desperate manner continue the vnspeakable bloudines of the first combat till the length or distance had depriued their eyes of that spectacle The other in the Gallioon with no lesse but rather a more inauspitious hād of death ouer his incoūterers by how much more neer he grew vnto the iudgemēts of the beholders augmented both his owne rage their opinions touching the excellency of his rage distributing such vnresistaable blowes that his sword was seen sildom or neuer fall with his hand but a body deuided from a soule fell dead at his foote so that as it was most likely to be imagined the poore in-habitants of that vessell growne to the desperate willfullnesse of absolute desperatenes which is by death to shunne death willfully ran the ship against the Rocks whose armed brest of too hie proofe for so slender timber split her in one instant into many thousand disioyned peeces the suruiuing remnant more willingly offring vp their liues into the hands of the mercilesse Sea whose mercy they had not tasted then to the subiection of his sword whose vigor in punishing their breathles companions bodies in their floating witnessed But neither did the daring of their dispaires which was the vnexpected entrance to this euill neither the danger it selfe wherein the preciousnes of his deare life was imballanced neither the inacquaintance of the soyle whereon he was ship-wrackt neither his many wounds the losse of Fortune Hope Honour Wealth or other expectation breed in him either amazement feare or desistance from the continuance of that reuenge which from the begīning he with so great vertue pursued for being now left to struggle with the vnruly waues whose imperious billowes many times counter-checking his desires gaue him a feeling remembrance of his mortall constitution he gathered new life by the hazard wherwith the old life stoode indangered and swimming with such beautifull cōlinesse as Triton is feined to do whē he vshers Neptune to Venus banquets with his sworde in his hand which often ensigne-like he flourished about his head as who should say Danger is but the hand-maid to Vertue or as if he would haue chalenged moe perils then those imputing the escape of this no worthie reputation without turning his eie backe vpon his owne safetie he followed on still the ruine of those to whome was left no comfort but in ruinous perishing and made such slaughter that not a breathing soule was left to complaine that so manie by one were become breathlesse But hee had no sooner finished the effect of what hee hoped for And Furie wanting a subiect whereon to worke more fury had giuen place to the feeling of other passions when instantly his ouer-laboured bodie grew weake and ablelesse to deliuer him a liuing soule made free from those perils yet with an vnyeelding vertue that was euer or euer seemed to be strongest in his weakest fortune he many times mounted vp himselfe and sprang vpon the waues ioyning both Arte courage togither as means for his deliuerance But euen at the last pinch when strength had as it were finished the need of strength vnkindly strength forsooke him and he sunke downe vnable any longer to preserue that life which still then had preserued the life and estate of many kingdomes but the guilty waters ashamed to bee guiltie of so execrable a murther opened their bosoms brought him vp again into the aire where by the force of the siege of the Sea he was borne vpon the sands and lay to the iudgement of the Shepheards who till then vpon their knees were adoting him as a coelestial deitie breathlesse and without motion in-so-much that with all their powers they ranne and recouered him ere the siege could come againe which as appeared greedie of another imbracement made more then vsual haste to ouer-take him and when daungerlesse they had laid him vpon a neighbour banke vnto the shore they behelde a person of so rare and vnmarchable proportion in whom all the beauties of the worlde were most liberally dis-iested that prodigall Nature in the worke seemd vtterly to haue beggerd herselfe and becom'd penurious to all succeeding ages It was not long before they had brought him to life and the knowledge of the daunger whereunto his life was ingaged when sodainly he start vpon his feete and gazing like a wounded Deere vpon his concealed persecutor he cried O Thamastus Thamastus liuest thou with men or Angels vnhappie that I am shal I liue to inquire if thou liue I will not I will not my breath is not mine owne if thou be breathlesse nor shall my dayes bee augmented an houre after thy destruction forsaken Pyrophylus deiected Pyrophylus with that he wilfully would haue throwne him-selfe into the Sea againe as in loue with the perill which he hated or the death which with such difficultie hee escaped But the amorous Shepheards hearing him name those two names which kept the world both in awe and admiration ranne hastily vnto him and folding him in their armes with the vttermost of their force which the loue of those names had stretched to the highest scale of their puissance stayed him from the vnnaturall selfe-killing combatte and with the best oratorie that the simplicitie of their bringing