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<P>PHILADELPHVS, OR A Defence of Brutes, and the Brutans Hi&s;tory.</P>
<P>Written by R. H.</P>
<P>Imprinted at London by Iohn Wolfe. 1593.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE MOST NOBLE LORD, the Lord Robert Deuoreux, Earle of E&s;&s;ex, of <HI>her Maiesties priuie Coun&s;ell, Knight of the Princely Order of the Garter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_RIght Noble, my verie e&s;peciall good Lord, I pre&s;ent nowe vnto your Lord&s;hip, this hi&s;toricall <HI>E&s;say,</HI> in print, which I offered before in wri|ting, eyther becau&s;e I am vrged to this dutie by your mo&s;t honoura|ble munificence toward me, or be|cau&s;e I cannot prouide my other exerci&s;es written of greater and grauer matters. Yet I take the defence of mediocritie for a matter of &s;ome weight, both in this hi&s;torie of <HI>Brute,</HI> which is made litigious, and in any other po&s;ition of much le&s;&s;e importance, euen of haire it &s;elfe; in&s;omuch as mediocritie cannot be di&s;a|lowed.</P>
<P>It is manife&s;t, that &s;ome haue written more of <HI>Brute</HI> then behoued them, but &s;ome haue behaued them&s;elues vnkindly again&s;t <HI>Brutans,</HI> and done le&s;&s;e for them, then they &s;hould.</P>
<P>They are on both partes, too learned for me, I am not worthy to be their moderator, in this que&s;tion of <HI>Brute:</HI> howbeit, as they haue freely deliuered their opinions with out any &s;top, &s;o would I &s;hew the good will I beare to the one part, without any hatred to the other. God forbid,
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that diuer&s;itie of &s;tudies, &s;hould bring forth a diuorce|ment of heartes among neighbours and friendes: it were better no bookes at all were written, then to a breake the bond of vnitie, and loo&s;en the yoke of obedience by them, &s;eeing wee may liue better without them, men without the&s;e.</P>
<P>I hope, I am cleane from any abu&s;e in this pre&s;ent trea|ti&s;e, I will euer honour &s;trangers, for their good qualities of learning and life: but I mu&s;t not hold my hand and pen &s;till, when I &s;ee them too bu&s;ie, in to&s;&s;ing our hi&s;tories and actes, at their owne plea&s;ure, which appertaine not vnto them: they cannot &s;tay mee from my &s;tudie, more then I kept them from this practi&s;e. I fauour the hi&s;torie of <HI>Brute,</HI> without regard of their disfauour, as they di&s;like it, without re&s;pect of other mens liking. I cannot in loyaltie defend euery <HI>Brute,</HI> but I may without any breach of du|tie, defend this great <HI>Brute of Brutanie.</HI></P>
<P>Wherefore I mo&s;t humbly be&s;eech your mo&s;t excel|lent good Lord&s;hip, to accept of this mightie Captaines pre&s;ent defence, euen as your worthy honour, v&s;eth to al|lowe the rea&s;onable &s;utes of approued men, which are like to do God good &s;eruice, and this kingdome.</P>
<P>Thus tru&s;ting to your Lord&s;hips magnificent, &amp; &s;weete fauour heerein, I mo&s;t heartily commend your true re|nowmed honour, to the ble&s;&s;ed e&s;tate of immortalitie.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Lord&s;hips in all thankfull dutie.</HI> Richard Haruey.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A DEFENCE OF BRVTES HISTORIE.</HEAD>
<P>_MA&s;ter <HI>Buchanan,</HI> though &s;ome call you the trumpet of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and &s;ome the noble Scholler, yet I will be &s;o bold, as an&s;were your larum, touching the hi&s;tory of mighty <HI>Brute:</HI> becau&s;e your inuec|tiue treati&s;e, is in trueth, more fac|tious, then effectuall. You and &s;uch hotbraines, haue deui&s;ed a faction, and diuorce|ment of opinions, (I dare &s;ay) without fruit, and I be|leeue, without cau&s;e: For my part, your deniall is not able once to moue me, and your rea&s;ons again&s;t <HI>Brutes</HI> hi&s;torie, &s;hall neuer per&s;wade any &s;ufficient reader, to agree with you, and remoue the markes and circuites, that <HI>Geffry Monmouth</HI> hath &s;et downe. Yet by reading your allegations and probations, we may be&s;t areede, who is mo&s;t credible, he or you, a <HI>Monmouth</HI> or a <HI>Scot,</HI> a <HI>Moonke</HI> or a <HI>Trauailer,</HI> and if neither barrell be better her|ring, then by their wordes they &s;halbe &s;aued from blame, and by their wordes they &s;halbe damned, &s;ayth the wi&s;e Iudge: wherefore I take you of your worde, and I &s;ay: that</P>
<P>We <HI>&s;eeke</HI> no <HI>Noilitie,</HI> from <HI>Brute,</HI> we count not of our forefathers noblene&s;&s;e, but of our owne. Nobilitie I can tell you, goeth not by byrth and riches in <HI>Brutany,</HI>
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but by vertue: it &s;tandeth not vpon <HI>antiquitie,</HI> but vp|on right: we euer &s;ay, that <HI>noblene&s;&s;e</HI> is a &s;uperioritie or dominion in vertuous actes, and that other thinges without vertue are but minoritie and &s;ubiection, and colours, and naught worth.</P>
<P>We cannot thinke that <HI>Brute</HI> was <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">atricide:</HI> let them that iudge him &s;o, proue him &s;o. I pa&s;&s;e not for that he hath done aforetime <HI>in other landes,</HI> but I onely re&s;pect his Actio~s in this Iland. Yet, if he were in that huge and maine fault, hee may well enter into Sanc|tuarie, till you and yours haue proued the deede volun|tary. Mi&s;hap is not ra&s;hne&s;&s;e, chaunce is not coun&s;ell, there is a folly in meeting <HI>an arrowe,</HI> there is no &s;inne in &s;hooting it at a bea&s;t in the forre&s;t.</P>
<P>We <HI>compare not <HI>Brutus</HI></HI> with <HI>Romulus,</HI> no more then we compare your Chronicle now with this that &s;hall write one <HI>200.</HI> or <HI>300.</HI> yeares heereafter: but this is your flori&s;h, to no other purpo&s;e, then to &s;hew reading, where it doth no good, and may do &s;ome little hurt to a young Reader; who by your wordes will go nigh to &s;ay, that <HI>Brute</HI> and <HI>Romulus</HI> are much of a time, becau&s;e you &s;et them together in a Chronicle, which &s;hould re|port that is pa&s;t, or record that is pre&s;ent onely.</P>
<P>We are not <HI>Brittons,</HI> we are <HI>Brutans:</HI> we account not <HI>Brute</HI> our <HI>authour</HI> &amp; <HI>founder,</HI> &s;eeing here dwelt as Noble men afore <HI>Brute</HI> as euer &s;ince that time. No good coun|try or bad, hath been without noble men from the be|ginning, and to let go all Hi&s;tories, I dare &s;ay this word, That nature hath made as auncient a genera|tion of men vpon the earth, as of other creatures, and of chiefe men in their companies at fir&s;t, a&s;well as of o|ther chiefe creatures in their kindes and their heardes
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at fir&s;t, yea and much rather of men, becau&s;e of more go|uernment and order.</P>
<P>We &s;peake not of <HI>Brutes wealth</HI> and <HI>language,</HI> be|fore he came hither, neither can you proue, that hee had not wealth inough to &s;erue his v&s;es, or tongue enough in euery place of his trauell. Cannot an Egle flie from place to place, and take heere a lambe, there a kid, here a goo&s;e, there a &s;wanne, vnle&s;&s;e hee can &s;peake the lan|guage of lambes, and kids and gee&s;e and &s;wannes? what traffique &s;hould a venturer haue with any peo|ple, when he hath &s;et all the earth or one part therof be|fore him, to make him&s;elfe king in &s;ome place or other? He will not a&s;ke, what price beareth your marchaun|di&s;e? but a <HI>Brute</HI> will haue it for taking: hee will be a|boue your <HI>commercies,</HI> and throw you into the mar|&s;hes, if you giue him not what&s;oeuer you would not, when&s;oeuer he will.</P>
<P>What if the <HI>Romans coulde &s;car&s;ely &s;et foote in this I|land,</HI> when they were <HI>in their greate&s;t fortune</HI> and <HI>&s;trength?</HI> could not <HI>Brute</HI> therefore po&s;&s;ibly get into it? how know you, whether his natiuitie, or his good hap, or his maner of entering, were not better or happier then <HI>Cae&s;ars?</HI></P>
<P>If one company cannot enter by force, cannot ano|ther company enter by wit and fairer meanes? It is not <HI>number,</HI> nor <HI>money</HI> that make a Conquerour, it is good &s;ucce&s;&s;e, which commeth of a good foreca&s;t, that is in a <HI>Grecian</HI> more then in a <HI>Roman,</HI> and why not in <HI>Brute</HI> more then in <HI>Cae&s;ar?</HI> If <HI>Brutes</HI> Chronicles had been pre&s;erued a&s;well as <HI>Cae&s;ars,</HI> I doubt not of this matter and of <HI>Brutes</HI> immortalitie in all writinges, then <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> had beene halfe a <HI>Brute.</HI></P>
<P><PB N="4" REF="5" MS="y">We haue not any thing heere for <HI>Italians,</HI> till wee be &s;erued our &s;elues, we are onely in <HI>Brutanie</HI> and among <HI>Brutans.</HI> Let other men haue leaue to &s;peake of <HI>Saturne</HI> and <HI>Latium,</HI> of <HI>Ianus</HI> and <HI>Ianiculum,</HI> and other thinges before <HI>Brute,</HI> who might be among his neighbours, as &s;ingular and fortunate a man for fore&s;ight, as <HI>Noah</HI> was among the men of former times. It is no rea&s;on that <HI>Brute</HI> coulde not be giuen to trauell, becau&s;e <HI>the Italians were not giuen to trauelling, among whome</HI> you &s;ay <HI>hee dwelt</HI> afore. So you may deny almo&s;t eue|ry actors Actes, that hath liued admirably in the worlde. It may bee, that <HI>Brute</HI> and is fellowes &s;wornemen were worth all the re&s;t in liuely and manly action abroad, as <HI>Abraham</HI> and his company were &s;ingular among the <HI>A&s;syrians,</HI> and proued the rare man of the world.</P>
<P>Wee &s;ay not, that <HI>Brute walked on the Sea,</HI> or <HI>came</HI> hither <HI>by land,</HI> and therefore your <HI>Alpes,</HI> and your <HI>Her|cules</HI> haue no pre&s;ent v&s;e, but as table talke to pa&s;&s;e time, and make a noy&s;e. Yet men hauing liued more then <HI>2800.</HI> yeares from <HI>Adam</HI> to <HI>Hercules</HI> vppon the earth, and <HI>Comer</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Lamech,</HI> and <HI>Cham</HI> and <HI>Sabati,</HI> and other great men lying in <HI>Italy</HI> before <HI>Hercu|les</HI> was borne, and &s;eeking out the partes of the earth euery way, we can beleeue rea&s;onably, that they pa&s;|&s;ed ouer the <HI>Alpes</HI> before him. Or if <HI>Hercules</HI> mu&s;t needes be the onely man, what a &s;ingle rea&s;on is it? that <HI>Brute</HI> might not follow him that way, becau&s;e <HI>Hercules</HI> onely had gone before. I had rather conclude thus: <HI>Hercules</HI> made a way through <HI>the Alpes</HI> &s;o ea&s;ily, that any hardy trauailer might followe him that way. Since <HI>Brutes</HI> time the <HI>Alpes</HI> haue been pa&s;&s;able enough, and the
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<HI>Gaules</HI> haue ouerrunned them; and other people trode on them, your <HI>Adhuc alienis</HI> is &s;omwhat vn&s;kilfully writ|ten of you.</P>
<P>Truely I would <HI>Tamerlane</HI> were euen now here, to an&s;were your <HI>Ocean</HI> argument: hee could tell you, that his <HI>multitude</HI> of <HI>rude Scythians</HI> and &s;hepheardes could do more Actes then all the fine gay troopes and rankes of <HI>Baiazete,</HI> that it is no good con&s;equent which you bring forth, as if the <HI>Albane &s;hepheardes</HI> and <HI>clownes</HI> might not be as valiant in vanqui&s;hing <HI>the Alpes,</HI> as the <HI>Carthagi|nian</HI> &s;ouldiers: vnle&s;&s;e it be an infallible Item, that the iollie&s;t men are euer greate&s;t actors by &s;ea and land: your argument <HI>&agrave; maiori</HI> is ea&s;ily &s;et <HI>&agrave; minori</HI> in this ma|ner: The lightheaded <HI>Grecians</HI> and &s;uch other haue pa&s;|&s;ed <HI>the Ocean,</HI> much more is it probable, that the manly and mo&s;t hardy <HI>Albanes</HI> haue done the &s;ame thing, ha|uing neither le&s;&s;e wit by compari&s;on of their Actes, nor le&s;&s;e courage in any point. The actions of one doe not proue any thing of another, but of that one <HI>pro</HI> or <HI>contra:</HI> or el&s;e howe &s;hould we haue argumentes of contradic|tories, of vnequals, of vnlikes, of diui&s;ions? or if your rea&s;on be an hi&s;torie, I &s;ee no cau&s;e, why mine hi&s;torie of <HI>Brute,</HI> may not be credited a&s;well as yours of <HI>the Ma&s;|&s;ilians,</HI> who were long enough after <HI>Noahs</HI> Arke and o|ther &s;hippes of other men, I beleeue, to <HI>haue &s;ome aunce|&s;tors</HI> in &s;hipma&s;try and many fellowes. He that goeth <HI>a&s;pying</HI> goeth a&s;peeding: <HI>opportunitie</HI> maketh men doe &s;traunge workes: haue you neuer heard of players and ie&s;ters, that by deui&s;es of games and pa&s;times haue obtained very great victories? Remember man, I &s;ay, the famous and &s;trong name of <HI>Brute,</HI> and con&s;ider the nature of warly trauailers, and neuer &s;tand &s;o &s;tiffly
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in your naked <HI>coniecture.</HI></P>
<P>How knoweth <HI>Buchanan,</HI> that there was <HI>no &s;uch re|nowmed Brute in the world before the banni&s;hment of the Tar|quines in Rome?</HI> might there not be another <HI>Brute <HI>500.</HI></HI> yeares before this counterfeit <HI>Brute of Rome?</HI> or was there none &s;uch, are you &s;ure, becau&s;e the <HI>Roman</HI> and <HI>Greeke</HI> Hi&s;torians of other nations, for&s;ooth, haue made no &s;uch record? It is no &s;ufficient rea&s;on, to carry <HI>Bru|tans</HI> from their owne old Regi&s;ters by the wordes and &s;ilence of outlandi&s;h writers. You knowe and I am &s;ure, there are no meane matters left out of prophane Hi&s;tories, which are in eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Hi&s;tories, and ne|uerthele&s;&s;e allowed. The more they leaue out the glo|rie of our land, the more I pre&s;ume by the nature of for|raine countries, that our land was enuied, becau&s;e it was mo&s;t glorious. I tell you I cannot thinke it ne|ce&s;&s;arie, that he which is named <HI>Brute</HI> in our Chronicle mu&s;t bee &s;o named in other Chronicles: the &s;ame man may haue diuers names &s;euerally &s;et downe in &s;eueral bookes of &s;euerall languages, and as for this mo&s;t No|ble <HI>Brute,</HI> it is like enough, he chaunged his name, as he chaunged his habitation.</P>
<P>You may ea&s;ily &s;ay, <HI>A Moonke was the deui&s;er of this Brute,</HI> you will &s;ay, that <HI>he played the Poet,</HI> that hee carued &amp; painted him in this maner: but you cannot yet proue in this ha&s;t, that <HI>the Moonke</HI> or &s;tudent had not good proofe in his readings of this <HI>Brute,</HI> that he had not his Authour for them. It is out of que&s;tion, that manie books haue been written but once, and that many &s;uch &s;ingular bookes haue been lo&s;t for want of coppies, and it is probable, that this <HI>Moonke</HI> had &s;ome olde monu|ment or booke, which may bee in <HI>Cambry</HI> to this day,
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though <HI>Buchanan</HI> and <HI>Liuy</HI> neuer heard of it, and may be as true of <HI>Brute,</HI> as their olde <HI>Scotti&s;h Thinges</HI> and Ro|mi&s;h Decades are accounted true by their fauourers and countrimen. If <HI>the hi&s;torie of Brute be not true,</HI> be|cau&s;e they haue not &s;eene the proofe thereof, no more is their hi&s;torie true, becau&s;e we haue not &s;eene the proofe thereof, which was acted &s;o many yeares ere we were borne: thus it is as lawfull to <HI>coniecture</HI> for <HI>Brute</HI> as a|gain&s;t him, &s;eeing he is but denied onely by <HI>coniectures</HI> and probabilities.</P>
<P>But what is this you &s;ay? are <HI>mens mouthes &s;topped with a</HI> ma&s;ke and <HI>&s;hewe of Religion?</HI> cannot men tell what to &s;ay again&s;t <HI>A &s;hewe</HI> and appearance? doe men that name the heatheni&s;h <HI>religion</HI> account it religion in Chri|&s;tendome? I warrant you, <HI>the Moonke</HI> was &s;o far from purpo&s;ing, <HI>to &s;top mens mouthes</HI> with <HI>the idolatry of Diana,</HI> that he neuer e&s;teemed halfe the tenth part &s;o much of her, as <HI>Demetrius</HI> did for his profite in <HI>Ephe&s;us,</HI> and I dare &s;ay, that the <HI>Religious</HI> Authour thought it no <HI>reli|gion,</HI> or imagined, that the <HI>Brutanes</HI> would &s;o e&s;teeme it, but onely named <HI>Diana,</HI> as <HI>Ca&s;tor</HI> and <HI>Pollux</HI> are named of <HI>S. Luke</HI> the Euangeli&s;t.</P>
<P>Your Synchroni&s;me of <HI>Faunus,</HI> of <HI>Sybilla</HI> and <HI>Praene|&s;tine</HI> is to no purpo&s;e: it &s;eemeth by this Hi&s;tory of <HI>Brute,</HI> that <HI>Dianaes Oracle was</HI> not <HI>vnknowne,</HI> as you &s;eeme to a|uouch. But heere you will take <HI>the Moonke</HI> at a dead lift, as you &s;uppo&s;e, and yet I tell you me-thinkes you and very booki&s;hly and literally wi&s;e, not rea&s;onably and di&s;cour&s;iuely. Mu&s;t <HI>Diana</HI> needes <HI>&s;peake latine,</HI> be|cau&s;e this Hi&s;torian reporteth <HI>her Oracle in latine?</HI> Are you not adui&s;ed, how many things are writte~ in Greek and <HI>Latine</HI> of the Beginning of the world, though there
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were neither Greeke nor <HI>Latine <HI>2000.</HI></HI> yeares and more after the Creation of heauen and earth? and &s;uch a rea|&s;on might partly be brought again&s;t your &s;elfe in your fir&s;t <HI>king Fergu&s;ius,</HI> if I would follow &s;o needle&s;&s;e a cau&s;e, in comparing his time with the times of <HI>the latine tongue,</HI> wherein you write of him. You might haue done well, to proue that <HI>the Moonke</HI> &s;aith, howe <HI>Brute</HI> receiued his an&s;were of <HI>Diana,</HI> and a&s;ked her Coun&s;ell in <HI>latine &s;peach,</HI> which becau&s;e you haue not proued, your <HI>Horatius</HI> and your <HI>Saliare carmen,</HI> and your <HI>Numa,</HI> and your wordes are but winde. Cannot an Hi&s;torian report the Orati|ons of the <HI>Indians,</HI> of the <HI>Germans,</HI> of the <HI>Numidians</HI> in <HI>la|tine,</HI> vnle&s;&s;e the <HI>Numidians</HI> &amp; <HI>Germans</HI> and <HI>Indians</HI> &s;pake <HI>latine?</HI> were the Orations in your Chronicles, Ma&s;ter <HI>Buchanan,</HI> &s;poken fir&s;t in <HI>latine?</HI> So your <HI>Penitus obliti</HI> and <HI>ne tenue quidem,</HI> and other bootle&s;&s;e words are vain and little, or nought worth in this pre&s;ent que&s;tion. Tis not euer true that hath a <HI>quidem.</HI> I cannot certainly &s;ay, that <HI>the Brutans language</HI> was <HI>v&s;ed in Italy in the dayes of Brute:</HI> but I may well &s;ay, notwith&s;tanding your trifling <HI>mycteri&s;me,</HI> that if the Oracles and men had &s;po|ken it, they had been neuer the wor&s;e, nor <HI>the language</HI> neuer the better. But you were in a running thought and &s;uppo&s;ed your &s;elfe &s;ubtle enough, when you had brought your inuention to a di&s;iunctiue propo&s;ition, with much effect, I promi&s;e you, when it tendeth hi|therto, euen to proue, that <HI>the Brutan &s;peach then was not the &s;ame our Brutans v&s;e</HI> now in <HI>Cambry.</HI></P>
<P>Yet by your leaue, <HI>Buchanan,</HI> it is no proofe again&s;t <HI>this language,</HI> in that <HI>many tongues appeare in it</HI> in your time, &s;eeing <HI>Brutani&s;me</HI> might at fir&s;t bee as full of diuer&s;e <HI>tongues</HI> by rea&s;on of much trauell as it is nowe, and then
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your argument hath nor v&s;e nor force in your que&s;tion: and in trueth, though <HI>Scots</HI> be called generally fal&s;e, yet <HI>Buchanan</HI> may be true: &s;o <HI>Moonks</HI> may <HI>dreame dreames,</HI> and yet <HI>Geffry Monmouth</HI> write a trueth. Why &s;hould not a <HI>Moonke</HI> be as credible as a <HI>Paedanty?</HI> or a &s;olitarie &s;tudent vnder&s;tand that he readeth as much as a bu&s;ie &s;choole|ma&s;ter? or a <HI>Cambrian</HI> read Chronicles which a <HI>Scot</HI> ne|uer &s;aw? or <HI>Geffry</HI> be as plaine and verifiable as <HI>Bucha|nan,</HI> being not &s;o deep ouer head and eares in ver&s;es and <HI>Poetry</HI> as he? yet now at la&s;t the <HI>George</HI> confe&s;&s;eth, that his owne <HI>rea&s;ons</HI> are but <HI>minims,</HI> and minute per&s;ecuti|ons and &s;lender thinges, and is faine to &s;ay, that <HI>the Moonke</HI> him&s;elfe <HI>&s;eemeth to acknowledge his fiction,</HI> though it appeareth not &s;o by <HI>the Moonkes</HI> wordes. Thus it can|not be proued euidently, that <HI>the hi&s;tory of Brute is a</HI> fai|ned and <HI>poeticall narration,</HI> vnle&s;&s;e it be fir&s;t proued, that there were no more Intelligences and Regi&s;ters in the life of <HI>Geffrey</HI> then of <HI>George,</HI> and that <HI>Geffrey</HI> had no Au|thours for his defence, becau&s;e <HI>George</HI> cannot knowe them. If nothing be true in one country which <HI>hath not &s;uffragees from another Countrey,</HI> I cannot tell what hi&s;torie may &s;tand irrefragably by this determination, no not when we read the aunciente&s;t partes and primi|tiue recordes of be&s;t hi&s;toriographers. Was there not an Apo&s;tle <HI>Paul</HI> vnder <HI>Nero,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>Suetonius</HI> and <HI>Taci|tus</HI> name none &s;uch? much <HI>Iu&s;tine</HI> teach the <HI>Iewes</HI> howe to thinke of the deliuery of <HI>I&s;rael?</HI> But I omit tho&s;e in|&s;tances which might be giue~ again&s;t you, becau&s;e in a que&s;tion I regard the argument more then the illu&s;tra|tion thereof, and &s;o &s;hould you too by your leaue, for all your <HI>24. yeares trauell.</HI></P>
<P>Are they <HI>mal&egrave; callidi,</HI> and is <HI>vanitie</HI> in them that call
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<HI>Diana an huntre&s;&s;e</HI> and &s;ay, that <HI>in the time of Brute Diana was accounted a Godde&s;se?</HI> I confe&s;&s;e, I ca~not &s;ee, how they are <HI>lewdly</HI> and <HI>fraudulently vaine</HI> that write thus: then it remaineth, that you make the&s;e words good, if you can: The <HI>cha&s;t</HI> body the painfull bodie, but <HI>labour</HI> and conti|nencie in mans body breede a kinde of <HI>diuinitie</HI> in man. I pray, when you in your P&s;almes, as they call them yours, deui&s;e the <HI>mo&s;t kindes of ver&s;es</HI> that you can, do you confe&s;&s;e, that <HI>Dauid</HI> made them at fir&s;t in <HI>&s;o many &s;ortes of ver&s;es</HI> as you haue written them? &s;urely you will denie it. Iwis, it is not nece&s;&s;arie, that <HI>Brute</HI> and <HI>Diana</HI> &s;hould <HI>&s;peake ver&s;es,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>Geffry Monmouth recordeth their wordes in ver&s;es.</HI> But, let be, &s;uppo&s;e they did <HI>&s;peake</HI> in the&s;e or in other <HI>ver&s;es,</HI> then he, doubtle&s;&s;e, or &s;ome other for him tran&s;lated their words into hexameters and pentameters, as you &s;ee. What <HI>vanitie</HI> or <HI>fal&s;hood</HI> is on either &s;ide? neuer thinke to carry it away with threed|bare wordes, or to leade your Readers where you li&s;t.</P>
<P>A wi&s;e per&s;wader are you: is <HI>Diana called Loxias</HI> in your bookes? or if <HI>Apollo</HI> be <HI>oblique</HI> and <HI>crooked,</HI> and <HI>in|tricate</HI> in his an&s;weres, mu&s;t <HI>Diana</HI> needes be &s;o? or if <HI>Dianaes Prie&s;t</HI> be commonly <HI>ob&s;cure</HI> &amp; <HI>foulded vp</HI> in &s;peach, cannot it be, that hee &s;hould be per&s;picuous at anie one time? are you to appoint him how to &s;peake &s;o manie yeares after his death? I pray, if <HI>Pythia be euer doubtfull,</HI> and <HI>oblique,</HI> becau&s;e &s;hee is &s;o for the mo&s;t part, what <HI>doubtfulne&s;&s;e</HI> or <HI>obliquitie</HI> is in this aun&s;were? <HI>You are come to my rich temples, <HI>Lycurgus</HI> beloued of God and of all that inhabite the heauenly hou&s;es, I am in doubt whe|ther I &s;hould call thee a mon or a God, but I much rather beleeue, that thou art a God, <HI>Lycurgus,</HI></HI> as <HI>Herodotus</HI> hath recorded in his <HI>Clio:</HI> and what <HI>ambiguitie</HI> is in that An|&s;were
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which <HI>Pythia</HI> gaue vnto <HI>Crae&s;us</HI> in the &s;ame booke of <HI>Herodotus?</HI> what &s;aye to <HI>Ari&s;todocus</HI> in the &s;ame booke, who neither a&s;ked <HI>in ver&s;e</HI> nor was an&s;wered <HI>in ver&s;e?</HI> what &s;aye to them of <HI>Marea</HI> and <HI>Apia,</HI> which a&s;ked <HI>Ham|mons</HI> Oracle in pro&s;e, and were an&s;wered in pro&s;e? as it appeareth in <HI>Euterpe.</HI> What &s;aye to the Doue of <HI>Dodo|na,</HI> or the Oracle of the cittie <HI>Butis</HI> giuen to <HI>Pheron</HI> that &s;pake in pro&s;e? in the &s;ame booke: to let pa&s;&s;e &s;uch an|&s;weres a good manie giuen without <HI>ver&s;e</HI> or <HI>ambiguitie:</HI> Or if they were giuen in <HI>ver&s;e</HI> being nowe written o|therwi&s;e with allowance of Readers, what hath <HI>the Moonke</HI> done ami&s;&s;e in the maner of the&s;e <HI>ver&s;es?</HI> he may a&s;well regi&s;ter pro&s;e <HI>in ver&s;e,</HI> as they regi&s;ter <HI>ver&s;e</HI> in pro&s;e.</P>
