of all the field They reacht the wild Figtree and long'd to make their towne their shield Yet there they rested not the king still cride Pursue pursue And all his vnreproued hands did blood and dust embrue But when they came to Sceas ports and to the Beech of Ioue There made they stand there euerie eye fixt on each other stroue Who should outlooke his mate amaz'd through all the field they fled And as a Lion when the night becomes most deafe and dead 〈◊〉 Inuades Oxe heards affrighting all that he of one may wreake His dreadfull hunger and his neckâ—… he first of all doth breake Then laps his blood and eâ—…iles vp so Agamemnon plide The manage of the Troian chace and still the last man di'd The other fled a number fell by his imperiall hand Some groueling downwards from their horse some vpwards strew'd the sand High was the furie of his lance but hauing beat them close Beneath their walls the both worlds Sire did now againe repose On fountaine-flowing Idas tops being newly slid from heauen And held a lightning in his hand from thence this charge was giuen To Iris with the golden wings Thaumantia flie said he Ioue to the Rainbow And tell Troys Hector that as long as he enrag'd shall see The souldier-louing Atreus sonne amongst the formost fight Depopulating troopes of men so long he must excite Some other to resist the foe and he no armes aduance But when he wounded takes his horse attain'd with shaft or lance Then will I fill his arme with death euen till he reach the Fleet And peacefull night treads busie day beneath her sacred feet The wind-wind-foot swift Thaumantia obeyd and vsd her wings To famous Ilion from the mount enchaste with siluer springs And found in his bright chariot the hardie Troian knight To whom she spake the words of Ioue and vanisht from his sight He leapt vpon the sounding earth and shooke his lengthfull dart And euerie where he breath'd exhorts and stird vp euerie heart A dreadfull fight he set on foote his souldiers straight turnd head The Greekes stood firme in both the hoasts the field was perfected But Agamemnon formost still did all his side exceed And would not be the first in name vnlesse the first in deed Now sing faire Presidents of verse that in the heauens embowre Who first encountred with the king of all the aduerse powre Iphydamas Antenors sonne ample and bigly set Brought vp in pasture-springing Thrace that doth soft sheepe beget In graue Cissaeus noble house that was his mothers Sire Faire Theano and when his breast was heightned with the fire Of gaisome youth his grand-Sire gaue his daughter to his loue Who straight his bridall chamber left Fame with affection stroue And made him furnish twelue faire ships to lend faire Troy his hand His ships he in Percope left and came to Troy by land And now he tried the fame of Greece encountring with the king Who threw his royall lance and mist Iphydamas did fling And strooke him on the arming waste beneath his coate of brasse Which forc't him stay vpon his arme so violent it was Yet pierc't it not his wel-wrought zone but when the lazie head Tried hardnesse with his siluer waste it turnd againe like lead He follow'd grasping the ground end but with a Lions wile That wrests away a hunters staffe he caught it by the pile And pluckt it from the casters hand whom with his sword he strooke Iphydamas slain by Agamemnon Beneath the eare and with his wound his timelesse death he tooke He fell and slept an iron sleepe wretched young man he dide Farre from his newly-married wife in aide of forreine pride And saw no pleasure of his loue yet was her ioynture great An hundred Oxen gaue he her and vow'd in his retreate Two thousand head of sheepe and Goates of which he store did leaue Much gaue he of his loues first fruits and nothing did receiue When Coon one that for his forme might feast an amorous eye And elder brother of the slaine beheld this tragedie Deepe sorrow sate vpon his eyes and standing laterally And to the Generall vndiscernd his Iauelin he let flie That twixt his elbow and his wrist transfixt his armelesse arme The bright head shin'd on th' other side The vnexpected harme Imprest some horror in the king yet so he ceast not fight But rushton Coon with his lance who made what haste he might Seising his slaughterd brothers foote to draw him from the field And cald the ablest to his aide when vnder his round shield The kings brasse Iauelin as he drew did strike him helplesse dead Who made Iphydamas the blocke and cut off Coons head Thus vnder great Atrides arme Antenors issue thriu'd And to suffise precisest fate to Plutos mansion diu'd He with his lance sword mightie stones pour'd his Heroicke wreake On other Squadrons of the foe whiles yet warme blood did breake Through his cleft veines but when the wound was quite exhaust and crude The eager anguish did approue his Princely fortitude As when most sharpe and bitter pangs distract a labouring Dame Which the diuine Ilithiae that rule the painefull frame Of humane chid-birth poure on her th' Ilithiae that are The daughters of Saturnia with whose extreme repaire The woman in her trauell striues to take the worst it giues With thought it must be t is loues fruite the end for which she liues The meane to make her selfe new borne what comforts will redound So Agamemnon did sustaine the torment of his wound Then tooke he chariot and to Fleet bad haste his chariotere But first pour'd out his highest voice to purchase euerie eare Princes and Leaders of the Greekes braue friends now from our fleet Agamemnon to the Greeke Princes Do you expell this bostrous sway Ioue will not let me meet Illustrate Hector nor giue leaue that I shall end the day In fight against the Ilian power my wound is in my way This said his readie chariotere did scourge his spritefull horse That freely to the sable fleet performd their fierie course To beare their wounded Soueraigne apart the Martiall thrust Sprinkling their powerfull breasts with foame and snowing on the dust When Hector heard of his retreate thus he for fame contends Hector to the Trâ—…ians Troians Dardanians Lycians all my close-fighting friends Thinke what it is to be renownd be souldiers all of name Our strongest enemie is gone loâ—…e vowes to do vs fame Then in the Grecian faces driue your one-hou'd violent steeds And fare aboue their best be best and glorifie your deeds Thus as a dog-giuen Hunter sets vpon a brace of Bores His white-toothd hounds pufs showts breaths terms on his emprese pores All his wild art to make them pinch so Hector vrg'd his host To charge the Greeks and he himselfe most bold and actiue most He brake into the heate of fight as when a tempest raues Stoops from the clouds and all
foule disgrace Lodg'd ambuscados for their foe in some well chosen place By which he was to make returne Twise fiue and twentie men And two of them great captaines too the ambush did containe The names of those two men of rule were Mâ—…on Hâ—…mons sonne And Lycophontes Keepe-field cald the heire of Autophon By all men honord like the Gods yet these and all their friends Were sent to hell by Tydeus hand and had vntimely ends He trusting to the aid of Gods reueald by Augurie Obeying which one Chiefe he sau'd and did his life apply To be the heauie messenger of all the others deaths And that sad message with his life to Maeon he bequeaths So braue a knight was Tydeus of whom a sonne is sprong Inferiour farre in martiall deeds though higher in his tongue All this Tydides silent heard aw'd by the reuerend king Which stung hote Sthenelus with wrath who thus put forth his sting Atrides when thou know'st the truth speake what thy knowledge is And do not lie so for I know and I will bragge in this Sthenelus rough speech to Agamemnon That we are farre more able men then both our fathers were We tooke the seuen-fold ported Thebes when yet we had not there So great helpe as our fathers had and fought beneath a wall Sacred to Mars by helpe of Ioue and trusting to the fall Of happie signes from other Gods by whom we tooke the towne Vntoucht our fathers perishing there by sollies of their owne And therefore neuer more compare our fathers worth with ours Tydides frownd at this and said Suppresse thine angers pow'rs Good friend and heare why I refrain'd thou seest I am not mou'd Diomed rebukâ—…s Stheneâ—…s Against our Generall since he did but what his place behou'd Admonishing all Greekes to fight for if Troy proue our prise The honor and the ioy is his If here our ruine lies The shame and griefe for that as muâ—…h is his in greatest kinds As he then his charge weigh we ours which is our dantlesse minds Thus from his chariot amply arm'd he iumpt downe to the ground The armor of the angrie king so horribly did sound It might haue made his brauest foe let feare take downe his braues And as when with the West-wind flawes the sea thrusts vp her waues Simile One after other thicke and high vpon the groning shores First in her selfe lowd but opposd with banks and Rocks she â—…ores And all her backe in bristles set spits euerie way her some So after Diomed instantly the field was ouercome With thicke impressions of the Greekes and all the noise that grew The silence of the Greeke fight Ordring and chearing vp their men from onely leaders flew The rest went silently away you could not heare a voice Nor would haue thought in all their breasts they had one in their choice Their silence vttering their awe of them that them contrould Which made ech man keep bright his arms march fight still where he should The Troians like a sort of Ewes pend in a rich mans fold The Troians coÌ„pared to Ewâ—…s Close at his dore till all be milkt and neuer baaing hold Hearing the bleating of their lambs did all their wide host fill With showts and clamors nor obseru'd one voice one baaing still But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid Rude Mars had th'ordring of their spirits of Greeks the learned Maid Mars for the Troians Pallas for the Greekes But Terror follow'd both the hosts and flight and furious Strife The sister and the mate of Mars that spoile of humane life Discord the sistâ—…r of Marâ—… And neuer is her rage at rest at first she is but small Yet after but a little fed she growes so vast and tall Virgil the same of â—…ame That while her feet moue here in earth her forhead is in heauen And this was she that made euen then both hosts so deadly giuen Through euery troope she stalkt and stird rough sighes vp as she went But when in one field both the foes her furie did content And both came vnder reach of darts then darts and shields opposd To darts and shields strength answerd strength then swords and targets closd With swords and targets both with pikes and then did tumult rise Vp to her height then conquerors boasts mixt with the conquerds cries Earth flow'd with blood And as