turndst me from the walls whose ports had neuer entertaind Numbers now enter'd ouer whom thy sauing hand hath raign'd And robd my honor And all is since all thy actions stand Past feare of reckoning but held I the measure in my hand It should affoord thee deare-bought fcapes Thus with elated spirits Steed-like that at Olympus games weares garlands for his merits And rattles home his chariot extending all his pride Achilles so parts with the god When aged Priam spide The great Greek come sphear'd round with beames and show'ng as if the star Surnam'd Orions hound that springs in Autumne and sends farre His radiance through a world of starres of all whose beames his owne Cast greatest splendor the midnight that renders them most showne Then being their foile and on their points cure-passing Feuers then Come shaking downe into the ioynts of miserable men As this were falne to earth and shot along the field his raies Now towards Priam when he saw in great Aeacides Priams fright at the sight of Achilles Out flew his tender voice in shriekes and with raisde hands he smit His reuerend head then vp to heauen he cast them shewing it What plagues it sent him Downe againe then threw them to his sonne To make him shun them He now stood without steepe Ilion Thirsting the combat and to him thus miserably cride The kind old king O Hector flie this man this homicide Priam to Hector That strait will stroy thee Hee 's too strong and would to heauen he were As strong in heauens loue as in mine Vultures and dogs should teare His prostrate carkasse all my woes quencht with his bloudy spirits He has robd me of many sonnes and worthy and their merits Sold to farre Ilands Two of them aye me I misse but now They are not enterd nor stay here Laothoe O t was thou O Queene of women from whose wombe they breath'd O did the tents Detaine them onely brasse and gold would purschase safe euents To their sad durance t is within Old Altes yong in fame Gaue plentie for his daughters dowre but if they fed the flame Of this mans furie woe is me woe to my wretched Queene But in our states woe their two deaths will nought at all be seene So thy life quit them take the towne retire deare sonne and saue Troys husbands and her wiues nor giue thine owne life to the graue For this mans glorie pitie me me wretch so long aliue Whom in the doore of Age Ioue keepes that so he may depriue My being in Fortunes vtmost curse to see the blackest thred Of this lifes miseries my sonnes slaine my daughters rauished Their resting chambers sackt their babes torne from them on their knees Pleading for mercie themselues dragd to Grecian slaueries And all this drawne through my red eyes Then last of all kneele I Alone all helplesse at my gates before my enemie That ruthlesse giues me to my dogs all the deformitie Of age discouer'd and all this thy death sought wilfully Will poure on me A faire yong man at all parts it beseemes Being brauely slaine to lie all gasht and weare â—…he worst extremes Of warres most crueltie no wound of whatsoeuer ruth But is his ornament but I a man so farre from youth White head white bearded wrinkl'd pin'd all shames must shew the eye Liue preuent this then this most shame of all mans miserie Thus wept the old king and tore off his white haire yet all these Retir'd not Hector Hecuba then fell vpon her knees Stript nak't her bosome shew'd her breasts and bad him reuerence them And pitie her if euer she had quieted his exclaime He would ceasse hers and take the towne not tempting the rude field When all had left it thinke said she I gaue thee life to yeeld My life recomfort thy rich wife shall haue no rites of thee Nor do thee rites our teares shall pay thy corse no obsequie Being rauisht from vs Grecian dogs nourisht with what I nâ—…rst Thus wept both these and to his ruth proposde the vtmost worst Of what could chance them yet he staid And now drew deadly neare Mightie Achilles yet he still kept deadly station there Looke how a Dragon when she sees a traueller bent vpon A Simile expressing how Hector stood Achilles Her breeding den her bosome fed with fell contagion Gathers her forces sits him firme and at his nearest pace Wraps all her Cauerne in her folds and thrusts a horrid face Out at his entrie Hector so with vnextinguisht spirit Stood great Achilles stird no foote but at the prominent turret Bent to his bright shield and resolu'd to beare falne heauen on it Yet all this resolute abode did not so truly fit His free election but he felt a much more galling spurre To the performance with conceit of what he should incurre Entring like others for this cause to which he thus gaue way O me if I shall take the towne Polydamas will lay This flight and all this death on me who counseld me to leade Hectors discourse My powres to Troy this last blacke night when so I saw make head Incenst Achilles I yet staid though past all doubt that course Had much more profited then mine which being by so much worse As comes to all our flight and death my folly now I feare Hath bred this scandall all our towne now burnes my ominous earâ—… With whispering Hectors selfe conceit hath cast away his host And this true this extremitie that I relie on most Is best for me stay and retire with this mans life or die Here for our citiâ—… with renowme since all else fled but I. And yet one way cuts both these wayes what if I hang my shield My helme and lance here on these wals and meete in humble field Renowm'd Achilles offering him Hellen and all the wealth What euer in his hollow keeles bore Alexanders stealth For both th' Atrides For the rest what euer is possest In all this citie knowne or hid by oath shall be confest Of all our citizens of which one halfe the Greeks shall haue One halfe themselues But why lou'd soule would these suggestions saue Thy state still in me I le not sue nor would he grant but I Mine armes cast off should be assur'd a womans death to die To men of oke and rocke no words virgins and youths talke thus Virgins and youths that loue and wooe there 's other warre with vs What blowes and conflicts vrge we crie hates and defiances And with the garlands these trees beare trie which hand Ioue will blesse These thoughts emploid his stay and now Achilles comes now neare Achilles dreadfull approch to Hector His Mars-like presence terribly came brandishing his speare His right arme shooke it his bright armes like day came glittering on Like fire-light or the light of heauen shot from the rising Sun This sight outwrought discourse cold Feare shooke Hector from his stand No more stay now all ports
