other side Betweene these driue The rest I leaue to Fate Who better proue than thou to thy owne state But while I speak behold the humid Night Beyond th' Hesperian Vales hath ta'ne her flight Aurora's splendor re-inthrone's the Day We are expected nor can longer stay Take vp the reignes or while thou maist refuse And noâ— my Chariot but my counsell vse While on a firme foundation thou dost stand Not yet postest of thy ill-wisht Command Let me the World with vsuall influence cheare And view that light which is vnsafe to beare The generous and gallant Phaâ—ton All courage vaut's into the blazing Throne Glad of the reignes nor doubtfull of his skill And giues his Father thanks against his will Meane while the Sunnes swift Horses hot PyroÌ„us Strong Aethon fiery Phlegoâ— bright Eâ—us Neighing alowd inflame the Ayre with heat And with their thundring hooues the barriers beat Which when hospitious Thetis once with-drew Who nothing of her Nephew's danger knew And gaue them scope they mount the ample skie And cut the obuious Clouds with feet that flie Who rays'd with plumed pinions leaue behinde The glowing East and slower Easterne-winde But Phoebus Horses could not feele that fraight The Chariot wanted the accustom'd waight And as vnballac't ships are rockt and tost With tumbling Waues and in their steerage lost So through the Ayre the lighter Chariot reeles And ioults as emptie vpon iumping Wheeles Which when they found the beaten path they shun And straggling out of all subiection run He knowes not how to turne nor knowes the way Or had he knowne yet would not they obay The cold now hot Triones sought in vaine To quench their heat in the forbidden Maine The Serpent next vnto the frozen Pole Benum'd and hurtlesse now began to rowle With actuall heat and long forgotten ire Resumes together with aethereall fire 'T is said that thou Boâ—tes ranst away Though slow though thee thy heauy Waine did stay But when from top of all the arched skye Vnhappy Phaâ—ton the Earth did eye Pale sudden feare vn-nerves his quaking thighs And in so great a light benights his eyes He wisht those Steeds vnknowne vnknown his birth His sute vngranted now he couets earth To be the sonne of scorned Merope Rapt as a ship vpon the high-wrought Sea By saluage tempests chac't which in despaire The Pilot leaueth to the Gods and Pray'r What should he doe much of the heauen behinde Much more before both measur'd in his minde The neuer-to-be entred West suruay's And then the East Lost in his owne amaze And ignorance he can nor hold the reignes Nor let them goe nor knowes his Horses names But stares on terror-striking skies possest By Beasts and Monsters with a panting brest There is a place in which the Scorpion bends His compast clawes who through two Signes extends Whom when the Youth beheld stewâ—d in black sweat Of poyson and with turn'd-vp taile to threat A mortall wound pale feare his senses strooke And slackned reignes let 's fall from hands that shooke They when they felt them on their backs to lie With vn-controlled error scoure the skie Through vnknowne ayrie Regions and tread The way which their disordred fury led Vp to the fixed Starres their course they take And stranger Spheres with smoking Chariot rake Now climeâ— now by sleep Praecipies descend And neere Earth their wandring race extend To 〈…〉 brother's Steeds beneath her owne The Moon admires the Clouds like Comets shone Inuading fire the vpper Earth assaylâ—d All chapt and conâ—d her pregnant iuyce exhal'd Trees seed there ruin Grasse gray-headed turns And 〈◊〉 by that which did produce it burns But this was nothing Cities with their Towres Realmes with their People funerall fire deuoures The Mountayns blaze High Athos but too high Fount-fruitfull Ida neuer till then drie Oete old â—molus and Cilician Taurus Muse-haunted Aâ—licon Oeà grian Aemus Loud Eetna roreth with her doubled fires Parnassus grones beneath two flaming spires Steep Othrys Cynthus Eryx Mimas glowe And Rhodope no longer cloath'd with snowe The Phrygian Dindyma in cinders mourns Cold Caucasus in frosty Scythia burns High Mycale diuine Cythaeron wast Pindus and Ossa once on Pelion cast More great Olympus which before did shine The ayrie Alpes and cloudie Appenine Then Phaeton beheld on euery side The World on fire nor could such heat abide And at his deadly-drie and gasping iawes The scalding Ayre as from a furnace drawes His Chariot redder than the fire it bore And being mortall could indure no more Such clowds of ashes and eiected coles Muffled in smoake which round about him rowles He knowes not where he is nor what succeeds Dragg'd at the pleasure of his frantick Steeds Men say the AEthiopians then grew swart Their blood exhaled to the outward part A sandie Desert Lybia then became Her full veins emptied by the thirsty flame With hair vnbound and torn the Nymphs distraught Bewaile their Springs Boeâ—tia Dirce sought Argos â—â—ymone Ephyre faire Pirene mist Nor streames securer are Great Tanais in boyling chanell fumes Tâ—uthr aman Cayeus with heat consumes Ismenus old â—eneus Erymanthus Yellow Lycorn â—as to be twice-burnt Zanthus Moeandâ—r running in a turning maze Mygdonian Melas and Euroâ—as blaze Euphrates late inuesting Babylon Orontes Phasis Ister Thermodon Ganges Alpâ—â—â—s Sperchius lately cold And Tagus flowing with dissolued gold The Swans that rauisht with their melodie 〈◊〉 banks now in Cayster frie. To farthest Earth affrighted Nilus fled And there conceal'd his yet vnfound-out head Whilâ—st his seuen dustie chanels streamlesse lie Ismarian Hebrus Strymon now are drie Hespâ—rian streames Rhene Rhodanus the Po And Scepter destinated Tyber glow Earth cracks to Hell the hated light descends And frighted Pluto with his Queene offends The Ocean shrinks and leaues a field of Sand Where new discouered Rocks and Mountaines stand That multiply the scattred Cyclades Late couer'd with the deepe and awfull Seas The Fishes to the bottom diue nor dare The sportlesse Dolphins tempt the sultrie Aire Long boylâ—d aliue the mâ—nstrous â—hocae die And on the brine with turn ' d-vp bellies lie With 〈◊〉 and her daughters Nerâ—us raues Who hide themselues beneath the scalding waues Thrice wrathfull Neptune his bold arme vp-held Aboue the Floods whom thrice the fire repel'd Yet foodfull Tellus with the Ocean bound Amidst the Seas and Fountaines now vnfound Selfe-hid within the womb where they were bred Neck-high aduanceth her all-bearing head Her parched fore-head shaddowed with her hand And shaking shooke what-euer on her stand Where-with a little shrunke into her brest Her sacred tongue her sorrowes thus exprest If such thy will and I deserue the same Thou chiefe of Gods why sleeps thy vengefull flame Be 't by Thy fire if I in fire must frie The Author lessens the calamitie But whilst I striue to vtter this I choke View my sing'd haire mine eyes half-out with smoke The sparkling cinders on my vissage throwne Is this my recompence the fauour showne For all my seruice for the
quaking pale about to yeeld His ghost for scare I interpos'd my shield Bestâ—â—d him as he lay and from that strife Redeemed my least of praise his coward life But if thou wilt contend reioyne we there Reuoke the foe thy wounds and vsuall feare Behind my target sculke then plead This man Who 〈◊〉 with wounds freed as vnwounded ran Nâ—w 〈◊〉 came and brought the Gods along Râ—sla on all parts not thou alone the strong And bestâ— esâ—â—lued thrinke so great a dread He drew on all Him as he trumph led Through bloud and slaughter with a mightie stone 〈…〉 to caâ—th Him I sustain'd alone When he to all â—o bold a challenge made What 〈◊〉 my lot you all deuoutly pray'd No 〈◊〉 in vaine If you inquire the summe O◠〈◊〉 â—ight I was not ouer come With vâ—nege full weapons flames and loue the men Of Troy â—uade our nauie where was then Your eloquent Vlysses I euen I A thousand ships preseru'd whereon rely The hope of your returne These armes for all Your Fleet afford The meed more honour shall Receiue then giue our glories iustly pease These armes doe Aiax seeke not Aiax these Rhesus surprise with ours let him compare That poore Spie Dolon's Hellenus despaire The rapt Palladum nothing done by day He nothing worth take Diomed away If to such meane deserts these armes accrue Diuide them to Tydides most is due Why would he these who still vnarmed goes Conceal'd and cunningly intraps his foes This radiant Caske that shines with burnisht gold Will his deceit and lurking steps vnfold His necke can scarce Achilles helmet beare Nor can his feeble arme imploy this speare His shield whose orbe the figured world adornes A cowards arme inur'd to theeuing scornes O foole that thus thy owne vndoing seekes If giuen thee by th' error of the Greekes It will not make thee dreadfull to thy foe But be th' occasion of thy ouerthrow And flight wherein thou only dost exceed Clog'd with so huge a weight will faile thy need Besides thy shield in battle rarely borne Is yet entire mine all to hackt and torne With stormes of blowes a new successor needs What boots so many words behold our deeds These armes deliuer to the foes defence And let him weare that wins the prize from thence Here Aiax ends The Souldier in the close A murmure rais'd till Ithâ—cus arose Who hauing fixed on the earth a space His eyes vnto the Princes rais'd his face And now expected spake vnto this sense With all the grace of winning eloquence Graecians If heauen with yours had heard my prayre So great a strife had found no doubtfull Heire 〈◊〉 hadst kept thy armes Achilles and we thee 〈◊〉 steine Fate auerse to you and mee Sâ—â—â—ueted an Excellence denies With that appeares to weepe and wipes his eyes Who great Achilles with more right succeeds Than he who gaue you great Achilles deeds Let not his folly purchase you assent Nor let my wit in that so preualent For you my losse incurre nor hate incense That for my self I arme my eloquence It I haue any oft for you imploy'd 〈◊〉 one the glory of his owne auoid 〈…〉 estors druine originall And deeds by vs not done we ours mis-call Yet in that Aiax vants himselfe to bee â—â—eat-grand hilde vnto Ioue no lesse are wee I 〈◊〉 was my Site Arcâ—sius his His Iupiter in this defâ—ent there is None damn'd nor banniâ—t By the venter I 〈…〉 inespring in both a Deitie No that more noble by the mothers side Nor that my father had his hands vndide 〈◊〉 hers bloud doe I inforce this claime Weigh but our worths and censure by the same That Telamon and Peleus brethren were In Aiax is no merit Not the Neere In birth but Great in act deserue this grace Or if proximity in bloud haue place Peleus his father Pyrrhus is his son What right remaines for Aiax Telamon To Phthia then or Scyros carry these Teucer is coozen to Aeacides As well as he yet stirs not he herein Or if he should should he the honour win Then since our actions must our sute aduance Although my deeds surmount my vtterance Their abstract yet in order to relate Thetis fore-knowing great Achilles fate Disguis'd her sonne so like a Virgin drest That all mistooke and Aiax with the rest When Armes with womens trifles that might blinde Suspect I brought to tempt a manly minde Yet was the Heros Virgin-like araid Who taking vp the Speare and Shield I said O Goddesse-borne for thee the fate of Troy Her fall reserues Why doubts thou to destroy Great Pergamus then made him d'off those weeds And sent the mighty vnto mighty deeds His acts are therefore ours We Telephus Foild with our lance the suppliant cur'd by vs. Strong Thobes we sackt sackt Lesbos vs renounes Chrysa and Tenedos Apollo's townes With Cilla Sea-girt Syros in their falls Our fame aduance we raz'd Lyrnessu's walls To passe the rest I gaue who could subdue The braue Priatnides I Hector slue For th' armes that found Achilles these I craue He dead I aske but what aliue I gaue The griefe of one with all the Greekes preuailes Eubotan Aulis held a thousand sailes The long-expected winds opposed stand Or sleepe in calmes When cruell Fates command Afflicted Agamemnon to asswage With Ighigenia's death Diana's rage But he dissents the Gods themselues reproues And in a king a fathers passion moues His a noble disposition ne're the lesse I to the publike won and must confesse Atrâ—des pardon we did prosecute Before a partiall Iudge a hatefull sute Yet him his brother scepter publike good Perswade to purchase endlesse praise with blood Then went I to the mother for her child Now not to be exhorted but beguild Had Aâ—ax thither gone our flagging sailes Not yet had swel'd with still-expected gales Then on a bold embassage I was sent To haughty Troy to th' Ilian Court I went Yeâ— fâ—ll of men and fearelesse vâ—g'd at large The common cause committed to my charge Falle Paris I accuse rapt Helena 〈◊〉 demand with all they bore away Old pâ—aam and Antenor iust appeare 〈◊〉 Paris with his brethren and who were His â—ollowers in that stealth from wicked blowes 〈…〉 This Meneläus Knowes 〈…〉 dangers wherein you and I 〈…〉 But what my policie And force perform'd behoouefull to this State In that long warre too long is to relate The first great battle fought our weary foes Long liue immuâ—'d nor durst their powers expose Nine yeeres expir'd warres all the fields affright Meane-while what didst thou only fit to fight What vse of thee Inquire my actions I The foe intrap our trenches fortifie Incouraging the weaâ—y Souldier To brooke the tediousnesse of lingâ—ing warre With faire expectance teach them wayes to feed And arts to fight Imploy'd at euery need The king del ded in his sleepe by Ioue Bids vs the care of future warre remoue The author was his strong apologie Aâ—ax should haue with-stood the sacke of Troy He should haue
