A monument of remembrance erected in Albion, in honor of the magnificent departure from Britannie, and honorable receiuing in Germany, namely at Heidelberge, of the two most noble princes Fredericke, first prince of the imperiall bloud, sprung from glorious Charlemaigne, Count Palatine of Rhine, Duke of Bauier, Elector and Arch-sewer of the holy Romane Empire, and Knight of the renowned order of the Garter. & Elizabeth Infanta of Albion, Princess Palatine, and Dutchesse of Bauier, the onely daughter of our most gratious and soueraigne Lord Charles-Iames, and of his most noble and vertuous wife, Queene Anne. Both of them being almost in one and the same degree lineall descent from 25 emperours of the east and west, of Romanes, Greekes, and Germans, and from 30 kings of diuers countries. By Iames Maxvvel.

ALBIONS Remembrance of FREDE∣RICKE and ELI∣ZABETH.

1

SITH Norths bright Nymph, and Albions Rosie The sweetest, meekest of the Lady-kind Must bound from vs to build her Summers bowre Flowre At Heidelberge, now in this flowry time; And that for Rhine, she must abandon Thames, For Germany leauing the land of IAMES:

2

And sith Her presence sweete we must no more Injoy, (alas) which was the ioy of hearts To all Her sex, as HENRIES was before To those of His, men, women of all parts; Which came to Court, to veiw the worth, and State Which their did shine through Him and Her of late:

3

Sith that, I say, now Hymen doth her call From th'Ile of IEMMES to dwell in Germaines ground; So that her face no more hence see wee shall, Her face, the grace of Country, Court and Towne; What rests? but that we wish her asmuch ioy As by her absence we must reape annoy.

4

For like as did deere Henry by his death Make men to mourne, but mirth to Angels bring; So the departure of Elizabeth Make Britans sigh, but Germaines for to sing: Thus in one yeare, we drinke of double woes, By loosing first our Lilly, then our Rose.

5

Which double losse might well our Iland drowne In sorrowes sea, except there did remaine A Lilly-Rose with ioy our land to crowne, To salue the sorrowes which wee do sustaine: Henry, Eliza: both their flowers bequeath, To make for Charles a Lilly-rosie wreath.

6

For like as Pollux to his brother deere Castor by name, his glory did impart; Haluing with him his owne Immortall Sphere, So much had Castor of Prince Pollux heart: Euen so would Henry halue his Princely State, That his lou'd Charles might it participate.

7

Me thinkes I see sweete HENRY with his hand Plucking the choisest flowers of Paradise; One day to decke this twise defloured Land With Syons store, to make it happy thrise; Euen now he makes a Garland for the day, That CHARLES shall beare Constantixes crowne away.

8

Likewise Eliza goes to breed and bring Forth to the light, sonnes of a noble kinde, Whose worth one day, shall make vs Britans sing, When they with CHARLES vnanimely combin'd ( As is fore-rold) in spight of Turkish might Shall once regaine great Constantine his right.

9

A better hap, we hope this Match shall haue, Then once two English-Germaine Matches had, That to their Countries did no Issue leaue; Which made Gonilda and Mathilda sad: Kings daughters both, the second Englands Dame, To Emperours matcht, both HENRIES by their name.

10

And better then had once that match in France, Twixt Francis and our Scotlands noble Queene, That Mary hight; and yet a better chance Then of that Match for to ensue was seene Twixt Spaine and England, when Queene Mary thought With Phillip a great Vnion to haue wrought.

11

The heauens Eliza will with Issue blesse By Fredericke her Spouse from Caesars sprung, Such is our hope, and such shall be our wish, That songs may be of their sweete Issue sung; When as it shall befall them as it hath Before to * Robert and Elizabeth.

12

Heauens her vouch safe both the Mathilda's fate Two Henries girles both of South-britanny, Betroth'd to Henries, two of greatest state They Germaines both; that Britanes once may see, When with the first Mathilde Eliza shall Weare on her head the wreath Imperiall.

13

And as the next Mathilda oft was seene To blesse her Spouse with plenteous Progeny. Both with a Caesar and a Palatine, To rule in Brunswicke, Rhine, and Saxony: So may Eliza with Mathilda beare Vnto her Spouse a Caesar and a Peere.

14

And like as once the braue Hungarian Heire, Elizabeth did crowne her Casimire Great Polands King, when as shee to him bare Sixe sonnes, besides as many daughters deere; So may to our Elizabeth befull, Like fruitefull fate to crowne her Spouse withall.

15

That euen as hee from Casimire doth spring, And from his wife twise Queene Elizabeth, So his Elizabeth may make him sing, When he by her such hopefull children hath; Like hap to both, sith both had hap to marry, Eliza's two about mid-February.

16

Henry who did his sweetest sister loue With heart so pure, so sure, me thinkes I see How he doth beg leaue of the Powers aboue For to come downe from heauen to Germany: Bringing with him a Garland for the day, That Heidelberge salutes her Queene of May.

17

Me thinkes I see him, from Saint Abrahams hill By Heidelberge inspiring euery wight, How to vnite their Powers, wit and skill, Their Towne to decke with greatest glory bright, Against the day that his deere Sister sweete, In greatest state must ride along the streete.

18

But first I see him from his owne Saint Iames, Inspiring all the Worthies of this Isle With greatest state to bring her to the Thames, In such array, that twise ten thousand mile Both tongues and Tribes may talke of that daies glory, When she departs; and put it in some Story.

19

Come Nobles all, come Worthies, Beauties bright With your best things adorne Eliza's day, Flocke from all parts, and grace you with her sight, Before that she, sweete one, be gone her way; Let euery wight that any honour hath Come honour all-belou'd Elizabeth.

20

Let not the glory of Gouilda's day So much extol'd in English History, When as she did from England take her way To her Spouse Henry into Germany: Let not her day Elizaes day surpasse, Sith she's as good, as e're Gonilda was.

21

Flocke men and women from the farthest parts To view Elizaes face, her grace, her glory; Come and adore this worthy Queene of hearts, And hauing seene her keepe in memory What once yee saw, who ne're shall liue the howre, To see trans-planted such a gallant Flowre.

22

Yee tender Virgins come before her face, Her face wherein all manner-worth doth shine, And with a song see yee salute her Grace, Lauding Eliza with her Ʋalentine; Wishing that them as many daies may crowne, As there grows Vines vpon the Rhenish ground.

23

And yee bright starres extend your influenter. And for her sake, so yee the Season frame That it obscure not her magnificence, But rather adde some luster to the same: Thou golden Phoebus bind thy brightest raies To last as long, as shall her progresse daies.

24

That as the skies her nuptiall rites did grace, With sweetest smiles after a stor my time Of boisterous blasts, so euery time and place, Both heauen and earth their bounties may combine, With Flora and her Nymphes of greatest state Belou'd Eliza to congratulate.

25

But if our heauens will needs some sorrow show, And shed some teares when as she doth depart, And weepe with vs, as grieuing to forgoe So sweete a wight, that cheer'd each eie and heart: Yet must heauens weeping end, when she shall rise Her cleeren esse bene enough to cleere the skies.

26

A Season sweete, to sweete Elizaes due, A Beamy time befits so braue a Wight, Fresh Flora flaunting in her garish hue And Violet weed, must tend her day and night, With all her traine, till they Eliza crowne, With Myrtle-wreath, amids the * Myrtle-towne.

27

The Argosie wherein Prince Iason went To Colehos ground to fetch the golden Fleece, Once stellified amids the firmament, After that it had long decored Greece. This ship turn'd starre, e'ne now she doth arise To calme the seas, and for to cleere the skies.

28

When I behold the twinkling of her face, Shee lookes as if shee had a deepe desire To leaue a while her high aethereall place Which she now holds amongst those flames of fire, For to descend amids our Riuer Thames, Thence to transport the golden Fleece of IAMES.

29

Castor and Pollux which therein did saile, Borne in Aprill to banish Piracie Bid their star'd ship take downe herflags and vaile To the Prince-Henry of great Britanny; You ship (say they) it beares a better Fleece, Then that which once our Arge fetcht to Greece.

