arriues To chace the former times so flye persue At once each other and are euer new What was before is not what was not is All in a moment change from that to this See how the Night on Light extends her shades See how the Light the gloomy Night inuadâ—s Nor such Heauens hew when Mid-night crown's Repose As when bright Lucifer his taper showes Yet changing when the Harbinger of Day Th'inlightned World resignes to Phoebus sway His raised Shield earths shaddowes scarely fled Lookes ruddy and low sinking lookes as red Yet bright at Noone because that purer skie Doth farâ—e from Earth and her contagion flie Nor can Night-wandring Dian's wauering light Be euer equall or the same this night Lesse than the following if her hornes she fill If the contract her Circle greater still Doth not the image of our age appeare In the successiue quarters of the Yeare The Spring-tide tender sucking Infancie Resembling then the iuyâ—efull blade sprouts high Though tender weake yâ—t hope to Plough-men yeelds All things then flourish flowers the gaudy fields Wâ—â—h colours paint no virtue yet in leaues Then following Summer greater strength receiues A lusty Youth no age more strength acquires Moâ—â— fruitfull or more burning in desires Maturer Autumne heat of Youth alaid The sober meane twixt youth and age more staid And temperate in Summers waine repaires His reuerend temples sprinckled with gray haires Then comes old Winter void of all delight With trembling steps his head or bal'd or white So change our â—odies without rest or stay What we were yester-day not what to day Shall be to morâ—â—w Once alone of men The seeds and hope the wombe our mansion when Kind Nature shew'd her cunning not content That our vext bodies should be longer pent In mothers stetched entrailes forth-with bare Them from that prison to the open aire We strengthlesse lye when first of light possest Straight creepe vpon all foure much like a beast Then staggering with weake nerues stand by degrees And by some stay support our feeble knees Now lusty swiftly run Youth quickly spent And those our middle times incontinent We sinke in setting Age this last deuoures The former and dimolisheth their powres Old Milo wept when he his armes beheld Which late the strongest beast in strength excel'd Big as Alâ—ides brawnes in flaggie hide Now hanging by slake sinewes Helen cry'd When she beheld her wrinkles in her Glasse And asks her selfe why she twice rauisht was Still-eating Time and thou ô enuious Age All ruinate diminisht by the rage Of your deuouring teeth All that haue breath Consume and languish by a lingring death Nor can these Elements stand at a stay But by exchanging alter euery day Th' eternall world foure bodies comprehends Ingendring all The heauy Earth descends So Water clog'd with weight two light aspire Deprest by none pure Aire and purer Fire And though they haue their seuerall fites yet all Of these are made to these againe they fall Resolued Earth to Water rarifies To Aire extenuated Waters rise The Aire when it it selfe agiane refines To element all Fire extracted shines They in like order backe againe repaire The grosser Fire condenseth into Aire Aire into water Water thickning then Growes solid and conuerts to Earth againe None holds his owne for Nature euer ioyes In change and with new formes the old supplies In all the world not any perish quite But onely are in various habits dight For to begin to be what we before Were not is to be borne to dye no more Than ceasing to be such although the frame Be changeable the substance is the same For nothing long continues in one mold You Ages you to Siluer grew from Gold To Brasse from Siluer and to Yâ—'ne from Brasse Euen place oft such change of fortunes passe Where once was solid land Seas haue I'seene And solid land where once deepe Seas haue beene Shâ—ls far from Seas like quarries in the ground And anchors haue on mountaine tops beene found Torrents hue made a valley of a plaine High hils by delâ—ges â—oâ—ne to the Maine Deepe standing lakes suck't dry by thirsty sand And on late thirsty earth now lakes doe stand Here Nature in her charges manifold Sends forth new fountaines there shuts vp the old Streams with impetuous earth-quakes heretofore Hâ—ue broken forth or sunke and run no more So â—ycus swallowed by they yawning Earth Takes in an other