from hils raine waters headlong fall That all waies eate huge Ruts which met in one bed fill a vall With such a confluence of streames that on the mountaine grounds Farre off in frighted shepheards eares the bustling noise rebounds So grew their conflicts and so shew'd their scuffling to the eare With flight and clamor still commixt and all effects of feare And first renowm'd Antilochus slew fighting in the face Antilocâ—…us slue 〈◊〉 Of all Achaias formost bands with an vndanted grace Echepolus Thalysiades he was an armed man Whom on his haire-plum'd helmets crest the dart first smote then ran Into his forehead and there stucke the steele pile making way Quite through his skull a hastie night shut vp his latest day His fall was like a fight-rac't towre like which lying their dispred King Elephenor who was sonne to Chalcodon and led The valiant Abants couetous that he might first possesse His armes laid hands vpon his feet hal'd him from the preasse Of darts and Iauelins hurld at him The action of the king Elephenor drawing of the body of Echepolus is slaine by Agenor When great in heart Agenor saw he made his Iaueline sing To th 'others labor and along as he the trunke did wrest His side at which he bore his shield in bowing of his breast Lay naked and receiu'd the lance that made him lose his hold And life together which in hope of that he lost he sold. But for his sake the fight grew fierce the Troians and their foe Like wolues on one another rusht and maâ—… for man it goes The next of name that seru'd his fate great Aiax Telamoâ—… 〈◊〉 slaies Siâ—… Preferd so sadly he was heire to old Anthemion And deckt with all the flowre of youth the fruit of which yet fled Before the honourd nuptiall torch could light him to his bed His name was Symoisius For some few yeares before His mother walking downe the hill of Ida by the shore Of Syluer Symois to see her parents â—…locks with them She feeling sodainely the paines of child-birth by the streame Of that bright riuer brought him forth and so of Symois They cald him Symoisius Sweet was that birth of his To his kind parents and his growth did all their care employ And yet those rites of pietie that should haue bene his ioy To pay their honourd yeares againe in as affectionate sort He could not graciously performe his sweet life was so short Cut off with mightie Aiax lance For as his spirit put on He strooke him at his breasts right
flashes pour'd from clouds on any punisht land So from Atrides troubled heart through his darke sorowes flew Redoubled sighes his intrailes shooke as often as his view Admir'd the multitude of fires that gilt the Phrygian shade And heard the sounds of fifes and shawmes and tumults soâ—…ldiers made But when he saw his fleet and host kneele to his care and loue He rent his haire vp by the roots as sacrifice to Ioue Burnt in his firie sighes still breath'd out of his royall heart And first thought good to Nestors care his sorowes to impart To trie if royall diligence with his approu'd aduise Might fashion counsels to preuent their threatned miseries So vp he rose attir'd himselfe and to his strong feet tide Agaâ—…nons habite rising in the night Rich shoes and cast vpon his backe a ruddie Lions hide So ample it his ankles reacht then tooke his royall speare He wearing a Lioâ—…s hide Like him was Menelaus pierc't with an industrious feare Nor sat sweet slumber on his eyes lest bitter Fates should quite The Greekes high fauours that for him resolu'd such endlesse fight 〈◊〉 a â—…eopards And first a freckled Panthers hide hid his brode backe athwart His head his brasen helme did arme his able hand his dart Then made he all his haste to raise his brothers head as rare That he who most exceld in rule might helpe t' effect his care He found him at his ships crookt-sterne adorning him with armes Who ioyd to see his brothers spirits awak't without alarmes Well weighing th'importance of the time And first the yonger spake Why brother are ye arming thus is it to vndertake Menelaus to Agamemnon The sending of some ventrous Greeke t'explore the foes intent Alas I greatly feare not one will giue that worke consent Exposd alone to all the feares that flow in gloomie night He that doth this must know death well in which ends euerie fright Brother said he in these affaires we both must vse aduice Agamemnon to Menelaus Ioue is against vs and accepts great Hectors sacrifice For I haue neuer seene nor heard in one day and by one So many high attempts well vrg'd as Hectors power hath done Against the haplesse sons of Greece being chiefly deare to Ioue And without cause being neither fruite of any Godesse loue Nor helpfull God and yet I feare the deepnesse of his hand Ere it be rac't out of our thoughts will many yeares withstand But brother hie thee to thy ships and Idomen disease With warklike Aiax I will haste to graue Neleides Exhorting him to rise and giue the sacred watch command For they will specially embrace incitement at his hand And now his sonne their captaine is and Idomens good friend Bold Merion to whose discharge we did that charge commend Commandst thou then his brother askt that I shall tarrie hâ—…re Attending thy resolu'd approach or else the message beare And quickly make returne to thee He answerd Rather stay Directions for commmand in wars extremity Lest otherwise we faile to meete for many a different way Lies through our labyrinthian host speake euer as you go Command strong watch from Sire to sonne vrge all t' obserue the foe Familiarly and with their praise exciting euerie eye Not with vnseason'd violence of prowd authoritie We must our patience exercise and worke our selues with them Ioue in our births combin'd such care to eithers Diadem Thus he dismist him knowing well his charge before he went Himselfe to Nestor whom he found in bed within his tent Nâ—…tors armes and readinesse to vse them By him his damaske curets hung his shield a paire of darts His shining caske his arming waste in these he led the hearts Of his apt souldiers to sharpe warre not yeelding to his yeares He quickly started from his bed when to his watchfull eares Vntimely feet told some approach he tooke his lance in hand And spake to him Ho what art thou that walk'st at midnight stand Is any wanting at the guards or lack'st thou any Peere Speake come not silent towards me say what intendst thou heare He answerd O Neleides graue honour of our host 〈◊〉 to Nestor T' is Agamemnon thou maist know whom Ioue afflicteth most Of all the wretched men that liue and will whilst any breath Giues motion to my toiled lims and beares me vp from death I walke the round thus since sweet sleepe cannot inclose mine eyes Nor shut those Organs care breaks ope for our calamities My feare is vehement for the Greeks my heart the fount of heate With his extreme affects made cold without my breast doth beate And therefore are my sinewes strooke with trembling euerie part Of what my friends may feele hath act in my dispersed heart But if thou thinkst of any course may to our good redound Since neither thou thy selfe canst sleepe come walke with me the round In way whereof we may confer and looke to euerie guard Lest watching long and wearinesse with labouring so hard Dâ—…owne their oppressed memories of what they haue in charge The libertie we giue the foe alas is ouer large Their campe is almost mixt with ours and we haue forth noispies To learne their drifts who may perchance this night intend surprise Graue Nestor answerd Worthie king let good hearts beare our ill Nestor to Agamemâ—…n Ioue is not bound to perfect all this busie Hectors will But I am confidently giuen his thoughts are much dismaid With feare lest our distresse incite Achilles to our aide And therefore will not tempt his fate nor ours with further pride But I will gladly follow thee and stirre vp more beside Tydides famous for his lance Vlysses Telamon And bold Phyleus valiant heire or else if any one Would haste to call king Idomen and Aiax since their saile Lie so remou'd with much good speed it might our haste auaile But though he be our honord friend thy brother I will blame Not fearing if I anger thee it is his vtter shame He should commit all paines to thee that should himselfe imploy Past all our Princes in the care and cure of our annoy And be so farre from needing spurres to these his due respects He should apply our spirits himselfe with pray'rs and vrg'd affects Necessitie a law to lawes and not to be endur'd Makes proofe of all his faculties not sound if not inur'd Good father said the king sometimes you know I haue desir'd Agamemnons excuse of hiâ—… brother You would improue his negligence too oft to ease retir'd Nor is it for defect of spirit or compasse of his braine But with obseruing my estate he thinks he should abstaine Till I commanded knowing my place vnwilling to assume For being my brother any thing might proue he did presume But now he rose before me farre and came t' auoid delaies And I haue sent him for the man your selfe desir'd to raise Come we shall find them at the guards we plac't before the fort For
of stones and darts contending to inuade Where Clamor spent so high a throate and where the fell blowes made The new-built woodden turrets grone And here the Greeks were pent Tam'd with the Iron whip of Ioue that terrors vehement Shooke ouer them by Hectors hand who was in euerie thought The terror-maister of the field and like a whirlewind fought Hector like a whirlwind and Lion As fresh as in his morns first charge And as a sauage Bore Or Lion hunted long at last with hounds and hunters store Is compast round they charge him close and stand as in a towre They had inchac't him pouring on of darts an Iron showre His glorious heart yet nought appald and forcing forth his way Here ouerthrowes a troope and there a running ring doth stay His vtter passage when againe that stay he ouerthrowes And then the whole field frees his rage so Hector wearies blowes Runs out his charge vpon the Fort and all his force would force To passe the dike Which being so deepe they could not get their horse To venter on but trample snore and on the verie brinke To neigh with spirit yet still stand off nor would a humane thinke The passage safe or if it were t was lesse safe for retreate The dike being euerie where so deep and where t was least deep set With stakes exceeding thicke sharpe strong that horse could neuer passe Much lesse their chariots after them yet for the foote there was Some hopefull seruice which they wisht Polydamas then spake Hector and all our friends of Troy we indiscreetly make Polydâ—… sâ—…d câ—…nsell to Hector Offer of passage with our horse ye see the stakes the wall Impossible for horse to take nor can men fight at all The place being streight and much more apt to let vs take our bane Then giue the enemie and