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DIEV ET MON DROIT  
HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE    

THE GREAT PLANTAGENET. OR A CONTINUED SVCCESsion of that Royal Name, from HENRY the Second, to our Sacred Sovereign King CHARLES. BY GEO. BUCK, Gent.  Quod maximum et optimum esse dicitur, oportet esse unum. Ex Arist. Top. lib. 7. 
LONDON: Printed by Nicholas and john Okes. Anno Domini 1635.   

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir JOHN FINCH, Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas, etc.  
SIR  
AS You draw your Eye from the Title, I must crave pardon to meet your Lordship's Expectation; and confess, in these Papers I have but practised like a young Limbner, wiped away the dust from some Antiquities, and by them drawn these proportions; which are done (too) but imagine luscae, and not to the full portraiture of that Imperial greatness: Nor have I strained my Fancy in high shadows, for (in things of this Nature) I would be industrious, not affected. There wants nothing in the Subject to make an Historian and a Poet. And had these Intentions met anabler Pen, they might (with some desert of Pardon) have been admitted the intermission of your Lordships more serious Hours: I have nothing to excuse me but my Zeal, which in the throng of those that Honour and admire You, presses thus near the influence of your great Virtue, humbly prostrating these poor endeavours, and the duty of  
Your most humble and unfeigned honourer, George Buck.   

To his noble Friend Master GEORGE BUCK upon his Poesy.  
Noble Friend,  

THou needest no attributes unto thy Muse,  
He that shall be thy Reader, and peruse  
Thy learned Endeavours, must with me confess,  
That thy own Pen doth best thyself express:  
Thou art above the vulgar height, or hate,  
That thus, the Acts of Kings can vindicate.   
O. ROURKE.   

To his honoured Friend George Buck on this his Revival of the Royall-Name of the PLANTAGENETS.  

KIngs are above their Fates, and glorious live,  
Though laid in Dust, by the prerogative  
They have o'er Fame: but this Religious debt  
Due to the Name of Great Plantagenet,  
So long uncanceled lay, we did distrust  
Their Names would be more buried than their Dust:  
Till some rich Mercy thy learned Quill did woo,  
To pay this Debt which none but it could do.  
And now so clear discharged, again their Name  
Is borne in Triumph on the wings of Fame,  
And to the deeds to which their life did climb,  
They now in Dust have learned to conquer Time:  
For this their Royal gratitude returns  
To thee the Laurels which now crown their Urns.  
Who would not wish this Wreath his own, which springs  
jointly bequeathed thee from so many Kings?   
Robert Codrington.   

To his deserving Friend Master George Buc.  

GEorge, in thy dear name (methinks) I apprehend,  
That Virtue, which did swear me first thy friend;  
And did not still thy constant soul retain  
That worth entire, I would e'en here restrain  
My Pen; for 'tis not as some may think (perchance  
That knows not thee) my doting Ignorance.  
But so much truth as tells me, He that can  
But imitate thee, is a happy man:  
And did the World but know thee half so well  
As I, it would be thought no flattery to tell,  
How high and nobly, Wit and Judgement flows  
In thy clear Soul, without vain glorious shows!  
Let others boast how much their sportive wit  
Doth please this Madam, or with that commit,  
When female hands interrs their withered Bays,  
Thy Genest shall grow green, and crown thy praise.   
George Bradley.   

