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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96134	A continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia wherein is handled the loves of Amphialus and Helena Queen of Corinth, Prince Plangus and Erona. With the historie of the loves of old Claius and young Strephon to Urania. Written by a young gentlewoman, Meis A.W.	Weamys, Anna, b. ca. 1630.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1189; Thomason E1288_2; ESTC R208978	60,679	228

A CONTINUATION of Sir PHILIP SYDNEY's ARCADIA Wherein is handled The LOVES of AMPHIALUS and HELENA Queen of Corinth Prince PLANGUS and ERONA With the Historie of the LOVES of Old Claius and Young Strephon to Vrania Written by a young Gentlewoman Mris A. W. LONDON Printed by William Bentley and are to be sold by Thomas Heath near the Pyazza of the Coven-Garden Anno Dom. 1651. To the two unparalleld SISTERS and Patterns of Virtue The Ladie ANNE PERPOINT and The Ladie GRACE PERPOINT Daughters to the Right Honourable the Marquess of DORCHESTER IF I had not observed that the greatest humilitie reigns in the bosoms of the Noblest Personages I should not presume to Dedicate this most unworthie Fabrick to your Honours especially when I consider the poorness of my endeavours and admire the Learned Sidney's Pastimes Whereof I beseech you charitably to believe that my ambition was not raised to so high a pitch as the Title now manifests it to be until I received Commands from those that cannot be disobeyed But however if your Ladiships will graciously vouchsafe to peruse such a confused Theam I shall harbour the better opinion of it and shall acknowledge my self as in all Gratefulness Your Honours devoted Servant A. W. The STATIONER to the ingenious READER MArvel not to find Heroick Sidney's renowned Fansie pursued to a close by a Feminine Pen Rather admire his prophetical spirit now as much as his Heroical before Lo here Pigmalion's breathing statue Sir Philip's fantasie incarnate both Pamela's Majestie and Philoclea's Humilitie exprest to the life in the person and style of this Virago In brief no other than the lively Ghost of Sydney by a happie transmigration speaks through the organs of this inspired Mine rva. If any Critical ear disrealish the shrilness of the Note let it be tuned to Apollo's Lyre and the harmonie will soon be perceived to be much better and the Ladie appear much more delightfull to her Musidorus So wisheth Thine and Her servant T. H. On the Ingenious CONTINUATION of Sir PHILIP SYDNEY's ARCADIA By Mistress A. W. NO thing doth greater disadvantage bring Than by too great commending of a thing Thus Beauty's injur'd when the searching eye Deceiv'd by others over flatterie Finding that less was magnify'd before Thinks there is none because there is no more Art suffers too by this for too great praise Withers the greenness of the Poets Bays For when mens expectations rise too high Ther 's nothing seen or read will satisfie This fault is epidemical do but ore-look The Stationers Stall 't is spoke in ev'ry book Where some are so voluminous become With Prefaces of this kind as scarce a room Is left for th' Authours self But I can quit My self of this till now I never writ Nor had I done it now but that a She Did tempt my pressing for her companie From whence when she 's return'd pray use her wel She 's young but yet ingeniously will tell You prettie Stories and handsomly will set An end to what great Sydney did beget But never perfected these Embryons she Doth Mid wife forth in full maturitie Nor is 't where things are left undone a sin To seek to end what greater ones begin Therefore who ere reads their ingenious style Not with a Frown compare them but a Smile She does not write for Criticks for who ere Loves for to be censorious forbear Then this of both let nothing else be said This Sydney's self did write but this a Maid H. P. M. To the Ingenious LADIE the Authour of the Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's ARCADIA FAir Authour though your Sex secure you so That all your Dictates will for Classick go Yet to be lik'd thus onely will sound less Our Approbation than our Tenderness Because the Civil World will judgement spend That we are bound in Manhood to commend Taking our praises level from that sight Of what you are more than from what you write Whence Critick-wits this nice pretence will find That we our Courtship speak but not our Mind But when they single each respect apart Viewing the Virgin there and here the Art Their Prejudice will then to wonder reach Not spent on both Vnited but on Each For though the Stars shine in a Beauteous Sphere Yet are they not more Stars for shining there But