Is England's Feodist! to King john,  
Made Ireland's Lord, Pope Adrian,  
Sends him a Ring; Vrban a Crown;  
But after by the Popes pulled down, 
K. john, Anno 1200.   
England and Ireland he full 
* He paid 700. Marks tribute for England, and 300. Marks for Ireland.  dear  
Rents at a thousand Marks by th'year.  
Eighth Henry King, the Pope first styled;  
Philip and Mary reconciled  
To Rome; and Queen Elizabeth wear  
The same; so doth King james the heir.   

CANZ. XX.  
The ancient governments of France, and how the Crowns right is now devolved to the English. The conclusion of all.  
SO the French Titles! 
Marcomirus, Anno 128.  whose free State, 
A brief view of the Successions of the Kings of France; their several Houses.   
And Salic Lords, dear Nymphs, relate!  
But leave th' Herculeans race and 
a Concerning whom, see the end of the second Ode.  train, 
Marcomirus alius 378.   
Tili Paris fair was placed on Seyne,  
By Marcomyre; whose Issue been  
Pharamont and his Monarches o'er Rhine, 
Pharamont. 419.   
O'er Francs or Francons; he begins,  
And Merovey much honour 
b Of him Pharamonds Race and Successors, were called Merovingians; as the second Race from Carolus Magnus, Carlovingians; and that third Race of Kings from Hugh Capet, Capevingians or Hugoners, which word hath since and especially, been spoken and taken by the house of the Guise against the Kings, in a secret sort disgracefully.  wins, 
Merovaeus, 448   
But Clovis most, 
Clodovaeus, Rex Christianus, 484.  who addeth first  
Christ to his Crown, or that to Christ!  
Their Race long flourished, till up springs  
Mayor Domus under th' idle Kings,  
Martellus Issue then 'gan Reign,  
Pipin, 
P●pinus, 750.  and famous Charlemagne;  
Hugh Capet, though, 
Carolus Magnus, 777.  his second Race  
Roots out; 
Hugo Capetus 987.  so Talion Law took place!  
From him descended Isabella fair,  
France her sole and indubitate 
c See in the Reign of Edw. 3. his Title, War, and Conquest of the same.  heir,  
Third Edward's Mother, 
Edw. 3. Rex. Angliae, Franciae, Dommus Hyberniae, Anno 1. 26.  though misprizde,  
By fabulous Salic Law devizde.  
Since Katherine from that Royal Stem.  
Her Dower brings Frances Diadem  
TO Henry the fifth, 
Hen. 5. A. 1412.  whose son 
d See the Agreements, and Hen. the sixth his Coronation at Paris, before in the Reign of Henry the third and sixth.  anon  
Sat crowned on triumph t' Frances Throne.  
So France and England's flowers so sweet, 
jacobus Rex Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hyberniae, A. 1602.   
Welsh, Scotch, and Irish Music meet  
Their Prince, by side of silver Thames,  
To greet with joy Great Monarch JAMES.   

CANZ. XXI.  
A Peroration to King james.  
AND now great, gracious, glorious sprights, 
Peroratio.   
Whilom brave Worthies, still brave wights,  
Live long and happy ever; deign  
Your sacred influence to these strains,  
You that in Albion reigned; and you,  
That do, but hope for Heaven your due!  
Fortunately famous, fairly shine  
Sainted on Earth, in Heaven divine;  
And glad thou canst but ken his days,  
Dear Muse cease thy rude Mantuan Lays.  
The end of the tenth and last Ode of PALAE-ALBION.     

POTENTISSIMO JACOBO, MAGNAE BRYTANNIAE MONARCHAE.  
QVando levi calamo, Britonum Heroesque Ducesque,  
quam potui dignis cupiens celebrare camoenis,  
Quanquam infoelici magis exitu; at ordine iusto,  
Percurri, & titulos, magnosque aliquando Monarchas;  
Cui magis atque tibi dedero? Flos inclyte Regum!  
Cum Sophiae sancto, pietatis lumine, pulchrâ  
Stirpe utriusque Rosae Regali stemmate claro?  
Muscas non capient Aquilae; at Lyra, Lilia, amoenis  
Cumque Rosis, rurisque choros, Regumque tryumphos,  
Saepe equidem celebrant! habitarunt Dij quoque syluas,  
Musaeque Aonios saltus; placeantque ita nostro  
Cynthus ceu Clario, tibi agrestia numina Phoebo;  
Non Lepori invisus Leo, Non jovis Armiger ales,  
Fulgura, celsa magis, jovis ira terebrat Olympum;  
Inuidia alta petens, humilis mea Musa, supremis  
Vix Aganippaeos latices libata labellis,  
Quod parcas nimiumuè rudi, lapsaeuè rogabit,  
En supplex! magis atque tuis quam tuta sub alis,  
Musca Aquilae; Lepus ante pedes, ceu Dama, Leonis.  
Rex Regum, video es, titulis Agamemnonis! Olim  
Anglia septenos habuit, duo Scotia Reges;  
Wallia treis, totidem quoque Gallia, Hybernia quinos,  
Haebus & Ila aliquot, ratibusque imperuia Thyle,  
Cumbria praeterea, & Druidum celeberrima Mona;  
Quos omneis tamen Imperio, tot plurima Regna,  
Pace tenes, teneasque precor pietatis alumnus  
Egregius; natura, no vum, tua lumina donec  
Eripiens terris, addat Dea Sydus Olympo.   

IPSISSIMO MAECENATI.  
THus have I brought this Work to end,  
jove gently will (perhaps,) befriend;  
And all those Sun's now or of yore,  
Have shined on our dear Albion shore,  
Will send their pleasing sweet aspect,  
If only thou thy beams reflect:  
Dost now Lord of th' Ascendant Reign,  
'tis more than guerdon for my pain;  
And gentle Nymphs, I hope, will smile,  
On Britons, thy Gests, my rude style.   

ILLUSTRISSIMO AC SUMMAE SPEI M. Brytanniae CAROLO PRINCIPI.  
WRiting, though rudely, Britons ancient Story,  
Whence th'old might lustre yield to modern glory,  
One Tome touched to Your and your Father's days,  
That yours and his might a next Volume raise,  
By some sweet Attic Muse! Or could a rill  
Of honeyed Nectar dew my barren Quill,  
What rarer Theme would I, more Royal text,  
Then your worths, whom Europe admires, expects  
Your mild aspect, fair Prince, making me soon,  
Think my night day, and such fair morning noonel   

NOBILISSIMIS HEROI FRIDERICO, RHENI Palatino Comiti, & Elizabethae Principi.  
Grave though all youthful, ancient though young Prince,  
That matchless raught'st England's fairest flower from hence,  
Your coming o'er thus caused my artless Pen,  
Roving from Thames to seek you out by Rhine.  
Your Germany, I know, affords such store  
Of choice wits now, as no Age, no Land more,  
To charm your ears! which might amate my Muse;  
But yet your Noblesse doth new spirit infuse,  
And such your Grace, thrice Royal pair, shall make,  
Me sing your praise for loved Albion's sake.   

REVERENDISSIMO DOMINO SVO, DOMINO GEORGIO, Providentia Divina Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi.  
TH' Eagle stoops not to catch at Flies! her wing's  
Shade often though, & shelter meanest things.  
That Eagle piercing sight, and learning's height  
That sores above the vulgar low conceit,  
Makes sure swift wing, at higher, holier things,  
As Heaven, the source from whence such knowledge springs!  
Yet since your Grace doth sometimes please to look  
On our mean Acts, as to me, to my Book,  
Deign to be Patron, and whatsoever you deem,  
Your worthy censure I shall most esteem.   

HONORATISSIMO DOMINO, GEORGIO, Marchioni Buckingham, aureae Periscelidis Equiti.  
WEnd thou thy ways dear Muse to Court, whiles I in Shepherd's Weed,  
Thus tune such homely Mantuan Lays on my poor Country Reed,  
Or sitting on the lowly Downs, among my Sylvan Swains,  
Do moon my royal Mistress loss, t'our sweet Arcadian Plains.  
Whose daintiest Nymphs if they perhaps, shall grace thee so to make  
Thee rest in Albion's stateliest Towers, again, for her dear sake,  
Do as those ancient Knights professed, with all respective duty  
Thy best endeavours ever pressed to honour Virtue, Beauty.  
I wish thee more, seek out the Man, whose Marquisate and Fame,  
From Tityr's beech-tree shades renowned, derive their noble Name,  
Admired of the vulgar sort, and of the Realm a Peer,  
A chief flower of the Courtly train, and of his Prince held dear;  
'tis he can give thee free access unto thy King's good Grace,  
Thou needest not fear though thou so mean, and he so high of place,  
Tender thy best devoir and love; he cannot but protect  
Thy suit, and goodness of thy Cause; a good Cause gains respect,  
For goodness stands at Greatness gate, sole ay true glory shines,  
Where Virtue free from flatteries fraud, guides, acts her blessed designs;  
When after Ages all that dare boldly the truth aver,  
Proclaim them noble whose high Acts from Honour's Laws not err.  
So having gained thy Sovereigns grace, soon all th'attending train,  
Of Stars that on fair Sols Car wait, will thee like favour deign;  
Those Stars that our Horizon sees, whom like the welkin clear,  
Ioues Palace, Sols bright Zodiac holds, to glad our Hemisphere,  
Their names should beautify these lines, but that these lines would blenne  
Their Honours that should be descriued by Homer's golden Penne.  
I'd hope you'd pardoned yet, great Duke, allied to the House of Kings,  
That Pan's Pipe played, till Phoebus tuned his Lyres melodious strings.  
And you both Earls, that Worsters wear, and Pembroke's ancient style,  
Sydneyan Worthies, Cambrian Lords, and Leyster-graced lisle,  
Sussex, Essex, nor Oxford then, with howard's haughty Name,  
And more brave spirits that there possess, place of respect and fame,  
Should pass untold, save now I leave, to loftier lines this task.  
And of the man first mentioned here, this Boon I humbly ask,  
That as he is among his Peers possessest of chiefest place,  
he'll deign to be the means may gain, my Muse her Sovereigns grace;  
Who if he lending loving looks, on lowly Albion smile,  
Her love and labours will not thus, leave honouring this our Isle,  
But sing that sandy Severne-waves, Trent, Tweed, and silver Thames,  
Shall loudly Echo forth her Lays, devoted to King james.   

