decreed Part of them approoue the speech of Iupiter by voice and put spurres vnto him thus moued others fulfil their parts with their assents Yet notwithstanding the losse of mankinde is a griefe vnto them all and they ask what shall be the forme of the earth being depriu'd of mortal men who should bring Frankincense vnto their Altars whether he thus prepare to deliuer to the wilde beasts the earth to bee destroyed Iupiter bids them asking such like things not to feare for that hee would haue a care of all other matters and promiseth that there should be an of-spring vnlike vnto the former people of a wonderful beginning And euen now was hee ready to disperse his lightnings vpon all the earth But he feared least bechance the holy heauen should catch the flame by so many fires vnder it and the whole heauen should be set on fire He also remembreth that it was decreed that the time should come Wherein the sea earth Palace of heauen being set on fire should burne the curious frame of the world should be dissolued His thunderbolts made by the hands of the Cyclopians are laid vp A contrary punishment pleaseth him to destroy all mankinde vnder the water and to send downe mighty raine from euery part of heauen And therefore hee forthwith shuts vp the North-winde in the caues of Eolia And all other windes which driue away the clouds broght in And hee sends out the South-winde The South-winde flies abroad with wet wings Hauing his terrible countenance couered with darknesse as black as pitch His beard is loaden with abundance of raine the water floweth from his hoarie lockes Little cloudes sit in his forehead both his feathers and bosome distill like deawe And as hee wringed with his hand the cloudes hanging all abroad A crash is made huge showers are poured downe from the skie The rainebowe Iunoes messenger being arrayed with diuers colours conceiueth waters and affoordeth matter vnto the clouds The standing corne is beaten downe and the hopes of the husbandmen lye altogether desperate and also the labour of the long yeer being frustrate perisheth vtterly Neither yet is the anger of Iupiter contēt w th his own heauen but his azure colored brother Neptune helpeth him with his aiding waues He calleth together the Gods of the riuers who after that they entred the house of their King we are not now quoth he to vse any long exhortation powre out your forces open your fountaines for so there is neede hauing remooued all hindrances giue the whole raines to al your streams Hee had thus commanded These returne and set open the mouths of their fountaines And so they are tumbled into the sea with a most violent course He himselfe also smit the earth with his three-forked Mace so that it Trembled and set open the passages of the water in the moouing thereof The floudes running all abroad doe rush through the open fields And carrie away with violence groues of trees together with the sowen corne and also cattell and men and houses and all the places of the worship of their Gods together with their sacred things If any house remained vncast downe and could withstand so great an euill yet the water being higher couereth the top thereof and the towers lye hid being ouerwhelmed vnder the vast waters And now the sea and land had no difference All things were sea euen the very shoares were wanting to the sea One man gets vp into a hill another sits in a crooked boat And roweth there where hee had plowed of late Hee sailes ouer the standing corn or the top of a drowned farme another catcheth fish in the top of an Elme The Anchor is fastened in the greene medowe as it fell out Or the crooked keeles do couer the vineyards lying vnder them And where of late the slender Goats did feede There the ill-fauoured sea-calues doe now lay their bodies The nymphs of the sea doe woonder at the groues and Cities and houses vnder the water also the Dolphins abide in the woods and doe runne vp and downe amongst the thick boughs and beat vpon the tossed Oakes The Wolfe swimmeth amōgst the sheep the water carrieth the tawnie coloured Lyons The water beareth away the Tigres neither doth the force of the thūderbolt help the Bore Nor yet doe the swift legs availe the Stag being carried away with the waters The bird likewise wandring with wearie wings falleth downe into the Sea hauing long sought the earth where she might rest The outragious swelling of the Sea had couered the hils And the r new waues beate vpon the tops of the moūtaines The greatest part of men is whirled away violently by the water whom the water spared Those long fasting doth ouercome thorough lacke of foode Phocis seuereth the Aonians from the Actean fields It was a fruitfull land whilst it remained a land but at that time A part of the sea a broad field of suddaine waters Where the mount Parnassus by name reacheth almost vnto the stars with two tops and goeth aboue the clouds with his height Whenas Deucalion being carried in a little ship together with his wife stayed here for the sea had couered the rest He adoreth the r Corycidane Nymphes and the Gods of the Mountaine And Themis the destinieteller who at that time gaue answeres from the Gods There was not a better man then he or