The Preface, or Argument of this POESY.  
DAmaetas having long been a Woodman, and observed the Natures and Properties of many Trees, apprehended some Mystery and peculiar matter in the Genest, more than he could attain to, and meeting with Silenus, a man of great Learning and Authority, (for he was held a Prophet) exposeth to him his Conceit: Silenus by means of a late accident, was well able to instruct and resolve him: For there had been a complaint made lately to Apollo, against certain unworthy fellows, which presumptuously took Garlands off his ancient Tree the Laurel. He forthwith calling the Muses to Council in Helicon, established Ordinances for the due wearing of that, and all other Garlands: And because the ancient Garlands were abused and prophained with common and unworthy use, he made choice of a new Tree, (viz.) the Genest; and instituted Garlands thereof, giving them prerogatives above the rest, and appropriated them to one imperial Family, seated in 
* Britania or Albion rather; vide Stanz. 13, and is taken out of Orpheus in his Argonaunt, where Master Camden rather readeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Albion, or Alba, rather than Pinaria.  Leucëëssa; with express defence, that none else should wear them; that not all the Princes of this Family should wear Garlands hereof: but some a Chaplet, and some only a branch, or Plant; the complete Garland reserved for his favourite 
* Sub Daphnis quod nomen in hac Ecloga datus S.R. Carolo, sicut Julio Caesari olim in Ecloga 5. Virg. à Pastoribus.  Daphnis. After Silenus declareth more particularly, who, and what these royal Worthies were.  
Beginning with the great Henry, son of the Empress Matilda, (the first King of this Island, surnamed 
* Plantagenet from Planta-Genistae, so called (as some say) for wearing a slip or stalk of broom in his cap or hat, who writ that toward his latter days in penance & contrition for his past sins, he undertook to go to the Holy Sepulchre, in the poor and despised habit of a Broom-man, and to signify himself so, bore a broom-stalk in his cap: as I have read of other Princes, who in great penitece & humbleness for their sins, & for their better privacy & security, have travailed thither like Carpenter's Joiner's, & other poor mechanic Tradesmen, wearing in the same kind somebadge of the trade they seemed to profess. Others say, it was because he scourged himself with the stalks of broom, which grew upon the Plains where once the holy City stood: But I shall express this occasion more amply in another place. He was also surnamed Courtmantle.  Plantagenet) and so deducing a genealogy from him, through his Royal posterity, to our present Sacred Sovereign Charles, his now Heir, whom he Crowneth with this Polyanthine Garland, etc. In whose Sacred Person are jointly met and coalesced, the Royal bloods, Titles, and Interests not only of great Britain, but also of France, and Ireland. For Scotland, the Crown and Sceptre thereof, (missa per innumeros avos) all men acknowledge his ancient right therein. And his Majesty's Title to Ireland, will be manifest in the Genealogy herein deduced from the Great Plantagenet King Henry the second, the first English Prince of 
* Lionel Planta Duke of Clarence, 3 Son of K. Edw. 3. married Eliz. Daughter and Heir of Will. Mure-Burk. Earl of Ulster, Lord of Conacht, from whom the Dukes of York are descended. Camden in Hiber.  Ireland, and from his Heroical posterity, (as well Marches as others) who have been continually seized thereof until this day. 
* His Majesty's Title to France, see it more at large in the Argument.  So likewise his title to the crown of France, showeth itself clearly, in the ancient possessions of these royal Plantagenets here presented. His Majesty's Progenitors first Dukes of Normandy, then of Aquitaine; Earls of Poictou, of Anjou, of Maine, of Touraine, and of Britain; and after Angolesme, and lastly Kings of all France, in the right of 
† Vide john Froissard Tom. 3.  Isabella, or Elizabeth, sole Daughter, and Heir of Philip le bell, King of France, Mother of King Edward the third, who made a most renowned and happy entry upon that his Royal inheritance: And he, his great Heirs were not only Titular Lords, but also Actual possessors of France many years; and yet to this day (in token of that ancient right) have seisin of a 
* Gersey, Gernesey, Alderney, etc. are parcels of Normandy, & so consequently of France; yet possessed by the King of England.  part of that Kingdom, notwithstanding that counterfeit-heathnish law Salica, maintained by all the power of France many ages against them.  
His Majesty's title and descent from the ancient Kings of Great Britain, (and which is least known) may thus readily be derived. 
* His Majesty's Title from the British Kings.  The Welsh Bards, as also our best Heralds, Record that 
(1) Ruffian.  Rhese-ap-Gruffith (surnamed Argluid) Prince of South-Wales, about the year of our Lord 1196, (and issued from Cadwallader, the last British King) had a Daughter named 
(2) Fair julian.  Gwenlhiam, married to 
(3) Edmund.  Ednevet Vachan, Lord of Bransencle, and chief Justice of Wales, and bare to him a son called 
(4) Geryon, or Jeronim.  Grono, this Grono had 
(5) Theodore.  Tedor, Tedor had Grono, Grono had Tedor, Tedor had 
(6) Veridik.  Meredith, Meredith had Owen; which Owen married Katherine, (Widow of King Henry 5, and Daughter of the French King Charles the sixth) by whom he had Edmond, created Earl of Richmont, by King Hen. 6. his Brother Vterine: And this Edmond was father of King Hen. 7, who was Father of Queen Margaret his Majesty's great Grandmother.  
And lastly, to finish his Majesty's Titles to all those Diadems mentioned in this Poesy, 
His Majesty's title from the Saxon Kings.  I have inserted a Genealogy of the Saxon Kings, drawn from the first uniter of the Heptarchy, and the Godfather of Anglia King Egbert, unto Matilda the Empress, Daughter and Heir of King Hen. 2. Ancestor of all the English Kings until this day, from whom this Poesy is a continued Pedigree unto his Majesty, and his most excellent Son, etc.  
But it may be objected, why I derive not his Title and Genealogy from some of the ancient Monarches of this Isle Britons, or Saxons, or at the least from K. William the Conqueror, I must answer, that to have chosen any of the most ancient Kings, I must have looked so fare back as I should not only have been too tedious, but also lost myself in obscure ways, (as they know, which know what our ancient Stories be. But as for William the Conqueror, there be many reasons why I should not begin with him; (although I go as near him as his Son's Daughter) for first he was a Bastard, 
Vide Lib. 5. Stephani Cadomensis de Gulielmo Conquestore editum, An. Dom. 1603.  and yet not that of the blood Royal of England) his chief Title to the Crown, being but violence, and his Sword, as he confessed with remorse of conscience, at his Death. Secondly, he was never possessed of one half of Britain; for he had neither Scotland, nor Wales, and in Ireland not one foot. Furthermore Girard Du. Haillan, and other French Antiquaries according to their Salic Heraldry, say that his line ended in his Son King Hen. 1. 
