Now when shee was com'd to the port of the Citie and was readie to enter in she was there met with all the Damzels and virgins thereof who attyred Nymph-like in loose silkes which the breath of eue ie ayre wantonly carried and moued about them with baskets of Roses and the most choyse smelling flowers which that clime affoorded vpon their armes strewing all the Streetes through which the Queene should passe the out-side of the houses thereof being that day apparelled eyther in Tissue cloath of Gold Veluet or rich Arras as if the richnesse of such cloathing should either hide from her the wofulnesse which for hir woes was concealed within them or that making a Sabboth for her home-come euery one triumphed in his wedding garment And as the Virgins passed thus along some with Timbrils some with Kyttes and some other newe inuented Instruments to which they accorded the heauie accents of their most sorrowfull voyces they sang this mournfull and Elegiacke passion O Tedious howers that ouer-take swift time And in the end bringst backe our wisht for cares By which as by a circle we may climbe Vnto the endlesse height of our dispaires Adde to our grieues great ages of Lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content Thou elder brother to the first of all Whom men consume but neuer can make lesse Thou smiling ayme crier at Princes fall Father of death husband of heauinesse Adde to our greeues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content For since there is no hope in our restore But like thy minuts so our moanes must rise And put to most this multiplying more Woe on woes fall as teare on teares from eyes Adde to our grieues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content And when the world shall blame thy cruell minde That heapes affliction where Afflictions â—well Say long-liu'd Sorrow men doe seldome finde And least we may a flowrie pleasure smell Adde to our grieues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content Say Passion Humor Fashion and Dispight Beguile the eye of Sorrow with false teares To which that men and Angels may doe right By scorning them that shadowes onely beares Adde to our greeues immortall liu'd lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content This infinite consort consisting of all the innumerable parts of true sorowe like a Riuer-swallowing Behemoth dranke vp the vniuersall teares of the worlde so that the spectators of this egregious lamentation adiudged this Cittie nothing else but a vaste sadde and disconsolate Trophonius whose entrance vrged euen the eye of delight to a relenting tearfulnesse so that euen to such if such in such a place could bee as had no feeling of the cause of this felt woe yet the touch thereof in the effects of others participated a sympathized wayling to their rockie senselesnesse and the more when they more earnestly behelde in whom and from whom the greatest part or rather the whole which to others lent part yet like the Sunne had no part lesse of that in which she triumphed was as from a goodly Fountaine deriued But in the ende when shee was brought in this mourner-like royaltie to her pallace which was a most goodly Castell verie defensiuely fortifyed and curiously built of rich Marble in the verie heart of the Cittie After many thankes interrupted with many teares both to Phalantus for his care of her and to the rest for the sufferance of her follie through which she gat the knowledge of their loues she with the dying Amphyalus betwixt whom and death was almost sealed the deed of perpetuitie with-drew her selfe and was no more seene in publique so the space of fortie dayes during all which time shee bequeathed the desperate case of her loues Lord into the hands of the skilful Physition A maÌ„ of such age decrepidnesse that euen his life acknowledged a loathsomnesse in her habitation and Nature whome the hande of Arte by mending regenerated with a malicious enuie languished her continuance being bettered by that which for her slaue she created He was by birth an Arabian and well trayned in the vse of letters whose neare alliance with the Sun inspiring him with a spritie humor of ambitious knowledge led him to delight in trauell and the taste of vnexperienced customes to that coÌ„ming vpon a day to the mount Ida he met with a Nymph belonging to the fount Gaballine of whoÌ„ being inquisitiue to know the maners of that place he got the knowledge of the learned Wel of the habitation of the Mules and the court of memorie yet vnsatisfied and wandring further hee came into the groue where Paris first wooed Oenon saw where they pitched their toyles where they made their Pitte-falles where in the heate they lay and mocked the Sun which could not warme them and in the coole where they bathed while the Sunne with his gentlest heate did refresh them and amongest many reliques left there for remembrances of their loue hee found that heauenly