remaine Venson her food and Honey from the Bee The flesh of Elkes of Beares and Bores new slaine Her drinke the pearled brooke her followers maides Her vow chast life her Cloister the Coole shades 60 Her weapons are the Iauelin and the Bow Her garments Angell like of Virgin-white And tuckt aloft her falling skirt below Her Buskin meetes buckled with siluer bright Her Haire behind her like a Cloake doth flow Some tuckt in roules some loose with Flowers bedight Her silken vailes play round about her slacke Her golden Quiuer fals athwart her backe 61 She was the daughter of an antient king Cald Iupiter that sway'd the Attick scepter To her as suters many princes bring Theyr Crownes which scorning she a virgin kept her Yet as her beauties fame abroad doth ring Her suters multiply therefore she stept her Into the forrest meaning to exempt her From such as to their amorous wils would tempt her 62 This new religion famous in a Queene Of such estate and beauty drew from farre Daughters of Princes they that late were seene In Courts of kings now Dians followers are Where they no sooner sworne and entred been But against men and loue they proclaime war Many frequent the groues by Dians motion For fashion some and some too for deuotion 63 The old Plateenses holding her deuine Gaue her the sacred name of Euclia Their maids ere married offered at her shrine And then they freely chus'd their marriage day Without her leaue they neuer tasted wine Or durst in publicke with their husbands play Whole Asia ioyn'd to make a Church of stone Built by the Architector Chersiphrone 64 To this th'Aegiptian hie Pyramides Nor the great Iouiall portract could compare Mausolus Tombe the Manes to appease Rear'd by the Carian Queene but trifles are The huge Colossus that bestrid the seas And made Rhoades famous for a worke so rare Great Babels Tower nor Pharos stately Ile Could ranke with this for cost or height of stile 65 Two hundred twenty years it was in framing In length foure hundred fiue and twenty feet In breadth two hundred twenty Thus proclaiming Their feare of her they chast Diana greet Of all faire Damsels her the Goddesse naming And to her seruice in her Temple meet A Fabricke famous both for height and length Proportion beauty wormanship and strength 66 A hundred seauen and twenty Collumbs great All of white Marble in faire order stand Sixe hundred feet in heigth both huge and neat The like were neuer wrought by mortall hand Princes of sundry Kingdomes that intreat Her Diuine grace and yeild to her command Each one a high and stately piller bringes Full thirty sixe rear'd by so many Kinges 67 All these contend which should the rest exceed In large expence to make it more admir'd Herostratus that neuer did glad deed Neither with wit nor gracious Thewes inspir'd Knowing no meanes his owne renowne to breed In deuilish spleene this royall wonder fier'd The purpose why he did this deed of shame Was that the world should Chronicle his name 68 This when dispoiled Ephesus once knew They made a law with fine to him that brake it To make him lose the fame he did pursue His very name was death to him that spake it For many yeares it dide but times renew And from obliuious dusky Caues awake it Elce had their scilence from these ages kept This strange report that long amongst them slept 69 The world the very day it lost the grace Of this rare worke another Wonder bred Greater than this from royall Philips race That then tooke life when this in fire lay dead In Macedon a much renowmed place Young Alexander in that Temples stead Entred the world whose glories did aspire Aboue this structure then consumd with fire 70 Now is Calisto one of Dians traine And to th' Arcadian Forrest newly flitted Her beauty can scarce equald be againe Mongst al the Huntresses wheres she 's admitted Meane time Ihoue cheeres his friends Inters the slaine And all his businesse is by order fitted The State establisht Time in triumph spent And newes of all by posts to Epire sent 71 His great affayres determin'd the Prince now Hath leysure to bethinke him of that face To which his future actions he doth vow Now he remembers each particular grace That Loue that makes the Idle spirits bow Still giues occasions way and businesse place Abandon sloth and Cupids bow vnbends His brands extinguist and his false fire spends 72 For idlenesse makes Loue and then maintaines What it hathmade when he that well employes His busie houres is free from Venus traines And the true freedome of his thoughts enioyes He had no time to sigh that now complaines The good his businesse did his sloath destroyes Loue from the painfull flyes but there most thriues And prospers best when men lead slothfull liues 73 Being alone Calistoes shape imprest So deepely in his heart liues in his eie Shee 's lodg'd both in the Forrest and his brest And though farre off she is imaginde nie Phabe abroad beholds her mongst the rest Young Ihoue at home in his blind phantasie And now too late he wishes but in vaine Her still at Court or him of Dians traine 74 He haunts the Forrests and those shadowy places Where fayre Dyana hunteth with her Mayds And like a Hunts-man the wilde Stag he chases Onely to spy his Mistresse mongst the shades And if he chance where bright Calisto traces He thankes his fate if not his Starres vpbraids And deemes a tedious Summers day well spent For one short sight of her his soules content 75 At length he thus concludes I am but young No downy heire vpon my face appeare I 'le counterfet a shtill effeminate tongue And d'on such habit as the Huntresse weares When my guilt Quiuer crosse my brest is hung And Bore-speare in my hand such as she beares My blood being fresh my face indifferent faire Modest my eie and neuer shorne my haire 76 Who can discouer me Why may not I Be entred as an Ancresse mongst the rest This is the way that I intend to try Of all my full conclusions held the best My habit I le bespeake so secretly That what I purpose neuer can be gest My Lords assemble and to them shew reason Why I of force must leaue them for a season 77 Th' excuse vnto the Nobles currant seemes He takes his leaue and trauels on his way Of his entended voyage no man deemes Now is he briskt vp in his braue aray So preciously his mistresse hee esteemes That he makes speed to where the Virgins stay And by the way his womanish steps he tride And practis'd how to speake to looke to stride 78 To blush and to make honors and if need To pule and weepe at euery idle toy As women vse next to prepare his weed And his soft hand to Chare-workes to imploy He profits in his practise heauen him speed And of his shape assumed
