Another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Here of the Sire The 〈◊〉 dâ—th heare The woo'rs conspire The mothers feare IN Lacedâ—â—â— now the nurse of Whales These two arriu'd and found at festiuals With mightie concourse the renowmed King His sonne and daughter ioyntly marrying Alectors daughter he did giue his sonne Strong 〈◊〉 who his life begunne By Menelaus boâ—dmaid whom he knew In yeares When Hellen could no more renew In issue like diuine 〈◊〉 Who held in all faire forme as high degree As golden Venus Her he married now To great Achilles sonne who was by vow Betrothd to her at Trâ—y And thus the Gods To constant loues giue nuptiall periods Whose state here past the Myrmidâ—ns rich towne Of which she shar'd in the Imperiall Crowne With horse and chariots he resign'd her to Meane space the high huge house with feast did flow Of friends and neighbours ioying with the King Amongst whom did a heauenly Poet sing And touch his Harpe Amongst whom likewise danc't Two who in that dumbe motion aduanc't Would prompt the Singer what to sing and play All this time in the vtter Court did stay With horse and chariot Telemachus And Nestors noble sonne Pisistratus Whom Eteoneus coming forth descried And being a seruant to the King most tried In care and his respect he ranne and cried Guests Ioue-kept Menelaus two such men As are for forme of high Saturnius straine Informe your pleasure if we shall vnclose Their horse from coach or say they must dispose Their way to some such house as may embrace Their knowne arriuall with more welcome grace He angry answerd Thou didst neuer show Thy selfe a foole Beotides till now But now as if turnd child a childish speech Vents thy vaine spirits We our selues now reach Our home by much spent hospitalitie Of other men nor know if Ioue will trie With other after wants our state againe And therefore from our feast no more detaine Those welcome guests but take their Steeds from Coach And with attendance guide in their approach This said he rusht abroad and calld some more Tried in such seruice that together bore Vp to the guests and tooke their Steeds that swet Beneath their yokes from Coach At mangers set Wheate and white barley gaue them mixt and plac't Their Chariot by a wall so cleare it cast A light quite thorough it And then they led Their guests to the diuine house which so fed Their eyes at all parts with illustrous sights That Admiration seisd them Like the lights The Sunne and Moone gaue all the Pallace threw A luster through it Satiate with whose view Downe to the Kings most bright-kept Baths they went Where handmaids did their seruices present Bath'd balmd them shirts and well-napt weeds put on And by Atrides side set each his throne Then did the handmaid royall water bring And to a Lauer rich and glittering Of massie gold powr'd which she plac't vpon A siluer Caldron into which might runne The water as they washt Then set she neare A polisht table on which all the cheare The present could affoord a reuerend Dame That kept the Larder set A Cooke then came And diuers dishes borne thence seru'd againe Furnisht the boord with bolles of gold and then His right hand giuen the guests Atrides said Eate and be chearfull appetite allaid I long to aske of what stocke ye descend For not from parents whose race namelesse end We must deriue your ofspring Men obscure Could get none such as you The pourtraiture Of Ioue-sustaind and Scepter-bearing Kings Your either person in his presence brings An Oxes fat chine then they vp did lift And set before the guests which was a gift Sent as an honor to the Kings owne tast They saw yet t was but to be eaten plac't And fell to it But food and wines care past Telemachus thus prompted Nestors sonne His eare close laying to be heard of none Consider thou whom most my mind esteemes The brasse-worke here how rich it is in beames And how besides it makes the whole house sound What gold and amber siluer ivorie round Is wrought about it Our of doubt the Hall Of Iupiter Olympius hath of all This state the like How many infinites Take vp to admiration all mens sights Atrides ouer-heard and said Lou'd sonne No mortall must affect contention With Ioue whose dwellings are of endlesse date Perhaps of men some one may emulate Or none my house or me For I am one That many a graue extreme haue vndergone Much error felt by sea and till thâ— eight yeare Had neuer stay but wanderd farre and neare Cyprus Phoenicia and Sydâ—nia And fetcht the farre off Aethiopia Reacht the Erembi of Arabia And Lybia where with hornes Ewes yeane their Lambs Where euery full yeare Ewes are three times dams Where neither King nor shepheard want comes neare Of cheese or flesh or sweete milke All the yeare They euer milke their Ewes And here while I Errd gathering meanes to liue one murtherously Vnwares vnseene bereft my brothers life Chiefly betraid by his abhorred wife So hold I not enioying what you see And of your Fathers if they liuing be You must haue heard this since my suffrings were So great and famous From this Pallace here So rarely-well-built furnished so well And substanced with such a precioâ—s deale Of well-got treasure banisht by the doome Of Fate and erring as I had no home And now I haue and vse it not to take Th' entire delight it offers but to make Continuall wishes that a triple part Of all it holds were wanting so my heart Were easde of sorrowes taken for their deaths That fell at Troy by their reuiued breaths And thus sit I here weeping mourning still Each least man lost and sometimes make mine ill In paying iust teares for their losse my ioy Sometimes I breathe my woes for in annoy The pleasure soone admits satietie But all these mens wants wet not so mine eie Though much they moue me as one sole mans misse For which my sleepe and meate euen lothsome is In his renewd thought since no Greeke hath wonne Grace for such labours as Laâ—rtes sonne Hath wrought and sufferd to himselfe nought else But future sorrowes forging to me hels For his long absence since I cannot know If life or death detaine him since such woe For his loue old Laertes his wise wife And poore yong sonne sustaines whom new with life He left as sirelesse This speech griefe to teares Powrd from the sonnes lids on the earth his eares Told of the Father did excite who kept His cheekes drie with his red weed as he wept His both hands vsde therein Atrides then Began to know him and did 〈◊〉 retaine If he should let himselfe confesse his Sire Or with all fitting circumstance enquire While this his thoughts disputed forth did shine Like to the golden distaffe-deckt diuine From her beds high and odoriferous roome Hellen. To whom of an elaborate loome
