take in person from thy tent Bright-cheekt Briseis and so tell thy strength how eminent My powre is being compar'd with thine all other making feare To vaunt equalitie with me or in this proud kind beare Their beards against me Thetis sonne at this stood vext his heart Achilles angriâ—… with â—…non Bristled his bosome and two waies drew his discursiue part If from his thigh his sharpe sword drawne he should make roome about Atrides person slaughtring him or sit his anger out And curb his spirit While these thoughts striu'd in his bloud and mind And he his sword drew downe from heauen Athenia * 〈◊〉 stoopt and shind About his temples being sent by th'Iuorie-wristed queene Saturnia who out of her heart had euer louing bene And carefull for the good of both She stood behind and tooke Achilles by the yellow curles and onely gaue her looke To him apparance not a man of all the rest could see He turning backe his eye amaze strooke euerie facultie Yet straight he knew her by her eyes so terrible they were Sparkling with ardor and thus spake Thou seed of Iupiter Achilles to 〈◊〉 Why com'st thou to behold his pride that bosts our Emperie Then witnesse with it my reuenge and see that insolence die That liues to wrong me She replied I come from heauen to see Thy anger settled if thy soule will vse her soueraigntie 〈◊〉 to Achilles In fit reflection I am sent from Iuno whose affects Stand heartily inclind to both Come giue vs both respects And ceasse contention draw no sword vse words and such as may Be bitter to his pride but iust for trust in what I say A time shall come when thrice the worth of that he forceth now He shall propose for recompence of these wrongs therefore throw Reines on thy passions and serue vs. He answerd Though my heart Burne in iust anget yet my soule must conquer th' angrie part Achilles Palladi hoc est rationi obsequitur And yeeld you conquest Who subdues his earthly part for heauen Heauen to his prayres subdues his wish This said her charge was giuen Fit honor in his siluer hilt he held his able hand And forc't his broad sword vp and vp to heauen did reascend Minerua who in Ioues high roofe that beares the rough shield tooke Her place with other deities She gone againe forsooke Patience his passion and no more his silence could confine His wrath that this broad language gaue Thou euer steep't in wine Achilles againe infurie Dogs-face with heart but of a Haâ—…t that nor in th' open eye Of fight dar'st thrust into a prease nor with our noblest lie In secret ambush These works seeme too full of death for thee T is safer farre in th' open host to dare an iniurie To any crosser of thy lust Thou subiect-eating king Base spirits thou gouernst or this wrong had bene the last fowle thing Thou euer author'dst yet I vow and by a great oath sweare Euen by this scepter that as this neuer againe shall beare Greene leaues or branches nor increase with any growth his sise This simile Virgil directly translates Nor did since first it left the hils and had his faculties And ornaments bereft with iron which now to other end Iudges of Greece beare and their lawes receiu'd from Ioue defend For which my oath to thee is great So whensoeuer need Shall burne with thirst of me thy host no prayres shall euer breed Affection in me to their aid though well deserued woes Afflict thee for them when to death man-slaughtring Hector throwes Whole troopes of them and thou torment'st thy vext mind with conceit Of thy rude rage now and his wrong that most deseru'd the right Of all thy armie Thus he threw his scepter gainst the ground With golden studs stucke and tooke seate Atrides breast was drownd In rising choler Vp to both sweet-spoken Nestor stood The cunning Pylian Orator whose tongue powrd foorth a flood Nestors age and eloquâ—…e Of more-then-hony sweet discourse two ages were increast Of diuerse-languag'd men all borne in his time and deceast In sacred Pylos where he reignd amongst the third-ag'd men He well seene in the world aduisd and thus exprest it then O Gods our Greeke earth will be drownd in iust teares rapefull Troy Nesâ—…or to Achil les and Agameâ—…n Herking and all his sonnes will make as iust a mocke and ioy Of these disiunctions if of you that all our host excell In counsell and in skill of fight they heare this Come repell These yong mens passions y' are not both put both your yeares in one So old as I I liu'd long since and was companion With men superior to you both who yet would euer heare My counsels with respect My eyes yet neuer witnesse were Decorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nor euer will be of such men as then delighted them Perithous Exadius and god-like Polypheme Ceneus and Dryas prince of men Aegean Theseus A man like heauens immortals formd all all most vigorous Of all men that euen those daies bred most vigorous men and fought With beasts most vigorous mountain beasts for meÌ„ in strength were nought Matcht with their forces fought with them and brauely fought them downe Yet euen with these men I conuerst being cald to the renowne Of their societies by their suites from Pylos farre to fight In th' Asian kingdome and I fought to a degree of might That helpt euen their mights against such as no man now would dare To meete in conflict yet euen these my counsels still would heare And with obedience crowne my words Giue you such palme to them T is better then to wreath your wraths Atrides giue not streame To all thy powre nor force his prise but yeeld her still his owne As all men else do Nor do thou encounter with thy crowne Great sonne of Peleus since no king that euer Ioue allowd Grace of a scepter equals him Suppose thy nerues endowd With strength superior and thy birth a verie Goddesse gaue Yet he of force is mightier since what his owne nerues haue Is amplified with iust command of many other King of men Command thou then thy selfe and I with my prayres will obtaine Grace of Achilles to subdue his furie whose parts are Worth our intreatie being chiefe checke to all our ill in warre All this good father said the king is comely and good right Agamemnon to Nestor But this man breakes all such bounds he affects past all men height All would in his powre hold all make his subiects giue to all His hote will for their temperate law all which he neuer shall Perswade at my hands If the Gods haue giuen him the great stile Of ablest souldier made they that his licence to reuile Men with vile language Thetis soone preuented him and said Fearefull and vile I might be thought if the exactions laid Achilles to Agamemnon By all meanes on me I should beare Others
