tying of it up 13 His Ashes lick down They used rather then the Ashes of their Friends should come to any misfortune to bury them safe in their own bowells so Artemisia Queen of Halicarnassus serv'd the ashes of her Husband Mausolus which she drunk mixed with Wine Gellius lib. 10. Upon the Chorus 1 Tempe A pleasant Valley in Thessaly watered with the River Peneus 2 Phthia the Country of Achilles and the Myrmidons who went with him to the war of Troy being a very valiant people and at first sprung from Pismires at the Vote of Aeacus which Jupiter granted because his land was laid wast by a Pestilence Ovid Met. 7. parcum genus est patiensque laborum Quaesitique tenax quod quaesita reservet A people given to spare Patient of Labour what they get preserve 3 Trachin A very stony Countrey by the Mount Oeta 4 Jolcos The Countrey of Jason who ventur'd for the Golden Fleece 5 Or hundred citied Crete An Island at the Mouth of the Aegean Sea famous for an hundred Cities therefore called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} now Candia 6 Gortyne A Town in Crete 7 Tricca A Town in Thessaly 8 Methony A City in Thrace 9 Oetian Woods from the Mount Oeta where Hercules burnt himself 10 Olenus A Town of Elis a Country of Greece watered by the River Alpheus 11 Pleuron Diana's Enemy A City of Aetolia the Country of Meleager whose Father Oeneus when he had sacrificed to other Gods and omitted the rites of Diana she incensed sent a great a Bore who spoyl'd all the Country but was slain at last by Meleagrus 12 Troezen A Maritimate of Peloponesus the Country of Theseus 13 Peleon A Town of Thessalie whose denomination is from the Mountain Peleon the Country of Protheus a Grecian Captain against Troy 14 The third Step It is fabl'd that when the great Gygantomachy was that they heaped one Mountain upon another to come at heaven the first was Pelion upon which they threw Ossa the next was Olympus See Ovid Met. 1. 15 Chiron One of the Centaures very skilful in Medicine and Chyrurgery whose habitation was in this place where he became the Schoolmaster to 16 The Cruel youth Achilles who learned of him Medicine Musick and Horsemanship 17 Carystos An Island one of the Cyclades noted for Marble 18 Chalcis A City of Eubaea divided from Aulis in Baeotia by 19 Euripus the unquiet Sea which ebbs and flowes seven times in the space of twenty four hours Into this Sea Aristotle because he could not find out the cause cast himself with Quia Ego non possum capere te tu capia 〈…〉 me Because I cannot comprehend thee do thou take me 10 Echinae Or Echinides small Islands right against the mouth of the River Achelous 11 Gonvessa A Town in Aetolia 11 Enispae Islands in the Aegean 13 Ptrithados A Village by Attica a Country of Grece 24 Elusis A City not far from Athens from Elusius who kindly received Ceres when she sought after her Daughter Proserpina Here her Sacrifices were yearly performed called Hidden rites because they were performed in the Twy-light with Torches and only by Women whose mysteries it was a great crime to blab or reveal to any 25 Salamin An Island in the Euboick Sea opposite to Athens the Country of Ajax Telamonius 26 Calidonia A City in Aetolia where the Bore mentioned note 11. ranged 27 Bessa and Scarphe two Cities of Thessaly by which runs the River Titaressus 28 Pylus A Town in the West of Peloponesus the habitation of Nestor 29 Pharis A City of Laconia 30 Pisa A City of Elis under the protection of Jove 31 Elis A Country of Greece and also a Town in that Country where the Olympic gains were celebrated every fifth year 32 Sparta The Country of Helena a City in Peloponesus renowned for the Laws of Lycurgus 33 Argos A City in Peloponesus hard by Athens from which the Greecians were called Argolici 34 Pelops Mycena The Kingdome of Agamemnon once under the Regiment of Pelops Son to Tantalus from whom all that Region took its name Peloponesus in which this City stood 35 Nevitus A Mountain in Ithaca 36 Zacynthus An Island under the Government of Ulysses 37 Ithaca The Country of Ulysses an Island in the Ionian Sea full of sharp rocks Upon Act the fourth 1 Dardanian House from Dardanus the son of Jupiter and Electra the founder of Troy from whom as also the region about was call'd Dardania 2 Tethis the Wife of Oceanus the Ladies of the Sea were the Sea Nymphs who attended upon her 3 Thetis was the Wife of Peleus and the Mother of Achilles a great Sea-Goddesse also and could vary shapes at her pleasure See Ovid Met. lib. 11. 4 Peleus The Father of Achilles 5 Nereus The Son of Oceanus and Thetis a Sea God father to the Sea Nymphs of whom they were call'd Nereids 6 The ruine Pest and Plague she was the cause of the ruine and utter overthrow of famous Troy and the losse of many noble Greecians she was Virg. Trojae patriae Communis Erinnys Common Erinnys both to Greece and Troy 7 Thy Husbands Menelaus her former from whom Paris ravish'd her and Paris to whom she had been married 8 Nuptial Taxes It was the Custome of the Romans to use torches at their Weddings from which a certain clammy liquor like Tar issued out they were called Tedas from the tree Teda They were five in number which represented Jupiter Juno Venus Suadela and Lucina which were called the Nuptial or Conjugal powers for the help they afforded the new married Couple 9 Being Venus gift See Note 18. Act. 1. 