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A20406	Arisbas, Euphues amidst his slumbers: or Cupids iourney to hell Decyphering a myrror of constancie, a touch-stone of tried affection, begun in chaste desires, ended in choise delights: and emblasoning beauties glorie, adorned by natures bountie. VVith the triumph of true loue, in the foyle of false fortune. By I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.	1594 (1594)	STC 6817; ESTC S105351	37,367	68

part in hand with sufficient assurance for the rest Thus the bargaine being solemnly knit betwéene vs hée wilde mée that I should come with my supposed Sister the next night very late béeing the time prefixed for his departure and tolde me secretly in friendly sort as one stranger to an other that hée had aboord certayne vnlawfull and vncustomed wares the sale whereof would be very gaynefull to him but if it were reuealed would worke his vtter vndoing which caused him attempt meanes to launch thence by stealth Nothing could chance more ●espondent to my wish who desired to depart priuily Leauing him therefore and returning to the Court I repaired to Timoclea certified her of my procéedings in all points willed her to remember her vowed promise and plighted faith enfourmed her of all things néedefull to be done She not failing mine expectation promised her readinesse at the appointed time I leauing her packt such treasure as I could gather in haste and attended the assigned houre which being come taking her with me I came to the Hauen and béeing spéedily conueyed aboord found all things ready anchors weighed sayles spread at our comming within short space we got out of the Hauen and before morning were farre enough from the coast of Cyprus Foure dayes wée sayled merrily hauing a lusty gale in the poope which draue vs gallantly forward On the fift day towards euening we descryed land the shores delightfull hue affoording vs a pleasant prospect Our maister iudging it some part of Greece supposing that I which had feinde my selfe natiue in the continent could not be ignorant of the coast desired me to goe on shore search the land and bring him word whether I knewe the countrey I of all most desirous to leaue the sea fearing pursuite of my fathers power condescended to his request Being set on land pacing vp and downe a while I was drowned in viewe of those delights which that fertile soyle yéelded déeming that it was Arcadia or some place bordering on it participating like pleasures with it Then began I to conceit varieties of imagined blisse iudging this a fit place for mée and my Timoclea to rest in a while till she had recouered her health being much impaired by her sea-iourney Hetherto Fortune séemed friendly to mine attempts but now least she should be vnlike her selfe she obscurde the sun-shine of my happinesse with clouds of her inconstancie for the wauering Goddesse doomd my solace to be thwarted with eternall sorrowes In a moment the windes raysing the Sea in billowes secluded mée from returne He which attended my comming in the Boate fearing to be intercepted by the storme rowed backe in haste leauing me yet did hée hardly escape drowning I though too late weighing the weathers change hasted backe but missed the Boate and him that guided it Then I beheld the Ship tossed amid those tempestuous waues sometimes hoised to heauen presently plunged in the Oceans deapth Accursed eyes the vnhappy beholders of my dearest Timocleas troubles whereof she was vnworthy I too worthy which brought her to this perill for whose danger drouping more then dreading mine owne I made signes to them aboord which answered me with the like intimating as I did guesse their desire and readinesse to take me in when the storme should ceasse I somewhat comforted with this colde hope sate downe néere the shore looking for a calme Dayes light declining nights darkenesse shadowed the earth but in this obscuritie of all things I continued my abode expecting dayes returne But when Phoebus posting from the Antipodes had remounted the Easterne hill and burnished heauen with his glittering beames I hoping to see my wished obiect viewed onely the voyd Sea What should I then do exclaime I did it accuse whome the Gods I would not Fortune I durst not for I hoped her fauour might be regayned But ay me my hope was forcelesse because frutelesse The windes fury was asswaged but no Ship séene no hope of returne I spent the second night in this bootelesse expectation which being past and day restored I summond my thoughts to consult and determind sith vaine sorrowe without search could not auayle to séeke her my lost loue and finde her if the earth affoorded her Rising in this resolution and hasting by the coast hauing mine eyes alwayes towards the Sea I