<P>As for your <HI>Opinor,</HI> this may bee well an&s;wered in your verball manner, <HI>O pinor narras? non rect&egrave; accipis:</HI> you know the maker <HI>Terentius.</HI> I that am young may a&s;|well be&s;towe my labour to an&s;were you, as you being olde may obiect &s;o vnfruitfully. Howe is that proued <HI>a manife&s;t fiction that this Iland at Brutes comming was a wil|derne&s;&s;e,</HI> being yet &s;o this daie &s;till in manie places? Can <HI>two Gyantes</HI> and their two families, or &s;o manie <HI>Giantes</HI> as make an Armie, &s;o fill this countrie, that it &s;hall not rightly be called <HI>a de&s;art?</HI> when they are all in one &s;hire, the other &s;hires are verie <HI>de&s;arts:</HI> when they being &s;o few, are &s;cattered into &s;o manie &s;hires betweene the <HI>Orcades</HI> and the <HI>Ile of Wight,</HI> how can they &s;o fill it, that it may not be well <HI>named of Diana a de&s;art?</HI> in compari&s;on of the Cities and Kingdomes in other landes, where &s;he abode mo&s;t.</P>
<P>The <HI>name of Gogmagog</HI> is no more <HI>mon&s;trous</HI> then the name of <HI>Ono&s;concoleros,</HI> nor <HI>Tentagol</HI> more <HI>va&s;t</HI> and <HI>&s;trange</HI>
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then <HI>Nabuchodonozor,</HI> neither &s;hall tho&s;e <HI>Names</HI> preiudice the Hi&s;torie more with vs then the&s;e <HI>Names</HI> haue done with other in the Hi&s;torie of the <HI>A&s;&s;yrians.</HI></P>
<P>Thus I may verie iu&s;tly and rea&s;onably maintaine and vphold <HI>the hi&s;torie of Brute,</HI> for anie thing that ma&s;ter <HI>Buchanan</HI> hath &s;aid again&s;t it. Concerning <HI>Diocle&s;ian and his daughters,</HI> I haue willingly lo&s;t all that delight of reading and an&s;wering, although I &s;ee euidently, that <HI>this Hi&s;torie</HI> which you account <HI>a tale</HI> may be defen|ded for ought you haue alledged. Yet ma&s;ter <HI>Buchanan</HI> taketh much vpon him and chargeth &s;ome bodie with <HI>impudencie and a lye,</HI> and plaieth the Terrible &s;choolema|&s;ter, and yet when he hath done his be&s;t and his wor&s;t, it is not proued, that <HI>24.</HI> yeares were not <HI>&s;ufficient</HI> for <HI>Brutes</HI> retinue, and the inhabitantes of this land, togi|ther with other of their kindred that re&s;orted hither and remained here, <HI>to repleni&s;h the Country</HI> with men of War, <HI>to erect three kingdomes, to accompli&s;h great Actes</HI> by &s;ea and land. Let him looke into the <HI>kingdomes</HI> of <HI>Grecia</HI> in olde time, and he &s;hall finde fewer men in a kingdome then <HI>Brute</HI> alone with his companie might rai&s;e in <HI>24. <HI>yeares:</HI></HI> let him remember the huge <HI>kingdomes</HI> of three men, <HI>Sem, Ham,</HI> and <HI>Iaphet:</HI> let him con&s;ider, that mightie <HI>Actions</HI> are not done by <HI>money and number,</HI> but by indu&s;try and vertue: let him proue, eyther that <HI>this Generation of Brute cannot</HI> po&s;&s;ibly <HI>be true,</HI> or el&s;e cea&s;e to &s;pend his time with <HI>opinions</HI> and likelihoodes, that may be repelled with the like againe: ru&s;ty <HI>Antiquities</HI> more reuerend then &s;cou|red Nouelties. Yet, <HI>we</HI> are not <HI>de&s;irous,</HI> that <HI>Brute</HI> &s;hould be <HI>our Conquerour, we wi&s;h</HI> not &s;ubiection to him, or anie other outlandi&s;h Nobleman: we had rather winne the land that this <HI>Brute</HI> came from, and &s;ubdue it vnder
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our feete: but when <HI>Brutans</HI> haue publi&s;hed <HI>an Hi&s;torie</HI> and allowed it a long time, we would not haue a <HI>Scot</HI> &s;o pre&s;umptuous, as to <HI>controll</HI> it, much le&s;&s;e to <HI>reiect</HI> it, as this one <HI>Scot</HI> hath done very rawly and vnadui&s;edly.</P>
<P>So I leaue you, ma&s;ter <HI>Buchanan,</HI> and wi&s;he you to &s;acrifice vnto the wi&s;er dimi-godde&s;&s;e <HI>Palinodia.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>TO HIS MOST LOVING BRO|ther, Ma&s;ter Gabriell Haruey, Doctor <HI>of Lawes.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHen I &s;aw, both how <HI>ie&s;tingly,</HI> and <HI>&s;eriou&s;|ly</HI> our Hi&s;torie of <HI>Brute</HI> was reiected of &s;ome auncient and newe bookmen, I tried their maruellous <HI>ie&s;tes</HI> and <HI>rea&s;ons,</HI> and felt them too weake to moue me. Now my An&s;were is on foot with their Reply, I may iu&s;tly hold mine owne, and &s;tand on <HI>Brutes</HI> &s;ide again&s;t all challengers that are or will come. I &s;aye, Pui&s;&s;ant <HI>Brute</HI> is no <HI>fabulous Prince,</HI> but a true example, no counterfeit man, but a corporall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or of this Iland; let them &s;aye what they can. With this minde I haue here ta|ken <HI>one E&s;&s;ay</HI> of our Chronicles in the be&s;t hi&s;toricall Me|thode that I could make out of the be&s;t Hi&s;toriognomers. I am &s;ure, any Hi&s;torie is ea&s;ier for memorie, and readier for v&s;e this way, then any other way, which I haue hither|to &s;eene in other mens Collections, Tables, Directories, or any &s;uch other inuentions: yet as it is proofe, &s;o ap|proue
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it, or reproue it; I am not wedded to my&s;elfe, nor tyed to any &s;ect in the world, but heartily wi&s;h euery man to take euerie thing as it is, not as it is made of this and that &s;cribler or pratler, which can tell better, howe to play the mocking Ape, then the iu&s;t controller. Almightie God defend you dayly, and amend them one day: you know my minde in all my matters, and that I would tho&s;e petite Momes had better manners: the &s;chollers head without moderation is like the merchantes pur&s;e pennile&s;&s;e with|out all credite: I de&s;ire that euerie &s;tudent may &s;mell as the Lillies of <HI>Salomon,</HI> and that euerie wilde Lilly may be &s;et in his Gardens. I &s;aye, out Hemlocke, out Bramble, out Weedes, and let the bloud of furious <HI>Aiax</HI> him&s;elfe, &s;aith <HI>Ouid,</HI> be turned into a plea&s;ant herbe. I write not this, to flatter any that &s;hould &s;eeke after me, but to follow you, good Brother, in your <HI>la&s;t Letters,</HI> in who&s;e Example I euer yet dwelt, and am like to dwell, euen till my Soule &s;hall dwell in the Commonwealth of Heauen. I cannot bid you farewell in a better minde, and in this re&s;pect I &s;et me re&s;t here, I remember your coun&s;ell, and beginne my <HI>E&s;&s;aye.</HI> 1592. the 14. of Iune.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your louing brother <HI>R.H.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>AN ESSAY, OR TASTE OF THE fir&s;t part of our <HI>Brutan</HI> Chronicles.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM>The Hi&s;to|ry of Brute and Bru|tans &s;et|teth forth.
<LIST>
<ITEM>Principal|ly and an|tecedently their per|&s;ons, &amp; in them &s;hew+eth the
<LIST>
<ITEM>geneallogy <HI>or i&s;&s;ue which they had.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>artes <HI>which they &s;tudied.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>actes <HI>which they did.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>This part of Hi&s;tory is na|med <HI>Anthropo|logy.</HI></HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Acce&s;&s;ori|ly and con|&s;equently the
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>times</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>when they</HI> beganne <HI>to Rule.</HI> How long <HI>they ruled.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>This part of Hi&s;tory is na+med <HI>Chrono|logy.</HI></HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>places</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>in <HI>the Iland, of <HI>Brutany;</HI> This part of Hi&s;tory is named <HI>Topography</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>out <HI>of the I|land of <HI>Brutany;</HI> This part of Hi&s;tory is named <HI>Topography</HI></HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P>When a man is borne into the world, he learneth &s;ome thing or other: by learning he is brought to do &s;omwhat: but as all deeds are done in the compa&s;&s;e of a place, &s;o are they bounded with their beginning and ending.</P>
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<HEAD>THE GENEALOGY OR ISSVE of Brute.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_BRute</HI> the fir&s;t begat three &s;onnes of <HI>Inno|gen:</HI> the fir&s;t was <HI>Locrine</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Camber,</HI> the third <HI>Albanact.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Locrine</HI> the elde&s;t &s;onne begat <HI>Madian</HI> of <HI>Guendolin</HI> and <HI>Habren</HI> of <HI>El&s;trid</HI> which had a &s;kinne as cleere and white as I|uory, or Lillies, or Snow it &s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>Madian</HI> begat <HI>Mempri&s;e,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mempri&s;e</HI> begat <HI>Ebranke,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Ebranke</HI> a very goodly per&s;on among thou&s;ands and &s;trong, begat <HI>Brute</HI> the &s;econd, and nineteene &s;onnes and thirtie daughters: the&s;e fiftie children were borne vnto him of twentie women.</P>
<P><HI>Brute</HI> the &s;econd begat <HI>Leyl,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Leyl</HI> begat <HI>Hurdibras,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hurdibras</HI> begat <HI>Bladud,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Bladud</HI> begat <HI>Leyr,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Leyr</HI> begat three daughters, the fir&s;t was <HI>Gonorill,</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Ragan,</HI> the third <HI>Cordeil,</HI> but left no &s;onne behind him. <HI>Cordeil</HI> the younge&s;t daughter, as it came to pa&s;&s;e &s;ucceeded hir father, but <HI>Morgan</HI> and <HI>Conedag</HI> her two nephewes depo&s;ed her: <HI>Conedag</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Ragan</HI> be|ing prouoked by <HI>Morgan</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Gonoril</HI> his coo&s;in german &s;lew him in battell and ruled alone, and begat <HI>Riuall, Riuall</HI> begat <HI>Gurgu&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Si&s;ill Gurgu&s;ts</HI> brother &s;ucceeded <HI>Gurgu&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Iago Si&s;ils</HI> next kin&s;man &s;uccee|ded
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<HI>Si&s;ill,</HI> and <HI>Kymer, Iagoes</HI> brother &s;ucceeded <HI>Iago,</HI> and begat <HI>Gorbodug, Gorbodug</HI> begat <HI>Ferrex</HI> and <HI>Porrex</HI> of <HI>Wy|den,</HI> who&s;e generations and i&s;&s;ues are vnknown to vs, as the i&s;&s;ues of <HI>Ebranks</HI> nine and fortie children are not knowne very well, nor the generations of <HI>Camber,</HI> of <HI>Al|banact,</HI> of <HI>Morgan,</HI> of <HI>Gurgu&s;t,</HI> of <HI>Si&s;ill</HI> and of <HI>Iago.</HI></P>
<P>Thus the eighteene Rulers that came of <HI>Brute</HI> the fir&s;t are come to an end, as a tale that is tolde in &s;port, or as a tree that is digged vp in earne&s;t. Yet neyther &s;euen <HI>Polydores</HI> more, nor ten <HI>Buchanans</HI> &s;hall per&s;wade me, that this Genealogy is a fabulous Tale. Let <HI>Poly|dore</HI> get him to <HI>Vrbin</HI> in <HI>Italy,</HI> and <HI>Buchanan</HI> hye him to <HI>Buchany</HI> in <HI>Scotland:</HI> it becommeth not the&s;e outlandi&s;h intruders to v&s;urpe the cen&s;ure of the <HI>Brutan</HI> Hi&s;tories: if they looke well about them they haue enough to doe at home: we neede none of their go&s;&s;iping cups: but they are dead, and their hi&s;toricall iudgementes are in|terred with them: if any man will rai&s;e them from the graue, who will beleeue their mortified Gho&s;ts? A <HI>Bru|tan</HI> may iu&s;tly except again&s;t the witne&s;&s;e of an <HI>Italian,</HI> or a <HI>Scot:</HI> Ielou&s;ie and malignity are two blinde guids: Then hold your owne, ye braue <HI>Brutans,</HI> and guide your &s;elues, your owne heades are fitte&s;t for your owne bo|dies.</P>
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<HEAD>THE ARTES AND ACTES OF Brute, and his Brutans were in their <HI>Vertues and Vices.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue and Tempe|rance ap|peared in</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>Friend|&s;hip and commu|nion</LABEL></P>
<P><HI>Betweene man &amp; wife in marriage. Locrine</HI> mar|ried <HI>Guendolin: Leyr</HI> married his two elde&s;t daughters with two Dukes: <HI>Cordeil</HI> was married to <HI>Aganip</HI> Duke of the <HI>Gaules</HI> for her womanly vertues, and vertuous woman|hoode.</P>
<P><LABEL>Talke and con+ference,</LABEL></P>
<P><HI>Betweene &s;uperiour and inferiour, the ruler and the &s;ubiect. Guendolin</HI> after her hu&s;bandes death liued contentedly and louingly with her kindred and acquaintance in <HI>Cornewall</HI> till &s;hee dyed. <HI>Brute</HI> the &s;econd carried euer a greene &s;hield with him, to &s;ignifie, what a minde he did carry withall, euen a mind and de&s;ire, to haue all thinges grow and flori&s;h like the fruitfull fieldes vnto a ioyful harue&s;t: whereupon hee was named <HI>Greene&s;hield,</HI> a Prince gentle toward all men, and merciful to the needie. <HI>Leyl</HI> liued peaceably in his young dayes. <HI>Hurdibras</HI> allayed the factions and quarrels that hee found among his peo|ple, and of vnquiet men made them very quiet. <HI>Leyr</HI> liued moderately with his &s;ub|iectes. <HI>Cordeil</HI> behaued her &s;elfe &s;o louingly and paciently, that &s;he would not puni&s;h the two &s;onnes of <HI>Maglan</HI> and <HI>Hennine</HI> for their fathers: &s;he thought it no rea&s;on, to plai&s;ter one bodie for an other bodies &s;ores, to beate
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one for anothers fault. <HI>Riual</HI> liued quietly. <HI>Gurgu&s;tus</HI> kept his countrey in re&s;t and weal|thy peace by &s;ome learned coun&s;ell.</P>
<P><HI>Betweene the father and the childe: Cordeil</HI> be|ing euer mode&s;tly and maydenly &s;hamefa|ced, either would not or could not flatter her father <HI>Leyr</HI> with needle&s;&s;e phra&s;es and vain othes, but an&s;wered him mildly and &s;imply without o&s;tentation or deceite, that &s;he loued him as her naturall father with an obedient euer and thankfull hearth vnfainedly.</P>
<P><HI>Betweene two coo&s;ins:</HI> When <HI>Conedag</HI> was in|formed by his olde tru&s;tie friendes, and tolde from his mortall ennemies, that <HI>Morgan</HI> be|gan roundly to make open warre agayn&s;t him, he him&s;elfe de&s;ired peace by letters, and &s;ought it with all good meanes otherwi&s;e by Emba&s;&s;adours, he was &s;o vnwilling to &s;hed bloud, if he might chu&s;e, or euen to carry armour again&s;t his kin&s;man.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="20" REF="13" MS="y">
<HEAD>THIS WAS THEIR TEMPERANCE in Deedes and Wordes.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice and Intem+perance ap+peared in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Wordes:</HI> Fir&s;t, <HI>Gonoril</HI> told <HI>Leyr,</HI> &s;he loued him more then her owne &s;oule: then <HI>Ragan</HI> &s;ayd, &s;he loued him vn&s;peakably.</P>
<P><HI>Leuity:</HI> When <HI>Locrin</HI> &s;aw <HI>El&s;trid,</HI> he would haue re|iected <HI>Guendolin: Mempri&s;e</HI> liued loo&s;ely, and &s;pent mo&s;t of his time in pa&s;time and licentious games.</P>
<P><HI>Drinke: Gurgu&s;t</HI> by &s;ome naturall infirmitie of braine was dronken once a day: this dronkenne&s;&s;e neither &s;hortened his life, nor hindered his actions, as it &s;eemeth by the yeares of his gouernement and life.</P>
<P><HI>Di&s;cord: Madian</HI> was &s;ubiect to much impatience and tyrannie. <HI>Mempri&s;e,</HI> procured the death of tho&s;e great men whom hee feared for their vertue and therefore hated for his owne guiltie life.</P>
<P><HI>Venery: Locrine</HI> kept <HI>El&s;trid</HI> his captiue for his Concubine, and accompanied her a long time, too long by &s;ixe yeares and twelue monethes. <HI>Mempri&s;e</HI> &s;olde him&s;elfe to adultery, he gaue his body to bug|gery and bea&s;tly loue, which was loue, &s;auing your reuerence. <HI>Ebrank</HI> had twentie wiues, &s;ome &s;aye, but I think nineteene of them were hu&s;wifes, as we commonly &s;aye, and &s;he his wife onely that married him and knew him fir&s;t: A right line is betweene two, to go a&s;ide is to go ami&s;&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="21" REF="13" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue, or wi&s;|dome is &s;eene in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Di&s;cipline or de&s;ire of knowledge: Madian,</HI> though he were borne a mortall Prince or earthly God, was in his childhood &s;ent into <HI>Cornewall</HI> to his mo&s;t valiant grand&s;ir <HI>Corin,</HI> that he might learne of him all expe|rienced manhood fit for a &s;oueraigne Ruler. <HI>Bladud</HI> in his young yeares was &s;ent otherwi&s;e and carried ouer &s;eas to <HI>Athenes,</HI> that hee might, for&s;ooth, be taught the wi&s;edome of the <HI>Grecians:</HI> this <HI>Athenian</HI> Engli&s;h Prince at his returne brought home with him no le&s;&s;e then foure great Philo&s;ophers, to teach the <HI>Brutans,</HI> and either found or founded Schooles for them at <HI>Stamford</HI> or <HI>Stanefoda</HI> after the &s;moothe&s;t and <HI>Atticall Idiome.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Artes, both Geometry, and A&s;trology: Brute</HI> pre&s;ently vpon his Arriuall &s;earched this Iland optically and throughly, he and his &s;urueyed it quantitatiuely and queintly to the purpo&s;e. <HI>Hurdibras</HI> taking in his head and hand, to build the cittie, or woodworke &amp; &s;tone|worke of <HI>Caerpalladour,</HI> called for the iudiciall adui&s;e &amp; deui&s;e of <HI>Aquila</HI> his A&s;trologer in laying the foun|dations of that &s;tarry and elementary Citty, that the worlde might better e&s;teeme it.</P>
<P><HI>Philo&s;ophy, both naturall and morall:</HI> the foure wi&s;e|men of <HI>Athens,</HI> that taught &s;ome of the <HI>Brutans,</HI> euen as <HI>Bladud</HI> the king appointed them, had many times for their variable and &s;trange voices a wonderfull great audience, and tho&s;e wi&s;emens &s;chollers &s;uccee|ded them and continued orderly about the times of fourteene hundred yeares after with great glorie, but but how good, I knowe not. <HI>Bladud</HI> found the hote
<PB N="22" REF="14" MS="y">
Bathes in this Iland by his Geomanticall and Hy|dromanticall &s;kill and &s;ubtiltie. <HI>Brute</HI> the fir&s;t made many good politicke laws for the benefit &amp; direction of him&s;elfe and his &s;ubiectes. <HI>Guendolin</HI> mini&s;tred true iudgement to the people well and wi&s;ely, at la&s;t, fea|ring by rea&s;on or in&s;piration that the king <HI>Madian</HI> her &s;onne would &s;car&s;ely v&s;e her Honourably, as the &s;on &s;hould v&s;e his mother, went her way and dwelt far enough ought of &s;ight in <HI>Cornewall</HI> among them that were glad euer of her daily company. <HI>Ebranke</HI> for his &s;onnes &s;ake and his owne, &s;ent his thirtie daughters to <HI>Siluius</HI> an Italian Duke, that they might be mar|ried with their owne bloud, the old <HI>Troian</HI> bloud, and thereby get their father many friendes or welwillers abroad, to &s;trengthen him in his neede, if nede were.</P>
<P><HI>Wordes of coun&s;ell: Cordeil</HI> tolde her father in a me|lancholicke vaine, That as his riches were more or le&s;&s;e, &s;o he &s;hould be loued and feared more and le&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>This was their Prudence in teaching and learning.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="23" REF="14" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their vice or folly is &s;eene in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Deceite by bulding: Locrine</HI> for want of better con|ueiance built a caue for his Concubine, and made &s;ome few men of his priuy Coun&s;ell, but tolde other men, that it was a &s;ecret place for praier and &s;acrifice in the maner of his owne outlandi&s;h religion: when he heard and knew of <HI>Corins</HI> death, he crowned <HI>El|&s;trid</HI> queene and reiected <HI>Guendolin,</HI> whom he &s;eemed to loue hitherto for feare of <HI>Corin,</HI> and not for liking.</P>
<P><HI>Deceit by weapons: Mempri&s;e</HI> &s;lewe his manly bro|ther <HI>Manlius</HI> by faithle&s;&s;e craft, to be out of his emu|latiue danger and dangerous emulation.</P>
<P><HI>Magicals: Bladud</HI> dedicated his Bathes to <HI>Minerua</HI> a dead woman: he taught Necromancy in all parts of his country: he vndertooke to flie aloft in the ayre with deui&s;ed winges and meanes artificially, and &s;o fell downe inartificially and died &s;en&s;ibly, neither could he become admirable this way, as he hoped.</P>
<P><HI>Wordes: Leyr</HI> forgetting his Honour a&s;ked his three daughters a fond needle&s;&s;e que&s;tion, as &s;ome v&s;e to dally with young children, and would for&s;ooth, heare of them that were women grown, How much they loued him: they might haue &s;hewed on their finger.</P>
<P><HI>Ignorance:</HI> the Gyantes of this Iland being one|ly &s;trong, and wild men without any great foreca&s;t, were &s;ubdued for want of arte and gouernment. <HI>Si|&s;ill</HI> let all matters go and runne at auenture. <HI>Iago</HI> had the &s;ame vile fault, and died of a fren&s;ie, as he liued with a megrim.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue &amp; for|titude is known by their Acts in</HEAD>
<LIST>
<PB N="24" REF="15" MS="y">
<ITEM>Peace,
<LIST>
<ITEM>The&s;e honourable Rulers approoued their Princely magnificence, and Philoti|my in a braue maner. <HI>Brute</HI> the fir&s;t named this Iland <HI>Brutanie</HI> of his owne Noble and famous Name: He built a fortunate Cittie by the Tems, and called it <HI>Troy-new</HI> in perpetuall honour of his owne Coun|trey. <HI>Ebranke</HI> built a faire Cittie in hys land Northward, which he called <HI>Caer|branke</HI> after his owne name: He built ano|ther Cittie with a Ca&s;tle in <HI>Albany,</HI> and called it <HI>Edenbrough,</HI> in regard of his daugh+ters. <HI>Leyl</HI> built a Citie in this land North|ward, which he called <HI>Caerleyl</HI> by his own name. <HI>Leyr</HI> built a Citie in the mid&s;t of his land, and called it <HI>Caerleyr</HI> in re&s;pect of his owne name. Thus they purcha&s;ed their Glorie with heroicall expences, and pub|licke actions profitably.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Then the vertuous &s;ubiectes &s;hewed their excellent magnanimitie in good &s;orte: They &s;uffered not <HI>Madian</HI> to rule ouer them, till hee was able to carry armour in the Field, and lead an armie. Duke <HI>Corin</HI> went to king <HI>Locrin</HI> with his ordinary bat|tle Axe in his hand, and behaued him&s;elfe &s;o manly, and plainly with the king, that he would not or dur&s;t not reiect <HI>Guendolin</HI> his &s;pou&s;e, as he before had purpo&s;ed. Good warly rhetoricke.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><PB N="25" REF="15" MS="y">Warre
<LIST>
<ITEM>at home
<LIST>
<ITEM>Tho&s;e Dukes <HI>Maglan</HI> and <HI>Hennine</HI> &s;uffred not their wiues king <HI>Leyrs</HI> two elde&s;t daugh|ters to be kept fro~ the Crowne by <HI>Cordeil</HI> the younge&s;t daugh|ter. <HI>Locrin</HI> fought with <HI>Hum|ber</HI> and flewe him in battle, be|cau&s;e he had &s;laine his younger brother <HI>Albanact</HI> the Prince and ruler of <HI>Albany.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Conedag</HI> and <HI>Morgan</HI> the &s;ons of tho&s;e two Dukes depo&s;ed euen <HI>Cordeil</HI> their aunt from hir v&s;urpation and royall gouern|ment.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Conedag</HI> defended his land again&s;t <HI>Morgan,</HI> and put him to flight, and &s;lewe him, and ioyned <HI>Morgans</HI> kingdome to his owne. <HI>Guendolin</HI> the queene gathered an army again&s;t her hu&s;band <HI>Locrin</HI> the king, and in their conflict he was &s;laine with an arrow.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>abroad.
