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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08637	Ovids festivalls, or, Romane calendar translated into English verse equinumerally, by John Gower ...; Fasti. English. 1640	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Gower, John, 17th Century.	1640 (1640)	STC 18948.5; ESTC S1325	100,089	190

yeare he chose Forsooth thou hadst more skill in signes of warres To curb thy neighbours then in signes of starres Yet he by reasons was to this induc'd His errour Caesar may be well excus'd What time the mother in her womb doth bear Her breeding child just that he made his yeare That time the widow from the fatall burning Of her dead mate did wear the signes of mourning These arguments did Romulus regard When he the seasons to his peasants shar'd Mars had the first the next was Venus place He father and she mother of his race The third from Eld the fourth from Yongth is nam'd The number titles for the rest hath fram'd But Numa willing Janus to adore And dead mens ghosts prepos'd a couple more Now you the duties of each day must know For every day did not the like allow That was Non-leet-day which the three words scap't That Leet-day was wherein the courts were kept These offices were not all day performing 'T is Leet at noon but 't was a Non-leet morning Before the Praetour pleading then begun And suits of law when sacrifice was done Some dayes the people in the rails include Some on the ninth day still their course renew'd Queen Juno's care our Romane Calends shield A fat white lamb in th' Ides to Jove is kill'd The Nones are blank and want a sacrifice Take heed I pray the next a black day is The reason 's from th' events In them they say Our Romane host have often lost the day But once of these it shall suffice to speak In all our book lest I my order break GErmanick lo our Janus thee doth bring A happy yeare he is the first I sing Tway-faced Janus our still-pac't yeares guide Who onely of the gods seest thy back-side Come gracious to our captains by whose care Both sea and land secure of tumult are Come gracious to our Romane lords and states And in good will unlock thy temple-gates A good day comes let tongues from hearts salute Good words and greetings this good day do suit Let idle wranglings not molest the eare Ye brawling people now your suits deferre See how the heavens with spicy fires do shine And spikenard crackles on the hearths divine Transplendent flames do lash the temples gold A twinkling lustre to the roof extoll'd White robes now walk to our Tarpeian wall The people 's deckt in gaytie festivall New purple shines new rods now stalk in state The ivory'd benches bear another weight The fair fat ox whose neck ne're felt the yoke Now yields it to the sacrificing stroke Jove when he views the world from towring skies Hath nought but Romane to imploy his eyes Hail holy-day come alwayes fortunate Deserving worship of a world-great state But Janus now what god shall I thee call For Greece hath nere a god like thee at all Rehearse the reason why thou hast such ods Of looking both wayes more then all the gods I walkt my note-book in mine hand I mus'd The temple brighter shines then earst it us'd Majestick Janus turns immediately His double visage to my wondring eye Amazement makes my hairs upright to start A sudden terrour chills me to the heart His staff in 's right hand in his left his key From former face he thus replies to me Time's studious prophet cast aside all fear And from my mouth what thou desirest heare Old times did call me Chaos I 'm a thing Of deepest eld mark what old acts I sing All these foure elements the Aire so clear Fire Earth and Water one whole bodie were When strife they ceas'd and this laborious masse To severall houses separated was Fire mounted heaven the next the Aire possess'd The Earth and Water in the midst were press'd Then I who was a rude and shapelesse load Came to the true proportion of a god Because my badge of that rude lump is small My fore and back parts differ not at all The other reason of my shape I 'le show Which with my office thou shalt also know What-ere thou seest heaven aire and sea and land Are all lockt up and open'd by mine hand This vast worlds guard is in my onely power The wheeling of the hinge of heaven is our When peace I please into calm courts to send She in safe paths about doth freely wend. With fatall bloud the world would drenched be Should I not curb stern warre with this my key I with the gentle Houres heavens portalls guard