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A01228	The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch Entituled, Amintas dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the pagan gods in English hexameters together with their auncient descriptions and philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fraunce.; Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Part 3	Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.	1592 (1592)	STC 11341; ESTC S105650	108,166	126

to Cities then Neptunes horse fit forwarres or because students spend much oyle in their Lamps as Demosthenes did who was reported in al his life time not to haue consumed so much wine as oyle or for that she first inuented the vse of oyle * The picture ●f Pa●las with Mer●●rie Minerua was also the Goddes of spinning weauing and curious working of cloath and therefore was she figured sometimes with a distaffe in her hand She reiected the Crow for his tatling blabs be no companions for wise men who vse to think before they speak and yet not vtter all they think In his place she admitted the Owle who seeth in darknes and is solitary and silent all which properties are agreeable to the conditions of a Philosopher wise man Athens was her chiefe delight Athens was the most famous and learned Vniuersitie in all Greece and she is the Lady of learning * ●he picture 〈◊〉 Minerua ●ith a di●●●ff● Now for the explication of this wooing of Minerua Vulcan must first be described for as by Minerua the learned and witty contriuing of any worke is intended so Vulcan that is ●ire is the instrument to effect these inuentions and because all thinges cannot be effectually wrought which are cunningly deuised therefore wooing Vulcan can neu●r get Mineruaes good will His hatte was of a skiecolor bright and cleare for so is that coelestiall ●ire of it selfe but his feete are lame and so is our earthly fire impure and not able to ascend vpwards directly but shaketh and limpeth this way and that way by reason of the terrene corruption Or if you take Vulcan for the naturall heate of mans body then he may be therefore sayd to be lame because this vitall heate doth increase decrease and alter according to the difference of mens ages and diuersity of the constitutions and complections of their bodies and is neuer one and the same or long like it self Iupiter offended to see this fowle babe Vulcan take his mothers part threw him out of heauen and he falling in the Isle Lemnos brake his legge Historically he raigned in Aegypt was a stout warrior halted by a wound receaued in battaile first found out the way to make armor of Iron which gaue cause to these poeticall conceipts calling him the black smith forger of armor for all the Gods Vulcan was maryed to Venus for without naturall heate no procreation Vulcan strugleth with Minerua but to no purpose for of that aether●al fire and subtile part of the skie figured by Minerua nothing is produced But Vulcan that is the grosse and more earthly heate powring himselfe on the earth is the author of diuers and sundry procreations noted by the diuers shape of Ericthonius signifiyng strife and the earth Ericthonius to couer his serpenti●e feete inuented chariots to ride in Historically lame he was and first author of chariots by Virgils reporte 3. Georgic Primus Ericthonius currus quatuor ausus Iungere equos rapidisque rotis insistere victor Vulcan was also called Mulciber quasi Mulcifer quià mulcet ferrum because the fire doth mollifie the hardnes of Iron and maketh it malleable He is paynted with a hat as I sayd before lame black swartie filthy for all the world like a smith at his forge * Vul●ans pi●ture Next to Licoris folowed Aresia with a more pitifull song and fitter for her seuere and maydenlike disposition wholly vowed to Diana of whome she sang LOng and far wandring Cadmus by the help of an earthborne Serpents broode and good aduise of Lady Minerua Founded Thebes at last but alas no sooner he founded Thebes but vnhappy nephew made grand●ire Cadmus vnhappy Luckles vnhappy nephew Acteon ioyed in hunting Ouermuch hunting til his own hounds hunted his own-self And yet no mischiefe did he work but suffred a mischaunce No fault but Fortune causd his poore head to be horned Acteon on a time from his house vntimely departed And to the green wood went with his hounds and hunts-men about him Morning all was spent and Phoebus loftily mounted Iust twixt East and Weast drew euery shade to be shortest Mates sayd Acteon it 's now ful time to be resting Wee haue had good sport now burning Phoebus on each side Scalds vs take vp toyles and cease any more to be toyling Next day eu'n by the break of day wee 'le back to the forrest Acteons