chéeks with a vermillion die yet thinking to carry out the matter with a iest he stood to his tackling thus whosoeuer Samela descanted of that loue told you a Canterburie Tale some propheticall full mouth that as hee were a Coblers eldest son would by the Last tell where and ther 's shee wrings but his sowterly ayme was iust leuell in thinking euery looke was loue or euery faire word a pawne of loyalty Then said Samela taking him at a rebound Neither map I thinke your glances to be fancies nor your greatest protestation any assurance of déepe affection therefore ceasing off to court any further at this time thinke you haue proued yourâ—selfe too tall a souldier to continue so long at battery and that I am a fauourable soe that haue continued solong at parly but I change you by the loue you a we your déerest mistris not to say any more as toâ—ching loue at this time It Samela said he thou hadst iniâ—yned me as Iuoâ— did to Hercules most dangerous labours I would haue discouered my loue by obedience and my affection by death yet let me craue this that as I began with a Sonnet so I may end with a Madrigall Content Melicertus quoth she for none more then I loue musich Vpon this reply the shepheard proudtu followed with this ditty Melicertus Madrigall What are my sheepe without their wonted foode What is my life except I gaine my loue My sheepe consume and faint for want of blood My life is lost vnlesse I grace approue No flower that saplesse â—hriues No Turtle without pheare The day without the Sunne doth lowre for woe Then woe mine eyes vnlesse thy beauty see My Sunne Samelaes eyes by who 〈◊〉 know Wherein delight cansisâ—s where pleasureâ— be Nought more the heart reuiues Thâ—â— to 〈…〉 his deare The starres from earthly earthly 〈…〉 their light Our humors by their lighâ— possesse their power Samelaes eyes fed by any weepiâ—e sights Iufudâ—s my paines or iâ—yes by smile or lowrâ— So wends the source of loue It feedes it falles it ends Kind lookes cleare to your ioy behold her eyes Admire her heart desire to taste her kisses In them the heauen of ioy and solace lies Without them eu'rie hope his succour misses Oh how I loue to proue Whereto this solace tends Scarce had the Shepheard ended this Madrigall but Samela began to frowne saying he had broken promise Melâ—certus alleaged if he had vttered any passion t was sung not said Thus these louers in a humorous descant of their prattle espied a far off olde Lamedon and Menaphon comming towards them whereupon kissing in conceit and prattling with interchanged glances Meliceriusâ—tole â—tole to his sheepe and Samelaâ—ate â—ate her downe making of nets to caâ—eh birds At last Lamedon and her loue came after many gracious looks and much good parly helpt her home with her shéepe put them in the folds but leauing these amorous shepherds busie in their loues let vs returne at length to the pretty babie Samelas childe whom Menaphon had put to norse in the country This infant being by nature beautiful and by birth noble euen in his cradle exprest to the eyes of the gazers such glorious presages of his approching fortunes as if another Alciades the arm-strong dâ—rling of the doubled night by wrestling with snakes in his swaâ—dling â—lowtes should prophesse to the world the approching wonders of his prowesse so did his fiery looks reflect â—â—rror to the weak beholders of his ingrafieâ— nobilitie as if some God twice-borne like to the Thâ—raâ—ian Bacâ—â—â—◠〈◊〉 his he auen-borne deitie should delude our eies with the alternate form of his infancie Fiue yéeres had full run their monthly reuolution when as this beautious boy began to shew himselfe among the shepheards children with whom he had no sooner contracted familiar acquaintance but steaite he was chosen Lord of the May-gamâ— king of their sports Ring-leader to their reuelâ— insomuch that his 〈◊〉 or another 〈◊〉 holding him by chaunce â—ounted in his Kingly Maiestie and imitating honourable iustice in his gamesâ—â—e exercite of discipline with teares of ioy tooke vp these propheticall termes wel do I sée where God and Fatâ— hath vowed felicitie no aduerse fortune may expel prosperity Pleusidâ—pus thou art young thy lookes high and thy thoughts hautie soueraignety is seated in thine eies honor in thy hart I feare this fire will haue his flame and then am I vndone in thée my Son â—y countrylife 〈◊〉 countrylife in thy proude soaring hopes dispoited and disrâ—abed of the disguised array of his rest must returne ruâ—â—et wéedes to the folds where I left my feares haste to the court of my hell there to inuest me with my wonted cares how now Samela wilt thou be a Sybill of mishaps to thy selfe The angry heauens that haue eterniz'd thy exile haste establishâ— thy content in Arcady my content in Arcady that we may be no longer then my Pleusidippus daies in Arcady which I haue cause to feare for the whelpes of the Lyon are no longer harmelesse then when they are whelpes and babes are no longer to be awed then while they are babes I but nature ther with she paused being interrupted by a tumult of boyes that by yong Pleusidippus command fell vpon one of their fellowes and beat him most cruelly for playing false play at Nine-holes which she espying through the lattice 〈…〉 not chuse but smile aboue measure but when shee saw him in his childish tearmes condemne one to death for despising the authoritie bequeathed him by the rest of the boyes then she bethought her of the Persian Cyrus that deposed his Grandfather Astyages whose vse it was at like age to imitate maiestie in like manner In this distraction of thoughts she had not long time stayed but Lamedon and Menaphon called her away to accompany them to the solds whiles Pleusidippus hasting to the execution of iustice dismissed of his boyish session till their next meeting where how imperiously hee behaued himselfe in punishing misorders amongst his equalls in vsing more then iesting iustice towards his vntamed copesmates I referre it to the Aâ—â—als of the Arcadians that dilate not a little of this ingenious argument In this sort did Pleufidippus draw forth his infancie till on a time walking to the shore where he with his mother were wrackt to gather Cockle and pebble stones as children are wont there arriued on the strond a Thessalian Pirate named Eurilochus who after he had forraged in the Arcadian confines driuing before him a large bootie of â—easts to his ships espied this pretty infant when gazing on his face as wanton Ioue gazeâ— on Phrygian Ganimede in the fields of Idâ— heâ— exhaled into his eyes such déepe impression of his perfection as that his thought neuer thirsted so much after any prey as this pretty Pleusidippus possession But determining first to assay him by curtesie before he aâ—â—ailed him with rigour he began to try his wit after this
