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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

vntill you haue mingled their blood with the bowels of the others their Explorors otherwise it will come to passe and that before you looke for it but not sooner than I experienced of their treacheries feare it that these Rouers and Robbers of y e whole world being by their tyrannous countrimen alreadie perchaunce at point of their ariuall rescued out of our hands shal stand them in no small steed to the cutting of your throates and the conquest of this our Iland Haue you forgot how yester-day euen the sentence of death could not pluck down the courage of their Companions and why forsooth reason had they to hope that expected this helpe and marke you not also howe the carelesse countinaunces of these our Thrals doe not so muche argue a contempt of death as the like hope that their armed Confederates are already marching to their rescue once againe therefore I say let your hast in putting them to death cut off their hope in purposing vpon life of lyfe sayd I yea and hauing made a massacre of your liues and pray of your Countrie to suruiue you in the one and succeede you in the other To Atys Abynados and to the rest this her Sentence seemed no more seuere then to be charged of Confederacie with before executed Assirians strange but therin to haue bene guiltie or not guiltie was all one it suffising to Dircilla her wrath and their deaths onely that they were Assirians vnto whiche people the occasion why hereafter following she had vowed her selfe a deadly enemie Cap. 53. WHilst she was yet speaking diuers of the Ilanders as purposing a generall slaughter in great fury ran to a Caue not far of and anon return rigorously driuing before thē certain Assirians whom the day before they had taken forraging in the Iland and of whose deaths Dircilla their Gouernesse had before giuen them in commaundement But the Ilanders being naturally pittiful altogeather vnacquainted with sheading of blood and dwelling as it were in a world by themselues had neuer till then seene Shippe or Straunger and therefore had not the fierce words and wrath of Dircilla more preuailed then the inhumanitie or malice of those harmelesse people the Asserians had not only not bene assailed and captiuated but also such admiration rid their beauty and brauery strike in to the harts of the idolatrous Ilanders that eyther they had easily beleeued them to be Gods or at the least-wise durst not haue made proofe of their manhoods But Dircilla commaunding whose wordes to them were as Oracles they feared not to enterprise were it neuer so rare or great an Aduenture only herein as moued with compassion they had borrowed of their vsuall obedience in that they had not according to her commaundement the day before done execution vpon those firste-ariued Assirians Wherfore Dircilla contrary to her thought seeing them yet liuing whose death she had commaunded one while firing her froward eies vpon the miserable Captiues and anone casting her frouning lookes vppon the Ilanders after she had with sharp reprehentions re●uked them of disobedience and reproued them of foolish pitie that her wordes had now made them altogether as pittilesse as her owne purpose was cruel she caused both the first and last company of the Assirians to assend the toppe of a steepe Rocke from whence to be floung downe headlong was the death wherevnto they were all adiudged by this angrie Virago Great was the generall lamentation that the Assirians then made and no lesse the admiration that either companie had of this their heauie and vnexpected meeting and that amongst so barbarous a people howbeit of all this time on neither part was any acquaintance takē for they all seemed straungers one to another But anon as the friend imbraceth his friend and ech man encourageth his fellow with patience and constancie to leaue his life and as Atys and Abynados plie them now to one place then to an other still with godly exhortations strengthening the ●●●●ting courages of some their fearefull Countriemen amōgst the first-ariued Assirians they espied Sorares their father But alas the maner of this their dismal meting was so much the more lamentable by howe much more the same might haue bene ioyfull had they not bene crossed by this misfortune there might one see y e Sonnes to want all tokens of gladnesse in saluting their Father and the Father furnished with all signes of heauinesse in intertaining his Sonnes and the skilfullest Painter in making a seuerall Counterfeit to euery sorrowfull countinaunce either should haue ben grounded in varietie or else haue painted more then one Agamēnon vnder a vale ●emon●● the death of Iphigenia Yea so pitifull were the confu●ed Cries this doleful Spectacle euen to the Ilāders themselues that moued with compassion they made no hast at all to do execution as was the seuere commaundement of their Gouernesse But Dircilla only constant in her crueltie the rather when she perceaued the ministers of her wrath thus suddenlye enclined to mercy being set in a double chaufe did single out from either company of the