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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

not yet liuing did languish neuer wer men wrapped in more miserie or distressed so vnmeasurably This alas is greeuous ynough that you haue heard but harder was our hap than thus Whilst we stoode rufullye gazing one vppon an other more like to ghosts departed than men liuing our good Generall Menophis a noble Duke and victorious Captain vnder whose fortunate conduct we had diuers times before preuailed in many a hot Encounter being now 〈◊〉 of an vnhappie Embassage frō India into Cicyona looking as ghost-like as any other and supporting his weake body with a shorte Iauilin pight in the middle of the Hat●hes spake to vs as followeth Cap. 18. WEre it so my euermore couragious but now comfortlesse companiōs that we once again were in y e champion fields of India enclosed with the warlike bands of Semiramis though fiue times doubled yet would I put you in hope either to march after them in a second pursuite or at the least to make from them the first escape but alas small is the councel that I am now able to giue yet somwhat the comfort that therby you may gaine but no conquest at al is here to be got knowing that to intreate or threaten the churlish surges were more than Follie. Onely giue me leaue in this my last I say my last and vnaccustomed exhortation to preuaile and then assure your selues that if this aged carcase of mine sufficiently instructed not to feare death to be solde into perpetuall bondage or to suffer death it selfe might be in ought availeable to you I would account such bondage a freedome and such death a flea-biting for how I haue bene am affectioned towards you may well appeare in this that I a Duke by birth and your General by assignmēt was notwithstanding the first before the meanest here that did want to eate not the last of this company that did feele the famine and yet were you eased of this miserie I should not be impatient of much more sorrowe Listen therefore I say how I your careful Captaine not occasioned nowe as often times heretofore to instruct you how and in what manner you ought to fight am at this time after a far differing sort to admonishe you how and in what manner you are to die It either needes not or bootes not to be offended with Fortune that can be no other then mutable by name and nature neither is Fortune whom it pleaseth the irreligious people to intitle a blinde Goddesse any other in deede then a by-name drawne from the Originals and Euents of our mortall actions but it is the vndoubted gods thēselues whom we haue by some meanes vnaduisedly offended it is they that punish and them must we pacifie as those of whose aide we should neuer dispaire for though persecution procureth a death to the bodie yet a conscience dispairing assureth death to the soule miserable is distresse more miserable distrust but most miserable then to feare when we cannot hope Neuerthelesse let vs not make our case so desperate but that whatsoeuer shall betyde vs life or death we laie hold-fast on patience the onely touch-stone of vertue being pleasure vnto paine comfort to correction wealth vnto want and death vnto death vanquishing altogether with suffring and not with striuing then which is nothing more victorious no not death it selfe for who are those that death conquereth euen such fooles as dreade him and vnto whom the onely remembraunce of death is an horrour such I say as willingly become Ghostes whilst they feare their graues fearing more in sence then they may feele in substance and not thinking their paine will be either not great or not long What shoulde be the cause that men hauing Nature their vndoubted Author Reason their assure● Instructor Experience their continuall Perswader should neuertheles or euer death commeth little better then die through the onely feare they conceiue of death vnles doting to much on their wealth which they are loth to leaue or else hoping to little of the mercifull gods who then forgiue an ill life when they find a good ende with whom it shalbe neuer to late too shake hāds as esteeming whatsoeuer is done wel enough to be done soone ynough Yea the rather my louing companions haue we no cause to dreade death or wish life that are to die at the appointment of the gods and not by the iudgement of men for to the Person worthely condemned death is a double death it being farre more miserable to deserue it then to suffer it and yet though it be in the power of men to iudge men which I also thinke to happen but at sufferance of the gods Nature doth assure death vnto al not graunting to any one his life by pattent but at pleasure and that in such sorte that not the wysest man lyuing can say there then or thus I shall die and yet sure he is that die he shall Seeing therefore my good friendes that death is so certaine as nothing more sure and the order of his comming so vnsure as nothing lesse certaine and that an honest death is the goale of our liues howe happie are we if we could conceiue of our happinesse that shall die with such fauourable opportunitie