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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

missing shee what else should I imagine impatient of suche causelesse vnkindnesse hath God graunte my feare bee false eyther secretlye wrought her own distruction or else at the best which is badde ynough for euer abandoned me and mine house as the memoratiue Springes that a fresh should flow to her sorrowes by thus much your Maiestie maye conceaue more If therefore this man his treacherous Ingratitude deserueth to be punished or mine vnsupportable Calamities be worthie of pitie lette then Iustice recompence his mallace and mercye releeue my myserie Philargus thus concluded Opheltes could not auoid the Accusation and the king in this wise proceeded to se●●tence Cap. 48. J Haue Philargus giuen eare and will anon giue ease otherwise Iustice should be lesse which ought to be so much thā an Intermediū to my scepter for whilst we rule with iustice we retaine the Tittles of kings if not we recouer the names of Tyrantes in what therefore may we better discharge such our Charge than in brideling the iawes of the mightie Oppressor and in wiping teares from the eyes of the poore-man oppressed for myne owne part I haue alwaies caried this opinion that not to do iustice to others is to bring my selfe in danger of iudgemēt knowing that the Prince ought to be the peace of his people to the Orphant a parent to the succourlesse a refuge to good men a Protector to ill men a terror and to al men indifferent who in respect of the cause shoulde reiecte the person giuing to euery man that whiche is his and for this cause are wee called Gods Euen this Preamble Opheltes ought to be fearefull to thee that are faultie to thy selfe fie gracelesse man fye doth not almost euery post in my Palace florish with these sayings Doe as thou wouldest be done vnto Shew pietie to thy Parents and loue to thy kindred Haue peace with men and warre with Uices Bee faithfull to thy friendes and to all men iust yet by so muche hath thy lewdnesse digressed from these Lessons by how much vnlike workes differ from like wordes But out of a legion I will only single a leash those are thine Ingratitude Disdaine and Adulteries If Opheltes I may say him vngratefull that is ready to receiue and carelesse to repaye and him gracelesse whome the gentle ●●ane of a Friend of a Debtor maketh an Enemie what maye I then saye yll enough to thee who diddest franckly receaue without loane but doest falsely requite without loue forgetting that Curtesies receaued by tale should be returned in grosse that to bee gratefull for a little is a preparatiue to more that still to bee thankefull and confesse a benefite is still to strike from off the skoare with our Benefactoures and in troth then to render thankes and giue faire speeches nothing is deliuered with lesser charge or recaued with greater acceptance But certain it is a seconde Fiend hath brooded this first Furie proude Disdaine I meane whome false Honour hath begotten in dishonourable Bastardie for why that same Honour hath an imperfect or rather a prodigious bodye wherein Humilitie is not ingrafted a member whiche wanting Promotion in an euill man is contrarye to Preferment because rysing to Honour hee falleth from Uertue and dishonourable is Dignitie vsed vndiscreetelye but to bee glorious and not Uain-glorious to haue power and to wante Pride not with too muche austeritie to prouoke hate nor with too muche alacritie to procure contempt but in all thinges to affecte a meane is honourable in respecte of the man and honest in respeccte of his maners contrariwise to haue the best degree and the basest minde the maiestie of a Prince and the manners of a Pesaunt a conquering tongue and a cowardlye hande muche prattle and no proofe outwarde grauitie and inwarde lightnesse a white heade and a greene hart high Authoritie and vndiscreet Gouernment make Honour mosterous and contrarie to it selfe To thee therfore Opheltes not vnaptly may I allude the Fable of the Asse who carrying on his backe the Image of Isis and seeing the people to fall downe and worship forgetting his holy burden supposed himselfe to be so honoured and therefore in a brauerie began to yerke out at his Driuer because as the rest he did not reuerence but by that time his Maister had wel cudgeled his hide the foolish Asse could then remember that to Isis not to an Asse such honours appartained euen so Opheltes thou that doest carie the Image but not the Saint the Uisour of honour but not the vertues of honour to rebate from thy vainglorious conceit in carying of honorable Titles art by greeuous correction with the Asse to be taught y e worthie Titles without verteous Conditions are but as Pictures in respect of the Persons Think not much that so grosely I compare an Asse to a Gētleman but know that such disdainfull Gentrie is worthye so worthlesse a