30

The Virgin-signe which did Eliza beare Bids fast arise two of her greatest lights, Her Zona-starre, and then her Spica cleere To chase all Langour from so many nights, As her deere daughter in her Ship must stay, And for her sake she turnes the night to day.

31

Tethis commands her daughter Doris then Her wonted bitternesse to set aside, For feare to be rebuk'd of Gods and men, If any frownes should in her face be spi'd: Sith heauen and earth (saith she) do smile to day; It's meete that we put bitternesse away.

32

The louing Dolphins they do flocke apace, From farthest coasts her Argoe to attend; And that they may their fill behold her face Aboue the Masts they often bound and bend, Waiting if any dangerous storme should be, Them to rescue from ship-wrackes ieopardy.

33

As once they did that louing Lesbian Lasse With her deere Lad turn'd o're into the seas Bring safe to shore, when greatest danger was, And that sowre death with speed began to sease On their sweete foules, which quite had drowned bene; If that Ioues Dolphins had not bene their friend.

34

So did they once sweete-an'd Arion saue Amids the waues from Sailers hurtfull hand: Telemachus nie drown'd they did not leaue, But him rescu'd, and fet him on the land: The Spartane Captaine Phalant they did free From mournefull shipwrackes present misery.

35

Now if the Mankind Dolphins had such care To shield and saue the persons nam'd before, With many others which recorded are In Histories; would they not yet much more Tamisis Nymph rescue from danger neere, Whose Grandame was a Dolphins deerest deere.

36

No sooner Neptune gets her in his bounds, But with his Trident, he doth calme the seas, Tethis his Queene her welcomes to their grounds, And in glad wise giues order for her ease: Aeol doth that, he neuer did before, With musky breath hee blowes her to the shore.

37

So soone as Rhine receiues her Rosie smell, That pure chast floud, wherein strange iudgement lies, And finds how much she doth in worth excell; Rhine doth reioyce, and her salutes this wise: Welcome pure Nymph, most worthy to be Queene, Of all the shamefast faces I haue seene.

38

Stately Tam-Isis might of thee be proud, That art another Isis and her child, For Scota was of honoured Isis brood; So was Gathele once famous in your Ile; But looke how deere thou wast to Thames before, As deere to Rhine thou art, and shall be more.

39

In signe whereof I sweare by Tethys Queene, I'le welcome thee with greatest cheere I can; For on thy day a wonder shall be seene, Which neuer yet was seene of any man. No wonted water shall be seene in Rhine, For all my streames shall taste of Rhenish wine.

40

All day the Dolphins shall bee seene to dance, And cut their capers on my floting flore, Fresh Tethys Girles shall think't a happy chance, If they that day may faile along my shore To view the Face, the Grace and Maiesty Of faire Tamisis Nymph of Britanny.

41

The Palsgraues ground, the first that she shall touch At her arriuall, shall be gaily spred With sweetest flowres, with choycest posies, such As Flora sets to make her softest bed: The dainties of each Garden, Wood and Dale, Shall kisse her feet, and say, Elizahaile.

42

The Heau'n-wrought-hangings of the flowry Queene, Along shall lye the paths that she must pace; Dame Vesta's Carpets wowne with blew and greene, With red and white, shall think't their greatest grace Along to lye vnder Elizaes feet, In euery high-way, and in euery streeet.

43

Likewise Cybele with her holy hands, Prepares a Garland for Eliza's day, Of Gemmes and Flowers, the best in any lands, For it's her minde to crowne her Queene of May. Harke how she warnes her Nymphes with siluer-bell, To gather flowres to crowne her Rosimell.

44

The musky Rose, the Mari-gold and Lilly, The Tulipan, the gallant Gilly-flowre, The Pinke, the Primrose, Panse and Daffadilly, The flowry Girles fetch home vnto her bowre: Each flowre she sorts, as they do most excell, To crowne the head of honour'd Rosimell.

45

To euery flowre she ioynes an Orient Gemme, The Diamond, the Saphire, Chrysolite, The Emerald, the Topaz, th'Opall then, The Turcas, lacynth, and the Margarite: Then in her Coach, with Lyons drawne, she hies To Heidelberge, more glansing then the skies.

46

Loe how she comes, attir'd in greatest state, Attended on of all the flowry crew. The Hilly-vally-Nymphes so nice and neat, Some in their kirtles greene, some in their blew; With violet Skarfes to vaile each Lilly-face, Till all vnuaile before Eliza's Grace.

47

The Syluan Pan is gone to Palestine With Deiope, to bring a paire of Trees Palmes of both kindes for our paire-Palatine, To make two May-poles to present their eyes: Which so they plant, that their leau'd tops may meet, And cheere each other with their kisses sweet:

48

For Heau'n and Earth delight to see together Such as they ioyne by holy bands of loue, And would haue each one for to cheere another; Whereas sad absence doth full often proue The breake of hearts, the married couples bane, Which strongest loue in many breasts hath slaine.

49

A signe whereof wise Nature doth vs show In the Palme-trees, which being set asunder From mutuall sight, no fruit is seene to grow Of either kinde; but faint, as if some thunder Had blasted both; they pine and droope as dead, And haue no heart once to hold vp their head.

50

But looke how soone that they may see each other, Or that the winde doth dust betweene them driue, As soone both he and she their hearts recouer, Both flourish fast, both beare fruit and reuiue: As they would kisse, their leauie lippes they moue; Thus doe the Palmes teach marryed folkes to loue.

51

Philostratus doth celebrate a paire Of such kinde Palmes: the like Pontanus writes Of two such other trees both fresh and faire; Of Calabrie, which were the cheife delights, Brunduse the one, Hydrunt the other bred, Both for their loues are highly honored.

52

Neere Heidelberge the Graces three together Link't arme in arme, shall grac'd Eliza greet, Blessing the day that brought her Graces thither, (For in her face the choisest graces meete) Which Sisters three come dansing o're the Greenes, In grace and face much like three British Queenes,

53

Aglaia bright, when first I her behold, Me thinkes I see sweete Scotlands heire, Queene Mary, Such as she was, when all deckt vp in gold, The Dolphin Francis did her gladly marry In Maries Church enstiled Nostredame Where first was sung their Hymens Hymne and Psame.

54

Euphrosynë when next I her consider, Lookes like all-lou'd Eliza, Englands Queene, When she was wooed of th'other Francis brother, Nam'd Francis Monsieur; such as haue her seene, Do say forsooth, this land borne neuer hath A gracefuller then Queene Elizabeth.

55

Thalia doth the face and grace present Of gracefull Anne, Queene of Great Britannie, Such as she was when King lames to her went Beyond the sea, to wed her solemnly: Who as she hath the first twaines Titles ioyn'd, So their two worths she hath in her combin'd.

56

Thus the three Graces, in most gladsome guise In the three faces of three famous Queenes; Link't arme in arme in rosie weed them hyes Leaping and dancing or'e the downes and greenes: And thus they sing; All baile Eliza faire, Grand-mothers, Mothers, and God-mothers heire.

57

Thrice gracefull Lady welcome to our Clime, Welcome the Flowre and Rose of Britanny, Welcome the hope and honour of our time, Welcome the pearle and praise of Germany: Long may thy face grace Germany and Rhine. Both vs and ours, so may thy Ʋalentine.

58

Each of the three a Rose to her presents, The first a white Rose in milke-white array; The next in her carnation vestiments, A red-carnation Rose, sweet, fresh and gay; The third, whose habit is of white-red hue, A white-red Rose, and saies: Sweet Rose adue.

59

Braue Heidelbergs renowned Myrtle-Nymph, Whose comely face all commers do behold With much delight, at the fresh springing lymph, That fountaine faire, so sweet, so cleere, so cold: Mounted vpon her Lyonesse of state, Shall meet Eliza at the Cities gate.

60

The Nymph no sooner sees Eliza bright, But all amaz'd she bids her Lyon stay, For I (quoth she) must from thy backe alight, Tam-Isis Nymph for to adore to day. Stand still proud steed, for both must I and thou, This blisse-still-day before Eliza bow.