of repentance well deseruing of our countrie lamented for of our friendes not laughed at of our fooes yea then when life is yrkenot some vnto vs that not on Ieobets as do Malefactors not in Prisons as doe Captiues not in Corners as doe Cowardes not in Quarrels as doe Cutters not in Chaines in our enemies Triumphes neither yet suddenly then which no death is more dreadfull but in a ship which doth argue vs venterous in the Seas not to be subdued by Cōquerours in our Prince his affaires as loyall subiectes with famine which confoundeth Mōsters with fame of former prowesse and by prayer which shall reuiue vs. What can we wish more of the gods or what should I say more to you whose deliuerie is not desperat but euē to sence vnpossible and vnto whom forlorne Soules death the ende of all wretchednesse ought especialy to be welcome Certes no more remaineth but to intreate you whom henceforth I shall neuer more exhort to be patient without grudging penitent without wauering prepared without dispayring dying to the flesh and lyuing to your soules yea lastly remember I beseech you that we are no sooner borne into the worlde but that wee liue to die from the world therfore ought rather to loue whether we must necessarily then from whence we must of necessitie Thus not able to comfort you as I woulde but willingly to counsell you as I may no more resteth but that I wish the continuance of so grieuous a life to haue deliueraunce by a godly death This said y e noble Duke turneth his face we might perceiue how the teares trilled down his cheeks at sight wherof we that did alwaies reuerēce him for his Grauity obay him for his Authority loue him for

the vnnatural ruine of his natural Countrie oh that once or euer these eies of mine shall leaue this light I might see the Caitiffe in like distresse if like might be as presently am I or that the Uillaine were as neere my reatch as euen now are you then would I a-while adiorn these womanish teares and with these handes vnaccustomed to such deedes claw out his trecherous eyes but alas to wish vengeāce is nothing lesse then to be reuenged for had I the hap to possesse my wish I haue the hart should performe my will or might my curse procure him hell my blesse should neuer preferre him to heauen well leauing the Reprobate to a Million of mishaps which I doubt not will insi●ently ensue his misdeedes may I good Sir request your name and withall the present estate of our beseiged Citie Deipyrus with no small remorse noting the pitious distresse of the vnknowne Queen my molher hearing him selfe to himselfe so euill spoken of and banned wist not what to say as one but euen then ouertaken with the guiltinesse of his owne Conscience which is euermore a seuere Accuser and to the impenitent person a most terrible Iudge but in the ende after some astonishment he made her this aunswer Lady qd he as perceiuing in her many arguments of Gentrie by good reason suffer we losers to chafe neither is it a new thing that a wronged woman in like bitter termes doth vtter her passionate stomache Deipyrus I must confesse being the common enemie to his Countrie hath incurred a cōmon curse of the Lydians whose chastment being generally desired of all shall priuatly be reuealed onely to you The same man Lady whose infamous Attempts hath returned the Attemptor a iust guerdon of his desertes and he whose punishment would be vnto you such pleasure presenteth himselfe before your eyes as hardlye distressed as your selfe haue desired whosoeuer you are that Deipyrus hath so much offended the same as humbly prayeth you of pardon offering also into your handes mine owne weapon vpon mine owne head to wreake your vengeance if it shal so please you by death to shorten my penance or else as your Bondslaue in your busines to employ my whole endeuour if by life you thinke good to lenghten my punishment for as I would not die a desperate Murtherer Tormentor and Traitor to mine owne person so wish I not to liue a despised Runnagate Reprobate and Recreant to mine own Countrie wherefore you being the Iudge the grieuous spectacle of these your pyning Infantes mine Accusors and my selfe which of it selfe is sufficient pleading to the accusation guiltie if you pronounce sentence of death you doe but Iustice without partialitie the executing of which sentence shalbe the accomplishment of you desire and the reward of my desertes Cap. 31. WHen Deipyrus had after this sorte finished such his speeches recounted to her after what manner the siege was raised by the king of Cilicia deliuered into her handes his naked sworde and solemnly vowed not to resist her dome as touching his life or death mine inraged Queene-mother grasping the yeelded weapon in her hande was fully resolued to haue sheathed the same in the bowels of Deipyrus when by and by altering her purpose by reason of his straunge submission and waying his lucke with her owne losse shee thinketh him alredy ouer seuerely punished and her wronges sufficiently reuenged yet anon casting her pitifull eyes vppon her pyning Babes rufully hanging about her their helpelesse Mother for foode