and rare Booke which Apollo when he was ouer-gone with affection and desire of her beautie gaue her as a monument to eternize her name before many multitudes of admirable women in it was the portratute of all hearbs plants Mynerals or what euer belonges to the sacred studie of Physicke together with their vertues compositions effects and vses this he tooke for this Oenon had carelesly cast away when confounded with the burden of care she was become an out-cast in the worlde and forlorne of Paris And hence came those vncurable cures which in the opinions of men made his name with such vnspeakable reuerence adored and this still he practised vpon the wounded Amphyalus with such prosperous seruiceablenes that in few dayes he brought backe vnto him life and his seruant remembrance who yet not peace with that life which with former vpbrayding he had violently put forward to destruction began afresh to gall him with newe thoughts of that auntient Disdaine wherewith the most excellent Phyloclea had disfigured and ouerthrowne the beautie of his fortune so that the inuisible wound of his soule tankled and kept open the Vlcer of his bodie his newe life being an olde death worse then the bodie and the breathles diuorcement which once perceyued by this most learned father of science he immediately applyed those Antidots to his vnderstanding which drowned all the faculties of his mind in a Lethe of forgetfulnesse and he became such an Iris in the mutable exchange of his resolutions that hee had all the colours in the which any passion could be disguised except that in which the memorie of Phyloclea alone was clothed and that from the Genuine sense of his best thoughts had such an Anathema or deuided excommunication that like a Rauens-foster line cast vp into the woods to seeke a desolate fortune hee had vtterly forgone and shaked off the memorie of her which being the most precious thing in the worlde hee had made of
better to abridge my dayes Then vrge her more to saue my life O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower How crosse hath heauen beene to my fate Since first I got the vse of breath She that me loues alas I hate She that I loue desires my death O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Cruell Loue why didst thou strike me With a Dart so full of woe If both my euer doe dislike thee Nor my life thou wilt let goe O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower What bootes it thee to see me beare This raging fire in which I burne But that to men it may appeare What fortunes thou canst ouerturne O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Yet if thou ru'st on any smart Rue on my woe that wofull is But thou hast an obdurate hart And stonie minds wants Pitties blisse O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Alas why shouldst thy chast faire sight His glorie gaine by killing me And so against all law and right Win an abusiue victorie O Apheliea thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Why didst thou giue life to my flame If hope to kill were thy regard What worser chance can crowne thy name Then still to loue and lacke reward O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deathes hower And shall the showers of teares I show Gaine no remorse for all my smart Alas sterne Loue doth answere No For why he dare not touch her hart O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower It is in vaine I am asham'd That thus I seeke cure for my griefe For hearts that are inhumane fram'd Loue woe so well they hate reliefe O Apheleia thy loues power Is Diatassans dying howers The Princesse attentiuely hearing this song but not seeing the singer after her eares had drunke the sounde of her Shepheards name coupled with another as she thought much vnworthie of so hie preheminence as if all such adoration had beene most damnable blasphemies all-bee the sound did not chalenge anie thing from his voyce yet restlesse Iealousie strake such strange fire into her bosome that not able to containe her selfe she came foorth of the Arbour with a more then vsuall haste Anger making the Lillies of her face couer all the Roses But when shee sawe the deceyte and that it was but onelie the Nymph Ethera newe Gilliflowers springing about the Throne of Roses smiling vpon the Nymph she said I am glad my Ethera that thy pleasant free thoughts stirring vp thy siluer voice will giue vs the comfort of thy song beleeue mee I feard thy last affright would haue robbed both from thee and me all taste of solitarie pleasure But I pray thee fayre Nymph tell me what song was this which thou didst euen now so passionately vtter was it of thine owne or of others composing The Nymph Ethera with a downe-cast looke and an humble reuerence teaching her cheekes so artificiall a blush as might verie well deceiue Nature bowing herselfe before the Princesse and first crauing pardon for her bolde presumption in that