10 O Paris hand that thus so lightly stroke Who had not wholly slain Achilles For Achilles being drawn into Troy under the prext of marrying Polyxena was slain by Paris 11 A gay troop of Children Some say she had 15 some say 22 others 50. 12 I only her call Childe She had also Cassandra living but she was not her companion being the Priestess of Apollo and so as it were none of hers And therefore she was to be free from the lot as not to have been accounted as among the spoyle but she was alotted to Agamemnon Achilles Arms That was to Vlysses who had the Armour of Achilles in possession being to him alotted by the Greeks from Ajax Telamonius which so enraged him that he slew himself Ovid Met. 13. Upon the Chorus 1 North west wind Corus in the Latin a wind usual in the Sicilian Seas which drives the waters on the Italian Coasts 2 Phryxus for Helles drowning raves When that the golden fleeced Ram Phryxus and Helle were the Children of Athamas King of Thebes and Nepheles their Mother being dead and Athamas having espoused Ino she playing the usual pranks of a Step-mother they were forc'd to fly and taking a golden fleeced Ram which was given them by their Father they adventured to swim over the narrow Freet between Europe
and Asia upon his back but Helle falling off was drown'd and so Christn'd those Waters with her name which has ever since been called Hellespont But Phryxus gaining safe to the shore fled to the Father of Medea to whom he gave this golden fleeced Ram which occasioned the adventure of Jason and the Argonautes to fetch this Fleece which they called Phryxeus from Phryxus 3 Deucalion and Pyrrha This Ogygian deluge hapned a Thousand and five hundred yeers before the building of Rome and overflowed a great part of Greece Of which the Poets speak so large that some have thought it that of Noah when the whole world was submerg'd 4 Ida High Ida is a high Hill by Troy the South part of which maketh a Promontory and runneth into the Sea In this place it was that Paris gave sentence for Venus Of which before Vpon the fifth Act 1 One Tower So Ovid Met. 13. Mittitur Astyanax illis de turribus unde Pugnantem pro se proavitaque regna tuentem Saepe videre patrem monstratum à matre solebat Astyanax thrown is from that Tow'r from whence He had seen his Father by his Mother shown Fight for his Kingdoms safety and his own 2 What Colchian Colchis was the Countrey of Medea which ever since she most inhumanely tore in peices her Brother Absertes has been branded with the stigma of Cruell and Barbarous yet Andromach complains the people thereof to be exceeded by the Greeks in Cruelty 3 Barbarous Scyth A people in the North abhorring Humanity they neither Till nor Sow the ground nor build Houses Cities nor Towns but all their riches lyeth in their Cattle which they drive from place to place carrying with them their Wives Children and all that they have in Wagons for which they have the Epithetes of Barbarous and Wandering bestow'd upon them They were the original of the Tartars or Tattars which about the yeer of our Lord 1200 overran all Persia and began the Empire which they now hold in the East-part of the world 4 Caspian Borderer The Hyrcanians which border upon the Caspian Sea adjoyning to Scythia who live as the Scythians do barbarously without laws or government 5 Busiris A most cruel and inhumane Tyrant who used to immolate all his Guests to Jove but laying wait for Hercules he was taken by him and slain 6 Diomedes A cruell King of Thrace who fed his horses with mans flesh but Hercules taking him gave him to be devoured by his own man eating horses 7 Hermiona The Daughter of Menelaus and Helena afterward ravish'd by Pyrrhus from Orestes which was the occasion of his death 8 The Earth would heavy make See note 21. upon the second Scene of the second Act 9 Sought all night When the taking of Troy was which was performed in the night with a bloody rage horrid tumult confusion and slaughter Leaving that City as Ovid describes it 15. Met. sic magna fuit censuque virisque Perque decem potuit tantum dare sanguinis annos Nunc humiles veteres tantummodo Troja ruinas Et pro divitiis Tumulos ostendit avorum Troy rich and powerful which so proudly stood That could for ten years spend such streams of blood For buildings only her old ruines shows For riches Tombs which slaughter'd Sires inclose Thus Time and Fate of the greatest and most flourishing Cities and Empires as well as of the weakest and most perishable Creatures and things has been THE CATASTROPHE POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS By S. P. Gent. LONDON Printed by W. G. for Henry Marsh at the Princes Arms in Chancery-lane and Peter Dring at the Sun in the Poultrey neer the Counter 1660. A PANEGYRICK TO HIS EXCELLENCY General MONCK March 28. 