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A16599	The shepherds starre now of late seene, and at this hower to be obserued merueilous orient in the East: which bringeth glad tydings to all that may behold her brightnes, hauing the foure elements with the foure capitall vertues in her, which makes her elementall and a vanquishor of all earthly humors. Described by a gentleman late of the right worthie and honorable the Lord Burgh, his companie & retinue in the Briell in North-holland.	Bradshaw, Thomas, fl. 1591.; Theocritus. aut; Bradshaw, Alexander, fl. 1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 3508; ESTC S108276	27,823	60

a monster from which one taken away causeth present death As they say Pythagoras writ for his firme to al his epistles two in body one in minde C. I hold it felicity for me to be borne onlie to heare you speak but more happie it were for me to die quickly if this be true for then I see by the perspectiue glasse of your angelical beauty how it is written in my forheade that my heart dooth bleed for loue yet if neither of vs stand in election and because the gawdie day is come the fellowship is granted to some noble personage that can shewe best friendes for it then giue Corydon leaue to sacrifice for his losse the simplest guift that may be a handfull of lines in ease of a world of sorrows A. You may do wel to writ that with your wit you may write a way your care no doubte but hauing Mars lefte you if Neptune fauour you as he did Pelops you may winne king Aenomaus daughter in warlike race so comming home if your hungrie father Tantalus be aliue he may bake you in a pie and bidde the gods to the banket for ioy of your departure out of this miserable worlde but beware leaste Ceres be there at the feast for shee will eate a whole shoulder of you for meere spite because she knoweth that you haue beene verie vnfaithfull to women kinde But if Mercurie loue you so wel as he did Pelops and lend you an Ivorie shoulder to beare away a bobbe and commaund Clotho to call you to life againe then come to me and I will say more to your matter of loue till then I praye you giue mee leaue to chuse whether I will loue you or not C. Some women thinke it is as martiall a victory with their tongues to ouercome win the wisp as we shepheards with our pipes to win the garland But in al the dialogues wher shepherds vse to speak note that he which speaketh last ouercōmeth most Would I might say no more but Vici as none may saie not Veni vidi as all may saie or Veni vidi vici as Caesar and those which are more worthie of your presence A. And would I cold conquer Caesar with words as he won some nations without deeds then I protest Corydon should feede my sheepe on the mountaines and Tityrus my goates on the rocks but vnto my presence no such vulgare creepinge wormes should approch no not to my solitary presence Tit. Content you faire ladie albeit you are the pride of euerie braunche it standeth with your humility honor to entertaine seruice sometimes vnto your person least forgetting what you are you remember what you should not and so alwaies vsing to walke in the aire you forget to walke aright vpon the earth for want of the true vse of your selfe you maie soone fall For all thinges that are of great substance do decline down-ward the light things are lifted vpwarde so you maie catche that foule fall on the backe C. Tityrus counsell is good though somewhat swinish A. And so is not your talk because it is more then swanish C. You are not to be angry when you are giltles for that is not the intire property of a courtier but rather the cōtrary A. Neither are shepherds to prate but of goates lambes T. So we do of the lambes of Venus which cause the sons of carefull parentes to come home once a yeere for their sins with the prodigall when they haue eaten acornes for their mistris sake seuen long yeers C. Come Tityrus let vs sing for Amaryllis sake contend for her sith wee can not haue her giuen vnto mee T. Then if I sing best king Midas shall iudge for me because her dignitie ought not to be censured by one no worthie then our selues A. Doe so and if hee iudge for either of you I will bestowe a greene Veluet hoode on him to hide his Asses eares and on you both my iollie Shepheards two Oten pipes that you may conuoye vnto his eares such melody as is most fit for his merite R. M. A.H.A.As But begin your plaine song Corydon and Tityrus contention Cor. In a time of merrie sporte Amaryllis