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A01849	Endimion· An excellent fancy first composed in French by Monsieur Gombauld. And now elegantly interpreted, by Richard Hurst Gentleman.	Gombauld, Jean Ogier de, d. 1666.; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, ill.; Gaultier, Léonard, 1561-1641, engraver.; Picart, Jean, ill.; Hurst, Richard.	1639 (1639)	STC 11991; ESTC S103202	63,733	167

I receive one day of her goodwill when as the Heavens all covered with Clouds which seemed jealous of my good fortune kept me from seeing her and how happy was it for me that there had beene some few dayes so cloudy as it were on purpose For in that time I was advertised by the faithfull relation of one of her Nymphs that shee was as much troubled therewith as I and that shee had bemoaned her selfe of it to the Goddesse Iris in this manner Iris said she it would not trouble me much to be a while deprived of seeing a good part of the Earth provided that I might at least behold those places which doe most delight me Now I will tell thee freely that I have lately taken a particular affection to Caria and yet it is full foure dayes since I last saw it I had rather be debarred the sight of the Isle Delos or of my native Mountaine the name whereof I beare Disperse therfore I pray thee the Clouds a little divert them either towards Lycia or Ionia or any way else so that any hand thou hide not the City of Heraclea nor Mount Lathmos from mine eyes Immediately after this there appeared a great opening in the Clouds and the darke vapours vanished at the presence of the goddesse who beganne to appeare in her fairest and most perfect lustre and as if she had assembled all her beames about me I found my selfe in an instant wholly environed with light O happy and fortunate Endymion sayes Pyzander if the sweete lookes of the Moone can be able to render a man so But tell me what couldst thou be doing and how couldst thou dispose of thy selfe all the times she appeared not in the Heavens Even that which she her selfe doth when she is deprived of the light of the Sunne answered Endymion Shee attires her selfe in a blacke vaile as if she could not misse the sight of him one houre without mourning for his absence Even so what light soever shone I seemed to live in darknesse and had no other exercise but a continuall wandring up and downe the Woods to trye whether I could learne any newes of her or whether my Fate or her favour would give me leave to finde her Wherein I laboured a while in vaine but at length as it is the custome of the gods sometimes to prevent our hopes and otherwhiles to come when our expectations are tyred so this good happe chanced to mee when I least thought of it The night had already begunne to furle up her sailes and a gentle coole gale the fore-runner of light sweetly cherished slumber and with the force of its wings drove before it a cleare thinne Cloud laden onely with a light dew besprinkling with drops the whole earth like Pearles which sparkled even as little eyes in the faces of the flowers and Plants When as awaking and finding an ayre more pleasing than ordinary and such a one as the gods have in Heaven or do bring with them when they come downe to the earth I came out of the Cave being moved thereunto by a certaine pleasing violence which had no lesse power over me than if some voice had called me forth And scarce had I passed the threshold when as I saw before me upon the edge of the Hill a woman for such at first I tooke her to be but having a little nearer observed her beauty her stature and more than humane Majesty I knew that it was some of the goddesses With what tearmes now shall I possibly expresse that which then mine eyes beheld and from whence shal I draw comparisons to represent unto thee that which being beyond compare can admit none I shall have sooner done if without attempting to demonstrate light by obscurity I bid thee fixe the eye of thy imagination so farre forth as thou art able abovt all the Heavens and there behold Beauty it selfe fitting accompanyed with an everlasting youth and such as can neither suffer alteration or be impaired by any accident whatsoever O Pyzander how farre are the Divine beauties different from these here below how soon did they beget in my soule a contempt of all that before I had ever seene But I tasted this felicity in the most absolute degree of all when perceiving the Bow she held in her hand and the Cressant which shone upon her head I found it to bee the goddesse to whom my heart addressed all its vowes this I say made me imagine that the day tooke his being thence and not from the rising of the Sunne Endymion sayes Pyzander as I desire not to ingage thee in impossibilities or to busie thee overmuch in a long and vaine description of things which cannot be represented So will I yet entreate thee to give mee some figures of this Divine beauty as much as our humane language can permit thee Amongst so many perfections sayes Endymion I know not which I should first observe and the desire I had to behold them all hindred me from taking particular notice from any one and was cause I saw them but confusedly One while I was amazed to see that in so perfect a stature wherein she farre surpassed the best formed of women she seemed to be of so tender an age for her complexion was tenderer and fairer than that which appeares in