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A18401 Andromeda liberata. Or the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda. By George Chapman. Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. 1614 (1614) STC 4964; ESTC S107688 14,373 54

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or heard That in the good thereof her scope is Sphear'd The Theban Ruler paralleling Right Who thirst of glory turnd to appetite Of inward Goodnesse was of speech so spare To heare and learne so couetous and yare That of his yeares none things so many knew Nor in his speeches ventured on so few Forth then my Lord these things euer thirst Till Scandall pine and Bane-fed enuie burst And you most noble Lady as in blood In minde be Noblest make our factious brood Whose forked tongs wold fain your honor sting Conuert their venomd points into their spring Whos 's owne harts guilty of faults faind in yours Wold fain be posting off but arme your powers With such a seige of vertues that no vice Of all your Foes Aduantage may entice To sally forth and charge you with offence But sterue within for very conscience Of that Integritie they see exprest In your cleere life Of which th'examples Rest May be so blamelesse that all past must be Being Fount to th' other most vndoubtedly Confest vntouch't and Curiositie The beame picke rather from her own squint eie Then ramp stil at the motes shade faind in yours Nought doth so shame this chimick serch of ours As when we prie long for assur'd huge prise Our glasses broke all vp in vapor flies And as the Royall Beast whose image you Beare in your armes and aires great Eagle too Sill as they goe are said to keepe in close Their seres Tallons lest their points shold lose Their vseful sharpnes when they serue no vse So this our sharp-eyd search that we abuse In others brests we should keepe in t'explore Our owne fowle bosomes and quit them before VVe ransacke others but great Ladie leaue These Rules to them they touch do you receaue Those free ioies in your honour and your Loue That you can say are yours and euer moue VVhere your comand as soon is seru'd as kown Ioyes plac't without you neuer are your owne Your Honours euer most humbly and faithfully vowd Geo. Chapman To the preiudicate and peremptory Reader I Am still in your hands but was first in his that being our great sustainer of Sincerity and Innocence will I hope defend mee from falling I thinke you know not him I intend more then you know me nor can you know mee since your knowledge is imagined so much aboue mine that it must needes ouersee He that lies on the ground can fall no lower By such as backebite the highest the lowest must looke to be de uor'd Forth with your curious Scrutinie and finde my Rush as knotty as you lust and your owne Crab-tree as smooth Twillbe most ridiculous and pleasing to sit in a corner and spend your teeth to the stumps in mumbling an ould Sparrow till your lips bleed and your eyes water when all the faults you can finde are first in your selues t' is no Herculean labor to cracke what you breed Ah las who knowes not your vttermost dimensions Or loues not the best things you would seeme to loue in deed and better Truth was neuer the Fount of Faction In whose Sphere since your purest thoughts moue their motion must of force be oblique and angulare But whatsoeuer your disease bee I know it incurable because your vrine will neuer shew it At aduenture at no hand be let blood for it but rather sooth your ranke bloods and rub one another You yet ingenuous and iudicious Reader that as you are your selfe retaine in a sound bodie as sounde a soule if your gentle tractability haue vnwares let the common surfet surprize you abstaine take Phisique heere and recouer Since you reade to learne teach Since you desire to bee reform'd reforme freely Such strokes shall bee so farre from breaking my head they shall be rich Balmes to it comfort and strengthen the braine it beares and make it healthfully neese out whatsoeuer anoies it Vale. The Argument ANdromeda Daughter of Cepheus King of Aethiopia and Cassiope a virgine exempted from cōparison in all the vertues beauties both o● minde and bodie for the enuie of Iuno to her Mother being compar'd with her for beauty and wisedome or as others write maligned by the Nereides for the eminent Graces of her selfe moued so much the Deities displeasures that they procur'd Neptune to send into the Region of Ceph●us a whale so monstrously vaste and dreadfull that all the fields he spoild and wasted all the noblest edifices