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A01849	Endimion· An excellent fancy first composed in French by Monsieur Gombauld. And now elegantly interpreted, by Richard Hurst Gentleman.	Gombauld, Jean Ogier de, d. 1666.; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, ill.; Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641, engraver.; Picart, Jean, ill.; Hurst, Richard.	1639 (1639)	STC 11991; ESTC S103202	63,733	167

him all that he could request at his hands The onely respect of his power and parentage which ranked him as farre above Diophania as she was above Hermodan permits him not to consult further upon the poynt and thinks his daughter must needes be no lesse pleased therewith than he and so when he speakes to her of it he imputes the change which appeares in her face to modesty and the natural bashfulnesse which in the like occasion commonly accompanies those of her Age and Sexe and takes her silence for consent yet Amphidamas pressing more and more Diophania must declare her selfe and her father who at first is resolved to constraine her is desirous to heare her inclination thereunto from her selfe But her feare of displeasing him makes her not dare to tell him what she hath before sufficiently declared to her mother and therefore Mirtamisa speaking for her informes Lycaspis of that which he desired not to have heard which was that her Daughters disposition would make her preferre the condition of the poorest shepheard of the World before all the wealth of him whose person she could not affect Which when Lycaspis heard his Barbarous inhumanity would not give him leave to reply any thing but words of reproach And as he never had the temper either to retaine his Choler or conceale his opinion he failed not to acquaint Amphidamas with the very words which Mirtamisa had reported of Diophania and to advise with him what meanes were most proper to be used to gaine her Amphidamas bearing himselfe violently against whatsoever resists him thinking all things due to him upon his first demand is not able to support with patience at the hands of whom he so much loves words so full of disdaine and hatred Whosoever now looks upon her increases his jealousie but especially Hermodan who never forsakes her Company insomuch that the first thing he counsells Lycaspis is to forbid Diophania any more to see him or admit him to her presence Then he commands her to resolve and joyne a voluntary and cheerefull obedience to the necessity of obeying that he had engaged his promise therein and besides could not thinke that she was so little carefull of her selfe or void of Judgment as to refuse the greatest honour and advantage that ever he should be able to procure her Lycaspis being farre more indulgent to the desires of Amphidamas than to those of his Daughter forgot not from thence forward to repeate often to her that unpleasing Oration and to offer her the choise of two things either to remaine in his perpetuall disgrace or to give him satisfaction in that which he required Diophania finding her selfe thus urged howbeit she could not easily perswade her selfe that her determinations were in every thing to depend on her Fathers will or that it was more convenient for her to enter into an assured misfortune for her whole life than once to disobey him resolves neverthelesse to tell him that her will depends wholly upon his and that she will rather chuse death than disobedience But it was farre easier for her to weepe than to answer and from those two or three words which shee scarce was able to utter shee fell suddenly into an abundance of teares this is now all the exercise she can imploy her selfe in and by night she chiefly torments and afflicts her selfe whilst Hermodan takes his rest or perhaps delights his spirit with some pleasing hope although indeed it were time for him to dispaire He longs for nothing but the day to render himselfe in these faire places as the sole witnesses of his felicity and contentment which arrives for him too soone because with it he encounters Diophania sad and desolate bringing him this irkesome and unpleasing message Ah Hermodan sayes she now is the time that my Fathers tyranny is become compleat who not onely commands me to love Amphidamas but with all forbids me to see or speake to thee Farewel therefore Hermodan the small power I have over mine actions and my selfe permits me not any further conference with thee know onely that my life cannot subsist without the continuance of thy love and nothing can comfort me but thy loyalty How should I be able to expresse the estate our poore Lover was now reduced to whom this change was so rude and sensible that hee was not himselfe able to signifie his sorrow but by astonishment and silence he knows not what way to turne him and seeing her the whole object of his love and onely that which made his life acceptable to him retire from him if he could have thought on any expedient to facilitate the approach of death he would assuredly have made use of it And Diophania from thence forward became so wholly seized with sorrow that every houre she visibly changed and in a very short time became wholly unlike to her selfe yet shee continued faire for her beauty was so perfect that neither her teares or her sorrows were able to deface it I observing all those passages and having before perceived the affection she bare to Hermodan although I were not resolved much to flatter her passion as imagining it could turne to no other thing but a necessary change of the one or the other or at least a common dispaire in both yet her Fathers cruelty was to her so compleate an affliction that she needed not the addition