The torch his hand sustain'd still sputtering rais'd A tearefull smoke nor yet though shaken blaâ—'d Th' euent worse then the Omen As his Bride Troopes with the Naiâ—des by Hebrus side A Serpent bit her by the heele which forc't Life from her hold and nuptiall tyes diuorc't Whom when the Thracian Poet had aboue Enough bewail'd that his complaints might moue The vnder Shades at Taenarus descends To Sâ—ygian flouds and his bold steps extends By ayrie Shapes and fleeting Soules that boast Of sepulture through that vnpleasant coast To Plutos Court. When hauing tun'd his strings Thus to his harpe the God-like Poet sings You Powres that sway the world beneath the Earth The last abode of all our humane birth If we the truth without offence may tell I come not hither to discouer Hell Nor binde that scolding Curre who barking shakes About his triple browes Medusa's snakes My wife this iourney vrg'd who by the tooth Of trod-on Viper perisht in her youth I would and stroue t' haue borne her losse but Loue Won in that strife A God well knowne aboue Nor here perhaps vnknowne If truly Fame Report old rapes you also felt his flame By these obscure abodes so full of dread By this huge Châ—â—s and deepe Silence spâ—â—â—d Through your vast Empire by these prayers of mine Euryâ—ices too-hasty fate vatwine We all are yours and after a short stay Early or late we all must runne one way Hither we throng for our last home assign'd Th' eternall habitation of man-kind She when her time by nature shall expire Againe is yours I but the vse desire If Fate denie me this my second choice Is here t' abide in both our deaths reioyce While thus he sung and struck the quauering strings The bloudlesse Shadowes wept not flattering Springs Tempt Tantalus Ixions Wheele stood still Their Vrne the Belides no longer fill The Vultures feed not Tityus lest to grone And Sisyphus sate listning on his Stone The Furies vanquisht by his verse were seene To weepe that neuer wept before Hels Queene The king of darknesse yeeld t' his powrefull plea. Among the late-come Soules Eâ—rydice They call she came yet halting of her wound Giuen Orpheus with this law Till thou the bound Of pale Auernus passe if back thou cast Thy carefull eyes thou loosest what thou hast A steepe ascent darke thicke with fogges they clime Through euerlasting Silence By this time Approach the confines of illustrious Light Doubting her losse and longing for a sight His eyes th'impatient louer backward threw When she back sliding presently with-drew He catches at her in his wits distraught And yeelding aire for her vnhappy caught Nor did she dying twice her spouse reproue For what could she complaine of but his loue Who takes her last farewell her parting breath Scarce reacht his eares and so 〈◊〉 for dâ—â—th Her double losse sad Orpheus stupiside With equall terror vnto his who spide About the pleasant fields in pleasure ride And with a purple raigne the willing guide 'T was Summer and high Noone Dayes burning eye Made smoking Cancers crooked clawes to fry Vpon the ground the panting Hart was laide Coole aire receiuing from the syluan shade Whom silly Cyparissus wounds by chance And seeing life pursue his tug'd out lance Resolues to die What did not Phoebus say That might a griefe so slightly caus'd allay He answers him in sight this last good-turne Implores That he might neuer cease to mourne His bloud now shed in teares a greenish hiew His body dimmes the locks that dangling grew Vpon his iuory fore-head bristling use And pointing vpward seeme to threat the skies When Phoebus sighing I for thee will mourne Mourne thou for others Herses still adorne Such trees attracting and inuiron'd round With birds and beasts vpon the rising ground The Poet sits who hauing tun'd his strings Indissonancie musicall thus sings From Ioue ô Mother Muse deriue my verse All bow to Ioue Ieues power we oâ—t rehearse And late of Giants sung in lofty straines Forâ—â—dâ— y his thunder on Phiegraean plaines Nâ—w in a lower key to louely boyes Belou'd of Gods turne we our softer layes And sing of womens furies who persue For breden lusts persude by Vengeance due Heauens King young Ganymed inflames with loue There was what Ioue would rather be than Ioue Yet daines no other shape than hers that beares His awfull lightning in her golden seares Who forth with stooping with deceitfull wings Trust vp Iliades by Ida's springs Who now for Ioue though iealous Iuno scoules Delitious Nectar fils in flowing bowles And thee Amyclides in azure skies Had Phoebus fixt if cruell Destinies Had not preuented yet in some sort made Eretnall For as oft as Springs inuade Sharpe winters and to Aries Pisces yeelds So oft renu'd thy Flowre adorne the fields Thee lou'd my Father best of humane births Her Guardian quits his Delphos in wide Earths Round nauill seated while the God of Beames Haunts wall-lesse Sparta and Eureâ—as streames Now neither for his Harpe nor Quiuer cares Himselfe debasing beares the corded snares Or leads the dogs or clambers mountains led By Lordly Loue and flames by custome fed Now Titan bore his equall distant Light Betweene fore-running and ensuing Night When lightned of their garments either shone With suppling Oile in strife to throw the stone This swinging through the aire first Phoebus threw The obuious clouds dispersing as it flew On solid earth though flying long at length Descends inforc't by art-inabling strength Th'imprudent Boy attempts with fatall hast To take it vp when Earth by boundings cast The Globe ô Hyacinthus at thy head The Boy lockt pale and so the God who bled Their lookes imboldned modesty now gone Conuert at length to little-differing Stone Pygmalion seeing these to spend their times So beast-like frighted with the many crimes That rule in women chose a single life And long forbore the pleasure of a wife Meane while injoury with happy art A Statue carues so shapefull in each part As woman neuer equall'd it who stands Affected to the fabrick of his hands It seem'd a Virgin full of liuing flame That would haue mou'd if not withheld by shame So Art it selfe conceal'd His art admires From th' Image drawes imaginary fires And often feeles it with his hands to try If 't were a body or cold iuory Not could resolue Who kissing thought it kist Oft courts imbraces wrings it by the wrist The flesh impressing his conceit was such And feares to hurt it with too rude a touch Now flatters her now sparkling stones presents And orient pearle loues witching instruments Soft-singing birds each seuerall colour'd flowre First Lillies painted balls and teares that powre From weeping trees Rich Robes her person decke Her fingers rings reflecting chaines her necke Pendants her eares a glittering zone her breft In all shew'd well but shew'd when naked best Now laies he her vpon a gorgeous bed With carpets of Sidonian purple spred Now calls her wife Her head a pillow
