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A08649	The. xv. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, translated oute of Latin into English meeter, by Arthur Golding Gentleman, a worke very pleasaunt and delectable. 1567.; Metamorphoses. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Golding, Arthur, 1536-1606.	1567 (1567)	STC 18956; ESTC S110249	342,090	434

as in his owne bée soong Wherein although for pleasant style I cannot make account Too match myne author who in that all other dooth surmount Yit gentle Reader doo I trust my trauell in this cace May purchace fauour in thy sight my dooings too embrace Considring what a sea of goodes and Iewelles thou shalt fynd Not more delyghtfull too the eare than frutefull too the mynd For this doo lerned persons déeme of Ouids present woorke That in no one of all his bookes the which he wrate doo lurke Mo darke and secret misteries mo counselles wyse and sage Mo good ensamples mo reprooues of vyce in youth and age Mo fyne inuentions too delight mo matters clerkly knit No nor more straunge varietie too shew a lerned wit The high the lowe the riche the poore the mayster and the slaue The mayd the wife the man the chyld the simple and the braue The yoong the old the good the bad the warriour strong and stout The wyse the foole the countrie cloyne the lerned and the lout And euery other liuing wight shall in this mirrour sée His whole estate thoughtes woordes and déedes expresly shewd too bée Whereof if more particular examples thou doo craue In reading the Epistle through thou shalt thy longing haue Moreouer thou mayst fynd herein descriptions of the tymes With constellacions of the starres and planettes in theyr clymes The Sites of Countries Cities hilles seas forestes playnes and floods The natures both of fowles beastes wormes herbes mettals stones woods And finally what euer thing is straunge and delectable The same conueyed shall you fynd most featly in some fable And euen as in a cheyne eche linke within another wynds And both with that that went before and that that followes binds So euery tale within this booke dooth séeme too take his ground Of that that was reherst before and enters in the bound Of that that folowes after it and euery one giues light Too other so that whoo so méenes too vnderstand them ryght Must haue a care as well too know the thing that went before As that the which he presently desyres too sée so sore Now too thintent that none haue cause héereafter too complaine Of mee as setter out of things that are but light and vaine If any stomacke be so weake as that it cannot brooke The liuely setting forth of things described in this booke I giue him counsell too absteine vntill he bée more strong And for too vse Vlysses feat ageinst the Meremayds song Or if he néedes will héere and sée and wilfully agrée Through cause misconstrued vntoo vice allured for too bée Then let him also marke the peine that dooth therof ensue And hold himself content with that that too his fault is due FINIS ¶ The first booke of Ouids Metamorphosis translated into Englyshe Meter OF shapes transformde to bodies straunge I purpose t● entreate Ye gods vouchsafe for you are they y ●wrought this wōdrous feate To further this mine enterprise And from the world begunne Graunt that my verse may to my time his course directly runne Before the Sea and Lande were made and Heauen that all doth hide In all the worlde one onely face of nature did abide Which Chaos hight a huge rude heape and nothing else but euen A heauie lump and clottred clod of séedes togither driuen Of things at strife among themselues for want of order due No sunne as yet with lightsome beames the shapelesse world did vew No Moone in growing did repayre hir hornes with borowed light Nor yet the earth amiddes the ayre did hang by wondrous slight Iust peysed by hir proper weight Nor winding in and out Did Amphitrytee with hir armes embrace the earth about For where was earth was sea and ayre so was the earth vnstable The ayre all darke the sea likewise to beare a ship vnable No kinde of thing had proper shape but ech confounded other For in one selfe same bodie stroue the hote and colde togither The moyst with drie the soft with hard the light with things of weight This strife did God and Nature breake and set in order streight The earth from heauen the sea from earth he parted orderly And from the thicke and foggie ayre he tooke the lightsome skie Which when he once vnfolded had and seuered from the blinde And clodded heape He setting eche from other did them