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TO The Kings most Sacrat Maiestie
Meere Great, more Gracious, and most Sacrat Syr,
The basest Bass, of thy best Subjects brings:
Heir humblie prostrat, and presents Thee Thir
Inscriptions curt, and this Compend of Kings:
Full of thair famous Facts, fair Faits, or Fall,
A Hundreth, Syr, and Six, th'Ancestors all.
The basest Bass, of thy best Subjects brings:
Heir humblie prostrat, and presents Thee Thir
Inscriptions curt, and this Compend of Kings:
Full of thair famous Facts, fair Faits, or Fall,
A Hundreth, Syr, and Six, th'Ancestors all.
REID in the Royal Register of Kings,
Thair vived Vertues, Witt, and Worth in Warrs:
Thair Grace, and Glorie, in thair Gowernings,
Tho Some wer straighted with sinistrous Starrs:
Then quintescence yow Syr and drawe what's due,
For to be fled, or followed by you.
Thair vived Vertues, Witt, and Worth in Warrs:
Thair Grace, and Glorie, in thair Gowernings,
Tho Some wer straighted with sinistrous Starrs:
Then quintescence yow Syr and drawe what's due,
For to be fled, or followed by you.
SO shall the Strong of Strong's, your State sustane,
Protect zour Persone, prosper your Proceeding:
Your Monarchie in Maiestie maintane,
And satle it so, wnto your Sone succeeding:
When you ar past, for to Posses before Yee,
A Croune more great, nor Croun's of Gold; of Glorie.
Protect zour Persone, prosper your Proceeding:
Your Monarchie in Maiestie maintane,
And satle it so, wnto your Sone succeeding:
When you ar past, for to Posses before Yee,
A Croune more great, nor Croun's of Gold; of Glorie.
To the Reader.
I sett
before thy sight, and Censur syne,
This Compend of our Cronicles and Kings,
A field more fitting Maro's Muse, nor myne,
Theatre-like, arrayed with Royal things:
Where none but Princes Personats, and Playes,
Kings temperat, or Tyranns in thair dayes.
This Compend of our Cronicles and Kings,
A field more fitting Maro's Muse, nor myne,
Theatre-like, arrayed with Royal things:
Where none but Princes Personats, and Playes,
Kings temperat, or Tyranns in thair dayes.
FRIEND tho thow find, into this Frame defect,
And all noght sweitlie season'd to thy Senses:
Perpend, and wse, bot spare for this respect,
My Epitome, it purposes of Princes:
And tho the maker thow mislyk, zit love,
And for the Subiects sake, my Pains approve.
And all noght sweitlie season'd to thy Senses:
Perpend, and wse, bot spare for this respect,
My Epitome, it purposes of Princes:
And tho the maker thow mislyk, zit love,
And for the Subiects sake, my Pains approve.
TO Alexander Garden Author of the Theatre of the Scotish Kings.
Glaide may the Ghost of great Godfredo be,Whose Praise gold-tongu'd Torquato Tasso sings:
Yit thair great Ghostes may glader Joy of thee,
That thair Renouns thus to Remembrance brings.
For lo, thy monting Muse with Verse-wrought-wings,
Detombs, Intomb'd long since, thy Countrie Kings.
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THE THEATRE OF THE Scotish Kings.
Fergus the First,
King of SCOTLAND, Rang the Yeer befoir Christ 330, and Rang 5 Yeers.
The first Foundator and the lawfull Lord,
The Roiall Roote, Stock and th'Imperial Stemme,
First gave our Lawis, this Countrie first decoird,
And did adorne It with a Diadem:
The boasting Britons, with his Force, he frights,
And first Contracts and Comprimitts with Pights.
The Roiall Roote, Stock and th'Imperial Stemme,
First gave our Lawis, this Countrie first decoird,
And did adorne It with a Diadem:
The boasting Britons, with his Force, he frights,
And first Contracts and Comprimitts with Pights.
WITH Favoring, and with a friendlie Fate,
His Deeds, his Foes from his Dominions dreave:
His Sword secuir'd, his Sceptre and Estate,
And muche enlarg'd, It, to his Line, did leave:
Yet whom no Pow're nor Practeis, could supprise,
Undone and drownd, in th'Irish Deeph, he dies.
His Deeds, his Foes from his Dominions dreave:
His Sword secuir'd, his Sceptre and Estate,
And muche enlarg'd, It, to his Line, did leave:
Yet whom no Pow're nor Practeis, could supprise,
Undone and drownd, in th'Irish Deeph, he dies.
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Ferithare, 2d King,
Rang the Yeer befoir Christ 305, fra the begining of the Kingdome 26, and Rang 15 Yeers.
King
FERGUS Valor and his Vertues rare,
Great Fortitude, Wit, Justice and Ingine,
Now maks thy Fame, more famous, FERITHARE,
Since in thy Actions, thay assembled shine:
Hee rulde befoir, by Right, be Reason Thou
The Scepter swayes, and dois governe it now.
Great Fortitude, Wit, Justice and Ingine,
Now maks thy Fame, more famous, FERITHARE,
Since in thy Actions, thay assembled shine:
Hee rulde befoir, by Right, be Reason Thou
The Scepter swayes, and dois governe it now.
THOU Rang in Rest, and holilie Thou held
Thy vowed-Word, and when th'Invious wold
True Vertue wrong, Thy Power thairs Repeld:
Vertue, in vane, is curbed or controld:
For when it is molested most, the more
It waxes then, it dois extend and store.
Thy vowed-Word, and when th'Invious wold
True Vertue wrong, Thy Power thairs Repeld:
Vertue, in vane, is curbed or controld:
For when it is molested most, the more
It waxes then, it dois extend and store.
Mainus, 3d King,
Rang befoir Christ 291, frome the begining of the Kingdome 41, and Rang 25 Yeers.
O noble Prince, Preordain'd to Impire,
Come move the Mace now of thy banisht Brother:
Whose Naughtie and Inordinat Desire,
Tint him his Crowne and Countrie both together.
How different is, to his unatural Deeds,
Thy quiet Course, that to his Seat succeeds.
Come move the Mace now of thy banisht Brother:
Whose Naughtie and Inordinat Desire,
Tint him his Crowne and Countrie both together.
How different is, to his unatural Deeds,
Thy quiet Course, that to his Seat succeeds.
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THOU came with Peace, and into Rest thou Rang,
Thou lov'de Religione, tho' thou lackit Light:
Thou Cherish'd Vertue, and thou chasteisd Wrang,
And ruld thy Regne, according to the Right:
So as into thy Days appeired plane,
The golden Aige, to be return'd agane.
Thou lov'de Religione, tho' thou lackit Light:
Thou Cherish'd Vertue, and thou chasteisd Wrang,
And ruld thy Regne, according to the Right:
So as into thy Days appeired plane,
The golden Aige, to be return'd agane.
Dornadilla, 4th King,
Rang befoir Christ 262, fra the begining of the Kingdome 70, and Rang 28 Yeers.
A prince to Peace, and Quietness inclinde
He sceptered with Pleasure and with Peace,
But all Ambitioun or a mounting Mind,
He calmly did command in euerie Case;
No foraigne Foe, no home-bred Limmer left
That in his Raigne, the common Rest bereft.
He sceptered with Pleasure and with Peace,
But all Ambitioun or a mounting Mind,
He calmly did command in euerie Case;
No foraigne Foe, no home-bred Limmer left
That in his Raigne, the common Rest bereft.
AMIDS the Peace, to Hunt and Pastime prone
For Hunting-laws and Ordors he ordains:
Which nought the les, so many Aiges gone,
As yet among our Montane Men remains:
In that same force, full Vigor and Effect
As when King DORNADILL did thame direct.
For Hunting-laws and Ordors he ordains:
Which nought the les, so many Aiges gone,
As yet among our Montane Men remains:
In that same force, full Vigor and Effect
As when King DORNADILL did thame direct.
O HAPPY Regne, O King more happy Thou
Who Peace possesd and stird thy State but strife;
To th'auntient Kings, to be preferred now,
That in excesse, but labours, led their Life.
From which corrupt, excessive Pleasure springs,
Confusioun of Countries, and of Kings:
Who Peace possesd and stird thy State but strife;
To th'auntient Kings, to be preferred now,
That in excesse, but labours, led their Life.
From which corrupt, excessive Pleasure springs,
Confusioun of Countries, and of Kings:
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Nothak, 5th King,
Rang befoir Christ 233, fra the begining of the Kingdom 98, and Rang 20 Years.
When first he got the Helm into his Hand,
And was Elect, and calld into the Crowne:
He did deface the Laws into his Land,
His subjects slew, dispatched, and pat downe:
His mightie men, or thame in Prison putts,
And with thair Goods, his Greedines he glutts.
And was Elect, and calld into the Crowne:
He did deface the Laws into his Land,
His subjects slew, dispatched, and pat downe:
His mightie men, or thame in Prison putts,
And with thair Goods, his Greedines he glutts.
THIS leprous Life with Perfidie he fand,
Th'Eternal Truth, unpunish'd spaird not than
Nor suffred suche, a State-distroier stand,
That plaide much more, the Monstre nor the Man:
For as his Life was loathsome that he Leiv'de,
So more reproachful his Departure preiv'de.
Th'Eternal Truth, unpunish'd spaird not than
Nor suffred suche, a State-distroier stand,
That plaide much more, the Monstre nor the Man:
For as his Life was loathsome that he Leiv'de,
So more reproachful his Departure preiv'de.
Rewther, 6th King,
Rang befoir Christ 213, fra the begining of the Kingdom 118, and Rang 26 Yeers.
A prince as young, so he imprudent proov'de,
Before his Knowledge, to his Crowne he came:
Be Dovalus, a Man ambitious moov'd,
Who all infested with a factious flame:
And bred a bloodie and intestine Strife,
Where Dowall died, and many lost their Life.
Before his Knowledge, to his Crowne he came:
Be Dovalus, a Man ambitious moov'd,
Who all infested with a factious flame:
And bred a bloodie and intestine Strife,
Where Dowall died, and many lost their Life.
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THIS Prince near sunck in those seditious Seas:
Faught contrare both his Fortune and his Foes:
And after oft times tried Extremities
To th'Isles and Ireland, for Refuge he gois:
From whence he comes, with his confedrat Pights,
And gainst his Foes, with better Forton, fights.
Faught contrare both his Fortune and his Foes:
And after oft times tried Extremities
To th'Isles and Ireland, for Refuge he gois:
From whence he comes, with his confedrat Pights,
And gainst his Foes, with better Forton, fights.
Revda, 7th King,
Rang befoir Christ 187, fra the begining of the Kingdome 144, and Rang 14 Yeers.
This Peacible, Just and Politick Prence,
His Countrie-men to Honor first invents:
Who stoutlie fought, or deit for her Defence,
With Obelisks and Marble Monuments:
No Writt, nor Letters, wes Invenit then,
For to preserve thame, be the Press or Pen.
His Countrie-men to Honor first invents:
Who stoutlie fought, or deit for her Defence,
With Obelisks and Marble Monuments:
No Writt, nor Letters, wes Invenit then,
For to preserve thame, be the Press or Pen.
H' abhor'd Debait, Thingis ruin'd he erects
And Lator was, of many sindrie Lawes:
He grac'd the good Men and the wicked wrecks,
Then to his Countrie cunning Crafts-men drawes:
To teach her skill in Artificial Things,
And then the Crowne to THEREUS he resigns.
And Lator was, of many sindrie Lawes:
He grac'd the good Men and the wicked wrecks,
Then to his Countrie cunning Crafts-men drawes:
To teach her skill in Artificial Things,
And then the Crowne to THEREUS he resigns.
Thereus, 8th King,
Rang befoir Christ 171, fra the begining of the Kingdome 158, and Rang 12 Yeers.
A prince appeiring good when he began,
But Hipocreit, soon after six Months He:
With ane louse Raine, t'Unrighteousnes he Ran
And plainly practeis'd all Impietie:
Drunk with Desire of Murder and Mischiefe,
And with Delight, of Lust, beyonde Beleefe.
But Hipocreit, soon after six Months He:
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And plainly practeis'd all Impietie:
Drunk with Desire of Murder and Mischiefe,
And with Delight, of Lust, beyonde Beleefe.
BUT lo his Lords, that could not byde nor beare,
The burden of his Tirraneis extreame:
That pitiles he practeis'd heir and theare,
But sense of Sinne, or ony sight of Sheame:
Thay caught the Croune, and he affraied flies
In Britane, whair exild, distres'd he dies.
The burden of his Tirraneis extreame:
That pitiles he practeis'd heir and theare,
But sense of Sinne, or ony sight of Sheame:
Thay caught the Croune, and he affraied flies
In Britane, whair exild, distres'd he dies.
Josine, 9th King,
Rang befoir Christ 161, fra the begining of the Kingdome 170, and Rang 24 Yeers.
A gentle King, addicted and dispois'd
To come to Knowledge in the Phisick Arte,
Whairin he much delighted and rejoisde,
And (thought a Prince) by Practeis proovde exparte:
And likewise those in Veneratioun hild,
That then war known, into that Calling, skil'd.
To come to Knowledge in the Phisick Arte,
Whairin he much delighted and rejoisde,
And (thought a Prince) by Practeis proovde exparte:
And likewise those in Veneratioun hild,
That then war known, into that Calling, skil'd.
WHILL he Impires, his People Peace possest,
And wes not with, tempestuous Troubles tost:
Whairfoir amidst this Quietnes and Rest,
His Subjects us'd, his Exercise almost:
A Prince that did deserve farr better daies,
Then those vnlearned to express his praise.
And wes not with, tempestuous Troubles tost:
Whairfoir amidst this Quietnes and Rest,
His Subjects us'd, his Exercise almost:
A Prince that did deserve farr better daies,
Then those vnlearned to express his praise.
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Finnane, 10th King,
Rang befoir Christ 137, fra the begining of the Kingdome 194, and Rang 30 Yeers.
No wracking Warr, no Battell, nor Debate,
Oppressioun, Hostilitie, nor Wrong
Did once disturb this Countreis quiet State,
Whill as the Fortunate King FINNANE Rang:
The Citie, Court, the Cloun and Common-Weell,
Alike they did, this Heav'nlie Favor feele.
Oppressioun, Hostilitie, nor Wrong
Did once disturb this Countreis quiet State,
Whill as the Fortunate King FINNANE Rang:
The Citie, Court, the Cloun and Common-Weell,
Alike they did, this Heav'nlie Favor feele.
THE former Princelie Power he impaires,
And limitats it, to perpetuall Lawes:
That no King shall, that dois succeed his Heyres
Conclude but Counsall in the common Cause:
Tak Peace, nor Battell bid, upon Debates,
Without a Statute of the Thrie Estates.
And limitats it, to perpetuall Lawes:
That no King shall, that dois succeed his Heyres
Conclude but Counsall in the common Cause:
Tak Peace, nor Battell bid, upon Debates,
Without a Statute of the Thrie Estates.
Durstus, 11th King,
Rang befoir Christ 107, fra the begining of the Kingdome 224, and Rang 9 Yeers.
O what a Pest, and Prince profane he proved
This dissolute King DURSTUS in his Daies:
For all the Lords his Father FINNANE loved
He carcerats, or inhumanelie Slaies.
And Butcheour-like, his Subjects kind he kills,
So all his Land, with Facts infamous, fills.
This dissolute King DURSTUS in his Daies:
For all the Lords his Father FINNANE loved
He carcerats, or inhumanelie Slaies.
And Butcheour-like, his Subjects kind he kills,
So all his Land, with Facts infamous, fills.
THIS wicked Sone of such a Virtuous Sire,
Knowne for a King, by nothing but the Name:
Unworthie of Advancement or Impire,
Or t'have the Dignit' of a Diademe:
Is for his Life, polluted and profane,
Be Insurrection of his Subjects, slane.
Knowne for a King, by nothing but the Name:
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Or t'have the Dignit' of a Diademe:
Is for his Life, polluted and profane,
Be Insurrection of his Subjects, slane.
Ewin I. 12th King,
Rang befoir Christ 38, fra the begining of the Kingdome 233, and Rang 19 Yeers.
Howsone he was installed in his Throne,
He was the first, that sought this Subjects Oathe;
Into his Castell called Beregone,
Of thair Alleageance, Loialtie and Trothe:
Yit laugh-ful wes, and loving his Desire
But purpose by plane Power to Impire.
He was the first, that sought this Subjects Oathe;
Into his Castell called Beregone,
Of thair Alleageance, Loialtie and Trothe:
Yit laugh-ful wes, and loving his Desire
But purpose by plane Power to Impire.
HIS Life he led, conforme unto the Law,
He woundit Vice, and Vertue he advanc't:
He lov'de his Lords, and yet held them in aw,
All Knaverie he correctit as it chaunc't:
And never yit the great Trespassour spair'd,
Nor left the wise and worthie but Rewaird.