of any other from me who on the contrary sought all opportunities to divert and comfort her And perceiving that the onely name of Hermodan had more power with her than any discourse I was able to present her withall I forced my selfe for her sake as much as was possible to comply with her humour and by that meanes got knowledge of the whole Story If at any time I laboured to reduce her memory to the consideration of what she ought to doe as by that meanes gently to draw her back to the knowledge of her duty I found the opposition of two such strong passions her love to Hermodan and her hatred to Amphidamas that the onely effect of all my remonstrances was a renovation of her teares and a drawing of this plaint from her lips Ah me sayes she either our desires and affections are blind or the Lawes of Heaven are cruell that we must so ardently love that which we can never possesse or be possessed by that which we cannot affect What likelyhood is there that ever I shall be able to perswade my selfe that Amphidamas whom I hate above all other men should one day become my better part or indeed my second selfe If the gods have so much exalted his fortune it is onely to display his defects and shew the many wants in his person My Father is quite different from the disposition of other Fathers whose children how deformed soever seeme faire to them for it is his opinion I must seeme very defective and ill-shapen since he goes about to present me my Match in the most imperfect man of all others

betraid not her thoughts with any one word and so made it a dumbe love though not blind But the vaile seemed to be taken from her eyes onely to stop her mouth How then couldest thou perceive Pyzander that she loved thee The end answered Endymion will give thee proofe of the truth of it It was that which gave me assurance of it my selfe yet I will tell thee what it was that made me of that opinion from the beginning where I might reckon the extraordinary care she had of me the recommendation she gave of me to others and the testimonies of it which I could read in the faces of her servants and the frequent messages she sent me upon all occasions under the pretexts as sometimes sending mee little Presents or demanding where I was as soone as ever I was out of her sight every thing smiled and looked upon me with affectionate eyes But thou maist imagine that all this was onely in respect of their Custome of treating those well who are designed to dye for them So I not building much on those slighter proofes was wholly amazed to see her in so short a time become unlike to her selfe and change her former liberty and free actions the signes of a sound mind into a disposition pensive solitary and languishing Her face was become pale and her eyes swolne true witnesses of her watchings and disquiet Her lookes were sometimes wandring in the aire and sometimes fixed on the earth like one in a deepe frenzy Sometimes she beganne Discourses but ended them not as not knowing well what she said Otherwhiles leaving her workes undone and forgetting her most pleasing exercises they being not powerfull enough to make her forget her torment she inclined to all manner of change she wandred impatiently seeking that repose every where which she could not encounter in any one place Sometimes as if she had perceived that she discovered her selfe she laboured to reprove her selfe by employing an endeavour to resist her malady and putting on a more cheerefull countenance And if the compassion she had of my disaster had not forbidden her to adde to mine affliction shee would have made a shew of hating mee to prevent the accusation of loving mee too much But doe what she could it was of small continuance and immediately as Conquered she relapsed into her former passion she sighed incessantly without any apparent cause of vexation or sorrow and this she could not forbeare whatsoever she attempted to suppresse her sighes and smother them in the Cradle Besides the heart by a secret power turnes the eyes alwayes towards the Object of its love there was nothing able to possesse her so fully but that she diverted her eyes a thousand times from it to returne without any occasion at all to the continual search of the subject of her thoughts I confesse freely that I often observed great alteration in her disposition insomuch that sometimes she made me distrust my former opinion or feare that she esteemed me unworthy of her affection because I shewed my selfe so little sensible of it whereas if on the other side I had given her cause to perceive that my breast was possessed with another more pleasing care it would have beene as much as if I had played to winne her hatred for women are naturally inclined to fall from one externity to another and betwixt those two of their love and hatred there is no medium whatsoever they will they will absolutely and if happily it be not granted at the very least signe they give of their will there is no hope to excuse it and on the contrary they are all ready to proclaime to the world the small esteeme they make of it and conserve their owne interest to the very prejudice of what they most before loved When once they have changed their disposition and affection as they give themselves what opinion they please of things past so they endeavour in the end to perswade us that they have never beene But when they perceive that they cannot beguile our sences and judgement at least as they have lost the affection of a thing so would they have us lose the memory of it whereof we dare not so much as complaine for discretion oblieges us to silence because their tyranny whereunto we attribute all hath so wonne upon us that