day-light So other lakes and streames haue other powre Ortygia sloted once fixt at this houre Once Argo fear'd the iustling Cyenes Which rooted now resist both winds and seas Nor Aeâ—na burning with imbowel'd fire Shall euer or did alwayes flames expire For whether Tellus be an Animall Haue lungs and mouthes that smoking flames exhale Her organs alter when her motions close These yawning passages and open those Or whether winds in caues impris'ned raue Iustling the stones and minerals which haue The seed of fire inkindled with their rage They then extinguish when the winds asswage Or if Bitumen doe the fire prouoke Or sulpher burning with more subtill smoke When Earth that food and oylie nourishment With drawes the matter by long feeding spent The hungry fire of sustenance beâ—eft Ill-brooking famine leaues by being left In Hyperboâ—ean Pallene liue A People if to Fame we credit giue Who diuing three times thrice in Tritons lake Of Fowle the feathers and the figure take The like they say the the Scythâ—â—n Witches doe With magicke oyles incredible though true If we may trust to triall see you not Small creatures of corrupted flesh begot Bury your slaughtred Steere a thing in vse And his corrupted bowels will produce Flowre-sucking-Bees who like their parent slaine Loue labour fields and toile in hope of gaine Hornets from buried horses take their birth Breake off the Crabs bent clawes and in the earth Bury the rest a Scorpion without faile From thence will creepe and menace with his taile The Catterpillers who their cop-webs weaue On tender leafes as Hindes from proofe receiue Conuert to poysnous Butterflies in time Greene Frogs ingendred by the seed of slime First without feet then leg assume now strong And apt to swimme their hinder parts more long Then are their former fram'd to skip add iumpe The Beares deformed birth is but a lumpe Of liuing flesh when lâ—â—ked by the Old It takes a forme agreeing with the mold Who sees the Young of honie-bearing Bees In their sexangular inelosure sees Their bodies limb-lesse these vnformed things In time put forth their feet and after wings The starre-imbellâ—sht Fowle which Iuno loues Iones Armour-beaâ—er Cytharea's Doues And birds of euery kinde did we not know Them hatch't of egges who would coniecture so Some thinke the pith of dead men Snakes becomes When their back-bones corrupt in hollow tombs Yet these from others doe deriue their birth One onely Fâ—wle there is in all the Earth Call'd by th' Assyrian Phoenix who the waine Of age râ—paires and sâ—wes her selfe againe No 〈◊〉 on graine noâ— heâ—â—s but on the gumme Oâ— Frankinâ—ense and mycre Amomum Now when her life â—iue ages hath fulfil'd A neither 〈◊〉 beake and tallons build Vpon the 〈◊〉 of a trembling Palme This strewâ—d with Caâ—â—ia Spicknard precious Balme Bruz'd Cinamon and Myrrh thereon she bends Her body and her age in odors ends This breeding Corp's a little Phoenix beares Which is it selfe to liue as many yeeres Growne strong that load now able to transferre Her Cradle and her parents sepulcher Deuoutly carries to Hyperions towne And on his flamie Altar layes it downe If these be wonderfull admire like strange Hyaena's who their sex so often change Those foodlesse creatures fed by ayre alone Who euery colour which they touch put on The Lynx first brought from conquered India By vine bound Bacchus his hot pisse they say Congeales to stone So Corall which below The water is a limber weed doth grow Stone-hard when toucht by aire But Day will end And Phoebus panting Steeds to Seas descend Before my scant oration could persue All sorts of shapes that change their old for new For this we see in all is generall Some Nations gather strength and others fall Troy rich and powrefull which so proudly stood That could for ten yeeres spend such streames of blood For buildings onely her old ruines showes For riches tombs which slaughtred Sires inclose Sparta Mycenae were of Greece the flowres So Cecrop's City and Amphion's towres Now glorious Sparta lies vpon the ground Lofty Mycenae hardly to be found Of OEdipus his Thebes what now remaines Or of Pandion's Athens but their names Now Fame reports that Rome by Dardans Sons Begins to rise where yellow Tybris runs From fountfull Appenines and there the great Foundation of so great a fabricke seat This therefore shall by changing propagate And giue the World a Head Of such a fate The Prophets haue diuin'd And this of old As I remember Priam's Helen told To sad Aeneas of all hope forlorne In sinking Troy's eclipse O Goddesse-borne If our Appollo can presage at all Troy thou in safety shall not wholly fall Both fire and sword shall giue thy vertue way Flying with thee thou Ilium shalt conuay Vntill thou finde a Land as yet vnknowne To Troy and thee more friendly than thy owne A City built by Phrygians I fore-see So great none euer was is or shall bee Others shall make it great but He whose birth Springs from â—â—lus Soueraigne of the Earth He hauing rul'd the World shall then ascend Aethereall thrones and Heauen shall be his End This I remember with propheticke tongue Sage Helen to diuine Aeneas sung We ioy to see our kindreds City grow The Phrygians happy in their Ouer-throw But lest our heedlesse Steeds too far should range From their proposed course All suffer change The heauens themselues what vnder them is found We of the World a part since we as well Haue Soules as Bodies which in beasts may dwell To those which may our parents Soules inuest Our brothers dearest friends or men at least Let vs both safety and respect afford Nor heape their bowels on Thyestes boord How ill â—ur'd to shed the bloud of man How wickedly is he pâ—epar'd who can Asunder cut the throats of calues and heares The bellowing â—reeder with relentlesse eates Or silly kids which like poore infants cry Sticke with his knife or his voracitie Feed with the fowle he fed ô to what ill Are they not prone who are so bent to kill Let Oxen till the ground and die with age Let Sheepe defend thee from the winters rage Goats bring their vdders to thy paile Away With nets grâ—ns snares and arts that doe betray Deceiue not birds with lime nor Deere inclose With terrors nor thy baits to fish expose The hurtfull kill yet only kill nor eat Defiling flesh but feed on fitter meat With other and the like Philosophy Instructed Nâ—â—ma now return'd was by Th'intreating Latâ—neâ— crown'd Taught by his Bride The Nymph Aegeria by the Muses guide Religion institutes a People rude And prone to warre with lawes and peace imbu'd His raigne and age resign'd to funerall Plebeians Roman Danies Patricians all For Numa mouâ—ne His wife the Citie fled Hid in Aricia's Vale the ground her bed The woods her â—hroud disturbes with grones and cries Orestean Diana's sacrifice How oft the Nymphs who haunt that Groue and Lake Reprou'd her teares and words of
to cure you but Apollo's Seed Goe with successe and fetch my Sonne with speed The Senat hauing heard this Oracle The Citie search where Phoebus sonne should dwell The shore of Epidaure the Legate seekes There anchoring he intreats th' assembled Greekes To send their God who might th' Ausonian State To health restore and vrg'd the charge of Fate They vary in opinion some assent To send this succour many not content To lose their owne in giuing others aid Striue to retaine him and the rest distwade While thus they doubt the Day declin'd his Light And Earth-borne shadowes cloth'd the world in Night Th' Health-giuing God in sleepe appears to stand In his old forme a stafâ—e in his left hand And stroking with his right his reuerend beard From his hope-rendring brest these words were heard Feare not I come my shape I will forsake View and marke well this staffe-infolding Snake Such will I seeme yet shew of greater size So great as may a Deity comprize God with the Voice with God and Voice away Sleepe flew fled Sleepe persude by chearefull Day The Starres now vanquisht by the mornings flame The doubtfull Nobles to the temple came Intreat him by coelest all signes to shew Whether he were content to stay or goe This hardly said the God in Serpent's shroud His high crest gold-like glistring hist aloud His statue altar gates the marble flore And golden roofe shooke at th' approching Powre He in his Fane brest-high his body rais'd Rouling about his eyes that flame-like blaz'd All tremble The chast Priest his haire imbraid With Virgin fillet knew the God and said 'T is he 't is he all you who present are Pray with your hearts and tongues ô heauenly-Faire Propitious proue to those who thee implore All that were there the present Powre adore Reiterating what the Priest had said With heart and tongue the Romans also pray'd He by the motion of his lofty crest And doubled hisses signe 's to their request Then sliding downe the polisht staires his looke Reuerts on his old altars now forsooke Salute's his shrine and Temple deckt with towres Then creeping on the ground strew'd with fresh flowres Indenteth through the Citie stopping where The Harbour is defended by a Peere The following troopes and those whose zeales assist In honouring him with gentle lookes dismist He climbes th' Ausonian ship which felt the waight And shrunke with pressure of so great a fraight The ioyfull Romans offering on the strand A Bull to Neptune anchor weigh and land Forsake with easie gales Rais'd on his traine He leaning lookes vpon the blew-wau'd Maine Through Iâ—nian Seas by friendly Zâ—phyrus borne They fell with Italy on the sixth morne Lacinian Iunos Fane Scyllaean shores Iapygia past they shun with nimble ores Amphrysian rockes Ceraunian weather-cleft Romechium Caulon and Naryciae left Sâ—cilian Straights o're-come and wrackfull seas Saile by the mansion of Hippotades By Temesa in metalls fruitfull by Leucosia and the Paestan Rosary Neâ—re capreae and Minerua's Fore-land row Surrentine hills where wines so generous grow Heraclea Stabiae Naples borne to ease Cumaean Sibyl's Temple next to these Hot Baths Linternum sweet with masticke flowres Vultâ—rnus who his sandy channel skoures Sinuessa swarming with white Snakes ill-air'd Minturnae and where Pietie prepar'd His Nurse a tombe forthwith the mansion make Of fell Antiphates and then the Lake Besieged Trachin thence directly bore To â—wee's Ile and Antium's solid shore The Sea now swelling high this harbour holds The Saile-wing'd ship The God his orbs vnfolds And with huge doublings o're the yellow sand Slides to his fathers Temple on that strand Rough waues asswag'd the Epidaurian Guest His fathers altar leaues to Sea-ward prest Slicing the sandie shore with rustling scales And by her sterne the ship ascending sailes Till he to Castrum to Lauinia's name Retaining Seat and mouth of Tyber came All hither throng sonnes daughters mothers fires The Nunnes who keepe the Phrygian Vesta's fires The Gods appease the headlesse inwards shew Signes of succeeding Tumults Death and Woe Dogs nightly in the Court about the Gods And holy Temples howle From sad abodes The Dead arise and wander here and there Rome trembling both with Earth-quakes and with feare These Warnings of the Gods no changes wrought In Fate or Treason Murderous swords were brought Into the Temple for no place might sort With such a Slaughter but the sacred Court Then Venus smote her brest who sought to shroud And snatch him thence in that Aethereall cloud Which Paris from Atrides rage conuaid And freed Aeneas from Tydidâ—s blade Daughter said Ioue canst thou resist the doome Of conquering Fates Into their mansion come There shalt thou see Decrees that needs must Passe Writ in huge folds of solid steele and brasse Which safe eternall euer fixed there My thunder lightnings rage nor ruine feare In lasting Adamant there maâ—st thou reade What shall to thy great Progenie succeed I read remember well and will relate What may informe thee in succeeding fate He whom thou striuâ—st to saue his race hath runne Of Time and Glory whom thou and his Sonne Shall make in heauen a God on Earth with praire And Temples dignifi'd His names great Heire Alone his Load shall beare and strongly shall By our conduct reuenge his fathers fall By his good fortune Mutinae o're-throwne Shaâ—l â—ue for peace Pharsalian fields shall grone Slaughter againe Philippi shall imbrue On red Sicilian Seas he shall subdue A mighty Name Th' Aegyptian Spouse shall fall Ill trusting to her Roman Generall To make out stately Capitoll obay Her proud Canopus shall in vaine assay What need I of those barbarous People tell And Nations which by either Ocean dwell He shall the habitable Earth command And stretch his Empire ouer sea and land Peace giuen to Earth he shall conuert his care To ciuill Rule iust Lawes and by his faire Example Vertue guide Then looking to The future times and Nephewes to ensue A Sonne shall blesse him from a holy wombe To him he shall resigne his name and roome Nor shall till full of age ascend th'aboads Of heauenly Dwellers and his kindred Gods Meane-while from this flaine corps his soul conuay Vp to the starres and giue it a cleare Ray That Iulius may with friendly influence Shine on our Capitoll and Court from thence This said inuisible faâ—â—e Venus stood Amid the Senate from his corps with blood Defil'd her Caesars new-fled spirit bare To heauen not suffer'd to resolue to aire And as in her soft bosome borne shee might Perceiue it take a Powre and gather light When once let loose It forth with vp-ward flew And afteâ— it long blazing tresses drew The radiaâ—t Starre his Sonnes great acts beheld T'out-luster his and ioy'd to be excell'd Though he would haue his Fathers deeds preferr'd Before his owne yet free-tongu'd Fame deterr'd By no commandement yeeld th'euited Bayes To his cleare browes and but in this gain-sayes So Atreus yeelds to Agamemnons fame Aegeus
