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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

neither they for fiercenesse will departe with nor we for feare dare attempt to recouer Thus mightie men speake the word and al heare them when miserable wretches shead their teares but not any help thē our Plaints must be Should Would because men y t are vnder-rule but their Pleas are Shal Wil because men that can ouer-rule Our greeuous affectiōs fatigate dull sences and tire Capacities but their golden Dum-showes are effectual euen to dimme sightes and deaffe eares one and the same course is in vs dilatorie in them orderly to vs a Dimission to them a Decree for Iudgements against them haue they Errors with them for Sentences Repreeues and for Repreeues Pardons But what alas doe we if we doe aught at all then seare Hydra her heades and sweate in Hercules his Perils plucking vpon vs twentie troubles by proceeding to one Triall and though they eate vs as bread and sell vs for shoes yet vppon whome should we complaine that either careth or not correcteth the Aduersarie so he way down right wayeth not at all the wrong the Lawyer so hee hath a fee disgesteth the foyle and fathereth the crime on the cause the Magistrate he sayth Nole me tangere angere least the incarnate God prooue an vntimelye Diuell Thus may it please your Maiestie when all were tried and I was tired and that they lacked pitie and I likely to perish I was by good happe aduertised by some that spake as they spead to appeale from those officious persons or adiourning Maiestrates that heare not without hire to the Court and Nobility there who heare such Sutors with more expedition and helpe them with lesse expences This aduise made me hardy but the accident thereof maketh mee happie in that your highnesse vouchsafeth the hearing of it in your owne person which vnworthie wretche I durst not so much as in thought to haue hoped for Opheltes most gratious Soueraigne Opheltes more fortunate to dignities than faithfull in his dealinges is the onely man giuing occasion to this my Complainte whome being present in your Court maye it please your Maiestie personally to cal to this Controuersie that hea●ing how and wherin I shall charge him by accusation ●e may I would he might cleare himselfe by aunswere for rightfull Causes feare not indifferent Trials Opheltes was then called who appearing Philargus thus proceeded Cap. 47. THe Cilician Tyrāt lately vsurping in this your kingdome most gratious Lord pursuing for what offence I know not the death of this vngratefull Gentleman inforced him for sauegard of his life secretly as a Fugitiue to skulke in euery corner in his wandring he hapned vnhappily may I say vppon my poore Cottage vnto whom vtterly vnknowne to me and the cloathes on his backe scarcely couering his bare I gaue for very pitie suche intertainment as my small abilitie woulde then suffer plucking off his olde ragges and putting on him newe Russets Now whether it were that despaire to regaine the estate he lately had forgon made him resolute or feare to goe farther and speede worser diligent or that necessitie made him vertuous being naturally vitious I know not but this I found that shortly he setled himselfe with such towardnesse to our countrie Affaires and homely fare that the best husband-man was not more cunning at his worke nor the worst Hine lesse choise of his meat so that finding him more diligent than a Seruaunt and no lesse dutifull than a Sonne by the one I receiued commoditie in the other I conceiued comfort such was poore Opheltes who then did not shame to be my seruaunt but suche is not prosperous Opheltes that now doth skorne to be my sonne in law And yet though his present Honour hath altered his former honestie this is the man and the selfe same Opheltes vnto whome not hauing a Coate to his backe Coyne in his purse Foode for his belly or Couerture for his head I gaue both Apparell Monie Meate and Harbour And more than so I haue or rather I feare me I had but one only Childe a Daughter whome Opheltes long wooed at length wone and with my consent did wedde howbeit wretched Wenche many a lustie Youth and riche Francklines sonne in seeking her beautie such as it was togethers with her inexorable loue lost their vnregarded labour only Opheltes had the happe to make her an vnhappie Wife Yea my dotage extended yet a degree farther so well did I thinke of the man that vtterlye dispossessing my selfe I wholie possessed him of mine intiere substaunce neither did I soone recant what now too late I repent but for the time was rather tickled with a vain ioye seeing him honestly to encrease his wealth hartily to intreate me and husband-like to vse my Daughter his Wife But no extremitie hath eternitie as the worlde turned to better so this Wretche changed to worser for no sooner was the Tyraunt his Foe deade and your Maiestie his Friend reseazed of your Roiall Diademe but that he suddenlye made sale of almost all that was ours and by your Highnesse means and my monie recouered his own since which time much haue we heard of Opheltes nowe the exquisite Courtier but nothing