by his hands thrift shée a princesse that sate inuested with a diadem The more fortunate qd Samela was he in his honors and she the lesse famous in her honestie To leaue these instances replied Menaphon for loue had made him hardy I swéet Samela infer these presupposed premisses to discouer the basenesse of my mean birth and yet the â—éepnesse of my affection who euer since I saw the brightnesse of your perfection shining vpon the mountaines of Arcady like the glister of the Sun vpon the toplesse promontory of Sicilia was so snared with your beauty so inueigled with the excellence of that perfection that excéeds all excellency that loue entring my desire hath maintained himselfe by force that vnlesse sweets Samela grant me fauor of her loue play the princely Egle I shall with the poore â—â—ie perish in my fortunes he concluded this period with a deepe sigh and Samela grieuing aâ— this folly of the shepheard gaue him mildely this answere Menaphon my distressed haps are the resolution of the destinies and the wrongs of my youth are the fore-runners of my woes in age my natiue home is my worst nurcery my friends deny that which strangers preiudicially grant I arriued in Arcadie shipwrackt and Menaphon fauoring my sorrowes hath affoorded me succours for which Samela rests bound and will prooue thankefull as for loue know that Venus standeth on the Tortois as shewing that loue creepeth on by degrées that affection is like the snaile that steales to the top of the launce by minutes the grasse hath his increase yet neuer any sées it augment the sun shadoweth but the motion is not séene loue like those should enter into the eye and by long gradations passe into the heart Cupid hath wings to flie not that loue should be swift but that he may soâ—re hie to auoid base thoughts The Topaz being throwne into the fire burnes strait but no sooner out of the flame but it fréezeth straw is soone kindled but it is but a blaze and loue that is caught in a moment is lost in a minute giue me leaue Menaphon first to sorrow 〈◊〉 my fortunes then to call to mind my husbands late funeralls then if the fates haue assigned I shall fancie I will account of thée before any shepheard in Arcadie This conclusion of Samela drew Menaphon into such an extasie for ioy that hee stoode as a man metamorphozed at last calling his senses together he told her he rested satisfied with her answer and thereupon leâ—t her a kisse such as blushing Thetis receiues from her choicest Leman At this Lamedon awaked otherwise no doubt Menaphon had replied but breaking off their talke they went so view their pastures so passing downe to the place where the shéep grazed they searched the shepheards bags so emptied their bottles as Samela maruelled at such an vncouth banquet at last they returned home Menaphon glorying in the hope of his successe entertaining Samela stil with such curtesy yâ— she finding such content in the cottage began to despise the honors of the court Resting thus in house with the Shepheard to auoyd tedious conceits she framed her selfe so to countrie labours that she oft-times would leade the â—â—ackeâ— to the fields her selfe and being drest in hamely attire shee séemed like Ocnone that was amorous of Paris As shee thus often traced alongst the plaines she was noted amongst the shepheards of one Doron next neighbour to Menaphon who entred into the consideration of her beauty and made report of it to all his fellow swaines so that they chatted naught in the fields but of the new shepheardâ—sse One day amongst the rest it chaunced that Doron sitting in parley with another country companion of his amidst other tattle they prattled of the beautâ—e of Samela Hast thou 〈◊〉 her quoth Melicertus for so was his â—rland called I quoth Doron and â—â—ghed to sée her not that I was in loue but that Agréeued shee should bee in loue with such a one as Menaphon What manner of woman is she quoth Melicertus As well as I can answered Doron I will make description of her Dorons description of Samela Like to Diana in her summer weede Girt with a crimson robe of brightest die goes faire Samela Whiter then be the flocks thâ—t straggling feede When washt by Arothusa faint they lie is faire Samela As faire Aurora in her morning gray Deckt with the ruddy glister of her loue is faire Samela Like louely Thetis on a calmed day When as her brightnesse Neptunas fancy moue shines faire Samela Her tresses gold her eyes like glassie streames Her teeth are pearle the brests are ivory of faire Samela Her cheekes like rose lilly yeeld forth gleames Her browes bright arches framde of ebony thus faire Samela Passeth faire Venus in her brauest hiew And Inno in the shew of maiestie for sheâ—â— Samela Pâ—llas in 〈◊〉 all three if you will view For beauty 〈◊〉 and matchlesse dignitie yeeld to Samela Thou haâ—◠〈◊〉 Melicâ—â—us made such a description as 〈…〉 should painst â—nt the perfection of his 〈…〉 thinkes the Idea of her person represents 〈…〉 an obiect to my sanâ—â—e and that I see in the discouerie of her excellence the rare beauties of and with that he 〈…〉 as it séemed his heart 〈…〉 as the Lapithes when they 〈…〉 Doron maruelling at this sodaine euent was halfe afraid as if some apoplâ—â—y had astonied his senses so that chéering vp his friend he demanded what the cause was of this â—â—daine conceit Melicertus no niggard in discouerie of his fortunes began thus I tell thée Doron before I kept sheepe in Arcadle I was a shepheard elsewhere so famous for my flockes as Menaphon for his foldes beloued of the Nimphes as he likte of the Country Damsels coueting in my loues to vse Cupids wings to soare high in my desires though my selfe were borne to base fortunes The hobby catcheth no prey vnlesse she mount beyond her marke the Palme tree beareth most boughes where it groweth highest loue is most fortunate where his courage is 〈◊〉 and though beyond his compasse Grounding therefore on these principles I fixt mine eies on a Nimph whose parentage was great but her beauty far more excellent her birth was by many degrees greater then mine and my worth by many discents lesse then hers yet 〈◊〉 Venus loued Adonis and Luna Endymion that Cupid had boltes feathered with the plumes of a Crowe as well as with the pennes of an Eagle I attempted and courted her I found her lookes lightning disdaine and her forehead to containe fauours for others and frownes for meâ— when I alleaged faith shee crost me with Aeneas when loyaltie she told 〈…〉 when I swore constancie 〈…〉 when I craued a finall resolution 〈…〉 shee â—ld her browes full of wrinckles and her eyes full of furie turned her back and shooke 〈◊〉 off with a Non placet Thus in loues I lost loues and for her loue had lost all had I not when I néere