to the sons of Priam. Euen till they braue ye at your gates Ye suffer beaten downe Aeneas great Anchises sonne whose prowesse we renowne As much as Hectors fetch him off from this contentious prease With this the strength and spirits of all his courage did increase And yet Sarpedon seconds him with this particular taunt Sarpedon reproues Hector Of noble Hector Hector where is thy vnthanfull vaunt And that huge strength on which it built that thou and thy allies With all thy brothers without aid of vs or our supplies And troubling not a citizen the Citie safe would hold In all which friends and brothers helps I see not nor am told Of any one of their exploits but all held in dismay Of Diomed like a sort of dogs that at a Lion bay And entertaine no spirit to pinch we your assistants here Fight for the towne as you helpt vs and I an aiding Peere No Citizen euen out of care that doth become a man For men and childrens liberties adde all the aide I can Not out of my particular cause far hence my profit growes For far hence Asian Lycia lies where gulfie Xanthus flowes And where my lou'd wife infant sonne and treasure nothing scant I left behind me which I see those men would haue that want And therefore they that haue would keepe yet I as I would lose Their sure fruition cheere my troupes and with their liues propose Mine owne life both to generall fight and to particular cope With this great souldier though I say I entertaine no hope To haue such gettings as the Greeks nor feare to lose like Troy Yet thou euen Hector deedlesse standst and car'st not to employ Thy towne-borne friends to bid them stand to fight and saue their wiues Lest as a Fowler casts his nets vpon the silly liues Of birds of all sorts so the foe your walls and houses hales One with another on all heads or such as scape their fals Be made the prey and prize of them as willing ouerthrowne That hope not for you with their force and so this braue-built towne Will proue a Chaos that deserues in thee so hote a care As should consume thy dayes and nights to hearten and prepare Th' assistant Princes pray their minds to beare their far-brought toiles To giue them worth with worthy fight in victories and foiles Still to be equall and thy selfe exampling them in all Need no reproofes nor spurs all this in thy free choice should fall This stung great Hectors heart and yet as euery generous mind Should silent beare a iust reproofe and shew what good they find In worthy counsels by their ends put into present deeds Not stomacke nor be vainly sham'd so Hectors spirit proceeds And from his Chariot wholly arm'd he iumpt vpon the sand On foote so toiling through the hoast a dart in either hand And all hands turn'd against the Greeks the Greeks despisde their worst And thickning their instructed powres expected all they durst Then with the feet of horse and foote the dust in clouds did rise And as in sacred floores of barnes vpon corne-winowers flies The chaffe driuen with an opposite wind when yellow Ceres dites Simile 〈◊〉 the husband man expressing â—…bly Which all the Diters feet legs armes their heads and shoulders whites So lookt the Grecians gray with dust that strooke the solide heauen Raisd from returning chariots and troupes together driuen Each side stood to their labours firme fierce Mars flew through the aire And gatherd darknesse from the fight and with his best affaire Obeyd the pleasure of the Sunne that weares the golden sword Who bad him raise the spirits of Troy when Pallas ceast t' afford Her helping office to the Greeks and then his owne hands wrought Apollo brings Aeneas from his Temple to field cured Which from his Phanes rich chancell cur'd the true Aeneas brought And plac't him by his Peeres in field who did with ioy admire To see him both aliue and safe and all his powers entire Yet stood not sifting how it chanc't another sort of taske Then stirring th' idle siue of newes did all their forces aske Inflam'd by Phaebus harmfull Mars and Eris eagrer farre The Greekes had none to hearten them their hearts rose with the warre But chiefly Diomed Ithacus and both th' Aiaces vsde Stirring examples and good words their owne fames had infusde Spirit enough into their blouds to make them neither feare The Troians force nor Fate it selfe but still expecting were When most was done what would be more their ground they stil made good And in their silence and set powers like faire still clouds they stood Simile With which Ioue crownes the tops of hils in any quiet day When Boreas and the ruder winds that vse to driue away Aires duskie vapors being loose in many a whistling gale Are pleasingly bound vp and calme and not a breath exhale So firmely stood the Greeks nor fled for all the Ilions ayd Atrides yet coasts through the troupes confirming men so stayd O friends said he hold vp your minds strength is but strength of will Reuerence each others good in fight and shame at things done ill Where souldiers shew an honest shame and loue of honour liues That ranks men with the first in fight death fewer liueries giues Then life or then where Fames neglect makes cow-herds fight at length Flight neither doth the bodie grace nor shewes the mind hath strength He said and swiftly through the troupes a mortall Lance did send That reft a standard-bearers life renownd Aeneas friend Deicoon Pergasides whom all the Troians lou'd Pergasides slain by Agamemnon As he were one of Priams sonnes his mind was so approu'd In alwayes fighting with the first the Lance his target tooke Which could not interrupt the blow that through it cleerly strooke And in his bellies rimme was sheath'd beneath his girdle-stead He sounded falling and his armes with him resounded dead Then fell two Princes of the Greeks by great Aeneas ire Orsilochus and Crethon slain by Aeneas Diocleus sonnes Orsilochus and Crethon whose kind Sire In brauely-builded Phaera dwelt rich and of sacred bloud He was descended lineally from great Alphaus floud That broadly flowes through Pylos fields Alphaeus did beget The pedigree of Orsilochus Orsilochus who in the rule of many men was set And that Orsilochus begat the rich Diocleus Diocleus sire to Crethon was and this Orsilochus Both these arriu'd at mans estate with both th' Atrides went To honor them in th' Ilton warres and both were one way sent To death as well as Troy for death hid both in one blacke houre As two yong Lions with their dam sustaind but to deuoure Simile Bred on the tops of some steepe hill and in the gloomie deepe Of an inaccessible wood rush out and prey on sheepe Steeres Oxen and destroy mens stals so long that they come short And by the Owners steele are slaine in such vnhappie
his sire surpast and was as strong againe The fiction of 〈◊〉 And in that grace sat glad by Ioue th'immortals stood dismaid At his ascension and gaue free passage to his aid Of all this tell Ioue kneele to him embrace his knee and pray If Trois aide he will euer deigne that now their forces may Beate home the Greeks to fleete and sea embruing their retreat In slaughter their pains paying the wreake of their proud Soueraigns heart And that farre-ruling king may know from his poore souldiers harms His owne harme fals his owne and all in mine his best in arms Her answer she powr'd out in teares O me my sonne said she Thetis to Achilles Why brought I vp thy being at all that brought thee forth to be Sad subiect of so hard a fate O would to heauen that since Thy fate is little and not long thou mightst without offence And teares performe it But to liue thrall to so sterne a fate As grants thee least life and that least so most vnfortunate Grieues me t' haue giuen thee any life But what thou wishest now If Ioue will grant I le vp and aske Olympus crownd with snow I le clime but sit thou fast at fleete renounce all warre and feed Thy heart with wrath and hope of wreake till which come thou shalt need A little patience Iupiter went yesterday to feast Iupiters feast with the Aethiops Amongst the blamelesse Aethiops in th' Oceans deepned breast All Gods attending him the twelfth high heauen againe he sees And then his brasse-pau'd court I le skale cling to his powrefull knees And doubt not but to winne thy wish Thus made she her remoue And left wrath tyring on her sonne for his enforced loue Vlysses