Albions England A Continued Historie of the same Kingdome, from the Originals of the first Inhabitants thereof: With most the chiefe Alterations and Accidents theare hapning, vnto, and in the happie Raigne of our now most gracious Soueraigne, Queene Elizabeth: Not barren in varietie of inuentiue and historicall Intermixtures: First penned and published by William Warner: and now reuised, and newly inlarged by the same Author: Whereunto is also newly added an Epitome of the whole Historie of England |
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Of Northerne Regions partely is epitomed before,
Of other later Voyages ensues a few of store.
Great Personages cannot want great Poets theirs to tell:
Nor may they want, nor want to them would I, wrot I like-well.
But of some Meaners, that their liues haue ventured no lesse,
Perform'd as much, Some more, and Some that haue, as many gesse,
Vnto their Betters made the way to glorie they possesse,
Shall we digest: Or if we speake of great Ones, they be dead,
For Writers aduantagiously are of the Liuing reade.
Thy Raigne also, Elizabeth, shall bound our Pen in it,
Which to our Theame inferreth Texts, no times yeeld more so fit.
Of other later Voyages ensues a few of store.
Great Personages cannot want great Poets theirs to tell:
Nor may they want, nor want to them would I, wrot I like-well.
But of some Meaners, that their liues haue ventured no lesse,
Perform'd as much, Some more, and Some that haue, as many gesse,
Vnto their Betters made the way to glorie they possesse,
Shall we digest: Or if we speake of great Ones, they be dead,
For Writers aduantagiously are of the Liuing reade.
Thy Raigne also, Elizabeth, shall bound our Pen in it,
Which to our Theame inferreth Texts, no times yeeld more so fit.
Like amorous Scape from England as of Elenor to Rome
Made Macham in Madera reare his hence-stolne Louers Toombe:
Then raigned here Third Edward when so traueld Mandeuil,
And in those daies th' interring There of Machams Loue befell.
A Chappell built he there, his name and hers engrauen in Stone,
To Iesus dedicated (then, and England there vnknowne.)
Of him, that Ilands Porte is cal'd Machico, to this day,
Whom Affrick Mores to Castile, as a Wonder, did conuay:
For in an hallowed Tree, or Trough, not hauing sayle or Oares,
(The Shippe they came in leauing him) discouer'd he the Mores,
By which discouery, and by his Instructions, did ensew,
Th' Iberians did Madera and Canaries Isles subdew.
Hence (els had Machæm past our Penne) did time effect our Trade
For Guinie, in her Highness Raigne acquir'd and patent made.
Fot not in Maries raigne those Partes, as now, weare fully found,
Yeat still to gratefull Eares may those Negotiators sound,
To wit (although an Alien good Pinteado abus'd
By moodie Windam, Guinie first, and Benyn these perus'd:
Next Gainsh, then Towrson diuers times, and theare my Father dide
Since rife that Voyage, Brasile, and to Cape-verd Isles beside.
Gold, ciuet, muske, graines, pepper, woad, & iuory thence he brought.
In Barbarie (old Mauritaine) like Trade this raigne hath wrought:
Of Affrick, and America by Ours no part vnsought.
In Iewrie, Siria, AEgypt, Greece, the Turks whole Empier now
Our Queene is gratious, our Commerce, and Agents they allow.
Made Macham in Madera reare his hence-stolne Louers Toombe:
Then raigned here Third Edward when so traueld Mandeuil,
And in those daies th' interring There of Machams Loue befell.
A Chappell built he there, his name and hers engrauen in Stone,
To Iesus dedicated (then, and England there vnknowne.)
Of him, that Ilands Porte is cal'd Machico, to this day,
Whom Affrick Mores to Castile, as a Wonder, did conuay:
For in an hallowed Tree, or Trough, not hauing sayle or Oares,
(The Shippe they came in leauing him) discouer'd he the Mores,
By which discouery, and by his Instructions, did ensew,
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Hence (els had Machæm past our Penne) did time effect our Trade
For Guinie, in her Highness Raigne acquir'd and patent made.
Fot not in Maries raigne those Partes, as now, weare fully found,
Yeat still to gratefull Eares may those Negotiators sound,
To wit (although an Alien good Pinteado abus'd
By moodie Windam, Guinie first, and Benyn these perus'd:
Next Gainsh, then Towrson diuers times, and theare my Father dide
Since rife that Voyage, Brasile, and to Cape-verd Isles beside.