Jove's self goes in and out too by my ward Thence Janus call'd And when the priest doth make A wafer for me and a salt-meal-cake The name doth seem ridiculous some whiles He me Patusius and then Clusius styles My double office rude antiquitie By this alternate name would signifie Thou seest my office now will I make known My figure's ground in part alreadie shown Two fronts thou know'st belong to every gate This tow'rds the people tow'rds the houshold that And as the porter at his gate with you Does both the ingresse and the egresse view So I the porter or heavens court survey Just at a wink the East and Western bay See Hecate her faces three wayes bends And so she eas'ly three-leet wayes defends So without motion I two wayes can see Lest losse of time there should in moving be This said he promis'd with a courteous eye If more I askt he would not me denie I courage took and thankt S r Janus then And casting down mine eye thus spake again Why doth the New yeare in the cold begin The gentle spring a fitter time had bin Times age renews then and renews all things On swelling twigs the pearly vine-bud springs Leaves deck the trees in summer-green attire Both grasse and grain above the ground doth spire Birds descants warble in the calmed aire Both birds and beasts do sport about and pair The sun shines warm Then comes the vagrant swallow And on a beam her morter-work doth follow The farmers ploughes his fallow grounds manure This should have been the yeares beginning sure I largely ask't he made no large replies But in two verses doth his speech comprize Sols first and last day doth in winter fall The yeare the same beginning hath with Sol. Then marvell'd I why with some suits of laws This day is kept Sayes Janus Learn the cause Upon the first day some affairs we raise Lest from the Omen all the yeare should laze Each in his art for that some businesse does And by those acts his yearly studies shews But why said I do we bring myrrh and wine To thee before the other powers divine That you sayes he by me who keep the doore May have accesse to any other power And why said I on this first day such greetings And hearty wishes do we use at meetings Replies he leaning on his staff in 's hand In their beginnings do all Omens stand Your jealous eares you turn to each first word The watchfull Augur marks the first-spy'd bird Gods eares and temples

beasts to hide Amid this field few herds and men display Among the woods the rest in ambush lay Lo like a torrent puff'd by sudden storm Or banks of snow dissolv'd by Zephyrs warm O're corn and hedges it doth range and rage Nor can the banks its luxury asswage Even so the Fabii range about the field And fearing nought whoms'ere they met they kill'd O whither royall brood O trust them not Right noble bloud beware their treacherous plot Fraud murders valour th' ambushment unseen Rush into open fields and hemme them in What could so few against ten thousand swords What help was there which misery affords Like as a boar chas'd by a cry of hounds The yelping curs with thundring tushes wounds Yet falls at last so they with vengeance die And take and deal their wounds alternately One day the Fabii did in arms array In arms array'd they all were slain one day 'T is said the Gods provided that some seed Might still be left in this Herculean breed For one young stripling of the Fabian race Unfit for feats of arms surviving was Which Maximus was thee to propagate Who by delaying didst restore the State Three constellations near the Snake the Crow And then the Cup that 's couch'd between the two In th' Ides they are conceal'd but next night rise We 'll tell the cause of their societies It chanc'd that Phoebus gave to Jove one day A solemn feast My tale shall make no stay Go Bird that nothing may be wanting bring Quoth he some water from a running spring The golden tanker in his claws the Crow Takes and through aire with waving wings doth row A fig-tree full of figs yet green there stood He pecks off one it was not fit for food His errand slighted he among the twigs Sits loyt'ring till the season rip'd the figs Then fills his crop and catching up a Snake Comes to his Master and this lie doth make Lo here my let the springs usurper who Kept me from water and my duty too D' you adde a lie to this vile trick of your Dare you delude an all-beholding Power For this no water shalt thou drink quoth he Whiles figs in ripening hang upon the tree This Phoebus said Crow Snake and Cup all shine Near-neighbouring stars the deeds eternall signe The third