to his wisht and natiue mansion Since he is no offender of their States And they to such are firmer then their Fates The wise Penelope receiu'd her thus Bound with a slumber most delicious And in the Port of dreames O sister why Repaire you hither since so farre off lie Your house and houshold You were neuer here Before this houre and would you now giue cheare To my so many woes and miseries Affecting fitly all the faculties My soule and mind hold hauing lost before A husband that of all the vertues bore The Palme amongst the Greeks and whose renowne So ample was that Fame the sound hath blowne Through Greece and Argos to her very heart And now againe a sonne that did conuert My whole powres to his loue by ship is gone A tender Plant that yet was neuer growne To labours taste nor the commerce of men For whom more then my husband I complaine And lest he should at any sufferance touch Or in the sea or by the men so much Estrang'd to him that must his consorts be Feare and chill tremblings shake each ioynt of me Besides his danger sets on foes profest To way-lay his returne that haue addrest Plots for his death The scarce-discerned Dreame Said Be of comfort nor feares so extreme Let thus dismay thee thou hast such a mate Attending thee as some at any rate Would wish to purchase for her powre is great Mineruâ— pities thy delights defeate Whose Grace hath sent me to foretell thee theese If thou said she be of the Goddesses And heardst her tell thee these thou mayst as well From her tell all things else daigne then to tell If yet the man to all misfortunes borne My husband liues and sees the Sunne adorne The darksome earth or hides his wretched head In Plutos house and liues amongst the dead I will not she replide my breath exhale In one continude and perpetuall tale Liues he or dies he T is a filthy vse To be in vaine and idle speech profuse This said she through the key-hole of the dore Vanisht againe into the open blore Icarius daughter started from her sleepe And Ioyes fresh humor her lou'd brest did sâ—eepe When now so cleare in that first watch of night She saw the seene dreame vanish from her sight The wooers shipt the seas moist waues did plie And thought the Prince a haughtie death should die There lies a certaine Iland in the sea Twixt rockie Samos and rough Ithaca That cliffie is it selfe and nothing great Yet holds conuenient hauens that two wayes let Ships in and out calld Asteris and there The wooers hop't to make their massakere Finis libri quarti Hom. Odyss THE FIFTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES. THE ARGVMENT A Second Court on Ioue attends Who Hermes to Calypso sends Commanding her to cleare the wayes Vlysses sought and she obayes When Neptune saw Vlysles free And so in safetie plow the sea Enrag'd he ruffles vp the waues And splits his ship Leucothea saues His person yet as being a Dame Whose Godhead gouernd in the frame Of those seas tempers But the meane By which she curbs dread Neptunes splene Is made a Iewell which she takes From off her head and that she makes Vlysses on his bosome weare About his necke she ties it there And when he is with waues beset Bids weare it as an Amulet Commanding him that not before He toucht vpon Phaeacias shore He should not part with it but then Returne it to the sea agein And caâ—t it from him He performes Yet after this bides bitter stormes And in the rockes sees Death engrau'd But on Phaeacias shore is sau'd Another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vlysses builds A ship and gaines The Gassie fields Payes Neptune paines AVrora rose from high-borne Tithons Bed That men and Gods might be illustrated And then the Deities sate Imperiall Ioue That makes the horrid murmure beate aboue Tooke place past all whose height for euer springs And from whom flowes th' eternall powre of things Then Pallas mindfull of Vlysses told The many Cares that in Calypsos hold He still sustaind when he had felt before So much affliction and such dangers more O Father said she and ye euer blest Giue neuer King hereafter interest In any aide of yours by seruing you By being gentle humane iust but grow Rude and for euer scornfull of your rights All iustice ordring by their appetites Since he that rul'd as it in right behou'd That all his subiects as his children lou'd Finds you so thoughtlesse of him and his birth Thus men begin to say ye rule in earth And grudge at what ye let him vndergo Who yet the least part of his sufferance know Thralld in an Iland shipwrackt in his teares And in the fancies that Calypso beares Bound from his birthright all his shipping gone And of his souldiers not retaining one And now his most-lou'd Sonnes life doth inflame Their slaughterous enuies since his Fathers fame He puts in pursuite and is gone as farre As sacred Pylos and the singular Dame breeding Sparta This with this reply The Cloud-assembler answerd What words flie Thine owne remembrance daughter hast not thou The counsell giuen thy selfe that told thee how Vlysses shall with his returne addresse His wooers wrongs And for the safe accesse His Sonne shall make to his innatiue Port Do thou direct it in as curious sort As thy wit serues thee it obeys thy powers And in their ship returne the speedlesse wowers Then turnd he to his issue Mercurie And said Thou hast made good our Ambassie To th' other Statists To the Nymph then now On whose faire head a tâ—ft of gold doth grow Beare our true-spoken counsell for retreat Of patient Vlysses who shall get No aide from vs nor any mortall man But in a patcht-vp skiffe built as he can And suffering woes enow the twentith day At fruitfull Scheria let him breathe his way With the Phaeacians that halfe Deities liue Who like a God will honour him and giue His wisedome clothes and ship and brasse and gold More then for gaine of Troy he euer told Where at the whole diuision of the prey If he a sauer were or got away Without a wound if he should grudge t was well But th' end shall crowne all therefore Fate will deale So well with him to let him land and see His natiue earth friends house and family Thus charg'd he nor Argicides denied But to his feete his faire wingd shooes he tied Ambrosian golden that in his command Put either sea or the vnmeasur'd land With pace as speedie as a puft of wind Then vp his Rod went with which he declin'd The eyes of any waker when he pleasd And any sleeper when he wisht diseasd This tooke he stoopt Pierea and thence Glid through the aire and Neptunes Confluence Kist as he flew and checkt the waues as light As any Sea-mew in her fishing flight Her thicke wings soucing in the
About her turrets that seuen Ports enclosde For though the Thebâ—ns much in strength reposde Yet had not they the strength to hold their owne Without the added aides of wood and stone Alcmena next I saw that famous wife Was to Amphytriâ— and honor'd life Gaue to the Lyon-hearted Herculeâ— That was of Ioues embrace the great increase I saw besides proud Craeons daughter there Bright Megara that nuptiall yoke did weare With Ioues great Sonne who neuer field did try But bore to him the flowre of victory The mother then of Oedipus I saw Faire Epicasta that beyond all law Her owne Sonne maried ignorant of kind And he as darkly taken in his mind His mother wedded and his father slew Whose blind act heauen exposde at length to view And he in all-lou'd Thebes the supreame state With much mone manag'd for the heauy Fate The Gods laid on him She made violent flight To Plutos darke house from the lothed light Beneath a steepe beame strangl'd with a cord And left her Sonne in life paines as abhord As all the furies powr'd on her in hell Then saw I Chloris that did so excell In answering beauties that each part had all Great Neleus married her when gifts not small Had wonne her fauour term'd by name of dowre She was of all Amphions seed the flowre Amphion calld lâ—sides that then Ruld strongly Myniâ—an 〈◊〉 And now his daughter rul'd the Pylean Throne Because her beauties Empire ouershone She brought her wise-awd husband Neleus Nestâ—r much honord Peryclimenus And Chromius Sonnes with soueraigne vertues grac'â— But after brought a daughter that surpast Rare-beautied Perâ— so for forme exact That Nature to a miracle