The King his sonne to seeke his daughter sent Fore-doomed to perpetuall banishment Except his fortune to his wish succeed How pious and how impious in one deed Earth wandred-through Ioue's thefts who can exquire He shuns his Country and his Fathers ire With Phoebus Oracle consults to know What Land the Fates intended to bestow Who thus In desart fields obserue a Cow Yet neuer yoaâ—t nor seruile to the plow Follow her slow conduct and where shee shall Repose there build the place Boeotia call Scarce Cadmus from Castalian Caue descended When he a Hecfer saw by no man tended Her neck vngall'd with groning seruitude The God ador'd he foot by foot pursew'd Cephisus floud and Panope now past Shee made a stand to heauen her fore-head cast With loftie horns most exquisitely faire Then with repeated lowings fild the Ayre Looks back vpon the company sheeled And kneeling makes the tender grasse her bed Thanks-giuing Cadmus kift the vnknowne ground The stranger fields and hills saluting round About to sacrifice to heauen's high King He sends for water from the liuing Spring A Wood there was which neuer Axe did hew In it a Caue where Reeds and Osiers grew Rooft with a rugged Arch by Nature wrought With pregnant waters plentifully fraught The lurking Snake of Mars this Hold possest Bright scal'd and shining with a golden crest His bulk with poyson swolne fire-red his eyes Three darting tongues three ranks of teeth comprise This fatall Well th' vnlucky Tyrians found Who with their down-let Pitcher rays'd a sound With that the Serpent his blew head extends And suffering Ayre with horrid hisses rends The water from them fell their colour fled Who all astonisht shook with sudden dread Hee wreaths his scaly foldes into a heape And fetcht a compasse with a mightie leape Then bolt-vpright his monstrous length displayes More than halfe way and all the Woods suruayes Whose body when all seene no lesse appeares Than that which parts the two Coelestiall Beares Whether the Tyrians sought to fight or flie Or whether they through feare could neither trie Some crash the 'twixt his iawes some claspt to death Some kils with poyson others with his breath And now the Sunne the shortest shadowes made Then Cadmus wondring why his seruants stay'd Their foot-steps trac't A hide the Hero's wore Which late he from a slaughtred Lyon tore His Arms a dart a bright steele-pointed Speare And such a minde as could not stoope to feare When he the Wood had entred and there view'd The bodies of the slaine with bloud imbrew'd Th' insulting victor quenching his dire thirst At their suckt wounds he sigh 't as heart would burst Then said I will reuenge O faithfull Mates Your murders or accompany your Fates With that he lifteth vp a mighty stone which with a more than manly force was throwne What would haue batter'd downe the strongest wall And shiuered towres doth giue no wound at all The hardnesse of his skin and scales that grow Vpon his armed back repell the blowe And yet that strong defence could not so well The vigour of his thrilling Dart repell Which through his winding back a passage rends There sticks the steele into his guts descends Rabid with anguish hoe retorts his looke Vpon the wound and then the iaueling tooke Betweene his teeth it euery way doth winde At length tugg'd out yet leaues the head behind His rage increast with his augmenting paines And his thick-panting throte swels with full veines A cold white froth surrounds his poys'nous iawes On thundring Earth his trayling scales he drawes Who from his black and Stygian maw eiect's A blasting breath which all the grasse infects His body now he circularly bends Forthwith into a monstrous length extends Then rusheth on like showr-incensed Floods And with his brest ore-beares the obuious Woods The Prince gaue way who with the Lyon's spoyle Sustayn'd th' assault and fore't a quick recoyle His Lance fixt in his iawes What could not feele He madly wounds and bites the biting steele Th' inuenom'd gore which from his palate bled Conuerts the grasse into a duskie red Yet slight the hurt in that the Snake with-drew And so by yeelding did the force subdew Till Agenorides the steele imbrew'd In his wide throte and still his thrust pursew'd Vntill an Oke his back-retrait with-stood There he his neck