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The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch Entituled, Amintas dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the pagan gods in English hexameters together with their auncient descriptions and philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fraunce.; Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Part 3
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Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.
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〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 is sayd to be halfe a man and halfe a horse sith surgery and in olde times there was in effect no other part of Physick knowen but surgery is auayleable aswell for horses and other beasts as it is for man and thus much to shew that Phoebus is physicall Now he is also Musicall and therefore Mercurie gaue him a Lute whereon he playeth alluding to the harmonie of the coelestiall Globes and the constancie and vniformitie which the Sun obserueth most strictly in his course as euer keeping the Eclipticall line for which cause he is the master of the nine Muses ruling the concent and melody of the nine Sphaeres The Muses are the daughters of Ioue for all goodnes comes of Ioue and of Mnemosyne Memory Their nurse was Eupheme Honor and Fame for Honos alit artes honor and commendation is a spur to a student They were nine proportionably to the number of the Sphaeres whose gouerning spirites the Platonists and Pythagoreans would haue them to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coelestiall was the first referred to the immoueable Sphaere called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Polymnia to Saturne a great singer or singing much and of many matters Cleio to Mars 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is glory and renowne Melpomene to the Sunne singing celebrating extolling Erato to Venus louing and amiable Euterpe to Mercurie pleasant and delight some Thalia to the Moone florishing These be the eight Muses as it were the tunes of those eight Sphaeres whereof is made the perfect concent and melodious harmonie figured by the ninth called Calliope a sweete concent the chiefe and guide of all the Muses as Ouid witnesseth 5. Metam Dedimus summam certaminis vni meaning Calliope and Finierat doctos è nobis maxima cantus to weete Calliope They are called Musae of the verb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is to teach and instruct a man in those things that are sacred and holy diuine and mysticall whereof came the word mysterie They are also called Camenae à canendo of singing and Pierides of the mount Pierius where they were borne They all hand in hand daunce in a round and Phoebus in the middle all liberall sciences are vnited and chayned together the one depending on the other noting that absolute 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and cohaerent concatenation and continuation of all ingenuous erudition Lastly Phoebus is the father of Oracles and prophecies the eye of the world seeing and hearing all things first as Homer was woont to say and Ouid in imitation of Homer Videt hic deus omnia primus Therefore Laurell is his tree both for that it is alwayes greene and neuer toucht with lightning noting that the fame of vertue and learning is euer flourishing and neuer dyeth as also hoate and odoriferous and as it is reported causeth true dreames being applyed to a mans head and temples and being cast into the fire portendeth good luck if it make a great noyce or crackling bad if either none or but a little Coruus the Crowe is his bird whose different chirps and prognostications of rayne were obserued of soothsayers and diuiners whose maister is Apollo Cicnus the Swan is also his bird the Swan is white and bright as the sunne a singer as Phoebus a foreteller of his owne death and so a diuiner as Apollo Cicnus was king of Liguria he loued Musick and is therefore of Ouid turnd to a Swanne Lastly the cock is Apolloes bird who dutifully saluteth him and bids him good morrow euery morning He is figured a young fresh youth hauing long hayre no beard a lute in the one hand a bowe in the other in a chariot drawen with foure coursers Pyroeis Eous Aethon Phlegon Ignitus Matutinus Ardens Comburens being all Epithetes incident to the nature of the sunne whose Pallace and Chariot are described by Ouid 2. Metam In Latine he is called Sol quasi solus alone and incomparable * The first picture of the Sunne Hercules kild Gerion and brought away his oxen where by Hercules both Pierius and Hesiodus his interpreter vnderstand the Sunne sith he is the glorie and ornament of Iuno that is the ayre for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is Iuno