the very truth it selfe would be alwayes imputed to errour and vanity But by good chance Stenobea had neither leasure nor opportunity to come by the repentance of it or make me taste her rigours for I kept my selfe alwayes upright in the termes of the duty and honour I was oblieged to render her yet so that nothing could thereby be alleadged against me in prejudice of my constancy or the vowes I had made to bee Diana's servant for ever And although Stenobea was such a one as onely the affection of a goddesse was to bee esteemed above hers and that it is hard to be loved of the most amiable creature of the world without growing very sensible thereof yet I had so much power of my selfe as that I was no way touched or moved with her love yet very much with her griefe and the sorrow I had for not being able to requite her with the like affection O subject worthy of a farre better acknowledgment and of an affection as loyall and sincere as her owne whom neither my Captivity nor inevitable Death nor the whole multitude of just reasons which assaulted her would ever be able to make her change conclusion Have I not cause to curse the day wherein I found Diana so ready to give me testimony of her good will and promise me her favours since that now when she hath made me contemne and despise all things she beares me to the contempt and losse of my selfe The end of the Fourth Booke ENDYMION The Fifth Booke C de Pas inuen I Picart fecit We have hitherto observed the great advantages Endymion which the gods have vouchsafed unto thee above other men but there is yet something remaining which must be done ere thy glory can bee brought to perfection and this is the solemne day wherein we are to see the strongest proofes of thy generous courage wherein wee have nothing to desire but that thou appeare alwayes like thy selfe great mindes never yeeld to the assaults of the strongest adversities or encounter any thing greater than than themselves and to such all humane accidents seeme so slight that they disdaine to live for them If then neither labour or toyle can daunt them or sorrow wring plaints from their mouths what is it that can terrifie them in death whom so many vertuous men dispise so many also even contemne and with all men must once suffice The Oracles which have proceeded from thine owne mouth have taught us that thou art farre more worthy of Heaven than of Earth and that the goddesse hath made choyse of thee above all others as the most deare and gratefull Oblation wee can

to it by the necessity of his former watching The end of the Third Booke ENDYMION The Fourth Booke ON the other side Diophania findes not her sleepe so sweete or pleasing as she was wont and her ill rest beginnes already to make her awake before Aurora she never ceases to delight her spirit with the pleasures which love usually at first represents to those whom he intends to ingage in his service and as yet perceived not the secret thornes and prickles covered with the sweete pleasing Flowers and Roses she admires the constancy and loyalty of her shepheards and incessantly revolves in her thoughts his discourses and his actions which rendered him perfectly amiable But as her beauty acquired her no fewer servants than all young men that durst looke upon her so amongst others Amphidamas had already but too much beheld her for he thence found such inward assaults as deprived him of his patience and induced him with the day to goe interrupt the quiet of Hermodan with this language Now is the time and opportunity Hermodan saies he that together with the glorious title of the firmest friend in the world thou maist in one instant gaine Amphidamas his fortune and whatsoever is his if thou but accord him one good office which also no respect can permit thee to refuse him in Thou knowest that the extreame beauty of Diophania accompanied with as great an austerity renders her inaccessable to all men except onely to thee whom a long habit of acquaintance hath rendred familiar with her In which respect I ●ntreat thee to intimate unto her my desire and suite to serve her and to adde in my behalfe whatsoever thy good will or friendship shall suggest unto thee to obliege me I cannot thinke this message propounded by Hermodan in the behalfe of Amphidamas can displease her except it be so that none but a Deity onely can be able to deserve or obtaine the grace and permission I sue for Hermodan whose misfortune continually assaults and traverses his merit and so violently opposes his felicity that even the gods themselves have much travile and difficulty to witnesse by effects the good will they beare him would faine have excused himselfe of this so fatall Commission But when we have to doe with men whose condition so farre exceeds ours excuses must bee well grounded and supported with many firme reasons otherwise they are taken as refusals and injurious discourtesies But hee with this beginnes to conceive that this imployment will give him a good pretext to frequent and accost Diophania with the more confidence and be a meanes for him to draw from her some proofe of her late favourable change whereupon through his excessive desire thereof he could not yet fixe his hope and so resolves to gratifie this his irksome Rivall with this smooth answer That he would most cheerefully and willingly deliver to Diophania the message he had charged him withall and would with no lesse fidelity and promptitude render him the answer which he should receive from her that he so perfectly Honourd them both that he desired to render them equally satisfied of his obedience and that he would rather expose himselfe to the hazard of incurring Diophanias displeasure