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A14494	Virgils Eclogues, vvith his booke De apibus, concerning the gouernment and ordering of bees, translated grammatically, and also according to the proprietie of our English tongue, so farre as grammar and the verse will well permit. Written chiefly for the good of schooles, to be vsed according to the directions in the preface to the painfull schoole maister, and more fully in the booke called Ludus literarius, or the grammar-schoole, chap. 8; Bucolica. English	Virgil.; Brinsley, John, fl. 1581-1624. Ludus literarius.; Virgil. Georgica. Book 4. English. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 24818; ESTC S104679	214,620	176

vpon the crab tree blossomes and gray sallowes and Casia and red saffron and vpon the ranke linden trees and also vpon the ironish coloured hyacinth There is one rest from worke to all of them one labour is vnto them all In the morning they rush out of their gates there is no stay againe whenas the euening admonisheth them to depart at length out of the fields from feeding then go they home and then do they cherish their weary bodies A sound is made and they do buz about the bounds and entrances of their hiues Afterwards whenas they haue reposed themselues to rest in their chambers there is silence all the night euery ones owne sleepe possesseth all their wearie lims Nor yet indeede do they depart farre from their hiues if it be like to raine or trust vnto the aire when the Eastwindes will arise But they are watered safely vnder the walls of the citie round about And they aduenture but short courses and oft times do they take vp little stones as floating boates do take vp balasse in a rough water With these same little stones they beare themselues leuell thorough the emptie cloudie aire You wil wonder that that same manner of liuing hath so pleased the bees that they do neither giue themselues to ingendring nor being slothfull do let loose their bodies vnto lust or bring foorth yong with pangs in birth But they do gather their yong ones with their mouth from flowers and sweete herbes They hence prouide their king and their yong progenie and establish their courts and their waxen kingdomes Oft times also they weare their wings by wandring among hard rockes and of their owne accord yeeld vp their liues vnder their burden They haue so great a loue of flowers and such a glory of making hony Therefore although the compasse of a small age entertaines them for they do not liue aboue seuen yeares Yet their stock remaines immortall and the fortune of their house abides for many yeares and the grandsires of their grandfathers are numbred amongst them Moreouer Egypt and great Lydia or the Parthian ‖ the Mede or Indian do not so obserue their king as bees do theirs The king being safe the same mind is in them all But he being lost they breake their faith and they themselues spoile their hony made vp in their cels burst the frames of their hony combes He is the protector of their workes him they admire and all of them stand about him with great humming noise and guard him thicke And oft times they lift him vp with their shoulders and hazard their bodies in warre for him and do desire a glorious death by wounds sustained for his sake Some by these signes and following these examples haue said that there is a part of the diuine vnderstanding and also heauenly spirits in bees for why they say that God goeth thorow all both lands and coasts of the sea and the high heauen Hereupon they haue affirmed both the small and great cattell men and euery kind of wilde beast Yea euery one that is borne to fetch his life from hence Know this that they haue said all things to be restored hither finally and being resolued to be surrendred again and that there is no place for death but that all things so dissolued do flie aliue into the number of the starres and so succeed by course in the high heauen If at any time you will emptie their Al. stately seate and the hony which they haue preserued in their treasuries first spurt vpon them some draughts of water warmed in your mouth and hold before you in your hand smokes following one another They gather their great increase twise in the yeare they haue two times of haruest So soone as Taygete hath shewed her honest face vnto the earth And Pleias hath pushed backe with her foote the scorned waues of the Ocean sea ‖ Or whenas the same Pleias shunning the signe of waterish Piscis Goeth downe more sad from heauen into the Winter waters The bees haue anger aboue measure and being hurt they breathe in poison with their biting and also leaue blind stings hauing fastned them in the veines yea and lay downe their liues in the verie wound But if you feare a hard Winter and will spare for the time to come And shall haue pitie of their bruised hearts and their decayed estates Who then would doubt to perfume their hiues