greefe vpon gréefe Vnto a wofull hart that grones Thou hast incurred displeasure of thy friend Lewis I meane will sure reuenge the same Fond man I did presume a note too hie And if I did yet Lewis doe thou impute This fréendles fault to loues blinded folly That may not be for Fredericke did amisse And therefore shame doth bid mee flie Farewell Lewis though I be forced to shunne Fredrick repents who first the fact begunne A mournfull Dittie for the Death of Calipolis C Come mournfull Muses shed your teares Come grone you Graces three A And courtly Dames hang downe your heads to mourne amaine with mee L Lend Driades boughes bring pleasant sproutes to decke thys Tombe withall I In heauenly sort come Satyrs sing sith death this wight did call P Paint foorth her shrine Dianas Nimphes embaulme her with the sweetest flowers O On euery corner let Poets write these words Both Prince and Pesant death deuours L Like to the glorious flower that growes all creatures are on earth I In cropping it the flower dies thus doe we lose our breath S So all things liuing soone decayes But the grace of God doth last alwayes Héere will I leaue Fredericke and returne to Lewis who hauing heard newes of the death of that sweete Calipolis entered into these speeches Vnfortunate Lewis the most vnfortunate of all men because more distressed then any straine floodes of teares distill them downe thy chéekes let scalding sighes be portion of sad lament thou louedst her well and therefore maist lament thou heldest her deere and therefore maist thou grieue Griefes sobs and sighes compound in one bewaile her death that now is dead and gone gone yea shée is gone and with her goes my ioy life lingers but a space Why leytereth death sith I desire to die for life is irksome and I loth it I. Ah now I see that I haue often heard a dog hath his day tides obserue time and all liuing creatures are tyed to a decorum The Cedar tree is shaken with the Northen blasts as well as the smallest willow shrubs The more beautifull flower soonest eyther parched with Sommers heate or infected with Caterpillers The Heban blossoms open with the dewe and shutte with the Sunne the leaues of Licoris when it is most wettest without is then most dryest within the smoother streame the deeper water a hote sunne-shine fore-tells a shower The playing of the Porpos prognosticates a fatall disparagement the purest die the most subiect to staynes the brightest blossome the soonest blasted the ripest fruite the quickliest rotten Euery plant hath his spring and euery Tree is subiect to his fall The Cherry is first gréene but comming to a more gay collour is suffered to grow no longer the smallest hayre hath his shadow and the meane shrub beareth a shade All trées florish not that are grafted in February some perrish with the frost in May and blast before they bud euery thing of what nature soeuer keepes obseruation of times Time past cannot be recalled backe shee is deade quoth hee and there-with gaue a sigh with the water stealing downe his cheekes The pride of all that euer Nature made the beauty of which bright shining Antiphofix is shadowed not with obscure night but dismall death Might acts of Chiualrie quoth he attaine to recall her to life or a world of farre-fetched wealth might preuaile to procure the same I would aduaunce my shielde plume my Crest comfort my neuer daunted hart with Alexander eyther to bée Monarch or turne the world to a ruinated Chaos otherwise attempt with Pellecretio to rippe the bowels of the sole worlde from Archypelligon right vnder Capricorne to Causaro fire burning Tropica Or els if phisicke might but be a meanes I would with Aesculapius séeke out the sence although seauentie seauen yéeres I studied for the same But all in vaine I breathe these sadde laments not all the tongues in the world can call the dead to life againe therefore Lewis resolue thy selfe aswage those follies loue hath bredde in thy breast and sith the Fates determined her death send for Mountgramet the actor of so foule a deede comfort thy selfe and cut off his dayes Now will I leaue Lewis resolued to reuenge her death vpon Mountgramet and returne to Mountgramet who hearing it muttered about as such a tale will flie about a towne and ring in euery ones eare like a saint bell that the King tooke great displeasure at the death of Calipolis and meant with all speede to seaze vpon his goods and depriue him of his life which bred such a terror in his hart that t was no boote to bid him flie fell into these spéeches