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ebranke</HI> got great victories, and rich &s;poiles both in &s;trange countries far off, &amp; neere hand, &amp; then returned home with his mony and men in &s;afety &amp; ioy: it is no le&s;&s;e courage, to get out of troble, then to go through it.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>This was their Fortitude, in doing for their friends, and vndoing their foes.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="26" REF="16" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their vice or extream fortitude is knowen by</HEAD>
<P><HI>Couetous ambition: Manly</HI> warred with his elder brother <HI>Mempri&s;e</HI> to depriue him of the kingdome, accounting it his owne, if he could win it. <HI>Leyrs</HI> two &s;ons in law <HI>Maglane</HI> and <HI>Hennine</HI> expelled him out of his land, and v&s;urped his place a while, no time to count of. <HI>Morgan</HI> rai&s;ed war again&s;t <HI>Conedag</HI> his coo&s;in german, with whom he liued neighbourly a|foretime, but now he a&s;pired to <HI>Conedags</HI> king+dome. <HI>Porrex</HI> made &s;odaine war vpon <HI>Ferrex</HI> his brother, and put him to flight, and &s;lewe him, to be ruler him&s;elfe alone.</P>
<P><HI>Audacious anger:</HI> When the people might do what they would in the raigne of <HI>Si&s;ill,</HI> they being naturally giuen to fighting, fell to ciuil war among them&s;elues, and &s;pilt much innocent bloud. Rage is blinde: villanes &s;omtime turne wars to their vile v&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Pu&s;illanimity or ba&s;e idlene&s;&s;e: Leyl</HI> for want of a good heart coulde not rule his &s;ubiectes when he was olde. <HI>Cordeyl</HI> being at her wits end de&s;paired of her libertie, and murdered her &s;elfe in pri&s;on. <HI>Gorbodug</HI> liued without a|ny memorable act, like an idiote or a verie &s;waine. <HI>Si&s;ill</HI> by continuall ea&s;e fell into ma|ny colde and phlegmaticke di&s;ea&s;es, and at la&s;t a lethargy made an end of him: as hee &s;owed, &s;o hee reaped: of a la&s;ie life, came a loth&s;ome death.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="27" REF="16" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or Iu|&s;tice is proued in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding</HI> in the generations of the eighteene kings the Crown is euer iu&s;tly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, either by the &s;ons, or by the brethren, or by the next of the kings bloud, except the next to king <HI>Leyr.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Brute</HI> the fir&s;t deuided <HI>Brutany</HI> among his three &s;onnes, the elde&s;t had the be&s;t third, the younge&s;t the wor&s;t part, the middle &s;onne the meane part, not &s;o good as the be&s;t, nor &s;o ill as the wor&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Ebranke</HI> built a Temple in <HI>Caerbrank</HI> and appoyn|ted an archflamin to ouer&s;ee it. <HI>Leyl</HI> built a Temple in <HI>Caerleyl</HI> and ordained a flamin to rule ouer it. <HI>Hurdi|bras</HI> built <HI>Caerkent, Caeruin</HI> and <HI>Caerpalladour,</HI> for the benefit of the countrey, and in euery of them he made a Temple. <HI>Bladud</HI> built a Temple in his Citie <HI>Caerba|don,</HI> which was made by him for theyr v&s;e that kept the Bathes or came to them.</P>
<P><HI>Conedag</HI> and <HI>Morgan</HI> the &s;onnes of two &s;i&s;ters par|ted <HI>Brutany</HI> betweene them, and liued quietly: So did <HI>Ferrex</HI> and <HI>Porrex</HI> two brethren for a time: but the comedie became a tragedie.</P>
<P><HI>Rewarding: Brute</HI> the fir&s;t gaue Cornewall to <HI>Corin</HI> his fellow&s;ouldier for ouercomming <HI>Gogmagog</HI> the Gyant in wra&s;tling. <HI>Locrin</HI> be&s;towed the &s;poyles of <HI>Humbers</HI> armies vpo~ the &s;ouldiers that woon them in battell. <HI>Cordeil</HI> welcomed her father <HI>Leyr</HI> mo&s;t re|uerently when he fled vnto her for &s;uccour, and re&s;to|red him to his kingdom. <HI>Kymar</HI> kept his land in right frame and order, by giuing all braue men that they truely de&s;erued: the chiefe pollicy with good natures.</P>
<P><HI>Challenging: Corin</HI> &s;eeing changeable affecti|ons of <HI>Locrin</HI> charged him with a promi&s;e and con|tract
<PB N="28" REF="17" MS="y">
made betweene him and <HI>Guendolin,</HI> and vrged him &s;o &s;traitly and &s;euerely, that hee made him con|tent to &s;tand to his word, the rather for that good &s;er|uice which <HI>Corin</HI> did his father <HI>Brute.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Reuenging: Locrin</HI> reuenged the death of <HI>Albanact</HI> his brother with the death of <HI>Humber. Guendolin</HI> fought again&s;t her owne hu&s;band, to plague him for his whoredome and other iniuries, and prouided &s;o well for her &s;elfe, that in the triall of their Cau&s;e hee was &s;laine, and his whore drowned with her ba&s;e daughter, the fiery and deceitfull roote <HI>Baaras</HI> with the leafe. <HI>Conedag</HI> and <HI>Morgan</HI> depo&s;ed <HI>Cordeil</HI> from the kingdom which &s;he held from them a long time with &s;ome title by her father though in&s;ufficient, &s;eeing the&s;e were the &s;onnes of her elde&s;t &s;i&s;ters. <HI>Wyden</HI> with her waiting women chopped her &s;onne <HI>Porrex</HI> in pee|ces by night, for killing his brother <HI>Ferrex</HI> without any iu&s;t cau&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Puni&s;hing: Gurgu&s;t</HI> was abhorred of the <HI>Brutans</HI> for his daily dronkenne&s;&s;e, but &s;uffered to be king for his birthrightes &s;ake. <HI>Madian</HI> and <HI>Mempri&s;e</HI> were ha|ted of good men and feared of wicked men for theyr extreame and bea&s;tly crueltie: &s;o betweene both they were &s;ecretly for&s;aken in time of hunting and the wild bea&s;tes &s;uffered to de&s;troy them. Here we may very fitly con&s;ider, how the Power from heauen pu|ni&s;hed the people of <HI>Brutanie</HI> with raining bloud three dayes, and vexing them with infinite &s;warms of ve|nimous &s;trange flies, that &s;tung their king <HI>Riual</HI> and many other to death. See, what life is that flies may take away, euen litle flies with their little &s;tings.</P>
<P><HI>This was their Iu&s;tice in Religion and Pollicy.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="29" REF="17" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their vice or Iniu|&s;tice is proued in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding: Locrin</HI> crowned <HI>El&s;trid</HI> his concubine queene, when <HI>Guendolin</HI> his true wife liued. <HI>Ebranke</HI> dedicated the Temple of his Cittie to a liuing name and dead carca&s;&s;e <HI>Diana,</HI> that coulde not defend it or him. <HI>Leyr</HI> gaue halfe his goodes to his two elde&s;t daughters at their marriage, and made them migh|tier then him&s;elfe, for &s;peaking to him fairely or paintedly, but he gaue nothing with <HI>Cordeil</HI> to her dowry, becau&s;e &s;he told him an open truth without anie forgerie.</P>
<P><HI>Rewarding: Leyr</HI> at his death, gaue his halfe king|dome to <HI>Cordeyl,</HI> for defending him in trouble: the people made her queene by common con&s;ent, and thereby hindered the right of her two Nephewes the very next apparant heires.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>THE CHRONOLOGY OF Brutes off&s;pring.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_BRute</HI> the fir&s;t began to rule in the yeare of the world, <HI>2855.</HI> and ruled <HI>24.</HI> yeares, about the time of <HI>Samuell</HI> the mightie Prophet in I&s;rael.</P>
<P><HI>Locrin</HI> began in the yeare <HI>2879.</HI> and rule <HI>20.</HI> yeares, in which time hee kept <HI>El&s;trid</HI> &s;euen yeares, about the time of <HI>Saul</HI> the fir&s;t king of I&s;rael.</P>
<P><PB N="30" REF="18" MS="y"><HI>Guendolin</HI> began in the yeare <HI>2899.</HI> and ruled <HI>15.</HI> yeares, about the time of <HI>Dauid</HI> the kingly Prophet in I&s;rael.</P>
<P><HI>Madian</HI> beganne in the yeare <HI>2914.</HI> and ruled <HI>40.</HI> yeares, about the time of faire <HI>Ab&s;olons</HI> fame in I&s;|rael.</P>
<P><HI>Mempri&s;e</HI> began in the yeare <HI>2954.</HI> and ruled <HI>20.</HI> yeares, about the time of <HI>Salomons</HI> magnificent buil|dings in I&s;rael.</P>
<P><HI>Ebranke</HI> began in the yeare <HI>2974.</HI> and ruled <HI>60.</HI> yeares, in the <HI>23.</HI> yeare of his raigne he built <HI>Caerbrank,</HI> about this time the fierie Prophet <HI>Elias</HI> of I&s;rael began to teach.</P>
<P><HI>Brute</HI> the &s;econd began in the yeare <HI>3034.</HI> and ruled <HI>12.</HI> yeares: about this time <HI>Baals</HI> Prophets were &s;lain at the brooke <HI>Ki&s;on</HI> by the commaundement of <HI>Elias</HI> the Prophet of God.</P>
<P><HI>Leyl</HI> beganne in the yeare <HI>3046.</HI> and raigned <HI>25.</HI> yeares: about this time <HI>Eli&s;eus</HI> the great Prophet be|ganne to worke wonders in I&s;rael.</P>
<P><HI>Hurdibras</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3071.</HI> and raigned <HI>30.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Lycurgus</HI> the <HI>Lacedemonian</HI> law-maker flo|ri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Bladud</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3101.</HI> and raigned <HI>21.</HI> yeares: now <HI>He&s;iodus</HI> the Poet was famous, now <HI>Ho|mer</HI> liued.</P>
<P><HI>Leyr</HI> beganne in the yeare <HI>3122.</HI> and raigned <HI>40.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Sardanapalus</HI> the la&s;t king of <HI>A&s;siria</HI> was in his pride and &s;en&s;ualitie.</P>
<P><HI>Cordeyl</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3162.</HI> and ruled <HI>5.</HI> yeares: nowe <HI>E&s;aias</HI> the Prophet began to prophe&s;ie among the Iewes.</P>
<P><PB N="31" REF="18" MS="y"><HI>Conedag</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3167.</HI> and raigned <HI>33.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Romulus</HI> and <HI>Remus</HI> were borne: now the <HI>Olimpiades</HI> began.</P>
<P><HI>Riuall</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3200.</HI> and raigned <HI>46.</HI> yeares: now Roome was builded: now <HI>Sennacheribs</HI> army was de&s;troied by an Angel of God in one night.</P>
<P><HI>Gurgu&s;t</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3246.</HI> and raigned <HI>38.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Gyges</HI> got the kingdom of <HI>Lydia</HI> and <HI>Numa</HI> of Roome: heereaboutes <HI>Herodotus</HI> beginneth his hi|&s;tories, which containe <HI>230.</HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Si&s;ill</HI> beganne in the yeare <HI>3284.</HI> and raigned <HI>49.</HI> yeares: nowe <HI>Tullus</HI> ruled in Roome, and <HI>Ieremias</HI> the Prophet began to prophe&s;ie.</P>
<P><HI>Iago</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3333.</HI> and raigned <HI>25.</HI> years: now <HI>Ancus Martius</HI> ruled in Roome and <HI>Nabuchodono|&s;or</HI> in Babilon.</P>
<P><HI>Kymar</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3358.</HI> and raigned <HI>54.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Daniel</HI> and <HI>Ezechiel</HI> the Prophets began to prophe&s;ie: nowe the &s;euen wi&s;emen of <HI>Greece</HI> were famous.</P>
<P><HI>Gorbodug</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3412.</HI> and raigned <HI>64.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Tarquinius</HI> was expelled out of Roome: now <HI>Pythagoras</HI> liued: now <HI>Cyrus</HI> the great, was in his glorie.</P>
<P><HI>Ferrex</HI> and <HI>Porrex</HI> beganne in the yeare <HI>3475.</HI> and raigned <HI>5.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Xerxes</HI> beganne his Greeke wars: now <HI>Anaxagoras</HI> the Teacher of <HI>Pericles, Socra|tes</HI> and <HI>Thucydides</HI> was famous and &s;omwhat &s;ingular.</P>
<P>Thus <HI>Brute</HI> and his off&s;pring &s;eeme to ende in the yeare of the world <HI>3480.</HI> and to haue continued in the Gouernment of <HI>Brutanie <HI>735.</HI></HI> yeares. There is a time
<PB N="32" REF="19" MS="y">
of life, and a time of death, a time to ari&s;e, and a time to fall, a time for one &s;tock and a time for another. Yet in|finite be that time, which is prede&s;tinated for the name of <HI>Brute</HI> and his <HI>Brutans,</HI> euerla&s;ting be that honor which is due to the branches of &s;uch a Tree as groweth with|out withering, is &s;trong without decay, and may be&s;t &s;erue euen for the <HI>Phenix</HI> of all men, and <HI>Vna</HI> of all the women in the earth.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Topography &s;et downe in the Hi&s;torie of <HI>Brutes generation.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>The places mentio|ned in this Iland are vniuer&s;all</HEAD>
<P><HI>More: Locry</HI> the &s;outh part of <HI>Brutanie, Cambry</HI> the we&s;t part, <HI>Albany</HI> the north part &s;o named, of <HI>Locrin</HI> &amp; <HI>Camber</HI> and <HI>Albanact</HI> the &s;onnes of <HI>Brute.</HI> All the kings that &s;ucceeded <HI>Locrin</HI> raigned in <HI>Locry,</HI> and <HI>Conedag</HI> ruled it as his heritage. <HI>Morgan</HI> fled into <HI>Cambry</HI> from <HI>Conedags</HI> armie: he was ruler in <HI>Albany,</HI> which was a&s;&s;igned him for his portion. One of <HI>Leyrs</HI> &s;onnes in law was Duke of <HI>Albany.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Le&s;&s;e: Cornewall</HI> &s;o called of <HI>Corin,</HI> is in the boundes of <HI>Locry:</HI> there <HI>Guendolin</HI> wrought her chiefe practi&s;es: there <HI>Madian</HI> was brought vp: one of <HI>Leyrs</HI> &s;onnes in law was Duke thereof. <HI>Glamorgan</HI> is in the limits of <HI>Cambry,</HI> there <HI>Morgan</HI> was &s;laine, and his Armie ouerthrowne, of whom that part had the name.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="33" REF="19" MS="y">
<HEAD>Other pla+ces ar le&s;&s;e particular.</HEAD>
<P><HI>In the water: Brute</HI> built <HI>Troynew</HI> by the Riuer Tems. <HI>Locry</HI> and <HI>Albany</HI> are deuided by the riuer <HI>Humber,</HI> where <HI>Locrin</HI> vanqui&s;hed the Duke of the <HI>Albans</HI> called <HI>Humber,</HI> of whome that riuer had the name.</P>
<P><HI>Cambry</HI> is parted from <HI>Locry</HI> by the riuer <HI>Seuerne,</HI> called otherwi&s;e <HI>Habren,</HI> in which <HI>El&s;trid</HI> and her daughter <HI>Habren</HI> were drowned by <HI>Guendolins</HI> com|mandement, and of that daughter the Riuer had the name.</P>
<P><HI>In the land: Brute</HI> landed at <HI>Totnes</HI> Hauen. <HI>Troynew</HI> built by <HI>Brute:</HI> heere <HI>Locrin</HI> made <HI>El&s;trids</HI> caue: heere <HI>Bladud, Conedag</HI> and <HI>Gorbodug</HI> were buried. <HI>Caerkent</HI> the Cittie of <HI>Kent</HI> or <HI>Canterbury, Caerwin</HI> or <HI>Winche&s;ter, Caerpalladour or Shaftsbury</HI> built by <HI>Hurdibras. Caerba|don</HI> or the Citty <HI>Bathe,</HI> and <HI>Stamford</HI> built by <HI>Bladud. Caerleyr</HI> or the Cittie of <HI>Leyr</HI> or <HI>Leece&s;ter</HI> built by <HI>Leyr.</HI> There hee was buried: there <HI>Cordeyl</HI> was buried: The&s;e are in <HI>Locry: Caerbranke,</HI> or the cittie of <HI>Ebrank,</HI> or <HI>Yorke,</HI> and <HI>Edenbrough,</HI> or the cittie of <HI>Maides,</HI> built by <HI>Ebranke. Caerleyl</HI> the cittie of <HI>Leyl:</HI> the&s;e are in <HI>Al|bany.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Places more par|ticular are</HEAD>
<P><HI>Temples and religious hou&s;es: Ebranke</HI> built a Tem|ple in <HI>Caerbranke,</HI> and there he was buried: there was <HI>Riuall</HI> buried, there <HI>Iago</HI> was buried. <HI>Leil</HI> built a Tem|ple in <HI>Caerleyl,</HI> and there was he buried.</P>
<P><HI>Hurdibras</HI> built three Temples in his three Citties,
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and in the Temple of <HI>Caerwin</HI> was he buried. <HI>Bladud</HI> built a Temple in <HI>Caerbadon:</HI> there <HI>Si&s;ill</HI> was buried. <HI>Bladud</HI> fell downe vpon the aultar of <HI>Apollo,</HI> when his flying failed him.</P>
<P><HI>Prophane places: Ebranke</HI> built a Ca&s;tle in <HI>Eden|brough.</HI> The Caue of <HI>El&s;trid</HI> built by <HI>Locrin.</HI> The bel|lies of bea&s;tes were the toombers of <HI>Madian</HI> and <HI>Mem|pri&s;e.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Places out of this Iland men|tioned are</HEAD>
<P><HI>Neerer vs: Germany:</HI> thence <HI>El&s;trid</HI> was brought by <HI>Humber:</HI> thence <HI>Ebranke</HI> brought great &s;poyles. <HI>Gallia</HI> whence <HI>Ebranke</HI> got many riches: there <HI>Aganip</HI> the hu&s;band of <HI>Cordeil</HI> was Ruler: <HI>Leyr</HI> and <HI>Ferrex</HI> in their neede fled thither.</P>
<P><HI>Farder from vs: Latium</HI> in <HI>Italy:</HI> whether <HI>Ebranke</HI> &s;ent his <HI>30.</HI> daughters.</P>
<P><HI>Athens</HI> in <HI>Greece,</HI> where <HI>Bladud</HI> was taught and &s;chooled. For the trauailes of <HI>Brute</HI> before hee came to vs pertaine not to vs in re&s;pect of the places or o|therwi&s;e. Till hee was of our Commonwealth, he was not with vs, but again&s;t vs.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="20" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE GENEALOGY OR IS|SVE OF CLOTO.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CLoto</HI> Duke of Cornwall de&s;cending from <HI>Corin,</HI> Great <HI>Brutes</HI> nephew began the &s;econd family of the <HI>Brutan</HI> kinges, and begat <HI>Mulmucie,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Mulmucie</HI> begat two &s;onnes of <HI>Conwen</HI> his wife, the fir&s;t was <HI>Belin,</HI> the &s;econd was <HI>Brenne,</HI> a verie per&s;onable man, yet hee left no knowne &s;eede be|hinde him.</P>
<P><HI>Belin</HI> begat <HI>Gurguint.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Gurguint</HI> begat <HI>Guintelin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Guintelin</HI> begat <HI>Si&s;ill,</HI> the &s;econd of <HI>Martia</HI> his wife.</P>
<P><HI>Si&s;ill</HI> begat <HI>Kymar</HI> the &s;econd.</P>
<P><HI>Kymar</HI> begat <HI>Elane.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Elane</HI> begat <HI>Morind</HI> of his concubine <HI>Tangue&s;tela.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Morind</HI> begat <HI>5.</HI> &s;onnes, the fir&s;t <HI>Gorboman,</HI> the &s;e|cond <HI>Archigall,</HI> the third <HI>Elidure,</HI> the fourth <HI>Vigeny</HI> the fift <HI>Peridure,</HI> which died without any naturall i&s;&s;ue, onely <HI>Elidure</HI> begat <HI>Gorboman</HI> the &s;econd.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the <HI>14.</HI> Generations of <HI>Cloto</HI> in the king|dome of <HI>Locry,</HI> which <HI>14.</HI> onely are well regi&s;tred, and acknowledged as true heires in the &s;ucce&s;&s;ion of the <HI>Brutan</HI> Crowne. There are differences of Hou&s;es a&s;wel for number as for time: but opinion de&s;troieth nature often, or el&s;e &s;ome families would la&s;t euer, the force of education is mightie.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="36" REF="21" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE ARTES AND ACTES OF Cloto, and the Clotoans, are in their <HI>Vertues and Vices.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or Iu|&s;tice appea+reth in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding: Mulmucy</HI> of all the kings was fir&s;t crow|ned with gold: hee founded the Temple of <HI>Troynew. Belin</HI> the fir&s;t brother po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the fir&s;t part, and <HI>Bren</HI> the &s;econd inherited the &s;econd: after that <HI>Bren</HI> fled out of this Iland and left no children, <HI>Belin</HI> tooke his kingdome for his owne. <HI>Elidure</HI> being a younger bro|ther to <HI>Archigall,</HI> gaue ouer the kingdome vnto him, accounting it rightly <HI>Archigals</HI> good for his life time. <HI>Peridure</HI> after the death of his elder brother <HI>Vigeny</HI> tooke the kingdome into his handes, becau&s;e <HI>Vigeny</HI> died without i&s;&s;ue, and ioyned his owne kingdome and this in one.</P>
<P><HI>Rewarding: Mulmucy</HI> made of his Temples priui|ledged &s;anctuaries, that none &s;hould die or &s;uffer any violence in them: his lawes which he writ approue his righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e. <HI>Belin</HI> repaired the olde Citties which other kinges had built aforetime: hee offered &s;acrifices and giftes freely to the Gods, and mo&s;t &s;o|lemnly thanked them for the victorie he got again&s;t <HI>Brenne</HI> and his Norwaies. He ordained three arch|flamins in three Citties, hee confirmed his fathers lawes. <HI>Martia</HI> was generally allowed for Ruler and king of the realme, euen in the dayes of her hu&s;|band and her &s;onne, becau&s;e her gift in iudgement was mo&s;t &s;ingular, and vnmacheable. <HI>Gorboman</HI> re|paired all the Temples in his whole kingdome throughout. <HI>Elidure</HI> was cho&s;en king three &s;undry
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times for his vpright dealing in all ca&s;es. That con|&s;tant vertue is happy that findeth her friendes con|&s;tant like her&s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>Puni&s;hing: Belin</HI> would not re&s;tore <HI>Brens</HI> kingdome vnto him, becau&s;e hee had lo&s;t it by fal&s;hoode, and in triall of warre. <HI>Belin</HI> would not deliuer <HI>Guilthdake</HI> the Dani&s;h intruder out of pri&s;on, and &s;end him home to his kingdome in Denmarke, vntill hee had taken a mo&s;t &s;ure order for a yearely tribute in con&s;ideration of his pre&s;ent deliuery to bee payd to <HI>Belin</HI> and his heires for euer. <HI>Gurguint,</HI> when the <HI>Dane</HI> denyed hys yearely tribute, plagued the <HI>Dane</HI> ince&s;&s;antly by fire and &s;word, till hee agreed to pay him the yearely tri|bute, which was lawfully due to the king of <HI>Brutanie. Archigall</HI> was depriued of the kingdome by his &s;ub|iectes for his wicked life. When <HI>Morind</HI> had ouer|throwne the <HI>Mores</HI> that inuaded his land, hee burnt them before his face, becau&s;e they had burnt in &s;ome partes of this Countrey. Heere wee may well con&s;i|der the Iu&s;tice of Heauen, which &s;lewe many of <HI>Brens</HI> &s;ouldiers, and wounded him to death, when hee had &s;poyled a Temple.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Vice or Iniu|&s;tice appea+red in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding: Archigall</HI> &s;ought by all meanes, to ad|uaunce ba&s;e men and rude va&s;&s;als, whom hee fauou|red mo&s;t, and to pull downe the great and rich men, whom hee liked not &s;o much as them. Like will to like: tyranny re&s;pecteth onely her&s;elfe. <HI>Peredure</HI> and <HI>Vigeny</HI> enuying the grace and glory of their brother <HI>Elidure,</HI> made warre again&s;t him and tooke him pri|&s;oner, and kept him in hold while they liued, without
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any other rea&s;on, but the vnrea&s;onable power of for|cible entry.</P>
<P><HI>Puni&s;hing: Kymar</HI> the &s;econd being hated of &s;ome vngratious and de&s;perate &s;ubiectes was &s;laine by them mo&s;t wrongfully: the more vnhappy man hee that coulde not fore&s;ee. <HI>Morind</HI> was of &s;o violent and boi&s;terous a nature, that who&s;oeuer offended him &s;hould &s;urely dye for his fault, though it were but a &s;mall tre&s;pa&s;&s;e, becau&s;e hee was di&s;plea&s;ed. E|uery offence is not deadly: no man liueth without of|fences: but a Prince without patience doth euer mo&s;t mi&s;chiefe.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or for|titude, is &s;eene in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Peace at home: Mulmucy</HI> built <HI>Blackwell Hall</HI> and <HI>Malmesbury:</HI> hee beganne to cut and lay out <HI>4.</HI> High|waies vniuer&s;all to this Land: he re&s;tored chiualry. <HI>Belin</HI> built tho&s;e <HI>4.</HI> waies, and fini&s;hed them: he built a Citie and a Hauen with faire gates in <HI>Troynew</HI> and a Tower. <HI>Guintelin</HI> built a Cittie: <HI>Gorboman</HI> the fir&s;t, built two Citties.</P>
<P><HI>Peace abroad: Bren</HI> built &s;ome Citties in <HI>Italy</HI> and repayred &s;ome.</P>
<P><HI>Warre at home: Mulmucy</HI> vanqui&s;hed <HI>4.</HI> great Dukes, which warred with him for the crowne of this kingdome. <HI>Belin</HI> ouerthrew <HI>Brens</HI> armies twi&s;e, he took <HI>Guilthdake</HI> pri&s;oner, and tho&s;e &s;hips that were &s;ent again&s;t the Land. <HI>Morind</HI> &s;lewe an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Sea Mon&s;ter: he de&s;troyed a Duke of the <HI>Mores</HI> and hys men, that arriued in this Iland to de&s;troy it.</P>
<P><HI>Warre abroad: Belin</HI> and <HI>Bren</HI> &s;ayled together with both their forces into <HI>Gallia</HI> and &s;ubdued it.</P>
<P><PB N="39" REF="22" MS="y"><HI>Bren</HI> &s;ought afterward newe kingdomes abroad, he vanqui&s;hed great partes of <HI>Italy,</HI> and &s;acked <HI>Rome</HI> it &s;elfe: he got infinite &s;poyles in <HI>Macedonia. Gurguint</HI> &s;ayled into <HI>Denmarke,</HI> and forced the king there in his owne Land to yeald vnto him.</P>
<P><HI>Reuenging: Bren</HI> gathered him&s;elfe an Army in <HI>Norway,</HI> to recouer his kingdom of <HI>Belin</HI> thereby. So he prouided for him&s;elfe afterward in <HI>Armoricke</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>Belin</HI> vppon the &s;ame cau&s;e, and for the like purpo&s;e.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Vice or extreme Fortitude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ambition: Bren</HI> aro&s;e with all his powers again&s;t <HI>Belin,</HI> to take from him his right Dominion, if hee could. <HI>Vigeny</HI> and <HI>Peredure</HI> con&s;pired again&s;t <HI>Elidure,</HI> and tooke his kingdome from him by open force.</P>
<P><HI>Rage: Bren</HI> threatned <HI>Belin</HI> with wordes of great defiance, if he had not his kingdome of him againe. He &s;poyled the Temple of <HI>Macedonia</HI> in de&s;pite of all gouernment.</P>
<P><HI>Pu&s;illanimitie: Elidure</HI> was content to bee taken and pri&s;oned, rather then giue any cau&s;e of bloud&s;hed among his people by meanes of warre.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Prudence is &s;et forth in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Writinges: Mulmucy</HI> made many po&s;itiue lawes in his natiue language, and cau&s;ed them to be pub|li&s;hed, that all men might read them for their directi|on and better adui&s;ement.</P>