earth that both heauen and earth might bee seene to one another * To heauen and the skie to the lands viz the waters which had couered all being remooued * Anger viz. viclent ouerflowing Hee abateth also the rage of the seas * Remaine or abide * And also the triple poynted or three-forked dart being layed away or being put to it the sea asswageth or calmeth the waters His brother Neptune also who had so helped in increasing the flood hee layeth aside his triple-forked Mace Al Vsing his three-forked Mace d The three-forked Mace is ascribed to Neptune as is thought of some for the three parts of the world which the Ocean sea compasseth about and for that in places neere the sea are oft earthquakes and inundâ—â—ons with the eâ—â—thquake and thereupon is Neptune 〈◊〉 to smite the earth with his three-forked mace as before Asswageth the waters Calleth forth his Trumpetour Triton * Skie coloured or Sea coloured * The deepe Sea Who straight appears vpon the sea * Couered vpon his shoulders or in respect of his shoulders Synec Hauing vpon him a robe of a natiue purple colour r A purple robe e Murex is a shell-fish of the bloud whereof purple colour is made here put for the colour it selfe or a robe dyed with that colour f Triton is a sea-monster like vnto a man in the vpper part and in the nether part like vnto a fish he is of a skie color hath a shel like vnto the great Cockle He is fâ—ned to be Neptunes Trumpeter who by a sound can asswage the seas And the reason thereof is because he both soundeth loud in a shell and when hee is heard or appeareth he then foresheweth a calme to follow Him hee commands to sound a retreit to the flouds and streames therwith to recall them all * Waues and flouds * A signe being giuen that they may returne or a retreit being sounded g Tritons Trumpet described r Triton * A hollow Trumpet is taken to him or of him Hee forthwith takes his Trumpet * Into widenesse or a broad compasse * Which increaseth from the lowest top or mouth or poynt like the sharpe end of a top * His trumpet I say is taken Which so soone as hee had set vnto his bedeawed mouth that it felt his blast r So soone as it began to be blowen or to sound * Ayre or winde * Voyce It filled with the sound of it al the shores lying vnder the whole heauen * Both Phoebus viz. the sun rising and setting or both East and West or all betweene the East and West and so vnder the whole heauen * After that * Mouths of the God viz. of Triton r Triton had set the trumpet vnto his mouth distilling with his wet beard r Blowen in sang * To all viz. by and throughout all the waters So that it was heard of all the waters both in the land and sea * Waues And so soone as euer it was heard of them it forthwith repressed theÌ„ all * Shoare That immediately the Sea commeth within the shores againe * Taketh or receiueth or keepeth within the compasse of it r Streames The riuers returne runne within their chanels r Are diminished and not so deepe All the floudes doe settle downe and as it were little hils begin to appeare * Goe forth or they doe appeare The ground ariseth waxing broader r Waxe greater and broader as the waters diminish * Waues The waters fall waxing narrower * Also the woodes shew their naked tops after a long season So that after a long time the woods begin to shew their naked tops h 〈…〉 in foeminino vsi 〈…〉 pro tempore r Vncouered and without leaues * Hold. Hauing still the mud hanging in their boughes * Bough branch or leafe * The globe or compasse of the earth or vpper face And finally the world is restored againe that the face of the earth doth all appeare r is to be seene againe * Open viz. empty of man and beast Which when Deucalion sawe how it was emptie and desolate and silent r Left alone or desolate of man and beast * Earths * To doe or keepe deepe silences He speakes thus vnto Pyrrha with the teares arising in his eyes * Risen or arising i A patheticall speech and full of affection whereby Deucalion indeauoureth to binde Pyrrha mere firmely vnto him and to moue her to consult for the repaire of mankinde k Deucalion and Pyrrha were brethrens children for Iatheth as they say had two sons Prometheus of whome came Deucalion and Epimetheus of whome was Pyrrha And so he calleth her sister in most kinde sort for that neer bond and after the ancient manner Oh my sister my dearest wife oh woman onely left aliue r Suruiuour of all womankinde * Originall of cosingermans descended from two brethren viz. Prometheus and Epimetheus Whome so neere a descent euen from the same Grandfather and afterwards the mariage bed and now also these very present dangers haue thus ioyned together r Mariage * Now the very dangers do ioyne Thou seest that wee two are all the company that are left aliue in all the world * The setting and rising of the Sun doe see * Hath possessed the rest The sea hauing vtterly swept away all other liuing creatures l Caetera animantâ—â—a And moreouer that this stay of our life is very vncertaine r Trust or stay r Certaine And how euery little cloude doth now terrifie our hearts * Euen the clouds * Oh woman to be pittied what minde coulde bee to thee now if thou hadst