with thyme and pare away the emptie waxe for oft times the newt not knowne of eates away the hony combes and beds are made for moathes which flie the light And also the droane sitting scotfree at others meate Or else the cruel hornet thrusts in himselfe with his vnequall weapons Or that direfull kind of moath or finally the spider odious to Minerua hangs her nets loose in the entrances of the hiues The emptier the bees shall be so much the more eagerly all of them wil bestirre themselues to repaire the ruines of their decayed stocke And will fill vp their hatches and weaue their barnes with flowers But if their bodies shall languish by some sore disease because life hath brought euen our misfortunes vnto bees Which thing you may presently know by vndoubted signes There is forthwith another colour to them when they are sicke an vgly leannesse doth deforme their looke then carry they foorth the bodies of the dead out of their hiues and make dolefull funerals Or they hang at the entries of their hiues clung by their feete Or else they all abide lingring within in their houses shut both sluggish thorough famishment and slothfull by cold which they haue caught Then their sound is heard more heauie and they hum trailingly As sometimes the cold South wind doth sound in th'woods Or as the troubled sea doth make a noise with her rebounding waues

these that neither the Egyptians Lydians Parthians Medes nor Indians are so obseruant carefull for their king as the bees are for theirs ‖ The people of Egypt and of Lydia * Nor the people of the Parthians or ‖ the Medes viz. the people of Media * Or Hydaspes the riuer of India ‖ Reuerence and carefully preserue ‖ So long as their king bee is safe * One mind is to all viz. they are all of one mind * But their king being lost they haue broken their fidelitie and they themselues haue plucked as under their hony built vp viz. layed or hoorded vp in the hony combes For that their king being safe all is in peace amongst them * And haue loosed or dissolued the wattles of their hony combes and so hauing destroyed all they flie away But if he be lost they break their faith spoile their hony and all their owne work which they haue made ‖ The king bee * The keeper or preseruer As he is the protector of their workes so they admire him with all reuerence guarding him thicke round about * They admire him or wonder at him with reuerence * With a thicke humming noise They oft lift him vp and carry him on their shoulders putting their bodies betweene him and all dangers chearefully enduring wounds and readily aduenturing their liues for his cause ‖ Being thicke about him ‖ They bears him on their shoulders * Obi●ct their bodies in warre betweene his bodie and the danger viz. when they skirmish with other bees ‖ A faire death y Hence the Poet sheweth that by these obseruations of their gouernment and these former signes of their wisedome some haue thought that bees haue reason and some part of diuine vnderstanding * Certaine men haue said by these signes and following these examples there to be a part of the diuine mind and airie breaths in bees * Draughts from the firmament or diuine draughts viz. such spirits as they draw from heauen * God to go through all viz. that God is a spirit and i● in all the elements and euery where as the Poet said before Iouis omnia plena For that God is in all things going thorough all both earth and seas and heauen * Tracts * The lesser cattell heards or droues of beasts And so euery creature to fetch their life from him and so from heauen * Of wilde beasts * Euery man being borne to fetch or get to himselfe his thinne lines viz. life or vitall spirits Yea that all things dying surrender vp their liues backe againe thither ‖ From God * To wit ‖ That all things are restored * Afterwards or in the end ‖ Dissolued by a separation of the soule from the bodie * To be restored hither viz. into the hea●ous or to God * Neither any place to be for death And that the spirits of all things that are dissolued do flie vnto the starre● euery one to his owne fatal starre and after returne from heauen into new bodies as need is and thus keepe a continuall succession both in heauen and earth * But all things to flie aliue into the number of a signe in heauen viz. into their owne fatall starre from which they came * To succeed to the high heauen viz. to succeed or follow againe in their place in heauen whence they came z And from hence he proceedeth to an eight precept concerning the time of emptying their hiues * Vndaube or vncouer viz. to the end to take forth the hony combes or if you will take forth of the hiues * And the hony kept in their treasures That when the owners of them will take some of their hony forth they first spurt vpō thē some draughts of water out of their mouthes as if it rained to cause them to keepe within their hiues and smoake them with swampes to cast them for