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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10246	Argalus and Parthenia The argument of ye history. Written by Fra: Quarles.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1629 (1629)	STC 20526; ESTC S112006	79,656	165

be seene by none Lookes red for shame and blushes to discouer Th' incestuous pleasures of the heauen borne louer So look'd Parthenia when the sudden eye Of her vnwelcome mother did d●…scry Her secret passion The mothers smile Brought forth the daughters blush and leuell coyle They smil'd and blush one smile begate another The daughter blusht because the icalous mother Smil'd on her and the silent mother smilde To see the conscious blushing of her childe At length growne great with words she did awake Her forced silence and she thus bespake Blush not my fairest daughter T is no shame To pitty louers or lament that flame Which worth and beauty kindles in the brest T is charity to succour the distrest The disposition of a generous heart Makes euery griese her owne at least beares part What marble ah what adamantine care Ere heard the flames of Troy without a teare Much more the scorching of a louers fire Whose desprate fewell is his owne desire May boldly challenge euery gentle heart To be 〈◊〉 in his secret smart Why dost thou blush why did those pearly teares Slide downe Feare not this Arbour hath no cares Here 's none but we speake then It is no shame To shed a teare thy mother did the same Say hath the winged wanton with his dart Sent ere a message to thy wounded heart Speake in the name of Hymen I coniure thee If so I haue a 〈◊〉 shall recure thee I feare I feare the yong La 〈◊〉 Lord Hath lately left some indigested word In thy cold stomack which for want of Art I doubt I doubt lyes heauy at thy heart If that be all reue●…ling brings reliefe Silence in loue but multiplies a griefe Hid sorrow's desperate not to be endur'd Which being but disclos'd is easly cur'd Perchance thou 〈◊〉 Demagoras and wouldst smother Thy close 〈◊〉 from thy angry mother And reap●… the da●…nty fruits of loue vnseene I did the like or thou hadst neuer beene Stolne goods are sweetest If it be thy minde To loue in secret I will be as blinde As he that wounded thee or if thou dare Acquaint thy mother then a mothers care Shall be redoubled till thy thoughts acquire The sweet fruition of thy choice desire Thou lou'st D●…magoras If thy lips deny Thy conscious heart must giue thy lips the lye And if thy liking countermand my will Thy punishment shall be to loue him still Then loue him still and let his hopes inherit The crowne belonging to so faire a merit His thoughts are noble and his fame appeares To speake at least an age aboue his yeares The blood of his increasing honour springs From the high stock of the Arcadian Kings The gods haue blest him with a liberall hand Enricht him with the prime of all the land Honour and wealth attend his gates and what Can he command that he possesses not All which and more if mothers can diuine The fortune of thy beauty hath made thine He is thy Captiue and thy conquering eyes Haue tooke him prisner hee submits and lies At thy deare mercie hoping ne re to be Ransom'd from death by any price but thee Wrong not thy selfe in being too too nice And what perchance may not be proferd twise Accept at first It is a foolish minde To be too coy Occasion 's bald behind T is not the common worke of euery day T' afford such offers Take them while you may Times alter youth and beauty are but blasts Vse then thy time whil'st youth and beauty lasts For if that loath'd and infamous reproach Of a stale maide but offer to incroach Vpon opinion th' art in estimation Like garments kept till they be out of fashion Thy worth thy wit thy vertues all must stand Like goods at outcries priz'd at second hand Resolue thee then t' enlarge thy Virgin life With th' onourable freedome of a wife And let the fruits of that blest marriage be A liuing pledge betwixt my Child and me So said The faire Parthenia in whose heare Her owne affections yet had got the start Of her obedience makes a sudden pause Striues with her thoughts obiects the binding lawes Of filiall duty to her best affection Sometimes submits vnto her owne election Sometimes vnto her mothers thus diuided In her distracted sancy sometimes guided By one desire and sometimes by another She thus replide to her attentiue mother Madam Thinke not Parthenia vnder a pretence Of silence studies disobedience Or by the crafty slownesse of reply Borrowes a quick aduantage to deny It lyes not in your power to command Beyond my will vnto your tender hand I here surrender vp that little All You gaue me freely to dispose withall The gods forbid Parthenia should resist What you command command you what you list But pardon me the young Laconian Lord Hath made assault but neuer yet could board This heart of mine I wept I wept indeed But my misconsterd streames did ne're proceed From Cupids spring This blubber'd book makes known Whose griefes I wept I wept not for mine owne My lowly thoughts durst neuer yet a spire The least degree