Assirians two of the most aged persons and then hardly with-holding her Fist from their faces and her Lawnce frō the bosoms of her own people vsed these following speeches Cap. 54. HOw farre off foolish and vngratefull people I am euen from any tirannous thoughte whereof it seemeth you haue me in ielosie the self-witnesse of these two auncient murderers may happily fit me with a sufficient purgation for as I perswade my selfe that al Assirians generally are fleshed with blood so I easily coniecture that these two in respect of their yeres should be parties or at the least wise priuie to those murthers whereof I shall now speake yea although a godlesse life hath commonly a gracelesse ende yet it may be that these olde Hou●●sides whom if you shall spare a natural death will shortly dispatche will at the last penitentlye confesse what at the least I perticularly expresse But if it fall out againste my guesse yet either shal I make the very name of an Assirian odious in your eares or by reporting my iust quarrell proue my self guiltlesse of tiranny Omitting therefore to be curious as touching the trecherous ariual of y e Assirian Armies into Media my natiue countrie vnder conduct of their butcherous Emperor Ninus it shall suffise that my weeping eyes somwhat easing my hart shal anon licence my toung in few to touch with what bestial cruelty they ordered their bloody Conquest These mine 〈◊〉 ●ehelde the roiall Pauilion of king Farnus my Father consumed with fire which way soeuer I looked the countrey abrode was al a flame here mighte I see an heape of Meades newly slaughtered there the Assirians to perseuer in sleying this Uillain murthereth a Matron ouer the dead body of her sonne or husband y t Ruffen haileth by her faire heare some noble Uirgin to rauishmēt death or captiuity one sundereth the impotent olde-man in sporte an other

to craue pardon for mine owne taken paines and that perhaps of such who will soonest mis-like what they cannot make like were as if an Asse shoulde bringe forth a Gennet Pan a childe altogether vnlike the father and for my selfe in decorum to degenerate for Pan being clownish not courtish should not sing cunningly if he sing kindly and why only to be fine were in him a fault but in vaine is it I know that I feare suche offence But whether wander I suffiseth it not that willinglye I haue straitned my selfe to time but that I also wilfullye so tie my selfe to one rude Master that I degresse not so much as in good maners not so but if curtious Reader not calling into Account my worthinesse whiche claimeth lesse then you should graunte you accepte of my willingnesse which is more thē you can gesse he that expecteth only such curtesie resteth most desirous to deserue it is also therefore and still shall be yours as hee may W. Warner Arbaces Calamus primus Cap. 1. AT what time Zamieis Ninias the fift Emperour of Assiria sonne of Ninus and Ascolanta Semiramis had in battell vanquished th'accursed sonne of his father and common enemie to mankind Cham otherwise called the Egipsian Saturne and sonne of Noa then vsurping ouer the Bactrians part of his Nauie vpon occasion returning by Schythia was so dangerouslye tossed with stormes and seas that they which seemed euen now most glorious and insolent victors appeared then most miserable and desolate wretches Neuerthelesse after long dispayre of their liues great losse of their treasure and extreme danger of both the disparkled fleete of the Assirians ariued at Niniuie one only ship excepted wherin were imbarked more then a hundred braue soldiours ouer whom one Sorares was captaine Not far from that place whereas the mountains Taurus and Caucasus begin the headsprings of all the Asian Seas which take their sundrie names according to the channels whereinto the scattered waters fal there lieth an Iland no lesse obscure for the scituation then vnfrequented for the infertilitie thereof into this Iland the ship of Sorares was by tempest driuen Where hauing landed his men and repaired his wetherbeaten Uessell he determined a further search into the Iland as well to learne what commodities might there be founde as also to keepe his soldiors occupied vntill time might serue more conueniently for their departure away and therfore marching from his ship in good order he pearsed a greate part of the same Ilande wherein he found nothing but myrie bogges or stiepie rockes not worth the discouerie much lesse the trauell or hazarde of a conquest and he made it no wonder that hee founde no people there to defend it seing he himself thought euery●day a yeare vntill he had left it At the length sending the wind to be more fauourable then their discouerie profitable his purpose was to retire his men and forthwith to haue wayed anker But whilste he rested in this resolution the Assirians might espie descending towards them from a mountaine two men altogether vnweaponed and naked sauing that their pined bodies were in some parts disorderly couered with a few vnhandsome rags their lookes seemed wilde their countinaunces full of heauinesse their colour swarth their heare and beardes long lothsome and vnkembde and to describe