What meane these flames these grones of people dying This frightfull iarte of battailes new begun When Panthus thus Aeneas lets away Of Troy and vs this is the latest day 54 Troy was and 〈◊〉 was but they are past Great Ihoue hath from th' earths bosome swept vs all Th' insulting Greekes haue conquerd vs at last And forraine Steele now menases our wall The Brazen Horse that midst our Meure stickes fast Hath powrd an army forth whole thousands fall And drop downe from his sides whilst Synon stands Warming amidst the flames his treacherous handes 55 The Gates are ceasd the broken wals made good With bright Death-pointed Steele Irruption's bard Behold my passage was Knee-deepe in blood Crossing the streete from great Atrides guard Such as escape this purple falling flood Fyre or the Sword consumes our choise is hard Ruine beguirts vs and what most we feare We cannot fly death rageth euery where 56 Now hurries strong Eneas madly faring Through flames through swords whether Erinnis cals Eg'd on by rage and fury no man sparing On euery side are fires wounds Clamors brals To him arm'd Ripheus ioynes and wonders daring Iphilus Hypanis and Dimas fals In the same tanke youthfull Chorebus tride Doth likewise glister by Aeneas side 57 Chorebus who for faire Cassandracs Loue Came from Megdomia to the Dardan broyles These seeking flying death all dangers proue And taske their valours to all desperate toyles To places of most slaughter they remoue Euen where the Greekes commit most horrid spoyls Arm'd with this Saw This onely Captiues cheares When safetie flyes all-resting death appeares 58 Thus seeke they certaine death amidst the hart Of Flame-guilt Troy whilst the blacke fatall night Flyes hood-winkt twixt the poles her yron Cart Rusty with darkenesse oh what Mortall wight Can halfe the terror of that houre impart Such howles sighs grones wounds slaughters afright In euery street Liues-blood death murder feare The reeking Faulchion and the fatall Speare 59 With Arm'd Androgeos they encounter first Androgeos who mistakes them for his mates And cheares them thus we haue already burst and made irruption through the batterd Gates Now let your Swords that for their liue-blouds thurst Glut them with purple healths behold their Fates But when from them he lookes some fyre apply With armed hands vpon his traynes they fly 60 And put them all to massacre the whiles Chorebus sayes Some comforts in despaire Fortune vpon our first endeuours smiles The Foes are vanquisht and we victors are Then come Make vse of their Pelasgian guiles Put on their armes and to their Guards repayre Their proper armes shall gainst themselues contend Where vertue fayles vse fraud to God and friend 61 With that he dons Androgeos shining Caske Which like a Bearded Commet glisters farre The rest in forraine Helmes theyr faces maske And mingled with the Greekes began new warre Still Fortune smiles on their Nocturnall taske Where Greekes with Greekish armes confounded are And mongst their frighted guards great vprore growes Since from their Friends they cannot ken theyr Foes 62 A thousand fall to Hell a thousand fly Some to the Nauy others to the shore and many Pale-fast Greekes affray de to dye Run to the Horse where they were lodg'd before and in his darke conceited Entrayles lye See fayre Cassandra from the Temple dore Drag'd by blacke Myrmidons her Son espyes Frightfull Chorebus and that way he flyes 63 They after him adismall conflict now Growes in the entrance of the Temple when Theyr friends mistaking theyr disguised brow Route from the battayle meetes by strength of men Huge stones and Webs of Lead stounding below Their Greece-arm'd Friendes whose craft's deceiu'd agen By Ignorance they call theyr friends on hye and by theyr tongues the grâ—…cians them descry 64 For now rough Aiax reuels in the place The two Atrides with their armed Bands And sly Vlisses too yet in the face Of all theyr guards the bold Chorebus stands Till number o're swayes might Migdoniaes race Is now extinct by force of thousand hands Then Ripheus fals then is bold Dimas brest Through-pierst so one by one decliue the rest 65 Alone scapes bold Eneas by a cry Raisde at King Priams Pallace whether hying More Mutiny and broyles he may espy More Tragicke sight of wretched Troians dying The massacre seemes dreadfull in his eye Before the assaulted Gates are thousands lying The hauocke did so vâ—…olent appeare as had their bin no place of death but there 66 The vntam'd Mars vpon his Altars grones Hye crown'd in bloud some Greekes tho Pallace scale The Laders cleaue vnto the lettying Stones Whose Marble Collumns bend and seeme to faile Beneath the weight of fire and Steele at ones and still the Banicadoed Gates the' assayle Where able armed Pyrrhus stands before Th'inflamed Porch his armor slack't in gore 67 The inclosed Princes broyle doubly pend in With flames and steele inclosde on enery side With eminent death yet no irruption win Though they diâ—…olue the hye roofe beautified With Gold and figures which to touch were sin The Geometricke ridge of Siluer tride Fires o're their heads and drils downe by the wals Which scalds the Princes as it melting fals 68 Sterne Pyrrhus sweats and with