He woundit Vice, and Vertue he advanc't:
He lov'de his Lords, and yet held them in aw,
All Knaverie he correctit as it chaunc't:
And never yit the great Trespassour spair'd,
Nor left the wise and worthie but Rewaird.
HE did supplie and help the Poor-mans Harmes,
Support the Pights and beat the Britons bold:
And so he was both excellent in Armes,
(As wes his Princelie Predicessors old)
And into Peace and Government to None,
(To be postpon'd) preceiding him and gone.
Support the Pights and beat the Britons bold:
And so he was both excellent in Armes,
(As wes his Princelie Predicessors old)
And into Peace and Government to None,
(To be postpon'd) preceiding him and gone.
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Bastard Gillus 13th King,
Rang befoir Christ 109, fra the begining of the Kingdome 252, and Rang 2 Yeers.
A bloodie Beast, who be his Fraude and Force,
With EWIN's Goods, unto the Throne attanes:
Which got with Wrong, he hes Governed worse,
And gave, to Rancor and his Rage, the Raines:
For on the Prince Posteritie he praies,
And under Trust, two Innocents Betraies.
With EWIN's Goods, unto the Throne attanes:
Which got with Wrong, he hes Governed worse,
And gave, to Rancor and his Rage, the Raines:
For on the Prince Posteritie he praies,
And under Trust, two Innocents Betraies.
BUT look how for his Levdness at the lengthe,
Th'Estates concludes, and err he knew Inclosde
Him in Dunstaffage, his esteemed Strengthe,
And thair him from all Princelie Pow'r depos'd:
But he escapes, and is to Ireland hounded,
Whair he is follow'd, Foughten and Confounded.
Th'Estates concludes, and err he knew Inclosde
Him in Dunstaffage, his esteemed Strengthe,
And thair him from all Princelie Pow'r depos'd:
But he escapes, and is to Ireland hounded,
Whair he is follow'd, Foughten and Confounded.
Ewin II. 14th King,
Rang befoir Christ 77, fra the begining of the Kingdome 254, and Rang 17 Yeers.
The
Hebrid Iles, that with Debaites abounded,
My Powar pacified, and pat to Rest:
And Balus that his Easterne Orchards hounded,
To Sack and Spoile my Province, I Represt:
In fine, himselfe I urg'd and straited so,
That he became his proper Burreo.
My Powar pacified, and pat to Rest:
And Balus that his Easterne Orchards hounded,
To Sack and Spoile my Province, I Represt:
In fine, himselfe I urg'd and straited so,
That he became his proper Burreo.
THEN when I had those Orcadens subdew'd,
And Balus Bands disperst and put to Chace,
And Fedracie with Nightbours I Renew'd,
And then my Principalitie and Place:
To EDERE DURSTUS NEPOT I dimitt,
The neirest Heire and laughful Lord of it.
And Balus Bands disperst and put to Chace,
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And then my Principalitie and Place:
To EDERE DURSTUS NEPOT I dimitt,
The neirest Heire and laughful Lord of it.
Eder, 15th King,
Rang befoir Christ 60, fra the begining of the Kingdome 271, and Rang 48 Yeers.
Through marvallous and maine Perrills past,
Preserv'd be secret Powars it appeer'd:
Calamities orecum he cam at last,
And worthlie the Roiall State he steer'd:
Ane Excellent, a Stout and Prudent Prence
At Home the Hope, a Fielde the firm Defence.
Preserv'd be secret Powars it appeer'd:
Calamities orecum he cam at last,
And worthlie the Roiall State he steer'd:
Ane Excellent, a Stout and Prudent Prence
At Home the Hope, a Fielde the firm Defence.
TH'unquiet Iylls yit boasting to rebell
He boldlie beats, and to obedience brings:
And prudentlie with Powar did propell
From his, Incursions of the Nighbour King's.
So, as of Cæsar, weel of EDER, than,
It might be said, he Went, he View'd, he Wan.
He boldlie beats, and to obedience brings:
And prudentlie with Powar did propell
From his, Incursions of the Nighbour King's.
So, as of Cæsar, weel of EDER, than,
It might be said, he Went, he View'd, he Wan.
Ewin III. 16th King,
Rang befoir Christ 12, fra the begining of the Kingdome 319, and Rang 7 Yeers.
How far deflecting from his Father's forme,
(A continent and uncorrupted King)
His leachrous Son lievde lawless and enorm,
And proov'de a Pump, Ponde and polluted Spring.
Of sensual and every other kynd
Of loathsome Lust, that filthy Flesh can fynd.
(A continent and uncorrupted King)
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And proov'de a Pump, Ponde and polluted Spring.
Of sensual and every other kynd
Of loathsome Lust, that filthy Flesh can fynd.
A HUNDREDTH Hours, seems insufficient,
Most horrible and inhumane to heir
His carnal Concupiscence to content,
Whairby his Disposition did appear:
Detestable, and Doggish into that
Oft surfetting, yit never saciat.
Most horrible and inhumane to heir
His carnal Concupiscence to content,
Whairby his Disposition did appear:
Detestable, and Doggish into that
Oft surfetting, yit never saciat.
WHO ever red of suche a monstrous Man
Who monstrously, maid many monstrous Lawes:
Which manie Yeers, nor Skill nor Cvning can
Get abrogate, suche Sinne, so sweetlie schawes:
Yet Vertue once, purg'd of those Lawes this Land,
And he in blood, deit by a childish Hand.
Who monstrously, maid many monstrous Lawes:
Which manie Yeers, nor Skill nor Cvning can
Get abrogate, suche Sinne, so sweetlie schawes:
Yet Vertue once, purg'd of those Lawes this Land,
And he in blood, deit by a childish Hand.
Metellane, 17th King,
Rang befoir Christ 14, frome the begining of the Kingdome 326, and Rang 39 Yeers.
A humble Prince, Just, Merciful and Meek,
Preast to repaire, Abuse born with befoir;
And all his Time most seriouslie did seeke,
All notabill Enormities, to smoir:
This happie Prince, in all blot that was then,
Resisted by Lewde and Licentious Men.
Preast to repaire, Abuse born with befoir;
And all his Time most seriouslie did seeke,
All notabill Enormities, to smoir:
This happie Prince, in all blot that was then,
Resisted by Lewde and Licentious Men.
YIT still those Laws of Lust he dissallowed,
And punish'de Vice, Impietie and Wrong:
Notorious and sensual Sinns h' eschewed,
And when the World, had Rest all where, he Rang.
More fortunate, nor anie King beforne
For in his Days, the great King Christ was borne.
And punish'de Vice, Impietie and Wrong:
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And when the World, had Rest all where, he Rang.
More fortunate, nor anie King beforne
For in his Days, the great King Christ was borne.
Caratack, 18th King,
Rang the 35 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 365, and Rang 20 Yeers.
This painful Prince, Adwentrous and Wise,
(If fortunate,) most full of Fortitude:
The Romans Pride and Power did despise
And thair Attempts with stoutness still withstood:
Whill Treacherie in Trust that oftimes stands
Betraide, and puts him in Ostorious hands.
(If fortunate,) most full of Fortitude:
The Romans Pride and Power did despise
And thair Attempts with stoutness still withstood:
Whill Treacherie in Trust that oftimes stands
Betraide, and puts him in Ostorious hands.
CARRIED to Rome, betraied, not o'rethrown,
Whair greater grew the Greatness of his Glorie;
Thair, for a King of Courage, he was knowne,
And so renouned in the Roman Storie.
Tane as a Foe returned as a Frend,
At Home, with Honour had a happie End.
Whair greater grew the Greatness of his Glorie;
Thair, for a King of Courage, he was knowne,
And so renouned in the Roman Storie.
Tane as a Foe returned as a Frend,
At Home, with Honour had a happie End.
Corbred, 19th King,
Rang the 55 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 385, and Rang 18 Yeers.
This Knightly CORBRED to the Crown elected,
His Ilanders unquiet, fierce and bold;
Rebelling then Couragiouslie Corrected
And all their Courses, crossed and controld:
Justiciars and Good Men he regarded,
And Villanous, ay as they wrong'd, Rewarded.
His Ilanders unquiet, fierce and bold;
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And all their Courses, crossed and controld:
Justiciars and Good Men he regarded,
And Villanous, ay as they wrong'd, Rewarded.
THE Romans, Robbers of all wthers Right,
And whilst they Rang, the Conquerors of Kings;
They fand his Force and Furie in the Fight
Thought Fates, from Him, to Thame th'Advantage Vrings:
His provess yit, so stout a part it playes,
That he in Peace did leave his leatter Dayes.
And whilst they Rang, the Conquerors of Kings;
They fand his Force and Furie in the Fight
Thought Fates, from Him, to Thame th'Advantage Vrings:
His provess yit, so stout a part it playes,
That he in Peace did leave his leatter Dayes.
Dardan, the Gross, 20th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 72, fra the begining of the Kingdome 402, and Rang 4 Yeers.
Whill honestlie this Hipocreit behav'd,
And bure himselfe, or like a Lamb did looke:
A good Conceat his Countrie hes conceav'd
But lo the same, it suddantly forsooke:
When Nero like, regardless he did rin,
And sank himself in ev'ry sort of Sinne.
And bure himselfe, or like a Lamb did looke:
A good Conceat his Countrie hes conceav'd
But lo the same, it suddantly forsooke:
When Nero like, regardless he did rin,
And sank himself in ev'ry sort of Sinne.
TO Traittors, all his Treasure he betaks
And robs his rich Men of thair righteous Goods:
Amongs his great Men Martyrdom he macks;
And cannot be contented but thair Bloods:
Bot seeking to Erute the Roial Seed,
He's slain and syne dishonor'd, being deed.
And robs his rich Men of thair righteous Goods:
Amongs his great Men Martyrdom he macks;
And cannot be contented but thair Bloods:
Bot seeking to Erute the Roial Seed,
He's slain and syne dishonor'd, being deed.
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Corbred II. Sir-named Gald, 21st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 76, fra the begining of the Kingdome 406, and Rang 35 Years.
Incomparable, thou Great & Gallant GALD,
Prudent in Peace, and Valerous in Warre:
Of th'Ylanders, thou forced for to fald,
Such as deboir'd from thy Obedience darre:
Thy State-effairs, with Forton fair th'effect's,
And some bad Laws, abolishes and brecks.
Prudent in Peace, and Valerous in Warre:
Of th'Ylanders, thou forced for to fald,
Such as deboir'd from thy Obedience darre:
Thy State-effairs, with Forton fair th'effect's,
And some bad Laws, abolishes and brecks.
VICTORIOUSLIE with Valour oft Thou Wan,
When in the Fielde with Roman Force thou fought;
Thou dreave thame from thy Merches ev'rie Man
And lastlie Brockin, to this Bay them brought:
To pray for Peace, to thy Triumphant Troupe,
And to thy Terror-striking-Standard stoup.
When in the Fielde with Roman Force thou fought;
Thou dreave thame from thy Merches ev'rie Man
And lastlie Brockin, to this Bay them brought:
To pray for Peace, to thy Triumphant Troupe,
And to thy Terror-striking-Standard stoup.
Luctack, 22d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 110, fra the begining of the Kingdome 440, and Rang 3 Yeers.
Degener'd muche, frome his Forgoers Graces,
A leacher Luctack, most polluted prooves:
All kinde of Lawes he flouted and defaces,
Martyrs the Best, and Murderers promoves:
Incestuous and for his Vices hated,
As Galdus gone, was by Goode regrated.
A leacher Luctack, most polluted prooves:
All kinde of Lawes he flouted and defaces,
Martyrs the Best, and Murderers promoves:
Incestuous and for his Vices hated,
As Galdus gone, was by Goode regrated.
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WITH Tigirish Hairte and with a Tyrans Hand,
For greed of Geer, his Princes Blood he spilles:
The loathsome Loade and Leproase' of the Land,
With Infamie the Air h' inflicts and fills:
But in effecting of his foullest Facts,
A bloodie End this matchless Monarch macks.
For greed of Geer, his Princes Blood he spilles:
The loathsome Loade and Leproase' of the Land,
With Infamie the Air h' inflicts and fills:
But in effecting of his foullest Facts,
A bloodie End this matchless Monarch macks.
Mogald, 23d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 113, fra the begining of the Kingdome 443, and Rang 36 Yeers.
A prince right stout, he studied to restoir,
And to the pristine Dignitie reduce;
What, LUCTAK leude, confouded haid befoir
And brought into, abhominable Abuse:
And then the Romans in a famous Fight,
He has defaited by his Martial Might.
And to the pristine Dignitie reduce;
What, LUCTAK leude, confouded haid befoir
And brought into, abhominable Abuse:
And then the Romans in a famous Fight,
He has defaited by his Martial Might.
BOT new-bred Vice his old-born Virtues banish'd,
And he to all Uncleannes did decline:
His vounted Vertues and his Valor Vanish'd,
And then profest all Filthines in Fin:
Yet such an End he suffered and receav'd,
As his Deserts were worthie of and crav'd.
And he to all Uncleannes did decline:
His vounted Vertues and his Valor Vanish'd,
And then profest all Filthines in Fin:
Yet such an End he suffered and receav'd,
As his Deserts were worthie of and crav'd.
Conar, 24th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 149, fra the begining of the Kingdome 479, Rang 14 Yeers.
Severus
Wall or Adrians some say,
King CONAR unabschedly did brack:
Thair furneish'd Forts and Forces did effray,
And in their Tents no little Terror strack:
This active Prince praise worthie was, had nought
His Vices vrong'd the virtuous Warks he wrought.
King CONAR unabschedly did brack:
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And in their Tents no little Terror strack:
This active Prince praise worthie was, had nought
His Vices vrong'd the virtuous Warks he wrought.
BOT Luxurie, and many other Ill,
And unto all Debosherie a Desire,
The Graces good unto this King did kill,
And to the Prison pull'd him from Impire.
Where he with shame and sorrow did consoume,
Whill ARGADUS Regented in his Rowm.
And unto all Debosherie a Desire,
The Graces good unto this King did kill,
And to the Prison pull'd him from Impire.
Where he with shame and sorrow did consoume,
Whill ARGADUS Regented in his Rowm.
Ethod, 25th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 163, fra the begining of the Kingdome 493, and Rang 33 Yeers.
Th' unquiet Ylls, to Insurrection us'd
ETHODIUS to danton him addresses,
And no Pains spair'd, no Forton he refus'd,
Whill all thair Pride and Powar he represses.
Thair sawadgness, foul Formes and Feritie,
He salv'd with Sharpness and Severitie.
ETHODIUS to danton him addresses,
And no Pains spair'd, no Forton he refus'd,
Whill all thair Pride and Powar he represses.
Thair sawadgness, foul Formes and Feritie,
He salv'd with Sharpness and Severitie.
TO fight his Foes he on no Perrill panc'd,
And muche the Roman Powars he Impair'd:
The Worthie, Wise and Vertuouss he advanc'd,
And muche to cross State-comberers he cair'd:
A Judge seveir and yet a clement King
He wes in all his Regiment and Regne.
And muche the Roman Powars he Impair'd:
The Worthie, Wise and Vertuouss he advanc'd,
And muche to cross State-comberers he cair'd:
A Judge seveir and yet a clement King
He wes in all his Regiment and Regne.
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Satrahell, 26th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 195, fra the begining of the Kingdome 525, and Rang 4 Yeers.
King
SATRAHELL when be immodrat Meens
He sought t'assure the Scepter in his Seed:
Made them his Foes that were befoir his Freens,
And great Disgrace hes gained for his Greed:
His Nobles all, this his Ambitioun haites,
So stood ill stirrde, the Kingdome and Estaites.
He sought t'assure the Scepter in his Seed:
Made them his Foes that were befoir his Freens,
And great Disgrace hes gained for his Greed:
His Nobles all, this his Ambitioun haites,
So stood ill stirrde, the Kingdome and Estaites.
THIS Hate breeds Harme, and much Commotion macks,
The King commands be Furie and be Force:
Whairby the Bulwark of Obedience bracks,
And what wes well is verted into Worss:
But lo! thir Broills the Crown and Countrie herries,
And in thame too, the Prince dispatch'd dois perreis.
The King commands be Furie and be Force:
Whairby the Bulwark of Obedience bracks,
And what wes well is verted into Worss:
But lo! thir Broills the Crown and Countrie herries,
And in thame too, the Prince dispatch'd dois perreis.
Donald the I. 27th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 199, fra the begining of the Kingdome 529, Rang 18 Yeers.
Thrise Happie, that the Lord to thee allots
(A Benefite above Beleef) to be,
The first commanding King above the SCOTS
Converted into Christianetie:
Which constantlie thou studied to extend
And propogat, unto thy Lives End,
(A Benefite above Beleef) to be,
The first commanding King above the SCOTS
Converted into Christianetie:
Which constantlie thou studied to extend
And propogat, unto thy Lives End,
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THOU, gratious Prince, with Gravetie, govern'd,
Yet magnanime and full of martiall Might:
For to secure and saiff all that concern'd
Thy Countries State, againes thy Foes in Fight:
The Romans felt, that oft bereft thy Rest,
What Boldness born was in thy baptiz'd Brest.