the present into a kinde of swoone * Sprinkling before draughts of water warme these draughts with your raouth or make warme with your mouth draughts of water sprinkled on them either sparsus for spargens or sparsos ‖ Water sprinkled on them will cause them to keepe in for feare of raine and smoke wil cast them into a swoon till you haue taken forth the hony * Fumes of swampe or galbanum or the like ‖ The bees fill their hiues twise in the yeare or the husbandman gathers the increase of the bees viz. of hony and waxe twise c. This they do twise in the yeare viz. in the Spring and in the haruest which two times are described by the rising and setting of the seuen starres * Heauie or loaden with increase * There are two times of haruest that is of gathering their hony viz. in the spring and in the haruest i. e. twise in the yeare ‖ First when * Together ‖ Taygete and Pleias are two of the seuen starres called Pleiades By this speech following is meant that the hony is to be gathered twise in the yeare viz. at the rising and setting of the seuen starres The first when the seuen stars called Pleiades rise in the euening which starres are set out by the names of two of them Taygete and Pleias ‖ And also when the same c. viz. at the setting of the seuen starres * Hath thrust backe * The despised riuers of the Ocean sea with her foote viz. at the rising of the seuen starres The second time is at the setting of the seuen starres viz. when they go downe at the arising of Pisces ouer against them * Flying from the signe of the waterish fish viz. because at the setting of the seuen starres Piscis riseth ouer against them ‖ Sets seeming to descend into the Ocean sea and so more sorrowfull or more sad by reason of the Winter showers which then begin a Hitberto the Poet hath set out the nature of bees by their causes works subiects adiu●cts now he commeth to the euils and dangers belonging to them * Anger is to them viz to the bees As first that they will be angry without measure and being hurt they will bite and sting * They inspire poison into the bitings viz. they send poison into the places which they bite or they poison the place bitten And with their biting will breathe in a kinde of poison into the place bitten and will also fasten their stings so deepe that commonly they leaue them behind them and their liues withall ‖ Short stings which can hardly be seene to be plucked forth * Darts * And putting their liues in the wound viz leauing oft their stings in the wound and then they die presently after because with the sting if they lose it they lose some of their entrals A second euill is their pouertie through the lacke of hony in the Winter time and by reason of robbers against which he teacheth the remedie That if you feare a hard Winter and haue pitie on your bees and care to preserue them

threefold loues of th' Gods euen from the Chaos With which discourse the Nymphs being caught whilst that they spin the dolefull moane of Aristeus pierst into his mothers eares and all the Nymphes were amazed sitting on their glassie seates but Arethusa looking forth before her other sisters lift vp her yellow head aboue th' top of the water And being farre off thus she spake Oh sister Cyrene affrighted not without iust cause for so great a wailing Aristeus himself thy greatest care sad for thy sake stands weeping at the waues of Peneus thy father and cals thee cruel by name The mother smitten in her mind with a new feare saith to her Go to bring him hither bring him vnto vs it may be lawfull for him to touch the thresholds of the Gods and withall she commands the deepe riuers to depart all abroad where the yong man should enter in But the water stood round about bowed after the manner of a hill And entertained him in her vast bosome and sent him vnderneath the riuer And now admiring his mothers house and her watery realmes And also the lakes shut vp in caues and the sounding groues He went forward and being astonied at the mightie mouing of the waters Beheld all the riuers flowing vnder the great earth both Phasis and Lycus And th● head from whence the deepe E●ipeus first Al. bursts forth and shewes it selfe From what place father Tiberine and from whence the streams of Anien do come And Hipanis making a great sound amongst the stones and Caicus flowing out of Mysia And eke Eridanus hauing two golden hornes in a buls face then which not any other riuer flowes more violently thorough the fertile fields into the purple sea After that he was come vnder the roofe of the bed-chamber of his mother Cyrene hanging all with pumish stone and that Cyrene knew the needlesse weeping of her sonne her sister Nymphes giue in order faire spring water for his hands and bring him towels with the nap shorne off Part of them furnish the tables with dainties and oft do fill the cups the altars waxe full sweete with fiers of Panchean wood And then his mother