â—right Constellations and fair-figured Gods â—n heauenly Mansions fixt their blest abodes The glittering Fishes to the Flouds repayre The Beasts to Earth the Birds resort to Ayre The nobler Creature with a minde possest Was wanting yet that should command the rest That Maker the best World's originall Either 〈◊〉 framâ—d of see Coelestiall Or Earth which late he did from Heauen diuide Some sacred seeds retayn'd to Heauen ally'd Which with the liuing streame Prometheus mixt And in that artificiall structure fixt The forme of all th' all-ruling Deities And where as others see with downe-cast eyes He with a loftie looke did Manâ—indue And bade him Heauens transcendent glories view So that rude Clay which had no forme afore Thus chang'd of Man the vnknowne figure bore The Golden Age was first which vncompeld And without rule in Faith and Truth exceld As then there was nor punishment nor feare Nor threatning Lawes in brasse prescribed were Nor suppliant crouching prisâ—ners shooke to see Their â—â—grie Iudge but all was safe and free To visit other Worlds no wounded Pine Did yet from Hills to faithlesse Seas decline Then vnambitious Mortals knew no more But their owne Countrie 's Nature-bounded shore Nor Swords nor Armes were yet no trenches round Besieged Iownes nor striâ—â—efull Trumpets sound The Souldier of no vâ—e In firme content And harmelesse ease their happy dayes were spent The yet-free 〈◊〉 did of her owne accord Vntoinâ—â— wit vploughs all sorts of fruit afford Content with Natures vn-enforced food They gather Wildings Strawb'ries of the Wood â—owre Cornels what vpon the Bramble growes And Acorns which Ioue's spreading Oke bestowes â—Twas alwayes Spring warme Zophyrus sweetly blew On smiling Flowres which without setting grew â—orth-with the Earth corne vnmanured beares And euery yeere renewes her golden Eares With Milke and Nectar were the Riuers fill'd And yellow Hony from greene Elms distill'd But after Saturne was throwne downe to Hell â—ue rul'd and then the Siluer Age befell â—ore base than Gold and yet than Brasse more pure â—ue chang'd the Spring which alwayes did indure â—o Winter Summer Autumne hot and cold â—he shortned Springs the yeaâ—'s fourth-part vphold â—hen first the glowing Ayre with feruor burn'd â—he Raine to ycicles by bleake winds turn'd â—en houses built late hous'd in Caues profound 〈◊〉 plashed Bowres and Sheds with Oâ—iers bound â—hen first was Corne into long furrowes throwne â—nd Oxen vnder heauâ—e yokes did 〈◊〉 Next vnto this succeeds the Brazen Age â—orse natur'd prompt to horridâ—warre â—â—â—rage 〈◊〉 yet nor wicked Stubborne Yr'â— the 〈◊〉 â—hen blushlesse Crimes which all degrees suâ—past â—he World surround Shame Truth and Faith depart â—â—aud enters ignorant in no bad Art â—â—rce Treason and the wicked Loue of gayn â—heir sailes those winds which yet they knew not strayn â—nd ships which long on loftâ—â— Mountaynes stood â—hen plow'd th' vnpractiz'd bosome of the Flood The Ground as common earst as Light or Ayre By limit-giuing Geometric they share Nor with rich Earth's iust nourishments content For treasure they her secret entrailes rent The powerfull Euill which all power inuades By her well hid and wrapt in Stygian shades Curst Steel more cursed Gold she now forth brought And bloody-handed Warre who with both fought All liue by spoile The Host his Guest betrayes Sons Father-in-lawes 'twixt Brethren loue decayes Wiues husbands husbands wiues attempt to kill And cruell Step-mothers pale poysons fill The Sonne his Fathers hastie death desires Foild Pietie trod vnder foot expires Astraa last of all the heauenly birth Affrighted leaues the blood-defiled Earth And that the Heauens their safetie might suspect The Giants now coelestiall Thrones affect Who to the skies congested Mountaines reare Then Ioue with thunder did Olympus teare Steep Pelion from vnder Ossa throwne With their owne waight their monstrous bodies groâ—e And with her Childrens blood the Earth imbru'd Which shee scarce thoroughly cold with life iudu'd And gaue thereto t'vphold her Stocke the face And forme of Man a God-contemning Race Greedie of slaughter not to be withstood Such as well shews that they were borne of blood Which when from Heauen Saturnius did behold He sigh 't reuoluing what was yet vntold Of fell Lycaoâ—'s late ihhumane feast Iust anger worthy Ioue inflam'd his breast A Synod call'd the summoned appeare There is a way well seene when skies be cleare Tho Milkie nam'd by this the Gods resort Vnto th' Almightie Thunderers high Court With euer-open dores on either hand Of nobler Deities the Houses stand The Vulgar dwell disperst the Chiefe and Great In front of all their shining Mansions seat This glorious Roofe I would not doubt to call Had I but boldnes lent me Heauen 's White-hall All set on Marble seats He leaning on His Iuory Scepter in a higher Throne Did twice or thrice his dreadfull Tresses shake The Earth the Sea the Stars though fixed quake Then thus inflam'd with indignation spake I was not more perplext in that sad Time For this Worlds Monarchie when bold to clime The Serpent-footed Giants durst inuade And would on Heauen their hundred-hands haue laid Though fierce the Foe yet did that Warre depend But of one Body and had soone an end Now all the race of man I must confound Where-euer Nerâ—us walks his wauy Round And this I vow by those infernall Floods Which slowly glide through silent Stygian woods All cures first sought such parts as health reiect Must be cut off least they the sound infect Our Demi-gods Nymphs Syluans Satyres Faunes Who haunt cleare Springs high Mountayns Woods and Lawnes On whom since yet we please not to bestow Coelestiall dwellings must subsist below Thinke you you Gods they can in safetie rest When me of lightning and of you possest Who both at our Imperiall pleasure sway The sterne Lycaon practiz'd to betray All bluster and in rage the wretch demand So when bold Treason sought with impious hand By Caesar's bloud t'out-race the Roman name Man-kind and all the World 's affrighted Frame Astonisht at so great a ruine shooke Nor thine for Thee lesse thought Augustus tooke Than they for Ioue He when he had supprest Their murmur thus proceeded to the rest He hath his punishment remit that care The manner how I will in briefe declare The Times accus'd but as I hop't bely'd To trie I downe from steep Olympus slide A God transform'd like one of humane birth I wandred through the many-peopl'd Earth 'T were long to tell what crimes of euery sort Swarm'd in all parts the truth exceeds report Now past den-dreadfull Maenalus confines Cylâ—ene cold Lycaeus clad with Pines There where th' Arcadians dwell when Doubtfull-light Drew on the deawy Charriot of the Night I entred his vnhospitable Court The better Vulgar to their pray'rs resort When I by signes had showne a Gods repayr Lycaâ—n first derides their zealous pray'r Then said We straight the vndoubted truth will trie Whether he be immortall or may die In dead of night when all was whist and still Me in
