dares reprehend him Notwithstanding I will say something not in way of detraction but that we also may be able to grow with his greatnesse Then speaking of his Metamorphosis Bookes deseruing a more fortunate Author that from his last hand they might haue had their perfection which hee himselfe bewaileth in luculent Verses Yet are there in these well-nigh an infinite number which the wit of an other I beleeue could neuer haue equall'd And thus exclaimes against Caesar in the person of OVID. Tyrant with me I would thou badst begun Nor thy black slaughters had my fate fore-run If my licentious Youth incenst thee so Thy owne condemnes thee into exile goe Thy Cabinets are stain'd with horrid deeds And thy soule guilt all monstrous names exceeds Diuine wit innocence nor yet my tongue Next to Apollo's could preuent my wrong I smoeth'd th' old Poets with my fluent vaine And taught the New a far more numerous strain When thee I prais'd then from the truth I sweru'd And banishment for that alone deseru'd can hee said to transcend him What should I say of that singular and well-nigh diuine contexture of Fable with Fable so surpassing that nothing can bee spoken or done more artificially more excellently or indeed more gracefully Who handling such diuersitie of matter so cunningly weaues them together that all appeare but one Series Planudes well knowing that Greece had not a Poem so abounding with delight and beautie translated it into that language What should I say more All Arts which Antiquitie knew are here so fully delineated that a number expert in both tongues of prime vnderstanding and iudgements admire it beyond all expression The first that writ a Commentarie on this booke whereof fiftie thousand were vented and that in his life time was RAPHAEL REGIVS Who thus in his Preface There is nothing appertaining to the knowledge and glorie of warre whereof wee haue not famous examples in the Metamorphosis of OVID not to speake of stratagems nor the Orations of Commanders described with such efficacie and eloquence that often in reading you will imagine your selfe imbroiled in their conflicts Neither shall you finde any Author from whom a ciuill life may gather better instruction IACOBVS MICYLLVS Hardly shall you find a Poem which flowes with greater facilitie For what should I speake of Learning Herein so great so various and abstruse that many places haue neither beene explained nor yet vnderstood no not by the most knowing requiring rather a resolution from the Delian Oracle c. Let the ingenuous that affect not error now rectifie their owne by the iudgements of these But incurable Criticks who warre about words and gail the sound to feed on their sores as not desiring their sanitie I forbeare to disswade and deliuer them vp to the censure of Agrippa QVOD OLIM FACIEBAT VOTVM GERMANIâ—O OVIDIVS IDEM AVGVSTISSâ—MO CAROLO Interpretis sui nomine â—acuâ—nt OVIDIANI MANES EXcipe pacato Caesaâ— Brittannice vultu â—â—oc â—pus 〈◊〉 tim dâ— dirige nauis â—ter Officioqus lâ—uem non auâ—â—â—atuâ— honorem Hu◠〈…〉 dexter ades Hâ—â—c â—e da placâ—â—um dâ—deris in carmine vires Ingenium vnitu statque caditque tuo Pagâ—a◠〈…〉 docte subâ—turâ— moâ—etur Principis vt Clarâ—o missa legenda Deâ— OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS The first Booke THE ARGVMENT THe World form'd out of Chaos Man is made The Ages change The Giants Heauen inuade Earth turnes their blouâ— to men Ioue's flames confound Lâ—caon now a Wolfe The World is drown'd Man-kind cast stones restore All quickning Earth Renews the rest and giues new Monsters birth Apollo Python kills hart-wounded loues Lust-flying Daphâ—é She a Laurel proues Ioue 〈◊〉 made a Cow to maske foule deeds Hermes a Heards-man Syriâ—x chang'd to Reeds Dead Argus eyes adorn the Peacock's traine The Cow to Iâ— loue transform's againe OF formes to other bodies chang'd I sing Assist you Gods from you these wonders spring And from the Worlds first fabrick to these times Deduce my neuer discontinued Rymes The Sea the Earth al-couering Heauen vnfram'd One face had nature which they Chaos nam'd An vndigested lump a barren load Where iarrâ—ing seeds of things ill-ioyn'd aboad No Titan yet the World with light adornes Nor waxing Phoebe fill'd her waned hornes Nor hung the selfe-poiz'd Earth in thin Ayre plac't Nor Amphitrite the vast shore imbrac't With Earth was Ayre and Sea the Earth vnstable The Ayre was darke the Sea vn-nauigable No certaine forme to any one assign'd This that resists For in one body ioyn'd The Cold and Hot the Drie and Humid fight The Soft and Hard the Heauy with the Light But God the better Nature this decides Who Earth from Heauen the Sea from earth diuides And purer Heauen extracts from grosser Ayre All which vnfolded by his prudent care From that blinde Masse the happily dis-ioyn'd With strifelesse peace he to their seats confin'd Forth-with vp-sprung the quicke and waightlesse Fire Whose flames vnto the highest Arch aspire The next in leuitie and place is Ayre Grosse Elements to thicker Earth repayre Selfe-clog'd with waight the Waters flowing round Possesse the last and solid Tellus bound What God soeuer this diuision wrought And euery part to due proportion brought First lest the Earth vnequall should appâ—are He turn'd it round in figure of a Sphere Then Seas diffus'd commanding them to rore With ruffling Winds and giue the Land a shore To those hâ— addeth Springs Ponds Lakes immense And Riuers whom their winding borders fence Of these not few Earth's thirstie iawes deuour The rest their streames into the Ocean pour When in that liquid Plaine with freer waue The fomy Cliffs in stead of Banks they laue Bids Trees increase to Woods the Plaines extend The rocky Mountaynes rise and Vales descend Two equall Zones on either side dispose The measur'd Heauens a fifth more hot than those â—s many Lines th'included Globe diuide â—th'midst vnsufferable beames reside â—now clothes the other two the temperate hold Twixt these their seats the heat well mixt with cold As Earth as Water vpper Ayre out-waighs â—o much doth Ayre Fire's lighter balance raise â—here he commands the changing Clouds to stray â—here thundering terrors mortall mindes dismay And with the Lightning Winds ingendring Snow Yet not permitted euery way to blow Who hardly now to teare the World refraine â—So Brothers iarre thoughâ— they diuided raigne â—o Persis and Sabaea Eurus flies Whose fruits perfume the blushing Mornes vp-rise â—ext to the Euening and the Coast the glowes â—ith setting Phoebus flowry Zeph'rus blowes 〈◊〉 Scythia horrid Boreas holds his raigne â—eneath Bootes and the frozen Waine The Land to this oppos'd doth Auster steep With fruitfull showrs and clouds which euer weep â—boue all these he plac't the liquid Skies Which void of earthly dregs did highest rise Scarce had he all thus orderly dispos'd When-as the Starres their radiant heads disclos'd â— Long 〈◊〉 in Night and shone through all the skie Then that no place should vnpossessed lie
humbly on their faces prostrate lay'd And kissing the cold stones with feare thus pray'd If Powres diuine to iust desires consent And Angry Gods doe in the end relent Say Themis how shall we ouâ— Race repaire O helpe the drown'd in Water and Despayre The Goddesse with compassion mou'd reply'd Goe from my Temple both your faces hide Let Garments all vnbraced loosely flow And your Great-Parents bones behinde you throw Amaz'd first Pyrrha silence breakes and said By me the Goddesse must not be obay'd And trembling pardon craues Her Mothers ghost She feares would suffer if her bones were tost Meane-while they ponder and reiterate The words proceeding from ambiguous Fate Then PromethÃdes Epimethida Thus recollecteth lost in her dismay Or we the Oracle misse-vnderstand The righteous Gods no wicked thing command Or Earth is our Great-Mother and the stones Therein contain'd I take to be her bones These sure are those we should behinde vs throw Although Titania thought it might be so Yet she misse-doubts Both with weake faith rely On ayding Heauen What hurt was it to try Departing with heads vail'd and clothes vnbrac't Commanded stones they o're their shoulders cast Did not Antiquitie auouch the same Who would beleeu 't the stones lesse hard became And as their naturall hardnesse them forsooke So by degrees they Mans dimensions tooke And gentler-natur'd grew as they increast And yet not manifestly Man exprest But like rough hewne ' rude marble Statues stand That want the Workemans last life-giuing hand The Earthy parts and what had any iuyce Were both conuerted to the body's vse The vnflexible and solid turne to bones The veines remaine that were when they were stones Those thrown by Man the for ome of men indue And those were Women which the Woman threw Hence we a hardy Race inur'd to paine Our Actions our Originall explaine All other creatures took their numerous birth And figures from the voluntary Earth When that old humour with the Sunne did sweat And slimy Marishes grew big with heat The pregnant Seeds as from their Mothers wombe From quickning Earth both growth and forme assume So when seuen chanel'd Nile forsakes the Plaine When ancient bounds retiring streames containe And late-left slime aethereall feruours burne Men various creatures with the gleabe vp-turne Of those some in their very time of birth Some lame and others halfe aliue halfe earth For Heat and Moysture when they temperate grow Forth-with conceiue and life on things bestow From striuing Fire and Water all proceede Discording Concord euer apt to breede So Earth by that late Deluge muddy growne When on her lap reflecting Titan shone Produc't a World of formes restor'd the late And other vnknowne Monsters did create Huge Python thee against her will she bred A Serpent whom the new-borne People dread Whose bulk did like a mouing Mountaine show Behold the God that beares the Siluer Bow Till then inur'd to strike the flying Deere Their happy Selues and longs to taste their blisse Admires her fingers hands her armes halfe-bare And Parts vnseene conceiues to be more rare Swifter than following Winds away she runs And him for all this his intreatie shuns Stay Nymph I pray thee stay I am no Fo So Lambs from Wolues Harts flye from Lyons so So from the Eagle springs the trembling Doue They from their deaths but my pursute is Loue. Wo's me if thou shouldst fall or thornes should race Thy tender legs whilst I enforce the chace These roughs are craggy moderate thy haste And trust me I will not pursue so fast Yet know who't is you please No Mountanere No home-bred Clowne nor keepe I Cattell here From whom thou flyâ—st thou know'st not silly foole And therefore fly'st thou I in Delphos rule Iâ—nian Claros Lycian Patara And Sea-girt Tenedos doe me obay Ioue is my Father What shall be hath beene Or is by my instructiue rayes is seene Immortall Verse from our inuention springs And how to strike the well concording-strings My shafts hit sure yet He one surer found Who in my emptie bosome made this wound Of herbs I found the vertue and through all The World they Me the great Physician call Aye me that herbs can Loue no cure afford That Arts relieuing all should faile their Lord More had he said when she with nimble dread From him and his vnfinisht court-ship fled How gracefull then the Wind that obuious blew Too much betray'd her to his amorous view And play'd the Wanton with her fluent haire Her Beauty by her flight appear'd more rare No more the God will his intreaties loose But vrg'd by Loue with all his force pursues As when a Hare the speedy Gray-hound spyes His feet for prey shee hers for safetie plyes Now beares he vp now now he hopes to fetch her And with his snowt extended straines to catch her Not knowing whether caught or no she slips Out of his wide-stretcht iawes and touching lips The God and Virgin in such strife appeare He quickned by his hope She by her feare But the Pursuer doth more nimble proue Enabled by th' industrious wings of loue Nor giues he time to breathe now at her heeles His breath vpon her dangling haire shee feeles Cleane spent and fainting her affrighted bloud Forsakes her cheeks Shee cryes vnto the Floud Helpe Father if your streames contayne a Powre May Earth for too well pleasing me deuour Or by transforming O destroy this shape That thus betrayes me to vndoing rape Forth-with a numnesse all her lims possest And slender filmes her softer sides inuest Haire into leaues her Armes to branches grow And late swift feet now roots are lesse than slow Her gracefull head a leauy top sustaines One beauty throughout all her forme remaines Still Phoebus loues He handles the new Plant And feeles her Heart within the bark to pant Imbrac't the bole as he would her haue done As ignorant of what she more than fear'd Ioue faynes her importunitie to shift Her borne of Earth Saturnia begs the gift What should he doe be cruell to his Loue Or by denying her suspition moue Shame that perswades and Loue doth this disswade But stronger Loue Shame vnder foot had layd Yet doubts if he should such a thing deny His Wife and Sister 't would the fraud descry Obtayn'd not forth-with feare the Goddesse left Distrusting Ioue and iealous of his theft Vntill deliuered to Argus guard A hundred eyes his head 's large circuit starr'd Whereof by turnes at once two onely slept The other watcht and still their Stations kept Which way so-ere he stands he IoÌ„ spyes IoÌ„ behind him was before his eyes By day she graz'd abroad Sol vnder ground He hous'd her in vnworthy halter bound On leaues of Tress and bitter herbs she fed Poore soule the Earth not alwayes greene her bed And of the Torrent drinks With hands Vp-heau'd Shee thought to beg for pity how deceiu'd Who low'd when she began to make her mone And trembled at the voyce which was her owne Vnto the
arriues To chace the former times so flye persue At once each other and are euer new What was before is not what was not is All in a moment change from that to this See how the Night on Light extends her shades See how the Light the gloomy Night inuadâ—s Nor such Heauens hew when Mid-night crown's Repose As when bright Lucifer his taper showes Yet changing when the Harbinger of Day Th'inlightned World resignes to Phoebus sway His raised Shield earths shaddowes scarely fled Lookes ruddy and low sinking lookes as red Yet bright at Noone because that purer skie Doth farâ—e from Earth and her contagion flie Nor can Night-wandring Dian's wauering light Be euer equall or the same this night Lesse than the following if her hornes she fill If the contract her Circle greater still Doth not the image of our age appeare In the successiue quarters of the Yeare The Spring-tide tender sucking Infancie Resembling then the iuyâ—efull blade sprouts high Though tender weake yâ—t hope to Plough-men yeelds All things then flourish flowers the gaudy fields Wâ—â—h colours paint no virtue yet in leaues Then following Summer greater strength receiues A lusty Youth no age more strength acquires Moâ—â— fruitfull or more burning in desires Maturer Autumne heat of Youth alaid The sober meane twixt youth and age more staid And temperate in Summers waine repaires His reuerend temples sprinckled with gray haires Then comes old Winter void of all delight With trembling steps his head or bal'd or white So change our â—odies without rest or stay What we were yester-day not what to day Shall be to morâ—â—w Once alone of men The seeds and hope the wombe our mansion when Kind Nature shew'd her cunning not content That our vext bodies should be longer pent In mothers stetched entrailes forth-with bare Them from that prison to the open aire We strengthlesse lye when first of light possest Straight creepe vpon all foure much like a beast Then staggering with weake nerues stand by degrees And by some stay support our feeble knees Now lusty swiftly run Youth quickly spent And those our middle times incontinent We sinke in setting Age this last deuoures The former and dimolisheth their powres Old Milo wept when he his armes beheld Which late the strongest beast in strength excel'd Big as Alâ—ides brawnes in flaggie hide Now hanging by slake sinewes Helen cry'd When she beheld her wrinkles in her Glasse And asks her selfe why she twice rauisht was Still-eating Time and thou ô enuious Age All ruinate diminisht by the rage Of your deuouring teeth All that haue breath Consume and languish by a lingring death Nor can these Elements stand at a stay But by exchanging alter euery day Th' eternall world foure bodies comprehends Ingendring all The heauy Earth descends So Water clog'd with weight two light aspire Deprest by none pure Aire and purer Fire And though they haue their