stripping his body and joining it to the corse of his wife and adding more combustible matter to the fire burnt them both together Over the urn that covered their ashes the Tarentines erected a famous sepulcher which they called The two lovers By Plantius and Horestilla it may appeare that where the greatest and most honest love is setled betwixt man and wife it is oft times more happy to be joined in death then to be separated in life Artimesia Queen of Caria so much honoured the remembrance of her husband Mausolus being dead that after meditation and deliberate counsell which way she might best decorate his hearse and withall to expresse to perperuity her unmatchable love she caused to be erected over him a tombe so magnificent that for the cost and state it was not doubted to be worthily reckoned amongst the nine wonders But what do I speak of so rich a structure when she her selfe became the living sepulcher of her dead husband by their testimonies who have recorded that she preserved his bones and having beaten them to pouder mingled their dust with her wine in remembrance of him every morning and evening Cicer. Tusc lib. 3. and Plin. lib. 36. cap. 5. Of womans fortitude and magnanimity I will add one admirable president in two virgins of Syracusa equally resolute when by the intestine sedition and civill wars in Syracusa the stock and family of Gelo in these combustions was quite extirpt and rooted out even to his only daughter Harmonia and all the seditious weapons of the enemy now drawn and aim'd at her bosome her nurse piâ—ying her threatned ruin made choice of a young virgin like to her in favour and of equall stature and attiring her in the habit and ornaments of a Princesse offered her to the points of their yet bloody weapons this damsel was of that constancy and noble resolution that notwithstanding she saw eminent death before her was not affrighted with the terror thereof nor would reveal her name or tell of what condition she was Which Harmonia seeing and admiring at her loialty and faith she call'd out to the murdereâ—s and discovering her selfe to preserve her handmaid offered her own naked breast to the slaughter telling them she was present whom they sâ—ught for so that a covered â—allacy to the one and open troth the other in both an admirable and undanted constancy was the cause of their deaths This Hormisda was a great and mighty man amongst the Persians and of one of the most noblest families amongst them as Zozimus Mercellinus and others commemorate He being confin'd unto a certain 〈◊〉 and fettered was there kept with a strict guard of 〈◊〉 who against the lawes of the Kingdom had purpose 〈◊〉 invest his younger brother in the state imperiall 〈◊〉 that in the time of his 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 the remembrance of whose name it is pity time hath abolisht and not left it to posterity thus devised for his enlargement she sent to him a fish as a present of an extraordinary bignesse in whose belly she had hid an iron file and other like engines fit for his purpose committing it to the charge of one of her most faithfull Ennuchs desiring her husband by his mouth not to have the fish cut up in the presence of any only to make happy use of such things as he found enclosed therein To his keepers the better to hide her stratagem she sent Camels laden with sundry kind of meats and severall wines Hormisdâ— apprehending the plot gave it a bold and resolute performance for having first filed off his irons he changed his habit with that of his Eunuchs and taking the advantage of their feasting and healthing past safe through them all and by study and policy of his wife came after to the possession of his right which his younger brother had usurped Alexander the Great amongst his many other conquests having besieged the great City Halicarnassus and by reason of opposition made against him leveld it with the ground He entred Caâ—ia where Ada then reigned Queen who being before opprest by Orontobas imploied by Darius was almost quite beaten out of her Kingdome having at that time no more of all her large dominions left her saving Alynda the most defenced City into which she had retired her selfe for safety She hearing of Alexanders approach gave him a roiall meeting and submitted her selfe her subjects and her City into his power withall adopting him by the name of son The King neither despising her liberality nor the name gave her back the City entire as it was and made her keeper and governesse thereof who soon after recovering all those Cities Darius by invasion had usurped from her in gratitude of her former curtesie reduced her Country and people to their pristine estate and stablisht her in her former Empire This Zenocrita was born in Cuma whose father