not how nor where His troubled thoughts confusd with paine and wonder Distracted twixt amazednesse and feare His foote remoues not nor his handes doth sunder Seemes blind to see and beeing deafe to heare And in an extasie so farre misled That he shewes dead aliue and liuing dead 98 Euen so this new-made woman late a mayde Lyes senslesse after this her transformation Seeing in vaine she had implor'd heauens ayde With many a fearefull shrike and shrill Oration Like one intranc't vpon the ground shee s layde Amazde at this her sudden alteration She is she knowes not what she cares not where Confounded with strange passion force and feare 99 Ihoue comforts her and with his Princely arme He would haue raisd her from the setled grasse With amorous words he faine her griefe would charme He tels her what he meant and who he was But there is no amends for such shrewd harme Nor can he cheere the discontented Lasse Though he oft sware and by his life protested She in his Nuptiall bed should be inuested 100 But nothing can preuaile she weeping sweares To tell Diana of his shamefull deed So leaues him watering all her way with teares Young Ihoue to leaue the Forrest hath decreed He would not haue it come to Dians cares And therefore to the Citty backe doth speed She to the Cloyster with her checkes all wet Alone as many as when first they met IAsius raigned in Italy at whose marriage the famous Egyptian Io was present This was in the yeare of the world 2408. It was iust six yeares after that Moyses at the age of forty hauing slane the Egyptian sledde from the sight of Pharao Eleuen yeares after Moyses departed out of Egypt the two brothers Dardanus and Iasius waged warres in Italy Iasius was assisted by the Ianigenes so cald of Ianus Dardanus was ayded by the Aborigines so called by Sabatus saga who succeeded Comerus Gallus the Scythian in certaine conquered Prouinces of Italy At this time Lusus raignd in Spaine Allobrox in france Crothopus the 8. king of the Argiues now raigned Craunus the second king of Athens and at this time Aaron was consecrated high Priest among the Israelites Iasius was slaine in the yeare of the world 2457. in whose place Coribanthus his sonne succeeded Dardanus soiourned certaine yeares in Samothracia erected his Citty Dardan cald Troy in the 31. yeare of the Dukedome of Moyses receiuing that Prouince where his city was erected from Atho prince of Moeonia About the same time by equall computation Archas Calisto subduing the Pelagians by the helpe of Iupiter cald the whole prouince Archadia Tantalus ruled the Phrygians who were before his time cald Moeones This Moeonia is now called Lydia vnder which clymate Arachne was borne by Pallas turned into a Spider Diana was thought to be daughter to an ancient king called Iupiter of Atticke which Itake to bee Iupiter Belus before spoken of She was the first that instituted a profest order of Virginity The Poets call this Diana Cinthia and phaebe figuring in her the Moone and that her brother phoebus she were borne of their mother Latona daughter to Caeus the Gyant in the Iste of Delos Atlanta was daughter to Iasius sister to Coribantus she first wounded the Calidonian Boare and was after espoused to Meleagar sonne to Oeneus the king of Calidon by his wife Althea Lycaon was the sonne of Pelasgus the sonne of Iupiter and Nyobe and of Melibea or as some thinke Cillene He had many sonnes by many wiues Moenalus Thesprotus Nectinnes Caucon Lycus Maeuins Macareus In Archadia Menatus that built the Citty Menatus Moe leneus that built Moeleneus not farre from Megapolis Acontius that built Acontium Charisius that gaue name to Charisium and Cynethus to Cynetha he hadde besides Psophis Phthinus Teleboas Aemon Mantinus Stimphelus Clitor Orchomenus and others Some recken them to the number of fifty others to many more Amongst all these he had but two daughters Calisto and Dia. Touching Ariadnes crowne it is thus remembred At 〈◊〉 corona nitet clarum inter sidera signum Defunct a quem banchusibi dedit esse Ariadnae being for saken of Theseus in the Isle Naxos whom before she had deliuered from the Mynotara she was espoused by the God Bacchus and by him had Thoas oenopio Staphilus Exanthes Latramis and Tauropolis The end of the second CANTO Argumentum CAlista knowne to be with Child is driuen From Dians Cloyster Archas doth pursue His mother vnto him Pelage is giuen Now termed Archady when Tytan knew Saturne had sonnes aliue his hart was riuen With anger he his men togither drew To Battayle the two brothers fight their fils Ioue saues his Father and his Vncle kils ARG. 2. TRans-formed Calisto and the Gyant-kings Ioues Combat with great Tiphō Gāma sings CANTO 3. 1 WHen I record the dire effects of Warre I cannot but with happy praise admire The blessed friendes of Peace which smoothes the scat Of wounding steele and al consuming fire Oh in what safety then thy Subiects are Royall king Iames secur'd from Warres fierce yre That by thy peacefull gouernment alone Studrest deuided Christendomet'attone 2 To thee may Poets sing the 'r chearefull laies By whom their Muses flourish in soft peace To thee the Swaines may tune eternall praise By whom they freely reape the earths increase The Merchants through the earth applaud thy daies Wishing their endlesse date may neuer cease By who they throgh the quartered world may traffick Asia Europe America and Affricke 3 Thy Liege-men thou hast plac'st as on a hill Free from the Cannons reach from farre to see Diuided Nations one another kill Whilst thy safe people as Spectators be Onely to take a view what blood they spill They neere to ruine yet in safety we Alone in peace whilst all the realmes about vs Enuy our blisse yet forcst to fight without vs. 4 So did the Newter Londoners once stand On Barnet-Heath aloofe to see the fight Twixt the fourth Edward Soueraigne of this land And the great Duke of Warwicke in the right Of the sixt Henry in which hand to hand Braue Iohn of Oxford a renowned knight Made many a patting soule for liues-breath pant And vanquisht many a worthy Combattant 5 So stood the Kentish men to view the maine In the yeare Eighty eight when th' English fleete Fought with the huge Armadoes brought from Spaine With what impatience did they stand to see 't On the safe shore willing to leaue the traine Of such faint Cowards as thinke safety sweet In such a quarrell where inuaders threat vs And in our natiue kingdome seeke to beat vs. 6 Where Royal Englands Admirall attended With all the Chiualry of our braue Nation The name of Howard through the earth extended By Naual triumph o're their proud Invasion Where victory on the Red-Crosse descended In Lightning and Earths-thunder in such fashion That all the sheafed feathered