Author ad Librum.  
FOrtè, nec invideo, celsam liber ibis in urbem  
Me sine, vel placido Principis aula sinu  
Excipiat foveatque rudem; Tu suaviter aures,  
quam potes, incantes, forsan & usque potes!  
Heroumque citans, licèt haud tuba Homerica, laudes  
Optârit meritò vir bonus esse suas;  
Gratia seu tibi sit plus debita, gloria dignis  
Haud absit; similis nec tuba desit eye!  
Et tibi quis nequid, Scoto-Anglûm, Cambro-Brytannûm  
Debeat? indigenûm ceu canis arma Ducûm:  
Dente Theonino siquis tua dona, rubenteis  
Suspicor atque Rosas rodere velle; vale.  
FINIS.   

AN ALPHABETICAL TABLE CONTAINING ALL THE PRINCIPAL MATTERS mentioned in this Poem, and in the Illustrations thereof.  

A  
ACts, the victorious Acts of Albion, 29. The victorious Acts of Ebrank; and his sons, 97. The warlike Acts of Bundicia, 139. The honourable Acts of Henry the seventh, 269 The famous Acts of Henry the eighth. 271  
Adelme, his flourishing. 209  
Adelstane, his Reign. 209  
Age, the golden Age. 5.  
Agricola, his Warlike Acts in Britain. 141  
Albion, who gave that name to this Ile. 7. The original thereof. 39.41  
Albion, his Descent and first coming to Samothea, and destroying the Samothes. 29. 47. Albion an enemy to Hercules and Licus. 53. Albion overthrown and slain. 55. The disorders of the Kingdom after Albion's death. 61. The Story of Albion defended. 75  
Alfred, made King of Northumberland. 203. Alfred forsaken of his Dukes, yet conquers Rollo the Dane. ibid. Alfred brought to the lowest ebb of Fortune, hides himself in the Marshes of Somersetshire. 205. He founded Oxford, ib.  
Antiquities, an assertion of Antiquities. 34  
Arthur, his prowess, life and death. 171  
Aulus Plancius, his beginning was in Guiderus Reign. 137  
Egypt. 43   

B  
BArdus, his Reign. 17. His virtues and imitation. 19  
Barbarossa, his Conquest of Denmark. 117. His planting in Ireland. ibid.  
Barons, their Wars, 243  
Bath, the foundation thereof, 99  
Belinus, his civil war with Brennus. 113. His honourable Acts at home. 117. His founding of Archflamins. ibid.  
Belus, or Belees the diversities, 45  
Bergion, his coming into Ireland. 27. His rule there. 29  
Bladud, his Reign. 99  
Brennus, his civil war, with Belinus. 113. His Conquest at Rome 115. His sacrilege and punishment at Delphos, ibid.  
Britons their original and commendations. 7. Their manner of fight and furniture, 123  
Britain, who first gave that name. 7. Britain described. 13 The qualities and richness of the soil. ibid. 15. Who first entered & inhabited Britain. 15. The original of Britain. 39 41. Britain much wasted. 149. Britain abandoned by the Romans, and left to the Picts. 151  
Bundicia, her Warlike Acts. 139  
Brute, his Descent, his Exile, Turmoils and Adventures in Greece. 67. His Markage unto Pandrasus Daughter; and the seeking of his fortune. 69. His coming to the Island Leogetia and his going to the Oracle of Diana, ibid. His answer from the Oracle. 71. His joy and preparation, ibid. His meeting with Corinaeus, the overthrow of Guffar, and Brutus' arrival in Britain. 73. The story of Brute defended. 77. All Objections answered, ibid. Brute his encounter with the Giants, his overthrowing of them, & killing of Gogmagog. 87. Brutus' division of the Kingdom. 91. The end of Brutus' Issue. 105   

C  
CAmbridge new founded. 117  
Cantaber, the Founder of Cambridge. 117  
Canute, the Dane, his famous Reign. 219  
Caratacus, betrayed and borne in triumph to Rome. 139  
Caracalla, the Emperor. 145  
Cassibeline, his Protectorship, & his repulsing Caesar. 123. His death. 135  
Caesar; his entering Britain, and his manner of fight. 123. His delivering of the Story of Britain. 125 More of Caesar's Acts. 131. 133. The Britain's subject to Caesar, and Tribute yielded. 135  
Christ, born in the days of Cymbeline. 134  
Cymbeline, refuseth to pay Tribute to Caesar. 135  
Claudius, finished the Conquest of Britain, and regained the Tribute. 137  
Clito Edgar against Harold 221  
Constantine, the Great, his glorious Acts. 147. The Reign of his sons till Theodosius, ibid.  
Constantine, the Tyrant his Reign. 149  
Cordilla, her Reign 101  
Corinaeus, his meeting with Brute 73. His kill of Gogmagog, and inhabiting of Cornwall. 89  
Coylus, and other Kings reigns, till Hely. 119. the flourishing of the Christians under his Reign. 143  
Creation, of the Creation of the World. 3  
Cromwell, Lord Chancellor, his Comet like-blazing. 271  
Cunedagius, his envy unto Cordilla. 101   

D  
Danaus', his Story, and of his fifty Daughters. 63. Their banishment and arrival in Albion. 65. The Descent of the Giants from them, ibid.  
Danes, the original of them in England. 197  
Dissension, civil Dissension after Gorbodugus Reign. 103  
Druis, his Reign. 17  
Dudley, Earl of Leicester, made General into the Low Countries. 279   

E  
Eastangle Kings, and their government. 178  
Eastsaxons, their Kings and Kingdom. 195  
Ebrank, his Victories, and his sons. 97  
Edgar, his Reign. 209. He obtaineth the Crowue. 211. He is infamous for his wanton loves. 213  
Edmond Iron-side, and his children's Fortunes. 217  
Edward signior, his Warlike Acts. 207  
Edward Martyr, poisoned. 215  
Edward Confessor, his famous Reign. 219. His death. 221  
Edward the first, his deciding the right of the Crown of Scotland, 245. His son first English Prince of Wales. ibid.  
Edward the second, his unfortunate Reign, and wrongs done by Gaveston, Mortimer and Spencers. 247  
Edward the third, his Acts and Conquests of France. 247  
Edward the black Prince, his noble Acts and death. 251  
Edward the fourth, his Reign, and his sons. 261  
Edward the sixth his Reign. 277  
Edwine, his Reign. 209. He is vicious. 211  
Egbert, his reducing the Kingdoms to one, and calling it England. 199. His flourishing Monarchy and Reign. 199  
Elizabeth Queen, her admired and famous Acts at the beginning of her Reign. 279. Her imprisonment before she was Queen, ibid. Her general peace with Scots, France and Spain, ibid.  
Elfleda, her Warlike Acts. 207  
England, who first gave that name. 7. Her fear at the Conquerors coming in. 223  
Estrild, drowned by Guendoline, 93  
Ethelred, his obtaining of the Crown. 215  
Ethelwolphes, his Acts and Reign. 199. His troubles with the Danes, 201  
Europa, her several Nations and commendations. 9   

F  
FErguse, his Reign till the Picts, 285  
Floods, their creation. 5  
France, the ancient Government thereof. 303. How the Crowns right is now devolved to the English, ibid.   

G  
GErmanie, conquered by Ebrank, 97  
Giants, their creation. 5. The Descent of the Giants in Albion. 65  
Gogmagog, slain by Corinaeus, 89. He was the greatest of Giants. ibid.  
Gorbodugus, his Reign, 103  
Greenshield, a most worthy Prince, his Reign. 103  
Guendoline overthrows Locrine, drowns estrild and Sabrine. 93. Guendoline her Reign. 95  
Guffar, King of Poytiers in France, overthrown by Brute. 73  
Guiderus, in his Reign did Aulus Plancius begin. 137  
Guitteline, and his Queen very famous for their Laws 119   

H  
HArold-Hardiknute and his Reign. 91  
Harold, Godwines' son, his usurpation. 221  
Henry Beauclarke, his honourable Reign. 239  
Henry the second, his Reign. 241  
Henry the third, his Acts. 245  
Henry the fourth his unquiet Reign. 258  
Henry the fifth, his Reign and Conquest of France, 255  
Henry the sixth, his wonderful misfortunes. 257  
Henry the seventh, his joining the Houses of York and Lancaster, 263. His marriage, offspring, and actions. 269  
Henry the eighth, his famous Acts. 271. His Reign in his latter time. 275. His several Marriages, and last will concerning his Heirs, ibid.  
Heptarchy, the beginning thereof. 189  
Hercules, the son of Isis, 49. His slaying of the Giants, his coming into Gaul, and his meeting with Albion. 51. His entertainment by Lycus, and preparing to overthrow Albion. 53. He kills Albion, and his power. 55. Hercules marryeth Galathea the Daughter of Lycus, ibid.  
History defended, 37. divers Histories repeated and reconciled, 55  
Humber overthrown by Locrine. 91   

I  
IAmes the sixth of Scotland, and first of England, his succeeding Elizabeth. 283. The Government of Scotland in his minority. 297  
A Peroration to King james. 303  
jane, the Wife of Lord Guildford Dudley, her down-fall. 277  
Idolatry, the original thereof. 21  
john, King of England, his Reign. 243  
Ireland described. 27. Glorious Achievements there. 281. The original of the Irish. 297. The Conquest of Ireland by the English. 299  
Isis, the Goddess, buries Osiris. 49. Her revenge by the means of Hercules her son, ibid.  
jupiter, or jove, their diversities. 45   