beene Oh poore soule what a heart wouldest thou now haue had if thou hadst escaped alone without me * Deliuered from the destinies without me * Snatched from the fates How shouldest thou haue been able to haue endured this feare * By what meanes * Beare the feare * By whome comforting couldst thou endure these griefes Whome shouldest thou haue had to haue comforted thee in thy griefes As for my selfe my dearest wife if the sea had taken thee away I would certainely haue followed thee and it should haue had mee too * Also viz. in like manner as the rest of the creatures m Prometheus â—s is said before formed the earth vnto the image of man and put into it a heauenly soule And for mankinde that is thus destroyed oh would to God I were able to repaire it by my ancient Father Prometheus skill and to infuâ—e soules as hee did into the formed earth r Renew or restore againe * Arts. * To powre in * The earth being formed or framed viz. into the shapes of men * The mortall kinde For now all mankind remaineth in vs two * Seemed good to So it hath beene the good pleasure of the Gods r Onely patternes And we remaine the onely patternes of the same * He had spoken And thus Deucalion ended his speech The Poet hauing thus liuely set out the
â—frango r There followed a crash Whereupon followeth immediatly a wonderfull crash and the raine powreth downe abundantly from the skie * Dense or thicke stormes r Heauen c Iris the raine-bowe is said to be the messenger of Iuno and sometimes of Iupiter because appearing after dry weather she is said to foreshow showers and after raine faire weather ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dico * The messenger of Iuno hauing put on diuers colours d She is said to be arrayed with diuers colours for the sundry colours of it made in the clouds by the reflexion of the beames of the Sunne or Moone And lastly how the raine-bowe which is said to bee the messenger of Iuno arrayed in her sundry colours gathereth water likewise and ministreth raine vnto the cloudes r Receiueth or gathereth within it selfe * Bringeth nourishmeÌ„t vnto the clouds viz. water to fill thiÌ„ Then is set downe the effect of all these that by the violence of the mightie raine * Are cast throwen downe The standing corne is beaten downe euery where * And the vowes lye deplored or bewailed or desperate to the husbandmen e Vota may bee taken for their corne which they had begged with many vowes and prayers And all the hope and labour of the husbandman vtterly perisheth * Made vaine or becomne vaine and fruitlesse perisheth And besides all these the Poet sheweth that for the increasing and furthering of this destruction by waters * The anger of Iupiter is content r To powre downe waters onely from heauen Iupiter in his wrath not content onely to send downe raine from heauen in this manner Procures moreouer his brother Neptune the God of the seas and waters to helpe him with his forces * His azure or skie-coloured brother viz. Neptune God of the sea r With the forces of his waues r Neptune * The riuers f Amnis ab ambiendo Varro How Neptune forthwith calls together all the Gods of the riuers * Haue entred the roofes of their Tyrant g Tyrant is sometimes taken in the good part for a good King ruling iustly for the good of the subiects * Tyrant viz. Neptune * Must not To whome so soone as euer they were entred his Palace and comne into his presence hee speaketh to this purpose That he was not now to vse any long exhortation but that they all presently send out their forces That they open the fountaines of their riuers * Houses viz. the fountains which are said to be the houses of the riuers or rather of the Gods thereof * The great dam or heape of earth keeping in the water being remoued out of the way Remoue all hindrances which might keepe in their waters And giue a free libertie to all their streames * Send ye in r Giue liberty to all your great riuers to ouerflowe h Habenas A metaphor froÌ„ horses which are stayed with bridles i Neptune had no sooner commaunded but these returne r Neptune And then followeth their obedience and readinesse that Neptune had no sooner giuen this command but that they all straight returne r The Gods of the riuers returne * Vnloose the mouthes to their fountaines Set open the mouthes of the fountaines of their riuers r The great riuers or streames * Rouled * With an vnbride led course or outragiously Whereby the waters flowe out with all violence and are rowled towards the sea in an outragious manner k As the thunderbolt is ascribed to Iupiter so a three-forked Mace to Neptune wherewith he smiting the earth maketh it to tremble and so the earth-quake which is said to be made by the bursting of vapours or waters out of the earth r Neptune And moreouer how Neptune also himselfe smites the earth with his three-forked mace * But it viz. the earth r Quaked exceedingly Whereupon it trembleth exceedingly and presently by the quaking thereof sets open all the passages of the waters and springs within it * Made to lye wide open the wayes * With her motion or trembling * Great riuers flowing wide and farre And hereby the flouds run all abroad and rush thorough the