Antomedon His fathers Charioter assaults the place Scarse able to endure the armes they hauâ—… on So ouer-heat with Flames in whose bright face They stand with naked swords to gaze vpon Those shrinking Monuments the fires imbrace at length with beames shocking by strength of hand They shake the wals vnable to withstand 69 Which tumbling in like a Bay-window showes Whose gaping mouth seemes vast oh now appeares The gorgeous Courts whose floore each Lady strowes With her torne garments haire and pearly teares Still still their shrickes and feminine clanger growes as the Breach waxeth so increase their feares Their cries pierce heauen slake Fire and soften stones Yet mooue not Pyrrhus and his Myrmidons 70 For neyther Priams Guard the doore of Brasse Nor trusty Marble can withstand the Foe But through them all by force of armes they passe The heauy Gates they from the henges throw Shiuering theyr plated leaues like paines of Glasse Which with the fury of theyr burnings glow and breaking in the spacious Courts they fill With bloudy Souldiers who on all sides kill 71 King Priam when he saw his Towne inuaded His Troy sitting in fire not to be freed and all those Gods that long had Islium ayded Shrunke from his helpe and in his fall agreede That his farre shining beames at last were faded and the Vniuerfall hart of Troy must bleede The larum Bels of death on all sides ringing His shrieking wife and Daughter bout him clinging 72 Expecting helpe from him in whom remaind No helpe at all he first dissolues in teares But casting vp his eye to haue complaind His griefe to Heauen his Sword and Helme appeares Hung by the Walles with rust and Canker staynd Now burdens to his arme in former yeares
enemies pike Had by the aime of some strong hand bin cast And side to side through all his entrailes past 45 He comes where all his Lords in counsell sat And tels them of three sons preseru'd to life The Peeres at first seeme much amaz'd thereat Yet all commend the pitty of his wife And praise her vertue intermitting that They next proceed to Tytans hostile strife And thus conclude their enemies to expell Whom they know Barbarous bloody fierce and fell 46 When calling him that the defiance brought This answere backe to Tytan they returne That they his brauing menace set at naught That their owne blouds shall quench the towns they burn That their immediate ruines they haue sought And they no longer can reuenge adiourne But the next sonne shall see strange vengeancetane Of all his Cretan subiects they haue slaine 47 The Messengers dismist while they prepare Armes and munition for the Morrowes field Meane time great Tytans sonnes assembled are Who all their Fortunes on their fury build Their hauty lookes their spleenfull harts declare Each brandishing his sword and ponderous shield Longing to heare from Saturne such reply That on his men they may their valours try 48 Nor do they tempt the Deities in vaine They haue what they desire to them behold The bassled messenger gallops amaine But ere the Knight his message hath halfe told So much the Gyant kings their braues disdaine That with their scornefull feet they spurne the mold Their browes they furrow and their teeth they grate And all the Gods blaspheame to shew their hate 49 Now hath the Sunne slid from his fiery Car And in cold Ister quencht his flaming head Blacke darknes risting from the earth afar You might perceiue the welkin to orespread Orions blazing lockes discouered are Pale Cinthia gouernes in Apolloes stead Bootes his waine about the pole hath driuen And all the stars borne bright that spangle heauen 50 The morning comes Tytan in field appeares In compleat harnesse arm'd from head to toe Next him Aegeon who no Corslet weares Or coat of Armes to incounter any foe Vnarmed as he is he no man feares A plume doth from his guilded helmet flow Made of the Peacockes traine his armes is strong In which he shakes a skeine bright broad and long 51 Creous huge sinnowy Armes and brawny thighes Are naked being tawnied with the sun Buskins he weares that boue his ankles rise Puft with such curl'd silke as Arachne spâ—…n A coat of Armes well mail'd that fits his size Laceth his body in these Armes he woon Of a huge Monster in the Isle of Thrace Whose weapon was a weighty iron mace 52 His knotted beard was as the Porphir blacke So were the fleecy lockes vpon his crowne Which to the middle of his armed backe From his rough shaggy head discended downe His fiery Eie-bals threaten Saturnes wracke Sterne vengeance rous'd her selfe in Caons frowne His sheild a broad iron dore his Lance a beame Oft with his large stride he hath Archt a streame 53 Typhon in skins of Lyons grimly clad Next his too Brothers in the march proceeds The hides of these imperious beasts he had From th'Erithmanthian forrest where his deeds Liue still in memory like one halfe mad The Gyant shewes in these disguised weeds The Lyons iawes gnawing his Helmet stood And grinning with his long fangs stain'd in blood 54 And yet his owne fierce visage lowring vnder Appeares as full of terror as that other Two such aspects makes the Saturniens wonder Next him appeares Euceladus his Brother Whose eye darts lightning and his voice speaks Thunder This was the onely darling of his mother His weapon was a tall and snaggy Oake With which he menac'st death at euery stroake 59 Hiperion in an armor all of Sunnes Shines like the face of Phoebus o're the rest This Gyant to his valiant Brothers runs Crying to Armes base lingering I detest Damn'd be that Coward soule that damage shuns Or from apparant perill shrinkes his brest Behold where Saturne mongst his people crownd His hornes and Clarions doth to battell sound 56 Saturne appeares as great Hyperion spake Borne in an Iuory chaire with bright stones stoodded Mongst which in trailes ran many an Anticke flake With rich Inamell azur'd greene and rudded At the first push their enemies rankes they