seuerall fites yet all Of these are made to these againe they fall Resolued Earth to Water rarifies To Aire extenuated Waters rise The Aire when it it selfe agiane refines To element all Fire extracted shines They in like order backe againe repaire The grosser Fire condenseth into Aire Aire into water Water thickning then Growes solid and conuerts to Earth againe None holds his owne for Nature euer ioyes In change and with new formes the old supplies In all the world not any perish quite But onely are in various habits dight For to begin to be what we before Were not is to be borne to dye no more Than ceasing to be such although the frame Be changeable the substance is the same For nothing long continues in one mold You Ages you to Siluer grew from Gold To Brasse from Siluer and to Yâ—'ne from Brasse Euen place oft such change of fortunes passe Where once was solid land Seas haue I'seene And solid land where once deepe Seas haue beene Shâ—ls far from Seas like quarries in the ground And anchors haue on mountaine tops beene found Torrents hue made a valley of a plaine High hils by delâ—ges â—oâ—ne to the Maine Deepe standing lakes suck't dry by thirsty sand And on late thirsty earth now lakes doe stand Here Nature in her charges manifold Sends forth new fountaines there shuts vp the old Streams with impetuous earth-quakes heretofore Hâ—ue broken forth or sunke and run no more So â—ycus swallowed by they yawning Earth Takes in an other world his second birth So Erasinus now conceales now yeelds His rising waters to Argolian fields And Mysus hating his first head and brayes Calcus nam'd else-where his streame displayes Coole Amasenus watering Sicily Now flowes now spring-lockt leaues his channell dry Men formerly drunke of Anigrus streames Not to be drunke if any thing but dreames The Poets tell since Centaures therein washt Their wounded limbs by Alcides arrowes gasht So Hypaâ—tis deriu'd from Sâ—ythian Hills Long sweet with bitter streames his channel fills Antissa Tyrus and Aegyptian Phare The flouds imbrac't yet now no Ilands are Th' old Colon knew Leucadia Continent Which now the labouring surges circumuent So Zancle once on Italie conâ—n'd Till interposing waues their bounds dis-ioyn'd If Bura and Helice Graecian townes You seeke behold the Sea their glory drownes Whose buildings and declined walls below Th' ambitious floud as yet the Sailers show A Hill by Pitthean Troezen mounts vncrown'd With syluan shades which once was leuell ground For furious winds a story to admire Pent in blinde cauernes strugling to expire And vainly seeking to inioy th'extent Of freer aire the prison wanting vent Th'vnpassable tuffe earth inflated so As when with swelling breath we bladders blow The tumor of the place remained still In time growne sollid like a lofty hill To speake a little more of many things Both heard and knowne New habits sundry Springs Now giue now take Horn'd Hammâ—ns Well at Noone Is cold hot at Sun-rise and setting Sun Wood put in bubling Athamas then fires When farthest from the Sun the Moone retires Ciconian streames congeale his guts to stone That thereof drinkes and what therein is throwne Crathis and Sybaris from your mountaines rold Colour the haire like Amber or pure gold Some fountaines of a more prodigious kind Not onely change the body but the mind Who hath not heard of obscene Salmacis Of th' AeTHiopian Lake who drinke of this Runne forth-with mad or if their wits they keepe Fall suddenly into a deadly sleepe Who at Clitoâ—iâ—â— Fountaine thirst remoue Loath wine and abstinent meere water loue Whether it by antipathie expell Desire or wine or as the Natiues toll 〈◊〉 hauing with his herbs and charmes Snatcht Proeâ—uâ— franticke daughters from the harmes Of entred â—â—ries their wit's physicke cast Into this spring infusing such distast With streames to these oppos'd Lyncestus flowes They 〈◊〉 as drunke who drinke too much of those A Lake in faire Arcadia stands of old Call'd Pheâ—â—us suspected as two fold Feare and forbeare to drinke thereof by night By night vnwholsome wholsome by
in the vse To purchase such a spoile Great Troy's Depopulator Atreus Heire Lest you should thinke we haue not borne a share In your mis-haps with axmed violence Inforc't them from me charged to dispence That heauenly gift vnto th' Argolian Hoft They scape by flight two to Euboea crost Two fled to Andros these the Souldier Persude and threaten if vnrender'd warre Feare nature now subdude hid sisters were By him resign'd forgiue a brothers feare Not Hector nor Aeneas then were by To guard his towne who so long guarded Troy About to binde their captiue armes in bands Reating to heauen their yet vnchained hands O father Bacchus helpe While thus they prai'd The Author of that gift presents his aid If such a losse may be accounted so Yet how they lost their shapes I could not know Not yet can tell It selfe the sâ—quell proues Conuerted to thy Wiues white-feather'd Doues With such discourse they entertaine the feast That to'ne away dispose themselues to rest With day they rose the Oracle exquiâ—e Who bids them to their ancient Nurse retire And kinred â— shores With them the King conuents And their departure with rich gifts presents A sâ—epter to Anchises giues a braue Rich cloke a quiuer t' Ascanius gaue A figur'd goblet on Aeneas prest By Theban Theâ—ses sent him once his Guest Mylcan Alcon made what Therses sent And caru'd thereon this ample argument A City with seuen gates of equall grace These painly character the name and place Before it exequies tombs piles bright fires Dames with spred haire bare brests and torne atâ—res Decipher mourning Nymphs appeare to weepe For their dry Springs sap-fearing cankers creepe On naked trees Goats licke the foodlesse earth In midst of Thebâ—s Orion's female birth Vndâ—nted stand This proffers to the sword Her manly brest her hands her death afford For common safety All the people mourne And with due funerals their bodies burne Yâ—t lest the world should such a linage lose Two youths out of their virgin ashes rose Theâ—e Oâ—phans wandring Fame Coronae calls Who celebrate them mothers funerals The antâ—â—ke brasse with fulgent figures shin'd Whose bâ—im neat wreaths of guilt Acamhus bind Nor were the Troian gifts of lesse expence Who gaue a Censor for sweet frankincense An ample Chalice of a curious mold With these a crowne that shone with gemmes and gold In that the Tuâ—rans sprung from Teuâ—ers blood They saile to Creet but Ioue their stay with-stood I â—auing those hundred Cities now they stand For wisht Ausonia's destinated strand Tost by rough Winter and the wrath of seas They anchor at the faith losse Strophâ—des Thence frighted by Aello saile away By steepe Dulichium stony Ithaca Samus high Neritus clasp'd by the Maine All subâ—ect to the slye Vlysses raigne Then 〈◊〉 Ambracia touch the strife and grudge Of angrâ— Gods the image of the Iudge Behold them conuerted into stone Now to Aâ—iacan Apollo knowne Then the â—odoncan vocall Oke they view Chaonia 〈◊〉 Molâ—ssus children flew With aidfull feathers from the impious flame Next to Phaeacia rich in hort-yards came Then to Epirus at Buthrotos staid Whose scepter now the Phrygian Prophet swaid And see resembled Troy Fore-told of all By Priam's Helenus that would befall They reach Sicania This three tongues extends Into circumfluent Seas Pachynus bends To showrie Auster flowrie Zâ—phyr blowes On Lilybaeums browes Pelorus showes His Cliffs to Boreas and the Sea expel'd Arcturus Vnder this their course they held With stretching ores and fauour'd by the tide That night in Zâ—ncle's crooked harbour ride The right-side dangerous Sâ—ylla turbulent Charybdis keepes the left on ruine bent She belches swallowed ships from her profound Her sable wombe dogs euer rau'ning round Yet beares a Virgins face if all be true That Poets sing she was a Virgin too By many sought as many she despis'd To Nymphs of seas of sea-nymphs highly priz'd She beares her vizetâ— and to them discouers The history of her deluded louers To whom thus Galatea sighing said While Scylla comb'd her haire You louely Maid Are lou'd of generous-minded men whom you With safety may refuse as now you doe But I great Nereus and blue Doris Seed Great in so many sisters of that breed By shunning of the Cyclops loue prouok't A sad reuenge Here teares her vtterance chok't These cleansed by the marble-finger'd maid Who hauing comforted the Goddesse said Relate â— most ador'd nor from me keepe The wretched cause that makes a Goddesse weepe For I am faithfull Nereis consents And thus her griefe to Cratis daughter vents The Nymph Siwethis bore a louely Boy To Faunus Acis cal'd to them a ioy To 〈◊〉 a greater For the sweetly-Faire To me an innocent affection bare His blooming youth twice told eight Natals crowne And signe his cheekes with scarce appearing downe As I the gentle boy so Polypheme My loue persu'd vnlike a like extreme Whether my loue to Acis or my hate To him were more I hardly can relate Both infinite ô Venas what a powre Hath thy command He still austere and sowre A terror to the woods from whom no guest With life escapes accustomed to feast On humane flesh who all the Gods aboue With them Olympus scorn'd now stoops to loue Forgetfull of his flocks and caues a fire Feeds in his brest conuerts into desire His feature now intends now bends his care To please with rakes he combes his stubborne haire His bristles barbes with seithes and by the brook's Vnsolid mirror calmes his dreadfull lookes His thiâ—â— of bloud and loue of slaughter cease Lesse cruell now ships come and goe in peace When Teâ—â—â—us came from Sicilian Seas Auguriousâ— clemus Euryâ—â—ides And said to Polypheme thy browes large sight Shall by Vlysses be depriu'd of light O foole he laughing said thou tell'st a lye A female hath already stolne that eye Thus flouts the Prophets true prediction And with extended paces stalks vpon The burdned shore or weary from the waue Bet beach retireth to his gloomy caue A promontory thrusts into the maine Whose cliffie sides the breaking Seas restraine The Cyclop this ascends whose fleecy flocke Vnforced follow Seated on a rocke His staffe a well-growne Pine before him cast Sufficient for a yard-supporting mast He blowes his hundred reeds whose squeaking fils The far-resounding Seas and ecchoing hils Hid in a hollow rocke and laid along By Acis side I heard him sing this song O Galatea more than lilly-white More fresh than flowrie meads than glasse more bright Higher than Alder-trees than kids more blithe Smoother than shels whereon the surges driue More wisht than winters Sun or Summers aire More sweet than grapes than apples far more rare Cleerer than Ice more seemly than tall Planes Softer than tender curds or downe of Swans More faire if fixt than Gardens by the fall Of springs inchac't Though thus thou art withall More fierce than saluage bulls who know no yoke Then waues more giddy harder than the oke Than vines or willow twigs more
day-light So other lakes and streames haue other powre Ortygia sloted once fixt at this houre Once Argo fear'd the iustling Cyenes Which rooted now resist both winds and seas Nor Aeâ—na burning with imbowel'd fire Shall euer or did alwayes flames expire For whether Tellus be an Animall Haue lungs and mouthes that smoking flames exhale Her organs alter when her motions close These yawning passages and open those Or whether winds in caues impris'ned raue Iustling the stones and minerals which haue The seed of fire inkindled with their rage They then extinguish when the winds asswage Or if Bitumen doe the fire prouoke Or sulpher burning with more subtill smoke When Earth that food and oylie nourishment With drawes the matter by long feeding spent The hungry fire of sustenance beâ—eft Ill-brooking famine leaues by being left In Hyperboâ—ean Pallene liue A People if to Fame we credit giue Who diuing three times thrice in Tritons lake Of Fowle the feathers and the figure take The like they say the the Scythâ—â—n Witches doe With magicke oyles incredible though true If we may trust to triall see you not Small creatures of corrupted flesh begot Bury your slaughtred Steere a thing in vse And his corrupted bowels will produce Flowre-sucking-Bees who like their parent slaine Loue labour fields and toile in hope of gaine Hornets from buried horses take their birth Breake off the Crabs bent clawes and in the earth Bury the rest a Scorpion without faile From thence will creepe and menace with his taile The Catterpillers who their cop-webs weaue On tender leafes as Hindes from proofe receiue Conuert to poysnous Butterflies in time Greene Frogs ingendred by the seed of slime First without feet then leg assume now strong And apt to swimme their hinder parts more long Then are their former fram'd to skip add iumpe The Beares deformed birth is but a lumpe Of liuing flesh when lâ—â—ked by the Old It takes a forme agreeing with the mold Who sees the Young of honie-bearing Bees In their sexangular inelosure sees Their bodies limb-lesse these vnformed things In time put forth their feet and after wings The starre-imbellâ—sht Fowle which Iuno loues Iones Armour-beaâ—er Cytharea's Doues And birds of euery kinde did we not know Them hatch't of egges who would coniecture so Some thinke the pith of dead men Snakes becomes When their back-bones corrupt in hollow tombs Yet these from others doe deriue their birth One onely Fâ—wle there is in all the Earth Call'd by th' Assyrian Phoenix who the waine Of age râ—paires and sâ—wes her selfe againe No 〈◊〉 on graine noâ— heâ—â—s but on the gumme Oâ— Frankinâ—ense and mycre Amomum Now when her life â—iue ages hath fulfil'd A neither 〈◊〉 beake and tallons build Vpon the 〈◊〉 of a trembling Palme This strewâ—d with Caâ—â—ia Spicknard precious Balme Bruz'd Cinamon and Myrrh thereon she bends Her body and her age in odors ends This breeding Corp's a little Phoenix beares Which is it selfe to liue as many yeeres Growne strong that load now able to transferre Her Cradle and her parents sepulcher Deuoutly carries to Hyperions towne And on his flamie Altar layes it downe If these be wonderfull admire like strange Hyaena's who their sex so often change Those foodlesse creatures fed by ayre alone Who euery colour which they touch put on The Lynx first brought from conquered India By vine bound Bacchus his hot pisse they say Congeales to stone So Corall which below The water is a limber weed doth grow Stone-hard when toucht by aire But Day will end And Phoebus panting Steeds to Seas descend Before my scant oration could persue All sorts of shapes that change their old for new For this we see in all is generall Some Nations gather strength and others fall Troy rich and powrefull which so proudly stood That could for ten yeeres spend such streames of blood For buildings onely her old ruines showes For riches tombs which slaughtred Sires inclose Sparta Mycenae were of Greece the flowres So Cecrop's City and Amphion's towres Now glorious Sparta lies vpon the ground Lofty Mycenae hardly to be found Of OEdipus his Thebes what now remaines Or of Pandion's Athens but their names Now Fame reports that Rome by Dardans Sons Begins to rise where yellow Tybris runs From fountfull Appenines and there the great Foundation of so great a fabricke seat This therefore shall by changing propagate And giue the World a Head Of such a fate The Prophets haue diuin'd And this of old As I remember Priam's Helen told To sad Aeneas of all hope forlorne In sinking Troy's eclipse O Goddesse-borne If our Appollo can presage at all Troy thou in safety shall not wholly fall Both fire and sword shall giue thy vertue way Flying with thee thou Ilium shalt conuay Vntill thou finde a Land as yet vnknowne To Troy and thee more friendly than thy owne A City built by Phrygians I fore-see So great none euer was is or shall bee Others shall make it great but He whose birth Springs from â—â—lus Soueraigne of the Earth He hauing rul'd the World shall then ascend Aethereall thrones and Heauen shall be his End This I remember with propheticke tongue Sage Helen to diuine Aeneas sung We ioy to see our kindreds City grow The Phrygians happy in their Ouer-throw But lest our heedlesse Steeds too far should range From their proposed course All suffer change The heauens themselues what vnder them is found We of the World a part since we as well Haue Soules as Bodies which in beasts may dwell To those which may our parents Soules inuest Our brothers dearest friends or men at least Let vs both safety and respect afford Nor heape their bowels on Thyestes boord How ill â—ur'd to shed the bloud of man How wickedly is he pâ—epar'd who can Asunder cut the throats of calues and heares The bellowing â—reeder with relentlesse eates Or silly kids which like poore infants cry Sticke with his knife or his voracitie Feed with the fowle he fed ô to what ill Are they not prone who are so bent to kill Let Oxen till the ground and die with age Let Sheepe defend thee from the winters rage Goats bring their vdders to thy paile Away With nets grâ—ns snares and arts that doe betray Deceiue not birds with lime nor Deere inclose With terrors nor thy baits to fish expose The hurtfull kill yet only kill nor eat Defiling flesh but feed on fitter meat With other and the like Philosophy Instructed Nâ—â—ma now return'd was by Th'intreating Latâ—neâ— crown'd Taught by his Bride The Nymph Aegeria by the Muses guide Religion institutes a People rude And prone to warre with lawes and peace imbu'd His raigne and age resign'd to funerall Plebeians Roman Danies Patricians all For Numa mouâ—ne His wife the Citie fled Hid in Aricia's Vale the ground her bed The woods her â—hroud disturbes with grones and cries Orestean Diana's sacrifice How oft the Nymphs who haunt that Groue and Lake Reprou'd her teares and words of
