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Show Thefecond Booke of the first part : . Guara4.$.3. in Greece;to binde themfelues by folemne oath, thatif the weretaken from her hint. Many. byvalour hauedeferu'd renowne Ere Agamemnon : yet lie all opprett ; Vnderlong night, yawept for,and ynknowne : For withnofacred Poet weretheybleft. band, they fliould with all their might helpe to recouer het, This done, hegaue freé choyce ofahusbandto his daughter,whochofe Atenelaus,brotherto 42 amemnnon.So the caufe which drew the Greckes vnto Troy in reuenge of Helensr Ipe, was partly the oath which fo many Princes had made vnto her father Tyzdareus, Hereunto the Yetfo itis, that whileft thefe Wiitetrs haue with ftrange fables,or (to fpeake thebeh of themwith Allegdités farreftraited, gone about to enlafge : the comn lations of thofe noble vndertakers: they haué both drawneinto fufpition thar g great power of Agamemnon was not alittle helping; for dzamemnon,belides his eréat Dominions it Peloponnefus, was Lord of manyIands:he wasalfo rich in m mney; vertue which they fought to adorne, & filled after-ages with almoft as much ignorance of theHifty riejas admiration ofthe perfons. Whereforeit is expedient that we feeke forthe know-i ledge offiich actions;in Hiftories ; learning their qualities who did managethem, of Poets; i whofe workes are both profitanddelight:yet finall profit to thofe whichae | andtherefore the Arcadians were well contented to follow his pay, whomhee em- barked for Troyin his ownefhips,which were more than any other of the Greeke honourin that great enterprife; take armes againft the Troians. The §. IT. Of the Rape of Helen : andfirength of both fides forthe warre. 2° whichten wholeyeers did ftandout againtt fuch forces:yet werethe T1 inhabited the Cirie, not the tenth part of this number, as Agamemuon cond of Homers Heads;but their followers and aydés were very manyand ftror all Phrygia,Lycia,Milsia, andthe greateft part ofAfiathe leffe, tooke part Troians. The Amazons alfo brought themfuccour; And Rhefus out of Th Adeninon out of Affyria(though fome thinke,out of Athiopia)came to theird ra Eredotus fetcheththe caufe of this rape from very farre , faying, That wheres to bes % #e reuenged on the Barbarians, did firft rauith Ewyepa,whom they brought outof Pheniciainto Creta,and afterward Adedea, whom they fetcht from Cel ches, denying toreftore herto herfather,till {uch time as they mightbefatisfied for the rapeofo.By thefe deedes ofthe Greekes,Paris (as the fame Herodotus affirmes) was Thus did.all Greece, eitheras boundbyoath, or led byreputation the two brethren; dgamemnon and Aenelaus; or defirous to partake oft was (by Homers account) 1200.fayle; or thereabouts: but the vefte ; ts forit was not thenthe mannerto build thips with deckes; onely they vfed(as ‘Thuci= dides faith) {mall fhips, meet for robbing ontheSea; the] f whic carried Gftie men,thegreateft 120.cuery man(except the Captaines) being both a Marriner and Souldier.By this proportion it appeares that the Grecian armycontifted of men,or thereabont.. This was th greateft armie that euer wasraif andthe greatnefleofthis armie doth well declarethe ftrength and powerof Trc but howhewas hereunto emboldned,it is doubtful. K ol the Phoenicians had rauifhed Jo,and carried her into Egypt, the Greckes euiy 3 . > ~ = oO Princes broughtto that expedition, Io delighted otherwife ; but fuchas can interpret their fables, or fepa ate them fromthe nakedtruth, (hall finde matter in Poems,not vaworthytobe regarded of Hiftorians, For thofe things excepted whichare gathered out of Homer,there is very little,andnot with out much difagreement of Authors,written of this great war. All writers confent with Homerthat the rape of Helen by Paris the fon of Priamus, Was thecaufe oftaking arms; emboldenedto canoe doethelike;not fearing fuch reuengeas enfued:But all this narration {eemesfriuolous. Ee ti as ‘ z Of theGrecians ioarney,and Embaffage to Troy, and of Hclenaes beine detained For what had the King of Colchos to doe with the iniurie of the Phoenicians ? Orhow could the Greekes,as in reuengeofJo, pleadeany quarrel againft him, chat neuerhad heard thename ofPheenicianse T)hucydides a writer ofynqueltionable finceritie,maketh it plain;thatthename of Barbarians was not vfedatall in Etomers tim e,whichwas long after the warre of Troy;andthatthe Greeks themfelues were notthen called all by one name, Hellewes,as afterwatds. So that it were vareafonable to thinke, that theyfhould haue fought reucnge vpon all Nations, as barbarous, forthe iniurie receiued by one: . 