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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18417	Ouids banquet of sence A coronet for his mistresse philosophie, and his amorous zodiacke. VVith a translation of a Latine coppie, written by a fryer, anno Dom. 1400.; Ovids banquet of sence.	Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.; Stapleton, Richard, fl. 1595, attributed name.; Map, Walter, fl. 1200. Phillis and Flora. English.; R. S., Esquire.	1595 (1595)	STC 4985; ESTC S104945	31,287	70

inuoke Neuer was any sence so sette on fire With an immo●tall ardor as myne eares Her fingers to the strings doth speeche inspire And numbered laughter that the deskant beares To hir sweete voice whose species through my sence My spirits to theyr highest function reares To which imprest with ceaseles con●luence It vseth them as propper to her powre Marries my soule and makes it selfe her dowre Me thinks her tunes flye guilt like Attick Bees To my eares hi●es with hony tryed to ayre My braine is but the combe the wax the lees My soule the Drone that liues by their affayre O so it sweets refines and rauish●th And with what sport they sting in theyr repayre Rise then in swarms and sting me thus to death Or turne me into swounde possesse me whole Soule to my life and essence to my soule Say gentle Ayre ô does it not thee good Thus to be smit with her correcting voyce Why daunce ye not ye daughters of the wood W●ther for euer if not now reioyce Rise stones and build a Cittie with her notes And notes infuse with your most Cynthian noyse To all th● Trees sweete flowers and christall Flotes That crowne and make this cheerefull Garden quick ● Vertue that euery ●uch may make such Musick O that as man is cald a little world The world might shrink into a little man To heare the notes about this Garden hurld That skill disperst in tunes so Orphean Might not be lost in smiting stocks and trees That haue no eares but growne as it began Spred theyr renownes as far as Phoebus sees Through earths dull vaines that shee like heauen might moue In ceaseles Musick and be fill'd with loue In precious incense of her holy breath My loue doth offer Hecatombs of notes To all the Gods who now despise the death Of Oxen Heifers Wethers Swine and Goates A Sonnet in her breathing sacrifiz'd Delights them more then all beasts bellowing throates As much with heauen as with my hearing priz'd And as guilt Atoms in the sunne appeare So greete these sounds the grissells of myne eare Whose pores doe open wide to theyr regreete And my implanted ayre that ayre embraceth Which they impresse I feele theyr nimble feete Tread my eares Labyrinth theyr sport amazeth They keepe such measure play themselues and dance And now my soule in Cupids Furnace blazeth Wrought into furie with theyr daliance And as the fire the parched stuble burns So fades my flesh and into spyrit turns Sweete tunes braue issue that from Iulia come Shooke from her braine armd like the Queene of Ire For first conceiued in her mentall wombe And nourisht with her soules discursiue fire They grew into the power of her thought She gaue them dounye plumes from her attire And them to strong imagination brought That to her voice wherein most mouinglye Shee blessing them with kysses letts them flye Who flye reioysing but like noblest mindes In giuing others life themselues do dye Not able to endure earthes rude vnkindes Bred in my soueraigns parts too tenderly O that as Intellects themselues transite To eache intellegible quallitie My life might passe into my loues conceit Thus to be form'd in words her tunes and breath And with her kysses sing it selfe to death This life were wholy sweete this onely blisse Thus would I liue to dye Thus sence were feasted My life that in my flesh a Chaos is Should to a Golden worlde be thus dygested Thus should I rule her faces Monarchy Whose lookes in seuerall Empires are inuested Crown'd now with smiles and then with modesty Thus in her tunes diuision I should raigne For her conceipt does all in euery vaine My life then turn'd to that t'each note and word Should I consorte her looke which sweeter sings Where songs of solid harmony accord Rulde with Loues ●ule and prickt with all his stings Thus should I be her notes before they be While in her blood they sitte with fierye wings Not vapord in her voyces stillerie Nought are these notes her breast so sweetely frames But motions fled out of her spirits flames For as when steele and flint together smit With violent action spitt forth sparkes of fire And make the tender tynder burne with it So my loues soule doth lighten her desire Vppon her spyrits in her notes pretence And they conuaye them for distinckt attire To vse the Wardrobe of the common sence From whence in vailes of her rich breath they flye And feast the eare with this felicitye Me thinks they rayse me from the heauy ground And moue me swimming in the yeelding ayre As Zephirs flowry blas●s doe tosse a sounde Vpon their wings will I to Heauen repayre And sing them so Gods shall descend and heare Ladies must bee ador'd that are but fayre But apt besides with art to tempt the eare In notes of Nature is a Goddesse part Though oft mens natures notes please more then Art But heere are Art and Nature both confinde Art casting Nature in so deepe a trance That both seeme deade