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A03388	Eliosto libidinoso described in two bookes: vvherein their imminent dangers are declared, who guiding the course of their life by the compasse of affection, either dash their ship against most dangerous shelues, or else attaine the hauen with extreame preiudice. Written by Iohn Hynd.	Hind, John, fl. 1596-1606.	1606 (1606)	STC 13509; ESTC S104128	67,558	100

wilfully the fury of his owne frantike fancie O that the date of his birth had beene the day of his buriall or that by some si●…ister storme of fortune hee had beene stifled on his mothers knees so that his vntimely death might haue preuented my ensuing sorrowes and his future calamities For I see that the yong frie will alwayes prooue olde frogs that the crooked twig wil proue a crabbed tree how that which is bred in the bone will not easily out of the slesh that hee which is carelesse in youth will be lesse carefull in age that where in prime of yeeres vice raigneth there in mature age iniquitie beareth sway Why Amazias if thou seest the ●…ore why doost thou not apply the salue and if thou perceiuest the mischiefe why doost thou not preuent it with a sublimatum Take away the cause and the effect faileth if Eliosto be the cause of thy ruth cutte him off betimes lest hee bring thee to ruine better hadst thou want a sonne than neuer want sorrow Perhappes thou wilt suffer him so long till hee fall sicke of the father and then hee will not onely seeke thy lands and possessions but life and all if thou in time p●…euent not his purpose yea and after thy death hee will be through his lasciuious life the oue●…throw of thy house the consumer of thy kingdome the wracke of thy common-weale and the very man that s●…al bring the state of Cyprus to mischiefe and miserie S●…th then thy sonne is such a sincke of sorrowes in whose li●… lies hid a loathsome masse of wretched mishappes cut him off as a gracelesse graft vnworthy to growe out of such a Stocke Alas most miserable and lamentable case would to God as I said the Destinies had decreed his death in the swadling-clowts or that the Fates had prescribed his end in his infancie then should not I my selfe haue beene as I will be so vnnaturall as to seeke the spoile of mine owne child or more sauage than the bruite beastes in committing such crueltie Herevpon Amazias stumbling as fast as he could to his Peeres reuealed vnto them the whole cause of his distresse requiring their fauourable assistance in these his determinate proceedings Who with rage incens'd promising in what thing soeuer their allegeance hee commanded that his wife and Eliosto should be carried to straite prison vntill they heard further of his pleasure The Gua●…d vnwilling to lay their hands vpon their Queene and Prince and yet fearing the Kings furie went very sorrowfull to fulfill their charge Comming to the Queenes lodging they found her playing with her sonne and other Ladies at Cardes vnto whom with teares doing their message Eliosto and Cleodora were astonished at such a hard censure and finding their galled consciences sure aduocates to pleade in their cases went to Lymbo most willingly where with sighes and teares they past away the time till they might come to their triall Especially Cleodora who after shee had almost blubbered out her eies for griefe fell at length into this passion Infortunate Cleodora and therefore infortunate because thy sorrowes are more then thy yeares and thy distresse too heauie for the prime of thy youth Are the Heauens so vniust the Starres so dismall the Planets so iniurious that they haue more contrarie oppositions than fauourable aspects that their influence doth infuse more preiudice than they can inferre profit Then no doubt if their motions be so maligne Saturne conspiring with all balefull signes calculated the houre of thy birth full of disaster accidents Ah Cleodora thou maist see the birds that are hatched in winter are nipt with euery storme such as flie against the Sunne are either scorched or blinded and those that repugne against nature are euer crossd by Fortune Thy faithfull seruaunt Lucilla foresaw these euills and warned thee by experience thou reiectedst her counsaile and therefore art bitten with repentance Such as looke not before they leape oft fall into the ditch and they that scorne admonition can not possibly auoyd punishment The yoong tygres followe the braying of their olde sire the tender fawnes chuse their food by the old Bucke These bruite beasts and without reason stray not from the limites of nature thou a woman and indued with reason arte therefore thus sorrowfull because thou hast beene vnnaturall Better hadst thou beene borne a Beggar than a Prince so shouldst thou haue brideled Fortune with want where now shee sporteth her