The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer.
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- The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer.
- Author
- Slatyer, William, 1587-1647.
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- London :: Printed by W: Stansby, for Rich: Meighen, and are to be sold at his shop at St. Clements Church,
- [1621]
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- Great Britain -- History -- Poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The history of Great Britanie from the first peopling of this island to this present raigne of or [sic] happy and peacefull monarke K: Iames, by Will: Slatyer." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12317.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Pages
Page 286
Scoto-Hyberna manu tenuisse, illo{que} creatum
Sanguine Fergusium; illustrem modò candida partû
Rocha, suo sobolem tulit Ercho, Daca, Marito,
Fergusium! satus Erchus erat de stemmate Regum
Albaniae; & Gothis Romam populantibus, armis,
Fergusius, quo nomen habet Knok-Fergus Hybernis,
Alarico Comes vnus erat; fatalia secum
Saxa ferens, Scotiam{que} petens, insignia rubrum
Regia, aiunt, portat soboles{que} secuta Leonem,
Scoto-Britannorum Rex primus; vt indè nepotes.
Reuthero{que}, (is Reuda Bedae) socijs{que} fugatis,
Reutherum at redijsse ferunt, reditum{que} fuisse
Reutheri, aduentum minimè, Reudam{que} secutos,
Eugenium primum, citò, Fergusium{que} secundum,
Eugenium{que} eius gnatum; Dongardus at olli,
Praeliaquem perimunt contra suscepta Britannos;
Constantinus ei successit filius, illum
Foedere Saxonico detentum, numinis almi
Palladio suadente fidem, redijsse Britannis,
Sanctiùs ac perhibent sumptis communibus armis
Saxonicos contra Christiani nominis hosteis;
Congallus{que} ex fratre nepos, illi{que} Goranus,
Tertius Eugenius, Conuallo, Anitellus & illis
Aidanus, Cheneth, Eugenius, Ferquarra, Donaldus,
Maldonus, Eugenijs{que} duo, Ambercletus ab hoste
Picto interfectus, dein Eugenius{que}, satus{que}
Mordacus Ambercleto, Etsinus, vitijs{que} notati
Eugenius cum Fergusio, Soluatus Achaius{que}
Etsini Gnatus, Caroli qui foedera Magni,
Primus auet, Francis{que} manum dedit, vndè perennis
Forsan & inuiolata fides, per saecula multa
Inter eas mansit genteis! cumulatus & omni
Laude ferunt, dignus{que} fuit cui Gallia dextram
Porrigeret; Conuallus, ei, Dongallus, & olli
Alpinus Pictis captus, nullo{que} verendae
Maiestatis honore habito simulat{que} peremptus,
Chennetho patris vlturo miserabile bustum,
Pictorum, omnino crudelia fasta dederunt
Ansam extirpandae sobolis; caedis{que} cruentae
Pictorum, portenta quasi, casum{que} minati,
Aetherei crebris implent hinnitibus auras
Solis Equi, Zephyris Cauris{que} parentibus orti,
Arma sonant, resonat plangoribus igneus aer.
Notes
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& Historiae,
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Fergusius Rex Scotorum fa∣mosissimus,
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eiusqu•• successores, & eorum acta, & ordo,
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adusque Pictos pen••tus ex Scotiâ de∣letos;