to the poore house hasted Amintas The ninth Lamentation SInce Phillis burial now faire aurora the ninth time Shew'd her shining face and Phoebus lightned Olympus When from couch all wett with teares confounded Amintas Rays'd his crasd carkas with mind stil abroad to be wandring Vnto the wilde-beasts dens and feareful vnhospital harbours Where was nothing els but certain death to be lookt for But whilst naked lims with roabs al ragged he cou'red Oft did he call and crie for Phillis for bony Phillis With deepe sighs and grons still Phillis Phillis he called And then drest vp he gets and gets himselfe to the desert Desert dens mans sight and Sunns light euer abhorring There by the woods wandring and loue vnlucky bewayling More and more did he feede that wonted wound of a louer Like as a trembling hart whose heart is pearct with an arrowe Runs and yet running his death still beareth about him Runs to the thickest groues yet sweats and bleeds as he runneth Runs and so with toyle and greefe death hasteneth onward Then with teares doth he seeke Dyctamus flower by the desert Seeks but cannot finde Dyctamus flower by the desert Like to the trembling hart went hartles louer Amintas And thus againe at length his cheeks with water abounding From sullen silence abruptly began to be raging Since Phillis lockt vp that starlight liuely for euer Since faire Phillis slept that long sleepe what shal Amintas Thinke conceiue contriue or what shal Amintas imagine What shal Amintas doe that Amintas go not a begging For no care is of health no care of wealth in Amintas No ioy no comfort but Phillis abyds in Amintas Who will fodder now in Winter giue to my bullocks Who will now any more bring my white bull to my heifer Who will goats and kidds to the ragged rocks be a dryuing Who will sheepe and lambs from rau'ning woolues be defending VVho will looke to my rams and wash their fleese in a riuer VVho will anoint scabb'd sheepe least that contagius humor Once take vent make waie and spoile whole flock of Amintas VVho will let them bloud when raging fire of a feuer Runneth along by the bones and marrow quicklie deuoureth VVho will tender sheepe driue vp fro the fields to the mountains VVhen deepe Thames increast with raine or snow from Olympus Driues down wanted wals and banks all beateth asunder Ouerflowing fields and pastures foulie defacing O poore flocke poore heard ô life and loue of Amintas Phillis life and loue is gone ô wretched Amintas Eu'n as a marchant man that lost his ware by a shipwrack And ship left on sands with blind rocks broken a sunder Swims on a board stagg'ring with salt waues all to bedashed Driu'n hence thence with winds and knows no place to be landing VVandring here and there and sees no starre to be shining So twixt hope and feare twixt life and death doth Amintas Dailie delaie his daies yet deathes wound beareth about him For since Phillis alas in a dead sleepe slipt from Amintas Inconstant wandring distracted moydred Amintas Raungeth alone by the rocks by the woods by the dens by the deserts Deserts dens woods rocks where no bodie walketh No bodie dare aproch for feare of slipperie serpents And crawling Adders with balefull poison abounding And yet I can not find what I seeke what I looke what I long for Phillis I mean by the rocks by the woods by the dens by the deserts Since that time that time of griefe and woe the beginning Neither sunne by the daie nor moone by the night did Amintas Euer see sleeping though weake and wearie by watching And no food I desire for I feed to fast on a fancie Loue fils faintie stomack and euerie part of Amintas And I desire no drink for I drinke vp waterie fountains Fountains of salt tears still trickling euer abounding Like showres in winter driu'n down with winds from Olympus O most mightie Pales which stil bar'st loue to the countrie And poore countrie folke hast thou forgotten Amintas Now when as other Gods haue all forsaken Amintas Thou on whose feast daies bonefires were made by Amintas And quite leapt ouer by the bouncing dancer Amintas Thou for whose feast daies great cakes ordained Amintas Supping milke with cakes and casting milke to the bonefire And thou surlie Cupid thou churlish dame Cytheraea VVith whose