not there to bee had her myldenesse was now conuerted to madnesse and as one vtterly resolute on his death in conceite shee imagined him alredy deade so fully was shee bente to bereaue him of life but euen at the verie pushe from out her vnhardie hande shee letts fall the harmelesse weapon and accuseth her selfe of ingratitude shall I thinkes shee returne so gracelesse a recompence in lieu of his late so gracious an enterprise is it not much more gaine to me that I am deliuered of Rauishmente which had bene incurable then lo●●e in that I am disgarnished of Riches which are recuperable yes yes the vertue of the first is more then the errour of the latter why then shoulde I not admitte the one and remitte the other Thus reasoning with her selfe as one offended with his passed Conspiracies pacified by his present Contrition and gratefull for his late profitable Combate shee dissembleth the first accepteth of the seconde and thanketh him for the thirde onely desiring his assistance to puruaie for their succour vntill hearing of more quietnes abroad they might with lesse daunger leaue the comforles Forrest Wherunto he redily cōdiscented building thē bowres killing thē victuals in what he possibly might in their reliefe imploing his whole industrie not knowing of all this while who they weare vnto whome he became so carefull an Attendant albeit by circumstances he might haue bene induced to the knowledge of his charge for my Mother somewhat to be disburdened of the burning sorrowes of her bursting heart for working vessels and wofull heartes the one by vent the other by wordes are deliuered from breaking taking occasion in the hearing of Deipyrus to speake of the king my Father would sometimes vse these and such like speeches I woulde Deipyrus you coulde giue as good warrantie of the King his wel-fare as I a promise with a performance betwixte him and you of an Attonement but alas notwithstanding your discomfiture I am not so comforted that I rest feareles of Cilician practises well might the good King speede what euill so-euer I suffer who not prospering I mine and many perish and therefore dare I saie that with greater disease for his woe or gladder desire of his wealth his Queene and wife cannot labour than presently doe I that neither in the one nor the other do giue place to his best wel-willer Thus did she often make her mone a farre off not daring in plaine tearmes to disclose her selfe remembring how daungerous it is to repose confidence in a reconciled enemie in that point shewing her selfe better aduised then was my Father who giuing credite to the fayned shewes of a friendly foe did learne by the prise of a deere sallarie the proofe of a drie desembler and how to clime vp by the Breare is to be clawed with the Bramble for my Father making account to be re-established in his kingdom receiued frō y e Cilician king this crosse answere Sir qd he your plentifull thankes are superfluous and your profered liberalitie needelesse for that you perhaps will thinke me vnworthy so much whilst I thinke my selfe worthy of more and therefore may you proportion your thankes as it likes you seeing my portion shal be as it lists me Is it an easie matter thinke you to transport an Armie out of Cilicia to hazarde our liues in Lydia and hauing incountred and conquered the enemie to conuerte the glorie of the battle and gaine of the bootie to the profit of

Timaetes maye nowe preuaile with my tōgue I protest it with my hart I vow it and mine Act shall performe it that his raunsome shal be the resignation of mine whole interest to this my detained kingdome But if none of these any of which might be of sufficiencie neither the Gods that shall punish the tyrannie nor the world that shall speake of thine infamie nor the blood that shall crie for vengeaunce against thee nor thine own guiltie conscience that shall at last accuse thee if none of these I say can worke thy flintie hart to a fleshlye substaunce yet knowe that the Lycians not without the assistaunce of other nations will I am sure vow the last drop of their dearest blood to reuenge such inhumane crueltie yea pittie thine owne people that shall buy his death ouer dearely Cap. 42. WHen thus much was spoken in vaine for Tyraunts are the lesse tractable by how much they are intreated Tymaetes rather dying in the greef of his father then dreading the death wherewithal himself was threatned with much adoe spake as followeth I am deare father inioyned an ouer greeuous pennance that being patiently resolued vpon a simple death doe now also by your impatience liue a dying life whereby my death is rather doubled than deferred but which is more and which is worse must I alas in this extremitie must I hunt for comfortable sayinges to appease your discouraging sorrowes You are not I knowe aduised howe you enuie my good happe because not aduertised how you hinder my sweete hope whiche hope is death and Death the Salue for all sorrowes and the Deliuerer of the immortall Soule from the Prison of this mortall bodie neither is it the ill Death but the well dying wee are to account of for not