was rackt In her perfections blaz'd with th' eyes of men That made of all the Countries hearts a chaine And drew them suiters to her Which her Sire Tooke vantage of and since he did aspire To nothing more then to the broad-browd herd Of Oxen which the common fame so rer'd Own'd by Iphiclus not a man should be His Peros husband that from Phylace Those neuer-yet-driuen Oxen could not driue Yet these a strong hope held him to atchieue Because a Prophet that had neuer err'd Had said that onely he should be prefer'd To their possession But the equall Fate Of God withstood his stealth inextricate Imprisoning Bands and sturdy churlish Swaines That were the Heardsmen who withheld with chaines The stealth attempter which was onely he That durst abet the Act with Prophecie None else would vndertake it and he must The king would needs a Prophet should be iust But when some daies and moneths expired were And all the Houres had brought about the yeare The Prophet did so satisfie the king Iphiclus all his cunning questioning That he enfranchisde him and 〈◊〉 worst done Ioues counsaile made th'all-safe conclusion The saw I Laeda linkt in nuptiall chaine With Tyndâ—rus to whom she did sustaine Sonnes much renowm'd for wisedome Câ—stâ—â— one That past for vse of horse comparison And Pollâ—x that exceld in whirlbat fight Both these the fruitfull Earth bore while the light Of life inspir'd them After which they found Such grace with Ioue that both liu'd vnder ground By change of daies life still did one sustaine While th'â—ther died the dead then liu'd againe The liuing dying both of one selfe date Their liues and deaths made by the Gods and Fate Iphemedia after Laeda came That did deâ—iue from Neptune too the name Of Father to two admirable Sonnes Life yet made short their admirations Who God-opposed Otus had to name And Ephialtes farre in sound of Fame The prodigall Earth so fed them that they grew To most huge stature and had fairest hew Of all men but Orion vnder heauen At nine yeares old nine cubits they were driuen Abroad in breadth and sprung nine fathomes hie They threatn'd to giue battell to the skie And all th'Immortals They were setting on Ossa vpon Olympus and vpon Steepe Ossa leauie Pelius that euen They might a high-way make with loftie heauen And had perhaps perform'd it had they liu'd Till they were Striplings But Ioues Sonne depriu'd Their lims of life before th'age that begins The flowre of youth and should adorne their chins Phaedra and Procris with wise Minos flamâ— Bright Ariadne to the offring came Whom whilom Theseus made his prise from Crete That Athens sacred soile might kisse her feete But neuer could obtaine her virgin Flowre Till in the Sea-girt Dia Dians powre Detain'd his homeward haste where in her Phane By Bacchus witnest was the fatall wane Of her prime Glorie Maera Clymene I witnâ—st there and loth'd Eryphile That honouâ—'d gold more then she lou'd her Spouse But all th' Heâ—oesses in Plutos house That then encounterd me exceeds my might To name or number and Ambrosian Night Would quite be spent when now the formall houres Present to Sleepe our all-disposed powres If at my ship or here my home-made vow I leaue for fit grace to the Gods and you This said the silence his discourse had made With pleasure held still through the houses shade When white-arm'd Arete this speech began Phaeacians how appeares to you this man So goodly person'd and so matcht with mind My guest he is but all you stand combin'd In the renowne he doth vs. Do not then With carelesse haste dismisse him nor the maine Of his dispaâ—ch to one so needie maime The Gods free bountie giues vs all iust claime To goods enow This speech the oldest man Of any other Phaeacensian The graue Heroe Echineus gaue All approbation saying Friends ye haue The motion of the wise Queene in such words As haue not mist the maâ—ke with which accords My cleare opinion But Alcinous In word and worke must be our rule He thus And then Alcinous said This then must stand If while I liue I rule in the command Of this well-skild-in-Nauigation State Endure then Guest though most importunate Be your affects for home A litle stay If your expectance beare perhaps it may Our gifts make more complete The cares of all Your due deduction asks but Principall I am therein the ruler He replied Alcinous the most duly glorifiâ—d With rule of all of all men if you lay Commandment on me of a whole yeares stay So all the while your preparations rise As well in gifts as time ye can deuise No better wish for me for I shall come Much fuller handed and more honourd home And dearer to my people in whoâ—e loues The richer euermore the better proues He answerd There is argude in your sight A worth that works not men for benefit Like Pâ—ollers or Impostors of which crew The gentle blacke Earth feeds not vp a few Here and there wanderers blanching tales and lies Of neither praise nor vse you moue our eies With forme our minds with matter and our â—ares With elegant oration such as beares A musicke in the orderd historie It layes before vs. Not
receiues The naked man THe much-sustaining patient heauenly Man Whom Toile and Sleepe had worne so weake and wan Thus wonne his rest In meane space Pallas went To the Phaeacian citie and descent That first did broad Hyperias lands diuide Neare the vast Cyclops men of monstrous pride That preyd on those Hyperians since they were Of greater powre and therefore longer there Diuine Nausithous dwelt not but arose And did for Scheria all his powres dispose Farre from ingenious Art-inuenting men But there did he erect a Citie then First drew a wall round then he houses builds And then a Temple to the Gods the fields Lastly diuiding But he stoopt by Fate Diu'd to th'infernals and Alcinous sate In his command a man the Gods did teach Commanding counsels His house held the reach Of grey Minerâ—as proiect to prouide That great-sould Ithacus might be supplide With all things fitting his returne She went Vp to the chamber where the faire descent Of great Alcinous slept A maid whose parts In wit and beautie wore diuine deserts Well deckt her chamber was of which the dore Did seeme to lighten such a glosse it bore Betwixt the posts and now flew ope to find The Goddesse entire Like a puft of wind She reacht the Virgin bed Neare which there lay Two maids to whom the Graces did conuay Figure and manners But aboue the head Of bright Nausicaa did Pallas tred The subtle aire and put the person on Of Dymas daughter from comparison Exempt in businesse Nauall Like his seed Minerua lookt now whom one yeare did breed With bright Nausicaa and who had gaind Grace in her loue yet on her thus complaind Nausicaa why bred thy mother one So negligent in rites so stood vpon By other virgins Thy faite garments lie Neglected by thee yet thy Nuptials nie When rich in all attire both thou shouldst be And garments giue to others honoring thee That leade thee to the Temple Thy good name Growes amongst men for these things they enflame Father and reuerend Mother with delight Come when the Day takes any winke from Night Let 's to the riuer and repurifie Thy wedding garments my societie Shall freely serue thee for thy speedier aid Because thou shalt no more stand on the Maid The best of all Phaeacia wooe thy Grace Where thou wert bred and ow'st thy selfe a race Vp and stirre vp to thee thy honourd Sire To giue thee Mules and Coach thee and thy tire Veiles girdles mantles early to the flood To beare