61

Vncrowne thy head of thy gold Diadem, Thou best of beasts, thou stately Lyon-queene, For it is due vnto a greater Dame, A sweeter yet then euer thou hast seene. See how she doth with glansing glory shine, Go honour her, and crowne her Queene of Rhine.

62

The Lilly-lyon of the North to day, Sends to our Towne his onely daughter deere, Vpon her Crowne to beare thy crowne away: Wherefore be sure, so soone as thou comes neere To Norths great Lyons bright Elizabelle, Thou quit thy Crowne, and call her Lyonnelle.

63

Come after me, and do all this and more, For this is but the thousandth of her due, Sith that the worth of all that went before She hath in her; I tell the thing that's true, In signe whereof I sweare by Myrtle-queene, I'le do the thing that neuer yet was seene.

64

For her sweet sake my well shall spring with wine, My streaming spouts to day shall not grow dry, But run such liquor as the land of Rhine, Doth brue for the best mouthes of Maiesty. And if I had as many pearles as vines, They should turne drinke to these two Valentines.

65

The best Ambrosie euer Bacchus brew'd, Fetcht from Palerme of Italy and Greece; Those beauties bright shall be therewith bed••w'd, Which do attend vpon this golden fleece: The strangest tunne that euer wight did see, To welcome them, shall run with Malmesie.

66

The Myrtle-bunch that I haue borne so long With great applause Eliza's lap shall fill; For to Tamisis Nymph it doth belong Who now's the Nymph of this our Myrtle-hill: Wherefore let Hils and Dales resound her fame, Sith all the Nymphes must her Myrtilla name.

67

Or if I had the Myrtle-tree that stood In Romes first plot, hard by Mount-Palatine, Or yet those Myrtles nie to Nilus floud Of fragrant smell, which there are to be seene: A Myrtle-May-pole, with a Myrtle-wreath Should grace the gates of lou'd Elizabeth

68

Oh, if I had the hands for to aduance Myrtilla's state amidst as many Townes, As their are Myrtle-trees in Spaine and France, In Italy, or yet in Germans bound; All should be hers to twise ten thousand score; For why, her worth deserues as much and more.

69

Yet for a signe, I wish her all the hap Which this my Myrtle-emblems sence resounds; Lo how I lay into her louely lap, As many berries as be Towers or Townes Twixt purest Rheine, and fruitfull Nilus Floud, About whose Bankes so many Myrtles stood.

70

Yee Virgin troupes, which flocke within our wals From many miles to view Myrtilla's glory; Forget not when my shoure of Berries fals Vpon her cloaths to catch each Myrtle-berry: This Berry shall all wearinesse debarre From your soft limmes, tho yee come neere so farre.

71

Each worthy Burgesse of the Myrtle-towne Keepe yee a feast in honour of this day; Call all your poore to sing and dance the round, And striue who shall the Berry beare away: At all your feasts, this Berry yee present, In signe of gladnesse, glee, and merriment.

72

The Myrtle-bough befits Myrsina's Peere Eliza lou'd, in whom the worth doth dwell, Which once Myrsina had Minerua's deere, That did in wit and valour both excell: Shee gaue the prize as iudge of Chiualrie Till her sweete bloud turn'd to a Myrtle-tree.

73

Great Ioue vouchsafe vs once to see the day When we shall reape such honour'd victory Vpon proud Turkes, that our Myrsina may Sit downe to iudge of feats of Chiualry: As once shee did, at Henries sports of warre, Reward two Wights, Montgomry, Lochinwarre.

74

When I consider the late fire-fight, Shew'd on the Thames twixt Christen-men and Turkes, And how a Turke by kindled Cannons might Lost both his hands; met-thinkes that in it lurkes This lucky signe; th'vnited Northerne States Out of Turks hands shall wring their Townes and seats.

75

No lesse is promis'd by old Prophesies, Which wee haue seene in Latine, Greeke, and French, With other tongues, which promise victories To Northerne hands, how they combin'd shall drench Constantinople in a foaming floud Which shall be made of spilt Barbarian bloud.

76

O happy sight to see Prince Charles one day Together with the States of Germany, Against proud Turkes his Banner to display That as he's nam'd the Duke of Albany; So men may him a Scanderbeg enstile, Th'horrour of Turkes, the Hercles of this Ile.

77

CHRIST IESVS name sweete Charles of Britanny With Scanderbeg, thy Champion, and thy Knight, Adde vnto his one Northerne Albany, Sixe Albanies; choose him thy fields to fight 'Gainst Mahomet, and grant him for his hire, Constantines Towne, with the proud Turkes Empire.

78

That our Myrsina may her Brother Crowne With Palmy-wreath in signe of victory, And like Debora sing his high renowne, Thanking great loue for the felicity; It pleas'd him to her brother Charles to giue, In whose sweete face lou'd Henry still doth liue.

79

The Maids and Matrons shall with cheerefull voyce Extoll Myrsina and her honour raise Vp to the skies; both aged men and boies Shall hop and danse, and loud resound her praise; Agnising her to be the sweetest Wight That euer lodg'd in Heidelberge all night.

80

The three Mathilda's Girles of Caesars three Which wedded were to Princes three of Rhine, Had not more worth, more grace, more Maiesty Then lou'd Eliza Princesse Palatine: Blanch once a daughter of South-britanny VVas not her match, nor Anne of Polony.

81

Nor yet Bohemies Lady Ludomille, Nor Beatrice the Girle of Sicilie, Nor she of Bauier, whom they name Sybille; No more her Match was Denmarkes Dorothy: From Hungary and Bauier Ladies two Eliza's both might t' our Eliza bow.

82

The Muses then of Heidelberge shall come Before her face, with Pamphlets full of praise, Some Dutch, some French, some Latine, other some In Greeke, her name and same abroad to blase: Some shall in Verse, and other some in Prose Record the worth of such a gallant Rose.

83

Church-Holy-Ghost which Caesar Robert fram'd Prince Palatine and King of Germany, With his Empresse, Elizabeth surnam'd; When it receiues the Rose of Britanny: Shall pray great Ioue that shee see neuer death, Till shee bee stil'd Empresse Elizabeth.

84

Me-thinkes I see how Robert from his shrine With his Eliza sleeping in that place Awake to welcome their sonnes Ʋalentine Wishing them both all health, wealth, hap, and grace: That as they both do from them iointly spring, So may them Ioue to all their honours bring.

85

One thing will want, which much I wish were there An Organd-quior of Surpliz'd Saints to sing, Such as we heare in Paules and Westminster, Heauens, earths delight; but thou Concording King To Holy-Ghost-Church helpe for to restore Such holy-state as once she had before.

86

O if S. Giles which Edinburgers holds With Heidelbergers Holy-Ghost could sing Such Organd-anthems shall bee sung in Paules Of Londoners, the day that they shall bring This Lady home, whose worth and dignity Should bee solemniz'd of these Citties three.

87

When first Myrsina mounts Pantheon Hill By Heidelberge, mee-thinkes a Lady-bright Panthaea nam'd, Myrsina comes vntill, Adorn'd with beauty, modesty, and might: Such as she had, when her lou'd Abradate In Perse was Lord of Susas Lilly-state.

88

This Princely Dame whom Xenophon doth praise Both for her beauty and her chastity, When to King Cyrus she a captiue was, Who had good proofe of her pudicity: As soone as shee doth her Myrsina meete, Shee in this manner her begins to greete.

89

Welcome Myrsina to Pantheon Hill, Welcome pure Pearle, whom I Panthaea loue; Welcome to me, and shall be euer still, To Wights below, and vnto Gods aboue: Blest be the feete that fetcht this glasse to me Of thy sweete face, wherein mine owne I see.

90

As ardent loue may last betweene you twaine, As did 'twixt me, and my deere Abradate, Ioue from aboue his blessings powre amaine Downe on your heads, and make so mount your state Amongs your Peeres, as much as Iuno's Lilly Surmounts the Primrose, Panse or Daffadilly.

