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The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch Entituled, Amintas dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the pagan gods in English hexameters together with their auncient descriptions and philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fraunce.; Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Part 3
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Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.
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the mount Oeta that is to say his terrestriall body being purged and purified himselfe was afterwards deâ—fied and crowned with immortality Medea signifieth counsayle and aduice the daughter of Aeta and Idya for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is knowledge or vnderstanding and knowledge is the mother of counsayle Medea therefore that is such as are wise and aduised leaueth her father teareth in peeces her brother and children to weete all such affections as might be a let vnto her and flyeth away with Iason the phisitian and curer of her infirmities 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to heale or cure But when Iason giues himselfe ouer to filthines then doth Medea good counsel flie away in her chariot drawne with winged Dragons noting wisdome and policie Iason was many wayes endangered before he could atchieue the golden fleece there is no man that can attayne to any excellency without extraordinarie labour The golden fleece noteth either great riches and treasure or fame and immortality Euridice the wife of Orpheus figureth Appetitum the coueting and desiring faculty in man The serpent byting her heele is affection concupisence for veynes come from the heeles to those parts which are the instruments of lust Therefore when Thetis washt her sonne Achilles in the Stygian waters he was inuiolate and vnwoundable in euery part of his body sauing only his heele by the which she held him when she washed him and in the same heele was hee wounded by Paris in the temple of Apollo when he came to mary Polixena that is to say affection and lust to Polixena drew on his confusion In imitation whereof the good Thomalin in the new Shepheards Kalender singeth thus of the winged boy Therewith afrayd I ran away But he that earst seem'd but to play a shaft in earnest snatched And hit me running in the heele For then I litle smart did feele but soone the sore increased And now it ranckleth more and more And inwardly it festreth sore ne wot I how to cease it Orpheus the husband of Euridice an eloquent and wise man so wrought the rude people that he made them sociable and conformable when he obteined the bringing backe of his wife from Hell he was inioyned not once to looke back towards her A wise man ought not to be withdrawen from his contemplation by any passion or affection whatsoeuer Circe may be either physically or ethically expounded physically thus She was called Circe à miscendo of mingling and tempring for in the generation of bodies these foure elements as we call them must needs bee tempered which commixtion and composition is done by the influence and operation of the Sunne and therefore Circe was borne of the Sunne and Perseis the daughter of Occanus Perseis or Perse is the humor and moysture of the Ocean supplying the place of the matter or the woman as the sunne is the efficient or the man Circe had foure maydens the foure elements they gathered hearbs and flowres for her witcherie these elements are autors of all motions and alterations Circe herselfe is immortall the generation of things is perpetuall She transformed men into diuers shapes for as I sayd before the corruption of one is the generation of another not the same but altred and transformed She dwelt in the Isle Aeaea so called of the groaning and wayling of mortall bodies which by reason of the decay and dissolution of this bodylie composition are subiect to diseases and griefes for ae ae ai ai signifieth alas alas She could not transforme Vlysses the soule cannot be destroyed though his companions noting the elements cohaerent to the body were changed Shee wrought many wonders by inchaunting she darkned the Moone stayed the waters dryed the fountaynes burnt grasse and hearbes and so foorth vnorderly mixtion or composition with abundance of vapours lifted vp darken the moone and worke twenty such like inconueniences Ethically thus lust is caused of heate and moysture the Sunne and Perseis If she ouer rule vs she transformeth vs into the shapes of seuerall beasts according to the sundry beastly pleasures wherein we delight vnles some heauenly helpe be aforded vs as was to Vlysses so Homer fayneth some of Vlysses companions to be deuoured by Polypheme