comparison Could Philargus whom thou hast made poore with thy wrongs poison thee with his words or was his sight to thee a Serpēt by whom thy self wert adopted a Sonne If so as thou shouldest think nothing lesse then so then neither admitting benefites and forgetting such aliance tel me Opheltes is it sufferable thou shouldst be more cruell then a Monster or lesse ciuile then a man the fiercest Monster is familier with Monsters of the same kind and what art thou for a mā that thou shouldst be fastidious of the acquaintaunce of men If thy brauery could not haue brooked his beggerie at the worst a secret Releefe might haue dispatched a bashful Begger or if couitousnes hardneth thine hart yet diddest thou degenerate from a Nygard in not shewing a courteous looke where thou wouldest not bestow a charitable almes seeing it is vsuall to euery pinche-penie rather to vaile three Bonettes then with one halfe-penie to aduauntage a Begger But wicked man Disdaine it is that hath transformed thee from a man to Diuell otherwise thou wouldest haue remembred that neuer any man lost by being humble or that anie euer wone by being haughty neither haddest thou forgotten that as Poore-men haue want to exercise their patience so Rich-men haue wealth to practise their charitie which lacking horrible is that Audiat wherein such a Rich-man is Accomptant Thou shouldest haue thought and the rather by thine owne experience that although wee flourish to day we may fall to morrow and as Stage-players chaunge our partes from the Kinges Scepter to the Beggers Scrip that the dispysed may rise and the dispiser may fall naie admit that Fortune the common flatterer should still fauour yet what else gayneth the disdaynefull person but this that his superiours point at him in the streetes his inferiours giere at him in corners his equalles figuratiuely do ride him and whosoeuer doth feare him not one doth friende him the best way therefore to be rich is to dispise riches the meane to be glorious is to contemne glorie for he that is neither proude in wealth nor impacient in

see homely yea and I speake now of the best not of the most that lacke of thus well and yet like as well not wanting any thing that content themselues with euery thing pouertie yeelding vs this aduauntage that whereas for wealth other nations be inuaded with warre the lacke thereof keepeth vs at home in peace Neither feare we to fight if occasion shall serue for although we shunne all causes of controuersie yet know we howe to reuenge proffered iniuries and that can all Asia well witnes whom we euen we the Scythians haue three times in open fieldes conquered and our bowes made them three times vnto vs tributorie All this while the two breethren continue dismayed by reason of the sightes they had lately behelde taking taking small delight in those his speaches whereuppon their gentle hoste brake of his former argument spake to his guestes as followeth Cap. 9. WEre it not gentlemen that I my selfe am pa●tlye priuy to some sufficient cause of your sadnes I could not but iudge you either verie sollitarie or somewhat sullen but trust me my selfe a straunger in an other place as you are here and seeing that which you haue here seene coulde not but imagine and feare asmuch or more then you haue feared but the reason why I haue suffred these your dumps and not resolued your doubtes was because I gladly woulde haue ouerpassed that in silence which will be more greeuous to me in resitall then what you here behelde hath bene to you dreadfull herewithall the water stoode in his eyes and adding a small pause to the sheddinge of a fewe teares he thus proceedeth You shall vnderstande qd he that the cursed owner of yonder same dismembred quarters was almost from his cradell to me and mine a vowed enemy by whom I often receaued much skaeth but coulde neuer acquite my selfe of his enuie Know ye also that the same Ladie whom you behelde euen now in this place was without superstition bee it spoken the adored goddesse of mine amorous deuotions the emperious Mistresse of my martired heart and the onely shee that helde me in loyaltie whose beautie was my blysse whose sweete countinaunce was my sole comforte and to whome more then to my owne selfe I liued ●hall I tell you for her sake was I paciente of all labour●●enterous of al dangers careles of all cumbats and desperate of all deathes for in loue is nothing dificile but as the Hunter plyeth his Houndes the Falkner his Hawkes and the Fisher his Angle forgetting the paine through delight of the pastime so the louer prosecuteth his loue esteeming all labours and troubles but trifles in respect of the inning hope of his amarous haruest yea and by howe much deeper loue hath taken foundation by so much the more sweeter is it in operation sau●ring altogether honie and not senting gaule What shall I say so pleasaunt and stedfast was our mutuall loue vntill