THE MINDE OF THE FRONTISPEECE And Argument of this WORKE FIre Aire Earth Water all the Opposites That throue in 〈◊〉 powrefull 〈◊〉 vnites And from their Discord drew this Harmonie That smiles in 〈◊〉 who with rauisht eye Affects his owne-made â—eauties But our Will 〈◊〉 and â—owâ—es â—raserble the skill Of â—allas orders who the Mind attires With all Heroâ—â—â— Vertues â— This aspires 〈◊〉 same and 〈◊〉 by her noble Guide Eternized and well-nigh Deifi'd But who forsake that faire Intelligence To follow Passion and voluptuous Sense That shun the Path and â—oyles of Hercules Such charm'd by 〈◊〉 luxurie and case 〈◊〉 deforme 'twixt whom so great an ods That these are held for Beasts and those for Gods PHOâ—BVS APOLLO sâ—red Poesie Thus 〈…〉 for in the anciâ—nt Fables he The 〈…〉 all Pâ—â—losophie 〈…〉 sâ—me appeare 〈…〉 teach vs how to beare 〈…〉 loy Griefe Hope and Feaâ—e These 〈…〉 hose excite These 〈…〉 those from Vice affright All 〈…〉 with Delight The 〈…〉 and those that 〈◊〉 〈…〉 not by his Compasse saâ—le OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS Englished by G S London Printed by Robert Young are to be sold by J. Grismond 1628 AD Aâ—HEâ—A VIRTVS EXâ—LIS ORâ—â— DOCVITQVAE AMORE 〈◊〉 ONTUR CUNCTA AFFIGIT HVMO DIVINAE PARTâ—VLAM AVâ—â—E To the most High Mightie Prince CHARLES King of Great Britaine France and IRELAND SIR YOur Gracious acceptance of the first fruites of my Trauels when You were our Hope as now our Happinesse hath actuaâ—ea both Will and Power to the finishing of this Peece being limn'd by that vnperfect light which was snatcht from the howers of night and repose For the day was not mine but dedicated to the seruice of your Great Father and youâ— selfe which had it proued as fortunate as faithfull in me and others more worthy we had hoped ere many reares had turned about to haue presented You with a rich and wel-peopled Kingdome from whence now with my selfe I onely bring this Composure Inter victrices Hederam tibi serpere Laurus It needeth more than a single denization being a double Stranger Sprung from the stocke of the ancient Romanes but bred in the New-world of the rudenesse whereof it cannot but participate especially hauing Warâ—es and Tumults to bring it to light in stead of the Muses But how euer vnperfect Your â—auour is able to supply and to make it worthy of life if you iudge it not vnworthy of your Royall Patronage Long may you liue to be as you are the Delight and Glorie of your People and slowly yet surely exchange your mortall Diadem for an immortall So wishes Your Maiesties most humble Seruant GEORGE SANDYS THE LIFE OF OVID. PVBLIVS OVIDIVS NASO descended of the ancient Family of the Nasones who had preserued the dignitie of Roman Knights from the first originall of that Order was borne at Sulmo a Citie of the Peligni on the 14. of the Calends of April in the Consul-ships of Hircius and Pansa both slaine at the battell of Mutina against Marcus Antonius While yet a boy his quicke wit and ready apprehension gaue his parents an assurance of a future excellencie in so much as his father Lucius sent him to Rome together with his brother a yeere elder than he and borne on the same day to bee instructed by Plotius Grippus that Art might perfect the accomplishments of nature In his first of youth he was much addicted vnto poetrie wherein hee had 〈…〉 grace and naturall facilitie But coâ—tinually reproued by his father for following so vnprofitable a 〈◊〉 with an ill will he forsooke the pleasant walkes of the Muses to trauel in the rugged paths of the Law vnder 〈…〉 and Porcius Lairo of whose â—â—â—quence and learning he was a great Admirer Neither attained he theâ— in to a vulgar commendation being 〈…〉 by Marcus Annaeus Seneâ—a among the principall Orators of those times His prose was no other than dissolued verse his speech wittie briefe and powerful in perswasion Hauing past through diuers offices of Iudicature and now readie to assume the habit of a Senator his elder brother and father being dead impatient of toyle and the clamours of litigious Assemblies hee retired himselfe from all publick affaires to affected vacancie and his former abandoned studies Yet such was the mutuall affection betweene him and Varro that he accepted of Command serued vnder him in the wars of Asia from whence he returned by Athens where he made his aboad vntill hee had attained to the perfection of that language Hee was of a meane stature slender of body spare of diet and it not too amorous euery way temperate He drunk no wine but what was much alayed with water An Abhorrer of vnnaturall Lusts from which it should seem that age was not innocent neat in apparell of a free affable and courtly behauiour whereby he acquired the friendship of many such as were great in learning nobilitie among whom not a few of Consular dignitie and so honoured by diuers that they wore his picture in rings cut in precious stones A great Admirer and as much admired of the excellent Poets of those times with whom hee was most familiar and intimate Being perswaded by some of them to leaue out three verses of those many which hee had written hee gaue his consent so that of all he might except three only whereupon they priuately writ those which they would haue him abolish and he on the other side those which he excepted when both their papers being showne presented the same verses the first and second recorded by Pedo Albinovanus who was one of the arbiters Semi bouemque virum semi â—irumque bouem Sedg lidum Borean egelidumque NotuÌ„ whereby it appeareth that his admirable wit did not want an answerable iudgement in suppressing the libertie of his verse had he not affected it An ample patrimonie he had in the territories of Sulmo with a house and a temple in the citie where now stands the Church of Sancta Maria de Tumba and where now stands the Church of Sancta Maria de Consolatione he had an other in Rome not farre from the Capitoll with pleasant Hort-yards betweene the wayes of Flaminia and Claudia wherein hee was accustomed to recreate himselfe with his Muses Hee had had three wiues whereof the first being giuen him in his youth as neither worthie nor profitable soone after according to the custome of the Romans he diuorced nor liu'd he long with the second although nobly borne and of behauiour inculpable The chastitie and beauty of the third he often extolleth whom hee instructed in poetrie and to his death entirely affected Neither was her affection inferior to his liuing all the time of his banishment like a sorrowfull widow and continuing to the end exemplarie faithfull But in this euery-way happy condition when his age required ease and now about to imploy his beloued vacancie in the reniew and polishing of his former labours he was banished or rather conâ—ined to Tomos a citie of
â—right Constellations and fair-figured Gods â—n heauenly Mansions fixt their blest abodes The glittering Fishes to the Flouds repayre The Beasts to Earth the Birds resort to Ayre The nobler Creature with a minde possest Was wanting yet that should command the rest That Maker the best World's originall Either 〈◊〉 framâ—d of see Coelestiall Or Earth which late he did from Heauen diuide Some sacred seeds retayn'd to Heauen ally'd Which with the liuing streame Prometheus mixt And in that artificiall structure fixt The forme of all th' all-ruling Deities And where as others see with downe-cast eyes He with a loftie looke did Manâ—indue And bade him Heauens transcendent glories view So that rude Clay which had no forme afore Thus chang'd of Man the vnknowne figure bore The Golden Age was first which vncompeld And without rule in Faith and Truth exceld As then there was nor punishment nor feare Nor threatning Lawes in brasse prescribed were Nor suppliant crouching prisâ—ners shooke to see Their â—â—grie Iudge but all was safe and free To visit other Worlds no wounded Pine Did yet from Hills to faithlesse Seas decline Then vnambitious Mortals knew no more But their owne Countrie 's Nature-bounded shore Nor Swords nor Armes were yet no trenches round Besieged Iownes nor striâ—â—efull Trumpets sound The Souldier of no vâ—e In firme content And harmelesse ease their happy dayes were spent The yet-free 〈◊〉 did of her owne accord Vntoinâ—â— wit vploughs all sorts of fruit afford Content with Natures vn-enforced food They gather Wildings Strawb'ries of the Wood â—owre Cornels what vpon the Bramble growes And Acorns which Ioue's spreading Oke bestowes â—Twas alwayes Spring warme Zophyrus sweetly blew On smiling Flowres which without setting grew â—orth-with the Earth corne vnmanured beares And euery yeere renewes her golden Eares With Milke and Nectar were the Riuers fill'd And yellow Hony from greene Elms distill'd But after Saturne was throwne downe to Hell â—ue rul'd and then the Siluer Age befell â—ore base than Gold and yet than Brasse more pure â—ue chang'd the Spring which alwayes did indure â—o Winter Summer Autumne hot and cold â—he shortned Springs the yeaâ—'s fourth-part vphold â—hen first the glowing Ayre with feruor burn'd â—he Raine to ycicles by bleake winds turn'd â—en houses built late hous'd in Caues profound 〈◊〉 plashed Bowres and Sheds with Oâ—iers bound â—hen first was Corne into long furrowes throwne â—nd Oxen vnder heauâ—e yokes did 〈◊〉 Next vnto this succeeds the Brazen Age â—orse natur'd prompt to horridâ—warre â—â—â—rage 〈◊〉 yet nor wicked Stubborne Yr'â— the 〈◊〉 â—hen blushlesse Crimes which all degrees suâ—past â—he World surround Shame Truth and Faith depart â—â—aud enters ignorant in no bad Art â—â—rce Treason and the wicked Loue of gayn â—heir sailes those winds which yet they knew not strayn â—nd ships which long on loftâ—â— Mountaynes stood â—hen plow'd th' vnpractiz'd bosome of the Flood The Ground as common earst as Light or Ayre By limit-giuing Geometric they share Nor with rich Earth's iust nourishments content For treasure they her secret entrailes rent The powerfull Euill which all power inuades By her well hid and wrapt in Stygian shades Curst Steel more cursed Gold she now forth brought And bloody-handed Warre who with both fought All liue by spoile The Host his Guest betrayes Sons Father-in-lawes 'twixt Brethren loue decayes Wiues husbands husbands wiues attempt to kill And cruell Step-mothers pale poysons fill The Sonne his Fathers hastie death desires Foild Pietie trod vnder foot expires Astraa last of all the heauenly birth Affrighted leaues the blood-defiled Earth And that the Heauens their safetie might suspect The Giants now coelestiall Thrones affect Who to the skies congested Mountaines reare Then Ioue with thunder did Olympus teare Steep Pelion from vnder Ossa throwne With their owne waight their monstrous bodies groâ—e And with her Childrens blood the Earth imbru'd Which shee scarce thoroughly cold with life iudu'd And gaue thereto t'vphold her Stocke the face And forme of Man a God-contemning Race Greedie of slaughter not to be withstood Such as well shews that they were borne of blood Which when from Heauen Saturnius did behold He sigh 't reuoluing what was yet vntold Of fell Lycaoâ—'s late ihhumane feast Iust anger worthy Ioue inflam'd his breast A Synod call'd the summoned appeare There is a way well seene when skies be cleare Tho Milkie nam'd by this the Gods resort Vnto th' Almightie Thunderers high Court With euer-open dores on either hand Of nobler Deities the Houses stand The Vulgar dwell disperst the Chiefe and Great In front of all their shining Mansions seat This glorious Roofe I would not doubt to call Had I but boldnes lent me Heauen 's White-hall All set on Marble seats He leaning on His Iuory Scepter in a higher Throne Did twice or thrice his dreadfull Tresses shake The Earth the Sea the Stars though fixed quake Then thus inflam'd with indignation spake I was not more perplext in that sad Time For this Worlds Monarchie when bold to clime The Serpent-footed Giants durst inuade And would on Heauen their hundred-hands haue laid Though fierce the Foe yet did that Warre depend But of one Body and had soone an end Now all the race of man I must confound Where-euer Nerâ—us walks his wauy Round And this I vow by those infernall Floods Which slowly glide through silent Stygian woods All cures first sought such parts as health reiect Must be cut off least they the sound infect Our Demi-gods Nymphs Syluans Satyres Faunes Who haunt cleare Springs high Mountayns Woods and Lawnes On whom since yet we please not to bestow Coelestiall dwellings must subsist below Thinke you you Gods they can in safetie rest When me of lightning and of you possest Who both at our Imperiall pleasure sway The sterne Lycaon practiz'd to betray All bluster and in rage the wretch demand So when bold Treason sought with impious hand By Caesar's bloud t'out-race the Roman name Man-kind and all the World 's affrighted Frame Astonisht at so great a ruine shooke Nor thine for Thee lesse thought Augustus tooke Than they for Ioue He when he had supprest Their murmur thus proceeded to the rest He hath his punishment remit that care The manner how I will in briefe declare The Times accus'd but as I hop't bely'd To trie I downe from steep Olympus slide A God transform'd like one of humane birth I wandred through the many-peopl'd Earth 'T were long to tell what crimes of euery sort Swarm'd in all parts the truth exceeds report Now past den-dreadfull Maenalus confines Cylâ—ene cold Lycaeus clad with Pines There where th' Arcadians dwell when Doubtfull-light Drew on the deawy Charriot of the Night I entred his vnhospitable Court The better Vulgar to their pray'rs resort When I by signes had showne a Gods repayr Lycaâ—n first derides their zealous pray'r Then said We straight the vndoubted truth will trie Whether he be immortall or may die In dead of night when all was whist and still Me in