and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is glory And Gerion they make to be winter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to crye or roare thereby noting the roaring and blustring tempests of winter which are calmed and repressed by Hercules that is to say by the heate of the Sunne The Oxen be the crashes of thunder whose feareful sound resembleth the lowing of Oxen and these thundrings are neuer lightly heard but when Hercules hath slayne Gerion when winter is ouerpast by the heate of the Sun Apollo being banished from heauen for killing the Cyclopes fedde Admetus his Sheepe Kine and Oxen by the riuer Amphrysus Oxen set foreward husbandry and the vitall heate and influence of the Sunne is the chiefe cause of increase so then Apollo may well be called a pastor because as Pontanus sayth he feedeth and maintayneth all that liueth Quòd pascat quicquid sub coeli nascitur oris The Assyrians by report of Macrobius especially honoured one God aboue others whom they named Adad which signifieth one to whom they ioyned a Goddes for a companion called Atargatis attributing all to these two by whom they vnderstande the Sunne and the earth The picture of Adad had his beames and rayes inclyning downewardes towarde Atargatis shewing that the heauens worke on and in the earth by influence from the sunne Atargatis was so framed as that her beames ascended vpwardes towardes Adad notyng that whatsoeuer the earth brought foorth it came by operation of the coelestiall vertue Vnder Atargatis was a Lyon signifying that she was the great mother of all things Earth who a◠I shewed before when I spake of Cibele had her chariot drawen by Lyons * The picture of Adad Atargatis Aesculapius was borne by the death of his mother as Ouid telleth the tale in the second of his transformations where after that he had shewed how Apollo in his furie slew Coronis great with Aesculapius hee addeth thus Non tulit in cineres labi sua Phoebus eosdem Semina sed natum flammis vteroque parentis Eripuit geminique tulit Chironis in antrum c. The vertue medicinable is hereby figured drawen from the roots of hearbs when the earth is pierced with the arrowes that is parched by the hoate beams of the Sunne This is deliuered to Chiron the learned and experienced Physitian who thereof frameth wonderfull compositions Aesculapius is made sitting on a high seate with a crowne of Laurell on his head a long beard a knotted staffe in his right hand it is a difficult and hard matter to restore decayed health and a Snake in his left hand a serpent is quick of sight and watchfull so must a Phisitian be A Snake may well bee taken for a signe of health sith as shee by casting her olde
skinne renueth her selfe so the sick and crased body restored to his former health seemeth to be young agayne * Aesculapius his picture The morning is the fore-runner to the sunne yet caused of the sunne She is called the daughter of Thia and Hyperion she is ruddie like roses she hath yellow hayre golden roabes and sitteth on a golden throne Aurora loued Tithonus Laomedons sonne because he fett his wyfe from the East hee being extreamly olde was turned to a Grashopper olde men neuer cease tatling and chirping The distinctions of times called howres Horae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth to keepe doe guide conserue and keepe in order all proceedings whatsoeuer and are the daughters of Ioue and Themis to weete Eunomie Dice Eirene for no way better shall a man perceaue the good or bad dealing of men and the merciful or reuenging power of the Gods then by the change of times howrs therefore they keepe heauen gates and attend on the Sun causing fayre or fowle weather when they lust for the profite or plague of mortall men * The picture â—f Aurora Now to Alphesiboeus his tale Phoebus kild Pytho the heat of the Sun consumed those pestilent vapors left after the deluge causing putrefaction signified by this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereupon some think he was called Apollo of the verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to kill Pontanus Tum tellus grauis imbre adhuc stagnantibus vndis Humida anhela vagos tollebat ad aethera tortus Inuoluens caelum nube caligine opaca Hinc ille immanis Python c. This made Phoebus vaunt yet was he daunted by Cupid and forced affectionately to loue Daphne daughter to the riuer Penaeus whereby is vnderstood that naturall and radicall humor of the earth proceeding from the waters and riuers that moysten her and make her fruitefull The sunne coueteth this moysture sends downe his attractiue beames to draw it vp resolues it into vapors and makes it fit for himselfe On the other side this moysture flieth and withdraweth herselfe from the heate of the sunne as from her deadly foe Againe the violent and piercing