was at that time amongst many other oppressed Citizens in exile Her the bloody Tyrant Aristodemus was much enamoured of but not daining so much as to court her or to perswade her to his love he imagined in the pride of his heart that the damosell would think it grace and honour sufferent to her to be seen in his company and only for that cause to be held blest and fortunate of all such as should behold her But far other cogitations troubled her more noble mind being tormented in soule to lead such an unchast life though with a Prince who never had motioned contract or promised her marriage her apprehensions were rather how to purchase her Countries freedome and rid the earth of a Tyrant About the same time that she was busied in these and the like imaginations it hapned Aristodemus would needs compasse in a certaine spatious peece of ground with a broad and deep ditch not that it was any way necessary or profitable but only to vex and weary the Citizens with extraordinary pains and insufferable labours for to every man was so much ground limited as a daily task which whosoever in the least kind neglected he was fined in a great mulct either of purse or person It hapned she being abroad to take the aire neer to the place where the Citizens were hard at work that Aristodemus with his traine came thither also to over-look his laborers who after some faults found and other directions given left the place and in his return past by where Zenocrita was then standing she spying him come towards her made him a low obeisance and withall covered her face with her apron The Tyrant being gone the young men in the way of jesting and sport and seeming a little to touch her inchastity demanded the reason why to all other men her face was bare and free only to him vailed intimating that something had past betwixt them which might discover her blushes to whom she made this plain and serious answer I did it to him as an honour because amongst all the
Great Agrippa Aristobulus and Herod that was strook by the Angell also on the aforesaid Beronica he begot two daughters Mariamnes and Herodias who was after Philips wife that was Uncle to Aristobulus neverthelesse whilst Philip was yet alive Herodias became wife to his brother Herod At length there fell debate betwixt her Mariamnes and Saloma Herods sister Herod by the instigation of Saloma â—lew Hyrcanus the Priest and after Jonathas the brother of Mariamnes who against the law he had caused to be consecrated Priest at the age of seventeen years After that he caused Mariamnes to be put to death with the husband of his sister Saloma pretending that Hyrcanus and Jonathas had adulterated his sister After these murders Herod grew mad for the love of Mariamnes who was held to be the fairest Lady then living and innocently put to death He then took again his wife Dosides and her son Antipater to favour sending Alexander and Aristobulus the sons of Mariamnes to Rome to be instructed in the best literature whom after he caused to be slain And these were the fruits of Adulterous and Incestuous marriages Of women that have come by strange deaths THere are many kinds of deaths I will include them all within two heads Violent and Voluntary the Violent is when either it comes accidentally or when we would live and cannot the Voluntary is when we may live and will not and in this we may include the blessedest or all deaths Martyrdome I will begin with the first and because gold is a mettall that all degrees callings trades mysteries and professions of either Sex especially acquire after I will therefore first exemplifie them that have died golden deaths Of the Mistresse of Brennus Of Tarpeia and Acco a Roman Matron OF Midas the rich King and of his golden wish I presume you are not ignorant and therefore in vain it were to insist upon his history my businesse is at this time with women Brennus an Englishman and the younger brother to Belinus both sons of Donwallo was by reason of composition with his brother with whom he had been competitor in the Kingdome disposed into France and leading an army of the Gals invaded forrein Countries as Germany Italy sacking Rome and piercing Greece Insomuch that his glory was stretched so far that the French Chroniclers would take him quite from us and called him Rex Gallorum witnesse Plutarch in his seventeenth Parallel This Brennus spoiling and wasting Asia came to besiege Ephesus where falling in love with a wanton of that City he grew so inward with her that upon promise of reward she vowed to deliver the City into his hands the conditions were that he being possessed of the Town should deliver into her â—ate custody as many jewels rings and as much treasure as should countervaile so great a benefit to which he assented The Town delivered