so to Theseus Peleus name Stoopes to Achilles That I may confer Th' illustrious to their equalls Iupiter So Saturne tops Iouâ— rules the arched Skie And triple-World thâ— Earths vast Monarchie T' Augustus bowes both Fathers and both sway You Gods Aeneas mates who made your way Through fire and sword you Gods of men become Quirinus Father of triumphant Rome Thou Mars inuincible Quirinus Sire Chast Vâ—sta with thy euer-burning fire Among great Caesars Houshold-Gods inshrin'd Domesticke Phoebus with his Vesta ioyn'd Thou Ioue Whom in Tarpeian towres we adore And you all you whom Poets may implore Slow be that day and after I am dead Wherein Augustus of the world the Head Leauing the Earth shall vnto Heauen repaire And 〈◊〉 those that seeke to him by prayer And now the Worke is ended which Ioue's rage Nor Fire nor Sword shall raze nor eating Age. Come when it will my deaths vncertaine howre Which only of my body hath a powre 〈…〉 Part transcend the skier And my immortall name shall neuer die For where-so-ere the Roman Eagles spread Their conquering wings I shall of all be read And if we Prophets truly can diuine I in my liuing Fame shall euer shine planations With these I had thought in their seuerall places to haue charged the margent but the hastinesse of the Presse and vnexpected want of leasure haue preuented me The same reason may serue for diuers slips aed errours which I not only know but acknowledge Yet if the too cleanly Criticke sweepe not all the dust together and lay it on one heape it may perhaps be hardly discerned howsoeuer borne-with in so long and interrupted a labour A ABantiades pag. III. vers 7. Actisius the Sonne of Abas King of Argos Abantiades pag. 117. vers 4 and pag. 124. vers 25. and pag. 128. vers 21. Perseus great grand-childe to Abas Acheloides the Syrens daughters to Achelous Acheron a Riuer in Hell and signifies depriuation of Ioy. Acrisionides Perseus grand-childâ— to Acrisius Actorides pag. 212. vers 20. Euritus and Creatus the sonnes of Actor Actorides pag. 359. vers 13. Patroclus grand-childe to Actor The Aeacides pag. 188. vers 19. Peleus Telamon and Phocus sonnes to Aeacus Aeacides pag. 297. vers 7. and 32. pag. 302. vers 6. Peleus the son of Aeacus Aeacides pag. 321. vers 21. and thence-forth Achillles the grand-childe of Aeacus Aello one of the Harpyes Aeetias Mâ—dea the daughter of Aeeta Aegides Theseus the sonne of Ae geus Aegis Minerua's shield Aeolian Virgin pag. 149. vers 24. Arne the daughter of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 107. vers 31. Athamas the sonne of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 194. vers 20. Cephalus the grandchild of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 250. vers 17. Macareus and Canace the sonne and daughter of Aeolus Aesonides Iason the sonne of Aeson Agenorides Cadmus the sonne of Agenor 〈◊〉 Otus and Ephialtes got by Neptune on the wife of Aloeus Alcides a name of Hercules which signifies strength Amâ—zonian Heros Hippolytus sonne to Hippolyte the Amazonian Amiclydes Hyacinthus the sonne of Amyclas Amphritâ—ite the daughter of Oceanus and wife to Neptune taken for the Sea Amphitryonides Hercules the son of Amphitryo Ampycides Mopsus the sonne of Ampycus Anubis an Idoll of the Aegyptians with the head of a dog Apis. a blacke Oxe spotted with white worshipped by the Aegyptians in remembrance of Osiris Aphrodites a name of Venus in that sprung from the foam of the Sea Arcturus a Star in the taile of the Greater Beare Astraea Iustice so called of Astraeus a most iust Prince Astraean sons The winds sons to the Gyant Astraenâ— Athamantiades Palaemon the sonne of Athamas Atlantiades pag. 24. vers 8 and pag. 48. vers 13. Mercurie the grand-childe of Atlaâ— Atlantiades pag. 102. vers 23. Hermaphroditus the sonne of Mercurie and great grand-childe of Atlas Atracides Caeneus so called of Atrax a Citie of Thessalie Atrides Agamemnon sometimes Menelaus both sonnes to Atreus Auernian Iuno Proserpina Auernus a lake in hell oâ—er which no birds can flie without falling Autonoeius Actaeon the sonne of Autonoe Gadmus daughter Auster The South-wind B BAcchiadae the off-spring of Bacchia the Corinthian Bacchanals Women solemnizing the feast of Bacchus Belides the Necces of Belus and daughters of Danaus Berecynthian pag. 293. vers 9. Midas of Berecynthus a Citie of Phrygia Bootes the Star that followes Charles Waine Boreas the North-wind Bromius a name of Bacchus which signifies raging Bubastis an Aegyptian Goddesse companion to Isis C CArpathian Prophet Proteus a God of the Sea Cecropides the daughters of Cecrops King of Athens Centaures said to be halfe men and halfe beasts in that they were the first that rid on horses Cerastae men with hornes Cerberus the Hell-bound with three heads signifing a deâ—ourer of the dead Chimaera a monster hauing the face of a woman the body of a goat and the taile of a Serpent Colchis Medea so called of Colchis where shee was borne Crataeis daughter Sâ—ylla Cyclades Ilands in the Aegaean Sea dispersed in forme of a cycle Cyclops Giants and sons of Neptune so called of the round eye which they had in their fore-hâ—ads Cyclopâ—an darts Thundâ—r and Lightning forged by the Cyclops Cyllenius a name of Mercuric in that borne on the hill Cyllene Cynthius Cynthia names of Apollo and Diana of Cynthus a hill in Delo where they were borne Cyprides a names of Venus of the Iland of Cyprus where shee was worshipped Cytherea a name of Venus of the Iland Cythera dedicated to Venus D DAnaean Heros Perseus the son of Dance Dâ—rdan Prophet Helenus the son of Prianâ— Hymen the God of marriage sometimes takèn for marriage Hyperion sometimes taken for the Sun sometimes for the father of the Sun I IAcchus a name of Bacchus which signifies clamour Iapetonides Atlas the sonne of Iapet Idalia Venus of Idalia a hill in Cyprus where she had her groues Ilia des pag. 267. vers 4 Ganymed grand-child to Ilus Iliades pag. 412. vers 18. Romulus descended from Ilus Ilithyia a name of Lucina Goddesse of child birth Inachis pag. 21. vers 30. Iö the daughter of Inachus Inachides pag. 26. vers 19. Epaphus the sonne of Iö and grand-child of Inachus Inachides pag. 115. vers 5. Perseus The Argolians being so called of the riuer Inachus Iö an acclamation of joy where it stands not for Io the daughter of Inachus Iris. the Raine-bow Ismenides Ismenians Thebans so called of Ismenus a riuer of Boeotia Ithacus Vlysses of the land Ithaca where he was borne Iülus a name of Ascanius L LEmnian issue pag. 55. vers 22. Erichthonius son to Vulcan who dwelt in Lemnos Lenaeus a name of Bacchus of the vessell that receiues the wine from the presse Lethe a riuer of Hell and signifies forgetfulnesse Liber a name of Bacchus in that wine sreeth the heart from sorrow Lucifer the Morning Starre Lyaeus a name of Bacchus the same with Liber M MAeandrius Caunus grand-child by the mothers side to the riuer Maeander Maedusean Herse Pegasus sprung from the bloud of Medusa Maeonidae the Muses Of Maeonia where they dwelt Paeons the daughters of Pierus so called of the woods of Paeonia which they frequented Palladium the Image of Pallas Paphian Heros Pigmalion of Paphos Pelides Achilles the son of Peleus Persephone The same with Proserpina Phasias a name of Medea from the riuer Phasts Phegides Themenus and Axion the sonnes of Phegeus Pheres hope Admetus the son of Pheres Phlegeton a burning river in hell Phoebus Phoebe names of the Sun and Moone in regard of their splendor Phorcydes the daughter of Phorcus Phoronis Iô the sister of Phoroneus Pleias Maia one of the Pleiades and mother to Mercury Pleiones Nephew Mercury grand-childe to Pleione the wife of Atals Poeans Heire Poeantius Philoctetes the sonne of Paean Prâ—amides pag. 355 vers 32. Hector the son of Priamus Promerhides Deucalion the sonne of Prometheus Properides Infamous women of Cyprus Q QVirinus a name of Romulus Quirites Romans so called of Quirinus R RHamnusia a name of Nemesis of the city Rhamnus where she badher Temple S SAturnius Saturnia Iupiter and Iuno the sonne and daughter of Saturne Smintheus a name of Apollo for destroying of mice Sol. the Sun Stygian shades Hell socalled of Styx an infernall riuer T TAntalides pag. 348. vers 15. Agamemnon grand-child to Tantalus Taygeta one of the Pleiades or seven Starres Tellus the Earth Teucrans Troians descended of Teucer Thaumantias Iris the daughter of Thaumas Thâ—spiades the Muses of Thesplae a City neere Helicon Thestiadae Toxeus and Plexippus the sonnes of Thestius Thestias Althaea the daughter of Thestius Thestorides Chalcas the son of Thestor Thyen Bacchus of Thyone a name of his mother Semele Thyrsus a Iauelin woond with Iuy borne by Bacchus Titan. a name of the Sun from his mother Titea whose 45. children were generally called by the name of Titans Titania p. 14. v. 19 Pyrrha descended of the Titans Titania pag. 67. vers 19. and pag. 179. vers 5. Diana grand-child to Titaea Titania pag. 157. vers 11. Latona daughter to Coeus one of the Titans Titania pag. 386. vers 13. Circe descended of the Titans Triones the seuen stars that turne about the Pole Triopeius Eresichâ—hon the sonne of Triopas Tritonia Pallas so called for her wisdome Troades the women of Troy Tydides Diomedes the sonne of Tydeus Tyndaridae Castor and Pollux the sons of Tyndarus Tyrinthian Hercules of Tyrus V VVlcans seed pag. 186. vers 19. Periphaâ—us Z ZEphyruâ—â—the West-wind FINIS Trist â—libâ— Elegia 6. Controu 10. Hist lib. 2. In Ose cap â— De Cursâ— Deâ— In Natricia 〈…〉 〈…〉 In Heroibus In praesar Comment In Principio Additionum
dares reprehend him Notwithstanding I will say something not in way of detraction but that we also may be able to grow with his greatnesse Then speaking of his Metamorphosis Bookes deseruing a more fortunate Author that from his last hand they might haue had their perfection which hee himselfe bewaileth in luculent Verses Yet are there in these well-nigh an infinite number which the wit of an other I beleeue could neuer haue equall'd And thus exclaimes against Caesar in the person of OVID. Tyrant with me I would thou badst begun Nor thy black slaughters had my fate fore-run If my licentious Youth incenst thee so Thy owne condemnes thee into exile goe Thy Cabinets are stain'd with horrid deeds And thy soule guilt all monstrous names exceeds Diuine wit innocence nor yet my tongue Next to Apollo's could preuent my wrong I smoeth'd th' old Poets with my fluent vaine And taught the New a far more numerous strain When thee I prais'd then from the truth I sweru'd And banishment for that alone deseru'd can hee said to transcend him What should I say of that singular and well-nigh diuine contexture of Fable with Fable so surpassing that nothing can bee spoken or done more artificially more excellently or indeed more gracefully Who handling such diuersitie of matter so cunningly weaues them together that all appeare but one Series Planudes well knowing that Greece had not a Poem so abounding with delight and beautie translated it into that language What should I say more All Arts which Antiquitie knew are here so fully delineated that a number expert in both tongues of prime vnderstanding and iudgements admire it beyond all expression The first that writ a Commentarie on this booke whereof fiftie thousand were vented and that in his life time was RAPHAEL REGIVS Who thus in his Preface There is nothing appertaining to the knowledge and glorie of warre whereof wee haue not famous examples in the Metamorphosis of OVID not to speake of stratagems nor the Orations of Commanders described with such efficacie and eloquence that often in reading you will imagine your selfe imbroiled in their conflicts Neither shall you finde any Author from whom a ciuill life may gather better instruction IACOBVS MICYLLVS Hardly shall you find a Poem which flowes with greater facilitie For what should I speake of Learning Herein so great so various and abstruse that many places haue neither beene explained nor yet vnderstood no not by the most knowing requiring rather a resolution from the Delian Oracle c. Let the ingenuous that affect not error now rectifie their owne by the iudgements of these But incurable Criticks who warre about words and gail the sound to feed on their sores as not desiring their sanitie I forbeare to disswade and deliuer them vp to the censure of Agrippa QVOD OLIM FACIEBAT VOTVM GERMANIâ—O OVIDIVS IDEM AVGVSTISSâ—MO CAROLO Interpretis sui nomine â—acuâ—nt OVIDIANI MANES EXcipe pacato Caesaâ— Brittannice vultu â—â—oc â—pus 〈◊〉 tim dâ— dirige nauis â—ter Officioqus lâ—uem non auâ—â—â—atuâ— honorem Hu◠〈…〉 dexter ades Hâ—â—c â—e da placâ—â—um dâ—deris in carmine vires Ingenium vnitu statque caditque tuo Pagâ—a◠〈…〉 docte subâ—turâ— moâ—etur Principis vt Clarâ—o missa legenda Deâ— OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS The first Booke THE ARGVMENT THe World form'd out of Chaos Man is made The Ages change The Giants Heauen inuade Earth turnes their blouâ— to men Ioue's flames confound Lâ—caon now a Wolfe The World is drown'd Man-kind cast stones restore All quickning Earth Renews the rest and giues new Monsters birth Apollo Python kills hart-wounded loues Lust-flying Daphâ—é She a Laurel proues Ioue 〈◊〉 made a Cow to maske foule deeds Hermes a Heards-man Syriâ—x chang'd to Reeds Dead Argus eyes adorn the Peacock's traine The Cow to Iâ— loue transform's againe OF formes to other bodies chang'd I sing Assist you Gods from you these wonders spring And from the Worlds first fabrick to these times Deduce my neuer discontinued Rymes The Sea the Earth al-couering Heauen vnfram'd One face had nature which they Chaos nam'd An vndigested lump a barren load Where iarrâ—ing seeds of things ill-ioyn'd aboad No Titan yet the World with light adornes Nor waxing Phoebe fill'd her waned hornes Nor hung the selfe-poiz'd Earth in thin Ayre plac't Nor Amphitrite the vast shore imbrac't With Earth was Ayre and Sea the Earth vnstable The Ayre was darke the Sea vn-nauigable No certaine forme to any one assign'd This that resists For in one body ioyn'd The Cold and Hot the Drie and Humid fight The Soft and Hard the Heauy with the Light But God the better Nature this decides Who Earth from Heauen the Sea from earth diuides And purer Heauen extracts from grosser Ayre All which vnfolded by his prudent care From that blinde Masse the happily dis-ioyn'd With strifelesse peace he to their seats confin'd Forth-with vp-sprung the quicke and waightlesse Fire Whose flames vnto the highest Arch aspire The next in leuitie and place is Ayre Grosse Elements to thicker Earth repayre Selfe-clog'd with waight the Waters flowing round Possesse the last and solid Tellus bound What God soeuer this diuision wrought And euery part to due proportion brought First lest the Earth vnequall should appâ—are He turn'd it round in figure of a Sphere Then Seas diffus'd commanding them to rore With ruffling Winds and giue the Land a shore To those hâ— addeth Springs Ponds Lakes immense And Riuers whom their winding borders fence Of these not few Earth's thirstie iawes deuour The rest their streames into the Ocean pour When in that liquid Plaine with freer waue The fomy Cliffs in stead of Banks they laue Bids Trees increase to Woods the Plaines extend The rocky Mountaynes rise and Vales descend Two equall Zones on either side dispose The measur'd Heauens a fifth more hot than those â—s many Lines th'included Globe diuide â—th'midst vnsufferable beames reside â—now clothes the other two the temperate hold Twixt these their seats the heat well mixt with cold As Earth as Water vpper Ayre out-waighs â—o much doth Ayre Fire's lighter balance raise â—here he commands the changing Clouds to stray â—here thundering terrors mortall mindes dismay And with the Lightning Winds ingendring Snow Yet not permitted euery way to blow Who hardly now to teare the World refraine â—So Brothers iarre thoughâ— they diuided raigne â—o Persis and Sabaea Eurus flies Whose fruits perfume the blushing Mornes vp-rise â—ext to the Euening and the Coast the glowes â—ith setting Phoebus flowry Zeph'rus blowes 〈◊〉 Scythia horrid Boreas holds his raigne â—eneath Bootes and the frozen Waine The Land to this oppos'd doth Auster steep With fruitfull showrs and clouds which euer weep â—boue all these he plac't the liquid Skies Which void of earthly dregs did highest rise Scarce had he all thus orderly dispos'd When-as the Starres their radiant heads disclos'd â— Long 〈◊〉 in Night and shone through all the skie Then that no place should vnpossessed lie