because they be diuinde Buried is Hea●en in earthly ignorance Why break● not men then strumpet Follies bounds To learne at this pure virgine vtterance No none but Ouids eares can sound these sounds Where sing the harts of Loue and Poesie Which make my M●se so strong she works too hye Now in his glowing eares her tunes did sleepe And as a siluer Bell with violent blowe Of Steele or Iron when his soundes most deepe Doe from his sides and ayres soft bosome flowe A great while after murmures at the stroke Letting the hearers eares his hardnes knowe So chid the Ayre to be no longer broke And left the accents panting in his eare Which in this Banquet his first seruice were HEerewith as Ouid something neerer drew Her Odors odord with her breath and brest Into the sensor of his sauor flew As if the Phenix hasting to her rest Had gatherd all th'Arabian Spice●e T'enbalme her body in her Tombe her nest And there lay burning gainst Apollos eye Whose fiery ayre straight piercing Ouids braine Enflamde his Muse with a more odorouse vaine And thus he sung come soueraigne Odors come Restore my spirits now in loue consuming Wax hotter ayre make them more sauorsome My fainting life with fresh-breath'd soule perfuming The flames of my disease are violent And many perish on late helps presuming With which hard fate must I yet stand content As Odors put in fire most richly smell So men must burne in loue that will excell And as the ayre is rarefied with heate But thick and grosse with Summer-killing colde So men in loue aspire perfections seate When others slaues to base desire are sold And if that men neere Ganges liu'd by sent Of Flowres and Trees more I a thousand fold May liue by these pure fumes that doe present My Mistres quickning and consuming breath Where her wish flyes with power of life and death Me thinks as in these liberall fumes

to the instruments doe 〈◊〉 But old Sile●●s playes not swee●e In consort but indents the streete 90 The spring sleepe did his temple● lod As on a long-●ard Asse he rod Laughters excesse to s●● him nod Dissolu'd the bosome of the God 91 Fresh cups he euer calles vpon In sounds of ●●perfection With age and Bacchus o●ergon They stop his voyces Organon 92 Amongst this gamesome Crew is seene The issue of the Cyprian Queene Whose head and shoulders feathered beene And as the starres his countnance sheene 93 In his left hand his Bow hee bare And by his side his Quiuer ware In power hee sits past all compare And with his flames the world doth dare 94 A Scepter in his hand he held With Chloris natiue flowrs vntild And Nectars deathlesse odors stild From his bright locks the Sun did guild 95 The triple Graces there assist Sustaining with their brests commist And knees that Tellus bosome kist The Challice of this Amo●ist 96 These Vergins now approched neere And worshipped exempt from feare Loues God who was en●irond there With youth tha● honord stiles did beare 97 Theyr ioy is super excellent To see a Court so conflu●●● Whom Cupid seeing theyr intent He doth with greeting interuent 98 He asks the cause for which they came They confidently tell the same And he giues prayse to either Dame That durst so great a war proclame 99 To both he spake to make some pause Vntill theyr honorable cause Profoundly weighd in euery clause Might be expland with all applause 100 He was a God which well they know Rehersall needs it not bestow They lite and rest and plainly show Where loue striues loue will maister growe 101 Loue Lawes and Iudges hath in fee Nature and Vse his Iudges be To whom his whole Courts censures flee Since past and things to come they see 102 These do the hart of iustice trie And show the Courts seueritie In iudgment and strong custom● eye The Clarke is first for venerie 103 Gainst which the Virgines nothing stro●e Since loues high voyce did it approue So both to theyr abods remoue But as at first rest firme in loue Explicit Rhithmus Phillidis ●t Flor● Certamen inter Phillidem Floram. ANni parte florida coelo puriore Picta terra graminis vario colore Cum fugaret nubila nuncius aurorae Liquit sopor oculos Phyllidis Flora Placuit virginibus ire spatiatum Nam soporem reiicit pectus sauciatum Aequis ergo passibus exeunt in pra●um Vt et locus facia● ludum esse gratum Eunt ambae virgines amb● Regin● Phyllis coma libera Flora compto crine Nec sunt form● virginum sed form● diuin● Et respondent facies luci matutinae Nec stirpe nec specie nec ornatu viles Et annos animos habent iuueniles Sed sunt parum impares et parum hostiles Nam huic placet Clericus huic placet Miles Non est differentia corporis aut oris Sunt vnius voti sunt vnius moris Omnia communia sunt i●tus et foris Sola differentia modus est a●●ris Susurrabit modicum ventus tempestiuus Locus erat viridi gramine festiuus Et in ipso gramine defluebat riuus Viuus atque garrulo murmure lasciuus Ad augmentum decoris et caloris min●s Fuit iuxta riuulum speciosa pi●us Venustata folio late pandens sin●s Nec intrare poterat calor peregrinus Consedere virgines herba sedem dedit Phyllis iuxta riuulum Flora longe sedit Et dum sedit vtraque et ●n s●se redit Amor corda vi●nerat et vtramque ladit Amor est interius latens et occultus Et breui certissimos elicit singultus Pallor genas in●icit alternantur vultus Sed in verecundia fur 〈◊〉 est 〈◊〉 Phyllis 〈…〉 Et hanc 〈…〉 Altera sic alter● 〈…〉 〈…〉 Ille sermo