arriues To chace the former times so flye persue At once each other and are euer new What was before is not what was not is All in a moment change from that to this See how the Night on Light extends her shades See how the Light the gloomy Night inuadâ—s Nor such Heauens hew when Mid-night crown's Repose As when bright Lucifer his taper showes Yet changing when the Harbinger of Day Th'inlightned World resignes to Phoebus sway His raised Shield earths shaddowes scarely fled Lookes ruddy and low sinking lookes as red Yet bright at Noone because that purer skie Doth farâ—e from Earth and her contagion flie Nor can Night-wandring Dian's wauering light Be euer equall or the same this night Lesse than the following if her hornes she fill If the contract her Circle greater still Doth not the image of our age appeare In the successiue quarters of the Yeare The Spring-tide tender sucking Infancie Resembling then the iuyâ—efull blade sprouts high Though tender weake yâ—t hope to Plough-men yeelds All things then flourish flowers the gaudy fields Wâ—â—h colours paint no virtue yet in leaues Then following Summer greater strength receiues A lusty Youth no age more strength acquires Moâ—â— fruitfull or more burning in desires Maturer Autumne heat of Youth alaid The sober meane twixt youth and age more staid And temperate in Summers waine repaires His reuerend temples sprinckled with gray haires Then comes old Winter void of all delight With trembling steps his head or bal'd or white So change our â—odies without rest or stay What we were yester-day not what to day Shall be to morâ—â—w Once alone of men The seeds and hope the wombe our mansion when Kind Nature shew'd her cunning not content That our vext bodies should be longer pent In mothers stetched entrailes forth-with bare Them from that prison to the open aire We strengthlesse lye when first of light possest Straight creepe vpon all foure much like a beast Then staggering with weake nerues stand by degrees And by some stay support our feeble knees Now lusty swiftly run Youth quickly spent And those our middle times incontinent We sinke in setting Age this last deuoures The former and dimolisheth their powres Old Milo wept when he his armes beheld Which late the strongest beast in strength excel'd Big as Alâ—ides brawnes in flaggie hide Now hanging by slake sinewes Helen cry'd When she beheld her wrinkles in her Glasse And asks her selfe why she twice rauisht was Still-eating Time and thou ô enuious Age All ruinate diminisht by the rage Of your deuouring teeth All that haue breath Consume and languish by a lingring death Nor can these Elements stand at a stay But by exchanging alter euery day Th' eternall world foure bodies comprehends Ingendring all The heauy Earth descends So Water clog'd with weight two light aspire Deprest by none pure Aire and purer Fire And though they haue their seuerall fites yet all Of these are made to these againe they fall Resolued Earth to Water rarifies To Aire extenuated Waters rise The Aire when it it selfe agiane refines To element all Fire extracted shines They in like order backe againe repaire The grosser Fire condenseth into Aire Aire into water Water thickning then Growes solid and conuerts to Earth againe None holds his owne for Nature euer ioyes In change and with new formes the old supplies In all the world not any perish quite But onely are in various habits dight For to begin to be what we before Were not is to be borne to dye no more Than ceasing to be such although the frame Be changeable the substance is the same For nothing long continues in one mold You Ages you to Siluer grew from Gold To Brasse from Siluer and to Yâ—'ne from Brasse Euen place oft such change of fortunes passe Where once was solid land Seas haue I'seene And solid land where once deepe Seas haue beene Shâ—ls far from Seas like quarries in the ground And anchors haue on mountaine tops beene found Torrents hue made a valley of a plaine High hils by delâ—ges â—oâ—ne to the Maine Deepe standing lakes suck't dry by thirsty sand And on late thirsty earth now lakes doe stand Here Nature in her charges manifold Sends forth new fountaines there shuts vp the old Streams with impetuous earth-quakes heretofore Hâ—ue broken forth or sunke and run no more So â—ycus swallowed by they yawning Earth Takes in an other world his second birth So Erasinus now conceales now yeelds His rising waters to Argolian fields And Mysus hating his first head and brayes Calcus nam'd else-where his streame displayes Coole Amasenus watering Sicily Now flowes now spring-lockt leaues his channell dry Men formerly drunke of Anigrus streames Not to be drunke if any thing but dreames The Poets tell since Centaures therein washt Their wounded limbs by Alcides arrowes gasht So Hypaâ—tis deriu'd from Sâ—ythian Hills Long sweet with bitter streames his channel fills Antissa Tyrus and Aegyptian Phare The flouds imbrac't yet now no Ilands are Th' old Colon knew Leucadia Continent Which now the labouring surges circumuent So Zancle once on Italie conâ—n'd Till interposing waues their bounds dis-ioyn'd If Bura and Helice Graecian townes You seeke behold the Sea their glory drownes Whose buildings and declined walls below Th' ambitious floud as yet the Sailers show A Hill by Pitthean Troezen mounts vncrown'd With syluan shades which once was leuell ground For furious winds a story to admire Pent in blinde cauernes strugling to expire And vainly seeking to inioy th'extent Of freer aire the prison wanting vent Th'vnpassable tuffe earth inflated so As when with swelling breath we bladders blow The tumor of the place remained still In time growne sollid like a lofty hill To speake a little more of many things Both heard and knowne New habits sundry Springs Now giue now take Horn'd Hammâ—ns Well at Noone Is cold hot at Sun-rise and setting Sun Wood put in bubling Athamas then fires When farthest from the Sun the Moone retires Ciconian streames congeale his guts to stone That thereof drinkes and what therein is throwne Crathis and Sybaris from your mountaines rold Colour the haire like Amber or pure gold Some fountaines of a more prodigious kind Not onely change the body but the mind Who hath not heard of obscene Salmacis Of th' AeTHiopian Lake who drinke of this Runne forth-with mad or if their wits they keepe Fall suddenly into a deadly sleepe Who at Clitoâ—iâ—â— Fountaine thirst remoue Loath wine and abstinent meere water loue Whether it by antipathie expell Desire or wine or as the Natiues toll 〈◊〉 hauing with his herbs and charmes Snatcht Proeâ—uâ— franticke daughters from the harmes Of entred â—â—ries their wit's physicke cast Into this spring infusing such distast With streames to these oppos'd Lyncestus flowes They 〈◊〉 as drunke who drinke too much of those A Lake in faire Arcadia stands of old Call'd Pheâ—â—us suspected as two fold Feare and forbeare to drinke thereof by night By night vnwholsome wholsome by