selfe with thy plenty Ah happy life where poore thoughts and meane desires liue in secure content not fearing fortune because too lowe For fortune thou seest now Cleodora that Care is a companion to Honour not to Pouertie that hie Cedars are frushed with tempests when lowe shrubs are not toucht with the winde pretious diamonds are cutte with the file when despised pearles lie safe in the sands Delphos is sought by Princes and not by Beggars and Fortunes Altars smoake with Kings presents not with poore mens giftes Happy are they Cleodora that curse Fortune for contempt not for feare and may wish they were not sorrow they haue beene Thou arte a Princesse and yet a prisoner borne to the one by discent assign●…d to the other by despight accused not without cause and therfore oughtest to die without care for patience is a shield against fortune Ah but infamy galleth vnto death and liueth after death Report is plumed with Times feathers and Enuy oftentimes soundeth Fames trumpet thy detected incest shall flie in the aire and thy knowne vertues shall lie hid in the earth One moale staineth a whole face and what is once spotted with infamy can hardely be worne out with Time Die then Cleodora Cleodora die for if the gods should say thou arte guiltlesse yet Enuy would heare the gods but neuer beleeue the gods After that she had many sighs and sobs most bitter teares passd ouer many melancholy thoghts one while seeing death ready to execute the last part of sorrow another while seeing sorrow increasing now looking towards heauen and anone seeing the kinde of hell that she liued in now reuiuing with a hope of some vnlooked for happinesse and by and by stroke dead with the despaire of all hope almost whatsoeuer In fine so beset with sorrowe as she had almost no thought of comfort in the midst of all this misery throwing herselfe vpon her bed after shee had laine a while musing vpon her incomparable crosses shee tooke penne and incke and paper and as a woman halfe bestraught wrote this issue of her humour being indeede a fancie which that learned Author N. B. hath dignifi●…d with respect Among the gro●…s the woods and thickes The bushes brambles and the briers The shrubbes the stubbes the thornes and prickes The ditches plashes lakes and miers Where fish nor fowle nor bird nor beast Nor liuing thing may take delight Nor reasons rage may looke for rest Till heart be dead of hatefull spight Within the ca●…e of cares vnknowne Where hope of comfort

house awaked by her sodaine out-cry rose from their rest and first Gatesineaes father started vp whose troubled thoughts presaged some future mishap Nor is it maruell that he did darkely foreknow though he could not plainly foresee so hard a chance for as the smoke issues before the fire flames the lightning is seene before the thunder be heard the Sea swell before a tēpest arise so the minde of man whose continuall motion is an infallible argument of a diuine and immortall essence droopes before danger The dismaied olde man slipping on his night-gowne hastened his aged steps toward his daughters chamber where finding her dead holding the bloody knife in her hand and seeing his enemies sonne in the same bed with her slaine likewise what hee thought I referre to those that hauing one only jewell their liues solace and soules comfort are thereof depriued by the malice of fortune But he distracted with sundry passions sometimes lamented his daughters misfortune sometimes he threatened the trembling nurce then he bewailed the downefall of his house wanting an heire and the extinguished memorie of his name for lacke of succession The silly woman falling on her knees before him besought him to deferre his pretended reuenge on her till shee had vnfolded the cause and manner of that sorrowfull euent which granted shee rehearsed their loues meetings secret nuptials his second mariage enforced by his angry fathers threats and her desperate resolution of reuenge This short and sorrowfull discourse thus finished shee halfe dead with age before nowe cleane dead with feare yielded her spirit to him which gaue it The next morning when the report of this rare misfortune was bruted through the citie the streete wherein Gatesineaes father dwelt was so pestered with the concourse of people that scarce any passage could bee found This thus passing for currant newes through euery mans mouth Dihnohins father was soone aduertised of it by the generall rumor who though astonished ●… so rare a chance yet suffered this misfortune with more courage than his yeeres could affoard knowing that his enemies fortune was no better than his owne Thus did the parents beare the childrens happe whose ghosts are nowe mette in the shadie groue of Mirtle trees fronting the Elyzian fieldes that dreadfull groue the eternall