the Cyclops some by the Lestrigones and some swallowed vp of Scylla and such as were not dismayed with perils and daungers did yet yeeld and giue ouer themselues to pleasure and sensualitie whereof diuers became effeminate with the delicacie of the wanton Phaeaces and others in the region of the Lothophagi by tasting forren fruit did forget their own couÌ„trey The third sort that resisted both pleasure paine was ouercome with couetise and whilst Vlysses slept opened the bagg stuft with winde which Aeolus shut vp and gaue to Vlysses hoping it had been stoared with treasure Lastly a number of them drawen away with ambition and vayn-glorie would haue yeelded to the deceiptfull sweetnes of the Syrenes had not their Capten stopped their eares with waxe as I sayd els-where and caused himself to be bound to the mast of the ship only Vlysses escaped by heauenly help only and liued with Circe familiarly Horace Rursus quid virtus quid sapientia possit Vtile proposuit nobis exemplar Vlyssem Qui domitor Troiae multorum prouidus vrbes Et mores hominum inspexit latumque per aequor Dum sibi dum socijs reditum parat aspera multa Pertulit aduersis rerum immersabilis vndis Sirenum voces Circes pocula nosti Quae si cum socijs stultus cupidusque bibisset Sub domina meretrice fuisset turpis excors Vixisset canis immundus vel amica luto sus Nos numerus sumus fruges consumere nati Sponsi Penelopes nebulones Alcinoique In cute curanda plus aequo operata inuentus Cui pulchrum fuit in medios dormire dies Ad strepitum cytharae cessatum ducere curam Atalantaes swiftnes is stayed and herselfe out-run by golden apples for what cannot gold effect She Hippomenes are turnd to Lyons lust is furius They being made Lyons are afterwards tamed bridled and enforced to draw Cybeles chariot by olde age lust and loue are calmed Hyacinthus his death teacheth vs not to toy and Cyparissus not to mourne too much for a thing of naught The Pastors being now ouertaken by the Nymphs began to bestirre themselues among others Ergastus whose course was then come ioyned Hermaphroditus to his mother Venus much after this manner LOuing Lady Venus bare Mercury Hermaphroditus Hermaphroditus a youth so braue and like to the father Hermaphroditus a boy so sweete and like to the mother That whosoeuer knew Hermes and Aphrodite And lookt on braue youth on sweet boy Hermaphroditus Would say Lady Venus bare Mercury Hermaphroditus Water-nymphs for a time brought vp this yonker in Ida But when sixteen yeares were spent by the yonker in Ida Yonker could not abide to abide any longer in Ida. All his ioy was now his fortune for to be trying And forren
excellent qualities especially those that vsually proceede from Iupiters influence as Iustice liberalitie magnificence pietie fauour beauty riches promotion loue and such like all which by the maligning nature of this damnifying planet Saturne are altogether corrupted and depraued as the Creetish Iupiter when he was but a tender iâ—fant was faine to be secretly conueyed away from his sterne and cruell father Saturne who sought his destruction Saturne being imprisoned and chayned by the Titanes was released by his dutifull and mercifull sonne Iupiter who came with a mightie army to the succor of his father Allegorically when the good and beneficiall Iupiter in any mans natiuitie ouer-ruleth preiudiciall Saturne beholding the other planets with an amyable and fortunat aspect which confoundeth the dead lookes and frowning face of Saturne then is that man freed from thâ—se â—aturnian chaynes of calamitie and miserie which otherwise he were subiect vnto These Titanes were the sonnes of heauen and earth signifying the foure elements which include in themselues a certaine terrene and earthly nature and are therefore continually depressed and beaten downe by the power of the superior bodies for vapors by the heate of the sunne the sunne is called Titan are drawne vp which when they approach neere the celestiall region are repelled and driuen downe againe or els resolued into pure and subtile ayre and this mounting vp and throwing downe is perpetuall Iupiter when he had thus enlarged his father vsurped his crowne and royall dignitie bannishing Saturne into hell or the infernall regions Historically Iupiter hauing freed his father from thaldome tooke vpon himselfe the dignitie and regiment of Creete enforcing Saturnus to flie into Italie where he was honored liuing and dying as a God for such was the custome of that age to attribute diuine honors and titles vnto them as Gods of whom they receaued any goodnesse as they did indeede of this Saturnus who taught them how to till and manure the ground to coyne money of mettale which before was of leather to leaue bushes and caues and liue more ciuily and orderly and to obserue