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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

others no no I may profit you but not preiudice my selfe Let it suffice that I haue corrected your Fooes and that your selfe escape vnreuenged of our auntient emnitie ouer and besides which vndeserued friendship I giue you a Ship in all thinges well furnished with sufficient treasure to supplie your expenses and thus knowing my minde the sooner you be packing the safer may it be for your person as for Cilci●a I haue Xenarchus my sonne there to gouerne here in Lidia want not souldiours to engarison Unto whom in few wordes my Father thus replyed that iustly condemning his pretence and despysing his proffers it lastly rested that Fortune his foe might one daie crie quittance with falshoode his friende and so onely accompanied of three or foure o● his faithfull seruants as doubting the worst fled secretly into the before mētioned Forrest not knowing the same to be the Receptacle of Deipyrus much lesse of his missed wife and childrē but least of all that the same his traiterous Nephewe did in such sort minister to their necessities Cap. 32. WIthin this Forrest in a pleasant Glade the sheepeherdes to take Wolues and other rauening beastes haunting their Flockes had digged a verie deepe daungerous Pit laying boughes slightly ouer-twhartes and artificially couering the same ouer with greene Tur●es so that the subtilitie thereof might hardly be espyed into which Pit Deipyrus ranging abroade to seeke after sustenance for him selfe and his charge at vnwares slipped and seeing no possibilitie of deliuerance from thence complaineth after this manner Sower is that sweete which decaieth in the blossome but sweete is that sower that dyeth in the budde ah happie man Deipyrus that being forworne with Correction hast at the length weryed Fortune with correcting and shalt anon present death with the glad deliuerie of thy ioylesse life and that not suddenly amongest the impenitent Pikes but slowlier then thou wouldest amiddest this Pitte wherein appeareth the great mercie of the good gods in respect of the small merits of sinnefull men O that the secrete bowels of the earth that denieth not to burie me as no doubt the vpper face thereof disdayneth to beare me coulde aswell conceale my vile faults as it doth couer my vitious flesh then shoulde my Treasons which now seeme odious to the heauens infamous to the world hurtefull to many daungerous to the most detestable to all and burdinous to mine owne conscience then I say might such mine offences su●cease to suruiue deceased Deipyrus which alas will then be hardly ripe when I shalbe happely rotten Neuerthelesse I am not nowe to dreade the worst of mercylesse men that slowly forget but to hope the best of the mercifull gods that swiftly forgiue nowe am I to sitte vppon my selfe as Iudge and against my selfe to pronounce iudgment that the Gods seeing me impartiall in mine owne case may as no doubt they will spare me for the same cause for it more standeth vs vppon to confesse then to defende our follies It is alas a common imperfection to offende but an vnwonted perfection to repent and why the first springeth from Nature but the other from vertue yea Nature whereunto we easily incline is in effect Securitie to Sinne feare of worldly shame biddeth vs iustifie our selues when in deede to liue in Securitie is not to die in safetie for meete it is that y e honny which seemed pleasant in the mouth be cōuerted to bitter wormewood in the stomacke and vtterly abhorred of the soule Doth not the pleasantnesse of the fruite make amends for the bitternesse of the roote the hoped for ioy in the harbour moderate the suffered perils on the Seas and the will to be released of the maladie asswage the sharpnesse of the medicine and shall not I that grone with Repentance in mine heart hope thereby to gaine refreshment to my soule yes verely yes so to hope winneth an effectuall hire that we be Contrite it is necessarie that our Contrition be equiparent to our Transgressiōs more necessarie but if the qualitie of our Repentance exceedeth the quantitie of our offences then is the same most acceptable But wretches that we are flesh and blood perswade the contrarie saying we scarce trip when in deede wee stumble downe right that the crime is verie light when the same is most weightie that we shall liue long and may at leasure repent when in a moment we are taken away or euer we thinke to amend and so in the end perrish desperatly that persist diuelishly for as therefore the gods are greatly delighted with Repentance so are they greeuously displeased with Procrastination It only remaineth then that I imbrace thee O sweete Repentance a burthen so much the lesse ponderous by how much thou increasest in greatnes to the pricked conscience thou art the perfit consolation and the only counterchaunge to deserued confusion with thy feete onely we run to mercy without thy winges flie we not from vengeance thou I say doest reprehend mine errors therefore will I apprehende thy vertues neuer giuing thee ouer vntill by death at least I comprehend thy