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<P>THE GREAT PLANTAGENET. <HI>OR</HI> A CONTINVED SVCCES|&s;ion of that Royall <HI>Name,</HI> from HENRY the Second, to our Sacred Soveraigne King CHARLES. <HI>BY GEO. BVCK,</HI> Gent.</P>
<Q><HI>Quod maximum et optimum e&s;se dicitur, oportet e&s;se unum.</HI> <BIBL><HI>Ex Ari&s;t. Top. lib.</HI> 7.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>Nicholas</HI> and <HI>Iohn Okes. Anno Domini</HI> 1635.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sir <HI>JOHN FINCH,</HI> Lord Chiefe <HI>Ju&s;tice</HI> of the <HI>Common-Pleas, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_AS You draw your <HI>Eye</HI> from the Title, I mu&s;t craue pardon to meet your <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> Expectati|on; and confe&s;&s;e, in the&s;e <HI>Pa|pers</HI> I have but practi&s;'d like a young Limbner, wipt away the <HI>du&s;t</HI> from &s;ome <HI>Antiquities,</HI> and by them drawne the&s;e propor|tions; which are done (too) but <HI>imagine lu&s;cae,</HI> and not to the full portraicture of that Imperi|all <HI>greatne&s;se:</HI> Nor haue I &s;train'd my Fancy in high &s;haddowes, for (in things of this Na|ture)
<PB REF="7">I would be <HI>indu&s;trious,</HI> not <HI>affected.</HI> There wants nothing in the <HI>Subiect</HI> to make an <HI>Hi&s;to|rian</HI> and a <HI>Poet.</HI> And had the&s;e <HI>Intentions</HI> met anabler <HI>Pen,</HI> they might (with &s;ome de&s;ert of Pardon) haue beene admitted the intermi&s;|&s;ion of your <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> more &s;erious Houres: I haue nothing to excu&s;e mee but my Zeale, which in the throng of tho&s;e that Honour and admire You, pre&s;&s;es thus neere the influence of your great Vertue, humbly pro&s;trating the&s;e poore indeavours, and the duty of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble and unfained honorer, <HI>George Buck.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To his noble Friend Mai&s;ter GEORGE BVCK upon his Po&euml;&s;ie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Noble Friend,</SALUTE></OPENER>
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<L><HI>THou need'&s;t no attributes unto thy</HI> Mu&s;e,</L>
<L><HI>He that &s;hall be thy</HI> Reader, <HI>and peru&s;e</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy learn'd Endeavours, mu&s;t with me confe&s;&s;e,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thy owne</HI> Pen <HI>doth be&s;t thy &s;elfe expre&s;&s;e:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thou art above the vulgar hight, or hate,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That thus, the Acts of</HI> Kings <HI>can vindicate.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>O. ROVRKE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To his honoured Friend <HI>George Buck</HI> on this his Revivall of the Royall-Name of the PLANTAGENETS.</HEAD>
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<L><HI>KIngs are above their Fates, and glorious live,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Though layd in Du&s;t, by the prerogative</HI></L>
<L><HI>They have o're</HI> Fame: <HI>but this Religious debt</HI></L>
<L><HI>Due to the Name of</HI> Great Plantagenet,</L>
<L><HI>So long uncancel'd lay, we did di&s;tru&s;t</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their Names would be more buried then their Du&s;t:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Till &s;ome rich</HI> Mercy <HI>thy learn'd</HI> Quill <HI>did wooe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To pay this Debt which none but it could doe.</HI></L>
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<L><HI>And now &s;o cleere di&s;charg'd, againe their Name</HI></L>
<L><HI>Is borne in Triumph on the wings of</HI> Fame,</L>
<L><HI>And to the deeds to which their life did climbe,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They now in Du&s;t have learn'd to conquer</HI> Time:</L>
<L><HI>For this their Royall gratitude returnes</HI></L>
<L><HI>To thee the</HI> Laurells <HI>which now crowne their Vrnes.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Who would not wi&s;h this Wreath his owne, which &s;prings</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ioyntly bequeath'd thee from &s;o many Kings?</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>Robert Codrington.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>To his de&s;erving Friend Mai&s;ter <HI>George Buc.</HI></HEAD>
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<L>GEorge, <HI>in thy deare name (methinkes) I apprehend,</HI></L>
<L><HI>That Virtue, which did &s;weare me fir&s;t thy friend;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And did not &s;till thy con&s;tant &s;oule retaine</HI></L>
<L><HI>That worth entire, I would e'n here re&s;traine</HI></L>
<L><HI>My</HI> Pen; <HI>for 'tis not as &s;ome may thinke (perchance</HI></L>
<L><HI>That knowes not thee) my doting Ignorance.</HI></L>
<L><HI>But &s;o much truth as tells me, He that can</HI></L>
<L><HI>But imitate thee, is a happy man:</HI></L>
<L><HI>And did the World but know thee halfe &s;o well</HI></L>
<L><HI>As I, it would be thought no flattery to tell,</HI></L>
<L><HI>How high and nobly,</HI> Wit <HI>and</HI> Judgement <HI>flowes</HI></L>
<L><HI>In thy cleare Soule, without vaine glorious &s;howes!</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let others boa&s;t how much their &s;portive wit</HI></L>
<L><HI>Doth plea&s;e this Madam, or with that commit,</HI></L>
<L><HI>When femall hands interrs their wither'd Bayes,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Thy Gene&s;t &s;hall grow greene, and crowne thy prai&s;e.</HI></L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Bradley.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Preface, or Argument of this POESIE.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_DAmaetas</HI> having long beene a Wood-man, and ob&s;erved the Natures and Properties of ma|ny Trees, apprehended &s;ome My&s;tery and peculiar matter in the <HI>Gene&s;t,</HI> more then hee could attaine to, and meeting with <HI>Silenus,</HI> a man of great Learning and Au|thority, (for hee was held a Prophet) expo|&s;eth to him his Conceit: <HI>Silenus</HI> by meanes of a late accident, was well able to in&s;truct and re|&s;olve him: For there had beene a complaint made lately to <HI>Apollo,</HI> again&s;t certaine unwor|thy fellowes, which pre&s;umptuou&s;ly tooke Garlands off his ancient Tree the <HI>Laurell.</HI> He forthwith calling the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> to Councell in <HI>He|licon,</HI> e&s;tabli&s;hed Ordinances for the due wea|ring of that, and all other Garlands: And be|cau&s;e the ancient Garlands were abu&s;ed and prophained with common and unworthy u&s;e, he made choyce of a new Tree, <HI>(viz.)</HI> the <HI>Ge|ne&s;t;</HI> and in&s;tituted Garlands thereof, giving them prerogatives above the re&s;t, and appro|priated them to one imperiall Family, &s;eated in
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Britania</HI> or <HI>Albion</HI> rather; <HI>vide Stanz.</HI> 13, and is ta|ken out of <HI>Or|pheus</HI> in his <HI>Argonaunt,</HI> where Ma&s;ter <HI>Camden</HI> rather readeth <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, then <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">. <HI>Albion,</HI> or <HI>Alba,</HI> rather then <HI>Pinaria.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Leuc&euml;&euml;&s;&s;a;</HI> with expre&s;&s;e defence, that none
<PB REF="9">el&s;e &s;hould weare them; that not all the Prin|ces of this Family &s;hould weare Garlands here|of: but &s;ome a <HI>Chappelet,</HI> and &s;ome onely a branch, or <HI>Plant;</HI> the compleate Garland re|&s;erved for his favorite
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Sub</HI> Daphnis <HI>quod nomen in hac Ecloga da|tus S.R.</HI> Caro|lo, <HI>&s;icut</HI> Julio Cae&s;ari <HI>olim in Ecloga</HI> 5. Virg. <HI>&agrave; Pa&s;toribus.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Daphnis.</HI> After <HI>Silenus</HI> declareth more particularly, who, and what the&s;e royall Worthies were.</P>
<P>Beginning with the great <HI>Henry,</HI> &s;onne of the Empre&s;&s;e <HI>Matilda,</HI> (the fir&s;t King of this I|land, &s;urnamed
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Plantagenet</HI> from <HI>Planta-Geni&s;tae,</HI> &s;o call'd (as &s;ome &s;ay) for wea|ring a &s;lip or &s;talk of broom in his cap or hat, who write that toward his latter days in penance &amp; contrition for his pa&s;t &s;ins, he undertook to goe to the Holy Sepul|cher, in the poore and de|&s;pi&s;ed habit of a Broome|man, and to &s;ignifie him|&s;elfe &s;o, bore a broom-&s;talk in his cap: as I have read of other Princes, who in great penitece &amp; humblenes for their &s;ins, &amp; for their better privacy &amp; &s;ecurity, have travail'd thither like Carpe~ters Joyners, &amp; other poore mechanicke Trade&s;men, wearing in the &s;ame kind &s;omebadge of the trade they &s;eemed to profe&s;&s;e. Others &s;ay, it was becau&s;e he &s;courged him&s;elfe with the &s;talks of broom, which grew upon the Plaines where once the holy City &s;tood: But I &s;hal expre&s;&s;e this occa&s;ion more amply in another place. He was al&s;o &s;urnamed <HI>Courtmantle.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Plantagenet</HI>) and &s;o deducing a Geneologie from him, through his Royall po|&s;terity, to our pre&s;ent Sacred Soveraigne <HI>Charles,</HI> his now Heire, whom hee Crowneth with this <HI>Polyanthine</HI> Garland, &amp;c. In who&s;e Sacred Per&s;on are joyntly met and coale&s;ced, the Royall bloods, Titles, and Intere&s;ts not onely of great <HI>Britaine,</HI> but al&s;o of <HI>France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland.</HI> For <HI>Scotland,</HI> the Crowne and Scep|ter thereof, <HI>(mi&s;&s;a per innumeros avos)</HI> all men acknowledge his ancient right therein. And his Maje&s;ties Title to <HI>Ireland,</HI> will be manife&s;t in the Genealogy herein deduced from the <HI>Great Plantagenet</HI> King <HI>Henry</HI> the &s;econd, the fir&s;t Engli&s;h Prince of
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Lyonell Planta</HI> Duke of <HI>Clarence,</HI> 3 Son of K. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. married <HI>Eliz.</HI> Daughter and Heire of <HI>Will. Mure-Burk.</HI> Earle of <HI>Vl|&s;ter,</HI> Lord of <HI>Conacht,</HI> from whom the Dukes of <HI>York</HI> are de&s;cended. <HI>Camden</HI> in <HI>Hiber.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Ireland,</HI> and from his