91

Such vnquench't fire as once the breasts did burne Of Admetus and his Alcestis deere, Burne both your breasts till both to ashes turne, Or both turne starres amidst pure Venus spheare: So liue, so loue, that time you surname may A Pericles, and an Aspasia.

92

Then for a token of her loue so deere, Towards Myrsina, for whose sake she came, She her bequeathes a Lilly-crowne to weare, And her entreates not to neglect the same: And that this signe her grace should neuer leaue, For Panthaea, who her that garland gaue.

93

Panthaea thus she takes her leaue, and sayes: Adue deere One, more sweet then Iuno's flowre, To thee most due; as many be thy dayes, As once grew Lillies round about my bowre In Persian fields, and in my Lilly-towne, As many dayes weare thou the Lilly-crowne.

94

When I Panthaea's Lilly-face behold, Her rosie lippes, her teeth of Iuory, And when I looke vpon her lockes of gold, And how her eyes are cleerer then the sky, I call to minde our Mary Clarabell, The all-grac'd Grand-dame of faire Rosimell.

95

Me thinkes she lookes as Mary did that day The Lilly-prince did her so louely wed In peerelesse Paris; such as saw her, say: That nere a sweeter Saint to Church was led In any Age, in any Land, or Clime: For of all Princes, Mary was the prime.

96

Nature and Grace did each of them contend, Which of the two should most her magnifie; Both of them did their vtmost strength extend Her Minde and Body for to beautifie. But her I leaue to my Muse Clarabell, For to conclude with her childe Rosimell.

97

Then viewes Eliza holy Abrah'ms hill, Which men do likewise tearme Saint Michaels mount, And there (me seemes) an Angels quire doth fill Their eares with aires, euen such as they were wont To warble forth, when soules from sinfull wayes, Turne to the path that leades to paradice.

98

Abrah'm and Sarah there do seeme to meet, Ioynt hand in hand as marryed folkes befits. Fred'ricke and his Elizabeth to greet, And then a while both downe beside them sits, Talking of duties betweene man and wife, How they should shun all iealousie and strife:

99

Then blesse they them with Isaac, and his mate Rebecca lou'd, whom beauty did commend, But bounty more; they wish a happy fate Vnto them both, with life that may not end, Till many yeares them and their seed do crowne, With highest hap amidst the Mirtle-towne.

100

Liue Princely-paire in health and honour still, Liue Princely-paire in concord, peace, and loue, Liue Princely-paire to grace your Abrah'ms hill, Till yee exchang't with Abrah'ms hill aboue. Be honour'd all your dayes, and after death, Be honour'd ay, Fred'ricke, Elizabeth. {inverted ⁂}

Notes

• Castor and Pol∣lux of all bro∣thers that haue bene were the most louingst, as Aratus, Apol∣lodorus & Hygi∣nus do write, & euen so louing, that the one would needs halue with the other his immortall State. Plutarch doth likewise tell how that Cleomenes of Lacedemonia did loue his brother En∣clides so deerely, that he made him his coequall in the Kingdome: and in our time or memory, there was neuer one that loued his brother more deerely then our peerelesse Prince Henry did his brother Duke Charles.
• This shall be shewed in our Sybilla Britan∣nica containing Prophesies in siue sundry Languages, which seeme to promise no lesse.
• Gonilda the faire, daughter of Canute the Danish King of England, mar∣ried to Henry the 3. Empe∣rour, & Mathil∣da or Maud, the daughter and heire of Henry the 1. K. of England, maried to Henry the 5. Emperour; reade hereof William of Malmesbury, and Roger Houeden their Histories.
• Robert surna∣med the No∣ble, Prince Pa∣latine & Empe∣rour, had by his wife Eliza∣beth the Em∣presse & good∣ly children, fiue sons & three daughters, whereof reade in Custinianus, Munsteru••, & Reus∣nerus: and from them two, Princ•• •…•…dericke and Princesse Elizabeth are both lineally descended, hee in the ninth, and shee in the tenth degree, as may be seene in the Pede∣gree I haue lately published) the which numbers in them vnited make vp King IAMES his auspicious & lucky number of Nineteene, which is likewise the number of the coe∣lestial Lyon, according to Hyginus, & Germanicus Caesar writing vpon Aratus; as also of the Kingdomes & Prince-domes into which the Ile of Britanny, with Ireland, in former ages, haue bene deuided; the which are now all happely vnited in One, in the person of the Lilly-Lyon of the North, and in this vnited State long may they continue, aye vntill all the Kingdomes of the earth bee fully vnited in the glorious person of the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah, who delighteth to feede among the Lillies; as it is in the Canticles.
• The two Hen∣ries Kings of England the 1. and the 2. had either of them a daughter na∣med Mathilde or Maud, and both of them were married to two Henries of Germany: the first King Hen∣ries Mathilde was his onely daughter and heire, and was wedded at fiue yeeres old to Henry the 5. Emperour, and was crowned Empresse at Mentz, on Saint Iames his day, in the yeere 1114. being of the age as said is of 5. who after the decease of her husband, dying without issue, annó 1116. returned to her father King Henry, bringing with her the Imperiall Crowne, and Saint Iames his hand, in honour whereof hee founded the Abbey and Church of S. Mary in Reading, as William of Malmsbury, William of Gemite, Roger Houedon, and Thomas Walsingham doe write. The which deed of this North-South descended Lady (for her father was King of England, and her mother another renowned Mathildis was a daughter of Scotland borne of S. Margaret, and King Malcolme) me thinkes did beare this good signification; that once a Iames, and he the son of a Matchlesse Mary, both of them hauing in their persons vnited the Royall blouds of both Countries, should euen at the feast of the Annunciation of the glorious Virgin MARY, enter to the vniting of these Kingdomes, and that he should at the Feast of Saint Iames receiue the Imperiall Crowne of the same vnited Kingdomes on his happy head: Whereof there is more to be read in our Poem, that sheweth both by Theology & Astrology the auspiciousnesse of his Maiesties entry to this Crowne; for whereas there haue bene three diuers designes attempted before at three diuers times, to vnite this Iland with three diuers Nations, Germany, France, & & Spaine, by the meanes of the Marriages of three Queene-heires, Maud and the two Maries, it was the great Vnion-Makers will to make the fore-said three Matches all fruitlesse, to the end that it might be first fully and perfitely vnited with, and in it owne selfe, before any other such Vnion with any forraine Nation should be made, as by those three marriages was intended and expected; and when I compare the designes & deeds of the three Maries together; first of Mary of England by her Mariage with King Phillip, labouring to vnite this Iland in whole, or in part with Spaine; next of Mary of Lorvaine by the Mariage of her yong daughter Mary of Scotland with Francis the Dolphin, to de∣uouring to vnite it with France, and lastly of the same Mary of Scotland, by her second Marriage with her deerest cousen, Henry, Lord Darly, Earle of Rosse, and Duke of Albuny, great-grand-child of King Henry the 7. intending to vnite this Iland with it selfe, in her happy Issue, when as I compare together, I say, the fore-said three diuers designes and endeuours of the fore-said three Maries, I am constrained to giue out this verdite and censure concerning the same; that the first two Maries were with Martha in the Gospell combred about many things, but that the third Mary, with Mary in the same Gospell, had chosen the better part, which was not to be taken from her.