binde In endlesse friendship to agree The fire most pure and bright The substance of the heauen it selfe bicause it was so light Did mount aloft and set it selfe in highest place of all The second roume of right to ayre for lightnesse did befall The earth more grosse drew down with it eche weighty kinde of matter And set it selfe in lowest place Againe the wauing water Did lastly chalenge for his place the vtmost coast and bound Of all the compasse of the earth to close the stedfast ground Now when he in this foresaid wise what God so ere he was Had broke and into members put this rude confused masse Then first bicause in euery part the earth should equall bée He made it like a mighty ball in compasse as we sée And here and there he cast in seas to whome he gaue a lawe To swell with euery blast of winde and euery stormie flawe And with their waues continually to beate vpon the shore Of all the earth within their boundes enclosde by them afore Moreouer Springs and mighty Méeres and Lakes he did augment And flowing streames of crooked brookes in winding bankes he pent Of which the earth doth drinke vp some and some with rest lesse race Do séeke the sea where finding scope of larger roume and space In steade of bankes they beate on shores He did cōmaund the plaine And champion groundes to stretch out wide and valleys to remaine Aye vnderneath and eke the woods to hide them decently With tender leaues and stonie hilles to lift themselues on hie And as two Zones doe cut the Heauen vpon the righter side And other twaine vpon the left likewise the same deuide The middle in outragious heat excéeding all the rest Euen so likewise through great foresight to God it séemed best The earth encluded in the same should so deuided bée As with the number of the Heauen hir Zones might full agrée Of which the middle Zone in heate the vtmost twaine in colde Excéede so farre that there to dwell no creature dare be bolde Betwéene these two so great extremes two other Zones are fixt Where temprature of heate and colde indifferently is mixt Now ouer this doth hang the Ayre which as it is more sleightie Than earth or water so againe than fire it is more weightie There hath he placed mist and cloudes and for to feare mens mindes The thunder and the lightning eke with colde and blustring windes But yet the maker of the worlde permitteth not alway The windes to vse the ayre at will For at this present day Though ech from other placed be in sundry coasts

fewe will vtter too you mo What dooth not water in his shapes chaunge straungely too and fro The well of horned Hammon is at noonetyde passing cold At morne and euen it wexeth warme At midnyght none can hold His hand therin for passing heate The well of Athamane Is sayd too kindle woode what tyme the moone is in the wane The Cicons haue a certeine streame which béeing droonk dooth bring Mennes bowwelles intoo Marble hard and whatsoeuer thing Is towcht therwith it turnes too stone And by your bounds behold The riuers Crathe and Sybaris make yellow heare like gold And Amber There are also springs which thing is farre more straunge Which not the bodye only but the mynd doo also chaunge Whoo hath not hard of Salmacis that fowle and filthye sink Or of the lake of Aethyop which if a man doo drink He eyther ronneth mad or else with woondrous drowzinesse Forgoeth quyght his memorie Whoo euer dooth represse His thirst with drawght of Clitor well hates wyne and dooth delyght In only water eyther for bycause there is a myght Contrary vntoo warming wyne by nature in the well Or else bycause for so the folk of Arcadye doo tell Melampus Amythaöns sonne when he deliuered had King Prae●us daughters by his charmes and herbes from being mad Cast intoo that same water all the baggage wherewithall He purdgd the madnesse of theyr mynds And so it did befall That lothsomnesse of wyne did in those waters ay remayne Ageine in Lyncest contrarie effect too this dooth reigne For who ●o drinkes too much therof he ●êeleth héere and there As if by quaffing wyne no whyt alayd he droonken were There is a Lake in Arcadye which Pheney men did name In auncient tyme whoos 's dowtfulnesse deserueth iustly blame A nyght tymes take thou héede of it for if thou taste the same A nyghttymes it will hurt but if thou drink it in the day It hurteth not Thus lakes and streames as well perceyue yée may Haue diuers powres and diuersly Euen so the tyme hathe béene That Delos which stands stedfast now on waues was floting séene And Galyes haue beene sore afrayd of frusshing by the Iles Symplegads which toogither