champaine fields * Snatch away or whirle away Carry away with all violence r All manner of trees Groues of trees * Sowen fields Sowen Corne. Cattell * Roofes of houses Men. Houses * The inward places of their houses where they worshipped their Gods and so their houshold Gods also Here it is taken for all places of worship as Churches Chappels c. Churches and Chappels Houshold Gods with all their sacred things r Not cast downe by the force of the waters If any house remained standing by the strength of it * Resist * Waue Yet the water still encreaseth till it couer the tops thereof r Being aboue it l The top of the house was called Culmen à culmo because they were woont to be thacked with straw * Of this * Pressed or coâ—ered So that the highest Towers are couered and ouerwhelmed vnder the vast waters m Gurges signifieth properly any deepe gulfe or whirling place in a riuer * Gulfe or deepe waters r There was no difference betweene sea and land all was like a Sea And that there was no difference betweene sea and land * Earth r The sea couered all But all things were maine sea n Poâ—tus the sea called Pontus Euxinus here put for the sea in generall * Also the shoares were wanting viz. no shoares did appeare No shores appearing any where Then followeth that lamentable sight * This man That one gets vp into a hill to saue himself * Occupieth or possesseth viz. taketh a hill o The boate is called crooked because both the forepart and hinderpart are so commonly and other parts of it Another sits in a boat to preserue life * Draweth or guideth his rudders there or thither Rowing where hee had plowed but hard before r Another man And sailing ouer not onely standing Corne but also tops of Villages ouerflowen * Vpon * Ouer the tops r A Village drowned * Hee viz. another man That now they might catch fish sitting in the tops of trees r The iron which the Mariners cast down into the sea by a cabâ—e to stay their ships The anchors of their ships are fastened in the greene medows insteed of the bottome of the sea * So fortune carried it or would haue it or so it happened p The Keeles or bottomes of the ships put for the whole ships r Ships The keeles of their ships floate ouer the vineyards lying drowned vnder them r Goe ouer the vineyards r Places set with Vines * Euen now or a little before And where of late Goâ—tes and other cattell did feed r Nimble * Haue cropped grasse * There now There sea-calues and other like Monsters of the sea do wallow now r Filthy great r Wallowe q Nereides sea Nymphs so cald of Nereus their fatheâ— r The sea Nymphs The very sea-nymphs do woonder to see the groues Citties and houses vnder the water *
FABLE I. Of the Chaos or of the first and most admirable Metamorphosis viz. of the forming or fashioning all things out of the Chaos first of the 4. Elemeâ—ts made out of it BEfore the Sea earth and Heauen which couereth al things There was one forme of nature in the whole world Which they called Chaos which was a rude confused heape Neither was there any thing but a lumpish weight and disagreeing â—eeds of things not well ioyned heaped vp together in the same No Sun gaue light as yet to the world Neither did the newe Moone repaire her hornes by increasing Nor yet the earth pâ—ized with her owne weight did hang in the ayre compassed about it nether had the sea reached out her armes by the long banke of the earth And likewise in what part was earth there was also both sea and ayre So the earth was vnstable the water not to bee swomme in The ayre was without light nothing had the proper form And one thing was against others because in one bodie Cold things did fight with hot moist with dry Soft things did fight with hard things hauing weight w th things without weight God and a better nature tooke away this strife For he diuided the earth from heauen the water from the earth And separated the liquid skie from the foggie ayre Which after he had tumbled out and taken from the confused heape Hee bound theÌ„ being separate in place with a quiet peace The fiery power of the heauen bending downward and without weight shined out chose it selfe a place in the highest tower The ayre is next to it in lightnesse and in place The earth is more solide then these and hath drawen the great Elements with it And is pressed downe with the heauinesse of it selfe The water flowing about it Hath possessed the vtmost places and kept in the soâ—â—e globe FABLE II. Of the full and perfect forming and fashioning of the 4. chiefe parts of the world and the adorning each of them with their proper creatures more specially of the creation of man last to bee Lord of all WHen hee which soeuer of the Gods he was had diuided the heape so disposed and brought it diuided into parts First of all hee made the earth round after the fashion of a great globe least that it should not be euen of euery part Then he poured abroad the narrow seas and commanded them to swell w th the whirling winds and to compasse about the shores of the earth inuironed thereby Moreouer he added fountaines and huge standing ponds and lakes And he girt in the riuers running downewards with crooked banks Which being distant in places