world his second birth So Erasinus now conceales now yeelds His rising waters to Argolian fields And Mysus hating his first head and brayes Calcus nam'd else-where his streame displayes Coole Amasenus watering Sicily Now flowes now spring-lockt leaues his channell dry Men formerly drunke of Anigrus streames Not to be drunke if any thing but dreames The Poets tell since Centaures therein washt Their wounded limbs by Alcides arrowes gasht So Hypaâ—tis deriu'd from Sâ—ythian Hills Long sweet with bitter streames his channel fills Antissa Tyrus and Aegyptian Phare The flouds imbrac't yet now no Ilands are Th' old Colon knew Leucadia Continent Which now the labouring surges circumuent So Zancle once on Italie conâ—n'd Till interposing waues their bounds dis-ioyn'd If Bura and Helice Graecian townes You seeke behold the Sea their glory drownes Whose buildings and declined walls below Th' ambitious floud as yet the Sailers show A Hill by Pitthean Troezen mounts vncrown'd With syluan shades which once was leuell ground For furious winds a story to admire Pent in blinde cauernes strugling to expire And vainly seeking to inioy th'extent Of freer aire the prison wanting vent Th'vnpassable tuffe earth inflated so As when with swelling breath we bladders blow The tumor of the place remained still In time growne sollid like a lofty hill To speake a little more of many things Both heard and knowne New habits sundry Springs Now giue now take Horn'd Hammâ—ns Well at Noone Is cold hot at Sun-rise and setting Sun Wood put in bubling Athamas then fires When farthest from the Sun the Moone retires Ciconian streames congeale his guts to stone That thereof drinkes and what therein is throwne Crathis and Sybaris from your mountaines rold Colour the haire like Amber or pure gold Some fountaines of a more prodigious kind Not onely change the body but the mind Who hath not heard of obscene Salmacis Of th' AeTHiopian Lake who drinke of this Runne forth-with mad or if their wits they keepe Fall suddenly into a deadly sleepe Who at Clitoâ—iâ—â— Fountaine thirst remoue Loath wine and abstinent meere water loue Whether it by antipathie expell Desire or wine or as the Natiues toll 〈◊〉 hauing with his herbs and charmes Snatcht Proeâ—uâ— franticke daughters from the harmes Of entred â—â—ries their wit's physicke cast Into this spring infusing such distast With streames to these oppos'd Lyncestus flowes They 〈◊〉 as drunke who drinke too much of those A Lake in faire Arcadia stands of old Call'd Pheâ—â—us suspected as two fold Feare and forbeare to drinke thereof by night By night vnwholsome wholsome by
dares reprehend him Notwithstanding I will say something not in way of detraction but that we also may be able to grow with his greatnesse Then speaking of his Metamorphosis Bookes deseruing a more fortunate Author that from his last hand they might haue had their perfection which hee himselfe bewaileth in luculent Verses Yet are there in these well-nigh an infinite number which the wit of an other I beleeue could neuer haue equall'd And thus exclaimes against Caesar in the person of OVID. Tyrant with me I would thou badst begun Nor thy black slaughters had my fate fore-run If my licentious Youth incenst thee so Thy owne condemnes thee into exile goe Thy Cabinets are stain'd with horrid deeds And thy soule guilt all monstrous names exceeds Diuine wit innocence nor yet my tongue Next to Apollo's could preuent my wrong I smoeth'd th' old Poets with my fluent vaine And taught the New a far more numerous strain When thee I prais'd then from the truth I sweru'd And banishment for that alone deseru'd can hee said to transcend him What should I say of that singular and well-nigh diuine contexture of Fable with Fable so surpassing that nothing can bee spoken or done more artificially more excellently or indeed more gracefully Who handling such diuersitie of matter so cunningly weaues them together that all appeare but one Series Planudes well knowing that Greece had not a Poem so abounding with delight and beautie translated it into that language What should I say more All Arts which Antiquitie knew are here so fully delineated that a number expert in both tongues of prime vnderstanding and iudgements admire it beyond all expression The first that writ a Commentarie on this booke whereof fiftie thousand