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A19965	Daphnis and Chloe excellently describing the vveight of affection, the simplicitie of loue, the purport of honest meaning, the resolution of men, and disposition of fate, finished in a pastorall, and interlaced with the praises of a most peerlesse preincesse, wonderfull in maiestie, and rare in perfection, celebrated within the same pastorall, and therefore termed by the name of the shepheards holidaie. by Angell Daye. Altior fortuna virtus.; Daphnis and Chloe. English	Longus.; Day, Angel, fl. 1575-1595.; Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593.	1587 (1587)	STC 6400; ESTC S112592	83,708	118

sides and nowe the monstrousnesse of the euill doone didde trouble them more and more But Eudrome beeyng of his owne disposition a youth of verye good nature they deuised amongest them-selues for to call hym also to councell about this enterprise The case beeing made knowen vnto him Eudrome seeing their excessiue sorrowe and mone made recomforted them and aduised as most meete that the matter were first made knowne vnto their yong Maister whome hee assured vnto them to be of louing and most kinde condition and that vppon their submission made hee woulde not sticke so farre foorth to pittie them as that by his good and fauorable conceit some one thing or other for redresse might there be the better prouided Lamon not withstanding was not yet idle but slipped and cropped the hanging boughes and twigges rounde about the garden hee didde what hee coulde by all the arte and cunning hee had to make the hauocke seeme lesse insomuch as by hys diligent looking too and attendaunce hee hadde reasonablie amended the matter in diuers places Their yo●…ng Maister according vnto appointment came the next day whose name was Astile and wyth him brought to accompany him for his disporte a parasiticall gester whose name was Gnatho The gentleman was yet verye yoong vpon whose chinne the tender downe hadde scarcelie crept and therewithal of most gentle and friendlie condicion bee was no sooner entred the grounds but Lamon Myrtale his wife togither with yoong Daphnis fell prostrat at his feete desiring his fauour and forgiuenesse and that beeing campassionate vppon the olde yeares of his bondman hee woulde indeuour so farre as he might to withdraw his fathers rage and displeasure from them Astile rewed the miserable complaint and the better to relieue them out of their woonted distresses and sorrowes hee promised that at his fathers comming hee woulde endeuour to make some prea●…ye excuse of the matter and for to take the cauie and choice occasion thereof wholly vppon him-selfe They thankefully heere-vppon tooke his agreement and endeuouring by all the meanes possible to cont●…nt him both Lamon and Daphnis with diuerse notable presents did afterwardes entertaine him they praied God also in respecte of their disabilitie that it would please him of his goodnesse to requi●…e him Nowe Gnatho this parasite being a right belli-god a villaine by nature and one that loued none but where hee might be fedde nor cared for any but onelye for his profite seeing the sweete and naturall fauour of this yoong Daphnis beganne as an vnnaturall beast so against nature become wanton ouer him The paunch-filled rascall seeing that Astile was a braue yong gentleman tooke pleasure in hunting and to haunt the fields abroad with his hawks and spaniels deuised from time to time sundry shifts whereby to ridde himselfe of his company And in these spaces would he haunt the heards of yong Daphnis one while hearing him sound his flute and another while sing thoght there was no felicitie in the world so great as to be accompanied with his pleasure The wretch mouing to the goat-heard manie questions perceiuing his simplicity and vnacquainted disposition to villanous purposes one time by watching his goings and cōmings wold haue found means in forcible maner to abuse him But the in●…inuat condition by nature and his former birth planted in the imbold●…ed spirits of the yoong youth with a maner of sweltring kind of disdaine shooke the raskall off and that so tudelie as his pampered drunken carcas squatted against the ground with the pezant and vnweldie burden thereof The parasiticall tricker perceiuing the vnmollified spirit of the braue goatheard and weieng there withall the maner of his vnexpected colour and courage such as seldome falleth in those that by nature are borne to be slaues thought that in his natiuitie the stars and planets were vnto him too sinister in that vnto a mind fauor so correspondent they yeelded an estate condition so mightilie different Neuerthelesse though in so forcible maner he dared no more to affaie the youth yet for all that withdrew he not frō him his sensuall beastlie disposition but considering that the lad was but the sonne of Lamon reputed therefore thought as a 〈◊〉 to belong vnto his lord he deemed with himselfe to practise another deuise more colourable whereby when time should serue he might the easter attain●… to that his wretched and most abhominable desi●…e This could he not immediatlie bring to passe for that the old man with his wife children and familie were now all arriued at this his countrie dwelling In the first two daies after whose arriuall there was nothing but feasting and banketting