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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19965	Daphnis and Chloe excellently describing the vveight of affection, the simplicitie of loue, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of fate, finished in a pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse preincesse, wonderfull in maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of the shepheards holidaie. by Angell Daye. Altior fortuna virtus.; Daphnis and Chloe. English	Longus.; Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.	1587 (1587)	STC 6400; ESTC S112592	83,708	118

feeding but nowe is my minde chaunged there-fro and since I sawe this freshe yoong goate-heard playing on his pipe so melodiously as hee dooth me thinkes than the sole and sweet pleasure thereof there is no delight in the worlde Nowe Sir albeit he bee the sonne of your fathers villaine yet surely respecting the seemely fauours he beareth for estraunged in shewe from so simple a proportion mee thinkes you might doo very well to craue him of your father and to take him from these heards to dwell with you at home in the citie Astile harkened heere-vnto and thought it not amisse and onely attended but time conuenient to mooue his father thereof This speach by Eudrome the page being ouer-heard who knewe the 〈◊〉 delights of this parasite ges●…er and marked since their comming thither this continuall fawning and pursuite of the gentle Daphnis and howe many exercises there withall he tendered that hee woulde procure hys freedome thought this faire weather was not all for naught and therefore speeding him-selfe to Lamon and Myrtale as one compassionate of the youths misfortune if the way in question shoulde be taken hee reuealed vnto them both the practise and also what of the euent thereof not without good cause he had coniectured The poore olde man surcharged nowe with farre greater griefes than euer before hee was pestred for that the losse of his life coulde not haue beene more miserable vnto him than the sorrowe of this mischiefe sawe that the disguise of this youth in sending his sonne should●… nowe without speedie preuention become mea●…e to make him the beastly pray and spoile vnder pretext of bringing him to the seruice of Astile to a base vile ser●…ile and gorbellied drunkard This thought the poore man rather to die than to suffer wherefore resoluing him-selfe to reueale if neede compelled what he was that the woorthinesse of his birth might the sooner free him from such intollerable seruage hee onelye 〈◊〉 but for the oportunitie when Astile shoulde begge him of his father which beeing by the continuall suggestion of Gna●…o the ●…ext day put in practise The simple bondman standing foorth fell prostrate immediatly at his lordes feete and embracing straightly his knees besought him to haue compassion of his humble sute and petition then to be made vnto him Dionysophanes willed him to speake and then taking Daphnis by the hand Clearista present and the most part else of the familie Lamon therevpon said I am not sir discontented that it is your good pleasure and my yoong L. Astile heere to take from me this yoong youth out of these countrie laboures to attend and there to remaine with him in the citie for so might it thereby happen that a woorthie and noble Maister might also enioy of him by this meanes a free and noble seruaunt but that by pretext thereof and vnder colour to drawe him hence to an other place whereby in most vile and insufferable manner to abuse the woorthinesse of his shape against nature onely by notice that he is the sonne of a bondslaue and bred of my loines and that namely also to bec●…me a vessell to hi●… 〈◊〉 eue●… the grosse villanie of this parasiticall gester this Gnatho heere present who vpon a beastlie and 〈◊〉 conceipt to accomplish the same hath onelie suggested this motion that can I neuer suffer Wherefore Sir that the better it may appe●…re vnto your knowledge howe vnfit it is that so great and not co●…monlye accustomed feature and comelinesse shoulde in so vile and bad manner be misprized vnderstande I beseeche you that this yoong and braue youth heere present is not my sonne as it hath beene supposed nor is the basenesse of our condicion able to produce so excellent a creature but beeing now●… eighteene yeares since I found him laide foorth in pastures ●…enderly 〈◊〉 within a small thicket where-vnto o●…e of my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to my great astonishement ordinarily resorted to su●…ke it n●…ither am I able to say howe or by whose handes it came there but this knowe I that the descent thereof can not bee meane resp●…cting the costly attire 〈◊〉 ●…nd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which I found about it all which I haue hithe●… to whol●… and e●…tirely preserued by the co●…iecture whereof you may the better d●…eme of his parentage and howe 〈◊〉 it is that so gentle 〈◊〉 nature shoulde become the subiect and spoile of so base and serui●…e 〈◊〉 condition Lamon had 〈◊〉 scarce shut his lippes vppo●… these speeches but that Gnatho enraged at these his sharpe peercing ●…auntes ●…nd inforcements vsed against him closed straight wayes wyth his wordes and threatened that ere long hee woulde for this be throughly reuenged on him Dionysophanes for his pa●…te was amazed at the accident and charging his bondman in 〈◊〉 vehement and hard speeches thereof to deliue●… 〈◊〉 truth L●…mon further added and swore by the immortall gods by Pan and the Nymphs that heerein hee had ●…ot lied one word and to the ende to make cleere the matter caused his wife Myrtale to bring foorth the attire the mantle and iewelles and there shewed them in his presence Dionysophanes hauing heard these last speeches of Lamon togither with his attentiue countenance ●…arnest protestation looked vppon G●…atho with an aspect austere and grimme as one loue with thy brother indifferentlie And in the parting of my possessions betweene you I will that this house these lands the moouables heere in my heards flocks seruants and all things else therevnto belonging doo remaine and continue vnto thee Daphnis at the repetition of these last words not suffering his father to speake foorth the rest start vp quicklie on a sudden and there with O Nymphs said he my heards haue not all this while beene watered and I stand heere stil a doing nothing The companie heereat fell a laughing to see that the remembrance of that wherein so long he had beene trained could not yet make him forget what he had to doo when he was woont to be a seruant But they aduertised vnto him that the care of his gotes belonged now vnto another and that he needed not to troble his thonghts therwith any longer Chloe all this while being filled with the brute of Daphnis and his new acknowledgement of his parents did nothing else but greeue and lament to see the bad successe as she deemed of their loues for thinking that Daphnis being now aduanced to rich parentage would not anie more regard or account of hir he could but sigh and waile accusing hir selfe to haue giuen more confidence to his othsworne by his gotes than to that he had made before to the Nymphs Lapes therefore who for dispite and wreak of the loue of Daphnis then made to hir had spoiled in the night time and marred the workmanship of Lamon as you heard before perceiuing now that the state of Daphnis might tend to other effect began to deuise to steale the shepheardesse by force and for that purpose accompanied with a number of r●…de rakell fellowes