did resorte With her gratious louing lookes To the Chrystall running brookes Where I Corydon did dwel Corydon the sheapheardes spell For to shepheardes doth belong All the pride of wanton song There to Amaryllis viewe Shepheard sent his homage dwe Such a seruice as of right Came to short of such a wight For I sent my thoughtes vnfit To admire at such a wit And I sent my daseling eyes To behold the Empire skies Tity Shepheard leaue thy fonde conceite For her beautie prooues a beyte To beguyle the craftist eies That in court doe skale the skies Like as fishes saye to flee When dame Venus star they see Cor. O sweete Amaryllis face Giues my muse a sower disgrace Drownds in Lethe al my arte Setteth at her heele my smarte Tityrus my fellowe swaine Seekes her heauenly lookes to gaine Tity T is our tender Lambes haue part Of the ioyes of her sweete hart They as she and she as they Innocentes faire lookes bewray Cor. Amaryllis whiles we striue Keepes our tender flockes aliue For our flockes well kept doo prooue That she cares not for our loue Tity Haplesse wee and happie shee Of all that dwell in Italie Corydons contention In Crotona Sicill mount Amaryllis Paramount Liues and loues no worldlie fame Loues of life to keepe her name He that dooth approch her grace Must appeare an Angels face For her presence will appale Him that best can tell his tale Whispering lips like nets which call Heauenly quailes to be her thrall Sweet notes liking to inspier Like but not like Syrens hier Such a voice as dooth inchante Nightingals her walks to haunt In both cheekes her ruddy type Makes them sing of cherries ripe Then like Ecco she dooth vse Notes which makes thē stay muse Notes which from the hearers eye Make drops fall as from the skie Notes which through her straunge right eye Send forth pictures of the skie Which eie when it dooth ascende Then behold I see my ende For no tongue can then relate How sun-beames loue thoughtes amate Apelles by whom only Princes were pictured began Amaryllis so exquisite that he cold not finish because he could not conceiue her perfection where vpon he remembred Venus picture far vnfit to expresse Amaryllis Apelles did misse to applie In her picture this right eie Where vpon some do coniect By that shadowe imperfect He meant Amaryllis shape And that Venus was her ape Then did Zeuxis frame her shape In her brest a bunch of grape For loue whereof in her sweete brest Nightingales do make their nest As tame fowles so they afforde All the yeare birdes to recorde And in the merrie month of May Nightingales for night and day In the sequel of the yeere To her voice their burden beare In the Quire of

a title as well as the eldest And therefore we learne that worthie men haue carried the burden of their countrie Gods in the middest of any spoiles vpon their backes away amongest whome Aeneas the founder of our natiue soyle is canonized Ea est falsae Religionis nota cū sit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Plato not so much for conueying his parents in safetie from the sacking of Troy as for that he preserued his countrie gods knowing it to be a false Religion to haue sought newe gods elsewhere for money or rewardes Cor. Then do I marueile Amaryllis at one thing greatly I haue often heard you alledge as an aucthoritie of a wise Senatour in our land who vsed to pronounce that of the two Religions there is but one end and that the one is but a little the farther way about both may come to one home Ama. I haue by heare-say so been informed but esteeme no trueth but one neither loue I that Ianus should mock me in my iourney and when I were faire for it should stand in some place of doubtfull way with two faces vnder one hood point both waies so that I may mistake him and go the longest way about I may so be wearie of my life if the way be a purging faintie hoat way before I come to my iourneys ende I haue heard of two Ladies which often are placed in the way where all Herculeians walke the one ladie Voluptuous the other ladie Vertue and that the plesurable ladie hath the more efficient perswasions to induce trauellers to their destruction then ladie Vertue hath to reduce them to their saluation That her way is faire and broad and promiseth more assurance of rest then ladie Vertue doth whose pathes are vnpleasant whose waies tedious but in the end there is a Paradise of most daintie deuises which Corydon you knowe is most fit for Ladies and most fauoured of mee Cor. Good reason