Dionysophanes was the old mans name and Clearista his wife After then that he had rep●…sed himselfe by the space of two daies he then began to visit his herberies his gardens walks and other 〈◊〉 and pleasant deuises in all which he found no fault at all saue onelie the spoile which before you heard of which yoong Astile had ere this to him execused and taken the matter vpon himselfe where with Dionysophanes held himselfe contented Then walked he forwards to see the heards and flocks at the sight of which companie of so manie strangers Chloe ●…ashfull on a sudden and being in the fields as she that had neuer bin accustomed to their view stole awaie secretlie and hid hir selfe in the 〈◊〉 but Daphnis stood still awaiting their comming Lamon then pointing out vnto his maister his goats and sheepe that so daintilie had beene fe●… and increased added further vnto him that the youth standing by was his goate-heard who by his dilligent care and attendaunce had thither to conducted them Dionysophanes and Clearista beholding the excellent fauor and sweete gestures of the youth who furnished in euery condicion as a heardseman and hauyng a faire large skinne of a hee goate smoothelie dressed with the haire fastened vnto his necke and hanging ouer his shoulders thought that there appeared in him a kinde of beautie more commendable farre than customably was to bee seene in euery other sheepeheard Daphnis beganne to make vnto them musike vppon his flute and with diuers and excellent layes and ditties of the sheepeards ●…o entertaine them all which of the company Generallye but Clearista especiallie was in him both rewarded liked and highly commended besides commaunded shee him and likewise Dionysophanes his Maister expres●…y enioyne●… him not to bee absent from the house during their abode and continuaunce in the country but alwayes there to attend them All this vnto the vile and beastly conceipt of Gnatho di●…de but adde fire vnto the flame who beeing wholie dedicated vnto luxurie and his bellie was not able to containe himselfe within l●…mits but taketh Astile on a time a tone side and thus c●…utelously the better to accomplishe his purpose deliuereth vnto him I haue Sir heere-tofore neuer in my life yeelded appetite or liking to any thing so much as to quaffing companye and aboundaunce of

lately from Carye hapned to come ala●…d vppon the Island and roming vppe and downe here and there vppon the countrey they pilled and spoiled all places where they came and armed as they were ranne into euery corner to take what they could get whereby as chance hapned they tooke great store of wines graine and hony the noueltie whereof was such as it was yet in the waxe and therewithall robbed and spoiled the seelie Dorcon of all his beasts and cattell leauing the man sore wounded and wel-nigh dead with their blowes And cou●…sing as they were vp and down in the Island Daphnis by ill hap walking on the sea-banke was by them surprised for yet was not Chloe gone foorth wyth her sheepe being early dayes and fearing for she was alone to be inforced by some other of the rudest sort of the sheepheards The rouers seeing this yong youth faire seemly and strong and thinking him of better regard than any part else of their prize they made no further pursute after his goates but contenting themselues with his person and that they had besides they returned againe to their Foist Daphnis cryeng out vpon Chloe the remembraunce of whome in this extremity did onelye consume him These theeues being scarce got aboard and not yet makyng way with their oares into the streame Chloe by this time was come vnto the pastures with hir sheepe and failing of Daphnis in the place of their accustomed meetings seeing therewithall his goats and tender kiddes all scattered and disordered here and there she began to feare the woorst At last hearing his voice yet crieng and complaining after her for yet was hee within sound she left hir sheepe and throwing downe her Pipe has●…ned with all speede possible to Dorcon in minde to require his aide whome betweene life and death shee founde groueling vppon the ground halfe slaine of the theeues and scarce able for faintnes to deliuer his minde vnto hir hauing lost of his bloud an exceeding quantitie The cow-heard yet perceuing Chloe to be there the remembrance of his antient loue kindled in his minde some n●…uell forces whereby inforcing himselfe a little he thus sayde vnto hir My deere Chloe thou commest euen nowe vnto mee at the rendring of my ghost for long I knowe I cannot liue so many wayes haue these cruell rouers wounded me and beat me downe as an oxe in the s●…all neuertheles if thou wilt it is yet in thy power to saue Daphnis and to be reuenged on the wicked creatures for my death I haue Chloe hitherto accustomed my beasts to the sound of my pipe and that in so certaine and assured manner as in the hearing thereof be they neuer so far from me they wil yet by all meanes possible draw homewards againe take here my Flute quickly and hasting to the sea-coast sound vnto the beasts my tune that often before this thou hast heard me teach vnto Daphnis and wherein thy selfe I knowe art reasonably well instructed by him at the hearing whereof my beasts I dare assure thee will shift to come backe and Daphnis thereby may be saued My Flute I freely giue vnto