said Take thou these cups of Lydian wine Let vs offer to God Oceanus quoth she And herewith she prayes both vnto Oceanus the father of all things and to the Nymphs her sisters A hundred of them which keepe the woods and also an hundred which keep the riuers Thrise did she sprinkle the burning fire with pure sweete wine Thrise the flame being vnderneath flasht backe againe to th' top of the house With which luckie signe she confirming her mind began thus There is a Prophet of the sea in the Carpathian gulfe Called the skie coloured Proteus who measures out the great sea borne vpon fishes backs And in a chariot drawne by two footed horses He is now gone to renew the ports of Emathia and his countrey Palene Him do the Nymphs adore and ancient Nereus himself for that Prophet knoweth all things Which are which haue bene and which may be protracted to come ere long Because it hath so seemed good to Neptune whose monstrous heards of cattell and huge sea-calues he feeds vnderneath the gulfe This Prophet my sonne is to be bound of thee before thou aske him any thing that he may speedily tell thee euery cause of the diseases of thy bees and may giue thee good successe For he will not giue thee any precepts without constraint neither shalt thou moue him by intreatie * Lay hard hands and bonds vpon him being caught His deceits about these things will at length be vtterly frustrate I my selfe about the noone-tide whenas the Sunne hath kindled his middle heate When the herbes are thirstie and the shadow is more welcome to the cattell Will bring thee into the secret places of th' old man Al. whither he being wearie doth retire himselfe from the waues that thou mayest easily set vpon him lying fast asleepe But when thou shalt hold him taken with hands and bands Then diuers shapes will delude thee and faces of wilde beasts for he will be of a sudden a rough bristled swine and a blacke tiger And also a scaly dragon and a lionesse with a tawnie yellow necke Or else he will giue forth a crackling noise of fire and so he will escape out of thy bands or slipping aside from thee he will go quite away into the thin waters But how much more he turnes himselfe into all shapes So much the more my sonne tie hard his bands to hold him fast Vntill he shall be such a one his bodie being changed againe as thou sawest him when he closed his eyes beginning first to sleepe These things she spake and cast abroad a pure odour of Ambrosia Wherewith she Al. sok't the bodie of her sonne throughout but a sweete sent blew to him hauing his haire neatly drest And an able vigour entred into his lims There is a huge caue in the side of a hill eaten all away whereinto very much water is driuen by the wind and parts it selfe into reflowing creakes Which sometime was a most safe harbour for sea-men caught by tempest Within it doth Proteus close himselfe with the couer of a huge great stone * Here doth the Nymph Cyrene place the yong man turned from the light within the lurking holes and she her selfe Al. went backe farre off obscured with clouds Now the wood Dog-starre called Syrius broyling the thirstie Indians burned in the skie and the fierie Sunne had gone halfe his daily course herbes withered and the sun-beames boyled the hollow riuers warmed to the mud their vpper parts being drie When Proteus went from the riuers going vnto his wonted caues the waterish nation of the vast sea leaping about him sprinkled the bitter dew all abroad The sea-calues

a bringer vp of Bacchus c. ‖ He bringeth him in singing very skilfully ‖ Of the beginnings of things viz. the first forming or framing of things ‖ To the grace or honour of Quintilius Varus * Who Donate being witnesse together with Virgil gaue his endeuour to this sect vnder Silon the Philosopher * Agree ‖ To the lownesse or low pitch of c. * Of a Bucolicke verse * He prayeth for pardon straightway from or after the beginning neither hauing taried so much in that argument be passeth straightway vnto fables a Thalia is properly one of the three Graces whose names were Aglaia Thalia and Euphrosune supposed to be the daughters of Iupiter and Venus ‖ To sing ‖ In pa●torall verse in imitation of Theocritus who dwelt in Syracuse a famous citie in Sicilia b For Syracusio some write Syracosio lest it comming of ou should be contracted And it is Syracusi for Syracusano after the maner of the 〈◊〉 as Sicelides for Sicilienses Eclog 4. * To inhabite the woods * When I did sing ‖ Battels or skirmishes * Cynthius Apollo is called Cynthius of Cynthus a mountaine in the Isle Delos where Apollo and Dians were borne * Puid my eare and admonished me * It behoueth a sheepheard to feed fat sheepa and to speake or sing a verse drawne out viz. a pastorall song of a low or meane kind drawne out small like wooll in spinning * Now will I meditate a fielden Muse viz. a pastorall song with my slender reed For Varus there shall be aboue to