the stifling Halter of Hempe or sinking pillow of downe doe in any thing help or hinder our passage to Heauen Bee not greeued in that youre Sonne is punished but bee gladde in that hee hath not deserued suche punishmente were I guiltie perhaps my death should disquiet you the lesse when in that I am innocente you ought to bee quieted the more as Nature doeth moue you to lamente the death of your Sonne so let reason learne you the qualitie of your Seede whiche is mortall if because I am young you wishe my life mighte bee prolonged I aunswere in not dying olde my Sorrowes are abridged if you can-not as perhappes you doe not disgest the bloodye Triumphe of your dishonourable Enemie than doe not as no doubte you doe double his Ambition with the bootelesse expence of your ouer humble petitions for thinke not that this Tyraunte who can not lengthen his owne dayes one momente canne of himselfe shorten my date one minute but that the Gods for so I hope readie to accept of my soule haue made him an instrument to separate it from the body Wherefore good Father seeing that death is both necessarie and also ouertaketh vs all of necessitie seeing I auarre the one by triall neyther maye you auoyde the other by trauarse with the reuerente duetie of a Sonne I require it and withoute the partiall affection of a Father I beseeche you to graunt it that youre impatience maye not driue those bloodie teares to my harte whiche not with a desperate minde I speake it this butcherlye penaunce shall neuer drawe from mine eyes More might he not be suffered to speake but his head being stroken from off his shoulders was togeather with his bleeding bodie at commaundement of the Tyraunt cast ouer the walles amongste the sorrowfull Licians to the view of his sowning Father which dead body of Tymaetes was anon solemnlye interred in the accustomed Sepulchers of his Auncestours sometimes Kings of Lydia nere adioyning to Sardis Cap. 43. WYnter was now at hand and the Licians perceauing themselues rather wasted then their enemies weariried prepared therefore to breake vp their Siege intending at the next Spring to haue returned with all the forces they might possibly leuie But in this meane while at Sardis ariued Xenarchus sonne to the Tyraunt and Friend as before to Tymaetes who after intelligence had of Tymaetes his death and Mazeres his Trecherie desirous to be dead with the one and quit with the other he attended from thenceforth opportunitie for both and that so as the Licians themselues before their departure mighte bee ey-witnesses that euen Death had not yet dissolued their friendship and lo how occasion offered it selfe to this enterprise Aphrodite his Sister that shee might there spende her teares where she dared to haue shead her blood had not regarding the daunger of the incamped enemie escaped out of Sardis and amongst the Lydian Sepulchers was espied pitifully to passionate her selfe ouer the Tombe of Tymaetes Now to rescue her out of that place and peril Mazeres that for her loue would haue laboured euen Dis himselfe desired Xenarchus his assistaunce the match was made and only they two alike weponed vnknown to any issue out of the Citie to fetche home as was pretended Aphrodite The selfe same day also had Xenarchus secretly practised the deliuerie of Atys and Abynados out of Prison and through a priuie vault issuing out of the kinges pallace conueied them into the Subburbes who not minding rashly to fall into the handes of the incamped Licians had now hid themselues amongest the aforesaide Sepulchers When Xenarchus and Mazeres drewe neere to this place Xenarchus suddenly betooke him to his weapon to Mazeres demaunding the cause of his so doing he maketh this answere What Mazeres dost thou make a question as ignorāt of a quarrell or thinkest thou to excuse in wordes a treason already executed in workes could thy loue towards my Sister make thee disloyall to my friend and shall not the faith I owed to my friende make thee mine enimie yes Mazeres yes though vntill nowe I haue dissembled my griefe for his death yet this oportunitie hapning I will not longer suspende reuenge for his wrong howbeit so would I be reuēged that neither wish I to be conquerour nor yet would I be conquered onely that we both die of mutuall wounds I desire it and thou doest deserue it I know thy courage is haughtie and my quarrell honest be therefore venterous in this as thou art valiant in all thinges else and condiscente to ioyne in so knight-like a Combate with so indifferent a Combattant who ouercomming or being my selfe ouercommed do assure thee of this comfort that thy selfe art the last man shall see me lyuing the reason hereof if thou seekest a reason is the soule of Xenarchus at once laboureth to salute the ghost of Tymaetes an withall to keepe an Obbit to him with thy life by whose only meanes his death was prosecuted and against whom his blood cryeth vengeance To excuse my selfe replyed Mazeres by loue were to accuse loue of homiside to argue against such your friendship were the rather to agrauate your enmitie and to denie the chalenge were to distrust mine