my sleepe he purposeth to kill Nor with so foule an enterprize content An Hostage murders from Moloâ—sus sent Part of his seuer'd scarce-dead lims he boyles An other part on hissing Embers broyles This set before me I the house ore-turn'd With vengefull flames which round about him burn'd He frighted to the silent Desart flies There howles and speech with lost indeuour â—ries His selfe-like iawes still grin more than for food He slaughters beasts and yet delights in bloud His armes to thighs his clothes to bristles chang'd A Wolfe not much from his first forme estrang'd So horie hair'd his lookes so full of rape So fiery ey'd so terrible his shape One house that fate which all deserue sustaines For through the World the fierce Eriâ—â—ys raignes You 'ld thinke they had conspir'd to sinnâ— But all Shall swiftly by deserued vengeance fall Ioue's words apart approue and his intent Exasperate the rest giue their consent Yet all for Mans destruction grieu'd appeare And aske what forme the widowed Earth shall beare Who shall with odours their cold Altars feast Must Earth be onely by wilde beasts possess The King of Gods re-comforts their despaire And biddeth them impose on him that care Who promis'd by a strange originall Of better people to supply their fall And now about to let his lightning flie He fear'd lest so much flame should catch the skie And burne heauens Axeltree Besides by doome Of certaine Eaâ—e he knew the time shoul'd come When Sea Earth rauisht Heauen the curioâ—s Frames Of this World's masse should shrinke in purging flame He therefore those Cyclopean darts reiects And different-natur'd punishments elects To open all the Flood-gates of the skie And Man by inundation to destroy Rough Boreas in Aeollan prison laid And those drie blasts which gathered Clouds inuade Out flyes the South with dropping wings who shrouds His terrible aspect in pitchy clouds His white hair streams his swolne Beard big with showres Mists bind his brows Rain from his bosom poures As with his hands the hanging clouds he crusht They roar'd and downe in showres together rusht All-colour'd Iris Iuno's messenger To weeping Clouds doth nourishment confer The Corne is lodg'd the Husband-men despaire Their long yeares labour lost with all their care Ioue not content with his aethereall rages His Brother 's auxiliaric flouds ingages The Streames conuented 'T is too late to vse Much speech said Neptune all your powres effuse Your dores vnbarre remoue what-ere restraines Your liberall Waues and giue them the full raynes Thus charged they returne their Springs vnfold And to the Sea with head-long furie rol'd He with his Trident strikes the Earth Shee shakes And way for Water by her motion makes Through open fields now rush the spreading Floods And hurry with them Cattell People Woods Houses and Temples with their Gods inclos'd What such a force vn-ouerthrowne oppos'd The higher-swelling Water quite deuoures Which hides the aspiring tops of swallowed towres Now Land and Sea no different visage bore For all was Sea nor had the Sea a shore He takes a Hill He in a Boat deplores And where He lately plow'd now strikes his Oares O're Corne o're drowned Villages He sailes He from high Elmes intangled Fishes hales In Fields they anchor cast as Chance did guide And Ships the vnder-lying Vineyards hide Where Mountayne-louing Goats did lately graze The Sea-calfe now his vgly body layes Groues Cities Temples couer'd by the Deep The Nymphs admire in woods the Delphins keep And chace about the boughs the Wolfe doth swim Amongst the Sheepe the Lyon now not grim And Tygres tread the Waues Swift feet no more Auaile the Hart nor wounding tuskes the Bore The wandring Birds hid Earth long sought in vaine With weary wings descend into the Mayne Licentious Seas o're drowned Hills now fret And vnknowne surges Ayerie Mountaynes beat The Waues the greater part deuoure the rest Death with long-wanted sustenance opprest The Land of Phocis fruitfull when a Land Diuides Aâ—nia from th' Actaean strand But now a part of the insulting Mayne Of sudden-swelling waters a vast Playne There his two heads Parnassus doth extend To touched Stars whose tops the Clouds transcend On this Deucalion's little Boat was throwne With him his Wife the rest all ouer-flowne Corycian Nymphs and Hill-gods he adores And Themis then oraculous implores None was there better none more iust than Hee And none more reuerenc't the Gods than Shee Ioue when he saw that all a Lake was growne And of so many thousand men but one One of so many thousand women left Both guiltlesse pious both of all bereft The clouds now chac't by Boreas from him throwes And Earth to Heauen Heauen vnto Earth he showes Nor Seas persist to rage their awfull Guide The wilde waues calmes his Trident laid aside And calls blew Triton riding on the Deep Whoso mantle Nature did in purple steep And bids him his lowd-sounding shell inspire And giue the Flouds a signall to retire He his wreath'd trumpet takes as giuen in charge That from the turning bottom growes more large To which when he giues breath 't is heard by all From farre-vprising Phoebus to his Fall When this the watery Deitie had set To his large mouth and sounded a retreat All Flouds it heard that Earth or Ocean knew And all the Flouds that heard the same with-drew Seas now haue shores full streames their channels keep They sink and hils aboue the waters peep Earth re-ascends as waues decrease so grow The formes of things and late-hid figures show And after a long day the trees extend Their bared tops with mud their branches bend The World 's restor'd Which when in such a state So deadly silent and so desolate Deucalion saw with teares which might haue made An other Floud he thus to Pyrrha said O Sister O my Wife the poore Remaines Of all thy Sex which all in one containes Whom humane Nature one paternall Line Then one chaste Bed and now like dangers ioyne Of what the Sunne beholds from East to West We two are all the Sea intombs the rest Nor yet can we of life be confident The threatning clowds strange terrors still present O what a heart would'st thou haue had if Fate Had ta'ne me from thee and prolong'd thy date So wilde a feare such sorrowes so forlorne And comfortlesse how couldest thou haue borne If Seas had suckt thee in I would haue follow'd My Wife in death and Sea should me haue swallow'd O would I could my Father's cunning vse And soules into well-modul'd Clay infuse Now all our mortall Race we two contayne And but a pattern of Man-kind remaine This said both wept both pray'rs to heauen addresse And seeke the Oracle in their distresse Forth-with descending to Cephisus Floud Which in known banks now ran though thick with mud They on their heads and garments water throw And to the Temple of the Goddesse goe At that time all defil'd with mosse and mire The vnfrequented Altar without fire Then
Man Her Iuno made a Beare Shee and her son Aduanced starres that still the Ocean shun Coronis now a Crowe sties Neptune's fright Nictiminè is made the Bird of Night The too-officious Rauen late so fayre Is plum'd with black Ocyroë growes a Mare Phoebus a Heardsman Mercury twice such Who turnes betraying Battus into Tuch. Enuious A glauros to a Statue full Of her minde's spots Loue Ioue conuerts t' a 〈◊〉 SOl's loftie Palace on high Pillars rais'd Shone all with gold and stones that flame-like blaae ' The roofe of Iuory diuinely deckt The two-leau'd siluer-doores bright rayes proiect The workmanship more admiration crau'd For curious Musciber had there ingrau'd The Land-imbracing Sea the orbed Ground The arched Heauens Blew Gods the billowes crown'd Shape-changing Pâ—oteus Triton shrill the tall Big-brawn'd Aegeon mounted on a Whale Gray Doris and her daughters heauenly-faire Some sit on Rocks and drie their Sea-greene haire Some seeme vpon the dancing Waues to glide Others on bacâ—s of crooked â—ishes ride Amongst them all no two appeare the same Nor deâ—â—e more than sisters well became The Earth had saluage Beasts Men Cities Woods Nymphs Satyres rurall Gods and crystall Floods Aboue all these Heauen 's radiant image shines On both sides deckt with six refulgent Signes To this bold Phaëton made his ascent And to his doubted Father's presence bent Yet forc't to stand aloose for mortall sight Could not induret ' approach so pure a light Sol cloth'd in purple sits vpon a Throne Which cleerly with tralucent Emralds shone With equall-raigning Houres on either hand The Dayes the Moneths the Yeers the Ages stand The fragrant Spring with flowrie chaplet crown'd Wheat eares the browes of naked Summer bound Rich Aâ—â—â—â—mn smear'd with crusht Lyaeus blood New hâ—â—y-headed Winter quiuering stood Much daunted at these sacred nouelties The fear â—full Youth all-seeing Phoebus spies Who said What hither drew thee Phaeton Who art and woâ— thily my dearest Son He thus reply'd O thou refulgent t Light Who all the World teioyeest with thy sight O Father if allow'd to vse that name Nor Câ—ymens by thee disguise her shame Produce some signe that may my birth approue And from my thoughts these wretched doubts remoue He from his browes his shining rayes displac't And bidding him draw-neere his neck imbrac't By merit as by birth to thee is due That name said he and Clymene was true To cleere all doubts aske what thou wilt and take Thy granted wish Beare witnesse thou dark Lake The oath of Gods vnto our eyes vnknowne These words no sooner from his lips were flowne But he demands his Chariot and the sway Of his hot Steeds to guide the winged Day The God repents him of the oath he made And shaking his illustrious Tresses said Thy tongue hath made mine erre thy birth vnblest O would I could break promise this request I must confesse I onely would denie And yet disswade I may Thy death doth lie Within thy wish What 's so desir'd by thee Can neither with thy strength nor youth agree Too great intentions set thy thoughts on fire Thou mortall do'st no mortall thing desire Through ignorance affecting more than they Dare vndertake who in Olympus sway Though each himselfe approue except me none Is able to supply my burning Throne Not that dread Thunderer who rules aboue Can driue these wheeles and who more great than Ioue Steep is the first ascent which in the prime Of springing Day fresh Horses hardly clime At Noone through highest skies their course they beare Whence Sea and Land euen We behold with feare Then downe the Hill of Heauen they scoure amaine With desperate speed and need a steady reigne That Thetis in whose wauy bowres I lie Each euening dreads my down-fall from the skie Besides the Heauens are daily hurried round That 〈◊〉 the Statres to other motions bound Against this violence my way I force And counter-â—un their all 〈◊〉 bearing course My Charriot had can thy sraile strength ascend The obuious Poles and with their force contend No Gâ—oues no Cities fraught with Gods expect Nâ—â— maeble Fanes with wealthy offrings deckt Through saluage shapes and dangers lyes thy way Which couldst thou keep and by no error stray Betweene the Buls sharp horns yet must thou goe By him that draws the strong Aemonian bowe The deathfull Scorpion's far-out-bending clawes The shorter Crab's the roaring Lyon's iawes Nor easie is't those fiery Steeds to tame Who from their mouthes and nosthrils vomit flame They heated hardly of my rule admit But head-strong struggle with the hated bit Then lest my bountie which would saue should kill Beware and whil'st thou maist reforme thy will A signe thou crau'st that might confirme thee mine I by dehorting giue a certaine signe Approu'd a Father by Paternall feare Book on my looks and reade my sorrows there O would thou could'st descend into my brest And apprechend my vexed Soules vnrest And lastly all the wealthy World behold Of all that Heauen enrich rich seas infold Or on the pregnant-bosom'd Earth remayne Aske what thou wilt and no repulse sustaine To this alone I giue a forc't consent No honour but a true-nam'd punishment Thou for a blessing beg'st the worst of harms Why hang'st thou on my neck with fawning arms Distrust not we haue sworn but aske and take What thou canst wish yet wiser wishes make In vaine dehorted he his promise claym'd With glory of so great a charge inflam'd The wilfull Youth then lingring Phoebus brought To his bright Chariot by Vulcan wrought The Beam and Axeltree of massie gold On Siluer Spokes the golden Fellies rol'd Rich Gems and Crysolites the Harnesse deckt Which Phoebus beames with equall light reflect Whil'st this admiring Phaëton suruayes The wakefull Morning from the East displayes Her purple doores and odoriferous bed With plentie of deaw-dropping Roses spred Cleare Luciser the flying Starres doth chace And after all the rest resignes his place When Titan saw the Dawning ruddy grew And how the Moon her siluer horns with-drew He bade the light-foot Houres without delay To ioyn his Steeds The Goddesses obay Who from their loftie Mangers forth-with led His fierie Horses with Ambrosou fed With sacred Oyle anoynted by his Syre Of vertue to repulse the rage of fire He crown's him with his Rayes Then thus began With doubled sighs which following woes fore-tan Let not thy Father still aduise in vaine Sonne spare the whip and strongly vse the raigne They of their owne accord will run too fast 'T is hard to moderate a flying haste Nor driue along the fiue directer Lines A broad and beaten path obliquely windes Contented with three Zones which doth auoid The distant Poles the track thy wheeles will guide Descend thou not too low nor mount too high That temperate warmth may heauen and earth supply A loftie course will heauen with fire infest A lowely earth the safer Meane is best Nor to the folded Snake thy Chariot guide Nor to the Altar on the
other side Betweene these driue The rest I leaue to Fate Who better proue than thou to thy owne state But while I speak behold the humid Night Beyond th' Hesperian Vales hath ta'ne her flight Aurora's splendor re-inthrone's the Day We are expected nor can longer stay Take vp the reignes or while thou maist refuse And noâ— my Chariot but my counsell vse While on a firme foundation thou dost stand Not yet postest of thy ill-wisht Command Let me the World with vsuall influence cheare And view that light which is vnsafe to beare The generous and gallant Phaâ—ton All courage vaut's into the blazing Throne Glad of the reignes nor doubtfull of his skill And giues his Father thanks against his will Meane while the Sunnes swift Horses hot PyroÌ„us Strong Aethon fiery Phlegoâ— bright Eâ—us Neighing alowd inflame the Ayre with heat And with their thundring hooues the barriers beat Which when hospitious Thetis once with-drew Who nothing of her Nephew's danger knew And gaue them scope they mount the ample skie And cut the obuious Clouds with feet that flie Who rays'd with plumed pinions leaue behinde The glowing East and slower Easterne-winde But Phoebus Horses could not feele that fraight The Chariot wanted the accustom'd waight And as vnballac't ships are rockt and tost With tumbling Waues and in their steerage lost So through the Ayre the lighter Chariot reeles And ioults as emptie vpon iumping Wheeles Which when they found the beaten path they shun And straggling out of all subiection run He knowes not how to turne nor knowes the way Or had he knowne yet would not they obay The cold now hot Triones sought in vaine To quench their heat in the forbidden Maine The Serpent next vnto the frozen Pole Benum'd and hurtlesse now began to rowle With actuall heat and long forgotten ire Resumes together with aethereall fire 'T is said that thou Boâ—tes ranst away Though slow though thee thy heauy Waine did stay But when from top of all the arched skye Vnhappy Phaâ—ton the Earth did eye Pale sudden feare vn-nerves his quaking thighs And in so great a light benights his eyes He wisht those Steeds vnknowne vnknown his birth His sute vngranted now he couets earth To be the sonne of scorned Merope Rapt as a ship vpon the high-wrought Sea By saluage tempests chac't which in despaire The Pilot leaueth to the Gods and Pray'r What should he doe much of the heauen behinde Much more before both measur'd in his minde The neuer-to-be entred West suruay's And then the East Lost in his owne amaze And ignorance he can nor hold the reignes Nor let them goe nor knowes his Horses names But stares on terror-striking skies possest By Beasts and Monsters with a panting brest There is a place in which the Scorpion bends His compast clawes who through two Signes extends Whom when the Youth beheld stewâ—d in black sweat Of poyson and with turn'd-vp taile to threat A mortall wound pale feare his senses strooke And slackned reignes let 's fall from hands that shooke They when they felt them on their backs to lie With vn-controlled error scoure the skie Through vnknowne ayrie Regions and tread The way which their disordred fury led Vp to the fixed Starres their course they take And stranger Spheres with smoking Chariot rake Now climeâ— now by sleep Praecipies descend And neere Earth their wandring race extend To 〈…〉 brother's Steeds beneath her owne The Moon admires the Clouds like Comets shone Inuading fire the vpper Earth assaylâ—d All chapt and conâ—d her pregnant iuyce exhal'd Trees seed there ruin Grasse gray-headed turns And 〈◊〉 by that which did produce it burns But this was nothing Cities with their Towres Realmes with their People funerall fire deuoures The Mountayns blaze High Athos but too high Fount-fruitfull Ida neuer till then drie Oete old â—molus and Cilician Taurus Muse-haunted Aâ—licon Oeà grian Aemus Loud Eetna roreth with her doubled fires Parnassus grones beneath two flaming spires Steep Othrys Cynthus Eryx Mimas glowe And Rhodope no longer cloath'd with snowe The Phrygian Dindyma in cinders mourns Cold Caucasus in frosty Scythia burns High Mycale diuine Cythaeron wast Pindus and Ossa once on Pelion cast More great Olympus which before did shine The ayrie Alpes and cloudie Appenine Then Phaeton beheld on euery side The World on fire nor could such heat abide And at his deadly-drie and gasping iawes The scalding Ayre as from a furnace drawes His Chariot redder than the fire it bore And being mortall could indure no more Such clowds of ashes and eiected coles Muffled in smoake which round about him rowles He knowes not where he is nor what succeeds Dragg'd at the pleasure of his frantick Steeds Men say the AEthiopians then grew swart Their blood exhaled to the outward part A sandie Desert Lybia then became Her full veins emptied by the thirsty flame With hair vnbound and torn the Nymphs distraught Bewaile their Springs Boeâ—tia Dirce sought Argos â—â—ymone Ephyre faire Pirene mist Nor streames securer are Great Tanais in boyling chanell fumes Tâ—uthr aman Cayeus with heat consumes Ismenus old â—eneus Erymanthus Yellow Lycorn â—as to be twice-burnt Zanthus Moeandâ—r running in a turning maze Mygdonian Melas and Euroâ—as blaze Euphrates late inuesting Babylon Orontes Phasis Ister Thermodon Ganges Alpâ—â—â—s Sperchius lately cold And Tagus flowing with dissolued gold The Swans that rauisht with their melodie 〈◊〉 banks now in Cayster frie. To farthest Earth affrighted Nilus fled And there conceal'd his yet vnfound-out head Whilâ—st his seuen dustie chanels streamlesse lie Ismarian Hebrus Strymon now are drie Hespâ—rian streames Rhene Rhodanus the Po And Scepter destinated Tyber glow Earth cracks to Hell the hated light descends And frighted Pluto with his Queene offends The Ocean shrinks and leaues a field of Sand Where new discouered Rocks and Mountaines stand That multiply the scattred Cyclades Late couer'd with the deepe and awfull Seas The Fishes to the bottom diue nor dare The sportlesse Dolphins tempt the sultrie Aire Long boylâ—d aliue the mâ—nstrous â—hocae die And on the brine with turn ' d-vp bellies lie With 〈◊〉 and her daughters Nerâ—us raues Who hide themselues beneath the scalding waues Thrice wrathfull Neptune his bold arme vp-held Aboue the Floods whom thrice the fire repel'd Yet foodfull Tellus with the Ocean bound Amidst the Seas and Fountaines now vnfound Selfe-hid within the womb where they were bred Neck-high aduanceth her all-bearing head Her parched fore-head shaddowed with her hand And shaking shooke what-euer on her stand Where-with a little shrunke into her brest Her sacred tongue her sorrowes thus exprest If such thy will and I deserue the same Thou chiefe of Gods why sleeps thy vengefull flame Be 't by Thy fire if I in fire must frie The Author lessens the calamitie But whilst I striue to vtter this I choke View my sing'd haire mine eyes half-out with smoke The sparkling cinders on my vissage throwne Is this my recompence the fauour showne For all my seruice for the