yet if Ioue decree the wane Of Grecian glory vtterly and so bereaue their hearts That we may freely charge them thus and then will take our parts I would with all speed wish th' assault that vgly shame might shed Thus farre from home these Grecians bloods But if they once turne head And sallie on vs from their fleet when in so deepe a dike We shall lie struggling not a man of all our hoast is like To liue and carrie backe the newes and therefore be it thus Here leaue we horse kept by our men and all on foot let vs Hold close together and attend the grace of Hectors guide And then they shall not beare our charge our conquest shall be did In their liues purples This aduice pleasd Hector for t was sound Who first obeyd it and full arm'd betooke him to the ground And then all left their chariots when he was seene to leade Rushing about him and gaue vp each chariot and steed To their directors to be kept in all procinct of warre There and on that side of the dike And thus the rest prepare Their onset In fiue regiments they all their powre diuide Each regiment allow'd three Chiefes of all which euen the pride Seru'd in great Hectors Regiment for all were set on fire Their passage beaten through the wall with hazardous desire That they might once but fight at fleete With Hector Captaines were Polydamas and Cebriones who was his chariotere But Hector found that place a worse Chiefes of the second band Were Paris and Alcathous Agenor The command The third strong Phalanx had was giuen to th'Augure Hellenus Deiphobus that God-like man and mightie Asius Euen Asius Hyrtacides that from Arisba rode The huge bay horse and had his house where riuer Selleës flowde The fourth charge good Aeneas led and with him were combinde Archelochus and Acamas Antenors dearest kinde And excellent at euerie fight The fifth braue companie Sarpedon had to charge who chusde for his commands supply Asteropoeus great in armes and Glaucus for both these Were best of all men but himselfe but he was fellowlesse Thus fitted with their well wrought shields downe the steepe dike they go And thirstie of the walls assault beleeue in ouerthrow Not doubting but with headlong fals to tumble downe the Greeks From their blacke nauie in which trust all on and no man seeks To crosse Polydamas aduice with any other course But Asius Hyrtacides who prowd of his bay horse Would not forsake them nor his man that was their manager Foole that he was but all to fleete and little knew how neare An ill death sat him and a sure and that he neuer more Must looke on loftie Ilion but lookes and all before Put on th' all-couering mist of Fate that then did hang vpon The lance of great * Idomenâ—… Deucalides he fatally rusht on The left hand way by which the Greeks with horse and chariot Came vsually from field to fleet close to the gates he got Which both vnbard and ope he found that so the easier might An entrie be for any friend that was behind in flight Yet not much easier for a foe because there was a guard Maintaind vpon it past his thought who still put for it hard Eagerly showting and with him were fiue more friends of name That would not leaue him though none else would hunt that way for fame In their free choice but he himselfe Orestes Iamenus And Acamas Asiades Thoon Oâ—…nomaus Were those that followed Asius within the gates they found Two eminently valorous that from the race renownd Of the right valiant Lapithes deriu'd their high descent Fierce Leonteus was the one like Mars in detriment Sâ—…ch maketh Virgil Pandarus and Bitias The other mightie Polepaet the great Pirithous sonne These stood within the loftie gates and nothing more did shun The charge of Asius and his friends then two high hill-bred Okes Well rooted in the binding earth obey the airie strokes Of wind and weather standing firme gainst euerie seasons spight Yet they poure on continued showts and beare their shields vpright When in the meane space Polypaet and Leonteus cheard Their souldiers to the fleets defence but when the rest had heard The Troians in attempt to skale Clamor and flight did flow Amongst the Grecians and then the rest dismaid these two Met Asius entring thrust him backe and fought before their doores Nor far'd they then like Okes that stood but as a brace of Bores Coucht in their owne bred hill that heare a sort of hunters showt And hounds in hote traile coming on then from their dens breake out Trauerse their force and suffer not in wildnesse of their way About them any plant to stand but thickets offering stay Breake through and â—…end vp by the roots whet gnashes into aire Which Tumult fils with showts hounds horns and all the hote affaire Beates at their bosomes so their armes rung with assailing blowes And so they stird them in repulse right well assur'd that those Who were within and on the wall would adde their parts who knew They now fought for their tents fleet liues
Parapet Aiax and all resisted them Clamor amongst them rose The slaughter Aiax led who first the last deare sight did close Of strong Epicles that was friend to Ioues great Lycian sonne Amongst the high munition heape a mightie marble stone Lay highest neare the Pinnacle a stone of such a paise That one of this times strongest men with both hands could not raise Yet this did Aiax rowse and throw and all in sherds did driue Epicles foure-topt caske and skull who as ye see one diue In some deepe riuer left his height life left his bones withall Teucer shot Glaucus rushing vp yet higher on the wall Glaucus wounded by Teucer Where naked he discernd his arme and made him steale retreat From that hote seruice lest some Greeke with an insulting threat Beholding it might fright the rest Sarpedon much was grieu'd At Glaucus parting yet fought on and his great heart relieu'd Sarpedon reuengeth Glaucus A little with Alcmaons blood surnam'd Thestorides Whose life he hurld out with his lance which following through the prease He drew from him Downe from the towre Alcmaon dead it strooke His faire armes ringing out his death Then fierce Sarpedon tooke In his strong hand the battlement and downe he tore it quite The wall stript naked and brode way for entrie and full fight He made the many Against him Aiax and Teucer made Teucer the rich belt on his breast did with a shaft inuade But Iupiter auerted death who would not see his sonne Die at the tailes of th'Achiue ships Aiax did fetch his run And with his lance strooke through the targe of that braue Lycian king Yet kept he it from further passe nor did it any thing Dismay his mind although his men stood off from that high way His valour made them which he kept and hop't that stormie day Should euer make his glorie cleare His mens fault thus he blam'd O Lycians why are your hote spirits so quickly disinflam'd Sarpedon to hiâ—… souldiers Suppose me ablest of you all t is hard for me alone To ruine such a wall as this and make Confusion Way to their Nauâ—…e lend your hands What many can dispatch One cannot thinke the noble worke of many hath no match 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The wise kings iust rebuke did strike a reuerence to his will Through all his souldiers all stood in and gainst all th'Achiues still Made strong their Squadrons insomuch that to the aduerse side The worke shewd mightie and the wall when t was within desâ—…ride No easie seruice yet the Greeks could neither free their wall Of these braue Lycians that held firme the place they first did skale Nor could the Lycians from their fort the sturdie Grecians driue Nor reach their fleet But as two men about the limits striue Admiranda pene inimitabilis comparatio saith Spond and yet in the explication of it he thinkes all superâ—… but three words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exiguo in loco leauing out other words more expressiue with his old rule vno pede c. Of land that toucheth in a field their measures in their hands They mete their parts out curiously and either stiffely stands That so farre is his right in law both hugely set on fire About a passing little ground so greedily aspire Both these foes to their seuerall ends and all exhaust their most About the verie battlements for yet no more was lost With sword and fire they vext for them their targes hugely round With Oxehides lin'd and bucklers light and many a ghastly wound The sterne steele gaue for that one prise whereof though some receiu'd Their portions on their naked backs yet others were bereau'd Of braue liues face-turnd through their shields towres bulwarks euery where Were freckled with the blood of men nor yet the Greeks did beare A simile suâ—…ior to the other in which comparing mightiest things with mea â—…est the mea â—…est illustrating the mightiest both meeting in one end of this lifes preseruatioÌ„ and credit our Hom. is beyond comparison and admiration Hector to the Troâ—…ans Base back-turnd faces nor their foes would therefore be outfac't But as a Spinster poore and iust ye sometimes see strait lac't About the weighing of her web who carefull hauing charge For which she would prouide some meanes is loth to be too large In giuing or in taking weight but euer with her hand Is doing with the weights and wooll till Both in iust paise stand So euenly stood it with these foes till Ioue to Hector gaue The turning of the skoles who first against the rampire draue And spake so lowd that all might heare O stand not at the pale Braue Troian friends but mend your hands vp and breake through the wall And make a bonfire of their fleet All heard and all in heapes Got â—…kaling ladders and aloft In meane space Hector leapes Vpon the port from whose out-part he tore a massie stone Thicke downwards vpward edg'd it was so huge an one That two vast * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 duo vâ—…ri 〈◊〉 yoemen of most strength such as these times beget Could not from earth lift to a Cart yet he did brandish it Alone Saturnius made it light and swinging it as nought He came before the plankie gates that all for strength were wrought And kept the Port two fold they were and with two rafters bard High and strong lockt he raisd the stone bent to the hurle so hard And made it with so maine a strength that all the gates did cracke The rafters left them and the folds one from another brake The hinges peece-meale flew and through the feruent little rocke Thundred a passage with his weight th'inwall his breast did knocke And in rusht Hector fierce and grimme as any stormie night His brasse armes round about his breast reflected terrible light Each arme held vp held each a dart his presence cald vp all The dreadfull spirits his Being held that to the threatned wall None but the Gods might checke his way his eyes were furnaces And thus he look't backe cald in all all fir'd their courages And in they flow'd the Grecians fled their fleet now and their freight Askt all their rescue Greece went downe Tumult was at his height The end of the twelfth Booke THE XIII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT NEptune in pittie of the Greeks hard plight Like Calchas both th' Aiaces doth excite And others to repell the charging foe Idomeneus brauely doth bestow His kingly forces and doth sacrifice Othryoneus to the Destinies With diuers other Faire Deiphobus And his prophetique brother Hellenus Are wounded But the great Priamides Gathering his forces hartens their addresse Against the enemie and then the field A mightie death on either side doth yeeld Another Argument The Greeks with Troyes bold powre dismaide Are chear'd by Neptunes secret aide IOue helping Hector and his host thus close to th' Achiue fleeâ—… He let theÌ„ then their own