Ah Mountgramet quoth hee wiping away the teares that gushed from his eyes Asses biey danse aqui fortune chante happie is that man on whom Fortune smiles and better vnborne then alwaies to liue in care ouer-cloyed with griefe The â—ath of Calipolis flieth like winged Pegasus or Swallowes in 〈◊〉 sun-shine day and Lewis hath vowed my death whether shal I flye nay if I flâ—e I loose my goods a guilty conscience doth bewray it selfe but life is déere therfore farewel all my wealth and welcome woe begun so farewell Fraunce and Paris thrise adew Adue those heapes of gold in which I ioyed most and last sweet friends with whom I vsed to feast adue those floods of teares I breathe my last farewell Hart swells and swelling bursts bursting breaths you all a sad lamenting adue Fraunce in thée I gladly would stay and staied might had I not beene forlorne had Calipolis liued then might I haue liued in France but she is dead and therefore all adiew Mountgramet knowing that tyde stayeth no man and the Marriner that hoyses not sayles at a good winde may be forst to cast anchor ere he be aware then comes an after wish presently committed the sequell of his fortune to the sea where I le leaue him and returne to Calipolis who beeing in the Dezart woods within the Prouince of Denmarke began as followeth Ah Calipolis far from thy friends now breath thy plaints Yée constant wiues that loue your husbands well And dote vpon the fauor of so sweete a man Bedew your cheekes with teares from Christall eyes And let them drop as Nilus Egipt ouer-flowes Yee pretty Birds that pleasure in your mates Let me intreate yée mourne amaine with mee Héere 's multitudes of silly chattering Fowles Doe hang their heads and eccho dolefull tunes Cease of ye Compartners of my discontent Calipolis hath cause and none but shee must mourne Shall I rehearse my pleasure past in Fraunce Or thinke vpon the gold I harbored in my chest No no Calipolis that addeth sorrow to a dying soule And heapes more griefe vpon a hart that groanes What shall I speake of pleasures that enioyeth payne Or talke of gold that wants to buy mee foode Ah no let sorrow be the sequill of my tale And mournefull sighing daily be my song Come cruell Fates and cut me
short Life is loathsome and I liue too long Calipolis had not rested a while but Fortune began to smile on her to thys effect Frederick King of Denmarke being come out of Fraunce passing thorowe the woode was espied on Calipolis attired like a Page who amazed at the beauty of the youth stoode for a space in a dumpe but at last began as followeth Frederick What wofull wight is that forlorne Doth fill my hart with ecchoes of his plaints Calipolis Randall a haples youth of Fraunce Frederick It greeues my hart to see so swéet a youth Of age so tender yet ouer-growne with griefe Speake Randall whether doost thou trauell Calipolis Euen whether my Fortune wills I should Fred. The more I gaze the more I grieue to see The sweetest face that ere my eyes beheld Much questioning addes greefe vnto his hart Come Randall thou shalt hence with mee Thy beauty bindes my hart to fauour thee Randall thou shalt be bed-made with my selfe Randall turning his head aside in this manner Ah that same newes is worse then all the rest Now Randall looke aboue t is best Pardon dread King I am a poore mans sonne Therefore vnfit to be your Highnes bed-mate Frederick I force not of thy birth beautie makes thee loued for wert thou a woman I would make thée a Queene Calipolis Ah now I doubt I am betraied dread Soueraigne quoth she vpon her knees graunt mee one request tending to this effect Randall hath vowed till his returne to Fraunce neuer to sleepe but on his mother earth then grant thys fauour â—â—acious Prince Frede. The many fauours in thy louely face hath graft afâ—ection in my tender hart that diddst thou aske my Diademe it could not be denyed Calipolis Then Randall is bound to pray for Fredericks life After much more prattle had which I haue shortned for breuitie sake they both departed towards the Danish Court the ioy Frederick conceiued in finding so gallant a Youth I omit to the Readers censure and how Fortune hauing wrapped Calipolis in the fouldes of her deitie did highly fauor her shall after follow Now let vs come to Mountgramet who hauing escaped the frownes of Aeolus the dangers of Neptune the raging blasts of Boreas the Destenies so plotted his course that intending to haue landed in Spaine hee was set ashore in Denmarke Then he suspected the Fates had decreed the fall