at all of Opheltes the late expert Carter pardon me I beseeche your Maiestie that notwithstanding all other iniuries woulde not thus speake to his disgrace did hee not still prosecute mee with Disdaine whiche euen Wretches disgest not There is in this Citie a stately and secrete Courtizan called Phaemonoe a faire dame in countinance but a foule diuell in conuersation aboūding in riches but abandoned of honestie whose lasciuious daliances as since my repaire hither I haue bene tolde and my selfe in part canne testifie hath so farre estranged Opheltes from the dutie of an husbande that by circumstances it may be intended he hath not so much as once remembered his Wife vnto whom since his departure hee hath not voutchsafed succor sight or sending too Mine owne pinching neede my Daughter her pitifull lamentations and his vnkinde absence from vs both roused vp mine aged Limbes vnwieldye God wot for suche iournies to seeke after him whome vnwitting to vs wee had lost and vnwilling to himselfe in the ende I founde if to loose an egge and fynde a Cockatrice may be tearmed a finding for in very troth Opheltes was so farre off from being founde the same Opheltes hee lately was that when hee with many surly lookes sterne words and scoffing aunsweres had dismissed mee his presence as a dispargement to his acquaintaunce I for the tyme not trusting mine owne Eyes began also to make a doubtfull pawse in acknowledging an vndoubted person vntill at length I perceiued it to fare with me as with the poore Sparrow that hatcheth her owne destruction Wherefore minding with pacience to beare this wrong and brooke my losse I retourned home to my comfortlesse house But here alas a greater woe had almost berefte me my wittes Alcippe woe am I my Daughter Alcippe was lacking and yet still is

not yet liuing did languish neuer wer men wrapped in more miserie or distressed so vnmeasurably This alas is greeuous ynough that you haue heard but harder was our hap than thus Whilst we stoode rufullye gazing one vppon an other more like to ghosts departed than men liuing our good Generall Menophis a noble Duke and victorious Captain vnder whose fortunate conduct we had diuers times before preuailed in many a hot Encounter being now 〈◊〉 of an vnhappie Embassage frō India into Cicyona looking as ghost-like as any other and supporting his weake body with a shorte Iauilin pight in the middle of the Hat●hes spake to vs as followeth Cap. 18. WEre it so my euermore couragious but now comfortlesse companiōs that we once again were in y e champion fields of India enclosed with the warlike bands of Semiramis though fiue times doubled yet would I put you in hope either to march after them in a second pursuite or at the least to make from them the first escape but alas small is the councel that I am now able to giue yet somwhat the comfort that therby you may gaine but no conquest at al is here to be got knowing that to intreate or threaten the churlish surges were more than Follie. Onely giue me leaue in this my last I say my last and vnaccustomed exhortation to preuaile and then assure your selues that if this aged carcase of mine sufficiently instructed not to feare death to be solde into perpetuall bondage or to suffer death it selfe might be in ought availeable to you I would account such bondage a freedome and such death a flea-biting for how I haue bene am affectioned towards you may well appeare in this that I a Duke by birth and your General by assignmēt was notwithstanding the first before the meanest here that did want to eate not the last of this company that did feele the famine and yet were you eased of this miserie I should not be impatient of much more sorrowe Listen therefore I say how I your careful Captaine not occasioned nowe as often times heretofore to instruct you how and in what manner you ought to fight am at this time after a far differing sort to admonishe you how and in what manner you are to die It either needes not or bootes not to be offended with Fortune that can be no other then mutable by name and nature neither is Fortune whom it pleaseth the irreligious people to intitle a blinde Goddesse any other in deede then a by-name drawne from the Originals and Euents of our mortall actions but it is the vndoubted gods thēselues whom we haue by some meanes vnaduisedly offended it is they that punish and them must we pacifie as those of whose aide we should neuer dispaire for though persecution procureth a death to the bodie yet a conscience dispairing assureth death to the soule miserable is distresse more miserable distrust but most miserable then to feare when we cannot hope Neuerthelesse let vs not make our case so desperate but that whatsoeuer shall betyde vs life or death we laie hold-fast on patience the onely touch-stone of vertue being pleasure vnto paine comfort to correction wealth vnto want and death vnto death vanquishing altogether with suffring and not with striuing then which is nothing more victorious no not death it selfe for who are those that death conquereth euen such fooles as dreade him and vnto whom the onely remembraunce of death is an