Philosalicus.  for all they hold as a Maxim (La famille se cotinuè es masles, et se finist aux filles) and yet Du. Haillan (notwithstanding or forgetting this) affirmeth in another place: that the race of the Kings of England, issued out of the house of Anjou, (viz.) from our great Henry, and his ancestors, continueth until this day; from whom there be many reasons on the other side, why I should deduce the Genealogies of our Kings passed, 
K. Henry 2. the greatest King, etc.  and of our present Sovereign Lord King Charles: for this great Henry was not only rightful Heir and King of England, but also the greatest King (of whom there is any credible Story extant) which hath been in this Isle of Britain, since the time of the Roman Emperors, (who were reputed Lords of all the World) which thus I demonstrate briefly. He was King of England in the right of his Mother Matilda, 
King Malcolm Knighted this King Henry 2. at 15. years of age. Neubrig who writeth much in the honour of this K. Malcolm, lib. 2. Cap. 20.  the Empress, Daughter and Heir to King Henry the first by Matilda Bona, Daughter of King Malcolm Canmoir, and of Margaret his wife, who was the Daughter of Edward Exul, the Saxon Prince, the Son of Edmund Ironside, King of England, Anno Dom. 1016. This Edmund was Son and Heir to King Etheldred, who in ancient Charters is written Totius Britanniae Rex, (quod nota) because an Anonymus in a little book dedicated to King james, affirmeth that never any Prince was King of this whole Isle until then; but he is deceived; (for besides Constantius Chlorus and his Son our Countryman, Constantine the great, Constans, Aurelius Ambrose, Uter, and others; (which were Lords of all great Britain) Edgar also, the Father of this King Etheldred, was absolute Monarch of this Island, and so puissant in forces both by Land and Sea, as he was surnamed the Great, and was styled Totius Albionis Basileus, & Anglici Orbis Basileus, (as G. Malmsburiensis & Florentius Wigorniensis witness: 
Britaria ab adventu Saxonum in insulam appellatur Anglica, joan. Salisb. in Policratico.  Whereupon (to note also by the way) some think that the word Anglia was sometimes used for the whole Isle, and which jon Lidgate disertly assevereth in King Arthur's complaint, in these words: Great Britain now called England; and so likewise doth Geoffry Chaucer in the Franklins' tale, viz. 
Ranulfus Higeden in Polichronic.  in England, that cleped was Britain, and Ranulphus Cestrensis, a graver Author, peremptorily affirmeth, that King Egbert after his Conquests ordained, and commanded that the Saxons and jutes should be called Angles, and this Britain should be called England; but I leave this to be discussed by Antiquaries.  
And to return to the ancient Saxon Kings Progenitors of this Henry, and also possessors of the whole Isle, it is to be showed (for the better confirmation of that, which hath been said against the opinion of the Anonymus) in diverse ancient Records, and Charters of Donations of these Kings to Monasteries, and to Cathedral Churches, 
Ex archiv is Ciscestrensis Ecclesiae.  and in other ancient Monuments in these styles: 
* Ephoca.  Ego Athelstanus Rex Anglorum Dominicae Incarnationis, DCCCCXXX. Regni verò mihi gratis Commissi vj. Indictione iij. 
* Ephoca.  Epacta xviij. Concurrente iiij. Nonis Mensis Aprilis iij. Lunae rotigerae vagationis, i. per ejusdem omni-patrantis dextram totius Britanniae regium solio sublimatus, etc. Ego Edmundus Rex Anglorum, caeterarumquègentium in circuitu persistentium Gubernator & Rector Anno Domini 945. Ego Edredus, 
King Edred was Uncle to Edgar Ingulf,  Rex terrenus sub Imperiali potentia Regis saeculorum, aeterniquè Principis, magnae Britaniae, temporale gerens imperium, etc. Anno Domini 148. Ego Edgarus totius Albionis Monarcha, etc. An. Dom. 966. and in another; Ego Edgarus totius Albionis, finiti-morumque regnum Basileus, An. Domini 974. These three last styles hath Ingulfus Abbot of Croyland transcribed by him, from the Charters of the Monastery: and the other two before going, are copied out of the Records of Chichester Cathedral Church, as also these three next following.  
Ego Eadwis Basileon totius Albionis, 
If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, sub. Rex. This Edwis, or Edwin was eldest Brother to the great K. Eadger. Asser in Histo. de Gestis Ealfridi.  etc. Anno Domini Dcccc. Luj. Imperij antem i. And in another place; Ego Edwin Rex gentium Albionis, etc. And in the date of a Charter of Bishop Brighthelmus Anno secundo imperij Edwin totius Albionis Insulae imperantis; there is also (in Asser Menevensis) Aelured, or Aelfred a more ancient Saxon King than these written: Omnium Britanium Insulae Christianorum Rector, An. Dom. 872.  
And Edward (surnamed Pius and Confessor) was from the year of our Lord 1050. King of this whole Isle, (if there be any credit to be given to our Stories) & was styled Rex Albionis, 
Io. Twinus in Albionicis.  as john Twin avoweth out of his Charters given to the Abbey of Abington; and that same King Etheldred before cited, was styled in the Charters of Glastonbury, Etheldred Anglicae nationis, caeterarumque gentium triniatim intra ambitum Britan. Insulae degentium, etc. Basileus, and another King in old inscription Britinniae Anax; and many such more which were too long to recite. And some Kings of the Norman race, (which is more rare) have been so styled: For the Lord Bishop of Bristol voucheth a Coin of King john, wherein is stamped joannes, 
In his Treatise about the Union.  Rex Britonum: But his Grandchild K. Edward 1. and after him K. Edw. 3, 
Vide Th. Walsingham in K. Edw. 1. & in Ed. 3.  were greater Monarches here then he. But this great Henry Plantagenets Empire extended beyond the bounds of the Britanish world; and his greatness so fare exceeded all other Kings his Ancestors, that he was styled Maximus Britaniae Regum, as I will show by and by, and by good right, 
Jo. Praesul Carnotensis in Policratico.  for besides this his great Britain and Ireland, he was possessed of a great part of France by these Titles: He was Duke of Normandy, by right of Inheritance from his Grandfather King Henry 1, 
K. Edw. 3. erected Aquitaine into a Princedom for his eldest son Ed.  Duke of Normandy, etc. He was Duke of Aquitain, (that is) Gascoine, and Given, (sometimes a iKngdome) and Earl of Poictou by the marriage of Queen Elinor, Daughter and Heir of William Duke of Aquitaine, 
Jean de la Hay.  and Earl of Poictou, (whose wife jeanne was daughter of David, King of Scots. He was Earl of Anjou, (Seminary of Kings) of Touraine and Maine, (his native Country) by right of inheritance from his Father Geoffry le Bel, Earl of them all: He swayed in little Britain, which authority he acquired partly by the Marriage of Const. daughter and heir of Conan, Earl of Brita. with his third son Geoffry, Earl of Richmond, but chief by his Sword; as it appeareth by Gu. 
Lib. 11. Cap. 18.  Neuburgensis, who then lived, and thus writeth; Come a potentioribus in Britania inferiores premerentur, Regis Anglorum auxilium expetentes, ejus se ditioni spontanè subdiderunt, etc. ipsosque potentes viribus subegit, sicque in brevi tot a Britania potitus est. He also conquered Awergne. For Ireland, he twice invaded that kingdom, and by Arms seconded with Letters of favour of his good Friend Pope Adrian, (an Englishman) he brought the discording Princes there, 
Girald Cambr. in Hibern. expugnata, & G. Canden.  to submit their differences and their Titles to him, and so obtained the possession of the Isle.  
