deepes will quickly deuoure him And bring him lyuing to the deadmens souls in Auernus Gods of skies for loue hath pearst oft vp to the heauens Yf pity moue your harts if you from stately Olympus Can vouchsafe to behold these inward wounds of Amintas Free this troubled soule from cares and infinite anguish End these endles toyls bring ease by my death to my deaths-wound O that I had then dy'd when Phillis liu'd with Amintas In fyelds when Phillis sang songs of loue with Amintas In fyelds when Phillis kist and embraced Amintas In fyelds when Phillis slept vnder a tree with Amintas Blest had Amintas beene if death had taken Amintas So my Phillis might haue come and sate by my death-bed Closing these eye-lidds of dead but blessed Amyntas Blest that he dy'd in her arms that his eyes were closd by her owne hands But what alas do I meane for death thus still to be wishing Foole that I am For death coms quickly without any wishing Inward griefe of troubled soule hath brought me to deaths doore Woonted strength doth faile my lyms are fainty with anguish Vitall heate is gone like vnto a smoke to a vapor Yeasterday but a boy and now grayheaded Amintas O luckles louers how alwaies are wee beewitched What contrarieties what fancyes flatly repugnant How many deaths liues hopes feares ioyes cares stil do wee suffer O that I could forget Phillis many times am I wishing O that I had dy'd for Phillis manie times am I wishing Thus distracted I am ten thousand times by my wishing Like to a shipp through whyrling goulfs vnsteadily passing Floating here and there hence thence with daunger on each side Fearing Scyllaes iawes and mouth of greedy Charibdis Whylst by the rage of Sea brusd shipp sticks fast to the quick sands And by the mighty rebounding waues is lastly deuoured But what alas doe I meane mine olde loue stil to be mourning Forgetting pastures and flocks and vines by my mourning My naked pastures with fludds are like to bee drowned My fyelds vntilled with thorns are like to be pestred My poore sheepe and goats with cold are like to be pinched My prety black bullock wil come no more to my white cowe And by the swynes foule snout my vines are like to be rooted For want of walling for want of customed hedging Ranck boughes in vinetree ther's no body now to be cutting Cutt boughs with wythy twiggs ther's no body now to bee binding Pecking pyes from grapes ther's no body now to bee keeping You rocks helpe me to mourn rocks pynetrees loftily bearing You woods helpe me to mourne woods alwayes wont to be silent You wells helpe me to mourne wells cleare and like to the Christal Vines forlorne forsaken shrubbs lament with Amintas On you rocks many times Phillis way woont to be walking In you woods many times Phillis was wont to be sitting With you wells many times Phillis was wont to be smyling And you vines and shrubbs Phillis was wont to be fingring Now 'twas iust darknight and home came seelly Amintas The sixt Lamentation SInce Phillis buriall six times sprang light fro the mountaines Six times had Titan brought backe his coach fro the mainsea And flying horses with salt waues all to bedashed With puft vp nosthrils great fire flames lustilie breathing When to the wild woods went careles yet careful Amintas Leauing flock in fold no creatures companie keeping Beating breast with fist with teares face foulie defacing Filling waies as he went with such and so manie wailings As were sometimes made by the sweet Rhodopeïan Orpheus When by the rocks of Thrace by the fatall water of Haebrus His sweet Euridice with most sweet voice he bewailed Euridice twice lost by the cursed lawes of Auermus When sweet voice sweet harpe ioined most sweetlie together Made both birds and beasts and stocks and stones to be mourning Euerie beast in field wisheth darke night to be comming Morning starre by the birds in fields is sweetlie saluted As soone as she begins by the breake of daie to be peeping Euerie beast in field wisheth darke night to be comming Euning starre to the kids well fed coms hartelie welcom As soone as she begins by the nights aproch to be shining Neither daie nor night can please displeased Amintas All daie long doe I mourne and all night long am I mourning No dai's free fro my plaints and no night's free fro my plaining Who so thinks it straunge that thus tormented Amintas Can thus long endure who thinks it straunge that Amintas Lius yet takes no rest but still lius still to be dying This man knows not alas that loue is dailie triumphant This man knowes not alas that loue can worke manie wonders Loue can abide no law loue alwaies lous to be lawles Loue altreth nature rules reason maistreth Olimpus Lawes edicts decrees contemns Ioue mightilie thundring Ioue that rules and raigns that with beck bendeth Olimpus Loue caus'de Hippolitus with bry'rs and thorns to be mangled For that he had foule loue of lusting Phaedra