towards the proud desire Of so great honour to be call'd his wife For whom ambitious Queenes haue bin at strife He su'd for loue and strongly did importune My heart more pleased with a meaner fortune My brest was marble and my heart forgot All pitty for indeed I lou'd him not But Madam you to whose more wise directions I bend the stoutest of my rash aff●…ctions You haue commanded and your will shall be The square to my vneauen desires and me I 'le practise duty and my deeds shall show it I 'le practise loue though Cupid neuer know it Wh●…n great Basilius he whose princ●…ly hand Nourisht long peace in the Arcadian land With triumph brought to his renowned Court His new espoused Queene was great resort Of forraine States and Princes to behold The truth that vnbeleeu'd report had told Of faire Gynecias worth Thither repair'd The Cyprian Nobles richly all 〈◊〉 In warlike furniture and well addrest With solemne Iousts to glorifie the feast Of mariage royall lately past betweene Th' Arcadian King and his thrice noble Queene The faire Gynecia in whose face and brest Nature and curious Art had done their best To summe that rare perfection which in briefe Transcends the power of a strong beliefe Her Syer was the Cyprian King whose fame Receiu'd more honour from her honour'd name Then if he had with his victorious hand Vnsceptred halfe the Princes in the land To tell the glory of this royall Feast The Bridegroomes state and how the Bride was drest The princely seruice and the rare delights The seuerall names and worth of Lords and Knights Their quaint Impresa's their deuisefull showes Their martiall sports their oft redoubled blowes The courage of this Lord or that proud horse Who ran who got the better who the worse Is not my taske nor lyes it in my way To make relation of it Heraulds may

t●…anscended from her milder brest Passion was not exiled but represt Her voyce exce●…'d nay had you heard her voyce But warble 〈◊〉 you might haue had the choyce To 〈◊〉 her for some smooth-fac'd Cherubin O●… el●…e some glorious Angel that had bin A trebble sharer in th' eternall ioyes Such was h●…r voyce such was her heauenly voyce Merry yet mod●…st witty and yet wise Not apt to toy and yet not too too nice Quick but not ●…ash Courteous and yet not common Not too familiar and yet scorning no man In bri●…fe who would relate her prayses well Must first bethinke himselfe what is t' exc●…ll When these perfections h●…d enhaunc'd the name Of rare Parthenia nimble winged Fame Grew great with honour spreads her hasty wings Aduanc'd her Trumpet and away she springs And with her ●…ull mouth'd blast she doth proclaime 〈◊〉 glory of Partheniaes name Who now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Parthenia what report Can find admittance in th' Arcadian Co●…rt But faire Partheniaes Euery sol●…mne feast Must now be swcern●…d ho●…ourd and poss●…st With high discourses of Partheniaes glory And euery mouth must b●…eathe Partheniaes story The Po●…t summons now his amorous quill And scornes a●…istance from the sacr●…d Hill The sweet lip●… Oratour takes in hand to raise His prouder stile to sp●…ke Partheniacs praise The curious Painter wis●…ly doth displace Faire Venus sets Parthenia in her pl●…ce The Pleader burnes his bookes disdaines the Law And f●…lls in lou●… with whom his ey●…s ne'er saw Healths to the f●…ire Parthenia fl●… about At euery bord whilst others mo●…e 〈◊〉 Build Idols to her and adore the s●…me And Parrats learne to 〈◊〉 Partheniaes name Some trust to f●…me some secretly disprise Her worth some emulates and some enuies Some doubt some feare lest lauish same belye her And all that dare beleeue report admire Vpon the bord●…rs of the Arcadian Land Dwelt a Laconian Lord Of proud command Lord of much people youthfull and of fame More great then good Demagoras his name Of stature tall his body spare and meager Thicke shoulderd hollow cheek'd and visage eager His g●…shfull countenance swarthy long and thinne And downe each side of his reuerted chin●…e A locke of blacke neglected haire be friended With warts too vgly to be seene descended His rowling eyes were deeply suncke and hiew'd Like fire T is said they blisterd where they view'd Vpon his shoulders from his fruitfull crowne A rugged crop of Elfclocks dangled downe His hide all hairy garish his attire And his complexion meerely Earth and Fire Peruerse to all extenuating what Another did because he did it not Maligning all mens actions but his owne Not louing any and belou'd of none Reuengefull enuious desperately stout And in a word to paint him fully out That had the Monopolie to fulfill All vice the Hieroglyphick of all ill He view'd Partheniaes face As srom aboue Fireballs of lightning hurld by angry Ioue Confound the vnarm'd beholder at a blow And leaue him ruin'd in the place Euen so The peerelesse beauty of Partheniaes eyes At the first sight did conquer and surprise The slauish thoughts of this amazed louer Who voyd of strength to hide or to discouer The tyrannous scorching of his secret fires Prompted by passion with himselfe conspires Accurs'd Demagoras Into what a fe●… Hath one looke