As for those parts and parties in this our Great Britain, viz. of England, Scotland, and Wales, which did not acknowledge his Sovereignty) he reduced them in good time, to the ancient subjection and obedience which they owed to the British and Saxon Kings, his Progenitors. The Welshmen in their Stories acknowledge this; but for the other, (if any doubt be made) G. Neuburgensis (veridicus Author, as Polidore Virgil observeth him) will thus satisfy him, speaking of this King Henry, and of David K. of Scots, his prisoner, being then both at York, Occurrit ei Rex Scotorum cum universis Regni nobilibus, qui omnes in Ecclesia beatissimi Apostolorum Principis, Regi Angliae, tanquam principal Domino hominum cum Ligeantia, (id est) solemni cautione standi cum eo, & pro eo contra omnes homines (Rege proprio praecipiente) fecerunt; ipse quoquè Rex Scotorum coram universa multitudine nobilium utriusquè regni Regem Anglorem modis solemnibus Dominum suum, seque hominem & fidelem eius declaravit, eiquè tria praecipua regni sui munimina (scilicèt) Rokesburke, Berwick, & Castellum puellarum loco obsidum tradidit, etc. But john Bishop of Chartres, maketh his Empire yet much greater, 
Jo Bish. Carnotensis in Policratico.  for he boundeth it to the Southward with Spain, and to the Northward with the Isle of Orkney, and might as well (if it had pleased him) with the North-Pole (as Giraldus Cambrensis did) and then styleth him maximum Britaniae Regum, and goeth further, and compareth him to Alexander, and ascribeth (as some interpret) the first discovery of the West-Indies, (which was made by Madok a younger son of Owin Gwineth, 
D. powel.  Prince of North-Wales, An. Dom. 1170.) to this King, because it was done by his auspexes: as we may as well also attribute to him the redeeming of our great Arthur from the injurious imputation of a fabulous Heros, because he caused his Monument to be sought out, (which was sunk deep into the ground in the Isle of Aualon) by the occasion of a Bards song, 
D. powel in the Hist. of the Princes of Wales.  which he heard in Pembroke: but I will set down Gyraldus his own words, written in manner of a Panegyric, to this King elegant enough for those times: 
Sil. Giraldus in Tepographia Hiberniae, Cap. 47. & 48. distinct. 3.  Certant cum orbe terrarum victoriae vestrae; à Pyrenaeis enim montibus usque in occiduos, & extremos Borealis Oceani fines Alexander noster occidentalis brachium extendisti. Quantum igitur his in partibus natura terras, tantum & victorias extulisti, si excursuum tuorum metae quaerantur, prius deerit Orbis quàm aderit finis. Animoso enim pectori cessare possunt terrae, cessare nesciunt victoriae, non deessse poterunt triumphi, sed materia triumphandi. Qualiter titulis vestris & triumphis Hibernicus accesserit Orbis? Quantâ & quàm laudabili virtute Oceani secreta, & occulta Naturae deposita transpenetraveris, etc. Qualiter fulguranti adventus vestri lumine attoniti occidentales reguli tanquam ad lucubrum aviculae ad vestrum statim imperium couvolaverunt. And much more, 
Jo. Salisbur. in Policratico. lib. 8. cap. 24.  which for brevity I omit: That which the Bishop of Chartres writeth of him before mentioned, and promised, is this; Rex illustris Anglorum Hen. secundus Regum Britaniae maximus, etc. circa Garumnam fulminat, & Tolosam faelici (cingens obsidione, non modo provinciales, usquè ad Rhodanum, & Alps territat, sed munitionibus dirutis populisquè 
* Profligatis.  subactis, (quasi universis praesens immineat) timore Principes concussit Hispanos & Gallos'. And to these add only William Neuburoughs Elegy for a Corollary. 
G. Neubourgh Lib. 11.   
Regis supra omnes, qui unquam hactenus in Anglia regnasse noscebantur, latius dominantis, (hoc est) ab ultimis Scotiae finibus ad montes usque Pyrenaeos, nomen in cunctis Regionibus celebre habebatur, etc. hunc finem habuit inclytus ille Rex Henricus 2. inter Reges terrarum nominatissimus, & nulli eorum, vel amplitudine opum, vel faelicitate successuum secundus. Thus much for the testimony of the greatness of his conquests, and of his Empire: as for his other greatness, his Wisdom, Justice, Magnanimity, Bounty, and other Heroical Virtues, I shall not need to produce any proof; for his wise and politic administration of his great affairs and estate, his Victories and high atchivements secretly intimate them at the full. 
Gyral. Cambr.  He was also well learned, as Giraldus affirmeth, and which was his best praise, he was very charitable and pious (incomparabilis Eleëmosynarum largitor, et praecipuus terrae Palestinae sustentator) And Radulph de Diceto writeth, that in the time of an extreme dearth in Anjou and Maine, he relieved with bread, 
An. Domini 1176.  ten thousand people daily, from April till harvest: And William of Newburrough addeth, that he received with great devotion the Character of the sacred Militia for the recovery of the holy land. And afterward (because he was not able to go by reason of infirmities, and for the great dangers wherein his estate should stand in his absence, which Giraldus showeth, he gave towards the expedition the sum of 47. 
Jo. Stoan annal.  M. l. or thereabouts. jean de la Hay also writeth that he built S. Andrew's in Bourdeaux, and St. Peter's in Poitiers, and founded a Bishop's sea there, and enlarged the Town by the one half; 
Fabian.  he re-edified the Abbey at Waltham in Essex, and the Charter house of Witham in Wiltshire; 
He loved hunting and hawking exceedingly. Giral. he first kept Lions & made of the arms of Normandy viz. the 2 Leopards, and of the single Lion of Aquitaine one Coat of arms for England: as it is yet borne: Nic. Vpton. John Carnoten: Lib. 16. Cap. 18.  he repaired and much beautified the Monastery of Font Everard (or Fronteaux) near Ogle in Normandy and founded the Priories of Staneley, and of Dover: He also began the stone work of London bridge, which was finished by his son King john, (or caused to be finished) for it is all one to a common wealth; and he instituted the circuit of the judges, and not to be tedious in the enumeration of such particulars, in a word, he was as john Carnotensis who knew him well: testifieth, Rex optimus apud Britanias, Normanorum et Aquitanorum Dux faelicissimus, et primus tam amplitudine rerum, quam splendore virtutum, quam strenuus quam magnificus, quam prudens, et modestus quam pius ab ipsa, (ut ita dicam) infantia fuerit, nec ipse livor silere, nec dissimulare potest: cum opera recentia, et manifesta sint, etc. And after these his great works, his high Achievements, his victories, Trophies of his Heroical and Christian virtues, a long and happy Reign, he departed at Chinon in Touraine, the 35 year of his reign, and the 61 year of his age, An. Dom. 1189. and was with all due funeral Interred at Frontevaux, and upon his Tomb had this inscription engraven.  
Sufficit hic tumulus cui non suffecerat orbis,  
Res brevis ampla satis, cui fuit ampla brevis.  
Rex invictus eram, mihi plurima regna subegi,  
Multiplicique modo duxque, comesque fui.  
Cui satis ad votum fuerant haud omnia terra  
Climata, terra modo sufficit octo pedum.  
Qui legis haec, pensa discrimina mortis, et in me  
Humanae speculum conditionis habe;  
Quod potes instanter operare bonum, quia mundus  
Transit, & incautos Mors inopinarapit.  
Thus this great Henry left his great name, and his glory to the world, and his Kingdoms and his Dominions to his posterity, the Princes aranged in this following Poesy.   