transsixt with it the Wood. The Tree bends with a burden so vnknowne And lashed by the Serpents taile doth grone While he suruay'd the hugenesse of his foe This voyce he heard from whence he did not know Why is that Serpent so admir'd by thee Agenor's sonne a Serpent thou shalt bee He speechlesse grew pale feare repeld his blood And now vncurled haire like bristles stood Behold mans Fautresse Pallas from the sky Descending to his needfull aide stood by Who bade him in the turn'd-vp surrowes throw The Serpents teeth that future men might grow He as commanded plow'd the patient Earth And therein sow'd the seeds of humane birth Lo past beliefe the Clods began to moue And tops of Lances first appear'd aboue Then Helmets nodding with their plumed Crefts Forth-with refulgent Pouldrons plated Brests Hands with offensiue weapons charg'd insew And Target-bearing troops of Men vp-grew So in our Theater's solemnities When they the Arras rayse the Figures rise Afore the rest their faces first appeare By little and by little then they reare Their bodies with a measure-keeping hand Vntill their feet vpon the border stand Bold Cadmus though much daunted at the sight Of such an Host addrest him to the fight Forbeare a new-borne Souldier cry'd t' ingage Thy better fortune in our ciuill rage With that he on his earth-bread brother flew At whom a deadly dart another threw Nor he that kild him long suruiucs his death But through wide wounds expires his infant breath Slaughter with equall furie runs through all And by vnciuill ciuill blowes they fall The new-sprung Youth who hardly life possest Now panting kick their Mother's bloudy brest But fiue suruiu'd of whom Echion one His Armes to Earth by Pallas counsell throwne He craues the loue he offers All accord As Brothers should and what they take afford Sidonian Cadmus these assist to build His loftie walls the Oracle fulfild Now flourisht Thebes now did thy exile proue In shew a blessing those that rule in loue And warre thy Nuptials with their daughter grace By such a Wife to haue so faire a race So many sonnes and daughters nephewes too The pledges of their peacefull beds insew And they now growne to excellence and powre But Man must censur'd be by his last houre Whom truly we can neuer happy call Afore his death and closing funerall In this thy euery way so prosperous state Thy first misse-hap sprung from thy Nephew's fate Whose browes vnnaturall branches ill adorne By his vngratefull dogs in pieces torne Yet fortune did offend in him not he For what offence may in an error be With purple bloud slaine Deare the Hills imbrew
so to Theseus Peleus name Stoopes to Achilles That I may confer Th' illustrious to their equalls Iupiter So Saturne tops Iouâ— rules the arched Skie And triple-World thâ— Earths vast Monarchie T' Augustus bowes both Fathers and both sway You Gods Aeneas mates who made your way Through fire and sword you Gods of men become Quirinus Father of triumphant Rome Thou Mars inuincible Quirinus Sire Chast Vâ—sta with thy euer-burning fire Among great Caesars Houshold-Gods inshrin'd Domesticke Phoebus with his Vesta ioyn'd Thou Ioue Whom in Tarpeian towres we adore And you all you whom Poets may implore Slow be that day and after I am dead Wherein Augustus of the world the Head Leauing the Earth shall vnto Heauen repaire And 〈◊〉 those that seeke to him by prayer And now the Worke is ended which Ioue's rage Nor Fire nor Sword shall raze nor eating Age. Come when it will my deaths vncertaine howre Which only of my body hath a powre 〈…〉 Part transcend the skier And my immortall name shall neuer die For where-so-ere the Roman Eagles spread Their conquering wings I shall of all be read And if we Prophets truly can diuine I in my liuing Fame shall euer shine planations With these I had thought in their seuerall places to haue charged the margent but the hastinesse of the Presse and vnexpected want of leasure haue preuented me The same reason may serue for diuers slips aed errours which I not only know but acknowledge Yet if the too cleanly Criticke sweepe not all the dust together and lay it on one heape it may perhaps be hardly discerned howsoeuer borne-with in so long and interrupted a labour A ABantiades pag. III. vers 7. Actisius the Sonne of Abas King of Argos