one that was my brother in law when I contain'd my bloud And was more worthy if at all I might be saâ—…d to be My Being being lost so soone in all that honour'd me The good old King admir'd and said O 〈◊〉 blessed sonne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Borne under joyfull destinies that hast the Empire wonne Of such a world of Grecian youths as I discover here I once marcht into Phrygia that many vines doth beare Where many Phrygians â—… beheld well skild in use of horse That of the two men like two gods were the commanded force Otroeus and great Migdonus who on Sangarius sands Set downe their tents with whom my selfe for my 〈◊〉 bands Was numbred as a man in chiefe the cause of warre 〈◊〉 then Th' Amazon dames that in their facts affected to be men In all there was a mighty powre which yet did never rise To equall these Achaian youths that have the sable eyes Then seeing Vlysses next he said Lov'd daughter what is he That lower then great Atreus sonne seemes by the head to me Yet in his shoulders and big breast presents a broader show His armor lyes upon the earth he up and downe doth go To see his soulders keepe their rankes and ready have their armes If in this truce they should be tried by any false alarmes Much like a well growne Bel-weather or feltred Ram he shewes That walkes before a wealthy flocke of faire white fleeced Ewes High Iove and Ledas fairest seed to Priam thus replies This is the old Laertes sonne Vlysses cald the wise Vlysses dâ—…scribed Who though unfruitfull Ithaca was made his nursing seate Yet knowes he every sort of sleight and is in counsels great The wise Antenor answerd her t is true renowned Dame Aâ—…tenor to Hellen by way of digression For some times past wise Itâ—…acus to Troy a Legate came With Menelaus for your cause to whom I gave receit As guests and welcom'd to my house with all the love I might I learn'd the wisedomes of their soules and humors of their bloud For when the Troian Councell met and these together stood By height of his broad shoulders had Atrides eminence Yet set Vlysses did exceed and bred more reverence And when their counsels and their words they wove in one the speech Of Atreus sonne was passing loud small fast yet did not reach To much being naturally borne Laconicall nor would His humour lyc for any thing or was like th' other old But when the prudent Ithacus did to his counsels rise He stood a little still and fixt upon the earth his eyes His scepter moving neither way but held it formally Like one that vainely doth affect Of wrathfull qualitie And franticke rashly iudging him you would have said he was But when out of his ample breast he gave his great voyce passe And words that flew about our eares like drifts of winters snow Ulysses wisedome 〈◊〉 illustrated by similitude None thenceforth might contend with him though nought admird for show The third man aged Priam markt was Aiax Telamâ—… Of whom he askt What Lord is that so large of limme and bone So raisd in height that to his breast I see there reacheth none To him the Goddesse of her sexe the large veild Hellen said Aiâ—…x Telamon the Grecian bulwarke That Lord is Aiax Telamon a Bulwarke in their aide On th' other side stands Idomen in Crete of most command And round about his royall sides his Cretane Captaines stand Idâ—…menus 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Oft hath the warlike Spartan King given hospitable due To him within our Lacene court and all his retinue And now the other Achive Dukes I generally discerne All which I know and all their names could make thee quickly learne Two Princes of the people yet I no where can behold Castor the skilfull Knight on horse and Pollux uncontrold Castor and Pollux brothers to Hellen. For all stand-fights and force of hand both at a burthen bred My naturall brothers either here they have not followed From lovely Sparta or arriv'd within the sea-borne fleet In feare of infamie for me in broad field shame to meet Nor so for holy Tellus wombe inclosd those worthy men The hâ—…ralds propare for the compact In Sparta their beloued soyle The voicefull heralds then The firme agreement of the Gods through all the citie ring Two lambs and spirit-refreshing wine the fruit of earth they bring Within a Goates-kin bottle closd Ideus also brought A massie glittering boll and cups that all of gold were wrought Ideus to Priamus Which bearing to the king they cride Sonne of Laomedon Rise for the wel-rode Peeres of Troy and brasse-arm'd Greekes in one Send to thee to descend to field that they firme vowes may make For Paris and the Spartan king must fight for Hellens sake With long arm'd lances and the man that proues victorious The woman and the wealth she brought shall follow to his house The rest knit friendship and firme leagues we safe in Troy shall dwell In Argos and Achaia they that do in dames excell He said and Priams aged ioints with chilled feare did shake Yet instantly he bad his men his chariot readie make Which soone they did and he ascends he takes the reines and guide Antenor cals who instantly mounts to his royall side And through the Scaean ports to field the swift-foote horse they driue And when at them of Troy and Greece the aged Lords arriue From horse on Troyes well feeding soyle twixt both the hosts they go When straight vp rose the king of men vp rose Vlysses to The heralds in their richest cotes repeate as was the guise The true vowes of the Gods term'd theirs since made before their eyes Then in a cup of gold they mixe the wine that each side brings And next powre water on the hands of both the kings of kings Which done Atrides drew his knife that euermore he put Within the large sheath of his sword with which away he cut The wooll from both fronts of the lambs which as a rite in vse Of execration to their heads that brake the plighted truce The heralds of both hosts did giue the Peeres of both And then With hands and voice aduanc't to heauen thus prayd the â—…ing of men O Ioue that Ida dost protect and hast the titles wonne Agamemnon himselfe prayes Most glorious most inuincible And thou all-seeing Sunne All-hearing all-recomforting floods earth and powers beneath That all the periuries of men chastise euen after death Be witnesse and see perform'd the heartie vowes we make If Alexander shall the life of Menelaus take He shall from henceforth Hellena with all her wealth retaine And we will to our houshold Gods hoyse saile and home againe If by my honourd brothers hand be Alexander slaine The Troians then shall his forc't Queene with all her wealth restore And pay conuenient fine to vs and ours for euermore If Priam and his sonnes denie to
the topfull heights that crowne th' Olympian hill He spake and all the Gods gaue eare Heare how I stand inclind Ioue to the bench of Deities That God nor Goddesse may attempt t' infringe my soueraigne mind But all giue suffrage that with speed I may these discords end What God soeuer I shall find indeuour to defend Or Troy or Greece with wounds to heauen he sham'd shall reascend Or taking him with his offence I le cast him downe as deepe As Tartarus the brood of night where Barathrum doth steepe Virgil maketh this likewise his place adding Bis patet in prae ceps tantum tenditque sub vmbras c. Homers golden chaine Torment in his profoundest sinks where is the floore of brasse And gates of iron the place for depth as farre doth hell surpasse As heauen for height exceeds the earth then shall he know from thence How much my power past all the Gods hath soueraigne eminence Indanger it the whiles and see let downe our golden chaine And at it let all Deities their vtmost strengths constraine To draw me to the earth from heauen you neuer shall preuaile Though with your most contention ye dare my state assaile But when my will shall be disposd to draw you all to me Euen with the earth it selfe and seas ye shall enforced be Then will I to Olympus top our vertuous engine bind And by it euerie thing shall hang by my command inclind So much I am supreme to Gods to men supreme as much The Gods sat silent and admir'd his dreadfull speech was such At last his blue-eyd daughter spake O great Saturnides O Father ô heauens highest King well know we the excesse Pallas to Ioue Of thy great power compar'd with all yet the bold Greekes estate We needs must mourne since they must fall beneath fo hard a fate For if thy graue command enioyne we will abstaine from fight But to afford them such aduice as may relieue their plight We will with thy consent be bold that all may not sustaine The fearefull burthen of thy wrath and with their shames be slaine He smil'd and said Be confident thou art belou'd of me 〈◊〉 to Pallas I speake not this with serious thoughts but will be kind to thee This said his brasse hou'd winged horse he did to chariot bind Ioues horse Whose crests were fring'd with manes of gold and golden garments shin'd On his rich shoulders in his hand he tooke a golden scourge Diuinely fashiond and with blowes their willing speed did vrge Mid way betwixt the earth and heauen to Ida then he came Ioue descends to Ida. Abounding in delicious springs and nurse of beasts vntame Where on the mountaine Gargarus men did a Fane erect To his high name and altars sweet and there his horse he checkt Dissolu'd them from his chariot and in a cloud of ieate He couerd them and on the top tooke his triumphant seate Beholding Priams famous towne and all the Fleet of Greece Ioues prospect Both hosts arme The Greeks tooke breakfast speedily and arm'd at euerie peece So Troians who though fewer farre yet all to fight tooke armes Dire need enforc't them to auert their wiues and childrens harmes All gates flew open all the host did issue foote and horse In mightie tumult straite one place adioynd each aduerse force The fight Then shields with shields met darts with darts strength against strength opposd The bosse-pik't targets were thrust on and thunderd as they closd In mightie tumult grone for grone and breath for breath did breath Of men then slaine and to be slaine earth flowd with fruits of death While the faire mornings beautie held and day increast in height Their Iauelins mutually made death transport an equall freight But when the hote Meridian point bright Phoebus did ascend 〈◊〉 victoria The Meridian libra Iouis Aurea Virg. tranâ—…ulit Macrobius 5. Then Ioue his golden Ballances did equally extend And of long-rest-conferring death put in two bitter fates For Troy and Greece he held the midst the day of finall dates Fell on the Greeks the Greeks hard lots sunke to the flowrie ground The Troians leapt as high as heauen then did the claps resound Of his fierce thunder lightning leapt amongst each Grecian troope Ioues thunder amongst the Grecians The sight amaz'd them pallid feare made boldest stomacks stoope Then Idomen durst not abide Atrides went his way And both th' Aiaces Nestor yet against his will did stay That graue Protector of the Greekes for Paris with a dart Enrag'd one of his chariot horse he smote the vpper part Of all his skull euen where the haire that made his foretop sprung The hurt was deadly and the paine so sore the courser stung Pierc't to the braine he stampt and plung'd one on another beares Entangled round about the beame then Nestor cut the geres With his new drawne authentique sword meane while the firie horse Of Hector brake into the preasse with their bold rulers force Then good old Nestor had bene slaine had Diomed not espied Dioâ—…ed to â—…ses Who to Vlysses as he fled importunately cried Thou that in counsels dost abound O Laertiades Why flyest thou why thus cowardlike shunst thou the honourd prease Take heed thy backe take not a dart stay let vs both intend To driue this cruell enemie from our deare aged friend He spake but warie Ithacus would find no patient eare Vlysses flies and Diomed alonâ—… steps to the rescue of Nestor But fled forth right euen to the fleet yet though he single were Braue Diomed mixt amongst the fight and stood before the steeds Of old Neleides whose estate thus kingly he areeds O father with these youths in fight thou art vnequall plac't Thy willing sinewes are vnknit graue age pursues thee fast And thy vnruly horse are slow my chariot therefore vse And trie how readie Troian horse can flie him that pursues Pursue the flier and euery way performe the varied fight I forc't them from Anchises sonne well skild in cause of flight Then let my Squire leade hence thy horse mine thou shalt guard whilst I By thee aduanc't assay the fight that Hectors selfe may trie If my lance dote with the defects that faile best minds in age Or find the palsey in my hands that doth thy life engage This noble Nestor did accept and Diomeds two friends Eurymedon that valour loues and Sthenelus ascends Old Nestors coach of Diomeds horse Nestor the charge sustains And Tydeus sonne tooke place of fight Neleides held the rains And scourg'd the horse who swiftly ran direct in Hectors face Diomed charges Hector Whom fierce Tydides brauely charg'd but he turnd from the chace His iaueline Eniopeus smit mightie Thebaeus sonne And was great Hectors chariotere it through his breast did runne Neare to his pappe he fell to earth backe flew his frighted horse His strength and soule were both dissolu'd Hector had deepe remorse Of his
THE ILIADS OF HOMER Prince of Poets Neuer before in any languag truely translated With a ComÌ„ent vppon some of his chiefe places Donne according to the Greeke By Geo Chapman At London printed for Nathaniell Butter William Hole sculp Qui Nil molitur Ineptè TO THE HIGH BORNE PRINCE OF MEN HENRIE THRICE Royall inheritor to the vnited kingdoms of Great BRITTAINE c. SInce perfect happinesse by Princes sought Is not with birth borne nor â—…xchequers bought Nor followes in great Traines nor is possest VVith any outward State but makes him blest That gouernes inward and beholdeth theare All his affections stand about him bare That by his power can send to Towre and death All traitrous passions marshalling beneath His iustice his meere will and in his minde Holds such a scepter as can keepe confinde His whole lifes actions in the royall bounds Of Vertue and Religion and their grounds Takes-in to sow his honours his delights And complete empire You should learne these rights Great Prince of men by Princely presidents VVhich here in all kinds my true zeale presents To furnish your youths groundworke and first State And let you see one Godlike man create All sorts of worthiest men to be contriu'd In your worth onely giuing him reuiu'd For whose life Alexander would haue giuen One of his kingdomes who as sent from heauen And thinking well that so diuine a creature VVould neuer more enrich the race of Nature Kept as his Crowne his workes and thought them still His Angels in all power to rule his will And would affirme that Homers poesie Did more aduance his Asian victorie Then all his Armies O! t is wondrous much Though nothing prisde that the right vertuous touch Of a well written foule to vertue moues Nor haue we soules to purpose if their loues Of fitting obiects be not so inflam'd How much then were this kingdomes maine soule maim'd To want this great inflamer of all powers That moue in humane soules All Realmes but yours Are honor'd with him and hold blest that State That haue his workes to reade and contemplate In which Humanitie to her height is raisde VVhich all the world yet none enough hath praisde Seas earth and heauen he did in verse comprise Out-sung the Muses and did equalise Their king Apollo being so farre from cause Of Princes light thoughts that their grauest lawes May finde stuffe to be fashiond by his lines Through all the pompe of kingdomes still he shines And graceth all his gracers Then let lie Your Lutes and Viols and more loftily Make the Heroiques of your Homer sung To Drums and Trumpets set his Angels tongue And with the Princely sport of Haukes you vse Behold the kingly flight of his high Muse And see how like the Phoenix she renues Her age and starrie feathers in your sunne Thousands of yeares attending euerie one Blowing the holy fire and throwing in Their seasons kingdomes nations that haue bin Subuerted in them lawes religions all Offerd to Change and greedie Funerall Yet still your Homer lasting liuing raigning And proues how firme Truth builds in Poets faining A Princes statue or in Marble caru'd Or steele or gold and shrin'd to be presâ—…d Aloft on Pillars or Pyramides Time into lowest ruines may depresse But drawne with all his vertues in learn'd verse Fame shall resound them on Obliuions herse Till graues gaspe with her blasts and dead men rise No gold can follow where true Poesie flies Then let not this Diuinitie in earth Deare Prince be sleighted as she were the birth Of idle Fancie since she workes so hie Nor let her poore disposer Learning lie Stil bed-rid Both which being in men defac't In men with them is Gods bright image rac't For as the Sunne and Moone are figures giuen Of his refulgent Deitie in Heauen So Learning and her Lightner Poesie In earth present his fierie Maiestie Nor are Kings like him since their Diademes Thunder and lighten and proiect braue beames But since they his cleare vertues emulate In Truth and Iustice imaging his State In Bountie and Humanitie since they shine Then which is nothing like him more diuine Not Fire not Light the Sunnes admired course The Rise nor Set of Starres nor all their force In vs and all this Cope beneath the Skie Nor great Existence term'd his Treasurie Since not for being greatest he is blest But being Iust and in all vertues best VVhat sets his Iustice and his Truth best forth Best Prince then vse best which is Poesies worth For as great Princes well inform'd and deckt VVith gracious vertue giue more sure effect To her perswasions pleasures reall worth Then all th' inferiour subiects she sets forth Since there she shines at full hath birth wealth state Power fortune honor fit to eleuate Her heauenly merits and so fit they are Since she was made for them and they for her So Truth with Poesie grac't is fairer farre More proper mouing chaste and regular Then when she runnes away with vntruss't Prose Proportion that doth orderly dispose Her vertuous treasure and is Queene of Graces In Poesie decking her with choicest Phrases Figures and numbers when loose Prose puts on Plaine letter-habits makes her trot vpon Dull earthly businesse she being meere diuine Holds her to homely Cates and harsh hedge-wine That should drinke Poesies Nectar euerie way One made for other as the Sunne and Day Princes and vertues And as in a spring The plyant water mou'd with any thing Let fall into it puts her motion out In perfect circles that moue round about The gentle fountaine one another raising So Truth and Poesie worke so Poesie blazing All subiects falne in her exhaustlesse fount VVorks most exactly makes a true account Of all things to her high discharges giuen Till all be circular and round as heauen And lastly great Prince marke and pardon me As in a flourishing and ripe fruite Tree Nature hath made the barke to saue the Bole The Bole the sappe the sappe to decke the whole VVith leaues and branches they to beare and shield The vsefull fruite the fruite it selfe to yeeld Guard to the kernell and for that all those Since out of that againe the whole Tree growes So in our Tree of man whose neruie Roote Springs in his top from thence euen to his foote There runnes a mutuall aide through all his parts All ioyn'd in one to serue his Queene of Arts. The soule In which doth Poesie like the kernell lie Oscur'd though her Promethean facultie Can create men and make euen death to liue For which she should liue honor'd Kings should giue Comfort and helpe to her that she might still Hold vp their spirits in vertue make the will That gouernes in them to the power conform'd The power to iustice that the scandals storm'd Against the poore Dame clear'd by your faire Grace Your Grace may shine the clearer Her low place Not shewing her the highest leaues obscure VVho raise her raise themselues and he sits
command to this Thou shalt not me or if thou dost farre my free spirit is From seruing thy command Beside this I affirme affoord Impression of it in thy soule I will not vse my sword On thee or any for a wench vniustly though thou tak'st The thing thou gau'st but all things else that in my ship thou mak'st Greedie suruey of do not touch without my leaue or do Adde that acts wrong to this that these may see that outrage too And then comes my part then be sure thy bloud vpon my lance Shall flow in vengeance These high termes these two at variance Vsd to each other left their seates and after them arose The Grecian councâ—…ll dissolued The whole court To his tents and ships with friends and souldiers goes Angrie Achilles Atreus sonne the swift ship lancht and put Within it twentie chosen row'rs within it likewise shut The Hecatomb t' appease the God Then causd to come abord Faire cheekt Chryseis For the chiefe he in whom Pallas pourd Her store of counsels Ithacus aboord went last and then Chriseis sent to her father The moist waies of the sea they saild And now the king of men Bad all the hoast to sacrifice They sacrific'd and cast The offall of all to the deepes the angrie God they grac't With perfect Hecatombs some buls some goates along the shore Of the vnfruitfull sea inflam'd To heauen the thicke fumes bore Enwrapped sauours Thus though all the politique king made shew Respects to heauen yet he himselfe all that time did pursue His owne affections The late iarre in which he thunderd threats Against Achilles still he fed and his affections heats Thus vented to Talthybius and graue Eurybates Heralds and ministers of trust to all his messages Haste to Achilles tent where take Briseis hand and bring Agamemnon to Talthybius and Eurybates his Heralds Her beauties to vs if he faile to yeeld her say your king Will come himselfe with multitudes that shall the horribler Make both his presence and your charge that so he dares deferre This said he sent them with a charge of hard condition They went vnwillingly and trod the fruitlesse seas shore soone They reacht the nauie and the tents in which the quarter lay Of all the Myrmidons and found the chiefe Chiefe in their sway Set at his blacke barke in his tent Nor was Achilles glad To see their presence nor themselues in any glorie had Their message but with reuerence stood and fear'd th' offended king Askt not the dame nor spake a word He yet well knowing the thing That causd their coming grac'd them thus Heralds ye men that beare Achillâ—…s Princely receipt of the Heralds The messages of men and Gods y' are welcome come ye neare I nothing blame you but your king t is he I know doth send You for Briseis she is his Patroclus honourd friend Bring â—…oorth the damsell and these men let leade her to their Lord. But Heralds be you witnesses before the most ador'd Before vs mortals and before your most vngentle king Of what I suffer that if warre euer hereafter bring My aide in question to auert any seuerest bane It brings on others I am scusde to keepe my aide in wane Since they mine honour But your king in tempting mischiefe raues Nor sees at once by present things the future how like waues Ils follow ils iniustices being neuer so secure In present times but after plagues euen then are seene as sure Which yet he sees not and so sooths his present lust which checkt Would checke plagues future and he might in succouring right protect Such as fight for his right at fleete they still in safetie fight That fight still iustly This speech vsd Patrâ—…clus did the rite His friend commanded and brought forth Briseis from her tent Briseis led to Agamemnon Gaue her the heralds and away to th'Achiue ships they went She sad and scarce for griefe could go her loue all friends ' forsooke And wept for anger To the shore of th' old sea he betooke Himselfe alone and casting forth vpon the purple sea His wet eyes and his hands to heauen aduancing this sad plea Made to his mother Mother since you brought me forth to breath Achilles to Thetis So short a life Olympius had good right to bequeath My short life honor yet that right he doth in no degree But le ts Atrides do me shame and force that prise from me That all the Greekes gaue this with teares he vtterd and she heard Set with her old sire in his deepes and instantly appeard Vp from the gray sea like a cloud sate by his side and said Why weepes my sonne what grieues thee speake conceale not what hath laid Thetis to Achilles Such hard hand on thee let both know He sighing like a storme Replied Thou dost know why should I things knowne againe informe Achilles to Thetis We marcht to Thebs the sacred towne of king Eetion Sackt it and brought to fleete the spoile which euerie valiant sonne Of Greece indifferently shar'd Atrides had for share Faire-cheekt Chryseis after which his priest that shoots so farre Chryses the faire Chryseis sire arriu'd at th'Achiue fleete With infinite ransome to redeeme the deare imprison'd feete Of his faire daughter In his hands he held Apollos crowne And golden scepter making suite to euerie Grecian sonne But most the sonnes of Atreus the others orderers Yet they least heard him all the rest receiu'd with reuerend eares The motion both the Priest and gifts gracing and holding worth His wisht acceptance Atreus sonne yet vext commanded forth With rude termes Phoebus reuerend Priest who angrie made retreat And prayd to Phoebus in whose grace he standing passing great Got his petition The God an ill shaft sentabrode That tumbl'd downe the Greekes in heapes The host had no abode That was notvisited we askt a Prophet that well knew The cause of all and from his lips Apollos prophecies flew Telling his anger First my selfe exhorted to appease The angerd God which Atreus sonne did at the heart displease And vp he stood vsde threats performd The blacke-eyd Greeks sent home Chryseis to her sire and gaue his God a Hecatome Then for Briseis to my tents Atrides Heralds came And tooke her that the Greekes gaue all If then thy powres can frame Wreake for thy sonne affoord it scale Olympus and implore Ioue if by either word or fact thou euer didst restore Ioy to his greeu'd heart now to helpe I oft haue heard thee vant In court of Peleus that alone thy hand was conuersant In rescue from a cruell spoile the blacke-clowd-gathering Ioue Whom other Godheads would haue bound The powre whose pace doth moue The round earth heauens great Queene and Pallas to whose bands Neptune Iuno and 〈◊〉 confederates in the binding of Iupiâ—… Thou cam'st with rescue bringing vp him with the hundred hands To great Olympus whom the Gods call Briarâ—…us men Aegaeon who
his sire surpast and was as strong againe The fiction of 〈◊〉 And in that grace sat glad by Ioue th'immortals stood dismaid At his ascension and gaue free passage to his aid Of all this tell Ioue kneele to him embrace his knee and pray If Trois aide he will euer deigne that now their forces may Beate home the Greeks to fleete and sea embruing their retreat In slaughter their pains paying the wreake of their proud Soueraigns heart And that farre-ruling king may know from his poore souldiers harms His owne harme fals his owne and all in mine his best in arms Her answer she powr'd out in teares O me my sonne said she Thetis to Achilles Why brought I vp thy being at all that brought thee forth to be Sad subiect of so hard a fate O would to heauen that since Thy fate is little and not long thou mightst without offence And teares performe it But to liue thrall to so sterne a fate As grants thee least life and that least so most vnfortunate Grieues me t' haue giuen thee any life But what thou wishest now If Ioue will grant I le vp and aske Olympus crownd with snow I le clime but sit thou fast at fleete renounce all warre and feed Thy heart with wrath and hope of wreake till which come thou shalt need A little patience Iupiter went yesterday to feast Iupiters feast with the Aethiops Amongst the blamelesse Aethiops in th' Oceans deepned breast All Gods attending him the twelfth high heauen againe he sees And then his brasse-pau'd court I le skale cling to his powrefull knees And doubt not but to winne thy wish Thus made she her remoue And left wrath tyring on her sonne for his enforced loue Vlysses with the Hecatomb arriu'd at Chrysas shore Nauigation to Chrysa And when amids the hauens deepe mouth they came to vse the oare They straite stroke saile then rold them vp and on the hatches threw The top mast to the kelsine then with haleyards downe they drew Then brought the ship to Port with oares then forked anchor cast And gainst the violence of stormes for drifting made her fast All come ashore they all exposd the holy Hecatomb To angrie Phoebus and with it Chryseis welcomd home Whom to her sire wise Ithacus that did at th' altar stand For honour led and spoken thus resignd her to his hand Chryses the mightie king of men great Agamemnon sends â—…lysses to Chryses Thy lou'd seed by my hands to thine and to thy God commends A Hecatomb which my charge is to sacrifice and seeke Our much-sigh-mixt-woe his recure inuokt by euerie Greeke Thus he resignd her and her sire receiu'd her highly ioyd About the well-built altar then they orderly emploide The sacred offring Washt their hands tooke salt cakes and the Priest With hands held vp to heauen thus praid O thou that all things seest Fautour of Chrysa whose faire hand doth guardfully dispose Chryses prayer to Apollo for appeasing the plague Celestiall Cilla gouerning in all powre Tenedos O heare thy Priest and as thy hand in free grace to my prayers Shot feruent plague-shafts through the Greekes now hearten their affaiâ—…es With health renewd and quite remoue th' infection from their blood He praid and to his prairs againe the God propitious stood All after prayre cast on salt cakes drew backe kild flaid the beeues Cut out and dubd with fat their thighes faire drest with doubled leaues The sacrifice And on them all the sweet-breads prickt The Priest with small sere wood Did sacrifice powr'd on red wine by whom the yong men stood And turnd in fiue ranks spits on which the legs enough they eate The banquet The inwards then in giggots cut the other fit for meate And put to fire which rosted well they drew the labour done They seru'd the feast in that fed all to satisfaction Desire of meate and wine thus quencht the youths crownd cups of wine Drunke off and fild againe to all That day was held diuine And spent in Paeans to the Sunne who heard with pleased eare When whose bright chariot stoopt to sea and twilight hid the cleare The euening All soundly on their cables slept euen till the night was worne And when the Lady of the light the rosie fingerd morne The morning Rose from the hils all fresh arose and to the campe retir'd Apollo with a fore-right wind their swelling barke inspir'd The top-mast hoisted milke-white sailes on his round breast they put The Misens strooted with the gale the ship her course did cut So swiftly that the parted waues against her ribs did rore Which coming to the campe they drew aloft the sandie shore Where laid on stocks each souldier kept his quarter as before But Pelius sonne swift-foote Achilles at his swift ships sate Burning in wrath nor euer came to Councels of estate That make men honord neuer trod the fierce embattaild field But kept close and his lou'd heart pin'd what fight and cries could yeeld Thirsting at all parts to the hoast And now since first he told His wrongs to Thetis twelue faire mornes their ensignes did vnfold And then the euerliuing Gods mounted Olympus Ioue Iupiter and the other Gods from the Aâ—…thiops First in ascension Thetis then remembred well to moue Achilles motion rose from sea and by the mornes first light The great heauen and Olympus climbd where in supremest height Of all that many-headed hill she saw the farre-seene sonne Iupiter Of Saturne set from all the rest in his free seate alone Before whom on her owne knees falne the knees of Iupiter Her left hand held her right his chinne and thus she did prefer Her sonnes petition Father Ioue if euer I haue stood Thetis prayer to Iupiter Aidfull to thee in word or worke with this implored good Requite my aide renowne my sonne since in so short a race Past others thou confin'st his life an insolent disgrace Is done him by the king of men he forc't from him a prise Wonne with his sword But thou O Ioue that art most strong most wise Honour my sonne for my sake adde strength to the Troians side By his sides weaknesse in his want and see Troy amplifide In conquest so much and so long till Greece may giue againe The glorie reft him and the more illustrate the free raigne Of his wrongd honour Ioue at this sate silent not a word In long space past him Thetis still hung on his knee implor'd The second time his helpe and said Grant or denie my suite Be free in what thou doest I know thou canst not sit thus mute For feare of any speake denie that so I may be sure Of all heauens Goddesses t is I that onely must endure Dishonor by thee Iupiter the great cloud-gatherer grieu'd With thought of what a world of griefes this suite askt being atchieu'd Sweld sigh'd and answerd Works of death thou vrgest O at this