1660. NOW almost twenty years have roul'd about Since first the flames of our late Wars broke out And Brittain fainting with the losse of blood Under a lawlesse Yoke subjected stood When now at last her groanes by Heav'n are heard Her fainting Soul and dying Hopes uprear'd Her sable night of sorrow done away By the new dawning of a Royall day As from the North her first distemper grew Thence flowes the Soveraign Med'cine to renew Her joyes again She hopes secure to stand Upheld by her brave Generall's Warlike hand Over the Brittish Seas flyes his great Name Born on the swift wings of no common fame Our Enemies tremble and our friends are glad To these 't is joyfull newes to those 't is sad The mighty shouts and the Stentorian voice Of the glad multitude that now rejoyce Awak's the drowsie Genius of this I 'le Who wept so long or'e Charles's Funerall pyle Till his swolne eyes with a Lethargick sleep Were seal'd up having no more tears to weep He understands the cause of Englands joy And least Ambition should their hopes destroy He boldly doth his mind to Monck expresse And shewes how he may Brittains ills redresse The Genius Speech GReat man by blood by vertue greater made Whose presence Banishes the gloomy shade Of Brittaines night the faire Aurora too The Royall Phaebus ushered in by you Thy Sword has cut our Chaines of slavery Thy hands the Gordian knots of Tyranny Unty'd thy strenuous Arms unhing'd our Gates To shew thy strength the greatest pride abates To shew what thou couldst do that we thereby Might on thy more than Samson's strength rely But what thou didst was at anothers frown Thou hung'st them up that kindnesse was thy owne Great Hercules of our Ile at last thou 'st slaine That Hydra never more to rise again Though often crush'd that Monstrous Taile which bit Her own head off did resurrection git But now she 's dead and never more shall rise Tryumphs not teares attend her Obsequies And now but one step more and thy great name Register'd stand shall in the Book of Fame In so great Characters the world may read Thy matchlesse story when that thou art dead The World too little for thy fame shall be And Princes honour shall thy name and thee See then great Generall Brittaines Genius now Before thee stands and willing is to owe A happynesse to thee wherein thou may'st Raise honour to thy selfe if thou delay'st Time and necessity will thee prevent And spoyle the lustre of thy great intent Now drooping Brittain raises up her head Inspir'd by thee she arises from the dead Her War-made breaches now are cur'd again And joyes and ease succeed her griefe and pain Her spotlesse Virgin Chores begin to sing Jö Paeans in honour to their King Faile not her now-bigg hopes but be content To raise an everlasting Monument To thee and thy posterity that bayes May Crown thy Brows and Ages speake thy praise Thou see'st our wants and what it is wee 'd have It is a King of Charles's race we crave Since all the people in one voyce agree God's Oracle 't is God that asks it thee Who having scourg'd poor Brittain for her sin Returns her Baulme to cure her wounds agin We 'ave try'd and too too
'm unmindful I doubt such votes to great Are It 's enough that Captives live Ah! where May I a place finde faithful to my fear Where shall I hide thee The fam'd Cittadel Strengthen'd with forts and walls of Gods is fell To Dust All 's spoyl'd with flames Of mighty Troy Not so much left is where to hide my Boy What cunning place now shall I choose Lo here The Sacred Tomb is of my Husband dear By foes rever'd rais'd by his Father thus To this vast height with riches Covetous He was not in his sadness Best I can His Father trust A cold sweat falls upon My limbs Ah wretch I tremble lest that this An omen of his future funeral is Senex To be thought Dead the onely way has been Many to keep alive Scarce any thing Of Hope 's above His great birth bears him down Andromach Can none betray Senex Let not your fraud be known To witnesses Andromach What if the foe shall quaere Senex He perish'd in the City say Andromach The neer What are we if at last they finde our Guile Senex The victors fierceness lasts but for a while An. What w'thout great fear he cann't be hidden then Senex Secure do chuse helps snatch distressed men Andr. What place what Realm remote and invious Shall keep thee safe who 'le succour trembling us Who will Protect O Hector thou who hast Alwayes defended thine defend at last Conserve the close deed of thy pious wife Keep with thy dust a future victor's life Child Come neer the Tomb Why run'st back Despise Base Corners dost Thy valour I agnise He scorns to fear Thy Noble Sp'rit forget And ancient Courage Take what thy Fates permit See what