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means ( firſt b F | ; ST their Standard,nototherwile ,vntill afterward Conftantine made it reſpeft thetwo Empires: and ſince,it hath beene borne on a Shield. I rooke Yenus proper to himyfor that the ſtamp of hir face (ſhe being his Anceſtar AEneas his mother)in his Coins is frequentzand can ſo maintuine it herefitrer,then many of thoſe inuented Coars ( without colour of reaſon ) attributed tothe old Heroes. As for matter of Armory , Yenw being a Goddeſle mov be as good Bearing, ifnot better then Atalanta, which, by exprefſe Authority of Euripides, was borne,in the Thebanwatre by Parthmeta®. © Hengift hat other Armes in ſome traditions, which are tobe reſpefted as Old J wiucs fitions. H1s name expreſſes a Horſe,and the Dukes of Saxony are ſaid to haue bora: it ancicntly,before ther” Chriſti injty, Sable : therfore, if you giue him any, with molt re-ſon, Icthim haue this. 4 The common Blazon of the Norman Armes iuſtifies it, And,it you pleaſe,lce for it tothe XI. Canto, .

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ſtific irnorz yer,

awell others Circled with Natures Ghiriands,being alone

can his other at. _ ; wibured Arms, Stil'd th*Oceans * Jſland. On the Columnes beene I might. "F,

» Obied nor, (AS Trophies raiz'd )what Princes Time hathſeene thatir ſhould be CIT - the Zolde I be- Ambirious of her, In hir yonger years ,

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Emperors; and 713 * Golden field the Lion paſſant red,

that ſome Hee

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They move me

not; forplainly Withſtood- At length, the Reman,by long ſure, the Eagle vyas

Gogle i thar Gain d her(moſt Part )from thvancient race of Bruze,

tim- (vnles - 2 , 5 ip to Diuorst from Him,the Saxon </able Horſe,

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orig *s. She changd hir Loueto Him,whoſe Line yet rules,

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I MIGHTIE, HEN RIE, Princeof Wales.

FE rx His part of my intended Poeme I conſecrate

PReeJll [Le38K!| co your Highnes : in whom (beſide my particular Nos] ley; zcalc) there is anaturall intercſt ih my Worke z as the hopefull Heyreof the kingdoms of this Grear | Britaine: whole Delicacies, Chorographicall De- I = ſcription,and Hiſtorie, be my ſubic&. My Soulc, | which hath ſeene the extreamitic of Time and Fortune,cannot yerde- ſpaire. The influence of lo glorious and fortunate 4 Starre, may alſo refle& vpon me : which hath power to giue me new life, or leaue me rodie more willingly and contented. My Poemeis genuine, and firſt inthis kinde: It cannot wantecnuie : for, eucninthe Birch, icalreadie finds that. Your Gracious acceptance; mighty Prince, willleflenir. May I breath toarriucar the Orrades (whitherinthiskind intend m courſe , if the Muſe faile me not ) I ſhallleaue your whole Britiſh Em- pire, as this firſt ard ſoucherne part, delineated; | -

Toyour HI GHNES;

the moſt humbly denoted,

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'Riraine, behold here portray d,to thy fight, Henry, thy be5t hope, and theworld's delight :

Ordain'd to make thy eight Great Henries,nine : IWho,by that vertue in the treble T rine, To hu ownegoodneſſe (in his Being )brings Theſe jenerall G lories of thetg ht Engliſh Kings . Deep ' Knowledge, *Greatnes, 'long Life,*Policy, Courage, *Z "A Fortune, *awfull Maieſtie. He like preat Neptune on* three Seas ſhall roue, And rule three Realms, with triple power, hike Iove. | Thus in ſoft Peace, thus m tempeiluous JP/arres ,

Till from his foote, his Fame ſhall flrike the flarres.

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TO THE GENE: ALL READER i,

Npubliſhing this Eiſay of my Poeme, there isthis great diſacuantageagainl! me; that 4t-commeth outat this time, when Verſes arewholly deduc't to

--Gabinetsjand muſt only paſleby Tranſcription ; In fucha ſeaſon, whenthe Idle Humercus world muſt heare of nothing, thet either (auorsof Antiquiry, or may awake it coſeckeafter more; thien' dull andſlothfullignorance may eably reach voto: Theſe, I'fay, make much again{Fme; arid eſfietially ina Poetwe, from any example; either of Ancient, or Modern,th«thaueprevedinthis kind ;

feare; tolomethat think themſeluesoot meanly learned, beiyg noxrightlyin(pi- redbythe Mules : ſuch I meane,as had rather read the fantafies of forraine in- uentions, thenroſeethe Rarities & Hiſtoric of their owne Country deliucred by a true native Muſe. Then, whoſoever thou be, pollſeſt with ſuch ſtupidity & dul- neſſe, that . ratherthenthcu wilttake paines ro ſearch into antienr an ble chings, chockelt foremaine itt the'thicke fogees and miſts of ignoranchy as neere the common Lay-[tall of aCicie; refufingto walke forth into the Frape and Feelds ofthe Muſes, where through moſt delighefulf Grouesthe Angelligue harm: gny of Birds ſhallſteaſerhee rotherop of an caſte hill, where inartificiall caves, cur ovtof themoſt naturall Rock,thov ſhalt fetrheancientpeopleof this I!c delivered theein their liuely images : from whoſe height thou marlt behold both theold and {arertimes, asin thy profpe,]ying farrevnderthee;thencon- uaying thee cdowne by a ſoule-pleating Deſcent through delicareembrodered | Mcadowes, often veined with gentle gliding Brooks; in which thou mailt fully view the dainty Nymphes in their {imple naked bewties/ bathing them in

! Cryſtalline ſtreames; which ſhall lead thee, to:moſt pleafant Downes , where

| harwletſe Shepheardsare, ſome exerciling their:-pipes, fone ſingingrounde- | Laies, to their gazing flocks : It as, Iſay, thou had{trather, (becauſeicasks thy labour) remaine, where thou were, then flraine thy (clfe towalkeforth withthe | Muleszthefault.proceeds from thy idjenelle,not from any wantiamyinduſtrie; Atd toanythatſhall demand wherfore hayingpromifed this Poeme of the ge- nerall 1|and ſo many yeeres, I now publiſh oplychispartofit ; I plaioly anſwere, that wanytimes I had determined with my (elfe, to haueleftit off, and bave 'negleAed my papers ſometimestwo yeeres together, finding thetimes{mcehis Mareſtics happy comming in; to fall ſo heauily. vpon my diſtrelled fortunes,

nelleofttekingdom,ſcem'd notthenimpoſlible ſomewharalſoto haue aduan-

.ced me. But inſtanely ſaw all my longnouriſbthopes even buriedaliue before

'\miy facesſo vncertaine(in this world) betheends. of our c{cerel{tendeuors. And

what cueris herein thar taſtes of a freeſpirit, Ithankfully confeſle ittoproceed

fro thecontinualibounty ofmy cruly Noble friend Sir Walter Aſton; which hath A

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Chan:bers, andnothingeſteem'd in this lunatique Age, but whatis kept in*

after my zcalousſoulc had labored ſolong inthatwhich with the general happi--

whoſe vruſuall traſt may perhaps ſeeme difficult, taiheferpaleSex; yea, andI |

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given mechebeſt of thoſe howres, whole [caſure hath effeedthis which Inow publiſh. .Sundry other SongsI haue allo,though yet not lo perfeRthat | dare co- mirchem to publiquecenſure z andehereſt I determine ro goforward with, God enabling me, may I find meafis toaſliſt my epdeuour. Now Reader, for thefur- cher vnderſtanding of my Poeme, thou haſt three eſpecia}lhelpsz Firſt the Ar- gumene co direct thee (till, where thou arc, and through what Shires the Muſc makes her iourney, and what ſhe chucfly handles in the Song theretdbelonging. Next, the Map, lively delineatingeothee , euery Mountaine, Forreſt, River, arid Valley; expreſſing intheir ſundry poltures their loues, delights, and naturallſi- cuations. Then halt thouthellluftration of chis learned Gentleman, my friend, toexplaine euery hard matter of _ char,lying farre from the way of com- mon reading, may(withourqueſtion) ſeem difficulrvntuthee, Thus wiſhing thee thy hearts deſire, and committing my Poemetothy charicable cenlure, 1 take my leaue. Thine, as thou art mine,

MicHAEL DRAYTON,

TO MY FRIENDS, THE CAMBRO-BRITANS.,

through theſe united kimgdomes of great Britaine, { haweplaced your (and /

muſt confeſſe ) my lowed Wales, you ſhall perceine, that after the three fir?

Songs, beginning with our French 1lands, Jernſey, and lerſey, with the reſt; andperfetting m thoſe firſt three the ſuruay of theſe ſixe our moſt Wiſterne Coun- tries, Cornwall, Devon, Dorſet, Hamp, Wile, ad Summerſet; 7 then make oner Seuerne mto Wales not farre from the midſt of her Broad fide that lieth ag unſt Eng- land. I rearmeit ber Broad ſide ,becan;'e i lieth from Shrewlbury,ſtil along with Se. uerne, Fill ſhe laſtly turne ſea. And to explaine two lines of mime (which you ſhall fina 1m the fourth Song of my Poeme ; but it 15 the firſt of Wales) which are theſe,

And ereſeauen Books haue end, Ile ſtrike ſo high a ſtring, Thy Bards ſhall ſtandamaz dwith wonder whilſt I ling.

Speaking of ſeauen Books, you ſhall underſtand that I continew Wales through ſo mea- ny; beginning in the fourth Song (where the nymphes of England aud Walcs, contend

T O hae you without difficulty underſtand, bow in this my intended progreſſe,

ned) Humfrey Floyd, in hi deſcription of Cambria to Abraham Ortelius , rovp- hold ber auncient bounds, Seuernc, and Dee, andtherefore bane mcluded rhe parts of thoſe three Engliſh Shiers of Gloſter, Worlter, andSallop, that lie on theweſt of Seuerne, within their ancient mother Wales : In which if [ hane not done her right, the want 1s in my ability, not in my louwe. Andbeſide my naturall nclination to loue Antiquitie (which Wales may highly boaſt of ) I confeſſe, the free andgentle companie of that true loner of bis Country ( as of all ancient and noble things) M, lohn Willi- ans, his CMarefties Gold-ſmith, my deare and worthy friend , hath made me the more ſeek into the antiquities of your Country. Thus wiſhing your fauorable conſtruition of theſe my faithful endenors , 1 bid you farewell.

Michael Drayton.

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$2 Ermit mee thus much of theſe Notes to My

ſuppoſing a full knowing Reader, lets ſlip ; or in 8& winding ſteps of Perlonating Fiftions ( as ſome i times) lo infolds, that ſuddaine conceipe cannor A\ abſtratt a Forme of the clothed Truth, I have, as I might, 1/uſtrated. Breuity,and Plainenes (as the one endurd the Other) I haue ioyncd ; purpolely auoyding frequent commixture of different language; and,whenſocuer ir hap- pens,cyther the Page or Margine (ſpecially for Gentlewomens lake) ſummarily interprets it,except where Interpretation aides nor. Be- ing not very Prodigall of my Hiſtoricall Faith, aftcr Explanation, I oft aduenture on Examination,and Cenſure. The Author,in Pal- ſages of firſt Inhabitants ,Name,State,and Monarchique ſucceſsion in this Iſle, followcs Geffrey ap Arthur, Polychronicon , Matthew of Weſtminſter and ſuch more. Of their Traditions, for that one fo much controuerted, and by Cambro-Britons ſtill maintayned, rou- ching the Troian Brute ,T hauc (but as an Aduocat for the Mule) argued ; diſclaiming in it, if alledg'd for my own Opinion.In moſt of the reſt,vpon weighing the Reporters credit , Compariſon with more perlwading authority,and Synchroniſme(the beſt Touch-ſtone in this kind of Triall )I leaue note of Suſpicion,or addeconicurall Amendment: as,for particular cxamples,among other, in Brennwus miſtooke by all Writers of later cime,following /uftins Epitome of Treg ill concciu'd ;in Robert of Swaphams Story of K.\Vulphers murdring his Children ; in Zo/lo firſt D. of Normandy his time;

[caloulic bach oft vext me with particular inquiſition of whatſoc- uer occurrs, bearing not a marke of moſt apparant T ruth,cner lince I found (o intollerable Antichroniſmes,incredible reports, and Bar- a;fſb-impoſtures.as well from Ignorance as aſſum'd liberty of Inucn- tion in ſome of our Ancients; and rcd alſo ſuch palpable Fauxcties, of our Nation,thruſt into the World by Later Time: as(to giuc a raſt) that of Randall Higden aftirming the Beginning of Wards in

|V1. Hen. iT. Polydores aflertion (vpon miſtaking of the Statute of 1.

A: 3 Hep.

none of them yet refified (although the firſt hath been aduentu- | red on) by any that I haue ſcene; and ſuch more. And indecd my |

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ſuauium, & luch more inother wanton Pocts, with the opir10 of Baldws, that a Kiſle in thoſe Southerne Na- tions, is luſhci- cntconſencto imperfit eſpou lels, nothing of that kind, bur Copulation, with v5 & our neigh- bouring Dutch being lo.

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To the Reader.

- | Capitolin , Spartian( for ſo much as they hauc, and the reft of the | A#goFan Stpry ) afterward Gildas , Newwine ( but little is left of

He.Vii.) that it 1 45 death by the Engliſh laws for any man toweare 4 Viſard,wich many like crrors in his Hiſtory , of our Trials by XT.|, Shrizes£oate of the Kingdome, Parliaments,and other like; BartoPs deliucring the cuſtome in this Iſle to be, * quod Primogenitus ſucce- dit in omnibus Bonss; T he Greeke Chalcondylas his flanderous de- (cription of our viuall forme of kind entertainment to begin with the Wives Courtcons admilsion to that moſt affeed pleaſure of Laſciuious fancy ( he was decciu'd by miſunderſtanding the Re- ports of Our &ſs1mg Salutations, given and accepred amongſt vs with more freedom then in any part of the Southern world,errone- ouſly thinking, perhaps,that cuery Kifſe muft be thought ſeconded with that addition to the Seuenpromiſt by Mereary in name of Yenw to him that ſhould find #/yche; or as wanton, as Ariffophanes his MeardeawTir: ) and many vntruth's of like Nature in Others. Concer- ning the Arcadian deduQtion of our Britiſh Monarchy ; within that time, from Braze , (uppos'd about ÞÞ. cr. DCC. L.of the-world (Samuel then Iudge or 1/rael ) vnto ſome Liv. before ChriZt (abour when, /#l:#5 C2far viſited the Iſland) no Relation was extant, which is now Icft to our vie. Bow then are they , which pretend Chro- nologics of rhar Age without any Fragment of, Auchors before Gil- das , Talieſsin and Nenniws (the eldeſt of which was ſince D. of Chri#)to be credited? For my part, I belceue much in chem as 1 do the finding of Hrers's Shipmaſt in our * Mountaines, which is colleted vpon a corrupted place in Athenews, cited ont of Moſchi- on; or ,that Ptolemy Ploladelpk ſent to Rentha King of Scots ſome cl>.D CCCC. 'yeares ſince, for diſcouery of this Country , which Claude Ptolemy afterward pur in his Geography ; or that /ulixs Ceſar built 4rthars Hofjen in Stirling Shirifdome ; or, that Britons were at the Rape of Heſiowe with Heresles, as our cxcellent wit 16- ſeph of Excefter(publiſhed falſly vader name of Cornelis Nepos)ſing- | &th: which are cucn cqually warrantable,as Arieſfo's Narrations of | Perſons and Places in his Kowlawds,Spenſers Elfin Story , or Rablas his ſtrange diſcoucries. Yet the Capricious faftion will ( Iknow ) neuer quit their Bclicfe of wrong 3 although ſome Elias or Delar Diuer ſhould make open what is ſo inquired after. Briefly, vnrill Polybixs , who wrotc ncere <I>. PCCC. ſince ( for Arifotle |) Kiows | is elecrely counterfcited in title) no Greeke mentions the [{le; vnril! Lacreti (ſome T. years larcr)no Komen hath expreſt athought of vs; vntill Ceſars Commentaries,no piece of its deſcriprion was known, thar is now left to poſterity. For time therefore preceding Ceſar, I dare truſt none; but with Others adhere ro Conieffare. In An- cient matter ſince, I relie on Tacitus and Dis eſpecially , Yoprſces,

them ,and char of the laſt very imperfe& ) Bede, 4ſſerio, Ethelwerd

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To the Reader. | Florence of Worceſter (that publiſhed vader name of Floremee hach the very ſyllables of moſt part of Marie the Seors Story , fraught with Engliſh Antiquities; which will ſhew you how eaſily to an- | [wer Buchanan's obicttion againſt our Hiſtorians about Arhelit ans | being King of all 4/bjow,being deceiu'd when he imagined chatchere wasnoother of 4/ari9y but the common princed Chronicle , which is indecd bur an Epicome or Defloration. made by Robert of Lorrarne, Biſhop of Hereford vnder Hep. I. ) and the numerous reſt of our Monkiſh and ſucceeding Chronographers. In all, I belecue him moſt which freeſt from AffecF:on and Hate (cauſes of corruption) might beſt know, and hath , with moſt likely aflertion, deliue- red his report. Yer lo, thar, to explaine the Aurhor, carrying 1] himſclfe in chis part, an Hi#orrcall, as in the other, a Chorogra- | phicall Poer, I inſert oft, our of the Britiſh ſtory, whar I impor- tune you not to credir. Of that kind, are thoſe Prophevies out ; of Merlin ſometime interwouen : I diſcharge my felfe ; nor im- ; pure you to me any (crious reſpect of them. Inviting, noc wreſt- { ing in, occaſion, I adde ſomrime whar is different from my task, but ſuch as I gueſſe would any where pleaſe an vnderſtanding Reader. To aide you in courſe of Times , I haue in fit place | drawn Chronologies, vpon Credir of the Ancients ; and, for matter of that kinde, haue admoniſhr ( ro the iv. Canto ) whar as yer I neuer ſaw by any obſcru'd, for wary conſideration of the Die- nyſian Cycle, and miſcinterprered Rootre of his Dominicall yeere. Thoſe old Rimes, which ( ſome number) you ofren meer with, are offcrd the willinger,both for Yariety of your Mother Tongue, as alſo, becauſe the Author of them Robert of Gloſter neucr yer ap- pear'd in common light. He was, in Time, an Age before bur, in | Learning and Wit, as moſt others, much behind our Worthy Chancer: whoſe name by the way Occuring, and my worke here | being bur ro adde plaine ſong after Muſes deſcanting, I cannot |

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bur digrcfſe to admonition of abuſe which this Learned alluſion, | in his Trozlss, by ignorance hath indured. | |

am till God mee detter mind ſend _ | t Dulcarnon right at my wits end, - | |

Its not Necham, or any: elſe, chat can make mce enterraine the | leaſt thought of the ſignification of Dalraryow ro be Pyrhegoras | . his facrifice after his Geometrical! Theorem in finding the Squares | p,.., 5.4. | of an Orthogonall Triangles ſides, or that it is a word of Lative | c:darom. | deduQion 3 bur indeed by eaſier pronounciation it was made of Cj zW 50 ii. Two horned: which the Mahometan Arabians | | vic tor a Roor in Calculation , meaning Alexander, as that grea | - DiQaror of knowledge Joſeph Scalzger (with ſome Ancients) wills, | bur, by warranted opinion of my learncd friend MF. Zydyat in his Emendatio Temporum , it began in Selewens Nicawoy, Nt. yeares after Alexanders dearth ; The name was applyed, either becaule at-

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cer time that Alexander had perlwaded himſelfe to be Jupiter Fam- mons ſonne, whoſe Statue was with Rams hornes, both his owne and his Succeſſors Coines were ſtampt wich horned ,Images: or elſe in recipe of his TT. pillars crefted in the Eaſt as a * Nehil vitrs of his Conqueſt, and ſome lay becaule hee had in Power the Esſterne and Weflerne World , ſignified in the rewo Hornes. Bur, howlocucr, it well firs the Paſſage, either, as if hee had per- ſonated Creſerde at the entrance of two wayes, not knowing which to take; in like ſcnle as that of Prodicue his Hereales, Py- thagoras his Y , or the Logicians Dilemma cxpreſle ; or elſe, which is the iruth of his conceit , that ſhce was at a Avrples , as the

-| interpretation in his next Stafte makes plaine. How many of No-

ble Chaxcers Readers never ſo much as ſuſpcR this his ſhort eſſay of knowledge, traniccnding the common Rode? and by his Trea- tiſe ofthe Aftrolabe ( which , I dare ſweare, was chicfly learned out of Mefſatalah) it is plaine hee was much acquainted with the Mathematiques , and amongſt their Authors had ir. Bur, I return to my lelfe. From vaine loading my Margine, with Books, Chap- ters, Folio's, or Names of our Hiſtorians, I abſtain : Courle of Time as readily direfs to them. But , where the place might nor {o eaſily occurre ( chiefly in matter of Philolegie) there onelie ( for view of them which ſhall examine mce ) I have added aſsiſting references, For moſt of what I vie of Chorographie, ioyne with |. me inthankstothat moſt Learned Nourice of Antiquitie — o—* Toy 716 x, 719901 vatay Tz anip A'yallC, M

my inſtrufting friend M*.Camden Clarencenlx. From him and Gi- rald of Cambria allo comes moſt of my Britiſh ; And then may Mercury and all the Muſes deadly hate mee, when, in permitting occaſion, I profeſle not by whom 1 Jeaine ! Ler them vent iudge- mcnt on mee which vnderſtand : I iuſtifie all, by the ſelfe Au- thors cited , crediting no Trenſcribers, but when of Neccſzitic I muſt. My thirſt compeld mee alwayes ſecke the Fountaines, and, by that, if meanes grant ir, iudge the Rivers nature. Nor can 4- ny Conucrſant in Letters bec ignorant whar error is oftimes | fallen into, by truſting Authorities at ſecond hand, and raſh col- leing ( as ic were) from viſuall beam's refra&ted through ano- thers eye. In performance of this charge ( vndertaken at requeſt of my kinde fricnd the Author) Breuity of Time ( which was but lictle more then ſince the Poem firſt went to the Preſfle ) and that daily diſcontinucd, both by my other moſt different Studies ſeri- ouſly attended, and interrupting Buſines, as enough can witnes, mrs cxcule great faults ,eſpecially of Ga»ſsion . Bur, I rake nor | thence aduantage to deſire more then Common Curteſie in Cenſare : Nor of this, nor of what clſe I heeretofore haue publiſhed, tou-

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| Sunt qubus in verbis videorq, obſcurior, hoc eſt, Evandri cum Matre loqui, Fauniſq; Numagz Nee ſects ac ſr autor Saliaris Carmimnis efſem.