<P><HI>Marcia</HI> a queene made many &s;tatutes, to teach the &s;ubiects aright and ea&s;ie way of morall life. Right in re&s;pect of the crooked way, and ea&s;ie in re&s;pect of the loo&s;e and carele&s;&s;e way which breedeth &s;orrowes.</P>
<P><PB N="40" REF="23" MS="y"><HI>Doinges: Mulmucie</HI> fauoured all learned men of all kindes, being minded to v&s;e euery one in his mi&s;tery. <HI>Belin</HI> fortified the late kingdome of his brother, and now his owne kingdome, with his owne &s;ouldiers, and put out all <HI>Brens</HI> men for his &s;ake, and his owne &s;afetie: hee allowed his fathers lawes for his time, le&s;&s;e any man &s;hould obiectiuely quarrell with him. <HI>Archigall</HI> &s;eeing by dayly experience, the dayly mi&s;e|ries of a wicked and incon&s;iderate life, learned a new le&s;&s;on, and led his life orderly euer after. <HI>Bren</HI> know|ing his owne bodily beautie applied him&s;elfe to that vaine, and got goodwill by marrying great women in forraine Landes, when he could not &s;tay at home. <HI>Belin</HI> was more carefull of his owne land, then for outlandi&s;h goodes, and returned from <HI>Gallia</HI> to <HI>Bru|tanie,</HI> where his greate&s;t charge was.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or folly is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Conceite or opinion: Mulmucy</HI> dedicated a Temple to <HI>Apollo,</HI> as if the dead man were wi&s;e and migh|tie.</P>
<P><HI>Ignoraunce: Elane</HI> ruled fondly and vnrulily.</P>
<P><HI>Pre&s;umption: Morind</HI> fought with a Sea mon&s;ter, and made no man of his coun&s;ell herein.</P>
<P><HI>Improuidence: Kymar</HI> was &s;laine by his enemies in time of hunting, where they tooke him alone at a dead vantage.</P>
<P><HI>The be&s;t Remedie again&s;t Follies Wichery is, a tryall of all cau&s;es, which belong to any effect. Hee that can follow this Rule infallibly, cannot be foyled in his Actions.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="41" REF="23" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Te~|perance is known by</HEAD>
<P><HI>Liberalitie: Mulmucy,</HI> accounting the Cittie, and the Countrey two pillars of his kingdome, priuiled|ged the waies which went to Citties, and which were for plowes, that the Cittizens and hu&s;band|men of the land might be loued the more, and better v&s;ed for their immunities among them&s;elues, and with &s;ouldiers. <HI>Bren</HI> gaue much trea&s;ure to his No|ble Lordes in little <HI>Brutanie,</HI> to winne their goodwill, and wage battell with their helpe again&s;t <HI>Belin.</HI> A man alone is but halfe him&s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>Marriage: Bren</HI> married the Duke <HI>Elfinges</HI> daugh|ter in <HI>Norway:</HI> he married the dukes onely daughter of little <HI>Brutany,</HI> and thereby was mightie in both places for fauour and power: but I cannot tell cer|tainly, what became of his fir&s;t wife: he was an od man of wit and practi&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Concord: Conwen</HI> the mother of <HI>Belin,</HI> and <HI>Bren</HI> ioyned her two &s;onnes in one, yea euen them two, which was &s;omewhat &s;trange: but what may not wordes do, if they be well tempered, and &s;ea&s;oned with true mode&s;tie? when they were readie with their armies to ioyne in battell, in&s;omuch that &s;trait|waies they ruled their former rages, and went bro|therly together again&s;t the common enemy. <HI>Gurguint</HI> liued peaceably: &s;o did <HI>Guintelin:</HI> &s;o did <HI>Si&s;ill</HI> the &s;e|cond: &s;o did <HI>Kymar</HI> the &s;econd: &s;o did <HI>Gorboman</HI> the &s;e|cond. A &s;ober heart maketh peace, a drunken head, &s;trife.</P>
<P><HI>Mercie: Gurguint</HI> meeting with a Nauy of <HI>30.</HI>
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&s;trange &s;hippes in the Scotti&s;h Seas, and &s;eeing plainly their extreame neede, and hearing withall their pittifull Supplication, gaue them his goodwill to dwell in Ireland, and a&s;&s;ured them of his good fa|uour, &s;o long as they liued well and neighbourly. <HI>E|lidure</HI> for his notable mildne&s;&s;e, and mercifull nature was named <HI>Meeke:</HI> he heartily lamented his brother <HI>Archigals</HI> poore and wretched e&s;tate, therefore he fay|ned him&s;elfe &s;icke, that by the&s;e meanes all his No|blemen, and Lordes might come and vi&s;ite him, and at their being with him, hee &s;ued to them, as it had been for his life, That he might re&s;igne his kingdom vnto <HI>Archigall.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Vice or Intem|perance is known by</HEAD>
<P><HI>Anger: Morind</HI> was outragious alwaies and in|tollerable in his heate.</P>
<P><HI>Maleuolence: Archigall</HI> gaue him&s;elfe to breede quarrels chiefly again&s;t his Noblemen and Rich|men.</P>
<P><HI>Incontinency: Bren</HI> being wounded to death in a tempe&s;t &s;ent from the cloudes, &s;lew him&s;elfe in a de|&s;perate rage. Who can &s;aue him whom God hateth? It was wonderous, that the Heauens &s;hould fight for <HI>Apollo.</HI> I may thinke the Sprite of the Ayre was &s;uffered, to play this part, to vpholde <HI>Apol|loni&s;me.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="43" REF="24" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE CHRONOLOGY OF Clotos off&s;pring.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter the yeare of the worldes Creation, <HI>3480.</HI> there was ciuill Warre continu|ally in this Iland for the &s;pace of <HI>50.</HI> yeares: in which time vainglorious <HI>Xer|xes</HI> was weakened of the Greekes, both by Sea and Land: then the <HI>12.</HI> Tables of Lawes were brought to Roome: then <HI>Euripides</HI> was born: then <HI>E&s;dras</HI> began to re&s;tore the Temple at Ieru&s;alem.</P>
<P><HI>Mulmucy</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3530.</HI> and raigned <HI>40.</HI> yeares: in which time <HI>Bellum Peloponne&s;iacum</HI> began and ended: then <HI>Socrates</HI> died violently by poy&s;on &amp; malice.</P>
<P><HI>Belin</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3570.</HI> &amp; raigned <HI>26.</HI> yeares: in the fir&s;t fiue yeares he and his brother <HI>Bren</HI> liued qui|etly together: in this time Roome was taken of the <HI>Gauls:</HI> now <HI>Ari&s;totle</HI> was borne, may the world be glad thereof?</P>
<P><HI>Gurguint</HI> began in the yeare <HI>3596.</HI> and raigned <HI>19.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Xenophons</HI> greeke Hi&s;tory is en|ded: now <HI>Alexander</HI> the great is borne, to begin a peece of a new world.</P>
<P><HI>Guintelin</HI> beganne, <HI>3615.</HI> and ruled <HI>26.</HI> yeares: in which time <HI>Plato</HI> dyed, the more the pitie: then <HI>I&s;ocrates</HI> and <HI>Demo&s;thenes</HI> plaied their partes with <HI>Philip:</HI> then the Greeke Monarchy began to go on foote: hereabout <HI>Buchanan</HI> begins his Scotti&s;h kinges, <HI>330.</HI> yeares be|fore Chri&s;tes Natiuitie.</P>
<P><HI>Si&s;ill</HI> began, <HI>3641.</HI> and ruled <HI>7.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Alexanders</HI> kingdoms were deuided betweene his wor|thies.</P>
<P><HI>Kymar</HI> the &s;econd began, <HI>3648.</HI> and ruled <HI>3.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Ca&s;&s;ander</HI> re&s;toreth the Cittie <HI>Thebes</HI> the <HI>20.</HI> yeare after <HI>Alexander</HI> de&s;troyed it.</P>
<P><PB N="44" REF="25" MS="y"><HI>Elane</HI> began, <HI>3651.</HI> and raigned <HI>9.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Seleucus</HI> beganne his raigne in <HI>Syria,</HI> and <HI>Demetrius</HI> deliuered <HI>Athens</HI> from the <HI>Macedonian</HI> yoke.</P>
<P><HI>Morind</HI> began <HI>3660.</HI> and raigned <HI>8.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Flauius</HI> a Secretary publi&s;hed the Ciuill Lawe, which the high Prie&s;t onely knew aforetime.</P>
<P><HI>Gorboman</HI> began, <HI>3668.</HI> and raigned <HI>11.</HI> yeares: in which time <HI>Decius</HI> the &s;onne deuoted him&s;elf to death for his Country Rome in the wars of the <HI>Samnites.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Archigall</HI> began, <HI>3679.</HI> and ruled <HI>5.</HI> yeares: in this time the Con&s;ul <HI>T. Coruncanus</HI> began fir&s;t to profe&s;&s;e the Ciuill Law: now <HI>Pirrhus</HI> the <HI>Epyrote</HI> made warre with the Romans.</P>
<P><HI>Elidure</HI> began, <HI>3684.</HI> and ruled <HI>5.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Ptolomeus Philadelphus</HI> entertained many learned and wi&s;e men.</P>
<P><HI>Archigal</HI> began again, <HI>3689.</HI> and ruled <HI>10.</HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Elidure</HI> began againe, <HI>3699.</HI> and ruled <HI>2.</HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Vigeny</HI> and <HI>Peredure</HI> began, <HI>3701.</HI> and ruled <HI>9.</HI> years: in this time the <HI>70.</HI> tran&s;lated the Bible into greeke: in this time the fir&s;t <HI>Punick</HI> war beganne: now <HI>Phalereus</HI> the Rhetorician, now <HI>Theocritus</HI> the Poet, now <HI>Euclides</HI> the Geometrician, now <HI>Aratus</HI> the A&s;trologian liued.</P>
<P><HI>Elidure</HI> began again, <HI>3710.</HI> and raigned <HI>4.</HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Gorboman</HI> the &s;econd began in the yeare of the world, <HI>3714.</HI> and raigned <HI>10.</HI> yeares: in this time the people created <HI>T. Coruncanus</HI> the high Bi&s;hop in Roome.</P>
<P><HI>Thus the Time of Clotoes off&s;pring &s;eemeeh to end in the yeare of the word, 3724. and to haue endured 194. yeares in the Rule of Bru|tany: a verie little time of continuance for &s;o many kings: but all plantes haue not roote alike: &s;ome are rooted broadway, as Elmes, and fall quickly: &s;ome are rooted downward, as Okes, and &s;tand in the mids of the windes, euen till the violent axe or verie age ouer|turne them.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="25" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE TOPOGRAPHY MENTIO|ned in Clotoes Off&s;pring.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>The places named are in the I|land</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>general
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Cambry,</HI> where <HI>Rudank</HI> ruled in the conflict of <HI>Mulmcy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Locry,</HI> where <HI>Pinnor</HI> ruled in that conflict. <HI>Belin</HI> and his &s;ucce&s;|&s;ors ruled there. <HI>Vigeny</HI> ruled ther.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Albany,</HI> where <HI>Statery</HI> was Ru|ler in that time of conflict. <HI>Bren</HI> and <HI>Peredure</HI> raigned there.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Northumberland,</HI> there <HI>Yeuan</HI> ruled in the time of the conflict: here <HI>Belin</HI> prepared an Army a|gain&s;t <HI>Brens</HI> comming.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;peciall,
<LIST>
<ITEM>More burials,
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Mulmucy</HI> buried in <HI>Troynew <HI>Te~ple:</HI></HI> &s;o was <HI>Gurguint: Belin</HI> at <HI>Be|lin&s;gate: <HI>Guintelin</HI></HI> in the <HI>Temple: <HI>Archigall</HI></HI> at <HI>Grantam: <HI>Elidure</HI></HI> at <HI>Caerleyl.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>Le&s;&s;e, ci|ties and the foure high|wais. &amp;c
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Warwicke</HI> built by <HI>Guintelin: <HI>Cambridge</HI></HI> &amp; <HI>Grantam</HI> built by <HI>Gor|boman: <HI>Caerusk</HI></HI> built by <HI>Belin,</HI> here he ordained an archflamin. <HI>Troy|new,</HI> where <HI>Belin</HI> con|&s;ulted with his Lords and with <HI>Bren.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Other places not &s;o generall are the&s;e: the Tower of Troynew built by Be|lin: there Elidure was impri&s;oned. Belin&s;gate built by Belin: Black|well Hall, an Malmesbury, and Pauls founded by Mulmucy: Bri&s;to by Bren: Calater a wood neere Caerbranke, where Bren was di&s;comfited
<PB N="46" REF="26" MS="y">
in his fir&s;t and &s;econd wars again&s;t Belin: there Elidure met Archigal. Caerbranke the place where Belin coun&s;elled with his Lordes about Guilthdake: there hee ordained an archflamin: there Elidure re&s;tored Archigall by the a&s;&s;ent of his Lordes.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>The places named out of the I|land</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>general
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ireland:</HI> there <HI>Gurguint</HI> placed the <HI>30.</HI> &s;ayle of &s;hippes that he met on the Sea.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Orcades:</HI> there he met tho&s;e &s;hips wa~dring.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Norway: <HI>Bren</HI></HI> fled thither from <HI>Belin,</HI> and there he gathered his &s;econd army a|gain&s;t him.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Armorica</HI> or litle <HI>Brutany,</HI> where <HI>Bren</HI> pre|pared his third Army.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Denmark,</HI> from that countrey <HI>Guilthdake,</HI> came in armes again&s;t this Iland. <HI>Gur|guint</HI> &s;ayled thither, to fight for his owne goodes.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Gallia:</HI> there <HI>Bren</HI> ruled, &amp; repaired &s;ome Cities.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Italy:</HI> here <HI>Bren</HI> became mo&s;t victorious.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Macedony:</HI> here <HI>Bren</HI> &s;poiled him&s;elf &amp; all. <HI>Mauritany: <HI>Morind</HI></HI> ouercame an Army of <HI>Mores,</HI> which came again&s;t this Iland.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM>&s;peciall
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Roome:</HI> here <HI>Bren</HI> made hauocke of all.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Capitoll: <HI>Bren</HI></HI> be&s;ieged it, and for one thou&s;and poundes of gold, brake vp and departed.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Millan, Pauy, Bergomum, Comum, Brixia, Verona, Tridentum, Vincentia,</HI> and other Ci|ties built or repaired by <HI>Bren</HI> the raue|nous and magnificent Prince.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><HI>Thus one Generation of men pa&s;&s;eth, and another commeth, but the vertues of men are euerla&s;ting, yea &amp; their bodies by traduction are immortall: So a vertuous man &s;hall be a mortall God, if his minde or body haue their i&s;&s;ues.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="47" REF="26">
<HEAD>THE THIRD GENERATION or rather &s;ucce&s;sion of Brutan Kings.</HEAD>
<P>_THe death of <HI>Gorboman</HI> the &s;econd begat a poli|ticke body in this Iland without an head. This <HI>Acephalia</HI> begat Vnruline&s;&s;e in the lower partes.</P>
<P>Vnruline&s;&s;e begat Strife, among the Nobles and Commons,</P>
<P>Strife begat Trouble on both partes.</P>
<P>Trouble begat Wearine&s;&s;e and Weakne&s;&s;e,</P>
<P>Weakne&s;&s;e begat De&s;ire of re&s;t,</P>
<P>De&s;ire of re&s;t begat Election, and</P>
<P>Election begat <HI>Morgan,</HI> and made him Ruler.</P>
<P><HI>Morgan</HI> begat Goodwill in his &s;ubiectes,</P>
<P>Goodwill for his &s;ake begat <HI>Emerian</HI> his brother, who died as the other did without i&s;&s;ue, his death let Ambition a traytor out of pri&s;on,</P>
<P>Ambition begat Sedition,</P>
<P>Sedition begat Confu&s;ion,</P>
<P>Confu&s;ion begat Vnquietne&s;&s;e,</P>
<P>Vnquietne&s;&s;e begat De&s;ire of order,</P>
<P>De&s;ire of order begat Deliberation, and</P>
<P>Deliberation begat <HI>Iual</HI> and made him king.</P>
<P>The death of <HI>Iuall</HI> begat Emulation,</P>
<P>Emulation begat Wit and Inuention.</P>
<P>Inuention begat Friend&s;hip,</P>
<P>Frend&s;hip begat <HI>Rimo,</HI> and made him Ruler. When he was dead his companion <HI>Geruncie</HI> was made king
<PB N="48" REF="27" MS="y">
in re&s;pect of that familiaritie which he had with <HI>Rimo.</HI> Then <HI>Cathel</HI> &s;o handled hys matters in plea&s;ing the chiefe men by hys liberall behauiour, that hee raigned next and dyed. Then <HI>Coil</HI> ouercame mens hearts with hys vertuous actiuitie, and was annointed king, and dyed: then <HI>Porrex</HI> the &s;econd wrought many good works, and was next king to him, and dyed.</P>
<P>Then <HI>Cheryn</HI> fed all the mad fellowes humours in the realme that he could heare of, and by voices got the kingdome.</P>
<P><HI>Cheryn</HI> begat a &s;onne, and called hym <HI>Fulgen,</HI> who dyed without i&s;&s;ue: then <HI>Eldrid</HI> by faire and large pro|mi&s;es got the Crowne and dyed: then <HI>Androgy</HI> outwent hym in all kinds of allurement, and &s;ucceeded him and begat <HI>Vrian</HI> that dyed without i&s;&s;ue. Then <HI>Eliud</HI> by his mi&s;ticall artes did extraordinary and admirable acts, and thereby was made king.</P>
<P>After him <HI>Merian</HI> by inuenting newe practi&s;es for warres, and occupations was &s;o honoured generally, that he was Ruler. Then <HI>Bladune</HI> aro&s;e from priuate de&s;ertes to publicke fauours, and at length hee was king: the &s;ame kinde of nature begat <HI>Capene,</HI> and next hym <HI>Ouine,</HI> and euen &s;uch a pacificatory mind preferred <HI>Sily.</HI> After hym <HI>Bledgabrede</HI> by hys plea&s;ant demeanour and merrimentes, plea&s;ed all the Nobles, and became theyr Ruler. Then <HI>Redargy</HI> aro&s;e next him in &s;uch a &s;ort, and &s;o did <HI>Samuly:</HI> But <HI>Peni&s;ell</HI> being vnmachable in &s;trength &s;ucceeded hym: then <HI>Pirrhy</HI> for his &s;trange &s;wiftne&s;&s;e, and incomparable dexteritie in all feates of manhood, was ruler of his brethren. In tho&s;e dayes publicke actions made kings.</P>
<P>The&s;e are the <HI>24.</HI> rulers, which &s;ucceeded <HI>Gorboman</HI>
<PB N="49" REF="27" MS="y">
the &s;econd, &amp; make a line of &s;ucce&s;&s;ion rather then of ge|nealogy. Yet wee may call this a politicke genera|tion rightly in the whole body of the realme, though it be not a naturall generation in theyr owne proper bo|dyes from <HI>Morgan</HI> to <HI>Pirrhy.</HI> All men haue not the gift of children: of all the&s;e Rulers here are but two &s;ons, and their two fathers, the other &s;eeme to haue left no &s;eede behinde them. Sometime the imperfection is in the wife, &s;ometime in the hu&s;band: there are watry loynes, and rotten thighes in both &s;exes. Some men are barren naturally, &s;ome are barren artificially, &s;ome are barren by olde age, &s;ome make them&s;elues barren with preternaturall dyet, &s;ome are made of other men by chirurgicall inci&s;ions. Or if they had children and were not barren, the more vnhappy they that coulde not continue as they began. Some families are ta|ken away by &s;ickne&s;&s;e, &s;ome by wars, &s;ome by mi&s;chan|ces in theyr dyet and exerci&s;e, &s;ome are put from theyr owne, and are euer in thraldome, and are neuer againe heard of in the worlde. God almighty knoweth all thinges from the fir&s;t to the la&s;t: but if a man &s;houlde &s;ucke the &s;tars, or be &s;ucked him&s;elfe as they &s;ay, of the king of Fayries, he &s;hould not finde a perfite Hi&s;tory of this time of the&s;e Kinges. Yet &s;uch as it is, I beleeue, a reader may go farther and &s;peed wor&s;e: the mo&s;t mo|rals the be&s;t Hi&s;torie, but a man may in&s;ert phi&s;icall ob&s;eruations vpon occa&s;ion to good v&s;e and purpo&s;e, &s;o long as Hi&s;tory is an example of life in both wayes of Action.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB REF="28" MS="y">
<HEAD>THEIR ARTES AND ACTES are &s;et downe in their Vertues <HI>and Vices.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Iu|&s;tice was approued in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding: Emerean</HI> &s;ucceeded <HI>Morgan,</HI> becau&s;e hee was his brother: for brethren are twigs of the &s;ame branch, fingers of one hand, partes of the &s;ame bo|dy. If one twig fall off, the &s;ap of the tree mu&s;t feed the other twig which &s;tandeth on. If &s;ome of the fin|gers be cut off, the vaines mu&s;t &s;erue the fingers that remaine: if one arme be rotted of, the other arme mu&s;t be in &s;tead of both armes. <HI>Fulgan</HI> &s;ucceeded his father <HI>Cherin,</HI> and <HI>Vrian</HI> his father <HI>Androgy.</HI> For the &s;onnes body is the fathers body deriued and conti|nued: it is the old body made young againe: the &s;ons and fathers body are as the &s;ame body of one tree in right length: the &s;eedes of trees bring forth all theyr owne kindes: in which re&s;pect <HI>Morind</HI> is a true king by Natures law.</P>
<P><HI>Rewarding: Iual</HI> among the Noblemen was cho|&s;en the king for his moderate vertues, and equall iudgementes that appeared euer in all his wordes and works. A rare in&s;tance of worthine&s;&s;e worthily con&s;idered, and may of it &s;elfe de&s;erue a Treati&s;e to proue the Ciuilitie of olde <HI>Brutanie,</HI> which many di&s;|grace for malice, and more for ignorance, and mo&s;t for company.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="51" REF="28">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or pru|dence was &s;hewed</HEAD>
<P><HI>In the art of Mu&s;icke: Bledgabrede</HI> both &s;tudied and practi&s;ed mu&s;icke: hee was very famous: and I thinke, in re&s;pect of his charge and gouernment, ve|ry wonderfull. A mona&s;ticall liuer, and much more an oeconomicall hath no partes of time for &s;uch young childi&s;h &s;tudies, if he looke wel about him: and how can a king that is the keeper of all other men haue any time for &s;uch vaine in&s;ignificant voices? Yet the circular wi&s;dome of this king had &s;uch a ca|pacitie by &s;ome myraculous infu&s;ion from heauen, that hee was fit both for the graue&s;t and the lighte&s;t &s;tudies, either to learne them by contemplation, or to v&s;e and teach them by action. He &s;aw by his in&s;tru|mentes, how to tune and &s;tring his kingdome: he could preuent and pacifie tumultes with his mu&s;ick: he might perhaps allay the waues of the Sea, and breake the thunders aloft with his diuine melodie: he coulde keepe him&s;elfe from wearine&s;&s;e by his mu|&s;icke: he could mitigate the violence of di&s;ea&s;es with his &s;weete voices: mu&s;icke was his pro&s;ody, his pro|nunciation, his di&s;po&s;ition, his in&s;trument of in&s;tru|ment, and the life of his life.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or Tempe|rance ap|peared in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Behauiour: Coil</HI> liued all his time quietly without a|ny war and tumult: A contented mind is not conten|tious. <HI>Porrex</HI> the <HI>2.</HI> behaued him&s;elfe, either fatherly toward his youngers, or brotherly toward his e|quals, or gently toward all men. By this meane he was more happie with the helpe of the Graces, then the fir&s;t <HI>Porrex,</HI> whome the Furies de&s;troied. The Graces are moderate Vertues, the Furies are im|moderate Vices.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="52" REF="29" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their vice or Intem|perance was in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diet: Cheryn</HI> was a drunkard, a cupleache, a bel|lygod, a water rat, he had been well v&s;ed if hee had been puni&s;hed with aba&s;ement, and turned out of his throne into a wine&s;eller, and of a winebibber, made a winedrawer.</P>
<P><HI>Manners: Vrian</HI> was nothing but a carnall man, his wit was carnall, his bodie was carnall his life was &s;en&s;uall, he was without anie diuine or humane excellencie. What &s;hould &s;uch a man haue an ex|cellent place in the commonwealth? why may the Heauenly Power abide &s;o vnholy a bea&s;t, to repre|&s;ent his inui&s;ible king in &s;o holy a Seat as the impe|riall Seate of a Prince? a &s;ingular place, a &s;ingular incumbent.</P>
<P>The other kinges that are not once noted with any vertuous or vicious actes might as good haue not been borne: they are certainly mi&s;erable men that leaue no memorable act behinde them: but are onely named, as a man may giue a name for di&s;tinctions &s;ake to a tree, or a hill, or a hou&s;e, or a field, or a &s;tone, or anie dead thing, without any father account, or regard of them. The greate&s;t Name maketh and &s;heweth the greate&s;t man, the lea&s;t name, the lea&s;t man: the greate&s;t name &s;pringeth from the greate&s;t actions, it is not the num|ber of Actes which beget a great Name. All goodes that a man hath within and without him, all are giuen and lent him to doe good: the Pillars of the life are Health, Wi&s;edome and Riches, yet &s;ome men are fa|mous for their &s;ickne&s;&s;e, folly and beggery: A memora|ble man euen with the&s;e three plagues is happier then
<PB N="53" REF="29" MS="y">
an ob&s;cure man with tho&s;e three ble&s;&s;ings: al the goods we haue &s;erue for the life, and yet the life con&s;i&s;teth not in the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions which wee haue: Riches &s;erue for Health, and Health &s;erueth for Wi&s;edome, and the ac|tions which belong vnto her, Wi&s;dome &s;erueth for life, and to keepe vs from the pathes of de&s;truction &amp; death. Life &s;erueth to get a Name by doing good. I would reioyce more in this, to haue my name written in hea|uen, where it may euer be in &s;ight and remembrance, then be all the&s;e <HI>24.</HI> kinges <HI>fortunati infoelices,</HI> who&s;e renowne is layd in Hell, and deuoured of the Graue. A liuing <HI>Cynick,</HI> more happy then a dying <HI>Cae&s;ar.</HI> A liuing dogge better then a dead Lyon. Yet let go vainglory and banni&s;h &s;elfewill: A name without true vertue de|&s;erueth no memorie: Many are recorded that are not worthy of a regi&s;ter: now there is no remedie: or el&s;e it might haue probably been wi&s;hed, that no obiect or vile examples of ba&s;e men had been written. For my part, I cannot thinke, that &s;o many kinges could liue and die without &s;ome glorious actions, how&s;oeuer mi&s;hap, or enuie, or the Deuill hath blotted them out from our eye-&s;ight.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Times of the&s;e Kinges.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_MOrgan</HI> began to raign in the yeare of the world. <HI>3724.</HI> and ruled <HI>14.</HI> yeares: now the <HI>Pana|reton</HI> of <HI>Syracides</HI> was written, and then the
<PB N="54" REF="30" MS="y">