From forth the nailed prisoner the Iauelin quickly out And fairely with a little wooll enwrapping round about The wounded hand within c a scarffe he bore it which his Squire Had readie for him yet the wound would needs he should retire Pysander to reuenge his hurt right on the King ran he A bloodie fate suggested him to let him runne on thee O * Scoptice Menelaus that he might by thee in dangerous warre Be done to death Both coming on Atrides lance did erre Pisander strooke Atrides shield that brake at point the dart Not running through yet he reioyc't as playing a victors part Atrides drawing his faire sword vpon Pisander flew Pisander from beneath his shield his goodly weapon drew Two-edg'd with right sharpe steele and long the handle Oliue tree Well polisht and to blowes they go vpon the top strooke he Atrides horse-hair'd-featherd helme Atrides on his brow Aboue th' extreme part of his nose laid such a heauie blow That all the bones crasht vnder it and out his eyes did drop Before his feete in bloodie dust he after and shrunke vp His dying bodie which the foote of his triumphing foe Opened and stood vpon his breast and off his armes did go This insultation vsde the while c At length forsake our fleete 〈◊〉 most ridiâ—…lous insultation Thus ye false Troians to whom warre neuer enough is sweet Nor want ye more impieties with which ye haue abusde Me â—…e bold dogs that your chiefe friends so honourably vsde Nor feare you hospitable Ioue that lets such thunders go But build vpon 't he will vnbuild your towres that clamber so For rauishing my goods and wife in flowre of all her yeares And without cause nay when that faire and liberall hand of hers Had vsde you so most louingly and now againe ye would Cast fire into our fleet and kill our Princes if ye could Go too one day you will be curb'd though neuer so ye thirst Rude warre by warre O Father Ioue they say thou art the first In wisedome of all Gods and men yet all this comes from thee And still thou gratifiest these men how lewd so ere they be Though neuer they be cloid with sinnes nor can be satiate As good men should with this vile warre Satieâ—…ie of state Satietie of sleepe and loue Satietie of ease Of musicke dancing can find place yet harsh warre still must please Past all these pleasures euen past these They will be cloyd with these Before their warre ioyes neuer warre giues 〈◊〉 satieties This said the bloody armes were off and to his souldiers throwne He mixing in first fight againe and then Harpalion Kind King Pylemens sonne gaue charge who to those warres of Troy His loued father followed nor euer did enioy His countries sight againe he strooke the targe of Aâ—…reus sonne Full in the midst his iauelins steele yet had no powre to runne The target through nor had himselfe the heart to fetch his lance But tooke him to his strength and cast on euery side a glance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harpalion Lest any his deare sides should dart but Merion as he fled Sent after him a brazen lance that ranne his eager head Through his right hippe and all along the bladders region Beneath the bone it settl'd him and â—…et his spirit gone Amongst the hands of his best friends and like a worme he lay Stretcht on the earth which his blacke blood embrewd and flow'd away His corse the Paphlagonians did sadly waite vpon Repoâ—…d in his rich chariot to sacred Ilion The king his father following dissolu'd in kindly teares And no wreake sought for his slaine â—…onne But at his slaughterers Incensed Paris spent a lance since he had bene a guest To many Paphlagonians and through the preasse it prest There was a certaine Augures sonne that did for wealth excell And yet was honest he was borne and did at Câ—…th dwell Who though he knew his harmefull fate would needs his ship ascend His father Polyidus oft would tell him that his end Would either seise him at his house vpon a sharpe disease Or else amongst the Grecian ships by Troians slaine Both these Together he desir'd to shun but the disease at last And lingring death in it he left and warres quicke stroke embrac't The lance betwixt his eare and cheeke ran in and draâ—…e the mind Of both those bitter fortunes out Night strooke his whole powres blind Thus fought they like the spirit of fire nor Ioue-lou'd Hector knew How in the fleets left wing the Greekes his downe-put souldiers slew Almost to victorie the God that shakes the earth so well Helpt with his owne strength and the Greeks so fiercely did impell Yet Hector made the first place good where both the ports and wall The thicke rancke of the Greeke shields broke he enterd and did skall Where on the gray seas shore were drawne the wall being there but sleight Protesilaus ships and those of Aiâ—…x where the fight Of men and horse were sharpest set There the Boeotian band Long-rob'd Iaones Locrians and braue men of their hands By Iâ—…ons for Ioâ—…ians he intends the Athenians The Phthian and Epeian troopes did spritefully assaile The God-like Hector rushing in and yet could not preuaile To his repulse though choicest men of Athens there made head Amongst whom was Menesthius Chiefe whom Phidâ—…as followed The names of tâ—…e Captaines at the fight at the wall and their souldiers Stichius and Bias huge in strength Th' Epeian troopes were led By Meges and Philides cares Amphion Dracius Before the Phâ—…hians Medon marcht and Meneptolemus And these with the Boeotian powres bore vp the fleets defence Oileus by his brothers side stood close and would not thence For any moment of that time but as through fallow fields Simile wherein the two Aâ—…aces are compared to two draught â—…xen Blacke Oxen draw a well-ioyn'd plough and either euenly yeelds His thriftie labour all heads coucht so close to earth they plow The fallow with their hornes till out the sweate begins to flow The stretcht yokes cracke and yet at last the furrow forth is driuen So toughly stood these to their taske and made their worke as euen But Aiax Telamonius had many helpfull men That when sweate ran about his knees and labour flow'd would then Helpe beare his mightie seuen-fold shield when swift Oileades The Locrians left and would not make those murthrous fights of prease The Locrians which Oileus Aiax led were all Archers Because they wore no bright steele caskes nor bristl'd plumes for show Round shields nor darts of solid Ash but with the trustie bow And iackes well d quilted with soft wooll they came to Troy and were In their fit place as confident as those that fought so neare And reacht their foes so thicke with shafts that these were they that brake The Troian orders first and then the braue arm'd men did make Good worke with thâ—…ir close fights before Behind whom hauing shoâ—… The
some all Troy were laid vpon So like those torrents roar'd they backe to windie Ilion And so like tempests blew the horse with rauishing backe againe Those hote aâ—…sailants all their workes at fleete now rendred vaine Patroclus when he had disperst the formost Phalanxes Cald backe his forces to the fleete and would not let them prease As they desir'd too neare the towne but twixt the ships and floud And their steepe rampire his hand steept Reuenge in seas of bloud Then Pronous was first that fell beneath his fierie lance Which strooke his bare brest neare his shield The second Thestors chance Old Enops sonne did make himselfe who shrinking and set close In his faire seate euen with th'approch Patroclus made did lose All manly courage insomuch that from his hands his raines Fell flowing downe and his right iaw Patroclus lance attaines Strooke through his teeth and there it stucke and by it to him drew Dead Thestor to his chariot it shewd as when you view Simile An Anglet from some prominent rocke draw with his line and hooke A mightie fish out of the sea for so the Greeke did plucke The Troian gaping from his seate his iawes op't with the dart Which when Patroclus drew he fell his life and brest did part Then rusht he on Eryalus at whom he hurl'd a stone Which strake his head so in the midst that two was made of one Two wayes it fell cleft through his caske and then Tlepolemus Epaltes Damastorides Euippus Echius Ipheas bold Amphoterus and valiant Erymas And Polymelus by his sire surnam'd Argeadas He heapt vpon the much-fed earth When Ioues most worthy sonne Diuine Sarpedon saw these friends thus stayd and others runne â—…arpedon to the 〈◊〉 O shame why flie ye then he cride now shew ye feete enow Oâ—… keepe your way my selfe will meete the man that startles you To make me vnderstand his name that flants in conquest thus And hath so many able knees so soone dissolu'd to vs. Downe iumpt he from his chariot downe leapt his foe as light And as on some farre-looking rocke a cast of Vultures fight Simile Flie on each other strike and trusse part meete and then sticke by Tug both with crooked beakes and seres crie fight and fight and cry So fiercely fought these angry kings and shew'd as bitter gals Ioue turning eyes to this sterne fight his wife and sister cals 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fate of 〈◊〉 And much mou'd for the Lycian Prince said O that to my sonne Fate by this day and man should cut a thread so nobly spunne Two minds distract me if I should now rauish him from fight And set him safe in Lycia or giue the Fates their right Austere Saturnius she replide what vniust words are theiâ—…e 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 A mortall long since markt by Fate wouldst thou immortalise Do but by no god be approu'd free him and numbers more Sonnes of immortals will liue free that death must taste before These gates of Ilion euery god will haue his sonne a god Or storme extremely Giue him then an honest period In braue fight by Patroclus sword if he be deare to thee Aâ—…d grieues thee for his danger'd life of which when he is free Let Death and Somnus beare him hence till Lycias naturall wombe Receiue him from his brothers hands and citizens a Tombe And