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Ouidius Naso his Remedie of love. Translated and intituled to the youth of England; Remedia amoris. English
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; F. L., fl. 1600.
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his last foote slow or swift doth proue The legicke sings of loue and archerie With shafts such as from louers eyes do roue And with her louer wantonly doth play And sweetly speake and plead implore and pray 99 Achilles honor shines not in the verse Of Cyrens Muse where sports do better proue And stately Homer thou must not reherse Cydippe young Acontius deerest loue Who can endure Andromache should play The sports of Thais and her wanton lay 100. Who acteth Thais wrongs Andromache One person cannot fit him to both parts But I will play that part and Thais be Our sports are libertines free are our hearts Sith then all shame we banish from our verse Thais is mine I will her part rehearse 101. If then my lines do fit a wantons lay Gnawe thine owne gall fonde enuy hold thy peace For we haue wonne the lasting crowne of bay And cleerd the blame wherein we did displease Breake enuie breake in thine owne foule despite For we haue got renowne and glory bright 102. For still with honour fames desire doth grow But at the foote of this high climing hill My weary Steeds do pant and faintly goe As much to vs by their according will Our Elegies confesse to vs they owe As from his worke to Virgill praise doth flowe FINIS ¶ An exposition of the Poeticall examples mentioned in this first Booke of the Remedie of Loue. TYDIDES That is Diomedes the son of Tydeus Deiphiles he was the most strong valiant of all the Greekes except Achilles Aiax he wounded Venus in the right haÌ„d whiles shee defended Aeneas yea also Mars the God of warre her Paramour Achilles in a conflict wouÌ„ded Telephus king of Missia who denyed passage to the Grecians through his kingdome bound for the siege of Troy of which when no remedie could be found he receiued from an Oracle that hee could not otherwise be healed but by the same Speare wherwith he was wouÌ„ded Afterwards therfore being reconciled to Achillis he obtained that he might make an emplaster of the rust thereof and so was restored to his perfect health Phillis Lycurgus daughter who entertained Demophoön returning from the Troian warre admitted him to her bed with coÌ„dition that assoone as he had ordered his home-affayres he should returne againe and marry her But he being detained by vrgent occasions and staying longer then the appointed time shee hanged her selfe and gaue an ende to her loue and life in one instant Dido How she after Aeneas departed froÌ„ her fayning a sacrifice burned her selfe it is too vulgar to be repeated Troians A people of Asia Medea The daughter of Aeta king of Cholcos she entertayned Iason in his expeditioÌ„ for the GoldeÌ„ fleece which she taught him how to win and after sled away with him married him and bare vnto him two sonnes Afterwards she was forsaken by him who tooke vnto his second wife Creusa the daughter of Creon King of Corinth which Medea tooke so greeuously that artificially enclosing fire in a Forcet sent it vnto her for a token with which shee and the Pallace before day was burnt vp Herewith Iason being enflamed ran forth to be reuenged on her but she seeing him comming tooke vp her two sonnes which he begate on her and in their fathers sight murthered them by cutting their throates and then through her witchcraft she was taken vp into the Clowdes and so went vnto Athens Tereus Philomela Tereus hauing rauished Philomela who went to see her sister Progne whom he had married that his sinne might not be disclosed he cut off her tongue and imprisoned her but being a cunning work woman she wrote the whole processe of her iniury in an handkercheffe and sent it to her sister who in reuenge thereof killed her owne sonne Itys and gaue his flesh boyled rosted vnto her husband to eate vnto whom after he had wel fed thereon she presented the childes head wherat he being angry followed his wife to haue slaine her but she was turned into a Nightingale he into that bird which the Latines cal Vpupa and some falsly translate a Lapwing Pasiphae The wife of Mirios who being in loue with a Bull by the helpe of Dedalus her Bawde found out a way how she might lie with him yea she coÌ„ceiued brought out a Minotaure which was half a maaÌ„ half a Bull which being enclosed in the Labyrinth was