Abantiades pag. 117. vers 4 and pag. 124. vers 25. and pag. 128. vers 21. Perseus great grand-childe to Abas Acheloides the Syrens daughters to Achelous Acheron a Riuer in Hell and signifies depriuation of Ioy. Acrisionides Perseus grand-childâ— to Acrisius Actorides pag. 212. vers 20. Euritus and Creatus the sonnes of Actor Actorides pag. 359. vers 13. Patroclus grand-childe to Actor The Aeacides pag. 188. vers 19. Peleus Telamon and Phocus sonnes to Aeacus Aeacides pag. 297. vers 7. and 32. pag. 302. vers 6. Peleus the son of Aeacus Aeacides pag. 321. vers 21. and thence-forth Achillles the grand-childe of Aeacus Aello one of the Harpyes Aeetias Mâ—dea the daughter of Aeeta Aegides Theseus the sonne of Ae geus Aegis Minerua's shield Aeolian Virgin pag. 149. vers 24. Arne the daughter of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 107. vers 31. Athamas the sonne of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 194. vers 20. Cephalus the grandchild of Aeolus Aeolides pag. 250. vers 17. Macareus and Canace the sonne and daughter of Aeolus Aesonides Iason the sonne of Aeson Agenorides Cadmus the sonne of Agenor 〈◊〉 Otus and Ephialtes got by Neptune on the wife of Aloeus Alcides a name of Hercules which signifies strength Amâ—zonian Heros Hippolytus sonne to Hippolyte the Amazonian Amiclydes Hyacinthus the sonne of Amyclas Amphritâ—ite the daughter of Oceanus and wife to Neptune taken for the Sea Amphitryonides Hercules the son of Amphitryo Ampycides Mopsus the sonne of Ampycus Anubis an Idoll of the Aegyptians with the head of a dog Apis. a blacke Oxe spotted with white worshipped by the Aegyptians in remembrance of Osiris Aphrodites a name of Venus in that sprung from the foam of the Sea Arcturus a Star in the taile of the Greater Beare Astraea Iustice so called of Astraeus a most iust Prince Astraean sons The winds sons to the Gyant Astraenâ— Athamantiades Palaemon the sonne of Athamas Atlantiades pag. 24. vers 8 and pag. 48. vers 13. Mercurie the grand-childe of Atlaâ— Atlantiades pag. 102. vers 23. Hermaphroditus the sonne of Mercurie and great grand-childe of Atlas Atracides Caeneus so called of Atrax a Citie of Thessalie Atrides Agamemnon sometimes Menelaus both sonnes to Atreus Auernian Iuno Proserpina Auernus a lake in hell oâ—er which no birds can flie without falling Autonoeius Actaeon the sonne of Autonoe Gadmus daughter Auster The South-wind B BAcchiadae the off-spring of Bacchia the Corinthian Bacchanals Women solemnizing the feast of Bacchus Belides the Necces of Belus and daughters of Danaus Berecynthian pag. 293. vers 9. Midas of Berecynthus a Citie of Phrygia Bootes the Star that followes Charles Waine Boreas the North-wind Bromius a name of Bacchus which signifies raging Bubastis an Aegyptian Goddesse companion to Isis C CArpathian Prophet Proteus a God of the Sea Cecropides the daughters of Cecrops King of Athens Centaures said to be halfe men and halfe beasts in that they were the first that rid on horses Cerastae men with hornes Cerberus the Hell-bound with three heads signifing a deâ—ourer of the dead Chimaera a monster hauing the face of a woman the body of a goat and the taile of a Serpent Colchis Medea so called of Colchis where shee was borne Crataeis daughter Sâ—ylla Cyclades Ilands in the Aegaean Sea dispersed in forme of a cycle Cyclops Giants and sons of Neptune so called of the round eye which they had in their fore-hâ—ads Cyclopâ—an darts Thundâ—r and Lightning forged by the Cyclops Cyllenius a name of Mercuric in that borne on the hill Cyllene Cynthius Cynthia names of Apollo and Diana of Cynthus a hill in Delo where they were borne Cyprides a names of Venus of the Iland of Cyprus where shee was worshipped Cytherea a name of Venus of the Iland Cythera dedicated to Venus D DAnaean Heros Perseus the son of Dance Dâ—rdan Prophet Helenus the son of Prianâ— Hymen the God of marriage sometimes takèn for marriage Hyperion sometimes taken for the Sun sometimes for the father of the Sun I IAcchus a name of Bacchus which signifies clamour Iapetonides Atlas the sonne of Iapet Idalia Venus of Idalia a hill in Cyprus where she had her groues Ilia des pag. 267. vers 4 Ganymed grand-child to Ilus Iliades pag. 412. vers 18. Romulus descended from Ilus Ilithyia a name of