brake He fought till his bright Chariot was all bloodded About him round their bowes his Archers drew A fight which yet their Foe-men neuer knew 57 The big-bon'd Gyants wounded from a farre And seeing none but their owne souldiers by them Amazed stand at this new kind of warre To receiue wounds by such as came not nie them From euery wing they heare their looses iarre They knew not where to turne or how to flie them The showers of Arrowes rain'd so fast and thicke That in their legges thighs brest and armes they stick 58 So long as their strong Bowes of trusty Ewe And silken strings held fast so long fresh riuers Of Crimson blood the Champion did imbrew For euery shaft the Archers Bow deliuers Or kils or woundes one of their countlesse crew But when they once had emptied all their quiuers And that the enemy saw their arrowes wasted To blowes and handy-strokes both armies hasted 59 Thou famous English Henry of that name The fift I cannot but remember thee That wan vnto thy kingdome endlesse fame By thy bold English Archers Chiualry In Agin-Court when to the Frenchmens shame King Dolphin and the chiefe Nobility Were with the ods of thousands forcst to yeeld And Henry Lord of that triumphant field 60 But such successe king Saturne had not then He is in number and in strength too weake His people are but one to Tytans ten Nor are his guards so strong their spleene to wreake The Gyant-Kings with infinites of men Into their foes Battallions rudely breake Their Polaxes and Clubs they heaue on hie The Kings surpriz'de and the Saturniens fly 61 The Tytans brandish their victorious Glaues and enter the great Citty Hauocke crying In Cretan bloud they drowne their Chariot Naues And slaughter all the poore Saturniens flying One hand sharpe steele the other fire-brands waues In euery place the grones of people dying Mixt with the Conquerors showts to heauen aspire and in their harsh sound make a dismall Quire 62 The Citty 's ceizd Saturne and Sybill bound Whilst Tytan Lords it in the Cretan Throne His reuelling sonnes for Pillage ransacke round And where they heare Babes shrike or olde men grone They showt for ioy meane time King Saturnes wound Sybill bindes vp and being all alone In prison with her Lord to him relates The fortunes of her sonnes and their estates 63 She tels him that young Ihoue in Epire famed For Martiall triumphs is theyr naturall sonne He that Lycaon queld Pelagia tamed And many spoyles for Milliseus woon No sooner did the King heare young Ihoue named But he repents the wrongs against him doon and proud of such an Issue so
whom they offer solemne Funerall deeds The Children fetch their Sires and Fathers some Their slaughtred sons which generall mourning breeds The Greekes likewise their fellow-mates desire And yeild their bodies to the hallowed fire 103 But whilst these odoriferous piles they reare And sacrifiz'd their friends in holy flames And in perfumed Boxes prized deare Coffin their precious ashes least their names Should die in Lethe Nouell broyles appeare And Ate through the Campe discord proclames But now to truce our spirits we haue intention Before twixt them we moue a new dissention TO omit all our English worthies whose names wee haue only memoriz'd not hauing roome to insert their deeds in so little a compasse as we haue prescrib'd to our History we rather couet to touch matter more forraigne and lesse familiar to some with whome our Booke must necessarily Traficke In the description of Fame we haue rather imitated Ouid then Virgill his Fama malum quo non c. In the description of King Priams state we must needes imagine it great where so many forraigne Kings assembled in his ayde in whose names we haue confer'd Dares the Troian Dictes the Greeke Homer Virgill and others who though in some particuler thinges not momentarily they differ yet they generally concurre in this that such Princes with such populous and almost inuincible assistance succored Troy Telephus ioynd in commission with Achilles to saile to the land of Messe was sonne to Hercules whom Theutam hauing before in the battayle receiued his deaths wound voluntarily adopted his successour for the great loue that he for many benefits formerly receiued had borne to his father Hercules The passages of Loue betwixt Troylus and Cressida the reuerent Poet Chaucer hath sufficiently discourst to whom I wholy refer you hauing past it ouer with little circumstance The description of the first battailes seruice disordred and confused we must excuse with this necessity that beeing to remember so many and to imploy them all we could not do it with a directer method then to set downe things done without order disorderly and actions hapning by accident accidentally and confused things confusedly King Prothesilaus was the first King that perisht before Troy for though it were foretold by Oracle that he that first set foot a shore should perish by the sword of Hector yet hee fearelesse of death first landed and in his too much valor made the fayre Laodomeia a desolate widdow Ate Goddesse of reuenge or strife she is cald by Homer one of Ihoues daughters Lesio Homerus Iliad 7. Presba dios thugater ate H pantas a-atai Ate prisca Iouis proles quae leserit omnes Mortales The Tale of Cephalus and Procris because I haue omitted in my former Cantons especially in that which seemes to inueigh against Iealousie I thinke not altogither vnnecessary to insert in this Skolia knowing that which was ill forgot cannot be amisse remembred at any seasonable opportunity Here therefore though out of his ranke I intend to admit him BEneath Hymettus hill well cloath'd with flowers A holy Well her soft springs gently powers Where stands a Cops in which the Wood-Nymphs shroue No wood It rather seemes a slender Groue The humble shrubs and bushes hide the grasse Heere Lawrell Rosemary heare Myrtle was Heere grew thicke Box and Tam'rix that excels And made a meere confusion