refused Loue made Absyrtus with sisters hands to be murdred And in peeces torne and here and there to be scattred Loue forc'd Pasiphae mans companie long to be loathing And for a white buls flesh buls companie long to be lusting Loue and luring lookes of louelie Polixena caused Greekish Achilles death when he came to the Church to be wedded Loue made Alcides that great inuincible Heros Maister of all monsters at length to be whipt by a mistres Loue drownd Laeander swimming to the beawtiful Hero Vnto the towne Cestos from towne of cursed Abydos Loue made Ioue that's ruler of earth and ruler of heauen Like to a seely shepheard and like to the fruitful Echidna Like to a fire to a swan to a showre to a bull to an Aegle Sometimes Amphytrion sometimes Dyctinna resembling But what neede I to shew this blindboyes surly behauiour Lewd pranks false policies slye shifts and wily deuises Murdring minde hardhart dead hand bent bow readie arrowes No body knows better what bitter griefe is abounding In loues lewd kingdome then luckles louer Amintas Whether I go to the groues or whether I climbe to the mountains Whether I walk by the banks or whether I looke to the fountains Loue stil waits at an inch and neuer leaus to be pinching Euerie thing complains and aunswereth vnto my playning Euere thing giues cause and new increase to my mourning If that I mourne in woods these woods seeme al to be mourning And broadbrauncht Oake trees their vpright tops to be bowing If that I sigh or sobb this pine tree straight by the shaking This peereles pine tree for company seems to bee pyning As though himselfe felt th'enduring pangs of Amintas And that byrd of Thrace my woful companie keeping Cries and cals for Itys with monstrous villany murdred Murdred alas by the diu'lish crafts and means of a mother Boyled alas by the merciles hart and hand of a sister Eaten alas by the cursed mouth and teeth
loath'd these sports and these prety pastimes Only Amintas mourn'd and olde griefs only remembred Leauing house and home and deserts only frequenting Scratching face with nails and Phillis freshly bewailing O what means Phillis can Phillis cast of Amintas O consider alas consider careful Amintas And forget not alas forget not faithful Amintas Who for Phillis sake for loue and fancie to Phillis Bears this fire in his heart and still this fire is a feeding What means Phillis alone in those faire fields to be walking In those Elysian faire fields and leaue me behinde her VVhat's there no more care of flock in Phillis abyding VVhat no care of loue no care of louer Amintas O vnthankfull wench if this thing come by thy causing And accursed fate if desteny cause thee to leaue mee See what a strange effect these cares haue wrought in Amyntas Needeles cares haue driu'n all needefull cares from Amintas No care no comfort in driuing goats to the mountains VVhen rising Phoebus displayes his beames in a morning No care no comfort in bringing sheepe to the sheepe coats VVhen sitting Phoebus withdrawes his face in an euning Rimes are quite set a side and seu'nhol'd pipe is abandond Rimes that I playd on pipe pipe vsed at euery dauncing Leather bottel's lost and tarrebox broken a sunder Shoone and mittens gone and sheephooke cast in a corner And little olde Lightfoote hath lost his maister Amintas VVhose watchful barking made wolues afraide to be byting See how Phillis death doth make my goates to be dying No body giues them time and other flowers to be gnapping No body giues them drinke and water fresh to be sipping No body brings them backe to the folde or shade to refresh them See how Phillis death doth make my sheepe to be dying VVhilst th'vnlucky sheepheard neglects his sheepe to be feeding Lambs in woful wise by the wolues are daily deuoured Ews in loathsome sort with scabbs are fowly molested And their wooll with dust and durt is filthily fowled O but alas poore foole whilst thou thus rayl'st on Olympus Phillis faire perchaunce in pleasaunt fields of Auernus Keepeth better goats and better sheepe is a feeding Leauing this poore flcok and their poore maister Amintas And must onely my death cause endles plagues to be ended And shal I neuer die till time that desteny pointed O what a life is this with life and death to be striuing And yet I loue this life this strife and euery moment Reason yeelds to my rage and rage giues place to my reason And whilst breath shal abide in burning breast of Amintas Perpetual sobbing shal make these sides to be smarting Perpetual playning shal make this mouth to be sounding Perpetuall weeping shal make these eyes to be swelling As soone as Titan with face all fyrie returneth With violent clamors great clouds wil I cast on a cluster As soone as darke night doth spread her mantle among vs With teares stil trickling Ile make springs euer abounding What lou's like to my rage what fancy's like to my folly That