K  
KEntish Kingdom, the Story thereof. 171  
Kent, the Liberties thereof, how gained. 233   

L  
LEicester builded, 101  
Leil his Reign, 99  
Leon-gavere, did build Cairleon. 65  
King, the unnaturalness of his three Daughters, and his cross Fortunes, 101  
Licus, the King of Gaul, 53  
Locrine, his Reign, and overthrowing of Humber. 91. Locrine overthrown by his Wife Guendoline. 93  
Lud-Rudibrasse, his Reign. 99  
Lud, his building of London, and the Gates. 121   

M  
MAcbeth, his Reign. 289  
Madan, his Reign. 95  
Magus, his Reign. 17  
Malcolm, his Reign. 289. Some other Scottish Kings. 291  
Man, his Creation and his fall. 5  
Marry, Queen of England, her Reign, & Marriage to Spain. 277  
Marry Queen of Scotland, her Reign, and Marriage, to the Lord Darnley. 293  
Martia the Wife of Guitteline, famous for her Laws. 119  
Memphis, a City in Egypt. 43  
Mempricius, devoured by Wolves 95  
Mercia, the first original of their Kings and order. 177. The end of the Kingdom of Mercia. 179  
Misfortune, how incident to the greatest Nations. 11. Misfortunes excused, and the misfortunes of this I'll, ibid.  
Morgan's envy to Cordilla. 101  
Mulmutius, his Reign. 103. His Nobleness and the restoring of the British Monarchy. 111   

N  
No his History showed under the shadow of Saturn, 39  
Northumberland, the original of their Kings and Kingdom, 179 The subversion thereof. 183. Their encumbrance by the Danes, and submission to the Westsaxons. ibidem.   

O  
OSiris, Albion's Grandfather, 43. Osiris' slain. 49  
Oxenford builded. 97   

P  
PIcts, their original. 285  
Poesy or Poetry, defended by an Apology. 37  
Polydore Virgil his subtleties, and disgrace of the British I'll, unmasked and confuted. 105  
Pool Cardinal, his flourishing under Queen Marie, 279   

R  
RIchard Cordelyon; his most famous Reign. 243  
Richard the second, deposed by Bullingbrooke. 253  
Rivallo, his Reign. 103  
Rome, Tribute paid unto Rome, 135. No Tribute paid to Rome, ibid.   

S  
SAbrine, drowned by Queen Guendoline. 93  
Samothes, his Offspring, and Reign, and the giving of the name Samothea. 7. Samothes first Rule and Empire. 15. Samothes Issue. 17. The Story of Samothes defended. 75  
Samotheans, their irreligious and barbarous Acts▪ and their overthrow. 19 21. The end of their Kingdom, 23. Their punishment. 25  
Sarron his Reign. 17  
Saxons, their original and Antiquity. 159. Their calling in and plantation under Vortiger. 163. Wars between the Saxons and the Britons. 165. The seven Saxon Kingdoms, their arise, and extent. 167. The Saxons glorying in their Ancestors and Gods. 169. The first plantation of the Christian Faith amongst the Saxons. 175  
Scots, their original. 285. Whether the first Scots sprang from Pharaohs Daughter. ibid.  
Seaverne, whence the name was derived. 93  
Sibilla, diverse of her Verses recited. 77  
Southsaxon Kings, and their government. 187  
Spain, memorable Wars in Spain. 281  
Stamford, the first foundation thereof. 99  
Stephen, his troublous reign. 232  
Stygands, an Archbishop, his stratagem, for the liberty of Kent. 233  
Superstition, the original thereof. 22  
Sweno, King of Denmark, his obtaining of the Crown. 215   

T  
THeodore, what it signifies, 267 an allusion of it to Tewther, or Teudor, ibid.  
Theomantius refuseth to pay Tribute to Caesar. 135  
Tholouse, their Cruelty and Sacrilege. 23  
Triphon, kills his Brother Osiris. 49   

V  
Variety, the various changes of all humane things. 195  
Vespasian, his Warlike Acts in Britain. 141  
Virginia, the first Plantation there in Queen Elizabeth's reign. 282  
Vortiger, his coming to the Crown. 153. His Marriage. 163.  
Vortiger dispossessed of his Kingdom. 165   

W  
WEst-Saxon Kings and their Government, 189  
William the Conqueror, his Descent from Rollo the Dane, 227. His quarrel, claim, and preparation to get the Crown of England. 229. His success, Conquest and Coronation. 231. His Tyranny against his Brother. 235. His death and most strange Funeral. ibid.  
William Rufus, his Government, life, and death. 237  
Wickedness, how it is the destruction of Empires. 23  
Winds, their creation at the first. 5  
Wolston, his flourishing. 209  
Wolsey, a Cardinal, his Comet-like blazing. 271  
World, the creation thereof, and the repeopling. 7   

Z  
ZOnes, their creations at the first. 5   
FINIS.   

Palae-Albion Liber, lectoribus sapientibus ac benevolis salutem! nimiûm severis Talionem.  
KInd Readers, were't your travels lain,  
Towards Pilgrim-sainted David's shrine,  
Where in an Antique sacred Celestina,  
Holy aged Heremits once did dwell,  
There now by little Alluns' side  
My Master 'mong his flocks, this tide  
On Oate-reede tunes such rural Songs  
To Cambrian Nymphs and Neat-heard throngs.  
Sometimes he sat by silver Thames  
Now rests near sandy Severne streams,  
In valley low, where Sylvan Swains  
Replenish rude Menevian Plains!  
If Londay Nymphs can tell no news,  
Hail Scalmey; & if they refuse,  
Gresham, Ramsey, or those shrewd Sea-marks,  
Men call the Bishop, and his Clerks;  
Pembrochian borderers, Neighbours near  
To Deusland; they'll direct you where!  
Found tell him, pray, how by his long  
Absence, I have sustained much wrong;  
For fearing words might breed unrest,  
I for my silence have been pressed,  
An so in Duresse forced aye,  
To say what I would fain unsay!  
Spare then sharp Censure, and supplant  
These Errors, which I thus recant,  
Pleading for pardon! would you please,  
T' expunge, or mend such faults as these.   

Errata.  
Pag. Line Fault for Correction read 1 7 succeffion succession 3 4 affignde assigned 4 20 gregis greges 6 30 Britanniarum Britannicarum 8 25 longuis longiùs  37 Theomno Theonino 10 15 Flamine Flumine 12 10 Doroberina Derobernia 15 1 Entire Entice 17 27 worth wealth 27 41 feat seat  43 and gain or gain 29 10 soon sons 39 44 rest rests 40 37 Medes Medis 42 39 Nephthuni Nephthuim 45 7 ten e'en 49 1 obstacles obstacle 52 35 demeritus dimeritus 70 31 aditusque adytusque 73 21 — utmost 74 2 Hithiam Ilithyiam 84 17 Fania Tania 85 28 and aid 120 10 omni omnis 133 30 transferr it transferit 134 31 & est 138 6 uteranorum veteraniorum 161 21 Lords Hordes 170 19 Abrimi Abrini 182 17 Oswald Oswaldi 198 40 Marcia Mercica 207 18 these thrice 211 38 that yet 212 32 Wilfredam; Wilfred● 217 27 nice niece 228 29 urba verba 244 11 du●s du● 252 6 septiens septenis 254 31 procerumque procerum 258 25 Bex Rex 266 16 Omnia omina 273 41 waved wan'de 276 14 Eruti Eruta 286 25 Eugenijsque Eugenijque 298 39 — suum debent    quibus 301 40 the heir her heir.  
Lesser faults as mispointings, or the like, or others that may escape the most vigilant Correctors Eye; the courteous Reader will amend.   

Poetarum facilè Principi, ac Coriphaeo, Michaeli Drayton, Ar. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Dear, Divine Drayton, I admire  
Thy Lays inspired with Delphian fire,  
On whose plain song, Seld one more blest,  
For Grace's Minion, Muse's Guest:  
Seld one more seen in old Folk-mote,  
Deskants a most delicious note;  
Do not ennie me, though I sing  
In rural tunes, such highest things.  
Your Lays will live, though mine do dye,  
Sung long erst, I confess it, I  
Thy Polyolbion did invite,  
My Palae-Albion, thus to write.  
Thy Songs, mine Odes, thy Poesy,  
My harsh tunes, notes rude Symphony;  
Thine, ancient Albion's modern Glories;  
Mine, modern Olbions' ancient Stories;  
This th' only difference, mine's borne dying,  
Thine sure on Fame's wings ever flying.  
Cease then my Muse, and yet disclose  
A never dying Love to those,  
That wish their Country well! All-hail  
Dear Olbion, may thy Fame ne'er fail,  
But be graced still, till at loves call,  
Heaven Crown Earth's glories, thine and all  
That Britain love, would Honour nourish;  
May they ne'er fade, but ever flourish,  
May be, Albion then, with Olbion may,  
Ken many a fair and happy day!  
Whiles Auon's clear source that hears thee sing,  
As she slides from her Crystal spring,  
Shall teach our Seuernes banks to sound,  
With Echoes shrill, to the Sea-Nymph-round,  
Thy Olbions' Odes, tuning with joy  
Albion's chief pride, Thames, and her Troy.   