â—right Constellations and fair-figured Gods â—n heauenly Mansions fixt their blest abodes The glittering Fishes to the Flouds repayre The Beasts to Earth the Birds resort to Ayre The nobler Creature with a minde possest Was wanting yet that should command the rest That Maker the best World's originall Either 〈◊〉 framâ—d of see Coelestiall Or Earth which late he did from Heauen diuide Some sacred seeds retayn'd to Heauen ally'd Which with the liuing streame Prometheus mixt And in that artificiall structure fixt The forme of all th' all-ruling Deities And where as others see with downe-cast eyes He with a loftie looke did Manâ—indue And bade him Heauens transcendent glories view So that rude Clay which had no forme afore Thus chang'd of Man the vnknowne figure bore The Golden Age was first which vncompeld And without rule in Faith and Truth exceld As then there was nor punishment nor feare Nor threatning Lawes in brasse prescribed were Nor suppliant crouching prisâ—ners shooke to see Their â—â—grie Iudge but all was safe and free To visit other Worlds no wounded Pine Did yet from Hills to faithlesse Seas decline Then vnambitious Mortals knew no more But their owne Countrie 's Nature-bounded shore Nor Swords nor Armes were yet no trenches round Besieged Iownes nor striâ—â—efull Trumpets sound The Souldier of no vâ—e In firme content And harmelesse ease their happy dayes were spent The yet-free 〈◊〉 did of her owne accord Vntoinâ—â— wit vploughs all sorts of fruit afford Content with Natures vn-enforced food They gather Wildings Strawb'ries of the Wood â—owre Cornels what vpon the Bramble growes And Acorns which Ioue's spreading Oke bestowes â—Twas alwayes Spring warme Zophyrus sweetly blew On smiling Flowres which without setting grew â—orth-with the Earth corne vnmanured beares And euery yeere renewes her golden Eares With Milke and Nectar were the Riuers fill'd And yellow Hony from greene Elms distill'd But after Saturne was throwne downe to Hell â—ue rul'd and then the Siluer Age befell â—ore base than Gold and yet than Brasse more pure â—ue chang'd the Spring which alwayes did indure â—o Winter Summer Autumne hot and cold â—he shortned Springs the yeaâ—'s fourth-part vphold â—hen first the glowing Ayre with feruor burn'd â—he Raine to ycicles by bleake winds turn'd â—en houses built late hous'd in Caues profound 〈◊〉 plashed Bowres and Sheds with Oâ—iers bound â—hen first was Corne into long furrowes throwne â—nd Oxen vnder heauâ—e yokes did 〈◊〉 Next vnto this succeeds the Brazen Age â—orse natur'd prompt to horridâ—warre â—â—â—rage 〈◊〉 yet nor wicked Stubborne Yr'â— the 〈◊〉 â—hen blushlesse Crimes which all degrees suâ—past â—he World surround Shame Truth and Faith depart â—â—aud enters ignorant in no bad Art â—â—rce Treason and the wicked Loue of gayn â—heir sailes those winds which yet they knew not strayn â—nd ships which long on loftâ—â— Mountaynes stood â—hen plow'd th' vnpractiz'd bosome of the Flood The Ground as common earst as Light or Ayre By limit-giuing Geometric they share Nor with rich Earth's iust nourishments content For treasure they her secret entrailes rent The powerfull Euill which all power inuades By her well hid and wrapt in Stygian shades Curst Steel more cursed Gold she now forth brought And bloody-handed Warre who with both fought All liue by spoile The Host his Guest betrayes Sons Father-in-lawes 'twixt Brethren loue decayes Wiues husbands husbands wiues attempt to kill And cruell Step-mothers pale poysons fill The Sonne his Fathers hastie death desires Foild Pietie trod vnder foot expires Astraa last of all the heauenly birth Affrighted leaues the blood-defiled Earth And that the Heauens their safetie might suspect The Giants now coelestiall Thrones affect Who to the skies congested Mountaines reare Then Ioue with thunder did Olympus teare Steep Pelion from vnder Ossa throwne With their owne waight their monstrous bodies groâ—e And with her Childrens blood the Earth imbru'd Which shee scarce thoroughly cold with life iudu'd And gaue thereto t'vphold her Stocke the face And forme of Man a God-contemning Race Greedie of slaughter not to be withstood Such as well shews that they were borne of blood Which when from Heauen Saturnius did behold He sigh 't reuoluing what was yet vntold Of fell Lycaoâ—'s late ihhumane feast Iust anger worthy Ioue inflam'd his breast A Synod call'd the summoned appeare There is a way well seene when skies be cleare Tho Milkie nam'd by this the Gods resort Vnto th' Almightie Thunderers high Court With euer-open dores on either hand Of nobler Deities the Houses stand The Vulgar dwell disperst the Chiefe and Great In front of all their shining Mansions seat This glorious Roofe I would not doubt to call Had I but boldnes lent me Heauen 's White-hall All set on Marble seats He leaning on His Iuory Scepter in a higher Throne Did twice or thrice his dreadfull Tresses shake The Earth the Sea the Stars though fixed quake Then thus inflam'd with indignation spake I was not more perplext in that sad Time For this Worlds Monarchie when bold to clime The Serpent-footed Giants durst inuade And would on Heauen their hundred-hands haue laid Though fierce the Foe yet did that Warre depend But of one Body and had soone an end Now all the race of man I must confound Where-euer Nerâ—us walks his wauy Round And this I vow by those infernall Floods Which slowly glide through silent Stygian woods All cures first sought such parts as health reiect Must be cut off least they the sound infect Our Demi-gods Nymphs Syluans Satyres Faunes Who haunt cleare Springs high Mountayns Woods and Lawnes On whom since yet we please not to bestow Coelestiall dwellings must subsist below Thinke you you Gods they can in safetie rest When me of lightning and of you possest Who both at our Imperiall pleasure sway The sterne Lycaon practiz'd to betray All bluster and in rage the wretch demand So when bold Treason sought with impious hand By Caesar's bloud t'out-race the Roman name Man-kind and all the World 's affrighted Frame Astonisht at so great a ruine shooke Nor thine for Thee lesse thought Augustus tooke Than they for Ioue He when he had supprest Their murmur thus proceeded to the rest He hath his punishment remit that care The manner how I will in briefe declare The Times accus'd but as I hop't bely'd To trie I downe from steep Olympus slide A God transform'd like one of humane birth I wandred through the many-peopl'd Earth 'T were long to tell what crimes of euery sort Swarm'd in all parts the truth exceeds report Now past den-dreadfull Maenalus confines Cylâ—ene cold Lycaeus clad with Pines There where th' Arcadians dwell when Doubtfull-light Drew on the deawy Charriot of the Night I entred his vnhospitable Court The better Vulgar to their pray'rs resort When I by signes had showne a Gods repayr Lycaâ—n first derides their zealous pray'r Then said We straight the vndoubted truth will trie Whether he be immortall or may die In dead of night when all was whist and still Me in
my sleepe he purposeth to kill Nor with so foule an enterprize content An Hostage murders from Moloâ—sus sent Part of his seuer'd scarce-dead lims he boyles An other part on hissing Embers broyles This set before me I the house ore-turn'd With vengefull flames which round about him burn'd He frighted to the silent Desart flies There howles and speech with lost indeuour â—ries His selfe-like iawes still grin more than for food He slaughters beasts and yet delights in bloud His armes to thighs his clothes to bristles chang'd A Wolfe not much from his first forme estrang'd So horie hair'd his lookes so full of rape So fiery ey'd so terrible his shape One house that fate which all deserue sustaines For through the World the fierce Eriâ—â—ys raignes You 'ld thinke they had conspir'd to sinnâ— But all Shall swiftly by deserued vengeance fall Ioue's words apart approue and his intent Exasperate the rest giue their consent Yet all for Mans destruction grieu'd appeare And aske what forme the widowed Earth shall beare Who shall with odours their cold Altars feast Must Earth be onely by wilde beasts possess The King of Gods re-comforts their despaire And biddeth them impose on him that care Who promis'd by a strange originall Of better people to supply their fall And now about to let his lightning flie He fear'd lest so much flame should catch the skie And burne heauens Axeltree Besides by doome Of certaine Eaâ—e he knew the time shoul'd come When Sea Earth rauisht Heauen the curioâ—s Frames Of this World's masse should shrinke in purging flame He therefore those Cyclopean darts reiects And different-natur'd punishments elects To open all the Flood-gates of the skie And Man by inundation to destroy Rough Boreas in Aeollan prison laid And those drie blasts which gathered Clouds inuade Out flyes the South with dropping wings who shrouds His terrible aspect in pitchy clouds His white hair streams his swolne Beard big with showres Mists bind his brows Rain from his bosom poures As with his hands the hanging clouds he crusht They roar'd and downe in showres together rusht All-colour'd Iris Iuno's messenger To weeping Clouds doth nourishment confer The Corne is lodg'd the Husband-men despaire Their long yeares labour lost with all their care Ioue not content with his aethereall rages His Brother 's auxiliaric flouds ingages The Streames conuented 'T is too late to vse Much speech said Neptune all your powres effuse Your dores vnbarre remoue what-ere restraines Your liberall Waues and giue them the full raynes Thus charged they returne their Springs vnfold And to the Sea with head-long furie rol'd He with his Trident strikes the Earth Shee shakes And way for Water by her motion makes Through open fields now rush the spreading Floods And hurry with them Cattell People Woods Houses and Temples with their Gods inclos'd What such a force vn-ouerthrowne oppos'd The higher-swelling Water quite deuoures Which hides the aspiring tops of swallowed towres Now Land and Sea no different visage bore For all was Sea nor had the Sea a shore He takes a Hill He in a Boat deplores And where He lately plow'd now strikes his Oares O're Corne o're drowned Villages He sailes He from high Elmes intangled Fishes hales In Fields they anchor cast as Chance did guide And Ships the vnder-lying Vineyards hide Where Mountayne-louing Goats did lately graze The Sea-calfe now his vgly body layes Groues Cities Temples couer'd by the Deep The Nymphs admire in woods the Delphins keep And chace about the boughs the Wolfe doth swim Amongst the Sheepe the Lyon now not grim And Tygres tread the Waues Swift feet no more Auaile the Hart nor wounding tuskes the Bore The wandring Birds hid Earth long sought in vaine With weary wings descend into the Mayne Licentious Seas o're drowned Hills now fret And vnknowne surges Ayerie Mountaynes beat The Waues the greater part deuoure the rest Death with long-wanted sustenance opprest The Land of Phocis fruitfull when a Land Diuides Aâ—nia from th' Actaean strand But now a part of the insulting Mayne Of sudden-swelling waters a vast Playne There his two heads Parnassus doth extend To touched Stars whose tops the Clouds transcend On this Deucalion's little Boat was throwne With him his Wife the rest all ouer-flowne Corycian Nymphs and Hill-gods he adores And Themis then oraculous implores None was there better none more iust than Hee And none more reuerenc't the Gods than Shee Ioue when he saw that all a Lake was growne And of so many thousand men but one One of so many thousand women left Both guiltlesse pious both of all bereft The clouds now chac't by Boreas from him throwes And Earth to Heauen Heauen vnto Earth he showes Nor Seas persist to rage their awfull Guide The wilde waues calmes his Trident laid aside And calls blew Triton riding on the Deep Whoso mantle Nature did in purple steep And bids him his lowd-sounding shell inspire And giue the Flouds a signall to retire He his wreath'd trumpet takes as giuen in charge That from the turning bottom growes more large To which when he giues breath 't is heard by all From farre-vprising Phoebus to his Fall When this the watery Deitie had set To his large mouth and sounded a retreat All Flouds it heard that Earth or Ocean knew And all the Flouds that heard the same with-drew Seas now haue shores full streames their channels keep They sink and hils aboue the waters peep Earth re-ascends as waues decrease so grow The formes of things and late-hid figures show And after a long day the trees extend Their bared tops with mud their branches bend The World 's restor'd Which when in such a state So deadly silent and so desolate Deucalion saw with teares which might haue made An other Floud he thus to Pyrrha said O Sister O my Wife the poore Remaines Of all thy Sex which all in one containes Whom humane Nature one paternall Line Then one chaste Bed and now like dangers ioyne Of what the Sunne beholds from East to West We two are all the Sea intombs the rest Nor yet can we of life be confident The threatning clowds strange terrors still present O what a heart would'st thou haue had if Fate Had ta'ne me from thee and prolong'd thy date So wilde a feare such sorrowes so forlorne And comfortlesse how couldest thou haue borne If Seas had suckt thee in I would haue follow'd My Wife in death and Sea should me haue swallow'd O would I could my Father's cunning vse And soules into well-modul'd Clay infuse Now all our mortall Race we two contayne And but a pattern of Man-kind remaine This said both wept both pray'rs to heauen addresse And seeke the Oracle in their distresse Forth-with descending to Cephisus Floud Which in known banks now ran though thick with mud They on their heads and garments water throw And to the Temple of the Goddesse goe At that time all defil'd with mosse and mire The vnfrequented Altar without fire Then