sweetenesse Whilest Deipyrus most desirous to haue died spake yet more in the darke pit one while remembring the distresse of his guidelesse Charge left at randon in the dangerous Forrest and often naming whome he made account neuer more to see his deare Eurimone the king of Licia his daughter whose loue was the greatest part of his interprised lewdnesse but neuer forgetting with a penitent heart and bitter teares to send forth his humble prayers as his soules Harbengers It chaunced my Father and his Company to wander along the same Glaede and not doubting at all the subtilitie of the place one of them fell hedlong into the same couered Pit lighting so boisterously vpon Deipyrus that he bore him downe to the earth in a sowne the other only astonished with the fall and not receiuing farther harme after a while feeling but not seeing the panting body of a man lying prostrate wrought such meanes that he recouered Deipyrus out of his traunce By which time my Father and the others aboue had letten downe wythes and other deuises which they had framed for the purpose so drawing vp the man that was newly fallen into the pit who not a little ioyfull of so speedie deliuerie aduertised them how there was yet remaining behind an other person to him vnknown Wherevpon letting downe the second time they drewe Deipyrus vp into the open ayre that wel-nere of a day and night before had scarcely discerned any light of the sunne or starres Cap. 33. BUt when the king my father beheld the plight of Deipyrus and the same perceiued the presence of my Father it was a world to note the alteration of either their Countinances Espetially Deipyrus consumed with the pensiuenesse of his hart infeebled through weakenesse of body and confounded in the guiltinesse of his owne Conscience had better cause often to chaunge his colour then as it hapned to dread

see homely yea and I speake now of the best not of the most that lacke of thus well and yet like as well not wanting any thing that content themselues with euery thing pouertie yeelding vs this aduauntage that whereas for wealth other nations be inuaded with warre the lacke thereof keepeth vs at home in peace Neither feare we to fight if occasion shall serue for although we shunne all causes of controuersie yet know we howe to reuenge proffered iniuries and that can all Asia well witnes whom we euen we the Scythians haue three times in open fieldes conquered and our bowes made them three times vnto vs tributorie All this while the two breethren continue dismayed by reason of the sightes they had lately behelde taking taking small delight in those his speaches whereuppon their gentle hoste brake of his former argument spake to his guestes as followeth Cap. 9. WEre it not gentlemen that I my selfe am pa●tlye priuy to some sufficient cause of your sadnes I could not but iudge you either verie sollitarie or somewhat sullen but trust me my selfe a straunger in an other place as you are here and seeing that which you haue here seene coulde not but imagine and feare asmuch or more then you haue feared but the reason why I haue suffred these your dumps and not resolued your doubtes was because I gladly woulde haue ouerpassed that in silence which will be more greeuous to me in resitall then what you here behelde hath bene to you dreadfull herewithall the water stoode in his eyes and adding a small pause to the sheddinge of a fewe teares he thus proceedeth You shall vnderstande qd he that the cursed owner of yonder same dismembred quarters was almost from his cradell to me and mine a vowed enemy by whom I often receaued much skaeth but coulde neuer acquite my selfe of his enuie Know ye also that the same Ladie whom you behelde euen now in this place was without superstition bee it spoken the adored goddesse of mine amorous deuotions the emperious Mistresse of my martired heart and the onely shee that helde me in loyaltie whose beautie was my blysse whose sweete countinaunce was my sole comforte and to whome more then to my owne selfe I liued ●hall I tell you for her sake was I paciente of all labour●●enterous of al dangers careles of all cumbats and desperate of all deathes for in loue is nothing dificile but as the Hunter plyeth his Houndes the Falkner his Hawkes and the Fisher his Angle forgetting the paine through delight of the pastime so the louer prosecuteth his loue esteeming all labours and troubles but trifles in respect of the inning hope of his amarous haruest yea and by howe much deeper loue hath taken foundation by so much the more sweeter is it in operation sau●ring altogether honie and not senting gaule What shall I say so pleasaunt and stedfast was our mutuall loue vntill on her parte violated that it might haue bene made a question whether of vs was the louer or which the beloued our two heartes being as it were to either bodie common But as good Ladies are sometimes ouer lightly affiansed so light wantons are often ouer firmely fantasied nay alas it is commonly seene that trust hath the fayrest tract leading to treason and that in security we finde greatest sorrow This yonkar whose guile hath bene thus rewarded