of whom Corinth tooke first name Electra daughter to King Athlas marryed From Lybia hath he fetcht the louely Dame And thence to Naples this rich purchase carried Corinth and Naples are indeed the same One Citty though by Time their names be varried These dying left behinde them to succeed Two Princes Lords of many a vahant deed 3 Whilst Corinth there Memnon all Egypt swayde In Italy Atleus Harbon Gaul Hesperus Spaine the Argine King was made Crassus in France King Ludgus gouern'd all Arming himselfe gainst such as did Inuade Syrus in Syria Assyrias crowne doth fall To Mancaleus which whilst he maintaind Orthopolis in Pelloponessus raign'd 4 Moyses was borne the selfe-same happy yeare That faire Electra was made haplesse Queene Who spake with GOD and saw the bush burne cleare By whom the Israelites deliuered beene From Pharaohs bondage whom the fiery spheare Guided by night when in the day was seene The Cloud to vsher them In whose blest daies Corinthus yssue their proud fortunes raise 5 One Dardanus that other Iasius hight Who strongly for their Fathers Crowne contend And to their aydes assemble many a knight By force of Armes their challenge to defend But Armes nor bloudy battell force nor fight Can vnto this vnnaturall warre giue end Till at the length a Treaty was appointed Which by accord should be the King annointed 6 Iasius to Parlee comes vnarm'd his brother Vnder his Robes of peace bright Armor wore And being met his vengeance could not smother But slew him dead The Lords his death deplore Thus pitiously the one hath kilde the other Iasius vnto his Sepulcher they bore But Dardanus that him so basely slew Vnto the Pallaee Royall they pursue 7 The people such a Traiterous practise hated And vow his blood shall for his murder pay Such as lou'd Iasius the rest animated And round begirt the place where Dardan lay Who cals such friends as on his person waited And in the dead of night steales thence away For well he knowes they Iasius lou'd so deerely That they his murder will reuenge seucrely 8 Before the dawne of day they shipping take The darkenesse of the night their purpose aideth Through the vast Ocean a swift saile they make But as the morning riseth and night fadeth The sterne Corinthians to their fury wake And euery man th'vngarded house inuadeth But when they entring found the brother fled They curse the liuing and lamâ—… the dead 9 Long they their weary Fortunes haue in chase Still in the mercy of the Seas and winde But where to harbor they can find no place Or in the seas wilde deserts comfort finde At length they touch at Samos Isle in Thrace A soile which yet contents not Dardans minde Ballast fresh water victuals he takes in And hoysing saile seekes further shores to win 10 By this the Asian Seas his ships hath past And now within the Helle spont he rides The Marriners the shore discry at last Where calling all their Sea-gods to their guides To their discouery they apply them fast And now their vessels neere the cost abides Not long about the briny beach they houer But Dardan landes the Iland to discouer 11 He finds it fruitfull pleasant and a soile Fit to inhabit hie woods champion fields He holds this countrey worth her former toile The place he likes and to this clime he yeilds And after all his trauell and turmoile He plants himselfe a Citty here he builds He casts a huge Ditch first then layes a frame And after cals it Dardan by his name 12 The time the groundsils of great Troy were layd Was Lacedemon built by computation In Athens Ertchthonius King was made And Danaus ruler ore the Argiue Nation Hercules Dasinas Phenitia swayde Egiptus Egypt now the first foundation Of great Apollos Temple was begun By young Eristhones King Cecrops sonne 13 In processe is much people there conuented Being a Citty well and fairely seated And all such people as this place frequented Were by him and his followers well intreated No stranger from the King past discontented No Marchant in his traffique was defeated In time his wealth and people both abound And here in Dardan Dardanus liues crownd 14 This Dardan on Candame got a sonne Eruton hight who the same state maintained Time keepes his course away the swift howers run The second King in Arts and Warres is trained Imagine seauen and forty Winters dun So long Eruton in this Citty raigned Troos his sonne the kingdome doth enioy And of this Troos came the name of Troy 15 A puissant King in Armes his valors fame Through all the Asian confines stretched far Kingdomes he doth subdue Invadors tame By him the two first kings ecclipsed are And the Dardanians change their auncient name And of King Troos so renowmd in warre Are Troyans cald for so King Troos chargeth And with his fame his new-built towne enlargeth 16 Now all the Graecian Citties Troy out-shineth Whose glory many neighbour kings enuy Yet none so bold that outwardly repineth Or date in publicke tearmes king Troos defie The strongest people he by loue combineth The weaker he by armes doth terrifie King Tantalus that liues in Phrigia crownd Most enuies Troy should be so farre renown'd 17 But leaue we him in enuy Troy in glory For enuy still lookes vpward seldome downe And turne to that which most concernes our story How Iupiter attain'd his fathers crowne How Sybill â—…oyfull was but Saturne sorry To heare his sonnes suruiuing in renowne How Tytan war'd on Saturne how Ione grew And in his fathers aid his Vnckle slew 18 Twixt the Pelagians and Epiriens riseth Contentious warre in Epire raigned then King Milleseus who in armes surpriseth Certaine Pelagians king Lycaons men Lycaon with his watlike troopes aduiseth By pollicy of warre both how and when He may awaite th' Epiriens the like domage And make their king vnto his state do homage 19 At length Ioues Guardian the great Epyre king Vnto the son of Titan offers peace In signe whereof they Oliue branches bring To signifie their hostile Armes surcease Lycaon sonne to Tytan whom wars sting Had likewise gald and spoild his lands increase Applauds the motion sweares to this accord Condition'd thus to leaue an Epire Lord. 20 An Epyre Lord as Hostage straight they take And in Pelagia with Lycaon leaue him There to abide till they amends shall make For all the spoiles th' Eperiens did bereaue him The King the daies doth watch the nights doth wake Least his Epirien hostage should deceiue him Lycaon of his couenant naught doth slacke The time expires the Lord should be sent backe 21 And to that purpose Melliseus sends Ambassadors from Epire to Pelage Who to Lycaon beares his kind commends Lycaon full of spleene and warlike rage To quit his former inâ—…ury intends And with much paine his fury doth asswage Yet giues them outward welcome they desire Their Hostage Lord to
Meridian Iapheth the lesse Asia towards the West whence many Nations of Europe proceeded Sems sonnes were fiue Elam of whom came the Persians from him Xenophon deriueth Cyrus Assur of him came the Assyrians Ninus of him the Niniuttes and Badilonians Arphaxad of him the Caldeans and from his Nephewe Fber were dâ—…riued the Herbrues the word signifieth Trauellers or Strangers Of this line came Abraham Dauid and the Messias Aram of him the Syrians descended of which Damasco is the metropolis therefore it was thus written The head of Aram is Damascus The posterity of Cam was Chus of whom came the Aethiopians in the farthest Coasts of Aphrica and the Libians cald to this day Chirsita The sonnes of Chus were Saba of whome the Sabaans and Euila of wheme the Indians descended Nemrod first raignd in Babylon Misraim occupied Aegypt which the Arabians and Turks to this day call Mizri The sonnes of misraim were Lydas who pcopled Lydia a Nation that after seated themselucs in some parts of Itahe and Labain of whom the Sun-burnt Lybians are thought to descend Of Euaâ—…m came the Cyrenians who built the Citty Cerenaica of who came the Mauritanians and of him a famous Riuer that still beares his name Of Canaan came the Sydonians and Tyrians Heath built Hebron where Abraham dwelt and was buried Iebuseus possest Gaba and Ierusalem Iapheths sons were Gomor or Togerma of whom the Cinerians take their originall They are seated beyond Thrace neer the Meotiden Fenne where the Bosphort inhab te not farre from Cimbrica Chersonessus Of Magog came the Sâ—…thians and of them the Turks and to proue the Turke to be in God and Magor Ezechiell saith the Nations of Magog lie toward