and he being victor she attended her reward when Brennus commanded all his souldiers from the first to the last to cast what gold or silver or jewels they had got in the spoil of the City into her lap which amounted to such an infinite masse that with the weight thereof she was suffocated and prest to death This Clitiphon delivers in his first book Rerum Gallicar to answer which Aristides Melesius in Italicis speaks of Tarpeia a Noble Virgin or at least nobly descended and one of the Keepers of the Capitol she in the war betwixt the Sabines and the Romans covenanted with King Tatius then the publick enemy to give him safe accesse into the mountain Tarpeia so he would for a reward but possesse her of all the gold and jewels which his souldiers the Sabins had then about them This she performing they were likewise willing to keep their promise but withall loathing the covetousnesse of the woman threw so much of the spoile and treasure upon her that they buried her in their riches and she expiâ—ed admist a huge Magazin But remarkable above these is the old woman Acco or Acca who having done an extraordinary courtesie for the City of Rome they knew not better how to require her then knowing her a varitious disposition to give her free liberty to go into the common treasury and take thence as much gold as she could carry The wretched woman overjoied with this donative entered the place to make her pack or burden which was either so little she would not beare or so great she could not 〈◊〉 and swetting and striving beneath the burden so expâ—â—ed The like though something a more violent death died the Emperor Galba who in his life time being insatiate oâ— gold as being covetous above all the Emperors before him they poured molten gold down his throat to confirm in him that old Adage Qualis vita finis ita The like was read of the rich Roman Crassus Of such as have died in child-birth THough of these be infinites and daily seen amongst us yet it is nor altogether amisse to speak something though never so little which may have reference to antiquity Volaterranus remembers us of Tulliota the daughter of Marcus Cicero who being first placed with Dolobella and after with Piso Crassipides died in Child-bed The like Suetonius puts us in mind of Junia Claudilla who was daughter to the most noble Marcus Sillanus and wife to the Emperor Caâ—us Caligula who died after the same manner Hâ—ginus in his two hundred threescore and fourth Fable tels this tale In the old time saith he there were no midwives at all and for that cause many women in their modesty rather suffered themselves to perish for want of help then that any man should be seen or known to come about them Above all the Athenians were most curious that no servant or woman should learn the art of Chirurgery There was a damosell of that City that was very industrious in the search of such mysteries whose name was Agnodice but wanting means to attaine unto that necessary skill she caused her head to be shorn and putting on the habit of a young man got her selfe into the service of one Hierophilus a Physitian and by her industry and study having attained to the depth of his skill and the height of her own desires upon a time hearing where a Noble Lady was in child-birth in the middest of her painfull throwes she offered her selfe to her help whom the modest Lady mistaking her Sex would by no perswasion suffer her to come neer her till she was forced to strip her selfe before the women and to give evident signe of her woman-hood After which she had accesse to many proving so fortunate that she grew very famous Insomuch that being envied by the Colledge of the Physitians she was complained on to the Areopagitae or the nobility of the Senate such in whose power it was to censure and determine of all causes and controversies Agnodice thus convented they pleaded against her youth and boldnesse accusing her
rather a corrupter of their chastities then any way a curer of their infirmities blaming the matrons as counterfeiting weaknesse purposely to have the company and familiarity of a loose and intemperate young man They prest their accusations so far that the Judges were ready to proceed to sentence against her when she opening her brest before the Senate gave manifest testimony that she was no other then a woman at this the Physitians being the more incens'd made the fact the more heinous in regard that being a woman she durst enter into the search of that knowledge of which their Sex by the law was not capable The cause being ready again to go against her the noblest matrons of the City assembled themselves before the Senate and plainly told them they were rather enemies then husbands who went about to punish her that of all their Sex had bin the most studious