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A03515
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Homer's Odysses. Translated according to ye Greeke by. Geo: Chapman; Odyssey. Book 1-24. English. Chapman
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Homer.; Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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then let touch his Lire And go before vs all in gracefull dance That all without to whose eares shal aduance Our cheerefull accents or of Trauailers by Or firme inhabitants solemnity Of frolicke Nuptials may imagine heere And this performe we lest the massakere Of all our wooers be divulg'd about The ample City ere our selues get out And greet my Father in his Groue of Trees Where after we will proue what policies Olympius shall suggest to ouercome Our latest toiles and crowne our welcome home This all obey'd Bath'd put on fresh attire Both men and women did Then tooke his Lire The holy singer and set thirst on fire VVith songs and faultlesse dances all the Court Rung with the footings that the numerous sport From iocund men drew and faire-girdl'd Dames VVhich heard abroad thus flew the coÌ„mune fames This sâ—re the day is when the much-woo'd Queen Is richly wed O wretch That hath not beene So constant as to keepe her ample house Til th' vtmost houre had brought her formost spouse Thus some conceiu'd but little 〈◊〉 the thing And now Eurynome had bath'd the King Smooth'd him with Oyles and he himselfe attir'd In vestures royall Her part then inspir'd The Goddesse Pallas deck't his head and face With infinite beauties gaue a goodly grace Of stature to him a much plumper plight Through all his body breath'd Curles soft bright Adorn'd his head withall and made it show As if the flowry Hyacinth did grow In all his pride there In the generall trim Of euery locke and euery curious lim Looke how a skilfull Artizan well 〈◊〉 In all Arts Metalline as haâ—ing beene Taught by Minerua and the God of fire Doth Gold with Siluer mix so that entire They keepe their selfe distinction and yet so That to the Siluer from the Gold doth flow A much more artificiall luster then his â—â—ne And thereby to the Gold it selfe is growne A greater glory then if wrought alone Both being stuck off by eithers 〈◊〉 So did Minerua hers and his combine He more in Her She more in Him did shine Like an Immortall from the Bath 〈…〉 And to his wife did all his grace dispose Encountring this her strangenesse Cruell Dame Of all that breathe the Gods 〈…〉 and flame Haue made thee ruthlesse Life retaines nor one Of all Dames else that beares so ouer-growne A minde with abstinence as twenty 〈◊〉 To misse her husband drown'd in woâ—â— and teares And at his comming keepe aloofe 〈…〉 As of his so long absence and his care No sense had seisd her Go Nurse make a bed That I alone may sleepe her heart is dead To all reflection To him thus replied The wise Penelope Man halfe deified 'T is not my fashion to be taken streight With brauest men Nor poorest vse to stâ—ight Your meane apparance made not me retire Nor this your rich shew makes me now admire Nor moues at all For what is all to me If not my husband All his certainty I knew at parting but so long apart The outward likenesse holds no full desart For me to trust to Go Nurse see addrest A soft bed for him and the single rest Himselfe affects so Let it be the bed That stands within our Bridal Chamber-sted VVhich he himself made Bring it forth from thence And see it furnisht with magnificence This said she to assay him and did stir Euen his establisht patience and to hir Whom thus he answerd Woman your words proue My patience strangely VVho is it can moue My Bed out of his place It shall oppresse Earths greatest vnder-stander and vnlesse Euen God himselfe come that can easely grace Men in their most skils it shall hold his place For Man he liues not that as not most skill'd So not most yong shall easely make it yield If building on the strength in which he flowes He addes both Leuers to and Iron Crowes For in the fixure of the Bed is showne A Maister-peece a wonder and 't was done By me and none but me and thus was wrought There was an Oliue tree that had his grought Amidst a hedge and was of shadow proud Fresh and the prime age of his verdure show'd His leaues and armes so thicke that to the eye It shew'd a columne for solidity To this had I a comprehension To build my Bridall Bowre which all of stone Thicke as the Tree of leaues I raisde and cast A Roofe about it nothing meanly grac'st Put glew'd doores to it that op't Art enough Then from the Oliue euery broad-leau'd bough I lopt away then fell'd the Tree and then VVent ouer it both with â—y Axe and Plaine Both gouern'd by my Line And then I hew'd My curious Bed-sted out in which I shew'd Worke of no commune hand All this begon I could not leaue till to perfection My paines had brought it Tooke my Wimble bor'd The holes as fitted and did last afford The varied Ornament which shew'd no want Of Siluer Gold and polisht Elephant An Oxe-hide Dide in purple then I threw Aboue the cords And thus to curious view I hope I haue obiected honest signe To proue I author nought that is not mine But if my bed stand vnreinou'd or no O woman passeth humane wit to know This sunk her knees heart to heare so true The signes she vrg'd and first did teares ensue Her rapt assurance Then she ran and spread Her armes about his necke kist oft his head And thus the curious stay she made excusde Vlysses Be not angry that I vsde Such strange delayes to this since heretofore Your suffering wisedome hath the Gyrland wore From all that breath and 't is the Gods that thus With mutuall misse so long afflicting vs Haue causd my coynesse To our youths enuied That wisht society that should haue tied Our youths and yeares together and since now Iudgement and Duty should our age allow As full ioyes therein as in youth and blood See all yong anger and reproofe withstood For not at first sight giuing vp my armes My heart still trembling lest the false alarmes That words oft strike vp should ridiculize me Had Argiue Hellen knowne credulity VVould bring such plagues with it and her againe As aucthresse of them all with that foule staine To her and to her countrey she had staid Her loue and mixture from a strangers bed But God impell'd her to a shamelesse deede Because she had not in her selfe decreed Before th' attempt That such acts still were shent As simply in themselues as in th' euent By which not onely she her selfe sustaines But we for her fault haue paid mutuall paines Yet now since these signes of our certaine bed You haue discouer'd and distinguished From all earths others No one man but you Yet euer getting of it th' onely show Nor one of all Dames but my selfe and she My Father gaue old Actors progenie Who euer guarded to our selues the dore Of that thick-shaded chamber I no more Will crosse your cleere perswasion though till now