dares reprehend him Notwithstanding I will say something not in way of detraction but that we also may be able to grow with his greatnesse Then speaking of his Metamorphosis Bookes deseruing a more fortunate Author that from his last hand they might haue had their perfection which hee himselfe bewaileth in luculent Verses Yet are there in these well-nigh an infinite number which the wit of an other I beleeue could neuer haue equall'd And thus exclaimes against Caesar in the person of OVID. Tyrant with me I would thou badst begun Nor thy black slaughters had my fate fore-run If my licentious Youth incenst thee so Thy owne condemnes thee into exile goe Thy Cabinets are stain'd with horrid deeds And thy soule guilt all monstrous names exceeds Diuine wit innocence nor yet my tongue Next to Apollo's could preuent my wrong I smoeth'd th' old Poets with my fluent vaine And taught the New a far more numerous strain When thee I prais'd then from the truth I sweru'd And banishment for that alone deseru'd can hee said to transcend him What should I say of that singular and well-nigh diuine contexture of Fable with Fable so surpassing that nothing can bee spoken or done more artificially more excellently or indeed more gracefully Who handling such diuersitie of matter so cunningly weaues them together that all appeare but one Series Planudes well knowing that Greece had not a Poem so abounding with delight and beautie translated it into that language What should I say more All Arts which Antiquitie knew are here so fully delineated that a number expert in both tongues of prime vnderstanding and iudgements admire it beyond all expression The first that writ a Commentarie on this booke whereof fiftie thousand were vented and that in his life time was RAPHAEL REGIVS Who thus in his Preface There is nothing appertaining to the knowledge and glorie of warre whereof wee haue not famous examples in the Metamorphosis of OVID not to speake of stratagems nor the Orations of Commanders described with such efficacie and eloquence that often in reading you will imagine your selfe imbroiled in their conflicts Neither shall you finde any Author from whom a ciuill life may gather better instruction IACOBVS MICYLLVS Hardly shall you find a Poem which flowes with greater facilitie For what should I speake of Learning Herein so great so various and abstruse that many places haue neither beene explained nor yet vnderstood no not by the most knowing requiring rather a resolution from the Delian Oracle c. Let the ingenuous that affect not error now rectifie their owne by the iudgements of these But incurable Criticks who warre about words and gail the sound to feed on their sores as not desiring their sanitie I forbeare to disswade and deliuer them vp to the censure of Agrippa QVOD OLIM FACIEBAT VOTVM GERMANIâ—O OVIDIVS IDEM AVGVSTISSâ—MO CAROLO Interpretis sui nomine â—acuâ—nt OVIDIANI MANES EXcipe pacato Caesaâ— Brittannice vultu â—â—oc â—pus 〈◊〉 tim dâ— dirige nauis â—ter Officioqus lâ—uem non auâ—â—â—atuâ— honorem Hu◠〈…〉 dexter ades Hâ—â—c â—e da placâ—â—um dâ—deris in carmine vires Ingenium vnitu statque caditque tuo Pagâ—a◠〈…〉 docte subâ—turâ— moâ—etur Principis vt Clarâ—o missa legenda Deâ— OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS The first Booke THE ARGVMENT THe World form'd out of Chaos Man is made The Ages change The Giants Heauen inuade Earth turnes their blouâ— to men Ioue's flames confound Lâ—caon now a Wolfe The World is drown'd Man-kind cast stones restore All quickning Earth Renews the rest and giues new Monsters birth Apollo Python kills hart-wounded loues Lust-flying Daphâ—é She a Laurel proues Ioue 〈◊〉 made a Cow to maske foule deeds Hermes a Heards-man Syriâ—x chang'd to Reeds Dead Argus eyes adorn the Peacock's traine The Cow to Iâ— loue transform's againe OF formes to other bodies chang'd I sing Assist you Gods from you these wonders spring And from the Worlds first fabrick to these times Deduce my neuer discontinued Rymes The Sea the Earth al-couering Heauen vnfram'd One face had nature which they Chaos nam'd An vndigested lump a barren load Where iarrâ—ing seeds of things ill-ioyn'd aboad No Titan yet the World with light adornes Nor waxing Phoebe fill'd her waned hornes Nor hung the selfe-poiz'd Earth in thin Ayre plac't Nor Amphitrite the vast shore imbrac't With Earth was Ayre and Sea the Earth vnstable The Ayre was darke the Sea vn-nauigable No certaine forme to any one assign'd This that resists For in one body ioyn'd The Cold and Hot the Drie and Humid fight The Soft and Hard the Heauy with the Light But God the better Nature this decides Who Earth from Heauen the Sea from earth diuides And purer Heauen extracts from grosser Ayre All which vnfolded by his prudent care From that blinde Masse the happily dis-ioyn'd With strifelesse peace he to their seats confin'd Forth-with vp-sprung the quicke and waightlesse Fire Whose flames vnto the highest Arch aspire The next in leuitie and place is Ayre Grosse Elements to thicker Earth repayre Selfe-clog'd with waight the Waters flowing round Possesse the last and solid Tellus bound What God soeuer this diuision wrought And euery part to due proportion brought First lest the Earth vnequall should appâ—are He turn'd it round in figure of a Sphere Then Seas diffus'd commanding them to rore With ruffling Winds and giue the Land a shore To those hâ— addeth Springs Ponds Lakes immense And Riuers whom their winding borders fence Of these not few Earth's thirstie iawes deuour The rest their streames into the Ocean pour When in that liquid Plaine with freer waue The fomy Cliffs in stead of Banks they laue Bids Trees increase to Woods the Plaines extend The rocky Mountaynes rise and Vales descend Two equall Zones on either side dispose The measur'd Heauens a fifth more hot than those â—s many Lines th'included Globe diuide â—th'midst vnsufferable beames reside â—now clothes the other two the temperate hold Twixt these their seats the heat well mixt with cold As Earth as Water vpper Ayre out-waighs â—o much doth Ayre Fire's lighter balance raise â—here he commands the changing Clouds to stray â—here thundering terrors mortall mindes dismay And with the Lightning Winds ingendring Snow Yet not permitted euery way to blow Who hardly now to teare the World refraine â—So Brothers iarre thoughâ— they diuided raigne â—o Persis and Sabaea Eurus flies Whose fruits perfume the blushing Mornes vp-rise â—ext to the Euening and the Coast the glowes â—ith setting Phoebus flowry Zeph'rus blowes 〈◊〉 Scythia horrid Boreas holds his raigne â—eneath Bootes and the frozen Waine The Land to this oppos'd doth Auster steep With fruitfull showrs and clouds which euer weep â—boue all these he plac't the liquid Skies Which void of earthly dregs did highest rise Scarce had he all thus orderly dispos'd When-as the Starres their radiant heads disclos'd â— Long 〈◊〉 in Night and shone through all the skie Then that no place should vnpossessed lie