humbly on their faces prostrate lay'd And kissing the cold stones with feare thus pray'd If Powres diuine to iust desires consent And Angry Gods doe in the end relent Say Themis how shall we ouâ— Race repaire O helpe the drown'd in Water and Despayre The Goddesse with compassion mou'd reply'd Goe from my Temple both your faces hide Let Garments all vnbraced loosely flow And your Great-Parents bones behinde you throw Amaz'd first Pyrrha silence breakes and said By me the Goddesse must not be obay'd And trembling pardon craues Her Mothers ghost She feares would suffer if her bones were tost Meane-while they ponder and reiterate The words proceeding from ambiguous Fate Then PromethÃdes Epimethida Thus recollecteth lost in her dismay Or we the Oracle misse-vnderstand The righteous Gods no wicked thing command Or Earth is our Great-Mother and the stones Therein contain'd I take to be her bones These sure are those we should behinde vs throw Although Titania thought it might be so Yet she misse-doubts Both with weake faith rely On ayding Heauen What hurt was it to try Departing with heads vail'd and clothes vnbrac't Commanded stones they o're their shoulders cast Did not Antiquitie auouch the same Who would beleeu 't the stones lesse hard became And as their naturall hardnesse them forsooke So by degrees they Mans dimensions tooke And gentler-natur'd grew as they increast And yet not manifestly Man exprest But like rough hewne ' rude marble Statues stand That want the Workemans last life-giuing hand The Earthy parts and what had any iuyce Were both conuerted to the body's vse The vnflexible and solid turne to bones The veines remaine that were when they were stones Those thrown by Man the for ome of men indue And those were Women which the Woman threw Hence we a hardy Race inur'd to paine Our Actions our Originall explaine All other creatures took their numerous birth And figures from the voluntary Earth When that old humour with the Sunne did sweat And slimy Marishes grew big with heat The pregnant Seeds as from their Mothers wombe From quickning Earth both growth and forme assume So when seuen chanel'd Nile forsakes the Plaine When ancient bounds retiring streames containe And late-left slime aethereall feruours burne Men various creatures with the gleabe vp-turne Of those some in their very time of birth Some lame and others halfe aliue halfe earth For Heat and Moysture when they temperate grow Forth-with conceiue and life on things bestow From striuing Fire and Water all proceede Discording Concord euer apt to breede So Earth by that late Deluge muddy growne When on her lap reflecting Titan shone Produc't a World of formes restor'd the late And other vnknowne Monsters did create Huge Python thee against her will she bred A Serpent whom the new-borne People dread Whose bulk did like a mouing Mountaine show Behold the God that beares the Siluer Bow Till then inur'd to strike the flying Deere Their happy Selues and longs to taste their blisse Admires her fingers hands her armes halfe-bare And Parts vnseene conceiues to be more rare Swifter than following Winds away she runs And him for all this his intreatie shuns Stay Nymph I pray thee stay I am no Fo So Lambs from Wolues Harts flye from Lyons so So from the Eagle springs the trembling Doue They from their deaths but my pursute is Loue. Wo's me if thou shouldst fall or thornes should race Thy tender legs whilst I enforce the chace These roughs are craggy moderate thy haste And trust me I will not pursue so fast Yet know who't is you please No Mountanere No home-bred Clowne nor keepe I Cattell here From whom thou flyâ—st thou know'st not silly foole And therefore fly'st thou I in Delphos rule Iâ—nian Claros Lycian Patara And Sea-girt Tenedos doe me obay Ioue is my Father What shall be hath beene Or is by my instructiue rayes is seene Immortall Verse from our inuention springs And how to strike the well concording-strings My shafts hit sure yet He one surer found Who in my emptie bosome made this wound Of herbs I found the vertue and through all The World they Me the great Physician call Aye me that herbs can Loue no cure afford That Arts relieuing all should faile their Lord More had he said when she with nimble dread From him and his vnfinisht court-ship fled How gracefull then the Wind that obuious blew Too much betray'd her to his amorous view And play'd the Wanton with her fluent haire Her Beauty by her flight appear'd more rare No more the God will his intreaties loose But vrg'd by Loue with all his force pursues As when a Hare the speedy Gray-hound spyes His feet for prey shee hers for safetie plyes Now beares he vp now now he hopes to fetch her And with his snowt extended straines to catch her Not knowing whether caught or no she slips Out of his wide-stretcht iawes and touching lips The God and Virgin in such strife appeare He quickned by his hope She by her feare But the Pursuer doth more nimble proue Enabled by th' industrious wings of loue Nor giues he time to breathe now at her heeles His breath vpon her dangling haire shee feeles Cleane spent and fainting her affrighted bloud Forsakes her cheeks Shee cryes vnto the Floud Helpe Father if your streames contayne a Powre May Earth for too well pleasing me deuour Or by transforming O destroy this shape That thus betrayes me to vndoing rape Forth-with a numnesse all her lims possest And slender filmes her softer sides inuest Haire into leaues her Armes to branches grow And late swift feet now roots are lesse than slow Her gracefull head a leauy top sustaines One beauty throughout all her forme remaines Still Phoebus loues He handles the new Plant And feeles her Heart within the bark to pant Imbrac't the bole as he would her haue done As ignorant of what she more than fear'd Ioue faynes her importunitie to shift Her borne of Earth Saturnia begs the gift What should he doe be cruell to his Loue Or by denying her suspition moue Shame that perswades and Loue doth this disswade But stronger Loue Shame vnder foot had layd Yet doubts if he should such a thing deny His Wife and Sister 't would the fraud descry Obtayn'd not forth-with feare the Goddesse left Distrusting Ioue and iealous of his theft Vntill deliuered to Argus guard A hundred eyes his head 's large circuit starr'd Whereof by turnes at once two onely slept The other watcht and still their Stations kept Which way so-ere he stands he IoÌ„ spyes IoÌ„ behind him was before his eyes By day she graz'd abroad Sol vnder ground He hous'd her in vnworthy halter bound On leaues of Tress and bitter herbs she fed Poore soule the Earth not alwayes greene her bed And of the Torrent drinks With hands Vp-heau'd Shee thought to beg for pity how deceiu'd Who low'd when she began to make her mone And trembled at the voyce which was her owne Vnto the
Man Her Iuno made a Beare Shee and her son Aduanced starres that still the Ocean shun Coronis now a Crowe sties Neptune's fright Nictiminè is made the Bird of Night The too-officious Rauen late so fayre Is plum'd with black Ocyroë growes a Mare Phoebus a Heardsman Mercury twice such Who turnes betraying Battus into Tuch. Enuious A glauros to a Statue full Of her minde's spots Loue Ioue conuerts t' a 〈◊〉 SOl's loftie Palace on high Pillars rais'd Shone all with gold and stones that flame-like blaae ' The roofe of Iuory diuinely deckt The two-leau'd siluer-doores bright rayes proiect The workmanship more admiration crau'd For curious Musciber had there ingrau'd The Land-imbracing Sea the orbed Ground The arched Heauens Blew Gods the billowes crown'd Shape-changing Pâ—oteus Triton shrill the tall Big-brawn'd Aegeon mounted on a Whale Gray Doris and her daughters heauenly-faire Some sit on Rocks and drie their Sea-greene haire Some seeme vpon the dancing Waues to glide Others on bacâ—s of crooked â—ishes ride Amongst them all no two appeare the same Nor deâ—â—e more than sisters well became The Earth had saluage Beasts Men Cities Woods Nymphs Satyres rurall Gods and crystall Floods Aboue all these Heauen 's radiant image shines On both sides deckt with six refulgent Signes To this bold Phaëton made his ascent And to his doubted Father's presence bent Yet forc't to stand aloose for mortall sight Could not induret ' approach so pure a light Sol cloth'd in purple sits vpon a Throne Which cleerly with tralucent Emralds shone With equall-raigning Houres on either hand The Dayes the Moneths the Yeers the Ages stand The fragrant Spring with flowrie chaplet crown'd Wheat eares the browes of naked Summer bound Rich Aâ—â—â—â—mn smear'd with crusht Lyaeus blood New hâ—â—y-headed Winter quiuering stood Much daunted at these sacred nouelties The fear â—full Youth all-seeing Phoebus spies Who said What hither drew thee Phaeton Who art and woâ— thily my dearest Son He thus reply'd O thou refulgent t Light Who all the World teioyeest with thy sight O Father if allow'd to vse that name Nor Câ—ymens by thee disguise her shame Produce some signe that may my birth approue And from my thoughts these wretched doubts remoue He from his browes his shining rayes displac't And bidding him draw-neere his neck imbrac't By merit as by birth to thee is due That name said he and Clymene was true To cleere all doubts aske what thou wilt and take Thy granted wish Beare witnesse thou dark Lake The oath of Gods vnto our eyes vnknowne These words no sooner from his lips were flowne But he demands his Chariot and the sway Of his hot Steeds to guide the winged Day The God repents him of the oath he made And shaking his illustrious Tresses said Thy tongue hath made mine erre thy birth vnblest O would I could break promise this request I must confesse I onely would denie And yet disswade I may Thy death doth lie Within thy wish What 's so desir'd by thee Can neither with thy strength nor youth agree Too great intentions set thy thoughts on fire Thou mortall do'st no mortall thing desire Through ignorance affecting more than they Dare vndertake who in Olympus sway Though each himselfe approue except me none Is able to supply my burning Throne Not that dread Thunderer who rules aboue Can driue these wheeles and who more great than Ioue Steep is the first ascent which in the prime Of springing Day fresh Horses hardly clime At Noone through highest skies their course they beare Whence Sea and Land euen We behold with feare Then downe the Hill of Heauen they scoure amaine With desperate speed and need a steady reigne That Thetis in whose wauy bowres I lie Each euening dreads my down-fall from the skie Besides the Heauens are daily hurried round That 〈◊〉 the Statres to other motions bound Against this violence my way I force And counter-â—un their all 〈◊〉 bearing course My Charriot had can thy sraile strength ascend The obuious Poles and with their force contend No Gâ—oues no Cities fraught with Gods expect Nâ—â— maeble Fanes with wealthy offrings deckt Through saluage shapes and dangers lyes thy way Which couldst thou keep and by no error stray Betweene the Buls sharp horns yet must thou goe By him that draws the strong Aemonian bowe The deathfull Scorpion's far-out-bending clawes The shorter Crab's the roaring Lyon's iawes Nor easie is't those fiery Steeds to tame Who from their mouthes and nosthrils vomit flame They heated hardly of my rule admit But head-strong struggle with the hated bit Then lest my bountie which would saue should kill Beware and whil'st thou maist reforme thy will A signe thou crau'st that might confirme thee mine I by dehorting giue a certaine signe Approu'd a Father by Paternall feare Book on my looks and reade my sorrows there O would thou could'st descend into my brest And apprechend my vexed Soules vnrest And lastly all the wealthy World behold Of all that Heauen enrich rich seas infold Or on the pregnant-bosom'd Earth remayne Aske what thou wilt and no repulse sustaine To this alone I giue a forc't consent No honour but a true-nam'd punishment Thou for a blessing beg'st the worst of harms Why hang'st thou on my neck with fawning arms Distrust not we haue sworn but aske and take What thou canst wish yet wiser wishes make In vaine dehorted he his promise claym'd With glory of so great a charge inflam'd The wilfull Youth then lingring Phoebus brought To his bright Chariot by Vulcan wrought The Beam and Axeltree of massie gold On Siluer Spokes the golden Fellies rol'd Rich Gems and Crysolites the Harnesse deckt Which Phoebus beames with equall light reflect Whil'st this admiring Phaëton suruayes The wakefull Morning from the East displayes Her purple doores and odoriferous bed With plentie of deaw-dropping Roses spred Cleare Luciser the flying Starres doth chace And after all the rest resignes his place When Titan saw the Dawning ruddy grew And how the Moon her siluer horns with-drew He bade the light-foot Houres without delay To ioyn his Steeds The Goddesses obay Who from their loftie Mangers forth-with led His fierie Horses with Ambrosou fed With sacred Oyle anoynted by his Syre Of vertue to repulse the rage of fire He crown's him with his Rayes Then thus began With doubled sighs which following woes fore-tan Let not thy Father still aduise in vaine Sonne spare the whip and strongly vse the raigne They of their owne accord will run too fast 'T is hard to moderate a flying haste Nor driue along the fiue directer Lines A broad and beaten path obliquely windes Contented with three Zones which doth auoid The distant Poles the track thy wheeles will guide Descend thou not too low nor mount too high That temperate warmth may heauen and earth supply A loftie course will heauen with fire infest A lowely earth the safer Meane is best Nor to the folded Snake thy Chariot guide Nor to the Altar on the