vp could then instruct their tongues they perswaded him from impouerishing the world of those excellent hopes which his verie presence promised in most admirable aboundance and coniuring him by those two rarely beloued and praise-worthie names which with such feeling sorrow hee hat vttered and all the Nations of the worlde with vnspeakeable reuerence entertained not to let that day bee registred in misfortunes calender as the day of greatest misfortune by the losse of so diuine an expectation assuring him by those especiall tokens which they had noted during the conflict that if his friend whom he bewailed were that vncōquered spirit which in the gally had done such matchlesse feats of chiualrie that then there was no feare of his perishing inasmuch as they had seene him make himself Lord of the Gally ere the wind or Oares had caried her beyond the cōpasse of their sights Further they humbly vpon their knees besought him that if he were eyther of those two Princes whose sweete names were resweetned by his vtterance that it would please him not to conceale it from their knowledges who all be they were but Shepheards yet had that vertuous feeling of noblenesse which taught them a seruiceable duty to the incōparable greatnes of such dignified states The Prince Pyrophylus for such was his name a little pacified and hoping by this hope in their speeches to kill his hopelesse Dispaire was content to be ouer-ruled though manie times the feruencie of his loue had almost ouercom'd that not certainly grounded resolution in the ende calling to minde that their fight was both begun and occasioned vpon the Hellespont and that this place was altogither beyonde the bounde of his knowledge fearing the Sestian lawe which for the losse of the two
stolne it away in-so-much that hee pursuing the chase tooke the wolfe at his pray and then had no remedie but to kill him that had killed her play-fellow Melidora smiling made him answer that if she had not some constant trials of his loyaltie she should feare lest some violent mischance would eyther kill or take him from her seruice but hee whose feruent loue could induce no colde suspition to prophesie his apostacie with more then an vsuall earnestnesse besought her not to make doubt of his faithfulnes vowing by Heauen by Earth by Loue by the golden treasure of his hopes by all his comforts past by all his delights to come and lastly by her sacred self who was the great volume which contained the cronicle of his fortunes that no time no chance no change nor no admiration should take from his name the title of her eternall Admirer wishing ruine to his bodie infamie to his name and immortall death to his soule when his pure thoughts shoulde bee blotted with the staine of disloyaltie and with that kissing her hande and shedding some teares thereon desired her not to suspect him till she was inwardly resolued absolutely to kill him which she promising to performe they sate downe togither vpon a flowrie banke within the Arbour whilest Diatassan calling to remembrance her former promise humbly besought her to tell him the manner of Dianas ceremonies what was the pompe the show and the order of their sacrifice to which shee thus answered To tell thee my Shepheard at length without omission all the stately proceedings due this day to our great Goddesse neither could a Sommers day nor Winters night out-last my discoursings wherefore we will omit it till a more coÌ„uenient time for such an argumeÌ„t onely one accideÌ„t as worthie note as loue it selfe is worthy memorie which fell out this day in the Temple I will impart vnto thee and thus it was Amongst all the Nymphs and Mayds which this day made the Altars of the great Diana smoake with perfumed Sacrifice I spyde a virgin who bestirring herselfe like a busie toyling Bee exceeded many of her consorts in praying in sensing in sacrificing and in singing by her gestures I could not suspect her knowledge her garments I knew not her face because of her vaile I saw not and for her speech like the rest it witnessed vnto me that she was a stranger After her sacrifices were ascended she for her more diuinne contemplation retyred into a priuate seate my selfe closely stealing from the rest of the Maydens came and deuoutly ioyn'd me to her side where I had not long seated my selfe but I might perceiue she cast many pretty gazes vpon mee such as by the interpretation of affection are said to carrie loue in their glaunces at first I wondred but at last I encountred her looke for looke making loue an excellent linguist onely by demonstration and all-be the race was but short yet was there a large field for loue to tylt in betwixt each of our gazings my face being couered all ouer with this vaile had onely two loop-holes left for mine eyes to looke through From whence sayd this Nymph she saw such heauenly glimpses issue as matcht the Sunne which straitned betwixt two clouds darts into the worlde faire louely beames of induring brightnesse I tolde her if in me there were any of those glories they onely were borrowed from her and from her beautie with that she whispering in mine eare demaunded my name but I wringing her softly by