<HI>Panareton</HI> of <HI>Brutanie</HI> fell into a dead &s;leepe, wherein it lay &s;till aboue <HI>100.</HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Emerian</HI> began in the yeare, <HI>3738.</HI> and raigned &s;euen yeares: now was <HI>Ennius</HI> the Poet borne: now <HI>Archi|mides</HI> the Mathematician liued with admiration.</P>
<P><HI>Iual</HI> beganne, <HI>3745.</HI> and raigned <HI>20.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Naeuius</HI> and <HI>Plautus</HI> flouri&s;hed: now <HI>Hanniball</HI> began the &s;econd <HI>Punick</HI> warre.</P>
<P><HI>Rimo</HI> began&punc; <HI>3765.</HI> and ruled <HI>16.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Hanniball</HI> fled to <HI>Antiochus</HI> for &s;uccour.</P>
<P><HI>Geruncy</HI> began, <HI>3781.</HI> and raigned <HI>20.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Antiochus</HI> raged in <HI>Iewry.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cathel</HI> began&punc; <HI>3801.</HI> and ruled <HI>10.</HI> yeares: nowe the <HI>Macabees</HI> be&s;tirred them like Bees: now <HI>Terence</HI> the Poet flouri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Coil</HI> began, <HI>3811.</HI> and raigned <HI>20.</HI> yeares: in this time the third <HI>Punick</HI> Warres began.</P>
<P><HI>Porrex</HI> the <HI>2.</HI> began, <HI>3831.</HI> and ruled <HI>4.</HI> yeares: now the Citty of <HI>Numantia</HI> in Spaine was ra&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>Cherin</HI> raigned one yeare: <HI>Fulgen</HI> two yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Eldred</HI> ruled one yeare: <HI>Androgy</HI> one yeare.</P>
<P><HI>Vrian</HI> raigned <HI>3.</HI> yeares: <HI>Eliud <HI>5.</HI></HI> yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Merian</HI> ruled two yeares: <HI>Bladune</HI> two yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Capen</HI> ruled <HI>3.</HI> yeares: <HI>Ouine</HI> two yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Sily</HI> raigned <HI>2.</HI> yeares, eleuen kinges in <HI>24.</HI> yeares: About this time the <HI>Saduces</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;ees</HI> beganne their &s;ects in <HI>Iewry:</HI> now the warre of <HI>Iurguth</HI> began and en|ded: nowe <HI>Tully</HI> was borne in the yeare of the world. <HI>3859,</HI> an hundred and three yeares before Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Bledgabrede</HI> began, <HI>3860.</HI> and raigned <HI>20.</HI> yeares: in this time was <HI>Pompei</HI> borne into the world.</P>
<P><HI>Redargy</HI> began, <HI>3880.</HI> and ruled <HI>3.</HI> yeares: in this
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time was <HI>I. Cae&s;ar</HI> borne into the world.</P>
<P><HI>Samuly</HI> ruled two yeares? <HI>Peni&s;ell</HI> three yeares.</P>
<P><HI>Pirry</HI> raigned <HI>2.</HI> yeares, foure kinges in <HI>10.</HI> yeares, and ended in the yeare of the worlde, <HI>3890:</HI> in which time <HI>Antony</HI> and <HI>Cra&s;&s;us</HI> the Oratours of Roome, and in <HI>Q.M. Scaeuola</HI> the Lawyer liued:</P>
<P><HI>So the&s;e 24. kinges continued 166. yeares in the Go|uernment of <HI>Brutanie.</HI></HI></P>
<P>Heere is no Topography, heere is no place named: they were now I may well &s;ay kinges Ab&s;tracts: that they did it no where, either incomprehe~&s;ibly like Gods, or metaphi&s;ically like &s;trange men. The mu&s;icke of <HI>Bledgabred</HI> and the actions of the re&s;t were, belike, in no place of any great account. Yet becau&s;e they were kinges and enioyed their kingdomes, theyr doomes mu&s;t needes be giuen &s;omewhere, and their cunning mu&s;t needes be &s;hewed in &s;ome place, and that was euen the generall Land of <HI>Brutany,</HI> without any parti|cular nomination of le&s;&s;e places. Right Soueraignes and perfit kings, who&s;e Actes were vniuer&s;all &amp; com|mon to the whole realme, not appropriate or fancied to any one Region therein. If the head moue and guide the body it doth more then if it moue or guide one part thereof. A generall prai&s;e is greate&s;t, and this was the&s;e kinges &s;peciall glory aboue others, to rule all pla|ces, to rule the Land. The be&s;t v&s;e of one commenda|tion or other is, to encounter &s;ome one di&s;prai&s;e or other that hath been or may be, but they that do all thinges well, haue no neede them&s;elues of particular Hi&s;tory. If <HI>Sily</HI> ruled <HI>2.</HI> yeares, &s;uppo&s;e in rea&s;on, hee was no &s;illy one. If the other kinges were kinges, that was all in
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all. A king cannot po&s;&s;ibly be without his excellencies, and memorials.</P>
<P>Now I diuine mode&s;tly, heere were actors with|out recorders of their actions, patrons of learning, but no learned men: or, they were of both &s;ortes, but their &s;tudies came to no effect, by &s;ome force: or, they were very old when they came to the Crown, and could do nothing: or, the furies and helhoundes raged &s;o ex|treamely, that the Mu&s;es and Graces coulde not bee quiet for them: or, their actes were wrought in needle|worke onely, and &s;o worne out: or, the &s;en&s;es, and &s;en&s;|le&s;&s;e de&s;ires &s;o ruled them, that theyr liues were not &s;o &s;hort as their actes: or, the Hi&s;tories were written in &s;ome &s;trange kind of polygraphy and &s;teganography, and coulde neuer yet be read, but remaine in &s;ome ob|&s;cure place: or, they made little account of writers, and the&s;e &s;et as light by them: or, they that take mo&s;t pains at their booke, were not mo&s;t regarded: and thereupon &s;tudied to them&s;elues: or, &s;ome infortunate and male|uolent configuration of mouable &s;kies and &s;tarres, and &s;pirites remoued all Hi&s;tories out of the way: or, the Kinges and People agreed among them&s;elues, to bee remembred by being not remembred, wi&s;hing to haue their time called <HI>The vnknowe Regiment,</HI> adiudging &s;ecrecie greate&s;t wi&s;edome: or, our Countrimen li|&s;tened &s;o much after other Noble Actors in the earth, that they had no lei&s;ure, to doe any thing them&s;elues: or, they di&s;dained to haue them theyr iudges after their death, whom they would &s;corne to haue their iudges in their life: or, &s;ome outlandi&s;h enuy de&s;troyed the rowles and regi&s;ters of our Hi&s;tories, to make vs &s;eem barbarous: or, the Vniuer&s;itie men of <HI>Stamford</HI> had by
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&s;ome Priuiledge got them wiues, and &s;o forth: and had no lei&s;ure to do any thing but liue: or, before the kings were crowned, they were worthy men, and after theyr coronations they fell to make books of nothing: or they could tell, how to get a Soueraigntie, but they knewe not, how to keepe it: or, they writ their Chronicle hie|roglyphically, and &s;et the pictures of other creatures in the places of their kinges, and by the ignorance of &s;ome carele&s;&s;e men were e&s;teemed as gaies, and not other|wi&s;e regarded: or, it was not thus, or &s;o: perhaps, neither this, nor that, but &s;ome other way, I cannot tell howe, nor I care not greatly, for feare I may bee thought neither idle, nor well occupied. Now, good Reader, albeit I ioyne a morall genealogy with a na|turall, and &s;eeme to breake the &s;tile of hi&s;tory, yet, be|cau&s;e affections rule otherwhile a&s;much as kinges, I may truely &s;ay, my deui&s;e is allowable in it&s;elfe. Where i&s;&s;ue wanteth in the Prince, there the i&s;&s;ue of the people is con&s;idered, &s;eeing &s;ome Princes are begotten of the people, as &s;ome are of their parents: the&s;e are heires by the law of particular nature, and they by the rea&s;on of vniuer&s;all nature and of grace. As for the other partes of this third Off&s;pring, I hope, they are &s;eemely and fit enough for this place. It is lawfull to make the be&s;t v&s;e and mo&s;t gaine that wee can hone&s;tly, of anie thing that we read or write: probable additions, and rea&s;o|nable collections are neuer ami&s;&s;e: it is better, of the two extreames, to make more then wee neede of our Countreimen, rather than make le&s;&s;e of them then wee &s;hould: &s;uperfluitie is not be&s;t, nor &s;carcitie: that hi&s;tory is mo&s;t worth which doth a man mo&s;t good.</P>
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<HEAD>THE FOVRTH GENEALOGY or i&s;&s;ue of Capor.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_LAbour</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Par&s;imony</HI> the daughter of Queene Temperance, made <HI>Capor</HI> a man of infinite wealth: then Order, the &s;onne of Rea|&s;on, the daughter of the Empre&s;&s;e Truth, made him a man of greate&s;t fauour in this Land: by the&s;e two meanes ioyned with his royall bloud, he became Ruler of <HI>Brutany,</HI> and begat <HI>Dinel,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Dinel</HI> begat <HI>Hely,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Hely</HI> begat three &s;onnes: the fir&s;t <HI>Lud,</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Ca&s;|&s;iuelan,</HI> the third <HI>Stenny.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lud</HI> begat <HI>2.</HI> &s;onnes: the fir&s;t <HI>Androgy,</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Te|nancy.</HI> Then came Death, and tooke away <HI>Lud</HI> and hys brother <HI>Stenny,</HI> while his two &s;onnes were children, and Age made <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> Ruler: then came Di&s;content and begat Rage in the minde of <HI>Androgy,</HI> that hee went a|way: then aro&s;e Parentage, and created <HI>Tenancy</HI> for the king.</P>
<P><HI>Tenancy</HI> begat <HI>Cimbelin,</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cimbelin</HI> begat <HI>2.</HI> &s;onnes, the fir&s;t <HI>Guinder,</HI> the &s;econd <HI>Aruirage:</HI> then came Deceite, and &s;lew <HI>Guinder:</HI> then Deui&s;e &s;et forth <HI>Aruirage,</HI> and made him right king.</P>
<P><HI>Aruirage</HI> begat <HI>Marius</HI> of his wife <HI>Seni&s;sa,</HI> the daugh|ter of <HI>Claudius</HI> the Emperour.</P>
<P><HI>Marius</HI> begat <HI>Coil</HI> the <HI>2. <HI>Coil</HI></HI> begat <HI>Lucy,</HI> which dyed without i&s;&s;ue.</P>
<P><HI>The&s;e are the 11. heires males and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors of <HI>Capor</HI> in his kingdom: for the Generation of <HI>Ca&s;siuelan,</HI> of <HI>Stenny,</HI> of <HI>Androgy</HI> and of <HI>Guinder,</HI> are vnknown, the more is the pity, &s;eeing they were very &s;ingular men in their kinds. Albran|ches of a tree pro&s;per not, euer &s;ome are withered &amp; rotten.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Arts and Actes of Capor, and the Caporites <HI>are &s;eene by their Vertues and Vices.</HI></HEAD>
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<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Iu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Defending and regarding: Lud</HI> and <HI>Stenny</HI> were at great variance betweene them&s;elues, becau&s;e <HI>Lud</HI> would haue the City of <HI>Troy new</HI> called <HI>Caerlud</HI> by his owne name, but <HI>Stenny</HI> would haue it keepe the olde name in honour of the predece&s;&s;ors, and Troians from whom he came. It is iu&s;tice, both to re&s;pect our aunce&s;tors, and iu&s;tice to con&s;ider our own glory: This were a pretty que&s;tion for di&s;cour&s;e, which name ought to take place, and &s;tand in force, if it were well handled.</P>
<P><HI>Diuiding and depo&s;ing: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> the <HI>2.</HI> &s;onne of <HI>Hely,</HI> was the Protectour and Gouernour of the Realme in the minoritie and nonage of <HI>Luds</HI> two &s;onnes, hys two nephewes. Kingdomes are too heauy for chil|drens &s;houlders. <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> ordained a common &s;a|crifice to God that gaue him the victory again&s;t the Romanes, and a publicke fea&s;t to his Nobles that helped him in the battels, &amp; deui&s;ed many pa&s;times, in honour of God and men.</P>
<P><HI>Tenancy</HI> was made king by the trea&s;onable ab&s;ence of his elder brother <HI>Androgy.</HI> Euery one of the&s;e kings hath his right &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, except <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> which v|&s;urpeth.</P>
<P><HI>Puni&s;hing and correcting: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> &s;ummoned <HI>Eue|line</HI> to appeare before him &amp; the Councell, to an&s;were for the death of <HI>Hirelda.</HI> When he could not preuaile with <HI>Androgy</HI> by faire meanes, he made warre vpon him, to plague him for his &s;tubborne&s;&s;e. Ought <HI>An|drogy</HI>
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to bee at his call? a di&s;putable matter of great v&s;e. Nature preferreth the kings &s;on to the Crowne before the kings brother, but Pollicie preferred <HI>Ca&s;|&s;iuelan</HI> before <HI>Androgy,</HI> a good man before a bad.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Vice or Iniu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> appointed vnto <HI>Androgy</HI> the elde&s;t &s;onne of <HI>Lud</HI> the Citty of <HI>Caerlud,</HI> and the land of <HI>Kent,</HI> and to <HI>Tenancy</HI> the younger &s;onne the Land of Cornewall, and kept the kingdome from them, though they were his elder brothers true &s;ons, and v&s;urped it him&s;elfe by force. He is not fit to be a Pro|tector that is ambitious: it is a wofull thing, to be a childe among our enimies, or among&s;t the enuious &s;ectaries.</P>
<P><HI>Reuenging: Androgy</HI> being vnable of him&s;elfe to with&s;tand <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> &s;ent letters to <HI>I. Cae&s;ar</HI> in <HI>Gallia,</HI> and certified him, that if he would come into <HI>Brutany</HI> he &s;hould be welcome: when hee had gotten <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> Army to &s;et vppon <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> in the valley of <HI>Dorober|nia</HI> or <HI>Canterbury,</HI> and the fight had endured till both partes were almo&s;t weary, he came vpon <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> with a fre&s;h reply, and put him to flight: and thus he di&s;plea&s;ed the whole realme to plea&s;e him&s;elf, yet his owne hurt was neuer the le&s;&s;e for making the mi&s;ery of his Country greater. But when <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> thought to puni&s;h <HI>Androgy,</HI> he puni&s;hed him&s;elfe as much as him, he did euen put fire to Brim&s;tone, and flaxe to the flame. It was traiterou&s;ly done of him, to warre again&s;t his legitimate king, and of <HI>Androgy,</HI> to make his natiue Country &s;ubiect to outlandi&s;h Powers.</P>
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<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Pru+dence is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Order: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> brought vp <HI>Androgy</HI> and <HI>Tenancy,</HI> Princes &s;onnes, princely in all points. <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> con|&s;idering, that the two victories which he had gotten of the Romans, concerned him&s;elfe, and all his No|blemen mo&s;t &s;pecially, cau&s;ed an a&s;&s;embly of them to be made, that in a generall meeting, there might bee a generall thanke&s;giuing to God almighty, and to one another for their &s;eruices and actes done in the Field. Nothing teacheth men more courage then a beleefe of heauenly a&s;&s;i&s;tance, with an honourable remembrance of their vertues: this way of harting men is chiefe&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;ire of knowledge: Lucy</HI> &s;eeking al means to make his people true and louing among them&s;elues, and hearing that Chri&s;tians were without hatred and fal&s;hood, de&s;ired to heare their religion and receiue their doctrine, and &s;ent two Noble &s;chollers, <HI>Eluane</HI> and <HI>Meduine</HI> to <HI>Eleuthery</HI> Bi&s;hop of Roome with let|ters, de&s;iring to be taught Chri&s;tianitie.</P>
<P><HI>Reformacion: Lucy</HI> changed the three Archflamins, and the <HI>28.</HI> Flamins into three Archbi&s;hops, and <HI>28.</HI> Bi&s;hops: he de&s;troyed the Temple of <HI>Apollo</HI> in the Ile Thorney, and made a Temple in honour of the Almighty God, which we now call We&s;tmin&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>Di&s;cipline: Lucy</HI> &s;eeing that men were executed for di&s;obeying the law, becau&s;e heerein they di&s;obeyed God, and that the kings pardon was not &s;o much to be e&s;teemed as a pardon from God, and perceiuing the heartie and vnfained repentance of &s;ome offen|ders, and knowing that God forgaue &s;uch men,
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thought it no rea&s;on, that &s;uch Penitents &s;hould be put to death, but re&s;erued to a better v&s;e: wherefore he ordained, that if any man did offend by mi&s;chance and repent him, or any one were oppre&s;&s;ed, and could not otherwi&s;e e&s;cape oppre&s;&s;ion then by appealing to Gods word, that &s;uch men &s;hould get them into the Temple of God, and ther approue them&s;elues to be true godly men, and &s;o be &s;afe both body and goods.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Their vice or folly is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Permi&s;sion:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> forgetting the true title that <HI>Luds</HI> two &s;onnes had to the kingdom of their father, and feeling the liberall gifts of <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> an v&s;urper, &s;uffered him to keep the Rule &amp; Key of all the Land, and taught one another, to di&s;inherit one another by cau&s;ele&s;&s;e and deceitfull popularitie and flattery.</P>
<P><HI>Hatred:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> could not agree vpon a king, no not in fifteene yeares &s;pace when <HI>Lucy</HI> was dead, though euery countrey mu&s;t needs &s;ee one nearer the Crowne then another, if they could adui&s;e the~&s;elues &amp; marke euery family in good ma~er. They could not fore&s;ee the mi&s;eries of forrain Dominion, they were blinded with malice, &amp; &s;elfewill among them&s;elues.</P>
<P><HI>Improuidence: Cymbelin</HI> was brought vp in Roome, both in contempt of all his own countrey learning, &amp; in &s;lauery to outlandi&s;h with. <HI>Coil</HI> the &s;econd was brought vp in Roome, as if hee were borne to &s;erue Roome, and not to &s;erue <HI>Brutany.</HI> Of the two ex|treames, it is &s;afer to haue our men vplandi&s;h, then outlandi&s;h, plain then perilous.</P>
<P><HI>Deceit:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> &s;et great long &s;harp &s;takes clo&s;e|ly in the bankes where the Romanes &s;hould arriue, and &s;o troubled them extreamely in theyr landing: a poore and pittifull inuention to &s;lay and Ho&s;t.</P>
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<HEAD>Their ver|tue or tem+perance, is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Behauiour: Lud</HI> was bountifull in hou&s;ekeeping, and by that means beloued generally. <HI>Cimbelin</HI> with the moderate v&s;age of him&s;elfe, &s;o plea&s;ed the Empe|rour, that he loued him greatly, and receiued manie good words and gifts from him: if this were not in|temperance, to plea&s;e an enemy. <HI>Aruirage</HI> got into &s;uch fauour with <HI>Claudius</HI> the Emperor, that he mar|ried his daughter <HI>Geni&s;sa:</HI> if this were not inconti|nence, to be linked with outlandi&s;h, that was migh|tier then him&s;elfe. He was beloued of his &s;ubiectes for his v&s;age toward them in all ca&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>Marius</HI> was of honourable demeanour euery way. He accepted the pitition of the vanqui&s;hed <HI>Pictes,</HI> he allotted to them the farde&s;t part of <HI>Albany:</HI> afterward he gaue him&s;elfe to the wealth of the realme. <HI>Lucy</HI> was loued of all his &s;ubiectes for his good life: hys loynes were in the cloudes, and hys &s;eed among the &s;tarres: he had rather be a father in Morals, then in Naturals: &s;uch was his ab&s;tinence. It may be, <HI>Ga|laxias</HI> the milky &amp; bright way in heauen was made in honour of &s;uch men as <HI>Lucy</HI> was, no meaner then a Saint.</P>
<P><HI>Marriage:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> would not in any ca&s;e ioyne their daughters in wedlocke with the <HI>Pictes,</HI> whom they knew to be barbarous <HI>Scythians</HI> by di&s;cent of bo|dies, and con&s;ent of mindes, and very vnfaithfull.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or intem|perance is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ra&s;hne&s;se: Hirelda</HI> and <HI>Eueline</HI> two knightes in ga|ming fell to wra&s;tling, and in heate fell to wordes, and in anger fell to blowes, &amp; in rage fell to wounds,
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and <HI>Hirelda</HI> was &s;laine in the tumult that aro&s;e by the&s;e meanes. A gaming not &s;o profitable as the death of a good knight is hurtfull in a realme.</P>
<P><HI>Di&s;obedience: Eueline</HI> being &s;ent for by the Protec|tor <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> and the Councell departed from the Court with <HI>Androgy</HI> his kin&s;man, and tooke no leaue of them: Will is it &s;elfe witle&s;&s;e: a &s;tomacke with|out a heart, maketh a man a &s;wine.</P>
<P><HI>Reuenge: Aruirage</HI> v&s;ed &s;uch meanes, that he got <HI>Hammon</HI> the Romane, who &s;iue his brother <HI>Guinder</HI> guilefully, and when he had him in his handes he cau&s;ed him to be cut in peeces, and threw him peece by peece into the Sea at <HI>South-hampton,</HI> &s;ati&s;fying herein his in&s;aciable anger for his brothers death and &s;uppo&s;ing vainly and madly, that he killed <HI>Ha|mon</HI> &s;o many times as he had peeces of him.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Their ver|tue or for|titude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Glorious de&s;ire: Hely</HI> called the Ile of Ely after hys name, that he might be famous for euer. <HI>Marius</HI> &s;et vp a Colo&s;&s;e in remembrance of the victory he had of the <HI>Picts,</HI> with <HI>Marij Victoria</HI> grauen in it: a warly Regi&s;ter.</P>
<P><HI>Magnificence: Lud</HI> repaired olde Temples and Ci|ties and built new. He made walles about <HI>Troynew,</HI> and called the We&s;t gate <HI>Ludgate</HI> in honour of hys owne name, and then dwelt mo&s;t there becau&s;e he had built mo&s;t there. <HI>Aruirage</HI> road about the realme, to renew the decayed Cities which the Romans de|faced: he built a Ca&s;tle at <HI>Douer</HI> to &s;trengthen that
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part of the Land again&s;t forraigne Powers.</P>
<P><HI>Wordes:</HI> When the Romanes thought to terrifie the <HI>Brutans</HI> by their letters, the&s;e &s;ent them word, that as they mu&s;t, &s;o they would defend their Coun|trey from all forces. <HI>Aruirage</HI> being for his Noble|ne&s;&s;e made the Emperours &s;onne in law, and wi&s;h|ing to haue a memoriall of <HI>Claudius</HI> his queenes and wiues owne father, called the Cittie where he mar|ried <HI>Claudioce&s;tria</HI> or <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> the rather, to be free fro~ tribute in re&s;pect of his wife, though he were free of him&s;elfe by his vertue.</P>
<P><HI>Victories: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> made the Romans flie to their &s;hips at their fir&s;t battell, and at the &s;econd: beware the third.</P>
<P><HI>De&s;ertes: Cymbelin</HI> in his youth led &s;o manly a life in Roome, that the Emperour <HI>Augu&s;tus</HI> made him a knight there in his order of knightes.</P>
<P><HI>Exerci&s;e: Hirelda</HI> and <HI>Eueline</HI> two braue knightes wra&s;tled openly at the Fea&s;t which was made after the victories again&s;t the Romanes.</P>
<P><HI>Warre: Guinder</HI> denied to pay tribute to the Ro|mans, &amp; cho&s;e rather to &s;ight with them then yeald otherwi&s;e. <HI>Aruirage</HI> did the like, and when they came again&s;t him; he made them flie from the &s;outhea&s;t part of this Iland to the &s;outhwe&s;t, there he draue them from <HI>Exce&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Totnes,</HI> &amp; within &s;euen daies made all well. <HI>Marius</HI> &s;taied the fire and &s;word of the <HI>Picts</HI> in <HI>Albany</HI> and &s;lew their armies.</P>
<P><PB N="66" REF="36" MS="y"><HI>Deui&s;e: Aruirage</HI> &s;eeing his brother <HI>Guinder</HI> dead, took on him pre&s;ently his armour and Princely cog|ni&s;a~ce, that the <HI>Brutans</HI> might not &s;u&s;pect their kings death and be di&s;comforted: then hee continued the battel &s;o &s;tedfa&s;tly and heartily, that the <HI>Brutans</HI> were &s;tirred vp to fight valiantly by his liuely example, till they ouerthrew the Romans.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or extreme fortitude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Bold ra&s;hne&s;&s;e: Stenny Ca&s;siuelans</HI> brother in the wars again&s;t the Romans canne to <HI>I. Cae&s;ar</HI> and puld hys &s;word out of his hand, and &s;lew <HI>Labienus</HI> a tribune of the Romans therewith, and was &s;laine.</P>
<P><HI>Ob&s;cure glory:</HI> When <HI>Stenny</HI> was dead, he was bu|ried at <HI>Caerlud:</HI> and the &s;word which he puld from <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> with his deaths wound was buried with him, that it might be a remembrance of one venturous action euen in a hole.</P>
<P><HI>Aba&s;ement: Ca&s;siuelan</HI> was tributary to Roome nine yeares. <HI>Tenancy</HI> was too deligent in paying tri|bute to Rome, euen <HI>3000.</HI> pounds in gold. <HI>Cimbelin</HI> hauing choice to pay or not to pay tribute, forgat the &s;lauery of the act and payd it. <HI>Aruirage</HI> was per&s;wa|ded by his wife to pay tribute when he had re&s;i&s;ted the Romanes valiantly. He &s;hould haue &s;ent &s;uch a wife for the tribute vnto Roome from whence &s;he came, and kept the mony in his cofers for warres. <HI>Coil</HI> &s;aw in his poreblinde eyes, that it was be&s;t to yeald to Roome, and agreed to pay tribute. <HI>Androgy</HI> departed to Roome with <HI>Cae&s;ar:</HI> a mad and fickle courage.</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="67" REF="36" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_CApor</HI> began his raigne in the yeare of the world, <HI>3894.</HI> and raigned two yeares: now <HI>Mithridates</HI> rai&s;ed warres in A&s;ia, and <HI>Lucullus</HI> was &s;ent again&s;t him.</P>
