shoulders there lye huge heapes of half dead bodies whereof some curse fate others blaspheme their misdisposed starrs one pitties his poore widdow another commiserated his Lucklesse Orphans and curse the night wherein the children were borne because he must dye and leave them unhappy here lies a throng of livelesse carcases whose eyes are dam'd up with bloud-congealed dust there grovells the Son whose hopes were all his aged Fathers pleasure there were slaine in this battell as is evident by the bills given in of the dead of Romulus party 500. whereof one was the honourable Lord Yeslin Of Lycidus souldiers there fell 11000 and upward among whom were Turpil and Xanverde of the nobilitie Report carying the fame of these wars tied unto his wings brought it to Clorinda wherupon education having given her more languages then nature tongues shee drew her thoughts into these â—es adorned them with Roman attire wrapt them in 〈◊〉 dispatcht them to Flaminius Clorinda Flaminio Pax tibi tuta venit comptos redimita capillos Nunc fulgent violae Lilia flava rosae Massica pampinei florescunt dona Liaei Nunc vocat ad dulces tibia grata choros Pace virente casas habitat securus Amyntas Neve citat tutum hunc tristis ad arma tuba At cum trita patent furibundi limina belli Turnus armiferas aptat ad arma manus Aspicis undantes effuso sanguine campos Si venit in terras martia turba tuas Exurit passim segires magalia villas Marâ—iaque artifici fulmina nube ruunt Pace repertus amor Mars spirat naribus ignem Hic terram tumulis sarcinat illa viris Magnificis Pacem quis te non laudibus ornat Ipsa Ceres te nox induit Ipsa Venus Clorinda Arbella loath any longer to see her Fathers Kingdome sustaine the miseries of war for her sake fled secretly from the Court in a disguise and apparralled her selfe in a tawney armor having for her device an Austridge holding a horse shoe in his mouth with this word Sic nutriuntur Fortes she repaired to the camp and sent this defie to Lycidus Redoubted Lycidus it's both repugnant to your honour and honesty to seeke to conquer that with Mars â—is lance which can be subdued onely by Cupids shaft 〈◊〉 meane Arbellas heart appeare therefore in the field forthwith armed at all points to prove by what right you seeke the daughters love by the distruction of her Fathers Kingdome be not inquisitive of my name bâ—t let it suffice you to know that I am Arbellas friend and consequently your enemy The stranger had no sooner veiwed the advantages of the ground but Lycidus forthwith issued out of the Abby which was by this time straightned for want of Provision with an armour of a sea green colour whereon was the Simulachres of Priamus and Hecuba hanging their heads in their bosomes and with their naked hands upholding a deaths head whereon was written this composure Nostrae spes tanta salutis The stranger faild in his careere and was sent to write his foyle with his helmet upon the dust Lycidus as rich in courtisie as courage counting conquest by advantages rather stolen then accheived left his sturdy steed to fight on foot but Lycidus perceiving the stranger discovered more anger then either skill or strength holding him farre unworthy of his hate pittied his weaknesse and said Sir Knight I conceive you fitter to masque with Uenus then march with Mars to hold a distaffe with Hercules then a lance with Hanibal or to handle a Lute in a Ladyes chamber then a spear in Bellona's Camp contest therefore no more but husband your strength employ it against your enemie for my part I am your friend and will spend my life to serve you for Arbellas sake whose friend you professe your selfe the stranger replyed al the service I desire of you is that I have no service for you but abused courtesie in Lycidus begat wrath who united all his force cleft the perfidious Helmet of the stranger which struck him to the ground he theÌ„ thrust his glittering sword into his left side having enloosed his helmet intending to crop him shorter by the head espyed golden tramells of faire haire falling downe upon her shoulders which witnessed that it was the bâ—autious Arâ—â—lla whose corall lips trembled as if they were kissing death the Lillie and rose which were before united in her cheekes now broake their league and commenced warr the Lillie got the victory and remained master of the feild and put the rose to flight in her forehead where the wound was made a fresh tor rent of rubie blood whose least drop might have ran somed Cupid were he taken prisoner strove to over flow its owne fairenesse here the rose tooke sanctuary being expulsed from her cheekes in a word here was an Island of perfect white invironed with a red sea in whose deadly streame death came sayling and arived at the port made in her front and soon chaced the soule though not the beauty from her lovely body Now Lycidus ashamed of his unluckie victory broke his sword threw downe his gauntlet and in three dayes shipt his whole army to returne to Sicilie he bequeathed his kingdome to his brother Silenus and spent the residue