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A97351	The English Arcadia alluding his beginning from Sir Philip Sydneys ending. By Iaruis Markham.; English Arcadia. Part 1	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1607 (1607)	STC 17350.5; ESTC S109832	82,311	146

better to abridge my dayes Then vrge her more to saue my life O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower How crosse hath heauen beene to my fate Since first I got the vse of breath She that me loues alas I hate She that I loue desires my death O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Cruell Loue why didst thou strike me With a Dart so full of woe If both my euer doe dislike thee Nor my life thou wilt let goe O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower What bootes it thee to see me beare This raging fire in which I burne But that to men it may appeare What fortunes thou canst ouerturne O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Yet if thou ru'st on any smart Rue on my woe that wofull is But thou hast an obdurate hart And stonie minds wants Pitties blisse O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Alas why shouldst thy chast faire sight His glorie gaine by killing me And so against all law and right Win an abusiue victorie O Apheliea thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower Why didst thou giue life to my flame If hope to kill were thy regard What worser chance can crowne thy name Then still to loue and lacke reward O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deathes hower And shall the showers of teares I show Gaine no remorse for all my smart Alas sterne Loue doth answere No For why he dare not touch her hart O Apheleia thy loues power Is my liues date and my deaths hower It is in vaine I am asham'd That thus I seeke cure for my griefe For hearts that are inhumane fram'd Loue woe so well they hate reliefe O Apheleia thy loues power Is Diatassans dying howers The Princesse attentiuely hearing this song but not seeing the singer after her eares had drunke the sounde of her Shepheards name coupled with another as she thought much vnworthie of so hie preheminence as if all such adoration had beene most damnable blasphemies all-bee the sound did not chalenge anie thing from his voyce yet restlesse Iealousie strake such strange fire into her bosome that not able to containe her selfe she came foorth of the Arbour with a more then vsuall haste Anger making the Lillies of her face couer all the Roses But when shee sawe the deceyte and that it was but onelie the Nymph Ethera newe Gilliflowers springing about the Throne of Roses smiling vpon the Nymph she said I am glad my Ethera that thy pleasant free thoughts stirring vp thy siluer voice will giue vs the comfort of thy song beleeue mee I feard thy last affright would haue robbed both from thee and me all taste of solitarie pleasure But I pray thee fayre Nymph tell me what song was this which thou didst euen now so passionately vtter was it of thine owne or of others composing The Nymph Ethera with a downe-cast looke and an humble reuerence teaching her cheekes so artificiall a blush as might verie well deceiue Nature bowing herselfe before the Princesse and first crauing pardon for her bolde presumption in that shee had come so neare the place of her priuate retiring assuring her with many prettie protestations that she was vtterly ignorant of her there aboade in the ende shee tolde the Princesse that for the song which shee had sung it was none of her owne inuention but made by the famous Shepheard Diatassan in honour of the loue hee bare to the faire Nymph Apheleia which she of late hearing had now newly bequeathed to memorie O God! had the Nymph Ethera out of an implacable anger taken a vow vtterly to haue confounded the Princesse or had the Princesse beene the vtter confusion of all the generation from whence the Nymph was descended had the Princesse beene her riuall in affection the barre to her desires or had the Princesse said what no woman can endure to haue saide that shee had not beene faire shee coulde neither haue founde a more readie poyson nor a more sharpe reuenge then the vtterance of these wordes which shee deliuered they were Daggers in the Princesse heart they were woundes in her soule and liuing deathes of dying liues anguish what passion was there with which shee did not communicate what feare what distrust what iealousie what madnesse what amazement and what else that may take vpon it the name of absolute euill But in the ende Reason that could neuer indure that such euils as these should become maisters of his fairest habitation but like Carniuall masquers to haue onely a moments entertainment and no further summoning his best accomplices as Vertue Constancie Consideration and such like beganne to warre agaynst the former with these arguments First she called to minde the vertue of his former life his innocent thoughts his plaine dealing tongue and his vndisembling actions the seueritie of his gouernment giuing no libertie to inconstancie and his honourable imitations being euen assurances of the best goodnesse insomuch that Passion being accompanied with his onely companion easie beliefe and both they attended on by Anger