certaine lawes and constitutions by him inuented as appeareth by Virgil. S. Aeneid who therefore calleth that time the Golden age Now in truth Italy was then far inferior to Greece in Wealth and Dignitie and might therefore be called the infernall region or base and lowe countrey in respect of â—aturns florishing kingdome as also for that Italie is lower then Greece as inclining more to the west and it is an vsuall thing for men to call the East the superior or higher region and the West he lower downecast and inferior or lastly as Varro wil haue it qd latet Italia inter praecipitia Alpium Apennini because Italie doth as it were lurke and lie hidden betweene the abrupt and high toppes of the Alpes the Mountaine Apenninus That this is true which I report of his being in Italie besides the testimonie of Virgil in the place aboue alleaged where he saith that Italie was named Latium a Latendo because Saturne did lurke and lie there to hide himselfe from his sonne Iupiter Ouid also will beare me witnes who in the first of his Fasti concluding this matter saith that for an eternall memoriall of his arriuall and good institutions the Italian posteritie in their money of mettale figured the ship wherein he came vnto them At bona posteritas puppim formauit in aere Hospitis aduentum testificata dei Allegorically as before when in any mans action or natiuitie Iupiter is predominant then doth he controle Saturne depriuing him of his power and dominion and driuing him out as his inferior Sabinus thinketh that Saturne was therefore saide to be driuen into the infernal dungeons for that he is of all other Planets the most remote and furthest from the earth making that infinite and vnmeasurable height of Heauen to be this Tartarus this infernall or strange and far remoued region But the most conceipted allegory for this purpose is that folowing for although that in Saturns time and raigne that is by the inâ—luence and vertue of this Planet Saturne the seede is preserued in the bowels of the earth and congcaled or thickned in the bodies of sensible cretures at the first generation and conception yet when these things are brought forth and receaue increase and augmentation then doth Iupiter shew himselfe to be King and dealeth all in all driuing out olde Saturne into corners and blinde and obscure places where the first seedes of things lie hidden which only are subiect to Saturnus iurisdiction Time is swift and euerpassing without stay which may bee the cause why Saturne is changed to a swift courser when his wife tooke him dallying with Philyra of whom he begat Chiron the Centaure as hereafter will appeare Thus haue wee the good olde Saturne in his raggs with his foure children before him his consuming syth in his right hand and a stone couered with cloth put to his mouth with the left hand Out of Eusebius he may be thus also figured himselfe couered with a long roabe two eyes before as many behinde of which foure two did euer watch whilest other two slept foure wings were fastned to his shoulders two spread foorth as though he were ready to flie two pluckt in as though he meant to stand still he had also two wings at his head The foure eyes and wings note that Time though it seeme to sleepe yet alwaies watcheth and yet so watcheth as it seemeth still to sleepe and as it standeth it flyeth away and yet in flying after a manner standeth still The two wings at his head are said to represent the intellectuall facultie and reasonable power of mans minde the old Philosophers being of opinion that the soule receaued from Saturnes spheare the gift of reason and intelligence * Saturnes two pictures Saturne his wife had diuerse names Rhea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à fluendo either because euery thing floweth from the earth as from a fountaine or that the flowing raigne is made of vapors and exhalations from the earth Vesta she is also called because she is Vestita that is couered with corne and grasse as with a vesture or quia vistat because she standeth by her owne force quasi vista according to that of Ouid in his Fasti. Stat vi terra sua vistando vesta vocatur Causaque par graij nominis esse potest Vt 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dâ—catur The other Vesta Caelius his wife differeth not much from this but that she seemeth to figure the very essence of the earth and this the fruitefull efficacy operation and assistance thereof whereupon she was called Opis as I saide before of helpe or assistance Cybele of a Phâ—igian Mountaine so called or rather as Festus Pompeius thinketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying a Cube sith in olde time they did consecrate a Cube vnto here the reason was for that a Cube which way so euer it be throwne staÌ„deth