of his discontented life in the Monastery of mount Serat where he became a Capouchin His majestie out of the height of benignity passed a bill of indempnity pardoned his subjects as a legg broke well set is stronger then before and as a bow cract and wel mended sounder then ever so his peoples hearts were in the most corroborated chaines of love and obedience chained him by this singular example of clemeÌ„cie for Le pardonner n'est moindre vertu aux grauds quand ' lis sont offencez que le vengeance vice aux petits quand ils sont injuriez to forgive is no lesse vertue in Princes when they are offended then revenge is a vice in the common sort when they are wronged but to proceed because his maiesty would not have the griefe for Arbella's death make a full conquest of his great minde he admitted of this pastorall Eclogue An Eclogue The Kings magistie being seated and the roome fill'd with spectators of quality Flaminius and Amenides enter'd in a rurall disguise intending to summon their senses to attend their pastimes to shew their alacritie for the new established peace and celebrate their Ladies excellencies under the pastorall names of Julietta Floretta calling themselves Archus and Plaindor Archus which was Flaminius disguised began thus Archus Come swaine assume thy slighted pipe and play Upon thy oaten reed a rounde-lay Come warble amorous anthems call to be Partakers in thy mirth the Napaeae That haunt arbusted groves those rurall powers That live inshrin'd in oaken curled bowres Among the sapplins tall whose shady roof Are ringletts knitt of branching elm star proofe Call Naiades from their obscure sluse By which his Alpheus met his Arethuse
sin to blazon forth Vnder a meaner stile thy mighty worth ' T ware but a trick of state if we should bring The Muses Lower house to vote thee King Thou highly dost deserve it and the bayes Should crown thy browes to thine immortall prayse While usher'd by the Graces thou art sent To sit as King i th' Poets Parliament The famous Sidney's soule I think had gon A widow till the resurrection And never been inspir'd now had not shee Found out her Match and been espous'd to thee We have some things call'd Poets who although They nere were Verst but in the Crist-crosse-row And never swallow'd Possum thinke they 're able To be pertakers at the Muses Table Who nere inspir'd with the thrice three-Sisters But tooke their learning as men doe their Glisters And should you come and tell them what you lacke Their witts like ware lost in a Pedlers packe They have but know not where perhaps their bundle May yeeld a Ballad for the widow-Trundle Or some such businesse wherein is shewn A mournefull ditty to the pleasant tune Fortune my Foe or else-pox what d' ye call it When t' hath no more Concepit then has a Mallett Who froÌ„ their spungy braines may squeeze a sonnet When th 'ave a Fortnight chew'd the cud upon it But shall such clumsey Humours ever be Renouned with the name of Poetrye No 't were a sin beyound a pardon you Deserve the Poets name and Laurell too Thy booke swells high thy lines well-wrought not weake Thy words might teach Apollo how to speake Which if he ever could have done like Thee Daphne had ne're been turn'd into a Tree Thy twisted Plott so nice a hand hath spun You 'd sweare it were not only made but done And you would not beleeve me should I tell How soone this worke was done when 't is sowell Go on deare friend enlarge thy spreading fame And let thy Pen immortalize thy Name HENRY BOLD Fell N. C. Oxon. To his ingenious friend Mr. Robert Baron upon his Cyprian Academy I 've thought upon 't yet faith I cannot tell Wether thy prose or verse doth most excell Each other both in an Emphaticke style Roare like the torrent of a troubled Nile Stopp'd by an oblique beame thy words being pent I' th confin's of thy throate did force their vent To torture weake capacities who 'l say Reading thy book 't is Greeke wrote English way Nor is that all some will conjecture by it That in'ts conception thou keep'st sparing diet They will not thinke thou did'st grosse Hamkins eat Least thou shouldst choake thy quibles with such meate Yet whatso'ere thou eat'st for other Palats They Orcheards apples yield thy gardens sallads Well may Antiquitie amazed be To view their chapells an Academy So farre out vie'd in which are many bowres For Venus darlings neatly strow'd with flowers Of Rheth'rick nay the seaven li'brall artes Like thunder-clappsdoe act their severall parts In high expressions which are forth brought Some of them sure stand for a thirteenth thought But here I 'le stoup least I Tautologize In vaine ambages when it will suffice That in worths plentuous cropps of infant bayes I glâ—…e an handfull to adorne thy prayse John Gleane Cantabri Roberto Barono S. I. Apollines amplissimo cardinali ordine Amatorum QUâ fronte ambulat monstrum illud sine labe nes cis ignare audies Invenis Platonicus cujus os ruris filiae suum fecerunt alvearium Corpus Poeticum cujus caput Musis est capitolium ingenium perpetuus dictator Venoris