I havereadin Cicero, Agellius, Lucians Lexiphanes, and others , much againſt chac forme; Bur withall, this lacer age(wherein {o induſtri- - ous {earch is among admircd* Ruins of olde Monuments ) hath, in. our greateſt Latine Critiques Harms Douz, P. Merula, Lipſuus and fuch more, fo recciued that Saturn/an Language , that, ro Stu-, dents in Philology, it is now grown familiar zand (as he (aich) Yer- ba a Vetuſtate repetita non ſolum magnos Aſſerteres hgbent, ſed eti- am afferunt Orationt Maieſtatem aliquam, non ſine delettatione. Yer for Antique Termes, to the Learned,l will not iuſtific ic withour exception ( diſliking not that of Phauorin , Vine Moribus preterits, laquere verbis praſentibus;and , as Coine, ſo words, of a publique , and knowne ſtamp, arc to bee vſed) although ſo-much, as thar way I offend, is warranted by cxample of fuch, of whom to en- dceuor imitation allowes me more then the bare ticle of Blameles. The purblind Ignorant I ſalute, wich the Engliſh of chat Moni-

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Reprehenfion of them, whoſe Language and beſt learning is pur- | ,1.chourn- | chaſt from ſuch Volumes as Rablais reckons in S. YidFers Library, | deritand'ſt nor. or Barbarous Gloſles & Luim nihil ad Geniam,Papiniane, taum !

or, which arc furniſht in our old tory, only out of the Common Polychronicon, Caxton, Fabian , Stow, Grafton , Lanquet, Cooper, Helingshed (perhaps with gift of vnderſtanding ) Pahdore , and the reſt of our later Compilers; or, of any aduenturous Therſites da- ring find fault cuen wich the very Graces, in a ſtraine

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I regarde as meramorphized Lacius his looking out at window I Slight,Scorne,and Laugh ar ic. By Paragreph's in|the Verſes you know what I meddle with in the 1{{##rations ; bur fo, that with Laticude, thedireQion admoniſhes ſometimes as well for explaning | a Following or Preceding paſlage, as its owne. Ingenuous Rea- B ders, ro you I wiſh your beſtdeſires z Grant me too, I pray, this one, that you read mce nor, withouc comparing the Faults eſea- ped ; Thaue colleted chem for you. Compell'd Abſence, endeuord | Diſpatch, and want of Rexiſes ſoone bred them. To the Author, I wiſh ( asanold Coſmographicall Poer did long ſince to himleltfe.) CE m—m—n——* I (ol vue! * That the A'uTuy un, Kargpay dvrotrG tin duh. | - vo ToGentlewome & their Lones is conſecratedall the wooing Langwage, | worthily ; AB Alluſions to Loue-Paſsions , and ſweet Embracements fain'd by | bis a m the

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The ſprightly Muſe her wing diſplaics,

And the French l/ands fir #t ſurvaies ; Beares-vp with Neprunc, and inglory Tranſcends proud Cornwalls Promontorie ; There crownes Mount-Michacll, and difcries How all thoſe Rinerets fall and riſe ;

Then takes in T amer, as ſhee bounds

The Corniſh and Deuonian grounds.

And whilit the Deuonſhirc-Nymphes relate Their loues, their fortunes, and eſtate, Dert vndertaketh to reviue |

Our Brute, and ſings his fir F arrine :

Then North-ward to the verge ſhee bends, And her fir#t Song at Ax ſhee ends.

) F 41bjons glorious Ile the Wonders whilſt I write,

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How thy faire Mountaines ſtand, and how thy Vallyes lies

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From thoſe cleerepearlie Cleeues which ſee the Mornings pride, And check the lurlic Impes of Neptune when they chide, Vnto the big-{wolne waues in the *7berian ſtreame, Where Tran ſtill vnyokes his ficry-hoofed Teame, And oft his flaming locks in lafhious Nectar fteepes, When from 0/ympw top he plungerhin the Deepes: That from * bl merich ſagds,on ſurging Neptunesleas Throughthe Hibernick Gulfe (thoſe rough Verginian ſeas) My verſe with wings of skill may fliealoftie gate, S. As Amphitrite clips this Iland Fortunate, Tillchrough the ſleepy Maine to © 7hwly I haue gone, And leenethe frozcn Lles, the cold 4 Ducalidon, | $. Amongſtwhoſe Iron rockes grym Satwrne yer remaines, Bound in choſe gloomie Caues with Adamantine chaines.

Yeelſacred *© Bards, that to your Harps melodious ſtrings Sung thancient Herots deeds (crhemonuments of Kings) And in your dreadfull verſe ingrau'd the prophecies, Theaged worlds deſcents, and Genealogies; If,as thoſe f Drnidesraught, which kept the Britiſh rites, And dwelt in darkſome Groues, there counſailing with ſprites (Bur their opinions faild, by error ledawry, As ſince clecre truth hath ſhew'd ro cheir poſteritie) When theſe our ſoules by death our bodies doe forſake, S. T hey inſtantlic againe doe other bodies takes I could haue wiſht your ſpirits redoubled in my breaſt, Togiuemy verſe applauſe, to times eternall reſt.

T hvs {carceliefaidrhe Muſe, but hovering while ſhe hung Vpon the 8 Celtick waſtes, the Sea-Nymphes loudlie ſung: © cuer-happie Iles, your heads ſo high that beare, Dy Nature ſtronglie fenc'r, which neuer necd to feare On Neptunes watry Realmes when Eolss raiſerh warres, And cuery billow bounds,as though roquench he ſtares : Fairc /er/ey firſt of theſe heere ſcartredin the Deepe, Peculiarlie chatboaſtſt rhy double-horned ſheepe : Infcrior nor io thee, thou Jernſey, brauelic crown'd With rough-imbatteld rocks, whoſe venom-haring ground T he hardned Emerill hath, which thou abroad dooſt ſend : Thou Ligoz, her belov'd, and Serk, that dooſtatrend Her pleaſure cucrie howre; as Jethow,them ar need, With Pheſants, fallow Deere, and Conies that dooſt feed : Yee ſeauen ſmall ſiſter les, and Sorlings, which colee Thehalfe-link ſca-man ioyes, or wharſoe're you be, From fruitfull Arey, necre theancient Celtick ſhore, To Yjbant and the Seames, whereas thoſe Nunnes of yore S. Gaueanſwers from their Caues,and rooke what ſhapes they pleaſe:

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Sing our [nvention fafc vnto her long-wiſht Bay. Vpon the vemoſt end of Cornwalls turrowing beake,

The ſhore let hertranſcend, the ® Promontto dilcry,

Seemein their houering flighcro ſhadow all the land ;

As if both carthand aire they onelicdid poſleſſe. |

Rude Neptune cutting in, a cantle forth doth take;

A* Cherſoneſethereof, the corner clipping in:

Asdcignetodrop ateare vpon cach holic Graue 3

If, credulous too much, thereby th'offended heaucn In cheirdeuout intents, yer be their ſinnes forgiuen.

And inhispaſsion ſtirr'd, againe began to tell

Relatingthemhow long this ſoile had laine forlorne, As that her Gezizs now hadalmoſt her forſwornc, Andoftheirancientilouedid veterly repent,

Sich todeſtroy her ſelfe that farall tooleſhelent

| By whichth'inſariatg ſlane herintrailesgurdoch draw,

That thruſts his gripplehand into her golden mawe; And for his parr dothwiſh, that irwereinhis power

Ay

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Wich ſhrill and iocund ſhouts, th'ivamealur'd deepes awake,

And, onthe other (ide, Hayles vaſtcr mouth doth make

VVhole chariticand zealc, in ſteed of knowledge ſtood: | For, ſurely in themlelues they were rightſimply good.

Whilſt our induſtrious Muſegreat Britaiwe forth ſhall bring, - Crown'd with thoſe glorious wreathes that beautific the Spring z And whilſt greene Thetzs Nymphes, with many anamorous lay

Where * Breſas from the Land cherilcing waues doth breake;

And viewe about the Point th'vnnumbred Fowle that fy. Some, riſing likea ſtorme from off the croubled ſand,

Some, (icring on the beach coprune tlicirpainted breaſts,

Whence, climing to che Clecues, her (elfe ſhe firmlie ſers

| The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks,the Rills,the Riuilets, * Exactlieto deriue; receiuing in her way |

Thar ſtraightned rongue of Land,where,at Mownt-Michaells Bay,

Where to th'induſtrious Muſe the Mount doth thus begin ; Beforethou further paſſe, and leaue this ſetting ſhore,

$. Whoſe Townes vnto the Saints that liued heere of yore

(T heir faſting, works, & pray'rs, remaining to our ſhames)

VVere reard, and iuſtly call'd by their peculiarnames,

The builders honour till; chis due and ler them haue,

Then from his rugged copthe teares downetrickling fell;

Strange things, that in his daies times courſe had broughcro paſs, | T hat fortie miles now Seca, ſometimes firme forc-land was ;

And thata Forreſt then, which now with him is Flood,

$. VVhercof he firſt wascall'd the Hoare-Rock inthe lWood ;

_ Which

: Aſmal ITland vponthe very point of Corn- wall.

> A hill lying Gut,as an c]- bowe ot land,

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* A place al- moſt inuironed with water, wel- ncer an Iland,

W hich, Hale doth ouer-hearc,and much doth blame his rage, And told him (ro his reeth) hee doared with his age. For Hayle (a luſtie Nymph, bencall coamorousplay, And having quicke recourle into the Sexerne Sea With Neptunes Pages oft diſporting in the Deecpe ; One neuertouch't with care; bur how herlclferokeepe In exccllenteſtare) doth thus againe intreate ; $. Mule, leaue the wayward Mount to his diſtempred heare, Who nothing can produce but what doth taſte of ſpight : le ſhew thee things of ours moſt worthy thy delight, Behold our Diamonds heere, as inthe quart's they ſtand,

| By Nature neatly cut, as by a skilfull hand,

ho varieth them in formes, both curiouſlicand off , Which for ſhee ( wanting power ) produceth them too ſofe, T har vertue which ſhecould not libcrallie imparr, Shee ſtriuerh roamend by her owne proper Arr. Beſides, the Seaholme heerc, that ſpreadcth all our ſhore, T he lick conſuming man ſo powerfull to reſtore: Whole rootc th'Eringois, the reines that doth inflame So ſtronglie to performe the Cyrtherean game, T har generally approou'd, both farre and necreis ſought. $. And our Main-Amber heere, and Brien T rophy, thought Much wrongd, nor yer preferd for wonders with rhereft. Bur, che laborious Mule, vpon her journey preſt, T hus vttereth ro herſelfe; Toguide my coutle aright, W har Mound or ſteddie Mereis offered co my fight Vpon this our-ſtrerchr Arme, whilſt fayling heereat cake, Berwixt the Southern waſte, and'the Sabrimanicas, I view thoſe wanton Brookes,that waxing, ſtill doe wane ; T har (carcelie can conceiue, but brought to bed againe; Scarce riling fromthe Spring (tha is their naturall Morher) Togroweintoa ſtreame, bur buried in another. When Chore doth call her on, that wholly doth berake Her elfe varo the Loo; transform'd intoa Lake, T hrough that impatient loue ſhee had ro enterraine T he luſtfull Xeprume oft; whom when his wracks reſtraine, Impatiencof che wrong, imperuouſlic hee raucs : And in his ragefullflowe, the furious Kingof waues, Breaks foming o'reche Beach, whomnothing ſecmesro coole, Till he haue wrought his willonthar capacious Poole: Where Menedge, by his Brookes, a * Cherfoneſe iscaſt, Widening the ſlender ſhoreroeaſt irinthewaſt; A Promontiurcing out incorhe dropping Sourh, Thar with his threatning cleenesin horrid Neptares mouth, Derides him and his power: nor cares how him-hegreets. | Next, Roſeland (as bisfricnd, the-mightier Mewedge) meets

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the fri Song.

Great Neptune when he ſwells, and ragethat the Rocks (Set our into tholc ſeas) inforcing through his ſhocks

T holc armes of Sea, thatthruſtincorthe tinny ſtrand, By their Meandred creeks indenting of that Land: Whole fame by cuerie rongue is for herMyncralls hurld,

Heere Yale, aliuelie flood, her nobler name that giues T 0 * Flamonth , and by whom, ic famouscuer liues, Whoſe entrance is from ſea fo intricatelie wound, * Her hauen angled ſoabour her harbrous ſound, T hac in her quicr Bay a hundred ſhips may ride, Yernot thetalleſt maſt, be of the rallſt deſcri'd 3 | Her braueriero this Nymph when neighbouring nverscold, Her mind to them againe ſhee bricflie doth vnfold; Ler * Camell,of her courſe,and curious windings boaſt, In chat her Greatneſsraignes ole Miſtreſs of that coaſt Twixt Tamer and thac Bay, where Hayle poures fotth herpride: And lct vs (nobler Nymphs) vpon the mid-daicſide, Be frolick with che beſt. Thou Foy, before vsall, By thine owne named Towne made famous in thy fall, As Low, amongſt vs heere; a moſt delicious Brooke, With all our ſiſter Nymphes, that roche noone-ſted looke, Which glyding from he hills, vponthe tinny-ore,, . Berwixt your high-rear'd banks, reſort rothis our ſhote: Lov'd ſtreames, let vs exult, and thinke our ſelues nb lefle T hen thoſe vpon their ſide, the Serting tharpoſleſie, Which,Camell ouer-heard: bur what doth ſhere{pett . Their caunts, herproper courſe thar looſely doth negleR? As frantick,cuer ſince her Britiſh Arthars blood, By Mordreds murcherous hand was mingled with her flood. For, asthar Riuer, beſt mighc boaſtchar Conquerours breath, So ladlie ſhee bemoanes his too vnrimelie death ; Who, after twelue proud fields againſtthe Saxos fought, Yer back vnco her banks by fate was laſtly brought: As though no other place on Britaimes ſpaciouscarth, Were worthic of his end, but where he had his birth: And careleſſceuer {ſince how ſhee hercourle doe ſteere, This muttreth to her (elfc, in wandring here and there; Euenin che agedſt face, where beautic once did dwell, Andnature(intheleaſt) bur ſeemedto excell, Timecannor make(uch waſte,but ſomething wil appeare, Toſhewe ſome littlerract of delicacie there. Orſomereligious worke, in building manic a day, T hacthis penurious age hath ſuffred ro decay, Some lim or modell, dragd our of the ruinous mals, T he richneſs will declareinglorie whilſt ic was: B 3

Neerc from the mid-daiespoinr, throughout the Weſterne world.

* The braucry of Flamouth

Haucn,

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*This hath alſo the name

ot Alan.

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| * A worthy

| Gentleman, who writ the deſcription of Cornwall.

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| Thepraiſe of | Plymouth,

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Buctime vpon my waſtecommirted hath ſuch theft, T hatit of Arthur heere ſcarcememoricharh lefr:

T he Nine-ſton'd Trophie thus whilſt ſhec doth entertaine, Proude Tamer ſwoopes along, with ſuch aluſtietraine As fits ſo brauea flood two Countrics that diuides: So, to increaſe herftrength, ſhee from her equall ſides Recciues their ſeuerall rills ; and of the Corniſh kind, Firſt, taketh Arrein: and her not much behind Comes Kerſey: after whom, clecre Enian in doth make, In Tamers roomthier bankes, their reſt thar (carcelic take. Then Zyner , though the while aloofc ſhee ſeem'd ro keepe, Her Soucraigne when ſhee ſees Vapproach the ſurgetull deepe, To beautifie her fall her plencious tribute brings. T his honours Tamer much: that ſhee whole plentious ſprings, T hole proudaſpyring hills, Browwelly and his frend High Rowter,from their tops impartiallie commend, And is by * Carewes Muſe,the riuer moſt renound, Aſſociate ſhould her grace cothe Dewonien ground. Which inthoſe other Brookes doth Emulation breed. Of which, firſt Car comes crown'd, with oziar, ſegs and reed : T hen Z/dcreeps owalong,and taking Thruſbel,throwes Herlſelfe amongſt therocks; and ſo incaucrn'd goes, That of the blciſed light (from other floods) debarr'd, Tobellowevnderearth, ſhe onelie can be heard, As thoſc that view her tra&, ſeemes ſtrangelie ro affright: So, Toony ſtraineth in; and Plym,rhar claimes by righc T hechriſtning of that Bay, which beares hernobler name. Vpon the Briziſh coaſt, whatſhip yer cuer came T hat notot Flymonth heares, where thoſe braue Nauies lie, From Canonsthundring throats, that all the world dehie ? Which,co invaſiue file, when th'Engliſhliſt to draw, Haue checkt Zberias pride,and held her oft in awe: Ofc furniſhing our Dames, with 1zdzas rar'ſt devices, Andlecntvs gold, and pearle, rich flks, and daintie ſpiccs. But Tamey takes the place, andallatcend her here, A faithfull boundco both; and two that be ſo neare For likelineſs of foile,and quantitic they hold, Before the Roman came; whoſe people were of old $. Knowne by one generall namc, vpon this point that dwell, All other ofthis Ilcin wraſtling thar excell: With collars be they yokr, roprouethearme arlength, Dike Bulls ſer head to head, with mecredelyuer ſtrength : Orby the girdles graſpt, they pratiſe with the hip, * The forward, backward, falx,the mare, the curne, che trip, When ſtript intotheirſhirrs, cach other chey invade Withina ſpacious ring, by the beholders made,

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According to che law. Or whcnthe Ball tothrow, Anddriueit tothe Gole, in (quadrons forth they goe: And coauoid the croupes (their forces char fore-lay) T hrough dikesand riuers make, in this robuſtiousplay ; By which, the coilesof warre moſt livelicare expreſt. But Muſe, may | demaund, Why thcic of allthe reſt | (As mightic Albyons cld'it) moſtatiucareand ſtrong ? From *Corincameit firſt, or from the vic ſolong ? $. Or that this fore-land lies furch'ſt our into his ſight, W hich ſpreads his vigorous flames on cuerieleſlet light ? With th'vertue of his beames, this place thardoth inſpire: «< Whoſe pregnant wombe prepard by his all-powetful fire, Being purelie hot and moiſt, proie&s thar fruicfull ſeed, Which ſtrongliedoth beger, and doth as ſtronglie breed: T he weldifpoled heauen hecre proouingrotheearth, A Husband furthering fruirez a Midwife helping birth. Bur whilſt chinduſtrious Mule ckus labours torclate T hoſerillers chat atrend proud Tamer and her ſtate, A ncighbourcr ofthis Nymphes,as high in Fortunes grace, And whence calmc Tamer ttippes, clecre Towridpein that place Is poured from her ſpring ; and ſcemes at firſtro flowe T hat way which Tamer ſtraines : but as ſhe great doth growe Remembreth to fore-ſee, what Riualls ſhe ſhould find To interrupt her courle: whoſe ſo vnſertled mind ock comming in percciues, & thus doth her perſwade; | Now Aeptune ſhield (bright Nymph) thy beautic ſhould be made | | Theobic@otf her ſcorne, which (for thou canſt notbe Vponthe Southern ſide ſoabſolute as ſhee) Will awetheein thy courſe. Wherefore, faire floodrecoile : And wherethou maiſt alone be (oucraigne of theſoile, T hereexercile thy power, thy braueries and diſplaic : Turne Tewridge, let vs back to the Savrinian lea ; Where Thetis handmaids ſtill in that recourſefull deepe - | With thoſe rough Gods of Sea, continuall reuells keepes There maiſt thou liueadmir'd, the miſtreſs of the Lake. $ Wile Cck ſhee doth obcy, returning, and dothtake TheTawe: which from her founc forc'r on with amorous gales, Andealely ambling downe through the Dexoxian dalcs, Brings with her Mowleand Bray, her banks that gentlie bathe; Which on her daintie breaſt, in many a (iluer [(wathe Shee beares vnto thar Bay, where Bar/table beholds, How her beloued Tawe clecre Towridge there enfolds. T he confluence of theſe Brooks divulg'd in Dertmoore, bred ' | Diſtruſt in herſad breaſt, char ſhee, ſolargelicſpred, Andinthis ſpacious Shirethe necr'ſt the Center ler Ofanic place of note; that theſe ſhould brauelic ger

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Our firſt orcat wraſtler ariuing, heere with Brute,

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Theprailc, from thoſe that ſprung out of her pearlic lap; Which, nouriſhtand bred vp ar her moſt plentious pap,

No {ooner raughtro dade, bur trom their Mothertrip,

And in thcir ſpecdie courſe, ſtrive others coout-ſtrip.

The Yabme,the Awne, the Aume, by (pacious Dertmooye fed,

.| And inthe Southern Sca, bing likewiſe broughrtco bed z

T hat chele werenot of power ro publiſh her deſert, Much gricu'dtheancienc Moore : which vaderftood by Der# (From all the other floods that onely takes hername, And as hercld' (inright) the heire of all her tame) T 0 ſhew her nobler ſpirit it greatliedoth behoue. Dearc Mother, from your breaſt this feare (quorh ſhe) remoue: Dcfic their vemoſt force: ther's not the proudelſt flood, Thar falls betwixt the Mount and Exmore, ſhall make good Her royaltie with mine, with menorcan compare : I challengeany one, roanſwere methar dare 3 T hac was,before themall, predeftinatero meer My Britaine-founding Brate, when with his puiſſant fleet At Totneſſe firſt he touche : which ſhall renowne my ſtreame $. (Which now the enuious world doth ſlander fora dreame.) VVhoſlefatall flight from Grecce, his fortunate arriue In happy Albyon heere whilſt ſtronglic I reviue, Deare Harburne at thy hands this credic let me win, Quoth ſhe, thatasthou haſt my faichfull hand-maid bin; Sonow (my onelie Brooke) alsiſt me wich thy ſpring, Whilſt of the God-like Braze the ſtorie thus | ſing. V'Vhenlong-renowned Troy lay ſpent in hoſtile fire, And aged Priams pompedid wich her flames expire, Aeneas (raking thence A ſeanias, his young lonne, And his moſt reuercnt Sire, the graue Auchiſes, wonne From ſholcs of ſlaughtering Grecks) ſer out from $:mors ſhores; And through the Tirrhene Sca, by ſtrength of toyling ores, Raught 7rabeat laſt: where, King Zetinus lent Safe harbor for his ſhips, with wrackfull rempeſts rent : When, in the Latince Court, Zavinia youngand faire (Her Fathers onely child, and kingdoms onely heire) Vponthe Troian Lord her liking ſtronglie plac, And languiſht in the fiers chat her faire breaſtimbract:; Bur, Twrn (at that time) the proud Rutwlian King,

q . . 4 A lutcr tothe maid, Aeneas malicing,

By force of Armesatremprts, his riuall to cxtrude : Bur, by the Teucrian power courageouſlie ſubdu'd, Bright Cythereas ſonne the Latinecrowne obrain'd ; Anddying, in his ſtead his {onne Aſeanime raign'd.