columne raisd to him this is the honor of the dead She said and her speech rul'd his powre but in his safeties stead For sad ostent of his neare death he steept his liuing name In drops of blood heauen swet for him which earth drunke to his fame And now as this high combat grew to this too humble end Sarpedons death had this state more t was vsherd by his friend And chariotere braue Thrasimed whom in his bellies rim Patroclus wounded with his lance and endlesse ended him And then another act of name foreranne his princely fate His first lance missing he let flie a second that gaue date Sarpedon 〈◊〉 Pedasus one of â—…chilles horse Of violent death to Pedasus who as he ioy'd to die By his so honorable hand did euen in dying ney His ruine startl'd th' other steeds the geres crackt and the raines Strappl'd his fellowes whose mis-rule Automedoâ—… restraines By cutting the intangling geres and so dissundering quite The braue-slaine Beast when both the rest obeyd and went foreright And then the royall combattants fought for the finall stroke The last 〈◊〉 of Sarpedon and Patroclus When Lycias Generall mist againe his high-raisde 〈◊〉 tooke Aboue his shoulder emptie way But no such 〈◊〉 flight Patroclus let his speare performe that on the breast did light Of his braue foe where lifes strings close about the solid hart Impressing a recurelesse wound his kâ—…ees then left their part And let him fall when like an Oke a Poplar or a Pine New feld by arts-men on the hils â—…e stretcht his forme 〈◊〉 Before his horse and chariot And as a Lion leapes Simile Vpon a goodly yellow Bull driues all the herd in heapes And vnder his vnconquerd iawes the braue beast sighing diâ—…s So sigh'd Sarpedon vnderneath this prince of enemies Cald Glaucus to him his deare friend and said Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dying to Glaucus his friend Much dutie owe to fight and armes now for my loue it 〈◊〉 Thy heart in much hand to approue that warre 〈◊〉 harmefull 〈◊〉 How actiue all thy forces are this one houres act must show 〈◊〉 First call our Lycian Captaines vp looke round and bring vp 〈◊〉 And all exhort to stand like friends about Sarpedons fall And spend thy selfe thy steele for me for be assurd no day Of all thy life to thy last houre can cleare thy blacke dismay In woe and infamie for me if I be taken hence Spoil'd of mine armes and thy renowme despoil'd of my defence Stand firme then and confirme thy men This said the bounds of death Concluded all sight to his eyes and to his nosthrils breath Patroclus though his guard was strong forc't way through euery doubt Climb'd his high bosome with his foote and pluckt his iauelin out And with it drâ—…w the filme and strings of his yet-panting hart And last together with the pile his princely soule did part His horse spoil'd both of guide and king thicke snoâ—…ing and amaz'd And apt to flight the Myrmâ—…dons made nimbly to and seaz'd Glaucus to heare his friend aske aide of him past all the râ—…st Though well he knew his wound vncur'd Confusion fild his brest The sorrow of Glaucus for Sarpedon and praier to Phâ—…bus Not to haue good in any powre and yet so much good will And laying his hand vpon his wound that pain'd him sharply still And was by Teucers hand set on from their assail'd steepe wall In keeping hurt from other men he did on Phoebus call The god of Medcines for his cure Thou king of cures said he That art perhaps in
to send Both men and horse are hid in mists that euery way descend O father Iupiter do thou the sonnes of Greece release Of this felt darknesse grace this day with fit transparences And giue the eyes thou giu'st their vse destroy vs in the light And worke thy will with vs since needs thou wilt against vs fight This spake he weeping and his teares Saturnius pitie show'd Disperst the darknesse instantly and drew away the clowd From whence it fell the Sunne shin'd out and all the host appear'd And then spake Aiax whose heard prayre his spirits highly chear'd Braue Menelaus looke about and if thou canst descrie Aiax to Menelaus Nestors Antilochus aliue incite him instantly To tell Achilles that his friend most deare to him is dead He said nor Menelaus stucke at any thing he said As loth to do it but he went as from a Grasiers stall A Lion goes when ouerlaid with men dogs darts and all Simile Not easely losing a fat Oxe but strong watch all night held His teeth yet watering oft he comes and is as oft repeld The aduerse darts so thicke are pour'd before his brow-hid eyes And burning firebrands which for all his great hearts heate he flies And grumbling goes his way betimes So from Patroclus went Atrides much against his mind his doubts being vehement Lest he gone from his guard the rest would leaue for very feare Another direct scoffe at Menelaus The person to the spoile of Greece And yet his guardians were Th' Aiaces and Meriones whom much his care did presse And thus exhort Aiaces both and you Meriones Menelaus to the Aiaces like himselfe Now let some true friend call to mind the gentle and sweete nature Of poore Patroclus let him thinke how kind to euery creature His heart was liuing though now dead Thus vrg'd the faire-hair'd king And parted casting round his eye d As when vpon her wing Simile An Eagle is whom men affirme to haue the sharpest sight Of all aires region of fowles and though of mightie height Sees yet within her leauie forme of humble shrubs close laid A light-foote Hare which straight she stoupes trusses and strikes her dead So dead thou strook'st thy charge O king through all warres thickets so Thou look'dst and swiftly found'st thy man exhorting gainst the foe And heartning his plied men to blowes vsde in the warres left wing To whom thou saidst Thou god-lou'd man come here and heare a thing Which I wish neuer were to heare I thinke euen thy eye sees What a destruction God hath laid vpon the sonnes of Greece And what a conquest he giues Troy in which the best of men Patroclus lies exanimate whose person passing faine The Greeks would rescue and beare home and therefore giue thy speed To his great friend to proue if he will do so good a deed To fetch the naked person off for Hectors shoulders weare His prised armes Antilochus was highly grieu'd to heare Antilochus grief for Patroclus This heauie newes and stood surprisde with stupid silence long His faire eyes standing full of teares his voice so sweete and strong Stucke in his bosome yet all this wrought in him no neglect Of what Atrides gaue in charge but for that quicke effect He gaue Laodolus his armes his friend that had the guide Of his swift horse and then his knees were speedily applide In his sad message which his eyes told all the way in teares Nor would thy generous heart assist his sore-charg'd souldiers Another notable Ironiâ—… expressing what Homer made of Menelaus O Menelaus in meane time though left in much distresse Thou sentst them god-like Thrasimede and mad'st thy kind regresse Backe to Patroclus where arriu'd halfe breathlesse thou didst say To both th' Aiaces this I haue sent this messenger away To swift Achilles who I feare will hardly helpe vs now Though mad with Hector without armes he cannot fight ye know Let vs then thinke of some best meane both how we may remoue The bodie and get off our selues from this vociferous droue And fate of Troians Brauely spoke at all parts Aâ—…x said O glorious sonne of Atreus take thou then straite the dead And thou Meriones We two of one mind as one name Will backe ye soundly and on vs receiue the wild-fire flame That Hectors rage breathes after you before it come at you This said they tooke into their armes the bodie all the show That might be made to those of Troy at armes end bearing it Menelaus and Meriones beare off the body of Patroclus Simile Out shriekt the Troians when they saw the bodie borne to fleete And rusht on As at any Bore gasht with the hunters wounds A kennell of the sharpest set and sorest bitten hounds Before their youthfull huntsmen haste and eagerly a while Pursue as if they were assur'd of their affected spoile But when the Sauage in his strength as confident as they Turnes head amongst them backe they flie and euery one his way So troope-meale Troy pursu'd a while laying on with swords and darts But when th' Aiaces turn'd on them and made their stand their harts Drunke from their faces all their blouds and not a man sustain'd The forechace nor the after fight And thus Greece nobly gain'd The person towards home but thus the changing warte was rackt Out to a passing bloudie length For as once put in act A fire inuading citie roofes is sodainly engrost Simile And made a wondrous mightie flame in which is quickly lost A house long building all the while a boisterous gust of wind Lumbring amongst it So the Greekes in bearing of their friend More and more foes drew at their heeles a tumult thundering still Of horse and foote Yet as when Mules in haling from a hill Simile A beame or mast through foule deepe way well clapt and heartned close Lie to their labour tug and sweate and passing hard it goes Vrg'd by their driuers to all hast So dragg'd they on the corse Still both th' Aiaces at their backs who backe still turn'd the force Though after it grew still the more yet as a syluane hill Thrusts backe a torrent that hath kept a narrow channell still Simile 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of both the 〈◊〉 Till at his Oken breast it beates but there a checke it takes That sends it ouer all the vale with all the stirre it makes Nor can with all the confluence breake through his rootie sides In no lesse firme and braue repulse th' Aiaces curb'd the prides Of all the Troians yet all held the pursuite in his strength Their chiefes being Hector and the sonne of Venus who at length Put all the youth of Greece besides in most amazefull rout Forgetting all their fortitudes distraught and shrieking out A number of their rich armes lost falne from them here and there About and in the dike and yet the warre concludes not here COMMENTARIVS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
