Great Britain -- History -- Poetry; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Sources
By her had _Siluius_ shortly issue eke,
A goodly Prynce, and _Brutus_ was his name.
But what should I of his misfortune speake,
For hunting, as hee minded strike the game,
He shot[125] his father, that beyond it came.
The quarrell[126] glaunst, and through his tender side
It flewe where through the noble _Siluius_ dyde.[127]
6.
Lo thus by chaunce though princely _Brutus_ slewe
His father _Siluius_, sore agaynst his will,
Which came to soone, as he his arrowe drewe
Though hee in chace the game, did minde to kill,
Yet was hee banisht from his countrey still,[128]
Commaunded neuer[129] to retourne no more,
Except he would his life to loose therefore.
7.
On this, to Greece Lord _Brutus_ tooke his way,
Where Troians were, by Græcians, captiues kept:
_Helenus_ was by _Pirrhus_ brought away
From death of Troians, whom their[130] friends bewept.
Yet hee in Greece this[131] while no busines slept,
But by his facts, and feates obtayn’d such fame,
Seauen thousand captiue Troians to him came.
8.
_Assaracus_ a noble Græcian eke,
Who by his mother came of Troian race,
Because he sawe himselfe in Greece to weake,[132]
Came vnto him to ayde him in this case,
For that his brother thought him to deface.[133]
Which was a Greeke by both his parents sides,
His Castells three the Troian _Brutus_ guides.
9.
While[134] hee to bee theyr Captayne was content,
And as[135] the Troians gathered to his band,
Ambassage to the[136] Græcian King he sent,
For to entreate they[137] might depart his land.
Which when King _Pandrasus_ did vnderstand,
An army strayght he did therefore addresse,
On purpose all the Troians to suppresse.
10.
So as King[138] _Pandrasus_ at Spartane towne
Thought them in deserts by, to circumuent,
The Troians with[139] three thowsand beate them downe,
Such fauoure loe, them[140] Lady Fortune lent.
By _Mars_ his force, their rayes and ranckes hee rent,
And tooke Antigonus the brother of their King,[141]
With others moe, as captiues home to bring.
11.
The taken towne from which the King was fled,
Sir _Brutus_ with sixe hundreth men did man,
Eche prisoner was vnto his keeper led
To keepe in towne, the noble Troians wan:
And into woods the Troiane gate him than[142]
Againe with his, hee kept him there by night
To quaile the Græcians if they came to fight.
12.
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