AN ECLOG BETWEEN DAMAETAS a Woodman, and SILENUS a Prophet of the Shepherds.  
Written by Geo. Buck Gent.  
Published by Authority.  
LONDON: Printed by Nicholas and Io. Okes. Anno Dom. 1635.   

AN ECLOG BETWEEN DAMAETAS and SILENUS.  

STANZ. 1.  
OF all the Trees in heavenly Silvans guard, 
The ancient wise men of Britain were called Bardi, Diodor. Sic.   
(Wherewith the worthiest brows were crowned of yore)  
There is but one, or few, (oh reverend Barde)  
In whose peculiar Virtues my desire  
Hath studied much, and observed more:  
But chief I the Genest do admire,  
Whose humble Highness makes me oft surmise  
That lowly steps be ladders to the Skies. 
Humilitas scala coeli, Bernard.    

2.  
Her gentle nature doth not climb to dwell  
In proudest soil, nor tops of mountains hie,  
By that she shows, that she forseeth well  
The perils which do all extremes impend: 
Flexit Pinum ferox astris minantem, & de nube media vocat: Seneca.   
Th'aspiring Pine (whose top does threat the sky)  
Divine revenge doth headlong oft down send,  
When this is safe upon her humble hill,  
Not thrall to any proud superiors will.   

3.  
The Cedars tremble when th'enraged winds blow,  
Which shake not her: such peace & safety lies  
In sweet Humility: yet she will gently bow  
To pliant hands, which shows some hid effects  
And parts of man, 
Genuum doloribus medetur; hinc Genista dicta Fuchsius.  that duty only ties  
To bow to Kings, and pay their due respects.  
Oh just Deserts, who can so well deserve  
For to command, as one that knows to serve.   

4.  
Besides, the Genest doth by nature hold  
A special honour of eternal Greene:  
Her verdant boughs being charged with flowers of gold,  
And many secret gifts and graces more,  
Which vulgar observation hath not feene,  
In which your skill and knowledge I implore;  
And what those flowers be, the God of light  
Hath made a Wreath of for his Favourite.   Silenus. 

5.  
What I do know I will impart to thee,  
And happily perhaps, thou hast referred  
The satisfaction of thy thoughts to me:  
For why, this thing was argued long agone  
In Helicon, and I myself it heard,  
Where Phoebus' ' midst the Muses on his throne  
Established by those sacred maid's advice,  
What Garlands should be each achievements price.   

6.  
The question grew because Apollo, he  
Preferred complaint against such as presumed  
To wear a 
* The Italian, French, and Spaniard write the first syllable of garland with an I. & that is nearest to the Etymology of Guir and Dalen i green leaves in British.  garland of his holy tree,  
Without desert, or special grace divine:  
Apollo was much moved, and chafed and fumed,  
And so did call a council with the Nine,  
And when he had a leaf of Laurel eat, 
Hinc vates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 olim dicti Lycophron ap. Caelium Rodig.   
With Delphic brows thus did his mind-repeat.   

7.  
The Laurel crown was given and shall be still  
To peerless men, to Clerks and Emperors, 
The Laurel garl. Plin. L. 15   
And such as by their learned Art, and skill,  
Can of my favours make their vaunts at large:  
And then this long enduring Palm of yours  
Was due my sisters (and my sacred charge)  
To such as worthily to gain the price, 
The Palm garl. A. Gell. Lib. 3.   
Had suffered watching, famine, fire and Ice.   

8.  
And he which had with valiant hand preserved  
A Citizen, received a crown of Oak:  
But he a wreath of Olive leaves deserved 
The Oaken garl. Gell. Lib. 5. The Olive garl. Gell. et Textor.   
Who had with Art, and pleas of peace beguiled  
The bitter times, which discord had forespoke,  
Or else some dangerous foe had reconciled:  
And he who long had flamed in true love's fire, 
The Myrtle garl. Virgil et Ovid   
Received a crown of Myrtle for his hire.   

9  
I mean whose amorous flame is fed by grace  
And love of her, who doth his love persever:  
He whose firm vows & service takes no place  
Where he affects, must bitter Willow wear: 
The Willow garland authorized by Homer and Virgil: Homer ealleth this tree 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. Frugi perdam Odyss. and Virg. placeth the forlorn lovers Inter salices Eclog 10. The grass garland Plin. Lib. 12.   
For as that Tree by buds doth promise ever  
A hope of fruit; yet fruit doth never bear,  
So vain and fruitless is his hope & love  
Who an inconstant woman's faith doth prove.   

10.  
Of all, the most authentic is of Grass,  
For that before I had my Bays was used;  
And with those words his colour altered was: 
Daphne versa in laurum: O vid. Met. and hereupon Lucian saith Apollo was infortunate. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.   
Whilst a deep sigh expressed his agony,  
So much his guilty conscience him accused,  
Whose rape to fly a maid was made a tree:  
And so his amorous passion did prevail,  
That he had much ado to end his tale.   

11.  
Ashamed to pause so? then he shaked his tresses  
And at the length collects his fires divine,  
Yet vents on sigh more,  he more expresses  
The ghirland of the grass did serve (quoth he)  
For some such politic, 
The Cypress Garl. Apud Plin. Li. 16.  or Paladine,  
Who froma siege should set a City free.  
And then the hood of Cypress leaves was worn  
Of such as had (as I have) cause to mourn.   

12.  
For safe convoy is borne the vervain wreath  
Of Faecialls and Mars his Orators. 
The vervain Garl. Virg. Plin. Ivy garland, Plin. li. 16. The Garl. of Lilies, Roses and Thistles. De his vide Pierium in hyeroglyphic: The Pine gar. Propertius Lib. Eleg. 1.   
To Tuiscons race the Ivy we bequeath,  
Lillies, Chardons and sweets of Erycine,  
Of several Empires be the signal flowers,  
Symbols of beauty, power and grace divine;  
The Pine is Pan's, and he to Herds gives that  
Which tune an Oat and make their cattle fat.   

13.  
But there's an Island Lucëëssa called, 
Orpheus calls Britain 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Argonautic.   
Within whose fertile bounds there grows a Tree,  
Whose boughs be all of carved Emerald,  
Her flowers far more golden than my beams,  
For her abode she listeth not to be  
Where she must suffer heat, or colds extremes,  
To whom the Bee (of homages most true)  
Comes oft to yield his suit and service due.   

14.  
Now thou fair Genest art my dearest Tree;  
Thy Garlands now of all shall be most rare:  
None shall presume to wear a branch of them,  
Or with thy sacred wreaths begird their brow,  
But such as of immortal lineage are,  
And more than earthly favours do endow.  
So crowned by thee, their names shall never die,  
But fix them Comets in bright Honour's sky.   

15.  
And let your hallowing hands adorn this Crown,  
Which I have destined only unto one, 
The Genest Garland.   
And such an one, as Merit and Renown,  
Hath recommended to the supreme good:  
Who for his Virtues doth deserve alone  
To wear a Wreath of all sweets in the wood;  
Whose Virtues Christian and Heroical  
Crowns him the greatest and the best of all.   

16.  
To him his neighbour Potentates shall bend,  
The Poplare Princes shall his vassals be:  
Africa and Ind to him shall Presents fend:  
The Turk shall sheathe his raging Scimitar,  
And prostrate stoop unto his Amity:  
Esteeming them the happiest, which prefer  
A League with him, & so his name grow great,  
As fare as Neptune's wandering surges beat.   