with the Hecatomb arriu'd at Chrysas shore Nauigation to Chrysa And when amids the hauens deepe mouth they came to vse the oare They straite stroke saile then rold them vp and on the hatches threw The top mast to the kelsine then with haleyards downe they drew Then brought the ship to Port with oares then forked anchor cast And gainst the violence of stormes for drifting made her fast All come ashore they all exposd the holy Hecatomb To angrie Phoebus and with it Chryseis welcomd home Whom to her sire wise Ithacus that did at th' altar stand For honour led and spoken thus resignd her to his hand Chryses the mightie king of men great Agamemnon sends â—…lysses to Chryses Thy lou'd seed by my hands to thine and to thy God commends A Hecatomb which my charge is to sacrifice and seeke Our much-sigh-mixt-woe his recure inuokt by euerie Greeke Thus he resignd her and her sire receiu'd her highly ioyd About the well-built altar then they orderly emploide The sacred offring Washt their hands tooke salt cakes and the Priest With hands held vp to heauen thus praid O thou that all things seest Fautour of Chrysa whose faire hand doth guardfully dispose Chryses prayer to Apollo for appeasing the plague Celestiall Cilla gouerning in all powre Tenedos O heare thy Priest and as thy hand in free grace to my prayers Shot feruent plague-shafts through the Greekes now hearten their affaiâ—…es With health renewd and quite remoue th' infection from their blood He praid and to his prairs againe the God propitious stood All after prayre cast on salt cakes drew backe kild flaid the beeues Cut out and dubd with fat their thighes faire drest with doubled leaues The sacrifice And on them all the sweet-breads prickt The Priest with small sere wood Did sacrifice powr'd on red wine by whom the yong men stood And turnd in fiue ranks spits on which the legs enough they eate The banquet The inwards then in giggots cut the other fit for meate And put to fire which rosted well they drew the labour done They seru'd the feast in that fed all to satisfaction Desire of meate and wine thus quencht the youths crownd cups of wine Drunke off and fild againe to all That day was held diuine And spent in Paeans to the Sunne who heard with pleased eare When whose bright chariot stoopt to sea and twilight hid the cleare The euening All soundly on their cables slept euen till the night was worne And when the Lady of the light the rosie fingerd morne The morning Rose from the hils all fresh arose and to the campe retir'd Apollo with a fore-right wind their swelling barke inspir'd The top-mast hoisted milke-white sailes on his round breast they put The Misens strooted with the gale the ship her course did cut So swiftly that the parted waues against her ribs did rore Which coming to the campe they drew aloft the sandie shore Where laid on stocks each souldier kept his quarter as before But Pelius sonne swift-foote Achilles at his swift ships sate Burning in wrath nor euer came to Councels of estate That make men honord neuer trod the fierce embattaild field But kept close and his lou'd heart pin'd what fight and cries could yeeld Thirsting at all parts to the hoast And now since first he told His wrongs to Thetis twelue faire mornes their ensignes did vnfold And then the euerliuing Gods mounted Olympus Ioue Iupiter and the other Gods from the Aâ—…thiops First in ascension Thetis then remembred well to moue Achilles motion rose from sea and by the mornes first light The great heauen and Olympus climbd where in supremest height Of all that many-headed hill she saw the farre-seene sonne Iupiter Of Saturne set from all the rest in his free seate alone Before whom on her owne knees falne the knees of Iupiter Her left hand held her right his chinne and thus she did prefer Her sonnes petition Father Ioue if euer I haue stood Thetis prayer to Iupiter Aidfull to thee in word or worke with this implored good Requite my aide renowne my sonne since in so short a race Past others thou confin'st his life an insolent disgrace Is done him by the king of men he forc't from him a prise Wonne with his sword But thou O Ioue that art most strong most wise Honour my sonne for my sake adde strength to the Troians side By his sides weaknesse in his want and see Troy amplifide In conquest so much and so long till Greece may giue againe The glorie reft him and the more illustrate the free raigne Of his wrongd honour Ioue at this sate silent not a word In long space past him Thetis still hung on his knee implor'd The second time his helpe and said Grant or denie my suite Be free in what thou doest I know thou canst not sit thus mute For feare of any speake denie that so I may be sure Of all heauens Goddesses t is I that onely must endure Dishonor by thee Iupiter the great cloud-gatherer grieu'd With thought of what a world of griefes this suite askt being atchieu'd Sweld sigh'd and answerd Works of death thou vrgest O at this
still Being old and had of all her maids the maine bent of her will And spun for her her finest wooll like her loues Empresse came Puld Hellen by the heauenly veile and softly said Madame My Lord cals for you you must needs make all your kind haste home He 's in your chamber stayes and longs sits by your bed pray come T is richly made and sweet but he more sweet and lookes so cleare So fresh and mouingly attir'd that seeing you would sweare He came not from the dustie fight but from a courtly dance Or would to dancing This she made a charme for dalliance Whose vertue Hellen felt and knew by her so radiant eyes White necke and most enticing breasts the deified disguise At which amaz'd she answerd her vnhappie Deitie Hellen chideth 〈◊〉 Why lou'st thou still in these deceipts to wrap my phantasie Or whether yet of all the townes giuen to their lâ—…st beside In Phrygia or Maeonia com'st thou to be my guide If there of diuers languag'd men thou hast as here in Troy Some other friend to be my shame since here thy latest ioy By Menelaus now subdu'd by him shall I be borne Home to his Court and end my life in triumphs of his scorne And to this end would thy deceits my wanton life allure Hence go thy selfe to Priams sonne and all the wayes abiure Of Gods or Godlike minded Dames nor euer turne againe Thy earth-affecting feet to heauen but for his sake sustaine Toiles here guard grace him endlesly till he requite thy grace By giuing thee my place with him or take his seruants place If all dishonourable wayes your fauours seeke to serue His neuer-pleasd incontinence I better will deserue Then serue his doâ—…age now what shame were it for me to feed This lust in him all honour'd Dames would hate me for the deed He leaues a womans loue so sham'd and showes so base a mind To feele nor my shame nor his owne griefes of a greater kind Wound me then such as can admit such kind delights so soone The Goddesse angrie that past shame her meere will was not done Venus terrifies Hellen. Replied Incense me not you wretch lest once incenst I leaue Thy curst life to as strange a hate as yet it may receiue A loue from me and lest I spread through both hosts such despite For those plagues they haue felt for thee that both abiure thee quite And setting thee in midst of both turne all their wraths on thee And dart thee dead that such a death may wreake thy wrong of me This strooke the faire Dame with such feare it tooke her speech away And shadowed in her snowy veile she durst not but obay And yet