were vented and that in his life time was RAPHAEL REGIVS Who thus in his Preface There is nothing appertaining to the knowledge and glorie of warre whereof wee haue not famous examples in the Metamorphosis of OVID not to speake of stratagems nor the Orations of Commanders described with such efficacie and eloquence that often in reading you will imagine your selfe imbroiled in their conflicts Neither shall you finde any Author from whom a ciuill life may gather better instruction IACOBVS MICYLLVS Hardly shall you find a Poem which flowes with greater facilitie For what should I speake of Learning Herein so great so various and abstruse that many places haue neither beene explained nor yet vnderstood no not by the most knowing requiring rather a resolution from the Delian Oracle c. Let the ingenuous that affect not error now rectifie their owne by the iudgements of these But incurable Criticks who warre about words and gail the sound to feed on their sores as not desiring their sanitie I forbeare to disswade and deliuer them vp to the censure of Agrippa QVOD OLIM FACIEBAT VOTVM GERMANIâ—O OVIDIVS IDEM AVGVSTISSâ—MO CAROLO Interpretis sui nomine â—acuâ—nt OVIDIANI MANES EXcipe pacato Caesaâ— Brittannice vultu â—â—oc â—pus 〈◊〉 tim dâ— dirige nauis â—ter Officioqus lâ—uem non auâ—â—â—atuâ— honorem Hu◠〈…〉 dexter ades Hâ—â—c â—e da placâ—â—um dâ—deris in carmine vires Ingenium vnitu statque caditque tuo Pagâ—a◠〈…〉 docte subâ—turâ— moâ—etur Principis vt Clarâ—o missa legenda Deâ— OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS The first Booke THE ARGVMENT THe World form'd out of Chaos Man is made The Ages change The Giants Heauen inuade Earth turnes their blouâ— to men Ioue's flames confound Lâ—caon now a Wolfe The World is drown'd Man-kind cast stones restore All quickning Earth Renews the rest and giues new Monsters birth Apollo Python kills hart-wounded loues Lust-flying Daphâ—é She a Laurel proues Ioue 〈◊〉 made a Cow to maske foule deeds Hermes a Heards-man Syriâ—x chang'd to Reeds Dead Argus eyes adorn the Peacock's traine The Cow to Iâ— loue transform's againe OF formes to other bodies chang'd I sing Assist you Gods from you these wonders spring And from the Worlds first fabrick to these times Deduce my neuer discontinued Rymes The Sea the Earth al-couering Heauen vnfram'd One face had nature which they Chaos nam'd An vndigested lump a barren load Where iarrâ—ing seeds of things ill-ioyn'd aboad No Titan yet the World with light adornes Nor waxing Phoebe fill'd her waned hornes Nor hung the selfe-poiz'd Earth in thin Ayre plac't Nor Amphitrite the vast shore imbrac't With Earth was Ayre and Sea the Earth vnstable The Ayre was darke the Sea vn-nauigable No certaine forme to any one assign'd This that resists For in one body ioyn'd The Cold and Hot the Drie and Humid fight The Soft and Hard the Heauy with the Light But God the better Nature this decides Who Earth from Heauen the Sea from earth diuides And purer Heauen extracts from grosser Ayre All which vnfolded by his prudent care From that blinde Masse the happily dis-ioyn'd With strifelesse peace he to their seats confin'd Forth-with vp-sprung the quicke and waightlesse Fire Whose flames vnto the highest Arch aspire The next in leuitie and place is Ayre Grosse Elements to thicker Earth repayre Selfe-clog'd with waight the Waters flowing round Possesse the last and solid Tellus bound What God soeuer this diuision wrought And euery part to due proportion brought First lest the Earth vnequall should appâ—are He turn'd it round in figure of a Sphere Then Seas diffus'd commanding them to rore With ruffling Winds and giue the Land a shore To those hâ— addeth Springs Ponds Lakes immense And Riuers whom their winding borders fence Of these not few Earth's thirstie iawes deuour The rest their streames into the Ocean pour When in that liquid Plaine with freer waue The fomy Cliffs in stead of Banks they laue Bids Trees increase to Woods the Plaines extend The rocky Mountaynes rise and Vales descend Two equall Zones on either side dispose The measur'd Heauens a fifth more hot than those â—s many Lines th'included Globe diuide â—th'midst vnsufferable beames reside â—now clothes the other two the temperate hold Twixt these their seats the heat well mixt with cold As Earth as Water vpper Ayre out-waighs â—o