fruit I haue borne That thus I am with plough and harrowes torne Wrought-out through-out the yeare that man and beast Sustayne with food and you with incense feast But say I merit ruine and thy hate What hath thy brother done by equall Fate Elected to the wauy Monarchie That Seas should sinke and from thy presence flie If neither he nor I thy pittie moue Pitty thy Heauen Behold the Poles aboue At either end do fume and should they burne Thy habitation would to ruine turne Distressed Atlas shoulders shrinke with payne And scarce the glowing Axeltree sustayne If Sea if Earth if Heauen shall fall by fire Then all of vs to Chaos must retire O! quench these flames the miserable state Of things releeue afore it be too-late This said her voyce her parched tongue forsook Nor longer could the smothering vapors brook But down into her-selfe with-drew her head Neere to the infernall Cauerns of the Dead Ioue calls the Gods to witnesse and who lent The strayning Chariot should not he preuent That All would perish by one destinie Then mounts the highest Turret of the skie From thence inur'd to cloud the spacefull Earth And giue the flame fore-running thunder birth But there for wasted clouds he sought in vaine To shade or coole the scorched Earth with raine He thunders and with hands that connot erre Hurls lightning at the audacious Charioter Him strooke he from his seat breath from his brest Both at one blow and â—lames with flames supprest The frighted horses plunging seuerall wayes Breake all their tire to whom the bit obayes The reignes torne beame crackt spokes disperst abroad Scotcht Heauen was with the Chariots ruines strow'd But souleâ—lesse â—haâ—ton with blazing haire Shot heâ—-long through a long descent of Aire As when a falling starre glides through the skie Of seemes to fall to the deceiued eye Whom great Eridanus farre from his place Of birth receiu'd and quencht his flagrant face Whose Nymphs interr'd him in his Mothers womb And fixt this Epitaph vpon his Tomb Here Phaâ—ton lyes who though he could not guide His Fathers Steeds in high attempts he dy'd Phoebus with griefe with-drew One day did runne About the World they say with-out the Sunne Which flamie funerals illuminate That good deriued from a wretched Fate When 〈◊〉 had said what could be said In such a griefe halfe-soul'd in black array'd She fils the Earth she wanders through with grones First seeking his dead corps and then his bones Interr'd in forren Lands she found the last Her feeble-lims vpon the place shee cast And bath'd his name in teares and strictly prest The carued Marble with her bared brest Nor lesse th' Hâ—liades lament who shead From drowned eyes vaine offerings to the dead Who with remorselesse hands their bosoms teare And wayling call on him that cannot heare With ioyned horns foure Moons their orbs had fil'd Since they their customarie plaints vpheld When Phaâ—tâ—usa thinking to haue cast Her selfe on Earth cry'd ah my feet stick fast Lampâ—tie pressing to her sisters ayd As suddenly with fixed roots was stayd A third about t' haue torne her scattered haire Tore-off the leaues which on her crowne the bare This grieueth at her stiffe and senselesse thighes Shee that her stretcht-out arms in branches rise And whilâ—st with wonder they themselues behold The creeping barke their tender parts infold Then by degrees their bellies brests and all Except their mouthes which on their mother call What should shee doe but run to that to this As furie draue and snatch a parting kisse But yet not so suffiz'd shee stroue to take Them from themselues and down the branches brake From whence as from a wound pure blood did glide O pitty Mother still the wounded cry'd Nor 〈◊〉 vs in our Trees O! now adieu With that the barke their lips together drew From these cleere dropping trees tears yearly â—low They hardned by the Sunne to Amber grow Which on the moysture-giuing Riuer spent To Roman Ladies as his gift is sent Sthenâ—â—an Cygnus at that time was there A-kin to Phaëton in loue more neere He leauing State who in Liguria raign'd Which Cities great and populous contayn'd Fild with complaints the Riuer-chiding floods The sedgie banks and late augmented Woods At length his voice grew small white plume contends In whitenesse with his haire his neck ascends Red films vnite his toes armes turne to wings His mouth a flat blunt bill that sadly sings Becoâ—â—e a Swan remembring how vniust 〈◊〉 lightning was nor Heauen nor him will trust Whom Lakes and Ponds detesting fire delight And â—loâ—ds to Flames in nature opposite The wofull Father to dead Phaâ—ton Him 〈◊〉 neglecting all his lustre gon As when eclipst day light his owne life hates And 〈◊〉 griefe with anger aggrauates Retâ—â—ing to illuminate the Earth â—â—ough too much my toile born with the birth Of Time as restlesse without end regard Or honour recompenc't with this reward Some other now may on my Chariot sit If all of you confesse your selues vnfit Let â—oue ascend that he when he shall trie At length may lay his murdering thunder by Then will â—e finde that he who could not guide Those fire-hoou'd Steeds deseru'd not to haue dy'd The Gods stand round about him and request That endlesse Night might not the World inuest Euen â—oue excus'd his lightning and intreats Which like a King he intermixt with threats Displeased Phoebâ—â— hardly reconcil'd Takes-vp his Steeds as yet with horror wild On whom he vents his spleen and though they run He â—ashes and vpbraids them with his Son The Thunderer then walks the ample Round Of Heauens high walls to search if all were sound When finding nothing there by fire decay'd He Earth and humane industries suruay'd Arcadia chiefely exerciz'd his cares There Springs and streames that durst not run repaire's The Fields with grasse the Trees with leaues indue's And withered Woods with vanisht Shades renew's Oft passing to and fro a Nonacrine The God inflam'd her beautie more diuine 'T was not her Art to spin nor with much care And fine varietie to trick her haire But with a zone her looser garments bound And her rude tresses in a fillet wound Now armed with a Dart now with a Bowe A Squire of Phoebe's Moenalus did knowe None more in grace of all her Virgin throng But Fauorites in fouoâ— last not long The parted Day in equall balance held A Wood shee entred as yet neuer feld There from her shoulders shee her Quiuer takes Vnbends her Bowe and tyr'd with hunting makes The flowry-mantled Earth her happy bed And on her painted Quiuer layes her head When Ioue the Nymph without a guard did see In such a positure This stealth said hee My Wife shall neuer know or say shee did Who ah who would not for her sake be chid Diaâ—a's shape and habit them indew'd He said My Huntresse where hast thou pursew'd This morning's chace Shee rising made reply Harle Pow'r more great than Ioue though Ioue stood by
prostrate with deep wounds This Youth who thus with Magick Armes confoundâ— Then rushing on the ground his foot-steps stay'd Now mutely fixt an armed Statue made These suffer'd worthily One who did fight For Perseus bold Aconteus at the sight Of Gorgon's snakes abortiue marble grew On whom Astyages in fury flew As if aliue with his two-handed blade Which shrilly twang'd but not incision made Who whil'st he wonders the same nature tooke And now his Statue hath a wondring looke It were too tedious for me to report Their names who perisht of the vulgar sort Two hundred scap't the furie of the fight Two hundred turne to stone at Gorgon's fight Now Phineus his vniust commotion rewes What should he doe The senselesse shapes he views Of his knowne friends which differing figures bore And doth by name their seuerall ayd implore And yet not trusting to his eyes alone The next he toucht and found it to be stone Then turns aside and now a Penitent With suppliant hands and armes obliquely bent O Perseus thine said he thine is the day Remoue this Monster Hence O hence conuay Medusa's vgly looks or what more strange Which humane bodyes into marble change Not hate not thirst of rule begot this strife I onely fought to re-obtaine my Wife Thine is the plea of Merit mine of Time Yet in contending I confesse my crime For life O chiefe of men I onely sew Afford me that the rest I yeeld to you Thus he not daring to reuert his eyes On him whom he intreats who thus replyeâ— Faint-hearted Phineus what I can afford A gift of worth to such a fearefull Lord Take courage and perswade thy selfe I will No wounding sword thy bloud shall euer spill Moreouer that I may thy wish preuent Here will I fix thy lasting monument That thou by her thou lou'st maist still be seene And with her Spouse's image cheare our Queene Then on that side Phoreynis head doth place To which the Prince had turn'd his trembling face And as from thence his eyes he would haue throwne His neck grew stiffe his teares congeale to stone With fearfull suppliant looks submissiue hands And guiltie countenance the Statue stands Victorious Abanâ—iadeâ— now hyes This natiue Citie with the rescu'd prize There vengeance takes on Proetus and restor'd His Grand-father whose wrongs redresse implor'â— For Proetus had by force of Armes expeld His brother and vsurped Argos held But him nor Arms not Bulwarks could protect Against the snaky Monsters grim aspect Yet not the vertue of the Youth which shone Through so great toyle nor sorrowes vnder-gone With thee O Polydecteâ— King of small Sea-girt Seriphus could preuaile at all Endlesse thy wrath thy hate inexorable Detracting and condemning for a fable Medusa's death The moued Youth replyes The truth your selfe shall see Friends shut your eyâ—â— Then represents Medusa to his view Who presently a bloudlesse Statue grew Thus long Tritonia to her brother cleaues Then in a hollow cloud Seriphus leaues Scyros and Gyaros on the right-hand side And o're the toyling Seas her course apply'd To Thebes and Virgin Helecon there stay'd And thus vnto the learned Sisters said The fame of your new Fountaine rays'd by force Of that swift-winged Medusaean horse Me hither drew to see the wondrous Flood Who saw him issue from his Mothers blood Goddesse Vrania answered what cause So-euer you to this our Mansion drawes You are most wel-come What you heard is true And from that Pegasus this Fountaine grew Then Pallas to the sacred Spring conuay'd Shee admires the waters by the horse-hoofe made Suruay's their high-grown groues coole caues fresh bowâ—â— And meadowes painted with all sorts of flowers Then happy stiles shee the Maeonides Both for their Arts and such aboads as these O heauenly Virgin one of them reply'd Most worthy our Societie to guide If so your actiue vertue did not moue To greater deeds deseru'dly you approue Our studies pleasant seat and happie state Were we secure from what we chiefly hate Venus a Fish a Stork did Hermes hide And still her voyce vnto her Harp apply'd Then call they vs. But ours perhaps to heare Not leisure serues you nor is 't worth your care Doubt not said Pallas orderly repeat Your long'd for Verse and takes a shady seat Then shee On one we did the taske impose Calliope with Iuy crown'd vp-rose Who with her thumb first tun'd the quauering strings And then this Ditty to the musique sings The gleab with crooked plough first Ceres rent First gaue vs corne a better nourishment First Lawes prescrib'd all from her bountie sprung By me the Goddesse Ceres shall be sung Would We could Verses worthy her reherse For shee is more than worthy of our Verse Trinacria was on wicked Typhon throwne Who vnderneath the Ilands waight doth gronâ— That durst affect the Empire of the skyes Oft he attempteth but in vains to rise Ausonian Pâ—lornâ— his right hand Down waighs Pachyne on the left doth stand His legs are vnder Lilybaeus spred And Aetna's bases charge his horrid head Where lying on his back his iawes expire Thick clowds of dust and vomit flakes of fire Oft times he struggles with his load below And Townes and Mountaynes labours to ore-throw Earth-quakes therewith the King of shadowes dreads For feare the ground should split aboue their heads And let-in Day â—â—affright the trembling Ghosts For this he from his silent Empire posts Drawne by black horses tracing all the Round Of rich Sicilia but no breaches found Him Erycina from her Mount suruay'd Now fearelesse and her sonne imbracing said My Armes my strength my glorie for my sake O Cupid thy all-conquering weapons take And fix thy winged arrowes in his heart Who rules the triple world's inferior part The Gods euen Ioue himselfe the God of waues And who illustrates earth haue beene thy slaues Shall Hell be free Thine and thy mother's Sway Inlarge and make th' internall Powr's obey Yet we such is our patience are dispis'd In our owne heauen and all our force vnpriz'd Seest thou not Pallas and the Queen of Night Far-darting Dian how my worth they slight And Ceres daughter will a Maid abide If we permit for shee affects their pride But if thou fauour our ioynt Monarchy Thy Vncle to the Virgin-Goddesse tie Thus Venus He his Quiuer doth vnclose And one out of a thousand arrows chose At her Arbitriment a sharper head None had more ready or that surer sped Then bends his Bowe the string this eare arriues And through the heart of Dis the arrow driues Not far remou'd from Enna's high-built wall A Lake there is which men Pergusa call Cäyster's slowly-gliding waters beare Far fewer singing Swans than are heard there Woods crown the Lake and clothe it round about With leauy veils which Phoebus beames keep-out The trees create fresh ayr th' Earth various flowres Where heat nor cold th' eternall Spring deuoures Whil'st in this groue Proserpina disports Or Violets pulls or Lyllyes of all sorts And while she