In honor of the Generall and on a sable cloud To bring them furious to the field sate thundring out aloud Then all enioyn'd their charioteers to ranke their chariot horse Close to the dike forth marcht the foot whose front they did r'enforce With some horse troupes the battell then was all of Charioteers Lin'd with light horse but Iupiter disturb'd this forme with feares And from aires vpper region did bloudie vapors raine For sad ostent much noble life should ere their times be slaine The Troian hoast at Ilus tombe was in Battalia led By Hector and Polydamas and old Anchises seed Who God-like was esteem'd in Troy by graue Antenors race Diuine Agenor Polybus vnmaried Acamas Proportion'd like the states of heauen in front of all the field Troyes great Priamides did beare his al wayes-equall shield Still plying th'ordering of his power And as amids the skie Simile We sometimes see an ominous starre blaze cleare and dreadfully Then run his golden head in clouds and straight appeare againe So Hector otherwhiles did grace the vaunt-guard shining plaine Then in the rere-guard hid himselfe and labour'd euery where To order and encourage all his armor was so cleare And he applide each place so fast that like a lightning throwne Out of the shield of Iupiter in euery eye he shone And as vpon a rich mans crop of barley or of wheate Anâ—…ther câ—…parison Opposde for swiftnesse at their worke a sort of reapers sweate Beare downe the furrowes speedily and thicke their handfuls fall So at the ioyning of the hoasts ran Slaughter through them all None stoopt to any fainting thought of foule inglorious flight But equall bore they vp their heads and far'd like wolues in fight Sterne Eris with such weeping sights reioyc't to feed her eies Who onely shew'd her selfe in field of all the Deities The other in Olympus tops sate silent and repin'd That Ioue to do the Troians grace should beare so fixt a mind He car'd not but enthron'd apart triumphant sat in sway Of his free power and from his seate tooke pleasure to display Iones prospect The citie so adorn'd with towres the sea with vessels fild The splendor of refulgent armes the killer and the kild As long as bright Aurora rul'd and sacred day increast So long their darts made mutuall wounds and neither had the best But when in hill-enuiron'd vales the timber-feller takes Periphrasis of Noone A sharpe set stomacke to his meate and dinner ready makes His sinewes fainting and his spirits become surcharg'd and dull Time of accustom'd ease arriu'd his hands with labour full Then by their valours Greeks brake through the Troian rankes and chear'd Their generall Squadrons through the hoast then first of all appear'd The person of the King himselfe and then the Troians lost Byanor by his royall charge a leader in the host Agamemnons slaughters Who being slaine his chariotere Oileus did alight And stood in skirmish with the king the king did deadly smite His forehead with his eager lance and through his helme it ranne Enforcing passage to his braine quite through the hardned pan His braine mixt with his clotterd bloud his body strewd the ground There left he them and presently he other obiects found Isus and Antiphus two sonnes king Priam did beget One lawfull th' other wantonly both in one chariot met Their royall foe the baser borne Isus was chariotere And famous Antiphus did fight both which king Peleus heire Achilles Whilome in Ida keeping flocks did deprehend and bind With pliant Osiers and for prize them to their Sire resign'd Atrides with his well aim'd lance smote Isus on the brest Aboue the nipple and his sword a mortall wound imprest Beneath the eare of Antiphus downe from their horse they fell The king had seene the youths before and now did know them well Remembring them the prisoners of swift Aeacides Who brought them to the sable fleet from Idas foodie leas And as a Lion hauing found the furrow of a Hind Simile Where she hath calu'd two little twins at will and ease doth grind Their ioynts snatcht in his sollide iawes and crusheth into mist Their tender liues their dam though neare not able to resist But shooke with vehement feare her selfe flies through the Oaken chace From that fell sauage drown'd in sweat and seekes some couert place So when with most vnmatched strength the Grecian Generall bent Gainst these two Princes none durst ayd their natiue kings descent But fled themselues before the Greeks and where these two were slaine Pysander and Hypolocbus not able to restraine Their head-strong horse the silken teines being from their hands let fall Were brought by their vnâ—…uly guides before the Generall Antimachus begat them both Antimachus that tooke Rich guifts and gold of Hellens loue and would by no meanes brooke Iust restitution should be made of Menelaus wealth Bereft him with his rauisht Queene by * Paris Alexanders stealth Atrides Lion-like did charge his sonnes who on their knees Fell from their chariot and besought regard to their degrees Who being Antimachus his sonnes their father would affoord A worthie ransome for their liues who in his house did hoord Much hidden treasure brasse and gold and steele wrought wondrous choise Thus wept they vsing smoothing terms and heard this rugged voice Agamemâ—… to Pysander and Hippolochus Breath ' from the vnrelenting king If you be of the breed Of stout Antimachus that staid the honorable deed The other Peeres of Ilion in counsell had decreed To render Hellen and her wealth and would haue basely slaine My brother and wise Ithacus Ambassadors t' attaine The most due motion now receiue wreake for his shamefull part This said in poore Pysanders breast he fixt his wreakfull dart Who vpward spread th' oppressed earth his brother croucht for dread And as he lay the angrie king cut off his armes and head And let him like a football lie for euerie man to spurne Then to th' extremest heate of fight he did his valour turne And led a multitude of Greeks where foote did foote subdue Horse slaughterd horse Need featherd flight the batterd center flew In clouds of dust about their eares raisd from the horses hooues That beat a thunder out of earth as horrible as Ioues The king perswading speedie chace gaue his perswasions way With his owne valour slaughtring still As in a stormie day In thicke-set woods a rauenous fire wraps in his fierce repaire The shaken trees and by the rootes doth tosse them into aire Euen so beneath Atrides sword flew vp Troyes flying heeles Their horse drew emptie chariots and sought their thundring wheeles Some fresh directors through the field where least the pursuite driues Thicke fell the Troians much more sweet to Vultures then their wiues Then Ioue drew Hector from the darts from dust from death and blood And from the tumult still the king firme to the pursuite stood Till at old Ilus monument in midst
think of a better exposition when a worse cannot be coniectured vnlesse that of Eustathius as I hope you will cleerly grant me when you heare but mine Which is this The sacrifice is not made by Agamemnon for any resemblance or reference it hath to the Lady now to be restored which since these Clerkes will needs haue it a Sow in behalfe of Ladies I disdaine but onely to the reconciliation of Agamemnon and Achilles for a sacred signe whereof and that their wraths were noâ—… absolutely appeased Agamemnon thought fit a Bore being the most wrathfull of all beasts should be sacrificed to Ioue intimating that in that Bore they sacrificed their wraths to Iupiâ—…er and became friends And thus is the originall word preserued which together with the sacred sence of our Homer in a thousand other places suffers most ignorant and barbarous violence But here being weary both with finding faults and my labour till a refreshing come I wil end my poore Comment Holding it not altogether vnfit with this ridiculous contention of our Commentors a litle to quicken you and make it something probable that their ouersight in this trifle is accompanied with a thousand other errors in matter of our diuine Homers depth and grauitie Which will not open it selfe to the curious austeritie of belabouring art but onely to the naturall and most ingenuous soule of our thrice sacred Poesie The end of the nineteenth Booke THE XX. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT BY Ioues permission all the gods descend To aide on both parts For the Greekes contend Iuno Minerua Neptune Mulâ—…ber And Mercurie The deâ—…ies that prefer The Troian part are Phoebus Cyprides 〈◊〉 Phoebe Latona and the foe to Peace With bright Scamander Neptune in a mist Preserues Aeneas daring to resist Achilles by whose hand much skath is done Besides the slaughter of old Priaâ—…s sonne Yong Polydor whose rescue Hector makes Him flying Phoebus to his rescue takes The rest all shunning their importun'd fates Achilles beates euen to the Ilian gates Another Argument In Ypsilon Strife stirres in heauen The dayes grace to the Greekes is giuen THe Greeks thus arm'd and made insatiate with desire of fight About thee Peleus sonne The foe in ground of greatest height Stood opposite rang'd Then Ioue charg'd Themis froÌ„ Olympus top To call a court she euery way disperst and summon'd vp Ioue summons all the â—…ties to counsell All deities Not any floud besides Oceanus But made apparance not a Nymph that arbours odorous The heads of flouds and flowrie medowes make their sweeâ—…e abodes Was absent there but all at his court that is king of gods Assembl'd and in lightsome seates of admirable frame Perform'd for Ioue by Vulean sate Euen angry Neptune came Nor heard the goddesse with vnwilling â—…are but with the rest Made free ascension from the sea and did his state inuest In midst of all begun the counsell and inquir'd of Ioue His reason for that session and on what point did moue His high intention for the foes he thought the heate of warre Was then neare breaking out in flames To him the Thunderer Thou know'st this counsell by the rest of those forepurposes That still inclin'd me my cares still must succour the distresse Of Troy though in the mouth of Faâ—…e yet vow I not to stirre One step from off this top of heauen but all th affaire referre To any one Here I le hold state and freely take the ioy Of eithers fate helpe whom ye please for t is assur'd that Trâ—…y Not one dayes conflict can sustaine against A Eacides If heauen oppose not His meere lookes threw darts enow t'impresse Their powres with trembling but when blowes sent from his fiery hand Thrice heat by slaughter of his friend shall come and countermand Their formeâ—… glories we haue feare that though Fate keepe their wall Hee 'l ouerturne it Then descend and ceasse not till ye all Adde all your aides mixe earth and heauen together with the fight Achilles vrgeth These his words did such a warre excite As no mans powre could wrastle downe the gods with parted harts Departed heauen and made earth warre To guide the Grecian daâ—…s The names of the gods partakers with either part Iuno and Pallas with the god that doth the earth embrace And most-for-mans-vse Mercurie whom good wise inwards grace Were partially and all emploid and with them halted downe Proud of his strength lame Mulciber his walkers quite misgrowne But made him tread exceeding sure To aide the Ilian side The changeable in armes went Mars and him accompanied Diana that delights in shafts and Phoebus neuer shorne And Aphrodite laughter-pleasde and she of whom was borne Still yong Apollo and the floud that runnes on golden sands Bright Xanthus All these aided Troy and till these lent their hands The Grecians triumpht in the aide AEacides did adde The Troians trembling with his sight so gloriously clad He ouershin'd the field and Mars no harmfuller then he He bore the iron streame on cleare but when Ioues high decree â—…et fall the gods amongst their troupes the field sweld and the fight Grew fierce and horrible The* Dame that armies doth excite 〈◊〉 Thunderd with Clamor sometimes set at dike without the wall And sometimes on the bellowing shore On th' other side the Call Of Mars to fight was terrible he cried out like a storme Set on the cities pinnacles and there he would informe Sometimes his heartnings Other times where Simois powres on His siluer currant at the foote of high Callicolon And thus the blest gods both sides vrg'd they all stood in the mids And brake Contention to the hosts And ouer all their heads The state of the preparation to the fight when the gods were to encounter The gods king in abhorred claps his thunder rattl'd out Beneath them Neptune tost the earth the mountaines round about Bow'd with affright and shooke their heads Ioues hill the earth quake felt Steepe Ida trembling at her rootes and all her fountaines spilt Their browes all crannied Troy did nod the Grecian nauie plaid As on the sea th' infernall king that all things frayes was fraid And leapt affrighted from his throne cried out lest ouer him Neptune should rend in two the earth and so his house so dim So lothsome filthy and abhord of all the gods beside Should open both to gods and men Thus all things shooke and cri'd When this blacke bartell of the gods was ioyning thus arraied Gainst Neptune Phoebus with wing'd shafts gainst Mars the blew-eyd maid Gainst Iuno Phoebe whose white hands bore singing darts of gold Her side arm'd with a sheafe of shafts and by the birth twofold Of bright Latona sister twin to him that shootes so 〈◊〉 Against Latona Hermes stood graue guard in peace and warre Of humane beings gainst the god whose Empire is in fire The watry godhead that great flood to shew whose powre entire In spoile as th' other all his streame
nere be wonne To helpe keepe off the ruinous day in which all Troy should burne Fir'd by the Grecians This vow heard she charg'd her sonne to turne His fierie spirits to their homes and said it was not fit A god should suffer so for men Then Vulcan did remit His so vnmeasur'd violence and backe the pleasant â—…ood Ranne to his channell Thus these gods she made friends th' other â—…tood At weightie difference both sides ranne together with a sound That Earth resounded and great heauen about did surrebound Ioue heard it sitting on his hill and laught to see the gods Buckle to armes like angry men and he pleasde with their ods They laid it freely Of them all thump-buckler Mars began Mars against Minerua And at Minerua with a lance of brasse he headlong ran These vile words vshering his blowes Thou dog-flie what 's the cause Thou mak'st gods fight thus thy huge heart breakes all our peacefull lawes With thy insatiate shamelesnesse Rememberst thou the houre When Diomed charg'd me and by thee and thou with all thy powre Took'st lance thy selfe and in all sights rusht on me with a wound Now vengeance fals on thee for all This said the shield fring'd round With fighting Adders borne by Ioue that not to thunder yeelds He clapt his lance on and this god that with the bloud of fields Pollutes his godhead that shield pierst and hurt the armed Maid But backe she leapt and with her strong hand rapt a huge stone laid Aboue the Champaine blacke and sharpe that did in old time breake Partitions to mens lands And that she dusted in the necke Of that impetuous challenger Downe to the earth he swayd And ouerlaid seuen Acres land his haire was all berayd With dust and bloud mixt and his armes rung out Minerua laught And thus insulted O thou foole yet hast thou not bene taught Minerua insults ouer Mars To know mine eminence thy strength opposest thou to mine So pay thy mothers furies then who for these aides of thine Euer affoorded periur'd Troy Greece euer left takes spleene And vowes thee mischiefe Thus she turn'd her blew eyes when Loues Queen The hand of Mars tooke and from earth raisd him with thick-drawne breath His spirits not yet got vp againe But from the prease of death Kind* Aphrodite was his guide Which Iuno seeing exclam'd Venus Pallas see Mars is helpt from field Dog flie his rude tongue nam'd Thy selfe euen now but that his loue that dog-flie will not leaue Her old consort Vpon her flie Minerua did receaue This excitation ioyfully and at the Cyprian flew Strooke with her hard hand her soft breast a blow that ouerthrew Mars and Venus ouerthrowne by Pallas Both her and Mars and there both lay together in broad field When thus she triumpht So lie all that any succours yeeld To these false Troians against the Greeks so bold and patient As Venus shunning charge of me and no lesse impotent Be all their aides then hers to Mars so short worke would be made In our depopulating Troy this hardiest to inuade Of all earths cities At this wish white-wristed Iuno â—…mil'd Next Neptune and Apollo stood vpon the point of field And thus spake Neptune Phoebus come why at the lances end Stand we two thus t will be a shame for vs to re-ascend Ioues golden house being thus in field and not to â—…ight Begin For t is no gracefull worke for me thou hast the yonger chin I older and know more O foole what a forgetfull heart Thou bear'st about thee to stand here prest to take th'Ilian part And fight with me Forgetst thou then what we two we alone Of all the gods haue sufferd here when proud Laomedon Enioyd our seruice a whole yeare for our agreed reward Ioue in his sway would haue it so and in that yeare I rear'd This broad braue wall about this towne that being a worke of mine It might be inexpugnable This seruice then was thine In Ida that so many hils and curld-head forrests crowne To feed his oxen crooked shankt and headed like the Moone But when the much-ioy-bringing houres brought terme for our reward The terrible Laomedon dismist vs both and scard Our high deseruings not alone to hold our promist fee But giue vs threats too Hands and feete he swore to fetter thee And sell thee as a slaue dismist farre hence to forreine Iles Nay more he would haue both our eares His vowes breach and reuiles Made vs part angry with him than and doest thou gratulate now Such a kings subiects or with vs not their destruction vow Euen to their chast wiues and their babes He answerd â—…e might hold His wisedome litle if with him a god for men he would Apollo to Neptune Maintaine contention wretched men that flourish for a time Like leaues eate some of that Earth yeelds and giue Earth in their prime Their whole selues for it Quickly then let vs flie fight for them Nor shew it offerd let themselues beare out their owne extreme Thus he retir'd and fear'd to change blowes with his vnkles hands His sister thererefore chid him much the goddesse that commands Diana reproues Apollo for leauing the Troians In games of hunting and thus spake Fliest thou and leau'st the field To Neptunes glorie and no blowes O foole why doest thou wield Thy idle bow no more my eares shall heare thee vant in skies Dares to meete Neptune but I le tell thy cowards tongue it lies He answerd nothing yet Ioues wife could put on no such raines But spake thus loosly How dar'st thou dog whom no feares containes Iâ—…no to Diana Encounter me t will proue a match of hard condition Though the great Ladie of the bow and Ioue hath set thee downe For Lion of thy sexe with gift to slaughter any Dame Thy proud will enuies yet some Dames will proue th'hadst better tame Wilde Lions vpon hils then them But if this question rests Yet vnder iudgement in thy thoughts and that thy mind contests I le make thee know it Sodainly with her left hand she catcht Both Cynthias palmes lockt fingers fast and with her right she snatcht From her faire shoulders her guilt bow and laughing laid it on About her eares and euery way her turnings seisd vpon Till all her arrowes scatterd out her quiuer emptied quite And as a Doue that flying a Hauke takes to some rocke her flight Simile And in his hollow breasts sits safe her fate not yet to die So fled she mourning and her bow left there Then Mercurie His opposite thus vndertooke Latona at no hand Will I bide combat t is a worke right dangerous to stand At difference with the wiues of Ioue Go therefore freely vant Amongst the deities th' hast subdu'd and made thy combattant Yeeld with plaine powre She answer'd not but gather'd vp the bow And shafts falne from her daughters side retiring Vp did go Diana to Ioues starrie hall her incorrupted
for friend reade fiend p. 263. for the spritely r. their spritely in the same p. for were r. where p. 264. for larg'd r. lardge p. 266. in the Comment for to which r. which in the same for the eares r. th' eares p. 284. for steeles r. seeles p. 290. for with blinde r. which blinde p. 293. for hands r. sands p. 303 for all the feete r. at the feete p. 306. for fetcht r. â—…tch p. 324. at the end for Teucer reade Teucers THE FIRST BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT APollos Priest to th' Argiue sleete doth bring Gifts for his daughter prisoner to the King For which her tenderd freedome he intreats But being dismist with contumelious threats At Phoebus hands by vengefull prayer he seekes To haue a plague inflicted on the Greekes Which had Achilles doth a Councell cite Emboldning Chalchas in the Kings despite To tell the truth why they were punisht so From hence their fierce and deadly strife did grow For wrong in which Aeacides so raues Aeacides sirname of Achilles being the grand child of Aeacus That Goddesse Thetis from her throne of waues Ascending heauen of Ioue assistance wonne To plague the Greekes by absence of her Sonne And make the Generall himselfe repent To wrong so much his Armies Ornament This found by Iuno she with Ioue contends Till Vulcan with heauens cup the quarell ends Another Argument Alpha the prayer of Chryses sings The Armies plague the strife of Kings His proposition and inuocation AChilles banefull wrath resound O Goddesse that imposd Infinite sorrowes on the Greekes and many braue soules losd From breasts Heroique sent them farre to that a inuisible caue That no light comforts their lims to dogs vultures gaue To b all which Ioues will gaue effect c from whom first strife begunne Betwixt Atrides Atrides sirname of Agamemnon being son to Atreus Eris the Goddes of contention Narration king of men and Thetis godlike Sonne What God gaue Eris their command and op't that fighting veine Ioues and Latonas Sonne who fir'd against the king of men For contumelie showne his Priest infectious sicknesse sent To plague the armie and to death by troopes the souldiers went Occasiond thus Chryses the Priest came to the fleetc to buy For presents of vnualued price his daughters libertie The golden scepter and the crowne of Phoebus in his hands Proposing and made suite to all but most to the Commands Of both th' Atrides Agamemnon Menelaus called the Atrides being brothers both sonnes to Atreus who most rulde Great Atreus sonnes said he And all ye wel-grieu'd Greekes the Gods whose habitations be In heauenly houses grace your powers with Priams razed towne And grant ye happy conduct home to winne which wisht renowne Of Ioue by honouring his sonne farre-shooting Phoebus daine For these fit presents to dissoluâ—… the ransomeable chaine Chryses the Priest of Apollo to the Atrides and other Greekes Of my lou'd daughters seruitude The Greekes entirely gaue Glad d acclamations for signe that their desires would haue The graue Priest reuerenc'd and his gifts of so much price embrac'd The Generall yet bore no such mind but viciously disgrac'd With violent termes the Priest and said Doterd auoid our fleete Where lingring be not found by me nor thy returning feete Agamemnons 〈◊〉 repulse of Chryses Let euer visite vs againe lest nor thy Godheads crowne Nor scepter saue thee Her thou seekst I still will hold mine owne Till age defloure her In our court at Argos farre transferd From her lou'd countrie she shall plie her web and see * See my bed made it may be englisht the word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies coÌ„tra stan tem as standing of one side opposite to another on the other side which yet others 〈◊〉 capessentem adornantem which since it showes best to a reader I follow The prayer of Chryses to Apollo prepard With all fit ornaments my bed Incense me then no more But if thou wilt be safe be gone This said the sea-beate shore Obeying his high will the Priest trod off with haste and feare And walking silent till he left farre off his enemies eare Phoebus faire-haird Latonas sonne he stird vp with a vow To this sterne purpose Heare thou God that bear'st the siluer bow That Chrysa guard'st rulest Tenedos with strong hand and the e round Of Cilla most diuine dost walke O Smintheus if crownd With thankfull offerings thy rich Phane I euer saw or fir'd Fat thighs of oxen and of goates to thee this grace desir'd Vouchsafe to me paines for my teares let these rude Greekes repay Forc'd with thy arrowes Thus he praid and Phoebus heard him pray And vext at heart downe from the tops of steepe heauen stoopt his bow And quiuer couerd round his hands did on his shoulders throw And of the angrie deitie the arrowes as he mou'd Ratl'd about him Like the night he rang'd the host and rou'd Apart the fleete set terribly with his hard-loosing hand His siluer bow twang'd and his shafts did first the Mules command And swift hounds then the Greekes themselues his deadly arrowes shot Apollo sends the plague among the Greekes The fires of death went neuer out nine daies his shafts flew hot About the armie and the tenth Achilles cald a court Of all the Greeks heauens * Iuno white-arm'd Queene who euery where cut short Beholding her lou'd Greeks by death suggested it and he All met in one arose and said Atrides Now I see Achilles to Aâ—… We must be wandering againe flight must be still our stay If flight can saue vs now at once sicknesse and battell lay Such strong hand on vs. Let vs aske some Prophet Priest or proue Some dreame interpreter for dreames are often sent from Ioue Why Phoebus is so much incenst If vnperformed vowes He blames in vs or Hecatombs and if these knees he bowes To death may yeeld his graues no more but offering all supply Of sauours burnt from lambes and goates auert his feruent eye And turne his temperate Thus he sate and then stood vp to them Chalcas sirnam'd Thestorides of Augures the supreme Calchas the Prophet He knew things present past to come and rulde the Equinpage Of th'Argiue fleete to Ilion for his Prophetique rage Giuen by Apollo who well seene in th' ill they felt proposd This to Achilles Ioues belou'd would thy charge see disclosd Calchas to Achilles The secret of Apollos wrath then couenant and take oth To my discouerie that with words and powrefull actions both Thy strength will guard the truth in me because I well conceiue That he whose Empire gouerns all whom all the Grecians giue Confirm'd obedience will be mou'd and then you know the state Of him that moues him When a king hath once markt for his hate A man inferior though that day his wrath seemes to digest Th' offence he takes yet euermore he rakes vp in