<PB REF="9">Heroicall po&s;terity, (as well <HI>Marches</HI> as others) who have beene continually &s;eized thereof un|till this day.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">His Maie|&s;ties Title to <HI>France,</HI> &s;ee it more at large in the Argu|ment.</NOTE> So likewi&s;e his title to the crowne of <HI>France,</HI> &s;heweth it &s;elfe cleerely, in the anci|ent po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of the&s;e royall <HI>Plantagenets</HI> here pre&s;ented. His Maje&s;ties Progenitors fir&s;t Dukes of <HI>Normandy,</HI> then of <HI>Aquitaine;</HI> Earles of <HI>Poictou,</HI> of <HI>Aniou,</HI> of <HI>Maine,</HI> of <HI>Touraine,</HI> and of <HI>Britaine;</HI> and after <HI>Angole&s;me,</HI> and la&s;tly Kings of all <HI>France,</HI> in the right of
<NOTE PLACE="marg">&dagger; <HI>Vide Iohn Froi&s;&s;ard Tom.</HI> 3.</NOTE> <HI>I&s;abell,</HI> or <HI>E|lizabeth,</HI> &s;ole Daughter, and Heire of <HI>Philip le bell,</HI> King of <HI>France,</HI> Mother of King <HI>Ed|ward</HI> the third, who made a mo&s;t renowned and happy entry upon that his Royall inheri|tance: And he, his great Heires were not one|ly Titular Lords, but al&s;o Actuall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of <HI>France</HI> many yeares; and yet to this day (in token of that ancient right) have &s;ei&s;in of a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>Ger&s;ey, Ger|ne&s;ey, Alder|ney, &amp;c.</HI> are parcels of <HI>Normandy,</HI> &amp; &s;o con&s;equent|ly of <HI>France;</HI> yet po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the King of <HI>England.</HI></NOTE> part of that Kingdome, notwith&s;tanding that counterfeit-heathni&s;h law <HI>Salica,</HI> maintained by al the power of <HI>France</HI> many ages again&s;t them.</P>
<P>His Maje&s;ties title and de&s;cent from the anci|ent Kings of <HI>Great Britaine,</HI> (and which is lea&s;t knowne) may thus readily be derived.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">His Maje|&s;ties Title fro~ the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Kings.</NOTE> The Welch Bardes, as al&s;o our be&s;t Heralds, Re|cord that
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(1) Ruffin.</NOTE> <HI>Rhe&s;e-ap-Gruffith</HI> (&s;urnamed <HI>Ar|gluid</HI>) Prince of <HI>South-Wales,</HI> about the yeare of our Lord 1196, (and i&s;&s;ued from <HI>Cadwallader,</HI> the la&s;t Briti&s;h King) had a Daughter named
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(2) Faire <HI>Iu|lian.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Gwenlhiam,</HI> married to
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(3) Edmund.</NOTE> <HI>Edneuet Vachan,</HI>
<PB REF="10">Lord of <HI>Bran&s;encle,</HI> and chiefe Ju&s;tice of <HI>Wales,</HI> and bare to him a &s;onne called
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(4) <HI>Gerion,</HI> or <HI>Jeronim.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Grono,</HI> this <HI>Grono</HI> had
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(5) Theodore.</NOTE> <HI>Tedor, Tedor</HI> had <HI>Grono, Grono</HI> had <HI>Tedor, Tedor</HI> had
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(6) Veridik.</NOTE> <HI>Meredith, Meredith</HI> had <HI>Owen;</HI> which <HI>Owen</HI> married <HI>Katherine,</HI> (Widdow of King <HI>Henry</HI> 5, and Daughter of the French King <HI>Charles</HI> the &s;ixt) by whom he had <HI>Edmond,</HI> created Earle of <HI>Richmont,</HI> by King <HI>Hen.</HI> 6. his Brother <HI>Vterine:</HI> And this <HI>Ed|mond</HI> was father of King <HI>Hen.</HI> 7, who was Fa|ther of Queene <HI>Margaret</HI> his Maje&s;ties great Grandmother.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, to fini&s;h his Maje&s;ties Titles to all tho&s;e Diadems mentioned in this <HI>Po&euml;&s;ie,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His Maje&s;ties title from the <HI>Saxon</HI> Kings.</NOTE> I have in&s;erted a Genealogie of the Saxon Kings, drawne from the fir&s;t uniter of the <HI>Heptarchy,</HI> and the Godfather of <HI>Anglia</HI> King <HI>Egbert,</HI> un|to <HI>Matilda</HI> the Empre&s;&s;e, Daughter and Heire of King <HI>Hen.</HI> 2. Ance&s;tour of all the Engli&s;h Kings untill this day, from whom this <HI>Po&euml;&s;ie</HI> is a continued Pedegree unto his Maje&s;ty, and his mo&s;t excellent Sonne, &amp;c.</P>
<P>But it may be objected, why I derive not his Title and Genealogie from &s;ome of the ancient Monarchs of this I&s;le <HI>Britons,</HI> or <HI>Saxons,</HI> or at the lea&s;t from K. <HI>William</HI> the Conqueror, I mu&s;t an&s;were, that to have cho&s;en any of the mo&s;t ancient Kings, I mu&s;t have looked &s;o farre backe as I &s;hould not onely have beene too te|dious, but al&s;o lo&s;t my &s;elfe in ob&s;cure wayes,
<PB REF="10">(as they know, which know what our ancient Stories bee. But as for <HI>William</HI> the Conquerour, there bee many rea&s;ons why I &s;hould not begin with him; (although I goe as neare him as his Sonnes Daughter) for fir&s;t he was a Ba&s;tard,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vide Lib.</HI> 5. <HI>Stephani Ca|domen&s;is de</HI> Gulielmo Conque&s;tore <HI>editum,</HI> An. Dom. 1603.</NOTE> and yet not that of the blood Royall of <HI>England</HI>) his chiefe Title to the Crowne, being but violence, and his Sword, as he confe&s;&s;ed with remor&s;e of con&s;cience, at his Death. Secondly, he was never po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of one halfe of <HI>Britaine;</HI> for hee had neither <HI>Scotland,</HI> nor <HI>Wales,</HI> and in <HI>Ireland</HI> not one foote. Fur|thermore <HI>Girard Du. Haillan,</HI> and other French Antiquaries according to their <HI>Salike</HI> Heraldry, &s;ay that his line ended in his Sonne King <HI>Hen.</HI> 1.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Philo&s;alicus.</NOTE> for all they hold as a Maxime <HI>(La famille &s;e co|tinu&egrave; es ma&s;les, et &s;e fini&s;t aux filles)</HI> and yet <HI>Du. Haillan</HI> (notwith&s;tanding or forgetting this) affirmeth in another place: that the race of the Kings of <HI>England,</HI> i&s;&s;ued out of the hou&s;e of <HI>Aniow, (viz.)</HI> from our great <HI>Henry,</HI> and his an|ce&s;tours, continueth untill this day; from whom there be many rea&s;ons on the other &s;ide, why I &s;hould deduce the Genealogies of our Kings pa&s;&s;ed,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Henry</HI> 2. the greate&s;t King, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> and of our pre&s;ent Soveraigne Lord King <HI>Charles:</HI> for this great <HI>Henry</HI> was not one|ly rightfull Heire and King of <HI>England,</HI> but al|&s;o the greate&s;t King (of whom there is any cre|dible Story extant) which hath beene in this I&s;le of <HI>Britaine,</HI> &s;ince the time of the Roman
<PB REF="11">Emperours, (who were reputed Lords of all the World) which thus I demon&s;trate briefly. He was King of <HI>England</HI> in the right of his Mo|ther <HI>Matilda,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">King <HI>Malcolm</HI> Knighted this King <HI>Henry</HI> 2. at 15. yeares of age. <HI>Neu|brig</HI> who wri|teth much in the honour of this K. <HI>Mal|colm, lib.</HI> 2. <HI>Cap.</HI> 20.</NOTE> the Empre&s;&s;e, Daughter and Heire to King <HI>Henry</HI> the fir&s;t by <HI>Matilda Bona,</HI> Daughter of King <HI>Malcolm Canmoir,</HI> and of <HI>Margaret</HI> his wife, who was the Daughter of <HI>Edward Exul,</HI> the <HI>Saxon</HI> Prince, the Sonne of <HI>Edmund Iron&s;ide,</HI> King of <HI>England, Anno Dom.</HI> 1016. This <HI>Edmund</HI> was Sonne and Heire to King <HI>Etheldred,</HI> who in ancient Charters is written <HI>Totius Britanniae Rex, (quod nota)</HI> be|cau&s;e an <HI>Anonymus</HI> in a little booke dedicated to King <HI>Iames,</HI> affirmeth that never any Prince was King of this whole I&s;le untill then; but hee is deceived; (for be&s;ides <HI>Con&s;tantius Chlorus</HI> and his Sonne our Country-man, <HI>Con&s;tantine</HI> the great, <HI>Con&s;tans, Aurelius Ambro&s;ius, Vter,</HI> and others; (which were Lords of all great <HI>Bri|taine</HI>) <HI>Edgar</HI> al&s;o, the Father of this King <HI>E|theldred,</HI> was ab&s;olute Monarch of this I&s;land, and &s;o pui&s;&s;ant in forces both by Land and Sea, as he was &s;urnamed the <HI>Great,</HI> and was &s;tyled <HI>Totius Albionis Ba&s;ileus, &amp; Anglici Orbis Ba&s;i|leus,</HI> (as <HI>G. Malmsburien&s;is &amp; Florentius Wigor|nien&s;is</HI> witne&s;&s;e:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Britaria</HI> ab adventu <HI>Saxo|num</HI> in in&s;u|lam appella|tur <HI>Anglica, Ioan. Salisb.</HI> in <HI>Policratico.</HI></NOTE> Whereupon (to note al&s;o by the way) &s;ome thinke that the word <HI>Anglia</HI> was &s;ometimes u&s;ed for the whole I&s;le, and which <HI>Ion Lidgate</HI> di&s;ertly a&s;&s;evereth in King <HI>Arthurs</HI> complaint, in the&s;e words: Great <HI>Bri|taine</HI>
<PB REF="11">now called <HI>England;</HI> and &s;o likewi&s;e doth <HI>Geoffry Chaucer</HI> in the <HI>Franklins</HI> tale, <HI>viz.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ranulfus Hi|geden</HI> in <HI>Poli|chronic.</HI></NOTE> in <HI>England,</HI> that <HI>Clepid</HI> was <HI>Britaine,</HI> and <HI>Ranul|phus Ce&s;tren&s;is,</HI> a graver Authour, peremptorily affirmeth, that King <HI>Egbert</HI> after his Conque&s;ts ordayned, and commanded that the <HI>Saxons</HI> and <HI>Iutes</HI> &s;hould be called <HI>Angles,</HI> and this <HI>Bri|taine</HI> &s;hould be called <HI>England;</HI> but I leave this to be di&s;cu&s;&s;ed by Antiquaries.</P>
<P>And to returne to the ancient <HI>Saxon</HI> Kings Progenitors of this <HI>Henry,</HI> and al&s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of the whole I&s;le, it is to be &s;hewed (for the better confirmation of that, which hath beene &s;aid again&s;t the opinion of the <HI>Anonymus</HI>) in diuers ancient Records, and Charters of Do|nations of the&s;e Kings to Mona&s;teries, and to Cathedrall Churches,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ex archiv is Ci&s;ce&s;tren&s;is Eccle&s;iae.</NOTE> and in other ancient Monuments in the&s;e &s;tyles:
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ephoca.</NOTE> <HI>Ego Athel&s;tanus Rex Anglorum Dominicae Incarnationis,</HI> DCCCCXXX. <HI>Regni ver&ograve; mihi gratis Commi&s;&s;i</HI> vj. <HI>Indictione</HI> iij.