in state It suites thy high-borne blood And farre more fits thee then to foote so farre For far from towne thou knowst the Bath-founts are This said away blue-eyd Minerua went Vp to Olympus the firme Continent That beares in endlesse being the deified kind That 's neither souc't with showres nor shooke with wind Nor chilld with snow but where Serenitie flies Exempt from clouds and euer-beamie skies Circle the glittering hill And all their daies Giue the delights of blessed Deitie praise And hither Pallas flew and left the Maid When she had all that might excite her said Strait rose the louely Morne that vp did raise Faire-veild Nausicaa whose dreame her praise To Admiration tooke Who no time spent To giue the rapture of her vision vent To her lou'd parents whom she found within Her mother set at fire who had to spin A Rocke whose tincture with sea-purple shin'd Her maids about her But she chanc't to find Her Father going abroad to Counsell calld By his graue Senate And to him exhald Her smotherd bosome was Lou'd Sire said she Will you not now command a Coach for me Stately and complete fit for me to beare To wash at flood the weeds I cannot weare Before repurified Your selfe it fits To weare faire weeds as euery man that sits In place of counsell And fiue sonnes you haue Two wed three Bachelors that must be braue In euery dayes shift that they may go dance For these three last with these things must aduance Their states in mariage and who else but I Their sister should their dancing rites supply This generall cause she shewd and would not name Her mind of Nuptials to her Sire for shame He vnderstood her yet and thus replide Daughter nor these nor any grace beside I either will denie thee or deferre Mules nor a Coach of state and circular Fitting at all parts Go my seruants shall Serue thy desires and thy command in all The seruants then commanded soone obaid Fetcht Coach and Mules ioynd in it Then the Maid Brought from the chamber her rich weeds and laid All vp in Coach in which her mother plac't A maund of victles varied well in taste And other iunkets Wine she likewise filld Within a goat-skin bottle and distilld Sweete and moist oile into a golden Cruse Both for her daughters and her handmaids vse To soften their bright bodies when they rose Clensd from their cold baths Vp to Coach then goes Tâ—'obserued Maid takes both the scourge and raines And to her side her handmaid strait attaines Nor these alone but other virgins grac't The Nuptiall Chariot The whole Beuie plac't Nausicaa scourgd to make the Coach Mules runne That neigh'd and pac'd their vsuall speed and soone Both maids and weeds brought to the riuer side Where Baths for all the yeare their vse supplide Whose waters were so pure they would not staine But still ran faire forth and did more remaine Apt to purge staines for that purg'd staine within Which by the waters pure store was not seen These here arriu'd the Mules vncoacht and draue Vp to the gulphie riuers shore that gaue Sweet grasse to them The maids from Coach then tooke Their cloaths and steept them in the sable brooke Then put them into springs and trod them cleane With cleanly feet aduentring wagers then Who should haue soonest and most cleanly done When hauing throughly cleansd they spred them on The floods shore all in order And then where The waues the pibbles washt and ground was cleare They bath'd themselues and all with glittring oile Smooth'd their white skins refreshing then their toile With pleasant dinner by the riuers side Yet still watcht when the Sunne their cloaths had dride Till which time hauing din'd Nausicae With other virgins did at stool-ball play Their shoulder-reaching head-tires laying by Nausicae with the wrists of Ivory The liking stroke strooke singing first a song As custome orderd and amidst the throng Made such a shew and so past all was seene As when the Chast-borne Arrow-louing Queene Along the mountaines gliding either ouer Spartan Taygetus whose tops farre discouer Or Eurymanthus in the wilde Bores chace Or swift-hou'd Hart and with her Ioues faire race The field Nymphs sporting Amongst whom to see How farre Diana had prioritie Though all were faire for fairnesse yet of all As both by head and forhead being more tall Latona triumpht since the dullest sight Might easly iudge whom her paines brought
grace he had with Aeolus Great Guardian of the hollow winds Which in a leather bag he binds And giues Vlysses all but one Which Zephyre was who filld alone Vlysses sailes The Bag once seene While he slept by Vlysses men They thinking it did gold inclose To find it all the winds did lose Who backe flew to their guard againe Forth saild he and did next attaine To where the Laestrigonians dwell Where he eleuen ships lost and fell On the Aeaean coast whose shore He sends Eurylochus t'explore Diuiding with him halfe his men Who go and turne no more againe All saue Eurylochus to swine By Circe turnd Their stayes encline Vlysses to their search who got Of Mercurie an Antidote Which Moly was gainst Ciâ—ces charmes And so auoids his souldiers harmes A yeare with Circe all remaine And then their natiue formes regaine On vtter shores a time they dwell While Ithacus descends to hell Another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Great Aeolus And Circe friends Finds Ithacus And Hell descends TO the Aeolian Iland we attaind That swumme about still on the sea where raign'd The God-lou'd Aeolus Hippotydes A wall of steele it had and in the seas A waue-beat-smooth-rocke mou'd about the wall Twelue children in his house imperiall Were borne to him of which sixe daughters were And sixe were sonnes that youths sweet flowre did beare His daughters to his sonnes he gaue as wiues Who spent in feastfull comforts all their liues Close seated by their Sire and his graue Spouse Past number were the dishes that the house Made euer sauour and still full the Hall As long as day shin'd in the night-time all Slept with their chaste wiues Each his faire caru'd bed Most richly furnisht and this life they led We reacht the Cittie and faire roofes of these Where a whole moneths time all things that might please The King vouchsaf't vs. Of great Troy enquir'd The Grecian fleete and how the Greekes retir'd To all which I gaue answer as behou'd The fit time come when I dismission mou'd He nothing would denie me but addrest My passe with such a bountie as might best Teach me contentment For he did enfold Within an Oxe hide flead at nine yeares old All th'airie blasts that were of stormie kinds Saturnius made him Steward of his winds And gaue him powre to raise and to asswage And these he gaue me curbd thus of their rage Which in a glittering siluer band I bound And hung vp in my ship enclosd so round That no egression any breath could find Onely he left abroad the Westerne wind To speede our ships and vs with blasts secure But our securities made all vnsure Nor could he consummate our course alone When all the rest had got egression Which thus succeeded Nine whole daies and nights We saild in safetie and the tenth the lights Borne on our Countrey earth we might descrie So neere we drew and yet euen then fell I Being ouerwatcht into a fatall sleepe For I would suffer no man else to keepe The foote that rul'd my vessels course to leade The faster home My friends then Enuy fed About the bag I hung vp and supposde That gold and siluer I had there enclosde As gift from Aeolus And said O heauen What grace and