poor Troop remains this Tomb and thou A Boy I prisoner We t' our Ills must bow Go to venture into this 3 holy seat Of thy Sepulted Sire thou hast if that The Fates will unto wretches help infer Thy Life if life deny thy Sepulcher Senex He 's closely hid But lest your fear betray Him hence receed and go another way Andromach Who fears at hand is wont to fear the lesse But let us from this place and if you please Senex Silence awhile Cease your Complaints I pray Vlysses moves his Cursed steps this way Androm Cleave earth O Husband from Stix deepest womb The Earth rend there keep my depositum Here 's Vlysses By 's musing pace 't is guest He Cunning mischief hatches in his breast Act the III. Scene the II. Enter Ulysses and Souldiers ILL news I bring but this I first require Though my mouth Speaks't believ 't not my desire It is the voyce of all the Greek guides whom Hector's Issue keeps from their long-left home Him do the Fates require the Grecians will Their peace uncertain think behinde them still Fear will enforce them for to look nor can They lay down armes whilst Andromach thy Son Doth Courage to the Conquer'd Trojans bring Andr. Doth thus indeed your Prophet Calchas sing Vlys If that our Augur Calchas silent were Yet Hector tell us this whose stock we fear The generous Seed the growing stock adorns So the small Hang-by calf t' a herd whose horns Yet has not cut the Skin when by and by His forehead ample grown and 's necks on high He rules the beasts and leads his father's flock So a small twig left to the lopped stock In a small time like to its mother grows Shaddows the Earth its boughs to Heaven shows So Sparks left carelessely their strength resume Grief is of things an unjust judge Presume Thou may'st that after a ten winters war As many summers the old Souldiers are Afraid of other broyles nor well esteem Themselves Troy not destroy'd A great thing them Disturbs A Future Hector t is Do thou Remove this fear that onely stays us now This stops our ready ships Cruel suppose Me not that I ask Hectors Son for chose By lot to do 't 1 Orestes I 'de require Come 2 suffer what the Conquerer did bear Andro. O Child would thou wert in thy Mothers hand What Chance bereft me of thee or what land Now holds thee Would I knew Not Enemies darts Stabb'd in my breast Nor cutting bonds nor smarts Of fire my sides surrounding e're should shake My maternal Faith O Child what chance doth take What place doth hold thee now wander unknown About the Fields dost thou Or overthrown Amongst the rubbish of thy Country trod Or has fierce victors sported with thy blood Or wert thou cast unto some cruel beast Or wert thou to the Trojan soules a feast Ulysses Leave feigning thus Thou canst not easily Deceive Ulysses 3 Mothers Treachery Yea wiles of Goddesses I have undone Leave these vain setches tell me where 's thy Son Andro. Where 's Hector Priamus all the Trojans where Thou ask'st for one I for them all do Quaere Ulysses You shall be forc'd to tell what you deny Andro. For he who ought would can 't is safe to die Ulysses Approaching Death will scare great words away Andro. If Andromach Ulysses thou 'lt betray With fear threat ' life to die is my desire Ulys What now thou hid'st by torments stripes death fire Thou shalt be forc'd to tell unwilling pain Thy closest Secrets from thy breast shall drain Necessitie's wont to do more then zeal 'T is vain to hide what straight thou must reveal An. Flames wounds the dire tricks of torments threat Famin and cruel thurst all Plagues complete Hot irons thrust into my bowels the Plague of close Prison and what e're may be Pleasing to th' angry tumid Conquerer The valiant mother can admit no fear Ulysses This Love in which thou dost so stifly ' bide The Greeks warns for their Children to provide After a ten years war and so far off I less should fear what Calehas prophiseth If For my self but thou do'st wais prepare For 4 Telemachas Androm I will ease from Care Ulysses and the Greeks O sorrow Griefes Say unto those you trouble Joy O Greeks Do thou as thou wert wont Good news declare To the 5 Pelasgians Dead is Hector's heir Ulysses How wilt thou prove that this is true Andromach So let The Greatest ill the Conquerer doth threat Happen to me Let Fates me quickly sley May I be buried in my Country may The Native soil 6 lightly on Hector spread As he wants light and lies amongst the dead And with due exequies laid in his Tombe Ulysses The Fates are pleas'd if Hector's Son is gone A solid peace and Joy to th' Greeks I 'le Give Aside What dost Ulysses will the Greeks believe Thee who thou The Mother What wont she swear Is' t not Death's dreadful Omen makes her fear Fear Omens what should such fear more now she Has ty'd her Faith by oath what thing may be Worse to be fear'd then that she perish Now Wiles Craft Fraud and thy self Vlysses shew Truth will appear Search out the Mother Mourn Shed Tears Lament she doth at every