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ephoca.</NOTE> <HI>Epacta</HI> xviij. <HI>Concurrente</HI> iiij. <HI>Nonis Men&s;is Aprilis</HI> iij. <HI>Lunae rotigerae va|gationis,</HI> i. <HI>per eju&s;dem omni-patrantis dextram totius Britanniae regium &s;olio &s;ublimatus, &amp;c. Ego Edmundus Rex Anglorum, caeterarumqu&egrave;gentium in circuitu per&s;i&s;tentium Gubernator &amp; Rector Anno Domini</HI> 945. <HI>Ego Edredus,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">King <HI>Edred</HI> was Uncle to <HI>Edgar Ingulf,</HI></NOTE> <HI>Rex terrenus &s;ub Imperiali potentia Regis &s;aeculorum, aeterniqu&egrave; Principis, magnae Britaniae, temporale gerens im|perium, &amp;c. Anno Domini</HI> 148. <HI>Ego Edgarus
<PB REF="12">totius Albionis Monarcha, &amp;c. An. Dom.</HI> 966. and in another; <HI>Ego Edgarus totius Albionis, fi|niti-morum&abque; regnum Ba&s;ileus, An. Domini</HI> 974. The&s;e three la&s;t &s;tyles hath <HI>Ingulfus</HI> Abbot of <HI>Croyland</HI> tran&s;cribed by him, from the Char|ters of the Mona&s;tery: and the other two be|fore going, are copied out of the Records of <HI>Chiche&s;ter</HI> Cathedrall Church, as al&s;o the&s;e three next following.</P>
<P><HI>Ego Eadwis Ba&s;ileon totius Albionis,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">If <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, <HI>&s;ub. Rex.</HI> This <HI>Edwis,</HI> or <HI>Edwin</HI> was elde&s;t Brother to the great K. <HI>Eadger. A&s;&s;er in Hi&s;to. de Ge&s;tis Eal|fridi.</HI></NOTE> <HI>&amp;c. Anno Domini</HI> Dcccc. Lvj. <HI>Imperij antem i.</HI> And in another place; <HI>Ego Edwin Rex gentium Albio|nis, &amp;c.</HI> And in the date of a Charter of Bi&s;hop <HI>Brighthelmus Anno &s;ecundo imperij Edwin toti|us Albionis In&s;ulae imperantis;</HI> there is al&s;o (in <HI>A&s;&s;er Meneuen&s;is</HI>) <HI>Aelured,</HI> or <HI>Aelfred</HI> a more ancient <HI>Saxon</HI> King then the&s;e written: <HI>Omni|um Britanium In&s;ulae Chri&s;tianorum Rector, An. Dom.</HI> 872.</P>
<P>And <HI>Edward</HI> (&s;urnamed <HI>Pius</HI> and <HI>Confe&s;&s;or</HI>) was from the yeare of our Lord 1050. King of this whole Ile, (if there be any credit to be gi|ven to our Stories) &amp; was &s;tyled <HI>Rex Albionis,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Io. Twinus in Albionicis.</NOTE> as <HI>Iohn Twin</HI> avoweth out of his Charters given to the Abby of <HI>Abington;</HI> and that &s;ame King <HI>Etheldred</HI> before cited, was &s;tyled in the Char|ters of <HI>Gla&s;tonbury, Etheldred Anglicae nationis, caeterarum&abque; gentium triniatim intra ambitum Britan. In&s;ulae degentium, &amp;c. Ba&s;ileus,</HI> and a|nother King in old in&s;cription <HI>Britinniae Anax;</HI>
<PB REF="12">and many &s;uch more which were too long to recite. And &s;ome Kings of the <HI>Norman</HI> race, (which is more rare) have beene &s;o &s;tyled: For the Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Bri&s;tow</HI> voucheth a Coine of King <HI>Iohn,</HI> wherein is &s;tamped <HI>Ioannes,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">In his Trea|ti&s;e about the Union.</NOTE> <HI>Rex Bri|tonum:</HI> But his Grand-child K. <HI>Edward</HI> 1. and af|ter him K. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vide</HI> Th. Wal|&s;ingham in K. <HI>Edw.</HI> 1. <HI>&amp;</HI> in <HI>Ed.</HI> 3.</NOTE> were greater Monarchs here then he. But this great <HI>Henry Plantagenets</HI> Em|pire extended beyond the bounds of the Brita|ni&s;h world; and his greatne&s;&s;e &s;o farre excee|ded all other Kings his Ance&s;tours, that hee was &s;tyled <HI>Maximus Britaniae Regum,</HI> as I will &s;hew by and by, and by good right,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. Prae&s;ul Carnoten&s;is in Policratico.</NOTE> for be&s;ides this his great <HI>Britaine</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> he was po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed of a great part of <HI>France</HI> by the&s;e Titles: Hee was Duke of <HI>Normandy,</HI> by right of Inhe|ritance from his Grandfather King <HI>Henry</HI> 1,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. e|rected <HI>Aqui|taine</HI> into a Princedome for his elde&s;t &s;onne <HI>Ed.</HI></NOTE> Duke of <HI>Normandy,</HI> &amp;c. He was Duke of <HI>Aqui|tain,</HI> (that is) <HI>Ga&s;coine,</HI> and <HI>Guien,</HI> (&s;ome|times a iKngdome) and Earle of <HI>Poictou</HI> by the marriage of Queene <HI>Elinor,</HI> Daughter and Heire of <HI>William</HI> Duke of <HI>Aquitaine,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jean de la Hay.</NOTE> and Earle of <HI>Poictou,</HI> (who&s;e wife <HI>Ieanne</HI> was daughter of <HI>David,</HI> King of <HI>Scots.</HI> He was Earle of <HI>Aniou,</HI> (Seminary of Kings) of <HI>Touraine</HI> and <HI>Maine,</HI> (his native Countrey) by right of inheritance from his Father <HI>Geoffry le Bel,</HI> Earle of them all: He &s;wayed in little <HI>Britaine,</HI> which authority he acquired partly by the Marriage of <HI>Con&s;t.</HI> daughter and heire of <HI>Conan,</HI> Earle of <HI>Brita.</HI>
<PB REF="13">with his third &s;onne <HI>Geoffry,</HI> Earle of <HI>Richmond,</HI> but chiefly by his Sword; as it appeareth by <HI>Gu.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lib.</HI> 11. <HI>Cap.</HI> 18.</NOTE> <HI>Neuburgen&s;is,</HI> who then lived, and thus writeth; <HI>Cum a potentioribus in Britania inferio|res premerentur, Regis Anglorum auxilium ex|petentes, ejus &s;e ditioni &s;pontan&egrave; &s;ubdiderunt, &amp;c. ip&s;o&s;&abque; potentes viribus &s;ubegit, &s;ic&abque; in brevi tot a Britania potitus e&s;t.</HI> He al&s;o conquered <HI>Auuergne.</HI> For <HI>Ireland,</HI> he twice invaded that kingdome, and by Armes &s;econded with Letters of fa|vour of his good Friend Pope <HI>Adrian,</HI> (an Eng|li&s;hman) hee brought the di&s;cording Princes there,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Girald Cambr. in Hibern. ex|pugnata, &amp; G. Canden.</NOTE> to &s;ubmit their differences and their Ti|tles to him, and &s;o obtained the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the I&s;le.</P>
<P>As for tho&s;e parts and parties in this our <HI>Great Britaine,</HI> viz. of <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> which did not acknowledge his Soveraignty) he reduced them in good time, to the ancient &s;ubjection and obedience which they owed to the Briti&s;h and Saxon Kings, his Progenitors. The Welch-men in their Stories acknowledge this; but for the other, (if any doubt be made) <HI>G. Neuburgen&s;is</HI> (<HI>veridicus Autor,</HI> as <HI>Polidore Virgill</HI> ob&s;erveth him) will thus &s;atisfie him, &s;peaking of this King <HI>Henry,</HI> and of <HI>David</HI> K. of <HI>Scots,</HI> his pri&s;oner, being then both at <HI>Yorke, Occurrit ei Rex Scotorum cum univer&s;is Regni no|bilibus, qui omnes in Eccle&s;ia beati&s;&s;imi Apo&s;tolo|rum Principis, Regi</HI> Angliae, <HI>tanquam principall
<PB REF="13">Domino hominum cum Ligeantia, (id e&s;t) &s;olem|ni cautione &s;tandi cum eo, &amp; pro eo contra omnes homines (Rege proprio praecipiente) fecerunt; ip|&s;e quoqu&egrave; Rex Scotorum coram univer&s;a multitu|dine nobilium utriu&s;qu&egrave; regni Regem Anglorem modis &s;olemnibus Dominum &s;uum, &s;e&abque; hominem &amp; fidelem eius declaravit, eiqu&egrave; tria praecipua regni &s;ui munimina (&s;cilic&egrave;t) Roke&s;burke, Ber|wick, &amp; Ca&s;tellum puellarum loco ob&s;idum tradi|dit, &amp;c.</HI> But <HI>Iohn Bi&s;hop</HI> of <HI>Chartres,</HI> maketh his Empire yet much greater,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo Bi&s;h. Car|noten&s;is in Po|licratico.</NOTE> for he boundeth it to the Southward with <HI>Spaine,</HI> and to the North|ward with the I&s;le of <HI>Orkney,</HI> and might as well (if it had plea&s;ed him) with the North-Pole (as <HI>Giraldus Cambren&s;is</HI> did) and then &s;tyleth him <HI>maximum</HI> Britaniae <HI>Regum,</HI> and goeth further, and compareth him to <HI>Alexander,</HI> and a&s;cri|beth (as &s;ome interpret) the fir&s;t di&s;covery of the <HI>We&s;t-Indies,</HI> (which was made by <HI>Madok</HI> a younger &s;onne of <HI>Owin Gwineth,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">D. Powell.</NOTE> Prince of <HI>North-Wales, An. Dom.</HI> 1170.) to this King, becau&s;e it was done by his au&s;pices: as we may as well al&s;o attribute to him the redeeming of our great <HI>Arthur</HI> from the injurious imputation of a fabulous <HI>Heros,</HI> becau&s;e he cau&s;ed his Mo|nument to be &s;ought out, (which was &s;unke deepe into the ground in the I&s;le of <HI>Aualon</HI>) by the occa&s;ion of a <HI>Bardes</HI> &s;ong,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>D. Powell</HI> in the Hi&s;t. of the Princes of <HI>Wales.</HI></NOTE> which he heard in <HI>Pembrooke:</HI> but I will &s;et downe <HI>Gyraldus</HI> his owne words, written in manner of a <HI>Panegy|rick,</HI>