shee had come so neare the place of her priuate retiring assuring her with many prettie protestations that she was vtterly ignorant of her there aboade in the ende shee tolde the Princesse that for the song which shee had sung it was none of her owne inuention but made by the famous Shepheard Diatassan in honour of the loue hee bare to the faire Nymph Apheleia which she of late hearing had now newly bequeathed to memorie O God! had the Nymph Ethera out of an implacable anger taken a vow vtterly to haue confounded the Princesse or had the Princesse beene the vtter confusion of all the generation from whence the Nymph was descended had the Princesse beene her riuall in affection the barre to her desires or had the Princesse said what no woman can endure to haue saide that shee had not beene faire shee coulde neither haue founde a more readie poyson nor a more sharpe reuenge then the vtterance of these wordes which shee deliuered they were Daggers in the Princesse heart they were woundes in her soule and liuing deathes of dying liues anguish what passion was there with which shee did not communicate what feare what distrust what iealousie what madnesse what amazement and what else that may take vpon it the name of absolute euill But in the ende Reason that could neuer indure that such euils as these should become maisters of his fairest habitation but like Carniuall masquers to haue onely a moments entertainment and no further summoning his best accomplices as Vertue Constancie Consideration and such like beganne to warre agaynst the former with these arguments First she called to minde the vertue of his former life his innocent thoughts his plaine dealing tongue and his vndisembling actions the seueritie of his gouernment giuing no libertie to inconstancie and his honourable imitations being euen assurances of the best goodnesse insomuch that Passion being accompanied with his onely companion easie beliefe and both they attended on by Anger their seruant casting a threatning cloude ouer the chearefull Firmament of her diuine lookes shee thus spake to the Nymph Ethera Well I perceiue than the vse of sinne brings the Euill both to a delight and easinesse in sinne nothing in them augmenting their ripenesse more then the warmth of their owne wickednesse of this hath thine immodestie giuen mee a double experience thy first vnchast perswasions being now seconded with a most shamefull slaunder lightnesse and impudencie striuing how to create murther O Ethera thou art doublie vnkinde vnkind to vertue the shadow of whose countenance hath brought thee to much honour but most vnkinde to truth whom thou seekest to kill with a false witnesse be thy folly therfore thy scourge and both my hate and refusals of thy counsels profes of that detestation wherein I holde thee hencefoorth I charge thee neither to frequent these walkes nor acknowledge my memorie but liuing an eternall exile complaine to the worlde what woes falshoode and shame haue brought vpon thee Alas poore Diatassan the vertue hath begot thee infinite enuie and thine imaginarie happinesse seekes to inrich thee with most cottaine mischiefe but thy goodnesse hath taken such well grounded roote in mine vnderstanding that nothing shall draw from thee the blisse of my good opinion liue but as happie as thou art constant and euen Angels shall finde want in thine vnbounded prospetiue And as she spake these words tears rising in her eyes as it were to make a question in the worlde which were the more purer Diamonds she offered to depart But the Nymph after the custome of disgrast Tragedians whose first act is entertained with a snakie salutation falling vpon her knees and staying her by her garments with all the humilitie that either Art
desperate manner continue the vnspeakable bloudines of the first combat till the length or distance had depriued their eyes of that spectacle The other in the Gallioon with no lesse but rather a more inauspitious hād of death ouer his incoūterers by how much more neer he grew vnto the iudgemēts of the beholders augmented both his owne rage their opinions touching the excellency of his rage distributing such vnresistaable blowes that his sword was seen sildom or neuer fall with his hand but a body deuided from a soule fell dead at his foote so that as it was most likely to be imagined the poore in-habitants of that vessell growne to the desperate willfullnesse of absolute desperatenes which is by death to shunne death willfully ran the ship against the Rocks whose armed brest of too hie proofe for so slender timber split her in one instant into many thousand disioyned peeces the suruiuing remnant more willingly offring vp their liues into the hands of the mercilesse Sea whose mercy they had not tasted then to the subiection of his sword whose vigor in punishing their breathles companions bodies in their floating witnessed But neither did the daring of their dispaires