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A14917 Faunus and Melliflora or, The original of our English satyres. Iohn Weeuer Weever, John, 1576-1632.; Horace. Satires. 1. English.; Persius. Works. Satire 1. English.; Juvenal. Satura 1. English. 1600 (1600) STC 25225; ESTC S111634 29,966 72

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yet obscurely shone As when wee see a thinne blacke cloudie clustre Through which the stars do yeeld a darksome lustre A gorgeous choller of deare cheua●all Set with a white embrodered Pyronall And Margarites with workmans rare deuise It seemed like vnto a shining Ice That night adorned in this princely sort Faunus departed from his fathers Court And went vntill for wearines he was Constrainde to lie downe on the yeelding grasse And recommended his faire bodies breath To Morpheus the elder borne of death There Faunus lie and cease my pen to tell What paine those Nimphes abode for thy farewell How sops of sorrow drencht in cups of care In steede of Nectar and Ambrosia were Greefe great in all yet great'st in Melliflore Who thought her Faunus murdred by the Bore She cut the trees and caru'de the tender graffes With dolefull Sestines mourning Epitaphes And stopt with sighs and drownd in kisse-cheeke teares Her halfe-spoke words A garment now she weares Right Rauen-blacke like sorrowes liuerie Cut all in rags yet ioynde so cunningly As by her clothes poore raggednesse was bra●ed And pouertie no greater riches craued The Sun this morne before hee did appeare Got two houres iourney in his Hemisphere And Melliflora at the Sunnes first peeping With loues sharpe-sighted eie the thickets creeping Vnder the broad head of a Pine-tree spies Faunus asleepe whose face to heaun-ward lies She shrunke aside aside againe she started Thinking he had beene Adon she departed But comes againe for loue lept from his eies And puld her backe t was Faunus then she sees She knew and feared feare she knew before Fearing he had beene murdered by the Bore She layd her eie-liddes to his eies and wept Then she perceiude her dearest Faunus slept With that she ioynd her corrall lips to his Sucking his breath and stealing many a kisse Wishing the life of a Camelion That she might onely liue his breath vpon Which all vnwilling his faire body left And would not from that paradise be rest Or heauenly mansion which he did retaine But there in hope to be enclosde againe This soft sound sleepe to Melliflore gane leysure To see to feele to smell to taste such pleasure As none but onely she could euer know And none but Faunus on the earth could show Oh for how oft whilst loue her marrow warmes Would she embrace twixt Alablaster armes And hugge and cull the snow-white fronted Boy Call him her loue her life her soule her ioy Then pry more nearely on his necke with oft Quicke mouing lookes and with her fingers soft Dimple his breast and hanging ore his shoulder Hold Faunus downe thrise blest with such an holder And then againe though yet he sleeping is Thus she beganne to woe him for a kisse More gratious farre then-dawning of the day Then Venus starre or purple coloured Maie Let not my begging dearest Faunus grieue thee Vpon a note ten thousand kisses giue mee And then as many busses ouerplus As Cinth●● gaue her loue Propentius How many Cupids with the Graces trippe Vpon thy left cheeke and thine vpper lippe How many lifes deaths ioves hopes cares and feares Thy quicker mouing eie-balles Faunus beares So many collings with kind clippings giue mee As Cupids golden headed arrowes grieue me And adde enticements twixt thine amorous kisses And pleasant murmures with sweete sounding hisses As Doues by turnes be either other nibbing And louingly in blither words be snibbing And bloudlesse in my bosome when thou lies And I turne vp my watrie swimming eies Then will I glew thee in my limber arme If cold as lead my breast shall make thee warme And Melliflora with her kisses breath Shall giue her Faunus life in lookt-for death Vntill my spirit in dewie kisses altring Within my body faint and fall a faultring Then take me Faunus twixt thy naked armes And vse thy hugging and thy kissing charmes And in thy hearts spoone coll me least I perish As twixt thy breasts my frozen bloud I le cherish And then like mine thy moistie kisses dew At po ynt of death life will againe renew Thus shall we enioy the heauen of our age And both together both our liues will swage This said she gathered fragrant smelling posies And strewd him o're with violets and roses Then with a kisse faine would she him haue raised Yet stood stone still and wishly on him gazed And