take in person from thy tent Bright-cheekt Briseis and so tell thy strength how eminent My powre is being compar'd with thine all other making feare To vaunt equalitie with me or in this proud kind beare Their beards against me Thetis sonne at this stood vext his heart Achilles angriâ—… with â—…non Bristled his bosome and two waies drew his discursiue part If from his thigh his sharpe sword drawne he should make roome about Atrides person slaughtring him or sit his anger out And curb his spirit While these thoughts striu'd in his bloud and mind And he his sword drew downe from heauen Athenia * 〈◊〉 stoopt and shind About his temples being sent by th'Iuorie-wristed queene Saturnia who out of her heart had euer louing bene And carefull for the good of both She stood behind and tooke Achilles by the yellow curles and onely gaue her looke To him apparance not a man of all the rest could see He turning backe his eye amaze strooke euerie facultie Yet straight he knew her by her eyes so terrible they were Sparkling with ardor and thus spake Thou seed of Iupiter Achilles to 〈◊〉 Why com'st thou to behold his pride that bosts our Emperie Then witnesse with it my reuenge and see that insolence die That liues to wrong me She replied I come from heauen to see Thy anger settled if thy soule will vse her soueraigntie 〈◊〉 to Achilles In fit reflection I am sent from Iuno whose affects Stand heartily inclind to both Come giue vs both respects And ceasse contention draw no sword vse words and such as may Be bitter to his pride but iust for trust in what I say A time shall come when thrice the worth of that he forceth now He shall propose for recompence of these wrongs therefore throw Reines on thy passions and serue vs. He answerd Though my heart Burne in iust anget yet my soule must conquer th' angrie part Achilles Palladi hoc est rationi obsequitur And yeeld you conquest Who subdues his earthly part for heauen Heauen to his prayres subdues his wish This said her charge was giuen Fit honor in his siluer hilt he held his able hand And forc't his broad sword vp and vp to heauen did reascend Minerua who in Ioues high roofe that beares the rough shield tooke Her place with other deities She gone againe forsooke Patience his passion and no more his silence could confine His wrath that this broad language gaue Thou euer steep't in wine Achilles againe infurie Dogs-face with heart but of a Haâ—…t that nor in th' open eye Of fight dar'st thrust into a prease nor with our noblest lie In secret ambush These works seeme too full of death for thee T is safer farre in th' open host to dare an iniurie To any crosser of thy lust Thou subiect-eating king Base spirits thou gouernst or this wrong had bene the last fowle thing Thou euer author'dst yet I vow and by a great oath sweare Euen by this scepter that as this neuer againe shall beare Greene leaues or branches nor increase with any growth his sise This simile Virgil directly translates Nor did since first it left the hils and had his faculties And ornaments bereft with iron which now to other end Iudges of Greece beare and their lawes receiu'd from Ioue defend For which my oath to thee is great So whensoeuer need Shall burne with thirst of me thy host no prayres shall euer breed Affection in me to their aid though well deserued woes Afflict thee for them when to death man-slaughtring Hector throwes Whole troopes of them and thou torment'st thy vext mind with conceit Of thy rude rage now and his wrong that most deseru'd the right Of all thy armie Thus he threw his scepter gainst the ground With golden studs stucke and tooke seate Atrides breast was drownd In rising choler Vp to both sweet-spoken Nestor stood The cunning Pylian Orator whose tongue powrd foorth a flood Nestors age and eloquâ—…e Of more-then-hony sweet discourse two ages were increast Of diuerse-languag'd men all borne in his time and deceast In sacred Pylos where he reignd amongst the third-ag'd men He well seene in the world aduisd and thus exprest it then O Gods our Greeke earth will be drownd in iust teares rapefull Troy Nesâ—…or to Achil les and Agameâ—…n Herking and all his sonnes will make as iust a mocke and ioy Of these disiunctions if of you that all our host excell In counsell and in skill of fight they heare this Come repell These yong mens passions y' are not both put both your yeares in one So old as I I liu'd long since and was companion With men superior to you both who yet would euer heare My counsels with respect My eyes yet neuer witnesse were Decorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor euer will be of such men as then delighted them Perithous Exadius and god-like Polypheme Ceneus and Dryas prince of men Aegean Theseus A man like heauens immortals formd all all most vigorous Of all men that euen those daies bred most vigorous men and fought With beasts most vigorous mountain beasts for meÌ„ in strength were nought Matcht with their forces fought with them and brauely fought them downe Yet euen with these men I conuerst being cald to the renowne Of their societies by their suites from Pylos farre to fight In th' Asian kingdome and I fought to a degree of might That helpt euen their mights against such as no man now would dare To meete in conflict yet euen these my counsels still would heare And with obedience crowne my words Giue you such palme to them T is better then to wreath your wraths Atrides giue not streame To all thy powre nor force his prise but yeeld her still his owne As all men else do Nor do thou encounter with thy crowne Great sonne of Peleus since no king that euer Ioue allowd Grace of a scepter equals him Suppose thy nerues endowd With strength superior and thy birth a verie Goddesse gaue Yet he of force is mightier since what his owne nerues haue Is amplified with iust command of many other King of men Command thou then thy selfe and I with my prayres will obtaine Grace of Achilles to subdue his furie whose parts are Worth our intreatie being chiefe checke to all our ill in warre All this good father said the king is comely and good right Agamemnon to Nestor But this man breakes all such bounds he affects past all men height All would in his powre hold all make his subiects giue to all His hote will for their temperate law all which he neuer shall Perswade at my hands If the Gods haue giuen him the great stile Of ablest souldier made they that his licence to reuile Men with vile language Thetis soone preuented him and said Fearefull and vile I might be thought if the exactions laid Achilles to Agamemnon By all meanes on me I should beare Others
greedinesse to heare The rabble thus inclin'd Hurried together vprore seisd the high Court earth did grone Beneath the setling multitude tumult was there alone Thrise three voiciferous heralds rose to checke the rout and get Eare to their Ioue-kept Gouernors and instantly was set That huge confusion euery man set fast and clamor ceast Then stood diuine Atrides vp and in his hand comprest His scepter th'elaborate worke of fierie Mulciber The 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 Who gaue it to Saturnian Ioue Ioue to his messenger His messenger Argicides to Pelops skild in horse Pelops to Atreus chiefe of men he dying gaue it course To Prince Thyestes rich in heards Thyestes to the hand Of Agamemnon renderd it and with it the command Of many Iles and Argos all On this he leaning said O friends great sonnes of Danaus seruants of Mars Ioue laid Agamemnon to the Greekes A heauie curse on me to vow and binde it with the bent Of his high forehead that this Troy of all her people spent I should returne yet now to mocke our hopes built on his vow And charge ingloriously my flight when such an ouerthrow Of braue friends I haue authored But to his mightiest will We must submit vs that hath raz't and will be razing still Mens footsteps from so many townes because his power is most He will destroy most But how vile such and so great an hoast Will shew to future times that matcht with lesser numbers farre We flie not putting on the crowne of our so long-held warre Of which there yet appeares no end Yet should our foes and we Strike truce and number both our powers Troy taking all that be Her arm'd inhabitants and we in tens should all sit downe At our truce banquet euerie ten allow'd one of the towne To fill his feast-cup many tens would their attendant want So much I must affirme our power exceeds th' inhabitant But their auxiliarie bands those brandishers of speares From many cities drawne are they that are our hinderers Not suffering well-raisd Troy to fall Nine yeares are ended now Since Ioue our conquest vow'd and now our vessels rotten grow Our tackling failes our wiues yong sonnes sit in their doores and long For our arriuall yet the worke that should haue wreakt our wrong And made vs welcome lies vn wrought Come then as I bid all Obey and flie to our lou'd home for now nor euer shall Our vtmost take in broad-waid Troy This said the multitude Was all for home and all men else that what this would conclude Had not discouerd All the crowd was shou'd about the shore In sway like rude and raging waues rowsd with the feruent blore Simile Of th' East and South winds when they breake from Ioues clouds and are borne On rough backs of th' I carian seas or like a field of corne High growne that Zephyrs vehement gusts bring easily vnderneath And make the stiffe-vp-bristl'd eares do homage to his breath For euen so easily with the breath Atrides vsde was swaid The violent multitude To fleet with showts and disaraid All rusht and with a fogge of dust their rude feete dimd the day Each cried to other cleanse our ships come lanch aboord away The clamor of the runners home reacht heauen and then past fate The Greekes had left Troy had not then the Goddesse of estate Thus spoke to Pallas O foule shame thou vntam'd seed of Ioue Iuno to Pallas Shall thus the seas broad backe be charg'd with these our friends remoue Thus leauing Argiue Hellen here thus Priam grac't thus Troy In whose fields farre from their lou'd owne for Hellens sake the ioy And life of so much Grecian birth is vanisht take thy way T' our brasse-arm'd people speake them faire let not a man obey The charge now giuen nor lanch one ship She said and Pallas did As she commanded from the tops of heauens steepe hill she slid And straight the Greekes swist ships she reacht Vlysses like to Ioue In gifts of counsell she found out who to that base remoue Stird not a foote nor toucht a ship but grieu'd at heart to see That fault in others To him close the blue-eyd deitie Made way and said Thou wisest Greeke diuine Laertes sonne Thus flie ye homewards to your ships shall all thus headlong runne Glorie to Priam thus ye leaue glorie to all his friends If thus ye leaue her here for whom so many violent ends Haue closd your Greeke eyes and so farre from their so loued home Go to these people vse no stay with faire termes ouercome Their foule endeuour not a man a flying saile let hoice Thus spake she and Vlysses knew t was Pallas by her voice Ranne to the runners cast from him his mantle which his man And Herald graue Eurybates the Ithacensian That followd him tooke vp Himselfe to Agamemnon went His incorrupted scepter tooke his scepter of descent And with it went about the fleete What Prince or man of name He found flight-giuen he would restraine with words of gentlest blame Good sir it fits not you to flie or fare as one afraid â—…lysses temper in restraining the flight You should not onely stay your selfe but see the people staid You know not clearely though you heard the kings words yet his mind He onely tries mens spirits now and whom his trials find Apt to this course he will chastise Nor you nor I heard all He spake in councell nor durst preasse too neare our Generall Lest we incenst him to our hurt The anger of a king Is mightie he is kept of Ioue and from Ioue likewise spring His honors which out of the loue of wise Ioue he enioyes Thus he the best sort vsd the worst whose spirits brake out in noise He cudgeld with his scepter chid and said Stay wretch be still And heare thy betters thou art base and both in powre and skill Poore and vnworthie without name in counsell or in warre We must not all be kings the rule is most irregularre Where many rule one Lord one king propose to thee and he To whom wise Saturns sonne hath giuen both law and Emperie To rule the publicke is that king Thus ruling he restrain'd The hoast from flight and then againe the Councell was maintain'd With such a concourse that the shore rung with the tumult made As when the farre-resounding sea doth in his rage inuade His sandie confines whose sides grone with his inuolued waue And make his owne breast eccho sighes All sate and audience gaue Thersites onely would speake all A most disorderd store Of words he foolishly powrd out of which his mind held more Then it could manage any thing with which he could procure Laughter he neuer could containe He should haue yet bene sure To touch no kings T' oppose their states becomes not iesters parts Thersites description But he the filthiest fellow was of all that had deserts In Troyes braue siege he was squint-eyd and lame of either foote
foule disgrace Lodg'd ambuscados for their foe in some well chosen place By which he was to make returne Twise fiue and twentie men And two of them great captaines too the ambush did containe The names of those two men of rule were Mâ—…on Hâ—…mons sonne And Lycophontes Keepe-field cald the heire of Autophon By all men honord like the Gods yet these and all their friends Were sent to hell by Tydeus hand and had vntimely ends He trusting to the aid of Gods reueald by Augurie Obeying which one Chiefe he sau'd and did his life apply To be the heauie messenger of all the others deaths And that sad message with his life to Maeon he bequeaths So braue a knight was Tydeus of whom a sonne is sprong Inferiour farre in martiall deeds though higher in his tongue All this Tydides silent heard aw'd by the reuerend king Which stung hote Sthenelus with wrath who thus put forth his sting Atrides when thou know'st the truth speake what thy knowledge is And do not lie so for I know and I will bragge in this Sthenelus rough speech to Agamemnon That we are farre more able men then both our fathers were We tooke the seuen-fold ported Thebes when yet we had not there So great helpe as our fathers had and fought beneath a wall Sacred to Mars by helpe of Ioue and trusting to the fall Of happie signes from other Gods by whom we tooke the towne Vntoucht our fathers perishing there by sollies of their owne And therefore neuer more compare our fathers worth with ours Tydides frownd at this and said Suppresse thine angers pow'rs Good friend and heare why I refrain'd thou seest I am not mou'd Diomed rebukâ—…s Stheneâ—…s Against our Generall since he did but what his place behou'd Admonishing all Greekes to fight for if Troy proue our prise The honor and the ioy is his If here our ruine lies The shame and griefe for that as muâ—…h is his in greatest kinds As he then his charge weigh we ours which is our dantlesse minds Thus from his chariot amply arm'd he iumpt downe to the ground The armor of the angrie king so horribly did sound It might haue made his brauest foe let feare take downe his braues And as when with the West-wind flawes the sea thrusts vp her waues Simile One after other thicke and high vpon the groning shores First in her selfe lowd but opposd with banks and Rocks she â—…ores And all her backe in bristles set spits euerie way her some So after Diomed instantly the field was ouercome With thicke impressions of the Greekes and all the noise that grew The silence of the Greeke fight Ordring and chearing vp their men from onely leaders flew The rest went silently away you could not heare a voice Nor would haue thought in all their breasts they had one in their choice Their silence vttering their awe of them that them contrould Which made ech man keep bright his arms march fight still where he should The Troians like a sort of Ewes pend in a rich mans fold The Troians coÌ„pared to Ewâ—…s Close at his dore till all be milkt and neuer baaing hold Hearing the bleating of their lambs did all their wide host fill With showts and clamors nor obseru'd one voice one baaing still But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid Rude Mars had th'ordring of their spirits of Greeks the learned Maid Mars for the Troians Pallas for the Greekes But Terror follow'd both the hosts and flight and furious Strife The sister and the mate of Mars that spoile of humane life Discord the sistâ—…r of Marâ—… And neuer is her rage at rest at first she is but small Yet after but a little fed she growes so vast and tall Virgil the same of â—…ame That while her feet moue here in earth her forhead is in heauen And this was she that made euen then both hosts so deadly giuen Through euery troope she stalkt and stird rough sighes vp as she went But when in one field both the foes her furie did content And both came vnder reach of darts then darts and shields opposd To darts and shields strength answerd strength then swords and targets closd With swords and targets both with pikes and then did tumult rise Vp to her height then conquerors boasts mixt with the conquerds cries Earth flow'd with blood And as from hils raine waters headlong fall That all waies eate huge Ruts which met in one bed fill a vall With such a confluence of streames that on the mountaine grounds Farre off in frighted shepheards eares the bustling noise rebounds So grew their conflicts and so shew'd their scuffling to the eare With flight and clamor still commixt and all effects of feare And first renowm'd Antilochus slew fighting in the face Antilocâ—…us slue 〈◊〉 Of all Achaias formost bands with an vndanted grace Echepolus Thalysiades he was an armed man Whom on his haire-plum'd helmets crest the dart first smote then ran Into his forehead and there stucke the steele pile making way Quite through his skull a hastie night shut vp his latest day His fall was like a fight-rac't towre like which lying their dispred King Elephenor who was sonne to Chalcodon and led The valiant Abants couetous that he might first possesse His armes laid hands vpon his feet hal'd him from the preasse Of darts and Iauelins hurld at him The action of the king Elephenor drawing of the body of Echepolus is slaine by Agenor When great in heart Agenor saw he made his Iaueline sing To th 'others labor and along as he the trunke did wrest His side at which he bore his shield in bowing of his breast Lay naked and receiu'd the lance that made him lose his hold And life together which in hope of that he lost he sold. But for his sake the fight grew fierce the Troians and their foe Like wolues on one another rusht and maâ—… for man it goes The next of name that seru'd his fate great Aiax Telamoâ—… 〈◊〉 slaies Siâ—… Preferd so sadly he was heire to old Anthemion And deckt with all the flowre of youth the fruit of which yet fled Before the honourd nuptiall torch could light him to his bed His name was Symoisius For some few yeares before His mother walking downe the hill of Ida by the shore Of Syluer Symois to see her parents â—…locks with them She feeling sodainely the paines of child-birth by the streame Of that bright riuer brought him forth and so of Symois They cald him Symoisius Sweet was that birth of his To his kind parents and his growth did all their care employ And yet those rites of pietie that should haue bene his ioy To pay their honourd yeares againe in as affectionate sort He could not graciously performe his sweet life was so short Cut off with mightie Aiax lance For as his spirit put on He strooke him at his breasts right
thy cause differ farre Sonnes seldome heire their fathers worths thou canst not make his warre What thou assum'st from him is mine to be on thee imposde With this he threw an ashen dart and then Tlepolemus losde Another from his glorious hand Both at one instant flew Both strooke both wounded from his necke Sarpedons Iauelin drew Sarpedon slaugh ters 〈◊〉 The life-bloud of Tlepolemus full in the midst it fell And what he threatned th' other gaue that darknesse and that hell Sarpedons left thigh tooke the Lance it pierc't the solide bone â—…imselfe sore hurt by Tâ—…epolemus And with his raging head ranne through but Ioue preseru'd his sonne The dart yet vext him bitterly which should haue bene puld out But none considerd then so much so thicke came on the rout And fild each hand so full of cause to plie his owne defence T was held enough both falne that both were nobly caried thence Vlysses knew the euents of both and tooke it much to hart That his friends enemie should scape and in a twofold part His thoughts contended if he should pursue Sarpedons life Or take his friends wreake on his men Fate did conclude this strife By whom t was otherwise decreed then that Vlysses steele Vlysses 〈◊〉 Should end Sarpedon In this doubt Minerua tooke the wheele From fickle Chance and made his mind resolue to right his friend With that bloud he could surest draw Then did Reuenge extend Her full powre on the multitude Then did he neuer misse Alastor Halius Chromius Noemon Pritanis Alcander and a number more he slue and more had slaine If Hector had not vnderstood whose powre made in amaine And strooke feare through the Grecian troupes but to Sarpedon gaue Hope of full rescue who thus cried O Hector helpe and saue Sarpedon to Hector My body from the spoile of Greece that to your loued towne My friends may see me borne and then let earth possesse her owne In this soyle for whose sake I left my countries for no day Shall euer shew me that againe nor to my wife display And yong hope of my Name the ioy of my much thirsted sight All which I left for Troy for them let Troy then do this right To all this Hector giues no word but greedily he striues With all speed to repell the Greekes and shed in floods their liues And left Sarpedon but what face soeuer he put on Of following the common cause he left this Prince alone For his particular grudge because so late he was so plaine In his reproofe before the host and that did he retaine How euer for example sake he would not shew it then And for his shame to since t was iust But good Sarpedons men Venturd themselues and forc't him off and set him vnderneath The goodly Beech of Iupiter where now they did vnsheath The Ashen lance strong Pelagon his friend most lou'd most true Enforc't it from his maimed thigh with which his spirit flew Sarpedon in a trance And darknesse ouer-flew his eyes yet with a gentle gale That round about the dying Prince coole Boreas did exhale He was reuiu'd recomforted that else had grieu'd and dyed All this time flight draue to the fleet the Argiues who applyed No weapon gainst the proud pursuite nor euer turnd a head They knew so well that Mars pursude and dreadfull Hector led Then who was first who last whose liues the Iron Mars did seise And Priams Hector Helenus surnam'd Oenopides Good 〈◊〉 and Orestes skild in managing of horse Bold Oenomaus and a man renownd for martiall force Trechus the great Aetolian Chiefe Oresbius that did weare The gawdy Myter studied wealth extremely and dwelt neare Th' Athlantique lake Cephisides in Hyla by whose seate The good men of Boeotia dwelt This slaughter grew so great It flew to heauen Saturnia discernd it and cried out To Pallas O vnworthy sight to see a field so fought And breake our words to Spartas king that Ilion should be rac'â—… And he returne reueng'd when thus we see his Greekes disgrac't And beare the harmfull rage of Mars Come let vs vse our care That we dishonor not our powers Minerua was as yare As she at the despight of Troy Her golden-bridl'd steeds Then Saturns daughter brought abrode and Hebe she proceeds T' addresse her chariot instantly she giues it either wheele Beam'd with eight Spokes of sounding brasse the Axle-tree was steele 〈◊〉 chariot The Felffes incorruptible gold their vpper bands of brasse Their matter most vnuallued their worke of wondrous grace The Naues in which the Spokes were driuen were all with siluer bound The chariots seate two hoopes of gold and siluer strengthned round Edg'd with a gold and siluer fringe the beame that lookt before Was massie siluer on whose top geres all of gold it wore And golden Poitrils Iâ—…no mounts and her hoâ—…e horses rein'd That thirsted for contention and still of peace complaind Minerua wrapt her in the robe that curiously she woue With glorious colours as she sate on th' Azure floore of Ioue Pallas armed And wore the armes that he puts on bent to the tearefull field About her brode-spred shoulders hung his huge and horrid shield Aegis Ioâ—…es â—…ield described Fring'd round with euer-fighting Snakes through it was drawne to life The miseries and deaths of fight in it frownd bloodie Strife In it shin'd sacred Fortitude in it fell Pursuit flew In it the monster Gorgons head in which held out to view Were all the dire ostents of Ioue on her big head she plac't His foure-plum'd glittering caske of gold so admirably vast It would a hundred garrisons of souldiers comprehend Then to her shining chariot her vigorous feet ascend And in her violent hand she takes his graue huge solid lance With which the conquests of her wrath she vseth to aduance And ouerturne whole fields of men to shew she was the seed Of him that thunders Then heauens Queene to vrge her horses speed The thrâ—…e Howâ—…s Guardians of heauen gates Takes vp the scourge and forth they flie the ample gates of heauen Rung and flew open of themselues the charge whereof is giuen With all Olympus and the skie to the distinguisht Howres That cleare or hide it all in clowds or powre it downe in showres This way their scourge-obeying horse made haste and soone they wonne The top of all the topfull heauens where aged Saturns sonne Sate seuerd from the other Gods then staid the white-arm'd Queene Her steeds and askt of Ioue if Mars did not incense his spleene With his foule deeds in ruining so many and so great In the Command and grace of Greece and in so rude a heate At which she said Apollo laught and Venus who still sue To that mad God for violence that neuer iustice knew For whose impietie she askt if with his wished loue Her selfe might free the field of him He bade her rather moue Athenia to the charge she sought who vsd
of old to be The bane of Mars and had as well the gift of spoile as he This grace she slackt not but her horse scourg'd that in nature flew Betwixt the cope of starres and earth And how farre at a view A man into the purple Sea may from a hill descrie * How farre â—… heauenly 〈◊〉 took at one reach or stroke in galloping or running wherein Homers â—…ind is farre from being exprest in his Inter pretors al taking it for how far Deities were borne from the earth when instaÌ„tly they came downe to earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. tantum vno saltu conficiunt vel tantuÌ„ subâ—…ulum progrediuntur deorum altizoni e qui c. vno be ing vnderstood and the horses swiftnes highly exprest The sence otherwise is senslesse and contradictorie So farre a high-neighing horse of heauen at euerie iumpe would flie Arriu'd at Troy where broke in cutls the two-floods mixe their force Scamander and bright Simois Saturnia staid her horse Tooke them from chariot and a clowd of mightie depth diffusd About them and the verdant bankes of Symois produc'd In nature what they * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ilus is the originall word which Sea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 learnedly asking how the horse came by it on those bankes when the text tels him 〈◊〉 produced it being willing to expresse by 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of that 〈◊〉 If not I hope the Dâ—…ities 〈◊〉 euer command it eate in heauen Then both the Goddesses Marcht like a paire of timorous Doues in hasting their accesse To th' Argiue succour Being arriu'd where both the most and best Were heapt together shewing all like Lyons at a feast Of new slaine carkasses or Bores beyond encounter strong There found they Diomed and there midst all th' admiring throng Saturnia put on Stentors shape that had a brazen voice And spake as lowd as fiftie men like whom she made a noise And chid the Argiues O ye Greekes in name and outward rite But Princes onely not in act what scandall what despight Vse ye to honor all the time the great Aeacides Was conuersant in armes your foes durst not a foote addrâ—…sse Without their ports so much they feard his lance that all controld And now they out-ray to your fleete This did with shame make bold The generall spirit and powre of Greece when with particular note Of their disgrace Athenia made Tydeus issue hote She found him at his chariot refreshing of his wound Inflicted by slaine Pandarus his sweat did so abound It much annoid him vnderneath the brode belt of his shield With which and tired with his toile his soule could hardly yeeld His bodie motion With his hand he lifted vp the belt And wip't away that clotterd blood the feruent wound did melt Minerua leand against his horse and neare their withers laid Her sacred hand then spake to him Beleeue me Diomed 〈◊〉 to Diâ—…med Tydeus exampl'd not himselfe in thee his sonne not Great But yet he was a souldier a man of so much heate That in his Ambassie for Thebes when I forbad his mind To be too ventrous and when Feasts his heart might haue declind With which they welcom'd him he made a challenge to the best And foild the best I gaue him aide because the rust of rest That would haue seisd another mind he sufferd not but vsd The triall I made like a man and their soft feasts refusd Yet when I set thee on thou faint'st I guard thee charge exhort That I abetting thee thou shouldst be to the Greekes a Fort And a dismay to Ilion yet thou obey'st in nought Affraid or slouthfull or else both henceforth renounce all thought Diomed to Palâ—… That euer thou wert Tydeus sonne He answerd her I know Thou art Ioues daughter and for that in all iust dutie owe Thy speeches reuerence yet affirme ingenuously that feare Doth neither hold me spiritlesse nor sloth I onely beare Thy charge in zealous memorie that I should neuer warre With any blessed Deitie vnlesse exceeding farre The limits of her rule the Queene that gouerns Chamber sport Should preasse to field and her thy will enioynd my lance to hurt But he whose powre hath right in armes I knew in person here Besides the Cyprian Deitie and therefore did forbeare And here haue gatherd in retreit these other Greekes you see With note and reuerence of your charge My dearest mind said she 〈◊〉 againe What then was fit is chang'd T is true Mars hath iust rule in warre But iust warre otherwise he raues not fights he 's alterd farre What 〈◊〉 wâ—…rre is He vow'd to Iuno and my selfe that his aide should be vsd Against the Troians whom it guards and therein he abusd His rule in armes infring'd his word and made his warre vniust He is inconstant impious mad Resolue then firmly trust My aide of thee against his worst or any Deitie Adde scourge to thy free horse charge home he fights perfidiously This said as that braue king her knight with his horse-guiding friend Were set before the chariot for signe he should descend That she might serue for wagonnesse she pluckt the waggoner backe And vp into his seate she mounts the Beechen tree did cracke Beneath the burthen and good cause it bore so huge a thing A Goddesse so repleate with powre and such a puissant king She snatcht the scourge vp and the reines and shut her heauenly looke In hels vast helme from Mars his eyes and full careere she tooke At him who then had newly slaine the mightie Periphas Renown'd sonne to Ochesius and farre the strongest was Of all th'Aetolians to whose spoile the bloodie God was run But when this man-plague saw th'approch of God-like Tydeus sonne He let his mightie Periphas lie and in full charge he ran The combâ—… of Mars and 〈◊〉 At Diomed and he at him both neare the God began And thirstie of his blood he throwes abrazen lance that beares Full on the breast of Diomed aboue the reines and geres But Pallas tooke it on her hand and strooke the eager lance Beneath the chariot then the knight of Pallas doth aduance And cast a Iaueline off at Mars Minerua sent it on Mars 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 That where his arming girdle girt his bellie graz'd vpon Iust at the rim and rancht the flesh the lance againe he got But left the wound that stung him so he laid out such a throat As if nine or ten thousand men had bray'd out all their breaths In one confusion hauing felt as many sodaine deaths The rore made both the hosts amaz'd Vp flew the God to heauen And with him was through all the aire as blacke a tincture driuen To Diomeds eyes as when the earth halfe chok't with smoking heate Of gloomie clouds that stifle men and pitchie tempests threat Vsherd with horrid gusts of wind with such blacke vapors plum'd Mars flew t' Olympus and brode heauen and there his place resum'd
