Matie we impose a penance upoÌ„ you for your oversight and this it shal be that henceforth you neither speake nor think of that you account your fault and to helpe you in obeying my commands I must intreat you to keep your mind and tongue for a time busied in telling me what befel you in your travel since our being at Corinth and do it not so niggardly as if you meant to conceale what fame hath so largely blowne abroad yet if you were expos'd at anie time to much danger dwell not there too long least I forget I have you heere Most deere Ladie said Amphialus to conforme my selfe to your last request would make me disobedient to your first command Shall I begin with my departure from you alas at vvhat time should I more imploy my memorie speech in discoverie of my faultie selfe than now But I see your eies begin to take anger into them I will no longer insist on mine owne accusation Know therefore most constant Ladie that accompanied onely with Fidutio my Page when I had past the limits of your dominion at that time of day wheÌ„ the high mounted Sunne makes least shadowes wearied with travell and desirous of some shelter from the Sunnes violent rayes I laid my selfe under the protection of an Olive tree thinking to set my mutinous thoughts at peace but it would not beâ— these outward signes could not appease the furie of an inward enemie Thus I lay deerly purchasing the little ease of my bodie with the affliction of my minde untill mine eares like faithfull servants desirous to end this dissension between their Master and himselfe caus'd all the powers of my mind to joine in attentivenes and mine eies loath to be out-gone in such good offices did look that vvay from vvhence the noise came where I might discerne sixe men arm'd on horseback carrie a faire Ladie vvith them vvhose teares out-cries vvell shew'd her indispositioÌ„ to that journey This sight mov'd compassioÌ„ in me pittie brought a desire to help her distresse but my horse devining belike my intent unwilling to leave his food could by no meanes be taken so that madd vvith anger I began to repeat over all the misfortunes that ever had befaln me to let this know it wanted no fellowes when there came posting that way one whoÌ„ by his hast â— I ghest to have been of the companie gone before Of him I intreated to know what fault could be so heinous that might take away the name of injurie froÌ„ so unmanly a violence as they offred to so beauteous a Ladie but he with a scornfull silence smil'd would be goneâ— and so perhaps he might had not the narrownes of the vvay his courteous horse that vvould not tread upon me compel'd him to stay Whereat his anger burst forth into these threats Villain thy vvant of armour shall not excuse thee from a death wilfully drawn upon thee and though there be no glorie there will be satisfaction in thy overthrowe Then drawing his horse a little backe he lighted without further complement runnes towards me but his furie broght him too hastily to his death for thinking belike his threatning mouth was able to defend it selfe he forgot to put by my sword that by good fortune was laid in his way so justly his death entred at his mouth whose life I think vvas in his tongue At his fall Fidutio came in vvho helping to fit on the armour of vvhich we had disfurnisht this unserviceable knight I mounted on his horse that seem'd to have regarded my hast more than mine owne and riding on the spurre I overtook my companie for so they vvould needs make themselves saluting me by the name of their frieÌ„d Satibarsis But their better observance soone put them out of that opinion so as ghessing indeed rightly that I had kil'd Satibarsis by that mean got his armour without desire to be further then by their owne conjecture satisfied they join'd all hands in his revenge But the Ladies cause vvas just whose rescue I came too the all-seeing provideÌ„ce that vvould not see justice overlai'd fought for me And now five of them had either receiv'd their wel-deserved paimeÌ„t of death or vvere kept by their wounds from further opposition vvhen the sixt who all this time had held Ladie and lookt on seeing my hand vvhose vveakenesse had left such presidents of the effects of a good cause now set against him alone took his prisoner by the hair with his sword gave her a deep wouÌ„d in the neck That inhumane act vvould have giveÌ„ desire to the most barbarous power of revenge to the most cowardly but he as if he meant to save me a labour making hast that their vvarme bloud should meet with the same sword runnes himselfe thorow dying as just a ludge as he was a traiterous offendor Amazement would have fixt mine eies upon him but the La vvound brought them to her succour Experience on my selfe made me skilfull and my faire patient officious so that tying up the wound for some time I â—tanch't the bloud Shee in meane time with her vvatrie eies bent to heaven-ward heartily praying for my good fortune manie times thanking her destinie that with her death had ended the miseries of her ever-dying life When I had done comforting her as I thought with my opinion of her safetie I intreated to know her name the cause of this injurie done to her No no replied she Courteous straÌ„ger the comfort of my neer-comming death in spite of the torment the memorie of my most vvretched life puts me too brings this cheerfulnesse I now present in my lookes though the least delay of my end is accompanied with a vvorld of sorrowes yet I am glad for satisfaction of your demand my breath is a while preserv'd My name is Leaucade the onely daughter to Count Brunio a man of large possessions in this countrie whom you may well think because in expectation of his lands manie sued for those not of the meanest esteeme but my carelesnesse of love had taught me such a carriage that further then of the favour of my courtesie of which they did all indifferently partake none could boast And this till about a yeare since was my daily practise disdaining as most that have not known it do so ridiculous a passion as I then esteem'd love At which time this Fluento vvhose happie hand hath done us both right came to my fathers Courtâ— a neighbour Prince with vvhom for incroaching upon the bounds of his territorie my father hath had much dissention But a reconcilement being made betweene them and both alike thinking the best meanes to perseâ—er in amitie were to have us two join'd in marriage without my knovvledge as iâ— it vvere fit I should be a stranger to their proceedings determine of the match But alas sir at this time I was so far from being at their dispose that I was not
severitie yet it vvas fit to please Rinatus one who had deserv'd vvell and had the power if otherwise he vvere dealt vvith to revenge his injurie Others the more in number and esteem'd the vviser because the King held vvith them oppos'd this sentence alledging so inconsiderate an act might call the safetie of Laconia in question for said they shall wee thinke the Corinthians so degenerate that being justly incenc't against us they will not endevour to revenge the death of their Prince in shade of whose raigne they enjoy that peace plentie their neighbours envie them for and if they stirre in it what people is so barbarous whom the justnesse of their cause will not procure into the societie of this warre See then if a private mans satisfaction be to be compar'd to these ensuing dangers no let her live when the Gods doe otherwise disposâ— of her let her death come without the ruine of Laconia This determined a new doubt arose how I should be dispos'd of They that before thought it expedient I should dye now that opinion vvas put by concluded that it was best to send me to Corinth with an honourable convoy so to tye them by a perpetuall bond of gratitude to be their friends whom they so much fear'd to bee their enemies the rest to gratifie the king whose affection they perceiv'd to leane that way and well assur'd it was an advice too profitable to be rejected that gain'd a kingdome though his promise after the Q. death who not long before left him a widower had bin pas't to Lemnia a fair vertuous La daughter to my keeper Partinax yet they wisht if so he pleas'd my crown might vvin me to his bed little doubting but I had thought it an egregious felicitie to be so grac't The King after manie protractions at length as if he were wrought to it by a desire to satisfie the Nobility rather then selfe-will declares his mind to be directed by them which once known behold the flatterie of Court began to fawne upoÌ„ me who more observ'd who more admir'd onely Rinatus much impatieÌ„t of this my greatnes in Court uttered some words in choler which made known by further enquirie a conspiracie of his against the King so as soone after the rather to give me whom they studied