not a day not an houre not a moment scapeth Amyntas But stil Amintas mourns since Phillis graue was a making That lewd Lord of loue drew my destruction onward That boy bred my bane my death vntimely procured When by the sight of a lasse by the flaming eyes of a virgin Fire did pearce by my flesh to my soule to my bones to my marrow And there burns and boils like scalding sulphur of Aetna Who would thinke thou loue couldst beare such hate to a louer Or wouldst worke such harme to a countrieman that is harmeles But bloody boy thou art thou bear'st bloody mind bloody weapōs And thou most spiteful Nemesis whose hasty reuenging Hands are euer at hand whose minde is mutable alwayes At miseries laughing at mens felicitie grudging Why durst thou deale with what didst thou meane to be medling VVith louing Phillis with Phillis louer Amyntas If that Phillis I kist or Phillis kissed Amintas If that Phillis I clipt or Phillis clipped Amintas If that I spent many houres in talking vnder a myrtle VVast any great offence any great disgrace to a Goddesse VVe were countrie folke two seelly'st soules of a thousand Those golden diadems that state of a king or a kingdome Those vaunting titles that pompe of a duke or a dukedome Those flaunting buildings that pride of an Earle or an earldome More fitt for Nemesis Phillis more fitt for Amintas VVho would thinke thou couldest on beggers thus be triumphing VVhy should seelly shepheards be molested thus by a Goddesse Nay Godlesse Nemesis for thou doest no body goodnes And where's no goodnes who thinks there can be a Goddesse And thou most hellish Lachesis more fierce then a fury What reason foundst thou such mischiefe for to be working That by the griping pains by the colde hoate fitts of an ague Phillis fitt for a man should die thus afore she be fitted O why shouldst thou take all comfort quite fro the countrey And make countrie men thus comfortles to be mourning Could not that sweet face nor that most seemely behauiour Nor that league of loue stil lasting leade thee to mercie Who would think that thou wouldst haue thus delt with a milkmaid But thy delight is death and bloud thou only desirest Therefore bring me to death take liuing bloud from Amintas For my delyte is death death onely desireth Amintas And to procure quicke death it's fully resolu'd by Amintas That faire Phillis againe may loue her louer Amintas And yet about euning with staggring stepps he returned The last Lamentation and the death of Amyntas ANd now since Phillis dead corps was laid in a coffin Came th'eleuenth daie when weake yet wakeful Amintas Spi'd through tyles of his house faire Phoebus beames to be shining Which when he saw then in hast himselfe he began to be stirring And with trembling knees with mind extreemlie molested Passed along to the fields where graue of Phillis apeared Meaning there to the graue to the ghost to the scattered ashes His last lamenting in wofull wise to be making But when he saw fresh flowres and new grasse speedilie start vp And Phillis sweet name ingrau'n by the hand of Amintas Then did he stay and weepe with an inward horror amased And at length his knees on graue there faintilie bowing With dolorus gronings his fatall howre he bewailed This day this same day most blessed day of a thousand Shall be the first of ioy and last of anoie to Amintas This shal bring me my selfe to my selfe and bring me to Phillis Let neither father nor mother mourne for Amintas Let neither kinsman nor neighbour weepe for Amintas For Venus onelie Venus doth laie this death on Amintas And Phillis sweet soule in faire fields staies for Amintas If you needs will shew some signe of loue to Amintas Then when life is gone close vp these eies of Amintas And with Phillis corps lay this dead corps of Amintas This shall Phillis please and Phillis
faire Phillis face to be shyning Powre forth fludds of teares from those your watery fountains From those your fountalns with greene mos all to be smeared Phillis wil no more see Phillis sitt by the fountains Phillis wil no more her lipps apply to the fountains Lippes to be ioyn'd to the lipps of Ioue that ruleth Olympus And you darkesome dales and woods aye wont to be silent Where she amidst the shepheards and toiling boisterous heard men Her milkwhite shee goats many times was wont to be feeding Lament and mourne for this nymphs vntimely departure But Pan and Fauni but garden greene of Amintas But you springs and dales and woods aye wont to be silent Leaue of your mourning Ile giue you leaue to be silent Leaue to be silent stil giue you me leaue to bee mourning Leaue to be mourning stil let this most heauie departure This death of Phillis bring wished death to Amintas Here did he pause for a while and home at night he returned The eight Lamentation SInce death of Phillis since Phillis burnt by Amyntas Since Phillis burnt bones were chested duly