praise I did once whil'st Phillis abode with Amintas Make these fields to resound make beasts and men to be wondring On pitifull poore wretch is no care no pitie taken VVhat shal I nothing get for making so manie offrings So manie sweet perfumes for saying so manie praiers All with a greene garland with leaues of mirtle adorned Are gods vnthankfull can no grace come from Olympus Are gods vnmindfull why then what meane I to worship VVorship I know not what for a god when it is but an Idol For no guerdon alas no good things left for a good man Poore foole what did I meane on gods or stars to be railing As though stars or gods could alter destinies order Poore foole what did I meane incessant teares to be sheading Stil to the hils to the woods to the fields to the flouds to be wailing Sith these hils these woods these fields these flouds to my weeping Can lend no feeling can aford no sense to my wailing Yet will I call Phillis though no bodie come by my calling And weepe for Phillis though no good come by weeping Thus wil I doe manie men manie minds this pleaseth Amintas And yet I can not abide anie more by the woods to be raunging And this liuing death this dying life to be leading Dye then Amintas dye let Amintas murther Amintas So shal that grim Sire and foule fac'd prince of Auernus Some pitie take when he sees this wound of murdred Amintas This wound wide and large and losse of grau's but a small losse So shall Amintas walke and Phillis walke with Amintas Through those pleasant groues and flowring fields of Amintas But yet againe to his house with doubtfull mind he returned The tenth Lamentation SInce that fatall day and houre vnlucky the tenth time Faire Aurora betimes by the dayes break rose from her husband Husband old and cold and droue darke cloads from Olympus Making way to the sunne taking her way to the yonker Braue yonker Cephalus whome faire Aurora desired Aeolus of purpose auroraes fancie to further Sent forth sweete Zephyrus with tender breath to be blowing And moist deaw by the fields with whistling blast to be drying Least nights colde moisture might stay their louly proceedings Stay braue Aeolides stay braue Aurora fro kissing Euery thing did smile woods fields ayre watery fountains Euery lapwing sang and made sweete myrth to the morning And cheereful Charites with goldlocks gaily bedecked Daunced along by the fields in due and gratius order And th'vnruly satyrs by the sound of a paltery pyper Leapt and skipt by the woods in most lasciuius order Only Amintas
loath'd these sports and these prety pastimes Only Amintas mourn'd and olde griefs only remembred Leauing house and home and deserts only frequenting Scratching face with nails and Phillis freshly bewailing O what means Phillis can Phillis cast of Amintas O consider alas consider careful Amintas And forget not alas forget not faithful Amintas Who for Phillis sake for loue and fancie to Phillis Bears this fire in his heart and still this fire is a feeding What means Phillis alone in those faire fields to be walking In those Elysian faire fields and leaue me behinde her VVhat's there no more care of flock in Phillis abyding VVhat no care of loue no care of louer Amintas O vnthankfull wench if this thing come by thy causing And accursed fate if desteny cause thee to leaue mee See what a strange effect these cares haue wrought in Amyntas Needeles cares haue driu'n all needefull cares from Amintas No care no comfort in driuing goats to the mountains VVhen rising Phoebus displayes his beames in a morning No care no comfort in bringing sheepe to the sheepe coats VVhen sitting Phoebus withdrawes his face in an euning Rimes are quite set a side and seu'nhol'd pipe is abandond Rimes that I playd on pipe pipe vsed at euery dauncing Leather bottel's lost and tarrebox broken a sunder Shoone and mittens gone and sheephooke cast in a corner And little olde Lightfoote hath lost his maister Amintas VVhose watchful barking made wolues afraide to be byting See how Phillis death doth make my goates to be dying No body giues them time and other flowers to be gnapping No body giues them drinke and water fresh to be sipping No body brings them backe to the folde or shade to refresh them See how Phillis death