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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

belong None might craue peculiar ri●…ht Sith they were of equall might He said Beauty ne're preuailed But where Loue the heart assailed Beautie for it selfe admired His shafts causde to be desired For where Loue bredno remorse There had Beautie little f●…rce Psyche was more faire then any Lou'd of few though lik't of many Yet so lik't that none affected Sisters sped but shee reiected Yet quoth Beautie Psyche gaind Cupids heart to her enchainde Where was then his wonted might Uanquish'd by a womans sight Thus fell Loue into a trip Thus shee gald him with a quip He said t' was his owne pr●…curement Shee said it wa●… her allurement Loue said Beautie pleasd the eie But he wrought hearts sympathie Hee said heart when eie had viewd Was by Beauties force subdu'd He said Beauty soone decaid Shee s●…id Loue no longer staid Then while beautie was in prime Thus did both giue place to Time Cupid grieu'd with these replies Fram'd by her in taunting wise Sware by dreadfull Stygian lake Greatest v●…w that Gods can make That he would no more discend Till he did this quarrell end Vowing by his godheads might Beauties darlings to despite Thus he sa●…es and vp he fl●…es Swiftly through the Empire skies If me●… might this strife decide As by men it should be tride Then would all agree in one Beautie can preuaile alone Beautie able to ●…thrall Eies and heart and thoughts and al Y●…t three powers in one a●…enting Stroke mine heart heart soone rele●…ting Eye●… saw beauty and admirde it Loue saw heart through eyes he fir'd it But faire lookes did first constraine Cupids shafts to shape my paine Fairer vertue Beauties ●…ewell Bade me not pronounce Loue cruell Loue that forc'd me to affect Beauties worth by Vertue deck●… Then O three of all the chiefe Ease at last my ●…oathed griefe The Queene hearing all those extreames to growe from affection was in such sort by them captiuated that vailing top-gallant she returned to Eliosto this finall and comfortable resolution The flaxe gentle Eliosto soone flameth and yeeldes but a flash the kinde mushrome soone ripens and as soone rottes the best Emphemerum in the riuer Hippanis is made in a moment and marrd in a minute but contrariwise it must be immoderate heate that engendreth the Salamander which ingendred neuer dieth vntil the fire be extinguished Long time it is before the Lawrell flourisheth which flourishing neuer fadeth with summers blaze or falleth with winters blast The Elephant is borne tenne yeares in the dammes belly but once brought foorth liueth three hundred Therefore thinke me not vnworthie to be worne Eliosto because so long to be wooed For light beli●…fe hath commonly light loue The fish Alphya is engendred with a small showre of raine and therfore is counted no meate for a veluet mouth But good chaffer is not so soone cheapned that which is deere of price is deere and pretious yea that Castle which beares most brunt is deemed most worthy when it is scaled Neither doe I yet condescend to thy petition vnlesse I were pushed therto by thy p●…mise that thou wilt be as faithfull ' as thy protestations are faire Not like the Lightning which flasheth and presently ●…adeth Nor resembling the stone M●…hrax which is of a rose colour but scorched with 〈◊〉 beams becomes chargeable but rather immitating the jem Thra●…ias most burning when thou 〈◊〉 ouerwhelmed with roaring and raging disasters On which conditions thy promises placing ●…nd reposing the irremo●…eable foundation of my faithsull refolution I make thy person the prison of my heart and not only v●…uchsafe thee of some gra●…ts of grant but th●…t thou mayst assure thy selfe the feedes of thy sute to haue beene sowne in a fertile soile for euery graine of Loue buried in my breast I will yeeld thee an eare of fifty corns With that the impatient Louers as if Mars had combatted with D●…me Cytherea for ●…uffring her Boy to make him the marke of his game rose in armes where Loue conquered Pleasure Desire tooke incestuous Delight captiue and litle Cupid like a valiant carpet knight flew into Uenus his mothers bosome Lucilla suspecting no lesse was thunder-stricken with that sod●…ine and sorrowfull imagination that bursting out of an extasie wherein she had long stoode like one beholding 〈◊〉 head lamenting as if shee woulde haue died and in dying made an attonement with Death she sate weeping and wailing for that outragious accident wringing her lili●… white handes and fixing her blubbered eyes on the comfortlesse ground clad in sable habite witnessing her hearts sadnesse and sti●…l crying on the names of Eliosto and Cleodora stil casting out woful inuectiues against the Destinies calling her selfe a most accursed wretch born vnder such vnfortunate planets with that she might heare certaine trumpets sound whereby shee gathered as it was indeede that the King was returning from hunting giuing therefore these Lou●…rs dren●…ht in the full channell of Pleasure this aduertisement for that time they parted Now Eliosto after this was more impatient in his passions For loue so fiercely assayled him that neither Company nor Musike could mittigate his ma●…yrdome b●…t did rather far increase his maladie Shame would not let him craue counsell in this case nor feare of his fathers displeasure reveale it to any friend but was faine to make a Secretary of himselfe and to participate his thoughts with his owne troubled mind Liuing thus a day or two distracted he called to minde the counsell of Cleodora which was that he should insinuate himselfe into the fauor of her maid Lucilla who both could and would pleasure them in their loues Her therefore hee determined to make one of his c●…mplices not for that hee certainely thence expected helpe neither meant desperately to detect his int●…mate secrets without some hope but as the Merchant when with the cruell confederacie of the rocke and surges rage the ship like to a weake stickler hauing all his plancke-ribs rent and riuen asunder committeth his wearied body to the conuoy of a floating boorde as the souldier who being hemmed in on euery side with his enemies rankes neither stands amazed with feare yeelding his naked breasts to the mercilesse jaueline nor desperately rusheth against the poynt of the pike which is not fortitude but folly but to perfourme Natures iniunctions gathereth him selfe wisely within his weapon and striueth with courage to acquite him selfe valiantly Or as the wise phisition which forsaketh not his patient though hee can not finde any soueraigne medicine for his maladie but ministreth such as meere coniectures teach him lest hee discoraged should deliuer to death his patient discomforted Euen so Eliosto thinking to prooue Lucilla though not sure to preuaile sent for her who speedily comming he courteously entertained and with these perswasions indeuoured to make her a fauourite to his purposes To whom as they sate together in his lodging Friend Lucilla quoth the Prince for so your courtesie in speedy comming at my request willeth me to call