their race haue more fruite then the dust This iust cause turnd his brothers mind who violently thrust The prisoner from him in whose guts the king of men imprest His ashen lance which pitching downe his foote vpon the brest Of him that vpwards fell he drew then Nestor spake to all O friends and household men of Mars let not your pursuit fall Kestor to the Greekes With those ye fell for present spoile nor like the king of men Let any scape vnfeld but on dispatch them all and then Ye shall haue time enough to spoile This made so strong their chace That all the Troians had bene housd and neuer turnd a face Had not the Priamist Helenus an Augure most of name Hellenus to Hector and Aeneas Will'd Hector and Aeneas thus Hector Anchises fame Since on your shoulders with good cause the weightie burthen lies Of Troy and Lycia being both of noblest faculties For counsell strength of hand and apt to take chance at her best In euery turne she makes stand fast and suffer not the rest By any way searcht out for scape to come within the ports Lest fled into their wiues kind armes they there be made the sports Of the pursuing enemie exhort and force your bands To turne their faces and while we employ our ventur'd hands Though in a hard condition to make the other stay Hector go thou to Ilion and our Queene mother pray To take the richest robe she hath the same that 's chiefly deare To her Court fancie with which Iemme assembling more to her Of Troys chiefe Matrones let all go for feare of all our fates To Pallas temple take the key vnlocke the leauie gates Enter and reach the highest towre where her Palladium stands And on it put the precious veile with pure and reuerend hands And vow to her besides the gift a sacrificing stroke Of twelue fat Heifers of a yeare that neuer felt the yoke Most answering to her maiden state if she will pittie vs Our towne our wiues our yongest ioyes and him that plagues them thus Take from the conflict Diomed that Furie in a fight That true sonne of great Tydeus that cunning Lord of Flight Whom I esteeme the strongest Greeke for we haue neuer fled Achilles that is Prince of men and whom a Goddesse bred Like him his furie flies so high and all mens wraths commands Hector intends his brothers will but first through all his bands He made quicke way encouraging and all to feare affraide All turnd their heads and made Greece turne Slaughter stood still dismaid On their parts for they thought some God falne from the vault of starres Was rusht into the Ilions aide they made such dreadfull warres Thus Hector toyling in the waues and thrusting backe the flood Hector to the Troians Of his ebb'd forces thus takes leaue So so now runs your blood In his right current Forwards now Troians and farre cald friends Awhile hold out till for successe to this your braue amends I haste to Ilion and procure our Counsellours and wiues To pray and offer Hecatombs for their states in our liues Then faire-helm'd Hector turnd to Troy and as he trode the field How Hector left the field The blacke Buls hide that at his backe he wore about his shield In the extreme circumference was with his gate so rockt That being large it both at once his necke and ankles knockt And now betwixt the hosts were met Hippolochus braue sonne The encounter of Diomed and Glaucus Glaucus who in his verie looke hope of some wonder wonne And little Tydeus mightie heire who seeing such a man Offer the field for vsuall blowes with wondrous words began What art thou strongst of mortall men that putst so farre before Diomed to Glaucâ⦠Whom these fights neuer shew'd mine eyes they haue bene euermore Sonnes of vnhappie parents borne that came within the length Of this Minerua-guided lance and durst close with the strength That she inspires in me If heauen be thy diuine abode And thou a Deitie thus inform'd no more with any God Will I change lances the strong sonne of Drias did not liue Long after such a conflict dar'd who godlesly did driue Nisaeus Nurses through the hill made sacred to his name And cald Nissââ¦ius with a goade he puncht each furious dame And made them euery one cast downe their greene and leauie speares This t'homicide Lycurgus did and those vngodly feares He put the Froes in seisd their God Euen Bacchus he did driue From his Nisseius who was faine with huge exclaimes to diue Into the Ocean Thetis there in her bright bosome tooke The flying Deitie who so feard Lycurgus threats he shooke For which the freely-liuing Gods so highly were incenst That Saturns great sonne strooke him blind and with his life dispenc't But small time after all because th'immortals lou'd him not Nor lou'd him since he striu'd with them and his end hath begot Feare in my powres to fight with heauen but if the fruits of earth Nourish thy bodie and thy life be of our humane birth Come neare that thou maist soone arriue on that life-bounding shore To which I see thee hoise such saile Why dost thou so explore Glaucuâ⦠his wor thie answer to Diomed and his ââ¦edegree drawne euen from Sysipââ¦us Said Glaucus of what race I am when like the race of leaues The race of man is that deserues no question nor receiues My being any other breath The wind in Autumne strowes The earth with old leaues then the Spring the woods with new endowes And so death scatters men on earth so life puts out againe Mans leauie issue but my race if like the course of men Thou seekst in more particular termes t is this to many knowne In midst of Argos nurse of horse there stands a walled towne Ephyré where the Mansion house of Sysiphus did stand The historie of Bellerophon Of Sysiphus Aeolides most wise of all the land Glaucus was sonne to him and he begat Bellerophon Whose bodie heauen endued with strength and put a beautie on Exceeding louely Prââ¦tus yet his cause of loue did hate And banisht him the towne he might he ruld the Argiue state The vertue of the one Iouâ⦠plac't beneath the others powre His exile grew since he denied to be the Paramour Of faire Antââ¦ta Prââ¦tus wife who felt a raging fire Of secret loue to him but he whom wisedome did inspire As well as prudence one of them aduising him to shunne The danger of a Princesse loue the other not to runne Within the danger of the Gods the act being simply ill Still entertaining thoughts diuine subdu'd the earthly still She rul'd by neither of his wits preferd her lust to both And false to Prââ¦tus would seeme true with this abhorr'd vntroth Praetus or die thy selfe said she or let Bellerophon die Bellerephââ¦ntis literaeâ⦠Ad. Eras. ââ¦hu long speech many Critickes taxâ⦠ãâã vntimââ¦ly being as they take ãâã
many labours was From whose rich heapes his father would a wondrous portion giue If at the great Achaian fleet he heard his sonne did liue Vlysses bad him cheare his heart Thinke not of death said he Vlysses to Dolon But tell vs true why runst thou forth when others sleeping be Is it to spoile the carkasses or art thou choicely sent T'explore our drifts or of thy selfe seek'st thou some wisht euent He trembling answerd Much reward did Hectors oth propose Dolons answer And vrg'd me much against my will t'indeuour to disclose If you determin'd still to stay or bent your course for flight As all dismaid with your late foile and wearied with the fight For which exploite Pelides horse and chariot he did sweare I onely euer should enioy Vlysses smil'd to heare So base a swaine haue any hope so high a prise t' aspire Vlysses to Dolon And said his labors did affect a great and precious hire And that the horse Pelides rein'd no mortall hand could vse But he himselfe whose matchlesse life a Goddesse did produce But tell vs and report but truth where lefââ¦st thou Hector now Where are his armes his famous horse on whom doth he bestow The watches charge where sleepe the Kings intend they still to lie Thus neare encampt or turne suffisd with their late victorie All this said he I le tell most true At Ilus monument Dolons relation Hector with all our Princes sits t' aduise of this euent Who chuse that place remou'd to shnn the rude confused sounds The common souldiers throw about but for our watch and rounds Whereof braue Lord thou mak'st demand none orderly we keepe The Troians that haue roofes to saue onely abandon sleepe And priuately without command each other they exhort To make preuention of the worst and in this slender sort Is watch and guard maintaind with vs. Th'auxiliarie bands Sleepe soundly and commit their cares into the Troians hands For they haue neither wiues with them nor children to protect The lesse they need to care the more they succour dull neglect But tell me said wise Ithacus are all these forreine powres Ithacâ⦠Appointed quarters by themselues or else commixt with yours Dolâ⦠And this said Dolon too my Lords I le seriously vnfold The Paeons with the crooked bowes and Cares quarters hold Next to the sea the Leieges and Caucons ioyn'd with them And braue Pelasgians Thimbers meade remou'd more from the streame Is quarter to the Licians the loftie Misian force The Phrygians and Meonians that fight with armed horse But what need these particulars if ye intend surprise Of any in our Troian campe the Thracian quarter lies Vtmost of all and vncommixt with Troian regiments That keepe the voluntary watch new pitcht are all their tents King Rhesus Eioneus son commands them who hath steeds More white then snow huge and well shap't their firie pace exceeds Virgilianum The winds in swiftnesse these I saw his Chariot is with gold And pallid siluer richly fram'd and wondrous to behold His great and golden armour is not fit a man should weare But for immortall shoulders fram'd come then and quickly beare Your happie prisoner to your fleet or leaue him here fast bound Till your well vrg'd and rich returne proue my relation sound Tydides dreadfully replide Thinke not of passage thus Diomeds sternâ⦠rââ¦ply to Dolon Though of right acceptable newes thou hast aduertisde vs Our hands are holds more strict then so and should we set thee free For offerd ransome for this scape thou still wouldst scouting be About our ships or do vs scathe in plaine opposed armes But if I take thy life no way can we repent thy harmes With this as Dolon reacht his hand to vse a suppliants part Dolons slaughter by Diomed. And stroke the beard of Diomed he strooke his necke athwart With his forc't sword and both the nerues he did in sunder wound And suddenly his head deceiu'd fell speaking on the ground His wesels helme they tooke his bow his wolues skin and his lance Which to Minerua Ithacus did zealously aduance With lifted arme into the aire and to her thus he spake Goddesse triumph in thine owne spoiles to thee we first will make Vlysses offers Dolons armes to Pallas Our inuocations of all powers thron'd on th' Olympian hill Now to the Thracians and their horse and beds conduct vs still With this he hung them vp aloft vpon a Tamricke bow As eyefull Trophies and the sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leauie armes to make it easier viewd When they should hastily retire and be perhaps pursude Forth went they through blacke bloud and armes and presently aspir'd The guardlesse Thracian regiment fast bound with sleepe and tir'd Their armes lay by and triple rankes they as they slept did keepe As they should watch and guard their king who in a fatall sleepe Lay in the midst their charriot horse as they coach fellowes were Fed by them and the famous steeds that did their Generall beare Stood next him to the hinder part of his rich chariot tied Vlysses to Diomed Vyssââ¦s saw them first and said Tydides I haue spied The horse that Dolon whom we slue assur'd vs we should see Now vse thy strength now idle armes are most vnfit for thee Prise thou the horse or kill the guard and leaue the horse to me Minerââ¦a with the Azure eyes breath'd strength into her King Who fild the tent with mixed death the soules he set on wing Issued in grones and made aire swell into her stormie floud Horror and slaughter had one power the earth did blush with bloud As when a hungrie Lion flies with purpose to deuoure On flocks vnkept and on their liues doth freely vse his power So Tydeus sonne assaild the foe twelue soules before him flew Vlysses waited on his sword and euer as he slew He drew them by their strengthlesse heeles out of the horses sight That when he was to leade them forth they should not with affright Bogle nor snore in treading on the bloudie carkases For being new come they were vnusde to such sterne sights as these Through foure ranks now did Diomed the king himselfe attaine Diomed slaughters Rhesuâ⦠king of Thrace Who snoring in his sweetest sleepe was like his souldiers slaine An ill dreame by Minerua sent that night stood by his head Which was Oenides royall sonne vnconquer'd Diomed. Meane while Vlysses loosd his horse tooke all their raines in hand And led them forth but Tydeus sonne did in contention stand With his great mind to do some deed of more audacitie If he should take the chariot where his rich armes did lie And draw it by the beame away or beare it on his backe Or if of more dull Thracian liues he should their bosomes sacke In this contention with himselfe Minerua did suggest Mineruâ⦠to Diomed And bad him thinke of his retreate lest
the first seem'd best to him and backe he went to call Anchises sonne to friend who stood in troope the last of all Where still he seru'd which made him still incense against the king Aeneas angrie being euer disgraced by PriaÌ That being amongst his best their Peere he grac't not any thing His wrong'd deserts Deiphobus spake to him standing neare Aeneas Prince of Troians if any touch appeare To him Deiphobus Of glorie in thee thou must now assist thy sisters Lord And one that to thy tendrest youth did carefull guard afford Alcathous whom Cretas king hath chiefly slaine to thee His right most challenging thy hand come therefore follow me This much excited his good mind and set his heart on fire Against the Cretan who child-like dissolu'd not in his ire Simile But stood him firme As when in hils a strength-relying Bore Alone and hearing hunters come whom Tumult flies before Vp thrusts his bristles whets his tusks sets fire on his red eyes And in his braue-prepar'd repulse doth dogs and men despise So stood the famous for his lance nor shund the coming charge That resolute Aeneas brought yet since the ods was large He cald with good right to his aide war-skild Ascalaphus Idomeneus cals his friends to aid Aphareus Meriones the strong Deipyrus And Nestors honorable sonne Come neare my friends said he And adde your aids to me alone Feare taints me worthilie Though firme I stand and shew it not Aeneas great in fight And one that beares youth in his flowre that beares the greatest might Aeneas yet a youth as Virgil makes him Comes on with aime direct at me had I his youthfull lim To beare my mind he should yeeld Fame or I would yeeld it him This said all held in many soules one readie helpfull mind Clapt shields and shoulders and stood close Aeneas not inclind With more presumption then the king cald aid as well as he Diuine Agenor Hellens loue who followd instantly And all their forces following them as after Bellwethers The whole flocks follow to their drinke which sight the shepheard cheres Nor was Aeneas ioy lesse mou'd to see such troopes attend His honord person and all these fought close about his friend But two of them past all the rest had strong desire to shed The blood of either Idomen and Cythereas seed Aeneâ⦠and Idomeneâ⦠in conflict Aeneas first bestowd his lance which th' other seeing shund And that throwne from an idle hand stucke trembling in the ground But Idomens discharg'd at him had no such vaine successe Which Oenomaus entrailes found in which it did impresse His sharpe pile to his fall his palms tore his returning earth Idomeneus strait steptin and pluckt his Iauelin forth But could not spoile his goodly armes they prest him so with darts And now the long toile of the fight had spent his vigorous parts And made them lesse apt to auoid the foe that should aduance Or when himselfe aduanc't againe to run and fetch his lance And therefore in stiffe fights of stand he spent the cruell day When coming softly from the slaine Deiphobus gaue way To his brght Iauelin at the king whom he could neuer brooke But then he lost his enuie too his lance yet deadly tooke Ascalaphus the sonne of Mars slaiââ¦e by ãâã Ascalaphus the sonne of Mars quite through his shoulder flew The violent head and downe he fell Nor yet by all meanes knew Wide throated Mars his sonne was falne but in Olympus top Sad canapied with golden clouds Ioues counsell had shut vp Both him and all the other Gods from that times equall taske Which now about Ascalaphus Strife set his shining caske Deiphobus had forc't from him but instantly leapt in Mars-swift Meriones and strooke with his long Iauelin Deiphobus wouÌded by Meridnes The right arme of Deiphobus which made his hand let fall The sharp-topt helmet the prest earth resounding there withall When Vulture-like Meriones rusht in againe and drew From out the low part of his arme his Iauelin and then flew Backe to his friends Deiphobus faint with the bloods excesse Falne from his wound was carefully conuaid out of the preasse By his kind brother by both ââ¦ides Polites till they gat His horse and chariot that were still set fit for his retreate And bore him now to Ilion The rest fought fiercely on And set a mightie fight on foote When next Anchises sonne Aphareus Caletorides that tan vpon him stââ¦oke Iust in the throate with his keene lance and strait his head forsooke His vpright cariage and his shield his helme and all with him Fell to the earth where ruinous death made prise of euerie lim Antilochus discouering well that Thoons heart tooke checke Let flie and cut the hollow veine that runs vp to his necke Along his backe part quite in twaine downe in the dust he fell Vpwards and with extended hands bad all the world farewell Antilochus rushtnimbly in and looking round made prise Of his faire armes in which affaire his round set enemies Let flie their lances thundering on his aduanced targe But could not get his flesh the God that shakes the earth tooke charge Of Nestors sonne and kept him safe who neuer was away But still amongst the thickest foes his busie lance did play Obseruing euer when he might far-off or neare offend And watching Asius sonne in prease he spide him and did send Close coming on a dart at him that smote in midst his shield In which the sharpe head of the lance the blew-hair'd God made yeeld Not pleasd to yeeld his pupils life in whose shield halfe the dart Stucke like a trunchion burnd with fire on earth lay th' other part He seeing no better end of all retir'd in feare of worse But him Meriones pursude and his lance foundfull course To th 'others life it wounded him betwixt the priuie parts And nauill where to wretched men that wars most violent smarts Must vndergo wounds chiefly vexe His dart Meriones Pursude and Adamas so striu'd with it and his misease As doth a Bullocke puffe and storme whom in disdained bands Simile The vpland heardsmen striue to cast so falne beneath the hands Of his sterne foe Asiades did struggle pant and raue But no long time for when the lance was pluckt out vp he gaue His tortur'd soule Then Troys turne came when with a Thracian sword The temples of Deipyrus did Hellenus afford So huge a blow it strooke all light out of his cloudie eyes And cleft his helmet which a Greeke there fighting made his prise It fell so full beneath his feet Atrides grieu'd to see That sight and threatning shooke a lance at Hellenus and he A bow halfe drew at him at once out flew both shaft and lance The shaft Atrides curets strooke and farre away did glance Atrides dart of Hellenus the thrust out bow-hand strooke Hellenus wounded And through the hand stucke in the bow Agenors hand did plucke
on the yong Antiloââ¦us Antilochââ¦s in all our host there is not one of vs Menelaus to Antilochus More yong then thou more swift of foote nor with both those so strong O would thou wouldst then for thou canst one of this lustie throng That thus comes skipping out before whoeuer any where Make sticke for my sake twixt both hosts and leaue his bold blood there He said no sooner and retir'd but forth he rusht before The foremost fighters yet his eye did euery way explore For doubt of ods out flew his lance the Troians did abstaine While he was darting yet his dart he cast not off in vaine For Menalippus that rare sonne of great Hycetaon Antiââ¦ââ¦ters Meââ¦ppus As brauely he put foorth to fight it fiercely flew vpon And at the nipple of his breast his breast and life did part And then much like an eager hound cast off at some yong Hart Simile Hurt by the hunter that had left his couert then but new The great-in-warte Antilochus O Menalippus flew On thy torne bosome for thy spoyle But thy death could not lie Hid to great Hector who all haste made to thee and made flie Antilochus although in watre he were at all parts skild But as some wild beast hauing done some shrewd turne either kild The heardsman or the heardsman dogge and skulks away before The gatherd multitude makes in so Nestors sonne forbore A Simile suiting the other before to the life But after him with horrid cryes both Hector and the rest Showres of teare-thirstie lances powr'd who hauing arm'd his brest With all his friends he turn'd it then Then on the ships all Troy Like raw-flesh-nourisht Lions rusht and knew they did imploy Their powres to perfect Ioues high will who still their spirits enflam'd And quencht the Grecians one renownd the other often sham'd For Hectors glorie still he stood and euer went about To make him cast the fleet such fire as neuer should go our Heard Theâ⦠foule petition and wisht in any wise The splendor of the burning ships might satiate his eyes From him yet the repulse was then to be on Troy conferd The honor of it giuen the Greeks which thinking on he stird With such addition of his spirit the spirit Hector bore To burne the fleet that of it selfe was hote enough before But now he far'd like Mars himselfe so brandishing his lance As through the deepe shades of a hill a raging fire should glance Held vp to all eyes by a hill about his lips a fome Hââ¦s ãâã appâ⦠Stood as when th' Ocean is enrag'd his eyes were ouercome With feruour and resembl'd flames set off by his darke browes And from his temples his bright helme abhorred lightnings throwes For Ioue from foorth the sphere of starres to his state put his owne And all the blaze of both the hosts confin'd in him alone And all this was since after this he had not long to liue This lightning flew before his death which Pallas was to giue A small time thence and now prepar'd beneath the violence Of great Pelides In meane time his present eminence Thought all things vnder it and he still where he saw the stands Of greatest strength and brauest arm'd there he would proue his hands Or no where offering to breake through But that past all his powre Although his will * were past all theirs they stood him like a towre Conioynd so firme that as a rocke exceeding high and great And standing neare the hoarie sea beares many a boisterous threate Of high-voic't winds and billowes huge belcht on it by the stormes So stood the Greeks great Hectors charge nor stird theâ⦠battellous formes He guirt in fire borne for the fleet still rusht at euery troope And fell vpon it like a waue high raisd that then doth stoope Simile Out from the clouds grows as it stoops with stormes then downe doth come And cuffe a ship when all her sides are hid in brackish some Strong gales still raging in her sailes her sailers minds dismaid Death being but little from their liues so Ioue-like Hector fraid And plyde the Greeks who knew not what would chance for all their guards And as the banefull king of beasts leapt in to Oxen heards Simile Fed in the meddowes of a fenne exceeding great the beasts In number infinite mongst whom their heardsmen wanting breasts To fight with Lions for the price of a blacke Oxes life He here and there iumps first and last in his bloodthirstie strife Chac't and assaulted and at length downe in the midst goes one And all the rest sperst through the fenne so now all Greece was gone So Hector in a flight from heauen vpon the Greciaââ¦s cast Turnd all their backs yet onely one his deadly lance laid fast Braue Mycenaus Periphes Cypraeus dearest sonne Who of the heauens-Queene-lou'd-king great ãâã wonne The grace to greet in Ambassie the strength of Hercules Was farre superiour to his sire in feete fight noblenes Of all the vertues and all those did such a wisedome guide As all Mycena could not match and this man dignified Stil making greater his renowne the state of Priams sonne For his vnhappie hastie foote as he addrest to runne Stucke in th' extreme ring of his shield that to his ankles reachâ⦠And downe he vpwards fell his fall vp from the center fetcht A huge sound with his head and helme which Hectâ⦠quickly spide Ranne in and in his worthy breast his lances head did hide And slue about him all his friends who could not giue him aide They grieu'd and of his god-like foe fled so extreme afraid And now amongst the nearest ships that first were drawne to shore The Greeks were driuen beneath whose sides behind them and before And into them they powr'd themselues and thence were driuen againe Vp to their tents and there they stood not daring to maintaine Their guards more outward but betwixt the bounds of Feare and Shame Chear'd still each other when th' old man that of the Grecian name Was cald the pillar euery man thus by his parents praid O friends be men and in your minds let others shames be weigh'd Know you haue friends besides your selues possessions parents wiues Nestor to the Greekes As well those that are dead to you as those ye loue with liues All sharing still their good or bad with yours by these I pray That are not present and the more should therefore make ye wey Their misse of you as yours of them that you will brauely stand And this forc't flight you haue sustain'd at length yet countermand Supplies of good words thus supplide the deeds and spirits of all And so at last Minerua clear'd the cloud that Ioue let fall Minerua cleares the darknes Ioue powred on the Grecian armie Before their eyes a mightie light flew beaming euery way As well about their ships as where their darts did hotest play Then saw they Hector great in armes and
vaile Trembling about her so she shooke Phoebus lest Troy should faile Before her Fate flew to her wals the other deities flew Vp to Olympus some enrag'd some glad Achilles slew Both men and horse of Ilion And as a citie fir'd Casts vp a heate that purples heauen Clamors and shriekes expir'd Similâ⦠In euery corner toile to all to many miserie Which fire th' incensed gods let fall Achilles so let flie Rage on the Troians toiles and shriekes as much by him imposde Old Priam in his sacred towre stood and the flight disclosde Of his forc't people all in rout and not a stroke return'd By fled Resistance His eyes saw in what a furie burnd The sonne of Peleus and downe went weeping from the towre Priams amaze at Achilles To all the port-guards and their Chiefes told of his flying powre Commanding th'opening of the ports but not to let their hands Stirre from them for Aeacides would poure in with his bands Destruction comes O shut them straight when we are in he praid For not our walls I feare will checke this violent man This said Off lifted they the barres the ports hal'd open and they gaue Safetie her entrie with the host which yet they could not saue Had not Apollo sallied out and strooke Destruction Brought by Achilles in their neckes backe when they right vpon The ports bore all drie dustie spent and on their shoulders rode Rabide Achilles with his lance still Glorie being the gode That prickt his Furie Then the Greeks high-ported Ilion Had seiz'd had not Apollo stird Antenors famous sonne Diuine Agenor and cast in an vndertaking spirit Agenor spirited by Apollo To his bold bosome and himselfe stood by to strengthen it And keepe the heauie hand of death from breaking in The god Stood by him leaning on a beach and couer'd his abode With night-like darknesse yet for all the spirit he inspir'd When that great citie-racers force his thoughts strooke he retir'd Stood and went on A world of doubts still falling in his way When angry with himselfe he said Why suffer I this stay In this so strong need to go on If like the rest I flie T is his best weapon to giue chace being swift and I should die Agenors ââ¦scourse with himselfe Like to a coward If I stand I fall too These two wayes Please not my purpose I would liue What if I suffer these Still to be routed and my feete affoording further length Passe all these fields of Ilion till Idas syluane strength And steepe heights shroud me and at Euen refresh me in the flood And turne to Ilion O my soule why drown'st thou in the blood Of these discourses If this course that talkes of further flight I giue my feete his feete more swift haue more ods Get he sight Of that passe I passe least for pace and length of pace his thies Will stand out all men Meete him then my steele hath faculties Of powre to pierce him his great breast but one soule holds and that Death claimes his right in all men say but he holds speciall state In Ioues high bountie that 's past man that euery way will hold Ioââ¦es bountie serues all men all wayes And that serues all men euery way This last heart made him bold To stand Achilles and stird vp a mightie mind to blowes And as a Panther hauing heard the hounds traile doth disclose Simile Her freckl'd forhead and stares forth from out some deepe-growne wood To trie what strength dares her abroad and when her fierie blood The hounds haue kindl'd no quench serues of loue to liue or feaââ¦e Though strooke though wounded though quite through she feels the mortal speare But till the mans close strength she tries or strowes earth with his dart She puts her strength out So it far'd with braue Agenors hart And till Achilles he had prou'd no thoughts no deeds once stird His fixed foote To his broad breast his round shield he preferd And vp his arme went with his aime his voice out with this crie Thy hope is too great Peleus sonne this day to shew thine eye Troys Ilion at thy foote O foole the Greeks with much more woes Agenor to Achilles More then are sufferd yet must buy great Ilions ouerthrowes We are within her many strong that for our parents sakes Our wiues and children will saue Troy and thou though he that makes Thy name so terrible shalt make a sacrifice to her With thine owne ruines Thus he threw nor did his iauelin erre But strooke his foes leg neare his knee the feruent steele did ring Against his tin greaues and leapt backe The fires strong-handed king Gaue vertue of repulse and then Aeacides assail'd Diuine Agenor but in vaine Apollos powre preuail'd And rapt Agenor from his reach whom quietly he plac't Without the skirmish casting mists to saue from being chac't His tenderd person and he gone to giue his souldiers scape The deitie turn'd Achilles still by putting on the shape Of him he thirsted euermore he fed his eye and fled And he with all his knees pursu'd So cunningly he led That still he would be neare his reach to draw his rage with hope Farre from the conflict To the flood maintaining still the scope Of his attraction In meane time the other frighted powres Came to the citie comforted when Troy and all her towres Strooted with fillers none would stand to see who staid without Who scapt and who came short the ports cleft to receiue the rout That pour'd it selfe in Euery man was for himselfe Most fleete Most fortunate who euer scapt his head might thanke his feete The end of the one and twentieth Booke THE XXII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT ALl Troians housd but Hector onely he Keepes field and vndergoes th'extremitie Aeacides assaulting Hector flies Minerua stayes him he resists and dies Achilles to his chariot doth enforce And to the nauall station drags his corse Another Argument Hector in Chi to death is done By powre of Peleus angry sonnâ⦠THus chac't like Hinds the Ilians tooke time to drinke and eate And to refresh them getting off the mingl'd dust and sweate And good stroÌg raÌpires on in stead The Greeks theÌ cast their shields Aloft their shoulders and now Fate their neare inuasion yeelds Of those tough wals Her deadly hand compelling Hectors stay Before Troy at the Scaean ports Achilles still made way At Phoebus who his bright head turn'd and askt Why Peleus sonne Apollo to Achilles Pursu'st thou being a man a god thy rage hath neuer done Acknowledge not thine eyes my state esteemes thy mind no more Thy honor in the chase of Troy but puts my chace before Their vtter conquest they are all now housde in Ilion While thou hunt'st me What wishest thou my bloud will neuer runne On thy proud iauelin It is thou repli'd Aeacides That putst dishonor thus on me thou worst of deities Achilles to Apollo Thou
person which sweare thou These faire and temperate termes Farre fled Achilles his browes bent and out flew this reply Hector thou onely pestilence in all mortalitie Achilles sterne reply to Hector To my sere spirits neuer set the point twixt thee and me Any conditions but as farre as men and Lions flie All termes of couenant lambes and wolues in so farre opposite state Impossible for loue t' attone stand we till our soules satiate The god of souldiers do not dreame that our disiunction can Endure condition Therefore now all worth that fits a man Call to thee all particular parts that fit a souldier And they all this include besides the skill and spirit of warre Hunger for slaughter and a hate that eates thy heart to eate Thy foes heart This stirs this supplies in death the killing heate And all this needst thou No more flight Pallas Athenia Will quickly cast thee to my lance now now together draw All griefes for vengeance both in me and all my friends late dead That bled thee raging with thy lance This said he brandished His long lance and away it sung which Hector giuing view Achilles first encounter with Hector Stoupt low stood firme foreseeing it best and quite it ouerflew Fastening on earth * Pallas Athenia drew it and gaue her friend Vnseene of Hector Hector then thus spake Thou want'st thy end God-like Achilles now I see thou hast not learn'd my fate Of Ioue at all as thy high words would brauely intimate Much tongue affects thee cunning words well serue thee to prepare Thy blowes with threats that mine might faint with want of spirit to dare But my backe neuer turnes with breath it was not borne to beare Burthens of wounds strike home before driue at my breast thy speare As mine at thine shall and trie then if heauens will fauor thee With scape of my lance O would Ioue would take it after me And make thy bosome take it all an easie end would crowne Our difficult warres were thy soule fled thou most bane of our towne Thus flew his dart toucht at the midst of his vast shield and flew Hector at Achilles A huge way from it but his heart wrath enterd with the view Of that hard scape and heauie thoughts strooke through him when he spide His brother vanisht and no lance beside left out he cride Deiphobus another lance Lance nor Deiphobus Hââ¦ctors amaze with the deceit of Pallas Stood neare his call And then his mind saw all things ominous And thus suggested Woe is me the gods haue cald and I Must meete Death here Deiphobus I well hop't had bene by With his white shield but our strong wals shield him and this deceit Flowes from Minerua now ô now ill death comes no more flight No more recouerie O Ioue this hath bene otherwise Thy bright sonne and thy selfe haue set the Greeks a greater prise Of Hectors bloud then now of which euen iealous you had care But Fate now conquers I am hers and yet not she shall share In my renowme that life is left to euery noble spirit And that some great deed shall beget that all liues shall inherit Thus forth his sword flew sharpe and broad and borâ⦠a deadly weight The last encounter of Achilles and Hector With which he rusht in And looke how an Eagle from her height Stoopes to the rapture of a Lambe or cuffes a timorous Hare So fell in Hector and at him Achilles his minds ââ¦are Was fierce and mightie his shield cast a Sun-like radianâ⦠Helme nodded and his foure plumes shooke and when he raisde his lance Vp Hesperus rose amongst th' euening starres His bright and sparliling ãâã Lookt through the body of his foe and sought through all that prise The next way to his thirsted life Of all wayes onely one Appear'd to him and thas was where th'vnequall winding bone That ioynes the shoulders and the necke had place and where there lay The speeding way to death and there his quicke eye could display The place it sought euen through those armes his friend Patrââ¦lus wore When Hector slue him There he aim'd and there his iauelin tore Sterne passage quite through Hectors necke yet mist it so his throte It gaue him powre to change some words but downe to earth it got Hââ¦ctor wounded to death His fainting bodie Then triumpht diuine Aeacides Hector said he thy heart supposde that in my friends deceasse Achilles insultation Thy life was safe my absent arme not car'd for Foole he left One at the fleete that better'd him and he it is that reââ¦t Thy strong knees thus and now the dogs and fowles in foulest vse Shall teare thee vp thy corse exposde to all the Greeks abuse He fainting said Let me implore euen by thy knees and soule Hââ¦ctors dââ¦ing request to Achilles And thy great parents do not see a crueltie so foule Inflicted on me brasse and gold receiue at any rate And quit my person that the Peeres and Ladies of our state May tombe it and to sacred fire turne thy prophane decrees Dog he replied vrge not my ruth by parents ââ¦oule nor knees Achillâ⦠infleââ¦bilitie I would to God that any rage would let me eate ãâã raw Slic't into peeces so beyond the right of any law I tast thy merits and beleeue it flies the force of man To rescue thy head from the dogs Giue all the gold they can If ten or twentie times so much as friends would rate thy price Were tenderd here with vowes of more to buy the cruelââ¦es I here haue vow'd and after that thy father with his gold Would free thy selfe all that should faile to let ââ¦hy mother hold Solemnities of death with thee and do thee such a grace To mourne thy whole corse on a bed which ãâã I le deââ¦ce With fowles and dogs He dying said I kââ¦owing thâ⦠well ãâã Thy now tried tyrannie nor hopâ⦠for any other ââ¦aw Of nature or of nations and that feare fore't much more Then death my flight which neuer toucht at Hectââ¦s ãâã before Hectors prophecy of Achilles deââ¦h A soule of iron informes thee marke what ãâã ãâã ãâã Will giue me of thee for this rage when in the Scââ¦ri gates Phoebus and Paris meete with thee Thus deathâ⦠hand ãâã his eyes His soule flying his ââ¦aire ââ¦ms to hell mourning ãâã ãâã To part so with his youth and strength Thâ⦠dââ¦d thus Tââ¦is sonne His prophecie answer'd Die thou now when my short thred is spunne I le beare it as the will of Ioue This said his brazen speare He drew and stucke by then his armes that all embrewed were He spoil'd his shoulders off Then all the Greeks ran in to him To see his person and admir'd his terror-stirring lim The Greeks adââ¦ration of Hectors person being slaine Yet none stood by that gaue no wound to his so goodly forme When each to other said O Ioue he is not in the
one that was my brother in law when I contain'd my bloud And was more worthy if at all I might be saââ¦d to be My Being being lost so soone in all that honour'd me The good old King admir'd and said O ãâã blessed sonne ãâã ãâã to ãâã ãâã Borne under joyfull destinies that hast the Empire wonne Of such a world of Grecian youths as I discover here I once marcht into Phrygia that many vines doth beare Where many Phrygians â⦠beheld well skild in use of horse That of the two men like two gods were the commanded force Otroeus and great Migdonus who on Sangarius sands Set downe their tents with whom my selfe for my ãâã bands Was numbred as a man in chiefe the cause of warre ãâã then Th' Amazon dames that in their facts affected to be men In all there was a mighty powre which yet did never rise To equall these Achaian youths that have the sable eyes Then seeing Vlysses next he said Lov'd daughter what is he That lower then great Atreus sonne seemes by the head to me Yet in his shoulders and big breast presents a broader show His armor lyes upon the earth he up and downe doth go To see his soulders keepe their rankes and ready have their armes If in this truce they should be tried by any false alarmes Much like a well growne Bel-weather or feltred Ram he shewes That walkes before a wealthy flocke of faire white fleeced Ewes High Iove and Ledas fairest seed to Priam thus replies This is the old Laertes sonne Vlysses cald the wise Vlysses dââ¦scribed Who though unfruitfull Ithaca was made his nursing seate Yet knowes he every sort of sleight and is in counsels great The wise Antenor answerd her t is true renowned Dame Aââ¦tenor to Hellen by way of digression For some times past wise Itââ¦acus to Troy a Legate came With Menelaus for your cause to whom I gave receit As guests and welcom'd to my house with all the love I might I learn'd the wisedomes of their soules and humors of their bloud For when the Troian Councell met and these together stood By height of his broad shoulders had Atrides eminence Yet set Vlysses did exceed and bred more reverence And when their counsels and their words they wove in one the speech Of Atreus sonne was passing loud small fast yet did not reach To much being naturally borne Laconicall nor would His humour lyc for any thing or was like th' other old But when the prudent Ithacus did to his counsels rise He stood a little still and fixt upon the earth his eyes His scepter moving neither way but held it formally Like one that vainely doth affect Of wrathfull qualitie And franticke rashly iudging him you would have said he was But when out of his ample breast he gave his great voyce passe And words that flew about our eares like drifts of winters snow Ulysses wisedome ãâã illustrated by similitude None thenceforth might contend with him though nought admird for show The third man aged Priam markt was Aiax Telamâ⦠Of whom he askt What Lord is that so large of limme and bone So raisd in height that to his breast I see there reacheth none To him the Goddesse of her sexe the large veild Hellen said Aiââ¦x Telamon the Grecian bulwarke That Lord is Aiax Telamon a Bulwarke in their aide On th' other side stands Idomen in Crete of most command And round about his royall sides his Cretane Captaines stand Idââ¦menus ãâã of ãâã Oft hath the warlike Spartan King given hospitable due To him within our Lacene court and all his retinue And now the other Achive Dukes I generally discerne All which I know and all their names could make thee quickly learne Two Princes of the people yet I no where can behold Castor the skilfull Knight on horse and Pollux uncontrold Castor and Pollux brothers to Hellen. For all stand-fights and force of hand both at a burthen bred My naturall brothers either here they have not followed From lovely Sparta or arriv'd within the sea-borne fleet In feare of infamie for me in broad field shame to meet Nor so for holy Tellus wombe inclosd those worthy men The hââ¦ralds propare for the compact In Sparta their beloued soyle The voicefull heralds then The firme agreement of the Gods through all the citie ring Two lambs and spirit-refreshing wine the fruit of earth they bring Within a Goates-kin bottle closd Ideus also brought A massie glittering boll and cups that all of gold were wrought Ideus to Priamus Which bearing to the king they cride Sonne of Laomedon Rise for the wel-rode Peeres of Troy and brasse-arm'd Greekes in one Send to thee to descend to field that they firme vowes may make For Paris and the Spartan king must fight for Hellens sake With long arm'd lances and the man that proues victorious The woman and the wealth she brought shall follow to his house The rest knit friendship and firme leagues we safe in Troy shall dwell In Argos and Achaia they that do in dames excell He said and Priams aged ioints with chilled feare did shake Yet instantly he bad his men his chariot readie make Which soone they did and he ascends he takes the reines and guide Antenor cals who instantly mounts to his royall side And through the Scaean ports to field the swift-foote horse they driue And when at them of Troy and Greece the aged Lords arriue From horse on Troyes well feeding soyle twixt both the hosts they go When straight vp rose the king of men vp rose Vlysses to The heralds in their richest cotes repeate as was the guise The true vowes of the Gods term'd theirs since made before their eyes Then in a cup of gold they mixe the wine that each side brings And next powre water on the hands of both the kings of kings Which done Atrides drew his knife that euermore he put Within the large sheath of his sword with which away he cut The wooll from both fronts of the lambs which as a rite in vse Of execration to their heads that brake the plighted truce The heralds of both hosts did giue the Peeres of both And then With hands and voice aduanc't to heauen thus prayd the ââ¦ing of men O Ioue that Ida dost protect and hast the titles wonne Agamemnon himselfe prayes Most glorious most inuincible And thou all-seeing Sunne All-hearing all-recomforting floods earth and powers beneath That all the periuries of men chastise euen after death Be witnesse and see perform'd the heartie vowes we make If Alexander shall the life of Menelaus take He shall from henceforth Hellena with all her wealth retaine And we will to our houshold Gods hoyse saile and home againe If by my honourd brothers hand be Alexander slaine The Troians then shall his forc't Queene with all her wealth restore And pay conuenient fine to vs and ours for euermore If Priam and his sonnes denie to
Nestors art iâ⦠ordering his souldiers Embattelling his men at armes and stirring all to blowes Points euerie legion out his Chiefe and euery Chiefe he showes The formes and discipline of warre yet his Commanders were All expert and renowmed men Great Pelagon was there Alastor manly Chromius and Hemon worth a Throne And Byas that could armies leade with these he first put on His horse troopes with their chariots his foote of which he chusde Many the best and ablest men and which he euer vsde As rampire to his generall powre he in the Rere disposd The slouthfull and the least of spirit he in the midst inclosd That such as wanted noble wils base need might force to stand His horse troopes that the Vantgard had he strictly did command To ride their horses temperatly to keepe their rankes and shun Confusion lest their horsemanship and courage made them run Too much presum'd on much too farre and charging so alone Engage themselues in th' enemies strength where many fight with one Who his owne chariot leaues to range let him not freely go But straight vnhorse him with a lance for t is much better so And with this discipline said he this forme these minds this trust Our Ancestors haue walles and townes laid leuell with the dust Thus prompt and long inur'd to armes this old man did exhort And this Atrides likewise tooke in wondrous chearefull sort And said O Father would to heauen that as thy mind remaines Agamemnon to Nestor In wonted vigor so thy knees could vndergo our paines But age that all men ouercomes hath made his prise on thee Yet still I wish that some young man growne old in mind might be Put in proportion with thy yeares and thy mind young in age Be fitly answerd with his youth that still where conflicts rage And young men vsd to thrust for fame thy braue exampling hand Might double our young Grecian spirits and grace our whole Command The old knight answer'd I my selfe could wish O Atreus sonne Nestor to Agamemnon I were as young as when I slue braue Ereuââ¦halion But Gods at all times giue not all their gifts to mortall men If then I had the strength of youth I mist the Counsels then That yeares now giue me and now yeares want that maine strength of youth Yet still my mind retaines her strength as you now said the sooth And would be where that strength is vsd affoording counsels sage To stirre youths minds vp t is the grace and office of our age Let yonger sinewes Men sprong vp whole ages after me And such as haue strength vse it and as strong in honour be The king all this while comforted arriu'd next where he found Well-rode Menestheus Peteus sonne stand still inuirond round With his well-train'd Athenian troopes and next to him he spide The wise Vlysses deedlesse too and all his bands beside Of strong Cephalians for as yet th' alarme had not bene heard In all their quarters Greece and Troy were then so newly stird And then first mou'd as they conceiu'd and they so lookt about To see both hoasts giue proofe of that they yet had cause to doubt Atrides seeing them stand so still and spend their eyes at gaze Began to chide And why said he dissolu'd thus in a maze Thou sonne of Peteus Ioue-nurst king and thou in wicked sleight Agamemnon to Vlysses and Menestheuâ⦠A cunning souldier stand ye off Expect ye that the fight Should be by other men begun t is fit the formost band Should shew you there you first should front who first lifts vp his hand First you can heare when I inuite the Princes to a feast When first most friendly and at will ye eate and drinke the best Yet in the fight most willingly ten troopes ye can behold Take place before ye Ithacus at this his browes did fold And said How hath thy violent tongue broke through thy set of teeth Vlysses to Agaââ¦emnon To say that we are slacke in fight and to the field of death Looke others should enforce our way when we were busied then Euen when thou spak'st against the foe to cheate and leade our men But thy eyes shall be witnesses if it content thy will And that as thou pretendst these cares do so affect thee still The father of Telemachâ⦠whom I esteeme so deare And to whom as a Legacie I le leaue my deeds done here Euen with the formost band of Troy hath his encounter dar'd And therefore are thy speeches vaine and had bene better spar'd He smiling since he saw him mou'd recald his words and said Agamemnon to Vlysses Most generous Lââ¦ertes sonne most wise of all our aid I neither do accuse thy worth more then thy selfe may hold Fit that inferiours thinke not much being slacke to be controld Nor take I on me thy command for well I know thy mind Knowes how sweet gentle counsels are and that thou standst enclind As I my selfe for all our good On then if now we spake What hath displeasd another time we full amends will make And Gods grant that thy vertue here may proue so free and braue That my reproofes may still be vaine and thy deseruings graue Thus parted they and forth he went when he did leaning find Against his chariot neare his horse him with the mightie mind Great Diomedes Tydeus sonne and Sthenelus the seed Of Capaneius whom the king seeing likewise out of deed Thus cried he out on Diomed O melin what a feare Agamemnon chideth Diomed. The wise great warriour Tydeus sonne stands gazing euerie where For others to begin the fight It was not Tydeus vse To be so danted whom his spirit would euermore produce Before the formost of his friends in these affaires of fright As they report that haue beheld him labour in a fight For me I neuer knew the man nor in his presence came But excellent aboue the rest he was in generall fame And one renowm'd exploit of his I am assur'd is true The historie of Tydeus He came to the Mycenian Court without armes and did sue At Godlike Polinices hands to haue some worthie aid To their designes that gainst the wals of sacred Thebes were laid He was great Polinices guest and nobly entertaind And of the kind Mycenian state what he requested gaind In meere consent but when they should the same in act approue By some sinister prodigies held out to them by Ioââ¦e They were discourag'd thence he went and safely had his passe Backe to Aesopus flood renowm'd for Bulrushes and grasse Yet once more their Ambassadour the Grecian Peââ¦res addresse Lord Tydeus to Eteocles to whom being giuen accesse He found him feasting with a crew of Cadmians in his hall Amongst whom though an enemie and onely one to all To all yet he his challenge made at euerie Martiall feate And easly foild all since with him Minerââ¦a was so great The ranke-rode Cadmians much incenst with their so