much doth Ayre Fire's lighter balance raise â—here he commands the changing Clouds to stray â—here thundering terrors mortall mindes dismay And with the Lightning Winds ingendring Snow Yet not permitted euery way to blow Who hardly now to teare the World refraine â—So Brothers iarre thoughâ— they diuided raigne â—o Persis and Sabaea Eurus flies Whose fruits perfume the blushing Mornes vp-rise â—ext to the Euening and the Coast the glowes â—ith setting Phoebus flowry Zeph'rus blowes 〈◊〉 Scythia horrid Boreas holds his raigne â—eneath Bootes and the frozen Waine The Land to this oppos'd doth Auster steep With fruitfull showrs and clouds which euer weep â—boue all these he plac't the liquid Skies Which void of earthly dregs did highest rise Scarce had he all thus orderly dispos'd When-as the Starres their radiant heads disclos'd â— Long 〈◊〉 in Night and shone through all the skie Then that no place should vnpossessed lie
banks of Inachus shee stray'd Her Fathers banks where she so oft had play'd Beholding in his streame her horned head She starts and from her selfe selfe-frighted fled Her Sisters nor old Inachus her knew Which way so-ere they went she would pursue And suffer them to stroke her and doth moue Their wonder with her strange expressed loue He brought her Grasse She gently lickt his hands And kist his palmes nor longer teares withstands And had shee then had words shee had display'd Her Name her Fortunes and implor'd his ayde For words she letters with her foot imprest Vpon the Sand which her sad change profest Wo's me cry'd Inachus his armes he throwes About her snowy Necke O woe of woes Art thou my daughter throughout all the Round Of Earth so sought that now vnsought art found Lesse was thy losse lesse was my miserie Dumbe wretch alas thou canst not make reply Yet as thou canst thou dost thy lowings speake And deop-fetcht sighes that from thy bosom breake I ignorant prepar'd thy marriage bed My hopes a Sonne-in-law and Nephewes fed Now from the Heard thy issue must descend Nor can the length of time my sorrowes end Accurst in that a God Deaths sweet reliefe Hard fates denie to my immortall griefe This said his Daughter in that shape belou'd The Star-ey'd Argus farre from thence remou'd When mounted on a hill the warie Spie Suruayes the Playnes that round about him lie The King of Gods those sorrowes she indur'd Could brooke no longer by his fault procur'd But calls his sonne of fulgent Pleias bred Commanding him to cut off Argus head He wings his heeles puts on his Felt and takes His drowsie Rod the Towre of Ioue forsakes And winding stoops to Earth The changed God His Hat and Wings layes by retaynes his Rod With which he driues his Gotes like one that feeds The bearded Heard and sings this slender Reeds Much taken with that Art before vnknowne Come sit by me said Argus on this stone No place affordeth better Pastorage Or shelter from the Sunnes offensiue rage Pleas'd Atlantiades doth him obay And with discourse protracts the speedy Day Then singing to his Pipes soft melody Endeuors to subdue each wakefull eye The Herds-man striues to conquer vrgent sleepe Though seiz'd on halfe the other halfe doe keepe Obseruant watch He askes who did inuent With that he yawn'd that late-found Instrument Then thus the God his charmed eares inclines Amongst the Hamadryd's and Nonacrines On cold Arcadian Hils for beautie fam'd A Naias dwelt the Nymphs her Syrinx nam'd Who oft deceiu'd the Satyres that pursu'd The rurall Gods and thâ—se whom woods include In exercises and in chast desire Diana like and such in her attire You either in each other might behold Her Bow was Horne Diana's was of Gold Yet oft mistooke â—ar crown'd with Pines returning From steep Lyeaus saw her and Ioue-burning Thus said Faire Virgin grant a Gods request And be his Wife She would not heare the rest But fled from the despis'd as from her shame Till to smooth â—adon's sandy banks shee came There stopt implores the liquid Sisters aid To change her shape and pitty a fore't Maid â—an when he thought he had his Syrinx claspt Betweene his arms Reeds for her body graspt He sighs they stir'd there-with report againe â— mournefull sound like one that did complaine â—apt with the musick Yet O sweet said he Together euer thus conuerse will we Then of vnequall wax-ioyn'd Reeds he fram'd This seuen-fold