Authoris votum! At the Poetical shrine of JUPITER XENIUS, on the Altar there found written in a scroll, with this Inscription:  
Vniversis jovis ac Pallados filijs; sanctis Musarum alumnis, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: ut & Lectori candido, salutem: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
ZEus Xenius, or thou friendly jove,  
That strangers dost and Pilgrims love,  
To thee, my humble Muse, her song  
Should offer, rapt from Cradle young,  
Where she began these Odes to treat  
In pleasant flowery Summer's 
* Alluding to the name of Somerset, Vnde ex humili Pago Tykenham nominato, originem duxit, quâ propè Bristoliam flava Sabrina fluit.  seat:  
Near that Faire-place, been with bright 
a Brightstow, the name of Bristol, signifying a fair place; it being a pleasant site, and the chief Emporium, of all the towns seated on the Severne, and on the coasts of Wales  beams  
The pride of sandy Seuernes streams,  
Sweet Cells! though not compared with those  
Near Ouses-fourd, where fair Tame 
b Ouse-fourd the true interpretation of the name of Oxford so called of the River Ouse, running by it.  flows,  
Whith'r brought, my Muse, some part full fain  
Chants of her yet unheard-off strain.  
Thence siluer-founted Crystal Thames,  
His forehead decked, clear lympid' stream  
With dangling Reeds, and flaggy Flowers,  
Conveyed her down to old Luds 
c Some will have London to be anciently so called, viz. Ludstowne and Caer-Lud.  bowers,  
Where she beheld, with wondering eyes  
Both City's pride and Courtly guise,  
Whom noblest Nymphs that haunt the place,  
Gently deigned more than lookt-for grace.  
Next Courtly troops, the Country trains,  
Did hear her sing, and those wild plains  
That thee, dear Daniel, so did bless,  
And ravishing notions first 
d So Master Daniel writes of himself, and Wilton, of which Wilton, Wiltshire, (alluded by some from the wild plains, quasi Wilde-shire) takes her name; Vbi in villâ Bedwyn antiquitus totius Comitatus paenè nulli secundâ, nec satis ignobili, tam ob incolarum Rusticitatem, quam ob suarum olim celebritatum iacturam, aliquandiu Moram traxit.  impress  
Into thy soul! from whence she went  
To Camber's wild, and flowery Kent,  
Rhutupian farthest shores i'th' East.  
Old holy David's shrine 
e Rhutupiae or the coasts of Dover, and Sandwich East, & Saint David's called Menevia, in the West, are, and are ordinarily accounted the utmost limits those ways of great Britain.  bywest  
Did hear her tunes, and Odes she ended  
In those well hop't-of bowers intended  
To Phoebus' honour, of King JAMES  
named; west of London by fair 
f Chelsey College is K. james foundation, and in the Patent so called of his name.  Thames!  
From Somerset, her native home  
Thus t' Ouse-fourd rapt, and Luds fair Town,  
To those wild plains, and whither th'age  
Last passed vowed holy 
g Vnde, Roma semel quantum, bis dat Menevia tantum.  Pilgrimage  
T' old David's cells, where Phoebus falls,  
Saint, Prophet, Priest, and Prince of Wales;  
And from fard'st west to th' Orient,  
As far as rich unhealthy 
h The ordinary saying amongst us, affirming the farther parts of Kent to be wealthy though unhealthy, the midst healthy not wealthy, but both healthy and wealthy near London.  Kent.  
If friendly favour move your breast  
To entertain this wand'ring guest  
For your delight, or more graced see  
Since Albion hight! thus far yet we  
Courteously salute you, and your love  
Zeus Xenius Guerdoned, gentle jove.   

Lauro, ac Laude Dignis S. P. D. G. S.  
POets Laureate, on whose sacred brows  
Flourish Garlands of ne'er fading boughs,  
Whose sweet lays more delicious been,  
Then Philomel's or Paphos' Queens;  
Helicon is yours, and though that I,  
Cannot up to the heavenly numbers fly,  
Yet fain I do admire you, and  
E'en beg this boon at Phoebus' hand,  
To rest where in th' Elysian plains,  
Fair fields, I may hear your sweet strains,  
Our Ennius, Chaucer, with old Line,  
Or Orpheus, where, Sidney divine  
Sits with Musaeus; Johnson, Spencer,  
Drayton, Daniel, English Horace, Homer,  
Maro, Ovid; so sing 'twould inspire,  
My dull Muse with diviner fire.  
Or if not; but with Echo dumb,  
Her Cradle needs must be her tomb,  
Then sing her Requiem, much famed Cells,  
Pyndus, Tempe, Troy, and Thames farewell.   

In amici Palae-Alb. S. P.  
REader, abide, mark, buy: Divisa Britannia Mundo,  
(Mundus & alter) adest; here a World thou hast for a little  
(World! not a little) worth: Vasa estque Britanno-Latina;  
(Mundus idem atque alter.) To the World, see, Briton a Latin,  
English it is to her own; Liber iste est liber utrisque.  
Tempora datque Locis: of Time here's added another  
World with a world of Affairs: Res gestae hic ordine● antur,  
Antiqua & nova habes: Praise Slatyers' Muse, or amend it.  
TEMPOKA, RESQVE SVIS, CANIT, ATQVE DAT ISTE BRITANNIS.   

In PALAE-ALBIONIS, Historiae, sc. Anglicanae, Odas & Authorem earundem, Odula.  
ALbion aequoreas inter celeberrima Nymphas,  
Virgivio quondam flumine Diua potens,  
Caesare, Saxonicis ducibus, Dacisque petita,  
Normannis demum, dulcis amica tamen  
Angligenae soboli; venit ac Scoto-Cambro-Hybernâ  
Stirpe sato Regi! queis tua Musa favens,  
Chare Slatere, canit festos dulceisque Hymenaeos;  
Charior inque dies, vestra erit ergo pari  
Tam benè famoso, Nympae, magnoque Monarchae  
Albion, his Odis clara, palaia novis.  

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
ALbion, illiusque, notis, sacer incola quondam  
Claruit antiquis, nuperiorque novis!  
Incisos siquidem Britoneses, Pictosque figuris,  
Glastove infectos corpora, mille modis,  
Caesaris antè, ferunt, saeclum rude; iamque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Albion ecce ●otis picta, placetque novis.  
N. GWIN.    

In fratris sui charissimi G. S. Odas Historicas, PALae-ALBIONIS nomine insignitas, L. C. Carmen.  
GEsta antiqua novis, collata novissima primis,  
Albion haec Odis, cuncta, palaia suis,  
Ceu canit, & tenebris Britonum incunabula caecis  
Eruit, arrident plus sibi, siqua tibi;  
Prisca petis? obscura caue! Nova? Nota; recensens  
Quaeque, placere cupit, nec minus ergo placent.  
IO. SLATYER.   

Musarum Praeconi blando, Amico suo integerrimo G. S. de sua Palae-Albione, opere Historico-Poetico, Melisma sacrum sive Paean.  
TAle tuum carmen nobis, diuine Poeta,  
Quale sopor fessis in gramine, quando per aestum  
Membra fovere iwat, molleis per, amoeniter umbras;  
Ille dies longos, longum ipse levaueris aewm,  
Ceu canis Angligenas! leni non murmure riws,  
Non examina apum, florem depasta salicti,  
Sive thymum in pratis, demulcent suaviùs aures;  
Perge bonis avibus, nostrûmque recense triumphos,  
Gestaque Apollineâ citharâ, vel carmine digna,  
Teque trophaea manent, Britonum tua, tuque Britannûm.  
THO. NEWTON.   

Clarissimo Amico suo S. PURCHAS, multisque nominibus colendissimo, G. SLATYER, S.  
SIc ego, sic udis nive concolor ales in herbis,  
Maeandrina sedens propè flumina! qualis Aêdon,  
Amissos lugens foetus; vel candida in agris  
Altera Amymone Phrygijs; ego planctibus auras  
Sic repleam querulis, talis loca, flumina, fonteis!  
Sed quid agam rogitas, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 longè  
Limitibus proprijs semotus & urbe, & amicis?  
Scilicet illud ago, quod Thessala Cynthius olim  
Admeteia inter rura, hortos, pascua, saltus,  
Ad studia & Lyricen intentus fortè, vel artem  
Aesclapij Medicam! mihi sic nihil, omnia curae:  
Ruris honos, Verisque decus, florentia prata,  
Lucida stagna, virensque nemus capiuntur orellis,  
Ac capiunt oculos, menti solatia praestant.  
Saxa inter silicesque, abruptâ in rupe iacentem  
Lata per arua modò, nemorumque virentibus umbris,  
Turturis ad gemitus, Prognes vel A●donis odas,  
Poetices studium illustre, affectusque süaues,  
Quam retinent, mir●que iwant, & pectora mulcent;  
Musica vel quoties modulamina, rustica quamuis,  
Mentis item Medicina meae! memorabilis aevi  
Historia, ac blandis animum sopita susurris,  
Delectat modò! linguarum persepe levarit  
Cura dies longos; quid sancta, quid aurea dictat  
Argiuûm dialectus, Hebraea, Pelasgan sophia!  
Solantur modò Barbaries Corydonia, mecum  
Ruricolûm turmae, dicam turbaene, Agathyrsis  
Herculeis genus asperius; quin dulce meorum  
Quidni mentem etiam moveat, quin saepe moretur  
Visendique tui, desideriumque tuorum:  
Mens amat, alternatque vices! in rure beat●,  
Degere quis nolit foelix? In rure beatus,  
Absque sodalitio dulci, Musûmque sacrato,  
Vivere quî poterit cultor Parnassidos horti●  
Nunc amo, nunc fugio, quid nescio; & an scio coelum  
Mensque hominis, quam paenè capacia neutra quietis;  
Civicus esse velim, nî Civica iura reclament;  
Rusticus; at duros horret mens lenta labores:  
Cum mihi quod Flacco videat evenisse, vel usque,  
Instabilis vocer! ac videam cecinisse quod ille,  
Romae Tibur amo, ventosus, Tibure Romam.  
jam voco foeliceis, vos, qui potiore Quiritûm  
Conditione frui possitis! & urbica statim  
Taedia percensens, mirere, uti protinùs idem  
O me, itidem clamem, foelici sydere natum,  
Vosque aio, contectos Fagi florentibus umbris!  
Re tenui allicier solitos, convictu & amictu,  
Nec gravibus pressos, curisuè ingentibus aegros:  
Sit gravis inque-vicem gratus quasi, Protea agenti,  
Visus uterque status; modò Rus, modò civica damn●.  
judicio meliore tamen, (sed parce labanti  
Seriò sive, ioc●ne foret,) bona qui sua nôrunt,  
Dixerim eos, quocunque statu, quocunque sub axe;  
Vivam igitur quocunque solo; aut ubicunque locorum,  
Dissita quamque locis longè, procul inde remotis,  
Cambria sive tenet, teneant seu Cantia Rura  
Propitiâ bonitate dei, me crede scientem  
Vivere contentumque, illâque ex parte beatum:  
Sic horas fallo, insumo sic temporis annos  
Lusibus ingenij, ingenuis quoque mentibus aptos.  
Fortè equidem dices! Relevaminis etia quaerens,  
Talia sollicitus; nulli ut mea carmina prosint.  
At mihi nempè viden! volat aetas; hinc voco Musas  
Quas vereor venerorque volens, sicque invoco Divas;  
His vitae spatijs & verni temporis aevo  
Florenti stadio: nec me formidine terrent  
Immanes rerum fluctus, quibus astuat ingens  
Haec hominum domus, ac mundi vaesana vorag●;  
Non livor, levis ira, tumens iecur, atraque bilis  
Torquebunt miserum, sapiam modò; sed neque sperem  
Deposuisse, vel antè mea ista cadavera ponam  
Corpus humi moriens, cineres atque ossa sepulchr●:  
Cum nemo his vitijs sine nascitur, optimus ille est  
Quem lacerant minimè, retrahantùe trahantue sequentem.  
Sum vacuus curis, à turbine liber, amoenum  
Rus geniale colo, lustro, lito, laudo Camoenas  
Syluestreis, quod aiunt, & agrestia numina Faunos!  
Me Galathaea, humilis precij redimita corymbris  
Poma, Pyrosque manu, pressique coagula lactis  
Rustica dona ferens! te celsa, superba Amaryllis,  
Regia, diues opum Nympha, auro, alboque orychalco,  
Ceu gemmis Asiae rigens ac dentibus Indis,  
jam tenet, eque tuis antris quasi pumice tectis,  
Cantantem sublimè ferent ad sydera Cygni;  
Iceler, O coelique vias superato supernas!  
Quin simulac nobis illam monstraveris artem,  
Terrasque trastusque, oleoque & lacte fluenteis,  
Vicinas ti●imet sedes! velut ante verendus  
Cygneius cecinit vates; meliora sequendo,  
Qui magis ac tecum, dicam urbicè, an aulicè vivam.   