to please satisfactioÌ„ he was beheaded But long it was not before Fortune neither constant to my happie adversitie nor adverse felicitie had brought thither sent by the usurper Tenarus a wise but wicked instrument whoÌ„ he call'd his Ambassador who laboured by the policie of his high reaching braine and the secret practises of his undermining gold so farre for his Masters ends that now in an instaÌ„t the stil-changing face of Court-respect began to frowne upon me my death was decreed and untill the time vvere appointed for it my selfe made a close prisoner in my accustomed gaole But the King chiefly mov'd vvith the hope of my crowne and drawn by a selfe-conceit of liking to my sorrow vvhich perhaps had a sympathie vvith his melancholy vvould needs continue the suit of his affection to me though he durst not interpose his overrul'd authoritie for my libertie Thus for a time did I live accompanied by some few vvhoÌ„ the king might trust vvith his inteÌ„ts he in shew courting his first love Lemnia and making that a pretence to come private to her â—athers house neer adjoyning to Court But indeed as at that time he could have no reason to dissemble vvith me this kindnesse came another way vvhich Lemnia suspecting and being as farre gone in affection to this double-dealing King as he was in the profession of a little-regarded love to me her vvatchfull eye soon found the advantage of a happie opportunitie to heare himselfe speake his own deceipt with such a heart-burning vehemencie that Lemnia who had plac't her selfe unknown to eyther of us behinde the hangings scarse could suppresse her entry to play a part in our Comedie of affection But to his demaÌ„ds truth answered for me plainly that death in whose expectation I liv'd vvould be farre more pleasing then the marriage he thought so reasonable adding vvithall to my speech much of Lemnia's praise which she deserv'd to instruct his eyes that indeed vvere blinde in his choyse But when he parted vowing to be severe in my punishmeÌ„t unless I resolved better at his next comming behold Lemnia with teares in her eiâ—s fell at my feet and vvhen she saw amazemeÌ„t in my lookes with a kinde bashfulnesse taking my hand rising with that helpe Vertuous Lady said she if ever you have beene acquainted with the tyrannie of all-commanding affection to that Iudge I appeale who though courtesie and good maners oppose him wil find my fault excusable This man who in your presence hath beene the trumpet of his owne inconstancie first with the vehemeÌ„t protestatioÌ„ of his sincere affection won me in gratefulnes to meet him in the recoÌ„pence of his unknown dissimulatioÌ„ if such then it vvere and now vvith the good liking of the State vvere the solemnities appointed for our marriage wheÌ„ your arrivall croft those hopes and drew his thoughts to their naturall temper of unstayednes But since I have found by this fortunate unmanerlinesse your answers so resolutely oppos'd to his demands henceforth I vow to vvorke your freedome or bring my selfe to perish vvith you Her fault found an easie pardon at the tribunall shee appeal'd too I thank't her as there vvas good cause for her desire of my good onely I wisht if my freedom could not be procur'd without danger to her she vvould not heape miseries upon me by joining her selfe a companion in my disaster She comforts me vvith the hope of a better event to bring her intention to a wished successe she vvins my unvvillingnes to shew som favour to the King which next day I did having plac't Lemnia vvhere shee had plac't her selfe the day before to be a witnesse to our conferenceâ— for otherwise perhaps her love this second time might have egg'd her suspition already prone that vvay to the distrust of a practise betwixt us And happie vvas this forc't dissimulatioÌ„ for the king not long before his comming to me had receiv'd advertisement that the usurper of Corinth had levied an armie set forth manie ships to invade Laconia making the delay of my promised execution the pretence of this vvarreâ— vvhich being also knowne to the Nobilitie they who together vvith this forreine enemie feared the rebellion of the Helots vvho alway lay in vvait for an opportunitie of such advantage now more then ever began to solicite the king to satisfie so potent an enemie in so just a demaÌ„d The king vvel vveighing the iminent dangers that vvere to be prevented by my death and seeing the little comfort he did enjoy by prolonging of my life likely everie day to encrease my obstinacy being none of those lovers that would die for his disdaining Masters vvas ready to deliver me
A SIXTH BOOKE TO THE COVNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA Written by R. B. Esq. Sat si bene si male nimium Dvblin Printed by the Societie of STATIONERS Anno Dom. M.DC. XXIV To THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE truely vertuous and learned La the Viscountesse of Falkland Madam THIS sixth Book to the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia at the first birth of it was meant for your Honour If it containe any thing that is good that you may justly claim as your own aswell because it was so auspiciously begun as that goodnes can no where finde a more worthy patronesse What though it have many faults yet I hope you will not reject it both because in its infancie it was vowed to you and that no where it could have taken a more priviledged Sanctuarie then is your favourable censure The desire I had seeing it was all I could do to acknowledge your many favours mov'd mee when this addition was scarse begun to intend it for your Hon and now it is ended the confidence I have in your well-knowne clemencie emboldens me to present it to you for my distrust of my self makes me feare that as it could be given to none more desirous to excuse the errours of weake well meaning endevours so your Honour could no where light on a fitter subject for the practise of that vertue then is this offering of Your servant Richard Belling To THE READER TO strive to lessen the greatnesse of the attempt were to take away the glorie of the action To add to Sir Philip Sidney I know is rashnesse a fault pardonable in me if custome might as well excuse the offence as youth may prescribe in offending in this kinde That he should undergo that burden whose mother tongue differs as much from this language as Irish from English augments the danger of the enterprise and gives your expectation perhaps an assurance what the event must be Yet let no man judge wrongfully of my endeavours I have added a limme to Apelles picture but my minde never entertain'd such vaine hopes to thinke it of perfection sufficient to delude the eyes of the most vulgar with the likenesse in the workmanship No no I doe not follow Pythagoras his opinion of transmigrations I am well assur'd divine Sidney's soule is not infus'd into me whose Iudgment was only able to finish what his InventioÌ„ was only worthy to undertake For this courteous Reader let it suffice I place Sir Philip Sidney's desert even in mine owne esteeme as farre beyond my endevours as the most fault-finding censor can imagin this assay of mine to come short of his Arcadia Vale. R. B. To HIS ENTIRELY BELOVED Kinseman the AVTHOR This Isle sometimes the nurse of sacred Arts Wasted by warre and overgrowne with weedes Of ignorance that had ore'run all partsâ— Did still I see retaine some living seeds Of that old learning which soft peace doth nourish And now begin afresh to spring and flourish Which benefite thy country and thy friends Reape from the happie labours of thy youth Who cannot backe returne thee lesse amends Then thus to honour thy deserts with truth But I more neerly bound who in thy blood An interest claime as in my countries good 'T is true th' attempt was great nor blame I that Since greatest actions left as patternes bee For imitation which t' have offer'd at So well as thou hast done will honour thee And if thy Booke misse of the due applause Th'inimmitable president 's the cause Another by the same That thou so sweetly hast begun to raise In this high silence thy harmonious layes Take as thy due this honour for thy meed Thou art the first who with thy well-tun'd reed Awak'd thy countries Muse and led thereby Into the pleasant fields of Arcady Her floâ—kes her Pastors and the sportfull crue Of all her youth that shall thy steps pursue Who shall hereafter to ingirt thy browes Bring wreathed garlands of Apollo's bowes 〈…〉 To his approved friend the Author I Read thy booke on night late and did feare Still as I read I saw appearing there Sir Philip Sidney's ghost yet look't about And nothing could espie might breed that doubt But thy sweet harmelesse Booke so like in all Was matter phrase and language which did fall From thy chaste pen that surely