the silken hande and to make my selfe some prettie sport by this instant accident tolde her that I was a Shepheard not a Nymph and that onely for her sake I had disguised my selfe fearing not the daunger of my life because I had none but by her sufferance meaning in this Temple and at this holy time to consecrate my chaste thoughts to her seruice She againe demaunded of me my name and I answered her it was Diatassan And I pray you Ladie said Diatassan what answered shee to that name Vpon the knowledge of that name sayd Melidora wee concluded that this night when the Nymphs doe come to fetch water at Mineruaes spring shee shall come the hindmost in the traine and that I wayting for her in a mazie Thicke adioyning shall as soone as I perceiue the Nymphes to returne home discouer my selfe to her who fayning odde tryfles to stay behind them woulde administer vnto me al aduauâ—tage of further coÌ„ference Much other talk we had but in the end when the rites were ended she sighing departed my smyles ready to breake into open laughter to see the poore foole so cunningly deceiued But what was her name said Diatassan shee is called said Melidora Apheleia O what sport will this be for thee me wheÌ„ in the cooling shade amongst the rest of thy fellowe Shepheards we passe away the time with toyes with Ridles and with wittie purposes I tell thee this action will bee worthy of a conceited eglogue And as they were thus discoursing a Page beloÌ„ging vnto the Princesse came into the Arbor brought her worde that al the Forresters were attending her Maiestie at the Lodge to knowe in what parte of the forrest she intended the next day to hunt that orderly preparation might be made for her sportes with that the Princesse arysing with such a gesture as did enuye the times swiftnes she tolde her shepheard she must be gone but he desiring leaue to attend her shee earnestly forbad him saying the tutret loue is the cottage hate and so shee departed onely accompained with her Page to her owne Castell As soone as the Princesse was gone Diatassan reuoluing in his minde vpon the aduenture she reported grew into an amazed extasie Desire Wonder breeding in his soule a thousand Chymeras and strange imaginations one while feare appald him least dooing iniurye to the Princesse he might kill his loue and Fauour then presently Desire inflames him to beholde her whose loue liuing vpon his name is derided by fortune Another while Doubt takes him prisoner Reason denying the minde to haue such insubstantiall apprehensions but then Wonder resolues him and bids him but looke into the worke of his owne mindes creation thus beeing carryed awhile with these variable thoughts in the end hee absolutelye concludeth with himselfe that he will goe to Mineruas Spring and in the groaue adioyning shilter himselfe to try what euent will issue of the former passage And so in the end hee did where hauing rested till the Sunnes departure made the night proclayme her gouernment hee might beholde sixe beautifull Nimphes with Golden Flagons in their handes who commning vnto Mineruas spring before they would dippe their vessels into the holy water they in a moste comely order walking about the Fountaine sang this Canzonet THose foolish women are accurst That make of Loue a God though blinde And vnder him the worst of worst Couer the follyes of the minde For vs we doe detest out
THE ENGLISH ARCADIA Alluding his beginning from Sir Philip Sydneys ending By Iaruis Markham LONDON Printed by Edward Allde and are to bee solde by Henrie Rocket at his shop vnder Saint Mildreds Church in the Poultrie 1607. To the Reader THe innumerable tortures wherewith seuere censures will torment and whip me their pewes their pyshes their wrye lookes Apish iestures and vntunable pronuntiations haue not so much retained me any time this halfe-score yeares from the publication of this morall Historie as the imputations of arrogancie immitation affectation and euen absurd ignorance which I euer feared Enuie would vniustly lay vpon me but hauing by custome and the weaknesse of detraction loosed my selfe from such shadowie fetters and with a more airie spirit freed my soule from such insubstantiall feares I haue aduentured to cast into the world this Orphan which how-euer it was once begot by noble parents and bosomed in the most celestiall eares that euer was worthie to retaine noble mysteries is now like a vagabond inforst to begge and liue vpon miserable charitie yet for vertues sake whom I euer desire to satisfie with my best powers before I be araignd at the barre of bitternesse I am willing to make this defence for the crimes which crueltie may suggest against me First for the Title thogh it be only excellēt in the most excellēt creature that first taught vs the sound of excellent writing yet hath it likewise beene vsed by others in sundrie pamphlets without either pride or ostentation men taking libertie to lay their hystories in Countries by them most affected next for mine allusion and imitation which beareth a colour of much greater vain-glorie mine excuse must onely bee the worthinesse of former presidents as Virgill from Homer Ariosto from Baiardo famous