which was the vnexpected entrance to this euill neither the danger it selfe wherein the preciousnes of his deare life was imballanced neither the inacquaintance of the soyle whereon he was ship-wrackt neither his many wounds the losse of Fortune Hope Honour Wealth or other expectation breed in him either amazement feare or desistance from the continuance of that reuenge which from the begīning he with so great vertue pursued for being now left to struggle with the vnruly waues whose imperious billowes many times counter-checking his desires gaue him a feeling remembrance of his mortall constitution he gathered new life by the hazard wherwith the old life stoode indangered and swimming with such beautifull cōlinesse as Triton is feined to do whē he vshers Neptune to Venus banquets with his sworde in his hand which often ensigne-like he flourished about his head as who should say Danger is but the hand-maid to Vertue or as if he would haue chalenged moe perils then those imputing the escape of this no worthie reputation without turning his eie backe vpon his owne safetie he followed on still the ruine of those to whome was left no comfort but in ruinous perishing and made such slaughter that not a breathing soule was left to complaine that so manie by one were become breathlesse But hee had no sooner finished the effect of what hee hoped for And Furie wanting a subiect whereon to worke more fury had giuen place to the feeling of other passions when instantly his ouer-laboured bodie grew weake and ablelesse to deliuer him a liuing soule made free from those perils yet with an vnyeelding vertue that was euer or euer seemed to be strongest in his weakest fortune he many times mounted vp himselfe and sprang vpon the waues ioyning both Arte courage togither as means for his deliuerance But euen at the last pinch when strength had as it were finished the need of strength vnkindly strength forsooke him and he sunke downe vnable any longer to preserue that life which still then had preserued the life and estate of many kingdomes but the guilty waters ashamed to bee guiltie of so execrable a murther opened their bosoms brought him vp again into the aire where by the force of the siege of the Sea he was borne vpon the sands and lay to the iudgement of the Shepheards who till then vpon their knees were adoting him as a coelestial deitie breathlesse and without motion in-so-much that with all their powers they ranne and recouered him ere the siege could come againe which as appeared greedie of another imbracement made more then vsual haste to ouer-take him and when daungerlesse they had laid him vpon a neighbour banke vnto the shore they behelde a person of so rare and vnmarchable proportion in whom all the beauties of the worlde were most liberally dis-iested that prodigall Nature in the worke seemd vtterly to haue beggerd herselfe and becom'd penurious to all succeeding ages It was not long before they had brought him to life and the knowledge of the daunger whereunto his life was ingaged when sodainly he start vpon his feete and gazing like a wounded Deere vpon his concealed persecutor he cried O Thamastus Thamastus liuest thou with men or Angels vnhappie that I am shal I liue to inquire if thou liue I will not I will not my breath is not mine owne if thou be breathlesse nor shall my dayes bee augmented an houre after thy destruction forsaken Pyrophylus deiected Pyrophylus with that he wilfully would haue throwne him-selfe into the Sea againe as in loue with the perill which he hated or the death which with such difficultie hee escaped But the amorous Shepheards hearing him name those two names which kept the world both in awe and admiration ranne hastily vnto him and folding him in their armes with the vttermost of their force which the loue of those names had stretched to the highest scale of their puissance stayed him from the vnnaturall selfe-killing combatte and with the best oratorie that the simplicitie of their bringing vp could then instruct their tongues they perswaded him from impouerishing the world of those excellent hopes which his verie presence promised in most admirable aboundance and coniuring him by those two rarely beloued and praise-worthie names which with such feeling sorrow hee hat vttered and all the Nations of the worlde with vnspeakeable reuerence entertained not to let that day bee registred in misfortunes calender as the day of greatest misfortune by the losse of so diuine an expectation assuring him by those especiall tokens which they had noted during the conflict that if his friend whom he bewailed were that vncōquered spirit which in the gally had done such matchlesse feats of chiualrie that then there was no feare of his perishing inasmuch as they had seene him make himself Lord of the Gally ere the wind or Oares had caried her beyond the cōpasse of their sights Further they humbly vpon their knees besought him