Pipe of her 't was Syrinx nam'd The sly Cyllenius thus discoursing spyes â—ow leaden sleep had seal'd-vp all his eyes Then silent with his Magick rod he strokes Their languisht lights which sounder sleep prouokes And with his Fawchion lops his nodding head Whose bloud besmear'd the hoarie Rock with red â—here lyes he of so many lights the light â—ut forth his hundred eyes set in one night â—et that those starry iewels might remayne â—turnia fixt them in her Peacocks trayne Inslam'd with anger and impatient haste Before sad â—oÌ„s eyes and thoughts shee plac't Erynnis Snakes and through the World doth driue The conscience-stung affrighted Fugitiue Thou Nile to her long toyle an end didst yeeld Approaching thee shee on thy margent kneel'd Her looks such as shee had to heauen vp-throwes With tears sighs sounds expressing worldlesse woes â—hee seemed Ioue t' accuse as too ingrate And to implore an end of her hard fate â—e clips his Wife and her intreats to free â—he vniustly plagu'd Be confident said he â—hee neuer more shall cause thy griefe or feare His vow he bids the Stygian Waters heare Appeas'd the Nymph recouer'd her first looke Sofaire so sweet the haire her skin forsooke Her horns decrease large eyes wide iawes contract Shoulders and hands againe become exact Her hooues to nailes diminish nothing now But that pure White retaynes shee of the Cow Then on her feete her body she erects Now borne by two Her selfe she yet suspects Nor dares to speake alowd lest she should heare Her selfe to low but softly tries with feare Now thee a Goddesse is ador'd by those That linnen weare where sacred Nilus flowes Hence sprung Ioue's Epaphus no lesse diuine Whose Temples next vnto his Mother's ioyne Equall in yeeres nor equall spirit wants The Sunne-got Phacton who proudly vants Of his high Parentatge nor will giue place Inachides puts on him this disgrace Foole thou thy Mother trusts in things vnknowne And of a Father boasts that 's not thy owne Vext Phaëton blusht his shame his rage repels Who straight to Clymene the slander tels And Mother said he to your grieses increase I free and late so fiery held my peace Asham'd that such a tainture should be lay'd Vpon my bloud that could not be gayn-said But if I be discended from aboue Giue proofe thereof and this reproach remoue Then hangs about her necke by her owne Head By Merope's her Sisters nuptiall bed Inn eats her to produce some certaine gage That might assure his question'd parentage Mou'd with her sonnes intreaty more inflam'd With indignation to be so defam'd She casts her armes to heauen and looking on His radiant Orbe thus said I sweare my son By yoâ— faire Taper that so bright appeares With far-proiected beames who sees and heares That Sun whom thou behold'st who light and hear Affords the informed World did thee beget If not may he to me deny his sight And to my eyes let this be his last light Nor far-remoued doth his Palace stand His first-vprise confines vpon our Land If that thy heart doe serue thee thither goe And there thy Father of thy Father know Hereat ioy'd Phacton enlightned grew Whose towring thoughts no lesse than Heauen pursew His Aethiopia past and Ind which fries With burning beames he climes the Sun's vprise OVID'S METRAMORPHOSIS The second Booke THE ARGVMENT RAsh Phaeton fires the World His sisters mourne Hu Tragedie who into Poplars turne Their teares to Amber Cygnus to a Swan Ioue Phoebe-like Calisto found a
with due fites my pious Nurse-child mee Caieta burnt from Graecian fires set free They loose their cables from the grassie strand Auoiding Cirâ—â—s guilâ—full palace stand For those tall groues where Tybris darke with shades In Tyrrhen Seas his sandy streames vnlades The throne of Faunus sonne the Latian starre Lauini gaine but not without a warre Warre with a furious Nation is commenst Sterne Turnus for his promist wife incenst While all Hetruria to Latium swarmes Hard victory long sought with pensiue armes To get Recrutes from forren States they try Nor Troians nor Rutulians want supply Nor to Euanders towne Aeneaâ—s went In vaine though vainly Venulus was sent To banisht Diâ—meds Citie late immur'd Those fields Iapygian Daunus had insur'd To him in dowre When Venulus had done His embassie to Tydeus warlike sonne The Prince excus'd his aid as loth to draw The subiects of his aged