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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14818	The lamentations of Amyntas for the death of Phillis, paraphrastically translated out of Latine into English hexameters by Abraham Fraunce; Amyntas. English	Watson, Thomas, 1557?-1592.; Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595. Aminta.	1587 (1587)	STC 25118.4; ESTC S111312	24,056	40

louer Amintas And thou good Damon driue forth those sheepe of Amintas Least that Amintas sheepe die with their maister Amintas And thou faire Amarillis when thou gang'st to the mountains Driue on Phillis goats faire Phillis goats to the mountains For now tis certaine Ile leaue this life for a better And seeke for mending in a most vnnatural ending Hils and dales farewel you pleasant walks of Amintas Wells and fludds farewell sometime the delyte of Amintas Now shal I neuer more my sorrowes vtter among you Now shal I neuer more with clamors vainly molest you Must then Amintas thus but a stripling murder Amintas O what an imperious princesse is Queene Cytheraea For still watching loue would neuer let me be resting Nor neuer sleeping since Phillis went from Amintas And no longer I can susteine these infinite horrors And pangs incessant which now are freshly renewed And much augmented therefore am I fully resolued Of lingring lou's wound to be speedily cur'd by a deaths wound Thus when he had contriu'd in his heart this desperate outrage And meant fully to die with an hellish fury bewitched What do I stay quoth he now tis losse of time to be lingring Then with a fatall knife in a murdring hand to the heauens Vp did he looke for a while and groan'd with a deadly resounding VVith these words his life and Lamentation ending Gods and ghosts forgiue forget this fault of Amintas Pardon I craue of both this knife shall bring me to Phillis And end these miseries though desteny flatly deny it Eu'n as he spake these words downe fell deepe wounded Amintas Fowling hands and ground with streames of bloud that abounded And good natur'd ground pytying this fall of Amintas In most louing wise very gent'ly receiued Amintas And when he fell by the fall in mournefull sort she resounded Iupiter in meane time and th'other gods of Olympus When they saw his case though great things were then in handling Yet lamented much and then decreed that Amintas Soule should goe to the fields where blessed Phillis abideth And bloody corps should take both name forme of a faire flowre Called Amaranthus for Amintas friendly remembrance VVhylst these things by the gods wer thus decreed in Olympus Senses were all weake and almost gone from Amintas Eyes were quite sightles death pangs and horror aproched Then with his head half vp most heauily groned Amintas And as he gron'd then hee felt his feete to the ground to be rooted And seeking for a foote could finde no foote to be sought for For both leggs and trunck to a stalk were speedily chaunged And that his olde marrow to a colde iuyce quickly resolued And by the same cold iuyce this stalk stil liuely apeared Which strang chang whē he felt thē he lifted his arms to the heauēs And when he lifted his arms thē his arms were made to be branches And now face and heare of Amintas lastly remayned O what meane you gods to prolong this life of Amintas ô what meane you gods with an hollow sound he repeated Vntil his hollowe sounde with a stalk was speedily stopped And faireface and heare bare forme and shape of a faire flowre Flowre with faire red leaus faire red bloud gaue the beginning Then with bow and shaft and painted quiuer about him Vprose Lord of loue from Princelike seate in Olympus And when t'was too late lament's this losse of a louer Speaking thus to the gods of this newe flowre of Amintas Myrtle's due to Venus greene Laurell's due to Apollo Corne to the Lady Ceres rype grapes to the yong mery Bacchus Popplar t'Alcides and Oliues vnto Minerua Gentle Amaranthus thou fairest flowre of a thousand Shalt be my floure hēceforth though thou cam'st from a bleeding Yet bloud shalt thou staunch this gift will I giue thee for euer And by the pleasant fields where gentle minded Amintas Lately bewaild his loue there thy leau's louely for euer Boyes and gyrles and nymphs shal take a delyte to be plucking Take a delight of them their garlands gaye to be making And now in meane time whylst these things were thus a working Good louing neighbours for a long time missed Amintas And by the caues of beasts by the dungeons darke by the deserts And by the hills by the dales by the wells and watery fountains Sought for Amintas long but neuer mett with Amintas FINIS Faults escaped A the first page line 14. wanteth a periode at the end The same page for outragious read outragius Page 2. line 2. for bushing read blushing Page 5. line 4. for lou'd read loued The last line of the same page for fearefull read fearful Page sixt line 4. for throt read throate Page 7. for shall read shal Page 8. for Lephyrus read Zephyrus In the same for venomous read venymous B. In B. the 3. page 2. line for cause thee yeeld read cause to yeeld 5. page line 15. at the end of the line a comma too much Page 7. line 26. for way read was C. In C. the second page for wofull read woful Page 3. line 1. for outward read onward Line 6. of the same page for captein read capten Line 8. for heycock read heycocks Page 5. for boisterous read boysterus Page 8. line 11. for signe read signes D. In D. page 2. line 8. for wanted read wonted Page 3. for will reade wil also for shall read shal Ibid. line 31. for Amintas read Auernus