their race haue more fruite then the dust This iust cause turnd his brothers mind who violently thrust The prisoner from him in whose guts the king of men imprest His ashen lance which pitching downe his foote vpon the brest Of him that vpwards fell he drew then Nestor spake to all O friends and household men of Mars let not your pursuit fall Kestor to the Greekes With those ye fell for present spoile nor like the king of men Let any scape vnfeld but on dispatch them all and then Ye shall haue time enough to spoile This made so strong their chace That all the Troians had bene housd and neuer turnd a face Had not the Priamist Helenus an Augure most of name Hellenus to Hector and Aeneas Will'd Hector and Aeneas thus Hector Anchises fame Since on your shoulders with good cause the weightie burthen lies Of Troy and Lycia being both of noblest faculties For counsell strength of hand and apt to take chance at her best In euery turne she makes stand fast and suffer not the rest By any way searcht out for scape to come within the ports Lest fled into their wiues kind armes they there be made the sports Of the pursuing enemie exhort and force your bands To turne their faces and while we employ our ventur'd hands Though in a hard condition to make the other stay Hector go thou to Ilion and our Queene mother pray To take the richest robe she hath the same that 's chiefly deare To her Court fancie with which Iemme assembling more to her Of Troys chiefe Matrones let all go for feare of all our fates To Pallas temple take the key vnlocke the leauie gates Enter and reach the highest towre where her Palladium stands And on it put the precious veile with pure and reuerend hands And vow to her besides the gift a sacrificing stroke Of twelue fat Heifers of a yeare that neuer felt the yoke Most answering to her maiden state if she will pittie vs Our towne our wiues our yongest ioyes and him that plagues them thus Take from the conflict Diomed that Furie in a fight That true sonne of great Tydeus that cunning Lord of Flight Whom I esteeme the strongest Greeke for we haue neuer fled Achilles that is Prince of men and whom a Goddesse bred Like him his furie flies so high and all mens wraths commands Hector intends his brothers will but first through all his bands He made quicke way encouraging and all to feare affraide All turnd their heads and made Greece turne Slaughter stood still dismaid On their parts for they thought some God falne from the vault of starres Was rusht into the Ilions aide they made such dreadfull warres Thus Hector toyling in the waues and thrusting backe the flood Hector to the Troians Of his ebb'd forces thus takes leaue So so now runs your blood In his right current Forwards now Troians and farre cald friends Awhile hold out till for successe to this your braue amends I haste to Ilion and procure our Counsellours and wiues To pray and offer Hecatombs for their states in our liues Then faire-helm'd Hector turnd to Troy and as he trode the field How Hector left the field The blacke Buls hide that at his backe he wore about his shield In the extreme circumference was with his gate so rockt That being large it both at once his necke and ankles knockt And now betwixt the hosts were met Hippolochus braue sonne The encounter of Diomed and Glaucus Glaucus who in his verie looke hope of some wonder wonne And little Tydeus mightie heire who seeing such a man Offer the field for vsuall blowes with wondrous words began What art thou strongst of mortall men that putst so farre before Diomed to Glaucâ—… Whom these fights neuer shew'd mine eyes they haue bene euermore Sonnes of vnhappie parents borne that came within the length Of this Minerua-guided lance and durst close with the strength That she inspires in me If heauen be thy diuine abode And thou a Deitie thus inform'd no more with any God Will I change lances the strong sonne of Drias did not liue Long after such a conflict dar'd who godlesly did driue Nisaeus Nurses through the hill made sacred to his name And cald Nissâ—…ius with a goade he puncht each furious dame And made them euery one cast downe their greene and leauie speares This t'homicide Lycurgus did and those vngodly feares He put the Froes in seisd their God Euen Bacchus he did driue From his Nisseius who was faine with huge exclaimes to diue Into the Ocean Thetis there in her bright bosome tooke The flying Deitie who so feard Lycurgus threats he shooke For which the freely-liuing Gods so highly were incenst That Saturns great sonne strooke him blind and with his life dispenc't But small time after all because th'immortals lou'd him not Nor lou'd him since he striu'd with them and his end hath begot Feare in my powres to fight with heauen but if the fruits of earth Nourish thy bodie and thy life be of our humane birth Come neare that thou maist soone arriue on that life-bounding shore To which I see thee hoise such saile Why dost thou so explore Glaucuâ—… his wor thie answer to Diomed and his â—…edegree drawne euen from Sysipâ—…us Said Glaucus of what race I am when like the race of leaues The race of man is that deserues no question nor receiues My being any other breath The wind in Autumne strowes The earth with old leaues then the Spring the woods with new endowes And so death scatters men on earth so life puts out againe Mans leauie issue but my race if like the course of men Thou seekst in more particular termes t is this to many knowne In midst of Argos nurse of horse there stands a walled towne Ephyré where the Mansion house of Sysiphus did stand The historie of Bellerophon Of Sysiphus Aeolides most wise of all the land Glaucus was sonne to him and he begat Bellerophon Whose bodie heauen endued with strength and put a beautie on Exceeding louely Prâ—…tus yet his cause of loue did hate And banisht him the towne he might he ruld the Argiue state The vertue of the one Iouâ—… plac't beneath the others powre His exile grew since he denied to be the Paramour Of faire Antâ—…ta Prâ—…tus wife who felt a raging fire Of secret loue to him but he whom wisedome did inspire As well as prudence one of them aduising him to shunne The danger of a Princesse loue the other not to runne Within the danger of the Gods the act being simply ill Still entertaining thoughts diuine subdu'd the earthly still She rul'd by neither of his wits preferd her lust to both And false to Prâ—…tus would seeme true with this abhorr'd vntroth Praetus or die thy selfe said she or let Bellerophon die Bellerephâ—…ntis literaeâ—… Ad. Eras. â—…hu long speech many Critickes taxâ—… 〈◊〉 vntimâ—…ly being as they take 〈◊〉
in the heaâ—… of fight Hier Vidas a late obseruer be ingâ—… eagrest against Homer whose ignorance in this I cannot but note and proue to you for besides the authority office of a Poet to vary and quicken hiâ—… Poem with these episods somtimes beyond the leasure of their actions the Critick notes not how far his forerunner preueâ—…ts his worst as far and sets downe his speâ—…ch at the sodain straÌ„ge turning of the Troian field set on a litle before by Hector and that so fiercely it made an admi ring stand amoÌ„g the Grecians therein gaue fit time for these great captaines to vtter their admirations the whole field in that part being to stand like their Commanders And then how full of decorum this gallant shew and speech was to sound vnderstandings I leaue onely to such and let our Criticks go câ—…uill He vrg'd dishonour to thy bed which since I did denie He thought his violence should grant and sought thy shame by force The king incenst with her report resolu'd vpon her course But doubted how it should be runne he shund his death direct Holding a way so neare not safe and plotted the effect By sending him with letters seald that opened touch his life To Rheuns king of Lycia and father to his wife He went and happily he went the Gods walkt all his way And being arriu'd in Lycia where Xanthus doth display The siluer ensignes of his waues the king of that brode land Receiu'd him with a wondrous free and honourable hand Nine daies he feasted him and kild an Oxe in euery day In thankfull sacrifice to heauen for his faire guest whose stay With rosie fingers brought the world the tenth wel-welcomd morne And then the king did moue to see the letters he had borne From his lou'd sonne in law which seene he wrought thus their conten's Chymâ—…ra the inuincible he sent him to conuince Sprung from no man but meere diuine a Lyons shape before Behind a dragons in the midst a Gotes shagg'd forme she bore And flames of deadly feruencie flew from her breath and eyes Yet her he slue his confidence in sacred prodigies Renderd him victor Then he gaue his second conquest way Agâ—…inst the famous Solymi when he himselfe would say Reporting it he enterd on a passing vigorous fight His third huge labour he approu'd against a womans spight That fild a field of Amazons be ouercame them all Then set they on him slie Deceipt when Force had such a fall An ambush of the strongest men that spacious Lycia bred Was lodg'd for him whom he lodg'd sure they neuer raisd a head His deeds thus shewing him deriu'd from some Celestiall race The king detaind and made amends with doing him the grace Of his faire daughters Princely gift and with her for a dowre Gaue halfe his kingdome and to this the Lycians on did powre More then was giuen to any king a goodly planted field In some parts thicke of groues and woods the rest rich crops did yeeld This field the Lycians futurely of future wandrings there And other errors of their Prince in the vnhappie Rere Of his sad life the Errâ—…nt cald the Princesse brought him forth Three children whose ends grieu'd him more the more they were of worth Isander and Hippolochus and faire Laodomy With whom euen Iupiter himselfe left heauen it selfe to lie And had by her the man at armes Sarpedon cald diuine The Gods thâ—…n left him lest a man should in their glories shine Sâ—…rpedons birth And set against him for his sonne Isandrus in a strife Against the valiant Solymi Mars reft of light and life Laodamia being enuied of all the Goddesses The golden-bridle-handling Queene the maiden Patronesse Slue with an arrow and for this he wandred euermore Alone through his Aleian field and fed vpon the core Of his sad bosome flying all the loth'd consorts of men Yet had he one suruiu'd to him of those three childeren Hippolochus the root of me who sent me here with charge That I should alwaies beare me well and my deserts enlarge Beyond the vulgar lest I sham'd my race that farre exceld All that Ephyras famous towres or ample Lycia held This is my stocke and this am I. This cheard Tydides heart Who pitcht his speare downe leand and talkt in this affectionate part Certesse in thy great Ancetor and in mine owne thou art Diomedâ—… answer to 〈◊〉 A guest of mine right ancient king Oeneus twentie daies Detaind with feasts Bellerophon whom all the world did praise Betwixt whom mutuall gifts were giuen my Grandsiâ—…e gaue to thine A girdle of Phoenician worke impurpl'd wondrous fine Thine gaue a two-neckt Iugge of gold which though I vse not here Yet still it is my gemme at home But if our fathers were Familiar or each other knew I know not since my sire Left me a child at siege of Thebes where he left his lifes fire But let vs proue our Grandsires sonnes and be each others guests To Lycia when I come do thou receiue thy friend with feasts Peloponnesus with the like shall thy wisht presence greet Meane space shun we each other here though in the preasse we meet There are enow of Troy beside and men enough renownd To right my powres whom euer heauen shâ—…ll let my lance confound So are there of the Greeks for thee kill who thou canst and now For signe of amitie twixt vs and that all these may know We glorie in th'hospitious rites our Grandsires did commend Change we our armes before them all From horse then Both descend Ioyne hands giue faith and take and then did Iupiter * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—…entem â—…demit Iup. the text hath it whicâ—…â—…nely I alter of all â—…o mers originall since Plutarch against the Stoicks excuses this supposed fâ—…lly in Glâ—…ucus Spond likewise encâ—…uvaging my alterations which I vse for the louâ—…d and simple Nobility of the free exchange in Glaucus contrarie to others that for the supposed fâ—…lly in Glâ—…us turnd his change into a Proâ—…erb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 goldeÌ„ oâ—… 〈◊〉 Priâ—… Court elate The mind of Glaucus who to shew his reuerence to the state Of vertue in his grandsires heart and gratulate beside The offer of so great a friend exchang'd in that good pride Curets of gold for those of brasse that did on Diomed shine One of a hundred Oxens price the other but of nine By this had Hector reacht the ports of Scaea and the tow'rs About him flockt the wiues of Troy the children paramours Enquiring how their husbands did their fathers brothers loues He stood not then to answer them but said It now behoues Ye should go all â—…'implore the aide of heauen in a distresse Of great effect and imminent Then hasted he accesse To Priams goodly builded Court which round about was runne With walking porches galleries to keepe off raine and Sunne Within of one side on a rew of sundrie colourd stones Fiftie faire lodgings were built
watch be set And euerie court of guard held strong so when the morne doth wet The high raisd battlements of Troy Idaeus shall be sent To th'Argiue fleet and Atreus sonnes t' vnfold my sonnes intent From whose fact our contention springs and if they will obtaine Respit from heate of fight till fire consume our souldiers slaine And after our most fatall warre let vs importune still Till Ioue the conquest haue disposd to his vnconquer'd will All heard and did obey the king and in their quarters all That were to set the watch that night did to their suppers fall Idaeus to the Grecian flee◅ Idaeus in the morning went and th'Achiue Peeres did find In counsell at Atrides ship his audience was assignd And in the midst of all the kings the vocall Herald said Idaeus to the Greekes Atrides my renowned king and other kings his aid Propose by me in their commands the offers Paris makes From whose ioy all our woes proceed he Princely vndertakes That all the wealth he brought from Greece would he had died before He will with other added wealth for your amends restore But famous Menelaus wife he still meanes to enioy Though he be vrg'd the contrarie by all the Peeres of Troy And this besides I haue in charge that if it please you all They wish both sides may ceasse from warre that rites of funerall May on their bodies be performd that in the fields lie slaine And after to the will of Fate renue the fight againe All silence held at first at last Tydides made reply Diomed do Idaeus Let no man take the wealth or Dame for now a childs weake eye May see the imminent blacke end of Priams Emperie This sentence quicke and briefly giuen the Greeks did all admire Then said the King Herald thou hear'st in him the voice entire Agvmemnon to Idaeus Of all our Peeres to answer thee for that of Priams sonne But for our burning of the dead by all meanes I am wonne To satisfie thy king therein without the slendrest gaine Made of their spoiled carkasses but freely being slaine They shall be all consumd with fire to witnesse which I cite High thundring Ioue that is the king of Iunos beds delight With this he held his scepter vp to all the skie thron'd powres And graue Idaeus did returne to sacred Ilions towres Where Ilians and Dardanians did still their counsels plie Expecting his returne he came and told his Legacie All whirlewind like assembled then some bodies to transport Some to hew trees On th' other part the Argiues did exhort Their souldiers to the same affaires then did the new fir'd Sunne Smite the brode fields ascending heauen aud th' Ocean smooth did runne When Greece and Troy mixt in such peace you scarce could either know Then washt they off their blood and dust and did warme teares bestow Vpon the slaughterd and in Carres conueid them from the field Priam commanded none should mourne but in still silence yeeld Their honord carkasses to fire and onely grieue in heart All burnd to Troy Troyes friends retire to fleet the Grecian part Yet doubtfull night obscur'd the earth the day did not appeare When round about the funerall pile the Grecians gatherd were The pile they circled with a tombe and by it raisd a wall High towres to guard the fleet and them and in the midst of all They built strong gates through which the horse and chariots passage had Without the rampire a brode dike long and profound they made On which they Pallesados pitcht and thus the Grecians wrought Their huge workes in so little time were to perfection brought That all Gods by the Lightner set the frame thereof admir'd Mongst whom the earthquake-making God this of their King enquir'd Father of Gods will any man of all earths grassie sphere Neptune to I◅iter Aske any of the Gods consents to any actions there If thou wilt see the shag-haird Greekes with headstrong labours frame So huge a worke and not to vs due offrings first enflame As farre as white Auroras dewes are sprinkled through the aire Fame will renowne the hands of Greece for this diuine affaire Men will forget the sacred worke the Sunne and I did raise For king Laomedon bright Troy and this will beare the praise Ioue was extremely mou'd with him and said What words are these Ioue to Neptune Thou mightie shaker of the earth thou Lord of all the seas Some other God of farre lesse powre might hold conceipts dismaid With this rare Grecian stratageme and thou rest well apaid The fortification that inthe twelft Booke is razed For it will glorifie thy name as farre as light extends Since when these Greekes shall see againe their natiue soile and friends The bulwarke battred thou maist quite deuoure it with thy waues And couer with thy fruitlesse sands this fatall shore of graues That what their fierie industries haue so diuinely wrought In raising it in razing it thy powre will proue it nought Thus spake the Gods among themselues set was the feruent Sunne And now the great worke of the Greeks was absolutely done Then slue they Oxen in their tents and strength with food reuiu'd When out of Lemnos a great fleete of odorous wine arriu'd A fleete of wine of a thousand tun sent by Euneus king of Lēnos Iasons son Sent by Euneus Iasons sonne borne of Hypsiphile The fleete containd a thousand tunne which must transported be To Atreus sons as he gaue charge whose merchandize it was The Greeks bought wine for shining steele and some for sounding brasse Some for Oxe hides for Oxen some and some for prisoners A sumptuous banquet was prepar'd and all that night the Peeres And faire-haird Greeks consum'd in feast so Troians and their aide And all the night Ioue thunderd lowd pale feare all thoughts dismaide While they were gluttonous in earth Ioue wrought their banes in heauen They pourd full cups vpon the ground and were to offrings driuen In stead of quaffings and to drinke none durst attempt before In solemne sacrifice they did almightie Ioue adore Then to their rests they all repaird bold zeale their feare bereau'd And sodaine sleepes refreshing gift securely they receiu'd The end of the seuenth booke THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT VVHen Ioue to all the Gods had giuen command That none to either host should helpfull stand To Ida he descends and sees from thence Iuno and Pallas haste the Greeks defence Whose purpose his command by Iris giuen Doth interuent then came the silent Euen When Hector chargde fires should consume the night Lest Greeks in darkenesse tooke suspected flight Another Argument In Theta gods a Counsell haue Troyes conquest glorious Hectors Braue THe chearfull Ladie of the light deckt in her saffron robe Periphrasis of the Morning Disperst her beames through euery part of this enflowred globe When thundring Ioue a Court of Gods assembled by his will In top of all
Euristheus vntoucht in life or lim When he heauen knowes with drowned eyes lookt vp for helpe to heauen Which euer at command of Ioue was by my supppliance giuen But had my wisdome reacht so farre to know of this euent When to the solid-ported depths of hell his sonne was sent To hale out hatefull Plutoes dog from darksome Erebus He had not scap't the streames of Styx so deepe and dangerous Yet Ioue hates me and shews his loue in doing Thetis will That kist his knees and strok't his chin praid and importun'd still That he would honour with his aid her cittie-razing sonne Displeasd Achilles and for him our friends are thus vndone But time shall come againe when he to do his friends some aid Will call me his Glaucopides his sweet and blew-eyd maid Then harnesse thou thy horse for me that his bright Pallace gaâ—…es I soone may enter arming me to order these debates And I will trie if Priams sonne will still maintaine his cheare When in the crimson paths of warre I dreadfully appeare For some prowd Troian shall be sure to nourish dogs and soules And paue the shore with fat and flesh depriu'd of liues and soules Iuno prepar'd her horse whose manes Ribands of gold enlac't Pallas her partie coloured robe on her bright shoulders cast Pallas armes Diuinely wrought with her owne hands in th' entrie of her Sire Then put she on her ample breast her vnder-arming tire And on it her celestiall armes the chariot streight she takes With her huge heauie violent lance with which she slaughter makes Of armies fatall to her wrath Saturnia whipt her horse Iuno her waggonnesse And heauen gates guarded by the Howres op't by their proper force Through which they flew Whom when Ioue saw set neare th'Idalian spring Highly displeasd he Iris cald that hath the golden wings And said Flie Iris turne them backe let them not come at me Ioue to Iris. Our meetings seuerally disposd will nothing gracious be Beneath their o'rethrowne chariot I le shiuer their prowd steeds Huâ—…le downe themselues their wagon breake and for their stubborne deeds In ten whole yeares they shall not heale the wounds I will impresse With horrid thunder that my maid may know when to addresse Armes against her father For my wife she doth not so offend T' is but her vse to interrupt what euer I intend Iris with this left Idas hils and vp t'Olympus flew 〈◊〉 is to heauen Met neare heauen gates the Goddesses and thus their haste with-drew What course intend you why are you wrapt with your fancies storme Ioue likes not ye should aid the Greeks but threats and will performe To crush in peeces your swift horse beneath their glorious yokes Hurle downe your selues your chariot breake and those impoysoned strokes His wounding thunder shall imprint in your celestiall parts In ten full Springs ye shall not cure that she that tames proud hearts Thy selfe Minerua may be taught to know for what and when Thou doest against thy father fight for sometimes childeren May with discretion plant themselues against their fathers wils But not where humors onely rule in works beyond their skils For Iuno she offends him not nor vexeth him so much For t' is her vse to crosse his will her impudence is such â—…ile facit quod semper facit The habite of offence in this she onely doth contract And so grieues or incenseth lesse though nere the lesse her fact But thou most grieu'st him dogged Dame whom he rebukes in time Lest silence should peruert thy will and pride too highly clime In thy bold bosome desperate girle if seriously thou dare Lift thy vnwieldie lance gainst Ioue as thy pretences are She left them and Saturnia said Ay me thou seed of Ioue Iuno to Pallâ—… By my aduice we will no more vnfit contention moue With Iupiter for mortall men of whom let this man die And that man liue who euer he pursues with destinie And let him plotting all euents dispose of either host As he thinks fittest for them both and may become vs most Thus turnd she backe and to the Howres her rich man'd horse resign'd Who them t'immortall mangers bound the chariot they inclin'd Beneath the Christall walls of heauen and they in golden thrones Consorted other Deities repleate with passions Ioue in his bright-wheeld chariot his firie horse now beats Vp to Olympus and aspir'd the Gods eternall seats Great Neptune loosd his horse his Carre vpon the Altar plac't And heauenly-linnen Couerings did round about it cast The farre-seer vsd his throne of gold the vast Olympus shooke Beneath his feete his wife and maid apart their places tooke Nor any word afforded him he knew their thoughts and said â—…oue to Innâ—… and Pallas Why do you thus torment your selues you need not sit dismaid With the long labours you haue vsd in your victorious fight Destroying Troians gainst whose liues you heape such high despight Scopticé Ye should haue held your glorious course for be assur'd as farre As all my powres by all meanes vrg'd could haue sustaind the warre Not all the host of Deities should haue retir'd my hand From vowd inflictions on the Greeks much lesse you two withstand But you before you saw the fight much lesse the slaughter there Had all your goodly lineaments possest with shaking feare And neuer had your chariot borne their charge to heauen againe But thunder should haue smit you both had you one Troian slaine Both Goddesses let fall their chins vpon their Iuorie breasts Set next to Ioue contriuing still afflicted Troyes vnrests Pallas for anger could not speake Saturnia contrarie Could not for anger hold her peace but made this bold replie Not-to-be-suffred Iupiter what needst thou still enforce 〈◊〉 to Iupiter Thy matchlesse power we know it well But we must yeeld remorse To them that yeeld vs sacrifice nor needst thou thus deride Our kind obedience nor our griefes but beare our powers applide To iust protection of the Greeks that anger tombe not all In Troyes foule gulfe of periurie and let them stand should fall Greeue not said Ioue at all done yet for if thy faire eyes please Iâ—…piter to Iâ—…no This next red morning they shall see the great Saturnides Bring more destruction to the Greekes and Hector shall not cease Till he haue rowsed from the Fleet swift-foot Aeacides In that day when before their ships for his Patroclus slaine The Greekes in great distresse shall fight for so the Fates ordaine I weigh not thy displeased spleene though to th' extremest bounds Of earth and seas it carrie thee where endlesse night confounds Iapet and my deiected Sire who sit so farre beneath They neuer see the flying Sunne nor heare the winds that breath Neare to profoundest Tartarus nor thither if thou went Would I take pittie of thy moods since none more impudent To this she nothing did replie and now Sols glorious light Fell