scarre The blew-eyd Goddesse vanished and he was seene againe Amongst the foremost who before though he were prompt and faine To fight against the Troians powers now on his spirits were cald With thrise the vigor Lion-like that hath bene lately gald Diomed made thrise so strong as before by Pallâ⦠By some bold sheapheard in a field where his curld flockes were laid Who tooke him as he leapt the fold not slaine yet but appaid With greater spirit comes againe and then the shepheard hides The rather for the desolate place and in his Coate abides His flockes left guardlesse which amaz'd shake and shrinke vp in heapes He ruthlesse freely takes his prey and out againe he leapes So sprightly fierce victorious the great Heroe flew Vpon the Troians and at once he two Commanders slew Hyppenor and Astynous in one his lance he fixt Hyppenor and Astynous slaine by Diomed. Full at the nipple of his breast the other smote betwixt The necke and shoulder with his sword which was so well laid on It swept his arme and shoulder off These left he rusht vpon Abbas and Polyeidus of old Eurydamas The haplesse sonnes who could by dreames tell what would come to passe Yet when his sonnes set forth to Troy the old man could not read By their dreames what would chance to them for both were stricken dead By great Tydides after these he takes into his rage Xanthus and Thoon Phenops sonnes borne to him in his age The good old man euen pin'd with yeares and had not one sonne more To heire his goods yet Diomed tooke both and left him store Of teares and sorowes in their steeds since he could neuer see His sonnes leaue those hote warres aliue so this the end must be ãâã ãâã Of all his labours what he heapt to make his issue great Authoritie heird and with her seed fild his forgotten seate Then snatcht he vp two Priamists that in one chariot stood Simile of a Lyon otherwise applied then before Echemon and faire Chromius as feeding in a wood Oxen or steeres are one of which a Lyon leapes vpon Teares downe and wrings in two his necke so sternely Tydeus sonne Threw from their chariot both these hopes of old Dardanides Then tooke their armes and sent their horse to those that ride the seas Aeneas seeing the troopes thus tost brake through the heate of ââ¦ight And all the whizzing of the darts to find the Lycian knight Lycaons sonne whom hauing found he thus bespake the Peere O Pandarus where 's now thy bow thy deathfull arrowes where ãâã to Pandarus In which no one in all our host but giues the palme to thee Nor in the Sun-lou'd Lycian greenes that breed our Archerie Liues any that exceeds thy selfe Come lift thy hands to Ioue And send an arrow at this man if but a man he proue That winnes such God-like victories and now affects our host With so much sorrow since so much of our best blood is lost By his high valour I haue feare some God in him doth threat Incenst for want of sacrifice the wrath of God is great Lycaons famous sonne replyde Great Counsellor of Troy Pandarus iâ⦠ãâã This man so excellent in armes I thinke is Tydeus ioy I know him by his fierie shield by his bright three plum'd caske And by his horse nor can I say if or some God doth maske In his apparance or he be whom I nam'd Tydeus sonne But without God the things he does for certaine are not done Some great Immortall that conueyes his shoulders in a clowd Goes by and puts by euerie dart at his bold breast bestowd Or lets it take with little hurt for I my selfe let flie A shaft that shot him through his armes but had as good gone by Yet which I gloriously affirm'd had driuen him downe to hell Some God is angrie and with me for farre hence where I dwell My horse and Chariots idle stand with which some other way I might repaire this shamefull misse eleuen faire chariots stay In old Lycaons Court new made new trimd to haue bene gone Curtaind and Arrast vnder-foote two horse to euery one That eate white Barly and blacke Otes and do no good at all And these Lycaon that well knew how these affaires would fall Charg'd when I set downe this designe I should command with here And gaue me many lessons more all which much better were Then any I tooke forth my selfe The reason I laid downe Was but the sparing of my horse since in a sieged towne I thought our horse-meate would be scant when they were vsd to haue Their mangers full so I left them and like a lackey slaue Am come to Ilion confident in nothing but my bow That nothing profits me two shafts I vainly did bestow At two great Princes but of both my arrowes neither slew Nor this nor Atreus yonger sonne a little blood I drew That seru'd but to incense them more In an vnhappie starre I therefore from my Armorie haue drawne those tooles of warre That day when for great Hectors sake to amiable Troy I came to leade the Troian bands But if I euer ioy In safe returne my Countries sight my wiues my lofty towres Let any stranger take this head if to the firie powres This bow these shafts in peeces burst by these hands be not throwne Idle companions that they are to me and my renowne Aeneas said Vse no such words for any other way Aeneas to Pandarus Then this they shall not now be vsd we first will both assay This man with horse and chariot Come then ascend to me That thou maist trie our Troian horse how skild in field they be And in pursuing those that flie or flying being pursude How excellent they are of foote and these if Ioue conclude The scape of Tydeus againe and grace him with our flight Shall serue to bring vs safely off Come I le be first shall fight Take thou these faire reines and this scourge or if thou wilt fight thou And leaue the horses care to me He answered I will now Descend to fight keepe thou the reines and guide thy selfe thy horse Who with their wonted manager will better wield the force Pandarus fights and Aeneas guideth the chariot Of the impulsiue chariot if we be driuen to flie Then with a stranger vnder whom they will be much more shye And fearing my voice wishing thine grow restie nor go on To beare vs off but leaue engag'd for mightie Tydeus sonne Themselues and vs Then be thy part thy one hou'd horses guide I le make the fight and with a dart receiue his vtmost pride With this the gorgious chariot both thus prepar'd ascend And make full way at Diomed which noted by his friend Mine owne most loued Mind said he two mightie men of warre Sââ¦henelus to Diomed. I see come with a purposd charge one 's he that hits so farre With bow and shaft Lycaons sonne the other
golden-ribband bound-man'd horse to lend her vp to heauen For she was much grieu'd with a wound a mortall man had giuen Tydides that gainst Ioue himselfe durst now aduance his arme He granted and his chariot perplext with her late harme Mars lends his horse to Venus She mounted and her wagonnesse was she that paints the aire The horse she reind and with a scourge importun'd their repaire That of themselues out-flew the wind and quickly they ascend Olympus high seate of the Gods th' horse knew their iournies end Stood still and from their chariot the windie footed Dame Dissolu'd and gaue them heauenly food and to Dione came Her wounded daughter bent her knees she kindly bad her stand With sweet embraces helpt her vp strok't her with her soft hand Call'd kindly by her name and askt what God hath bene so rude Dione mother of Venus to Venus Sweet daughter to chastise thee thus as if thou wert pursude Euen to the act of some light sinne and deprehended so For otherwise each close escape is in the Great let go She answerd Haughtie Tydeus sonne hath bene so insolent Venââ¦s to Dione Since he whom most my heart esteemes of all my lou'd descent I rescu'd from his bloodie hand now battell is not giuen To any Troians by the Greekes but by the Greekes to heauen She answerd Daughter thinke not much though much it grieue thâ⦠ãâã Dioâ⦠to ãâã The patience whereof many Gods examples may produce In many bitter ils receiu'd as well that men sustaine By their inflictions as by men repaid to them againâ⦠Mars sufferd much more then thy selfe by Ephialtes powre Mars bound in chaines by Oââ¦us and Ephialâ⦠And Otus Aloeus sonnes who in a brazen towre And in inextricable chaines cast that warre-greedie God Where twise sixe months and one he liu'd and there the period Of his sad life perhaps had closd if his kind step-dames eye Faire Erebaea had not seene who told it Mercurie And he by stealth enfranchisd him though he could scarce enioy The benefite of franchisment the chaines did so destroy His vitall forces with their weight So Iuno sufferd more When with a three-forkt arrowes head Ampbytrios sonne did gore Her right breast past all hope of cure Pluto sustaind no lesse By that selfe man and by a shaft of equall bitternesse Shot through his shoulder at hell gates and there amongst the dead Were he not deathlesse he had died but vp to heauen he fled Extremely tortur'd for recure which instantly he wonne At Paeons hand with soueraigne Balme and this did Ioues great sonne Paeon Phisitâ⦠to the Gods Vnblest great-high-deed-daring man that car'd not doing ill ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã That with his bow durst wound the Gods but by Mineruas will Thy wound the foolish Diomed was so prophane to giue Not knowing he that fights with heauen hath neuer long to liue And for this deed he neuer shall haue child about his knee To call him father coming home Besides heare this from me Strength-trusting man though thou be strong and art in strength a towre Take heed a stronger meet thee not and that a womans powre Containes not that superiour strength and lest that woman be Adrastus daughter and thy wife the wise Aegiale When from this houre not farre she wakes euen sighing with desire To kindle our reuenge on thee with her enamouring fire In choosing her some fresh young friend and so drowne all thy fame Wonne here in warre in her Court-peace and in an opener shame This said with both her hands she cleansd the tender backe and palme Of all the sacred blood they lost and neuer vsing Balme The paine ceast and the wound was cur'd of this kind Queene of loue Iuno and Pallas seeing this assaid to anger Ioue And quit his late made-mirth with them about the louing Dame With some sharpeiest in like sort built vpon her present shame Grey-eyd Athenia began and askt the Thunderer Pallas to Iouâ⦠If nothing mouing him to wrath she boldly might preferre What she conceiu'd to his conceipt and staying no reply She bade him view the Cyprian fruite he lou'd so tenderly Whom she though hurt and by this meanes intending to suborne Some other Ladie of the Greekes whom louely veiles adorne To gratifie some other friend of her much-loued Troy As she embrac't and stird her blood to the Venerean ioy Scopticâ⦠The golden claspe those Grecian Dames vpon their girdles weare Tooke hold of her delicious hand and hurt it she had feare The Thunderer smil'd and cald to him loues golden Arbitresse ãâã to Venus And told her those rough workes of warre were not for her accesse She should be making mariages embracings kisses charmes Sterne Mars and Pallas had the charge of those affaires in armes While these thus talkt Tydides rage still thirsted to atchieue His prise vpon Anchises sonne though well he did perceiue The Sunne himselfe protected him but his desires inflam'd With that great Troian Princes blood and armes so highly fam'd Not that great God did reuerence Thrise rusht he rudely on And thrise betwixt his darts and death the Sunnes bright target shone But when vpon the fourth assault much like a spirit he flew The far-off-working Deitie exceeding wrathfull grew And askt him What Not yeeld to Gods thy equals learne to know Apollo to Diomed The race of Gods is farre aboue men creeping here below This draue him to some small retreite he would not tempt more neare The wrath of him that strooke so farre whose powre had now set cleare Apollo beares Aeneas to Troy Aeneas from the stormie field within the holy place Of Pergamus where to the hope of his so soueraigne grace A goodly Temple was aduanc't in whose large inmost part He left him and to his supply enclin'd his mothers heart Latona and the dart-pleasd Queene who cur'd and made him strong The siluer-bow'd-faire God then threw in the tumultuous throng An Image that in stature looke and armes he did create The Image of Aeneas Like Venus sonne for which the Greekes and Troians made debate Laid lowd strokes on their Ox-hide shields and bucklers easly borne Which error Phoebus pleasd to vrge on Mars himselfe in scorne Mars Mars said he thou plague of men smeard with the dust and blood Apollo to Mars Of humanes and their ruin'd wals yet thinks thy God-head good To fright this Furie from the field who next will fight with Ioue First in a bold approch he hurt the moist palme of thy Loue And next as if he did affect to haue a Deities powre He held out his assault on me This said the loftie towre Of Pergamus he made his seate and Mars did now excite The Troian forces in the forme of him that led to fight The Thracian troopes swift Acamas O Priams sonnes said he How long the slaughter of your men can ye sustaine to see Mars like Acamas
of old to be The bane of Mars and had as well the gift of spoile as he This grace she slackt not but her horse scourg'd that in nature flew Betwixt the cope of starres and earth And how farre at a view A man into the purple Sea may from a hill descrie * How farre â⦠heauenly ãâã took at one reach or stroke in galloping or running wherein Homers ââ¦ind is farre from being exprest in his Inter pretors al taking it for how far Deities were borne from the earth when instaÌtly they came downe to earth ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. tantum vno saltu conficiunt vel tantuÌ subââ¦ulum progrediuntur deorum altizoni e qui c. vno be ing vnderstood and the horses swiftnes highly exprest The sence otherwise is senslesse and contradictorie So farre a high-neighing horse of heauen at euerie iumpe would flie Arriu'd at Troy where broke in cutls the two-floods mixe their force Scamander and bright Simois Saturnia staid her horse Tooke them from chariot and a clowd of mightie depth diffusd About them and the verdant bankes of Symois produc'd In nature what they * ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ilus is the originall word which Sea ãâã ãâã ãâã learnedly asking how the horse came by it on those bankes when the text tels him ãâã produced it being willing to expresse by ãâã the ãâã of that ãâã If not I hope the Dââ¦ities ãâã euer command it eate in heauen Then both the Goddesses Marcht like a paire of timorous Doues in hasting their accesse To th' Argiue succour Being arriu'd where both the most and best Were heapt together shewing all like Lyons at a feast Of new slaine carkasses or Bores beyond encounter strong There found they Diomed and there midst all th' admiring throng Saturnia put on Stentors shape that had a brazen voice And spake as lowd as fiftie men like whom she made a noise And chid the Argiues O ye Greekes in name and outward rite But Princes onely not in act what scandall what despight Vse ye to honor all the time the great Aeacides Was conuersant in armes your foes durst not a foote addrââ¦sse Without their ports so much they feard his lance that all controld And now they out-ray to your fleete This did with shame make bold The generall spirit and powre of Greece when with particular note Of their disgrace Athenia made Tydeus issue hote She found him at his chariot refreshing of his wound Inflicted by slaine Pandarus his sweat did so abound It much annoid him vnderneath the brode belt of his shield With which and tired with his toile his soule could hardly yeeld His bodie motion With his hand he lifted vp the belt And wip't away that clotterd blood the feruent wound did melt Minerua leand against his horse and neare their withers laid Her sacred hand then spake to him Beleeue me Diomed ãâã to Diââ¦med Tydeus exampl'd not himselfe in thee his sonne not Great But yet he was a souldier a man of so much heate That in his Ambassie for Thebes when I forbad his mind To be too ventrous and when Feasts his heart might haue declind With which they welcom'd him he made a challenge to the best And foild the best I gaue him aide because the rust of rest That would haue seisd another mind he sufferd not but vsd The triall I made like a man and their soft feasts refusd Yet when I set thee on thou faint'st I guard thee charge exhort That I abetting thee thou shouldst be to the Greekes a Fort And a dismay to Ilion yet thou obey'st in nought Affraid or slouthfull or else both henceforth renounce all thought Diomed to Palâ⦠That euer thou wert Tydeus sonne He answerd her I know Thou art Ioues daughter and for that in all iust dutie owe Thy speeches reuerence yet affirme ingenuously that feare Doth neither hold me spiritlesse nor sloth I onely beare Thy charge in zealous memorie that I should neuer warre With any blessed Deitie vnlesse exceeding farre The limits of her rule the Queene that gouerns Chamber sport Should preasse to field and her thy will enioynd my lance to hurt But he whose powre hath right in armes I knew in person here Besides the Cyprian Deitie and therefore did forbeare And here haue gatherd in retreit these other Greekes you see With note and reuerence of your charge My dearest mind said she ãâã againe What then was fit is chang'd T is true Mars hath iust rule in warre But iust warre otherwise he raues not fights he 's alterd farre What ãâã wââ¦rre is He vow'd to Iuno and my selfe that his aide should be vsd Against the Troians whom it guards and therein he abusd His rule in armes infring'd his word and made his warre vniust He is inconstant impious mad Resolue then firmly trust My aide of thee against his worst or any Deitie Adde scourge to thy free horse charge home he fights perfidiously This said as that braue king her knight with his horse-guiding friend Were set before the chariot for signe he should descend That she might serue for wagonnesse she pluckt the waggoner backe And vp into his seate she mounts the Beechen tree did cracke Beneath the burthen and good cause it bore so huge a thing A Goddesse so repleate with powre and such a puissant king She snatcht the scourge vp and the reines and shut her heauenly looke In hels vast helme from Mars his eyes and full careere she tooke At him who then had newly slaine the mightie Periphas Renown'd sonne to Ochesius and farre the strongest was Of all th'Aetolians to whose spoile the bloodie God was run But when this man-plague saw th'approch of God-like Tydeus sonne He let his mightie Periphas lie and in full charge he ran The combâ⦠of Mars and ãâã At Diomed and he at him both neare the God began And thirstie of his blood he throwes abrazen lance that beares Full on the breast of Diomed aboue the reines and geres But Pallas tooke it on her hand and strooke the eager lance Beneath the chariot then the knight of Pallas doth aduance And cast a Iaueline off at Mars Minerua sent it on Mars ãâã by ãâã That where his arming girdle girt his bellie graz'd vpon Iust at the rim and rancht the flesh the lance againe he got But left the wound that stung him so he laid out such a throat As if nine or ten thousand men had bray'd out all their breaths In one confusion hauing felt as many sodaine deaths The rore made both the hosts amaz'd Vp flew the God to heauen And with him was through all the aire as blacke a tincture driuen To Diomeds eyes as when the earth halfe chok't with smoking heate Of gloomie clouds that stifle men and pitchie tempests threat Vsherd with horrid gusts of wind with such blacke vapors plum'd Mars flew t' Olympus and brode heauen and there his place resum'd
ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Sadly he went and sate by Ioue shew'd his immortall blood That from a mortall-man-made-wound powrd such an impious flood And weeping powr'd out these complaints O Father stormst thou not Mars to Iupiteâ⦠To see vs take these wrongs from men extreme griefes we haue got Euen by our owne deepe counsels held for gratifying them And thou our Councels President conclud'st in this extreme Of fighting euer being ruld by one that thou hast bred One neuer well but doing ill a girle so full of head That though all other Gods obey her mad moods must command By thy indulgence nor by word nor any touch of hand Correcting her thy reason is she is a sparke of thee And therefore she may kindle rage in men gainst Gods and she May make men hurt Gods and those Gods that are besides thy seed First in the palms height Cyprides then runs the impious deed On my hurt person and could life giue way to death in me Or had my feete not fetcht me off heaps of mortalitie Had kept me consort Iupiter with a contracted brow Thus answerd Mars Thou many minds inconstant changling thou Iupiter to Mars Sit not complaining thus by me whom most of all the Gods Inhabiting the starrie hill I hate no periods Being set to thy contentions brawles fights and pitching fields Iust of thy mother Iunos moods stiffe-neckt and neuer yeelds Though I correct her still and chide nor can forbeare offence Though to her sonne this wound I know tasts of her insolence But I will proue more naturall thou shalt be cur'd because Thou com'st of me but hadst thou bene so crosse to sacred lawes Being borne to any other God thou hadst bene throwne from heauen Long since as low as Tartarus beneath the Giants driuen This said he gaue his wound in charge to Pââ¦on who applied Such soueraigne medicines that as soone the paine was qualified And he recur'd as nourishing milke when runnet is put in Runs all in heapes of tough thicke curd though in his nature thin Euen so soone his wounds parted sides ran close in his recure For he all deathlesse could not long the parts of death endure Then Hebe bath'd and put on him fresh garments and he sate Hebe attires Mars Exulting by his Sire againe in top of all his state So hauing from the spoiles of men made his desir'd remoue Iuno and Pallas reascend the starrie Court of Ioue The end of the fifth Booke THE SIXTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT THe Gods now leauing an indifferent field The Greekes preuaile the slaughterd Troiââ¦ns yeeld Hector by Hellenus aduice retires In haste to Troy and Hecuba desires To pray Minerua to remoue from fight The soââ¦ne of Tydeus her affected knight And vow to her for fauour of such price Twelue Oxen should be Sââ¦aine in sacrifice In meane space Glaucus and Tydides ãâã And either other with remembrance greet Of old loue twixt their fathers which enclines Their hearts to friââ¦ndship who change armes for signes Of a continu'd loue for eithers life Hector in his returne meets with his wife And taking in his armed armes his sonne He prophecies the fall of Ilion Another Argument In Zeta Hector Prophecies Prayes for his sonne wils sacrifice THe stern fight freed of al the Gods conquest with doubtful wings Flew on their lances euerie way the restlesse field she flings Betwixt the floods of Symois and Xanthus that confin'd All their affaires at Ilion and round about them shin'd The first that weigh'd downe all the field of one particular side Was Aiax sonne of Telamon who like a bulwarke plide The Greekes protection and of Troy the knottie orders brake Held out a light to all the rest and shew'd them how to make Way to their conquest he did wound the strongest man of Thrace The tallest and the biggest set Eussorian Acamas His lance fell on his caskes plum'd top in stooping the fell head Draue through his forehead to his iawes his eyes Night shadowed Tydides slue Teuthranides Axilus that did dwell In faire Arisbas well-built towres he had of wealth a Well Tydides ãâã Diomed being son to Tydâ⦠And yet was kind and bountifull he would a traueller pray To be his guest his friendly house stood in the brode high way In which he all sorts nobly vsd yet none of them would stand Twixt him and death but both himselfe and he that had command Of his faire horse Calisius fell liuelesse on the ground Euryalus Opheltius and Dresus dead did wound Nor ended there his fierie course which he againe begins And ran to it succesfully vpon a paire of twins Aesepus and bold Pedasus whom good Bucolion That first cald father though base borne renowm'd Laomedon On Nais Abarbaraea got a Nymph that as she fed Her curled flocks Bucolion woo'd and mixt in loue and bed Both these were spoild of armes and life by Mecistiades Then Polypaetes for sterne death Astialus did seise Vlysses slue Percosius Teucer Aretaon Antilochus old Nestors ioy Ablerus the great sonne Of Atreus and king of men Elatus whose abode He held at vpper Pedasus where Satnius riuer flow'd The great Heroe Leitus staid Philacus in flight From further life Eurypilus Melanthius reft of light The brother to the king of men Adrestus tooke aliue Whose horse affrighted with the flight their driuer now did driue Amongst the low-growne Tamââ¦cke trees and at an arme of one The chariot in the draught-tree brake the horse brake loose and ron The same way other flyers fled contending all to towne Himselfe close at the chariot wheele vpon his face was throwne And there lay flat roll'd vp in dust Atrides inwards draue And holding at his breast his lance Adrestus sought to saue His head by losing of his feet and trusting to his knees On which the same parts of the king he hugs and offers fees Of worthie value for his life and thus pleades their receipt Take me aliue O Atreus sonne and take a worthie weight Of brasse elaborate iron and gold a heape of precious things This Virgils imitaââ¦es Are in my fathers riches hid which when your seruant brings Newes of my safetie to his eares he largely will diuide With your rare bounties Atreus sonne thought this the better side And meant to take it being about to send him safe to fleete Which when farre off his brother saw he wing'd his royall feet And came in threatning crying out O soft heart what 's the cause Agamemnoâ⦠to Menââ¦laus Thou spar'st these men thus haue not they obseru'd these gentle lawes Of mild humanitie to thee with mightie argument Why thou shouldst deale thus In thy house and with all president Of honord guest rites entertaind not one of them shall flie A bitter end for it from heauen and much lesse dotingly Scape our reuengefull fingers all euen th'infant in the wombe Shall tast of what they merited and haue no other tombe Then razed Ilion nor
Fig-tree all thy retired powre For there the wall is easiest scal'd and fittest for surprise And there th' Aiaces Idomen th' Atrides Diomed thrise Haue both suruaid and made attempt I know not if induc'd By some wise Augure or the fact was naturally infusd Into their wits or courages To this great Hector said Hector to ãâã Be well assur'd wife all these things in my kind cares are waid But what a shame and feare it is to thinke how Troy would scorne Both in her husbands and her wiues whom long-traind gownes adorne That I should cowardly flie off The spirit I first did breath Did neuer teach me that much lesse since the contempt of death Was settl'd in me and my mind knew what a Worthy was Whose office is to leade in fight and giue no danger passe Without improuement In this fire must Hectors triall shine Here must his country father friends be in him made diuine And such a stormy day shall come in mind and soule I know When sacred Troy shall shed her towres for teares of ouerthrow When Priam all his birth and powre shall in those teares be drownd But neither Troyes posteritie so much my soule doth wound Priam nor Hecuba her selfe nor all my brothers woes Who though so many and so good must all be food for foes As thy sad state when some rude Greeke shall leade thee weeping hence These free dayes clouded and a night of captiue violence Loding thy temples out of which thine eyes must neuer see The nââ¦mes of two fountaines of which one in Thessaly the other ãâã Argos or according to ãâã in ãâã or ãâã But spin the Greeke wiues webs of taske and their Fetch-water be To Argos from Messeides or cleare Hyperias spring Which howsoeuer thou abhorst Fate 's such a shrewish thing She will be mistris whose curst hands when they shall crush out cries From thy oppressions being beheld by othââ¦r enemies Thus they will nourish thy extremes This dame was Hectors wife A man that at the warres of Troy did breath the worthiest life Of all their armie This againe will rub thy fruitfull wounds To misse the man that to thy bands could giue such narrow bounds But that day shall not wound mine eyes the solide heape of night Shall interpose and stop mine eares against thy plaints and plight This said he reacht to take his sonne who of his armes afraid And then the horse-haire plume with which he was so ouerlaid Nodded so horribly he clingd backe to his nurse and cride Laughter affected his great Sire who doft and laid aside His fearfull Helme that on the earth cast round about it light Then tooke and kist his louing sonne and ballancing his weight In dancing him these louing vowes to liuing Ioue he vsde And all the other bench of Gods O you that haue infusde Hectors prayer for his sonne Soule to this Infant now set downe this blessing on his starre Let his renowne be cleare as mine equall his strength in warre And make his reigne so strong in Troy that yeares to come may yeeld His facts this fame when rich in spoiles he leaues the conquerd field Sowne with his slaughters These high deeds exceed his fathers worth And let this eccho'd praise supply the comforts to come forth Of his kind mother with my life This said th' Heroicke Sire Gaue him his mother whose faire eyes fresh streames of loues salt fire Billow'd on her soft cheekes to heare the last of Hectors speech In which his vowes comprisde the summe of all he did beseech In her wisht comfort So she tooke into her odorous brest Her husbands gift who mou'd to see her heart so much opprest He dried her teares and thus desir'd Afflict me not deare wife With these vaine griefes He doth not liue that can disioyne my life And this firme bosome but my Fate and Fate whose wings can flie Noble ignoble Fate controuls once borne the best must die Go home and set thy houswifrie on these extremes of thought And driue warre from them with thy maids keepe them from doing nought These will be nothing leaue the cares of warre to men and mee In whom of all the Ilion race they take their high'st degree On went his helme his Princesse home halfe cold with kindly feares When euery feare turnd backe her lookes and euery looke shed teares Fo-slaughtering Hectors house soone reacht her many women there Wept all to see her in his life great Hectors funerals were Neuer lookt any eye of theirs to see their Lord safe home Scap't from the gripes and powers of Greece And now was Paris come From his high towres who made no stay when once he had put on Paris ouertakes Hector His richest armour but flew forth the flints he trod vpon His simile high and expressiue which Virgil almost word for word hath translaââ¦ed 12. Aen. Sparkled with luster of his armes his long-ebd spirits now flowd The higher for their lower ebbe And as a faire Steed proud With ful-giuen mangers long tied vp and now his head-stall broke He breakes from stable runnes the field and with an ample stroke Measures the center neighs and lifts aloft his wanton head About his shoulders shakes his Crest and where he hath bene fed Or in some calme floud washt or stung with his high plight he flies Amongst his femals strength put forth his beautie beautifies And like Lifes mirror beares his gate so Paris from the towre Of loftie Pergamus came forth he shewd a Sun-like powre In cariage of his goodly parts addrest now to the strife And found his noble brother neere the place he left his wife Him thus respected he salutes Right worthy I haue feare Paris to Hector That your so serious haste to field my stay hath made forbeare And that I come not as you wish He answerd Honourd man Hector to Paris Be confident for not my selfe nor any others can Reproue in thee the worke of fight at least not any such As is an equall iudge of things for thou hast strength as much As serues to execute a mind very important But Thy strength too readily flies off enough will is not put To thy abilitie My heart is in my minds strife sad When Troy out of her much distresse she and her friends haue had By thy procurement doth depraue thy noblesse in mine eares But come hereafter we shall calme these hard conceits of theirs When from their ports the foe expulst high Ioue to them hath giuen Wisht peace and vs free sacrifice to all the powers of heauen The end of the sixth Booke THE SEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT HEctor by Hellenus aduice doth seeke Aduenturous combat on the boldest Greeke Nine Greeks stand vp Acceptants euery one But lot selects strong Aiax Telamon Both with high honor stand th'important fight Till Heralds part them by approched night Lastly they graue the dead the Greeks erect A mightie wall their Nauie to
the topfull heights that crowne th' Olympian hill He spake and all the Gods gaue eare Heare how I stand inclind Ioue to the bench of Deities That God nor Goddesse may attempt t' infringe my soueraigne mind But all giue suffrage that with speed I may these discords end What God soeuer I shall find indeuour to defend Or Troy or Greece with wounds to heauen he sham'd shall reascend Or taking him with his offence I le cast him downe as deepe As Tartarus the brood of night where Barathrum doth steepe Virgil maketh this likewise his place adding Bis patet in prae ceps tantum tenditque sub vmbras c. Homers golden chaine Torment in his profoundest sinks where is the floore of brasse And gates of iron the place for depth as farre doth hell surpasse As heauen for height exceeds the earth then shall he know from thence How much my power past all the Gods hath soueraigne eminence Indanger it the whiles and see let downe our golden chaine And at it let all Deities their vtmost strengths constraine To draw me to the earth from heauen you neuer shall preuaile Though with your most contention ye dare my state assaile But when my will shall be disposd to draw you all to me Euen with the earth it selfe and seas ye shall enforced be Then will I to Olympus top our vertuous engine bind And by it euerie thing shall hang by my command inclind So much I am supreme to Gods to men supreme as much The Gods sat silent and admir'd his dreadfull speech was such At last his blue-eyd daughter spake O great Saturnides O Father ô heauens highest King well know we the excesse Pallas to Ioue Of thy great power compar'd with all yet the bold Greekes estate We needs must mourne since they must fall beneath fo hard a fate For if thy graue command enioyne we will abstaine from fight But to afford them such aduice as may relieue their plight We will with thy consent be bold that all may not sustaine The fearefull burthen of thy wrath and with their shames be slaine He smil'd and said Be confident thou art belou'd of me ãâã to Pallas I speake not this with serious thoughts but will be kind to thee This said his brasse hou'd winged horse he did to chariot bind Ioues horse Whose crests were fring'd with manes of gold and golden garments shin'd On his rich shoulders in his hand he tooke a golden scourge Diuinely fashiond and with blowes their willing speed did vrge Mid way betwixt the earth and heauen to Ida then he came Ioue descends to Ida. Abounding in delicious springs and nurse of beasts vntame Where on the mountaine Gargarus men did a Fane erect To his high name and altars sweet and there his horse he checkt Dissolu'd them from his chariot and in a cloud of ieate He couerd them and on the top tooke his triumphant seate Beholding Priams famous towne and all the Fleet of Greece Ioues prospect Both hosts arme The Greeks tooke breakfast speedily and arm'd at euerie peece So Troians who though fewer farre yet all to fight tooke armes Dire need enforc't them to auert their wiues and childrens harmes All gates flew open all the host did issue foote and horse In mightie tumult straite one place adioynd each aduerse force The fight Then shields with shields met darts with darts strength against strength opposd The bosse-pik't targets were thrust on and thunderd as they closd In mightie tumult grone for grone and breath for breath did breath Of men then slaine and to be slaine earth flowd with fruits of death While the faire mornings beautie held and day increast in height Their Iauelins mutually made death transport an equall freight But when the hote Meridian point bright Phoebus did ascend ãâã victoria The Meridian libra Iouis Aurea Virg. tranââ¦ulit Macrobius 5. Then Ioue his golden Ballances did equally extend And of long-rest-conferring death put in two bitter fates For Troy and Greece he held the midst the day of finall dates Fell on the Greeks the Greeks hard lots sunke to the flowrie ground The Troians leapt as high as heauen then did the claps resound Of his fierce thunder lightning leapt amongst each Grecian troope Ioues thunder amongst the Grecians The sight amaz'd them pallid feare made boldest stomacks stoope Then Idomen durst not abide Atrides went his way And both th' Aiaces Nestor yet against his will did stay That graue Protector of the Greekes for Paris with a dart Enrag'd one of his chariot horse he smote the vpper part Of all his skull euen where the haire that made his foretop sprung The hurt was deadly and the paine so sore the courser stung Pierc't to the braine he stampt and plung'd one on another beares Entangled round about the beame then Nestor cut the geres With his new drawne authentique sword meane while the firie horse Of Hector brake into the preasse with their bold rulers force Then good old Nestor had bene slaine had Diomed not espied Dioââ¦ed to ââ¦ses Who to Vlysses as he fled importunately cried Thou that in counsels dost abound O Laertiades Why flyest thou why thus cowardlike shunst thou the honourd prease Take heed thy backe take not a dart stay let vs both intend To driue this cruell enemie from our deare aged friend He spake but warie Ithacus would find no patient eare Vlysses flies and Diomed alonâ⦠steps to the rescue of Nestor But fled forth right euen to the fleet yet though he single were Braue Diomed mixt amongst the fight and stood before the steeds Of old Neleides whose estate thus kingly he areeds O father with these youths in fight thou art vnequall plac't Thy willing sinewes are vnknit graue age pursues thee fast And thy vnruly horse are slow my chariot therefore vse And trie how readie Troian horse can flie him that pursues Pursue the flier and euery way performe the varied fight I forc't them from Anchises sonne well skild in cause of flight Then let my Squire leade hence thy horse mine thou shalt guard whilst I By thee aduanc't assay the fight that Hectors selfe may trie If my lance dote with the defects that faile best minds in age Or find the palsey in my hands that doth thy life engage This noble Nestor did accept and Diomeds two friends Eurymedon that valour loues and Sthenelus ascends Old Nestors coach of Diomeds horse Nestor the charge sustains And Tydeus sonne tooke place of fight Neleides held the rains And scourg'd the horse who swiftly ran direct in Hectors face Diomed charges Hector Whom fierce Tydides brauely charg'd but he turnd from the chace His iaueline Eniopeus smit mightie Thebaeus sonne And was great Hectors chariotere it through his breast did runne Neare to his pappe he fell to earth backe flew his frighted horse His strength and soule were both dissolu'd Hector had deepe remorse Of his
of a Bore Their dogs put after in full crie he rusheth on before Whets with his lather-making iawes his crooked tuskes for blood And holding firme his vsuall haunts breakes through the deepned wooâ⦠They charging though his hote approch be neuer so abhord So to assaile the Ioue-lou'd Greeke the Ilââ¦ans did accord And he made through them first he hurt vpon his shoulder blade Deiops a blamelesse man at armes then sent to endlesse shade Thoon and Eunomus and strooke the strong Chersidamas Socus wounds Vlysses As from his chariot he leapt downe beneath his targe of brasse Who fell and crawld vpon the earth with his sustaining palmes And left the fight nor yet his lance left dealing Martiall almes But Socus brother by both sidââ¦s yong Carops did impresse Then Princely Socus to his aide made brotherly accesse And coming neare spake in his charge O great Laertes sonne Insatiate in slie stratagems and labours neuer done This houre or thou shalt boast to kill the two Hypasides And prize their armes or fall thy selfe in my resolu'd accesse This said he threw quiââ¦e through his shield his fell and well-driuen lancâ⦠Which held way through his curaces and on his ribs did glance Plowing the flesh alongst his sides but Pallas did repell All inward passage to his life Vlysses knowing well The wound vndeadly setting backe his foote to forme his stand Thus spake to Socus O thou wretch thy death is in this hand That stay'st my victorie on Troy and where thy charge was made In doubtfull terms or this or that this shall thy life inuade This frighted Socus to retreate and in his faint reuerse The lance betwixt his shoulders fell and through his breast did perse Downe fell he sounding and the king thus playd with his misease O Socus you that make by birth the two Hypasides Vlysses insultaââ¦ion Now may your house and you pââ¦rceiue death can outflie the flier Ah wretch thou canst not scape my vowes old Hypasus thy sire Nor thy well honord ââ¦others hands in both which lies thy worth Shall close thy wretched eyes in death but Vultures dig them forth And hide them with their darksome wings but when Vlysses dies Diuinest Greeks shall tombe my corse with all their obââ¦equies Now from his bodie and his shield the violent lance he drew That Pââ¦incely Socus had infixt which drawne a crimson dew Fell from his bosome on the earth the wound ââ¦id dare him sore And when the furious Troians saw Vlysses forced gore Encouraging themselues in grosse all his destruction vowd Then he retir'd and summond aide thrise showted he allowd As did denote a man ingag'd thrise Menelaus eare Obââ¦eru'd his aid-suggesting voice and Aiax being neare He told him of Vlysses showââ¦s as if he were enclosd From all assistance and aduisd their aids might be disposd Against the Ring that circled him lest charg'd with troopes alone Though valiant he might be opprest whom Greece so built vpon He led and Aiax seconded they found their Ioââ¦e-lou'd king Circled with foes As when a den of bloodie Lucerns cling About a goodly palmed Hart hurt with a hunters bow Whose scape his nimble feet inforce whilst his warme blood doth flow And his light knees haue power to moue but maistred of his wound Embost within a shadie hill the Lucerns charge him round And teare his flesh when instantly fortune sends in the powres Of some sterne Lion with whose sight they flie and he deuours So charg'd the Ilians Ithacus many and mightie men But then made Menelaus in and horrid Aiax then Aiax and Menelaus to the rescue of Vlysses Bearing a target like a tower close was his violent stand And euerie way the foe disperst when by the royall hand Kind Menelaus led away the hurt Laertes sonne Till his faire squire had brought his horse victorious Telamon Still plied the foe and put to sword a young Priamides Doriclus Priams bastard sonne then did his lance impresse Pandoââ¦us and strong Pyrasus Lysander and Palertes As when a torrent from the hils swolne with Saturnian showres Fals on the fields beares blasted Oakes and witherd rosine flowres Loose weeds and all dispersed filth into the Oceans force So matchlesse Aiax beat the field and slaughterd men and horse Yet had not Hector heard of this who fought on the left wing Of all the host neare those sweet herbs Scamanders flood doth spring Where many foreheads trode the ground and where the skirmish burnd Neare Nestor and king Idomen where Hector ouerturnd The Grecian squadrons authoring high seruice with his lance And skilfull manadge of his horse nor yet the discrepance He made in death betwixt the hosts had made the Greeks retire If faire-haird Hellens second spouse had not represt the fire Of bold Machaons fortitude who with a three-forkt head In his right shoulder wounded him then had the Grecians dread Lest in his strength declin'd the foe should slaughter their hurt fââ¦iend Then Cretes king vrg'd Neleides his chariot to ascend And getting neare him take him in and beare him to their tents A Surgeon is to be preferd with physicke ornaments Before a multitude his life giues hurt liues natiue bounds With sweet inspersion of fit balmes and perfect search of wounds Thus spake the royall Idomen Neleides obeyd And to his chariot presently the wounded Greeke conuaid The sonne of Esculapius the great Phisition To fleet they flew Cebriones perceiu'd the slaughter done By Aiax on the other troopes and spake to Hector thus Whiles we encounter Grecians here sterne Telamonius Is yonder raging turning vp in heapes our horse and men I know him by his spacious shield let vs turne chariot then Where both of horse and foote the fight most hotely is proposde In mutuall slaughters harke their throats from cries are neuer closd This said with his shrill scourge he strooke the horse that fast ensude Stung with his lashes tossing shields and carkasses imbrude The chariot tree was drownd in blood and th'arches by the seate Disperpled from the horses houes and from the wheelebands beate Great Hector long'd to breake the rankes and startle their close fight Who horribly amaz'd the Greeks and plyed their suddaine fright With busie weapons euer wingd his lance sword weightie stones Yet charg'd he other Leaders bands not dreadfull Telamons With whom he wisely shund foule blowes but Ioue that weighs aboue All humane pow'rs to Aiax breast diuine repressions droue And made him shun who shund himselfe he ceast from fight amaz'd Cast on his backe his seauen-fold shield and round about him gaz'd Like one turnd wilde lookt on himselfe in his distract retreate Knee before knee did scarcely moue as when from heards of Neate Whole threaues of Bores and mungrils chace a Lion skulking neare Loth he should taint the wel-prisd fat of any stall-fed steere Consuming all the night in watch he greedie of his prey Oft thrusting on is oft thrust off fo thicke the Iauelins play On his bold
charges and so hote the burning fire brands shine Which he though horrible abhors about his glowing eyne And early his great heart retires so Aiax from the foe For feare their fleet should be inflam'd gainst his swolne heart did go As when a dull mill Asse comes neare a goodly field of corne Another simile expressing the maner of Aiax retreate Kept from the birds by childrens cries the boyes are ouerborne By his insensible approach and simply he will eate About whom many wands are broke and still the children beate And still the selfe-prouiding Asse doth with their weaknesse beare Not stirring till his panch be full and scarcely then will stere So the huge sonne of Telamon amongst the Troians far'd Bore showers of darts vpon his shield yet scornd to flie as skar'd And so kept softlie on his way nor would he mend his pace For all their violent pursuits that still did arme the chace With singing lances but at last when their Cur-like presumes More vrg'd the more forborne his spirits did rarifie their fumes And he reuokt his actiue strength turnd head and did repell The horse troopes that were new made in twixt whom the fight grew fell And by degrees he stole retreate yet with such puissant stay That none could passe him to the fleet in both the armies sway He stood and from strong hands receiu'd sharpe Iauelins on his shield Where many stucke throwne on before many fell short in field Ere the white bodie they could reach and stucke as telling how They purposd to haue pierc't his flesh his perill pierced now The eyes of Prince Eurypilus Euemons famous sonne Who came close on and with his dart strooke Duke Apisaon Whose surname was Phausiades euen to the concrete blood That makes the liuer on the earth out gusht his vitall blood Eurypilus made in and easd his shoulders of his armes Which Paris seeing he drew his bow and wreakt in part the harmes Of his good friend Phausiades his arrow he let flie That smote Eurypilus and brake in his attainted thie Then tooke he troope to shun blacke death and to the flyers cride Eurypilus to the Greekes Princes and Leaders of the Greeks stand and repulse the tide Of this our honour-wracking chace Aiax is drownd in darts I feare past scape turne honord friends helpe out his ventrous parts Thus spake the wounded Greeke the sound cast on their backs their shields And raisd their darts to whose reliefe Aiax his person wields Then stood he firmely with his friends retiring their retire And thus both hosts indifferent ioynd the fight grew hote aâ⦠fire Now had Neleides sweating steeds brought him and his hurt friend Amongst their Fleet Aeacides that wishly did intend Standing asterne his tall neckt ship how deepe the skirmish drew Amongst the Greeks and with what ruth the insecution grew Saw Nestor bring Machaon hurt and from within did call His friend Patroclus who like Mars in forme celestiall Achilles to troclâ⦠Came forth with first sound of his voice first spring of his decay And askt his Princely friends desire Deare friend said he this day I doubt not will enforce the Greeks to swarme about my knees I see vnsufferd Need imployd in their extremities Go sweet Patroclus and enquire of old Neleides Whom he brought wounded from the fight by his backe parts I guesse It is Machaon but his face I could not well descrie They past me in such earnest speed Patroclus presently Obeyd his friend and ran to know They now descended were And Nestors squire Eurimidon the horses did vngeare Themselues stood neare th' extremest shore to let the gentle aire Drie vp their sweat then to the tent where Hecamed the faire Set chaires and for the wounded Prince a potion did prepare This Hecamed by wars hard fate fell to old Nestors share When Thetis sonne sackt Tenedos She was the Princely seed Of worthie king Arsynous and by the Greeks decreed The prize of Nestor since all men in counsell he surpast First a faire table she apposd of which the feet were grac't With blewish mettall mixt with blacke and on the same she put A brasse fruit dish in which she seru'd a holsome Onion cur For pittance to the potion and honey newly wrought And bread the fruite of sacred meale then to the boord she brought A right faire cup with gold studs driuen which Nestor did transfer From Pylos on whose swelling sides foure handles fixed were And vpon euerie handle sate a paire of doues of gold Some billing and some pecking meate Two gilt feet did vphold The antique body and withall so weightie was the cup That being proposd brim full of wine one scarse could lift it vp Yet Nestor drunke in it with ease spite of his yeares respect In this the Goddesse-like faire Dame a potion did confect With good old wine of Pramnius and scrap't into the wine Cheese made of Goates milke and on it sperst flow'r exceeding fine In this sort for the wounded Lord the potion she prepar'd And bad him drinke for companie with him old Nestor shar'd Thus physically quencht they thirst and then their spirits reuiu'd With pleasant conference And now Patroclus being arriu'd Made stay at th' entrie of the tent old Nestor seeing it Rose and receiu'd him by the hand and faine would haue him sit He set that courtesie aside excusing it with hast Since his much to be reuerenc't friend sent him to know who past Wounded with him in chariot so swiftly through the shore Whom now said he I see and know and now can stay no more You know good father our great friend is apt to take offence Whose fierie temper will inflame sometimes with innocence He answerd When will Peleus sonne some royall pittie show Nestor to Patrociâ⦠On his thus wounded countrimen Ah is he yet to know How much affliction tires our host how our especiall aide Tainted with lances at their tents are miserably laide Vlysses Diomed our King Euripylus Machaon All hurt and all our worthiest friends yet no compassion Can supple thy friends friendlesse breast Doth he reserue his eye Till our fleet burne and we our selues one after other die Alas my forces are not now as in my yonger life Oh would to God I had that strength I vsed in the strife Betwixt vs and the Elians for Oxen to be driuen When Itumonius loââ¦tie soule was by my valour giuen As sacrifice to destinie Hypporocus strong sonne That dwelt in Elis and fought first in our contention We forrag'd as proclaimed foes a wondrous wealthie boote And he in rescue of his Herds fell breathlesse at my foote All the Dorpe Bores with terror fled our prey was rich and great Twise fiue and twentie flocks of sheepe as many herds of neate As many goates and nastie swine a hundred fiftie mares All sorrell most with sucking foales and these soone-monied wares We draue into Neileus towne faire Pylos all by night My fathers heart
ãâã ãâã ãâã and therfore I accordingly translate it And note this beside both out of this place and many others how excellent an Anatomist our Homer was whose skill in those times me thinkes should be a secret The end of the fourteenth Booke of Homers Iliads THE FIFTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT IOue waking and beholding Troy in flight Chides Iuno and sends Iris to the fight To charge the sea-god to forsake the field And Phoebus to inuade it with his shield Recouering Hectors broosde and crased powres To field he goes and makes new conquerours The Troians giuing now the Grecians chace Euen to their fleete Then Aiax turnes his face And feeds with many Troian liues his ire Who then brought brands to set the fleete on fire Another Argument Ioue sees in O his ouersight Chides Iuno Neptune cals from fight THe Troians beate past pale and dike and numbers prostrate laide All got to chariot feare-driuen all and fear'd as men dismaide Then Ioue on Idas top awakt rose from Saturnias side Stood vp and lookt vpon the warre and all inuerted spide Since he had seene it th' Ilians now in rowt the Greeks in fight King Neptune with his long sword Chiefe great Hector put downe quite Laide flat in field and with a crowne of Princes compassed So stopt vp that he scarce could breath his minds sound habite fled And he still spitting blood Indeed his hurt was not set on By one that was the weakest Greeke But him Ioue lookt vpon With eyes of pittie on his wife with horrible aspect To whom he said O thou in ill most cunning Architect Iupiters wrath against Iuâ⦠All Arts and comments that exceedst not onely to enforce Hector from fight but with his men to shew the Greeks a course I feare as formerly so now these ils haue with thy hands Their first fruits sowne and therefore could lode all thy lims with bands Forgetst thou when I hangd thee vp how to thy feete I tyed Two Anuils golden manacles on thy false wrists implied And let thee mercilesly hang from our refined heauen Euen to earths vapors all the gods in great Olympââ¦s giuen To mutinies about thee yet though all stood staring on None durst dissolue thee for these hands had they but seisd vpon Thy friend had headlong throwne him off from our star-bearing round Till he had tumbl'd out his breath and peecemeale dasht the ground Nor was my angry spirit calm'd so soone for those foule seas On which inducing Northerne flawes thou shipwrack'dst Hercules And tost him to the Coon shore that thou shouldst tempt againe My wraths importance when thou seest besides how grosly vaine My powres can make thy policies for from their vtmost force I freed my sonne and set him safe in Argos nurse of horse These I remember to thy thoughts that thou mayst shun these sleights And know how badly bed-sports thriue procur'd by base deceits This frighted the offending Queene who with this state excusde Her kind vnkindnesse Witnesse earth and heauen so farre diffusde Iunoes ââ¦th in clearing her self to Iupiter Thou Flood whose silent-gliding waues the vnder ground doth beare Which is the great'st and grauest oath that any god can sweare Thy sacred head those secretioyes that our yong bed gaue forth By which I neuer rashly swore that he who shakes the earth Not by my counsell did this wrong to Hector and his host But pittying th' oppressed Greekes their fleete being neerly lost Relieu'd their hard condition yet vtterly impeld By his free mind which since I see is so offensiue held To thy high pleasure I will now aduise him not to tread But where thy tempest-raising feete O Iupiter shall leade Ioue laught to heare her so submisse and said My faire-eyd loue If still thus thou and I were one in counsels held aboue Iupiters charge to Iuno and reconciliation Neptune would still in word and fact be ours if not in heart If then thy tongue and heart agree from hence to heauen depart To call the excellent in bowes the Raine-bow and the Sunne That both may visite both the hosts the Grecian armie one And that is Iris let her haste and make the sea-god cease T' assist the Greekes and to his court retire from warre in peace Let Phoebus on the Troian part inspire with wonted powre Great Hectors spirits make his thoughts forget the late sterne houre And all his anguish setting on his whole recouer'd man To make good his late grace in fight and hold inconstant wane The Grecian glories till they fall in flight before the fleete Of vext Achilles which extreme will proue the meane to greete Thee with thy wish for then the eyes of great Aeacides Made witnesse of the generall ill that doth so neare him prease Will make his owne particular looke out and by degrees Abate his wrath that through himselfe for no extremities Will seeme reflected yet his friend may get of him the grace To helpe his countrey in his Armes and he shall make fit place For his full presence with his death which shall be well forerunne For I will first renowne his life with slaughter of my sonne Diuine Sarpedon and his death great Hectors powre shall wreake Ending his ends Then at once out shall the furie breake Of fierce Achilles and with that the flight now felt shall turne And then last till in wrathfull flames the long-sieg'd Ilion burne Mineruaes counsell shall become graue meane to this my will Which no god shall neglect before Achilles take his fill Of slaughter for his slaughterd friend euen Hectors slaughter throwne Vnder his anger that these facts may then make fully knowne My vowes performance made of late and with my bowed head Confirm'd to Thetis when her armes embrac't my knees and praid That to her citie-racing sonne I would all honour shew This heard his charge she seem'd t' intend and to Olympus flew But as the mind of such a man that hath a great way gone Sâ⦠And either knowing not his way or then would let alone His purposde iourney is distract and in his a vexed mind Resolues now not to go now goes still many wayes inclin'd So reuerend Iuno headlong flew and'gainst her stomacke striu'd For being amongst th' immortall gods in high heauen soone arriu'd All rising welcoming with cups her litle absence thence She all their courtships ouerpast with solemne negligence Saue that which faire-cheekt Themis shewd and her kind ââ¦up she tooke Tââ¦ââ¦o ãâã For first she ranne and met with her and askt What tââ¦oubled looke She brought to heauen She thought for truth that Ioue had tertiâ⦠Her spirits strangely since she went The faire arm'd Queene replide That truth may easily be supposde you goddesse Themis know ãâã ââ¦ply His old seueritie and pride buâ⦠you bear 't out with show And like the banquets arbiter amongst th'Immortals fare Though well you heare amongst them all how bad his actions are Nor are all here nor