of his fortune and the end of his dayes yeelded himselfe to the remnant of Fortunes pleasure beginning in thys manner I knowe quoth hee the Gods are offended with me for so foule a fact and therefore hath charactered some fatall disparagement in the furrowes of my face for when I thinke on that harmlesse Calipolis a certaine grieuing of the flesh betwraying a guiltie conscience ouer-cleies my feeble hart I looke like a condemned man at the place of execution my culler changeth to a blood red for telling the murther I consented to nay commaunded or chiefest committed Therefore Mountgramet content thee with what calamities soeuer the Gods crosse thee withall for their cruellest doome is thy due desert thou hast doone to death with that the teares gushed out so fast that he could hardly speake a word the pryde of all Dianas sprouts Was shée not fayre as are the Swans that on Meander swim was shee not louely as faire Dido the Carthage Queene was she not constant as Silera was chast as fayre Diana was is she a Polip in change no a Diamond in all her deeds No reason then that she should dye But foolish iealousie inforced me to the fact a fact most heinous to the world vnpardonable of Gods and men the death of her who alwayes loued thee well too passing well but that was quite forgot Iniurious man me thinks these silly chattering birds cryes for reuenge each bush that shakes dooth make me steppe aside and since the dismall houre of her vntimely death Phoebus is shrouded vnder a cloude Sol denyes her euening shine Aurora in obscure darknes showes his face and all things reuersant turnes to an obscurity After he had thus bewailed his present misery a space hee shifted his wearied steps towards the Danish Court hauing neyther company nor hope of good comfort to driue away bitter conceits he framed this sorrowfull Sonnet The Sonnet YE wofull wights that swimmes in restlesse paine Yee haplesse men that sorrow doe sustaine Shedde forth your teares and mourne a while with mee Whom spightfull Fates hath crost with cruelty Sometimes in Fraunce I lyued in great ioy Nere tasted griefe nor felt such hard anoy All things I had that hart could once request My credit sprung and florished with the best Till Fortune Goddesse of each secrete thought Within few yeeres thus hatefully hath wrought For which fact with bleeding hart I grone The death of her who now is dead and gone Fond conceited Iealousie an enemy to delight Was cause that wrought on mee this cruell spight I was her death that loued mee more then life Constant Calipolis my deere and faithfull wife Hard was my hap to seeke her wofull end That was to me so sweet approued friend Yee cruell Fates the causers of this ill Come spet your spight my silly hart to kill If hatefull hell affords more cruell smart Then Death possesse my inward troubled hart For better t is that I forth-with should die Then liue on earth and want her companie Vnhappy was the time the day the howre That turn'd my sweet to such a lothsome sowre Well may I wish the man to liue in paine Of ceaselesse torments neuer ease to gaine That first by Art presented to my sight The view of that which still afflicts my sprite But more accursed be that caitiue slaue Which hath perform'd the charge I rashly gaue And if the Gods haue any plague in store Neuer yet heard of or made knowne before Where-with they meane to men shall be exprest How much the fact of murder they detest Let it for vengeance fall vpon his head That others may by his example dread Cease cease Mountgramet for thy wish is vaine He was thy seruant thou didst him constraine And causelesse curse like arrowe shot vpright Returning downe on thine owne head will light Therefore sith I my selfe haue done the wrong I wish reuenge on my commaunding tongue I wish the fiends to vomit vp their fill And at their pleasure worke on me their will Both Fates and fiends full sore I did offend In cruell sort her guiltlesse life to end I know t were vaine a pardon for to craue Of all the Gods which no remorse will haue Whilst here I liue I looke for nought but paine And after life in hell for to remaine Where multitudes of wicked murthering wights Tormented are in damned wofull plights All pleasures packe and welcome woe begun Sighing shall be my song all merry notes are done And still in teares lament my foule offence Till Death doe strike and I must needs goe hence Hauing ended this