the voice from Thetis issue throwne Won emulously th' eares of all His brazen voice once heard The minds of all were startl'd so they yeelded and so feard The faire-man'd horses that they flew backe and their chariots turn'd Presaging in their augurous hearts the labours that they mourn'd A litle after and their guides a repercussiue dread Tooke from the horrid radiance of his refulgent head Which Pallas set on fire with grace Thrice great Achilles spake And thrice in heate of all the charge the Troians started backe Twelue men of greatest strength in Troy left with their liues exhald Their chariots and their darts to death with his three summons cald And then the Grecians spritefully drew from the darts the corse And hearst it bearing it to fleete His friends with all remorse Marching about it His great friend dissoluing then in teares To see his truly-lou'd return'd so horst vpon an herse Whom with such horse and chariot he set out safe and whole Now wounded with vnpittying steele now sent without a soule Neuer againe to be restor'd neuer receiu'd but so He follow'd mourning bitterly The Sunne yet farre to go Iuno commanded to go downe who in his powres despight Iuno commands the Sunne to go downe before his time Sunke to the Ocean ouer earth dispersing sodaine Night And then the Greeks and Troians both gaue vp their horse and darts The Troians all to counsell call'd ere they refresht their hearts With any supper nor would sit they grew so stiffe with feare To see so long from heauie fight Aeacides appeare Polydam as began to speake who onely could discerne Things future by things past and was vow'd friend to Hector borne In one night both he thus aduisde Consider well my friends Polydamas to Hector and the Troians In this so great and sodaine change that now it selfe extends What change is best for vs t' oppose To this stands my command Make now the towne our strength not here abide lights rosie hand Our wall being farre off and our foe much greater still as nere Till this foe came I well was pleasde to keepe our watches here My fit hope of the fleetes surprise enclin'd me so but now T is stronglier guarded and their strength increast we must allow Our owne proportionate amends I doubt exceedingly That this indifferencie of fight twixt vs and th' enemie And these bounds we prefixe to them will nothing so confine Th'vncurb'd mind of Aeacides The height of his designe Aimes at our citie and our wiues and all barres in his way Being backt with lesse then wals his powre will scorne to make his stay And ouerrunne as ouerseene and not his obiect Then Let Troy be freely our retreate lest being enforc't our men Twixt this and that be taken vp by Vultures who by night May safe come off it being a time vntimely for his might To spend at randome that being sure If next light shew vs here To his assaults each man will wish that Troy his refuge were And then feele what he heares not now I would to heauen mine eare Were free euen now of those complaints that you must after heare If ye remoue not If ye yeeld though wearied with a fight So late and long we shall haue strength in counsell and the night And where we here haue no more force then Need will force vs to And which must rise out of our nerues high ports towres walls will do What wants in vs. And in the morne all arm'd vpon our towres We all will stand out to our foe T will trouble all his powres To come from fleet and giue vs charge when his high-crested horse His rage shall satiate with the toyle of this and that wayes course Vaine entrie seeking vnderneath our well-defended wals And he be glad to turne to fleet about his funerals For of his entrie here at home What mind will serue his thirst Or euer feed him with sackt Troy the dogs shall eate him first At this speech Hector bent his browes and said This make not great Hectors angry reply to Polydamâ—… Your grace with me Polydamas that argue for retreate To Troys old prison haue we not enough of those towres yet And is not Troy yet charg'd enough with impositions set Vpon her citizens to keepe our men from spoyle without But still we must impose within that houses with our rout As well as purses may be plagu'd Before time Priams towne Traffickt with diuers-languag'd men and all gaue the renowne Of rich Troy to it brasse and gold abounding but her store Is now from euery house exhaust possessions euermore Are sold out into Phrygia and louely Maeonie And haue bene euer since Ioues wrath And now his clemencie Giues me the meane to quit our want with glorie and conclude The Greeks in sea-bords and our seas to slacke it and extrude His offerd bountie by our flight Foole that thou art be wray This counsell to no common eare for no man shall obay If any will I le checke his will But what our selfe command Let all obserue take suppers all keeepe watch of euery hand If any Troian haue some spoyle that takes his too much care Make him dispose it publickly t is better any fare The better for him then the Greeks When light then deckes the skies Let all arme for a fierce assault If great Achilles rise And will enforce our greater toyle it may rise so to him On my backe he shall find no wings my spirit shall force my lim To stand his worst and giue or take Mars is our common Lord And the desirous sword-mans life he euer puts to sword This counsell gat applause of all so much were all vnwise Minerua robd them of their braines to like the ill aduice The great man gaue and leaue the good since by the meaner giuen All tooke their suppers but the Greeks spent all the heauy Euen About Patroclus mournfull rites Pelides leading all In all the formes of heauinesse he by his side did fall And his man-slaughtering hands imposd into his oft-kist brest Sighes blew vp sighes and Lion-like grac't with a goodly crest Simile That in his absence being robd by hunters of his whelps Returnes to his so desolate den and for his wanted helps Beholding his vnlookt-for wants flies roring backe againe Hunts the slie hunter many a vale resounding his disdaine So mourn'd Pelides his late losse so weightie were his mones Which for their dumbe sounds now gaue words to all his Myrmidom Achilles to his Myrmidons O gods said he how vaine a vow I made to cheare the mind Of sad Menaetius when his sonne his hand to mine resign'd That high-towr'd Opus he should see and leaue rac't Ilion With spoyle and honor euen wiâ—…h me but Ioue vouchsafes to none Wisht passages to all his vowes we both were destinate To bloody one earth here in Troy nor any more estate In my returne hath Peleus or Thetis but because I last
wife of Sthenelus whose race He fetch from Ioue by Perseus dwelt She was but seuenths months gone With issue yet she brought it forth Alcmenas matchlesse sonne Delaide from light Saturnia represt the teeming throwes Of his great mother Vp to heauen she mounts againe and showes In glorie her deceipt to Ioue Bright lightning Ioue said she Now th' Argiues haue an Emperour a sonne deriu'd from thee Iunos insulâ—… after her deâ—…ipt Is borne to Persean Sthenelus Eurystheus his name Noble and worthy of the rule thou swor'st to him This came Close to the heart of Iupiter and Ate that had wrought This anger by Saturnia by her bright-haire he caught Held downe her head and ouer her made this infallible vow That neuer to the cope of starres should reascend that brow Being so infortunate to all Thus swinging her about He cast her from the fierie heauen who euer since thrust out Her forkt sting in th' affaires of men Ioue euer since did grieue Since his deare issue Hercules did by his vow atchieue Th'vniust toyles of Eurysteus thus fares it now with me Since vnder Hectors violence the Grecian progenie Fell so vnfitly by my splene whose fals will euer sticke In my grieu'd thoughts my weaknesse yet Saturnius making sicke The state my mind held now recur'd th' amends shall make euen weight With my offence and therefore rouse thy spirits to the fight With all thy forces all the gifts proposde thee at thy tent Last day by royall Ithacus my officers shall present And if it like thee strike no stroke though neuer so on thornes Thy mind stands to thy friends reuenge till my command adornes Thy tents and cofers with such gifts as well may let thee know How much I wish thee satisfied He answerd let thy vow Achilles his noble answer of Agaâ—…non Renown'd Atrides at thy will be kept as iustice would Or keepe thy gifts t is all in thee The counsell now we hold Is for repairing our maine field with all our fortitude My faire shew made brookes no retreat nor must delaies delude Our deeds expectance Yet vndone the great worke is all eyes Must see Achilles in first fight depeopling enemies As well as counsell it in court that euery man set on May chuse his man to imitate my exercise vpon Vlysses answerd do not yet thou man made like the gods Vâ—…sses Aâ—… Take fasting men to field suppose that whatsoeuer ods It brings against them with full men thy boundlesse eminence Can amplie answer yet refraine to tempt a violence The conflict wearing out our men was late and held as long Wherein though most Ioue stood for Troy he yet made our part strong To beare that most But t was to beare and that breeds little heart Let wine and bread then adde to it they helpe the twofold part The soule and body in a man both force and fortitude All day men cannot fight and fast though neuer so indude With minds to fight for that supposde there lurks yet secretly Thirst hunger in th' oppressed ioynts which no mind can supply They take away a marchers knees Mens bodyes throughly fed Their minds share with them in their strength and all day combatted One stirres not till you call off all Dismisse them then to meate And let Atrides tender here in sight of all this seate The gifts he promist Let him sweare before vs all and rise To that oath that he neuer toucht in any wanton wise The Ladie he enforc't Besides that he remaines in mind As chastly satisfied not toucht or priuily enclind With future vantages And last t is fit he should approue All these rites at a solemne feast in honour of your loue That so you take no mangl'd law for merites absolute And thus the honours you receiue resoluing the pursuite Of your friends quarrell well will quit your sorrow for your friend And thou Atrides in the tast of so seuere an end Hereafter may on others hold a iuster gouernment Nor will it ought empaire a king to giue a sound content To any subiect soundly wrong'd I ioy replide the king 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 O Laertiades to heare thy liberall counselling In which is all decorum kept nor any point lackes touch That might be thought on to conclude a reconcilement such As fits example and vs two My mind yet makes me sweare Not your impulsion And that mind shall rest so kind and cleare That I will not forsweare to God Let then Achilles stay Though neuer so inflam'd for fight and all men here I pray To stay till from my tents these gifts be brought here and the truce At all parts finisht before all And thou of all I chuse Diuine Vlysses and command to chuse of all your host Youths of most honour to present to him we honour most The gifts we late vow'd and the Dames Meane space about our tents Talthybius shall prouide a Bore to crowne these kind euents With thankfull sacrifice to Ioue and to the God of light Achilles answerd These affaires will shew more requisite Achilles to Vlysses Great king of men some other time when our more free estates Yeeld fit cessation from the warre and when my splene abates But now to all our shames besides