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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95995	Æneas his descent into Hell as it is inimitably described by the prince of poets in the sixth of his Æneis. / Made English by John Boys of Hode-Court, Esq; together with an ample and learned comment upon the same, wherein all passages criticall, mythological, philosophical and historical, are fully and clearly explained. To which are added some certain pieces relating to the publick, written by the author.; Aeneis. Liber 6. English	Virgil.; Boys, John, 1614?-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing V619; Thomason E1054_3; ESTC R200370	157,893	251

Then them no Monster 's worse no greater curse Or wrath of Gods e're sprung from Stygian source The fowls have Virgins faces purging still Their filthy paunches arm'd with talons ill And ever pale with hunger These was said to infest blinde Phineus King of Thrace to snatch the meat from his Table and to pollute and defile what they bore not away they were at last pursued and chased away by Calais and Zetus the winged issue of Boreas to the Islands called Strophades where they giving over the pursuit left that name to those Islands 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 à conversione which were formerly known by the name of Plotae The moderns call them Stivali And what are these Harpyes but flatterers Delators and the inexplebly covetous who abuse devour and pollute the fame of Princes blinded in their understandings whom Zetus and Calais said to be winged from their vigour and expediteness in State-affairs and the service of their Country are fam'd to expell thereby freeing the Court Councell of the abused Prince from those pernicious Monsters But Avarice is the vice more properly depainted and reprehended by these Harpyes which take their name from Rapine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and are said to be Virgins in that barren because goods ill gotten descend but seldome to posterity to flye in that they are swift in extorting to be covered with plumes from cloaking and concealing ther prey to have talons of vultures from their griping and fast-holding of their unjustly ravished goods These qualities are also characterized in their names Aëllo quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from taking away what was anothers Ocypete from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from celerity and flying Celeno from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies black Thus a covetous man is an Aello or invader of anothers which like an Ocypete or kinde of prey he doth with all violence and greediness being a Celaeno or close dark in his proceedings You may draw this Fable to a physicall sense in this manner by the Harpyes is signified the nature of the wind and all flatulent Meteors which are therefore said to be born of Thaumas the Son of Pontus or the Sea and Electra the Daughter of Sol or the Sun for such is the winde which is generated from the vapors of the sea drawn up by the Sun-beams whereof the more gross and thick parts are condensed into rain the more thin and subtile extenuated into wind Their names also are agreeable to the nature of the wind for what is a greater Harpy i. e. more violent and rapid then the wind what more an Ocypete or swift-flying what more an Aella i. e. a storm for from thence is Aello also derived or what more commonly accompanied with Celaeno i. e. obscurity then windy and tempestuous weather Lastly as the Harpyes are said to be winged what is more frequent in our common speech then the wings of the wind from its extraordinary swift and rapid motion § 43 By forma tricorporis umbrae which we have expressed by three-body'd Elves the Poet understands the Ghost or representation of Geryon the Sonne of Chrysâor and Callirhoë said to have three bodies either from the three Islands the 2 Beleares and Ebûsus now known by the names of Majorca Minorca and Ivica which were under his dominion and Signiory Or for that as Justin testifies l. 44. c. 4. there were three Brethren of them who lived together in such concord fraternal amity as if they had had but one soul to actuate their three bodies And may not this Fable be verified in this our age have not we our Geryon is not our dread Soveraign Lord of three mighty Kingdomes What is Majorca to England Minorca to Scotland and Ivica to Ireland what in extent what in fertility Why did Antiquity boast so of its Geryon and shall not we proclaim our unparrallel'd happinesse in our Charles the second second indeed to none in all Princely endowments and royall accomplishments insomuch that his inherent worth alone and noble personage seem to have design'd him for Empire had he no other title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But when we consider in what amity and love how united and linked together our gracious Soveraign and his two Royal Brethren live we cannot but affirm that according to the mythologie of this Fable they seem to have but one soul to actuate their three bodies the contemplation whereof strikes fire into my Muse and forceth me into this short Poeticall rapture Antiquity what were the reasons why Thou didst so much ascribe to th' number Three What mysteries to us yet unreveal'd Through thy dark Counsels lye therein conceal'd Three Graces why and why three Parcae pray o th' world three parts and three parts of the day The Muses three times three the Trinity Highest of mysteries made up by Three Nay why in hell three Judges didst thou seign Three Furies why t' inflict on mortals pain If faith assure us that a Trinity In heav'n doth sway if by Mythology We are instructed that a tripartite Pow'r doth preside over those Realms of night Sense I am sure then faith and story both An evidence more clear and certain doth Tell us that earth is destin'd now to be Governed by a Royall Trinity Great Charles brave York and sprightly Glocester The names which to all Nations peace or warre Are destin'd to dispence where they or frown Or smile they give or take away a Crown Three Brethren thus Nature did once obey Jove rul'd the Heavens Neptune the raging Sea Pluto the parts beneath their influence Did to all things or Good or Bad dispence And thus the little world mans body is If Aristotles School teach not amisse By three soul's rul'd we the praeeminence To Reason give the second place to Sence The Vegetative claims the third and thus You Princely Triade the three souls which us And this our Western world doe swage 't is you To whom your friends and enemies both bow As those for love so these for fear I say 'T is you who hearts as well as Empires sway This blessed union then let nought divorce And nothing shall resist your matchlesse force But I am ingaged in so pleasing and copious a subject that I can hardly take my self off or return to our fabulous Geryon from whom we have so farre digress'd wherefore you must know that he was said to be a most merciless Tyrant and therefore slain by Hercules who having also killed his two-headed Dog and seven-headed Dragon the Guardians of his purple-coloured Oxen together with Eurition the instrument and Minister of his cruelty is said to drive away that precious Drove out of those Islands into Greece This story is briefly touched by our Author lib. 8. Aen. maximus ultor Tergemini nece Geryonis spoliisque superbus Alcîdes aderat taurosque hâc victor agebat Ingentes vallemque boves amnemque tenebant Alcîdes who in Geryon's