that if he were eyther of those two Princes whose sweete names were resweetned by his vtterance that it would please him not to conceale it from their knowledges who all be they were but Shepheards yet had that vertuous feeling of noblenesse which taught them a seruiceable duty to the incōparable greatnes of such dignified states The Prince Pyrophylus for such was his name a little pacified and hoping by this hope in their speeches to kill his hopelesse Dispaire was content to be ouer-ruled though manie times the feruencie of his loue had almost ouercom'd that not certainly grounded resolution in the ende calling to minde that their fight was both begun and occasioned vpon the Hellespont and that this place was altogither beyonde the bounde of his knowledge fearing the Sestian lawe which for the losse of the two
is now euen great in laboure withall hearing not of that but of another most daungerous wound he had receiued in a former combate betwixt him and the excellent Musidorus after a tedious and wearie iourney wherein only loue tooke away the bitter feeling of wearines she ariued in those parts of Arcadia with assured hope of his recouery by means of a most excellent Surgion whom then in her country she retained But in such an inauspitious hower of vnluckines that finding the feare of danger taken from the daunger she feared there was now an inrecouerable perrill wedded to a desperat fearefulnes for the foe was his owne hande and that hand guided by so hopeles a loue that hating all thinges which the loue he loued would not pittie he himselfe had vsed against himselfe that violence which else no violence could haue vsed In briefe when she came to his presence she found him bathing in his owne selfe-spilling bloode and if not absolutly dead yet so neare the confines of deathes Kingdome that not the seuerest iudgement could say or hope he liued To discribe the liuely sorrow which assending from her dying hearte appeared in the watry Sun-shine of her eyes how oft she swounded reuiued and againe and againe re-dyed what bloode-wasting sighes she vttered what groanes shee disburdened how lamentably she bewailed how desperatly she raged the war betwixt her faire handes and her bosome betwixt her torne haires and the windes motion her teares burning in the beautie of her cheekes and her beautie drowned in the Channell of her teary Ocean her cōfusiō in sorow making an vniformity is heauines yet that heauy vniforme a barbarous Chaos of miserie to describe this I say were labor infinite and innecessarie the rather sith it stands in a memoriall by the most memorable pen that euer recorded matter worthie of memorie But at last when sorrow had as it were in the iudgement of all her beholders called to so straite an account all the sorrowes of her remembrance that there was no other matter left saue onely sorrow in her imaginations and that so full of imperious commaund as it was high treason against her soule to thinke it was not eternall euen then the eye of wisdome cleared by those afflicting clouds which muffled her affections began to discouer the error in her forgetful passions her weeping making her neglect the meanes should bring her to not weeping and her complaints drawing on a certaine end to worke in her endlesse complainings whereupon turning from the dead reputed coarse that her returning might adde more violent extremitie to her compassionate languishment and a little depriuing her eies the blessednesse of their sights that with the same sight they might bee more diuinely endeared shee humbly threw herselfe at the feete of those Princes whose heauie eyes not without abundant teares were spectators of that immortally bemoaned tragedy but especially she conuerted all her speeches to the world contemning Anaxius a man whose selfe-louing opinion had drawne into him a beleefe of impossible atchieuements and to him shee declared the olde age of her tedious dispised loue the vnremoueable constancie of her confident affection and the world-wondring end her sorrow would consumate as soone as her hopes were depriued the blisse of their expectation euer and anon mingling amongst her compassionate bemoanings such an intyre adoration to the name of Anaxius preferring it before Angells and recording it first of all in the mightie inrolment of God-heades that he whose blindnesse could apprehend nothing but his owne greatnesse grew now great with childe of imaginarie diuinitie and though for the death of Amphyalus he had vowed a detestation of all women yet in loue with his owne glorie hee was content with a deformed smile to commend her that thereby he might backe againe call to minde his owne commendations and swoare by himselfe for greater than himselfe his great heart would neuer acknowledge that the royall humour of her greatnesse gaue her an excellent inspection and a determinate meane of wel iudging the singularitie of others perfections but