father in law T'vnnecessary warre that none remaine Of his to arme Left you should thinke I faine Though repetition Sorrow renouates Yet while I suffers heare the worst of faâ—es After that Pergamus our prey became And lofty Ilium fed the Graecian flame A Virgin for a Virgins rape let fall Her Vengeance to Oileus due on all Scattered on faithlesse Seas with furious stormes We wretched Graecians suffer'd all the formes Of horror lightning night showres wrath of skies Of Seas and dire Capharean cruelties To abridge the story of so sad a fate Now Priam would haue pitied our estate Yet Pallas snatcht me from the swallowing Maine Then from my vngratefull Country chac't againe For Venus mindfull of her ancient wound New woes inflicts Much on the vast profound Much suffering in terrestriall conflicts I Oft call'd them happy whom the iniury Of publike tempests and importunate Capharcus drown'd and now enui'd their fate The worst indur'd with seas and battles tyr'd My men an end of their long toyle desir'd But Aâ—mon full of fire and fiercer made By vsuall slaughters What remaines he said O mates which now our patience would eschue Though willing what can Cytherea doe More than sh' hath done when worse mishaps affright Then prayers auaile but when Mis-fortunes spight Her worst inflicts then feare is of no vse And height of ills securitie produce Let Venus heare although she hate vs all As all she hates that serue our Generall Yet let vs all despise her emptie hate Whose Powre hath made vs so vnfortunate Plâ—uronion Aâ—man angry Venus stung Reuenge reuiuing with his lauish tongue Few like his words the most seuerely chid His tongues excesse About to haue reply'd His speech and path of speech at once grew small His haire conâ—erts to plume plumes couer all His necke backe bosome larger feathers spring From his rough armes and now his elbowes wing His feet diuide to toes hard horne extends From his chang'd face and in a bill descends Rhetenor Nycteus Lycus Abas Ide Admire and in their admiration try'd Like destiny Most of my Souldiers grew Forthwith new Fowle and round about vs flew If you inquire what shape their owne vn-mans They are not yet are like to siluer Swans These barren fields with this poore remnant I As sonne in law to Daunus scarce inioy Thus farre Oenides Venulus forsakes Tydides Kingdome by Puteoli takes His way and through Mesapia there suruaid A Caue inuiron'd with a syluan shade Distilling streames By halfe-goat Pan possest Which erst the Wood-nymphs with their beauties blest They terrified at first with sudden dread From home bred Apulus the shepheard fled Straight taking heart despised his persuit And danced with a measure-keeping foot He scoffes their motion clowne-like imitates Nor only raileth but obscenely prates Nor ceaâ—eth till a tree inuests his throte A tree whose berries his behauiour note An oliue wilde which bitter fruit affords Becomes dis-seasned with his bitter words Th'Embassador returnes without the sought Aetolian succours the Rutulians fought ' Gainst foes and fortune of that hope depriu'd Whole srteames of bloud from mutuall wounds deriu'd Loe fire-brands to the Nauie Turnus beares And what escaped drowning burning feares Pitch rozen and like ready food for fire Now Valcan feed the hungrie flames aspire Vp to the sailes along the lofty mast And catch the yards with curling smoke embrac't But when the Mother of the Gods beheld Those blazing Pines from top of Ida feld Lowd shalmes and Cymballs vsher'd her repaire Who drawne by bridled Lions through the aire Thus said Thy wicked hands to small effect O Turnus violate what we protect Nor shall the greedy fire a part of those Tall Woods deuoure which shelter our repose With that she thunders powring downe amaine Thicke stormes of skipping haile and clouds of raine Th' Astrâ—an Sonnes in swift concursions ioyne Tossing the troubled aire and Neptunes brine One shee imployes whose speed the rest out-strips That brake the Cables of the Phâ—ygian Ships And dâ—aue them vnder the high-swelling Flood The timber softens flesh proceeds from wood The crooked Sterne to heads and faces growes The Oares to swimming legs fine feet and toes What were their holds to ribbed sides are growne The lengthfull keele presenting the back-bone The yards to armes to haire the tackling grew As formerly so now