strucke thy soule O neuer neuer To be recur'd If I had done amisse Hath heauen no easier plagues in store but this Promethius paines are not so sharpe as these Our sinnes yet labour'd both of one disease Our faults are equall Both stole fire from heauen Our faults alike why are our plagues vneuen Be iust O make not such vnequall ods Of equall sinnes Be iust or else no Gods Why send ye downe such Angels to the earth To mocke poore mortalls or of mortall birth If such a heauenlike Paragon may be Why doe ye not wound her as well as me But why doe I implore your aydes in 〈◊〉 That are the hi●…hest Agents in my p●…ine Poore wretc●… What hope of helpe can ye assure me When onely she that made the wound can cure me Diuine 〈◊〉 earths 〈◊〉 Iewell Would thou 〈◊〉 beene lesse glorious or lesse cruell Wh●…n 〈◊〉 thine eyes did to these eyes appeare I read the 〈◊〉 of my ruine there My necessary ruin●… Heauen nor Hell Can salue my sores by helpe of Prayer or spell Gods are vniust and if with charmes 〈◊〉 haunt her Her eyes are counter charmes to enchant 〈◊〉 Why doe I thus ex●…lcerate my disease By adding torments hope I to find ease Is not her cruelty enough alone But must I bring fresh torments of my owne Cheare vp Demagor●…s T is a wise mans part Not to lose all if his vnpractis'd art Serues not to gaine A Gamester may not choose His chance It is some conquest not to loose Looke to thy selfe Let no iniurious blast Of cold despaire chi●… thy greene wounds too fast For time to cure O hope for no remission Of paine till Cupid send thee a Physition She is a woman If a woman then My title 's good Women were made for men She is a woman though her heauenly brow Write Angell and may stoope although not now Women by lookes will not be vnderstood Vntill their hearts aduise with flesh and blood She is a woman There 's no reason why But she perchance may burne as well as I. Moue then Demagoras let Parthenia know The strength of her owne beauty in thy woe Feare not what thou ador'st begin to moue Chriscrosse sore-runs the Alphabet of loue T is halfe perfected what is once begun She is a woman and she must be wonne Like as a Swaine whose hands haue made a vow And sw●…rne allegeance to the peacefull plough Prest out for seruice in the 〈◊〉 campe At first vnentred finds a liuelesse dampe Beleagring euery ioynt as often swounds As ere he viewes his sword or thinks of wounds At length not finding any meanes for flying Switcht and spurd on with desp●…rate feare of dying He hewes he hackes and in the midst he goes And freshly deales about his frantick blowes Euen so Demagoras whose vnbred fashion Had neuer yet subscrib'd to loues sweet passion Being call'd a Combitant to Cupids field Trembles and secretly resolues to yeeld The day without a parly till at length Fiercely transported by th'vntu●…'d strength Of his owne passion he himselfe assures That 〈◊〉 torme●…ts must haue desp'rate c●…res And thus to the diuine Partheniaes eares Applies his speech deuo●…d of doubts and f●…ares Fairest of creatures If my ruder tongue To right it selfe should d●…e your patience wrong And lawlesse passion make it too too free O blame your heauenly beautie and not me It was those eyes those precious eyes that first Enforc'd my tongue to speake or heart to burst From those deare eyes I first receiu'd that wound Which seekes for cure and cannot be made sound But by the hand that strucke To you alone I sue for helpe that else must hope for none

expecting crowd Haue throng'd the streets and ●…uery greedy eye Attends to see the Tryumph passing by At length the gates flew open And on this fashion Began the Tryumph first a Proclamation Was made with a loud voyce If any be Or Lord or Knight or whatsoere degree Professing armes or honour in the land That at this time can chalenge or pretend A ti●…le to Parthenia's heart or claime A right or interest in her loue or name Let him come forth in person or appeare By noble Proxy if not present here And by the exc●…lent honour of a Knight He shall receiue such honourable right As the iust sword can giue Let him now come And speake or else for euermore be dumme Thrice was it read which done forthwith there came True honours Eaglewinged Herauld Fame Sounding a siluer Trump and as she past She shooke the earths foundation with her blast Next after whom in vndissembl●…d state The Bridegroome came on his right hand did wait The god of Warre in 〈◊〉 robes of greene All stain'd with bleeding hearts as they had ●…eene But newly wounded and from euery wound Fresh bloud due seeme to trickle on the ground And as the garments moo●…'d each dying heart Would seeme to pant a while and then depart Vpon the Bridegroomes left hand there attended Heauens Pursu●…uant whose brawny arme extended A winged Caduce He had scarce the might To curbe his feet his feet were wing'd for flight Aboue his head their hands did ioyntly hold A crimzon Canopie embost with gold Next them twice twenty famous Nobles follow'd Braue men at armes whose names the world had hallow'd For rare exploits and twice as many Knights Whose bloods haue ●…ansom'd and redeem'd the rights Of wronged Ladies