thee for thy trauell whereon heretofore I haue gained the prize among all the heardsmen onely for recompence I require at thy hands but once to kisse me whilest yet I am now dieng and that my soule shal foorthwith depart the bodie and when I am gone bewaile my death and yet thinke vpon Dorcon at the least wise when hereafter thou shalt behold any others a keeping of their cattell who once aboue all others so entirely loued thee Hauing deliuered vnto her these speeches the kisse he receyued of Chloe and his life ended at one instant togither Wherevpon she tooke his pipe and foorthwith sette it to hir mouth on which the blasts she blewe were so shrill that the beastes hauing knowledge thereof and the tune thereby deliuered they altogither with one amase bussed out of the Foist and iointly with one poise rushed into the sea which being but on the one side alone of the ship the force and waight of the multitude was so great that therewith they quite ouerturned the vessels and whelmed men and all therein into the sea●… but not with one and the selfe-same hope of safetie for that the theeues beeing clogged with theyr harnesse swordes and other defensiue weapons were not able by the waight thereof long to helpe themselues but Daphnis being light as the Summer season required vnshod and naked in the vpper parts easily came to land supported by the hornes of two of these oxen iointly betwene whome hauing cast himselfe he was easily carried to land for these kind of beasts by common opinion hauing longer force of swimming than any other creatures whatsoeuer except onely the fishes and water-foules the proofes whereof haue beene made by diuers In this force as you haue heard escaped the poore Daphnis in dangerous aduentures at one instant togithers the one in becomming a perpetuall bondslaue to the theeues the other after escape of that hazard in being deliuered from drowning In being come foorth of the sea he found Chloe vpon the shore betweene hir former distilled teares and present reioicing of his safe arriuall entertaining him at one instant togethers wherevpon casting himselfe betweene hir armes he desired to vnderstand of hir the cause of hir playing at that instant on the Flute Chloe vpon such demand recounted vnto him the whole progression of speech betweene hir and Dorcon the vse of his beastes to that sound the robberie spoile and woundes by him receiued finally his death and before his dying how he committed to her vsage the custodie of his pipe onely of modestie abstained shee to tell of her kissing him as a matter ouer and besides the chance of that his present deliuery But Daphnis recreated of his heauie labours forgat not for to honour the memorie thereof in the person of Dorcon for a perpetuall remembraunce and therefore togither wyth his parents and friendes celebrated accordingly his vnhappy funeralles as by the death of whome grewe the occasion of his vnlooked for escape out of so manifest perilles His body therefore being closed in the ground Daphnis with other sheepeheards round about his graue planted sundry trees and eache one hun●… vppon the boughs some part of his cunning maistries they cast also therevpon hallowed grapes and milke and for that he was cunning vpon the Flute they fixed ouer his graue sundrie sortes of pipes His beasts being come ashore piteously belowed and cryed after him which some heardsemen interpreted to be a sorrowfull lamentation for the want of their guide and maister When Dorcon was thus enterred Chloe tooke here Daphnis and led him to the caue of the Nymphs where shee cleansed and washed his bodie neat and pure of it selfe as the whitest alablaster afterwards gathering together sundry sortes of floures as the pleasant season of the yeare then freshly serued they made chapele●…s for the images and ouer the mouth of

tender no hurt neither to hirselfe nor to any of hir beasts But this petition of hers preuailed not for the Methinian souldiours after many villanies and dispites doone and vttered in dirision of the Images led both hir and hir beasts away as a spoile chasing and driuing both hir and them before them in most cruel manner and without any pitie or compassion And seeing nowe that they had fully laden their gallories with all kind of spoiles and booties of euery sort they ceased to tyre themselues any further but fearing the vncertaintie of the winter weather besides the hazard of meetings with any enimies they desired now none other but in safetie to returne home to their owne houses and finding the weather sortable to their purpose they laid strength to their ores and made way abroad the season being so calme as there was not so much as one puffe of winde wherewith to resist them When all the harrieng of this great spoile and brute was at the last appeased Daphnis sorted himselfe out of his hollowe rhine and came againe into the plaine where he left their heards when hee went a feeding and finding there neither goates nor sheepe nor any newes at all either of them or of Chloe but onelie the emptie fieldes and plaines a lone without anye other creature or companye and the flute whereon the Nymphe sweetlye was woont to sound cast downe and lying on the ground his heart sweltred within him by exceeding sorrowe insomuch as hee was not scarce able to stand but lykelie foorth-with to haue