$. Next, Silnrme him ſucceeds, begetting Brute againe:

Whoin his Mothers wombe whilſt yer hedid remaine,

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the firft Song.

T he Oracles gaue out, that next borne Bro#e ſhould bec $. His Parents onelie death: vvhich ſoonerhey livdto (ce. For, in his painfull birth his Mother did depart; |] Anderchis fifteenth ycere, in huntingofa Harr, He with a lucklefle ſhaft his hapleſle Father ſlew : For which, out of his chrone, cheir King the Latines threw.

Who, wandring in the world co Greeceat laſtdoth get. Where, whilt hebv'd vnknowne, andoft with want beer, He ofthe raccof Troy aremnant hapt to find, There by the Grecians held ; which (bauing ftillin mind | Theirtedioustenne yecres warre, and famous Herots flaine) 1 Inſlauerie with them ſtill thoſe Troians did detaine : | Which Pyrrhes thicher brought (and did with hatepurſue, To wreake Achilles death, ar Troy whom Pars {lew) There, by Pandraſus kept, in ſad and ſeruileawe, Who, when they knew young Brwte, & that braue ſhape they ſaw, T hey humbly him deſire, tharhe a meane would bee, From thole imperious Greeks, hiscountrymen to free.

Hee, finding outa rareand ſprighely Youth, to fir His humour euery way, for courage,power, and wit, Aſſaracus (who, though that by his Sire he were | A Princeamongſt che Greeks, yerheld the Troians deere | Deſcended of their ſtock vpon the Mothers (ide: | For which, he by the Greeks his birth-right was deni'd) Impaticnt ofhis wrongs, with him braue Brave aroſe, Andofthe Troian youth courageous Capraines choſe, | | Ray(d Earth-quakes with their Drummes, the ruffling Enſignes reare; And, gathering young and old thar rightlie T roian were, Vp tothe Mountaines march, through ftrairs and forreſts ſtrong: Where,taking-in the T ownes,prerended cobelong Vnto that * Grecian Lord, ſome forces there they pur : | Wichin whoſe ſafer walls their wiuesand children ſhur, Into the fields they drew, for libertic to ſtand.

Which when Pandreſss heard, he ſent his ſtrict command

|| To levieallthe power hepreſentlic could make : So,to their ſtrengths of warre the T roians them betake.

Bur whilſt the Grecian Guides (notknowing how or where The Teucrians wereentrencht, orwhatcheir forces were) In foule diſordred troupes yet ſtraggled,as ſecure, This looſneſs to theirſpoyle the T roians did allure, Who ficrcely them afſail'd : wheneſtanchlefle furie rap The Grecians inſofaſt, that ſcarcely oneccſeap't: | Yea, proud Pandraſ#sflight, himfelfe could hardlie free. | Who,when he ſaw his force thusfruftrated to bee, And by his preſent laſle, his paſſederror found | (As by alater warre tocure a formerwound)

Doth

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* One of the titles of Dians.

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Doth reinforce his power to makea ſecond fight. When they whoſe better wits had ouer-matcht his might, Loth whact they goto loſc, as politiquelie caſt His Armics to intrap, ingetcingtorthem faſt Antigonas as friend, and Anaclet his pheere (Surprizd inthe laſt fight) by gifts who hired were Intothe Grecian Campeth'inſuing night ro goe And faine they were ſtolne forth, to their Allies ro ſhow How they mighthauethe ſpoile ofallthe Trojan pride; And eaining them beleefe, the credulous Grecians guide Into thiaambuſhment neere, thar ſecretlie was laid: Soto the T roians hands the Grecians were betraid; Pazaraſus (cle ſurpriz'd ; his Crown who toredeeme (Which ſcarcely worth their wrong the T roian race eſtecme) T heir (laueric long ſuſtaind did willingliereleale : And (for alaſting league of amitic and peace) Bright 1nnogey, his child, for wife to Bratusgauc, And furniſht thema fleete, with all chings they could craue To letthem outto Sea. Who lanching,atthe laſt T hey on Lergecia light,an Ile; and, ere they paſt, Vnmoa Temple builtto great Dianathere, T henoble Bratus went; wiſe *Tri;ato enquire, To ſhew them wherethe ſtockof ancicnt T roy toplace. T he Goddeſle, that both knew and lov'dthe T roian race, Reucal'd cohimin dreatnes, that furtheſtrothe Weſt, $. He ſhould diſcriethe Ile of Albion, highlicbleſt ; With Giants latelie tor'd; theirnumbers now decaid : By vanquiſhing thereſt, his hopes ſhould there be ſtaid : Where, from the ſtock of Troy, thoſe puifſant Kings ſhould riſe, Whole conqueſts from the Weſt, the world ſhould ſcanc ſuffice. Thus anſwcr'd; great with hope, to ſea they put againe, And (afclic vnder faile, the howres doe entertainc With ſights of ſundrie ſhores, which they from farre diſcrie : Andviewing with delight th'4zarian Mounraines hie, One walking on the deck, vnto his fricnd would lay (AsThauc heard ſometell) So goodly /dalay. Thus talking mongſt themſclues,they ſun-burnc Africk keepe Vpon the lee-ward ſtill, and ({ulking vp the deepe) For Mauritania make: where purtting-in, they tind A remnant (yet reſeru'd) of thancicnt Dardamn kind, By braue Antenor brought from out the Greekiſh (poiles - (Olong-renowned Troy ! Of thee, and of thy toyles, What Country had notheard?) which,co their Geaerall;then Great Corzness had, the ſtrong ſt of mortallmen: Towhom (with joyfull harts) Drawas will they ſhow. Who caſlie bceing wonnealong with them ro goc,

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T hey altogether put into the watry Plaine : * Ott-times with Pyrats, oft with Monſters of the Majne Diſtreſſed in their way ; whom hope forbids co ſcare. T hole pillars firſtthey paſſe which 7o#es grear f$nne did reare. (Full ioy in cuery pzrt polleſsing euery ſoule)” * In 4quitanearlaſt the Jhow race arrive, Fa Whom ſtrongly to tepulſe whens thoſe rectcants ftriuc, T hey (anchoring there at firſt butts refreſh their fleer, Yer ſaw thoſe ſauage men ſo rudely them togreet) Vnſhipt their warlike youth, aduauticing to the ſhore. The Dwellers, which perceiu'd ſuch dangerar the dore, Their King Groffari«s pet ro raiſe his powerfull force : Who, muſtringvpan hoſt of mingled footeand horle, Vponthe Troians ſet; when ſuddainly began | A fierceand dangerous fight: vuhete Corinew tan [ With ſlarghterchrough the chick-ſct ſquadronsof the foes, And with his armed AxClaid on luch deadlie blowes, T hat heapes of livelefſe trunks cach paſſage ſtopt vp quite.

Groffarius tiauing loſt the bong frhe fight, Repaires his ruin'd powers; not ſotogiue then breath : When they,which muſt be free'd by conqueſtor by death, And, conqueringthem before, hop now todoeholeſſe (The like in courage ſtill) ſtand for thElike ſucceſle. T hen fterne and deadlie Warreput-onhishorridft ſhape ; And wounds appear'd ſo wide, 18 if the Grave did gape Toſiallow both at once; which ftroncas both ſhould fall, When they with ſlaughter ſeem'd to beencircled all: Where Twron (of the reſt) Brutes Siſters valiant ſonne (By whoſeapproucd deeds that day was chicfly wonne) Sixe hundred flue oucr-right through his peculiar ſtrengeh: By multicudes ofmen yet oucr-preſtac length. His nobler Vnclethere, to his immortallname, $. The Citie T#ron built, and well endow'd cheſlame.

For Abienſayling then, th'arriued quicklic hcere (O!neuerinthis world men halfeſo ioytul were 7: With ſhoures heard vp to heauen, when they beheld the Land) Andin this verie place where Totneſſe now doth ſtand, Firſt ſettheir Gods of T70y, kilsing the bleſſed ſhore; T hen, forraging chis lle, long promiſd them before, - Amongſt theragged Cleeues thoſe monſtrous Giantsſought : Who (of their dreadfull kind) rappallche Troians, brought Great Gogmagog, an Oakethatby the roots could teare: F. So mightie were (that = the men wholiued there: Bur, forthe vic of Armes he did not vaderſtand (Except ſome rock or tree, that comming next co hand

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And cutfing thofe ſterne waues which like huge Mountaines roule

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* The deſcrip- tion of the wraſtling be. twixt Cor:newus

and Gogmarog.

Hee raz'd outotthe carth co cxecute his rage)... Hee challenge makes for ſtrengrh,and offercth chere hisgage. Which, Corin taketh vp, coanſwer byand by, * _.

| Vponthis ſonne or his vemoſt power corry.

All, doubcful ro which part che vitorie would goe, \ Vponthar loftieplaceat Plmmmosth caild the Hor, ©. T hole mightic * Wraſtſers mer ; with many an irefulllooke Who threatned,asthe one hold of the orher rogke : = Bur,grapled, glowing fre ſhines incheir ſparklingeyes.

And, whilſtat length ofarme onefrom the other lyes,

Their luſty ſinewes ſwell like cablcs,as they ſtrive :

T heir fect ſuch tram Sling make, as though they forc't to driuc Arhunder out of earch; which Rtagger'd wich che weight: T hus,cithers vemoſt force vrgd ro the greateſt heighc. Whilſt one vpon his hip the other ſeckes tolifr,

And th adverle (by aturnc) doch from his cunning ſhift, T heir ſhorr-ferchttroubled breath a hollow noiſc doth make, Like bellowesof a Forge. Thon Toxin vp doth take | T he Giant twixtrhe grayns ; and, voyding of his hould (Before his combrous feet he weltrecoucr cou!d) . | Pitcht head-long from the hill ; as when niandoth throw

An Axrree, that with ſleight deliuerd from the coe

Rootes vp the ycelding earth : ſorhathis violenc fall, - _._ Strooke Neptune with ſuch ſtrength,as ſhoulJred him withall;- ' T har where the monſtrous waves like Mountaines late did ſtand,

| They leaprourofthe place, and leftche bared ſand

To gaze vpon wide hcauen: ſogreatabloweitgaue. For which, the conquering Brate,on Corinew braue T his horne of land bcſtow'd, and markrtir with his name ; $. Of Corin, Cormwall call'd, to his immortall fame.

Cleerc Dert dcliucring thusthe famous Bratesarriue, Inflam'd with her report, the ſtragling tivelers trive So highlie her go raile, that Ting (whoſe banks were bleſt By her beloued Nymphdeere Zeman) which addreſt And fullic with her ſelfe determined before Toſing the Daniſh ſpoyles commirred on her ſhore, When hicher from the Eaſtthey came in mightieſwarmes, Nor could their native carth containethcir numerous Armes, Their ſurcreaſe grew ſogreat, as forced them atlaſt Toleekeanother loyle (as Bees doe when they caſt) _ And by their impious pride how hard ſhe was beſted, Whenall che Country ſwam with blood of Sexes ſhed: T his River (as I aid) which had determin'd long T he Deluge of the Danes cxattlic to hauc ſong, Irvtterlienegle&s3zand ſtudying how tro doe T he Dert thoſe high reſpeQs belonging her vnto,

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Invicech goodlic Ex, who from her ful-fed (ſpring Herlitcle Barlee hath, and D#nsbrook herto brin

From Exmore: when ſhe yet hath ſcarcely found het courſe, T hen Creddy commeth in,and Forte, which inforce

Her faſterco her fall; as Kez her clolclicclips, .

And on her Eaſterneſide ſweet Lewes gentlie ſlips: - -

Into her widened banks, her Soucraigneco aſsiſt ;

As Columb winnes for Ex, cleere Wener and the Clift, Contribucing their ſtreames their Miſtreſs fame tb raiſe. Asallaſsiſtthe Ex, (0 Ex conſumeth thele ;

Like ſome varhriftic youth, dependingon the Courr, Towinnean idle name, that kceeptsaneedlefs port;

And raiſing his old rent, exaQs his Farmers ſtore

The Land-lord toenrich, che Tenants wondrous poore: Who having lent him theirs, hethen conſimes his owne,

| Thar with moſt vaine expenſe vpon the Priacgisthrowne 2 So thele, the leſſer Brooks vnto the greaterpay 3

The greater, they againe (pend all yponihe Sea;

| As,Otrey (thar her name dothof the Otrers take; Abounding in her banks) and 4x, their vemoſt make Toaydeftonr Derr, that dard Brates ſtorie to reviue.

For, when rhe S4x08 firſtrhie”Briransfocrh did drive,

Some vp intothe hills: clues 076. Sexerne! ſhurs 8

Vpon thjs point of land, forrefug Ws hf # Tothar braue raceof Brate till Qrwnatgs 'C herg;.. Grear brute fart diſcmbar quthis wandring Troians, there

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Gauerhele poojeloules to drinke, 6 preft wichgrieuous thirſt, Beere Ile vayokea awhule, and cuxac my, ſtecds to mear : | The landgrowes largeand wide; :0y Tous ebeges ro ſweat,

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ſhop of O:xferd,and others, agents there with the Pope, that hee, ava priuare friend,not asa Tudge or party interelſed, ſhould determine of Edrardthe rhiyd: righeto France:whers you hauethis Embailage in /a//»gha, © corret Regnum

HMacares,* and particularly Crere among the Greekes,had theirtitle)rogerher wich the Popes exaQions,in taxing,collating , and prouiling of Benefices( an intolerable wrong to Lay-mens inhericances,and theCrowne-reuenewes)gaue cauſeof this iealous conjecture zfecondedinthe conceit of them which deriue Albion from *#£:©- z whereto the Author in histicle and this verſealludes,But of Albion more, preſently.

Among ſt whoſe iron rockes grim Saturne yet remaines.

Fabulous [wpiters ill dealing with his Father Sarwrre,is well known z andehat after depoling him,and his privitiescutoff, hee perpetually impriſoned him, Homer © ioynes lapet with him, liuingin eternal night about the vemoſt ends of theearth : which well fics the more Northerne climate of theſe Iſlands.Ofthem (diſperſed inthe Dencalidenian Sea)in one molt temperate, of gentleayre,and fragrantwith ſweeteſt ddours, lying towards the Northwelt,itisreported,* that Saterne lies boundin iron chaines, kept by Brerere,attended by (pirics , conti- nually dreaming of /#piters projets, whereby his minilters prognolticare the ſecrets of Fate. Euery thirtie yeares;diuersof theadiacenr Iflanderswirh folem- niticfor ſucceiſe ofcbevndertaken yoyage,and competent prouilion,cnter the valt Seas,and at laſt,inthis Serwnies ile ( by this name the Sea is calledallo) cnioythe happy quiczofthe place; ſamein (}udiesof nature, and the Mathe- matiques,which continue othersinſenſuality,whjchafter XXX. yearsreturne perhaps totheir firſt Home, This

| RET bnmightbe,andin part is, by Chymiquesaswellin ny/ftaSacfthar art,asthe don tale of

[Dedelns ri ge eg nn pr the whiole Chavs | neptherGeography

of Mythiqueinuentions. But { for I ghefſenocwhere or whatthis Iſle ſhould be,volefle thatdes | Facreonowhich Pantoagreel diſcous red)nor the matter-ſelf permits itleePocticall{althougha learned Greeke Father * out of ſomecredulous Hiſtorian ſeemes co. rememberit) cthen the E- fian Geldyywhichonigathiagare alrareaſaice by Hemer about the * iam ve/exm z=acz a place whereof toolargeliberty was giuentofaine , becauſe of! thedif- ficule poſsibility in findingthetruch. -Onely thus note ſeriouſly, that thisreuo- lution of X X X. yeates(which with ſoaſelatitudeis Sargrnce natatall motion.) is eſpecially *® noted forthe longeſt period,or age alſo among our Drwias ; and chat ina particular forme , to bee accounted yearely from the ſixtMoone, as ther New-yeares-day : which circgizof time , divers of the Ancients reckon fortheir generations inChronologte;asſtore* of Authors ſhew you.

11+ They inflenth ageine decother bodics take. jo k | Youcannotbewithoutvnderftanding of this PytVagorenr opinfott of rray/- animation (1 have likefiberty ro attielteorharwed % Lip/ſnatrad'to mekeit aRomane, by turning * wnw4%2»54).if ever you readanytharſpeakes of Py- era (ahora forthpartcaler Dapbarie rei Mong hls heretiques) or diſcourſelargely of Philoſophicalldo&trine of the ſoule, But eſpecially, if you affeit tempered with inuiting pleafure,rak&Zxcids; Cock', and his Ne- gromancy\ if inſeric jg oro beds On mtr mms Lipſau doubts! whe gords dit ton the Dri ;or they from

Anglie,and reade Francre, Britainsexcellence in earth and ayre ( whence the|'

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[he nga 1 wel with Canis as Icer Philo (5.0550 CINE ae TYſo Le phers.

the firſt: Song.

phers. Out of (z/ar and Lucan informe yourlelfe with full teſtimony of this their opinion,too ordinary among the heathen and Ievesalſo,which thought our *Sauiour to be /eremie or Elrarvpon this error zirreligious indeed, yet fuch a one,as({0 (trongly ereted mouing [ptrits,that they did neuer

* red:tre parcere vite ,

but molt willingly deuotetheir whoſe ſeluestothe publique ſeruice : and this

was in ſubſlance the politique enuoyes wherewith P/azo and (cers conclu- dedtheir Common-welths, as Hacrobirs hath obſerued. The Author,with pitie, impurestothemtheir being led away in blindnes ofthetime, and errors of their fancies zasall other the molt divine Philoſophers(not lighened by the true word)hauc beene,although(meere humane lufficienciesonly conſidered) ſomeof them were ſublimatfarre abouccarthly conceit: as eſpecially Hermes, Orphens,Pythagoras,(firſt learningtheſoules immorrality of *f herecyaes a Syr:- an)Seneca,Plate,and Plutarch;which laſt twoyin a Greeke hymneofan Eaſtern © Biſhop,are commended toChriſt torſuch as came neeteſt to holines of any vntaught Gentiles, Ofthe Druids more large in hitter place.

Gave anſwere from their caues,and tooke what ſhapes they pleaſe.

Inthe Seame(an Iſle by the coaſt ofche French Bret«/ghe)nine Virgins conle- crate to perpetual chaſtitie,were Pric{ts of a famous oracle,remembredby Ate- la. His printed bookes haue Gallienas vocant ; whete that great critique Turnebreades *Galli Zenas,or Lenas vecant, But Write of Baſimgſtoke will haue it* Cenas,as interpreting their profeſsion and religion,which was inan arbitra- rie metamorpholingthemſelues , charming thewindes ( asof later time the Witches of Leppland and Finland)skill in prediftions, more then natural] me- dicine,andſuchlike , their kindnes beingin all chiefly ro* Sayſers. But fin- ding thatin the Sy{beswerealſoof both Sexes ſuch kinde of profeſſors, chat there were*Sammite, ſtrangely ſuperſtitious intheir Bactbera/,inan Ile of this coalt(asis delivered by Srrabo)and that the Gawles, Britames , Indians ( twixt both whom and Pthagoras is found no {mall concent of doftrine) hadrheir Philoſophers(vnder which name both Prieſts and Prophets of choſe times wereincluded)called* Samane:,and Semmniand(perhaps by corruption of ſome oftheſe)Samorhei,which,to makeit Greeke,might be turned into Semerorher : I doubted whether ſome relique of theſe words remained in that of Me/a,if youreade, eras or Sexas, as contrafted from Samaneizwhich by deduction from aroote of ſome Eaſternetongue, might lignifieas much,as, what we call Aſtrologers.But of this too much.

hoſe townes unto the Saints that lined here of yore.

Not onelyto their owne countrey Saints (whoſe names are there very fre- uent ) buralſo to the /r;; a people anciently (according to the name of : s Holy [landgiuen to [reland) much devoted to, and by the Englyb much reſpeRed for their holines and learning. I omitcheir fabulous Ce/ars neece ro Noah, * their Bartholan, their Ruan , who, as they affirme, firſt planted Religion, before Chriſt, amongthem : nor delire I your belecfe of this R#- ansage, which by their account { {uppoling him liuing c c c. yeares after the floud, and chriſtned by Saint Parrique) exceeded C195,D Cc. yeares, and ſo waselder thenthat impoſtor, ' whoſe tained continuance of lite and rett- les trauailes , euer lincethe Paſsion, lately offeredto deceiue the credulous, Oaelythus1 note outof Venerable Bee that inthe Saxontimes, it was viual! C 2 for

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BY editme.

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: call them Iupi-

ters Prieits or Bawdcs.

* Vaine.

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n A'periTey Dio- nyſ. Afro in mn - £4, muitie.n, pro arb:trio anti- | quorum S. liters adeft vel abeff. y.Caſrubon.ad «. Strab:

" Origen. zams Ke lb a. Clem. Alex flrom.<.0> 8, Diogen. Laert.lib.s ComeQture ypon Mela.

6 Feji 0 :4uieno In%laſacra di- (tt Hiberma. Gira/d.Cams

brenſ.aiflz.cap.

2.

i Aſſuerus Cor. donmer (di67® im I$tor1a Galuca Viftorss ante triennumedita de laparx exc. ) «wits partes oltm en'fſe videntur

l oſe phme Chart o- phylacius (rele. | rente Evijcopo Armentaco aud M atth. Paris in H-n.;.)* 1o- | annes it. ((5u- dam Ronato in Aſtrotog1a ſic indigitat?) Bute ta-de-us,

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i In Bibliothec.

Floriacenſ edit.

per I0ann.s boſce.

Carew deſcritt. Cornlib,2.

Mervlins wvatici- | 10, Aper Cor- it.

| Enripid. An- dremach. Baſtards are ofttimes bet -

mates,

v4 fart dugg,

ET

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ter then legiti-

forthe Engliſh and Garnl:ſhto make [reland,as it were,both their Vniuerlity and Monaltery,for ſtudies of [earning and divineconterplation,as the life of iG#/- da: alſo,and other frequent teſtimonies diſcouer.

From which he firſt was call d the Hoare-rocke in the wood:

ThattheOcean(as in many other places of othercountries) hath eaten vp much of what was here once ſhoregis acommon report, approved in the Cor- »;ſb name of S. M:1chaels mount ; whichis Careg Cowzin Clowsz *.7.the hoare rocke inthewood.

And our main-Amber here,end Burien trophy

HMain- Amber, Ambroſes ſtone(not farre from Perſans) lo great ,that ma- ny mensvnited ſtrength eannot remoue it,yet with one finger you may wagge it, The Burien trophy is x1x.ſtoneg,circularly diſpuſed,and, inthe middle, one much exceeding thereſt in greatneſſe: by conieure of molt learned Camden, eretedeythervnder the Romanes, or elleby K. 4ibe/ar in his conquelt of theſe parts. | |

Were worthy of his end, but where he had his birth.