promise he dispatched the before named Duke Menophis to Cicyona from thence to safecōduct his betrothed Lady sending by him great store of treasure part whereof presents for King Selchim part gifts for diuerse of his Nobility the residue for the honorable furnishing of Pheone But by that time the warres at home were appeased and as you haue heard our daungerous sailing auoided and after so long famishment and bad diet our selues in health and strength recouered the time before appointed on was expired and yet of all this while Pheone hearde no tidings from Staurobates wheresoeuer supposing y t he had ben vnmindful of his promise or at y e least purposed to giue her the slip it is said she fel into these Exclamatiōs Cap. 21. ANd is there no remedy vnfortunate foolish forsaken wench but that thou must answere so deere an interest for the cheape loue of his so momentarie loue must it follow of necessity because thou wert credulēt that he therfore must be inconstant is such the euent of his lamētable lookes smooth words and often othes ah Staurobates Staurobates who would haue thought so youthfull a Leacher could haue coūterfaited so artificially a Louer but I perceiue alas to late I perceiue that men make not their false hearts priuie to that which their faire tongues seeme rufully to pleade therfore nature hath left our weake sex in most wretched condition suffring vs ouer-feruently to loue and giuing it to men euen kindly to chaung making vs as wyers for their wresting waxe for their working and fooles for their flouting Howbeit before they obtaine then we who but we onely we are Idols worthy their sacrifices they plie vs with pitifull epistles they prouoke vs with premeditated eloquence they attyre them by the booke speake not but in print what haue we they praise not nay what lacke we praise-worthy they faine not why our gloues yea our slippers nay the verie earth wheruppon we then tread hath say they vertue or else know we they flatter a simple kisse on our hāds is thē restoritiue to ther harts but good gods for a louers fee at our lips they daunce in the Aire they cast down their Gaūtlets they couch their Speares they spur their Steedes they enter y e Lists yea we rather want wherein to imploy their labours than they in what to please their Ladies But Dissemblers though they leuel at our parsōs they shoot at our portiōs And be it so that they preuaile then whether they loue still as doe a few a little as doe many or not at all as doe most what other reckoning can we cast-aways make but that the first day of their recouery is y e last date of our libertie that the ielous eyes of the hote louer shall be ouer attendant the emperious mind of the luke-warme ask too much attendaunce and the third sort hauing deceaued shall leaue vs to our Cares as Rauens hauing disclosed do their young to the Aire sauing that Rauens after a while returne as reuoked by loue where these would neuer retaine vs at all if not resisted by law Thus play they Foxes and we proue flattered they Scorpions and we stinged they Diuels and we tempted but who worser than thou Staurobates and yet wert thou present changing Churle I know thou couldst aleage no cause of such strangenesse nor I for any crime of mine except perhaps for trusting thee too much be iustly chalenged as for my beautie had it bene somtimes baser my fortune had bene at this time farre better Ah Pheone desolate Pheone how mayst thou wind thy selfe out of these euils or finde redresse for such iniuries complaine to thy brother why admit by warre he enforce Staurobates to wed thee yet no war can enforse Staurobates to loue thee and then much better martired so then maried shouldst thou resolue which thine ouermuch folly will not suffer to accept his disloialtie as an acquittance of all loue yet so deepe is he in thine hart that for his losse thou couldst not but languish and more than so and too much by so much who then should father the fruit of thy growing wombe but only Staurobates whome thou rash wanton ouer credulent of vowes didst entertain simply as an husband but not as the heauens can witnesse willingly as an adulterer howbeit through this thy beastly foolishnesse were the crime apparant as it may not be here concealed my selfe am shamed mine Honour stained and my death in law deserued What doth it alas aduauntage me now to haue ben Daughter to the famous King Aegialeus the Sister of Selchim or that my beautie education and entertainment haue heretofore allured mightie Kinges Wooers worthy personages Suters and the Worlde wonderers that must now liue obscurely the Gods wot where and how poorely the most wretched Relict of so notorious a Dissembler or else die a shamefull death for my violated chastitie O well had I bene if happily interred or at least wise by so infamous an Epitaph not suruiued But what beate I the ayre with succes●esse wordes Why doe I not rather conuay my selfe into India where perhaps when I shall manifest vnto Staurobates the distresse wherein I am here left when I shall humbly prostrate my selfe at his feete whome I neuer wittinglye offended when