graue price is by all men giuen To our Commander Whatsoeuer coast Or towne he comes to how much he engrost Of faire and precious prey and brought from Troy We the same voiage went and yet enioy In our returne these emptie hands for all This bag now Aeolus was so liberall To make a Guest-gift to him Let vs trie Of what consists the faire-bound Treasurie And how much gold and siluer it containes Ill counsaile present approbation gaines They op't the bag and out the vapours brake When instant tempest did our vessell take That bore vs backe to Sea to mourne anew Our absent Countrey Vp amazd I flew And desperate things discourst if I should cast My selfe to ruine in the seas or taste Amongst the liuing more mone and sustaine Silent I did so and lay hid againe Beneath the hatches while an ill winde tooke My ships backe to Aeolia my men strooke With woe enough We pumpt and landed then Tooke foode for all this and of all my men I tooke a Herald to me and away Went to the Court of Aeolus Where they Were feasting still he wife and children set Together close We would not at their meate Thrust in but humbly on the threshold sat He then amazd my presence wonderd at And calld to me Vlysses how thus backe Art thou arriu'd here what foule spirit brake Into thy bosome to retire thee thus We thought we had deduction curious Giuen thee before to reach thy shore and home Did it not like thee I euen ouercome With worthy sorrow answerd My ill men Haue done me mischiefe and to them hath bene My sleepe th'vnhappie motiue But do you Dearest of friends daigne succour to my vow Your powres command it Thus endeuord I With soft speech to repaire my misery The rest with ruth sat dumbe but thus spake he Auant and quickly quit my land of thee Thou worst of all that breathe it fits not me To conuoy and take in whom heauens expose Away and with thee go the worst of woes That seek'st my friendship and the Gods thy foes Thus he dismist me sighing foorth we saild At heart afflicted and now wholy faild The minds my men sustaind so spent they were With toiling at their oares and worse did beare Their growing labours that they causd their grought By selfe-willd follies nor now euer thought To see their Countrey more Six nights and daies We saild the seuenth we saw faire Lamos raise Her loftie Towres The Laestrigonian State That beares her Ports so farre disterminate Where Shepheard Shepheard calls out he a home Is calld out by the other that doth come From charge abroad and then goes he to sleepe The other issuing He whose turne doth keepe The Night obseruance hath his double hire Since Day and Night in equall length expire About that Region and the Nights watch weigh'd At twice the Daies ward since the charge that 's laid Vpon the Nights-man besides breach of sleepe Exceeds the Daies-mans for one oxen keepe The other sheepe But when the hauen we found Exceeding famous and enuirond round With one continuate rocke which so much bent That both ends almost met so prominent They were and made the hauens mouth passing streight Our whole fleete in we got in whole receipt Our Ships lay anchord close nor needed we Feare harme on any Staies Tranquillitie So purely sate there that waues great nor small Did euer rise to any height at all And yet would I no entrie make but staid Alone without the hauen and thence suruaid From out a loftie watch-towre raised there The Countrie round about nor any where The worke of man or beast appeard to me Onely a smoke from earth breake I might see
Decreed in Deity let it likewise please Tiresias to resolue me why so neare The blood and me my mothers Soule doth beare And yet nor word not looke vouchsafe her Sonne Doth she not know me No said he nor none Of all these spirits but my selfe alone Knowes any thing till he shall taste the blood But whomsoeuer you shall do that good He will the truth of all you wish vnfold Who you enuy it to will all withhold Thus said the kingly soule and made retreate Amidst the inner parts of Plutos Seaâ—e When he had spoke thus by diuine instinct Still I stood firme till to the bloods precinct My mother came and drunke and then she knew I was her Sonne had passion to renew Her naturall plaints which thus she did pursew How is it O my Sonne that you aliue This deadly-darksome region vnderdiue Twixt which and earth so many mighty seas And horrid currents interpose their preaâ—e Oceanus in chiefe which none vnlesse More helpt then you on foote now can transgresse A well built ship he needs that ventures there Com'st thou from Troy but now enforc't to erre All this time with thy souldiers Nor hast seene Ere this long day thy Countrey and thy Queene I answerd That a necessary end To this infernall state made me contend That from the wise Tiresias Thebâ—â— Soule I might an Oracle inuolu'd vnrowle For I came nothing neare Achaia yâ—t Nor on our lou'd earth happy foote had set But mishaps suffering err'd from Coast to Coast Euer since first the mighty Graecian hoast Diuine Atrides led to Ilion And I his follower to set warre vpon The rapefull Troyans and so praid she would The Fate of that vngentle death vnfould That forc't her thither if some long disease Or that the Splene of her that arrowes please Diana enuious of most eminent Dames Had made her th' obiect of her deadly aimes My Fathers state and sonnes I sought if they Kept still my goods or they became the prey Of any other holding me no more In powre of safe returne or if my store My wife had kept together with her Sonne If she her first mind held or had bene wonne By some chiefe Grecian from my loue and bed All this she answerd that Affliction fed On her blood still at home and that to griefe She all the dayes and darknesse of her life In teares had consecrate That none possest My famous kingdomes Throne but th' interest My sonne had in it still he held in peace A Court kept like a Prince and his increase Spent in his subiects good administring lawes With iustice and the generall applause A king should merit and all calld him king My Father kept the vpland labouring And shun'd the Citie vsde no sumptuous beds Wonderd at furnitures nor wealthy weeds But in the Winter strew'd about the fire Lay with his slaues in ashes his attire Like to a beggers When the Sommer came And Autumne all fruits ripend with his flame Where Grape-charg'd vines made shadows most abound His couch with falne leaues made vpon the ground And here lay he his Sorrowes fruitfull state Increasing as he faded for my Fate And now the part of age that irksome is Lay sadly on him And that life of his She led and perisht in not slaughterd by The Dame that dartslou'd and her archerie Nor by disease inuaded vast and foule That wasts the body and sends out the soule With shame and horror onely in her mone For me and my life she consum'd her owne She thus when I had great desire to proue My armes the circle where her soule did moue Thrice prou'd I thrice she vanisht like a sleepe Or fleeting shadow which strooke much more deepe The wounds my woes made and made aske her why She would my Loue to her embraces flie And not vouchsafe that euen in hell we might Pay pious Nature her vnalterd right And giue Vexation here her cruell fill Should not the Queene here to augment the ill Of euery sufferance which her office is Enforce thy idoll to affoord me this O Sonne she answerd of the race of men The most vnhappy our most equall Queene Will mocke no solide armes with empty shade Nor suffer empty shades