with a deserued guerdon when nowe no farther hope was left for the exercise of his malicious madnes against me applyed then mine owne weapons to worke vnto my selfe woundes solliciting secretly by louing nay lustfull tables this wicked woman Wicked may I well terme her and wo-man for that sext is an apte Etymologia Ah gentlemen or euer I passe to my penaunce which will be the ripping vp of Thetis her inconstancie either suffer me to chewe vppon my melancholie and perhaps choke or else giue passage to my choler so happely to ease mine heart with a chafe which chafe I wishe may be to you a caution as the cause thereof is to me a corasiue for though Thetis is not euerie woman yet followeth it not but 〈…〉 woman may proue a Thetis and then were 〈…〉 other Philosophie but implication yet wom●● might iustly be termed monsters in nature as some how cūningly or curiously I iudge not doe note them But what talke I of their natures that can tell much more of their maners O that I had bent more carefull in auoyding their companie and lesse cunning in deciphering their conditions What else are they I accuse not all and may not excuse a many but ineuitable plagues conuenient noysances naturall temptations couited calamities housholde hostilitie and dilectable detramentes whom wee cannot want without offence to the gods nor holde without damage to our owne parsons if shee be fayre shee is wooed and reddily checketh if foule she wooeth and euer chooketh Good wine lacketh no tasters nor fayre women sutors with an easie price and an iuie bush bad wine also is vttered if she be poore then ouer chargeable to him that shall keepe her and then shee flincheth if rich ouercurious for him that shall catch her and then shee fleeceth outwardly with arte is shee pullished howsoeuer inwardly polluted her face painted her beautie borrowed her haire an others and that frissed h●r gestures enforced her lookes premeditated her backe bolstred her brest bumbasted her shoulders bared and her middle straite laced and then is she in fashion when most out of fashion Besides her attire eies hath shee to entise teares to excuse lookes to attract smiles to flatter embracements to prouoke resistaunce to yeelde frownes to delay bec●es to recall lippes to inchaunt kisses to enflame and all these to poyson applying thus to euerie member and motion a seuerall arte Se prieth in her glasse like an Ape to pranke her in 〈◊〉 gaudes like a puppet but being pruned as shee 〈◊〉 to the purpose yet doth shee but hurte nature with arte and marre forme with fashion and is like to the gloe worme that is bright in the hedge and blacke in the hande Shee discouereth that sometimes willingly which shee woulde seeme to haue done vnaduisedly shee promiseth one thing and performeth an other professeth chastitie but practiseth the contrary loue hir and you loose hir make straunge and you winne hir offer and she disdayneth denie and shee dyeth prayse hir and she pranketh dispise her and shee powteth but O diuell if taken tardie then hir tongue vttereth such arte that either shee auoydeth cunningly the suspition or leaueth the matter doubtfull in suspence Teares hath shee at commaundement and those of two sortes weeping often for anger and seldome for sorrow of hir two extremes Loue and Hate hir loue is a minute but hir hate a monument As redily doth shee leaue as rashly shee doth loue being as prone to mutabilitie as desirous of variety changing for pleasure but chusing for profit and if at one time shee hath twentie sundrie ●lyantes yet can shee please

successe she thought it labour not altogether lost to finish that reply in written tables at their last departure begone only by pitifull gestures the which purporting many louing arguments enterlaced also with some desperate conclusions were by her messenger deliuered to his perusing When Crisippus had with ioy enough viewed reueiwed those plausable lines he by the same messenger thus reanswered in writing her letters SO often do I accuse my selfe of cowardise most worthy Lady as the hardines of the silly Snaile meeteth my remembrance whose courage is such that the boulde worme is seene venterously to clime the tops of the most loftiest Towers when to say troth I through Timeritie haue baulked the proffered bountie of you a Lady then whom liueth not any more louely in excuse wherof I infer the cause not to be any mislike of the matter but a mistrust of the maner no defect of willingnes but my too too vnworthynes no light acceptāce of your so rare beautie but the vnlikelihood of so strang bounty wherfore seeing that feare only hath bene my fault I hope your curtious nature sweete Lady will make a fauorable construction of my childish errour for the which I haue alredy performed such extreme pennāce that had I not conceiued hope of life by your writing to day death no doubt had taken away both hope life before to morrow For my passed simplicitie I aske pardon of my following fidelitie I craue triall forgiue the one affie in the other to whatsoeuer affaires you shal imploy my seruice to that only office shal I applie al duety what you henceforth account but an errour