the south which in the latest dayes shall seeke the fall of Israell And the Apocalip Magog shall lastly Emperise the world Of Madai came the Medes Of Iauan or Iabu the Iouians or Graecians The sonnes of Iauan were Elisa of whome came the Aeolians in Asia minor Tharsis built Tharsis the chiefe Citty of the Cilicians Of Cethim came the Macedonians Of Adodanim the Dodoneans in Epire. Iauan was that Ianus that raignd in Italy Of Tubal came the Hispani and Iberi Of Mosoch came the Muscouites Of Tyrus the Thrasians The Sons of Gomer were Ascanes Riphat and Togorma Of Ascanes came the 〈◊〉 who after shifted theÌ„selues into other Prouinces and ofthem came the Cimbrians the Bythinians the Cancoues the 〈◊〉 and Heueti Of Riphat came the Riphei Gyants that inhabited the Riphean Hilles where the Sanromass then liued By the 〈◊〉 are meant all such as speake in the 〈◊〉 tongue From Riphat came also the Paphlagonians these 〈◊〉 themselues into Europe some inhabiting Russia Lytuania and Polonia from the Adriaticke shoare vnto Illusria Likewise Fistula Albis and Bohemia where before liued the Hermaduri and Boij Among the Sonnes of Sem Gether is numbred of whom came the Getes they were called Gotti or Gothes who inhabited Wallachia these speake the Almain toung and mixt themselues with the Germans whose name is deriued of Gerim and Ani which signifieth miserable Strangers The French are cald 〈◊〉 of Wallen which in the Almain toong signifies Wanderers From Brute cam the Britons since called Angli In Nemrod was the first Monarchy establisht he liued a hundred years after the Floud after 200. yeares Ninus built Niniuy in 〈◊〉 whose wife Semiramis after his death erected the walles of Babilon Ninius her sonne succeeded in whose time Abraham came into Palestine Him succeeded Amraphel king of Sennaar or Babylon Of these Assyrian Monarches Sardanapalus was the last whose proud name we thus deriue Sar a Captaine Dan a ludge 〈◊〉 a Destroyer He was ouerthrowne by phul-Belochus a Babilonian and Arbaces a Medean when Osia raignd in Iuda phul belochus raigned ouer the Babilonians and Niniuites forty yeares Arbaces ouer the Meades and Persians Belochus warred vpon Israel whom succeeded his Sonne Phal Assur called in the Scriptures Tiglat Peilassur He raigned 23. yeares him Salmanasser succeeded and raigned ten yeares he besiedged Samaria of him Hosea speakes Chapter 10. 〈◊〉 succeeded Salmanasser who besiedged Hierusalem and raigned ten yeares his Army was ouerthrowne by the Angels Assur haddon next ruld ten yeares In him declined the Monarchy of Assiria and Merodach became Monarch ouer the Chaldees Benmerodach raigned after his Father 21. after him Nabuchednezzar Primus 35. He warred against Aegipt Nabuchadnezzar Magnus raigned forty in Zedechias time he besiedged Hierusalem a 〈◊〉 and sixe monthes him succeeded euill Merodach who releast Ieconias he dead Balsaar succeeded foureteene 〈◊〉 he was a greet Blasphemer In his time Babylon was raced and the Monarchy transferred to the Persians he himselfe being slaine by Cyrus The kings of Aegypt in the times of this Monarchy were these Osyris with his Wife Isis who liued in the time of Abraham Orus Bochoris Busyris Miris 〈◊〉 who liued in the time of Samson pherones of whom all the Kinges of Egypt were called pharoes Proteus whom some call Cetes to him Paris and Hellen sayled in theyr returne from Greece Rampsinitus Cephus or Cheops Cephris Mycerinus Anycis Sabachus called in the Bible Sesach Sethen Psamneticus Nechos who ouercame Iosia by the Citty Megeddo and was after slaine Nabuchadnezzar 〈◊〉 Apries who sackt 〈◊〉 and slew the Prophet Ieremiah Amasis in whose time the Monarchy came to the Persians In Greece in the time of this Monarchy liued Iapethus the Sonne of Noah after whoÌ„ raigned Hellas now was the expedition of the Argonats Erictheus Perseus and his Acts. The warres of Troy 〈◊〉 with the Theban History notorious in Oedipus and Iocasta with the deathes of the two Brothers Eleocles and Polynices Now were the 〈◊〉 famous Rome in the time of this first Monarchy was bullt the tenth year of Achas King of Iuda It was 〈◊〉 by Kings 6244 yeares Rhomulis raigned 38. Numa 43. Tullius Hostilius 32. Aucus Martius 2 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 37. Seruius Tullius 44. In the last part of his raigne began the Persian Monarchy 〈◊〉 the proud 25. He was repulst his Kingdome by the Consull Brutus because his Sonne Sextus had 〈◊〉 rauished 〈◊〉 the wise of Collatyne The Persian Kings were first Cyrus who raigned 29. hee ouercame Cresus of Lydia besiedged Babylon and was after slaine by Tomyris Queene of Scithia In his time liued Thales Milesius Pithagoras borne in Samos Solon and Draco who first ordred the yeare 〈◊〉 the monthes added the Epact and collected first the Poems of Homor Cambises the second King who raigned 7. years added Egypt to his Empire and couered the Iudgement Seate with the skinne of his false Iudge Sisamnes The third Darius he by the neyhing of his 〈◊〉 was elected Emperor raigned 36. He by the craft of his Friend Zopyrus wan Babylon and added to his Dominions the Getes Cymerians and 〈◊〉 Now liued Hippias the Sonne of Pysistratus in 〈◊〉 and Miltiades This Darius was the Sonne
shafts of Spaine Headed with death were shot them backe againe 7 It shewed as if two Townes on th' Ocean built Had been at once by Th'eauens lightning fired The shining waters with the bright flames guilt Breathd Clouds of smoke which to the spheres aspired The bloud of Spanish Souldiers that day spilt Which through the Port-holes ran Neptune admired And tooke it for the Red-sea whilst the thunder Of English shot proclaymde the Sea-gods wonder 8 But least this Ordinance should wake from sleepe Our auncient enmity now buried quite The graue of all theyr shame shall be the deepe In which these peopled Sea-townes first did fight Yet that I may a kinde of method keepe And some deseruing Captaines to recite Liue famous Hawkins Frobisher and Drake Whose very name made Spaines Armadoes quake 9 Now to returne vnto Pelagia backe Which Ihoue hath made to him and to his seed Then takes his leaue the people loath to lacke The Prince that from a Tyrant hath them freed Who of their liues and Honors sought the wracke would change his purpose but he hath decreed Pelagia to forsake and I must leaue him To Epires King who gladly will receiue him 10 And to the Forrest to Calisto turne Whose sorrow with her swelling belly growes Alasse how can the Lady chuse but mourne To see hir selfe so necre her painfull throwes T is August now the scortching Dog-starres burne Therefore the Forrest-Queene a set day chose For all her traine to bath them in the floud Calisto mongst them by the riuer stood 11 The Queene with iealous eyes surueies the place Least men or Satyres should be ambusht by them The naked Ladies in the floud to face Or in their cloth-lesse beauty to espie them Now all at once they gin themselues t'vnlace Oh rauishing Harmony had I bin by them I should haue thought so many silken strings Tutcht by such white hands musicke fit for kings 12 They doffe their vpper garments each begins Vnto her Milke-white Linnen sinocke to bare her Small difference twixt their white smocks and their skins And hard it were to censure which were fairer Some plunge into the Riuer past their chins Some feare to venture whilst the others dare her And with her tender foot the riuer feeles Making the waters margent rinsh her heeles 13 Some stand vp to the Ankles some the knees Some to the Brest some diue aboue the Crowne Of this her naked fellow nothing sees Sauing