thy cause differ farre Sonnes seldome heire their fathers worths thou canst not make his warre What thou assum'st from him is mine to be on thee imposde With this he threw an ashen dart and then Tlepolemus losde Another from his glorious hand Both at one instant flew Both strooke both wounded from his necke Sarpedons Iauelin drew Sarpedon slaugh ters 〈◊〉 The life-bloud of Tlepolemus full in the midst it fell And what he threatned th' other gaue that darknesse and that hell Sarpedons left thigh tooke the Lance it pierc't the solide bone â—…imselfe sore hurt by Tâ—…epolemus And with his raging head ranne through but Ioue preseru'd his sonne The dart yet vext him bitterly which should haue bene puld out But none considerd then so much so thicke came on the rout And fild each hand so full of cause to plie his owne defence T was held enough both falne that both were nobly caried thence Vlysses knew the euents of both and tooke it much to hart That his friends enemie should scape and in a twofold part His thoughts contended if he should pursue Sarpedons life Or take his friends wreake on his men Fate did conclude this strife By whom t was otherwise decreed then that Vlysses steele Vlysses 〈◊〉 Should end Sarpedon In this doubt Minerua tooke the wheele From fickle Chance and made his mind resolue to right his friend With that bloud he could surest draw Then did Reuenge extend Her full powre on the multitude Then did he neuer misse Alastor Halius Chromius Noemon Pritanis Alcander and a number more he slue and more had slaine If Hector had not vnderstood whose powre made in amaine And strooke feare through the Grecian troupes but to Sarpedon gaue Hope of full rescue who thus cried O Hector helpe and saue Sarpedon to Hector My body from the spoile of Greece that to your loued towne My friends may see me borne and then let earth possesse her owne In this soyle for whose sake I left my countries for no day Shall euer shew me that againe nor to my wife display And yong hope of my Name the ioy of my much thirsted sight All which I left for Troy for them let Troy then do this right To all this Hector giues no word but greedily he striues With all speed to repell the Greekes and shed in floods their liues And left Sarpedon but what face soeuer he put on Of following the common cause he left this Prince alone For his particular grudge because so late he was so plaine In his reproofe before the host and that did he retaine How euer for example sake he would not shew it then And for his shame to since t was iust But good Sarpedons men Venturd themselues and forc't him off and set him vnderneath The goodly Beech of Iupiter where now they did vnsheath The Ashen lance strong Pelagon his friend most lou'd most true Enforc't it from his maimed thigh with which his spirit flew Sarpedon in a trance And darknesse ouer-flew his eyes yet with a gentle gale That round about the dying Prince coole Boreas did exhale He was reuiu'd recomforted that else had grieu'd and dyed All this time flight draue to the fleet the Argiues who applyed No weapon gainst the proud pursuite nor euer turnd a head They knew so well that Mars pursude and dreadfull Hector led Then who was first who last whose liues the Iron Mars did seise And Priams Hector Helenus surnam'd Oenopides Good 〈◊〉 and Orestes skild in managing of horse Bold Oenomaus and a man renownd for martiall force Trechus the great Aetolian Chiefe Oresbius that did weare The gawdy Myter studied wealth extremely and dwelt neare Th' Athlantique lake Cephisides in Hyla by whose seate The good men of Boeotia dwelt This slaughter grew so great It flew to heauen Saturnia discernd it and cried out To Pallas O vnworthy sight to see a field so fought And breake our words to Spartas king that Ilion should be rac'â—… And he returne reueng'd when thus we see his Greekes disgrac't And beare the harmfull rage of Mars Come let vs vse our care That we dishonor not our powers Minerua was as yare As she at the despight of Troy Her golden-bridl'd steeds Then Saturns daughter brought abrode and Hebe she proceeds T' addresse her chariot instantly she giues it either wheele Beam'd with eight Spokes of sounding brasse the Axle-tree was steele 〈◊〉 chariot The Felffes incorruptible gold their vpper bands of brasse Their matter most vnuallued their worke of wondrous grace The Naues in which the Spokes were driuen were all with siluer bound The chariots seate two hoopes of gold and siluer strengthned round Edg'd with a gold and siluer fringe the beame that lookt before Was massie siluer on whose top geres all of gold it wore And golden Poitrils Iâ—…no mounts and her hoâ—…e horses rein'd That thirsted for contention and still of peace complaind Minerua wrapt her in the robe that curiously she woue With glorious colours as she sate on th' Azure floore of Ioue Pallas armed And wore the armes that he puts on bent to the tearefull field About her brode-spred shoulders hung his huge and horrid shield Aegis Ioâ—…es â—…ield described Fring'd round with euer-fighting Snakes through it was drawne to life The miseries and deaths of fight in it frownd bloodie Strife In