other side Betweene these driue The rest I leaue to Fate Who better proue than thou to thy owne state But while I speak behold the humid Night Beyond th' Hesperian Vales hath ta'ne her flight Aurora's splendor re-inthrone's the Day We are expected nor can longer stay Take vp the reignes or while thou maist refuse And noâ— my Chariot but my counsell vse While on a firme foundation thou dost stand Not yet postest of thy ill-wisht Command Let me the World with vsuall influence cheare And view that light which is vnsafe to beare The generous and gallant Phaâ—ton All courage vaut's into the blazing Throne Glad of the reignes nor doubtfull of his skill And giues his Father thanks against his will Meane while the Sunnes swift Horses hot PyroÌ„us Strong Aethon fiery Phlegoâ— bright Eâ—us Neighing alowd inflame the Ayre with heat And with their thundring hooues the barriers beat Which when hospitious Thetis once with-drew Who nothing of her Nephew's danger knew And gaue them scope they mount the ample skie And cut the obuious Clouds with feet that flie Who rays'd with plumed pinions leaue behinde The glowing East and slower Easterne-winde But Phoebus Horses could not feele that fraight The Chariot wanted the accustom'd waight And as vnballac't ships are rockt and tost With tumbling Waues and in their steerage lost So through the Ayre the lighter Chariot reeles And ioults as emptie vpon iumping Wheeles Which when they found the beaten path they shun And straggling out of all subiection run He knowes not how to turne nor knowes the way Or had he knowne yet would not they obay The cold now hot Triones sought in vaine To quench their heat in the forbidden Maine The Serpent next vnto the frozen Pole Benum'd and hurtlesse now began to rowle With actuall heat and long forgotten ire Resumes together with aethereall fire 'T is said that thou Boâ—tes ranst away Though slow though thee thy heauy Waine did stay But when from top of all the arched skye Vnhappy Phaâ—ton the Earth did eye Pale sudden feare vn-nerves his quaking thighs And in so great a light benights his eyes He wisht those Steeds vnknowne vnknown his birth His sute vngranted now he couets earth To be the sonne of scorned Merope Rapt as a ship vpon the high-wrought Sea By saluage tempests chac't which in despaire The Pilot leaueth to the Gods and Pray'r What should he doe much of the heauen behinde Much more before both measur'd in his minde The neuer-to-be entred West suruay's And then the East Lost in his owne amaze And ignorance he can nor hold the reignes Nor let them goe nor knowes his Horses names But stares on terror-striking skies possest By Beasts and Monsters with a panting brest There is a place in which the Scorpion bends His compast clawes who through two Signes extends Whom when the Youth beheld stewâ—d in black sweat Of poyson and with turn'd-vp taile to threat A mortall wound pale feare his senses strooke And slackned reignes let 's fall from hands that shooke They when they felt them on their backs to lie With vn-controlled error scoure the skie Through vnknowne ayrie Regions and tread The way which their disordred fury led Vp to the fixed Starres their course they take And stranger Spheres with smoking Chariot rake Now climeâ— now by sleep Praecipies descend And neere Earth their wandring race extend To 〈…〉 brother's Steeds beneath her owne The Moon admires the Clouds like Comets shone Inuading fire the vpper Earth assaylâ—d All chapt and conâ—d her pregnant iuyce exhal'd Trees seed there ruin Grasse gray-headed turns And 〈◊〉 by that which did produce it burns But this was nothing Cities with their Towres Realmes with their People funerall fire deuoures The Mountayns blaze High Athos but too high Fount-fruitfull Ida neuer till then drie Oete old â—molus and Cilician Taurus Muse-haunted Aâ—licon Oeà grian Aemus Loud Eetna roreth with her doubled fires Parnassus grones beneath two flaming spires Steep Othrys Cynthus Eryx Mimas glowe And Rhodope no longer cloath'd with snowe The Phrygian Dindyma in cinders mourns Cold Caucasus in frosty Scythia burns High Mycale diuine Cythaeron wast Pindus and Ossa once on Pelion cast More great Olympus which before did shine The ayrie Alpes and cloudie Appenine Then Phaeton beheld on euery side The World on fire nor could such heat abide And at his deadly-drie and gasping iawes The scalding Ayre as from a furnace drawes His Chariot redder than the fire it bore And being mortall could indure no more Such clowds of ashes and eiected coles Muffled in smoake which round about him rowles He knowes not where he is nor what succeeds Dragg'd at the pleasure of his frantick Steeds Men say the AEthiopians then grew swart Their blood exhaled to the outward part A sandie Desert Lybia then became Her full veins emptied by the thirsty flame With hair vnbound and torn the Nymphs distraught Bewaile their Springs Boeâ—tia Dirce sought Argos â—â—ymone Ephyre faire Pirene mist Nor streames securer are Great Tanais in boyling chanell fumes Tâ—uthr aman Cayeus with heat consumes Ismenus old â—eneus Erymanthus Yellow Lycorn â—as to be twice-burnt Zanthus Moeandâ—r running in a turning maze Mygdonian Melas and Euroâ—as blaze Euphrates late inuesting Babylon Orontes Phasis Ister Thermodon Ganges Alpâ—â—â—s Sperchius lately cold And Tagus flowing with dissolued gold The Swans that rauisht with their melodie 〈◊〉 banks now in Cayster frie. To farthest Earth affrighted Nilus fled And there conceal'd his yet vnfound-out head Whilâ—st his seuen dustie chanels streamlesse lie Ismarian Hebrus Strymon now are drie Hespâ—rian streames Rhene Rhodanus the Po And Scepter destinated Tyber glow Earth cracks to Hell the hated light descends And frighted Pluto with his Queene offends The Ocean shrinks and leaues a field of Sand Where new discouered Rocks and Mountaines stand That multiply the scattred Cyclades Late couer'd with the deepe and awfull Seas The Fishes to the bottom diue nor dare The sportlesse Dolphins tempt the sultrie Aire Long boylâ—d aliue the mâ—nstrous â—hocae die And on the brine with turn ' d-vp bellies lie With 〈◊〉 and her daughters Nerâ—us raues Who hide themselues beneath the scalding waues Thrice wrathfull Neptune his bold arme vp-held Aboue the Floods whom thrice the fire repel'd Yet foodfull Tellus with the Ocean bound Amidst the Seas and Fountaines now vnfound Selfe-hid within the womb where they were bred Neck-high aduanceth her all-bearing head Her parched fore-head shaddowed with her hand And shaking shooke what-euer on her stand Where-with a little shrunke into her brest Her sacred tongue her sorrowes thus exprest If such thy will and I deserue the same Thou chiefe of Gods why sleeps thy vengefull flame Be 't by Thy fire if I in fire must frie The Author lessens the calamitie But whilst I striue to vtter this I choke View my sing'd haire mine eyes half-out with smoke The sparkling cinders on my vissage throwne Is this my recompence the fauour showne For all my seruice for the