that same shall I conclude an heresie only liue Marpissa to continue your loue or Crisippus dieth to end his langour Your Graces more willing then worthy Crisippus From this day forwardes they enioyed the benefit of many amorous meetinges and in conclusion of their vnsuspected familiaritie proceeded a secret marriage Anon after the time drewe fast on wherein a marriage should haue bene consummated betwixt Marpissa king Staurobates but she and Crisippus rather carelesse of their liues then inconstant in their loues fled together from the Court more priuely then prouidently as hapned for long were they not absent but by by missed the Portes Hauens whole Country being narrowly laide for their apprehēsiō so that not able to flee far y t were pursued so fast they might not be more couertly hid then they were curiouslie sought in the ende as crookedly found When the two Loues were brought into the presence of the two kinges Staurobates sweating in a new chaffe as cast in his second accompt sendeth as fierce lookes at Crisippus that had so forstalled his mariage as did Selchim a sterne countinaunce at Marpissa that had thus disobeied his meaning who adding these following speches proceeded also to a terrible sentence Cap. 26. WHy suffer I the presence of thee so dishonest a child by whose practise I am become so dishonoured a father why haue I bene so carefull of thy wel-fare that art so carelesse of thine owne preferment were it not thou impudent Strumpet that I rather shunne to be noted of impacience in giuing the bridle to my iust anger then doubt to be charged of iniustice in punishing so vniust a Trespasser this heart of mine could redily consent these handes willingly contriue and these eyes g●adly beholde that thy carcasse mine onely deede deade beweltered in blood before my face and trampled vppon with my feete but liue harlot I say liue yet a while that hast alredy liued ouer long to me no lesse vnluckely to thine own selfe that I am offended and thou the offender thou shalt anon feele if contrary to kinde the deuowring wilde beastes in the desertes shall not shew more curtesie then I iustly occasioned pretend pittie Beleeue me thy light lookes haue made me before now suspitious of thy loose life as alwaies more fearefull to preuent y e danger y t might proceed of thy wāton gestures thē careful to recouer thee of any thy sicknesses esteeming it lesse difficile to incounter my opē enemies in battle thē easie to countermaund the secret Assalāts of they beauty This feare is incident to carefull fathers that are sped of such amorous daughters for whom and that or euer they are iudged marriageable besides dowries more then easily disbursed thankfully accepted or profitably employed must also be prouided husbands least they impatient of tariaunce procure vnto themselues Paramours yea rather than suche hast with a vengeaunce should be hindered by non-sufficiencie the louing Pigeons will first or grow in their Shooes or walke on their Toes or adde to their Yeares or subtract from Childishnesse or if yet disabled suffer perhaps a large triall before a long suspition better knowing to entertaine a Louer at Thirteene than to obay a Father at Thirtie Let vs proffer a wealthie matche and a man personable the simpring Saintes will then on Gods name liue stil maidens or haue change of excuses not to marrie when anon after themselues fantasing or flattered of some Iack or Clinchpoupe bag they first or begge they after must in the Diuels name marrie or not liue patiently Maidens thus their first and cheefe studie is husbandes and their last and least care huswiferie But am●●●us Peate seeing thou diddest refuse to be a Queene to Staurobates and hast rather chosen to bee a Queane to Crisippus whilste the one doth abhorre thy lightnesse the other shall abie his liking Wherefore my sentence is that of thy d●ath the sauadge Monsters doe execution yet to thee before thou passe to this punishmēt the heart of this Leacher thy Louer a gifte no doubte more pretious than the price shall be deliuered that as liuing on lust I cannot terme it loue of two framed one masse of wickednesse so perhaps dead the bowels of one Beast to eyther heart maye afoorde one and the same Tombe Then commaundeth he that Crisippus should be forthwith bound and his heart a present for Marpissa to bee car●●ed from out his body When the afflicted Ladye hardlye obtaining audience to vtter these fewe wordes sayd Alas my deare Crisippus howe daintie a dowrie haste thou found my loue how mercilesse a father in law hath thy wise giuen thee I would the price of my life mighte purchase thy libertie but alas I wish too wel to obtain so well let it therefore suffice for a poore comfort that thy Marpissa is gladly thy deaths Companion Crisippus hearing these sweete speeches to proceede from her that had the present Possession and promised Reuersion of his hart not being suffered to acquit words with words did only manifest the integritie of his vnremoueable loue by often kissing the deadly Instrument that should anon bereaue him his heart promised to Marpissa as a present Cap. 27. THe brute of this seuere sentence thus passed vpon Crisippus and Marpissa brought thether many pitifull beholders to haue seene the threatned Tragedie