their colour blew And they but lately of the floods afraid Now in the flouds with virgin pastime plaid These Sea-nymphs borne on mountaines celebrate The Seas forâ—etfull of their former state Yet weighing what themselues so oft endur'd On high-wrought waues oft sinking ships secur'd Exâ—â— â—span as Glacians caâ—â—y those They hate memorious of the Troian woes Who saw Vlysses ships in surges queld With pleased eyes with pleased eyes beheld Alcinous ship in swiftnesse next to none Vnmoueable the wood transform'd to stone 'T was thought this wondrous prodigie would fright The Rutuli and make them ceasoe from fight Both parts persist both haue their Gods to friend And Valour no lesse potent nor contend Now for Lauinia for Latinus crowne Nor dot all Kingdome but for faire renowne Asham'd to lay their brused armes aside Till death or conquest had the quarrell tride Venus her sonne victorious sees at length Great Turnus fell strong Ardea falls of strengâ—h While Turnus stood decour'd by barbarous flame In dying cinders buried From the same A Fowle vnknowne to former ages springs And fannes the ashes with her houering wings Pale colour leanenesse shreeking sounds of woe The image of a captiue City show Who also still the Cities name retaines And with selfe-beating wings of Fate complaines And now Aeneas vertues terminate The wrath of Gods and Iuno's ancient hate An opulent foundation hauing laid For young Iuius by his merit made Now fit for Heauen the Powre who rules in Loue The Gods solicits then imbracing Ioue O Father neuer yet to me vnkinde Now ô inlarge the bountie of thy minde A God-head meane so it a God-head be Aeneas giue that art to him by me A Grand-father th'vn-amiable realmes Suffice it once t' haue seene and Sâ—ygian streames
feet wide open flies The sounding wicket and the deed descries The seruants shreeke the Vainely raised bore T' his mothers house his father dead before His breathlesse corps she in her bosome plac't And in her armes his key-cold limbs imbrac't Lamenting long as wofull parents vse And hauing paid a wofull mothers dues The mournfull Funerall through the City led And to prepared fires conueyes the dead This sorrowfull Procession passing by Her house which bordering on the way their cry To th' eares of Anaxarete arriues Whom now sterne Nemesis to ruine driues Wee 'l see said she these sad solemnities And forth-with to the lofty window highes When seeing Iphis on his fatall bed Her eyes grew stiffe bloud from her visage sled Vsurpt by palenesse Striuing to retire Her feet stuck fast nor could to her desire Diuert her looks for now her stony heart â—t selfe dilated into euery part This Salamis yet keeps to cleere your doubt â—n Venus temple call'd the Looker-out Inform'd by this ô louely Nymph decline Thy former pride and to thy louer ioyne So may thy fruits suruiue the Vernall frost Nor after by the rapefull winds be tost When this the God who can all shapes indue Had said in vaine againe himselfe he grew Th'abiliments of heatlesse Age depos'd And such himselfe vnto the Nymph disclos'd As when the Sunne subduing with his reyes The muffling clouds his golden brow displaies Who force prepares of force there was no need Strucke with his beauty mutually they bleed Vniust Amulius next th' Ausonian State I'y strength vsurpt The nephews to the late Deposed Numiâ—or him re-inthrone Who Rome in Pales Feasts immur'd with stone Now Tatius leades the Sabine Sires to warre Tarpâ—ia's hands her fathers gates vnbarre To death with aâ— melets prest her treasons meed The Sabine Sires like silent Wolues proceed T' inuade their sleeping sonnes and seeke to seazâ— Vpon their gates barr'd by Iliades One Iuno opens though no noise at all The hinges made yet by the barres lowd fall Descry'd by Venus who had put it too But Gods may not what Gods haue done vndoâ— Ausâ—nian Nymphs the places bordering To Ianus held inchased with a spring Their aid sh'implores The Nymphs could not deny A sute so iust but all their flouds vntie As yet the Fane of Ianus open stood Nor was their way impeached by the flood Beneath the fruitfull spring they sulphure turne Whose hollow veines with blacke bitumen burne With these the vapours penetiate below And waters late as cold as Alpin snow The fire it selfe in seruour dare prouoke Now both the posts with flagrant moisture smoke