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The faire Æthiopian Dedicated to the King and Queene. By their Maiesties most humble subiect and seruant, William L'isle.
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Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica.
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1631
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STC 13047; ESTC S118754
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round about bedight His strong Phalanges march on either side And troopes of Cataphracts before him ride With whom he counts himselfe most safe and sure And this the guise is of that Armature Some choyce well-timber'd man of courage stout An helmet close puts-on which round about His head defends and from the Crowne to necke His left hand holds the reine his horse to checke His right a launce whereof butte-end is set In horses armed flanke that will not let It backward slide but guided with a span Combines in thrust the strength of horse and man Which armed both in steele wrought smooth by file And ioynted close like scales of Crocodile When horse hath reine on necke and spur at flanks As iron Statue breakes the formost ranks And piercing th'armour first then flesh and bones Some two or three sometime thrusts th'row at once Now Persian Satrap with such men and horses And as before had order'd all his forces He forward sets And so the Blackmore King Who sets against the Mede-and-Persian wing His Meroans not men of armour light But well appointed for a standing fight On th' other side his Troglodytes and those Who dwell where all the best Amomy growes All armed light and verie swift of foot And cunning all to hit whereat they shoot And when he saw in middle battaile most Consist the strength of all the Persian Hoast Himselfe in person leads against the same His towred Elephants with Sere and Blame A people strong who fighting though on foot Such armour wore as none could thorow-shoot And these although at first they meet at large Had after battell ioyn'd a speciall charge To creepe aground accustom'd to such acts And gore th'vnarmed paunch of Cataphracts With trump the Persian th'Aethiope with drum Both strike Alarm when they to th'Onset come The Persian came-on with a full careere Of armed horse-men thunder-like to heare Hydaspes softly that the Persian horse Before th' encounter might abate his force And lest he should by speeding-on th'Auants Vngarded leaue his slow-pac'd Elephants But when â—hey met these hardy men of Blame Creepe vnd'r vnarmed horses hoh them lame And wound th'vnarmed paunch with thâ—â—st and cuts So make the gored beast run-out his guts And cast the riders who for armours waight Now cannot stirre and are dispatched straight By first-come enemie me thinkes to fight Were bett'r on foot both for pursuit and flight A whizzing cloud of arrowes dimd the Sun And blowes are strooke as loud as moderne gun To cut-off armed limbs the field is spred With legs armes heads and bodies but halfe-dead At right wing and at left areare avant The neighing Horse and roring Elephant With fall of beast and man some o're some vnder Made such a noyse they could not heare it thunder And now begin the nimble men of Sere Retire to guard their Elephants areare The Persian horse as many as scapt the gore At Seres run yet backward start and snore At sight of th'Elephant that hill of beast That with his snout can take of graine the least And yet enroule an armed man and send him Aloft in t ' aire and by the downfall rend him As then were many seru'd each Elephant Had two men on each side and two avant In foure-square armed towre there was no faile But only that way which was next the taile And fed the beasts were more to make them fight With grapes and mulberries their chiefe delight The Seres were so skill'd in Archeries They made their arrowes sticke in Persian eyes That on their browes they seem'd haue growing hornes Or in mid-forhead like our Vnicornes Yea some in mouth receiu'd a hidden stripe And 'twixt their lips hung th'arrow like a pipe So Persian Leaders troubled in their face Fly backe themselues and draw the rest apace Orondates on swiftest horse of Nyze His chariot leauing with the formost flyes And this the wise and valiant King of Blacke From turret set on tallest Elpen backe Beholds triumphing in his victorie And loth to shed much bloud of enemie Sends-out command to spare their liues and bring The Persian Duke aliue vnto the King And so they did while he the manner view'd The Persian noting first the multitude Of Blackemors Armie kept the Nile behinde him For feare they should all round about enwinde him So barr'd himselfe the flight and now forsaken Of all his men on banke aliue is taken Though Achaemen repenting what he told And fearing th' end in flying was so bold To stab his Lord it was no deadly blow And yet reueng'd with Aethiopian bow That surer strooke the Traytour so with ease Was into presence brought Orondates To whom the King I hold it most renowne By weapon standing and by fauour downe To vanquish foe and you doe freely giue Though euer false to me this leaue to liue The Satrap answer'd False I was to you But thereby more vnto my Master true The King reply'd Say truth and doe not swerue Y' are ouercome what doe you now deserue The same quoth he that would my King require Of one of yours that were to you entire But O my friend then quoth the King againe Although you trustie were it was in vaine And part vnwise for you to set vpon My forces here that are ten to your one I knew it well quoth he but euer finde How much my King mislikes a fearfull minde And seeing plaine you meant to set on me Thought best begin For oft a ieoperdee May fall out well and many a chance in war May bring th'vnlikely lucke the likely bar So might befall me well and oft in doubt Some friendly Fortune fauours courage stout But if it fell out so I did but liue I might the bett'r account my Sou'raigne giue The King his answer lik'd and straight him sent To Sien Towne and after softly went And leauing th' armies Lieutenants charge In royall state vpon his Elpen large Enters the gate that strange it was to see On monster blacke so blacke a King as hee Then forth to meet him all the Citie went Man woman childe of high and low descent And cast him garlands coronets and posies Of all the fairest lilâ—ies pinks and roses That grew on banke of Nile congratulating His victories and him-to them prostrating He first of all vnto the Temple goes Pesents the Gods with sundrie solemne showes For victorie then lookes vpon the Well That wont with Nilus floud to sinke and swell The polisht stone within it hauing lines To count how much it rises or declines And Dials saw though they no newes to him Because they had the like at Meroim Both Citie and Isle with Gnomons bolt-vpright That gaue no shade at noone but round had light There also puits that nere so deepe were sunke Had Sun at noone that of their water drunke For North and South on each side equall lay And Nadir mid-night Zenith made mid-day For either Pole respectiue seene was there At landskop-landskop-end South Crosse and Northerne Beare Then such as came from north-North-side of