after slain by Theseus Phaedra Wife to Theseus who falsly accused Hippolitê° his sonne of whoredome because hee would not satisfie her lust in lying with her and so wrought his death Hee is not I thinke that hath not heard how Paris king Priamus his sonne of Troy stole Hellen from Greece how the Graecians which are a people of Europe in reuenge after 10. yeeres siege destroyed Troy called also by the name of Pergamus wherefore we will ease our margeant of this tedious note Scylla daughter to Nisus who falling in loue with Minos her fahers enemie cut off his goldeÌ„ hayre and presented him therewith thinking by this great argument of her loue to win his grace but he though by her meanes he ouercame her father hated so much her impietie that hee vtterly refused her and she throwing her selfe into the sea at his departure to swimme after him was turned into the bird Ciris a Larke Ouid. Prophet that is Apollo whom Poets doe make their God hence are they crowned with Lawrell which tree is consecrated to him hee also for his skill in the natures of hearbes is recorded for the inuenter or finder out of that most necessary Art of Physicke Myrrha the daughter of Cinarus king of Cyprus who desiring her fathers companie by the deuice of her Nurse enioyed her filthie lust and was deliuered of Adonis which when her father knew he would haue slayne her but she flying from his fury was turned into a tree of that name which euermore weepeth as it were and lamenteth her impietie Paeantius sonne that is Philoctetes the companioÌ„ of Hercules who after his death enioyed his arrowes and being drawne to the Troian warre by the fall of one of them was wounded in his foote which grew to be almost incureable for which cause he was left behind in the I le of Lemnos after by Vlisses was fetcht vnto Troy which being sackt he went into Calabria where Machaon restored him to health Cupid the sonne of Venus Loues archer c. Parthian a people of Asia in auncient times the most earnest enemies of the Romans they excelled in shooting which they so vesd in flight that they more endamaged their foes thereby then by any handy conflict and yet defended themselues also Of which Iustine lib. 41. Fugam sepe simulant vt incautiores aduersus vulnera insequentes habeant paulo post Plerumque in ipso ardore certamini praelia deserunt paulo post pugnam fugam repetunt cum maximè vicisse te putes tunc tibi discrimen subeundum est
the soueraigntie to thee Thou leauest things full made thou seekest new to make To search about for Lands vnfound Land found thou doest forsake But graunt the land thou finde to thee who will it giue Why will the soyle to straungers yeeld whereon themselues do liue Thou must an other Loue An other Dido finde And which againe thou maist vndo An other promise binde When wilt thou into forme a Towne like Carthage bring And from thy Pallace top behold thy subiects as their King If all things else succeed and nothing crosse thy minde What place will euer yeeld to thee a wife to thee so kinde For I like waxen torch in Sulphur rold do burne Each day each night Aeneas makes vnto my thoughts returne Vnthankfull he indeed And deafe to what I giue And such as were I not a foole I would without him liue Yet though his thoughts be ill I hate him not therefore Complaine I do of his vntroath complaining Loue therefore Thy daughter Venus spare thy brother hard embrace O brother Loue within thy Campe point him a Souldiers place Or me who first began for Loue I not disdaine Let him but onely subiect yeeld to this my carefull paine But ah I am beguilde his bostes are bosted lyes Of mothers line from mothers kinde in all his course he flyes Thee some vnwieldie stone or Rockey Mountaines bred Or oakes which on high rocks do grow or beasts by Rauen fed Or Sea with windes turmoild as now thou seest it sho Yet thitherward art ready bent in spight of waues to go What mean'st thou winter le ts let winters suite preuaile See with what force the Easterne blasts the rolling waues assaile Since windes and waters do then thou more iustice showe Let me what more to thee I would to winde and waters owe. I am not so much worth which sure thou dost not thinke That while on Seas from me thou flyest thy selfe in Seas shouldst shrinke Thou precious hatred bear'st and pearst exceeding hie If so thou mayst of me be rid thou count it cheape to die The windes their windie force anon will lay aside And Triton will with Azure steeds On leueld waters glide Now would the gods as