both being gone Next age will write your characters in one And doe I envie this Yes sure I do So farre as to have had the glorie too I' have finisht such a worke But since 't was left For thee alone tell me of faith bereft Where you two spake together and I vow To keepe it from the world as I doe now Not knowing it that so before to morrow I might in honour of thy worke but borrow Some little portion of his sacred Muse That might to me like flames and spirit infuse For none but such can reach that height of glory Which thou bast got by this immortall story W. MARTYN An Accrostick Sonnet To his worthy and deerly beloved friend the AVTHOR Rather to show my love then sing thy praise I write these lines for what is knowne to me Cannot my Belling sâ—and within my layes Having lesse words then what to speake of thee And 〈◊〉 thy worth for want of words or phrase Refin'd and quaint want due applause or be Drencht in oblivion no the â—acred Bayes Begirts thy head as a deserved see Enough that speakes thee for on worthlesse browes Long tress'd Apollo ne're bestowes his bowes Live happy then and sor thy Countries blisse I wish thou mayst live long thy Workes renowne thee No better steps thou couldst have tract then His. Go on and time with Sidney's fame shall crowne Thee By the same To prayse my Belling this thy worke to mee Doth seeme superfluous since good eyes can see And seeing judge and judging know iâ—s worth Better then tongue or pen can set it forth Thus much I le say That if this age were blest Againe by him wâ—ose soule is now at rest The ne'â—e enough admired Sidney and He to thy Booke would but voucâ—safe his hand Thou hast therein such wittie smoothnesse showne As out of doubt it would be thought his owne H. Delaune A SIXTH BOOKE TO THE COVNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA What changes in Fortune the Princes of Macedon Thessaly have past together witâ— what event the uncertaine actions of so blinde a Goddesse have beene crowned they may remember whose eares have beene fedd with their eloquent Story written by the never-enough renowned Sir Philip Sidney Basilius therefore having beheld with the eye of successe the accomplishment of his misinterpreted Oracle hastened together with Evarchus to his Court of Mantinia where the infinite assembly and the publique Sacrifices of his Subjects did well witnesse what joy did possesse their hearts whose eyes were restored to the sight of long-eclipsed Soveraigntie Fame also proud â—o be the messenger of such royall newvs had soone with speedie flight past the limits of Arcadia so as
the King This Knight whose skill in Armes hath made your well-deserving vertues famous may be that man pointed out by the finger of heaven to release Amphialus who both in name and armour represents a naked Knight O no said the Queene it cannot be expected that Apollo would leave so plaine a way for us to track out the footsteps of his obscure misteries Madam replied Basilius having first plac't her in a Chayre by him the all-seeing providence with whom the ends of all things are presēt is somtimes pleas'd to cast forth the Emblem of our destinies so strangely hidden in the covert of ambiguous words that doubtless it serves to beget nothing but matters of distrust and labyrinths of errors where the imagination a thousand vvayes may be led astray Of this you have a present proofe confirm'd by my experience and somtimes the same Iustice unfolds the secret of our fate and plainely lets us know the misterie of our fortune yet even that plaineness to the curious search of our stil-mistrusting brain becomes a reason sufficient to enforce us to a contrarie beleefe This last I thinke if in the interpretation of an Oracle my opinion may be receiv'd is that meane whereby Apollo both reveales hides the author of Amphialus freedom This said he sends presently for the naked knight who as soone obeying the Kings command as he was completely armed came before him to vvhom Basilius cheerefully told as glad to be the reporter of so good newes to him whose prowesse in armes deservingly gain'd much of his good opiniō of Hellens being there together vvith her desire to imploy him in an action the heavens had also interested him What is it replyed the naked Knight that without such a cōmand I vvould not endevour to accomplish for my most deere Hellen and then with excesse of comfort and astonishment his vveake limmes were readie to give over the support of his joy-burdened bodie but being upheld by Musidorus who stood next him his overcharg'd spirits had time to recollect themselves The Queene gathering comfort from his promise seeing faire likelyhood o◠the Oracles accomplishment with the oratorie of love who thinkes no vvords but his owne able to expresse his mind◠began in this manner Sir ill fortune my awfull governesse as in the most of my actions shee is pleas'd to keepe a hard hand over me so in this distrustfull belike of my willingnesse she forces me to repeat my wonted lesson of receiving courtesies without power of requitall making one undeserved favor from you become a cause of further beholdingnesse to you But the glorie that follows your good successe in this adventure the best spur to set forward brave spirits to noble actions hath almost assur'd me that the love you professe and a distressed Ladies cause need not joyne petitioners in a request your vertue must be willing to grant The reward of your victorie is the releasing of Amphialus of whom I may speake and the vvorld vvith me all prayse-worthy things Madam replyed the naked Knight I thought the Gods could not have favour'd me more then in giving you respite of life and me power to be serviceable to you but when I consider the end I must imploy my endevours too it buries my conceited happinesse in the grave of a certaine misfortune Shall I labour to preserve that monster of men whose storie if the vvorld vvill needs reade containes nothing but a volume of disasters and a vaine discourse of a few adventures cast upon him by the blindnesse of chance Shall I hazzard my life for him against whom had I lives innumerable I vvould venture them all Shall I live to make another happie in your favour crosse mine owne desires No Madam I wil sooner leave my bloud here before you as a testimony that feare hath no interest in my disobedience to your command then I will make my after-life truly miserable in the burden of a hopelesse affection To this the Queene a vvhile in teares as if her eyes strove to speake for her made a silent answer but vvhen her sighes had breath'd forth the overcharge of her brest first she kneeled then faintly said O eternall president of this Court of cares when wil thy just pittie cōmiserate my distresse Alas Sir vvhat new vvay have the Gods found to vent their malice on me have I made disdaine my only mishap and must now affection to me-wards bee another undeserved misfortune Behold Sir and if you can vvith pittie a Queene borne to command a suppliant at your feet begging what goodnesse sollicites you to grant Release Amphialus and if your jealousie thinkes he hath too much interest in my love restore him to the vvorld that wants him I will vow a Virgins life Stay vertuous Queene replyed the naked Knight and lifting up his Beaver Receive said he thou best of women thy over-joy'd Amphialus The Queene as when the Ocean swels with the rage of a tempest if on a sudden these blasts be appeas'd yet the proude vvaves mindefull of their forepast injurie and indispos'd to so speedie a reconcilement some while retaine the rough remembrance of the vvindes malice so were her thoughts before mov'd by the storme of despair though now she had cause of contented quiet on a sudden incapable of so unlook't for a happines first doubt then amazement lastly excesse of joy by succession were admitted to the Helme of her distressed heart But when joy had once got to be the Steers-man his want of practise by his long absence frō that imployment soon brought a confusion here the warme teares of sorrow there the cold dropps of a present comfort did strive vvhether would shew himselfe most officious in drowning her pale blushing cheekes At length they both no longer able to resist this powerfull invasion of their mindes as by mutuall consent fel the one intwin'd in the others armes made the earth happie in bearing such matchlesse lovers But their senses being soone restor'd to their wonted function after some passionate words to which their eies touch of their hāds gave the life of expression Amphialus divided into manie minds by the turbulent working of his thoughts turning towards his uncle with his eyes fixt on the ground stood with the grace of a man condemned who having led a loathsome life in an ugly dungeon is now brought to a freedome o◠looking upon the open ayre yet sees the day is but a Taper to light him to his execution Of the one side he was brought from the hell of despaire wherein he liv'd in the assurance of Hellens death to the certaintie of her life presence of the other what was his treason to his uncle to expect but an infamous death a divorce from his new-borne happinesse The shame also of a crime so foule as his rebellion vvas not the least torment to his minde unwillingly beaten from a setled course of vertue by Cecropia's practises At length when these thoughts