Promontory of Arcadie shee leading forth her sheepe and he going to sée his new yeaned Lambes As soone as they met breaking a few quarter blowes with such country glances as they could they géered one at another louingly At last Doron manfully began thus Carmela by my troth good morrow it is as daintie to sée you abroad as to eate a messe of swéet milke in Iuly you are proued such a house-doue of late or rather so good a huswise that no man may sée you vnder a couple of Capons the Church-yard may stand long enough ere you will come to looke on it and the Piper may beg for euery penny he gets out of your purse but it is no matter you are in loue with some stout Ruffler and yet poore folkes such as I am must be content with pottage and with that turning his backe he smiled in his sléeue to sée how kindly he had giuen her the â—ob which Carmela séeing she thought to be euen with him thus Indéed Doron you say will it is long since we met and our house is a grange house with you but we haue tied vp the great dog and when you come you shall haue green rushes you are such a stranger but it is no matter soone hote soone cold he that mingles himselfe with draffe the hogges will eate him and shée that layes her loue on an vnkind man shall find sorrow enough to eate her sops withall And with that Carmela was so ful stomackt that she wept Doron to shew himselfe a naturall yong man gaue her a few kind kisses to comfort her and sware that shee was the woman he loued best in the World and for proofe quoth he thou shalt heare what I will prayse and you quoth she what I will performe And so taking hand in hand they kindly sate them downe and began to discourse their loues in these Eglogues Dorons Eglogues ioyned with Carmelaes Sit downe Carmela heere are cubs for Kings Slowes blacke as Iet or like my Christmas shoes Sweet Sidar which my leathern bottle brings Sit downe Carmela let me kisse thy toes Carmela Ah Doron ah my hart thou art as white As is my mothers Calfe or brinded Cow Thine eyes are like the slow-wormes in the night Thine haires resemble thickest of the snow The lines within thy face are deepe and cleere Like to the furrowes of my fathers waine Thy sweat vpon thy face doth oft appeare Like to my mothers fat and kitchin gaine Ah leaue my toe and kisse my lips my loue My lips are thine for I haue giuen them thee Within thy cap t is thou shalt weare my gloue At foot-ball sport thou shalt my champion be Doron Carmela deare euen as the golden ball That Venus got such are thy goodly eyes When cherries iuyce is iumbled there withall Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes Thy lips resemble two Cowcumbers faire Thy teeth like to the tusks of fattest swine Thy speech is like the thunder in the ayre Would God thy toes thy lips and all were mine Carmela Doron What thing doth moue this wishing griefe Doron This Loue Carmela ah t is cruell Loue That like a slaue and caytiue villaine theefe Hath cut my throat of ioy for my behoue Carmela Where was he borne Doron In faith I know not where But I haue heard much talking of his dart Aye me poore man with many a trickling teare I feele him wound the forchearse of my hart What doe I loue O no I doe but talke What shall I die for loue O no not so What am I dead O no my tongue doth walke Come kisse Carmela and confound my woe Carmela Euen with this kisse as once my father did I seale the sweet endentures of delight Before I breake my vow the gods forbid No not by day nor yet by darksome night Doron Euen with this garland made of Holly-hocks I crosse thy browes from euery shepheards kisse Heigh ho how glad am I to touch thy locks My frolicke heart euen now a free man is Carmela I thanke you Doron and will thinke on you I loue you Doron and will winke on you I seale your chapter parent with my thums Come kisse and part for feare my mother comes Thus ended this merrie Eglogue betwixt Doron and Carmela which Gentlemen if it be â—ust with prettie Similies and farre fetcht Metaphors thinke the poore country Louers knew no further comparisons theâ— oure within compasse of their country Logicke Well t was a good world when such Simplicitie was vsed sayâ—s the old Women of our time when a ring of a rush would tie as much loue together as a gimmon of gold but gentlemen â—â—ce we haue talkt of loue so long you shall giu◠〈◊〉 leaue 〈◊〉 shew my opinion of that foolish sancâ—â—e thâ—â— Sonetto What thing is loue It is a power diuine That reignes vs or else a wreakfull law That doomes our mindes to beauty to incline It is a starre whose influence doth draw Our hearts to loude 〈◊〉 being of his might Till he be master of our hearts and fight Loue is a discord and a strange diâ—â—â— Betwixt our sense and reason 〈◊〉 whose power As mad with reason we admit that force Which wit or labour 〈◊〉 may deuoure It is a will that brooketh no consent It would refuse yet 〈◊〉 may repent Loue 's a desire which for to wallen 〈◊〉 Doth lose an age of yeeres and so doth passe As doth the shadow â—eâ—ered from his prime Seeming as though it were yee neuer 〈◊〉 Leauing behinde nought but repentâ—nt thoughts Of dayes ill spent for that which profit â—oughâ—s It 's now a peace and then a sudden warre A hope consumde before it is conceiu'd At hand it feares and menacâ—â—◠〈◊〉 And he that games is most of all deceiu'd It is a secret hidden and not knowne Which one may better feele then 〈◊〉 vpon Thus Gentlemen haue you heard my verdit in this Soâ—â—â— now will I returne to 〈◊〉 Carmela who not seeing her mother come sell agaâ—â— to a 〈…〉 and thus it was After they had thus 〈…〉 their Eglogues they plighted faith and truth and Carmela very brisâ—ly 〈◊〉 her mouth with a 〈…〉 it with a kisse which Doron taketh 〈…〉 a little paying loth to depart they 〈◊〉 went a 〈◊〉 their 〈…〉 Leauing them therefore 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 againe to Democles who séeing no 〈…〉 to perswade Samela to loue neither the hope of the 〈…〉 crowne noâ— the title of a 〈◊〉 lastly 〈…〉 threats but all in vaine for 〈…〉 by nature 〈◊〉 that he was her father and 〈◊〉 by loue in that 〈◊〉 Melicertus lay imprisoned onely for her 〈…〉 〈…〉 erauing pardon of Maximâ—us and Sephestia and to shew that the outward 〈◊〉 of his watery eyes had a 〈◊〉 thy with the 〈…〉 of his heart hee impaâ—â—â—d the head of his young Nephew Pleufidippus with the Crowne and Diademe of Arcadie for that his brother Lamedon had in all distresse not left his daughter Sephestia he tooke the matter so kindly that he reconciled himselfe vnto him and made him Duke in Arcadie The successe of this fore-rehearses 〈…〉 gâ—â—wing so Comicall they all concluded after the 〈…〉 solemnizing of the Coronation which was made famous with the excellent déeds of many worthy 〈◊〉 to passe into Thessaâ—e to contract the marriage betwixt Pleusidippus and the daughter of the Thessalian King Which nowes spred through Arcadie as a wonder that at last it came to Menaphons eares who hearing the high parentage of his supposed Samela séeing his passions were too aspiring that with the Syrian Wolues he barked agains the Moone he left such Lettice as were too fine for his lips and courted his olde loue Pesana to whom shortly after he was married And lest there should her left any thing vnperfect in this pastorall accident Doron 〈◊〉 himselfe vp and iumped a marriage with his old friend Carmela FINIS