Necre{ume/about(amblanywas* Arthur (lain byHordred,and ontheſame ſhore,Eaſt from the rivers mouth , bornc in T:mtage/ caſtle, Gorloz Prince of ( ornewallat Vrther-Pendragonscoronation,lolemnizedin Londen,ypon divers too kinde paſlages and laſciuious regards twixt the King and his wife /gerne, grewvery jealous, inarage lefe the Court , committed his wiues chaſtitie to this Caſtſes(afegard gandtopreuentthe waſting of his countrey ( which vpon this diſcontent was threatned)betooke himſeltein other forts to martial pre- paration, Yther(his bloud ſtill boiling inluſt) vpon aduice of Y:fiz Rhicara- dech,oncof his Knights, by Ambreſe Merhns magique perſonated like Gorlo:s, and/!fin like one lordan,ſeruantto Gorlois,made ſuch ſuccellefull vie of their impoſture, that(the Prince in the meane time laine} eAr:thar was the ſame night begotten,and verifiedthat nid, mw 2noiwr 2ucinmcgalchough CHeriin by therule of Hermes,or Aſtrologicall direion,iuſtified, that hee was conceiued 111,houres after Gorless death ; by this ſhift anſwering the dangerousimputati- | onof baſtardy tothe heire of a crowne. For Y7her taking /gern to wite, lefc Arthar his ſuccetſorinthe Kingdome. Herehaue you a /prer , an Alcmera, an Amphuyyo,a Sefias,and a Mercury nor wants there(carceanythung, but that truth-paſsing reports of Pocticall Bards haue made the birth an Hercules,

Knowne by one generall name vpon thi point that dwell.

Thename Daunmony, Damnony,or Danmony,in Solmts and Ptolemy, com- | prehendedthe people of Denonſtire and {ornewal! ; whence the Lizard-pro- montory igcalled Damnium. in Marcian Heracleotes gand Wilham of Malme/- bury, Florence of Worceſter, Reger of Honeden, and others, (tile Deno»ſrire by name of Domnonia, perhaps all from Duff neint. ;, low valleyes in Briri/s ; wherein are moſt habitations ofthe countrey,as wdicious Camd:» teaches me.

Or that this foreland lies furth'ſt out into bis ſeght, Which ſpreads hus vigorous flames

Fuller report of the excellence in wraſtling and nimbleneſle of body, where -

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__ haue beene, and arefamous, vou may finde iscountrey. Bur to _ reaſon of the climats na-

curc,forthis prerogatiuein them, Ithinke as difficult, as ro ſhew why abourthe

| Magellanique ſtraights they are ſowhite, about the (ape de buon ſperanzato | blacke,* yet both vadercheſameTropique; why the A5y/sis are bur tawny

Moores;when as inthe Eaſt Indian Iſles Zez/a» and Aalabar , they are very blacke,bothinthe ſame parallel; or why we chart live in rhis Northerne lati- eude , compared with the Southerne, ſhould nor be like affeRed from like cauſe. I refetreitno more tothe Sunne,then the ſpeciall Horſmanſhip in our Neortherne men,the nimble ability of the /r//,the fiery motions of the French, [talianicaloulic,German liberty, Spanyſp putt vp vanity, orthoſedifferentand perpetuall carriages of [tate- gouernement, Haſte and Deley,* which asinbred qualities , were remarqueableintherwo nioſt martall people of Greece. The cauſe of e/£thtropian blackeneflſe and curled haire was long lince judicioufly «fctchtfrom the diſpoſition of foile,ayre,water, and fingular operations of the heauens; with cofutation of thoſewhich attributeittothe Suns diſtance; AndI am reſoJued that euery land hath irs ſo (ingular (clfe-nature,andindiuiduall ha- bitude with celeſtiall influence,that humane knowledge, confiſting molt of all in yniverſality,is not yet furniſht with whar is requiliteto ſo particulardiſcoue- rie: butfor the [earning of this pointina ſpecial Treatiſe Hippocrates, Protemy, Bodin,others haue copious dilputes,

IWhith now the ennious world doth ſlander for adreame.

I ſhould the ſooner haue beene ofthe Authors opinion (in morethen Poe- cicallforme,(tanding for Brute) ifin any Greeks or Latine Storie authentique, ſpeaking of e/E£ncas and hisplantingin Latinm,were mentionmade of anyluch

not in conieture, weretoo long a Catalogue: and indeede, this critiqueage ſcarceany longerenduresanynation,their firſtſuppoſed Authorsname, not /- tals tothe 1ralian,not Hiſpalusto the Spaniard, Bato to the Hollander ,Braboto the Brabantine, Francioto the French, eltestothe Celt, Galathes to the Gaul, Scerato the Scot z no,nor ſcarce Romulasto his Rome, becauſe oftheirvnlikely and fititious mixtures :eſpecially this of Br»te, ſuppoſedlong before the be ginning of the O/ympiads(whenceall time backeward is juſtly call'd by*Varro, vaknuwne or fabulous)lome c15.c15.D.cc.and more yeares ſince, about Sa- muel:time,is molt of all doubted. But{ reſeruing my cenſure )I chus main- taine the Author : although nor Grecke nor La!mnegnor our countrey (tories uf Bede and Malmesbwry eſpecially, nor that fragment yer remayningof Guda:, ſpeak of him;& that hisname werenot publiſhed vntilGeff7ey of MMonmonths e- dition of the Britiſh ſtory,which grew and continues muchſuſpeRed, in much reieted;yctobſeruc that T alieſtin a * great Bard,mote then c19,yearslince af- firmes it, Vennizs (in ſome copies hee is vnder name of Gr/44)abouepccc. yeacespalt,and the Glolle of Samwe/ B:anlar,orſome other,creptiatohistext, mention both the common report,and deſcent from eAneas; and withall, (which I take to be Nennirs hisowne ) make him ſonne to! one 7/icio or Heſ- chio(perhaps meaning eAſchenaz., of whom moreto the fourth Song)cunti- nuinga pedegree to Ade, joyning theſe words: * This Genealogie 1 found by tradition of the Ancients , which wvere firſt inhabitants of Bruaine, In a

ſe, Nennium fusſſe obſeznatis ſerme tabuls ſum potis adſerere,

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likething. Toreckon the [earned men which denie him, or at leaſt permithim |

Manuſcript Epiſtle of Henry of Huntingdon ®to oneWarin, 1 read the Lauine |

Huntinzdonbegan his Hiſtory at Ceſar,but vpon better inquiftion added Brute. Librii illum,n quens ait ſe incidiſ-

of

* Ortelius thea- tro,

b Thucydid.a & paſſim.de A- | then. Lace- dem e&> de The- bu & Chalcide v.Columell.,de

re ruſtic.cap.4+

4 Ap.Cenſorin. de die nat.cap.

2 1.Chriffoph, Helwuicr Chrono- log14 ſequimur , nec,vQt accurate 165 Femporum ſubdauttoni hog locr incumba. m?, res peſtulat ; verum eo 1'le ſatu accurate, qui Samuels prefelluram A, M C13.CID9. DCCC.Lhayt 1141940 compare

/uit,

f Ex vetwſliſſ & perpuichre m.s. Nennio ſub tit | lo Gilde, | ? Lb. de ſumms. tatib? rerum qui 10.e/ft hiftorig-

rumin m.s.

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* Harding. Nich. > rtowde

re militari. 3.

d C.tit.de profeſ- ſorib.|. nic.

« Camden.

f Troz.Pomp., lib.z1.

$ Melchior Can? lib. x 1.de aut. luft.hum.de by plurima.

h Origen. «ad 35- Matth,

Scethe VI. Song.

i Procopius de bell Y an4ilic, lib. 8.

* 44 Cyg.Cant.

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of this Engliſh ;Yow acke me, Sirys by omuting the ſucceeding raignes from Brute tolulius Czlar,/ begin myſtory at Czlar ? [anſwer you, that neyther by word nor writing,could [ 'finde any certainty of thoſe times ; although with diligent ſearch [ oft inquiredit , yet this yeare in my iourney towaras Romegn the Abbey of Beccenſam, e- wen with amazement] found the ſtorie of Brute: andin his owne printed booke heaffirmes,thar what Bedehad inthispart omitted ,wasſupplicd to him by o- | ther authors z of which Gire/dſcemesto haue had vie. The Britiſh ſtory of Aonmonth was atranſlation(but with much liberty, and no cxactfaithfulncilc) ofa Welſh booke,deliueredto Geffrey by one Walter , Archdeaconof Oxford, and hath beenefollowed (the Tranſlator being a man of ſome credite, and Bi- ſhop of S. Aſaph;,vader K.Srepben)by Ponticus Uirunnius an Italian; molt of our Countrey Hiſtoriansof middletimes,and this agezſpeaking (ocertainly of him, that they blazon his coat * to you, rs Lions combatant,aud crowned Or in a ficld gules zothers,Or,a Lion paſſant gules; andlaltly, by DoRor hire of Ba- | ſeagitoke,lately livingat Doway,a Count Palatine, according to the title belto. | wed by the * /mperia/svpontheir profetlors. Arguinentsaretherealſodrawne | from ſome athnity ofthe Greek*rongue, & much of 7r05ian and Grecke names, withche Britiſh. Theſe thingsarethe more enforlt by Cambro-Bruonsthrough thatvniuerſa'l deſire, bewitchingour Europe,to derivetheir bloud from 77: | tans, which for them mightas well be © by ſuppoſition of their anceſtors mar. riageswirhthe hither deduced Romare Colonices,who by originall were certain- | ly Troian,iftheir antiquities deceivenct. You may addethisweake coniecture; chat in thoſe large excurſions of the Gawler, mmerians , & Celts(amongthem I doubt not but were many Britons, hauing with them community of nation, manners,climat.cuſltums; and Bren hinſclfeisafhrmed a Briton)whichvn- der indiſtigt names when this Welterne world was vndiſcouered ,oucr-ran /- taly,Greeceand partof A/ia,itis © reported that they came to Trey for ſafegard, preſuming perhapsvponlike kindnefle, as weereade of tvixe the 7rorans and Romencr,intheir warres with Anriechus ( which was loving rcfpe@ through contingenccof bloud)vpen like cauſe remembredtorhem by tradition. Brief- ly, ſeeing no National|ſtorie,except ſuch as Thacydides, Xenophon,Polybrus, Cear,T acitus,Procopius,( antacuzengthelate Guicciardin, ( omemines, Macchia- el,andthcirlike , which wereemployedinthe ſtate of their times, can inftifie themſeluesbut by tradition;and that many of the Fathers and Ecc'clialticail : Hiſtorians,eſpecially crheIcwiſh Rabbins (taking their higheſt learning of (4- bala,but from antique andſucceſſivereport)haue inſerted vpontradition many relationscurrantenough,where holy Writcroſlesthem not : you ſhall enough pleaſe Sarzrreand Merenry, prelidents of antiquity and learning, if with the Author youfoſterthis belief. Wherearethe authorities(atlcaſt ofthenames) of lannes & [ambres,* thewritings of Enech,and otherſuch like,which'we know by diuine tradition were?The ſame queltis might be of that infinic loſe of Au- cthors , whoſe nawesareſofrequent in Stephen , Arbeners , Þ lutarch , ( lement, Polybuu,Linie,others. And how dangerous it weretocxamine antiquities by a forreine writer (eſpecially in thoſerimes)you may (eebythe Storicsofthe He- brewer,deliuered in [nitin,Strabo,Tacitmes,andiuch other diſcording and con- trary(belide their infinir omiſsions)to Hoſes infallible context, Nay hewith his ſuccelor /o/u4h is copiousin the Iſraelites entring,conquering , andexpel- lingthe Gergelices, [ebulites,and thereſt outof the holy land; yet no witnes hauethey of their tranſmigration,and peopling of Afrique, which by teſtimo- ny of two pillers,' erected and engrauen at Tg: hath beeneaffirmed. But you blame methus a—— Let me addefor the Author, that ourmoſt iudici- ous antiquary ofthe laſt age [ob Leland,* with reafon and authority harh alſo for Brute argued ſtrongly. Next

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From theſe infortunate accidents , one * will haue his na me Brotuy, as

=_ the Greeke ori, mortall ; but rather(ifichad pleaſed him ) from 8rie, 4 loudy, £ |

He ſhould diſerie the Iſle of Albion,bighty bly;

Hisrequeſtto Dian4inan Hexaſtich,andheranſwere inan Ogdoaſtich,hex: ametersand pentameters,diſcoueredto him in a dreame,with his ſacrifice and rituall ceremonies arc in the Bririſh ſtory: rhe verſes are pure Latine, which cleerely(as js wrieten of ® Apolls)was not inthoſe times ſpoken by Diaza,nor

a Britiſh Poer,as /irwmpe/tels you. The Author rakesa iuſtifiableliberty, ma- king her callit A/6:en, whichwas theoldenameofthisIfle,and remembred in Pliny, Marcian,the booke mer xe , fallly attributed ro eAriftotleys tephen, A- puleins,others;andour Monke of Bury* cals Henry the fift

2;otectonur of1Bzutes }

oftenvfingthatnamefurtheTland, From A/bine,daughtertoDioclefian* King of Syria ſume fetch thename: others from a Lady of thatname , one of the Danaid';atfirmingtheir r arrivall here, copulation with ſpirits, and bringing forth Giants; and all this aboue CC. yearcs before Brare, Bur neyther was thereany ſuch Kingin Syrie, nor had Danax (that can be found) any ſuch daughter,nor travelled theyfor aduentures, bur by their father were newly marcied,after ſlaughter oftheir husbands : briefly , nothing can bee written more impudently fabulous. Othersfrom K. Alb:on, Neprunes ſonne, from the Greeke **£:@&- vthers, or from(I know not what)0/6:44 a Celtiſh King, re- membred by thefalſe Aazncrhon, Follow them rather, which will it * ab «lbs rupibus , whereby it is{pecially conſpicuous, Sowasan Ile in the Indian Sea called Lewca.:.white, and* another in Ponr,tuppoledallo fortunate, andare- ceptacleof the ſoulesof thoſe great Heroes , Pelexs and Achilles. Thus was a place by Thber called * Alb5jona,& thevery name of Albion wasvpon the Alpes, which from like cauſe had their denomination; Alpwm-in the Sabin tongue (from the Greeke &4w,) agnifying white, Some much diſhke this derivation, t becauſeit comes from atongife(ſuppoſle iteyther Greeke or Latme)notanci- ently communicated tothisIfle. For my part,I chinke clcerely ( againſt the commen opinion)that the name of Brizain was knowne to [trangers before Albion, Icould vouchthe* finding of one of the maſts of Hrero's Ship, * & =i; In-: mi; Barevieght iudicious corretion admoniſhed me notrather coreade mln

5:,1.thenow lower (a/abria in /talre,a place aboue all other, I remember,for {toreof Ship-tymber;comended*by Alcibiagdestothe Lacedemonians,Bur with betterſ{urety can I producethe exprelſename of * zyranusr rio , out of awriter that? lived andtraue{led in warfare with Scipio z before whoſetime Scy/ax (ma-

kinga Catalogueof X X.otherIfles) and Herodotus (to whom theſe Welterne | parrs

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vnder{tood by Brace : therefore in charity,belceueit a Tranſlation ; by Gus bebe

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rings a Ki "Wu. in w_ woods, father of kings.

| Baſingſtoch. lib. 1.

" Cicer. de dini. nat lib.r. * 10.Lidg a. lib. ll. Troian. 5. & 45: ſeti®. * Chronic. S. Als ani,

? Huzode Gee neſ.a7,H arding. Cap.z,

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" Tag Wu Neve xl «xr ,vh Ewripides in Andromacha, magu vellem, quam ityg is met IWpi? Xivs/o7h Tt Aiw4ge iTuTmIY quod canit Dis- ny fins Afer. 'Strabolib. Þ & Ly ixt.Pompeius in Alpum, H unf. Lhaid, in Brewiar. * Moſchion @þ, Athen dipn'=

*[nthe hils of Britany,

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! Polyb.hiit.,. qui 1.Ceſarem

C C.ferme annos anteuertif,

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partswere by his confelsion vaknowne)neuer ſo much as ſpeake of vs by any

name, Afterward was A{b:0» irnpoſed ypon the cauſe beforctoucht, expre{sing, the oldeBrire/ name * Jnis-guin :which argument moues me beforeall other,

for tharl (ce iy vſuyll-in antiquity $0; hawe pames ainong (irangers, in their tongueiuſt ſignificant withthe ſame in the languageof the couptry,to which

they are applyed ; as the redde Seais(jn Srrabe,C uri, Stephen, others) named | from a King of chat coaſt called Exythrews (forgtolpeake of reddefand,as ſome,

or redde hils,as an olde*writer,were but refuges of ſhamefull ignoravce)which

wasfurelythe (ame withEſas,calledin holy Writ £4d9>*;both ſignifying(the

one 10 Greek, the other in Hebrew )redde.Sothe riureV//e,fin Hebrew & 4 gy p-

tian called mw I. blacke,is obſcrucd by that mighty Prince of learnings (tate,

Loſeph Scaliger,to fond the (amecolour inthe word a45.6-, vicd tor it by

in honour of N:e,namedallo cxpreſly' Melas: ſo in proper names of men

Simon Zelotes 8,in Luke yis but Syuron the Chenany , and 'T/mmiin Orphers the

ſame with Moſes, [ani with Oenetrus; and in ourtimes thoſe Authors , MMec-

lanchthon, Magirus,T beacrenus ,Belargus,in their owne language , but Swert-

earth Cooke, Fountain de dieu,Storke. Diversſuch other plaineexamples might

i/luſtrate theconceit ; but ,theſeſufficient. Take largeſt rymologicall liberty ,

and you may haue it from * E/len-ban, z. thewbite }ſle, in Scottiſh,as they call

their Albanr13 andto bt ran HL es name of Brizame from Biith-inis. :.:be

coloured Iſle in Welſh zewixt whichang ghe Greeke i 1yyrry, Or muny ( vicd for a

kindeofdrinkeneerely like our Beere) I would with the French Forcatulns

thinke affinity (as /raly was called Oewgrrria, fromthe name of wine) were itnot

for that ww/n» inay be hadfro an ordinary primitiue,orclſe from ne/3.r. ſweet (as

Solinus teaches, making Britomart ſignific as much.as ſweet Virgin)inthe Cre-

11quetongue. Butthis isto play with [yllables,and abuſe precious tume.

TheCitie Turonbiilt——————

Vndetſtand Tor: vpon'Loirein France,whoſename andfoundation the in- habitants * referte toTwrnus (ofthe ſame time with e/Evecas, but whether the ſame which Yirgs ſpeakes of they know not:)his funeral monuments they yer ſhew, boalt cf and from him idly derive the word 7 orneaments, The Bruſh ſtorie ſayes Brute built it(ſoallo Nemnms and from oneT uren, Brute nephew there butied,giuesic thename. Homer is cited forteſtimony : in his works ex- cant it isnut found, Bur, becauſe he had diuers others ( which wrongfull 'time hath filche from vs)asappearcsin Heroderms and Suidas 5 you may infauour thinkeitto beinſome of thoſelolt; yet I cannot in conſcience offer to per- (wade you thatheeuer knew the continent of Gaze ( now,in part,PFraxce ) al- though a learned' German endeauours by force of wit and etymologie, to car- rie/V1ſc.(which he makes of Eliz.z4 in Geneſis)into Spaine, and others before " him(bur falſely)into the Northerne partsof Scor/and, But for Homers know- ledge,ſcerhelalt note rothelſixt Song.

So mighty weye that time the men that lined there :

If youtruſt our ſtories, you muſt beleeuegthe land then peopled with Giants, of valt bodily compoſture. I haye read ofthe Nephilim , the Repbaym, Ana- tim,Og ,Goliath,and other in holy writ : of Mars, Tityus, Antens, Turnus,and the Titans in Homer Yirgil,Owidgandoft Adams ſtature (according to /ewifh * hi Rion )equalling at firſt the worlds Diameter yetſecing that nature(now as fer-

tileasof 01d)hath in her effeRs determinate limits of quantitic , that in eAri- | Ftotles

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the firit Song. 21 Rottes * tine Necre CI.CT 3ycares ſince)their beds were but lixcfoore ordina” | * _— gay | ® Bed. hifl. Ec-

rily ( nor isthe difterence,*wixe oursand Greeke dimenlion;much and that

neeretheſame lengeh was our Sauiours Sepulchre, as Adamnarn informed * K. lefiaſl.g.cap.17

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Alfrid,lT could think that there now are ſome, as great Starures,as for the molt part haue beenc,and that Giants were but of aſomewhat morethen vulgar *cx- cellence in bodie,and martiall performance. If you obicR che kndmget great

®bones,which, meaſured byproportion,largely exceedourtimes :1 firtt anſwer,

chatin ſome lingulars,as Monſters rather then naturall, ſuch proofe hath bin but withall that both now:and of ancient 4 time; the'e 'tudgement in ſuch like hath becne,andis ,ſubietro muchimpolture; miſtaking bones of huge bealts for humane. *{!«#d:74 broughtouer his Blephantshicher , and perhaps [ulius («/ar (ome,(forl haueread' that hererriblytrighted the B-120#7 with ſight of one at Coway ſtakes Jand ſo may you be deceiued: But this i810 place to

examineir. ; of Corin, Cornwall call 'd,tos his immortall fame.

So,ifz oubeleeuetheraleof Cor, and Gogmagoy : but rather imagine the name of Cornewall from this pror:untory ofthe lands end z extending ir (cite l:kea® horne , which in moſt tonguesis{ orn,or very neere, Thus *wasa pro- montory in {ypras,called (eraſtes,and inthe nowCanay or ( rere, and G 48ArA, (the olde Taurica (herſoneſits ) another titled T xeo pirnior, and Brunduſinn in Italy had name from Brendon or ' Brention, i. a Harts-head in the A: effepiar rongue,for ſimilitude of hornes. But * Malmerbury thus: They are entted Corne. wallhmen,becanſe being ſeated in the Weterne part of Rritaine , they ly oncr a-

g4init a horne(a promontory )-f Gaule. The whole name is,as if you ſhoujd

lay (orne-walesy for hither inthe Saxon conqueſt the Britiſh called Welſs ( ig nifying the people,rather then ſtrangersas the vulgar opinion willes ) made tranſmigration : wherof an olde' Rimer, : The vewethat wer ofhom bilened, as in Coznwaite and Walts, 3B2utonsner namore pcluped, ac Waleps pwis, Such was thelanguage of your fathers betweene c cc, and £ccc. yeares ſince: and of ir morchercafter,

The deluge of the Dane exa@tly to hane ſong.