the troubled waues where she slid downe Another sinkes her body by degrees And first her foot and then her legge doth drowne Some their faint fellowes to the deepe are crauing Some sit vpon the banke their white legs lauing 14 One onely discontented shrinks aside Her saint vnbracing idely the doth linger Full faine the Lasle her swelling brest would hide She pins and vnpins with her thumbe and finger Twice Phabe sâ—…nds and musing she denide To bath her she commands the rest to bring her Who betwixt mirth and earnest force and play All but her Cobweb shaddow snatcht away 15 Dian at first perceiues her brests to swell And whispers to Atlanta what she found Who straight perceiu'd Calisto was not well They iudg'd she had her Virgins belt vnbound But when her vaile beneath her nauell fell And that her belly shew'd so plumpe and round They little need to aske if she transgrest Calistoes guilty blush the act confest 26 Therefore she banisht her nor sutes nor teares Can with the Queene of Damsels ought preuaile Who when by strict inquiry made she heares ` Of Iupiter and his deceitfull stale Who seem'd so like a Virgin Phebe sweares Because her iudgement thenceforth shall not faile And to avoide occasion of like venter To search all such as to her traine shall enter 17 Thus is Lycâ—…ns daughter banisht now The Citty by her late assum'd profession Banisht the Cloyster by her breach of vow For by no praiers teares or intercession Diana her reentrance will allow After exilement for her late transgression Therefore asham'd thrugh darke shades she doth run Till time expires and she brings forth a sonne 18 So did our Cynthia Chastity preferre The most admired Queeâ—…ne that euer rained If any of her Virgin traine did erre Or with the like offence their honors stained From her Imperiall Court she banisht her And a perpetuall exile she remained Oh bright Elisa though thy dated daies Confine there is no limit to thy praise 19 Calistos sonne immagine seuen years old Brought vp mongst Lyons Tygers Wolues Beares The sauage impe growes day by day more bold And halfe a bruit no beast at all he feares He brookes both Summers heat and Winters cold And from the Woolfe his pray by force he teares Vpon a time his mother crost his will Whom he inrag'd pursude and saught to kill 20 She flies he followes her with furious rage Till she is forest the Forrest to forsake And seeing no meanes can his spleene asswage She doth the way vnto the citty take The neighbour Citty which is cal'd Pelage Where Iupiter by chance did merry-make Whose hap it was then crossing through the street The mother and th' inraged sonne to meete 21 Calisto spies Ioue and for helpe she cries And at his Royall feet she humbly throwes her He stops the sauage and with heedfull eyes Viewing Calisto well at length he knowes her Though clad in barke and leaues a strange disguise For a kings daughter and a Realms disposer Helpe Ioue quoth she and my pursuer stay Archas thy sonne his mother seekes to slay 22 Ioue gladly doth acknowledge the bold Lad To be his son for all the guifts of nature Pattern'd and shap't by Iupiter he had And of him nothing wants but age and stature He caus'd him in rich garments to be clad And then he seem'd to al a goodly creature For being attir'd in cloath of Gold and Tissew He may be easily knowne to be Ioues Issue 23 The strife betwixt the mother and the childe Is by the father and the husband ended Calisto hath againe her selfe exil'd Scorning the grace that Ioue to her extended She hies her to the groues and forrests wilde With generall mankind for Ioues sake offended But in her flight as through the fields she ranged She feeles her figure and proportion changed 24 Her vpright body now gan forward bend And on the earth she doth directly stare And as her hands she would to heauen extend She sees her fingers clawes o're-growne with haire And those same lips Ioue did of late commend To be for colour peâ—…relesse kissing rare Are rough and stretcht in length hir head down hangs Her skins a rough hide and her teeth be fangs 25 And when she would her strange estate bewaile And speake to heauen the sorrowes of her hart Instead of words she finds her Organs faile And grunts out a harsh sound that makes her starr She feares her shape and ouer hill and dale Runs from her selfe yet
can she not depart From what she flies for what she most doth feare She carries all the way the shape of Beare 26 And though a perfect Beare yet Beares affright her So do the Wolues though mongst their sauage crew Her Father liues how should a Wolfe delight her Vnlesse Lycaon in such shape she knew Meane time young Archas proues a valiant fighter And in all Martiall practise famous grew Adding seaueu Summers more vnto his age Hee seats him in the kingdome of Pelage 27 Where leaue him raigning in his Grandsiressted Changing his kingdome and his peoples name Whether by loue or fate I know not led Themselues Arcadians they abroad proclaime After the name of Archas now their head Pelage a Citty too of ancient fame They Archad call a stile that shall perseuer Vnto the people and the Towne for euet 28 Archas in Archad liues in Epyre Ioue Saturne in Creet the God of Earth proclaimed Tytan through forren Seas and Lands doth roue Hauing by Conquest many Nations tamed For time still gaue him Conquest where he stroue which made him through the world both fear'd famed Yet with a world the Tyrant seemes not pleasd Till he haue Creet his Natiue birth-right ceaâ—… 29 By strict inquiry heat length hath found His periur'd Brother hath kept sonnes aliue against the couenant he by oath was bound Which was that no male issue should suruiue This of his future war must be the ground He vowes in Irons his Brothers legs to gyue His hands to Manacle his necke to yoake In iust reuenge that he the league hath broke 30 His sonnes all Gyants and by nature strong He sends to assemble to this dreadfull warre Who like their father apt for rape or wrong Without the cause demaunding gathered are Vnnumbred people in their armies throng Brought by the Big-bon'd Titanoys from farre Where he and all his Gyant-sonnes assemble They make the groning earth beneath them tremble 31 Lycaon was not there him Ioue before Had from th' Arcadian kingdome quite put downe There was the Gyant Typhon he that wore The Ciprian wreath and the Cicillian crowne Huge Briareus that the scepter bore Of Nericos a monster at whose frowne Nations haue quak't whole armies stood agast And Gods themselues shooke till his rage were past 32 Coeon likewise king of great Coeas Isle A fellow of a high and matchlesse size Who the rough Ocean calmed with a smile And with a frowne hath made the billowes â—…ise Aegeon too that hath inlarg'd his stile Through many a kingdome from whose raging eies Bright lightning flames haue in his furious ire Afore a storme of thunder flasht out fire 33 Of him the great Mediterranean Ocean Is cald th' Aegean Sea it doth deuide Europe from Asia and hath further motion a long the greatest part of Greece beside This Gyant to the Gods scorn'd all deuotion Therefore was cal'd Brianchus for his pride The next Hyperion of the selfe-same breed All these haue sworne the death of Saturnes seed 34 There likewise came vnto these wars Japetus Calum and Terraes son in Tytans aide He brought with him his sonne Prometheus Whom Tytan the first houre a Captaine made His brother Athlas too and Hesperus Their royall Ensignes in the field displai'd And ouer diuers seas their armies ferried From Mauritania Lybia and Hesperied 35 Their Randezvouz in Sicily they made