their lookes full of amors as their gods â—uiuer is full of arrowes their eyes holding smiles and teares to leape out at their Mistris fauours or her frownes sighes must flie as figures of their thoughts and euery wrinckle must be tempred with a passion thus suted in outware proportion and made excellent in inward constitution they straight repaire to take view of their Mistris beauty She as one obseruant vnto Venus principles first â—ieth loue in her tresses and wraps affection in the 〈◊〉 of her haire snaring our swaines in her lockes as Mars in the net holding in her forhead Fortunes Kalender either to assigne dismall influence or some fauourable aspect If a wrinckle appeare in her brow then our Shepheard must put on his working day face and 〈◊〉 nought but dolefull madrigals of sorrow if a dimple grace her cheeke the heauens cannot prooue fatall to our kinde-hearted louers if shee seeme coy then poems of death mounted vpon deepe drawne sighs flie from their master to sue for some fauour alleadging how death at the least may date his misery to be briefe as vpon the shoares of 〈◊〉 the windes continue neuer one day in one quarter so the thoughtes of a louer neuer continue scarce a minute in one passion but as Fortunes globe so is Fancies case variable and inconstant If louers sorrowes then bee like Sisiphus turmoiles and their fauours like honny bought with â—all let poore Menaphon then liue at labour and make esteeme of Venus as of Mars his Coucubine and as the Cimbrians hold their idols in account but in euery tempest so make Cupid a god but when thou art ouer pained with passions and then Menaphon will neuer loue for as long as thou temperest thy hande with labours thou canst not fetter thy thoughts with loues And in this Satyricall humour smiling at his owne conceits hee tooke his pipe in his hand and betweene euery-report of his instrument 〈◊〉 a Stanzo to this 〈◊〉 Menaphons Song Some say loue Foolish loue Doth rue and gouerne all the gods I say loue Inconstant loue Sets mens senses fâ—râ—â— at ods Some sweare loue Smooth'd face loue Is sweetest sweet that men can haue I say loue Sowre loue Makes vertues yeeld as beauties slaue A bitter sweet a folly worst of all That forceth wisedome to be follies thrall Loue is sweet Where in sweet In fading pleasures that doe shine Beauty sweet Is that sweet That yeelds sorrow for a gaine If loue 's sweete Herein sweet That minutes ioyes are monthly woes T is not sweete That is sweet No where but where repentance growes Then loue who lift iâ— beautie be so sowre Labour for me loue rest in Princes bowre Menaphon hauing ended his roundelay rose vp thinking to passe from the mountaine downe to the valley casting his eye to the sea side espied certaine fragments of a broken ship floating vpon the waues and sundry persons driuen vpon the shore like a calme walking all wet and weary vpon the sands wondring at this strange sight hee stood amazed yet destrous is sée the euent of this accident hee shrowded himselfe to rest 〈◊〉 till hee might perceiue what would happen at last hee might descry it was a woman holding a childe in her armes and an olde man directing her as it were hot guide These three as distressed wrackes preserued by some further fore-pointing Fate coueted to clime the Mountaine the better to vse the fauour of the Sunne to dry their drenchâ—â— apparrell at last crawled vp where poore Menaphon lay close and resting them vnder a bush the old man did nothing but send out sighes and the woman ceased not from streaming forth riuolets of teares that hung on her chéeks like the drops of pearled dew vpoÌ„ the riches of Flora. The poore babe was the touch stone of his mothers passions for when hee smiled and lay laughing in her lad were her heart neuer so deeply ouercharged with her present sorrowes yet kissing the prettie Infant shée lightned out smiles from those chéekes that were furrowed with continual sources of teares but if he cryed then sighes as smokes and sobs as thunder-crackes fore 〈◊〉 those showres that which redoubled distresse distilled from her eyes thus with pretty inconstant passions trimming vp her baby and at last to lull him asléepe shee warbled out of her wofull brest this Dittie Sâ—phestias Song to her childe Weepe not any wanton smile vpon my knee When thou art olde there'â— griefe enough for thee Mothers wagge 〈◊〉 boy Fathers sorrow fatherâ— ioy When thy father first did see Such a boy by him and mee Hee was glad I was 〈◊〉 Fortune changâ—e made him so When he had left his 〈◊〉 boy Last his sorrow first his ioy Weepe not my wanton smile vpon my knee When thou 〈◊〉 olde there 's griefe enough for thee Streaming teares 〈…〉 stint Like 〈◊〉 drop 〈◊〉 flint Fell by course from his eyes That one anothers place supplies Thus he grieued in 〈◊〉 part Teares of bloud fell from his heart When he left his 〈◊〉 the boy Fathers sorow Fathers ioy Weepe not my wanton smile vpon my knee When thou art olde there 's griefe enough for thee The wâ—nton smilde Father wept Mother cryde baby lept More lie crownde more he cryde Nature could not sorrow hide He must goe he must kisse Childe and mother baby blisse For â—e left his pretty boy Fathers sorrow Fathers ioy Weepe not my wanton smile vpon my knee When thou are olde there 's griefe enough for thee With this lullaby the baby fell asleepe and Sephestia laying it vpon the gréene grasse couered it with a mantle and then leaning her head on her hand and her elbow on her lap she fell afresh to powre forth abundance of plaints which Lamedon the olde man espying although in his face appeared the mappe of discontent and in euery wrinckle was a catalogue of woes yet to chéere vp Sophestia shrowding his inward sorrow with an outward smile hee beganne to comfort her in this manner Sephestia thou seest no 〈◊〉 preuailes against the gaze of the Basiliskes no 〈◊〉 against the sâ—ing of the Taranâ—ula no preuention to diuert the decrée of the Fates nor no meanes to recall backe the driefull hurt of Fortune Incurable sores are without 〈◊〉 Aphorismes and therefore no salue for them but patience Thâ—n my Sephestia â—ith thy fall is high and fortune low thy sorrowes great and thy hope little seâ—ing mee partaker of thy miseries set all vpon this Solamen miseris socios habâ—isse doloris Chance is like Ianus double-faced as well full of smiles to comfort as of frownes to dismay the Ocean at the deaddest ebbe returnes to a ful tide when the Eagle means to soare highest he raiseth his â—light in the lowest daâ—es so sâ—reth it with fortune who in her highest extremes is most vnconstant when the tempest of her wrath is most fearefull then looke for a calme when she beats thée with Nettles then thinke shée will strew thâ—â— with Roses when she