Inther 111, yeare of © Brirhric,K.of the Welt Saxens at Portland ,andat this place(which makesthe fition proper )chree ſhips of Dans Pirars entrec:che Kings Licutenant offering inquiſition of theirname, (tate and cauſe of arriuall, wasghe firſt Eng/i man, this firſt Dan/Þ invaſion, ſlaineby their hand. Mi- ſcrableloiſes and continuall,had the Engliſh by their frequentirruptivnsfrom this timeni}l the Norman conquelt ; twixr which intercedes CC.Lxx. 1x. yeares: andthar letfe account of * cc.xxx.dutingwhichſpace this land endurcd their bloudy ſlaughters,accordingto ſome mens calculation, begins at K. Er5:{»/ph; towhoſe time Henryof Hunrrnigdon, & Roger of Houeden,reterrethe beginning ofthe Da»: milchirſs,conrinuingfo intollerable, that vnder K. Erhe/reawas there begun a tribute Inftypportable{ycarly afterward exaRtedfrothe lubiects) to giuc their King S4ir,& ſopreuent their inſaciat rapin.It was berween xxx.& xL.thouland* pounds(fof | finde necerrnineyofir.ſo variable are the reports) notintituted for pay of Garriſons,itapleyed in(cruice againſt them ( asvpon the milynderſtanding of the { onfeſſors tawenfomeill afirme) but to latisfierhe waſting enemie ; butſothatit ceaſed ri6e; a'though their [poyles ceaſed, but

wascolleedto thevſc ofthecrownezvatill K Stephen promiled to ”_ if, OT

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For indeede S. Edward ypon imagination of ſeeing a divell dancing about the whole ſuwmeof itlying in his treaſury, mouedin conſcience , cauſed itto be repaicd, and releaſed the duty, as /ngu/ph Abbot of Crewlandtels you: yet obſcruc him, andreade Florence of Worceiter,Harian the Scot, Henry of Hun- rigdow, and Roger Howeden,and youwill confetlethatwhat I reporerhus from them is truth and different much from what vulgarly isreceiued. Of the D.1- niſb race were afterward 111, Kings, Cnnt,Hardcnut,and Haroldthe 1. |

His of-ſpring after long expulſt theinner land.

After ſome c15.0.yearesfrom the ſuppoſedarriuall ofthe Treians,their po- ſterictiewere by incroachment of Saxonz,/ntes, Angles , Danes ( for among the Saxons that noble* Doxz wils that ſurely Danes were ) Freſians * and Franks driven intothoſe welterne parts ofthenow #a/es and Cormwales. Our (tories hauethisat large, andthe Saxon Heptarchy; which at laſt by publiqueedi of K. Ecbert was called Enzle-lono.But /obn Biſbop of © Charrres faith it had thatname from * the firſt commingofthe Ang/esz others from che naine of Hengi/t «(a matter probable enough ) whoſe name, warres, policies, and go- ucrnement,being hr(t inveſted by Yortrgern in Kent , are aboue all the other Germans moſt notable in the Br::iſh tories : and Harding

———— — —Hecalledit Engecltes land, afterward was ſhozted,and called England,

Hereto accorus that of one of our © countrey old Poets :

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The Muſe from Marſhwood way cams,” Along the ſbore through Chelills ſands: Where, owerto1ld, her heate to coole, Shee bathes her in the pleaſant Poole : y Thence, oner-land againe doth ſcowre, ' To fetch inFroome, end bring downe Stowre ; Falls with New-forreſt, a ſhe ſings ._ The wantoy Wood-Nymphesrevellings, Whilſt Itchin i» her loftie layes, Channts Beuis of South-hamprons praiſe, Shee Soutbward with her ative flighe 1 wafted tothe le of Wight, To ſee the rutte the a. ne. keepe ; T here ſwaggeriwe in the Solenc wif | T hence pro ward her way ſorebends, And viſiting her Forre# friends, © Neere Salsbury her re# doth take : tbich foee her ſecond panſe doth — /

AR Invites vs ca(ely on, tobaſten our repaur = EL T har high and noble things I ſlightly may nocrell,.; Nor light and idle coyes my lines may vainly (well;

But as my ſubic& ſerues, ſo hie or lowe to ſtraine, ,;;,

And tothe varyingearrh ſoſure my: varying vainey 1 That Nature in my workethou mailtthy poweravow :

So I, to thine owne ſelfe char gladlie neere would ons | May herein doethe beſt, in imicativgehee :

Asthou haſt hcere a hill, avale there, cherea flood,

A mead here, therea heath, and now and chena wood, |

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| Theſethingsſoin my Song Fnaturallymay ſhows;

Now, as the Mounraine hie ;then,as the Valley lowe:

Heerc, fruirfullasthe Mead, there as the Heath be bare ;

Then, as the gloomie wood, j may be rough; though rare. Throu gh the Dorferian ticldschat licinopenvicw,

My progreſic I againe muſt ſeriouſlic purſue,

From Marſhwoods fruitfull Vale my journey on to make:

(As Phebme getting vp'out of the Eaſterne lakey + ©

Refreſht with ealcand ſleepe, is to his labour preſt ;

Euen ſothe labouring Mule, heere baited with chisreſt. )

Whercas thelitcle Zzy8 along doch eaſclie creepe,

And Car, that comming downe vntothetroubled Deepe,

| Brings on the neighbouring Berr, whole bacning mellowed banke,

From all the Britiſh fayes, tor Hempe moſt hagely ranke

Doch beare away the beltzroBerr-portwhich hath-gain'd

T hat praiſe from cuery place, and worthilicobtain' -

Our cordage from herftore; andcables ſhould bemade, |

Ofany in char kind moftfit for Marinetrades! tt

Nor ſcucrd from the ſhore, aloft where Cheſfill: lifes

Her ridged ſnake-likeiand: s,in wrecksand fmodtdring drifts,

Which by the South-wind rayid,are heav' donteue hills:-:

Whoſe valleys with his lowes when foming y fills,

Vpona thouland Swanhes the naked Sca-Nymphesride

Within the ouzie Pooles, replenifhtbiery Tien > - + «

Which running on, the:He of Partiend pointortsous;"

Vpon whoſe moiſtcd skiet wich!ſea-weed friangulgbour,

T he baſtard Couailreds, hanhowneourofthetnich,

A brictle ſtalke becomes, from. greeaiſhrnd rodlack:

S$. Which ch'Ancients,forthelove'tharthey ro 2s bare /

(T heir Goddeſſe maftador'd) hane ſacred for hierhaine, \

Of which the Naides, andthe blew * Nerezdes make

Them Taudries forgher necks; when ſj porting inthe Les:

Theytotheir ſeetere Bovres the Sea-gods ehtertaine,” . ; 7

V Vherc Portlangfrotmrher rop dork oner:peete the Maincy 7 -

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Her mother Blackmores ſtate they ſadly would bewaile Whoſe bigge and lordlie Oakes once boreas braue a ſaile As they themſelues that choughc the largeſt ſhades toſpred: But mans deuouring hand, withallthe carth notfed, Hath hew'd her Timber downe. V Vhich wounded,whea it fell, By the great noiſeic made, the workmen ſcem'd to tcll T he lofſe har to the Land would ſhortlie come thereby, VVhere no man cuer plantsto our poſteritie: | That when ſharp Winter ſhoors her {leet and hardned haile, Or {udCaine guſts from Sea, the harmlcfle Deere aſlaile, T he ſhrubs are not of power to ſheeld them from the wind. Deere Mother,quoth the Froome, too late (alas) we find The loftneſs of thy (ward continued through thy (vile, To be the onely cauſe of vnrecouer'd ſpoile: | VVhen ſcarcethe Britzſh grounda finergraſle doth beate; And wiſh Icould, quoth ſhee, (if wiſhes helpfull were) $. T hou neucr by that name of #hite-hars hadſt been known, Bur ſtiled Blackmore ſtill, which rightly was thine owne. For why, thatchange foretoldtheruineof thy ſtate : Lo, thus the world may ſee what tis to innovate. By this, her owne nam'd * Towne the wandring Froome had paſt: And quitring in her courſe old DorceFerarlaſt, Approaching neere the Poole, at Warham on her way, As caſelie ſhee doth fall into the peacefull Bay, Vpon her nobler (ide, and tothe Sourh-ward neere, | Faire Purbeck ſhee beholds, which no where hach her peere: So pleaſantlicin-Il'd on mightie Neptunes marge, _ A Foreſt-Nymph, and oneof chafte Dianes charge, Imploy'd in Woodsand Launds her Deereto feed and kill: $. On whom the watrie God would oft haue had his will, Andoften her hath woo'd, which never would be wonne ; But, Purbeck (as profeſta Huntreſſe anda Nunne) The wide and wealthy Sea, nor all his power rcſpetts: Her Marble-mindcd breaſt, impregnable, reies The * vglic Orks, that for their Lord the Ocean wooe, Whilſt Froome was troubled thus where nought ſhee hath ro doe, T he Piddle,thatthis while beſtird her nimble feer, In falling co che Poole her (1ſter Froome tomeer, And hauing in her traine two little ſlender rills (Beſides her proper Spring) where-with her banks ſhee fills, Towhom ſince firſt the world this later name her lenc, Who ancicntlic was knowne to be inſtiled > Trent, Her ſmall aſsiſtanc Brookes her ſecond name haue gain'd. Whilſt Piddleand the Froome each other cntertain'd, Ofc praying louely Poole, their beſt-beloued Bay, Thus Pidale her beſpake, ro paſſe the _ away;

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V'Vhen Poole (quorth ſhee) was young, aluſtic Sea-borne Lals, Great Albyon to this Nymph ancarncſt ſurer was And barc himlſelfe ſo well, and ſo in fauour came, That heinlictle time, vpon thislouelie Dame S. Begot three mayden lles, his darlingsand delight : T he eldeſt, Brunkſey call'd; the ſecond, Furſey hight 3 T he youngeſt and the laſt, andlefſer then the other, Saint Hellens name doth beare, the dilling of her Mother. The ſtoricof | And, forthe goodlic Poole was one of Thets traine, cabs Who ſcorn'd a Nymph of hers, her Virgin-band ſhould Raine, Great A4lbyon (that fore-rhoughr, the angric Goddeſſe would Both on the Dam and brars rake what revenge ſhec could) Ih boſome of the Poole his little childrenplact: Firſt, Brunkſey; Furſey next andlittle Heller laſt ; T hen, with his mightic armes doth clip the Pooleabour, To keepe the angric Queene, fierce Amphitrite our. Againſt whoſe lordlic might ſhee muſters vp her waues; And ſtrongly thence repulſt (with madneſs) (coulds and raues, Whennow, from Poole, che Muſe (vp ro herpitchro get) Her ſelfe in ſuch a place from ſight doth almoſt ſer, As by the ative power of her commanding wings, She (Falcon-like) from farre doth fetch thoſe plentious Springs. * Stour riſeth | V Vhere Stour receiucs her ſtrength fr * fixecleere Fountaines fed ; trom fix foun- | VV hich gathering co one ſtreamefromeuery ſeuerall head, Hernew-beginning banke herwater ſcarcely weelds ; And fairelicentreth firſt on the Dorſetian feelds : Where Glingham with gifts that for a God were meet (Enamcld paths, rich wreaths, and cuery ſoucrainc (weer T hecarth andayre can yceld, wich many a pleaſure mixt) Receiues her. Whilſt there paſt grear kindneſs them berwixt, T he Forreſt her beſpoke; How happie floodsare yee, From our predeſtin'd plagues that priuiledged bees Which onche with che fiſh which in your banks doe breed, Anddailic there increaſe, mansgurmandize can feed? Bur had this wretched Ageluch vſes coimploy Your waters, as the woods welatelie didenioy, | Your chanelschey would teaue as barren by heir ſpoile, Asthey of all our trees have laſtlielefrourſoile. = | Infariable Time thus allthings doth deuour : | Whareverſawtheſunne, chatisnorin Times power? Yee fleeting Streames laſt long, out-liuing manica day : | Bur, on moreſtedfaſtthings Time makes the ſtrongeſt pray. |; S$. Now tow'rdsthe Sotent lea as Stony her way dorh ply, ; On Shafrsbury (by chance) ſheecaſt her cryſtall eye, . From whoſe foundation firſt; ſuch ſtrange reports ariſe S. As broughrinco her mimd rhe Eagles prophecies; '

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Of thar fo dreadfull plague, whichall great Brtorne fwepr, From that which higheſt flew, ro tharwhich loweſt crepr, Before the Saxon thence the Britazne ſhould expell, And all that there-vpoa luccelsiuely betell.

How then the bloodic Dane ſubdu'd rhe Saxon race ; And, next, the Norwantooke poſle(5ion of the place : T hoſe ages, once expir'd,the Fares to bring abour, T he Britiſh Linereſtord; the Normenlinage our, F. T hen, thoſe prodigious (1gnes to ponder ſhee began, Which afterward againe che Britans wrack fore-ran; How here the Owle atnoone inpubliqueſtreers was ſcene, As though the peopled Townes had way-leſs Deſerts been. And whilſtche loathly Toad oucof his hole doth crall, And makes his fulſome ſtoole amidrhePrinceshall, The cryſtall fountaineturn'd intoa gory wound, And bloodieifſaes brake (like vicers) from heground ; The Scas againſt their courſe with double Tides repurae, And oft were ſcene by nightlike boyling pitchroburne.

Thus thinking, liuetic Stour beſtrres her row:rds the Maine Which Liddenleadeth out: then Dudes beares her traine From Blackmore, thataroncetheirwatry cribuce bring: VVhen, like ſome childiſh wench, ſhee loaſclic wantoning, - '. Withtricks and giddieturnesſemestoin-Iethe fhore. + Berwixt her fiſhfull' banks; then forward ſhee doth ſcowre,.:."1 |;;. Vnrill ſhee laſtlie reachicleore&/evinherracer;: (1/2 1, (ch 17 Which calmlic commeth downe from her deere mother © Chaſe, OfCranbarnthartis calld zwhogreatlyioyes roſe //

1 ARiucret borne of her, for Sto#rs ſhould reckned bee,

Of that renowned flood; a fanourite highlie guict, Whilſt Cranbars, tor her child 1o torcunarelie,plac'c,

VVith Ecchocs cucrie way applauds her 4/ensftare,

A ſuddaine noiſe from *Holr-ſcemsrto- congratuldte:

| VVith CranbwratorherBrookeſohappily beftow'd:

Where, to herneighboring Chaſe, checcurreousForreſt how'd..

| Soiuſt conceined 1oy;tharfromeachriling*hurſt, | Where many a goodhe Oake haticarefullic beennurſt, | T he S1laarrintheir ſongs their rthirchfull mecringirell; 17

And Satyres, thatinflades andigloony dimables dwell, - : 1's

Runne whooting rorhe hills ro-clappe thbir rudevbands. .: . 1.11, + As Holt had done before, {b Cenfords goodlieikaunds {+ (Which leanc vpon the Poole) enrichowithCoppiagvaines,' 1! {/!; ||

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II & And at New-forre#s toote incothe Seudoefall;-

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Shee now who for herfirecuen boundlcls ſeem'd tolie, $. Her beeing that receiu'd by Williams tyrannie Prouiding Lawes to keepe thoſe Beaſts keere planted then, Wholelawleſs will from hence before had driven men; Thar where the harth was warm'd with Winters feaſting fiers, T he melancholie Hareis form'd in brakes and briers : T heaged ranpick trunk where Plow-men caſt their ſeed, And Churchesouer-whelm'd with nertles, ferne and weed, By Conquering Will;aw firſt cuc off from euery trade, T har heere the Norman ſtill might enter toinvade ; T har on this vacant place, and vnfrequented ſhore, New forces ſtill might land, ro aydethole heere betore. Bur ſhee, as by a King and Conqueror made logreat, By whom ſhce was allow'dand limited her (car, Into her owne-lelfc praiſe moſt infolently brake, | Andherleſle fellow Nymphs, New-orreft thus beſpake : The Forcſtso! | Thou Buckholt, bow to mee, ſoletthy lifter Bere with their Gra. | Chure, knecele chou ar my name on this {ide of the Shierc: ation. W here, for their Goddeflc, mec the Dyiads ſhall adore, | Nymptsrhat | YVich Walthawms,and the Bere,tharon the Sea-worne ſhore Oakes. Seeatthe Southerne Ilesthe T ides acrile corunne £ And Weolmer, placed hence vpon theriling ſunne, | With 4/>bolt chine Allie ( my Wood-Nymphs) and with you, Proud Pambey tow'rdsthe North, aſcribe me worſhip due. Before my Princelie Stateler = poore greatneſs fall : Andvaile yourropsromee, the Soueraigneof you all. Amongſt the Riuers; ſo, greardiſcontent there fell. T hefhicient cauſerhercof (as loud report doth tell) Was, thac che ſprighaly Te# ariſing vp inChute, To /tchin, her Allie, great weakenels ſhould impute, T har ſhee, to her owtiewrong, and cuery othersgricte, Would necds be telling things exceeding all beliefe : For, ſhe had giuen itour Sonrh-hawpton ſhould not looſe $. Her famous Benz {o; wer't in her power to chooſe; $. And, for grcat 4rthars ſear, her WincheFey prefcrries, Whoſe old Rownd-table,yer ſhevaunterh cobehers: i And (wore, th'inglorious time ſhould not bercaye herright; E But what it could obſcure, ſhe would reduce tolight. '_ . . A Poole ner | For, from that wondrous* Pond, whence ſhee derives her head,

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| And Hampton, atherfall into the Solent Sca).

Shecthinks in allthe Ilenotanyluch as ſhee, |

And fora Demy-god ſhe would related bee. Nod 26: Sweer ſiſter mirie (quorth Te#)adviſe you what youdoe z

T hinke this; Foreachof vs, the Foreſts heere arerwo :

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Who, if you ſpeake a thing whereof they hold can take, Bce'c lictle, or bee'r much, they double will ic make: Whom Hamble helperh our ;a handlome proper flood, In curtefic well skild, and one that knew her good. . Conlider, quorh this Nymph, the times becurious now, And nothing of that kind will any way allow. _. Beſides, the Muſchath,nexc,the Brits caule in hand, About things later done that now ſhee cannot ſtand,

T he more they her perſwade, the more ſhee doth perſiſts Letthem fay what they will, ſhee will doe wharſheclifſt, *

Shce ſtiles her ſelſe their Chiefe, and ſweares (hee willcommand;

And, what-ſo-ere ſhee laith, for Oracles muſt ſtand.

Which when the Riuers heard, they further ſpeech forbare,

And ſhee (to plea{c her ſelfe that onely leem'd ro care)

Toſiag thatchicuement greatot Bea thus began; Redoubred Knight (quoth ſhee) 6 moſt renowned man!

Who,when thou wert but young,thy Mother durſtreproue

(Moſt wickedly ſeduc'tby the valawtfulllouc

Of Mordure, atthattime the 4/mein Emperors fonne)

T hat ſhee thy Sire codeath diſloyally had done: *

Each circumſtance whereof ſhee largelie did relates -'

Then, in her ſong purſu'd his Mothers deadlie hates,

And how (by $abers hand) when ſhee ſupposd himdead,

Where long vpon the Downes aShepheardslifc hee lcd;

Till by che great recourle, he came atlength ctoknowe

The Country there-about could hardly holdtheſhowe

His Mothers mariage feaſt to faire South-hampton drue,

Be'ing wedded to that: Lord wholace her husband flue :

[n:o his noble breaſt which pierc't lowondrousdeepe,

T hat (in the poore attire he vsd totend the ſheepe,

And in his hand his hooke)vnto the: Towne hee went 3

As having in his heattareſoJuce intent

Or manfullic to die, or torcucnge his. wrong: . . -.

VVherepreſsingat che gate the multitude among,

ThePorterto fo place hisentrancethac forbad.