that almost overcame all the powers of life in him vvere themselves overcome by his resolution casting himselfe at Basilius his feet he thus said Great Sir if treason in a subject and unnaturalnesse in a nephew be punishable here you have before you a fit exercise for your justice I am that subject whose rebellion interrupted the contented quiet of my Kings solitarie life and brought him to behold the bloudie tragedie of a civill discension in his divided State I am that nephew whom a vvilfull disobedience made a traytor to the neernesse of his bloud Hither did I come Orestes-LIKE tormented by the inward fright of my guilty conscience with my bloud to vvash away if good fortune in the defence of the cause I undertooke would draw death upon me the staines of such unpardonable faultsâ— but now that I have found what I least look't for and then he cast a side look on Hellen for her I confesse I should desire to live if your just indignation might finde mercie for so hainous offences which I vvill not strive to mitigate how ever justly I may for I vvould thinke such faults ill excus'd with vvhich to ease my selfe I must have burdened my neerest friends Basilius first graciously lifting him from the ground Nephew replyed he did I retaine the memorie of your youthfull oversights this your vertuous acknowledgement were sufficient to beare them away but long since I have buried in oblivion the thought of your rashnes because I knew by vvhat after happened that the Gods had made you an instrument to worke their ends it were injurie therefore to question his actions whose vvill vvas not his own being overrul'd by their all-coÌ„manding decree No nephew I do not only pardon these transgressions but freely also do resigne all such possessions as your father held in Arcadia taken from you in the last warre and now in the hands of Philanax Live happie in your choise I shal be proud of our alliance with the crowne of Corinth and shall rejoyce to see the succession continue in our bloud This said he ledd him to Genecia then to Evarchus but when he came to Musidorus This nephew is that black knight said he who at your last meeting gave such evideÌ„t proof of his uncoÌ„querable valor This is Musidorus the Prince of Thessaly whom the Gods have bestow'd as a blessing on my daughter Pamela Amphialus now assured by the kings speech unto whose hand the honour of his conquest had fallen for doubt had long tormented him that some baser hand had reapt the glorie of his victorie Prince Musidorus said he my hard successe in our last encounter much perplext me not that my confidence of my selfe was lifted to such an arrogaÌ„t presumptioÌ„ to think my strength and skill in Armes matchlesse but that it griev'd me an unknown Knight one whom the vvorld might thinke had conceal'd his name lest together with him his bad fortune in tryalls of that kinde might be discovered should have the better of me But now that I know to vvhose lot my victorie hath falne I doe not onely bring an excuse but an honour from the worthinesse of the conqueror Courteous Amphialus repli'd the Prince whose side the advantage of Fortune did then incline to if it may be determined with greater reason and more desert should the honour be giveÌ„ you than bestowed on me but however such tryall I then made of your manhood that hereafter I shall desire to be of your part Worthy Prince said Amphialus your vertue will alway chuse to be of the weaker side and so turning to Philoclea Divine Lady said he in your excellent choyse of the famous Pyrocles you have besides the happinesse gain'd to your selfe for which the world may envie you shew'd me the way to my best hopes by graffing my affection in the stock of my Helleâ—s constancie Deere cousin replyed Philoclea I am glad it was in my power and your good fortune so much to better your choise in so excellent a remove And so casting a bashfull looke towards Pyroclesâ— Sir said she we may joine in thankesgiving this is my cousin whose vertuous disposition during our imprisonment was our safest defence against my aunt Cecropia's crueltie I doe acknowledge it said Pyrocles and besides this favour in vvhich vve have a common interest Sir I must crave pardon for a vvound given you at such a time vvheÌ„ belike you made Patience your only defence Amphialus stood â—ith his eye fixed on Pyrocles for his memory supply'd him with a confused remembrance of such a face Zelmane he could not take him to be her sexe and this change at their first birth destroy'd these apprehensions Pyrocles his heart swore he vvas not vvhose youth and beautie God vvot vvere no fit liveâ—ie for such atchievemeÌ„ts as the vvorld fam'd him for Thus a vvhile hee continued troubled vvith the uncertâ—intie of conjectures untill Pyrocles happily conceiving the cause of his amazement stopt his further admiration by letting him know that the then Zelmane was the now Pyrocles Whereat Amphialus as one newly wak't out of a dreame cryed out Anaxius Anaxius said he ' â—was the Prince of Macedon not a vvoman overcame thee Wheresoever thy soule be let it keepe this time festivall as the birth-day of thy glorie And so after mutuall embraces together with the rest of the Princes they entred the Palace vvhere vvhen they were seated the eyes of all the companie were set on the Queene of Corinth longing to know the storie of her strange fortune now a Queene then a prisoner now alive then dead vvhich shee at Basilius intreatie vvith a majestie which her fortune could not change because 't was innate thus declared Great Sir that I vvas made prisoner by Rinatus and by him carried to Laconia Fame together vvith the newes of my supposed death belike hath brought you the rest since you esteem worthy your hearing I shall esteeme worthie my relation There yet governes and then did among the Nobilitie of Laconia one Creton a man elected to the crown rather to recompence the desert of his ancestors than for his owne vertues beloved and borne vvith for the same reason such an everlasting monument of it selfe can goodnesse leave to posteritie To him vvhen I vvas brought my guilt and my guiltie selfe vvith the best oratorie Rinatus had vvas made knowne vvho with vehement importunitie desired that my speedie punishment as my fault should be terrible The King answered Though he found his demands reasonable and such to vvhich he vvas sure there could be no opposition made yet he thought it fit the Nobilitie should be acquainted vvith so vvaightie a causeâ— before he proceeded further in it and so for this time being committed to the charge of Partinax Chamberlaine to the King I was dismist The next day the Councell being sent for my cause ran the hazzard of manie opinions some thought it fit I should dye and though Iustice said they might not dispence with such
no such mischiefe should after happen They well weighing whence it arose being fully satisfied by the Oracle enact this law That neyther private nor publick respect shall detaine a virgin from revealing her love if her friends or pareÌ„ts thinks another then she hath chosen more fit for her the combate between them two shall determine the Gods pleasure How unwilling I was to hazzard my Persidas in this triall love that bleeds in the thought of a danger can best assure you but his earnestnesse that it might be so and the hard constraint that it could not be otherwise won me to it The day therefore being appointed Fluento upon whoÌ„ Fame the flatterer of greatnesse had pin'd the opinioÌ„ of valour entred the lists mounted on a bay Courser whose armour all over represented a greene Plaine through which ran little rivelets of bloud that sprung froÌ„ the wounds of manie Centaures dispearc't over all the field In his shield he bore the counterfeit of Hercules Deianira with this word â—ndeer'd by Conquest From him my Persidas drew the eyes hearts of all the company his horse was a fierie sorrell his armour like the azure skie curiously spotted with manie starres vvhose glimpse the vvell set Diamonds by reflection of the Sun represented shewed as if night had flowen thither to end in that assembly some controversie betweene her her brother In his shield he caus'd Andromada and Perseus to be ingraven vvith this vvord Never too deerly bought But I