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 June 2, 2024.
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TOuching the Dignity of Poets, I referre you to Ouids 3. Booke, De arte Amandi, omitting others, translating him thus:
SEe, see, What alterations rude time brings, Poets of old, were the right hands of Kings, Large were their gifts, supreame was their reward, Their meeterd Lines with feare and reuerence hard, Honour, and state, and sacred Maiesty, Belong'd to such as studied Poetry: Ennius (by Scipio the great) was sought, And from the Mountaines in Calabria brought: Dishonoured now, the Iuy Garland lies, The Ancient worship vnto Poets dies, Yet should we striue our owne fames to awake, Homer an euerlasting worke did make, His Illiades cald, else who had Homer knowne, Had Danae in her Tower an old wife growne, And neuer vnto publish view resorted, How had her beauty bin so farre reported?And in another place proceedeth thus:
We in our flowing numbers beauty praise, And in our Poems your deserts can raise: We first bestow'd on Nemesis a name, Cinthia by our admittance keeps hir fame, Lycoris neuer hath bin knowne before, By vs she sounds in euery forraine shore, And many proffer me large gifts, to know Who my Corinna is, whom I praise so: In vs there is a power shall neuer perrish, Vs the Pierides and Muses cherrish: A Godhead raignes in vs, & with the stars, We haue Trafficke and acquaintance, holding wars Which none saue Barbarisme, our Sacred spirit, We from the bye Deuinest powers inherit.
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POlydor was sonne to Priam and Hecuba, who was com∣mitted to Polynestor, to be kept in the time of the Tro∣ian warres, with a great sum of money.
The description of the Troians be according to Dares the Troian, who liued in the warres of Troy, and writ their vt∣ter subuersion.
The Peletronij were the Lapithes, who first found the vse of Bridles, Bits, and Snaffels, so cald of Peletronium a Towne in Thessaly.
Castor and Pollux were two twins, whom Iupiter begot of Laeda, Kings in Achaya, Brothers to Helena.
The Fortunes of Paris, his casting out to bee a Sheapherd after the ominous dreame of his Mother, with the vision of the three Goddesses in the mount of Ida, are more at large expres∣sed in his Epistle to Helena.
Cassandraes Prophesies true, and neuer credited, alude to the Prophet Tyresias a Southsayer of Thebes. Who vvith striking two Adders ingendring, became forthwith a Woman. Seauen yeares after, he likewise finding two Serpents, stroke them, and was immediately turned againe into a man, and participated both the affection of man and vvoman.
It so fell out, that Iupiter and Iuno arguing, fel into great difference: Shee holding obstinately Women lesse wanton then men: Hee affirming men lesse Lasciuious then Women: and who can better moderate this discention then Tyresius, that had felt the desires of both, to him they appeale; He tooke Iupiters part, and averd Women to be most Luxurious: At vvhich Iuno inraged, strooke him vvith blindnesse, vvhich because Iupiter could not helpe (for one Godde cannot vndoe what another hath done) she gaue him the guift of Prophesie: to vvhich, the spightfull Goddesse added also this, that his Prophefies (though true) yet they shoulde neuer bee belee∣ued.
Clazemonij vvere people of Ionia. Of that Country, Arte∣mō, was cald Clazemonius: It was the name of a Physitian in Pliny, also a beautiful young man much loued of al Women.
Mideus wat called Messenius of Messe, a Towne in Pe∣loponesus.
Of Acrisius vvee haue spoake before, the Fa∣ther of Danae' his Brother Praetus, sought to dispossesse
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him of his kingdom, and they are said to be the first that vsed a shield in battaile.
Of the Palladium, what it was, many writers differ: Pal∣ladia, are all such Images as are made without hands, or such * 1.40 as fell from heauen to Earth: such was the Palladiū of I roy, and light first in the Citty Pessinus, a Mart-Towne in Phry∣gia, where Sibell had a Temple. Others thinke it to be giuen * 1.41 by Iupiter to Icus the Brother of Ganimed, whose censure we most allow. Though others write this Palladium to bee made by Asius a great Phylosopher, and a Mathematitian, of * 1.42 whom the thirde part of the world was called Asia, being mo∣deld with this Vertue, that the Citty which inioyed it, shoulde for the time be inuincible. The like things was attributed to the shafts of Hercules, giuen to Philocteres by dying Hercu∣les in the Mount Oeta, betweene Thessaly and Macedonia, when the Delphian Oracles had signified to the Greeks, that Troy could neuer be surprised without the shaftes of Hercu∣les, they sought Philoctetes, and demaunding of him those spoiles (which hee vvas bound by oath to conceale) being ex∣treamely vrged, hee pointed with his foote to the place where they vvere buried, vvhich the ioyfull Greeks inioying, they receaued by them victory, and the Troians the ouerthrow.
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* 1.1
S. Hi•…•…roms.
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Pompey gaue Theoptanes a Citty.
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Thais a Cur∣tezan of A∣th•…•…nt.
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Lais a Curte∣zan of Corinth
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Aegipseus King of Thrace. Hecubaes Issue.
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Diodorus.
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Tully.
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Ihosephus.
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Homer.
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A•…•…tolus Sonne to Mars.
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Herodotus.
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Polidor,
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Plutarch.
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Dares. The first that was seene to vse the snield.
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Peletronians a nation of Thes∣saly.
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Macheuil histo∣rie Flore•…•…tina.
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Priam:
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Hector.
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Parls.
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Daris. Ches-play first deuised in Troy.
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Deiphebus.
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Helenus.
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Troylus.
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Cressida.
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Aeneus.
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Anthenor.
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Polydanus.
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Menon.
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Hee•…•…ba.
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A dromache.
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Creusa.
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Cassandra
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Polyxena
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The sixe gates of Troy.
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The Riuer Symois.
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Three king∣domes con∣quered by Hector.
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Hectors Ora∣tion.
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The prophesie of Helenus.
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Phoebus and Cassandra.
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Pherecides.
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Dio, Drodorus.
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I•…•…hanes An∣tioch•…•…s.