them in a word being men in shape they seemed monsters in show but yet such monsters as were rather to be pitied for their penurie then to be feared for their crueltie These being come before the Assirians albeit their sauage demeanour sauoured more of the place of their present abode then of the ciuilitie small though it were of the countrey wherein they were bread yet remembring that they were men that they were to deale with men the one of them whose name was Arbaces sometimes a Duke in Media had these following speeches Cap. 2. MOst happie people to whom othewise I shoulde haue giuen a contrarie salutation had not I desscried your ship a friendly instrument to rid you out of so fruitlesse an Iland I woulde not haue you imagine that wanting swordes to expell you wee indeuour by words to cerrifie you We are but twaine as you see and the only inhabitants of this vninhabitable Iland yet twaine a greater number then that the plentie of this place is able to satisfie not for that we are couetous desiring all but miserable hauing nothing Our foode is roots grasse and leaues our lodging a Caue framed by nature out of the hard quarrie our bed mosse our apparell only such as you see and the same the vnhappie spoiles of our haplesse companions yet these are trifles in respect of a tragedie And for that you haue partlye some experience of the place though better cheape by all then we that haue paied therefore to the vttermoste I leaue you to iudge how it doth battell by the view of our forlorne personages saying in a word that hell is no hell in comparison of this or that this is hell it selfe without any comparison In that we liue we are not vngratefull to the Gods but in that we are not dead we account our selues vnfortunate for had death bene plyant to our petions the end of our liues had bene long since the end of our sorrowes But hope ouercomming dispaire for that in the one is possibilitie in the other no remedie knowing that as the Gods haue power by iustice to punish so they haue will by mercie to pardon and considering that Fortune is painted with two faces frowning with the one and smiling with the other that winter doth bite but sommer burnish we haue made necessitie a vertue continuance a custome and patience our protector Whence we are our language bewrayeth what you are your Ensignes doe manifest but what we demaunde resteth as yet vntouched We will not feare to speake though you spare not to strike aboundaunce of hardnesse hath made vs hardie the worst of your malice can be but death and the best thing may betide vs shall bee change of our liues We are Meades not monsters ciuile people not sauadge Ilanders banished from home through your prosperitie and betrayed here through our owne practises once flying your enmitie and now following your friendship as men enforced to the first by your wronges and constrained to the later through our owne wretchednesse With this courage neuerthelesse ye Assirians we sollicitate your fauour that if the old rancour of your grudge be not yet qualified with the newe spectacle of our present calamities our sides know ye haue not as yet taken so muche the propertie of these hard Rockes but that they will easily giue entrance to your reuenging weapons Albeit by the way it might be sayde that as you are to deale roughly with those that stand against you in combate so ought you to deale mercifullye with those which at your feete lie prustrate for in the one your courage is not more magnificent then in the other your charitie

this quarrell these men had loden themselues with great store of the treasure minding whilst we were thus busted in the fray to haue made a mart of our miseries dr●w ●owards the ship with purpose to haue sailed away But a common souldiour a factio●s fellow smelling ou● this their pretence and getting aboord before any of these stinche●s mighte enter had fyred the same in sundrie places the whiche hauing of it selfe sufficiente of combustable matter was quickly consumed This we espied and as we could not then intend it for the fray so remained we so farre of from squenching the flame that it rather reioyced vs of the so preuenting of those dastards as we did then terme them then once thought on the misery that hereof ensued for hauing gold we vainly perswaded our selues not to want any thing But by this meanes those that woulde thus haue fledde were now enforced to take a part in our ciuil fight Still perseuer we in mangling and murthering one an other vntill Chebron and his adherentes had vtterly confounded the aduerse party and that of an hundred men and more that ariued here within fiue or sixe howers only xvi remained vnslaine yet we though so small a nūber to deuide so great a bootie in the sharing had well nere begone a second broile and that day I would wee had bene so happie had ben the last to vs al had not night preuented our harebraine proceedings and darkenesse stayed our desperatenesse But daylight thus failing vs euery man bestowed himselfe vpon a seuerall pile of the heaped treasure keeping a wakefull suspicious watche of all that night As soone as the gray morning appeared and that