And thence by sea they rigge a royall sleet The flourishing realme of Saturne to inuade In time their countlesse hoast takes land in Creet Vallâ—…es by them are fil'd hils euen are laid Townes burnt high Castles leuel'd with their feet Where ere they turne fite from their eye-bals flashes Which townes and villages consumes to ashes 36 Saturne their bold inuasion much admires Not knowing whence their quarrell may be grounded He cals his Counsell and of them inquires How their immense ambition may be bounded How with his enemies blood to quench the fires And by what power the soe may be confounded Aduise is giuen to make a generall muster To beat them backe that in such numbers cluster 37 And as the king thron'd in his chaire of state Sits in his pallace all his chiefe Peeres by him On these affaires to Counsell and debate In thrusts a Knight from Tytan to desie him And mongst the Lords that bout him circled fat He rudely throngs and presseth to come me him But being kept backe aloud he lifts his voice And thus greets Saturne from the Tytanoys 38 Thus sayes imperious Tytan Saturnes Lord Like a low vassaile from my Throne discend Or I shall chase thee thence by fire and sword And with thy glory to thy daies giue end For thou hast broke thy oath and Princely word And therein made an enemy of thy friend My Crowne I but resign'd vpon condition And thou those bands hast broke by thy Ambition 39 Whilst Saturne his male-children kils so long He is the King of Creet but that neglected He weares the Cretan Diadem by wrong Thy periury is to the world detected And therefore with an army great and strong Shall Saturne from his high throne be deiected Thus Tytan doth the king of Creet defie And by these Summons to submit or die 40 Bold spirited Saturne doubly mou'd appeareth At his proud Message with disdaine and wonder Disdaine as being a Prince that nothing feareth To heare his scorned enemy-threatnings Thunder With admiration when he strangely heareth Of sonnes aliue which makes him deepely wonder And taking Sibell by the hand thus say Hauing commanded first his traine away 41 Sister and wife I charge thee by the zeale Thou owest to me thy husband and thy brother The truth of all this practise to reueale And what I next demaund thee nothing smother Since it concerns th' estate of all our weale Art thou of any liuing sonne the mother The trembling Queene low kneeling thus repli'de You charge me deepe and I will nothing hide 42 I am a woman and full well you know A woman hath a soft and tender brest But more I am a mother can you show A mother that in this kind hath transgrest Stranger may stranger kill Foe murder foe Which mothers to their children most detest Was it for murder you espous'd me first To be a wife of all good-wiues accurst 43 I 'de rather be a pittious mother helde Then through the world a Murdresse be esteem'd Be my selfe murdered rather then compeld To murder those for whom this womb hath teem'd This wombe with three faire Princely sons hath sweld Which dead to Saturne and the world are deem'd Yet all three liue but cruell husband where Saturne shall neuer know nor Tytan heare 44 Th' amazed king immagines by her looke Her feruent tongue doth on her hart-string strike Necessity at this time makes him brooke What his disturbed soule doth most dislike Without reply the sad Queene he for sooke It pierst his hart as if an
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
And cries alowd poore Troy shall burne in flames Oh had not changelesse Fate made deafe their eares They had bin mou'd Th' vnhappy King she blames The credulous Queene rash Paris and all Troy That giue consent their Citty to destroy 90 But as her Deuinations neuer fayled So were they neuer credited for true Till Troy vnwares with mischiefe was assayled And then too late their misbeliefe they rue They that now held her mad ere long bewailed Their slacke distrust when threatned Ils ensue But t was a Fate their Sawes were still neglected and till prooud true by processe false suspected 91 Apollo in whose sacred gift remaines The true presage and ken of future things Dotes on Cassandraes beauty and complaines To her chast eares he tunes his golden strings The crasty Girle that in her heart disdaines The gold as she had earst despised Kings Demands a boone which Phaebus hath decreed To grant Cassandra in sure hope to speed 92 He sweares by Styx an oath that cannot change That he will graunt what she shall next impose him She askes to know the skill of secrets strange And future Prophesies withall she shewes him Her beauty where his eyes may freely range The amorous God of Fire securely throwes him In her faire lap and on her Iuory brest Laies his bright head so grants her her request 93 But when she feeles a deuine spirit infus'd Through all her parts this Phoebus did inspire She fled his loose imbraces and refus'd By any meanes to accomplish his desire He mad with anger to be thus abus'd Thus sayes Thou think'st to mock the God of Fire Thy Sawes though sooth yet shall do no man good Not be beleeu'd or else not vnderstood 94 This was the cause the King remain'd vnmou'd The Queene vntoucht with her lamenting cries And all those Princes that their safeties lou'd Though long for-warn'd her Counsell yet despise Her Spels haue credit when th' euents are prou'd Till then though true they are esteemed lies But leaue Cassandra to her ceaselesse care And Paris to his Troian Fleet prepare 95 Who with his Brother Deiphebus sends To hast Aeneas to the Seas with speed Polydamus Anthenor and such frends As in this generall voyage were agreed His Souldiers most Pannonians he entends Shall rather see his Aunt from Aiax freed Or some bright Graecian Queene for her disgrace Shall Captiue liue in faire Hesiones place 96 Imbarckt and passing diuers Seas at last In Lacedemons Port they safely Land But what twixt Paris and bright Hellen past What fauours he receiu'd from her faire hand How the Greeke Spartan Queene the Troian grac'st You in the sequell Booke must vnderstand Some small retyrement at this time we craue What you want heere another place shall haue TOuching the Dignity of Poets I referre you to Ouids 3. Booke De arte Amandi omitting others translating him thus SEe see What alterations rude time brings Poets of old were the right hands of Kings Large were their gifts supreame was their reward Their meeterd Lines with feare and reuerence hard Honour and state and sacred Maiesty Belong'd to such as studied Poetry Ennius by Scipio the great was sought And from the Mountaines in Calabria brought Dishonoured now the Iuy Garland lies The Ancient worship vnto Poets dies Yet should we striue our owne fames to awake Homer an euerlasting worke did make His Illiades cald else who had Homer knowne Had Danae in her Tower an old wife growne And neuer vnto publish view resorted How had her beauty bin so farre reported And in another place proceedeth thus We in our flowing numbers beauty praise And in our Poems your deserts can raise We first bestow'd on Nemesis a name Cinthia by our admittance keeps hir fame Lycoris neuer hath bin knowne before By vs she sounds in euery forraine shore And many proffer me large gifts to know Who my Corinna is whom I praise so In vs there is a power shall neuer perrish Vs the Pierides and Muses cherrish A Godhead raignes in vs with the stars We haue Trafficke and acquaintance holding wars Which none saue Barbarisme our Sacred spirit We from the bye Deuinest powers inherit POlydor was sonne to Priam and Hecuba who was committed to Polynestor to be kept in the time