to shun the shame she fear'd she vanisht vndescride Of all the Troian Ladies there for Venus was her guide Arâ—…iu'd at home her women both fell to their worke in hast When she that was of all her sexe the most diuinely grac't Hellen followeth Venus from the port Ascended to a higher roome though much against her will Where louely Alexander was being led by Venus still The laughter-louing Dame discern'd her mou'd mind by her grace And for her mirth sake set a stoole full before Paris face 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Hellen. Where she would needs haue Hellen sit who though she durst not chuse But sit yet lookt away for all the Goddesse powre could vse And vsd her tongue too and to chide whom Venus sooth'd so much 〈◊〉 bitter reproofe of 〈◊〉 And chid too in this bitter kind And was thy cowardise such So conquerd to be seene aliue O would to God thy life Had perisht by his worthy hand to whom I first was wife Before this thou wouldst glorifie thy valour and thy lance And past my first Loues boast them farre Go once more and aduance Thy braues against his single power this foile might fall by chance Poore conquerd man t was such a chance as I would not aduise Thy valour should prouoke againe shun him thou most vnwise Lest next thy spirit sent to hell thy bodie be his prise He answerd Pray thee woman ceasse to chide and grieue me thus 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Disgraces will not euer last looke on their end on vs Will other Gods at other times let fall the victors wreath As on him Pallas put it now Shall our loue sinke beneath The hate of fortune In loues fire let all hates vanish Come Loue neuer so inflam'd my heart no not when bringing home Thy beauties so delicious prise on Cranaes blest shore I long'd for and enioyd thee first With this he went before She after to the odorous bed While these to pleasure yeeld 〈◊〉 â—…keth for Paris through the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Perplext Atrides sauage-like ran vp and downe the field And euery thickest troope of Troy and of their farre-cald aid Searcht for his foe who could not be by any eye betraid Nor out of friendship out of doubt did they conceale his sight All hated him so like their deaths and ow'd him such 〈◊〉 At last thus spake the king of men Heare me ye men of Troy 〈◊〉 to both the armiâ—…s Ye Dardans and the rest whose powers you in their aides employ The conquest on my brothers part ye all discerne is cleare Do you then Argiue Hellena with all her treasure here Restore to vs and pay the mulct that by your vowes is due Yeeld vs an honourd recompence and all that should accrue To our posterities confirme that when you render it Our acts here may be memorisd This all Greekes else thought fit COMMENTARIVS a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Iris autem Helene c. Elegantly and most aptly saith Spondanus is Hellen called by Homer to the spectacle of this single fight as being the chiefe person in cause of all the action The chiefe end of whose coming yet eâ—…uiously and most vainly Scaligers Criticus taxeth Which was her relation to Priam of the persons he noted there iesting with his French wit at this Greeke Father fount of all wit for making Priam to seek now of their names and knowledges when nine yeares together they had lien there before A great peece of necessitie to make him therefore know them before when there was no such vrgent occasion beâ—…ore to bring Priam to note them nor so calme a conuenience in their ordered and quiet distinction But let his criticisme in this be weighed with his other faults found in our maister as for making lightning in winter before snow or raine which the most ignorant vpland peasant could teach him out of his obseruations For which yet biâ—… Criticus hath the proiect impudence to taxe Homer Most falsly repeating his words too saying Vbi ningit when he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Parans or struens vel multum imbrem immensámue grandinem vel niuem preparing or going about those moist impressions in the aire not in present act with them From this immediatly and
flashes pour'd from clouds on any punisht land So from Atrides troubled heart through his darke sorowes flew Redoubled sighes his intrailes shooke as often as his view Admir'd the multitude of fires that gilt the Phrygian shade And heard the sounds of fifes and shawmes and tumults soâ—…ldiers made But when he saw his fleet and host kneele to his care and loue He rent his haire vp by the roots as sacrifice to Ioue Burnt in his firie sighes still breath'd out of his royall heart And first thought good to Nestors care his sorowes to impart To trie if royall diligence with his approu'd aduise Might fashion counsels to preuent their threatned miseries So vp he rose attir'd himselfe and to his strong feet tide Agaâ—…nons habite rising in the night Rich shoes and cast vpon his backe a ruddie Lions hide So ample it his ankles reacht then tooke his royall speare He wearing a Lioâ—…s hide Like him was Menelaus pierc't with an industrious feare Nor sat sweet slumber on his eyes lest bitter Fates should quite The Greekes high fauours that for him resolu'd such endlesse fight 〈◊〉 a â—…eopards And first a freckled Panthers hide hid his brode backe athwart His head his brasen helme did arme his able hand his dart Then made he all his haste to raise his brothers head as rare That he who most exceld in rule might helpe t' effect his care He found him at his ships crookt-sterne adorning him with armes Who ioyd to see his brothers spirits awak't without alarmes Well weighing th'importance of the time And first the yonger spake Why brother are ye arming thus is it to vndertake Menelaus to Agamemnon The sending of some ventrous Greeke t'explore the foes intent Alas I greatly feare not one will giue that worke consent Exposd alone to all the feares that flow in gloomie night He that doth this must know death well in which ends euerie fright Brother said he in these affaires we both must vse aduice Agamemnon to Menelaus Ioue is against vs and accepts great Hectors sacrifice For I haue neuer seene nor heard in one day and by one So many high attempts well vrg'd as Hectors power hath done Against the haplesse sons of Greece being chiefly deare to Ioue And without cause being neither fruite of any Godesse loue Nor helpfull God and yet I feare the deepnesse of his hand Ere it be rac't out of our thoughts will many yeares withstand But brother hie thee to thy ships and Idomen disease With warklike Aiax I will haste to graue Neleides Exhorting him to rise and giue the sacred watch command For they will specially embrace incitement at his hand And now his sonne their captaine is and Idomens good friend Bold Merion to whose discharge we did that charge commend Commandst thou then his brother askt that I shall tarrie hâ—…re Attending thy resolu'd approach or else the message beare And quickly make returne to thee He answerd Rather stay Directions for commmand in wars extremity Lest otherwise we faile to meete for many a different way Lies through our labyrinthian host speake euer as you go Command strong watch from Sire to sonne vrge all t' obserue the foe Familiarly and with their praise exciting euerie eye Not with vnseason'd violence of prowd authoritie We must our patience exercise and worke our selues with them Ioue in our births combin'd such care to eithers Diadem Thus he dismist