the eighth time Night gaue place to the light and euning vnto the morning When to the woods so wilde to the wilde beasts dangerus harbors Forsaking hye wayes by the bye wayes passed Amintas And there sets him downe al wearied vnder a myrtle For griefe stil groning with deepe sighs heauily panting Stil Phillis naming stil Phillis feintily calling And must one wench thus take all the delights fro the countrey And must one wench thus make euery man to be mourning Euery man whose flocks on these hills vse to be feeding And must Aeglon weepe and must that friendly Menalcas Weare his mourning roab for death of my bony Phillis And must good Coridon lament must Tityrus alter His pleasant melodies for death of my bony Phillis And must Damoetas for griefe leaue of to be louing Must Amarillis leaue for death of my bony Phillis And must drooping bull consume as he goes by the meddowe Must sheepe looke lowring for death of my bony Phillis And must sighs seeme windes must teares seeme watery fountains And must each thing change for death of my bony Phillis O then what shal I do for death of my bony Phillis Since that I lou'd bony lasse Phillis more dearely then al these Since that I lou'd her more then I loue these eyes of Amyntas O then what shal I do forlorne forsaken Amintas What shal I doe but die for death of my bony Phillis Phillis who was wont my flocke with care to bee feeding Phillis who was wont my mylch shee goats to be milking Phillis who was wont most handsome wench of a thousand Either clouted creame or cakes or curds to be making Either sine basketts of bulrush for to be framing Or by the greene meddows gay dauncing dames to be leading Phillis whose bosome fil beards did loue to be filling Phillis for whose sake greene laurel lou'd to be bowing Phillis alas sweete lasse Phillis this braue bony Phillis Is dead is buried maks all good company parted O how oft Phillis conferd in fields with Amintas Whilst for nymphs of woods gay garlands framed Amintas O how oft Phillis did sing in caues with Amintas Ioyning her sweete voice to the oaten pipe of Amintas O how oft Phillis clypt and embraced Amintas How many thousand times hath Phillis kissed Amintas Bitten Amintas lipps and bitten againe of Amintas So that Amintas his eyes inuied these lipps of Amintas O sweete soule Phillis w'haue liu'd and lou'd for a great while If that a man may keepe any mortal ioy for a great while Like louing Turtles and Turtledoues for a great while One loue one liking one sence one soule for a great while Thefore one deaths wound one graue one funeral only Should haue ioyned in one both loue and louer Amintas O good God what a griefe is this that death to remember For such grace gesture face feature beautie behauiour Neuer afore was seene is neuer againe to be lookt for O frowning fortune ô death and desteny dismal Thus be the poplar trees that spred their tops to the heauens Of their flouring leaues despoil'd in an houre in a moment Thus be the sweete violets that gaue such grace to the garden Of their purpled roabe despoyld in an houre in a moment O how oft did I roare and crie with an horrible howling When for want of breath Phillis lay feintily gasping O how oft did I wish that Phoebus would fro my Phillis Driue this feuer away or send his sonne from Olympus Who when lady Venus by a chaunce was prickt with a bramble Healed her hand with his oyles and fine knacks kept for a purpose Or that I could perceiue Podalyrius order in healing Or that I could obtaine Medaeas exquisite ointments And baths most precious which old men freshly renewed Or that I were as wise as was that craftie Prometheus Who made pictures liue with fire that he stole from Olympus Thus did I cal and crie but no body came to Amintas Then did I raile and raue but nought did I get by my railing Whilst that I cald and cry'd rag'd and rau'd as a mad man Phillis alas Phillis by the burning fitts of a feuer Quickly before her day her daies vnluckily ended O dismal deaths day with black stone still to be noted Wherin no sunne shin'd no comfort came fro the heauens Wherein clustred clouds had cou'red lightsome Olympus Wherein no sweete bird could finde any ioy to be chirping vvherein loathsome snakes from dens were loath to be creeping vvherein foule skriche owles did make detestable howling And from chimney top gaue woful signe of a mischiefe O first day of death last day of life to Amintas vvhich no day shal driue from soule and hart of Amintas Til Neptune dry'de vp withdrawe his fludds fro the fishes And skaled fishes liue naked along by the sea shore Till starrs fal to the ground til light harts leap to Olympus For since Phillis went and left forsaken Amintas Ioyes and pleasures went and left forsaken Amintas Perplexed speaking and vaine thoughts only remayned Immoderate mourning and mad loue onely remayned Thou Ioue omnipotent which doest with mercie