Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood.
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- Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood.
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"Troia Britanica: or, Great Britaines Troy A poem deuided into XVII. seuerall cantons, intermixed with many pleasant poeticall tales. Concluding with an vniuersall chronicle from the Creation, vntill these present times. Written by Tho: Heywood." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03250.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2025.
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Dolopes are a people of Thessaly, in the borders of Phthi∣olis, out of which prouince Vlisses made choyce of his Guard.
Pallas whose name we have often vsed, some take to be the * 1.33 Daughter of Neptune and Tritonis, and liued in the time of Giges. Others hold her to be sprung of Ihoues braine, as wee haue before remembred.—Palluda quandam
Cum patris è capite exilijt Clarissi•…•…a patuam lauerunt Tritonis aquae.The like many others affirme, as also that when she leapt out of * 1.34 Ihoues brain, at the saide time it rained a shewer of Gold on the Earth. Of her birth many writers differ, some affirme her * 1.35 to be the Daughter of •…•…riton: others to berather the Daugh∣ter of •…•…upiter & Thetis: Others of Craunus, differing from * 1.36 their opinions, therfore I hold with Cicero, who auers, that there were more of the names. One of the Mother of Apollo, a second borne by Nyle. and adored of the Egyptians, a third of the braine of •…•…upiter, a fourth of Jupi•…•…er and Ceriphe, the Daughter of Oceanus, whom the Arcadians call Cerin, and the Inuentor of the Chariot. A fift that was supposed to kill hir Father, to perserue her virginity.
Pallas and Minet•…•…a were one, she was also by some called * 1.37 T•…•…iloma. Ihouis filia gloriosa Tritonia.
Both Greece and Troy highly honered her, she is saide to inuent Armes, and to haue aided her Father J•…•…piter in the destruction of, the Tytanoyes, which the poets call Gigo∣mantichia. Of whom it is thus remembred.
Palluda bellorum studijs Cautanus amicam è Ihoue progenitam magno quae destruit vrbes. * 1.38
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And of another thus:
Sed prius illa fugis fum•…•…tia soluit equorum * 1.39 Colla lauans alti fluctibus Oceani.And so much of Pallas or Minctua, to whom the Troians de∣dicated their chiefe Temple.
Migdonia is a part of Phrigia, next Troas by the Riuer Rhindacus, of this Countrey Prince Chorebus, that loued Cassandra, was called Mygdonides.
The Scaean sbore: Scaea is a gate of Troy, opening to the West, where Laomedon was buried, of that Gate the Sea & shore adiacent, beare the name of Scaea.
The Names of the 18. Kinges slaine by Hector, are thus, though somewhat corruptly by an•…•…ient Writers remembred: K. Archilochus, K. Protesilaus, K. Patroclus, K. Menon, * 1.40 K. Protenor, K. Archimenes, K. Polemon, K. Epistropus, K. Ecedius, K. Doxius, K. Polixenus, K. Phibus, K. An∣thiphus, K. Cenutus, K. Polibetus, K. Humerus, K. Fumus, K. Exampitus Achilles slew 7. Kings, K. Cupemus, King Yponeus, K. Plebeius, K. Austerus, K. Cymonius, K. Mem∣non, K. Neoptolemus, besides Hector, Troylus, and Mar∣gareton, with other of Priams Bastard Sonnes.
Some likewise, contrary to the assertion of Ouid and others, affirme that Paris slew the Emp. Palumides, Aiax and A∣chilles. Aeneas slew K. Amphimachus, and K. Mereus, the faire Greeke whom Homer so much loued. •…•…yrrhus the son of Achilles, slew K. Priam, an aged man, Queene Penthisi∣lea, awarlike woman, Polytes a young Lad, and Polyxena a beauteous Maide. K. Diomed slew the Sagittary, K. Anti∣pus, K. Escorius, K. Obstin•…•…us, and K. Protenor. Many o∣thers were slaine in the disordred battailes, but how, or by whom, it is not particularly registred. Of Vlisses loue to Circe Ouid in diuers places toucheth it, part whereof I h•…•…e thus Englishe. (Calipso as they on the sea banke stood, * 1.41
Casting her eyes vpon the Neighbour flood, Desires the acts and bloudy deeds to beare, Done by th'Odrisean Captaines sword and speare, When holding twixt his fingers a white wand, * 1.42 What she requests he drawes vpon the sand, Heres Troy (quoth he) (for here the Towne is ment) Thinke Simois that, Imagin this my Tent, Here Scithian Rhesus Tents are pitched hie, This way his Horsemen slaine, returned I.