yet haue I vowed my selfe to the contrary as constant to my Mountgramet as euer that fayre Dido was to her Vlisses and rather shall the running streames of Exanthoes recoyle or the world turne to a Chaos whence it came then will Calipolis once falcifie her faith to Mountgramet Solinar frying in loue like the Salamander in Aetnas flames taking her by the hand beganne as followeth By your leaue Mistris giue me leaue to reply Windes often vary and who resembles them but women Baltager breathing it out like a Braggart thus said Sirra who gaue you authoritie to make comparisons t were not amisse to make thee eate thy words or with my ponyard thrust them downe thy throate Whilst thus they were at controuersie trying each others title in loue Fredericke King of Denmarke being lately come to the Court of Fraunce accompanied with King Lewis fortuned to behold this heauie aspect wondring what it should prognesticate insomuch that entring somewhat neerer King Lewis began in this manner Base pesants auoyde our presence and get you packing With that they both departed with mickle sorrow fetching many a heauy sight but marke what after happened Loue that respects no difference of state kinled such flames in Fredericks breast that hanging downe his heade towards the earth not a merry word for a million he stood all a mort Then Lewis whose loue did ballance Fredericks affection plucking vp a small courage from a conquered hart taking Frederick by the hand fell to these words It seemes my Lord the blinded boy hath played the wagge with you in loue at the first looke if he haue escaped Lewis thou art stung Can beautie bring you to such a bane that is but a bauin blast Hebay blossoms that open with the dew and shut with the sunne Roses garded with prickles flowers subiect to the Northerne blasts the beautifull blossoms in Parthia that perish in their prime or the apples of Tantalus that touched turne to ashes the comly skinne that clothes the hatefull Snake the Box tree whose leafes are alwaies gréene and the seedes poyson abollish this fond determination extend the Tyrant out by force for entring at the eye it harbors at the hart loue is more perrilous then precious affording delight with desire but death with deniall Lewis beeing wringed with the same shoe was presently strooke with a contrary obiect in thys manner In amour il ny ade fauta why rage I beyond reason she is beautiful and therefore worthy to be loued shée is comely and deserues to be accounted on How now Lewis hath loue turned thy launce to a Poets penne to paynt out thy passions is Armour turned to amor What is Mars able to resist Iupiter and not to with stand beauty is it Venus must were the Target and Mars the distaffe Omphale handle the Club and Hercules the Spindell must Alexander crouch and Campaspe looke coy this verifies the old prouerbe to be true women will rule in loue howe euer men are lustie in courage no dignitie is able to resist Cupids deitie Loue enters by seeing women and works not by hearing their words therefore seeing Cupid must be obeyed I am content to bow Nullis herbis amor est medicabilis So fetching a sigh began to say my Lord there is one thing on the suddaine greatly troubles me which is this that both you and I shoulde ioyne our harts in such vnlooked for passions Not so my Lorde sayd Fredericke I hope you doe but iest Iest said he nay would I did then were my griefes the lesse Nere grieue my Lorde quoth Frederick for sith the cause is such to ioyne our harts in such a simpathy all enuy set aside let vs agree to yeelde to each others fortune in our choyce Content sayde Lewis and wh◠so ere befall shake handes my Lorde and Fortune thriue a◠all Thus after much prattle they concluded that Lewis should giue her the first onset who taking her by the hand beganne as followeth Mistres of my harts sole affection brighter then siluered Luna or Sol amidst his Horizon shee whom the Gods hath appointed to ransack my entralls and robed me of my hart it were enlesse to rehearse the inward griefe I haue sustayned since I fixed mine eyes on that admirable Comet whose beautifull rayes staineth stately Iuno in Samos or Diana in Delos Minerua in Athens It were vaine to boast of Sibillas beautie or Egipts fayre Isius Cassandra Troyans pride bright Penelope or Romish Cornelia Sabo shunne to shewe thy face Lucrecia lurke Hebe blush Sephronia stoope Sapho knéele and Laura yéeld the pride of beauty to this blazing lampe whose rayes hath kinled fire in my breast Calipolis hauing listened to the Syrens song and cloyed her eares with the praises of her beautie armouring herselfe with the plated