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A03189 The brazen age the first act containing, the death of the centaure Nessus, the second, the tragedy of Meleager: the third the tragedy of Iason and Medea. The fourth. Vulcans net the fifth. The labours and death of Hercules: written by Thomas Heywood. Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641. 1613 (1613) STC 13310; ESTC S104054 44,355 84

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Adonis flye the Queene of loue And shun this Iuory girdle of my armes To be thus scarft the dreadfull God of warre Would giue me conquered kingdomes For a kisse But halfe like this I could command the Sunne Rise 'fore his houre to bed before his time And being loue-sicke change his golden beames And make his face pale as his sister Moone Come let vs tumble on this violet banke Pre'thee be wanton let vs toy and play Thy Icy fingers warme betweene my breasts Looke on me Adon with a stedfast eye That in these Christall glasses I may see My beauty that charmes Gods makes men amaz'd And stownd with wonder doth this roseat pillow Offend my loue come wallow in my lap With my white fingers I will clap thy cheeke Whisper a thousand pleasures in thine eare Adonis Madame you are not modest I affect The vnseene beauty that adornes the minde This loosenesse makes you fowle in Adons eye If you will tempt me let me in your face Reade blushfulnesse and feare a modest blush Would make your cheeke seeme much more beautifull If you will whisper pleasure in mine eare Praise chastity or with your lowd voyce shrill The tunes of hornes and hunting they please best I l'e to the chase and leaue you to the rest Venus Thou art not man yet wer 't thou made of stone I haue heate to melt thee I am Queene of loue There is no practiue art of dalliance Of which I am not Mistresse and can vse I haue kisses that can murder vnkinde words And strangle hatred that the gall sends forth Touches to raise thee were thy spirits halfe dead Words that can powre affection downe thine eares Loue me thou canst not chuse thou shalt not chuse Am I not Venus Hadst thou Cupids arrowes I should haue tooke thee to haue beene my sonne Art thou so like him and yet canst not loue I thinke you are brothers Adonis Madame you wooe not well men couet not These proffered pleasures but loue-sweets deny'd What I command that cloyes my appetite But what I cannot come by I adore These prostituted pleasures surfet still Where 's feare or doubt men sue with best good will Venus Thou canst instruct the Queene of loue in loue Thou shalt not Adon take me by the hand Yet if thou needs wilt force me there 's my palme I l'e frowne on him alas my brow 's so smooth It will not beare a wrinkle hye thee hence Vnto the chace and leaue me but not yet I l'e sleepe this night vpon Endimions banke On which the Swaine was courted by the Moone Dare not to come thou art in our disgrace Yet if thou come I can affoord thee place Adonis I must begone Venus Sweet whither Adonis To the Chace Venus What doest thou hunt Adonis The Calidonian Boare To which the Princes and best spirits of Greece Are now assembled Venus I beshrew thee boy That very word strooke from my heart all ioy It startled mee me thinkes I see thee dye By that rude Boare Hunt thou the beasts that flye The wanton Squirrell or the trembling Hare The crafty Fox these pastimes fearelesse are The greedy Wolues and fierce Beares arm'd with clawes Rough shouldred Lyons such as glut their iawes With heards at once Fell Boares let them passe by Adon these looke not with thy Venus eye They iudge not beauty nor distinguish youth These are their prey My pitty loue and ruth Liues not in them Oh to thy selfe be kinde Thou from their mouthes my kisses shalt not find Winde hornes within Adonis The summons to the chace Venus adue Ven. Leaue those turne head chuse those thou maist pursue Adonis I am resolu'd I l'e helpe to rouze yon beast Venus Thou art to deere his sauadge throat to feast Forbeare Adonis In vaine Venus Appoynt when we shall meet Adonis After the chace Farewell then Venus Farewell sweet Adonis This kissing Venus Adon guard thee well expresse Thy loue to me in being of thy selfe Carefull and chary they that raze thy skin Wound me Be wise my Adon Adon. Neuer doubt So then He kisseth her Venus But lip-labour yet ill left out Exeunt Winde hornes Enter with Iauelings and in greene Meleager Theseus Telamon Castor Pollux Iason Peleus Nestor Atreus Toxeus Plexippus Melea. The cause of this conuention Lords of