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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CHAP. LXXII.
Elizabeths
now Monarchie ore seauenteene Crownes of old,
As formerly was promised, shall briefly here bee told.
Before the Scots did plant them Heere, own'd ancient Brutaines All,
And still, take I, her Homager may England Scotland call:
Which ouer-passe (not now possest) in this Accompt we shall.
Of either Land the Marches, and much more, for most now Ours,
The Warlike Picts possessing Here, built Castles, Towns, & Towers,
Brutes, Scots, and Romaines (then our Lords) oft daunting with their Powers:
Til lastly ciuil Strife, & Scots dis kingdom'd thē from Hence,
Whom Orkney Ilands, as is sayd, haue harbour'd euer sence.
The Brutaines, by these Picts of long opprest with thraldome sore,
To be deliu'red of such Foes, did Saxon Aides implore:
So playing as did AEspos Horse, that angrie with the Hart,
To be reueng'd, did craue in ayde of Man to take his part:
Till when the Horse was neuer back't not bitted, Either when
He once had suffered, had I wiste came euer Tar'de then,
The Brutaines, hauing called so the Saxons to their aide,
Could not be rid of them, to whom they had themselues betraide,
But by the same were they at length debelled into Wailes:
Each of whose Septers, long time Three, in Englands Monarch failes.
The Saxons, getting Brutaine thus (which they did England name)
At once of them in seuerall Parts Seauen Kings did rule the same:
All which, by Westerne Adelstane, in Monarchie was got,
Which since (saue Iron-sids & the Danes once Deuident) chang'd not.
Fiue Irish Kingdōs likewise add, now drown'd in Englands Crowne.
The Seauenteenth was the Isle of Man, in Ours now also downe.
Our Mandeuil, here cited, of Earle Mandeuil exact,
In Stephens Raigne so famous, Man, in Scots Possession, sack't,
And with the Spoyle of al that Isle thence and his Brother pack't.
Consent of times, Names, and Records affirme, may seeme, no lesse.
But Monteacute, Count Salsburie, it wonne, and did possesse.
Of Percies after, Stanlies next, and still (gesse I) holds Man,
From honorable long Descents, and from they first began,
All loyall, hospitalious, lou'd, still powrefull, and I pray
That in that Noble house those Termes may neuer-more decay.
This Man was diuers hundred yeares a Kingdome, and not small,
Rul'd Hebrides the Orcades, to Thul the Islands all,
And chances there and Changes, worth the note, did oft befall.
As how the natutall Incolants the Iselanders subdew,
Them Norses, Irish them, them Scots, and English them, in few,
Beauchamp, the Earle of Warwick, (first, and last, and but a while)
Was King of Wight: Sixt Henries Gift that Honor and that Ile:
Which added, Eighteene Kingdoms, al possest, ieke Englands Stile.
As formerly was promised, shall briefly here bee told.
Before the Scots did plant them Heere, own'd ancient Brutaines All,
And still, take I, her Homager may England Scotland call:
Which ouer-passe (not now possest) in this Accompt we shall.
Of either Land the Marches, and much more, for most now Ours,
The Warlike Picts possessing Here, built Castles, Towns, & Towers,
Brutes, Scots, and Romaines (then our Lords) oft daunting with their Powers:
Til lastly ciuil Strife, & Scots dis kingdom'd thē from Hence,
Whom Orkney Ilands, as is sayd, haue harbour'd euer sence.
The Brutaines, by these Picts of long opprest with thraldome sore,
To be deliu'red of such Foes, did Saxon Aides implore:
So playing as did AEspos Horse, that angrie with the Hart,
To be reueng'd, did craue in ayde of Man to take his part:
Till when the Horse was neuer back't not bitted, Either when
He once had suffered, had I wiste came euer Tar'de then,
The Brutaines, hauing called so the Saxons to their aide,
Could not be rid of them, to whom they had themselues betraide,
But by the same were they at length debelled into Wailes:
Each of whose Septers, long time Three, in Englands Monarch failes.
The Saxons, getting Brutaine thus (which they did England name)
At once of them in seuerall Parts Seauen Kings did rule the same:
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Which since (saue Iron-sids & the Danes once Deuident) chang'd not.