Menaphon at last he began thus to answers Strangers your degree I know not therefore pardon if I giue lesse titlâ— then your estates â—â—rite fortunes from 〈◊〉 are princes fortunes and kings are subiect to châ—â—câ—â— destiny Mis-hap is to be salued with pitie not scorne and we that are fortunes darlings are bound to relieuâ— them that are distrest therefore follow mee and you shall haue such succor as a Shepheard may afford Lamedon and Sephestia were passing glad and Menaphon led the way not content onely to feede his sight with the beauty of his new Mistris but thought also to infer some occasion of parlâ—y to heare whether her voice were as mâ—ledious as her face beautifull hée therefore prosecuted his prattle thus Gentlewoman when first I saw you sitting vpon the Arcadian promontorie with your babie on your lap this old father by I thought I had seene Venus with Cupid on her knée 〈…〉 of Troy the 〈…〉 your lookes could discouer no lesse thâ—n Mar◠〈…〉 and the beautie 〈◊〉 child as much as the digniâ—â— of her wanton at last 〈…〉 that yo◠〈…〉 distresse 〈…〉 partake your so 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 I pity ouercharged persons in lieu 〈◊〉 het 〈…〉 your name country and â—â—â—â—ntage 〈…〉 by the a 〈…〉 that the swains 〈…〉 loue replyed 〈◊〉 Courteâ—â—◠〈…〉 did looke like Venus at a blush it way 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 goddesse wept for her faire Adonis my boy 〈…〉 Cupid but the fouâ—â— of Care Fortunes 〈◊〉 in his youth to be I hope her darling in his age 〈◊〉 that your lookâ— saw our griefe and your â—hought 〈…〉 shal giue thanks the bountâ— of 〈…〉 harts pray that the gods may be as friendly to your floâ—â—s as you fauourable vnto vs. My 〈◊〉 is Samela my country Cypres my 〈…〉 the wisâ— of a 〈◊〉 Gentleman now 〈…〉 shâ—pheard 〈◊〉 lest it be â—edious for thée to heare it and a double griefe for meâ— to 〈◊〉 it The shepheard not daring displease hiâ— Mistris 〈…〉 threats hanging 〈◊〉 her lips 〈…〉 them 〈◊〉 to his house 〈◊〉 as they were art 〈…〉 he began at the doore to entertaine them thus Fairâ— Mistris the flower of all our Nimpheâ— that liâ—â— here in Arcadia this is my cottage wherein I liue content and your lodging where please it you ye may rest 〈…〉 to couer the 〈◊〉 nor 〈…〉 wealth for shepheards vse neither to 〈…〉 you shall â—â—nde here 〈◊〉 and milk so dai◠〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 for â—lâ—â—hing in euery corner of the house Content sitting smiling and tempering 〈…〉 thing with a 〈◊〉 this if ye can brooke and accept of as gods allow the meanest hospitalitie ye â—all haue such welcome and 〈◊〉 Philâ—mon and Baucis gaue to Iupiter Sephestia thankt him heartily and going into his house 〈…〉 what he promise 〈◊〉 that they had sate a little by the 〈◊〉 and were 〈◊〉 warmed they went to suppâ—â— where Sephestia 〈◊〉 well as one whom the sea had made 〈◊〉 and Lamedon so plied his teeth that at supper he spâ—ke not 〈…〉 taken their â—eÌ„past Menaphon 〈◊〉 they were 〈◊〉 and that sléepe chimed on to the rest let them sée their lodging and so gaue them the good night Lamedon on his â—ock-bed and Sephestia on her country â—ouch were so 〈◊〉 that they slept well but Menaphon poore Menaaphon neither asked his 〈◊〉 for his 〈◊〉 nor tooke his male-spade on his neck to sée his 〈◊〉 but as a man pained with a thousand passions drenched in distresse ouer-whelmed with a multitude of vncouth 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 like the pictures that Persâ—â— turned with him 〈◊〉 head into stones His sister Carmela kept his house for so was the country wench called and shée seeing her brother sit so 〈◊〉 contented stept to her cupboord fetcht a little beaten spice in an old bladder she spared no euening milke but went amongst the creame bollâ—s and made him a posset But alas loue had so locked vp the shepheards stomach that none would downe with Menaphon Carmela seeing her brother refuse his spiced drinke thought all was not well and therfore sat down and wept to be 〈◊〉 she blubbered and he 〈◊〉 and his men that came in and saw their â—â—â—ster with a kercher on his head mourned so that amongst these swaines there was such melodie that Menaphon tooke his bow and arrowes and went to bed where casting himselfe he thought to haue beguiled his â—assions with some sweet slumbers but loue that smiled at his new entertained champion sitting on his beds head wicked him forward with new desires charging Morphâ—â—â— Phobetur and Icâ—lon the gods of sleepe to present vnto his closed eyes the singular beauty and rare 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 for so will we now call her in that the Idâ—â— of her excellence forced him to breathe out scalding sighâ—s smothered within the fornace of his thoughts which grew into this or the like passion I had thought Menaphon that he which weareth the bay leafe had bin frée from light 〈◊〉 and the Eagles 〈◊〉 a preseruatiue against thunder that labour had béene 〈◊〉 so loue and the eschewing of idlenes an Antidote against fancie but I sée by proofe there is no adamant so â—ard but the bloud of a Goat will make soft no 〈◊〉 so well defenced but strong battery will enter nor any heart so plyant to restlesse labours but inchantments of loue will ouer come Vnfortunate Menaphon that of late thoughtâ—â—â— Venus a strumpet and her sonne a bastard now must thou offer incense at her shrine sweare Cupid no lesse then a god thou hast reason Menaphon for heâ— that liues without loue liues without life presuming as Narcissus to hate all and being like him at length despised of all Can there 〈◊〉 â— swâ—â—ter blisse then beautie a greater heauen then her heauenly perfections that is mistris of thy thoughts If the sparkle of her eyes appeare in the night the sâ—arres blush at her brightnesse if her haire glister in the day Phâ—â—bus puts off his wreath of diamonds as ouercome with the shine of her tresses if she walke in the fields Flora séeing her face bids all her glorious flowers 〈◊〉 themselues as being by her beautie disgraced â—â— her Alaâ—aster necke appeare then Hyeâ—â—s couereth his sâ—old as surpassed in whitenesseâ— to be short Menaphon if Samela had appeared in Ida Iuno for maiestie Pallas for wisdome and Venus for beauty had let my Samela haue the Supremacie why shouldest thou not then loue and thinke there is no life to loue séeing the end of loue is the possession of such a heauenly paragon but what of this Menaphon hast thou any hope to inioy her person shee is a widdow true but too high for thy fortunes shée is in distresse Ah Menaphon if thou hast any sparke of comfort this must set thy hope on fire want is the load-stone of affection distresse forceth â—éeper then fortunes frownes and such as are poore wil rather loue then want reliefe fortunes frownes are whetstones to fancie and as the horse starteth at the spurre
