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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
moue But all-creating all preseruing Loue At whose flames vertues lighted euen to starres All vicious Enuies and seditious Iars Bane-spitting Murmures and detracting Spels Bannish with curses to the blackest hels Defence of Beauty and of Innocence And taking off the chaines of Insolence From their prophan'd and godlike Lineaments Actions heroique and diuine descents All the sweet Graces euen from death reuiu'd And sacred fruites from barren Rockes deriu'd Th' Immortall Subiects of our Nuptials are Thee then iust scourge of factious populare Fautor of peace and all the powers that moue In sacred Circle of religious Loue Fountaine of royall learning and the rich Treasure of Counsailes and mellifluous speech Let me inuoke that one drop of thy spring May spirit my aged Muse and make her sing As if th'inspir'd brest of eternall youth Had lent her Accents and all-mouing truth The Kingdome that the gods so much did loue And often feasted all the Powers aboue At whose prime beauties the enamour'd Sunne His Morning beames lights and doth ouerrunne The world with Ardor Aethiopia Bore in her throne diuine Andromeda To Cepheus and Cassiope his Queene Whose boundlesse beauties made ore'flow the spleene Of euery Neirid for surpassing them The Sun to her resign'd his Diadem And all the Deities admiring stood Affirming nothing mou'd like flesh and blood Thunder would court her with words sweetly phraz'd And lightning stucke 'twixt heau'n and earth amaz'd This matchlesse virgin had a mother too That did for beautie and for wisdome goe Before the formost Ladies of her time To whom of super-excellence the crime Was likewise lai'd by Iuno and from hence Pin'd Enuie suckt the poison of offence No truth of excellence was euer seene But bore the venome of the Vulgares spleene And now the much enrag'd Neireides Obtain'd of him that moues the marble seas To wreake the vertue they cal'd Insolence A whale so monstrous and so past defence That all the royall Region he laid wast And all the noblest edifices rac't Nor from his plague were strongest Cities free His bodies vast heape rag'd so heauily With noblest names and bloods is still embrewd The monstrous beast the rauenous Multitude This plague thus preying vpon all the land With so incomprehensible a hand The pious virgin of the father sought By Oracles to know what cause had brought Such banefull outrage ouer all his State And what might reconcile the Deities hate His orisons and sacrifices past The Oracle gaue answere that the waste His Country suffered neuer would conclude Till his Andromeda he did extrude To rapine of the Monster he good man Resolu'd to satiate the Leuiathan With her before his Country though he lou'd Her past himselfe and bore a spirit mou'd To rescue Innocence in any one That was to him or his but kindly knowne To grace or profite doe them any good That lay in swift streame of his noblest blood Constant to all yet to his deerest seed For rights sake flitting thinking true indeed The generall vprore that t' was sinne in her That made men so exclaime and gods conferre Their approbation saying the Kingdomes bale Must end by her exposure to the Whale With whom the Whale-like vulgare did agree And their foule spleenes thought her impiety Her most wise mother yet the sterne intent Vow'd with her best endeauour to preuent And tolde her what her father did addresse Shee fearefull fled into the wildernesse And to th' instinct of sauage beasts would yeeld Before a father that would cease to shield A daughter so diuine and Innocent Her feet were wing'd and all the search out went That after her was ordered but shee flew And burst the winds that did incenst pursue And with enamoured sighes her parts assaile Plaide with her haire and held her by the vaile From whom shee brake and did to woods repaire Still where shee went her beauties dide the ayre And with her warme blood made proud Flora blush But seeking shelter in each shadie bush Beauty like fire comprest more strength receiues And shee was still seene shining through the leaues Hunted from thence the Sunne euen burn'd to see So more then Sunne-like a Diuinity Blinded her eyes and all inuasion seekes To dance vpon the mixture of her cheekes Which show'd to all that follow'd after far As vnderneath the roundure of a starre The euening skie is purple'd with his beames Her lookes fir'd all things with her loues extreames Her necke a chaine of orient pearle did decke The pearles were faire but fairer was her necke Her breasts laid out show'd all enflamed sights Loue lie a sunning twixt two Crysolites Her naked wrists showde as if through the skie A hand were thrust to signe the Deitie Her hands the confines and digestions were Of Beauties world Loue fixt his pillars there Her eyes that others caught now made her caught Who to her father for the whale was brought Bound to a barraine Rocke and death expected But heau'n hath still such Innocence protected Beauty needs feare no Monsters for the sea Mother of Monsters sent Alcyone To warrant her not onely gainst the waues But all the deathes hid in her watrie graues The louing birds flight made about her still Still good presaging shew'd heau'ns sauing will Which cheering her did comfort all the shore That mourn'd in shade of her sad eyes before Her lookes to perle turn'd peble and her looks To burnisht gold transform'd the burning Rocks And noâ— came roring to the tied the Tide All the Neireides deckt in all their pride Mounted on Dolphins roâ—de to see their wreake The waues fom'd with their enuies that did speake In mutest fishes with their leapes aloft For brutish ioy of the reuenge they sought The people greedie of disastrous sights And newes the food of idle appetites From the kings Chamber straight knew his intent And almost his resolu'd thoughts did preuent In drie waues beating thicke about the Shore And then came on the prodegie that bore In one masse mixt their Image that still spread A thousand bodies vnder one sole head Of one minde still to ill all ill men are Strange sights and mischiefes fit the Populare Vpon the Monster red Rhamnusia rode The Sauage leapt beneath his bloody load Mad of his prey giu'n ouer now by all When any high haue any meanes to fall Their greatest louers proue false props to proue it And for the mischiefe onely praise and loue it There is no good they will not then commend Nor no Religion but they will pretend A mighty title to when both are vs'd To warrant Innouation or see brus'd The friendlesse Reed that vnder all feet lies The sound parts euermore they passe like flies And dwell vpon the sores ill in themselues They clearely saile with ouer rockes and shelues But good in others ship wracke in the Deepes Much more vniust is he that truely keepes Lawes for more shew his owne ends vnderstood Then he that breakes them for anothers good And 't is the height