counsel was lik'te his company rested Tooke vp tooles and toyles and ceas't for a while to be toyling There was a Dale with Pine and Cypresse daintily shaded Called Gargaphia sacred to the Lady Diana In whose furthest end was a playne and natural harbor And yet so pleasant so sweet so chearful a harbor That no arte could stayne this playne and natural harbor Harbor vauted aboue with bending bowes of a thousand Tall trees walled about wi●h stones wrought only by nature And which gaue most grace and was to be chiefly regarded Watred sweetly within with a bubling spring that abounded with cleare cristal streames whose brim was cherefuly mantled With grasse hearbs and f●owers And here was lately ariued Sou'raigne Lady regent o●●orrests mighty Diana And her mayden troupes wi●h purpose there to be bathing Their vnspotted limmes all weake and weary with hunting And no sooner was that Virgin Lady ariued But qviuer sharp dartes and vnbent bow she deliu'red Vnto her hand-mayd squire who them with duety receaued Some pluck off buskins some tuckt-vp roabes be remouing Nyphe brings water Crocale stands still by Diana Fine-fingred Crocale her loose hayre daintily tressing But whilst Lady regent with a naked company guarded Washt her self in spring and no-mans company feared In comes Acteon from sleeping company seu'red In comes Acteon by chance to the company naked Naked Nymphs seeing that a man saw them to be naked Smote their naked breasts and made so woful an out-cry That woods wells and caues in like sorte yeelded an out-cry And with naked breasts gaue cour'ing vnto the naked Goddes their mistres ioynd all in a round in a compas But their matchles Queene and Sou'raigne Lady Diana Was too talle to be hid by that same company naked Ouer-lookt them quite and so was seene to be naked And like scarlet clowdes where Tytans beams be reflected Was their Mistres face when she was seene to be naked Red for shame and red for griefe for shame to be naked And for griefe much more for griefe to be taken vnarmed Yet thogh weaponles she raught both hands to the wel-spring And Acteons ●ace with water deadly besprinkling Now sayd shee go tel that thou sawst Lady Diana Naked spare not a whit This short narration ended Poore Acteons head with an ould Harts hornes she adorned Made eares sharp nose flat neck long made armes to be spindle Shancks and fingers feet and couered al with a specled Hyde and least any part of a Hart should seeme to be wanting Fearful thoughts and fleeting legges are giu'n to the hartles New hart Acteon who

him then myself his secreates all he reuealeth Vnto me and in mee his surest trust he reposeth And take this for a truth Vertumnus goes not a gadding Is not an out-come guest but dwells hereby as a neighbour Neither tak's he delite his fancies dayly to alter Or seeke for new loues or choyce once made to be changing Faithful Vertumnus loues with deuotion endles First loue and last loue Pomona the Lady of apples And can so con●orme and frame himself to be pleasing That what forme or face or shape Pomona desireth Into the same himself Vertumnus speedily changeth And if like conceits are alwaies cause of a liking You two loue and like with like affection one thing For Pomona desires and loues faire plentiful orchyards And Vertumnus takes first fruites of plentiful orchyards And though Vertumnus doe receaue these duetiful of●rings And take in good part Pomonae's bewtiful apples Plummes and grapes and hearbs and flowres yet he chiefly desireth Not those faire apples but this faire Lady of apples Not Pomonae's goods but sweete Pomona the goddes Not thine but the alone Therefore with mercy remember Vertumnus torments and thinke that he mercy desireth With my mouth thinke that with these mine eyes he afordeth Teares fea●e louely Venus who wills each Nimph to be louely Feare Nemesis that plagues such girles as loue to be loueles Then she begins to recount many old wiues tales to the Lady How that Anaxarete for scorning bewtiful Iphis Was transformd to a stone with a thousand more of a purpose For to procure her loue and bade her looke to the fatall Fall of Anaxarete and learne thereby to be louely So might budding fruite from nipping frosts be defended And halfe-ripe apples from blustring windes be protected But sith th' old trott's shifts and tales were lightly regarded Turnecoate Vertumnus to a youth was speedily turned Braue youth gallant youth as bright and sheene as Apollo Seemes when burning beames which clouds had lately eclipsed Haue their streaming light and blazing bewty recou'red Youthful Vertumnus to the chereful Lady aproached And now offred force but no force needes to be offred Sweete face and faire lookes causd castles keyes to