remember Mortall mens miseries which knowst what it is to be louing And thou god Phoebus that sometimes driu'n from Olympus Feeding sheepe didst loue helpe luckles louer Amyntas Feeding sheepe and goats help poore man yong man Amintas Thou that abridgest breath thou daughter deare to the darknes Cutt this thread of life dispatch and bring mee to darknes Infernal darknes fit place for mournful Amintas So shal Amintas walke and talke in darksome Auernus So shal Amintas loue with Phillis againe be renued In fields Elysian Phillis shal liue with Amintas Thus do I wish and pray this praying is but a pratling And these wishing words but a blast but a winde but a whistling Dye then Amyntas Dye for dead is thy bony Phillis Phoebus went to the sea
spinning Speake for I feare for I feare shee'l neuer come to Amintas And thou Syluanus Siluanus good to the mountains And flocks on mountains ô helpe most helples Amintas Helpe by thy selfe by thy friends thou god cause gods to be helping For my religion for my deuotion help me For thine own boyes sake for loue of sweet Cyparissus Either let Phillis be returned backe to Amintas Or let Amintas dye that death may succor Amintas And thou naughtie Cupid yet say on giue me thy counsail VVhat shal I do shall I dye shal Amintas murder Amintas Dye then Amintas death will bring Phillis to Amintas O hard harted loue thou seest what I beare what I suffer Hart with flames and eyes with mournful water abounding Head with cares possest and soule ful of horrible anguish This thou seest and sure I do know it greeus thee to see this Though they call thee tyrant though so thou iustlie be called Though thy nature passe Busiris beastlie behauiour For what makes me to mourne may cause thee yeeld to my mourning One rude rock one wind one tempestuus outrage Batters breaks and beats thy ship my ship to the quicksands Our harms are equal thy ship wrack like to my shipwrack Loue did loue Phillis Phillis was loud of Amintas Phillis loues dearling Phillis dearling of Amintas Dearling crowne garland hope ioy wealth health of Amintas And what more shal I say for I want words fit for Amintas And thou churlish ground now cease anie more to be fruitful Cease to be deckt with flowres and all in greene to be mantled Thy flowre is withered my garland latlie decaied Phillis thine and mine with death vntimelie departed VVhose sweet corps thou bar'st whose footsteps in thee be printed And whose face thou didst admire for beawtie renowmed Belch out roaring blasts with gaping iawes to the heauens That those toaring blasts may scoure by the skyes by the heauens And foule struggling storms cast down fro the clouds fro the heauēs For such foule weather will best agree with a mourner Howle and mourne thou earth and roare with an horrible outcrie Howle as then thou didst when mountains were to the mountains Put by thy cursed brood to be clyming vp to Olympus VVhen great flakes of fire came flashing down fro the heauens VVhen thy crawling sons came tumbling down from Olympus Howle as ladie Ceres did then when prince of Auernus Stole her daughter away from fields that ioyned on Aetna Vnto the dungeons dark and dens of his hellish abiding Thou ground forgetful what was by dutie required Shouldst send vnbidden with Phills teares to Auernus Her blessed burden thou wast vnworthie to carrie Therefore tender girle in flowring age she departed O frowning fortune ô stars vnluckilie shining O cursed birth day of quite forsaken Amintas Phillis alas is changd Phillis conuerted in ashes VVhose pretie lips necke eyes and haire so sweetlie beseeming Purple snow and fire and gold wire seemd to resemble Tithonus faire wife coms alwaies home by the sunset Euerie night coms home to that old Tithonus her husband Sweete Cephalus leauing and gray beard hartily kissing But my Phillis alas is gone as farre as Auernus Gone too farre to returne and this tormenteth Amyntas White is blacke and sweete is sowre to the sence of Amyntas Night and day doe I weepe and make ground moist by my weeping Mourne lament and howle and powre forth plaints to the heauens So do the Nightingales in bushes thorny remayning Sing many dolefull notes and tunes sweet harmony making Their yong ones mourning their yong ones daily bewailing Phillis alas is gone shee'le neuer come to Amyntas Neuer againe come backe for death and destiny stay her Stay her among those groues and darksome dens of Auernus Wher's no path to returne no starting hole to be scaping Desteny death and Hell and howling hydeus helhound Loathsome streams of stix that ninetimes compas Auernus Stay her amongst those hags in dungeons ougly for euer Only the name and fame and her most happy remembrance still shal abide shal liue shal florish freely for euer Thus did Amyntas speake and then came feyntily homeward The fyfth Lamentation SInce Phillis buriall with due celebration ended