Spencer from renowned Chaucer and I with as good priuiledge from the onely to be admired Sir Philip Sydney whose like though neuer age hath or shall present to memorie yet shall it be renowne to the meanest that indeuour to liue by the crummes of his Table who were our age but blest with his liuing breath he would himselfe confesse the honie hee drew both from Heliodorus and Diana For other faults I must answere with Maister France if there were a bond to compell men to read there should then be an authoritie likewise to bind vs that write to delight But since both haue free will my counsell is to reade no longer then till your appetite be either cloyed or filled and so by preseruation of your stomackes make them apt to taste others better labours to which and to your owne content I commit you I. M. THE FIRST PART OF THE FIRST BOOKE of the Morall English Arcadia alluding his beginning from Sir Philip Sidneyes ending AT such time as the flowers appearing vpon the earth had summoned the ayrie quiristers to entertaine the first Embassadors of the Spring and that Nature deliuered frō the barraine wombe of Winter had shewed her selfe lyuelie as the morning faire as the nightes Gouernesse pure as the Sunne and as almighty as an armye of inuincible fortune The vnhappy and forlorne Shepheard Credulo being come to the foot of the mountaine Tagetus from whose large distributed skirts ranne an euen and wel leuiled plaine through which the siluer-flowing Erimanthus had made many curious and enterchangeable windinges till she deliuered the abundance of her tribute into the bosome of the Oceās vnruly treasurie and being arryued at the vtmost of the earths prospecte he encountred with his companion both in fortunes and desires the forsaken Carino whose eyes long before that time drown'd in their owne teares were now ouer earlie awaked to bathe them-selues in the tearye sea of others more deere afflictions And being mette in that alone lonelinesse which extreamest of all miseries had chosen out as a plat-forme whereon to build that day a stage for an immortal Tragedie they sate downe casting their eies vpon the waues whose vast solitarines presented to their mindes the liuely Idaeas of their vnaccompanied lamentations began bitterly to complaine that hauing ouer-laden hearts broke deuided with complaints which by incessant bemoanings they sought howerly to disburden foūd neither ease nor respet but rather a more augmentation of their continuall child-bearing mischiefes where-upon Credulo commenting in the sadnesse of his coūtenance more large volumes of griefe then his weake tongue could deliuer thus spake Ah Carino said he hither are we come to behold not the last act though as bleedingly pitious as the latest can be of Infortunes worst Tragedie presented to the stony eyes of creatures insensible because barbarous and acted by the greatest Beautie that euer before this day arose in the skie of anie womans countenance Alas that miserie should be so Imperious as to dare to take possessiō in the Pallace of Vertue or vertue so fearfull as for any disaster in-fortune to forgoe the habitation of Beautie Will the Almightie Iustice in his Diuine prouidence create excellēt frames to ignoble vses or Nature spend the golden treasure of her workmāship in a receptacle for greatest imperfections It is impossible it is impossible The Arts-masters of this lowe rounds nations striue in their works exquisite to portrait their owne vertues the best of which endeuours remaine after them liuing remembrances of dead worthines And shall the master of them and their knowledges make his goodliest pyramed a monument for vnblushing shamefulnes it is too preposterous to imagine and irreligious to beleeue only to thee and mee whose care-consumed imaginations direct all their leuells against the marke of mis-fortunes as hauing our hopes giuen ouer into the handes of Disdaine our vowes inrespected our loues fruitles our torments pittiles our deaths Tomblesse to vs I say these accidents of inhumane aduersitie are but awaking thunders or Night-Rauen cryes to our laboring remēbrances drawing in them and before them the models of those mishappes where-with our owne soules are attainted How oft haue thou and I my Carino from the top of yon Mountaine sent our eyes with the imbassage of our heartes conueying in blood-drawing sighes speedy messengers of dispaire the occurrents of our dying hopes How oft vpon this Plaine haue wee in darke Eglogues discoursed the pure intent of our honest seruices How oft vpon these Sandes haue wee wrtten her name with our Sheep-hookes which the iealous Sea in loue with hath greedily snacht into his bosome And how oft from yon aspiring Rocke haue wee wisht so she would beare witnes to our wish to fal head-long into the Sea as a seale to the great deed of our induring affection and yet haue found neither hope in our desires comfort in our loues nor end in our dispaires Haue we at any time desisted from the violēce of our first passion Hath there euer been seen coolenesse in the burning Feuer of our desires Haue our mindes slept at all in the shade of a reputed obliuion Or hath the Historie of her praises at any time