Yet magnanime and full of martiall Might:
For to secure and saiff all that concern'd
Thy Countries State, againes thy Foes in Fight:
The Romans felt, that oft bereft thy Rest,
What Boldness born was in thy baptiz'd Brest.
Ethod the II. 28th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 216, fra the begining of the Kingdome 546, and Rang 16 Years.
A spritles Prence, a Man without a Mind
Incapable of such a Prencelie Place:
(As never came of anie Kingly Kind)
He had no Pairt to proove his Roiall Race:
And yet to hoord up Substance he Essayes,
By villanous and manie wicked Wayes.
Incapable of such a Prencelie Place:
(As never came of anie Kingly Kind)
He had no Pairt to proove his Roiall Race:
And yet to hoord up Substance he Essayes,
By villanous and manie wicked Wayes.
WHEREFORE th'Estaits to help thair Losses large,
With Approbatioun, they this Prince deposde:
And took thameself the Governement and Charge,
When he was once incarcerate and closde.
Whair for his Goods and his ungodlie Gaine,
His Guardians, this pusill Prince hes slain.
With Approbatioun, they this Prince deposde:
And took thameself the Governement and Charge,
When he was once incarcerate and closde.
Whair for his Goods and his ungodlie Gaine,
His Guardians, this pusill Prince hes slain.
Athirco, 29th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 231, fra the begining of the Kingdome 561, and Rang 12 Years.
This Prince in his Promotion did appeer,
Enritch'd with Guifts and Roiall Graces rare:
Bot soon this Doubt dissolv'd, this Cloud did cleer,
And they as vaine, evanish'd with the Aere:
And he became both brutish and Prophane,
Unto all Kings, and to thair States, a Staine.
Enritch'd with Guifts and Roiall Graces rare:
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And they as vaine, evanish'd with the Aere:
And he became both brutish and Prophane,
Unto all Kings, and to thair States, a Staine.
LIKE Floods renforc'd, in Ribaldrie he rag'd,
A filthie Beast, effeminate, deflour'd,
Unlaughfullie the Young Ones and the Aig'd,
And forcibly the honestest behour'd:
But lo, the Lord upon this Tirran tacks
Revenge, and he himself the Murder macks.
A filthie Beast, effeminate, deflour'd,
Unlaughfullie the Young Ones and the Aig'd,
And forcibly the honestest behour'd:
But lo, the Lord upon this Tirran tacks
Revenge, and he himself the Murder macks.
Nathalack, 30th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 242, fra the begining of the Kingdome 572, and Rang 11 Yeers.
A cruell King, be Craft and be Constrent
(Nought of the Blood) unto the Kingdome claime:
And got in Schoe his Senators Consent
Who in thair Hearts did disallow the same:
For they his Platts and Policie suspect,
The whilk in Fine they fand into Effect.
(Nought of the Blood) unto the Kingdome claime:
And got in Schoe his Senators Consent
Who in thair Hearts did disallow the same:
For they his Platts and Policie suspect,
The whilk in Fine they fand into Effect.
IN monstruous Sins, without all Faith he fell,
To Witches then and Sorcerers he send,
Who could be Cunning (as he took it) tell
How both his Life and Regiment should End:
He should be slaine, they to his Servand schew,
And be the same it after tryed Trew.
To Witches then and Sorcerers he send,
Who could be Cunning (as he took it) tell
How both his Life and Regiment should End:
He should be slaine, they to his Servand schew,
And be the same it after tryed Trew.
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Findock, 31st. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 253, fra the begining of the Kingdome 583, and Rang 11 Yeers.
Disposed well, with all accomplesh'd Parts
This Prince had Prudence, Fortitude and Faeth:
Which drew to him, and did exhale the Harts
Of all that right Respect to Honor haeth:
Of Graces Store, with great and godlie Guifts
Above the Clouds, King FINDOCKS Laude uplifts.
This Prince had Prudence, Fortitude and Faeth:
Which drew to him, and did exhale the Harts
Of all that right Respect to Honor haeth:
Of Graces Store, with great and godlie Guifts
Above the Clouds, King FINDOCKS Laude uplifts.
WITH awfull Arms he daunts the Donaldanes,
And drowns the Flames of that Seditious Fire:
With Courage and with Knowledge he contanes
In pleasant Peace, all Partes of his Empire:
Yet he, whom Valour never circumveen'd,
Is falselie murdered by a secret Freind.
And drowns the Flames of that Seditious Fire:
With Courage and with Knowledge he contanes
In pleasant Peace, all Partes of his Empire:
Yet he, whom Valour never circumveen'd,
Is falselie murdered by a secret Freind.
Donald, the II. 32d. King,
Rang the 264 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 594, and Rang 1 Yeer.
A pregnant Prence and of a Stomak strong
With changing Chance, that oft unstabill stands:
Resisting Force, and in revenging Wrong,
Wnhappilie fell in rebellious Hands:
A Fortune far repugnant to the Merite,
Of his Heroick and his Princelie Sperite.
With changing Chance, that oft unstabill stands:
Resisting Force, and in revenging Wrong,
Wnhappilie fell in rebellious Hands:
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Of his Heroick and his Princelie Sperite.
NO Martial Might but Multitude of Men,
No honest Warrs, nor any Prowess plaine
O'recame this Knightly King: how and what then
Suppris'd unvarrs, not vanquished nor slain;
And yet how soone his owne Constraint he sees,
Subdu'd with Dolor he depairts and dies.
No honest Warrs, nor any Prowess plaine
O'recame this Knightly King: how and what then
Suppris'd unvarrs, not vanquished nor slain;
And yet how soone his owne Constraint he sees,
Subdu'd with Dolor he depairts and dies.
Donald the III. 33d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 265, fra the begining of the Kingdome 595, and Rang 12 Yeers.
Most truculent and tirranouse the Time,
Before he rest and did usurpe the Regne,
Contaminate with manie cruell Crime,
And so unworthy to be call'd a King.
A Persecuter of the Prence before,
Did then the Peers and Plebeans devore.
Before he rest and did usurpe the Regne,
Contaminate with manie cruell Crime,
And so unworthy to be call'd a King.
A Persecuter of the Prence before,
Did then the Peers and Plebeans devore.
HIS Mind still mus'de on Murder and Mischeef,
Ay fraught with Feare for many foul Offence,
Tormented for his Guiltiness with Greef,
And gnawing of a corrupt Conscience.
Whill CRATHALINT with an vindictive Hand,
From his Oppression did releive the Land.
Ay fraught with Feare for many foul Offence,
Tormented for his Guiltiness with Greef,
And gnawing of a corrupt Conscience.
Whill CRATHALINT with an vindictive Hand,
From his Oppression did releive the Land.
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Crathalint, 34th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 265, fra the begining of the Kingdome 607, and Rang 24 Yeers.
This civill Prence, religious and good,
A fatal Foe, unto all Feritie:
First boldlie took a beastlie Tirran's Blood,
And next dispatched his Posteritie:
Then he for Wise and Men of Courage cairs,
For to be Judges in his Countr' Effairs.
A fatal Foe, unto all Feritie:
First boldlie took a beastlie Tirran's Blood,
And next dispatched his Posteritie:
Then he for Wise and Men of Courage cairs,
For to be Judges in his Countr' Effairs.
BOT whill he hounting his Contentment taks,
The Pights thay bred (bot for a Beast) Debait:
Which much Mischief and manie Murders maks,
That troubled thairs, and efter this Estait:
Yet Wisdom stayit, and did restrane this Strife:
And then he led Religious-like his Life.
The Pights thay bred (bot for a Beast) Debait:
Which much Mischief and manie Murders maks,
That troubled thairs, and efter this Estait:
Yet Wisdom stayit, and did restrane this Strife:
And then he led Religious-like his Life.
Fincormack, 35th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 301, fra the begining of the Kingdome 631, and Rang 47 Yeers.
A spritfull Prence, illustreous in Armes:
Defate the Rage of Romans in his Ire:
He hap'lie helpit all Octavius Harmes,
And that perpetuate to his Empire:
Which CRATHALINT his Fortone got before,
Bot by his Martiall Means secured more.
Defate the Rage of Romans in his Ire:
He hap'lie helpit all Octavius Harmes,
And that perpetuate to his Empire:
Which CRATHALINT his Fortone got before,
Bot by his Martiall Means secured more.
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TH'afflicted and confined Christeane,
(So much this Prince did Pietie respect:)
Be that most monstrous Man Domitiane,
He be his Prencelie Powar did protect:
And yet th'illustreous Prince his Storie sayes,
He past in Peace, and leiv'de his laitter Dayes.
(So much this Prince did Pietie respect:)
Be that most monstrous Man Domitiane,
He be his Prencelie Powar did protect:
And yet th'illustreous Prince his Storie sayes,
He past in Peace, and leiv'de his laitter Dayes.
Romack, 36th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 348, fra the begining of the Kingdome 678, and Rang 3 Yeers.
Be
Pictish Strength he strove for the Estate,
Acquir'd with Wrong, did wickedly governe:
Envy to Armes, he adds to Blood Debate,
To make the Troubles of his Time eterne:
Yet faultie he, his futur Fall so fears,
That in Exile he hounds the Roiall Heyres.
Acquir'd with Wrong, did wickedly governe:
Envy to Armes, he adds to Blood Debate,
To make the Troubles of his Time eterne:
Yet faultie he, his futur Fall so fears,
That in Exile he hounds the Roiall Heyres.
THE fained Face of Justice he did schaw,
And did pretend to play the prudent Prence:
Yet sacrafeiz'd his Lords without a Law,
And wasted all Things with his Violence:
He th'Earthlie did, and Pow'rs Divine dispise,
In Pentland slane, thairfore condignely dies.
And did pretend to play the prudent Prence:
Yet sacrafeiz'd his Lords without a Law,
And wasted all Things with his Violence:
He th'Earthlie did, and Pow'rs Divine dispise,
In Pentland slane, thairfore condignely dies.
Angusean, 37th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 321, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 681, and Rang 3 Yeers.
At Rest the Realme, put from King ROMACK's Rage
The Regne by Right got this ANGUSEANE:
Prone unto Peace, and singularlie sage,
A Martiall yet, and mightie Myndit Man:
Not raschelie rais'd, bot justlie if commov'd
His Patience, implacable it prov'd.
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Prone unto Peace, and singularlie sage,
A Martiall yet, and mightie Myndit Man:
Not raschelie rais'd, bot justlie if commov'd
His Patience, implacable it prov'd.
THE Pights, throw Pride, they did perturbe his Peace,
Whom he was loath to fight withall: bot when
Refused was the Offer of his Grace:
H' orecam thair King, and manie of thair Men:
They nought content with this, would fight againe,
Whair much was lost, & both the Kings war slaine.
Whom he was loath to fight withall: bot when
Refused was the Offer of his Grace:
H' orecam thair King, and manie of thair Men:
They nought content with this, would fight againe,
Whair much was lost, & both the Kings war slaine.
Fethelmack, 38th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 354, fra the begining of the Kingdome 684, and Rang 3 Yeers.
King
FETHELMACK prepairde vpoun the Pights
The Prence his Daeth and wther Vrongs t'avenge
Thair King he slayes, defates with whome he fights,
And all from thair Incursiones does Clenge:
Whereby he bett, and thame o'resett so sore,
That thay thairafter Match with him no more.
The Prence his Daeth and wther Vrongs t'avenge
Thair King he slayes, defates with whome he fights,
And all from thair Incursiones does Clenge:
Whereby he bett, and thame o'resett so sore,
That thay thairafter Match with him no more.
WHEN force did faell, than they to fraud did flit,
What Might may not, by subtill Meanes thay mint:
And great effects, thair fell and followes It,
For lo the Prence, thus be thair Traens wes tint:
A constant King, that never had declin'de
From the Conditiones of a Kinglie kinde.
What Might may not, by subtill Meanes thay mint:
And great effects, thair fell and followes It,
For lo the Prence, thus be thair Traens wes tint:
A constant King, that never had declin'de
From the Conditiones of a Kinglie kinde.
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Eugenius the I. 39th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 357, fra the begining of the Kingdome 687, and Rang 3 Yeers.
With confident and with a furious Force,
The Romans, Brittons, and the Pights conspire:
T'eradicat, but Mercie or Remorss,
And pull from thee a long preserv'd Impire:
And have (thy Name) but Fauor in thair Furie,
All banded, in Oblivioun, to burie.
The Romans, Brittons, and the Pights conspire:
T'eradicat, but Mercie or Remorss,
And pull from thee a long preserv'd Impire:
And have (thy Name) but Fauor in thair Furie,
All banded, in Oblivioun, to burie.
YET fearslie fought, thou with those Fureis fell,
And all thair Strength, so stoupified and straitts:
That they amaz'd, doubt more with thee to mell,
Whill nought thair Force, but thy vnfreindly Fates
O'rewhelm'd thee fightand with thy hardie Host,
Whairby all lay, and looked as if lost.
And all thair Strength, so stoupified and straitts:
That they amaz'd, doubt more with thee to mell,
Whill nought thair Force, but thy vnfreindly Fates
O'rewhelm'd thee fightand with thy hardie Host,
Whairby all lay, and looked as if lost.
Fergus the II. 40th King, The second Restorer of the Kingdome.
Rang the Yeer of Christ 404, fra the begining of the Kingdome 734, and Rang 16 Yeers.
Most peerles Prence, all Things defac'd thou fand,
Thy Subjects slaine, and all thy Cities sack'd:
By Fates and Foes, depopulat the Land,
(Wofull to view) all wasted, vrong'd, and wrack'd:
Yet all thow to the former State restoir'd,
That ruin'd wes, and Rage of Warre devoird.
Thy Subjects slaine, and all thy Cities sack'd:
By Fates and Foes, depopulat the Land,
(Wofull to view) all wasted, vrong'd, and wrack'd:
Yet all thow to the former State restoir'd,
That ruin'd wes, and Rage of Warre devoird.
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THOU the renowned Romanes pat to rowt,
And thame constraind for Terror Trues to tak:
With strengthie strokes, and with a Stomack stowt,
Thrise in thrie fights, the Britons bold thow brak:
The Danow, Poo, the Rhene, and Rhodanus,
Haue hard, and knew, thy Virtue Valorus.
And thame constraind for Terror Trues to tak:
With strengthie strokes, and with a Stomack stowt,
Thrise in thrie fights, the Britons bold thow brak:
The Danow, Poo, the Rhene, and Rhodanus,
Haue hard, and knew, thy Virtue Valorus.
THE fates proov'de Friends, to stable the Estates,
When Fergus first, the Crowne together grost:
Bot thow, againes both Fortune, and the Fates,
Beconquest IT, deserted, left, and lost:
And spent thy Sprit, to thy Immortal Fame,
Into the Knightlie Conquess of the same.
When Fergus first, the Crowne together grost:
Bot thow, againes both Fortune, and the Fates,
Beconquest IT, deserted, left, and lost:
And spent thy Sprit, to thy Immortal Fame,
Into the Knightlie Conquess of the same.
Eugenius II. 41st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 420, fra the begining of the Kingdome 750, and Rang 32 Yeers.
A prudent Prince in Peace, a Wise in Warre,
Deforc't all Foes, the Peace preserv'd with Pights:
The Britons strest, and took thame Tributarr,
And be Conduct of Grahame, and gallant Knights:
The vondrous Walls, that then our Nation noyit,
The Keepars kill'd, he dang doune and destroyit.
Deforc't all Foes, the Peace preserv'd with Pights:
The Britons strest, and took thame Tributarr,
And be Conduct of Grahame, and gallant Knights:
The vondrous Walls, that then our Nation noyit,
The Keepars kill'd, he dang doune and destroyit.
WHAT Fergus last, with Providence did plant,
With Policie and Powar he perfects:
Then in his Throne, but truble Triumphant,
In Rest his Realme, he ruleth and directs:
The Germane-Saxons and the Cimbre rood,
He valeantlie all thair Attempts withstood.
With Policie and Powar he perfects:
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In Rest his Realme, he ruleth and directs:
The Germane-Saxons and the Cimbre rood,
He valeantlie all thair Attempts withstood.
Dongard, 42d. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 451, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 781, and Rang 5 Yeers.
In Counsall quick, a Prince in fight but feare,
Dispos'd to Peace, yet bold, and Bellicall:
Wnto his Brothers Seat, succeeds, and Heire,
Is to his Valor and his Virtues all:
In Peace provides for Varre, the word advances,
And stuffs his Strengths, for after-coming chances.
Dispos'd to Peace, yet bold, and Bellicall:
Wnto his Brothers Seat, succeeds, and Heire,
Is to his Valor and his Virtues all:
In Peace provides for Varre, the word advances,
And stuffs his Strengths, for after-coming chances.