Phoebus againe aduanct his blasing face fro the maynesea And with morning Star dispelling night fro the heauens Quickly the fifth time brought broad day light vnto Amyntas But yet Phillis in heart in mind and soule of Amyntas Stil did abyde and stil was Phillis mournd of Amyntas No care of driuing his goats and kidds to the mountains No care of folowing his sheepe and lambs to the pastures But dailight loathing and dayes worke wonted abhorring Straight to the woods doth he walke in no mans company walking Where hee the weeping flowre making al weary by weeping Vntuned speeches cast out and desperat outcries Where with sobs to the windes with teares increase to the waters Stil did he giue and stil vayne loue most vaynly bewayled As louing Turtle seeing his lately beloued Turtle-doue thrown downe from tree with a stone with an arrow Can not abide sun-beames but flies fro the fields fro the meddows Vnto the darkest woods and there his desolat harbor Makes in a Cypres tree with lightning all to be scortched Or with Winters rage and blacke storms fowly defaced Where on a rotten bow his lyms all heauy reposing Stil doth he grone for griefe stil mourne for his onely beloued Then consum'd with grieuous pangs and weary with anguish Down to the groūd doth he fal with fainting wings fro the barebow Beating dust with wings and feathers fowly beeraying Beating breast with beack til bloud come freshly abounding Till lyfe gushing forth with bloud goe ioyntly together So did Amyntas mourne such true loue made him a mourner O what a vyle boy's this what a greeuous wound what a weapon O what a dart is this that sticks so fast to my heart roote Like as roots to the trunck or life as vine to the Elmetree Iuy ioynd to the walls or greene mos cleeues to the foule ponds O pitiles lous-god poore louers how be we plagued O strong dart of loue which each thing speedily pearceth This dart God Saturne God Mars and great God of al Gods Ioue himself did wound vnles that fame doe beely them Although God Saturne were old and like to a crusht crabb Although Mars were armd with try'd Vulcanian armour Although Ioue with fire and thunder maketh a rumbling Yea thine owne mother thine owne inuincible arrow Hurt and prickt those papps which thou wast wont to be sucking Neither spar'st thou him that raigns in watery kingdome Neither spar'st thou him that rules in feareful Auernus Pluto know what it is with a paltery boy to be troubled Neptune knows what it is by a blinde boyes check to be mated Then since heauen seas and hell are nought by thee spared Earth and earth dwelling louers must looke to be pinched O what gaping earth wil Amintas greedily swallow O what goulf of Seas and
of a father And poore Turtle-doue her mates good company missing Sitts on a naked bough and keeps mee company mourning When that I climbe to the ragged rocks creepe to the mountains Staying feeble knees with a staffe for feare of a falling If that I then curse death and raile on desteny fatal For marring that face those cheeks those yuory fingers Of my sweete Phillis Phillis coms back with an eccho Eccho returns Phillis fiue times fro the rocks fro the mountains Euery beast which heares these woful plaints of Amintas Coms and sitts him downe twixt leggs of wofull Amintas Suffers back to be stroakt with staffe of mourneful Amintas Claps his tayle t'is belly beelowe and moan's with Amintas As that good lionesse which first was cur'd by a Romaine In Romain theater gaue life for life to the Romaine O if such pity were in desteny no pitie taking Phillis I should not misse nor Phillis misse of Amintas If that I come to the banks and cast mine eyes to the waters Waters augmented with these my watery fountains Then these foulemouth'd froggs with iarring tunes do molest me So that I am compeld with bowing knees to be praying Praying vnto the nimphs in bowrs of water abyding That they would vouchsafe to receiue my carkas among them And fro the sight of man fro the light of sunne to remoue it As that loued Hylas they sometimes friendly receaued But yet I wish in vaine and nought can I get by my wishing And of my wishing these lewd winds make but a whistling So nothing contents poore mal-contented Amintas Clogd with an heape of cares and clos'd in an hell ful of horror Then to his homely Cabin by the moone light hasted Amintas The seuenth Lamentation SIxe nights now were past and seu'nth day hastened outward When with fretting cares al spent and wasted Amintas Went to the wood stark wood with great extremitie weeping And to the dul deafe winds his late lost freshly bewayling O how much this Amintas is altred from that Amintas VVhich was wont to be captein of euery company rurall Nothing nimble I am with willowe staffe to be threshing Nor with toothed rake round heycock for to be making Nothing nimble I am my braunched vines to be cutting Nor with sharpe edg'd sucke