Amaryllis that you should fauour the soules health aboue the bodies and things to come rather then pleasant cōceipts which are present deceites The Dialogue I haue conuerted for your vse out of his proper language in the most famous memorables of Xenophon A Dialogue betwixt Hercules and the two Ladies Voluptuous and Vertuous Xenophon li. 2. Memorabilium As I wandred all alone In these greenewoods Sommers clothing To my selfe I made my mone Why I had my life in loathing At the last the carefull aire Did conuey my cause of mourning To these Ladies passing faire Who well knew my inward burning To whome when I vaild my Crest Vailde my Armes before their presence And beheld lawne apornes prest Pure like Altars for my Incense Then I ceast not to recall Hilles woods groues trees dales al wandring Which accompanied my thrall Wordes nor deeds nor comfort rendring When these Ladies had agesse Who I was that so did trauell Did their sacred termes addresse To conuey mee from my perill Voluptas First dame Pleasure did presume Shining brightly not by Nature Shinde cares like clowdes to consume With the blasing of her feature And her eies were open wide That shee quickly might intangle Most vaine lookes which catch at pride As the fish doth at the Angle And her garments in like sort were as wide and worne wide open Entertaining bold resort Knew her shop without a token But I musing at her gate Marueiled at no such wunder As to see her shadowes state And her selfe to stand a sunder For I thought no Atomie To be of so small acquaintance As to want her companie Or to seeke her lewd alliance Shee began to make report Of the youthes of her profession Which shee cald a sweete consort Of fine wittes without discretion Those that loue mee call mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those that hate mee call mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Felicitie Igna●●e Then I knowing what shee would For shee cald her selfe Dame Pleasure Told her that I would be bold To go seeke a richer a treasure Of loue desire lust sweete wordes To my eies eares tast speaking There appeard with shrill records Helens Eunuke Nectar eating All which pleasures without paines Shee commended to my fauour But I did resigne the gaines Which comes of too sweet a sauour ●●tus Then vertue faire of her selfe Did informe my simple meaning What was pleasures idle pelfe Not to sowe but liue by gleaning She began in weeping wise To intreate my tender nonage To beware by her aduise Of faire lookes the gate of bondage T is not pleasure bringeth rest No man makes the gods his fautors By delighte or pleasant iest Of the which they are not autors T is desert that dooth present Euerie labor to his hire Pleasant wits doe oft inuent Perfect art dooth still aspire Doe but marke good naturd ground How it dooth reward the sower Doe but marke good naturd sound For one touch it yeeldeth fower Seelie sheepe that yeeld you cloth Must be washed in due season Lazie kine are verie loth To yeeld you milke without some reason Hercules is borne to wars Those that honour such a calling Must not sit and gape at stars Till they see their foes a falling If in boystrous warres at length Thou incurre some rare distresse Vertues Rescue with thy strength Shall bring desprate care redresse If thou wouldest preuaile in force Know that exercise confirming Is to strength a better course Then the bookes of Pleasures learning Farewell noble Hercules Of all warlike prowes the Engine Let no wandring Knightes distresse Force thoughts base shifts to imagine Then I song loth to depart Voluptas Then dame Pleasure red this leason That this painfull schoole of Arte And dame Vertues pathes are geason I reanswerd to my skill This is all your pleasures fulnesse That the bellie you may fill Though the bodie liue in dulnesse And those false Ioyes you may wash With fierce Bacchus which is lustie To deceiue the sillie passh To be drunke not being thirstie Corydon I ioy Amaryllis to see a fable so to agree with truth They say into the Elyzean fieldes there be two wayes prepared one faire broad pleasant carelesse the other foule narrowe tedious hideous and carefull He that taketh his pleasure on the waie there is no reason he should haue it at his iourneies ende He that laboureth is in his trauaile will be merrie at night This pleasant way hath assayed many wise men but allured none For it assaulted Vlysses by incantation of Circe and Calypso by vocation of Syrens musicke by bitter sweete delightes such as the voluptuous ladie preferred to our Hercules If Vlysses had not discoursed like a wise trauailer with Circe and perswaded in the deepest propertie of an Oratour with Calypso and preuented in pollicie by stopping his eares from the womanish harmonie of Syrens in the one he had beene metamorphosed with his whole Regiment into Bores and hogges and brute beastes for such are all men sensles in their delightes in the other he