the first bloome of youth it selfe being mixed with certaine darting glances which seemed to participate of both flames and flowers and accompanyed with a vertue so Divine as that it defended it from the injuries of the Seasons and freed it for ever from the jurisdiction of Yeares Sometimes I admired in her a kinde of Majesticke demeanour which as it had force to attract the noblest courages wanted not also austerity enough to checke those whom pusillanimity accused of want of worth and to prohibite them to approach her Honour and Majesty seemed to sit in her Countenance as in a seate of well polished Ivory keeping a perpetuall residence under the rich ornament of her faire Tresses some whereof were plaited and wreathed others bound up and curled after the Laconian manner with farre more grace than Art there being no neede of addition either to their lustre or number Some others carelesly dispersed and as it were escaped from the bands and captivity of the rest danced on her vermillion cheekes and faire shoulders catching and captivating in their sporting both Love and Zephirus round about her Corrall Lippes appeared the sweetest smiles and the most delicate of all the Graces both which joyntly with their attracts and courtings did there manure the Gilly-flowers amidst the Lyllies and Roses Which way soever shee turned her faire eyes both browne and cleare the ayre became in an instant so sweete and pure that every thing was beautified and refreshed therewithall Those eyes are really the two Starres who at their pleasure doe beget a new Spring on Earth and appease the Sea when it rageth and is troubled But what dost thou embarke me in

Pyzander and what is this that I undertake to speak to thee of those eyes in whose presence there is none other able to looke up or contest never so little without being dazelled which was the cause that I my selfe was constrained ever and anon to cast downe mine eyes and let them fall on her faire necke although it were onely a diversion of them from flames and lightnings to loose them in the Snow of her bosome and breasts where I could see no more on each side they being by chance halfe covered than a small Cressant of those two little but truely Celestiall Globes which were in continuall motion and who as scorning to be restrained of liberty forced open her garment as much as possibly they could so that if they could not fully display their dazelling whitenesse and beauty at least they gave ample testimony of the perfection of their round forme and if they troubled not the eye yet spared they not to shake the imagination Herein it is Pyzander that the most eloquent would become dumbe and therefore will I speake no more of it least the onely remembrance thereof should render me speechlesse and leave me nothing else but sighes All those places rejoyced in the presence of this Goddesse who seemed to have made another Olympus of Mount Lathmos As for me I was so fraught and replenished with contentment that enjoying whatsoever can in this life be most delightfull me thought I then first began to live I was wholly ravished with the wonders of so rare an object when as directing towards me her lookes every motion whereof seemed to bee conducted by the Graces themselves Endymion sayes shee with a voice so cleare and pleasant as would with the first word have charmed any breast thy vowes have touched me even in Heaven and thine affection hath beene acceptable to me I know what care thou takest to imprint my glory and greatnesse in the knowledge of the Mortalls if I should not be sensible of it thou wouldst have just reason to complaine of me and to publish over all the World that Ingratitude is lodged as well in Heaven amongst the gods as on Earth amongst men Make use therefore of thy good Judgement and aske of me whatsoever thou wilt wherein I may have opportunity to testifie mine acknowledgment and doubt not of the grant I remaining wholly mute and confounded not onely by seeing her and receiving so great honour at her hands but also for that admiration and respect equally enjoyned me silence had not the power to desire any thing esteeming my paines and watchings too fully recompenced with one only looke of hers or the least word she had vouchsafed to speak to me Insomuch that at first I was not able to speake at all and although I could I knew not what to say unto her and this forced silence wa● advantagious to me in that she gave me by an act of her accustomed goodnesse some small time to bethinke and recollect me I was once minded to beg of her the same thing which my Father obtained of Jupiter which was to live and dye according to his good liking At length finding that I must needs speake the consideration of my duty surmounting my feare and furnishing me with subject of discourse in despight of the distraction wherewith I was possessed I thus answered her Great Goddesse the honour thou dost me doth infinitely exceed my condition grant me therfore what thou thinkest fitting for what could I request of thee I forget all that is past and can thinke of nothing for the future being so throughly possessed with what I at present enjoy Give me leave rather to offer my selfe to thee and if thou gratifie me so farre as to receive me I will beleeve thou hast granted me all things I would gladly begge of thee that the happinesse I now enjoy might be made everlasting