thee viz. there shall remaine enow to thee who may desire to vtter thy praises * To build viz. to set out or declare thy sorrowfull warres * Things vncommanded without the command viz. of Pollio or Augustus * Taken with the loue of thee or ‖ If any one be enamoured let him reade these things * Our wilde tamariske or ling shal sing of thee ‖ Groue or forrest most properly a groue for pleasure ‖ Shall praise thy deeds * Neither is there * Page or booke A page is properly a side of a leafe in a booke ‖ To be learned * Which hath prescribed the name of Varus vnto it selfe viz. which is written in the praises of Varus or hath the title of Varus * Oh ye nine Muses borne in Pierius in Thessalie go ye on ‖ The two youths Chromis Mnas ‖ Bacchus schoolemaister a famous Poet. * Lying ouerwhelmed or buried in sleepe * Blowne vp in respect of his veins with yesterdayes wine as alwayes * Bacchus Iachos a name of Bacchus of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a crie groaning or belching taken from the filthy noises which drunkards make commonly ‖ Onely fallen downe from his head viz. otherwise whole and not broken nor hurt * A farre off * To his head ‖ A pot or iug that held a great deale of wine * And a great viz. a heauie or mightie tankard with the handle or stouke all worne hanged on his necke or at his girdle neare vnto him ‖ This old Silenus * They inuading or assailing him ‖ Promising to sing them songs ‖ Bind him with hands made of the garlands themselues * Addeth her selfe a fellow * And came vpon them being fearfull viz. came as we say in the nicke or in the very fit oportunitie to helpe them being timorous or doubtfull * Naiades are the Fairies haunting riuers and fountaines ‖ And painted both his browes and temples with bloud red mulberies she seeing him * To him viz to Silenus now seeing her viz. being awaked and looking on her ‖ Loose me ye boyes ‖ The subtill iest c Silenus makes himselfe a halfe God which were seene but when they listed and thus he speaketh as followeth * Me to haue bene able to be seene of you being seene but when I list * Know ye what verses you will * Verses shall be to you * Another reward shact be to this Egle. * He begins withall ‖ When Silenus began to sing ‖ The Gods of the woods * To play or skip in number viz. according to the harmony of the tune * Stiffe oakes to moue oft and shake * Neither the Parnassian rocke viz. the mount Parnassus in Thessalie consecrated to Apollo * Doth so much delight and ioy in Phoebus viz. Apollo * Nor Rhodope doth wonder at so much nor Ismarus so greatly admire Orpheus d Rhodope and Ismarus mountains in Thracia wherein Orpheus was wont to play e The argument or subiect matter of Silenus songs f The Epicures thoght all these to be made of motes and such little bodies concurring * Of the earths and of the soule and also of the sea and withall of the liquid fire had bene gathered together ‖ Cleare or pure * Thorough the great emptinesse Al. How all beginnings growed vp together from these first seeds and the very tender globe of the world growed together ‖ Yong pliant delectable or tender at the first ‖ Growed fast and strong in euery part * Nereus a god of the sea the sonne of Oceanus whereof the Ocean had the name Here put for the Ocean * Pontus the sea betweene Meotis and Tenedos so called of Pontus the sonne of Nercus ‖ How things began to be formed of the earth * Formes viz. diuers shapes * And now the earths or lands are amazed at the new Sunne to begin to shine ‖ The Sunne newly formed with the other heauenly lights ‖ The raine doth fall * The clouds being remoued more high or very high ‖ How * Do begin * To rise viz to spring vp * And when the liuing creatures do erre or wander thorough or amongst the mountaines viz when the mountaines and valleys began to be replenished with new creatures g Of the framing of the world in the beginning and of the repairing it after the floud especially for the repairing of mankind by Pyrrha and Deucalion and so the other stories see Ouid in his Metamorphosis * After this he reports or relates the stones cast to Pyrrha viz. of or by Pyrrha and also he relates Saturnes kingdomes * Also he reports or shewes the birds of Caucasus and the theft of Prometheus For the rest of this Eclogue I referre the ingenuous Reader to Ramus and other Commenters * To whom the name i● viz. which is intituled or named * B●coliasts * Melibeus a shepheard or rather a neatheard * A strife or triall for maisteries of Corydon and Thyrsis c. * Wandered away * He had came betweene by chance * Sent for of Daphnis * Contention * Nods to or signifies by the beckning of his head to haue pronounced according to Corydon * I remember these things ‖ And Thyrsis being outmatched to haue contended in vaine * By hap or by chance Daphnis had ●it downe together * Shrill by the mouing of the leaues The holme is a kind of oake * Had driuen together