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A59170	Medea a tragedie / written in Latine by Lucius Annæus, Seneca ; Englished by E.S., Esq., with annotations.; Medea. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2513; ESTC R17531	52,518	122

YOu 1 Nuptiall Powers and thou 2 Lucina * * Proeses Puerperii se•… Praefecta Parturientibus Head And carefull Guardian of the 3 G•…niall Bed And 4 thou who Tiphys taught'st as with a rein To guide the 5 first Ship through the subdu'd Maine 6 Dread Soveraigne of the Seas thou ever bright Phaebus that to the world divid'st thy light 7 Three-formed Hecate that dost display On nightly mysteries thy conscious Ray And all yee Gods by whom false Iason swore Or you Medea rather should implore Darke Chaos deeps Infernall damned soules The King who Hells sad Monarchy controules And * * Proserpina Queen with better faith was ravished Heare whilst we imprecate yee 8 Furies dread The punishers of guilt in bloudy hands Grasping your pitchy-blacke and sulph'ry Brands With snaky Curles and squallid looks appeare As horrid at our Nuptialls as you were Death on the new-made * * Creusa the Daughter of Creon King of Corinth whom Iason repudiating Medea had newly married Euripides in Medea some others give her the name of Gl•…uca Bride on Corinths King And our owne Progeny untimely bring And with some imprecation yet more dire 'Gainst my false Husband my fell minde inspire Live he through Townes despis'd and friendlesse rove Feare hatred poverty and exile prove Wish me his Wife againe and harbour from A stranger crave now a knowne Guest become And then which none a greater curse can be Children be get he like himselfe and me See! our Revenge doth with our Wish conspire These we have borne We Plaints in vaine expire Why rush we not upon our Foes and there The Bridall Tapers from the Bearers teare Extinguish them and bury all in Night Behold'st thou this thou Fountaine of all light Phaebus 9 the Radiant Author of our Race And driv'st through Chrystall skies thy wonted space Runn'st thou not back unto the East and Day Remeasur'st O! to me resigne thy sway Give me the Guidance of those burning Reines That rule the Coursers with the fiery Maines I 'ld scourge 'till Corinth whose 10 small Land divides Two opposite Seas and breakes their battering Tides Consum'd in Flames should make them way to joyne Nought rests to doe but that a Nuptiall Pine We beare and when the holy Prair's and all The Rites are done then that our victimes fall Through thine owne Bowells reach at thy Revenge Soule if thou liv'st all Womanish Feares estrange Let thy stout minde on her old strength presume And more then Scythian Ferity assume What Ills once 11 Colchos now shall Corinth see Horrid unperpetrated crueltie Terror to Men and Gods workes in my Minde Wounds Death * * See the Annotations at the number 11 in fine spred Funeralls of Limbes dis-joyn'd Pish what flight triviall Ills doe we recount Acts of our Virgin hands Our Rage should mount Ills more sublime more horrid Acts of Bloud Suite with our married state and Motherhood Courage then On to act thy Tragedy With all thy Furie that Posterity Thy fatall Nuptialls and divorce may finde Equally signall Stay thou rash of minde Thy spouse by what meanes leav'st thou by the same I once did follow him All sence of shame Abandon and delayes as fruitlesse flye The Faith by Ills confirm'd by Ills shall dye Ex. Medea CHORVS Of Corinthian Women Singing an Epithalamium to the Nuptialls of Jason and Creusa 12 You Gods whose Empire in the skies Or in the tumid Ocean lies These 12 Princely Nuptialls blesse we pray 12 Whilst all due Rites the people pay First to those 13 Powers that thunder fling And Scepters beare for offering A Bull white without spot shall dye A Heifer that did never try The servile Yoake then snow more white Thee 14 O Lucina doth delight 15 To her who Mars his bloudy hands Doth ma•…acle in peacefull Bands Who strifes of Nations doth compose Whose 15 Horne with growing plenty flowes Shall fall a gent•…er Sacrifice 16 And thou who these Solemnities And Rites * * As oppos'd to Medea's Nuptiall•… which were 〈◊〉 and Illegitimate 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of this Chorus Legitimate dost grace And the nights sullen darknesse chase With thy auspicious hand come drown'd In Wine thy 16 Head with Roses crown'd 17 And thou