him knowing well his charge before he went Himselfe to Nestor whom he found in bed within his tent Nâ—…tors armes and readinesse to vse them By him his damaske curets hung his shield a paire of darts His shining caske his arming waste in these he led the hearts Of his apt souldiers to sharpe warre not yeelding to his yeares He quickly started from his bed when to his watchfull eares Vntimely feet told some approach he tooke his lance in hand And spake to him Ho what art thou that walk'st at midnight stand Is any wanting at the guards or lack'st thou any Peere Speake come not silent towards me say what intendst thou heare He answerd O Neleides graue honour of our host 〈◊〉 to Nestor T' is Agamemnon thou maist know whom Ioue afflicteth most Of all the wretched men that liue and will whilst any breath Giues motion to my toiled lims and beares me vp from death I walke the round thus since sweet sleepe cannot inclose mine eyes Nor shut those Organs care breaks ope for our calamities My feare is vehement for the Greeks my heart the fount of heate With his extreme affects made cold without my breast doth beate And therefore are my sinewes strooke with trembling euerie part Of what my friends may feele hath act in my dispersed heart But if thou thinkst of any course may to our good redound Since neither thou thy selfe canst sleepe come walke with me the round In way whereof we may confer and looke to euerie guard Lest watching long and wearinesse with labouring so hard Dâ—…owne their oppressed memories of what they haue in charge The libertie we giue the foe alas is ouer large Their campe is almost mixt with ours and we haue forth noispies To learne their drifts who may perchance this night intend surprise Graue Nestor answerd Worthie king let good hearts beare our ill Nestor to Agamemâ—…n Ioue is not bound to perfect all this busie Hectors will But I am confidently giuen his thoughts are much dismaid With feare lest our distresse incite Achilles to our aide And therefore will not tempt his fate nor ours with further pride But I will gladly follow thee and stirre vp more beside Tydides famous for his lance Vlysses Telamon And bold Phyleus valiant heire or else if any one Would haste to call king Idomen and Aiax since their saile Lie so remou'd with much good speed it might our haste auaile But though he be our honord friend thy brother I will blame Not fearing if I anger thee it is his vtter shame He should commit all paines to thee that should himselfe imploy Past all our Princes in the care and cure of our annoy And be so farre from needing spurres to these his due respects He should apply our spirits himselfe with pray'rs and vrg'd affects Necessitie a law to lawes and not to be endur'd Makes proofe of all his faculties not sound if not inur'd Good father said the king sometimes you know I haue desir'd Agamemnons excuse of hiâ—… brother You would improue his negligence too oft to ease retir'd Nor is it for defect of spirit or compasse of his braine But with obseruing my estate he thinks he should abstaine Till I commanded knowing my place vnwilling to assume For being my brother any thing might proue he did presume But now he rose before me farre and came t' auoid delaies And I haue sent him for the man your selfe desir'd to raise Come we shall find them at the guards we plac't before the fort For
thither my direction was they should with speed resort Why now said Nestor none will grudge nor his iust rule withstand Examples make excitements strong and sweeten a command Thus put he on his arming trusse faire shoes vpon his feet About him a mandilion that did with buttons meet Of purple large and full of folds curld with a warmefull nap A garment that gainst cold in nights did souldiers vse to wrap Then tooke he his strong lance in hand made sharpe with proued steele And went along the Grecian fleet First at Vlysses keele He cald to breake the silken fumes that did his sences bind The voice through th'Organs of his eares straight rung about his mind Forth came Vlysses asking him Why stirre ye thus so late Vlysses to Agamemnon and Nestor Sustaine we such enforciue cause He answerd Our estate Doth force this perturbation vouchsafe it worthie friend Nâ—…or to Vlysses And come let vs excite one more to counsell of some end To our extremes by fight or flight He backe and tooke his shield And both tooke course to Diomed they found him laid in field The manner of Diomeds loggiâ—… Farre from his tent his armour by about him was dispread A ring of souldiers euerie man his shield beneath his head His speare fixt by him as he slept the great end in the ground The point that brisled the darke earth cast a reflection round Like pallid lightnings throwne from Ioue thus this Heroe lay And vnder him a big Oxe hide his royall head had stay On Arras hangings rolled vp whereon he slept so fast That Nestor stird him with his foote and chid to see him cast Nestor chideth Diomed. In such deepe sleepe in such deepe woâ—…s and askt him why he spent All night in sleepe or did not heare the Trâ—…ans neare his tent Their Campe drawne close vpon their dike small space twixt foes and foes He starting vp said Strange old man that neuer tak'st reposâ—… Diomed to Nestor Thou art too patient of our toile haue we not men more yong To be imploid from king to king thine age hath too much wrong Said like a king replied the Sire for I haue sonnes renownd Nestor to him Note the life of these representations And there are many other men might go this toilesome round But you must see imperious Need hath all at her command Now on the eager razors edge for life or death we stand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tâ—… went into a Prouerbe vsed by Tâ—…critus in Dioscaris Dâ—…caris of Hâ—…mer Then go thou art the yonger man and if thou loue my ease Call swift foot Aiax vp thy selfe and young Phyleides This said he on his shoulders cast a yellow Lions hide Big and reacht earth then tooke his speare and Nestors will applide Raisd the Heroes brought them both All met the round they went And found not any captaine there asleepe or negligent But waking and in armes gaue eare to euerie lowest sound And as keene dogs keepe sheepe in Cotes or folds of Hurdles bound Simile And grin at euerie breach of aire enuious of all that moues Still listning when the rauenous beast stalks through the hilly groues Then men and dogs stand on their guards and mightie tumults make Sleepe wanting weight to close one winke so did the Captaines wake That kept the watch the whole sad night all with intentiue eare Conuerted to the enemies tents that they might timely heare If they were stirring to surprise which Nestor ioyd to see Why so deare sons maintaine your watch sleepe not a winke said he Rather then make your fames the scorne of Troian periurie Nâ—…â—…o the â—…ds This said he formost past the dike the others seconded Euen all the kings that had bene cald to counsell from the bed And with them went Meriones and Nestors famous sonne For both were cald by all the kings to consultation Beyond the dike they chusde a place neare as they could from blood Where yet appear'd the fals of some and whence the crimson flood Of Grecian liues being pour'd on earth by Hectors furious chace He made retreate when night repour'd grim darknesse in his face There sate they downe and Nestor spake O friends remaines not one Nâ—…â—…o the Greâ—… Princes That will relie on his bold mind