on her parte violated that it might haue bene made a question whether of vs was the louer or which the beloued our two heartes being as it were to either bodie common But as good Ladies are sometimes ouer lightly affiansed so light wantons are often ouer firmely fantasied nay alas it is commonly seene that trust hath the fayrest tract leading to treason and that in security we finde greatest sorrow This yonkar whose guile hath bene thus rewarded with a deserued guerdon when nowe no farther hope was left for the exercise of his malicious madnes against me applyed then mine owne weapons to worke vnto my selfe woundes solliciting secretly by louing nay lustfull tables this wicked woman Wicked may I well terme her and wo-man for that sext is an apte Etymologia Ah gentlemen or euer I passe to my penaunce which will be the ripping vp of Thetis her inconstancie either suffer me to chewe vppon my melancholie and perhaps choke or else giue passage to my choler so happely to ease mine heart with a chafe which chafe I wishe may be to you a caution as the cause thereof is to me a corasiue for though Thetis is not euerie woman yet followeth it not but 〈…〉 woman may proue a Thetis and then were 〈…〉 other Philosophie but implication yet wom●● might iustly be termed monsters in nature as some how cūningly or curiously I iudge not doe note them But what talke I of their natures that can tell much more of their maners O that I had bent more carefull in auoyding their companie and lesse cunning in deciphering their conditions What else are they I accuse not all and may not excuse a many but ineuitable plagues conuenient noysances naturall temptations couited calamities housholde hostilitie and dilectable detramentes whom wee cannot want without offence to the gods nor holde without damage to our owne parsons if shee be fayre shee is wooed and reddily checketh if foule she wooeth and euer chooketh Good wine lacketh no tasters nor fayre women sutors with an easie price and an iuie bush bad wine also is vttered if she be poore then ouer chargeable to him that shall keepe her and then shee flincheth if rich ouercurious for him that shall catch her and then shee fleeceth outwardly with arte is shee pullished howsoeuer inwardly polluted her face painted her beautie borrowed her haire an others and that frissed h●r gestures enforced her lookes premeditated her backe bolstred her brest bumbasted her shoulders bared and her middle straite laced and then is she in fashion when most out of fashion Besides her attire eies hath shee to entise teares to excuse lookes to attract smiles to flatter embracements to prouoke resistaunce to yeelde frownes to delay bec●es to recall lippes to inchaunt kisses to enflame and all these to poyson applying thus to euerie member and motion a seuerall arte Se prieth in her glasse like an Ape to pranke her in 〈◊〉 gaudes like a puppet but being pruned as shee 〈◊〉 to the purpose yet doth shee but hurte nature with arte and marre forme with fashion and is like to the gloe worme that is bright in the hedge and blacke in the hande Shee discouereth that sometimes willingly which shee woulde seeme to haue done vnaduisedly shee promiseth one thing and performeth an other professeth chastitie but practiseth the contrary loue hir and you loose hir make straunge and you winne hir offer and she disdayneth denie and shee dyeth prayse hir and she pranketh dispise her and shee powteth but O diuell if taken tardie then hir tongue vttereth such arte that either shee auoydeth cunningly the suspition or leaueth the matter doubtfull in suspence Teares hath shee at commaundement and those of two sortes weeping often for anger and seldome for sorrow of hir two extremes Loue and Hate hir loue is a minute but hir hate a monument As redily doth shee leaue as rashly shee doth loue being as prone to mutabilitie as desirous of variety changing for pleasure but chusing for profit and if at one time shee hath twentie sundrie ●lyantes yet can shee please

Amongst the rest whilste this beautiful Couple prepare to offer vp their liues as pledges of their constant loue a very faire and most comly woman who heretofore had bene Nurse to Crisippus and euer after vntill that day had bene entertained in the seruice of the Marchantman his father the teares aboundantly steeming from out her amiable eyes in great anguish casteth her selfe at the feete of the two Kings and sayth I● so be mercifull or mercilesse kings you graunt vnto me a sillie woman like libertie of speech as you haue giuen cause of sorrow then shal I commend your clemensie towards me that cannot but condemne your crueltie towards these two whose answering ages combyned affections agreeble complections and what so else more then you know of gaining by equalitie loue are in either so cōcurrant as in my iudgemēt you might rather wish what is alreadie hapned then withstād that which