Greece Needs no expression and yet briefly thus Oeneus our father the Aetolians King Of all his fruits aud plenty gaue due rights To all the Gods and Goddesses Ioue Ceres Bacchus and Pallas but among the rest Diana he neglects for which inrag'd She hath sent to plague vs a huge sauadge Boare Of an vn-measured height and magnitude What better can describe his shape and terror Then all the pittious clamours shrild through Greece Of his depopulations spoyles and preyes His flaming eyes they sparkle bloud and fire His bristles poynted like a range of pikes Ranck't on his backe his foame snowes where he feeds His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants Out of his iawes as if Ioues lightning flew He scortches all the branches in his way Plowes vp the fields treads flat the fields of graine In vaine the Sheepheard or his dogge secures Their harmlesse fowlds In vaine the furious Bull Striues to defend the heard ore which he Lords The Collonies into the Citties flye And till immur'd they thinke themselues not safe To chace this beast we haue met on Oeta mount Attended by the noblest spirits of Greece Tela. From populous Salamine I Telamon Am at thy faire request King Meleager Come to behold this beast of Calidon And proue my vertue in his sterne pursuite Iason Not Meleagers loue more then the zeale I beare my honour hath drawne Iason hither To this aduenture yet both forcible To make me try strange maisteries 'gainst that monster Whose fury hath so much amaz'd all Greece Castor That was the cause I Castor with my brother Pollux arriu'd and left our sister Hellen Imbrac't by our old father Tyndarus To rouze this beast Pollux Let vs no more be held The sonnes of Leda and be got by Ioue Brothers and cal'd the two Tyndarian twins If we returne not crimson'd in the spoiles Of this fierce Boare Nestor To that end Nestor came Nestor that hath already liu'd one age And entred on the second to the third May I nere reach if part of that wilde swine I bring not home to Pylos where I reigne Atr. My yong son Agamemnon and his brother Prince Menelaus in his swathes at home Without some honour purchast on this Boare May I no more see or Myeenes visit Thes. Well speakes Atreus and his noble acts Stil equalize his language Shall not Theseus Venter as farre as any heauens you know I dare as much 'gainst any mortall foe Tox. Wher 's Hercules that at this noble busines He is not present being neere ally'd To Meleager hauing late espowsed His sister Deianeira Plex. He 's for Busiris that Aegytian tyrant Mel. Else noble valour he would haue bin first
would play the coward and turne face When such sweete amorous combats are in place My hot incounters leaue me wound nor skarre Yet naked I dare meete the God of Warre Vulcan Out of her Whoore Mars I am arm'd for thee prepare thee for this night I l'e breast to breast dare thee to single fight Venus Come tumble in my lap great Mars I dare To do his worst Vulcan catcheth them fast in his net Vul. 'T is well your sports are faire Mars Betraid bound catcht release me or by Ioue Thou dy'st what ere thou art Vul. God Mars good words This is a fight in which you vse no swords You haue left your steele behinde Ven. Sweet vulcan Vulc. No more Venus Canst thou vse Venus thus Vul. Away you whore I l'e keepe you fast and call the Gods to see Your practise Neptune Ioue and Mercury Phoebus and Iuno from your spheares looke downe And see the cause I weare a forked crowne All the Gods appeare aboue and laugh Iupiter Iuno Phoebus Mercury Neptune Mars The Gods are all spectators of our shame And laugh at vs Venus Oh! I could cry for anger Sweet Vulcan let me loose Vulc. When Gods and men Haue seene thy shame but strumpet not till then Iup. See how Mars chafes Iun. But Venus weeps for rage Nept. Why should Mars fret if it so tedious be Good God of warre bestow thy place on me Merc. By all the Gods would she do me that grace I would fall too 't euen before Vulcans face Vul. To Gods and men let it be fully knowne I am a Cuckold All Vulcan is no lesse Vul. Now since red shame your cheeks with bloud hath dy'd I am reueng'd and see my net 's vnti'd Phoeb. The Gods haue laught their fill Vulcan's reueng'd And now all friends speake are we Iup. Mars still frownes Iuno And Venus scarce well pleas'd Vul. For my part oh you Gods what 's past is past And what is once done cannot be recald If Vulcan in this ieast hath pleas'd the Gods All his owne wrongs he freely can forgiue Venus we are friends to Lemnos we will hast And neuer more