  The other Mathildis or Maude, married into Germany, was the daughter of King Henry the second, wedded to Henry surnamed the Lyon, Duke of Bauier and Saxe, and bare him diuers children, namely Henry Duke of Saxe, &c. and Prince Palatine in right of his wife Agnes, heire of the Palatinate, by meanes whereof Prince Fredricke is descended from the said King Henry the 2. in the 17. degree. Another of their said children was Otho Lord of Brunswicke, and Earle of Yorke, created by his vnckle King Richard, sur-na∣med Lyons-heart, who also was chosen Emperour afterwards, and from him Prince Charles Duke of Yorke, is both on his fathers and his mothers side descended, in the 13. and 14 degrees, though some haue written, that he left no Issue by any of his wiues. He is much wronged by Historians, for that he was an enemy to the Popes vsurped super-Imperiall power, and his. Temporall vsurpations; for when as hee did feast Pope Inno∣cent the 3. in Rome, being then his friend, it chanced that hee made a motion to haue some things restored to the Empire, which the Pope did possesse, where-with he was so highly offended, that he presumptuously took vp a sword to haue stricken the Emperor, and afterwards did both Excommunicate him, and pronounce the sentence of deposi∣tion against him, whom before hee had aduanced to that dignity: reade Vrspergensis, Cus∣pinianus, Carion, Pedro de Mexia, and others.
• Iagello great Duke of Lithu∣any married Hedwigis heire of Poland, & daughter of Lodowick King of Hungary
• Poland, on S. Valentines day; and his sonne Casimire King of Poland mar∣ried about the same time Eli∣zebeth heire of Hungary, the daughter of Albert the 2. Emperour, Arch-duke of Austria, and King of Boheme and Hungary, by whom he had sixe sonnes, whereof foure were Kings of Poland, Hungary, and Boheme, and as many daughters.
• Abrahams hill in Dutch, na∣med Abrins∣berge, is a hill on the right hand of Hei∣delberge, and is in the ancient Records of that Citty called S. Abrahami Mons, as Irenicus, Leodius, and Marquardus do witnesse.
• William of Malmes berry and Mathew of Westminster in their Histories do make men∣tion of the great magnifi∣cence was vsed of the Nobility of England in conueying of Gonilda the faire daugh∣ter of the Danish King of England Canute to her ship; it was so great, that they exhau∣sted their whole treasure for costly apparell to themselues, and pretious presents to the Bride at her departure: The Musitians and Minstrels, at feasts and banquets, were al∣waies wont to celebrate the stately and Princely pompe thereof in their songs, thin∣king that they could neuer sufficiently magnifie and extoll the same.
• Heidelberge by interpretation is as much as a Hill or Towne of Myrtles, from the which it takes the name, according to the opinion of Franciscus Irenicus, Michael Bohemus, and Paulus Melissus, because of the great aboundance of Myrtle, berries which grow thereabout, they are called here in England Whirtle-berries, and in Scotland Blea-berries.
• The Con∣stellarion cal∣led Argo, in ho∣nour of Iasons ship, consisteth of many stars, wherof 18. are of the first, se∣cond, & third magnitudes; it doth risein the Spring season according to the obseruation of Astronomers; the 13. of March after Ptolomies Kalen∣der, but somewhat sooner according to the Ephemerides of the Modernes, and somewhat later according to the ancient Kalender of the Romanes, which placeth the rising there∣of vpon the fifth of Aprill: See Prolomeus, Aratus, Hyginus, Picolominaeus, Maginus, Stadius, and others.
• Castor & Pol∣lux were borne the seuenth of Aprill, and on the same day antiently their birth was cele∣brated in ho∣nour of them, for that they did scoure the seas from Pirates and Rouers, so that after their death they were held of Mariners and Sailers for their Patrons and Prote∣ctors from the danger of Pyrates: See the ancient Pontificall Kalender, Arotus, Hygi∣nus, and others.
• Of Eliza's natruity in the signe of Virgo; see more in our Poem made vpon that subiect; & in a goodtime, two of the said Virgo's brightest starres, the one called Spica Virginis of the first mag∣nitude, the other called Cingulum Virginis of the third magnitude, do arise at night, the one the seuenth, the other the eighth of Aprill, as it were for Elizaes sake, to light her all the nights of her voiage, chiefly vpon the sea: See Hyginus, Maginus, Picolominaeus.
• Sixe famous Historians Pli∣nius, Pausanias, Plutarchus, A∣thenaeus, Elia∣nus, & Solinus doe relate ad∣mirable exam∣ples, of the affection of the Dolphins towards Mankind, and of their forewardnesse to rescue them from dangers on the sea: It is the swiftest of all creatures by land or sea, swifter then an arrow, or a swallow, it hath no gall, it delighteth in Musicke, and loues to be called Simon, it is alwaies in motion, both sleeping and waking, and so is the tongue of it moueable, contrary to the nature of Sea-creatures, it will eate out of a mans hand; it loues to leape and play about ships on the sea, it fore-smelleth Tempests and stormes before they fall, they haue borne little boies on their backes from shore to shore, they haue rescued many from the danger of drowning in the sea, they haue brought the bo∣dies of the dead in the sea to the shore; they haue proued many waies thankefull to such as haue deliuered them from the hands of Fishers, as they did to Caeranus the Mile∣siane whom they deliuered from shipwracke when all his fellowes did drowne, and when his funerall-fire was in making, neere to the sea-side of Miletus they were seene in the neerest they could come to the shore, to solemnize in their manner Coeranus their redeemers obsequies. There is such a kind of brotherly loue amongst them, that when any one of them chanceth to bee taken, they do in great troupes repaire before the Ta∣ker, making signes of entreaty for their fellowes release. Aelianus doth write that there is, in diuers respects, a great similitude and resemblance betweene the Lyon, the King of land-beasts, and the Dolphin the King of sea-creatures▪ Finally, the Ancients had the Dolphins in so great veneration, for their admirable Mankind-nature, that they estee∣med it a thing vnlawfull to take them, or to do them any harme; and therefore Oppianus exclaimeth against the Bizantins for their vnkind killing & eating of so kind a creature: the which thing learned Casaubonus hath likewise obserued in his Commentaries vpōn Athenaeus.
• The daugh∣ter of Smin∣theus loued by Aenalus as is in Plutarch.
• Arion the Mu∣sition his res∣cuage by a Dolphin is ce∣lebrated by the common testi∣mony of Hi∣storians, and both Herodotus & Hyginus do write, how that Pyranthus or Periander King of Corinth, who loued Arion for his melodie and skill of Musick, did reare vp a stately monument & sta∣tue in honour of that Dolphin that rescued him, and made hang the mercilesse Marri∣ners which had intended his death, before the said Monument. Finally, Stesichorus and Plutarchus do report, how that Telemachus, the son of Vlisses, being saued by a Dolphin from drowning, his father in remembrance therof euer bare thereafter the picture of a Dolphin in his Shield, Signet, and Sword pomell.
• Eustathius vpon the Geo∣graphy of Dio∣nysius, Iulianus the Emperour in his Epistle to Maximus the Philosopher, and Politianus in his Epistle to Iacobus Cardinalis Papiensis, with others more, doc make mention of the Riuer of Rhines admirable nature, in iudging of Wed∣locke-breach, for if yong children bee set on the said water, if they haue beene wel-gotten, it beareth them vp, and, as it were, sendeth them backe againe with her appro∣bation to their honest mothers; where as such as haue beene begotten with any spot or blot, comming by false play, shee ouerwhelmeth them, or rather swalloweth them vp in the midst of her pooles; shewing thereby, that she would be auenged in the same manner vpon their polluted mothers if they were in their place.
• That Gathe∣lus and Scota were of the Argiuian & Ae∣gyptian bloud of Osiris & Isis, and that they were the true Progenitors of the most part of our Ilan∣ders, it shall bee shewed in our booke of Britannish anti∣quities. Accor∣ding to Strabo, Berosus, Diodorus, Plutarchus, Plinius, & others, Isis was the daughter of Ina∣chus the first King of Argiues, and the wife of Osiris her owne brothers sonne; for Phoro∣neus King of Argiues was his father, who was the sonne of Inachus. They reigned first a∣mongst the Argiues, and then amongst the Egyptians, whom they taught ciuility, Arts and Sciences, of whom they were honored as their King and Queene during their life, and after their death as their Patrons and Gods, because of the great happinesse which they enioyed by the meanes of their gouernment so long as they liued.