it shin'd sacred Fortitude in it fell Pursuit flew In it the monster Gorgons head in which held out to view Were all the dire ostents of Ioue on her big head she plac't His foure-plum'd glittering caske of gold so admirably vast It would a hundred garrisons of souldiers comprehend Then to her shining chariot her vigorous feet ascend And in her violent hand she takes his graue huge solid lance With which the conquests of her wrath she vseth to aduance And ouerturne whole fields of men to shew she was the seed Of him that thunders Then heauens Queene to vrge her horses speed The thrâ—…e Howâ—…s Guardians of heauen gates Takes vp the scourge and forth they flie the ample gates of heauen Rung and flew open of themselues the charge whereof is giuen With all Olympus and the skie to the distinguisht Howres That cleare or hide it all in clowds or powre it downe in showres This way their scourge-obeying horse made haste and soone they wonne The top of all the topfull heauens where aged Saturns sonne Sate seuerd from the other Gods then staid the white-arm'd Queene Her steeds and askt of Ioue if Mars did not incense his spleene With his foule deeds in ruining so many and so great In the Command and grace of Greece and in so rude a heate At which she said Apollo laught and Venus who still sue To that mad God for violence that neuer iustice knew For whose impietie she askt if with his wished loue Her selfe might free the field of him He bade her rather moue Athenia to the charge she sought who vsd
men and he should liue Then quickly cast he off his hawke the Eagle prince of aire Ioue casts off his Eagle on the Greeks right hand that trust a â—…inde cafe That perfects his vnspotted vowes who seisd in her repaire A sucking hinde calfe which she trust in her enforciue seeres And by Ioues altar let it fall amongst th' amazed peeres Where the religious Achiue kings with sacrifice did please The authour of all Oracles diuine Saturnides Now when they knew the bird of Ioue they turnd couragious head When none though many kings put on could make his vaunt he led Tydides to renewd assault or issued first the dike Dioâ—…d Or first did fight but farre the first stone dead his lance did strike Arm'd Agelaus by descent surnam'd Phradmonides He turn'd his readie horse to flight and Diomeds lance did seise His backe betwixt his shoulder blades and lookt out at his brest He fell and his armes rang his fall Th' Atrides next addrest Themselues to fight th' Aiaces next with vehement strength endude Idomeneus and his friend stout Merion next pursude And after these Euripilus Euemons honord â—…ace The ninth with backward wreathed bow had little Teucer place He still fought vnder Aiax shield who sometimes held it by Teucer seruing vnder Aiax 〈◊〉 And then he lookt his obiect out and let his arrow flie And whomsoeuer in the preasse he wounded him he slue Then vnder Aiax seuen-fold shield he presently withdrew He far'd like an vnhappie child that doth to mother run For succour when he knowes full well he some shrewd turne hath done What Troians then were to their deaths by Teucers shafts imprest Haplesse Orsylochus was first Ormenus Ophelest Detor and hardie Cronius and Lycophon diuine And Amopaon that did spring from Polyemons line And Menalippus all on heapes he tumbled to the ground The king reioyc't to see his shafts the Phrygian ranks confound Who straight came neare and spake to him O Teucer louely man Agamemnon to Teucer Strike still so sure and be a grace to euerie Grecian And to thy father Telamon who tooke thee kindly home Although not by his wife his sonne and gaue thee foster roome Euen from thy childhood then to him though far from hence remou'd Make good fame reach and to thy selfe I vow what shall be prou'd If he that dreadfull Egis beares and Pallas grant to me Th'expugnance of wel-builded Troy I first will honour thee Next to my selfe with some rich gift and put it in thy hand A three-foot vessell that for grace in sacred Fanes doth stand Or two horse and a chariot or else a louely Dame That may ascend on bed with thee and amplifie thy name Teucer right nobly answerd him Why most illustrate king Teucer to Agamemnon I being thus forward of my selfe dost thou adioyne a sting Without which all the power I haue I ceasse not to imploy For from the place where we repulst the Troians towards Troy I all the purple field haue strew'd with one or other slaine Eight shafts I shot with long steele heads of which not one in vaine All were in youthfull bodies fixt well skild in warres constraint Yet this wild dog with all my aime I haue no power to taint This said another arrow forth from his stiffe string he sent At Hector whom he long'd to wound but still amisse it went His shaft smit faire Gorgythion of Priams princely race Who in Aepina was brought forth a famous towne in Thrace By Castianira that for forme was like celestiall breed And as a crimson Poppie flower surcharged with his seed And vernall humors falling thicke declines his heauie brow 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est So of one side his helmets weight his fainting head did bow Yet Teucer would another shaft at Hectors life dispose So faine he such a marke would hit but still besides it goes Apollo did auert the shaft but Hectors charioteere Bold Archeptolemus he smit as he was rushing neere To make the fight to earth he fell his swift horse backe did flie And there were both his strength and soule exilde eternally Huge griefe for Hectors slaughterd friend pincht-in his mightie mind Yet was he forc't to leaue him there and his void place resignd To his sad brother that was by Cebriones whose eare Receiuing Hectors charge he straight the weightie reines did beare And Hector from his shining coach with horrid voice leapt on Hâ—…ctor with a stone at Teucer To wreake his friend on Teucers hand and vp