to the sea and to the land drew vp the drowsie night The Troians grieu'd at Phoebus fall which all the Greeks desir'd The Night And sable night so often wisht to earths firme throne aspir'd Hector intending to consult neare to the gulfie flood Farre from the Fleet led to a place pure and exempt from blood The Troians forces from their horse all lighted and did heare Th'Oration Ioue-lou'd Hector made who held a goodly speare Eleuen full cubits long the head was brasse and did reflect A wanton light before him still it round about was deckt With strong hoops of new burnisht gold On this he leand and said Heare me my worthie friends of Troy and you our honord aid 〈◊〉 to his friends A little since I had conceipt we should haue made retreate By light of the inflamed fleet with all the Greeks escheate But darknesse hath preuented vs and safte with speciall grace These Achiues and their shore-hal'd fleet Let vs then render place To sacred Night our suppers dressâ—… and from our chariot free Our faire-man'd horse and meate them well then let there conuoid be From forth the citie presently Oxen and well fed sheepe Sweet wine and bread and fell much wood that all night we may keepe Vina parant animos Plentie of fires euen till the light bring forth the louely morne And let their brightnesse glase the skies that night may not suborne The Greeks escape if they for flight the seas brode backe would take At least they may not part with ease but as retreit they make Each man may beare a wound with him to cure when he comes home Made with a shaft or sharpned speare and others feare to come With charge of lamentable warre gainst souldiers bred in Troy Then let our Heralds through the towne their offices imploy To warne the youth yet short of warre and time-white fathers past That in our god-built towres they see strong courts of guard be plac't About the wals and let our Dames yet flourishing in yeares That hauing beauties to keepe pure are most inclin'd to feares Since darknesse in distressefull times more dreadfull is then light Make loftie fires in euery house and thus the dangerous night Held with strong watch if th' enemie haue ambuscadoes laid Neare to our wals and therefore seeme in flight the more dismaid Intending a surprise while we are all without the towne They euery way shall be impugn'd to euery mans renowne Performe all this braue Troian friends what now I haue to say Is all exprest the chearfull morne shall other things display It is my glorie putting trust in Ioue and other Gods That I shall now expulse these dogs fates sent to our abodes Who bring ostents of destinie and blacke their threatning fleet But this night let vs hold strong guards to morrow we will meet With fierce-made warre before their ships and I le make knowne to all If strong Tydides from their ships can driue me to their wall Or I can pierce him with my sword and force his bloudy spoile The wished morne shall shew his powre if he can shun his foile I running on him with my Lance I thinke when day ascends He shall lie wounded with the first and by him many friends O that I were as sure to liue immortall and sustaine No frailties with increasing yeares but euermore remaine Ador'd like Pallas or the Sunne as all doubts die in me That heauens next light shall be the last the Greekes shall euer see This speech all Troians did applaud who from their traces losde Their sweating horse which seuerally with headstals they reposde And fastned by their chariots when others brought from towne Fat sheepe and oxen instantly bread wine and hewed downe Huge store of wood the winds transferd into the friendly skie Their suppers sauour to the which they sate delightfully And spent all night in open field fires round about them shinde As when about the siluer Moone when aire is free from winde And stars shine cleare to whose sweete beames high prospects and the brows Igne TrolanoruÌ„ 〈◊〉 similes Of all steepe hils and pinnacles thrust vp themselues for showes And euen the lowly vallies ioy to glitter in their sight When the vnmeasur'd firmament bursts to disclose her light And all the signes in heauen are seene that glad the shepheards hart So many fires disclosde their beames made by the Troian part Before the face of Ilion and her bright turrets show'd A thousand courts of guard kept fires and euery guard allow'd Fiftie stout men by whom their horse eate oates and hard white corne And all did wilfully expect the siluer-throned morne The end of the eighth Booke THE NINTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT TO Agamemnon vrging hopelesse flight Stand Diomed and Nestor opposite By Nestors counsell Legats are dismist To Thetis sonne who still denies t' assist Another Argument Iota sings the Ambassie And great Achilles sterne replie SO held the Troians sleeplesse guard the Greeks to flight were giuen The feeble consort of cold feare strangely infusde from heauen Griefe not to be endur'd did wound all Greeks of greatest worth And as two laterall-sited winds the West wind and the North Meete at the Thracian seas blacke breast ioyne in a sodaine blore Tumble together the darke waues and powre vpon the shore A mightie deale of froth and weed with which men manure ground So Ioue and Troy did driue the Greeks and all their minds confound But Agamemnon most of all was tortur'd at his heart Who to the voicefull Heralds went and bad them cite apart Each Grecian leader seuerally not openly proclaime In which he labourd with the first and all together came They sadly sate the king arose and pour'd out teares as fast As from a loftie rocke a spring doth his blacke waters cast And deeply â—…ghing thus bespake the Achiues O my friends Agamemnon to the Greeks Princes and leaders of the Greeks heauens aduerse king extends His wrath with too much detriment to my so iust designe Since he hath often promist me and bound it with the signe Of his bent forehead that this Troy our vengefull hands should race And safe returne yet now ingag'd he plagues vs with disgrace When all our trust to him hath drawne so much bloud from our friends My glorie nor my brothers wreake were the proposed ends For which he drew you to these toiles but your whole countries shame Which had bene huge to beare the rape of so diuine a Dame Made in despite of our reuenge and yet not that had mou'd Our powres to these designes if Ioâ—…e had not our drifts approu'd Which since we see he did for bloud t is desperate fight in vs To striue with him then let vs flie t is flight he vrgeth thus Long time still silence held them all at last did Diomed rise Atrides I am first must crosse thy indiscreet aduise Diomed to Agamemnon and takes fit time to answer
of all the field They reacht the wild Figtree and long'd to make their towne their shield Yet there they rested not the king still cride Pursue pursue And all his vnreproued hands did blood and dust embrue But when they came to Sceas ports and to the Beech of Ioue There made they stand there euerie eye fixt on each other stroue Who should outlooke his mate amaz'd through all the field they fled And as a Lion when the night becomes most deafe and dead 〈◊〉 Inuades Oxe heards affrighting all that he of one may wreake His dreadfull hunger and his neckâ—… he first of all doth breake Then laps his blood and eâ—…iles vp so Agamemnon plide The manage of the Troian chace and still the last man di'd The other fled a number fell by his imperiall hand Some groueling downwards from their horse some vpwards strew'd the sand High was the furie of his lance but hauing beat them close Beneath their walls the both worlds Sire did now againe repose On fountaine-flowing Idas tops being newly slid from heauen And held a lightning in his hand from thence this charge was giuen To Iris with the golden wings Thaumantia flie said he Ioue to the Rainbow And tell Troys Hector that as long as he enrag'd shall see The souldier-louing Atreus sonne amongst the formost fight Depopulating troopes of men so long he must excite Some other to resist the foe and he no armes aduance But when he wounded takes his horse attain'd with shaft or lance Then will I fill his arme with death euen till he reach the Fleet And peacefull night treads busie day beneath her sacred feet The wind-foot swift Thaumantia obeyd and vsd her wings To famous Ilion from the mount enchaste with siluer springs And found in his bright chariot the hardie Troian knight To whom she spake the words of Ioue and vanisht from his sight He leapt vpon the sounding earth and shooke his lengthfull dart And euerie where he breath'd exhorts and stird vp euerie heart A dreadfull fight he set on foote his souldiers straight turnd head The Greekes stood firme in both the hoasts the field was perfected But Agamemnon formost still did all his side exceed And would not be the first in name vnlesse the first in deed Now sing faire Presidents of verse that in the heauens embowre Who first encountred with the king of all the aduerse powre Iphydamas Antenors sonne ample and bigly set Brought vp in pasture-springing Thrace that doth soft sheepe beget In graue Cissaeus noble house that was his mothers Sire Faire Theano and when his breast was heightned with the fire Of gaisome youth his grand-Sire gaue his daughter to his loue Who straight his bridall chamber left Fame with affection stroue And made him furnish twelue faire ships to lend faire Troy his hand His ships he in Percope left and came to Troy by land And now he tried the fame of Greece encountring with the king Who threw his royall lance and mist Iphydamas did fling And strooke him on the arming waste beneath his coate of brasse Which forc't him stay vpon his arme so violent it was Yet pierc't it not his wel-wrought zone but when the lazie head Tried hardnesse with his siluer waste it turnd againe like lead He follow'd grasping the ground end but with a Lions wile That wrests away a hunters staffe he caught it by the pile And pluckt it from the casters hand whom with his sword he strooke Iphydamas slain by Agamemnon Beneath the eare and with his wound his timelesse death he tooke He fell and slept an iron sleepe wretched young man he dide Farre from his newly-married wife in aide of forreine pride And saw no pleasure of his loue yet was her ioynture great An hundred Oxen gaue he her and vow'd in his retreate Two thousand head of sheepe and Goates of which he store did leaue Much gaue he of his loues first fruits and nothing did receiue When Coon one that for his forme might feast an amorous eye And elder brother of the slaine beheld this tragedie Deepe sorrow sate vpon his eyes and standing laterally And to the Generall vndiscernd his Iauelin he let flie That twixt his elbow and his wrist transfixt his armelesse arme The bright head shin'd on th' other side The vnexpected harme Imprest some horror in the king yet so he ceast not fight But rushton Coon with his lance who made what haste he might Seising his slaughterd brothers foote to draw him from the field And cald the ablest to his aide when vnder his round shield The kings brasse Iauelin as he drew did strike him helplesse dead Who made Iphydamas the blocke and cut off Coons head Thus vnder great Atrides arme Antenors issue thriu'd And to suffise precisest fate to Plutos mansion diu'd He with his lance sword mightie stones pour'd his Heroicke wreake On other Squadrons of the foe whiles yet warme blood did breake Through his cleft veines but when the wound was quite exhaust and crude The eager anguish did approue his Princely fortitude As when most sharpe and bitter pangs distract a labouring Dame Which the diuine Ilithiae that rule the painefull frame Of humane chid-birth poure on her th' Ilithiae that are The daughters of Saturnia with whose extreme repaire The woman in her trauell striues to take the worst it giues With thought it must be t is loues fruite the end for which she liues The meane to make her selfe new borne what comforts will redound So Agamemnon did sustaine the torment of his wound Then tooke he chariot and to Fleet bad haste his chariotere But first pour'd out his highest voice to purchase euerie eare Princes and Leaders of the Greekes braue friends now from our fleet Agamemnon to the Greeke Princes Do you expell this bostrous sway Ioue will not let me meet Illustrate Hector nor giue leaue that I shall end the day In fight against the Ilian power my wound is in my way This said his readie chariotere did scourge his spritefull horse That freely to the sable fleet performd their fierie course To beare their wounded Soueraigne apart the Martiall thrust Sprinkling their powerfull breasts with foame and snowing on the dust When Hector heard of his retreate thus he for fame contends Hector to the Trâ—…ians Troians Dardanians Lycians all my close-fighting friends Thinke what it is to be renownd be souldiers all of name Our strongest enemie is gone loâ—…e vowes to do vs fame Then in the Grecian faces driue your one-hou'd violent steeds And fare aboue their best be best and glorifie your deeds Thus as a dog-giuen Hunter sets vpon a brace of Bores His white-toothd hounds pufs showts breaths terms on his emprese pores All his wild art to make them pinch so Hector vrg'd his host To charge the Greeks and he himselfe most bold and actiue most He brake into the heate of fight as when a tempest raues Stoops from the clouds and all
and fame and therefore threw Stones from the wals and towres as thicke as when a drift wind shakes Blacke-clouds in peeces and plucks snow in great and plumie flakes From their soft bosomes till the ground be wholly cloth'd in white So earth was hid with stones and darts darts from the Troian fight Stones from the Greeks that on the helms and bossie Troian shields Kept such a rapping it amaz'd great Asius who now yeelds Sighes beates his thighes and in a rage his fault to Ioue applies O Ioue said he now cleare thou shew'st thou art a friend to lies Asiâ—… neare his dâ—…ath blames 〈◊〉 for it Pretending in the flight of Greece the making of it good To all their ruines which I thought could neuer be withstood Yet they as yellow Waspes or Bees that hauing made their nest Apta ad rem comparatio The gasping Cranny of a hill when for a hunters feast Hunters come hote and hungrie in and dig for honny Comes They flie vpon them strike and sting and from their hollow homes Will not be beaten but defend their labours fruite and brood No more will these be from their port but either lose their blood Although but two against all vs or be our prisoners made All this to do his action grace could not firme Ioue perswade Who for the generall counsell stood and gainst his singular braue Bestow'd on Hector that daies fame Yet he and these behaue Themselues thus nobly at this port but how at other ports And all alongst the stony wall sole force gainst force and forts Rag'd in contention twixt both hoasts it were no easie thing Had I the bosome of a God to tune to life and sing The Troians fought not of themselues a fire from heauen was throwne That ran amongst them through the wall meere added to their owne The Greeks held not their owne weake griefe went with her witherd hand And dipt it deepely in their spirits since they could not command Their forces to abide the field whom harsh Necessitie â—…o saue those ships should bring them home and their good forts supply Draue to th'expulsiue fight they made and this might stoope them more Then Need it selfe could eleuate for euen Gods did deplore Their dire estates and all the Gods that were their aids in war Who though they could not cleare their plights yet were their friends thus far Still to vphold the better sort for then did Polepaet passe A lance at Damasus whose helme was made with cheekes of brasse Yet had not proofe enough the pyle draue through it and his skull His braine in blood drownd and the man so late so spiritfull Fell now quite spirit-lesse to earth So emptied he the veines Of Pylon and Ormenus liues and then Leonteus gaines The lifes end of Hippomachus Antimachus-his sonne His lance fell at his girdle stead and with his end begun Another end Leonteus left him and through the prease His keene sword drawne ran desperatly vpon Antiphates And liuelesse tumbled him to earth Nor could all these liues quench His fierie spirit that his flame in Menons blood did drench And rag'd vp euen to Iamens and yong Orestes life All heapt together made their peace in that red field of strife Whose faire armes while the victors â—…poild the youth of Ilion Of which thereseru'd the most and best still boldly built vpon The wisedome of Polydamas and Hectors matchlesse strength And follow'd fild with wondrous spirit with wish and hope at length The Greeks wall wun to fire their fleet But hauing past the dike And willing now to passe the wall this prodigie did strike Their hearts with some deliberate stay A high-flowne-Eagle sorde On their troopes left hand and sustaind a Dragon all engorde In her strong seres of wondrous sise and yet had no such checke In life and spirit but still she fought and turning backe her necke So stung the Eagles gorge that downe she cast her feruent prey Amongst the multitude and tooke vpon the winds her way Crying with anguish When they saw a branded Serpent sprawle So full amongst them from aboue and from Ioues fowle let fall They tooke it an ostent from him stood frighted and their cause Polydamas thought iust and spake Hector you know applause Polydamas to Hector Of humour hath bene farre from me nor fits it or in warre Or in affaires of Court a man imploid in publicke care To blanch things further then their truth or flatter any powre And therefore for that simple course your strength hath oft bene sowre To me in counsels yet againe what shewes in my thoughts best I must discouer let vs ceasse and make their flight our rest For this dayes honor and not now attempt the Grecian fleet For this I feare will be th' euent the prodigie doth meet So full with our affaire in hand As this high flying fowle Vpon the left wing of our host implying our controwle Houerd aboue vs and did trusse within her golden seres A Serpent so embrew'd and bigge which yet in all her feares Kept life and feruent spirit to fight and wrought her owne release Nor did the Eagles Airie feed So though we thus farre prease Vpon the Grecians and perhaps may ouerrune their wall Our high minds aiming at their fleet and that we much appall Their trussed spirits yet are they so Serpent-like disposd That they willl fight though in our seres and will at length be losd With all our outcries and the life of many a Troian breast Shall with the Eagle flie before we carrie to our nest Them or their nauie thus expounds the Augure this ostent Whose depth he knowes these should feare Hector with countenance bent Thus answerd him Polydamas your depth in augurie Hector to Polydamas I like not and know passing well thou dost not satisfie Thy selfe in this opinion or if thou think'st it true Thy thoughts the Gods blind to aduise and vrge that as our due That breakes our duties and to â—…oue whose vow and signe to me Is past directly for our speed yet light-wingd birds must be By thy aduice our Oracles whose feathers little stay My serious actions What care I if this or th' other way Their wild wings sway them if the right on which the Sunne doth rise Or to the left hand where he sets T is Ioues high counsell flies With those wings that shall beare vp vs Ioues that both earth and heauen Both men and Gods sustaines and rules One augurie is giuen To order all men best of all fight for thy countries right But why fearst thou our further charge for though the dangerous fight Strew all men heâ—…e about the fleet yet thou needst neuer feare To beare their Fates thy warie heart will neuer trust thee where An enemies looke is and yet fight for if thou dar'st abstaine Or whisper into any eare an abstinence so vaine As thou aduisest neuer feare that any foe shall take Thy life from thee for t
is this lance This said all forwards make Himselfe the first yet before him exulting Clamor flew And thunder-louing Iupiter from loftie Ida blew A storme that vsherd their assault and made them charge like him It draue directly on the fleet a dust so fierce and dim That it amaz'd the Grecians but was a grace diuine To Hector and his following troopes who wholly did encline To him being now in grace with Ioue and so put boldly on To raze the rampire in whose height they fiercely set vpon The Parrapets and puld them downe rac't euery formost fight And all the Butteresses of stone that held their towers vpright They tore away with Crowes of Iron and hop't to ruine all The Greeks yet stood and still repaird the forefights of their wall With hides of Oxen and from thence they pourd downe stones in showres Vpon the vnderminers heads Within the formost towres Both the Aiaces had command who answer'd euerie part Th' assaulters and their souldiers represt and put in heart Repairing valour as their wall spake some faire some reprou'd Who euer made not good his place and thus they all sorts mou'd O countrimen now need in aid would haue excesse be spent The excellent must be admir'd the meanest excellent The worst do well in changing warre all should not be alike Nor any idle which to know fits all lest Hector strike Your minds with frights as eares with threats forward be all your hands Vrge one another this doubt downe that now betwixt vs stands Ioue will go with vs to their wals To this effect alow'd Spake both the Princes and as high with this th'expulsion flow'd Simile And as in winter time when Ioue his cold-sharpe iauelines throwes Amongst vs mortals and is mou'd to white earth with his snowes The winds asleepe he freely poures till highest Prominents Hill tops low meddowes and the fields that crowne with most contents The toiles of men sea ports and shores are hid and euerie place But floods that snowes faire tender flakes as their owne brood embrace So both fides couerd earth with stones so both for life contend To shew their sharpnesse through the wall vprore stood vp an end Nor had great Hector and his friends the rampire ouerrun If heauens great Counsellour high Ioue had not inflam'd his sonne Sarpedon like the forrests king when he on Oxen flies Against the Grecians his round targe he to his arme applies Brasse-leau'd without and all within thicke Oxe-hides quilted hard The verge naild round with rods of gold and with two darts prepard He leades his people as ye see a mountaine Lion fare Long kept from prey in forcing which his high mind makes him dare Assault vpon the whole full fold though guarded neuer so With well-arm'd men and eager dogs away he will not go But venture on and either snatch a prey or be a prey So far'd diuine Sarpedons mind resolu'd to force his way Sarpedons 〈◊〉 to Glaucus neuer equalled by â—…y in this kind of all 〈◊〉 â—…aue written Through all the fore-fights and the wall yet since he did not see Others as great as he in name as great in mind as he He spake to Glaucus Glaucus say why are we honord more Then other men of Lycia in place with greater store Of meates and cups with goodlier roofes delightsome gardens walks More lands and better so much wealth that Court and countrie talks Of vs and our possessions and euery way we go Gaze on vs as we were their Gods this where we dwell is so The shores of Xanthus ring of this and shall not we exceed As much in merit as in noise Come be we great in deed As well as looke shine not in gold but in the flames of fight That so our neat-arm'd Lycians may say See these are right Our kings our Rulers these deserue to eate and drinke the best These gouerne not ingloriously these thus exceed the rest Do more then they command to do O friend if keeping backe Would keepe backe age from vs and death and that we might not wracke In this life 's humane sea at all but that deferring now We shund death euer nor would I halfe this vaine valour show Nor glorifie a folly so to wish thee to aduance Bur since we must go though not here and that besides the chance Proposd now there are infinite fates of other sort in death Which neither to be fled nor scap't a man must sinke beneath Come trie we if this sort be ours and either render thus Glorie to others or make them resigne the like to vs. This motion Glaucus shifted not but without words obeyd Sarpedon and Glaucus charge together Fore-right went both a mightie troope of Lycians followed Which by Menestheus obseru'd his haire stood vp on end For at the towre where he had charge he saw Calamitie bend Her horrid browes in their approch He threw his looks about The whole fights neare to see what Chiefe might helpe the miserie out Of his poore souldiers and beheld where both th' Aiaces fought And Teucer newly come from fleete whom it would profit nought To call since Tumult on their helmes shields and vpon the ports Lâ—…id such lowde claps for euerie way defences of all sorts Were adding as Troy tooke away and Clamor flew so high Her wings strooke heauen and drownd all voice The two Dukes yet so nigh And at the offer of assault he to th' Aiaces sent Thoos the herald with this charge Run to the regiment Tâ—…oos sent to the Aâ—…aces for aide by Menestheus Of both th' Aiaces and call Both for both were better here Since here will slaughter instantly be more enforc't then there The Lycian Captaines this way make who in the fights of stand Haue often shew'd much excellence yet if laborious hand Be there more needfull then I hope at least afford vs some Let Aiax Telamonius and th'Archer Teucer come The Herald hasted and arriu'd and both th' Aiaces told That Peteus noble sonne desir'd their little labour would Employ it selfe in succouring him Both their supplies were best Since death assaild his quarter most for on it fiercely prest The well-prou'd mightie Lycian Chiefs Yet if the seruice there Allowd not both he praid that one part of his charge would beare And that was Aiax Telamon with whom he wisht would come The Archer Teucer Telamon left instantly his roome To strong Lycomedes and will'd Aiax Oiliades With him to make vp his supply and fill with courages The Grecian hearts till his returne which should be instantly When he had well relieu'd his friend With this the companie Of Teucer he tooke to his aide Teucer that did descend As Aiax did from Telamon with these two did attend Pandion that boâ—…e Teucers bow When to Menestheus towre They came alongst the wall they found him and his heartned powre Toyling in making strong their fort The Lycian Princes set Blacke whirlwind-like with both their powers vpon the
such as you may well endure since being deriu'd from kings And kings not poore nor vertulesse you cannot hold me base Nor scorne my words which oft though true in meane men meet disgrace How euer they are these in short Let vs be seene at fight And yeeld to strong Necessitie though wounded that our sight May set those men on that of late haue to Acâ—…illes spleene Bene too indulgent and left blowes but be we onely seene Not come within the reach of darts lest wound on wound we lay Which reuerend Nestors speech implide and so farre him obay This counsell gladly all obseru'd went on Aâ—…des led Nor Neptune this aduantage lost but closely followed And like an aged man appear'd t' Aâ—…ides whose right hand 〈◊〉 appears likâ—… an aged 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 He seisd and said Atrides this doth passing â—…tly stand With sterne Achilles wreakfull spirit that he can stand a sterne His ship and both in fight and death the Greciâ—… 〈◊〉 discerne Since not in his breast glowes one sparke of any humane mind But be that his owne bane let God by that losse make him find Neptune to Agamâ—…non How vile a thing he is for know the blest Gods haue not giuen Thee euer ouer but perhaps the Troians may from heauen Receiue that iustice Nay t is sure and thou shalt see their fals Your fleete soone freed and for fights here they glad to take their wals This said he made knowne who he was and parted with a crie As if ten thousand men had ioynd in battaile then so hie His throate flew through the host and so this great earth-shaking God Chear'd vp the Greeke hearts that they wisht their paines no period Saturnia from Olympus top saw her great brother there And her great husbands brother too exciting euery where The glorious spirits of the Greeks which as she ioy'd to see So on the fountfull Idas top Ioues sight did disagree With her contentment since she fear'd that his hand would descend And checke the sea-Gods practises And this she did contend How to preuent which thus seem'd best To decke her curiously Iuâ—…o prepares her selfe to deceiue Ioue And visite the Idalian hill that so the Lightners eye She might enamour with her lookes and his high temples steepe Euen to his wisedome in the kind and golden iuyce of sleepe So tooke she chamber which her sonne the God of ferrary With firme doores made being ioyned close and with a priuie key That no God could command but Ioue where enterd she made fast The shining gates and then vpon her louely bodie cast Ambrosia that first made it cleare and after laid on it An odorous rich and sacred oyle that was so wondrous sweet Teâ—…hyomenon â—…guentum That euer when it was but toucht it sweetn'd heauen and earth Her body being cleansd with this her Tresses she let forth And comb'd her combe dipt in the oyle then wrapt them vp in cutles And thus het deathlesse head adornd a heauenly veile she hurles On her white shoulders wrought by her that rules in housewiferies Who woue it full of antique workes of most diuine deuice And this with goodly clasps of gold she fastn'd to her breast Then with a girdle whose rich sphere a hunderd studs imprest She girt her small wast In her eares tenderly pierc't she wore Pearles great and orient on her head a wreath not worne before Cast beames out like the Sunne At last she to her feete did tie Faire shoes and thus entire attir'd she shin'd in open skie Cald the faire Paphian Queene apart from th' other Gods and said Lou'd daughter should I aske a grace should I or be obeyd Iâ—…o to Venus Or wouldst thou crosse me being incenst since I crosse thee and take The Greeks part thy hand helping Troy She answerd That shall make Vâ—…us to Iuâ—… No difference in a different cause aske ancient Deitie What most contents thee my mind stands inclin'd as liberally To grant it as thine owne to aske prouided that it be A fauour fit and in my powre She giuen deceiptfully Thus said Then giue me those two powres with which both men and Gods Thou vanquishest Loue and Desire For now the periods Of all the many-feeding earth and the originall Of all the gods Oceanus and Thetis whom we call Our mother I am going to greet they nurst me in their court And brought me vp receiuing me in most respectfull sort From Phaea when Ioue vnder earth and the vnfruitfull seas Cast Saturne These I go to see intending to appease Iarres growne betwixt them hauing long abstaind from speech and bed Which iarres could I so reconcile that in their angers stead I could place loue and so renew their first societie I should their best lou'd be esteem'd and honord endlesly She answerd T is not fit nor iust thy will should be denied Venus to Iuno Whom Ioue in his embraces holds This spoken she vntied And from her odorous bosome tooke her Ceston in whose sphere Were all enticements to delight all Loues all Longings were Kind conference Faire speech whose powre the wisest doth enflame This she resigning to her hands thus vrg'd her by her name Receiue this bridle thus faire wrought and put it twixt thy brests Where all things to be done are done and whatsoeuer rests In thy desire returne with it The great-eyd Iuno smild And put it twixt her brests Loues Queene thus cunningly beguild To Ioues court flew Saturnia straight stooping from heauens height Pieria and Emathia those countries of delight Soone reacht and to the snowy mounts where Thracian souldiers dwell Approaching past their tops vntoucht From Athos then she fell Past all the brode sea and arriu'd in Lemnos at the towres Of god-like Thoas where she met the Prince of all mens powres Deaths brother Sleepe whose hand she tooke and said Thou king of men Iuno to Somnâ—… Prince of the Gods too if before thou heardst my suites againe Giue helpefull eare and through all times I le offer thanks to thee Lay slumber on Ioues fierie eyes that I may comfort me With his embraces For which grace I le grace thee with a throne Incorruptible all of gold and elegantly done By Mulciber to which he forg'd a footestoole for the ease Of thy soft feete when wine and feasts thy golden humours please Sweet Sleepe replyed Saturnia there liues not any god Somnâ—… to Iuno Besides Ioue but I would becalme I if it were the flood That fathers all the Deities the great Oceanâ—…s But Ioue we dare not come more neare then he commandeth vs. Now you command me as you did when Ioues great minded sonne Alcides hauing sackt the towne of stubborne Ilion Tooke saile from thence when by your charge I pour'd about Ioues mind A pleasing slumber calming him till thou drau'st vp the wind In all his cruelties to sea that set his sonne ashore In Cous farre from all his friends which waking vext so