for their generall health and safety Their importancy so far prevailed after the circumstances were truly considered that the first decree was quite abrogated and free liberty granted to women to employ themselves in those necessary offices without the presence of men So that Athens was the first City of Greece that freely admitted or Midwives by the means of this damosell Agnodice Of women that suffered martyrdome ANd of these in briefe Corona was a religious woman who suffered martyrdome under the Tyranny of Antonius the Emperor Her death was after this manner she was tied by the arms and legs betwixt two trees whose stiffe branches were forced and bowed down for the purpose the bowes being shackned and let loose her body was tossed into the aire and so cruelly dissevered limb from limb Anatholia a virgin by the severe command of Faustinianus the President was transpierc'd with a sword Felicula as Plutarch witnesseth when by no perswasion or threats promises or torments she could be forced to renounce the Christian Faith by the command of Flaccus Comes she was commanded to be shut up in a jakes and there stilled to death Murita had likewise the honour of a Martyr who being banished by Elphedorus a certaine Arrian opprest with cold and hunger most miserably died Hyrene the virgin because she would not abjure her faith and religion was by Sisimmius shot through with an arrow The like death suffered the martyr Christiana under Julian the Apostata Paulina a Roman Virgin and daughter to the Prefect Artemius was with her mother Candida stoned to death by the command of the Tyrant Dioclesian Agatho virgo Catanensis was strangled in Prison by the command of the Consul Quintianus Theodora a virgin of Antioch was beheaded by the tyranny of Dioclesian Julia Countesse of Eulalia suffered the same death under the President Diaconus Margarita a maid and a martyr had her head cut off by Olibrius Zoe the wife of Nicostratus was nailed unto a crosse and so ended her life partly with the torture of the gibbet and partly with the smoke that the executioner made at the foot of the gallowes suffocated Julia Carthagensis because she would not bow to idols and adore the falâ—e heathen gods but was a constant professor of the Christian Faith was martyred after the selfe same manner Emerita the sister of Lucius King of England who had the honour to be called the first Christian King of this Country she suffered for the Faith by fire Alexandria was the wife of Dacianus the President who being converted to the Faith by blessed Saint George was therefore by the bloody murderer her husbands own hands strangled Maximianus the son of Dioclesian with his own hands likewise slew his naturall sister Artemia because that forsaking all Idolatry she proved a convert to the true Christian Faith Flavia Domicilla a noble Lady of Rome was banished into the Isle Ponâ—ia in the fifteenth yeare of the raign 〈◊〉 Dâ—nâ—tian for no other reason but that she constantly professed her selfe to be a Christian These two following suffered persecution under Antonius Verus in France Blondina who is said to weary her tormentors patiently enduring more then they could malitiously inflict insomuch that before she fainted they confessed themselves overcome she ready still to suffer and beare when they had not blowes to give for as oft as she spake these words I am a Christian neither have I committed any evill she seemed to the spectators of her martyrdome to be so refreshed and comforted from above that she felt no paine or anguish in the middest of her torture and in that patience she continued without alternation even to the last gaâ—â— Biâ—â—is one that before through her womanish weaknesse had faiâ—â—ed for fear oâ— torments comming to see her with others exâ—â—uted was so strengthened to behold their constancy that as it were awakened out of her former dream and comparing those temporall punishments which lasted but a moment with the eternall pains of hell fire gave up her selfe freely for the Gospels sake Dionysius in an Epistle to Fabius Bishop of Antioch reckons up those that suffered martyrdome under Decius the Emperor Quinta a faithfull woman was by the Infidels brought into a Temple of their Idols unto which because she denied divine adoration they bound her hand and foot and most inhumanely dragged her along the streets upon the sharp stones but when that could not prevaile with her they beat her head and sides and bruised them against Milâ—stones that done she was pitiously scourged and lastly bloodily executed The same Lâ—ctors laid hands on Apollonia a Virgin but something grounded in years and because she spake boldly in the defence of her Faith first with barbarous cruelty they beat out her teeth then without the City they