bright Star with silver ray Fore-runner of the Night and Day That slow to those dost still returne Who with loves mutu'all flames doth burne Mothers that long Daughters new wed Wish thee thy early beames to spread 'Mong the 18 Cecropian Dames the Pride For Beauty vaile unto the Bride The Virgins of the 19 Wallesse Towne Who on 20 Taygetus his Crowne Themselves as is their Countries guise In 20 manly Pastimes exercise And those their limbes in 21 Dirce lave Or in 22 Alphaeus sacred Wave To the 23 Aesonian Youth for grace And Forme shall 24 Bacchus selfe give place Who to the Yoake •…ierce Tygers chaines Or he who o're the 25 Trypods raignes Milde Brother to the 26 sterner Maid The 26 Swan-got Twins faire Laedae laid Castor with Pollux who for blow Of weighty 27 Sledge doth all out-goe Yeeld to * * Iason Aesonides the day So so Caelestiall powers we pray All wives excell the the beauteous Bride The Bride-groom passe all men beside When with the Virgin Quire * * The Bride she joynes Her look 'bove all with lustre shines So when the Sun his Beames displayes The splendour of the Stars decayes So fade the 28 Pleïads scarcely seen When with her borrowed shine night's Queen Inorbs her Crescent so to th' eye White blushes with 29 Phaenician Dye So when day dawnes Sols ruddy light Shewes to the dew-wet Shepherds sight From 30 Phasis horrid bed releast Wont with unwilling hand the Breast To touch of such a barbarous Bride With Parents wills first ratifi'd Now happy wed a Grecian dame Now Youths with Taunts permissive game And in loose Rimes chant sportive words Rare is this licence 'gainst your Lords Faire 31 Issue of the God of Wine T is time to light thy carved Pine 32 With Wine-wet fingers then put out The solemne Flame whilst all the Rout With mirthfull jollity doth ring And the 33 Fescennine youths doe •…ing Their Festive Flouts shee want these Rites And grace of Hymeneall l•…ghts Who as a fugitive shall wed Her selfe unto a forraigne Bed Act the Second Scene the first Enter MEDEA and her NURSE MEDEA OH I am slaine the * * The Marriage Song Hymeneall's sound Hath pierc'd my Eares and giv'n my Heart a wound The Ill I suffer I scarce yet beleeve And thus could 1 Iason cause Medea grieve When from my Father Countrey Crowne and State H' had brought me thus to leave me desolate In a strange Land could he our merits slight Cruell and thanklesse wretch whose pow'rfull might Seas rage he saw and force of Flames out-went Thinks he then all our stock of Mischiefe spe•…t Perplex'd and wav'ring my unquiet Mind Labours which way she may her vengeance find Would Heav'ns he had a Brother

of Oakes to penetrate the Earth and Globe of the Moone as Pliny sayes l. 2. Nat. Hist. c. 7. And as Plutarch writes to discerne Ships from Sicily weighing Anchor in some Parts of Africk being no lesse then 1500 Stadia Though all Mathematicians deny any visible object upon Earth or at Sea to be discerned the tenth part of such a distance adde beside the Gibbositie or convexitie of the Sea or Earth which in so great a distance must needs intercept the sight If any thing yet might be said to hinder the penetrating sight of Lynceus But the Fable of his wonderfull Perspicacitie seemes to arise from his cunning in finding out of Gold Mines which he discovered with such certaintie that thereupon the ignorant vulgar reported he could see into the Bowels of the Earth See Hygin de Poet Fabul l. 1. Here our Author seemes to adhere to the Opinion of the Stoicks and Piatonists who will have Vision to be by Emission of Radii or Beames from the sight to the Object oppugned by the Peripatetticks and the best Masters of the Opticks who say That Vision is by Radii extrinsecally flowing from the visible Object to the sight the Object being illuminated by the light and the Radii or light proceeding from that illuminated Body striking the Eye whose Radii extending in forme of a Pyramid whose Vertex or Point is in the Eye and Basis in the thing visible Vid. quae Alhaz c. 5. l. 1. As likewise what that Ornament of our Nation and Learning the Viscount of S. Albons sayes of Vision in his Natur. Hist. p. 65. 72. 