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therfore I accordingly translate it And note this beside both out of this place and many others how excellent an Anatomist our Homer was whose skill in those times me thinkes should be a secret The end of the fourteenth Booke of Homers Iliads THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT IOue waking and beholding Troy in flight Chides Iuno and sends Iris to the fight To charge the sea-god to forsake the field And Phoebus to inuade it with his shield Recouering Hectors broosde and crased powres To field he goes and makes new conquerours The Troians giuing now the Grecians chace Euen to their fleete Then Aiax turnes his face And feeds with many Troian liues his ire Who then brought brands to set the fleete on fire Another Argument Ioue sees in O his ouersight Chides Iuno Neptune cals from fight THe Troians beate past pale and dike and numbers prostrate laide All got to chariot feare-driuen all and fear'd as men dismaide Then Ioue on Idas top awakt rose from Saturnias side Stood vp and lookt vpon the warre and all inuerted spide Since he had seene it th' Ilians now in rowt the Greeks in fight King Neptune with his long sword Chiefe great Hector put downe quite Laide flat in field and with a crowne of Princes compassed So stopt vp that he scarce could breath his minds sound habite fled And he still spitting blood Indeed his hurt was not set on By one that was the weakest Greeke But him Ioue lookt vpon With eyes of pittie on his wife with horrible aspect To whom he said O thou in ill most cunning Architect Iupiters wrath against Iuâ—… All Arts and comments that exceedst not onely to enforce Hector from fight but with his men to shew the Greeks a course I feare as formerly so now these ils haue with thy hands Their first fruits sowne and therefore could lode all thy lims with bands Forgetst thou when I hangd thee vp how to thy feete I tyed Two Anuils golden manacles on thy false wrists implied And let thee mercilesly hang from our refined heauen Euen to earths vapors all the gods in great Olympâ—…s giuen To mutinies about thee yet though all stood staring on None durst dissolue thee for these hands had they but seisd vpon Thy friend had headlong throwne him off from our star-bearing round Till he had tumbl'd out his breath and peecemeale dasht the ground Nor was my angry spirit calm'd so soone for those foule seas On which inducing Northerne flawes thou shipwrack'dst Hercules And tost him to the Coon shore that thou shouldst tempt againe My wraths importance when thou seest besides how grosly vaine My powres can make thy policies for from their vtmost force I freed my sonne and set him safe in Argos nurse of horse These I remember to thy thoughts that thou mayst shun these sleights And know how badly bed-sports thriue procur'd by base deceits This frighted the offending Queene who with this state excusde Her kind vnkindnesse Witnesse earth and heauen so farre diffusde Iunoes â—…th in clearing her self to Iupiter Thou Flood whose silent-gliding waues the vnder ground doth beare Which is the great'st and grauest oath that any god can sweare Thy sacred head those secretioyes that our yong bed gaue forth By which I neuer rashly swore that he who shakes the earth Not by my counsell did this wrong to Hector and his host But pittying th' oppressed Greekes their fleete being neerly lost Relieu'd their hard condition yet vtterly impeld By his free mind which since I see is so offensiue held To thy high pleasure I will now aduise him not to tread But where thy tempest-raising feete O Iupiter shall leade Ioue laught to heare her so submisse and said My faire-eyd loue If still thus thou and I were one in counsels held aboue Iupiters charge to Iuno and reconciliation Neptune would still in word and fact be ours if not in heart If then thy tongue and heart agree from hence to heauen depart To call the excellent in bowes the Raine-bow and the Sunne That both may visite both the hosts the Grecian armie one And that is Iris let her haste and make the sea-god cease T' assist the Greekes and to his court retire from warre in peace Let Phoebus on the Troian part inspire with wonted powre Great Hectors spirits make his thoughts forget the late sterne houre And all his anguish setting on his whole recouer'd man To make good his late grace in fight and hold inconstant wane The Grecian glories till they fall in flight before the fleete Of vext Achilles which extreme will proue the meane to greete Thee with thy wish for then the eyes of great Aeacides Made witnesse of the generall ill that doth so neare him prease Will make his owne particular looke out and by degrees Abate his wrath that through himselfe for no extremities Will seeme reflected yet his friend may get of him the grace To helpe his countrey in his Armes and he shall make fit place For his full presence with his death which shall be well forerunne For I will first renowne his life with slaughter of my sonne Diuine Sarpedon and his death great Hectors powre shall wreake Ending his ends Then at once out shall the furie breake Of fierce Achilles and with that the flight now felt shall turne And then last till in wrathfull flames the long-sieg'd Ilion burne Mineruaes counsell shall become graue meane to this my will Which no god shall neglect before Achilles take his fill Of slaughter for his slaughterd friend euen Hectors slaughter throwne Vnder his anger that these facts may then make fully knowne My vowes performance made of late and with my bowed head Confirm'd to Thetis when her armes embrac't my knees and praid That to her citie-racing sonne I would all honour shew This heard his charge she seem'd t' intend and to Olympus flew But as the mind of such a man that hath a great way gone Sâ—… And either knowing not his way or then would let alone His purposde iourney is distract and in his a vexed mind Resolues now not to go now goes still many wayes inclin'd So reuerend Iuno headlong flew and'gainst her stomacke striu'd For being amongst th' immortall gods in high heauen soone arriu'd All rising welcoming with cups her litle absence thence She all their courtships ouerpast with solemne negligence Saue that which faire-cheekt Themis shewd and her kind â—…up she tooke Tâ—…â—…o 〈◊〉 For first she ranne and met with her and askt What tâ—…oubled looke She brought to heauen She thought for truth that Ioue had tertiâ—… Her spirits strangely since she went The faire arm'd Queene replide That truth may easily be supposde you goddesse Themis know 〈◊〉 â—…ply His old seueritie and pride buâ—… you bear 't out with show And like the banquets arbiter amongst th'Immortals fare Though well you heare amongst them all how bad his actions are Nor are all here nor
〈◊〉 c. Sicut verò quando discurrit vel prorumpit vel cum impetu exurgit mens viri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying ruo prorumpo vel cum impetu exurgo as hauing trauelled farre on an irkesome iourney as Iuno had done for the Greekes faining to Ioue and Venus she was going to visite 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 multa nutrientes fines terrae and then knowes not whether he should go backeward or forward sustaines a vehement discourse with himselfe on what course to resolue and vext in mind which the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expresse being to be vnderstood mentibus amaris vexatis or distractis with a spitefull sorrowfull vext or distracted mind not mentibus prudentibus as all most vnwisely in this place conuert it though in other places it intimates so much But here the other holds congruence with the rest of the simile from which in the wise sence it abhorres 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying amarus more properly then prudens being translated prudens meerely metaphorically acccording to the second deduction where here it is vsed more properly according to the first deduction which is taken from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Larcher tree whose gumme is exceeding bitter and because things irkesome and bitter as afflictions crosses c. are meanes to make men wise and take heede by others harmes therefore according to the second deduction 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is taken for cautus or prudens But now that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or application seemes to make with their sence of swiftnesse the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being translated by them sic citò properans it is thus to be turned in this place sic rapidè impetu pulsa so snatchingly or headlongly driuen flew Iuno As we often see with a clap of thunder Doues or other fowles driuen headlong from their seates not in direct flight but as they would breake their neckes with a kind of reeling 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being deriued of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying impetu ferri vel furibundo impetu ferri all which most aptly agreeth with Iunos enforced and wrathfull parting from Ioue and doing his charge distractedly This for me if another can giue better let him shew it and take it But in infinite other places is this diuine Poet thus prophaned which for the extreme â—…bour I cannot yet touch at b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Difficile est it is a hard thing saith Minerua to Mars when she answers his anger for the slaughter of his sonne Ascalaphus for Ioue to deliuer the generation and birth of all men from death which Commentors thus vnderstand There were some men that neuer died as Tython the husband of Aurora Chyron Glaucus made a sea god c. and in holy Writ as Spondanus pleaseth to mixe them Enoc and Elias but because these few were freed from death Mars must not looke that all others were But this interpretation I thinke will appeare to all men at first sight both ridiculous and prophane Homer making Minerua onely iest at Mars here as she doth in other places bidding him not storme that his sonne should be slaine more then better borne stronger and worthier men for Ioue should haue enough to do or it were hard for Ioue to free all men from Death that are vnwilling to die This mine with the rest the other others accept which you please The end of the fifteenth Booke THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT A Chilles at Patroclus suite doth yeeld His armes and Myrmidons which brought to field The Troians flie Patroclus hath the grace Of great Sarpedons death sprong of the race Of Iupiter he hauing slaine the horse Of Thetis sonne fierce Pedasus the force Of Hector doth reuenge the much-ru'dend Of most renown'd Sarpedon on the friend Of Thetides first by Euphorbus harm'd And by Apollos personall powre disarm'd Another Argument In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Patroclus beares the chance Of death imposd by Hectors lance THus fighting for this well-built ship Patroclus all that space Stood by his friend preparing words to win the Greeeks his grace With powre of vncontained teares and like a fountaine pour'd In blacke streams froÌ„ a lofty rocke the Greeks so plagu'd deplor'd Achilles ruthfull for his teares said Wherefore weepes my friend So like a girle who though she sees her mother cannot tend Achilles chides Patroclus for his teares Her childish humours hangs on her and would be taken vp Stil viewing her with teare-drownd eyes when she hath made her stoope To nothing liker I can shape thy so vnseemely teares What causeth them hath any ill sollicited thine eares Befalne my Myrmidons or newes from loued Phthia brought Told onely thee lest I should grieue and therefore thus hath wrought On thy kind spirit Actors sonne the good Meâ—…tius Thy father liues and Peleus mine great sonne of Aeacus Amongst his Myrmidons whose deaths in dutie we should mourne Or is it what the Greeks sustaine that doth thy stomacke turne On whom for their iniustice sake plagues are so iustly laide Speake man let both know eithers heart Patroclus sighing said O Peleus sonne thou strongest Greeke by all degrees that liues Still be not angrie our sad state such cause of pittie giues Patroclus answer to Achilles Our greatest Greeks lie at their ships sore wounded Ithachus King Agamemnon Diomed and good Eurypilus But these much-medcine-knowing men Physitions can recure Thou yet vnmedcinable still though thy wound all endure Heauen blesse my bosome from such wrath as thou sooth'st as thy blisse Vnprofitably vertuous How shall our progenies Borne in thine age enioy thine aide when these friends in thy flowre Thou leau'st to such vnworthy death O idle cruell powre Great Peleus neuer did beget nor Thetis bring foorth thee Thou from the blew sea and her rockes deriu'st thy pedegree What so declines thee If thy mind shuns any augurie Related by thy mother Queene from heauens foreseeing eye And therefore thou forsak'st thy friends let me go ease their mones With those braue reliques of our host thy mightie Myrmidons That I may bring to field more light to Conquest then hath bene To which end grace me with thine armes since any shadow seene Of thy resemblance all the powre of periur'd Troy will flie And our so tired friends will breathe our fresh-set-on supplie Will easily driue their wearied off Thus foolish man he su'd For his sure death of all whose speech Achilles first renu'd The last part thus O worthy friend what haue thy speeches bene Achilles to 〈◊〉 I shun the fight for Oracles or what my mother Queene Hath told from Ioue I take no care nor note of one such thing But this fit anger stings me still that the insulting king Should from his equall take his right since he exceeds in powre This still his wrong is still my griefe he tooke my Paramour That all men gaue and whom I wonne by vertue of
my speare That for her ouerturn'd a Towne This rape he made of her And vsde me like a fugitiue an Inmate in a towne That is no citie libertine nor capable of their gowne But beare we this as out of date t is past nor must we still Feed anger in our noblest parts yet thus I haue my will As well as our great king of men for I did euer vow Neuer to cast off my disdaine till as it fals out now Their misse of me knockt at my fleet and told me in their cries I was reueng'd and had my wish of all my enemies And so of this repeate enough Take thou my fame-blaz'd armes And my fight-thirstie Myrmidons leade to these hote alarmes Whole clouds of Troians circle vs with hatefull eminence The Greeks shut in a little shore a sort of citizens Skipping vpon them all because their prowd eyes do not see The radiance of my helmet there whose beames had instantly Thrust backe and all these ditches fild with carrion of their flesh If Agamemnon had bene kind where now they fight as fresh As thus farre they had put at ease and at our tents contend And may for the repulsiue hand of Diomed doth not spend His raging darts there that their Death could fright out of our fleet Nor from that head of enmitie can my poore hearers meet The voice of great Atrides now now Hectors onely voyce Breakes all the aire about both hosts and with the very noise Bred by his lowd encouragements his forces fill the field And fight the poore Achaians downe But on put thou my shiâ—…ld Betwixt the fire-plague and our fleet rush brauely on and turne Warres tide as headlong on their throtes No more let them aiourne Our sweet-home-turning but obserue the charge I lay on thee To each least point that thy rul'd hand may highly honour me And get such glorie from the Greeks that they may send againe My most sweet wench and gifts to boote when thou hast cast a raine On these so head-strong citizens and forc't them from our fleet With which grace if the god of sounds thy kind egression greet Iupiter called the god of sounds for the chiefe sound his thunder Retire and be not tempted on with pride to see thy hand Raine slaughterd carkasses on earth to runne forth thy command As farre as Ilion left the gods that fauour Troy come forth To thy encounter for the Sunne much loues it and my worth In what thou suffer'st will be wrong'd that I would let my friend Assume an action of such weight without me and transcend His friends prescription do not then affect a further fight Then I may strengthen let the rest when thou hast done this right Performe the rest aO would to Ioue thou Pallas and thou Sunne That not a man housd vnderneath those towres of Ilion Nor any one of all the Greeks how infinite a summe Soeuer altogether make might liue vnouercome But onely we two scaping death might haue the thundring downe Of euery stone stucke in the wals of this so sacred towne Thus spake they onely twixt themselues And now the foe no more Could Aiax stand being so opprest with all the iron store The Troians powr'd on with whose darts and with Ioues will beside His powres were cloyd and his bright helme did deafning blowes abide His plume and all head* ornaments could neuer hang in rest His arme yet laboured vp his shield and hauing done their best They could not stirre him from his stand although he wrought it out With short respirings and with sweate that ceaslesse flow'd about His reeking lims no least time giuen to take in any breath Ill strengthned ill when one was vp another was beneath Now Muses you that dwell in heauen the dreadfull meane inspire That first enforc't the Grecian fleete to take in Troian fire First Hector with his huge brode sword cut off at setting on The head of Aiax Ashen lance which Aiax seeing gone And that he shooke a headlesse speare a little while vnware His warie spirits told him straight the hand of heauen was there And trembl'd vnder his conceipt which was bthat t was Ioues deed Who as he pold off his darts heads so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their warre he would polle off like it And giue the Troians victorie so trusted he his wit And left his darts And then the ship was heapt with horrid brands Ofkindling fire which instantly was seene through all the strands In vnextinguishible flames that all the ship embrac't And then Achilles beate his thighes cryed out Patroclus haste Make way with horse I see at fleet a fire of fearfull rage Arme arme lest all our fleet it fire and all our powre engage Arme quickly I le bring vp the troopes To these so dreadfull warres Patroclus in Achilles armes enlightned all with starres And richly ameld all haste made he wore his sword his shield His huge-plum'd helme and two such speares as he could nimbly wield But the most fam'd Achilles speare big solid full of weight He onely left of all his armes for that farre past the might Of any Greeke to shake but his Achilles onely iâ—…e Shooke that huge weapon that was giuen by Chyron to his sire Cut from the top of Pelion to be Heroes deaths His steeds Automedon straight ioyn'd like whom no man that breaths Next Peleus sonne Patroclus lou'd for like him none so great Automedon friend to Patro clus and mana ger of Achilles horses He found in faith at euery fight nor to out looke a threat Automedon did therefore guide for him Achilles steeds Xanthus and Balius swift as wind begotten by the seeds Of Zephyr and the Harpie borne Pordarge in a meade Close to the wauie Ocean where that fierce Harpye feade Automedon ioyn'd these before and with the hindmost geres He fastn'd famous Pedasus whom from the massakers Made by Achilles when he tooke Eetions wealthie towne He brought and though of mortall race yet gaue him the renowne To follow his immortall horse And now before his tents Himselfe had seene his Myrmidons in all habiliments Of dreadfull warre And when ye see vpon a mountaine bred A simile most liuely expressiuâ—… A den of Wolues about whose hearts vnmeasur'd strengths are fed New come from currie of a Stagge their iawes all blood-besmeard And when from some blacke water-fount they altogether herd There hauing plentifully lapt with thin and thrust out tongs The top and clearest of the spring go belching from their lungs The clotterd gore looke dreadfully and entertaine no dread Their bellies gaunt all taken vp with being so rawly fed Then say that such in strength and looke were great Achilles men Now orderd for the dreadfull fight and so with all them then Their Princes and their Chiefes did show about their Generals friend His friend and all about himselfe who chiefly did intend The powers Achilles brought to Troy Th'embattelling of horse
and foote To that siege held so long Twise fiue and twenty saile he brought twise fiue and twentie strong Of able men was euery saile fiue Colonels he made Of all those forces trustie men and all of powre to leade But he of powre beyond them all Menesthius was one That euer wore discolour'd armes he was a riuers sonne That fell from heauen and good to drinke was his delightfull streame His name vnwearied Sperchius he lou'd the louely dame Faire Polydora Peleus seed and deare in Borus sight And she to that celestiall flood gaue this Menesthius light A woman mixing with a god Yet Borus bore the name Of father to Menesthius he marrying the dame And giuing her a mightie dowre he was the kind descent Of Perieris The next man renown'd with regiment Was strong Eudorus brought to life by one supposd a maide Bright Polymela Phylas seed but had the wanton plaid With Argus-killing Mercurie who fir'd with her faire eyes As she was singing in the quire of her that makes the cries In clamorous hunting and doth beare the crooked bow of gold Stole to her bed in that chaste roome that Phebe chast did hold And gaue her that swift-warrelicke sonne Eâ—…dirys brought to light As she was dancing but as soone as she that rules the plight Eudorus borne as Polymela his mother was dancing Of labouring women easd her throwes and shew'd her â—…onne the Sunne Strong Echeclaeus Actors heire woo'd earnestly and wonne Her second fauour feeing her with gifts of infinite prise And after brought her to his house where in his grandsires eyes Old Phylas Polymelas sonne obtaind exceeding gracâ—… And found as carefull bringing vp as of his naturall race He had descended The third chiefe was faire Memalides Memalides the third Collonell Pysandrus who in skill of darts obtaind supremest praise Of all the Myrmidons except their Lords companion The fourth charge aged Phoenix had The fifth Alcimedon Phoenix the fourth Sonne of Laercus and much fam'd All these digested thus 〈◊〉 the fifâ—…h In fit place by the mightie sonne of royall Peleus This sterne remembrance he gaue all You Myrmidons said he Achilles to his Myrmidons Lest any of you should forget his threatnings vsde to me In this place and through all the time that my iust anger raign'd Attempting me with bitter words for being so restrain'd For my hote humour from the fight remember them as these Thou cruell sonne of Peleus whom she that rules the seas Did onely nourish with her gall thou dost vngently hold Our hands against our wills from fight we will not be controld But take our ships and saile for home before we loyter here And feed thy furie These high words exceeding often were The threates that in your mutinous troopes ye vsde to me for wrath To be detaind so from the fiâ—…ld now then your splenes may bath In sweate of those great works ye wisht now he that can employ A generous heart go fight and fright these bragging sonnes of Troy This set their minds and strengths on fire the speech enforcing well Being vsde in time but being their kings it much more did impell And closer rusht-in all the troopes And as for buildings hie 〈◊〉 The Mazon layes his stones more thicke against th'extremitie Of wind and weather and euen then if any storme arise He thickens them the more for that the present act so plies His honest mind to make sure worke So for the high estate This worke was brought to these mens minds according to the rate Were raisd and all their bodies ioyn'd but there well-spoken king With his so timely-thought-on speech more sharpe made valours sting And thickn'd so their targets bost so all their helmets then That shields propt shields helmes helmets knockt and men encourag'd men Patroclus and Automedon did arme before them all Patroclus and Automedon arme together Two bodies with one mind inform'd and then the Generall Betooke him to his priuate Tent where from a coffer wrought Most rich and curiously and giuen by Thetis to be brought In his owne ship top-fild with vests warme robes to checke cold wind And tapistries all golden fring'd and curl'd with thrumbs behind He tooke a most vnualewed boule in which none dranke but he Achilles sacrifice for his friends safe returne Nor he but to the deities nor any deitie But Ioue himselfe was seru'd with that and that he first did clense With sulphure then with fluences of sweetest water rense Then washt his hands and drew himselfe a boule of mightie wine Which standing midst the place enclosde for seruices diuine And looking vp to heauen and Ioue who saw him well he pour'd Vpon the place of sacrifice and humbly thus implor'd Great Dodonaeus President of cold Dodonaes towres Achilles 〈◊〉 Diuine Pelasgicus that dwell'st farre hence about whose bowres Th'austere prophetique Selli dwell that still sleepe on the ground Go bare and neuer clense their feete as I before haue found Grace to my vowes and hurt to Greece so now my prayres intend I still stay in the gatherd fleete but haue dismist my friend Amongst my many Myrmidons to danger of the dart O grant his valour my renowne arme with my mind his hart That Hectors selfe may know my friend can worke in single warre And not then onely shew his hands so hote and singular When my kind presence seconds him but fight he nere so well No further let him trust his fight but when he shall repell Clamor and Danger from our fleete vouchsafe a safe retreate To him and all his companies with fames and armes compleate He prayd and heauens great Counsellor gaue satisfying eare To one part of his orisons but left the other there He let him free the fleete of foes but safe retreate denide Achilles left that vtter part where he his zeale applide And turn'd into his inner tent made fast his cup and then Stood forth and with his mind beheld the foes fight and his men That follow'd his great minded friend embattail'd till they brake With gallant spirit vpon the foe And as fell waspes that make Simile Their dwellings in the broade high way which foolish children vse Their cottages being neare their nests to anger and abuse With euer vexing them and breed to sooth their childish warre A common ill to many men since if a traueller That would his iourneys end apply and passe them vnassayd Come neare and vexe them vpon him the childrens faults are layd For on they flie as he were such and still defend their owne So far'd it with the feruent mind of euery Myrmidon Who pour'd themselues out of their fleete vpon their wanton foes That needs would stirre them thrust so neare and cause the ouerthrowes Of many others that had else bene neuer toucht by them Nor would haue toucht Patroclus then put his wind to the streame Patroclus to the 〈◊〉 And thus exhorted Now my friends remember you
