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A08657	Ouids Metamorphosis translated grammatically, and also according to the propriety of our English tongue, so farre as grammar and the verse will well beare. Written chiefly for the good of schooles, to be vsed according to the directions in the preface to the painefull schoole-master, and more fully in the booke called Ludus Literarius, or the Grammar-schoole, Chap. 8; Metamorphoses. Book 1. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Brinsley, John, fl. 1633.	1618 (1618)	STC 18963; ESTC S120970	103,077	106

FABLE I. Of the Chaos or of the first and most admirable Metamorphosis viz. of the forming or fashioning all things out of the Chaos first of the 4. Eleme●ts made out of it BEfore the Sea earth and Heauen which couereth al things There was one forme of nature in the whole world Which they called Chaos which was a rude confused heape Neither was there any thing but a lumpish weight and disagreeing ●eeds of things not well ioyned heaped vp together in the same No Sun gaue light as yet to the world Neither did the newe Moone repaire her hornes by increasing Nor yet the earth p●ized with her owne weight did hang in the ayre compassed about it nether had the sea reached out her armes by the long banke of the earth And likewise in what part was earth there was also both sea and ayre So the earth was vnstable the water not to bee swomme in The ayre was without light nothing had the proper form And one thing was against others because in one bodie Cold things did fight with hot moist with dry Soft things did fight with hard things hauing weight w th things without weight God and a better nature tooke away this strife For he diuided the earth from heauen the water from the earth And separated the liquid skie from the foggie ayre Which after he had tumbled out and taken from the confused heape Hee bound thē being separate in place with a quiet peace The fiery power of the heauen bending downward and without weight shined out chose it selfe a place in the highest tower The ayre is next to it in lightnesse and in place The earth is more solide then these and hath drawen the great Elements with it And is pressed downe with the heauinesse of it selfe The water flowing about it Hath possessed the vtmost places and kept in the so●●e globe FABLE II. Of the full and perfect forming and fashioning of the 4. chiefe parts of the world and the adorning each of them with their proper creatures more specially of the creation of man last to bee Lord of all WHen hee which soeuer of the Gods he was had diuided the heape so disposed and brought it diuided into parts First of all hee made the earth round after the fashion of a great globe least that it should not be euen of euery part Then he poured abroad the narrow seas and commanded them to swell w th the whirling winds and to compasse about the shores of the earth inuironed thereby Moreouer he added fountaines and huge standing ponds and lakes And he girt in the riuers running downewards with crooked banks Which being distant in places are supped vp partly of the earth it self Partly doe they come into the sea and being receiued there in a field Of more free water they beate vpon the shoares instead of banks He commanded also the champaine fieldes to bee stretched abroad the valleies to settle downward The woods to bee couered with leaues the craggie mountains to ascend And as two zones diuide the heauen on the right part and as many moe on the left the fift is more burning then those So the prouidence of God hath distinguished the burden included by the same number and euen so many climates are set in the earth Whereof that which is the middle is not habitable for heate Deepe snow couereth two of them and also hee placed as many moe between those two And hath giuen them a tēperature heat being mixed in them w th cold The ayre hangeth ouer these w ch is so much heauier then the fier as the weight of the water is lighter then the weight of the earth There he hath cōmanded both the little and great cloudes to stay and the thunders to mooue mens harts And together with the lightning the winds making the cold Moreouer the maker of the world hath not permitted the ayre to bee vsed of these euery where there there is scarcely any wi●hstanding of thē now Whenas euery one of thē ruleth his owne blasts in a diuers region But that they would reare the world in pieces the discord of those brethrē is so great The East-winde betooke it selfe vnto the morning and to the kingdomes of Nabathaea And to Persia and to the mountaines lying vnder the Sunne rising The euening and the shoares w ch wax warme by the Sunne setting Are next vnto the West-wind the horrible North-wind hath inuaded Scythia the parts lying vnder the North pole The contrarie earth is wet with continuall clouds frō the rainy south He placed ouer these the skie being pure and without all heauinesse neither hauing any terrene substāce Scarcely had he thus seuered all things in their certaine bounds When as the starres which had long lyen hid pressed vnder that same masse began to glister in the whole heauē And least any region should be destitute of their owne liuing creatures The starres and the Gods doe possesse the heauenly soyle The waters haue befallen to bee inhabited of the bright fishes The earth tooke the beasts the moueable ayre the birds A liuing creature more holy then these and more capeable of a diuine minde And which might rule ouer the rest was as yet lacking Man was borne whether that maker of all things the beginning of the better world made him of diuine seede