my fathers cholor Wherefore onely accusing Fortune for such extraordinarie malice and exclaiming of Death for that peramptorie delay he fell flat to the earth as one vtterly berefte of sence the Tender of whose dolorous passions might haue bene pleaded in full Acquittance of all passed Trespasses had Enuie it selfe followed the Action and Rigour occupied the place of Iudgement My father contrarie to all expectation ouercomming Ire and being himselfe ouercome by pitie not withoute watrie eyes lifting vp Deipyrus that shamed to looke him in the face sayd If Deipyrus thou werte vnsuspitious of my nature mindful what I once was and not ignorant what I now am thou wouldst not suppose the Accident of the last to cause an Alteration in the first that is not thinke mee a mercilesse Begger whom thou diddest know to be a pitifull King neither wouldst thou doubt the autoritie of the second seing I that late might haue commaunded thee to Iudgement do not now dare in any place to demaund Iustice and without Law to determine a wrong is in Lawe to decline from right neuerthelesse but euen now did I thinke it a very hard thing to hold my tongue in anguish harder to hold my hands in Anger but hardest of al to forgiue mine Enemie but Sufferance the harts Phisition I wot not how preuailing telleth me nowe that Anger should be as shorte as the same is sudden that hastie Wroth is an harmefull Councellor betwixt too muche and too little not obseruing a meane that the ende of Wrath is Shame or Repentaunce or both and that the same euill may easily be auoided if but a small time it be deferred for time I perceaue doth moderate Ire and better man is he that wisely subdueth his Furie than he that with armour sacketh a Citie neither is any Reuēge more valiaunt than to pardon a foe that is vanquished It is I say Deipyrus but euen now that no suche Argument could haue perswaded what moderation my selfe doe nowe prosecute and no maruell if my patience was then mooued when thine Ingratitude was so manifested for easilier doe wee suffer a wound fastened by a Foe than sustayne a wrong offered by a Friend as esteeming the first trespasse but the latter Treason With more greefe than gaine I see by thine example vnaduised Nephew I see it that Enuie drinketh vp the greatest part of her own poison and that whilst the minde flieth higher than it shoulde in time the man falleth lower than he would neither doe the same Effects euer follow the same affections for braue Intentes haue often times base Euents Well Deipyrus seeing by thy death I may not recouer my losse it shall suffis● if by sparing thy life I may so reobtaine thy loue for be assured my kindnesse is yet as much as our kindred and to thee I gladlye participate this comfort whereof my selfe am not yet destitute that is No degree of miserie maye exceede a Superlatiue and when Mischiefes are at the highest pitche then eyther succeedeth an Amendment or of necessitie an End for at the worst y e hardest Winter of ioy hath death a bound But not to hope beyond hope say I Deipyrus is contrary to courage Fortune is sayd thus to haue spoken of her selfe Dicit Fortuna si starem rota sub vna Et non mutarer non tunc Fortuna vocarer And why then shoulde I thinke it vnpossible that did sometimes on the very top of the Wheele vaunt Glorior elatus though anon Decendo mortificatus now Jnfimus axe teror in time to adde Rursus ad astera feror Cap. 34. NOw after diuers louing imbracinges and that many kinde teares had caused a long silence my Father aduertised Deipyrus and the rest that firste his intent was to seeke out his Queene and two children affirming their misse to touch nearer than any other his misfortunes and then to enterprise somewhat in recouerie of his detayned kingdome Wherevpon Deipyrus did tell my father of the Ladye and her two Infants ouer whome as before hee had taken charge in that Forrest and was very desirous before their departure from thence to haue succoured the distresse of those three But herevnto my Fathers answere was that in their owne cace delay might be dangerous Lydia sayth he at this day affordeth more than ynough such distressed wanderers whome not to be able to helpe it greeueth and for whome to hurt our selues were not requisit he that once flieth may againe fight whilst the Prince liueth to hope the peoples cace is not desperate Iupiter woulde not then rescue Danaes when he was to resist Saturne neyther let vs so admit pitie that we omitte matters of greater importance Deipyrus who seemed thus aunswered but in his pitifull minde not satisfyed vndertaking as hee that made himselfe best acquainted with that forrest to conduct his companye the nearest waye to the Sea did of purpose leade them directlye to that place where hee had before left his helpelesse Charge and there hee founde them all three pitifully weeping and vtterlye destitute of comfort No sooner did my father behold this sight but as it were at once ouertaken with extreme ioy and extreame greefe he forthwith sowneth