Lucina Goddesse of child birth Inachis pag. 21. vers 30. Iö the daughter of Inachus Inachides pag. 26. vers 19. Epaphus the sonne of Iö and grand-child of Inachus Inachides pag. 115. vers 5. Perseus The Argolians being so called of the riuer Inachus Iö an acclamation of joy where it stands not for Io the daughter of Inachus Iris. the Raine-bow Ismenides Ismenians Thebans so called of Ismenus a riuer of Boeotia Ithacus Vlysses of the land Ithaca where he was borne Iülus a name of Ascanius L LEmnian issue pag. 55. vers 22. Erichthonius son to Vulcan who dwelt in Lemnos Lenaeus a name of Bacchus of the vessell that receiues the wine from the presse Lethe a riuer of Hell and signifies forgetfulnesse Liber a name of Bacchus in that wine sreeth the heart from sorrow Lucifer the Morning Starre Lyaeus a name of Bacchus the same with Liber M MAeandrius Caunus grand-child by the mothers side to the riuer Maeander Maedusean Herse Pegasus sprung from the bloud of Medusa Maeonidae the Muses Of Maeonia where they dwelt Paeons the daughters of Pierus so called of the woods of Paeonia which they frequented Palladium the Image of Pallas Paphian Heros Pigmalion of Paphos Pelides Achilles the son of Peleus Persephone The same with Proserpina Phasias a name of Medea from the riuer Phasts Phegides Themenus and Axion the sonnes of Phegeus Pheres hope Admetus the son of Pheres Phlegeton a burning river in hell Phoebus Phoebe names of the Sun and Moone in regard of their splendor Phorcydes the daughter of Phorcus Phoronis Iô the sister of Phoroneus Pleias Maia one of the Pleiades and mother to Mercury Pleiones Nephew Mercury grand-childe to Pleione the wife of Atals Poeans Heire Poeantius Philoctetes the sonne of Paean Prâ—amides pag. 355 vers 32. Hector the son of Priamus Promerhides Deucalion the sonne of Prometheus Properides Infamous women of Cyprus Q QVirinus a name of Romulus Quirites Romans so called of Quirinus R RHamnusia a name of Nemesis of the city Rhamnus where she badher Temple S SAturnius Saturnia Iupiter and Iuno the sonne and daughter of Saturne Smintheus a name of Apollo for destroying of mice Sol. the Sun Stygian shades Hell socalled of Styx an infernall riuer T TAntalides pag. 348. vers 15. Agamemnon grand-child to Tantalus Taygeta one of the Pleiades or seven Starres Tellus the Earth Teucrans Troians descended of Teucer Thaumantias Iris the daughter of Thaumas Thâ—spiades the Muses of Thesplae a City neere Helicon Thestiadae Toxeus and Plexippus the sonnes of Thestius Thestias Althaea the daughter of Thestius Thestorides Chalcas the son of Thestor Thyen Bacchus of Thyone a name of his mother Semele Thyrsus a Iauelin woond with Iuy borne by Bacchus Titan. a name of the Sun from his mother Titea whose 45. children were generally called by the name of Titans Titania p. 14. v. 19 Pyrrha descended of the Titans Titania pag. 67. vers 19. and pag. 179. vers 5. Diana grand-child to Titaea Titania pag. 157. vers 11. Latona daughter to Coeus one of the Titans Titania pag. 386. vers 13. Circe descended of the Titans Triones the seuen stars that turne about the Pole Triopeius Eresichâ—hon the sonne of Triopas Tritonia Pallas so called for her wisdome Troades the women of Troy Tydides Diomedes the sonne of Tydeus Tyndaridae Castor and Pollux the sons of Tyndarus Tyrinthian Hercules of Tyrus V VVlcans seed pag. 186. vers 19. Periphaâ—us Z ZEphyruâ—â—the West-wind FINIS Trist â—libâ— Elegia 6. Controu 10. Hist lib. 2. In Ose cap â— De Cursâ— Deâ— In Natricia 〈…〉 〈…〉 In Heroibus In praesar Comment In Principio Additionum
stroue with childish care and speed To fill her lap and others to exceed Dis saw affected carryed her away Almost at once Loue could not brooke delay The sad-fac't Goddesse cryes with feare appall'd To her Companions oft her Mother call'd And as she tore th'adornment of her haire Down fell the flow'rs which in her lap shee bare And such was her sweet Youth's simplicitie That their losse also made the Virgin crie The Rauisher flies on swift wheeles his horses Excites by name and their full speed inforces Shaking for haste the rust-obscured raignes Vpon their cole-black nâ—â—ks and shaggy maines Through Lakes through Palicine which expires A sulphrous breath through earth ingendring fires They passe to where