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

thy praises and to describe thy dreadfull warres I do not sing vnbidden things yet if any one shall also reade these verses if any one enamoured with the loue of thee will reade them Oh Varus our heath shall sing thy praises Euery wood shall sing of thee for there is not any writing more pleasing to Apollo then that which beares the name of Varus Yee Muses of the hill Pierius proceede The lads Chromis and Mnasilus saw Silenus lying fast asleepe in a caue Hauing his veines blowne vp with wine the day before as alwayes hee was wont His garlands lay a good way off onely slipped from his head And a great kan hanged by hauing the eare all worne They setting on him for the old man had oft times mocked them both with hope of a song cast bonds vpon him made of his very garlands Egle adioyned her selfe as a companion and came to helpe these timorous youths Euen Egle the fairest of the. water Nymphs and painted both the forehead and the temples of the head of him now ‖ seeing her with bloudie coloured mulberies Hee laughing at their subtiltie to what end knit you these bands quoth he Yee boyes loose me it is enough that I could be seene of you Chuse ye what songs you will haue you shall haue songs She shall haue another reward And so withall doth he begin And then indeede you might behold both the Fawnes and wilde beasts too to dance in measure and in time then might you see the sturdie oakes to waue their tops So that Parnassus rock doth not so much reioyce in Phoebus Nor Rhodope and Ismarus do so admire Orpheus For he sang how the seeds of the earth and of the aire and also of the water and likewise of the liquid fire were first gathered together thorough out the great vast space how all things tooke their beginnings of the first seeds and how the tender globe it selfe of the round world did grow together Then loe the earth began to harden and to separate the Ocean sea from Pontus and by litle and litle to take the shapes of things And also how the earth is now astonished to see the new Sunne to begin to shine And how the showres do fall from clouds remoued on high from th' earth When first the woods began to grow vp and at what time the beasts wandered vp and downe throughout the vnknowne mountaines After this he sang of the stones cast by Pyrrha and of Saturnes kingdomes And withall he sings of the birds of the hill Caucasus and the theft of Prometheus c. THE SEVENTH ECLOGVE called Meliboeus THe Argument of this Eclogue is taken from the Pastorals of Theocritus And here the Poet brings in the sheepheard Melibeus reporting a Pastorall contention betweene Corydon and Thyrsis whereat by chance as he sought a goate which had strayed from his flocke hee was present being called thereto by Daphnis the iudge of the maistery whom he intimates to haue giuen sentence with Corydon whenas he saith at the end of the Eclogue These things I remember that Thyrsis ouercome contended all in vaine The speakers are Meliboeus Corydon Thyrsis Mel. DAphnis as it fell out sate downe vnder a whizzing holme And both Corydon and Thyrsis had gathered their flockes into one Thyrsis his sheepe Corydon his goates bagd with milke Both of them flourishing in age both Arcadians Also matches in singing and prepared to answer one another by turnes Whilst I was fencing my tender myrtles from the cold the goate himselfe the leader of the flocke had strayed from me hither and then I spied Daphnis who when he saw me ouer against him spake quickly thus vnto me Come hither Melibeus thy goate is safe and so likewise thy kids And if thou canst stay any whit rest with me vnder the shade The bullockes will come hither to drinke thorough the medowes of their owne accord Al. Here the greene riuer Mincius hath couered his banks with tender reeds and the swarmes of bees resound from the holy oake What should I do for neither had I Alcippe my wife nor my daughter Phillis al. at home which might shut vp my lambes weaned from the milke And there was a great match to be tried betweene Corydon and Thyrsis Yet set I mine owne serious businesses after their sport Then both of them began to trie with verses sung by course The Muses wold haue them record their songs by turnes Corydon rehearsed these first and Thyrsis related in order those that follow C. O Nymphs of Lybethris who are our chiefe delight either grant vnto me such a verse as yee vouchsafed to my Codrus for he makes verses next vnto the verses of Apollo or if all of vs cannot make such My shrill sounding pipe shall hang here vpon this sacred pine Th. Yee Arcadian sheepheards adorne with ivie your Poet growing in his skill that Codrus guts may burst for enuie Or if he shall praise me more then he would willingly compasse yee my browes about with Saint Iohns wort lest his ill tongue should hurt me now ready to be a Poet. Cor. Oh Diana thou hunting Goddesse my little Mycon offers vnto thee this head of the bristly boare and these branched hornes of the long liued Stag. If this wager shall be mine owne thou shalt stand made wholly of smooth marble in purple buskins Thyrs Priapus it is enough for thee to expect euery yeare a boll of milke and these cakes thou art but the keeper of the poore orchard Now we haue made thee of marble for the time but if increase of yong shall store our flocke then be thou all of gold Cor. O Nymph Galatea daughter of Nereus sweeter to me then the thyme of Hybla to the bees Whiter then the swans fairer then white ivie So soone as the buls being fed shall returne vnto their stals if thou haue any care of thy Corydon then come thou Th. Yea let me seeme to thee more bitter then the Sardinian herbes more rough to touch then butchers broome more vile then wrake cast vp on shore If that this day be not

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