their seruant casting a threatning cloude ouer the chearefull Firmament of her diuine lookes shee thus spake to the Nymph Ethera Well I perceiue than the vse of sinne brings the Euill both to a delight and easinesse in sinne nothing in them augmenting their ripenesse more then the warmth of their owne wickednesse of this hath thine immodestie giuen mee a double experience thy first vnchast perswasions being now seconded with a most shamefull slaunder lightnesse and impudencie striuing how to create murther O Ethera thou art doublie vnkinde vnkind to vertue the shadow of whose countenance hath brought thee to much honour but most vnkinde to truth whom thou seekest to kill with a false witnesse be thy folly therfore thy scourge and both my hate and refusals of thy counsels profes of that detestation wherein I holde thee hencefoorth I charge thee neither to frequent these walkes nor acknowledge my memorie but liuing an eternall exile complaine to the worlde what woes falshoode and shame haue brought vpon thee Alas poore Diatassan the vertue hath begot thee infinite enuie and thine imaginarie happinesse seekes to inrich thee with most cottaine mischiefe but thy goodnesse hath taken such well grounded roote in mine vnderstanding that nothing shall draw from thee the blisse of my good opinion liue but as happie as thou art constant and euen Angels shall finde want in thine vnbounded prospetiue And as she spake these words tears rising in her eyes as it were to make a question in the worlde which were the more purer Diamonds she offered to depart But the Nymph after the custome of disgrast Tragedians whose first act is entertained with a snakie salutation falling vpon her knees and staying her by her garments with all the humilitie that either Art

faithfull louers Hero and Leander adiudged present death to the aproach of any neighbour-bordering straunger and not forgetting the contract betwixt him and Thamastus that they should neuer be knowne where euer they were disioyned answered the Shepheards that how euer they might mistake his vtterance or his vtterance beguile the intent of his owne meaning it was so that hee was called Adunatus Prince of Iberia who from the beginning of his first knowledge had held in singular admiration the memorie of Thamastus Prince of Rhodes and Pyrophilus Prince of Macedon so that if hee had spoke of them it was but like a dreaming man whose braine from the superfluitie of his thoughts apprehends diuers remote and farre distant imaginations but for his own part at that instant hee said he was both carelesse and worthlesse and worthie to bee so vnworthily carelesse sith his fortune had lost him that rich blessing which in any but the selfe same thing could by no Fortune be againe restored and therewithall desired to knowe of them vpon what coast he was ship-wracked to the intent he might make the spediest search was possible to recouer the great losse hee had sustained to which the Shepheards replied that the Country in which he now was was called Laconia a Prouince in Peloponessus adioyning to the Frontiers of Arcadia which hauing beene long time gouerned all be with many insurrections and rebellious commotions by the renowned Basilius was after his discease by the power of his testament and as a man fit to curbe so vnruly a generation giuen to the noble and famous Amphyalus his sisters sonne a man so excellently seasoned with the salt of all vertuous vnderstanding that excepting the hope of Thamastus and Pyrophylus he stood in the eie of the world vnmatch-able and beyond comparison Pirophylus hearing them name Amphyalus whom he had euer respectfully reuerenced for the rariety of his perfections demaunded where he kept his Court and how long hee had hung his easefull armour by the walles to meditate more safely vpon the actions of other Nations They answered that his Court was abandoned desolate and forsaken of all in whō griefe by the greatnes of his birth-right challeng'de not a fee-simple inheritance and for the place of his residence it had bene vnknowne to his subiects by the space of these three yeares at what time he departed thence with as great a burthen of insupportable discontentment as Atlas or Olimpus with their ioyntlesse shoulders could stand vnder the reason wherof being though many times suspitiously coniectured neuer sufficiently vnderstood or daringly entred into by any deuining or all-knowing iudgement was they said now at last but heauen knowes how long they wil last which calles such excellencie to the last account of life-lasting both knowne censured and to many iniudiciall eares malitiously deliuered to the disgrace of the worlds best beautie the destruction of a most famous queene euer till then wondred for a wonderfull vnblemisht reputation euen Hellen Queene of Corinth that harmles faire and faire harmles hurt creature a Lady of a mightie humblenes and an infinite mightines vertuously alluring because she was vertuous and that vertue married to an euer-adored beautie Of a maiestie fit for such greatnes and a gracefulnes answerable to a pure wisedome in truth such she was as such they should bee that haue so great perfections as such a celestiall Hellen This name of Hellen thunder-strooke Pirophylus and as if