ãâã c. Sicut verò quando discurrit vel prorumpit vel cum impetu exurgit mens viri ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã signifying ruo prorumpo vel cum impetu exurgo as hauing trauelled farre on an irkesome iourney as Iuno had done for the Greekes faining to Ioue and Venus she was going to visite ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã multa nutrientes fines terrae and then knowes not whether he should go backeward or forward sustaines a vehement discourse with himselfe on what course to resolue and vext in mind which the words ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã expresse being to be vnderstood mentibus amaris vexatis or distractis with a spitefull sorrowfull vext or distracted mind not mentibus prudentibus as all most vnwisely in this place conuert it though in other places it intimates so much But here the other holds congruence with the rest of the simile from which in the wise sence it abhorres ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã signifying amarus more properly then prudens being translated prudens meerely metaphorically acccording to the second deduction where here it is vsed more properly according to the first deduction which is taken from ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã the Larcher tree whose gumme is exceeding bitter and because things irkesome and bitter as afflictions crosses c. are meanes to make men wise and take heede by others harmes therefore according to the second deduction ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã is taken for cautus or prudens But now that the ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã or application seemes to make with their sence of swiftnesse the words ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã being translated by them sic citò properans it is thus to be turned in this place sic rapidè impetu pulsa so snatchingly or headlongly driuen flew Iuno As we often see with a clap of thunder Doues or other fowles driuen headlong from their seates not in direct flight but as they would breake their neckes with a kind of reeling ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã being deriued of ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã signifying impetu ferri vel furibundo impetu ferri all which most aptly agreeth with Iunos enforced and wrathfull parting from Ioue and doing his charge distractedly This for me if another can giue better let him shew it and take it But in infinite other places is this diuine Poet thus prophaned which for the extreme ââ¦bour I cannot yet touch at b ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c Difficile est it is a hard thing saith Minerua to Mars when she answers his anger for the slaughter of his sonne Ascalaphus for Ioue to deliuer the generation and birth of all men from death which Commentors thus vnderstand There were some men that neuer died as Tython the husband of Aurora Chyron Glaucus made a sea god c. and in holy Writ as Spondanus pleaseth to mixe them Enoc and Elias but because these few were freed from death Mars must not looke that all others were But this interpretation I thinke will appeare to all men at first sight both ridiculous and prophane Homer making Minerua onely iest at Mars here as she doth in other places bidding him not storme that his sonne should be slaine more then better borne stronger and worthier men for Ioue should haue enough to do or it were hard for Ioue to free all men from Death that are vnwilling to die This mine with the rest the other others accept which you please The end of the fifteenth Booke THE SIXTEENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT A Chilles at Patroclus suite doth yeeld His armes and Myrmidons which brought to field The Troians flie Patroclus hath the grace Of great Sarpedons death sprong of the race Of Iupiter he hauing slaine the horse Of Thetis sonne fierce Pedasus the force Of Hector doth reuenge the much-ru'dend Of most renown'd Sarpedon on the friend Of Thetides first by Euphorbus harm'd And by Apollos personall powre disarm'd Another Argument In ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Patroclus beares the chance Of death imposd by Hectors lance THus fighting for this well-built ship Patroclus all that space Stood by his friend preparing words to win the Greeeks his grace With powre of vncontained teares and like a fountaine pour'd In blacke streams froÌ a lofty rocke the Greeks so plagu'd deplor'd Achilles ruthfull for his teares said Wherefore weepes my friend So like a girle who though she sees her mother cannot tend Achilles chides Patroclus for his teares Her childish humours hangs on her and would be taken vp Stil viewing her with teare-drownd eyes when she hath made her stoope To nothing liker I can shape thy so vnseemely teares What causeth them hath any ill sollicited thine eares Befalne my Myrmidons or newes from loued Phthia brought Told onely thee lest I should grieue and therefore thus hath wrought On thy kind spirit Actors sonne the good Meââ¦tius Thy father liues and Peleus mine great sonne of Aeacus Amongst his Myrmidons whose deaths in dutie we should mourne Or is it what the Greeks sustaine that doth thy stomacke turne On whom for their iniustice sake plagues are so iustly laide Speake man let both know eithers heart Patroclus sighing said O Peleus sonne thou strongest Greeke by all degrees that liues Still be not angrie our sad state such cause of pittie giues Patroclus answer to Achilles Our greatest Greeks lie at their ships sore wounded Ithachus King Agamemnon Diomed and good Eurypilus But these much-medcine-knowing men Physitions can recure Thou yet vnmedcinable still though thy wound all endure Heauen blesse my bosome from such wrath as thou sooth'st as thy blisse Vnprofitably vertuous How shall our progenies Borne in thine age enioy thine aide when these friends in thy flowre Thou leau'st to such vnworthy death O idle cruell powre Great Peleus neuer did beget nor Thetis bring foorth thee Thou from the blew sea and her rockes deriu'st thy pedegree What so declines thee If thy mind shuns any augurie Related by thy mother Queene from heauens foreseeing eye And therefore thou forsak'st thy friends let me go ease their mones With those braue reliques of our host thy mightie Myrmidons That I may bring to field more light to Conquest then hath bene To which end grace me with thine armes since any shadow seene Of thy resemblance all the powre of periur'd Troy will flie And our so tired friends will breathe our fresh-set-on supplie Will easily driue their wearied off Thus foolish man he su'd For his sure death of all whose speech Achilles first renu'd The last part thus O worthy friend what haue thy speeches bene Achilles to ãâã I shun the fight for Oracles or what my mother Queene Hath told from Ioue I take no care nor note of one such thing But this fit anger stings me still that the insulting king Should from his equall take his right since he exceeds in powre This still his wrong is still my griefe he tooke my Paramour That all men gaue and whom I wonne by vertue of
Lycia with her rich progeniâ⦠Or here in Troy but any where since thou hast powre to heare O giue a hurt and wofull man as I am now thine eare This arme sustaines a cruell wound whose paines shoot euery way Afflict this shoulder and this hand and nothing long can stay A fluxe of blood still issuing nor therefore can I stand With any enemie in fight nor hardly make my hand Support my lance and here lies dead the worthiest of men Sarpedon worthy sonne to Ioue whose power could yet abstaine From all aide in this deadly need giue thou then aide to me O king of all aide to men hurt asswage th'extremitie Of this armes anguish giue it strength that by my president I may excite my men to blowes and this dead corse preuent Of further violence He praid and kind Apollo heard Allayd his anguish and his wound of all the blacke bloud clear'd That vext it so infusde fresh powres into his weakened mind And all his spirits flow'd with ioy that Phoebus stood inclin'd In such quicke bountie to his prayres Then as Sarpedon wild He cast about his greedie eye and first of all instild To all his Captaines all the stings that could inflame their fight For good Sarpedon And from them he stretcht his speedie pace T' Agenor Hector Venus sonne and wise Polydamas And onely naming Hector said Hector you now forget ãâã ãâã ãâã to Hector Your poore auxiliarie friends that in your toiles haue swet Their friendlesse soules out farre from home Sarpedon that sustain'd With Iustice and his vertues all broade Lycia hath not gain'd The like guard for his person here for yonder dead he lies Beneath the great Patroclus lance but come let your supplies Good friends stand neare him O disdaine to see his corse defil'd With Grecian furie and his armes by their oppressions spoil'd The Myrmidons are come enrag'd that such a mightie boote Of Greekes Troys darts haue made at fleete This said from head to foote Griefe strooke their powres past patience and not to be restrain'd To heare newes of Sarpedons death who though he appertain'd To other cities yet to theirs he was the very Fort And led a mightie people there of all whose better sort Himselfe was best This made them runne in flames vpon the foe The first man Hector to whose heart Sarpedons death did go Patroclus stird the Grecian spirits and first th' Aiaces thus Patroclus to the Grecians and particularly to both the ãâã Now brothers be it deare to ââ¦ou to fight and succour vs As euer heretofore ye did wiâ⦠men first excellent The man lies slaine that first did scale and raze the battlement That crown'd our wall the Lycian Prince But if we now shall adde Force to his corse and spoile his armes a prise may more be had Of many great ones that for him will put on to the death To this worke these were prompt enough and each side ordereth Those Phalanxes that most had rate of resolutions The Troiaââ¦s and the Lycian powres the Greeks and Myrmidoââ¦s These ranne together for the corse and closde with horrid cries Their armours thundering with the claps laid on about the prise And Ioue about th' impetuous broile pernicious night powr'd out As long as for his loued sonne pernicious Labour fought The first of Troy the first Greekes foil'd when not the last indeed Amongst the Myrmidons was slaine the great Aiacleus seed Diuine Epigeus that before had exercisde command In faire Budaeus but because he laid a bloudie hand On his owne sisters valiant sonne To Peleus and his Queene He came for pardon and obtain'd His slaughter being the meane He came to Troy and so to this He ventur'd euen to touch The princely carkasse when a stone did more to him by much Sent out of able Hectors hand it cut his skull in twaine And strooke him dead Patroclus grieu'd to see his friend so slaine Before the foremost thrust himselfe and as a Faulcon frayes Siââ¦ile A flocke of Stares or Caddesses such feare brought his assayes Amongst the Troians and their friends and angry at the hart As well as grieu'd for him so slaine another stonie dart As good as Hectors he let flie that dusted in the necke Of Sthenelaus thrust his head to earth first and did breake The nerues in sunder with his fall off fell the Troiaââ¦s too Euen Hectors selfe and all as farre as any man can throw Prouokt for games or in the warres to shed an enemies soule A light long dart The first that turn'd was he that did controule The Targatiers of Lycia Prince ãâã who to hell Sent Bathycleus Chalcoââ¦s sonne he did in Hellas dwell And shin'd for wealth and happinesse amongst the Myrmidons His bosomes midst the Iauelin strooke his fall gat earth with grones The Greeks grieu'd and the Troââ¦ns ioy'd for so renowm'd a man About whom stood the Grecians firme and then the death began On Troyes side by Meriones he slue one great in warre ãâã Onââ¦tors sonne the Priest of Iupiter Created in th'Idean hill Betwixt his iaw and eare The dart stucke fast and loosde his soule sad mists of Hate and Feare Inuading him Anchises sonne dispatcht a brazen lance At bold Meriones and hop't to make an equall chance On him with bold ãâã though vnder his broade shield He lay so close But he discern'd and made his bodie yeeld So low that ouer him it flew and trembling tooke the ground With which Mars made it quench his thirst and since the head could wound No better bodie and yet throwne from nere the worse a hand It turnd from earth and lookt awrie Aeneas let it stand ãâã ãâã to ãâã Much angrie at the vaine euent and told Meriones He scap't but hardly nor had cause to hope for such successe Another time though well he knew his dancing facultie By whose agilitie he scap't for had his dart gone by With any least touch instantly he had bene euer slaine He answerd Though thy strength be good it cannot render vaine ãâã to ãâã The strength of others with thy iests nor art thou so diuine But when my lance shall touch at thee with equall spââ¦d to thine Death will share with it thy lifes powres thy confidence can shun No more then mine what his right claimes Menââ¦tius noble sonne Rebuk't Meriones and said What needst thou vse this speech Nor thy strength is approu'd with words good friend nor can we reach The bodie nor make th' enemie yeeld with these our counterbraues We must enforce the binding earth to hold them in her graues If you will warre Fight will you speake giue counsell counsell blowes Are th' ends of warres and words talke here the time in vaine bestowes He said and led and nothing lesse for any thing he said His speech being season'd with such right the Worthy seconded And then as in a sounding vale neare neighbour to a hill Simile Wood-fellers make a farre-heard noise with
such sounds gaue the Troians charge so was their charge represt One mind fild all Greeks good brasse shields close coucht to euery brest And on their bright helmes Ioue powr'd downe a mightie deale of night To hide Patroclus Whom aliue and when he was the knight Of that grand child of Aeacus Saturnius did not hate Nor dead would see him dealt to dogs and so did instigate His fellowes to his worthy guard At first the Troians draue The blacke-ey'd Grecians from the Corse but not a blow they gaue That came at death A while they hung about the bodies heââ¦les The Greekes quite gone But all that while did Aiax whet the steeles Of all his forces that cut backe way to the Corse againe Braue Aiax that for forme and fact past all that did maintaine The Grecian fame next Thetis sonne now flew before the first And as a sort of dogs and youths are by a Bore disperst Simile About a mountaine so fled these from mightie Aiax all That stood in conflict for the Corse Who thought no chance could fall Betwixt them and the prise at Troy For bold Hippothous Lethus Pelasgus famous sonne was so aduenturous That he would stand to bore the Corse about the ankle bone Where all the neruie fiuers meete and ligaments in one That make the motion of those parts through which he did conuay The thong or bawdricke of his shield and so was drawing away All thanks from Hector and his friends but in their steed he drew An ill that no man could auert For Telamonius threw A lance that strooke quite through his helme his braine came leaping out Downe fell Letheides and with him the bodies hoisted foote Farre from Larissas soyle he fell a little time allow'd To his industrious spirits to quit the benefits bestow'd By his kind parents But his wreake Priamides assaid And threw at Aiax but his dart discouered past and staid At Schedius sonne of Iphitus a man of ablest hand Of all the strong Phocensians and liu'd with great command In Panopaeus The fell dart fell through his channell bone Pierc't through his shoulders vpper part and set his spirit gone When after his another flew the same hand gluing wing To martiall Phorcis startled soule that was the after spring Of Phaenops seed the iauelin strooke his curets through and tore The bowels from the bellies midst His fall made those before Giue backe a little Hectors selfe enforc't to turne his face And then the Greeks bestow'd their showts tooke vantage of the chace Drew off and spoild Hippothous and Phorcis of their armes And then ascended Ilion had shaken with alarmes Discouering th'impotence of Troy euen past the will of Ioue And by the proper force of Greece had Phoebus faild to moue Aeneas in similitude of Periphas the sonne Of graue Epytes king at armes and had good seruice done To old Anchises being wise and euen with him in yeares Apollo ãâã like ãâã to ãâã But like this man the farre-seene god to Venus sonne appeares And askt him how he would maintaine steepe Ilion in her height In spite of gods as he presum'd when men approu'd so sleight All his presumptions and all theirs that puft him with that pride Beleeuing in their proper strengths and generally supplied With such vnfrighted multitudes But he well knew that Ioue Besides their selfe conceipts sustaind their forces with more loue Then theirs of Greece and yet all that lackt power to hearten them Aeneas knew the god and said It was a shame extreme ãâã to the Troiaâ⦠That those of Greece should beate them so and by their cowardise Not want of mans aide nor the gods and this before his eyes A deitie stood euen now and voucht affirming Ioue their aide And so bad Hector and the rest to whom all this he said Turne head and not in that quicke ease part with the Corse to Greece This said before them all he flew and all as of a peece Against the Greeks flew Venus sonne Leocritus did end Sonne of Arisbas and had place of Lycomedes friend Whose fall he friendly pittied and in reuenge bestow'd A lance that Apisaon strooke so sore that straite he strow'd The dustie center it did sticke in that congealed blood That formes the liuer Second man he was of all that stood In name for armes amongst the troope that from Poeonia came Asteropaeus being the first who was in ruth the same That Lycomedes was like whom he put forth for the wreake Of his slaine friend but wrought it not because he could not breake That bulwarke made of Grecian shields and bristl'd wood of speares Combin'd about the body slaine Amongst whom Aiax beares The greatest labour euery way exhorting to abide And no man flie the Corse a foote nor breake their rankes in pride Of any foremost daring spirit but each foote hold his stand Aiax his souldlerly command And vse the closest fight they could And this was the command Of mightie Aiax which obseru'd they steept the earth in blood The Troians and their friends fell thicke Nor all the Grecians stood Though farre the fewer suffred fate for euer they had care To shun confusion and the toyle that still oppreffeth there So set they all the field on fire with which you would haue thought The Sunne and Moone had bene put out in such a smoke they fought About the person of the Prince But all the field beside Fought vnderneath a lightsome heauen the Sun was in his pride And such expansure of his beames he thrust out of his throne That not a vapour durst appeare in all that region No not vpon the highest hill There fought they still and breathd Shund danger cast their darts aloofe and not a sword vnsheathd The other plyde it and the warre and Night plyde them as well The cruell steele afflicting all the strongest did not dwell Vnhurt within their iron roofes Two men of speciall name Antilochus and Thrasimed were yet vnseru'd by Fame With notice of Patroclus death they thought him still aliue In foremost tumult and might well for seeing their fellowes thriue In no more comfortable sort then Fight and Death would yeeld They fought apart for so their Sire old Nestor strictly wild Enioyning fight more from the fleet warre here increast his heate The whole day long continually the labour and the sweate The knees calues feete hands faces smear'd of men that Mars applide About the good Achilles friend And a as a huge Oxe hide An imiââ¦able Simile A Currier giues amongst his men to supple and extend With oyle till it be drunke withall they tug stretch out and spend Their oyle and licour liberally and chase the leather so That out they make a vapour breathe and in their oyle doth go A number of them set on worke and in an Orbe they pull That all waies all parts of the hide they may extend at full So here and there did both parts hale the Corse in little
to send Both men and horse are hid in mists that euery way descend O father Iupiter do thou the sonnes of Greece release Of this felt darknesse grace this day with fit transparences And giue the eyes thou giu'st their vse destroy vs in the light And worke thy will with vs since needs thou wilt against vs fight This spake he weeping and his teares Saturnius pitie show'd Disperst the darknesse instantly and drew away the clowd From whence it fell the Sunne shin'd out and all the host appear'd And then spake Aiax whose heard prayre his spirits highly chear'd Braue Menelaus looke about and if thou canst descrie Aiax to Menelaus Nestors Antilochus aliue incite him instantly To tell Achilles that his friend most deare to him is dead He said nor Menelaus stucke at any thing he said As loth to do it but he went as from a Grasiers stall A Lion goes when ouerlaid with men dogs darts and all Simile Not easely losing a fat Oxe but strong watch all night held His teeth yet watering oft he comes and is as oft repeld The aduerse darts so thicke are pour'd before his brow-hid eyes And burning firebrands which for all his great hearts heate he flies And grumbling goes his way betimes So from Patroclus went Atrides much against his mind his doubts being vehement Lest he gone from his guard the rest would leaue for very feare Another direct scoffe at Menelaus The person to the spoile of Greece And yet his guardians were Th' Aiaces and Meriones whom much his care did presse And thus exhort Aiaces both and you Meriones Menelaus to the Aiaces like himselfe Now let some true friend call to mind the gentle and sweete nature Of poore Patroclus let him thinke how kind to euery creature His heart was liuing though now dead Thus vrg'd the faire-hair'd king And parted casting round his eye d As when vpon her wing Simile An Eagle is whom men affirme to haue the sharpest sight Of all aires region of fowles and though of mightie height Sees yet within her leauie forme of humble shrubs close laid A light-foote Hare which straight she stoupes trusses and strikes her dead So dead thou strook'st thy charge O king through all warres thickets so Thou look'dst and swiftly found'st thy man exhorting gainst the foe And heartning his plied men to blowes vsde in the warres left wing To whom thou saidst Thou god-lou'd man come here and heare a thing Which I wish neuer were to heare I thinke euen thy eye sees What a destruction God hath laid vpon the sonnes of Greece And what a conquest he giues Troy in which the best of men Patroclus lies exanimate whose person passing faine The Greeks would rescue and beare home and therefore giue thy speed To his great friend to proue if he will do so good a deed To fetch the naked person off for Hectors shoulders weare His prised armes Antilochus was highly grieu'd to heare Antilochus grief for Patroclus This heauie newes and stood surprisde with stupid silence long His faire eyes standing full of teares his voice so sweete and strong Stucke in his bosome yet all this wrought in him no neglect Of what Atrides gaue in charge but for that quicke effect He gaue Laodolus his armes his friend that had the guide Of his swift horse and then his knees were speedily applide In his sad message which his eyes told all the way in teares Nor would thy generous heart assist his sore-charg'd souldiers Another notable Ironiâ⦠expressing what Homer made of Menelaus O Menelaus in meane time though left in much distresse Thou sentst them god-like Thrasimede and mad'st thy kind regresse Backe to Patroclus where arriu'd halfe breathlesse thou didst say To both th' Aiaces this I haue sent this messenger away To swift Achilles who I feare will hardly helpe vs now Though mad with Hector without armes he cannot fight ye know Let vs then thinke of some best meane both how we may remoue The bodie and get off our selues from this vociferous droue And fate of Troians Brauely spoke at all parts Aââ¦x said O glorious sonne of Atreus take thou then straite the dead And thou Meriones We two of one mind as one name Will backe ye soundly and on vs receiue the wild-fire flame That Hectors rage breathes after you before it come at you This said they tooke into their armes the bodie all the show That might be made to those of Troy at armes end bearing it Menelaus and Meriones beare off the body of Patroclus Simile Out shriekt the Troians when they saw the bodie borne to fleete And rusht on As at any Bore gasht with the hunters wounds A kennell of the sharpest set and sorest bitten hounds Before their youthfull huntsmen haste and eagerly a while Pursue as if they were assur'd of their affected spoile But when the Sauage in his strength as confident as they Turnes head amongst them backe they flie and euery one his way So troope-meale Troy pursu'd a while laying on with swords and darts But when th' Aiaces turn'd on them and made their stand their harts Drunke from their faces all their blouds and not a man sustain'd The forechace nor the after fight And thus Greece nobly gain'd The person towards home but thus the changing warte was rackt Out to a passing bloudie length For as once put in act A fire inuading citie roofes is sodainly engrost Simile And made a wondrous mightie flame in which is quickly lost A house long building all the while a boisterous gust of wind Lumbring amongst it So the Greekes in bearing of their friend More and more foes drew at their heeles a tumult thundering still Of horse and foote Yet as when Mules in haling from a hill Simile A beame or mast through foule deepe way well clapt and heartned close Lie to their labour tug and sweate and passing hard it goes Vrg'd by their driuers to all hast So dragg'd they on the corse Still both th' Aiaces at their backs who backe still turn'd the force Though after it grew still the more yet as a syluane hill Thrusts backe a torrent that hath kept a narrow channell still Simile ãâã the ãâã of both the ãâã Till at his Oken breast it beates but there a checke it takes That sends it ouer all the vale with all the stirre it makes Nor can with all the confluence breake through his rootie sides In no lesse firme and braue repulse th' Aiaces curb'd the prides Of all the Troians yet all held the pursuite in his strength Their chiefes being Hector and the sonne of Venus who at length Put all the youth of Greece besides in most amazefull rout Forgetting all their fortitudes distraught and shrieking out A number of their rich armes lost falne from them here and there About and in the dike and yet the warre concludes not here COMMENTARIVS ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã
yet againe I hope they will not adde their ods To saue thy wants as thou presum'st retire then aime not at Troys throne by me flie ere thy soule flies fooles are wise too late He answerd him Hope not that words can child-like terrifie AEneas to Achilles My stroke-proofe breast I well could speake in this indecencie And vse tart termes but we know well what stocke vs both put out Too gentle to beare fruites so rude Our parents ring about The worlds round bosome and by fame their dignities are blowne To both our knowledges by sight neither to either knowne Thine to mine eyes nor mine to thine Fame sounds thy worthinesse From famous Peleus the sea Nymph that hath the louely tresse Thetis thy mother I my selfe affirme my Sire to be Great-soul'd Anchises she that holds the Paphian deitie My mother and of these this light is now t'exhale the teares For their lou'd issue thee or me childish vnworthy dates Are not enough to part our powres for if thy spiriââ¦s want Due excitation by distrust of that desert I vant To set vp all rests for my life I le lineally proue Which many will confirme my race First cloud commanding Ioue ãâã ãâã Was sire to Dardanus that built Dardania for the wals Of sacred Ilion spred not yet these fields those faire-built hals Of diuers languag'd men not raisd all then made populous The foote of Idaes fountfull hill This Ioue-got Dardanus Begot king Ericthonius for wealth past all compares Of liuing mortals in his fens he fed three thousand mares All neighing by their tender foles of which twice sixe were bred By loftie Boreas their dams lou'd by him as they fed He tooke the braue forme of a horse that shooke an azure mane And slept with them These twice sixe colts had pace so swift they ââ¦anne Vpon the top-ayles of corne-eares nor bent them any whit And when the brode backe of the sea their pleasure was to sit The superficies of his waues they slid vpon their houes Not dipt in danke sweate of his browes Of Ericthonius loues Sprang Tros the king of Trââ¦ans Tros three yong princes bred Ilus renowm'd Assaracus and heauenly Gââ¦nymed The fairest youth of all that breath'd whom for his beauties loue The gods did rauish to their state to beare the cup to Ioue Ilus begot Laomedon god-like Laomedon Got Titbon Priam Clytius Mars-like Hycetaon And Lampus Great Assaracus Capys begot and he Anchises Prince Anchises me King Priam Hector we Sprang both of one high family Thus fortunate men giue birth But Ioue giues vertue he augments and he empaires the worth Of all men and his will their Rule he strong'st all strength affoords Why then paint we like dames the face of Conflict with our words Both may giue language that a ship driuen with a ââ¦undred ores Would ouer-burthen a mans tongue is voluble and poures Words out of all sorts euery way such as you speake you heare What then need we vie calumnies like women that will weare Their tongues out being once incenst and striue for strife to part Being on their way they trauell so from words words may auert From vertue not it is your steele diuine Aeacides Must proue my proofe as mine shall yours Thus amply did he ease His great heart of his pedigree and sharply sent away Aeneas chargeth Achilles A dart that caught Achilles shield and rung so it did fray The sonne of Thetis his faire hand farre-thrusting out his shield For feare the long lance had driuen through O foole to thinke t would yeeld And not to know the gods firme gifts want want to yeeld so soone To mens poore powres the eager lance had onely conquest wonne Of two plates and the shield had fiue two forg'd of tin two brasse One that was center-plate of gold and that forbad the passe Of Anchisiades his lance Then sent Achilles forth His lance that through the first fold strooke where brasse of litle worth Achilles at AEneas And no great proofe of hides was laid through all which Pelias ranne His iron head and after it his ashen body wanne Passe to the earth and there it stucke his top on th' other side And hung the shield vp which hard downe Aeneas pluckt to hide His breast from sword blowes shrunke vp round and in his heauie eye Was much griefe shadowed much afraid that Pelias stucke ââ¦o nie Then prompt Achilles rushing in his sword drew and the field Rung with his voice Aeneas now left and let hang his ââ¦hield And all distracted vp he snatcht a two mens strength of stone And either at his shield or caske he set it ââ¦udely gone Nor car'd where so it strooke a place that put on armes for death But he Achilles came so close had doubtlesse funke beneath His owne death had not Neptune seene and interposde the ods Of his diuine powre vttering this to the Achaian gods I grieue for this great hearted man he will be sent to hell Neptune to the other gods of Greece Euen instantly by Peleus sonne being onely mou'd to deale By Phoebus words What foole is he Phoebus did neuer meane To adde to his great words his guard against the ruine then Summon'd against him and what cause hath he to head him on To others miseries He being cleare of any trespasse done Against the Grecians thankfull gifts he oft hath giuen to vs Let vs then quit him and withdraw this combat for if thus Achilles end him Ioue will rage since his escape in fate Is purposde lest the progenie of Dardanus take date Whom Ioue past all his issue lou'd begot of mortall dames ãâã Prophââ¦cy of Aeneâ⦠to propagate the Troian race All Priams race he hates and this must propagate the names Of Troians and their sonnes sonnes rule to all posteritie Saturniâ⦠said make free your pleasure saue or let him die Pallas and I haue taken many and most publique oathes Iââ¦no to Neptunâ⦠That th' ill day neuer shall auert her eye red with our wroths From hated Troy No not when all in studied fire she flames The Greeke rage blowing her last coale This nothing turn'd his aimes From present rescue but through all the whizzing speares he past And came where both were combatting when instantly he cast A mist before Achilles eyes drew from the earth and shield His lance and laid it at his feete and then tooke vp and held Aloft the light Anchises sonne who past with Neptunesâ⦠force Whole orders of Heroes heads and many a troope of horse Leapt ouer till the bounds he reacht of all the feruent broyle Where all the Caucons quarters lay Thus farre freed from the toyle Neptune to Aeneas Neptune had time to vse these words Aeneas who was he Of all the gods that did so much neglect thy good and thee To vrge thy fight with Thetis sonne who in immortall rates Is better and more deare then thee Hereafter lest past fates Hell be
thy headlong home retire make bold stand neuer neare Where he aduanceth but his fate once satisfied then beare A free and full sayle no Greeke else shall end thee This reueald He left him and disperst the cloud that all this act conceald From vext Achilles who againe had cleare light from the skies And much disdaining the escape said O ye gods mine eyes Achilles admirââ¦s the scape of Aeneâ⦠Discouer miracles my lance submitted and he gone At whom I sent it with desire of his confusion Aeneas sure was lou'd of heauen I thought his vant from thence Had flow'd from glorie Let him go no more experience Will his mind long for of my hands he flies them now so cleare Cheare then the Greeks and others trie Thus rang'd he eââ¦ery where The Grecian orders euery man of which the most lookt on To see their fresh Lord shake his lance he thus put charge vpon Diuine Greeks stand not thus at gaze but man to man apply Your seuerall valours t is a taske laide too vnequally On me left to so many men one man opposde to all Not Mars immortall and a god nor warres she Generall A field of so much fight could chace and worke it out with blowes But what a man may execute that all lims will expose And all their strength to th' vtmost nerue though now I lost some play By some strange miracle no more shall burne in vaine the day To any least beame all this host I le ransacke and haue hope Of all not one againe will scape whoeuer giues such soope To his aduenture and so neare dares tempt my angry lance Thus he excited Hector then as much striues to aduance The hearts of his men adding threates affirming he would stand In combat with Aeacides Giue Feare said he no hand Hector to his Ilians Of your great hearts bââ¦ue Ilians for ãâã talking Sonne I le fight with any god with words but when their speares put on The worke runs high their strength exceeds mortalitie so farre And they may make works crowne their words which holds not in the warre Achilles makes his hands haue bounds this word he shall make good And leaue another to the field his worst shall be withstood With sole obiection of my selfe Though in his hands he beare A rage like fire though fire it selfe his raging fingers were And burning steele flew in his strength Thus he incited his And they raisd lances and to worke with mixed courages And vp flew Clamor but the heate in Hector Phoebus gaue Phebus to Hector This temper Do not meet said he in any single braue The man thou threatn'st but in preasse and in thy strength impeach His violence for farre off or neare his sword or dart will reach The gods voice madâ⦠a difference in Hectors owne conceipt Betwixt his and Achilles words and gaue such ouerweight As weigh'd him backe into his strength and curb'd his flying out At all threw fierce Aeacides and gaue a horrid shout The first of all he put to dart was fierce Iphition Iphition slaine by Achââ¦es Surnam'd Otryntides whom Nais the water Nymph made sonne To towne-destroyer Otrââ¦eus Beneath the snowy hill Of Tmolus in the wealthie towne of Ide at his will Were many able men at armes He rushing in tooke full Pelides lance in his heads midst that cleft in two his skull Achilles knew him one much fam'd and thus insulted then Th' art dead Otryntides though cald the terriblest of men Thy race runs at Gââ¦us lake there thy inheritance lay Neare fishy Hillus and the gulfs of Hââ¦us but this day Remoues it to the fields of Troy Thus left he Night to sease His closed eyes his body laid in course of all the prease Which Grecian horse broke with the strakes naild to their chariot wheeles Next through the temples the burst eyes his deadly iauelin steeles Demoleon slaine by Achilles Of great-in Troy Antenors sonne renown'd Demolcon A mightie turner of a field His ouerthrow set gone Hippodamas who leapt from horse and as he fled before Aeacides his turned backe he made fell Pââ¦lias gore And forth he puft his flying soule and as a tortur'd Bull To Neptune brought for sacrifice a troope of yongsters pull Simile Downe to the earth and dragge him round about the hallowed shore To please the watry deitie with forcing him to rore And forth he powres his vtmost throte So bellow'd this slaine friend Of flying Ilion with the breath that gaue his being end Then rusht he on and in his eye had heauenly Polydore Old Priams sonne whom last of all his fruitfull Princesse bore And for his youth being deare to him the king forbad to fight Yet hote of vnexperienc't blood to shew how exquisite He was of foote for which of all the fiftie sonnes he held The speciall name He flew before the first heate of the field Polydore ãâã by Achilles Euen till he flew out breath and soule which through the backe the lance Of swift Achilles put in ayre and did his head aduance Out at his nauill on his knees the poore Prince crying fell And gatherd with his tender hands his entrailes that did swell Quite through the wide wound till a cloud as blacke as death conceald Their sight and all the world from him When Hector had beheld His brother tumbl'd so to earth his entrailes still in hand Darke sorrow ouercast his eyes nor farre off could he stand A minute longer but like fire he brake out of the throng Shooke his long lance at Thetis sonne And then came he along Achilles passion at the sight of ââ¦ctor To feed th' encounter O said he here comes the man that most Of all the world destroyes my minde the man by whom I lost My deare Patroclus now not long the crooked paths of warre Can yeeld vs any priuie scapes Come keepe not off so farre He cryed to Hector make the paine of thy sure death as short As one so desperate of his life hath reason In no sort This frighted Hector who bore close and said Aeacides Hector to Achiâ⦠Leaue threates for children I haue powre to thunder calumnies As well as others and well know thy strength superiour farre To that my nerues hold but the gods not nerues determine warre And yet for nerues there will be found a strength of powre in mine To driue a lance home to thy life my lance as well as thine Hath point and sharpenesse and t is this Thus brandishing his speare He set it flying which a breath of Pallas backe did beare Pallas breââ¦hes backe Hectors lance throwne at Achilles From Thetis sonne to Hectors selfe and at his feet it fell Achilles vsde no dart but close flew in and thought to deale With no strokes but of sure dispatch but what with all his blood He labor'd Phoebus clear'd with ease as being a god and stood For Hectors guard as Pallas did Aeacides for thine He rapt
him from him and a cloud of much Night cast betweene His person and the point opposde Achilles then exclaim'd O see yet more gods are at worke Apollos hand hath fram'd Apollo rescues Hector Dog that thou art thy rescue now to whom go pay the vowes Thy safetie owes him I shall vent in time those fatall blowes That yet beate in my heart on thine if any god remaine My equall fautor In meane time my anger must maintaine His fire on other Ilians Then laid he at his feet Great Demochus Philetors sonne and Dryope did greet With like encounter Dardanus and strong Laogonus Wise Byas sonnes he hurld from horse of one victorious With his close sword the others life he conquerd with his lance Then Tros Alastors sonne made in and sought to scape their chance With free submission Downe he fell and praid about his knees He would not kill him but take ruth as one that Destinies Made to that purpose being a man borne in the selfe same yeare That he himselfe was O poore foole to sue to him to beare A ruthfull mind he well might know he could not fashion him In Ruths soft mould he had no spirit to brooke that interim In his hote furie he was none of these remorsefull men Gentle and affable but fierce at all times and mad then He gladly would haue made a prayre and still so hugg'd his knee He could not quit him till at last his sword was faine to free His fetterd knees that made a vent for his white liuers blood That causd such pittifull affects of which it pour'd a flood About his bosome which it fild euen till it drownd his eyes And all sense faild him Forth then flew this Prince of tragedies Who next stoopt Mulius euen to death with his insatiate speare One eare it enterd and made good his passe to th' other eare Echeclus then Agenors sonne he strooke betwixt the browes Whose blood set fire vpon his sword that coold it till the throwes Of his then labouring braine let out his soule to fixed fate And gaue cold entrie to blacke death Deucalion then had state In these mens beings where the nerues about the elbow knit Downe to his hand his speares steele pierc't and brought such paine to it As led Death ioyntly whom he saw before his fainting eyes And in his necke felt with a stroke laid on so that off flies His head one of the twise twelue bones that all the backe bone make Let out his marrow when the head he helme and all did take And hurl'd amongst the Ilians the body stretcht on earth Rhigmus of fruitfull Thrace next fell he was the famous birth Of Pireus his bellies midsts the lance tooke whose sterne force Quite tumbl'd him from chariot In turning backe the horse Their guider Areithous receiu'd another lance That threw him to his Lord. No end was put to the mischance Simile Achilles enterd But as fire falne in a flash from heauen Inflames the high-woods of drie hils and with a storme is driuen Through all the Syluane deepes and raues till downe goes euery where The smotherd hill So euery way Achââ¦lles and his speare Consum'd the Champaine the blacke earth flow'd with the veines he tore And looke how Oxen yok't and driuen about the circular floore Of some faire barne treade sodainly the thicke sheaues thin of corne And all the corne consum'd with chaffe so mixt and ouerborne Simile Beneath Achilles one-hou'd horse shields speares and men lay trod His axel-tree and chariot wheeles all spatterd with the blood Hurl'd from the steeds houes and the strakes Thus to be magnified His most inaccessible hands in humane blood he died The end of the twentieth Booke THE XXI BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT IN two parts Troyes host parted Thetis sonne One to Scamander one to Ilion Pursues Twelue Lords he takes aliue to end In sacrifice for vengeance to his friend Asteropaeus dies by his fiercâ⦠hand And Priams sonne Lycaon Ouer land The flood breakes where Achilles being engag'd Vulcan preserues him and with spirit enrag'd Sets all the Champaine and the Flood on fire Contention then doth all the gods inspire Apollo in Agenors shape doth stay Achilles furie and by giuing way Makes him pursue till the deceipt giues leaue That Troy in safetie might her freinds receiue Another Argument Phy at the floods shore doth expresse The labours of Aeacides ANd now they reacht the goodly swelling channell of the flood Gulfe-eating Xanthus whom Ioue mixt with his immortall brood And there Achilles cleft the host of Ilion one side fell On Xanthus th' other on the towne and that did he impell The same way that the last daies rage put all the Greeks in rout When Hectors furie reign'd These now Achilles powr'd about The scatterd field To stay the flight Saturnia cast before Their hastie feete a standing fogge and then Flights violence bore The other halfe full on the flood The siluer-gulphed deepe Receiu'd them with a mightie crie the billowes vast and steepe Ror'd at their armours which the shores did round about resound This way and that they swum and shriekt as in the gulphs they drownd And as in fir'd fields Locusts rise as the vnwearied blaze Simile Plies still their rising till in swarmes all rush as in amaze For scape into some neighbour flood So th' Achilleian stroke Here draue the foe The gulfie flood with men and horse did choke Then on the shore the Worthy hid and left his horrid lance Amids the Tamriskes and spritelike did with his sword aduance Vp to the riuer ill affaires tooke vp his furious braine For Troyes engagements euery way he doubl'd sââ¦aine on slaine A most vnmanly noise was made with those he put to sword Of grones and outcries the flood blusht to be so much engor'd With such base soules And as small fish the swift-finn'd Dolphin flie Filling the deepe pits in the ports on whose close strength they lie Simile And there he swallowes them in sholes So here to rockes and holes About the flood the Troians fled and there most lost their soules Euen till he tir'd his slaughterous arme Twelue faire yong Prinââ¦es then He chusde of all to take aliue to haue them freshly slaine On that most solemne day of wreake resolu'd on for his friend These led he trembling forth the flood as fearefull of their end As any Hinde calues all their hands he pinnioned behind With their owne girdles worne vpon their rich weeds and resign'd Their persons to his Myrmidons to beare to fleete and he Plung'd in the streame againe to take more worke of Tragedie He met then issuing the flood with all intent of flight Lycaon Dardan Priams sonne whom lately in the night He had surprisde as in a wood of Priams he had cut Achilles his stranâ⦠encounter of Lycaon The greene armes of a wild figge tree to make him spokes to put In Naues of his new chariot An ill then
More then thy selfe their horses yet superior are to thine For their parts thine want speed to make discharge of a designe To please an Artist But go on shew but thy art and hart At all points and set them against their horses heart and art Good Iudges will not see thee lose A Carpenters desert Stands more in cunning then in powre A Pylote doth auert His vessell from the rocke and wracke tost with the churlish winds By skill not strength so sorts it here One chariotere that finds Want of anothers powre in horse must in his owne skill set An ouerplus of that to that and so the proofe will get Skill that still rests within a man more grace then powre without He that in horse and chariots trusts is often hurl'd about This way and that vnhandsomely all heauen wide of his end He better skild that rules worse horse will all obseruance bend Right on the scope still of a Race beare neare know euer when to reine When giue reine as his foe before well noted in his veine Of manage and his steeds estate presents occasion I le giue thee instance now as plaine as if thou saw'st it done Here stands a drie stub of some tree a cubite from the ground Suppose the stub of Oake or Larch for either are so sound That neither rots with wet two stones white marke you white for view A CoÌment might well be bestowed vpon this speech of Nestor Parted on either side the stub and these lay where they drew The way into a streight the Race betwixt both lying cleare Imagine them some monument of one long since tomb'd there Or that they had bene lists of race for men of former yeares As now the lists Achilles sets may serue for charioteres Many yeares hence When neare to these the race growes then as right Driue on them as thy eye can iudge then lay thy bridles weight Most of thy left side thy right horse then ââ¦witching all thy throte Spent in encouragments giue him and all the reine let flote About his shoulders thy neare horse will yet be he that gaue Thy skill the prise and him reine ââ¦o his head may touch the Naue Of thy left wheele but then take care thou runst not on the stone With wracke of horse and chariot which so thou bear'st vpon Shipwracke within the hauen auoide by all meanes that will breed Others delight and thee a shame Be wise then and take heed My lou'd sonne get but to be first at turning in the course He liues not that can cote thee then not if he backt the horse The gods bred and Adrastus ow'd Diuine Arions speed Could not outpace thee or the horse Laomedon did breed Whose race is famous and fed here Thus sat Neleââ¦es When all that could be said was said And then Meriones Nestors aged loue of speech was here briefly noted Set fiftly forth his faire-man'd horse All leapt to chariot And euery man then for the start cast in his proper lot Achilles drew Antilochus the lot set foremost foorth Eumelus next Atrides third Meriones the fourth The fifth and last was Diomed farre first in excellence All stood in order and the lists Achilles fixt farre thence In plaine field and a seate ordain'd fast by In which he set Renowmed Phoenix that in grace of Peleus was so great Phoenix chiefe iudge of the best deseruers in the race To see the race and giue a truth of all their passages All start together scourg'd and cried and gaue their businesse Study and order Through the field they held a winged pace Beneath the bosome of their steeds a dust so dim'd the race It stood aboue their heads in clowds or like to stormes amaz'd Manes flew like ensignes with the wind the chariots sometime graz'd And sometimes iumpt vp to the aire yet still sat fast the men Their spirits euen panting in their breasts with feruour to obtaine But when they turn'd to fleet againe then all mens skils were tride Then stretcht the pasternes of their steeds Eumelus horse in pride Still bore their Soueraigne After them came Diomeds coursers close Still apt to leape their chariot and ready to repose Vpon the shoulders of their king their heads His backe euen burn'd With fire that from their nostrils flew And then their Lord had turn'd The race for him or giuen it doubt if Phoebus had not smit The scourge out of his hands and teares of helplesse wrath with it From forth his eyes to see his horse for want of scourge made slow And th 'others by Apollos helpe with much more swiftnesse go Apollos spite Pallas discern'd and flew to Tydeus sonne His scourge reacht and his horse made fresh Then tooke her angry runne At king Eumelus brake his geres his mares on both sides flew His draught tree fell to earth and him the tost vp chariot threw Downe to the earth his elbowes torne his forehead all his face Strooke at the center his speech lost And then the turned race Fell to Tydides before all his conquering horse he draue And first he glitter'd in the race diuine Athenia gaue Strength to his horse and fame to him Next him draue Spartas king Antilochus his fathers horse then vrg'd with all his sting Of scourge and voice Runne low said he stretch out your lims and flie Antilochus to his steeds With Diomeds horse I bid not striue nor with himselfe striue I. Athenia wings his horse and him renowmes Atrides steeds Are they ye must not faile but reach and soone lest soone succeeds The blot of all your fames to yeeld in swiftnesse to a mare To femall Aethe What 's the cause ye best that euer were That thus ye faile vs Be assur'd that Nestors loue ye lose For euer if ye faile his sonne through both your both sides goes His hote steele if ye suffer me to bring the last prise home Haste ouertake them instantly we needs must ouercome This harsh way next vs this my mind will take this I despise For perill this I le creepe through hard the way to honor lies And that take I and that shall yeeld His horse by all this knew He was not pleasde and fear'd his voice and for a while they flew But straite more cleare appear'd the streight Antilochus foresaw It was a gaspe the earth gaue forc't by humours cold and raw Pour'd out of Winters watrie breast met there and cleauing deepe All that neare passage to the lists This Nestors sonne would keepe And left the rode way being about Atrides fear'd and cride Menelaus in feare to follow Antilochus who ye may see playd vpon ââ¦im Antilochus thy course is mad containe thy horse we ride A way most dangerous turne head betime take larger field We shall be splitted Nestors sonne with much more scourge impeld His horse for this as if not heard and got as farre before As any youth can cast a quoyte Atrides would no more He backe