are supped vp partly of the earth it self Partly doe they come into the sea and being receiued there in a field Of more free water they beate vpon the shoares instead of banks He commanded also the champaine fieldes to bee stretched abroad the valleies to settle downward The woods to bee couered with leaues the craggie mountains to ascend And as two zones diuide the heauen on the right part and as many moe on the left the fift is more burning then those So the prouidence of God hath distinguished the burden included by the same number and euen so many climates are set in the earth Whereof that which is the middle is not habitable for heate Deepe snow couereth two of them and also hee placed as many moe between those two And hath giuen them a teÌ„perature heat being mixed in them w th cold The ayre hangeth ouer these w ch is so much heauier then the fier as the weight of the water is lighter then the weight of the earth There he hath coÌ„manded both the little and great cloudes to stay and the thunders to mooue mens harts And together with the lightning the winds making the cold Moreouer the maker of the world hath not permitted the ayre to bee vsed of these euery where there there is scarcely any wiâ—hstanding of theÌ„ now Whenas euery one of theÌ„ ruleth his owne blasts in a diuers region But that they would reare the world in pieces the discord of those brethreÌ„ is so great The East-winde betooke it selfe vnto the morning and to the kingdomes of Nabathaea And to Persia and to the mountaines lying vnder the Sunne rising The euening and the shoares w ch wax warme by the Sunne setting Are next vnto the West-wind the horrible North-wind hath inuaded Scythia the parts lying vnder the North pole The contrarie earth is wet with continuall clouds froÌ„ the rainy south He placed ouer these the skie being pure and without all heauinesse neither hauing any terrene substaÌ„ce Scarcely had he thus seuered all things in their certaine bounds When as the starres which had long lyen hid pressed vnder that same masse began to glister in the whole heaueÌ„ And least any region should be destitute of their owne liuing creatures The starres and the Gods doe possesse the heauenly soyle The waters haue befallen to bee inhabited of the bright fishes The earth tooke the beasts the moueable ayre the birds A liuing creature more holy then these and more capeable of a diuine minde And which might rule ouer the rest was as yet lacking Man was borne whether that maker of all things the beginning of the better world made him of diuine seede
one that more loued equitie or any one that more reuerenced the Gods then she After that Iupiter seeth the world to stand as a pond with liquide fens And one onely man to remaine of so many thousands And onely one woman to be remaining of so many thousands Both of them harmelesse both deuout worshippers of God He dispersed the cloudes and hauing remooued the mighty raine with the Northwinde Hee sheweth both the earth vnto the heauens and the heauens vnto the earth Neither doth the rage of the sea continue And also Neptune hauing layd aside his three forked Mace asswageth the waters and calleth forth that azure coloured Triton his Trumpeter appearing aboue the deepe and hauing his shoulders couered with a natiue purple colour and commaunds him to blow with his sounding shell and now to recall the floudes and streames by this signe giuen vnto them He taketh vnto himselfe his hollowe Trumpet writhē wider and wider which waxeth bigger like vnto a top from the very smallest end His trumpet I say which so soone as it conceiueth the blast in the middest of the sea Filleth with the sound all the shoares lying vnder compasse of the Sunne Then also so soone r as it touched the mouth of the God distilling like the deawe with his wet beard and being blowen sounded the commāded retreits It was heard of all the waues both of land and sea And of what waters soeuer it was heard it forthwith repressed them all And now hath the Sea his shoares again the chanell containeth the full riuers The floudes settle downe and the little hils doe seeme to come forth The ground ariseth places doe increase the waters decreasing And after a long time the woodes shewe their naked tops and keepe the mud left In their boughs The world was restored which after that Deucalion saw it made bare And also the desolate earth to be altogether silent he speakes thus vnto Pyrtha the teares standing in his eyes Oh sister oh my wife oh the only woman remaining aliue Whome the common stocke and descent from the same Grandfather afterwards the bed hath ioyned vnto mee and now also these very dangers do ioyne together Wee two are the whole company of all the lands which soeuer the West and East do see the Sea hath all other liuing creatures Moreouer this confidence of our life is not yet sure enough now euen the verie cloudes doe terrifie our minde Ah poore soule to be pittied what a heart shouldest thou now haue had if thou hadst beene preserued alone without mee how couldest thou alone endure this feare by whose comfort couldest thou abide these griefes For why I my selfe my deare wife belieue mee if the Sea had thee