his passion had had a metamorphosing deity stone-like he stood without sence or motion till reason the ensigne of the soules holynes called backe his spirites to their vsuall attendance and hee earnestly besought the Shepheards aswel for the bettering of his knowledge to whose taste he euer coueted to present the nourishing milke of discourse as for a burning ardor he had to make his fortune the releif-master to a forlorne and destressed Ladies afflictiōs to vnfold vnto him euen from accident to accidēt al that had befalne to that most beautiful Queen of Corinth of whō thogh in the coolnes of his intreaties he gaue no shew either of familiarity or acquaintāce as indeed there was not hauing neuer in their liues seen one the other yet almost frō there childhoods they had married one to another a vertuous opinion of honorable estimation being by alyance of blood nearely conioyed togither but especially and aboue all for the neare nearnesse both of affinitie and loue twixt her and Melidora the only Goddesse to whose feet he laid al the sacrifices of his swords honor or dutie Carino who euer more and more gathered out of the rarenesse of his cariage and sweet disposure of his gestures a height or exhaltation of honour beyond the comprehensiue conceit of his vnderstanding both to be found dutifull to his cammandements and to beget a further continuance of so wished a presence after the Prince by the Sunnes aid which then shined hotly against the rockes had both dried his apparel and refresh'd his halfe drowned spirits thus set the key of his bermonious tongue in tune to tell the vtmost of his knowledges Although most excellēt Prince said he frō the clowdy darknesse of our little knowing remembrances can arise no expectfull matter of memorable cōsequence the qualitie of our obscured estates depriuing vs the mean wherby Princes affairs should be vnfolded vnto so vnworthy eares as well because the weaknesse of our iudgements cannot looke into the causes of their fortunes as the insufficency of our counsels that can preuent no effect of fortune how aduerse soeuer proceeding frō those causes yet inasmuch as the worlds rumor is many times retained for an Oracle and the liberal tongue of Fame wil in the most respectlesse eares couer the worlds publique counsels I wil declare vnto your excellent wisdom what the inuenomed instrument of Enuyes tongue to all this whole nation most bytterly hath declared At such time as the noble Amphyalus who being loues true prisoner kept imprisoned the truest loue and the truest beauty that euer had power to commaund loue I meane the incomparable Princesses Pamela Phyloclea with the Macedonian Pyrocles at that time the Amazonian Zelmane had got the absolute vnderstanding of his mothers flint-hearted crueltie against those immortall Paragons of the worlde to whom he had euen slaued the subiection of his diuine soule sawe by the Caracters of their misfortunes the desperate euil wherunto the lothsomnes of his life growne vgly with the deformed disdain which had mangled his thoughts in peeces would headlong conuey the wretcednes of his hopes when he had with a selfe-killing hand made that sworde wherewith he had ouerthrowne so many Kings conquerours and invincible Gyants giue a deadly assault vnto the bosome of his hearts Cabanet seeking by vntimely death to ruinate that glorious worke of Nature wherein the excellencie of the first workmaster had showed the best power of his artes working This beautifull Queene of Corinth of whose dolours my braine

is now euen great in laboure withall hearing not of that but of another most daungerous wound he had receiued in a former combate betwixt him and the excellent Musidorus after a tedious and wearie iourney wherein only loue tooke away the bitter feeling of wearines she ariued in those parts of Arcadia with assured hope of his recouery by means of a most excellent Surgion whom then in her country she retained But in such an inauspitious hower of vnluckines that finding the feare of danger taken from the daunger she feared there was now an inrecouerable perrill wedded to a desperat fearefulnes for the foe was his owne hande and that hand guided by so hopeles a loue that hating all thinges which the loue he loued would not pittie he himselfe had vsed against himselfe that violence which else no violence could haue vsed In briefe when she came to his presence she found him bathing in his owne selfe-spilling bloode and if not absolutly dead yet so neare the confines of deathes Kingdome that not the seuerest iudgement could say or hope he liued To discribe the liuely sorrow which assending from her dying hearte appeared in the watry Sun-shine of her eyes how oft she swounded reuiued and againe and againe re-dyed what bloode-wasting sighes she vttered what groanes shee disburdened how lamentably she bewailed how desperatly she raged the war betwixt her faire handes and her bosome betwixt her torne haires and the windes motion her teares burning in the beautie of her cheekes and her beautie drowned in the Channell of her teary Ocean her cōfusiō in sorow making an vniformity is heauines yet that heauy vniforme a barbarous Chaos of miserie to describe this I say were labor infinite and innecessarie the rather