wee beheld the wooluish aspects of our own selues with blood embrued the dead carkases of our slaughtered companions and looking towards the sea remembred the burning of our ship and perishing of our vittailes then then our furious fearcenesse was changed to feareful fantisies and our headie rashnesse to helplesse repentance But what dwell I longer on this mischiefe the matter being much more dolorous that resteth yet vnresited When our handes were thus ouersoone filled with blood that our eyes had ouer late emptied their teares although our sore limmes require rest yet our sharpe appetites hunger for foode and therefore as well pricked forwards by hunger as desirous to be instructed what a profitable plot we had picked out for our here abode wee discouered into the farthest circuit of this Iland But the same seemed abhorred of the gods and we found it vtterly abandoned of men beastes fowles fruites and euery other thing necessarie for mans behoofe and worser then so we being shiplesse and on euery side with main Seas enuironed did also remain hopelesse of our deliuerie from hence Now in this melancholie euery man laid violent hand vpon Chebron fathering our woes vpon his late inuectiue wordes whereby in my conceit hee rather intented quietnesse than pretended any suche quarrels howbeit our mutinous minds altered with the time and troubles made a newe construction of his zealous meaning and doe what he could we pressed him to death vnder an huge heape of golde whose bones vnder the pile are yet extant After this some of our companie not able to abide the extremitie of this climate the stench of the ayre and stirilitie of the Iland by mutuall consents made mutuall dispatch of their own persons and shortly after vntimelye death finished the liues of the residue who being far more fortunate in dying then wee in suruiuing lefte onelye vs two the vnhappy inheritours of these vnspeakeable calamities Thus haue you heard Sorares the effect though not the full of our tragicall ariuall and to morrowe wee will gratifie you with so much gold as shall partlye counteruaile your great curtesie though not comparable to the conceaued comfort of our promised deliuerie Arbaces thus finished his lamentable discourse and Sorares dismissed the whole company euery man to his lodging Cap. 6. THe next morning Arbaces and the other Meade his fellow conducted the Assirians vnto the piles of gold being in a manner ouergrowne with mosse and rust with which bootie the Assirians with merrie harts and many hands had quickly fraughted their ship But vnceasable are the mischiefes that golde procureth and vnsatiable are the mindes of couetous men Sorares being thus spead of this bootie and hauing consulted with his countrimen of a further inquisition began now to exact at the handes of the poore Meades a greater pray then wherein they coulde satisfie their auerise hunting after that whiche was not there to bee had and seeking as it were to extort fire out of water they would not be perswaded but the guiltlesse soules had reserued vnto themselues some greater treasure denyall might not acquite them nor intreaty saue them from tortures so that hauing already passed some to them were threatned other greater except they would promise what poore wretches they could not performe But in the end this diuilish deuise of the Assirians hastened their owne detrament who thus dreaming of hidden treasure for searth thereof had scattered themselues without any one man remaining aboorde into euerye corner of the Iland When in the meane time Arbaces and his fellow remembring how hardlye they had bene hampered and were still indangered vnder those vngratefull men whom they had euen now so bountifullye enriched taking therefore that time as a fit oportunitie to auoyde their mynasses boorded the vnmanned ship of Sorares and cutting the cables launch out at the pleasure of y e windes and the waues The Assirians anone contrarie to their expectations perceauing their ship aflote ran like mad men vp downe the shoare where by outward signes and sorrowfull gestures as wringing their handes howling out and beating their brestes they signified such apparent motions of their perplexed minds that euen the two Meades experienced of the self same distresse and moued with compassion towards the vngrateful people indeuoured in al they possibly might to returne back againe in their succour but all in vaine doe what they might contrarie windes resisted their mercifull meaning carrying them quite away with an inualuable fraught of that treasure whiche as before had chiefly procured all their troubles Whome we leaue safely to ariue in Sarmatia and Sorares with his couetous Assirians shut vp in the barren Iland as meritorious possessors of so miserable a possessiō Of all which of their successe and of other not impertinent accidents more remaineth hereafter to be read in that which is herein prosecuted Thetis Calamus secundus Cap. 7. IN this meane while after that Zamieis his imperiall fleete excepte that ship of Sorares was ariued in Assiria albeit the vāquishing of y e Bactrians moued a cōmon mirth to al yet the lacke of Sorares his company caused perticuler moan to some and that especially to Atys and Abynados two braue youthes the sonnes of the same Sorares whome at his departure to the Bactrian warres hee had left at