with greene lawrell Apollos scepter which shall betoken her wisedome and with the Myrtle faire Venus Poesie which shall shewe her beautie And with Amaranthus Dianas herbe whereby bloud is stenched so may shee imitate the herbe and haue remorce Wo is mee what Aetna shall I possesse Will not Amaryllis heare Then off goes my pastoral robes made of my dearest Goates cloathing and into this Lethe I runne where if I be not drowned yet eternall forgetfulnesse shall make mee happie Yet there the fisher Olpis still watching may take mee to be the great fishe Thynnus and so saue my life and bring mee to shame againe But I will do it for then sure I am that some pleasure in hope that I am dead will possesse Amaryllis so shee retourning with ioy to see I maye take her in her good mood All is in vaine Diana calleth and honour allureth Lately I asked counsell of Agraeo a Prophetesse howe to knowe whether Amaryllis shoulde euer loue mee shee taught mee to take Telephilon a kinde of leafe that Pepper beareth so called of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because it foresheweth loue and to clap the leaues in the palme of my hand If they yeelded a great sound then surely shee should loue me greatly if a little sound then little loue But either I was deafe being senceles through loue or else no sound at all was heard and so Agraeo the diuinatrix tolde me a true rule Nowe I preferre my garlande made in sorrowfull hast of which the flowers some signifying death som mourning but none belōging to marriage do manifest that Amaryllis hath no respect of meane men Come gentle Amaryllis I wil go fetch that milkewhite Goat which hath nowe a twinne which you haue euer liked sacrifice her to your liking Will you not Then Erithacis rich though not so faire who is an earnest suter to me shal haue them because shee is delighted with my presence But my right eie watreth t is a signe of somewhat do I see her yet O faire Amaryllis be not angrie though I talke idlely and speake like one distract At the foote of this Pine tree I will ende my lamentations where perhaps shee may looke backe and see mee for shee is no Adamant I would I could preuent her swift pace as Hippomanes did vnto Atalanta with golden Apples which Venus hath sent mee to cast before her that shee stooping to golde might be ouertaken But gold cannot tempt Chastitie I would with Bias make shift to obtaine faire Perones though the Oracles said I should die for it if I take the labour in taske But shee seeketh not the death of a louer I would with Adonis one of mine owne facultie for loue of Venus watch so long in the woods that the wilde bore should slay mee for my duetie But shee hating to be called Venus wil rather let me continue dead then reuiue mee for loues sake as Venus did her Adonis I would be like Endymion if I could who for that he eschued all loue and followed Dianas life he fell in delight with perpetuall hunting in the woods But Amaryllis will not be Luna to induce me into a perpetuall sleepe to the intent to imbrace mee but will be Luna to the intent to flie from mee I would be Iason if shee would be Ceres and vouchsafe to sleepe with mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then might shee be Ceres in deede quasi Geres but that were admirable that by one bare sleepe should happen yet might shee be Ceres for shee beareth glad tydings vnto him that shall haue her Thus I fainting and shee not caring must thinke that what is haplesse should be carelesse but that will not be Then heere will I lye and let my flocke starue that when the Wolfe hath eaten them he may be so good vnto mee This shal please Amaryllis rather then continuall importunitie yet departing honie of the Combe shal be my food yet will I eate nothing but sweete thoughts and the ioyce of Pieres shal be my drinke yet will I drinke nothing but the spring water that shee last washed in Where by the puritie I shal thinke of her sinceritie and see my sorrowes written in the sandes Here will I waite haunt these