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A20813
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Endimion and Phœbe Ideas Latmus. Phœbus erit nostra princeps et carminis author.
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Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
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day with griefe of mind opprest As in this place he layd him downe to rest The Gods at length vppon his sorrowes looke Transforming him into this pirrling Brooke Whose murmuring bubles softly as they creepe Falling in drops the Channell seems to weepe But shee thus careles of his misery Still spends her dayes in mirth and iollity And comming one day to the Riuer side Laughing for ioy when she the same espyde This wanton Nymph in that vnhappy hower Was heere transformd into this purple flower Which towards the water turnes it selfe agayne To pitty him by her vnkindnes slayne She as it seemd who all this time attended Longing to heare that once his tale were ended Now like a iealous woman she repeats Mens subtilties and naturall deceyts And by example striues to verifie Their ficklenes and vaine inconstancie Their hard obdurate harts and wilfull blindnes Telling a storie wholy of vnkindnes But he who well perceiued her intent And to remoue her from this argument Now by the sacred Fount he vowes and sweares By Louers sighes and by her halowed teares By holy Latmus now he takes his oath That all he spake was in good fayth and troth And for no frayle vncertayne doubt should moue her Vowes secrecie the crown of a true Louer She hearing this thought time that she reueald That kind affection which she long conceald Determineth to make her true Loue known Which shee had borne vnto Endimion I am no Huntresse nor no Nymph quoth she As thou perhaps imagin'st me to be I am great Phoebe Latmus sacred Queene Who from the skies haue hether past vnseene And by thy chast loue hether was I led Where full three yeares thy fayre flock haue I fed Vpon these Mountaines and these firtile plaines And crownd thee King of all the Sheepheards swaines Nor wanton nor laciuious is my loue nor neuer lust my chast thoughts once could moue But sith thou thus hast offerd at my Shrine And of the Gods hast held me most diuine Mine Altars thou with sacrifice hast stord And in my Temples hast my name ador'd And of all other most hast honor'd mee Great Phoebes glory thou alone shalt see Thys spake she putteth on her braue attire As being burnisht in her Brothers fire Purer then that Celestiall shining flame Wherein great Ioue vnto his Lemmon came Which quickly had his pale cheekes ouer-spred And tincted with a louely blushing red Which whilst her Brother Titan for a space Withdrew himselfe to giue his sister place Shee now is darkned to all creatures eyes Whilst in the shadow of the earth she lyes For that the earth of nature cold and dry A very Chaos of obscurity Whose Globe exceeds her compasse by degrees Fixed vpon her Superficies When in his shadow she doth hap to fall Dooth cause her darknes to be generall Thus whilst he layd his head vpon her lap Shee in a fiery Mantle doth him wrap And carries him vp form this lumpish mould Into the skyes whereas he might behold The earth in perfect roundnes of a ball Exceeding globes most artificiall Which in a fixed poynt Nature disposed And with the sundry Elements inclosed Which as the Center permanent dooth stay When as the skiesin their diurnall sway Strongly maintaine the euer-turning course Forced alone by their first moouer sourse Where he beholds the ayery Regions VVhereas the clouds and strange impressions Maintaynd by coldnes often doe appeare And by the highest Region of the ayre Vnto the cleerest Element of fire Which to her siluer foot-stoole doth aspire Then dooth she mount him vp into her Sphere Imparting heauenly secrets to him there Where lightned by her shining beames hee sees The powerfull Plannets all in their degrees Their sundry reuolutions in the skies And by their working how they simpathize All in theyr circles seuerally prefixt And in due distance each with other mixt The mantions which they hold in their estate Of which by nature they participate And how those signes their seuerall places take Within the compasse of the Zodiacke And in their seuerall triplicities consent Vnto the nature of an Element To which the Plannets do themselues disperce Hauing the guidance of this vniuers And do from thence extend their seuerall powers Vnto this little fleshly world of ours Wherin her Makers workmanship is found As in contriuing of this mighty round In such strange maner and such fashion wrought As doth exceede mans dull and feeble thought Guiding vs still by their directions And that our fleshly frayle complections Of Elementall natures grounded bee With which our dispositions most agree Some of the fire and ayre participate And some of watry and of earthy state As hote and moyst with chilly cold and dry And vnto these the other contrary And by their influence powerfull on the earth Predominant in mans fraile mortall bearth And that our liues effects and fortunes are As is that happy or vnlucky Starre Which reigning in our frayle natiuitie Seales vp the secrets of our destinie With frendly Plannets in coniunction set Or els with other meerely opposet And now to him her greatest power she lent To lift him to the starry Firmament Where he beheld that milky stayned place By which the Twynns heauenly Archers trace The dogge which doth the furious Lyon beate Whose flaming breath increaseth Titans heate The teare-distilling mournfull Pliades Which on the earth the stormes tempests raise And all the course the constellations run When in coniunction with the Moone or Sun When towards the fixed Articke they arise When towards the Antaricke falling frō our eyes And hauing impt the wings of his desire And kindled him with this coelestiall fire She sets him downe and vanishing his sight Leaues him inwrapped in this true delight Now wheresoeuer he his fayre flock fed The Muses still Endimion followed His sheepe as white as Swans or driuen snow Which beautified the soyle with such a show As where hee folded in the darkest Night There neuer needed any other light If that he hungred and desired meate The Bees would bring him Honny for to eate Yet from his lyps would not depart away Tyll they were loden with Ambrosia And if he thirsted often there was seene A bubling Fountaine spring out of the greene VVith Christall liquor fild vnto the brim VVhich did present her liquid store to him If hee would hunt the fayre Nymphs at his will VVith Bowes Quiuers would attend him still And what-soeuer he desierd to haue That he obtain'd if hee the same would craue And now at length the ioyful tyme drew on Shee meant to honor her Endimion And glorifie him on that stately Mount VVhereof the Goddesse made so great account Shee sends Ioues winged Herauld to the woods The neighbour Fountains the bordring floods Charging the Nymphes which did inhabit there vpon a day appoynted to appeare And to attend her sacred Maiestie In all theyr pompe and great solemnity Hauing obtaynd great Phoebus free consent To further her