and view the campe alone Of the prowd Troians to approue if any stragling mate He can surprise neare th' vtmost tents or learne the briefe estate Of their intentions for the time and mixe like one of them With their outguards expiscating if the renown'd extreme They force on vs will serue their turnes with glorie to retire Or still encampe thus farre from Troy This may he well enquire And make a braue retreate vntoucht and this would win him fame Of all men canapied with heauen and euerie man of name In all this host shall honor him with an enriching meed A blacke Ewe and her sucking Lambe rewards that now exceed All other best possessions in all mens choice requests And still be bidden by our kings to kind and royall feasts All reuerenc't one anothers worth and none would silence breake Lest worst should take best place of speech at last did Diomed speake Dioâ—…â—…o Nâ—…stor Nestor thou ask'st if no man here haue heart so well inclin'd To worke this stratageme on Troy yes I haue such a mind Yet if some other Prince would ioyne more probable will be The strengthned hope of our exploite two may together see One going before another still slie danger euerie way One spirit vpon another workes and takes with firmer stay The benefit of all his powers for though one knew his course Yet might he well distrust himselfe which th' other might enforce This offer euerie man assum'd all would with Diomed go The two Aiaces Merion and Menelaus too But Nestors sonne enforc't it much and hardie Ithacus Who had to euerie ventrous deed a mind as venturous Amongst all these thus spake the king Tydides most belou'd The grâ—…â—…unsell of Agamemâ—…on to Diomed. Chuse thy associate worthily a man the most approu'd For vse and strength in these extremes Many thoâ—…â—…st stand forth But chuse not thou by height of place but by regard of worth Lest with thy nice respect of right to any mâ—…ns degrâ—… Thou wrongst thy venture chusing one least fit to ioyne with thee Although perhaps a greater king this spake he with suspect That Diomed for honors sake â—…is brother would select Then said Tydides Since thou giu'st my iudgement leaue to chuse How can it so much truth forget Vlysses to refuse Diâ—… câ—… of Vlysses That beares a mind so most exempt and vigorous in th' effect Of all high labors and a man Pallas doth most respect We shall returne through burning fire if I with him combine He sets strength in so true a course with counsels so diuine Vlysses loth to be esteemd a louer of his praise With such exceptions humbled
any where mortals nor gods I feare Entirely pleasd with what he does though thus ye banquet here Thus tooke she place displeasedly the feast in generall Bewraying priuie splenes at Ioue and then to colour all She laught but meerly from her lips for ouer her blacke browes Her still-bent forehead was not cleer'd yet this her passions throwes Brought forth in spight being lately school'd alas what fooles are we That enuie Ioue or that by act word thought can fantasie Any resistance to his will he sits farre off nor cares Nor moues but sayes he knowes his strength to all degrees compares His greatnesse past all other gods and that in fortitude And euery other godlike powre he reignes past all indude For which great eminence all you Gods what euer ill he does Sustaine with patience here is Mars I thinke not free from woes And yet he beares them like himselfe The great God had a sonne Iâ—… speech of purpose to inâ—… Mâ—… Scoptiâ—… Whom he himselfe yet iustifies one that from all men wonne Iust surname of their best belou'd Ascalaphus yet he By Ioues high grace to Troy is slaine Mars started horribly As Iuno knew he would at this beate with his hurld out hands His brawnie thighes cried out and said O you that 〈◊〉 commands In these high temples beare with me if I reuenge the death Of such a sonne I le to the fleete and though I sinke beneath The fate of being shot to hell by Ioues fell thunder stone And lie all grim'd amongst the dead with dust and bloud my sonne Reuenge shall honour Then he charg'd Feare and Dismay to ioyne His horse and chariot he got armes that ouer heauen did shine And then a wrath more great and graue in Ioue had bene prepar'd Against the gods then Iuno causde if Pallas had not car'd More for the peace of heauen then Mars who leapâ—… out of her throne Rapt vp her helmet lance and shield and made her Phanes porch grone With her egression to his stay and thus his rage defers Furious and foolish th' art vndone hast thou for nought thine eares Pallas to Mars Heard'st thou not Iuno being arriu'd from heauens great king but now Or wouldst thou he himselfe should rise forc't with thy rage to show The dreadfull powre she vrg'd in him so iustly being stird Know thou most impudent and mad thy wrath had not inferd Mischiefe to thee but to vs all his spirit had instantly Left both the hosts and turn'd his hands to vprores in the skie Guiltie and guiltlesse both to wracke in his high rage had gone And therefore as thou louest thy selfe ceasse furie for thy sonne Another farre exceeding him in heart and strength of hand Or is or will be shortly slaine It were a b worke would stand Ioue in much trouble to free all from death that would not die This threat euen nail'd him to his throne when heauens chiefe Maiestie Cald bright Apollo from his Phane and Iris that had place Of Internunciesse from the Gods to whom she did the grace Of Iupiter to this effect It is Saturnius will Iuno to Apollo and Iris. That both with vtmost speed should stoope to the Idalian hill To know his further pleasure there And this let me aduise When you arriue and are in reach of his refulgent eyes His pleasure heard performe it all of whatsoeuer kind Thus mou'd she backe and vsde her throne Those two outstript the wind And Ida all enchac't with springs they soone attaind and found Where farre-discerning Iupiter in his repose had crown'd The browes of Gargarus and wrapt an odoriferous cloud About his bosome Coming neare they stood nor now he showd ' His angry countenance since so soone he saw they made th' accesse That his lou'd wife enioyn'd But first the faire Ambassadâ—…esse He thus commanded Iris Go to Neptune and relate Ioue to Iris. Our pleasure truly and at large command him from the Fate Of humane warre and either greete the gods societie Or the diuine sea make his seate If proudly he denie Let better counsels be his guides then such as bid me warre And tempt my charge though he be strong for I am stronger farre And elder borne nor let him dare to boast euen state with me Whom all Gods else preferre in feare This said downe hasted she From Idaes top to Ilion and like a mightie snow Or gelide haile that from the clouds the Northerne spirit doth blow So fell the windie-footed Dame and found with quicke repaire The watrie God to whom she said God with the sable haire Iris to 〈◊〉 I came from Aegis-bearing Ioue to bid thee ceasse from fight And visite heauen or th'ample seas which if in his despight Or disobedience thou deniest he threatens thee to come In opposite fight to field himselfe and therefore warnes thee home His hands eschewing since his powre is farre superiour His birth before thee and affirmes thy lou'd heart should abhorre To vaunt equalitie with him whom euery deitie feares He answerd O vnworthy thing though he be great he beares 〈◊〉 to Iris being 〈◊〉 with Iupiter His tongue too proudly that our selfe borne to an equall share Of state