argentea columba quae diu inter mystica sacra ejus numinis versata tandem ad matris auri gam se â—â—ntulit Phaebo pulchriore sorore Phaebj Sub Chirone Cupidineo Cypria Achilles acerrimus Acteon sine cornibus cujus oculis Clorinda Hecate illa triformis est obnoxia Novum sydus lacteâ collocatum plaga Mercurius qui caduceo suo amoris somnium jnduxit totus aureus cui nupsit Pactolus Hic est ille Laudatus eralogiae in Cyprianâ academiâ professor illius meritis hasce primitias officij observantiae pignus libentissime consecrat Christophorus Baretus Londinensis Coll. Cere Chr. Cantb To his worthy friend upon his Excellent Book the Cyprian Academy NAtur's Apelles that canst thus the State Of Lovers with thy pencill adumbrate Come quit this spot and mount the starry quire Where sit inshrin'd soules made of pureâ—i fire Halfe shadow'd Venus shall then come to thee Hoping perfection in thy Poetry The winged post of heaven shall guild his place Knowing thy Attick tongue can goe his pace When Priam's Paris liv'd hadst thou been borne The godesses would thee their judge have sworne Had Barclay seene thy booke he would have said Vnhappy Argenis thou art betrayd To riper witts in deserts mayst thou be Hating bright Sol deform'd Nyctimine Let Satyrs now be packing and that name That would eclipse the lustre of thy fame What shall I give thee such titles sure as these Amphitruo or Bombimachides Mentfieur of Helicon Marquis of the Mount Pernassus and of the Cabaline fount Poets Collosse under whose mighty feet May saile a greater then the Spanish Fleete To Loves Elizium in stately boules Where heav'nly Nectar suck Platonick soules I sweare by Venus and her turtle dove He 's like a Tartar that dâ—…s not thee love C. B. To his worthy Friend Mr. Robert Baron upon his excellent POEM LEt ancient Poets stand agast to see Themselves so farre out-run out-stript by thee Minerva's Magazin who hast not seen The third part of their yeares nay scarce seventeen Hither may ancients come and grieve to see Their learning all Epitomiz'd in thee Thy language is of proper words and phrase What it affects it easily brings to passe Were chast Penelope surviving now Her stubborne heart it would make soone to bow Cupid directs thy heart thy pen Apollo Or else such lofty straines thou couldst not swallow Had'st thou not been in love sure thou coul'st ne're Have writ such sublime raptures as are here No more let Greece of famous Homer boast No longer let old Ovids sacred goast Be grieved for he now survives againe Henceforth let dropping eyes cease and amaine Let inke run from your quills in blazing forth This our inspir'd Poets praise and worth I hold the opinion of Pithagoras This Muse cannot be lesse then Ovids was Onely it suffered a transmigration Into a body of a newer fashion Vnto thy booke may all men have recourse It doth descry the effects of love the force Of armies and after victory the rest Which no man can so all as are exprest In this thy booke Faminius his life Thou hast exprest together with his wife Clorinda Poets vaile fayre Helens 〈◊〉 Her 's one indeede what she but painted was Now lovers cease t' invoke and call upon God Pan for his sage direction In Nuptiall Hymnes we scorne the common story This booke henceforth shall be our Directory The prayses all to write should I accord
Cyclops forge by the Pampian goddesse Cytherea when she sought for her sons safegard from the fury of Rutilian Turnus fighting for a Kingdome and his love Lavinia this armour Clorinda beautified with Locks of her golden haire which was fastned to his cresâ— and obumbrated his Corslet dangling downe in small braides tied up in Lovers knotts with silver ribands the armour was of a sea-green colour with rocks and sands of gold his device upon his sheild was the jmages of the chast and constant Penelope and his Lady Clorinda in silver with their hands joyned his impresse was Est vunum velle duobus Clorinda and Penelope The colour of his horse was milke white but upon his brest and croop he was dapâ— d with red staines as when a white Tulip is streakt with red or a few strawberies scattered in a messe of creame he was fiery and of a goodly proportioned greatnesse his hasty hoofes scorned the earth and he sent proud challenges in his loud dialect to his enemie Now Clorinda Diaphoro and Belia Grisonus Bombar Artimaga Florian Doristo and others ushered Flaminius into the feild with this song SONG Armes and honâ—… thy â—ory To thy fames immorâ—…y Adverse fortune ever â—y the No disasterous fate come nigh the Prosper still in martiall courses Prosper still in arts and forces Bright victory Attend the nigh Whilst spreading fame Resound thy name And Blason forth Thy mighty worth Just Astraea whom Poets say From wicked earth is fled away And in the bandrike hast thy seate To make the Zadiack compleat Once more from thy bright throne descend Thy owne stout Champion to defend Sheild him from harme Strengthen his arme Kind Mars come downe And his head crowne With wreaths of palme Then myrh and balme Sweet insence with the