obtaine me if thou stay'st retire then take aduise A foole sees nought before t is done and still too late is wise This mou'd not him but to the worse since it renew'd the sting That his slaine brother shot in him rememberd by the king To whom he answer'd Thou shalt pay for all the paines endur'd By that slaine brother all the wounds sustaind for him recur'd With one made in thy heart by me T is true thou mad'st his wife A heauie wid ow when her ioyes of wedlocke scarce had life And hurt'st our parents with his griefe all which thou gloriest in Forespeaking so thy death that now their griefes end shall begin To Panthus and the snowy hand of Phrontes I will bring Those armes and that proud head of thine and this laborious thing Shall aske no long time to performe nor be my words alone But their performance Strength and Fight and Terror thus sets on This said he strooke his all-round shield nor shrunke that but his lance Euphorbus slain by Menelaus That turn'd head in it then the king assaid the second chance First praying to the king of gods and his dart entrie got The force much driuing backe his foe in low part of his throte And ranne his necke through Then fell pride and he and all with gore His locks that like the Graces were and which he euer wore In gold and siluer ribands wrapt were piteously wet And when alone in some choice place a husband-man hath set Simile The young plant of an Oliue tree whose roote being euer fed With plentie of delicious springs his branches brauely spred And all his fresh and louely head growne curld with snowy flowres That dance and florish with the winds that are of gentlest powres But when a whiâ—…lewind got aloft stoopes with a sodaine gale Teares from his head his tender curles and tosseth there withall His fixt roote from his hollow mines it well presents the force Of Spartas king and so the Plant Euphorbus and his Corse He slaine the king stript off his armes and with their worthy prise All fearing him had clearely past if heauens faire eye of eyes Had not in enuy of his acts to his encounter stird The Mars-like Hector to whose powres the rescue he preferd Of those faire armes and tooke the shape of Mentas Colonell Of all the Cicones that neare the Thracian Hebrus dwell Like him he thus put forth his voice Hector thou scowâ—…'st the field In head strong pursuite of those horse that hardly are compeld To take the draught of chariots by any mortals hand The great grand child of Aeacus hath onely their command Achilles Whom an immortall mother bore while thou attendst on these The young Atrides in defence of Menatiades Patroclus so cal led of Meâ—…etius his father Hath slaine Euphorbus Thus the god tooke troope with men againe And Hector heartily perplext lookt round and saw the slaine Still shedding riuers from his wound and then tooke enuious view Of braue Atrides with his spoyle in way to whom he flew Like one of Vulcans quenchlesse flames Atrides heard the crie Note the manly wise discourse of Menelaus 〈◊〉 himselfe 〈◊〉 Hector ad uancing towards him That euer vsherd him and sigh'd and said O me if I Should leaue these goodly armes and him that here lies dead for me I feare I should offend the Greeks If I should stay and be Alone with Hector and his men I may be compast in Some sleight or other they may vse Many may quickly win Their wils of one and all Troy comes euer where Hector leades But why deare mind dost thou thus talke when men dare set their heads Against the gods as sure they do that fight with men they loue Straight one or other plague ensues it cannot therefore moue The grudge of any Greeke that sees I yeeld to Hector he Still fighting with a spirit from heauen And yet if I could see Braue Aiax he and I would stand though gainst a god and sure T is best I seeke him and then see if we two can procure This Corses freedome through all these a little then let rest The body and my mind be still of two bads chuse the best In this discourse the troopes of Troy were in with him and he Made such a Lionlike retreate as when the herdsmen see The royall sauage and come on with men dogs cries and speares 〈◊〉 To cleare their horned stall and then the kingly heart he beares With all his high disdaine fals off so from this ods of aide The golden-haird Atrides fled and in his strength displaid Vpon his left hand him he wisht extremely busied About encouraging his men to whom an extreme dread Apollo had infusde the king reacht Aiax instantly And said Come friend let vs two haste and from the tyranny Menelaus to 〈◊〉 Of Hector free Patroclus corse He strait and gladly went And then was Hector haling of the body with intent To spoile the shoulders of the head and giue the dogs the rest His armes he hauing prisde before When Aiax brought his brest To barre all further spoyle with that he had sure Hector thought T was best to satisfie his splene which temper Aiax wrought With his mere sight and Hector fled the armes he sent to Troy To make his citizens admire and pray Ioue send him ioy Then Aiax gatherd to the corse and hid it with his targe There setting downe as sure a foote as in the tender charge Of his lou'd whelps a Lion doth two hundred hunters neare Simile To giue him onset their more force make him the more austere Drownes all their clamors in his 〈◊〉 darts dogs doth all despise And lets his rough browes downe so low they couer all his eyes So Aiax lookt and stood and stayd for great Priamides When Glaucus Hippolâ—…chides saw Aiax thus depresse 〈◊〉 vpâ—… 〈◊〉 The spirit of eHctor thus he chid O goodly man at armes In Fght a Paris why should Fame make thee fort gainst our harmes Being such a fugitiue now marke how well thy boasts defend Thy citie onely with her owne Be sure it shall descend To that proofe wholly Not a man of any Lycian ranke Shall strike one stroke more for thy towne for no mans gets a thanke Should he eteâ—…nally fight here nor any guard of thee How wilt thou worthlesse that thou art keepe off an enemie From our poore souldiers when their Prince Sarpedon guest and friend To thee and most deseruedly thou flew'st from in his end And left'st to all the lust of Greece O gods a man that was In life so huge a good to Troy and to thee such a grace In death not kept by thee from dogs if my friends wiâ—…l do well We 'le take our shoulders from your walls and let all sinke to hell As all will were our faces turn'd Did such a spirit breath In all you Troians as becomes all men that fight beneath Their
flight he saw and falling flat the compasse was too hie And made it sticke beyond in earth th' extreme part burst and theâ—…e Mars buried all his violence The sword then for the speare Had chang'd the conflict had not haste sent both th' Aiaies in Both seruing close their fellowes call who where they did begin There drew the end Priamides Aeneas Chronius In doubt of what such aid might worke left broken hearted thus Aretus to Automedon who spoild his armes and said Automedon insuiâ—…s A little this reuiues my life for him so lately dead Though by this nothing counteruail'd And with this litle vent Of inward griefe he tooke the spoile with which he made ascent Vp to his Chariot hands and feete of bloudie staines so full That Lion-like he lookt new turn'd from tearing vp a Bull. And now another bitter fight about Patroclus grew Teare-thirstie and of toile enough which Pallas did renew Descending from the cope of starres dismist by sharp-eyd Ioue To animate the Greeks for now inconstant change did moue His mind from what he held of late And as the purple bow Simile Ioue bends at mortals when of warre he will the signall show Or make it a presage of cold in such tempestuous sort That men are of their labours easde but labouring cattell hurt So Pallas in a purple cloud inuolu'd her selfe and went Amongst the Grecians stird vp all but first encouragement She breath'd in Atreus yonger sonne and for disguise made choise Of aged Phoenix shape and spake with his vnwearied voice O Menelaus much defame and equall heauinesse Pallas like Phâ—…uix to Menelaâ—… Will touch at thee if this true friend of great Aeacides Dogs teare beneath the Troian wals and therefore beare thee well Toile through the host and euery man with all thy spirit impell He answerd O thou long-since borne O Phoenix that hast wonne Menelaus to Pallas supposâ—…d Phâ—…nix The honor'd foster-fathers name of Thetis god-like sonne b I would Minerua would but giue strength to me and but keepe These busie darts off I would then make in indeed and steepe My income in their bloods in aide of good Patroclus much His death afflicts me much but yet this Hectors grace is such With Ioue and such a fierie strength and spirit he has that still His steele is killing killing still The kings so royall will Minerua ioy'd to heare since she did all the gods outgo In his remembrance For which grace she kindly did bestow Strength on his shoulders and did fill his knees as liberally With swiftnesse breathing in his breast the courage of a flie Which loues to bite so and doth beare mans bloud so much good will That still though beaten from a man she flies vpon him still With such a courage Pallas fild the blacke parts neare his hart And then he hasted to the slaine cast off a shining dart And tooke one Podes that was heire to old Eâ—…tion A rich man and a strenuous and by the people done Much honour and by Hector too being consort and his guest And him the yellow-headed king laid hold on at his waste In offering flight his iron pile strooke through him downe he fell And vp Atrides drew his corse Then Phoebus did impell The spirit of Hector Phoenops like surnam'd Asiades Phoebus like Asiades to Hector Whom Hector vsde of all his guests with greatest friendlinesse And in Abydus stood his house in whose forme thus he spake Hector what man of all the Greeks will any terror make Of meeting thy strength any more when thou art tertified By Menelaus who before he slue thy friend was tried A passing easie souldier where now besides his end Imposde by him he drawes him off and not a man to friend From all the Troians This friend is Podes Eâ—…tions sonne This hid him in a cloud of griefe and set him formost on And then Ioue tooke his Snake-fring'd shield and Ida couer'd all With sulphurie clouds from whence he let abhorred lightnings fall And thunderd till the mountaine shooke and with this dreadfull state He vsherd victorie to Troy to Argos flight and fate Peneleus Boeotius was he that formost fled Being wounded in his shoulders height but there the lances head Strooke lightly glancing to his mouth because it strooke him neare Throwne from Polydamas Leitus next left the fight in feare Being hurt by Hector in his hand because he doubted sore His hand in wished fight with Troy would hold his lance no more Idomeneus sent a dart at Hector rushing in Idomeneus at Hector And following Leitus that strooke his bosome neare his chin And brake at top the Ilians for his escape did shout When Hector at Deucalides another lance sent out As in his chariot he stood it mist him narrowly For as it fell Caeranus draue his speedie chariot by And tooke the Troian lance himselfe he was the Chariotere Of sterne Meriones and first on foote did seruice there Which well he left to gouerne horse for sauing now his king With driuing twixt him and his death though thence his owne did spring Which kept a mightie victorie from Troy in keeping death From his great Soueraigne the fierce dart did enter him beneath His eare betwixt his iaw and it draue downe cut through his tongue And strooke his teeth out from his hands the horses raines he flung Which now Meriones receiu'd as they bestrew'd the field And bad his Soueraigne scourge away he saw that day would yeeld No hope of victorie for them He fear'd the same and fled Nor from the mightie minded sonne of Telamon lay hid For all his clouds high Ioue himselfe nor from the Spartan king They saw him in the victorie he still was varying For Troy for which sight Aiax said O heauens what foole is he That sees not Ioues hand in the grace now done our enemie Not any dart they touch but takes from whom soeuer throwne Valiant or coward what he wants Ioue addes not any one Aiax good counsell Wants his direction to strike sure nor ours to misse as sure But come let vs be sure of this to put the best in vre That lies in vs which two-fold is both to fetch off our friend And so to fetch him off as we may likeliest contend To fetch our selues off that our friends suruiuing may haue right In ioy of our secure retreat as he that fell in fight Being kept as sure from further wrong of which perhaps they doubt And looking this way grieue for vs not able to worke out Or passe from this man-slaughterer great Hector and his hands That are too hote for men to touch but that these thirstie sands Before our fleete will be enforc't to drinke our headlong death Which to preuent by all fit meanes I would the parted breath Of good Patroclus to his friend with speed imparted were By some he loues for I beleeue no heauie messenger Hath yet inform'd him but alas I see no man
close and saw enclosde Their whole host in this generall plague But now his friend put on His armes being sent by him to field and many a Myrmidon In conduct of him all the day they fought before the gates Of Scaea and most certainly that day had seene the dates Of all Troyes honors in her dust if Phoebus hauing done Much mischiefe more the enuyed life of good Menâ—…tius sonne Had not with partiall hands enforc't and all the honor giuen To Hector who hath prisd his armes and therefore I am driuen T' embrace thy knees for new defence to my lou'd sonne ahlas His life prefixt so short a date had need spend that with grace A shield then for him and a helme faire greaues and curets such As may renowne thy workmanship and honor him as much I sue for at thy famous hands Be confident said he Let these wants breed thy thoughts no care I would it lay in me To hide him from his heauy death when Fate shall seeke for him Vulcan to 〈◊〉 As well as with renowned armes to fit his goodly limme Which thy hands shall conuey to him and all eyes shall admire See and desire againe to see thy satisfied desire This said he left her there and forth did to his bellows go Vulcan 〈◊〉 to forge armes for Achilleâ—… Apposde them to the fire againe commanding them to blow Through twenty holes made to his harth at once blew twenty paire That â—…it'd his coles sometimes with soft sometimes with vehement ayre As he will'd and his worke requir'd Amids the flame he cast Tin Siluer precious Gold and Brasse and in the stocke he plac't A mightie anuile his right hand a weightie hammer held His left his tongs And first he forg'd a strong and spacious shield Adornd with twenty seuerall hewes about whose verge he beate A ring three-fold and radiant and on the backe he set A siluer handle fiue-fold were the equall lines he drew About the whole circumference in which his hand did shew Directed with a knowing mind a rare varietie For in it he presented earth in it the sea and skie In it the-neuer-wearied Sunne the Moone exactly round And all those starres with which the browes of ample heauen are crownd Orion all the Pleiades and those seuen Atlas got The close-beam'd Hyades The Beare surnam'd the Chariot That turnes about heauens axeltree holds oâ—…a a constant eye Vpon Orion and of all the Cressets in the skie His golden forehead neuer bowes to th' Ocean Emperie Two cities in the spacious shield he built with goodly state Two cities forged in Achilles armes Of diuerse-languag'd men the one did nuptials celebrate Obseruing at them solemne feasts the Brides from foorth their bowres With torches vsherd through the streets a world of Paramours Excited by them youths and maides in louely circles 〈◊〉 To whom the merrie Pipe and Harpe the spritely sounds aduanc't The matrones standing in their dores admiring Otherwhere A solemne Court of law was kept were throngs of people were The case in question was a fine imposde on one that slue The friend of him that follow'd it and for the fine did sue Which th' other pleaded he had paide The aduerse part denied And openly affirm'd he had no penny satisfied Both put it to arbiterment the people cryed t was best For both parts and th' Assistants too gaue their doomes like the rest The Heralds made the people peace the Seniors then did beare The voicefull Heralds scepters sate within a sacred sphere On polisht stones and gaue by turnes their sentence In the Court Two talents gold were cast for him that iugd'd in iustest sort The other citie other warres employ'd as busily The martiall citie in the shield of Achilles Two armies glittering in armes of one confederacie Besieg'd it and a parle had with those within the towne Two wayes they stood resolu'd to see the citie ouerthrowne Or that the citizens should heape in two parts all their wealth And giue them halfe They neither lik't but arm'd themselues by stealth Left all their old men wiues and boyes behind to man their wals And stole out to their enemies towne The Queene of martials And Mars himselfe conducted them both which being forg'd of gold Must needs haue golden furniture and men might so behold They were presented deities The people Vulcan forg'd Of â—…eaner mettall When they came where that was to be vrg'd For which they went within a vale close to a flood whose streame Vsde to giue all their cattell drinke they there enambusht them And sent two scouts out to descrie when th' enemies heards and sheepe Were setting out They strait câ—…me forth with two that vsde to keepe Their passâ—…ge alwayes both which pip't and went on merrily Nor dream'd of Ambuscados there The Ambush then let flie Slue all their white fleec't sheepe and neate and by them laid their guard When those in siâ—…ge before the towne so strange an vprore heard Behind amongst their flocks and heards being then in counsell set They then start vp tooke horse and soone their subtle enemie met Fought with them on the riuers shore where both gaue mutuall blowes With wâ—…ll pil'd darts Amongst them all peruerse Contention rose Amongst them Tumult was enrag'd amongst them ruinous Fate Had her red-finger some they tooke in an vnhurt estate Some hurt yet liuing some quite slaine and those they tug'd to them By both the feete strip't off and tooke their weeds with all the streame Of blood vpon them that their steeles had manfully let out They far'd as men aliue indeed drew dead indeed about To these the fierie Artizan did adde a new-ear'd field A new 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the shield Larg'd and thrice plowd the soyle being soft and of a wealthy yeeld And many men at plow he made that draue earth here and there And turnd vp stitches orderly at whose end when they were A fellow euer gaue their hands full cups of luscious wine Which emptied for another stitch the earth they vndermine And long till th' vtmost bound be reacht of all the ample Close The soyle turnd vp behind the plow all blacke like earth arose Though forg'd of nothing else but gold and lay in show as light As if it had bene plowd indeed miraculous to sight There grew by this a field of corne high ripe where reapers wrought A field of corâ—…e And let thicke handfuls fall to earth for which some other brought Bands and made sheaues Three binders stood and tooke the handfuls reapt From boyes that gatherd quickly vp and by them armefuls heapt Amongst these at a â—…urrowes end the king stood pleasd at heart Said no word but his scepter shewd And from him much apart His haruest Bailiffes vnderneath an Oke a feast prepar'd And hauing kild a mightie Oxe stood there to see him shar'd Which women for their haruest folks then come to sup had drest And many-white-wheate-cakes bestow'd to make it vp
Thetis sonne Ioue to Minerua Now daughter thou hast quite forgot O is Achilles care Extinguisht in thee prostrated in most extreme ill fare He lies before his high-sail'd fleet for his dead friend the rest Are strengthning them with meate but he lies desperatly opprest With heartlesse fasting Go thy wayes and to his brest instill Red Nectar and Ambrosia that Fast procure no ill To his neare enterprise This spurre he added to the free And like a Harpye with a voice that shrickes so dreadfully And feathers that like needles prickt she stoopt through all the starres Amongst the Grecians all whose tents were now fill'd for the warres Her seres strooke through Achilles tent and closely she instill'd Heauens most-to-be-desired feast to his great breast and fill'd His sinewes with that sweete supply for feare vnsauorie Fast Should creepe into his knees Her selfe the skies againe enchac't The host set forth and pour'd his steele waues farre out of the fleete The show of the army setting forth vnder Achilles conduct And as from aire the frostie Northwind blowes a cold thicke sleete That dazels eyes flakes after flakes incessantly descending So thicke helmes curets ashen darts and round shields neuer ending Flow'd from the nauies hollow wombe their splendors gaue heauens eye His beames againe Earth laught to see her face so like the skie Armes shin'd so hote and she such clouds made with the dust she cast She thunderd feete of men and horse importun'd her so fast In midst of all diuine Achilles his faire person arm'd His teeth gnasht as he stood his eyes so full of fire they warm'd Vnsufferd griefe and anger at the Trâ—…ians so combin'd His greaues first vsde his goodly curets on his bosome shin'd His sword his shield that cast a brightnesse from it like the Moone And as from sea sailers discerne a harmfull fire let runne By herdsmens faults till all their stall flies vp in wrastling flame Which being on hils is seene farre off but being alone none came To giue it quench at shore no neighbours and at sea their friends Driuen off with tempests such a fire from his bright shield extends His ominous radiance and in heauen imprest his feruent blaze His crested helmet graue and high had next triumphant place On his curl'd head and like a starre it cast a spurrie ray About which a bright thickned bush of golden haire did play Which Vulcan forg'd him for his plume Thus compleate arm'd he â—…ide How fit they were and if his motion could with ease abide Their braue instruction and so farre they were from hindring it That to it they were nimble wings and made so light his spirit That from the earth the princely Captaine they tooke vp to aire Then from his armoury he drew his lance his fathers speare Huge weightie firme that not a Greeke but he himselfe alone Knew how to shake it grew vpon the mountaine â—…elion From whose height Chiron hew'd it for his Sire and fatall t was To great-soul'd men Of Peleus and Pelion surnamed Pelias Then from the stable their bright horse Automedon withdrawes And Alcymus Put Poitrils on and cast vpon their â—…awes Their bridles hurling backe the raines and hung them on the seate The faire scourge then Automedon takes vp and vp doth get To guide the horse The fights seate last Achilles tooke behind Who lookt so arm'd as if the Sunne there falne from heauen had shin'd Achilles to hiâ—… horses And terribly thus charg'd his steeds Xanthus and Balius Seed of the Harpye in the charge ye vndertake of vs Discharge it not as when Patroclus ye left dead in field But when with bloud for this dayes fast obseru'd Reuenge shall yeeld Our heart sacietie bring vs off Thus since Achilles spake As if his aw'd steeds vnderstood t was Iunoes will to make Vocall the pallat of the one who shaking his faire head Which in his mane let fall to earth he almost buried Thus Xanthus spake Ablest Achilles now at least our care Xanthus thâ—… horse of Achi. to Achilles Shall bring thee off but not farre hence the fatall minutes are Of thy graue ruine Nor shall we be then to be reprou'd But mightiest Fate and the great God Nor was thy best belou'd Spoil'd so of armes by our slow pace or courages empaire The best of gods Latonaes sonne that weares the golden haire Gaue him his deaths wound though the grace he gaue to Hectors hand We like the spirit of the West that all spirits can command For powre of wing could runne him off but thou thy selfe must go So Fate ordaines God and a man must giue thee ouerthrow This said the Furies stopt his voice Achilles farre in rage Achilles reply to Xanthus Thus answerd him It fits not thee thus proudly to presage My ouerthrow I know my selfe it is my fate to fall Thus farre from Phthia yet that Fate shall faile to vent her gall Till mine vent thousands These words vsde he fell to horrid deeds Gaue dreadfull signall and forthright made flie his one-hou'd steeds COMMENTARIVS ◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Aprum praeparet mactandum Iouique Solique He shall prepare a Bore for sacrifice to Ioue and the Sunne It is the end of Agamemnons speech in this booke before to Vlysses and promiseth that sacrifice to Ioue and the Sun at the reconciliation of himselfe and Achilles Our Commentors Eustathius and Spondanus c. will by no meanes allow the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here for Homers but an vnskilfulnesse in the diuulger and will needs haue it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Spondanus sayes is altogether here to be vnderstood as Eustathius words teach for to offer so fierce a beast to Ioue as a Bore he sayes is absurd and cites Natalis lib. 1. cap. 17. where he sayes Homer in this place makes a tame Sow sacrificed to Ioue who was as tamely and simply deceiued as the rest Eustathius reason for it is that sus is animal salax and since the oath Agamemnon takes at this sacrifice to satisfie Achilles that he hath not toucht Briseis is concerning a woman very fitly is a Sow here sacrificed But this seemes to Spondanus something ridiculous as I hope you will easily iudge it And as I conceiue so is his owne opinion to haue the originall word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 altered and expounded suem His reason for it he makes nice to vtter saying he knowes what is set downe amongst the learned touching the sacrifice of a Sow But because it is he sayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nihil ad rem though as they expound it t is too much ad rem he is willing to keepe his opinion in silence vnlesse you will take it for a splayed or gelded Sow as if Agamemnon would innuate that as this Sow being splayed is free from Venus so had he neuer attempted the dishonour of Briseis And peraduenture sayes Spondanus you cannot
â—…ll vnthought Stole on him in Achilles shape who tooke him thence and brought To well-built Lemnos selling him to famous Iasons sonne From whom a guest then in his house Imbrius Eetion Redeem'd at high rate and sent home t' Ariâ—…ba whence he fled And saw againe his fathers court eleuen daies banquetted Amongst his friends the twelfth god thrust his haplesse head againe In t'hands of sterne Aeacides who now must send him slaine To Plutos Court and gainst his will Him when Achilles knew Naked of helmet shield sword lance all which for ease he thâ—…ew To earth being ouercome with sweate and labour wearying His flying knees he storm'd and said O heauen a wondrous thing Inuades mine eyes those Ilians that heretofore I slue Rise from the darke dead quicke againe this man fâ—…te makes eschew Her owne steele fingers he was sold in Lemnos and the deepe Of all Seas twixt this Troy and that that many a man doth keepe From his lou'd countrie barres not him Come then he now shall tast The head of Pelias and trie if stâ—…le will downe as fast As other fortunes or kind earth can any surer 〈◊〉 On his slie person whose strong armes haue held downe Hercules His thoughts thus mou'd while he stood firme to see if he he 〈◊〉 Lycâ—…ons feare to be seeâ—… of Achilles Would offer flight which first he thought but when he had dâ—…ride He was dâ—…scried and flight was vaine fearefull he made more nie With purpose to embrace his knees and now long'd much to flie His blacke fate and abhorred death by coming in His foe Obseru'd all this and vp he raisd his lance as he would throw And then Lycaon close ran in fell on his breast and tooke Achilles knees whose lance on earth now staid did ouerlooke His â—…il-turn'd backe with thirst to glut his sharpe point with the blood That lay so readie but that thirst Lycaons thirst withstood To saue his blood Achilles knee in his one hand he knit His other held the long lance hard and would not part with it But thus besought I kisse thy knees diuine Aeacides Respect me and my fortunes rue I now present th' accesse Lycâ—…s 〈◊〉 intercession to Achilles for his life Of a poore suppliant for thy ruth and I am one that is Worthy thy ruth ô Ioues belou'd First houre my miseries Fell into any hand t was thine I tasted all my bread By thy gift since O since that houre that thy surprisall led From forth the faire wood my sad feete farre from my lou'd allies To famous Lemnos where I found an hundred Oxens prise To make my ransome for which now I thrise the worth will raise This day makes twelue since I arriu'd in Ilion many daies Being spent before in sufferance and now a cruell fate Thrusts me againe into thy hands I should hant Ioue with hate That with such set malignitie giues thee my life againe There were but two of vs for whom Laothoe sufferd paine Laothoe old Altes seed Alte whose pallace stood In height of vpper Pedasus neare Satnius â—…iluer flood And rulde the warre-like Lelegi Whose seed as many more King Priam married and begot the godlike Polydor And me accurst thou slaughterdst him and now thy hand on me Will proue as mortall I did thinke when here I met with thee I could not scape thee yet giue eare and adde thy mind to it I told my birth to intimate though one sire did beget Yet one wombe brought not into light Hector that slue thy friend And me O do not kill me then but let the wretched end Of Polydor excuse my life For halfe our being bred Brothers to Hector he halfe paid no more is forfeited Thus su'd he humbly but he heard with this austere replie Foole vrge not ruth noâ—… price to me till that solemnitie Resolu'd on for Patroclus death pay all his rites to fate Till his death I did grace to Troy and many liues did rate At price of ransome but none now of all the brood of Troy Who euer Ioue throwes to my hands shall any breath enioy That death can beate out specially that touch at Primas race Die die my friend what teares are these what sad lookes spoile thy face Patroclus died that farre past thee nay seest thou not beside My selfe euen I a faire yong-man and rarely magnifide And to my father being a king a mother haue that sits In ranke with goddesses and yet when thou hast spent thy spirits Death and as violent a fate must ouertake euen me By twilight morne-light day high noone when euer Destinie Sets on her man to hurle a lance or knit out of his string An arrow that must reach my life This said a languishing Lycaons heart bent like his knees yet left him strength t' aduance Both hands for mercie as he kneeld His foe yet leaues his lance And forth his sword flies which he hid in furrow of a wound Driuen through the ioynture of his necke flat fell he on the ground Stretcht with deaths pangs and all the earth embrew'd with timelesse blood Then gript Aeacides his heele and to the loftie flood Flung swinging his vnpitied corse to see it swim and tosse Vp on the rough waues and said Go feed fat the fish with losse Of thy left blood they cleane will sucke thy greene wounds and this saues Thy mother teares vpon thy bed Deepe Xanthus on his waues Shall hoyse thee brauely to a tombe that in her burly breast The sea shall open where great fish may keepe thy funerall feast With thy white fat and on the waues dance at thy wedding fate Clad in blacke horror keeping close inaccessible state So perish Ilians till we plucke the browes of Ilion Downe to her feete you flying still I flying still vpon Thus in the rere and as my browes were forckt with rabid hornes The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which they translate caedens but properly signifies dissipans ut boues infestis cornibus Tosse ye together This braue flood that strengthens and adornes Your citie with his siluer gulfes to whom so many buls Your zeale hath offerd with blind zeale his sacred current guls With casting chariots and horse quicke to his prayd-for aide Shall nothing profite perish then till cruell'st Death hath laide All at the red feet of Reuenge for my slaine friend and all With whom the absence of my hands made yours a festiuall This speech great Xanthus more enrag'd and made his spirit contend For meanes to shut vp the o'pt vaine against him and defend The Troians in it from his plague In meane time Peleus sonne And now with that long lance he hid for more blood set vpon Asteropaeus the descent of Pelagon and he Of brode-stream'd Axius and the dame of first natiuitie To all the daughters that renown'd Acesamenus seed Bright Periboea whom the flood arm'd thicke with loftie reed Comprest At her grandchild now went Thetis great sonne whose foe Stood