doth make my sheepe to be dying VVhilst th'vnlucky sheepheard neglects his sheepe to be feeding Lambs in woful wise by the wolues are daily deuoured Ews in loathsome sort with scabbs are fowly molested And their wooll with dust and durt is filthily fowled O but alas poore foole whilst thou thus rayl'st on Olympus Phillis faire perchaunce in pleasaunt fields of Auernus Keepeth better goats and better sheepe is a feeding Leauing this poore flcok and their poore maister Amintas And must onely my death cause endles plagues to be ended And shal I neuer die till time that desteny pointed O what a life is this with life and death to be striuing And yet I loue this life this strife and euery moment Reason yeelds to my rage and rage giues place to my reason And whilst breath shal abide in burning breast of Amintas Perpetual sobbing shal make these sides to be smarting Perpetual playning shal make this mouth to be sounding Perpetuall weeping shal make these eyes to be swelling As soone as Titan with face all fyrie returneth With violent clamors great clouds wil I cast on a cluster As soone as darke night doth spread her mantle among vs With teares stil trickling Ile make springs euer abounding What lou's like to my rage what fancy's like to my folly That not a day not an houre not a moment scapeth Amyntas But stil Amintas mourns since Phillis graue was a making That lewd Lord of loue drew my destruction onward That boy bred my bane my death vntimely procured When by the sight of a lasse by the flaming eyes of a virgin Fire did pearce by my flesh to my soule to my bones to my marrow And there burns and boils like scalding sulphur of Aetna Who would thinke thou loue couldst beare such hate to a louer Or wouldst worke such harme to a countrieman that is harmeles But bloody boy thou art thou bear'st bloody mind bloody weapōs And thou most spiteful Nemesis whose hasty reuenging Hands are euer at hand whose minde is mutable alwayes At miseries laughing at mens felicitie grudging Why durst thou deale with what didst thou meane to be medling VVith louing Phillis with Phillis louer Amyntas If that Phillis I kist or Phillis kissed Amintas If that Phillis I clipt or Phillis clipped Amintas If that I spent many houres in talking vnder a myrtle VVast any great offence any great disgrace to a Goddesse VVe were countrie folke two seelly'st soules of a thousand Those golden diadems that state of a king or a kingdome Those vaunting titles that pompe of a duke or a dukedome Those flaunting buildings that pride of an Earle or an earldome More fitt for Nemesis Phillis more fitt for Amintas VVho would thinke thou couldest on beggers thus be triumphing VVhy should seelly shepheards be molested thus by a Goddesse Nay Godlesse Nemesis for thou doest no body goodnes And where's no goodnes who thinks there can be a Goddesse And thou most hellish Lachesis more fierce then a fury What reason foundst thou such mischiefe for to be working That by the griping pains by the colde hoate fitts of an ague Phillis fitt for a man should die thus afore she be fitted O why shouldst thou take all comfort quite fro the countrey And make countrie men thus comfortles to be mourning Could not that sweet face nor that most seemely behauiour Nor that league of loue stil lasting leade thee to mercie Who would think that thou wouldst haue thus delt with a milkmaid But thy delight is death and bloud thou only desirest Therefore bring me to death take liuing bloud from Amintas For my delyte is death death onely desireth Amintas And to procure quicke death it's fully resolu'd by Amintas That faire Phillis againe may loue her louer Amintas And yet about euning with staggring stepps he returned The last Lamentation and the death of Amyntas ANd now since Phillis dead corps was laid in a coffin Came th'eleuenth daie when weake yet wakeful Amintas Spi'd through tyles of his house faire Phoebus beames to be shining Which when he saw then in hast himselfe he began to be stirring And with trembling knees with mind extreemlie molested Passed along to the fields where graue of Phillis apeared Meaning there to the graue to the ghost to the scattered ashes His last lamenting in wofull wise to be making But when he saw fresh