turn Now here now there her anxious steps she bears My words receiveth at her Careful Ears She fears more than she Mourns Here 's work for wit To Andromach again That parents ease to parents give 't is fit Thou may'st rejoyce that thou dost want thy Son Whom a most Cruel Death did waite upon For from the Tower that which remains alone Of Troy he should have been cast headlong downe Andromach My feeble limbs do shake my Spirit 's lost My blood grows stiffe bound with a frigid frost Aside Vlysses See how she trembles This is the way to do 't Fear has detected her Now I 'le renew't Aside To the Souldiers they seek about Go Go make hast bring forth where e're he 's hid The Greeks last plague hid by his mothers fraud 7 So so he 's Caught Go to Make hast He'r lead To Andromach Why look'st thou back and fear'st Thy Son is dead Andro. Would I might fear This is accustom'd fear What we learn long we cannot soon forbear Vlysses Since that the youth a purging Sacrum may Not be nor we our Prophet thus obey He being snatch'd by a more gentle Fate 8 Thus Calchas saith Our ships may remigrate If Seas to please we Hector's ashes spread About and 's Tomb with th' Earth be equal made Since he escap'd has the appointed fate Our hand this Sacred Seat must violate aside Andro. What shall I do my mind a double fear Distracts My Son the ashes of my dear Husband O Hector I to witness Call The Cruel Gods the True thy 9 Ghosts an all Nought but thy self in my Son pleaseth me May he live then for to be like to thee Shall 's ashes merged be his Tomb pull'd down Shall I let 's bones into the Sea be thrown First let * * Astyanax him die But Can'st thou see him sent To death hurl'd down from the high battlement I will I 'le suffer 't I will indure 't that the Dead by the victor's hand mayn't dammag'd be He may be sensible of pain at rest The Fates have placed him Why waverest Determine which thou'lt save Do'st doubt ingrate This is thy Hector Both are Hecters yet This is alive revenge perhaps he may His dead Father Both cann't be sav'd Delay Why dost save him the Greeks do fear Vlysses I will Distroy this Tomb and th' Oracle fulfill Andromach 10 That which ye sold Vlysses I will the Sepulchre Rase to the Ground Andromach The help of Gods deter Achilles Faith I Call O Pyrrhus thy Sire's gift desend Vlysses This Tomb shall by and by O're all the field be spread Andromach Such villanies The Greeks yet have not dar'd 11 of Deities Your friends you violated have the Fain Your Rage yet spar'd the Tombs I 'le you restrain My naked hands yours arm'd shall set upon Wrath Strength will Give As the fierce 12 Amazon Beat down the Grecian Troops As 13 Menas strook By Bacchick fury all the forrests shook With her Enthean rage and furnished With 14 Thyrsus mad ne'r felt the wounds she made So in the midst I 'le rush a Mate become To 's Ashes in defending of his tombe Ulysses Cease ye what doth a simple womans do to the soldiers And fury move Obey and quickly too Andr. O slay me first foil hell break Fates delay Hector remove the Earth So that you may Ulysses tame Thy Ghost can do 't See see He shakes the weapons Hurleth fires do yee See Hector or do onely I Ulysses Down down With 't to the Ground Andromach What do'st shall overthrown Aside Thy Son and Husband be together pray The Greeks perhaps you pacifie them may The massy ruines of the Tomb will strait Crush th' hidden wretch O rather let his Fate Be some where else lest that the Father kill The Son the Son the Father's ashes spill I suppliant at thy feet do fall although To Ulysses My hands did ne'r such humble postures know I lay them at thy Feet Ulysses hear My pious prayers gently patient bear Pity a Mother And the higher thou By th' Gods art rais'd unto the fallen shew Less rigor who the needy helps doth gain So may'st thou thy 15 chast wife's bed see again So may thy sight extend thy Fathers years Thy Son receive thee May thy voteful prayers In thy Son's virtues more then answer'd be His grand-sires age thy ingenuitie May he surpass The Mother pity save My onely Joy Ulysses Bring forth thy Son and Crave Act the III. Scene the III. Andromach Vlysses Astyanax MIserable wretch Come from thy Den Andromach calls Astyanax from the Tomb he comes out See here The Child Ulysses who your Ships doth fear Submit thy self fall prostrate on thy face At thy Lord's feet intreat Nor think that base Which fortune to the wretched hath assign'd Thy Kingly Grand-fathers put from thy mind And famous Priamus's mighty Power Hector forget and like a Captive bear Thy Self with bended knees If tho' art not sensible as yet of Death Yet imitate thy mothers Tears Troy hath Once seen the 1 tears of her young Princely heir The fierce 3 Alcides threats removed were By little Priamus That fierce one who 4 Did monsters by his mighty Strength subdue Who broke hell's gates returned thence yet he Was by the tears of 's little Enemie O'recome Take here said he the reins possesse Thy Father's seat and