than to omit any occasion of serving him So Amphidamas staied him no longer for indeed they were both travailed with one and the same longing Hermodan to see Diophania and Amphidamas to see him set forward Behold now at length the happy day wherein Hermodan beginnes to reassume the path he had so long lost But although hee was bound to trust more to the gods than to himselfe yet his incredulity hourely suggested new feares and kept him in a continuall irresolution untill he came even into Diophanias presence whom he at first perceived nothing moved or surprized at his sight as at some new thing which somewhat fortified his resolution yet he endeavoured by these words to gather more full assurance There is Diophania saies he a new occasion which engages me to make thee a discourse which perchance will be lesse unpleasing than that whereby I purchased thy displeasure and procured banishment from thy presence Thou now hast no further need to consult thy rigour for mine answer or employ it to make me suffer death since the designe of Amphidamas is more than enough to ruine and destroy me he is wholly resolved to serve thee and hath made me promise him to give thee notice of it Whereat Diophania interrupting him sayes Tell me no more of this sayes shee neither let me any more heare of thee or Amphidamas These first words so astonished Hermodan that he thought himselfe no lesse unfortunate than he was wont Hee inwardly accuses both the gods and men and imagines that his evill Genius or some other Devill yet more fatall to him had assumed his forme to deceive him and mocke his hope Then Diophania thus went forward Had I yesterday the patience to heare thee speake thy pleasure of thine owne affection that thereby I should encourage thee to thinke that I would endure this day to heare thee talke so much of that of Amphidamas hast thou had halfe a dayes constancy or hast thou so little to sue for in thine owne behalfe that thou must of necessity either be silent or speake for another Away deceiver thou no more remembrest the words thou speakest or the protestations thou makest than as if some other had pronounced them for thee or thou never hadst thought on them With this Hermodan manifestly perceiving the verity he had beene informed beganne too late to repent his incredulity yet a secret joy seizing his heart doth so transport him beyond himselfe that he forgets all his former sorrowes and suffers now no paine but that of excessive pleasure He throwes himselfe at Diophanias feete and begges of her the pardon he is sure to obtaine for now all her rigours are growne feigned and her moth utters not that harsh word which is not presently contradicted by her eyes It was now that these two lovers beganne to sigh equally for one another and entertaine themselves with so much delight and felicity that there was no day so long which in this respect seemed not short to them yet not their pleasures onely but even their very desires were alwayes accompanyed of innocence and whatsoever violent tryalls love charged them their vertue was never injured or impaired in the least And as they judged of all things onely in favour and by the rule of their affections so they soone forgat the inequality of their fortunes and without troubling themselves with any thing that might be able to crosse their designes they promised themselves that time would accommodate all things and from thenceforward entertained onely good hopes thereof In the meane time Amphidamas whose love sensible increased by the difficulty Diophania made in receiving the advice of it found soone after an expedient to procure him audience for by addressing himselfe to Lycaspis her father obtained of

the gods especially of Apollo and conjures them so unfeignedly to put some period to his sufferings that the night following when all creatures were dumbe and at rest they also stopped the current of his lamentations and by a change not much unlike that of Diophania granted him the repose he had so much desired at their hands For the next morning the people who came flocking from all parts to see this new Nymph under the shape of a Myrtle where wholly amazed with the sight of another spectacle before her which was that of Hermodan represented under the figure of a wilde Olive-Tree which Olive and Myrtle were so neare together that their branches began to intermixe in token of sympathy and affection And since that time the Nymphes of these quarters have celebrated nothing so much as the names of Hermodan and Diophania singing continually to their praises as of two incomparable examples of love and fidelity whom they have recommended to everlasting memory and renowne There is one doubt more saies Pyzander to be cleared which is that thou hast hitherto discoursed of a City a River and a Countrey without naming either one or other of them Indeed saies Endymion that question is easily answered they having all three almost one and the same name The City is called Alba the River Alban and the Countrey Albania And this as I suppose by reason of the nature of the place which produces the people generally flaxen-haird in their youth A people excelling in beauty of faire stature another race of Cyclops inhabiting the Confines of the Caspian Sea and Mount Caucasus for the most part shepheards Galactophagi simple innocent and just of life and manners and in a word really such as the Abiens and Nomadi Furthermore it is a Countrey of pasture the soyle is so fertile that without any manuring it produces infinite quantity of good fruits which in mine opinion is the cause that the people are more negligent and lesse addicted to husbandry for indeed they love no