coate of constancie in this maner broke him from his vaine similitudes I beséech your Maiestie if the earnest entreatie of a poore Merchants wife may molifie your hart or the teares of a constant Spouse may desire your fauour vpon my knées grant me liberty to speake for a womans tongue is her best defence quoth she Lewis that was so stung with loue that had she asked his Diademe it could not haue béene denied granted her liberty who framed her spéech in this sort Dread Soueraigne the scandalist reproch that can befall a woman is to bée stayned with the infamous blotte of disloyaltie and more welcome to me is the newes of death then the name of Concubine to a King were it the Monarch of the world and more quoth shée what might Mountgramet thinke of mée how would the Quéene your bedde-mate looke on mée to see a Pesant borne possesse the place of a Princes Pardon dread King your request extends to such defamation that I rather desire death then lyfe if it stand not with your liking vnlesse you extinguish this laciuious loue and set me at liberty King Lewis being impatient because perplexed in minde to heare such a cooling carde began as followeth Heauenly Iuno quoth he Dianas branch fedde with Pallas paps it forceth not what Isabella saith what Mountgramet coniectures Lewis is a King and may commaund and more to requite thy loue if Isabella die I le gyrt thy temples with a Diadem brighter thē the morning starre more precious then the Carcanet the Emerald Rubie or the Carbuncle the Onix Saphir and the Christolet the Topace Iasper and the Adamant Calipolis not respecting these large proffers cut him of in this manner quoth she who liues to weare a dead mans shooes I haue heard it saide may gaule his féete with going bare-foote Lewis replied admit sayd he I make thée Quéene and banish Isabella I sayd she so to gaine a Crowne might heape a thousand cares vpon my head therefore swéete Prince quoth shée were it to beare Atlas burden on my backe to roule the restlesse stone with Siciphus I would rest at your commaund rather then to impeach my honest name with any title of
defamation Lewis séeing neither spéech nor proffers would preuaile gaue ouer with a kinde salute hoping in time to attaine the top of his desire With that Calipolis dooing her dutie departed All this while stoode Fredericke in a passionate dumpe not able to vtter a word for a world of wealth After her depart hee began as followeth How farre hath nature wrought beyond her skill in framing such a Saint as all the Artists in the world cannot proportion Apelles nere pictured the like in Gréece though Alexander did him so commend Timantes counterfeits are counterfeite to this Lisippus skill cannot preuaile a iote Pigmalion would haue loued the shadow of thys Saint Perillis adored the grounde shée goes vpon and Alexander honoured farre aboue the counterfeit of Campaspe After he had thus warbled foorth a multitude of prayses they both consented to return to the Court Lewis béeing passionate entred his Chamber of Presence but Fredericke frying in loues vnquenchable flame made returne to finde out the Merchant and méeting him where time and place gaue oportunity he broke forth into these speeches Mountgramet quoth he what is the greatest scandall belonging vnto a married man Mountgramet amazed wherfore the King should vtter such speeches replyed in this maner sith your grace doth permit me liberty to speake may it stande with your gracious liking in my conceit the greatest scandall can befall a man is to haue his wife play false True said the King and it greeueth me thy selfe art tainted with the same and to shew thee further testis looke in this glasse in which thou mayst behold Calipolis and two contending who first shall graffe the horne After King Lewis had shewed this same by Magicke spells he departed leauing Mountgramet murmuring at his wiues disloyaltie who fell to these speeches Ah Mountgramet stab thy selfe to end thy griefe griefe newe begunne nowe gins my hart to faynt Ah Calipolis vnconstant Calipolis I alwayes thought thee true till now the proofe too apparantly is made Who might for beauty once haue bragged with mee Calipolis exceeded all in beauties brightnes til now that Lampe is darkned with inconstancie Phoebus beames are eclipsed with winter stormes siluered Luna is curtained with an obscure clowde the prickles hath ouer-sprung the Rose the Iuory Lilly turned from rarest white to Rauens black And to bee briefe Dianas chastitie is stained with disloialtie Ah how I