he shall beholde the teares continually gushing from out those eyes which once he loued when my tongue shall discourse a lamentable tale and my sorrowfull gestures affirme the same to be credible when I shal charge him with his promises and vowes and lastly whē I shall disclose my follie but his fault my great belly Then whiche I shall account amends for all wronges Loue Pitie Feare or Shame shall againe winne for whom I now wish But foole what wordes are these wilte thou herein also bewray thine error troth it is Pheone the gods accept the humble complaints of oppressed soules but Staurobates not therefore will conferre with poore Suters the Gods be mercifull but he maiestical and ouer-proud a Phisition to minister vnto so meane a Patient doth he not now disdaine of thee that art his equall and shall he not then as a Runagate forbid thee his presence as frantike commaund thee to scilence as offensiue enioyne thee punishment or as combersome adiudge thee death O succourlesse estate of mine O worlde not loued but for my wombe and it the Mappe of al my sorrowes for which neuerthelesse and not else I yet liue as expecting a comfortable childe in place of so vnconstant a Father And yet Staurobates thou canst not worke to Pheone such ill but that Pheone wisheth vnto thee so well as not for her greatest wrongs to craue the meanest reuēge yea to pleasure thee yet more as my loue is alreadie remote frō thine heart so of my person I henceforth deliuer thine eyes O vnkinde Staurobates ah vnhalowed Pheone With such like passions as these being tormented with ielosie though in deede not threatned any such ieoberdie did Pheone a

others no no I may profit you but not preiudice my selfe Let it suffice that I haue corrected your Fooes and that your selfe escape vnreuenged of our auntient emnitie ouer and besides which vndeserued friendship I giue you a Ship in all thinges well furnished with sufficient treasure to supplie your expenses and thus knowing my minde the sooner you be packing the safer may it be for your person as for Cilci●a I haue Xenarchus my sonne there to gouerne here in Lidia want not souldiours to engarison Unto whom in few wordes my Father thus replyed that iustly condemning his pretence and despysing his proffers it lastly rested that Fortune his foe might one daie crie quittance with falshoode his friende and so onely accompanied of three or foure o● his faithfull seruants as doubting the worst fled secretly into the before mētioned Forrest not knowing the same to be the Receptacle of Deipyrus much lesse of his missed wife and childrē but least of all that the same his traiterous Nephewe did in such sort minister to their necessities Cap. 32. WIthin this Forrest in a pleasant Glade the sheepeherdes to take Wolues and other rauening beastes haunting their Flockes had digged a verie deepe daungerous Pit laying boughes slightly ouer-twhartes and artificially couering the same ouer with greene Tur●es so that the subtilitie thereof might hardly be espyed into which Pit Deipyrus ranging abroade to seeke after sustenance for him selfe and his charge at vnwares slipped and seeing no possibilitie of deliuerance from thence complaineth after this manner Sower is that sweete which decaieth in the blossome but sweete is that sower that dyeth in the budde ah happie man Deipyrus that being forworne with Correction hast at the length weryed Fortune with correcting and shalt anon present death with the glad deliuerie of thy ioylesse life and that not suddenly amongest the impenitent Pikes but slowlier then thou wouldest amiddest this Pitte wherein appeareth the great mercie of the good gods in respect of the small merits of sinnefull men O that the secrete bowels of the earth that denieth not to burie me as no doubt the vpper face thereof disdayneth to beare me coulde aswell conceale my vile faults as it doth couer my vitious flesh then shoulde my Treasons which now seeme odious to the heauens infamous to the world hurtefull to many daungerous to the most detestable to all and burdinous to mine owne conscience then I say might such mine offences su●cease to suruiue deceased Deipyrus which alas will then be hardly ripe when I shalbe happely rotten Neuerthelesse I am not nowe to dreade the worst of mercylesse men that slowly forget but to hope the best of the mercifull gods that swiftly forgiue nowe am I to sitte vppon my selfe as Iudge and against my selfe to pronounce iudgment that the Gods seeing me impartiall in mine owne case may as no doubt they will spare me for the same cause for it more standeth vs vppon to confesse then to defende our follies It is alas a common imperfection to offende but an vnwonted perfection to repent and why the first springeth from Nature but the other from vertue yea Nature whereunto we easily incline is in effect Securitie to Sinne feare of worldly shame biddeth vs iustifie our selues when in deede to liue in Securitie is not to die in safetie for meete it is that y e honny which seemed pleasant in the mouth be cōuerted to bitter wormewood in the stomacke and vtterly abhorred of the soule