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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06629	The vvoman in the moone As it was presented before her Highnesse. By Iohn Lyllie maister of Artes.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1597 (1597)	STC 17090; ESTC S109746	27,033	52

THE WOMAN in the Moone As it was presented before her Highnesse By IOHN LYLLIE maister of Artes Imprinted at London for William Iones and are to be sold at the signe of the Gun neere Holburne Conduict 1597 Prologus OVr Poet slumbring in the Muses laps Hath seene a Woman seated in the Moone A point beyond the auncient Theorique And as it was so he presents his dreame Here in the bounds of fayre Vtopia Where louely Nature being onely Queene Bestowes such workmanship on earthly mould That Heauens themselues enuy her glorious worke But all in vaine for malice being spent They yeeld themselues to follow Natures doome And fayre Pandora sits in Cynthias orbe This but the shadow of our Authors dreame Argues the substance to be neere at hand At whose appearance I most humbly craue That in your forehead she may read content If many faults escape in her discourse Remember all is but a Poets dreame The first he had in Phoebus holy bowre But not the last vnlesse the first displease Enter Nature with her two maidens Concord and Discord Nature NAture descends from farre aboue the spheeres To frolicke heere in fayre Vtopia VVhere my chiefe workes do florish in their prime And wanton in their first simplicitie Heere I suruey the pictured firmament VVith hurtlesse flames in concaue of the Moone The liquid substance of the welkins waste VVhere moystures treasurie is clouded vp The mutuall Ioynter of all swelling seas And all the creatures which their waues conteine Lastly the rundle of this Massiue earth From vtmost face vnto the Centers point All these and all their endlesse circumstance Heere I suruey and glory in my selfe But what meanes Discord so to knit the browes VVith sorrowes clowde ecclipsing our delights Discord It grieues my hart that still in euery worke My fellow Concorde frustrates my desire VVhen I to perfect vp some wondrous deed Do bring forth good and bad or light and darke Pleasant and sad moouing and fixed things Fraile and immortall or like contraries She with her hand vnites them all in one And so makes voide the end of mine attempt Nature I tell thee Discord while you twaine attend On Natures traine your worke must prooue but one And in your selues though you be different Yet in my seruice must you well agree For Nature workes her will from contraries But see where our Utopian Shepheards come Enter Stesias Learchus Melos Iphicles all clad in Skins They kneele downe Stosias Thou Soueraigne Queene and Author of the world Of all that was or is or shall be framde To finish vp the heape of thy great gifts Vouchsafe thy simple seruants one request Nature Stand vp and tell the sum of your desire The boone were great that Nature would not graunt It euer was and shall be still my ioy VVith wholesome gifts to blesse my workemanship Iphi. VVe craue fayre goddesse at thy heauenly hands To haue as euery other creature hath A sure and certaine meanes among our selues To propagate the issue of our kinde As it were comfort to our sole estate So were it ease vnto thy working hand Each Fish that swimmeth in the floating sea Each winged fowle that soareth in the ayre And euery beast that feedeth on the ground Haue mates of pleasure to vpholde their broode But thy Utopians poore and simple men As yet bewaile their want of female sex Nature A female shall you haue my louely swaines Like to your selues but of a purer moulde Meane while go hence and tend your tender flocks And when I send her see you holde her deare Exeunt Shepheards singing a roundelay in praise of Nature Now Virgins put your hands to holy worke That we may frame new wonders to the world They draw the Curtins from before Natures shop where stands an Image clad and some vnclad they bring forth the cloathed image VVhen I arayde this lifelesse Image thus It was decreed in my deepe prouidence To make it such as our Utopians craue A merror of the earth and heauens dispight The matter first when it was voyde of forme Was purest water earth and ayre and fyre And when I shapt it in a matchlesse mould VVhereof the lyke was neuer seene before It grew to this impression that you see And wanteth nothing now but life and sowle But life and soule I shall inspire from heauen So hold it fast till with my quickning breath I kindle inward seeds of sence and minde Now fire be turnd to choler ayre to bloud VVater to humor purer then it selfe And earth to flesh more cleare then Christall rock And Discord stand aloofe that Concords hands May ioyne the spirit with the flesh in league Concord fast imbraceth the Image Concorde Now do I feele how life and inward sence Imparteth motion vnto euery limme Nature Then let her stand or moue or walke alone The Image walkes about fearefully Herein hath Nature gone beyond her selfe And heauen will grudge at beautie of the earth VVhen it espies a second sonne belowe Discorde Now euerie part performes her functions dew Except the tongue whose strings are yet vntyed Nature Discorde vnlose her tongue to serue her turne For in distresse that must be her defence And from that roote will many mischiefes growe If once she spot her state of innocence Image speakes Pandora kneeling Haile heauenly Queene the author of all good VVhose wil hath wrought in me the fruits of life And fild me with an vnderstanding soule To know the difference twixt good and bad Nature lifting her vp I make thee for a solace vnto men And see thou follow our commaunding will Now art thou Natures glory and delight Compact of euery heauenly excellence Thou art indowd with Saturns deepe conceit Thy minde as hawte as Iupiters high thoughts Thy stomack Lion-like like Mauors hart Thine eyes bright beamde like Sol in his array Thy cheekes more fayre then are faire Uenus cheekes Thy tongue more eloquent then Mercuries Thy forehead whiter then the siluer Moones Thus haue I robd the Planets for thy sake Besides all this thou hast proud Iunoes armes Auroraes hands and louely Thetis foote Vse all these well and Nature is thy friend But vse them ill and Nature is thy foe Now that thy name may suite thy qualities I giue to thee Pandora for thy name Enter the seuen Planets Saturne VVhat creature haue we heere a new found gawde A second man lesse perfect then the first Mars A woman this forsooth but made in hast To robbe vs Planets of our ornaments Iupiter Is this the Saint that steales my Iunoes armes Sol. Mine eyes then gouerne thou my daylight carre Uenus My cheekes then Cupid be at thy commaund Mercury My tongue thou pretty Parrat speake a while Luna My forehead then faire Cynthia shine by night Nat. VVhat foule contempt is this you Planets vse Against the glory of my words and worke It was my will and that shall stand for lawe And she is framd to darken all your prides Ordeynd not I