he tooke a stone With which he at the Archer ran who from his quiuer drew A sharpe-pild shaft and nockt it sure but in great Hector flew With such fell speed that in his draught he his right shoulder strooke Where twixt his necke and breast the ioynt his natiue closure tooke The wound was wondrous full of death his string in sunder flees His nummed hand fell strengthlesse downe and he vpon his knees Aiax neglected not to aid his brother thus deprest But came and saft him with his shield and two more friends addrest To be his aide tooke him to fleet Mecistius Echius son And gay Alastor Teucer sigh'd for all his seruice done Then did Olympius with fresh strength the Troian powers reuiue Who to their trenches once againe the troubled Greekes did driue Hector brought terror with his strength and euer fought before As when some highly stomackt hound that hunts a syluan Bore Or kingly Lion loues the hanch and pincheth oft behind Bold of his feet and still obserues the game to turne inclind Not vtterly dissolu'd in flight so Hector did pursue And whosoeuer was the last he euer did subdue They fled but when they had their dike and Pallesados past A number of them put to sword at ships they staid at last Then mutuall exhortations flew then all with hands and eyes Aduanc't to all the Gods their plagues wrung from them open cries Hector with his fowre rich-man'd horse assaulting alwaies rode Hectors terrible aspect The eyes of Gorgon burnt in him and warres vermilion God The Goddesse that all Goddesses for snowie armes out shin'd Thus spake to Pallas to the Greeks with gracious ruth inclin'd O Pallas what a griefe is this is all our succour past Iuno to Pallas To these our perishing Grecian friends at least withheld at last Euâ—…n now when one mans violence must make them perish all Insatisfaction of a Fate so full of funerall Hector Priamides now raues no more to be indur'd That hath alreadie on the Greeks so many harmes inur'd The Azure Goddesse answerd her This man had surely found His fortiude and life dissolu'd euen on his fathers ground By Grecian valour if my Sire infested with ill moods Did not so dote on these of Troy too ielous of their bloods And euer an vniust repulse stands to my willing powres Little remembring what I did in all the desperate howres Of his affected Hercules I euer rescued him In labours of
In honor of the Generall and on a sable cloud To bring them furious to the field sate thundring out aloud Then all enioyn'd their charioteers to ranke their chariot horse Close to the dike forth marcht the foot whose front they did r'enforce With some horse troupes the battell then was all of Charioteers Lin'd with light horse but Iupiter disturb'd this forme with feares And from aires vpper region did bloudie vapors raine For sad ostent much noble life should ere their times be slaine The Troian hoast at Ilus tombe was in Battalia led By Hector and Polydamas and old Anchises seed Who God-like was esteem'd in Troy by graue Antenors race Diuine Agenor Polybus vnmaried Acamas Proportion'd like the states of heauen in front of all the field Troyes great Priamides did beare his al wayes-equall shield Still plying th'ordering of his power And as amids the skie Simile We sometimes see an ominous starre blaze cleare and dreadfully Then run his golden head in clouds and straight appeare againe So Hector otherwhiles did grace the vaunt-guard shining plaine Then in the rere-guard hid himselfe and labour'd euery where To order and encourage all his armor was so cleare And he applide each place so fast that like a lightning throwne Out of the shield of Iupiter in euery eye he shone And as vpon a rich mans crop of barley or of wheate Anâ—…ther câ—…parison Opposde for swiftnesse at their worke a sort of reapers sweate Beare downe the furrowes speedily and thicke their handfuls fall So at the ioyning of the hoasts ran Slaughter through them all None stoopt to any fainting thought of foule inglorious flight But equall bore they vp their heads and far'd like wolues in fight Sterne Eris with such weeping sights reioyc't to feed her eies Who onely shew'd her selfe in field of all the Deities The other in Olympus tops sate silent and repin'd That Ioue to do the Troians grace should beare so fixt a mind He car'd not but enthron'd apart triumphant sat in sway Of his free power and from his seate tooke pleasure to display Iones prospect The citie so adorn'd with towres the sea with vessels fild The splendor of refulgent armes the killer and the kild As long as bright Aurora rul'd and sacred day increast So long their darts made mutuall wounds and neither had the best But when in hill-enuiron'd vales the timber-feller takes Periphrasis of Noone A sharpe set stomacke to his meate and dinner ready makes His sinewes fainting and his spirits become surcharg'd and dull Time of accustom'd ease arriu'd his hands with labour full Then by their valours Greeks brake through the Troian rankes and chear'd Their generall Squadrons through the hoast then first of all appear'd The person of the King himselfe and then the Troians lost Byanor by his royall charge a leader in the host Agamemnons slaughters Who being slaine his chariotere Oileus did alight And stood in skirmish with the king the king did deadly smite His forehead with his eager lance and through his helme it ranne Enforcing passage to his braine quite through the hardned pan His braine mixt with his clotterd bloud his body strewd the ground There left he them and presently he other obiects found Isus and Antiphus two sonnes king Priam did beget One lawfull th' other wantonly both in one chariot met Their royall foe the baser borne Isus was chariotere And famous Antiphus did fight both which king Peleus heire Achilles Whilome in Ida keeping flocks did deprehend and bind With pliant Osiers and for prize them to their