is now helpelesse But least I also swallow vp that in scilence which vttered may perhaps rebaite from their sorrowes I shall now as inforced therevnto disclose long hidden secrets You will mutter when I shall Affirme but maruel when your selues cannot but Confirme y t Crisippus may claime no lesse Nobilitie from his Progenitors than Marpissa Honour by her Parentage that he is an Husband not vnworthie such a wife that y e Issue Selchim of thy fathers child is not of more roial blood nor y e Son Staurobates sproong from thy loines more noblier borne you wil muse I say when your selues shall auouch this that I auarre Wherefore let it not ought agrauate to his punishment that Crisippus ignorant of his right parents acknowledgeth himselfe the sonne of a Marchant or that from these homely paps of mine lesse pleasing then in times passed he hath sucked nourishment but know Selchim that he is the naturall sonne of Pheone thy neglected sister shee the contracted wife of vnconstant Staurobates he the vnnaturall father of condemned Crisippus and my selfe Selchim and Staurobates the same Pheone whom happily either of you hath longer lost than lacked and the one of you no doubt longer lacked then loued albeit Staurobates at thy departure and at the deliuerie of this Ring thy flattering tongue could then whisper That mine absence should bee bitter and the delay of my presence Death Now therefore if the one of you will deale gratiouslye with his desolate Sister the other gently with his well deseruing Louer either of you naturally with your distressed Children thē at the least be to thē meere Strangers rather than so mercilesse Parents yea remember Staurobates thou mayst not retaine Marpissa but by lust Pheone being alreadie intertained thine owne by Lawe whose life ought to stand betwixt thee and a Bigamus By this time and whilst she was yet speaking Staurobates hauing perfectly fixed in the eyes of his memorie the well knowne face and countinaunce of the amiable Oratrisse giuing a signe to the Tormentors for staye of Execution earnestly imbrased the Heroicall Nurse saying Well mayst thou deuine of the prosperous successe of thy demaund when no creature liuing can be so welcome to this place as art thou the Demaundēt Think not that the homelinesse of thine habite vnworthie thine honour or any alteration whatsoeuer hath so begiled my sences or estranged my loue but that I gladly acknowledge my selfe the husbande of Pheone thy selfe th'only she whom Staurobates accepteth for wife Ah Pheone had not thy misdeeme bene more than my misdeeds then had not not thy ielous loue hapned so much to both our preiudice But now well is me and thrise happie bee this houre wherein I re●ew whome I neuer did but loue nor euer will but honour thee my deare and only beloued Pheone And then as he aleaged in his excuse those reasonable causes before touched king Selchim no lesse ioyfull to heare tidinges of his Sister than was Staurobates glad to hau● found his wife imbrased her with as muche loue for a brother as did the other for an husband she as naturally resaluting and reconciling her selfe to either Crisippus and Marpissa were now deliuered frō bands and after many ioyfull teares their passed mariage was also gladly confirmed by either parent espe●ially Staurobates demeaned exceeding great ioy for the recouering of his vnknowne sonne of whom and of her own absence Pheone in effecte this reported That at Staurobates his departure into India shee finding herselfe ouer-taken with his daliances that had left her neither Maid widdow nor wife and not hearing from him according to appointment did therefore as well to auoide the law which was death as the shame of her fault which was her great belly leaue secretly the Court in the Desertes was deliuered of Crisippus whome being at point otherwise to haue perished she swatheled vp decking him with muche gold and many rich Iewels and layd him in a Path by which a homely countrie Matron vsually passed to milke her Cattle in those Deserts her selfe in the meane while priuily watching the euent of this her deuise And how this good woman finding so faire a Boy and so fat a bootie presented the poore fisher-man her husband with such her findings when therevpon herselfe simply araied repairing vnto their Cottage and asking a entertainment became Nurse vnto her own sonne Thē lastly how the Fisher-man by this windfall greatly enriched long sithence become a Marchantman in that Citie not hauing any child of his own had adopted Crisippus being vtterly ignorant of any other Parentage his Son This she told a generall Plaudiat dissolued y e ioyfull assembly HEre is qd Abynados loue vpon loue and louers by huddles a discourse trust me friuolous in telling fruitlesse in hearing but most foolish in Action such loue being in my conceit so far off from loue that I rather think it a doting Frenzie and enemie to Reason