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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08667	Ouidius Naso his Remedie of love. Translated and intituled to the youth of England; Remedia amoris. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; F. L., fl. 1600.	1600 (1600)	STC 18974; ESTC S120606	22,503	62

Aeolion speare Diomedes speare looke this before Aegistus the sonne of Thiestis by Pelopeia he murthered Agamemnon being ayded by his wicked wife Clytemnestia whom he vsed in whoredome and beastly lust and was after slaine himselfe by Orestes Agamemnons sonne Ceres the Inuentrix of plowing and tilling sowing corne and making bread Diana daughter to Iupiter Latona and brother to Apollo by the same birth she for the loue of virginitie fled the company of men and inhabited the woods dedelighting her selfe with hunting whence she is named The Lady and goddesse of Hunters Allium by this hearbe which we call garlicke antiquitie hath noted hieroglifically euill lucke Thessalie a countrey in Greece first named Aemonia whither Medea fled with Iason after that by her helpe he had ouercome the Dragon in it there were great store of witches and it aboundeth with hearbes which they thinke most needfull for their mischieuous practises Romes fayre riuer Tiber so named from Tiberius king of Albania who was drowned therein as Liuie our Poet fast 2. recordeth These wonders which Ouid here reciteth are but the effects of coniuration the sense of all is but this as if he had sayd Seeke not to expell loue by spelles coniuration or witchcraft because they haue no force to remoue it That part of the Ocean which entereth at Hercules Pillars Midland sea goeth East to Tripolis then North to Constantinople And the Ocean is all that sea which compasseth the now 4. and according to some the 6. knowne continents or parts of the earth Phoebe the same whom they call Diana Cynthia Luna of vs the Moone sister to Phoebus the Sunne from whom she hath her name some faigne that her chariot is drawne with white horses some with fishes Phasis whiles Vlisses in his wanderings through the Midland seas eschewed the rough waters Lestrigoniae he was by tempest driuen vnto Colchos where Circe inhabited a great and skilfull Sorceresse who being in loue with him restored his companions into their former shapes of men being now transformed into Hogges But when notwithstanding he would needs depart and leaue her she did what she could by charmes incantations to stay him but they proued all vayne and she vtterly forsaken Phasis is a great riuer in that countrey and Towne also scituate on that riuer in Colchos a countrey of Asia full of hearbes which they vse in their witchcraftes as Hor. Car. l. 2. od witnesseth Ille venena Colchica quicquid vsquam concipitur nefas tractauit In this countrey Circe Medea two notable witches inhabited Daughter to Phaebus of a goddesse borne For Circe was daughter to the Sonne by the Nymph Perses Affricke one of the 4. partes of the world c. Phineus the sonne of Agenor king of Arcadia according to some he married Sthenobea on whome he begate Orythrus and Crambus whom by the perswasion of their mother in Law Harpalicae his second wife he caused to be made blind for which impietie himselfe first lost his sight then was vexed by the filthie birds or monsters called Harpeiae and lastly was slayne by Hercules After hee found his vnfortunate sonnes wandering on the desolate mountaines and vnderstood their miseries Homer whose diuine poesie is admired of all men but Zoilus a Sophister who liued in the time of Ptolomie to whom he dedicated his worke wrote against him and expected some great reward for his labour But in long and vayne expectation he grew very penurious insomuch that hee procured one to begge somewhat of the king for his reliefe to whom Ptol. answered That he wondred that whereas Homer had sustained the liues of so many thousands so long before dead he being more learned then Homer should be so beggerly as not able to maintaine himselfe From him all other Detractors are commonly called Zoili Ioues thunderbolt the lightning c. Iambicke a most rayling and bitter kind of verse c. Elegies another sorte of verse and vsed in an other fashion for being most mild and pleasant is vsed in the Cantoes Sonnets complaints of louers and disports Cyrens muse Chalimachus borne in Cyrene the most excellent writer of Elegies amongst the Grecians he wrote a notable worke of the beginnings first institution of sacrifices and holy dayes not vnlike vnto our Poets bookes De fastis