17.  
Thus said the King, the Prophet and the God,  
To which (with adoration) thrice he bowed,  
And so he made his parting period:  
When with prophetic hymns Parnassus rings,  
And Altars smoakd with many holy cloud:  
But that thou mayst the better note those things,  
I will declare what all those Worthies be,  
Which have worn branches of this gentle 
* Gentle hath diverse significations, sometimes it signifieth supremo gradu de perfectione per natura, per costumi & per valour, etc. Russell 1. sometime it signifieth of, or belonging to the same stock, or nation, as gentilis Clypeus, gentile sacrum, & gentile huemo in Italian: and as it is used here, sometime it betokeneth mild, or pliant.  tree.   

18.  
You see Damaetas, that the God's decree  
Admits but one to wear the complete ghirland,  
But some whose fame hath scaled a high degree,  
May wear a branch, and some a Chaplet.  
Th' empress Matilda's son who conquered Ireland  
The greatest Britain King which hath been yet, 
K. Henry. 2. Vide Preface.   
Must by good right, lead the triumphant band  
Of the great Royal worthies of this land.   

19  
A Prince formed of the true material mould,  
He was as valorous as politic,  
He could well win, and what he won could hold;  
And fortune follows such men in their train;  

(1) Normandy, not Neustria, Pithaeus.  Westria was his, he ruled in 
(2) Little Britain.  Armoricke,  
And reigned in Albion and Aquitaine,  
In brief a sovereign he did reign and rule  
From Pyraene Mount ains to the frozen 
(3) Terrarum ultima Thule, Seneca, Island or Thy-leusell, that is, Shetland, secundum Gasp. Peucerum apud G. Camdenum.  Thule.   

20.  
His glorious enfigne next he doth display  
Whose valiant zeal, and Chivalry divine. 
K. Richard 1. surnamed Caeur de Lion, married Berengaria, daughter of Garcia, King of Navarre.   
Made in the Pagan Kingdoms such a way,  
As all the Christian Hosts might enter in:  
He took Acon, and joppa in Palestine,  
And did beside the Realm of Cyprus win;  
He ward with Men, and slew the Austriak Lion  
Then made a peace with God, and went to Zion.   

21.  
Next rides King john, to whom stout Calidoun  
took solemn oath to be a true Leigman  
To him the King, and the heirs of his Crown, 
K. john brother to Rich. 1 surnamed Sans terrae. He got Angolesme by marrying with Isabella, daughter and heir of Almery, Earl of Angolesme, and the Isle of Man by conquest. Walter Buck brought 700 men out of Brabant, wan Ely & diverse Castles for this K. john: Vide Camdenun in Occadini, et Holinsh.   
And by his auspexes the Brabant Knight  
From Rebel Lords their Isle of refuge wan.  
By him great Thamsis' bridge so exquisite,  
Which lay in wooden models, was begun,  
A braver work in Europe ne'er was done.   

22.  
Then comes his Son with other Architects, 
Hen. 3. surnamed Winchester, married Elinor daughter of Raymond, Ear. of Provence.   
(Not to build babels, and Castles in the Air)  
But he a holy house for God projects,  
The which he doth at Westminster perform:  
A Temple high, magnificent, and fair,  
A glorious pile for sacred use and form,  
And shall remain to all posterity,  
The hallowed Monument of his Piety.   

23.  
Now add the foremost two which bore his name, 
K. Edward 1. surnamed Longshank, married first Elinor daughter of the K. of Castille: she was heir of Ponthieu, and Mother of K. Edward 2. by his second Wife Margaret, Da. of the French K. He had Tho. of Brotherton, from whom by Segrave & Mowbray the Howards are descended.   
(Who of the Saint disguised a Ring received)  
To th'one some give a Hammer, for surname,  
Because he bruised Gaiothell in his rage,  
And him of jacobs' Stone and Chair bereft:  
But jacob repossessed them (by praesage.)  
The other Edward the Templars did expel,  
Of whom I can no more say, to say well.   

24.  
Behold him next who in his doom supreme,  
Powoire above an Estre did advance:  
For he was offered Caesar's Diadem, 
(2) Vide Tho. Walsingham in Ed. 1. K. Ed. 2. surnamed of Carmarvon, married Isabella, daughter and heir of Phil. le Bel, K. of France. K. Edw. 3. surnamed the Windesore, married Philip, daughter of William, Earl of Henalt, etc. He took Calais, and won many victories of the French: as at Crecy and Sluys, etc. refused to be Emperor. Paralipom. ad Abb. urspergen.   
But followed bones forbade, and down anon  
Cuts with his Mother's sword the flowers of France,  
And plants them in his field of Albion,  
And puts them in his royal Lion's guard:  
For so (quoth he) Dieu et mon droyt award.   

25.  
Philip the famous Macedonian, 
Ed. de Woodstock, P. of Wales and of Aquitainc married joan Da. and heir of Edm. Plantagenest Earl of Kent. First he overthrew 60000 Spaniards and French in Spain betwixt Naveret and Naiara.   
Had not a son of higher worth than he,  
For where the Prince, black Edward went, he won:  
This honour's comet first did fair appear  
At Cressy field, which Navaret did see  
After, more bright than Mavors in his Sphere,  
But Poiteer chief where hetooke King jean,  
For there a double victory he won.   

26.  
Two Richard's more succeed, the one a Prince 
K. R. 2 his son surnamed the Bordeaux married Anne of Lexeinbourg Da. of the Emperor Wenceslaus. K. R. 3 surnamed the Fotheringay Du. of Gloster etc. married Anne Nevil Da. of Ric. the great Earl of Warwick.   
Whose goodly presence men to wonder moved  
And was as bountiful as any since;  
Fame hath been sharp to th'other, yet because  
All accusations of him are not proved,  
And he built Churches, & did make good laws,  
And all men held him wise, and valiant,  
Who may deny him then his Genest Plant.   

27.  
But Henry Bullingbrook me thinks doth frown, 
King Henry 4. surnamed the Bolenbrock, married Mary Daughter and heir of Humphrey, Bohun Earl of Hereford etc. He was Duke of Lancaster in the right of his Mother Blanch Da. of Hen. Duke of Lancaster etc.   
That Gloster here should next to Bourdeaux come  
Because he from his Cousin took the Crown:  
Mistake not Henry, for by right for neither  
Of ye, in these triumphal Cars is room;  
But best of all you may be matched together.  
Yet I must grant thou wert a Princely knight,  
And Patron of the bloody Rose by right.   