<PB REF="14">to this King elegant enough for tho&s;e times:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sil. Giraldus in Tepographia Hiberniae, Cap.</HI> 47. <HI>&amp;</HI> 48. <HI>di|&s;tinct.</HI> 3.</NOTE> <HI>Certant cum orbe terrarum victoriae ve|&s;trae; &agrave;</HI> Pyrenaeis <HI>enim montibus u&s;&abque; in occiduos, &amp; extremos Borealis Oceani fines</HI> Alexander <HI>no&s;ter occidentalis brachium extendi&s;ti. Quan|tum igitur his in partibus natura terras, tantum &amp; victorias extuli&s;ti, &s;i excur&s;uum tuorum metae quaerantur, prius deerit Orbis qu&agrave;m aderit finis. Animo&s;o enim pectori ce&s;&s;are po&s;&s;unt terrae, ce&s;&s;are ne&s;ciunt victoriae, non dee&s;&s;&s;e poterunt triumphi, &s;ed materia triumphandi. Qualiter titulis ve&s;tris &amp; triumphis Hibernicus acce&s;&s;erit Orbis? Quan|t&acirc; &amp; qu&agrave;m laudabili virtute Oceani &s;ecreta, &amp; oc|culta Naturae depo&s;ita tran&s;penetraveris, &amp;c. Qualiter fulguranti adventus ve&s;tri lumine atto|niti occidentales reguli tanquam ad lucubrum a|viculae ad ve&s;trum &s;tatim imperiu~ couvolaverunt.</HI> And much more,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jo. Salisbur. in Policratico. lib.</HI> 8. <HI>cap.</HI> 24.</NOTE> which for brevity I omit: That which the Bi&s;hop of <HI>Chartres</HI> writeth of him before mentioned, and promi&s;ed, is this; <HI>Rex illu&s;tris Anglorum</HI> Hen. <HI>&s;ecundus Regum</HI> Brita|niae <HI>maximus, &amp;c. circa Garumnam fulminat, &amp; Tolo&s;am faelici (cingens ob&s;idione, non modo pro|vinciales, u&s;qu&egrave; ad</HI> Rhodanum, <HI>&amp;</HI> Alpes <HI>terri|tat, &s;ed munitionibus dirutis populi&s;qu&egrave;</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Profligatis.</NOTE> <HI>&s;ubactis, (qua&s;i univer&s;is prae&s;ens immineat) timore Prin|cipes concu&s;&s;it Hi&s;panos &amp; Gallos.</HI> And to the&s;e adde onely <HI>William Neuburoughs</HI> Elogie for a Corollary.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>G. Neubourgh Lib.</HI> 11.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>Regis &s;upra omnes, qui unquam hactenus in
<PB REF="14">Anglia regna&s;&s;e no&s;cebantur, latius dominantis, (hoc e&s;t) ab ultimis Scotiae finibus ad montes u&s;&abque; Pyrenaeos, nomen in cunctis Regionibus celebre ha|bebatur, &amp;c. hunc finem habuit inclytus ille Rex</HI> Henricus 2. <HI>inter Reges terrarum nominati&s;&s;i|mus, &amp; nulli eorum, vel amplitudine opum, vel faelicitate &s;ucce&s;&s;uum &s;ecundus.</HI> Thus much for the te&s;timony of the greatne&s;&s;e of his con|que&s;ts, and of his Empire: as for his other great|ne&s;&s;e, his Wi&s;edome, Ju&s;tice, Magnanimity, Bounty, and other Heroicall Vertues, I &s;hall not neede to produce any proofe; for his wi&s;e and politicke admini&s;tration of his great af|faires and e&s;tate, his Victories and high at|chivements &s;ecretly intimate them at the full.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gyral. Cambr.</NOTE> He was al&s;o well learned, as <HI>Giraldus</HI> affirmeth, and which was his be&s;t prai&s;e, hee was ve|ry charitable and pious <HI>(incomparabilis Ele&euml;mo|&s;ynarum largitor, et praecipuus terrae Pale&s;tinae &s;u&s;tentator)</HI> And <HI>Radulph de Diceto</HI> writeth, that in the time of an extreame dearth in <HI>Aniou</HI> and <HI>Maine,</HI> hee relieved with bread,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>An. Domini</HI> 1176.</NOTE> tenne thou&s;and people dayly, from Aprill till har|ve&s;t: And <HI>William</HI> of <HI>Newburrough</HI> addeth, that hee received with great devotion the Cha|racter of the &s;acred <HI>Militia</HI> for the recovery of the holy land. And afterward (becau&s;e he was not able to goe by rea&s;on of infirmities, and for the great dangers wherein his e&s;tate &s;hould &s;tand in his ab&s;ence, which <HI>Giraldus</HI>
<PB REF="15">&s;heweth, he gave towards the expedition the &s;umme of 47.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jo. Stoan an|nal.</NOTE> M. l. or thereabouts. <HI>Iean de la Hay</HI> al&s;o writeth that hee built S. <HI>Andrewes</HI> in <HI>Bourdeaux,</HI> and St. <HI>Peters</HI> in <HI>Poitiers,</HI> and foun|ded a Bi&s;hops &s;ea there, and enlarged the Towne by the one halfe;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fabian.</NOTE> he reedified the Ab|by at <HI>Waltham</HI> in <HI>E&s;&s;ex,</HI> and the Charter hou&s;e of <HI>Witham</HI> in <HI>Wilt&s;hire;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">He loved hun|ting and haw|king excee|dingly. <HI>Giral.</HI> he fir&s;t kept Lyons &amp; made of the armes of <HI>Normandy viz.</HI> the 2 Leopards, and of the &s;ingle Lyon of A|quitaine one Coat of armes for England: as it is yet borne: <HI>Nic. &V;pton. John Carnoten: Lib.</HI> 16. <HI>Cap.</HI> 18.</NOTE> hee repaired and much beautified the Mona&s;tery of <HI>Font Everard</HI> (or <HI>Fronteaux</HI>) neare <HI>Ogle</HI> in <HI>Normandy</HI> and foun|ded the Priories of <HI>Staneley,</HI> and of <HI>Dover:</HI> Hee al&s;o beganne the &s;tone worke of London bridge, which was fini&s;hed by his &s;onne King <HI>Iohn,</HI> (or cau&s;ed to bee fini&s;hed) for it is all one to a common wealth; and hee in&s;tituted the circuit of the judges, and not to bee tedious in the enumeration of &s;uch particulars, in a word, he was as <HI>Iohn Carnoten&s;is</HI> who knew him well: te&s;tifieth, <HI>Rex optimus apud Britanias, Norma|norum et Aquitanorum Dux faelicis&s;imus, et primus tam amplitudine rerum, quam &s;plendore virtutum, quam &s;trenuus quam magnificus, quam prudens, et mode&s;tus quam pius ab ip&s;a, (ut ita dicam) infantia fuerit, nec ip&s;e livor &s;ilere, nec dis&s;imulare pote&s;t: cum oper a recentia, et manife&s;ta &s;int, &amp;c.</HI> And after the&s;e his great workes, his high Atchievements, his victories, Trophees of his Heroicall and Chri&s;tian vertues, a long and happy Raigne, he departed at <HI>Chinon</HI> in <HI>Tou|raine,</HI> the 35 yeare of his raigne, and the 61
<PB REF="15">yeare of his age, An. Dom. 1189. and was with all due funeral Enterred at <HI>Fronteuaux,</HI> and upon his Tombe had this in&s;cription ingraven.</P>
<Q><L>Sufficit hic tumulus cui non &s;uffecerat orbis,</L>
<L>Res brevis ampla &s;atis, cui fuit ampla brevis.</L>
<L>Rex invictus eram, mihi plurima regna &s;ubegi,</L>
<L>Multiplici&abque; modo dux&abque;, come&s;&abque; fui.</L>
<L>Cui &s;atis ad votum fuerant haud omnia terra</L>
<L>Climata, terra modo &s;ufficit octo pedum.</L>
<L>Qui legis haec, pen&s;a di&s;crimina mortis, et in me</L>
<L>Humanae &s;peculum conditionis habe;</L>
<L>Quod potes in&s;tanter operare bonum, quia mundus</L>
<L>Tran&s;it, &amp; incautos Mors inopinarapit.</L></Q>
<P>Thus this great <HI>Henry</HI> left his great name, and his glory to the world, and his Kingdomes and his Dominions to his po&s;terity, the Princes aranged in this following <HI>Poe&s;y.</HI></P>
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<PB REF="16">
<P>AN ECLOG BETWEENE DAMAETAS a Woodman, and SILENUS a Prophet of the <HI>Shepheards.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Written by</HI> Geo. Buck <HI>Gent.</HI></P>
<P>Publi&s;hed by Authority.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed by <HI>Nicholas</HI> and <HI>Io. Okes. Anno Dom.</HI> 1635.</P>
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<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="eclogue">
<PB REF="17">
<PB REF="17">
<HEAD>AN ECLOG BETWEENE DAMAETAS and SILENVS.</HEAD>
<LG>
<HEAD>STANZ. 1.</HEAD>
<L>_OF all the Trees in heavenly <HI>Silvans</HI> guard,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The ancient wi&s;e men of <HI>Britaine</HI> were called <HI>Bardi, Diodor. Sic.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>(Wherewith the worthie&s;t browes were crown'd of yore)</L>
<L>There is but one, or few, (oh reverend Barde)</L>
<L>In who&s;e peculiar Vertues my de&s;ire</L>
<L>Hath &s;tudied much, and ob&s;erved more:</L>
<L>But chiefly I the <HI>Gene&s;t</HI> doe admire,</L>
<L>Who&s;e humble Highne&s;&s;e makes mee oft &s;ur|mi&s;e</L>
<L>That lowly &s;teps be ladders to the Skies.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Humilitas &s;ca|la coeli, Ber|nard.</NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Her gentle nature doth not climbe to dwell</L>
<L>In proude&s;t &s;oile, nor tops of mountaines hie,</L>
<L>By that &s;hee &s;hews, that &s;hee fore-&s;eeth well</L>
<L>The perills which doe all extreames impend:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Flexit Pinum ferox a&s;tris minantem, &amp; de nube media vocat: Seneca.</NOTE></L>
<L>Th'a&s;piring Pine (who&s;e top dos threat the sky)</L>
<L>Divine revenge doth headlong oft downe &s;end,</L>
<L>When this is &s;afe upon her humble hill,</L>
<L>Not thrall to any proud &s;uperiours will.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="18">
<LG>
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>The Cedars tremble when th'enrag'd winds blow,</L>
<L>Which &s;hake not her: &s;uch peace &amp; &s;afety lies</L>
<L>In &s;weet <HI>Humility:</HI> yet &s;he will gently bowe</L>
<L>To pliant hands, which &s;hews &s;ome hid effects</L>
<L>And parts of man,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Genuum dolo|ribus medetur; hinc Geni&s;ta dicta</HI> Fuch&s;ius.</NOTE> that duty onely ties</L>
<L>To bow to Kings, and pay their due re&s;pects.</L>
<L>Oh ju&s;t De&s;erts, who can &s;o well de&s;erve</L>
<L>For to command, as one that knowes to &s;erve.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Be&s;ides, the <HI>Gene&s;t</HI> doth by nature hold</L>
<L>A &s;peciall honour of eternall Greene:</L>
<L>Her verdant boughs being charg'd with flowers of gold,</L>
<L>And many &s;ecret gifts and graces more,</L>
<L>Which vulgar ob&s;ervation hath not feene,</L>
<L>In which your skill and knowledge I emplore;</L>
<L>And what tho&s;e flowers be, the God of light</L>
<L>Hath made a Wreath of for his Favorite.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="18">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Silenus.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>What I doe know I will impart to thee,</L>
<L>And happily perhaps, thou ha&s;t referr'd</L>
<L>The &s;atisfaction of thy thoughts to me:</L>
<L>For why, this thing was argued long agone</L>
<L>In <HI>Helicon,</HI> and I my &s;elfe it heard,</L>
<L>Where <HI>Phaebus'</HI> mid'&s;t the Mu&s;es on his throne</L>