These now-rais'd streames the Sabine Powre exclude Till Mars his Souldiers had their armes indu'd By Romulus then in Batalia led The Roman fields the slaughtred Sabines spred Their owne the Romans Fathers Sonnes in law With wicked steele bloud from each other draw At length conclude a peace nor would contend Vnto the last Two Kings one throne ascend With equall rule But noble Tatius slaine Both Nations vnder Romulus remaine When Mars laid by his shining caske and then Thus spake vnto the Sire of Gods and men Now Father is the time since Rome is growne To such a greatnesse and depends on One To put in act thy neuer-failing word And Romulus a heauenly throne afford You in a synod of the Gods profest Which still I carry in my thankfull brest That one of mine this ô now ratifie Should be aduanc't vnto the starry skie Ioue condescends with clouds the day benights And with flame-winged thunder earth affrights Mars at the signe of his assumption Leanes on his lance and strongly vaults vpon His bloudy Chariot lashes his hot horses With sounding whips and their full speed inforces Who scouring downe the ayrie region staid On faire mount Palatine obscur'd with shade There Romulus assumeth from his Throne Vn-kinglike rendering iustice to his owne Rapt through the aire his mortall members waste Like melting Bullets by a Slinger cast More heauenly faire more fit for lofty shrines Our great and scaâ—let-clad Quirinus shines Then Iuno to the sad Hersâ—lia Lost in her sorrow by a crooked way Sent Iris to deliuer this Command Star of the Latian of the Sabine land Thy sexes glory worthy then the vow Of such a husband of Quirinus now Suppresse thy teares If thy desire to see Thy husband so exceed then follow mee Vnto those woods which on mount Querin spring And shade the temple of the Roman King Iris obayes and by her painted Bow Downe-sliding so much lets Hersilia know When she scarce lifting vp her modest eyes O Goddesse which of all the Deities I know not sure a Goddesse thou cleere light Conduct me ô conduct me to the sight Of my deare Lord which when the Fates shall shew They heauen on me with all the gifts bestow Then with Tâ—aumantias entering the high Romuâ—aâ— Hills a Star shot from the Skie Whose golden beames inflam'd Hersilia's haire When both together mount th'enlightned Aire The Builder of the Roman City tooke Her in his armes and forth-with chang'd her looke To whom the name of Ora he assign'd This Goddesse now is to Quirinus ioyn'd OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS The Fifteenth Booke THE ARGVMENT BLacke Stones conâ—ert to White Pythagoras In Ilium's lingring warre Euphorbus was Of transmigrations of the change of things and strange effâ—cts the learned Samian sings Recur'd Hippolyâ—us 〈◊〉 deiâ—ide Whom safer Age and name of Virbius bids Aegeria thawes into a Spring From Earth Prophetick Tages takes his wondrous birth A Speare a Tree Graâ—â— Cippus vertues 〈◊〉 The â—rowne his Horues present Appollo's Son Assumes a Serpents shape The Soule of Warre Great Caesar slaine becomes a Blazing Starre MEanewhile a man is sought that might sustaine So great a burthen and succeed the raigne Of such a King when true-foreshewing Fame To God-like Numa destinates the same He with his Sabine rites vnsatisfi'd To greater things his able mind appli'd In Natures search Inticed with these cares He leaues his countries Cures and repaires To Croton's City askes what Grecian hand Those walls erected on Italian land One of the Natiues not vnknowing old Who much had heard and seene this story told Ioues sonne inrich't with his Iberian prey Came from the Ocean to Lacinia With happy steps who while his cattle fed Vpon the tender clouer entered Heroick Croton's roofe a welcome Guest And his long trauell recreates with rest Who said departing In the following age A City here shall stand A true presage There was one Mycilus Argolian Alemons issue in thoso times no man More by the Gods affected He who beares The dreadfull Club to him in sleepe appeares And said Begon thy countries bounds forsake To stony Aesarus thy iourney take And threatens vengeance if he dis-obay The God and Sleepe together flew away He rising on the Vision meditates Which in his doubtfull soule he long debates The God commands the Law forbids to goe Death due to such as left their Country so Cleare