flowres and new grasse speedilie start vp And Phillis sweet name ingrau'n by the hand of Amintas Then did he stay and weepe with an inward horror amased And at length his knees on graue there faintilie bowing With dolorus gronings his fatall howre he bewailed This day this same day most blessed day of a thousand Shall be the first of ioy and last of anoie to Amintas This shal bring me my selfe to my selfe and bring me to Phillis Let neither father nor mother mourne for Amintas Let neither kinsman nor neighbour weepe for Amintas For Venus onelie Venus doth laie this death on Amintas And Phillis sweet soule in faire fields staies for Amintas If you needs will shew some signe of loue to Amintas Then when life is gone close vp these eies of Amintas And with Phillis corps lay this dead corps of Amintas This shall Phillis please and Phillis
spinning Speake for I feare for I feare shee'l neuer come to Amintas And thou Syluanus Siluanus good to the mountains And flocks on mountains ô helpe most helples Amintas Helpe by thy selfe by thy friends thou god cause gods to be helping For my religion for my deuotion help me For thine own boyes sake for loue of sweet Cyparissus Either let Phillis be returned backe to Amintas Or let Amintas dye that death may succor Amintas And thou naughtie Cupid yet say on giue me thy counsail VVhat shal I do shall I dye shal Amintas murder Amintas Dye then Amintas death will bring Phillis to Amintas O hard harted loue thou seest what I beare what I suffer Hart with flames and eyes with mournful water abounding Head with cares possest and soule ful of horrible anguish This thou seest and sure I do know it greeus thee to see this Though they call thee tyrant though so thou iustlie be called Though thy nature passe Busiris beastlie behauiour For what makes me to mourne may cause thee yeeld to my mourning One rude rock one wind one tempestuus outrage Batters breaks and beats thy ship my ship to the quicksands Our harms are equal thy ship wrack like to my shipwrack Loue did loue Phillis Phillis was loud of Amintas Phillis loues dearling Phillis dearling of Amintas Dearling crowne garland hope ioy wealth health of Amintas And what more shal I say for I want words fit for Amintas And thou churlish ground now cease anie more to be fruitful Cease to be deckt with flowres and all in greene to be mantled Thy flowre is withered my garland latlie decaied Phillis thine and mine with death vntimelie departed VVhose sweet corps thou bar'st whose footsteps in thee be printed And whose face thou didst admire for beawtie renowmed Belch out roaring blasts with gaping iawes to the heauens That those toaring blasts may scoure by the skyes by the heauens And foule struggling storms cast down fro the clouds fro the heauēs For such foule weather will best agree with a mourner Howle and mourne thou earth and roare with an horrible outcrie Howle as then thou didst when mountains were to the mountains Put by thy cursed brood to be clyming vp to Olympus VVhen great flakes of fire came flashing down fro the heauens VVhen thy crawling sons came tumbling down from Olympus Howle as ladie Ceres did then when prince of Auernus Stole her daughter away from fields that ioyned on Aetna Vnto the dungeons dark and dens of his hellish abiding Thou ground forgetful what was by dutie required Shouldst send vnbidden with Phills teares to Auernus Her blessed burden thou wast vnworthie to carrie Therefore tender girle in flowring age she departed O frowning fortune ô stars vnluckilie shining O cursed birth day of quite forsaken Amintas Phillis alas is changd Phillis conuerted in ashes VVhose pretie lips necke eyes and haire so sweetlie beseeming Purple snow and fire and gold wire seemd to resemble Tithonus faire wife coms alwaies home by the sunset Euerie night coms home to that old Tithonus her husband Sweete Cephalus leauing and gray beard hartily kissing But my Phillis alas is gone as farre as Auernus Gone too farre to returne and this tormenteth Amyntas White is blacke and sweete is sowre to the sence of Amyntas Night and day doe I weepe and make ground moist by my weeping Mourne lament and howle and powre forth plaints to the heauens So do the Nightingales in bushes thorny