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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53644	Two essays the former, Ovid De arte amandi, or, The art of love, the first book, the later Hero and Leander of Musaeus from the Greek / by a well-wisher to the mathematicks.; Ars amatoria. Liber 1. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Musaeus, Grammaticus. Hero and Leander. English.; Hoy, Thomas, 1659-1718?	1682 (1682)	Wing O697; ESTC R6310	22,912	81

the GREEK SIng gentle Muse the Torch well-known to Fame The silent Witness of a Nobler Flame And Him who thro th' divided Waves did haste Tides of stoln Joys and Midnight Bliss to taste Methinks I hear Leander on his way The Am'rous Waves about his Body play The Faithful Torch almost consum'd I hear That flaring tells glad Hero he is near The Torch a proper Emblem of their Love Whose well-known Service merits a remove To shine for ever ' mongst the Stars above And conscious of these Lover's Vows dispence On us below a gentler Influence Long was it Confident to their Amours And told th'approach of their kind melting hours Till the rough Winds a fatal War did move Unequal Foes for the soft sighs of Love At once destroying in an envious strife The Torch the Flame of Love Leander's Life Two Neighbours Sestus and Abydus stand Viewing each other from the opp'site Strand But Love whose Will the Seas in vain oppose Whose Boundless Power no Contradiction knows At once reach'd both with one unerring Dart. Here struck a Careless Youth and touch'd his Heart There made a Nymph unwillingly complain What they too rarely do of equal Pain Abydus's Glory young Leander came And Hero Flower of Sestus met his Flame If Chance or Bus'ness call ye out that way You still the Ruins of the Tower may see Where anxious Hero with the Taper stood To guide her Lover thro th'opposing Flood May stand concern'd your self upon the Shore And hear the Melancholy Waters roar That seem Leander's Death still to deplore The Lovely Hero sprung of Noble Blood Priestess all Day in Venus Temple stood All Night from Friends upon the Neighb'ring Sea In a lone Tower that other Venus lay She ne'r with other Ladies us'd t' engage Censure the Wits and Beauties of the Age. Nor in wild Masques or Wanton Balls delight With Chosen Youths to spend the am'rous Night But with rich Gums and costly Spices strove To keep propitious the Dread Queen of Love Would sometimes Hyacinths and Roses bring And sometimes Odes on her Adonis sing And willing too to make Blind Love her own The hov'ring Cupids she would often Crown In vain she strove to bribe him to be kind He 's Deaf to Promises t'Oblations Blind It was the Time they Yearly Honours pay When Venus and Adonis name the Day A Time by Sestians honour'd above all An Ancient and much Reverenc'd Festival The Neighb'ring Youth heard an uncertain Fame And flocking all from Thrace and Cyprus came The softer Sex Cythera empty left Abydus was of all her Men bereft They to the Altar Costly Presents pay But their Devotion lies another way Beauty the Toy fond Lovers deifie Beauty draws in the Crowding Votary A Power in Charming Smiles and Killing Eyes Requires the Bleeding Heart for Sacrifice But now Fair Hero thro the Fane made way Dress'd to perform the Duties of the Day An Air Majestique reign'd thro out her Face Sweetn'd by many a Complying Grace The Ancient Lovers but Three Graces found And by that Test was Perfect Beauty crown'd But Hero's Beauty more Divine than that With ev'ry Look new Graces did Create And wantonly about each careless Eye An hundred hov'ring Graces seem'd to play Oh Priestess worthy of the Queen of Love Worthy next her to Rule the Gods above She who all Beauties do's excel like you At once may Priestess seem and Goddess too The Youths around burn with unhallow'd Fires Love Blazes out and dwindling Zeal Expires In vain the Wretches turn their Eyes away The Killing Species on their Fancy prey Too late do's their prepost'rous Care begin Who shut the Gates when th'Enemy's got in Where-e'r she went or whatsoe'r was done Her Lovely Motion and sweet Mien drew on The Eyes the Heart the Soul of ev'ry one But One of all the rest to ease his pain Thus gave his Passion vent Oft have I seen the Place they Sparta call Where Beauty's Empire is the Prize of all But ne'r did yet so fair a Creature meet So young so sweet so ev'ry way compleat Long have I gaz'd 'twixt Trouble and Delight While the Bright Object dazzl's my Dull Sight Yet still I gaze and find with weary Eyes The Sight of Her like Heav'n ne'r satisfies Oh I could smile and Thousand