In Sipylus and in Maonia staid Yet slights that home example still rebels Against the Gods and with proud lâ—â—guage swels Many things sweld her Yet Amphiâ—â—s towne Their high descents not glory of a crowne So pleas'd her though she pleas'd her selfe in all As her faire race We Niobe might call The happiest mother that yet euer brought Life vnto light had not her selfe so thought Tiresian Manto in presages skild The streets inspir'd by holy fury fild With these exhorts Ismenides prepare To great Latona and her Twins with prayer Mix sweet perfumes your brows with Laurel bindâ— By me Latona bids The Thebans wind About their temples the commaunded Bay And sacred fires with incense feeding pray Behold the Queene in height of state appeares A Phrygian mantle weauâ—d with gold she weares Her face as much as rage would suffer faire She stops and shaking her disheueled haire The godly troope with hauty eyes suruayes What madnesse is it Here-say Gods she sayes Before the seene Coelestials to prefer Or while I Altars want to worship her Me Tantalus begot alowd to feast In heauenly bowres my mother not the least Pleias greatest Atlas fire to those On whose high shoulders all the stars repose Ioue is my other Grandfather and he My father in law a double grace to me Me Phrygia Cadmus kingdomes me obay My husbands harp-rais'd walls we ioyntly sway Through-out my Court behold in euery place Infinite riches adde to this a face Worthy a Goddesse Then to crowne my ioyes Seuen beauteous daughters and as many boyes All these by marriage to be multiply'd Say now haue we not reason for our pride How dare you then Latona Caeus birth Before me place to whom the ample Earth Deny'd a little spot t'vnlade her wombe Heauen Earth nor Seas afford your Goddesse roome A Vagabond till Delas harbor gaue Thou wandrest on the land I on the waue It said and granted an vnstable place She brought forth two the seuenth part of my race Happy who doubts I happy will abide Or who doubts that with plentie fortifi'd My state too great for fortune to bereaue Though much she rauish she much more must leaue My blessings are aboue low feare Suppose Some of my hopefull sons this people lose They cannot be reduc't to such a few Off with your bayes these idle Rites eschew They put them off the sacrifice forbore And yet Latona silently adore As far as free from barrennesse so much Disdaine and griefe th' inraged Goddesse touch Who on the top of Cynthus thus begins To vent her passion to her sacred Twins Lo I your mother proud in you alone Excepting Iuno second vnto none Am question'd if a Goddesse and must loose If you assist not all religious dews Nor is this all that curst Tantalian Seeds Adds soule reproaches to her impious deede She dares her children before you prefer And calls me childlesse may it light on her Whose wicked words her fathers tongue declarâ— About to second her report with praier Peace Phoebus said complaint too long delayes Conceau'd reuenge the same vext Phoebe sayes Then swiftly through the yielding ayre they glide To Cadmus towres whom thickned vapors hide A spacious plaine before the citty lieâ— Made dusty with the daily exercise Of trampling hooues by strife-full chariots tracke Part of Amphions actiue sons here backt High-bounding steeds whose rich caparison With scarlet blusht with gold their bridles shone Ismenus Ioe her pregnant wombs first spring As with his ready horse he bears a Ring And checks his fomy iawes ay me â—he cryes While through his groâ—ing brest an arrow flyâ—â— His bridle slackning with his dying force He leasurely sinks side-long from his horse Next Siphilus from clashing quiuer flieâ— With slackned raignes as when a Pilot spies A growing storme and least the gentle gaile Should scape besides him claps on all his saile His haste th'vneuitable bowe O're-took And through his throte the deadly arrow strook Who by the horses mane and speedy thighes Drops headlong and the earth in purple dies Now Phoedimus and Tantalus the heire This Grand-â—ires names that labour done prepare To wrastle Whilst with oyled lims they prest Each others power close grasping brest to brest A shaft which from th'impulsiue bow-string flew Them in that sad Coniunction ioyntly slew Both grone at once at once their bodyes bend With bitter pangs at once to earth descend Her tongue and pallat rob'd of inward heat At once congeale her pulse forbeares to beat Her neck wants power to turne her feet to goe Her armes to moue her very bowels grow Into a stone She yet retaines her teares Whom straight a hurle-wind to her Countrie beares And fixes on the summit of a hill Now from that mourning marble teares distill Th'exemplary reuenge struck all with feare Who offerings to Latona's altars beare With doubled zeale When one as oft befalls By present accidents the past recalls In fruitfull Lyciâ— once said he there dwelt A sort of Pesants who her vengeance felt 'T was of no note in that the men were base Yet wonderfull I saw the poole and place Sign'd with the prodigie My father spent Almost with age ill brooking trauell sent Me thither for choice Steeres and for my guide A natiue gaue Those pastures searcht we spy'd An ancient Altar black with cinders plac't Amidst a Lake with shiuering reeds imbrac't O fauour me he softly murmuring said O fauour me I softly murmuring praid Then askt if Nymph or Faune therein reside Or rurall God The stranger thus reply'd O youth no mountaine Powres this altar hold Shee calls it hers to whom Ioues wife of old Earth interdicted till that floting I le Waue-wandring Delo finisht her exile Where coucht on palmes and oliues she in spight Of freâ—full Iuno brought her Twins to light Thence also frighted from her painefull bed With her two infant Deities she fled Now in Chimara-breeding Lycia fir'd By burning beames and with long trauell tyr'd Heat-raised thirst the Goddesse sore opprest By their exhausting of her milk increast By fortune in a dale with longing eyes A Lake of shallow water she descries Where Clownes were then a gathering picked weeds With shrubby osiers and plash-louing reedes Approcht Titania kneeles vpon the brink And of the cooling liquor stoops to drinke The Clownes with-stood Why hinder you said she The vse of water that to all is free The Sun aire water Nature did not frame Peculiar a publick gift I clame Yet humbly I intreat it not to drench My weary lims but killing thirst to quench My tongue wants moysture my iawes are dry Scarce is there way for speech For drink I dye Water to me were Nectar If I liue 'T is by your fauour life with water giue Pitty these babes for pitty they aduance Their little armes their armes they stretcht by chancâ— With whom would not such gentle words preuaile But they perseuering to prohibit raile The place with threats command her to forsake Then with their hands and
no excuses May your Citie still Increase with people Cephalus reply'd At my approch I not a little ioy'd To meet so many youths of equall yeares So fresh and lustie Yet not one appeares Of those who heretofore your towne possest When first you entertayn'd me for a Guest Then Aeacus in sighs his words ascend A sad beginning had a better end Would I could veter all Day would expire Ere all were told and t' would your patience tire Their bones and ashes silent graues inclose And what a treasure perished with those By Iunâ—'s wrath a dreadfull pestilence Deuour'd our liues who tooke vniust offence In that this Ile her Riuals name profest While it seem'd humane and the cause vnghest So long we death-repelling Physick try'd But those diseases vanquisht Art deride Heauen first the earth with thickned vapors shrouds And lazie heat inuolues in sullen clouds Foure pallid moones their growing hornes vnite And had as oft with-drawne their feeble light Yet still the death-producing Auster blew Sunke springs and standing lakes infected grew Serpents in vntild fields by millions creepe And in the streames their tainting poysons steepe First dogs sheepe oxen fowle that flagging fly And saluage beasts the swift infection try Sad Swaines amazed see their oxen shrink Beneath the yoke and in the furrowes sink The fleecie flocks with anguish faintly bleat Let fall their wooll and pine away with heat The generous Horse that from th' Olympicks late Return'd with honour now degenerate Vnmindfull of the glory of his prize Grones at his manger and there deedlesse dyes The Bore â—orgets his rage swift feet now faile The Hart nor Beares the horned Herd assaile All languish Woods fields paths no longer bare Are fil'd with carkasses that stench the aire Which neither dogs nor greedy fowle how much To be admir'd nor hoary wolues would touch Falling they rot which deadly Odors bred That round about their dire contagion spred Now raues among the wretched country Swaines Now in our large and populous Citie raignes At first their bowels broyle with feruor stretcht The symptoms rednesse hot wind hardly fetcht Their furd tongs swell their drie iawes gasp for breath And with the ayre inhale a swifter death None could indure or couerture or bed But on the stones their panting bosoms spred Cold stones could no way mitigate that heat Euen they beneath those burning burdens sweat None cure attempt the sterne Disease inuades The heartlesse Leech nor Art her author aids The neere ally'd whose care the sick attends Sicken themselues and dye before their friends Of remedy they see no hope at all But onely in approching funerall All cherish their desires for helpe none care Help was there none In shamelesse throngs repaire To springs and wells there cleaue in bitter strife T' extinguish thirst but first extinguish life Nor could th'o're-charg'd arise but dying sink And of those tainted waters others drink The wretches lothe their tedious beds thence breake With giddy steps Or if now growne too weake Roule on the floore there quitted houses hate As guilty of their miserable fare And ignorant of the cause the place accuse Halfe-ghosts they walk while they their legs could vse You might see others on the earth lye mourning Their heauy eyes with dying motion turning Stretching their armes to heauen where euer death Surpris'd them parting with their sigh't-out breath O what a heart had I or ought to haue I loth'd my life and wisht with them a graue Which way soeuer I conuert my eye The breathlesse multitude dispersed lye Like perisht apples dropping with the strokes Of rocking windes or acornes from broad okes See you yon' Temple mounted on high staires 'T is Iupiters Who hath not offer'd praiers And slighted incense there husbands for wiues Fathers for sons and while they pray their liues Before th'inexorable altars vent With incense in their hands halfe yet vnspent How oft the oxe vnto the temple brought While yet the Priest the angry Powres besought And pour'd pure wine betweene his hornes fell downe Before the axe had toucht his curled crowne To Iupiter about to sacrifice For me my country sons with horrid noyse Th'vnwounded Offering fell the blood that life Bore into exile hardly staind the knife The Inwards lost their signes of heauens presage Out-raized by the sterne Diseases rage The dead before the sacred doores were laid Before the Altars too the Gods t' vpbraid Some choke themselues with cords by death eschue The feare of death and following Fates pursue Dead corps without the Dues of funerall They weakly beare the ports are now too small Or vn-inhum'd they lye or else are throwne On wealthlesse pyles Respect is giuen to none For Pyles they striue on those their kinsfolke burne That flame for others None are left to mourne Ghosts wander vndeplor'd by sons or fires Nor is there roome for tombs or wood for fires Astonisht with these tempests of extreames O Ioue said I if they be more than dreames That wrapt thee in Aegina's armes nor shame That I thy son should thee my father name Render me mine or render me a graue With prosperous thunder-claps a signe he gaue I take it said I let this Omen be A happy pledge of thy intents to me Hard by a goodly Oke by fortune stood Sacred to Ioue of Dodoneian wood Graine-gathering Ants there in long files I saw Whose little mouthes selfe-greater burthens draw Keeping their paths along the rugged rine While I admire their number O diuine And euer helpfull giue to me said I As many men who may the dead supply The trembling oke his loftie top declin'd And murmured without a breath of wind I shooke with feare my tresses stood an end Yet on the earth and oke I kisses spend I durst not seeme to hope yet hope I did And in my brest my cherisht wishes hid Night came and Sleepe care-wasted bodies chear'd Before my eyes the selfe-same Oke appear'd So many branches as before there were So many busie Ants those branches beare So shooke the Oke and with that motion threw To vnder-earth the graine-supporting crew Greater and greater straight they seeme to sight To raise themselues from earth and stand vp-right Whom numerous feet black colour lanknesse leaue And instantly a humane shape receiue Now Sleep with-drew My dream I waking blame And on the small-performing Gods exclaime Yet heard a mightie noyse and seem'd to heare Almost forgotten voyces yet I feare That this a dreame was also Whereupon The doore thrust open in rusht Telamon Come forth said he O father and behold What hope transcends nor can with faith be told Forth went I and beheld the men which late My dreame presented such in euery state I saw and knew them They salute their King Ioue prais'd a partio to the towne I bring Among the rest I share the fields and call Them Myrmidons of their originall You see their persons such their manners are As formerly A people giuen to spare Patient of