fruit I haue borne That thus I am with plough and harrowes torne Wrought-out through-out the yeare that man and beast Sustayne with food and you with incense feast But say I merit ruine and thy hate What hath thy brother done by equall Fate Elected to the wauy Monarchie That Seas should sinke and from thy presence flie If neither he nor I thy pittie moue Pitty thy Heauen Behold the Poles aboue At either end do fume and should they burne Thy habitation would to ruine turne Distressed Atlas shoulders shrinke with payne And scarce the glowing Axeltree sustayne If Sea if Earth if Heauen shall fall by fire Then all of vs to Chaos must retire O! quench these flames the miserable state Of things releeue afore it be too-late This said her voyce her parched tongue forsook Nor longer could the smothering vapors brook But down into her-selfe with-drew her head Neere to the infernall Cauerns of the Dead Ioue calls the Gods to witnesse and who lent The strayning Chariot should not he preuent That All would perish by one destinie Then mounts the highest Turret of the skie From thence inur'd to cloud the spacefull Earth And giue the flame fore-running thunder birth But there for wasted clouds he sought in vaine To shade or coole the scorched Earth with raine He thunders and with hands that connot erre Hurls lightning at the audacious Charioter Him strooke he from his seat breath from his brest Both at one blow and â—lames with flames supprest The frighted horses plunging seuerall wayes Breake all their tire to whom the bit obayes The reignes torne beame crackt spokes disperst abroad Scotcht Heauen was with the Chariots ruines strow'd But souleâ—lesse â—haâ—ton with blazing haire Shot heâ—-long through a long descent of Aire As when a falling starre glides through the skie Of seemes to fall to the deceiued eye Whom great Eridanus farre from his place Of birth receiu'd and quencht his flagrant face Whose Nymphs interr'd him in his Mothers womb And fixt this Epitaph vpon his Tomb Here Phaâ—ton lyes who though he could not guide His Fathers Steeds in high attempts he dy'd Phoebus with griefe with-drew One day did runne About the World they say with-out the Sunne Which flamie funerals illuminate That good deriued from a wretched Fate When 〈◊〉 had said what could be said In such a griefe halfe-soul'd in black array'd She fils the Earth she wanders through with grones First seeking his dead corps and then his bones Interr'd in forren Lands she found the last Her feeble-lims vpon the place shee cast And bath'd his name in teares and strictly prest The carued Marble with her bared brest Nor lesse th' Hâ—liades lament who shead From drowned eyes vaine offerings to the dead Who with remorselesse hands their bosoms teare And wayling call on him that cannot heare With ioyned horns foure Moons their orbs had fil'd Since they their customarie plaints vpheld When Phaâ—tâ—usa thinking to haue cast Her selfe on Earth cry'd ah my feet stick fast Lampâ—tie pressing to her sisters ayd As suddenly with fixed roots was stayd A third about t' haue torne her scattered haire Tore-off the leaues which on her crowne the bare This grieueth at her stiffe and senselesse thighes Shee that her stretcht-out arms in branches rise And whilâ—st with wonder they themselues behold The creeping barke their tender parts infold Then by degrees their bellies brests and all Except their mouthes which on their mother call What should shee doe but run to that to this As furie draue and snatch a parting kisse But yet not so suffiz'd shee stroue to take Them from themselues and down the branches brake From whence as from a wound pure blood did glide O pitty Mother still the wounded cry'd Nor 〈◊〉 vs in our Trees O! now adieu With that the barke their lips together drew From these cleere dropping trees tears yearly â—low They hardned by the Sunne to Amber grow Which on the moysture-giuing Riuer spent To Roman Ladies as his gift is sent Sthenâ—â—an Cygnus at that time was there A-kin to Phaëton in loue more neere He leauing State who in Liguria raign'd Which Cities great and populous contayn'd Fild with complaints the Riuer-chiding floods The sedgie banks and late augmented Woods At length his voice grew small white plume contends In whitenesse with his haire his neck ascends Red films vnite his toes armes turne to wings His mouth a flat blunt bill that sadly sings Becoâ—â—e a Swan remembring how vniust 〈◊〉 lightning was nor Heauen nor him will trust Whom Lakes and Ponds detesting fire delight And â—loâ—ds to Flames in nature opposite The wofull Father to dead Phaâ—ton Him 〈◊〉 neglecting all his lustre gon As when eclipst day light his owne life hates And 〈◊〉 griefe with anger aggrauates Retâ—â—ing to illuminate the Earth â—â—ough too much my toile born with the birth Of Time as restlesse without end regard Or honour recompenc't with this reward Some other now may on my Chariot sit If all of you confesse your selues vnfit Let â—oue ascend that he when he shall trie At length may lay his murdering thunder by Then will â—e finde that he who could not guide Those fire-hoou'd Steeds deseru'd not to haue dy'd The Gods stand round about him and request That endlesse Night might not the World inuest Euen â—oue excus'd his lightning and intreats Which like a King he intermixt with threats Displeased Phoebâ—â— hardly reconcil'd Takes-vp his Steeds as yet with horror wild On whom he vents his spleen and though they run He â—ashes and vpbraids them with his Son The Thunderer then walks the ample Round Of Heauens high walls to search if all were sound When finding nothing there by fire decay'd He Earth and humane industries suruay'd Arcadia chiefely exerciz'd his cares There Springs and streames that durst not run repaire's The Fields with grasse the Trees with leaues indue's And withered Woods with vanisht Shades renew's Oft passing to and fro a Nonacrine The God inflam'd her beautie more diuine 'T was not her Art to spin nor with much care And fine varietie to trick her haire But with a zone her looser garments bound And her rude tresses in a fillet wound Now armed with a Dart now with a Bowe A Squire of Phoebe's Moenalus did knowe None more in grace of all her Virgin throng But Fauorites in fouoâ— last not long The parted Day in equall balance held A Wood shee entred as yet neuer feld There from her shoulders shee her Quiuer takes Vnbends her Bowe and tyr'd with hunting makes The flowry-mantled Earth her happy bed And on her painted Quiuer layes her head When Ioue the Nymph without a guard did see In such a positure This stealth said hee My Wife shall neuer know or say shee did Who ah who would not for her sake be chid Diaâ—a's shape and habit them indew'd He said My Huntresse where hast thou pursew'd This morning's chace Shee rising made reply Harle Pow'r more great than Ioue though Ioue stood by
black now mourne And what the fire had left lay in one vrne Here ended she Some intermission made Leucothoê her sisters silent said This Sunne who all directeth with his light Weake Loue hath tam'd his loues we now recite He first discouer'd the adulterie Of Mars and Venus nothing scapes his eye And in displeasure told to Iuno's sonne Their secret stealths and where the deed was done His spirits faint his hands could not sustaine The worke in hand Forthwith he forg'd a chaine With nets of brasse that might the eye deceaue Lesse curious far the webs which Spiders weâ—uc Made pliant to each touch and apt to close This he about the guiltie bed bestowes No sooner these Adulterer's were met Than caught in his so strangely forged net Who strugling in compeld imbracements lay The Iuory doores then Vulcan doth desplay And calls the Gods The shamefully lay bound Yet one a wanton wisht to be so found The heauenly dwellers laugh This tale was told Through all the Round and mirth did long vphold Venus incenst on him who this disclos'd A memorable punishment impos'd And he of late so tyrannous to Loue Loue 's tyrannie in iust exchange doth proue Hyperion's sonne what boots thy pearcing sight Thy feature colour or thy radiant light For thou who earth inflamest with thy fires Art now thy selfe inflam'd with new desires Thy melting eyes alone Leucothoê view And giue to her what to the World is dew Now in the East thou hastnest thy vp-rise Now slowly sett'st euen loth to leaue the skyes And while that Obiect thus exacts thy stay Thou addest houres vnto the Winters day Oft in thy face thy mindes disease appeares Affrighting all the darkned World with feares Not Cynchia's interposed Orbe doth moue These pale aspects this colour springs from loue Shee all thy thoughts ingrost nor didst thou care For Clymen c for her who Circes bare For Khodos Clytie who in loue abounds Although despis'd though tortur'd with two wounds All all were buried in LeucothoeÌ„ Borne in sweet Saba of Eurynome As shee in beautic farre surpast all other So much the Daughter farre surpast the Mother Great Orchamus was Father to the Maid Who seuenth from Belus Priscus Persuâ—sway'd In low Hisperian Vales those pastures are Where Phoebus horses oâ— Ambrosrosia fare There tyred with the trauels of the day They renouate what labour doth decay Now while coelestiall food their huâ—â—er seeds And Night in her alternate raigne succeeds In figure of Eurynome the God Approcht the chamber where his life aboad He spinning by a lamp Leucath oâ— found With twice six hand-maids who inclos'd her round Then kissing her her Mother now by Art I haue said he a secret to impart Maids presently with-draw They all obey'd He after he had cleer'd the chamber said The tardie Yeare I measure I am he Who see all Obiects and by whom all see The World 's cloere eye by thy fair solse I sweare I loue thee aboue thought Shot shooke for feare Her spindle and her distasse from her fell And yet that feare became her wondrous well Then his owne forme and radiancy he tooke Though with that vnexpected presence strookes Yet vanquisht by his beautie her complaint Shee said aside and suffred his constraint This Clytic vext his loue obsecur'd no measure Who in the furie of her fell displeasure Divulg'd the quickly-spreading infamy And to her father doth the fact descry Who sterne and sauage shuts vp all remorse From her that'su'd subdew'd she said by force And Sol to witnesse calls He his dishonour Interres aliue and casts a Mount vpon her Hyperion's sonne this batters with his rayes And for her re-ascent a breach displayes Yet could not she aduance her heauy head But life too hasty from her body fled Neuer did Phoelâ—us with such sorrow mourne Since wretched Bhoeton the World did burne Yet striues he with his influence to beget In her cold lims'a life-rouoking heat But since the Fates such great attempts withstood He steep's the place and body in a floud Offragrant Nectar much bewailes her end And sighing said Yet shalt thou heauen ascend Forthwith her body thawes in to a deaw Which from the moy stned earth an odour threw Then through the hill ashrub of Frankincense Thrust vp his crowne and tooke his root from thence Though loue might clyties sorrow haue excus'd Sorrow her tongue Daye 's king her bed refus'd She with distracted passion pines away Detesteth company all night all day Disrobed with her ruffled haire vnbound And wet with humour fits vpon the ground For â—nelong dayes all sustenance for beares Her hunger â—loyd with deaw her thirst with teares Nor rose but â—â—uets on the God her eyes And euer turnes her face to him that flyes At length to earth her stupid body cleaues Her wan complexion turns to bloodlesse-leaues Yet streak't with red her perisht lims beget A flowre resembling the pale Violet Which with the sun though rooted fast doth moue And being changed changeth not her loue Thus she This wondrous story caught their cares To some the same impossible appeares Others that all is possible conclude To true-styl'd Gods but Bacebus they extrude All whist Alcithoê call'd-vpon doth run Her shettle through the web and thus begun T'omit the pastorall loues to few vnknowne Of young Idaean Duphnis turn'd to stone By that vext Nymph who could not else asswage Her iealousie such is a louer's rage And Scython who his nature in innouates Now male now female by alternate Fates With Celmus turn'd into an Adamant Who of his faith to little loue might vant The shorne Curetes got by falling showres crocos and Smilax chang'd to prerty flowres I ouer-passe and will your eares surprize With sweet delight of vnknowne nouelties Then know how Salmacis in famous grew Whose too strong waues all manly strength vndo And mollifie with their soule-sostning touch The cause vnknown their nature knowne too muche Th' ideaean Nymphs nurst in secure delight The sonne of Hermes and faire Aphrodite His father and his mother in his looke You might behold from whom his name he tooke When Summers fiue he thrice had multiply'd Leauing the fount-full Hills of foster Ide He wandred through strange Lands pleas'd with the sight Of forren streames toyle less'ning with delight The Lycian Cities past he treads the grounds Of wealthy Caria which on Lycia bounds There lighted on a Poole so passing cleer That all the glittering bottom did appear Inuiron'd with no marish-louing Reeds Nor piked Bull-rushes nor barren weeds But liuing Turf vpon the border grew Whose euer-Spring no blasting Winter knew A Nymph this haunts vnpractiz'd in the chace To bend a Bow or run a strife-full race Of all the Water-Nimphs this Nymph alone To nimble-footed Dian was vnknowne Her sisters oft would say Fie salmacis Fie lazic sister what a sloth is this Vpon a Quiuer or a Iauelin seaze And with laborious hunting mix thine ease On Quiuer nor on Iauelin would she seaze Nor
