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A18401 Andromeda liberata. Or the nuptials of Perseus and Andromeda. By George Chapman. Chapman, George, 1559?-1634. 1614 (1614) STC 4964; ESTC S107688 14,373 54

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of all malignity ●o tender good so that yee ill implie ●o treade on Pride but with a greater pride When where no ill but in ill thoughts is tri'd To speake well is a charity diuine The rest retaine the poyson serpentine Vnder their lips that sacred liues condemne And wee may worthily apply to them This tragicke execration perish hee That si●ts too far humane infirmity But as your cupping glasses still exhale The humour that is euer worst of all In all the flesh So these spic't conscienc't men The worst of things explore still and retaine Or rather as in certaine Cities were Some ports through which all rites piaculare All Executed men all filth were brought Of all things chast or pure or sacred nought Entring or issuing there so curious men Nought manly elegant or not vncleane Embrace or bray out Acts of staine are still Their Syrens and their Muses Any ill Is to their appetites their supreme good And sweeter then their necessary food All men almost in all things they apply The By the Maine make and the Maine the By. Thus this sweete Ladies sad exposure was Of all these moodes in men the only glasse But now the man that next to Ioue comptrold The triple world got with a shoure of gold Armed with Medusa's head and Enyos eye The Adamantine sword of Mercury The helme of Pluto and Minerua's Mirror That from the Gorgus made his passe with Terror Came to the rescue of this enuied mayd Drew neere and first in admiration stay'd That for the common ill of all the land She the particular obloquie should stand And that a beauty no lesse then diuine Should men and women finde so serpentine As but to thinke her any such euent Much lesse that eies and hands should giue consent To such a danger and to such a death But though the whole Realme laboured vnderneath So foule an error yet since Ioue and he Tendred her beauty and integretie In spight of all the more he set vp spirit To doe her right the more all wrong'd her merit He that both vertue had and beauty too Equall with her to both knew what to doe The Ruthles still go laught at to the Graue Those that no good will doe no goodnesse haue The minde a spirit is and cal'd the glasse In which we see God and corporeall grace The mirror is in which we see the minde Amongst the fairest women you could finde Then Perseus none more faire mongst worthiest men No one more manly This the glasse is then To shew where our complexion is combinde A womans beauty and a manly minde Such was the halfe-diuine-borne Troian Terror Where both Sex graces met as in their Mirror Perseus of Loues owne forme those fiue parts had Which some giue man that is the loueliest made Or rather that is loueliest enclin'd And beares with shape the beauty of the mind Young was he yet not youthfull since mid-yeeres The golden meane holds in mens loues and feares Aptly composde and soft or delicate Flexible or tender calme or temperate Of these fiue three make most exactly knowne The Bodies temperate complexion The other two the order doe expresse The measure and whole Trim of comelinesse A temperate corporature learn'd Nature saith A smooth a soft a solid flesh bewrayeth Which state of body shewes th' affections State In all the humours to be moderate For which cause soft or delicate they call Our conquering Perseus and but yong withall Since time or yeeres in men too much reuolu'd The subtiler parts of humour being resolu'd More thicke parts rest of fire and aire the want Makes earth and water more predominant Flexible they calde him since his quicke conceit And pliant disposition at the height Tooke each occasion and to Acts approu'd As soone as he was full inform'd he mou'd Not flexible as of inconstant state Nor soft as if too much effeminate For these to a complexion moderate Which we before affirme in him imply A most vnequall contrariety Composure fit for Ioues sonne Perseus had And to his forme his mind fit answere made As to be lou'd the fairest fittest are To loue so to most apt are the most faire Light like it self tran●parent bodies makes At ones act th' other ioint impression takes Perseus as if transparent at first sight Was shot quite thorough with her beauties light Beauty breedes loue loue consummates a man For loue being true and Eleutherean No Iniurie nor con●●●elie beares That his beloued eyther feeles or feares All good-wils enterchange it doth conclude And mans whole summe holds which is gratitude No wisdome noblesse force of armes nor lawes Without loue wins man his compleat applause Loue makes him valiant past all else desires For Mars that is of all heau'ns erring fires Most full of fortitude since he inspires Men with most valour Cytheraea tames For when in heau'ns blunt Angels shine his flames Or he his second or eight house ascends Of rul'd Natiuities and then portends Ill to the then-borne Venus in aspect Sextile or Trine doth being conioyn'd correct His most malignitie And when his starre The birth of any gouernes fit for warre The Issue making much to wrath enclin'd And to the ventrous greatnesse of the minde If Venus neere him shine she doth not let His magnanimity but in order set The vice of Anger making Mars more milde And gets the mastry of him in the childe Mars neuer masters her but if she guide She loue inclines and Mars set by her side Her fires more ardent render with his heat So that if he at any birth be set In th' house of Venus Libra or the Bull The then-borne burnes and loues flames feels at full Besides Mars still doth after Venus moue Venus not after Mars because of Loue Boldnesse is hand-maid Loue not so of her For not because men bold affections beare Loues golden nets doth their affects enfold But since men loue they therefore are more bold And made to dare euen Death for their belou'd And finally Loues Fortitude is prou'd Past all most cleerely for this cause alone All things submit to Loue but loue to none Celestials Animals all Corporeall things Wisemen and Strong Slaue-rich and Free-borne Kings Are loues contributories no guifts can buy No threats can loue constraine or terrifie For loue is Free and his Impulsions still Spring from his owne free and ingenious will Not God himselfe would willing loue enforce But did at first decree his liberall course Such is his liberty that all affects All arts and Acts the minde besides directs To some wish't recompence but loue aspires To no possessions but his owne desires As if his wish in his owne sphere did moue And no reward were worthy Loue but Loue. Thus Perseus stood affected in a Time When all loue but of riches was a crime A fancy and a follie And this fact To adde to loues deseruings did detract For t was a Monster and a monstrous thing Whence he should combat out his