decreed Part of them approoue the speech of Iupiter by voice and put spurres vnto him thus moued others fulfil their parts with their assents Yet notwithstanding the losse of mankinde is a griefe vnto them all and they ask what shall be the forme of the earth being depriu'd of mortal men who should bring Frankincense vnto their Altars whether he thus prepare to deliuer to the wilde beasts the earth to bee destroyed Iupiter bids them asking such like things not to feare for that hee would haue a care of all other matters and promiseth that there should be an of-spring vnlike vnto the former people of a wonderful beginning And euen now was hee ready to disperse his lightnings vpon all the earth But he feared least bechance the holy heauen should catch the flame by so many fires vnder it and the whole heauen should be set on fire He also remembreth that it was decreed that the time should come Wherein the sea earth Palace of heauen being set on fire should burne the curious frame of the world should be dissolued His thunderbolts made by the hands of the Cyclopians are laid vp A contrary punishment pleaseth him to destroy all mankinde vnder the water and to send downe mighty raine from euery part of heauen And therefore hee forthwith shuts vp the North-winde in the caues of Eolia And all other windes which driue away the clouds broght in And hee sends out the South-winde The South-winde flies abroad with wet wings Hauing his terrible countenance couered with darknesse as black as pitch His beard is loaden with abundance of raine the water floweth from his hoarie lockes Little cloudes sit in his forehead both his feathers and bosome distill like deawe And as hee wringed with his hand the cloudes hanging all abroad A crash is made huge showers are poured downe from the skie The rainebowe Iunoes messenger being arrayed with diuers colours conceiueth waters and affoordeth matter vnto the clouds The standing corne is beaten downe and the hopes of the husbandmen lye altogether desperate and also the labour of the long yeer being frustrate perisheth vtterly Neither yet is the anger of Iupiter contēt w th his own heauen but his azure colored brother Neptune helpeth him with his aiding waues He calleth together the Gods of the riuers who after that they entred the house of their King we are not now quoth he to vse any long exhortation powre out your forces open your fountaines for so there is neede hauing remooued all hindrances giue the whole raines to al your streams Hee had thus commanded These returne and set open the mouths of their fountaines And so they are tumbled into the sea with a most violent course He himselfe also smit the earth with his three-forked Mace so that it Trembled and set open the passages of the water in the moouing thereof The floudes running all abroad doe rush through the open fields And carrie away with violence groues of trees together with the sowen corne and also cattell and men and houses and all the places of the worship of their Gods together with their sacred things If any house remained vncast downe and could withstand so great an euill yet the water being higher couereth the top thereof and the towers lye hid being ouerwhelmed vnder the vast waters And now the sea and land had no difference All things were sea euen the very shoares were wanting to the sea One man gets vp into a hill another sits in a crooked boat And roweth there where hee had plowed of late Hee sailes ouer the standing corn or the top of a drowned farme another catcheth fish in the top of an Elme The Anchor is fastened in the greene medowe as it fell out Or the crooked keeles do couer the vineyards lying vnder them And where of late the slender Goats did feede There the ill-fauoured sea-calues doe now lay their bodies The nymphs of the sea doe woonder at the groues and Cities and houses vnder the water also the Dolphins abide in the woods and doe runne vp and downe amongst the thick boughs and beat vpon the tossed Oakes The Wolfe swimmeth amōgst the sheep the water carrieth the tawnie coloured Lyons The water beareth away the Tigres neither doth the force of the thūderbolt help the Bore Nor yet doe the swift legs availe the Stag being carried away with the waters The bird likewise wandring with wearie wings falleth downe into the Sea hauing long sought the earth where she might rest The outragious swelling of the Sea had couered the hils And the r new waues beate vpon the tops of the moūtaines The greatest part of men is whirled away violently by the water whom the water spared Those long fasting doth ouercome thorough lacke of foode Phocis seuereth the Aonians from the Actean fields It was a fruitfull land whilst it remained a land but at that time A part of the sea a broad field of suddaine waters Where the mount Parnassus by name reacheth almost vnto the stars with two tops and goeth aboue the clouds with his height Whenas Deucalion being carried in a little ship together with his wife stayed here for the sea had couered the rest He adoreth the r Corycidane Nymphes and the Gods of the Mountaine And Themis the destinieteller who at that time gaue answeres from the Gods There was not a better man then he or