tooke their leaues of the Queene and the dead reputed Amphyalus and so returned backe to the place from whence they were departed The Queene left alone to accompany her dead Lord sauing that she had onely twentie horsemen and sixe Ladies which had beene her gardiants in that wofull voyage commanded the coffin to bee set downe vpon a faire banke of flowers by the riuers side and then taking her Lute to the delicacie of whose sound she maried a more dilicate voyce sung this funerall Sonnet Strong heart my strong cares vnconsumed throne How bigge thou swellst with euer feeding griefe I hop'd that worne to nothing with my mone Nothing to nothing would haue brought reliefe And you mine eyes that enuie these faire streames Because they flow not ouer like your teares Learne by this riuer to abate extreames Sith coolest woes breede longest liu'd dispaires But O mine Eyes you haue immortall springs Fed by a heart which feedes vpon distresse And thou my heart art wed to sorrowing Sorrow that sorrows-selfe cannot expresse Then heart grieue still and Eies augment your founttaines Till one make Seas the other cloud-hie Mountaines Here casting the Lute from her hands that she might cast her hands with more feeling ardencie about the beloued bodie which with such vnspeakeable adoration she had inshrined in the faire Temple of her spotlesse heart After my vnsympathised imbracements and cold kisses taken from his vnfeeling lips shee thus began to second her well tuned moanes with vntuned lamentations Alas Amphyalus sayd she alas thou that in the infinitenesse of thine vnbounded Disdaine hast had such an immortall soueraigntie as to bee the all onely director both of my thoughts and actions how much mightier had beene the amplified honor of thy royall spirit if the great Godhead of thy diuinitie had proceeded from a gracefull pitty to the gnawing torrent of my miserable distresse But I was vnworthy and woe is me that thy worthinesse did not esteeme me a worthy subiect to be ennobled by thy loues worthinesse yet was I not fatall to the long liued kingdome of thy vertues thou shouldst not haue brought a consuming fire from Corinth nor should my wombe haue deliuered a fire-brand to waste Arcadia O yes I was prodigious to thy birth-right and as a blasing starre at thine vnlooked for funerall For me though not from me came that first knowledge of thy first euill when thy deare Phyloxenus ende became the beginning of thy hate to my desires Tymotheus death a Seale to that reuers-lesse deed of thy disdain which no time or opinion shall euer cancell O vnspeakable miserie O maruellous doome of my fore-doomed persecution O most wonderfull impietie of a haplesse beautie O singular affliction to an euer afflicting memorie and O iust iudgement of my starre-crost destinie O sorrow iust sorrow be thou henceforth the iustnesse of my mediation O fearefull sorrow in the extremitie of my fearfulnes increase my sorrowes augmentation and let me sorrow that euer sorrowing my sorrows are not amplifyed to a sufficient greatnesse But why talke I of sorrow that am not worthy of so gentle a sleepe-killing cōpanion O rest thee thou faire foe to my rest thou weeping eye of a soft heart thou reuenge of weaknesse vnkindnesse satisfaction and the key which vnlockes the closet of a concealed affection O image of sleepe sleepe with my forgetfulnesse and forgotten contentments And come Death vgly Death vntimely Death the rack to a burdned conscience the soules bitternesse the bodies graue and the mindes immortall affliction come thou and accompanie my calamities leade mee to my Lorde that he may beholde in thee his Lordship ouer mee there is no reason I liue being reasonlesse left of the loue I adored And here as if shee woulde haue drowned herselfe in newe teares or prooued that the greatnesse of griefe is euer begotte by the greatest expence of griefe shee wept in such violent abundance that the extremitie of that ouerflowe brought her to a motionlesse dumbnesse in-so-much that one of her Ladies whose eye had taken a full draught from that cup of patheticall griefe taking the falne Lute into her hande awakened her Queene with these mournfull Stanzies Night like a mourner creepes vpon moanes Yet troubles me because it lets me see The blacke fac'd image of my hideous groanes Which still vnstill increase to martyr me O eyelesse night the portrature of death Noise hating mistresse of the hearts calme griefe That charm'st our cares and quiettest our breath O thou that art calamities reliefe In thy downe-footed stealing steale away Woes memorie approching with the day O not thou night the Sunne set follower The generall closer of all mortall eyes O thou art not my sad hearts sucoorer Euen thee I waste and tyre with agonies But thou eternall night Deaths elder borne Thou night of nights more powerfull then the Sunne Throw mountaines on me that am most forlorne Most abiect haplesse wofull and vndone O let my woes be into darknesse hurld Or plast a burning Comet ore the world This song did so aggrauate the extremitie of her passion which now like an ouer-wittie Sophister whose fluent braine presents him more arguments then his