of the Troian warres with a great sum of money The description of the Troians be according to Dares the Troian who liued in the warres of Troy and writ their vtter subuersion The Peletronij were the Lapithes who first found the vse of Bridles Bits and Snaffels so cald of Peletronium a Towne in Thessaly Castor and Pollux were two twins whom Iupiter begot of Laeda Kings in Achaya Brothers to Helena The Fortunes of Paris his casting out to bee a Sheapherd after the ominous dreame of his Mother with the vision of the three Goddesses in the mount of Ida are more at large expressed in his Epistle to Helena Cassandraes Prophesies true and neuer credited alude to the Prophet Tyresias a Southsayer of Thebes Who vvith striking two Adders ingendring became forthwith a Woman Seauen yeares after he likewise finding two Serpents stroke them and was immediately turned againe into a man and participated both the affection of man and vvoman It so fell out that Iupiter and Iuno arguing fel into great difference Shee holding obstinately Women lesse wanton then men Hee affirming men lesse Lasciuious then Women and who can better moderate this discention then Tyresius that had felt the desires of both to him they appeale He tooke Iupiters part and averd Women to be most Luxurious At vvhich Iuno inraged strooke him vvith blindnesse vvhich because Iupiter could not helpe for one Godde cannot vndoe what another hath done she gaue him the guift of Prophesie to vvhich the spightfull Goddesse added also this that his Prophefies though true yet they shoulde neuer bee beleeued Clazemonij vvere people of Ionia Of that Country Artemō was cald Clazemonius It was the name of a Physitian in Pliny also a beautiful young man much loued of al Women Mideus wat called Messenius of Messe a Towne in Peloponesus Of Acrisius vvee haue spoake before the Father of Danae ' his Brother Praetus sought to dispossesse him of his kingdom and they are said to be the first that vsed a shield in battaile Of the Palladium what it was many writers differ Palladia are all such Images as are made without hands or such as fell from heauen to Earth such was the Palladiū of I roy and light first in the Citty Pessinus a Mart-Towne in Phrygia where Sibell had a Temple Others thinke it to be giuen by Iupiter to Icus the Brother of Ganimed whose censure we most allow Though others write this Palladium to bee made by Asius a great Phylosopher and a Mathematitian of whom the thirde part of the world was called Asia being modeld with this Vertue that the Citty which inioyed it shoulde for the time be inuincible The like things
was attributed to the shafts of Hercules giuen to Philocteres by dying Hercules in the Mount Oeta betweene Thessaly and Macedonia when the Delphian Oracles had signified to the Greeks that Troy could neuer be surprised without the shaftes of Hercules they sought Philoctetes and demaunding of him those spoiles which hee vvas bound by oath to conceale being extreamely vrged hee pointed with his foote to the place where they vvere buried vvhich the ioyfull Greeks inioying they receaued by them victory and the Troians the ouerthrow The end of the eight CANTO Argumentum PAris departs from Troy Greece doth enter Whom Menelaus welcomes hauing seene The King is cald thence by a strange aduenter And to his Troian-guest he trusts his Queene Paris fayre Hellen Loues doth present her With a long sute to heale his wound yet greene First Paris writes she answers Then with ioy Greece they for sake both are shipt for Troy ARG. 2. BRight Hellen courted Paris birth and Fate With his Loue-trickes Iota shall relate CANTO 9. WHo can describe the purity of those Whose beauties are by Sacred Vertues guided Or who their vgly pictures that oppose Their beautiâ—…s against Chastity deuided Proud Lucifer an Angell was but chose Vice Vertue to eschew and from heauen slided Women like him in shape Angellicall are Angels whilst they stand Deuils when they fall 2 Their gifts well vsd haue power t'inchant the wise To daunt the bold and ruinate the strong Which well applyde can make the ruin'd rise The Coward valiant weake to tast no wrong They are all poyson when they wantonize All Soueraigne where ther 's Vertue mixt among Chast nothing better wanton nothing worse The grate-fulst Blessing or the greatest Curse 3 Had Spartan Hellen bin as chast as faire her Vertue sooner might haue raisd a Troy Then her loose gestures great without compare Had power so rich a Citty to destroy By this time all the Troians Landed are and Paris of the Queene receiu'd with ioy To whom th'inamored Prince in priuate sends These lines in which his duty he commends The Epistle of Paris to Hesten HEalth vnto Laedaes daughter Priains son Sends in these lines whose health cannot be won But by your guift in whose power it may lie To make me whole or sicke to liue or die Shall I then speaks Or doth my flame appeare Plaine without Index Oh t is that Ifeare My Loue without discouering smile takes place And more then I could wish shines in my face When I could rather in my thoughts desire To hide the smoke til time display the fire Time that can make the fire of Loue shine cleare Vntroubled with the misty smoke of feare But I dissemble it for who I pray Can fire conceale that will it selfe betray yet if you looke I should affirme that plaine In words which in my countenance Imaintaine I burne I burne my fault I haue confest My words beare witnesse how my lookes transgrest Oh pardon me that haue confest my error Cast not vpon my lines a looke of terror But as your beautic is beyond compare Suite vnto that your lookes oh you most faire That you my Letter haue receiu'd by this The supposition glads me and I wish By hope incourag'd hope that makes me strong you will receiue me in some sort ere long I aske no more then what the Queene of Beauty Hath promist me for you are mine by duty By her I claime you you for me were made And she it was my iourney did perswade Nor Lady thinke your beauty vainely sought I by deuine instinct was hether brought And to this enterprize the heauenly powers Haue giuen consent the Gods proclaime me yours I ayme at wonders for I couet you yet pardon me I aske but what 's my due Venus her selfe my iourney hether led And giues you freely to my promist bed Vnder her safe conduct the seas I past Till I arriu'd vpon these Coasts at last Shipping my selfe from the Sygean shore Whence vnto these Confines my course I bore She made the Surges gentle the winds fayre Nor maruell whence these calmes proceeded are Needs must she power vpon the salt-Seas haue That was sea-borne created from a waue Still may she potent stand in her ability And as she made the seas vvith much facility To be through-saild so may she calme my heat And beare my thoughts to their desired seat My flames I found not Here no I protest I brought them with me closed in my brest My selfe transported then without Atturney Loue was the Motiue to my tedious iourney Not blustring Winter when he triumpht most Nor any error droue me to this Coast Nor led by Fortune where the rough winds please Nor Marchant-like for gaine crost I the Seas Fulnesse of wealth in all my Fleet I see I am rich in all things saue in wanting thee No spoile of petty Nations my Ship seekes Nor Land I as a spie among the Greekes What need we See of all things we haue store Compar'd with Troy alas your Greece is pore For thee I come thy fame hath thus farre driuen me Whom golden Venus hath by promise giuen me I Wisht thee ere I knew thee long ago Before these eyes dwelt on this glorious show I