record what 's done and past Ven. No foole before I did offend with feare My guilt was but suspected but not prou'd And therefore I selected priuacy Closenesse of place and bashfully transgrest But since both Gods and men now know my sinne Why should I dread to say I loue God Mars What helpe hast thou in prouing thy wife false Onely to make me doe with impudence What I before with feare did on thy selfe Brought a most certaine shame where it before Was but suspected Vul. Venus speakes good sence That 's certaine now which was before suspence Ven. Now fare well iealous foole for my disgrace Him whom I loue I blushlesse thus imbrace And may all such as would their wiues so take Although they might be seru'd thus for thy sake Vul. I am vndone be warn'd by me oh men Although you know your wiues false where and when Take them not in the manner though you may They that with feare before now blushlesse stray Their guilt 't is better to suspect then know So you may take some part of that you owe Where I by seeking her good name to thrall Haue made my selfe a scorne and quite left all Iup. To Lemnos then to make our Thunders fit Which against mortals we haue cause to vse Mars you to Thrace Venus in Paphos stay Or where you please we to our seuerall spheares Vulcan thy morrall this good vse contriues None search too farre th' offences of their wiues Exeunt HOMER Our last Act comes which lest it tedious grow What is too long in word accept in show Thinke Hercules his labours hauing ended The Spanish Gerion kild and Cacus slaine As farre as Lydea he his palme extended Where beauteous Omphale this time doth raigne He that before to Deianeira sent As presents all the spoyles that he could win Now fils her heart with iealous discontent She heares how Hercules doth card and spin With Omphale and serues her as a slaue She quite forgot in Thebes her griefe to cheare Th' assembled Princes with their Counsels graue Are come to comfort and remoue her feare By these all his stor'd labours he hath sent To call him home to free her discontent Ashew Enter Deianeira sad with Lychas to her Iason Telamon Castor Pollux Nestor c. They seeme to comfort her she sends Lychas who brings the Trophies of his twelue labours she deliuers them to the Princes to beare to her husband They part seuerall waies Hom. Iason and the other Hero's for her sake Trauell to Lydia to perswade him thence And by his twelue knowne labours vndertake To moue him quite t' abandon his faire wench Further then this her iealousie extends Afarre worse present she by Lychas sends Enter Deianeira and her seruant Lychas. Lych. Madam these sorrowes are too violent For your weake sex I do not thinke t is true Your husband can preferre that Omphale Before your beauty Deian. Hee 's forgot in Greece Greece that was wont to clangor with his fame Is now all silent who but Iason now And Telamon that scal'd the walles of Troy Alcides is a name for got amongst vs And Deianeira too forgot with him Oh! that I had the tempting strumpet here That keepes my Lord away confining me Vnto the coldnesse of a widowed bed Lyc. Madam these presents sent so wel knowne Coming from you must needs preuaile with him These Princes haue great interest in his loue And can perswade much Deia. But that strumpet more Lychas he doates vpon her tempting lookes And is so much with her inchantments blear'd That hee 's turn'd woman woman Lychas spinnes Cards and doth chare-worke whilst his mistres sits And makes a cushion of his Lyons skin Makes of his club a rocke I loose my selfe In this my sorrow and forget the meanes I still keepe by my me to restore my loue Lychas fetch me the shirt within my chamber I haue bethought me now Lych. Madam I shall Dei This shirt in bloud of Centaur Nessus dipt And since washt out I l'e send my Hercules Which hath the power to make his hot loue dye To any stranger and reuiue to me This as his last the dying Centaur spake To this I l'e trust all other hopes forsake Enter Lychas Lych. Madam the shirt Dei This as my best and deerest Present me trusty Lychas to my Lord Intreat withall that if he haue not quite Put off my loue hee 'l daine to put on this If he despise my gift returne it backe And in it my death Lych. Feare not faire Princesse I hope to proue as fortunate as faithfull Dei. Farewell proue as thou speakest If my gift faile I haue sentenced all my sorrowes to one death Whilst Deianeira hath a hand to vse Shee 'l not liue hated where she once did chuse Exit Enter Omphale Queene of Lydia with 4 or 5 maids