<L>E&s;tabli&s;h'd by tho&s;e &s;acred maids advice,</L>
<L>What Garlands &s;hould bee each atchievments price.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>The que&s;tion grew becau&s;e <HI>Apollo,</HI> he</L>
<L>Preferr'd complaint again&s;t &s;uch as pre&s;um'd</L>
<L>To weare a
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The <HI>Italian, French,</HI> and <HI>Spaniard</HI> write the fir&s;t &s;illable of garland with an I. &amp; that is neere&s;t to the Ety|mologie of <HI>Guir</HI> and <HI>Da|len i.</HI> greene leaves in <HI>Bri|ti&s;h.</HI></NOTE> garland of his holy tree,</L>
<L>Without de&s;ert, or &s;pecial grace divine:</L>
<L><HI>Apollo</HI> was much mov'd, and chaft and fum'd,</L>
<L>And &s;o did call a councell with the Nine,</L>
<L>And when he had a leafe of Laurell eat,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Hinc vates <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> olim dicti Ly|cophro~ ap. Cae|lium Rodig.</NOTE></L>
<L>With <HI>Delphick</HI> browes thus did his mind-re|peat.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="19">
<LG>
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>The Lawrell crowne was given and &s;hal be &s;till</L>
<L>To peerles men, to Clerkes and Emperours,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Lawrell garl. <HI>Plin.</HI> L. 15</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;uch as by their learned Art, and skill,</L>
<L>Could of my favours make their vants at large:</L>
<L>And then this long induring Palme of yours</L>
<L>Was due my &s;i&s;ters (and my &s;acred charge)</L>
<L>To &s;uch as worthily to gaine the price,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Palme garl. <HI>A. Gell.</HI> Lib. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Had &s;uffer'd watching, famine, fire and Ice.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L>And he which had with valiant hand pre&s;erv'd</L>
<L>A Citizen, receiv'd a crowne of Oke:</L>
<L>But he a wreath of Olive leaves de&s;erv'd
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Oken garl. <HI>Gell.</HI> Lib. 5. The Olive garl. <HI>Gell. et Textor.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who had with Art, and pleas of peace beguiled</L>
<L>The bitter times, which di&s;cord had fore&s;poke,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e &s;ome dangerous foe had reconciled:</L>
<L>And hee who long had flam'd in true loves fire,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Myrtle garl. <HI>Virgill et Ovid</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Receiv'd a crowne of Myrtle for his hire.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="19">
<LG>
<HEAD>9.</HEAD>
<L>I meane who&s;e amorous flame is fed by grace</L>
<L>And love of her, who doth his love per&s;ever:</L>
<L>He who&s;e firme vowes &amp; &s;ervice takes no place</L>
<L>Where he affects, mu&s;t bitter Willow weare:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Willowe garland au|thorized by Homer and Virgill: Ho|mer ealleth this tree <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">, <HI>i. Frugi perdam Ody&s;&s;. and Virg.</HI> placeth the forlorne lovers <HI>Inter &s;alices</HI> Eclog 10. The gra&s;&s;e garland <HI>Plin.</HI> Lib. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>For as that Tree by buds doth promi&s;e ever</L>
<L>A hope of fruit; yet fruit doth never beare,</L>
<L>So vaine and fruitles is his hope &amp; love</L>
<L>Who an incon&s;tant womans faith doth prove.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>10.</HEAD>
<L>Of all, the mo&s;t authentick is of Gra&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>For that before I had my Bayes was vs'd;</L>
<L>And with tho&s;e words his colour altred was:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Daphne ver&s;a in laurum: O vid. Met.</HI> and hereupon <HI>Lucian</HI> &s;aith <HI>Apollo</HI> was in|fortunate. <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF">.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whil&s;t a deepe &s;igh expre&s;t his agonie,</L>
<L>So much his guilty con&s;cience him accus'd,</L>
<L>Who&s;e rape to fly a maide was made a tree:</L>
<L>And &s;o his amorous pa&s;&s;ion did prevaile,</L>
<L>That he had much adoe to end his tale.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="20">
<LG>
<HEAD>11.</HEAD>
<L>A&s;ham'd to pau&s;e &s;o? then he &s;hak'd his tre&s;&s;es</L>
<L>And at the length collects his fires divine,</L>
<L>Yet vents on &s;igh more, e're hee more expre&s;&s;es</L>
<L>The ghirland of the gra&s;&s;e did &s;erve (quoth he)</L>
<L>For &s;ome &s;uch politicke,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The Cypre&s;&s;e Garl. <HI>Apud Plin. Li.</HI> 16.</NOTE> or <HI>Paladine,</HI></L>
<L>Who froma &s;iege &s;hould &s;et a City free.</L>
<L>And then the hood of <HI>Cypre&s;&s;e</HI> leaves was worne</L>
<L>Of &s;uch as had (as I have) cau&s;e to mourne.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>12.</HEAD>
<L>For &s;afe convoy is borne the <HI>Vervaine</HI> wreath</L>
<L>Of <HI>Faecialls</HI> and <HI>Mars</HI> his Oratours.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Vervaine Garl. Virg. Plin. Ivy garland, Plin. li.</HI> 16. The Garl. of <HI>Lylies, Ro&s;es</HI> and <HI>Thi&s;tles. De his vide Pierium in hy|eroglyphic:</HI> The <HI>Pine</HI> gar. <HI>Propertius Lib. Eleg.</HI> 1.</NOTE></L>
<L>To <HI>Tui&s;cons</HI> race the Ivy we bequeath,</L>
<L><HI>Lillyes, Chardons</HI> and &s;weets of <HI>Erycine,</HI></L>
<L>Of &s;everall Empires be the &s;ignall flowers,</L>
<L>Symbols of beauty, power and grace divine;</L>
<L>The Pine is <HI>Pans,</HI> and he to <HI>Herds</HI> gives that</L>
<L>Which tune an <HI>Oate</HI> and make their cattle fat.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="20">
<LG>
<HEAD>13.</HEAD>
<L>But there's an I&s;land <HI>Luc&euml;&euml;&s;&s;a</HI> call'd,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Orpheus</HI> calls <HI>Britaine</HI> <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> <HI>in Argo|nautic.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Within who&s;e fertile bounds there growes a Tree,</L>
<L>Who&s;e boughes be all of carved <HI>Emerald,</HI></L>
<L>Her flowers far more golden then my beames,</L>
<L>For her abode &s;hee li&s;teth not to be</L>
<L>Where &s;he mu&s;t &s;uffer heat, or colds extreams,</L>
<L>To whom the Bee (of homages mo&s;t true)</L>
<L>Comes oft to yeeld his &s;uit and &s;ervice due.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>14.</HEAD>
<L>Now thou faire <HI>Gene&s;t</HI> art my deare&s;t Tree;</L>
<L>Thy Garlands now of all &s;hall be mo&s;t rare:</L>
<L>None &s;hall pre&s;ume to weare a branch of thee~,</L>
<L>Or with thy &s;acred wreaths begirt their browe,</L>
<L>But &s;uch as of immortall linage are,</L>
<L>And more then earthly favours doe endowe.</L>
<L>So crown'd by thee, their names &s;hal never die,</L>
<L>But fixe them Comets in bright <HI>Honours</HI> skie.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="21">
<LG>
<HEAD>15.</HEAD>
<L>And let your hallowing hands adorne this Crowne,</L>
<L>Which I have de&s;tin'd onely unto <HI>one,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The <HI>Gene&s;t</HI> Garland.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;uch an <HI>one,</HI> as <HI>Merite</HI> and <HI>Renowne,</HI></L>
<L>Hath recommended to the &s;upreame good:</L>
<L>Who for his <HI>Vertues</HI> doth de&s;erve alone</L>
<L>To weare a Wreath of all &s;weets in the wood;</L>
<L>Who&s;e <HI>Vertues</HI> Chri&s;tian and Heroicall</L>
<L>Crownes him the greate&s;t and the be&s;t of all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>16.</HEAD>
<L>To him his neighbour Potentates &s;hall bend,</L>
<L>The Poplare Princes &s;hall his va&s;&s;als be:</L>
<L><HI>Affricke</HI> and <HI>Inde</HI> to him &s;hall Pre&s;ents fend:</L>
<L>The <HI>Turke</HI> &s;hall &s;heath his raging <HI>Semiter,</HI></L>
<L>And pro&s;trate &s;toope unto his Amity:</L>
<L>E&s;teeming them the happie&s;t, which preferre</L>
<L>A League with him, &amp; &s;o his name grow great,</L>
<L>As farre as <HI>Neptunes</HI> wand'ring &s;urges beat.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="21">
<LG>
<HEAD>17.</HEAD>
<L>Thus &s;aid the King, the <HI>Prophet</HI> and the <HI>God,</HI></L>
<L>To which (with adoration) thrice he bow'd,</L>
<L>And &s;o he made his parting period:</L>
<L>When with prophetick hymnes <HI>Parna&s;&s;us</HI> rings,</L>
<L>And Altars &s;moakd with many holy cloud:</L>
<L>But that thou mai&s;t the better note tho&s;e things,</L>
<L>I will declare what all tho&s;e <HI>Worthies</HI> be,</L>
<L>Which have worn branches of this <HI>gentle</HI>
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Gentle hath divers &s;ignifi|cations, &s;ome|times it &s;igni|fieth <HI>&s;upremo gradu de per|fectione per na|tura, per co&s;tu|mi &amp; per va|lor, &amp;c.</HI> Ru&s;|&s;ell 1. &s;ome|time it &s;igni|fieth of, or be|longing to the &s;ame &s;tocke, or nation, as <HI>gentilis Clype|us, gentile &s;a|crum, &amp; gen|tile huemo</HI> in <HI>Italian:</HI> and as it is u&s;ed here, &s;ome|time it beto|keneth <HI>milde,</HI> or <HI>pliant.</HI></NOTE> <HI>tree.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>18.</HEAD>
<L>You &s;ee <HI>Damaetas,</HI> that the Gods decree</L>
<L>Admits but one to wear the compleat ghirland,</L>
<L>But &s;ome who&s;e fame hath &s;cal'd a high degree,</L>
<L>May weare a branch, and &s;ome a Chappelet.</L>
<L>Th' empre&s;&s;e <HI>Matildas</HI> &s;on who conquerd <HI>Irela~d</HI></L>
<L>The greate&s;t <HI>Britaine</HI> King which hath bin yet,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Henry.</HI> 2. <HI>Vide</HI> Preface.</NOTE></L>
