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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59170	Medea a tragedie / written in Latine by Lucius Annæus, Seneca ; Englished by E.S., Esq., with annotations.; Medea. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2513; ESTC R17531	52,518	122

YOu 1 Nuptiall Powers and thou 2 Lucina * * Proeses Puerperii se•… Praefecta Parturientibus Head And carefull Guardian of the 3 G•…niall Bed And 4 thou who Tiphys taught'st as with a rein To guide the 5 first Ship through the subdu'd Maine 6 Dread Soveraigne of the Seas thou ever bright Phaebus that to the world divid'st thy light 7 Three-formed Hecate that dost display On nightly mysteries thy conscious Ray And all yee Gods by whom false Iason swore Or you Medea rather should implore Darke Chaos deeps Infernall damned soules The King who Hells sad Monarchy controules And * * Proserpina Queen with better faith was ravished Heare whilst we imprecate yee 8 Furies dread The punishers of guilt in bloudy hands Grasping your pitchy-blacke and sulph'ry Brands With snaky Curles and squallid looks appeare As horrid at our Nuptialls as you were Death on the new-made * * Creusa the Daughter of Creon King of Corinth whom Iason repudiating Medea had newly married Euripides in Medea some others give her the name of Gl•…uca Bride on Corinths King And our owne Progeny untimely bring And with some imprecation yet more dire 'Gainst my false Husband my fell minde inspire Live he through Townes despis'd and friendlesse rove Feare hatred poverty and exile prove Wish me his Wife againe and harbour from A stranger crave now a knowne Guest become And then which none a greater curse can be Children be get he like himselfe and me See! our Revenge doth with our Wish conspire These we have borne We Plaints in vaine expire Why rush we not upon our Foes and there The Bridall Tapers from the Bearers teare Extinguish them and bury all in Night Behold'st thou this thou Fountaine of all light Phaebus 9 the Radiant Author of our Race And driv'st through Chrystall skies thy wonted space Runn'st thou not back unto the East and Day Remeasur'st O! to me resigne thy sway Give me the Guidance of those burning Reines That rule the Coursers with the fiery Maines I 'ld scourge 'till Corinth whose 10 small Land divides Two opposite Seas and breakes their battering Tides Consum'd in Flames should make them way to joyne Nought rests to doe but that a Nuptiall Pine We beare and when the holy Prair's and all The Rites are done then that our victimes fall Through thine owne Bowells reach at thy Revenge Soule if thou liv'st all Womanish Feares estrange Let thy stout minde on her old strength presume And more then Scythian Ferity assume What Ills once 11 Colchos now shall Corinth see Horrid unperpetrated crueltie Terror to Men and Gods workes in my Minde Wounds Death * * See the Annotations at the number 11 in fine spred Funeralls of Limbes dis-joyn'd Pish what flight triviall Ills doe we recount Acts of our Virgin hands Our Rage should mount Ills more sublime more horrid Acts of Bloud Suite with our married state and Motherhood Courage then On to act thy Tragedy With all thy Furie that Posterity Thy fatall Nuptialls and divorce may finde Equally signall Stay thou rash of minde Thy spouse by what meanes leav'st thou by the same I once did follow him All sence of shame Abandon and delayes as fruitlesse flye The Faith by Ills confirm'd by Ills shall dye Ex. Medea CHORVS Of Corinthian Women Singing an Epithalamium to the Nuptialls of Jason and Creusa 12 You Gods whose Empire in the skies Or in the tumid Ocean lies These 12 Princely Nuptialls blesse we pray 12 Whilst all due Rites the people pay First to those 13 Powers that thunder fling And Scepters beare for offering A Bull white without spot shall dye A Heifer that did never try The servile Yoake then snow more white Thee 14 O Lucina doth delight 15 To her who Mars his bloudy hands Doth ma•…acle in peacefull Bands Who strifes of Nations doth compose Whose 15 Horne with growing plenty flowes Shall fall a gent•…er Sacrifice 16 And thou who these Solemnities And Rites * * As oppos'd to Medea's Nuptiall•… which were 〈◊〉 and Illegitimate 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Chorus Legitimate dost grace And the nights sullen darknesse chase With thy auspicious hand come drown'd In Wine thy 16 Head with Roses crown'd 17 And thou bright Star with silver ray Fore-runner of the Night and Day That slow to those dost still returne Who with loves mutu'all flames doth burne Mothers that long Daughters new wed Wish thee thy early beames to spread 'Mong the 18 Cecropian Dames the Pride For Beauty vaile unto the Bride The Virgins of the 19 Wallesse Towne Who on 20 Taygetus his Crowne Themselves as is their Countries guise In 20 manly Pastimes exercise And those their limbes in 21 Dirce lave Or in 22 Alphaeus sacred Wave To the 23 Aesonian Youth for grace And Forme shall 24 Bacchus selfe give place Who to the Yoake •…ierce Tygers chaines Or he who o're the 25 Trypods raignes Milde Brother to the 26 sterner Maid The 26 Swan-got Twins faire Laedae laid Castor with Pollux who for blow Of weighty 27 Sledge doth all out-goe Yeeld to * * Iason Aesonides the day So so Caelestiall powers we pray All wives excell the the beauteous Bride The Bride-groom passe all men beside When with the Virgin Quire * * The Bride she joynes Her look 'bove all with lustre shines So when the Sun his Beames displayes The splendour of the Stars decayes So fade the 28 Pleïads scarcely seen When with her borrowed shine night's Queen Inorbs her Crescent so to th' eye White blushes with 29 Phaenician Dye So when day dawnes Sols ruddy light Shewes to the dew-wet Shepherds sight From 30 Phasis horrid bed releast Wont with unwilling hand the Breast To touch of such a barbarous Bride With Parents wills first ratifi'd Now happy wed a Grecian dame Now Youths with Taunts permissive game And in loose Rimes chant sportive words Rare is this licence 'gainst your Lords Faire 31 Issue of the God of Wine T is time to light thy carved Pine 32 With Wine-wet fingers then put out The solemne Flame whilst all the Rout With mirthfull jollity doth ring And the 33 Fescennine youths doe •…ing Their Festive Flouts shee want these Rites And grace of Hymeneall l•…ghts Who as a fugitive shall wed Her selfe unto a forraigne Bed Act the Second Scene the first Enter MEDEA and her NURSE MEDEA OH I am slaine the * * The Marriage Song Hymeneall's sound Hath pierc'd my Eares and giv'n my Heart a wound The Ill I suffer I scarce yet beleeve And thus could 1 Iason cause Medea grieve When from my Father Countrey Crowne and State H' had brought me thus to leave me desolate In a strange Land could he our merits slight Cruell and thanklesse wretch whose pow'rfull might Seas rage he saw and force of Flames out-went Thinks he then all our stock of Mischiefe spe•…t Perplex'd and wav'ring my unquiet Mind Labours which way she may her vengeance find Would Heav'ns he had a Brother