Deaths defie Might I enjoying Thee Blest Hero die Would'st Thou but favour my Ambitious Love I 'd envy not the Mighty Bliss of Jove No I would scorn his Pageantry and Show And here enjoy a Real Heaven below But thou who do'st my tender Passion see Great Venus hear thy Humble Votary If from thy Priestess I must find Despair Grant me at least a Nymph resembling Her Thus spoke the Youth and ev'ry Stander by Joyn'd in his Wishes with an Hearty Sigh And now another in his lab'ring Brest Attempts to stifle the Outragious Guest But the Close Room frustrates his fond Desire Augmenting while it hides the Raging Fire At last Leander the Infection took Disguis'd by Love under a Gentle Look He had been told Love was a Killing Pain And vow'd he would not die and not complain He vow'd he could not without Hero live And She should cure the Wounds her Eyes did give Thus for a while he brav'd but Busie Love About his Heart did now too active prove And now the Symptoms on his Face begin To shew the sad Disorders are within There Fear and Shame Amaze and Boldness move The Dire Ingredients of the Poison Love Now Hope and Joy his ravisht Breast possess With Thousand pleasing Images of Bliss Like little Tastes of Future Happiness Thro ev'ry Vein flows in a Liquid Fire A full Spring Tide of Vehement Desire Ah! Happy Youth could'st thou thus ever burn But thy Cold Fit alas do's soon return While with her Beauty he his Merit weighs This pale Despair Confusion that conveys At last with Seeming Boldness in his Face For Fear and Shame still linger'd on the Place Thro Crowds of Gazing Rivals he made way Till his Deportment could not scape her Eye And now with folded Arms and lifted Eyes With wishing Glances and Expressive Sighs The Rhetorique by Nature first design'd He strove to move the Lady's gentle mind Leander's meaning she did soon perceive And for the Conquest secret Joy conceive Women are Riddles no man can unfold Whom baffled Contradictions cannot hold Concern'd they read the Cheats of Errantry And weep when the Chimaera-Lovers die But when true Sighs of Death require their Tears When Love in all his Ghastly Shapes appears No more that Female Softness they retain Their Tyrant Eyes Enjoy the Real Pain They cry out Fire at ev'ry Painted Flame Unmov'd when Burning Towns their Pity claim Yet Signs of Kindness she would oft betray And turn th'Obliging Lovely Sight that way Then suddenly away her Eyes would snatch As if She fear'd he had observ'd too much Such Cruel Kindness does the Flash of Light That shews the Way and leaves us in the Night Yet the fond Youth

Venus in that point agree To help the Bold and to advance the Free 'T were vain Set Forms of Eloquence to shew Only begin and all you say are so Here you must act at least the Lovers part Expressing lively to her Sense your Heart Till at each Word she seems to feel the smart Fear not of all an easie Faith to gain For the whole Sex thinks they deserve your pain The most Deform'd Neglected Thing of all Will find ye something she shall Beauty call But oft true Passion does succeed the Cheat And real Love displace the Counterfeit Ye Ladies then to all your Smiles dispence 'T will soon be Love which was at first pretence But Thou thy best Insinuations use All thy prov'd Stock of Flatteries produce Talk of Rich Hair of Precious Darting Eyes Of Snowy Breasts and Heav'nly Fooleries With Joy the Chaste their Beauties praises hear The Virgins strive with pain t' improve their Share Juno her self for Conquest did contend And Virgin Pallas to the Prize pretend The Peacock prais'd displays his painted Plumes But hides his Pride if no Admirer comes Yet spare no Vows false Vows have often done Fear not t' invoke a God to ev'ry one Jove smiling hears the Perjuries of Love And bids the Winds those Senseless Ties remove Himself by Styx to Juno heretofore A thousand little Falsities has swore And favours still the Lover Perjurer 'T is good there should be Gods and thence they are And ' cause they are 't is good that we should fear They sleep not unconcern'd in slothful Ease Keep Innocence the Watchful Numen sees Be true to Friendship and to Heaven sincere Your Hands from Blood or Bribery keep clear But Woman only let your Vows deceive Those Frauds alone just Heaven will forgive You act but as the Instrument of Heaven To punish Those so much to Cheating given 'T is just That Perjur'd Sex with those should meet Whose Falshood may their Perjuries requite Thus the Inventor of the Brazen Bull First bellow'd thence his own Prodigious Soul Just Phalaris who made the Monster 's Heart Season the Horrid