<L>Mu&s;t by good right, lead the triumphant band</L>
<L>Of the great Royall worthies of this land.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="22">
<LG>
<HEAD>19.</HEAD>
<L>A Prince form'd of the true materiall mould,</L>
<L>He was as valorous as politicke,</L>
<L>Hee could well win, and what he wan could hold;</L>
<L>And fortune followes &s;uch men in their traine;</L>
<L><NOTE N="(1)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Normandy,</HI> not <HI>Neu&s;tria, Pithaeus.</HI></NOTE> <HI>We&s;tria</HI> was his, he rul'd in
<NOTE N="(2)" PLACE="marg">Little <HI>Bri|taine.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Armoricke,</HI></L>
<L>And raignd in <HI>Albion</HI> and <HI>Aquitaine,</HI></L>
<L>In briefe a Sov'raigne he did raigne and rule</L>
<L>From <HI>Pyraene Mount ains</HI> to the frozen
<NOTE N="(3)" PLACE="marg"><HI>Terrarum ultima Thule, Seneca,</HI> I&s;land or <HI>Thy-leu&s;ell,</HI> that is, <HI>Shet|land, &s;ecundum Ga&s;p. Peuce|rum apud G. Camdenum.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Thule.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>20.</HEAD>
<L>His glorious enfigne next he doth di&s;play</L>
<L>Who&s;e valiant zeale, and Chivalry divine.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Richard</HI> 1. &s;urnamed <HI>Cae|ur de Lyon,</HI> married <HI>Be|rengaria,</HI> daughter of <HI>Garcia,</HI> King of <HI>Navarre.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Made in the <HI>Pagan</HI> Kingdomes &s;uch a way,</L>
<L>As all the Chri&s;tian Ho&s;ts might enter in:</L>
<L>He tooke <HI>Acon,</HI> and <HI>Ioppa</HI> in <HI>Pale&s;tine,</HI></L>
<L>And did be&s;ides the Realme of <HI>Cyprus</HI> win;</L>
<L>He ward with Men, and &s;lew the <HI>Au&s;triak</HI> Lyon</L>
<L>Then made a peace with God, and went to <HI>Syon.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="22">
<LG>
<HEAD>21.</HEAD>
<L>Next rides King <HI>Iohn,</HI> to whom &s;tout <HI>Calidoun</HI></L>
<L>Tooke &s;olemne oath to be a true Leig-man</L>
<L>To him the King, and the heires of his Crown,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Iohn</HI> bro|ther to Rich. 1 &s;urnamed <HI>Sans terrae.</HI> He got <HI>Angole&s;me</HI> by marrying with <HI>I&s;abell,</HI> daughter and heire of <HI>Al|mery,</HI> Earle of <HI>Angole&s;me,</HI> and the I&s;le of <HI>Man</HI> by conque&s;t. <HI>Walter Buck</HI> brought 700 men out of <HI>Brabant,</HI> wan <HI>Ely</HI> &amp; divers Ca&s;tles for this K. <HI>Iohn: Vide Camdenu~ in Occadini, et Holin&s;h.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>And by his au&s;pices the <HI>Brabant</HI> Knight</L>
<L>From Rebell Lords their <HI>I&s;le</HI> of refuge wan.</L>
<L>By him great <HI>Tham&s;is</HI> bridge &s;o exqui&s;ite,</L>
<L>Which lay in wooden modells, was begun,</L>
<L>A braver worke in <HI>Europ</HI> ne're was done.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>22.</HEAD>
<L>Then comes his Sonne with other Architects,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hen.</HI> 3. &s;urna|med <HI>Winche|&s;ter,</HI> maried <HI>Elianor</HI> daughter of <HI>Raymond,</HI> Ear. of <HI>Provence.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>(Not to build <HI>Babells,</HI> and Ca&s;tles in the Aire)</L>
<L>But he a holy hou&s;e for God projects,</L>
<L>The which he doth at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> performe:</L>
<L>A Temple high, magnificent, and faire,</L>
<L>A glorious pile for &s;acred u&s;e and forme,</L>
<L>And &s;hall remaine to all po&s;terity,</L>
<L>The hallow'd Monument of his Piety.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="23">
<LG>
<HEAD>23.</HEAD>
<L>Now adde the formo&s;t two which bore his name,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Edward</HI> 1. &s;urnamed <HI>Long&s;hank,</HI> married fir&s;t <HI>Elianor</HI> daugh|ter of the K. of <HI>Ca&s;tile:</HI> &s;he was heire of <HI>Ponthieu,</HI> and Mother of K. <HI>Edward</HI> 2. by his &s;econd Wife <HI>Marga|ret,</HI> Da. of the <HI>French</HI> K. He had <HI>Tho.</HI> of <HI>Brotherton,</HI> from whom by <HI>Segrave</HI> &amp; <HI>Moubray</HI> the Howards are de&s;cended.</NOTE></L>
<L>(Who of the Saint di&s;guis'd a Ring received)</L>
<L>To th'one &s;ome give a Hammer, for &s;urname,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he bruis'd <HI>Gaiothell</HI> in his rage,</L>
<L>And him of <HI>Iacobs</HI> Stone and Chaire bereaved:</L>
<L>But <HI>Iacob</HI> repo&s;&s;e&s;&s;'d them (by prae&s;age.)</L>
<L>The other <HI>Edward</HI> the <HI>Templars</HI> did expell,</L>
<L>Of whom I can no more &s;ay, to &s;ay well.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>24.</HEAD>
<L>Behold him next who in his doome &s;upreme,</L>
<L><HI>Pouuoire</HI> above an <HI>E&s;tre</HI> did advance:</L>
<L>For he was offered <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> Diadem,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">(2) <HI>Vide Tho. Wal&s;ingham</HI> in <HI>Ed.</HI> 1. K. <HI>Ed.</HI> 2. &s;urnamed of <HI>Carmarvon,</HI> married <HI>I&s;a|bell,</HI> daughter and heire of <HI>Phil. le Bel,</HI> K. of <HI>France.</HI> K. <HI>Edw.</HI> 3. &s;urnamed <HI>de Winde&s;ore,</HI> married <HI>Philip,</HI> daughter of <HI>William,</HI> Earle of <HI>Henalt, &amp;c.</HI> He tooke <HI>Calais,</HI> and wan many victories of the <HI>French:</HI> as at <HI>Crecy</HI> and <HI>Sluys, &amp;c.</HI> refu&s;ed to bee Emperour. <HI>Paralipom. ad Abb. &V;r&s;pergen&s;.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>But followed boones forbod, and downe anon</L>
<L>Cuts with his Mothers &s;word the flowers of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>And plants them in his field of <HI>Albion,</HI></L>
<L>And puts them in his royall <HI>Lyons</HI> guard:</L>
<L>For &s;o (quoth he) <HI>Dieu et mon droyt</HI> award.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="23">
<LG>
<HEAD>25.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Phillip</HI> the famous <HI>Macedonian,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ed. de Wood|&s;tock,</HI> P. of <HI>Wales</HI> and of <HI>Aquitainc</HI> married <HI>Ioan</HI> Da. and heire of <HI>Edm. Plan|tagene&s;t</HI> Earle of <HI>Kent.</HI> Fir&s;t he overthrew 60000 <HI>Spa|niards</HI> and <HI>Fre~ch</HI> in <HI>Spain</HI> betwixt <HI>Na|veret</HI> and <HI>Na|iara.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Had not a &s;on of higher worth then he,</L>
<L>For where the Prince, blacke <HI>Edward</HI> went, he wan:</L>
<L>This honors comet fir&s;t did faire appeare</L>
<L>At <HI>Cre&s;&s;y</HI> field, which <HI>Navaret</HI> did &s;ee</L>
<L>After, more bright then <HI>Mavors</HI> in his Spheare,</L>
<L>But <HI>Poiters</HI> chiefly where hetooke King <HI>Iean,</HI></L>
<L>For there a double victory he wan.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>26.</HEAD>
<L>Two <HI>Richards</HI> more &s;ucceed, the one a Prince
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>R.</HI> 2 his &s;on &s;urnamed <HI>de Burdeaux</HI> married <HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Lexein|bourg</HI> Da. of the Emperour <HI>Wence&s;laus.</HI> K. <HI>R.</HI> 3 &s;urna|med <HI>de Fothe|ringay</HI> Du. of <HI>Glo&s;ter</HI> &amp;c. married <HI>Anne Nevill</HI> Da. of <HI>Ric. the great</HI> Earle of <HI>War|wick.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who&s;e goodly pre&s;ence men to wo~der moved</L>
<L>And was as bountifull as any &s;ince;</L>
<L>Fame hath bin &s;harp to th'other, yet becau&s;e</L>
<L>All accu&s;ations of him are not proved,</L>
<L>And he built Churches, &amp; did make good lawes,</L>
<L>And all men held him wi&s;e, and valiant,</L>
<L>Who may deny him then his <HI>Gene&s;t Plant.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="24">
<LG>
<HEAD>27.</HEAD>
<L>But <HI>Henry Bullingbrook</HI> me thinks doth frowne,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">King <HI>Henry</HI> 4. &s;urnamed <HI>de Bolenbrock,</HI> married <HI>Mary</HI> Daughter and heire of <HI>Hum|phery, Bohun</HI> Earle of <HI>Here|ford</HI> &amp;c. He was Duke of <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> in the right of his Mother <HI>Blanch</HI> Da. of <HI>Hen.</HI> Duke of <HI>Lanca&s;ter &amp;c.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>That <HI>Glo&s;ter</HI> here &s;hould next to <HI>Bourdeaux</HI> com</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he from his Cozen tooke the Crowne:</L>
<L>Mi&s;take not <HI>Henry,</HI> for by right for neither</L>
<L>Of yee, in the&s;e triumphall Carrs is roome;</L>
<L>But be&s;t of all you may be matcht together.</L>
<L>Yet I mu&s;t grant thou wert a Princely knight,</L>
<L>And Patron of the bloody Ro&s;e by right.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>28.</HEAD>
<L>But to thy &s;onne the <HI>Dolphins</HI> &s;trange repaire
<NOTE PLACE="marg">King <HI>Henry</HI> 5. &s;urnamed <HI>de Munmouth,</HI> married <HI>Kath.</HI> Da. to <HI>Charles</HI> the 6 the French King. Of this <HI>Dol|phine vid. Tho. Wal&s;ingham in An. Do.</HI> 1392. He conquered <HI>France</HI> for the mo&s;t part. He dyed at <HI>Blois de Vinci|ennes</HI> neere <HI>Paris.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Swimming in po&s;t up to the royall Porte,</L>
<L>Foretold that he was borne the <HI>Lillies</HI> heire,</L>
<L>This &s;igne was &s;oone by &s;equels verified:</L>
<L><HI>Dolphin</HI> he was by right, or &s;words effort:</L>
<L>And he in <HI>France</HI> victorious liv'd and dyed;</L>
<L>whom <HI>Agincourt</HI> &s;o nobly did receive,</L>
<L>At <HI>Vinciene</HI> Parke of all he takes his leave.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="24">
<LG>
<HEAD>29.</HEAD>