Throne more 2 faith express In ruling now His Captives not repent We should By Hercules learn to relent Must onely Hercules's 5 arrows please As good as Priamus here suppliant lies Before thy feet his life he begs as for The Realm he that to Fortune doth refer Ulys The Mourning of this ' frighted mother sore Aside Moves me but yet the Grecian dames move more To whom this Child great Sorrow once may yield Andromach Shall he this ruin'd City e're rebuild Shall these hands Troy erect No hopes Troy has If such as these we ruin'd are alass Not so that we to any fear may Cause Doth's Father Cause this rigor 6 True the place Hector himself after Troys downfall would Have left his Courage by such great Ills Cool'd If punishments you seek worse can you lack Than to the yoak to use his noble neck Sure he may serve who ' le this a King deny Ulysses 'T is Calchas this denies to you not I. Andromach Author of Fraudes worker of Cruelty None in the wars did by thy valour die By the Sly fraudes of thy infected minde 7 Greeks too have fallen Why dost thou pretend The Prophet and the Guiltless Gods when this Night Champion of thy own devising is Tho' art valiant to slay a Child 'T is now Alone by day thou any thing dar'st doe Ulysses Ulysses valour to the Greeks is known Enough too much to you I may n't in vain Words Spend the day Our Anchors way'd will be Andr. Grant some short stay whilst that I render the Last duties of a Parent to my Childe And have my griefs by my last Clippings fill'd
One Tow'r of famous Troy's yet left and where Priamus us'd to Sit wars Arbiter And by signs guide the Armies In that place His Nephew in his bosom Cherish'd was Where whilst his Sire with fire and sword persu'th The flying Greeks h' his acts shew'd to the youth This noted Tower once the walls chief pride But now a Cruel Rock on every side Begirt was with the Captaines and with the Spread troops of Plebeans Ships relinquish'd be The vulgar thither run The hill some bord Which doth a Prospect to the place afford Some gain the high rock from whose top a band To see this doleful sight on tiptoes Stand Some bayes some beaches others pines get up The whole wood Shaketh with the hanging troop The broken mountain's highest part one gets Another th' halfe burnt houses tops This sets Upon a hanging Stone o' th' falling wall Another he on Hector's tomb doth Crawle To see O wicked Through the Crouded place Ulysses walketh with a Stately pace And Priam's little Nephew in his hand Who with no slow pace to the Tow'r did wend From whose high top with an undaunted heart His earnest eyes he threw on every part As the Stout Lion's tender whelp who yet Not able for to tear his prey doth threat His Courage swells he tries to bite in vain So the fierce youth a hostile hand restrain Did whilst he moved into tears below The Captaines vulgar and Ulysses too He onely tearless stood whom all be waild But whilst their Prophets words Ulysses told And to those rites the Cruel Gods did call He of himself leap'd down amongst them all An. 2 What Colchian e're or barbarous 3 Scythe commit Did such an act what 4 Caspian borderer that A lawless people are thus much dar'd doe 5 Buseris on 's Altar no Children Slew Nor did the 6 Horses of Diomedes Banquet upon such tender limbs as these Who shall unto thy limbs give burial Nuncius What limbs remains there after such a fall The fall has dash'd and Split his bones his face His father's noble Marks his bodies grace Confounded are by 's fall His neck is broke His head is rent and by flints Cruel stroke His braines dash'd out are thus his members doe Deform'd lye Andromach Thus he 's like his father too Nun. When that Astyanax from the Tow'r was thrown Waild by the Greeks who this vile fact had done The same unto Achilles Tomb do hie For to perform another Tragedy The Rhaetean Seas with gentle waves do beat The farther side the field doth Compass it On th' other and the valley riseth there With a small rise Like to a Theater The midst inclosing Swarmes do fill the shores Some hope her death will free their sluggish oars Some joy to see their foes Stock slain To see Most hate the Crime in which they actors be The Trojans too with fear do thither go Where they behold Troy's utter overthrow Now mariage wise the Torches march before And * * Helenae Tyndaris the bride-maid marcheth there In th' head The Trojans wish 7 Hermiona Such marriage and th' Adultresse Helena So giv'n t' her Spouse Both sides amazed are The Maid cast down her bashful looks doth bare But yet her Eyes did shine and fairer shew Her beauty did that it was wont to do So sweeter shews Phaebus's setting light When rising Stars bring on the neighbour night The people Marvail all do greatly praise Th' about to die her Beauty Moyeth these These her soft age Things flying changes those But with what Courage she doth death oppose Moves all Before Pyrrhus she went All do Tremble and Marvail and her pity too When they unto the