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B00389	Lucans first booke translated line for line, by Chr. Marlovv.; Pharsalia. English & Latin. 1600	Lucan, 39-65.; Blount, Edward, fl. 1588-1632.; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.; Thorpe, Thomas, 1570?-1635?	1600 (1600)	STC 16883.5; ESTC S94045	11,895	29

The yellow Ruthens left their garrisons Mild Atax glad it beares not Roman bloats And frontier Varus that the campe is farre Sent aide so did Alcides port whose seas Eate hollow rocks and where the north-west wind Nor Zephir rules not but the north alone Turmoiles the coast and enterance forbids And others came from that vncertaine shore Which is nor sea nor land but oft times both And changeth as the Ocean ebbes and flowes Whether the sea roul'd alwaies from that point Whence the wind blowes stil forced to and fro Or that the wandring maine follow the moone Or flaming Titan feeding on the deepe Puls them aloft and makes thè surge kisse heauen Philosophers looke you for vnto me Thou cause what ere thou be whom God assignes This great effect art hid They came that dwell By Nemes fields and bankes of Satirus Where Tarbels winding shoares imbrace the sea The Santons that reioyce in Caesars loue Those of Bituriges and light Axon pikes And they of Rhene and Leuca cunning darters And Sequana that well could manage steeds The Belgians apt to gouerne Brittish cars Th' Auerni too which bouldly faine themselues The Romanes brethren sprung of Ilian race The stubborne Neruians staind with Cottas bloud And vangions who like those of Sarmata Were open slops and fierce Batauians Whome trumpets clang incites and those that dwel By Cyngas streame and where swift Rhodanus Driues Araris to sea They neere the hils Vnder whose hoary rocks Gebenna hangs And Treuier thou being glad that wars are past thee And you late shorne Ligurians who were wont In large spread heire to exceed the rest of France And where to Hesus and fell Mercury Joue They offer humane flesh and where it seemes Bloudy like Dian whom the Scythians serue And you French Bardi whose immortal pens Renowne the valiant soules slaine in your wars Sit safe at home and chaunt sweet Poesie And Druides you now in peace renew Your barbarous customes and sinister rites In vnfeld woods and sacred groues you dwell And only gods heauenly powers you know Or only know you nothing For you hold That soules passe not to silent Erebus Or Plutoes bloodles kingdom but else where Resume a body so if truth you sing Death brings lōg life Doubtles these northren men Whom death the greatest of all feares affright not Are blest by such sweet error this makes them Run on the swords point and desire to die And shame to spare life which being lost is wonne You likewise that repulst the Caicke foe March towards Roome and you fierce men of Rhene Leauing your countrey open to the spoile These being come their huge power made him bould To mannage greater deeds the bordering townes He garrison'd and Jtaly he fild with soldiours Vaine fame increast true feare and did inuade The peoples minds and laide before their eies Slaughter to come and swiftly bringing newes Of present war made many lies and tales One sweares his troupes of daring horsemen fought Vpon Meuanias plaine where Buls are graz'd Other that Caesars barbarous bands were spread Along Nar floud that into Tiber fals And that his owne ten ensignes and the rest Marcht not intirely and yet hide the ground And that he 's much chang'd looking wild and big And far more barbarous then the French his vassals And that he lags behind with them of purpose Borne twixt the Alpes Rhene which he hath brought From out their Northren parts and that Roome He looking on by these men should be sackt Thus in his fright did each man strengthen Fame And without ground fear'd what thēselues had faind Nor were the Commons only strooke to heart With this vaine terror but the Court the Senate The fathers selues leapt from their seats and flying Left hateful warre decreed to both the Consuls Then with their feare and danger al distract Their sway of fleight carries the heady rout That in chain'd troupes breake forth at euery port You would haue thought their houses had bin fierd Or dropping-ripe ready to fall with Ruine So rusht the inconsiderate multitude Thorough the Citty hurried headlong on As if the only hope that did remaine To their afflictions were t' abandon Roome Looke how when stormy Auster from the breach Of Libian Syrtes roules a monstrous waue Which makes the maine saile fal with hideous sound The Pilot from the helme leapes in the sea And Marriners albeit the keele be sound Ship wracke themselues euen so the Citty left All rise in armes nor could the bed-rid parents Keep back their sons or womens teares their husbands They stai'd not either to pray or sacrifice Their houshould gods restrain thē not none lingered As loath to leaue Roome whom they held so deere Th'irreuocable people flie in troupes O gods that easie grant men great estates But hardly grace to keepe