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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   

This Poem, entitled PALAE-ALBION, is digested into ten several Books or ODES:  
Whereof,  
THe first, Aiming principally at the story of Samothes, and his Race, first Kings of this Island is called— SAMOTHES.  
The second, Showing the descent and coming in of Albion, (that so named the Island;) and his defeat by Hercules: is entitled— ALBION.  
The third, Setting forth the Anarchy or Interregnum of the Giants, that lived here many hundred years before Brute, is thence named— GIGANTES.  
The fourth, Relating Brutus his establishing a Kingdom, and his Race successively Kings after him, is therefore styled— BRUTUS.  
The fifth, (After the surcease of Brutus' issue, in the direct line) bringing in Mulmutius Dunwallo, and his Race, Kings here, is thence called— MV●MVTIV●  
The sixth, Containing Caesar's conquest of the Land with the Romans time of government, is entitled— CAESAR.  
The seventh, Being the coming of Hengist, and seven Kingdoms of the Saxons; is thence named— HENGISTUS.  
The eight, Showing the often rapines of the Danes, with a seeming foundation of a kingdom, by conquest, & a tribute imposed by Sweno; thence called SWANUS.  
The ninth, The story of the Norman conquest and succession of Kings from William the Conqueror: and so styled— GVLIE●MVS.  
The tenth, The Union of the long-divided and dissentious Realms of England and Scotland, under the flourishing and peaceful reign of our now most excellent Prince! and to his honour vowed,— JACOBUS.   

Chronologia brevis ad sequentis Historiae seriem concinnata; & ad ordinem Regum & tempora facili●ùs animo concipienda, apprimè 
No●ae Dila. Ante Chr. 2289.  conducens & necessaria. 
Nohae Dilu. A. M. 1656   


Assyr. Monarch.  
Belus, 
A.M. 1750 poll Diluu●is 100  qui putatur Nimrod,  
Ninus, 1790.  
Semiramis  

A.M. 1840.  Ninias Zamaeis  
Arius  
Arallus  

1948.  Xerxes  
Arma mithres  
Beluchus  
Balaeus  
Sethus  
Mamythus  
Aschalius  
Sphaerus 
2100.   
Mamylus  
Sparethus  
Aschatades 
2200.   
Amyntes  
Belochus  
Lamprides  
Sosares  
Lampraes 
2400.   
Panyas  
Sosarmus  
Mythraeus 
2500.   
Te●tamos  
Teutaeus  
Chalais  
Anabos  
Babyos 
2700.   
Thyraeus  
Dercylus  
●upacines 
2800.   
Laosthenes  
Pyritiades  
Ophrateus  
Epacheres 
3000.   
Acracames  
Tonos Conleros si●e  
Sardanapalus  
Quem Regno privant. 

Apud Assyries.  
Belesus  
Phulus 
3100.   
2. Reg. 15. 29.  
Tiglath. Pileset.  
Reg. 15. 29.  
Salmanassar.  
Apud Medos.  
Arbaces, A. 3077.  
Mandanes  
Sosarmus  
Artycas     

Biblia de Hebraeis.  
Peleg, natus est A M. 1750 post Dilu. 100  
Abram, natus  
A. M. 1948.  
Isaac, natus  
Sem, moritur, 2158.  
jacob & Esau nati, 2108.  
joseph nature.  
Aaron natus, 2370  
Moses natus, 2374  
Exitus ex Aegypto, A. 2452.  
Ingressus Canaan & divisio terrae.  
judices  
Deborah, 161●.  
Gedeon, 2652.  
Samson  
Samuel  
Saul, A. 2880.  
David, 2890.  
Solomon, A. 2930. fundat Templsi. A. 2932.  
Asa, A. 2988.  
Achab.  
Athalia, A. 3063.  
Sanhedrim, sine  
Consistorium judaicum.   

German. Reg.  
Tuisco filius Nohae, A.M. 1787. post Dilu. 131.  
Mannus  
Ingaevon  
Istaevon, & uxor Frea.  
Hermion  
Marsus, ad quem  
Osiris cum Iside ex Aegypto, in Germaniam venit & arteis & agriculturam docuit.  
Gambrivius  
Suews  
Vandalus  
Teuto  
Alman. Q. arm  
Hercules alius sit filij 

Noricus  
H●nnus  
Heluet.  
Boius.    
Bo●us quo tempore duae legiones in  
Asian missae 

Cymbrorun & Amazonum quae Ephesum condebant.    
Ingramus  
Adelherus  
Larrein  
Vlfing, vocatur Ulysses,  
Brenner, quo tempore Amazones ad  
Troiam.  
Hoctar  
Wolfeinus, alias  
Wickinger.  
Eius 3. filij 

Kells,  
Gall,  
Illyr.    
Vnde Celtae  
Galli & Illyrij.  
Homerus, circa An. 3030.  
Carthago condita circa an. 3070.  
Obits Hesiodus sub initium Olympiadum, circa A. 3170.   

Sicyonij R. in Pelo●onneso.  
Agialaeus, A.M. 1860.  
Europa's  
Telchin  
Ayis  
Thelxion  
Aegyrus  
Thurimacus  
Leucippus  
Mesapu●, etc.  
Circa hoc tempus Athenis primum regnat, Cecrops,  
Cranaus. 

Deucalionts' Dilwium.    
Amphictyon  
Ericthonius  
Pandion, pater Progne's & Philomelae.  
Erictheus, pater Orithyiae.  
Cecrops secundus,  
Pandion secundus,  
Aegaeus  
Theseus  
Demophoon  
Oxyntes  
Aphidas, ultimus ex stirpe Ericthei.  
Deinceps Melanthus  
Codrus, & inde  
Archontes.  
K. Tyri Abibelus Hyram  
Baleasar Abdestartus  
Astartuss Ascrimus,  
Pheles.  
Ithobilus, sive Itho. Baal, Achabi socer per filiam jezebel,  
Badezorus  
Matgenus  
Pygmalion a quo Dido fugit, circa An. 3060.  
Esayas floret, circa An. 3180.   

Argivi R.  
Inachus, qui fortè  
Ia●an & iam senex, A.M. 2090.  
Phoroneus  
Apis, qui & Osiris.  
Argus unde Argivi,  
Criasus  
Phorbas  
Triopas  
Phorbas  
Crotopus  
Sthenelas  
Gelanot, quem e regno pellit Danaus.  
Danaus'  
Lynceus  
Abas  
Acrisius  
Sthenelas, cum patre Perseo.  
Euristheus Myce nis translato Regno.  
Atreus & Thyestes  
Plisthenes  
Agamemnon  
Aegyst●s  
Orestes  
Tisamenus & Penthilus Orestae filiji sed desijt Regnum, oh reditum Heraclidarum, qui deinde regnant Lacedaemone duae familiae, Corynthi tertia, circa An. 2850.  
Lycurgus, 2. 3070.  
Olympiades', circa annum 3170.  
Roma condita Olympiade septima.   