prepared a huge pile threatning to burn her instantly unlesse she would renounce her Christianity but she seeming to pause a little as if she meant better to consider of the matter when they least suspected leapt suddenly into the fire and was there consumed to ashes Ammomarion a holy Virgin after the suffering of many torments under the same Tyrant gave up her life an acceptable sacrifice for the Gospell Mercuria a vertuous woman and one Dionysia a fruitfull and child-bearing martyr after they were questioned about their faith and in all arguments boldly opposed the Judges were first rackt and tortured till they were past all sence of feeling that done they caused them to be executed Theodosia was a virgin of Tyrus about the age of eighteen years she comming to visit certaine prisoners at Cesarea who were called to the bar and because they stood stedfastly in the defence of the Gospell prepared themselves to hear the most welcome sentence of death pronounced against them which Theodosia seeing gently saluted them comforted them and perswaded them to continue in their constancy withall humbly desired them to remember her devoutly in their praiers which she knew would be acceptable to him for whose love they so freely offered up their lives The Officers this hearing dragged
〈◊〉 was the favourite or sweet-heart of Anacrcon the Poet of whom 〈◊〉 de Stellis Amatum à vate Batillum Pictum oculis suscumque coma roseumque labellis The Poet of Batillus was enâ—moured With 〈…〉 brown hair and lips like Roses red By the way Sure there was a great dearth of beauty in those daies amongst women when boies and catamites were so doted on by men Bellerophon was not only affected by Sthenoboea the wife of Pretus King of the Argives but doted on by Vâ—nus Of Castor and Pollux the two faire Tindarides Ovid. lâ—b 6 thus writes At gemini nondum Coelestia sidera fratres Ambo conspiâ—uâ— nive caendidioribus ambo Vectabantur equis The two twin brothers not as yet accounted ' Mongst the coelestiall stars conspicuous both Vpon two steeds whiter then snow were mounted c. The young boy Cestâ—us Martial thus commends Quanta 〈◊〉 est probitas c. How great â—hy honesty thy same as rare O sweet child Cestus thou that mai'st compare With Theâ—eus son did bright Diana see Thee naked once enamoured she would be And ' tice thee to some pleasant rivers brim There strip her selfe and teach thee how to swim Demoâ—les an Athenian youth was of that pulchritude that he was called by all men Pulâ—her Dâ—mocles and that which seldome meets with beauty of that rare temperance that when King Demetrius plucked him to have made him a prostitute to his unlawfull and beastly lusts to shun his embraces he leaped into a caldron of seething hot liquor and there drowned himselfe Plutarch in Demetrio Dâ—adumenuâ— the cup-bearer to Augustus was of that admirable feature that in the contention which was made Elis he carried the palm both from men and women Volaterran For no other causâ— was Gâ—â—ymede said to fill Nectar to Jupiter then for his elegâ—ncy oâ— form Gâ—letes was a youth of that excellent feature and so endeared to Pâ—olomaeus that when divers malefactors and for great crimes were led to execution only at his entreaty he spared their lives Hypoclides the son of Thysander as Herodotus relates was excellent above all the Athenians for wealth and beauty Of Hyas the son of Atlas and Aethra Ovid. 5. de Fast Nondum stabat Atlas humeros oneratus Olympo Cum satus est forma conspiciendus Hias Olympas weight did not as yet Great Atlas back adorn When as the lovely Hyas of Conspicuous shape was born â—ylas the son of Hyadamus was not only endeared to to Hercules but doted on by the nymphs called Driades Iulus the son of Aeneas and Creâ—sa was taken for Cupid the son of Venus Juvenâ—us was the minion of Catullus as Lygurinus was to Hâ—â—ace so likewise Lycus of whom he thus speaks Et Lycum nigris oculis nigroque Crine decorum Lycus rare Both for his black eies and his black sleek hair Some thing more freely he speaks of the Pulchâ—â—tude of Nearchus in Carmâ— and his Odes O Nireus the son of Caropus and Alaga Homer speaks at large as Horace likewise in Carm. and 〈◊〉 Tibullus commends his Marathis Maximinus that his head being m'ngled and bloody yet notwithstanding in death it looked admirable Marcellus the son of 〈◊〉 and Lyriope was so faire that the numphs were surprised with his beauty Eâ—dimion was beloved of the Moon Val Flaccus lib. 8. â—â—tmius Aestiva residâ—t venator in umbra Dâ—gnus amore Dâ—ae The 〈…〉 in the Summer shade Worthy the love of that 〈◊〉 maid In 〈◊〉 was the majestic 〈◊〉 beauty that the wife of King Dâ—â—rius saluted him for Alexander for his exquisite form he was especially beloved of Alexander Virgil commends the shape of 〈◊〉 the