so loue is pricked forward with distresse Samela is shipwracked Menaphon reléeueâ— her shée wants he supplies with wealth he sâ—es for loue â—yther must shee grant or buy â—eniall with perpetuall repentantâ— In this hope 〈◊〉 the poore shepheard and with that Menaphon laid his head downe on the pisâ—ow and tooke a sound nap sléeping out fancie with a good slumber As soone as the Sun appeared the shepherd got him vp and 〈◊〉 fat with this hope went merrily with his men to the folds and there 〈◊〉 â—orth his sheep after that he had appointed where they should graze returned home and looking when his guests should rise hauing slept ill yâ— last night went roundly to his breakfast by that time hee had ended his 〈◊〉 Lamedon was gotten vp and so was Samels Against their rising Carmela had 〈◊〉 her cookerie and Menâ—phonâ—yred â—yred in his ruâ—â—et Iaâ—ket his redde sleeues of chamlet his blew 〈◊〉 his round â—â—ops of countrey cloth bestirred him as euery ioynt had béene fat to a sundry office Samela no sooner came out of her Chamber but Menaphon as one that staiâ—â—ed piety for his passions had her good morrow 〈…〉 louers look Samela knowing the fowle by the Feather was able to cast his disease without his water perceiued that Câ—pid had caught the poore shapheard in his 〈◊〉 and vnlesse he â—aught quickly to breake out of the â—hare would make him a 〈…〉 faire lookes shee gaue him and with a smiling sorrâ—â— discouered how shee grieued at his misfortune â— yet 〈◊〉 him wel to breakfast they went Lamedon Samela sed hath but Menaphon like the Argiue in the 〈…〉 of Arabia liued with the contemplation of his mistris â—â—aâ—ty the Salamender liues not without â—â—re the Hâ—rring from the water the Moâ—e from the earth nor the Câ—â—eleon from the ayre nor could Menaphon 〈◊〉 but in â—â—ght of his Samela whose breath was perfumed ayre whole eies were 〈◊〉 wher in he delighted to daily whose heart the earthly paradise wherein he desired so ingrasse the 〈◊〉 of his loue and affection thus did the poore shepheard â—athe in a kind of blisse while his eye fâ—â—â—ing on his mistris face surfeited with the 〈◊〉 of her perfection So long hee gazed that at length breakfast was ended and he destrous to do her any seruice first put her childe to nurse and then led her forth to see his folds thinking with the â—â—ght of his flocks to inueigle her whose minde had rather haue chosen any misfortune then haue deigned her eies on the face and feature of so low a pesant Well abroad they went Menaphon with his Shéep-hooke fringed with crewell to signifie he was chiefe of the Swaines Lamedon and Samela after plodding thus ouer she gréeue fields at last they came to the mountaines where Menaphons flocks grazed and there he discoursed to Samela thus I tell thée faire Nimph these plaines that thou seest stretching Southward are pastures belonging to Menaphon there growes the Cinqueâ—â—ile and the Hiacinth the Cowâ—â—ip the Primrose and the Violet which my â—locks shal spare for flowers to make thée Garlands the milke of my Ewes shall be meate for my pretty wanton the wâ—ll of the fat wethers that séeme as sine as the fléece that Iason fetchâ— from Colchos shall serue to make Samela webs withall the mountaine toys shall be thy morning walke and the shaâ—â—â— Vallies thy euenings Arbour as much as Menaphon owes shall be at Samelaes command if she like to liue with Menaphon This was spoken with such déep affects that Samela could scarce kéep her from smiling yet she couered her conceit with a sorrowfull countenance which Menaphon espying to make her merry and rather for his owne aduantage séeing Lamedon was asléepe â—â—oke her by the hand and sate downe and pulling forth his pipe began after some melodie to carroll out this roundelay Menaphons roundelay When tender â—wes brought home with Euening Sunne Wend to their folde And to their holds The shepheards trudge when light of day is done Vpon a tree The Eagle Ioues faire bird did pearch There resteth he A little flye harbour then did search And did presume though others laught thereat To pearch whereas the princely Eagle sate The Eagle frownde and shooke his royall wings And charg'de the Flye From thence to hye Afraide in haste the little creature sâ—ings Yet seekes againe Fearefull to peaâ—ke him by the Eagles side With moody vaine The speedy post of Ganimede replide Vassall auant or with my wings you dye Is 't fit an Eagle seate him with a flye The flye craued pittie still the Eagle frownde The silly flye Readie to dye Disgracde displacde fell groueling to the ground The Eagle saw And with a royall minde said to the flye Be not in awe I scorne by me the meanest creature dye Then seate thee here the ioyfull flye vp sâ—ings And sate safe shadowed with the Eagles wings As soone as Menaphon had ended this ronndelay turning to Samela after a country blush hes began to court her in this homely fashion what thinke you Samela of the Eagle for this royall déed that he falsified the old Prouerbe Aquila non capit muscas But I meane Samela are you not in opinion that the Eagle giues instance of a princely resolution in preferring the safetie of a flye before the credit of her royall maiestie I thinke Menaphon that high minds are the shelters of pouerty Kings seats are couerts for distressed persons that the Eagle in shrowding the flye did well but a little forgot her honor But hold thinke you said Samela is this proportion to be obserued in loue I gesse no for the 〈◊〉 did it not for loue but for succour Hath loue then respect of circumstance Els it is not loue but lust for where the parties haue no simpathy of estates there can no firme loue be fixt discord is reputed the mother of diuision as in nature this is an vnrefuted principle that it faulteth which faileth in vniformitie Hee that grafts Iilliflowers vpon the Nettle marreth the smel who couets to tie the lamb and the lion in one tedder makes a braule equall fortunes are loues fauorites and therefore should fancy be alwaies limited by Geometricall proportion lest if yong matching with old fire and frost fall at a combate and if rich with poore there haâ— many dangerous and brauing obiections Menaphon halfe nipped in the pate with this reply yet like a tall souldier stoode to his tackling and made this answere suppose gentle Samela that a man of meane estate whom disdainfull fortune had abased in tending to make her power prodigall in his mis-fortunes being feathered with Cupids bolt were snared in the beautie of a Quéene should he rather die then discouer his amors It Quéenes quoth she were of my minde I had rather die then perish in baser fortunes Venus loueâ— Vulcan replied Menaphon truth quoth Samela but though he was polt-footed yet he was a god Phao inioyed Sâ—pho he a â—erriman that liued