yet he who had neuer accustomed himselfe to condiscende to any desire of vertue because his Religion was grounded vppon this heresie that honour was got by contradiction and greatnesse most feated by a perticular deniall of a generall intreatie notwithstanding all the dartie Launces of her well tempted Oratorie would haue vtterly withstood her sute which was onely to haue the cōueyance of the body of Amphyalus into her own countrey had not his two brothers called Zoylus and Lycurgus to whom ambitious Nature had not beene full out so prodigal though by a great deal too much much too liberall in the same humor of ostentation taken a more liuely taste of bitternesse from her teares and ioyned in the approbation of her reasonable demaund drawing the strength of their arguments from this ground that sith hee was a desperate forsaken patient whom no Phisition or Surgion in those parts durst in the least hope giue a light of suruiuing if any other part there were an insearchable skill vnreuealed it was necessarie to approue it because nothing could draw the daunger to a greater height then it was alreadie raysed besides they boasted what honour it would be to them to conduct the dead bodie to the bordering skirts of Basilius armie which of necessitie they must doe as it were in despight without eyther controlment or damage to the intents they purposed This last speech though the other auailed found a more insinuating acceptance in the Sunne-scalding ayme of Anaxius so that he agreed to all her desires giuing her leaue to embalme the body with such preseruatiues as for that purpose she had brought with her and tolde her that as well for the vertues hee found in her of which himselfe could better iudge then any other creature as for a carefull hope he had of his frends recouerie she should haue that day not onely her wish but also a God meaning himselfe to be her sanctuarie defendant and one who would in such safetie conduct her through the tents of his enemies that to her well seeing iudgement should appeare the terror of his greatnes The comfortlesse Lady to whom the want of comfort serued as a comfortable companion taught by her griefe a politike cariage in griefe soothed vp his vanities by amplifying vpon his vaine grounds and with heartie humblenesse offered to kisse his hand as a testimonie of the assurance she reposed in his magnanimitie All things being prepared fit for so great a solemnitie Anaxius and his traine attending on the hearse and the faire Queene Hellen issued in a most solemne tragicke manner from the Castle of Amphialus and so conducted her to the banks of the swift-falling riuer Ladon without either impeachment or disturbance where after many confused shewers of vncontrollable teares seeming as if they would ioyne with the riuer to ouerflow and drowne the neighbour plaines Anaxius and his brothers Zoylus and Lycurgus
tooke their leaues of the Queene and the dead reputed Amphyalus and so returned backe to the place from whence they were departed The Queene left alone to accompany her dead Lord sauing that she had onely twentie horsemen and sixe Ladies which had beene her gardiants in that wofull voyage commanded the coffin to bee set downe vpon a faire banke of flowers by the riuers side and then taking her Lute to the delicacie of whose sound she maried a more dilicate voyce sung this funerall Sonnet Strong heart my strong cares vnconsumed throne How bigge thou swellst with euer feeding griefe I hop'd that worne to nothing with my mone Nothing to nothing would haue brought reliefe And you mine eyes that enuie these faire streames Because they flow not ouer like your teares Learne by this riuer to abate extreames Sith coolest woes breede longest liu'd dispaires But O mine Eyes you haue immortall springs Fed by a heart which feedes vpon distresse And thou my heart art wed to sorrowing Sorrow that sorrows-selfe cannot expresse Then heart grieue still and Eies augment your founttaines Till one make Seas the other cloud-hie Mountaines Here casting the Lute from her hands that she might cast her hands with more feeling ardencie about the beloued bodie which with such vnspeakeable adoration she had inshrined in the faire Temple of her spotlesse heart After my vnsympathised imbracements and cold kisses taken from his vnfeeling lips shee thus began to second her well tuned moanes with vntuned lamentations Alas Amphyalus sayd she alas thou that in the infinitenesse of thine vnbounded Disdaine hast had such an immortall soueraigntie as to bee the all onely director both of my thoughts and actions how much mightier had beene the amplified honor of thy royall spirit if the great Godhead of thy diuinitie had proceeded from a gracefull pitty to the gnawing torrent of my miserable distresse But I was vnworthy and woe is me that thy worthinesse did not esteeme me a worthy subiect to be ennobled by thy loues worthinesse yet was I not fatall