son of Nyâ—us So Nysus King of the Megarenses was said to have hairs of gold they were of such splendour Sâ—aâ—ius commends 〈…〉 the son of 〈◊〉 and Atalanta or as some write of Mars and 〈◊〉 Caelius Ovid and others celebrate Phaon the beloved of Sappâ—o the Poetesse for the fairest of the world 〈…〉 who was the familiar of Socrates and Plato was for exquisite shape compelled to be prostituted by the â—aud his Master Of Pyramus Ovid thus speaks Metamorph. lib. 4. Pyramus Thisbe Juvenum Pulcherrimus alter Young Pyranius and Thisbe he Of all the young men fairest And she of all the Eastern world Of lovely girls the rarest c. Spurinae was a youth of such an alluring beauty that when he could neither reserve himselfe from suit of men or importunities of women he deformed his own beauty with scratches and wounds to preserve his own chastity Valer Max. de Verecundis Magnes Smyrnaeus was the most beautifull of his age and so acceptable to Gyges King of Lydia that when his paâ—ents cut off his delicate and faire haire somewhat to takâ— off the Kings affection the King was so incensed that for that cause alone he made warre against the Magnesians Pausan apud Volater The Poet Musaeus celebrates the rare form of Leander a youth of Abidos and beloved of Hero As Virgil doth the like of Lausus the son of 〈…〉 lib. 7 Herodotus speaking of 〈◊〉 saith that he had in his army sixty eighty 〈◊〉 of men yet amongst them all he was the beautifullest of face and tallest of 〈◊〉 I could reckon up others as Pelops Idas Jason 〈…〉 Hymene the least of them a Prince the 〈…〉 or the dearly beloved of some Queen or goddesse This is only to put you in mind O 〈◊〉 That though you have engrossed a great portionâ— beauty yeâ— you are not possest of all since not only men but divers other creatures share with you neither have 〈◊〉 suced these to derâ—gate any thing from your worths only to abate some of that ambition or selfe-love which is commonly attendant upon beauty One thing for your grace I have read in the Spanish Chronicle of an exquisiâ—e 〈…〉 like I did never of any excellent man Queen Iâ—abel the wife of Henry sirnamed the Humble being 〈◊〉 her selfe in her window against which the Sun shined somewhat 〈◊〉 it is credibly reported that the beams of the Sun set her curled locks on fire some held it as a prodigie others alluded it to her miraculous beauty some thoughâ— that one pane or other in the window was of the nature of a burning glasse and that was the cause others imputed it to certain oâ—les and sweet unguents with which the Queens and great Ladies use to dresse their haire howsoever if their Chronicle speak truth most certain it is that her lust made greater combustion in the land then the Sun had power to commit upon her hair I have one thing more to instance to your grace and so I will conclude my discourse An Embassador being to be enterteined in the Court of Queen Elizabeth where the greatest state was still observed he first passed through a lane of the guard in their rich coats next through the Gentlemen Pensioners and so through all the greater Officers the Lords Earls and Councel The Queen sat then in state
Apollo who can Phaon know Take borns and 'bout thy temples wreaths of vine What 's he can say but th' art the god of Wine Phoebus lov'd Daphne Bacchus Gâ—osis bright Yet neither she nor she could Lyricks write The nine Muse-sisters of my verse dispose And what my numbers are the whole world knowes Nor can my Country-man Alcaeus more Then I though he in age stand ranck'd before Nor though his name sound louder can he raise Or from his Lyre or Country greater praise If niggard Nature have deni'd things fit Yet what I want in shape I have in wit My stature's low but know my name is high And bruited through all regions far and nigh I am not fair what therein do I lack Andromeda pleas'd Perseus yet she black The whitest Doves with mingled colors make And the black turtle the Green-bird take If none can be thought worthy of thy love But such as shall thy like in beauty prove Young man despair thou art for ever free None such ere was none such shall ever be When first thou readst my Verses thou didst say I only pleas'd and I was fair that way That I became my phrase and none so well Then did I sing we lovers all must tell And I remember thou 't is still my pride At every note didst on my lips divide Nay even those kâ—sses pleas'd thee wondrous well But most of all when I beneath thee fell My wantonnesse contented thee 'bove measure My nimble motion and words apt for pleasure Then when in confus'd rapture we both lay Fulness of joy depriv'd all use of play Now the Sicilian girls are thy new spoil I 'll be of them and leave the Lesbian soil You Nisean mothers and fair daughters bred In Sicilie let him be banished From