Sire resign'd Atrides with his well aim'd lance smote Isus on the brest Aboue the nipple and his sword a mortall wound imprest Beneath the eare of Antiphus downe from their horse they fell The king had seene the youths before and now did know them well Remembring them the prisoners of swift Aeacides Who brought them to the sable fleet from Idas foodie leas And as a Lion hauing found the furrow of a Hind Simile Where she hath calu'd two little twins at will and ease doth grind Their ioynts snatcht in his sollide iawes and crusheth into mist Their tender liues their dam though neare not able to resist But shooke with vehement feare her selfe flies through the Oaken chace From that fell sauage drown'd in sweat and seekes some couert place So when with most vnmatched strength the Grecian Generall bent Gainst these two Princes none durst ayd their natiue kings descent But fled themselues before the Greeks and where these two were slaine Pysander and Hypolocbus not able to restraine Their head-strong horse the silken teines being from their hands let fall Were brought by their vnâ—…uly guides before the Generall Antimachus begat them both Antimachus that tooke Rich guifts and gold of Hellens loue and would by no meanes brooke Iust restitution should be made of Menelaus wealth Bereft him with his rauisht Queene by * Paris Alexanders stealth Atrides Lion-like did charge his sonnes who on their knees Fell from their chariot and besought regard to their degrees Who being Antimachus his sonnes their father would affoord A worthie ransome for their liues who in his house did hoord Much hidden treasure brasse and gold and steele wrought wondrous choise Thus wept they vsing smoothing terms and heard this rugged voice Agamemâ—… to Pysander and Hippolochus Breath ' from the vnrelenting king If you be of the breed Of stout Antimachus that staid the honorable deed The other Peeres of Ilion in counsell had decreed To render Hellen and her wealth and would haue basely slaine My brother and wise Ithacus Ambassadors t' attaine The most due motion now receiue wreake for his shamefull part This said in poore Pysanders breast he fixt his wreakfull dart Who vpward spread th' oppressed earth his brother croucht for dread And as he lay the angrie king cut off his armes and head And let him like a football lie for euerie man to spurne Then to th' extremest heate of fight he did his valour turne And led a multitude of Greeks where foote did foote subdue Horse slaughterd horse Need featherd flight the batterd center flew In clouds of dust about their eares raisd from the horses hooues That beat a thunder out of earth as horrible as Ioues The king perswading speedie chace gaue his perswasions way With his owne valour slaughtring still As in a stormie day In thicke-set woods a rauenous fire wraps in his fierce repaire The shaken trees and by the rootes doth tosse them into aire Euen so beneath Atrides sword flew vp Troyes flying heeles Their horse drew emptie chariots and sought their thundring wheeles Some fresh directors through the field where least the pursuite driues Thicke fell the Troians much more sweet to Vultures then their wiues Then Ioue drew Hector from the darts from dust from death and blood And from the tumult still the king firme to the pursuite stood Till at old Ilus monument in midst
charges and so hote the burning fire brands shine Which he though horrible abhors about his glowing eyne And early his great heart retires so Aiax from the foe For feare their fleet should be inflam'd gainst his swolne heart did go As when a dull mill Asse comes neare a goodly field of corne Another simile expressing the maner of Aiax retreate Kept from the birds by childrens cries the boyes are ouerborne By his insensible approach and simply he will eate About whom many wands are broke and still the children beate And still the selfe-prouiding Asse doth with their weaknesse beare Not stirring till his panch be full and scarcely then will stere So the huge sonne of Telamon amongst the Troians far'd Bore showers of darts vpon his shield yet scornd to flie as skar'd And so kept softlie on his way nor would he mend his pace For all their violent pursuits that still did arme the chace With singing lances but at last when their Cur-like presumes More vrg'd the more forborne his spirits did rarifie their fumes And he reuokt his actiue strength turnd head and did repell The horse troopes that were new made in twixt whom the fight grew fell And by degrees he stole retreate yet with such puissant stay That none could passe him to the fleet in both the armies sway He stood and from strong hands receiu'd sharpe Iauelins on his shield Where many stucke throwne on before many fell short in field Ere the white bodie they could reach and stucke as telling how They purposd to haue pierc't his flesh his perill pierced now The eyes of Prince Eurypilus Euemons famous sonne Who came close on and with his dart strooke Duke Apisaon Whose surname was Phausiades euen to the concrete blood That makes the liuer on the earth out gusht his vitall blood Eurypilus made in and easd his shoulders of his armes Which Paris seeing he drew his bow and wreakt in part the harmes Of his good friend Phausiades his arrow he let flie That smote Eurypilus and brake in his attainted thie Then tooke he troope to shun blacke death and to the flyers cride Eurypilus to the Greekes Princes and Leaders of the Greeks stand and repulse the tide Of this our honour-wracking chace Aiax is drownd in darts I feare past scape turne honord friends helpe out his ventrous parts Thus spake the wounded Greeke the sound cast on their backs their shields And raisd their darts to whose reliefe Aiax his person wields Then stood he firmely with his friends retiring their retire And thus both hosts indifferent ioynd the fight grew hote aâ—… fire Now