tongue can discharge euer most in loue with that which lies last vnreuealed was conceyted that shee could vtter more wounding lamentations then she yet had vttered began to create new methods of complaining till shee was interrupted by a discrete Gentleman her attendant who perswaded her from that wearinesse of mourning chiefly where no ease-procuring sorrowe made the laboursome day eternall with vaine labour and brought no night of rest to her so long vnrested diliberations arguing that these delayes in her moanes would if shee woulde continue them bring her anguish to a more desperate state of miserie the necessitie of this extremitie crauing no spurres but winges to conuey her hope to the ende of that rare arte wherein all her hope was builded This speech laid such holde vpon her reason that adorning her faire cheekes with the rosie blush of shamefastnesse she rose vp and commaunded the coffin to be put into the litter in which her selfe rode and so followed on her iourney yet at euerie such conuenient houre wherein either the reliefe of Nature or the extremitie of the hot burning Sun commanded a desistance from trauailing she omitted not still to doe the like lest any ouer-curious eye should imagine that the trauell of her mind receyued ease when her body wanted motion obseruing the humour of an absolute couetous person whose desires grow greater when he enioies the greatest part of that he desired After many daies nights all-be dayes and nights were not by her distinguished with any difference thus pitiously consumed she arriued near vnto her owne most goodly and beautifull Citie the Citie of Corinth whither newes of her approaching was some fewe dayes before comed as heauinesse hath euer moe Fames then one running before it insomuch that Phalantus a gallant Knight and base
Now when shee was com'd to the port of the Citie and was readie to enter in she was there met with all the Damzels and virgins thereof who attyred Nymph-like in loose silkes which the breath of eue ie ayre wantonly carried and moued about them with baskets of Roses and the most choyse smelling flowers which that clime affoorded vpon their armes strewing all the Streetes through which the Queene should passe the out-side of the houses thereof being that day apparelled eyther in Tissue cloath of Gold Veluet or rich Arras as if the richnesse of such cloathing should either hide from her the wofulnesse which for hir woes was concealed within them or that making a Sabboth for her home-come euery one triumphed in his wedding garment And as the Virgins passed thus along some with Timbrils some with Kyttes and some other newe inuented Instruments to which they accorded the heauie accents of their most sorrowfull voyces they sang this mournfull and Elegiacke passion O Tedious howers that ouer-take swift time And in the end bringst backe our wisht for cares By which as by a circle we may climbe Vnto the endlesse height of our dispaires Adde to our grieues great ages of Lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content Thou elder brother to the first of all Whom men consume but neuer can make lesse Thou smiling ayme crier at Princes fall Father of death husband of heauinesse Adde to our greeues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content For since there is no hope in our restore But like thy minuts so our moanes must rise And put to most this multiplying more Woe on woes fall as teare on teares from eyes Adde to our grieues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content And when the world shall blame thy cruell minde That heapes affliction where Afflictions â—well Say long-liu'd Sorrow men doe seldome finde And least we may a flowrie pleasure smell Adde to our grieues great ages of lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content Say Passion Humor Fashion and Dispight Beguile the eye of Sorrow with false teares To which that men and Angels may doe right By scorning them that shadowes onely beares Adde to our greeues immortall liu'd lament Lorne in our selues and loathed of content This infinite consort consisting of all the innumerable parts of true sorowe like a Riuer-swallowing Behemoth dranke vp the vniuersall teares of the worlde so that the spectators of this egregious lamentation adiudged this Cittie nothing else but a vaste sadde and disconsolate Trophonius whose entrance vrged euen the eye of delight to a relenting tearfulnesse so that euen to such if such in such a place could bee as had no feeling of the cause of this felt woe yet the touch thereof in the effects of others participated a sympathized wayling to their rockie senselesnesse and the more when they more earnestly behelde in whom and from whom the greatest part or rather the whole which to others lent part yet like the Sunne had no part lesse of that in which she triumphed was as from a goodly Fountaine deriued But in the ende when shee was brought in this mourner-like royaltie to her pallace which was a most goodly Castell verie defensiuely fortifyed and curiously built of rich Marble in the verie heart of the Cittie After many thankes interrupted with many teares both to Phalantus for his care