Corinthian Bacchides Their Citie built betweene vnequall Seas The Land 'twixt Aretâ—â—sa and Cyâ—ne With stretcht-out hornes begirts th'included Sea Here Cyane who gaue the Lake a name Amongst Sicilian Nymphs of speciall fame Her head aduanc't who did the Goddesse know And boldly said You shall no farther goe Nor can you be vnwilling Ceâ—es son What you compell perswasion should haue won If humble things I may compare with great Anapis lou'd me yet did he intreat And me not frighted thus espous'd This said With out-stretcht armes his farther passage staid His wrath no longer Pluto could restraine But giues his terror-striking steeds the raigne And with his Regall mace through the profound And yeelding water cleaues the solid ground The breath t'infernall Tartarus extends At whose darke iawes the Chariot descends But Cyane the Goddesse Rape laments And her owne iniur'd Spring whose discontents Admit no comfort in her heart shee beares Her silent sorrow now resolues to teares And with that Fountayne doth incorporate Whereof th' immortall Deitic but late Her softned members thaw into a dow Her nailes lesse hard her bones now limber grew The slendrest parts first melt away her haire Fine fingers legs and feet that soone impaire And drop to streames then arms back shoulders side And bosom into little Currents glide Water in stead of blood fils her pale veines And nothing now that may be graspt remaines Mean-while through all the earth and all the Maine The fearfull Mother sought her childe in vaine Not deawy-hayr'd Aurora when shee rose Nor Hesperus could witnesse her repose Two pitchy Pines at flaming Aeâ—na lights And restlesse carries them through freezing Nights Againe when Day the vanquisht Starres supprest Her vanisht comfort seeks from East to West Thirsâ—y with trauell and no Fountayne nye A cottage thatcht with straw inuites her eye At th' humble gate she knocks An old wife showes Her selfe thereat and seeing her bestowes The water so desir'd which shee before Had boyl'd with barly Drinking at the doore A rude hard-fauour'd Boy beside her stood Who laught and cald her greedy-gut Her blood Inflam'd with anger what remayn'd shee threw Full in his face which forthwith speckled grew His armes conuert to legs a taile withall Spines from his changed shape of body small Lest he might proue too great a foe to life Though lesse yet like a Lizard th' aged wife That wonders weeps and feares to touch it shuns And presently into a creuise runs Fit to his colour they a name elect With sundry little stars all-ouerspeckt What Lands what Seas the Goddesse wandred through Were long to tell Earth had not roome enough To Sicil shee returns where ere shee goes Inquires and came where Cyane now flowes Shee had shee not beene changed all had told Now wants a tongue her knowledge to vnfold Yet to the mother of her daughter gaue A sure ostent who bore vpon a waue Persepbone's rich zone that from her fell When through the sacred Spring she sunke to hell This seen and knowne as but then lost shee tare Without selfe-pitty her dis-sheueled haire And with redoubled blowes her brest inuades Nor knowes what Land t' accuse yet all vpbraids Ingrate vnworthy with her gifts t' abound Triâ—acria chiefly where the steps shee found Of her misfortunes Therefore there shee brake The furrowing plough the Oxe and owner strake Both with one death then bade the fields beguile The trust impos'd shrunk seed corrupts That soile So celebrated for fertilitie Now barren grew corne in the blade doth die Now too much drouth annoys now lodging showres Stars smitch winds blast The greedy fowle deuoures The new-sowne graine Kintare and Darnell tire The fetter'd Wheat and weeds that through it spire In Elean waues Alphaeus Loue appeard And from her dropping haire her fore-head clear'd O Mother of that far-sought Maid thou friend To life said she here let thy labour end Nor be offended with thy faithfull Land That blamelesse is nor could her rape with-stand I here a guest not for my Country plead My Country Pisa is in Elis bred And as an Alien in Sicania dwell But yet no Country pleaseth me so well I Arethusa now these Springs possesse This is my seat which courteous Goddesse blesse Why I affect this place t' Ortrgia came Through such vast Seas I shall impart