came to a desolate and almost dispeopled Hauen where finding a Cretan Pinnesse ready rigd and furnished for departure I spéedily embarqued my selfe therein but neither in my passage at Sea nor in my search on land after my arriuall could I finde any certaintie of my desire Passing thence by Ship to Rhodes I had like successe for expecting there most comfort I found least content Though there discouraged yet I drouped not but proceeded no Ile in the Ionian or Aegaean Seas was by me vnséene or vnsearched Failing in these I came by Sea to Hellespont thence to Epirus thence to Macedon then forward into Thessaly from Thessaly to Thrace enquiring diligently in all the Port townes of these Prouinces and not finding any comfort not hearing any newes of what I most desired I entred into Arcadia and met happily with you amid my laments Thus haue you heard the summe of my sorrowes briefely related whereto if you can affoord such ease as I expect you shall not onely saue the life and salue the honour of a distressed Prince but make him of all most fortunate Héere words melted into teares teares that made a periode to his plaints Damon halfe in a passion after some pause replyed thus The strangenes of your discourse hath so amazed me that I scarce knowe howe to answere I should deriue my beginning from crauing pardon for so homely enterteyning so great a personage but the ignorance of your estate affoords sufficient matter of excuse to shield mée from reproach Yet if the sequele of my report doe in any sort satisfye you I request that the solace which you get thereby may in part recompence those former defects When our last Autumne the yeares most desired season had rendered Earths tribute with heaped plentie of encrease Aegon and Damaetas both Arcadians by profession Shepheards as I am walking on the downes not farre from the Sea while Titan posting to plunge his firie Chariot in Thetis lappe had gladded Oceanus with his returne walking I say and ouerlooking their Swaynes that gathered the flockes to pen them in the foldes they sawe a farre off one running towards them séeming by signes to request their tarriance At his approach they behelde him a goodly youth of comely feature and endued with such rare beautie as is séeldome séene in any of our sexe The selly lad breathlesse with running speachlesse and almost heartlesse through feare fell downe at their féete They hauing graunted him some respit to settle and recouer himselfe gently tooke him vp and courteously demaunded his estate and the cause of his ill hap He which panting for breath stopped oft in his tale and could not

ARISBAS Euphues amidst his slumbers Or Cupids Iourney to Hell DECYPHERING A MYRROR of Constancie a Touch-stone of tried affection begun in chaste desires ended in choise delights And emblasoning Beauties glorie adorned by Natures bountie VVITH THE TRIVMPH OF TRVE Loue in the foyle of false Fortune By I. D. Est aliquid leuibus depingere seria ●●gis Imprinted at London by Thomas Creede for Thomas Woodcocke and are to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard 1594. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPfull Maister Edward Dyer Esquire the Maecenas of worth and mirror of all admired perfections WEll might Telamonian Aiax Right worshipfull a Peere of the peerlesse Iliade and owner of the seuen-fold target stoutly oppose himselfe to inuading Hector that vaunted his dreaded prowesse backed by succor of the gods and strongly repulse the thick-darted Troian fires from their endaungered nauy the sole staie of their then-doubted return hauing for his vigorous arme so massy a bulwarke for his valiant heart so man-like a bodie And si magnis componere parua licebit in like sort I shrouded vnder the shadow of your worships winges haue therfore the more boldly aduentured to thrust into the open light this mine abortiue issue the frute of some fewe idle houres sith after many thoughts I could not excogitate any more pleasing recreatiō wheron I might bestow times of leasure hoping that for the common good liking which all men conceiue of you and for the generall good speeches which all men vse of you they will the better censure of my dooing when they see your worshippes name to whose worth this worthlesse Pamphlet is entitled stāding in the front as a strong fort of defence to shield me from the descanting verdites of such vnfriendly readers which conceiting the Authors entent amisse may wrest his meaning by wrōg cōiectures frō the sowre cēsures of the ouer-curious Moralists of our age which glory to be termed the new-vprearers of the lōg ago confuted Stoical Apathy although these harsh ensuing lines merit no such high protectiō sith they are not ouer-curiously labored for I deem it mere folly to make