horrour such I say as willingly become Ghostes whilst they feare their graues fearing more in sence then they may feele in substance and not thinking their paine will be either not great or not long What shoulde be the cause that men hauing Nature their vndoubted Author Reason their assure● Instructor Experience their continuall Perswader should neuertheles or euer death commeth little better then die through the onely feare they conceiue of death vnles doting to much on their wealth which they are loth to leaue or else hoping to little of the mercifull gods who then forgiue an ill life when they find a good ende with whom it shalbe neuer to late too shake hāds as esteeming whatsoeuer is done wel enough to be done soone ynough Yea the rather my louing companions haue we no cause to dreade death or wish life that are to die at the appointment of the gods and not by the iudgement of men for to the Person worthely condemned death is a double death it being farre more miserable to deserue it then to suffer it and yet though it be in the power of men to iudge men which I also thinke to happen but at sufferance of the gods Nature doth assure death vnto al not graunting to any one his life by pattent but at pleasure and that in such sorte that not the wysest man lyuing can say there then or thus I shall die and yet sure he is that die he shall Seeing therefore my good friendes that death is so certaine as nothing more sure and the order of his comming so vnsure as nothing lesse certaine and that an honest death is the goale of our liues howe happie are we if we could conceiue of our happinesse that shall die with such fauourable opportunitie of repentance well deseruing of our countrie lamented for of our friendes not laughed at of our fooes yea then when life is yrkenot some vnto vs that not on Ieobets as do Malefactors not in Prisons as doe Captiues not in Corners as doe Cowardes not in Quarrels as doe Cutters not in Chaines in our enemies Triumphes neither yet suddenly then which no death is more dreadfull but in a ship which doth argue vs venterous in the Seas not to be subdued by Cōquerours in our Prince his affaires as loyall subiectes with famine which confoundeth Mōsters with fame of former prowesse and by prayer which shall reuiue vs. What can we wish more of the gods or what should I say more to you whose deliuerie is not desperat but euē to sence vnpossible and vnto whom forlorne Soules death the ende of all wretchednesse ought especialy to be welcome Certes no more remaineth but to intreate you whom henceforth I shall neuer more exhort to be patient without grudging penitent without wauering prepared without dispayring dying to the flesh and lyuing to your soules yea lastly remember I beseech you that we are no sooner borne into the worlde but that wee liue to die from the world therfore ought rather to loue whether we must necessarily then from whence we must of necessitie Thus not able to comfort you as I woulde but willingly to counsell you as I may no more resteth but that I wish the continuance of so grieuous a life to haue deliueraunce by a godly death This said y e noble Duke turneth his face we might perceiue how the teares trilled down his cheeks at sight wherof we that did alwaies reuerēce him for his Grauity obay him for his Authority loue him for

hartie teares shee intreateth to vse her if not as a wise of which name shee sayde her selfe vnworthy yet at least-wise as an instrument to discharge him of the kinges Sentence and as the meane whereby to recouer his extented landes suspended libertie To be short Opheltes now acknowledging her seemed confounded with shame and in conclusion being wholye conquered with the consideration of her so rare patience policie constancie and which was not inferiour to y e rest her beauty confessed his falshood repented him of his follie craued pardon for both and vowed following loyaltie and herevpon from wondering and weeping fell they to kissing and imbracing In which mean while Phaemonoe by euill aduenture entered the place who perceiuing their mutuall teares admiring their vnusuall familiaritie whether it were offended therewithall or fearing least Opheltes after the time prescribed for his banishment being taken in her house mighte so turne her to damage or that iealousie frenzie or malice incensed her so to doe it shall not matter but howsoeuer it happened she railed so out of square vpon Opheltes with wordes and fared so roughly agaynst Alcippe with blowes that after much sufferaunce he not able longer to indure the one or disgest the other his Melancholie being nowe conuerted to Choler whilste Phaemonoe thus persisted to outrage did in his furie stab her to the hart in such sorte that of the same wound shee presently died Immediatelye after the deede done Opheltes was apprehended who as principall and Alcippe as Accessarie were brought before Philargus then being in great Honour and a Iusticer in Sardis who vnderstanding of the fact and with greefe ynough acknowledging the offendors because he would not be thought ouer-forward in doing iustice against Opheltes neither to slack a