Britanni & Angl. R.  
Samothes, vel  
Mesech: ut ve  
〈◊〉. le est, venit ●n I●ropam cum Gomero,  
Tuiscone, vel  
Aschenaz, circ.  
A.M. 1787. post  
Dilwium 131. ante Christum 2158.  
Magus  
Sarron  
Druis  
Bardus  
Longus, &  
Bardus 2. siue potius interregnum ad Albionis & Bergionis tempora.  
Albion & Bergion in Britanniam veniunt.  
Alcides (sorsitan cum matre) in Galliam venit.  
Interregnum aliud.  
Danai Gnatae, &  
Gigantes.  
Brutus in Brit. venit, circa A.M. 8330. a Troiae exci. dio 70.  
Loerinus  
Madanus  
Mempricius  
Ebrankus  
Brutus 2.  
Leilus  
Luarudibrasus,  
B adudus  
Leyrus  
Leyri filiae circa annum 3160.  
Morganus  
Cunedagius  
Rivallo  
Goruntius   

F●es Memorabilio●●s.  
Babel  
Nini●e, &  
Babvion  
conditae.  
Ante annum. 2150.  
〈…〉.  
Sparta condita a Sparto  
Phoronei, vel 〈◊〉 filio.  
Deuca●●n, circa 2440.  
〈◊〉 Regnum Deucer Dardanus Ericthomus. 

Tros Ilus Lanme●ō, 〈◊〉 Priamus, Exitdium Troiae. 

janus'  
Picus  
Faunus  
Hercules  
Cacus  
occidit.  
Latinus  
Aeneas  
Ascanius.      
Syluins Posthum.  
Aeneas Syl●ius  
Latinus Silvius A. 2870.  
Alba Silvius, 292●  
Acpytus  
Syluins  
Calpetus  
Tybermus Syluiu  
Agrippa Silvius  
Alladius  
Auentinus  
Proca  
Amulius,  
Numitor, A 3197  
Romulus & Reniu   


A. M. 3200 ante Ch. 748  Reg. Assyr.  
Senacherib  
Assar. haddon  
Succumbunt  
〈◊〉 Babylon●●s.  
Arkeanos' 
A. M. 3300.   
Reluthus  
jeraedin  
Sao●●ucimus  
Kvn●lladacus  
Nabopollassar  
Nabuchadnezar  
Belsazer  
Nabonedus  
Darius  
Persarum & Medorum Imperium.  
Cyrus, An. 3439.  
Cambyses  
Darius Histaspis  
Xerxes, A. 3405. 
3500.   
Artaxerxes  
Darius Nothus  
Artaxeixes Mnemon  
Artaxer●ex Ochus  
Arses  
Darius  
Codomannus ab Alexandro Victus.  

Graecorum Imperium, A. 3620.  Alexander Magnus, & post eius obitum 4. eius Duces exercitus regnant in Syria, Graecia, Asia, & Aegypto, quorum unus nec infimus in Syria Seleucus.  
Seleucus  
Nicanor  
Antiochus Soter  
Antiochas Theos 
3700.   
Seleucus Callinicus  
Seleucus Ceraumus  
Antiochus Magnus  
Selecucus Philopator  
Antiochus Epiphanes  
E●pator  
Demetrius Soter  
Alexander Veles  
Demetrius Nicanor  
Annochus Eutheus  
Antiochus Sydetes  
Demetrius  
Antiochus Gryphus  
Antiochas Cuyzenus  
Tigranes ob intestina Seleucidarum bella evocatus victor evasirs, sed eo victo, 
3900.  Romani Suriam in Provinciam redegerunt. 
Romanorum Imperium.   
Caesar  
Augustus  
Tiberius  
Caligula  
Claudius 
A. M. 3999 Christ. 52.   
Nero 1. persec.  
Vespasiani duo  
Domitianus 2. persec.  
Nerua  
Traianus 3. persec.  
Adrianus 4. persec.  
Antonini duo 5. persec.  
Commodus  
Severus 6. persecut.  
Caracalla Heliog.  
Severus Max. 
A. C h. 240.  7. persec.  
Gordianus.  
johannes Baptista  
Rex Regum & Saluator Mundi Christus,  
Apostoli & caeteri, Christiani, Antiochiae primum dicti, Act. 11.  
Synodus Apostolorum, A M. 3999. Christi 52.  
Papae, R. Linus, Cletus,  
Clemens, Anacletus, Euaristus, Alex. Sixtus,  
Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius Anicetus, Soter,  
Eleutherius, Victor,  
Zepherinus, Callistus,  
Vrbanus  
Pontanus  
Anteru●  
Fabianus  
Cornelius, & Novatus.   

Babylonij. & Medi.  
Nabonassar  
Nassius  
Porus  
Dalilaeus  
Merodach   

Arbianes  
A. 3235.  
Deioces  
Phraortes siue  
A●tines  
Cyaxartes siue  
Astybaras  
Astvages  
Cyrus, tanden per totam Asiam dominatur,  
A. 3439.   

Biblia Sacra.  
Achas, A. 3206.  
Exechias, A. 3223.  
Manasses  
Circa an. 3230. captivitas perpetua 10. Trib. 2. Reg. 18.  
Amon  
●osias  
Zedechias  
Babylonem abducitur, & Templi excidium, A. 3372.  
Salathiel  
Zorobabel  
Hester, & restauratio Templi, A. 3532.  
Nehemias  
jaddus Pontifex ab Alexandro Magno honorat. A. 3620.  
Hyrcanus'  
judas Macchabaeus A. 3780.  
jonathas  
Simon  
Io. Hyrcanus  
Aristobulus  
Alexander jammaeus  
Alex, Salome.  
Aristobulus Hyrcanus  
Hierosolymae a Pompeio captae: & ille sacerdotium absque  
Regno Hircano restituit.  
Antipater Idumaeus  
Herodes Mag. necat Infants.  
Herod. Antip. occ. joh.  
Herod. Agrip. occ. jac.  
Herodes Agrippa 2. quo Rege Hierosolymarum excidium A. 4010.  
Polycarpus S. johannis Euangelistae  
Discipulus, floret circa Ann. 4120.  
A. Christ 170.  
Irenaeus.   

Germ. R.  
E Seythia aut Oriente  
aiunt circa annum 3490 cum suis copijs, venit ad ostia Rheni  
Marcomyrus ex Antenore  
Troiano oriundus.  
Antenor, ex cuius uxore Cambra dicti Sycambri.  
Priamus  
Helenus  
Diocles  
Helenus  
Basanus  
Clodomirus  
Nicanor  
Marcomirus  
Coldius  
Antenor  
Clodomirus  
Merodacus  
Cassander  
Anthari ●s  
Francus  
Clogio  
Hermerus  
Marcomirus  
Clodomirus  
Antenor  
Ratherius  
Roterodami Conditor.  
Richimerus  
Odemarus  
Marcomirus  
Clodomirus  
Farabertus  
Sunno  
Hildericus.  
Bartberus.   

Britanni.  
Sicilius  
Iago  
Kymarus  
Gorbodugus eius filij mutuis vulneribus confossi, viz.  
Ferrex & Porrex, regnum Britan. in 5. parts divisum, e schismate eruendum Mulmutio reliquerunt.  
Mulmutius, A M. 3507. ante Christum 441.  
Belinus, & Brennus,  
An. 3547. ante Christum 401.  
Gurgustius  
Guithelinus  
Cecilius,  
Kymarus,  
Elaumus  
Morindus  
Gorgonianus & 5. fratres.  
Emerianus, & fex cius fratrum filij.  
Cadelfrs  
Coelus  
Porrex & alij 24.  
Reges, minus celebrati nominis, intra spacium 200 annorum.  
Quorum nomina vix quicquam aliud de iis habetur, adusque Heliam.  
Helva  
Ludus  
Cassibelinus  
Theomantius,  
Cymbelinus  
Guiderins  
Aruiragus  
Marius  
Coilus  
Lucius, first christened K. of this land,  
Papa Eleutherio.  
Severus Rex & Imperat.  
Bassianus  
Carausius.   

R. Romani  
Tatius cum Romulo,  
Nama Pomp. A. 3237.  
Tullus Hostilius, 3280.  
Ancus Martius  
Tarqvinius Priscus  
e ruius Tullus  
Tarqui●ius Super● cum filio Sexto & tota familia & Reges omnino pulfi ob Lucretiae rap. tum.  
consuls primi junius Brutus, & Valerius Poplicola, A. 3443.  
Leges 12. Tabularum,  
De●emuiri, & Censores.  
Roma a Gallis capta, & Camillo liberata A. M. 3562.  
Bellum cum Pyrrho.  
Bellum Punicum.  
Cathago deleta.  
Numantia deleta.  
Bellum 

Dalmaticum,  
jugurthinum,  
Cymbricum,  
Marsicum,  
Mithridaticum,  
Gladiatorum.    
Syria a Pompeio subacta.  
Britannia a Caesare petita.  
Bellú 

Hierosolym.  
Britan.  
Marcoman.  
Sucuicsi, etc.    
Schisma primum Romae,  
inter Papas 

Cornelium, & Novatum, a    
quo Nouatian idicti.   

Res Memorabiliores.  
Nahum Propheta floret.  
Tyrtaeus  
Zaleucus Locrensis Legislator.  
Draco & 7. sapientes A. 3340.  
Anacharsi●  
Phalaris  
Sapph  
Cr●esus  
Daniel  
Pindarus, A. 3470.  
Miltiades  
Malachias  
Esdras  
Thucydides  
Sophocles  
Socrates, A. 3550.  
Aristoteles  
Zeno  
Berosus  
Hannibal  
Plautus  
Ennius  
Carneades  
Terentius  
Cornelius Nepos  
Virgilius, & Horatius, circa annum 3900.  
Tigranes' ob intestina Seleucidarum bella evocatus victor evasirs, sed eo victo, 
3900.  Romani Suriam in Provinciam redegerunt. 
Romanorum Imperium.   
Caesar  
Augustus  
Tiberius  
Caligula  
Claudius 
3947. Christus.   
Nero 1. persec. 
A. M. 3999 Christ. 52.   
Vespasiani duo  
Domitianus 2. persec.  
Nerua  
Traianus 3. persec.  
Adrianus 4. persec.  
Antonini duo 5. persec.  
Commodus  
Severus 6. persecut.  
Caracalla Heliog.  
Severus Max. 
A. Ch. 240.  7. persec.  
Gordianus.  
johannes Baptista  
Rex Regum & Saluator Mundi Christus,  
Apostoli & caeteri, Christiani, Antiochiae primum dicti, Act. 11.  
Synodus Apostolorum, A M. 3999. Christi 52.  
Papae, R. Linus, Cletus,  
Clemens, Anacletus, Euaristus, Alex. Sixtus,  
Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius Anicetus, Soter,  
Eleutherius, Victor.  
Zepherinus, Callistus,  
Vrbanus  
Pontanus  
Anteru●  
Fabianus  
Cornelius, & Novatus.   

