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A free and offenceles iustification of a lately publisht and most maliciously misinterpreted poeme: entituled Andromeda liberata.
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Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.
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Sole all her labours vowes If friends for this forsake me let them flie And know that ãâã their inconstancie Grieues or disheartens my resolu'd endeauours Then I had shaken off so many feaâers Mâ faire condition moues them â Euen right thus Far'd the Phisition ãâã With still poore Socrates who terming rude Lustâull vnlearnd and with no wit indude The most wise Man did adde yet he is iust And with that praise would giue his dispraise trust For as a man whom Arte hath flattery taught And is at all parts master of his Craft With long and varied praises doth sometimes Mixe by the way some sleight and peruiall crimes As sawce to giue his flatteries taste and scope So that Malignitie may giue her hope Of faults beleeu'd effect she likewise laies In her strowd passage some light flowers of praise But t is not me ahlas they thus pursue With such vnprofiting Cunning nor embrue Their bitter spent mouthes with such bloud-mixt some In chace of any action that can come From my poore forme but from the foot they tread Those passages that thence affect the head And why who knowes not that next spirit that is Organe to all their knowing faculties Or else I know I oft haue read of one So sharpe-eyd he could see through Oke and Stone Another that high set in Sicilie As farre as Carthage numbred with his eye The Nauie vnder saile which was dissite A night and daies saile with windes most fore-right And others that such curious chariots made As with a flies wing they hid all in shade And in a Sesâââine small Indian graine Engrau'd a page of Homers verses plaine These farre-seene meruailes I could neuer see Being made of downe right flat simplicitie How neere our curious Craftsmen come to these They must demonstrate ere they winne the wise Phe. But who are those you reckon Homicides In your rackt Poeme I sweare that diuides Your wondering Reader far from your applause Theo. I ioie in that for weighing with this cause Their other Reason men may cleerely see How sharpe and pregnant their constructions be I proue by Argument that he that loues Is deade and onely in his louer moues His Louer as t' were taking life from him And praising that kinde slaughter I condemne As churlish Homicides who will denie In loue twixt two the possibility To propagate their liues into descent Needefull and lawfull and that argument Is Platoes to a word which much commends The two great personages who wanting th' ends Of wedlocke as they were with one consent Sought cleere distunction which with blest euent May ioine both otherwise with such encrease Of worthy Ofspring that posterities May blesse their fautors and their fauoures now Whom now such bans and poisons ouerflow Phem. Bound to a barraine rocke and death expected See that with all your skill then cleane dissected That barraine cleere your edge of if you can Theo. As if that could applied be to a Man O barraine Malice was it euer sayd A man was barraine or the burthen layd Of bearing fruite on Man if not nor this Epithete barraine can be construed his In least proprietie but that such a one As was Andromeda in whose parts shone All beauties both of bodie and of minde The sea dame to a barraine rocke should binde In enuie least some other of her kinde Should challenge them for beauty any more Encreast the cause of making all deplore So deare an innocent with all desert No more then for Humanities shame peruert For of your whole huge reckonings heere 's the sum O saeclum insipiens inficetum Quod dignis adimit transit ad Impios Plât in Aââb 2. Caligula ãâ¦ã Linceus Callicrates Mirmecides See my reasons in their places Quippe non minus homicida censendus est qui hominem praecipit nasciturum quam qui natum tollite medio Audacior autem qui presentem abâumpit vitam crudelioâ qui lucem inuidet naseituro nondum natos filios suos enecat Plat. in Sympo Virgo sanè egregââ omnibus animi corporis dotibus ornatissima Natal Co de Andromeda