my mother also for by this time she knew him endeuouring to giue him succour falleth also into the like traunce but eyther of them being anon recouered and nothing omitted in passion word or action insident to so vnlooked for louing and lamentable a meeting they consult of their safetie and how to proceed in their Enterprises In the end induced by such profitable and discrete reasons as Deipyrus then aleaged they all bend their iournie towards Licia where they were no sooner ariued but they heard report of the Lician king his death and perceiued great prouision to enthronize in the Soueraintie Eurymone Deipyrus his Lady and louer Deipyrus not a little ioyfull of these tidings affying in his Lady her Constancie with the rest of his companie vnknowne to all that met them repayred to the Courte and when hee had disclosed himselfe and his distressed friendes to Eurymone she comforted them with suche honourable and hartie entertainment as did both giue a perfection to their hope and a defection from all heauinesse taking according to their former couenaunt of loue Deipyrus to husband who ioyn●ly at this daye rule king and Queene in Licia And there haue my depriued parents euersince liued in such prosperitie that their exile might be sayd an Aduācement in whose quarell also Deipyrus for the recouerie of Lydia hath long time maintained open and sharp warres againste the king of Cilicia towards whom to entreate of diuers waightie affaires giuen me in charge I am nowe sayling Cap. 35. BEfore the curteous knight Tymetes had fynished this his speeche Atys and Abynados had espyed in the Lycian Ship a very fayre Target wherevppon was curiously engrauen and in liuely colours purtrayed the terrible Image of enraged Semiramis in such maner as shee behaued her self when being informed

Timaetes maye nowe preuaile with my tōgue I protest it with my hart I vow it and mine Act shall performe it that his raunsome shal be the resignation of mine whole interest to this my detained kingdome But if none of these any of which might be of sufficiencie neither the Gods that shall punish the tyrannie nor the world that shall speake of thine infamie nor the blood that shall crie for vengeaunce against thee nor thine own guiltie conscience that shall at last accuse thee if none of these I say can worke thy flintie hart to a fleshlye substaunce yet knowe that the Lycians not without the assistaunce of other nations will I am sure vow the last drop of their dearest blood to reuenge such inhumane crueltie yea pittie thine owne people that shall buy his death ouer dearely Cap. 42. WHen thus much was spoken in vaine for Tyraunts are the lesse tractable by how much they are intreated Tymaetes rather dying in the greef of his father then dreading the death wherewithal himself was threatned with much adoe spake as followeth I am deare father inioyned an ouer greeuous pennance that being patiently resolued vpon a simple death doe now also by your impatience liue a dying life whereby my death is rather doubled than deferred but which is more and which is worse must I alas in this extremitie must I hunt for comfortable sayinges to appease your discouraging sorrowes You are not I knowe aduised howe you enuie my good happe because not aduertised how you hinder my sweete hope whiche hope is death and Death the Salue for all sorrowes and the Deliuerer of the immortall Soule from the Prison of this mortall bodie neither is it the ill Death but the well dying wee are to account of for not the stifling Halter of Hempe or sinking pillow of downe doe in any thing help or hinder our passage to Heauen Bee not greeued in that youre Sonne is punished but bee gladde in that hee hath not deserued suche punishmente were I guiltie perhaps my death should disquiet you the lesse when in that I am innocente you ought to bee quieted the more as Nature doeth moue you to lamente the death of your Sonne so let reason learne you the qualitie of your Seede whiche is mortall if because I am young you wishe my life mighte bee prolonged I aunswere in not dying olde my Sorrowes are abridged if you can-not as perhappes you doe not disgest the bloodye Triumphe of your dishonourable Enemie than doe not as no doubte you doe double his Ambition with the bootelesse expence of your ouer humble petitions for thinke not that this Tyraunte who can not lengthen his owne dayes one momente canne of himselfe shorten my date one minute but that the Gods for so I hope readie to accept of my soule haue made him an instrument to separate it from the body Wherefore good Father seeing that death is both necessarie and also ouertaketh vs all of necessitie seeing I auarre the one by triall neyther maye you auoyde the other by trauarse with the reuerente duetie of a Sonne I require it and withoute the partiall affection of a Father I beseeche you to graunt it that youre impatience maye not driue those bloodie teares to my harte whiche not with a desperate minde I speake it this butcherlye penaunce shall neuer drawe from mine eyes More might he not be suffered to speake but his head being stroken from off his shoulders was togeather