remayning Sing many dolefull notes and tunes sweet harmony making Their yong ones mourning their yong ones daily bewailing Phillis alas is gone shee'le neuer come to Amyntas Neuer againe come backe for death and destiny stay her Stay her among those groues and darksome dens of Auernus Wher's no path to returne no starting hole to be scaping Desteny death and Hell and howling hydeus helhound Loathsome streams of stix that ninetimes compas Auernus Stay her amongst those hags in dungeons ougly for euer Only the name and fame and her most happy remembrance still shal abide shal liue shal florish freely for euer Thus did Amyntas speake and then came feyntily homeward The fyfth Lamentation SInce Phillis buriall with due celebration ended Phoebus againe aduanct his blasing face fro the maynesea And with morning Star dispelling night fro the heauens Quickly the fifth time brought broad day light vnto Amyntas But yet Phillis in heart in mind and soule of Amyntas Stil did abyde and stil was Phillis mournd of Amyntas No care of driuing his goats and kidds to the mountains No care of folowing his sheepe and lambs to the pastures But dailight loathing and dayes worke wonted abhorring Straight to the woods doth he walke in no mans company walking Where hee the weeping flowre making al weary by weeping Vntuned speeches cast out and desperat outcries Where with sobs to the windes with teares increase to the waters Stil did he giue and stil vayne loue most vaynly bewayled As louing Turtle seeing his lately beloued Turtle-doue thrown downe from tree with a stone with an arrow Can not abide sun-beames but flies fro the fields fro the meddows Vnto the darkest woods and there his desolat harbor Makes in a Cypres tree with lightning all to be scortched Or with Winters rage and blacke storms fowly defaced Where on a rotten bow his lyms all heauy reposing Stil doth he grone for griefe stil mourne for his onely beloued Then consum'd with grieuous pangs and weary with anguish Down to the groūd doth he fal with fainting wings fro the barebow Beating dust with wings and feathers fowly beeraying Beating breast with beack til bloud come freshly abounding Till lyfe gushing forth with bloud goe ioyntly together So did Amyntas mourne such true loue made him a mourner O what a vyle boy's this what a greeuous wound what a weapon O what a dart is this that sticks so fast to my heart roote Like as roots to the trunck or life as vine to the Elmetree Iuy ioynd to the walls or greene mos cleeues to the foule ponds O pitiles lous-god poore louers how be we plagued O strong dart of loue which each thing speedily pearceth This dart God Saturne God Mars and great God of al Gods Ioue himself did wound vnles that fame doe beely them Although God Saturne were old and like to a crusht crabb Although Mars were armd with try'd Vulcanian armour Although Ioue with fire and thunder maketh a rumbling Yea thine owne mother thine owne inuincible arrow Hurt and prickt those papps which thou wast wont to be sucking Neither spar'st thou him that raigns in watery kingdome Neither spar'st thou him that rules in feareful Auernus Pluto know what it is with a paltery boy to be troubled Neptune knows what it is by a blinde boyes check to be mated Then since heauen seas and hell are nought by thee spared Earth and earth dwelling louers must looke to be pinched O what gaping earth wil Amintas greedily swallow O what goulf of Seas and
faire Phillis face to be shyning Powre forth fludds of teares from those your watery fountains From those your fountalns with greene mos all to be smeared Phillis wil no more see Phillis sitt by the fountains Phillis wil no more her lipps apply to the fountains Lippes to be ioyn'd to the lipps of Ioue that ruleth Olympus And you darkesome dales and woods aye wont to be silent Where she amidst the shepheards and toiling boisterous heard men Her milkwhite shee goats many times was wont to be feeding Lament and mourne for this nymphs vntimely departure But Pan and Fauni but garden greene of Amintas But you springs and dales and woods aye wont to be silent Leaue of your mourning Ile giue you leaue to be silent Leaue to be silent stil giue you me leaue to bee mourning Leaue to be mourning stil let