them Roome that flowes With Citizens and Captaines and would hould The world were it together is by cowards Left as a pray now Caesar dòth approach VVhen Romans are besieg'd by forraine foes With slender trench they escape night stratagems And suddaine rampire raisde of turfe snatcht vp Would make them sleepe securely in their tents Thou Roome at name of warre runst from thy selfe And wilt not trust thy Citty walls one night VVel might these feare when Pompey fear'd and fled Now euermore least some one hope might ease The Cōmons iangling minds apparant signes arose Strange sights appear'd the angry threatning gods Fill'd both the earth and seas with prodegies Great store of strange and vnknown stars were seene VVandering about the North and rings of fire Flie in the ayre and dreadfull bearded stars And Commets that presage the fal of kingdoms The flattering skie gliter'd in often flames And sundry fiery meteors blaz'd in heauen Now spearlike long now like a spreading torch Lightning in silence stole forth without clouds And from the northren climat snatching fier Blasted the Capitoll The lesser stars Which wont to run their course through empty night At noone day mustered Phoebe hauing fild Her meeting hornes to match her brothers light Strooke with th' earths suddaine shadow waxed pale Titan himselfe throand in the midst of heauen His burning chariot plung'd in sable cloudes And whelm'd the world in darknesse making men Dispaire of day as did Thiestes towne Mycenae Phoebus flying through the East Fierce Mulciber vnbarred Aetna's gate Which flamed not on high but headlong pitcht Her burning head on bending Hespery Cole-blacke Charibdis whirl'd a sea of bloud Fierce Mastiues hould the vestall fires went out The flame in Alba consecrate to Joue Parted in twaine and with a double point Rose like the Theban brothers funerall fire The earth went off hir hinges And the Alpes Shooke the old snow from off their trembling laps The Ocean swell'd as high as Spanish Calpe Or Atlas head their saints and houshold gods Sweate teares to shew the trauailes of their citty Crownes fell from holy statues ominous birds Defil'd the day and wilde beastes were seene

LVCANS FIRST BOOKE TRANSLATED LINE FOR LINE BY CHR. MARLOVV AT LONDON Printed by P. Short and are to be sold by Walter Burre at the Signe of the Flower de Luce in Paules Churchyard 1600. TO HIS KIND AND TRVE FRIEND EDWARD BLVNT BLount I purpose to be blūt with you out of my dulnesse to encounter you with a Dedication in the memory of that pure Elementall wit Chr. Marlow whose ghoast or Genius is to be seene walke the Churchyard in at the least three or foure sheets Me thinks you should presently looke wilde now and growe humorously frantique vpon the tast of it Well least you should let mee tell you This spirit was sometime a familiar of your own Lucans first booke translated which in regard of your old right in it J haue rais'd in the circle of your Patronage But stay now Edward if J mistake not you are to accommodate your selfe with some fewe instructions touching the property of a Patron that you are not yet possest of and to study them for your better grace as our Gallants do fashions First you must be proud and thinke you haue merit inough in you though you are ne're so emptie then when I bring you the booke take physicke and keepe state assigne me a time by your man to come againe and afore the day be sure to haue chang'd your lodging in the meane time sleepe little and sweat with the inuention of some pittiful dry iest or two which you may happen to vtter with some litle or not at al marking of your friends when you haue found a place for them to come in at or if by chance something has dropt from you worth the taking vp weary all that come to you with the often repetition of it Censure scornefully inough and somewhat like a trauailer commend nothing least you discredit your that which you would seeme to haue iudgement These things if you can mould your selfe to them Ned I make no question but they will not become you One speciall vertue in our Patrons of these daies J haue promist my selfe you shall fit excellently which is to giue nothing Yes thy loue J will challenge as my peculiar Obiect both in this and J hope manie more succeeding offices Farewell J affect not the world should measure my thoughts to thee by a scale of this Nature Leaue to thinke good of me when J fall from thee Thine in all rites of perfect friendship THOM. THORPE THE FIRST BOOKE OF LVCAN TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH WARS worse then ciuill on Thessalian playnes And outrage strangling law people strong We sing whose conquering swords their own breasts laūcht Armies alied the kingdoms league vprooted Th' affrighted worlds force bent on publique spoile Trumpets and drums like deadly threatning other Eagles alike displaide darts answering darts Romans what madnes what huge lust of warre Hath made Barbarians drunke with latin bloud Now Babilon proud through our spoile should stoop While slaughtred