but she well observing the extasie wherein so unwonted a felicity had cast me and which having in the beginning deprived me of speech went on also to seize upon my understanding replying askes me how wouldst thou be able said she to endure that long which in a moment hath so distempered thee as thou hadst need of some body to restore thee to thy selfe And as for that which thou requirest thou couldst not obtaine it albeit thou werest in the principall Ranke amongst the Immortals thinke therefore quickly on some other suite that I may be no longer detained Assuredly said I to her mortall men who live so short a space have great reason to thinke time precious since the very gods themselves whose Nature is infinite are so tender and carefull to loose none of it But whereunto dost thou oblige me ô Goddesse for considering thee as Diana I doe not see what I can aske of thee suitable to my desire since the honour of attendance and perpetuall serving of thee belongeth onely to thy Nymphs and for me I can esteeme nothing gratefull that shall enjoyne me a long separation from thy presence I will therefore speake unto thee as to the Moone beseeching thee that by the power thou hast in Heaven thou wilt be pleased to allow me some place amongst the Starres and that I may be one of those which goe least out of thy sight and most frequently waite on thy Chariot whither soever thou goest Or if the number of the Starres be so compleate that not one more can bee added thereunto and if the Fates resist me herein grant me at least the priviledge amongst the Mortals of rendring thee the most acceptable Vowes and Sacrifices and of employing my whole life in thy services Hereat the Goddesse not content to testifie her approbation by a gracious nod of her head onely with a smile able to ravish both gods and men added these words Well saies she be it in Heaven or on Earth I will never omit any occasion of gratifying thee neither would I have thee doubt of mine affection or memory of thee Scarce had she said those words when on a suddaine I lost the sight of her and heard onely a small noise of the Arrows and Quiver which shooke upon her shoulders as she turned her selfe to be gone In the meane time I forgot not to meditate on that which I had often heard speech of to wit that the gods have a forme of going different from that of men and that without the trouble of putting one foote before another they have power in the twinkling of an eye to transport themselves where they please and that every way on Earth or in Heaven is alike easie to them But alas I much over-saw my selfe in that I procured her not to sweare by the River Stix an Oath inviolable amongst the gods Endymion sayes Pyzander either the gods are not or else they are true and doe infallibly acknowledge the love is borne them for if they faile us whom shall wee trust all things must faile us with them but this Hill will bee sooner

she takes care of as indeed it had beene a wonder for me to have encountred her At last not knowing more what to doe or with whom to consult I called to mind Ismen with whom I had a very familiar acquaintance Thou knowest the esteeme she deserves above all other women and the great judgment and insight she hath both in divine and humane things Apollo himselfe exceeds her not in the knowledge of the power and vertue of Hearbs and the Moone will sooner for her sake come downe from Heaven than for any other Indeed saies Pyzander it is held that she is able to compasse whatsoever shee will undertake and that Thessalia never had her equall I resolving one day to goe see her saies Endymion and to use my uttermost endeavours to charme the most charming of Women did thus accost her Oh blessed Ismena sole honour of thy Sexe and thou whose manners and vertues are such as yeeld no place to the Goddesses themselves What praises shall I spare to set forth thy glory and what a high obligation of duty shall I be bound to thee in if thou wilt befriend me so farre as to free me from the torment and affliction wherewith I am at present enveloped for whosoever distressed in body or minde labours for the honour of seeing thee finds thee presently favourable Thine encounter is a good presage unto all and whither so ever thou goest thou art more desired than present but as thou hast power of doing that good which none can ever be able to requite by any equall retribution so must it necessarily follow that thou findest the recompence thereof in the glory that thou duely gainest thereby Besides what can all mine endeavours adde to the felicity of her who needs not the helpe of any Mortall and to whom her owne vertue is a sufficient supply of whatsoever she hath use of who with an equall power disposeth both of gods and men and can at her owne discretion alter the course of Nature and Destiny If thou wilt in all things exactly imitate the Example of the gods thou knowest it is the hurt they have power to doe which makes them feared but it is their clemency and good deeds which chiefly make them adored and all power is fruitlesse that being implored assists not My supplication and suite is not of such a difficult nature as that ever the Night should thereby be made to surprise men at noone-day or the force of Charmes hinder the course or brightnesse of the Starres The Rivers shall never for my sake run backwards to their sources nor their waves swell