of sweet smels The Triffoly the Pine and on this Heath Stands many a plant that feeles coole Zephirs breath Heere the young Cephalus tyr'd in the chace Vsd his repose and rest alone t' embrace And where he sat these words he would repeate Come Ayre sweet Ayre come coole my heatâ—… Come gentle Ayre I neuer will for sake thee I le hug thee thus and in my bosome take thee Some double dutious Tel-tale hapt to heare this And to his Iealous wife doth straight-way beare this Which Proctis hearing and with all the Name Of Ayre sweete Ayre which he did oft proclaime She stands confounded and amazd with griefe By giuing this fond tale too sound beleefe And lookes as doe the Trees by winter nipt Whom Frost and cold of fruit and leaues hath stript She bends like Corueile when too ranke it growes Or when the ripe fruits clog the Quinch-tree bowes But when she comes to her selfe she teares Her Garments and her eyes her cheekes and heares And then she starts and to her feet applies her Then to the Woods storke Wood in rage she hies her Approaching somewhat neare her seruants they By her appointment in a Vally stay Whilst she alone with creeping paces steales To take the Strumpet whom her Lord conceales What mean'st thou Procris in these Groues to hide thee What rage of loue doth to this madnesse guide thee Thou hopst the Arye he cals in all her brauery Will straight approach and thou shalt see their knauery and now againe it Irkes her to be there For such a killing sight her heart will teare No truce can with her troubled thoughts dispence She would not now he there nor yet be thence Behold the place her iealous mind fortels Here doe they vse to meet and no where els The Grasse is layd and see their true impression Euen heere they lay I heere was their transgression A bodies print she saw it was his seat Which makes her faint hart gainst her ribs to beat Phoebus the lofty Easterne Hill had scald And all moist vapours from the earth exhald Now in his noone-tide point he shineth bright It was the middle houre twixt noone and night Behold young Cephalus drawes to the place And with the Fountaine water sprinkes his face Procris is hid vpon the grasse he lyes And come sweet Zephir Come sweet Ayre he cryes She sees her error now from where he stood Her mind returnes to her and her fresh blood Among the Shrubs and Briars she moues and rustles And the iniurious boughes away she â—…stles Intending as he lay there to repose him Nimbly to run and in her armes inclose him He quickly casts his eye vpon the bush Thinking therein some sauage Beast did rush His bow he bends and a keene shaft he drawes Vnhappy man what doost thou Stay and pause It is no bruite beast thou wouldst reaue of life Oh man vnhappy thou hast slaine thy wife Oh Heauen she cries Oh helpe me I am slaine Stil doth thy Arrow in my wound remaine Yet though by timelesse Fate my bones heere lye It glads me most that I no Cuck-queane dye Her breath thus in the Armes she most affected She breaths into the Ayre before suspected The whilst he lifts her body from the ground And with his teares doth wash her bâ—…eeding wound The end of the eleuenth CANTO Argumentum A Chilles transformation Palimed Accusd of Treason and condemnd to die After long battaile honor Hector led The boldest Argiue Champion to defie The Graecians storme to be so chalenged Hector and Aiax the fierce Combat try A Truce a Banquet at this pompous feast
neither tript nor rang'd Both Man and Horse are free from any Error No art of Warre was from these Knights estrang'd In Troylus might be seene a Souldiers Mirror In Diomed the patterne of such skill as they desire that would their Foe-men kill 88 The fayre-browde Sky shrinkes vp her Azure face Least their sharpe splinterd Staues should race her brow Both couet honor in this warlike race and in their hearts they eythers ruine vow But Menelaus happily came in place With him three hundred Knights that well knew how To manage battaile these betweene them grew and they to further ranks perforce withdrew 89 Miseres King of Phrigia met by chance The Spartan King and shooke him in his Seat Against Duke Aiax Paris charg'd a Launce and him the Sal'mine did but ill intreat At the first blow he stounds him in a trance Then midst the Troian rankes doth â—…oyle and sweat Striuing behind on both sides and before Euen till his armes with bloud were vermeil'd o're 90 Prince Margareton vnto Hector deare Knowing the slaughter Noble Aiax made against his Vaunt-brace brauely prooues his Speare and to their vanquisht Phalanx brings fresh ayde Aiax is for'st his fury to forbeare The Troians powers on all sides him inuade Till Agamemnon comes with fresh supply at whose approach th'astonish Troians fly 91 Yet Noble Margareton keepes his stand Nor can the strongest arme of Greece remoue him He feeles the strength of Agamemnons hand Grim Aiax sword with a towers weight doth proue him Yet shrinkes not till the place was Nobly man'd By Paris and Polydamus that loue him These hearing Margareton much distrest Rescue the Prince who brauely guards his Crest 92 It ioyes the King and Ladyes that on hy Stand on the Torras to behold the field To see the Prince so full of Chiualry And with such power to vle his Sword and Shield Achilles in a place where thousands lye Besmeard in bloud as if he meant to build a wall of Limbes and Quarters brauely fought And bout himselfâ—… a siedge of bodies wrought 93 Where issuing after much effuse of blood To calme himselfe remotely from the throng Retyerd alike young Margareton stood Striuing for breath he had not rested long Butspyes Achilles with a purple flood Powerd o'rehis armes a Iauelin light and strong The valiant Troian Prince against him bent Whom the proud Greeke receiues incontinent 94 From broken Speares they come to two-edg'd Steele Oh! How stont Hector yernd to be in place His very Soule doth all the puissance feele Of him that hath his Brothers life