sith it stands in a memoriall by the most memorable pen that euer recorded matter worthie of memorie But at last when sorrow had as it were in the iudgement of all her beholders called to so straite an account all the sorrowes of her remembrance that there was no other matter left saue onely sorrow in her imaginations and that so full of imperious commaund as it was high treason against her soule to thinke it was not eternall euen then the eye of wisdome cleared by those afflicting clouds which muffled her affections began to discouer the error in her forgetful passions her weeping making her neglect the meanes should bring her to not weeping and her complaints drawing on a certaine end to worke in her endlesse complainings whereupon turning from the dead reputed coarse that her returning might adde more violent extremitie to her compassionate languishment and a little depriuing her eies the blessednesse of their sights that with the same sight they might bee more diuinely endeared shee humbly threw herselfe at the feete of those Princes whose heauie eyes not without abundant teares were spectators of that immortally bemoaned tragedy but especially she conuerted all her speeches to the world contemning Anaxius a man whose selfe-louing opinion had drawne into him a beleefe of impossible atchieuements and to him shee declared the olde age of her tedious dispised loue the vnremoueable constancie of her confident affection and the world-wondring end her sorrow would consumate as soone as her hopes were depriued the blisse of their expectation euer and anon mingling amongst her compassionate bemoanings such an intyre adoration to the name of Anaxius preferring it before Angells and recording it first of all in the mightie inrolment of God-heades that he whose blindnesse could apprehend nothing but his owne greatnesse grew now great with childe of imaginarie diuinitie and though for the death of Amphyalus he had vowed a detestation of all women yet in loue with his owne glorie hee was content with a deformed smile to commend her that thereby he might backe againe call to minde his owne commendations and swoare by himselfe for greater than himselfe his great heart would neuer acknowledge that the royall humour of her greatnesse gaue her an excellent inspection and a determinate meane of wel iudging the singularitie of others perfections but yet he who had neuer accustomed himselfe to condiscende to any desire of vertue because his Religion was grounded vppon this heresie that honour was got by contradiction and greatnesse most feated by a perticular deniall of a generall intreatie notwithstanding all the dartie Launces of her well tempted Oratorie would haue vtterly withstood her sute which was onely to haue the cōueyance of the body of Amphyalus into her own countrey had not his two brothers called Zoylus and Lycurgus to whom ambitious Nature had not beene full out so prodigal though by a great deal too much much too liberall in the same humor of ostentation taken a more liuely taste of bitternesse from her teares and ioyned in the approbation of her reasonable demaund drawing the strength of their arguments from this ground that sith hee was a desperate forsaken patient whom no Phisition or Surgion in those parts durst in the least hope giue a light of suruiuing if any other part there were an insearchable skill vnreuealed it was necessarie to approue it because nothing could draw the daunger to a greater height then it was alreadie raysed besides they boasted what honour it would be to them to conduct the dead bodie to the bordering skirts of Basilius armie which of necessitie they must doe as it were in despight without eyther controlment or damage to the intents they purposed This last speech though the other auailed found a more insinuating acceptance in the Sunne-scalding ayme of Anaxius so that he agreed to all her desires giuing her leaue to embalme the body with such preseruatiues as for that purpose she had brought with her and tolde her that as well for the vertues hee found in her of which himselfe could better iudge then any other creature as for a carefull hope he had of his frends recouerie she should haue that day not onely her wish but also a God meaning himselfe to be her sanctuarie defendant and one who would in such safetie conduct her through the tents of his enemies that to her well seeing iudgement should appeare the terror of his greatnes The comfortlesse Lady to whom the want of comfort serued as a comfortable companion taught by her griefe a politike cariage in griefe soothed vp his vanities by amplifying vpon his vaine grounds and with heartie humblenesse offered to kisse his hand as a testimonie of the assurance she reposed in his magnanimitie All things being prepared fit for so great a solemnitie Anaxius and his traine attending on the hearse and the faire Queene Hellen issued in a most solemne tragicke manner from the Castle of Amphialus and so conducted her to the banks of the swift-falling riuer Ladon without either impeachment or disturbance where after many confused shewers of vncontrollable teares seeming as if they would ioyne with the riuer to ouerflow and drowne the neighbour plaines Anaxius and his brothers Zoylus and Lycurgus