forth your earth nor let the many lies The smoothnesse of his false tongue can devise Beguile your simple truth what to you he Speaks uow h' hath spoken a thousand times to me And goddesse Erecina thou that do'st The barbarons rude Sicania honor most Advise thy Poet by thy wit divine And give me counsel since thou know'st I am thine Can Fortune in this bitter course still run Vowes she to end those ills she hath begun Six yeers are past since my abortive grones Mourn'd and my tears wet my dead Parents bones My needy brother as a second crosse Dotes on a strumpet suffring shame with losse Turn'd Pirate and proves the seas with sail and oar And badly seeks wealth lost as ill before Because my faithfull counsell that course rated My guerdon is that I by him am hated And lest my endlesse torments should find ease My young irregular daughter adds to these The last and great'st cause why I thus miscarry Thou art my Baâ—k still sails with winds contrary Behold my erst well-ord'red Locks mis-plac'd And those that in times past my temples grac'd Neglected are as if they were not mine No precious gems upon my fingers shine My habit 's vile my hair no crisp in wears Nor smâ—ll my locks of sweet Arabian tears Whom should I seek to please since he 's absent That was sole author of mine ornament My soft heart is with easie shafts imprest There 's still new cause to lodge love in my breast Either because the Sisters three had force When I was born to spin my thread so course Or this my studies in the Arts constrain Since 〈◊〉 Thalia doth infuse my brain What wonder if a youth of the first chin Surprize me years which man to man might win â—was afraid lest fair Aurora thou For Cephalus wouldst steal him and I now Am still in fear for surely this had past But that thy first love holds thee still so fast If Phoebus that 〈◊〉 all things thee had seen Phaon in lasting slumbers cast had been Venus had rapt him into heaven by this But that she fear'd Mars would have made him his Thou that no child yet scarce man appears Best age the pride and glory of thy years Return unto my bosome since of thee I beg not love but that thou lov'd would'st be Lo as I write tears from mine eies amain Still drop behold how they my paper stain Thy parting had been gentler in words few Hadst thou but said Sweet Lesbian lasse adue Thou took'st with thee no parting kiss no tears I little dream'd I was so neer my fears Of thine save wrong I nothing have no more Thou let that move thee all my love dost store I gave thee no command nor had that day Vnlesse some such Do not forget me pray By Love that never can forsake that breast By our nine sacred sisters I protest He 's gone when some but who I know not said For a long space both words and tears were staid Mine eies had banisht tears and grief my tongue Through cold my heart unto my ribs was clung My grief retir'd I gan to beat my breast To tear my hair nor blush to walk undrest Like carefull mothers who with loud exclaims Bear their dead children to their funerall flames Charaxus walks by laughing to and fro And from my extasie his pleasures grow And which more shame unto my sorrowes gives Asks why this woman weeps her daughter lives But Shame and Love are two the people stare To see my garments torn and breasts unbare Thou Phaon art my care and my dreams stay Thee fled your dreams that have made night my day I find thee there though absent many a mile But O my dreams last but a little while Oft think I that thy arms my neck infold As likewise these two are with thine like hold I know thy kisses thy tongue-sport I know Which thou wast wont to take and to bestow More pleas'd sometimes words like to truth I spake And to thy form my sences are awake What 's more I shame to tell and blush to write Dreaming all done may perfect our delight No sooner Titan dons his golden beams And with them all things sees I curse my dreams Desarts and Dens I then seek as if they Could profit me â—â—nce guilty of our play Madly like her whom mad Erictho bears I thither â—un my hair 's faln 'bout mine ears I see the Caverâ—s with rough gravel strew'd To me they like Mygdonian Marble shew'd The shades I find that gave us oft our rest And friendly Herbage by our burthenâ— prest Thee master of those Groves and me no place Can shew me therefore they appear most base I knew the very flowers where we have line Our weights have made their upright heads decline Where thou hast falne I threw me in that place But first the gratefull flowers drink from my face The boughes despoil'd a sadnesse seem to bring And on their top most branches no birds sing Only the Daulian bird her discontents Chams out aloud and Itis still taments Iris the bird laments Sapho th' affright Of Love forsaken so we spend the night There is a perfect