<L><HI>Henry</HI> his &s;onne &s;urnamed of <HI>Windle&s;ore</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>H.</HI> 6 &s;urna|med the <HI>Saint,</HI> built a Col|le dge at <HI>Ea|ton</HI> and the Kings Col|ledge in <HI>Camb.</HI> married <HI>Marg.</HI> Da. of <HI>Rene.</HI> K. of <HI>Sicil.</HI> Du. of <HI>Aniou.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>(Who was in <HI>London</HI> and in <HI>Paris</HI> crowned)</L>
<L>Mo&s;t worthily a Plant of <HI>Gene&s;t</HI> bore</L>
<L>But not by Scepters &s;ole his prai&s;e beganne:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>H.</HI> 7. &s;olici|ted the <HI>Pope to Canonize.</HI> K. <HI>H.</HI> 6 <HI>who</HI> refu&s;ed.</NOTE></L>
<L>His chri&s;tian vertues made him mo&s;t renowned</L>
<L>For he was deem'd a very holy man,</L>
<L>And had bin made a Saint, &amp; long &s;ince &s;hrin'd,</L>
<L>But that the vice-Saint maker was unkind.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>30.</HEAD>
<L>I mu&s;t omit that proud <HI>Plantagenet,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>R.</HI> Du. of <HI>Yorke,</HI> heire generall of the Crowne, Regent of <HI>France,</HI> Mar|ried <HI>Cecely Nevill</HI> Da. of <HI>Ralph</HI> Earle of <HI>We&s;tmerland.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who in high Parliament the King defide,</L>
<L>But I may not his gallant &s;onne forget,</L>
<L>Who twice did win the royall <HI>Gole</HI> by armes,</L>
<L>And was the father of the happie&s;t bride</L>
<L>That ever <HI>Camber</HI> compa&s;t in his armes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>H.</HI> 4. mar|ried <HI>Wydevile</HI> Da. of <HI>Ant.</HI> Earle <HI>Rivers,</HI> extingui&s;hed <HI>Lanca&s;ter.</HI> Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 1. King <HI>Ed.</HI> 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>She made the lo&s;&s;e the lighter of that &s;onne,</L>
<L>Who&s;e raigne then ended, as it was begunne.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="25">
<LG>
<HEAD>31.</HEAD>
<L>She and her <HI>Richmond</HI> (on'd by &s;acrament)
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K.H. 7. Earle of <HI>Richmond,</HI> married <HI>Eliz. Plant.</HI> Da. and heire of K. <HI>Ed.</HI> 4. for them <HI>Chri&s;topher Columb.</HI> offe|red todi&s;cover the <HI>Indies Ric. Hacklet</HI> 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>Refus'd the golden offer of <HI>Colone,</HI></L>
<L>Fore&s;eeing that the riches and the rent</L>
<L>Would hardly countervaile the keepers care;</L>
<L>And had be&s;ide a &s;ecret reed that one,</L>
<L>(Who &s;hould hereafter &s;it in <HI>Arthurs</HI> Chaire,</L>
<L>Should fetch the fleece, when he occa&s;ion &s;aw,</L>
<L>And hold the golden Monarke in his awe.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>H.</HI> Earle of <HI>Richmond</HI> got both the field and Crowne at <HI>Bo&s;worth. Marga. his</HI> mother was an heire of the hou&s;e of <HI>So|mer&s;et!</HI> he ex|tingui&s;hed the heire Male of the hou&s;e of <HI>Yorke</HI></NOTE></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>32.</HEAD>
<L>This <HI>Richmond</HI> was a very prudent Prince.</L>
<L>And therefore was &s;urnamed <HI>Solomon:</HI></L>
<L>The world hath &s;een great workes accompli&s;ht &s;ince~,</L>
<L>Which were projected by his active braine,</L>
<L>This man of Fate did happily attone</L>
<L>The civil feud which long before did raigne</L>
<L>Betwixt the Ro&s;e which fir&s;t grew in the wood,</L>
<L>And that which <HI>Venus</HI> coloured in her blood,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Vid. Ovid in Metam. the&s;e</HI> Ro&s;es were the devi&s;es of <HI>Yorke</HI> and <HI>Lanca&s;ter.</HI></NOTE></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="25">
<LG>
<HEAD>33.</HEAD>
<L>The&s;e happy plants have over&s;pread this I&s;le</L>
<L>By <HI>Henry</HI> and more fruitfull <HI>Margaret.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Marg.</HI> their da. was married to <HI>Iam.</HI> 4. K. of <HI>Scotland,</HI> by whom he had K. <HI>Iam.</HI> 5. who married <HI>Mary</HI> Da. to <HI>Claud.</HI> Du. of <HI>Gui&s;e,</HI> who bare to him <HI>Mary</HI> Qu. of <HI>Scotland and France</HI> heire apparant of <HI>Eng.</HI> &amp; grand|mother to our Soveraigne Lord K. <HI>Charles.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>But <HI>Henryes</HI> branches flouri&s;h'd but a while,</L>
<L>She is the roote of this immortall &s;eede:</L>
<L>Whence <HI>Iames</HI> the wi&s;e and new <HI>Plantagenet</HI></L>
<L>Did &s;pring, and was her father, who did breed heere.</L>
<L>The great <HI>Poli&s;tiphan,</HI> as &s;hall appeare,</L>
<L>When they are pa&s;t which come triumphant</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>34.</HEAD>
<L>This is that <HI>Henry</HI> who&s;e great &s;oule did fir&s;t</L>
<L>Giue a check-mate unto the pride of <HI>Rome;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>H.</HI> 8 marri|ed <HI>Katherne</HI> Da. of <HI>Ferdi|nand</HI> K. of <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> by whom he had Queene <HI>Ma|ry</HI> hee had Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI> by <HI>Anne</HI> of <HI>Bo|lein</HI> Da. of the Earle of <HI>Wilt|&s;hire</HI> he had K. <HI>Ed.</HI> by <HI>Iane</HI> &s;i&s;ter of the Du. of <HI>Somer.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>A &s;tirring worke, which el&s;e no Monarch dur&s;t;</L>
<L>What he avowes, he executes indeed,</L>
<L>And is not &s;tartled with their Churches doome:</L>
<L>And &s;ee how duely vertue hath her meed</L>
<L>For the <HI>Pope</HI> him&s;elfe (
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Doctor <HI>Coop.</HI> Bi. of <HI>Linc.</HI> in <HI>Chronici.</HI></NOTE> as the Bi&s;hop &s;aith)</L>
<L>Fir&s;t &s;tiled him defendor of the Faith.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="26">
<LG>
<HEAD>35.</HEAD>
<L>His hopefull &s;onne brought happily to pa&s;&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Ed.</HI> 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>What was attempted by that hardy King;</L>
<L>For he aboli&s;hed the <HI>Romi&s;h Ma&s;&s;e;</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Qnem Dij di|ligunt, mori|tur Iuvenis Menander.</NOTE></L>
<L>Timely re&s;olv'd to maintaine Chri&s;tian truth.</L>
<L>And as his yeares, &s;o did his vertues &s;pring,</L>
<L>But envious fates untimely nipt his youth;</L>
<L>Then let this &s;erve, to make compleat his prai&s;e;</L>
<L>Whom Gods do love, he dyes in tender daies.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>36.</HEAD>
<L>This is King <HI>Henries</HI> elde&s;t daughters place</L>
<L>A Queene endued with heavenly vertues many</L>
<L><HI>Devout &s;ans dout,</HI> a <HI>Mary</HI> full of grace,</L>
<L>Ju&s;t of her word as any prince hath beene,</L>
<L>Her liberall hand was never clos'd to any</L>
<L>who&s;e need requir'd or where a want was &s;een,</L>
<L>And what&s;oever piou&s;ly is given,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Q. <HI>Mary</HI> mar|ried <HI>Phillip</HI> 2. K. of <HI>Spain.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Is with great u&s;ury re&s;tor'd in heaven.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="26">
<LG>
<HEAD>37.</HEAD>
<L>Her younger Si&s;ter next to her doth &s;et,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Q. <HI>Eliz.</HI> 2 ad|deth <HI>Virginia</HI> to her Em|pire.</NOTE></L>
<L>Who was in acts and age the happier much;</L>
<L>And therefore weares the braver Chappelet.</L>
<L>A Queene who&s;e &s;tate &s;o happily did &s;tand,</L>
<L>That men did &s;ay, &s;eeing her greatne&s;&s;e &s;uch,</L>
<L>This Lady leadeth <HI>Fortune</HI> in her hand;</L>
<L>A virgin that her &s;exes Fame exceld,</L>
<L>And for her rarene&s;&s;e was a <HI>Phoenix</HI> held,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>38.</HEAD>
<L>For weigh her peace, e&s;tabli&s;hed at home,</L>
<L>And next her victories atchive'd abroad,</L>
<L>As well in <HI>Indies</HI> as in Chri&s;tendome;</L>
<L>Then her &s;afe guarding her confederates:</L>
<L>Her zeale to the true wor&s;hiping of God,</L>
<L>Her wi&s;ely moderating her three e&s;tates,</L>
<L>Tho&s;e &s;pok her name, with wo~der, love, &amp; feare</L>
<L>Which al the world did with amazement heare,</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="27">
<LG>
<HEAD>39.</HEAD>
<L>Adde more which joyn'd &s;trange Scepters to their <HI>plants,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ri.</HI> Earle of <HI>Cornewall,</HI> Brother to K. <HI>Hen.</HI> 3. elect|ed King of <HI>Almaine,</HI> or <HI>Romans. Jo.</HI> of <HI>Gant,</HI> Du. of <HI>Lan|ca&s;t.</HI> K. of <HI>Ca|&s;tile</HI> and <HI>Lyon</HI> by Q <HI>Con|&s;ta~ce</HI> his wife.</NOTE></L>
<L>As <HI>Cornewall</HI> did the Scepter of <HI>Almaine:</HI></L>
<L>And that of <HI>Ca&s;tile,</HI> royall <HI>Ion</HI> of <HI>Gant,</HI></L>
<L>Progenitor by &s;onnes, and either daughter,</L>
<L>Of all the Kings of <HI>Britaine,</HI> and of <HI>Spaine,</HI></L>
<L>Without Sir
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Hen.</HI> 4. <HI>ut &s;upra.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Bolenbrook,</HI> who for the &s;laughter</L>
<L>Of a King inunct, a&s;hamed hid his eyes</L>
<L>In the darke bo&s;ome of a &s;trange di&s;gui&s;e.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>40.</HEAD>
<L>But <HI>Bedford</HI> &s;hall his Fathers place &s;upply,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Jo.</HI> Duke of <HI>Bedford,</HI> 3 &s;on of K. <HI>Hen.</HI> 4. Regent of <HI>France,</HI> where hee tooke the great Champi|on of <HI>France, Jeane la Pu|cille:</HI> over|threw the Vi|count of <HI>Nar|bone</HI> at Sea, wan the battaile at <HI>Vervell,</HI> which as <HI>Ceres</HI> &s;ayth, <HI>Fa&s;oit porter dueil a toute la France.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who though no King, yet was a great Viceroy,</L>
