"Troy was first built by Dardanus sonne to Corinthus King of Corinth, who having slaine his brother Jasius, fled to this Countrey, and first erected it, intituling it Dardania: Next it was called Troy of Tros, from whom the Countrey was also named Troas: It was also termed Ilion of Ilus, who built the Regall pallace surnamed Ilium: This City was taken and defaced by Hercules, and the Greecians, in the time of Laomedon, himselfe being killed the latter time: Lastly, Troy was reedified by Priamus, who giving leave to his sonne Paris to ravish Helena, Menalaus wife, enforced the Greekes to renew the auncient quarrell: Where after 10. yeares siege the Towne was utterly subverted, Anno Mundi 1783.{{pb}]Whence Princely Homer, and that Mantuan borne, Sad Tragicke tunes, erect’d for Troy forlorne; And sad Æneas, fled to the Affricke Coast, Where Carthage groand, to heare how Troy was lost: But more kind Dido, when this wandring Prince, (Had left Numidia, stole away from thence) Did worser groane; who with his shearing sword, Her selfe she gor’d, with many weeping word. O deare Æneas! deare Trojane, art thou gone? And then she fell, death swallowed up her mone: They land at Cuma, where Latinus King Did give Æneas, Lavinia, with a Ring. Where now in Latium, that old Daidan stocke Is extant yet, though in the discent broke."
January 1, 1970