Crassus ghost walks vnreueng'd Will ye wadge war for which you shall not triumph Ay me O what a world of land and sea Might they haue won whom ciuil broiles haue slaine As far as Titan springs where night dims heauen I to the Torrid Zone vvhere midday burnes And vvhere stiffe vvinter vvhom no spring resolues Fetters the Euxin sea vvith chaines of yee Scythia and vvilde Armenia had bin yoakt And they of Nilus mouth if there liue any Roome if thou take delight in impious vvarre First conquer all the earth then turne thy force Against thy selfe as yet thou vvants not foes That now the walles of houses halfe reaer'd totter That rampiers fallen down huge heapes of stone Lye in our townes that houses are abandon'd And few liue that behold their ancient seats Jtaly many yeares hath lyen vntil'd And choakt with thorns that greedy earth wāts hinds Fierce Pirhus neither thou nor Hanniball Art cause no forraine foe could so afflict vs These plagues arise from wreake of ciuill power But if for Nero then vnborne the fates Would find no other meanes and gods not sleightly Purchase immortal thrones nor Joue ioide heauen Vntill the cruel Giants war was done We plaine not heauens but gladly beare these euils For Neros sake Pharsalia grone with slaughter And Carthage soules be glutted with our blouds At Munda let the dreadfull battailes ioyne Adde Caesar to these ills Perusian famine The Mutin toyles the fleet at Leuca suncke And cruel field nere burning Aetna fought Yet Room is much bound to these ciuil armes Which made thee Emperor thee seeing thou being old Must shine a star shal heauen whom thou louest Receiue with shouts where thou wilt raigne as King Or mount the sunnes flame bearing charriot And with bright restles fire compasse the earth Vndaunted though her former guide be chang'd Nature and euery power shal giue thee place What God it please thee be or where to sway But neither chuse the north t' erect thy seat Nor yet the aduerse reking southerne pole Whence thou shouldst view thy Roome with squinting beams If any one part of vast heauen thou swayest The burdened axes with thy force will bend The midst is best that place is pure and bright Their Caesar may'st thou shine and no cloud dim thee Then men from warshal bide in league and ease Peace through the world from Janus Phane shal flie And boult the brazen gates with barres of Iron Thou Caesar at this instant art my God Thee if I inuocate I shall not need To craue Appolles ayde or Bacchus helpe Thy power inspires the Muze that sings this war The causes first I purpose to vnfould Of these garboiles whence springs along discourse And what made madding people shake off peace The fates are enuious high seats quickly perish Vnder great burdens fals are euer greeuous Roome was so great it could not beare it selfe So when this world 's compounded vnion breakes Time ends and to old Chaos all things turne Confused stars shal meete celestiall fire Fleete on the flouds the earth shoulder the sea Affording it no shoare and Phoebe's waine Chace Phoebus and inrag'd affect his place And striùe to shine by day and ful of strife Disolue the engins of the broken world All great things crush themselues such end the gods Allot the height of honor men so strong By land and sea no forreine force could ruine O Roome thy selfe art cause of all these euils Thy selfe thus shiuered out to three mens shares Dire league of partners in a kingdome last not O faintly ioyn'd friends with ambition blind Why ioine you force to share the world betwixt you While th' earth the sea and ayre the earth sustaines While Titan striues against the worlds swift course Or Cynthia nights Queene waights vpon the day Shall neuer faith be found in fellow kings Dominion cannot suffer partnership This need no forraine proofe nor far fet story Roomes infant walles were steept in brothers bloud Nor then was land or sea to breed such hate A

Leauing the woods lodge in the streetes of Rome Cattell were seene that muttered humane speech Prodigious birthes with more and vgly iointes Then nature giues whose sight appauls the mother And dismall Prhphesies were spread abroad And they whom fierce Bellonaes fury moues To wound their armes sing vengeance Sibils priests Curling their bloudy lockes howle dreadfull things Soules quiet and appeas'd sight from their graues Clashing of armes was heard in vntrod woods Shrill voices schright and ghoasts incounter men Those that inhabited the suburbe fieldes Fled fowle Erinnis stalkt about the wals Shaking her snakie haire and crooked pine With flaming toppe much like that hellish fiend Which made the sterne Lycurgus wound his thigh Or fierce Agaue mad or like Megaera That scar'd Alcides when by Junoes taske He had before lookt Pluto in the face Trumpets were heard to sound and with what noise An armed battaile ioines such and more strange Blacke night brought forth in secret Sylla's ghost Was seene to walke singing sad Oracles And Marius head aboue cold Tau'ron peering His graue broke open did affright the Boores. To these