Cypresse tree And Cassia shall flame to the And Th' Magpie and the Woolfe which be Devoted to thy dietie Ride on truths champion and goe Assured thy haughty foe Shall fall like Sparrowes 'fore a halke Thou ore his spoyles shalt boldy walke Bright victory Attend the nigh Whilst spreading fame Resound thy name And Blazon forth Thy mighty worth Flaminius waited not long before Uernar appeared gallantly mounted upon a bay browne coursier full of black spots his forehead marked with a white starr to which in his whole body there was not any part answerable but the left foot behind his armour was rich and gorgious of a skie colour full of starrs of gold he bore in his sheild the effigies of Cassandra the propheticall daughter of Priamus in silver with this word Mentriri non est meum It s not my part to lye Flaminius who affected not warr but in cause of necessity alwayes peace but with honourable conditions before he would extort from Uernar a forced confession of injurie done to Clorinda he went about first like a flexanimous Oratour to exhort him to it Should you Sir Uernar accuse Helena of falcifying her conjugall trust it had been but to tell over a tale that is already told this accusation had been warrantable by tradition but to charge Clorinda with inconstancy nay to think such a thought of her whose beauty bewray her to be Uenus but that she excell her in chastitie and whose continence speakes her to be Diana but that she staines her beauty were intollerable impudence to speake such a word flat impiety and to affirme it with oathes inexpiable injury Or had Nullifidius whom no man will credit reported this it had not been worth my answering or her regarding but that you Uernar who was sometimes of her intimate acquaintance being Deli'as friend Though as it is now evident a dissembling Sycophant for you to relate this others beleeve it she stomaches it and I 'le revenge it I had better take a blister of a nettle then a prick of a rose I am more willing that a Raven should pick out my eyes then a Turtle pick at them to dye of the food one affecteth not is better then to surfet of that one delighteth in I am of Scipi'os mind who had rather that Hanibal should eat his heart with salt then Laelius grieve it with discurtifie or of the same with Laelius who chose rather to be slaine of the Spaniards then suspected of Scipio I had rather an enemy should beate me then a friend belye me rather that an Antagonist should flay me then one of acquaintance slander me Uernar replyed We come not hither to debate but to combate not to prate but to praeleate not to cavill but to duel not to jest but to just wherefore having turned their horses these champions met so furiously That their shiver'd lances flew upwards as if they challenged the skie before they falled on earth never was game of death better playd never did fury display it selfe in greater bravery never were Hector and Achilles better imitated or rather excell'd never were swords guided by more skilfull hands never were hands accommodated with more trusty swords which like deep mouth'd Cannons battering downe by peace meale their armours made many wide breaches for troopes of wounds to rush in at Her 's the Trojan warrs in Epitome her 's the battell of Lepanto acted in Monomachy her 's Yorke and Lancaster fought over againe in a Hippomachy her 's the Pharsalian feild discrib'd in these lists her 's the fight at Canna excelled in a duell Now the barriers blood began to chace sweat from the full possession of their outsides for their armours blushed that they had defended their masters no better force against force prowesse against prowesse were interchangibly encounter'd as the fire the more it s fed with fuell the more hungry its still to devoure so the more they did strike the more unsatisfied they were with striking they sharpned their sharpe swords with hope of victory their thick blowes lighting upon their well tempered shields made the ayre to Eccho the noyse whereof sounded as many waters in their feirce combates against some concave rock by this time Uernar's body was scarified and broch't with so many wounds as his soule was in a doubt which way to get out at but weakned with a prodigall effusion of bloud which he sent to bespeake him a grave he fell to the earth and feeling the prevayling point of Flaminius sword at his wretched throate he upon his knees confessed himselfe vanquished and Clorinda flandered in these words Redoubted Flaminius as fire is to gunpowder so is ambition to the heart of man which if it be touched with felfe-Love mounteth aloft and never bendeth downeward till it be turned into ashes I confesse my selfe to be a man whose eyes could not looke right upon any others happines nor eares beare the burthen of any others praises I knowing that each corner in the world rang of your praises mine fits no mans mouth this consideration breeds antipatheticall difference and discontent brought forth emulation emulatioÌ„ desire of reveng that engendred execution of such desires to further