of her and to the rest for the sufferance of her follie through which she gat the knowledge of their loues she with the dying Amphyalus betwixt whom and death was almost sealed the deed of perpetuitie with-drew her selfe and was no more seene in publique so the space of fortie dayes during all which time shee bequeathed the desperate case of her loues Lord into the hands of the skilful Physition A maÌ„ of such age decrepidnesse that euen his life acknowledged a loathsomnesse in her habitation and Nature whome the hande of Arte by mending regenerated with a malicious enuie languished her continuance being bettered by that which for her slaue she created He was by birth an Arabian and well trayned in the vse of letters whose neare alliance with the Sun inspiring him with a spritie humor of ambitious knowledge led him to delight in trauell and the taste of vnexperienced customes to that coÌ„ming vpon a day to the mount Ida he met with a Nymph belonging to the fount Gaballine of whoÌ„ being inquisitiue to know the maners of that place he got the knowledge of the learned Wel of the habitation of the Mules and the court of memorie yet vnsatisfied and wandring further hee came into the groue where Paris first wooed Oenon saw where they pitched their toyles where they made their Pitte-falles where in the heate they lay and mocked the Sun which could not warme them and in the coole where they bathed while the Sunne with his gentlest heate did refresh them and amongest many reliques left there for remembrances of their loue hee found that heauenly and rare Booke which Apollo when he was ouer-gone with affection and desire of her beautie gaue her as a monument to eternize her name before many multitudes of admirable women in it was the portratute of all hearbs plants Mynerals or what euer belonges to the sacred studie of Physicke together with their vertues compositions effects and vses this he tooke for this Oenon had carelesly cast away when confounded with the burden of care she was become an out-cast in the worlde and forlorne of Paris And hence came those vncurable cures which in the opinions of men made his name with such vnspeakable reuerence adored and this still he practised vpon the wounded Amphyalus with such prosperous seruiceablenes that in few dayes he brought backe vnto him life and his seruant remembrance who yet not peace with that life which with former vpbrayding he had violently put forward to destruction began afresh to gall him with newe thoughts of that auntient Disdaine wherewith the most excellent Phyloclea had disfigured and ouerthrowne the beautie of his fortune so that the inuisible wound of his soule tankled and kept open the Vlcer of his bodie his newe life being an olde death worse then the bodie and the breathles diuorcement which once perceyued by this most learned father of science he immediately applyed those Antidots to his vnderstanding which drowned all the faculties of his mind in a Lethe of forgetfulnesse and he became such an Iris in the mutable exchange of his resolutions that hee had all the colours in the which any passion could be disguised except that in which the memorie of Phyloclea alone was clothed and that from the Genuine sense of his best thoughts had such an Anathema or deuided excommunication that like a Rauens-foster line cast vp into the woods to seeke a desolate fortune hee had vtterly forgone and shaked off the memorie of her which being the most precious thing in the worlde hee had made of
exile but his owne resolution him-selfe that is the God of his Fortune and his Resolution a decree like Fate neuer to he controlled Is it likely that he who most preiudicately sawe his owne ill and eschewed it will seeke to reuiue that euill and anew to returne vnto it It cannot be imagined or if it could the vowes he hath throwne throughout the world are impregnable Bulwarkes to withstande his returning hauing sworne by his princely hand neuer againe to beholde Laconia If he then be valiant that spirit will detaine him if he be wise his wisdome will make his vowes lawfull and if he be iust there can no iniustice shine in his actions And to the first let his conquests speake to the next his gouernment and to the last both the world you that are his people Thus is our amends frustrate and Redresse slaine vtterly dead for euer Is it then in your opinions tollerable to loose him to lacke remedie neither to him nor vs yeeld any satisfaction the gods forbid then our satisfaction must be the abolishing of that euill by which our first euill was ingendred which is the life of Hellen euen Hellen the too-early late-crowned Queene of our Country she that hath ouerthrown the goodly temple of her vertue by an inuertuous communicating of those beauties which to him onely should haue bin for euer most dearly preserued she that in her loue hath beene false to Amphyalus dishonorable to herself and an vtter ruine to vs you this country If then you will haue your King restored restore him by her death for in her ending must cōsist the best of his liuing and in this action doth the world infinitely gaze vppon you to see whether any vaine title of beauty or perfections