ostents as their old custome was They call th' Etrurian Augures amonst whom The grauest Aruns dwelt in forsaken * or Lunae Leucae Well skild in Pyromancy one that knew The hearts of beasts and flight of wandring foules First he commands such monsters Nature hatcht Against her kind the barren Mules loth'd issue To be cut forth and cast in dismall fiers Then that the trembling Citizens should walke About the City then the sacred priests That with diuine lustration purg'd the wals And went the round in and without the towne Next an inferiour troupe in tuckt vp vestures After the Gabine manner then the Nunnes And their vaild Matron who alone might view Mineruas statue then they that keepe and read Sybillas secret works and washt their saint In Almo's floud Next learned Augures follow Apolloes southsayers and Joues feasting priests The skipping Salij with shields like wedges And Flamins last with networke wollen vailes While these thus in and out had circled Roome Looke what the lightning blasted Aruns takes And it inters with murmurs dolorous And cals the place Bidentall on the Altar He laies a ne're-yoakt Bull and powers downe wine Then crams salt leuin on his crooked knife The beast long struggled as being like to proue An aukward sacrifice but by the hornes The quick priest pull'd him on his knees slew him No vaine sprung out but from the yawning gash In steed of red bloud wallowed venemous gore These direful signes made Aruns stand amaz'd And searching farther for the gods displeasure The very cullor scard him a dead blacknesse Ranne through the bloud that turn'd it all to gelly And stain'd the bowels with darke lothsome spots The liuer swell'd with filth and euery vaine Did threaten horror from the host of Caesar A small thin skinne contain'd the vital parts The heart stird not and from the gaping liuer Squis'd matter through the cal the intralls pearde And which aie me euer pretendeth ill At that bunch where the liuer is appear'd A knob of flesh whereof one halfe did looke Dead and discoulour'd th' other leane and thinne By these he seeing what myschiefes must ensue Cride out O gods I tremble to vnfould What you intend great Joue is now displeas'd And in the brest of this slaine Bull are crept Th' infernall powers My feare transcends my words Yet more will happen 〈◊〉 I can vnfold Turne all to good be Augury vaine and Tages Th' arts master falce Thus in ambiguous tearmes Inuoluing all did Aruns darkly sing But Figulus more seene in heauenly mysteries Whose like Aegiptian Memphis neuer had For skill in stars and tune-full planeting In this sort spake The worlds swift course is lawlesse And casuall all the starres at randome radge Or if Fate rule them Rome thy Cittizens Are neere some plague what mischiefe shall insue Shall townes be swallowed shall the thickned aire Become intemperate shall the earth be barraine Shall water be conieal'd and turn'd to ice O Gods what death prepare ye with what plague Meane ye to radge the death of many men Meetes in one period If cold noysome Saturne Were now exalted and with blew beames shinde Then Gaynimede would renew Deucalions flood And in the fleeting sea the earth be drencht O Phaebus shouldst thou with thy rayes now sing The fell Nemean beast th' earth would be fired And heauen tormented with thy chafing heate But thy fiers hurt not Mars 't is thou enflam'st The threatning Scorpion with the burning taile And fier'st his cleyes Why art thou thus enrag'd Kind Jupiter hath low declin'd himselfe Venus is faint swift Hermes retrograde Mars onely rules the heauen ●●y doe the Planets Alter their course and vainly dim their vertue Sword-girt Orions side glisters too bright Wars radge draws neare to the swords strong hād Let all Lawes yeeld sinne beare the name of vertue Many a yeare these firious broiles let last Why should we wish the gods should euer end them War onely giues vs peace ô Rome continue The course of mischiefe and stretch out the date Of slaughter onely ciuill broiles make peace These sad presages were enough to scarre The quiuering Romans but worse things affright them As Maenus full of wine on Pindus raues So runnes a Matron through th' amazed streetes Disclosing Phoebus furie in this sort Pean whither am I halde where shall I fall Thus borne aloft I see Pangeus hill With hoarie toppe and vnder Hemus mount Philippi plaines Phoebus what radge is this Why grapples Rome and makes war hauing no foes Whither turne I now thou lead'st me toward th' east Where Nile augmenteth the Pelusian sea This headlesse trunke that lies on Nylus sande I know now throughout the aire I flie To doubtfull Sirtes and drie Affricke where A fury leades the Emathian bandes from thence To the pine bearing hils hence to the mounts Pirene and so backe to Rome againe Se impious warre defiles the Senat house New factions rise now through the world againe I goe ô Phoebus shew me Neptunes shore And other Regions I haue seene Philippi This said being tir'd with fury she sunke downe 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