in a calme The Husband-mans graine shal not be thereby transported from one field into another to beguile his hopes at Harvest and the Hils or Woods shall not change their scituation or owners Neither doe I petition thee to disquiet the contentment of the living or repose of the dead nor yet that the Ghosts should arise and answer thee and farre lesse that thou shouldst by any charming or sinister potions create or extinguish any affection No I know thou never doest abuse thy skill and for that cause it is that the gods love thee and give thee a daily increase thereof rendring thee equall to themselves But yet I will tell thee freely that I have beene of late moved by a just occasion to a continuall visiting of the most remote and solitarie places of the banke of Rivers Plaines Woods and Mountaines to find if it be possible an opportunity of seeing the Goddesse Diana who hath heretofore obliged me with so great a liberality both of her presence and promises Wherein first I will presume to crave thy advice and then afterwards some effect of thy power and assistance She having awhile silently considered with her selfe lifted up her eyes which were before fixed on the Earth and answered mee thus I should thinke my selfe infinitely happy Endymion in finding any occasion wherein I could be able to serve thee which as I have devoutly wished for so I will not spare to seeke it even amidst the greatest difficulties I confesse there is nothing so hard but may by Art and Discretion be compassed for not onely the Goddesse thou desirest to see whether thou suest unto her as to the Moone Diana or Hecatea but even both the Jupiters and all the gods must at length give place to the power of Charmes The most speciall and important thing now is that care be employed in making a right use of it lest the abuse bring inseparable revenge with it Hast thou never heard that Nemesis the punisher of offences otherwise called Andrastea because shee is inevitable hath her Throne placed upon the Moone according to the representation the Egyptians have made of her that she may thence the more perfectly take a view of the actions of men and punish such as are audacious and rash Knowest thou not also thot others figure her with a Scourge in that hand on which side Hope is seated to the end that none should thinke to escape with impunity if they aspire to such things as are not fit for them to desire If therefore thou instead of bringing downe the Moone wouldst not draw on thy head the anger of Heaven bee carefull that thou call her not but on good and just grounds and with the opportunity of a perfect silence and that when all things even to the very leaves of the Trees be at rest for if the least noyse surprize her before she have set foote on the ground she will presently before thy face returne up to the Heavens with greater speede than shee came downe The gods Endymion with difficulty and much labour are moved to come to men but doe returne with great and easie haste as having alwayes more cause to be averse than favourable to them and the least inconvenience or hindrance is of force to distemper and give interruption to the greatest miseries Especially this one requireth so much observance and dexterity that it must be stolne from the eyes of all the gods and Men and although a generall slumber should seize both the one and the other yet we are taught both by necessity and providence that Jupiter himselfe and hee onely never sleepes If the favour of Heaven towards us Ismena said I be so small perchance that of the earth may be greater And since this goddesse doth equally divide her care and presence to the one and the other if we can encounter her in the Mountaines or Forrests what need have wee to seeke more difficult meanes and with so much danger of losing it to prevent the opportunity which of it selfe may follow us Indeede saies she that is the other meane I intended to tell thee of which also wants not its obstacles or difficulties For although we may sometimes find her in Ionia it selfe or some other part of Greece sometimes in the Woods of Merathon or Erymanthus other whiles on the tops of Hymettus Cytheron Othrys or Pindus yet we

must oftner expect and seeke her amongst the Sarmatae or Garamantes or in some other the most secret and remote place of the World Besides she is most commonly accompanyed of her Nymphes whose profession and exercises have rendred them for the most part so rigorous and unfit for conversation that the onely sight of men so offends them that a small provocation would induce them to denounce the same warre to them which they have done to the most savage Beasts But which is yet more fastidious and lesse supportable to those that desire the enterview of this goddesse some of them keepe their eye so constantly upon her as if Heaven had made them her Guardians Doris and Laomeda ambitious jealous and curious Nymphes doe so nearely watch and so strictly besiege her that she is not onely inaccessible but indeed really captive Yet that they should aime to know controle and conduct all were more tollerable if they did not also labour to possesse all It is almost incredible how the very gods themselves as well as men by a secret excesse of goodnesse and indulgence are insensibly overswaied by the desires of those whom they favour So that by over-gratifying some one or two or three persons