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Andromeda liberata. Or the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda. By George Chapman.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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of all malignity â—o tender good so that yee ill implie â—o treade on Pride but with a greater pride When where no ill but in ill thoughts is tri'd To speake well is a charity diuine The rest retaine the poyson serpentine Vnder their lips that sacred liues condemne And wee may worthily apply to them This tragicke execration perish hee That siâ—ts too far humane infirmity But as your cupping glasses still exhale The humour that is euer worst of all In all the flesh So these spic't conscienc't men The worst of things explore still and retaine Or rather as in certaine Cities were Some ports through which all rites piaculare All Executed men all filth were brought Of all things chast or pure or sacred nought Entring or issuing there so curious men Nought manly elegant or not vncleane Embrace or bray out Acts of staine are still Their Syrens and their Muses Any ill Is to their appetites their supreme good And sweeter then their necessary food All men almost in all things they apply The By the Maine make and the Maine the By. Thus this sweete Ladies sad exposure was Of all these moodes in men the only glasse But now the man that next to Ioue comptrold The triple world got with a shoure of gold Armed with Medusa's head and Enyos eye The Adamantine sword of Mercury The helme of Pluto and Minerua's Mirror That from the Gorgus made his passe with Terror Came to the rescue of this enuied mayd Drew neere and first in admiration stay'd That for the common ill of all the land She the particular obloquie should stand And that a beauty no lesse then diuine Should men and women finde so serpentine As but to thinke her any such euent Much lesse that eies and hands should giue consent To such a danger and to such a death But though the whole Realme laboured vnderneath So foule an error yet since Ioue and he Tendred her beauty and integretie In spight of all the more he set vp spirit To doe her right the more all wrong'd her merit He that both vertue had and beauty too Equall with her to both knew what to doe The Ruthles still go laught at to the Graue Those that no good will doe no goodnesse haue The minde a spirit is and cal'd the glasse In which we see God and corporeall grace The mirror is in which we see the minde Amongst the fairest women you could finde Then Perseus none more faire mongst worthiest men No one more manly This the glasse is then To shew where our complexion is combinde A womans beauty and a manly minde Such was the halfe-diuine-borne Troian Terror Where both Sex graces met as in their Mirror Perseus of Loues owne forme those fiue parts had Which some giue man that is the loueliest made Or rather that is loueliest enclin'd And beares with shape the beauty of the mind Young was he yet not youthfull since mid-yeeres The golden meane holds in mens loues and feares Aptly composde and soft or delicate Flexible or tender calme or temperate Of these fiue three make most exactly knowne The Bodies temperate complexion The other two the order doe expresse The measure and whole Trim of comelinesse A temperate corporature learn'd Nature saith A smooth a soft a solid flesh bewrayeth Which state of body shewes th' affections State In all the humours to be moderate For which cause soft or delicate they call Our conquering Perseus and but yong withall Since time or yeeres in men too much reuolu'd The subtiler parts of humour being resolu'd More thicke parts rest of fire and aire the want Makes earth and water more predominant Flexible they calde him since his quicke conceit And pliant disposition at the height Tooke each occasion and to Acts approu'd As soone as he was full inform'd he mou'd Not flexible as of inconstant state Nor soft as if too much effeminate For these to a complexion moderate Which we before affirme in him imply A most vnequall contrariety Composure fit for Ioues sonne Perseus had And to his forme his mind fit answere made As to be lou'd the fairest fittest are To loue so to most apt are the most faire Light like it self tranâ—parent bodies makes At ones act th' other ioint impression takes Perseus as if transparent at first sight Was shot quite thorough with her beauties light Beauty breedes loue loue consummates a man For loue being true and Eleutherean No Iniurie nor conâ—â—â—elie beares That his beloued eyther feeles