<P><HI>Dinel</HI> began in the yeare, <HI>3894.</HI> and rule <HI>4.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Verres</HI> &s;poiled Sicilia three yeares together: now <HI>Vergill</HI> the Poet was borne.</P>
<P><HI>Hely</HI> beganne, <HI>3898.</HI> and raigned one yeare: in this time <HI>Hortentius</HI> the Oratour flouri&s;hed in Roome.</P>
<P><HI>Lud</HI> began, <HI>3899.</HI> and rule <HI>11.</HI> yeares: in this time the Poet <HI>Horace</HI> was borne, the con&s;piracie of <HI>Catiline</HI> was detected, Ieru&s;alem was taken of <HI>Pompey, Cae&s;ar</HI> entered the wars in Gallia.</P>
<P><HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> began, <HI>3910.</HI> and rule <HI>19.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>M. Cra&s;sus</HI> &s;poyled the Temple of Ieru&s;alem, the ci|uill wars began betweene <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> and <HI>Pompey, Cae&s;ar</HI> cor|rected the Roman yeare, <HI>Ouid</HI> the Poet was borne.</P>
<P><HI>Tenancy</HI> began, <HI>3929.</HI> and raigned <HI>23.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Mecaenas</HI> liued, the patrone of <HI>Horace, Vergill,</HI> and o|ther learned men, and gouerned Roome and Italy in the ab&s;ence of <HI>Cae&s;ar Augu&s;tus</HI> &s;o named for that reue|rence was giuen him in a diuine maner: now <HI>Vergill</HI> dyed.</P>
<P><HI>Cymbelin</HI> began, <HI>3952.</HI> and raigned <HI>35.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Horace</HI> died: the Angel <HI>Gabriel</HI> was &s;ent to <HI>Zachary</HI> and <HI>Mary:</HI> Chri&s;t was borne the <HI>13.</HI> yeare of his raigne, <HI>O|nid</HI> and <HI>Liuy</HI> dyed.</P>
<P><PB N="68" REF="37" MS="y"><HI>Guinder</HI> began, <HI>3987.</HI> and ruled <HI>28.</HI> yeares: nowe <HI>Iohn-bapti&s;t</HI> preached and was &s;laine, Chri&s;t taught the Iewes, <HI>Paul</HI> was conuerted, <HI>Iames</HI> was &s;laine, <HI>Seneca</HI> was made <HI>Neroes</HI> teacher.</P>
<P><HI>Aruirage</HI> began, <HI>4015.</HI> and ruled <HI>30.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Paul</HI> did mo&s;t of his Actes, <HI>Iames</HI> the le&s;&s;e was &s;to|ned, <HI>70000.</HI> Romanes were &s;laine of the <HI>Brutans. Paul</HI> was beheaded, <HI>Peter</HI> crucified, <HI>Seneca</HI> and <HI>Lucan</HI> bled to death.</P>
<P><HI>Marius</HI> began, <HI>4045.</HI> and raigned <HI>52.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Iohn euangeli&s;t</HI> writ his Reuelation, <HI>Plutark</HI> and <HI>Tacitus</HI> liued, <HI>Timothy</HI> was &s;toned, <HI>Dyoni&s;ius</HI> &s;laine with the &s;word.</P>
<P><HI>Coil</HI> began, <HI>4097.</HI> and raigned <HI>54.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Ptolony</HI> and <HI>Galen</HI> liued, the Chri&s;tians by their praier got a &s;trange victory of the <HI>Marcomanni,</HI> and obtained a mighty great raigne from heauen: now Lent was ap|pointed by <HI>Tele&s;phorus.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Lucy</HI> began; <HI>4151.</HI> and ruled <HI>12.</HI> yeares: in this time the Go&s;pel was fir&s;t preached in <HI>Brutany</HI> by <HI>Fugacius</HI> and <HI>Damianus: Commodus</HI> would be called <HI>Hercules</HI> and <HI>Deus,</HI> but was &s;trangled of his owne man in <HI>Ve&s;tilians</HI> hou&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>So this Generation of <HI>Capor,</HI> and the 11. <HI>Caporites</HI> ended in the yeare of the world, 4163. and &s;eeme to haue endured the times of 274. yeares in the kingdome of <HI>Brutanie.</HI></HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="69" REF="37" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE PLACES IN THIS HISTORY.</HEAD>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>The places are</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>at home</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>more vniuer&s;al</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Albany</HI> the Prouince of the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Caerbrank</HI> or <HI>Yorke,</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Cambry</HI> the Prouince of the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Caerusk.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Locry</HI> the Prouince of the Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Caerlud</HI> or <HI>London.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>le&s;&s;e vniuer&s;al</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Kent, <HI>Cornewal.</HI></HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>VVe&s;tmaria</HI> named of <HI>Marius, <HI>the Ile</HI> of Ely.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>more particular</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Ludgate:</HI> the <HI>Temple</HI> of <HI>A|pollo: <HI>the bankes</HI></HI> where the <HI>Romanes</HI> landed in <HI>Ca&s;siue|lans</HI> time: <HI>the Northgate</HI> of <HI>Caerlud</HI> where <HI>Stenny</HI> was buried: <HI>Hamons</HI> hauen: <HI>Douer</HI> Ca&s;tell: <HI>the hauens</HI> of <HI>Sandwich</HI> and <HI>Totnes.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>le&s;&s;e particular</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Caerlud,</HI> there <HI>Tenancy</HI> and <HI>Cymbelin</HI> where buried.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dorobernia</HI> or <HI>Cantorbury:</HI> the valley there.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Caerbrank,</HI> there <HI>Ca&s;siuelan</HI> and <HI>Coil</HI> were buried.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Claudiocaer</HI> or <HI>Gloce&s;ter,</HI> there was <HI>Aruirage</HI> buried.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Exce&s;ter,</HI> the Towne vnder the Wood.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Caerliel,</HI> there was <HI>Marius</HI> buried.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>abroad</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gallia.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Roome.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><PB N="70" REF="38" MS="y">The rea&s;onable metaphors of this fourth genealogy may well be allowed, becau&s;e they &s;tand vpon rea&s;ona|ble cau&s;es. The morals which follow them might be more &s;ententious and effectuall by much then they are, if I might &s;peake no more then good rea&s;ons fitly v&s;ed: but all wordes are not fit per&s;onally which are mo&s;t fit really, and &s;o I let them go for this time, perhaps look|ing for a better conuenience of time and place to vtter them. The Synchroni&s;me which followeth is right, if the chronology be right, which neuerthele&s;&s;e agreeth with one writer, though it differeth from another: that is worth the labour which is materiall: the quantities of times teach vs no qualities of good life: Mathema|ticks haue not the rules of moralities: the heart of hi&s;to|ries is the actions of men: the life of the actions is the vertue of the actors. If the phra&s;e be not exqui&s;it, or the ob&s;eruation not &s;ingular, or the method not exact and perfit, it is but one part of an E&s;&s;aye among the re&s;t, it is but a tryall of that may be done, it is but the token of a good minde to this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e. Yet take me euen as I am, and I know that my E&s;&s;aye is not behinde any other writer in this theame, whome I haue &s;eene for tho&s;e v&s;es, which are required in a Hi&s;tory: euen take me as ye finde me, not as any momes feigne vpon me.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Genealogy of the Romano-Brutans.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_BRutany</HI> by meanes of much trouble, bred doubt|fulne&s;&s;e in it &s;elfe, and hereof grew Re&s;i&s;tance, till Re&s;olution held with Kindred, and tooke
<PB N="71" REF="38" MS="y">
the &s;onne of a <HI>Brutan</HI> before the child of a Romane: thus <HI>Ba&s;ianus Caracalla</HI> was for his good mothers &s;ake made king, but his elder brother <HI>Geta</HI> was refu&s;ed. <HI>Bu&s;ines</HI> &s;ent <HI>Caracalla</HI> to his Romane Empire: Fauour made <HI>Cara&s;se</HI> the Viceroy for a time, and Flattery with Per|&s;wa&s;ion and V&s;urpation made him Ruler: War ouer|threw him: Victory created <HI>Alectus</HI> a Roman the king of <HI>Brutany:</HI> Di&s;plea&s;ure puld him downe, and Compa|ri&s;on &s;et vp <HI>A&s;clepiodate,</HI> Duke of Cornewall: yet <HI>Coil</HI> the Earle of Coleche&s;ter brought the peoples goodwill into &s;uch a wheele, and &s;o turned it to him&s;elfeward, that he &s;lew <HI>A&s;clepiodate,</HI> and was the third of that name king next him: then Feare amazed <HI>Coil,</HI> till Marri|age ioined <HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> a Roman Duke with his daugh|ter <HI>Helen,</HI> the fayre&s;t mayd aliue: then Contentment &s;etled them both in the kingdome, and Loue brought them foorth into the world <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the fir&s;t, whom Excellency lifted vp to the Roman Empire: but Agree|ment appointed <HI>Octauy</HI> Duke of Cambry the ruler of this Iland: then Enuy flew from Roome, and brought <HI>Traherne</HI> on his winges again&s;t <HI>Octauy,</HI> and made him fly abroad for a time, but Strength and Hope carried him home againe, and Prouidence coun&s;elled him to marry his daughter with <HI>Maximinian</HI> one of <HI>Helens</HI> kin|dred, and him Conueyance made king again&s;t <HI>Conans</HI> minde: then Superioritie remoued <HI>Maximinian</HI> to Roome, and <HI>Gracian</HI> by grace and de&s;ert &s;upplyed hys roume in <HI>Brutany:</HI> but Crueltie &s;o alienated the people from him, that Force de&s;troyed him as an vngratious Ruler: then ill Neighbourhood in <HI>Albany</HI> made the <HI>Bru|tans</HI> to &s;eeke vppon Roome, and Submi&s;&s;ion obteined help of the Romans two times, but varietie of Wars
<PB N="72" REF="39" MS="y">
made Roome leaue <HI>Brutany</HI> at this time, and good Neighbourhood in little <HI>Brutanie</HI> cau&s;ed their king <HI>Al|droene</HI> to a&s;&s;i&s;t the great <HI>Brutans,</HI> but yet dangers held them without a Ruler many yeares.</P>
<P>When Romanes raigne as much as <HI>Brutans,</HI> I mu&s;t not make long account of them both, and in this re&s;pect I call them <HI>Romanobrutans</HI> or <HI>Brutanoromans,</HI> which you will: their Genealogy is &s;o mingled and put together, that a <HI>Grammarian</HI> Doctor might make a great que&s;ti|on of the name, and &s;hew much conceit. I had rather point at &s;uch &s;light and needle&s;&s;e que&s;tions, then in|treate of them more or le&s;&s;e: and partly vppon &s;uch a cau&s;e I containe <HI>Topography,</HI> at this time in the morall Tables of Vertues and Vices, and would chu&s;e to ioyne the places with the actions hereafter, rather then diuide them, and &s;et them &s;euerally, as I did before with more rea&s;on then I can now. One day telleth an other, and one night certifieth another: new and old names are diuer&s;ly con&s;idered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Their Arts and Acts are in their Vertues and Vices.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their Ver|tue or Iu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Diuiding:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> knowing, that <HI>Ba&s;sian</HI> the &s;e|cond &s;onne of <HI>Seuerus</HI> the Emperour was borne of a <HI>Brutan</HI> woman, and that the fir&s;t &s;onne <HI>Geta</HI> was borne of a Romane, iudged that a <HI>Brutan</HI> had more to do in <HI>Brutanie</HI> then a Roman: and therefore ioyned with <HI>Ba&s;sian</HI> again&s;t <HI>Geta</HI> and made him king, but <HI>Geta</HI> was &s;laine: Con&s;anguinitie is more valuable then <HI>Primogeniture,</HI> the part then the adiunct, life then time.</P>
<P><PB N="73" REF="39" MS="y"><HI>Correcting:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> feeling, how <HI>Alectus</HI> brought in many exactions cruelly vpon them, for&s;ooke hym and cho&s;e <HI>A&s;clepiodate</HI> a <HI>Brutan</HI> for their king, and pur&s;ued the Romans from place to place, til they had &s;laine their captaine <HI>Alectus</HI> by <HI>Caerlud</HI> for his cruel|tie. <HI>A&s;clepiodate</HI> threw <HI>Liuius Gallus</HI> a Roman captain into the Brooke which ranne from More-field into the Tems, and drowned him for his rebellion: in re|membrance of this iu&s;tice, hee called the riuer Gal|brooke, or Walbrooke to this day, that other outlan|di&s;h might euer learne, to be quiet with our Princes in their owne Countries and Kingdomes.</P>
<P><HI>Obeying:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> &s;eeing, how <HI>Gracian</HI> held hys Rule onely by force of armes again&s;t all right and rea&s;on, aro&s;e again&s;t him, and &s;lew the Romane by force, and rid him&s;elfe from his enforcementes. <HI>Conan Meriadock</HI> being commanded from <HI>Octauy</HI> his Prince, to be quiet, and not once &s;eeme to hinder the com|ming of <HI>Maximinian</HI> into this Land whome he &s;ent for, obeyed his Princes rather then his owne will, layd away his armour, &s;uffered him to enter, and do euen as <HI>Octauy</HI> would. What &s;hould a &s;ubiect &s;triue again&s;t his Soueraigne? a &s;tranger may come into the land if he be &s;ent for.</P>
<P><HI>Rewarding:</HI> When <HI>Maximinian</HI> had ouercome the <HI>Gauls</HI> in <HI>Armorica,</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> and Romans his &s;oul|diers proclaimed him Emperour in the field for hys glorious Act. See what it is to plea&s;e good &s;ubiects: A Princes chief trea&s;ure. <HI>Seuerus</HI> buried at <HI>Caerbrank,</HI> &s;o was <HI>Con&s;tantius: Alectus</HI> in <HI>Caerlud, Coel</HI> at <HI>Colche&s;ter, Cara&s;&s;e</HI> in the field: <HI>Octauy</HI> in <HI>Caerusk: A&s;clepiodate</HI> where <HI>Coil</HI> &s;lew him.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<PB N="74" REF="40" MS="y">
<HEAD>Their vice or Iniu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Per&s;ecuting: Maximinian</HI> liuing quietly and honou|rably, both becau&s;e he was a cho&s;en Prince, &amp; mar|ried a <HI>Brutan</HI> kings daughter, was not content with the <HI>Brutans</HI> due reuerence toward him, but he &s;ought meanes to de&s;troy them, yea the mo&s;t hone&s;t and in|nocent men among them, euen the good Chri&s;tians which were like harmele&s;&s;e lambes in the Land, whom he per&s;ecuted vnrighteou&s;ly vpon the opinion of his owne heatheni&s;h religion more then any right iudgement. A true chri&s;tian neuer de&s;erueth death, he is &s;o moderate and rea&s;onable in al points, &s;o that he is mo&s;t vniu&s;t that will trouble &s;uch a man. Hee that aforetime was iniurious to a Philo&s;opher was accounted a tyrant, but he that tormenteth a true Chri&s;tian, which is a true Philo&s;opher, and a perfite wi&s;e man, is worthy to be iudged a deuill incarnate, a bloud&s;uccour, a mon&s;trous man. Such a man was <HI>Maximinian,</HI> and may well be chronicled <HI>the king with the helli&s;h heart and bloudy hand.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or tem+perance is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Marriage: Helen</HI> the daughter of <HI>Coil</HI> the third mar|ried <HI>Con&s;tantius,</HI> a Roman by the agreeme~t of the <HI>Bru|tans,</HI> not on her owne head, le&s;&s;e &s;he &s;hould &s;eeme in|continent: &s;he was but a part of hir countrey, not a|boue it, or out of it. <HI>Octauy</HI> married his daughter to <HI>Maximinian</HI> a Roman, by the con&s;ent of his Lordes, le&s;&s;e he &s;hould &s;eeme to make more of his owne will then the benefite of all other men: a publicke matter mu&s;t be allowed publikly of them whom it concern|eth mo&s;t. <HI>Dionote</HI> Duke of Cornwall &s;ent his daugh|ter <HI>Vr&s;ula</HI> and <HI>11000.</HI> Virgins with her to <HI>Conan</HI> a <HI>Brutan</HI> the king of <HI>Armorica,</HI> that he &s;hould not ioyne
<PB N="75" REF="40" MS="y">
him&s;elfe and his knightes, and men with &s;trange bloud, but with very right <HI>Brutans.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Conan</HI> de&s;ired this, and <HI>Dionote</HI> perfourmed it, both con&s;tant and prouident to auoide confu&s;ion of nati|ons, which cau&s;eth all Tragedies and Rages in the end.</P>
<P><HI>Wordes and liberalitie: Con&s;tantius</HI> was a man of &s;pe|ciall affabilitie, &amp; familiaritie with all his men, which propertie if he had not at Roome, he learned in <HI>Bruta|nie,</HI> where the people are generally of free&s;t heartes, farde&s;t from bondage, and mu&s;t bee well v&s;ed in &s;peach, of all thinges: he was of a &s;ingular liberalitie, he cared more for his &s;ubiects goodes then his owne: his &s;aying was, That wealth doth more good in many handes then in few or none, or in the Princes Trea&s;ure hou&s;e: a &s;aying farre enough from tyranny. <HI>Octauy</HI> &s;o behaued him&s;elfe toward the <HI>Brutans</HI> of all &s;ortes in the time of his Royal Lieuetenant&s;hip, that all men for the mo&s;te part fauoured, and furthered him greatly, euen to the attainement of the king|dome it &s;elfe: the chiefe&s;t wonders and noble&s;t acts, and famous thinges haue euer commonly begunne and ended with the power of wordes: the ordering of wordes maketh a man aboue bea&s;tes, and that man a king of men that can order them be&s;t of all o|ther. <HI>Maximinian</HI> gaue the country of <HI>Armorica</HI> to <HI>Conan</HI> a <HI>Brutan,</HI> to hold it from him and his heires for euer, and to content him for mi&s;&s;ing the kingdome of great <HI>Brutany:</HI> by this meanes they were good friendes at the la&s;t, and forgat old enmities.</P>
<P><HI>Toleration: Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Helen</HI> &s;uffered
<PB N="76" REF="41" MS="y">
the <HI>Brutans,</HI> to v&s;e their religion: he was no tyrant in forcing them again&s;t their con&s;ciences, as other had been, although he were a Pagan, becau&s;e he de&s;ired chiefly to keep them in peace.</P>
<P>See what a good mother doth otherwhile in time of neede: I beleeue, <HI>Helen</HI> played the Princely Oratour for Chri&s;tians, and defended them before her &s;onne for good men and good &s;ubiects, and was their be&s;t friend in <HI>Brutany</HI> next the inui&s;ible and im|mortall defence that came from heauen, and bred a de&s;ire of peace in <HI>Con&s;tantines</HI> minde, by be&s;etting him with bu&s;ine&s;&s;e on euery &s;ide.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or intem|perance is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Flattery: Cara&s;se</HI> being vnable to ouerthrow the <HI>Picts,</HI> and louing them &s;omwhat for helping him again&s;t the Romanes, &s;toode in a maze betweene hope and feare, and gaue them a part of <HI>Albany</HI> for their po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ions, that they might be quiet, and not &s;tirre vp warre again&s;t him: liberalitie or courte&s;ie &s;hewed to a barbarous nature, is a weapon turned vpon your &s;elfe: Bores and Bares cannot vnder&s;tand fayre wordes and deedes: neuer hold vp a candle to the diuell.</P>
<P><HI>Ru&s;ticitie: Con&s;tantius</HI> was of &s;o vile proui&s;ion in hou&s;ekeeping, though he were a king, that on fe&s;ti|uall dayes hee borrowed plate of his friendes to fur|ni&s;h his tables and cupbordes therewith: It is an vn&s;eemly thing for any man, to &s;et forth him&s;elf with other mens goodes: it is &s;mall credite for a &s;choller to &s;eeke credite by v&s;ing that oration or &s;ermon that is not his owne: among all men a Prince mu&s;t be
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&s;ufficient of him&s;elfe for all matters that pertaine vnto him, if he be deficient, his grace is lo&s;t, his maie|&s;tie dimini&s;hyd, and hee euen rurified like a priuate &s;ubiect. Let not the bea&s;tes eate mans fle&s;h in anie ca&s;e, le&s;&s;e they loue it.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or pru|dence is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Di&s;cerning: Helen</HI> in her virginitie was learned in all points of true morall wi&s;edome: afterward, ey|ther by &s;ome diuine in&s;piration, or by &s;ome humane information at Hieru&s;alem, &s;hee found the Cro&s;&s;e whereon Chri&s;t was crucified, and the three nayles wherewith he was nayled: they that &s;eeke in zeale &s;hall finde in ioy. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> v&s;ed to haue the booke of God, which is the Spirite and Rule of Regi|ment, carried before him where&s;oeuer he want: he cau&s;ed the Bible to be copyed out, and &s;ent into the partes of his kingdome: he &s;awe by a vi&s;ion a cro&s;&s;e in heauen with the&s;e wordes vpon it, <HI>In this &s;igne is victory.</HI> Such are the heauenly fruites of a heauen|ly minde: &s;o we &s;hall reape euer as we &s;owe.</P>
<P><HI>Prouiding: Octauy</HI> being re&s;tored to his kingdome, gathered together infinite riches, to be better able then he was aforetime, to wage warre again&s;t the ambitious and laborious Romanes: Souldiers run to the greate&s;t pay. He &s;ent for <HI>Maximinian</HI> coo&s;in german to <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the Emperor, and offered him his daughter in his life time, le&s;&s;e hee &s;hould be mar|red with ill Coun&s;ell, and married to another after his death, which he perceiued to be at hand: guide them that cannot guide them&s;elues. <HI>Maximinian</HI> made his &s;onne <HI>Victor</HI> fellow with the Emperour of
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Roome, that he might &s;trengthen him&s;elfe on both &s;ides, both at home and abroad: it is &s;urer &s;tanding on two legges then on one: &s;urer holding with two handes then with one.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or impru|dence is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Murder:</HI> An Earle of <HI>Brutany</HI> that fauoured <HI>Octauy</HI> much, &s;eeing how wofully he was fled into <HI>Norway</HI> for feare of <HI>Traherne</HI> and the Romanes, which ouer|came him in We&s;tmerland, &amp; con&s;idering in his hot wit, that <HI>Traherne</HI> being <HI>Helens</HI> vncle and a <HI>Brutan,</HI> ought not to haue done &s;uch wrong for the Romans &s;akes to the king of <HI>Brutany,</HI> but haue rather fought for him, neither vndermined him one way nor other, but with a butcherly wi&s;edome layd violent handes vpon him, and &s;lewe him, that <HI>Octauy</HI> might returne &s;afely into the realme againe: Defect of inuention turneth a man into a bloudy bea&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Improuidence: Maximinian</HI> gathered his riches &s;o vnaui&s;edly, that with them he gathered the ilwill of the <HI>Brutans.</HI></P>
<P>To haue is not the rule, but to get well: a mans glo|rie is not in mony, but the glory of mony is in a man.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or for|titude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Victories: Ba&s;sian</HI> and the <HI>Brutans</HI> &s;lew <HI>Geta,</HI> and the Romanes by night. <HI>Maximinian</HI> ouerranne great partes of <HI>Gallia</HI> and <HI>Germania. Octauy</HI> ouerthrew <HI>Tra|herne</HI> and the Romanes three legions neere Winche|&s;ter, and made them flie euen into <HI>Albany,</HI> and pur|&s;ued them into We&s;tmerland. <HI>Gracian</HI> being &s;ent in|to the field from <HI>Maximinian,</HI> ouercame <HI>Guany</HI> the Duke of the <HI>Huns,</HI> and <HI>Melga</HI> the Duke of the <HI>Pictes,</HI>
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and kept this Land from their furor by the helpe of the <HI>Brutans. Coil</HI> Earle of Colche&s;ter, which hee built ro&s;e again&s;t <HI>A&s;clepiodate,</HI> and &s;lew him and was made king.</P>
<P><HI>Battels: Ba&s;sian</HI> was able to endure all the pains of war: a right Emperour for the campe. The <HI>Brutans</HI> &s;eeing the valiant wit of <HI>Cara&s;se,</HI> made him their king in &s;pite of the <HI>Romans,</HI> &amp; rather then they would yeeld to Roome they dyed in battell: Death is better then &s;lauery among enemies. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the fir&s;t armed him&s;elfe with the <HI>Brutans,</HI> and fought again&s;t <HI>Max|entius:</HI> did he not good among them to doe them the more mi&s;chiefe, as the Phili&s;tines &s;u&s;pected <HI>Dauid</HI> who was a true &s;aint of God? <HI>Conan Meriadocke</HI> made war with <HI>Maximinian</HI> at diuers times, becau&s;e hee was a Roman: O it is an hard bone to dige&s;t Rome which counteth all birdes dawes be&s;ides her owne chickens: the man that hath another mai&s;ter be&s;ide him&s;elfe in his owne hou&s;e is be&s;ide him&s;elfe, or el&s;e I beleeue, he &s;halbe &s;et be&s;ide his cu&s;hion at the la&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Magnanimitie: <HI>Maximinian</HI></HI> called <HI>Armorica</HI> Litle <HI>Brutany</HI> in honour of <HI>Brutans,</HI> becau&s;e they conquered it: that a man winneth is his owne: a man may call his owne po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion by what name it plea&s;eth him: new Lordes will haue newe names for their newe landes. <HI>Octauy</HI> being appointed king in the ab&s;ence of <HI>Con&s;tantine,</HI> and hearing that <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> was then made Emperor of Rome, thought verily, that he had enough to do in Roome, though hee medled not with <HI>Brutany,</HI> and tooke the Crowne to him&s;elfe, and cha|&s;ed
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the Romanes vp and downe in the land, and played <HI>Rex</HI> with them at all handes, to redeeme his Countrey from thraldome as hee counted it. Home is for the homeborne.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or extreme fortitude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ambition: Cara&s;se</HI> a <HI>Brutan</HI> of lowe birth, of a high heart, but a venturous man, a very hardydardy in deede as euer liued, keeping the Hauens, and play|ing the Sea captaine, a&s;pired to the kingdome and got it, both by greater promi&s;es then hee coulde per|performe, and by gathering more bankrupts &amp; ruffi|ans to his &s;ide then he could keepe, and contemning all noble and great men in the Land: there was but one way with him, and that was in his head onely: all was one with him, &s;o that one might be all: &s;elfe-loue was &s;elfewill, and both were for him&s;elfe.</P>