well knowne bosom glides her waste And yeelding neck with louing twines imbrac't Amazement all the standers-by possest While glittering combs their slippery heads inuest Now are they two who crept together chayn'd Till they the couert of the Wood attayn'd These gentle Dragons knowing what they were Do hurt to no man nor mans presence feare Yet were those sorrowes by their daughters sonne Much comforted who vanquisht India won To whom th' Achaians Temples consecrate Diuinely magnifi'd through either State Alone Acrisius Abantrades Though of one Progenie dissents from these Who from th' Argolian Citie made his flie And manag'd armes against a Deitie Nor him nor Persâ—us he for Ioue's doth hold Begot on DanaeÌ„ in a showre of gold Yet straight repents so preualent is truth Both to haue forc't the God doom'd the Youth Now is the one inthroned in the skyes The other through Ayr 's emptie Region flyes And beares along the memorable spoyle Of that new Monster conquer'd by his toyle And as he o're the Lybian Deserts flew The bloud that drop's from Gorgen's head streight greâ—â— To various Serpents quickned by the ground With these those much infested Climes abound Hither and thither like a cloud of rayne Borne by crosse windes he cuts the ayrie Mayne Far-distant earth beholding from on high And ouer all the ample World doth flie Thrice saw Aroturus thrice to Cancer prest Oft harried to the East oft to the West And now not trusting to approched night Vpon th' Hesperian Continent doth light And craues some rest till Lucifer displayes Aurora's blush and shee Apollo's rayes Huge-statur'd Atlas Iapetonides Here sway'd the vtmost bounds of Earth and Seas Where Titan's panting steeds his Chariot steepe And bathe their fierie feet-locks in the Deepe A thousand Heards as many Flocks he fed In those large Pastures where no neighbours tread Here to their tree the shining branches sute To them their leaues to those the golden fruit Great King said Perseus if high birth may moue Respect in thee behold the sonne of Ioue If admiration then my Acts admire Who rest and hospitable Rites desire He mindfull of this prophecie of old By sacred Themis of Parnassus told In time thy golden fruit a prey shall proue O Iaphets sonne vnto the sonne of Ioue This fearing he his Orchard had inclos'd With solid Cliffs that all accesse oppos'd The Guard whereof a monstrous Dragon held And from his Land all Forrainers expeld Be gone said he for feare thy glories prooue But counterfeit and thou no sonne to Ioue Then addes vnciuill violence to threats With strength the other seconds his intreats In strength inferiour Who so strong as he Since courtesie nor any worth in me Vext Perseus said can purchase my regard Yet from a guest receiue thy due reward With that Medusa's vgly head he drew His owne reuersed Forthwith Atlas grew Into a Mountayne equall to the man His haire and beard to woods and bushes ran His armes and shoulders ' into ridges spred And what was his is now the Mountaynes head Bones turne to stones and all his parts extrude Into a huge prodigious altitude Such was the pleasure of the euer-blest Whereon the heauens with all their tapers rest Hippotades in hollow rocks did close The strife-full Windes Bright Lucifer â—ose And rous'd-vp Labour Perseus hauing ty'd His wings t' his feet his fauchion to his side Sprung into ayre below on either hand Innumerable Nations left the Land Of Aethiop and the Cepheâ— fields suruay'd There where the innocently wretched maid Was for her mothers proud impietie By vniust Ammon sentenced to die Whom when the Heros saw to hard rocks chain'd But that warm tears from charged eye-springs drain'd And light winds gently fann'd her fluent haire He would haue thought her marble Ere aware He fire attracteth and astonisht by Her beautie had almost forgot to fly Who lighting said O fairest of thy kinde More worthy of those bands which Louers bind Than these rude gyues the Land by thee renownd Thy name thy birth declare and why thus bound At first the silent Virgin was affrayd To speake t' a man and modestly had made A visard of her hands but they were ty'd And yet abortiue teares their fountaines hide Still vrg'd lest she should wrong her innocence As if asham'd to vtter her offence Her Countrie shee discouers her owne name Her beauteous Mothers confidence and blame All yet vntold the Waues began to rore Th' apparant Monster hast'ning to the shore Before his brest the broad-spred Sea vp-beares The Virgin shreeks Her Parents see their feares Both mourne both wretched but shee iustly so Who bring no aid but extasies of woe With teares that sute the time Who take the leaue They loathe to take and to her body cleaue You for your griefe may haue the stranger said A time too long short is the houre of aid If freed by me Ioue's sonne in fruitfull gold Begot on Danaâ— through a brazen Hold Who conquer'd Gorgon with the snakie haire And boldly glide through vn-inclosed aire If for your sonne you then will me prefer Adde to this worth That in deliuering her I 'le trie so fauour me the Powres diuine That shee sau'd by my valour may be mine They take a Law intreat what he doth offer And further for a Dowre their Kingdome proffer Lo as a Gally with fore-fixed prow Row'd by the sweat of slaues the Sea doth plow Euen so the Monster furroweth with his brest The foming floud and to the neere Rocke prest Not farther distant than a man might fling A way-inforcing bullet from a sling Forth-with the youthfull issue of rich showrs Earth pushing from him to the blew skye towrs The furious Monster eagerly doth chace His shadow gliding on the Seas smooth face And as Ioue's bird when shee from high suruayes A Dragon basking in Apollo's rayes Descends vnseene and through his necks blew scales To shun his deadly teeth her talons naile's So swiftly stoops high-pitcht Inachides Through singing ayre then on his backe doth sears And neere his right sin sheaths his crooked sword Vp to the hilts who deeply wounded roar'd Now capers in the ayre now diues below The troubled waues now turn's vpon his foe Much like a chafed â—Bore whom eager hounds Haue at a Bay and terrifie with sounds He with swift wings his greedy iawes auoids Now with his fauchion wounds his scaly sides Now his shell-rough-cast back now where the taile Ends in a Fish or parts expos'd t'assaile A streame mixt with his bloud the Monster flings From his wide throat which wets his heauy wings Nor longer dares the wary Youth rely On their support He sees a rock hard by Whose top aboue the quiet waters stood But vnderneath the winde-incensed flood There lights and holding by the rocks extent His oft-thrust sword into his bowels sent The shore rings with th' applause that fills the skye Then Cepheus and Cassiope with ioy Salute him for their son whom now they call The
Cities which in these far-distant parts Are famous with ciuilitie and arts And Aesonâ— son whom I more dearely prize Than wealthy Earth and all her Monarchies In him most happy and affected by The bounteous gods my crown shall reach the sky They tell of Rocks that iustle in the maine Charybdis that sucks in and casts againe The wrackfull waues how rauâ—nous Scylla waits With barking dogs in rough Sicilian straits My loue poslest in Iasons besome laid Let seas swell high I cannot be dismaid While I infold my husband in my armes Or should I feare I should but feare his harmes Call'st thou him husband wilt thou then thy blame Mâ—dea varnish with an honest name Consider well what thou intendst to doe And while thou maist so foule a crime eschue Thus she When honour pictie the right Before her stood and Cupid put to flight Then goes where Hecates old Altar stood O're-shadowed by a dark and secret wood Her broken ardor she had now reclaim'd Which Iasons presence forth-with re-inflam'd Her cheeks blush fire her face with feruor flashes And as a dying cinder rak't in ashes Fed by reuiuing windes augmenting glowes And tossed to accustom'd fury growes So sickly Loue which lare appear'd to dye New life assum'd from his inflaming eye Whose looks by chance more beauty now discouer Than heretofore you might forgiue the louer Her eager eyes she riuets on his face And frantick thinks him of no humane race Nor could diuert her lookes As he his tongue Began t' vnloose her faire hand softly wrung Implor'd her aide and promis'd her his bed She answer made with tearrs profusely shed I see to what euents m' intentions moue Nor ignorance deceiues me thus but loue You by the vertue of my art shall liue In recompence your faithfull promise giue He by the Altar of the Triple Powre The groues which that great Deity imbowre Her fathers Sire to whom the hid appeares His owne successe and so great danger sweares Beleeu'd from her th' inchanted herbs receiues With them their vse and his Protectresse leaues The Morrow had the sparkling stars defac't When all in Marse's field assemble plac't On circling ridges Seated on a throne The iuory-scepter'd King in scarlet shone From adamant nostrils bras-hoou'd Buls now cast Hot Vulcan and the grasse with vapors blast And as full forges blowne by art resound As puluer'd flints infurnest vnder ground By sprinkled water fire conceiue so they Pent flames inuolu'd in noysefull brests betray So rumble their scorcht throtes Yet Aesons Heire Came brauely on on whom they trune and stare With terrible aspects his ruine threat With steele-tipt hornes Inrag'd their cleft hooues beat The thundring ground whence clouds of dust arise And with their smoky bellowings rend the skies The Minya freeze with feare but he remaines Vntoucht such vertue Sorcery containes Their dew-laps boldly with his hand he strokes Inforc't to draw the plough with heauy yokes The Colchians at so strange a sight admire The Minya shout and set his powres on fire Then in his caske the vipers teeth assumes Those in the turn'd-vp furrowes he inhumes Earth mollifies the poys'nous seeds which spring And forth a haruest of new People bring And as an Embrion in the womb inclos'd Assumes the forme of man within compos'd Through all accomplisht numbers nor comes forth To breathe in ayre till his maturer growth So when the bowels of the teeming Earth Grew great she gaue mens perfect shapes their birth And what 's more strange with them their armes ascend Who at th' Aemonian Youth their lances bend When this th' Achaians saw they hung the head And all their courages for terror fled Euen she who had secur'd him was affraid When she beheld so many one inuade A chil cold checks her bloud death looks lesse pale And left the hearbs she gaue should chance to faile Vnheard auxiliarie charmes imparts And calls th' assistance of her secret Arts. He hurles a massiâ— stone among his foes Who on themselues conuert their deadly blowes The Earth-borne brothers mutuall wounds destroy And ciuill warre The Achiues skip for ioy And throng t' imbrace the Victor Her the same Affection spurd but was with-held by shame Yet that too weake if none had lookt vpon her Not vertue checkt her but the wrack of honor Now in conceit she hugs him in her armes Applauds th' inuentiue Gods with them her charmes To make the Dragon sleepe that neuer slept Remaines whose care the golden purchace kept Bright crested triple tongu'd his cruell iawes Arm'd with sharpe phangs his feet with dreadfull claweâ— When once besprinkled with Lethaean iuyce And words repeated thrice which sleepe produce Calme the rough seas and make swift riuers stand His eye-lids vail'd to sleepes vnknowne command The Heros of the Golden Fleece possest Proud of the spoyle with her whose fouour blest His enterprize an other Spoyle now bore To sea and lands on safe Iolcian shore Aemonian parents for their sons returne Bring gratefull gifts coniested incense burne And chearfully with horne-gilt offrings pay Religious vowes But Aeson was away Opprest with redious age now neere his tomb When thus Aesonides O wife to whom My life I owe though all I hold in chiefe From thy deserts which far surpasse beliefe If magick can what cannot magick do Take yeeres from me and his with mine renue Then wept His pietie her passion stirs Who sighs to thinke how vnlike she had beene to hers Yet this concealing answers What a crime Hath slipt thy tongue thinkst thou that with thy time I can or will anothers life inuest Hecat ' fore-fend nor is 't a iust request Yet Iason we a greater gift will giue Thy father by our art renew'd shall liue Without thy losse if so the triple Powre Assist me with her presence in that howre Three nights yet wanted ere the Moone could ioyne Her growing hornes When with replenisht shine She fac't the earth the Court she leaues her haire Vntrest her garments loose her ankles bare And wanders through the dead of drowsie Night With vnseene steps Men beasts and birds of flight Deepe Rest had bound in humid gyues who crept So silently as if her selfe had slept No Aspen wags moyst ayre no sound receiues Stars onely shine to which her armes she heaues Thrice turnes about besprinkles thrice her crowne With gather'd deaw thrice yawnes and kneeling down O Night thou friend to Secrets you cleare fires That with the Moone succeed when Day retires Great Hecate that know'st and aid imparts To our designes you Charmes and magick Arts And thou O Earth that to Magicians yeelds Thy powerfull simples aires winds mountaines fields Soft murmuring springs still lakes and riuers cleare You Gods of woods you Gods of night appeare By you at will I make swift streames retire To their first fountaynes whilst their banks admire Seas tosse and smooth cleere clouds with clouds deforme Stormes turne to calmes and make a calme a Storme With spels and charmes I breake
eares repaire Or are my fruitlesse words borne by that wind That braâ—es thee hence and leaues a wretch behind What though Pasiphae a Bull preferd ' Thou far more brutish than the saluage Herd Woe 's me Make hast I must the waues with orâ—â— Refâ—und his ship for sakes with vs our shores In vame â—â—le follow thee vngratefull king And while I to thy crooked vessell cling Be dragâ—d through drenching seas This hauing said Attempts the waues by Cupidâ— strengthning aid And cleaâ—es tâ—his ship Her father now high-flowne Strikes 〈…〉 a red-maild Hobbie growne And stâ—â—◠〈◊〉 her with his golden â—eares She â—â—ps her hâ—â—d in feebled by her feares While yet a falling that she might eschue The threatning sea light wings t' her shoulders grew Now changed to a bird in sight of all This of her tufted crowne we Ciris call No sooner Minos toucht the Cretan ground But by an hundred Buls with garlands crown'd His vowes to conquest-giuing Ioue he payd And all his pallace with the spoyle arrayd And now his families reproch increast That vncouth prodigie halfe man halfe beast His mothers dire adultery descryd Minos resolues his marriage shame to hide In multitude of roomes perplext and blind The work t'excelling Daedalus assignd Who sense distracts and error leades a maze Through subtill ambages of sundry wayes As Phrygian Meander sports about The flowrie vales now winding in now out Himselfe incounters sees his following floods His streames leades to their springs and doubling scuds To long mockt seas so Daedalus compil'd Innumerable by-wayes which beguild The senses conduct that himselfe with much Adoe returnes the fallacies were such When in this fabrick Minos had inclos'd This double forme of man and beast compos'd The Monster with Athenian bloud twice fed His owne the third Lot in the ninth yeere shed Then by a Clew reguided to the doore A virgins counsell neuer found before Aegides with rapt Ariadne makes For Dia on the naked shore forsakes His confident and sleepe-oppressed Mate Now â—pining in complaints the desolate 〈…〉 with maâ—â—age comforts and that she Might glorious by a Câ—nstellation be Her head â—â—burtthens of her crowne and threw 〈◊〉 to heauen through thinner ayre it flew 〈…〉 the iewels that the verge inchace 〈…〉 to fâ—ies fast-fixed in one place Th 〈…〉 retaining They their station take 〈…〉 that Kneeles and Him who holds the Snake The Sea imprisâ—ned Paedalus meane-while W◠〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 and of his long exile 〈◊〉 with his countries loue and place of birth Thus said Though Minos baâ— both sea aud earth Yet heauen is free That course attempt I dare Held he the world he could not hold the ayre I his saidâ— to arts vnknowne he bends his wits In naâ—â—es change The quils in order knits Beginning with the least the longer still The shâ—â—t succeeds much like a rising hill Their in all pipes the shepheards long agoe Fâ—am'd of vneq â—all reeds contâ—iued so With threds the midst with wax he ioynes the ends And these as naturall wings a little bends Young â—â—us stood by who little thought That with his death he playd and smiling caught The feathers that lay hulling in the ayte Now chases the yellow waxe with busie care And interrupts his Siâ—e When his last hand He had imposed with new-made wings he â—and The ayte that bare them Then instructs his son â—e sure that in the middle course thou run Dank seas will clog the wings that lowly flye The Sun will burne them if thou for'st too high Twixt either keepe Nor on Boôtes gaze Nor Helicè nor sterne Orions rayes But follow me At once he doth aduise And vnknowne pinions to his shoulders ties Amid his