againe t' inuade Flesh bones and nerues nor will defraud the fire Of his last dues that soone as spirits expire And leaue the white bone are his natiue right When like a dreame the soule assumes her flight The light then of the liuing with most haste O Sonne contend to this thy little taste Of this state is enough and all this life Will make a tale fit to be told thy wife This speech we had when now repair'd to me More female spirits by Persepâ—â—â—â— Driuen on before her All t'heroes wiues And daughters that led there their second liues About the blacke blood throngd Of whom yet more My mind impell'd me to enquire before I let them altogether taste the gore For then would all haue bene disperst and gone Thicke as they came I therefore one by one Let taste the pit my sword drawne from my Thy And stand betwixt them made when seuerally All told their stockes The first that quencht her fire Was Tyro issu'd of a noble Sire She said she sprong from pure 〈◊〉 bed And Cretheâ—s Sonne of Aeâ—lus did wed Yet the diuine flood Eâ—ipeus lou'd Who much the most faire streame of all floods mou'd Neare whose streames Tyrâ— walking Neptune came Like Enipeus and enioyd the Dame Like to a hill the blew and Snakie flood Aboue th' immortall and the mortall stood And hid them both as both together lay Iust where his current falles into the Sea Her virgine wast dissolu'd she slumberd then But when the God had done the worke of men Her faire hand gently wringing thus he said Woman Reioyce in our combined bed For when the yeare hath runne his circle round Because the Gods loues must in fruite abound My loue shall make to cheere thy teeming mones Thy one deare burthen beare two famous Sonnes Loue well and bring them vp go home and see That though of more ioy yet I shall be free Thou dost not tell to glorifie thy birth Thy Loue is Neptune shaker of the earth This said he plung'd into the sea and she Begot with child by him the light let see Great Pelias and Neleus that became In Ioues great ministrie of mighty fame Pelias in broad Iolcus held his Throne Wealthy in cattell th' other roiall Sonne Rul'd sandy Pylos To these issue more This Queene of women to her husband bore Aeson and Pheres and Amythaon That for his fight on horsebacke stoopt to none Next her I saw admir'd Antiope Asopus daughter who as much as she Boasted attraction of great Neptunes loue Boasted to slumber in the armes of Ioue And two Sonnes likewise at one burthen bore To that her all-controlling Paramore Amphion and faire Zâ—thus that first laid Great Thebes foundations and strong wals conuaid
Sire came To see the then preferrer of his fame His loued daughter The first supper done Euryclea put in his lap her Sonne And pray'd him to bethinke and giue his name Since that desire did all desires inflame Daughter and Son-in-Law sayd he let then The name that I shall giue him stand with men Since I arriu'd here at the houre of paine In which mine owne kinde entrailes did sustaine Moane for my daughters yet vnended throes And when so many mens and womens woes In ioynt compassion met of humane birth Brought forth t' attend the many feeding earth Let Odysseus be his name as one Exposd to iust constraint of all mens mone VVhen heere at home he is arriu'd at state Of mans first youth he shall initiate His practisd feete in trauaile made abrode And to Pernassus where mine owne abode And chiefe meanes lye addresse his way where I VVill giue him from my opened treasury VVhat shall returne him well and fit the Fame Of one that had the honor of his name For these faire gifts he went and found all grace Of hands and words in him and all his race Amphithea his Mothers mother to Applied her to his loue withall to do In Grandames welcomes both his faire eyes kist And browes and then commanded to assist VVere all her sonnes by their respected Sire In furnishing a Feast whose eares did fire Their minds with his command who home straite led A fiue-yeares-old-male Oxe feld slew and flead Gather'd about him cut him vp with Art Spitted and roasted and his euery part Diuided orderly So all the day They spent in feast No one man went his way VVithout his fit fill VVhen the Sun was set And darknesse rose they slept till dayes fire het Th'enlightned earth and then on hunting went Both Hounds and all Autolycus descent In whose guide did diuine Vlysses go Climb'd steepe Parnassus on whose forehead grow All syluan off-springs round And soone they rech't The Concaues whence ayrs sounding vapors fetcht Their loud descent As soone as any Sun Had from the Ocean where his waters run In silent deepnesse rais'd his golden head The early Huntsmen all the hill had spread Their Hounds before them on the searching Traile They neere and euer eager to assaile Vlysses brandishing a lengthfull Lance Of whose first flight he long'd to proue the chance Then found they lodg'd a Bore of bulke extreame In such a Queach as neuer any beame The Sun shot pierc'st Nor any passe let finde The moist impressions of the fiercest winde Nor any storme the sternest winter driues Such proofe it was yet all within lay leaues In mighty thicknesse and through all this flew The hounds loud mouthes The sounds the tumult threw And all together rouz'd the Bore that rusht Amongst their thickest All his brissels pusht From forth his rough necke and with flaming eyes Stood close and dar'd all On which horrid prise Vlysses first charg'd whom aboue the knee The sauage strooke and rac't it crookedly Along the skin yet neuer reacht the bone Vlysses Lance yet through him quite was throwne At his right shoulder entring at his left The bright head passage to his keennesse cleft And shew'd his point gilt with the gushing gore Downe in the dust fell the extended Bore And forth his life flew To Vlysses round His Vnckle drew who wofull for his wound With all Art bound it vp and with a charme Staid straight the blood went home when the harm Receiu'd full cure with gifts and all euent Of ioy and loue to his lou'd home they sent Their honor'd Nephew whose returne his Sire And reuerend Mother tooke with ioyes entire Enquir'd all passages all which he gaue In good relation Nor of all would saue His wound from vtterance By whose scar he came To be discouered by this aged Dame VVhich when she clensing felt and noted well Downe from her Lap into the Caldron fell His weighty foot that made the Brasse resound Turn'd all aside and on th'embrewed ground Spilt all the water Ioy and griefe together Her brest inuaded and of weeping weather Her eyes stood full Her small voice stucke within Her part expressiue till at length his chin She tooke and spake to him O Sonne saide she Thou art Vlysses nor canst other be Nor could I know thee yet till all my King I had gone ouer with the warmed Spring Then look't she for the Queene to tell her all And yet knew nothing sure thogh nought could fall In compasse of all thoughts to make her doubt Minerua that distraction strooke throughout Her minds rapt sorces that she might not tell Vlysses noting yet her aptnesse well With one hand tooke her chin and made all shew Of fauour to her with the other drew Her offer'd parting closer Askt her why She whose kinde breast had nurst so tenderly His infant life would now his age destroy Though twenty yeares had held him from the ioy Of his lou'd country But since onely she God putting her in minde now knew 't was he He charg'd her silence and to let no eare In all the Court more know his being there Lest