and freedome he would force Three brothers borne we are To Saturne Rhea brought vs forth this Iupiter and I And Pluto god of vnder-grounds The world indifferently The 〈◊〉 proper to 〈◊〉 Disposde betwixt vs euery one his kingdome I the seas Pluto the blacke lot Iupiter the principalities Neptune and Pluto being three brothers Of broad heauen all the skie and clouds was sorted out the earth And high Olympus common are and due to eithers birth Why then should I be aw'd by him Content he his great heart With his third portion and not thinke to amplifie his part With terrors of his stronger hands on me as if I were The most ignoble of vs all let him containe in feare His daughters and his sonnes begot by his owne person this Holds more conuenience they must heare these violent threats of his Shall I said Iris beare from thee an answer so austere Or wilt thou change it Changing minds all noble natures beare Iris to Nâ—…tune ' And well thou know'st these greatest borne the Furies follow still Neptune againe to Iris. He answerd Iris thy reply keepes time and shewes thy skill O t is a most praise-worthy thing when messengers can tell Besides their messages such things as fit th' occasion well But this much grieues my heart and soule that being in powre and state All wayes his equall and so fixt by one decree in fate He should to me as vnder him ill language giue and chide Yet now though still incenst I yeeld affirming this beside And I enforce it with a threat that if without consent Of me Minerua Mercurie the Queene of regiment And Vulcan he will either spare high Ilion or not race Her turrets to the lowest stone and with both these not grace The Greekes
yet againe I hope they will not adde their ods To saue thy wants as thou presum'st retire then aime not at Troys throne by me flie ere thy soule flies fooles are wise too late He answerd him Hope not that words can child-like terrifie AEneas to Achilles My stroke-proofe breast I well could speake in this indecencie And vse tart termes but we know well what stocke vs both put out Too gentle to beare fruites so rude Our parents ring about The worlds round bosome and by fame their dignities are blowne To both our knowledges by sight neither to either knowne Thine to mine eyes nor mine to thine Fame sounds thy worthinesse From famous Peleus the sea Nymph that hath the louely tresse Thetis thy mother I my selfe affirme my Sire to be Great-soul'd Anchises she that holds the Paphian deitie My mother and of these this light is now t'exhale the teares For their lou'd issue thee or me childish vnworthy dates Are not enough to part our powres for if thy spiriâ—…s want Due excitation by distrust of that desert I vant To set vp all rests for my life I le lineally proue Which many will confirme my race First cloud commanding Ioue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Was sire to Dardanus that built Dardania for the wals Of sacred Ilion spred not yet these fields those faire-built hals Of diuers languag'd men not raisd all then made populous The foote of Idaes fountfull hill This Ioue-got Dardanus Begot king Ericthonius for wealth past all compares Of liuing mortals in his fens he fed three thousand mares All neighing by their tender foles of which twice sixe were bred By loftie Boreas their dams lou'd by him as they fed He tooke the braue forme of a horse that shooke an azure mane And slept with them These twice sixe colts had pace so swift they â—…anne Vpon the top-ayles of corne-eares nor bent them any whit And when the brode backe of the sea their pleasure was to sit The superficies of his waues they slid vpon their houes Not dipt in danke sweate of his browes Of Ericthonius loues Sprang Tros the king of Trâ—…ans Tros three yong princes bred Ilus renowm'd Assaracus and heauenly Gâ—…nymed The fairest youth of all that breath'd whom for his beauties loue The gods did rauish to their state to beare the cup to Ioue Ilus begot Laomedon god-like Laomedon Got Titbon Priam Clytius Mars-like Hycetaon And Lampus Great Assaracus Capys begot and he Anchises Prince Anchises me King Priam Hector we Sprang both of one high family Thus fortunate men giue birth But Ioue giues vertue he augments and he empaires the worth Of all men and his will their Rule he strong'st all strength affoords Why then paint we like dames the face of Conflict with our words Both may giue language that a ship driuen with a â—…undred ores Would ouer-burthen a mans tongue is voluble and poures Words out of all sorts euery way such as you speake you heare What then need we vie calumnies like women that will weare Their tongues out being once incenst and striue for strife to part Being on their way they trauell so from words words may auert From vertue not it is your steele diuine Aeacides Must proue my proofe as mine shall yours Thus amply did he ease His great heart of his pedigree and sharply sent away Aeneas chargeth Achilles A dart that caught Achilles shield and rung so it did fray The sonne of Thetis his faire hand farre-thrusting out his shield For feare the long lance had driuen through O foole to thinke t would yeeld And not to know the gods firme gifts want want to yeeld so soone To mens poore powres the eager lance had onely conquest wonne Of two plates and the shield had fiue two forg'd of tin two brasse One that was center-plate of gold and that forbad the passe Of Anchisiades his lance Then sent Achilles forth His lance that through the first fold strooke where brasse of litle worth Achilles at AEneas And no great proofe of hides was laid through all which Pelias ranne His iron head and after it his ashen body wanne Passe to the earth and there it stucke his top on th' other side And hung the shield vp which hard downe Aeneas pluckt to hide His breast from sword blowes shrunke vp round and in his heauie eye Was much griefe shadowed much afraid that Pelias stucke â—…o nie Then prompt Achilles rushing in his sword drew and the field Rung with his voice Aeneas now left and let hang his â—…hield And all distracted vp he snatcht a two mens strength of stone And either at his shield or caske he set it â—…udely gone Nor car'd where so it strooke a place that put on armes for death But he Achilles came so close had doubtlesse funke beneath His owne death had not Neptune seene and interposde the ods Of his diuine powre vttering this to the Achaian gods I grieue for this great hearted man he will be sent to hell Neptune to the other gods of Greece Euen instantly by Peleus sonne being onely mou'd to deale By Phoebus words What foole is he Phoebus did neuer meane To adde to his great words his guard against the ruine then Summon'd against him and what cause hath he to head him on To others miseries He being cleare of any trespasse done Against the Grecians thankfull gifts he oft hath giuen to vs Let vs then quit him and withdraw this combat for if thus Achilles end him Ioue will rage since his escape in fate Is purposde lest the progenie of Dardanus take date Whom Ioue past all his issue lou'd begot of mortall dames 〈◊〉 Prophâ—…cy of Aeneâ—… to propagate the Troian race All Priams race he hates and this must propagate the names Of Troians and their sonnes sonnes rule to all posteritie Saturniâ—… said make free your pleasure saue or let him die Pallas and I haue taken many and most publique oathes Iâ—…no to Neptunâ—… That th' ill day neuer shall auert her eye red with our wroths From hated Troy No not when all in studied fire she flames The Greeke rage blowing her last coale This nothing turn'd his aimes From present rescue but through all the whizzing speares he past And came where both were combatting when instantly he cast A mist before Achilles eyes drew from the earth and shield His lance and laid it at his feete and then tooke vp and held Aloft the light Anchises sonne who past with Neptunesâ—… force Whole orders of Heroes heads and many a troope of horse Leapt ouer till the bounds he reacht of all the feruent broyle Where all the Caucons quarters lay Thus farre freed from the toyle Neptune to Aeneas Neptune had time to vse these words Aeneas who was he Of all the gods that did so much neglect thy good and thee To vrge thy fight with Thetis sonne who in immortall rates Is better and more deare then thee Hereafter lest past fates Hell be