(Suppoſing him ſome ſwaine, ſome boyſtrous Country-lad)

Vpon the head hce lent fo violent afſtroke, |

That the pooreemprie skull, like {omethin porſheard broke, - -

Thebrainesand mingled blood, were.ſpertled onthe wall. T hen haſting on he came into. the vpper Hall, .- -: - Where murderous Mordare lare ndnncdd by his Bride: V'Vho (guilcie in himſelf) had hee not Bens ipide, | _ -_ His boanes had-witha blowe bcen ſhattred : bur, by chance (He ſhifring from che place, whilſt Bea& did aduance | His hand, with greater ſtrengrh his deadly foe to/hiry ©

And miſsing him) his chaire hee all ro ſhwcrs(plic: /|

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Which ſtrooke bis Mothers breaſt with ſtrange and ſundry feares, T hac Bewis beeing then bur of ſo render yearcs Durſt yecarremptathing ſo full of death and doubr. And, once before deceiu'd, ſheencwlie caſtabout To rid him our of fight ; and, witha mighty wage, Wonneluch, themiclues by oath as deeplie durſt ingage, | Toexecutc her will: who ſhipping him away (And making forth their courſe into the Mid-land ſea) As they had got before, ſonow againe for gold Toan Armenian there thatyoung Alcides ſold : Ofall his gotcen prize, who (as the worthieſt thing, » And ficreſt where-wichall co grarifie his King) Preſented chac braue youth; the ſplendor of whoſceye A wondrous mixture ſhew'dofgraceand maieſtic: Whoſe morethen man-like ſhapc,and matchleſle ſtacure,tooke T he King that oftenvs'd with greardelight ro looke Vpon chat Engliſh Earle. Bur thoughtheloue he bore To Bew# might be much, his daughrer cenne times more Admird che god-like man: who,from the howrerhar firſt His beaurtic ſhee beheld, felr her ſoft boſome pierſt With Capids deadlieſt ſhaft; thar Zoſeam, ro her gueſt, Alreadic had rcſigp'd poſleſsionof her breaſt. Then ſang ſhee, in the fields how as hee went ro ſport And thoſe Jamn' Ednims heard, whoin Jeſpighefall fort Derided Chriſt che Lord, for his Redecmers ſake Heon thoſe heathen hounds did there ſuch ſlughter make, Thar whilſt in their black mouthesthcir blaſphemies they drue, T hey headlongwenirto hell. Asalſo how hee ſlue Thar cruell Boare, whoſe rusks turn'd vp whole fields of graine (And, wrooting, raiſed hills vponthe leaell Plaine; : MY Digd Cauerns in thecarch, ſo darkcand wondrousdeepe cortineythat } Asthat, into whole mouth thedeſperate * Roman leepe): ries lakeſ01a- | And cutting off his head, a T rophy thence ro beare3 wſhcd bishite. | The Forreſtcrs that came to incercepricchere, How herthcir (calpsand trunks inchips and peeces cleft, And in the fields (like bcaſts) cheir mangled bodies tefr. Asto his further praiſe, how for that dangerous fight Thegreat Armenian King made noble Beau Knight: And hauing raifed power, Demaſtus ro invade, The Generallof his forcethis Engliſh Herot made. Then, how faire 26fjaw gaue him Arandelt hisftced, And Morglay his good ſword, in:manya valiant deed Which manfully.he «rid. Next; ina *Buskind ſtraine, Sung how himſelte he bore vpon Damaſcus Plaine * (T har dreadful bartell) where, with By«dawend he fought And with his (wordand fteed ſich earthlie wonders wrought,

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As cucnamongſt his focs him admiration won z Incountring inthe throng wich mightie Radiſon; And lopping off hisarmes, th'imperiall ftandard rooke. Ar whole prodigious fall, the conquered Foe fot ſooke T he Ficld; where, in one day (o many Peeres they loſt, So braue Commaunders, and ſoablolutean hoſt, As to the humbled earth rooke proud Dameſessdowne, T henriburaric made tothe UHrmenian Crowne. And how ar his returne, the King (for ſeraice done, T he honorto his raigne, and to Armenia won) In mariageto this Earle the Princeſs 2o/ian gaue ; As into whardiſtreſſe him Fortuncafter draue, To great Damaſcus ſent Ambaſſador againe ; When, in reuengeoftheirs, before by Bewi ſlaine | (And now, at his recurne, for that he ſo deſpis'd Thoſe Idols vnto whom they dailic ſacrifizd : — W hich he ro peeces hew'dand ſcartred inthe diſt) - T hey,riſing, him by ſtrength inco a Dungeonchruſt; In whoſe blacke bortom, long two Serpents had remain'd (Bred in che common ſewre tharall the Citriedrain'd ) Empoyſhing with their ſmell; which ſciz'd him for rheir pray : Wich whom in ſtrugling long (beſtneard with blood andclay) | He rent their (quallid chaps,and from thepriſonſeap'. As how adultrous Jesre, the King of Mambrapt, rapt Faire Joſian his deere Loue, his noblefword and : Which afterward by craft, he in a Palmers weed Recoucrd, and with him from Aambrent bare awdy. And with two Lions how hee helda deſperart fray, Aſſayling him ar once, that fiercelie on him flew: -/ FA Which firſt he ram'd with wounds, then by the iecks them drew, And eainſtthe hardnedearth their iawes and ſhoulders burſt; - And that (Golja-like) great 4Aſeupart inforc'r Toſeruehim for a ſlaue, and by his tiorſerorunne. | Ar Coleinasagaine the glorie tharhe wonne - | , On that huge Dragon, like the Country to deftroy 4, Whoſe ſting ſtrooke likea Lance: whoſe venom did deſtroy As doth a generall plague: his ſcales like ſhields of braſs ; His bodie,when hee rhoow'd, like forne vnweeldiemals, | Eucn brus'd the ſolid Farth. V hich boldlie haning ſong, With all the ſundry eurnesthat mighrthereto belong, © # #4 Whilſt yer ſhee ſhapes her courſe how' he cattie back ro ſhow”! -* What powers he got abroad; how them he did beſtow ; on In Exgland hecreagaine, how he by'dint of ſword- 0 HG '| Vnrohis ancient lands and titles wits reſtor'd; UPS ONNT New-forreſt cry'denough : and Waltham with the Bere, © i)

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b The Fore- lands of Corn- wall and Kent,

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| To Seward cafttheireyes, andpray for happie winds.

And for ſhec was a flood, her fellowes nought would lay; But flipping co their banks, ſlid (ilenclieaway.

When as the plianc Muſe, with faireand cuen flight, Berwixt her (iluer wings is waftcd tothe * Wight : Thar Ile, which juttingour incothe Sea lo farre, Her ofspring ctaincch vpinexcrciſe of warre; T hoſe Pyratscopur backe thar oft purloine her crade, Or Spaniards, or the Frenchattempting toinvade. Of all che Southerne Lles ſhee holds the higheſt place, Andeuermore hath bcenthe grear'ſtin Britaines grace: Not oncof all her Nymphs her Soucraigne fauourcth thus, Imbraccd in thearmes of old Oceanw. For none of her account, lo neerc her boſome ſtand, T wixt > Penwiths furtheſt point, and * Goodwins queachy ſand, Both for her ſeat and ſoyle, thar farre before che other, | Moſt inftlie may account great Britaine for her Morher. A finer flecce then hers not Lemfeers (elfe can boaſt, Nor Newport for her Mart, o'r-matcht by any Coaſt. To thele, the gentle South, with kiſſes ſmooth and ſofc, Dothin her boſome breathe, and (cemes rocourr heroft. Beſides, her lictle Rills,her in-lands thac doe feed, W hich with their lauiſh ſtreamcsdoe furniſh cucrienecd : And Meads, that withtheir fine ſofc gralsic rowels ftand Towipeaway thedropsand moiſture from her hand. And cothe North, betwixt the fore-landand the firme, Shee hath that narrow Sea, which we the Solent cearme: Where thoſe roughirefull Tides , as in her Straits they meet, With boyſtrous ſhocks and roreseachother rudely greet: Which fiercelic when they charge, and ſadlie make retrcar, Vpon the bulwarkt Forts of © Hurſt and Calſheot bear, T hen to Seuth-hamptonrunnc: which by her ſhores ſupplide (As Portſmouth by her ſtrength) doth vilifietkeirpride;

Both, Roads that with our beſt may boldlie hold their plea, Nor Plimmonuths (clte hath bornc more brauer ſhips thenthey z T har from their anchoring Bayes haue cravajled+o finde Large Chinas wealthie Realms, and view'd the eicher 1#de, T hepearlie rich Per#;zand withas proſperous fate, Haue borne their ful-{pred failes vpon the ſtreamesof Plate: Whoſepleaſant harbors oft the Sea-mans hope renue, To rigge his late-craz'd Barke, toſpreda wanton clue; Where they with luſtie Sack, and mirthfull Sailers ſongs, Defie their paſſed ſtormes, and laugh at Neprunes wrongs: Thedanger quite forgot wherein they were of late; Who halfe ſo merrie now as Maiſterand his Mate ? AndviQualling againe, with braueand man-like minds

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Bur, partlic by che floods ſent thicher from che ſhore, | And llands thatareſer che bordring coaſt before : 1

As oncamongſtchereſt, a braue and Juſtice Dame | Call'd Portſey, whence that Bay of Poreſmouth hath her name: By her, twolitrle Iles, her handmaids (which compar'd

With cholcwichinthe Poole, fordeftneſs not ont-dard) | The greater Haling hight :and faircſtcthough by much, |

Yer Thorzey verie well, but ſome-what rough in tuch. VVhole beauticsfarreand nceredivulged by report, And by the * Tryzoxns cold in mightie Neptunes Court, .,r —_— Old? Protew hath been knowne toleaue his finny Heard, Non | Aadin their ſightro ſpunge his foame-beſpawled beard. Sea-god, chan- | T he Sea-gods, which abour the watry kingdome keepe, [oxy wa . | Haucoften tor their ſakesabandoned the Decpe 3

Thac Thets many a time ro Neptune hath complaind,

How for thoſc wanton Nymphes her Ladies were diſdain'd : | Andtherearoſcſuch rut ch'varulic routamong, | That ſoonethe noylerhercof through allthe Ocean rong.

$. V 'Vhen Portſey, weighing wellcheillco her might grow, | in chac their mightie ſtirres might be herouer-chrow, | Shee ſtronglie ſtraighrnerh-in che entrancero her Bay ; | T hac, of their haunt debard, and ſhutout tothe Sea Apotticallde- | | ' (Each (mallconceiued wrong helps ondiſtempred rage.) ſcriprionof the | N No counlell could be heard theirchoſer troafivage: (226. Subs Tok : Wheneuery one ſuſpeAsthenext thatisinplace RN To be the onely cauſe and meanesof his diſgrace. : Somecommingfrom the Eaſt, ſome fron the ſerring Sunne, I | T heliquid Mountains till cogerher mainlierunnes Waue woundeth waucagaine ;and billow,billow gores: And topliecuruie fo, flie tumbling tarhe ſhores, From hencethe Solent Sen, as ſome menyhoughc, might ſtand Ep-0 Amongſt thoſe things, which wee call Wonders of oor Land, | Whentoghing vp © that ſtreame, ſonegligentof fame, + * Tichfield Ri |

Astillchisverie day ſhee yer conceales her name; | | | By Bert and Waltham both, that's equally imbrac', © | 7-44 And laſtlie, at her fall, by Tichfie{d highlie gract. | Whence, from old Wizdſor hill, and from theaged * Stone, + 4 Another little The Muſerhoſe Countries ſees, which call herro. be gone. 1 | Hill in Hainp- The Foreſts tooke their leaue: Bere, Chute, and Backbolt, bid | | | OE Adicu's ſo Wol[mer, and ſo 4ſbholt, kindly did. ** | ads I | And Pambey ſhooke het head, as grieuedatrhe harr3 When farre vpon her way, and ready ro depart,\ + | Asnow the wandring Muſe ſo fadlie wentalong, | ' | Toher lit Farewell, thus, the gaodlice Foreſts long; TEE | - Deere Mute, copleadour right, whom time ar laſt hath broughr, | | Whichelle forlorne had lyen, and baniſht cuerie thought, - chan

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* The great & ancient foreſt cf Warwick- ſhire.

d The goocly forcſt by No- ungham.

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f Aduerſ.oent.1,

When thou aſcend the hills,and from their riſing ſhrouds Our ſiſters ſhale commaund, whoſe tops oncerouchrthe clouds ; Old * Arden when thou meerſt, or dooſt faire > Sherwood ſee, Tellthem, tharas they waſte, ſo eucrie day doe wee : Wiſh them,we of otir griefes may be cach others heirs; Let them lamentoor ial, and we will mourne for theirs.

T hen turning frotn the South which lics in publique view, The Muſean oblique courſe doth ſeriouſly purſue: And pointing to the Plaines, ſhethither takes her way z For which, to gaincher breath ſhee makes alitcle ſtay.

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Iluftrations. HD Muſe, yet obſertting her began courſe of Chorographicall longitude, traces Ealtwardthe Southerne ſhere of the I le. In this ſecond. fings Dor-

ſer and Hantſhirey fitly here ioyned asthey iovinethemſelues, both having their | South limits waſht bythe Britiſh Ocean. |

Which th Ancients, for the loue that they to Iſis bare

Inbaremembers *alike corallbythe TAN Iſles (as is here in this Sea)and ſtilesit * 1/645 plot e765, Trirealbn of thenameis no tmure/perhaps to be giuen,then why Adiauren iscalled (april Veneris or Sengreene Barba lowis. Onely thus: You haueio Pimrarcband Apalciie fuch variety of 1/5 ti-

| tles,and,in Clemensof Alexanarjgilo large gircuits of her trauelsthatitweteno {| more wondertohearc af hernam | eſpecially,we hayin

af HETNAl ines dorrnerne climar, thenine£gypr: recriversofnote* ſynonymics wich her. Particularlyto make hera Sea-goddefſe, which the common ſtorieof her and Ofris her hul-

| band(ſonneto (bar ind of whom BY: dares offer affirmance; that in his rra-

uelling ouer the world;heefirſt taughethe Brirons to make Beere in feed of

| Wine)do'snot :* [ſic Pelagiggafter Paiſaniarceſtimony, hath an * ofde coine.

The [pectal[noticewhich Antiquity tpakeof her haireisnot unely ſhewed by herattribute*of * awizy@-,but alſo in that herhgjire was kept,ay & facred re- liquein © Memphis, as Geryons bones at Thebes, theBooresskin at Tegea,and ſuchlikeelſewhere. Andafterthisto fit our corall iuſt with her colour, *E- thiopicis ſolibus This furna,ſheis called by* eArnobins, Gentlewomen cf blacke haire(nofaultwith breuity rorurnetothem')havie'thh imple pitrerne of that partinthis great Goddefſe,whoſeniztheindeed comprehended whatſoract im che Deity wasfeminine,and morervog not will I fweare, but that. dratrren ( a manvery iudiciousintheprouokingimotiues ofwancon love) intendifg to be- ſtow on his{weete Myſtrefechat onepfchericles of warnens ſpecial attrament, |

footed ; two 4 {peciall com. | mendations, | diſperſcd in | Greeke Poets, ioyned in Luci- lots.

*«/1-baired;thought ofthis, when hq gauchis Painter dircRion:t@ make her piRtureblarke-haired. Burthus mu Dar ohms WEE t-.:

7 how never by that ime of Whicecharr'þgdft beene knd1h0es

Very likely fromygheſollewasthe old nanie Blitkwore, By repotvof this courigreyythecharigewasfromawtiice hart, ncferudd here from Chate , by ex- preſſe will of Hen-atanfefrerwnd i ied by 7 aanizy dela Lond, #fehfjewe of theſe parts. Forthe offence, a mul& impoſed on the polleſors of Black-

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more ( galled * whute-hart filucr)istothis day paid into the Exchequer. The deſtrution of woods here bewaild by the Mule, is (vponoccafiontoo often giuen)often ſeconded: but while the Muſe bewailes them,it is CA{aryas and his country-men,that moſt wanrthem. |

Gn whom the watry God would oft have had his will.

Purbeck. (named , but indeed not,an Iſle, being ioynd tothe firmeland)ſto- red with game of the Forreſt, |: Thence alluding to D:ana's deuotions, the author well cals her an Hartres anda Nunze. Nor doth the embracing force of the Ocean'( whereto ſhe is | adiacent)although very violent, preuaileagaiut her ſtuniecliffes. To this pur- | | poſe the Muſe is heere wanton with Nepran:swooing, |

T hat hein little time vpon this lonely dame , Begat chree maiden Iles hs darlings and delight.

Albion((onne of Neptune) from whom that firſt name of this Briraine was ſuppoſed,is well fitted tothe fruitfull bed4e of this Poole , thus perſonated as a Sea Nymph, The plainetruth(as wordes may certifie your eyes,lauing all 1m- propriety of obic&) is, that 1n the Poole areſcated three Iſles, Byunkſe1,Furſey, and, Helens,in ſituation and magnitude,asI namethem. Noris the fition of begetting the ſles improper ; ſeeing Greek * antiquities tellvs of diuers in the Mediterranean andthe Archipelag,as Rhodes, Delos, Hirra,the Echinades,and 0- thers, which hauebeene, as it were, brought forth outof the ſalt womb of Amphitrite, ” ©

But towards the Solent Sea,as Stour her way doth ply, On Shaftsbury >e. | | |

The ſtraight twixtthe #ight and Hantſhire , istitled in Bedes ſtory,*Pelagis lattudins 111, millmm. quod vocatrr Solente,famousforthe double, and ther- by moſt violent flouds of tize Occan(as Scy/la & ( harybdis twixt Srctly and [ta- lyin Homer Jexpretled by the Author towards the end ofthisSohg, & reckon'd among our Bri wonders. Ofitthe Author tels you morepreſently. Con: cerning Shaftesbury(which, belide othernames, 'from the corps of S*. Edward, murdred in{orfe Ca(tle.through procurement of the bloudy hate of his (tep- mother «/£/fr1tb, hither tranſlated, and ſome 111. yeares lying buried, was once called $*, Edvards)you ſhall hearea peece out of Harding ;

* Caire Paladoure that nowis Shafteſbury Ulhere an Angell ſpake ſitting on the wall While it was m wozking over all, ; Speaking of R#dhudibrar his fabulous building it. I recireit,both tomend it, reading Aigle tor Angell, and alſothat it might then, according tothe Bri: ſory,helpe me explainerheauthorin this, |

As brought into her minde the Eaglesprophecies.

This £ag#(whole prophecies amongthe Britons, withthelater of CAferim, haue beene of no lefſereſpe,then thoſe of Bacts were totheGreekes , or the | Sybillines to the Romanesforeto)d of areuerting of thecrowne,, after the Bri- tons,Saxons,and Normans tothe firſtagaine, whichin Hen. Y Ik. fonne to O- wen Tyddour hath beene © gbſerucd,as fulfilled, Thisin particularis peremp-

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hift, eccleſ.cap. 16,

: Malmesb.11b, 2.de Poniific. S.Elwards. DCCCC.LIXAT,

« Camdentakes this Cai for Bath.

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* He plainly ſaid thatthere would be a time of this re. verting of the Crowne.

" Difintl. Aquil Sceptonie. Aprophecie of an Apgellro

Cadwellader.

* AScepter in ſeed of a ſword firſt in Hen, the thirds ſealc , but beleeve hm not; the ' ſeales of thoſe eimes giue no warrant forit : and cuenin K. Arthurs, Leland ayes, there was a fleury Scep- 2A as Ce his falſe. * Hiſt. Scot. lob. 5in Cong allo.

P Matth.Paru poſi Hen;Houn- tin, 'and voder Will. 1.it was capital to ſteale Deere.

4 1Robert.Gle- ceftrenſ.

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torily affirmed by that Count P a/arme of Baſingtoke.* Et aperte dixit tempus 4- liquands fore vt Britanninm imperium denus fit ad veteres Britannos poſt Saxo- nas + Normannos rediturum, are his wordes of this Eagle, But this prophe- ciein Manuſcript I haue ſeene,and without the helpe of Alberts: ſecret, Cana- ce':ring in Chaxcer, or reading over Ariſtophanes Comedie of Birds I vnder- ſtood the language zneyther finde Tin ic any ſuch matter exprelly. Indced as in Merlin you haue in himthewhite Dragon,the redde Dragon ,the blacks Dra- | gon for the Saxons, Britaines, Normanes, and the fertile tree, ſuppoſed for Brate, by onethatof later time hath giuen his obſcurities * interpreration : in which, notfromthe Eagles ,but from an Angelicallvoyce , almoſt cc, yeares after Chriſt,giuen co {adva/lader (whom others call { :*dva/a)that reſtitution of the crownetothe PBritonris promiſed,and groundedallovpon ſome generall and ambiguous words inthe Eag/es text,by the Author herefollowed ;which(pro- uided your faith be ſtrong)you muſt beleeue made more then c15.c12.D. years lince. For acorrollary, in this not vnfic place,I will tranſcribe a piece of the Glaſſe outot an oldecopic, (peaking thus vpon a pallagein the prophecic: Henricws * 1111, (hemeanes Her.11i, who , by the ancient accountin regard of Herry,lonneto Henry Fite-lempreſſe,crowned in his fathers life, is in Bratton and others called the fowrth)conceſcit omne 115 & clamenm, proſe (+ heredibus ſm- 15,quod habuit in Ducatu Normannie imperpetniem, Tunc fraitum fuit eius fi- gullum & mutatum z namprins tenebat in ſceptro gladinm,nunc tenet virgamz qua glad:* fuit de conqueſts Ducis Willielmi Baitards, & ideo dicit Aquila,ſeparabuur gladms 4 ſceptro, Such good fortune haue theſe prediftions, thatcyrher by conceit(althoogh (trained)they areapplicd to accident,or elſe ever religiouſly expeQtcd, as * Buchanan of Merlins,

T hen thoſe prodigious (ignes to ponder ſhe began.

I would not haue youlay tothe Authors chargea iuſtification of theſelignes |

atthoſetimes;but his liberty herein, itis not hard to iuſtifie, Obſeditg, frequens caftrorumL, lmina bubo:

and ſuch like hath S$:/s /ra/icxs before the Rowan ouerthrow at { 214 ; and Hiſtorians commonly affirm the likeztherforea Poet may wel guelle the like,

And at New-forreſt foote into the Sea doth fall. The fall of Srowr and Awow into the Ocean isthelimit ofthetwo ſhires , and

| here limits the Authors deſcription of the firſt, his Muſe now cntring New-for-

reſt in Hantſaire. | Her being that receiu'd by Villiawss tyrannie.

New-foreſf(itis m—_ theneweſt in England,except that of Heawmpron Court, madeby Hem,v111.)ac —_ William her maker,that is,the Norman ( on- |

weror, His louetothis kinde of poſleſsion and pleaſurewas (uch , thathe con- |

ituted loſſe* of Eics puniſhmenefor taking his Venery : ſo affirme exprelly | Florence of Worceſter , Henry.of Huntmgdon , Walter CMapez, ,and othicrs, al-| thoughthe Author of Diſt1mitio Aquile,uith ſome of later time, falſly laidit to | William Rafus his charge. To iuſtifie my truth, andfor variety, ſeetheſerimes, acuen breathing antiquity :

he louede inou.and of wild bef,

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And aſtozed well * mid beftes,and * leſemidgret won: Uo2 he caſt out cf houſe and hom ofmen a great route, And * binom their lond th2itti mile and moze thereaboute, And made it all fozeft andleſe the beffs voz to fede,

Mf pouer men dilcrited henom let cl hede ; | LTheruoze therein vell mony miſchening, | Andis ſone was thereme * iſfote UW the redKing, And *is oſone,that het Richard,caght there isdeth alſo, And Kichard* is onenen,bzec there is ncck thereto,

As he roday honteth and perauntrehis hozſe ſpzend, The vnright idotopouer men to ſuch meſauntre trend,

But eo quit you of this antiqueverſe, I returne to the pleaſanter Mule.

Hir famons Beuis ſo wert in her power to chooſe;

About the Norman inualion was Bens famous withtitle of Earle of South - hampton; Dunttonin Wiltſhire knowne for his relidence, What credit you are to giueto the Hyperbolies of /rchin in her relation of B-#4 , your owne judge- ment, and the Authors cenſure in the acmonition of the other rivers here perſonated,l preſume,willdireRt, Andir is wiſhed thatthe poeticall Monkesin celebration of him, Arrhur,and otherſuch Worthies had containd them(elues within boundsof likelyhood ; orelſethatſomeiudges, proportionat rothole * of the Grecian Games,(who alwayes by publiqueauthority pull'd downethe ſtatues ereted,if they excecded the trueſymmetry of the vitors) had giuen ſuch exorbitant fitions their deſert. The ſweet grace ofan inchantingPoem(as vynimitable Pinder 'aftirmes)often compels belicfe; butſo farre hauetheindi- geltedreports of barren and Monkiſh invention expatiated out of the liſts of Truth, that from their intermixed and abſurd fauxetics hath proceeded doubr, and,in ſome,cuen deniall ofwhat was truth. His ſword is kept as arelique in 4- ard the

thirds at Weftminiter,

And for great Arthurs ſeat her Wincheſter preferres, Whoſe old round table yet,eoc.

For him, his eable,order, Knights, and places of their celebration,.looke to the 1v.Song.

When Portley waighing well the ill to her might grow.

o_ anllandin acreeke of the Solert , comming in by Porte/month, en- dures the forcibleviolence of that troubleſome lea,as the Verſe tels youin this fiftionof wooing.

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In this third Song, great threatnings axe,

And tending all to Nymphiſh warre.

Old Wanſdike vttereth words of hate,

Deprauing Stonendges eſtate.