they seeme to retrench the greater part of their liberality they owe to many I will not say unto all And whilst a small number doth even surfeit on their beneficence whole multitudes suffering it accuse Heaven and hate Government together with their owne lives and the light Shall we therefore inferre that the gods are not just farre be it but let us rather acknowledge that they governe all things by the will of Fate according to its innocence or the corruption of the times This I tell thee Endymion out of the affection I beare thee to the end thou maist remember and duely consider every poynt Oh Ismena said I let me see Diana and dye she may perchance be touched her selfe with a desire to speake with me for the gaining of this favour I am ready to expose my life to all manner of perills and if I lose it that shall not at all grieve me if shee onely may know it was for her sake O yee gods replyed she then my memory doth me ill offices very often and I have much abused both the time and thy patience for my last nights dreame fore-told me all that thou hast recounted to me wherein I saw Diana her selfe and received directions from her what I should doe and prescription of meanes which but just now I was so much troubled to finde out This is the very time and the most fit wherein shee leaves the Heaven to passe a few dayes on Earth I know of a Forrest in the World consecrated to this goddesse whereunto the beauty of the place and the innocence of the inhabitants doe often invite her to come for her recreation That is the place where she usually keepes her Chariot and her Armes besides the great number of wilde beasts doe there afford her more different and acceptable pastimes than in any other part Faile not thou on the day of the Sunne towards evening to be at the toppe of Mount Lathmos and the morrow after which will be the day of the goddesse I will endeavour to make thee happy if at least thy felicity onely consist in the honour of seeing her This first Vision was enough to have amazed me if what I had heard concerning the Oracle had not given me more hope than the first words feare But if I knew not what this name of Pyza might signifie except it were meant for the name of some Citie to be hereafter built by some one of mine off-spring For the rest I supposed it was the Genius of Olympia that had thus spoken or at least some Magitian of that place who had assumed the forme of some Bird of Night to flie in the darke withall So making way towards the East borne by a divine and all Celestiall motion I passed as it were in an instant Licia a great part of Mount Taurus Licaonia Tyanea the River Melas Mount Argeus and all Capadocia even to Euphrates which I began to discover in the lesse Armenia and immediately after in Armenia the greater I observed the Sources thereof at the Hill Periardes so famous for its fertility then turning a little towards the North I passed the River Araxes neare unto the mouth of it where it falls into the Caspian Sea At length having traversed many Hills and Vallies I found my selfe in a seeming quiet place where having remained awhile in my former astonishment and trance I felt Ismena who taking me by the hand raised me up saying Now Endymion now is the time to goe and to take resolution and courage with thee gird on thy Sword for she had a care to bring it along from the Hill draw it brandish it in thine hand and see that thou be not much moved at whatsoever thou encounterest for here thou hast to doe onely with a vaine and giddy people who not enduring the light are constrained to wander in darknesse and who at the onely glance of Steele doe tremble with feare What Monsters soever shall follow or appeare to thee suppresse all affright with this confidence and assurance that their formes render them farre more terrible than their forces Goe straight forward but above all when thou commest into the Forrest where thou art to see the Goddesse beware of cutting breaking or violating the least branch or leafe for the place is sacred and thou maist peradventure thereby unwittingly offend some Nymphe to whom by the favour of Diana a priviledge is granted to live a second life and passe many ages under the barke of some Tree For me I will be as carefull to know what becomes of thee as I have beene to know where Diana was that if any danger threaten thee thou shalt no sooner have thrice pronounced the name of Ismena but thou shalt see mee at hand to succour thee and if thy hazard be such that my power alone without the helpe of the gods be not sufficient to deliver thee I will rather than faile thee use force upon the gods themselves and draw the Moone from Heaven to free thee from the danger whereinto thou shalt be plunged for her sake By this time I began to discover the Skie cleare up a little towards the East and foretell the rising of Aurora from one end of the Earth to the other when as all those other objects began to become more rare lesse visible and at length wholly vanished or at least the Sylla's and Medusa's were converted into Rocks and Trees and the Serpents into broken Reeds Immediately I descryed a great Forrest which seemed to rejoyce at the approach of the day and in the shade whereof I was well advanced before the Sun had displayed his beames Since sayes Pyzander that was the day wherein thou wert to have the honour of seeing Diana it would have beene too