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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22560	The most delectable and pleasaunt history of Clitiphon and Leucippe: written first in Greeke, by Achilles Statius, an Alexandrian: and now newly translated into English, by VV.B. Whereunto is also annexed the argument of euery booke, in the beginning of the same, for the better vnderstanding of the historie; Leucippe and Clitophon. English	Achilles Tatius.; Burton, William, 1575-1645.	1597 (1597)	STC 90; ESTC S115403	119,689	162

that they did shew both mirth and sorrow by their countenances hauing garlands on their heads their haire about their shoulders their féet without shooes their legs bare their clothes tuckt vp to the knée their faces pale their chéekes wrinckled wan their eies beholding the sea their lips as it were for feare about to speake somewhat a little gaping their hands were stretched forth toward the bull they went so far into the sea that the water came vp to the vpper part of theyr legs their cariage and gesture of their bodie did appeare to be such as that they seemed they would go to the bull yet feared to cōmit themselues to the violence of the water The sea had two colours that part which was next to the land was somewhat red but the deeper and further off of his natural colour there out of the midst of the water did appeare certaine rocks as it were cast vp out of the earth which séemed to be all white with the fome of the swelling raging waues beating on the side In the midle of the sea was painted a bull which was caried by the waues casting vp the water before him like vnto a mountain The virgin sitting vpon his back not after the maner of horsmen but both her l●gs being fitly laid downe on his right side with her left hand held his horne as wagoners accustome to hold their reines whose direction the bull did follow her breast to her priuy parts was attired with a vaile of lawne the rest of her body was couered with a purple mantle all the other parts were to be séene saue there where her garments couered for she had a déepe nauill a plaine smooth belly narrow flanke round buttocks her tender brests séemed to swel throgh the midle of which went down a faire narrow way most pleasant delightfull to the beholders with one hand did she holde his horne with the other his taile but yet so that the attire of her head couered with a scarf cast ouer her shoulders was held on fast against the force of the wind which did so beat on her bosom that euery where it seemed to swell She thus sitting on the bull was caried like a shippe her scarfe seruing in stead of a sayle Round about the bull Dolphins floted about and sported at their loues in such sort as that you would thinke you saw their verie motions drawne There was a litle boy which led the bull displaying his wings abroade holding in his hand a Torch and turning to Iupiter did smile as though he mocked him that he for his cause was thus transformed into a Bull. I thus beholding this picture praysed euery part thereof but looking more earnestly vpon Cupid which ledde the Bull I spake thus to my selfe Beholde how heauen sea and land do obey the cōmandements of this litle boy when as a yong man which was then by chance present and vnderstood my words sayd This thing truly I can testifie to whom for loues sake so many aduersities haue hapned Thē said I I pray good fellow tel me what maner what they be y t thou hast suffered for thy countenaunce doth shewe that thou hast had something to doo with the mysteries of this God Then answered he you do call me sir backe to recount a most mingled and confused bedrole of vnfortunate mishaps all which wil seem to you to be but mere fables and idle figments Then said I no I swear by Ioue and god Cupid himself that the recounting of these thy misfortunes will not be troublesome to me but rather the more acceptable because they may séeme to be somewhat fabulous when as I had said so I tooke the man by the hand and led him into a wood hard by where many broad béeches and dark shadowing plain trées did grow neare vnto the banks of christal streame which gently running did yéeld a pleasant murmuring There when I had chosen a fit seate I ●ad him ●it him downe and I my self sat downe by him Then said I now is it time that you begin to declare your hard mishaps for here is a place altogither full of delight and fit for such amourous discourses then hée from the beginning began to speak thus My Country is Phaenicia borne in Tyrus my name is Clitophon my father called Hippias my fathers brother in lawe is called Sostratus for my father had two wiues This Socratus because of an inheritance which descended to him there by his mother dwelt alwaies at Byzantiū My father dwelt at Tyrus my own mother I neuer saw for she died whē I was a child my father therfore married another wife by whō he had a daughter called Caligone which he decréed to make my wife but the destinies which are more mighty thē mortal man had appointed the contrary and reserued another for that end For oftentimes the gods do accustome to foretell things to come to mortall men by dreames not that by foreknowing of daungers they should auoyde them for no man can auoyde that which the Destenies haue decréed but that when they fall out they should beare them with more patience for suddaine and vnexpected misfortunes do quell and rent the minde stroken with their vnlooked for comming but those which are knowne before and foretold whilst the minde by little and little is brought to the cogitation of them doo farre lesse trouble them Therfore when I came to ninetéene yeares of age and my father not long after had appointed the mariage to be solemnized then fortune began to act her Commedie for when I had layd mee downe to rest Morpheus beganne to fill my head full of his fantasies and idle dreames me thought that I was so ioyned together with a mayde that from the nauill to the heade we were but one body and then after wee grew all into one me thought there stoode a woman behinde me whose visage was grim stature tall ghastly lookes bloodie eyes sharpe chéekes her haires vipers and adders holding in her left hand a firebrand wherewith in a rage she stroke me a blowe in that part where both our bodies did come into one and by force did rent her from me againe wherefore being stroken with feare I awaked out of my dreame neither did I disclose this to any but still by my selfe alone I thought vpon them often In the meane season there came Letters from Byzantium from my vncle Sostratus to my Father whose tenour was thus Sostratus to his brother Hippias sendeth commendations MY daughter Leucippe and my wife Panthia are comming to you for open warre is proclaimed betwéene vs and the Thracians kéepe you my déerest pledges firme till the end of the warre Farewell My father hauing read the Letter rose vp presently and went vnto the sea shore and not long after he returned againe with a great traine of seruants and maydes which Sostratus had sent with his wife and his daughter Amongst them was a most beautifull woman