mutuus 〈◊〉 hab●t ●ore Et est quadam series 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 Amor est 〈…〉 e●t in ore Tandem Phillis incip●t et arridi● Florae Miles inquit incli●● 〈…〉 Paris Ubim●d● militas et vbi mor●●is O vita militiae vita singularis Sola digna gaudi● Da●●nai l●ris Dum ●●lla recoli● militem amicum Flora ridens oculos i●cet in obliqum Et in risu l●quitur verbum 〈◊〉 Amo inquit poteras dicere mendicu● Sed quid Alcibiades facit mea cura Res creata digni●● o●●ni creatura Quem beauit omnibus gratiis natura O sola falicia Clericorum iura Floram Phyllis arguit de sermone duro Et sermone loquitur Floram commoturo Nam ecce virgunculam inquit credo puro Cuius pectus mobile seruit Epicuro Surge surge misera de furore f●do Solum esse Clericum Epicurum credo Nihil elegantiae Clerico concedo Cuius implet latera moles et pinguedo A castris Cupidinis cor habet remotum Qui somnum desiderat et cibum potum O puella nobilis omnibus est notum Quantum distat militis ab hoc voto votum Solis necessariis Miles est contentus Somno cibo potui non vi●it intentus Amor illum prohibet ne sit somnolentus Nam est vita Militis amor et i●uentus Quis amicos copulit nostros loro pari Lex Natura prohibent illos copulari Meum semper praemium dare tuo dari Meus nouit ludere tuus epulari Haurit flora sanguinem vulta verecundo Et apparet pulchrior in risu s●cundo Et tandem eloquio reserat facundo Que corde conceperat artibus faecundo Satis inqui● libere Phylli● es loquuta Multum es eloquio v●lox et acuta Sed non efficaciter verum prosequuta Vt per te praeualeat lilio cicuta Dixisti de Clerico qui indulgit sibi Seruum somni nominas potus ●ibi Sic sole● ab inuido probitas describi Ecce parem pattere respondebo tibi Tot et tanta fat●or c. FINIS Auditus Olfactus Visus Gustus Tactus * Cyrrhus is a surname of the Sun frō a towne called Cyrrha where he was honored * By Prosopopaeia he makes y ● fountaine y ● eye of the round Arbor as a Diam●nt seemes to be the eye of a Ring and therefore sayes the Arbor sees with the Fountaine * In this allusion to the birth of Pallas he shewes the conceit of her Sonnet both for matter and not● and by Metaphor hee exprasseth how shee deliuered her words tunes which was by commision of the order Philosophers set downe in apprehension of our knoweledge and effection of our sences for first they affirme the species of euery obiect propagates it selfe by our spirites to our common sence that deliuers it to the imaginatiue part that to the Cogitatiue the Cogitatiue to the Passiue Intelect the Passiue Intelect to that which is called Diano●s or Di●c●rsus and that deliuers it ●p to the minde which order hee obserue in her vtterance * The Philosopher saith Intellectus in ipsa intellegibilia transit vpon whi●h is grounded thys inuention tha● in the same manner his life might passe into hys Mistres con●eite intending his intellectuall life or soule which by this Analogie should bee Intellectus her cōceit Intel●igibilis * This hath reference to the order of her vtter●nce exprest before * So is thys lykew●●e ●eferd to the 〈◊〉 aboue said 〈◊〉 the m●re 〈◊〉 Olfactus * By this all●sion drawne from the effects of sounds and Odors hee imitates the eternitie of Vertue saying the ●ertues of good mē liue in them because they stir vp pure enclinations to the like as if infusde in per●umes sounds Besides he infers that such as are neyther delighted with sounds intēding by sound● all vtterance of knowledge as well as musicall affections nor with Odors w c properly drye the braine delight the instruments of the soule making them the more capable of her faculties such saith hee perrish without memorie * Allusion to the tr●nsformatiō of Acteon with the sight of Diana A simile expressing the manner of his minds cōtention in the desire of her sight and feare of her displeasure * The amplification of this simile is taken frō the blisfull state of soules in Elisi●● as ●●rgill fa●es and expre●●eth a regenerate beauty in all life perfection not intimating any r●st of death But in peace of that eternall spring he poy●teth to that life of life thys beauty-clad naked Lady He calls her body as it were diuided with her breasts y ● fields of Paradise and her armes legs the famous Riuers in it * Hee intends the office her fingers in attyring her touching thys of theyr c●●●ses in theyr inflection following theyr playing vpon an Instrument * At the Sun going downe shadowes grow longest whereupon this Embleme is deuised * Sight is one of the three sences that hath his mediū extrinsecally which now supposed wanting lets the sight by the close apposition of the Lawrell the application wherof hath many constructions * The Sun hath as much time to campasse a Diall as the world therfore y ● world is placed in the Dyall expressing the cōceite of the Emprese morally which hath a far higher intention Narratio * Ouid standing behind her his face was seene in the Glasse * Actio cernendi in homine vel a●●mali ●idente collocanda est Ari●to● * In Cerebro est principium sentiend● et inde nerui qui instrumenta sunt motus voluntarij oriuntur * Natura est vniuscuiusque Fatum 〈◊〉 Theophr Gustus Alterationē pati est sentire * He intends the common sence which is centrum sensibus et speciebus cals it last because it dooth sapare in effectione sensuum Corynna Ouid. * Qua ratione fiat Eccho Tactus