person which sweare thou These faire and temperate termes Farre fled Achilles his browes bent and out flew this reply Hector thou onely pestilence in all mortalitie Achilles sterne reply to Hector To my sere spirits neuer set the point twixt thee and me Any conditions but as farre as men and Lions flie All termes of couenant lambes and wolues in so farre opposite state Impossible for loue t' attone stand we till our soules satiate The god of souldiers do not dreame that our disiunction can Endure condition Therefore now all worth that fits a man Call to thee all particular parts that fit a souldier And they all this include besides the skill and spirit of warre Hunger for slaughter and a hate that eates thy heart to eate Thy foes heart This stirs this supplies in death the killing heate And all this needst thou No more flight Pallas Athenia Will quickly cast thee to my lance now now together draw All griefes for vengeance both in me and all my friends late dead That bled thee raging with thy lance This said he brandished His long lance and away it sung which Hector giuing view Achilles first encounter with Hector Stoupt low stood firme foreseeing it best and quite it ouerflew Fastening on earth * Pallas Athenia drew it and gaue her friend Vnseene of Hector Hector then thus spake Thou want'st thy end God-like Achilles now I see thou hast not learn'd my fate Of Ioue at all as thy high words would brauely intimate Much tongue affects thee cunning words well serue thee to prepare Thy blowes with threats that mine might faint with want of spirit to dare But my backe neuer turnes with breath it was not borne to beare Burthens of wounds strike home before driue at my breast thy speare As mine at thine shall and trie then if heauens will fauor thee With scape of my lance O would Ioue would take it after me And make thy bosome take it all an easie end would crowne Our difficult warres were thy soule fled thou most bane of our towne Thus flew his dart toucht at the midst of his vast shield and flew Hector at Achilles A huge way from it but his heart wrath enterd with the view Of that hard scape and heauie thoughts strooke through him when he spide His brother vanisht and no lance beside left out he cride Deiphobus another lance Lance nor Deiphobus Hâ—…ctors amaze with the deceit of Pallas Stood neare his call And then his mind saw all things ominous And thus suggested Woe is me the gods haue cald and I Must meete Death here Deiphobus I well hop't had bene by With his white shield but our strong wals shield him and this deceit Flowes from Minerua now ô now ill death comes no more flight No more recouerie O Ioue this hath bene otherwise Thy bright sonne and thy selfe haue set the Greeks a greater prise Of Hectors bloud then now of which euen iealous you had care But Fate now conquers I am hers and yet not she shall share In my renowme that life is left to euery noble spirit And that some great deed shall beget that all liues shall inherit Thus forth his sword flew sharpe and broad and borâ—… a deadly weight The last encounter of Achilles and Hector With which he rusht in And looke how an Eagle from her height Stoopes to the rapture of a Lambe or cuffes a timorous Hare So fell in Hector and at him Achilles his minds â—…are Was fierce and mightie his shield cast a Sun-like radianâ—… Helme nodded and his foure plumes shooke and when he raisde his lance Vp Hesperus rose amongst th' euening starres His bright and sparliling 〈◊〉 Lookt through the body of his foe and sought through all that prise The next way to his thirsted life Of all wayes onely one Appear'd to him and thas was where th'vnequall winding bone That ioynes the shoulders and the necke had place and where there lay The speeding way to death and there his quicke eye could display The place it sought euen through those armes his friend Patrâ—…lus wore When Hector slue him There he aim'd and there his iauelin tore Sterne passage quite through Hectors necke yet mist it so his throte It gaue him powre to change some words but downe to earth it got Hâ—…ctor wounded to death His fainting bodie Then triumpht diuine Aeacides Hector said he thy heart supposde that in my friends deceasse Achilles insultation Thy life was safe my absent arme not car'd for Foole he left One at the fleete that better'd him and he it is that reâ—…t Thy strong knees thus and now the dogs and fowles in foulest vse Shall teare thee vp thy corse exposde to all the Greeks abuse He fainting said Let me implore euen by thy knees and soule Hâ—…ctors dâ—…ing request to Achilles And thy great parents do not see a crueltie so foule Inflicted on me brasse and gold receiue at any rate And quit my person that the Peeres and Ladies of our state May tombe it and to sacred fire turne thy prophane decrees Dog he replied vrge not my ruth by parents â—…oule nor knees Achillâ—… infleâ—…bilitie I would to God that any rage would let me eate 〈◊〉 raw Slic't into peeces so beyond the right of any law I tast thy merits and beleeue it flies the force of man To rescue thy head from the dogs Giue all the gold they can If ten or twentie times so much as friends would rate thy price Were tenderd here with vowes of more to buy the cruelâ—…es I here haue vow'd and after that thy father with his gold Would free thy selfe all that should faile to let â—…hy mother hold Solemnities of death with thee and do thee such a grace To mourne thy whole corse on a bed which 〈◊〉 I le deâ—…ce With fowles and dogs He dying said I kâ—…owing thâ—… well 〈◊〉 Thy now tried tyrannie nor hopâ—… for any other â—…aw Of nature or of nations and that feare fore't much more Then death my flight which neuer toucht at Hectâ—…s 〈◊〉 before Hectors prophecy of Achilles deâ—…h A soule of iron informes thee marke what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Will giue me of thee for this rage when in the Scâ—…ri gates Phoebus and Paris meete with thee Thus deathâ—… hand 〈◊〉 his eyes His soule flying his â—…aire â—…ms to hell mourning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To part so with his youth and strength Thâ—… dâ—…d thus Tâ—…is sonne His prophecie answer'd Die thou now when my short thred is spunne I le beare it as the will of Ioue This said his brazen speare He drew and stucke by then his armes that all embrewed were He spoil'd his shoulders off Then all the Greeks ran in to him To see his person and admir'd his terror-stirring lim The Greeks adâ—…ration of Hectors person being slaine Yet none stood by that gaue no wound to his so goodly forme When each to other said O Ioue he is not in the