but he intituled his Aetia Acontius Cydippe a pleasant Comicke fiction Acontius a young man of Coa who going vnto Delos to the sacrifice of Diana fell in loue with Cydippe but despayring thereof because he neither equalled her in birth or riches he wrote on an apple at the least to testifie his loue these two verses Iuro tibi sacrae per mystica sacra Dianae Me tibi venturum comitem sponsumque futurum Which she finding and reading vnwitting who it was that wrote it rashly swore to marry him And afterwards as often as she should haue bin married to any other she fell into some grieuous sicknesse so that the matter being opened to her parents they were contented in the end to make this marriage Andromache the wife of Hector whom after Pyrrhus carried into Greece and married to Hellen another of Priams children Thais a notable strumpet borne in Alexandria that to encrease her gaynes went vnto Athens whose name the comicke Poet Maenander celebrated in his verse FINIS To the Reader I Thought it not amisse courteous Reader to adioyne vnto this small labour of mine these two following Epistles of which one is translated out of Ouid the other is an answeare therevnto Which chiefly I did least the sweete exercises of that honorable and thrise renowned Sapho of our times should euen the least of them be lost in the obscure night of sad silence and Obliuion and then especially the subiect and the matter so fitly agreeing and participating with the former I could not but couple them together in all points else a most vnequall match Wherein I hope the greatest fault that I haue committed is but that it hath not the first place Yet take this old Prouerbe with a right application for my iust excuse All is well that endeth well And so end I. Reader farewell Dido to Aeneas Aeneas would from Dido part But Dido not content She mou'd him first with words And then this Letter sent SO at Meanders streames when fates bids life be gone The snowe white Swan on mossie grasse out-stretched tunes his mone Not hoping thee to moue this suite I vndertake The heauens at the motion fround when first we did it make But fame of due desert my body and my minde So lewdly lost the losse is light to loose these words of winde Resolu'd thou art to go and wofull Dido leaue Those windes shall blowe thy faith away that shall thy sailes vpheaue Resolu'd thy ships at once and promise to vntie To seeke Italian Realmes which yet thou knowst not where they lie Nought mou'd with Carthage new nor walles that growing be Nor that there was committed all

the soueraigntie to thee Thou leauest things full made thou seekest new to make To search about for Lands vnfound Land found thou doest forsake But graunt the land thou finde to thee who will it giue Why will the soyle to straungers yeeld whereon themselues do liue Thou must an other Loue An other Dido finde And which againe thou maist vndo An other promise binde When wilt thou into forme a Towne like Carthage bring And from thy Pallace top behold thy subiects as their King If all things else succeed and nothing crosse thy minde What place will euer yeeld to thee a wife to thee so kinde For I like waxen torch in Sulphur rold do burne Each day each night Aeneas makes vnto my thoughts returne Vnthankfull he indeed And deafe to what I giue And such as were I not a foole I would without him liue Yet though his thoughts be ill I hate him not therefore Complaine I do of his vntroath complaining Loue therefore Thy daughter Venus spare thy brother hard embrace O brother Loue within thy Campe point him a Souldiers place Or me who first began for Loue I not disdaine Let him but onely subiect yeeld to this my carefull paine But ah I am beguilde his bostes are bosted lyes Of mothers line from mothers kinde in all his course he flyes Thee some vnwieldie stone or Rockey Mountaines bred Or oakes which on high rocks do grow or beasts by Rauen fed Or Sea with windes turmoild as now thou seest it sho Yet thitherward art ready bent in spight of waues to go What mean'st thou winter le ts let winters suite preuaile See with what force the Easterne blasts the rolling waues assaile Since windes and waters do then thou more iustice showe Let me what more to thee I would to winde and waters owe. I am not so much worth which sure thou dost not thinke That while on Seas from me thou flyest thy selfe in Seas shouldst shrinke Thou precious hatred bear'st and pearst exceeding hie If so thou mayst of me be rid thou count it cheape to die The windes their windie force anon will lay aside And Triton will