would boast lustre of as great a force Though their containing Orbs were dim and course F. L. On the Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's ARCADIA By Mistress A. W. MVch of the Terrene Globe conceal'd doth lie Cheating the Searchers curious industrie ARCADIA too till now but partly was discri'd Sydney her beautie view'd fell Love-sick and dy'd Ere he could show the world her perfect state And glorie interrupted by his Fate Amazement at her Frame did him betray In each rare Feature too too long a stay Till being benighted left imperfect this Earth's Paradise to possess me perfect is In pitie o' th' loss and to repair 't believe His gallant generous spirit a reprieve From 's sleeping dust hath punchas't Deaths malice Defying with a timely Metempsychosis He breathes through female Organs yet retains His masculine vigour in Heroick strains Who hears't may some brave Amazon seam to be Not Mars but Mercury's Champion Zelmane And well he may for doubtless such is she Perfection givest ' Arcadia's Geographie Arcadia thus henceforth disputed is Whether Sir Philip's or the Countesses F. W To Mistress A. W. Upon her ADDITIONALS to Sir PHILIP SYDNEY's ARCADIA IF a Male Soul by Transmigration can Pass to a Female and Her spirits Man Then sure some sparks of Sydney's soul have flown Into your breast which may in time be blown To flames for 't is the course of Enthean fire To warm by degrees and brains to inspire As Buds to Blossoms Blossoms turn to Fruit So Wits ask time to ripen and recruit But Yours gives Time the start as all may see By these smooth strains of early Poefie Which lik● Rays of one kind may well aspire If Phoebus please to a Sydneyan fire JAM HOVVEL On the Continuation of Sir Philip Sydney's ARCADIA By Mistress A. W. LAy by your Needles Ladies take the Pen The onely difference 'twixt you and Men 'T is Tyrannie to keep your Sex in aw And make Wit suffer by a Salick Law Good Wine does need no Bush pure Wit no Beard Since all Souls equal are let all be heard That the great World might nere decay the Main What in this Coast is lost in that doth gain So when in Sydney's death Wit ebb'd in Men It hath its Spring-tide in a Female Pen A single Bough shall other Works approve Thine shall be Crown'd with all DODONA's-Grove F. VAUGHAN A CONTINUATION of Sr PHILIP SYDNEY's ARCADIA Wherein is handled the Loves of Amphialus and Helen Queen of Corinth Prince Plangus and Erona With the Historie of the Loves of old Claius and young Strephon to Vrania IN the time that Basilius King of Arcadia with Genecea his Queen and

the prettie Urania as the reviver of their languishing hopes and Strephon yielding to Claius the preheminence by reason of his years he with great reverence to Basilius with the Bride-grooms and Brides Thus spake Dread Soveraign and most Illustrious Princes we beseech you not to reckon it among the number of misdemeanors that we shadow the brightness of this Nuptial day with our clowdie Fortunes since our aim is to disperse our envious mists and to make it the more glorious by celebrating a Feast and though our triumph cannot amount to such splendor as the four great Monarchs doth whose flourishing Dominions can onely satisfie their gladness by their Princes pomp yet harbour the belief pardon me if I say amiss that our Bride may equal yours in Beautie though not in rich attire and in noble virtues though not in Courtly accoutrements her Soul the Impartial Diadem of her delicate Bodie is certainly incomparable to all other of her sex though heavenly This Mistress of perfections is Urania the Shepherdess she it is that causes my eyes to ebb and flow my joynts to tremble at her looks and my self to perish at her frowns but I will not insist too much upon your Highness patience on this Subject her self is an evident witness of all and more than I have Charactered and Gracious Sirs as I am bound by all dutie and Allegiance to live under the servitude of my Lord Basilius as well as under his protection so am I not confin'd from gratefulness to such as will obliege me in this my prostrate condition or in any extremitie for the Destinies have allotted such cruel Fates to my Friend Claius and me whose entire affections are never to be severed that we both are slaves to Urania's pierceing Eyes Oh we both are vassals to her devoted graces yet so much do we esteem of our unfeigned Friendship that we will rather abandon all happiness than to cause a discontent or suspition of our real wishes of one anothers prosperitie out of which intention we submit to be ruled by the judgement of you renowned Bridegrooms whose prudence and justice is not to be swayed by any partialitie to you it is that we do humbly petition to