a trifle a labor or my pleasure my paine and they may be tearmed the worke of a slumbring rather then of a wakefull Muse yet I haue obserued that Poetical method in my discourse which the best most approued Authors of the ancientest and most famous languages haue alwaies vsed allowed beginning in Medio afterward at occasions vnfolding former accidents Howsoeuer if these the saplesse frutes of greene youth pithlesse blossomes of a simple Authors vnripe wit purchase such fauor acceptance as I desire though they deserue not I shall be emboldened to raise my Muses note that now yeelds harsh Musick to an higher key a fairer frute of my better ordred vacant houres manifest my dutie to your worship in some matter of greater import then a superficiall toye for I iudge it the extremitie of folly to trouble the worlde with heapes of trifles But fearing to grow offensiue through tedious interrupting of your worshippes serious affaires and humbly crauing pardon of mine audacious enterprise I ende wishing to your worship manie daies of happinesse in this life and heauen in the other life Your Worships most firmely deuoted in all dutie and seruice Iohn Dickenson To the Gentlemen-Readers LEarned and curteous Gentlemen Although the whitest Swanne sweetest of Apolloes musicall birdes hath put an endlesse periode to his euer-liuing lines being preuented by vntimely death the Herauld of ouer-hastie destiny though he the honour of Art hope of Armes Mineruaes nourse-childe and beloued Secretary to the sacred Muses was in the spring-time of his glorie raised from below to reigne aboue yet as his heroique spirit disrobed of the perishing habit of mortalitie swiftly passing through the inferior orbes hath ascended to the Empyre heauen participating eternall ioyes in the habitation of the blessed and doth with happier eyes view the glorious light of the Deitie and resting in that blisfull seate of his repose wōders at heauens huge frame wherto his high thoghts did alwaies honourably aspire So his Fame winged with desert suted in robes of immortalitie vanquishing death tryumphing ouer time and nothing staied by triuiall stoppes towres to the cloudes and not comprehended in smal limits fils the eares of all men with oft-rebounded ecchoes of his praise ouerspreading Europe nay the worldes wide continent as did the flourishing vine which seemed to dismaid Astyages in his ill-presaging dreame to couer Asia with a spatious shade If you demaund whom I meane euen he it is to whom I wil ascribe no other titles thē the world hath allotted though I cannot duly affoord them as he deserues them yet take thē as I haue placed them in this English distich a testimonie of the reuerent affection which I beare to the memorie of such a famous Worthie Sweet Astrophil the solace of my pen Wonder of worth and Peere of peerlesse men But who can adde to that which is infinite or what pen can sufficiently expresse his praise which exceeds the praises of al pens especially of mine whose slender wit treating such an ample subiect feeles want in plentie raunging in a large field of copious matter and being engulfed in an Ocean of conceit lies there ouerwhelmed But some may demaund wherto this tendes to whom I answere thus briefly framing mine owne Apologie I hope that it shall not minister iust occasion of offence to any that my blushing Muse reuerencing the steps wherein he traced and houering aloofe with awe-full dread doth yet at last warily approach and carefully obserue the directiōs of so worthie a guide in part glance at the vnmatchable height of his heroique humor Did not Statius charge his Thebaide to attend with like reuerence on the loftie foote-steps of the royall Aeneide But to conclude I shall be full heire of mine hope and shall esteeme it no small good hap if you grace mine endeuours with fauourable doome and accept my good-will in lieu of currant performance Thus Gentlemen committing my Pamphlet to your friendly view and submitting my selfe to your curteous censures I end wishing to you al seueral good fortunes and concluding my resolution in this harsh Epigramme hatched in codde humour Quaeris delicias faeetiasque Festiuosque iocos habes quod optas Faecunda Astrophili petens fluenta Late mellifluis referta ●iuis Quaeris dulce melos sales omnes Verborum veneres habes quod optas Foecunda Astrophili petens fluenta Passim nectareis adaucta lymphis Quaeris suauiculi nouos lepores Gazas ingeni tenes quod optas Faecunda Astrophili petens fluenta Lauro littorea superba myrto Illi Pierides fuere curae Illum Pieridesque Gratiaeque Curant Quin petis illius fluenta Queis tot lacteoli canunt olores At me saeuior insidere terrae Cogit Calliope negatque vela Exemit tamen infimo illa vulgo Et sperare dedit placere posse I. D.