horrible fact of Lycaon and the vengeance which Iupiter tooke of him for the same hee proceedeth to declare that all the world being likewise filled with cruelty Iupiter fully resolues to destroy all in like manner * Hath fallen or is fallen r To be ouerthrowē q Erynuis is taken for a Furie of hel delighting in discord and warre a taker of vengeance on such especially as are impious against their parents * Cruell furie raigns what way the earth lyeth open viz. euery where That although this one house was ouerthrowen yet it was not one house alone that had deserued it but euen all man-kinde was worthy to perish * You may thinke them to sweare to horrible wickednesse r A man would thinke that all men had bound themselues by oath to commit all kinde of mischiefe Because cruelty so raigned euery where that a man would haue thought that all sorts had conspired bound themselues by oath to commit all horrible wickednesse * All of them let them giue the punishment c. r Let them haue all according to their deseruings * More quickly And therefore he decrees to deale with thē all in taking vengeance according to their desert * To suffer * So my sentence or decree stands r Determined And this is the determination of his sentence which he will not reuoke r This seemeth to be an allusion to the manner of the Senatours of Rome in giuing their sentences or voices * Sayings Hereupon all the rest of the Gods approoue of Iupiters decree Some by speech setting him on * Put vnto pricks or goads * Chafing discontented or full of indignation Others by their assents agreeing thereunto r By giuing their assent or assenting r They all take to heart the losse of mankinde r Destruction Yet here the Gods make sundry doubts concerning this matter And first they are all troubled for this vtter destruction of mankinde And then demand what the forme and condition of the world should be being vtterly dispeopled and depriued of mortall men r They demaund of Iupiter * What the fashion of the earth shall be being depriued or destitute r should be Who should do them any worship or seruice r Who should worship or doe any honour vnto them r Incense or sacrifice Whether he thus prepared a way to deliuer the earth to the wilde beasts to be wasted by them * To giue ouer the earth to be wasted with wilde beasts * Dispeopled or wasted * The King of the Gods forbids them asking such like things to feare To all which Iupiter giuing answere first for the generall bids them not to feare for that he would haue a care of all these things * Tremble * For hee said the rest or other matters to bee afterwards a care to him * To be r Issue or generation And for mankinde that hee would raise vp another of-spring farre vnlike this former which hee would destroy and of a more admirable beginning viz. by changing euen very stones into men and women as followeth after * Maruailous original stock or birth viz. By changing stones into men and women as followeth after * About * Scatter or spread or throwe abroad r Thunderbolts * The whole earths And here he was ready to haue scattered his lightnings throwen his thunderbolts thoroughout all the earth But that hee feared least hereby the verie heauens should bee set on fire by so many fires euery where vnder them * Skie * Conceiue or catch the flames * From so many c. r Vpon the earth s The Axletree about which the heauen is said to bee turned put for the whole heauen * Axletree * Begin to burne r Cals to minde t Fatum according to the Stoicks is the decreed order of things whereby the world is gouerned necessarily * To be in the destinies or fates And withall remembred that it was decreed that such a destruction by fire should come in the end of the world * A time to be present * In which time the sea in which the earth palace or court of heauen being catched by fires must burne For that the time should come wherein earth sea and heauens being set on fire should burne and the whole frame of the world should be dissolued * Huge masse or building of the world so ful of work or that cost so much labour must labour or faint * Darts * Framed forged or hammered u The Cyclopians are said to haue beene Iupiters Smiths which make him thūderbolts They were giāts of Sicily hauing but one eye and that in the middest of their forehead r Layed aside to bee reserued against the last destruction by fire Hereupon hee layeth vp his thunderbolts forged by his Smiths the Cyclopians * Diuers r It pleaseth him to haue a punishment contrary to that by fire viz. by water * The mortall kind r By water And resolueth of a contrary destruction viz. To destroy all mankinde with a floud of waters and that chiefly by sending downe a mighty raine from euery part of heauen * Great showers or sodaine stormes of raine out of all the heauen * To that end x Aquile the North-winde is so called because he commeth flying boystrously as an Eagle * Eolian caues y Eolus is fained to bee the sonne of Iupiter by Acesta● and he is said to bee the GOD of the winds because being Prince of Eolie hee found out much the reason of the winds by certaine signes to foretell what windes would blowe and so was thought to haue the windes at commaund And to this purpose hee presently shuts vp the North-winde in the caues of the countrey of Eolia where Eolus rules them * Whatsoeuer other blasts * Put to flight or cause to fly away r Spred ouer And likewise all other windes which driue away the cloudes and the raine And instead of them sends abroad the south-winde the principall procurer of raine z The South-winde is thus described because it is commonly wet a The winds are said to haue wings for the swiftnesse of them Which is described thus for the more easie vnderstanding the rainie nature of it * Hauing couered his terrible c. or being couered in respect of his countenance or as concerning his countenāce Synce * Pitchy darknesse viz. blacke clouds 1. That hee comes flying with wet wings 2. That he hath his countenance terrible couered with darknesse as blacke as pit●h * Heauie or full * Huge showers or stormes 3. That his beard is loaden with raine and that raine floweth from his hoarie lockes all bedeawed * Waue r White with deaw * Haires 4. That in his forehead sit little cloudes his feathers bosom all distill like deaw r Drop downe as the deaw or send downe a deaw * Pressed the clouds hanging farre and wide with his hand 5. That hee wrings the clouds in his hand b Fragor is the noise of things broken