These were all aray'd In robes of Needle worke so rarely made That he which sees them thinkes he doth behold Armours of steele saire filletted with gold And as they marcht their Squires did aduance Before each Knight his warlike Shield and Lance. And after these the Princely virgin Bride On whom all eyes were fastned did diuide Her gentle paces being led betweene Two Goddesses the one arai'd in greene On which the curious needle vndertooke To make a forest here a bubling brooke Diuides two thickets through the which doth flie The singled Deere before the deepe-mouth'd Crie That closely followes There th' affrighted Herd Stands trembling at the musicke and afeard Of euery shadow gazes to and f●…o Not knowing where to stay or where to goe Where in a Launskip you may see the Faunes Following their crying mothers o're the Lawnes The other was in robes the purer dye Whereof did represent the midday sky Full of black clouds through which the glorius beams Of the obscured Sun appeares and seemes As ' ●…were to scatter and at length to shed His brighter glory on a fruitfull bed Of noisome weeds from whence you might discerne A thousand painfull Bees extract and earne Their sweet prouision and with laden thighes To beare their waxy burthens On this wise The princely Bride was led betwixt these two The first was she that on Act●…ons brow Reueng'd her naked Chastity the other Was she to whom loues pregnant braine was mother Through Vulcans helpe and these did iointly hold Vpon her head a Coronet of gold Whose traine Dianas virgin crew all crown'd With golden wreathes supported from the ground Next after her vpon the triumph waited An order by Diana new created And styl'd the Ladies of the Maidenhead In white wrought here and there with spots of red And euery spot appeared as a staine Of louers blood whom their hard hearts had slaine Ranckt three and three and on each h●…ad a crowne Of Primeroses and Roses not yet blowne Next whom the beauties of th' A●…dian Court March'd two and two whose glory came not short Of what th'vnlimited and studied art Of glory-vying Ladies could impart To such solemnities where euery one Stroue to excell and to b'excell'd of none Thus came they to the Temple where attended The sacred Priests whose voices recommended The dayes successe to heauen and did diuide A blessing ' ●…wixt the Bridegroome and the Bride Which done and after low obeysance made The first whilst all the rest kept silence said Welcome to Iuno's sacred Courts Draw neare Vnspotted Louers welcome Doe not feare To touch this holy ground Passe on secure Our gates stand open to such guests as you are Our gracious Goddesse grants you your desires And hath accepted of those holy fires We offered in your name and takes a pleasure To smell your Incense in so great a measure Of true delight that we are bold to say She crownes your vowes and smiles vpon this Day So said they bowed to the ground and blest Themselues that done they singled from the rest The noble Bridegroome and his princely Bride And said Our gracious goddesse be our guide As we are yours and as they spake that word Their well-tun'd voices sweetly did accord With Musick from the Altar As along They past they ioyntly warbled out this song THus in Pompe and Priestly pride To glorious Iuno's Altar goe we Thus to Iuno's Altar show we The noble Bridegroome and his Bride Let Iuno's hourely blessing send ye As much ioy as can attend ye May these louers neuer want True iores nor euer beg in vaine Their choice desiers but obtaine What they can wish or she can grant Let Iuno's hourely blessings send ye As much ioy as can attend yee From sacietie from strife Iealousies domesticke iars From those blowes that leaue no scars Iuno protect your mariage life Iuno's hourely blessings send yee As much ioy as can attend ye Thus to Hymens sacred bands We commend your chast deserts That as Iuno link'd your hearts He would please to ioyne your ●…ands And let both their blessings send ye As much ioy as can attend ye No sooner was this Nuptiall Caroll ended But bowing to the ground they recommended This princely paire both prostrate on the floore And with their hands presented them before The sacred Altar whereunto they brought Two milke white Turtles and with prayers be sought That Iuno's lasting fauours would descend And make their pleasures pleasures without end With that a horrid cracke of dreadfull thunder Possest each fainting heart with feare and wonder The rafters of the holy Temple shooke As if accu●…sed Archimagoes booke That cursed Legion had beene newly rea●… The ground did tremble and a mist ore-spread The da●…kned Altar At length deepe silence did possesse and fill The spatious Temple all was whist and still When from the clouded Altar brake the sound Of heauenly Musicke such as would confound With death or rauishment the earth bred eare H●…d not the Goddesse giuen it strength to beare So strong a rapture As the Musicke ended The Mist on sudden vanisht and ascended ●…rom whence it came The Altar did appeare And ashes lying where the Turtles were Neere which great Hymen stood not seene before His purple