Fiue Irish Kingdōs likewise add, now drown'd in Englands Crowne.
The Seauenteenth was the Isle of Man, in Ours now also downe.
Our Mandeuil, here cited, of Earle Mandeuil exact,
In Stephens Raigne so famous, Man, in Scots Possession, sack't,
And with the Spoyle of al that Isle thence and his Brother pack't.
Consent of times, Names, and Records affirme, may seeme, no lesse.
But Monteacute, Count Salsburie, it wonne, and did possesse.
Of Percies after, Stanlies next, and still (gesse I) holds Man,
From honorable long Descents, and from they first began,
All loyall, hospitalious, lou'd, still powrefull, and I pray
That in that Noble house those Termes may neuer-more decay.
This Man was diuers hundred yeares a Kingdome, and not small,
Rul'd Hebrides the Orcades, to Thul the Islands all,
And chances there and Changes, worth the note, did oft befall.
As how the natutall Incolants the Iselanders subdew,
Them Norses, Irish them, them Scots, and English them, in few,
Beauchamp, the Earle of Warwick, (first, and last, and but a while)
Was King of Wight: Sixt Henries Gift that Honor and that Ile:
Which added, Eighteene Kingdoms, al possest, ieke Englands Stile.
These now thus couched all in One (saue Parcell Scots withhold
Of Penthland and some barren Isles subdu'd from Man of old
Since hath one Monarch ruled all, hath rendred vs secure:
Whereas Pluralitie of Kings did euer Losse procure.
Twise ioyn'd our Ilanders in one, when twise did Cæsar faile:
Disioyning, He, Picts, Saxons Danes, and Normaines did preuaile.
The Spanyard, in Conceit, deuoures our Countrie, in no hope
But of Disiunctiues, who, thinks he, lesse loue their Prince than Pope.
Let France admonish England, turn'd Religion turnes not Spayne
From thirsting France: Neutralitie brought late-lost Calice Baine:
And Spanish't-French liue Peasants-like, that, French did Princes raign.
Our Elders (illy did they well, for so should not be done,
To armor vnauthorised should subiects neuer ronne)
So badly brook't this Spanyards fam'd Espousall with their Queene,
That, euen at Westminsters Law-Barres, were harnest Pleaders seene,
Fear'd with the trooped Bands yt wold that Banes with swords forbid:
Of which were pittied those that dide, the Rest winkt-at, and hid.
Their meaning had it Praise, had not the Manner bin in fault:
The Manner now doth hold, may none in selfe-same Meaning hault:
But arm'd be euery hand and heart hence, Englishly, to beate
Spayn, that our Bodies wold inthral, Rome, that our Soules doth threat.
But new Rome left, of old Rome now we shall in few intreate.
Of Penthland and some barren Isles subdu'd from Man of old
Since hath one Monarch ruled all, hath rendred vs secure:
Whereas Pluralitie of Kings did euer Losse procure.
Twise ioyn'd our Ilanders in one, when twise did Cæsar faile:
Disioyning, He, Picts, Saxons Danes, and Normaines did preuaile.
The Spanyard, in Conceit, deuoures our Countrie, in no hope
But of Disiunctiues, who, thinks he, lesse loue their Prince than Pope.
Let France admonish England, turn'd Religion turnes not Spayne
From thirsting France: Neutralitie brought late-lost Calice Baine:
And Spanish't-French liue Peasants-like, that, French did Princes raign.
Our Elders (illy did they well, for so should not be done,
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So badly brook't this Spanyards fam'd Espousall with their Queene,
That, euen at Westminsters Law-Barres, were harnest Pleaders seene,
Fear'd with the trooped Bands yt wold that Banes with swords forbid:
Of which were pittied those that dide, the Rest winkt-at, and hid.
Their meaning had it Praise, had not the Manner bin in fault:
The Manner now doth hold, may none in selfe-same Meaning hault:
But arm'd be euery hand and heart hence, Englishly, to beate
Spayn, that our Bodies wold inthral, Rome, that our Soules doth threat.
But new Rome left, of old Rome now we shall in few intreate.
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