rouing headlong vpō Impossibilities for were it that such louing fooles could temper their Extreame with a Meane then would they loue with more discretion or leaue with lesse domage For not improperly may loue be compared to the sore called an Oncom or Fellon which beginning at the fingers end and by sufferance falling into the Ioint doth hazard a Mahem or at the least-wise a Cure so loue beginning at the eye by sufferance descending to the hart doth threaten life or at the least-wise Reason as the one therefore at the first is to be scalded so th'other is presētly to be suppressed for without a timely violēce either Malady is incurable With such like discourses did Th'assirians cut the calme seas descrying a strange ship at anker not far off vpon occasiō did also the like riding as nere to the vnknown ship as they cold where not omitting to enquire after those in Quest of whome they thus sailed occasion of that which now ensueth was taken Deipyrus Calamus quintus Cap. 28. IT hapned that after many gentle salutations passed and repassed on either part it grew in

neither they for fiercenesse will departe with nor we for feare dare attempt to recouer Thus mightie men speake the word and al heare them when miserable wretches shead their teares but not any help thē our Plaints must be Should Would because men y t are vnder-rule but their Pleas are Shal Wil because men that can ouer-rule Our greeuous affectiōs fatigate dull sences and tire Capacities but their golden Dum-showes are effectual euen to dimme sightes and deaffe eares one and the same course is in vs dilatorie in them orderly to vs a Dimission to them a Decree for Iudgements against them haue they Errors with them for Sentences Repreeues and for Repreeues Pardons But what alas doe we if we doe aught at all then seare Hydra her heades and sweate in Hercules his Perils plucking vpon vs twentie troubles by proceeding to one Triall and though they eate vs as bread and sell vs for shoes yet vppon whome should we complaine that either careth or not correcteth the Aduersarie so he way down right wayeth not at all the wrong the Lawyer so hee hath a fee disgesteth the foyle and fathereth the crime on the cause the Magistrate he sayth Nole me tangere angere least the incarnate God prooue an vntimelye Diuell Thus may it please your Maiestie when all were tried and I was tired and that they lacked pitie and I likely to perish I was by good happe aduertised by some that spake as they spead to appeale from those officious persons or adiourning Maiestrates that heare not without hire to the Court and Nobility there who heare such Sutors with more expedition and helpe them with lesse expences This aduise made me hardy but the accident thereof maketh mee happie in that your highnesse vouchsafeth the hearing of it in your owne person which vnworthie wretche I durst not so much as in thought to haue hoped for Opheltes most gratious Soueraigne Opheltes more fortunate to dignities than faithfull in his dealinges is the onely man giuing occasion to this my Complainte whome being present in your Court maye it please your Maiestie personally to cal to this Controuersie that hea●ing how and wherin I shall charge him by accusation ●e may I would he might cleare himselfe by aunswere for rightfull Causes feare not indifferent Trials Opheltes was then called who appearing Philargus thus proceeded Cap. 47. THe Cilician Tyrāt lately vsurping in this your kingdome most gratious Lord pursuing for what offence I know not the death of this vngratefull Gentleman inforced him for sauegard of his life secretly as a Fugitiue to skulke in euery corner in his wandring he hapned vnhappily may I say vppon my poore Cottage vnto whom vtterly vnknowne to me and the cloathes on his backe scarcely couering his bare I gaue for very pitie suche intertainment as my small abilitie woulde then suffer plucking off his olde ragges and putting on him newe Russets Now whether it were that despaire to regaine the estate he lately had forgon made him resolute or feare to goe farther and speede worser diligent or that necessitie made him vertuous being naturally vitious I know not but this I found that shortly he setled himselfe with such towardnesse to our countrie Affaires and homely fare that the best husband-man was not more cunning at his worke nor the worst Hine lesse choise of his meat so that finding him more diligent than a Seruaunt and no lesse dutifull than a Sonne by the one I receiued commoditie in the other I conceiued comfort such was poore Opheltes who then did not shame to be my seruaunt but suche is not prosperous Opheltes that now doth skorne to be my sonne in law And yet though his present Honour hath altered his former honestie this is the man and the selfe same Opheltes vnto whome not hauing a Coate to his backe Coyne in his purse Foode for his belly or Couerture for his head I gaue