with Azure steeds On leueld waters glide Now would the gods as they so thou couldst chaunged be Thou wilt vnles thy hardnesse do far passe the hardest tree What if of furious Seas the force thou didst not know Which tride so oft and found so ill yet still to sea wilt go And though they serue at will when thou dost Anchors way Yet in so long a voyage chaunce no fewe mischaunces may And sure to crosse the Seas small fruite faith-breakers gaine That place on false deceiuers doth inflict their falshoods paine But most when Loue is wrongd for why of Loue the Dame First naked out of watrie waues about Cythera came Least hurt who hurteth me vndone vndo I shall I feare and least by wrack on seas In seas my foes shall fall Liue so I better shall then thee by death destroy Thou of my death not I of thine the Title shall enioy Suppose a whirlwinde swift God make these words but winde Catch thee vnwares what courage thē what thoughts will passe thy minde Loe straight with falshood fraught thy periur'd tongue appeares And Dido driuen by Troians guile of life to short her yeares Of thy betraied wife will stand before thy sight The Image sad disheneiled with bleeding wounds bedight Let come then wilt thou say I haue deseru'd this all And bent at thee thou wilt suppose what euer lightnings fall Both seas and thou do rage let both and breathing take This small delay no small reward thy Iourney safe shall make For thee my care is least thy childe let spared be Thou hast the glory of my death sufficient that for thee What hath thy little sonne what hath thy gods deseru'd That them the waters swallow should from fyers force preseru'd But false thou hast no such as me thy brags haue told Nor euer didst on shoulders lift thy gods and father old Thou lyest in this and all thy tongue his guilefull part Begins not first on me to play nor I first feele the smart Aske where the mother is of faire Iulus gone Her stonie husband her forsooke and so she died alone It pittied me to heare which iust recompence For me had bene but that such paine is lesse then mine offence That thee thy gods condemne my heart doth me assure Who seuen yeares now on land on seas such tossing doest endure I thee by wrack vpthrow'n in harbour sure did saue And scarcely hauing heard thy name to thee my Kingdome gaue O would with these good turnes I me content had found And that in famous fame of mine were buried deepe in ground That day my woe was wrought when vnder stooping bower Of mossie denne we met alone compeld by sodaine shower Some howling sounds I heard the Nymphs I thought did so They Furyes were who in that sort foretold my fatall woe Chast Law of shamefast Loue reuenge on me this blame Ill to Sicheus kept to whom aye me I go with shame Whose sacred Image I in marble Chappell keepe With leauie branches hid from sight and wooll of whitest sheepe Hence thrice I heard me cald I knew his well knowne voyce Himselfe thrice sayd Come Dido Come with softly wispring noyse I come without delay which once was onely thine Yet me the more to linger makes this shamefull fact of mine But pardon thou my fault whose deed might well deceaue To others he in mine offence the lesse offence doth leaue His mother heauens Impe his sire a godly lode Vnto his sonne by reason bred sure hope of his abode If needs I must haue er'd mine error had good ground Put faith in him he no way els vnworthy shall be found My faults to end persist as they at first begun And their vnluckie spindels still in one like tenor run My husband fell to ground before the Altars slaine My brother of that wicked act doth reape the wicked gaine My selfe exild his graue and countrey both forsake And forced am by foe pursude vneasie wayes to take I land on land vnknowne escapt from foe and waue And bought the shore which freely yet to thee false wretch I gaue A Towne I built whose wals far out extended lie Prouoking places neere about maligning to enuie Wars grow poore stranger I and woman vext with warres Scarse know how armour to prouide and strength my gate with barres When thousands to me su'de now all against me come Grieu'd that before their beds I haue preferd I know not whom Why stick'st to yeeld me bownd into Hiarbas hands I will not sticke to yeeld mine armes to bide thy wicked bands A brother eke I haue who wicked hands anew Imbrewed first in husbands blood would faine in mine imbrew Lay downe thy sacred Gods whom touching dost pollute Vnseemly with vngodly hands doth godly worship sute If they from fire escapt that thou mightst them adore That euer they escapt