the king His milke-white head and beard With pittie he beheld and said Poore man thy mind is scar'd With much affliction how durst thy person thus alone Venture on his sight that hath ââ¦aine so many a worthy sonne And so deare to thee thy old heart is made of iron sit And settle we our woes though huge for nothing profits it Cold mourning wastes but our liues heates The gods haue destinate That wretched mortals must liue sad T is the immortall state Of Deitie that liues secure Two Tunnes of gifts there lie In Ioues gate one of good one ill that our mortalitie Maintaine spoile order which when Ioue doth mixe to any man One while he frolicks one while mourns If of his mournfull Kan A man drinks onely onely wrongs he doth expose him to Sad hunger in th' abundant earth doth tosse him to and froe Respected nor of gods nor men The mixt cup Peleus dranke Euen from hiâ⦠birth heauen blââ¦st his life he liu'd not that could thanke The gods for such rare benefits as set foorth his estate He reign'd among his Myrmidons most rich most fortunate And though a mortall had his bed deckt with a deathlesse Dame And yet with all this good one ill god mixt that takes all name From all that goodnesse his Name now whose preseruation here Men count the crowne of their most good not blest with powre to beare One blossome but my selfe and I shaken as soone as blowne Nor shall I liue to cheare his age and giue nutrition To him that nourisht me Farre off my rest is set in Troy To leaue thee restlesse and thy seed Thy selfe that did enioy As we haue heard a happie life what Lesbos doth containe In times past being a blest mans seate what the vnmeasur'd maine Of Hellââ¦spontus Phrygiâ⦠holds are all said to adorne Thy Empire wealth and sonnes enow but when the gods did turne Thy blest state to partake with bane warre and the bloods of men Circl'd thy citie neuer cleare Sit downe and suffer then Mourne not ineuitable things thy teares can spring no deeds To helpe theee nor recall thy sonne impacience euer breeds Ill vpon ill makââ¦s worst things worse and therefore sit He said Giue me no seate great seed of Ioue when yet vnransomed Priam to Aâ⦠Hector lies ritelesse in thy tents but daigne with vtmost speed His resignation that these eyes may see his person freed And thy grace satisfied with gifts Accept what I haue brought And turne to Phthia t is enough thy conquering hand hath fought Till Hector faltred vnder it and Hectors father stood With free humanitie safe He frown'd and said Giue not my blood Achilles angry with Priâ⦠Fresh cause of furie I know well I must rââ¦signe thy sonne Ioue by my mother vtterd it and what besides is done I know as amply and thy selfe old Priam I know too Some god hath brought thee for no man durst vse a thought to go On such a seruice I haue guards and I haue gates to stay Easie accesses do not then presume thy will can sway Like Ioues will and incense againe my quencht blood lest nor thou Nor Ioue gets the command of me This made the old king bow And downe he sate in feare the Prince leapt like a Lion forth Automedon and Alcymus attending all the worth Brought for the body they tooke downe and brought in and with it Idaeus herald to the king a cote embroderd yet And two rich cloakes they left to hide the person Thetis sonne Cald out his women to annoint and quickly ouerrunne The Corse with water lifting it in priuate to the coach Lest Priam saw and his cold blood embrac't a fierie touch Of anger at the turpitude prophaning it and blew Againe his wraths fire to his death This done his women threw The cote and cloake on but the Corse Achilles owne hand laide Vpon a bed and with his friends to chariot it conuaide For which forc't grace abhorring so from his free mind he wept Cried out for anger and thus praide O friend do not except Against this fauour to our foe if in the deepe thou heare And that I giue him to his Sire he gaue faire ransome deare In my obseruance is Ioues will and whatsoeuer part Of all these gifts by any meane I fitly may conuert To thy renowne here and will there it shall be pour'd vpon Thy honour'd sepulcher This said he went and what was done Told Priam saying Father now thy wils fit rites are paide Thy sonne is giuen vp in the morne thine eyes shall see him laid Deckt in thy chariot on his bed in meane space let vs eate The rich-hair'd Niobe found thoughts that made her take her meate Though twelue deare children she saw slaine sixe daughters sixe yong sons The sonnes incenst Apollo slue the maides confusions Diana wrought since Niobe her merits durst compare With great Latonaâ⦠arguing that she did onely beare Two children and her selfe had twelue For which those onely two Slue all her twelue nine dayes they lay steept in their blood her woe Found no friend to afford them fire Saturnius had turnd Humanes to stones The tenth day yet the good celestials burnd The trunkes themselues and Niobe when she was tyr'd with teares Fell to her foode and now with rockes and wilde hils mixt she beares In Sypilus the gods wraths still in that place where t is said The Goddesse Fairies vse to dance about the funerall bed Of Achelous where though turn'd with cold griefe to a stone Heauen giues her heate enough to feele what plague comparison With his powers made by earth deserues affect not then too farre Without griefe like a god being a man but for a mans life care And take fit foode thou shalt haue time beside to mourne thy sonne He shall be tearefull thou being full not here but Ilion Shall finde thee weeping roomes enow He said and so arose And causd a siluer-fleec't sheepe kill'd his friends skils did dispose The fleaing cutting of it vp and cookely spitted it Rosted and drew it artfully Automedon as fit Was for the reuerend Sewers place and all the browne ioynts seru'd On wicker vessell to the boord Achilles owne hands keru'd And close they fell too Hunger stancht talke and obseruing time Their mutuall obseruation of eithers fashion at the table Was vsde of all hands Priam sate amaz'd to see the prime Of Thetis sonne accomplisht so with stature lookes and grace In which the fashion of a god he thought had chang'd his place Achilles fell to him as fast admir'd as much his yeares Told in his graue and good aspect his speech euen charm'd his eares So orderd so materiall With this food feasted too Old Priam spake thus Now Ioues seed command that I may go Priam to Achilles And adde to this feast grace of rest these lids nere closde mine eyes Since vnder thy hands fled thâ⦠soule of my deare sonne sighes cries And woes all
for friend reade fiend p. 263. for the spritely r. their spritely in the same p. for were r. where p. 264. for larg'd r. lardge p. 266. in the Comment for to which r. which in the same for the eares r. th' eares p. 284. for steeles r. seeles p. 290. for with blinde r. which blinde p. 293. for hands r. sands p. 303 for all the feete r. at the feete p. 306. for fetcht r. ââ¦tch p. 324. at the end for Teucer reade Teucers THE FIRST BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT APollos Priest to th' Argiue sleete doth bring Gifts for his daughter prisoner to the King For which her tenderd freedome he intreats But being dismist with contumelious threats At Phoebus hands by vengefull prayer he seekes To haue a plague inflicted on the Greekes Which had Achilles doth a Councell cite Emboldning Chalchas in the Kings despite To tell the truth why they were punisht so From hence their fierce and deadly strife did grow For wrong in which Aeacides so raues Aeacides sirname of Achilles being the grand child of Aeacus That Goddesse Thetis from her throne of waues Ascending heauen of Ioue assistance wonne To plague the Greekes by absence of her Sonne And make the Generall himselfe repent To wrong so much his Armies Ornament This found by Iuno she with Ioue contends Till Vulcan with heauens cup the quarell ends Another Argument Alpha the prayer of Chryses sings The Armies plague the strife of Kings His proposition and inuocation AChilles banefull wrath resound O Goddesse that imposd Infinite sorrowes on the Greekes and many braue soules losd From breasts Heroique sent them farre to that a inuisible caue That no light comforts their lims to dogs vultures gaue To b all which Ioues will gaue effect c from whom first strife begunne Betwixt Atrides Atrides sirname of Agamemnon being son to Atreus Eris the Goddes of contention Narration king of men and Thetis godlike Sonne What God gaue Eris their command and op't that fighting veine Ioues and Latonas Sonne who fir'd against the king of men For contumelie showne his Priest infectious sicknesse sent To plague the armie and to death by troopes the souldiers went Occasiond thus Chryses the Priest came to the fleetc to buy For presents of vnualued price his daughters libertie The golden scepter and the crowne of Phoebus in his hands Proposing and made suite to all but most to the Commands Of both th' Atrides Agamemnon Menelaus called the Atrides being brothers both sonnes to Atreus who most rulde Great Atreus sonnes said he And all ye wel-grieu'd Greekes the Gods whose habitations be In heauenly houses grace your powers with Priams razed towne And grant ye happy conduct home to winne which wisht renowne Of Ioue by honouring his sonne farre-shooting Phoebus daine For these fit presents to dissoluâ⦠the ransomeable chaine Chryses the Priest of Apollo to the Atrides and other Greekes Of my lou'd daughters seruitude The Greekes entirely gaue Glad d acclamations for signe that their desires would haue The graue Priest reuerenc'd and his gifts of so much price embrac'd The Generall yet bore no such mind but viciously disgrac'd With violent termes the Priest and said Doterd auoid our fleete Where lingring be not found by me nor thy returning feete Agamemnons ãâã repulse of Chryses Let euer visite vs againe lest nor thy Godheads crowne Nor scepter saue thee Her thou seekst I still will hold mine owne Till age defloure her In our court at Argos farre transferd From her lou'd countrie she shall plie her web and see * See my bed made it may be englisht the word is ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã which signifies coÌtra stan tem as standing of one side opposite to another on the other side which yet others ãâã capessentem adornantem which since it showes best to a reader I follow The prayer of Chryses to Apollo prepard With all fit ornaments my bed Incense me then no more But if thou wilt be safe be gone This said the sea-beate shore Obeying his high will the Priest trod off with haste and feare And walking silent till he left farre off his enemies eare Phoebus faire-haird Latonas sonne he stird vp with a vow To this sterne purpose Heare thou God that bear'st the siluer bow That Chrysa guard'st rulest Tenedos with strong hand and the e round Of Cilla most diuine dost walke O Smintheus if crownd With thankfull offerings thy rich Phane I euer saw or fir'd Fat thighs of oxen and of goates to thee this grace desir'd Vouchsafe to me paines for my teares let these rude Greekes repay Forc'd with thy arrowes Thus he praid and Phoebus heard him pray And vext at heart downe from the tops of steepe heauen stoopt his bow And quiuer couerd round his hands did on his shoulders throw And of the angrie deitie the arrowes as he mou'd Ratl'd about him Like the night he rang'd the host and rou'd Apart the fleete set terribly with his hard-loosing hand His siluer bow twang'd and his shafts did first the Mules command And swift hounds then the Greekes themselues his deadly arrowes shot Apollo sends the plague among the Greekes The fires of death went neuer out nine daies his shafts flew hot About the armie and the tenth Achilles cald a court Of all the Greeks heauens * Iuno white-arm'd Queene who euery where cut short Beholding her lou'd Greeks by death suggested it and he All met in one arose and said Atrides Now I see Achilles to Aâ⦠We must be wandering againe flight must be still our stay If flight can saue vs now at once sicknesse and battell lay Such strong hand on vs. Let vs aske some Prophet Priest or proue Some dreame interpreter for dreames are often sent from Ioue Why Phoebus is so much incenst If vnperformed vowes He blames in vs or Hecatombs and if these knees he bowes To death may yeeld his graues no more but offering all supply Of sauours burnt from lambes and goates auert his feruent eye And turne his temperate Thus he sate and then stood vp to them Chalcas sirnam'd Thestorides of Augures the supreme Calchas the Prophet He knew things present past to come and rulde the Equinpage Of th'Argiue fleete to Ilion for his Prophetique rage Giuen by Apollo who well seene in th' ill they felt proposd This to Achilles Ioues belou'd would thy charge see disclosd Calchas to Achilles The secret of Apollos wrath then couenant and take oth To my discouerie that with words and powrefull actions both Thy strength will guard the truth in me because I well conceiue That he whose Empire gouerns all whom all the Grecians giue Confirm'd obedience will be mou'd and then you know the state Of him that moues him When a king hath once markt for his hate A man inferior though that day his wrath seemes to digest Th' offence he takes yet euermore he rakes vp in
command to this Thou shalt not me or if thou dost farre my free spirit is From seruing thy command Beside this I affirme affoord Impression of it in thy soule I will not vse my sword On thee or any for a wench vniustly though thou tak'st The thing thou gau'st but all things else that in my ship thou mak'st Greedie suruey of do not touch without my leaue or do Adde that acts wrong to this that these may see that outrage too And then comes my part then be sure thy bloud vpon my lance Shall flow in vengeance These high termes these two at variance Vsd to each other left their seates and after them arose The Grecian councââ¦ll dissolued The whole court To his tents and ships with friends and souldiers goes Angrie Achilles Atreus sonne the swift ship lancht and put Within it twentie chosen row'rs within it likewise shut The Hecatomb t' appease the God Then causd to come abord Faire cheekt Chryseis For the chiefe he in whom Pallas pourd Her store of counsels Ithacus aboord went last and then Chriseis sent to her father The moist waies of the sea they saild And now the king of men Bad all the hoast to sacrifice They sacrific'd and cast The offall of all to the deepes the angrie God they grac't With perfect Hecatombs some buls some goates along the shore Of the vnfruitfull sea inflam'd To heauen the thicke fumes bore Enwrapped sauours Thus though all the politique king made shew Respects to heauen yet he himselfe all that time did pursue His owne affections The late iarre in which he thunderd threats Against Achilles still he fed and his affections heats Thus vented to Talthybius and graue Eurybates Heralds and ministers of trust to all his messages Haste to Achilles tent where take Briseis hand and bring Agamemnon to Talthybius and Eurybates his Heralds Her beauties to vs if he faile to yeeld her say your king Will come himselfe with multitudes that shall the horribler Make both his presence and your charge that so he dares deferre This said he sent them with a charge of hard condition They went vnwillingly and trod the fruitlesse seas shore soone They reacht the nauie and the tents in which the quarter lay Of all the Myrmidons and found the chiefe Chiefe in their sway Set at his blacke barke in his tent Nor was Achilles glad To see their presence nor themselues in any glorie had Their message but with reuerence stood and fear'd th' offended king Askt not the dame nor spake a word He yet well knowing the thing That causd their coming grac'd them thus Heralds ye men that beare Achillââ¦s Princely receipt of the Heralds The messages of men and Gods y' are welcome come ye neare I nothing blame you but your king t is he I know doth send You for Briseis she is his Patroclus honourd friend Bring ââ¦oorth the damsell and these men let leade her to their Lord. But Heralds be you witnesses before the most ador'd Before vs mortals and before your most vngentle king Of what I suffer that if warre euer hereafter bring My aide in question to auert any seuerest bane It brings on others I am scusde to keepe my aide in wane Since they mine honour But your king in tempting mischiefe raues Nor sees at once by present things the future how like waues Ils follow ils iniustices being neuer so secure In present times but after plagues euen then are seene as sure Which yet he sees not and so sooths his present lust which checkt Would checke plagues future and he might in succouring right protect Such as fight for his right at fleete they still in safetie fight That fight still iustly This speech vsd Patrââ¦clus did the rite His friend commanded and brought forth Briseis from her tent Briseis led to Agamemnon Gaue her the heralds and away to th'Achiue ships they went She sad and scarce for griefe could go her loue all friends ' forsooke And wept for anger To the shore of th' old sea he betooke Himselfe alone and casting forth vpon the purple sea His wet eyes and his hands to heauen aduancing this sad plea Made to his mother Mother since you brought me forth to breath Achilles to Thetis So short a life Olympius had good right to bequeath My short life honor yet that right he doth in no degree But le ts Atrides do me shame and force that prise from me That all the Greekes gaue this with teares he vtterd and she heard Set with her old sire in his deepes and instantly appeard Vp from the gray sea like a cloud sate by his side and said Why weepes my sonne what grieues thee speake conceale not what hath laid Thetis to Achilles Such hard hand on thee let both know He sighing like a storme Replied Thou dost know why should I things knowne againe informe Achilles to Thetis We marcht to Thebs the sacred towne of king Eetion Sackt it and brought to fleete the spoile which euerie valiant sonne Of Greece indifferently shar'd Atrides had for share Faire-cheekt Chryseis after which his priest that shoots so farre Chryses the faire Chryseis sire arriu'd at th'Achiue fleete With infinite ransome to redeeme the deare imprison'd feete Of his faire daughter In his hands he held Apollos crowne And golden scepter making suite to euerie Grecian sonne But most the sonnes of Atreus the others orderers Yet they least heard him all the rest receiu'd with reuerend eares The motion both the Priest and gifts gracing and holding worth His wisht acceptance Atreus sonne yet vext commanded forth With rude termes Phoebus reuerend Priest who angrie made retreat And prayd to Phoebus in whose grace he standing passing great Got his petition The God an ill shaft sentabrode That tumbl'd downe the Greekes in heapes The host had no abode That was notvisited we askt a Prophet that well knew The cause of all and from his lips Apollos prophecies flew Telling his anger First my selfe exhorted to appease The angerd God which Atreus sonne did at the heart displease And vp he stood vsde threats performd The blacke-eyd Greeks sent home Chryseis to her sire and gaue his God a Hecatome Then for Briseis to my tents Atrides Heralds came And tooke her that the Greekes gaue all If then thy powres can frame Wreake for thy sonne affoord it scale Olympus and implore Ioue if by either word or fact thou euer didst restore Ioy to his greeu'd heart now to helpe I oft haue heard thee vant In court of Peleus that alone thy hand was conuersant In rescue from a cruell spoile the blacke-clowd-gathering Ioue Whom other Godheads would haue bound The powre whose pace doth moue The round earth heauens great Queene and Pallas to whose bands Neptune Iuno and ãâã confederates in the binding of Iupiâ⦠Thou cam'st with rescue bringing vp him with the hundred hands To great Olympus whom the Gods call Briarââ¦us men Aegaeon who
inserted Downe iumpt he from his chariot downe leapt his foe as light And as on some far-seeing rocke a cast of Vultures fight Flie on each other strike and trusse part meete and then sticke by Tugge both with crooked beakes and seres crie fight and fight and cry So fiercely fought these angrie kings c. Wherein you see that crying in these eagerlie fought fowles which is like teares in angrie men is so farre from softnesse or faintnesse that to the superlatiue of hardinesse and courage it expresseth both Nor must we be so grosse to imagine that Homer made Achilles or Diomed blubber or sob c. but in the verie point and sting of their vnuented anger shed a few violent and seething-ouer teares What Asse-like impudence is it then for any meerely vaineglorious and selfe-louing puffe that euerie where may reade these inimitable touches of our Homers maisterie any where to oppose his arrogant and ignorant castigations when he should rather with his much better vnderstander Spondanus submit where he ouersees him faulty and say thus Quia tu tamen hoc voluisti sacrosanctae tuae authoritati per me nihil detrahetur The end of the first Booke THE SECOND BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT IOue cals avision vp from Somnus den To bid Atrides muster vp his men The king to Greekes dissembling his desire Perswades them to their countrie to rââ¦tire By Pallas will Vlysses stayes their flight And wise old Nestor heartens them to fight They take their meate which done to armes they goâ⦠And march in good array against the foe So those of Troy when Iris from the skie Of Saturns sonne performs the Ambassie Another Argument Beta the dreame and Synod cites And catalogues the nauall knights THe other Gods and knights at armes all night slept onely Ioue Iupiter carefuâ⦠in performing his vow to Thetâ⦠Sweet slumber seisd not he discourst how best he might approue His vow made for Achilles grace and make the Grecians find His misse in much death Al waies cast this couÌsel seru'd his mind With most allowance to dispatch a harmefull dreame to greet The king of men and gaue this charge Go to the Achiue fleet Iupiter cals vp a vision Pernicious dreame and being arriu'd in Agamemnons tent Deliuer truly all this charge command him to conuent His whole hoast arm'd before these towres for now Troys broad-waid towne He shall take in the heauen-housd Gods are now indifferent growne Iunos request hath wonne them Troy now vnder imminent ils At all parts labours This charge heard the vision straight fulfils The ships reacht and Atrides tent in which he found him laid Diuine sleepe powrd about his powres He stood aboue his head Like Nestor grac't of old men most and this did intimate Sleepes the wise Atreus-tame-horse sonne a counsellour of State The vision to Agamemnon Must not the whole night spend in sleepe to whom the people are For guard committed and whose life stands bound to so much care Now heare me then Ioues messenger who though farre off from thee Is neare thee yet in ruth and care and giues command by me To arme thy whole hoast Thy strong hand the broad-waid towne of Troy Shall now take in no more the Gods dissentiously imploy Their high-housd powers Iunos suite hath wonne them all to her And ill fates ouer-hang these towres addrest by Iupiter Fixe in thy mind this nor forget to giue it action when Sweet sleepe shall leaue thee Thus he fled and left the king of men Repeating in discourse his dreame and dreaming still awake ãâã discourseth of ãâã ãâã Of powre not readie yet for act O foole he thought to take In that next day old Priams towne not knowing what affaires ãâã had in purpose who prepar'd by strong fight sighes and ãâã For Greekes and Troians The dreame gone his voice still murââ¦ured About the kings eares who sate vp put on him in his bed His silken inner weed faire new and then in hast arose Cast on his ample mantle tied to his soft feet faire shoes His siluer-hilted sword he hung about his shoulders tooke His fathers scepter neuer staind which then abroad he shooke And went to fleete And now great heauen Goddesse Aurora scall'd The morning To Ioue and all Gods bringing light When Agamemnon call'd His heralds charging them aloud to call to instant Court The thicke-haird Greekes The heralds call'd the Greekes made quickeresort The Councell chiefly he composd of old great minded men At Nestors ships the Pylian king all there assembled then Thus Atreus sonne begunne the Court Heare friends a dreame diuine ãâã Amids the calme night in my sleepe did through my shut eyes shine Within my fantasie his forme did passing naturally Resemble Nestor such attire a stature iust as hie He stood aboue my head and words thus fashiond did relate Sleepes the wise Atreus-tame-horse sonne A counsellor of state ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Must not the whole night spend in sleepe to whom the people are For guard committed and whose life stands bound to so much care Now heare me then Ioues messenger who though farre off from thee Is neare thee yet in loue and care and giues command by me To arme thy whole hoast Thy strong hand the broad-waid towne of Troy Shall now take in no more the Gods dissentiously imploy Their high-housd powres Saturnias suite hath wonne them all to her And ill fates ouer-hang these towres addrest by Iupiter Fixe in thy mind this This exprest he tooke wing and away And sweet sleepe left me let vs then by all our meanes assay To arme our armie I will first as farre as fits our right Trie their addictions and command with full-sail'd ships our flight Which if they yeeld to oppose you He sate and vp arose Nââ¦stor of sandy Pylos king who willing to dispose Their counsell to the publicke good proposd this to the State Princes and Counsellors of Greece If any should relate Nestor to the Greekes This vision but the king himselfe it might be held a tale And moue the rather our ãâã but since our Generall Affirmes he saw it hold it true and all our best meanes make To arme our armie This speech vsde he first the Councell brake The other scepter-bearing States arose to and obeyd The peoples Rector Being abroad the earth was ouerlaid With flockers to them that came forth as when of frequenâ⦠Bees Swarmes rise out of a hollow rocke repairing the degrees Simile Of their egression endlesly with euer rising new From forth their sweet nest as their store still as it faded grew And neuer would ceasse sending forth her clusters to the spring They still crowd out so this flocke here that there belabouring The loaded flowres So from the ships and tents the armies store Troopt to these Princes and the Court along th'vnmeasur'd shore Amongst whom Ioues Ambassadresse Fame in her vertue shin'd ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Exciting
to make them buy it deare Who dwelt in Pylos sandie soyle and Arene the faire The Pylians and their townes In Thryon neare Alphaeus flood and Aepy full of aire In Cyparisseus Amphygen and little Pââ¦eleon The towne where all the Iliots dwelt and famous Doreon Where all the Muses opposite in strife of Poesie To ancient Thamyris of Thrace did vse him cruelly Thamyris depriued of sight and Poesie by the Muses He coming from Eurytus court the wise Oechalian king Because he proudly durst affirme he could more sweetly sing Then that Pyerean race of Ioue who angrie with his vant Bereft his eye-sight and his song that did the eare enchant And of his skill to touch his Harpe disfurnished his hand All these in ninetie hollow keeles graue Nestor did command Nestor captaine Ships 90. The richly blest inhabitants of the Arcadian land The Arcadians and their towns Below Cyllenes mount that by Epyrus tombe did stand Where dwell the bold neare-fighting men who did in Phaeneus liue And Orchomen where flockes of sheepe the shepheards clustering driue In Rypé and in Stratié the faire Mantinean towne And strong Enispe that for height is euer weather-blowne Tegea and in Stimphalus Parrhasia strongly wall'd All these Alcaeus sonne to field king Agapenor call'd Agapenor their leader In sixtie barks he brought them on and euerie barke well mand Ships 60. With fierce Arcadians skild to vse the vtmost of a band King Agamemnon on these men did well-built ships bestow To passe the gulfie purple sea that did no sea rites know They who in Hermin Buphrasis and Elis did remaine The Epians and their townes What Olens Cliffes Alisius and Myrsin did containe Were led to warre by twise two Dukes and each ten ships did bring Sphips 40. Which many venterous Epyans did serue for burthening Beneath Alphimacus his charge and valiant Talphius Sonne of Euritus Actor one the other Cteatus Captaines Alphimachus Talphius Diores Polixenus Diores Amarincides the other did imploy The fourth diuine Polixenus Agasthenis his ioy The king of faire Angeiades who from Dulichius came Dulichians And from Euchinaus sweet Iles which hold their holy frame By ample Elis region Meges Phelides led ãâã ãâã Whom Duke Phyleus Ioues belou'd begat and whilome fled To large Dulychius for the wrath that fir'd his fathers breast Twise twentie ships with Ebon sailes were in his charge addrest Ships 40. The war-like men of Cephale and those of Ithaca The ãâã and their towns Wooddy Nerytus and the men of wet Crocilia Sharpe Aegilipha Samos I le Zacynthus sea-enclosd Epyrus and the men that hold the Continent opposd All these did wise Vlysses leade in counsell Peere to Ioue Vlysses captaine Ships 12. Twelue ships he brought which in their course vermilion sternes did moue Thoas Andremons wel-spoke sonne did guide th'Etolians well The Aetolians their captaines and townes Those that in Pleuron Olenon and strong Pylene dwell Great Calcis that by sea-side stands and stony Calydon For now no more of Oeneus sonnes suruiu'd they all were gone Thoas captaine No more his royall selfe did liue no more his noble sonne The golden Meleager now their glasses all were run All things were left to him in charge the Aetolians Chiefe he was And fortie ships to Troian warres the seas with him did passe Ships 40. The royall souldier Idomen did leade the Cretans stout The Cretans their townes and Captaines The men of Gnossus and the towne Cortima wall'd about Of Lictus and Myletus towres of white Lycastus state Of Phestus and of Rhistias the cities fortunate And all the rest inhabiting the hundred townes of Crete Idomeneus Whom warre-like Idomen did leade copartner in the fleete A hundred cities in Crete With kil-man Merion eightie ships with them did Troy inuade Ships 80. Tlepolemus Heraclides right strong and bigly made Brought nine tall ships of warre from Rhodes which hautie Rhodians mand Who dwelt in three disseuer'd parts of that most pleasant land Which Lyndus and Ialissus were and bright Camyrus cald Tlepolemus commanded these in battell vnappald Tlepolemus CoÌmander of the Rhodians Whom faire Astioche brought forth by force of Hercules Led out of Ephyr with his hand from riuer Sellees Ships 9. When many townes of princely youths he leueld with the ground Townes Tlepolem in his fathers house for building much renownd Brought vp to head-strong state of youth his mothers brother slue The flowre of armes Lycymnius that somewhat aged grew Then straight he gathred him a fleete assembling bands of men And fled by sea to shun the threats that were denounced then By other sonnes and nephewes of th'Alciden fortitude He in his exile came to Rhodes driuen in with tempests rude The Rhodians were distinct in tribes and great with Ioue did stand The king of men and Gods who gaue much treasure to their land Nireus out of Symas hauen three wel-built barkes did bring The Symââ¦ns Nireus faire Aglaias sonne and Charopes the king Nireus their Chiefe ãâã of all the Greekes but ãâã Ships 3. Nireus was the fairest man that to faire Ilion came Of all the Greekes saue Peleus sonne who past for generall frame But weake this was not fit for warre and therefore few did guide Who did in Cassus Nisyrus and Crapathus abide In Co Euripilus his towne and in Calydnas soyles The ãâã and other Ilanders Phydippus and bold Antiphus did guide to Troian toyles The sonnes of crowned Thessalus deriu'd from Hercules Their Chiefe Phydippus and Antiphus Who went with thirtie hollow ships well ordred to the seas Now will I sing the sackfull troopes Pelasgian Argos held Ships 30. That in deepe Alus Alopé and soft Trechina dweld The Pelasgians Thessal Myrmidons In Pthya and in Hellade where liue the louely dames The Myrmidons Helenians and Achiues robd of Fames All which the great Aeacides in fiftie ships did leade Achilles their Captaine For these forgat warres horride voice because they lackt their head Ships 50. That would haue brought them brauely foorth but now at fleete did lie That wind-like vser of his feet faire Thetis progenie Wroth for bright-cheekt Bryseis losse whom from Lyrnessus spoiles His owne exploit he brought away as trophee of his toiles When that townâ⦠was depopulate he sunke the Theban towres Myneta and Epistrophus he sent to Plutoes bowres Who came of king Euenus race great Helepiades Yet now heidely liues enrag'd but soone must leaue his ease Of those that dwelt in Phylace and flowrie Pyrrason Philacei and their townes The wood of Ceres and the soyle that sheepe are fed vpon Iten and Antron built by sea and ãâã full of grasse Protesilaus while he liu'd the worthie captaine was Protesilaus captaine Whom now the sable earth detaines his teare-torne faced spouse He wofull left in Philace and his halfe finisht house A fatall
Dardane first his life of all the Greekes bereft As he was leaping from his ship yet were his men vnleft Without a Chiefe for though they wisht to haue no other man But good Protesilay their guide Podarces yet began To gouerne them Iphitis sonne the sonne of Philacus Most rich in sheepe and brother to short-liu'd Protesilaus Of yonger birth lesse and lesse strong yet seru'd he to direct The companies that still did more their ancient Duke affect Twise twentie Iettie sailes with him the swelling streame did take Ships 40. But those that did in Pheres dwell at the Baebreian lake The Phereians and their towns In Baebe and in Glaphirâ⦠Iaolcus builded faire In thrise sixe ships to Pergamus did through the seas repaire With old Admetes tender sonne Eumelus whom he bred Eumelus captaine Of Alcest Pelius fairest child of all his femall seed Ships 11. The souldiers that before the siege Methones vales did hold The Methonians and their borderers Thaumaciae flowrie Melibae and Olison the cold Duke Philoctetes gouerned in darts of finest sleight Their chiefe Philoctetes left maimed at ãâã Seuen vessels in his charge conuaid their honorable freight By fiftie rowers in a barke most expext in the bow But he in sacred Lemnos lay brought miserably low By torment of an vlcer growne with Hydras poyson'd bloud Whose sting was such Greece left him there in most impatient moode Medon Oyleus base sonne captaine in Philoct place Yet thought they on him at his ship and chusde to leade his men Medon Oyleus bastard sonne brought forth to him by Rââ¦en From Thricce bleake Ithomens cliffes and haplesse Oechaly The Thriccians ãâã and ãâã whose captaines were ãâã and Machaon Eurites citie rul'd by him in wilfull tyranny In charge of Esculapius sonnes physition highly praisd Machaon Podalirius were thirtie vessels raisd Who neare Hiperias fountaine dwelt and in Ormenius Ships 30. The snowy tops of Titannus and in Asterius The Ormenians with their borderers Euemons sonne Euripilus did leade into the field Whose townes did fortie blacke-saild ships to that encounter yeeld Their captaine Euripilus Who Gyrton and Argissa held Orthen and Elons seate Ships 40. And chalkie Oloossine were led by Polypete ãâã with their borderers The issue of Perithous the sonne of Iupiter ãâã their chiefe and ãâã Ships 40. Him the Athenian Theseus friend Hypodamy did beare When he the bristled sauages did giue Ramnusia And draue them out of Pelius as farre as Ethica He came not single but with him Leonteus Corons sonne An arme of Mars and Corons life Ceneus seed begunne Twise twentie ships attended these Cuneus next did bring The Cyphians Enians Perabians From Cyphus twentie saile and two the Enians following And fierce Peraebi that about Dodones frozen mold Did plant their houses and the men that did the medowes hold Their chiefe Guneus Which Titoresius deckes with flowers and his sweet current leades Ships 22. Into the bright Peneius that hath the siluer heads Yet with his admirable streame doth not his waues commixe But glides aloft on it like oyle fortis the floud of Stix By which th' immortall Gods do sweare Teuthredons honor'd birth Prothous led the Magnets forth who neare the shadie earth The Magnets Prothous their chiefe Of Pelius and Peneion dwelt fortie reuengefull saile Did follow him these were the Dukes and Princes of auaile That came from Greece but now the man that ouershin'd them all Ships 40. Sing Muse and their most famous Steeds to my recitall call That both th' Atrides followed faire Pheretiedes The brauest mares did bring by much Eumelius manag'd these Eumelius had the best mares of the armie Swift of their feete as birds of wings both of one haire did shine Both of an age both of a height as measur'd by a line Whom siluer-bow'd Apollo bred in the Pierean meade Both slicke and daintie yet were both in warre of wondrous dread Great Aiax Telamon for strength past all the Peeres of warre Aiax Telamonius the strongest Greeke next Achillâ⦠While vext Achilles was away but he surpast him farre The horse that bore that faultlesse man were likewise past compare Yet lay he at the crookt-stern'd ships and furie was his fare Achilles the best horse For Atreus sonnes vngracious deed his men yet pleasd their hearts With throwing of the holed stone with hurling of their darts And shooting fairely on the shore Their horse at chariots fed On greatest parsly and on sedge that in the fens is bred His Princes tents their chariots held that richly couerd were His Princes amorous of their Chiefe walkt storming here and there About the host and scorn'd to fight their breaths as they did passe Before them flew as if a fire fed on the trembling grasse Earth vnder-gron'd their high raisd feet as when offended Ioue In Arime Tiphocus with ratling thunder droue Beneath the earth in Arime men say the graue is still Where thunder tomb'd Typhoeus and is a monstrous hill And as that thunder made earth grone so gron'd it as they past They trode with such hard-set-downe steps and so exceeding fast To Troy the rainbow-girded dame right heauie newes relates Iris to the Troians from Ioue From Ioue as all to Councell drew in Priams Pallace gates Resembling Priams sonne in voice Polytes swift of feet In trust whereof as Sentinell to see when from the fleet The Grecians sallied he was set vpon the loftie brow Of aged Esietes tombe and this did Iris show O Priam thou art alwaies pleasd with indiscreet aduise Iris to Priam. And fram'st thy life to times of peace when such a warre doth rise As threats ineuitable spoyle I neuer did behold Such and so mightie troupes of men who trample on the mold In number like Autumnus leaues or like the marine sand All ready round about the walles to vse a ruining hand Hector I therefore charge thee most this charge to vndertake A multitude remaine in Troy will fight for Priams sake Of other lands and languages let euerie leader then Bring forth well arm'd into the field his seuerall bands of men Strong Hector knew a deitie gaue charge to this assay Dismist the Councell straight like waues clusters to armes do sway The ports are all wide open set out rusht the troopes in swarmes Both horse and foote the citie rung with suddaine cryed alarmes A Columne stands without the towne that high his head doth raise ãâã tumulus A little distant in a plaine trod downe with diuers waies Which men do Batieia call but the immortals name Myrinnes famous sepulcher the wondrous actiue dame Here were th' Auxiliarie bands that came in Troyes defence Distinguisht vnder seuerall guides of speciall excellence The Duke of all the Troian power great helme-deckt Hector was Hector Generall of the Troians Which stood of many mightie men well skild in darts of brasse Aeneas
of commixed seed a goddesse with a man The catalogue of other captaines Anchises with the Queene of loue the troopes Dardanian Dardans and Aeneas their captainâ⦠Led to the field his louely Sire in Idas lower shade Begat him of sweet Cypridis he solely was not made Chiefe leader of the Dardan powers Antenors valiant sonnes Archilochus and Acamas were ioyn'd companions Archilocââ¦s Acamas Who in Zelia dwelt beneath the sacred foote of Ide That drinke of blacke Aesepus streame and wealth made full of pride The Aphnij Lycaons sonne whom Phoebus gaue his bow The Aphnij Pandarus their leader Prince Pandarus did leade to field Who Adrestinus owe Apesus citie Pitai and mount Tereies Adrestus and stout Amphius led who did their Sire displease Adrestians Their Chiefe Adrestus and Amphius Merops Percosius that exceld all Troy in heauenly skill Of futures-searching prophesie for much against his will His sonnes were agents in those armes whom since they disobeyd The Fates in letting slip their threds their hastie valures staid Who in Percotes Practius Arisbe did abide Percosians Sââ¦stians Abidens ãâã led by Asius Who Sestus and Abidus bred Hyrtacides did guide Prince Asius Hyrtacides that through great Selees force Brought from Arisba to that fight the great and fierie horse Pyleus and Hypothous the stout Pelasgians led The Pelasgians Their chiefe ãâã and ãâã Of them Larissas fruitfull soyle before had nourished These were Pelasgian Pithus sonnes sonne of Teutamidas The Thracian guides were Pyrous and valiant Acamas The Thracians Of all that the impetuous flood of Hellespont enclosd Their chiefe Pyrous ãâã Euphemus the Ciconian troopes in his command disposd Euphemus Capt. of the Ciconians Who from Trezenius Ceades right nobly did descend Pyrechmes did the Peons rule that crooked bowes do bend Pyrechmââ¦s Commander of the ãâã From Axius out of Amidon he had them in command From Axius whose most beautious streame still ãâã the land Pylemen with the well arm'd heart the Paphlagonians led PylemeÌ captain of the Paphlagonians From Enes where the race of mules fit for the plough is bred The men that broad Cytorus bounds and Sesamus enfold About Parthenius loftie floud in houses much extold From Cromna and Aegialus the men that armes did beare And Eurithymus situate high Pylemens soldiers were Epistrophus and Dius did the Halizonians guide ãâã their captaine Epistrophus and Dius Far-fetcht from Alybe where first the siluer mines were tride Chronius and Augur Eunomus the Mysians did command Who could not with his auguries the strength of death withstand The Mysians Eunomus and Cââ¦ronius But suffred it beneath the stroke of great Aeacides In Xanthus where he made more soules diue to the Stygian seas Phorcys and faire Ascanius the Phrygians brought to warre The ãâã Their Chiefes Phorcis and ãâã Well train'd for battell and were come out of Ascania farre With Methles and with Antiphus Pylemens sonnes did fight The men of Mezon whom the fenne Gygaea brought to light And those Maeonians that beneath the mountaine Tmolus sprong The ãâã Antiphus and Methles captaines The rude vnletterd Caribae that barbarous were of tongue Did vnder Naustes colours march and young Amphimachus Nomyons famous sonnes to whom the mountaine Phthirorus The ãâã and Milesians led by Amphimacus and Naustes That with the famous wood is crown'd Miletus Micales That hath so many loftie markes for men that loue the seas The crooked armes Meander bow'd with his so snakie flood Resign'd for conduct the choice youth of all their martiall brood The foole Amphimachus to field brought gold to be his wracke Proude-giââ¦lelike that doth euer beare her dowre vpon her backe Which wise Achilles markt slue him and tooke his gold in strife At Xanthus floud so little death did feare his golden life The Lycians whose Commanders were Sarpe don ãâã Sarpedon led the Lycians and Glaucus vnreprou'd From Lycia and the gulfie flood of Xanthus farre remou'd COMMENT ARIVS a ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. Sicut examina prodeunt apum frequentium c. In thu Simile Virgil vsing the like in imitation is preferd to Homer with what reason I pray you see Their ends are different Homer intending to expresse the infinite multitude of souldiers euerie where dispersing Virgil the diligence of builders Virgils Simile is this 1. Aeneid Qualis apes aestate noua per florea rura Exercet sub sole labor cum gentis adultos Educunt foetus aut cum liquentia mella Stipant dulci distendunt Nectare cellas Aut onera accipiunt venientum aut agmine facto Ignauum fucos pecus à praesepibus arcent Feruet opus redolent thymo fragrantia mella Now compare this with Homers but in my translation and iudge if to both their ends there be any such betternesse in Virgils but that the reuerence of the scholler due to the maister euen in these his maligners might well haue containd their lame censures of the Poeticall furie from these vnmannerlie and hatefull comparisons Especially since Virgil hath nothing of his owne but onely elocution his inuention matter and forme being all Homers which laid by a man that which he addeth is onelie the worke of a woman to netifie and polish Nor do I alas but the formost ranke of the most ancient and best learned that euer were come to the field for Homer hiding all other Poets vnder his ensigne hate not me then but them to whom before my booke I referre you But much the rather I insist on the sormer Simile for the word ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã cateruatim or confertim which is noted by Spondanus to containe all the ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã reddition or application of the comparison and is nothing so For though it be all the reddition Homer expresseth yet he intends two speciall parts in the application more which he leaues to his iudicial readers vnderstanding as he doth in all his other Similes since a man may peruially or as he passeth discerne all that is to be vnderstood And here besides the throngs of souldiers exprest in the swarmes of Bees he intimates the infinite number in those throngs or companies issuing from fleete so ceaslesly that there appeared almost no end of their issue and thirdly the euerie where dispersing themselues But Spondanus would excuse Homer for expressing no more of his application with affirming it impossible that the thing compared and the comparison should answer in all parts and therefore alledges the vulgar vnderstanding of a Simile which is as grosse as it is vulgar that a similitude must vno pede semper claudicare His reason for it as absurd as the rest which is this si ea inter se omnino respoÌderent falleret illud axioma nullum simile est idem as though the generall application of the compared and the comparison would make them any thing more the same or all
Menelaus for vs all for Hellen and her right With all the dowre she brought to Troy and he that wins the day Or is in all the art of armes superiour any way The Queene and all her sorts of wealth let him at will enioy The rest strike truce and let loue seale firme leagues twixt Greece and Troy The Greââ¦ke host wondred at this Braue silence flew euery where At last spake Spartas warlike king Now also giue me eare Menelaus ââ¦o both the armies Whom griefe giues most cause of replie I now haue hope to free The Greekes and Troians of all ils they haue sustaind for me And Alexander that was cause I stretcht my spleââ¦e so farre Of both then which is nearest fate let his death end the warre The rest immediatly retire and greet all homes in peace Go then to blesse your champion and giue his powers successe Fetch for the Earth and for the Sunne the Gods on whom ye call Two lambes a blacke one and a white a femall and a male And we another for our selues will fetch and kill to Ioue To signe which rites bring ãâã force because we well approue His sonnes perfidious enuious and out of practisd bane To faith when she beleeues in them Ioues high truce may prophane All yong mens hearts are still vnstaid but in those wel-weigh'd deeds An old man will consent to passe things past and what succeeds He lookes into that he may know ââ¦ow best to make his way Through both the fortunes of a fact and will the worst obay This granted A delightfull hope both Greekes and Troians fed Of long'd for rest from those long toyles their tedious warre had bred Their horses then in ranke they set drawne from their chariots round Descend themselues tooke off their armes and plac't them on the ground Neare one another for the space twixt both the hosts wââ¦s small Hector two heralds sent to Troy that they from thence might call Hector sendeth for Priam. King Priam and to bring the lambes to rate the truce they swore But Agamemnon to the fleet Talthibius sent before To fetch their lambe who nothing slackt the royall charge was giuen a Iris the raine-bow then came downe Ambassadresââ¦e from heauen Iris to Hââ¦llen To white-arm'd Hellen she assum'd at euery part the grace Of Hellens last loues sisters shape who had the highest place In Hellens loue and had to name Laodice most faire Of all the daughters Priam had and made the nuptiall paire With Helicaon royall sproute of old Antenors seed She found Queene Hellena at home at worke about a weed Wou'n for her selfe it shin'd like fite was rich and full of sise The worke of both sides being alike in which she did comprise The many labors warlike Troy and brasse-arm'd Greece endur'd For her faire sake by cruell Mars and his sterne friends procur'd Iris came in in ioyfull haste and said O come with me Lou'd Nymph and an admired sight oâ⦠Greekes and Troians see Who first on one another brought a warre so full of teares Euen thirstie of contentious warre now euerie man forbeares And friendly by each other sits each leaning on his shield Their long and shining lances pitcht fast by them in the field Paris and Spartas king alone must take vp all the strife And he that conquers onely call faire Hellena his wife Thus spake the thousand colour'd Dame and to her mind commends The ioy to see her first espousd her natiue tow'rs and friends ââ¦ellens ãâã to see her first husband friends Which stir'd a sweet desire in her to serue the which she hi'd Shadowed her graces with white veiles and though she tooke a pride To set her thoughts at gaze and see in her cleare beauties flood What choice of glorie swum to her yet tender womanhood Season'd with teares her ioyes to see more ioyes the more offence And that perfection could not flow from earthly excellence Thus went she forth and tooke with her her women most of name Aethra Pitthââ¦us louely birth and Clymene whom fame Hath for her faire eyes memorisd They reacht the Scaean towrs Where Priam sat to see the fight with all his Counsellours Panthous Lampus Clââ¦tius and stout Hycetaon Thimââ¦tes wise Antenor and profound Vealegââ¦n All graue old men and souldiers they had bene but for age Now ãâã the warres yet Counsellors they were exceeding sage Old men and their weake ãâã most ãâã compared to Grashoppers and their ãâã And as in well-growne woods on trees cold spinie Grashoppers Sit chirping and send voices out that scarce can pierce our eares b For softnesse and their weake faint sounds So talking on the towre These Seniors of the people sate who when they ââ¦aw the powre Of beauty in the Queene ascend even those cold-spirited Peeres Those wise and almost witherd men found this heate in their yeeres Hellens beautie moves even ââ¦he oldest That they were forc't though whispering to say what man can blame The Greeekes and Trojans to indure for so admir'd a Dame So many miseries and so long In her sweet countenance shine Lookes like the Goddesses and yet though never so divine Before we boast uniustly still of her enforced prise And iustly suffer for her sake with all our progenies Labour and ruine let her goe the profit of our land Must passe the beauty Thus though these could beare so fit a hand On their affections yet when all their gravest powers were usde They could not chuse but welcome her and rather they accusde The gods then beauty for thus spake the most fam'd King of Troy Priam cals Hellen to informe him of the Greek Princes Come loved daughter sit by me and take the worthy ioy Of thy first husbands sight old friends and Princes neare allyed And name me some of these brave Greekes so manly beautified Come doe not thinke I lay the warres endur'd by us on thee The gods have sent them and the teares in which they swumme to me Sit then and name this goodly Greeke so tall and broadly spred Who then the rest that stand by him is higher by the head The bravest man I ever saw and most maiesticall His onely presence makes me thinke him King amongst them all The fairest of her sexe replyed Most reverend fath'r in law Hellen to Priam Most lov'd most fear'd would some ill death had seisd me when I saw The first meane why I wrong'd you thus that I had never lost The sight of these my ancient friends of him that lov'd me most Of my sole daughter brothers both with all those kindely mates Of one soyle one age borne with me though under different fates But these boones envious starres deny the memory of these In sorrow pines those beauties now that then did too much please Nor satisfie they your demand to which I thus reply That 's Agamemnon Atreus sonne the great in ãâã A King whom double royaltie doth crowne being great and good And