likewise would follow thee and the sea should haue me too Oh that I were able to repaire the people by my Fathers skill infuse soules into the formed earth Now all mankinde remaineth in vs twaine For so it hath pleased the Gods and we remaine samples of men Hee had thus made an end of his speech and they both wept Then they thought it good to pray vnto the heauenly God and to seeke his ayde by the sacred Oracles They made no longer delay they goe together to the waters of Cephisus Although not* cleare as yet but now onely cutting the knowen fordes From thence so soone as they had sprinkled the waters lightly touched Vpon their clothes head they turne their steps vnto the Temple of the sacred Goddesse the roofe wherof of was lothsome with filthy mosse and her Altars stoode without fire Assoone as they touched the staires of the Temple both of them fall down Humbly vpon the ground and trembling kissed the colde stone And thus they spake If the diuine powers being ouercomne with the prayers of the iust begin to be appeased againe if the anger of the Gods be asswaged Oh Themis tell vs by what deuice the losse of our kinde may be repayred and oh most milde Goddes bring som help to mankind being thus destroyed The Goddess is mooued at their prayers giues them this answer Depart yee out of the tēple And couer your heads withall vnloose your garments And then cast the bones of your great mother behind your backe They stood amazed long but Pyrrha breakes off the silence first and refuseth to obey the commandement of the Goddesse And beseecheth her with a trēbling voice that she would pardon her for that shee feareth exceedingly To hurt her mothers ghost by casting of her bones In the meane time they repeate and scan betweene themselues the words of the answer which was giuen being obscure with darke mysteries And then Deucalion comforts Pyrrha his wife with these sweet wordes Either quoth he our iudgement deceiueth vs Or the answeres are holy perswade vs to no impietie The great mother is the earth I suppose the stones in the bodie of the earth to bee called bones wee are commanded to cast these behinde our backs Although Pyrrha be moued by this coniecture of her husband Yet their hope is doubtfull and stil both of them distrust the heauenly Oracle but what shall it hurt them to make a triall They depart couer their heades vngirde their garments And cast the stones commāded behind their backes The stones who can belieue this but that anquitie is witnesse Began to lay away their hardnesse and their stifnesse And to bee softened by little and little and being softened to take a shape By and by they increased and receiued a softer nature that some shape of man might be seene
â—d est melior natura viz. God that better nature so the words following import that he diuided c. r Ended or brake or determined r Contention That God the best nature tooke away this strife * Cut away or parted in sunder * Earths * Waters Diuiding the earth from heauen and the waters from the earth * Seuered or distinguished r Pure clear bright free from corruption * Heauen p The thick ayre wherin the clouds and raine are bred * Thicke or grosse The pure skie from the foggy ayre * He rouled out And hauing separated these forth of the Chaos * Exempted * Blind or disordered r Lumpe or Chaos Hee bound each of them in their own proper place and settled them in a quiet peace * Dissociate in their places or seuered a sunder * Places * Agreeable r The fier * Force or strength * Bowing downeward The fire or fiery power of the heauen bending downeward and lightest in the highest place r Appeared r In the highest part of all r Chiefe The ayre next to it in lightnesse and place r Grosse and heauy The solide earth pressed downe with the weight of it selfe and drawing all heauie things vnto it in the lowest place q The earth is said to draw all heauie things because al heauy things doe naturally descend to it r The great heauie parts out of the Chaos or all weighty things r Ouid doth not â—ssigne the third place to the earth but the lowest as beiâ—g thâ— heauâ—est and drawing downe alâ— heauie things vnto it and so the water compassing it about The water flowing vpon and compassing the vttermost parts of the earth in the third r The vtmost parts of the earth flowing vpon it in many places compassing it about not couering it all r The earth Al So when hee which of the Gods soeuer he was a Heere the Poet making â—s though he was ignorant which of the Gods it was which diuided the foure Elements intimateth that it was some greater and more mighty theÌ„ those which the common sort tooke for Gods In this Chapter the Poet sheweth that God hauing thus diuided the Chaos into parts * Cut or hath cut or seperated r Set in order * Reduced or brought baâ—ke viz. digâ—steit * Beâ—ng cut First hee made the earth round like a globe * In the beginning * He winded round or made round the earth * To the fashion or shape or like to * Orbe or bowle r That it might be * Equall or round and of like weight r On euery side That it might bee equall on each side b Pretum is any narrow sea where 〈…〉 to boyle à seruendâ— oâ— as â—ome wâ—â—â— Ã â—remendo r The