who â—ettered with the 〈◊〉 â—â— hâ—r â—eâ—â—â—elâ—ued Menahpon 〈◊〉 câ—rsâ—nâ— Cupid 〈…〉 â—eitie that would make more â—ay-light iâ— the â—â—râ—â—â—ent then oâ—◠〈◊〉 more raine 〈…〉 Iris and more loues in oâ—e â—â—art thâ—n oâ—e settled passion many prayer◠〈◊〉 made to Venusâ—or â—or reâ—â—nâ—â— many 〈◊〉 to Cupid many â—riâ—ans to Himâ—â—nâ—us 〈…〉 the â—yâ—e oâ—â—er â—eâ—â—res Well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 shée wa◠〈◊〉 she â—â—otâ—ered all with â—â—tâ—encâ— and thouâ—ht â—◠〈◊〉 loue 〈…〉 not to loue and thus thee dâ—ily â—râ—ue out â—â—e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 labour and looking to her herd â—â—aâ—â—nâ— euery â—ay by Doron who was 〈◊〉 â—insman what suâ—â—â—sse Menaphon had in his loues Thus 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 to make a more â—lâ—asing 〈…〉 amongâ—t theâ— thâ—â— Melicertus 〈…〉 â—s â—â— was wont to doe with his 〈◊〉 droâ—◠〈◊〉 â—raze â—◠〈◊〉 the swaines of Menaphon 〈…〉 entertained 〈◊〉 who aâ—â—ordâ—â—â— t◠〈…〉 euery day Melicertus 〈…〉 daughter at the most could nâ—t tell â—oâ—â— to courâ—â—er yet at length calling to rememâ—raâ—ce â—er 〈◊〉 â—it â—â—sâ—â—uered in their lâ—â—â—â—isâ—oursâ—◠〈…〉 â—all and raâ—â—et séeing â—he 〈…〉 but Samela and â—e were in the 〈◊〉 â—e leâ—â—â—â—s â—â—ocke â—n the valley and â—â—eâ—t unto â—â—r and saluâ—ed her thus â—istris â—â— all eâ—â—â— that â—lance â—ut at â—â—â—â—xcellence oâ— your â—erfection â—oueraigne of al such as Venusâ—â—th â—â—th 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 Oenonesâ—uer-match â—uer-match Arcadieâ— coâ—eâ— beaâ—â—ies second 〈◊〉 all 〈◊〉 〈…〉 like Iuno when she â—â—râ—â— wâ—tcht her whâ—â—e â—eâ—â—er â—â— the 〈…〉 as bright as 〈◊〉 Phoeâ—eâ—ouâ—â—eâ— â—ouâ—â—eâ— on the â—iâ—â—oy of the râ—â—dy element I was by a strange â—ttractiuâ—â—orce â—rawne as the adamant drawes the yron or the 〈◊〉 the â—â—â—aw to 〈◊〉 your swéete selâ—e in the â—â—ade and 〈◊〉 you such companie as a poore Swaine may yâ—â—â—â— wiâ—â—out 〈◊〉 which if you shal vouch to 〈◊〉 of I shall be â—â— glaâ— of such 〈…〉 as Paris waâ—â—â—rst â—â— his â—eâ—â—â—eloueâ—â—â—ramour Samela looking vpon the shepheards 〈◊〉 〈…〉 broken sâ—ghes thought to be pleasanâ— wiâ—â— her shepheard thus Arcadies Apollo whâ—se brigâ—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 euery 〈◊〉 to â—uâ—â— as the Heâ—oâ—â—opion doth 〈…〉 of shepheards the 〈…〉 â—pirit woâ—enâ— wrong in wronging many with 〈◊〉 â—u◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 welcâ—â—e as we vouchsaâ—e â—â— your seruice 〈◊〉 of your comâ—â—ny as of him that is the 〈◊〉 of all 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 vpon any light parâ—â— would 〈…〉 you to 〈…〉 your cunninâ— Samela mâ—de this reply bâ—caâ—se â—â—e â—â—arâ—â—im â—o superâ—ne as iâ— Ephâ—â—â—â— hâ—d 〈◊〉 him to 〈◊〉 his mothers 〈…〉 borne 〈◊〉 to â—ée 〈◊〉 and Melicertusâ—â—â—â—kâ—ng â—â—â—â—kâ—ng Samela had learned wiâ—h Luciâ—â—a iâ— Atâ—eâ—◠〈…〉 nonâ—â—ut siâ—ilâ—â— â—maâ—ine◠〈◊〉 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 tâ—â—ee â—â—ought lâ—ke Sapâ—o 〈…〉 either in 〈…〉 Samela 〈…〉 Priâ—â—â—uâ—â—â—nton â—â—nton 〈◊〉 nâ—t â—e withâ—â—t 〈◊〉 oâ— Nimphes to â—ollow â—im in the â—ale â—â— Iâ—a â—eâ—â—ty 〈…〉 attend her excellency if the â—â—eâ—â—eard be true iâ— like Narcissus you wraâ— not your 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of â—isâ—aine you cannot but haue 〈◊〉 rare â—â—â—agâ—n to your 〈◊〉 whom I would haue you 〈…〉 â—escribe as loues laâ—â— loue if â—oue could 〈◊〉 Iuno â—hy 〈◊〉 shal 〈◊〉 and I aâ—uenture with my voyce to set out my mistris â—auour for your excellence to 〈…〉 therâ—ore â—â—us yet Melicertus for that he â—aâ— a â—urther reach would not make any clownish â—escrâ—â—â—â—on chanted it thus câ—â—â—ingly Melicertus description of his Mistris Tune on my Pipe the prayses of my loue And midst thy Oaten 〈…〉 How faire she is that makes by mistake mounâ— And euery string of thy hearts Harpe to moue Shall I compare her forme vnto the Spheare Whence Sun-bright Venus 〈◊〉 her siluer shine Ah more then that by iust compare is thine Whose Cristall lookes the cloudy heauens doe cleare How oft haue I descending Tiâ—â—â— seene His burning locks couch in the sea Queenes lap And beauteous Thâ—â—â— his red bodie wrap In watry robes as he her Lord had bâ—â—ne When as my Nymph impatient of the â—ight Bade bright Atreâ—â— with his traine giue place Whiles she led forth the day with her faire face And lent each starre a more then Deliaâ— light Not â—oue or nature should they both agree To make a woman of the firmament Of his mixt puritie could not inuent A skieborne forme so beautifull as shee When Melicertus had ended this roundelay in prayse of his Mistris Samela perceiued by his description that either some better Poet then himselfe had made it or else that his former phrase was dissembled wherfore to try him throughly to sée what snake lay hid vndoe the grasse she followed the chace in this manner Melicertus might not a stranger craue your Mistris name At this the shepheard blusht and made no reply How now quoth Samela what is shée so meane that you shame or so high that you feare to bewray the soueraigne of your thoughts stand not in doubt man for bee shee base I read that mightie Tamberlaine after his wise Xenocrate the worlds faire eye passed out of the theatre of this mortall life he chose stigmaticall Truâ—s to please his humorous fancie Be shée a Princesse honour hangs in high desires and it is the token of a high muld to venter for a Ouéene then gentle shepheard tell me thy mistris name Melicertus hearing his Goodesse speake sofauorably Breathed out this sodaine reply high Samela and therefore I feare with the Syrian Wolues to barke against the Moone or with them of Scyrum to shoote against the Starres in the height of my thoughts soaring too high to fall with wofull repenting Icaâ—is No sooner did mine â—ye glance vpon her beautie but as if loue and fate had sate to forge my fatall disquiet they trapt me within her lookes and haling het Idaea through the passage of my sight placed it so déeply in the center of my heart as maâ—ger all my studious endeuor it still and euer will keepe restlesse possession Noting her vertues her beauties her perfections her excellence and feare of her too high borne parentage though painefully fettered yet haue I still feared to dare so hauty an attempt to so braue a personage lest she offensiue at my presumption I perish in the height of my thoughts This conclusion broken with an abrupt passion could not so satisfie Samela but she would be further inquisitiue At last after many questions he answered thus séeing Samela I consume my selfe and displease you to hazard for the salue that may cure my maladie and satisfie your question know it is the beauteous Samela Be there more of that name in Arcadie beside my selfe qd she I know not said Melicertus but were there a million only you are Melicertus Samela but of a million quoth she I cannot he Melicertus Samela for loue hath put one arrow of desire in his quiuer but one string to his how and in choice but one ayme of affection Haue yée alreadie said Melicertus set your rest vpon some higher Personage No said Samela I meane by your selfe for I haue heard that your fancie is linked alredy to a beautiful shepherdesse in Arcadie At this the poore Swaine tainted his