generation shine Thus Perseus sayd and not because he sau'd Her life alone he her in marriage crau'd But with her life the life of likely Race Was chiefe end of his action in whose grace Her royall father brought him to his Court With all the then assembled glad resort Of Kings and Princes where were solemniz'd Th' admired Nuptialls which great Heau'n so priz'● That Ioue againe stoopt in a goulden showre T' enrich the Nuptiall as the Natall howre Of happy Perseus white-armd Iuno to Depos'd her greatnesse and what she could do To grace the Bride Bride-groome was vouchsaf●● All Subiect-deities stoopt to and the Shaft Golden and mutuall with which loue comprest Both th'enuied Louers offerd to and kist All answerablie feasted to their States In all the Starres beames stoopt the reuerend Fates And the rere banquet that fore ranne the Bed With his presage shut vp and seconded And sayd they sung verse that Posteritie In no age should reproue for Perfidie Parcarum Epithalamion O You this kingdomes glory that shall be Parents to so renownd a Progenie As earth shall enuie and heauen glory in Accept of their liues threds which Fates shal spin Their true spoke oracle and liue to see Your sonnes sonnes enter such a Progenie As to the last times of the world shall last Haste you that guide the web haste spindles haste ●ee Hesperus with nuptiall wishes crownd ●ake and enioy In all ye wish abound Abound for who should wish crowne with her store ●ut you that slew what barren made the shore You that in winter make your spring to come Your Summer needs must be Elisium ● race of mere soules springing that shall cast ●heir bodies off in cares and all ioyes taste Haste then that sacred web haste spindles haste Ioue loues not many therefore let those few That his guifts grace affect still to renew For none can last the same that proper is To onely more then Semideities To last yet by renewing all that haue More merit then to make their birth their graue As in themselues life life in others saue First to be great seeke then lou'd then to last Haste you that guide the web haste spindles haste She comes ô Bridegroom shew thy selfe enflam'd And of what tender tinder Loue is flam'd Catch with ech sparke her beauties hurle about Nay with ech thoght of her be rapt throughout Melt let thy liuer pant thy startled heart Mount Loue on earthquakes in thy euery part A thousand hewes on thine let her lookes cast Dissolue thy selfe to be by her embrac't Haste ye that guide the web haste spindles haste As in each bodie there is ebbe and flood Of blood in euery vaine of spirits in blood Of Ioyes in spirits of the Soule in Ioyes And nature through your liues this change imploies To make her constant so each minde retaines Manners and customs where vicicitude reignes Opinions pleasures which such change enchains And in this enterchange all man doth last Haste then who guide the web haste spindles haste Who bodie loues best feedes on dantiest meats Who fairest seed seekes fairest women gets Who loues the minde with loueliest disciplines Loues to enforme her in which verity shines Her beauty yet we see not since not her But bodies being her formes who faire formes beare We view and chiefely seeke her beauties there The fairest then for faire birth see embrac't Haste ye that guide the web haste spindles haste Starres ye are now and ouershine the earth Starres shall ye be heereafter and your birth In bodies rule heere as your selues in heau'n What heer Detraction steals shall there be giuen The boūd that heer you freed shal triumph there The chaine that touch't her wrists shal be a starre Your beauties few can view so bright they are Like you shal be your birth with grace disgrac't Haste ye that rule the web haste spindles haste Thus by diuine instinct the fates enrag'd Of Perseus and Andromeda presag'd Who when the worthy nuptial State was done And that act past which only two makes one Flesh of each flesh and bone of eithers bone Left Cepheus Court both freed and honoured The louing Victor and blest Bride-groome led Home to the Seriphins his rescu'd Bride Who after issue highly magnifi'd Both rapt to heau'n did constellations reigne And to an Asterisme was turn'd the chaine That onely touch't his grace of flesh blood In all which stands the Fates kinde Omen good APODOSIS THus through the Fount of stormes the cruell seas Her Monsters and malignant deities Great Perseus made high and triumphant way To his starre crownd deed and bright Nuptiall day And thus doe you that Perseus place supply In our Ioues loue get Persean victorie Of our Land Whale foule Barbarisme and all His brood of pride and liues Atheisticall That more their pallats and their purses prise Then propagating Persean victories Take Monsters parts not aucthor manly parts For Monsters kill the Man-informing Arts And like a lothed prodegie despise The rapture that the Arts doth naturalise Creating and immortalising men Who scornes in her the Godheads vertue then The Godheads selfe hath boldnesse to despise And hate not her but their Eternities Seeke vertues loue and vicious flatteries hate Heere is not true sweete but in knowing State Who Honor hurts neglecting vertues loue Commits but Rapes on pleasures for not Ioue His power in thunder hath or downeright flames But his chiefe Rule his Loue and Wisedome frames You then that in loues strife haue ouercome The greatest Subiect blood of Crhistendome The greatest subiect minde take and in Both Be absolute man and giue that end your oth So shall my sad astonisht Muse arriue At her chiefe obiect which is to reuiue By quickning honor in the absolute best And since none are but in Eternitie blest He that in paper can register things That Brasse and Marble shall denie euen Kings Should not be trod on by ech present flash The Monster slaine then with your cleere Seas wash From spots of Earth Heauens beauty in the minde ●n which through death hath all true Noblesse shinde FINIS