mediterranean seas Then hee poured abroad the seas * To begin to swell or to rage r Violent vehement or fierce winds Commanding them to swell with the winds * Gone about or compassed in or hâ—med in r By those seas To inuirone the earth * Hee added also r Springs * Vnmeasurable standing waters or fennes r Pooles â—â—eres or deepe places aâ—waâ—es full of water After he made fountains the great standing waters as lakes and fennes r Compassed in or compassed about r Turning downewardes Also riuers kept in with crooked bankes * Thwart or winding or sidelong bankes * Which riuers * Diuers or separate Which being distant in places one from another r Swallowed vp Are some of them swallowed vp of the earth r Runne Others of them run into the Sea r As in a field or in a more large place of waters Where they haue more liberty as in a large field r Where there is more liberty or room for them r Dash against * For bankes And shores insteade of bankes r Plaine fields Next hereunto hee stretched out the champaine fields * Extended or stretched out to lye euen all abroad c A valley is properly the hollow betweene two hils r Vales or dales r Descend Making the valleyes to descend * Hee commanded the woods * A leafe viz. with boughs of trees The woods to be couered with leaues * Stonie hils to arise or rockes Mountaines rocks to ascend d Zona signifieth both the part of the body which is giâ—t and the girdle it selfe which girdeth it * Girdles or circles * Cut. e Coelius Rhodiginus sheweth out of Cleomedes a notable expounder of the â—ifficulties of the Poets that antica or the fore-part of the heauens is the West whither the heauens tuâ—ne quoniam illuc annuit mundus so the hinder part towards the East from whence it is carried towardes the West and thereupon the left part towards the South the right toward the North. Like as it is if wee stand with our face towaâ—des the West Hâ—e likewise diuided the heâ—uens into fiue zones or pâ—rts two on the right hand two on the left and the burning zone in the middest * So many or euen so many * Left part * The fift zone r Hot or scorching r Then these foure * Care r Diuided r The earth compassed about within those zones or circles Hee diuided likewise the earth into fiue climates proportionable to the fiue zones in the heauens r By the same number of fiue viz hath diuided the earth into so many parts * Cuts diuâ—sions circles or regions * Pressed or stamped * Of which climates that c. Whereof that which is in the middest is not habitable for heate f The fift which is the middle is more hot and scorâ—hing then the rest for the neeâ—enâ—sse of the Sunne passing ouer it twise in the yeer r In the middest g Thus the ancients thought but our trauâ—llers finde it otherwâ—se * High * Two â—limates of those câ—â—mates The two vttermost are extreamely cold * And hee hath set euen so many between both or either of them The two middle viz. betweene the cold and hot of either side temperate of an equal mixture of hot and cold * A temper * The flame r Hauing mingled or tempered them of hot and colde * Those climates * Which is heauier then the fier by so much by how much it is lightâ—â— theâ— the weight of the earth and then the weight of the mater The ayre hangeth ouer these which is so much heauier then the firâ— as the water is lighter then the earth h Pondus leuius Al Pondere leuior * He hath commanded both the little cloudes to stay there and the great clouds to stay there r Fogs or mists * Stand or abide In the ayre hee hath placed both the little cloudes viz. fogs and mists and also the great * About to moue or able to terrifie mens minds or the hearts of men * Humane minds The terrible thunder * Lightnings i All windes are cold by nature * Colds Lightning Windes * And also Hee also limited the windes that they should not haue free liberty of the ayre *
Hold or possesse the woods The great Dolphines and other huge fishes of the sea dwell as birds in the woods * Doe oft runne in to the high branches Swim vp and downe amongst the boughes of the trees r The Oakes tossed with the waters And beate in their swimming against the Oakes tossed in the waters The Wolues and Lyons swim amongst the sheepe * Browne or weefill coloured * Carrieth Neither doth their woonderfull swiftnesse helpe the Tigres r The force of the wilde Bore who is caried with so great violence against the hunter that he may seeme to haue the very power of the thunderbolt or lightning r The Tigre is a beâ—â—â— of woonderfull 〈◊〉 nesse Nor fiercenesse the Bore though his violent rage bee like the thunderbolt s This may bee vnderstood also of the 〈◊〉 of the Bore wherewith he smiteth and 〈◊〉 like a thunderbolt * Neither Nor yet the light legs ought auaile the Stagge * Profit r Hart. * Taken away r All sorts of birds or more specially the Swallow which in flight most wandâ—rs vp and downe The poore bird hauing long wandered vp and downe with weary wings yet at length falleth into the sea finding no place at all for rest or succour * The earths being sought long where she may stand or stay * The vnmeasurable liberty The outragious waters couered all the lesser hills * Ouerwhelmed the lesser hils t