saw thee in my thoughts know beautious Dame I first beheld you with the eyes of Fame Nor maruell Lady I was stroke so farre Thus Darts or Arrowes sent from â—…owes of warre Wound a great distance off so was I hit With a deepe smarting wound that ranckles yet For so it pleas'd the Fates whom least you blame I le tell a true Tale to confirme the same When in my Mothers wombe full ripe I lay Ready the first houre to be hold the day And she at point to be deliuered streight And to vnlade her of her Royall freight My Byrth-houre was delaid and that sad night A fearefull vision did the Queene affright In a sonnes stead to please the aged Sire She dreampt she had brought forth a Brand of fire Frighted she rises and to Priam goes To the old King this ominous dreame she showes He to the Priest the Priest doth this returne That the Child borne shall stately Islium burne Better then he was ware the Prophet guest For loe a kindled Brand flames in my brest To preuent Fate a Pesant I was held Till my faire shape all other Swaines exeld And gaue the doubtfull world assurance good your Paris was deriu'd from royall blood Amid the Idean Fields there is a place Remote full of hie Trees which hide the face Of the greene mantled Earth where in thicke rowes The Oake the Elme the Pine the Pitch-tree growes Heere neuer yet did browze the wanton Ewe Nor from this plot the slow Oxe licke the dew The sauage Goat that feeds among the Rockes Hath not graz'd heere nor any of their Flockes Hence the Dardanian wals I might espy The lofty Towers of Islium reared by Hence I the Seas might from the firme
is figured in his face And in his lookes the eye of Gorgons burnes The Greekes blunt sword can scarce his Helmet race So weake a foe inflamed Hector scornes Vpon his Crest his Faulchion he lets fall And cleaues the Greeke helme body armes and all 59 The emulous son of Thetis crost by chance The blacke goar'd field and came to view this blow And mad in mind against him charg'd his Lance In hope the towring Prince to ouerthrow Him Thoas seconds and doth proudly'aduance His reeking sword late crimson'd in the foe Both with remorflesse blowes the Prince offend And his bruisd Shield about his arme they bend 60 Had not his helmet beene of mettall pure With Axes they had hewed it from his head But he that made it was an Arts-man sure Else had his braines bin on his harnesse spread Nor had he long bin able to indure Such tedious battry had not Fortune led Paris Aeneas Troylus and the rest To rescue valiant Hector thus opprest 61 At their approch the Achive bands retire Whom to their Pallisadoes they pursue By this in heauen ten thousand Lampes of fire Shine through the ayre and now both Hoasts withdrew The re-assembled Greekes Hector admire And mongst themselues into sad counsell grew Since not by force of Armes by what sly traine The neuer-daunted Worthy may be slaine 62 More honoured Hector in his royall braine Reuolues on milder thoughts how bloud to saue It pitties him to see so many slaine And come to such a generall timelesse graue Then that no more red bloud may Symois staine And change the coulour of her siluer waue He by a generall challenge will deuise For thousands safeties one to Sacrifice 63 Against all Greece hee 'l flyng his hostile gage And to a single Fight their Princes dare That two bolde Champions may the combat wage And in their mutuall Fury thousands spare Meane time blacke night from th' vniuersall Stage Of Earth is cha'st and driuen Now all prepare For th' early Field and with Apollo rise To shine in Armour by his rhadiant eies 64 The Princes to the place where Hector lay Throng in theyr Armes and his command attend After they had tooke and giuen the time of day with him they to the aged King descend Before whom Hector briefly doth display his purpost challenge which they all commend For well his Father and his Brothers know Hector hath power t' incounter any foe 65 The Sunne vp the steepe Easterne hils clymes fast Th'embattaild Greekes vpon the plaines appeare To them the faire-rankt Troians march in hast Within the reach of Hectors armed speare Both Hoasts attend the charge when vnagast The Prince first wafts that all the Campemay may heare Then leaning on his Iauelin makes this boast Euen in the face of their assembled hoast 66 You curled Greekes that haue vnpeopled quite Threescore vast Kingdomes of theyr ablest men To throng our fieldes with numbers infinite All hopelesse of theyr safe returne agen Among these sixty Kings that shine so bright In burnisht Steele vpon this sanguine Fen Can you select one boulder then the rest T' encounter armed Hector Creast to Creast 67 Or if your Princes be too weake a number Can all those threescore Climats yeild one hand Amidst this world that coms our Realme to cumber That dares betweene these hoasts gainst Hector stand Or doe you all feare deaths eternall slumber As well your Kinges as those of common band That with a braue breath'd in so many eares No soule more valiant then the rest appeares 68 If any of these Princes proue so free His prodigall life against ours to ingage Know by exposing his whole thousands be Sau'd from the spoyle of warres infernall rage Oh let me then that thrifty Champion see That will spare Graecian blood with him â—…wage wage Equall contention with my liues expence I will maintaine the Troians eminence 69 A Prince shall meet that Prince as neere allide To thundering Ihoue as he that 's best degreed If in his warlike Chariot he will ride I in my Chariot will conâ—…tont his speed March me these foure white Coursers Greece hath tride These faire Andromache doth mornely feed With her white hand with bread of purest wheat And waters them with Wine still when they eat 70 Xanthus Podargus Lampus Aethon deare To Hector you my armed Coach shall draw And in this fierce exposure shall appeare Before the best Steeds that the Sun ere saw But all Greece cannot match your swift Carrere Not Diomedes Steeds that fed on râ—…w And mangled limbes that in their Mangers bleed Can equall you in courage or in speed 71 Therefore I le cease that oddes and once againe Leauing the Kings to common men I turne Among such clusters growing on this plaine In no warme brest doth so much valor burne But shall so many shewers of blood still raine On Symois banke so many widdowes mourne For their slaine Lords so many Children cry For their poore Fathers that heere slaughtred die 72 If not for Loue of honour in despaire Methinkes some one our puissance should accost For noâ—… two soules that heere assembled are Shall scape the â—…y of our Troian hoast Death and deuouring ruin shall not spare One of your infinites you are ingrost All on destructions File then let some Greeke Despairing life a death with honor seeke 73 Yeilds our besieged Towne a Nobler spirit Then sixty assembled Kingdomes can produce That none dares enterpose his hostile merit But all put off this combat with excuse Among such infinites will none inherit A name with vs Feares Greece our hand shall sluce Their Vniuersall blood That feare can slaue So many Legions with one Hectors braue 74 I beg it of you Greekes let some forth stand To try what puissancelyes in Hectors sword If I be foyl'd by his all-daring hand The Spartan Hellen shall be soone restord And all the spoyles brought from the fertile Land Of Cythara made good and he ador'd With these ennobled armes the sword and crest Of Hector Honors more then all the rest 75 If I subdue your Champion Greece in peace Shall ease our burden'd earth of this huge weight Hostility betweene our hoasts shall cease You with your men and armes your ships shall freight And from our bloud-stain'd soyle free this large prease So shall illustrate Hector reach his height When th' Vniuersall world hath vnderstood Hector gag'd his to saue his Citties blood 76 Oh let it not in after times be saide Twice thirty kingdomes could not one man finde Prince Knight or Swaine durst equally inuade A Troian Prince in Armes and height of mind Nor let succeeding time the Greekes vpbraide To heare such lofty spirits so soone declinde Behold heere stand I to abide the rage Of his arm'd hand that dares but touch our gage 77 These words thus breath'd a generall showt is giuen Through al the Trâ—…n army which aspires And strikes against the Marble floores of heauen Where fixed are