HIS Tributars, the Britons thay Rebell,
With Constantine, come to relieve thair Thrall:
His cutting Sword, thair Courage yet doth quell,
Thought too too fierslie fighting he did fall:
To him, and his, that Days great Glorie goes:
Yet dearlie bought, both unto Friends and Foes.
With Constantine, come to relieve thair Thrall:
His cutting Sword, thair Courage yet doth quell,
Thought too too fierslie fighting he did fall:
To him, and his, that Days great Glorie goes:
Yet dearlie bought, both unto Friends and Foes.
Constantine the I. 43d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 475, fra the begining of the Kingdome 787, and Rang 22 Yeers.
A wicked King, be nather Facts nor Fame,
For Vertue Noble, Notted nor Renound:
A sensual Sott, to his Auncestors shame
Addicted unto Dronkennes: and Dround:
(As can not be reported) into Pleasure,
Immodestlie, but any Meane or Measure.
For Vertue Noble, Notted nor Renound:
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Addicted unto Dronkennes: and Dround:
(As can not be reported) into Pleasure,
Immodestlie, but any Meane or Measure.
THE Britons Bonde, he like a fool has fred,
Without adwise, or wote of wiser Witts:
Restorde thair Strengths, that stood his State in sted,
And careleslie, all Crueltie commits:
But this his Life, in Pleasure spent profane,
It made an End, in punishment and paine.
Without adwise, or wote of wiser Witts:
Restorde thair Strengths, that stood his State in sted,
And careleslie, all Crueltie commits:
But this his Life, in Pleasure spent profane,
It made an End, in punishment and paine.
Congall, 44th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 479, fra the begining of the Kingdome 809, and Rang 22 Years.
Most provident, thow prompt and puissant Prence,
Of Judgement sound, and of a scharpe Ingine:
Approved Prudent by Experience,
Amends the Misses of King Constantine:
Thy Life and Lawes togidder did agrie,
A passing Praise, perpollent Prince to thee.
Of Judgement sound, and of a scharpe Ingine:
Approved Prudent by Experience,
Amends the Misses of King Constantine:
Thy Life and Lawes togidder did agrie,
A passing Praise, perpollent Prince to thee.
THE bloodie Britons, and the Saxons set,
To stress thy State, ay as thair Greatnes grew:
Those gallantlie thou in two Battels bet,
And then of thir, thou many thousands slew:
Preserv'd thy Crowne, from forder thair offences,
Then Livde and Deit a Paterne unto Prences.
To stress thy State, ay as thair Greatnes grew:
Those gallantlie thou in two Battels bet,
And then of thir, thou many thousands slew:
Preserv'd thy Crowne, from forder thair offences,
Then Livde and Deit a Paterne unto Prences.
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Goran, 45th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 501, fra the begining of the Kingdome 831, and Rang 34 Years.
For Justice great, for Wisdome and for Worthe,
This Noble Prince, is not the least nor last:
Of virtuoss Kings, Renovned in the Northe,
For to be plac'd, and but his Praiss, be past:
With Pow're and Prudence, Roborate his Lawes,
And so himself, a scharpe Justiciare schawes.
This Noble Prince, is not the least nor last:
Of virtuoss Kings, Renovned in the Northe,
For to be plac'd, and but his Praiss, be past:
With Pow're and Prudence, Roborate his Lawes,
And so himself, a scharpe Justiciare schawes.
HE with the Pights, and Britons bold did band,
For Saxons sake, he made his Foes his Friends:
Then with Heroick Hardines of hand,
Defate and shamde, thame home to Saxon sends:
And yet at home, O plague, he be his owne,
Betray'de in Trust, is Murdred and o'rethrowne.
For Saxons sake, he made his Foes his Friends:
Then with Heroick Hardines of hand,
Defate and shamde, thame home to Saxon sends:
And yet at home, O plague, he be his owne,
Betray'de in Trust, is Murdred and o'rethrowne.
Eugenius the III. 46th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 335, fra the begining of the Kingdome 865, and Rang 23 Yeers.
This Just, most Careful, and Couragious King,
Too raschlie some of Pariceede suspects:
And yet his Life, his Good and Godlie Reigne,
From the imputed Pariceede protects:
Such schew his Faeth, and 's Actions exellent,
That he, is known, and counted Innocent.
Too raschlie some of Pariceede suspects:
And yet his Life, his Good and Godlie Reigne,
From the imputed Pariceede protects:
Such schew his Faeth, and 's Actions exellent,
That he, is known, and counted Innocent.
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THE Saxon-Seed he mightelie molests,
Aganes the Britons he the Pights supplies:
And in the fields, thair Forces he infefts;
Whair both King Mordred and King Arthur dies:
In Peace and Warre, he prompt and prudent prov'd,
Fear'd of the Bad, and of the Best beloved.
Aganes the Britons he the Pights supplies:
And in the fields, thair Forces he infefts;
Whair both King Mordred and King Arthur dies:
In Peace and Warre, he prompt and prudent prov'd,
Fear'd of the Bad, and of the Best beloved.
Congal the II. 47th King,
Rang the 558 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 888, and Rang 11 Yeers.
A zealous Prince, Religious and Wise,
Most Pitieful, most Provident and Just,
His panes, to Peace and Pietie, applyes,
Insuperable, with Awarice and Lust:
Faeth and Religion in his Land no les,
Nor plenteous Peace, did be his Care, incres.
Most Pitieful, most Provident and Just,
His panes, to Peace and Pietie, applyes,
Insuperable, with Awarice and Lust:
Faeth and Religion in his Land no les,
Nor plenteous Peace, did be his Care, incres.
HE bounteouslie vponn the Church bestowde,
He Pastors, Priests and Preachors did promove:
Offences that his Countries Face o'reflow'de,
He did reforme, more (than with Lawes) be love:
And, as his Priests, led als austere his Life,
Frie from Intestine, and all wther Strife.
He Pastors, Priests and Preachors did promove:
Offences that his Countries Face o'reflow'de,
He did reforme, more (than with Lawes) be love:
And, as his Priests, led als austere his Life,
Frie from Intestine, and all wther Strife.
Kinnatell, 48th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 569, fra the begining of the Kingdome 899, and Rang 1 Yeer.
This Prince by old, Experience expert,
(When nought a King) with manie change of things:
Was worthie and deserv'de to be insert,
Enroll'd and booked with the best of Kings:
Altho the Fates, so doing, did him wrong,
Allow't him nought to Guide nor Gowerne long.
(When nought a King) with manie change of things:
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Enroll'd and booked with the best of Kings:
Altho the Fates, so doing, did him wrong,
Allow't him nought to Guide nor Gowerne long.
HE willingly, and uncompelde deposde,
And set himself beside the Roial Seat:
And unto Aidan (invardlie reiosde)
Resignde the whole Constructionn of the State.
And vnperturbed in a priuate Place,
He died, and departed into Peace.
And set himself beside the Roial Seat:
And unto Aidan (invardlie reiosde)
Resignde the whole Constructionn of the State.
And vnperturbed in a priuate Place,
He died, and departed into Peace.
Aidan, 49th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 570, fra the begining of the Kingdome 900, and Rang 35 Yeers.
The good of him, that many Signes presaigde,
And nottable denunced in his Name:
He nather yet a Young Man nor an Aigde,
Did dissappoint th'assureance of the same:
Bot to his Honor, and his greater Glore,
He hes accomplish'd and performed more.
And nottable denunced in his Name:
He nather yet a Young Man nor an Aigde,
Did dissappoint th'assureance of the same:
Bot to his Honor, and his greater Glore,
He hes accomplish'd and performed more.
THE Saxons that, to overthrow him thrists,
His nighbour Pights, to Warre on him inveits:
Bot scharplie he, all thair Assaults resists,
And Hostill Mints, with Martial Might he meits:
So like a Prince, as Valorous, so Wise,
His People in Peace, he Governs whill he dyes.
His nighbour Pights, to Warre on him inveits:
Bot scharplie he, all thair Assaults resists,
And Hostill Mints, with Martial Might he meits:
So like a Prince, as Valorous, so Wise,
His People in Peace, he Governs whill he dyes.
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Kenneth the I. 50th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 605, fra the begining of the Kingdome 939, and Rang 1 Yeer.
Not like a Prince, bot like a Prisoner,
Or an Immurde, among Monastick Men:
Thow seldome to thy People did appear,
And when thow did, thow had no doing then;
That worthie wes, to blek a Book, or be,
Penn'd and presented to Posteritie.
Or an Immurde, among Monastick Men:
Thow seldome to thy People did appear,
And when thow did, thow had no doing then;
That worthie wes, to blek a Book, or be,
Penn'd and presented to Posteritie.
IF suche as leivs and lurks, leivs well, then thou,
A happie Prence, hes and a blissed bene:
For mongst the Numbers of our Nobles now,
Alone Thou lurkt, and was the latent ane:
Yet better lurk, nor be levd Life, to leave,
A Record of Disgrace vponn the Grave.
A happie Prence, hes and a blissed bene:
For mongst the Numbers of our Nobles now,
Alone Thou lurkt, and was the latent ane:
Yet better lurk, nor be levd Life, to leave,
A Record of Disgrace vponn the Grave.
Eugenius IV. 51st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 606, fra the begining of the Kingdome 936, and Rang 16 Yeers.
A learned Prince, taught be that holy Sage,
Columba cal'd, the Doctor of these dayes:
A Glorie chief and Honor of his Age,
Adwancer of Divinitie always:
In quietnes, his Kingdome he commands,
And on distrest of anie Neighbour stands.
Columba cal'd, the Doctor of these dayes:
A Glorie chief and Honor of his Age,
Adwancer of Divinitie always:
In quietnes, his Kingdome he commands,
And on distrest of anie Neighbour stands.
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HIS banish'd Foes, he pleasantlie recepts,
Though they were Hethnish Worshippers of gods:
Taught thame the Trueth, and tenderlie Intreats,
O're Tirrannie, Triumphantlie he trode.
And all his owne State-crosses he conjures,
The common Weell, from Cumber, so secures.
Though they were Hethnish Worshippers of gods:
Taught thame the Trueth, and tenderlie Intreats,
O're Tirrannie, Triumphantlie he trode.
And all his owne State-crosses he conjures,
The common Weell, from Cumber, so secures.
Ferchard the I. 52d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 621, fra the begining of the Kingdome 951, and Rang 12 Yeers.
This Infidell, foe to the Faith Profest,
Polluted wes, with all Impietie:
And boldlie he Imbarred in his Brest,
A horrible, and hatred Heresie:
He was Profane, Imprudent, and Pernitious,
Ay Wrongous, Violent, and Vicious.
Polluted wes, with all Impietie:
And boldlie he Imbarred in his Brest,
A horrible, and hatred Heresie:
He was Profane, Imprudent, and Pernitious,
Ay Wrongous, Violent, and Vicious.
THE Peoples plague, the poisone of the Peers,
The Perditor, and Pest of all Empires:
Most like a Devile, dispairdlie, Domineer's,
And all the Land, with Tirranie attires:
Bot mark, this Tirrane, torture dois attend,
His brutish Life, bred him a beastlie End.
The Perditor, and Pest of all Empires:
Most like a Devile, dispairdlie, Domineer's,
And all the Land, with Tirranie attires:
Bot mark, this Tirrane, torture dois attend,
His brutish Life, bred him a beastlie End.
Donald IV. 53d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 632, fra the begining of the Kingdome 962, and Rang 14 Yeers.
A gratious Son, succeeds this godlie Sire,
And all things finds confounded and defoyld:
Yet he as Prince, and Parent of th'Empire,
Reparde all that Impietie had spoild:
And the Religione faithfullie Profest,
Most be his Care Incredible Increst.
And all things finds confounded and defoyld:
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Reparde all that Impietie had spoild:
And the Religione faithfullie Profest,
Most be his Care Incredible Increst.
INTO his Bounds, h' abolishes abuses,
And Justefies, all the Injurious:
North-humber-Saxons, to the Faeth, h' adduces,
A naughtie Nation, fierce and furious:
O worthie Prince, lost by a meer Mischance,
Thy Deeds deserve, a deir Remembrance.
And Justefies, all the Injurious:
North-humber-Saxons, to the Faeth, h' adduces,
A naughtie Nation, fierce and furious:
O worthie Prince, lost by a meer Mischance,
Thy Deeds deserve, a deir Remembrance.
Ferchard II. 54th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 646, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 976, and Rang 18 Yeers.
A cruel Tirane, and a Tigre fell,
A Monstre that Immanetie mantainde:
A fearser of the Flesh, an Infidell,
All Doctrine of Divinity disdaind:
A bloodie beast, all Lawes and Justice smoird,
His Wife first slew, his Daughters sine defloird.
A Monstre that Immanetie mantainde:
A fearser of the Flesh, an Infidell,
All Doctrine of Divinity disdaind:
A bloodie beast, all Lawes and Justice smoird,
His Wife first slew, his Daughters sine defloird.
CURST for those Crimes, he but Remorse remaind,
Impenitent, all proudly he Opprest:
Bot by a Visitation straunge, constraind,
He come to knowledge, and his Faults confest:
Whill yet in him, his Wickedness and Vice,
Is punish't with, devoreing Wormes and Lice.
Impenitent, all proudly he Opprest:
Bot by a Visitation straunge, constraind,
He come to knowledge, and his Faults confest:
Whill yet in him, his Wickedness and Vice,
Is punish't with, devoreing Wormes and Lice.
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Maledvine, 55th King,
Rang the 664 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 994, and Rang 20 Yeers.
A moderat, yet moovde a Martiall Man;
Force with like Force, with Pow're he Pow're Repeld:
No wrong advantage ov're his Valor van,
Nor non by Might vnmatch'd, with him have mel'd:
H' appoints with Pights, seduc'd with Saxons, thay,
Yet brecks those Bands, with disadvantage ay.
Force with like Force, with Pow're he Pow're Repeld:
No wrong advantage ov're his Valor van,
Nor non by Might vnmatch'd, with him have mel'd:
H' appoints with Pights, seduc'd with Saxons, thay,
Yet brecks those Bands, with disadvantage ay.
HIS Nighbours thus, to Reason framed conforme,
His States thay strive, and greatlie then disgrees:
Yet with his Trident he did stay that Storme,
And suages soone, the swelling of those Sees;
Forc't by no Foes, but in his bosome lyes,
Whairby this Daunter of Misdoers dyes.
His States thay strive, and greatlie then disgrees:
Yet with his Trident he did stay that Storme,
And suages soone, the swelling of those Sees;
Forc't by no Foes, but in his bosome lyes,
Whairby this Daunter of Misdoers dyes.
Eugenius V. 56th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 684, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1014, and Rang 4 Yeers.
When he wes crownd, with consonant Consents:
With Cunning Craft, with Strength, he Strength withstands:
Levd Practise he, with Policie, prevents,
And wrongs Reveng'd, with Hardines of hand:
A powerfull and most politick Prence,
Ne're warr't with wit, nor wrong'd with Violence.
With Cunning Craft, with Strength, he Strength withstands:
Levd Practise he, with Policie, prevents,
And wrongs Reveng'd, with Hardines of hand:
A powerfull and most politick Prence,
Ne're warr't with wit, nor wrong'd with Violence.
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TH'insulting Saxones, brakers of thare Trues
Be Prudencie, and Provess in the Plane:
(Tho' Pights disperst) he dantones, and subdues,
And then, thair faithless cruell King, hes slane;
And so Triumphant, ov're the Pights, and thame,
In peace possest, to deathe, his Diadem.
Be Prudencie, and Provess in the Plane:
(Tho' Pights disperst) he dantones, and subdues,
And then, thair faithless cruell King, hes slane;
And so Triumphant, ov're the Pights, and thame,
In peace possest, to deathe, his Diadem.
Eugenius VI. 57th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 688, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1018, and Rang 10 Yeers.
A learned Prince, taught in the Holy Laws,
According to the Doctrine in those Dayes:
Northumbriane-Saxons, to his Friendship drawes,
Which all this time, without Distractioun stayes:
Bot with the Pights, no meanes his Mind might move,
To cum t'accord, and league with thame in love,
According to the Doctrine in those Dayes:
Northumbriane-Saxons, to his Friendship drawes,
Which all this time, without Distractioun stayes:
Bot with the Pights, no meanes his Mind might move,
To cum t'accord, and league with thame in love,
THERE faithles Formes, and Treasone he detests,
Therefore on thame, as Traterous he Trode:
And thair Dominions mightelie molests,
And oftentimes, o'reruns thame with his Roads.
In Albion are strange and stupendious things,
Seene in his Time, all ill presageing signs.
Therefore on thame, as Traterous he Trode:
And thair Dominions mightelie molests,
And oftentimes, o'reruns thame with his Roads.
In Albion are strange and stupendious things,
Seene in his Time, all ill presageing signs.