<L>And in his place behav'd him royally:</L>
<L>Th'arm'd &s;orcere&s;&s;e committed to the flame,</L>
<L><HI>Narbone, Alan&s;on,</HI> and their
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">K. <HI>Charles</HI> 7. was called in &s;corne <HI>le petit Roy de bourges.</HI></NOTE> petty roy</L>
<L>Vanquai&s;h'd at <HI>Vernveil,</HI> witne&s;&s;e wel the &s;ame.</L>
<L>And while he liv'd; pre&s;erv'd th'inheritance</L>
<L>Of his dread Liege, and kept in aw all <HI>France.</HI></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="27">
<LG>
<HEAD>41.</HEAD>
<L>Some more great <HI>Gene&s;ters</HI> recount I may,</L>
<L>Who&s;e fro~ts &s;hold with this <HI>crown</HI> have circled beene</L>
<L>But they wer ab&s;e~t at the &s;acring day;</L>
<L>As <HI>Arthur,</HI> heire unto the greate&s;t King.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Artur Plan|tag.</HI> Earle of <HI>Britaine,</HI> &s;on of <HI>Geffrey,</HI> 3 &s;onne of K. <HI>Hen.</HI> 2. Heire apparant pro|claimed by K. <HI>Ri.</HI> 1. <HI>Ma.</HI> Da. and heire of <HI>James</HI> 5. K. of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> by <HI>Mary de Louraine,</HI> Da. of the Duke of <HI>Gui&s;e ut &s;upra</HI> 38. St. <HI>Peter</HI> cal|leth the <HI>crown</HI> of immortall glory <GAP LANG="grc" DESC="foreign" RESP="OXF"> 1 <HI>Epi&s;t. Cap.</HI> 5.</NOTE></L>
<L>And &s;he that was of <HI>France</HI> &amp; <HI>Scotland</HI> Queene,</L>
<L>Who&s;e vertues prai&s;es all the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> &s;ing,</L>
<L>And weares in&s;tead a Chappelet of Plants,</L>
<L>In Heaven a Diadem of <HI>Amarants.</HI></L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>42.</HEAD>
<L>And divers others &s;et on <HI>Fortunes</HI> knee,</L>
<L>Highly advanc'd for <HI>Vertues</HI> ju&s;t re&s;pects,</L>
<L>Have worne a branch of this Imperiall Tree.</L>
<L>Farther, they neither did pre&s;ume, nor might,</L>
<L>For they were men, and had &s;ome light defects:</L>
<L>But yet they pa&s;t as farre each other wight,</L>
<L>As hee that followes here, eclip&s;eth them,</L>
<L>Who in his Cradle wore the Diadem.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="28">
<LG>
<HEAD>43.</HEAD>
<L>This is that <HI>Olive</HI> bearer of this I&s;le,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Sic Minerva dicta Olivife|ra ab Ovidio.</HI> K. <HI>James</HI> high Sene&s;call of <HI>England, Scot|land,</HI> &amp; <HI>Fra~ce,</HI> by private he|ritages, <HI>viz.</HI> by <HI>Leice&s;ter, ab. &amp; Aniou:</HI> He married <HI>Anne,</HI> daugh|ter of <HI>Frede|ricke</HI> the &s;e|cond King of <HI>Denmarke.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Who did by high preordinance, divine,</L>
<L>That great inte&s;tine quarrell reconcile,</L>
<L>Which &s;o unnaturally &s;o long had beene</L>
<L>Betwixt <HI>Brutes</HI> &s;onnes <HI>Albanact</HI> and <HI>Locrine:</HI></L>
<L>As <HI>Theodore</HI> did that which was betweene</L>
<L>The bloody brothers <HI>Lanca&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Yorke,</HI></L>
<L>And was a figure of this greater worke.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>44.</HEAD>
<L>To this his reunited <HI>Albion,</HI></L>
<L>Let us annexe the Crowne of <HI>Pharamound,</HI></L>
<L>And faire <HI>Hibernias</HI> (joyning three in one)
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Tria juncta in uno:</HI> it is the Motto of his Maje&s;ties de|vice for the Knights of the Bath.</NOTE></L>
<L>Whil&s;t bright renowne builds trophies of his <HI>fame</HI></L>
<L>Unto the Southerne and the Northerne bound,</L>
<L>And all the <HI>Mu&s;es</HI> con&s;ecrate his Name:</L>
<L>Who&s;e Wi&s;edome, Ju&s;tice, &amp; Piety hath given</L>
<L>His acts a monument, &s;hal endure with Heaven.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="28">
<LG>
<HEAD>45.</HEAD>
<L>And <HI>Britaine</HI> had no &s;ooner faith and force</L>
<L>Combin'd, but her <HI>Dolphin</HI> in tender age
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Henry</HI> Prince of great <HI>Bri|taine.</HI> K. <HI>Henry</HI> 2. buried in <HI>Fro~|tenalx.</HI> King <HI>Charles</HI> hath &s;o many, &s;o ancient, &amp; &s;o lawfull Ti|tles to this Empire, as ne|ver any Prince Heire general of this King|dome had. He married <HI>Mary,</HI> Daughter to <HI>Henry</HI> 4. of <HI>France.</HI></NOTE></L>
<L>Vowes to redeeme from <HI>Gallike</HI> bonds the <HI>Cors</HI></L>
<L>Of his Grand&s;ire, the <HI>Great Plantagenet,</HI></L>
<L>And &s;ei&s;e upon his &s;outherne heritage:</L>
<L>And bou~ds &amp; trophies in the <HI>Pyrens</HI> &s;et.</L>
<L>Stay <HI>Mu&s;e,</HI> here drop a teare, for <HI>deaths</HI> blacke cloud</L>
<L>Too &s;oone his glory &amp; our hopes did &s;hrowd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>46.</HEAD>
<L>But turne our eyes now from the clouded we&s;t,</L>
<L>And &s;ee the new Sun ri&s;ing in the Ea&s;t,</L>
<L>With what au&s;picious browes the heavens ex|pre&s;t</L>
<L>Their glad prae&s;ages, the Coele&s;tiall &s;ignes</L>
<L>With holy Auguries &s;hin'd: <HI>Saturne</HI> did fea&s;t</L>
<L>With &s;prit'ly <HI>Icve,</HI> whil'&s;t <HI>Apollo</HI> divines</L>
<L>In <HI>Delphicke</HI> raptures: the Age renu'd againe,</L>
<L>And tooke new influence from bright <HI>Charles</HI> his waine.</L>
</LG>
<PB REF="29">
<LG>
<HEAD>47.</HEAD>
<L>The Stars of all yet were not ab&s;olute,</L>
<L>And Fates con&s;pir'd to keep the~ in their wants:</L>
<L>But <HI>Gods</HI> and <HI>Fates,</HI> de&s;ert and publicke brute,</L>
<L>Have all pronounc'd him &s;ole the worthy one,</L>
<L>To weare the Garland made of many <HI>plants,</HI></L>
<L>And adde eternall Scepters to his Throne:</L>
<L>Of whom <HI>Apollo</HI> in his &s;acred rage,</L>
<L>Did as you heard, &s;uch wondrous things prae|&s;age.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>48.</HEAD>
<L>And to accompli&s;h full his happine&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Heavens have to him a royall Spou&s;e decree'd:</L>
<L>All tho&s;e fraile Saints and flatter'd Godde&s;&s;es</L>
<L>Shall kneele to her, &s;o wi&s;e, &s;o faire, &s;o loyall,</L>
<L>So great, yet meeke; as doth her &s;exe exceed,</L>
<L>And both thrice ble&s;&s;ed in their i&s;&s;ue royall.</L>
<L>For he and they which &s;hal from them de&s;cend,</L>
<L>Shall raigne in <HI>Britaine</HI> till the world have end.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Charles</HI> Prince of great <HI>Bri|caine.</HI></NOTE></L>
</LG>
<PB REF="29" MS="y">
<LG>
<HEAD>49.</HEAD>
<L>Away prophane, &s;inke to the lowe&s;t Hells,</L>
<L>With your detracting murmurrs and hoar&s;e</L>
<L>Envy wil yeeld, that fame not paralels &s;pleens,</L>
<L>The fate of this great pair, which doth out &s;hine</L>
<L>The lu&s;ter of all former Kings and Queenes</L>
<L>Strengthned with al the powers &amp; hands divine:</L>
<L>And in &s;o ju&s;t a &s;cope their &s;oules are &s;pheard,</L>
<L>None ever liv'd more lov'd, admir'd and fear'd.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<HEAD>50</HEAD>
<L>And every <HI>Nimph</HI> and <HI>Godde&s;&s;e</HI> of the plaines</L>
<L>Shall weare rich favours of <HI>Gene&s;ta's</HI> plants.</L>
<L>And that no common injury prophanes</L>
<L>The &s;acred priviledge of her ble&s;t abode:</L>
<L>The Mu&s;es there &s;hall keep their &s;olemne hants</L>
<L>And in her &s;hades &s;ing many learned Ode:</L>
<L>Whil&s;t Po&euml;ts make her garlands more diuine,</L>
<L>Then that which doth for <HI>Ariadne</HI> &s;hine.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
<PB REF="30">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Damaetas.</SPEAKER>
<LG>
<HEAD>51. </HEAD>
<L>Thanks ble&s;&s;ed Prophet, prai&s;ed be thy art,</L>
<L>Which hath &s;o much re&s;olv'd my travailed minde:</L>
<L>My wi&s;h is &s;atisfied in every part</L>
<L>My thoughts and doubts, are ridled every one;</L>
<L>And I confe&s;&s;e his name thou ha&s;t divin'd</L>
<L>To who&s;e high worth, this garlands due alone,</L>
<L>For who&s;e immortall raigne and happy fate</L>
<L>Let all our vowes and prayers be con&s;ecrate.</L>
</LG>
</SP>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<PB REF="30">
<HEAD>VPON KING <HI>HENRIE</HI> THE SECOND the fir&s;t <HI>Plantagenet</HI> of <HI>ENGLAND, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<LG>
<L>_WHen Warlike <HI>HENRY</HI> by his Pui&s;&s;ance</L>
<L>Had &s;et his Foote upon the bre&s;t of <HI>France,</HI></L>
<L>Scepter'd <HI>Hibernia,</HI> without Blood, or &s;weat,</L>
<L>And by his Conque&s;ts made his <HI>Name</HI> &s;o great,</L>
<L>That it found way to <HI>Victory</HI> and <HI>Fame,</HI></L>
<L>And burft the gall of <HI>War,</HI> where ere he came.</L>
<L>To Crowne his fate, and make him greater yet,</L>
<L>There was no Title but PLANTAGENET:</L>
<L>To who&s;e immortall linage <HI>Fame</HI> could adde</L>
<L>No greater glories; then from him they had</L>
<L>A <HI>Name</HI> &s;o <HI>Great</HI> in De&s;tiny and Fate,</L>
<L><HI>Rome</HI> would haue envi'd, or have trimbled at,</L>
<PB REF="31">
<L>And her proud Tryumphs, too, looke pale; &s;et</L>
<L>By the brighter honors of PLANTAGENET,</L>
<L>whil&s;t their imperial <HI>bayes,</HI> as checkt with thu~der</L>
<L>Dropt fro~ their &s;welling <HI>te~ples,</HI> even with wo~der,</L>
<L>To &s;ee their Fate &s;o farre out &s;hin'd by odds,</L>
<L>And Pedigree of all their <HI>Demy-gods;</HI></L>
<L>And to be heire unto <HI>great Henries</HI> fame,</L>
<L>Would not be <HI>Rome,</HI> but change her <HI>fate</HI> &amp; <HI>name.</HI></L>
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