must hasten to the event said she for long I finde you may not enjoy your Historian Know therefore that my Persidas contenting himself only with the victorie vvhen he might have taken wo is me that he vvas so mercifull Fluento's life vvas accepted by my father for his sonne in law good fortune as I then thought changing my husband not my day of marriage In meane time Fluento repining at his disgrace and desirous even upon the basest teaâ—mes to be revenged plotted a treacherie unheard of against him This morning having before heard we were to hunt in this forrest Fluento with that companie your valor hath brought to their deserved ends lay in wait for us and when my selfe my Persidas Count Bruniâ— my father and the rest having followed the chase were left alone behold these bloudie villaines coÌ„ming unawares upon him with manie vvounds sent hiâ— soule to that place vvhither mine hoping to finde a more lasting union in that life then our loves hath found in this doth also hasten with this word her dull languishing eyes began to roll as if they strove to reserve motioÌ„ in spite of death yet raising her selfe a little her love found breath to say this Let me be buried by my Persidas and so grasping my hand as it vvere to put me in mind of her last words alas she dyes But manie teares I could not have bestowed as obsequies upon her vvhen some of her fathers traine vvho by chance crossing that way vvhere Persidas lay dead guided by Fidutio who vvith their helps had now taken my horse came to this place to whom vvhen I had related all vvhat I learn'd from Leaucade of Persidas his death together vvith her last vvill vvee all join'd hands in carrying her to the next village vvhither also certaine of their fellowes vvhom they had left behinde to that end conveyed the bodie of Persidas from whence soone after Count Brunio having begg'd of griefe a little respite of life to fulfill his daughters testament brought them both with all funerall pomp to his chiefe citie Coniga vvhere he â—aus'd a stately Tombe to be built for them on which this Epitaph vvas ingraven Love Beauty Valour when their death drew nye Consulted long where they should buried lye At length with one consent they hastned hither And chose this place to be intomb'd together Leaving the wofull kingdom of Argos no better accoÌ„panied then with Fidutio yet better guarded by Satibarsis armor my sorrow I think that bore infection with it made all places where I came fit stages for tragedies for descending unto a green valley where of each side the rocky mountains threatned the humble earth with the frowns of their downe-cast browes I might see a young man leaning with both hands on his sword breathing as overtoyl'd with labour and round about him foure or five cast prostrate at his feete who vvere dead or thoght their counterfeiting so to be vvould prove their best defence against this young mans furie But the clashing of my armor had no â—ooner made known my approach then he came running towards me uttering vvords whereby I might gather his quarrell to me brought the excuse of mistake with it Not to draw on therfore his misconceived opinioÌ„ that his breathlesse companions did witnes would be dangerous for me Sir replyed I I am so farre from maintaining their cause vvhose revenge upon a lone man being so manie mine owne eyes do perswade me vvas injurious that had I come at the beginning of your fight though this event shewes I should but have rob'd you of part of the honour of this action I vvould have joyn'd my selfe to you Alas sir said he to oppose your selfe against me though it vvere the more unjust would be the most secure vvay for vvhat you see is but a fore-runner of a certain destructioÌ„ soon at hand Leave me therfore courteous â—ir seek for safety death to me is so gratefull that I envie you should be a partner in so great a gaine But it were a fault unpardonable to have abandoned the most accomplisht man that ever mine eyes before that time beheld my resolution therefore though hard against his will must have prevail'd vvith him so that intreating to know the cause of his former fight further doubt I found his courtesie as forward in the relation of his own danger as it was obstinate in the care of my safetie Sir said he seeing my storie will be but a heape of misfortunes I shall do wel to lay the foundatioÌ„ my selfe then vvhom the Sunne looks not upon a more miserable creature My name is Cariâ—lio nephew by his brother Castor to the king of Natolia brought up in my youth in the good opinion of my uncle and the great expectation of manie Fortune then belike proroguing my miseries until a more serious age should make me more sensible of themâ— vvhich time had no sooner brought on but that my ill fate to traine me up for the burden of the mischiefe that vvas prepar'd for me began by little little to make me acquainted with the course I vvas to run first taking away my father vvhose vertuous age deserved if that may be thought a recompence for desert a longer time in this life vvhen he vvas dead that the slipperie steps of my rash youth vvanted the stay of his fatherly advice presently not knowing vvhat one mans hands I should put the raynes of my then unbridled youth into and yet well
seeing I might not trust my â—elfe vvith mine owne government I chose manie friends and being by nature given to hate pride to eschue a vice so loathâ—ome thinking it might not be done otherwise I began to affect popularitie But I had scarce liv'd thus a twelue-month vvhen my cousin the kings sonne a yong man who besides the hope of succession for vvhich the Courtiers did adore him had nothing more then ordinary in him grew suspicious of my practises as he term'd them to which humor besides the mistrust of his owne little desert his Sycophants the bellowes of this fire did daily add further causes to encrease his jealousie But seeing the discoverie of his suspicion vvould little please the king vvho ever since the death of my father had doubled his care upon me he vvas compel'd to dissemble a good liking towards me In meane time a truce made for some few yeares vvith the Duke of Amasia being expir'd the vvar grew hote on both sides at length after the triall of manie changes in fortune necessitie mediating a peace betweene them my selfe being given as hostage for performance of certain coÌ„ditions of my uncles part a perpetuall league vvas concluded onâ— 't was now and not before mischiefe began to unmaske her selfe and take a pride to grow terrible There vvas at Court during my abode there attending upoÌ„ the Dutchesse a Lady by name Alcida whose many excellencies won as many hearts as she had beholders nature making her beautie shape but the most faire Cabinet of a farre fayrer mind To her mine eyes at first sight gave up my heart with so fortunate an encounter in affectioÌ„ that this surrender vvas but a mutuall exchange she having in a mercifull gratefulnes fixt her love one mine But her parentage though not base was so meane in respect of my birth that thence vvhole armies of afflictions did invade my mind equally distracted betweene my desire to enjoy this my best of happines and feare of my uncles displeasure on whom this match for his care and love of me I was sure vvould draw on an untimely death But before I could determine a doubt of â—o great consequence the conditions of the league being faithfully performed I was safely at a day prefixt sent back to Natolia desirous even in my soule desirous I am sure rather by their breach of covenant to have hazzarded my life then thus cruelly to be taken away from her presence vvho far beyond my life was most deere to me Soone after my returne the king as if the Gods had stay'd him to see the quiet of his State now that vvas brought to passe worne vvith age and much broken vviâ—h travell care in his last warrs left his kingdome to his degenerate sonne successor who had no sooner seized upon the government but meaning to begin his raigne vvith an admirable act of policie now his power vvas unrestrain'd limits me to the absence from my countrey declaring my bloud for ever uncapable of succession and not content vvith this to such a height his undeserved malice to me vvas raised that he dealt vvith some bad ministers of his wickedness secretly to make me away To prevent therfore vvhat vvas plotted against me disguising my selfe I hastily fled away making use of necessity to further my affection I put my self into the service of a Nobleman here in the Court of Amasia easily remaining undiscovered among them who vvould sooner fall out vvith their eyes then beleeve that the greatnesse wherein they lately had seene me could admit so great a change By meane vvhereof I enjoyed the presence of my Alcida whose constancie neither time nor abseÌ„ce the