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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20410	The shepheardes complaint A passionate eclogue, written in English hexameters: wherevnto are annexed other conceits, brieflie expressing the effects of loues impressions, and the iust punishment of aspiring beautie. By I.D.	Dickenson, John, romance writer.	1596 (1596)	STC 6820; ESTC S105354	11,229	24

to deride thy peine But to reioyce that I alone could ease thee Sob then no more but if thou loue at all Esteeme no freedome like this pleasing thrall Shepheard SWeet thrall first step to loues felicitie Shepheardesse Sweete thrall no stop to perfect libertie Shep. O life Shee What life He. Sweete life Shee No life more sweete He. O loue Shee What loue He. Sweete loue Shee No loue more meete Thus with her kinde conclusion knitting liues sweetnesse with loues solace she relieud the fainting Swaine which before halfe dismaide was doubtfull of her fauour and droupt discontent How happie had the siluer-tongud Shepheard bene if coye Amaryllis had pitied his extreames and with lyke kindnesse conuerted his moane into mirth his care into comfort his despaire into hope whose heauenly muse sweete secretarie of his diuine conceit would haue exprest the summe of loues happines in matchlesse lines and encreased the number of conceitfull Arcadians whose wits sharpned with loues pleasures imploying their pennes in dooing homage to loues Altar and publishing their Nymphes praises with neuer-dying blazons of their beauties worth Both true and oft tryed is that saying Amor melle felle foecundissimus Which I will thus English following rather the sence then the sentence Loues sweete is oft mixed with sowre The truth of which assertion is by his misfortunes largely prooued who though wanting no deserts which loue might challenge yet could not compasse that whereto he aymd his desires how iustly then might he set this Lenuoye at the end of his sorrowfull complaint WHat life what loue dooth rest in Womens lookes What hap what hope haue they whom beauty snares Coye dame no bold conceit in seruant brookes But for her captiue still new thrall prepares And loades his heart with new enforced cares Thus hopes he still for that he nere shall finde Such are the trophaes of proud womankinde But this other Shepheard whose fortune made him owner of his eyes choise would haue contradicted his saying if he had heardit accusing him of impatience because hee pend his iniurious censure in too cholericke a veine and doubtlesse would thus haue turnd these disparaging lines and annered them to the end of all his deuises as the summe of his whole opinion WHat life what loue if not in womens lookes What hap what hope like theirs whom beauty snares Faire dame no fond despaire in seruant brookes But for her captiue still new ioy prepares Easing his heart of vnbeseeming cares Thus what he hopes he shalbe sure to finde Such is the sexe of glorious womankinde But ceasing to destant on their thoughts whose fortunes I haue not tryed I wyll proceede to recount what else I sawe Na●e loues wondrous stratagems deserue a déeper medetitation and cannot be thus sleightly conceited I wandred therefore musing more then earst I did on the effects of loue not knowing howe to terme so strange a passion whose diuerse successe did cause seuerall motions in their hearts which were enthrald by fancie and captiuated by affection yet all ending in extreames I thought then that Poets had reason to inuest him with the title of Deitie whose powerfull shafts had not onely pierced the yéelding hearts of mortall men but made a forcible entrance into the relenting thoughts of immortall gods Iupiter himselfe Hominum sator atque deorum felt the force of his aspiring Nephewes fatall weapons else would he not haue courted Leda in the shape of a Swanne wafted Europa in forme of a Bull descended into Danaes lap like a goulden showre besides his other prety sleights which the amorous God did oft practise to beguile his iealous Queene Nor was Apollo ignorant of loues power who being ouermatched by Cupid to whome he durst equall himselfe was forced to ease his ouerburthened heart and vtter his passion exclaming thus in an impatient humor Hei mihi quod nullis amor est sanabilis herbis Physicks God knew no salue to cure such a sore whose incurable vehemencie is proued by his most passionate complaints recorded by Loues Herault in his volume of transformed shapes But whether am I carryed it be séemes not me to descant on loues powerfull souereigntie but to imploy my pen in relating that which I saw or séemd to sée in my morning vision Passing along and viewing many trees whose gorgeous branches garnished with rurall pompe and the pride of Syluanus did somewhat darken the ground with a spatious shade not farre from the rest I espied a Myrtle tree and approching did read written neere vnto the top thus Vnder this tree faire Phyllis did relent And Tityrus receiud his first content And a little vnderneath that thus Faire Queene of loue to whom this tree belongs Next Phyllis thou shalt grace the shepheards songs And vnderneath that againe thus Apolloes laurel to this tree shall yeeld For Phillis deems the Myrtle cheefe in Field And on the other side of the tree thus The sillie Swaine whose loue breedes discontent Thinks death a trisle life a lothsome thing Sad he lookes sad he lyes But when his fortunes malice doth relent Then of loues sweetnesse he will sweetly sing Thus he liues thus he dyes Then Tityrus whom Loue hath happie made Will rest thrise happie in this myrtle shade For though loue at first did grieue him Yet did loue at last relieue him The seate vnderneath the tree was worne with their oft sitting on it for it seemed to be much frequented by Phyllis and her beloued Swaine Héere by I gathered that all Arcadians were not vnhappie but the most fortunate in loue what though Ouid censured thus Fastus inest pulchris Tush that is an imperfection incident to some fewe not a fault common to all Amaryllis was coy Helen had a gadding humour yea but Penelope was chast Laodamia loyall