dasht vppon the sea erewhyles But now doo stand vnmouable ageinst bothe wynde and tyde Mount Aetna with his burning ●ouens of brimstone shall not byde Ay fyrye neyther was it so for euer erst For whither The earth a liuing creature bée and that too breathe out hither And thither flame great store of vents it haue in sundry places And that it haue the powre too shift those vents in diuers caces Now damming theis now opening those in mouing too and fro Or that the whisking wynds restreynd within the earth bylowe Doo beate the stones ageinst the stones and other kynd of stuffe Of fyrye nature which doo fall on fyre with euery puffe Assoone as those same wynds doo cease the caues shall streight bée cold Or if it bée a Rozen mowld that soone of fyre takes hold Or brimstone mixt with clayish soyle on fyre dooth lyghtly fall Undowtedly assoone as that same soyle consumed shall No longer yéeld the fatty foode too féede the fyre withall And rauening nature shall forgo her woonted nourishment Then being able too abyde no longer famishment For want of sustenance it shall cease his burning I doo fynd By fame that vnder Charlsis wayne in Pallene are a kynd Of people which by dyuing thryce thrée tymes in Triton lake Becomme all fethred and the shape of birdes vppon them take The Scythian witches also are reported for too doo The selfsame thing but hardly I giue credit thervntoo By smearing poyson ouer all theyr bodyes But and if A man too matters tryde by proof may saufly giue beléef Wée sée how flesh by lying still a whyle and ketching heate Dooth turne too little liuing beastes And yit a further feate Go kill an Ox and burye him the thing by proof man sées And of his rotten flesh will bréede the flower gathering Bées Which as theyr father did before loue féeldes excéedingly And vntoo woork in hope of gayne theyr busye limbes apply The Hornet is engendred of a lustye buryed Stéede Go pull away the cleas from Crabbes that in the sea doo bréede And burye all the rest in mowld and of the same will spring A Scorpion which with writhen tayle will threaten for too sting The Caterpillers of the féelde the which are woont too weaue Hore filmes vppon the leaues of trées theyr former nature leaue Which thing is knowen too husbandmen and turne too Butterflyes The mud hath in it certeine séede wherof gréene frosshes ryse And first it brings them footelesse foorth Then after it dooth frame Legges apt too swim and furthermore of purpose that the same May serue them for too leape a farre theyr hinder part is mych More longer than theyr forepart is The Bearwhelp also which The Beare hath newly littred is no whelp immediatly But like an euill fauored lump of flesh alyue dooth lye The dam by licking shapeth out his members orderly Of such a syse as such a péece is able too conceyue Or marke yée not the Bées of whom our hony wée receyue How that theyr yoong ones which doo lye within the sixsquare wax Are limblesse bodyes at the first and after as they wex In processe take bothe féete and wings What man would think it trew That Ladye Venus simple birdes the Dooues of siluer hew Or Iunos bird that in his tayle beares starres or Ioues stowt knyght The Earne and euery other fowle of whatsoeuer flyght Could all bée hatched out of egges onlesse he did it knowe Sum folk doo hold opinion when the backebone which doothe growe In man is rotten in the graue the pith becommes a snake Howbéete of other things all theis theyr first beginning take One bird there is that dooth renew itself and as it were Beget it self continually The Syrians name it there A Phoenix Neyther corne nor herbes this Phoenix liueth by But by the iewce of frankincence and gum of Amomye And when that of his lyfe well full fyuehundred yéeres are past Uppon a Holmerrée or vppon a Date trée at the last He makes him with his talants and his hardened bill a nest Which when that 〈◊〉 with Casia swéete and Nardus soft hathe drest And strowed it with Cynnamom and Myrrha of the best He rucketh downe vppon the same and in the spyces dyes Soone after of the fathers corce men say there dooth aryse Another little Phoenix which as many yéeres must liue As did his father He assoone as age dooth strength him giue Too beare the burthen from the trée the weyghty nest dooth lift And godlyly his cradle thence and fathers herce dooth shift And flying through the suttle aire he gettes too Phebus towne And there before the temple doore dooth lay his burthen downe But if that any noueltye woorth woondring bée in theis Much rather may we woonder at the Hyën if we please Too sée how