28.  
But to thy son the Dolphin's strange repair 
King Henry 5. surnamed the Munmouth, married Kath. Da. to Charles the 6 the French King. Of this Dolphin vid. Tho. Walsingham in An. Do. 1392. He conquered France for the most part. He died at Blois de Vinciennes near Paris.   
Swimming in post up to the royal Porte,  
Foretold that he was borne the Lilies heir,  
This sign was soon by sequels verified:  
Dolphin he was by right, or swords effort:  
And he in France victorious lived and died;  
whom Agincourt so nobly did receive,  
At Vinciene Park of all he takes his leave.   

29.  
Henry his son surnamed of Windlesore 
K. H. 6 surnamed the Saint, built a Colle dge at Eton and the King's College in Camb. married Marg. Da. of Rene. K. of Sicil. Du. of Anjou.   
(Who was in London and in Paris crowned)  
Most worthily a Plant of Genest bore  
But not by Sceptres sole his praise began: 
K. H. 7. solicited the Pope to Canonize. K. H. 6 who refused.   
His christian virtues made him most renowned  
For he was deemed a very holy man,  
And had been made a Saint, & long since shrined,  
But that the vice-Saint maker was unkind.   

30.  
I must omit that proud Plantagenet, 
R. Du. of York, heir general of the Crown, Regent of France, Married Cecely Nevil Da. of Ralph Earl of Westmoreland.   
Who in high Parliament the King defied,  
But I may not his gallant son forget,  
Who twice did win the royal Goal by arms,  
And was the father of the happiest bride  
That ever Camber compassed in his arms, 
K. H. 4. married Wydevile Da. of Ant. Earl Rivers, extinguished Lancaster. Q. Eliz. 1. King Ed. 5.   
She made the loss the lighter of that son,  
Whose reign then ended, as it was begun.   

31.  
She and her Richmond (oned by sacrament) 
K.H. 7. Earl of Richmond, married Eliz. Plant. Da. and heir of K. Ed. 4. for them Christopher Columb. offered todiscover the Indies Ric. Hacklet 3.   
Refused the golden offer of Colone,  
Foreseeing that the riches and the rent  
Would hardly countervail the keeper's care;  
And had beside a secret reed that one,  
(Who should hereafter sit in Arthur's Chair,  
Should fetch the fleece, when he occasion saw,  
And hold the golden Monarch in his awe. 
H. Earl of Richmond got both the field and Crown at Bosworth. Marga. his mother was an heir of the house of Somerset! he extinguished the heir Male of the house of York    

32.  
This Richmond was a very prudent Prince.  
And therefore was surnamed Solomon:  
The world hath seen great works accomplished sincen,  
Which were projected by his active brain,  
This man of Fate did happily atone  
The civil feud which long before did reign  
Betwixt the Rose which first grew in the wood,  
And that which Venus coloured in her blood, 
Vid. Ovid in Metam. these Roses were the devises of York and Lancaster.    

33.  
These happy plants have overspread this Isle  
By Henry and more fruitful Margaret. 
Marg. their da. was married to jam. 4. K. of Scotland, by whom he had K. jam. 5. who married Mary Da. to Claud. Du. of Guise, who bore to him Mary Qu. of Scotland and France heir apparent of Eng. & grandmother to our Sovereign Lord K. Charles.   
But Henry's branches flourished but a while,  
She is the root of this immortal seed:  
Whence james the wise and new Plantagenet  
Did spring, and was her father, who did breed here.  
The great Polistiphan, as shall appear,  
When they are past which come triumphant   

34.  
This is that Henry whose great soul did first  
Give a checkmate unto the pride of Rome; 
K. H. 8 married Katherne Da. of Ferdinand K. of Castille, by whom he had Queen Mary he had Q. Eliz. by Anne of Bolein Da. of the Earl of Wiltshire he had K. Ed. by jane sister of the Du. of Summer.   
A stirring work, which else no Monarch durst;  
What he avows, he executes indeed,  
And is not startled with their Church's doom:  
And see how duly virtue hath her meed  
For the Pope himself (
* Doctor Coop. Bi. of Linc. in Chronici.  as the Bishop saith)  
First styled him defender of the Faith.   

35.  
His hopeful son brought happily to pass, 
K. Ed. 6.   
What was attempted by that hardy King;  
For he abolished the Romish Mass; 
Qnem Dij diligunt, moritur juvenis Menander.   
Timely resolved to maintain Christian truth.  
And as his years, so did his virtue's spring,  
But envious fates untimely nipped his youth;  
Then let this serve, to make complete his praise;  
Whom Gods do love, he dies in tender days.   

36.  
This is King Henry's eldest daughters place  
A Queen endued with heavenly virtues many  
Devout sans doubt, a Mary full of grace,  
Just of her word as any prince hath been,  
Her liberal hand was never closed to any  
whose need required or where a want was seen,  
And whatsoever piously is given, 
Q. Marry married Philip 2. K. of Spain.   
Is with great usury restored in heaven.   

37.  
Her younger Sister next to her doth set, 
Q. Eliz. 2 addeth Virginia to her Empire.   
Who was in acts and age the happier much;  
And therefore wears the braver Chaplet.  
A Queen whose state so happily did stand,  
That men did say, seeing her greatness such,  
This Lady leadeth Fortune in her hand;  
A virgin that her sex's Fame excelled,  
And for her rareness was a Phoenix held,   

38.  
For weigh her peace, established at home,  
And next her victories atchiveed abroad,  
As well in Indies as in Christendom;  
Then her safe guarding her confederates:  
Her zeal to the true worshipping of God,  
Her wisely moderating her three estates,  
Those spoken her name, with wonder, love, & fear  
Which all the world did with amazement hear,   

39  
Add more which joined strange Sceptres to their plants, 
Ri. Earl of Cornwall, Brother to K. Hen. 3. elected King of Almain, or Romans. Jo. of Gant, Du. of Lancast. K. of Castille and Lion by Q Constance his wife.   
As Cornwall did the Sceptre of Almain:  
And that of Castille, royal jon of Gant,  
Progenitor by sons, and either daughter,  
Of all the Kings of Britain, and of Spain,  
Without Sir 
* K. Hen. 4. ut supra.  Bolenbrook, who for the slaughter  
Of a King inunct, ashamed hid his eyes  
In the dark bosom of a strange disguise.   