Doth not the pleasantnesse of the fruite make amends for the bitternesse of the roote the hoped for ioy in the harbour moderate the suffered perils on the Seas and the will to be released of the maladie asswage the sharpnesse of the medicine and shall not I that grone with Repentance in mine heart hope thereby to gaine refreshment to my soule yes verely yes so to hope winneth an effectuall hire that we be Contrite it is necessarie that our Contrition be equiparent to our Transgressiōs more necessarie but if the qualitie of our Repentance exceedeth the quantitie of our offences then is the same most acceptable But wretches that we are flesh and blood perswade the contrarie saying we scarce trip when in deede wee stumble downe right that the crime is verie light when the same is most weightie that we shall liue long and may at leasure repent when in a moment we are taken away or euer we thinke to amend and so in the end perrish desperatly that persist diuelishly for as therefore the gods are greatly delighted with Repentance so are they greeuously displeased with Procrastination It only remaineth then that I imbrace thee O sweete Repentance a burthen so much the lesse ponderous by how much thou increasest in greatnes to the pricked conscience thou art the perfit consolation and the only counterchaunge to deserued confusion with thy feete onely we run to mercy without thy winges flie we not from vengeance thou I say doest reprehend mine errors therefore will I apprehende thy vertues neuer giuing thee ouer vntill by death at least I comprehend thy sweetenesse Whilest Deipyrus most desirous to haue died spake yet more in the darke pit one while remembring the distresse of his guidelesse Charge left at randon in the dangerous Forrest and often naming whome he made account neuer more to see his deare Eurimone the king of Licia his daughter whose loue was the greatest part of his interprised lewdnesse but neuer forgetting with a penitent heart and bitter teares to send forth his humble prayers as his soules Harbengers It chaunced my Father and his Company to wander along the same Glaede and not doubting at all the subtilitie of the place one of them fell hedlong into the same couered Pit lighting so boisterously vpon Deipyrus that he bore him downe to the earth in a sowne the other only astonished with the fall and not receiuing farther harme after a while feeling but not seeing the panting body of a man lying prostrate wrought such meanes that he recouered Deipyrus out of his traunce By which time my Father and the others aboue had letten downe wythes and other deuises which they had framed for the purpose so drawing vp the man that was newly fallen into the pit who not a little ioyfull of so speedie deliuerie aduertised them how there was yet remaining behind an other person to him vnknown Wherevpon letting downe the second time they drewe Deipyrus vp into the open ayre that wel-nere of a day and night before had scarcely discerned any light of the sunne or starres Cap. 33. BUt when the king my father beheld the plight of Deipyrus and the same perceiued the presence of my Father it was a world to note the alteration of either their Countinances Espetially Deipyrus consumed with the pensiuenesse of his hart infeebled through weakenesse of body and confounded in the guiltinesse of his owne Conscience had better cause often to chaunge his colour then as it hapned to dread

owne manhoode so that in excusing I should accuse as I will not in perswading I should not disswade as I woulde and in agreeing to you I should disagree with you as I must but alas my Lord aduise your selfe better and deale not so outragiously with him that friendly not fearefully beseecheth you of pacience for if the losse of my life might reuiue Tymaetes or pleasure you Tymaetes should liue and you be pleased mine owne handes should hasten it your weapon not hasard it But seeing it may not so bee or if my submissiue wordes may not preuent your vnintreatable furie then know Xenarchus that Mazeres is a Knight no Coward but were I a Cowarde yet Cowardes in like extremities be desperatly valiant and being inforced to fight naturally will rather kill then be killed when if it should so proue as in fight the victorie is vncertaine that by euill hap you perrish one my weapon then alas howsoeuer it pleaseth you to flout me or feare me with the promised comfort of your death wherin I should conceiue nothing lesse then comfort whereof againe and againe I intreate you not to inforce the occasion you may assure your selfe of this comfort from me that your deade bones shall more persecute me then your lyuing body can punish me the one I may not flie the other I doe not feare the reason is if you demaund a reason if my death be not the prise of your blood yet must I of necessitie forsake Lydia the which to leaue were intollerable so forgo Aphrodite whom not to loue is impossible Now when Xenarchus would admit no excuses others then by Combate to discide the discorde the two knights so valiantly giue the charge ech on the other that whilst both strike both seeme rather