Cleere Avon and faire Willy ſtrive,

Each pleading her prerogatiue.

The Plaine the Forres doth diſdaine:

The Forreſts raile »pon the Plaine.

The Muſe then ſeckes the Shires extreames,

To find the Fountaine of great Tamesz

Falls downe with Avon, and diſeries

Both Barthes and Briſtowes braweries:

Then viewes the Sommerſetian ſoyle |

Through Marſhes, Mines, and Mores doth toyle,

To Avalonio Arthurs Grave, |

Sadlie bemoan'd of Ochy Cave.

Then with delight (hee brawelie brings

The Princely Parret from her Springs :

Preparing for the learned Plea

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Al Whilſt yet the bluſhing Dawne our of the cheerfull Eaſt

Il 1s vſhering forth the Day rolight the Muſealong: == \\ hoſe moſtdelightfull couch, and (weernels of her Song,

Shall force the luſtie Swaines out of the Country-rownes,

To leadthe louing Girles in daunces tothe Downes. |

The Nymphs, in Se[woods ſhades and Bradens woods that bee,

Their Oaken wreathes, 6 Muſe, ſhall offtervp to thee. |

And when thou ſhap' thy courſe tow'rds where the ſoile isrank,

The —_— mayds, by ſwelling Sabryns bank

Shall ftrewe the waics with flowers (where thou art comming on)

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From Sarum thus we ſer, remou'd from whence it ſtood By ves to reſide, her dcereſt loved Flood: Where her imperious * Fanc her former ſeare diſdaines, And proudly oucr-rops the ſpacious neighboring Plaines, VVhar pleaſures hath this Ile, of vseſtecm'd moſt decre, | In any place, but poore vnto the plencic heere 2

T he chaulkic® Cþrltern ficlds , nor Kelmarſh (elfe com pares

' Wich © Ewerley for ſtoreand (wiftnes of her Hares: A horſeof greater ſpeed, nor yerarighter hound, Not any wheretwixt Kentand *Caliden is found. Nor yet the teuell South can ſhewea ſmoother Race, Whereas the * ballow Nag our-ſtrips the winds in chaſe; As famous in the Weſt for matches yeerelie tride, As*Garterley, poſleſtofall the Northen pride: And on his match, as much the Weſtern horſeman ayes, As the rank-riding Scots vpon their fGallowayes,

And as the Weſterneſoyle as ſound a Horſe doth breed, Asdoth theland thaclies betwixt the Trent and Tweed :

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T heonely kind of Hounds, for mouth and noſtrill beſts

' T hat cold doth (ildome fret, nor heat doth ouer-hailez

As ſtanding in the Flight, as pleaſant on the T railes

Free hunting, eaſely checkt, and louing euery Chale;

Straight running, hard, and rough, of reaſonable paſe:

Not heauie, as that hound which Zawcaſbire doth breed ;

Nor as the Northerne kind, fo lightand hot of ſpeed,

Vpon the clecrer Chaſe, oron the foyled T raine,

Doth make the (weeteſtcry, in Wood-land, or on Plaine: Where ſhe, of all the Plainesof Britaine, that doth beare

T henameto berhe firſt (renownedeuerie whete)

Hath worthily obcaind that Sroneradge there ſhould ſtand:

Shee, firſt of Plaines; and 8 thar, firſt Wonder of the Land.

Shee Wanſdikeallo winnes,by whom ſheeis imbract,

T hat in hisaged armes doth gird her ampler waſt:

Who (fora mightic Mound (ith long he did remaine

S$. Berwixt the Merciaws rule,and the Weſt-Saxons raignc,

And cherefore of his place him ſelfe hee proudly bare)

Had very oft beene heard with Stozendge ro compare;

V'Vhom fora paltry Ditch, when Stenenage pleald rvpbraid,

The old man taking hearr, thus to that Trophy ſaid;

Dull heape, that thus thy head aboucthe reſt dooſtreare, Preciſely yer nor know'ſt who firſt did place thee there; But Traytor baſely turn'dto Meylins skill doolt flic,

And with his Magiques dooſt thy Makers cruth belic: Conſpirator with Time, now growen ſo meane and poore, Comparing theſe his ſpirirs with thoſe that wenc before;

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Yetratherart content ch y Builders praiſe toloſe, | T hen pailed greatnes ſhould thy prelent wants dilclole. [11did chole mightie men to truſt thee with their ſtorie,

| Thar haſt forgor their names, who rcar'd thee fortheirglorie:

For all their wondrous coſt, thou that haſt ſerud them (o, W har tis torruſt co Tombes, by thee we eaſcly know. Inthelc invettivesthus whilſt Wanſdick doth complaine, Heinterrupted is by that imperious * Plaine, $. To heare twocryſtall Floods to court her, that apply T hemlelues, which ſhould be ſeene moſtgraciousin her eye. Firſt, Wally boaſts her ſelfe mare worthy then the other, And berter farre deriu'd :as having to her mother Fairc *Selwood, and to bring vp ® Diver in hertraine; Which, when the envious (oile would from hercourſe reſtraine, A mile creeps vnder earth, as flying all reſort: And how cleere Nader waits atrendancein her Court ; And thercfore claimes of right the Plaiwe ſhould hold herdeerc, Which giucs thac Towne the name; which likewiſe names the Shire. The Eaſterne Aves vaunts, and doth vpon her rake To betheonclicchild of ſhadefull © $averwake, As Ambrayes ancient flood ; her ſelfeand roenſtile T he Stonendees beſt-lov'd, firſt wonder of the lle ; And what (in her behoofe) might any want lupply, Shee vaunts the goodlie ſeat of famous Sebibarie; Where meeting prettic Bewrne, with many a kind embrace, Betwixt their cryſtallarmes they clip that loved place. Report, as lately rais'd, vnto theſe Riuers came, F. T hat Bathes clcere Avon (waxt imperiousthrough her fame) T heir daliance ſhould deride; and that by her dilſdainc, Some other ſmaller Brooks, belonging to the Plarwe, A queſtion ſeem'd to make, whereas the Shire ſent forth T wo Avons, which ſhauld be the flood of greateſt worth; This ſtreame, which co the South the *Celtick Sea doth ger, Or that which from the North falucerh Somerſet. This whentheſe Riuers heard, thateuen bur lately ſtroue V Vhich beſt did loue the Plaine, or had the Plaines beſt loue, T hey ſtraight themſelues combine: for/#i{ly wilclic waide, Thar ſhould her Avowloſe the day for wan of aide, If one lo great and neere were ouerpreſt with power, The Foe (ſhee becinglefle) would quicklie her deyour. As two contentious Kings, that oneach lirtletarre, Defiances ſend forth, prockaiming open warre, Vncill ſome other Realme, rharontheir frontires laes, Be hazardedagaine by other enemics; Doethen berwixtthemſelues tro compolicion fall, Tocountercheck char ſiyord,elle tike roconquerall:

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So fails ic with theſe Floods, that deadlic hate doe beare. And whilſt on either part ſtrong preparations were, Ic greatly was ſuppos'd ſtrange ſtrite would there haue been, Had not the goodly Plane (plac'tequally berweene) Fore-warn'd chem to deſiſt, and off their purpole brake : When in behalfe of Plaines thus (gloriouſly) ſhe ſpake * Away yccbarb'rous Woods ; How cuer yeebeplac' On Mounaines, or in Dales, or happily be grac't With floods, or marſhie* fels, with paſture, or withearth By nature madetorill, that by che yeerely birch T helarge-bay'd Barne doth fill, yea though the fruirfulſt ground. For, inreſpc& of Plaizes, what pleaſurecan be found In darke and ſlcepie ſhades? where miſts and rotten fogs Hang in thegloomie thicks, and make vnſtedfaſt bogs, By dropping from the boughs, the o're-growen trees among, Wirh Caterpillers kells,and duskie cobwebs hong. T he deadlic Screech-owle fits, in gloomie couert hid: Whereasrthe (mooth-brow'd Plaine, as liberallie doth bid T heLarke ro lcaue her Bowre, and on hertrembling wing In climing vptow'rds heauen, her high-piccht Hymnestofing Vnto the ſpringing Day z when gainſt the Sunnes arile T heearlic Dawning ſtrewes the goodly Eaſterne skies VVith Roſes euery where : who ſcarcelie lifts his head- Toview this vpper world, but hee his beames doth (pred 'Vpon the goodlic Plazmes ; yetar his Nooneſteds hight, Doth ſcarceliepiercethe Brake with his farre-ſhooting ſigh. The gentle Shepheards heer ſurvay their gentler ſheepe: Amoneſtthe buſhie woods luxurious Satyrs keepe. To theſe braue (ports of field, who with deſireis wonne, Toſee his Grey-hound courſe, his Horle(in diet) runne, - His deepe mouth'd Hound to hunt, his long-wingd Haulk to flic, T othele moſt noble ſports his mind who doth apply, Relorts vnto the Plaines. And nota foughten Field, Where Kingdoms rights hauc laine vpon the ſpeareand ſhield, But Plaines haue beene theplace3z andall choſe T rophies hie That ancient times hauerear'd conoble memoric: As, Stonendge, char to tell the Britiſh Princes ſlaine By choſcfalſe Saxons fraud, here ever ſhall remaine. It was vpon the Plaine of Mamre (tothe fame Of meeand all ourkind) whereas the Angels came To Abrahamin his Tent, and therewith him did feed ; To Sara his deere wife then promiling the ſeed By whomall Nations ſhould ſo highly honor'd bee, In which the Sonne of God they inthe fleſh ſhould ice. But Foreſts, to your plague there ſoone will comean Age, In which all damned finnes moſt vehemently ſhall rage.

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An Age! what hauc I (aid ! nay, Ages there ſhall riſe,

So lenicleſle of the good of their poſterities,

T harof your greateſt Groues they ſcarce ſhall leaue a tree (By whichthe harmclcſe Deere may after ſhelcred bee )

T heir luxuric and pride bur onely ro maintaine,

Andfor your long exceſlc ſhall turne ye allto paine.

Thus ending ; though ſome hils themſelues thatdocapplie Topleaſc the goodly Flaze,ſtill tanding inherceie , | Did muchapplaud her ſpeech (as Haradon,whoſe head Old 4mbyy ſtill doth awe,and Bagden from his ſted, Suruaying oftheYes whole likings doallure Both Ouldbyyand Saint _d nne;and they againe procure Mount Marting-ſall: and he thoſe hils that ſtand aloote, Thoſe brothers Barbary , and Badbury,whoſe proofe Addcs much vnto her praiſe) yerin moſt highdiſdaine,

The Forreſts take her words , and (weare the prating Plaine Growneold began rodoate : and Sawernake 74 much

Is galled wich her taunts ( whom they ſonearely touch) Thar ſhe in (pitefulltearmes defies her to her face z; |

And Aldburne with che reſt,though being buta Chaſe, Atworſe then nought her ſers; bur Bradonallafloate VVhenic was tolde to her,ſeropenſuch a chroace,”

T hatall che countrey rang.Shecals her barren Iade, | Baſe Queane,and riv'id V Vitch,and wiſheſhocould be made But worthy of her hare(which moſt of alther grieues )

The bateſt beggers Baud, a harborer of theeucs.

T hen Penſham,and with her old Blackmore(not behinde)

Do with that from the Seas ſome ſoulrrie Southerne winde, The foule infe&tious damps,and poiſnedaires would (weepe, And pourc them onthe Plaime,to rotherand her Sheepe.

But whilſt theſportiue Muſe delightsher with theſe chings, - | She ſtrangely taken is with thoſe delicious Springs | Of Kenet riling here , and of the nobler Streame Of [ſis ſetting torth vpon her way ro 7ame, | $. By Greeklade, whole great name yer vaunts that learned tong, VVhereto great Britainefirſtthe ſacred Mules ſongs VVhich firſt were (cated here, at Js bounrious head, Ascellingthather fame ſhould throughtheworld beſpread z And tempted by this flood ro 0xferdafter came', HT There likewilc to delight her bridegroome, louely Tamer * VVhoſebeautie when they ſaw,ſomuch they didadore, | That Greeklade they forſooke,and would goe backeno more. . Then Bradon gently brings forth-toon from-herfource: Which Southward making ſoonein hermoft quiercourle, - i

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Minerue and Hercules, the proteQtors of theſe fountains,

The delicacies of Briſtow.

Sers out her murmuring ſholes,till (turning co the Weſt) Her, Somerſet recciucs, with all thebounties bleſt

T hat Naturecan producc inthat Batbonian Spring, Which from the Sulphury Mines her med'cinall force doth bring z As Phyſick hath found out by colour,taſte,and (mell, Which taughc the worldat firſt the vertue of that Well ; W hat quicklieſt itcquld cure:which menot knowledge drew From thac firſt minerall cauſe : but ſomechar little knew (Yer felt the greateffeRs continually it wroughc ) S.Aſcrib'd itto thar skill, which Bladed hither brought ,

As by that learned King the Bathes ſhould be begunne3 Not fromchequickned Mine, by the begetting Sunne Giuing that naturall power, which by the vigrous lweate, Dothlend che liucly Springs their perdutable hare

In paſsing through che veines; where matter doth norneed; Which in that minerousearth inſep'rably doth breed + Sonature hath puruai'd,that during all her raigne

T he Bathes their native power for cuer ſhall retaine:

Where Timecthar Citie built, which to her greater fame, Preſeruing of that Spring, participates her name;

The Tutilage whereof(as thoſe paſt worlds did pleaſe) Some to Mineywa gaueand ſame to Herenies:

Proud Phebasloued Spring,in whoſe Diurnall courſe, $.Vhen oa this point ofcarth he bends his greateſt foree, By his ſo ſtrong approach, prouokesherto deſire ;

Stung with the kindly rage of toues impatient fre:

Which boiling in herwombe,proies (asroa birth) | Such matter as ſhe rakes from the groſſe humorousearth; Tillpurg'd ofdregs and ſlime,and her complexionciere, She {mileth on the light, and tookes wich mirthfullcheere.

Then camethe luſtic Freewe,the firſt of floudsthat mer

Faire Avon cntring into fruicfull Somerſet,

With her attending Brooks ; and her to Bathe dorh bring, Much honoured by that place, Minerva's ſacred Spring, To noble Fvon,next,clecre Chuteas kindly came ,

To Bri/!ow her tobeare, the faireſtſear of Fame:

To entertaine this flood,as greac a wind that hath,

And ſtriujngintbat kind farre toexcellthe Bath.

As when ſome wealthy Lord, prepares tochtertaine

A man of highaccougs, and feaſtbisgallanttraine

Of him thatdid thelike,dorbſeriouſly enquire Hisdict, his deuiceghis ſeruice, hisatrire ; _ :/ | T hatvaryingevery thing(cxampled by his ſtore) Heeucrie way may-paſle whaerhrother did before : Euen ſothis Citic doth ; the p of which place

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Well faſhioned as the beſt,and with a double wall,

As braueasany Towne; bur yerexcelling all

For eaſement,thacco health is requiſic and meere;z

Her piled ſhores , to keepe her delicareand (weere:

Hereto, ſhe hath her Tides; thac when ſhe is oppreſt

With heat or drought, ſtill poure their floods vpon herbreaſt. To Menadip then the Muſe vpon the South inclines,

Whichis the onely ſtore,and Coffer of her Mines: |

Elſewhere the Fields and Meades their ſundry traffiques ſuir :

The Forreſts yeeld her wood, the Orchards giuc her fruic. As in ſome rich mans houle his feucrall charges lie,

There ſtands his Wardrobe, here remaines his T reaſurie;

His large prouiſion there,of Fiſh,of Fow!,and Neat;

His Cellars for his Wines, his Larders for his meate;

T here Banquet houſes, Walkes forpleaſure ; hercagaine

Cribs,Graners,Stablcs, Barnes , the other to maintaine:

So this rich countrey hath,ic (elfe what may ſuffice 3

Or that which chrough exchangea (maller want ſapplies: YerOchyes dreadfull Hole ſtill held her ſelfe dilgrac't,

$.With *ch'wonders of this Ile that ſhe ſhould not beplac :

Bur that which vexc her moſt, was, that the *Peaki/hCaue

Before her darkeſomeſelfe ſuch dignitie ſhould haue ;

And ® th'Wyches for their Salts ſuch ſtate on them ſhould take;

Or Cheſbire ſhould preferrcher ſad <Dearh-boding-lake 3

And Stonendge inthe world ſhould ger ſo high reſpeſt,

Which imitating Arteburidly did cre&:

Andthat amongſt thereſt, the vaineinconſtant *Dee ,

By changing of his Foards, for one ſhould reckond bee ;

As of another ſort,woodturn'd to *ſtone ; among,

Thanatomized fFiſh,/and Fowles from ® planchers prong:

And on the Cambrian (ide thoſe ſtrange and wondrous® Springs ,

Our * beaſts that ſeldome drinke;athouſand other things

Which ochy inly vext, that they to fame ſhould mount,

And greatly griev'd her friends for her {6 ſmall account;

T hat there was ſcarcely Rock, or River, Marſh,or Meare

Thar held not Ochyes wrongs(for all held Gehy dearc)

$ In great and high diſdaine : and Froome for her diſgrace

Since ſcarcely euer waſht the Coleſleck from her face

Bur (melancholy growne)to Avengers apath,

T hrough ſickenels forc't to ſeeke for curcvnto the Bath :

$. And Chedder for meere griefe his recne hecould nor wreake,

Guſhr forth ſo forcefull ftreames, that he was like to breake

Thegreater bankes of Ax, as from his mothers Cauc,

He wandred cowards the Sra; for madneſſe whodoth raue

' | Ar his drad mothers wrong : but who ſo wo begon

For 0chy,asthe Ile of ancient Avalon?

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*A catalog of many wonders of this Land.

* The Diucls arſe.

d The Sal Wels in Cheſ- ſhire. | * Bruertons pond,

4A rmer by Weſtcheſter.

f Our Pikes, ript and ſow'd vp , liue.

s Barnaclcs 2 bird breeding vpon old ſhips. h Wondrous Springs 10 Wales.

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* Toſeph of Ari. mathea.

b The won- drous tree at Glaitenbury.

Fruitful Moors on the bankes of Bry.

POLYOLBION,

Who hauing in her ſelfe , as inward cauſe of griefe, Negle&eth yer her owne,cogiuc herfriend relicfe. T heother ſoagaine for her doth ſorrow make, Andinthe Iles behalfe the dreadfull Caucrne ſpake;

O chreetimes famous Ile,whereis that place that mighr Be with thy (elfe compar for glorieand delight, WhilſtGlaF#enbary ſtood ? cxalted to that pride,

Whoſc Monaſterie ſcem'd all other roderide?

O who thy ruine fees, whom wonder doth not fill

With ourgrear fathers pompe,deuotion , and their skill ? Thou more then morrall power (this judgement rightly wai'd) T hen preſent coaſsiſt,at that foundation lai'd ;

| On whom forthis ſad waſte, ſhould Iuſfticelay che crime?

Is there a power in Fate,or doch it yeeld to Time ?

Or was their error fuch,thar thong could'ſt nor prorect Thoſe buildings which chy hand did with chcir zeale ere ? To whom didſt thou commic that monumenr,co keepe,

'T harſuffrech with the dead their memory roflecpe?

$. Vhen not great Arthers Tombe,nor holy * /oſephs Graue ,

From facriledge had power theirſacred bones to ſaue;

He who that God in man to his ſepulchre brought,

Or he which for the faith ewelue famous barrels fought.

What? Did ſo many Kings do honor to thar place,

For Auaricearlaſt(o vilely todeface ?_

Forreu'rence,to that ſeat which hath aſcribed beene,

b Trecs yet in winter bloome,and beare their Summers greene. This ſaid,ſhe many a ſigh from her full tomacke caſt,

W hich iſſued through her breaſt in many a boyſtrous blaſt

And with ſuch floods of teares her ſorrowes dorh condole,

As into riuers turne within that darkeſome hole: .

- Like forrow for her ſelfe,this goodly Ile dork tric;

$.Imbrac't by Selwoods ſonne , her flood the louely Bry, On whom the Fares beſtow'd(when he conceiued was) He ſhould be much belou'd of many a daintic Laſſe ; Whogiuesall leaue to like, yet of chem likerh none :

Bur hisaffteion (ers on beautious _AMualen ;

T hough many a plump-thigh'd moore,&ful-flanck't marſh do proue To force his chaſte Jefires,fo dainty of his loue. | Firſt Sedgemoreſhewes this flond, her boſomeall vnbract, And caſts her wanton armes about his ſlender waſt:

Her louer to obtaine, ſoamorous Andry ſcekes:

And Geaney ſoftly ſteales ſweetkifſes from his checkes.

One takes him by the hand,inrreating him to ſtay :

Anotherplackes him backe, when he would fainc away : But, having caughtat, length,whom long he did purſue, Is ſointranc'c with loueher goodly parts to view,

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That alcring quite his ſhape, co her he doth appeare, And caſts his cryſtall ſcltc incoanample Meare: ©. Bur for his greater growth when needs he muſt depart, And forc't tolcaue his Loue (though wicha heauichart) As hec his back doth turne, andis departing our, T he barning marſhic Brent enuirons him about : But lothing her imbrace, away in haſtc he flings, And in the Sewerne Sea {urrounds his plentious Springs. Bur, dallying in this place (olong why dooſt thou dwell, So many ſundry things here hauing yer totell? | Occaſion calls che Muſe her pynions co prepare. Which (ſriking wich che wind the vaſt and open aire) Now,in the hinnic Heaths, thenin che Champains roues; Now, meaſures out this Plaine ; and then ſurvayesthole groues; The barfull paſtures fenc't, and moſt with quickſet mound, T he ſundry ſorts of ſoyle, diverſitic of grounds Where Plow-men cleanſethe Earth of rubbiſh, weed, and filth, And giue che fallow lands their ſeaſons and their tylth: Wherc, beſt for breeding horſe ; where cattell firſt ro keepe z Which good for bearing Corne; which paſturing for ſheepe : Thelcanc and hungry carth, the fatand marly mold, Where ſands bealwaics hor, and where theclayes be cold z With plentic where they waſte, ſome others toucht wich wane :

Heere ſer, and there they ſowe; here proine, andtherechey plant.

As Wiltſhire isa place beſt pleas'd withthacreſore Which ſpendaway the time continualliein ſport; So Somerſet, herſelfe roprofit doth apply, As giuen all ro gaine, and thriving huſlwifrie. For, whercas in a Land onedothconſumeand waſt, | Tis ficanother bero gather inas faſt: T hisliketh moorie plots, delights in ſedgieBowres, Thegrafly garlandsloues,and ofcattyrd wich flowres Of rankeand mellow gleabe; a ſward as (oft as wooll, With her complexion ſtrong, a belly plumpeand full.