swooned and shedding foorth aboundaunce of teares so great was his griefe as hee could not chuse but crie out vppon Chloe and that also right biterlie First ranne hee to the foot of a hie and vmbragious rocke whereon customablie they both were woont to sit and talke togethers and not hearing any newes of Chloe thereabouts he then trudged as fast as hee could downe to the sea coasts and there not finding her he last of all returned to the caue of the Nymphs whether him seemed at the first incursion of these souldiers shee made haste to flie and casting him selfe downe prostrate there at the feete of the Images hee entred into these or the very like complaintes deliuered in verst before them What griefe alas what hell vnto my woes What sorrow may exceede my foule mishap What more excesse than mischiefe where it flowes Or deepe dispaire that all my woes doeth wrap Vnhappy downes what ailed wicked spight To reaue from you and me our sweete delight My tender kiddes if ere your louing skips You beare in minde and on this pleasaut dale How manie times your young delightfull trips Haue Daphnis mo'ud to mourne his bitter bale Then for his sake that whilom was your guide Yeeld foorth your plaints and griefes to you betide Ye mournefull flockes dispersed where ye goe To vncouth pastures yeeld my drearie tunes Lamenting teares and sighings full of woe Wherein my thoughts for Chloes loue consumes Let be your foode and your tender walkes Conceiue the sorrowe that my pleasure balkes Returne to me your stately heards Returne My heart my ioye my comfort and my care My blisfull Chloe once againe returne Ye sacred Nymphs or death for me prepare Seale vp your springs and praise in secret lie If Chloes rape doe cause her Daphnis die Infinite were the complaints that the seemely shepheard made in the Caue missing the sweetened societie of his chiefest dearling One while exclaimed he on the hilles the dales the springs the groues and broade stretched shades eache one of which he inuited to lament the losse of her whose presence he adiudged vnto them as to him selfe to haue beene the greatest comfort Then conuerting him-selfe againe to the Statues in the caus O vngratefull goddesses said he that haue so suffered her who honored your being with so many sweet regardes to be thus rauished betweene your hands O negligent of her whome committed to your charge being an infant you would thus suffer to become a praie to so vile and wicked persons Why shewed you not your mightie powers in so manifest contempt done vnto your Images your Statues and these springs what ●…ooted mee in all the time hithertoo that I haue guarded my heards vpon these downes in which neuer the woolfe could so much as bereaue me of one of my kiddes when now at one instant the enemies haue carried awaye the whole flockes Alas Chloe bearest thou the like paine of thy seelie Daphnis being nowe estraunged from me by forreine rouers or remembrest thou at all these fields these valleies these Nymphes or him that waileth for thee nowe in this most vnfortunate state Oh if the sound of my lamentations may any waies be caried to those landes and seas wherein thou art alas to farre from me cooped pittie yet his distresse who desperate of all other comfort than that which hee solie expecteth in thy happie presence sigheth and euermore longeth after thee O Goddes and Nymphes to whom these woods and walkes haue at any time bin charie reuenge the wrong done vnto those who haue honored you and let not my infortunate heardes and fairest bewty of my deere Chloe become an honor to that their cruell conquest Hauing run himselfe a great while into these such like wofull remembrances as it often happeneth vnto minds surcharged with too extreme sorrowes a broken slumber surprised at last his restles fantastes And lying before the statues of the Nymphs in such kind of Extasie there appeared to him in a vision thre women seming by their port to haue bin goddesses their attire altogether Nimphlike their countenances freyght with manifest pleasures who yelding vnto him sondrie and most amiable graces appeared to put forward to his reliefe many occasions of comfort Afterwardes the most excellent as well in stature port and bewty of them all casting vpon the forlorne shepheard her amiable gestures said vnto him Cease shepheard thy plaintes and incessant ●…mentations and henceforth be recomforted assuring thy selfe that thy Chloe is and shall continue in ●…auerie The Nymph is ou●… charge to whom her yeares and education haue bin committed from her for●…st cradle and being left an infant in this ●…aue we haue purue●…ed hetherto for her and so will continue to haue speciall conceit respect towards her Thinke not Daphnis that she is the daughter of Dryas or borne in this village as thou hast supposed or that this estate and calling wherein shee now is befitteth her place and parentage But know that in keping her flocks here doing vnto vs obseruances we haue sufficiently laid down and prouided what shall become of her and to what ende remaineth both your fortunes She is not n●… shal●…e lead away prisoner to Methimne nor shall as thou doubtest become any part or parcell of●…he it spoyle To assure thee the better whereof knowe that we haue made meanes vnto the god Pa●… who resideth hereabout this large Pine to become fauourable and