• Cybele enstiled the mother of the Gods, be∣cause (belike) shee was the first Woman that euer bare Kings in her belly, was pictured sitting in a Chariot drawne with Lyons, crowned and clothed with gold and precious stones. See Albricus in his booke de Imaginibus Deorum. The May garland that she makes for Eliza, consisteth of nine choyce Flowres, and nine precious stones, representing the starres of Ariadnes Northerne Crowne, being nine in number, according to Ouidius, Hyginus, and Germanicus Caesar writing vpon the Astronomy of Aratus.
• Plinius, Philo∣stratus, Diopha∣nes, Pontanus, and others doe write, that there is a cer∣taine secret sence of ma∣trimonial loue betweene the Palmes, Male and Female, and that so vehement and earnest, that they do commonly droope, languish, and wax barren, except that they may either rouch, or at least see one another; and Theophrastus, Herodotus, and Athenaeus do witnesse, how that both fertility and maturity are much aduanced and furthered in the Female-palme by the meanes of the flowre and fruite of the Male-palme tied thereunto, or yet if the dust and powder of the Hee-palme be spread thereupon: and if two Palmes Male and Fe∣male be planted on the two-sides of a Brooke or Riuer, the one ouer against the other, they will stretch out their boughes and branches one to another, as if they would kisse or embrace, and therefore the learned Aegyptians and Greekes, make the Palmes to bee the Heroglyphicke or ensigne of loue betweene man and wife. The Palme is likewise the Symbole of a godly life, according to S. Eucherius, because, whereas all other Trees, are seene to be smaller aboue, and greater below; the Palme contrary-wise is smaller be∣low, and greater aboue; resembling the godly and deuote man, or woman, who is al∣waies great and strong in things heauenly which are aboue, but small and weake in things earthly which are below. S. Ambrose makes the Palme to be the Symbole of In∣nocencie, and Saint Hierome, of our Lords Crosse: Lastly, according to the common-consent of both Philosophers and Diuines, it is the symbole, or signe, of triumphant victory, because as Aristoteles, Theophrastus, Plutarchus, Gellius and others do deliuer, it hath this admirable property, that if a great and huge weight of stones bee laid vpon the backe thereof, it doth not yeeld, or bow downe-wards, as other Trees do, but it bendeth vp-wards, and riseth vp against the weight arch-wise; of the which excellent Tree, our Poem, called a mysticall May-pole, presented to King Iames, makes further mention.
• The three Graces are imagined to be three yong comely and graceful God∣desses, going together, linkt arme in arme, whereof reade more in Phornutus, de Natura Deorum and others.
• The three Graces are brought in presenting three Roses, the first a sin∣gle white one, the second a single red one, the third a double one, white and red together; because that the Rose is held of the learned to be the Hierogliphicke, Symbole, or signe of gracefulnesse, com∣linesse, and loue: And the Philosophers doe thinke that the odour, and colour thereof doth proceed from the influence of the gracefull Planet Venus. The Mages, or Sages of the Indians, and Persians, did much vse the Rose, with the oyle and water thereof, to conciliate the gracefull & fauourable aspect of Kings, Queenes, Princes & Potentates. And we reade how that Aelius Verus, the Emperour, was wont to lye on a bed of Roses, as it were to draw from thence a kinde of gracefull influence, which hee might after∣wards impart to his people. Read Orus Apollo, and Pierius in their Hierogliphickes.
• In the ancient ensigne of Hei∣delberge was painted a most comely and gracefull Nymph, stan∣ding on a Myrtle-hill, and at a fresh fountaine there. A monument thereof is to bee seene in Marble; for a crowned Lyon, or Lyonesse holds in its pawes a Scutchion, in the bot∣tome whereof is the said Myrtle Nymph, painted with a bundle of Myrtle-berries in her hand. Read hereof Paulus Melissus, and Marquardus Freiherus
• The Lyon is the Symbole of our Saui∣our, who is called the Lyon of the Tribe of Iuda in the Re∣uelation. And hee is a Lilly-Lyon, because he feedeth among the Lillies, as it is in the Canticles. And the Lyon inuiro∣ned with Lilies, is the Royall badge of our Soueraigne. The Lyon rampant is like∣wise the badge both of the Palatine Princes, and of the princely house of Howards, in whose Illustrious discent I haue found 12 of the same Emperours, and twise 12 of the same Kings, which doe occurre in the Pedigrees common to King Iames and Prince Fredericke, as shall bee (God willing) shewed other-where. The first that ere bare the Lyon for his badge, was Hercules the Egyptian, as we may gather out of Herodotus, and Diodorus. And Gathelus, who was of the same bloud that Hercules was of, brought this Ensigne first into Britanny; and Agamemnon king of the Argiues, who was of the same bloud with Gathelus, whose father Argus Nilus was likewise King of the Argiues, and had in him vnited the Arginian and Egyptian bloud, hee did likewise beare the Lyon in his shield, as witnesseth Pausanias; who telleth how that Idomenous King of Creet bare a Cocke in his Scutchion, which is esteemed to bee the Symbole of triumphant victory: for the Lyon himselfe, though he be the most magnanimous and strongest of all beasts, so that S. Basil, with others, enstileth him King of beasts, yet hee stands in feare of the Cocke, chiefly the white, as S^t. Ambrose doth deliuer, besides the ancients, Zoreaster, Pli∣nius, Lucretius, Aelianus, Proclus, with others. The reason whereof Proclus thinketh to be thus, because that the Cocke and the Lyon, being both of them in a certaine pecu∣liar manner gouerned by the influence of the Sunne, the Cocke receiueth more of the force thereof (which doth appeare by his accurate obseruing of the times of the night and day) then the Lyon doth, and therefore being in that respect his inferiour, the law of Nature tyeth him to reuere and feare the Cocke as his superiour. Others doe adde, that the Cocke representeth the power Coelestiall and Spirituall; and the Lyon the power terrestriall and temporall. Moreouer the Lyon is the Simbole, or Ensigne, not onely of magnanimity and strength, and of religious feare, but also of vigilancy and watchfulnesse; because that according to the common consent of the learned, namely Aristoteles, Manethon, Plinius, Aelianus, Plutarchus, and Macrobius, hee sleepeth with his eyes open, which do likewise shine as full of light and withall stirreth his taile in the meane time that hee is asleepe, of which hee is neuer ouercome. The Lyon is likewise the Symbole of Clemency, because among all the wilde beasts he alone spareth such persons as do prostrate themselues before him, and by signes and speeches do pray him to shew pitty, as Plinius, Aelianus and others do witnesse. It is also the Symbole of iust reuenge, because 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the said Authors, together with Oci•…•…na, doe deliuer, he marketh most diligently such as inuade him, and hurt him; and though he bee in neuer so great a throng, if he can, he pursueth him, and killeth him; whereas hee onely terrifieth, or throweth downe the man that had onely aimed at him, but not hurt him. Hanno of Car∣thage was the first man that tamed the Lyon, which hee vsed in the bearing of his bag∣gage. Berenice Queene of Egypt had a Lyon so tame, that she would suffer him to licke her face, and eate with her at the Table. Others haue taken tame Lyons to the field to fight against their enemies. But aboue all, the history of Androcles, reported by Ae∣lianus, and Gellius, is notable, whom a Lyon fed three yeares in the time hee was fu∣gitiue; and afterwards being both taken, not onely spared, when as hee was casten to him for his prey, but also protected him from the the furious inuasion of a Libbard, and folded himselfe at his feet, & shewed all the signes of amity that he could, though some good space had past since they had liued together in the den. The ground and cause of all the which affection, was for that Androcles had pulled a thorne out of the poore Ly∣ons foote, and healed his soare, at the very first time that he chanced to repose himselfe in the faid den, not caring what became of him. The which matter beeing signified to Caesar, Androcles was restored to his liberty, and the Lyon his old Host giuen him for his guerdon, of whom it was thus commonly said when as they went along the streets; Be∣hold the man who was the Lyons Physitian, and the Lyon who was the mans Host.