kinde of labour except it bee immediatly followed with reward or accompanyed with pleasure as hunting also they imploy more fervency and affection than industry But in stead of Art Nature hath furnished them with the best and strongest Dogges of the World such as both fight with and destroy Lyons and are not affraid to set upon any living creature I cannot give thee any more particular description of it save onely that as the fertility of Egypt is accompanyied with its Crocodiles so this Countrey hath her Serpents the teeth whereof are mortall and their poyson of such a tickling operation that men dye of it with continuall laughing That is the place Pyzander where I not sensible of the disaster which not only threatned but pressed my life have remained ever since thou last sawest me and where I have passed the greatest part of my time at ease amidst the fresh shades on the River sides with fragrant and odoriferous Flowers and Hearbes amongst the Nymphes and the May-maids in the fulnesse of thousands of delights if my Spirit had then beene as sensible thereof as I became afterwards when I was reduced to the like degree of torment and affliction There were the feasts where I was treated with the most exquisite Cates with the Musicke both of instruments and voyce and with the Dances of young Gallants and faire Ladies in a word there was nothing but pastimes and delights If I were accompanyed so had I also the liberty of being alone when I pleased and so making dayly choyce of the recreations that most pleased me I went usually up and downe the Forrest where I often encountered Diana whose sole presence made mee live in the same time that her change and the remembrance of the time past had even killed me Sometimes I saw her walke attended by the sixty daughters of Oceanus and of twenty other Nymphes who have charge of her Bowes her Arrowes her Busgins and her Dogges Sometimes I observed her returning from her game all haughty and triumphing over the Lyons Beares and other Monsters which she had slaine Sometimes also I found her almost all alone where I had opportunity of seeing and being seene of her But Pyzander wilt thou beleeve this Oh doe for it is certaine howbeit it seeme scarce credible Albeit she saw me in the estate wherein I was bearing the Chaine which she knew well though I knew it not to be the marke not onely of my Captivity but of the end whereunto I was designed although I say she well knew I was to be sacrificed for her yet had she in the meane time the heart to looke upon me without pitty as if she had beene changed into another or had sudainly lost all compassion remembrance knowledge or speech of me If I had presented my selfe to the flinty Rocke where the waves of the Sea are broken and Marriners suffer shipwracke I might have obtained as much comfort And yet it is not lawfull for me to say she is a little rigorous since that from henceforward there is no other contentment left me than to alleadge mine affection to her that doth not acknowledge it Yea that Nymph who had promised me so much favour and assistance and to whom I had vowed so much service had also forgotten my vowes and her owne promises and either vouchsafed not to looke upon me at all or else looked on me by chāce or as it were upon a delinquent Must the transgression of the Lawes which Ismena had prescribed me cost me so deare and must I thus pay for having beene compelled to violate things esteemed sacred O Endymion happy hadst thou bin if thou haddest not found any Myrtle in the Forrest of Diana I should at least from the beginning have beleeved the Oracle which sounded thence and which at length I found too true I should have laid aside the care of presenting my selfe before her since her insensible carriage continually frustrated my paines and expectation But that hope which usually entertaines men with errour and vanity engaging them after to force their Fate perswaded me to tempt fortune yet once more yea and a second time also I went so often to the place where I first had seene her and received more than a thousand Deaths from her hand without dying that at length it chanced me to finde her there and participate of a spectacle farre more worthy of the gods than of men The noyse which these Nymphes made to whom her affection and goodnesse permitted all manner of freedome in these solitary places even to a familiar sporting with her gave me occasion to hide my selfe in a thicket which I had before observed where I could see all yet no body could see me they stood all upon their feete before the Goddesse observing heedfully the enterprise which two or three of the chiefest of them had ingaged themselves in against her which she resisted onely with smiling as if she cared not much although they

wilt thou keepe those alive whose death Diana requires what knowest thou but this may be a stroke of her owne hand seest thou not that shee requires nothing but death on every side use then the knife shee hath sent thee and keepe me no longer in languishing who am like to dye with a desire and longing for death Timetes pressed with time and mine importunity making a signe with his hand to the whole assembly to impose silence upon the murmur was risen by reason of Stenobea's accident and to obliege every one to the attention and respect he owed to the Sacrifice tooke the Knife by the Ebon-haft and presented it to me Which when I beheld with amazement not knowing what he meant and imagining that his mind was exceedingly distempered in the occasion How now Endymion sayes hee hast thou not yet learned our Lawes and Customes knowest thou not that our Sacrifices are most happy chiefly when the person sacrificed