if God gaue into his wreakfull hand Th' insulting wooers liues he did not stand On any partiall respect with her Because his Nurse and to the rest prefer Her safety therefore But when they should feele His punishing finger giue her equall steele What words said she flye your retentiue pow'rs You know you locke your counsailes in your Tow'rs In my firme bosome and that I am farre From those loose frailties Like an Iron barre Or bolt of solidst stone I will containe And tell you this besides That if you gaine By Gods good aide the wooers liues in yours VVhat Dames are heere their shamelesse Paramours And haue done most dishonor to your worth My information well shall paint you forth It shal not neede saide he my selfe will soone VVhile thus I maske heere set on euery one My sure obseruance of the worst and best Be thou then silent and leaue God the rest This said the old Dame for more water went The rest was all vpon the Pauement spent By knowne Vlysses foot More brought and he Supplied besides with sweetest Oyntments she His seate drew neere the fire to keepe him warme And with his peec't rags hiding close his harme The Queene came neere and said Yet guest afford Your further patience till but in a word I le tell my woes to you For well I know That Rests sweet Houre her soft foote orders now When all poore men how much soeuer grieu'd VVould gladly get their wo-watcht pow'rs relieu'd But God hath giuen my griefe a heart so great It will not downe with rest And so I set My iudgement vp to make it my delight All day I mourne yet nothing let the right I owe my charge both in my worke and Maids And when the night brings rest to others aides I tosse my bed Distresse with twenty points Slaught'ring the
pow'rs that to my turning ioynts Conuey the vitall heate And as all night Pandareus daughter poore Edone sings Clad in the verdure of the yearly Springs VVhen she for Itylus her loued Sonne By Zetus issue in his madnesse done To cruell death poures out her hourely mone And drawes the eares to her of euery one So flowes my mone that cuts in two my minde And here and there giues my discourse the winde Vncertain whether I shal with my Son Abide still heere the safe possession And guard of all goods Reuerence to the bed Of my lou'd Lord and to my far-off spred Fame with the people putting still in vse Or follow any best Greeke I can chuse To his fit house with treasure infinite VVon to his Nuptials VVhile the infant plight And want of iudgement kept my Son in guide He was not willing with my being a Bride Nor with my parting from his Court But now Arriu'd at mans state he would haue me vow My loue to some one of my wooers heere And leaue his Court offended that their cheere Should so consume his free possessions To settle then a choice in these my mones Heare and expound a dreame that did engraue My sleeping fancy Twenty Geese I haue All which me thought mine eye saw tasting wheate In water steep't and ioy'd to see them eate VVhen straight a crooke-beak't Eagle from a hill Stoop't and trust all their neckes and all did kill VVhen all left scatter'd on the Pauement there She tooke her wing vp to the Gods faire sphere I euen amid my Dreame did weepe and mourne To see the Eagle with so shrew'd a turne Stoope my sad turrets when me thought there came About my mournings many a Grecian Dame To cheere my sorrowes in whose most extreame The Hawke came back and on the prominent beame That crost my Chamber fell and vs'd to me A humane voice that sounded horribly And saide Be confident Icarius seed This is no dreame but what shall chance indeed The Geese the wooers are the Eagle I VVas heeretofore a Fowle but now imply Thy husbands Beeing and am come to giue The wooers death that on my Treasure liue With this Sleepe left me and my waking way I tooke to try if any violent prey Were made of those my Fowles which well enoâ—â—â—â— I as before found feeding at their Trough Their yoted wheate O woman he replide Thy dreame can no interpretation bide But what the Eagle made who was your Lord And saide himselfe would sure effect afford To what he told you that confusion To all the wooers should appeare and none Escape the Fate and death he had decreed She answer'd him O Guest these dreames exceede The Art of man t' interpret and appere Without all choise or forme nor euer were Perform'd to all at all parts But there are To these light Dreames that like thin vapors fare Two two-leau'd gates the one of Iuory The other Horne Those dreames that Fantasie Takes from the polisht Iuory Port delude The Dreamer euer and no truth include Those that the glittering Horn-gate le ts abrode Do euermore some certaine truth abode But this my dreame I hold of no such sort To flye from thence yet which soeuer Port It had accesse from it did highly please My Son and me And this my thoughts professe That Day that lights me from Vlysses Court Shall both my infamy and curse consort I therefore purpose to propose them now In strong Contention Vlysses Bow Which he that easly drawes and from his draft Shoots through twelue Axes as he did his shaft All set vp in a rowe And from them all His stand-farre-off kept firme my fortunes shall Dispose and take me to his house from hence VVhere I was wed a Maide in confluence Of feast and riches such a Court heâ—re then As I shall euer in my dreames reteine Do not said he deferre the gamefull prise But set to taske their importunities With something else then Nuptials For your Lord VVill to his Court and Kingdome be restor'd Before they thred those steeles or draw his Bow O Guest repli'de Penelope would you Thus sit and please me with your speech mine eares VVould neuer let mine eye-lids close their Spheares But none can liue without the death of sleepe Th'Immortals in our mortall memories keepe Our ends and deaths by sleepe diuiding so As by the Fate and portion of our wo Our times spent heere to let vs nightly try That while we liue as much as liue we dye In which vse I will to my bed ascend VVhich I bedeaw with teares and sigh past end Through all my houres spent since I lost my ioy For vile lew'd neuer-to-be-named Troy Yet there I le proue for sleepe which take you here Or on the earth if that your custome were Or haue a bed dispos'd for warmer rest Thus left she with her Ladies her old Guest Ascended her faire chamber and her bed VVhose sight did euer duly make her shed Teares for her Lord which still her eyes did steepe Till Pallas shut them with delightsome sleepe The End of the Nineteenth Booke of Homers Odysses THE TWENTITH BOOKE OF HOMERS ODYSSES. THE ARGVMENT VLysses in the Wooers Beds Resoluing first to kill the Maids That sentence giuing off His care For other Obiects dotâ— prepare Another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioues thunder chides but cheers the king The Wooers prides discoÌ„mfiting VLysses in the Entry laâ—de his head And vâ—der him an Oxe-hide newly flead Aboue him Sheep fels storâ— oâ—â—r those Eurynome cast Mantles His repose VVould bring â—o sleepe yet studying the ill He wisht the wooers who came by him still VVith all their wencâ—es laughing wantoning In mutuall lightnesse which his heart did sting Contending two wayes if all patience fled He should rush vp and strike those Strumpets dead Or let that night be last and take th' extreme Of those proud wooers â—hat were so supreme In pleasure of their high fed fantasies His heart did barke within him to surprize Their spoâ—ts with spoiles No fell shee Mastiue can Amongst her whelpes flye eagrer on a man She doth not know yet sents him something neare And faine would come to please her tooth and teare Then his disdaine to see his Roofe so fil'de VVith those fowle fashions Grew within him wilde To be in blood of them But finding best In his free iudgement to let passion rest He chid his angry spirit and beate his brest And said Forbeare my minde and thinke on this There hath bene time when bitter agonies Haue tried thy patience Call to minde the day In which the Cyclop which past manly sway Of violent strength deuour'd thy friends thou then Stoodst firmely bold till from that hellish den Thy wisedom broght thee off wheÌ„ nought but death Thy thoughts resolu'd on This discourse did breath The fiery boundings of his heart that still Lay in that aesture without end his ill Yet manly suffering But from side to side It