plaines woods looking for no companion but the louing birde which delighteth to behold the face of a man of him I will loue to behold the face of a goddesse Heere shal I finde none to tune vnto mee but that ladies birde that counterfaiteth to chatter with a small shrill voyce as they do faines the voice of a Ladie to whom I will vse to saie O the voice of a goddesse And whiles Tityrus is with our flock in Crotona I will sit heere till I see Diana come bie will bethinke mee vpon a number of Hieroglyphiks which I will compose in some order shortly and preferre them to Amaryllis In the meane while let this my Roundilay end my follie Sith the Nimphs are thought to be happie creatures For that at faier Helicon a Fountaine Where all vse like white Ritch Iuorie foreheads Daily to sprinckle Sith the quire of Muses atend Diana Euer vse to bathe heauie thoughts refyning With the Siluer skinne Ciuet Mir vsing For their adornment Sith my sacred Nymphs priuiledge abateth Cause Dianas grace did elect the Myrtle To be pride of euery branch in order last of her handmaides Should then I thus liue to behold euerted Skies with impure eyes in a fountaine harbourd Where Titans honor seated is as vnder All the beholders Helpe wofull Ecco reabound relenting That Dianas grace on her helpe recalling May well heare thy voice to bewaile reanswere Faire Amaryllis Fairer in deede then Galataea fairest Of Dianas troope to bewitch the wisest With amasing eye to abandon humors of any Gallants Shee Thetis faier Galataea modest Possis simul Thetidē Galataeam amar● set voluptatem gloriam contra Prouerbium Albeit some saye in a Chrystall often T is a rule there lurketh a deadly poyson T is but a false rule For what Yse is hid in a Diamond Ring Where the wise beholder hath eyes refusing Allabasters vaines to no workeman hidden Gold to no Touchstone There bedeckes fairest Rosamond the fountaine Where resorts those greene Driades the watrie Nimphs The Driades are supposed to be trees that haue life and sense of Oliue plants recreat by Phaebus Till they be maried So beginning ends the report of her fame Whose report passing any pennes relation Doth entreat her loue by reinspiration To dull heads yeelding faer eies reflection Still to be present FINIS

I will rest your scholler still for your vertues but no louer of anie ones person Cor. Why then my song shall be of patience perforce and I will still be attendant vpon your preferment though I meane to goe hide my shame in my fathers woods that once might not haue repented mee too late but haue releeued my true loue in time euen with the enioying of Amaryllis whose ioyes nowe increased shall increase my bad Muse to intreate of them day and night And nowe both you fountaines drierie woods lende of the infinite soundes and innumerable busshes in you a verse for euerie budde and a line for euerie leafe And you immeasurable mountaines in heighth expressing my high desire in euer-liuing greenes manifesting my eternall good will in hugenes remembring her impossiblenes of me nowe to be embraced in hauing but one waye to go vp and that verie narrowe it foresheweth that onely vertue must be the path that leadeth vnto her In being stored with Cedar trees foretelleth mee that shee inclyneth to high honours In being stored with sheepe sayeth shee shall be riche In hauing a fountaine sheweth shee hath wisedome In hauing humble and lowe vallies sheweth that shee hath true humilitie In bearing the name of Pimplea assureth the beholders that none must presume before they be called lest they be repelled by her swaines with their hookes and by her maynie with their whips You senceles creatures receiue mee into your herd for as mute a creature though not so brute a substance as you till I being well acquainted with your kinde yeeld glorie to my mistresse for making mee silent as you do to your creator for making you a subiect Yet not silent Corydon til I haue said my mind once more to moue her spirites to sing vnto my Roundilay her mornings tune which putting vpō with her gown all grauitie shee may vse to modulat to this dittie Corydons Hymne to the praise of Amaryllis Would mine eies were cristall fountaines Where you might the shadow view Of my griefes like to these mountaines Swelling for the losse of you Cares which curelesse are alas Helplesse haplesse for they grow Cares like tares the number passe All the seede that loue doth sowe Who but could remember all Twinkling eies still representing Starres