be yeelded VErtumnus qd Elpinus to end all in one word noteth the diuers seasons o● the yeare and is thus called of the Latine word verto which is to turne and Annus signifying the yeare as if a man would say vertannus the turning of the yeare He is largely described and discoursed vpon by Propertius in the second Elegie of his fourth booke Vertumnus at last by turning himselfe to a youth obteineth Pomona that is the spring comming on the earth afordeth varietie of fruites and flowres The like is that mariage of Zephyrus and Flora celebrated by Ouid in the fifth booke of his Fasti. Vertumnus transformde to an old woman goeth about to deceaue Pomona it is good to abandon olde bawdes which corrupt the mindes of tender girles The picture of Vertumnus Dieromena hearing Syluia make mention of Iphis and Anaxarete tooke occasion offered and by discouering her pride and plague did thereby in●inuate the reuenging might of the seuere Lady Rhamnusia IPhis a gentle youth if a gentle minde be a gentry Poore yet rich but rich in pure affection only Loued a lasse of state but alas vnluckily loued Loued a noble dame if a noble birth be a noblesse Loued Anaxarete whome pride stil causd to be loueles Oftentimes he retir'de yet loue stil forced him onward Oft did he striue with loue and yet loue stil was a victor And a triumpher stil. Then poore disconsolat Iphis Yeelds pe●force and seekes his wounded soule to recomfort Sometimes vnto the nurse his secreate smart he reuealeth And by the milk by the pap by the blessed breast he beseecheth Sometimes vnto the friends of noble Dame he repaireth And their helping hand with streaming teares he desireth Sometimes wooing words in louing letter he writeth And ten thousand times his lordlike Lady saluteth Sometimes greene garlands with deaw of teares he bemoystneth And on posts and gates his garlands watery fixeth Sometimes tender side on threshold hard he reposeth And there locks and barres with curses vainly reuileth Scorneful Anaxarete with a frowning face with a hard hart Hart of flint of steele contemns him dayly for all this And to a disdaineful disgrace to a surly behauiour Adds a reproachfull speech and mocks him least any smallest Harts ease smallest hope might stay contemptible Iphis. Iphis vnable now t' endure these plagues any longer Coms all impatient and all inragd to the damned Dore of proud Mistres there this last passion vttring Lady Anaxarete ô now sing io triumphe Sing a triumphing song thou shalt no more be molested With vile woorme Iphis poore pasthope desperat Iphis. Vaunt thy self and laugh and let thy head be adorned With fresh laurel leaues in ioyfull signe of a conquest Iphis yeelds yeelds breath last breath sing io triumphe Feede that murdring sight with sight of murdered Iphis So shal Anaxarete eu'n in despite of her hard hart Hardest hart confesse that I once yet wrought her a pleasure Blood-thirsting pleasure whe● as Iphis murdered Iphis. Yet let no man thinke that I therefore leaue to be louing Fayre-prowd louely-cruell til I also leaue to be liuing With double darknes mine eyes shal at once be eclipsed Of suns burning beames and light vntimely bereaued And of Anaxarete's sweete sight vnkindly depriued Neither needes any man these tidings for to be telling Iphis wil be the newes and Iphis wil be the bringer Of that selfsame newes Iphis wil surely be present And in presence dy so Iphis shal be reporter So this Anaxarete in like sort shal be beholder And feede murdring sight with sight of murdered Iphis. Yet you gods if mens affaires of gods be regarded Vouchsafe forlorne wretch with some smalle grace to remember Let poore Iphis death and cause of death be recorded And by how much now his liuing dayes be abridged Let by somuch more his name and fame be prolonged This said brawne-falln armes and eyes all watred he lifted Vp to the posts which earst with flowres he had often adorned And there fastned a cord These these be the crowns be the garlands These be the flowres which yeeld such pleasant sent to the scorneful Lady Anaxarete so thrust in his head yet he turned Head and face and eyes eu'n at last gaspe to the scorneful Lady Anaxarete and there hangd woefuly tottring With corde-strangled throate his sprawling feete by the downefall Knockt her dore by chaunce knockt dore did yeeld a resounding Yeelded a mourneful sound and made herself to be open Wide open to behold so strange and woeful an obiect Dead dore senceles dore ten thousand times to be praised More then Anaxarete who by no paines of a louer By no intreating by no perswasion opn'ed Those dead eares to receaue last words of desperat Iphis Those curst eyes to behold last teares of desolat Iphis That prowd hart to bewaile