Babylony. & Medi.  
Nabonassar  
Nassius  
Porus  
Dalilaeus  
Merodach   

Arbianes  
A. 3235.  
Deioces  
Phraortes siue  
Altines  
Cyaxartes siue  
Astybaras  
Astvages  
Cyrus, tádé per totam Asiam dominatur,  
A. 3439.   

Biblia Sacra.  
Achas, A. 3206.  
Exechias, A. 3223.  
Manasses  
Circa an. 3230. captivitas perpetua 10. Trib. 2. Reg. 18.  
Amon  
●osias  
Zedechias  
Babylonem abducitur, & Tempoli excidium, A. 3372.  
Salathiel  
Zorobabel  
Hester, & restaurantio Templi, A. 3532.  
Nehemias  
jaddus Pontifex ab Alexandro Magno honorat. A. 3620.  
Hyrcanus'  
judas Macchabaeus A. 3780.  
jonathas  
Simon  
10. Hyrcanus  
Aristobulus  
Alexander jammaeus  
Alex, Salome,  
Aristobulus Hurecanus  
Hierosolymae a Pompeio captae: & ille sacerdotium absque  
Regno Hircano restituit.  
Antipater Idumaeus  
Herodes Mag. necat Infants.  
Herod. Antip. occ. joh.  
Herod. Agrip. occ. jac.  
Herodes Agrippa 2. quo Rege Hierosolymarum excidium A. 4010.  
Polycarpus 5. johannis Euangelistae  
Discipulus, floret circa Ann. 4120.  
A. Christ 170.  
Irenaeus.   

Germ. R.  
E Seythia aut Oriente  
Aiunt circa annum 3490 cum suis copijs, venit ad ostia Rheni  
Marcomyrus ex Antcnore  
Troiano oriundus.  
Antenor, ex cuius uxore Cambra dicti Sycambri.  
Priamus  
Helenus  
Diocles  
Helenus  
Basanus  
Clodomirus  
Nicanor  
Marcomirus  
Coldius  
Antenor  
Glodomirus  
Merodacus  
Cassander  
Anthari ●s  
Francus  
Clogio  
Hermerus  
Marcomirus  
Clodomirus  
Antenor  
Ratherius  
Roterodami Conditor.  
Richimerus  
Odemarus  
Marcomirus  
Clodomirus  
Farabertus  
Sunno  
Hildericus  
Bartberus.   

Britanni.  
Sicilius  
Iago  
Kymarus  
Gorbodugus eius filij mutuis vulneribus confossi, viz.  
Ferrex & Portex, regnum Britan. in 5. parts divisum, e schismate eruendum Mulmutio reliquerunt  
Mulmutius, A M. 3507. ante Christú 441.  
Belinus, & Brennus,  
An. 3547. ante Christú 401.  
Gurgustius  
Guthelinus  
Cecilius,  
Kymarus,  
Elaumus  
Morindus  
Gorgonianus & 5. fratres.  
Emerianus, & fex cius fratrú filij.  
Cadelfrs  
Coclus  
Porrex & alij 24.  
Reges, minus celebrati nominis, intra spacium 200 annorum.  
Quorum nomina vix quicquam aliud de iis habetur, adusque Heliam.  
Helva  
Ludus  
Cassibelinus  
Theomantius,  
Cymbelinus  
Guiderins  
Aruiragus  
Marius  
Coilus  
Lucius, first christened K. of this land,  
Papa Eleutherio.  
Severus Rex & Imperat.  
Bassianus  
Carausius.   

R. Romani  
Tatius cum Romulo  
Nama Pomp. A. 3237.  
Tullus Hostilius, 3280.  
Ancus Martius  
Tarqvinius Priscus  
e ruins Tullus  
Tarqvinius Superit cum filio Sexto & tota familia & Reges omnino pulfi ob Lucretiz rap. tum.  
consuls primi junius Brutus, & Valerius Poplicola, A. 3443.  
Leges 12. Tabularum.  
Desemuiri, & Censores.  
Roma a Gallis capta, & Camillo liberata A. M. 3562.  
Bellum cum Pyrrho.  
Bellum Puncium.  
Cathago deleta.  
Numantia deleta.  
Bellum 

Dalmaticum,  
jugurthinum,  
Cymbricum,  
Marsicum,  
Mithridaticú,  
Gladiatorum.    
Syria a Pompeio subacta.  
Britannia a Caesare petita.  
Bellun 

Hierosolym.  
Britan.  
Marcoman.  
Suevieun, etc.    
Schisma primum Romae,  
inter Papas 

Cornelium, & Novatum, a    
quo Nouatian idicti.   

Res Memorabiliores.  
Nahum Propheta florer.  
Tyrtaeus  
Zaleucus Locrensis Legislator.  
Draco & 7. sapiétes A. 3340.  
Anacharsi●  
Phalaris  
Sapph  
Crefus  
Daniel  
Pindarus, A. 3470.  
Miltiades  
Malachias  
Esdras  
Thucydides  
Sophocles  
Socrates, A. 3550.  
Aristoteles  
Zeno  
Berosus  
Hannibal  
Plautus  
Ennius  
Carneades  
Terentius  
Cornelius Nepos  
Virgilius, & Horatius, circa annum 3900.  
T. Livius  
Strabo  
Q. Curtius  
Athenaeus  
Montanistarumh h●refis, circa tempora Imperatoris Antonini Philosophi, irrepsit, A. M, 4110, A. Christi 160  
Herodianus  
Dio Cashus  
Origenes  
Paulus Samosatenus & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 haeretici.   


A.M. 4200. Christ. 252.  Imperatores. & Pontifices.  
Decius. 8. persecutio, Valerianus 9 persec. Gallienus Claudius. Aurelianus Tacitus Probus, Carus, Dioclesian, 10. pers. 
A.M. 4300. Christ. 352.   
Constantinus Magnus pax Ecclesiae datur.  
Divisio Imperij inter Const. M. filios.  
julianus  
jovinianus  
Valent.  
Gratianus.  
Theodosius, & secunda Imperij divisio inter Theodosij filios.  
Valentinianus. 
4400.   
Gothi Rom. Imper. vastant,  
Constantinopoli  
Regnant Leo Thrax  
Zeno, Anastasius,  
justinus, justinianus,  
justinus 
4500. Christ. 552.   
Tiberius  
Mauricius  
Phocas  
Heraclius  
Constantinus  
Heracleonas  
Constans 
4600.   
Constant, Pogonatus,  
justinianus secundus,  
Philippus  
Arthemius  
Anastasius  
Theodosius  
Leo Isaurus  
Constant. Copronymus, 
4700. Christ. 752.   
Leo, Constant.  
Irene, tertia Imperij divisio.  
Carolus Magnus  
Ludovicus Pius  
Lotharius 
4800.   
Lodovicus  
Carolus Caluus  
Lud. Balbus  
Carolus Crassus  
Arnolphus  
Ludovicus  
Conradus  
Henricus Auceps  
Otto Magnus  
Otto secundus 
4900. Christ. 952.   
Otto tertius  
Henricus secundus  
Conradus  
Henricus dictas Niger.  
An. Christi 1040.   

Lucius, Steph, Xistus, Dionysius, Foelix, Eutychianus, Caius, Marcellinus, Marcellus, Eusebius, Melchiades, Sylvester  
Marcus, julius, Liberius Damasus Siricius  
Anast. Innocent. Zosimus, Bonif. Coelestinus Sixtus  
Leo Magnus Hilar●us Simplicius Foelix  
Gelasius Anastasius Symmachus Hormisda  
johan. Faelix,  
Bonif. joh.  
Agapetus, Siluerius, Vigilius, Pelagius, johan. Catellinus, Pelagius, Gregorius, Sabinus, Bonif. duo.  
Deusdedit Bonifacius Honorius, Severinus, johan. Theodorus, Martius Eugenius Vitalianus Adeodatus  
Domnus  
Agatho  
Benedictus  
johan. Conon.  
Sergius, joh. duo. Constan.  
Gregor. duo.  
Zacharias  
Steph. duo. Paulus, Const. Steph.  
Adrianus, Leo 3.  
Steph. Paschal.  
Eugenius, Valent.  
Gregor. Serg. Leo 4.  
Benedict. Nicolaus,  
Hadr. joh.  
Mar. Hadr.  
Steph. Formosus,  
Bonif. Steph.  
Rom. Theod. joh.  
Bened Leo, Christof.  
Serg. Anast. La●do.  
joh Leo, Steph.  
joh. Leo, Steph.  
Mar, Agapetus,  
Io. Leo, Bened.  
Io. Bened. Bonif.  
Bened. Io. Bonif.  
joh. duo. Gregor.  
Sylvester, Io. tres.  
Serg. Bened.  
Io. Bened. sylvest  
Gregor. Clem.  
Damasus, Leo, joh.   

Germ. & Franci K.  
Clodius Gualtherus Dagobertus, Clogio Clodomirus, Gevebaldus,  
Richimerus  
Theodorus  
Clogio Marcomirus, Dagobertus, Genebaldus,  
Pharamuudus, Clodius  
Merovaeus Childeri●us Clodovaeus  
Cloth●rius & filij 4. Cherebertus, Chilpericus Clothar. 2. Dagobertus,  
Clodovaeus  
Childericus & Clotharius  
Maiores  
Domus,  
Pipinus  
Car. Martellus,  
Pipinus qui Rex proclamatur.  
Carolus M.  
Ludovicus  
Car. Calnus  
Lud. Balbus  
Carlomannus,  
Car. Simplex,  
Car. Crassus,  
Lud. Transmarinus,  
Lotharius  
Lodovicus,  
Hugo Capetus, ex stirpe famosa.  
Wittikindi,  
Robertus,  
Henricus.   