tumbling to ruine the strongest citties of the kingdome not forcible enough to withstand his inuasions Of which so vnsufferable a plague Cepheus consulting with an Oracle and asking both the cause and remedie after accustomed sacrifices the Oracle gaue answer that the calamity would neuer cease till his onely daughter Andromeda was exposed to the Monster Cepheus returnd and with Iron chaines bound his daughter to a rocke before a cittie of the kingdome called Ioppe At which cittie the same time Perseus arriued with the head of Medusa c. who pittying so matchles a virgines exposure to so miserable an euent dissolu'd her chaines and tooke her from the Rock Both sitting together to expect the monster he rauenously hasting to deuoure her Perseus turndpart of him into stone through the rest made way with his sword to his vtter slaughter When holding it wreath enough for so renownd a victory He took Andromeda to wife had by her one daughter called Perse another Erythraea of whom the sea in those parts is called Mare Erythraeā since she both liued and died there and one sonne called after himselfe another Electrion a third Sthenelus and after liued Princely and happily with his wife and his owne Mother to his death Then faind for their vertues to be made Constellations in Heauen ANDROMEDA LIBERATA AWay vngodly Vulgars far away Flie ye prophane that dare not view the day Nor speake to men but shadowes nor would heare Of any newes but what seditious were Hatefull and harmefull euer to the best Whispering their scandals glorifying the rest Impious and yet gainst all ills but your owne The hotest sweaters of religion Whose poysons all things to your spleenes peruert And all streames measure by the Fount your heart That are in nought but misrule regulare To whose eyes all seeme ill but those that are That hate yee know not why nor with more cause Giue whom yee most loue your prophane applause That when Kings and their Peeres whose piercing eies Broke through their broken sleepes and policies Mens inmost Cabinets disclose and hearts Whose hands loues ballance weighing all desarts Haue let downe to them which graue conscience Charg'd with the blood and soule of Innocence Holds with her white hand when her either skole Apt to be sway'd with euery graine of Soule Her selfe swaies vp or downe to heauen or hell Approue an action you must yet conceale A deeper insight and retaine a taint To cast vpon the pure soule of a Saint Away in our milde Sphere doth nothing
nuptiall ring The monster vulgar thought and conquerd gaue The combatant already the foule graue Of their fore-speakings gaping for him stood And cast out fumes as from the Stigian flood Gainst his great enterprise which was so fit For Ioues cheefe Minion that Plebeian wit Could not conceiue it Acts that are too hie For Fames crackt voice resound all Infamie O poore of vnderstanding if there were Of all your Acts one onely that did beare Mans worthie Image euen of all your best Which truth could not discouer to be drest In your owne ends which Truths selfe not compels But couers in your bottoms sinckes and hels Whose opening would abhor the sunne to see So ye stood sure of safe deliuerie Being great with gaine or propagating lust A man might feare your hubbubs and some trust Giue that most false Epiphonem that giues Your voice the praise of gods but view your liues With eyes impartiall and ye may abhorre To censure high acts when your owne taste more Of damned danger Perseus scorn'd to feare The ill of good Acts though hel-mouth gap't there Came to Andromeda sat by and cheerd But she that lou'd through all the death she fear'd At first sight like her Louer for his sake Resolu'd to die ere he should vndertake A combat with a Monster so past man To tame or vanquish though of Ioue he wanne A power past all men els for man should still Aduance his powers to rescue good from ill Where meanes of rescue seru'd and neuer where Ventures of rescue so impossible were That would encrease the danger two for one Expose to Ruine Therefore she alone Would stand the Monsters Fury and the Shame Of those harsh bands for if he ouercame The monstrous world would take the monsters part ●o much the more and say some sorcerouse art Not his pure valour nor his Innocence Preuail'd in her deliuerance her offence Would still the same be counted for whose ill The Land was threatned by the Oracle The poisoned Murmures of the multitude Rise more the more desert or power obtrude Against their most sayd he come I the more Vertue in constant sufferance we adore