Off-spring of his Art And let her see some Tears upon your Eye The strongest Heart could ne'r their Pow'r defie But if like them your Tears you can't command Like them Dissembling feign 'em with your Hand What Novice can that weighty Point omit With Kisses to recruit his falt'ring Wit She 'll strive at first and call you naughty Man But only strives that you may seem to gain Tho struggling often may divide the Bliss Yet snatch the Pieces of the broken Kiss Only be careful lest the present pain Make Her of Rudeness in your Kiss complain Who e'r retreats when he thus far has gone Deserves to lose the Victories h 'as won How almost was He Master of the Town Such Clownish Rudeness no Pretence can frame Such more then-Bashfulness that wants a Name You call it Force but They that Force require And seem unwilling when they most desire She that by Force commits the sweet Offence Pleas'd with the Sin enjoys the good Pretence And She who might be forc'd yet scapes away Is vext within tho She dissemble Joy For instance hear a Love Intrigue of old An Instance not unworthy to be told Venus had paid Prince Paris for his Vote And Helen to the Trojan Court was brought The Grecian Chiefs to Menelaus swore By force to fetch her from the Asian Shore Achilles only the Appointment fail'd While Woman's Cloaths his Blooming Valour vail'd Base Act but that a Mothers Tears prevail'd Fond Prince thy Hands and Distaff ill agree The Weighty Spear much better suits with Thee In the same Room a Royal Virgin lies The Siege much safer and a Nobler Prize She quickly finds the Hero in Disguise Finds him more fit for Storms and Bloody Wars Regardless of a Virgins Crys or Tears 'T is fit we think by Force he won the Field Yet she submitted to that Force to yield How often after when he left her Bed Call'd out betimes where Fame and Danger led How often smiling was he heard to say And will you tempt your Ravisher to stay Can He deserve soft Looks or winning Charms Who by rude Force at first possess'd your Arms. That Fop is strangely fond of his fair Face Who e'r expects that She should ask the Grace No let the Man his best perswasions use She offers fairly if she don't refuse Thus Jove of old the Ladies humbly woo'd But none first courted ev'n that mighty god But if Submission swell her haughty mind With-drawing by degrees may make her kind Some hating what they may at Will obtain Love only what is difficult to gain Yet do not always your lewd Hopes profess Love may gain Entrance under Friendship 's Dress I 've known that Cheat with the severest pass The Friend soon dies and Lover takes his place To look pale too may of Importance be Tho in this Point the Doctors disagree Yet thro the Woods Orion love-sick ran And Daphnis for his Nymph look'd pale and wan And leanness too does Passion well express Joyn'd with neglect unusual in your Dress Late Watchings bring the strongest Body down And Cares and Griefs too well by Lovers known These means may gain your end and pity move When all the World shall say Poor Man you love But here I would a while my Precepts end And some few minutes to complaining lend Friendship and Honour All an empty Name Neglected as the Heads whence first they came Trust not your Passion with the Man you love He 'll be the first your Int'rest to remove Yet Brave Patroclus was to Friendship just And some few more perhaps have kept their Trust But whoe'r hopes the like to find May hope as well to sail against the Wind. Baseness alone we act with Appetite And no man looks beyond his own Delight W' are so ill-natur'd in the base Offence Another's Pain commends it to our Sense In Love an Open Enemy neglect Fear only those whom you could least suspect A Kinsman Brother or a Confident May make your Easie Faith too late repent And now to close up all I shall produce One Constant Rule of Universal Use A Thousand diff'rent Humours you shall meet A Thousand Arts those diff'rent Humours hit One spot of Ground shall luscious Grapes supply The next to Olives only shall agree The Skilful Lover must with Care allot The Vine or Olive to their proper spot Like Proteus must a Thousand Faces wear A Tree an Horse a Lyon or a Bear Be pleasant airy stately or severe Nor the same Snares for diff'rent Ages set The Experienc'd Hunted Hind will spy the Net If to the Bashful Wild Great to the Mean Courtly and Gay to the Ill-bred you seem Each soon of such Accomplishments despairs And lest she should be quickly nauceous fears Hence 't is the Flutt'ring Spark goes often home Out-rivall'd by the duller Brawny Groom THE END Hero and Leander OF MUSAEUS From