forth his sleepe as though she feard to feare him She fixt her kisses to the roses neare him The roses warme by Mellifloraes mouth A whispering gale of wind came West by South How many roses then before she kist If she had knowne this none she would haue mist Her former kisses kisses gainde such plentie That she receiu de for one kisse more then twentie Such store of kisses on the sodaine found Some slipping from her fell vpon the ground That such an haruest came vpon the earth As since we had of kisses neuer dearth But stirring once his pillow made of grasse Faunus awakt and Venus thought she was With that he rose and like the blushing morne Hauing all night the loathsome burden borne Of aged Tython old men do no good Yet will be fumbling angrie then and wood Among the clowdes herselfe shee headlong throwes To meete with Phaebus what they do all knowes Headlong he ran such gamesome loue he scorned As Venus lou'd to haue his loue suborned But Melliflora ranne and ouertooke him And held him hard and neuer once forsooke him Vntil his name was honour'd by her tongue As one that findes great treasure standeth long Doubting hee sleepes so stood the louely boy Loue-sicke amaz'd and surfeited with ioy But when he knew her O what amorous greeting Faunus deuisde to entertaine his sweeting Like to the elme enclaspt with wanton vine Or as the ivie doth the oake combine About her necke his ivorie armes did twine Faint feeble weake and languishing in fine A moystie kisse seald vp their lippes as neuer Iniurious death should their embracements seuer But with their kisses make two bodies one And so their hearts with kisses liue alone Some teares betwixt them teares of ioy againe Did fall like siluer drops in sun-shine raine Then Faunus told her how he scapt the bore And both related th accidents before His ey-browes touch her roundie speaking eyne Kissing her necke and lippes like Corraline Then busseth she his cheeke his chin and brow Red comely-short and like to Cupids bow Yet in this vnion thus displeasde they be Because themselues they kissing cannot see Then like two culuers once againe they cleaue Hugge cull and clippe and sory for to leaue She carries kisses on her doubtfull eies In those two Diamonds prettie babes he spies Vntill they smile which as the sunne doth chace The mist-hung clowdes then shewes his cheerefull face From eies and cheekes did driue away the teares The sighes the sobs the cares and doubtfull feares Faunus resolu'd now had intention To wooe how loue refines inuention And thus he
Poudred vpon so strange that many thought With purple coloured silke it had beene wrought But ah alas it was the crimson staine Of goddesses which Faunus lookes had slaine About his necke he wore a falling band Which tooke it pride from his faire mothers hand His ivory feete appearing vnto sight In murrey veluet buskins rich were dight The middle slits with tyrian Bisse were laced Whose prettie knots his man-like legge embraced In many places bare as vse hath bin To shew the clearenesse of the naked skin The wanton boy attired in this sort Vnto the Latian mountaines did resort Whose prowde height garnisht with such stately trees Seemde to contemne the vally at his knees The humble vally in as good a state But loftie Gallants lower minds do hate Was still replenisht with a pleasant riuer Prowd of the gift and yet more prowd the giuer Whose wanton streames the ban● so oft do kisse That in her lap at length he falling is Her bubbling water with slow gliding pace Shews her great griefe to leaue that pleasant place And with a murmure when she goes away Greatly laments she can no longer stay Cause th'vpper streams by violence would come To take possession of that ioyfull roome With swift pursute and as they gin to chace it The bankes like armes doe louingly imbrace it Whose purling noise vpon the pibble stones For such departure are the dolefull grones Her teares exhalde such norishment doth giue As on the tree-fringd banks made Pleasure liue Among these trees a goodly Cypresse grew That all the lofty pines did ouer-view Who bow'd her faire head in the sunnie gleames To tres●e her greene locks by those glassie streams Her top her shade vpon the Riuer show'd For the kind mois●ure on her root bestow'd Running vpon so delicate a ground As that the truth could neuer yet be found Whether it made the grauell pretious looke Or else the grauell purifide the brooke Whose meddowes greene enameled with roses T was Paradise some Poet yet supposes Added a shew so ruddie that most deemed The field to blush at his owne beautie seemed Neare to this valley Shepheards