my fruitful soile to be plowing Nothing nimble I am my scabbed sheepe to be curing Nor with leaping lads with tripping trulls to be daunsing Nothing nimble I am sweete rimes and songs to be making Nor sweete songs and rymes on pleasant pype to be playing My sense is dulled my strength extreamely decayed Since that faire Phillis my loue did leaue me for euer VVho was worthy to liue and worthy to loue me for euer Phillis faire Phillis thou dearling deare of Amintas What lasse durst compare with dearling deare of Amintas For witt for learning for face for seemely behauiour My sweete lasse Phillis was no more like to the gray gowns And countrey milkemaids then nightingale to the lapwing Rose to the greene willow or siluer swan to the swallow Phillis amidst faire maids did fairemaids company countnance As ripe corne doth fields as clustred grapes do the vinetrees As stout bulls do the droues as bayleaus beautifie gardens Phillis name and fame which is yet freshly remembred Passed abroad so farre so farre surpast Amarillis As that it yrkt and grieu'd disdainful prowd Amaryllis Who stil thought her selfe for beauties praise to be peereles But let her hartful of hate stil pine let her eyes ful of enuy Stil be resolu'd in teares Phillis surmounts Amaryllis Phillis dead is aliue and so shal liue to the worlds end Phillis praise shal scape from death and graue to the worlds end But what auails it alas dead Phillis now to be praysing Phillis alas is dead tis too late now to be praysing And to renew old thoughts and fond conceipts by my praising Better it is to be low and neuer climbe to a kingdome Then fro the scepter againe to be tumbled downe to the dunghil For what auails it now that Phillis lulled Amintas Lull'd him a sleepe in her arms and slept her selfe with Amintas Vnder a cooling shade from scorching beams to defend vs Which sight made Aeglon and Mopsus teeth to be watrie Or what auails it now t'haue gathered iointly together Fragrant hearbs and flowres by the mantled fields by the meddows Daffadil and Endiue with mourning flowre Hyacinthus Thyme Casia Violets Lillies and sweete prety roses For nymphs and woodgods gay garlands duely preparing Or what auails it now t'haue pluckt at strawbery brambles Blackebery briers t'haue spoild t'haue bared mulbery braunches With such countrie fruits our baskets heauily loading Or what auails it now t'haue giu'n her so many kisses And t'haue taken againe in like sort so many kisses Or what auails it now t'haue drawn our talk to the morning Or t'haue made our names with box tree barke to be growing Names and vowes which nought but death could cause to be brokē Wofull wretch that I am Phillis forsaks me for all this And forsaken of her death hath possest me for all this And yet I am not sick vnles that loue be a sicknes But death coms creeping and lingring life is a flytting And this differring of death is worse then a dying Lingring fire by degrees hath spent and wasted Amintas As Meleager of old whose life was left in a firebrand Firebrand cast to the fire by the murdring hands of a mother When fatall firebrand burning did burne Meleager Euery day do I weepe and euery houre am I wayling Euery houre and day dismal to the wretched Amintas Yea much more wretched then that poore seely Prometheus Who for his aspyring for stealing fire from Olympus Was by the Gods decrees fast bound with chains to the mountaine Caucasus huge and cold where hee's compelled an Eagle Eagle stil feeding with his owne heart still to be feeding O Pan ô Fauni that loue with maids to bee liuely Leaue your pipes your songs your daunce leaue off to be liuely Ioyne your teares with Amintas teares and mourne with Amintas And mourne for Phillis for Phillis leaueth Amintas Phillis for your sake fine wafers duely prepared Phillis pleasd your eyes whilst Phillis daintily daunced Phillis amidst faire maids was deemed stil to be fayrest And gaue grace to the rest with her eyes and comely behauiour As faire Laurel trees be adornd with beautiful iuye As fine golde is adornd by the shining light of a iasper Since death of Phillis no ioyes enioyeth Amintas Euery good thing's gone Phillis tooke euery good thing Countrey soile laments and countrey men be a weeping And thou garden greene now powre forth plaints with Amintas Phillis thy sweet banks and bedds did water at eu'ning Phillis amidst thy flowres alwayes wast wont to be walking But now no walking but now no water at euning Now best flowre is dead now Phillis gone fro the garden And you Christall springs with streames of siluer abounding Where faire Phillis saw