Timaetes maye nowe preuaile with my tōgue I protest it with my hart I vow it and mine Act shall performe it that his raunsome shal be the resignation of mine whole interest to this my detained kingdome But if none of these any of which might be of sufficiencie neither the Gods that shall punish the tyrannie nor the world that shall speake of thine infamie nor the blood that shall crie for vengeaunce against thee nor thine own guiltie conscience that shall at last accuse thee if none of these I say can worke thy flintie hart to a fleshlye substaunce yet knowe that the Lycians not without the assistaunce of other nations will I am sure vow the last drop of their dearest blood to reuenge such inhumane crueltie yea pittie thine owne people that shall buy his death ouer dearely Cap. 42. WHen thus much was spoken in vaine for Tyraunts are the lesse tractable by how much they are intreated Tymaetes rather dying in the greef of his father then dreading the death wherewithal himself was threatned with much adoe spake as followeth I am deare father inioyned an ouer greeuous pennance that being patiently resolued vpon a simple death doe now also by your impatience liue a dying life whereby my death is rather doubled than deferred but which is more and which is worse must I alas in this extremitie must I hunt for comfortable sayinges to appease your discouraging sorrowes You are not I knowe aduised howe you enuie my good happe because not aduertised how you hinder my sweete hope whiche hope is death and Death the Salue for all sorrowes and the Deliuerer of the immortall Soule from the Prison of this mortall bodie neither is it the ill Death but the well dying wee are to account of for not the stifling Halter of Hempe or sinking pillow of downe doe in any thing help or hinder our passage to Heauen Bee not greeued in that youre Sonne is punished but bee gladde in that hee hath not deserued suche punishmente were I guiltie perhaps my death should disquiet you the lesse when in that I am innocente you ought to bee quieted the more as Nature doeth moue you to lamente the death of your Sonne so let reason learne you the qualitie of your Seede whiche is mortall if because I am young you wishe my life mighte bee prolonged I aunswere in not dying olde my Sorrowes are abridged if you can-not as perhappes you doe not disgest the bloodye Triumphe of your dishonourable Enemie than doe not as no doubte you doe double his Ambition with the bootelesse expence of your ouer humble petitions for thinke not that this Tyraunte who can not lengthen his owne dayes one momente canne of himselfe shorten my date one minute but that the Gods for so I hope readie to accept of my soule haue made him an instrument to separate it from the body Wherefore good Father seeing that death is both necessarie and also ouertaketh vs all of necessitie seeing I auarre the one by triall neyther maye you auoyde the other by trauarse with the reuerente duetie of a Sonne I require it and withoute the partiall affection of a Father I beseeche you to graunt it that youre impatience maye not driue those bloodie teares to my harte whiche not with a desperate minde I speake it this butcherlye penaunce shall neuer drawe from mine eyes More might he not be suffered to speake but his head being stroken from off his shoulders was togeather with his bleeding bodie at commaundement of the Tyraunt cast ouer the walles amongste the sorrowfull Licians to the view of his sowning Father which dead body of Tymaetes was anon solemnlye interred in the accustomed Sepulchers of his Auncestours sometimes Kings of Lydia nere adioyning to Sardis Cap. 43. WYnter was now at hand and the Licians perceauing themselues rather wasted then their enemies weariried prepared therefore to breake vp their Siege intending at the next Spring to haue returned with all the forces they might possibly leuie But in this meane while at Sardis ariued Xenarchus sonne to the Tyraunt and Friend as before to Tymaetes who after intelligence had of Tymaetes his death and Mazeres his Trecherie desirous to be dead with the one and quit with the other he attended from thenceforth opportunitie for both and that so as the Licians themselues before their departure mighte bee ey-witnesses that euen Death had not yet dissolued their friendship and lo how occasion offered it selfe to this enterprise Aphrodite his Sister that shee might there spende her teares where she dared to haue shead her blood had not regarding the daunger of the incamped enemie escaped out of Sardis and amongst the Lydian Sepulchers was espied pitifully to passionate her selfe ouer the Tombe of Tymaetes Now to rescue her out of that place and peril Mazeres that for her loue would haue laboured euen Dis himselfe desired Xenarchus his assistaunce the match was made and only they two alike weponed vnknown to any issue out of the Citie to fetche home as was pretended Aphrodite The selfe same day also had