often met And by this valley sheepish squadrons set Within this valley past the time away With leapes and gamboles and with other play Here the Nymphes playd such summer games as Base For it was summer alwaies in this place And Bar●breake the which when Faunus saw So many wood-Nymphes standing on a row The boy though yong yet who so yong that loues not Or who so old that womens beautie moues not Spide Mell●flora Melliflora was Among the number sitting on the grasse Sweete Melliflora I can tell ye true The grasse grew prowd that vnder her it grew Faire Melliflora amorous and yong Whose name nor story neuer Poet sung She wore a garland wrought with Amorets With orphrates ouerlaid and violets Whose lacinth loue-lockes hanged out so faire As drest the garland garland drest the haire And enterlaced with a purle band Like cristall Tagus through his golden sand Which hiding nowe then hidden by the haire At fast and loose to play it did appeare Faire was her face yet fairer might haue beene If that the Sunne so often had not seene Her louely face for halfe the day he spent In kissing her yet neuer was content For God or man thinkes he the Cushion misses That wooes all day and winnes nought else but kisses Vntill the sunne with ouermuch desire Of loue for loue is hotter then the fire Consumde the wreathe of Diamonds in his throne Ouid's beguilde it was not Phaeton For Melliflora was the cause he burned His chariot and the world to cinders turned Strange were her weedes to Faunus yet not strange For in such weedes the wood-Nymphes vse to range A petticote tuckte euen with the knees Garnisht about with leaues of sundry trees And sometimes like a net drawne vp and wrought Which net the eagle Ioue might well haue cought And all her garments made so light and thin Who could restraine but thinke what was within And blacke silke laces whereon siluer bells Did hang aboue her elbowes and of shels Her slippers were her legges her armes her brest In many places naked yet so drest As nakednesse another raiment scorned For she her cloaths her cloaths not her adorned Faunus a farre off stood stone-still and gazed The more he lookt the more Loue inly blazed He would haue quencht it with his teares but then A sparke of beautie burnes a world of men It burnt the more yet who can well refraine From drinking water when he feeles the paine Of burning feuer though that water drenches And turnes to fire which like Loue neuer quenches But youth may loue and yongmen may admire If old age cannot yet it will desire For since that time old men of sixty yeeres Bear●ng a beard or rather beard them beares Will heate their blouds with loue and yong wiues chuse At such sweete weddings yongmen nothing loose Faunus kneel'd downe and vnto Venus prayde Before his prayers were the one halfe said He thought it best vnto the Nimph to write And shew his loue but ginning to indite He tride the Muses with his often changes Loue neuer loues to rest but alwaies ranges If once on Melliflora he did thinke He wet his paper both with teares and inke Fearing to end before he had begunne Mistrusting each word which his wit had done One was too darke another was too plaine This word too lostie and the other vaine That set not downe the sorrow of his hart This shew'd his passion but it shew'd no Art He tore his papers cast away his pen Sore was he grieude and yet not angrie men In true loue are not angrie for he knew The more hee studied still the worse it grew Then he resolude to take the rose-strowne way Into the valley where he saw them play Accosted all with Venus and the Graces With white haire hiding their enticing faces Which hand in hand would make a circle round With often turning then themselues confound In Pyrrhus daunce like souldiers armed twine them And wedge-wise yoked in array combine them And when he came that wood-Nymph was most faine That to their play might Faunus entertaine And if he spake the Nymphs drew somewhat neare him To taste the sirrop of sweete wordes and heare him And gray-eyd Dorys she would alwayes eye him Till she was strucke purblinde she could not see him Some wisht him sooner though he came too soone Before the pleasure of the day was done Some saide the night for Louers was the day And Loue delighted in the night to play For now the day his office gaue to night To lend our aduerse hemisphere his light The Nymphs requested Melliflora than To moue this sute to Faunus she beganne I would we had such eloquence as might Intreate your Highnesse lodge with vs all night We and our arbour euermore would rest Content and honourd with so great a ghest You shall but lie