• Venus, the Lady of loue, is the patro∣nesse of the Myrtle-tree, & as Nicander writeth, shee ware a Myrtle garland the day shee wan the Golden Apple by the iudgement of Paris.
• Because the Myrtles of Hei∣delberge are but wilde, low shrubs, there∣fore the Nymphe to congratulate Eliza, wisheth shee had the Myrtle-tree, which Plinius and others do tell once grew in old Romes first plot, and some of those Myrtles of Egypt, which according to Theophrastus and Athenaeus are the most fragrant of all other. The greater Myrtle groweth plente∣ously in Spaine, and in Italy, about Naples, the smaller in Germany and France; the leaues are alwaies greene, the flowres faire and white. It is the onely Tree that yeeldeth both oyle and wine, also the Myrtle-berries of old time serued in steed of pepper. It doth likewise affoord a kind of sweete perfume to hee burned; it was chosen to make an at∣tonement, and to rarefie the marriage betweene the Romans and the Sabins, because Venus is the patronesse thereof. Hence it is, that the wise Egyptians and Greekes haue made the Myrtle-tree to bee the Symbole of matrimoniall loue; and in a country of Greece called Trezenie, there is a kind of Myrtle whose leaues are full of holes, re∣presenting the wounds and heart-holes of languishing louers. It is like-wise the Sym∣bole or Ensigne of such honest mirth and gladnesse, as is vsed at Banquets and Feasts; For of old times, as Plutarchus and Horatius do testifie, at Banquets, a branch of Myrtle∣tle went round about the Table, whereby, each one of the Feasters was inuited to sing some honest song to reioyce the company: And the Myrtle-Nymph of Heidelberge wi∣sheth that her Cittizens should renew, or represent, this old custome at their Feasts made in honour of Elizabeths arriuall, by making her Myrtle-berry in steed of a Myr∣branch go round about the Table to inuire them to sing their best songs for Elizabeths sake. The same Nymph like-wise promiseth that her Myrtle-berries at Eliza's comming shall haue the same vertue that the Myrtle-rod, by Plinius and others, is reported to haue; which is to chase all wearinesse from folkes limmes, come they neuer so far off to see Eliza's solemnities.
• The Myrtle-Tree, saith D••∣d••naus, is cal∣led Myrsine in Greek, because of a yong La∣dy in Athens so named, who in beauty excelled all the Lasses and Ladies of that Citty, and in strength and Actiuity all the lusty Lads and Gallants of Greece; for the which shee was tenderly beloued of Minerua, or Pallas, the Patronesse of Wisedome and Valour, who willed her to bee al∣waies present at Turney and Tilt, running, vauting, and other such exercises of Armes, to the end that fitting as Iudge of their Actiuity, shee might giue the Garland-prize to such as best deserued the same. But some of thē which were vanquished, were so much displeased with her iudgement, that they slue her. The which thing so soon•• as Pallas perceiued, she caused the sweete Myrtle to spring vp out of her bloud, and called it Myrsine, in honour and remembrance of her.
• Of such Pro∣phesies, God-willing, shal be aboundantly spoken in our Sibylla Britan∣nica; in the meane time, it is to be noted, that Iohannes Leunclauius in the Preface of his Mussulmane History, De∣dicated to the Prince-electors, doth deliuer, how that old Oracles do promise that the Turke shall bee finally and totally ouer-throwne at the Riuer of Rhine, by the vnited forces of three Kings. And Michael Nostradamus telleth, how that the day shall be, when the Princes of the Pole-article, or the North, to the number of sixe, shall ioyne with the chiefe, or Prince of Scotland, and that they shall bring great terror and tribulation to the Mahumetane Turkes. Lastly, the most glorious Prophesie that I find of any Prince, is of a Prince of the name of Charles, the which, Carion in his Chronicle hath applyed to Charles the fifth, King of Spaine and Emperour; but truely, that most worthy, valo∣rous, and victorious Prince hath left the accomplishment thereof to some other Charles then himselfe, as the tenure of the prediction conferred with his deedes, howsoeuer glorious, may testifie: and it hath bene alwaies my most ardent wish euer since I began to be some-what curious in this kind, that that Prophesie alledged by Carion out of the old Chronicles of Magdeburg, might haue one day his full accomplishment in the per∣son of Prince Charles, and that as he doth Symbolize with Castriote, alias Scanderbeg, in the common stile of Prince, or Duke of Albany, so may hee like-wise with him in his Prowesse against the Turkes, and in his Titles of Christs Champion, and the terrour of Turkes. Whereof, who will, may read more in our Poem made vpon Prince Charles his Natiuity.
• Three Empe∣rours 3 daugh∣ters, of the name of Ma∣thilde or Maud, haue ben mar∣ried to three Palatine Prin∣ces; the first Mathildis was the daughter of Otho the se∣cond, Duke of Saxe and Em∣perour, mar∣ried to Siffrid Prince Pala∣tine; the second, was the daughter of Rodulph the first, Earle of Habspurg and Emperour, married to Prince Lodowicke, surnamed the Seuere; & the third Mathildis was the daugh∣ter of Adolph Earle of Nassaw and Emperour, married to Rodolph Prince Palatine: And as for Kings daughters that haue bene married to the Palatines, we reade in Henninges, Dauid Rorarius, and Marquardus Freherus, how that Blanch, the eldest daughter of Hen∣ry the fourth King of England, was the first wife of Lodowicke the fourth, Prince Pala∣tine, sonne to Robert the Emperour, who, as Fabian and Cooper in their Chronicles doe write, came heere into England, Anno, 1403, and was receiued of the said King Henry with great Triumph. Our English Writers, though they agree that the said Lady Blanch was married about this time to a Duke of Bauier, and hee the Emperours sonne, yet they make no particular mention of any such Match, as the aboue named Germaines do auouch, but rather otherwise: Ranulph of Chester, Walsingham, Fabian, and Stow, doe not expresse the Dukes name that married her; Polydorus erroniously calleth him Iohn, sonne to the Duke of Bauier; Hal, and Hollinshed name him William Duke of Bauier, sonne to Lewis the Emperour, but this could not be; for both English and Dutch Histo∣rians and Genelogicians write, that the said Duke William married Maud daughter to Henry Duke of Lancaster, whose other daughter Blanch married Iohn of Gant Earle of Richmond, and in her right, Duke of Lancaster, and that she suruiued her husband foure yeares, and that he died Anno 1377. some 25. yeares before the marriage of Blanch, the eldest daughter of Henry the fourth; who, according to the truth, was married to Lodo∣wicke Duke of Bauier, the sonne of Robert Prince Palatine and Emperour, who had bene chosen but a short space before, by the Electors, and came heere into England, as is said aboue. And as for the rest of the Kings daughters, mentioned in the Poem, Ludo∣mille of Boheme, was the daughter of Primislay the 2. King of Boheme, and of Constance his wife, the daughter of Bela the third, King of Hungary, shee was married to Lodowick the father of Otho the Illustrious Prince Palatine, and Duke of Bauiere. Beatrice of Si∣cilie, wife to Robert the second, Prince Palatine, was the daughter of Fredericke King of Sicilie, according to Cuspinianus, Carion, Rheusnerus, Marquardus and Brunnius: as for Mun∣sterus, he doth not expresse his propper name, but Henninges, and Albizius make her the daughter of King Peter. Dorothie of Denmarke, the wife of Fredericke the second Prince Palatine, was the daughter of Christiern the second, King of Denmarke. Elizabeth of Hungary was wife to Heary Duke of Bauier, the yonger brother of Lodowicke called the Seuere, Prince Palatine, and Daughter and Heire of Bela, the fourth, King of Hungary. Lastly, Anne of Polony, was the daughter of Conrade, Prince of Poland, and one of the three wiues of the fore-said Lodowicke the Seuere, so called, for that out of an vndis∣creete humor of iealously, hee practised a filthy cruelty vpon his wife Mary of Brabant, in causing her head to bee cut off, for that shee had written a letter to a Captaine of his owne, named Henry Rucco, which came into his hands: for the which abhominable fact, hee was so terrified with an horrible vision by night, that his head became before the next morning as white as wooll, so that hee repenting him of his iealousy and cru∣elty, founded the Monastery of Furstenfield, and endowed the same with rich posses∣sions, as Cuspinianus and Henninges do write. Thus wee see, how that it fared much more hardly with this good Lady Mary of Brabant, then