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Ambirkilleth, 58th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 697, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1027, and Rang 2 Yeers.
This King before he come vnto the Crowne,
Appeer'd profest Protector of the Poor:
Bot O how sone, into the Seat set down,
He does that Goode, and calling Just, abjure:
And then into, all filthines does fall,
Drownd into Lust, marrs and mischieveth all.
Appeer'd profest Protector of the Poor:
Bot O how sone, into the Seat set down,
He does that Goode, and calling Just, abjure:
And then into, all filthines does fall,
Drownd into Lust, marrs and mischieveth all.
BOT now the Pights, by his ill rewled Regne,
To truble his State, as fit, this time, they tak:
And in his bounds, thare bloodie Bands they bring,
With violence, all to devoure, and wrak:
Bot lo, he sees no Issue of those Ills,
For in his Campe, one yet unknowne, him Kills.
To truble his State, as fit, this time, they tak:
And in his bounds, thare bloodie Bands they bring,
With violence, all to devoure, and wrak:
Bot lo, he sees no Issue of those Ills,
For in his Campe, one yet unknowne, him Kills.
Eugenius VII. 59th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 699, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1029, and Rang 19 Yeers.
A righteous Prince, and of the Royal Race,
Robust of Bodie, and of Stomak strong:
Did Temporize, and took with Pights, a Peace,
Conformde with Wedlock, that has lasted long;
His Queen was slaine, and stabbed in his sted,
And he suspect, yet faultles found, was fred.
Robust of Bodie, and of Stomak strong:
Did Temporize, and took with Pights, a Peace,
Conformde with Wedlock, that has lasted long;
His Queen was slaine, and stabbed in his sted,
And he suspect, yet faultles found, was fred.
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H' applide himself, to Peace, and Pietie,
Repared Churches, and enlarged thare Rents:
And to encourge his Posteritie;
To Works of Worthe, and Valor, he Invents:
To caus collect, in Register, and Rol'd,
The famous facts, of his forbears old.
Repared Churches, and enlarged thare Rents:
And to encourge his Posteritie;
To Works of Worthe, and Valor, he Invents:
To caus collect, in Register, and Rol'd,
The famous facts, of his forbears old.
Mordack, 60th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 715, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1045, and Rang 15 Yeers.
A holy, Happy, and a humble Prence,
Most Loving, Bounteful, and Liberall:
By his Discretion, and his Diligence,
He brought to Peace, the Albion Prences all;
With Britons, Pights, & th'Englishe too, from Armes,
And thay with him, h' a Fedracie conferms.
Most Loving, Bounteful, and Liberall:
By his Discretion, and his Diligence,
He brought to Peace, the Albion Prences all;
With Britons, Pights, & th'Englishe too, from Armes,
And thay with him, h' a Fedracie conferms.
THIS publick Peace, in Albeon, all whare,
(Whairof the Revrend Bede, his Glorie tells:
This Prence of will, dispos'd for to Repare,
All ruind Rowmes, Importonnd and Compells:
Which he much more Magnificent did mak,
That Vrong, and Warrs, before he was, did wrak.
(Whairof the Revrend Bede, his Glorie tells:
This Prence of will, dispos'd for to Repare,
All ruind Rowmes, Importonnd and Compells:
Which he much more Magnificent did mak,
That Vrong, and Warrs, before he was, did wrak.
Etfin, 61st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 730, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1060, Rang 13 Yeers.
My Subjects vsde, to Exerceis and Armes,
To Battell signe, and to the Trumpet sound:
Frie from Intestene, and Externall Harmes,
In Peace, and Plentie, all their Bounds abound:
I do dirrect thame, by my Lawes, and Thay,
(That which I bid, as bound to me) Obay.
To Battell signe, and to the Trumpet sound:
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In Peace, and Plentie, all their Bounds abound:
I do dirrect thame, by my Lawes, and Thay,
(That which I bid, as bound to me) Obay.
BOT Ag'd in end, I do the Raines Resigne,
And gives to four, th'Authoretie to vse:
Whose Slouthe and Slovnes in there Governing.
Distructionn great, to my Dominions does:
For th'Ilanders, stirr'd, by a Tiran strong,
My poore Men spoilles by Violence, and Wrong.
And gives to four, th'Authoretie to vse:
Whose Slouthe and Slovnes in there Governing.
Distructionn great, to my Dominions does:
For th'Ilanders, stirr'd, by a Tiran strong,
My poore Men spoilles by Violence, and Wrong.
Eugenius the VIII. 62d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 761, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1091, and Rang 3 Years.
What hardie Prince, darr thow not Interprise,
Offendars all, thy Force, and Furie feill:
Before thy feet, the Limmers liveles lyis,
And at the first, all wiselie went, and weill:
Thy Realme had rest, and thou Redoubted Rang:
(Admird) with Moderating thame among.
Offendars all, thy Force, and Furie feill:
Before thy feet, the Limmers liveles lyis,
And at the first, all wiselie went, and weill:
Thy Realme had rest, and thou Redoubted Rang:
(Admird) with Moderating thame among.
BOT O thy Virtues that, in Perrill spred,
Ar vanishd now, and perished in Peace:
And thou by lawles Lecherie ar led,
From Regall Glorie, into all Disgrace:
Peremptourlie, then punish'd by thy Peers,
As to th'offence, and to thy fall, effeirs.
Ar vanishd now, and perished in Peace:
And thou by lawles Lecherie ar led,
From Regall Glorie, into all Disgrace:
Peremptourlie, then punish'd by thy Peers,
As to th'offence, and to thy fall, effeirs.
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Fergus III. 63d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 764, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1095, and Rang 3 Yeers.
His Facts, his Formes, his Fortone, and his Fine,
Not much debordes, nor groslie disagrees,
O Insolent, Eugenius from Thine,
For both were Wedded into Villaneis:
Hee was most Cruell, Carnal and Unjust,
Thou bloodie and Inebriat with Lust.
Not much debordes, nor groslie disagrees,
O Insolent, Eugenius from Thine,
For both were Wedded into Villaneis:
Hee was most Cruell, Carnal and Unjust,
Thou bloodie and Inebriat with Lust.
THOU careles of thy Standing and Estate,
Improvident, so levied he, his Life:
And not vnlike, wes both your Fynes, and Fate,
Thow fell perforce, hee by a wronged Wife,
(Her hands, some think) wes strangled, and o'rethrowne,
Syne sche, her selfe, confounded with her owne.
Improvident, so levied he, his Life:
And not vnlike, wes both your Fynes, and Fate,
Thow fell perforce, hee by a wronged Wife,
(Her hands, some think) wes strangled, and o'rethrowne,
Syne sche, her selfe, confounded with her owne.
Solvathius, 64th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 767, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1097, and Rang 20 Years.
A wirtuous Prince, that wanted no Good-will,
T'imploy his Panes, to pacif' his Empire:
If nought the Gutt, a weary wofull Ill,
Had cros'd his Care, and his designd desire.
Yet whill he lievde, the Land did not Inlake,
A good Success, and Fortone for his sake.
T'imploy his Panes, to pacif' his Empire:
If nought the Gutt, a weary wofull Ill,
Had cros'd his Care, and his designd desire.
Yet whill he lievde, the Land did not Inlake,
A good Success, and Fortone for his sake.
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REBELLIOUS Bane, the Captain of Kintire,
He does Debell, and in Subjection bring,
That by a vane Presumption did aspire,
Wnlaughfullie for to become a King.
This Insurrection raised and represt,
He rang Obeyit, his Remanent, at Rest.
He does Debell, and in Subjection bring,
That by a vane Presumption did aspire,
Wnlaughfullie for to become a King.
This Insurrection raised and represt,
He rang Obeyit, his Remanent, at Rest.
Achaius, the 65th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 787, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1117, and Rang 32 Yeers.
Egregious Prince, farr Famous for thy Facts,
The Irish Host, send to Molest thy Lands,
The wraethfull Winds into thy Waters wracks,
Without the help of anie humane Hands;
Togidder with the Elements and Sea,
The Fates and Fortone, thay do Fight for Thee.
The Irish Host, send to Molest thy Lands,
The wraethfull Winds into thy Waters wracks,
Without the help of anie humane Hands;
Togidder with the Elements and Sea,
The Fates and Fortone, thay do Fight for Thee.
THAT Covenant, strong League and Alliance,
(Praise-worthie-Prince) perpetuats Thy Fame,
That first thow past with great King Charles of France,
So stedable, both unto Thyne and Thame:
Which yet infring't and permanent sensyne
Still stands, with all the Princes of Thy Line.
(Praise-worthie-Prince) perpetuats Thy Fame,
That first thow past with great King Charles of France,
So stedable, both unto Thyne and Thame:
Which yet infring't and permanent sensyne
Still stands, with all the Princes of Thy Line.
Congall III. 66th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 819, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 1149, Rang 5 Yeers.
His litle Time, he Ruld, his Realme in rest,
With Pights the Peace, and Truce he entertanes:
Whairby his bounds were bountefullie Blest,
And with all Plentie plenished was his Planes:
No new wproars, nor Rumor of a Riot,
Impesched his Peace, nor crossed once, his quiet.
With Pights the Peace, and Truce he entertanes:
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And with all Plentie plenished was his Planes:
No new wproars, nor Rumor of a Riot,
Impesched his Peace, nor crossed once, his quiet.
O HAPPY Peace, the Pillor of Empires,
The Grace of God from whence all goodnes growes:
The Sapients, insatiat desires:
And fountane fair, from whence, diffounds and flowes:
Welth, wirtue, witt incress, content and store,
That Riches Kings, and Countries does decore.
The Grace of God from whence all goodnes growes:
The Sapients, insatiat desires:
And fountane fair, from whence, diffounds and flowes:
Welth, wirtue, witt incress, content and store,
That Riches Kings, and Countries does decore.
Dongall, 67th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 824, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1154, and Rang 7 Years.
A wirtuous Prince, yet singular Seveir,
Th'vnbridled Youth, bent to Rebellione:
That would perforce, Compell th'apeirand Heire,
Befoir the time, to come and claime the Croune:
He dois prevent, (so sharplie he provides)
And punicshes, thair Principalls, and Heids.
Th'vnbridled Youth, bent to Rebellione:
That would perforce, Compell th'apeirand Heire,
Befoir the time, to come and claime the Croune:
He dois prevent, (so sharplie he provides)
And punicshes, thair Principalls, and Heids.
THE Pictish Croune, when he had send, and sought,
To Alpine falne, by ane Maternall right:
The Clame misknowne, his Sute set all at nought,
Whill as he mynds, to mend him by his might:
The Fates prove Foes, & they this King confound,
For passing Spey, he is borne doune and dround.
To Alpine falne, by ane Maternall right:
The Clame misknowne, his Sute set all at nought,
Whill as he mynds, to mend him by his might:
The Fates prove Foes, & they this King confound,
For passing Spey, he is borne doune and dround.
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Alpine, 68th King,
Rang the 831 Yeer of Christ, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1161, and Rang 3 Yeers.
Thus
Dongall dround, King Alpine all provides,
To pas on Pights, (reason refvs'd) perforce:
On whome with all his Regiments he rides,
And thrise he putts thair Warrmen to the worss:
Their Tents he took, thair captane King has slane,
And Victor he, (all maistred) did remaine.
To pas on Pights, (reason refvs'd) perforce:
On whome with all his Regiments he rides,
And thrise he putts thair Warrmen to the worss:
Their Tents he took, thair captane King has slane,
And Victor he, (all maistred) did remaine.
BOT whill agane, he does persew those Pights,
(Thrise else defaite) and them annoyes of new
(Fearing his Force) by subtiltie and slights
Thay took himselfe, and sine his Host orethrew:
Perfidiouslie, then into furie flesht,
Thair laughfull Prince, (thair Prisoner) dispesht.
(Thrise else defaite) and them annoyes of new
(Fearing his Force) by subtiltie and slights
Thay took himselfe, and sine his Host orethrew:
Perfidiouslie, then into furie flesht,
Thair laughfull Prince, (thair Prisoner) dispesht.
Kenneth II. Victorious, 69th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 834, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1164, and Rang 20 Yeers.
This happy Heroe, with Hercule'ane hand,
Ane excellent, chose Ornament, of Kings:
Dispatcht all Pights, that durst his strenghth withstand,
And all thair boundes in his Subiectioun bringes:
Sev'ne times he faught, and sev'ne times in a day
This Worthie went Victorious away.
Ane excellent, chose Ornament, of Kings:
Dispatcht all Pights, that durst his strenghth withstand,
And all thair boundes in his Subiectioun bringes:
Sev'ne times he faught, and sev'ne times in a day
This Worthie went Victorious away.
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HIS State unstres'd, from forraigne Foes he fenc't,
He Rooted out and Rac'de the Pictish Race:
Couragious Knights, he richlie Recompenc't,
And by his Lawes preserved all in Peace:
Wherefoir this Gallant, Great, and Glorious,
We worthilie surnamed Victorious.
He Rooted out and Rac'de the Pictish Race:
Couragious Knights, he richlie Recompenc't,
And by his Lawes preserved all in Peace:
Wherefoir this Gallant, Great, and Glorious,
We worthilie surnamed Victorious.
Donald V. 70th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 854, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1184, and Rang 5 Years.
Forgetful quite, of his Awncestors all,
And of himself, more sensles as it seems:
H' in greater faults, and filthines did fall,
Nor goodlie can, be publishd or expreem'd:
This fleshlie Prince, that nought his place respects,
His Lieges with, his filthines infects.
And of himself, more sensles as it seems:
H' in greater faults, and filthines did fall,
Nor goodlie can, be publishd or expreem'd:
This fleshlie Prince, that nought his place respects,
His Lieges with, his filthines infects.
YET forst to fight, aganes the English Armes,
Once with good fortune did their Pow're Repell:
Bot lo this Luck, the Victor Host more harmes,
Then thame Defaited in the field that fell:
His Companies, with Courage overcame,
Bot nather could nor wold, he vse the same.
Once with good fortune did their Pow're Repell:
Bot lo this Luck, the Victor Host more harmes,
Then thame Defaited in the field that fell:
His Companies, with Courage overcame,
Bot nather could nor wold, he vse the same.
Constantine II. 71st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 859, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1189, and Rang 16 Yeers.
His wasted Countries Parent and her Prence;
The Prelats Pride, thair Riot and Excess,
And with thair Charges, thair non-residence,
Reprooves, Condemnes, does Minish and mak less:
By daeth (Misdoers) or Indigneties,
With speed he punishes, and pacefies.
The Prelats Pride, thair Riot and Excess,
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Reprooves, Condemnes, does Minish and mak less:
By daeth (Misdoers) or Indigneties,
With speed he punishes, and pacefies.
THE Cimber-Danes drawne heir into his dayes,
Dispoilde his Poore, depopulate his Lands:
Yet he thair furie, with distruction stayes,
Ay whill himselfe, fell in thair Hethnish hand:
And shortlie slane, by Sauadgnes of sum,
By him befoir, Commanded, and o'recum.
Dispoilde his Poore, depopulate his Lands:
Yet he thair furie, with distruction stayes,
Ay whill himselfe, fell in thair Hethnish hand:
And shortlie slane, by Sauadgnes of sum,
By him befoir, Commanded, and o'recum.
Ethus the Swift, 72d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 874, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1204, and Rang 2 Yeers.
The stagring Standarts, and the Strayed Troups,
With Constantine, into the Field Before:
That not to Strengh, but change of Fortoune stoups,
He does Collect, Really, and Restore:
Bot sone from Virtue, he to Vice declines,
And so his Glore, and his good Name he tynes.
With Constantine, into the Field Before:
That not to Strengh, but change of Fortoune stoups,
He does Collect, Really, and Restore:
Bot sone from Virtue, he to Vice declines,
And so his Glore, and his good Name he tynes.
HIS Nat'rall Guifts, and manie Corp'rall Graces,
(Gev'ne for his Good) to honour him, Refuses,
Since like a Beast, all bavdrie he embraces,
And blessings all, bestowde on him, Abuses:
Whairfore his Peers, Imprisones him, and he,
Disconsolat, does in a Dungeonn die.
(Gev'ne for his Good) to honour him, Refuses,
Since like a Beast, all bavdrie he embraces,
And blessings all, bestowde on him, Abuses:
Whairfore his Peers, Imprisones him, and he,
Disconsolat, does in a Dungeonn die.
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Gregory the Great, 73d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 876, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1206, and Rang 18 Yeers.
How manie Rare, and Princelie Partes possest,
Condignly call'd this GREGORY the Great:
He first the Church-mens libertie Increst,
And satled from, Intestine Strife, his State:
He dang the Danes and Britons bett with bloes,
And twise, two Times, trivmphed o're his foes.
Condignly call'd this GREGORY the Great:
He first the Church-mens libertie Increst,
And satled from, Intestine Strife, his State:
He dang the Danes and Britons bett with bloes,
And twise, two Times, trivmphed o're his foes.