can rebelliously with-draw your minds frō the execution of iustice restore vnto your selues your auncient honours by banishing out of the land your dishonours which is onely she by whom all our infamies are maintained and that this may bee performed by such a direct mean of wel intending that no seuere iudgemēt may attach vs of crueltie thus haue the Senat Lords of Laconia decreed that Hellen shall bee conuaid into a Caruill mastlesse sailelesse vnmand vnuittaild of all munition vnfurnished which being toaed forty leagues into the maine Ocean there be left to the mercy of the gods the seas and her own furtune if she be blameles her preseruation will be doublesse if faulty her end will be swift and without pittie how euer in vs will be nothing but the discharge of a most loyall dutie wherefore as many as loue Amphyalus wish for Amphyalus or hope for the benefite of his blessed sight throw vp their hats as a signe of consent to the execution of this noble iustice The whole assembly whose minds were variously caried vp and and downe with a desire and feare or a fearfull desire to wish nothing that might put them in feare of ensuing good fortune And euen those betwixt whose lippes yet stucke the worde of safetie to the neuer-ill deseruing Queene Hellen were so inchaunted with the plaine Rhetoricke of this honest-seeming Oration that as if all their seuerall bodies had had but one mind that mind one head that head but one tongue to vtter their cogitations cast vp their caps and cried the iudgement was excellent and not to be reuersed all be euen at the beginning of the speech scarce any two agreed one in opinion some consenting more for feare then cōscience some dissenting as much vpon will as loyaltie some to bee reputed strickt performers of Iustice some to bee thought charitable in pittying the innocent some to seeme to vnderstand deeper misteries then were hid in plaine dealing and some to picke a thankes-giuing of such as might pursue like hard fortune All in such mutinie of censures that it was impossible either to discerne Pitie Mercy or Iustice vntill the colours of this speech as alwayes the eyes of common multitude are bleared with showfull reportinges had brought them to concurre and agree in one Opinion and consent of her destruction the fearefull fearing the scourge of disobedience the wilfull willing to haue their willes performed the seuere as delighting in crueltie the charitable for a counterfaite loue to their Country the wise to be renowned for their deepnesse and the flatterers to draw to them a good opinion of well meaning which no sooner was perceiued by the most politike Queene Euronusa whose heart enkindled her braine with a fierie wisedome to see the desperate estate where-unto the ayre of wordes drewe her dearest beloued but breaking through the multitude and opposing face to face with the Nobilitie of Laconia lifting vp a well tuned voyce guarded with so reuerent a countenance of glorious Maiestie as did not onely intice but astonish the beholders drawing their attentions to a silent dumbnes she thus made answere to the former Oration You Princes Lords and Commons of Laconia let neither my presence how greatly so euer at this time inexpected nor my wordes though farre vnsutable to this voluntarie consent you haue giuen for the killing of a worthe innocent breede in you so much wonder as your inconsideracie neuer till this time knowne or attached stirreth in me an admiration beyond the compasse of common admiring the rather when I behold your grauities directed and led by the blinde eye of no reason why whither are your Noble iudgements fled till nowe the Schooles of other Nations where are your faiths where are your loues and where are your wisedomes Are all slaine with insubstantiall wordes with broken arguments and vngrounded supposes O that it were as lawfull for me to chide you as it is most necessarie for your selues in your selues to condemne your selues as blame-worthy you haue this day by your consents hurt onely Amphyalus dishonoured onely Amphyalus and adiudged to death not Hellen but in Hellen the liuing soule of Amphyalus in-so-much that if the backe-looking eye of your vnderstanding doe not recall that vnaduised euill of your too-suddaine verdite it will be too manifestly true as this Gentleman hath ouer-wel deliuered with an ill intention that your losse will bee vnspeakable your redresse vnrecouerable and no satisfaction though the sacrifices of your owne wiues and children will in the eye of the world be esteemed auailable for it is most certaine that in loosing her you loose that Prince that vertue that power that strength that wisdome that honour that Lion that Lambe and that goodnesse he hath spoke of nay that King that hade that ornament that maintenance and colombe of your safeties and more then this and more then hee or I can or haue spoken the diuine father of your kingdome sith the Sacramentall misterie of two moste intirely louing hearts co-vnited and inseparably ioyned together hath made them one flesh one spirit and one bodie so that they are not two but one creature not he Amphyalus but Hellen nor she Hellen but him you seeke to