with his bleeding bodie at commaundement of the Tyraunt cast ouer the walles amongste the sorrowfull Licians to the view of his sowning Father which dead body of Tymaetes was anon solemnlye interred in the accustomed Sepulchers of his Auncestours sometimes Kings of Lydia nere adioyning to Sardis Cap. 43. WYnter was now at hand and the Licians perceauing themselues rather wasted then their enemies weariried prepared therefore to breake vp their Siege intending at the next Spring to haue returned with all the forces they might possibly leuie But in this meane while at Sardis ariued Xenarchus sonne to the Tyraunt and Friend as before to Tymaetes who after intelligence had of Tymaetes his death and Mazeres his Trecherie desirous to be dead with the one and quit with the other he attended from thenceforth opportunitie for both and that so as the Licians themselues before their departure mighte bee ey-witnesses that euen Death had not yet dissolued their friendship and lo how occasion offered it selfe to this enterprise Aphrodite his Sister that shee might there spende her teares where she dared to haue shead her blood had not regarding the daunger of the incamped enemie escaped out of Sardis and amongst the Lydian Sepulchers was espied pitifully to passionate her selfe ouer the Tombe of Tymaetes Now to rescue her out of that place and peril Mazeres that for her loue would haue laboured euen Dis himselfe desired Xenarchus his assistaunce the match was made and only they two alike weponed vnknown to any issue out of the Citie to fetche home as was pretended Aphrodite The selfe same day also had Xenarchus secretly practised the deliuerie of Atys and Abynados out of Prison and through a priuie vault issuing out of the kinges pallace conueied them into the Subburbes who not minding rashly to fall into the handes of the incamped Licians had now hid themselues amongest the aforesaide Sepulchers When Xenarchus and Mazeres drewe neere to this place Xenarchus suddenly betooke him to his weapon to Mazeres demaunding the cause of his so doing he maketh this answere What Mazeres dost thou make a question as ignorāt of a quarrell or thinkest thou to excuse in wordes a treason already executed in workes could thy loue towards my Sister make thee disloyall to my friend and shall not the faith I owed to my friende make thee mine enimie yes Mazeres yes though vntill nowe I haue dissembled my griefe for his death yet this oportunitie hapning I will not longer suspende reuenge for his wrong howbeit so would I be reuēged that neither wish I to be conquerour nor yet would I be conquered onely that we both die of mutuall wounds I desire it and thou doest deserue it I know thy courage is haughtie and my quarrell honest be therefore venterous in this as thou art valiant in all thinges else and condiscente to ioyne in so knight-like a Combate with so indifferent a Combattant who ouercomming or being my selfe ouercommed do assure thee of this comfort that thy selfe art the last man shall see me lyuing the reason hereof if thou seekest a reason is the soule of Xenarchus at once laboureth to salute the ghost of Tymaetes an withall to keepe an Obbit to him with thy life by whose only meanes his death was prosecuted and against whom his blood cryeth vengeance To excuse my selfe replyed Mazeres by loue were to accuse loue of homiside to argue against such your friendship were the rather to agrauate your enmitie and to denie the chalenge were to distrust mine

owne manhoode so that in excusing I should accuse as I will not in perswading I should not disswade as I woulde and in agreeing to you I should disagree with you as I must but alas my Lord aduise your selfe better and deale not so outragiously with him that friendly not fearefully beseecheth you of pacience for if the losse of my life might reuiue Tymaetes or pleasure you Tymaetes should liue and you be pleased mine owne handes should hasten it your weapon not hasard it But seeing it may not so bee or if my submissiue wordes may not preuent your vnintreatable furie then know Xenarchus that Mazeres is a Knight no Coward but were I a Cowarde yet Cowardes in like extremities be desperatly valiant and being inforced to fight naturally will rather kill then be killed when if it should so proue as in fight the victorie is vncertaine that by euill hap you perrish one my weapon then alas howsoeuer it pleaseth you to flout me or feare me with the promised comfort of your death wherin I should conceiue nothing lesse then comfort whereof againe and againe I intreate you not to inforce the occasion you may assure your selfe of this comfort from me that your deade bones shall more persecute me then your lyuing body can punish me the one I may not flie the other I doe not feare the reason is if you demaund a reason if my death be not the prise of your blood yet must I of necessitie forsake Lydia the which to leaue were intollerable so forgo Aphrodite whom not to loue is impossible Now when Xenarchus would admit no excuses others then by Combate to discide the discorde the two knights so valiantly giue the charge ech on the other that whilst