work and words a tyde of teares Fret his old cheeks who trembling fingers reares Then kist him neuer to be kissed more And rais'd on lightsome feathers flies before His feare behind as birds through boundlesse sky From ayerie nests produce their yong to fly Exhorts to follow taught his banefull skill Waues his owne wings his sons obseruing still These while some Angler fishing with a cane Or Shepheard learning on his staffe or Swaine With wonder viewes he thinks them Gods that glide Through ayrie regions Now on the left side Leaues Iuno's Samos Delos Paros white Lebynthos and Calydna on the right Flowing with hony When the boy much tooke With pleasure of his wings his Guide forsooke And rauisht with desire of heauen aloft Ascends The odor-yeelding wax more soft By the swift Suns vicinitie now grew Which late his feathers did together glew That thaw'd he shakes his naked armes that bare As then no saile nor could containe the ayre When crying Helpe ô father his exclaime Blew Seas supprest which tooke from him their name His father now no father left alone Cryde Icarus where art thou which way flowne What region Icarus doth thee containe Then spies the feathers floting on the Maine He curst his arts interies thâ— coâ—pse that gaue The land a name which gaue his sonne a graue The Partridge from a thicket him suruayd As in a tombe his wretched son he layd Who clapt his fanning wings and lowdly churd Tâ— expresse his ioy as then an onely bird So made of late vnknowne in former thâ— e O Paâ—â—lus by thy eternall crime To thee thy Sister gaue him to be taught Who little of his destinie fore-thought The boy then twelue yeare aged of a mind Apt for â—â—struction and to Arts inclind He Sawes inuented by the bones that grow In fithes backs the steele indenting so And two-shankt Compasses with riuet bound Thâ—one to stand still the other turning round In 〈◊〉 distance Daeâ—â—aâ—us this stung Who from Manerua sacred turret flung The eauâ—d head-long and his falling faines Him Pallâ—s fautor of good wits sustaines Who straight the figure of foule assumes Clad in the midst of ayre with freckled plunâ—es The vigor of his late swift wit now came Into his feet and wings he keeps his name They neuer mount aloft nor trust their birth To tops of â—â—ees but sleck as low as earth And lay their egs in tufts In mind they beare Then ancient fall haughtie places feare I yr d â— aeâ—â—u now in Sâ—câ—lia lights In whole defence hospitious Cocaâ—â—â— fights Now Athens by Aegoeus glorious Seed Was from her lamentable tribute freed They crowne their Temples warlike Pallas Ioue Inuoke with all the Deities aboue Whom now they honour with the large expence Of bloud free gifts and heapes of frankincense Vast fame through all th' Argolian cities spred His praise and all that rich Acbaia fed His aid in their extremities intreat His aid afflicted Calydon though great In Meleager sought The cause a Bore Dian's reuenge and horrid Seruatore For Ocneus with a plenteous haruest blest To Ceres his first fruits of corne addrest To Pallas oyle and to Lyaeus wine Ambitious honours all the Powers diuine Reape from the rurals yet neglect to pay Diana dues her Altars empty lay Anger affects the Gods This will
not we Vnpunisht beare nor vnreueng'd said she Though vn-adored shall they vant we be With that she sent into Oeniean fields A vengefull Bore Rank-grast Epirus yeelds No big-bon'd bullock of a larger breed But those are lesse which in Sicilia feed His eyes blaze bloud and fire his stiffe neck beares Horrible bristles like a groue of speares A boyling fome vpon his shoulders flowes From grinding iawes his tushes equall those Of Indian Elephants his fell mouth casts Hot lightning and his breath the virdure blasts He tramples vnder foot the growing corne And leaues the sighing husband-man for lorne Reaping the uper eates Their vsuall graine The baines and threshing floores expect in vaine Broad-spreading vines he with their burden sheres And boughs from euer-leauy oliues teares Then falls on beasts the Heâ—dsmen now vnseard Nor dogs nor raging Buls defend their Herd The people flye nor are secure of mind In walled townes â—ll Mâ—leager ioyn'd With youths of choycest worth inflam'd with praise Attempts his death The twin'd Iyndarides One for his horsemanship the other fam'd For hurle-bats Iason who the first ship fram'd Theseus with his I trithous a paire Of happy friends and Lynetus Aphar's heire The two Thestâ—adae Leucippus crownd For strength Acastus for his dart renownd Swist Idas Caeneus not a maiden then Hippothous â—ryas Phoenix best of men Aâ—yntors issue both th' Actorides And Pâ—yleus sent from Elâ— came with these I hereâ—es hope aduenturous â—elamon And he who calld the great Achilles son H 〈…〉 the quick grac't Eâ—â—ytion and â—â—â—ion who surpast In â—unning 〈◊〉 the Naerycâ—an With 〈…〉 Hyleus Hipâ—asan Now yoath'all 〈◊〉 â—ons to that inâ—â—â—t 〈…〉 sent 〈…〉 in law 〈◊〉 bred 〈…〉 well read In fates 〈…〉 not as yet betrayd B'his wife Tegeaean Atalant ' a maide Of passing beautie sprung from Schoenus race Of high Lycaean woods the onely grace A polisht Zone her vpper garment bound And in one knot her artlesse haire was wound Her arrowes iuory guardian clattering hung On her left shoulder and a bow well strung Her left hand held Her lookes a wench displayd In a boyes face a boyes face in a maide The Calydonian Heros her beheld And wisht at once his wishes fate repeld Who lurking flames attracts and said O blest Is he whom thou shalt with thy ioyes inuest But time and shame with further speech dispence Vrg'd by a work of greater con'equence A Wood o're-growne with trees yet neuer feld Mounts from a Plaine that all beneath beheld The glory-thirsting Gallants this ascend Forth-with a part their corded toyles extend Some hounds vncouple some the tract of feet Together trace and danger long to meet A Dale there was through which the raine-rais'd flood Oft tumbled downe and in the bottom stood Repleat with plyant willowes marish weeds Sharpe rushes osiers and long slender reeds The Bore from thence dislodg'd like lightaing crusht Through iustling clouds among the hunters rusht Beares downe the obuious trees the crashing woods Report their fall The youths each other bloods With high-rais'd shoots inflame who keepe their stands And shake their broad-tipt spearâ—â— with threatning hands The dogs he scatters those that durst oppose His horrid furie wounds with ganching blowes Fâ—â—ton first his iauelin vainly cast Which struck a beech The next his sides had past But that with too much strength it ouer-flew The weapon Pagasaean Iason threw O â—habus said Ampycides If I Haue honourd and doe honour thee apply Thy succour in successe of my intents The God as much as lay in him assents But from the dart the head Diana took Which gaue no wound although the Bore it strook The beast like lightning burns thus chaft with ire His grim eyes shine his brest breaths flames of fire And as a stone which some huge engine throwes Against a wall or bulwarke man'd with foes The deadly Bore with such sure violence Assaults their forces The right wings defence Fâ—palaman and â—elagonus cast On â—ounding earth drawne off with timely hast 〈◊〉 great 〈◊〉 son Could not so well his slaughtring tushes shun Which cut the sbrinking sinewes in his thigh Euen as he trembled and prepar'd to flye And 〈◊〉 long had perished perchance 〈…〉 warre but vauting on a lance Iâ—â—â—ooke a tree which there his branches spred And safely saw the foe from whom h 'had fled Who â—ull of â—age his vengefull tushes whets Vpon an Oke and dite destruction threats When â—â—usting to his new-edg'd armes the Bore The manly thigh of great â—â—â—thyus tore The brother I wins not yet coelestiall Starres Conspicuous both both terrible in warres Both mounted on white Steeds a loft both bare Their glittring speares which trembled in the aire And both had sped but that the Swine with-drew Where neither horse nor iauelin could pursue In followes Telamon hot of the chace And stumbling at a roote fell on his face While Peleus lifts him vp a winged fight Tegaea drew which flew as swist as sight Below his care the fixed arrow stood And staind his bristles with a little blood The Virgin lesse reioyced in the blow Than Meleager who first saw it flow First show'd his mates the blood O most renownd Said he thy vertue hath thy honour crownd The men they blush for shame each other cheare And high-rais'd soules with clamors higher reare Their speares in clusters fling which make no breach Through idle store and throwes their throwes impeach Behold Ancaeus with a polax sterne To his owne fate who said By me O learne You youths how much a mans sharpe steele exceeds A womans weapons and applaud my deeds Though Dian should take armes and in this strife Protect her beast she should not saue his life Thus gloriously he boasts in both his hands Aduanc't his polax and on tip-toes stands Whom ere his armes descend the furious Swine Preuents and sheathes his tushes in his groyne Downe fell Ancaeus out of his bowels gusht All gore with blood the earth as guilty blusht Ixions son Pirithous forward prest And with an able at me his lance addrest To whom Aegides O to me more deare Than my owne life my better halfe forbeare The wâ—â—e in valour should aloofe contend Foole hardy courage was Aâ—â—aeus end This said his heauy cornell with a head Of bâ—asle he hurles which sure had struck him dead It was deliuered with so true an aime But that a Medlar interpos'd the same Aesonâ—â—es then threw his thrilling lance Which hit diuerted from the mark by chance A dog betweene his baying iawes the wound Rusht through his guts and naild him to the ground 〈◊〉 varying hand dischargd two speares The earth the one the beast the other beares While now he raues grunts turnes his body round Casts bloud and some the author of his wound Ruâ—â— in prouokes his greater wrath and where Thâ— thields diffeuer thrusts his deadly speare They all with chearfull shouts their ioyes vnfold Shake his victorious hands the Beast behold With wonder whose huge bulk possest so
suruiu'd and with light feathers flew While Hector and his brethren dues with teares Pay to the tombe which his inscription beares But Paris absent from that obsequy Straight with his Rape brought ten yeeres warre to Troy A thousand ships in one confederate Persue his stealth with all the Achaian State Nor vow'd reuenge so long had beene delaid If wrathfull Seas had not their passage staid At fishie Aulis in Boeâ—tia Their wind-bound Nauy in expectance lay Here as th' old vse to loue they sacrifice While from the antique altar flames arise A blew scal'd Dragon in the Armies view Ascends a tree which neere the altar grew A feathered nest the vpper branches beare With twice foure birds these and their dam with feare Flying about her losle the greedy snake At length deuour'd This all with wonder strake When Chilchas cry'd who could the truth deuine Reioyce Pelasgans 't is a happy signe Proud Troy shall fall though with long toile and care These th'ice three birds thrice three yeeres war declare He wound about a bough gorg'd with his rape Became a Stone hat held the Serpents shape Still Nerâ—us in Aônian surges raues Nor warre transferies Some thinke the God of Waues Would Troy preserue and saue the walls he made Thestorides resents who knew and said A virgins bloud must Dian ' reconcile Now did the publike cause the priuate foile A King a father I phigeâ—ia stood Before the altar to resigne her blood The Priest did weepe the Goddesse pittieth too Who â—'re their eyes a cloudy mete or threw And while they prosecute her rites and praid Produc't a Hinde to represent the Maid When fitter sacrifice had dul'd her rage Her furie and the Seas at once asswage A fore-winde then their thousand Vessels bore Who suffering much attaine the Phrygian shore Aâ—â—d the world 'twixt Aire Earth Neptunes brine A place there is the triple Worlds confine Where all that 's done though far remou'd appeare And euery whisper penetrates the care The House of Fame who in the highest towre Her lodging takes To this capacious bowre Innumerable wayes conduct no way With doores debar'd but open night and day All built of ringing brasse through out resounds The heard reports and euery word rebounds No rest within no silence yet the noise Not lowd but like the murmuring of a voice As seas that sally on far-distant shores Or as Ioues terminating thunder rores Hither the idle Vulgar come and goe Millions of Rumors wander to and fro Lies mixt with truths in words that vary still Of these with newes vnknowing eares Some fill Some carry tales all in the telling growes And euery Author addes to what he knowes Here dwels rash Error light Credulity Deiected Feare and vainly grounded loy New rais'd Sedition secret Whisperings Of vnknown Authors and of doubtfull things All done in Heauen Earth Ocean Fame sun uiewes And through the ample world inquires of newes She notice gaue how with a dreadfull hoast The Grecian Nauie steered for their coast Nor vnexpected came the Troians bend Their powers t' incounter and their shores defend First thou thy life Protesildus lost By Hectors fatall lance the battle cost The Greekes a world of soules so cleerely shone Their fortitudes great Hector yet vnknowne Nor no small streames of bloud their valours drew From Phrygian wounds who felt what Greece could doe And now their mingled gores Sigâ—â—â— staine Now Neptunes Cycnus had a thousand slaine Now in his chariot on Achilles fell And with his lance whole squadrons sent to hell Seeking for Cyenus or for Hector round About the field at length braue Cycnus found For Fate nine yeeres great Hectors life sustaines Cheering his horses with the flaxen maines His thundring Chariot driues against his foe And shakes his trembling lance about to throw O youth he said what e're thou art reioyce Achilles honours thee with death His voice His speare persues the steele no wound imprest Though strongly throwne When bounding from his brest He said Thou Goddesse-borne Fame brutes thee such Why wondrest thou Achilles wondred much This helme with horse-haire plum'd this shield I beare Defend not me for fashion these I weare So Mars his person armes Should I display My naked brest thy force could finde no way The grace to be Nereus sonne is small What his who Nereus who his Nymphs who all The Ocean guides Then at Achilles threw His lance that pierc't his plated shield and through Nine oxe-hides rusht the tenth did it restraine The Heros caught it and retorts againe The singing steele againe it gaue no wound The third assay no better entrance found Though Cycâ—â—s bar'd his bosome to the blow He rages like a bull in Citcian Shew Whose dreadfull hornes the stammell which prouokes His fury tosse with still deluded strokes Then searches if the head were off that on What is my hand said he so feeble growne On one is all my vigour spent My powre Was more when first I raz'd Lyrnessus towre When Tenedos Eetiou Thebes were fil'd With bloud of theirs by my incounters spild The red Caycus slaughtred natiues dyde Twice Telephus my powrefull lauelin tryde Behold these heapes of bodies these I flew Much could my hand haue done as much can doe This said his former deeds almost suspects And at Menetes brest his aime directs A Lycian of meane ranke the thrilling dart Quite through his faithlesse curasse pierc't his heart Whose dying body strucke the groning ground Snatching the weapon from his recking wound This hand he said this now victorious lance Shall vrge thy fate assist me equall Chance With that th'vnerring dart at Cycnus flung Th'vneuitated on his shoulder rung Which like a rocke the lance repel'd againe Yet where it hit it left a purple staine By vainely glad Aeâ—idas descry'd He woundlesse this Menetes bloud had dy'd Then roring from his chariot leapes and made A horrid on-set with his flaming blade Who sees the breaches in his helme and shield Yet he secure his skin the steele vnsteeld Now all impatient with the hilt his Foe 's Hard front inuades with thicke redoubled blowes Persues his back retreit perturbs insists Nor lets the astonisht breath He faints blew mists Swim o're his eyes whose now auerted steps A stone with-stood On whom Achilles leapes Or else assured Caenis still for bore All nuptiall ties As on the secret shore She walkt alone the Sea-god her dissent Inforc't to Rape for so the rumor went Rapt with the ioy of loues first tasted fruit All shall said Neptune to thy wishes sute Wish what thou wilt So Fame the story told My wrong said Caenis makes my wishes bold That neuer like inforcement may befall Be I no woman and thou giu'st me all Her latter words a deeper voice expresse Much like a mans for now it prou'd no lesse The Sea-God had assented to her will And further addes that steele should neither kill Nor wound his person Young Atracides Departs reioycing in such gifts as these Who great