Tumâ—lus à tumorâ— r The great and vnusuall waters And new surges still arising beat vpon the tops of the highest mountaines * Beat against * Snatched away Finally for mankinde the greatest part thereof is violently whirled carried quite away by the waters r They who escaped drowning perished with hunger * Long fastings doe tame or subdue them with a helpelesse or succourlesse liuing And if any bechance scape the violence of the waters yet they languish away with long fasting and vtterly perish for want of foode r Sustenance Here the Poet hauing thus shewed the generall destruction of all things by this deluge proceedeth now to shew how onely Deucalion and Pyrrha were preserued by whome mankind was repaired and first setteth downe the place where they were preserued viz. in the mountaine Parnassus in the countrey of Phocis which Phocis is described that it did lie betweene the Aonians and Acteans seuering them 2. That it was a fâ—uitfull land whil'st it remained a land u Here followeth a description of the mountaine Parnassus in the top whereof Deucalion and Pyrrha were preserued by whome after mankinde was repaired x Some make this an Hypallage That the Aonians separate Phocis from the Acteans or Athenians according to the tables of the Geographers * Phocis a fruitefull land whilest it was a land c. seuereth * Separateth or diuideth r Boetians r Athenean fields or fields of Acte where Athens stoode or the countrey of Attica r Which was r Countrey * Hath beene or was * But it was a part of the sea at that time and c. r Large or spacious But that at this time it was all ouerflowen and like vnto the maine sea Al Where the mouÌ„taine Parnassus being high with two tops 3. That in this countrey stoode the hill Parnassus which is also described r Named Parnassus * A high hill 1. By the height that it did seeme to reach almost to the starres * Seeketh or goeth vp vnto the starres or ascendeth 2. By the tops That it had two tops the height whereof went aboue the cloudes * Celestiall signes or skies * Goeth beyonde And only this mountaine remained vncouered of the waters by reason of the height y This seemeth to be a plaine alâ—usion to the resting of the Arke of Noah vpon the mountaine of Ararat * Top. * Where or heere where Deucalion How Deucalion and Pyrrha his wife carried in a little ship stayd here vpon this mountaine * Boate or Lighter * With the consort or companion of his bed or bed fellow Ratis is most properly a Lighter made of pieces of timber pioned together whereon hay or other like things are dragged or drawen with horses on Riuers * Sticked here Al They adore Nymphes of Coryceus And how first when they were comne to land in token of their thankfulnesse and to pacifie and obtaine the fauour and helpe of the Gods they adored the Nymphs and Gods of that mountaine to whome it was consecratâ—ed z Coryceus is a caue in the hill Parnassus dedicated to the Nymphes * Diuine powers of the mountaine viz. Apollo Bâ—cchus and the Muses to which Parnassus was consecrated a Themis Iupiters sister ' of whome hee begat Minerua Goddesse of Iustice commanding men to aske nothing of the Gods but that which was lawfull and meet whereof she had her name of 〈◊〉 sas or iustum r Themis the foretâ—ller of the secrets of the destinies And especially Themis the Goddess of Iustice who at that time was Lady and president of the Oracles and gaue answers vnto them who sought for helpe or to know secrets of the Gods as Apollo did after b Themis is 〈◊〉 to be the chiefe geuetr our of the Oracles viz of Religion 〈…〉 reason which is in 〈◊〉 doth teach all sons that there is a God and that this God is of due to be worshipped and doth maintaine this opinion being ingrauen in the minds of men by the generall consent of all Nations as Tully saith vid. Sabin * Held the Oracles or gaue answer concerning the destinies as Apollo did after * There was not any man better then he Here the Poet setteth out first that holinesse and integrity of these two parties who were thus preserued by whoÌ„ mankinde was so repaired to whome also the Gods had such respect * Nor more louing equity or iustice * More reuerencing the Gods or a more deuout worshipper of the Gods That there were not any better in the earth then they nor any more iust or more deuout and more true worshippers of God * The globe or compasse of the earth And secondly that hereupon Iupiter seeing the world thus ouerflowen as a pond r To stand all ouerflowen as a fen r Waters standing all abroad as in a fen Al Of so many thousands euen now And onely one man and one woman to bee left aliue of all the world and all alone r Thousand men r Innocent And these two both of them most harmelesse creatures most deuout worshippers of God * Worshippers of the diuine power or God * Cast asunder seuered or scattered Hee in compassion disperseth the clouds * Great showers or tempestuous weather being remooued with the North-winde And driues away the raine with the North-winde c The Northwinde scattereth the cloudes and bringeth faire weather r Lands And so beginnes to cleare both the heauen and the earth by remouing the cloudes from the skies and the waters from off the face of the