manner My little child whence art thou where wert thou borne what is thy name and wherefore wanderest thou thus all alone on the shoare I pray yee what are ye Sir quoth Pleusidippus that deale thus with me by interrogatories as if I were some run-away Wilt thou not tell me then who was thy father said he Good sir if ye will néeds know goe aske that of my mother He hath said well my Lord quoth Romanio who was one of his speciall associates for wise are the children in these dayes that know their owne fathers especially if they be begotten in dog-dayes when their mothers are franticke with loue yong men furious for lust Besides who knowes not that these Arcadians are giuen to take the benefit of euery Hodge when they will sacrifice their virginitie to Venus though they haue but a hush of netâ—les for their bed and sure this boy is but some shepheards bastard at the most howsoeuer this wanton face importeth more then appearance Pleusidippus eyes at this speech resolued into â—ire and his face in purple with a more then common courage in children of his yéeres and stature gaue him the lye roundly in this reply Pesant the bastard in thy face for I am a Gentleman wert thou a man in courage as thou art a cowâ— in proportion thou wouldest neuer haue so much impaired thy honesty as to derogate from my honor Look not in my face but leuel at my heart by this that thou séest therwith he â—et â—riue at him with such ptbble stones as he had in his hat insomuch that Romanio was driuen to his héeles to shunne this suddaine haileshot and Eurilochus resolued into laughter and in termes of admiration most highly extolled so excéeding magnanimitie in so little a bodie which how auailable it proued to the confirmation of his fancie that was before inflamed with his features let them imagine that haue noted the imbecillitie of that age and the vnresisted furie of men at Armes Sufficeth at this instant to vnfold all of her circumstances of praise laid apart that Eurilochus being far in loue with his extraordinary lineameÌ„ts awaited no farther parly but willed his men perforce to hopse him a ship-boord intending as soone as euer he arriued in Thessalie by sending him to the Court as a present to make peace with his Lord Master Agenor who not long before had proclaimed him as a notorious Pirat throughout all his dominions Neither swarued hee one whit from his purpose for no sooner had he cast anker in the port of Hadrianopolis but he arraied him in choise silkes and Tyrian purple and so sent him as a prize to the king of that Countrey who walking as then in his Summer garden with his Quéene the beauteous Eriphila fell to discourse as one wel séene in Philosophie or Hearbs and flowers as the sauour or colour did occasion and hauing spent some time in disputing their medicinable properties his Lady reching him a Marigold he began to moralize of it thus merrily I maruell the Poets that wâ—re to prodigall in painting the amorous affection of the 〈◊〉 to his Hiacinth did neuer obserue the relation of loue twixt him and the Marigold it should séeme eyther they were loth to incurre the displeasure of women by propounding in the way of comparison any serâ—ile imitation for head-strong wiues that loue no precepts lesse then those pertaining vnto dutie or that the â—lower not so vsuall in their gardens as ours in her vnacquainted name did obscure the honour of her amours to Apollo to whose motions reducing the method of her springing shée waketh and stéepeth openeth and shutteth her golden leaues as he riseth and setteth Well did you fore-stall my exception quoth Etiphila in terming it a seruile imitation for were the condition of a wise so slauish as your similitude would inferre I had as liefe be your page as your spouse your dog as your darling Not so swéet wife answered Agenor but the comparison holdeth in this that as the Marigold resembleth the Sun both in colour and forme so each mans wife ought euery way to be the image of her husband framing her countenance to smile when shee sées him disposed to mirth and contrarywise her eyes to teares hee being surcharge with melancholy As the Marigold displayeth the orient ornaments of her beautie and to the resplendant view of none but her louer Hyperion so ought not a woman of modestie lay open the allurements of her face to any but her espoused Phéere in whose absence like the Marigold in the absence of the Sunne she ought to shut vp her dores and solemnize continual night til her husband her Sun making a happy returne vnsealeth her silence with the ioy of hid sight Beléeue mee but if all flowers quoth Eriphila affoord such influence of eloquence to our aduerse Orators I le exempt them all from my smell for feare they be all planted to poison Oft haue I heard replyed Agenor our cunning Phisicians conclude that one poison is harmelesse to another which if they be so there is no cause why a thistle should feare to be sâ—ung of a Natile I can tell you sir you were best beware â—eft in wading toâ— farre in comparisons oâ— thistles and Nettleâ— you ochange not your Rose for a Nettle If 〈◊〉 Agenor it is no more but my gardener shall plucke it vp by the roots and throw it ouer the wall as a wéed To end this iest which else would issue to a iarre what purple flower is this in forme like a Hiacinth quoth Eriphila so cunningly dropped with bloud as if nature had intermeddled with the Heralds art to â—mblazon a bléeding heart It 〈◊〉 flower into which Poets faigne Venus 〈◊〉 dying 〈◊〉 to hiâ— turnâ—d afaire Boy but 〈…〉 it â—ossible 〈◊〉 Eriphilâ— that euer nature should be so bounteous to a Boy to giue him a face in despite of women so faira faine would I sée such an obiect and then would I defie beautie for imparting our excellencie to any infer obiect In saying those words as if fortune meant to present her fancie with her desired felicitie Romanio conducted by one of the Lorde came with young Pleusidippus in his hand into the priuie Garden where discoursing vnto the King the intent of Eurilochus in presenting him with such an inestimable Iewell the manner of his taking of the Strond of Arcadie with other circumstances of vowed allegeance all which being greatefully accepted of Agenor hee sealed their seuerall pardons and gaue them leaue to depart But when hee had thorowly obserued euerie perfection of young Pleusidippus he burst into these termes of passion Had Sea-boâ—â—e Pâ—ntia then an applyable eare in our idlenesse that to testifie her eternall Deity she should send vs a second Adonis to delude our senses what euer may deserue the name faire haue I séene before beautie haue I beheld in his brightest orbe but neuer set eye on immortalitie before this houre Eriphila likewise in no