recouered his legs away he trotted amaine wingd with feare dreading euer that some of those mad companions were at his héeles and neuer thought himself secure vntill he came to hell but he left his seruant Treasure behinde him on the earth with a thousand curses to them which kept it Of which one was that they should neuer be quiet in minde Another that the brats of Vsurers should be alwaies sicke of the loose disease neuer able to holde any thing long Thus haue you heard the cause of his headlong stumbling in but here I will presume to comment on the conceit of Dorilus Plutus did gladly ●●cept this offer of Proserpina hoping thereby to recouer his seruant Treasure for which purpose he vsed to wound louers after Cupids fashion with the gold-tipped shafts but he pierced the hearts of their beloued obiects with leaden headed arrowes though garnished with a thin couerture of golde which intimated that they carried Mercinary affectiōs not vouchsafing them any fauour which brought them no fée But belike the god himselfe ment to share stakes and by that kinde of tribute which they paied to recouer in part his seruant Treasure through them to whom he had bene the author of so profitable a profession Hereat Arisbas smiled and Damon ending this his first merry digression procéeded thus on a second This was not his first experience of repulsed affection and vnregarded passions for before this wonders arriuall he extremely doated on Palma a faire shepheardesse which was more delighted with obseruing Dianaes orders then accepting his offers He halfe in despaire pend a conceit as he thought persuasiue thinking that could moue her which did rath●r mad her and thus it was Dorylus his Ode in English Sapphiques TEll me thou fairest of al earthly creatures Faire by thy vertue by thy beautie blessed Tell me what moues thee to refuse my seruice sleightly regarded Loue of a sole life to be like Diana May perhaps moue you but I wish ye would not Would not or could not but I hope ye will not stil be resolude so If to the Forrests to the shadie thickets Fancie doth moue thee to repaire alone thus If to the wide woods to the craggie mountaines or to the vallies Then wil I speed mee to the groues vnhanted Where Satyres sport them to the Fairie wood-Nymphs Nimbly now skipping then againe reposing neare to the fountaines Like not a sole life Venus is reuenging Feare ye not frownings of an angrie goddesse Scorne not her hests then be no foe to Nature Loue is a pleasure Beautie decaieth yet is no chiefest Grace of a Virgin yet it is required Life is vncertaine Who can hold a shadow Lost in a moment Such was his conceit wherein he sped not as he expected the issue of his fortune yet loth to disgrace himselfe to salue that suspition which might intimate want of perfections in him he thus feined the cause of that repulse Dorylus his Madrigal Loue vowde himselfe my friend and chose his time To wound faire Palma Cynthia him espide As wantonly the god did climbe To fit his aime and sware to worke his smart If he presum'd to pierce so chaste an heart And therewithall from Mayden side She drew a shaft away the god gan flie With wings fast wau'd nor durst the wanton scant Or slacke his course amid the skie Thus he his will and I my wish must want But let vs returne to his last wooing hauing thus descanted ●ndeceiuing hope hée attempted to effect his deuice but failing in the execution being reiected with seuere lookes finding frownes in stead of fauours he felt such déepe impression of sorrow that since that time of his repulse he hath led a discontented life spending his daies in pensiue meditations His fortune or rather misfortune not so rare as by his laments made ruthfull is memorized by vs in a prouerbial byword for we term il successe in loue the destinie of Dorylus Thus you haue heard what I can discourse concerning this wonder a name well fitting his perfections modestie of behauiour maiestie of lookes comelinesse not common fairenesse of face eyes lyke Starres browes sometimes furrowed with prettie frownes yet alwayes beauties bowre frownes resembling those siluer steppes in the milke-white way leading to Ioues palace chéekes cherrie redde yet was this louely tincture circled with a mayden white such neate proportion of all parts that I want a world of tearmes to emblason their perticular praises and will therefore ende with this affertion which I dare auouch against all men that Nature in framing him hath wronged her owne sexe bereauing it of so great a glorie Arisbas galled to the quicke with Damons wordes houering