this most heauie departure This death of Phillis bring wished death to Amintas Here did he pause for a while and home at night he returned The eight Lamentation SInce death of Phillis since Phillis burnt by Amyntas Since Phillis burnt bones were chested duly the eighth time Night gaue place to the light and euning vnto the morning When to the woods so wilde to the wilde beasts dangerus harbors Forsaking hye wayes by the bye wayes passed Amintas And there sets him downe al wearied vnder a myrtle For griefe stil groning with deepe sighs heauily panting Stil Phillis naming stil Phillis feintily calling And must one wench thus take all the delights fro the countrey And must one wench thus make euery man to be mourning Euery man whose flocks on these hills vse to be feeding And must Aeglon weepe and must that friendly Menalcas Weare his mourning roab for death of my bony Phillis And must good Coridon lament must Tityrus alter His pleasant melodies for death of my bony Phillis And must Damoetas for griefe leaue of to be louing Must Amarillis leaue for death of my bony Phillis And must drooping bull consume as he goes by the meddowe Must sheepe looke lowring for death of my bony Phillis And must sighs seeme windes must teares seeme watery fountains And must each thing change for death of my bony Phillis O then what shal I do for death of my bony Phillis Since that I lou'd bony lasse Phillis more dearely then al these Since that I lou'd her more then I loue these eyes of Amyntas O then what shal I do forlorne forsaken Amintas What shal I doe but die for death of my bony Phillis Phillis who was wont my flocke with care to bee feeding Phillis who was wont my mylch shee goats to be milking Phillis who was wont most handsome wench of a thousand Either clouted creame or cakes or curds to be making Either sine basketts of bulrush for to be framing Or by the greene meddows gay dauncing dames to be leading Phillis whose bosome fil beards did loue to be filling Phillis for whose sake greene laurel lou'd to be bowing Phillis alas sweete lasse Phillis this braue bony Phillis Is dead is buried maks all good company parted O how oft Phillis conferd in fields with Amintas Whilst for nymphs of woods gay garlands framed Amintas O how oft Phillis did sing in caues with Amintas Ioyning her sweete voice to the oaten pipe of Amintas O how oft Phillis clypt and embraced Amintas How many thousand times hath Phillis kissed Amintas Bitten Amintas lipps and bitten againe of Amintas So that Amintas his eyes inuied these lipps of Amintas O sweete soule Phillis w'haue liu'd and lou'd for a great while If that a man may keepe any mortal ioy for a great while Like louing Turtles and Turtledoues for a great while One loue one liking one sence one soule for a great while Thefore one deaths wound one graue one funeral only Should haue ioyned in one both loue and louer Amintas O good God what a griefe is this that death to remember For such grace gesture face feature beautie behauiour Neuer afore was seene is neuer againe to be lookt for O frowning fortune ô death and desteny dismal Thus be the poplar trees that spred their tops to the heauens Of their flouring leaues despoil'd in an houre in a moment Thus be the sweete violets that gaue such grace to the garden Of their purpled roabe despoyld in an houre in a moment O how oft did I roare and crie with an horrible howling When for want of breath Phillis lay feintily gasping O how oft did I wish that Phoebus would fro my Phillis Driue this feuer away or send his sonne from Olympus Who when lady Venus by a chaunce was prickt with a bramble Healed her hand with his oyles and fine knacks kept for a purpose Or that I could perceiue Podalyrius order in healing Or that I could obtaine Medaeas exquisite ointments And baths most precious which old men freshly renewed Or that I were as wise as was that craftie Prometheus Who made pictures liue with fire that he stole from Olympus Thus did I cal and crie but no body came to Amintas Then did I raile and raue but nought did I get by my railing Whilst that I cald and cry'd rag'd and rau'd as a mad man Phillis alas Phillis by the burning fitts of a feuer Quickly before her day her daies vnluckily ended O dismal