to shrinke with the blowes then to shun the weapons either of them shewed enough of courage neither of them were to seeke of cunning and fret more with scorne to be wounded then feele the smart of their woundes In few after many breathings Xenarchus disaduauntaging himselfe by his ouer fearce desperat fight receiued a wound whereof fainting he falleth to the earth and then perswading himselfe of no other hope then present death he charitably forgaue wofull wounded Mazeres the deede constantly imbracing him indeuouring all in vaine to giue succour desired to be conueied vnto Tymaetes his Tombe there to offer vp his last gaspe a sacrifice to his friends ghost in performance of which his request Mazeres shewed himselfe no lesse dutifull then dolefull Cap. 44. WHilst perplexed Aphrodite discheuiled as shee was washed her Louers Tombe with her lamentable teares bewayling his vntimely destinie and esteeming the date of hir owne life ouer dilatorie lifting vp her flowing eyes she espyed Mazeres supporting thetherwards the imbrued body of her dying brother at sight whereof when wepings gaue passage to wordes shee thus cryeth out Now woe and out alas woe is me forspoken Aphrodite how hapneth it my deare brother that I viewe thee a second buriall and what see I more doest thou Mazeres mischieuous Mazeres by a new murder adde to my liuing martirdom if thou I say if thou the tormentor of me and Traitor to mine either in respect of y e loue thou pretendest to owe me or in reueng of the hate I protest euer to beare thee wilt shew me pity by being pitiles for somuch as the gods seeme deaffe and not to heare me and the destinies dull and not to helpe me vse once more thy murtherous weapon to dispatch me of life that otherwise may neuer be eased of griefe oh how aptly in one Tombe maist thou bestow three murthers leaue not alas leaue not haplesse Aphrodite so vtterly helpeles that also present death be exempted her succour As Xenarchus for yet he liued with fainting tounge endeuoured to pacifie his sister and acquite his inforsed foe Mazeres of his selfe procured death Atys and Abynados hyding them selues as before amongest the sepulchers and hearing those well known names lamentable tearmes and the voice of out-crying Aphrodite partly to assist her vnto whom they supposed Mazeres to offer force partly to reuenge the death of the curtious knight Tymaetes and withall to be meete with Mazeres for their owne priuate quarrels as not a little affrighthed at the noise ran forth to see what had hapned But when they perceiued their late deliuerer Xenarchus to lie there aliue more then halfe deade and by him standing their late betraier Mazeres smoaking in bloode without any further words they fearsly ran vpon twise-wounded Mazeres plying him with woundes to whome it wel pleased to dy who also being thus spead of his deaths wound aiming with his dying eyes to gasping Xenarchus did with him yeald vp the ghost either in the bosom of the other This new occurrant gaue to Aphrodite fresh occasion thus to continue her former lamentations in these words What doest thou yet liue Aphrodite long since the beginner and not yet the ender or at the least wise the fourth actor in this vnfinished Tragedie O my deare brother Xenarchus and which art more deerer to mee then a brother my sweete Tymetes content your selues yea a verie little while be contented with these wasted teares the whole remaine that continuall weepings haue left me with these cold comfortles kisses the last that euer Aphrodite shal giue you Neither thinke thou Mazeres that I deeme thee vtterly vnworthy my weping that which hath vndone vs all diddest esteeme me altogether worthy thy woing I cannot but lament thee deade that lyuing could neuer loue thee Which saide bestowing two kisses on the two Corses and two hundred on the watered Marbell that inclosed Tymaetes she forthwith entred the Lician campe and carelesse of her own safety rushing into the Pauilion of y e two kinges her fathers enimies when they rather gased on her beautie then gessed of her businesse shee disclosed her selfe and as much as in her lay stirreth them vppe ●o reuenge vppon her Tymaetes his death for whose onely loue hee had forgone life Aprodite saith shee is as deare to her Father as was Tymaetes to his and therefore the reuenge though it be smale yet it is somewhat In the meane time whilst she yet spake in came Atys and Abynados reporting the pittifull spectacle then to be seene at the Tombe of Tymaetes to the view whereof the Kinges and Captaines hyed and after them Aprodite followed But she perceiuing the gratious father of Tymaetes to be so farre off from seeking such reuenge for the death of his Sonne that he did not onely bewaile bitterly the deade bodies of Xenarchus and Mazares but spake to her so comfortably as if shee had bene his owne daughter being now the rather ouercome with the surcharge of this kinde sorrowe standing a while speechlesse and anon sinking downe vppon the deade bodies did good Ladie without any violente acte finishe her life not vnlamented for euen of her Fathers enimies The nexte