Sol in seas his radiant fore-head vail'd Swart Night her browes exalts with starres impal'd The selfe same God the same command repeats And greater plagues to disobedience threats Afraid he now prepares to change his owne For forâ—eine seats This through the City blowne Accus'd for breach of lawes arraign'd and try'd They proue the fact not by himselfe deny'd His hands and eyes then lifting to the skie O thou whom twice Six Labours deifie Assist that art the author of my crime White stones and blacke they vs's in former time The white acquit the blacke the pris'nor cast And in such sort this heauy sentence past Blacke stones all threw into the fatall Vrne But all to white turn'd out to number turne Thus by Aleides power the sad Decree Was strangely chang'd and Mycilus set free Who thanking Amphitryoniades With a full fore-wind crost th' Iâ—nian Seas Lacedemonian Tarentum past Faire Sybaris Neaethus running fast By Salentinum Thurin's crooked Bay High Temesis and strong Iapygia Scarce searching all that shores sea-beaten bound The fatall mounth of Aesarus out-found A Tombe hard by the sacred bones inclos'd Of famous Croton here as erst impos'd Alemons sonne erects his City walls Which of th'intombed he Crotona calls Of this Originall this City boasts Built by a Graecian on Italian coasts Here dwelt a Samian who at once did flie From Samos Lords and hated Tyrannie Preferring voluntary banishment Though farre from Heauen his mind 's diuine ascent Drew neere the Gods what natures selfe denies To humane Sight he saw with his Soules eyes All apprehended in his ample brest And studious cares his knowledge he profest To silent and admiring men who taught The Worlds originall past humane thought What nature was what God that cause of things From whence the Snow fraÌ„ whence the lightning springs Whether Ioue thunder or the winds that rake The breaking Clouds what caus'd the Earth to quake What course the Starâ—es obseru'd what e're lay hid From vulgar sense and first of all forbid With slaughtred creatures to defile our boords In such though vnbeleeu'd yet learned Words Forbeare your selues ô Mortals to pollute With wicked food corne is there generous fruit Oppresse their boughs plump grapes their Vines attire There are sweet hearbs and sauory roots which fire May mollifie milke honey redolent With flowers of Thime thy pallat to content The prodigall Earth abounds with gentle food Affording banquets without death or blood Brute beasts with flesh their rau'nous hunger cloy And yet not all in pastures horses ioy So flocks and beards But those whom Nature hath Indu'd with cruelty and saluage wrath Wolues Beares Armenian Tigers Lions in Hot bloud delight How horrible a Sin That entrailes bleeding entrailes should intombe That greedy flesh by flesh should fat become While by the Liuers death the Liuing liues Of all which Earth our wealthy mother giues Can nothing please vnlesse thy teeth thou imbrue In wounds and dire Cyclopean fare renue Nor satiate the wilde votacitie Of thy rude panch except an other die But that old Age that innocent estate Which we the Golden call was fortunate In hearbs and fruits her lips with bloud vndy'd Then Fowle through aire their wings in safety ply'd The Hare then fearelesse wandred o're the plaine Nor Fish by their credulity were ta'ne Not treacherous nor fearing treacherie All liu'd secure When he who did enuie What God so e're it was those harmlesse cates And cramb'd his guts with flesh set ope the gates To cruell Crimes First Slaughter without harme I must confesse to Piety did warme Which might suffice the reeking steele in blood Of saluage beasts which made our liues their food Though kil'd not to be eaten Sinne now more Audacious the first sacrifice the Bore Was thought to merit death who bladed corne Vp-rooting left the husband-man forlorne Vine-brouzing Gotes at Bacchus altar slaine Fed his reuenge in both their guilt their bane You Sheep what ill did you a gentle beast Whose vdders swell with Nectar borne t' inuest Exposed man with your soft wooll and are Aliue then dead more profitable farre Or what the Oxe a creature without guile So innocent so simple borne for toile He most vngratefull is deseruing ill The gift of corne that can vnyoke then kill His husband-man that necke with axe to wound In seruice gall'd that had the stubborne ground So often til'd so many crops brought in Yet not content there with 〈◊〉 the sinne To guiltlesse Gods as if the Powres on high In death of labour-bearing oxen ioy A spotlesse sacrifice faire to behold ' I is death to please with ribands trickt and gold Stands at the Altar hearing prayers vnknowne And sees the meale vpon his fore-head throwne â—ot by his toile the knife smear'd in his gore By fortune in the lauer seene before The entrailes from the panting body rent Forth-with they search to know the Gods intent Whence springs so dire an appetite in man To interdicted food O Mortals can Or daâ—e you feed on flesh henceforth forbeare I you intreat and to my words giue eare When limbs of slaughtred Beeues become your meat Then thinke and know that you your Seruants eat Phoebus inspires his Spirit we obay My Delphâ—s heauen it selfe I will display The Oracle of that great power vnfold And sing what long lay hid what none of old Could apprehend I long to walke among The lofty starres dull earth despis'd I long To backe the clouds to sit on Atlas crowne And from that hight on erring men looke downe Thâ—t reason want those thus to animate That feare to die t' vnfold the booke of Fate O You whom horrors of cold death affright Why feare you Stix vaine names and endlesse Night The dreames of Poets and fain'd miseries Of forged Hell whether last-flames surprise Or Age deuoure your bodies they nor gâ—ieue Noâ— suffer paines Ouâ— Soules for euer lieu Yet euermore their ancient houses leaue To lieu in new which them as Guests receiue In Troiâ—n warres I I remember well Enphorbus was PanthoÌ„us sonne and fell By Menelaus lance my shield againe At Argos late I saw in Iuno's Fane All alter nothing finally decayes Hither and thither still the Spirit strayes Guest to all bodies out of beasts it flies To men from men to beasts and neuer dies As pliant wax each new impression takes Fixt to no forme but still the old for sakes Yet it the same so Soules the same abide Though various figures there reception hide Then lest thy greedy belly should destroy I prophesie depressed Piety Forbeare t'expulse thy kindreds Ghosts with food By deach procur'd nor nourishâ— blood with blood Since on so vast a sea my saile's vnfurl'd And-stretcht to rising winds in all the World There 's nothing permanent all ebbe and flow Each image form'd to wander to and fro Euen Time with restlesse motion slides away Like liuing streames nor can swift Riuers stay Nor light-heel'd Howers As billow billow driues Driuen by the following as the next
so to Theseus Peleus name Stoopes to Achilles That I may confer Th' illustrious to their equalls Iupiter So Saturne tops Iouâ— rules the arched Skie And triple-World thâ— Earths vast Monarchie T' Augustus bowes both Fathers and both sway You Gods Aeneas mates who made your way Through fire and sword you Gods of men become Quirinus Father of triumphant Rome Thou Mars inuincible Quirinus Sire Chast Vâ—sta with thy euer-burning fire Among great Caesars Houshold-Gods inshrin'd Domesticke Phoebus with his Vesta ioyn'd Thou Ioue Whom in Tarpeian towres we adore And you all you whom Poets may implore Slow be that day and after I am dead Wherein Augustus of the world the Head Leauing the Earth shall vnto Heauen repaire And 〈◊〉 those that seeke to him by prayer And now the Worke is ended which Ioue's rage Nor Fire nor Sword shall raze nor eating Age. Come when it will my deaths vncertaine howre Which only of my body hath a powre 〈…〉 Part transcend the skier And my immortall name shall neuer die For where-so-ere the Roman Eagles spread Their conquering wings I shall of all be read And if we Prophets truly can diuine I in my liuing Fame shall euer shine planations With these I had thought in their seuerall places to haue charged the margent but the hastinesse of the Presse and vnexpected want of leasure haue preuented me The same reason may serue for diuers slips aed errours which I not only know but acknowledge Yet if the too cleanly Criticke sweepe not all the dust together and lay it on one heape it may perhaps be hardly discerned howsoeuer borne-with in so long and interrupted a labour A ABantiades pag. III. vers 7. Actisius the Sonne of Abas King of Argos Abantiades pag. 117. vers 4 and pag. 124. vers 25. and pag. 128. vers 21. Perseus great grand-childe to Abas Acheloides the Syrens daughters to Achelous Acheron a Riuer in Hell and signifies depriuation of Ioy. Acrisionides Perseus grand-childâ— to Acrisius Actorides pag. 212. vers 20. Euritus and Creatus the sonnes of Actor Actorides pag. 359. vers 13. Patroclus grand-childe to Actor The Aeacides pag. 188. vers 19. Peleus Telamon and Phocus sonnes to Aeacus Aeacides pag. 297. vers 7. and 32. pag. 302. vers 6. Peleus the son of Aeacus Aeacides pag. 321. vers 21. and thence-forth Achillles the grand-childe of Aeacus Aello one of the Harpyes Aeetias Mâ—dea the daughter of Aeeta Aegides Theseus the sonne of Ae geus Aegis Minerua's shield Aeolian Virgin pag. 149. vers 24. Arne the daughter of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 107. vers 31. Athamas the sonne of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 194. vers 20. Cephalus the grandchild of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 250. vers 17. Macareus and Canace the sonne and daughter of Aeolus Aesonides Iason the sonne of Aeson Agenorides Cadmus the sonne of Agenor 〈◊〉 Otus and Ephialtes got by Neptune on the wife of Aloeus Alcides a name of Hercules which signifies strength Amâ—zonian Heros Hippolytus sonne to Hippolyte the Amazonian Amiclydes Hyacinthus the sonne of Amyclas Amphritâ—ite the daughter of Oceanus and wife to Neptune taken for the Sea Amphitryonides Hercules the son of Amphitryo Ampycides Mopsus the sonne of Ampycus Anubis an Idoll of the Aegyptians with the head of a dog Apis. a blacke Oxe spotted with white worshipped by the Aegyptians in remembrance of Osiris Aphrodites a name of Venus in that sprung from the foam of the Sea Arcturus a Star in the taile of the Greater Beare Astraea Iustice so called of Astraeus a most iust Prince Astraean sons The winds sons to the Gyant Astraenâ— Athamantiades Palaemon the sonne of Athamas Atlantiades pag. 24. vers 8 and pag. 48. vers 13. Mercurie the grand-childe of Atlaâ— Atlantiades pag. 102. vers 23. Hermaphroditus the sonne of Mercurie and great grand-childe of Atlas Atracides Caeneus so called of Atrax a Citie of Thessalie Atrides Agamemnon sometimes Menelaus both sonnes to Atreus Auernian Iuno Proserpina Auernus a lake in hell oâ—er which no birds can flie without falling Autonoeius Actaeon the sonne of Autonoe Gadmus daughter Auster The South-wind B BAcchiadae the off-spring of Bacchia the Corinthian Bacchanals Women solemnizing the feast of Bacchus Belides the Necces of Belus and daughters of Danaus Berecynthian pag. 293. vers 9. Midas of Berecynthus a Citie of Phrygia Bootes the Star that followes Charles Waine Boreas the North-wind Bromius a name of Bacchus which signifies raging Bubastis an Aegyptian Goddesse companion to Isis C CArpathian Prophet Proteus a God of the Sea Cecropides the daughters of Cecrops King of Athens Centaures said to be halfe men and halfe beasts in that they were the first that rid on horses Cerastae men with hornes Cerberus the Hell-bound with three heads signifing a deâ—ourer of the dead Chimaera a monster hauing the face of a woman the body of a goat and the taile of a Serpent Colchis Medea so called of Colchis where shee was borne Crataeis daughter Sâ—ylla Cyclades Ilands in the Aegaean Sea dispersed in forme of a cycle Cyclops Giants and sons of Neptune so called of the round eye which they had in their fore-hâ—ads Cyclopâ—an darts Thundâ—r and Lightning forged by the Cyclops Cyllenius a name of Mercuric in that borne on the hill Cyllene Cynthius Cynthia names of Apollo and Diana of Cynthus a hill in Delo where they were borne Cyprides a names of Venus of the Iland of Cyprus where shee was worshipped Cytherea a name of Venus of the Iland Cythera dedicated to Venus D DAnaean Heros Perseus the son of Dance Dâ—rdan Prophet Helenus the son of Prianâ— Hymen the God of marriage sometimes takèn for marriage Hyperion sometimes taken for the Sun sometimes for the father of the Sun I IAcchus a name of Bacchus which signifies clamour Iapetonides Atlas the sonne of Iapet Idalia Venus of Idalia a hill in Cyprus where she had her groues Ilia des pag. 267. vers 4 Ganymed grand-child to Ilus Iliades pag. 412. vers 18. Romulus descended from Ilus Ilithyia a name of Lucina Goddesse of child birth Inachis pag. 21. vers 30. Iö the daughter of Inachus Inachides pag. 26. vers 19. Epaphus the sonne of Iö and grand-child of Inachus Inachides pag. 115. vers 5. Perseus The Argolians being so called of the riuer Inachus Iö an acclamation of joy where it stands not for Io the daughter of Inachus Iris. the Raine-bow Ismenides Ismenians Thebans so called of Ismenus a riuer of Boeotia Ithacus Vlysses of the land Ithaca where he was borne Iülus a name of Ascanius L LEmnian issue pag. 55. vers 22. Erichthonius son to Vulcan who dwelt in Lemnos Lenaeus a name of Bacchus of the vessell that receiues the wine from the presse Lethe a riuer of Hell and signifies forgetfulnesse Liber a name of Bacchus in that wine sreeth the heart from sorrow Lucifer the Morning Starre Lyaeus a name of Bacchus the same with Liber M MAeandrius Caunus grand-child by the mothers side to the riuer Maeander Maedusean Herse Pegasus sprung from the bloud of Medusa Maeonidae the Muses Of Maeonia where they dwelt Paeons the daughters of Pierus so called of the woods of Paeonia which they frequented Palladium the Image of Pallas Paphian Heros Pigmalion of Paphos Pelides Achilles the son of Peleus Persephone The same with Proserpina Phasias a name of Medea from the riuer Phasts Phegides Themenus and Axion the sonnes of Phegeus Pheres hope Admetus the son of Pheres Phlegeton a burning river in hell Phoebus Phoebe names of the Sun and Moone in regard of their splendor Phorcydes the daughter of Phorcus Phoronis Iô the sister of Phoroneus Pleias Maia one of the Pleiades and mother to Mercury Pleiones Nephew Mercury grand-childe to Pleione the wife of Atals Poeans Heire Poeantius Philoctetes the sonne of Paean Prâ—amides pag. 355 vers 32. Hector the son of Priamus Promerhides Deucalion the sonne of Prometheus Properides Infamous women of Cyprus Q QVirinus a name of Romulus Quirites Romans so called of Quirinus R RHamnusia a name of Nemesis of the city Rhamnus where she badher Temple S SAturnius Saturnia Iupiter and Iuno the sonne and daughter of Saturne Smintheus a name of Apollo for destroying of mice Sol. the Sun Stygian shades Hell socalled of Styx an infernall riuer T TAntalides pag. 348. vers 15. Agamemnon grand-child to Tantalus Taygeta one of the Pleiades or seven Starres Tellus the Earth Teucrans Troians descended of Teucer Thaumantias Iris the daughter of Thaumas Thâ—spiades the Muses of Thesplae a City neere Helicon Thestiadae Toxeus and Plexippus the sonnes of Thestius Thestias Althaea the daughter of Thestius Thestorides Chalcas the son of Thestor Thyen Bacchus of Thyone a name of his mother Semele Thyrsus a Iauelin woond with Iuy borne by Bacchus Titan. a name of the Sun from his mother Titea whose 45. children were generally called by the name of Titans Titania p. 14. v. 19 Pyrrha descended of the Titans Titania pag. 67. vers 19. and pag. 179. vers 5. Diana grand-child to Titaea Titania pag. 157. vers 11. Latona daughter to Coeus one of the Titans Titania pag. 386. vers 13. Circe descended of the Titans Triones the seuen stars that turne about the Pole Triopeius Eresichâ—hon the sonne of Triopas Tritonia Pallas so called for her wisdome Troades the women of Troy Tydides Diomedes the sonne of Tydeus Tyndaridae Castor and Pollux the sons of Tyndarus Tyrinthian Hercules of Tyrus V VVlcans seed pag. 186. vers 19. Periphaâ—us Z ZEphyruâ—â—the West-wind FINIS Trist â—libâ— Elegia 6. Controu 10. Hist lib. 2. In Ose cap â— De Cursâ— Deâ— In Natricia 〈…〉 〈…〉 In Heroibus In praesar Comment In Principio Additionum