the same To your desire when you more fit to heare Shall quit your care and be of better cheare Earth giues me way through whose darke cauerns roll'd I here ascend and vnknowne stars behold While vnder ground by Styx my waters glide Your sweet Proserpina I there espy'd Full sad shee was euen then you might haue seen Feare in her face and yet shee is a Queen And yet shee in that gloomy Empire swayes And yet her wâ—ll th' infernall King obayes Stone-like stood Ceres at this heauy newes And staring long continued in a muse When griefe had quickned her stupiditie Shee tooke her Chariot and ascends the skie There veiled all in clouds with scattered haire Shee kneeles to Iupiter and made this pray'r â— Both for my blood and thine ô Ioue I sew If I be nothing gracious yet doe you A Father to your Daughter proue nor be Your care the lesse because shee sprung from me Lo she at length is found long sought through all The spacious World if you a Finding call What more the losse assures but if to know Her being be to Finde I haue found her so And yet I would the iniurie remit So he the stolne restore 'T were most vnfit That holy Hymen should thy daughter ioyne To such a Thiefe although shee were not mine Then Ioue The pledge is mutuall and these cares To either equall Yet this deed declares Much loue mis-called Wrong nor should we shame Of such a sonne could you but thinke the same All wants suppose can he be lesse than great And be Ioue's brother What when all compleat I but preferr'd by lot Or if you burne In endlesse spleen Let Proserpine returne On this condition That shee yet haue ta'ne No sustenance so Destinies ordaine To fetch her daughter Ceres postes in haste But Fates with-stood the Maid had broke her fast For wandring in the Ort-yard simply shee Pluckt a Pomegranet from the stooping Tree Thence tooke seuen
the partners of his way Piriâ—hous and Lelex the renowne Of Troezen now appearing gray sat downe And whom the Riuer glad of such a guest Preferd vnto the honour of his feast Forth-with bare-footed Nymphs bring in the meat That tane away vpon the table set Crown'd cups of wine When Theseus turnd his face To vnder seas and poynting said What place Is yon' and of what name that stands alone And yet me thinks it should be more then one It is not one the courteous Flood replyes But fiue their neighbourhood deceiues your eyes The lesse t' admire Diana late despis'd Fiue Nymphs they were who hauing sacrifis'd Ten beeues inuited to their festiuall The rurall Gods my selfe forgot by all At this my surges swell I then as great As euer with inraged waters fret The woods from woods and fields from fields I teare With them the Nymphs now mindfull of me beare In exile to the Deep whose waues with mine That then vnited masse of earth dis-ioyne Into as many peeces as in seas Are of the flood imbrac't Echinâ—des Yet see one Ile far ô far off remou'd Call'd Perimâ—le once by me belou'd I from this Nymph her virgin honour tooke Râ—â—â—damas his daughter could not brooke 〈◊〉 cast her from a rock into the Deepe Whom while my thickned streames from sinking keepe 〈◊〉 O Neptune thou that do'st command â—he wandering waues that beat vpon the land To whom we Riuers run in whom we end Incline a gentle care I did offend In wronging whom I beare if pious he Would both haue pittied her and pardon'd me Her whom his furie hath from earth exil'd And in the strangling waters drencht his child A place afford or let her be a place Which I may euer with my streames imbrace His head the King of Surges forward shooke And in assenting all the Ocean strooke The Nymph yet swims although with feare opprest I laid my hand vpon her parting breast While thus I handled her I might perceiue The earth about her stifning body cleaue Now with a masse infolded as she swims An Iland rose from her transformed lims He held his peace This admiration won In all derided by Ixions son By nature rough and one who did despise All able Gods who said Thou tel'st vs lyes And thinkst the Gods too potent as if they Could giue new shapes or take our old away His saying all amaz'd and none approud'd Most Lelex ripe in age and wisdome mou'd Heauens power immense and endlesse none can shun Said he and what the Gods would doe is done To check your doubt on Phrygian hils