144. c. 9 And all the Minyae People of Thessaly so called of Orcomenus a River of that Countrey formerly called Minyëus supposed to be the Sonne of Neptune Or as Apollonius writes l. 5. from the Daughters of Minyas perhaps after the manner of the Carians who as Herodotus report took their Names from their Mothers The Minyae were likewise of Baeotia called Minyae Orchomenii as some will from Minyas and Orchomenus his Sonne inhabiting the Citie of Orcomenus from him so called But the Minyae properly so termed were those dwelling about Iolcos 10 Creon Thy knees wee touch'd and did implore The Faith of thy Protecting hand c. The Antients made severall Parts of man the Seates of severall morall Vertues and Vices assigning modest shamefacenesse to the Fore-head the contrary vice to the Mouth Irrision and Sagacitie to the Nose Judgement to the Eare Pride and disdaine to the Eye-browes Pittie to the Knees which Suppliants us'd when they made their requests with Reverence to touch and imbrace The hand was the Pledge of Faith as Cicero sayes in the second of his Phillipp Those hands which were the Pledges of Faith are now violated with perfidious Wickednesse Which in the Act of Promise or Paction was held forth and touched by the Suppliant the reason as Varro gives it in that the Authoritie of the Antients consisted in the Power and strength of the hand Plutarch reports That the Flamins were wont to performe divine Rites Manu ad digitos in•… symbolically signifying That Faith is inviolably to be kept and that the hand was it 's consecrated Seat Upon the CHORUS 11 Rash man was he with Ships fraile-Beake Did first the treacherous Billowes breake This suits with that of Horace Illi Robur as triplex c. to which may be applyed the Answer of Carfilides Who being asked his Opinion what he thought of the Sea and Sea-men answered That there was nothing more treacherous then the first and that the others were it's Comrades 12 Drawne to too thin Dimensions farre 'Twixt Life and Death too poor ' a barre Alluding perhaps to that Apothegme of Anacharsis in Laertius That the distance betwixt death and those in a ship at Sea was no more then the thicknesse of the Barke Of which thus Iuvenall Inune ventis animum committe dolato Confisus ligno digitis à morte remotus Quatuor aut septem sisit latissima T•…da Satyr 12. Goe trusting in a treacherous Plank but foure Poore Inches distant or but seav'n if more From death and to the winds thy life commit 13 The stormy Hyad's A Constellation as Aratus writes of seven according to Proclus of six as Hesiod will of five Stars in the fore-head of the Bull whose rise and set was the Cause of Storms and Tempests These were the daughters of Atlas who so excessively bewail'd the death of their Brother Hyas torne in pieces by a Lyon that from him they tooke their Denomination and by the Commiserating Gods were converted into Stars Vid. Higyn astronom. Poet 13 Th' Olenian Goats bright Starre c. The Amalthaean Goat fained by Poets to be the Nurse of Iupiter so called from Olenum a Towne of Achaia neere which she gave him suck For which benefit she was afterwards by Iupiter translated among the Stars of her we have spoken already in the Annotations upon the first Chorus 14 Nor those which that old lazy Swaine Bootes drives the Northerne Waine c. Bootes is otherwise called Arctophylax whose first name as Manilius sayes is given him in that Bootes Quòd stimulo junctis instat de more Iuvencis Manil. l. 1. seu Sphaera He seemes with goad t' incite his yoaked Steeres The Northerne Waine consists of seven Starres in the Constellation of the greater Beare which is in all made up of 24 foure of which on the side of the Beare making by their Postures the Forme of a Quadrangle are called the Waine the three on her Taile if a Beare may be said to have one the Oxen Neare which Bootes being plac'd is stil'd the Waggoner or Driver called here lazy in regard of his slow Motion by reason of his Vicinitie to the Pole 15 The Pine of Thessaly c. Argos built of Thessalian Pines Thessaly being a Region of Greece abounding in Mountaines and Woods of Argos see more after 16 Argos selfe was then struck mute Argos was said to be indu'd with voice and more then that with Prophecy being by Valerius Flaccus in the first of his Argonauticks called Fa•…idicam ratem but more peculiarly the Mid-Mast of the Ship which was placed by Pallas her selfe and cut from the Dodonaean Oake which gave Oracles 16 When those Rocks that bound The Entrance to the Pontick Sound These are two Rocks in the Mouth of the Straits of the Thracian Bosphorus called Cyanae and Symplegades The first name given them in regard of their black Colour and the other in that as the Poets faign'd they justly against one another with violent concursions The ground of that Fictionarising for that to the Saylor in regard of their neer distance the Motion of the Ship and Sea they seemd now to part and then againe to close Or as I•…remias Hoelzinus in his Notes upon Apol. l. 2. vers. 608. writes In that the broken Rocks lying in the Sea in a manner close up the narrow straits