in chace No stroake that makes Prince Margareton reele But as he thinkes it tingles on his face And from the wall in Armour he had lept Had not the King and Queene perforce him kept 95 By this the youthfull Priameian tyerd With oddes of might he wauers too and fro Doubtfull which way to fall the Greeke admierd To find so young a gallant plunge him so and therefore with hisanclent rankor fierd He doubles and redoubles blow and blow Till he whose deere life was to Hector sweet Sinkes from his Horse beneath his ruthlesse feete 96 Who with his barb'd Steede tramples o're his Coarse Whose Iron hoofe the Princes armor raceth This Hector seeing breakes from all their force He cla ps his Beauer downe his Helme fast laceth With â—…mble quicknesse vaults vpon his horse And yssuing where he rides the enemy cheareth For Margaretons death he vowes that day Achilles with a thousand more shall pay 97 Two Noble Dukes he chargeth and both slew Duke Cortphus Bastidius big and tall And forth like lightning mongst their squadrons flew Where such as cannot flye before him fall Leocides an Armour fresh and new He was amongst the Greekes chiefe Admirall Would proue gainst Hector but in his swift race The Troians Speare brake on the Grâ—…ns face 98 A splinter strooke the Greeke into the braine And downe he sinkes Achilles full of yre Spying so many bold Pelasgians slaine Prickes on with Polyceus both desire To proue themselues with Hector on the plaine The bold assaylants need not farâ—…e inquire For the sterne Prince In that part of the host Th' are sure to find him where the cry growes most 99 Both Menace him gainst both he stands prepared Duke Policeus to Achilles deare Whose Sister he was promist had warre spared His destin'd life drew to the Troians neare At the first stroke his Beauer'd face he bared But with the next his sparpled braines appeare Achilles mads at this and sweares on hye For Polyceus death Hector shall dye 100 His threatned vengeance Hector did soone quaile For through his thigh he quiuers a sharpe Dart Achilles feeles his bleeding sinnowes faile And with all speed doth to his Tent depart Where hauing bound his wound vp wan and pale With fury and the rancor of his hart Three hundred Myrmidons that all things dar'd he leads to field his person to saue-gard 101 Swearing them all theyrioynt-rage to bestow On Hector and on him sterne vengeance power And sauing him t' intend no Dardan Foe That Heauen with him may on his Conquests lower They listen where the clamors loudest grow And there spy Hector wald in like a Tower With heapes os men that bout him bleeding lay For not a liâ—…ng Greeke durst necre him stay 102 Now tyrd with slaughter he was lean'd vpon The Pomell of his bright victorious Blade and for his strength and breath was almost gone His Armour he had slackt it loosely playde about his shoulders for he dreaded none Him now the bloudy Myrmidons inuade In three-fold rings about him they were guided To take the Noble Heroâ—… vnproulded 103 Oh! Where is Paris with his Archers bow Where 's youthfull Deiphebus now at need Where 's the inuinced Troylus to bestow His puissant stroakes before Prince Hector bleed Where is Aeneas to repulse the foe You Troyes confedred Kings where do you speede Bring rescue now or in his Mountaine fall Bencath destruction he will crush you all 104 All these are absent naught saue death and ruine Compasse the Prince a tripple ring of blades Inguirts him round who still their rankes renewing Threaten to send him to th' infernall shades With bloudy appetites his fall pursuing Achilles as they shrinke on hye perswades With promises and some with threats he sweares To pay the base shame of their dastard feares 105 A hundred Myrmidons before him lye Drownde in their owne blouds by his strong arme shed The rest renew the charge with fresh fupply and thunder on his shoulders armes and head Achilles strongly arâ—…'d and horst spurres by To see the hunger of his Blood-hounds fed Was neuer Mortall without might of Gods That stood so long against such powerfull ods 106 They hew his armour peece-meale from his backe Yet still the valiant Prince maâ—…taines the fray Though but halfe-harnest yet he holds them tacke And still the bloudy Slaues vpon him lay Armour and breath
led Though Martial'd in their best and proud'st array Could not repell his swift and violent speed he by his guard his ruine hath Decreed 25 The selfe-same charge that he gainst Hector vsd Gainst Troylus he his Myrmidons perswades Behold where he with Hectors spirit infusd The warlike Thous in euen course inuades Him whom his strength of armes might haue excusd The Treian sends vnto th' Elisian shades The Athenian Duke against him spurres his horse But quite through-piercst the Greeke drops downe a corse 26 Foure Princes in as many coarses tasted Like Fate yet still the Dardan Prince sits hye No coarse no towring blow he vainly wasted In his great heart an hoast he dares defie King Diomed once more against him hasted And long'd with him a warlike course to try But horse and man were in the race ore-throwne Normaruell now the princes strength was growne 27 The elder of th' Atrides next him grew And tryes the vigour of his arme and Speare Him likewise Troylus brauely ouerthrew And forth vnshooke himselfe he past on cleare Now well-nigh breathlesse he himselfe with-drew Whom then the spleenefull Pelean watched ncare And as he lights to rest him on the ground Him the blacke Myrmidons incompasse round 28 With mercilesse keene glaues they siege the youth Whom all at once with fury they assaile In them is neither Honoured grace not ruth Nor is one Troian neere the Prince to bale Achilles with the rest his blood pursuith Thousands against one man must needs preuaile Who seeing nothing else saue death appearing Euen gainst all oddes contemnes despaire or fearing 29 But through their squadrons hewes a bloudy trackt And lops the formost that