betwéene hope and feare knew not how to surmise what to suppose for he felt a worlde of melancholy motions mustring tumults in his fancie Weighing the report of that wonders beautie he thought it could be no other then his Timoclea but when he remembred the diuersitie of the sexe he was againe discouraged till hope rescuing his drouping passions with timely succours of happie comfort bad him imagine that as loue doth oft effect rare stratagems so he might proue his power miraculous in this one thing shadowing the sexe for his auaile Being in these dumpes he held a session in his thoughtes whereto he assembled all his powers and therein resolued to ryd himselfe of this doubt by a spéedie view of that far-renowmed wonder For this purpose hée enquired of Damon the name and distance of the place where hée remained who answered that hée dwelt farre of in the Southerne parts of Arcadia and that it were ●●lly to wearie himselfe with a néedelesse iourney sith if hée woulde continue his abode but nine dayes hée might with lesse trauaile and in a full assembly view him at ease The Prince demanded how The shepheard after a long pause beganne thus gracing his relation with an vnexpected discourse When our Country was haunted with the almost-daily presence of heauens high inhabitantes though now bereaued of so great a good through our owne ingratitude For Iupiter courted Calisto in Dianaes shape robbing her of her dearest Iewell and Apollo mastered or rather martyred by Cupid for his high contempt pursued swift Daphne winged with chaste desires There liued in Arcadia a most faire Ladde famous as the rest I may well terme him faire a terme too slender to emblazon his beauties woorth Much I muse yet I néede not muse for Iupiter possessed Ganimede alreadie that he made not him a praie for his pleasure But sith I cannot fully expresse his perfections I wil rehearse to you the description of him couched by an Arcadian pen-man in a briefe Ode a conceit wel knowne to all shepheards and by them oft recited The description of Hyalus in an Ode GAnimede th'Idaean boy Second glorie of the day Phrigiaes wonder fathers ioy Loues content ●oues wishfull pray Blith Adonis beauties treasure Venus darling Fancies fire In whose lookes were heauens of pleasure Fruite

her proeme with a maiden-blush Doubt not dearest Lord the assurance of your hope I am that Timoclea sought by you so much that haue sighed for you so oft whose truth hath had many tryals in troubles yet vanquishing all distresse she beholds you secure from danger Thinke not this disguise of mine attire and dissembling of my sexe any reproach to the modestie of a maydens behauiour for I haue plotted this chaste pollicie to preuent all perils of lustfull violence and preserue mine honour inuiolate that I might restore my selfe to you with the same dowry of virgins dignitie for which you at the first affected me This sayd they shedding teares enterchaungeable tokens of their mutuall ioy recompenced the long want of loues delight with swéete kisses and Damon supplying the time of their solace stood vp and in a large discourse dilated the fortunes of Arisbas and the successe of his loue agréeing in effect of sense with the former relations whose tale being ended Timoclea prosecuting the discouery of loues strange aduentures procéeded thus Sith those things are reuealed which I thought that the gods and our selues onely had knowne I will likewise in this assembly publikely relate the many changes of aduerse chances from ill to worse by me endured Thus then deare Lord and you strangers and friends receiue a briefe rehearsall of my troubles in hearing my discourse dread souereigne of my soules blisse weigh the many dangers of thy dear too dearly-bought Timoclea When that il-boding tempest first cause of our ensuing cares had secluded thée from the sea mée from the shore our ship was dangerously tossed on the troublous waues and though within no small space a timely calme had quieted the waters rage yet the vngentle windes lucklesse instruments of fortunes spight kéeping their wonted quarters draue vs far from the continent with continued aduerse blasts After long tumbling on the floud we descried a litle desolate Iland and packing on all the sailes made towards it amaine when sodeinly the Pilot causing them to strike the late-spred sailes kept aloofe from y e coast and willed the boat-swain to sound the depth for he vehemently feared to be driuē on some shelues in that vnknowne current but finding all sure in the safetie of a wide chanell we approached néerer There was a