fruit I haue borne That thus I am with plough and harrowes torne Wrought-out through-out the yeare that man and beast Sustayne with food and you with incense feast But say I merit ruine and thy hate What hath thy brother done by equall Fate Elected to the wauy Monarchie That Seas should sinke and from thy presence flie If neither he nor I thy pittie moue Pitty thy Heauen Behold the Poles aboue At either end do fume and should they burne Thy habitation would to ruine turne Distressed Atlas shoulders shrinke with payne And scarce the glowing Axeltree sustayne If Sea if Earth if Heauen shall fall by fire Then all of vs to Chaos must retire O! quench these flames the miserable state Of things releeue afore it be too-late This said her voyce her parched tongue forsook Nor longer could the smothering vapors brook But down into her-selfe with-drew her head Neere to the infernall Cauerns of the Dead Ioue calls the Gods to witnesse and who lent The strayning Chariot should not he preuent That All would perish by one destinie Then mounts the highest Turret of the skie From thence inur'd to cloud the spacefull Earth And giue the flame fore-running thunder birth But there for wasted clouds he sought in vaine To shade or coole the scorched Earth with raine He thunders and with hands that connot erre Hurls lightning at the audacious Charioter Him strooke he from his seat breath from his brest Both at one blow and â—lames with flames supprest The frighted horses plunging seuerall wayes Breake all their tire to whom the bit obayes The reignes torne beame crackt spokes disperst abroad Scotcht Heauen was with the Chariots ruines strow'd But souleâ—lesse â—haâ—ton with blazing haire Shot heâ—-long through a long descent of Aire As when a falling starre glides through the skie Of seemes to fall to the deceiued eye Whom great Eridanus farre from his place Of birth receiu'd and quencht his flagrant face Whose Nymphs interr'd him in his Mothers womb And fixt this Epitaph vpon his Tomb Here Phaâ—ton lyes who though he could not guide His Fathers Steeds in high attempts he dy'd Phoebus with griefe with-drew One day did runne About the World they say with-out the Sunne Which flamie funerals illuminate That good deriued from a wretched Fate When 〈◊〉 had said what could be said In such a griefe halfe-soul'd in black array'd She fils the Earth she wanders through with grones First seeking his dead corps and then his bones Interr'd in forren Lands she found the last Her feeble-lims vpon the place shee cast And bath'd his name in teares and strictly prest The carued Marble with her bared brest Nor lesse th' Hâ—liades lament who shead From drowned eyes vaine offerings to the dead Who with remorselesse hands their bosoms teare And wayling call on him that cannot heare With ioyned horns foure Moons their orbs had fil'd Since they their customarie plaints vpheld When Phaâ—tâ—usa thinking to haue cast Her selfe on Earth cry'd ah my feet stick fast Lampâ—tie pressing to her sisters ayd As suddenly with fixed roots was stayd A third about t' haue torne her scattered haire Tore-off the leaues which on her crowne the bare This grieueth at her stiffe and senselesse thighes Shee that her stretcht-out arms in branches rise And whilâ—st with wonder they themselues behold The creeping barke their tender parts infold Then by degrees their bellies brests and all Except their mouthes which on their mother call What should shee doe but run to that to this As furie draue and snatch a parting kisse But yet not so suffiz'd shee stroue to take Them from themselues and down the branches brake From whence as from a wound pure blood did glide O pitty Mother still the wounded cry'd Nor 〈◊〉 vs in our Trees O! now adieu With that the barke their lips together drew From these cleere dropping trees tears yearly â—low They hardned by the Sunne to Amber grow Which on the moysture-giuing Riuer spent To Roman Ladies as his gift is sent Sthenâ—â—an Cygnus at that time was there A-kin to Phaëton in loue more neere He leauing State who in Liguria raign'd Which Cities great and populous contayn'd Fild with complaints the Riuer-chiding floods The sedgie banks and late augmented Woods At length his voice grew small white plume contends In whitenesse with his haire his neck ascends Red films vnite his toes armes turne to wings His mouth a flat blunt bill that sadly sings Becoâ—â—e a Swan remembring how vniust 〈◊〉 lightning was nor Heauen nor him will trust Whom Lakes and Ponds detesting fire delight And â—loâ—ds to Flames in nature opposite The wofull Father to dead Phaâ—ton Him 〈◊〉 neglecting all his lustre gon As when eclipst day light his owne life hates And 〈◊〉 griefe with anger aggrauates Retâ—â—ing to illuminate the Earth â—â—ough too much my toile born with the birth Of Time as restlesse without end regard Or honour recompenc't with this reward Some other now may on my Chariot sit If all of you confesse your selues vnfit Let â—oue ascend that he when he shall trie At length may lay his murdering thunder by Then will â—e finde that he who could not guide Those fire-hoou'd Steeds deseru'd not to haue dy'd The Gods stand round about him and request That endlesse Night might not the World inuest Euen â—oue excus'd his lightning and intreats Which like a King he intermixt with threats Displeased Phoebâ—â— hardly reconcil'd Takes-vp his Steeds as yet with horror wild On whom he vents his spleen and though they run He â—ashes and vpbraids them with his Son The Thunderer then walks the ample Round Of Heauens high walls to search if all were sound When finding nothing there by fire decay'd He Earth and humane industries suruay'd Arcadia chiefely exerciz'd his cares There Springs and streames that durst not run repaire's The Fields with grasse the Trees with leaues indue's And withered Woods with vanisht Shades renew's Oft passing to and fro a Nonacrine The God inflam'd her beautie more diuine 'T was not her Art to spin nor with much care And fine varietie to trick her haire But with a zone her looser garments bound And her rude tresses in a fillet wound Now armed with a Dart now with a Bowe A Squire of Phoebe's Moenalus did knowe None more in grace of all her Virgin throng But Fauorites in fouoâ— last not long The parted Day in equall balance held A Wood shee entred as yet neuer feld There from her shoulders shee her Quiuer takes Vnbends her Bowe and tyr'd with hunting makes The flowry-mantled Earth her happy bed And on her painted Quiuer layes her head When Ioue the Nymph without a guard did see In such a positure This stealth said hee My Wife shall neuer know or say shee did Who ah who would not for her sake be chid Diaâ—a's shape and habit them indew'd He said My Huntresse where hast thou pursew'd This morning's chace Shee rising made reply Harle Pow'r more great than Ioue though Ioue stood by