Xenarchus secretly practised the deliuerie of Atys and Abynados out of Prison and through a priuie vault issuing out of the kinges pallace conueied them into the Subburbes who not minding rashly to fall into the handes of the incamped Licians had now hid themselues amongest the aforesaide Sepulchers When Xenarchus and Mazeres drewe neere to this place Xenarchus suddenly betooke him to his weapon to Mazeres demaunding the cause of his so doing he maketh this answere What Mazeres dost thou make a question as ignorāt of a quarrell or thinkest thou to excuse in wordes a treason already executed in workes could thy loue towards my Sister make thee disloyall to my friend and shall not the faith I owed to my friende make thee mine enimie yes Mazeres yes though vntill nowe I haue dissembled my griefe for his death yet this oportunitie hapning I will not longer suspende reuenge for his wrong howbeit so would I be reuēged that neither wish I to be conquerour nor yet would I be conquered onely that we both die of mutuall wounds I desire it and thou doest deserue it I know thy courage is haughtie and my quarrell honest be therefore venterous in this as thou art valiant in all thinges else and condiscente to ioyne in so knight-like a Combate with so indifferent a Combattant who ouercomming or being my selfe ouercommed do assure thee of this comfort that thy selfe art the last man shall see me lyuing the reason hereof if thou seekest a reason is the soule of Xenarchus at once laboureth to salute the ghost of Tymaetes an withall to keepe an Obbit to him with thy life by whose only meanes his death was prosecuted and against whom his blood cryeth vengeance To excuse my selfe replyed Mazeres by loue were to accuse loue of homiside to argue against such your friendship were the rather to agrauate your enmitie and to denie the chalenge were to distrust mine

owne manhoode so that in excusing I should accuse as I will not in perswading I should not disswade as I woulde and in agreeing to you I should disagree with you as I must but alas my Lord aduise your selfe better and deale not so outragiously with him that friendly not fearefully beseecheth you of pacience for if the losse of my life might reuiue Tymaetes or pleasure you Tymaetes should liue and you be pleased mine owne handes should hasten it your weapon not hasard it But seeing it may not so bee or if my submissiue wordes may not preuent your vnintreatable furie then know Xenarchus that Mazeres is a Knight no Coward but were I a Cowarde yet Cowardes in like extremities be desperatly valiant and being inforced to fight naturally will rather kill then be killed when if it should so proue as in fight the victorie is vncertaine that by euill hap you perrish one my weapon then alas howsoeuer it pleaseth you to flout me or feare me with the promised comfort of your death wherin I should conceiue nothing lesse then comfort whereof againe and againe I intreate you not to inforce the occasion you may assure your selfe of this comfort from me that your deade bones shall more persecute me then your lyuing body can punish me the one I may not flie the other I doe not feare the reason is if you demaund a reason if my death be not the prise of your blood yet must I of necessitie forsake Lydia the which to leaue were intollerable so forgo Aphrodite whom not to loue is impossible Now when Xenarchus would admit no excuses others then by Combate to discide the discorde the two knights so valiantly giue the charge ech on the other that whilst both strike both seeme rather to shrinke with the blowes then to shun the weapons either of them shewed enough of courage neither of them were to seeke of cunning and fret more with scorne to be wounded then feele the smart of their woundes In few after many breathings Xenarchus disaduauntaging himselfe by his ouer fearce desperat fight receiued a wound whereof fainting he falleth to the earth and then perswading himselfe of no other hope then present death he charitably forgaue wofull wounded Mazeres the deede constantly imbracing him indeuouring all in vaine to giue succour desired to be conueied vnto Tymaetes his Tombe there to offer vp his last gaspe a sacrifice to his friends ghost in performance of which his request Mazeres shewed himselfe no lesse dutifull then dolefull Cap. 44. WHilst perplexed Aphrodite discheuiled as shee was washed her Louers Tombe with her lamentable teares bewayling his vntimely destinie and esteeming the date of hir owne life ouer dilatorie lifting vp her flowing eyes she espyed Mazeres supporting thetherwards the imbrued body of her dying brother at sight whereof when wepings gaue passage to wordes shee thus cryeth out Now woe and out alas woe is me forspoken Aphrodite how hapneth it my deare brother that I viewe thee a second buriall and what see I more doest thou Mazeres mischieuous Mazeres by a new murder adde to my liuing martirdom if thou I say if thou the tormentor of me and Traitor to mine either in respect of y e loue thou pretendest to owe me or in reueng of the hate I protest euer to beare thee wilt shew me pity by being pitiles for somuch as the gods seeme