40.  
But Bedford shall his Father's place supply, 
Jo. Duke of Bedford, 3 son of K. Hen. 4. Regent of France, where he took the great Champion of France, Jeane la Pucille: overthrew the Viscount of Narbone at Sea, won the battle at Vervell, which as Ceres saith, Fasoit porter dueil a toute la France.   
Who though no King, yet was a great Viceroy,  
And in his place behaved him royally:  
Th'armed sorceress committed to the flame,  
Narbone, Alencon, and their 
* K. Charles 7. was called in scorn le petit Roy de bourges.  petty roy  
Vanquaished at Vernveil, witness well the same.  
And while he lived; preserved th'inheritance  
Of his dread Liege, and kept in awe all France.   

41.  
Some more great Genesters recount I may,  
Whose fronts should with this crown have circled been  
But they were absent at the sacring day;  
As Arthur, heir unto the greatest King. 
Artur Plantag. Earl of Britain, son of Geffrey, 3 son of K. Hen. 2. Heir apparent proclaimed by K. Ri. 1. Ma. Da. and heir of James 5. K. of Scotland, by Mary de Louraine, Da. of the Duke of Guise ut supra 38. St. Peter calleth the crown of immortal glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Epist. Cap. 5.   
And she that was of France & Scotland Queen,  
Whose virtues praises all the Muses sing,  
And wears instead a Chaplet of Plants,  
In Heaven a Diadem of Amarants.   

42.  
And diverse others set on Fortune's knee,  
Highly advanced for Virtue's just respects,  
Have worn a branch of this Imperial Tree.  
Farther, they neither did presume, nor might,  
For they were men, and had some light defects:  
But yet they passed as fare each other wight,  
As he that follows here, eclipseth them,  
Who in his Cradle wore the Diadem.   

43.  
This is that Olive bearer of this Isle, 
Sic Minerva dicta Olivifera ab Ovidio. K. James high Senescall of England, Scotland, & France, by private heritage's, viz. by Leicester, ab. & Anjou: He married Anne, daughter of Frederick the second King of Denmark.   
Who did by high preordinance, divine,  
That great intestine quarrel reconcile,  
Which so unnaturally so long had been  
Betwixt Brutus' sons Albanact and Locrine:  
As Theodore did that which was between  
The bloody brothers Lancaster and York,  
And was a figure of this greater work.   

44.  
To this his reunited Albion,  
Let us annex the Crown of Pharamound,  
And fair Hibernias (joining three in one) 
Tria juncta in uno: it is the Motto of his Majesty's device for the Knights of the Bath.   
Whilst bright renown builds trophies of his fame  
Unto the Southern and the Northern bound,  
And all the Muses consecrate his Name:  
Whose Wisdom, Justice, & Piety hath given  
His acts a monument, shall endure with Heaven.   

45.  
And Britain had no sooner faith and force  
Combined, but her Dolphin in tender age 
Henry Prince of great Britain. K. Henry 2. buried in Frontenalx. King Charles hath so many, so ancient, & so lawful Titles to this Empire, as never any Prince Heir general of this Kingdom had. He married Mary, Daughter to Henry 4. of France.   
Vows to redeem from Gallike bonds the Cors  
Of his Grandsire, the Great Plantagenet,  
And seize upon his southern heritage:  
And bounds & trophies in the Pyrens set.  
Stay Muse, here drop a tear, for deaths black cloud  
Too soon his glory & our hopes did shroud.   

46.  
But turn our eyes now from the clouded west,  
And see the new Sun rising in the East,  
With what auspicious brows the heavens expressed  
Their glad praesages, the Celestial signs  
With holy Auguries shined: Saturn did feast  
With spritely Icve, whilst Apollo divines  
In Delphic raptures: the Age renewed again,  
And took new influence from bright Charles his wain.   

47.  
The Stars of all yet were not absolute,  
And Fates conspired to keep them in their wants:  
But Gods and Fates, desert and public brute,  
Have all pronounced him sole the worthy one,  
To wear the Garland made of many plants,  
And add eternal Sceptres to his Throne:  
Of whom Apollo in his sacred rage,  
Did as you heard, such wondrous things praesage.   

48.  
And to accomplish full his happiness,  
Heavens have to him a royal Spouse decreed:  
All those frail Saints and flattered Goddesses  
Shall kneel to her, so wise, so fair, so loyal,  
So great, yet meek; as doth her sex exceed,  
And both thrice blessed in their issue royal.  
For he and they which shall from them descend,  
Shall reign in Britain till the world have end. 
Charles Prince of great Bricaine.    

49.  
Away profane, sink to the lowest Hells,  
With your detracting murmurrs and hoarse  
Envy will yield, that fame not parallels spleens,  
The fate of this great pair, which doth out shine  
The lustre of all former Kings and Queens  
Strengthened with all the powers & hands divine:  
And in so just a scope their souls are sphered,  
None ever lived more loved, admired and feared.   

50  
And every Nymph and Goddess of the plains  
Shall wear rich favours of Genesta's plants.  
And that no common injury profanes  
The sacred privilege of her blessed abode:  
The Muses there shall keep their solemn haunts  
And in her shades sing many learned Ode:  
Whilst Poets make her garlands more divine,  
Then that which doth for Ariadne shine.   Damaetas. 

51.  
Thanks blessed Prophet, praised be thy art,  
Which hath so much resolved my travailed mind:  
My wish is satisfied in every part  
My thoughts and doubts, are ridled every one;  
And I confess his name thou hast divined  
To whose high worth, this garlands due alone,  
For whose immortal reign and happy fate  
Let all our vows and prayers be consecrate.    

UPON KING HENRY THE SECOND the first Plantagenet of ENGLAND, etc.  

WHen Warlike HENRY by his Puissance  
Had set his Foot upon the breast of France,  
Sceptered Hibernia, without Blood, or sweat,  
And by his Conquests made his Name so great,  
That it found way to Victory and Fame,  
And burft the gall of War, where ere he came.  
To Crown his fate, and make him greater yet,  
There was no Title but PLANTAGENET:  
To whose immortal lineage Fame could add  
No greater glories; then from him they had  
A Name so Great in Destiny and Fate,  
Rome would have envied, or have trimbled at,  
And her proud Triumphs, too, look pale; set  
By the brighter honours of PLANTAGENET,  
whilst their imperial bays, as checked with thunder  
Dropped from their swelling temples, even with wonder,  
To see their Fate so fare out shined by odds,  
And Pedigree of all their Demigods;  
And to be heir unto great Henry's fame,  
Would not be Rome, but change her fate & name.   
FINIS.