who had neuer seene Achilles but on Horse-backe arm'd before Eyes him with pleasure and forgets all spleene And Thetis sonne that but in blood and gore Stain'd and besmear'd had neuer Hector seene Freely surueighs his shape his robes he wore His brawny Limbes broad bulk his face and stature Nor can he but applaud the pride of nature 12 To whom Achilles thus Hector I see A presence I could Loue but his Fame hate T is thy renowne alone doth blemish me And makes me in these warres vnfortunate I neuer yet dropt blood but drain'd by thee For which my teene is growne inueterate Nor could I rellish pleasure but still trusting To end thy dayes by sword-fight or by iusting 13 To him the Heroë mildly thus replies Aeacides pursues a double wrong That comes from Greece our Citty to surprise And race our wals that we haue builded strong Your Loues we hold deere but your hates despise As opposites that dare not front vs long If more thou wouldst To armes referre the rest Sit for th' art welcome freely tast our feast 14 Priam and Agamemnon take chiefe place The rest are rankt vnto their states or fames Troylus and Diomed sit face to face and gin to brall for Diomedes blames Troylus and Troylus him to his disgrace The iarres appeas'd for see the fairest Dames Of the best bloods of Troy richly attired Bring in the Queene whose state the Greekes admired 15 Hellen Troyes Fire-brand sat at this hye feast Nor did she blush to see her husband there Him Paris thinkes a bold vnwelcome guest and that to Hellen he was plac'st too neere Alone he tasts no dainties mongst the rest Her very sight hath cloyd him without cheare On Hecuba faire Pollixene attended Whose beauty great Achilles most commended 16 Now the reuolted Calâ—…has free time found Gainst Troian louely Cresseid to perswade With Arguments and words so firme and sound The Troian now no more may Court the Maid King Diomed must henceforth be the ground Of all her passionate Loue she can be staid In Troy no longer though she wisht it rather Shee 's but a Child and must obey her Father 17 Whilst all the Kingly Leaders had lowd chat Of Chiualty hye Bloods and deeds of warre And as their humors led of this or that Of many a bleeding wound and grisly skarre Whilst some spake much and some sat mute thereat Achilles eye fixt on a brighter starre Then any shines fixt mongst the heauenly fires The rarest Pollixene alone admires 18 He neither can dilate of Noble deeds Nor enter-change discourse of slaughtered Kings What comes of peace or what of warre proceeds What profit rest what hurt inuasion brings His new dissolued heart within him bleeds And from his Rocky brest a Fountaine springs Of passion onely by her sight ingendred In place of which old hate is quite surrendred 19 It now repents him he hath lift a blade Against the Syre that such a childe hath bred Or to the place that foster'd that sweetmaide His bloody Myrmidons to battaile led Or that his dreadfull hand did once inuade Her Brother for whose Loue hee 's well-nye dead To gaine whose beauty he could find in hart Greece to renounce and take the Troians part 20 Queene Hecuba obserues Achilles passion Thinking to make it vse-full to her good That the most strong of all the Argiue Nation Shall for her daughters sake spare Troian blood By this the feast and Royall preparation Breakes vp the Kings that on their honors stood With bounteous thanks take leaue bent on the morrow This Truce-full ioy to mix with hostile sorrow 21 The selfe-same night by Hecubaes aduice Vnto Achilles Tent faire Paris sends Offring his Sisters loue held at hye price Mixt with the aged Queenes most kind commends With courteous words the bold Greeke they intice To leaue the siege which Thetis sonne intends Her nuptiall bed being promist with much ioy Answer 's return'd hee 'l warre no more gainst Troy 22 Now while he rests him in his Idle Tent And to his amorous Harpe Loue-Ditties sings Both Armies sundry Stratagems inuent Great Hector to the field his puissance brings Vpon the plaine appeares incontinent A gallant hoast led by th'incamped Kings Warres Musicke sounds Mars trots vpon his Steed Ore thousand mangled sides that freshly bleed 23 Sometime the Troian Leaders with their powers Euen to their Pallisadoes beat the Foe Whence being repulst the camp the Champion scowers And fore Troyes gates their purple Launces grow Whom th'yssue from the Citty soone deuoures Againe the Greeke sustaines great ouerthrow Againe relieu'd the Troian powers they face Whom to their Tents againe the Dardans chace 24 Full thirty daies together Fortune striues To make their Conquest doubtfull in which time Vnnumbred Knights on both parts lost their liues Some in their waine of yeares some in their prime Some slaine out-right some captiu'd put in Gyues Some loose their Fame and some to honors clime Amongst whom Hector in the first ranke stands For deeds of name wrought by his warlike hands 25 Though farre-fear'd Aiax did hye workes of Fame And blacke-hair'd Agamemnon boldly fought Though strong-limb'd Diomed his worth proclame By Martiall Acts midst fields of slaughter wrought Though Nestor oft-times to the battaile came And to his strength and age for honour sought Though Menelaus oft in field was seene Vlisses too more full of guile then spleene 26 Though these and more among themselues contended With aemulation to atchieue most praise Yet when great Hector to the field discended Back't by his Brothers their swift current stayes Aboue them all his glorious worth extended The Greekes grow warre-tyr'd after thirty dayes And beaten to their Trenches much decayd They ioyntly flocke t'implore Achilles ayd 27 Who with his Myrmidons from field abstaines In hope to gaine the fairest Dame aliue Still through the fields remorselesse slaughter raines The Greekes beyond their Parapets they driue Still they intreat he still their words disdaines Within the Campes skirts he may heare them striue Yet all this notwithstanding he seemes loath To Arme himselfe against a sacred oath 28 But when he saw the wounded souldiers run Their bleeding heads amongst the Tents to hide Heard by their swords so many slaughters done Beheld some mangled that before him dide Found how the foe their Campe had well nye won Perceiu'd the fire burne bright on euery side Himselfe surcharg'd with Flames in his tent sweating And all the princes by his bed intreating 29 He then relents and at their faire request Hee 'l keepe his oath and yet affoord them ayde For now the man whom he esteemed best He whom alone his bosome friend he made Patroclus don's his armes his shield his Crest And to his thigh girts his victorious blade And with three hundred Myrmidons attended He yssues where the Campe was least defended 30 At his appearance when those armes were seene So well among the Troians knowne and feared They