had Neleides sweating steeds brought him and his hurt friend Amongst their Fleet Aeacides that wishly did intend Standing asterne his tall neckt ship how deepe the skirmish drew Amongst the Greeks and with what ruth the insecution grew Saw Nestor bring Machaon hurt and from within did call His friend Patroclus who like Mars in forme celestiall Achilles to troclâ—… Came forth with first sound of his voice first spring of his decay And askt his Princely friends desire Deare friend said he this day I doubt not will enforce the Greeks to swarme about my knees I see vnsufferd Need imployd in their extremities Go sweet Patroclus and enquire of old Neleides Whom he brought wounded from the fight by his backe parts I guesse It is Machaon but his face I could not well descrie They past me in such earnest speed Patroclus presently Obeyd his friend and ran to know They now descended were And Nestors squire Eurimidon the horses did vngeare Themselues stood neare th' extremest shore to let the gentle aire Drie vp their sweat then to the tent where Hecamed the faire Set chaires and for the wounded Prince a potion did prepare This Hecamed by wars hard fate fell to old Nestors share When Thetis sonne sackt Tenedos She was the Princely seed Of worthie king Arsynous and by the Greeks decreed The prize of Nestor since all men in counsell he surpast First a faire table she apposd of which the feet were grac't With blewish mettall mixt with blacke and on the same she put A brasse fruit dish in which she seru'd a holsome Onion cur For pittance to the potion and honey newly wrought And bread the fruite of sacred meale then to the boord she brought A right faire cup with gold studs driuen which Nestor did transfer From Pylos on whose swelling sides foure handles fixed were And vpon euerie handle sate a paire of doues of gold Some billing and some pecking meate Two gilt feet did vphold The antique body and withall so weightie was the cup That being proposd brim full of wine one scarse could lift it vp Yet Nestor drunke in it with ease spite of his yeares respect In this the Goddesse-like faire Dame a potion did confect With good old wine of Pramnius and scrap't into the wine Cheese made of Goates milke and on it sperst flow'r exceeding fine In this sort for the wounded Lord the potion she prepar'd And bad him drinke for companie with him old Nestor shar'd Thus physically quencht they thirst and then their spirits reuiu'd With pleasant conference And now Patroclus being arriu'd Made stay at th' entrie of the tent old Nestor seeing it Rose and receiu'd him by the hand and faine would haue him sit He set that courtesie aside excusing it with hast Since his much to be reuerenc't friend sent him to know who past Wounded with him in chariot so swiftly through the shore Whom now said he I see and know and now can stay no more You know good father our great friend is apt to take offence Whose fierie temper will inflame sometimes with innocence He answerd When will Peleus sonne some royall pittie show Nestor to Patrociâ—… On his thus wounded countrimen Ah is he yet to know How much affliction tires our host how our especiall aide Tainted with lances at their tents are miserably laide Vlysses Diomed our King Euripylus Machaon All hurt and all our worthiest friends yet no compassion Can supple thy friends friendlesse breast Doth he reserue his eye Till our fleet burne and we our selues one after other die Alas my forces are not now as in my yonger life Oh would to God I had that strength I vsed in the strife Betwixt vs and the Elians for Oxen to be driuen When Itumonius loâ—…tie soule was by my valour giuen As sacrifice to destinie Hypporocus strong sonne That dwelt in Elis and fought first in our contention We forrag'd as proclaimed foes a wondrous wealthie boote And he in rescue of his Herds fell breathlesse at my foote All the Dorpe Bores with terror fled our prey was rich and great Twise fiue and twentie flocks of sheepe as many herds of neate As many goates and nastie swine a hundred fiftie mares All sorrell most with sucking foales and these soone-monied wares We draue into Neileus towne faire Pylos all by night My fathers heart
Parapet Aiax and all resisted them Clamor amongst them rose The slaughter Aiax led who first the last deare sight did close Of strong Epicles that was friend to Ioues great Lycian sonne Amongst the high munition heape a mightie marble stone Lay highest neare the Pinnacle a stone of such a paise That one of this times strongest men with both hands could not raise Yet this did Aiax rowse and throw and all in sherds did driue Epicles foure-topt caske and skull who as ye see one diue In some deepe riuer left his height life left his bones withall Teucer shot Glaucus rushing vp yet higher on the wall Glaucus wounded by Teucer Where naked he discernd his arme and made him steale retreat From that hote seruice lest some Greeke with an insulting threat Beholding it might fright the rest Sarpedon much was grieu'd At Glaucus parting yet fought on and his great heart relieu'd Sarpedon reuengeth Glaucus A little with Alcmaons blood surnam'd Thestorides Whose life he hurld out with his lance which following through the prease He drew from him Downe from the towre Alcmaon dead it strooke His faire armes ringing out his death Then fierce Sarpedon tooke In his strong hand the battlement and downe he tore it quite The wall stript naked and brode way for entrie and full fight He made the many Against him Aiax and Teucer made Teucer the rich belt on his breast did with a shaft inuade But Iupiter auerted death who would not see his sonne Die at the tailes of th'Achiue ships Aiax did fetch his run And with his lance strooke through the targe of that braue Lycian king Yet kept he it from further passe nor did it any thing Dismay his mind although his men stood off from that