mothes of affectioÌ„ nor vvhat is more this my change in fortune could alter Thus vvhile I liv'd in this happinesse of servitude Mermidon brother to the Duke having commanded with fortunate successe against the Dazians returned to Court vvhere seeing this Lady he became enamoured of her to no other end then to satisfie his lust and thinking at first because he vvas in good esteemâ— vvith himselfe she vvould have strain'd her modestie to sue for the acceptaÌ„ce of a present so gratefull to him a while he was silent but when he perceived the vanitie of his fruitlesse expectation found that this delay encreas'd the fury of his passion dispensing with the Matie he had taken on he began to make known his love to her for such a title did he give to so base a desire forgetting not vvithal to tell her that to excuse her modestie he had first spoken her wishes But the vertuous Alcida loathing as much the thought of such a sinne as shee loved the memorie of me together with a â—esolute deniall let him know how base his minde was that made so injurious a request Wherat Mermidon because this answer came unexpected was so much the more amazed But bringing arguments from his late practise in the warre he began to think his honor would be the greater if after long resistance he did surprise a well defended for t therefore daily both by rich gifts the base enamell of affection manie promises which to win the more upon her were sent by one of her owne sexe who if example might move her could tell of such a president in her â—elfe did he seeke to undermine her resolution Meane time my constant Alcida seeing the inteÌ„perance of Mermidons lust to bring the threats of force with it not daring to speake with me because our conference began to be suspected sent me a letter to hasten her carrying away appointing this the fatall place of our meeting I much rejoyc'd to be so neere my happinesse the rather that since our last conference I received intelligence that my young cousin of Natolia being made away by one whom he had rais'd to an undeserved height in his favour the countrey was in great distresse by the factious ambition of the Nobilitie and that the best affected to the State much desired my presence But these meanes how well soever as I thought conducing to my happinesse by the unmercifulnesse of my hard destinie were prevented as one of those whom 't was my fortune to kil at his death revealed for Mermidoâ— having intercepted the messenger mad with rage to finde his hopes crost by so meane a man as he tooke me to be having again seal'd up the letter he caus'd it to be delivered and determining to be reveng'd sent these men to apprehend me himself intending to follow presently leading with him my deerest Alcida whom in my presence to ad a glorie to the execrablenes of the offence he means to ravish And now sir you have heard said he all what my selfe knowes of my birth fortune ever till this time when I am well assur'd my end is neere at hand kept secret He scarce had clos'd up this lamentable storie with a heartie sigh the compendious abridgment of his sufferings when we might discerne Mermidon with twentie
the Gyant Tithius maw That doth encrease to feele a Vulturs paw No day runnes over but my loves deepe sore Renues his paine and festers more and more Kla. No day runs over but our loves deepe sore Renues his paine and festers more and more Alas where 's pittie then belike it flyes The place we come too frighted with our cryes Str. Pittie why friend 't is certaine that their eyes Vvho know they can or ' come learne to despise Yet Klaius why should we repine our Saint Is pleas'd sometime to heare our loves complaint And if mine eyes to ease my inward paine Become not flatterers she doth not disdaine Kla. Disdaine that were a blisse so great a waight Might lift our sorrowes to their utmost haight And then perhaps our owne despaire would mend Our lingring hopes that must or breake or bend O no ours is a worse calamitie A heedlesse care and carelesse courtesie Then Klaius pawsing a while with crost armes and a down-cast look began againe these following Verses to Strephon whom he spake to as representing the person of sorrow Kla. Foule sorrow wilt thou alway build thy nest In the wilde mountaines of my care-swolne brest Str. O yes I finde it happy for my breed And neere your heart whereon I use to feed Kla. But gentle griefe if not for pittie spare Me for Vrania's sake she hath a share In these my wounds and she must feele the smart Vvhose image's carv'd so lively in my heart Str. O no she shares no paine from whose faire eyes The wound did first and now the cure must rise Kla. Vvhy gentle griefe thou' rt witnesse of my love Then alway sigh my plaints untill you move Str. O no there 's too much rigour in such lawes They binde a man to speake against his cause Suppose I move this is my recompence Ioy must succeed and I am banisht hence Kla. Then must I dye unpittied no help 's found Since you my spoksman do conceale my wound Str. O no let not that make us to despaire Shee knows we love her but she knows she 's fayre When they ended Musidorus in whose memorie their courtesie to him had ingraven a beholdnes forgot not to approve what they had said But the audience had little time to determine whether they deserv'd what the Prince thoght them worthie of wheÌ„ CoridoÌ„ who long'd to hear the debate between him Menalcas for Kalidolus daughter ended clapping him on the shoulder thus said Cor. Fond beardlesse boy now shall the chastisement Fit for thy rash youths unweighed attempt Fall heauie on thee but you may relent I 'le not be crnell if you do repent O no you will not you 'l be alway blinde That gracelesse smile bewrayes thy scornfull minde Sing then and show these goodly dotes in thee Vvith which thy brainlesse youth can equall mee Menal Gray bearded frenzie what canst thou alledge To shun my blowes but thy age's priviledge Thy tongue may safely snarle while his offence Is still protected by that reverence The dotes old Dotard I can bring to prove My selfe deserves that choyce are only love A prizelesse Treasure not to be exprest A guest too great for thy cough-breeding brest Corid Yong man thou speak'st as if thy braines were wood Vvho can determine of that inward good I say I love and will Menalcas grieve That all the world should Coridon beleeve But that 's not it these flames will soone decay If they be not maintayn'd some other way A thousand sheepe I have whose snow-white fleece Do adde a lustre to these parts of Greece On whom as many lambes doe waite hard by That weare their damms white curled livery O what a joy wil't be to her I love Each morne and even to see her sheep remove From field to fold while she may freely say That Lamb is fat that Lamb I 'le eate to day Menal Blinde fortune I 'le confesse hath given you more Yet I am richer my content's my store A thousand sheep thou hast t is very like But thy diseasâ—s want arethmetick Nature between our yeares a marriage made Vve bloome together and at once may fade But your old age is gone too farre before Time beates you on and you 'l returne no more Cor. Hasty young man do not despise the end To which your selfe as to a center bend Vvhat if I want your bodies active toyes My setled minde a greater good enjoyes Menalc Old man thou speak'st as if thy braines went wood Vvho can determine of that inward good Thinkst thou will that sweet beauty take delight To heare thee cough a proverb in the night O no there are some other joyes in bedd They must partake whom you desire to wedd Coridon inwardly out of countenance to heare his owne words byte so sore upon him would have shrunke away but hoping he had found a Iudge whom the cause concern'd stood a while to attend what Basilius would have said But the king put it over to Musidorus who glad to find an occasioÌ„ to pleasure Minalcas his first Master in the practise of a Shepheards life thus ended it Coridon said he could I as well lop away some of your overgrowne yeares to make your maâ—ch with Kalidolus daughter equall as I can adde to Minalcas state I would for a time suspend my judgement for readily I know not vvhether of you two deserves best but in the one my power seconds my will as in the other my will overgoes my power Kalidolus daughter I therefore adjudge to Menalcas and I will make him worthie of her the rather that I know his rash youth vvould impatiently beare a repulse where your experience vvhen it reflects upon it selfe vvith more discretion may consider she vvaâ— but a vvoman Glad vvas Menalcas to speed so vvell nor vâ—as Coridon displeas'd because the Prince as he conceiv'd had entertain'd a good opinion of his wisedom Thus vvhen they ended Pyrocles who mark't Agelastus his silent pensivenesse desir'd to heare him disburthen his mind of the thoughts that brought him to so deep a studie thinking that Agelastus stood fixt with the eye of his mind cast upon the beautie of some faire Mistris but he who thought of nothing lesse thus answered his expectation Agel Nor fate nor fortune whose inforcing power Man still complaines upon his state to lower Do worke these changes man himselfe 's the cause They be but wheeles that keepe their movers lawes Yet alway when he sees his fault too late He turnes it over upon chance or fate Each man is borne a King his passions be The practise of his soveraignetie Vvho though they stil their soveraign's good pretend â—onspire his ruine for their private end The love of skin-thick beautie drawes his eye To yeeld to love his reasons Majestie His feare throwes Bugbeares in his way his state Is still infested by revengefull hate His idle griefe for what he might prevent Or might not doth usurp his government Thus he whom God ordain'd a