Artemisia louing Lucretia chast thus haue we many proofes to answere any instance of feminine imperfection yet nothing which is mortall can bee absolutely perfect Virgils saying is most true Varium et mutabile semper Femina Euridice which liuing could not bee accused of inconstancie was after death blemished with vnkindnesse because forgetting the couenant of her returne from hell she fondly looked backe The siluer-tongued Thracian whom Apollo had endued with a double gift of musicke and poetrie beeing mooued with this hated and with hatefull disgrace disparadged the woorth of that scxe which before hee had honoured by his matchlesse Art but if I proceed in this vaine I shall fall into a Labyrinth more intricate than the first Scarse had I left that place when I heard a loud noyse of Pipes looking forward I saw a great troupe of mourners towardes whome I paced and drawing néere behelde God Pan formost of this assemblie who sounded a dolefull note on his Oat en pipe Next him came Syluanus Pomona Faunus and all the rurall powers whome the light-foote Satyres followed piping all though harshly yet heauilie Next after these the swift-pacing Wood-Nymphes came whose golden lockes staining the

beautye of Titans beames hoong loose about their shoulders these did strewe flowers on the ground as they went hauing their lappes full and with their voyces agreeing in one sound made a sorrowfull yet sweet consort Next these a coarse couered with a faire hearse curiouslie embrothered and ouer-spredde with choyce plenty of sweetest flowers was carried by foure shepheards on it this short Epitaph in red letters Heere beauties wonder lately slaine doth lie Whome angrie Cinthiaes wrath did doome to die A great troupe of Shepheardes followed this breathlesse coarse which made mee muse the more thinking that it was some rare creature at whose perfections that angry Goddesse did repine as fearing that the report of hir worth would bring her deity into contempt yet destrous to bee throughly resolued I demaunded of him which was the last of the company what this solemne pompe did signifie he courteouslie shaped me this answere Stranger for so thou seemest know that these are the obite rites of faire Amaryllis whome fewe could match in beautie none in pride She refusing the loue and seruice of the best deseruing Shepheard that euer was bred in Arcadia bestowed her fauour on a clownish Swaine his inferiour in all perfections hee it was whome thou sawest following the hearse clad in mournfull attire but sodainelie repenting her choice she did coldly entertaine him thinking him to bee honoured enough and her selfe too much abased by such sleight fauors which she affoorded him yet such as they might haue prolonged the other shepheards life which could not obtein the least courtesie though worthy of the most But proud Amaryllis déeming her selfe better than any mortal creature durst attempt comparisons with the immortal powers matching her selfe in the height of her owne conceit with matchles Diana the soueraigne of these Groues who though sprong of heauenly race yet deignes to blesse Arcadia with her sacred presence The Goddes iealous of her honor aimed at her one of those shafts where with she wounds the flying beasts and depriued the coy girle of life which would haue bereaued her of renowne Thus being slaine by diuine iustice she is honored in her death and her bodie accompanied to the earth with the rusticall musicke of the rurall Dimi-Gods and the celestiall notes of the louely Nrmphes which tune their voyce in a funerall song they purpose to conuey her body to the darkesome Oroue where it is said the fore-lorne Shepheard by her desdeigned leads a solitarie life who if he yet liue may see his wrongs reuenged and the cause of his complaints on whome before he durst not looke lying by his side a breathlesse obiect on whome he may now looke his fill If he be dead her bodie shall be interred where he spent his daies in sorrowe But the losse of Niobe the metamorphosis of wretched Arachne or the death of Marsias might haue warned her to auoyde like presumption Thus hast thou heard the cause of this solemnity brieflie vnfolded but now stranger thou must pardon me I can spend no longer time in these discourses but must hast after my companie This said he left me in a déepe meditation musing at the ineuitable lot of destiny whose successiue chances knit togeather with the chaine of necessitie followe each the other in fatall course the last finishing what the former left vneffected and all discharging the most certain ordinances of diuine prescience But sleepe could not furnish my fancy with such high thoughts as my troubled conceit did affect therefore amidst my dumps I sodainly awaked thus ended my dream which if you vouchsafe to peruse with fauourable censure I shall rest fully satisfied and though I can performe nothing else yet of this I wil be sure not to trouble you with tedious toyes nor manifest mine owne insufficiency in long discourses for then misliking the subiect you would cast it away before yee read halfe or if you bestowed a fewe idle houres in perusing it all you would curse mee that helde you so long in reading a trifle sith you might haue employed that vacant time in viewing matters of more moment and greater pleasure But where Apolloes Lute is silent Pans harsh Pipe may supply a roome which else would blush at the sound of his own musicke You know the saying of Horace Scribimus in docti doctique poemata passim They which are not sufficiently furnished with matchlesse perfections wrought in them by vertue of a diuine Entheos may yet talke of Parnassus thirst for the siluer streames of Helicon and honour the Muses in wordes whose high conceited seruants they cannot match in worth A Scholers Aliquid is better than whole Uolumes of Clownishe lines drawne from the muddie fountaines of Mechanicall braines But seeking freely to excuse I doe fondlie accuse my selfe I wil therfore rest on the hope of your courteous acceptance Imprinted at London for William Blackewall and are to be sold at his shop ouer against Guild-hal Gate