there growes An Oke by a Line-tree which old wals inclose My selfe this saw while I in Phrygia staid By Pitthens sent where erst his father swaid Hard by a lake once habitable ground Where Coots and fishing Cormorants abound Joue in a humane shape with Mercurie His heeles vnwing'd that way their steps apply Who guest-rites at a thousand houses craue A thousand shut their doores One only gaue A small thatch't Cottage where a pious wife Old Baucis and Phileman led their life Both equall-ag'd In this their youth they spent In this grew old rich onely in content Who pouertie by bearing it declind And made it easie with a chearfull mind None Master not none Seruant could you call They who command obey for two were all Ioue father came with his Cyllenian mate And stooping enters at the humble gate Sit downe and take your ease Philemon said While busie Bauâ—is straw-stuft cushions layd Who stud abroad the glowing coles that lay In smothering ashes â—ak't vp yester-day Dry barke and withered leaues thereon she throwne Whose feeble breath to flame the cinders blowes Then slender clests and broken branches gets And ouer all a little kettle sets Her husband gathers cole-flowrs with their leaues Which from his gretefull garden he receiues Tooke downe a flitch of bacon with a prung That long had in the smokie chimney hung Whereof a little quantitie he cuts And it into the boyling liquor puts This seething they the time beguile with speech Vnser â—word of stay A bowle of beech There by the handle hung vpon a pin This 〈◊〉 with warme water and therein Washe then feet A moste-stuft bed and pillow Lay on a homely bed steed made of willow A 〈…〉 onely vs d at feasts they spred Though course and old yet fit for such a bed Downe 〈◊〉 the Gods The palsie-snaken Dame Sets forth a ta le with three legs one lame And sheâ—ter then the rest a pot share reares This now made leuell with greene mint she cleares Whereon they party-colour'd oliues set Autumnall Cornels in tart pickle wet Coole endiffe radish new egs rosted reare And late-prest cheese which earthen dishes beare A goblet of the selfe same siluer wrought And bowles of beech with wax well varnisht brought Hot victuals from the fire were forth with sent Then wine not yet of perfect age present This tane away the second Course now comes Philberts dry figs with rugged dates ripe plummes Sweet smelling apples disht in osier twines And purple grapes new gatherd from their vines I' th midst a hony combe Aboue all these A chearefull looke and ready will to please Meane-while the Muple cup it selfe doth fill And oft exhausted is replenisht still Astonisht at the miracle with feare Philemon and the aged Baucis reare Their trembling hands in prayre and pardon craue For that poore entertainment which they gaue One Goose they had their cottaqes chiefe guard Which they to hospitable Gods award Who long their slow persuit deluding flies To Iupiter so sau'd from sacrifice W' are Gods said they Reuenge shall all vndoe Alone immunitie we grant to you Together leaue your house and to yon hill Follow our steps They both obey their will The Gods conducting feebly both ascend Their stanes with theirs they with times burden bend A slight-shot from the top reuiew they take Thus stâ—ming Not the Goddesse-lou'd alone But though this were the Godesse shee should downe And sweepe the earth with her aspiring crowne A he aduanc't his armes to strike the Oke 〈◊〉 sigh'd and trembled at the threatning stroke His leaues and acornes pale together grew And colour-changing branches sweat cold deaw Then wounded by his impious hand the blood 〈◊〉 from th' incision in a purple flood Much like a mighty oxe that falls before The sacred altar spouting streames of gore On all amazement seaz'd when One of all The came deterres nor would his axe let fall â—â—ntracting his sterne browes Receiue said he Thy preties reward and from the tree The stroke conuerting lops his head then strake The Oke againe from whence a voice thus spake A Nymph am I within this tree inshrin'd Releu'd ot Ceres O prophane of mind Vengeance is neere thee With my parting breath I prophesie a comfort to my death He still his guilt persues who ouerthrowes With cabels and innumerable blowes The sturdy Oke which nodding long downe rusht And in â—â—s