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Here Dolon dyde, when on the suddaine •…•…oe, A climbing Waue the shewers doth ouerthrow, And as the drops vpon his worke doth fall, It washt away his Tents, his Troy, and all: To whom the Goddesses dares Vlisses trust These sencelesse violent waues that are so curst, And darestthou with these waters be annoyd, By whom such great Names are so soone destroyd? How could her magicke potions Circe please, * 1.43 When •…•…ise Vlisses Ships float on the Seas, All exorcisms the louing Witch doth try, To stay the Greekes, whilst he away doth fly. All Spels and Charmes the louing Witch assaide, That such hot flames might not her thoughs inuade, But spight the cunning Hag, and charme her best, Vlisses flies, Loue scornes to be suppr•…•…st: She that Mens shapes could from themselues estrange, Had not the power her owne desires to change. Tis sayd, that when Vlisses would away With such like words she did intreat his stay: What I hop't earst, I doe not now intreat, That you with me would make a lasting seate And be my Husband, yet if I my race Call but to minde, I might de serue that place. Despising me, a worthy Wife you shunne, A Goddesse, and the Daughter of the Sunne, All that I beg, my humorous Loue to feede, Is onely this: you would not make such speede. Stay but a while, it is an easte taske, What lesse thing can you grant? What lesse I aske? Behold, the deepe Sea rageth: Neptune feare, Stay till a Calme, and then begin to steare, Why shouldst thy fly? Thy fore sheate, and thy Mizen, Why swell they with the Wind? No Troy is risen, For thee againe to sacke, heare are no brals, No man thy Mates, and thee to battaile cals: Heere true Loue raines, heere peace is firmely grounded, In which my selfe, and onely I am wounded, My heart is thine, and shall be thine for ay, And all my Land is in thy Kingly sway: She speakes, he lancheth, and the selfe same wind, * 1.44
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That fils his sayles, blowes thence the words and mind.Of Circe, otherwise cald Calisso, hee begot Telegons, who * 1.45 afterward unawares slew his Father Vlisses. Shee was the Daughter of the Sun and Perses. Others haue imagined hir the Daughter of Hecate, or of Aeeta: others to bee the Daughter of Asteripes and Hiperion, as Orpheus in Argonantis.
Aeetae affinis coniunctaque sanguine, solis filia quam proprio dixerunt nomine Circen Astropey, patuus Hiperiony est auus, illa, &c.She had by Vlisses these sons, Agrius & Latinus: Telegons * 1.46 and Auson, of whom Ausonia (alias Italia) bears the Name, with Casiphon, with Marsius, of whom the Marsiaus tooke Name, and Rhomanus: Her Toomb was in one of the Phar∣macusan Islands, not far from Salamine.
Diomedes, the manner of whose death wee haue not tou∣ched * 1.47 in our History, was kild by Danaus, whose Countrey hee had before freed, and in the same slaine a huge Dragon, vvho threw his body with all the statues that were reared to his ho∣nor (Ingratefully) into the sea where they perished.
Of Clitemnestraes Adultery Ouid saith: * 1.48
Whilst Agamemnon liud with one contented, His Wife liude chast, and neither it repented. His secret blowes her heart did so prouoke, VVanting the Sword, she with the Scabberd stroke: She heares of Criseis, and the many Iarres About Lyrnesis, to increase the warres, And therefore meere reuenge the Lady Charmes, To take Thiestes in her amorous Armes.And in another place;
VVhy could not his blind lusts Aegistus bridle? will you needs know, th' Adulterer was still Idle, When others laboured Islion to annoy, And lay strong siedge about the wals of Troy, Abroad he war'd not; nor at home he law'd, His thoughts no nauall office could applaud: what he could doe he did, (for so it prou'd) Least he should nothing doe, he therefore lou'd, So is this loue begot, so is he bred, So cherisht, so at length be gathers head,
Notes
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* 1.1
Q Elizabeth.
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Doctor Parry.
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Babington & his 〈◊〉〈◊〉
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Percy and Catesby with their Con•…•…ederates.
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Guido Vaux.
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Virgils Eneids.
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The horse of Troy.
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Synons Tale
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Hectors ghost
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Panthus Otri∣ades.
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Androgeos.
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The death of Chorobus.
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The death of Polytes.
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The death of Priam.
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Creusaes death
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Helenus.
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Italy
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The death of Astianax.
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The death of Polyxeua.
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Polymnestor K. of Thrace.
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The death of Polidore.
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The death of Hecuba
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The number of Greckes & Troians slaine at the siedge.
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Ironia.
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Ouid metam•…•….
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The death of Aiax.
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Telegonus son to Vlisses and Circe, o∣therwise cald Calipso.
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Vlisses slain by his Bastard son Telegonus.
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The death of Ag•…•…memnon
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The death of Cletemenestra
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The death of Pytrhus.
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The death of Hellen.
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Pausa. in Atti∣cis Heredotus in Melpom. Apollonius lib. 4. Arg. nanc.
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slefichorus Lucia•…•…s.
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Strabo. lib. 14.
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Apollodor•…•…s. Athenodor•…•… •…•…izantius. zozes Cic. de nature deorum
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Callimachus in Himn. Homer. Simonides Coe∣us 2. geneal. Isacius. Hor•…•… I. carnium
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Stesicherus.
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Calli•…•….
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Dares. Dictes.
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2. De Arte A∣mand.
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Vlisses & Circo
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De•…•… remedio A∣moris lib. 1.
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Mm 2
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Zczeshistor. 16. Chil. 5. Hesiodusin Theog. Homerus libr. odiss. Dionisius Milc∣tus.
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Hesiodus in Theog onea. Lycophron.
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Strabo lib. 9. Tymaus siculus
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De arte Aman∣di. 2. De remedio A∣moris. I.