eares repaire Or are my fruitlesse words borne by that wind That braâ—es thee hence and leaues a wretch behind What though Pasiphae a Bull preferd ' Thou far more brutish than the saluage Herd Woe 's me Make hast I must the waues with orâ—â— Refâ—und his ship for sakes with vs our shores In vame â—â—le follow thee vngratefull king And while I to thy crooked vessell cling Be dragâ—d through drenching seas This hauing said Attempts the waues by Cupidâ— strengthning aid And cleaâ—es tâ—his ship Her father now high-flowne Strikes 〈…〉 a red-maild Hobbie growne And stâ—â—◠〈◊〉 her with his golden â—eares She â—â—ps her hâ—â—d in feebled by her feares While yet a falling that she might eschue The threatning sea light wings t' her shoulders grew Now changed to a bird in sight of all This of her tufted crowne we Ciris call No sooner Minos toucht the Cretan ground But by an hundred Buls with garlands crown'd His vowes to conquest-giuing Ioue he payd And all his pallace with the spoyle arrayd And now his families reproch increast That vncouth prodigie halfe man halfe beast His mothers dire adultery descryd Minos resolues his marriage shame to hide In multitude of roomes perplext and blind The work t'excelling Daedalus assignd Who sense distracts and error leades a maze Through subtill ambages of sundry wayes As Phrygian Meander sports about The flowrie vales now winding in now out Himselfe incounters sees his following floods His streames leades to their springs and doubling scuds To long mockt seas so Daedalus compil'd Innumerable by-wayes which beguild The senses conduct that himselfe with much Adoe returnes the fallacies were such When in this fabrick Minos had inclos'd This double forme of man and beast compos'd The Monster with Athenian bloud twice fed His owne the third Lot in the ninth yeere shed Then by a Clew reguided to the doore A virgins counsell neuer found before Aegides with rapt Ariadne makes For Dia on the naked shore forsakes His confident and sleepe-oppressed Mate Now â—pining in complaints the desolate 〈…〉 with maâ—â—age comforts and that she Might glorious by a Câ—nstellation be Her head â—â—burtthens of her crowne and threw 〈◊〉 to heauen through thinner ayre it flew 〈…〉 the iewels that the verge inchace 〈…〉 to fâ—ies fast-fixed in one place Th 〈…〉 retaining They their station take 〈…〉 that Kneeles and Him who holds the Snake The Sea imprisâ—ned Paedalus meane-while W◠〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 and of his long exile 〈◊〉 with his countries loue and place of birth Thus said Though Minos baâ— both sea aud earth Yet heauen is free That course attempt I dare Held he the world he could not hold the ayre I his saidâ— to arts vnknowne he bends his wits In naâ—â—es change The quils in order knits Beginning with the least the longer still The shâ—â—t succeeds much like a rising hill Their in all pipes the shepheards long agoe Fâ—am'd of vneq â—all reeds contâ—iued so With threds the midst with wax he ioynes the ends And these as naturall wings a little bends Young â—â—us stood by who little thought That with his death he playd and smiling caught The feathers that lay hulling in the ayte Now chases the yellow waxe with busie care And interrupts his Siâ—e When his last hand He had imposed with new-made wings he â—and The ayte that bare them Then instructs his son â—e sure that in the middle course thou run Dank seas will clog the wings that lowly flye The Sun will burne them if thou for'st too high Twixt either keepe Nor on Boôtes gaze Nor Helicè nor sterne Orions rayes But follow me At once he doth aduise And vnknowne pinions to his shoulders ties Amid his work and words a tyde of teares Fret his old cheeks who trembling fingers reares Then kist him neuer to be kissed more And rais'd on lightsome feathers flies before His feare behind as birds through boundlesse sky From ayerie nests produce their yong to fly Exhorts to follow taught his banefull skill Waues his owne wings his sons obseruing still These while some Angler fishing with a cane Or Shepheard learning on his staffe or Swaine With wonder viewes he thinks them Gods that glide Through ayrie regions Now on the left side Leaues Iuno's Samos Delos Paros white Lebynthos and Calydna on the right Flowing with hony When the boy much tooke With pleasure of his wings his Guide forsooke And rauisht with desire of heauen aloft Ascends The odor-yeelding wax more soft By the swift Suns vicinitie now grew Which late his feathers did together glew That thaw'd he shakes his naked armes that bare As then no saile nor could containe the ayre When crying Helpe ô father his exclaime Blew Seas supprest which tooke from him their name His father now no father left alone Cryde Icarus where art thou which way flowne What region Icarus doth thee containe Then spies the feathers floting on the Maine He curst his arts interies thâ— coâ—pse that gaue The land a name which gaue his sonne a graue The Partridge from a thicket him suruayd As in a tombe his wretched son he layd Who clapt his fanning wings and lowdly churd Tâ— expresse his ioy as then an onely bird So made of late vnknowne in former thâ— e O Paâ—â—lus by thy eternall crime To thee thy Sister gaue him to be taught Who little of his destinie fore-thought The boy then twelue yeare aged of a mind Apt for â—â—struction and to Arts inclind He Sawes inuented by the bones that grow In fithes backs the steele indenting so And two-shankt Compasses with riuet bound Thâ—one to stand still the other turning round In 〈◊〉 distance Daeâ—â—aâ—us this stung Who from Manerua sacred turret flung The eauâ—d head-long and his falling faines Him Pallâ—s fautor of good wits sustaines Who straight the figure of foule assumes Clad in the midst of ayre with freckled plunâ—es The vigor of his late swift wit now came Into his feet and wings he keeps his name They neuer mount aloft nor trust their birth To tops of â—â—ees but sleck as low as earth And lay their egs in tufts In mind they beare Then ancient fall haughtie places feare I yr d â— aeâ—â—u now in Sâ—câ—lia lights In whole defence hospitious Cocaâ—â—â— fights Now Athens by Aegoeus glorious Seed Was from her lamentable tribute freed They crowne their Temples warlike Pallas Ioue Inuoke with all the Deities aboue Whom now they honour with the large expence Of bloud free gifts and heapes of frankincense Vast fame through all th' Argolian cities spred His praise and all that rich Acbaia fed His aid in their extremities intreat His aid afflicted Calydon though great In Meleager sought The cause a Bore Dian's reuenge and horrid Seruatore For Ocneus with a plenteous haruest blest To Ceres his first fruits of corne addrest To Pallas oyle and to Lyaeus wine Ambitious honours all the Powers diuine Reape from the rurals yet neglect to pay Diana dues her Altars empty lay Anger affects the Gods This will
vnhappy wombe T' his siny fruitfull Ruin'd Troy descends And sad successe the publike sorrow ends Yet they are ended â—lium alone â—o vs remaines our sorrowes freshly grone â—erst so potent and so fortunate 〈◊〉 husbands sons and height of humane State 〈◊〉 exile now am hal'd despis'd and torne 〈◊〉 my owne sepulchers from Phrygia borne 〈◊〉 serue Penelope that while I sew 〈◊〉 spin at her commandement she may shew Her slaue to Ithacensian dames and say Loe Hectors mother Priam's Hecuba My sorrowes sole reliefe so many lost Is offered to appease an hostile Ghost Infernall sacrifices to the dead Euen to my foe my cursed wombe hath bred Hard heart why break'st thou not What hopes ingage Thy expectation Mischienous Old-age For what reseru'st thou me You cruell Powres Why lengthen you a poore old womans howres To see new funerals O Priam I May call thee happy after ruin'd Troy Happy in death Thou seest not this sad fate Thou lost thy life together with thy state Rich funerals attend thee royall Maid And by thy Ancestors thou shalt be laid O no! thy mothers teares a heape of sand Must now content thee in a forreine land All all is lost Yet liues a little Boy My last and youngest ioy when I could ioy For whom I condescend to lieu a space Here foster'd by the courteous King of Thrace Meane while why stay we with the cleansing floud To wash these wounds and lookes besmear'd with bloud Then with an aged pace her horie haires All tâ—ne and scattred to the Sea repaires And while the wretched said You Troades A pitcher being to draw the brinish Seas She saw th' eiected corps of Polydore Stucke full of wounds vpon the beachie shore The Ladies shâ—eeke the dumbe with sorrow stood Internall griefe her voice her teares her blood At once deuout'd And now as if intranc't Stares on the earth sometimes to Heauen aduanc't Her scouling browes oft on his visage gaz'd But oftner on his wounds By anger rais'd Arm'd and instructed all on vengeance bent Still Queene-like destinates his punishment And as a Lyonesse rob'd of her young Persues the vnseene-hunters steps so stung With fury when her sorrow with her rage Had ioyn'd their powers vnmindfull of her age But not of former greatnesse ran with speed To Polymnestor author of this deed And crauing conference the Tyrant told How she would shew him summes of hidden gold To giue her Polydor. This held for true He thusty of his prey with her with-drew And flattering her thus craftily begun Delay not Hecuba t' inrich thy son By all the Gods we iustly will restore What thou shalt giue and what thou gau'st before She with a truculent aspect beheld The falsely swearing King with anger swel'd Then calls the captiue dames vpon him flyes Who hides her fingers in his periur'd eyes Extracts his eye-balls more then vsuall strong With thirsty vengeance and the sense of wrong Her hand drownes in his skull the roots vp-tore Of this lost sight imbrued with guilty gore The men of Thrace incensed for their King Weapons and stones at Hecuba now fling She gnarling bites the followed flints her chaps For speech extended barke Of whose mis-hapâ— That place is nam'd She mindfull of her old Mis-fortunes in Sithonian deserts howld Kinde Troians Grecian foes both loue and hate Yea all the Gods commiserate her fate So all as Iuno did to this descend That Hecuba deseru'd not such an end Auroâ—a had no leasure to lament Although those armes she fauour'd the euent Of Troy or Hecuba Domesticall And nearer griefe affilicts her for the fall Of Memnon who Achiâ—es lance imbru'd In Phrygian fields This as the Goddesse view'd The rosie die that deckt the Mornes vp-rise Grew forth with pale and clouds immur'd the skies Nor could indure to see his body laid On funerall flames but with her haire displaid As in that season to high Ioâ—â— repaires And kneeling thus with teares vnfolds her cares To all inferior whom the skie sustaines For mortals rarely honour me with Fanes A Goddesse yet I come not to desire Shines Festiuals nor Altars fraught with fire Yet should you weigh what I a woman doe That Night confine and sacred Day renue I ment such such sute not now our state Nor such desires infect the desolate Of Memnon rob'd who glorious armes in vaine Baâ—â— toâ— his vnkle by Acâ—â—lles slaine In slowâ—â— of youth so would you Gods come I. O chiefe of powers a mothers sorrow by Some honour giuen him lessen death with fame Recomâ—oâ—t Ioue assents When greedy flame Deuour'd the funerall Pile and curling fumes Day ouer-cast as when bright Sol assumes From streames thicke vapours nor is seene below The flying dying sparkles ioyntly grow Into one body Colour forme life spring To it from fire which leuity doth wing First like a Fowle forth-with a Fowle indeed Innumerable sisters of that breed Together whiske their feathers Thrice they round The funerall Pile thrice raise a mournfull sound In two battalions then diuide their flight And like two strenuous nations fiercely fight Their opposites with beake and tallons rend Cuffe with their wings in sacrifice descend Now dying on the ashes of the dead Remembring they were of the valiant bred These new-sprung Fowle men of their author call Memnonides No sooner Sol through all The Signes returnes but they reioyne againe In ciuill warre and dye vpon the slame While others therefore doe commiserate Pooâ—e barking Hecuba in her chang'd fate Aurora her owne griefe intends renewes Her pious teares which fall on earth in dewes Yet fates resist that all the hopes of Troy Should perish with her towres The Son and Ioy Of Cythereâ— with his houshold Gods And aged Sire his pious shoulders lodes Of so great wealth he onely chose that prize And his Ascanius from Auâ—andâ—as flies By seas and shuns the wicked Thracian shore Defil'd with bloud of murdered Polydeâ— With prosperous winds arriuing with his traine At Phoebus towne where Anius then did raigne Apollo's holy Priest who with the rest Into the Temple leads his honour'd Guest The City with the sacred places showes And â—ees held by Latona in her throwes Inâ—ense on flames and wine on incense powr'd Entraâ—les of slaughtered beeues by fire deuour'd His Guests conducts to Court on carpet spred With Ceres and Lyaeus bounty fed When thus Anchâ—ses ô to Phoebus deare I am deceiu'd or when I first was here Foure daughters and a son thy solace crown'd He shooke his head with sacred fillets bound And sighing said ô most renoun'd of men I was the father of fiue children then Whom now such is the change of things you see Halfe childlesse for my absent sonne to mee Iâ— of small comfort who my Vice-roy raignes Iâ—sea-girt Andros which his name retaines Him Delius with proâ—hetick skill inspir'd A gift past credit still to be admir'd My daughters Bacâ—has gaue aboue their sute That all they toucht should presently transmute To wine to come and to Minerua's oile Rich