or feares All good-wils enterchange it doth conclude And mans whole summe holds which is gratitude No wisdome noblesse force of armes nor lawes Without loue wins man his compleat applause Loue makes him valiant past all else desires For Mars that is of all heau'ns erring fires Most full of fortitude since he inspires Men with most valour Cytheraea tames For when in heau'ns blunt Angels shine his flames Or he his second or eight house ascends Of rul'd Natiuities and then portends Ill to the then-borne Venus in aspect Sextile or Trine doth being conioyn'd correct His most malignitie And when his starre The birth of any gouernes fit for warre The Issue making much to wrath enclin'd And to the ventrous greatnesse of the minde If Venus neere him shine she doth not let His magnanimity but in order set The vice of Anger making Mars more milde And gets the mastry of him in the childe Mars neuer masters her but if she guide She loue inclines and Mars set by her side Her fires more ardent render with his heat So that if he at any birth be set In th' house of Venus Libra or the Bull The then-borne burnes and loues flames feels at full Besides Mars still doth after Venus moue Venus not after Mars because of Loue Boldnesse is hand-maid Loue not so of her For not because men bold affections beare Loues golden nets doth their affects enfold But since men loue they therefore are more bold And made to dare euen Death for their belou'd And finally Loues Fortitude is prou'd Past all most cleerely for this cause alone All things submit to Loue but loue to none Celestials Animals all Corporeall things Wisemen and Strong Slaue-rich and Free-borne Kings Are loues contributories no guifts can buy No threats can loue constraine or terrifie For loue is Free and his Impulsions still Spring from his owne free and ingenious will Not God himselfe would willing loue enforce But did at first decree his liberall course Such is his liberty that all affects All arts and Acts the minde besides directs To some wish't recompence but loue aspires To no possessions but his owne desires As if his wish in his owne sphere did moue And no reward were worthy Loue but Loue. Thus Perseus stood affected in a Time When all loue but of riches was a crime A fancy and a follie And this fact To adde to loues deseruings did detract For t was a Monster and a monstrous thing Whence he should combat out his
or heard That in the good thereof her scope is Sphear'd The Theban Ruler paralleling Right Who thirst of glory turnd to appetite Of inward Goodnesse was of speech so spare To heare and learne so couetous and yare That of his yeares none things so many knew Nor in his speeches ventured on so few Forth then my Lord these things euer thirst Till Scandall pine and Bane-fed enuie burst And you most noble Lady as in blood In minde be Noblest make our factious brood Whose forked tongs wold fain your honor sting Conuert their venomd points into their spring Whos 's owne harts guilty of faults faind in yours Wold fain be posting off but arme your powers With such a seige of vertues that no vice Of all your Foes Aduantage may entice To sally forth and charge you with offence But sterue within for very conscience Of that Integritie they see exprest In your cleere life Of which th'examples Rest May be so blamelesse that all past must be Being Fount to th' other most vndoubtedly Confest vntouch't and Curiositie The beame picke rather from her own squint eie Then ramp stil at the motes shade faind in yours Nought doth so shame this chimick serch of ours As when we prie long for assur'd huge prise Our glasses broke all vp in vapor flies And as the Royall Beast whose image you Beare in your armes and aires great Eagle too Sill as they goe are said to keepe in close Their seres Tallons lest their points shold lose Their vseful sharpnes when they serue no vse So this our sharp-eyd search that we abuse In others brests we should keepe in t'explore Our owne fowle bosomes and quit them before VVe ransacke others but great Ladie leaue These Rules to them they touch do you receaue Those free ioies in your honour and your Loue That you can say are yours and euer moue VVhere your comand as soon is seru'd as kown Ioyes plac't without you neuer are your owne Your Honours euer most humbly and faithfully vowd Geo. Chapman To the preiudicate and peremptory Reader I Am still in your hands but was first in his that being our great sustainer of Sincerity and Innocence will I hope defend mee from falling I thinke you know not him I intend more then you know me