both Apparell Monie Meate and Harbour And more than so I haue or rather I feare me I had but one only Childe a Daughter whome Opheltes long wooed at length wone and with my consent did wedde howbeit wretched Wenche many a lustie Youth and riche Francklines sonne in seeking her beautie such as it was togethers with her inexorable loue lost their vnregarded labour only Opheltes had the happe to make her an vnhappie Wife Yea my dotage extended yet a degree farther so well did I thinke of the man that vtterlye dispossessing my selfe I wholie possessed him of mine intiere substaunce neither did I soone recant what now too late I repent but for the time was rather tickled with a vain ioye seeing him honestly to encrease his wealth hartily to intreate me and husband-like to vse my Daughter his Wife But no extremitie hath eternitie as the worlde turned to better so this Wretche changed to worser for no sooner was the Tyraunt his Foe deade and your Maiestie his Friend reseazed of your Roiall Diademe but that he suddenlye made sale of almost all that was ours and by your Highnesse means and my monie recouered his own since which time much haue we heard of Opheltes nowe the exquisite Courtier but nothing at all of Opheltes the late expert Carter pardon me I beseeche your Maiestie that notwithstanding all other iniuries woulde not thus speake to his disgrace did hee not still prosecute mee with Disdaine whiche euen Wretches disgest not There is in this Citie a stately and secrete Courtizan called Phaemonoe a faire dame in countinance but a foule diuell in conuersation aboūding in riches but abandoned of honestie whose lasciuious daliances as since my repaire hither I haue bene tolde and my selfe in part canne testifie hath so farre estranged Opheltes from the dutie of an husbande that by circumstances it may be intended he hath not so much as once remembered his Wife vnto whom since his departure hee hath not voutchsafed succor sight or sending too Mine owne pinching neede my Daughter her pitifull lamentations and his vnkinde absence from vs both roused vp mine aged Limbes vnwieldye God wot for suche iournies to seeke after him whome vnwitting to vs wee had lost and vnwilling to himselfe in the ende I founde if to loose an egge and fynde a Cockatrice may be tearmed a finding for in very troth Opheltes was so farre off from being founde the same Opheltes hee lately was that when hee with many surly lookes sterne words and scoffing aunsweres had dismissed mee his presence as a dispargement to his acquaintaunce I for the tyme not trusting mine owne Eyes began also to make a doubtfull pawse in acknowledging an vndoubted person vntill at length I perceiued it to fare with me as with the poore Sparrow that hatcheth her owne destruction Wherefore minding with pacience to beare this wrong and brooke my losse I retourned home to my comfortlesse house But here alas a greater woe had almost berefte me my wittes Alcippe woe am I my Daughter Alcippe was lacking and yet still is

s●fferance I see is cause of your stubbornesse my curtesie of your cōtempt At my first comming when I might haue had adoration as a Goddesse I was not then so hautie as to take it and now that I should haue obedience as you Gouernesse you are not so humble as to giue it thus deale you with mee as did the Frogges with Iupiters Rafter you make me a Stock but beware these Storks And truely seeing you haue not deserued why I should be longer carefull of you and your welfare and for that by disobedience you will needes inflict vpon your selues so grieuous a punishmēt I also giue my consent a reuenge too great I confesse that these our Captiues be anon deliuered to their ships that being insufficient of them selues they may inuite frō Assiria the distruction and ruine of you your wiues your children your goodes and your whole countrie for enough haue the Assirians seene in this our Ilande to allure hether multitudes of Inuadours Cap. 55. THese her wordes had now so incensed the mindes of the Ilanders against the Assirians that euerie of them was clearely resolute in the death of his Prisoner but for that one of the two olde Captiues whom Dircilla had as before singled out and whom her wordes had now especially touched to the quicke was suddenly bereft his sences and falne in a sowne And for that the Ilanders stoode vppon expectation of some further confession to be deliuered by the seconde olde-man who was alredy in way of aunswere to Dircilla entred into some and these following speaches therefore vntill he shoulde ende the deter●●●ed slaughter receiued a seconde adiornement I protest qd this aged man by whatsoeuer God hath ●ar● of vs and this Countrie by the Sunne and the holy Fire of Caldia and as euerie of these shall in this life cōfort my withered Carcase more fit for the wormes thē the worlde and doe good to my Soule when it shall leaue the wearisome prison