black now mourne And what the fire had left lay in one vrne Here ended she Some intermission made Leucothoê her sisters silent said This Sunne who all directeth with his light Weake Loue hath tam'd his loues we now recite He first discouer'd the adulterie Of Mars and Venus nothing scapes his eye And in displeasure told to Iuno's sonne Their secret stealths and where the deed was done His spirits faint his hands could not sustaine The worke in hand Forthwith he forg'd a chaine With nets of brasse that might the eye deceaue Lesse curious far the webs which Spiders weâ—uc Made pliant to each touch and apt to close This he about the guiltie bed bestowes No sooner these Adulterer's were met Than caught in his so strangely forged net Who strugling in compeld imbracements lay The Iuory doores then Vulcan doth desplay And calls the Gods The shamefully lay bound Yet one a wanton wisht to be so found The heauenly dwellers laugh This tale was told Through all the Round and mirth did long vphold Venus incenst on him who this disclos'd A memorable punishment impos'd And he of late so tyrannous to Loue Loue 's tyrannie in iust exchange doth proue Hyperion's sonne what boots thy pearcing sight Thy feature colour or thy radiant light For thou who earth inflamest with thy fires Art now thy selfe inflam'd with new desires Thy melting eyes alone Leucothoê view And giue to her what to the World is dew Now in the East thou hastnest thy vp-rise Now slowly sett'st euen loth to leaue the skyes And while that Obiect thus exacts thy stay Thou addest houres vnto the Winters day Oft in thy face thy mindes disease appeares Affrighting all the darkned World with feares Not Cynchia's interposed Orbe doth moue These pale aspects this colour springs from loue Shee all thy thoughts ingrost nor didst thou care For Clymen c for her who Circes bare For Khodos Clytie who in loue abounds Although despis'd though tortur'd with two wounds All all were buried in LeucothoeÌ„ Borne in sweet Saba of Eurynome As shee in beautic farre surpast all other So much the Daughter farre surpast the Mother Great Orchamus was Father to the Maid Who seuenth from Belus Priscus Persuâ—sway'd In low Hisperian Vales those pastures are Where Phoebus horses oâ— Ambrosrosia fare There tyred with the trauels of the day They renouate what labour doth decay Now while coelestiall food their huâ—â—er seeds And Night in her alternate raigne succeeds In figure of Eurynome the God Approcht the chamber where his life aboad He spinning by a lamp Leucath oâ— found With twice six hand-maids who inclos'd her round Then kissing her her Mother now by Art I haue said he a secret to impart Maids presently with-draw They all obey'd He after he had cleer'd the chamber said The tardie Yeare I measure I am he Who see all Obiects and by whom all see The World 's cloere eye by thy fair solse I sweare I loue thee aboue thought Shot shooke for feare Her spindle and her distasse from her fell And yet that feare became her wondrous well Then his owne forme and radiancy he tooke Though with that vnexpected presence strookes Yet vanquisht by his beautie her complaint Shee said aside and suffred his constraint This Clytic vext his loue obsecur'd no measure Who in the furie of her fell displeasure Divulg'd the quickly-spreading infamy And to her father doth the fact descry Who sterne and sauage shuts vp all remorse From her that'su'd subdew'd she said by force And Sol to witnesse calls He his dishonour Interres aliue and casts a Mount vpon her Hyperion's sonne this batters with his rayes And for her re-ascent a breach displayes Yet could not she aduance her heauy head But life too hasty from her body fled Neuer did Phoelâ—us with such sorrow mourne Since wretched Bhoeton the World did burne Yet striues he with his influence to beget In her cold lims'a life-rouoking heat But since the Fates such great attempts withstood He steep's the place and body in a floud Offragrant Nectar much bewailes her end And sighing said Yet shalt thou heauen ascend Forthwith her body thawes in to a deaw Which from the moy stned earth an odour threw Then through the hill ashrub of Frankincense Thrust vp his crowne and tooke his root from thence Though loue might clyties sorrow haue excus'd Sorrow her tongue Daye 's king her bed refus'd She with distracted passion pines away Detesteth company all night all day Disrobed with her ruffled haire vnbound And wet with humour fits vpon the ground For â—nelong dayes all sustenance for beares Her hunger â—loyd with deaw her thirst with teares Nor rose but â—â—uets on the God her eyes And euer turnes her face to him that flyes At length to earth her stupid body cleaues Her wan complexion turns to bloodlesse-leaues Yet streak't with red her perisht lims beget A flowre resembling the pale Violet Which with the sun though rooted fast doth moue And being changed changeth not her loue Thus she This wondrous story caught their cares To some the same impossible appeares Others that all is possible conclude To true-styl'd Gods but Bacebus they extrude All whist Alcithoê call'd-vpon doth run Her shettle through the web and thus begun T'omit the pastorall loues to few vnknowne Of young Idaean Duphnis turn'd to stone By that vext Nymph who could not else asswage Her iealousie such is a louer's rage And Scython who his nature in innouates Now male now female by alternate Fates With Celmus turn'd into an Adamant Who of his faith to little loue might vant The shorne Curetes got by falling showres crocos and Smilax chang'd to prerty flowres I ouer-passe and will your eares surprize With sweet delight of vnknowne nouelties Then know how Salmacis in famous grew Whose too strong waues all manly strength vndo And mollifie with their soule-sostning touch The cause vnknown their nature knowne too muche Th' ideaean Nymphs nurst in secure delight The sonne of Hermes and faire Aphrodite His father and his mother in his looke You might behold from whom his name he tooke When Summers fiue he thrice had multiply'd Leauing the fount-full Hills of foster Ide He wandred through strange Lands pleas'd with the sight Of forren streames toyle less'ning with delight The Lycian Cities past he treads the grounds Of wealthy Caria which on Lycia bounds There lighted on a Poole so passing cleer That all the glittering bottom did appear Inuiron'd with no marish-louing Reeds Nor piked Bull-rushes nor barren weeds But liuing Turf vpon the border grew Whose euer-Spring no blasting Winter knew A Nymph this haunts vnpractiz'd in the chace To bend a Bow or run a strife-full race Of all the Water-Nimphs this Nymph alone To nimble-footed Dian was vnknowne Her sisters oft would say Fie salmacis Fie lazic sister what a sloth is this Vpon a Quiuer or a Iauelin seaze And with laborious hunting mix thine ease On Quiuer nor on Iauelin would she seaze Nor