our friends by Hector slaine And Ioue to friend lie vnfetch off Haste then and meate your men Though I must still say My command would leade them fasting forth And all together feast at night Meate will be something worth When stomacks first haue made it way with venting infamie And other sorrowes late sustain'd with long'd for wreakes that lie Heauie vpon them for rights sake Before which lode be got From off my stomacke meate nor drinke I vow shall downe my throte My friend being dead who digd with wounds bor'd through both his feet Lies in the entrie of my tent and in the teares doth fleete Of his associates Meate and drinke haue litle merit then To comfort me but bloud and death and deadly grones of men The great in counsels yet made good his former counsels thus Vlysses his râ—…ly O Peleus sonne of all the Greeks by much most valorous Better and mightier then my selfe no little with thy lance I yeeld thy worth in wisedome yet no lesse I dare aduance My right aboue thee since aboue in yeares and knowing more Let then thy mind rest in thy words we quickly shall haue store And all sacietie of fight whose steele heapes store of straw And litle corne vpon a floore when Ioue that doth withdraw And ioyne all battels once begins t'encline his ballances In which he weighs the liues of men The Greeks you must not presse To mourning with the belly death hath nought to do with that In healthfull men that mourne for friends His steele we stumble at And fall at euery day you see sufficient store and fast What houre is it that any breathes we must not vse more hast Then speed holds fit for our reuenge nor
Thetis sonne Ioue to Minerua Now daughter thou hast quite forgot O is Achilles care Extinguisht in thee prostrated in most extreme ill fare He lies before his high-sail'd fleet for his dead friend the rest Are strengthning them with meate but he lies desperatly opprest With heartlesse fasting Go thy wayes and to his brest instill Red Nectar and Ambrosia that Fast procure no ill To his neare enterprise This spurre he added to the free And like a Harpye with a voice that shrickes so dreadfully And feathers that like needles prickt she stoopt through all the starres Amongst the Grecians all whose tents were now fill'd for the warres Her seres strooke through Achilles tent and closely she instill'd Heauens most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast and fill'd His sinewes with that sweete supply for feare vnsauorie Fast Should creepe into his knees Her selfe the skies againe enchac't The host set forth and pour'd his steele waues farre out of the fleete The show of the army setting forth vnder Achilles conduct And as from aire the frostie Northwind blowes a cold thicke sleete That dazels eyes flakes after flakes incessantly descending So thicke helmes curets ashen darts and round shields neuer ending Flow'd from the nauies hollow wombe their splendors gaue heauens eye His beames againe Earth laught to see her face so like the skie Armes shin'd so hote and she such clouds made with the dust she cast She thunderd feete of men and horse importun'd her so fast In midst of all diuine Achilles his faire person arm'd His teeth gnasht as he stood his eyes so full of fire they warm'd Vnsufferd griefe and anger at the Trâ—…ians so combin'd His greaues first vsde his goodly curets on his bosome shin'd His sword his shield that cast a brightnesse from it like the Moone And as from sea sailers discerne a harmfull fire let runne By herdsmens faults till all their stall flies vp in wrastling flame Which being on hils is seene farre off but being alone none came To giue it quench at shore no neighbours and at sea their friends Driuen off with tempests such a fire from his bright shield extends His ominous radiance and in heauen imprest his feruent blaze His crested helmet graue and high had next triumphant place On his curl'd head and like a starre it cast a spurrie ray About which a bright thickned bush of golden haire did play Which Vulcan forg'd him for his plume Thus compleate arm'd he â—…ide How fit they were and if his motion could with ease abide Their braue instruction and so farre they were from hindring it That to it they were nimble wings and made so light his spirit That from the earth the princely Captaine they tooke vp to aire Then from his armoury he drew his lance his fathers speare Huge weightie firme that not a Greeke but he himselfe alone Knew how to shake it grew vpon the mountaine â—…elion From whose height Chiron hew'd it for his Sire and fatall t was To great-soul'd men Of Peleus and Pelion surnamed Pelias Then from the stable their bright horse Automedon withdrawes And Alcymus Put Poitrils on and cast vpon their â—…awes Their bridles hurling backe the raines and hung them on the seate The faire scourge then Automedon takes vp and vp doth get To guide the horse The fights seate last Achilles tooke behind Who lookt so arm'd as if the Sunne there falne from heauen had shin'd Achilles to hiâ—… horses And terribly thus charg'd his steeds Xanthus and Balius Seed of the Harpye in the charge ye vndertake of vs Discharge it not as when Patroclus ye left dead in field But when with bloud for this dayes fast obseru'd Reuenge shall yeeld Our heart sacietie bring vs off Thus since Achilles spake As if his aw'd steeds vnderstood t was Iunoes will to make Vocall the pallat of the one who shaking his faire head Which in his mane let fall to earth he almost buried Thus Xanthus spake Ablest Achilles now at least our care Xanthus thâ—… horse of Achi. to Achilles Shall bring thee off but not farre hence the fatall minutes are Of thy graue ruine Nor shall we be then to be reprou'd But mightiest Fate and the great God Nor was thy best belou'd Spoil'd so of armes by our slow pace or courages empaire The best of gods Latonaes sonne that weares the golden haire Gaue him his deaths wound though the grace he gaue to Hectors hand We like the spirit of the West that all spirits can command For powre of wing could runne him off but thou thy selfe must go So Fate ordaines God and a man must giue thee ouerthrow This said the Furies stopt his voice Achilles farre in rage Achilles reply to Xanthus Thus answerd him It fits not thee thus proudly to presage My ouerthrow I know my selfe it is my fate to fall Thus farre from Phthia yet that Fate shall faile to vent her gall Till mine vent thousands These words vsde he fell to horrid deeds Gaue dreadfull signall and forthright made flie his one-hou'd steeds COMMENTARIVS ◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Aprum praeparet mactandum Iouique Solique He shall prepare a Bore for sacrifice to Ioue and the Sunne It is the end of Agamemnons speech in this booke before to Vlysses and promiseth that sacrifice to Ioue and the Sun at the reconciliation of himselfe and Achilles Our Commentors Eustathius and Spondanus c. will by no meanes allow the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here for Homers but an vnskilfulnesse in the diuulger and will needs haue it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Spondanus sayes is altogether here to be vnderstood as Eustathius words teach for to offer so fierce a beast to Ioue as a Bore he sayes is absurd and cites Natalis lib. 1. cap. 17. where he sayes Homer in this place makes a tame Sow sacrificed to Ioue who was as tamely and simply deceiued as the rest Eustathius reason for it is that sus is animal salax and since the oath Agamemnon takes at this sacrifice to satisfie Achilles that he hath not toucht Briseis is concerning a woman very fitly is a Sow here sacrificed But this seemes to Spondanus something ridiculous as I hope you will easily iudge it And as I conceiue so is his owne opinion to haue the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altered and expounded suem His reason for it he makes nice to vtter saying he knowes what is set downe amongst the learned touching the sacrifice of a Sow But because it is he sayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nihil ad rem though as they expound it t is too much ad rem he is willing to keepe his opinion in silence vnlesse you will take it for a splayed or gelded Sow as if Agamemnon would innuate that as this Sow being splayed is free from Venus so had he neuer attempted the dishonour of Briseis And peraduenture sayes Spondanus you cannot
on lurking 〈◊〉 trod Xanthus by gods by men Scamander cald Thus god gainst god Enterd the field Aeacides sustain'd a feruent mind To cope with Hector past all these his spirit stood enclin'd To glut Mars with the bloud of him And at Aeacides Apollo set Anchises sonne But first he did impresse A more then naturall strength in him and made him feele th' excesse Apollo instigates Aeneas to the encounter of Achilles in shape of Lycâ—… Infusde from heauen Lycaons shape gaue show to his addresse Old Priams sonne and thus he spake Thou counseller of Troy Where now flie out those threats that late put all our Peeres in ioy Of thy fight with Aeacides Thy tongue once steept in wine 〈◊〉 to Apollo Durst vant as much He answerd him But why wouldst thou incline My powres gainst that proud enemie and gainst my present heate I meane not now to bid him blowes that feare sounds my retreate That heretofore discourag'd me when after he had rac't Lyrnesus and strong Pedasus his still breath'd furie chac't Our oxen from th'Idaean hill and set on me but Ioue Gaue strength and knees and bore me off that had not walkt aboue This center now but propt by him Mineruaes hand that held A light to this her fauorite whose beames shew'd and impeld His powres to spoile had ruin'd me For these eares heard her crie Kill kill the seed of Ilion kill th' Asian Lelegi Meere man then must not fight with him that still hath gods to friend Auerting death on others darts and giuing his no end But with the ends of men If God like Fortune in the fight Would giue my forces not with ease wing'd Victorie should light On his proud shoulders nor he scape though all of brasse he bosts His plight conâ—…steth He replide Pray thou those gods of hosts Whom he implores as well as he and his chance may be thine Thou cam'st of gods like him the Queene that reignes in Salamine Fame sounds thy mother he deriu'd of lower deitie Old Nereus daughter bearing him Beare then thy heart as hie And thy vnwearied steele as right nor vtterly be beate With onely crueltie of words not proofe against a threat This strengthned him and forth he rusht nor could his strengthening flie White-wristed Iuno nor his drifts She euery deitie Of th'Achiue faction cald to her and said Ye must haue care Iuno to the gods of Grâ—…ce Neptune and Pallas for the frame of this important warre Ye vndertake here Venus sonne by Phoebus being impeld Runnes on Achilles turne him backe or see our friend vpheld By one