they so thou couldst chaunged be Thou wilt vnles thy hardnesse do far passe the hardest tree What if of furious Seas the force thou didst not know Which tride so oft and found so ill yet still to sea wilt go And though they serue at will when thou dost Anchors way Yet in so long a voyage chaunce no fewe mischaunces may And sure to crosse the Seas small fruite faith-breakers gaine That place on false deceiuers doth inflict their falshoods paine But most when Loue is wrongd for why of Loue the Dame First naked out of watrie waues about Cythera came Least hurt who hurteth me vndone vndo I shall I feare and least by wrack on seas In seas my foes shall fall Liue so I better shall then thee by death destroy Thou of my death not I of thine the Title shall enioy Suppose a whirlwinde swift God make these words but winde Catch thee vnwares what courage thē what thoughts will passe thy minde Loe straight with falshood fraught thy periur'd tongue appeares And Dido driuen by Troians guile of life to short her yeares Of thy betraied wife will stand before thy sight The Image sad disheneiled with bleeding wounds bedight Let come then wilt thou say I haue deseru'd this all And bent at thee thou wilt suppose what euer lightnings fall Both seas and thou do rage let both and breathing take This small delay no small reward thy Iourney safe shall make For thee my care is least thy childe let spared be Thou hast the glory of my death sufficient that for thee What hath thy little sonne what hath thy gods deseru'd That them the waters swallow should from fyers force preseru'd But false thou hast no such as me thy brags haue told Nor euer didst on shoulders lift thy gods and father old Thou lyest in this and all thy tongue his guilefull part Begins not first on me to play nor I first feele the smart Aske where the mother is of faire Iulus gone Her stonie husband her forsooke and so she died alone It pittied me to heare which iust recompence For me had bene but that such paine is lesse then mine offence That thee thy gods condemne my heart doth me assure Who seuen yeares now on land on seas such tossing doest endure I thee by wrack vpthrow'n in harbour sure did saue And scarcely hauing heard thy name to thee my Kingdome gaue O would with these good turnes I me content had found And that in famous fame of mine were buried deepe in ground That day my woe was wrought when vnder stooping bower Of mossie denne we met alone compeld by sodaine shower Some howling sounds I heard the Nymphs I thought did so They Furyes were who in that sort foretold my fatall woe Chast Law of shamefast Loue reuenge on me this blame Ill to Sicheus kept to whom aye me I go with shame Whose sacred Image I in marble Chappell keepe With leauie branches hid from sight and wooll of whitest sheepe Hence thrice I heard me cald I knew his well knowne voyce Himselfe thrice sayd Come Dido Come with softly wispring noyse I come without delay which once was onely thine Yet me the more to linger makes this shamefull fact of mine But pardon thou my fault whose deed might well deceaue To others he in mine offence the lesse offence doth leaue His mother heauens Impe his sire a godly lode Vnto his sonne by reason bred sure hope of his abode If needs I must haue er'd mine error had good ground Put faith in him he no way els vnworthy shall be found My faults to end persist as they at first begun And their vnluckie spindels still in one like tenor run My husband fell to ground before the Altars slaine My brother of that wicked act doth reape the wicked gaine My selfe exild his graue and countrey both forsake And forced am by foe pursude vneasie wayes to take I land on land vnknowne escapt from foe and waue And bought the shore which freely yet to thee false wretch I gaue A Towne I built whose wals far out extended lie Prouoking places neere about maligning to enuie Wars grow poore stranger I and woman vext with warres Scarse know how armour to prouide and strength my gate with barres When thousands to me su'de now all against me come Grieu'd that before their beds I haue preferd I know not whom Why stick'st to yeeld me bownd into Hiarbas hands I will not sticke to yeeld mine armes to bide thy wicked bands A brother eke I haue who wicked hands anew Imbrewed first in husbands blood would faine in mine imbrew Lay downe thy sacred Gods whom touching dost pollute Vnseemly with vngodly hands doth godly worship sute If they from fire escapt that thou mightst them adore That euer they escapt