<P><HI>Abiection of minde:</HI> When <HI>Coil</HI> the third &s;aw, that <HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> was come from Roome with a great ar|mie, he feared and graunted him tribute and peace, and euery thing els, to be out of danger, yet the mo&s;t danger and damage in graunting the&s;e: A babies wit in a kings e&s;tate. The <HI>Brutans</HI> being afflicted by the <HI>Picts</HI> two times promi&s;ed the Romanes a tribute to helpe them: then they &s;ubmitted them&s;elues to <HI>Aldroene</HI> of little <HI>Brutany,</HI> that he might &s;uccour them. O Heauens: where was olde <HI>Brutanie</HI> now? where, but in the Sea as a dead &s;ea Whale?</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
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<HEAD>THE TIMES OF THESE Romano-Brutans.</HEAD>
<P>_AFter there had been a king for <HI>15.</HI> yeares &s;pace, (in which time <HI>Clemens Alexandri|nus</HI> liued: the Prophets were tran&s;lated into Greeke) <HI>Ba&s;sian</HI> began his Raigne in the yeare of the world, <HI>4179.</HI> and raig|ned <HI>6.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Papinian</HI> the great Ciuilian Chauncellor to <HI>Seuerus</HI> flouri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Cara&s;se</HI> began in the yeare, <HI>4185,</HI> and ruled <HI>8.</HI> years: in this time <HI>Origen</HI> began to &s;hew him&s;elfe: <HI>Tertullian</HI> flouri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>Alectus</HI> beganne in the yeare, <HI>4193.</HI> and raigned &s;ixe yeares: about this time <HI>Zephirine</HI> chaunged the Com|munion cuppe into gla&s;&s;e for more decency, which had been of wood commonly.</P>
<P><HI>A&s;clepiodate</HI> began, <HI>4199.</HI> and ruled <HI>30.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Cali&s;tus</HI> appointed the <HI>4.</HI> Ember weekes for the <HI>4.</HI> quar|ters: <HI>Vrban</HI> ordained that diuine ve&s;&s;els &s;hould be gold or &s;iluer.</P>
<P><HI>Coil</HI> the third began, <HI>4238.</HI> and raigned <HI>27.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Philip</HI> was the fir&s;t chri&s;tened Emperour: <HI>Cyprian</HI> was martyred. <HI>Decius</HI> the per&s;ecuter was &s;wallowed of a quagmire: <HI>Paul</HI> the fir&s;t Hermite liued.</P>
<P><HI>Con&s;tantius</HI> began, <HI>4265.</HI> and ruled <HI>30.</HI> yeares: in his time <HI>Eutychian</HI> bi&s;hop of Roome buried <HI>300.</HI> martyrs with his owne hands: <HI>Carus</HI> the Emperour was killed with lightning: the Citty <HI>Spira</HI> in <HI>Germany</HI> was built.</P>
<P><PB N="82" REF="44" MS="y"><HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the fir&s;t began, <HI>4295.</HI> and raigned ten yeares: nowe <HI>20000.</HI> Chri&s;tians were burnt in a Church on Chri&s;tmas day at night: <HI>Arnobius</HI> was fa|mous.</P>
<P><HI>Octauy</HI> beganne, <HI>4305.</HI> and ruled <HI>54.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Silue&s;ter</HI> refu&s;ed to weare a golden Crowne, which great <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> offered him: the great Nicene Coun|cell was held: <HI>Lactantius</HI> and <HI>Hilary</HI> were famous: Moonkes beganne in <HI>Antonie</HI> the Hermite, and <HI>Nuns</HI> in <HI>Marcella</HI> and <HI>Sophronia: Con&s;tantinople</HI> was built.</P>
<P><HI>Maximinian</HI> began in the yeare, <HI>4359.</HI> and raigned <HI>8.</HI> yeares: about this time <HI>Athana&s;ius</HI> and <HI>Ba&s;ilius</HI> flou|ri&s;hed: the <HI>Thalmud</HI> of the Iewes was compiled by <HI>Rabbi Iohanan: Iulian</HI> the Apo&s;tata and <HI>Libanius</HI> raged.</P>
<P><HI>Gracian</HI> began, <HI>4367.</HI> and ruled <HI>4.</HI> yeares: now <HI>E|piphanius</HI> wrote again&s;t heretickes: <HI>Vphila</HI> found out the <HI>Gotes</HI> Letters, or a b c: about this time <HI>Gregory Nazian|zene</HI> and <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> flouri&s;hed.</P>
<P><HI>So the Gouernement of the&s;e Brutanoromans continued for the &s;pace of 183. yeares: but heere was no cer|taine Ruler in <HI>Brutany</HI> for 36. yeares after.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>THE SIXT GENEALOGY OF Brutan Kinges.</HEAD>
<P>_THe <HI>Brutans</HI> cho&s;e <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd, the &s;onne of <HI>Aldroene</HI> king of litle <HI>Brutany</HI> for their king, and he raigned ouer them and begat three &s;onnes, the fir&s;t was <HI>Con&s;tancie,</HI> the &s;e|cond <HI>Aurely,</HI> the third <HI>Vter,</HI> but then Credulity &s;lew him.</P>
<P><PB N="83" REF="44" MS="y"><HI>Con&s;tancie</HI> the elde&s;t &s;on &s;ucceeded his father, but died without i&s;&s;ue: for Dolti&s;hne&s;&s;e and Trea&s;on &s;lewe him, and Force lifted vp <HI>Vortiger</HI> to the kingdome, but Self-will &s;harpned him &s;o, that the people hated him, and by plaine might created his &s;onne <HI>Vortimer</HI> their king: then Wichery puld him downe, and In&s;inuation re&s;tored <HI>Vortiger:</HI> yet Right and Vengeance at la&s;t de&s;troyed him: then Common Con&s;ent made <HI>Aurely</HI> the &s;econd &s;on of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd a king, but the diuels Art &s;lew him, and he dyed without i&s;&s;ue: &s;o <HI>Vter</HI> the third &s;on of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> &s;ucceeded him in the kingdome, and begat vppon <HI>Igerne</HI> his wife, or rather concubine <HI>Arthur</HI> the king, who raigned and left no &s;eede behind him: then <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the third, the &s;onne of <HI>Cador</HI> a Corni&s;h Duke <HI>Arthurs</HI> coo&s;in was made king, but la&s;ted not, for <HI>Conan</HI> his kin&s;man &s;lew him and became king, &amp; begat <HI>Vorti|pory,</HI> who liued and dyed without i&s;&s;ue: then <HI>Malgo</HI> the nephew of <HI>Conan</HI> raigned as king: hee was of &s;ta|ture and per&s;onage the goodlie&s;t among all men of his time, but left no Royall &s;eede behinde him: thus <HI>Ca|rency</HI> got the kingdome by the goodwill of <HI>Brutans,</HI> and lo&s;t it by his quarrellous nature: &s;o <HI>Cadwan</HI> was cho&s;en king, and hee begat <HI>Cadwallin</HI> the king, who died and left no &s;eed behinde him: then <HI>Cadwallader</HI> by his No|blene&s;&s;e and manhood together obtained the Crowne and dyed without i&s;&s;ue, and was the la&s;t king of the <HI>Brutans</HI> in the &s;eate of <HI>Locrine.</HI> But, who can tell the ge|nealogies of <HI>Camber?</HI> how happy is hee in his dwelling places, which no man taketh from him? His loynes are like a &s;pringing well: he runneth within his bankes, and is not &s;topped: &s;urely his Riuer is one of Gods Ri|uers: his Hils are the mountaines of Safety. <HI>Locrine</HI>
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lay more open to the windes then <HI>Camber:</HI> hys braun|ches are dryed vp with the Northea&s;t windes, and the boy&s;terous &s;tormes haue broken them, but <HI>Camber</HI> had the fauourable We&s;twindes euer in his borders. The waters of <HI>Camber</HI> grow full of &s;ooth&s;aying reedes, the pens of Writers haue &s;et him in more honour then hys brethren, he alone vpholdeth his fathers hou&s;e. The great God of the world keepe him euermore with his inuincible right hand and &s;tretched out arme, make his naule whole, and fil his bones with marrow and heat, giue him plentie of the fruites of the earth, and increa&s;e his cattle without number: leade forth hys &s;onnes in Triumphs and his daughters to the marriages of the mightie&s;t, make hym ble&s;&s;ed among all the nations of men, and rai&s;e vp the meane&s;t of his people to renowne and glory: exalt thy frendes and conuert thy foes, fill thy coa&s;ts with all earthly and heauenly ioyes that be or may be.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>THEIR ARTES AND ACTES are in their Vertues and Vices.</HEAD>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their ver|tue or pru|dence is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Di&s;cipline:</HI> When <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd &s;aw, that his elde&s;t &s;onne <HI>Con&s;tancy</HI> was &s;low of wit, and giuen to be &s;olitary, he made him a moonke in the Abbey of Saint <HI>Swithune</HI> in <HI>Caerguent,</HI> and committed his o|ther two &s;onnes to <HI>Guetheline</HI> Archbi&s;hop of <HI>Caerlud</HI> to be taught. If children be &s;et into that way which they haue mo&s;t minde vnto, they will prooue be&s;t in that way. A yoong Prince cannot bee brought vp better vnder any, then vnder a reuerend &amp; Princely
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churchman, &s;eeing they are both pa&s;tors of the peo|ple, and bi&s;hops of men.</P>
<P><HI>Prouidence:</HI> the two &s;onnes of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> being vn|able to get the Crowne by might of arms, and fear|ing, that trea&s;on &s;hould be wrought again&s;t them as it was again&s;t their elde&s;t brother, looked to the &s;afe|tie of their liues, and fled into little <HI>Brutanie.</HI> If we cannot do that is right and due, the be&s;t way is to &s;aue the principall that is mo&s;t worth. It is no &s;hame to flie, when re&s;i&s;ting is wilful death. <HI>Bruciuall</HI> &s;aued <HI>50.</HI> moonks of Bangor by flying from <HI>Ethelfride</HI> duke of Northumbeland, when <HI>1200.</HI> had been &s;laine by him. The Bi&s;hops of <HI>Caerlud</HI> and <HI>Caerbranke</HI> in Ca|rencies time fled to Rome for feare of the cruel Sax|ons, and dealt &s;o wi&s;ely with Pope <HI>Gregory,</HI> that they were &s;aued from bloudy handes.</P>
<P><HI>Doctrine: Aurely de&s;iring</HI> to teach the <HI>Brutans,</HI> to be|ware of outlandi&s;h friend&s;hip, which had in his days &s;o intrapped and infected them, cau&s;ed <HI>Merlin</HI> by his Art Soueraigne, to fetch the great &s;tones out of Ireland, which are now vpon Sal&s;bury plain, and &s;et them neere the place where <HI>Hengi&s;t</HI> and the Sax|ons again&s;t their Oath did murder hundreds of the be&s;t <HI>Brutans</HI> with kniues &s;ecretly prouided for the pur|po&s;e, and tooke <HI>Vortiger</HI> their king pri&s;oner, and ran|&s;omed him at their plea&s;ure, That when they &s;hould &s;ee tho&s;e &s;tones or heare of them, they might remem|ber the &s;tony heartes of outlandi&s;h friendes, the hy|pocri&s;ie of Saxons, the vntrueth of &s;trangers, and either appoint them true ouer&s;eers, or els away with them out of the Land.</P>
<P><HI>Gouernement: Vter</HI> after hys brother <HI>Aurelius</HI> death
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ruled the Realme &s;o orderly and circum&s;pectly, both in re&s;pect of trecherous flatteries, and tru&s;ty friend|&s;hip, and all matters both common and extraordina|rie, that he was &s;urnamed <HI>Pendragon,</HI> A Prince as mightie and &s;ubtle among men, as the Dragon is a|mong the bea&s;tes of the field. A good name is a trea|&s;ure, but why do men commend a man, which ought to be the phra&s;e onely of di&s;prai&s;e? Hee that can &s;hut his handes from &s;traungers, as <HI>Vter</HI> did, &s;hall pre|uent many woes. <HI>Arthur</HI> di&s;po&s;ed all things in or|der, &s;ailed into <HI>Gallia,</HI> left his nephew <HI>Mordred</HI> for king, and wrought great myracles abroad. It had been more wi&s;edome, to haue wrought them at home, if they were good, to do his owne people good: or if they were deceites, to haue practi&s;ed them priui|ly, that his name might not be blotted and dimini|&s;hed.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 TYPE="section">
<HEAD>Their vice or impru|dence is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Credulitie: Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd fauoured a <HI>Pict</HI> &s;o much, that he might haue acce&s;&s;e to him at all times, euen into his bed chamber, though hee had been the greate&s;t enemy that the <HI>Picts</HI> had in <HI>Brutanie</HI> manie yeares: this <HI>Pict</HI> knewe it too well, and wayted his time: and at la&s;t tooke him alone, and &s;lew him in his bed chamber. Straungers cannot be true friendes, if they and we haue at any time been at ods. Thy de&s;ire to plea&s;ure vs with their &s;eruice, to &s;erue vs &s;uch a turne, as the Fox doth the &s;imple Kid or Lambe. <HI>Vortiger</HI> entertained <HI>Hengi&s;t</HI> the &s;econd time for this daughters &s;ake, that is one foe for ano|ther foes &s;ake: he neuer imagined, that <HI>Hengi&s;t</HI> was his foe, though <HI>Vortimer</HI> his &s;on had chafed him, and
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cha&s;ed him out of the land: he met him on Sal&s;bury plaine, to intreate of peace that &s;hould be betweene them, &amp; came peaceably with his men, as the agree|ment was, without weapons, but pre&s;uming chil|di&s;hly, that all was well, when nothing could po&s;&s;i|bly be &s;afe in any rea&s;on: hee &s;earched not <HI>Hengi&s;tes</HI> company, to &s;ee if they carried any weapons vnder their long gowns, and by this babi&s;h credulitie &s;poi|led him&s;elfe of his libertie, and <HI>460.</HI> noblemen <HI>Bru|tans</HI> of their liues.</P>
<P>When <HI>Aurely</HI> lay &s;ick in his bed, his friends that wer about him, being as &s;ick in their wits as he was in his body, &s;uffered a Saxon to be hys Phi&s;ition, &amp; to mini&s;ter vnto him, till he poi&s;oned him. If the <HI>Bru|tans</HI> knew not, that he was a Saxon, they were vn|rea&s;onable to take they knew not who~, if they knew him, and yet tru&s;ted in his helpe, they were &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e and vtterly out of their wits. <HI>Cadwallin</HI> ioyned in friend&s;hip with <HI>Penda</HI> a Saxon, but afterward hee neuer thriued in any wars which hee tooke in hand as he did aforetime: hee that could not &s;ee, that the Saxon would onely vndermine him, was vnwi&s;e: he that would tru&s;t him at all, was not wi&s;e, &s;eeing he might liue well inough without his help.</P>
<P><HI>Di&s;simulation: Vortiger</HI> Duke of Cornewall proui|ded king <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> the Sheep a gard of <HI>100</HI> Wolues or <HI>Picts,</HI> and then v&s;ed all means to plea&s;e them with words and gifts: when he had made them dronken, hee complained to them of his pouertie euen with teares: anon they deui&s;ed &s;uch an helpe for him as they could, he &s;o pierced their headle&s;&s;e heartes, and heartle&s;&s;e heades, that a&s;&s;oone as he was gone from
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them in &s;orrow, they followed him with the head of <HI>Con&s;tance:</HI> he lamented for ioy of his death, and le&s;&s;e he might be &s;u&s;pected of the fact, hee cau&s;ed the <HI>100. <HI>Picts</HI></HI> to be executed after the law, and of all men was mo&s;t again&s;t them, yet &s;o, that &s;ome men perceiued his &s;hites. He that hath any lawfull title in any po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion is wi&s;e&s;t, if he &s;eeke it lawfully, or els, he may be put iu&s;tly from his owne. The Duke of Cornwall had more right to the Crown then the Dukes &s;onne of little <HI>Brutanie,</HI> but was it not extreame folly to cha|lenge it in &s;o villanous a maner? and was not <HI>Con|&s;tance</HI> a mo&s;t improuident creature, to be garded with them which &s;car&s;ely regarded him &s;o much as a countriman doth his bea&s;t? Surely God was an|gry with <HI>Brutans,</HI> when hee &s;uffered their Rulers to liue &s;o rudely without the Rule of wi&s;edome. O yee Heauens ble&s;&s;e ye our Nobles, and al other Regents on the earth, or els they will be without Regiment in their liues and end ba&s;ely with vile death. <HI>Con|&s;tance</HI> had been fit to be a poore mans Sowe in a &s;ty, which is content with any v&s;age, &s;o the trough be ful and the bones at re&s;t: lay a logge into a cloy&s;ter, and it will come out all worme eaten, and fit onely to be burnt.</P>
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<HEAD>Their ver|tue of for|titude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Magnificence and Magnanimitie:</HI> When <HI>Vortimer</HI> &s;aw that he mu&s;t die, hee called his &s;ouldiers before hym, and gaue all that he had among them, and exhorted them, euer to hold their owne again&s;t the Saxons, and all forraine enemies. A true heart is vertuous to the la&s;t ga&s;pe. <HI>Ambrius</HI> built the Abbey of Am&s;|bruy, <HI>Arthur</HI> built the ca&s;tle of Wind&s;or, and founded
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the order of knightes of the round table: <HI>Artgall</HI> the fir&s;t Eare of Warwicke, one of <HI>Arthurs</HI> knights cho&s;e a Beare for his bea&s;t, becau&s;e Arth in that language &s;ignified a Beare, in remembrance of his name a|mong all his po&s;teritie. <HI>Quicheline</HI> gaue &s;euen myles compa&s;&s;e of land to <HI>Berine</HI> Bi&s;hop of Winche&s;ter, to build his See there, and <HI>Kenwalke</HI> his &s;onne fini&s;hed it. Saint <HI>O&s;uald</HI> gaue his daughter <HI>Elfleda</HI> xii. Lord|&s;hips, to build xii. Mona&s;teries with them, vi. in Bernicia, and vi. in Deyra. When <HI>Cadwallader</HI> had conquered the Saxons in Kent, and in the Ile of Might, hee gaue the fourth part of the Ile, that is, <HI>300.</HI> hou&s;eholds to <HI>Wilfride</HI> in honour of religion and of his owne name.</P>
<P><HI>Victories: Edolf</HI> Earle of Che&s;ter &s;eeing how <HI>Hen|gi&s;t</HI> &s;lew the <HI>Brutans</HI> with &s;ecret kniues, got him to a hedge, and defended him&s;elfe with a &s;take, and &s;lew of the Saxons <HI>70.</HI> men and e&s;caped.</P>
<P><HI>Vortimer</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Vortiger</HI> hated the Saxons more then hys father loued them: hee pur&s;ued them and gaue them battell at the riuer of Darwent, and ouerthrew them, at Epyford he ouercame them, hee cha&s;ed them by the &s;ea &s;ide into the Ile of Might, he vanqui&s;hed them at Cole More, he turmoyled them in Norfolk, in E&s;&s;ex, in Kent, he put them out of their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, he droue them to the Ile of Tenet, there he be&s;ieged them by water and by land, and neuer left them till they fled out of the land. <HI>Aurely</HI> with the aid of the king of little <HI>Brutany</HI> tooke <HI>Caerbranke</HI> from <HI>Octa</HI> and tooke him pri&s;oner: he &s;ought with <HI>Hengi&s;t</HI> at Crekinford, and &s;lewe <HI>4000.</HI> &s;ouldiers and <HI>4.</HI> Dukes of the Saxons: he droue them out of Lo|cry
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euery where, except Kent: hee quitted him&s;elfe from <HI>Ella</HI> and <HI>Porth,</HI> two mightie Saxons. <HI>Vter</HI> in the time of his brothers &s;ickne&s;&s;e put to flight <HI>Pa&s;centy</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Vortiger</HI> with his army of Germans, and afterward &s;lew him, and <HI>Guillioman</HI> the Iri&s;h Prince at <HI>S. Dauids</HI> in Cambry, and <HI>Co&s;&s;a</HI> and <HI>Octa</HI> the Sax|ons. <HI>Arthur</HI> fought <HI>12.</HI> battels with the Saxons, and euery time ouerthrew them: he made them pay him tribute: when hee was in Gallia, and heard of <HI>Mordreds</HI> trea&s;on, he returned and fought with him at Sandwich and ouercame him, and againe hee o|uerthrew him at Winche&s;ter, and at Bathe he &s;lew him. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the third vanqui&s;hed the two &s;ons of <HI>Mordred</HI> and put them to flight when they ro&s;e a|gain&s;t him and chalenged the Crowne by theyr fa|thers title. <HI>Vortipory</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Conan</HI> di&s;comfited the Saxons in many battels and got the vpper hand of them alwaies. <HI>Malgo</HI> &s;ubdued the Saxons in all his wars, he conquered Ireland, Scotland, I&s;eland, Norway, Denmarke, the Orcades, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed them. <HI>Arthur</HI> &s;lew in one day an hundred and fortie Saxons with his owne hand. <HI>Cadwallader</HI> &s;lew <HI>Lo|thary</HI> Prince of Kent, and <HI>Athelwald</HI> king of <HI>South&s;ex,</HI> and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed tho&s;e landes. <HI>Cadwallin</HI> droue the Sax|ons all along to Middle&s;ex and made <HI>Penda</HI> pay him tribute. Now armies &s;tay in Saxony, and paper|men flye from tho&s;e coa&s;tes: the&s;e do more harme in many places then tho&s;e old armies did: the&s;e will be &s;auced as they were, and hunted out of the land by order of di&s;cipline: none &s;o bu&s;ie as they, and yet none more &s;light then they: there is an <HI>Arthur</HI> in paper|worke again&s;t their inua&s;ions, which may in all
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right and equitie giue them twelue di&s;graces at the lea&s;t, and perhaps twelue times twelue: let the triall proue all, or let that labour be lo&s;t, if they can recouer there <HI>12</HI> lo&s;&s;es of this newe <HI>Arthur.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>Their vice or extreme fortitude is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Ambition: Vortiger</HI> tooke <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> out of a Mona|&s;terie to be king, that he might do what he li&s;t in the kingdome vnder &s;uch an innocent and milk&s;op, and make his &s;implicitie a meanes for him&s;elfe to get the Crowne, as it proued afterward. <HI>Mordred Arthurs</HI> kin&s;man being appointed Vicegerent in his royalty, gaue great giftes and ca&s;tels more then his owne to <HI>Cerdrick</HI> a Saxon, and agreed with him to be crow|ned at Winche&s;ter with his goodwill, &s;o that him&s;elf might be crowned at <HI>Caerlud</HI> by his liking. The two &s;onnes of <HI>Mordred</HI> the v&s;urper rebelled again&s;t <HI>Con|&s;tantine</HI> the third for the kingdome and lo&s;t it. No right or trueth can &s;tay an a&s;pyring humour.</P>
<P><HI>Pu&s;illanimitie: Arthur</HI> gaue two Shyres to <HI>Cer|drick</HI> Duke of the We&s;t&s;axons, to the end hee might be quiet: tho&s;e two &s;hyres could do <HI>Brutans</HI> more good then <HI>Arthurs</HI> peregrination: an enemie mu&s;t not giue or take any thing, but winne all by might or &s;leight. When <HI>Cadwallader</HI> had raigned <HI>12.</HI> yeares, hee for|&s;ooke all his princely attyre, and went to Roome, and led a mona&s;ticall life euer after: he preferd re&s;t before riches, the hood aboue the Crowne.</P>
<P><HI>Rage or crueltie:</HI> The <HI>Pictes</HI> to plea&s;e their captaine <HI>Vortiger</HI> &s;lew <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> their king, and pre&s;ented hys head to <HI>Vortiger,</HI> imagining they had done the be&s;t act that coulde be, to redre&s;&s;e his poore e&s;tate, wher|of he had complained to them. Renowne the daugh|ter
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of <HI>Hengi&s;t,</HI> the concubine of <HI>Vortiger,</HI> &s;eeing what <HI>Vortimer</HI> had done in &s;pight of the Saxons her coun|treymen and friends, how he had taken away their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, howe he reedified Churches which they de&s;troyed, howe hee was like to de&s;troy them all, if he liued a while, &s;ought out witches and magicians, to charme or charactize him to death by &s;ome prac|ti&s;e, but when they could not worke vpon him, &s;he in|&s;inuated her &s;elfe to one of his neere&s;t men, and &s;o corrupted his minde and &s;en&s;e with wordes &amp; gifts, that he con&s;ented to poy&s;on his Lord, and &s;o hee did. <HI>Conan</HI> loued quarrellours aboue other men, he made away his owne vncle that &s;hould haue bin king, and &s;lew his two &s;onnes. <HI>Ethelfride</HI> Duke of Northum|berland ma&s;&s;acred <HI>1200.</HI> moonks of Bangor in a bea&s;tly immanitie, to plea&s;e <HI>Ethelbert</HI> king of Kent, which had offered praiers to God again&s;t him. <HI>Caren|cie</HI> was &s;o giuen to ciuill warres, that he loued them aboue all other acts, wherby he fell into &s;uch hatred, that hee was not able to &s;tand again&s;t the Saxons. Out of all que&s;tion, it is extreame madne&s;&s;e, to admit any &s;trangers into our countrey, that are eyther more militar or more politick then the commonaltie, vnle&s;&s;e it be for a time, and then away with them, or they be kept in their boundes with certaine compa|nie, and neither &s;ee nor heare more then belongeth to &s;trangers: what &s;huld &s;trangers but be v&s;ed &s;trange|ly? they pretend pouertie, but they intend to weaken our land: they flie for religion, but they fo&s;ter here|&s;ies: draffe is their errand, but drinke they would: either they are diuels in their owne likene&s;&s;e: or el&s;e they are Angels with the entrals of Diuels: fooli&s;h
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pitty de&s;troyeth the Cittie: prouide for the weake&s;t, the &s;tronge&s;t can &s;aue it &s;elfe: the malignant hand will &s;poyle the impotent people, when it cannot &s;pill the bloud of Nobles: but if Hares wurry Hounds, and Harts be wounded of Ferrets, then is the world turnd vp&s;ide downe, the Hunters are vile keepers, and the keepers are vile&s;t men: Let <HI>Brutans</HI> be fedde and taught as is meete for them, and let my life go, if they make not their ennemies round about them like Hares and Ferrets, which euer auoyd the pre|&s;ence of men.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Their ver|tue or tem+perance is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Life and maners:</HI> the Clergy in the time of <HI>Cadwallin</HI> behaued them&s;elues &s;o &s;oberly and fatherly in all points, that they were honoured of mo&s;t men, in&s;o|much, that as they went too and fro in the &s;treetes and other places, the people would kneele downe to them, and a&s;ke them their ble&s;&s;ing, and gaue them what&s;oeuer they demanded.</P>
<P><HI>Wordes: Berine</HI> Bi&s;hop of Dorche&s;ter conuerted <HI>Kingeli&s;t</HI> the king of the We&s;t&s;axons, and chri&s;tened him, which he could neuer haue done without mo&s;t temperate and well &s;ea&s;oned &s;peech: by the like mo|deration <HI>Pauline</HI> conuerted <HI>Edwine</HI> king of Northum|berland to the chri&s;tian faith. <HI>Melite</HI> Bi&s;hop of <HI>Caer|lud</HI> conuerted <HI>Sebert</HI> king of E&s;&s;ex to Chri&s;tian religi|on. The Clergy of Kent delt &s;o with their king <HI>Er|combert,</HI> that he puld downe the Temples of his fal&s;e Gods, and kept the Lent fa&s;t, and became a Chri|&s;tian. When the <HI>Brutan</HI> Bi&s;hops &s;aw, that <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> took vpon him as their &s;oueraigne, they would not re&s;i&s;t him pre&s;ently, but &s;tayd a while, to &s;ee his life and be|hauiour,