HE batters Berwick, and that Toune he taks,
And th'Ireland Force, that did afflict his Fields:
(Sought throw the Seas) this Bellicose, he braks,
Whill Dubline danger'd, to his mercie yeelds:
The King, and Croune, in his protectionn put,
And Concord bot, as he commands, wes knut.
And th'Ireland Force, that did afflict his Fields:
(Sought throw the Seas) this Bellicose, he braks,
Whill Dubline danger'd, to his mercie yeelds:
The King, and Croune, in his protectionn put,
And Concord bot, as he commands, wes knut.
Donald VI. 74th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 894, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1224, and Rang 11 Yeers.
Ane active Prince, whose manie Martiall Merits,
Hes equald his, to his Auncestors acts:
The great King Gregor's hardines, h' inherits,
And nought that may, mak him be Lauded lacks:
TH'Empire in Peace, and prudentlie appaisd
He Knightlie Wise, preseru's at rest vnraisd.
Hes equald his, to his Auncestors acts:
The great King Gregor's hardines, h' inherits,
And nought that may, mak him be Lauded lacks:
TH'Empire in Peace, and prudentlie appaisd
He Knightlie Wise, preseru's at rest vnraisd.
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ANE Danishe flott, out of his Deephs he drave,
How soone thair coming, to his Coast was knowne:
He th'Englishe aides, that his Concurrenss craves,
And punishes, all uproars of his owne:
Trivmphant then, Redoubted, and Renovnd,
Hee rests decoird, and with the Lawrell Cround.
How soone thair coming, to his Coast was knowne:
He th'Englishe aides, that his Concurrenss craves,
And punishes, all uproars of his owne:
Trivmphant then, Redoubted, and Renovnd,
Hee rests decoird, and with the Lawrell Cround.
Constantine the III. 75th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 904, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1234, and Rang 40 Yeers.
A simple, and too Credulous a King,
Brought to beleeve, a siren Song too soone:
Which losses large, unto his Bands did bring,
How soone he did, Thame to the Danes conjoine:
A Natione fierce, foe to the Faeth profest,
(Aganes a Band, with Britons) he embrac'd.
Brought to beleeve, a siren Song too soone:
Which losses large, unto his Bands did bring,
How soone he did, Thame to the Danes conjoine:
A Natione fierce, foe to the Faeth profest,
(Aganes a Band, with Britons) he embrac'd.
THIS Friendschip fond, confermed with a foe,
Bot waiting vauntage, to revolt and change:
Brought Britone Varrs, they brought with thame thair Voe,
A foull Defaitt, and vonderful Revenge:
Whill to lament, the largenes of this loss,
His Croune, he with, a frierish Coull, did coss.
Bot waiting vauntage, to revolt and change:
Brought Britone Varrs, they brought with thame thair Voe,
A foull Defaitt, and vonderful Revenge:
Whill to lament, the largenes of this loss,
His Croune, he with, a frierish Coull, did coss.
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Malcolme I. 76th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 943, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1273, and Rang 9 Yeers.
A prince whose Virtue, famous made his Facts,
His Territors, he but a stroake extends:
All Bands with Danes, h' abolishes and bracks,
And Englishmen, of Foes, he made his Friends:
So Fortone flows, her Gloab, so rolling goes,
That now, new Friends, prove now, anone, new foes.
His Territors, he but a stroake extends:
All Bands with Danes, h' abolishes and bracks,
And Englishmen, of Foes, he made his Friends:
So Fortone flows, her Gloab, so rolling goes,
That now, new Friends, prove now, anone, new foes.
IN the English aide, he does the Danes defait,
Without respect, or sparing of his Panes:
He castigates, and with correctionn strait,
His Countries youth, from rage, of Error Ranes:
And yet this good King, Ministring his Laws,
His Throat got cutted for his Justice caus.
Without respect, or sparing of his Panes:
He castigates, and with correctionn strait,
His Countries youth, from rage, of Error Ranes:
And yet this good King, Ministring his Laws,
His Throat got cutted for his Justice caus.
Indulph, 77th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 952, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1282, and Rang 9 Yeers.
My People Peace, and jointlie I enjoyed,
Tranquility, a six or sev'n Yeers space:
Restoring things, that former Strife destroyed,
Wnto their old, Integritie and Grace:
Whill that a hatefull and a Hethnish Host,
The cruell Danes, dois kithe uponn our Cost.
Tranquility, a six or sev'n Yeers space:
Restoring things, that former Strife destroyed,
Wnto their old, Integritie and Grace:
Whill that a hatefull and a Hethnish Host,
The cruell Danes, dois kithe uponn our Cost.
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THARE Landing long, I letted whill at last,
Be fraudulent, a fals, and faingzeit flight:
They come to Colene, and there Anchors cast,
Where I perforce, defate thame in a Fight:
Bot too too bold, without my Bands, or Bak,
Adventring valiantlie, I went to Wrak.
Be fraudulent, a fals, and faingzeit flight:
They come to Colene, and there Anchors cast,
Where I perforce, defate thame in a Fight:
Bot too too bold, without my Bands, or Bak,
Adventring valiantlie, I went to Wrak.
Duffus, 78th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 961, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1291, and Rang 5 Yeers.
The Savadge [tribes] that Warr could newer vinn,
No Law reforme, Time terrifie, nor Tame:
Affrighted frome, his Roiall Collors Rin,
So, he corrects, and dewlie dantons Thame:
Thair Magicall enchauntments nor thair charms,
Could not preserve, thame from his awful Arms.
No Law reforme, Time terrifie, nor Tame:
Affrighted frome, his Roiall Collors Rin,
So, he corrects, and dewlie dantons Thame:
Thair Magicall enchauntments nor thair charms,
Could not preserve, thame from his awful Arms.
HE th'insolent, and wantone Vagabounds,
To tak thame too a Calling, does constrane:
Or punished, or banished thame his bounds,
Whill savagelie, in secreit he is slane:
And yet behold, continuall Darkness did,
Mak manifest, his horrid Murder hid.
To tak thame too a Calling, does constrane:
Or punished, or banished thame his bounds,
Whill savagelie, in secreit he is slane:
And yet behold, continuall Darkness did,
Mak manifest, his horrid Murder hid.
Cullen, 79th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 966, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1296, and Rang 4 Yeers.
This Princelie Parte, allone my Spr'ite possest,
That I the Countrie from King-killars clengde:
And so that Donald with his Doers drest,
That worthelie, I Duffus wrong Revengde:
Bot no mo princelie Properties hade I,
To guard me from a greatter Infamie.
That I the Countrie from King-killars clengde:
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That worthelie, I Duffus wrong Revengde:
Bot no mo princelie Properties hade I,
To guard me from a greatter Infamie.
FOR all the Ills, that could infect the fleshe,
A World of Vice, all sort of sensual Sinne:
Bvt offring once, vnto my Brest a Breshe,
I Greedilie, both sought, and soukit In:
Which so polluts, my Persone, and my Sperit,
And maid me last, be Murdered for my Merit.
A World of Vice, all sort of sensual Sinne:
Bvt offring once, vnto my Brest a Breshe,
I Greedilie, both sought, and soukit In:
Which so polluts, my Persone, and my Sperit,
And maid me last, be Murdered for my Merit.
Kenneth III. 80th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 970, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1300, and Rang 24 Yeers.
A prince with all the Partes, that may be Praisd,
Or competent, or comelie into Kinges:
The rooted Vice, in Cullens Raigne, he Raisd,
And all abuses, in Obliuionn Bringes:
And had he nought, fall'ne in a foull offence,
None past before, had proovde a better Prence.
Or competent, or comelie into Kinges:
The rooted Vice, in Cullens Raigne, he Raisd,
And all abuses, in Obliuionn Bringes:
And had he nought, fall'ne in a foull offence,
None past before, had proovde a better Prence.
AT Loncartie he did destroy the Danes,
There where the Hayes thair first great Honor had:
His Kingdome he, in Concord all Contanes,
And did vndoe, thame that Rebellione Bred:
Bot yet a Womans Witt, (the waikest thing,)
Confounds with cvnning this courageous King.
There where the Hayes thair first great Honor had:
His Kingdome he, in Concord all Contanes,
And did vndoe, thame that Rebellione Bred:
Bot yet a Womans Witt, (the waikest thing,)
Confounds with cvnning this courageous King.
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Constantine IV. 81st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 994, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1324, and Rang 2 Yeers.
As blind Ambition, did induce Desire,
And causde him crave, and covet to be Cround:
So Petitors, did punische his Empire,
And it (divided) in distructionn drounde:
Plague, Famen, Force, (this Realme thus Raizde and Rent,)
Vnhappie Prince, his People, both spoilde, & spent.
And causde him crave, and covet to be Cround:
So Petitors, did punische his Empire,
And it (divided) in distructionn drounde:
Plague, Famen, Force, (this Realme thus Raizde and Rent,)
Vnhappie Prince, his People, both spoilde, & spent.
IN this Intesteine, and no straunger Strife,
There Countrie Friends, wes to thare furie Food:
No Straunger, nor, Outlandishe, lost his Life,
Nor then wes sched, a Dane, nor Britons Blood:
No all wes thares, and thairfor Justlie all,
Both King, and Clamers, for thair Faults did fall.
There Countrie Friends, wes to thare furie Food:
No Straunger, nor, Outlandishe, lost his Life,
Nor then wes sched, a Dane, nor Britons Blood:
No all wes thares, and thairfor Justlie all,
Both King, and Clamers, for thair Faults did fall.
Grimmus, 82d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 996, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1326, and Rang 8 Yeers.
A martial Mind, placde in a Person Strong,
A pleasant Prince, and liberall no less:
By Argadus, his godlie Labors long,
Contendants quarrels, for the Croune, quiesce:
And he his time, at ease in pleasure past,
Whill those Delights, lost him his Life, at last.
A pleasant Prince, and liberall no less:
By Argadus, his godlie Labors long,
Contendants quarrels, for the Croune, quiesce:
And he his time, at ease in pleasure past,
Whill those Delights, lost him his Life, at last.
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HIS idle Life, allurde him wnto Lust,
Deflecting frome his former Faschionnes All:
He is become, Injurious and Unjust,
And onlie, to his thriftles Thoughts, is thrall:
Whill Malcolme Kenneths Sone, this Tirane taks:
(His Eyes puld out,) then like a Wretche he wraks.
Deflecting frome his former Faschionnes All:
He is become, Injurious and Unjust,
And onlie, to his thriftles Thoughts, is thrall:
Whill Malcolme Kenneths Sone, this Tirane taks:
(His Eyes puld out,) then like a Wretche he wraks.
Malcolmus II. 83d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1004, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1334, and Rang 30 Yeers.
A prudent Prince, exceeding Panes employed,
T'vptak Contentiones, in the former Times:
And to restore, that Tirranie destroyed,
He dois Remit, all fore-committed Crimes:
And causde those things, that leachrous Grim disgraces,
To looke wp livelie with reformed Faces.
T'vptak Contentiones, in the former Times:
And to restore, that Tirranie destroyed,
He dois Remit, all fore-committed Crimes:
And causde those things, that leachrous Grim disgraces,
To looke wp livelie with reformed Faces.
THRICE in thrie Fights, the Danes defated fled,
And left vnto, his Victor Force, the fielde:
He in thair Blood thrice boldlie bath'd his Bleid,
And thrise orethrowne, they to his Mercie yeild:
And forc'd, be Battel right and bloodie wounds,
To rander (Rest) all his Foirbears Bounds.
And left vnto, his Victor Force, the fielde:
He in thair Blood thrice boldlie bath'd his Bleid,
And thrise orethrowne, they to his Mercie yeild:
And forc'd, be Battel right and bloodie wounds,
To rander (Rest) all his Foirbears Bounds.
NO Prince preceeding, past, before his dayes,
For Policie, nor Maters Martiall:
More worthelie, depostulats a Praise,
Had not his greedines disgraced all:
Which in his Age, S' insatiat did schoe,
Whill he at Glamms, fell for his Countrie foe.
For Policie, nor Maters Martiall:
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Had not his greedines disgraced all:
Which in his Age, S' insatiat did schoe,
Whill he at Glamms, fell for his Countrie foe.
Duncane I. 84th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1034, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1364, and Rang 6 Yeers.
A knightlie King, whill he his Isles corrects,
The spightfull Danes, to spoill him of Empire:
Cam on his Coasts, and thairin boldlie Brecks,
And where they went, all waists with Force and Fire:
Bot soone thair Pride, he hes Represt, in Parte,
By his Activitie in Armes and Arte.
The spightfull Danes, to spoill him of Empire:
Cam on his Coasts, and thairin boldlie Brecks,
And where they went, all waists with Force and Fire:
Bot soone thair Pride, he hes Represt, in Parte,
By his Activitie in Armes and Arte.
THE Sea, and Sands, the rest of Wrongs Reveng'de:
And maid his Raigne, from thair Irruptionnes frie:
From Forraigne Foes, his Countrie he hes Clengde,
Bot could not from Cognat Enemie,
Relieve his Life, that looked like a Friend:
Bot proovde a Foe, and Murdred him in End.
And maid his Raigne, from thair Irruptionnes frie:
From Forraigne Foes, his Countrie he hes Clengde,
Bot could not from Cognat Enemie,
Relieve his Life, that looked like a Friend:
Bot proovde a Foe, and Murdred him in End.
Mackbeth, 85th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1040, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1370, and Rang 17 Years.
His cowsing King, he Murdred and Betrayed,
So caught the Crowne, & thus his Greatnes got:
And yet eschamde, vncessanntlie Essayed,
To burie in Obliuionn that Bloot:
By well Governing, and by holsome Lawes,
Some little signes of satisfactionn schawes.
So caught the Crowne, & thus his Greatnes got:
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To burie in Obliuionn that Bloot:
By well Governing, and by holsome Lawes,
Some little signes of satisfactionn schawes.
BOT Nurture, Nature past, and he, Repents,
His good, and to his vomited vomeit turns:
He slayes the saikles, and the Innocents,
And still his Brest, for blood it boills and burns:
Blood wes the Schott, and Butt of his Desires,
By blood he came, by blood his Spirit Expires.
His good, and to his vomited vomeit turns:
He slayes the saikles, and the Innocents,
And still his Brest, for blood it boills and burns:
Blood wes the Schott, and Butt of his Desires,
By blood he came, by blood his Spirit Expires.
Malcolme Canmore, 86th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1057, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1387, and Rang 36 Yeers.
A prince whose Valore, did his Visdome war,
And yet his Witts, his Courage did decore:
His Wit and Valore still Companions ar,
This followed fast, when the wther went before:
Both Witt and Valor, in this King concurres,
To preache his Praise, in stabled State, and Sturrs.
And yet his Witts, his Courage did decore:
His Wit and Valore still Companions ar,
This followed fast, when the wther went before:
Both Witt and Valor, in this King concurres,
To preache his Praise, in stabled State, and Sturrs.
THE Spiritual he, Promotes, and he Reproves,
Intemperance, and all Excessiue Diot:
He measurs by Example and Remowes,
Be practeisd Precepts, from his Realme, all Riot:
The Cursed Lawes, that cursd King Ewne, proclamde,
He Cancellat, Annvlled, and Condamnde.
Intemperance, and all Excessiue Diot:
He measurs by Example and Remowes,
Be practeisd Precepts, from his Realme, all Riot:
The Cursed Lawes, that cursd King Ewne, proclamde,
He Cancellat, Annvlled, and Condamnde.
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FOUR Times he fought, and four times foild his Foes,
Four times Trivmphde, and four times on his Tresses:
A Glorious quadruplet Garland goes,
And four times too, home-bred vproars, Represses:
Yet this Trivmphant, by a Traittour trusted,
In desp'rat forme, out through the head is thrusted.
Four times Trivmphde, and four times on his Tresses:
A Glorious quadruplet Garland goes,
And four times too, home-bred vproars, Represses:
Yet this Trivmphant, by a Traittour trusted,
In desp'rat forme, out through the head is thrusted.
Donald Bane VII. 87th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1093, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 1423, and Rang 1 Yeer.
The King by Treason, and a Trick distroyed,
The State of new disconsolat is Crost:
King Duncanes Son, this Donald cumes, convoyed,
And with the helpe, of his Norvegeane Host:
Vpon the Princelie Honors layes his hands,
And Crounde, the Kingdome, Cruellie commands.
The State of new disconsolat is Crost:
King Duncanes Son, this Donald cumes, convoyed,
And with the helpe, of his Norvegeane Host:
Vpon the Princelie Honors layes his hands,
And Crounde, the Kingdome, Cruellie commands.
BOT Violence and Wrong a Varrand wants,
For what he haid, vsurped bot of late:
More puissant Powre, perverteth and supplants,
And reft his Life, his Honor and Estate:
Ill satled Bases, thus are brascht and schakin,
And Tirranes ar, be greater strength oretakin.