it did, with Cunegunde the sister of Henry Prince Palatine, maried to Henry the second, Emperour, who got leaue to purge her selfe of the like false suspition, by going bare-foote (as she did, without hurt) vpon a number of Plough-shares red hot, as the same Cuspinianus with Vrspergensis doe write. And in William of Malmesbury, and Ranulph of Chester wee reade how that Queene Emme, mother to King Edward the Confessor, being accused of adultery with Edwin, Bishop of Winchester, purged her selfe in the same manner. Semblably wee reade in Cuspinianus, Paulus Emylius, and Francis de Belle-forest, how that Charles the Grosse King of France and Emperour, accused his wife Richarda, a daughter of Scotland, of playing false play with Luitwald Bishop of Vercelle in Lumbardy, her chiefe Councelor, but she cleered her selfe to her great honour, and her iealous, yea, impotent husbands great shame. So did Gonilda the faire, daughter of Canute King of England, accused to her husband Henry the third Emperour, of the like fault, who when as shee could find none to fight in the defence of her honesty against her slanderous accuser, being so strong and of so huge a Statute, it pleased God to enspire a little boy with Dauids courage, whom shee had brought out of England with her, who encountring with the reproach∣full Goliah, first cut his knee, and being fallen to the ground, cut off his head, and brought it to the good Empresse Gonilda, who thanked God with great reioysing for working such a wonder for her sake by the hands of a boy, being of so low a Stature, that he was commonly called Mimecan, or the Dwarfe, as William of Malm••ssbury, Mathew of estminster, and Ranulph of Chester haue written.
• On the left hand of Hei∣delberge is a Hil called Hei∣ligenberg which is by interpre∣tation, the Hill of all Saints, where, according to Franciscus Irenicus, and Thomas Leodius, was anciently a Temple ere∣cted in honour of all the Heathen Gods called Pantheon, like vnto that of Rome, menti∣oned in Dion Cassius, which Pope Boniface, as Platina testifieth, conuerted into a Church called Al-Saints.
• Alcestis loued so entirely & deerely her lo∣uing husband Admetus, King of Thessaly, that she choosed to die, thereby to deliuer her said husband from imminent death, as is in Euripides, or as writeth Palapha∣tus more probably, that shee made herselfe the captiue of Accastus, to deliuer her hus∣band from his captiuity, who was afterwards deliuered by Hercules, and restored to her louing husband. And as for Pericles, Prince of Athens, he loued so deerely his louing A∣spasia, that he neuer went out a doores from her, but he kissed her, as writes Plutarchus.
• The Lilly is the King of Flowers, in re∣gard both of the fairenesse, & the tallnesse thereof. In Sa∣lomons Canticles it is the Symbole of our Sauiour, In S. Hilary it is the Symbole of the glorious Angels. It is likewise the Symbole, or Ensigne of publicke hope, as may appeare by the Imperi∣all Medals of Alexander Pius, Aemilianus, Claudius, Tiberius, Adrianus, and others. Finally, it is the Symbole of beauty and pudicity, according to S. Hierome, and great store there∣of did grow in the Persian fields about Susa, the delicate and most sweet winter-seat of the Kings of Persia. The which Cities name is by interpretation, a Lilly, as Athenaeus doth witnesse, and was so named according to the testimony of Stephanus in Vrbibus, from the abound••nce of faire Lillies there growing. It was once the Citty of Abradate and Panthaea, who are so highly praised by Xenophon, & afterwards by S^t. Hierom. When Cyrus had ouercome the Assyrians, this Persian Princesse was taken, her husband Abra∣date, Prince of Susa, being then absent in Bactria, hee being the most worthy and valo∣rous Chiefetaine of his time, and she both the most vertuous and the most beauteous Lady of all Asia; who when as some of King Cyrus his Courtiers did comfort her the best way they could, telling her amongs other matters, that in steed of an Abradate, she was to be honoured with the loue and society of a Cyrus, no sooner heard she these words, but she began to beate her breast, to teare her haire, and to rent her cloathes, and vaile from top to toe, taking vp amids her mournfull maids, a most bitter lamentation. The consideration of whose incomparable beauty and worth, made Cyrus to forbeare to come into her sight, as fearing to be ouercome with the vigour of her vertue. Her hus∣band being returned, and hauing receiued tokens from her, with letters, letting him to vnderstand, how that he should be welcome to Cyrus, he made all possible haste of com∣ming to Cyrus his Court, accompanied with a thousand horsemen in goodly array. Vn∣to whom Panthaea hauing made report of the religion, vertue, temperancy, continency and compassion of King Cyrus, shewed in her behalfe, when as it lay in his power to doe with her what he would, Abradate replied, saying; and what wouldst thou (my deere Pan∣thaea) that I did to requite these curtesies of Cyrus? Who answered; what shouldst thou do else (my deere Abradate) but follow the footsteps of his vertue, in labouring to be like vnto so worthy a wight. And being come before Cyrus, he saith; for the inestimable curte∣sie thou hast shewed in the behalfe of my Panthaea, thy prisoner, I can make thee no other requitall, but offer vnto thee my selfe, my friendship, my society and seruice euer here∣after, for the aduancing of thine honor. And afterwards, when as Abradate was to go to fight against the Aegyptians in the cause & quarrell of Cyrus, Panthaea had prepared for him a costly Chariot, with most gorgeous and glorious armour, which when he did put on, she exhorted him to shew himselfe a stout chiefetaine for Cyrus his sake, who had bin so fauourable to them. With which speech Abradate being highly delighted, clapping her head, and kissing her lippes, hee cast his eyes vpwards to heauen, vsing these words: Vouchsafe great Ioue, that I may shew my selfe a husband worthy of such a wife as Panthaea, & a wight worthy of the frindship of such a one as Cyrus. Who had heard this matchlesse Lady en∣courage her louing husband to shew all possible prowesse for the honor of Cyrus, or had seene her kissing the very Chariot wherein her sweetest one did sit, would haue much wondred; but much more by many degrees, who had heard her intreating, & adiuring her Nurse by her loue towards her, to sow her vp in one winding-sheet with her slaine husband: Or who had seene her laying his head on her lap, and powring her owne heart-bloud into his wounds: For when as Cyrus vnderstanding of his most worthy friends fall in the field, fighting most valiantly, he vsed all the meanes he possible could of comforting & cheering vp his peerelesse widow Panthaea, telling her how that there should bee nothing left vndone in honour of Abradate, that was due vnto a most valo∣rous and chiualrous Chiefetaine; and praying her to perswade herselfe of his most feruent and constant affection, both for Abradates sake, and her owne, he likewise pray∣ed her to tell him vnto whom she had a liking to be carryed. Who answered; Doe not yee trouble your selfe, noble Cyrus, giue me but leaue a little more to be mourne my deere husband, and yee shall know then to whom I desire to go, when I haue put an end to my mourning. And so it fell out within a few houres, that the end of her mourning, and the end of her life was all one; Abradate was the man whom she loued as much as her owne soule, and more then all the men in the world, while he was aliue; and Abra∣date was the man whom she loued more then her owne selfe when he was dead. In one word, it was Panthaea's death to be aliue without Abradate, and her sweetest life to dye with her deere Abradate.
• Michael Eyzin∣gerus in his Thesaurus prin∣cipum, most worthily affir∣meth, that there was in this most no∣ble Queene, a gratious kinde of contention betweene good Nature and Grace, which of the two should bestow most of their perfections vpon her princely person; Nature stri∣uing to heape on her head the height of exquisite beauty; and Grace on the other part, replenishing her heroicall heart with the very comble and heape of vertue & bounty.
• Abrinsberg is a hill on the right hand of Heidelberg, and both in the Dutch appella∣tion, & the La∣tine records it is called S^t. A∣brahams hill; & by Trithemius it is named al∣so S^t. Michaels mount.
• Of the ardent and constant loue that should be be∣tweene man & wife, the Au∣thor hath dis∣coursed more amply in his Golden Legends of Abraham & Sara, Isaac, and Rebecca, Iacob & Rahel, vpon which it plea∣sed her Grace to bestow the reading some while agoe.