day-light So other lakes and streames haue other powre Ortygia sloted once fixt at this houre Once Argo fear'd the iustling Cyenes Which rooted now resist both winds and seas Nor Aeâ—na burning with imbowel'd fire Shall euer or did alwayes flames expire For whether Tellus be an Animall Haue lungs and mouthes that smoking flames exhale Her organs alter when her motions close These yawning passages and open those Or whether winds in caues impris'ned raue Iustling the stones and minerals which haue The seed of fire inkindled with their rage They then extinguish when the winds asswage Or if Bitumen doe the fire prouoke Or sulpher burning with more subtill smoke When Earth that food and oylie nourishment With drawes the matter by long feeding spent The hungry fire of sustenance beâ—eft Ill-brooking famine leaues by being left In Hyperboâ—ean Pallene liue A People if to Fame we credit giue Who diuing three times thrice in Tritons lake Of Fowle the feathers and the figure take The like they say the the Scythâ—â—n Witches doe With magicke oyles incredible though true If we may trust to triall see you not Small creatures of corrupted flesh begot Bury your slaughtred Steere a thing in vse And his corrupted bowels will produce Flowre-sucking-Bees who like their parent slaine Loue labour fields and toile in hope of gaine Hornets from buried horses take their birth Breake off the Crabs bent clawes and in the earth Bury the rest a Scorpion without faile From thence will creepe and menace with his taile The Catterpillers who their cop-webs weaue On tender leafes as Hindes from proofe receiue Conuert to poysnous Butterflies in time Greene Frogs ingendred by the seed of slime First without feet then leg assume now strong And apt to swimme their hinder parts more long Then are their former fram'd to skip add iumpe The Beares deformed birth is but a lumpe Of liuing flesh when lâ—â—ked by the Old It takes a forme agreeing with the mold Who sees the Young of honie-bearing Bees In their sexangular inelosure sees Their bodies limb-lesse these vnformed things In time put forth their feet and after wings The starre-imbellâ—sht Fowle which Iuno loues Iones Armour-beaâ—er Cytharea's Doues And birds of euery kinde did we not know Them hatch't of egges who would coniecture so Some thinke the pith of dead men Snakes becomes When their back-bones corrupt in hollow tombs Yet these from others doe deriue their birth One onely Fâ—wle there is in all the Earth Call'd by th' Assyrian Phoenix who the waine Of age râ—paires and sâ—wes her selfe againe No 〈◊〉 on graine noâ— heâ—â—s but on the gumme Oâ— Frankinâ—ense and mycre Amomum Now when her life â—iue ages hath fulfil'd A neither 〈◊〉 beake and tallons build Vpon the 〈◊〉 of a trembling Palme This strewâ—d with Caâ—â—ia Spicknard precious Balme Bruz'd Cinamon and Myrrh thereon she bends Her body and her age in odors ends This breeding Corp's a little Phoenix beares Which is it selfe to liue as many yeeres Growne strong that load now able to transferre Her Cradle and her parents sepulcher Deuoutly carries to Hyperions towne And on his flamie Altar layes it downe If these be wonderfull admire like strange Hyaena's who their sex so often change Those foodlesse creatures fed by ayre alone Who euery colour which they touch put on The Lynx first brought from conquered India By vine bound Bacchus his hot pisse they say Congeales to stone So Corall which below The water is a limber weed doth grow Stone-hard when toucht by aire But Day will end And Phoebus panting Steeds to Seas descend Before my scant oration could persue All sorts of shapes that change their old for new For this we see in all is generall Some Nations gather strength and others fall Troy rich and powrefull which so proudly stood That could for ten yeeres spend such streames of blood For buildings onely her old ruines showes For riches tombs which slaughtred Sires inclose Sparta Mycenae were of Greece the flowres So Cecrop's City and Amphion's towres Now glorious Sparta lies vpon the ground Lofty Mycenae hardly to be found Of OEdipus his Thebes what now remaines Or of Pandion's Athens but their names Now Fame reports that Rome by Dardans Sons Begins to rise where yellow Tybris runs From fountfull Appenines and there the great Foundation of so great a fabricke seat This therefore shall by changing propagate And giue the World a Head Of such a fate The Prophets haue diuin'd And this of old As I remember Priam's Helen told To sad Aeneas of all hope forlorne In sinking Troy's eclipse O Goddesse-borne If our Appollo can presage at all Troy thou in safety shall not wholly fall Both fire and sword shall giue thy vertue way Flying with thee thou Ilium shalt conuay Vntill thou finde a Land as yet vnknowne To Troy and thee more friendly than thy owne A City built by Phrygians I fore-see So great none euer was is or shall bee Others shall make it great but He whose birth Springs from â—â—lus Soueraigne of the Earth He hauing rul'd the World shall then ascend Aethereall thrones and Heauen shall be his End This I remember with propheticke tongue Sage Helen to diuine Aeneas sung We ioy to see our kindreds City grow The Phrygians happy in their Ouer-throw But lest our heedlesse Steeds too far should range From their proposed course All suffer change The heauens themselues what vnder them is found We of the World a part since we as well Haue Soules as Bodies which in beasts may dwell To those which may our parents Soules inuest Our brothers dearest friends or men at least Let vs both safety and respect afford Nor heape their bowels on Thyestes boord How ill â—ur'd to shed the bloud of man How wickedly is he pâ—epar'd who can Asunder cut the throats of calues and heares The bellowing â—reeder with relentlesse eates Or silly kids which like poore infants cry Sticke with his knife or his voracitie Feed with the fowle he fed ô to what ill Are they not prone who are so bent to kill Let Oxen till the ground and die with age Let Sheepe defend thee from the winters rage Goats bring their vdders to thy paile Away With nets grâ—ns snares and arts that doe betray Deceiue not birds with lime nor Deere inclose With terrors nor thy baits to fish expose The hurtfull kill yet only kill nor eat Defiling flesh but feed on fitter meat With other and the like Philosophy Instructed Nâ—â—ma now return'd was by Th'intreating Latâ—neâ— crown'd Taught by his Bride The Nymph Aegeria by the Muses guide Religion institutes a People rude And prone to warre with lawes and peace imbu'd His raigne and age resign'd to funerall Plebeians Roman Danies Patricians all For Numa mouâ—ne His wife the Citie fled Hid in Aricia's Vale the ground her bed The woods her â—hroud disturbes with grones and cries Orestean Diana's sacrifice How oft the Nymphs who haunt that Groue and Lake Reprou'd her teares and words of