of vs. Let not the spirit of Aeacides Be ouer-dar'd but make him know the mightiest deities Stand kind to him and that the gods protectors of these towres That fight against Greece and were here before our eminent powres Beare no importance And besides that all we sâ—…oope from heauen To curbe this fight that no empaire be to his person giuen By any Troians nor their aides while this day beares the Sunne Hereafter all things that are wrapt in his birth-threed and spunne By Parcas in that point of time his mother gaue him aire He must sustaine But if Report performe not the repaire Of all this to him by the Voice of some immortall state He may be fearfull if some god should set on him that Fate Makes him her minister The gods when they appeare to men And manifest their proper formes are passing dreadfull then Neptune replide Saturnia at no time let your Care Neptune to 〈◊〉 Exceed your Reason t is not fit Where onely humanes are We must not mixe the hands of gods our ods is too extreme Sit we by in some place of height where we may see to them And leaue the warres of men to men But if we see from thence Or Mars or Phoebus enter fight or offer least offence To Thetis sonne not giuing free way to his conquering rage Then comes the conflict to our cares we soone shall dis-engage Achilles and send them to heauen to settle their abode With Equals flying vnder-strifes This said the blacke-hair'd god Led to the towre of of Hercules built circular and hie By Pallas and the Ilians for fit securitie To Ioues diuine * sonne gainst the Whale that draue him from the shore Hercules To th'ample field There Neptune sate and all the gods that bore The Greekes good meaning casting all thicke mantles made of clouds On their bright shoulders Th'oppos'd gods sate hid in other shrouds On top of steepe Callicolon about thy golden sides O Phoebus brandisher of darts and thine whose rage abides No peace in cities In this state these gods in counsell saâ—…e All lingring purposde fight to trie who first would eleuate His heauenly weapon High-thron'd Ioue cried out to set them on Said all the field was full of men and that the earth did grone Ioue sets on the other gods to â—…ight With feete of proud encounterers burn'd with the armes of men And barbed horse Two champions for both the armies then Met in their midst prepar'd for blowes diuine Aeacides And Venus sonne Aeneas first stept threatning forth the preasse His high helme nodding and his breast bard with a shadie shield And shooke his iauelin Thetis sonne did his part to the field As when the harmfull king of beasts sore threatn'd to be slaine Simile By all the countrie vp in armes at first makes coy Disdaine Prepare resistance but at last when any one hath led Bold charge vpon him with his dart he then turnes yawning head Fell Anger lathers in his iawes his great heart swels his sterne Lasheth his strength vp fides and thighes wadl'd with stripes to learne Their owne powre his eyes glow he rores and in he leapes to kill Secure of killing So his powre then rowsde vp to his will Matchlesse Achilles coming on to meeâ—…e Anchises sonne Both neare Achilles thus enquir'd Why standst thou thus alone Achilles to AEneas Thou sonne of Venus cals thy heart to change of blowes with me Sure Troyes whole kingdome is proposde some one hath promist 〈◊〉 The throne of 〈◊〉 for my life but Priams selfe is wise And for my slaughter not so mad to make his throne thy prise Priam hath sonnes to second him Is' t then some peece of land Past others fit to set and sow that thy victoâ—…ious hand The Ilians offer for my head I hope that prise will proue No easie conquest once I thinke my busie iauelin droue With terror those thoughts from your spleene Retain'st thou not the time When single on th'Idaean hill I tooke thee with the crime Of Run-away thy Oxen left and when thou hadst no face That I could see thy knees bereâ—…t it and Lyrnesus was The maske for that Then that maske too I opened to the aire By Ioue and Pallas helpe and tooke the free light from the faire Your Ladies bearing prisoners But Ioue and th' other gods Then saft thee
fauourers If one the cup giues t is not long the wine he finds in it Scarce moists his palate if he chance to gaine the grace to sit Suruiuing fathers sonnes repine vse contumelies strike Bid leaue vs where 's thy fathers place He weeping with dislike Retires to me To me ahlas Astyanax is he Borne to these miseries He that late fed on his fathers knee To whom all knees bow'd daintiest fare apposde him and when Sleepe Lay on his temples his cries still'd his heart euen laid in steepe Of all things precious a soft bed a carefull nurâ—…s armes Tooke him to guardiance but now as huge a world of harmes Lies on his suffrance now thou wantst thy fathers hand to friend O my Astyanax O my Lord thy hand that did defend These gates of Ilion these long walls by thy arme measur'd still Amply and onely yet at fleete thy naked corse must â—…ll Vile wormes when dogs are fatiate farre from thy parents care Farre from those funerall ornaments that thy mind would prepare So sodaine being the chance of armes euer expecting death Andromache wrought many funerall ornaments for Hector before his death Which taske though my heart would not serue t' employ my hands beneath I made my women yet performe Many and much in price Were those integuments they wrought t' adorne thy Exequies Which since they flie thy vse thy Corse not laid in their attire Thy sacrifice they shall be made these hands in mischieuous fire Shall vent their vanities And yet being consecrate to thee They shall be kept for citizens and their faire wiues to see Thus spake shee weeping all the dames endeuouring to cheare Her desert state fearing their owne wept with her teare for teare The end of the two and twentieth Booke THE XXIII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT A Chilles orders Iusts of exequies For his Patroclus and doth sacrifise Twelue Troian Princes most lou'd hounds and horse And other offerings to the honour'd Corse He institutes besides a funerall game Where Diomed for horse-race wins the fame For foote Vlysses others otherwise Striue and obtaine and end the exequies Another Argument Psi sings the rites of the decease Ordaind by great Aeacides THus mourn'd all Troy but when at fleet and Hellespontus shore The Greeks arriu'd each to his ship onely the Conqueror Kept vndisperst his Myrmidons and â—…aid Lou'd countrimen Achilles to his Myrmidons Disioyne not we chariots and horse but bearing hard our reine With state of both march soft and close and mourne about the corse T is proper honour to the dead Then take we out our horse When with our friends kinds woe our hearts haue felt delight to do A virtuous soule right and then sup This said all full of woe Circl'd the Corse Achilles led and thrise about him close All bore their goodly coted horse Amongst all Thetis rose And stirr'd vp a delight in griefe till all their armes with teares And all the sands were wet so much they lou'd that Lord of Feares Then to the center fell the Prince and putting in the breast Of his slaine friend his slaughtring hands began to all the rest Words to their teares Reioyce said he O my Patroclus Thou Achilles to the person of Patroâ—…lus Courted by Dis now now I pay to thy late ouerthrow All my reuenges vow'd before Hector lies slaughterd here Dragd at my chariot and our dogs shall all in peeces teare His hated lims Twelue Troian youths borne of their noblest straines I tooke aliue and yet enrag'd will emptie all their vaines Of vitall spirits sacrifisde before thy heape of fire This said a worke vnworthy him he put vpon his ire And trampl'd Hector vnder foote at his friends feet The rest Disarm'd tooke horse from chariot and all to sleepe addrest At his blacke vessell Infinite were those that rested there Himselfe yet sleepes not now his spirits were wrought about the chere Fit for so high a funerall About the steele vsde then Oxen in heapes lay bellowing preparing food for men Bleating of sheepe and goates fild aire numbers of white-tooth'd swine Swimming in fat lay sindging there the person of the slaine Was girt with slaughter All this done all the Greeke kings conuaid Achilles to the king of men his rage not yet allaid For his Patroclus Being arriu'd at Agamemnons tent Himselfe bad Heralds put to fire a Caldron and present The seruice of it to the Prince to trie if they could win His pleasure to admit their paines to cleanse the blood sok't in About his conquering hands and browes Not by the king of heauen He swore The lawes of friendship damne this false-heart licence giuen Achilles ouerhearing vsed this abruption To men that lose friends not a drop shall touch me till I put Patroclus in the funerall pile before these curles be cut His tombe erected T is the last of all care I shall take While I consort the carefull yet for your entreaties sake And though I lothe food I will eate but early in the morne Atrides vse your strict command that lodes of wood be borne To our design'd place all that fits to light home such a one As is to passe the shades of Death that fire enough set gone His person quickly from our eyes and our diuerted men May plie their businesse This all eares did freely entertaine And found obseruance Then they supt with all things fit and all Repair'd to tents and rest The friend the shores maritimall Sought for his bed and found a place faire and vpon which plaide Achilles retreate from company to the seas short The murmuring billowes There his lims to rest not sseepe he laid Heauily sighing Round about silent and not too neare Stood all his Myrmidons when straite so ouer-labour'd were His goodly lineaments with chace of Hector that beyond His resolution not to sleepe Sleepe cast his fodaine bond Ouer his sense and losde his care Then of his wretched friend The soule appear'd at euery part the forme did comprehend Patroclus appeares to Achilles sleeping His likenesse his faire eyes his voice his stature euery weed His person wore it fantased and stood aboue his head This sad speech vttering Dost thou sleepe Aeacides am I Forgotten of thee Being aliue I found thy memorie Euer respectfull but now dead thy dying loue abates Interre me quickly enter me in Plutoes iron gates For now the soules the shades of men fled from this being beate My spirit from rest and stay my much desir'd receipt Amongst soules plac't beyond the flood Now euery way I erre About this brode-dor'd hoâ—…se of Dis. O helpe then to preferre My soule yet further here I mourne but had the funerall fire Consum'd my bodie neuer more my spirit should retire From hels low region from thence soules neuer are retriu'd To talke with friends here nor shall I a hatefull fate depriu'd My being here that at my birth was fixt and to such fate Euen thou ô god-like