King to be Obeyes his subjects and is never free Besides whose state 's so firme into whose way The world flings not his joyes injurious stay The surges of the deepe whose jawes devoure The Merchants far-fetcht hopes the skies that poure A second deluge on the plow-mans corne Vvhen now his fields are readie to be shorne The souldiers long remat the doubtfull chance Of bloudie warre the new-found ordinance The Citie hornes the Courts brave flatterie Doe force content to dwell with povertie Then looking round upon the Princes as if by their survey he were againe enabled to speake he thus said Honor thou spongie Idoll of mans minde That sok'st content away thou hast confinde Ambitious man and not his destinie Vvithin the bounds of forme and ceremonie Oh happie life of shepheards whose content Rests in a soule that 's free and innocent They stay their lodging and remove their roofe Not for their owne but for their flocks behoofe Vvhile some to fill the blanks of their meane story Do travell in their cares to gaine vaine glory They never leave the plaines unlesse sometime To looke about them they the mountaines clime But dwell not there for even this change doth show Vvhat choyser sweets they doe enjoy below Here the rough windes do buzze about their eares The rockie steepnesse adds unto their feares Here they are readie to be torne assunder By malice's hatefull blasts and envie's thunder From hence they may descend but greatnesse stay If you come downe it must be th' other way For 't is a blisse in which your honour shares That though you would you cannot leave your cares When Agelastus ended the companie might see a man who seemed to be misfortunes herald with a rope about his neck make towards the Queene of Corinth and cast himselfe at her feete They thinking it had beene some Shepheardish invention expected a while the conceit of it but approching after a time neerer to him they might discerne that it was Tenarus the usurper of Corinth who hearing of the Queens welfare and her happie marriage to Amphialus finding in his owne practise for the Crowne the Corintâ—ians aptnesse to embrace change and considering the powerfulnesse of his enemies had come thiâ—â—er in the basest forme of humblenesse to set a beleefe upon his submission Him the Queene because he was a sutor on her marriage daâ— pardoned and restored to his possessions forfeyted by his treason to the Crowne onely she caused his libertie to be restrained untill her going to Corinth whither after she had taken leave of Basilius the rest of the royall companie she tooke her journey making Amphialus within a yeare after her departure a happie father of a much-promising sonne whom the named Haleamphilus Evarcus also soone after with his sonne Pyrocles and Philoclea and his nephew Musidorus together with Pamela who was desirous both to accompanie her sister and to see her mother of Thessaly parted from Mantinea leaving Basilius and Gynecia when they had accompanied them to the frontiers of Arcadia to the happie quiet of their after life Stat. THAEB Tu longe sequere vestigia semper adoraâ— Sidnei Finis These FOLLOWING VERSES at severall times came to the hands of the right worsh. Sir Râ—c who being the Authors deere friend therfore thinking them too good to perish hath caus'd them here to be annexed to his booke Directions to a Painter to draw his Mistriâ— Vvelcome Apelles may a faithfull eye A steadie hand and painfull industry Crowne thy endevours Here my Mistris stands Draw such a face such hayâ—e such eyes such hands The pensil's ready and the Painter's set The table 's plac't must beare her counterfeit He views her face and with that looke there sinkes A powerfull charme as who of Lethes drinkes He stupid stands forgetfull of his Art While wonder carves her figure in his heart At length reviv'd he weanes his charmed sight And then all things seeme overcast with night His trembling hand an ill form'd line indents Meander-LIKE erring in thousand bents For now his eye though that her face be neere Powers in the Species to his heart not heere Asking at length how such a shivering cold So soone withdrew his bloud the cause he told And did intreat she might retire from thence Whose aspect dimm'd his sight and bound his sencâ— Shee 's gone he then desires my tongue should bee The glasse wherein my Mistris he might see I doe obey willing to beare a part In her description with the Painters Art Draw first an Orbe a perfect Spheare-like round With amber lockes dâ—sheveld bravely crownd Let Ivorie and never-melting snow Both soft and sleek upon her â—orehead grow Draw then Favonius sweetly breathing heere And softly bounding from my Mistris leere Let him beare back whenâ— then he smoothly purlesâ— Her waving tresses in the golden curles O give him leave a while to kisse her hayre To binde himselfe then loose the captive ayre But when constraind he needs from thence must go Paint him unwilling for I know he 's so Draw here bright Phoebus in his mid-day Coach And let his rayes my Mistris eyes approach Then like the Ocean gainst a high swolne streame A while let them encounter beame to beame At length draw him eclipsd to end these warres With greater light as he doth smaler starres Then dâ—aw her nose whose alabaster white May joyne in all eyes wonder with delight Here place the ayre still wayting to succeed His fellow servant who too largely feed For his attendance passe her pretty pores Their sweeâ—ly breathing ever-open doresâ— And save the inward treasure of her heart Stor'd with her thoughts all goodnesse chiefest part When hee 's compeld from thence to take his flight O let him often stay to blesse his sightâ— From selfe-swolne mountaines of encreasing ayre With the best prospect of so sweet a fayre But when these liquid â—ills striving to stay O returnd with pride of greatnesse breake away Then let him vanish and unsâ—ene remaine As now despayring to returne againe Draw next her cheekes and let a crimson redd Not strictly bounded nor too largely spredd Be heere enthron'd draw then her pure white skin The vayle transparant of the bloud within From these two founts convey but under ground The rosie dye which in her lips is found Now paint them shut that so their mutuall kisse May be the modell of a peacefull blisse Now let her speake then let the gentle winde Close up his lips to heare my Mistris minde Nay this Favonius must observe I know His eares being charm'd he must forget to blow Shape here a figure to perclose the face Not meerely round nor pointed both disgrace Her perfect feature But I le bring her in Though I want words you may expresse her chin P. O stay you 'r better to dispence with some Then cause me leave a blanke for what 's to come Then draw but what alas a shadowing night Now stops the current of mine eyes