both strike both seeme rather to shrinke with the blowes then to shun the weapons either of them shewed enough of courage neither of them were to seeke of cunning and fret more with scorne to be wounded then feele the smart of their woundes In few after many breathings Xenarchus disaduauntaging himselfe by his ouer fearce desperat fight receiued a wound whereof fainting he falleth to the earth and then perswading himselfe of no other hope then present death he charitably forgaue wofull wounded Mazeres the deede constantly imbracing him indeuouring all in vaine to giue succour desired to be conueied vnto Tymaetes his Tombe there to offer vp his last gaspe a sacrifice to his friends ghost in performance of which his request Mazeres shewed himselfe no lesse dutifull then dolefull Cap. 44. WHilst perplexed Aphrodite discheuiled as shee was washed her Louers Tombe with her lamentable teares bewayling his vntimely destinie and esteeming the date of hir owne life ouer dilatorie lifting vp her flowing eyes she espyed Mazeres supporting thetherwards the imbrued body of her dying brother at sight whereof when wepings gaue passage to wordes shee thus cryeth out Now woe and out alas woe is me forspoken Aphrodite how hapneth it my deare brother that I viewe thee a second buriall and what see I more doest thou Mazeres mischieuous Mazeres by a new murder adde to my liuing martirdom if thou I say if thou the tormentor of me and Traitor to mine either in respect of y e loue thou pretendest to owe me or in reueng of the hate I protest euer to beare thee wilt shew me pity by being pitiles for somuch as the gods seeme deaffe and not to heare me and the destinies dull and not to helpe me vse once more thy murtherous weapon to dispatch me of life that otherwise may neuer be eased of griefe oh how aptly in one Tombe maist thou bestow three murthers leaue not alas leaue not haplesse Aphrodite so vtterly helpeles that also present death be exempted her succour As Xenarchus for yet he liued with fainting tounge endeuoured to pacifie his sister and acquite his inforsed foe Mazeres of his selfe procured death Atys and Abynados hyding them selues as before amongest the sepulchers and hearing those well known names lamentable tearmes and the voice of out-crying Aphrodite partly to assist her vnto whom they supposed Mazeres to offer force partly to reuenge the death of the curtious knight Tymaetes and withall to be meete with Mazeres for their owne priuate quarrels as not a little affrighthed at the noise ran forth to see what had hapned But when they perceiued their late deliuerer Xenarchus to lie there aliue more then halfe deade and by him standing their late betraier Mazeres smoaking in bloode without any further words they fearsly ran vpon twise-wounded Mazeres plying him with woundes to whome it wel pleased to dy who also being thus spead of his deaths wound aiming with his dying eyes to gasping Xenarchus did with him yeald vp the ghost either in the bosom of the other This new occurrant gaue to Aphrodite fresh occasion thus to continue her former lamentations in these words What doest thou yet liue Aphrodite long since the beginner and not yet the ender or at the least wise the fourth actor in this vnfinished Tragedie O my deare brother Xenarchus and which art more deerer to mee then a brother my sweete Tymetes content your selues yea a verie little while be contented with these wasted teares the whole remaine that continuall weepings haue left me with these cold comfortles kisses the last that euer Aphrodite shal giue you Neither thinke thou Mazeres that I deeme thee vtterly vnworthy my weping that which hath vndone vs all diddest esteeme me altogether worthy thy woing I cannot but lament thee deade that lyuing could neuer loue thee Which saide bestowing two kisses on the two Corses and two hundred on the watered Marbell that inclosed Tymaetes she forthwith entred the Lician campe and carelesse of her own safety rushing into the Pauilion of y e two kinges her fathers enimies when they rather gased on her beautie then gessed of her businesse shee disclosed her selfe and as much as in her lay stirreth them vppe ●o reuenge vppon her Tymaetes his death for whose onely loue hee had forgone life Aprodite saith shee is as deare to her Father as was Tymaetes to his and therefore the reuenge though it be smale yet it is somewhat In the meane time whilst she yet spake in came Atys and Abynados reporting the pittifull spectacle then to be seene at the Tombe of Tymaetes to the view whereof the Kinges and Captaines hyed and after them Aprodite followed But she perceiuing the gratious father of Tymaetes to be so farre off from seeking such reuenge for the death of his Sonne that he did not onely bewaile bitterly the deade bodies of Xenarchus and Mazares but spake to her so comfortably as if shee had bene his owne daughter being now the rather ouercome with the surcharge of this kinde sorrowe standing a while speechlesse and anon sinking downe vppon the deade bodies did good Ladie without any violente acte finishe her life not vnlamented for euen of her Fathers enimies The nexte