dyes cheerefully Now wee who by the commandement of the Oracle are to offer men to the Goddesse doe use no other triall of their resolution and constance to assure us of their willing acceptance of death than in engaging them to bee themselves the actors of it This likes me well Timetes said I taking the Knife I shall my selfe farre better know where my life lyes hidden and shall not misse my heart at first stroke And so addressing my last words to the Moone O Goddesse said I I have erred I confesse but my firme beleefe that the gods are alwaies true and not subject to change hath beene the cause of all mine errors This heart the most true guardian of that affection and loyalty which hath brought me where I now am shall presently expiate the offence I have thereby committed Content thy selfe O Goddesse to see that having forgone all things for thy sake I yet willingly lay downe my life for testimony that I am thine even unto the Altar and further if it were possible Having finished these discourses I strooke the Knife profoundly into my bosome and gave my selfe a stroke which so suddainly cut in sunder the thred of my life that I had onely so much sence left me as to heare a pittifull lamentation of many thousand confused voyces just in the instant as I fell downe upon the Altar What is this thou tellest me Endymion sayes Pyzander taking him by the hand if from the beginning I had not embraced thee and did not still touch thee I should rather thinke it were a Ghost than a man that now speakes to me I doe not my selfe know sayes Endymion what I am and therefore thou shalt doe me a great pleasure if thou seest farther into my adventures than my selfe to give me some light there is yet something more sad and tragicall therein there is yet another sacrifice another Priest for I do beleeve that the gods observing the smal esteem I have made of death of whatsoever is therein most terrible are againe resolved to inforce me to live intending to be more cruell to me and keepe me in a continuall torment with the sorrow and anguish wherewith I am possessed for having bin the cause of another more strange lamentable sacrifice What sacrifice can that be saies Pyzander or what more strange accident canst thou recount unto me O Endymion there are many thousand and broad waies to goe out of this life but scarce any one for return How then sayes Endymion have I found it without seeking and how am I returned to my selfe that so little desired it O sweet but too short death who or what hindred me from seeing the Kingdome of the Ghosts was it the sad and drowsie Lord or the inexorable Judges and that from thence I attained not the Elisian fields which are perpetually watered with the streames of milke and honey flowing and running through the meadowes wholly enameled with flowers which no winter is either able to annoy or wither What hindred me that I could not participate in the delightfull banquets revellings and dances of the Children and favourites of the gods I was at the bankes of Acheron with an extreame desire to passe it but that old uncivil boat-man would not receive me into his Barke whether it were that I brought not my passage mony in my mouth like the rest or that my body had not yet bin interred I had the patience to see him crosse and returne often and as often to offer my selfe to him out of a hope that one time might have rendred me more acceptable than another but all my hope was vaine and I could never gaine any thing of him At length as I stood still observing the multitude of soules which repaired thither from al sides in no lesse number than the leaves in Autumne use after the first frost to fal from the trees the sad and unfortunate soule of poore Stenobea presented it selfe to me with the selfe same lineaments and feature which I had usually seene in her save onely that she seemed farre greater which did so surprise both mine eyes thoughts that I knew not what to thinke of it untill she began to enter into this Discourse What strange adventure Endymion makes thee wander in these obscure and solitary places whereunto thy Fate hath not yet called thee For to the end thou maist not trouble thy selfe to aske me the same question I tell thee that it is not the will of Heaven that thou shalt dye yet or that I should live any longer perchance the gods being now at length tyred with crossing me doe send thee hither to give me opportunity of justifying my selfe of the crime thou hast unjustly laid to the charge of mine innocence the onely sorrow which had power to annoy me even after death Thou diddest me wrong in the interpreting of the resolution wherewith I beheld thee dye and that I had so soone forgot thy losse All the resolution I tooke proceeded from the hope Ismene gave me that the Knife would do thee no harme that thy life was in far lesse danger than mine owne But thou esteemedst my joy for thy deliverance as a crime and thine exclamations were so highly injurious to mine affection and so sensible to me that at length they bereaved me of sence making me fall downe in thy presence as the true and reall Sacrifice of Love first and then of Diana All the care which the maydens that were about me tooke to remove me out of the throng into the grasse produced no other effect than a transporting me from one death to another and under colour of giving me more aire and liberty of breath and seeking a cure for my present disease they gave me a generall cure for all my diseases at once for Diana who for a while before held me in a continuall pursuit had laid a Serpent in ambush which with his sting and mortall venome had wholly infected me before I could either come to my selfe or give any