deaffe and not to heare me and the destinies dull and not to helpe me vse once more thy murtherous weapon to dispatch me of life that otherwise may neuer be eased of griefe oh how aptly in one Tombe maist thou bestow three murthers leaue not alas leaue not haplesse Aphrodite so vtterly helpeles that also present death be exempted her succour As Xenarchus for yet he liued with fainting tounge endeuoured to pacifie his sister and acquite his inforsed foe Mazeres of his selfe procured death Atys and Abynados hyding them selues as before amongest the sepulchers and hearing those well known names lamentable tearmes and the voice of out-crying Aphrodite partly to assist her vnto whom they supposed Mazeres to offer force partly to reuenge the death of the curtious knight Tymaetes and withall to be meete with Mazeres for their owne priuate quarrels as not a little affrighthed at the noise ran forth to see what had hapned But when they perceiued their late deliuerer Xenarchus to lie there aliue more then halfe deade and by him standing their late betraier Mazeres smoaking in bloode without any further words they fearsly ran vpon twise-wounded Mazeres plying him with woundes to whome it wel pleased to dy who also being thus spead of his deaths wound aiming with his dying eyes to gasping Xenarchus did with him yeald vp the ghost either in the bosom of the other This new occurrant gaue to Aphrodite fresh occasion thus to continue her former lamentations in these words What doest thou yet liue Aphrodite long since the beginner and not yet the ender or at the least wise the fourth actor in this vnfinished Tragedie O my deare brother Xenarchus and which art more deerer to mee then a brother my sweete Tymetes content your selues yea a verie little while be contented with these wasted teares the whole remaine that continuall weepings haue left me with these cold comfortles kisses the last that euer Aphrodite shal giue you Neither thinke thou Mazeres that I deeme thee vtterly vnworthy my weping that which hath vndone vs all diddest esteeme me altogether worthy thy woing I cannot but lament thee deade that lyuing could neuer loue thee Which saide bestowing two kisses on the two Corses and two hundred on the watered Marbell that inclosed Tymaetes she forthwith entred the Lician campe and carelesse of her own safety rushing into the Pauilion of y e two kinges her fathers enimies when they rather gased on her beautie then gessed of her businesse shee disclosed her selfe and as much as in her lay stirreth them vppe ●o reuenge vppon her Tymaetes his death for whose onely loue hee had forgone life Aprodite saith shee is as deare to her Father as was Tymaetes to his and therefore the reuenge though it be smale yet it is somewhat In the meane time whilst she yet spake in came Atys and Abynados reporting the pittifull spectacle then to be seene at the Tombe of Tymaetes to the view whereof the Kinges and Captaines hyed and after them Aprodite followed But she perceiuing the gratious father of Tymaetes to be so farre off from seeking such reuenge for the death of his Sonne that he did not onely bewaile bitterly the deade bodies of Xenarchus and Mazares but spake to her so comfortably as if shee had bene his owne daughter being now the rather ouercome with the surcharge of this kinde sorrowe standing a while speechlesse and anon sinking downe vppon the deade bodies did good Ladie without any violente acte finishe her life not vnlamented for euen of her Fathers enimies The nexte

s●fferance I see is cause of your stubbornesse my curtesie of your cōtempt At my first comming when I might haue had adoration as a Goddesse I was not then so hautie as to take it and now that I should haue obedience as you Gouernesse you are not so humble as to giue it thus deale you with mee as did the Frogges with Iupiters Rafter you make me a Stock but beware these Storks And truely seeing you haue not deserued why I should be longer carefull of you and your welfare and for that by disobedience you will needes inflict vpon your selues so grieuous a punishmēt I also giue my consent a reuenge too great I confesse that these our Captiues be anon deliuered to their ships that being insufficient of them selues they may inuite frō Assiria the distruction and ruine of you your wiues your children your goodes and your whole countrie for enough haue the Assirians seene in this our Ilande to allure hether multitudes of Inuadours Cap. 55. THese her wordes had now so incensed the mindes of the Ilanders against the Assirians that euerie of them was clearely resolute in the death of his Prisoner but for that one of the two olde Captiues whom Dircilla had as before singled out and whom her wordes had now especially touched to the quicke was suddenly bereft his sences and falne in a sowne And for that the Ilanders stoode vppon expectation of some further confession to be deliuered by the seconde olde-man who was alredy in way of aunswere to Dircilla entred into some and these following speaches therefore vntill he shoulde ende the deter●●●ed slaughter receiued a seconde adiornement I protest qd this aged man by whatsoeuer