distinguish which of us two may best deserve to be admitted into Urania's spotless thoughts as her lawfull Husband Claius had not ceased his suit so suddenly but that Strephon interrupted him thus abruptly Good Claius bar the passage of thy tongue and grant me libertie to speak and ease my fierce torment the reverence I bear to your age and my sinceritie to your person permitted you to disburden your fancie first but not to deprive me of the same priviledge Know then most excellent Princes that this incomparable Urania O her virtues cannot be expressed by humane creatures for at the very mentioning of her name my tongue faltered and my self condemns my self for being too presumptuous but yet this once we strive against her powers that thus possesses me and will not be perswaded from telling you that she is compounded so artificially as she cannot be paralleld nor described for believe it she is above the capacitie of the most studious Philosopher and do not harbour I beseech you a prejudicial opinion of her under the notion of her entertaining two lovers at one instant since it hath been always contrarie to her chast disposition to accept of the least motion concerning a married life and for Platonick Courtiers her heavenly modestie is a palpable witness of her innocencie Besides the many dolorous hours that my friend Claius and I have passed away our onely recreation we enjoyed being in recounting the careless actions she used when we declared our passions and commending our choice though she was cruel But when this your happie day was prefixed she shot forth beams of goodness on us and in charitie she concluded that her intentions were far from our destructions and since now she perceived our lives were in jeopardie and we depended onely upon her reply she would no longer keep us in suspence but was resolved her Nuptials should be solemnized on this day following the example of the two Royal Sisters whom she ever adored And because she would not be an instrument to disturb that knot of Friendship between Claius and me she referred her choice to your wisdoms worthie Sirs the excellent Sisters Bride-grooms you it is whom she desires to pronounce either my felicitie or my overthrow Then Strephon closing his speech with an innumerable companie of long-fetcht sighs departed to his Goddess Urania who was environed by her fellow Shepherdesses which in admiration love or envie stood gazing on her but he pressed through the thickest of them to do homage to her sweet self she looking on him carelesly without either respecting or disdaining him But aged Claius had cast himself at the Princes feet where he pleaded for his own felicitie on this manner Consider my ancient years and in compassion think how easily grief may cut off the term of my life when youthfull Strephon may baffle with Love and Court some other Dame I le finde him one who shal be as pleasing to his eyes as Urania is in mine unless the fates have raised him to be my victorious Rival But alas O tell me Strephon did I ever injure thee that thou seekest my untimely death hast not thou ever been in my sight as a jewel of an unvalued rate why dost thou then recompense me so unkindly I know thou wilt argue that the passion of Love with a Woman and with such an one as Urania is cannot be contradicted by the nearest relations But I pray thee Strephon cannot the importunities of me thy Foster-friend regulate nay asswage thy passions to keep me from perishing Now Strephon when he had revived his drooping heart with perusing the delicate Urania and fearing that Claius was supplicating to Pyrocles and Musidorus for her he returned back happening to come at the minute when Claius questioned him to whom he thus replied What the Gods have appointed cannot be prevented nor quenched by the powerfullest perswasions of any Mortal and let that suffice Claius being so fully answered to his conjecture rested silent to hear his sentence Strephon who was of a more sprightly constitution recreated himself sometimes with glosing upon Urania and then to observe the looks of the Princes as they were conferring together about what to determin on concerning them Besides his Pastoral songs that he sounded in Urania's praise But the Princes who were then in serious consultation listened to Basilius who advised them in this manner Despise not Claius his complaints though he be afflicted with the infirmities of old age youthfull Strephon may seem more real and pleasing to the eye yet Claius his heart I am confident is the firmest settled Youth is wavering Age is constant Youth admires Novelties Age Antiquities Claius hath learned experience by age to delight Urania with such fancies as may be suitable to her