small créeke on the South side making shew of an harbor seeming then a fitte hauen for our weather-beaten vessell Thereinto we entred bearing in close with the point and hauing anchord the chiefe gouernour of the ship went on land with the stoutest of his Marriners to search the country and to finde fresh acates but he returned failing in his purpose only supplying our want of fresh water fewell and bringing aboord with him a fewe straunge ill-tasting birds which they had taken among the cliffes leauing this comfortlesse coast we made againe to sea on the seuenth night from our departure thence we were engulfed amōg the Cyclades by the windes thwarting alteration fitly resembling the crosse course of fortunes whéele in peruerting humane actions In one of those Ilandes the Gouernour finding a fit hauen caused his ship to be had into a dock and there he set his men on worke to stop leakes and new trim her sore-bruised sides I vnwilling and vnable through my want to attend the issue of his delaies left him resoluing to embarque in some other vessell sailing neare Arcadia But remembring how many dangers were incidēt to our sexe and to how many perils my beautie though small was subiect I sought to procure my safetie and preuent al dreaded ils by this disguise Hasting to the next port I found there a Merchant of Hellespont readie to hoise saile for Byzantium with him I bargained for my passage he accepted mine offer taking me with him after a dayes tariance in y e hauen lanched ayded by a prosperous winde But though heauens fauoured me yet hard hap stil followed me Mark an other instaunce of fatall spight On a faire calme day though a foule storme in mine estate the ●ilot mistaking his course stemmed the ship on a rock and ●he cruel winds continuall furtherers of fortunes spight draue her on with such violence that she was there split In this generall extremitie of life each tooke what was next his hand to sustaine him in that hazard I nimble through feare got a great péece of the maine Mast and thereon committed my safetie to the seas curtesie and though euerie surge threatned ouerwhelming each waue menaced death yet I not daunted in these dangers kept mine hold Oft I beheld the Dolphins mounting on the waters vneuen superficies but at my approach they would cease their sport in kind regard of my ruth not raising the billowes with their tumbling but gently on either side following me thus floating séeming to waft me with wary eyes as carefull of my safetie The day being farre spent I discried a sayle Westward and such was my hap I know not how to terme it good or ill it made toward the coast on which I was thus tossed when I saw it some what néere I made signes to them aboord expressing my danger and imploring their aid They desirous to saue me for sometimes miscreants féele passiōs of pitie sent two of their fellowes in the long boat to fetch mée who rowing to mée tooke mee vp thus one affection wrought an other carried mée aboord with them where hoping for solace I found sorrow Being in the sea though euer dreading to be swalowed by the surges yet was I free In the ship though sa●e from such perils yet was I prisoner to wretched Pirats from whose remorslesse hearts all compassion was exiled Yet me they sought to win by allurements hoping that I deceiued by their pretended kindnesse would sooner yéeld to their filthie desires The same night they frolliked with great iollitie for ioy as they saide of obteining me when the wine had fired their enflamed lust they sollicited thogh successesse their former motions and stroue so long for kisses but got none that they left their kindnesse towards me and fell to contention among themselues Their Captaine enuying them the publike possession of his priuat pleasure though but supposed déeming me a praie fitter for himselfe and iudging a common good not currant appeased the fraie through his authoritie did countermaund their passions but priuately he would assaile me with all the engines of loue-plotted pollicies adding cruell threats to kind words sometimes entreating sometimes menacing now suing then swearing to obtaine his will or augment my woe now praying then protesting to enioy me or enioyne me perpetuall slauery I hearing him in these tearmes fed his humor with vaine hopes coining new occasions of delaies prefixing a time promising that expired to yéeld to al kinds of dalliance which he would vse limiting my feined profer with ●his condition that till then he should cease from prosecuting his intended desires He accepting this answer for an high fauour