deaths day with black stone still to be noted Wherin no sunne shin'd no comfort came fro the heauens Wherein clustred clouds had cou'red lightsome Olympus Wherein no sweete bird could finde any ioy to be chirping vvherein loathsome snakes from dens were loath to be creeping vvherein foule skriche owles did make detestable howling And from chimney top gaue woful signe of a mischiefe O first day of death last day of life to Amintas vvhich no day shal driue from soule and hart of Amintas Til Neptune dry'de vp withdrawe his fludds fro the fishes And skaled fishes liue naked along by the sea shore Till starrs fal to the ground til light harts leap to Olympus For since Phillis went and left forsaken Amintas Ioyes and pleasures went and left forsaken Amintas Perplexed speaking and vaine thoughts only remayned Immoderate mourning and mad loue onely remayned Thou Ioue omnipotent which doest with mercie remember Mortall mens miseries which knowst what it is to be louing And thou god Phoebus that sometimes driu'n from Olympus Feeding sheepe didst loue helpe luckles louer Amyntas Feeding sheepe and goats help poore man yong man Amintas Thou that abridgest breath thou daughter deare to the darknes Cutt this thread of life dispatch and bring mee to darknes Infernal darknes fit place for mournful Amintas So shal Amintas walke and talke in darksome Auernus So shal Amintas loue with Phillis againe be renued In fields Elysian Phillis shal liue with Amintas Thus do I wish and pray this praying is but a pratling And these wishing words but a blast but a winde but a whistling Dye then Amyntas Dye for dead is thy bony Phillis Phoebus went to the sea
Owles baleful scrikings and crowes vnlucky resoundings There shall these myne eyes be resolud in watery fountains There shall these fountains flow ouer along by the pastures There wil I make such plaints as beasts shal mourn by my playnings Such plaints as strong trees shal rent and riue fro the rooting Make wylde Panthers tame and mollify lastly the flintstone And if I needs must sleepe I'le take but a nap by my sleeping On bare and cold ground these lims al weary reposing No greene turfe to my head shal stand in steede of a pillow No bowes or braunches geeue cou'ring vnto my carkas That some foule serpent may speedily giue me my deaths wound That this poore soule may from flesh and bloud be released And passing stygian waters may come to the faire fields Elysian faire fields and daily resort to my Phillis Meane while friendly shepheards plowmen mark what I tel you Marke what I say for I think you knew and loued Amintas Disdaine daintie Venus giue no ground vnto the blind boy Yong boy but strong boy take heede take heed by Amintas Th'one with a fire hath burnt and th'other pearst with an arrow Flesh and bones and bloud whats worse then a fire then an arrow O bitter fortune of too too wretched Amintas The second Lamentation WHen by the pleasant streams of Thames poore caitif Amintas Had to the dull waters his grief thus vainly reuealed Spending al that day and night in vainly reuealing As soone as morning her shining heares fro the mountains Had shewn forth and dryu'n al star-light quite fro the heauens Then that vnhappy shepheard stil plag'd with vnhappily louing Left those barren banks and waters no pity taking And on a crookt sheephooke his lims all weary reposing Climed a loft to the hills but alas very faintily clymed Kiddes and goats and sheepe driuing goodman to the mountains for sheepe goats and kidds with pastures better abounding Then by the way thus he spake to the sheep to the goats to the yong kidds O poore flock it seems you feele these pangs of a louer And mourne thus to behold your mournful maister Amyntas Your wont was some part to be bleating some to be skipping Some with bended browes and horned pates to be butting Sheepe to be gnapping grasse and goats to the vines to be climing But now no such thing but now no lust to be liuely Sheepe and seelly sheepheard with lucklesse loue bee besotted You for Amintas mourne for Phillis mourneth Amyntas O with what miseries poore mortal men be molested Now do I know right wel what makes you thus to be mourning Thus to be tyred thus to be quailed thus to be drooping Phillis