God hath ●ar● of vs and this Countrie by the Sunne and the holy Fire of Caldia and as euerie of these shall in this life cōfort my withered Carcase more fit for the wormes thē the worlde and doe good to my Soule when it shall leaue the wearisome prison of this my body I shall Lady neither dissemble for feare accuse for enuie or excuse for affection but as touching that wherewithall we are nowe charged vtter all that I know and know all to be troth I shall vtter For my selfe therefore I say that most trewe and too trewe it is that the Assirians then conducted by Ninus committed such and the same before remembred outrages slaughters and spoyles in Media neither were you deceiued in guessing some of vs to bee priuie or parties to that bysines wherein to saye troth my selfe was no small parte but howe not alas as a Spoyler with the Assirians but as a Sufferer with the Meades for Media is the place of my bearth Assiria only of mine aboade And for these Assirians mine owne companie I meane I say Ladie that not charging them with the faultes of their Auncestours or any further then wherein them selues be guiltie you but especially yours haue greter cause of kindnesse then of any crueltie for proofe and better credit wherof besides my former protestation somewhat it is whom since my hither comming I haue not heard named that I know you to be Dircilla wife Ladie to the Duke Arbaces but more that I the speaker of these wordes am Orchamus brother vnto the same your husbande and more then so the man vnto whose care when suddenly at the commaundement of the Emperise you were snatched from out your Cabben you commended your yong Sonne saying Ah good Orchamus if thy fortune proue better then y e destinies of al thy friends be a Parent to thy poore Nephewe whome with more griefe I leaue an Orphant thē to haue seene hi●●uried I well remember the wordes and me-thinkes I yet see those very weepinges which pearced mine heart a● this our lamentable separation Since which time Dircilla I haue not onely bene carefull to answere the same your trust but also beyonde expectation I found Fortune and oportunitie therein assisting For no sooner was the Assirian Fleete aryued at home but that Ninus not a little displeased at your losse the which by the Emperise her ministers was smoothly cloaked with a colourable excuse but that Ninus I say caused your Sonne to bee nursed and nurtured with prince-like attendance and when his age serued who then of greater credit and courage or a more notable Captaine then was Sorares amongst the Assirians But in the returne of the imperiall Nauie f●om the Bactrian warres by occasion of a sudden tempest then happening Sorares your Sonne my nephew and all the companie aboorde his ship were lost from the rest in the Sea Caspium Now when this heauie newes was bruted at Niniuie I Atys and Abynados his two Sonnes for he hath made you a grādmother of these two Gentlemen and these other his and our friends vowing our selues in his continual Quest haue three yeares alredy trauailed many Countries and Seas to find out Sorares through occasion whereof as also to take in fresh water and other necessaries and not vpon any such purpose as you pretende we are aryued in this Iland and lo yonder-same he pointed to Sorares is the man farre sought but vnluckely here founde if finding him wee loose our selues and with the ende of our labours make also an ende of our liues Cap. 56. JN few what with this talke and other more effectuall tokens Dircilla being brought to her Creede and left in de profundìs rather musing at their meeting being so straun●● then mistrusting the matter being credited or euer she might imbrace Sorares or reply to Orchamus was interrupted by the seconde Olde-man the other of the two singled-out Captiues who in a ioyfull extasie suddenly clapped her frowardly disdayning his imbracinges as not yet cooled of her former chaufe betwixte his braune-fallen armes But when he saw her lookes not vnlike to those in the picture of Proserpina newly rapted by Pluto it entered then his thought that rashly to iest with Sainctes or edg-tooles might proue daungerous wherefore as doubting the like reward that had Aesops kind Asse vnkinde-like imitating the wanton Spanniel for the time therefore charming such his kindnesse anon he founde oportunitie thus to chaunge her coynesse I giue place sayde he to the time but not to Dircilla whome these armes pythlesse though they nowe bee once coulde nay often did not violently but willingly imbrace may I so blabbe euen in the bedde of Arbaces blushe not Dircilla blushe not the sporte was lawfull howsoeuer the reporte may seeme ouer liberall and if for pouertie parteth friendes you disdaine to acknowledge such acquaintance yet at the least for Arbaces his sake deale mercifully with these your Prisoners As for my selfe could I pleade no other protection then that I am olde enough not to feare death it might suffise but nether did I hope so well as I haue here founde neyther doe I feare so ill as I am here threatned Orchamus for so your countenance promiseth a consent hath alredy founde grace because he is brother to your husbande