Gold, ciuet, muske, graines, pepper, woad, & iuory thence he brought.
In Barbarie (old Mauritaine) like Trade this raigne hath wrought:
Of Affrick, and America by Ours no part vnsought.
In Iewrie, Siria, AEgypt, Greece, the Turks whole Empier now
Our Queene is gratious, our Commerce, and Agents they allow.
Of World admired Drake (for of his Worth what argues more,
Thā same enuide? Some, for was his so rich thought theirs too poore,)
And his braue Breeder Hawkins (yeat be honord euery Pen,
That, howsoeuer, honor them as high resolued Men)
In Fiction, or in Mysterie to reade would lesse delight,
Than would significantly some their glorious Iornies wright:
The paines of such inuited Pens such subiect would requite.
Adde Gilbert, Greenull, Frobisher, of Knights to make vp fiue,
All in their better Parts with God, with Men their Fames aliue:
Adde Chilton Oxnam Fenton, Ward, Dauis, an other Drake,
With diuers here not catolog'd, and for a Cheefest take
All-actions Cardish, and of these eternall Pen-worke make.
And, for a Nestor, forwarding their vertues, and did liue
But to his God, Prince, Countrie, lawdes to Walsingham do giue,
The Iliads, and AEneados, for Text, and Truth might yeeld
Vnto that learned Muse that should manure that plentious Field.
Was neuer Prince imployed Peace, with praise, to profit more,
Or Realme could, in the Raigne of one, boast worthy Men like store:
Out Foes can also witnes her armipotent, in few,
Religion, Vertue, Wealth, Peace, War her Throne with fame indue.
And here mine altred Muse this Theame surceaseth to pursue.
Thā same enuide? Some, for was his so rich thought theirs too poore,)
And his braue Breeder Hawkins (yeat be honord euery Pen,
That, howsoeuer, honor them as high resolued Men)
In Fiction, or in Mysterie to reade would lesse delight,
Than would significantly some their glorious Iornies wright:
The paines of such inuited Pens such subiect would requite.
Adde Gilbert, Greenull, Frobisher, of Knights to make vp fiue,
All in their better Parts with God, with Men their Fames aliue:
Adde Chilton Oxnam Fenton, Ward, Dauis, an other Drake,
With diuers here not catolog'd, and for a Cheefest take
All-actions Cardish, and of these eternall Pen-worke make.
And, for a Nestor, forwarding their vertues, and did liue
But to his God, Prince, Countrie, lawdes to Walsingham do giue,
The Iliads, and AEneados, for Text, and Truth might yeeld
Vnto that learned Muse that should manure that plentious Field.
Was neuer Prince imployed Peace, with praise, to profit more,
Or Realme could, in the Raigne of one, boast worthy Men like store:
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Religion, Vertue, Wealth, Peace, War her Throne with fame indue.
And here mine altred Muse this Theame surceaseth to pursue.
Of These, East-Indian Goa, South, & South-east People moe,
And of their memorable Names those Toyles did vnder-goe,
Is one elaborated Pen compendiously doth floe.
Omitted men and named Men, and Lands (not here, indeede,
So written of as they deserue) at large in Bakluit reede:
To him, and (who deserues like-well of England, both as Any
Haue wrote of Enland) Camden, and to English Poets Many,
Of which are some (praise-worthy though) that to wre their Wits too hie,
To make a Pitch for Loue, whē they at fairer Fowles might flie,
Now vaile I Bonnet. Rest thee, Muse, a brode what need we rome?
Our seauenteene Kingdomes once, now One, yeeld Work enough at Home,
All which lier Highnes owneth now, as shall anon be saide:
But of our English Louers first be this Addition made.
And of their memorable Names those Toyles did vnder-goe,
Is one elaborated Pen compendiously doth floe.
Omitted men and named Men, and Lands (not here, indeede,
So written of as they deserue) at large in Bakluit reede:
To him, and (who deserues like-well of England, both as Any
Haue wrote of Enland) Camden, and to English Poets Many,
Of which are some (praise-worthy though) that to wre their Wits too hie,
To make a Pitch for Loue, whē they at fairer Fowles might flie,
Now vaile I Bonnet. Rest thee, Muse, a brode what need we rome?
Our seauenteene Kingdomes once, now One, yeeld Work enough at Home,
All which lier Highnes owneth now, as shall anon be saide:
But of our English Louers first be this Addition made.
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