while she remaynd milkt my goates euer at euning Goats that brought home duggs stretcht with milk euer at euning Phillis brought them flowres them brought vnto the welsprings When dogdayes raigned when fields were al to be scorched Whilst that I lay sleeping in cooling shade to refresh mee Phillis againe was woont with Amyntas sheepe to be washing Phillis againe was wont my sheepe thus washt to be shearing Then to the sweete pastures my sheepe thus shorne to be driuing And from fox and woolfe my sheepe thus dryu'n to bee keeping With watchfull bawling and strength of lustie Lycisca And in folds and coates my flocke thus kept to be closing Least by the Northern winds my sheepe might chance to be pinched Least by the frost or snow my kids might chance to be grieued Phillis lou'd you so so Phillis lou'd Amintas Phillis a guide of yours and Phillis a friend of Amintas But sweete sheepe sweete goates spare not to be liuelie for all this Looke not vpon my weeping face so sadly for all this Harken not to my plaints and songs all heauie for all this Harken not to my pipe my pipe vnluckie for all this But sweete sheepe sweete goates leaue of your maister Amintas Leape and skip by the flowring fields and leaue of Amintas Climbe to the vines and tender trees and leaue of Amintas Climbe to the vines but runne for life for feare of a mischiefe When th'old Silenus with his Asse comes lasilie trotting Let me alone me alone lament and mourne my beloued Let me alone celebrate her death by my teares by my mourning Like to the siluer swan who seeing death to be comming Wandreth alone for a while through streames of louelie Caïster Then to the flowring bankes all faint at length he repaireth Singing there sweet bird his dying song to Caïster Geuing there sweet bird his last farewell to Caïster Yeelding vp sweete bird his breath and song to Caïster How can Amintas liue when Phillis leaueth Amintas What for fieldes for woods for medowes careth Amintas Medowes woods and fieldes if my sweete Phillis abandon Mightie Pales fro the fieldes fro the medowes learned Apollo Faunus went fro the woods when Phillis went from Amintas No good sight to my eyes no good sound came to my hearing But let Phillis againe come backe and stay with Amintas Then shall woods with leaues and fields with flowers be abounding Medowes with greene grasse to the poore mans dailie reioicing Mightie Pales to the fields to the medowes learned Apollo Faunus comes to the woods if Phillis come to Amintas No bad sight to my eyes no bad sound comes to my hearing Come then good Phillis come back if destinie suffer Leaue those blessed bowers of foules alreadie departed Let those sparkling eyes most like to the fire to the Christall Ouercome those hags and fiends of fearefull Auernus Which haue ouercome those stars of chearful Olympus And by thy speech more sweet then songs of Thracian Orpheus Pacify th'infernall furies please Pluto the grim god Stay that bawling curre that three throt horrible helhound For vertue for voice th'art like to Sibilla to Orpheus Sweet hart come to thy friend to thy friend come speedelie sweet-hart Speedelie come least grief consume forsaken Amintas Phillis I pray thee returne if prayers may be regarded By these teares of mine from cheekes aie rueful abounding By those armes of thine which somtimes clasped Amintas By lips thine and mine ioined most sweetly together By faith hands and hart with true sinceritie pledged By songs by wedding with great solemnitie vowed By iests and good turns by pleasures all I beseech thee Helpe and succor alas thy forlorne louer Amintas Or by thy teares intreat those nimphs of destenie fatall No pitie taking nimphs intreat that I liue not alone thus Pind thus a way with griefe suffring vnspeakable anguish But let death let death come spedelie giue me my pasport So that I find faire fields faire seats faire groues by my dying And in fields in seats in groues faire Phillis abiding There shal Phillis againe in curtesie striue with Amintas There with Phillis againe in curtesie striue shal Amintas There shall Phillis againe make garlands gay for Amintas There for Phillis againe gay garlands make shal Amintas There shal Phillis againe be repeating songs with Amintas