Philadelphus, or a defence of Brutes, and the Brutans history Written by R. H.

The Arts and Actes of Capor, and the Caporites are seene by their Vertues and Vices.

Their Ver∣tue or Iu∣stice is in

Defending and regarding: Lud and Stenny were at great variance betweene themselues, because Lud would haue the City of Troy new called Caerlud by his owne name, but Stenny would haue it keepe the olde name in honour of the predecessors, and Troians from whom he came. It is iustice, both to respect our auncestors, and iustice to consider our own glory: This were a pretty question for discourse, which name ought to take place, and stand in force, if it were well handled.

Diuiding and deposing: Cassiuelan the 2. sonne of Hely, was the Protectour and Gouernour of the Realme in the minoritie and nonage of Luds two sonnes, hys two nephewes. Kingdomes are too heauy for chil∣drens shoulders. Cassiuelan ordained a common sa∣crifice to God that gaue him the victory against the Romanes, and a publicke feast to his Nobles that helped him in the battels, & deuised many pastimes, in honour of God and men.

Tenancy was made king by the treasonable absence of his elder brother Androgy. Euery one of these kings hath his right succession, except Cassiuelan which v∣surpeth.

Punishing and correcting: Cassiuelan summoned Eue∣line to appeare before him & the Councell, to answere for the death of Hirelda. When he could not preuaile with Androgy by faire meanes, he made warre vpon him, to plague him for his stubbornesse. Ought An∣drogy

to bee at his call? a disputable matter of great vse. Nature preferreth the kings son to the Crowne before the kings brother, but Pollicie preferred Cas∣siuelan before Androgy, a good man before a bad.

Their Vice or Iniu∣stice is in

Diuiding: Cassiuelan appointed vnto Androgy the eldest sonne of Lud the Citty of Caerlud, and the land of Kent, and to Tenancy the younger sonne the Land of Cornewall, and kept the kingdome from them, though they were his elder brothers true sons, and vsurped it himselfe by force. He is not fit to be a Pro∣tector that is ambitious: it is a wofull thing, to be a childe among our enimies, or amongst the enuious sectaries.

Reuenging: Androgy being vnable of himselfe to withstand Cassiuelan sent letters to I. Caesar in Gallia, and certified him, that if he would come into Brutany he should be welcome: when hee had gotten Caesars Army to set vppon Cassiuelan in the valley of Dorober∣nia or Canterbury, and the fight had endured till both partes were almost weary, he came vpon Cassiuelan with a fresh reply, and put him to flight: and thus he displeased the whole realme to please himself, yet his owne hurt was neuer the lesse for making the misery of his Country greater. But when Cassiuelan thought to punish Androgy, he punished himselfe as much as him, he did euen put fire to Brimstone, and flaxe to the flame. It was traiterously done of him, to warre against his legitimate king, and of Androgy, to make his natiue Country subiect to outlandish Powers.

Their Ver∣tue or Pru¦dence is in

Order: Cassiuelan brought vp Androgy and Tenancy, Princes sonnes, princely in all points. Cassiuelan con∣sidering, that the two victories which he had gotten of the Romans, concerned himselfe, and all his No∣blemen most specially, caused an assembly of them to be made, that in a generall meeting, there might bee a generall thankesgiuing to God almighty, and to one another for their seruices and actes done in the Field. Nothing teacheth men more courage then a beleefe of heauenly assistance, with an honourable remembrance of their vertues: this way of harting men is chiefest.

Desire of knowledge: Lucy seeking al means to make his people true and louing among themselues, and hearing that Christians were without hatred and falshood, desired to heare their religion and receiue their doctrine, and sent two Noble schollers, Eluane and Meduine to Eleuthery Bishop of Roome with let∣ters, desiring to be taught Christianitie.

Reformacion: Lucy changed the three Archflamins, and the 28. Flamins into three Archbishops, and 28. Bishops: he destroyed the Temple of Apollo in the Ile Thorney, and made a Temple in honour of the Almighty God, which we now call Westminster.

Discipline: Lucy seeing that men were executed for disobeying the law, because heerein they disobeyed God, and that the kings pardon was not so much to be esteemed as a pardon from God, and perceiuing the heartie and vnfained repentance of some offen∣ders, and knowing that God forgaue such men,

thought it no reason, that such Penitents should be put to death, but reserued to a better vse: wherefore he ordained, that if any man did offend by mischance and repent him, or any one were oppressed, and could not otherwise escape oppression then by appealing to Gods word, that such men should get them into the Temple of God, and ther approue themselues to be true godly men, and so be safe both body and goods.

Their vice or folly is in

Permission: the Brutans forgetting the true title that Luds two sonnes had to the kingdom of their father, and feeling the liberall gifts of Cassiuelan an vsurper, suffered him to keep the Rule & Key of all the Land, and taught one another, to disinherit one another by causelesse and deceitfull popularitie and flattery.

Hatred: the Brutans could not agree vpon a king, no not in fifteene yeares space when Lucy was dead, though euery countrey must needs see one nearer the Crowne then another, if they could aduise thēselues & marke euery family in good māer. They could not foresee the miseries of forrain Dominion, they were blinded with malice, & selfewill among themselues.

Improuidence: Cymbelin was brought vp in Roome, both in contempt of all his own countrey learning, & in slauery to outlandish with. Coil the second was brought vp in Roome, as if hee were borne to serue Roome, and not to serue Brutany. Of the two ex∣treames, it is safer to haue our men vplandish, then outlandish, plain then perilous.