beames of the sunne compell this moysture to forsake the vppermost and superficiall parts of the earth retyring backward into the deepest and remotest parts thereof Which being thither come and yet euen thither and there persecuted by the scalding and searching rayes of Phoebus is at last by the meanes of the celestiall powers and help of the watery floods and riuers defended from the violence of Apollo and conuerted into fruitefull trees and plants Daphne is transformed into a laurell tree rather then any other for that by reason of her excellencie continuance florishing greenenesse odoriferous sent and naturall heate shee aboue all other doth shew her constitution to be tempered with due and proportionable commixtion of terrene moysture and celestiall heatâ— Daphne is Penaeus his daughter for by the bankes and meddowes adioyning thereunto an infinite number of lawrell trees were growing Apollo garnished his Lute and Quiuer with Lawrell leaues so should only famous poets worthy of Apollos Lute and renowmed conquerors figured by his Quiuer be crowned with Laurel in token of their neuer-dying glory Laurell is long kept so is the fame of learned and valyant men Laurell is alwaies greene so is their praise eternall and euer-florishing Laurell is hoate and odoriferous so dooth the heauenly-inspired spirit of poets and all-contemning courage of Heroicall mindes breath foorth the sweete sauour of vertues excellency Lastly Laurell is neuer tutcht with lightning and their names are neuer defaced by Obliuion The other tale of youthfull Phaeton and his father Phoebus may first giue vs warning neither to wish vnaduisedly nor sodainely to yeeld to rash demaunds nor vnconsiderately to performe a promise foolishly made Phaeton Semele Theseus and others by their owne wishes procured their owne confusion Phaeton was the sonne of Phoebus and Clymene toweet the heat and inflammation proceeâ—ing from the sunne For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to burne and Clymene is the water 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to ouerflowe and when these ouerflowing vapors eleuated by the sunne are once inflamed then doth this outragious heate breake out Phaeton fell downe into the riuer Eridanus after extraordinary drought folow commonly inundations of waters Phaeton is beaten downe with thunder for these vapors raised vp by the sunne and by the enuironing coldnes of the middle region of the ayre thrust into a narrow straite by strugling for passage cause thunder and lightning til the outrage of that heate bee so consumed Phaetons sisters Phaetusa and Lampetie noting heate and brightnes did so sorowfully lament their brothers death that for pity they were turned into poplar trees that is of this humor and exceeding heate of the sunne many kindes of trees and plants doe plentifully proceede Lucian expoundeth it historically thus Phaeton began seriously to obserue the course and reuolution of the sunne but preuented by death could not finish his attempted enterprise The ethicall moralization which Ouid himselfe tutcheth in his bookes de Tristibus may be this Phaeton a youth and therefore vnable to gouerne will needes be a magistrate but alas it is too great a burden for his weake shoulders Magna petis Phaeton quae non viribus istis Munera conueniunt nec tam iuuenilibus annis The gouernement and administration of a common wealth or kingdome is a heauenly charge Sors tua mortalis non est mortale quod optas It is also as heauy as heauenly The beginning and climing vp is hard and difficult the top thereof subiect to a thousand perills and dangers which make euen the most experienced much to feare and the discent or comming downe is headlong Ardua prima via est quà vix manè recentes Enituntur equi medio est altissima caelo Vnde mare terras ipsi mihi saepe videre Sit timor pauida trepidet formidine pectus Vltima prona via est eget moderamine certo Besides this in a common wealth there be Bulls Centaurs Lyons Scorpions and such like that is sauage and rude people vngentle cruel crafty and enuious to whose open violence and secreate supplanting the gouerner is euer subiect Forsitan lucos illic vrbesque deorum Concipias animo delubraque diti a donis Esse per insidias iter est formasque ferarum Vtque viam teneas nulloque errore traharis Per tainen aduersi gradieris cornua tauri Haemoniosque arcus violentique ora Leonis Saeuaque circuitu curuantem brachia longo Scorpion atque aliter curuantem brachia cancrum Againe the rude rablement of the vulgar sort will hardly be maistred or brought to any conformitie Nec tibi quadrupedes animosos ignibusillis Quos in pectore habent quos ore naribus efflant In promptu regere est vix me patiuntur vbi acres Incaluêre animi ceruixque repugnat habenis These and such other imminent