Nor could death fright him for he dies that loues And so all bitternesse from death remoues He dies that loues because his euery thought Himselfe forgot in his belou'd is wrought If of himselfe his thoughts are not imploy'd Nor in himselfe they are by him enioy'd And since not in himselfe his minde hath Act The mindes act chiefly being of thought compact Who workes not in himselfe himselfe not is For these two are in man ioynt properties To worke and Be for Being can be neuer But Operation is combined euer Nor Operation Being doth exceed Nor workes man where he is not still his deed His being consorting no true Louers minde He in himselfe can therefore euer finde Since in himselfe it workes not if he giues Being from himselfe not in himselfe he liues And he that liues not dead is Truth then said That whosoeuer is in loue is dead If death the Monster brought then he had laid A second life vp in the loued Mayd And had she died his third life Fame decreed Since death is conquer'd in each liuing deed Then came the Monster on who being showne His charmed sheild his halfe he turn'd to stone And through the other with his sword made way Till like a ruin'd Cittie dead he lay Before his loue The Neirids with a shrieke And Syrens fearfull to sustaine the like And euen the ruthlesse and the sencelesse Tide Before his howre ran roring terrifi'd Backe to their strength wonders and monsters both With constant magnanimitie like froth Sodainely vanish smother'd with their prease No wonder lasts but vertue which no lesse We may esteeme since t' is as seldome found Firme sincere and when no vulgar ground Or flourish on it fits the vulgar eye Who viewes it not but as a prodegie Plebeian admiration needes must signe All true-borne Acts or like false fires they shine If Perseus for such warrant had contain'd His high exploit what honour had he gain'd Who would haue set his hand to his designe But in his skorne skorne censures things diuine True worth like truth sits in a groundlesse pit And none but true eyes see the depth of it Perseus had Enyos eye and saw within That grace which out-lookes held a desperate sin He for it selfe with his owne end went on And with his louely rescu'd Paragon Long'd of his Conquest for the latest shocke Dissolu'd her chaines and tooke her from the rocke Now woing for his life that fled to her As hers in him lay Loue did both confer To one in both himselfe in her he found She with her selfe in onely him was crownd While thee I loue sayd he you louing mee In you I finde my selfe thought on by thee And I lost in my selfe by thee neglected In thee recouer'd am by thee affected The same in me you worke miraculous strange Twixt two true Louers is this enterchange For after I haue lost my selfe if I Redeeme my selfe by thee by thee supply I of my selfe haue if by thee I saue My selfe so lost thee more then me I haue And neerer to thee then my selfe I am Since to my selfe no otherwise I came Then by thee being the meane In mutuall loue One onely death and two reuiuals moue For he that loues when he himselfe neglects Dies in himselfe once In her he affects Straight he renewes when she with equall fire Embraceth him as he did her desire Againe he liues too when he surely seeth Himselfe in her made him O blessed death Which two liues follow O Commerce most strange Where who himselfe doth for another change Nor hath himselfe nor ceaseth still to haue O gaine beyond which no desire can craue When two are so made one that either is For one made two and doubled as in this Who one life had one interuenient death Makes him distinctly draw a two fold breath In mutuall Loue the wreake most iust is found When each so kill that each cure others wound But Churlish Homicides must death sustaine For who belou'd not yeelding loue againe And so the life doth from his loue deuide Denies himselfe to be a Homicide For he no lesse a Homicide is held That man to be borne lets then he that kild A man that is borne He is bolder farre That present life reaues but he crueller That to the to-be borne enuies the light And puts their eyes out ere they haue their sight All good things euer we desire to haue And not to haue alone but still to saue All mortall good defectiue is and fraile Vnlesse in place of things on point to faile We daily new beget That things innate May last the languishing we re'create ●n generation re'creation is And from the prosecution of this Man his instinct of generation takes Since generation in continuance makes Mortals similitudes of powers diuine Diuine worth doth in