before him stands Had Deiphebus now his Brother backt Or had the place bin by Sarpedon mand Or had Epistropus whom he now lackt Vpon his party tear'd his conquering hand Had their brigat Faulchions-brandisht by his side The Myrmidons had fayl'd Troylus not dide 30 But hee 's alone rouud guirt with death and ruin And still maintaines the battel though in vaine On euery side a bloudy passage he wing To worke himselfe out through a dismall Lane Of Myrmidons Achilles still pursuing Who keepes the hindmost of his rough-hair'd traine Yet had Prince Troylus markt him where he stood And almost wrought to him through death and blood 31 But ods preuail'd he sinkes downe the mid-way Euen in his fall his sword against him darting That did both Hectors and his life betray Boasting a Noble spirit in his departing By Troylus death the Greekes obtaine the day The Myrmidons their many wounds yet smarting Cure in their Lords Tent whom the Greekes aplaud For Troylus death gainst honour wrought by fraud 32 Now the deiected Troians dare no more Enter the field the Greekes approach the gates And dare them to grim warre who still deplore Hector and Troylus in their Tragicke fates Queene Hecuba yet keepes reuenge in store Of which at length with Paris she dabates Vowing to catch his life in some flye traine That by like fraud her two bold sonnes had slaine 33 She clas to minde the great Athilles pride Withall the loue he to her Daughter beares A thing in zeale she can no longer hide Since in Polyxena like loue appeares Troyes weake deiection she makes knowne besides Disabled by a siege of many years Therefore intreats him to accept her loue And in a generall truce the Argiues moue 34 The lofty Greeke proud by so great a Queene To be sued to when he records withall How much hee s fear'd he gins to slake his spleene And the Maids beauty to remembrance call What can he more Since he hath dreaded beene And seene his ablest Foes before him fall But yeild to beauties soft inchaunting charme Knowing weake Troy dares not conspire his harme 35 The day drawes on a peace hath bin debated To which Achilles the proud Greekes perswades Some thinke it needfull others hyer rated Their honours and this Concord much vpbraides Alone Achilles longs to be instated In her faire grace the beautifulst of Maids And with the sonne of Nestor makes repaire Where Priam with his sonnes and Daughters are 36 Truce is proclaim'd the Damsell richly clad And by the Troian Ladies proudly attended Whom none that saw but admiration had As at a Goddesse from hye heauen discended The innocenr Maide was still in count'nance sad For losse of those that Tray but late defended Yet guiltlesse in her soule of any spleene Dreampt gainst the Prince by Paris or the Queene 37 Vnarm'd Achilles to the Temple goes Whom Nestors sonne attends to Pallas shrine and all the way with Gold and Iewâ—…ls strowes Prising them Earthy but his Bride Deuine and nothing of their Treacherous act he knowes When Paris from a place where he had line With arm'd Knights yssues and a keene shaft drew Which in the heele the proud Achilles slow 38 Who when he sees himselfe and friend betraid and wounded to the Death whilst he could stand Brandisht his sword and mongst them slaughters made But now he wants his Myrmidons at hand and his strong armour Paris to inuade Alacke the Temple was too strongly man'd his strength that cannot bandy gainst them ali at length must sinke and his hye courage fall 39 There lies the great Achilles in his gore and by his side the Sonne of Nestor slaine Amongst the Trotans to be feard no more His body to the Greekes is sent againe Whom they for Hectors change and long deplore his death by Treason wrought vpon the plaine For him a Monumentall Toombe they reare and for his death a ioynt reuenge they sweare 40 The siedge still lasts vpon the part of Troy Penthisilia with a thousand Maydes Vowes all their Amazenian strength to imploy and for the death of Hector Greece vpbraides Whilst in the Campe with much applausiue ioy Grim Pyrrhâ—… is receiu'd Pyrrhâ—… that trades In gore and slaughter with reuenge pursuing Euen to the death Troy for his Fathers tâ—…ine 41 No longer tâ—…e he will delay but streight Dare them to battaile by the Morrowes Sunne The Scythian Damsels long to shew their height and imitate theyr deedes before-time dunne They know they enterprise a worke of weight and long for Signall now to battaile runne The 〈◊〉 Greekes that were of Pyrrhus traine Whom th' Amazonians soone repulse againe 42 Penthisilea was not that fayre Queen Of Amazons of whom we now intreate That made a Law what Man so'ere had beene Within her Court to make a byding Seate aboue three dayes he might not there be seene Though his power mighty and his State were great For if within her Court he longer dwelt The penall Law was he should sure be gelt 43 So much she feared the supposed traines With which soft Women-kind vs men accuse That our society she quite disdaynes Nor shall our fellowship her Ladies vse To this decree she their applause constraines Because false men their weaker Sex abuse
