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The golden fleece VVhereto bee annexed two elegies, entitled Narcissus change. And Æsons dotage. By Richard Brathvvayte Gentleman.
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Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
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she doth name Namde be thou euer for thou doest enioy The honour and the credit of thy maker Thou art Narcissus that same louely boy That of celestiall forme art made partaker Partaker be thou euer of that forme Since nature as her gemme did thee adorne Narcissus gemme for who can ere compare With the surpassing beautie of his face Which intermixed iâ— with red most faire Resembling Io whose admired grace Strucke such a loue in â—upiters high brest That he protested he lou'd Io best One day amongst the rest high Ioue would kisse The parragon of beauty Ios face Iuno stood at his backe and seeing this You might forbeare quoth she whilest we are in place It were enough to vele your crimes by night And not to act them in your Iunoes sight Ioue he replied litle but expressed His loue to Iuno still with feigned lookes Io stood still her silence lust confessed Such is the attracting power of diuine hookes Their diuine power is such that being showne The chastest maids that breathe be not their owne Ioue loued still yet could not hide his loue From iealous Iuno wherefore he inuented By metamorphozde shape his ioyes to proue Io poore wench without delay consented And left faire shapes should Ioues conceit reueale An heifers forme did Io's shape conceale Fondest of fonds will thou compare thy feature With a lasciuious heifer Ioues delight Thou art the curious frame of diuine nature Nature sure made thee in her owne despight For she despiteth thee thou art so faire That Nature with her worke may not compare Leda faire wife to royall Tindarus Drew Ioue from heauen proportion of a swan For Gods at that time were voluptuous From whence the twins of Leda first began Ledas two egges Pollux and Hellen hight Castor and Clytemnestra brought to light These faire surpassing faire endewed were With vitall breath by Ioues faire swanlike forme Castor and Pollux staid not long time there For they bright lamps the heaueÌ„s with light adorn Hellen though faire yet Hellen did amisse And Clytemnestra grew adulteresse Auant degenerate thoughts ill may betide thee Obâ—ruding lustfull Hellen to my shrine Or Clytemnestras knowne adulterie Or with celestiall bodies which doe shine In heauens supernall Throne and what are they That thou the brightest starre should stars obey Looke at thy face and in this Christall fount Gaze at thy golden locks Oh doe not blush Fairest of men fit for Idalias mount There to inhabite crownd with myrtle bush What shall I say Narcissus to thy beauty To which Apollo tied is in dutie Apollo followed Daphne in a chace An vnchast chace when gods do follow maids And in this shamelesse course this haplesse race Daphne makes refuge to the Lawrel shades Where she transformed was into that tree Vnder whose shade poore wench she wisht to be But what high Ioue or what Apollo can Transforme Narcissus since his shape exceeds Faire Hippodamia for whom Pelops ran Iphicus heart for me with sorrow bleeds And let it bleede I am of purer frame Then each lasciuious mate to entertaine But if faire Deiopeia would descend Daughter to Iuno and entreate my loue Then would I to her suite attention lend And in a mutuall sort her teares approue I am too faire for Galataeas vaine Whom I loude once yet nere will loue againe Though she allure me with her pretty fauours Sending me bracelets made of diuers sorts And fragrant nosegaies mixed with sweetest sauours Yet maids of greater place to me resorts If any earthly creature me obtaine It shall be Themis she 's a louely swaine But it 's no humane creature can content me It must be some diuiner power shall haue me Therfore some faire shapde god thou shalt inuâ—t thee To be thy mistresse who ere long will craue thee And crauing thee will dote vpon thy face Wishing thou wert borne of celestiall race Thus whil'st Narcissus spake his twisted armes Began to flourish with a greene clad least VVith grim Nemesis by her posherfull charmes Composde to be the blossomes of his grest His head was cloathed with a colour greene None knew Narcissus where he erst had beene This was the high prizde loue he did conceiue Of his owne beautie fitter for Gods then men Ambitious thoughts doe worthie parts depraue More sauage farre then Lyons in their den For hauing got their prey they rest content But â—oaring thoughts are still to lewdnesse bent Another Elegie called Aesons affecting youth THere was one Aeson who long time had liude And waxing old was clad with hoarie haire So that each day he lookt to be depriude Of his scarce liuing life consumde with care And euery day he rose farewell quoth he For ere to morrow death will summon me A lookt for summons yet not much desirde For what man liuing will desire his fall If that my fortunes haue to wealth aspirde And that the Gods haue blest me therewithall Why should I die yet these gray haires portend Yet ere long time my state must haue an end With that he wept and sighing did despaire Watring his pale-facde cheeks with aged drops And weeping wipte his eyes with snow-white haire His beard was long bedeckt with aged locks So that to see this oldman homwards creepe Would moue Aegaeon if aliue to weepe Now whil'st he wept and did lament his woe Iason came to him Iason was his sonne And with a quicke pace mixt with teâ—res did goe Hearing his father say he was vndone Vndone quoth Iason why deere Sir quoth he Is it in that I haue offended thee No quoth old Aeson it s because mine age Growes out of frame decrepit and decaid Once was I nimble be'ng Cretheus page But now I flie vnto my staffe for aide This my kinde sonne is cause of my distresse Of all my sorrow and my heauinesse Iason did smile yet he concealde his smile Least he should seeme to scorne his fathers yeares Or pure compassion of his griefes exile But wash'd his tearelesse face with fained teares And Aeson hauing all his woes descride VVith framed speech young Iason thus replide Deare father if distresse consist in this That is in sorrowing for your aged yeares I thinke it were not very farre amisse To shew Medaea these your wofull teares VVheâ—ewith quoth Aeson can she comfort me That will be dead ere she can visit me Iason to comfort him poore doting man Said she had vsde the like experiment Of diuers others and that Helicon Yeelds powerfull hearbs by Aesculapius sent Adding he would make hast and bid her trie What she could doe in this extremitie Aeson did thanke him with a fathers blissing Praying the Gods to prosper him for euer And like a dotard cloyed him with kissing Hoping to liue for aye Die should he neuer Iason made hast to his inchanting wife Bidding her trie her skill for Aesonâ— life Medaea wept to heare her Iason