Deceit: the Brutans set great long sharp stakes close∣ly in the bankes where the Romanes should arriue, and so troubled them extreamely in theyr landing: a poore and pittifull inuention to slay and Host.

Their ver∣tue or tem¦perance, is in

Behauiour: Lud was bountifull in housekeeping, and by that means beloued generally. Cimbelin with the moderate vsage of himselfe, so pleased the Empe∣rour, that he loued him greatly, and receiued manie good words and gifts from him: if this were not in∣temperance, to please an enemy. Aruirage got into such fauour with Claudius the Emperor, that he mar∣ried his daughter Genissa: if this were not inconti∣nence, to be linked with outlandish, that was migh∣tier then himselfe. He was beloued of his subiectes for his vsage toward them in all cases.

Marius was of honourable demeanour euery way. He accepted the pitition of the vanquished Pictes, he allotted to them the fardest part of Albany: afterward he gaue himselfe to the wealth of the realme. Lucy was loued of all his subiectes for his good life: hys loynes were in the cloudes, and hys seed among the starres: he had rather be a father in Morals, then in Naturals: such was his abstinence. It may be, Ga∣laxias the milky & bright way in heauen was made in honour of such men as Lucy was, no meaner then a Saint.

Marriage: the Brutans would not in any case ioyne their daughters in wedlocke with the Pictes, whom they knew to be barbarous Scythians by discent of bo∣dies, and consent of mindes, and very vnfaithfull.

Their vice or intem∣perance is in

Rashnesse: Hirelda and Eueline two knightes in ga∣ming fell to wrastling, and in heate fell to wordes, and in anger fell to blowes, & in rage fell to wounds,

and Hirelda was slaine in the tumult that arose by these meanes. A gaming not so profitable as the death of a good knight is hurtfull in a realme.

Disobedience: Eueline being sent for by the Protec∣tor Cassiuelan and the Councell departed from the Court with Androgy his kinsman, and tooke no leaue of them: Will is it selfe witlesse: a stomacke with∣out a heart, maketh a man a swine.

Reuenge: Aruirage vsed such meanes, that he got Hammon the Romane, who siue his brother Guinder guilefully, and when he had him in his handes he caused him to be cut in peeces, and threw him peece by peece into the Sea at South-hampton, satisfying herein his insaciable anger for his brothers death and supposing vainly and madly, that he killed Ha∣mon so many times as he had peeces of him.

Their ver∣tue or for∣titude is in

Glorious desire: Hely called the Ile of Ely after hys name, that he might be famous for euer. Marius set vp a Colosse in remembrance of the victory he had of the Picts, with Marij Victoria grauen in it: a warly Register.

Magnificence: Lud repaired olde Temples and Ci∣ties and built new. He made walles about Troynew, and called the West gate Ludgate in honour of hys owne name, and then dwelt most there because he had built most there. Aruirage road about the realme, to renew the decayed Cities which the Romans de∣faced: he built a Castle at Douer to strengthen that

part of the Land against forraigne Powers.

Wordes: When the Romanes thought to terrifie the Brutans by their letters, these sent them word, that as they must, so they would defend their Coun∣trey from all forces. Aruirage being for his Noble∣nesse made the Emperours sonne in law, and wish∣ing to haue a memoriall of Claudius his queenes and wiues owne father, called the Cittie where he mar∣ried Claudiocestria or Glocester, the rather, to be free frō tribute in respect of his wife, though he were free of himselfe by his vertue.

Victories: Cassiuelan made the Romans flie to their ships at their first battell, and at the second: beware the third.

Desertes: Cymbelin in his youth led so manly a life in Roome, that the Emperour Augustus made him a knight there in his order of knightes.

Exercise: Hirelda and Eueline two braue knightes wrastled openly at the Feast which was made after the victories against the Romanes.

Warre: Guinder denied to pay tribute to the Ro∣mans, & chose rather to sight with them then yeald otherwise. Aruirage did the like, and when they came against him; he made them flie from the southeast part of this Iland to the southwest, there he draue them from Excester and Totnes, & within seuen daies made all well. Marius staied the fire and sword of the Picts in Albany and slew their armies.

Deuise: Aruirage seeing his brother Guinder dead, took on him presently his armour and Princely cog∣nisāce, that the Brutans might not suspect their kings death and be discomforted: then hee continued the battel so stedfastly and heartily, that the Brutans were stirred vp to fight valiantly by his liuely example, till they ouerthrew the Romans.

Their vice or extreme fortitude is in

Bold rashnesse: Stenny Cassiuelans brother in the wars against the Romans canne to I. Caesar and puld hys sword out of his hand, and slew Labienus a tribune of the Romans therewith, and was slaine.

Obscure glory: When Stenny was dead, he was bu∣ried at Caerlud: and the sword which he puld from Caesar with his deaths wound was buried with him, that it might be a remembrance of one venturous action euen in a hole.

Abasement: Cassiuelan was tributary to Roome nine yeares. Tenancy was too deligent in paying tri∣bute to Rome, euen 3000. pounds in gold. Cimbelin hauing choice to pay or not to pay tribute, forgat the slauery of the act and payd it. Aruirage was perswa∣ded by his wife to pay tribute when he had resisted the Romanes valiantly. He should haue sent such a wife for the tribute vnto Roome from whence she came, and kept the mony in his cofers for warres. Coil saw in his poreblinde eyes, that it was best to yeald to Roome, and agreed to pay tribute. Androgy departed to Roome with Caesar: a mad and fickle courage.