Iusticer in reuenging the death of Phaemonoe both as before his enemies but chiefly because nature would not suffer him to sit in iudgement against Alcippe his owne and only child with a hart therefore melting with sorrow hee dismissed both Prisoners his presence referring their cause to be determined by the king in his own persō Philargus good old man in the meane while by so muche suspending his ioy in that he had found his Daughter by howe much he feared to loose her againe being now to be arained of murther But the matter being thus brought before the king vpon y e ripping vp of al Circumstances the death of Phaemonoe was though worthie her dishonest life Opheltes and Alcippe were acquited by the king and he receiued again into fauour Philargus is made a ioyfull father of Alcippe Opheltes is reconciled to him and inriched and euerye thing amisse was now amended BUt that I may now reduse your memories and retire your eares to the historie whereof I principallye intreat that is of the cause and euent of Atys and Abynados their Quest and trauels you are to remember that Arbaces the olde Meade and his Companion leauing behind them in their place Sorares and his Assirians are as before is sayd escaped out of the barren Iland frō whence they safely ariued at Sarmatia and from thence againe as pittying the distresse wherein they had left Sorares and his company and for their deliuery they are alreadye resailed to the barren Iland vnto whom and to Sorares Atys and Abynados whome we are now to ship from Lydia hapned as immediately doth now followe Arbaces Pars Calami primi Cap. 52. AFter that Atys and Abynados had made lōg abode in Lydia hauing receaued great intertainmente and Giftes of the king they shippe themselues and their companye cheefelye directing their Course towardes Sarmatia but as they had no absolute knowledge there to finde those persons for whome they sought so in this their sayling they did not precisely obserue any direct course but entered now an● than into such adiacent Seas Creekes Channels into which likelihoods profit pleasure or necessitie did carrie them So that in riding vpon the floud Tanais which doth diuide the Scythians from the Sarmatians thy coast by a very pleasaunt and dilectable Ilande here did they lande their men in purpose to haue taken in fresh water and other prouigion But farre had they not forraged frō their ship disorderly roming as vnsuspitious of that whiche hapned when the Ilanders who from the next mountains had espied their ariuall lying a great number in ambushment had sodainly inclosed them in on euery syde their barbarous darts and weapons for the most part bearing to the great terror of the Assirians the bloody tokens of some very late slaughter What cold the Assirians now doe or rather what did they not that valiant and couragious men shoulde haue done many they slew and some of them were slaine but in the ende the multitude of the Ilanders preuailed against the manhood of the Assirians who being thus captiuated were anon committed to bands and than brought before the Gouernesse or rather Goddesse of those Ilanders For such was the superstitious errour of the people in those idolatrous dayes that whosoeuer had extirped Tyraunts ciuiled Nations confounded Monsters or else by prowes wisedome Inuention or by any extraordinarie good profited any common Wealth and Countrie the same liuing was magnified for more than a man and dead canonised a God so that easier was it thē for men to make Gods then for such their Gods to make men By this meanes therefore it came to passe that those Ilanders had alreadie in deuosion deified their Gouernesse Dircilla for such as was Pallas to the Grecians and Isis to the Aegyptians so and suche was she to this people and albeit yeres for now was she very aged had wrought a naturall decay in her beautie being yet more then ordidinarie neyther place time nor troubles had so empayred the Maiestie of her lookes or impugned the magnanimity of her hart but that armed much to the Amazonian fashion she seemed more warlike thē Penthisilea or rather more terrible then Bellona her selfe In such wise issuing out of her portatiue Tent after she had twise or thrise shaked her yrefull Launce in signe of her vnappeasable furie against the Assirians shee lefte vnto the wretched Captiues the same comfort as if they had presentlye behelde the heade of Medusa and as the fiercenesse of those her lookes had ynough of feare so the deliuerie of these her wordes had nothing of hope Are qd she to the Ilanders the bands and captiuitie of these vngratious people sufficient thinke you to warrant your safetie or haue I pleasure suppose you to see their bodies yet breathing vpon whose Ghosts also were it possible we should doe execution was I yesterday deceaued in those Assirians whom I commaunded you to execute as the Espials and Agents of some other their Accomplicers or thinke you by intercepting of them and these you haue disappointed their Confederacie no no be ye assured that the expedition of their Treasons doth not only consist vpon these two Companies esteeme therefore all haste ouer little