For what he haid, vsurped bot of late:
More puissant Powre, perverteth and supplants,
And reft his Life, his Honor and Estate:
Ill satled Bases, thus are brascht and schakin,
And Tirranes ar, be greater strength oretakin.
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Duncane II. 88th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1094, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1424, and Rang 1 Yeer.
A prompt, and Pregnant Prince for Interprise,
Nought Peaceable, nor of politick Spreit:
More fierce in fight, nor in the Counsall Wise,
And more for Mars, nor for Minerua meit:
A King, that thought, no Causs decidit right,
Bot onlie by, the Fortonne of a Fight.
Nought Peaceable, nor of politick Spreit:
More fierce in fight, nor in the Counsall Wise,
And more for Mars, nor for Minerua meit:
A King, that thought, no Causs decidit right,
Bot onlie by, the Fortonne of a Fight.
INCITED by, his Soveraigne Lords desire,
Concomitat, with Companies, he Came:
And did expell, th'Vsurper the Empire,
And then assumde, wnto himself the same:
Bot his disloiall Deeds, receavde thair due,
He wes betraied, becaus he tryed vntrue.
Concomitat, with Companies, he Came:
And did expell, th'Vsurper the Empire,
And then assumde, wnto himself the same:
Bot his disloiall Deeds, receavde thair due,
He wes betraied, becaus he tryed vntrue.
Edgare, 89th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1098, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1428, and Rang 9 Years.
The schowting schrill of Trumpets sounds did ceass,
No Victor Hosts, the holie Holds profanes:
Thy Provinces, all by thy Panes, had Peace,
Thy Countrie quiet into Rest remanes:
Als loveing thow, thee to thy Subjects schoes,
As Formidable, and Fearfull to thy Foes.
No Victor Hosts, the holie Holds profanes:
Thy Provinces, all by thy Panes, had Peace,
Thy Countrie quiet into Rest remanes:
Als loveing thow, thee to thy Subjects schoes,
As Formidable, and Fearfull to thy Foes.
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THOW double Bands, with nighbour Kings concludes,
So Peace abroad, and thow at home Possesses:
Religion lieves, and in her Beawtie Budes,
And still abowe, all Credit it incresses:
The mightie Marss, great god of Warr gewes place,
To Thee the Parent, and the Prince of Peace.
So Peace abroad, and thow at home Possesses:
Religion lieves, and in her Beawtie Budes,
And still abowe, all Credit it incresses:
The mightie Marss, great god of Warr gewes place,
To Thee the Parent, and the Prince of Peace.
Alexander, called the Fierce, I. 90th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1107, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1437, and Rang 17 Yeers.
Most pregnant Prince, plac'd on the front of Fame,
Famous therefore, thought Nominate the Fierce:
Attingent neer, in Nature and in Name,
Wnto the Victor of the Vniverss:
Hee did the Earths, whole Continent commands
And thow thy Isles, Hedge with the Seas and Sand.
Famous therefore, thought Nominate the Fierce:
Attingent neer, in Nature and in Name,
Wnto the Victor of the Vniverss:
Hee did the Earths, whole Continent commands
And thow thy Isles, Hedge with the Seas and Sand.
ANE Heathen He, a Christeane King as Thow,
Thairby that great, Magnificks Matche, and more:
Nought vnto Bell, in Babell, does thow Bow,
Bot does the true, TRIN-VNITE adore.
Thairfoir more Fortunate and Famous farr,
Nor Monarchs great, or Ethnick Emp'rors arr.
Thairby that great, Magnificks Matche, and more:
Nought vnto Bell, in Babell, does thow Bow,
Bot does the true, TRIN-VNITE adore.
Thairfoir more Fortunate and Famous farr,
Nor Monarchs great, or Ethnick Emp'rors arr.
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Dauid the I. 91st King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1124, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1454, and Rang 26 Yeers.
A holy Prince, as from the Heavens discended,
As God appoints, he Governde and he Guided:
What could Imaginde be Misdone, He Mended,
And prudentlie, all Pertinents provided:
For Policie, and Church nought did Inlake,
That this, or that, Magnifique, more might make.
As God appoints, he Governde and he Guided:
What could Imaginde be Misdone, He Mended,
And prudentlie, all Pertinents provided:
For Policie, and Church nought did Inlake,
That this, or that, Magnifique, more might make.
WHO to the Church, more bountefull hes bene,
He mightelie, her former Means augments:
That scarce he could his Princelie State susteene,
So muche diminishde he, the Roial Rents:
He raised Her, to Ritches and Renoune,
She Sancted him (a sore One) for the Croune.
He mightelie, her former Means augments:
That scarce he could his Princelie State susteene,
So muche diminishde he, the Roial Rents:
He raised Her, to Ritches and Renoune,
She Sancted him (a sore One) for the Croune.
HE Raignes at rest, thairby Religione rises,
He is enrich'ed, and all his States thay Store:
With Prowidencie, he alway Enterprises,
And Peace had ay, a dwellar at his Dore:
A happie, Wise, and Just, commanding King,
Had good Success, in all, and evrie thing:
He is enrich'ed, and all his States thay Store:
With Prowidencie, he alway Enterprises,
And Peace had ay, a dwellar at his Dore:
A happie, Wise, and Just, commanding King,
Had good Success, in all, and evrie thing:
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Malcolme the Maiden, IV. 92d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1153, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1483, and Rang 12 Yeers.
A famous Sone, succeeds his faithfull Father,
Findes and defends, his State from Strangers Strife:
From his foir-goers good, degenerd Nather,
In Government, nor in a Godlie Life:
He Chastlie lievde, his vnchast Thoughts he thralled,
Therefoir the Virgine King condignlie called.
Findes and defends, his State from Strangers Strife:
From his foir-goers good, degenerd Nather,
In Government, nor in a Godlie Life:
He Chastlie lievde, his vnchast Thoughts he thralled,
Therefoir the Virgine King condignlie called.
HIS Montanares, of cruell kind, and bold,
Rebellious, of Stomack strong and stout:
There Outrages, he stopped and Controld:
And four times forcde, thame to the Lawes to lout:
Thus did he purches Peace, and Happie He,
Rang with good Fortone and Felicitie.
Rebellious, of Stomack strong and stout:
There Outrages, he stopped and Controld:
And four times forcde, thame to the Lawes to lout:
Thus did he purches Peace, and Happie He,
Rang with good Fortone and Felicitie.
William the Lione, 93d King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1165, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1495, and Rang 2 Yeers.
A hardie Prince, and Lione-harted King,
In Battell bolde, and in the Senate Sage:
Posterior nought in Guifts, for Governing,
To anie Prince, past in the pretred Age:
A Treasurie, where all the Graces lyes,
A Sobre Prince, a Hardie, Just, and Wise.
In Battell bolde, and in the Senate Sage:
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To anie Prince, past in the pretred Age:
A Treasurie, where all the Graces lyes,
A Sobre Prince, a Hardie, Just, and Wise.
WITH diuers Foes, This doubted had to doe;
With ciuill Cummars, and Commotionnes most:
In Nighbour Broills, sumtimes entangled too,
And Captive tane, once by a Callide host:
Yet spight of Fates, and Fortone, Foes or Friende,
His Enterprises, had a happie End.
With ciuill Cummars, and Commotionnes most:
In Nighbour Broills, sumtimes entangled too,
And Captive tane, once by a Callide host:
Yet spight of Fates, and Fortone, Foes or Friende,
His Enterprises, had a happie End.
HE Founded Perthe, when Taye oreflowing drounde,
His building Bertha, statelie, strong and faire:
He built Arbrothe, and Haddingtoune did found,
And many Lands, on Prelacies did spair.
Whairfoir the Pope, denuncde him or his Death,
Protector, and Defender of the Faethe.
His building Bertha, statelie, strong and faire:
He built Arbrothe, and Haddingtoune did found,
And many Lands, on Prelacies did spair.
Whairfoir the Pope, denuncde him or his Death,
Protector, and Defender of the Faethe.
Alexander II. 94th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1214, fra the beginning of the Kingdome 1554, and Rang 35 Yeer.
This Prince, thought young, zit of a wirking Wit,
With th'English Peace, he prudentlie procurd:
Bot scarcelie had, he found the fructs of it,
When they (to wrong and Violence invrde)
Brak in his Bounds, and marrd all but Remorss,
Whill he withstood, and drave thame furth, throw Force.
With th'English Peace, he prudentlie procurd:
Bot scarcelie had, he found the fructs of it,
When they (to wrong and Violence invrde)
Brak in his Bounds, and marrd all but Remorss,
Whill he withstood, and drave thame furth, throw Force.
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YET he accords, that People with thare Prence,
And reconferms the Fedracie with Fraunce:
Thrie times at Home, His Subjects Insolence,
He chastizes, both with the Lawes and Lance:
Vnpeaceable, and ill disposed Spreits,
With Martiall Might, he Matches and he Meits.
And reconferms the Fedracie with Fraunce:
Thrie times at Home, His Subjects Insolence,
He chastizes, both with the Lawes and Lance:
Vnpeaceable, and ill disposed Spreits,
With Martiall Might, he Matches and he Meits.
Alexander III. 95th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1294, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1597, and Rang 37 Yeers.
A noble Prince, by meanes of Mar'age he,
With England Peace, and Quietnes concludes:
Both in the time of this Tranquilitie:
The Norces with, a Flote, into his Fludes:
Arrived, Lands, and filld with Blood his Bounds,
Whill that his Force, thair Furor all confounds.
With England Peace, and Quietnes concludes:
Both in the time of this Tranquilitie:
The Norces with, a Flote, into his Fludes:
Arrived, Lands, and filld with Blood his Bounds,
Whill that his Force, thair Furor all confounds.
THERE Men a Land, at Larges, thay ar lost,
Thair Schippes the Vinds and Waters did devore:
So be two Great, calamities, thus crost,
King Magnus is compelled to restore:
And quite the Isles, and Boote, and Arrane left,
Which laitlie Acho, but a Right, had reft.
Thair Schippes the Vinds and Waters did devore:
So be two Great, calamities, thus crost,
King Magnus is compelled to restore:
And quite the Isles, and Boote, and Arrane left,
Which laitlie Acho, but a Right, had reft.
THUS by his Sworde, securde, and setled so,
From Straungers stres, his Standing and Estate:
He did conforme his Friends, and forst his Foe,
Bot could not Frame, to his effect, his Fate:
For be a Fall, He perishes, perforce,
Born doune a Hewche, with an vnhandsom Horse.
From Straungers stres, his Standing and Estate:
He did conforme his Friends, and forst his Foe,
Bot could not Frame, to his effect, his Fate:
For be a Fall, He perishes, perforce,
Born doune a Hewche, with an vnhandsom Horse.
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John Baleoll, 96th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1293, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1597, and Rang 4 Yeers.
A bass Ambition, and a blind Desire,
His Witts too waike, and Judgement small did smore:
Whill he dispensd, to Prison the Empire,
And thrall the Throne, that had been frie befoir:
O naughte, Notor, and Ignoble Nott,
Which Time, sall ay, to his Discredit quot.
His Witts too waike, and Judgement small did smore:
Whill he dispensd, to Prison the Empire,
And thrall the Throne, that had been frie befoir:
O naughte, Notor, and Ignoble Nott,
Which Time, sall ay, to his Discredit quot.
ONCE he was Crownde, and callde a King, what then?
That Honor he, bot with Dishonor held:
Who did promove, and mount him, but the Man,
That both Depoisd, Imprisond and Expeld:
Him from Empire, degraded, banishde, Blam'de,
To live Afflicted, and to die, Defam'd.
That Honor he, bot with Dishonor held:
Who did promove, and mount him, but the Man,
That both Depoisd, Imprisond and Expeld:
Him from Empire, degraded, banishde, Blam'de,
To live Afflicted, and to die, Defam'd.
Robert Bruce, 97th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1306, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1636, and Rang 24 Years.
Thy hazards hard, thy changeing Chance who can,
Or strannge Estate, couragious King, declare:
Oft wanquished, and Victor oft, thow wan,
And all preserv'd, appeering in dispare:
Indomable, the Destaneis, thow danted,
Old Priviledge, and Lawes suppresd Replanted.
Or strannge Estate, couragious King, declare:
Oft wanquished, and Victor oft, thow wan,
And all preserv'd, appeering in dispare:
Indomable, the Destaneis, thow danted,
Old Priviledge, and Lawes suppresd Replanted.
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WHAT Fortone did not to thy Fate Befall,
A Fortunate, and most misforton's Man:
And yet Thow wes, Invincible in All,
No Well nor Woe, orecome thy Courage can:
In spight of Foes, and of thy Fortones frowne,
Thy Knight-hoode hes, Reconquished thy Crowne.
A Fortunate, and most misforton's Man:
And yet Thow wes, Invincible in All,
No Well nor Woe, orecome thy Courage can:
In spight of Foes, and of thy Fortones frowne,
Thy Knight-hoode hes, Reconquished thy Crowne.
THY Brethers blood, defectionn of thy Friends,
Force of thy Foes, nor straightnes of thy State:
The Lione-boldnes, of thy brest disbends,
Nor Magnanimit' of thy Mind could Mate:
Fates, Foes, and Fortone forcde, thy Spreit surpast,
And wan thy selfe Victorious Lord at last.
Force of thy Foes, nor straightnes of thy State:
The Lione-boldnes, of thy brest disbends,
Nor Magnanimit' of thy Mind could Mate:
Fates, Foes, and Fortone forcde, thy Spreit surpast,
And wan thy selfe Victorious Lord at last.
David Bruce, 98th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1330, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1660, and Rang 40 Yeers.
Most Inclite Sone, of that accomplishde King,
The Reconquestor, of his thralled Throne:
With thy Promotion, to th'Empire did spring,
Neir Numbreles, Annoyances anone:
(To brave the brought) the Baleoll begins,
And like Erynnis, throw thy Realme, he rins.
The Reconquestor, of his thralled Throne:
With thy Promotion, to th'Empire did spring,
Neir Numbreles, Annoyances anone:
(To brave the brought) the Baleoll begins,
And like Erynnis, throw thy Realme, he rins.
THE Englishe King, tho by Connuball Bands,
And Alliance, he, wnto Thee was bound;
Perfidiouslie, Depopulates thy Lands,
And all thy Parts, with wrongous Warrs, does wound:
Thy owne Revolts, thy Fates & Foes, infests Thee,
And Milionnes of Miseries molests Thee.
And Alliance, he, wnto Thee was bound;
Perfidiouslie, Depopulates thy Lands,
And all thy Parts, with wrongous Warrs, does wound:
Thy owne Revolts, thy Fates & Foes, infests Thee,
And Milionnes of Miseries molests Thee.
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TWICE thow Exilde, and twise Returnde thow Try'de,
T'awenge thy Wrongs, by Manfull Meanes and Might,
Bot ay thy Weirds, thy Valour thay Invyde,
And crosd thee with Misfortunes in the Fight:
Yet Fortone fasht, to vex thee with all Ills,
Content at last, thy Storme and Tempest stills.
T'awenge thy Wrongs, by Manfull Meanes and Might,
Bot ay thy Weirds, thy Valour thay Invyde,
And crosd thee with Misfortunes in the Fight:
Yet Fortone fasht, to vex thee with all Ills,
Content at last, thy Storme and Tempest stills.
Eduard Baleoll, 99th King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1332, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1662, and Rang 40 Yeers.
By Forrane Force, and by a banishd Band,
Thy State vsurped, and thy Standing stood:
Wnhappie Prince, thow with a Hostill hand,
Bereft the Raigne due to the Bruces Blood:
Thy bloodie Blade, nor Peer nor Plebane spairs,
As Bervicks Fight, and Dupline Field declairs.
Thy State vsurped, and thy Standing stood:
Wnhappie Prince, thow with a Hostill hand,
Bereft the Raigne due to the Bruces Blood:
Thy bloodie Blade, nor Peer nor Plebane spairs,
As Bervicks Fight, and Dupline Field declairs.
THE Kingdom frie, (thow Traittor) did Betray,
And swore thy selfe, a Slave with thy consent:
Thow maide thy Countrie, to thy Pride a Pray,
A Tigre-harted-Tirrane to content:
Bot all for nought, thy Fathers Fate, thow fand,
Disgras'de, Exilde, thow lost, and left the Land.
And swore thy selfe, a Slave with thy consent:
Thow maide thy Countrie, to thy Pride a Pray,
A Tigre-harted-Tirrane to content:
Bot all for nought, thy Fathers Fate, thow fand,
Disgras'de, Exilde, thow lost, and left the Land.
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Robert Steuart II. 100. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1371, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1701, and Rang 19 Years.
The first King STEWART that the Croune possest,
Of Bancho's Blood and of the Bruces Borne:
The Roote wnto the Race, of all the Rest,
That since the same most worthely hes Vorne:
A Prince in whom in full Perfection Spir'd,
All Royall Wirtues, whill the State he steer'd.