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and then to v&s;e them therafter, either frend|ly or aduer&s;ly.</P>
<P><HI>Liberalitie:</HI> When <HI>Ethelfride</HI> had put away his wife being great with childe, <HI>Cadwan</HI> receiued her into his Court, and kept her honourably till &s;hee was deliue|red, and &s;o long after as &s;hee would. <HI>O&s;uald</HI> Duke of Bernicia liked &s;o wel of <HI>Cedda</HI> Bi&s;hop of Winche&s;ter, that hee gaue him land to build and Abbey thereon. The more is giuen for the promotion of Gods Ma|ie&s;ty, the more he giueth to our benefite.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Their vice or intem|perance is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Loue:</HI> When <HI>Ronowen</HI> had &s;aluted <HI>Vortiger</HI> with a golden cup of wine, and de&s;ired him to drinke of it, he beheld her bewtie, and was pre&s;ently &s;o inamored of her, that he could not be quiet, till he had put away his owne wife, by whom he had three &s;ons and mar|ried her, and for her &s;ake loued Saxons more then <HI>Brutans:</HI> he lay with his owne daughter to haue i&s;&s;ue of her, but in vaine. <HI>Vter</HI> fell in loue with <HI>Igerne</HI> the wife of <HI>Gorleis</HI> Duke of Cornewall, and &s;lewe him at his ca&s;tell Tintagel, and tooke her to wife. <HI>Malgo</HI> fel into the &s;inne of <HI>Sodom,</HI> and lo&s;t all that he had gotten aforetime: let not &s;en&s;e rule rea&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>Liberalitie: Vortiger</HI> entertained <HI>Hengi&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Hor|&s;us</HI> with their three &s;hips, he gaue them y^e hire of &s;oul|diers, he be&s;towed the Ile of Tenet vpon them: hee graunted <HI>Hengi&s;t</HI> &s;o much ground as hee could com|pa&s;&s;e with a buls hide: he took away the Earldom of Kent from <HI>Garangon,</HI> and gaue it him.</P>
<P><HI>Anger: Con&s;tantine</HI> the third &s;iue one of <HI>Mordreds</HI> &s;onnes for rebelling again&s;t him euen in the Min&s;ter of Winche&s;ter: the other for the &s;ame cau&s;e in the
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temple at <HI>Caerlud. Dionote</HI> Abbot of Bangor would not yeeld to <HI>Au&s;tin,</HI> becau&s;e he was of another Pro|uince, neither would he preach to the Saxons, be|cau&s;e they &s;poyled the land, do <HI>Ethelbert</HI> king of Kent what he could vnto him.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>The ver|tue or iu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Rewarding: Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd receiued the crowne and rule of <HI>Brutanie</HI> by a couenant that hee made with the <HI>Brutans,</HI> when he deliuered them from the tyranny of the <HI>Picts.</HI> When <HI>Aurely</HI> remembred, how fa&s;t the <HI>Brutans</HI> re&s;orted vnto him, and <HI>Vter</HI> at their landing at Totnes, and how truely they &s;erued him in his warres, did them one good turne for ano|ther, and repaired their temples and hou&s;es, which the Saxons de&s;troyed, and re&s;tored their religion to them againe.</P>
<P><HI>Deuiding:</HI> In the time of <HI>Carency</HI> it was determi|ned at Worce&s;ter by a Councell of the chiefe&s;t men, That the goodes of the Church &s;hould be be&s;towed on the Bi&s;hops, their Clergy, the Churches the poore people, and then <HI>Gregory</HI> the great, appointed the two Archbi&s;hops of <HI>Brutany</HI> at <HI>Caerbrank,</HI> and <HI>Caerkent.</HI> The Archbi&s;hop of <HI>S. Dauids</HI> had vnder thim the&s;e <HI>7.</HI> Bi&s;hops. <HI>Hereford, Cardiff, Landaff, Bangor, S. A&s;aph, Worce&s;ter, Morgan.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Puni&s;hing:</HI> The <HI>Pictes</HI> to reuenge the death of the <HI>100. <HI>Picts</HI></HI> that garded <HI>Con&s;tance,</HI> made war agayn&s;t <HI>Vortiger:</HI> the friends of <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> deui&s;ed to ouerthrow him for the death of their Prince: thus he was to&s;&s;ed vp and downe the land, that hee could not be &s;afe. The <HI>Brutans</HI> &s;eeing <HI>Vortigers</HI> extreame affection to|ward the Saxons, depo&s;ed him: when hee was ta|ken
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pri&s;oner by <HI>Hengi&s;t,</HI> they for&s;ooke him: <HI>Aurely</HI> and <HI>Vter</HI> burnt him to a&s;hes in his Ca&s;tle. The Bi&s;hops refu&s;ed <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> by the adui&s;e of an old Anchorite, who iudged him no man of God which v&s;ed his brethren like his &s;eruants. <HI>Cadwan</HI> &s;lew <HI>Edwine</HI> and <HI>O&s;ricke</HI> and <HI>Eufricke</HI> Saxon kinges for the bloud of the <HI>Brutans</HI> which they had poured out like water on euery &s;ide of the Realme.</P>
<P><HI>Burials: Vortimer</HI> was buried &s;olemnly at <HI>Caerlud. Aurely</HI> &amp; <HI>Vter</HI> were buried at Stoneheng in Sal&s;|bury plaine. <HI>Arthur</HI> was buried in the valley of Gla|&s;cenbury. <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the third at Stoneheng. <HI>Vorti|pory, Vortiger, Malgo,</HI> and <HI>Carency</HI> were not orderly bu|ried for their vile liues. <HI>Cadwan</HI> died in war, and was buried accordingly. <HI>Con&s;tance</HI> de&s;erued his faire bu|riall.</P>
</DIV3>
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<HEAD>Their vice or iniu|&s;tice is in</HEAD>
<P><HI>Couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e: Vortiger</HI> forgetting his loyaltie to his Prince abu&s;ed him intollerably, and got him by his own con&s;ent the &s;tronge&s;t Ca&s;tels, and be&s;t trea|&s;ure that he had: he euer defended the <HI>100. <HI>Pictes</HI></HI> what naughtine&s;&s;e &s;oeuer they committed in the Court.</P>
<P><HI>Vnthankfulne&s;&s;e:</HI> the <HI>Brutans</HI> being de&s;ired by <HI>Vorti|mer</HI> on his death bed, to bury his body at the hauen where the Saxons v&s;ed to land, in a &s;epulchre of bra&s;&s;e &s;pire like, to put them in feare with the remem|brance of him and his acts, eyther neglected his will or forgat it. O vniu&s;t men that take &s;uch a farewell of their friends. <HI>Vter</HI> died by force of poy&s;on at Veru|lam in Hertford&s;hire neere <HI>S. Albons. Con&s;tantine</HI> and <HI>Con&s;tance,</HI> the father and his &s;onne were not buried after the maner of Princes.</P>
<P><PB N="97" REF="51" MS="y">I haue not that peculiar regard of places nowe, which I had before, partly by rea&s;on of forenamed cau|&s;es, and partly in that they are &s;ufficiently &s;et foorth in the&s;e morall tables. I de&s;ire heerein and euer a quiet iudgement, and then I doubt not of any cen&s;urer, but he will &s;peake fairely. Yet I mu&s;t leaue euery man to him&s;elfe, to doe as he is cau&s;ed in his deliberatiue and con&s;iderate in&s;ight. If I omit &s;ome hi&s;tories of Sax|ons, I do but my duetie: what haue I to do with them, vnle&s;&s;e it were to make them tributary to <HI>Brutans?</HI> o|therwi&s;e, let their owne men commend them if they wil, I owe them no &s;eruice by writing or &s;peaking. Yet I haue named &s;ome of the Saxons, though I doe it more for their &s;akes with whome they dwelt, then for any merite of their owne. Let them lye in dead forget|fulne&s;&s;e like &s;tones, that haue de&s;ired, or doe de&s;ire the trouble of <HI>Brutanie:</HI> let their names be cleane put out, and not come among the righteous. When men play the parts of bea&s;ts, let them go among the numbers of cattell in Zoography and keepe their fit place. An ape mu&s;t not come among Churchmen, Serpentes mu&s;t not dwell in chambers of Coun&s;ell, make bates are not in ca&s;e to co~uer&s;e in the dwellings of peaceable Lords, who can abide, to haue a deformed mocker with hys di&s;torted mouthes, a venimous hi&s;&s;er with his noy&s;om breath, a rayling &s;tage player with his trifling actions for his companion? Ari&s;e ye &s;onnes of <HI>Ebranke,</HI> and yee kin&s;men of true auncient <HI>Brutans,</HI> and make tho&s;e &s;tone|hearted creatures know, that they are made to be your &s;eruants and drudges: let not any double forked toong per&s;wade you, that <HI>Brutanie</HI> is vnder any part of the earth.</P>
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</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="98" REF="52" MS="y">
<HEAD>THE TIMES OF THESE KINGS.</HEAD>
<P>_BEtweene the death of <HI>Gracian,</HI> and the raigne of <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd, were a|bout <HI>36.</HI> yeares pa&s;&s;ed ouer in <HI>Brutanie</HI> without a Ruler. In this time <HI>Theodo|&s;ius</HI> was excommunicated by <HI>Ambro&s;e</HI> for murder: <HI>Ierome</HI> and <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> and <HI>Gouldmouth</HI> flouri|&s;hed: <HI>Claudian</HI> the Poet was famous: <HI>Siricius</HI> Bi&s;hop of Roome forbad Prie&s;ts to marry.</P>
<P><HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd began to raigne in the yeare of the world, <HI>4407.</HI> and raigned ten yeares: in this time the <HI>Goths</HI> and <HI>Hunnes</HI> inuaded Italy, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed it: the Vandals entred into Spaine and &s;poiled it: the fir&s;t Councell was &s;et again&s;t <HI>Pelagius</HI> the heretick a <HI>Brutan.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Con&s;tancy</HI> began in the yeare <HI>4417.</HI> &amp; ruled <HI>5.</HI> yeares. In this time <HI>Ierome</HI> died: <HI>S. Alban</HI> was martired at Moguntia: <HI>Saluian <HI>the teacher of Bi&s;hops</HI></HI> flouri&s;hed in Ma&s;&s;ilia: Burgundians were conuerted to chri&s;tian religion.</P>
<P><HI>Vortiger</HI> began to rule, <HI>4422.</HI> and ruled <HI>16.</HI> yeares: Then <HI>Vortimer</HI> beganne <HI>4438.</HI> and ruled <HI>7.</HI> yeares. In this time <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> died: <HI>Cyrill, S. Patricke</HI> and <HI>Ca&s;sian</HI> flouri&s;hed: <HI>Theodo&s;ius</HI> founded a generall Schoole at Bononia: <HI>Attila</HI> with <HI>500000.</HI> &s;ouldiers &s;poyled the Romans horribly, and all partes where he went. <HI>Clo|doue</HI> the fir&s;t famous king of Fraunce liued.</P>
<P><HI>Vortiger</HI> began to rule again, <HI>4445.</HI> &amp; ruled <HI>9.</HI> years:</P>
<P><HI>Aurely</HI> began, <HI>4454.</HI> and raigned <HI>19.</HI> yeares: in this
<PB N="99" REF="52" MS="y">
time <HI>Gen&s;erick</HI> with the Vandals &s;ubdued Roome: the Venetians began to dwell in their Ilands where they dwell now: <HI>Mamertus</HI> a Bi&s;hop inuented Letanies: <HI>Hilary</HI> of Roome adorned Churches with gold &amp; &s;iluer.</P>
<P><HI>Vter</HI> began, <HI>4473.</HI> and ruled <HI>16.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Honorick</HI> the &s;on of <HI>Gen&s;erick</HI> bani&s;hed <HI>334.</HI> Bi&s;hops and Prie&s;tes out of Africke, and &s;lew many thou&s;and chri|&s;tians, but at la&s;t he was eaten vp of wormes: <HI>Fulgen+tius</HI> the Bi&s;hop of Hi&s;palis flouri&s;hed: <HI>Theodoricke</HI> the king of Gothes did many noble and vertuous acts in Italy, and builded decayed places.</P>
<P><HI>Arthur</HI> began <HI>4489.</HI> and raigned <HI>26.</HI> yeares: in which time <HI>S. Patricke</HI> dyed in Scotland being <HI>62.</HI> yeares old: <HI>Theodorick</HI> would not &s;uffer the Romans to practi&s;e any feates of war, or to haue any weapons, for feare they &s;hould rebell: <HI>Ca&s;siodore</HI> of a Senatour be|came a Moonke.</P>
<P><HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the third, began, <HI>4515.</HI> and ruled <HI>3.</HI> years: at this time <HI>Gildas</HI> the <HI>Brutan</HI> liued, &s;urnamed <HI>Sapiens, Boethius</HI> the Chri&s;tian Philo&s;opher liued and was mar|tired.</P>
<P><HI>Conan</HI> beganne <HI>4518.</HI> and raigned <HI>3.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>Symmachus</HI> the Roman prelate tooke vpon him to be &s;upreme ruler and iudge of all Councels in Chri&s;ten|dome.</P>
<P><HI>Vortipory</HI> beganne <HI>4521.</HI> and ruled <HI>4.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Clodoue</HI> the French king vowed chri&s;tiani&s;me and was bapti&s;ed: <HI>Olympius</HI> an Arrian, for bla&s;pheming the Tri|nitie was &s;lame with lightning from heauen.</P>
<P><HI>Malgo</HI> began, <HI>4525.</HI> and raigned <HI>35.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Iu&s;tinus</HI> the Emperour was fir&s;t crowned by the Ro|man Bi&s;hop: <HI>Iu&s;tinianus</HI> made the Codex of the ciuill
<PB N="100" REF="53" MS="y">
law: <HI>Tribonianus</HI> di&s;po&s;ed the Dige&s;ts of the &s;ame law: <HI>S. Benedict</HI> and his &s;i&s;ter <HI>Schola&s;tica</HI> wrought woonders. <HI>Pri&s;cian</HI> liued.</P>
<P><HI>Carency</HI> began, <HI>4560.</HI> and ruled <HI>3.</HI> yeares: but after his death the <HI>Brutans</HI> had no king for <HI>24.</HI> yeares &s;pace, till <HI>Cadwan</HI> was made king: now <HI>Totilas</HI> the tyrant of the Gothes raged in Italy, and <HI>Nar&s;es</HI> &s;ent from the Emperour &s;lew him: the nation of the Hunnes was almo&s;t vtterly extingui&s;hed in Greece, by the Emperor: <HI>Armenij</HI> receiued Chri&s;tian faith.</P>
<P><HI>Cadwan</HI> began <HI>4587.</HI> and raigned <HI>22.</HI> yeares: in this time <HI>S. Brigit</HI> the Scot was famous: <HI>Gregory</HI> of Roome called him&s;elfe Seruaunt of Seruauntes: the Latine toong was not v&s;ed in Roome, becau&s;e all men conuer|&s;ed there.</P>
<P><HI>Cadwallin</HI> began <HI>4609.</HI> and ruled <HI>48.</HI> yeares: now <HI>Heraclius</HI> &s;lew <HI>Phocas</HI> and got the Empire, and married his &s;i&s;ters daughter: the Arabians receiued the law of <HI>Mahomet,</HI> and were called Saracens: <HI>I&s;idore</HI> Bi&s;hop of Hi&s;palis liued: <HI>Sabinianus</HI> Bi&s;hop of Roome appointed bels to di&s;tingui&s;h the times of the day: <HI>Honorius</HI> &s;poiled the Temple of <HI>Romulus</HI> to build the Temple of Saint <HI>Peter.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Cadwallader</HI> began <HI>4657.</HI> and ruled <HI>12.</HI> yeares: in this time the Saracens got great part of Africk. <HI>Mar|tin</HI> of Roome con&s;tituted that his Clergy &s;hould vowe cha&s;titie, or loo&s;e their liuings.</P>
<P><HI>Thus the&s;e kinges raigned 238: yeares. I omit the inter|raignes, before <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the &s;econd, and <HI>Cadwan:</HI> one was 36. yeares, the other 24. yeares.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="suppositions">
<PB N="101" REF="53" MS="y">
<HEAD>THREE SVPPOSES OF A STV|dent concerning Hi&s;torie.</HEAD>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="supposition">
<HEAD>The fir&s;t Suppo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_A Nobleman or Captaine of men de&s;pi&s;eth common matters in his own per&s;on: he de|&s;ireth to find in him&s;elfe the commendable &s;ingularities of &s;ingular men in all ages: he would be loquent as <HI>Mithridates,</HI> that could &s;peake <HI>22.</HI> languages: he would be eloquent as <HI>Orpheus,</HI> that could per&s;wade the Diuels and men as he li&s;ted: hee would be logicall as <HI>Ramus,</HI> that coulde iudge euerie mans writings and not be deluded by any writer: he would be arithmeticall as <HI>Pythagoras</HI> that was admi|rable by the knowledge of Numbers: he would be geo|metricall as <HI>Arithimedes</HI> that compa&s;&s;ed many great matters by the mi&s;terie of proportions: he would be a|&s;trologicall in all que&s;tions, as <HI>Stoflerinus</HI> was in one, who fore&s;aw and foretold the fall of mona&s;teries: hee would be effectually mu&s;icall, as <HI>Timotheus</HI> that coulde either inflame, or quench <HI>Alexanders</HI> &s;pirites with hys melody: in a word, he would be a right noble Arti&s;t in all the&s;e &s;euen Arts, or in &s;ome of them.</P>
<P>Now I am &s;ure, that all the hi&s;toricall Recordes, which I haue yet &s;eene, and I beleeue are commonly to be &s;eene of <HI>Mithridates, Orpheus, Ramus, Pythagoras, Ar|thimedes,
<PB N="102" REF="54" MS="y">
Stoflerinus</HI> and <HI>Timotheus,</HI> are not able by the hundred part to make any &s;tudent as renowned an Arti&s;t as they were, though the be read and peru&s;ed mo&s;t exqui&s;itly.</P>
<P>Another Nobleman or Captaine of men, de&s;ireth to be Honourable by Nauigation as <HI>Ve&s;pu&s;ius</HI> was: de|lighteth to &s;earch the &s;ecretes of warfare as <HI>Hanniball</HI> did: wi&s;heth to ri&s;e from an ob&s;cure Countrey life, to a Princely &s;eat as <HI>Numa</HI> did: could be glad of &s;uch a me|dicinal facultie as <HI>Ae&s;culapius</HI> had in rai&s;ing a dead man to life: he wi&s;heth to him&s;elf the &s;pirit of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in making lawes and working myracles: in a word, He &s;tudieth to purcha&s;e him&s;elfe a glorious Name, both for his life time, and after his death, as the&s;e men haue done afore|time.</P>
<P>Now I dare &s;ay vppon &s;ufficient reading, that the Hi&s;tories which are written of <HI>Ve&s;pu&s;ius, Hanniball, Nu|ma, Ae&s;culapius</HI> and <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> are not able to beget &s;uch a man, as euery of them was in his kind, neither can the cau&s;es that &s;erued them, according to their regi&s;ters, &s;erue other men for effecting of like actions.</P>
<P>I cannot of a Man be made a Bee, and gather hony out of all &s;weet flowers and herbes, but if God will I may be a Collector of the wi&s;dome of all ancient books, &amp; make <HI>Ambro&s;ia</HI> rather then hony out of them. I haue need of the&s;e men once, to &s;ee what they did, as young|lings do: and againe I read them, to &s;ee if their Hi&s;to|ries can in&s;truct me to do the like: and now I mu&s;t de|pend vppon the proofe of other Artes, then are compre|hended in Hi&s;tories: the&s;e giue but a light in the way, which I would walke in: I mu&s;t haue eyes in my head ere I come to that way, and feete and &s;trength to
<PB N="103" REF="54" MS="y">
beare me through it: els the way is not for me, but for them that can go in it, what make I there? I heare much of it, and when I would go in it, I want eyes and feet to bring me thither, and am driuen to &s;ay, That God which giueth eyes to the blind, and walkes to the lame, had neede giue me more then Hi&s;tories haue in them, or els I &s;hal neuer be that I would be in one Art or other. Then &s;eeing Hi&s;tories breed onely de&s;ires and wi&s;hes and expectations in the hearts of &s;tudents &amp; no|thing but affections, &s;eeing they neuer create any habit or perfection in them: I omit the verball and talkatiue v&s;es of hi&s;tories, which other men &s;tand vpon, and con|ceiue in my mind this <HI>Idaea</HI> of one that would be a man of men, as God is named the Lord of Lords.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="supposition">
<HEAD>The &s;econd Suppo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_A Man that is borne of healthful and &s;trong pa|rents, that are vnder thirtie years and aboue twentie, is commonly in good health, and of great &s;trength: for &s;ound timber mu&s;t needes make a &s;trong building, if adui&s;ed workemen haue the framing of it.</P>
<P>He that is brought vp in all kindes of labour from his childhood will indure any paines in his manhood: for cu&s;tome is a &s;econd nature, as tho&s;e armes of an oke or other tree, are &s;tronge&s;t ordinarily which are toward the North.</P>
<P>A man will not feed aboundantly for plea&s;ure, but nece&s;&s;arily for health: for he hath &s;eene, that a body nei|ther full nor empty is &s;eldome or neuer di&s;tempered and &s;icke.</P>
<P><PB N="104" REF="55" MS="y">He will not be idle at any time, but either &s;tudying, or practi&s;ing great and &s;mall matters for him&s;elfe and his friendes continually: for the more good we thinke and do, the neerer we are to God almightie.</P>
<P>A man wil not reiect the &s;peech and face of any man on the earth, but he will onely haue v&s;e of them that are like him&s;elfe in di&s;po&s;ition and action: for the hatred of any man is hurtfull, and where all agree in one, there is happie&s;t &s;ucce&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>He doth not re&s;pect, how they liued and apparelled and emploied them&s;elues that are dead, but what good &s;oeuer he can do, he doth it with all his minde &amp; might, and neuer cea&s;eth from his work till it be fini&s;hed in the be&s;t maner: for commonly men may doe greater actes then they doe, if they mea&s;ure not them&s;elues by other men, &s;eeing he that trieth his owne parts mo&s;t, is euer mo&s;t glorious.</P>
<P>A man will be &s;kilfull in all thinges which prolong life or &s;horten it, that hee may pre&s;erue him&s;elfe and hys friends, and de&s;troy his and their enemies: for in death al Noble Acts are cut off, and the ouerthrow of contra|ries is the generation of concord, and multiplication of con&s;ent.</P>
<P>He will beleeue that he knoweth him&s;elf by triall, he hath an eye in his hand and heart that neuer &s;leepeth: for he that tru&s;teth other mens words and deeds with|out proofe of them, is carried euery way with euery fac|tion and fiction of the world.</P>
<P>A man will &s;o arme his body with moderate anti|dotes, that no poy&s;on &s;hall ea&s;ily ouercome him: for hee prouideth for the wor&s;t, and remembreth withall, that the be&s;t can &s;aue it &s;elfe.</P>
<P><PB N="105" REF="55" MS="y">He is prepared for all changes and chances that may come vpon him in this life, &amp; con&s;idereth rather what may happen vnto him then peru&s;e the fortunes of other men. Thus I haue written generally, but I may not tell my tale and idee particularly in euery poynt, till I be a few yeares elder.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="supposition">
<HEAD>The third Suppo&s;e.</HEAD>
<P>_TWo noblemen that partly by nature, and part|ly by art, could make their bodies indefatiga|ble for euery attempt and exploit agreed be|tweene them&s;elues to try, whether books of hi&s;torie, or deui&s;es of their own would make the more braue man. He that followed books, de&s;ired onely to be like the be&s;t Worthies of other ages: he that relyed vpon his owne deui&s;e was not content with the examples of bookes, but inuented the means to excel the be&s;t that euer was: the bookman putting his felicitie in imitation, came &s;hort of tho&s;e patterns, and yet was glad whe~ he came neere them: the deui&s;er &s;etting his mind on emulation, &s;earched the cau&s;es of auncient excellencies, and by ad|ding to the cau&s;es added to the effectes, and went be|yond them all in what ca&s;e he would. The bookman &s;aith, giue me the life of <HI>Alexander,</HI> the life of <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> the life of <HI>Sanderbeg,</HI> and then thinketh he hath gotten the &s;poyles of the Ea&s;t and We&s;t, and all patterns of glory that may be gotten: the deui&s;er &s;aith, let me &s;ee the cau|&s;es that made tho&s;e three men &s;o eminent aboue other men: &s;o I &s;hall perceiue a defect of the&s;e cau&s;es in Hi|&s;torians: then I mu&s;t &s;upply them, and excell tho&s;e
<PB N="106" REF="56" MS="y">
three in mine own per&s;on, or in ruling others: the mo&s;t od and &s;peciall acts that euer they did, may not onely be matched, &s;aith he, but al&s;o ouermatched wel enough, I beleeue, and to be plaine, I &s;ee nothing euen in <HI>Vli&s;|&s;es</HI> or <HI>Achilles,</HI> but it may be &s;een, I hope, in another, vn|le&s;&s;e the&s;e books will giue me leaue to trie, whether I may &s;urmount their Nobilities, I will be &s;o bold in rea&s;on as to &s;ay, that books were made to keep men vnder a certain height, and within a certain compa&s;&s;e, and to make men half the men that they might be, and as it were very woodcocks in compari&s;on of that they &s;hould proue, by trying all and tru&s;ting none, but which they find certainly, and experimentally true. Thus the bookman is a gallant man with an eare mark and chains of bondage about his necke, but the deui&s;er him|&s;elfe is a &s;oueraigne authour of manhood, hauing no cogni&s;ance of &s;ubiection about him be&s;ides the mortali|tie of his fle&s;h, which notwith&s;tanding he maketh in &s;ome &s;ort immortall, eyther in leauing the life therof in his &s;ucce&s;&s;ion, or in &s;pending the might of it in contem|platiue a&s;&s;aults and atchiuements: for &s;tudy &s;pendeth the outward man more then action. The Deui&s;er &s;aith, that men of chiefe&s;t note haue euer been of his mind: they haue not beleeued that old booki&s;h rule, <HI>Oporter di&s;centem credere,</HI> for then they had neuer been better then other mens &s;chollers, whereas by the meanes a|fore&s;aid they are become captaines in their kind: yet if they had neuer been borne I am &s;ure, &s;aith he, that I had been of this mind, <HI>Mundus e&s;t omnes libri,</HI> this rule is manly, <HI>Oporter di&s;centem dubitare,</HI> vnle&s;&s;e he will be deceiued, and runne on the head halfe his life time: in a word, it appeareth plainly, that many men which can|not
<PB N="107" REF="56" MS="y">
read in bookes v&s;e daily the &s;ame or better meanes to try out may&s;teries then the graunde&s;t bookmen: if my iudgement be an error, I would know, from what cau&s;e the fir&s;t Doctors had their Artes before bookes were made: the &s;worde makes not the warrior: no help is equall with the principall: nature is mightier then Art: the actor more worthy man then his &s;cribe.</P>
<P>Wherefore in re&s;pect of the premi&s;es, and &s;uch other con&s;iderations, I haue rather taken an E&s;&s;ay in our <HI>Brutan</HI> hi&s;tory, then made a Worke. If I be faultie in writing too much, I confe&s;&s;e I knowe no method of writing briefly: If I be blamed in writing too litle, I wil not deny, that the old <HI>Brutans</HI> de&s;erue a large Chro|nicle: if I haue kept in the mid&s;t of both, it agreeth mo&s;t with my de&s;ire. But why &s;hould I doubt of this or that? of friend or foe? Let euery one &s;peake and write freely, not licentiou&s;ly, in honour of his owne Countrey, that is, not again&s;t his kindred and him|&s;elfe, which are partes thereof. It is a dangerous po&s;ition to refu&s;e the off&s;pring of <HI>Brute,</HI> both in regard of all reuerend antiquities of hi&s;torie, and in re&s;pect of our owne Countreimen and neighbours, to whome I wi&s;he all concord and agreement among them&s;elues and again&s;t their enemies for euer.</P>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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