Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

¶ Notes of the Chronicle Historie.

Then Windsore, or Fitzgeralds families.

THE cost of many Kings, which from time to time haue ador∣ned the Castle at Windsor with their princely magnificence, ••at•• made it more noble then that it need to hee spoken of now, as though obscure, and I hold it more meet to referre you to our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 monuments for the founders and finishers thereof, then to meddle with matter nothing neere to the purpose. As for the fa∣mily of the Fitz-gerald, of whence this excellent Lady was line∣••lly discended, the original was English, though the branches did pr••••d themselues into distant places & names nothing cōsonant, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in former times it was vsual to denominate themselues of their ••nanours o•• ••orenames: as may partly appeare in that which en∣••u••th the light whereof proceeded from my learned and verie 〈◊〉〈◊〉 friend, Maister Francis Thinne, Walter of Windsor, the ••onne of Oterus, had issue William, of whom Henry now Lord Windsor is discended, and Robert of Windsor, of whom Robert

the now Earle of Essex, and Gerald of Windsor his third sonne, who married the daughter of R••es the great Prince of Wales, of whom came Nesta, para••our to Henry the first. Which Gerald had issue Maurice Fitz-gerald, auncestor to Thomas Fitz-maurice, Iustice of Ireland buried at Trayly; leauing issue Iohn his eldest sonne, first Earle of Kildare, ancestor to Geraldine, and Maurice his second sonne, first earle of Des••oond.

To raisethe mount where Surreys Towers must stand,

Alludeth to the sumptuous house which was afterward builded by him vpon Leonards hill right against Norwich, which in the rebellion of Norffolke vnder Ket, inking Edward the 6. time, was much defaced by that impure rabble. Betvvixt the hil and the Ci∣tie, as Alexander Neuill describes it, the riuer of Yarmouth runs, hauing West and South thereof a wood, and a little Village called Thorpe, and on the North, the pastures of Mousholl, which containes about sixe miles in length and breadth. So that besides the stately greatnes of Mount-Surrey, which was the houses name: the prospect and site thereof was passing pleasant and commodious; and no where else did that encreasing euill of the Norffolke furie enk••nnell it selfe but then there, as it were for a manifest token of their intent, to debase all high things, and to prophaneall holy.

Like Arras worke, or other imagerie.

Such was he whom ••••uenall taxeth in this manner.

—truncoque similimus Hermae Nullo quippe al••o vineis discrimine quamquod, Illi marmoreum caput est, tua v••••it image.

Being to be borne for nothing else but apparell and the out∣ward appearance, intituled Complement, with whom theridicu∣lous fable of the Ape in Esope sorteth fitly, who comming into a Caruers house, and viewing many Marble workes, tooke vp the head of a man very cunningly wrought, who greatly in praysing did seeme to pittie it, that hauing so comely an outside, it had no∣thing within, like emptie figures walke and talke in euery place, at whom the noble Geraldine modestly glanceth.