mansion of those vnhappy louers which witnesse their loyaltie to Loues hestes by sacrificing their owne blood and making their owne bodies oblations and it was time for till then his Deitie was despised his Altars emptie his Temples not frequented This groue planted is in Hell Darker groue was neuer seene Where life-loathing Louers dwell Haplesse haue those Louers beene Such oblations beauties treasure Loue receiues with ioy and pleasure But this onely chance did mollifie their indurate hearts which were before so inflamed with priuate malice that they loathed publike agreement But seeing in this infortunate couple the lamentable effects of their dissention they suddainly left Armes ioyning their hands whose hearts had beene so long disioyned they let fall their weapons embraced concord the soueraigne stay of common weales These two sorrowfull fathers earstfoes and now by this misfortune made friends were chiefe mourners at their childrens funerals who beeing vnited by Loues lawes had Loues right for though their mindes were at their deaths diuided yet were their bodies both in one tombe inclosed Amazias was not so much perplexed at the information of these tidings as well pleased that at length these seditious stormes of ambitious enuie were through an inuiolable league of amiti●… qualified and quietly ended The King as hee himselfe thought thus blest with earthly fauours doubted no misfortune for he could see no way for him to mishap nay if hee had beene wise he might the more haue feared miserie in that he was so fully pampered vp with felicitie Fortune yea fortune in fauouring him made him most infortunate Syren-like hiding vnder musicke miserie vnder pleasure paine vnder mirth mourning like the sugred honie-combe which while a man toucheth hee is stung with Bees Shee presenteth faire shapes which prooue but fading shadowes shee proffereth mountaines and perhaps keepeth promise but the gaines of these golden mines is losse and miserie None rode on Seianus horse which got not some mishap none toucht the gold 〈◊〉 Tholossa whom some disaster chance likewise did not assaile neither hath any bin aduanced by Fortune which in time hath not bin crossed with some haplesse calamitie These things the King found answerable vnto veritie the issue whereof brought no lesse vnto him than the vtter ruine and suddaine confusion of his kingdome For Rawcikew liuing in his court noting as I said before Eliostoes entertainment by Cleodora his more than ordinarie obseruation of dutie her affectionate opinion of him and his assiduate repaire vnto her lodging and his long abode with her gathered by these circumstances how that the conuoy of their proceedings was but for the obscuritie of affection with whom beyond credit it was most brutish and out of measure vnreasonable Wherefore continuing his vigilant obseruations in the ende he discouered the very secrecie of their attempts to the great satisfaction of his blood-thirstie spirits Nowe quoth hee since their sinnes are come to the ripenesse of their abomination I vowe by that bright Lampe Heauens ornament that speedie information shall bee giuen to the King that so their wanton and lasciuious incontinencie may bee liable to the punishing racke of iustices seueritie and for this purpose hee attending the benigne leisure of opportunitie it chanced as Amazias two or three daies after walked towards the stable for the viewe of his horse that then the infortunate Prince blinded with the folly of impetuous concupiscence assailed his mother after the inordinate pleasures which haue beene heretofore sufficiently declared But their Argus which slept not at all in a furious extasie posting to the king presently cōducted him to such a place where he was the perfect spectator of their most vitious d●…ested practises The king hardly moderating the vehemency of his rage from breaking the doore vpon them betooke himselfe to his closet where beeing cumbered with cholerike cogitations and perplexed with despitefull passions inflamed with wrathful fury he fel into these termes Now quoth he I prooue by experience the saying of Sophocles to be true that the man which hath many children shall neuer liue without some mirth nor die without some sorrow for if they be vertuous he shall haue cause wherof to reioyce if vicious whereof to be sad which saying by this spectacle I trie performed in my selfe for I haue but one childe which should haue beene the inheritour of my kingdome I see so addicted vnto vanitie that hee is a fretting corrasiue to my wounded heart For what griefe is there more pinching what crosse more pernitious what paine more griping what plague more combersome yea what trouble can torment me worse than to see my sonne to haue consumed his time in ryot after this manner folowing