Thus whilſt cheaQtiue Mule ſtraines our theſe various things, Cleere Parret makesapproach, wicthall thoſe plentious Springs Herfruicſul banks that bleſſe ; by whoſe Monarchall ſway, Shee forrifies herelfe againſtthat mightie day Wherein her vemoſt power ſhe ſhould be forc'r to try.

For, from chc Dy#ides time there wasa prophecie,

Thar there ſhould comea day (which now was ncereat hand By all forerunning ſignes) thar on the Eaſterne Strand,

If * Parret ſtood nor faſt vpon the Engliſh (ide, |

They all ſhould beſuppreſt : and by the Britiſh pride*

In cunning over-come; for why, impartiall Fatc (Yetconſtantalwaies to the Britains crazed ſtate)

Forbad

* A ſuppoſed prophecie ypo Parret.

POLYOLBION,

Forbad they yct ſhould fall ; by whom ſhe meant to ſhowe

How much the preſent Age,andafter-rimes ſhould owe

Vntotheline of Br#te, Clecre Parret therefore preſt

Her tributaric Screames, and whollic heraddreſt

Againſt the ancient Foe: Firſt, calling to herayde

*rwt:fom | I wo Riucrsof *onename ; which ſeemeas chough they ſtayd

which,the |T heir Empreſſe as ſhe went, her cher hand that take.

town I>elis | The firſt vpon the right, as from herſource, doth make

inomnats. [Large Muchelney an Ile, and vnto Fvelllends

Jer hardlie-rendred name : Thaton her lcfc, deſcends

Zrom Aeroch's neighboring woods; which, of that Foreſt borne,

Her riualls proffered grace opprobriouſly doth {corne.

Shee by her wandring courle doth £z7zhelney in-Ile:

And for the greater ſtate, herſelfe ſhe doth inſtile

F. T he neareſt neighbouring flood to Arthersancient ſear,

W hich made the Britaines name through all the world fo grear.

[Like Camelo?, what place, was euer yetrenownd?

V Vherc, asatCarlion, oft, hee keptthe Table-round,

Moſt famous forthe ſports at Pentecoff ſolong,

YFrom whence all Knightlie deeds, and braueatchicuements ſprong. As ſome ſoft-{liding Rill, which froma lefler head

Yer in his going forth, by many a Fountaine fed)

Extends ir ſelfeat length vntoa goodly ſtreame :

So, almoſt through the world his fame flew from this Realme;

T har iuſtlieI may charge thoſe ancient Bards of wrong,

Soidly ronegleR hisglorieintheir Song,

For ſome aboundane brainc, 6therehad beena ſtorie

Beyond the * Blind-mans mightto have inhanc't our glorie.

Tow rdsthe SebrinianSeathen Paryet letting on, '

To her attendancenexc comes inthe beautious Tore,

Crownd with embroidred banks, and gorgeouſly arraid

With all ch'enamild flowers of maniea goodly Mead :

In Orchards richly clad; whoſe proud aipyring boughes

Euen of the talleſt woods doe ſcornca iotero loole,

T hough Selwoods mighty {cifeand Neroch ſtanding by:

T he ſweetnes of her ſoyle through euery Coaſt doth fly.

W hat care ſo empty is,that hath not heard the ſound

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Where Sca-ward 2uarntock ſtands as Neptwme he controld, And Blackdown In-land borne, a Mountain and a Mound, As though he ſtood to look about the Country round:

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Vpon her taketh State, well forward row'rds her fall: Whom laſtly yer to grace,and not the leaſt of all ,

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which lie twixt the Sexerne and Hamſpue ; asthe Song here ioynes them :

From Sarum thus we ſet,remou'd from whenceit ſtood.

Old Salisbwry (eated Northeaſt from the now famous Salisbary , ſome mile diſtant,about R:chard Ceur de Lionstime had hernameandinhabitants, hither tranſlated, vpon the mecting of Avon and Aderborn; where not lon o after ſhe enfoy'd, among other ,that glorioustitle of admiration for her ſumptuous Church-buildings. Ofthat,oneof my Authors thus:

_ rae. of Av LTwelfhundzed and to andtwentti the vare placs | Dfthe noble Þunftre of Saleſbuarihiileide the verſe ſfone Thatmenot non.

Ther was Þ Yeletide vine the put Theother g King the dde as me ſepe Uo? the gode Erle of Saliſburi William * the Longeſpet, The vecrth vo2 the Contecſſe, theviſtehelcidetho

Uo; the *Biſhop of Saleſbnri,awd he ne leidena mo,

This workethen began,was by Robert of Bingham_},next ſucceeding Biſhop to that excellencie, proſecuted.

Hath worthily obtaind that Stonehenge there fbould ſtand.

Vpon Sa/:5bury plaine ſtones of huge waight and greatnes, ſome in the earth pitcht,and in forme erefted, asit werecircular ; others lying croſlſe ouer them, asiftheir owne poize did no lefſethen their ſupporters giue them that proper place, have this name of Stone-henge ;

But ſo confus'd that neyther any eye Can count them. init,nor reaſon reaſon try, What force brought them to ſovnlikely ground.

As the noble* Sidzey of them. | | No man knowes, ſaith * Huntingdon (making themthe firſt wonder ofthis Land, asthe Authour doth)how, or why they came here. The caule thustake tromche Bri ſtorie: Hengift vnder colour of a friendly treaty with. Vorr:- gern at Amesbury, his falſhoods watchwordto his S«xonr(prouided —_— F y

Bern ng her firſt courſe,the Muſe rceturnes to Somerſet and FFiltſhires

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* Willielm. de 'onga ſpatha. * Richard

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Phyſique,

4 Apud Mun- ler.ad Deuter.z. Tf among them th.rev2e a Vbotitone, ict the TJew hauc 1t-

e Powe! ad lib. 2 c4Þ 9. Girald. itenerarh.

f Ariſtot. tet I2v;z. x20}, * cuataiC.

* Ad Germ, Tacit. Woden or Wonden.

Irmunrull. Sax. Mercury. Adam Bremenſ. cap.5-& Hence Irmin eate.

b Proerb.26. v.8,

ly with long kniues)being * Nimeþ youp pexer,theretrayterouſly ſlew cb. 1x. noble Britons,and keptthe King priſoner, Some xxx, yeares after K.e Ambros {to honour with one monument the name of ſo many murdred Worthies ) by helpe of Yrer-pex-dragons forces and CHeriins magique, gotthemtranſpor- | ted fromoffaplaine(othersfay a hill)neere © Naas in Kildare in [relandybither, roremain asa trophy, not of viRtory, but of wrongedinnocencie. This CMer- lin per[waded the King thatthey were medicinall,and firlt brought out of the cemolt parts of Afrique by Giants which thence came to inhabit [re/and,* Nov eft thi lapis qui megicamento caret,asin Merlms perſon Geffrey of CMonmruth ſpeakesz whoſe authority inthistreacherous ſlaughter of the Brirons,I reſpect notſomuch as Nennius, Malmerbury,Sigebert, Matthew of Weſtminſter, and 0- thers,who reportitasI deliver. Whether they be naturally ſolidorwith cement artificially compos'd,lwillnot diſpute. Although the laſt be of caſier credit; yctI would with ourlate Hiſtorian #hite,beleeue che firſt ſooner, thenthar/- lyſſes ſhip wagby Nepreneturnd intooneltone, as itis inthe Odyſſces , and that thee /£gyprian King Amaſirhada houſecut out in one marble(which,by Here- dorus de(cription,could not after the workmanſhip haue lefle content then C13.Cc13.Ccc.xciv.ſolid cubits, ifmy Geometry faile me not)orthat whichthe lexes *arenotaſham'd toaffirme of a ſtone, with which K. Og at one throw from his head purpos'd to haue cruſht all the /ſrae/ires, had not a Lapwing ſtrangely pecktſucha bole throughic,thatit fellon his ſhoulders, and by mi- racle his vpper-teethſuddainly extended, keptittherefalt from motion, Ie is poſsible they may be of ſome ſuch earthy duſt as thatof Puzzole,and by e/£1- na,which caſt intothe water turnes ſtonie,as Pliny after Strabo of them and o- ther Ike remembers. Andfor certain'lI find itreported,that inCairnarnanvpon Snowdon hils isa [tone(which miraculouſly ſomewhat more then 1x. yeares lince, rais'dit felfe out of a lake atthe hilsfoot)equalling alarge houſe in great- nes, and ſupp9s'd not moueableby a x. yoake of Oxen. For the forme of bringingthem, youropinion may take freedom. That great one which Hercu- les *18 wondred at forthe carriagewas but*a Cartload,which he left fora mo- nument inOcrantoof Italy :and Except Ge of Mormoanth,with fome which follow him,{czrceanyaffirme or (peake of it,nor Nennizs , nor HMaimesburyy che firſt living (omewhat neere theſuppoled time.

Betwixt the Mercianrule,and the Welt-Saxons rajgne.

Sothinkesour Antiquaryand Lighrof this Kingdome ; that,tobealimitof thoſetwo arcient ſtates, ſometime diuided by Awon,which falls into Seuernc, Wanfſdike croſsingthe fhireWeltward oner the plainc was firſt caft vp. woderſ- arke,the old name is ſuppoſed from Woder ,of no leile( if notgreater) eſteeme tothe Saxonthen Arſaces,Pelops{"admms , and other ſuch to their poſlerity ; but ſo,that, I gueſſe it went but fortheir greateſt Gud Merceory(he is called ra- ther Woxden trom Wingthar is,gaincby* Lip/ſias)as the German 2nd Enghſh anti- quitiesdiſcoucr. Andverylikely,whenrhis limitwas made, that it honor of him, being by name preſident of wayes, and by his office of Heraldſhip Paci- fex.i,Peacemaker,as an old NNamptitles him,they called it Fodenſadike ; as not onely the Greeks; had their Ejugj cries rerazine( Natues creRted)for limits and direion of wayes,and the Latires their Terminus, but the ancient [ewe alſo,as vponinterpretation of 702 5:2 *in the Prouerbs 4 avto ax heape of Mercury ( in thevulgar }for a heape of ſtones inthatſenſe, Goropinr in his hieroglyphiques afirmes,ſomewhat boldly deriving Mercury trom perc , which ſignifies a li- mit in hisand our tongue,and ſo fits thisplace in name and nature, Sronhenge and it not improperly contend, being (eucrall workes of two ſcuerall na- tions,

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tions anciently hatefulltoeach other ; Britons and Saxons.

To heare two criſtall loods to court her, which apply

Williboarne(bytheoldnamethe Author cals her 7p) deriued from neere | Selwood by VV armyſter with her creeky patlage, croſsing to Y /i/ren, naming | both thattown and the ſhire,and on the ather fide Awontaking her courſe our | of Sawernak by Marleborow through theſhire Southward walhing Ambresbury { and the Salisburie:(new Sali;bury being herEpilcopall citie ) both watring the | | piaine,and furniſht withtheſereaſons,arc fiely thus perſonared, ſtrivingtoen- dearethemſelues in her loue : & proſecuting this fition, the Mule thus addes ;

How that Bathe's Auon waxt imperiou through bey ſame.

| Diuersriuers ofthat name hauewezbut two ofeminentnote in Wilrſrire:onc is next before ſhew'd you,which fals through Dorcer into the Oceanzthe other here mentioned hath her headin the edge of Glocefter : and with her ſnakie courſe,viliting Malmesbury,/ hippenham, Bradford, and diverstovnes of flight note, turns into Somer{er,patles Barh,and caſtsherſelfeintoSexerne at Bris? uw. | This compendious contention (whoſe proportionar example 1s aſpecial] c[c- gancieforthe expreſsing of diverlity,asinthe Paſtorals of Theocricz and Vr- gill )is aptly concludedwith that point of ancientpolirique. *obſcruation, thar | * In Thucydid,

Ontward common feare is the [ureſt band of friendſhip, &- Lin. | x To Greeklade whoſe great name yet vants that learned tong.

TheHiſtory of Oxford inthe Proforsbooke, and certaineold verſes, kept : — C)F+ 4

ſomewhere inthistra, affirme, thatwith Brute came hicher certaine Greeke Philofophers,from whoſe name and profelsion here itwasthius called, and as f an Vniuerlity afterward tranſlated to Oxford(vponlike notation a company of Phyſitiansretiringto® Zechlage in this ſhire, gave that itsritle,as Row addes |, in his ſtoryto Hen. 1 7,)But Godwine anda very old Anonyme , cited by Br. | juke ! Twme,referre it to Theodore of T ar/us in (11c1a(made Archbilhop of Canrerbu- ; | | ry by P.Vicalian vnder Ecgbert King of Kent very skilfulin both tongues,and | ancxtraordinaryreftorer of [earning to the Erglyb-Saxons; That he had( a- mong other) Greckeſchooles,is certaine by Bedes affirmation that ſome of his ſcholers vnderſtood both Greeke and Larinastheir motherlanguage. Richard | of the Vies © will that Penda,Kz bf Mercland , rſt deduced:a colony of Cam: | . I bridge men hither and cals it/ -ehelade,as wther Kirklade withivaricty of natnes: 7 _ ny | butI ſuſpeR all; aswelli for om:i(sivn of itin beſt authorities, as alſo char the | Ps 4 name is ſo different in it (eIfe. Greto/#d} was never honoured with Greeke | Cod. Nig.Can- ſchooles,as theignorant mulcitudethinks, faith * Lelard;affirmingitſhould be | f457-4/»d aur, rather (reclade,Lechelade,or Latblade..Normethinkes(ofall ) itands icwith pa ws the Bru ſtory,makingthe tongue thenakind of Greeks (@amarter, that way | + py Cy2. Cant. realonableenough , ſeeing it is queſtionles that colonies anciently deriued | i» Ide Id. ontofthe Welterne 4/ix,Peleporneſus , Hellus , and thoſe continents into the | 244+ + + 1 coaſt wherice Brute came; trariſfpiorted the Greeke withthem)thar profeſsion of | ©" Grene Grecian: ſhould make this fo particular aname. | = gol

l — __-—_ meth lib. 1. AſcriB4'ts that hithsbill whith learned Bladud brought

:- Youarenaw in $omer/itfire. 1 doubrnor but therruecauſe is that,which is ordinary oforher-hoeſprings;gotctheſunnes heat (fauingthe authors opinicri; F 2 which

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- | arguments(accordingto the Poeticall conceitof 7yphon',buried in Prechyta;

which hath warrant enoughin others)or agitation of wind, as fome will; but eyther patlage through metallique, bituminous, andſulphurous veins, or ra- thera tcall ſubterranean fire,as © Empedecles firltthought, and with moſt witty

wherto S:rbo referres the beſt Bathes in /ra/y)my learned and kind friend M-. Lydzat, that accurat Chronologer,in his ingenious Philoſophy, bath lately diſ- pured. But, asthe Authortels you, ſome Britifs vanity impures it to Bladwd: art,which ina very ancient fragment * of rimes I foundexprelt: andif youcan endure the languageand fition you may reade ir,andthen laugh atir.

Sal gemmz and(al perrz,

Sal armonak there iseke

Sal albrod my(ſal alkine

Sal Gemm# is minged with him , Sal Comin and ſal almetrre bzight

and loin the tommeigo "gies

Iwill asſoone beleens all this,as that S.* Dentor Iulins 'Caſar(who nevercame neereit)was author of it,or that hemade Knights of the Bath.. They are not wanting which haue durſtſayſo. . Lt

When on this point of earth he bends his greateſt force. . From eight inthe morning tillthree(within which timethe Sunne beames

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cleaneexcrements,nurthen doth any enter it ; which the Mule here expretles in aferuentſympathy of loue twixt the Water and theSun,andthe morepro- perly becauſe ic had chenameof** Ague Sol.

With th'wonders of the Ile that ſbe ſhould not beplac't.

*ockey hole(ſocall'din myconceit,from pocg*,v hich istheſamewith pic, ſignifying a4s//ow or creekie peſſage) in Mend hills by Welles, for her ſpacious vaults,ſtonie walles, creeping Labyrinths, vnimaginable caiſe of poſture in cheearth.and hirneighboursreport(all which almoſt equall hertothat Grorra de la Sibylla inthe Apenin of Marca Ancenitana,andthe Dutch ſong of little Dazi«l) might well wonder ſhe had notiplace among her countrey wonders. Onethatſeemes toencreaſe Samuel Beanulan vpon Nennms, reckons x117,by chat name, but with vaine and falſe reports (asthat of the Bathto be both hot and cold,according to the delire of him that waſhes ) and,in fomexhe Au- thor of Polzchronicon followes him z neyther ſpeaking of this. Butthe laſt, and Henyy of Huntingdon reckon onely foure remarqueable z the Peake , Ston- hbenge ( hederbole,and a hill cut of whichitraines. Thatwonder of humane ex cellence, Sr Philzp Sidneyto fit his Sonnet, makes [ix ; and to fie thatnumber conceitedly addes a froward,but chaſt, Lady for the ſeventh, Andthe Author heretels youthe chiefelf. | : |

- that Froome for her diſgrace, Srnce ſcarcely ever waſht the Coleſleck from her fate.

Out of Mendsp hils Froome(pringeth,and through theColepits aftera ſhort courſe Eaſtward turnes vpward to Barbes Avon. The fiftion of her beſmear'd face happensthe better,in that Froome,after our old mother language, ſignifies faire,as that paradoxall Becamns*,inexpolitionofthe Eg yprian Proms in He- rodores,* would by notation teachvs.

And Chedder for meere griefe his teene he tould not wreake.

Neere Axbridge,Chedder cleenes,rockey and vauted, by continual diſtilling, isthe fountain of aforcible ſtream ( driuing x11. Mils within a miles quarter of its head)which runnes into Ax derived out of Wockey,

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Henry the /econdin hisexpedition towards Ireland entertayned by the way in #a/es with Bardsſb (ongs, wherein he heard it affirmed that in GlaFftenvury (madealmollt an lle by the Rivers embracements) Arrbxr was buried twixt two pillars,gaue commandement to Henry of Blais then Abbot, to make (earch forthe corps:which wasfoundin a wooden coffin ( Grra/d ſaith Oken, Leland thinks Alder):ſomelixtcene foote deepe but afterthey had digged nine foor, they f found a ſtone on whole lower (ide was fixta leaden crolle ( Crofles fixt vpon the Tombs of old Chriſtians werein all places ordinary) with hisname inſcribed, and the letter fide of it turn'dto the ſtone. He was then honored with aſumptuous monument,and afterward the ſculs of him and his wife G#«- nexer weretaken out(toremaineasſeparat reliques and ſpeAtacles) by Edward Longſhanks and Elianor. Ofthis,Girald,Leland,Priſe,diuers others( although Polydore make flight of it)haue more copious teſtimony. The Bards Songs

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* The work- manſhip of the Ditches , Wals, and ſtrange ſteepnes of them , makes it ſeeme awouder of Artand Nature.

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Werthily famous was the Abbey alſo trom /s/eph of Arimathia(that,* ruoyguwr 8:>amicy a8 S, Afark cals him) here buricd ,which giuesproof of Chriſtianity in che lle before our L=c:45,Henceina Charter of liberties by Hez.11. tothe Ab- bey(made in preſence of Heracliz Patriarch of /eruſal:12,and uthers)I reade, * Olim a quibuſdammater ſanttorum aiftaeft,ab alys tumulus ſanttorum,quam ab ipſis diſcipulss Domini edificatam & ab 1pſo Domms dedicatamprimo fuiſſe ve- nerabiles habet antiquerum autho#itas. It goes for currant truth that a Haw- thorne thereby on Chriſtmas day alwayes blotſomerh : whichtche Author tels youinthat, Trees yet in winter &c, You may calt thisintotheaccount of your greatelt wonders. |

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The neereſi neighbouring floods to Arthurs ancient ſeat.

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England and Wales ftrize, in this Song, To whether, Lundy dothbelong : | IWhen eithers Nymphs,to cleere the doubt, By Muſick meane to try it ont.

of mightie Neprune leaxe they aske:

Each one betakes her to hey taske ;

The Britaines, with the Harpe and Crowd : The Engliſh, both with ſtill and load.

The Britaincs chaunt King Arthurs glory » The Engliſh ſing their Saxons ſtorie.

The Hills of Wales their weapons take, And axe anvprore like to make,

To keepe the Engliſh part in awe.

There's heawe,and ſhone, and hold, and draw ; That Severnc can them ſcarce divide,

Till Indgment may the Cauſe decide.

ST59K9) His while in Sabrir's Court ſtrong fattions ſtrangely grew, ISA Since Cornwall for her owne, andas herproper due, 49 (9Y Claim'd Lundy, which was faid ta Cambria to belong,

= Whooft had ſought redreſſe for that herancientwrong : But her inveterate Foe, borne-our by Englands might, O're-(waics her weaker power; that (now incichers right) As Severne finds no Flood fo great, norpoorclie meanc, But thac the naturall Spring (her force which dorh maintaine) From this or that ſhee rakes ; ſo from this FaQtion free (Bcgunabour this Ile) not one was like to bee. =

This Z#ndyisa Nymph to idletoyes inclin'd And, allonpleaſure ſcr, doth whollicgine her mind Toſeevpon her ſhores her Fowleand Conics fed, S. And wantonlic to hatch the Birds of Gantmed. Of rafique or returne ſhee neuer raketh care: Not prouident of pelfe, as many Ilands are:

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4 Albion, Nep- tunes ſon, ware red with Her-

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A luſtie black-brow'd Girle, with forehead broadand hie, Tharoften had bewitcht the Sea-gods with her eye.

Ofall che In-laid Iles her Soucraigne Severye keepes,

That barchetheiramorous breaſts within her ſecret Deepes (To loue her * Barry muchand Si/ly chough ſhee ſeeme,

T he Flat Holme and the Steepe as likewile ro cſtceme)

This nobleſt Britiſh * Nymph yerlikes her Lundy beſt, And to great Neptunes grace preferres before the reſt.

T hus, Þ Cambria to her right that would herſelfe reſtore, And ratherthen to loſe © Zozgria, lookes for more ; : The Nymphs of cicherpart, whom palsion doth invade, Totriall traight will goe, though Neptune ſhould diflwade: But of the weaker ſex, the moſt part full of ſpleene,

| Andonely wanting ſtrength to wreake their angry teene,

For skill their challenge make, which euerie one profeſt, Andin thelearned Arts (of knowledges the beſt,

-| And coth'heroick ſpirit moſt pleaſing vnder skie)

Sweet Muſick, righclie matcht with heauenlie Pocſie,

In which they all exceed : and in this kind alone

They Conquerers vow to be, orlaſtlic ouerthrowne. Which when faire Sabrize ſaw (as ſhee is wondrous wiſc) And that ic were invaine them better roadviſe,

Sith this contention ſprang from Countries like alli'd,

T hat ſhee would not be found