Thrice with sad flames her sacred fires she show'd Medea's Prayers are ratified by the barking of Hecate and her Hell-hounds for no better attendance doe the Poets allow her then a company of howling Curres one of the signalls of her approach which is thus exprest by Virgil l. 6. Aeneidos Mugire solum juga caepta moveri Sylvarum visaeque canes ululare per umbram Adventante Dea The Center bellow'd the Woods bow'd their Crown And Dogs were heard run howling up and downe At Hecates approach As likewise by Fulguration and the sad light of her Infernall Fires which was another token of her comming Yet the Poets make the unusuall and suddaine splendor of Flames to be a generall signall of the Advention of any of the Deities as well as of her For so Claudian l. 1. de Rap Pr•…s designes the approach of Phaebus So likewise in his fourth of his Metam Ovid ushers the comming of Bacchus and Plautus in Amphytrione the appearance of Iupiter 45 Bloudy Maenas Meant by Medea hurrying up and downe like a frantick Bacchanall 46 Through Ganges Forrest Some Forrests of India neare Ganges the greatest River of that Countrey which it divides in the midd'st taking his rise from the Scythian Mountaines the Northerne Boundures of India ANNOTATIONS Vpon the fifth ACT 1 Would an Issue from my Wombe As numerous as Niobe's had come c OF the number of Niobe's Children there be severall reports Homer reckons but seven sons and daughters Euripides foureteen Sappho eighteen Bacchilides and Pindarus twenty others say they were but three in all Tzetzes yet reckons seven sons and seven daughters by their names viz. the sons Sypilus Agenor Phaedimus Ismenes Euphytus Tantalus Damasicthon The Daughters Neaera Cleodoxe Astioche Phacta Pelopia Eugige and Chloris Of the death of her and her children and her conversion into Marble see Ovid's Metam l. 6. Pausanias de Arcadicis Palaephatus de non credendis fabulis 2 Thus with this Victime we appease Thy iujur'd Ghost This said s•…e kills one of her Children as a Sacrifice to her Brothers Ghost Alciat hath a pretty Embleme taken from Archias the Greek Poet upon the Statue of Medea killing her Children in whose Bosome a Bird built her nest Colchido•… in gremio nidum quid congeris •…heu Nescia cur pullos tam male credis avis Dira parens Medea suos saevissima Natos Predidit speras parcat ut illa tuos Embl. 54. Poore Bird that know'st not where thou builst thy nest Trust'st thou thy young ones to Medea's breast Her cruell hands shed her owne Childrens bloud And dost thou hope that she will spare thy brood Yet Aelian in the fifth Book of his Various Histories ca. 21. seemes to assoile her of the murder of her children there be some sayes he who report that the rumour concerning Medea is false and that not she but the Corinthians made away her children that Tragicall Fable owing its originall to Euripides who at the request of the Corinthians transferr'd the murder of the Children from them to their Mother Truth in processe of time giving place to Fiction who sayes further that it was a common fame in his dayes that the Corinthians us'd to offer Expiatory Sacrifices as a Tribut to the Ghosts of the slaine Children 3 Goe mount the skies and by thy flight declare If thou unpunish'd goe'st no Gods there are From Corinth drawne by her winged Dragons Medea flies to Athens where she married Aegeus and had by him a sonne called Medus whom likewise afterward attempting to poison his Sonne Theseus that so the Kingdome of Athens might descend to her Sonne Medus and being detected she leaves and by flight returnes to Colchos which her Father being dead she recovered and as Symonides writes the Kingdome of Corinth likewise who though in her life so wicked yet after her death was by the Colchians honoured with Divine Rites who Dedicated a Temple to her Memory into which in regard of Iasons Ingratitude no men were permitted to enter FINIS