Minerua seekes with more offences done Against the lately iniur'd Atreus sonne A ground that clearest would make sene their sinne To haue the Lycian Pandarus beginne He gainst the Truce with sacred couenants bound Giues Menelaus a dishonour'd wound Machaon heales him Agamemnon then To mortall warre incenseth all his men The battels ioyne and in the heate of fight Cold death shuts many eyes in endlesse night Another Argument In Delta is the Gods Assise The Truce is broke warres freshly rise WIthin the faire-pau'd Court of Ioue he and the Gods conferd About the sad euents of Troy amongst whom ministerd The Gods in Counsel at Ioues Court. Blest Hebe Nectar As they sate and did Troyes towres behold They drank and pledg'd each other round in full crownd cups of gold Hebe fils Nectar The mirth at whose feast was begun by great Saturnides In vrging a begun dislike amongst the Goddesses But chiefly in his solemne Queene whose splene he was disposd To tempt yet further knowing well what anger it inclosd And how wiues angers should be vsd On which thus pleasd he playd Two Goddesses there are that still giue Menelaus ayd And one that Paris loues The two that sit from vs so farre Ioues mirth with his wife daughter Pallas Which Argiue Iuno is and she that rules in deeds of warre No doubt are pleasd to see how well the late-seene-fight did frame And yet vpon the aduerse part the laughter-louing Dame Made her powre good too for her friend For though he were so neare The stroke of death in th 'others hopes she tooke him from them cleare The conquest yet is questionlesse the martiall Spartan kings We must consult then what euents shall crowne these future things If warres and combats we shall still with euen successes strike Or as impartiall friendship plant on both parts If ye like The last and that it will as well delight as meerely please Your happie Deities still let stand old Priams towne in peace And let the Lacedaemon king againe his Queene enioy As Pallas and heauens Queene sat close complotting ill to Troy With silent murmures they receiu'd this ill-lik't choice from Ioue Gainst whom was Pallas much incenst because the Queenâ⦠of Loue Could not without his leaue relieue in that late point of death The sonne of Priam whom she loath'd her wrath yet fought beneath Her supreme wisedome and was curb'd but Iuno needs must ease Her great heart with her readie tongue and said What words are these Iuno angry with Iupiter Austere and too much Saturns sonne why wouldst thou render still My labours idle and the sweat of my industrious will Dishonor with so little power My chariot horse are tir'd With posting to and fro for Greece and bringing banes desir'd To people-mustring Priamus and his perfidious sonnes Yet thou protectst and ioynst with them whom each iust Deitie shuns Go on but euer go resolu'd all other Gods haue vow'd To crosse thy partiall course for Troy in all that makes it proud Iupiter to Iuno At this the cloud-compelling Ioue a farre fetcht sight let flie And said Thou Furie what offence of such impietie Hath Priam or his sonnes done thee that with so high a hate Thou shouldst thus ceaslesly desire to raze and ruinate So well a builded towne as Troy I thinke hadst thou the powre Thou wouldst the ports and farre-stretcht wals flie ouer and deuoure Old Priam and his issue quicke and make all Troy thy feast And then at length I hope thy wrath and tired spleene would rest To which run on thy chariot that nought be found in me Of iust cause to our future iarres In this yet strengthen thee And fixe it in thy memorie fast that if I entertaine As peremptorie a desire to leuell with the plaine A citie where thy loued liue stand not betwixt my ire And what it aimes at but giue way when thou hast thy desire Which now I grant thee willingly although against my will For not beneath the ample Sunne and heauens starre-bearing hill Troy most loued of Iupiter of all other cities There is a towne of earthly men so honour'd in my mind As sacred Troy nor of earths kings as Priam and his kind Who neuer let my altars lacke rich feast of offrings slaine And their sweet sauours for which grace I honor them againe Drad Iuno with the Cowes faire eyes replyed Three townes there are Three cities deare to Iuno Of great and eminent respect both in my loue and care Mycena with the brode high waies and Argos rich in horse And Sparta all which three destroy when thou enui'st their force I will not aid them nor maligne thy free and soueraigne will For if I should be enuious and set against their ill I know my enuie were in vaine since thou art mightier farre But we must giue each other leaue and winke at eithers warre Her deadly hate to Troy I likewise must haue powre to crowne my workes with wished end Because I am a Deitie and did from thence descend Whence thou thy selfe and th' elder borne wise Saturne was our Sire And thus there is a two-fold cause that pleads for my desire Being sister and am cald thy wife And more since thy command Rules all Gods else I claime therein a like superiour hand All wrath before then now remit and mutually combine In eithers Empire I thy rule and thou illustrate mine So will the other Gods agree and we shall all be strong And first for this late plot with speed let Pallas go among The Troians and some one of them entice to breake the truce By offering in some treacherous wound the honourd Greekes abuse The Father both of men and Gods agreed and Pallas sent With these wing'd words to both the hosts Make all haste and inuent Iupiter to Pallas Some meane by which the men of Troy against the truce agreed May stirre the glorious Greekes to armes with some inglorious deed Thus charg'd he her with haste that did before in hast abound Who cast her selfe from all the heights with which steepe heauen is crownd Pallas fals from heauen like a Comet And as Ioue brandishing a starre which men a Comet call Hurls out his curled haire abrode that from his brand exhals A thousand sparkes to fleets at sea and euerie mightie host Of all presages and ill haps a signe mistrusted most So Pallas fell twixt both the Camps and sodainly was lost When through the breasts of all that saw she strooke a strong amaze With viewing in her whole descent her bright and ominous blaze When straight one to another turn'd and said Now thundring ãâã Great Arbiter of peace and armes will either stablish loue Amongst our nations or renue such warre as neuer was Thus either armie did presage when Pallas made her passe Amongst the multitude of Troy who now put on the grace Of braue Laodocus the flowre of old Antenors race And sought for
foule disgrace Lodg'd ambuscados for their foe in some well chosen place By which he was to make returne Twise fiue and twentie men And two of them great captaines too the ambush did containe The names of those two men of rule were Mââ¦on Hââ¦mons sonne And Lycophontes Keepe-field cald the heire of Autophon By all men honord like the Gods yet these and all their friends Were sent to hell by Tydeus hand and had vntimely ends He trusting to the aid of Gods reueald by Augurie Obeying which one Chiefe he sau'd and did his life apply To be the heauie messenger of all the others deaths And that sad message with his life to Maeon he bequeaths So braue a knight was Tydeus of whom a sonne is sprong Inferiour farre in martiall deeds though higher in his tongue All this Tydides silent heard aw'd by the reuerend king Which stung hote Sthenelus with wrath who thus put forth his sting Atrides when thou know'st the truth speake what thy knowledge is And do not lie so for I know and I will bragge in this Sthenelus rough speech to Agamemnon That we are farre more able men then both our fathers were We tooke the seuen-fold ported Thebes when yet we had not there So great helpe as our fathers had and fought beneath a wall Sacred to Mars by helpe of Ioue and trusting to the fall Of happie signes from other Gods by whom we tooke the towne Vntoucht our fathers perishing there by sollies of their owne And therefore neuer more compare our fathers worth with ours Tydides frownd at this and said Suppresse thine angers pow'rs Good friend and heare why I refrain'd thou seest I am not mou'd Diomed rebukââ¦s Stheneââ¦s Against our Generall since he did but what his place behou'd Admonishing all Greekes to fight for if Troy proue our prise The honor and the ioy is his If here our ruine lies The shame and griefe for that as muââ¦h is his in greatest kinds As he then his charge weigh we ours which is our dantlesse minds Thus from his chariot amply arm'd he iumpt downe to the ground The armor of the angrie king so horribly did sound It might haue made his brauest foe let feare take downe his braues And as when with the West-wind flawes the sea thrusts vp her waues Simile One after other thicke and high vpon the groning shores First in her selfe lowd but opposd with banks and Rocks she ââ¦ores And all her backe in bristles set spits euerie way her some So after Diomed instantly the field was ouercome With thicke impressions of the Greekes and all the noise that grew The silence of the Greeke fight Ordring and chearing vp their men from onely leaders flew The rest went silently away you could not heare a voice Nor would haue thought in all their breasts they had one in their choice Their silence vttering their awe of them that them contrould Which made ech man keep bright his arms march fight still where he should The Troians like a sort of Ewes pend in a rich mans fold The Troians coÌpared to Ewââ¦s Close at his dore till all be milkt and neuer baaing hold Hearing the bleating of their lambs did all their wide host fill With showts and clamors nor obseru'd one voice one baaing still But shew'd mixt tongs from many a land of men cald to their aid Rude Mars had th'ordring of their spirits of Greeks the learned Maid Mars for the Troians Pallas for the Greekes But Terror follow'd both the hosts and flight and furious Strife The sister and the mate of Mars that spoile of humane life Discord the sistââ¦r of Marâ⦠And neuer is her rage at rest at first she is but small Yet after but a little fed she growes so vast and tall Virgil the same of ââ¦ame That while her feet moue here in earth her forhead is in heauen And this was she that made euen then both hosts so deadly giuen Through euery troope she stalkt and stird rough sighes vp as she went But when in one field both the foes her furie did content And both came vnder reach of darts then darts and shields opposd To darts and shields strength answerd strength then swords and targets closd With swords and targets both with pikes and then did tumult rise Vp to her height then conquerors boasts mixt with the conquerds cries Earth flow'd with blood And as from hils raine waters headlong fall That all waies eate huge Ruts which met in one bed fill a vall With such a confluence of streames that on the mountaine grounds Farre off in frighted shepheards eares the bustling noise rebounds So grew their conflicts and so shew'd their scuffling to the eare With flight and clamor still commixt and all effects of feare And first renowm'd Antilochus slew fighting in the face Antilocââ¦us slue ãâã Of all Achaias formost bands with an vndanted grace Echepolus Thalysiades he was an armed man Whom on his haire-plum'd helmets crest the dart first smote then ran Into his forehead and there stucke the steele pile making way Quite through his skull a hastie night shut vp his latest day His fall was like a fight-rac't towre like which lying their dispred King Elephenor who was sonne to Chalcodon and led The valiant Abants couetous that he might first possesse His armes laid hands vpon his feet hal'd him from the preasse Of darts and Iauelins hurld at him The action of the king Elephenor drawing of the body of Echepolus is slaine by Agenor When great in heart Agenor saw he made his Iaueline sing To th 'others labor and along as he the trunke did wrest His side at which he bore his shield in bowing of his breast Lay naked and receiu'd the lance that made him lose his hold And life together which in hope of that he lost he sold. But for his sake the fight grew fierce the Troians and their foe Like wolues on one another rusht and maâ⦠for man it goes The next of name that seru'd his fate great Aiax Telamoâ⦠ãâã slaies Siâ⦠Preferd so sadly he was heire to old Anthemion And deckt with all the flowre of youth the fruit of which yet fled Before the honourd nuptiall torch could light him to his bed His name was Symoisius For some few yeares before His mother walking downe the hill of Ida by the shore Of Syluer Symois to see her parents ââ¦locks with them She feeling sodainely the paines of child-birth by the streame Of that bright riuer brought him forth and so of Symois They cald him Symoisius Sweet was that birth of his To his kind parents and his growth did all their care employ And yet those rites of pietie that should haue bene his ioy To pay their honourd yeares againe in as affectionate sort He could not graciously performe his sweet life was so short Cut off with mightie Aiax lance For as his spirit put on He strooke him at his breasts right
to the sons of Priam. Euen till they braue ye at your gates Ye suffer beaten downe Aeneas great Anchises sonne whose prowesse we renowne As much as Hectors fetch him off from this contentious prease With this the strength and spirits of all his courage did increase And yet Sarpedon seconds him with this particular taunt Sarpedon reproues Hector Of noble Hector Hector where is thy vnthanfull vaunt And that huge strength on which it built that thou and thy allies With all thy brothers without aid of vs or our supplies And troubling not a citizen the Citie safe would hold In all which friends and brothers helps I see not nor am told Of any one of their exploits but all held in dismay Of Diomed like a sort of dogs that at a Lion bay And entertaine no spirit to pinch we your assistants here Fight for the towne as you helpt vs and I an aiding Peere No Citizen euen out of care that doth become a man For men and childrens liberties adde all the aide I can Not out of my particular cause far hence my profit growes For far hence Asian Lycia lies where gulfie Xanthus flowes And where my lou'd wife infant sonne and treasure nothing scant I left behind me which I see those men would haue that want And therefore they that haue would keepe yet I as I would lose Their sure fruition cheere my troupes and with their liues propose Mine owne life both to generall fight and to particular cope With this great souldier though I say I entertaine no hope To haue such gettings as the Greeks nor feare to lose like Troy Yet thou euen Hector deedlesse standst and car'st not to employ Thy towne-borne friends to bid them stand to fight and saue their wiues Lest as a Fowler casts his nets vpon the silly liues Of birds of all sorts so the foe your walls and houses hales One with another on all heads or such as scape their fals Be made the prey and prize of them as willing ouerthrowne That hope not for you with their force and so this braue-built towne Will proue a Chaos that deserues in thee so hote a care As should consume thy dayes and nights to hearten and prepare Th' assistant Princes pray their minds to beare their far-brought toiles To giue them worth with worthy fight in victories and foiles Still to be equall and thy selfe exampling them in all Need no reproofes nor spurs all this in thy free choice should fall This stung great Hectors heart and yet as euery generous mind Should silent beare a iust reproofe and shew what good they find In worthy counsels by their ends put into present deeds Not stomacke nor be vainly sham'd so Hectors spirit proceeds And from his Chariot wholly arm'd he iumpt vpon the sand On foote so toiling through the hoast a dart in either hand And all hands turn'd against the Greeks the Greeks despisde their worst And thickning their instructed powres expected all they durst Then with the feet of horse and foote the dust in clouds did rise And as in sacred floores of barnes vpon corne-winowers flies The chaffe driuen with an opposite wind when yellow Ceres dites Simile ãâã the husband man expressing ââ¦bly Which all the Diters feet legs armes their heads and shoulders whites So lookt the Grecians gray with dust that strooke the solide heauen Raisd from returning chariots and troupes together driuen Each side stood to their labours firme fierce Mars flew through the aire And gatherd darknesse from the fight and with his best affaire Obeyd the pleasure of the Sunne that weares the golden sword Who bad him raise the spirits of Troy when Pallas ceast t' afford Her helping office to the Greeks and then his owne hands wrought Apollo brings Aeneas from his Temple to field cured Which from his Phanes rich chancell cur'd the true Aeneas brought And plac't him by his Peeres in field who did with ioy admire To see him both aliue and safe and all his powers entire Yet stood not sifting how it chanc't another sort of taske Then stirring th' idle siue of newes did all their forces aske Inflam'd by Phaebus harmfull Mars and Eris eagrer farre The Greekes had none to hearten them their hearts rose with the warre But chiefly Diomed Ithacus and both th' Aiaces vsde Stirring examples and good words their owne fames had infusde Spirit enough into their blouds to make them neither feare The Troians force nor Fate it selfe but still expecting were When most was done what would be more their ground they stil made good And in their silence and set powers like faire still clouds they stood Simile With which Ioue crownes the tops of hils in any quiet day When Boreas and the ruder winds that vse to driue away Aires duskie vapors being loose in many a whistling gale Are pleasingly bound vp and calme and not a breath exhale So firmely stood the Greeks nor fled for all the Ilions ayd Atrides yet coasts through the troupes confirming men so stayd O friends said he hold vp your minds strength is but strength of will Reuerence each others good in fight and shame at things done ill Where souldiers shew an honest shame and loue of honour liues That ranks men with the first in fight death fewer liueries giues Then life or then where Fames neglect makes cow-herds fight at length Flight neither doth the bodie grace nor shewes the mind hath strength He said and swiftly through the troupes a mortall Lance did send That reft a standard-bearers life renownd Aeneas friend Deicoon Pergasides whom all the Troians lou'd Pergasides slain by Agamemnon As he were one of Priams sonnes his mind was so approu'd In alwayes fighting with the first the Lance his target tooke Which could not interrupt the blow that through it cleerly strooke And in his bellies rimme was sheath'd beneath his girdle-stead He sounded falling and his armes with him resounded dead Then fell two Princes of the Greeks by great Aeneas ire Orsilochus and Crethon slain by Aeneas Diocleus sonnes Orsilochus and Crethon whose kind Sire In brauely-builded Phaera dwelt rich and of sacred bloud He was descended lineally from great Alphaus floud That broadly flowes through Pylos fields Alphaeus did beget The pedigree of Orsilochus Orsilochus who in the rule of many men was set And that Orsilochus begat the rich Diocleus Diocleus sire to Crethon was and this Orsilochus Both these arriu'd at mans estate with both th' Atrides went To honor them in th' Ilton warres and both were one way sent To death as well as Troy for death hid both in one blacke houre As two yong Lions with their dam sustaind but to deuoure Simile Bred on the tops of some steepe hill and in the gloomie deepe Of an inaccessible wood rush out and prey on sheepe Steeres Oxen and destroy mens stals so long that they come short And by the Owners steele are slaine in such vnhappie
sort Fell these beneath Aeneas powre When Menelaus view'd Like two tall fir-trees these two fall their timelesse fals he rew'd And to the first fight where they lay a vengefull force he tooke His armes beat backe the Sunne in flames a dreadfull Lance he shooke Mars put the furie in his mind that by Aeneas hands Who was to make the slaughter good he might haue strewd the sands Antilochus voluntary care of Menelaus and their charge of Aeneas Antilochus old Nestors sonne obseruing he was bent To vrge a combat of such ods and knowing the euent Being ill on his part all their paines alone sustaind for him Er'd from their end made after hard and tooke them in the trim Of an encounter both their hands and darts aduanc't and shooke And both pitcht in full stand of charge when suddenly the looke Of Anchisiades tooke note of Nestors valiant sonne In full charge too which two to one made Venus issue shunne The hote aduenture though he were a souldier well approu'd Then drew they off their slaughterd friends who giuen to their belou'd They turnd where fight shewd deadliest hate and there mixt with the dead Pylemen that the targatiers of Paphlagonia led A man like Mars and with him fell good Mydon that did guide His chariot Atymnus sonne The Prince Pylemen died Menelaus slayes Pylemen By Menelaus Nestors ioy slue Mydon one before The other in the chariot Atrides lance did gore Pylemens shoulder in the blade Antilochus did force A mightie stone vp from the earth and as he turnd his horse Antilochus slayes Myden Strooke Mydons elbow in the midst the reines of Iuorie Fell from his hands into the dust Antilochus let flie His sword withall and rushing in a blow so deadly layd Vpon his temples that he gron'd tumbl'd to earth and stayd A mightie while preposterously because the dust was deepe Vpon his necke and shoulders there euen till his foe tooke keepe Of his prisde horse and made them stirre and then he prostrate fell His horse Antilochus tooke home When Hector had heard tell Hectors manner of assault Amongst the vprore of their deaths he laid out all his voice And ran vpon the Greeks behind came many men of choice Before him marcht great Mars himselfe matcht with his femall mate The drad Bellona she brought on to fight for mutuall Fate A tumult that was wilde and mad he shooke a horrid Lance And now led Hector and anon behind would make the chance This sight when great Tydides saw his haire stood vp on end And him whom all the skill and powre of armes did late attend Now like a man in counsell poore that trauelling goes amisse Simile And hauing past a boundlesse plaine not knowing where he is Comes on the sodaine where he sees a riuer rough and raues With his owne billowes rauished into the king of waues Murmurs with fome and frights him backe so he amazd retirde And thus would make good his amaze O friends we all admirde Great Hector as one of himselfe well-darting bold in warre When some God guards him still from death and makes him dare so farre Now Mars himselfe formd like a man is present in his rage And therefore whatsoeuer cause importunes you to wage Warre with these Troians neuer striue but gently take your rod Lest in your bosomes for a man ye euer find a God As Greece retirde the power of Troy did much more forward prease And Hector two braue men of warre sent to the fields of peace Hector slaughters Menesthes and Anchialus Aiax slayes Amphius Selagâ⦠Menesthes and Anchialus one chariot bare them both Their fals made Aiax Telamon ruthfull of heart and wroth Who lightned out a lance that smote Amphius Selages That dwelt in Paedos rich in lands and did huge goods possesse But Fate to Priam and his sonnes conducted his supply The Iauelin on his girdle strooke and pierced mortally His bellies lower part he fell his armes had lookes so trim That Aiax needs would proue their spoile the Troians powrd on him Whole stormes of Lances large and sharpe of which a number stucke In his rough shield yet from the slaine he did his Iauelin plucke But could not from his shoulders force the armes he did affect The Troians with such drifts of Darts the body did protect And wisely Telamonius fear'd their valorous defence So many and so strong of hand stood in with such expence Of deadly prowesse who repeld though big strong bold he were The famous Aiax and their friend did from his rapture beare Thus this place fild with strength of fight in th' armies other prease Tlepolemus a tall big man the sonne of Hercules A cruell destinie inspir'd with strong desire to proue Encounter with Sarpedons strength the sonne of Cloudy Ioue Who coming on to that sterne end had chosen him his foe Thus Ioues great Nephew and his sonne 'gainst one another go Ioues son Sarpedon and Tlepodemus his nephew son to Hercules draw to encounter Tlepodemus to Sarpedon Tlepolemus to make his end more worth the will of Fate Began as if he had her powre and shewd the mortall state Of too much confidence in man with this superfluous Braue Sarpedon what necessitie or needlesse humor draue Thy forme to these warres which in heart I know thou doest adhorre A man not seene in deeds of armes a Lycian counsellor They lie that call thee sonne to Ioue since Ioue bred none so late The men of elder times were they that his high powre begat Such men as had Herculean force my father Hercules Was Ioues true issue he was bold his deeds did well expresse They sprung out of a Lions heart he whilome came to Troy For horse that Iupiter gaue Tros for Ganimed his boy With sixe ships onely and few men and tore the Citie downe Left all her broad wayes desolate and made the horse his owne For thee thy mind is ill disposde thy bodies powers are poore And therefore are thy troopes so weake the souldier euermore Followes the temper of his chiefe and thou pull'st downe a side But say thou art the sonne of Ioue and hast thy meanes supplide With forces fitting his descent the powers that I compell Shall throw thee hence and make thy head run ope the gaââ¦es of bââ¦ll Ioues Lycian issue answerd him Tlepolemus t is true Sarpedon to ãâã Thy father holy Ilion in that sort ouerthrew Th' iniustice of the king was cause that where thy father had Vsde good deseruings to his state he quitted him with bad Hesyone the ioy and grace of king Laomedon Thy father rescude from a whale and gaue to Telamon In honourd Nuptials Telamon from whom your strongest Greeke Boasts to haue issude and this grace might well expect the like Yet he gaue taunts for thanks and kept against his oath his horse And therefore both thy fathers strength and iustice might enforce The wreake he tooke on Troy but this and
thy cause differ farre Sonnes seldome heire their fathers worths thou canst not make his warre What thou assum'st from him is mine to be on thee imposde With this he threw an ashen dart and then Tlepolemus losde Another from his glorious hand Both at one instant flew Both strooke both wounded from his necke Sarpedons Iauelin drew Sarpedon slaugh ters ãâã The life-bloud of Tlepolemus full in the midst it fell And what he threatned th' other gaue that darknesse and that hell Sarpedons left thigh tooke the Lance it pierc't the solide bone ââ¦imselfe sore hurt by Tââ¦epolemus And with his raging head ranne through but Ioue preseru'd his sonne The dart yet vext him bitterly which should haue bene puld out But none considerd then so much so thicke came on the rout And fild each hand so full of cause to plie his owne defence T was held enough both falne that both were nobly caried thence Vlysses knew the euents of both and tooke it much to hart That his friends enemie should scape and in a twofold part His thoughts contended if he should pursue Sarpedons life Or take his friends wreake on his men Fate did conclude this strife By whom t was otherwise decreed then that Vlysses steele Vlysses ãâã Should end Sarpedon In this doubt Minerua tooke the wheele From fickle Chance and made his mind resolue to right his friend With that bloud he could surest draw Then did Reuenge extend Her full powre on the multitude Then did he neuer misse Alastor Halius Chromius Noemon Pritanis Alcander and a number more he slue and more had slaine If Hector had not vnderstood whose powre made in amaine And strooke feare through the Grecian troupes but to Sarpedon gaue Hope of full rescue who thus cried O Hector helpe and saue Sarpedon to Hector My body from the spoile of Greece that to your loued towne My friends may see me borne and then let earth possesse her owne In this soyle for whose sake I left my countries for no day Shall euer shew me that againe nor to my wife display And yong hope of my Name the ioy of my much thirsted sight All which I left for Troy for them let Troy then do this right To all this Hector giues no word but greedily he striues With all speed to repell the Greekes and shed in floods their liues And left Sarpedon but what face soeuer he put on Of following the common cause he left this Prince alone For his particular grudge because so late he was so plaine In his reproofe before the host and that did he retaine How euer for example sake he would not shew it then And for his shame to since t was iust But good Sarpedons men Venturd themselues and forc't him off and set him vnderneath The goodly Beech of Iupiter where now they did vnsheath The Ashen lance strong Pelagon his friend most lou'd most true Enforc't it from his maimed thigh with which his spirit flew Sarpedon in a trance And darknesse ouer-flew his eyes yet with a gentle gale That round about the dying Prince coole Boreas did exhale He was reuiu'd recomforted that else had grieu'd and dyed All this time flight draue to the fleet the Argiues who applyed No weapon gainst the proud pursuite nor euer turnd a head They knew so well that Mars pursude and dreadfull Hector led Then who was first who last whose liues the Iron Mars did seise And Priams Hector Helenus surnam'd Oenopides Good ãâã and Orestes skild in managing of horse Bold Oenomaus and a man renownd for martiall force Trechus the great Aetolian Chiefe Oresbius that did weare The gawdy Myter studied wealth extremely and dwelt neare Th' Athlantique lake Cephisides in Hyla by whose seate The good men of Boeotia dwelt This slaughter grew so great It flew to heauen Saturnia discernd it and cried out To Pallas O vnworthy sight to see a field so fought And breake our words to Spartas king that Ilion should be rac'â⦠And he returne reueng'd when thus we see his Greekes disgrac't And beare the harmfull rage of Mars Come let vs vse our care That we dishonor not our powers Minerua was as yare As she at the despight of Troy Her golden-bridl'd steeds Then Saturns daughter brought abrode and Hebe she proceeds T' addresse her chariot instantly she giues it either wheele Beam'd with eight Spokes of sounding brasse the Axle-tree was steele ãâã chariot The Felffes incorruptible gold their vpper bands of brasse Their matter most vnuallued their worke of wondrous grace The Naues in which the Spokes were driuen were all with siluer bound The chariots seate two hoopes of gold and siluer strengthned round Edg'd with a gold and siluer fringe the beame that lookt before Was massie siluer on whose top geres all of gold it wore And golden Poitrils Iââ¦no mounts and her hoââ¦e horses rein'd That thirsted for contention and still of peace complaind Minerua wrapt her in the robe that curiously she woue With glorious colours as she sate on th' Azure floore of Ioue Pallas armed And wore the armes that he puts on bent to the tearefull field About her brode-spred shoulders hung his huge and horrid shield Aegis Ioââ¦es ââ¦ield described Fring'd round with euer-fighting Snakes through it was drawne to life The miseries and deaths of fight in it frownd bloodie Strife In it shin'd sacred Fortitude in it fell Pursuit flew In it the monster Gorgons head in which held out to view Were all the dire ostents of Ioue on her big head she plac't His foure-plum'd glittering caske of gold so admirably vast It would a hundred garrisons of souldiers comprehend Then to her shining chariot her vigorous feet ascend And in her violent hand she takes his graue huge solid lance With which the conquests of her wrath she vseth to aduance And ouerturne whole fields of men to shew she was the seed Of him that thunders Then heauens Queene to vrge her horses speed The thrââ¦e Howââ¦s Guardians of heauen gates Takes vp the scourge and forth they flie the ample gates of heauen Rung and flew open of themselues the charge whereof is giuen With all Olympus and the skie to the distinguisht Howres That cleare or hide it all in clowds or powre it downe in showres This way their scourge-obeying horse made haste and soone they wonne The top of all the topfull heauens where aged Saturns sonne Sate seuerd from the other Gods then staid the white-arm'd Queene Her steeds and askt of Ioue if Mars did not incense his spleene With his foule deeds in ruining so many and so great In the Command and grace of Greece and in so rude a heate At which she said Apollo laught and Venus who still sue To that mad God for violence that neuer iustice knew For whose impietie she askt if with his wished loue Her selfe might free the field of him He bade her rather moue Athenia to the charge she sought who vsd
out for Priams fiftie sonnes And for as faire sort of their wiues and in the opposite view Twelue lodgings of like stone like height were likewise built arew Where with their faire and vertuous wiues twelue Princes sons in law To honourable Priam lay And here met Hecubâ⦠The louing mother her great sonne and with her needs must be The fairest of her femall race the bright Laodice ãâã to Hector The Queene grip't hard her Hectors hand and said O worthiest sonne Why leau'st thou field is' t not because the cursed nation Afflict our countrimen and friends they are their mones that moue Thy mind to come and lift thy hands in his high towre to Ioue But stay a little that my selfe may fetch our sweetest wine To offer first to Iupiter then that these ioynts of thine May be refresht for wo is me how thou art toyld and spent Thou for our cities generall state thou for our friends farre sent Must now the preasse of fight endure now solitude to call Vpon the name of Iupiter thou onely for vs all But wine will something comfort thee for to a man dismaid With carefull spirits or too much with labour ouerlaid Wine brings much rescue strengthning much the bodie and the mind The great Helme-mouer thus receiu'd the authresse of his kind Hector to ãâã My royall mother bring no wine lest rather it impaire Then helpe my strength and make my mind forgetfull of th' affaire Committed to it And to poure it out in sacrifice I feare with vnwasht hands to serue the pure-liu'd Deities Nor is it lawfull thus imbrew'd with blood and dust to proue The will of heauen or offer vowes to clowd-compelling Ioue I onely come to vse your paines assembling other Dames Matrons and women honourd most with high and vertuous names With wine and odors and a robe most ample most of price And which is dearest in your loue to offer sacrifice In Pallas temple and to put the precious robe ye beare On her Palladium vowing all twelue Oxen of a yeare Whose necks were neuer wrung with yoke shall pay her Grace their liues If she will pittie our sieg'd towne pittie our selues our wiues Pittie our children and remoue from sacred Ilion The dreadfull souldier Diomed and when your selues are gone About this worke my selfe will go to call into the field If he will heare me Hellens loue whom would the earth would yeeld And headlong take into her gulfe euen quicke before mine eyeâ⦠For then my heart I hope would cast her lode of miseries Borne for the plague he hath bene borne and bred to the deface By great Olympius of Troy our Sire and all our race This said gââ¦aue Hecuba went home and sent her maids abouâ⦠To bid the Matrones she her selfe descended and searcht out Within a place that breath'd perfumes the richest robe she had Which lay with many rich ones more most curiously made By women of Sydonia which Paris brought from thence Sailing the brode Sea when he made that voyage of offence In which he brought home Hellena That robe transferd so farre That was the vndermost she tooke it glitterd like a starre And with it went she to the Fane with many Ladies more Amongst whom faire cheekt Theanâ⦠vnlockt the folded dore Chaste Theano Antenors wife and of Cisseus race Sister to Hecuba both borne to that great king of Thrace Her th Ilions made Mineruas Priest and her they followed all Vp to the Temples highest towre where on their knees they fall Lift vp their hands and fill the Fane with Ladies pitious cries Then louely Theano tooke the veile and with it she implies Theano Mineruas Priest and Antenors wife prayes to Pallaâ⦠The great Palladium praying thus Goddesse of most renowne In all the heauen of Goddesses great guardian of our towne Reuerend Minerââ¦a breake the lance of Diomed ceasse his grace Giue him to fall in shamefull flight headlong and on his face Before our ports of Ilion that instantly we may Twelue vnyok't Oxen of a yeare in this thy Temple slay To thy sole honor take their bloods and banish our offence Accept Troyes zeale her wiues and saue our infants innocence She praid but Pallas would not grant Meane space was Hector come Where Alexanders lodgings were that many a goodly roome Had built in them by Architects of Troys most curious sort And were no lodgings but a house nor no house but a Court Or had all these containd in them and all within a towre Next Hectors lodgings and the kings The lou'd of heauens chiefe powre Hector here entred In his hand a goodly lance he bore Ten cubits long the brasen head went shining in before Helpt with a burnisht ring of gold he found his brother then Amongst the women yet prepar'd to go amongst the men For in their chamber he was set trimming his armes his shield His curets and was trying how his crooked bow would yeeld To his streight armes amongst her maids was set the Argiue Queene Commanding them in choisest workes When Hectors eye had seene His brother thus accompanied and that he could not beare The verie touching of his armes but where the women were And when the time so needed men right cunningly he chid That he might do it bitterly his cowardise he hid That simply made him so retir'd beneath an anger faind In him by Hector for the hate the citizens sustaind Hector dissembles the cowardise he finds in Parâ⦠tââ¦rning it as if he chid him for his anger at the Troââ¦ns for hating him being conquered by Menelaus when it is for his effeminacie which is all paraphr asticall in my translation Against him for the foile he tooke in their cause and againe For all their generall foiles in his So Hector seemes to plaine Of his wrath to them for their hate and not his cowardise As that were it that shelterd him in his effeminacies And kept him in that dangerous time from their fit aid in fight For which he chid thus Wretched man so timelesse is thy spight That t is not honest and their hate is iust gainst which it bends Warre burns about the towne for thee for thee our flaughterd friends Besiege Troy with their carkasses on whose heapes our high wals Are ouerlookt by enemies the sad sounds of their fals Without are eccho'd with the cries of wines and babes within And all for thee and yet for them thy honor cannot win Head of thine anger thou shouldst need no spirit to stirre vp thine But thine should set the rest on fire and with a rage diuine Chastise impartially the best that impiously forbeares Come forth lest thy faire towers and Troy be burnd about thine eares Paris acknowledg'd as before all iust that Hector spake Allowing iustice though it were for his iniustice sake And wh ere his brother put a wrath vpon him by his art He takes it for his honors sake as sprung out of his hart And rather would haue anger
seeme his fault then cowardise And thus he answerd Since with right you ioynd checke with aduise Paris ãâã Hââ¦ctor And I heare you giue equall eare It is not any spleene Against the Towne as you conceiue that makes me so vnseene But sorrow for it which to ease and by discourse digest Within my selfe I liue so close and yet since men might wrest My sad retreat like you my wife with her aduice inclinde This my addression to the field which was mine owne free minde As well as th'instance of her words for though the foyle were mine Conquest brings forth her wreaths by turnes stay then this hast of thine But till I ar me and I am made a consort for thee streight Or go I le ouertake thy haste Hellen stood at receipt And tooke vp all great Hectors powers t' attend her heauie words Hellens ruthfull complaint to Hector By which had Paris no reply this vent her griefe affords Brother if I may call you so that had bene better borne A dog then such a horride Dame as all men curse and scorne A mischiefe makââ¦r a man-plague O would to God the day That first gaue light to me had bene a whirlwind in my way And borne me to some desert hill or hid me in the rage Of earths most far-resounding seas ere I should thus engage The deare liues of so many friends yet since the Gods hauâ⦠beene Helplesse foreseers of my plagues they might haue likewise seene That he they put in yoke with me to beare out their award Had bene a man of much more spirit and or had noblier dar'd To shield mine honour with his deed or with his mind had knowne Much better the vpbraids of men that so he might haue showne More like a man some sence of griefe for both my shame and his But he is senslesse nor conceiues what any manhood is Nor now nor euer after will and therefore hangs I feare A plague aboue him But come neare good brother rest you here Who of the world of men stands charg'd with most vnrest for me Vile wretch and for my Louers wrong on whom a destinie So bitter is imposde by Ioue that all succeeding times Will put to our vn-ended shames in all mens mouthes our crimes He answerd Hellen do not seeke to make me sit with thee Hector to Hellen I must not stay though well I know thy honourd loue of me My mind cals forth to aid our friends in whom my absence breeds Longings to see me for whose sakes importune thou to deeds This man by all meanes that your care may make his owne make hast And meete me in the open towne that all may see at last He minds his louer I my selfe will now go home and see My houshold my deare wife and sonne that little hope of me For sister t is without my skill if I shall euer more Returne and see them or to earth her right in me restore The Gods may stoupe me by the Greekes This said he went to see The vertuous Princesse his true wife white arm'd Andromache She with her infant sonne and maide was climb'd the towre about The sight of him that sought for her weeping and crying out Hector not finding her at home was going forth retir'd Stood in the gate her woman cald and curiously enquir'd Where she was gone bad tell him true if she were gone to see His sisters or his brothers wiues or whether she should be At Temple with the other Dames t'implore Mineruas ruth Her woman answerd since he askt and vrg'd so much the truth The truth was she was neither gone to see his brothers wiues His sisters nor t'implore the ruth of Pallas on their liues But she aduertisde of the bane Troy sufferd and how vast Conquest had made her selfe for Greece like one distraught made hast To ample Ilion with her sonne and Nurse and all the way Mournd and dissolu'd in teares for him Then Hector made no stay But trod her path and through the streets magnificently built All the great Citie past and came where seeing how bloud was spilt Andromache might see him come who made as he would passe The ports without saluting her not knowing where she was She with his sight made breathlesse hast to meet him she whose grace Brought him withall so great a dowre she that of all the race Of king Action onely liu'd Action whose house stood Beneath the mountaine Placius enuirond with the wood Of Theban Hippoplace being Court to the Cilician land She ran to Hector and with her tender of heart and hand Her sonne borne in his Nurses armes when like a heauenly signe Compact of many golden starres the princely child did shine Whom Hector cald Scamandrius but whom the towne did name Astianax because his sire did onely prop the same Hector though griefe bereft his speech yet smil'd vpon his ioy Andromache cride out mixt hands and to the strength of Troy Thus wept forth her affection O noblest in desire Aââ¦dromaches passion to Hector Thy mind inflam'd with others good will set thy selfe on fire Nor pitiest thou thy sonne nor wife who must thy widdow be If now thou issue all the field will onely run on thee Better my shoulders vnderwent the earth then thy decease For then would earth beare ioyes no moââ¦e then comes the blacke increase Of griefes like Greeks on Ilion Alas what one suruiues To be my refuge one blacke day bereft seuen brothers liues By sterne Achilles by his hand my father breath'd his last Thebes a most ãâã ãâã of Ciâ⦠His high-wald rich Cilician Thebes sackt by him and laid wast The royall bodie yet he left vnspoild Religion charm'd That act of spoile and all in fire he burnd him compleat arm'd Built ouer him a royall tombe and to the monument He left of him Th' Oreades that are the high descent Of Aegis-bearing Iupiter another of their owne Did adde to it and set it round with Elms by which is showne In theirs the barrennesse of death yet might it serue beside To shelter the sad Monument from all the ruffinous pride Of stormes and tempests vsde to hurt things of that noble kind The short life yet my mother liu'd he sau'd and seru'd his mind With all the riches of the Realme which not enough esteemd He kept her prisoner whom small time but much more wealth redeemd And she in syluane Hyppoplace Cilicia rul'd againe But soone was ouer-rul'd by death Dianas chast disdaine Gaue her a Lance and tooke her life yet all these gone from me Thou amply renderst all thy life makes still my father be My mother brothers and besides thou art my husband too Most lou'd most worthy Pitie then deare loue and do not go For thou gone all these go againe pitie our common ioy Lest of a fathers patronage the bulwarke of all Troy Thou leau'st him a poore widdowes charge stay stay then in this Towre And call vp to the wilde
protect Which angers Neptune Ioue by haplesse signes In depth of night succeeding woes diuines Another Argument In Eta Priams strongest sonne Combats with Aiax Tââ¦lamon THis said braue Hector through the ports with Troyes bane-bringing Knight Made issue to th' insatiate field resolu'd to feruent fight These next foure bookââ¦s haue not my last hand ãâã because the rest for a time will be sufficient to emââ¦oy yââ¦ur censures suspend them of these spare not the other And as the weather-wielder sends to Sea-men prosperous gales When with their sallow-polisht Oares long lifted from their fals Their wearied armes dissolu'd with ââ¦yle can scarce strike one stroke more Like those sweet winds appear'd these Lords to Troians tir'd before Then fell they to the works of death by Paris valour fell King Aââ¦eithous haplesse sonne that did in Arna dwell Menestbius whos 's renown'd Siââ¦e a Club did euer beare And of Philomedusa gat that had her eyes so cleare This slaughterd issue Hectors dart strooke Eioneus dead Beneath his good steele caske it pierc't aboue his gorget stead Glaucus Hyppolochus his sonne that led the Lycian crew Iphinous-Dexiades with sodaine Iauelin slew As he was mounting to his horse his shoulders tooke the speare And ere he sate in tumbling downe his powres dissolued were When gray-eyd Pallas had perceiu'd the Greekes so fall in fight Pallâ⦠to the Grecian ayd Apollo to the Troian From high Olympus top she stoopt and did on Ilion light Apollo to encounter her to Pergamus did flie From whence he looking to the field wisht Troians victorie Apollo to Pallâ⦠At Ioues broad Beech these godheads met and first Ioues sonne obiects Why burning in contention thus do thy extreme affects Conduct thee from our peacefull hill is it to ouersway The doubtfull victorie of fight and giue the Greeks the day Thou neuer pitiest perishing Troy yet now let me perswade That this day no more mortall wounds may either side inuade Hereafter till the end of Troy they shall apply the fight Since your immortall wils resolue to ouerturne it quite Pallas replide It likes me well for this came I from heauen Pallas to Apollo But to make either army ceasse what order shall be giuen He said We will direct the spirit that burnes in Hectors brest His reply To challenge any Greeke to wounds with single powers imprest Which Greeks admiring will accept and make some one stand out So stout a challenge to receiue with a defence as stout It is confirmd and Hellenus King Priams loued seed Hellenâ⦠Priams sonne and a Prophet to Hector By Augurie discernd th' euent that these two powres decreed And greeting Hector askt him this Wilt thou be once aduisde I am thy brother and thy life with mine is euenly prisde Command the rest of Troy and Greece to ceasse this publicke fight And what Greeke beares the greatest mind to single strokes excite I promise thee that yet thy soule shall not descend to fates So heard I thy suruiuall cast by the celestiall States Hector with glad allowance gaue his brothers counsell eare And fronting both the hoasts aduanc't iust in the midst his speare The Troians instantly surceasse the Greeks Atrides staid The God that beares the siluer Bow and warres triumphant Maide The combat prepared On Ioues Beech like two Vultures sat pleasd to behold both parts Flow in to heare so sternly arm'd with huge shields helmes and darts And such fresh horror as you see driuen through the wrinkled waues Bâ⦠rising Zephyre vnder whom the sea growes blacke and raues Simile Such did the hastie gathering troupes of both hoasts make to heare Whose tumult settl'd twixt them both thus spake the challenger Heare Troians and ye well arm'd Greeks what my strong mind diffusde Tââ¦rough all my spirits commands me speake Saturnius hath not vsde His promist fauour for our truce but studying both our ils Will neuer ceasse till Mars by you his rauenous stomacke fils With ruin'd Troy or we consume your mightie Sea-borne fleet Sinââ¦e then the Generall Peeres of Greece in reach of one voice meete Amââ¦ngst you all whose breast includes the most impulsiue mind Hector to both hoasts Let him stand forth as combatrant by all the rest designde ãâã whom thus I call high Ioue to witnesse of our strife Iâ⦠he with home-thrust iron can reach th'exposure of my life Spoiling my armes let him at will conuey them to his tent But let my body be returnd that Troys two-sext descent May waste it in the funerall Pile if I can slaughter him Apollo honoring me so much I le spoile his conquerd lim And beare his armes to Ilion where in Apollos shrine I le hang them as my trophies due his body I le resigne To be disposed by his friends in flamie funerals And honourd with erected tombe where Hellespontus fals Into Egaeum and doth reach euen to your nauall rode That when our beings in the earth shall hide their period Suruiuers sailing the blacke sea may thus his name renew This is his monument whose bloud long since did fates embrew ãâã per ãâã Whom passing farre in fortitude illustrate Hector slew This shall posteritie report and my fame neuer die This said dumbe silence seiz'd them all they shamed to denie And fear'd to vndertake At last did Menelaus speake Checkt their remisnesse and so sigh'd as if his heart would breake Menelaâ⦠ãâã Aye me but onely threatning Greeks not worthy Grecian names This more and more not to be borne makes grow our huge defames Phryges saith ãâã imitator If Hectors honorable proofe be entertaind by none But you are earth and water all which symboliz'd in one Haue fram'd your faint vnfirie spirits ye sit without your harts Grosly inglorious but my selfe will vse acceptiue darts And arme against him though you thinke I arme gainst too much ods But conquests garlands hang aloft amongst th' immortall gods He arm'd and gladly would haue fought but Menelaus then By Hectors farre more strength thy soule had fled th'abodes of men Had not the kings of Greece stood vp and thy attempt restraind And euen the king of men himselfe that in such compasse raign'd Who tooke him by the bold right hand and sternly pluckt him backe Agamemnon wiser then his brother Mad brother t is no worke for thee thou seekst thy wilfull wracke Containe though it despite thee much nor for this strife engage Thy person with a man more strong and whom all feare t'enrage Yea whom Aeacides himselfe in men-renowning warre Makes doubt t' encounter whose huge strength surpasseth thine by farre Sit thou then by thy regiment some other Greeke will rise Though he be dreadlesse and no warre will his desires suffice That makes this challenge to our strength our valours to auow To whom if he can scape with life he will be glad to bow This drew his brother from his will who yeelded knowing it true And his glad souldiers tooke
his armes when Nestor did pursue Nestor to the Greeks The same reproofe he set on foote and thus supplide his turne What huge indignitie is this how will our country mourne Old Peleus that good king will weepe that worthy counsellor That trumpet of the Myrmidons who much did aske me for All men of name that went to Troy with ioy he did enquire Their valour and their towardnesse and I made him admire But that ye all feare Hector now if his graue eares shall heare How will he lift his hands to heauen and pray that death may beare His grieued soule into the deepe O would to heauens great King O si ãâã ãâã mihi Iupiter annos Qualis eram c. Minerua and the God of light that now my youthfull spring Did flourish in my willing veines as when at Phaeas towres About the streames of Iardanuâ⦠my gather'd Pylean powres And dart-employed Arcadians fought neere raging Celadon Amongst whom first of all stood forth great Ereuthalion Who th' armes of Arcithous wore braue Areââ¦hous And since he still fought with a club sirnam'd Clauigerus All men and faire-girt Ladies both for honour cald him so He fought not with a keepe-off speare or with a farre shot bow But with a massie club of iron he brake through armed bands And yet Lycurgus was his death but not with force of hands With sleight encountring in a lane where his club wanted sway He thrust him through his spacious waste who fell and vpwards lay In death not bowing his face to earth his armes he did despoile Which iron Mars bestowd on him and those in Mars his toile Lycurgus euer after wore but when he aged grew Enforc't to keepe his peacefull house their vse he did renew On mightie Ereuthalions lims his souldier loued well And with these Armes he challeng'd all that did in Armes excell All shooke and stood dismaid none durst his aduerse champion make Yet this same forward mind of mine of choice would vndertake To fight with all his confidence though yongest enemie Of all the armie we conduct yet I fought with him I Minerua made me so renownd and that most tall strong Peere I slue his big bulke lay on earth extended here and there As it were couetous to spread the center euery where O that my youth were now as fresh and all my powers as sound Soone should bold Hector be impugn'd yet you that most are crownd With fortitude of all our hoast euen you me thinkes are slow Not free and set on fire with lust t' encounter such a foe With this nine royall Princes rose Atrides for the first Nine Princâ⦠stand vp to answer Hector Then Diomed th' Aiaces then that did th' encounter thirst King Idomen and his consorts Mars-like Meriones Euemons sonne Euripilus and Andremonides Whom all the Grecians Thoas cald sprong of Andremons bloud And wise Vlysses euery one proposd for combat stood Againe Gerenius Nestor spake Let lots be drawne by all His hand shall helpe the wel-armd Greeks on whom the lot doth fall Lots ãâã by Nestor for the ãâã And to his wish shall he be helpt if he escape with life The harmfull danger-breathing fit of this aduentrous strife Each markt his lot and cast it in to Agamemnons caske The souldiers praid held vp their hands and this of Ioue did aske With eyes aduanc't to heauen O Ioue so leade the Heralds hand That Aiax or great Tydeus sonne may our wisht champion stand Or else the King himselfe that rules the rich Mycenian land This said old Nestor mixt the lots the foremost lot suruaid With Aiax Telamon was sign'd as all the souldiers praid One of the Heralds drew it forth who brought and shewd it round Beginning at the right hand first to all the most renownd None knowing it euery man denide but when he forth did passe To him which markt and cast it in which famous Aiax was He stretcht his hand and into it the Herald put the lot Who viewing it th'inscription knew the Duke denied not But ioyfully acknowledg'd it and threw it at his feet And said O friends the lot is mine which to my soule is sweet The ãâã ãâã to Aiâ⦠For now I hope my fame shall rise in noble Hectors fall But whilst I arme my selfe do you on great Saturnius call He to the Greeks But silently or to your selues that not a Troian heare Or openly if you thinke good since none aliue we feare None with a will if I will not can my bold powers affright At least for plaine fierce swinge of strength or want of skill in fight For I will well proue that my birth and breed in Salamine Was not all consecrate to meate or meere effects of wine This said the wel-giuen souldiers prayed vp went to heauen their eyne O Ioue that Ida doest protect most happie most diuine Send victorie to Aiax side fame grace his goodly lim Or if thy loue blesse Hectors life and thou hast care of him Bestow on both like power like fame This said in bright armes shone The good strong Aiax who when all his warre attire was on Marcht like the hugely figur'd Mars when angry Iupiter Aiax armed his dreadful maner of approch to the combat With strength on people proud of strength sends him forth to inferre Wreakfull contention and comes on with presence full of feare So th'Achiue rampire Telamon did twixt the hoasts appeare Smil'd yet of terrible aspect on earth with ample pace He boldly stalkt and shooke aloft his dart with deadly grace It did the Grecians good to see but heart quakes shooke the ioynts Of all the Troians Hectors selfe felt thoughts with horrid points Tempt his bold bosome but he now must make no counterflight Nor with his honour now refuse that had prouokt the fight The shield of Aiax like a tower Aiax came neare and like a towre his shield his bosome bard The right side brasse and seuen Oxe hides within it quilted hard Old Tychius the best currier that did in Hyla dwell Tychius the currier Did frame it for exceeding proofe and wrought it wondrous well Hinc illud Dominuâ⦠clypei septemplicis Aiax With this stood he to Hector close and with this Braue began Now Hector thou shalt clearly know thus meeting man to man What other leaders arme our hoast besides great Thetis sonne Who with his hardie Lions heart hath armies ouerrunne But he lies at our crookt-sternd fleet a Riuall with our King In height of spirit yet to Troy he many knights did bring Coequall with Aeacides all able to sustaine All thy bold challenge can import begin then words are vaine The Helme-grac't Hector answerd him Renowned Telamon Hector to Aiax Prince of the souldiers came from Greece assay not me like one Yong and immartiall with great words as to an Amazon dame I haue the habit of all fights and know the bloudie frame Of euery slaughter I well