Britan. R.  
Alectus Asclepiodatus, Constantius Constantinus M. & eius filij. Et consequenter Imper. Romani Reges Brytanniae, reputatur adusque  
Constant●● 'em T●rannum, & Costantium eius filium, qui a Voitigero.  
A. 447. excisus est: inde  
Vortiger, Hengritus Saxo & eius filij, & successores debellatis Britamnis, in 7. Regnis adusque Egberti tempora, A. 802.  
Ethelbertus Rex Cantij.  
Cherebetti Regis Franciae filiam ux, duxit, & Augustinus eisuperuenit.  
Cadwalladar ultimus Britannorum Rex, circa A. 660.  
Ina Rex West Saxonum, A. 688.  
Eius successor; West Saxo num Rex.  
Egbertus, ante A. 837. omnia 7. Regna Saxonum in Monarchiam reduxit.  
Ethelwolfus  
Ethelbaldus & fratres,  
Edward. signior  
Adelstanus  
Edmondus  
Eldredus  
Edwynus  
Edgar  
Edw. Martyr,  
Ethelredus  
Edmondus  
Canutus  
Haraldus  
Hardicanutus  
Edw. nomine Confessor.  
Harald. a Gulielmo Conquestore obrutus.   

Scot R.  
Quidam a Gathelo Mosis. coaetaneo, & Simon B●echo S●●torum  
Regum seriem deducunt. Nos Polydorum secuti ab hoc solummodo Fergusio didu●imu●.  
Pergusius cum Alarico Gothorum Rege Romam P●ofectus, An. Christ. 410  
Eugenius Fergusius Fugenius  
Dongardus  
Constatinus  
Congallus Goranus Eugen us Conu●allo Amtellus Aidanus  
Chennethus  
Eugenius  
Ferquardus  
Donaldus  
Maldonus  
Eugenij duo  
Ambercletus,  
Eugenius  
Mordacus  
Etsinus  
Eugenius  
Fergusius  
Saluatus  
Achaves  
Conuallus  
Dongallos', Alpinus  
Chennethus  
Donaldus  
Constantinus  
Ethus  
Gregorius  
Donaldus  
Constantinus  
Malcolmus  
Indulphus  
Dufus  
Culenus  
Chenncthus  
Constantinus  
Grimus  
Malcolmus  
Duncanus  
Macbethus   

Hispani. R.  
West 〈◊〉 in Hispania.  
Athanaricus  
Alaricus  
Radagisus Ataul, hus S●gerieus  
The daredus  
Totus●undus  
Alaricus  
Ge●●●a arcus Atha●aricus  
Theod●ginus  
Athanag●ldus  
〈…〉,  
Liwa secundus  
Gaudematus,  
Sis●●●.  
●●●hilla,  
●●senaudus  
〈…〉  
〈…〉 thus,  
Bamba  
E●●igius  
〈◊〉  
〈◊〉  
Rodericus  
Pelagius  
Favila  
Alfonsus' Cathol cousin,  
Froila Veremundus,  
Alphonsus Castus,  
Ranierius  
Alphonsus 3.  
Ordonius  
Ramirus  
Ordonius  
Sanctius  
Ramirus  
Ver●mundus  
Alphonsus  
Veremundus  
Ferdinandus qui Regna Astu●iarum Legionis & Cast●llae ducta Sanctia Alphonsi filia in unum coniungit.   

Res & viri Celebres.  
Porphy●tes  
Manes  
Arius  
〈◊〉  
Athanasius, A Christi 320. floret.  
Concilium 〈…〉 A. Christi 326.  
jamblichus Nazianzeius. Augustinus.  
Concil. Oecum. 

2 Constantinopoli. A. Christ. 381    
〈…〉  
Machom●des 〈…〉  
〈…〉  
Council Oecumen. 6. Constan●●●●. 〈…〉 681.  
Concil. O●cumen. 7. Niceae habitum, A. Christi 787.  
Beda  
Damascenus  
Alcumus  
johannes Scotus  
Hin●marus.  
Concil. Oecumen 8.  
〈…〉  
A Christi 870.  
Theophulactus  
Luitpra●dus  
Rhazes, Medicus,  
Guido A●●tuus  
Haymo  
●ildebrandus postea Papa.   


A. M. 5000 Christ. 1052  Germ. & Romani, Imperatores. Pontifices.  
Henricus qu●● us, An. Christi 1056.  
Henricus quintus,  
Lotharius Saxo,  
Conradus  
F●idericus Barbarossa dictus. 
A. M. 5100. Christ. 1152   
Henricus Asyer  
Otto Quartus  
Fridericus Secundus  
Conradus 
M. 5200.   
Richardus Ang.  
Rodolphus 〈◊〉.  
Adolphus N●●sou  
Albertus Austr.  
Henricus Larzenb.  
Lud. Bavarus  
Carolus Quartus 
5300. Christ. 135.   
Wenceslaus  
Rupertus  
Sigismondus  
Albertus  
Fridericus 
5400.   
Maximilianus  
An. Christi 1●93.  
Carolus Quintus  
An. Christi 1517.  
Ferdinandus 
A. M. 5500. Christ. 1552   
Maximilianus  
Kodolphus  
Mathias  
Ferdivandus  
An. 1619.   

Romani, Pontifices.  
Victor. Steph.  
Nieol Alex. Honor.  
Hildebr, sive Greg. 7.  
Victor. Vrban.  
Paschalis, Gelas.  
Call. Honor. Innoc.  
Coelestinus, Lucius,  
Engenius,  
Anast, Hadr.  
Alex. Lucius,  
Vib. Gregor. Clem.  
Coelestinus,  
Innoc. Honorius,  
Gregor. Coelestinus,  
Innocentius,  
Alex. Vrban.  
Clem. Gregorius,  
Innoc Adrian.  
Io. Nicol. Mart.  
Honor. Nicolaus,  
Coelest. Bonif.  
Benedict. Clem. Io.  
Nicol. Bened. Clem.  
Innoc. Vrban.  
Gregor. Vrban.  
Bonif Innoc.  
Gregor. joh.  
Mar Eugenius,  
Nicolaus,  
Calixtus. Pius 2.  

5400  (d ctus antè Aencas Suluius.) Paulus,  
Xistus, Innoc.  
Alex. Pius,  
julius, Leo,  
Adr. Paulus,  
julius,  
Marcellus, Paulus 4.  
Pius 4. Pius 5.  
Gregor. 13. Xistus 5.  
Vrban. 7. Gregor. 14.  
Innoc. 9 Clem. 8.  
Leo 11. Paulus 5.   

Franci R.  
Philippus  
Ludonicus  
Philippus  
Ludonicus  
Philip.  
Ludou.  
Ludovicus qui & sanctus.  
Philip. Audax  
Philip. Pulcher  
Lud. 10.  
Philip. Longus  
Philippus Valesius  
johannes  
Carolus 5.  
Carolus 6.  
Carolus 7.  
Ludou. 11.  
Carolus 8.  
Lud. 12.  
Franciscus  
Henricus  
Franciscus 2.  
Carolus 9  
Henr. 3.  
Henr. 4. dictus Navarraeus.   

Angli R.  
Gu●ielmus conquaestor 1066.  
Guliel Rufus  
Henr. 1.  
Stephanus  
Henr. 2.  
Richardus  
johannes  
Henr. 3.  
Eduard. 1.  
Eduard. 2.  
Eduard. 3.  
〈◊〉 Gallias vic●●.  
Richard. 2.  
Henr. 4.  
Henr. 5.  
Henr. 6.  
Eduard. 4.  
Eduard. 5.  
Richard. 3.  
Henr 7.  
Henr. 8.  
Eduard. 6.  
Maria  
Elizabetha an. 1558.   

Scot R.  
Malcolmus  
Duncanus  
Donaldus  
Edgar  
Alexan.  
David  
Malcolm.  
Gulielmus  
Alex. 2.  
Alex. 3.  
Io. Baliolus  
Rob. Bru●sins  
Edu. Baliolus  
David Brusius  
Robertus 1  
Rob. 2.  
Rob. 3.  
jacobus 1.  
jacobus 2.  
jacobus 3.  
jacobus 4.  
jacobus 5.  
Maria  
jacobus 6. in Scotia: & idem  
jacobus 1. in Magna Brytannia.   

Hispani. R.  
Sanctius  
Alfonsus  
Alfonsus 7.  
Alfonsus' 8.  
five bonus.  
Sanctius  
Ferdinand.  
Alfonsus' 9  
Henr. 1.  
Ferd. 3.  
Alfonsus' Astronomus.  
Sanctius  
Ferdin. 4.  
Alfons. 11.  
Petrus  
Henr. 2.  
johan. 1.  
Henr. 3.  
johan. 2.  
Henr. 4.  
Ferdin. 5.  
Philippus  
Carolus 5.  
Philip. 3.  
Philip. 3.   

Res & viti insigni●ret.  
Lanfrancus  
Haymo  
Bernardus  
Reges Hierosolymitani Christiani, anno Christi 1100.  
Gratianus  
Lombardus  
Primislaus, Rex primus Boemiae, circa annum Christi 1100.  
Bonaventura  
Thomas Aquinas  
Scotus.  
Ottoman primus, anno Christi 1299.  
Bartolus  
Frosardus  
joh. Hus  
Tamerlanes'  
Trape●untius  
Sclopparum & Artis Typographica inventio, circa ann. 14●0.  
Anno Christi 1453 Constantinopolis a Turcis capta.  
Lutherus  
Erasmus  
Zanchius  
Bellarminus  
Baronius  
Sealiger  
Lipsius.    
jam florent, Regnant ANNO Mundi 5568. ANNO Gratiae 1619. & Olympiadis 597. 1.