sad hill's top were Come And Pyrrhus mounted on his Father's tombe The bold virago not a step withdrew But met the fierce Stroke with a valiant hew Such Courage mov'd the Mindes of all a new Wonder Pyrrhus was slow to run her through But when his sword h' had hidden in her skin At a large wound blood flow'd where death crept in Nor dying did she Courage lose she prone And with an angery force fell as if on Achilles she the 8 Earth would heavy make Both Greeks and Trojans wept these prively With fear the others wept more openly Such order had these rites the ground no drop But the blood-thirsty Tomb her blood drunk up Hecuba Go Greeks you go home now in safety may And your Safe Ships with spread Sayles plow the Sea The Maid and Child are slain wars done where may I bear my Tears where burst death's long delay For Daughter Nephew Husband shall I moan For Country or for all or me alone Death 's my Sole vote Infants and virgins be Slain by thee where some e're thou ragest me Alone thou fear'st shun'st from me thy flight Thou tak'st though 'mong swords darts fires sought all Night Foes dangers fire hath not my Members spill'd Though I so neer to Priam stood when Kill'd Nuncius Hast Captives now to Sea The sayls are spread The Ships already are unharboured FINIS These Comments are not for the learned's sight The dark unlearn'd these Tapers onely light COMMENTS UPON THE First ACT 1 TH' Inconstant Gods It may be meant the Inconstant Goddesse Fortune who was the Servant of the Gods to whom was attributed the disposal of all sublunary things she was painted with the horn of plenty in one hand and a wheel in the other by which was meant her disposal of all earthly riches and the inconstancy of them Volat mobiles alis Nec ulli prestat velox fortuna fidem Fortune flies with swift wings nor doth With any fickle she keep faith Sen. in Hippol She was painted also blindfolded as bestowing her favours either impartially or promiscuously as Senec. in Hippol Res humanas ordine nullo Fortuna regit spargitque manu Munera Caecâ Humane affaires w'thout order Fortune guides And with a blind hand all her gifts divides Or else Faciles dare summa deos eademque tueri Difficiles The Gods are prone great things to send But backward the same to defend 2 The Great work of the Gods above Neptune and Apollo who induing humane shapes were hired by Laomedon to build the Walls of Troy which being finished he deny'd them their promis'd reward The Gods angry at his perfidiousness and perjury afflicted the City Neptune with inundations Apollo with a pestilence Laomedon Consulting the Oracle it was answer'd that the Gods could not be appeased without they chose a Trojan Virgin by lot yearly and exposed her to be devoured by a monstrous Whale After many had run this fatal Chance it fell at last on Hesione Laomedons daughter Hercules coming thither by chance and seeing the Virgin bound to a rock bargains with Laomedon to set her at liberty and slay the Monster for his Horses begotten of divine seed Hercules perform'd his part but Laomedon denying him his reward he returns afterwards with an army and sacked Troy taking Priamus then a Child
And Pollicy's infection Spreading th'row Cities Courts and such great places Expos'd that Dame to thousands of disgraces Sly Subtlety the Merchant entertains Deceit the Trades-man to encrease his gains The Great man Honor that vain puf'd-up Pride With covetousnesse of every one beside Protean Policy whose great resort Is in the City and the Prince's Court Wherein Deceit so often doth frequent That Dame's inseparable accident But Innocence of all men was discarded Her nackednesse laugh'd at and disregarded At last a Country-man whose smoother brow Ne'r entertain'd Deceit nor 's mouth knew how With flatt'ring words to speak with Court intent To utter that thing which his Heart ne'r meant But being taught of Truth his words to spell His Heart and Tongue rann ever parallel He Spies this naked Dame's distresse with ruth Invites her with him to go dwell with Truth She soon consenting thankes him for his pity And bids adiew both to the Court and City The stately buildings of the Court she shuns Thence swifter than the Eastern-wind she runs Far from the City and th' infectious Court She finds where Truth is wonted to resort Met they as Sisters joyn delighting so That never since they would assunder goe Their cottage low free from all Courtly state Strong built on holy ground is Scituate Two moats surrounding mak 't an Amnick Isle The better to keep forth Deceit and Guile A strong-built Wall doth it defend whose Gate Like that of heav'n is made angust and strait That every one who is admitted there Mayn't enter if Deceitfull cloaths they were For Truth gives entrance unto none but those Who'r naked like her self or else whose cloathes Prove tegments for to hide Truths parts divine From the perverting Eyes of mu 〈…〉 ling Swine Within the closure of Truth's cottage wall No high