Of Bancho's Blood and of the Bruces Borne:
The Roote wnto the Race, of all the Rest,
That since the same most worthely hes Vorne:
A Prince in whom in full Perfection Spir'd,
All Royall Wirtues, whill the State he steer'd.
HIS frequent Foes, that in his Precincts svarme,
And this his Realme, with thair Direptions Rent:
They felt the weght of his Wictorious Arme,
And heard with Horror of his Hardiment:
His Worth in Warre, and Policie in Peace,
Him-selfe, and his, ev'r gloriously shall Grace.
And this his Realme, with thair Direptions Rent:
They felt the weght of his Wictorious Arme,
And heard with Horror of his Hardiment:
His Worth in Warre, and Policie in Peace,
Him-selfe, and his, ev'r gloriously shall Grace.
HIS Princely Spirit the Place, his Soul the Seat,
Of Prudence, Prowes, Measure and Remors:
His Mercie much, his Justice Good, as Great,
His Courage Constant, kyth'd wnfring'd in Force
And all his Guifts, Great, Kingly, Cardinall,
The Graces better, back't and blest Them all.
Of Prudence, Prowes, Measure and Remors:
His Mercie much, his Justice Good, as Great,
His Courage Constant, kyth'd wnfring'd in Force
And all his Guifts, Great, Kingly, Cardinall,
The Graces better, back't and blest Them all.
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Robert III. 101. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1390, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1720, and Rang 14 Yeers.
A prince for Peace, that had for Mars no Mind,
Abhorring Warrs, and all Intestine Strife:
Noght to be Cross'd, with Kingly Cares Inclind,
Bot loving more, a calme and quiet Life:
A King indeed, and yet in Sho bott sitts,
For to his Brother he the Care Committs.
Abhorring Warrs, and all Intestine Strife:
Noght to be Cross'd, with Kingly Cares Inclind,
Bot loving more, a calme and quiet Life:
A King indeed, and yet in Sho bott sitts,
For to his Brother he the Care Committs.
WHO alwise on his awne Preferment panc'd,
And muche more Pains on his Partic'lars spent:
Nor (gif applyed well) had well adwancd,
The Countries common Good and Government:
Bot his Attempts, all aymed at this End,
How s'ewer to, the Soveraigne Seat t'ascend.
And muche more Pains on his Partic'lars spent:
Nor (gif applyed well) had well adwancd,
The Countries common Good and Government:
Bot his Attempts, all aymed at this End,
How s'ewer to, the Soveraigne Seat t'ascend.
BOT this Calme King (cross'd with his Childrings Chance,
Of which the Prince in Prison strait, wes starv'd:
The Second sent, with safe Conduct to France,
For feare at Home, So to be Shent, and Serv'd:
Is tane and Intercepted on the Seas)
In Silent Sorrow he Consumes and Dies.
Of which the Prince in Prison strait, wes starv'd:
The Second sent, with safe Conduct to France,
For feare at Home, So to be Shent, and Serv'd:
Is tane and Intercepted on the Seas)
In Silent Sorrow he Consumes and Dies.
James the I. 102. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1406, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1736, and Rang 31 Yeers.
Great Prince, thy Prudence, prowes and thy Sprit,
O're reatch'd all Those, that reigned, when Thow Raigne:
Thow made Thy might, with Measur'd Mercie, meet,
And sharplie did, revenge Thy Subjects wrang:
In time of Trues, thow wes (that Peace profainde)
In England, long a Captive taen, detain'd.
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Thow made Thy might, with Measur'd Mercie, meet,
And sharplie did, revenge Thy Subjects wrang:
In time of Trues, thow wes (that Peace profainde)
In England, long a Captive taen, detain'd.
THE Clanns conjurde, Thow danton'd and dejects,
The Altitude, of mony mightie Mindes:
The Colledge, Court of Reason, Thow Erected,
And Seminarie Scooles, of sindrie kindes:
And th'English than, that with thair Swords, Thee shoirs,
Thow Fights, Defaets, and wasts thair Territors.
The Altitude, of mony mightie Mindes:
The Colledge, Court of Reason, Thow Erected,
And Seminarie Scooles, of sindrie kindes:
And th'English than, that with thair Swords, Thee shoirs,
Thow Fights, Defaets, and wasts thair Territors.
THY Fate, conformes, with Cæsar's in thy Fall,
Tho muche discordant were your Qualities:
Thy Raigne but Terror, his Tyranicall,
No Tyrranie Thow, tho Truculent he Tryis:
Yet wrong'd alike, Both Violat, and Vounded,
Lay by your fierce & faethles friends confounded.
Tho muche discordant were your Qualities:
Thy Raigne but Terror, his Tyranicall,
No Tyrranie Thow, tho Truculent he Tryis:
Yet wrong'd alike, Both Violat, and Vounded,
Lay by your fierce & faethles friends confounded.
James the II. 103. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1437, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1767, and Rang 24 Yeers.
Braue Sprited Prince, Thy too too tender Yeers,
Wnrype to Rule, and such a Birth, to Beare:
Into Thy Stats, such Strife Intestene Steers,
That It o'reflowde with Strife, with Force, with Feare:
The Strong contend, yit th'Innocent and Poore,
The Dolor, and, the Damnage, they indure.
Wnrype to Rule, and such a Birth, to Beare:
Into Thy Stats, such Strife Intestene Steers,
That It o'reflowde with Strife, with Force, with Feare:
The Strong contend, yit th'Innocent and Poore,
The Dolor, and, the Damnage, they indure.
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THE Governours, and Guiders of the States,
Of greatest Poure, thy Peers and Palladines:
They for thair Place of Honor other hates,
Then These beleiving to brak Both, Combines:
And Thee as Captive kept, betuixt These two,
And all thair Doing, proves disorder so.
Of greatest Poure, thy Peers and Palladines:
They for thair Place of Honor other hates,
Then These beleiving to brak Both, Combines:
And Thee as Captive kept, betuixt These two,
And all thair Doing, proves disorder so.
NOUGHT by thy Fault, bot by these Princes Pride,
A thowsand Ills, into thy Raigne arose:
And skarsh wes stopt, the Torrent of that Tide,
When it afflicted wes with forrane Foes:
And thow, too neir falls, be a fattall Stroake,
Gevne by a Gun that over-burden'd Bracke.
A thowsand Ills, into thy Raigne arose:
And skarsh wes stopt, the Torrent of that Tide,
When it afflicted wes with forrane Foes:
And thow, too neir falls, be a fattall Stroake,
Gevne by a Gun that over-burden'd Bracke.
James III. 104. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1460, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1790, and Rang 29 Yeers.
A noble Prince, borne doune with Ciuil Broills,
Whill th'Earth, for greatnes of his Greefe, does grone:
Rage and Rebellion in the Bosome boills,
Of his proud Peers, to his Perdition prone:
For what Enormitie and Wrong was nought,
Bot in the woodnes of these Warrs wes wrought.
Whill th'Earth, for greatnes of his Greefe, does grone:
Rage and Rebellion in the Bosome boills,
Of his proud Peers, to his Perdition prone:
For what Enormitie and Wrong was nought,
Bot in the woodnes of these Warrs wes wrought.
BASS, corrupt Counsalours, and ill Inclind,
The Noble Nature of this Prince abus'd:
Which bred to Men, (bot of Tumultous Mind)
A fitting Means, had it beene wiselie vs'd:
For to Re-Reare, that Threatned then to fall:
Bot Rage in Reformation Rvines all.
The Noble Nature of this Prince abus'd:
Which bred to Men, (bot of Tumultous Mind)
A fitting Means, had it beene wiselie vs'd:
For to Re-Reare, that Threatned then to fall:
Bot Rage in Reformation Rvines all.
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DISCORD, Envy, th'Intestene Suord and Fire,
Rap, Sacriledge, Imprisonments and Bands:
Was plainly Practiz'd in there angrie Ire,
Whill that this Prince, hes perishde in thair hands.
Bot this is Pitie, that his Sonne wes sought,
And, bot to cloak thair bold Rebellion, brought.
Rap, Sacriledge, Imprisonments and Bands:
Was plainly Practiz'd in there angrie Ire,
Whill that this Prince, hes perishde in thair hands.
Bot this is Pitie, that his Sonne wes sought,
And, bot to cloak thair bold Rebellion, brought.
James IV. 105. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1489, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1819, and Rang 25 Yeers.
A prince, of all the most Renovn'd that Ragne,
Or euer Dominerd before his Dayes:
A matchles Mirror, Magestrats amang,
That past all Princes in this Poynt of Prais:
Ne're better Justice, had the Poor Mans Cause,
Nor neuer better Execute the Laws.
Or euer Dominerd before his Dayes:
A matchles Mirror, Magestrats amang,
That past all Princes in this Poynt of Prais:
Ne're better Justice, had the Poor Mans Cause,
Nor neuer better Execute the Laws.
THE præappointed Providence Divine,
By Mariage Right, decreed he should acquire:
Once to the most Illustrious of his Line,
(As now appears) the Southpart of th'Impire.
And yet that Band, not such a Concord breeds,
That could prevent the Sorrows that succeeds.
By Mariage Right, decreed he should acquire:
Once to the most Illustrious of his Line,
(As now appears) the Southpart of th'Impire.
And yet that Band, not such a Concord breeds,
That could prevent the Sorrows that succeeds.
IN Floddon-Feild, betwixt the Tweed and Tine,
This Great King JAMES with mony Lords was lost:
Inconstant Forton be a fault of Thine,
An best of Kings, thare but compare wes crost:
Whose Mausole, must, be all the Earth and aer,
For Fame to Sing, and Circome-sound him there.
This Great King JAMES with mony Lords was lost:
Inconstant Forton be a fault of Thine,
An best of Kings, thare but compare wes crost:
Whose Mausole, must, be all the Earth and aer,
For Fame to Sing, and Circome-sound him there.
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James V. 106. King,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1514, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1844, and Rang 29 Yeers.
A prince Seveir, Just, and exceeding Sage,
To Pleasurs proan, and yet Politique Vise,
Began his Regne in Morning of his Age,
When all his Lands, to be lamented, lyes:
Bathed in Blood, all springing from despyte,
And strong Contending Factions of the Greate.
To Pleasurs proan, and yet Politique Vise,
Began his Regne in Morning of his Age,
When all his Lands, to be lamented, lyes:
Bathed in Blood, all springing from despyte,
And strong Contending Factions of the Greate.
WITH Storms of State, distempred still, and toss't,
He made his Knoledge and his Courage knowne:
With Muteneis, and with Commotions most,
Of Stats-men strong, stifnecked of his owne:
Yet be his Justice singular Sevear,
He Chastiz'd some, and some Reform'd, for Feare.
He made his Knoledge and his Courage knowne:
With Muteneis, and with Commotions most,
Of Stats-men strong, stifnecked of his owne:
Yet be his Justice singular Sevear,
He Chastiz'd some, and some Reform'd, for Feare.
BOT never could, (tho many tims he try'd,)
Deleit, the long Dislikings of his Lords:
Of whom the Cheefe, what he desir'd, deny'd,
And from thair bund Obedience debords:
So in this worthie, thair vn-wise Envye,
Made him in Merror, and in dolor Dye.
Deleit, the long Dislikings of his Lords:
Of whom the Cheefe, what he desir'd, deny'd,
And from thair bund Obedience debords:
So in this worthie, thair vn-wise Envye,
Made him in Merror, and in dolor Dye.
Queene Marie,
Rang the Yeer of Christ 1543, fra the begining of the Kingdome 1873, and Rang 16 Yeers.
A princes Borne, a Prince-his only Heir,
A Prince-his Spous, a Parent of a Prince:
A Princes Great, with Royall Guifts and Rare,
Non better Borne, nor sene more hopefull since:
Gif to her Guifts, and greater Hop's had bene,
Her Fate, and Fortons, Fortunate in Fine.
A Prince-his Spous, a Parent of a Prince:
A Princes Great, with Royall Guifts and Rare,
Non better Borne, nor sene more hopefull since:
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Her Fate, and Fortons, Fortunate in Fine.
HER Life, but Jarrs, her Daeth begat her Joyes,
The Coyners of her Cares, her Crosses cur'd:
Short Suffring soone, annulled her annoyes,
And to be Crovnd, and Re-inthrond assurd:
From Earth to Heaw'ne, from Prison to Repose,
To spire in Paradise, up sprang this Rose.
The Coyners of her Cares, her Crosses cur'd:
Short Suffring soone, annulled her annoyes,
And to be Crovnd, and Re-inthrond assurd:
From Earth to Heaw'ne, from Prison to Repose,
To spire in Paradise, up sprang this Rose.
IT helped not, to be a Prince Supreame,
Her Hops, tho hudge, without effecting faild:
Noght cared wes, to mony Crouns her Clame,
Prevaricat Opinions prewaild:
Vn-Truths, ill Try'd, a Forme deform'd did find,
True Maiestie, to marre and vndermind.
Her Hops, tho hudge, without effecting faild:
Noght cared wes, to mony Crouns her Clame,
Prevaricat Opinions prewaild:
Vn-Truths, ill Try'd, a Forme deform'd did find,
True Maiestie, to marre and vndermind.
James VI. 107. King,
Rangs, and has begane his Rang in Scotland, the Yeer 1567. and over all Britan, &c. the Yeer 1603. now with all Reigning this Year 1625.
Wise matchles Monarch whome the World admires,
And God aboue hes Beavtefied and Blest,
With Plentifull, and full of Pow'r Impires,
Past Reasons reatche, (and yet thy Right) with Rest:
Incress thy Crouns, and with thy Courage clame,
Prophaned Judas, and Jerusalem.
And God aboue hes Beavtefied and Blest,
With Plentifull, and full of Pow'r Impires,
Past Reasons reatche, (and yet thy Right) with Rest:
Incress thy Crouns, and with thy Courage clame,
Prophaned Judas, and Jerusalem.
BRING that to pass, that Pietie expects,
Rise and Erotte the Errors of the East:
The force of Faeth, from greater Facts effects,
Nor beat doune Babell and debell the Beast:
That with her Errors all the Earth enchannts,
That soukis the Blood that snares and slayes the Sancts,
Rise and Erotte the Errors of the East:
The force of Faeth, from greater Facts effects,
Nor beat doune Babell and debell the Beast:
That with her Errors all the Earth enchannts,
That soukis the Blood that snares and slayes the Sancts,
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AND since you haue all Happines from Heaven,
Good Gracious King, a great and glorious Sage:
In Earth all Greatnes, and all Graces gevne,
Give us againe a Good and Golden Age:
And mack us by the Greatnes of thy Grace,
Thy Loyal Lieges Parteners of thy Peace.
Good Gracious King, a great and glorious Sage:
In Earth all Greatnes, and all Graces gevne,
Give us againe a Good and Golden Age:
And mack us by the Greatnes of thy Grace,
Thy Loyal Lieges Parteners of thy Peace.
Henrie Frederick,
Installed Prince of Wales, &c.
Born in the Castell of Sterling the 19. of February 1593, an Heroick Prince, departed in London at St. James, 6. Nov. 1612.
The Grace, Delight, and Glorie of this Age,
The Hope of all, the haut' and hardie Youth:
The Atlas of the Old, Sheeld of the Sage,
The vnpeerd Prince, in Guifts, in Grace, in Grouth:
The Excellencie in Earth, of Earthly Things,
And Quintescence of mony hundred Kings.
The Hope of all, the haut' and hardie Youth:
The Atlas of the Old, Sheeld of the Sage,
The vnpeerd Prince, in Guifts, in Grace, in Grouth:
The Excellencie in Earth, of Earthly Things,
And Quintescence of mony hundred Kings.
THE Church her Cheeftan, and Republicts Treasur,
The Godleis Glaidness erst, and now thair Greef:
His Princelie Parents, and the Peoples Pleasure,
Thrie Kingdomes Care, and thair Contentment cheef:
The first borne Blessing of the best King James,
Whose Worth the World, with Britans Kingdoms Fames,
The Godleis Glaidness erst, and now thair Greef:
His Princelie Parents, and the Peoples Pleasure,
Thrie Kingdomes Care, and thair Contentment cheef:
The first borne Blessing of the best King James,
Whose Worth the World, with Britans Kingdoms Fames,
MORE truly Tytus, nor Vespatians Heire,
More nor that Wittie Greek Vlisses Wise:
More nor Hyppolit Chaist, nor Paris faire,
And stout like Hector, heir Prince Henrie lyes.
Scotlands Health, Englands Hope, Europs Mirror,
The Popish, Spanish, and the Turkish Terror.
More nor that Wittie Greek Vlisses Wise:
More nor Hyppolit Chaist, nor Paris faire,
And stout like Hector, heir Prince Henrie lyes.
Scotlands Health, Englands Hope, Europs Mirror,
The Popish, Spanish, and the Turkish Terror.
FINIS.
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