watch be set And euerie court of guard held strong so when the morne doth wet The high raisd battlements of Troy Idaeus shall be sent To th'Argiue fleet and Atreus sonnes t' vnfold my sonnes intent From whose fact our contention springs and if they will obtaine Respit from heate of fight till fire consume our souldiers slaine And after our most fatall warre let vs importune still Till Ioue the conquest haue disposd to his vnconquer'd will All heard and did obey the king and in their quarters all That were to set the watch that night did to their suppers fall Idaeus to the Grecian fleeâ⦠Idaeus in the morning went and th'Achiue Peeres did find In counsell at Atrides ship his audience was assignd And in the midst of all the kings the vocall Herald said Idaeus to the Greekes Atrides my renowned king and other kings his aid Propose by me in their commands the offers Paris makes From whose ioy all our woes proceed he Princely vndertakes That all the wealth he brought from Greece would he had died before He will with other added wealth for your amends restore But famous Menelaus wife he still meanes to enioy Though he be vrg'd the contrarie by all the Peeres of Troy And this besides I haue in charge that if it please you all They wish both sides may ceasse from warre that rites of funerall May on their bodies be performd that in the fields lie slaine And after to the will of Fate renue the fight againe All silence held at first at last Tydides made reply Diomed do Idaeus Let no man take the wealth or Dame for now a childs weake eye May see the imminent blacke end of Priams Emperie This sentence quicke and briefly giuen the Greeks did all admire Then said the King Herald thou hear'st in him the voice entire Agvmemnon to Idaeus Of all our Peeres to answer thee for that of Priams sonne But for our burning of the dead by all meanes I am wonne To satisfie thy king therein without the slendrest gaine Made of their spoiled carkasses but freely being slaine They shall be all consumd with fire to witnesse which I cite High thundring Ioue that is the king of Iunos beds delight With this he held his scepter vp to all the skie thron'd powres And graue Idaeus did returne to sacred Ilions towres Where Ilians and Dardanians did still their counsels plie Expecting his returne he came and told his Legacie All whirlewind like assembled then some bodies to transport Some to hew trees On th' other part the Argiues did exhort Their souldiers to the same affaires then did the new fir'd Sunne Smite the brode fields ascending heauen aud th' Ocean smooth did runne When Greece and Troy mixt in such peace you scarce could either know Then washt they off their blood and dust and did warme teares bestow Vpon the slaughterd and in Carres conueid them from the field Priam commanded none should mourne but in still silence yeeld Their honord carkasses to fire and onely grieue in heart All burnd to Troy Troyes friends retire to fleet the Grecian part Yet doubtfull night obscur'd the earth the day did not appeare When round about the funerall pile the Grecians gatherd were The pile they circled with a tombe and by it raisd a wall High towres to guard the fleet and them and in the midst of all They built strong gates through which the horse and chariots passage had Without the rampire a brode dike long and profound they made On which they Pallesados pitcht and thus the Grecians wrought Their huge workes in so little time were to perfection brought That all Gods by the Lightner set the frame thereof admir'd Mongst whom the earthquake-making God this of their King enquir'd Father of Gods will any man of all earths grassie sphere Neptune to Iââ¦iter Aske any of the Gods consents to any actions there If thou wilt see the shag-haird Greekes with headstrong labours frame So huge a worke and not to vs due offrings first enflame As farre as white Auroras dewes are sprinkled through the aire Fame will renowne the hands of Greece for this diuine affaire Men will forget the sacred worke the Sunne and I did raise For king Laomedon bright Troy and this will beare the praise Ioue was extremely mou'd with him and said What words are these Ioue to Neptune Thou mightie shaker of the earth thou Lord of all the seas Some other God of farre lesse powre might hold conceipts dismaid With this rare Grecian stratageme and thou rest well apaid The fortification that inthe twelft Booke is razed For it will glorifie thy name as farre as light extends Since when these Greekes shall see againe their natiue soile and friends The bulwarke battred thou maist quite deuoure it with thy waues And couer with thy fruitlesse sands this fatall shore of graues That what their fierie industries haue so diuinely wrought In raising it in razing it thy powre will proue it nought Thus spake the Gods among themselues set was the feruent Sunne And now the great worke of the Greeks was absolutely done Then slue they Oxen in their tents and strength with food reuiu'd When out of Lemnos a great fleete of odorous wine arriu'd A fleete of wine of a thousand tun sent by Euneus king of LeÌnos Iasons son Sent by Euneus Iasons sonne borne of Hypsiphile The fleete containd a thousand tunne which must transported be To Atreus sons as he gaue charge whose merchandize it was The Greeks bought wine for shining steele and some for sounding brasse Some for Oxe hides for Oxen some and some for prisoners A sumptuous banquet was prepar'd and all that night the Peeres And faire-haird Greeks consum'd in feast so Troians and their aide And all the night Ioue thunderd lowd pale feare all thoughts dismaide While they were gluttonous in earth Ioue wrought their banes in heauen They pourd full cups vpon the ground and were to offrings driuen In stead of quaffings and to drinke none durst attempt before In solemne sacrifice they did almightie Ioue adore Then to their rests they all repaird bold zeale their feare bereau'd And sodaine sleepes refreshing gift securely they receiu'd The end of the seuenth booke THE EIGHTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT VVHen Ioue to all the Gods had giuen command That none to either host should helpfull stand To Ida he descends and sees from thence Iuno and Pallas haste the Greeks defence Whose purpose his command by Iris giuen Doth interuent then came the silent Euen When Hector chargde fires should consume the night Lest Greeks in darkenesse tooke suspected flight Another Argument In Theta gods a Counsell haue Troyes conquest glorious Hectors Braue THe chearfull Ladie of the light deckt in her saffron robe Periphrasis of the Morning Disperst her beames through euery part of this enflowred globe When thundring Ioue a Court of Gods assembled by his will In top of all
Euristheus vntoucht in life or lim When he heauen knowes with drowned eyes lookt vp for helpe to heauen Which euer at command of Ioue was by my supppliance giuen But had my wisdome reacht so farre to know of this euent When to the solid-ported depths of hell his sonne was sent To hale out hatefull Plutoes dog from darksome Erebus He had not scap't the streames of Styx so deepe and dangerous Yet Ioue hates me and shews his loue in doing Thetis will That kist his knees and strok't his chin praid and importun'd still That he would honour with his aid her cittie-razing sonne Displeasd Achilles and for him our friends are thus vndone But time shall come againe when he to do his friends some aid Will call me his Glaucopides his sweet and blew-eyd maid Then harnesse thou thy horse for me that his bright Pallace gaââ¦es I soone may enter arming me to order these debates And I will trie if Priams sonne will still maintaine his cheare When in the crimson paths of warre I dreadfully appeare For some prowd Troian shall be sure to nourish dogs and soules And paue the shore with fat and flesh depriu'd of liues and soules Iuno prepar'd her horse whose manes Ribands of gold enlac't Pallas her partie coloured robe on her bright shoulders cast Pallas armes Diuinely wrought with her owne hands in th' entrie of her Sire Then put she on her ample breast her vnder-arming tire And on it her celestiall armes the chariot streight she takes With her huge heauie violent lance with which she slaughter makes Of armies fatall to her wrath Saturnia whipt her horse Iuno her waggonnesse And heauen gates guarded by the Howres op't by their proper force Through which they flew Whom when Ioue saw set neare th'Idalian spring Highly displeasd he Iris cald that hath the golden wings And said Flie Iris turne them backe let them not come at me Ioue to Iris. Our meetings seuerally disposd will nothing gracious be Beneath their o'rethrowne chariot I le shiuer their prowd steeds Huââ¦le downe themselues their wagon breake and for their stubborne deeds In ten whole yeares they shall not heale the wounds I will impresse With horrid thunder that my maid may know when to addresse Armes against her father For my wife she doth not so offend T' is but her vse to interrupt what euer I intend Iris with this left Idas hils and vp t'Olympus flew ãâã is to heauen Met neare heauen gates the Goddesses and thus their haste with-drew What course intend you why are you wrapt with your fancies storme Ioue likes not ye should aid the Greeks but threats and will performe To crush in peeces your swift horse beneath their glorious yokes Hurle downe your selues your chariot breake and those impoysoned strokes His wounding thunder shall imprint in your celestiall parts In ten full Springs ye shall not cure that she that tames proud hearts Thy selfe Minerua may be taught to know for what and when Thou doest against thy father fight for sometimes childeren May with discretion plant themselues against their fathers wils But not where humors onely rule in works beyond their skils For Iuno she offends him not nor vexeth him so much For t' is her vse to crosse his will her impudence is such ââ¦ile facit quod semper facit The habite of offence in this she onely doth contract And so grieues or incenseth lesse though nere the lesse her fact But thou most grieu'st him dogged Dame whom he rebukes in time Lest silence should peruert thy will and pride too highly clime In thy bold bosome desperate girle if seriously thou dare Lift thy vnwieldie lance gainst Ioue as thy pretences are She left them and Saturnia said Ay me thou seed of Ioue Iuno to Pallâ⦠By my aduice we will no more vnfit contention moue With Iupiter for mortall men of whom let this man die And that man liue who euer he pursues with destinie And let him plotting all euents dispose of either host As he thinks fittest for them both and may become vs most Thus turnd she backe and to the Howres her rich man'd horse resign'd Who them t'immortall mangers bound the chariot they inclin'd Beneath the Christall walls of heauen and they in golden thrones Consorted other Deities repleate with passions Ioue in his bright-wheeld chariot his firie horse now beats Vp to Olympus and aspir'd the Gods eternall seats Great Neptune loosd his horse his Carre vpon the Altar plac't And heauenly-linnen Couerings did round about it cast The farre-seer vsd his throne of gold the vast Olympus shooke Beneath his feete his wife and maid apart their places tooke Nor any word afforded him he knew their thoughts and said ââ¦oue to Innâ⦠and Pallas Why do you thus torment your selues you need not sit dismaid With the long labours you haue vsd in your victorious fight Destroying Troians gainst whose liues you heape such high despight Scopticé Ye should haue held your glorious course for be assur'd as farre As all my powres by all meanes vrg'd could haue sustaind the warre Not all the host of Deities should haue retir'd my hand From vowd inflictions on the Greeks much lesse you two withstand But you before you saw the fight much lesse the slaughter there Had all your goodly lineaments possest with shaking feare And neuer had your chariot borne their charge to heauen againe But thunder should haue smit you both had you one Troian slaine Both Goddesses let fall their chins vpon their Iuorie breasts Set next to Ioue contriuing still afflicted Troyes vnrests Pallas for anger could not speake Saturnia contrarie Could not for anger hold her peace but made this bold replie Not-to-be-suffred Iupiter what needst thou still enforce ãâã to Iupiter Thy matchlesse power we know it well But we must yeeld remorse To them that yeeld vs sacrifice nor needst thou thus deride Our kind obedience nor our griefes but beare our powers applide To iust protection of the Greeks that anger tombe not all In Troyes foule gulfe of periurie and let them stand should fall Greeue not said Ioue at all done yet for if thy faire eyes please Iââ¦piter to Iââ¦no This next red morning they shall see the great Saturnides Bring more destruction to the Greekes and Hector shall not cease Till he haue rowsed from the Fleet swift-foot Aeacides In that day when before their ships for his Patroclus slaine The Greekes in great distresse shall fight for so the Fates ordaine I weigh not thy displeased spleene though to th' extremest bounds Of earth and seas it carrie thee where endlesse night confounds Iapet and my deiected Sire who sit so farre beneath They neuer see the flying Sunne nor heare the winds that breath Neare to profoundest Tartarus nor thither if thou went Would I take pittie of thy moods since none more impudent To this she nothing did replie and now Sols glorious light Fell
to the sea and to the land drew vp the drowsie night The Troians grieu'd at Phoebus fall which all the Greeks desir'd The Night And sable night so often wisht to earths firme throne aspir'd Hector intending to consult neare to the gulfie flood Farre from the Fleet led to a place pure and exempt from blood The Troians forces from their horse all lighted and did heare Th'Oration Ioue-lou'd Hector made who held a goodly speare Eleuen full cubits long the head was brasse and did reflect A wanton light before him still it round about was deckt With strong hoops of new burnisht gold On this he leand and said Heare me my worthie friends of Troy and you our honord aid ãâã to his friends A little since I had conceipt we should haue made retreate By light of the inflamed fleet with all the Greeks escheate But darknesse hath preuented vs and safte with speciall grace These Achiues and their shore-hal'd fleet Let vs then render place To sacred Night our suppers dressâ⦠and from our chariot free Our faire-man'd horse and meate them well then let there conuoid be From forth the citie presently Oxen and well fed sheepe Sweet wine and bread and fell much wood that all night we may keepe Vina parant animos Plentie of fires euen till the light bring forth the louely morne And let their brightnesse glase the skies that night may not suborne The Greeks escape if they for flight the seas brode backe would take At least they may not part with ease but as retreit they make Each man may beare a wound with him to cure when he comes home Made with a shaft or sharpned speare and others feare to come With charge of lamentable warre gainst souldiers bred in Troy Then let our Heralds through the towne their offices imploy To warne the youth yet short of warre and time-white fathers past That in our god-built towres they see strong courts of guard be plac't About the wals and let our Dames yet flourishing in yeares That hauing beauties to keepe pure are most inclin'd to feares Since darknesse in distressefull times more dreadfull is then light Make loftie fires in euery house and thus the dangerous night Held with strong watch if th' enemie haue ambuscadoes laid Neare to our wals and therefore seeme in flight the more dismaid Intending a surprise while we are all without the towne They euery way shall be impugn'd to euery mans renowne Performe all this braue Troian friends what now I haue to say Is all exprest the chearfull morne shall other things display It is my glorie putting trust in Ioue and other Gods That I shall now expulse these dogs fates sent to our abodes Who bring ostents of destinie and blacke their threatning fleet But this night let vs hold strong guards to morrow we will meet With fierce-made warre before their ships and I le make knowne to all If strong Tydides from their ships can driue me to their wall Or I can pierce him with my sword and force his bloudy spoile The wished morne shall shew his powre if he can shun his foile I running on him with my Lance I thinke when day ascends He shall lie wounded with the first and by him many friends O that I were as sure to liue immortall and sustaine No frailties with increasing yeares but euermore remaine Ador'd like Pallas or the Sunne as all doubts die in me That heauens next light shall be the last the Greekes shall euer see This speech all Troians did applaud who from their traces losde Their sweating horse which seuerally with headstals they reposde And fastned by their chariots when others brought from towne Fat sheepe and oxen instantly bread wine and hewed downe Huge store of wood the winds transferd into the friendly skie Their suppers sauour to the which they sate delightfully And spent all night in open field fires round about them shinde As when about the siluer Moone when aire is free from winde And stars shine cleare to whose sweete beames high prospects and the brows Igne TrolanoruÌ ãâã similes Of all steepe hils and pinnacles thrust vp themselues for showes And euen the lowly vallies ioy to glitter in their sight When the vnmeasur'd firmament bursts to disclose her light And all the signes in heauen are seene that glad the shepheards hart So many fires disclosde their beames made by the Troian part Before the face of Ilion and her bright turrets show'd A thousand courts of guard kept fires and euery guard allow'd Fiftie stout men by whom their horse eate oates and hard white corne And all did wilfully expect the siluer-throned morne The end of the eighth Booke THE NINTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT TO Agamemnon vrging hopelesse flight Stand Diomed and Nestor opposite By Nestors counsell Legats are dismist To Thetis sonne who still denies t' assist Another Argument Iota sings the Ambassie And great Achilles sterne replie SO held the Troians sleeplesse guard the Greeks to flight were giuen The feeble consort of cold feare strangely infusde from heauen Griefe not to be endur'd did wound all Greeks of greatest worth And as two laterall-sited winds the West wind and the North Meete at the Thracian seas blacke breast ioyne in a sodaine blore Tumble together the darke waues and powre vpon the shore A mightie deale of froth and weed with which men manure ground So Ioue and Troy did driue the Greeks and all their minds confound But Agamemnon most of all was tortur'd at his heart Who to the voicefull Heralds went and bad them cite apart Each Grecian leader seuerally not openly proclaime In which he labourd with the first and all together came They sadly sate the king arose and pour'd out teares as fast As from a loftie rocke a spring doth his blacke waters cast And deeply ââ¦ghing thus bespake the Achiues O my friends Agamemnon to the Greeks Princes and leaders of the Greeks heauens aduerse king extends His wrath with too much detriment to my so iust designe Since he hath often promist me and bound it with the signe Of his bent forehead that this Troy our vengefull hands should race And safe returne yet now ingag'd he plagues vs with disgrace When all our trust to him hath drawne so much bloud from our friends My glorie nor my brothers wreake were the proposed ends For which he drew you to these toiles but your whole countries shame Which had bene huge to beare the rape of so diuine a Dame Made in despite of our reuenge and yet not that had mou'd Our powres to these designes if Ioââ¦e had not our drifts approu'd Which since we see he did for bloud t is desperate fight in vs To striue with him then let vs flie t is flight he vrgeth thus Long time still silence held them all at last did Diomed rise Atrides I am first must crosse thy indiscreet aduise Diomed to Agamemnon and takes fit time to answer
which we waite Of winning Troy with brasse and gold he shall his nauie freight And entring when we be at spoile that princely hand of his Shall chuse him twentie Troian Dames excepting Tyndaris The fairest Pergamus infolds and if we make retreat To Argos cald of all the world the Nauill or chiefe seat He shall become my sonne in law and I will honour him Euen as Orestes my sole sonne that doth in honours swim Three daughters in my wel-built court vnmarried are and faire Laodice Chrysothemis that hath the golden haire And Iphianassa of all three the worthiest let him take All ioynturelesse to Peleus Court I will her ioyncture make And that so great as neuer yet did any maide preferre Seuen cities right magnificent I will bestow on her Enope and Cardamile Hyra for herbes renownd The faire Aepaea Pedasus that doth with grapes abound Antaea girded with greene meades Phera surnam'd Diuine All whose bright turrets on the seas in sandie Pylos shine Th' inhabitants in flockes and heards are wondrous confluent Who like a God will honour him and him with gifts present And to his throne will contribute what tribute he will rate All this I gladly will performe to pacifie his hate Let him be milde and tractable t is for the God of ghosts To be vnrul'd implacable and seeke the bloud of hoasts Whom therefore men do much abhorre then let him yeeld to me I am his greater being a King and more in yeares then he Braue King said Nestor these rich gifts must make him needs relent Nestor makes choice of Ambassadors to Achilles Chuse then fit legates instantly to greete him at his Tent But stay admit my choice of them and let them strait be gone Ioue-loued Phoenix shall be chiefe then Aiax Telamon And Prince Vlyssès and on them let these two heralds wait Graue Odius and Euribates Come Lords take water strait Make pure your hands and with sweet words appease Achilles mind Which we will pray the king of Gods may gently make inclin'd All lik't his speech and on their hands the Heralds water shed The youths crownd cups of sacred wine to all distributed But hauing sacrific'd and drunke to euerie mans content With many notes by Nestor giuen the Legats forwards went With courtship in fit gestures vsd he did prepare them well But most Vlysses for his grace did not so much excell Such ââ¦ites beseeme Ambassadors and Nestor vrged these That their most honours might reflect enrag'd Aeacides They went along the shore and praid the God that earth doth bind In brackish chaines they might not faile but bow his mightie mind The quarter of the Myrmidons they reacht and found him set Delighted with his solemne harpe which curiously was fret Achilles at his Haââ¦pe With workes conceited through the verge the bawdricke that embrac't His loftie necke was siluer twist this when his hand laid waste Actions citie he did chuse as his especiall prise Aââ¦illes loue of Musicke And louing sacred musicke well made it his exercise To it he sung the glorious deeds of great Heroes dead Himselfe sings the deeds of Heroes And his true mind that practise faild sweet contemplation fed With him alone and opposite all silent sat his friend Attentiue and beholding him who now his song did end Th' Ambassadors did forwards preasse renown'd Vlysses led And stood in view their sodaine sight his admiration bred Who with his harpe and all arose so did Menetius sonne When he beheld them their receipt Achilles thus begun Health to my Lords right welcome men assure your selues you be Achilles gentle receit of Vlysses Aââ¦ax c. Though some necessitie I know doth make you visite me Incenst with iust cause gainst the Greeks This said a seuerall seate With purple cushions he set forth and did their ease intreate And said Now friend our greatest bolle with wine vnmixt and neate Appose these Lords and of the depth let euerie man make proofe These are my best-esteemed friends and vnderneath my roofe Patroclus did his deare friends will and he that did desire Principes ipsâ⦠ãâã munera obeunt vt alibi To cheare the Lords come faint from fight set on a blasing fire A great brasse pot and into it a chine of muââ¦ton put And fat Goates flesh Automedon held while he peeces cut To rost and boile right cunningly then of a well fed swine A huge fat shoulder he cuts out and spits it wondrous fine His good friend made a goodly fire of which the force once past He laid the spit low neare the coales to make it browne at last Then sprinkled it with sacred salt and tooke it from the rackes This rosted and on dresser set his friend Patroclus takes Bread in faire baskets which set on Achilles brought the meate And to diuinest Ithacus tooke his opposed seate Vpon the bench then did he will his friend to sacrifice Sacrifice before meate Who cast sweet incense in the fire to all the Deities Thus fell they to their readie food hunger and thirst allaid Aiax to Phenix made a signe as if too long they staid Before they told their Legacie Vlysses saw him winke And filling the great boule with wine did to Achilles drinke Health to Achilles but our plights stand not in need of meate ãâã ãâã Who late supt at Atrides tent though for thy loue we eate Of many things whereof a part would make a compleat feast Nor can we ioy in these kind rites that haue our hearts opprest O Prince with feare of vtter spoile t is made a question now If we can saue our fleet or not vnlesse thy selfe endow Thy powers with wonted fortitude now Troy and her consorts Bold of thy want haue pitcht their tents close to our fleet and forts And made a firmament of fires and now no more they say Will they be prison'd in their wals but force their violent way Euen to our ships and Ioââ¦e himselfe hath with his lightnings showd Their bold aduââ¦ntures happie signes and Hector growes so prowd Of his huge strength borne out by Ioue that fearfully he raues Presuming neither men nor Gods can interrupt his braues Wilde rage inuades him and he prayes that soone the sacred morne Would light his furie boasting then our streamers shall be torne And all our nauall ornaments fall by his conquering stroke Our ships shall burne and we our selues lie stifl'd in the smoke And I am seriously affraid heauen will performe his threats And that t is fatall to vs all farre from our natiue seates To perish in victorious Troy but rise though it be late Dââ¦liuer the afflicted Greeks from Troyes tumultuous hate It will hereafter be thy griefe when no strength can suffise To remedie th'effected threats of our calamities Consider these affaires in time while thou maist vse thy powre And haue the grace to turne from Greece fates vnrecouered houre O friend thou knowest thy royall Sire forewarnd what should be done
That day he sent thee from his Court to honour Atreus sonne My sonne said he the victory let Ioue and Pallas vse At their high pleasures but do thou no honor'd meanes refuse That may aduance her in fit bounds containe thy mightie mind Nor let the knowledge of thy strength be factiously inclind Contriuing mischiefes be to fame and generall good profest The more will all sorts honour thee Benignitie is best Thus charg'd thy sire which thou forgetst yet now those thoughts appease That torture thy great spirit with wrath which if thou wilt surcease The King will merit it with gifts and if thou wilt giue eare I le tell how much he offers thee yet thou sitst angrie here Seuen Tripods that no fire must touch twise ten pans fit for flame Ten talents of fine gold twelue horse that euer ouercame And brought huge prises from the field with swiftnes of their feete That man should beare no poore account nor want golds quickning sweete That had but what he won with them seuen worthiest Lesbian Dames Renown'd for skill in houfwifrie and beare the soueraigne fames For beautie from their generall sexe which at thy ouerthrow Of wel-built Lesbos he did chuse and these he will bestow And with these her he tooke from thee whom by his state since then He sweares he toucht not as faire Dames vse to be toucht by men All these are readie for thee now and if at length we take By helpes of Gods this wealthie towne thy ships shall burthen make Of gold and brasse at thy desires when we the spoile diuide And twentie beautious Troian Dames thou shalt select beside Next Hellen the most beautifull and when return'd we be To Argos be his sonne in law for he will honour thee Like his Oresles his sole sonne maintaind in height of blisse Three daughters beautifie his Court the faire Chrysothemis Laodice and Iphianesse of all the fairest take To Peleus thy graue fathers Court and neuer ioynture make He will the iointure make himselfe so great as neuer Sire Gaue to his daughters nuptials seuen cities left entire Cardamile and Enope and Hyra full of flowers Anthaea for sweet meadowes praisd and Phera deckt with towers The bright Epea Pedassus that doth God Bacchus please All on the the Sandie Pylos soyle are seated neare the seas Th' inhabitants in droues and flocks exceeding wealthie be Who like a God with worthie gifts will gladly honour thee And tribute of espââ¦iall rate to thy high scepter pay All this he freely will performe thy anger to allay But if thy hate to him be more then his gifts may represse Yet pittie all the other Greeks in such extreme distresse Who with religion honour thee and to their desperate ill Thou shalt triumphant glorie bring and Hector thou maist kill When pride makes him encounter thee fild with a banefull sprite Who vaunts our whole-fleet brought not one equall to him in fight Swift-foot Aeacides replide Diuine Laertes sonne Achilles answers Vlysses Oration T' is requisite I should be short and shew what place hath wonne Thy serious speech affirming nought but what you shall approue Establisht in my settled heart that in the rest I moue No murmure nor exception for like hell mouth I loath Who holds not in his words and thoughts one indistinguisht troth What fits the freenesse of my mind my speech shall make displaid Not Atreus sonne nor all the Grââ¦eks shall winne me to their aid Their suite is wretchedly enforc't to free their owne despaires And my life neuer shall be hir'd with thanklesse desperate praires For neuer had I benefite that euer foild the foe Euen share hath he that keepes his tent and he to field doth go With equall honour cowards die and men most valiant The mucâ⦠performer and the man that can of noââ¦hing vant No ouerplus I euer found when with my minds most strife To do them good to dangerous fight I haue exposd my life But euen as to vnfeatherd birds the carefull dam brings meate Which when she hath bestow'd her selff hath nothing left to eat So when my broken sleepes haue drawne the nights t'extremest length And ended many bloodie daies with still-employed strength To guard their weaknesse and preserue their wiues contents infract I haue bene robd before their eyes twelue cities I haue sackt Assaild by sea eleuen by land while this siege held at Troy And of all these what was most deare and most might crowne the ioy Of Agamemnon he enioyd who here behind remaind Which when he tooke a few he gaue and many things retaind Other to Optimates and Kings he gaue who hold them fast Yet mine he forceth onely I sit with my losse disgrac't But so he gaine a louely Dame to be his beds delight It is enough for what cause else do Greeks and Troians fight Why brought he hither such an hoast was it not for a Dame For faire-hair'd Hellen and doth loue alone the hearts inflame Of the Atrides to their wiues of all the men that moue Euery discreet and honest mind cares for his priuate loue As much as they as I my selfe lou'd Brysis as my life Although my captiue and had will to take her for my wife Whom since he forc't preuenting me in vaine he shall prolong Hopes to appease me that know well the deepnesse of my wrong But good Vlysses with thy selfe and all you other Kings Let him take stomacke to repell Troyes firie threatenings Much hath he done without my helpe built him a goodly fort Cut a dike by it pitcht with pales broad and of deepe import And cannot all these helpes represse this kil-man Hectors fright When I was arm'd amongst the Greekes he would not offer fight Without the shadow of his wals but to the Scaean ports Or to the holy Beech of Ioue come backt with his consorts Where once he stood my charge alone and hardly made retreat And to make new proofe of our powers the doubt is not so great To morrow then with sacrifice perform'd t'imperiall Ioue And all the Gods I le lanch my fleet and all my men remoue Which if thou wilt vse so thy sight or think'st it worth respect In forehead of the morne thine eyes shall see with sailes erect Amidst the fishie Hellespont helpt with laborious oares And if the sea-god send free saile the fruitfull Pthian shores Within three dayes we shall attaine where I haue store of prise Left when with preiudice I came to these indignities There haue I gold as well as here and store of ruddie brasse Dames slender elegantly girt and steele as bright as glasse These will I take as I retire as shares I firmly saue Though Agamemnon be so base to take the gifts he gaue Tell him all this and openly I on your honors charge That others may take shame to heare his lusts command so large And if there yet remaine a man he hopeth to deceiue Being dide in endlesse impudence that man may learne to
leaue His trust and Empire but alas though like a wolfe he be Shamelesse and rude he durst not take my prise and looke on me I neuer will partake his works nor counsels as before He once deceiu'd and iniur'd me and he shall neuer more Tie my affections with his words enough is the increase Of one successe in his deceits which let him ioy in peace And beare it to a wretched end wise Ioââ¦e hath reft his braine To bring him plagues and these his gifts I as my foes disdaine Euen in the numnesse of calme death I will reuengefull be Though ten or twentie times so much he would bestow on me All he hath here or any where or Orchomen containes To which men bring their wealth for strength or all the store remaines In circuite of Aegyptian Thebes where much hid treasure lies Whose wals containe an hundred ports of so admir'd a size Two hundred souldiers may afront with horse and chariots passe Noâ⦠would ââ¦e amplifie all this like sand or dust or grasse Should he reclaime me till his wreake payd me for all the paines That with his contumely burnd like poison in my veines ãâã ãâã and ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Nor shall his daughter be my wife although she might contend With golden Venââ¦s for her forme or if she did transcend Blew-eyd Minââ¦a for her works let him a Greeke select Fit for her and a greater King For if the Gods protect My safetie to my fathers court he shall chuse me a wife Many faire Achiue Princesses of vnimpeached life In Helle and in Pthia liue whose Sires do cities hold Of whom I can haue whom I will And more an hundred ââ¦old My true mind in my countrie likes to take a lawfull wife Then in another nation and there delight my life With those goods that my father got much rather then die here Not all the wealth of wel-built Troy possest when peace was there All that Apollââ¦s marble Fane in stonie Pythos holds I value equall with the life that my free breast infolds Sheepe Oxen Tripods crest-deckt horse though lost may come againe But when the white guard of our teeth no longer can containe Our humane soule away it flies and once gone neuer more To her fraile mansion any man can her lost powres restore And therefore since my mother-queene fam'd for her siluer feet Told me two fates about my death in my direction meet The one that if I here remaine t' assist our victorie My safe returne shall neuer liue my fame shall neuer die If my returne obtaine successe much of my fame decayes But death shall linger his approach and I liue many dayes This being reueal'd t were foolish pride t' abridge my life for praise Then with my selfe I will aduise others to hoise their saile For gainst the height of Ilion you neuer shall preuaile Ioue with his hand protecteth it and makes the souldiers bold This tell the King in euery part for so graue Legates should That they may better counsels vse to saue their fleet and friends By their owne valours since this course drown'd in my anger ends Phoenix may in my tent repose and in the moââ¦e stere course For Pthia if he thinke it good if not I le vse no force All wondred at his sterne reply and Phââ¦nix full of feares His words would be more weake then iust supplide their wants with teares If thy returne incline thee thus Peleus renowned ioy And thou wilt let our ships be burnd with harmfull fire of Troy Phoenix Oration to Aââ¦hilles Since thou art angrie O my sonne how shall I after be Alone in these extremes of death relinquished by thee I whom thy royall father sent as orderer of thy force When to Atrides from his Court he left thee for this course Yet young and when in skill of armes thou didst not so abound Nor hadst the habite of discourse that makes men so renownd In all which I was set by him t' instruct thee as my sonne That thou mightst speake when speech was fit and do when deeds were done Not sit as dumbe for want of words idle for skill to moue I would not then be left by thee deare sonne begot in loue No not if God would promise me to raze the prints of time Caru'd in my bosome and my browes and grace me with the prime Of manly youth as when at first I left sweet Helles shore Deckt with faire Dames and fled the grudge my angrie father bore Who was the faire Amyntor cald surnam'd Ormenides Morââ¦m ãâã obseruat quâ⦠de prateritis libeââ¦ter solent meminisse And for a faire-haird harlots sake that his affects could please Contemnd my mother his true wife who ceaslesse vrged me To vse his harlot Clytia and still would claspe my knee To do her will that so my Site might turne his loue to hate Of that lewde Dame conuerting it to comfort her estaâ⦠At last I was content to proue to do my mother good And reconcile my fathers loue who straight suspitious stood Pursuing me with many a curse and to the Furies praide No Dame might loue nor bring me seed the Deities obayd That gouerne hell infernall Ioue and sterne Persephone Then durst I in no longer date with my sterne fatherbe Yet did my friends and neare allies enclose me with desires Not to depart kild sheepe bores beeues rost them at solemne fires And from my fathers tuns we drunke exceeding store of wine Nine niââ¦hts they guarded me by turns their fires did ceaslesse shine One in the porch of his strong hall and in the portall one Before my chamber but when day beneath the tenth night shone I brake my chambers thick-fram'd dores and through the hals guard past Vnseene of any man or maide Through Greece then rich and vast I fled to Pthia nurse of sheepe and came to Peleus Court Who entertaind me heartily and in as gracious sort As any Sire his onely sonne borne when his strength is spent And blest with great possessions to leaue to his descent He made me rich and to my charge did much command commend I dwelt in th'vt most region rich Pthia doth extend And gouernd the Dolopians and made thee what thou aâ⦠O thou that like the Gods art fram'd since dearest to my heart I vsde thee so thou lou'dst none else nor any where wouldst eate Till I had crownd my knee with theee and karu'd thee tenderst meate And giuen thee wine so much for loue that in thy infancie Which still discretion must protect and a continuall eye My bosome louingly sustain'd the wine thine could not beare Then now my strength needs thine as much be mine to thee as deare Much haue I sufferd for thy loue much labour'd wished much Thinking since I must haue no heire the Gods decrees are such I would adopt thy selfe my heire to thee my heart did giue What any Sire could giue his sonne in thee I hop't to liue O mitigate
him that hath dishonord me Lest such loose kindnesse lose his heart that yet is firme to thee It were thy praise to hurt with me the hurter of my state Since halfe my honor and my Realme thou maist participate Let these Lords then returne th' euent and do thou here repose And when darke sleepe breakes with the day our counsels shall disclose The course of our returne or stay This said he with his eye Made to his friend a couert signe to hasten instantly A good soft bed that the old Prince soone as the Peeres were gone Might take his rest when souldier-like braue Aiax Telamon Spake to Vlysses as with thought Achilles was not worth The high direction of his speech that stood so sternly forth Vnmou'd with th'Orators and spake not to appease Pelides wrath but to depart his arguments were these High-issued Laertiades let vs insist no more Aiââ¦x souldier-like speech and fashion On his perswasion I perceiue the world woââ¦d end before Our speeches end in this affaire we must with vtmost haste Returne his answer though but bad the Peeres are else-where plac't And will not rise till we returne great Thetis sonne hath stor'd Prowd wrath within him as his wealth and will not be implor'd Rude that he is nor his friends loue respects do what they can Wherein past all we honourd him O vnremorsefull man Another for his brother slaine another for his sonne Accepts of satisfaction and he the deed hath done Liues in belou'd societie long after his amends To which his foes high heart for gifts with patience condescends But thee a wild and cruell spirit the Gods for plague haue giuen And for one girle of whose faiââ¦e sexe we come to offer seauen The most exempt for excellence and many a better prise Then put a sweet mind in thy breast respect thy owne allies Though others make thee not remisse a multitude we are Sprung of thy royall familie and our supremest caââ¦e Is to be most familiar and hold most louâ⦠with thee Of all the Greeks how great an host soeuer here there be He answerd Noble Telamon Prince of our souldiers here Achilles tâ⦠ãâã Out of thy heart I know thou speakst and as thou holdst me deare But still as often as I thinke how rudely I was vsd And like a stranger for all rites fit for our good refusd My heart doth swell against the man that durst be so profane To violate his sacred place not for my priuate bane But since wrackt vertues generall lawes he shamelesse did infringe For whose sake I will loose the reines and giue mine anger swinge Without my wisedomes least impeach He is a foole and base That pitties vice-plagu'd minds when paine not loue of right giues place And therefore tell your king my Lords my iust wrath will not care For all his cares before my tents and nauie charged are By warlike Hector making way through flockes of Grecian liues Enlightned by their nauall fire but when his rage arriues About my tent and sable barke I doubt not but to shield Them and my selfe and make him flie the there-strong bounded field This said each one but kist the cup and to the ships retir'd Vlysses first Patroclus then the men and maids requiââ¦'d To make graue Phoenix bed with speed and see he nothing lacks They straite obeyd and thereon laid the subtile fruite of flax And warme sheep-fels for couering and there the old man slept Attending till the golden Morne her vsuall station kept Achilles lay in th'inner roome of his tent richly wrought And that faire Ladie by his side that he from Lesbos brought Bright Diomeda Phorbas seed Patroclus did embrace The beautious Iphis giuen to him when his bold friend did race The loftie Syrus that was kept in Enyeius hold Now at the tent of Atreus sonne each man with cups of gold Agamemnon to Vlysses Receiu'd th' Ambassadors returnd all clusterd neare to know What newes they brought which first the king would haue Vlysses show Say most praise-worthie Ithacus the Grecians great renowne Will he defend vs or not yet will his prowd stomacke downe Vlysses made replie Not yet will he appeased be Vlysses to Agââ¦memnon But growes more wrathfull prizing light thy offerd gifts and thee And wils thee to consult with vs and take some other course To saue our armie and our fleete and sayes with all his force The morne shall light him on his way to Pthias wished soile For neuer shall high-seated Troy be sackt with all our toile loue holds his hand twixt vs and it the souldiers gather heart Thus he replies which Aiax here can equally impart And both these Heralds Phoenix stayes for so was his desire To go with him if he thought good if not he might retire All wondred he should be so sterne at last bold Diomed spake Would God Atrides thy request were yet to vndertake Diomed to Agaââ¦non And all thy gifts vnofferd him he 's proud enough beside But this ambassage thou hast sent will make him burst with pride But let vs suffer him to stay or go at his desire Fight when his stomacke serues him best or when Ioue shall inspire Meane while our watch being strongly held let vs a little rest After our food strength liues by both and vertue is their guest Then when the rosie-fingerd Morne holds out her siluer light Bring forth thy host encourage all and be thou first in fight The kings admir'd the fortitude that so diuinely mou'd The skilfull horseman Diomed and his aduice approu'd Then with their nightly sacrifice each toooke his seuerall tent Where all receiu'd the soueraigne gifts soft Somnus did present The end of the ninth Booke THE TENTH BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT TH'Atrides watching wake the other Peeres And in the Fort consulting of their feares Two kings they send most stout and honord most For royall skowts into the Troian host Who meeting Dolon Hectors bribed Spie Take him and learne how all the Quarters lie He told them in the Thracian regiment Of rich king Rhesus and his royall Tent Striuing for safetie but they end his strife And rid poore Dolon of a dangerous life Then with digressiue wyles they ãâã their force On Rhesus life and take his snoââ¦e horse Another Argument Kappa the Night exploits applies Rhesus and Dolons tragedies THe other Princes at their ships soft fingerd sleepe did bind But not the Generall Somnus silkes bound not his laboring mind Agaââ¦nons cares That turnd and returnd many thoughts And as quicke lightnings flie These are the liââ¦htnings before snow c. that Scalligers Critiâ⦠ãâã ââ¦worthily ãâã citing the place falsly as in the 3. bookes annotations c From well-deckt Iunos soueraigne out of the thickned skie Preparing some exceeding raine or haile the fruite of cold Or downe-like Snow that sodainly makes all the fields looke old Or opes the gulfie mouth of warre with his ensulphur'd hand In dazling
him as did him higher raise Vlysses mââ¦destie in accepting And said Tydides praise me not more then free truth will beare Nor yet empaire me they are Greeks that giue iudiciall eare But come the morning hasts the stars are forward in their course Two parts of night are past the third is left t' imploy our force Now borrowed they for haste some armes bold Thrasymedes lent The explââ¦rators armed Aduentrous Diomed his sword his owne was at his tent His shield and helme tough and well tann'd without or plume or crest And cald a murrion archers heads it vsed to inuest Meriones lent Ithacus his quiuer and his bow His helmet fashiond of a hide the workman did bestow Much labour in it quilting it with bowstrings and without With snowie tuskes of white-mouthd Bores t was armed round about Right cunningly and in the midst an arming cap was plac't That with the fixt ends of the tuskes his head might not be rac't This long since by Autolycus was brought from Eleon When he laid waste Amyntors house that was Ormenus sonne In Scandia to Cytherius surnam'd Amphydamas Autolycus did giue this helme he when he feasted was By honord Molus gaue it him as present of a guest Molus to his sonne Merion did make it his bequest With this Vlysses arm'd his head and thus they both addrest Aââ¦gurium ex cantâ⦠Ardeâ⦠Tooke leaue of all the other kings to them a glad ostent As they were entring on their way Minerua did present A Hernshaw consecrate to her which they could ill discerne Through sable night but by her clange they knew it was a Herne Vlysses ioy'd and thus inuok't Heare me great seed of Ioue Vlysses inââ¦oketh Pallaâ⦠That euer dost my labors grace with presence of thy loue And all my motions dost attend still loue me sacred Dame Especially in this exploit and so protect our fame We both may safely make retreate and thriftily imploy Out boldnesse in some great affaire banefull to them of Troy Then praid illustrate Diomed Vouchsafe me likewise eare Diomed to Pallâ⦠O thou vnconquerd Queene of armes be with thy fauors neare As to my royall fathers steps thou wentst a bountious guide When th' Achiues and the Peeres of Thebes he would haue pacifide Sent as the Greeks Ambassador and left them at the flood Of great Aesopus whose retreat thou mad'st to swim in blood Of his enambusht enemies and if thou so protect My bold endeuours to thy name an Heiffer most select That neuer yet was tam'd with yoke brode fronted one yeare old I le burne in zealous sacrifice and set the hornes in gold The Goddesse heard and both the kings their dreadlesse passage bore Through slaughter slaughterd carkasses armes and discolord gore Nor Hector let his Princes sleepe but all to counsell cald And askt What one is here will vow and keepe it vnap pald Hââ¦tor to the ãâã To haue a gift fit for his deed a chariot and two horse That passe for speed the rest of Greece what one dares take take this course For his renowne besides his gifts to mixe amongst the foe And learne if still they hold their guards or with this ouerthrow Determine flight as being too weake to hold vs longer warre All silent stood at last stood forth one Dolon that did dare Dolâ⦠offers to be exploratââ¦r This dangerous worke Eumedes heire a Herald much renownd This Dolon did in gold and brasse exceedingly abound But in his forme was quite deform'd yet passing swift to run Amongst fiue sisters he was left Eumedes onely son And he told Hector his free heart would vndertake t'explore The Greeks intentions but said he thou shalt be sworne before By this thy scepter that the horse of great Aeacides And his strong chariot bound with brasse thou wilt before all these Resigne me as my valours prise and so I rest vnmou'd To be thy spie and not returne before I haue approu'd By venturing to Atrides ship where their consults are held If they resolue still to resist or flie as quite expeld He put his scepter in his hand and cald the thunders God Hector sweares to Dââ¦lon Saturnias husband to his oath those horse should not bero de By any other man then he but he for euer ioy To his renowne their seruices for his good done to Troy Thus swore he and forswore himselfe yet made base Dolon bold Dolon armes Who on his shoulders hung his bow and did about him fold A white wolues hide and with a helme of weasels skins did arme His weasels head then tooke his dart and neuer tuââ¦d to harme The Greeks with their related drifts but being past the troopes Of horse and foote he promptly runs and as he runs he stoopes To vndermine Achilles horse Vlysses straight did see And said to Diomed this man makes footing towards thee Out of the tents I know not well if he be vsde as spie Vlysses to Diââ¦med Bent to our fleet or come to rob the slaughterd enemie But let vs suffer him to come a little further on And then pursue him If it chance that we be ouergone By his more swiftnesse vrge him still to run vpon our fleet And left he scape vs to the towne still let thy Iaueline meet With all his offers of retreate Thus stept they from the plaine Amongst the slaughterd carkasses Dolon came on amaine Suspecting nothing but once past as farre as Mules outdraw Oxen at plough being both put on neither admitted law To plow a deepe soild furrow forth so farre was Dolon past Then they pursude which he perceiu'd and staid his speedlesse hast Subtly supposing Hector sent to countermand his spie But in a Iauelins throw or lesse he knew them enemie Then laid he on his nimble knees and they pursude like wind As when a brace of greyhounds are laid in with Hare or Hind Simile Close-mouth'd and skild to make the best of their industrious course Serue eithers turne and set on hard lose neither ground nor force So constantly did Tydeus sonne and his towne-razing Peere Pursue this spie still turning him as he was winding neare His couert till he almost mixt with their out-courts of guard Then Pallas prompted Diomed lest his due worths reward Diomed to Dolon Should be empaird if any man did vant he first did sheath His sword in him and he be cald but second in his death Then spake he threatning with his lance or stay or this comes on And long thou canst not run before thou be by death out-gone This said he threw his Iaueline forth which mist as Diomed would Aboue his right arme making way the pile stucke in the mould He staid and trembled and his teeth did chatter in his head They came in blowing seisd him fast he weeping offered Dââ¦lons surprise and offer A wealthy ransome for his life and told them he had brasse Much gold and iron that fit for vse in