Ambition that aspires a fall No twy-fac'd Guile no Discord and no Pride Are by these Dames permitted to reside But Love and Meeknesse and such Heav'nly Graces Cohabit still in those serener places The Shadowie Groves with a perpetual spring Sweet Philomel makeing the woods to ring With other birds peirch'd on the tender sprays Whose notes from warbling Throats salute the Days Approach whose trebles to the murm'ring water According make sweet Musick to their Maker Maketh as if the Earth in Heav'n were plac'd Or Heav'n descended Earth with 's Joys had grac'd Such is the state and far more full of bliss Where truth conjoyn'd to Innocency is Thus dwell these Nymps enriched with the Treasures Of rurall joyes and of Caelestial Pleasures Useing to travel all the Country round 'Till the strange ecchoes of the Trumpets sound 'Till Mars with blood bedy'd and horror fell Affrighted them back to their closer cell Deceit and Guile and Policy then flew VVith speedy feet about the Country too VVhere they increased so their Progenie That never Since the country could be free So that pure Truth and Innocentia fair Unto some secret place confined are But now when Hyem's frosty snow-beard swelld VVith chilling cold and neveous mantles held The World enwrapt and Mountain tops did show Their lofty Heads encircl'd round with snow Dame Innocentia cloathed all in White Her usual Badg Steals from her secret site Leaving the Countrey to the Court she goes To view the Quarters of her bitter foes B'ing thither come the first she met was Guile VVhose clothing made that spotlesse Dame to smile For like to her in every thing she seem'd So that most men her Innocentia deem'd Look what she wore Guile ever wore the same And counterfeited still that purer dame In pure White Garments was she dec't the snow Could not than she a colour purer show But she whose eyes peirc'd her base covering Saw her all bloached with foul spots within And th'row her plaster'd White and painted face Saw that with all men she usurp'd her place The next she met with was Dame Policie VVho with a thousand shapes deludes the eye Her cloaths were changeable and her disguise To ev'ry colour would Camelionize Her shapes so divers and her forms so many That none could truly say that she had any Her hand-maid Guile who still attends upon her Bowing her Head full low unto her Honor Held up her train when that she neer was come She thus salutes her Dame we have no roome To lodge you here our bedds are all implete Nor may this court for you become a seat For your carbasious tegment which doth vie For whitenesse with the snow cannot come nigh Our sullied garments but it shews our stains And Truths perspective shews to all our blains Our albeous Garments seem as white as thine Our Laws seem holy our decrees divine If thou art absent but if thou art by Our white shews black our seeming truth 's a lye Our Laws deceitfull and it doth appear Our Kingdom falls if thou remainest here My neece Ambition cannot be displac'd Her Sister flatt'ry ' ld think her self disgrac'd Should I dislodge them for your sake they 'd snuff And pride would think you were not fine enough But adulation who her words can change T' as various shapes as there are humours strange Shall entertain you and with Speeches fair Shall fill you full if you 'l be fill'd with air VVe two are inconsonant we cann't agree I you oppose you 'r opposite to me And 't is as hard for us to joyn it clear is As pale fac'd Famine to conjoyn with Ceres I am not wont apertly thus to speak However now my mind I truly break To you and tell you se'ing we cann't agree That you must hence and leave this place for me Contraries cann't conjoyn we here no room Have therefore pray depart from whence you come Dame Innocentia soon perceiv'd the place Nothing afforded to her but disgrace And scorn therefore lest thence she should be thrust And her white garments spoyled with the dust And stains of sin the court unto her foes She leaves with speed while Guile dirt at her throws And to truths cottage where she was before Returns and vows to see the Court no more Aula procul Innocentiâ An Elegy on the matchless Murther of Charls the First of Happy and Blessed Memory SInce Brittains great Apollo left the land Laurells are blasted and dejected stand Poets are dumb-struck and amaz'd to see So strange unutterable Prodigie Charles forc'd to swim in his own sacred Gore From this accurs'd to an immortal Shore So that none dares all struck with silent dread To say Much lesse to sing that Charles is dead For many months my Soul and Blood was froze Till Anger thaw'd this Ice and zeal arose Through all my Veins which gave me Liberty To weep out first then write an Elegy Lame and unequal as the woful times Painted with Sighs and Tears must run my rithmes For who can struck with so much grief erect A Verse but in a faultring Dialect He must forget the rugged times the while That can indite ought in a pollisht