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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19835	The Queenes Arcadia A pastorall trage-comedie presented to her Maiestie and her ladies, by the Vniuersitie of Oxford in Christs Church, in August last. 1605.	Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.	1606 (1606)	STC 6262; ESTC S121848	42,805	80

the place she sodainely Stopt startes and shrikt and hauing made such haste T' haue something done now could she nothing doe Perhaps our presence might perplexe her too As being asham'd that any eye should see The new appearing of her naked heart That neuer yet before was seene till now Car. And 't is ill hap for me it was seene now Mir. For we perceiu'd how Loue and Modestie With seu'rall Ensignes stroue within her cheekes Which should be Lord that day and charged hard Vpon each other with their fresh supplies Of different coulours that still came and went And much disturb'd her but at length dissolu'd Into affection downe she casts her selfe Vpon his senselesse body where she saw The mercie she had brought was come too late And to him calles ô deare Amyntas speake Looke on me sweete Amyntas it is I That calles thee sit is that holds thee here Within those armes thou haste esteem'd so deare And though that loue were yet so young in her As that it knew not how to speake or what And that she neuer had that passion prou'd Being first a louer ere she knew she lou'd Yet what she could not vtter she supplide With her poore busie hands that rubb'd his face Chafd his pale temples wrung his fingers ends Held vp his head and puld him by the hands And neuer leaft her worke nor euer ceast Ama. Alas the least of this regarde before Might haue holpe all then when 't was in her power T' haue sau'd his heart and to reuiue his minde Now for all this her mercie is vnkinde The good that 's out of season is not good There is no difference now twixt cruelty And the compassion that 's not vnderstood Mir. But yet at length as if those daintie hands Had had a power to haue awakened death We might perceiue him moue his heauie eyes Which had stood fixt all the whole time before And fastens them directly vpon her Which when she saw it strooke her with that force As that it pierc'd through all the spirits she had Made all the powers and parts of her shrinke vp With that conuulsion of remorse and griefe As out she shrik'd ô deere ô my deere heart Then shrinkes againe and then againe cryes out For now that looke of his did shake her more Then death or any thing had done before That looke did read t' her new conceiuing heart All the whole tragicke Lecture of his loue All his sad suffrings all his griefes and feare And now in th' end what he had done for her And with that powerfull force of mouing too As all a world of words could neuer doe Ah what a silly messenger is Speach To be imploi'd in that great Embassie Of our affections in respect of th' eye Ah 't is the silent rhetorick of a looke That worker the league betwixt the states of hearts Not words I see nor knowledge of the booke Nor incantations made by hidden artes For now this looke so melts her into teares As that she powr'd them downe like thunder droppes Or else did Nature taking pittie now Of her distresse imploy them in that store To serue as vailes and to be interposde Betwixt her griefe and her t' impeach her sight From that full view of sorrow thus disclosde And now with this came in Vrania there With other women to imploy their best To saue his life if b'any meanes they can And so we came our way being sent for now About some conference for our hunting sportes And with vs Techne comes who is supposde T' haue bene a speciall cause of much of this Car. Alas this sad reporte doth grieue me much And I did neuer thinke that Cloris had So deerely lou'd him as I finde she doth For by this act of hers I plainely see There will be neuer any hope for me Ama. There may for me if now Carinus thou Wilt stand but to thy word as thou hast said Mir. Ah would to God Dorinda had bene there T' haue seene but Cloris acte this wofull part It may be it might haue deterr'd her heart From cruelty so long as she had liu'd Am. And I am glad Carinus hath but heard So much this day for he may hap thereby To haue some feeling of my miserie But for Dorinda neuer doubt at all She is more yours Mirtillus then you thinke Mir. Ah Amarillis I would that were true But loe where come our chiefest heardsmen now Of all Arcadia we shall know more newes Scen. 3. Melibaeus Ergastus Montanus Acrisius with other Arcadians bringing with them Alcon Lincus Colax Techne Pistophoenax Meli. You gentle Shepheards and inhabitors Of these remote and solitarie parts Of Montaynous Arcadiae shut vp here Within these Rockes those vnfrequented Clifts The walles and Bulwarkes of our libertie From out the noise of tumult and the throng Of sweating toyle ratling concurrencie And haue continued still the same and one In all successions from antiquitie Whilst all the states on earth besides haue made A thousand reuolutions and haue rowld From change to change and neuer yet found rest Nor euer bettered their estates by change You I inuoke this day in generall To doe a worke that now concernes vs all Least that we leaue not to posteritie Th' Arcadia that we found continued thus By our forefathers care who leaft it vs For none of you I know whose iudgment 's graue Can ought discerne but sees how much we are Transformd of late and changd from vvhat we were And what distempers dayly doe arise Amongst our people neuer felt before At which I know you meruaile as indeed You well may meruaile whence they should proceed And so did good Ergastus here and I Vntill we set our selues more warily To search it out which by good hap we haue And found the Authors of this wickednesse Which Diuels attyr'd here in the shape of men We haue produc'd before you to the end You may take speedy order to suppresse Our growing follies and their impiousnesse Erg. Indeed these odious wretches which you see Are they who haue brought in vpon our rest These new and vnknowne mischiefes of debate Of wanton pride of scandalous reportes Of vile deluding chaste and honest loues Of vndeseru'd suspitious desperate griefes And all the sadnesse we haue seene of late And first this man this Lincus here you see Montanus you and you Acrysius know With what deceipt and with what cunning arte He intertaind your strifes abusd you both By first perswading you that you had right In your demandes and then the right was yours And would haue made as many rightes as men Had meanes or power or will to purchase them Could he haue once attain'd to his desires Mon. We doe confesse our errour that we were Too easily perswaded by his craft To wrangle for imagin'd titles which We here renounce and quit for euermore Acry. And we desire the memory thereof May dye with vs that it be neuer knowne Our feeble age hath such example