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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00464	[Orpheus his iourney to hell and his musicke to the ghosts]	R. B., fl. 1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 1060; ESTC S110414	10,667	25

ORPHEVS His lourney to Hell WHen as the world in her first ●olden time frutefull in cuerie blessing did abound whē Floras pride was alwaies in her prime and Winters wrath did ner ' offend the ground But without labour euery thing encreased And pleasant sommers seasons neuer ceased No harsh aspect of heauens restlesse frame did alter earthly creatures in their kinde Each sauage beast and bird that time was tame and all the world accorded in one minde For then dissention was a thing vnknowne And seedes of enuie and debate not sowne When as olde Saturne had in peace disposed his seepter and his glorious throne in heauen And in their seuerall kingdome had inclosed each of his children and by portions euen Making all seueral kings in seuerall places Deuided to them all his giftes and graces Then did great Ioue in peace succeede his Sire and Neptune bridled in the lawlesle seas Pluto in hell amidst a world of fire keeping tormented soules from rest and ease Orerules the hagges that in those dungeons moyles And to the Ghosts imposes endlesse toyles In this contented time was Orpheus borne compos'd of purer mettell than a man Made mortall by the Gods in Natures scorne that earth might witnes how the heauens can Inclose in Elementall shapes celestiall thinges Whose life from quintescence of heauen springs This pure composed shape the Gods endued with their owne vertues els had it been shame That he whose bodie from the heauens issued should haue a soule forg'd in a baser frame Thus did the Gods agree for to combine A heauenly body and a soule diuine This was that Orpheus whose delightfull stringes drew to their siluer sound the sencelesse trees That still'd the musicke of the bubbling springs and staide the streames to heare his harmonies That made the sauage beasts forsake their praie And gently come to heare sweet Orpheus play The craggie rockes that walles the Oceans bound where Neptune keeps his watrie regiment Rose from their flinty roots to heare him sound and whil'st he sang seem'd for to sta●d content The fishes left the seas to liue a shore Which neuer heard of Musicks name before Thus liu'd be long the woonder of his time whose heauen-borne musicke wonne 〈◊〉 loue of all Aspiring honor taught his fame to clime and made him liue secure from thought of fall Till Fortune that orerules the state of kinges Did oreturne him as she doth other things The pleasiing poyson of self-killing Loue at last made entrance to his mayden-heart Where once being anchored neuer would remoue but with sweet tickling wounds there bred his smart Yet did his wish preuaile his hope 's effected His Loue found loue and neuer was rejected But as it is in things being soonest growne whose flowered blossoms euery blast decayes And neuer stayes the Autumne to be mowne but floorishes and falles within few dayes So is' t in loue which being quicklie sproong Dies oftentimes when as it is but yoong Euridice the flower of flowering Thrace whom Orpheus often in his ditties praised She that had all perfection in her fa●… and at her face made euery thing amazed For loue of her Orpheus incurr'd this paine Though she with loue requited loue againe Being thus agreed in loue and both contented the day was pointed for their marriage right When most assur'd they soonest were preuented and sundred by vnconstant Fortunes spight So by the meanes of a malignant power Their ioyes began and ended in an hower The marriage day being come and all things fit and Hymeneus rites now done and ended Home they returne and at their banquets sit with pleasures such as to such meetings tended And when at home was ended all their sport Then to the pleasant Meades did all resort Where as the Maides by custome came in thronges when any Maid was married from their traine And there they spend the time in sport and songs that other may doe so to them againe Where some were dancing hand in hand in ringes And others sit to heare how Orpheus sings Here Orpheus warbles on his trembling stringes for to delight Euridice his joy She sometimes dances then sits downe and sings and woman like begins to kisse and toy Thus these two sporting in each others sight Thinkes euery hower a yeare till it be night When as the wearie horses of the Sunne began to hie them downe vnto their rest And now their maisters iourney almost done they end their toylsome labour in the west Home hies these louers with a full intent To change these sportes to other merriment And as they footed ore the pleasant meades like to the Huntresse and her maiden traine A Serpent sliding from amongst the weeds sting'd faire Euridice and with that maine Expels her ayerie Spirites from the wound And leaues her chill-cold body on the ground Nor would th' impartiall Destinies permit her wofull soule to take her last adew But greedilie they seaze themselues on it which downe vnto the Stygian streames they drew Where they appointed her for to remaine That she might waight vpon Proserpins traine Which when the Thracian Poet had perceiued how suddainly Furidice was gone With madding furie sometimes rag'd and raued and then with tragicke tunes begins to mone Sighing that his Furidice was dead Before she knew the pleasure of his bed And sitting there by her poysoned wound sauing the skarlet blood that issued foorth Moisture ouer-deare to dew the ground or quench the thirst of this vnsatiate earth Wishing or she were here with him againe Or he with her in the Elizian plaine Thus till pale death from her vermilion cheekes Had drawne the vntainted mixture of her hue Distressed Orpheus with his sorrow seekes her now decaying beautie to renue Till when he saw that all his hope was vaine He tooke himselfe vnto his harpe againe Where in a mournfull Anteme he bewailes the sinister occasion of his birth Till his deuiding voyce with teares now failes and cannot eccho to his other mirth But with sad lookes and dumbe demeanes he brings His countenance correspondent to his strings Vnto whose musicke flockes the neighboring hilles the shadie groues the pleasant murmuring springs And all the plaines with companie now filles as beasts and birds fish foule and other thinges And when as euery one had tane his seat Thus Orpheus gius his sorrowes to repeat You free-borne people from inthralling bandes of libertie depriuing Loues estate Now mutually come all and ioyhe your handes and helpe your Orpheus to bewayle his mate Weepe for Euridice that loued me well Whose beauty now fades and decayes in hell Vnheady rulers of this wretched clime you Gods I meane whose hands directes our helme Why did you sort my dayes vnto this time and in this sea of sorrow ouerwhelme The prosperous beginning of my life By this vniust diuorcing of my wife Ah could your cruclty inact this deed to mixt sweet beauty with deformity For all my merites render you this meed the injurious rape of my