delight Her Band her Gowne be envious vayles that â—ide Her stately neck her round and slender side Yet now a while againe that cloud remove And draw her hand the adamant of love Here meare the soft and alabaster plaines With the neat windings of her azure vaines And cause them first from forth five Rocks of snow As from their springs in manie streames to flow And let them still encrease as swolne with pride Nature had made them through such fields to glide Now Painter you may draw her outside downe Your Art without my helpe can paint a gowne O draw it not so long 't will hide her foot These graces sweet support and gracefull root Paint not a spangled Rose to show the In Where such a neate fine guest is lodg'd within Now all is done but Painter you must censure If this come neere my Mistris portrature P. Yes sir this colour and this forme of face Resemble somewhat but the life of grace Life's active motion in her rowling eye Her humble state and courteous majestie What art can paint or what mellefluous tonguâ— Can fit the subject with a worthy song Then to conclude good sir I must confesse Your tongue did little and my hand did lesse Finis The description of a Tempest Bound for my countrey from the Cambrian shoreâ— I cut the deepe the Mariners implore With whistling prayer the winde growne too milde To hasten to beget their sayles with childe The humble Sea as of our ship afraid Pale breathlesse prostrate at our feet is laid The Morne scarse out of bed did blush â—o see Her rude beholders so unmannerly She scarse had blusht when she began to hide Her rosie cheekes like to a tender Bride To sute Aurora all the heavens put on A mournfull vayle of black as shee had done And gave the garments to the Sea they wore Wherewith it growes more blew now then before This stage being set the lightnings tapers were The drumms such thunder as affright each eare Vpon this summons great King Eolus Attended on by Nothus and Zephirus Enters and where the King his steps doth place The waves do swell trod with so proud a grace He was to speake but opening of his mouth The boisterous winde did blow so hard at South I could not heare but as the rest told me He spoke the prologue for a Tragedie Behold huge mountaines in the watry maine That lately was a smooth and liquid plaine Ore which our Sea-drunke Barque doth reeling ride She must obey but knowes not to which tyde For still she plowes that rugged mutinous place All skilfull Pilots call the breaking race A while ambition bare her up so hie Her proud discoloured flagg doth touch the skie But when the winds these waves doe beare away She hangs in ayre and makes a little stay But downe againe from such presumptuous height Shee 's headlong borne by her attractive weight Into the hollow of a gaping grave Intomb'd of each side with a stately wave Downe poure these billows from their height of pride Our Barque receives them in at every side But when they finde no place where to remaine The scuddle holes do let them out againe At length as Castles where no force can finde A conquest by assault are undermin'd So in our Barque whose walls no waveâ— could breake We do discover a most trayterous leake To this though much our hopes do now decline We do oppose the Pump our countermine That midway breakes whereat our Master cryes All hope is past the Seas must close our eyes And to augment deaths hideous show the more We in the Poope can scarse discerne the Prore Such ugly mists had overcast the ayre That heaven I thought had meant we should despayreâ— But in the last act of this Tragedie Behold our great Gods all-dâ—sâ—erning eye Caus'd in an instant these thick mists disbandâ— The windes are calm'd and we at Skerries land Dread ruler of the floods whose powerfull will Each thing that hath a being must fulfill Whose hand markes forth the end of each mans dayesâ— And steers our humane ship in unknowne wayes To thee great guide this incense I present Thou gav'st me time to live and â—o repent To his neere kinswoman Laid in my bed to give each wearied sense For â—ormer paines a drowsie recompence My â—aking minde â—o whose ill hap it â—ell To be my care-tyr'd bodies Centinell Borne on the winged Chaâ—â—st of my thought Vnto the bankâ—s of Acheron was brought Where greedy Tantall makes a vaine puâ— sâ—â—te To catch the coâ—sening falling flying fruite Sometimes his watry mouth and downecast eyes For pittie craves the ebbing stood to rise But in his prayer he deceipâ— prepares And strives to catch the Apples unawares They at his motion as a shadow fly And give a surâ—eâ—â— only to his eye I smil'd â—e lâ—ok'd and wâ—sht I might remaine Another Tantall with as little gaine I fâ—igâ—ted si aâ—â— and straight my curious eye Prov'd Tantals wish a â—atall prophesie I see the sweetnesse of your ruddie leere And cannot taste and yet I am too neere Neerenesse doth dull and set my teeth on edge Your blouâ— restraines affection's priviledge I love to looke upon you yet lesse deere You never are then when I see you 're neere Distance in some doth quench affections â—ire But neerenesse is the death of my desire Thus neerenesse hurts O that the Fates allow'd That You or Love a little were remov'd On her lipps Shamefac't Cherrie blush no more Nor esteeme your beauties store To be lessened cause you see Her lips excell much worth may bee In your Vermillion though no eye Can discerne a parâ—lie You worthy were to set at odds As did the Apple all the Godds But then had nature showne this payâ—e These rosie lips so sweetly fayre Both would be prizelesse and the blisse That crownd reward had been a kisse He showes his Mistris how he came to love her before he saw her Deare fayre the blinde boy loath to be depriv'd Of seeing her whom fame so much admir'd Assum'd mine eyes to gaze on that bright day Which to the world your orient beames display And now returnes them fraight with love to meâ— To make me smart for what the wagge did see Thus I though absent love do not despise What Cupid gives for interest of mine eyes On the beauteous black Ophelia Heavens glorious Senators of late To mend the worlds confused state Met on Olympus where the wrongs By Poets over-studied songs Done to the Gods they must redresse And after comming tongues represse Vnshorne Apollo showes his hayre By thousands cut â—o make her fayre Whom they adore The Sunne doth say He scarse hath time to serve the day They hale him so who poetize Into their Mistris beauteous eyes That he is hid with meere disgrace To see two Sunnes in every face But mother Earth to move the more Vnlac'd the garment she then wore Then said Behold â— doâ— complaine Who most have cause I feele the paineâ— My Alabaster and my Pearle Make up the parts of every gyrleâ— See all the roomes of Poetry Hung round with my embroydery They all were mov'd a meane was found To helpe the Gods and save the ground With one consent they do decree The chiefe of beauties black should beeâ— Then Iove to see how beautie might Become that colour brings to light The sweet Ophelia whose black eyes The Stage whereon loves tragedies Be daily acted show they erre Who bring their similes so farre The Sunnes bright rayes Apollo's hayre Fit not this new well chosen fa'yre No gorgeous lemms no earthly pelfe Black hath no likenesse but it selfe A Farewell Live ever happy let my love remaine A pledge for me till I returne againe Let not these lips whose sweetly yeelding tucâ— With one deare kisse reward my love too much Be made a sponge whence each man may be free To suck the Nectar only due to mee Seale up these eyes let not them wound each heart I doe desire few fellowes in my smart Let these thrice-happie gloves still shade the plaines Thus sweetly interlac'd with azure vaines Cut not their singers lest the curious eye Perhaps these shafts of love chance â—â—espie What would it then avayle to hide the rest When that sole part inslames his wounded brest Be alway sitting no that posture â—ills The steadie eyes with that that charmes that kills Walke then awhile alas that motion gives Life unto beautie it by moving lives What can you then observe what may I wish That helpes not to betray where beauty is Then dearest since no art can hinder love I will make you famous if you constant prove O gaine that praise add that unto your feature You are the fayrest be the faithfull'st creature To his BOOKE There is a Saint whom you may â—inde If you have eares or be not blindâ— Even shee whose speech and beautie charmes The blinde boy from his mothers armes Not that O what a foole thou art Come back and reade her in my heart And then before you flye away I le teach you wâ—ere and what to say I le show you wayes that though I fayle To gaine a kiâ—â—e you may prevayle Tye up in knots your strings and lye Neere her in gilded braverie Shee l looke and with her snow-white hands Strive to untye your knottie bands Yeeld not if she aske the cause Say that such are womens lawes Then will a prettie rage incense Her teeth to offer violence Be happie then enjoy a blisse I want you have you gaine I wish Shee kiss'd in anger you 'l complaineâ— Would I had kisses of disdaine What if a niggard cherries have Of which his friends a few doe crave The cherries taste nothing the worse That he bestowes them with a curse Let others have I know not what I le buy such fruite at any rate But be not proude forget not me Thou silly peece of Poetry Say that my Love my only store Is gone and can returne no more Shee 'l send it back shee 'l say but sweare Shee cannot till her eyes forbeare To wound anew else like a boy That lets his hopping Sparrow toy In new-go freedome and againe Restraines him with his flaxen rayne Shee 'l give and take and loose and tyeâ— And make a sport of victorie O no â—faith I am more wise I le never leave to love her eyes Finis Pag. 8. lin 7. for laughing reade languishing