which pearce mee to the gall Cause they lend no lenger lighting And your Nectar lips alluring Humane sence to tast of heauen For no art of mans manuring Finer silke hath euer weauen Who but could remember this The sweet odors of your fauour When I smeld I was in blisse Neuer felt I sweeter sauour And your harmles hart annointed As the custome was of Kings Showes your sacred soule appointed To be prime of earthly things Ending thus remember all Clothed in a mantle greene T is ynough I am your thrall Leaue to thinke what eye hath seene Yet the eie may not so leaue Though the thought do still repine but must gase till death bequeath Eies thoughtes vnto their shryne Which if Amaryllis chaunce Hearing to make haste to see To life death shee may aduaunce Therefore eies thoughts go free Now Amaryllis ending my mirth beginnes my moane Now departing from your sight I shall be blinde and from your presence I shall perish Yet vouchsafe beauties wanton darling so called for that you haue beene pleasant with my Kiddes and learned to smile quickly of dame Flora your grandmother suffer my thoughtes to be sent as suters to your honour to protect their basenes though my bodie be absent from your sight by reason of vnworthines Nowe I haue fed a wanton eie I will go feede my starued flocke and sith greater dignitie is befallen Amaryllis then my infirmitie must thinke of my accustomed boldnes shall not approch your presence without some present worthie to gratifie so high degree All this while Tityrus gathers my straying flockes to his straying thoughtes keepes my Kiddes from pride which would insult sith they haue notice of Amaryllis successe But let Tityrus my beloued Riuall beware lest that Libyan white one which wanting a play-fellow and going to Amaryllis fountaine to seeke her do not fall into a phrensie for absence of his foster mother and so strike him sodaynly with her horne O gracious Amaryllis why do you recall me your quondam louer roming like the Woodoses in these groues to view that you must flie them and go to Dianas courtes Do you hate me No. Then you must loue mee True For in Dianas nymphes there is but two dispositions and in a woman ther is no third thing Mulier aut amat aut odit nihil est tertium Then do so still Shall I be the same in fauour when I come to mans state as now being a beardlesse youth Then destroy me presently that I may die before the cogitations of departure bereaue me of my ioyfull blisse Behold I cast before thee twelue Queenapples though the Gods sent down but one all pourporting this poesie To the fairest of twelue I gathered them from a tree planted with thine owne hand which makes them looke so like heauenly foode Beholde my bitter griefe Why hide you your face Amaryllis Would I were made a humming Bee to serue Dianas hyues that so in her mount garden I might see my Amaryllis mounted wearing her daily garland knotted with her owne haire to shewe how shee hates to weare anie other bodies Thyrsus Nowe do I know O loue that thou art a plagie god Certes some Lyonesse was thy foster mother or else the Poets faine when Iaculus you ranne away from your own mother Or else you were Astyages sonne one of the first Monarchie that was whom when your mother was with childe of you your father dreamed that shee bare a Vinebranch in her womb that would ouershadowe all Asia Asking counsell of the Soothsayers what brood shee shoulde breed they tolde true such an one as would disturbe all Nations and deposede your own father from rule of himselfe Then he gaue thee O Cupid to Harpagus to be ouerwhelmed with the obliuious waues of the Sea But he vnhappie engine of all mens woe returning into a wood in vnlucky Persia there left thee at randome to the wide worlde Then Spacon which in the Persian language is a dogge was thy Nurse and so art thou cruell by his education Such an one is Loue that whom a mad dogge byteth he is madde presently vppon it I burning with inwarde fire seeking with outward teares to quench the outward apparant flame of loue my teares serue to smother my heat the smoke whereof is the sooner seene So outwarde medicines shewe there to be inwarde griefes Faire looking like the glorious Diamond in worth the most precious Pearle Nymphe embrace a shepherde with your lookes then they may kisse mee though I not them with the lippes of admiration In faire lookes are vayled with modestie sweete kisses I will go gather a Coronet and will weaue infolde it with the knottes of truest loue