louer Amintas And thou good Damon driue forth those sheepe of Amintas Least that Amintas sheepe die with their maister Amintas And thou faire Amarillis when thou gang'st to the mountains Driue on Phillis goats faire Phillis goats to the mountains For now tis certaine Ile leaue this life for a better And seeke for mending in a most vnnatural ending Hils and dales farewel you pleasant walks of Amintas Wells and fludds farewell sometime the delyte of Amintas Now shal I neuer more my sorrowes vtter among you Now shal I neuer more with clamors vainly molest you Must then Amintas thus but a stripling murder Amintas O what an imperious princesse is Queene Cytheraea For still watching loue would neuer let me be resting Nor neuer sleeping since Phillis went from Amintas And no longer I can susteine these infinite horrors And pangs incessant which now are freshly renewed And much augmented therefore am I fully resolued Of lingring lou's wound to be speedily cur'd by a deaths wound Thus when he had contriu'd in his heart this desperate outrage And meant fully to die with an hellish fury bewitched What do I stay quoth he now tis losse of time to be lingring Then with a fatall knife in a murdring hand to the heauens Vp did he looke for a while and groan'd with a deadly resounding VVith these words his life and Lamentation ending Gods and ghosts forgiue forget this fault of Amintas Pardon I craue of both this knife shall bring me to Phillis And end these miseries though desteny flatly deny it Eu'n as he spake these words downe fell deepe wounded Amintas Fowling hands and ground with streames of bloud that abounded And good natur'd ground pytying this fall of Amintas In most louing wise very gent'ly receiued Amintas And when he fell by the fall in mournefull sort she resounded Iupiter in meane time and th'other gods of Olympus When they saw his case though great things were then in handling Yet lamented much and then decreed that Amintas Soule should goe to the fields where blessed Phillis abideth And bloody corps should take both name forme of a faire flowre Called Amaranthus for Amintas friendly remembrance VVhylst these things by the gods wer thus decreed in Olympus Senses were all weake and almost gone from Amintas Eyes were quite sightles death pangs and horror aproched Then with his head half vp most heauily groned Amintas And as he gron'd then hee felt his feete to the ground to be rooted And seeking for a foote could finde no foote to be sought for For both leggs and trunck to a stalk were speedily chaunged And that his olde marrow to a colde iuyce quickly resolued And by the same cold iuyce this stalk stil liuely apeared Which strang chang whē he felt thē he lifted his arms to the heauēs And when he lifted his arms thē his arms were made to be branches And now face and heare of Amintas lastly remayned O what meane you gods to prolong this life of Amintas ô what meane you gods with an hollow sound he repeated Vntil his hollowe sounde with a stalk was speedily stopped And faireface and heare bare forme and shape of a faire flowre Flowre with faire red leaus faire red bloud gaue the beginning Then with bow and shaft and painted quiuer about him Vprose Lord of loue from Princelike seate in Olympus And when t'was too late lament's this losse of a louer Speaking thus to the gods of this newe flowre of Amintas Myrtle's due to Venus greene Laurell's due to Apollo Corne to the Lady Ceres rype grapes to the yong mery Bacchus Popplar t'Alcides and Oliues vnto Minerua Gentle Amaranthus thou fairest flowre of a thousand Shalt be my floure hēceforth though thou cam'st from a bleeding Yet bloud shalt thou staunch this gift will I giue thee for euer And by the pleasant fields where gentle minded Amintas Lately bewaild his loue there thy leau's louely for euer Boyes and gyrles and nymphs shal take a delyte to be plucking Take a delight of them their garlands gaye to be making And now in meane time whylst these things were thus a working Good louing neighbours for a long time missed Amintas And by the caues of beasts by the dungeons darke by the deserts And by the hills by the dales by the wells and watery fountains Sought for Amintas long but neuer mett with Amintas FINIS Faults escaped A the first page line 14. wanteth a periode at the end The same page for outragious read outragius Page 2. line 2. for bushing read blushing Page 5. line 4. for lou'd read loued The last line of the same page for fearefull read fearful Page sixt line 4. for throt read throate Page 7. for shall read shal Page 8. for Lephyrus read Zephyrus In the same for venomous read venymous B. In B. the 3. page 2. line for cause thee yeeld read cause to yeeld 5. page line 15. at the end of the line a comma too much Page 7. line 26. for way read was C. In C. the second page for wofull read woful Page 3. line 1. for outward read onward Line 6. of the same page for captein read capten Line 8. for heycock read heycocks Page 5. for boisterous read boysterus Page 8. line 11. for signe read signes D. In D. page 2. line 8. for wanted read wonted Page 3. for will reade wil also for shall read shal Ibid. line 31. for Amintas read Auernus