from their tempted rest Some other God should stirre the foe and send him backe dismaid He knew the voice tooke horse and fled the Troians heauenly aid Apollo with the siluer bow stood no blind sentinell To their secure and drowsie hoast but did discouer well Minerua following Diomed and angrie with his act The mightie hoast of Ilion he entred and awak't The cousen germane of the king a counsellor of Thrace Hopocoon who when he rose and saw the desert place Where Rhesus horse did vse to stand and th' other dismall harmes Men strugling with the pangs of death he shriekt out thicke alarmes Alââ¦rmes amongest the Troians Cald Rhesus Rhesus but in vaine then still arme arme he cride The noise and tumult was extreme on euery startled side Of Troyes huge hoast from whence in throngs all gatherd and admir'd Who could performe such harmfull facts and yet be safe retir'd Now comming where they slue the scout Vlysses stayd the steeds Tydides lighted and the spoiles hung on the Tamricke reeds He tooke and gaue to Ithacus and vp he got againe Then flew they ioyfull to their fleet Nestor did first attaine The sounds the horse hoofes strooke through aire and said My royall Peeres Nestor to the Greeks Do I but dote or say I true me thinks about mine eares The sounds of running horses beate O would to God they were Our friends thus soone returnd with spoiles but I haue heartie feare Lest this high tumult of the foe doth their distresse intend He scarce had spoke when they were come Both did from horse descend All with embraces and sweet words to heauen their worth did raise Then Nestor spake Great Ithachus euen heapt with Grecian praise How haue you made these horse your prise pierc't you the dangerous host Where such gemmes stand or did some God your high attempts accost And honord you with this reward why they be like the Rayes Tââ¦e Sunne effuseth I haue mixt with Troians all my daies And now I hope you will not say I alwaies lye abord Though an old soldier I confesse yet did all Troy afford Neuer the like to any sence that euer I possest But some good God no doubt hath met and your high valours blest For he that shadowes heauen with clouds loues both as his delights And she that supples earth with blood can not forbeare your sights Vlysses answerd Honord Sire the willing Gods can giue Vlysses to Nestor Horse much more worth then these men yeeld since in more power they liue These horse are of the Thracian breed their king Tydides slue And twelue of his most trusted guard and of that meaner crew A skowt for thirteenth man we kild whom Hector sent to spie The whole estate of our designes if bent to fight or flie Thus followed with whole troopes of friends they with applauses past The spacious dike and in the tent of Diomed they plac't The horse without contention as his deseruings meed Which with his other horse set vp on yellow wheat did feed Poore Dolons spoiles Vlysses had who shrin'd them on his sterne As trophies vow'd to her that sent the good aboding Herne Thââ¦n entred they the meere maine sea to cleanse their honord sweate From off their feet their thighes and neckes and when their vehement heate Was calm'd and their swolne hearts refresht more curious baths they vsd Where odorous and dissoluing Oyles they through their lims diffusde Then taking breakfast a big boule fild with the purest wine They offerd to the maiden Queene that hath the azure eyne The end of the tenth Booke THE ELEVENTH BOOK OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT ATrides and his other Peeres of name Leade forth their men whom Eris doth inflame Hector by Iris charge takes deedlesse breath Whiles Agamemnon plies the worke of death Who with the first beares his imperiall head Himselfe Vlysses and King Diomed Euripylus and Aesculapius sonne Enforc't with wounds the furious skirmish shun Which martiall sight when great Achilles viewes A little his desire of fight renewes And forth he sends his friend to bring him word From old Neleides what wounded Lord He in his chariot from the skirmish brought Which was Machaon Nestor then besought He would perswade his friend to wreake their harmes Or come himselfe deckt in his dreadfull armes Another Argument Lambda presents the Generall In fight the worthiest man of all AVrora out of restfull bed did from bright Tython rise To bring each deathlesse essence light and vse to mortall eyes When Ioue sent Eris to the Greekes sustaining in her hand Sterne signes of her designes for warre she tooke her horrid stand Vpon Vlysses huge blacke Barke that did at anchor ride Amidst the fleet from whence her sounds might ring on euery side Both to the tents of Telamon and th'authors of their smarts Who held for fortitude and force the nauies vtmost parts The red-eyd Goddesse seated there thunderd th'Orthian song Eris contention sings and excites the Grââ¦cians High and with horror through the eares of all the Grecian throng Her verse with spirits inuincible did all their breasts inspire Blew out all darknesse from their lims and set their hearts on fire And presently was bitter warre more sweet a thousand times Then any choice in hollow keeles to greet their natiu climes Atrides summon'd all to armes to armes himselfe disposde Agamemnon armes for the ââ¦eld First on his legs he put bright Greaues with siluer buttons closde Then with rich Curace arm'd his breast which Cyniras bestow'd To gratifie his royall guest for euen to Cyprus flow'd Th' vnbounded fame of those designes the Greeks proposde for Trââ¦y And therefore gaue he him those armes and wisht his purpose ioy Ten rowes of azure mixt with blacke twelue golden like the Sunne Twise ten of tin in beaten paths did through this armour runne Three serpents to the gorget crept that like three rain-bowes shin'd Such as by Ioue are fixt in clouds when wonders are diuin'd About his shoulders hung his sword whereof the hollow hilt Was fashion'd all with shining barres exceeding richly gilt The scaberd was of siluer plate with golden hangers grac't Then tooke he vp his weighââ¦ie shield that round about him cast Dââ¦fensiue shadowes ten bright zones of gold-affecting brasse Were driuen about it and of tin as full of glosse as glasse Sweld twentie bosses out of it in center of them all One of blacke mettall had engrauen full of extreme appall An vgly Gorgon compassed with Terror and with Feare At it a siluer Bawdricke hung with which he vsde to beare Wound on his arme his ample shield and in it there was wouen An azure Dragon curl'd in folds from whose one necke was clouen Three heads contorted in an orbe then plac't he on his head His foure-plum'd caske and in his hands two darts he managed Arm'd with bright steele that blaz'd to heauen then Iuno and the maide That conquers Empires trumpets seru'd to summon out their aide
streÌgths try season there their sweet With ceaslesse toils and grieuances For now he turnd his face Lookt down viewd the far-off land of welrode meÌ in Thrace Of the renown'd amilk-nourisht men the Hippemolgians Long-liu'd most iust and innocent And close-fought Mysians Nor turnd he any more to Troy his euer-shining eyes Because he thought not any one of all the Deities When his care left th' indifferent field would aide on either side But this securitie in Ioue the great Sea-Rector spide Who sate aloft on th' vtmost top of shadie Samothrace And viewd the fight His chosen seate stood in so braue a place Neptunes prospect That Priams cittie th' Achiue ships all Ida did appeare To his full view who from the sea was therefore seated there He tooke much ruth to see the Greeks by Troy sustaine such ill And mightily incenst with Ioue stoopt strait from that steepe hill That shooke as he flew off so hard his parting prest the height The woods and all the great hils neare trembled beneath the weight Of his immortall mouing feet three steps he onely tooke Before he far-off Aegas reacht but with the fourth it shooke With his drad entrie In the depth of those seas he did hold His bright and glorious pallace built of neuer-rusting gold And there arriu'd he put in Coach his brazen-footed steeds All golden man'd and pac't with wings and all in golden weeds The horse of Neptune He cloth'd himselfe The golden scourge most elegantly done He tooke and mounted to his seate and then the God begun To driue his chariot through the waues From whirlepits euery way The whales exulted vnder him and knew their king the Sea For ioy did open and his horse so swift and lightly flew The vnder-axeltree of Brasse no drop of water drew And thus these deathlesse Coursers brought their king to th' Achiuâ⦠ships Twixt th' Imber Cliffs and Tenedos a certaine Cauerne creepes Into the deepe seas gulphie breast and there th'earth-shaker staid Chorographia His forward steeds tooke them from coach and heauenly fodder laid In reach before them Their brasse houes he giâ⦠with giues of gold Not to be broken nor dissolu'd to make them firmely hold A fit attendance on their king Who went to th' Achiue host Nept une goes to the Greekes Which like to tempests or wild flames the clustring Troians tost Insatiably valourous in Hectors like command High founding and resounding shouts for Hope chear'd euery hand To make the Greek fleete now their prise and all the Greeks destroy But Neptune circler of the earth with fresh heart did employ The Grecian hands In strength of voice and body he did take Calchas resemblance and of all th' Aiaces first bespake Who of themselues were free enough Aiaces you alone Neptunâ⦠to the two Aââ¦aces Sustaine the common good of Greece in euer putting on The memorie of Fortitude and flying shamefull Flight Elsewhere the desperate hands of Troy could giue me no affright The braue Greeks haue withstood their worst but this our mightie wall Being thus transcended by their powre graue Feare doth much appall My carefull spirits lest we feele some fatall mischiefe here Where Hector raging like a flame doth in his charge appeare And boasts himselfe the best Gods sonne Be you conceited so And fire so more then humane spirits that God may seeme to do In your deeds and with such thoughts chear'd others to such exhort And such resistance these great minds will in as great a sort Strengthen your bodies and force checke to all great Hectors charge Though nereso spirit-like and though Ioue still past himselfe enlarge His sacred actions Thus he toucht with his forckt scepters point The brests of both fild both their spirits and made vp euery ioynt With powre responsiue when hawk-like swift and set sharpe to flie Simile That fiercely stooping from a rocke inaccessible and hie Cuts through a field and sets a fowle not being of her kind Hard and gets ground still Neptune so left these two eithers mind Beyond themselues raisd Of both which Oileus first discern'd The masking Deitie and said Aiax some God hath warn'd Aiax Oileus to Aiax Telamoââ¦ius Our powres to fight and saue our fleet He put on him the hew Of th'Augure Calchas by his pace in leauing vs I knew Without all question t was a God the Gods are easly knowne And in my tender brest I feele a greater spirit blowne To execute affaires of fight I find my hands so free To all high motion and my feete seeme featherd vnder me The two ãâã to ãâã ãâã This Telamonius thus receiu'd So to my thoughts my hands Burne with desire to tosse my lance each foote beneath me stands Bare on bright fire to vse his speed my heart is raisd so hie That to encounter Hectors selfe I long insatiately While these thus talkt as ouer-ioyd with studie for the fight Which God had stird vp in their spirits the same God did excite The Greekes that were behind at fleet refreshing their free hearts And ioynts being euen dissolu'd with toyle and seeing the desprate parts Playd by the Troians past their wall Griefe strooke them and their eyes Sweat teares from vnder their sad lids their instant destinies Neuer supposing they could scape But Neptune stepping in With ease stird vp the able troopes and did at first begin With Teucer and Peneleus th'Heroe Leitus Deipirus Meriones and yong Antilochus All expert in the deeds of armes O youths of Greece said he Neptâ⦠to the Greekes What change is this In your braue fight I onely lookt to see Our fleets whole safetie and if you neglect the harmefull field Now shines the day when Greece to Troy must all her honours yeeld O griefe so great a miracle and horrible to sight As now I see I neuer thought could haue prophan'd the light The Troians braue vs at our ships that haue bene heretofore Like faint and fearefull Deare in woods distracted euermore With euerie sound and yet scape not but proue the torne-vp fare Of Lynces Wolues and Leopards as neuer borne to warre Nor durst these Troians at first siege in any least degree Expect your strength or stand one shocke of Grecian Chiualrie Yet now farre from their walles they dare fight at our fleet maintaine All by our Generals cowardise that doth infect his men Who still at ods with him for that will needs themselues neglect And suffer Slaughter in their ships Suppose there was defect Beyond all question in our king to wrong Aeacides And he for his particular wreake from all assistance cease We must not ceasse t' assist our selues Forgiue our Generall then Good minded men apt to forgiue And quickly too apt to forgiue are all good minded men Yet you quite voide of their good minds giue good in you quite lost For ill in others though ye be the worthiest of your host As old as I am I
though but two yet being both combinde The worke of many single hands we may performe we finde That Vertue coaugmented thriues in men of little minde But we haue singly matcht the great This said the God again With all his conflicts visited the ventrous fight of men The king turnd to his tent rich armes put on his brest and toooke Two darts in hand and forth he flew his haste on made him looke Much like a fierie Meteor with which Ioues sulphrie hand Opes heauen and hurles about the aire bright flashes showing aland Abodes that euer run before tempest and plagues to men So in his swift pace shew'd his armes he was encountred then By his good friend Meriones yet neare his tent to whom Thus spake the powre of Idomen What reason makes thee come Thou sonne of Molus my most lou'd thus leauing fight alone Is' t for some wound the Iauelins head still sticking in the bone Desir'st thou ease of Bring'st thou newes or what is it that brings Thy presence hither Be assur'd my spirite needs no stings To this hote conflict Of my selfe thou seest I come and loth For any tents loue to deserue the hatefull taint of Sloth He answerd Onely for a dart he that retreat did make Were any left him at his tent for that he had he brake On proud Deiphobus his shield Is one dart all said he Take one and twentie if thou like for in my tent they be They stand there shining by the walls I tooke them as my prise From those false Troians I haue slaine And this is not the guise Of one that loues his tent or fights afarre off with his foe But since I loue fight therefore doth my martiall starre bestow Besides those darts helmes targets bost and corslets bright as day So I said Merion at my tent and sable barke may say I many Troian spoiles retaine but now not neare they be To serue me for my present vse and therefore aske I thee Not that I lacke a fortitude to store me with my owne For euer in the formost fights that render men renowne I fight when any fight doth stirre and this perhaps may well Be hid to others but thou know'st and I to thee appeale I know replide the king how much thou weigh'st in euerie worth What needst thou therefore vtter this If we should now chuse forth The worthiest men for ambushes in all our fleet and host For ambushes are seruices that trie mens vertues most Since there the fearefull and the firme will as they are appeare The fearefull altering still his hue and rests not any where Nor is his spirit capable of th' ambush constancie But riseth changeth still his place and croucheth curiously On his bent hanches halfe his height scarce seene aboue the ground For feare to be seene yet must see his heart with many a bound Offring to leape out of his breast and euer fearing death The coldnesse of it makes him gnash and halfe shakes out his teeth Where men of valour neither feare nor euer change their lookes From lodging th' ambush till it rise buut since there must be strokes Wish to be quickly in their midst thy strength and hand in these Who should reproue For if farre off or fighting in the prease Thou shouldst be wounded I am sure the dart that gaue the wound Should not be drawne out of thy backe or make thy necke the ground But meete thy bellie or thy breast in thrusting further yet When thou art furthest till the first and before him thou get Buton like children let not vs stand bragging thus but do Lest some heare and past measure chide that we stand still and wooe Go chuse a better dart and make Mars yeeld a better chance This said Mars-swift Meriones with haste a brazen lance Tooke from his tent and ouertooke most carefull of the wars Idomeneus And such two in field as harmfull Mars And Terror his beloued sonne that without terror fights And is of such strength that in warre the frighter he affrights When out of Thrace they both take armes against th' Ephyran bands Or gainst the great-soul'd Phlegians nor fauour their owne hands But giue the grace to others still In such sort to the fight Marcht these two managers of men in armours full of light And first spake Merion On which part sonne of Deucalion Serues thy mind to inuade the fight is' t best to set vpon The Troians in our battels aide the right or left-hand wing For all parts I suppose employd To this the Cretan king Thus answerd In our nauies midst are others that assist The two Aiaces Teucer too with shafts the expertest Of all the Grecians and though small is great in fights of stand And these though huge he be of strengh will serue to fill the hand Of Hectors selfe that Priamist that studier for blowes It shall be cald a deed of height for him euen suffring throwes For knocks still to out labour them and bettring their tough hands Enflame our fleet if Ioue himselfe cast not his fier-brands Amongst our nauie that affaire no man can bring to field Great Aiax Telamonius to none aliue will yeeld That yeelds to death and whose life takes Ceres nutritions That can be cut with any iron or pasht with mightie stones Not to Aeacides himselfe he yeelds for combats set Though cleare he must giue place for pace and free swinge of his feete Since then the battell being our place of most care is made good By his high valour let our aid see all powres be withstood That charge the left wing and to that let vs direct our course Where quickly feele we this hote foe or make him feele our force This orderd swift Meriones went and forewent his king Till both arriu'd where one enioynd when in the Greeks left wing The Troians saw the Cretan king like fire in fortitude And his attendant in bright armes so gloriously indude Both chearing the sinister troopes all at the king addrest And so the skirmish at their sternes on both parts were increast That as from hollow bustling winds engenderd stormes arise Simile When dust doth chiefly clog the waies which vp into the skies The wanton tempest rauisheth begetting Night of Day So came together both the foes both Iusted to assay And worke with quicke steele eithers death Mans fierce Corruptresse Fight Set vp her bristles in the field with lances long and light Which thicke fell foule on eithers face the splendor of the steele In new skowrd curets radiant caskes and burnisht shields did seele Th'assailers eyes vp He sustaind a huge spirit that was glad To see that labour or in soule that stood not stricken sad Thus these two disagreeing Gods old Saturns mightie sonnes Afflicted these heroique men with huge oppressions Ioue honouring Aeacides to let the Greeks still trie Their want without him would bestow yet still the victorie On Hector and the Troian powre yet for Aeacides And honor of his mother
Queââ¦e great Goddesse of the seas He would not let proude Ilion see the Grecians quite destroid And therefore from the hoarie deepe he sufferd so imploid Great Neptune in the Grecian aid who grieu'd for them and storm'd Extremely at his brother Ioue Yet both one Goddesse form'd And one soile bred but Iupiter precedence tooke in birth And had more * The Empire of Ioue exceeded Neptunes saith Plut. vpon this place because he was more anciââ¦nt and excellent in knowledg and wisedomâ⦠And vpon this verse viz. ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. sets downe this his most worthy to be noted opinion viz I thinke also that the blessednesse of eternall life which God enioyes is this that by any pastime he forgets not notions presently apprebended for other wise the knowledge vnderstaÌding of things taken away Immortality shold not be lise bââ¦t Time c. Plutde I side Osiride knowledge for which cause the other came not forth Of his wet kingdome but with care of not being seene t' excite The Grecian host and like a man appeard and made the fight So these Gods made mens valours great but equald them with warre As harmefull as their hearts were good and stretcht those chaines as farre On both sides as their lims could beare in which they were inuolu'd Past breach or loosing that their knees might therefore be dissolu'd Then though a halfe-gray man he were Cretes soueraigne did excite The Greeks to blowes and flew vpon the Troians euen to flight For he in sight of all the host Othryoneus slew That from Cabesus with the fame of those waââ¦es thither drew His new-come forces and requir'd without respect of dowre Cassandra fair'st of Priams race assuring with his powre A mightie labour to expell in their despite from Troy The sons of Greece The king did vow that done he should enioy His goodliest daughter He in trust of that faire purchase fought And at him threw the Cretan king a alââ¦nce that singl'd out This great assumer whom it strooke iust in his nauils stead His brazen curets helping nought resignd him to the dead Then did the conquerour exclaime and thus insulted then Othryoneus I will praise beyond all mortall men Thy liuing vertues if thou wilt now perfect the braue vow Thou mad'st to Priam for the wife he promisd to bestow And where he should haue kept his word there we assure thee here To giue thee for thy Princely wife the fairest and most deare Idomens insultation on Othryââ¦ncus Of our great Generals femall race which from his Argiue hall We all will waite vpon to Troy if with our aids and all Thou wilt but race this well-built towne Come therefore follow me That in our ships we may conclude this royall match with thee I le be no iote worse then my word With that he tooke his feete And dragg'd him through the feruent fight In which did Asius meete The victor to inflict reuenge He came on foote before His horse that on his shoulders breath'd so closely euermore His coachman led them to his Lord who held a huge desire To strike the King but he strooke first and vnderneath his chin Asius slaine At his throats height through th' other side his cager lance draue in And downe he busl'd like an Oake a Poplar or a Pine Hewne downe for shipwood and so lay his fall did so decline The spirit of his chariotere that lest he should incense The victor to empaire his spoile he durst not driue from thence His horse and chariot and so pleasd with that respectiue part Antilochus slaughters the chariotere of Asius Antilochus that for his feare he reacht him with a dart About his bellies midst and downe his sad corse fell beneath The richly-builded chariot there labouring out his breath The horse Antilochus tooke off when grieu'd for this euent Deiphobus drew passing neare and at the victor sent Deiââ¦hobus at Antilochus and kils Hypsââ¦nor A shining Iauelin which he saw and shund with gathring round His body in his all-round shield at whose top with a sound It ouerflew yet seising there it did not idlely flie From him tââ¦at wing'd it his strong hand still draue it mortally On Prince Hypsenor it did pierce his liuer vnderneath The veines it passeth his shrunke knees submitted him to death And then did lou'd Deiphobus miraculously vant Now Asius lies not vnreueng'd nor doth his spirit want Deiphobuâ⦠hiâ⦠Braue The ioy I wish it though it be now entring the strong gate Of mightie Pluto since this hand hath sent him downe a mate This glorie in him grieu'd the Greeks and chiefly the great mind Of martiall Antilochus whom though to griefe inclind He left not yet his friend but ran and hid him with his shield And to him came two louely friends that freed him from the field Mecisteus sonne of Echius and the right nobly borne Alastor bearing him to fleââ¦t and did extremely mourne Idomeneus suncke not yet but held his nerues entire His mind much lesse deficient being fed with firme desire To hide more Troians in dim night or sinke himselfe in guard Of his lou'd countrimen And then Alcathous prepar'd Worke for his valour offring fate his owne destruction A great Heroe and had grace to be the loued sonne Of Aesietes sonne in law to Prince Aeneas Sire Hippodamia marrying who most enflam'd the fire Of her deare parents loue and tooke precedence in her birth Of all their daughters and as much exceeded in her worth For beautie answerd with her mind and both with housewiferie All the faire beautie of young Dames that vsde her companie And therefore being the worthiest Dame the worthiest man did wed Of ample Troy Him Neptune stoopt beneath the royall force Of Idomen his sparkling eyes deluding and the course Of his illustrous lineaments so out of nature bound That backe nor forward he could stirre but as he grew to ground Stood like a pillar or high tree and neither mou'd nor fear'd When strait the royall Cretans dart in his mid breast appear'd It brake the curets that were proofe to euerie other dart Yet now they cleft and rung the lance stucke shaking in his heart His heart with panting made it shake But Mars did now remit The greatnesse of it and the king now quitting the bragge fit Of glorie in Deiphobus thus terribly exclam'd Deiphobus now may we thinke that we are euenly fam'd Idomenâ⦠to Deiphobus That three for one haue sent to Dis. But come change blowes with me Thy vaunts for him thou slew'st were vaine Come wretch that thou maist see What issue loue hath Ioue begot Minos the strength of Crete Minos begot Deucalion Deucalion did beget Me Idomen now Cretas king that here my ships haue brought To bringthy selfe thy father friends all Ilions pompe to nought Deiphobus at two wayes stood in doubt to call some one With some retreat to be his aide or trie the chance alone At last
Locrians hid still and their foes all thought of fight forgot With shewes of those farre striking shafts their eyes were troubled so And then assur'dly from the ships and tents th' insulting foe Had miserably fled to Troy had not Polydamas Thus spoke to Hector Hector still impossible t is to passe Polydâ⦠to ãâã Good counsell vpon you but say some God prefers thy deeds In counsels wouldst thou passe vs too In all things none exceeds ãâã adââ¦ice to ãâã To some God giues the powre of warre to some the slââ¦ight to dance To some the art of instruments some doth for voice aduance And that far-seeing God grants some thâ⦠wisedome of the minde Which no man can keepe to himselfe that though but few can ââ¦inde Doth profite many that preserues the publique weale and staâ⦠And that who hath he best can prise but for me I le relate Onely my censure what 's our best The verie crowne of warre Doth burne about thee yet our men when they haue reachâ⦠thus farre Suppose their valours crownd and ceasse A few still stir their feâ⦠And so a few with many fight sperst thinly through the fleet Retire then leaue speech to the route and all thy Princes call That here in counsels of most weight we may resolue of all If hauing likelihood to beleeue that God wil conquest giue We shall charge through or with this grace make our retreate and liue For I must needs affirme I feare the debt of yesterday Since warre is such a God of change the Grecians now will pay And since th' insatiate man of warre remaines at fleet if there We tempt his safetie no howre more ââ¦is hote soule can forbeare This sound stuffe Hector lik't approu'd iumpt from his chariot And said Polydamas make good this place and suffer not One Prince to passe it I myselfe will there go where you see Those friends in skirmish and returne when they haue heard from me Hector for his goodly forme compared to a hill of snow Command that your aduice obeys with vtmost speed this said With day-bright armes white plume white skarffe his goodly lims arraid He parted from them like a hill remouing all of snow And to the Troian Peres and Chiefes he flew to let them know The Counsell of Polydamas All turnd and did reioyce To haste to Panthus gentle sonne being cald by Hectors voyce Who through the forefights making way lookt for Deiophobus King Hellenus Asiades Hyrtasian Asius Of whom some were not to be found vnhurt or vndeceast Some onely hurt and gone from field As further he addrest He found within the fights left wing the faire-hair'd Hellens loue By all meanes mouing men to blowes which could by no meanes moue Hectors forbeareance his friends misse so put his powres in storme Hector chideâ⦠Paris But thus in wonted terms he chid You with the finest forme Impostor womans man Where are in your care markt all these Deiphobus king Hellenus Asius Hyrtacides Othryoneus Acamas now haughtie Ilion Shakes to his lowest groundworke now iust ruine fals vpon Thy head past rescue He replyed Hector why chid'st thou now When I am guiltlesse other times there are for ease I know Then these for she that brought thee forth not vtterly left me Without some portion of thy spirit to make me brother thee But since thou first brought'st in thy force to this our nauall fight I and my friends haue ceaslesse fought to do thy seruice right But all those friends thou seek'st are slaine exeepting Hellenâ⦠Who parted wounded in his hand and so Deiphobus Ioue yet auerted death from them And now leade thou as farre As thy great heart affects all we will second any warre That thou endurest And I hope my owne strength is not lost Though least I le fight it to his best nor further fights the most This calm'd hote Hectors spleene and both turnd where they saw the face Of warre most fierce and that was where their friends made good the place About renowm'd Polydamas and God-like Polyphet Palmus Ascanius Morus that Hippotion did beget And from Ascanias wealthie fields but euen the day before Arriu'd at Troy that with their aide they kindly might restore Some kindnesse they receiu'd from thence and in fierce fight with these Phalces and tall Orthaus stood and bold Cebriones And then the doubt that in aduice Polydamas disclosd To fight or flie Ioue tooke away and all to fight disposd And as the floods of troubled aire to pitchie stormes increase Simile That after thunder sweepes the fields and rauish vp the seas Encountring with abhorred roares when the engrossed waues Boile into foame and endlesly one after other raues So rank't and guarded th' Ilians marcht some now more now and then The Troian host and Hector glorified More vpon more in shining steele now Captaines then their men And Hector like man killing Mars aduanc't before them all His huge round target before him through thickn'd like a wall With hides well coucht with store of brasse and on his temples shin'd His bright helme on which danc't his plume and in this horrid kind All hid within his worldlike shield he euerie troope assaid For entrie that in his despite stood firme and vndismaid Which when he saw and kept more off Aiax came stalking then And thus prouokt him O good man why fright'st thou thus our men Come nearer not Arts want in warre makes vs thus nauie-bound Aiax his speech to Hector Scoptââ¦cè But Ioues direct scourge his arm'd hand makes our hands giue you ground Yet thou hop'st of thy selfe our spoile but we haue likewise hands To hold our owne as you to spoile and ere thy countermands Stand good against our ransackt fleete your hugely-peopl'd towne Our hands shall take in and her towres from all their heights pull downe And I must tell thee time drawes on when flying thou shalt crie To Ioue and all the Gods to make thy faire-man'd horses flie More swift then Falkons that their hoofes may rouse the dust and beare Thy bodie hid to Ilion This said his bold words were Confirm'd as soone as spoke Ioues bird the high flowne Eagle tooke The right hand of their host whose wings high acclamations strooke From foorth the glad breasts of the Greeks Then Hector made replie Vaine-spoken man and glorious what hast thou said would I Hector to Aiax As surely were the sonne of Ioue and of great Iuno borne Adorn'd like Pallas and the God that lifts to earth the Morne As this day shall bring harmefull light to all your host and thou If thou dar'st stand this lance the earth before the ships shalt strow Thy bosome torne vp and the dogs with all the fowle of Troy Be satiate with thy fat and flesh This said with showting ioy His first troopes follow'd and the last their showts with showts repeld Greece answerd all nor could her spirits from all shew rest conceald And to so infinite
read ãâã one of our Tens To this high Clamor who requir'd Machaons thoughts to beare His care in part about the cause for me thinke still said he The crie increases I must needs the watch towre mount to see Which way the flood of warre doth driue Still drinke thou wine and eate Till faire-hair'd Hecamed hath giuen a little water heate To cleanse the quitture from thy wound This said the goodly shield Of war-like Thrasimed his sonne who had his owne in field He tooke snatcht vp a mightie lance and so stept forth to view Cause of that Clamor Instantly th'vnworthy cause he knew The Grecians wholly put in rout the Troians rowting still Close at the Greeks backs their wall rac't the old man mournd this ill And as when with vnwieldie waues the great Sea forefeeles winds Similâ⦠That both waies murmure and no way her certaine current finds But pants and swels confusedly here goes and there will stay Till on it aiââ¦e casts one firme winde and then it rolles away So stood old Nestor in debate two thoughts at once on wing In his discourse if first to take direct course to the King Or to the multitude in fight At last he did conclude To visite Agamemnon first meane time both hosts imbrewd Their steele in one anothers blood nought wrought their healths but harmes Swords huge stones double-headed darts still thumping on their armes And now the Ioue-kept Kings whose wounds were yet in cure did meet Old Nestor Diomed Ithacus and Atreus sonne from fleet Bent for the fight which was farre off the ships being drawne to shore Agamemnon Vlysses and Diomed wounded go towards the ãâã On heapes at first till all theire stems a wall was raisd before Which though not great it yet suffisd to hide them though their men Were something streighted for whose scope in forme of battel then They drew them through the spacious shore one by another still Till all the bosome of the Strand their sable bulks did fill Euen till they tooke vp all the space twixt both the Promontoriâ⦠These kings like Nestor in desire to know for what those cries Became so violent came along all leaning on their daââ¦ts To see though not of powre to fight sad and suspicious hearts Agamemnon to Nestor Distempring them and meeting now Nestor the king in feare Cried out O Nestor our renowne why shewes thy presence here The harmefull fight abandoned now Hector will make good The threatning vow he made I feare that till he had our blood And fir'd our fleet he neuer more would turne to Ilion Nor is it long I see before his whole will will be done O Gods I now see all the Greeks put on Achilles ire Against my honour no meane left to keepe our fleet from fire He answerd T is an euident truth not Ioue himselfe can now Nestor to Agaââ¦emnon With all the thunder in his hands preuent our ouerthrow The wall we thought inuincible and trusted more then Ioue Is scal'd rac't enterd and our powres driuen vp past breathing proue A most ineuitable fight both slaughters so commixt That for your life you cannot put your diligent'st thought betwixt The Greeks and Troians and as close their throates cleaue to the skie Consult we then if that will serue for fight aduise not I It fits not wounded men to fight Atrides answerd him If such a wall as cost the Greeks so many a tired lim And such a dike be past and rac't that as your selfe said well Agamemnons replie to Nestor ââ¦rging flight We all esteemd inuincible and would past doubt repell The world from both our fleete and vs it doth directly show That here Ioue vowes our shames and deaths I euermore did know His hand from ours when he helpt vs and now I see as cleare That like the blessed Gods he holds our hated enemies deare Supports their armes and pinnions ours Conclude then t is in vaine To striue with him Our ships drawne vp now let vs lanch againe And keepe at anchor till calme Night that then perhaps our foes May calme their stormes and in that time our scape we may dispose It is not any shame to flie from ill although by night Knowne ill he better does that flies then he it takes in fight Vlysses frown'd on him and said Accurst why talk'st thou thus Vlysses bitter answer to Agaââ¦mnon Would thou hadst led some babarous host and not commanded vs Whom Ioue made souldiers from our youth that age might scorne to flie From any charge it vndertakes and euery dazeled eye The honord hand of warre might close Thus wouldst thou leaue this towne For which our many miseries felt entitle it our owne Peace lest some other Greeke giue eare and heare a sentence such As no mans pallate should prophane at least that knew how much His owne right weigh'd and being a Prince and such a Prince as beares Rule of so many Greeks as thou This counsell lothes mine eares Let others toyle in fight and cries and we so light of heeles Vpon their verie noise aud grones to hoise away our keeeles Thus we should fit the wish of Troy that being something neare The victorie we giue it cleare and we were sure to beare A slaughter to the vtmost man for no man will sustaine A stroke the fleete gone but at that looke still and wish him slaine And therefore Prince of a men be sure thy censure is vnfit O Ithacus replied the King thy bitter termes haue smit My heart in sunder At no hand gainst any Princes will Do I command this would to God that any man of skill ãâã to Vlysses To giue a better counsell would or old or younger man My voice should gladly go with his Then Diomââ¦d began The man not farre is nor shall aske much labour to bring in Diomed to Agaââ¦non and the rest That willingly would speake his thoughts if spoken they might win Fit eare and suffer no empaire that I discouer them Being yongest of you since my Sire that heir'd a Diadem May make my speech to Diadems decent enough though he Lies in his sepulcher at Thebes I bost this pedigree b Diomââ¦ds podââ¦gree Portheus three famous sonnes begot that in high Calidon And Pleuron kept with state of kings their habitation Agrius Melas and ââ¦he third the horseman Oeneus My fathers father tââ¦at exceld in actions generous The other two but these kept home my father being driuen With wandring and aduentrous spirits for so the king of heauen And th' other Gods set downe their willes and he to Argos came Where he begun the world and dwelt there marying a dame One of Adrastus femall race He kept a royall house For he had great demeanes good land and being industrious He planted many orchard grounds about his house and bred Great store of sheepe Besides all this he was well qualited And past all Argiues for his speare and these digressiue things Are
such as you may well endure since being deriu'd from kings And kings not poore nor vertulesse you cannot hold me base Nor scorne my words which oft though true in meane men meet disgrace How euer they are these in short Let vs be seene at fight And yeeld to strong Necessitie though wounded that our sight May set those men on that of late haue to Acââ¦illes spleene Bene too indulgent and left blowes but be we onely seene Not come within the reach of darts lest wound on wound we lay Which reuerend Nestors speech implide and so farre him obay This counsell gladly all obseru'd went on Aââ¦des led Nor Neptune this aduantage lost but closely followed And like an aged man appear'd t' Aââ¦ides whose right hand ãâã appears likâ⦠an aged ãâã to ãâã He seisd and said Atrides this doth passing ââ¦tly stand With sterne Achilles wreakfull spirit that he can stand a sterne His ship and both in fight and death the Greciâ⦠ãâã discerne Since not in his breast glowes one sparke of any humane mind But be that his owne bane let God by that losse make him find Neptune to Agamââ¦non How vile a thing he is for know the blest Gods haue not giuen Thee euer ouer but perhaps the Troians may from heauen Receiue that iustice Nay t is sure and thou shalt see their fals Your fleete soone freed and for fights here they glad to take their wals This said he made knowne who he was and parted with a crie As if ten thousand men had ioynd in battaile then so hie His throate flew through the host and so this great earth-shaking God Chear'd vp the Greeke hearts that they wisht their paines no period Saturnia from Olympus top saw her great brother there And her great husbands brother too exciting euery where The glorious spirits of the Greeks which as she ioy'd to see So on the fountfull Idas top Ioues sight did disagree With her contentment since she fear'd that his hand would descend And checke the sea-Gods practises And this she did contend How to preuent which thus seem'd best To decke her curiously Iuââ¦o prepares her selfe to deceiue Ioue And visite the Idalian hill that so the Lightners eye She might enamour with her lookes and his high temples steepe Euen to his wisedome in the kind and golden iuyce of sleepe So tooke she chamber which her sonne the God of ferrary With firme doores made being ioyned close and with a priuie key That no God could command but Ioue where enterd she made fast The shining gates and then vpon her louely bodie cast Ambrosia that first made it cleare and after laid on it An odorous rich and sacred oyle that was so wondrous sweet Teââ¦hyomenon ââ¦guentum That euer when it was but toucht it sweetn'd heauen and earth Her body being cleansd with this her Tresses she let forth And comb'd her combe dipt in the oyle then wrapt them vp in cutles And thus het deathlesse head adornd a heauenly veile she hurles On her white shoulders wrought by her that rules in housewiferies Who woue it full of antique workes of most diuine deuice And this with goodly clasps of gold she fastn'd to her breast Then with a girdle whose rich sphere a hunderd studs imprest She girt her small wast In her eares tenderly pierc't she wore Pearles great and orient on her head a wreath not worne before Cast beames out like the Sunne At last she to her feete did tie Faire shoes and thus entire attir'd she shin'd in open skie Cald the faire Paphian Queene apart from th' other Gods and said Lou'd daughter should I aske a grace should I or be obeyd Iââ¦o to Venus Or wouldst thou crosse me being incenst since I crosse thee and take The Greeks part thy hand helping Troy She answerd That shall make Vââ¦us to Iuâ⦠No difference in a different cause aske ancient Deitie What most contents thee my mind stands inclin'd as liberally To grant it as thine owne to aske prouided that it be A fauour fit and in my powre She giuen deceiptfully Thus said Then giue me those two powres with which both men and Gods Thou vanquishest Loue and Desire For now the periods Of all the many-feeding earth and the originall Of all the gods Oceanus and Thetis whom we call Our mother I am going to greet they nurst me in their court And brought me vp receiuing me in most respectfull sort From Phaea when Ioue vnder earth and the vnfruitfull seas Cast Saturne These I go to see intending to appease Iarres growne betwixt them hauing long abstaind from speech and bed Which iarres could I so reconcile that in their angers stead I could place loue and so renew their first societie I should their best lou'd be esteem'd and honord endlesly She answerd T is not fit nor iust thy will should be denied Venus to Iuno Whom Ioue in his embraces holds This spoken she vntied And from her odorous bosome tooke her Ceston in whose sphere Were all enticements to delight all Loues all Longings were Kind conference Faire speech whose powre the wisest doth enflame This she resigning to her hands thus vrg'd her by her name Receiue this bridle thus faire wrought and put it twixt thy brests Where all things to be done are done and whatsoeuer rests In thy desire returne with it The great-eyd Iuno smild And put it twixt her brests Loues Queene thus cunningly beguild To Ioues court flew Saturnia straight stooping from heauens height Pieria and Emathia those countries of delight Soone reacht and to the snowy mounts where Thracian souldiers dwell Approaching past their tops vntoucht From Athos then she fell Past all the brode sea and arriu'd in Lemnos at the towres Of god-like Thoas where she met the Prince of all mens powres Deaths brother Sleepe whose hand she tooke and said Thou king of men Iuno to Somnâ⦠Prince of the Gods too if before thou heardst my suites againe Giue helpefull eare and through all times I le offer thanks to thee Lay slumber on Ioues fierie eyes that I may comfort me With his embraces For which grace I le grace thee with a throne Incorruptible all of gold and elegantly done By Mulciber to which he forg'd a footestoole for the ease Of thy soft feete when wine and feasts thy golden humours please Sweet Sleepe replyed Saturnia there liues not any god Somnâ⦠to Iuno Besides Ioue but I would becalme I if it were the flood That fathers all the Deities the great Oceanââ¦s But Ioue we dare not come more neare then he commandeth vs. Now you command me as you did when Ioues great minded sonne Alcides hauing sackt the towne of stubborne Ilion Tooke saile from thence when by your charge I pour'd about Ioues mind A pleasing slumber calming him till thou drau'st vp the wind In all his cruelties to sea that set his sonne ashore In Cous farre from all his friends which waking vext so
sore The supreme godhead that he cast the gods about the skie And me aboue them all he fought whom he had vtterly Hurld from the sparkling firmament if all-gods-ââ¦aming Night Whom flying I besought for aid had sufferd his despight And not preseru'd me but his wrath with my offence dispenc't For feare t' offend her and so ceast though neuer so incenst And now another such escape you wish I should prepare She answerd What hath thy deepe rest to do with his deepe care Iuno to Somâ⦠As though Ioues loue to Ilion in all degrees were such As t was to Hercules his sonne and so would storme as much For their displeasure as for his away I will remoue Thy feare with giuing thee the dame that thou didst euer loue One of thâ⦠faire young Graces borne diuine Pasithae This started Somnus into ioy who answerd Sweare to me By those inuiolable springs that feed the Stygian lake With one hand touch the nourishing earth and in the other take The marble sea that all the gods of the infernall state Which circle Saturne may to vs be witnesses and rate What thou hast vow'd that with all truth thou wilt bestow on me The dame I grant I euer lou'd diuine Pasithae She swore as he enioyn'd in all and strengthend all his ioyes The oath of Iuno to Somâ⦠By naming all th' infernall gods surnam'd the Titanois The oath thus taken both tooke way and made their quicke repaire To Ida from the towne and I le all hid in liquid aire At Lecton first they left the sea and there the land they trod The fountfull nurse of sauages with all her woods did nod Beneath their feete there Somnus staid lest Ioues bright eye should see And yet that he might see to Ioue he climb'd the goodliest tree Somnus climes a ãâã tree That all th' Idalian mountaine bred and crownd her progenie A firre it was that shot past aire and kist the burning skie There sate he hid in his darke armes and in the shape withall Of that continuall prating bird whom all the Deities call Chalcis but men Cymmindis name Saturnia tript apace Vp to the top of Gargarus and shewd her heauenly face To Iupiter who saw and lou'd and with as hote a fire Being curious in her tempting view as when with first desire The pleasure of it being stolne they mixt in loue and bed And gazing on her still he said Saturnia what hath bred This haste in thee from our high court and whither tends thy gate ãâã to Iuno That voide of horse and chariot fit for thy soueraigne state Thou lackiest here Her studied fraude replyed My iourney now ãâã answer Leaues state and labours to do good And where in right I owe All kindnesse to the Sire of gods and our good mother Queene That nurst and kept me curiously in court since both haue bene Long time at discord my desire is to attone their hearts And therefore go I now to see those earths extremest parts For whose farre-seate I spar'd my horse the skaking of this hill And left them at the foote of it for they must taste their fill Of trauaile with me that must draw my coach through earth and seas Whose farre-intended reach respect and care not to displease Thy graces made me not attempt without thy gracious leaue The cloud-compelling god her guile in this sort did receiue Iuno thou shalt haue after leaue but ere so farre thou stray ãâã ãâã with his ãâã to Iuno Conuert we our kind thoughts to loue that now doth euery way Circle with victorie my powers nor yet with any dame Woman or goddesse did his fires my bosome so enflame As now with thee not when it lou'd the parts so generous Ixions wife had that brought foorth the wise Pyrithous Nor when the louely dame Acrisius daughter stird My amorous powres that Perseus bore to all men else preferd Nor when the dame that Phenix got surprisd me with her sight Who the diuine-soul'd Rhadamanth and Minos brought to light Nor Semele that bore to me the ioy of mortall men The sprightly Bacchus Nor the dame that Thebes renowned then Alcmena that bore Hercules Latona so renownd Queene Ceres with the golden haire nor thy faire eyes did wound My entrailes to such depth as now with thirst of amorous ease The cunning dame seem'd much incenst and said what words are these Iunos ãâã ãâã to Ioue in satisfying his ãâã Vnsufferable Saturns sonne What here in Idas height Desir'st thou this how fits it vs or what if in the sight Of any god thy will were pleasd that he the rest might bring To witnesse thy incontinence t' were a dishonourd thing I would not shew my face in heauen and rise from such a bed But if loue be so deare to thee thou hast a chamber sted Which Vulcan purposely contriu'd with all fit secrecie There sleepe at pleasure He replyed I feare not if the eye ãâã to ãâã Of either god or man obserue so thicke a cloude of gold I le cast about vs that the Sunne who furthest can behold Shall neuer find vs. This resolu'd into his kind embrace He tooke his wife beneath them both faire Tellus strewd the place The bed of ãâã and Iuno With fresh-sprung herbes so soft and thicke that vp aloft it bore Their heauenly bodies with his leaues did deawy Latus store Th' Elysian mountaine Saffron flowres and Hyacinths helpt make The sacred bed and there they slept when sodainly there brake A golden vapour out of aire whence shining dewes did fall In which they wrapt them close and slept till Ioue was tam'd withall Meane space flew Somnus to the ships found Neptune out and said ãâã to ãâã Now chearfully assist the Greeks and giue them glorious head At least a little while Ioue sleepes of whom through euery limme I pour'd darke sleepe Saturnias loue hath so ãâã him This newes made Neptune more secure in giuing Grecians heart And through the first fights thus he stird the men of most desert Yet Grecians shall we put our ships and conquest in the hands ãâã to the ãâã Of Priams Hector by our sloth he thinks so and commands With pride according all because Achilles keepes away Alas as we were nought but him we little need to stay On his assistance if we would our owne strengths call to field And mutually maintaine repulse Come on then all men yeeld To what I order we that beaââ¦e best armes in all our host Whose heads sustaine the brightest helms whose hands are bristl'd most With longest lances let vs on But stay I le leade you all Noâ⦠thinke I but great Hectors spirits will suffer some apall Though they be neuer so inspir'd the ablest of vs then That on our shoulders worst shields beare exchange with worser men That fight with better This proposd all heard it and obeyd The kings euen those that sufferd wounds Vlysses Diomed And Agamemnon