to the long liued kingdome of thy vertues thou shouldst not haue brought a consuming fire from Corinth nor should my wombe haue deliuered a fire-brand to waste Arcadia O yes I was prodigious to thy birth-right and as a blasing starre at thine vnlooked for funerall For me though not from me came that first knowledge of thy first euill when thy deare Phyloxenus ende became the beginning of thy hate to my desires Tymotheus death a Seale to that reuers-lesse deed of thy disdain which no time or opinion shall euer cancell O vnspeakable miserie O maruellous doome of my fore-doomed persecution O most wonderfull impietie of a haplesse beautie O singular affliction to an euer afflicting memorie and O iust iudgement of my starre-crost destinie O sorrow iust sorrow be thou henceforth the iustnesse of my mediation O fearefull sorrow in the extremitie of my fearfulnes increase my sorrowes augmentation and let me sorrow that euer sorrowing my sorrows are not amplifyed to a sufficient greatnesse But why talke I of sorrow that am not worthy of so gentle a sleepe-killing cōpanion O rest thee thou faire foe to my rest thou weeping eye of a soft heart thou reuenge of weaknesse vnkindnesse satisfaction and the key which vnlockes the closet of a concealed affection O image of sleepe sleepe with my forgetfulnesse and forgotten contentments And come Death vgly Death vntimely Death the rack to a burdned conscience the soules bitternesse the bodies graue and the mindes immortall affliction come thou and accompanie my calamities leade mee to my Lorde that he may beholde in thee his Lordship ouer mee there is no reason I liue being reasonlesse left of the loue I adored And here as if shee woulde haue drowned herselfe in newe teares or prooued that the greatnesse of griefe is euer begotte by the greatest expence of griefe shee wept in such violent abundance that the extremitie of that ouerflowe brought her to a motionlesse dumbnesse in-so-much that one of her Ladies whose eye had taken a full draught from that cup of patheticall griefe taking the falne Lute into her hande awakened her Queene with these mournfull Stanzies Night like a mourner creepes vpon moanes Yet troubles me because it lets me see The blacke fac'd image of my hideous groanes Which still vnstill increase to martyr me O eyelesse night the portrature of death Noise hating mistresse of the hearts calme griefe That charm'st our cares and quiettest our breath O thou that art calamities reliefe In thy downe-footed stealing steale away Woes memorie approching with the day O not thou night the Sunne set follower The generall closer of all mortall eyes O thou art not my sad hearts sucoorer Euen thee I waste and tyre with agonies But thou eternall night Deaths elder borne Thou night of nights more powerfull then the Sunne Throw mountaines on me that am most forlorne Most abiect haplesse wofull and vndone O let my woes be into darknesse hurld Or plast a burning Comet ore the world This song did so aggrauate the extremitie of her passion which now like an ouer-wittie Sophister whose fluent braine presents him more arguments then his tongue can discharge euer most in loue with that which lies last vnreuealed was conceyted that shee could vtter more wounding lamentations then she yet had vttered began to create new methods of complaining till shee was interrupted by a discrete Gentleman her attendant who perswaded her from that wearinesse of mourning chiefly where no ease-procuring sorrowe made the laboursome day eternall with vaine labour and brought no night of rest to her so long vnrested diliberations arguing that these delayes in her moanes would if shee woulde continue them bring her anguish to a more desperate state of miserie the necessitie of this extremitie crauing no spurres but winges to conuey her hope to the ende of that rare arte wherein all her hope was builded This speech laid such holde vpon her reason that adorning her faire cheekes with the rosie blush of shamefastnesse she rose vp and commaunded the coffin to be put into the litter in which her selfe rode and so followed on her iourney yet at euerie such conuenient houre wherein either the reliefe of Nature or the extremitie of the hot burning Sun commanded a desistance from trauailing she omitted not still to doe the like lest any ouer-curious eye should imagine that the trauell of her mind receyued ease when her body wanted motion obseruing the humour of an absolute couetous person whose desires grow greater when he enioies the greatest part of that he desired After many daies nights all-be dayes and nights were not by her distinguished with any difference thus pitiously consumed she arriued near vnto her owne most goodly and beautifull Citie the Citie of Corinth whither newes of her approaching was some fewe dayes before comed as heauinesse hath euer moe Fames then one running before it insomuch that Phalantus a gallant Knight and base