pause How great 's the Wealth how easie t is to buy She knowes besides she is aboue her Lawes And what she will no Subiect dares deny Why should she loose this Iewell What 's the cause She to her owne Land should proue Enemy Whose weale since she may compasse with such ease Why should she not her-selfe somewhat displease 82 The time 's but little that the Youth doth aske Besides shee 'l cause her Maide her charge to hast If she compare her wages with her taske She knowes her time will not be spent in wast The friendly night will put a blushlesse Maske Vpon her brow then how can she be trast The fire is made the Peares plast both agreed To Bed they goe good Fortune be their speed 83 The trusted Hag he knowes to be his friend and one whom he had bribed long before It pleasd her well that his desires haue end To haue had him Eunuch't would haue griu'd her sore In bed meane time the louing payre contend To proue the game she neuer tride before And still she cals to make a quicker fire And prethy sweet Nurse let the Peares be nyer 84 They shall quoth she yet let them roast at â—…easure The way-ward Queene yet thinkes the time too long And that she payes too sweetly for his Treasure For yeeld she must the stranger prooues too strong Yet still she cals not yet T is out of measure Nor yet nor yet she sings no other song Alacke the Beldams slacknesse quite betrayes her The onely meanes to keepe him from the Razer 85 The youth preuail'd the Queene 's somewhat appeasd And for there is no helpe the vtmost tries Since her the stranger hath by wager ceasd Before the watch-word giuen she must not rise The Beldam thinkes at last the Queene t' haue pleasd Oh Madam they are rosted now she cries Are they indeed Let them rost on quoth she And prethy Nurse put in two more for me 86 I know not what effect this wager tooke But the next day she canceld her strict Law She that men hated Eunuchs cannot brooke Command was giuen that all such should withdraw And not presume within her Court to looke That could be found toucht with the smallest flaw And this Decree among the Scithians grew Till the sad day that they their husbands slew 87 For when their flying men were quite disgracst And sayl'd in battaile they disdain'd their yoke And scorning all subiection proudly facst Their foes themselues with many a boysterous stroke From Scithiaes bounds all men they cleane displacst And strongly arm'd through many Regions broke Thus raign'd successiuely many a bold Dame In Scithia whence Penthisilea came 88 Their Pollaxes whose vse the Greekes neare knew Thunder vpon theyr losty Caskes and fell them The Greekes stâ—…ll guarde the field although some fewe Perisht at first and striuing to excell them Being but Women they some Damsels slew And with the oddes of number they repell them But when the Queene into the battaile flings VVhere eare she comes she bloudy Conquest bringes 89 King philomines Combats by her side VVith many a bold Knight brought from Paphlagone Gainst whom the King Cassilius fierce can ride Srriuing that day to haue his valour knowne Betweene them was a fayre and euen course tryde Amphimacus to Priam deare alone Since Troylus death thrust in amongst the Greekes Forcing their flight with many clamorous shrikes 90 Him Aiax Telamon encounters then And stayes the fury of his barbed Steede Acting that day deeds more then commen men Such as through both the Armies wonder breede Whom Noble Deiphebus meetes agen The youthfull Prince whose valour doth exceed The fearefull slaughter of his puissance stayes Whose discipline his Focs could not but prayse 91 And had not wrathfull pyrrhus now led on His Fathers Myrmidons and quite forsooke His vntryde Knights the day had sure beene gon But where they march't the Earth beneath them shooke And to withstand theyr vigor they found none Till Paris with his Archers that way tooke and now began a fierce and Mortall fray In Emulation who should fly who stay 92 Paris preuailes his forces gaine the best And Lycomedes Grand-child must retire Behold where gainst the Troians Aiax Crest Seemes aboue all his Souldiers to aspyre His huge seauen-folded Targe still guards his brest For Paris through the field he doth inquire Whom as the Sal'mine fighting spyes from far He heares a Steele-shaft from his Crosbow iarre 93 It aymes at him and where his Armour parted Betweene the Arme and Shoulder there it fell Aiax obseru'd the man by whom he smarted And pressing forward vowes to quite him well Through the mid-throng the neerest way he thwarted No opposition can his rage expell Till he had past through Groues of growing Speares To come where thousand Shafts sung by his eares 94 Yet past them all euen till he came where fought The amorous Troian and to him he makes His guard of Archers the Greeke dradded naught But o're his Helme his reeking Glaue he shakes Which in his fall assured ruine brought Vpon the Earth the dying Troian quakes And in his death leaues all terrestriall ioy Faire Hellen Priam Heeuba and Troy 95 Oh! Had the Raptor in his Cradle dide Millions of liues had in his death beene sau'd and Asiaes glory that late sweld in pride Had not with siedge and death so long beene brau'd O're his dead Coarse the warlike Greeke doth stride and workes his way through harnesse richly ingrau'd Whose curious workes he blemisht where he stood Blurring their Fingers with wide wounds and blood 96 The Dardans fly at Brute of Paris fall The Greekes with dreadfull march their flight pursue Euen to the very skirts of Troyes fayre wall But betweene death and them the Scithians grew Squadrons of Greekes before the Damsels fall Now the re-spirited Troians fight renâ—…w Twice fore the Scithian Queene did Pyrrhus stand Yet twice by her repulsed hand to hand 97 Night partes the battaile vpon equall oddes In Paris death the Troians haue the wurst Hellen and Troy bequeath him to the Gods His death lesse mourn'd then hath his life bin curst The morning comes the Greekes make their aboad Before the gates through which the Scithians burst And scorning to be Coopt each with her shielde Brauely aduanst make roomth into the field 98 Them Deiphebus followâ—…s with his traine The Sole-remainder of King Priams race By whom at first a valiant Greeke was slaine That in the Campe inioyde a Soueraigne place Amphimachus next him spurs on the plaâ—…ne With Philomines who rankes on apace Aeneas and Antenor these contend With all their powers to giue the long siedge end 99 In vaine for lo vpon the aduerse part Guirt with his Fathers Myrmidons appeares Sterne Pyrrhus whose late bleeding woundes yet smart Next him Pelides with a band of Speares Then marcht Tysander with a Lyons hart Vlisses Steuelus and proud in yeares Nestor the two Atrides well attended The two