high way His valour made them which he kept and hop't that stormie day Should euer make his glorie cleare His mens fault thus he blam'd O Lycians why are your hote spirits so quickly disinflam'd Sarpedon to hiâ—… souldiers Suppose me ablest of you all t is hard for me alone To ruine such a wall as this and make Confusion Way to their Nauâ—…e lend your hands What many can dispatch One cannot thinke the noble worke of many hath no match 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The wise kings iust rebuke did strike a reuerence to his will Through all his souldiers all stood in and gainst all th'Achiues still Made strong their Squadrons insomuch that to the aduerse side The worke shewd mightie and the wall when t was within desâ—…ride No easie seruice yet the Greeks could neither free their wall Of these braue Lycians that held firme the place they first did skale Nor could the Lycians from their fort the sturdie Grecians driue Nor reach their fleet But as two men about the limits striue Admiranda pene inimitabilis comparatio saith Spond and yet in the explication of it he thinkes all superâ—… but three words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exiguo in loco leauing out other words more expressiue with his old rule vno pede c. Of land that toucheth in a field their measures in their hands They mete their parts out curiously and either stiffely stands That so farre is his right in law both hugely set on fire About a passing little ground so greedily aspire Both these foes to their seuerall ends and all exhaust their most About the verie battlements for yet no more was lost With sword and fire they vext for them their targes hugely round With Oxehides lin'd and bucklers light and many a ghastly wound The sterne steele gaue for that one prise whereof though some receiu'd Their portions on their naked backs yet others were bereau'd Of braue liues face-turnd through their shields towres bulwarks euery where Were freckled with the blood of men nor yet the Greeks did beare A simile suâ—…ior to the other in which comparing mightiest things with mea â—…est the mea â—…est illustrating the mightiest both meeting in one end of this lifes preseruatioÌ„ and credit our Hom. is beyond comparison and admiration Hector to the Troâ—…ans Base back-turnd faces nor their foes would therefore be outfac't But as a Spinster poore and iust ye sometimes see strait lac't About the weighing of her web who carefull hauing charge For which she would prouide some meanes is loth to be too large In giuing or in taking weight but euer with her hand Is doing with the weights and wooll till Both in iust paise stand So euenly stood it with these foes till Ioue to Hector gaue The turning of the skoles who first against the rampire draue And spake so lowd that all might heare O stand not at the pale Braue Troian friends but mend your hands vp and breake through the wall And make a bonfire of their fleet All heard and all in heapes Got â—…kaling ladders and aloft In meane space Hector leapes Vpon the port from whose out-part he tore a massie stone Thicke downwards vpward edg'd it was so huge an one That two vast * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 duo vâ—…ri 〈◊〉 yoemen of most strength such as these times beget Could not from earth lift to a Cart yet he did brandish it Alone Saturnius made it light and swinging it as nought He came before the plankie gates that all for strength were wrought And kept the Port two fold they were and with two rafters bard High and strong lockt he raisd the stone bent to the hurle so hard And made it with so maine a strength that all the gates did cracke The rafters left them and the folds one from another brake The hinges peece-meale flew and through the feruent little rocke Thundred a passage with his weight th'inwall his breast did knocke And in rusht Hector fierce and grimme as any stormie night His brasse armes round about his breast reflected terrible light Each arme held vp held each a dart his presence cald vp all The dreadfull spirits his Being held that to the threatned wall None but the Gods might checke his way his eyes were furnaces And thus he look't backe cald in all all fir'd their courages And in they flow'd the Grecians fled their fleet now and their freight Askt all their rescue Greece went downe Tumult was at his height The end of the twelfth Booke THE XIII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT NEptune in pittie of the Greeks hard plight Like Calchas both th' Aiaces doth excite And others to repell the charging foe Idomeneus brauely doth bestow His kingly forces and doth sacrifice Othryoneus to the Destinies With diuers other Faire Deiphobus And his prophetique brother Hellenus Are wounded But the great Priamides Gathering his forces hartens their addresse Against the enemie and then the field A mightie death on either side doth yeeld Another Argument The Greeks with Troyes bold powre dismaide Are chear'd by Neptunes secret aide IOue helping Hector and his host thus close to th' Achiue fleeâ—… He let theÌ„ then their own