of this my body I shall Lady neither dissemble for feare accuse for enuie or excuse for affection but as touching that wherewithall we are nowe charged vtter all that I know and know all to be troth I shall vtter For my selfe therefore I say that most trewe and too trewe it is that the Assirians then conducted by Ninus committed such and the same before remembred outrages slaughters and spoyles in Media neither were you deceiued in guessing some of vs to bee priuie or parties to that bysines wherein to saye troth my selfe was no small parte but howe not alas as a Spoyler with the Assirians but as a Sufferer with the Meades for Media is the place of my bearth Assiria only of mine aboade And for these Assirians mine owne companie I meane I say Ladie that not charging them with the faultes of their Auncestours or any further then wherein them selues be guiltie you but especially yours haue greter cause of kindnesse then of any crueltie for proofe and better credit wherof besides my former protestation somewhat it is whom since my hither comming I haue not heard named that I know you to be Dircilla wife Ladie to the Duke Arbaces but more that I the speaker of these wordes am Orchamus brother vnto the same your husbande and more then so the man vnto whose care when suddenly at the commaundement of the Emperise you were snatched from out your Cabben you commended your yong Sonne saying Ah good Orchamus if thy fortune proue better then y e destinies of al thy friends be a Parent to thy poore Nephewe whome with more griefe I leaue an Orphant thē to haue seene hi●●uried I well remember the wordes and me-thinkes I yet see those very weepinges which pearced mine heart a● this our lamentable separation Since which time Dircilla I haue not onely bene carefull to answere the same your trust but also beyonde expectation I found Fortune and oportunitie therein assisting For no sooner was the Assirian Fleete aryued at home but that Ninus not a little displeased at your losse the which by the Emperise her ministers was smoothly cloaked with a colourable excuse but that Ninus I say caused your Sonne to bee nursed and nurtured with prince-like attendance and when his age serued who then of greater credit and courage or a more notable Captaine then was Sorares amongst the Assirians But in the returne of the imperiall Nauie f●om the Bactrian warres by occasion of a sudden tempest then happening Sorares your Sonne my nephew and all the companie aboorde his ship were lost from the rest in the Sea Caspium Now when this heauie newes was bruted at Niniuie I Atys and Abynados his two Sonnes for he hath made you a grādmother of these two Gentlemen and these other his and our friends vowing our selues in his continual Quest haue three yeares alredy trauailed many Countries and Seas to find out Sorares through occasion whereof as also to take in fresh water and other necessaries and not vpon any such purpose as you pretende we are aryued in this Iland and lo yonder-same he pointed to Sorares is the man farre sought but vnluckely here founde if finding him wee loose our selues and with the ende of our labours make also an ende of our liues Cap. 56. JN few what with this talke and other more effectuall tokens Dircilla being brought to her Creede and left in de profundìs rather musing at their meeting being so straun●● then mistrusting the matter being credited or euer she might imbrace Sorares or reply to Orchamus was interrupted by the seconde Olde-man the other of the two singled-out Captiues who in a ioyfull extasie suddenly clapped her frowardly disdayning his imbracinges as not yet cooled of her former chaufe betwixte his braune-fallen armes But when he saw her lookes not vnlike to those in the picture of Proserpina newly rapted by Pluto it entered then his thought that rashly to iest with Sainctes or edg-tooles might proue daungerous wherefore as doubting the like reward that had Aesops kind Asse vnkinde-like imitating the wanton Spanniel for the time therefore charming such his kindnesse anon he founde oportunitie thus to chaunge her coynesse I giue place sayde he to the time but not to Dircilla whome these armes pythlesse though they nowe bee once coulde nay often did not violently but willingly imbrace may I so blabbe euen in the bedde of Arbaces blushe not Dircilla blushe not the sporte was lawfull howsoeuer the reporte may seeme ouer liberall and if for pouertie parteth friendes you disdaine to acknowledge such acquaintance yet at the least for Arbaces his sake deale mercifully with these your Prisoners As for my selfe could I pleade no other protection then that I am olde enough not to feare death it might suffise but nether did I hope so well as I haue here founde neyther doe I feare so ill as I am here threatned Orchamus for so your countenance promiseth a consent hath alredy founde grace because he is brother to your husbande