3 3 orthat all people elfe thould haue efteemed ofthe Greeks,as ofa people oppofed toall the world ; and that cuen then y henas the Greekes had not yet one common name among themfelues. Others with more probabilitie fay, that the rape of Helen was 10 procure the redeliuery of Hefioze, King Friamushis fifter, taken formerly by Hercules, and giuen to Telamon.Thismay hane beene true.For Telamon (as it feemes ) wasact ell man,fecing his owne fonne Tecer durft not come in his fight,after the warre of17); but fled into Cyprus, onely becaufe his brother Aizx (whichTeacer could not remedie) had flaine himfelfe. Yer, were it fo, that Hefiene wasill intreared byTelamon, it was not thereforelikely, that Priamus her brother would fecketo take her fromherbusband, with whonrfhe hadlined about thirtie yeeres,andto whom fhee had borne childret whichwere to fucceed in his Dominion. Whereupon I thinke that Paris gardeither tothe rape of Europa, Medea,or Hefione: but was meer ‘ly incitedhad no te by Ves that is,by his luft, to doe that which in thofe dayes was very tamaion, For not onely Greeks from Barbarians,and Barbarians from Gtecksas, Herodotus difcourfeth; buta?y? people were accuftomed to fteale women andcattel] ifthey couldby ftrong hand of powerget them; and hauingftollen them,cither to fell themaway in fome farre Coule tric,or keepe themto their owne vie.So did Thefeus, and Pirgthous attempt Proferpins _Taucydides, - did The/eus before Paris) rauith Helen, And thefepractices, as it appeatee in were (folong common,tha t none durft iphabite neére yntothe Sea,forfeare™ pyracie, which was accounted a tradeofl of the Eiiftory ofthe World, ife noleffe lawfull than merchandife: whe" ; fore Tysdarcus the fatherofHelen, confidering the beauty ofhis daug and the rape Which The/exs had made. cz ae cnt s{eus had made, caufedall her Wooers, who were moft ofa the principals in | | in Egypt ; and ofthe Sacrificing of Iphigenia. ° i : . « . So Gu Herefore theGreekes vawilling tocometo triall ofarmes,ifthings might be aM compounded by treaty,fent Afenelans and Vly/fes Embatladours to Tra;who v™ demanded Helew & the goods were taken withherout of Atcaclais his houfes What anfwer the Troians made hereunto it is vncertainc. Herodotus fromthe of the Egyptian Priefts, makesit very probable, that He/es was taken from report Pavis be= fore his returne to Troy.The fummeofhis difcoureis this. Parés in his returne with Helena,being driuen byfoule weather vito the coaft of Ept,was accufedfor the rape of Helen by fome bondmen of his, that hadtaken San- - Proteus then King ofEgypt, findingthe accufationtrue by examination, deota ined Helen,and the goods taken with her,till her husbandfhould require them: ditmulsing Parts without further punifhment,becaufe he was a ftranger. Whentherfore the Greckes demanding Helen had anfwer,that {he was in Egy ptthey thought themfelues deluded,and thereupon madethe warre, which endedwiththe ruine of Troy, But whenafter the Citie taken, they perceiued indeed fhe hadnot beene there, they returned home, fending Afenelaus to aske his wife of Proteus, Homerand the whole N ation or Poets(except Euripides) varyfrom this Hiftorie, thinking it a mattermore m agnificent and more gracefulto their Poems,fo rtheretaining of afaire Lady,than that they enduredall by force,becaufeit lay notin their powerto redeliuer her, Yet ithe fourth of his Oaj(Jés, Homer {peakes ofatenelaus his being in Egypt,before he ed home to Sparta; which voyage it were not eafily beleeued,that he made for nd ifhe were driuen thither by contrary windes, much more may wee ari Was likelyto hane beene driuen thither byfoule weather. For paris ee pe ‘oteekes ieas : & ; whe taking {uch windes as o commit himfelfe to-any Hauen put into any chaue ned with goodentextainement, vntill fuch timePort in Greece, and as the winde had comeabout, and ferued for his Nauigation. Oo ne |