chopping chopping still And laying on on blocks and trees so they on men laid lode And beate like noises into aire both as they strooke and trod But past their noise so full of bloud of dust of darts lay smit Diuine Sarpedon that a man must haue an excellent wit That could but know him and might faile so from his vtmost head Euen to the low plants of his feete his forme was altered All thrusting neare it euery way as thicke as flies in spring That in a sheepe-cote when new milke assembles them make wing And buzze about the top-full pailes nor euer was the eve Of Ioue auerted from the fight he viewd thought ceaslesly And diuersly vpon the death of great Achilles friend If Hector there to wreake his sonne should with his iauelin end His life and force away his armes oâ—… still augment the field He then concluded that the flight of much more soule should yeeld Achilles good friend more renowne and that euen to their gates He should driue Hector and his host and so disanimates The mind of Hector that he mounts his chariot and takes Flight Vp with him tempting all to her affirming his insight Knew euidently that the beame of Ioues all-ordering scoles Was then in sinking on their side surcharg'd with flockes of soules Then not the noble Lycians staid but left their slaughterd Lord Amongst the corses common heape for many more were pour'd About and on him while Ioues hand held out the bitter broile And now they spoil'd Sarpedons armes and to the ships the spoile Was sent by Menaetiades Then Ioue thus charg'd the Sunne Haste honor'd Phoebus let no more Greeke violence be done Iouâ—… to Phâ—…bus To my Sarpedon but his corse of all the sable bloud And iauelins purg'd then carry him farre hence to some cleare floud With whose waues wash and then embalme each thorough-clâ—…nsed lim With our Ambrosia which perform'd diuine weeds put on him And then to those swift mates and twins sweete Sleepe and Death commit His princely person that with speed they both may carrie it To wealthy Lycia where his friends and brothers will embrace And tombe it in some monument as fits a Princes place Then flew Apollo to the fight from the Idalian hill Apollo sends 〈◊〉 pedoâ—…s body by Sleep and Death to Lyclâ—… At all parts putting into act his great Commanders will Drew all the darts washt balm'd the corse which deckt with ornament By Sleepe and Death those featherd twins he into Lycia sent Patroclus then Automedon commands to giue his steeds Large raines and all way to the chace so madly he exceeds The strict commission of his friend which had he kept had kept A blacke death from him But Ioues mind hath euermore outstept The mind of man who both affrights and takes the victorie From any hardiest hand with ease which he can iustifie Though he himselfe commands him fight as now he put this chace In Menaetiades his mind How much then weighs the grace Patroclus that Ioue giues thee now in scoles put with thy death Of all these great and famous men the honorable breath Of which Adrestus first he slue and next Autonous Epistorâ—… and Perimus Pylartes Elasus Swift Menalippus Molius all these were ouerthrowne 〈◊〉 â—…ling the wals of Troy resisted by Phoebus By him and all else put in rout and then proud Ilion Had stoopt beneath his glorious hand he rag'd so with his lance If Phoebus had not kept the towre and helpt the Ilians Sustaining ill thoughts gainst the Prince Thrice to the prominence Of Troys steepe wall he brauely leapt thrice Phoebus thrust him thence Obiecting his all-dazeling shield with his resistlesse hand But fourthly when like one of heauen he would haue stird his stand Apollo threatned him and said Ceasse it exceeds thy fate Apollo threatens Pâ—…traclus Forward Patroclus to expugne with thy bold lance this state Nor vnder great Achilles powres to thine superiour farre Lies Troyes graue ruine When he spake Patroclus left that warre Leapt farre backe and his anger shund Hector detain'd his horse Within the Scaean ports in doubt to put his personall force Amongst the rout and turne their heads or shun in Troy the storme Apollo seeing his suspence assum'd the goodly forme Of Hectors vnkle Asius the Phrygian Dymas sonne Apollo in shape of Asius to Hector Who neare the deepe Sangarius had habitation Being brother to the Troian Queene His shape Apollo tooke And askt of Hector why his spirit so cleare the fight forsooke Affirming t was vnfit for him and wisht his forces were As much aboue his as they mou'd in an inferiour sphere He should with shame to him be gone and so bad driue away Against Patroclus to approue if he that gaue them day Would giue the glorie of his death to his preferred lance So left he him and to the fight did his bright head aduance Mixt with thâ—… multitude and stird foule Tumult for the foe Then Hector bad Cebriones put on himselfe let go All other Greeks within his reach and onely gaue command To front Patroclus He at him iumpt downe his strong left hand A Iauelin held his right a stone a marble sharpe and such As his large hand had powre to gripe and gaue it strength as much As he could lie to nor stood long in feare of that huge man That made against him but full on with his huge stone he ran Discharg'd and draue it twixt the browes of bold Cebriones Nor could the thicke bone there prepar'd extenuate so th' accesse But out it draue his broken eyes which in the dust fell downe And he diu'd after which conceit of diuing tooke the sonne Of old Menatius who thus plaid vpon the others bane O heauens for truth this Troian was a passing actiue man Patroclus 〈◊〉 at tâ—…e fall of Cebriones With what exceeding ease he diues as if at worke he were Within the fishie seas This man alone would furnish cheare For twentie men though t were a storme to leape out of a saile And gather oisters for them all he does it here as well And there are many such in Troy Thus iested he so neare His owne graue death and then made in to spoile the Chariotere With such a Lions force and fate as often ruining Stals of fat oxen gets at length a mortall wound to sting His soule out of that rauenous breast that was so insolent And so his lifes blisse proues his bane so deadly confident Wert thou Patroclus in pursuite of good Cebriones To whose defence now Hector leapt The opposite addresse A simile expressing Patroclus encounter and Hectors These masters of the crie in warre now made was of the kind Of two fierce kings of beasts opposd in strife about a Hind Slaine on the forehead of a hill both sharpe and hungry set And to the Currie neuer came but like two Deaths they met Nor these two entertain'd lesse mind of mutuall preiudice About the