turndst me from the walls whose ports had neuer entertaind Numbers now enter'd ouer whom thy sauing hand hath raign'd And robd my honor And all is since all thy actions stand Past feare of reckoning but held I the measure in my hand It should affoord thee deare-bought fcapes Thus with elated spirits Steed-like that at Olympus games weares garlands for his merits And rattles home his chariot extending all his pride Achilles so parts with the god When aged Priam spide The great Greek come sphear'd round with beames and show'ng as if the star Surnam'd Orions hound that springs in Autumne and sends farre His radiance through a world of starres of all whose beames his owne Cast greatest splendor the midnight that renders them most showne Then being their foile and on their points cure-passing Feuers then Come shaking downe into the ioynts of miserable men As this were falne to earth and shot along the field his raies Now towards Priam when he saw in great Aeacides Priams fright at the sight of Achilles Out flew his tender voice in shriekes and with raisde hands he smit His reuerend head then vp to heauen he cast them shewing it What plagues it sent him Downe againe then threw them to his sonne To make him shun them He now stood without steepe Ilion Thirsting the combat and to him thus miserably cride The kind old king O Hector flie this man this homicide Priam to Hector That strait will stroy thee Hee 's too strong and would to heauen he were As strong in heauens loue as in mine Vultures and dogs should teare His prostrate carkasse all my woes quencht with his bloudy spirits He has robd me of many sonnes and worthy and their merits Sold to farre Ilands Two of them aye me I misse but now They are not enterd nor stay here Laothoe O t was thou O Queene of women from whose wombe they breath'd O did the tents Detaine them onely brasse and gold would purschase safe euents To their sad durance t is within Old Altes yong in fame Gaue plentie for his daughters dowre but if they fed the flame Of this mans furie woe is me woe to my wretched Queene But in our states woe their two deaths will nought at all be seene So thy life quit them take the towne retire deare sonne and saue Troys husbands and her wiues nor giue thine owne life to the graue For this mans glorie pitie me me wretch so long aliue Whom in the doore of Age Ioue keepes that so he may depriue My being in Fortunes vtmost curse to see the blackest thred Of this lifes miseries my sonnes slaine my daughters rauished Their resting chambers sackt their babes torne from them on their knees Pleading for mercie themselues dragd to Grecian slaueries And all this drawne through my red eyes Then last of all kneele I Alone all helplesse at my gates before my enemie That ruthlesse giues me to my dogs all the deformitie Of age discouer'd and all this thy death sought wilfully Will poure on me A faire yong man at all parts it beseemes Being brauely slaine to lie all gasht and weare â—…he worst extremes Of warres most crueltie no wound of whatsoeuer ruth But is his ornament but I a man so farre from youth White head white bearded wrinkl'd pin'd all shames must shew the eye Liue preuent this then this most shame of all mans miserie Thus wept the old king and tore off his white haire yet all these Retir'd not Hector Hecuba then fell vpon her knees Stript nak't her bosome shew'd her breasts and bad him reuerence them And pitie her if euer she had quieted his exclaime He would ceasse hers and take the towne not tempting the rude field When all had left it thinke said she I gaue thee life to yeeld My life recomfort thy rich wife shall haue no rites of thee Nor do thee rites our teares shall pay thy corse no obsequie Being rauisht from vs Grecian dogs nourisht with what I nâ—…rst Thus wept both these and to his ruth proposde the vtmost worst Of what could chance them yet he staid And now drew deadly neare Mightie Achilles yet he still kept deadly station there Looke how a Dragon when she sees a traueller bent vpon A Simile expressing how Hector stood Achilles Her breeding den her bosome fed with fell contagion Gathers her forces sits him firme and at his nearest pace Wraps all her Cauerne in her folds and thrusts a horrid face Out at his entrie Hector so with vnextinguisht spirit Stood great Achilles stird no foote but at the prominent turret Bent to his bright shield and resolu'd to beare falne heauen on it Yet all this resolute abode did not so truly fit His free election but he felt a much more galling spurre To the performance with conceit of what he should incurre Entring like others for this cause to which he thus gaue way O me if I shall take the towne Polydamas will lay This flight and all this death on me who counseld me to leade Hectors discourse My powres to Troy this last blacke night when so I saw make head Incenst Achilles I yet staid though past all doubt that course Had much more profited then mine which being by so much worse As comes to all our flight and death my folly now I feare Hath bred this scandall all our towne now burnes my ominous earâ—… With whispering Hectors selfe conceit hath cast away his host And this true this extremitie that I relie on most Is best for me stay and retire with this mans life or die Here for our citiâ—… with renowme since all else fled but I. And yet one way cuts both these wayes what if I hang my shield My helme and lance here on these wals and meete in humble field Renowm'd Achilles offering him Hellen and all the wealth What euer in his hollow keeles bore Alexanders stealth For both th' Atrides For the rest what euer is possest In all this citie knowne or hid by oath shall be confest Of all our citizens of which one halfe the Greeks shall haue One halfe themselues But why lou'd soule would these suggestions saue Thy state still in me I le not sue nor would he grant but I Mine armes cast off should be assur'd a womans death to die To men of oke and rocke no words virgins and youths talke thus Virgins and youths that loue and wooe there 's other warre with vs What blowes and conflicts vrge we crie hates and defiances And with the garlands these trees beare trie which hand Ioue will blesse These thoughts emploid his stay and now Achilles comes now neare Achilles dreadfull approch to Hector His Mars-like presence terribly came brandishing his speare His right arme shooke it his bright armes like day came glittering on Like fire-light or the light of heauen shot from the rising Sun This sight outwrought discourse cold Feare shooke Hector from his stand No more stay now all ports
the king His milke-white head and beard With pittie he beheld and said Poore man thy mind is scar'd With much affliction how durst thy person thus alone Venture on his sight that hath â—…aine so many a worthy sonne And so deare to thee thy old heart is made of iron sit And settle we our woes though huge for nothing profits it Cold mourning wastes but our liues heates The gods haue destinate That wretched mortals must liue sad T is the immortall state Of Deitie that liues secure Two Tunnes of gifts there lie In Ioues gate one of good one ill that our mortalitie Maintaine spoile order which when Ioue doth mixe to any man One while he frolicks one while mourns If of his mournfull Kan A man drinks onely onely wrongs he doth expose him to Sad hunger in th' abundant earth doth tosse him to and froe Respected nor of gods nor men The mixt cup Peleus dranke Euen from hiâ—… birth heauen blâ—…st his life he liu'd not that could thanke The gods for such rare benefits as set foorth his estate He reign'd among his Myrmidons most rich most fortunate And though a mortall had his bed deckt with a deathlesse Dame And yet with all this good one ill god mixt that takes all name From all that goodnesse his Name now whose preseruation here Men count the crowne of their most good not blest with powre to beare One blossome but my selfe and I shaken as soone as blowne Nor shall I liue to cheare his age and giue nutrition To him that nourisht me Farre off my rest is set in Troy To leaue thee restlesse and thy seed Thy selfe that did enioy As we haue heard a happie life what Lesbos doth containe In times past being a blest mans seate what the vnmeasur'd maine Of Hellâ—…spontus Phrygiâ—… holds are all said to adorne Thy Empire wealth and sonnes enow but when the gods did turne Thy blest state to partake with bane warre and the bloods of men Circl'd thy citie neuer cleare Sit downe and suffer then Mourne not ineuitable things thy teares can spring no deeds To helpe theee nor recall thy sonne impacience euer breeds Ill vpon ill makâ—…s worst things worse and therefore sit He said Giue me no seate great seed of Ioue when yet vnransomed Priam to Aâ—… Hector lies ritelesse in thy tents but daigne with vtmost speed His resignation that these eyes may see his person freed And thy grace satisfied with gifts Accept what I haue brought And turne to Phthia t is enough thy conquering hand hath fought Till Hector faltred vnder it and Hectors father stood With free humanitie safe He frown'd and said Giue not my blood Achilles angry with Priâ—… Fresh cause of furie I know well I must râ—…signe thy sonne Ioue by my mother vtterd it and what besides is done I know as amply and thy selfe old Priam I know too Some god hath brought thee for no man durst vse a thought to go On such a seruice I haue guards and I haue gates to stay Easie accesses do not then presume thy will can sway Like Ioues will and incense againe my quencht blood lest nor thou Nor Ioue gets the command of me This made the old king bow And downe he sate in feare the Prince leapt like a Lion forth Automedon and Alcymus attending all the worth Brought for the body they tooke downe and brought in and with it Idaeus herald to the king a cote embroderd yet And two rich cloakes they left to hide the person Thetis sonne Cald out his women to annoint and quickly ouerrunne The Corse with water lifting it in priuate to the coach Lest Priam saw and his cold blood embrac't a fierie touch Of anger at the turpitude prophaning it and blew Againe his wraths fire to his death This done his women threw The cote and cloake on but the Corse Achilles owne hand laide Vpon a bed and with his friends to chariot it conuaide For which forc't grace abhorring so from his free mind he wept Cried out for anger and thus praide O friend do not except Against this fauour to our foe if in the deepe thou heare And that I giue him to his Sire he gaue faire ransome deare In my obseruance is Ioues will and whatsoeuer part Of all these gifts by any meane I fitly may conuert To thy renowne here and will there it shall be pour'd vpon Thy honour'd sepulcher This said he went and what was done Told Priam saying Father now thy wils fit rites are paide Thy sonne is giuen vp in the morne thine eyes shall see him laid Deckt in thy chariot on his bed in meane space let vs eate The rich-hair'd Niobe found thoughts that made her take her meate Though twelue deare children she saw slaine sixe daughters sixe yong sons The sonnes incenst Apollo slue the maides confusions Diana wrought since Niobe her merits durst compare With great Latonaâ—… arguing that she did onely beare Two children and her selfe had twelue For which those onely two Slue all her twelue nine dayes they lay steept in their blood her woe Found no friend to afford them fire Saturnius had turnd Humanes to stones The tenth day yet the good celestials burnd The trunkes themselues and Niobe when she was tyr'd with teares Fell to her foode and now with rockes and wilde hils mixt she beares In Sypilus the gods wraths still in that place where t is said The Goddesse Fairies vse to dance about the funerall bed Of Achelous where though turn'd with cold griefe to a stone Heauen giues her heate enough to feele what plague comparison With his powers made by earth deserues affect not then too farre Without griefe like a god being a man but for a mans life care And take fit foode thou shalt haue time beside to mourne thy sonne He shall be tearefull thou being full not here but Ilion Shall finde thee weeping roomes enow He said and so arose And causd a siluer-fleec't sheepe kill'd his friends skils did dispose The fleaing cutting of it vp and cookely spitted it Rosted and drew it artfully Automedon as fit Was for the reuerend Sewers place and all the browne ioynts seru'd On wicker vessell to the boord Achilles owne hands keru'd And close they fell too Hunger stancht talke and obseruing time Their mutuall obseruation of eithers fashion at the table Was vsde of all hands Priam sate amaz'd to see the prime Of Thetis sonne accomplisht so with stature lookes and grace In which the fashion of a god he thought had chang'd his place Achilles fell to him as fast admir'd as much his yeares Told in his graue and good aspect his speech euen charm'd his eares So orderd so materiall With this food feasted too Old Priam spake thus Now Ioues seed command that I may go Priam to Achilles And adde to this feast grace of rest these lids nere closde mine eyes Since vnder thy hands fled thâ—… soule of my deare sonne sighes cries And woes all
title doth to you resigne VVherein as th' Ocean walks not with such waues The Round of this Realme as your VVisedomes seas Nor with his great eye sees his Marble saues Our State like your Vlyssian policies So none like HOMER hath the VVorld enspher'd Earth Seas heauen fixt in his verse and mouing VVhom all times wisest Men haue held vnper'de And therefore would conclude with your approuing Then grace his spirit that all wise men hath grac't And made things euer flitting euer last An Anagram Robert Cecyl Earle of Salisburye Curbfoes thy care is all our erly Be. TO THE MOST HONOR'DRE storer of ancient Nobilitie both in blood and vertue the Earle of SVFFOLKE c. IOine Noblest Earle in giuing worthy grace To this great gracer of Nobilitie See here what sort of men your honor'd place Doth properly command if Poesie Profest by them were worthily exprest The grauest wisest greatest need not then Account that part of your command the least Nor them such idle needlesse worthlesse Men. VVho can be worthier Men in publique weales Then those at all parts that prescrib'd the best That stird vp noblest vertues holiest zeales And euermore haue liu'd as they profest A world of worthiest Men see one create Great Earle whom no man since could imitate TO THE MOST NOBLE AND learned Earle the Earle of NORTHAMTON c. TO you most learned Earle whose learning can Reiect vnlearned Custome and Embrace The reall vertues of a worthie Man I prostrate this great Worthie for your grace And pray that Poesies well-deseru'd ill Name Being such as many moderne Poets make her May nought eclipse her cleare essentiall flame But as she shines here so refuse or take her Nor do I hope but euen your high affaires May suffer intermixture with her view VVhere Wisedome fits her for the highest chaires And mindes growne old with cares of State renew You then great Earle that in his owne tongue know This king of Poets see his English show TO THE MOST NOBLE MY singular good Lord the Earle of Arundell STand by your noblest stocke and euer grow In loue and grace of vertue most admir'd And we will pay the sacrifice we owe Of prayre and honour with all good desir'd To your diuine soule that shall euer liue In height of all blisse prepar'd here beneath In that ingenuous and free grace you giue To knowledge onely Bulwarke against Death VVhose rare sustainers here her powres sustaine Hereafter Such reciprocall effects Meete in her vertues VVhere the loue doth raigne The Act of knowledge crownes our intellects VVhere th' Act nor Loue is there like beasts men die Not Life but Time is their Eternitie TO THE LEARNED AND most noble Patrone of learning the Earle of PEMBROOKE c. ABoue all others may your Honor shine As past all others your ingenuous beames Exhale into your grace the forme diuine Of godlike Learning whose exiled streames Runne to your succour charg'd with all the wracke Of sacred Vertue Now the barbarous witch Foule Ignorance sits charming of them backe To their first Fountaine in the great and rich Though our great Soueraigne counter-checke her charmes VVho in all learning reignes so past example Yet with her Turkish Policie puts on armes To raze all knowledge in mans Christian Temple You following yet our king your guard redouble Pure are those streames that these times cannot trouble TO THE RIGHT GRACIOVS Illustrator of vertue and worthy of the fauour Royall the Earle of MONTGOMRIE THere runs a blood faire Earle through your cleare vains That well entitles you to all things Noble VVhich still the liuing Sydnian soule maintaines And your Names ancient Noblesse doth redouble For which I needs must tender to your Graces This noblest worke of Man as made your Right And though Ignoblesse all such workes defaces As tend to Learning and the soules delight Yet since the sacred Penne doth testifie That Wisedome which is Learnings naturall birth Is the cleare Mirror of Gods Maiestie And Image of his goodnesse here in earth If you the Daughter wish respect the Mother One cannot be obtain'd without the other TO THE MOST LEARNED and Noble Concluder of the Warres Arte and the Muses the Lord LISLE c. NOr let my paines herein long honor'd Lord Faile of your ancient Nobly-good respects Though obscure Fortune neuer would afford My seruice show till these thus late effects And though my poore deserts weigh'd neuer more Then might keepe downe their worthlesse memorie From your high thoughts enricht with better store Yet yours in me are fixt eternally VVhich all my fit occasions well shall proue Meane space with your most Noble Nephewes daine To shew your free and honorable loue To this Greeke Poet in his English vaine You cannot more the point of death controule Then to stand close by such a liuing soule TO THE GREAT AND VER tuous the Countesse of MONTGOMRIE YOur Fame great Lady is so lowd resounded By your free Trumpet my right worthy frend That with it all my forces stand confounded Arm'd and disarm'd at once to one iust end To honor and describe the blest consent Twixt your high blood and soule in vertues rare Of which my friends praise is so eminent That I shall hardly like his Echo fare To render onely th' ends of his shrill Verse Besides my Bounds are short and I must meâ—…rely My will to honour your rare parts rehearse VVith more time singing your renowme more clearely Meane-time take Homer for my wants supply To whom adioyn'd your Name shall neuer die TO THE HAPPY STARRE DI scouered in our Sydneian Asterisme comfort of learning Sphere of all the vertues the Lady VVROTHE WHen all our other Starres set in their skies To Vertue and all honor of her kind That you rare Lady should so clearely rise Makes all the vertuous glorifie your mind And let true Reason and Religion trie If it be Fancie not iudiciall Right In you t' oppose the times Apostasie To take the soules part and her sauing Light VVhile others blinde and burie both in Sense VVhen t is the onely end for which all liue And could those soules in whom it dies dispense As much with their Religion they would giue That as small grace Then shun their course faire Starre And still keepe your way pure and circular TO THE RIGHT NOBLE PA tronesse and Grace of Uertue the Countesse of BEDFORD TO you faire Patronesse and Muse to Learning The Fount of learning and the Muses sends This Cordiall for your vertues and forewarning To leaue no good for th' ill the world commends Custome seduceth but the vulgar sort VVith whom when Noblesse mixeth she is vulgare The truly-Noble still repaire their Fort VVith gracing good excitements and gifts rare In which the narrow path to Happinesse Is onely beaten Vulgar pleasure sets Nets for her selfe in swinge of her excesse And beates her selfe there dead ere free she gets Since pleasure then with pleasure still doth waste Still please with vertue Madame That will last TO THE RIGHT VALOROVS and virtuous Lord the Earle of SOVTH-HAMTON c. IN Choice of all our Countries Noblest spirits Borne slauisher barbarisme to conuinâ—… I could not but in uoke your ho or'd Merits To follow the swift vertue of our Prince The cries of Vertue and her Fortresse Learning Brake earth and to Elysium did descend To call vp Homer who therein discerning That his excitements to their good had end As being a Grecian puts-on English armes And to the hardie Natures in these climes Stikes-vp his high and spiritfull alarmes That they may cleare earth of those impious Crimes VVhose conquest though most faintly all apply You know learn'd Earle all liue for and should die TO MY EXCEEDING GOOD Lord the Earle of SVSSEX with duty alwaies remembred to his honor'd Countesse YOu that haue made in our great Princes Name At his high birth his holy Christian vowes May witnesse now to his eternall Fame How he performes them thus far stil growes Aboue his birth in vertue past his yeares In strength of Bountie and great Fortitude Amongst this traine then of our choicest Peeres That follow him in chace of vices rude Summon'd by his great Herald Homers voice March you and euer let your Familie In your vowes made for such a Prince reioyce Your seruice to his State shall neuer die And for my true obseruance let this show No meanes escapes when I may honour you TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND Heroicall my singular good Lord the Lord of VVALDEN c. NOr let the vulgar sway Opinion beares Rare Lord that Poesies fauor shewes men vaine Ranke you amongst her sterne disfauourers She all things worthy fauour doth maintaine Vertue in all things else at best she betters Honour she heightens and giues Life in Death She is the ornament and soule of letters The worlds deceipt before her vanisheth Simple she is as Doues like Serpents wise Sharpe graue and sacred nought but things diuine And things diuining fit her faculties Accepting her as she is genuine If she be vaine then all things else are vile If vertuous still be Patrone of her stile TO THE MOST TRVLY-NO ble and Uertue-gracing Knight Sir Thomas HOVVARD THe true and nothing-lesse-then sacred spirit That moues your feete so farre from the prophane In skorne of Pride and grace of humblest merit Shall fill your Names sphere neuer seeing it wane It is so rare in blood so high as yours To entertaine the humble skill of Truth And put a vertuous end to all your powres That th' honor Age askes we giue you in youth Your Youth hath wonne the maistrie of your Mind As Homer sings of his Antilochus The parallell of you in euery kind Valiant and milde and most ingenious Go on in Vertue after Death and grow And shine like Ledas twins my Lord and you Euer most humbly and faithfully deuoted to you and all the rare Patrons of diuine Homer Geo. Chapman
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sadly he went and sate by Ioue shew'd his immortall blood That from a mortall-man-made-wound powrd such an impious flood And weeping powr'd out these complaints O Father stormst thou not Mars to Iupiteâ—… To see vs take these wrongs from men extreme griefes we haue got Euen by our owne deepe counsels held for gratifying them And thou our Councels President conclud'st in this extreme Of fighting euer being ruld by one that thou hast bred One neuer well but doing ill a girle so full of head That though all other Gods obey her mad moods must command By thy indulgence nor by word nor any touch of hand Correcting her thy reason is she is a sparke of thee And therefore she may kindle rage in men gainst Gods and she May make men hurt Gods and those Gods that are besides thy seed First in the palms height Cyprides then runs the impious deed On my hurt person and could life giue way to death in me Or had my feete not fetcht me off heaps of mortalitie Had kept me consort Iupiter with a contracted brow Thus answerd Mars Thou many minds inconstant changling thou Iupiter to Mars Sit not complaining thus by me whom most of all the Gods Inhabiting the starrie hill I hate no periods Being set to thy contentions brawles fights and pitching fields Iust of thy mother Iunos moods stiffe-neckt and neuer yeelds Though I correct her still and chide nor can forbeare offence Though to her sonne this wound I know tasts of her insolence But I will proue more naturall thou shalt be cur'd because Thou com'st of me but hadst thou bene so crosse to sacred lawes Being borne to any other God thou hadst bene throwne from heauen Long since as low as Tartarus beneath the Giants driuen This said he gaue his wound in charge to Pâ—…on who applied Such soueraigne medicines that as soone the paine was qualified And he recur'd as nourishing milke when runnet is put in Runs all in heapes of tough thicke curd though in his nature thin Euen so soone his wounds parted sides ran close in his recure For he all deathlesse could not long the parts of death endure Then Hebe bath'd and put on him fresh garments and he sate Hebe attires Mars Exulting by his Sire againe in top of all his state So hauing from the spoiles of men made his desir'd remoue Iuno and Pallas reascend the starrie Court of Ioue The end of the fifth Booke THE SIXTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT THe Gods now leauing an indifferent field The Greekes preuaile the slaughterd Troiâ—…ns yeeld Hector by Hellenus aduice retires In haste to Troy and Hecuba desires To pray Minerua to remoue from fight The soâ—…ne of Tydeus her affected knight And vow to her for fauour of such price Twelue Oxen should be Sâ—…aine in sacrifice In meane space Glaucus and Tydides 〈◊〉 And either other with remembrance greet Of old loue twixt their fathers which enclines Their hearts to friâ—…ndship who change armes for signes Of a continu'd loue for eithers life Hector in his returne meets with his wife And taking in his armed armes his sonne He prophecies the fall of Ilion Another Argument In Zeta Hector Prophecies Prayes for his sonne wils sacrifice THe stern fight freed of al the Gods conquest with doubtful wings Flew on their lances euerie way the restlesse field she flings Betwixt the floods of Symois and Xanthus that confin'd All their affaires at Ilion and round about them shin'd The first that weigh'd downe all the field of one particular side Was Aiax sonne of Telamon who like a bulwarke plide The Greekes protection and of Troy the knottie orders brake Held out a light to all the rest and shew'd them how to make Way to their conquest he did wound the strongest man of Thrace The tallest and the biggest set Eussorian Acamas His lance fell on his caskes plum'd top in stooping the fell head Draue through his forehead to his iawes his eyes Night shadowed Tydides slue Teuthranides Axilus that did dwell In faire Arisbas well-built towres he had of wealth a Well Tydides 〈◊〉 Diomed being son to Tydâ—… And yet was kind and bountifull he would a traueller pray To be his guest his friendly house stood in the brode high way In which he all sorts nobly vsd yet none of them would stand Twixt him and death but both himselfe and he that had command Of his faire horse Calisius fell liuelesse on the ground Euryalus Opheltius and Dresus dead did wound Nor ended there his fierie course which he againe begins And ran to it succesfully vpon a paire of twins Aesepus and bold Pedasus whom good Bucolion That first cald father though base borne renowm'd Laomedon On Nais Abarbaraea got a Nymph that as she fed Her curled flocks Bucolion woo'd and mixt in loue and bed Both these were spoild of armes and life by Mecistiades Then Polypaetes for sterne death Astialus did seise Vlysses slue Percosius Teucer Aretaon Antilochus old Nestors ioy Ablerus the great sonne Of Atreus and king of men Elatus whose abode He held at vpper Pedasus where Satnius riuer flow'd The great Heroe Leitus staid Philacus in flight From further life Eurypilus Melanthius reft of light The brother to the king of men Adrestus tooke aliue Whose horse affrighted with the flight their driuer now did driue Amongst the low-growne Tamâ—…cke trees and at an arme of one The chariot in the draught-tree brake the horse brake loose and ron The same way other flyers fled contending all to towne Himselfe close at the chariot wheele vpon his face was throwne And there lay flat roll'd vp in dust Atrides inwards draue And holding at his breast his lance Adrestus sought to saue His head by losing of his feet and trusting to his knees On which the same parts of the king he hugs and offers fees Of worthie value for his life and thus pleades their receipt Take me aliue O Atreus sonne and take a worthie weight Of brasse elaborate iron and gold a heape of precious things This Virgils imitaâ—…es Are in my fathers riches hid which when your seruant brings Newes of my safetie to his eares he largely will diuide With your rare bounties Atreus sonne thought this the better side And meant to take it being about to send him safe to fleete Which when farre off his brother saw he wing'd his royall feet And came in threatning crying out O soft heart what 's the cause Agamemnoâ—… to Menâ—…laus Thou spar'st these men thus haue not they obseru'd these gentle lawes Of mild humanitie to thee with mightie argument Why thou shouldst deale thus In thy house and with all president Of honord guest rites entertaind not one of them shall flie A bitter end for it from heauen and much lesse dotingly Scape our reuengefull fingers all euen th'infant in the wombe Shall tast of what they merited and haue no other tombe Then razed Ilion nor