nor can you know mee since your knowledge is imagined so much aboue mine that it must needes ouersee He that lies on the ground can fall no lower By such as backebite the highest the lowest must looke to be de uor'd Forth with your curious Scrutinie and finde my Rush as knotty as you lust and your owne Crab-tree as smooth Twillbe most ridiculous and pleasing to sit in a corner and spend your teeth to the stumps in mumbling an ould Sparrow till your lips bleed and your eyes water when all the faults you can finde are first in your selues t' is no Herculean labor to cracke what you breed Ah las who knowes not your vttermost dimensions Or loues not the best things you would seeme to loue in deed and better Truth was neuer the Fount of Faction In whose Sphere since your purest thoughts moue their motion must of force be oblique and angulare But whatsoeuer your disease bee I know it incurable because your vrine will neuer shew it At aduenture at no hand be let blood for it but rather sooth your ranke bloods and rub one another You yet ingenuous and iudicious Reader that as you are your selfe retaine in a sound bodie as sounde a soule if your gentle tractability haue vnwares let the common surfet surprize you abstaine take Phisique heere and recouer Since you reade to learne teach Since you desire to bee reform'd reforme freely Such strokes shall bee so farre from breaking my head they shall be rich Balmes to it comfort and strengthen the braine it beares and make it healthfully neese out whatsoeuer anoies it Vale. The Argument ANdromeda Daughter of Cepheus King of Aethiopia and Cassiope a virgine exempted from coÌ„parison in all the vertues beauties both oâ— minde and bodie for the enuie of Iuno to her Mother being compar'd with her for beauty and wisedome or as others write maligned by the Nereides for the eminent Graces of her selfe moued so much the Deities displeasures that they procur'd Neptune to send into the Region of Cephâ—us a whale so monstrously vaste and dreadfull that all the fields he spoild and wasted all the noblest edifices tumbling to ruine the strongest citties of the kingdome not forcible enough to withstand his inuasions Of which so vnsufferable a plague Cepheus consulting with an Oracle and asking both the cause and remedie after accustomed sacrifices the Oracle gaue answer that the calamity would neuer cease till his onely daughter Andromeda was exposed to the Monster Cepheus returnd and with Iron chaines bound his daughter to a rocke before a cittie of the kingdome called Ioppe At which cittie the same time Perseus arriued with the head of Medusa c. who pittying so matchles a virgines exposure to so miserable an euent dissolu'd her chaines and tooke her from the Rock Both sitting together to expect the monster he rauenously hasting to deuoure her Perseus turndpart of him into stone through the rest made way with his sword to his vtter slaughter When holding it wreath enough for so renownd a victory He took Andromeda to wife had by her one daughter called Perse another Erythraea of whom the sea in those parts is called Mare ErythraeaÌ„ since she both liued and died there and one sonne called after himselfe another Electrion a third Sthenelus and after liued Princely and happily with his wife and his owne Mother to his death Then faind for their vertues to be made Constellations in Heauen ANDROMEDA LIBERATA AWay vngodly Vulgars far away Flie ye prophane that dare not view the day Nor speake to men but shadowes nor would heare Of any newes but what seditious were Hatefull and harmefull euer to the best Whispering their scandals glorifying the rest Impious and yet gainst all ills but your owne The hotest sweaters of religion Whose poysons all things to your spleenes peruert And all streames measure by the Fount your heart That are in nought but misrule regulare To whose eyes all seeme ill but those that are That hate yee know not why nor with more cause Giue whom yee most loue your prophane applause That when Kings and their Peeres whose piercing eies Broke through their broken sleepes and policies Mens inmost Cabinets disclose and hearts Whose hands loues ballance weighing all desarts Haue let downe to them which graue conscience Charg'd with the blood and soule of Innocence Holds with her white hand when her either skole Apt to be sway'd with euery graine of Soule Her selfe swaies vp or downe to heauen or hell Approue an action you must yet conceale A deeper insight and retaine a taint To cast vpon the pure soule of a Saint Away in our milde Sphere doth nothing