now is gone to learne if Fame can breathe Newes of his Sire and will the â—ylian shore And sacred Sparta in his search explore This newes dissolu'd to her both knees and heart Long silence held her ere one word would part Her eyes stood full of teares her small soft voice All late vse lost that yet at last had choice Of wonâ—ed words which briefly thus she vsde Why left my sonne his mother why refusde His wit the solid shore to trie the seas And put in ships the trust of his distresse That are at sea to men vnbridld horse And tunne past rule their farre-engaged course Amidst a moisture past all meane vnstaid No need compeld this did he it afraid To liue and leaue posteritie his name I know not he replide if th'humor came From current of his owne instinct or flowd From others instigations but he vowd Attempt to Pylos or to see descried His Sires returne or know what death he died This said he tooke him to Vlysseâ— house After the wooers the Vlyssean Spouse Runne through with woes let Tortâ—â—e seise her mind Nor in her choice of state-chaires stood enclin'd To take her seate but th'abiect threshold chose Of her faire chamber for her loth'd repose And mournd most wretch-like Round about her fell Her handmaids ioynd in a continuate yell From euery corner of the Pallace all Of all degrees tun'd to her comforts fall Their owne deiections to whom her complaint She thus enforc't The Gods beyond constraint Of any measure vrge these teares on me Nor was there euer Dame of my degree So past degree grieu'd First a Lord so good That had such hardie spirits in his blood That all the vertues was adornd withall That all the Greeks did their Superiour call To part with thus and lose And now a sonne So worthily belou'd a course to runne Beyond my knowledge whom rude tempests haue Made farre from home his most inglorious graue Vnhappie wenches that no one of all Though in the reach of euery one must fall His taking ship sustaind the carefull mind To call me from my bed who this designd And most vowd course in him had either staid How much soeuer hasted or dead laid He should haue left me Many a man I haue That would haue calld old Dolius my slaue That keepes my Orchard whom my Father gaue At my departure to haue runne and told Laertes this to trie if he could hold From running through the people and from teares In telling them of these vowd murtherers That both diuine Vlysses hope and his Resolue to end in their conspiracies His Nurse then Euryclaea made reply Deare Soueraigne let me with your owne hands die Or cast me off here I le not keepe from thee One word of what I know He trusted me With all his purpose and I gaue him all The bread and wine for which he pleasd to call But then a mightie oath he made me sweare Not to report it to your â—oyall eare Before the twelfth day either should appeare Or you should aske me when you heard him gone Empaire not then your beauties with your mone But wash and put vnteare-staind garments on Ascend your chamber with your Ladies here And pray the seed of Goat-nurst Iupiter Diuine Athenia to preserue your sonne And she will saue him from confusion Th' old King to whom your hopes stand so inclin'd For his graue counsels you perhaps may find Vnfit affected for his ages sake But heauen-kings waxe not old and therefore make Fit pray'rs to them for my thoughts neuer will Beleeue the heauenly powres conceit so ill The seed of righteous Arcesiades To end it vtterly but still will please In some place euermore some one of them To saue and decke him with a Diadem Giue him possession of erected Towres And farre-stretcht fields crownd all of fruits and flowres This easd her heart and dride her humorous â—ies When hauing washt and weeds of sacrifise Pure and vnstaind with her distrustfull teares Put on with all her women-ministers Vp to a chamber of most height she rose And cakes of salt and barly did impose Within a wicker basket all which broke In decent order thus she did inuoke Great Virgin of the Goat-preserued God If euer the inhabited abode Of wise Vlysses held the â—atted Thiâ—s Of sheepe and Oxen made thy sacrifice By his deuotion heare me nor 〈◊〉 His pious seruices but â—aâ—e â—ee â—eâ— His deare sonne on these shores and 〈…〉 These wooers past all meane in insolence This said she shriekt and 〈…〉 her 〈◊〉 The wooers broke with tumult all 〈…〉 About the shadie house and one of them Whose pride his youth had made the more 〈◊〉 Said Now the many-wooer 〈◊〉 Queene Will surely fatiate her 〈◊〉 〈…〉 And one of vs in instant 〈◊〉 Poore Dame she dreames not what designe we make Vpon the life and slaughter of her sonne So said he but so said was not so done Whose arrogant spirit in a 〈◊〉 so vaine Antinous chid and said For shame 〈◊〉 These brauing speeches who 〈…〉 Are we not now in reach of 〈◊〉 If our intentions please vs let vs call Our spirits vp to them and let 〈…〉 By watchfull Danger men must 〈…〉 What we resolue on let 's not say but do This said he chusde out twentie men that bore Best reckning with him and to ship and shore All â—asted reacht the ship lanchit raisd the maâ—t Put sailes in and with leather loopes made â—aâ—t The oares Sailes hoisted Armes their men did bring All giuing speed and forme to euery thing Then to the high-deepes their riggd vessell driâ—en They supt expecting the approching Eâ—en Meane space Penelope her chamber kept And bed and neither eate nor dranke nor slept Her strong thoughts wrought so on her blamelesse sonne Still in contention if he should be done To death or scape the impious wooers designe Looke how a Lion whom then â—â—roopes combine To hunt and close him in a craftie 〈◊〉 Much varied thought conceiues and feare doth sting For vrgent danger So far'd she 〈◊〉 sleepe All iuncture of her ioynts and nerues did sâ—eepe In his dissoluing humor When at rest Pallas her fauours varied and addrest An Idoll that Iphthima did present In structure of her euery lineament Great-sould Icarius daughter whom for Spouse Eumâ—lus tooke that kept in Pheris house This to diuine Vlysses house she sent To trie her best meane how she might content Mournfull Penelope and make Relent The strict addiction in her to deplore This Idoll like a worme that lesse or more Contracts or straines her did it selfe conuey Beyond the wards or windings of the key Into the chamber and aboue her head Her seate assuming thus she comforted Distrest Penelope Doth sleepe thus sease Thy powres affected with so much disease The Gods that nothing troubles will not see Thy teares nor griefes in any least degree Sustaind with cause for they will guard thy sonne Safe