day next the Ides Luperci bare Run and horn'd Faunus rites solemniz'd are Relate ye Muses their originall And whence derived to the Romane wall The old Arcadians much did Pan adore Who but S r Pan in all Arcadia's shore Stymphalian waters green Pholoe And swift-stream'd Ladon may my witnesse be Pine-stately Nonacrine the same doth know And high Troezene and Parrhasian snow Hards Groves Springs Pans power there did keep Pan had large offrings for protected sheep His countrey Gods Evander did translate To this our city then a city's plat Thence we that God with Grecian rites adore Here 's still Joves Flamen as was there of yore Why run they then about you ask so fast Why run they naked all their clothes off-cast The God himself o're mountains doth delight To runne and force men to a sudden flight The God self-naked naked makes his frie Clothes are a hindrance to agility Before Joves birth Arcadians till'd the land They say that nation e're the Moon did stand At first rude Boores devoyd of wit and art Like bruits unexercis'd in reasons part Boughs were their house roots were the food they knew With both their palms for drink they water drew No oxen panted at the crooked plow No landlord as his own a field did ow No horse was us'd legs were in stead of steed Sheep wooll for none but for themselves did breed With bodies naked they the aire indur'd To nipping frosts and sturdy storms inur'd Therefore they naked runne in signe and honour Of hardinesse and that old bare-skinn'd manner Yet for the chief cause why Pan doth detest All clothes Tradition tells a merry jest Perchance Tirynthius by his Sweet-hearts side Walk'd whereas Faunus on a bank them spi'd He eyes and fries and Countrey-lasses cries None for my diet here my Cupid lies The Lydians shoulders with perfumed hair Her breasts with glittring gold begaudy'd were A golden fanne Sols rivall heat repell'd Which Hercules kind hand before her held To Bacchus groves and Tmoles vineyards now They came when Hesper in the West did glow A cave by which there playes a chearfull brook With topazes and pumice arch'd they took Now while the servants had prepar'd the feast In her attire her Hercules she drest She puts on him her purple wast-coat slender And girdle which embrac'd her body tender Her zone's too little and her wast-coats bands He stretches out to thrust forth his huge hands Her bracelets break not made for that intent His huge plaice-foot her pretty sandals rent His weighty club and lions spoils she tries And quiver-weapons of a lesser cise Thus supper ended both themselves apply To sleep and on two severall couches lie Because next day some rites to Joves Wine-sonne They should perform which must be purely done Pan comes What dares not vent'rous love assault In midnight-darknesse to the silent vault He finds the servants clogg'd with wine and sleep And hopes the same clogs did the Lovers keep In comes the Lecher bold romes here and there His groping hands his warie ushers were At last he on the Lady's bed layes hold At first right happy in his venture bold Soon as he touch'd the lions bristly hide He plucks his hand back greatly terrifi'd Then trembling comes again again goes back Just like a traveller that spies a snake Then feels he to the softer-clothed bed Which stood at hand by couz'ning signes misled Up crawls he and on th' hither side lyes down His member stiffer then his horns were grown Mean while the feet he softly doth uncover His thighs with bristly hairs were harsh all over Attempting more Alcides from the couch Throws him quite off down lumps the lustfull slouch Maeonia at the noise for lights doth cry Which brought there make a strange discovery He with his fall much bruised grones and mones And much ado heaves up his heavy bones Alcides laugh'd and all at that night-rover And Omphale laughs at her goodly Lover The God by garments cheated hates them all And none but naked to his rites doth call Muse to these forrein adde our Countrey 's cause And let our steed in his own barriers race A goat to Faunus slain as was the manner Invited neighbours came to that small honour And while the priests th' embowell'd beast do rost On willow-spits about noontide almost The Martiall twinnes and Countrey-lads begun Some sports all naked in the fields and sunne And with swift whorlbats casting stones and darts They exercis'd their bodies strength and parts Behold a Shepherd on a mountain high Help Sirs thieves drive away our beasts doth crie 'T were long to arm two severall wayes both run And Remus first the