proue the saying true The hollow Tree is a hiue for the Hornet Bées haue stings Fountaines haue Toades and on the greenest trées are Caterpillers found the Siren sweetly sings the Saylers wrack 〈◊〉 Crocodile the Fishers woe the Hienna when she mournes 〈◊〉 â—hen most guilefull the Tygar is cruell although hee hides his clawes Vnconstant Calipolis the glory of whose face deckt with a vermillion blush did first trans-forme mine adamant eyes to amorous loue in conceit stayning Venus for beautie beeing much fayrer and Pallas for wisedome beeing more wittie but nowe shee hath prooued herselfe as neere Pallas in witte as Vulcan Mars in property and as farre from Venus in beautie as Baucis Iuno in maiestie And to conclude in quantitie shee â—esembled the Camelion héerein the olde Prouerb is amâ—lified Euery Venus hath her temple and well may Vulcan mock but Mars shall enter in Mountgramet impatient at this hard aspect could not paciâ—â—â— himselfe but protested that death should guerdon her misdéedes So calling out one Anthony after many teares hée vttered these words Anthony knowing thée to be a faythfull seruant and such a one as within whose breast I may shroude my secrets I will the bolder participate the summe of all which tendeth to this effect Anthony quoth he the Scaraba flyes ouer many a swéet flower and lights on a Cowshard it is the custome of the flye to leaue the sound place of the horse and pick at the botch the manner of Coloquintida to drawe the worst humours to it selfe the order of Swine to forsake the faire fields and wallowe in the myre euen so did I in my youth forsake many constant Silerias and made choyce of a dissembling Demaphon who hath playde with me as the deceitfull Phisition doth in giuing swéet sirrops to make his poyson goe downe the smoother The Iuglar casteth a mist before mens eyes to doe his sleights the closer the Sirens song is the Saylers wracke the Fowlers whistle the birds death the wholesome bayte the Fishes bane the Harpies haue virgines faces the Vultures talents Hienna speakes like a friend and deuoures like a foe the calmest seas hides dangerous rocks the Woolfe iets in Weathers fells who would haue thought Epius horse should haue harboured the destruction of Troy the Sepulcher Simiramis whose tytle promiseth wealth to the Kings of Persia and is nothing but rotten bones the golden ball that Nero did consecrate to Iupiter Captolinus stuffed with the shauings of his beard Imagine with thy selfe Anthony is not this Circes cup able to turne a reasonable creature to a brute beast the fact is odious and therefore vnpardonable and to be briefe death shall quittance her misdéeds And thus to haue it brought closely to passe thou shalt accompany her thy selfe to Silia my Minor house there when thou hast her in those craggy Woods where heapes of trees may hide so foule a deede there cut her short from life From life nay let her liue perhaps she may recant recant no often haue I heard it sayd Bred in the bone will neuer out of the flesh Therefore resolue thy selfe she shall dye With that Anthony hearing his Maysters resolution beganne in thys manner Good Maister quoth hee there is no stone so hard but rayne in time dooth pierce therefore pardon the first fault perrish not the branch in his pryme blast not the bud beeing ready to blossome no doubt but good counsell may cause such a recantation as no Northeren blash whatsoeuer can once blemish the beauty of that branch the Camelion will turne to the Diamond so shall you not onely liue in content but receaue such extraordinary comfort as your selfe can wish or in any wise desire to haue This friendly saying of Anthony could nothing allay the rancor setled in his breast but hee brake foorth in this manner The common people often times are more afrayd of the serpent that is hidden in the grasse then the wilde beast that openly feedes vpon the Mountaynes the Marriner is more endangered by priuy she liues then knowne rocks the Souldier sooner killed with a small bullet then a long sword there is more perrill in close Fistulaes then outward sores in secrete ambushes then maine battels in vndermining then in playne assaulting in friends then foes in ciuill discord then forraine warres But tush tall Cedars from little graines shall shutte high great Oakes from slender rootes spread wide large streames from narrow springs runne farre One little sparke fiers a whole Citty one dram of Eliborus doth ransack euery vaine the fish Remora hath a small body and great force to stay