heplt t' instruct the complete army thus To good gaue good armes worse to worse yet none were mutinous Thus arm'd with order forth they flew the great Earth-shaker led Neptune leades the Greekes A long sword in his sinowy hand which when he brandished It lighten'd still there was no law for him and it poore men Must quake before them These thus man'd illustrous Hector then His hoast brought vp The blew-hair'd god and he stretcht through the prease A greiuous fight when to the ships and tents of Greââ¦ce the seas Brake loose and rag'd But when they ioynd the dreadfull Clamor rose To such a height as not the sea when vp the North-spirit blowes Her raging billowes bellowes so against the beaten shore Nor such a rustling keeps a fire driuen with violent blore Through woods that grow against a hill nor so the feruent strokes Of almost-bursting winds resound against a groue of Okes As did the clamor of these hoasts when both the battel 's closd Of all which noble Hector first at Aââ¦ax breast disposd Hââ¦tor at Aiax His iauelin since so right on him the great-soul'd souldier bore Nor mist it but the bawdricks both that his brode bosome wore To hang his shield and sword it strooke both which his flesh preseru'd Hector disdaining that his lance had thus as good as sweru'd Trode to his strength but going off great Aiax with a stone Aiââ¦x at Hector One of the many props for ships that there lay trampl'd on Strooke his brode breast aboue his shield iust vnderneath his throte And shooke him peecemeale When the stone sprung backe againe smoââ¦e cEarth like a whirlewind gathering dust with whirring fiercely round For feruour of his vnspent strength in setling on the ground And as when Ioues bolt by the rootes rends from the earth an Oke Simile His sulphure casting with the blow a strong vnsauoury smoke And on the falne plant none dare looke but with amazed eyes Ioues thunder being no laughing game so bowd strong Hectors thyes Hector ouerthrownâ⦠And so with tost-vp heeles he fell away his lance he flung His round shield followd then his helme and out his armour rung ââ¦he Greeks then showted and ran in and hop't to hale him off Aââ¦d therefore powr'd on darts in stormes to keepe his aide aloofe But none could hurt the peoples guide noâ⦠stirre him from his ground Sarpedon prince of Lycia and Glaucus so renownd Hector rescued Diuine Agenor Venus sonne and wise Polydamas Rusht to his rescue and the rest no one neglectiue was Of Hectors safetie all their shields they coucht about him close Raisd him from earth and giuing him in their kind armesrepose From off the labour caried him to his rich chariot And bore him mourning towards Troy but when the flood they got Of gulphy Xanthus that was got by deathlesse Iupiter There tooke they him from chariot and all be sprinkled there His temples with the streame he breath'd lookt vp assaid to rise And on his knees staid spitting blood againe then closd his eyes And backe againe his body fell the maine blow had not done Yet with his spirit When the Greeks saw worthy Hector gone Then thought they of their worke then charg'd with much more chere the foe And then farre first Oileades began the ouerthrow He darted Satnius Enops sonne whom famous Nais boââ¦e As she was keeping Enops flocks on Satnius riuers shore And strooke him in his bellies rimme who vpwards fell and raisd A mightie skirmish with his fall and then Panthaedes seisd Prothenor Areilicides with his reuend'gfull speare On his right shoulder strooke it through and laid him breathlesse there For which he insolently bragd and cryed out Not a dart Polydaâ⦠ãâã his insultation From great-soul'd Panthus sonne I thinke shall euer vainlier part But some Greeke bosome it shall take and make him giue his ghost This bragge the Grecians stomackt much but Telamonius most Who stood most neare Prothenors fall and out he sent a lance Which Panthus sonne declining scap't yeet tooke it to sad chance Archelochus Antenors sonne whom heauen did destinate To that sterne end twixt necke and head the iauelin wrought his fate And ran in at the vpper ioint of all the backe long bone Cut both the nerues and such a lode of strength laid Aiax on As that small part he seisd outwaid all th'vnder lims and strooke His heeles vp so that head and face the earths possessions tooke When all the low parts sprung in aire and thus did Aiax quit Panthaedes Braue Now Panthus sonne let thy prophetique wit Aiâ⦠insults in requit all of Polydamas Consider and disclose a truth if this man do not wey Euen with Prothaenor I conceiue no one of you will say That either he was base himselfe or sprung of any base Antenors brother or his sonne he should be by his face One of his race past question his likenesse shewes he is This spake he knowing it well enough The Troians storm'd at this And then slue Acamas to saue his brother yet ingag'd Boeotius dragging him to spoile and thus the Greeks enrag'd O Greeks euen borne to beare our darts yet euer breathing threats Not alwayes vnder teares and toyles ye see our fortune sweats But sometimes you drop vnder death see now your quicke among Our dead intranc't with my weake lance to proue I haue ere long Reueng'd my brother t is the wish of euery honest man His brother slaine in Mars his field may rest wreakt in his Phane This stird fresh enuie in the Greeks but vrg'd Peneleus most Who hurld his lance at Acamas he scap't nor yet it lost The force he gaue it for it found the flocke-rich Phorbas sonne Ilioneus whose deare Sire past all in Ilion Was lou'd of Hermes and enricht and to him onely bore His mother this now slaughterd man The dart did vndergore His eye-lid by his eyes deare rootes and out the apple fell The eye pierc't through nor could the nerue that staies the necke repell His strong-wing'd lance but necke and all gaue way and downe he dropt Peneleus then vnsheath'd his sword and from the shoulders chopt His lucklesse head which downe he threw the helme still sticking on And still the lance fixt in his eye which not to see alone Contented him but vp againe he snatcht and shewd it all With this sterne Braue Ilians relate braue Ilioneus fall To his kind parents that their roofes their teares may ouerrunne For so the house of Promachus and Alegenors sonne Must with his wiues eyes ouerflow she neuer seeing more Her deare Lord though we tell his death when to our natiue shore We bring from ruin'd Troy our fleete and men so long forgone This said and seene pale Feare possest all those of Ilion And eu'ry man cast round his eye to see where Death was not That he might flie him Let not then his grac't hand be forgot O Muses you that dwell in
heauen that first embrude the field With Troian spoile when Neptune thus had made their irons yeeld First Aiax Telamonius the Mysian Captaine slew Great Hyrtius Gyrtiades Antilochus o'rethew Phalces and Mermer to their spoyle Meriones gaue end To Moris and Hippotion Teucer to Fate did send Prothoon and Periphetes Atrides Iauelin chac't Duke Hyperenor wounding him d in that part that is plac't Betwixt the short ribs and the bones that to the triple gut Haue pertinence The Iauelins head did out his entrailes cut His forc't soule breaking through the wound nights black hand closde his eies Then Aiax great Oileus sonne had diuers victories Aiax Oiâ⦠vertue for swistnesse For when Saturnius sufferd flight of all the Grecian race Not one with swiftnesse of his feete could so enrich a chace COMMENTARIVS a ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã Princeps populorum the end of Vlysses speech in the beginning of this book which ascription our Spond takes to be giuen in scorne and that all Vlysses speech is ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã or scoffing which is spoken altogether seriously and bitterly to this title at the end which was spoken ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã molliter or benigne of purpose to make Agamemnon beare the better the iustice of his other austeritie b ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ego quoad genus glorior esse The long digression that followes this in the speech of Diomed being next to Agamemnons reply to Vlysses bewrayes an affectation he had by all-any-thing-fit-meanes to talke of his pedigree and by reason of that humor hath shewne his desire elsewhere to learne the pedigreees of others as in the sixt booke in his enquirie of Glaucus pedigree And herein is exprest part of his character c ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. ouerpassing for speed many things in this booke that crie out for the praise of our Homer and note of that which in most readers I know will be lost I must onely insist still on those parts that in my poore vnderstanding could neuer yet find apprehension in any of our Commentors or translators as in this simile againe of the whirlewind to which the stone that Aiax hurled at Hector is resembled Valla and Eobanus Salel in French so vnderstanding Hector turned aboââ¦t with the blow like a whirlewind Vallas words are these translating ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã which ad verbum saie thus much in euery common translation Trochum autem sicut concussit feriens rotatusque est vndique Quo ictu Hector velut turbo quem Strombum dicunt ââ¦tato corpore c. Eobanus conuerting it thus Stetit ille tremens ceu turbo rotatus Which though it harpe vpon the other makes yet much worse musicke saying Hector stood trembling being wheeled about like a whirlwind He stood yet was turned about violently How grosse both are I thinke the blindest see and must needs acknowledge a monstrous vnworthines in these men to touch our Homer esteeming it an extreme losse to the world to haue this and the like vndiscouered For as I apprehend it being exprest no better then in my silly conuersion and the stone not Hector likened to the ââ¦rlewind it is aboue the wit of a man to imitate our Homers wit for the mââ¦st fierie illustration both of Aiax strength and Hectors of Aiax for giuing such a force to it as could not spend it selfe vpon Hector but turne after vpon the earth in that whirlewind like violence of Hector for standing it so solidly for without that consideration the stone could neuer haue recoild so fiercely And here haue we a ruled case against our plaine and smug writers that because their owne vnweildinesse will not let them rise theÌselues would haue euery man grouel like theÌ their fethers not passing the pitch of euery womans capacity And indeed where a man is vnderstood there is euer a proportioÌ betwixt the writers wit the writees that I may speake with authority according to my old lesson in Philosophy Intellectus in ipsa intelligibilia transit But herein this case is ruled against such men that they affirme these hyperthe ticall or superlatiue sort of expressions illustratioÌs are too bold and bumbasted and out of that word is spunne that which they call our Fustian their plaine writing being stuffe nothing so substantial but such grosse sowtedge or hairepatch as euery goose may eate oates through Against which and all these plebeian opinions that a man is bound to write to euery vulgar readers vnderstanding you see the great master of all ââ¦locution hath written so darkly that almost three thousand sunnes haue not discouered him no more in fiue hundred other places then here and yet all peruiall enough you may well say when such a one as I comprehend them But the chiefe end why I extend this annotation is onely to intreaââ¦e your note here of Homers maner of writing which to vtter his after store of matter and varietie is so presse and puts on with so strong a current that it farre ouer runnes the most laborious pursuer if he haue not a Poeticall foote and Poesies quicke eye to guide it The verse in question I referre you to before which sayes ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã signifying a stone of a handfull or that with one hand may be raised and cast spoken of before and here being vnderstood shooke Hector at all parts in striking him and like a whirlwind wheeled or whirred about Wherein he speakes not of bounding to the earth again and raising a dust with his violent turnings in which the conceit and life of his simile lies but leaues it to his reader and he leaues it to him notwithstanding he vtters enough to make a stone vnderstand it how stupidly soeuer all his interpreters would haue Hector being strooke into a trembling and almost dead turne about like a whirlewind I conclude then with this question What fault is it in me to furnish and adorne my verse being his Translator with translating and adding the truth and fulnesse of his conceit it being as like to passe my reader as his and therefore necessarie If it be no fault in me but fit then may I iustly be said to better Homer or not to haue all my inuention matter and forme from him though a little I enlarge his sorme Virgil in all places where he is compared and preferred to Homer doth nothing more And therefore my assertion in the second Booke is true that Virgil hath in all places wherein he is compared and preferred to Homer by Scaliger c. both his inuention matter and forme from him d ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã c. vulnerauit ad Ile it is translated and is in the last verses of this Booke where Menelaus is said to wound Hyperenor But ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã dicitur ea pars corporis quae posita est inter costas nothas ossa quae ad Ilia pertinent quòd inanis sit desiderat Hip. in lib. ãâã ãâã
any where mortals nor gods I feare Entirely pleasd with what he does though thus ye banquet here Thus tooke she place displeasedly the feast in generall Bewraying priuie splenes at Ioue and then to colour all She laught but meerly from her lips for ouer her blacke browes Her still-bent forehead was not cleer'd yet this her passions throwes Brought forth in spight being lately school'd alas what fooles are we That enuie Ioue or that by act word thought can fantasie Any resistance to his will he sits farre off nor cares Nor moues but sayes he knowes his strength to all degrees compares His greatnesse past all other gods and that in fortitude And euery other godlike powre he reignes past all indude For which great eminence all you Gods what euer ill he does Sustaine with patience here is Mars I thinke not free from woes And yet he beares them like himselfe The great God had a sonne Iâ⦠speech of purpose to inâ⦠Mâ⦠Scoptiâ⦠Whom he himselfe yet iustifies one that from all men wonne Iust surname of their best belou'd Ascalaphus yet he By Ioues high grace to Troy is slaine Mars started horribly As Iuno knew he would at this beate with his hurld out hands His brawnie thighes cried out and said O you that ãâã commands In these high temples beare with me if I reuenge the death Of such a sonne I le to the fleete and though I sinke beneath The fate of being shot to hell by Ioues fell thunder stone And lie all grim'd amongst the dead with dust and bloud my sonne Reuenge shall honour Then he charg'd Feare and Dismay to ioyne His horse and chariot he got armes that ouer heauen did shine And then a wrath more great and graue in Ioue had bene prepar'd Against the gods then Iuno causde if Pallas had not car'd More for the peace of heauen then Mars who leapâ⦠out of her throne Rapt vp her helmet lance and shield and made her Phanes porch grone With her egression to his stay and thus his rage defers Furious and foolish th' art vndone hast thou for nought thine eares Pallas to Mars Heard'st thou not Iuno being arriu'd from heauens great king but now Or wouldst thou he himselfe should rise forc't with thy rage to show The dreadfull powre she vrg'd in him so iustly being stird Know thou most impudent and mad thy wrath had not inferd Mischiefe to thee but to vs all his spirit had instantly Left both the hosts and turn'd his hands to vprores in the skie Guiltie and guiltlesse both to wracke in his high rage had gone And therefore as thou louest thy selfe ceasse furie for thy sonne Another farre exceeding him in heart and strength of hand Or is or will be shortly slaine It were a b worke would stand Ioue in much trouble to free all from death that would not die This threat euen nail'd him to his throne when heauens chiefe Maiestie Cald bright Apollo from his Phane and Iris that had place Of Internunciesse from the Gods to whom she did the grace Of Iupiter to this effect It is Saturnius will Iuno to Apollo and Iris. That both with vtmost speed should stoope to the Idalian hill To know his further pleasure there And this let me aduise When you arriue and are in reach of his refulgent eyes His pleasure heard performe it all of whatsoeuer kind Thus mou'd she backe and vsde her throne Those two outstript the wind And Ida all enchac't with springs they soone attaind and found Where farre-discerning Iupiter in his repose had crown'd The browes of Gargarus and wrapt an odoriferous cloud About his bosome Coming neare they stood nor now he showd ' His angry countenance since so soone he saw they made th' accesse That his lou'd wife enioyn'd But first the faire Ambassadââ¦esse He thus commanded Iris Go to Neptune and relate Ioue to Iris. Our pleasure truly and at large command him from the Fate Of humane warre and either greete the gods societie Or the diuine sea make his seate If proudly he denie Let better counsels be his guides then such as bid me warre And tempt my charge though he be strong for I am stronger farre And elder borne nor let him dare to boast euen state with me Whom all Gods else preferre in feare This said downe hasted she From Idaes top to Ilion and like a mightie snow Or gelide haile that from the clouds the Northerne spirit doth blow So fell the windie-footed Dame and found with quicke repaire The watrie God to whom she said God with the sable haire Iris to ãâã I came from Aegis-bearing Ioue to bid thee ceasse from fight And visite heauen or th'ample seas which if in his despight Or disobedience thou deniest he threatens thee to come In opposite fight to field himselfe and therefore warnes thee home His hands eschewing since his powre is farre superiour His birth before thee and affirmes thy lou'd heart should abhorre To vaunt equalitie with him whom euery deitie feares He answerd O vnworthy thing though he be great he beares ãâã to Iris being ãâã with Iupiter His tongue too proudly that our selfe borne to an equall share Of state and freedome he would force Three brothers borne we are To Saturne Rhea brought vs forth this Iupiter and I And Pluto god of vnder-grounds The world indifferently The ãâã proper to ãâã Disposde betwixt vs euery one his kingdome I the seas Pluto the blacke lot Iupiter the principalities Neptune and Pluto being three brothers Of broad heauen all the skie and clouds was sorted out the earth And high Olympus common are and due to eithers birth Why then should I be aw'd by him Content he his great heart With his third portion and not thinke to amplifie his part With terrors of his stronger hands on me as if I were The most ignoble of vs all let him containe in feare His daughters and his sonnes begot by his owne person this Holds more conuenience they must heare these violent threats of his Shall I said Iris beare from thee an answer so austere Or wilt thou change it Changing minds all noble natures beare Iris to Nââ¦tune ' And well thou know'st these greatest borne the Furies follow still Neptune againe to Iris. He answerd Iris thy reply keepes time and shewes thy skill O t is a most praise-worthy thing when messengers can tell Besides their messages such things as fit th' occasion well But this much grieues my heart and soule that being in powre and state All wayes his equall and so fixt by one decree in fate He should to me as vnder him ill language giue and chide Yet now though still incenst I yeeld affirming this beside And I enforce it with a threat that if without consent Of me Minerua Mercurie the Queene of regiment And Vulcan he will either spare high Ilion or not race Her turrets to the lowest stone and with both these not grace The Greekes
head aduance Quite through his brest as from the fight he turn'd him for retreat While these stood spoiling of the flaine the Greeks found time to get Beyond the dike and th'vndik't pales all scapes they gladly gain'd Till all had past the vtmost wall Necessitie so raign'd Then Hector cried out Take no spoile but rush on to the fleete From whose assault for spoile or flight if any man I meete Hector to his soldiers He meets his death nor in the fire of holy funerall His brothers or his sisters hands shall cast within our wall His lothed body but without the throtes of dogs shall graue His manlesse lims This said the scourge his forward horses draue Through euery order and with him all whipt their chariots on All threatningly out thundering shouts as earth were ouerthrowne Before them marcht Apollo still and as he marcht digd downe Apollo leades the Troians Without all labour with his feete the dike till with his owne He fild it to the top and made way both for man and horse As broade and long as with a lance cast out to trie ones force A man could measure Into this they powr'd whole troupes as fast As numerous Phoebus still before for all their hast Still shaking Ioues vnualewed shield and held it vp to all And then as he had chok't their dike he tumbl'd downe their wall And looke how easely any boy vpon the sea-ââ¦bd shore A simile from how low things it may be taken to expresse the ââ¦ighest Makes with a litle sand a toy and cares for it no more But as he raisd it childishly so in his wanton vaine Both with his hands and feete he puls and spurnes it downe againe So sleight O Phoebus thy hands made of that huge Grecian toile And their late stand so well resolu'd as easely mad'st recoile Thus stood they driuen vp at their fleete where each heard others thought Exhorted passing humbly prayd all all the gods besought With hands held vp to heauen for helpe 'mongst all the good old man Graue Nestor for his counsels cald the Argiues guardian Fell on his aged knees and prayd and to the starrie host Stretcht out his hands for ayd to theirs of all thus mouing most O father Ioue if euer man of all our host did burne Nestors prayer to Iupiter Fat thighes of oxen or of sheepe for grace of safe returne In fruitfull Argos and obtaind the bowing of thy head For promise of his humble prayers O now remember him Thou meerly heauenly and cleare vp the foule browes of this dim And cruell day do not destroy our zeale for Troian pride He prayd and heauens great Counsellor with store of thunder tride His former grace good and so heard the old mans heartie prayres The Troians tooke Ioues signe for them and powr'd out their affaires In much more violence on the Greeks and thought on nought but fight And as a huge waue of a sea swolne to his rudest height Simile Breakes ouer both sides of a ship being all vrg'd by the wind For that 's it makes the waue so proud in such a borne-vp kind ãâã they ãâã puft vp by Apollo The Troians ouergat the wall and getting in their horse Fought close at fleete which now the Greeks ascended for their force Then from their chariots they with darts the Greeks with bead-hooks fought Kept still aboord for nauall fights their heads with iron wrought In hookes and pikes Achilles friend still while he saw the wall That stood without their fleete affoord employment for them all Was neuer absent from the tent of that man-louing Greeke Late-hurt Eurypilus but sate and euery way did seeke To spend the sharpe time of his wound with all the ease he could In medicines and in kind discourse but when he might behold The Troians past the wall the Greekes flight driuen and all in cries Then cride he out Cast downe his hands and beate with griefe his thighes Then O Eurypilus he cride now all thy need of me Patroclus to Eurypilus Must beare my absence now a worke of more necessitie Cals hence and I must hast to call Achilles to the field Who knowes but God assisting me my words may make him yeeld The motion of a friend is strong His feete thus tooke him thence The rest yet stood their enemies firme but all their violence Though Troy fought there with fewer men lackt vigor to repell Those fewer from their Nauies charge and so that charge as well Lackt force to spoile their fleete or tents And as a shipwrights line A diuine fimile Disposde by such a hand as learn'd from th'Artizan diuine The perfect practise of his Art directs or guards so well The nauall timber then in frame that all the layd-on steele Can hew no further then may serue to giue the timber th' end Fore-purposde by the skilfull wright so both hosts did contend With such a line or law applide to what their steele would gaine At other ships fought other men but Hector did maintaine His quarrell firme at Aiax ship and so did both employ About one vessell all their toyle nor could the one destroy The ship with fire nor force the man nor that man yet get gone The other from so neare his ship for God had brought him on But now did Aiax with a dart wound deadly in the brest Calctor sonne of Clytius as he with fire addrest Aiax slaughterâ⦠ãâã To burne the vessell as he fell the brand fell from his hand When Hector saw his sisters sonne lie slaughterd in the sand He cald to all his friends and prayd they would not in that streight Forsake his nephew but maintaine about his corse the fight And saue it from the spoile of Greece Then sent he out a lance Hector at Aiax At Aiax in his nephewes wreake which mist but made the chance On Lycophron Mastorides that was the houshold friend Of Aiax borne in Cythera whom Aiax did defend Hector ãâã Aiax ãâã ãâã friend Being fled to his protection for killing of a man Amongst the god-like Cytherans the vengefull Iauelin ran Quite through his head aboue his eare as he was standing by His Fautor then asterne his ship from whence his soule did flie And to the earth his body fell the haire stood vp an end On Aiax who to Teucer cald his brother saying Friend Our loued consort whom we brought from Cythera and grac't So like our father Hectors hand hath made him breathe his laââ¦t Where then are all thy death-borne shafts and that vnuallewed bow Apollo gaue thee Teucer strait his brothers thoughts did know Stood neare him and dispatcht a shaft amongst the Troian fight It strooke Pysenors goodly sonne yong Clytâ⦠the delight Of the renowm'd Polydamas the bridle in his hand As he was labouring his horse to please the high command Of Hector and his Tioian friends and bring him where the fight Made greatest tumult But his strife
for honour in their sight Wrought not what sight or wishes helpt for turning backe his looke The hollow of his necke the shaft came singing on and strooke And downe he fell his horses backe and hurried through the field The emptie chariot Panthus sonne made all haste and withheld Their loose carier disposing them to Protiaons sonne Astinous with speciall charge to keepe them euer on And in his sight so he againe amongst the foremost went At Hector then another shaft incensed Teââ¦er sent Teucer at Hector Which had it hit him sure had hurt and had it hurt him slaine And had it slaine him it had driuen all those to Troy againe But Ioues mind was not sleeping now it wak't to Hectors fame And Teucers infamie himselfe in Teucers deadly aime Ioue breakes Teââ¦cers bow His well-wrought string disseuering that seru'd his brauest bow His shaft flew quite another way his bow the earth did strow At all which Teucer stood amaz'd and to his brother cride O prodigie without all doubt our Angell doth deride Teucer to Aiax The counsels of our fight he brake a string my hands put on This morning and was newly made and well might haue set gone A hundred arrowes and beside he strooke out of my hand The bow Apollo gaue He ââ¦ayd Then good friend do not stand Aiax to Teucer More on thy archerie since God preuenter of all grace Desir'd by Grecians sleights it so Take therefore in the place A good large lance and on thy necke a target cast as bright With which come fight thy selfe with some and othersome excite That without labour at the least though we proue worser men Troy may not brag it tooke our ships come mind our businesse then This said he hasted to his tent left there his shafts and bow Teucer changeth his armes And then his double double shield did on his shoulders throw Vpon his honor'd head he plac't his helmet thickly plum'd And then his strong and well pilde lance in his faire hand assum'd Return'd and boldly tooke his place by his great brothers side When Hector saw his arrowes broke out to his friends he cride Hectors admiration of Ioues breaking Teuââ¦ers ââ¦ow O friends be yet more comforted I saw the hands of Ioue Breake the great Grecian archers shafts t is easie to approue That Ioues powre is direct with men as well in those set hiâ⦠Vpon the sodaine as in those deprest as sodainly And those not put in state at all as now he takes away Strength from the Greeks and giues it vs then vse it and assay With ioyn'd hands this approched fleete If any brauely buy His fame or fate with wounds or death in Ioues name let him die Who for his country suffers death sustaines no shamefull thing His wife in honour shall suruiue his progenie ââ¦hall spring In endlesse summers and ââ¦heir roofes with patrimonie swell And all this though with all their freight the Greeke ships we repell His friends thus cheer'd on th' other part strong Aiax stird his friends O Greeks said he what shame is this that no man more defends ãâã to the Greekâ⦠His fame and safetie then to liue and thus be forââ¦'t to shrinke Now either ââ¦aue your fleet or die vnlesse ye vainly thinke That you can liue and they destroyd perceiues noâ⦠euery ââ¦are How Hector hartens vp his men and hath his firebrands here Now ready to enflame ourfleet he doth not bid them dance That you may take your ease and see but to the fight aduance No counsell can serue vs but this to mixe both hands and harâ⦠And beare vp close t is better much t' expose our vtmost parts To one daies certaine life or death then languish in a warre So base as this beate to our ships by our inferiours farre Thus rowsd he vp their spirits and strengths To work then both sides went When Hector the Phocensian Duke to fields of darknesse sent Fierce Schedius Perimedes sonne which Aiax did requite With slaughter of Laodamas that led the foote to fight And was Antenors famous sonne Polydamas did end Otus surnam'd Cyllenius whom Phydas made his friend Being chiefe of the Epeians Bands whose fall when Mââ¦ges viewd He let flie at his fellers life who shrinking-in eschew'd The wel-aym'd lance Apollos will denied that Pantbus sonne Should fall amongst the foremost fights the dart the mid-brest wonne Of Craesmus Meges wonne his armes At Meges Dolops then Bestow'd his lance he was the sonne of Lampus best of men And Lampus of Laomedon well skild in strength of mind He strooke Phylides shield quite through whose ãâã better lin'd And hollow'd fitly sau'd his life Phyleus left him them Who from Epirus brought them home on that part where the streme Of famous Seléés doth runne Euphetes did bestow Being guest with him those wel-prou'd armes to weare against the foe And now they sau'd his sonne from death At Dolops Meges threw A speare well pilde that strooke his caske full in the height off flew His purple feather newly made and in the dust it fell While these thus striu'd for victorie and eithers hope seru'd well Atrides came to Meges aide and hidden with his side Let loose a lauelin at his foe that through his backe implied His lustie head euen past his breast the ground receiu'd his weight While these made-in to spoyle his armes great Hector did excite All his allies to quicke reuenge and first he wrought vpon Strong Menalippus that was sonne to great Hycetââ¦n With some reproofe Before these warres he in Percoâ⦠fed Clouen-footed Oxen but did since retââ¦rne where he was bred Exceld amongst the Ilians was much of Priââ¦m lou'd And in his court kept as his sonne him Hectââ¦r thus reprou'd Thus Menalippui shall our blood accuse vs of neglect Hector to Meââ¦alippui Nor moues it thy lou'd heart thus vrg'd thy kinsman to protect Seest thou not how they seeke his spoyle Come follow now no more Our fight must stand at ãâã but close nor leaue the close before We close the latest eye of them or they the lowest ââ¦one Teare vp and sacke the citizens of loftie Iliâ⦠He led he followd like a god and then must Aiax needs As well as Hector cheare his men and thus their spirits he feeds Good friends bring but your selues to feele the noble stings of shame Aiax to his souldiers in imitation of Agamem nââ¦n obserued by him before ââ¦ing the same words For what ye suffer and be men respect each others fame For which who striues in shames fit feare and puts on neare so farre Comes oftner off then sticke engag'd these fugitiues of warre Saue neither life nor get renowne nor beare more minds then sheepe This short speeeh fir'd them in his aide his spirit toucht them deepe And turn'd them all before the fleet into a wall of brasse To whose assault Ioue stird their foes and young Atrides was Ioues instrument who thus set
my speare That for her ouerturn'd a Towne This rape he made of her And vsde me like a fugitiue an Inmate in a towne That is no citie libertine nor capable of their gowne But beare we this as out of date t is past nor must we still Feed anger in our noblest parts yet thus I haue my will As well as our great king of men for I did euer vow Neuer to cast off my disdaine till as it fals out now Their misse of me knockt at my fleet and told me in their cries I was reueng'd and had my wish of all my enemies And so of this repeate enough Take thou my fame-blaz'd armes And my fight-thirstie Myrmidons leade to these hote alarmes Whole clouds of Troians circle vs with hatefull eminence The Greeks shut in a little shore a sort of citizens Skipping vpon them all because their prowd eyes do not see The radiance of my helmet there whose beames had instantly Thrust backe and all these ditches fild with carrion of their flesh If Agamemnon had bene kind where now they fight as fresh As thus farre they had put at ease and at our tents contend And may for the repulsiue hand of Diomed doth not spend His raging darts there that their Death could fright out of our fleet Nor from that head of enmitie can my poore hearers meet The voice of great Atrides now now Hectors onely voyce Breakes all the aire about both hosts and with the very noise Bred by his lowd encouragements his forces fill the field And fight the poore Achaians downe But on put thou my shiââ¦ld Betwixt the fire-plague and our fleet rush brauely on and turne Warres tide as headlong on their throtes No more let them aiourne Our sweet-home-turning but obserue the charge I lay on thee To each least point that thy rul'd hand may highly honour me And get such glorie from the Greeks that they may send againe My most sweet wench and gifts to boote when thou hast cast a raine On these so head-strong citizens and forc't them from our fleet With which grace if the god of sounds thy kind egression greet Iupiter called the god of sounds for the chiefe sound his thunder Retire and be not tempted on with pride to see thy hand Raine slaughterd carkasses on earth to runne forth thy command As farre as Ilion left the gods that fauour Troy come forth To thy encounter for the Sunne much loues it and my worth In what thou suffer'st will be wrong'd that I would let my friend Assume an action of such weight without me and transcend His friends prescription do not then affect a further fight Then I may strengthen let the rest when thou hast done this right Performe the rest aO would to Ioue thou Pallas and thou Sunne That not a man housd vnderneath those towres of Ilion Nor any one of all the Greeks how infinite a summe Soeuer altogether make might liue vnouercome But onely we two scaping death might haue the thundring downe Of euery stone stucke in the wals of this so sacred towne Thus spake they onely twixt themselues And now the foe no more Could Aiax stand being so opprest with all the iron store The Troians powr'd on with whose darts and with Ioues will beside His powres were cloyd and his bright helme did deafning blowes abide His plume and all head* ornaments could neuer hang in rest His arme yet laboured vp his shield and hauing done their best They could not stirre him from his stand although he wrought it out With short respirings and with sweate that ceaslesse flow'd about His reeking lims no least time giuen to take in any breath Ill strengthned ill when one was vp another was beneath Now Muses you that dwell in heauen the dreadfull meane inspire That first enforc't the Grecian fleete to take in Troian fire First Hector with his huge brode sword cut off at setting on The head of Aiax Ashen lance which Aiax seeing gone And that he shooke a headlesse speare a little while vnware His warie spirits told him straight the hand of heauen was there And trembl'd vnder his conceipt which was bthat t was Ioues deed Who as he pold off his darts heads so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their warre he would polle off like it And giue the Troians victorie so trusted he his wit And left his darts And then the ship was heapt with horrid brands Ofkindling fire which instantly was seene through all the strands In vnextinguishible flames that all the ship embrac't And then Achilles beate his thighes cryed out Patroclus haste Make way with horse I see at fleet a fire of fearfull rage Arme arme lest all our fleet it fire and all our powre engage Arme quickly I le bring vp the troopes To these so dreadfull warres Patroclus in Achilles armes enlightned all with starres And richly ameld all haste made he wore his sword his shield His huge-plum'd helme and two such speares as he could nimbly wield But the most fam'd Achilles speare big solid full of weight He onely left of all his armes for that farre past the might Of any Greeke to shake but his Achilles onely iââ¦e Shooke that huge weapon that was giuen by Chyron to his sire Cut from the top of Pelion to be Heroes deaths His steeds Automedon straight ioyn'd like whom no man that breaths Next Peleus sonne Patroclus lou'd for like him none so great Automedon friend to Patro clus and mana ger of Achilles horses He found in faith at euery fight nor to out looke a threat Automedon did therefore guide for him Achilles steeds Xanthus and Balius swift as wind begotten by the seeds Of Zephyr and the Harpie borne Pordarge in a meade Close to the wauie Ocean where that fierce Harpye feade Automedon ioyn'd these before and with the hindmost geres He fastn'd famous Pedasus whom from the massakers Made by Achilles when he tooke Eetions wealthie towne He brought and though of mortall race yet gaue him the renowne To follow his immortall horse And now before his tents Himselfe had seene his Myrmidons in all habiliments Of dreadfull warre And when ye see vpon a mountaine bred A simile most liuely expressiuâ⦠A den of Wolues about whose hearts vnmeasur'd strengths are fed New come from currie of a Stagge their iawes all blood-besmeard And when from some blacke water-fount they altogether herd There hauing plentifully lapt with thin and thrust out tongs The top and clearest of the spring go belching from their lungs The clotterd gore looke dreadfully and entertaine no dread Their bellies gaunt all taken vp with being so rawly fed Then say that such in strength and looke were great Achilles men Now orderd for the dreadfull fight and so with all them then Their Princes and their Chiefes did show about their Generals friend His friend and all about himselfe who chiefly did intend The powers Achilles brought to Troy Th'embattelling of horse
and foote To that siege held so long Twise fiue and twenty saile he brought twise fiue and twentie strong Of able men was euery saile fiue Colonels he made Of all those forces trustie men and all of powre to leade But he of powre beyond them all Menesthius was one That euer wore discolour'd armes he was a riuers sonne That fell from heauen and good to drinke was his delightfull streame His name vnwearied Sperchius he lou'd the louely dame Faire Polydora Peleus seed and deare in Borus sight And she to that celestiall flood gaue this Menesthius light A woman mixing with a god Yet Borus bore the name Of father to Menesthius he marrying the dame And giuing her a mightie dowre he was the kind descent Of Perieris The next man renown'd with regiment Was strong Eudorus brought to life by one supposd a maide Bright Polymela Phylas seed but had the wanton plaid With Argus-killing Mercurie who fir'd with her faire eyes As she was singing in the quire of her that makes the cries In clamorous hunting and doth beare the crooked bow of gold Stole to her bed in that chaste roome that Phebe chast did hold And gaue her that swift-warrelicke sonne Eââ¦dirys brought to light As she was dancing but as soone as she that rules the plight Eudorus borne as Polymela his mother was dancing Of labouring women easd her throwes and shew'd her ââ¦onne the Sunne Strong Echeclaeus Actors heire woo'd earnestly and wonne Her second fauour feeing her with gifts of infinite prise And after brought her to his house where in his grandsires eyes Old Phylas Polymelas sonne obtaind exceeding gracâ⦠And found as carefull bringing vp as of his naturall race He had descended The third chiefe was faire Memalides Memalides the third Collonell Pysandrus who in skill of darts obtaind supremest praise Of all the Myrmidons except their Lords companion The fourth charge aged Phoenix had The fifth Alcimedon Phoenix the fourth Sonne of Laercus and much fam'd All these digested thus ãâã the fifââ¦h In fit place by the mightie sonne of royall Peleus This sterne remembrance he gaue all You Myrmidons said he Achilles to his Myrmidons Lest any of you should forget his threatnings vsde to me In this place and through all the time that my iust anger raign'd Attempting me with bitter words for being so restrain'd For my hote humour from the fight remember them as these Thou cruell sonne of Peleus whom she that rules the seas Did onely nourish with her gall thou dost vngently hold Our hands against our wills from fight we will not be controld But take our ships and saile for home before we loyter here And feed thy furie These high words exceeding often were The threates that in your mutinous troopes ye vsde to me for wrath To be detaind so from the fiââ¦ld now then your splenes may bath In sweate of those great works ye wisht now he that can employ A generous heart go fight and fright these bragging sonnes of Troy This set their minds and strengths on fire the speech enforcing well Being vsde in time but being their kings it much more did impell And closer rusht-in all the troopes And as for buildings hie ãâã The Mazon layes his stones more thicke against th'extremitie Of wind and weather and euen then if any storme arise He thickens them the more for that the present act so plies His honest mind to make sure worke So for the high estate This worke was brought to these mens minds according to the rate Were raisd and all their bodies ioyn'd but there well-spoken king With his so timely-thought-on speech more sharpe made valours sting And thickn'd so their targets bost so all their helmets then That shields propt shields helmes helmets knockt and men encourag'd men Patroclus and Automedon did arme before them all Patroclus and Automedon arme together Two bodies with one mind inform'd and then the Generall Betooke him to his priuate Tent where from a coffer wrought Most rich and curiously and giuen by Thetis to be brought In his owne ship top-fild with vests warme robes to checke cold wind And tapistries all golden fring'd and curl'd with thrumbs behind He tooke a most vnualewed boule in which none dranke but he Achilles sacrifice for his friends safe returne Nor he but to the deities nor any deitie But Ioue himselfe was seru'd with that and that he first did clense With sulphure then with fluences of sweetest water rense Then washt his hands and drew himselfe a boule of mightie wine Which standing midst the place enclosde for seruices diuine And looking vp to heauen and Ioue who saw him well he pour'd Vpon the place of sacrifice and humbly thus implor'd Great Dodonaeus President of cold Dodonaes towres Achilles ãâã Diuine Pelasgicus that dwell'st farre hence about whose bowres Th'austere prophetique Selli dwell that still sleepe on the ground Go bare and neuer clense their feete as I before haue found Grace to my vowes and hurt to Greece so now my prayres intend I still stay in the gatherd fleete but haue dismist my friend Amongst my many Myrmidons to danger of the dart O grant his valour my renowne arme with my mind his hart That Hectors selfe may know my friend can worke in single warre And not then onely shew his hands so hote and singular When my kind presence seconds him but fight he nere so well No further let him trust his fight but when he shall repell Clamor and Danger from our fleete vouchsafe a safe retreate To him and all his companies with fames and armes compleate He prayd and heauens great Counsellor gaue satisfying eare To one part of his orisons but left the other there He let him free the fleete of foes but safe retreate denide Achilles left that vtter part where he his zeale applide And turn'd into his inner tent made fast his cup and then Stood forth and with his mind beheld the foes fight and his men That follow'd his great minded friend embattail'd till they brake With gallant spirit vpon the foe And as fell waspes that make Simile Their dwellings in the broade high way which foolish children vse Their cottages being neare their nests to anger and abuse With euer vexing them and breed to sooth their childish warre A common ill to many men since if a traueller That would his iourneys end apply and passe them vnassayd Come neare and vexe them vpon him the childrens faults are layd For on they flie as he were such and still defend their owne So far'd it with the feruent mind of euery Myrmidon Who pour'd themselues out of their fleete vpon their wanton foes That needs would stirre them thrust so neare and cause the ouerthrowes Of many others that had else bene neuer toucht by them Nor would haue toucht Patroclus then put his wind to the streame Patroclus to the ãâã And thus exhorted Now my friends remember you
expresse Your late-vââ¦g'd vertue and renowme our great Aeacides That he being strongst of all the Greeks his eminence may dimme All others likewise in our strengths that farre off imitate him And Agamemnon now may see his fault as generall As his place high dishonoring him that so much honors all Thus made he sparkle their fresh fire and on they rusht the fleete Fild full her hollow sides with sounds that terribly did greete Th' amazed Troians and their eyes did second their amaze When great Menââ¦tius sonne they saw and his friends armor blaze The terror of Patroclus to the Troians All troupes stood troubl'd with conceit that Peleus sonne was there His anger cast off at the ships and each lookt euery where For some authoritie to leade the then prepared flight Patroclus greeted with a lance the region where the fight Made strongest tumult neare the ship Protesilaus brought And strooke Pyrechmen who before the faire-helmd Pââ¦ons fought Led from Amydon neare whose wals the broad stream'd Axius flowes Through his right shoulder flew the dart whose blow strooke all the blowes Pyrechmen slain by Patroclus and the ãâã In his powre from his powrelesse arme and downe he groning fell His men all flying their Leader fled This one dart did repell The whole guard plac't about the ship whose fire extinct halfe burn'd The Paeons left her and full crie to clamorous flight return'd Then spread the Greeks about their ships triumphant tumult flow'd And as from top of some steepe hill the lightner strips a clowd Simile And lets a great skie out from heauen in whose delightsome light All prominent foreheads forrests towres and temples cheare the sight So clear'd these Greeks this Troian cloud and at their ships and tents Obtain'd a litle time to breathe but found no present vents To their inclusions nor did Troy though these Paeonians fled Lose any ground but from this ship they needfully turn'd head Then euery man a man subdude Patroclus in the thigh Strooke Areilicus his dart the bone did breake and flie Quite through and sunke him to the earth Good Menelaus slew Accomplisht Thoas in whose breast being nak'd his lance he threw Aboue his shield and freed his soule Phylides taking note That bold Amphidus bent at him preuented him and smote His thighes extreme part where of man his fattest muscle lies The nerues torne with his lances pile and darknesse closde his eyes Antilochus Atymnius seizd his steele lance did impresse His first three guts and loosd his life At yong Nestorides Maris Atymnius bother flew and at him Thrasimed The brother to Antilochus his eager Iauelins head The muscles of his arme cut out and shiuer'd all the bone Night closde his eyes his liuelesse corse his brother fell vpon And so by two kind brothers hands did two kind brothers bleed Both being diuine Sarpedons friends and were the darting seed Of Amisodarus that kept the bane of many men Abhord Chimââ¦ra and such bane now caught his childeren Aiax Oileades did take Cleobulus aliue Inuading him staid by the prease and at him then let driue With his short sword that cut his necke whose bloud warm'd all the steele And cold Death with a violent fate his sable eyes did secle Peneleus and Lycon cast together off their darts Both mist and both together then went with their swords in parts The blade and hilt went laying on vpon the helmets height Peneleus sword caught Lycons necke and cut it thorough quite His head hung by the very skin The swift Meriones Pursuing flying Acamas iust as he got accesse To horse and chariot ouertooke and tooke him such a blow On his right shoulder that he left his chariot and did strow The dustie earth life left his lims and night his eyes possest Idomenaeus his sterne dart at Erymas addrest As like to Acamas he fled it cut the sundry bones Beneath his braine betwixt his necke and foreparts and so runs Shaking his teeth out through his mouth his eyes all drown'd in blood So through his nostrils and his mouth that now dart-open stood He breath'd his spirit Thus had death from euery Grecian Chiefe A Chiefe of Troy For as to Kids or Lambes their cruelst thiefe Similâ⦠The Wolfe steales in and when he sees that by the shepheards sloth The dams are sperst about the hils then serues his rauenous tooth With ease because his prey is weake So seru'd the Greeks their foes Discerning well how shrieking flight did all their spirits dispose Their biding vertues quite forgot And now the naturall splene That Aiax bore to Hector still by all meanes would haue bene Within his bosome with a dart but he that knew the warre Well couer'd in a well-lin'd shield did well perceiue how farre The arrowes and the iauelins reacht by being within their sounds And ominous singings and obseru'd the there-inclining bounds Of Conquest in her aide of him and so obeyd her change Tooke safest course for him and his and stood to her as strange And as when Ioue intends a storme he lets out of the starres Simile From steepe Olympus a blacke cloud that all heauens splendor barres From men on earth so from the hearts of all the Troian host All comfort lately found from Ioue in flight and cries was lost Nor made they any faire retreat Hectors vnruly horse Would needs retire him and he left engag'd his Troian force Forc't by the steepnesse of the dike that in ill place they tooke And kept them that would faine haue gone Their horses quite forsooke A number of the Troian kings and left them in the dike Their chariots in their foreteames broke Patroclus then did strike While steele was hote and chear'd his friends nor meant his enemies good Who when they once began to flie each way receiu'd a flood And chok't themselues with drifts of dust And now were clouds begot Beneath the clouds with flight and noise the horse neglected not Their home intendments and where rout was busiest there pour'd on Pââ¦troclus most exhorts and threats and then lay ouerthrowne Numbers beneath their axle-trees who lying in flights streame Made th'after chariots iot and iumpe in driuing ouââ¦r them Th' immortall horse Patroclus rode did passe the dike with ease And wisht the depth and danger more and Menetiades As great a spirit had to reach retiring Hectors hast But his fleete horse had too much law and fetcht him off too fast And as in Autumne the blacke earth is loden with the stormes Simile That Ioue in gluts of raine poures downe being angry with the formes Of iugdement in authorisde men that in their courts maintaine With violent office wrested lawes and fearing gods nor men Exile all iustice for whose faults whole fields are ouerflowne And many valleys cut away with torrents headlong throwne From neighbour mountaines till the sea receiue them roring in And iudg'd mens labours then are vaine plagu'd for their Iudges sin So now the foule defaults of
some all Troy were laid vpon So like those torrents roar'd they backe to windie Ilion And so like tempests blew the horse with rauishing backe againe Those hote aââ¦sailants all their workes at fleete now rendred vaine Patroclus when he had disperst the formost Phalanxes Cald backe his forces to the fleete and would not let them prease As they desir'd too neare the towne but twixt the ships and floud And their steepe rampire his hand steept Reuenge in seas of bloud Then Pronous was first that fell beneath his fierie lance Which strooke his bare brest neare his shield The second Thestors chance Old Enops sonne did make himselfe who shrinking and set close In his faire seate euen with th'approch Patroclus made did lose All manly courage insomuch that from his hands his raines Fell flowing downe and his right iaw Patroclus lance attaines Strooke through his teeth and there it stucke and by it to him drew Dead Thestor to his chariot it shewd as when you view Simile An Anglet from some prominent rocke draw with his line and hooke A mightie fish out of the sea for so the Greeke did plucke The Troian gaping from his seate his iawes op't with the dart Which when Patroclus drew he fell his life and brest did part Then rusht he on Eryalus at whom he hurl'd a stone Which strake his head so in the midst that two was made of one Two wayes it fell cleft through his caske and then Tlepolemus Epaltes Damastorides Euippus Echius Ipheas bold Amphoterus and valiant Erymas And Polymelus by his sire surnam'd Argeadas He heapt vpon the much-fed earth When Ioues most worthy sonne Diuine Sarpedon saw these friends thus stayd and others runne ââ¦arpedon to the ãâã O shame why flie ye then he cride now shew ye feete enow Oâ⦠keepe your way my selfe will meete the man that startles you To make me vnderstand his name that flants in conquest thus And hath so many able knees so soone dissolu'd to vs. Downe iumpt he from his chariot downe leapt his foe as light And as on some farre-looking rocke a cast of Vultures fight Simile Flie on each other strike and trusse part meete and then sticke by Tug both with crooked beakes and seres crie fight and fight and cry So fiercely fought these angry kings and shew'd as bitter gals Ioue turning eyes to this sterne fight his wife and sister cals ãâã to ãâã ãâã the fate of ãâã And much mou'd for the Lycian Prince said O that to my sonne Fate by this day and man should cut a thread so nobly spunne Two minds distract me if I should now rauish him from fight And set him safe in Lycia or giue the Fates their right Austere Saturnius she replide what vniust words are theiââ¦e ãâã to ãâã A mortall long since markt by Fate wouldst thou immortalise Do but by no god be approu'd free him and numbers more Sonnes of immortals will liue free that death must taste before These gates of Ilion euery god will haue his sonne a god Or storme extremely Giue him then an honest period In braue fight by Patroclus sword if he be deare to thee Aââ¦d grieues thee for his danger'd life of which when he is free Let Death and Somnus beare him hence till Lycias naturall wombe Receiue him from his brothers hands and citizens a Tombe And columne raisd to him this is the honor of the dead She said and her speech rul'd his powre but in his safeties stead For sad ostent of his neare death he steept his liuing name In drops of blood heauen swet for him which earth drunke to his fame And now as this high combat grew to this too humble end Sarpedons death had this state more t was vsherd by his friend And chariotere braue Thrasimed whom in his bellies rim Patroclus wounded with his lance and endlesse ended him And then another act of name foreranne his princely fate His first lance missing he let flie a second that gaue date Sarpedon ãâã Pedasus one of ââ¦chilles horse Of violent death to Pedasus who as he ioy'd to die By his so honorable hand did euen in dying ney His ruine startl'd th' other steeds the geres crackt and the raines Strappl'd his fellowes whose mis-rule Automedoâ⦠restraines By cutting the intangling geres and so dissundering quite The braue-slaine Beast when both the rest obeyd and went foreright And then the royall combattants fought for the finall stroke The last ãâã of Sarpedon and Patroclus When Lycias Generall mist againe his high-raisde ãâã tooke Aboue his shoulder emptie way But no such ãâã flight Patroclus let his speare performe that on the breast did light Of his braue foe where lifes strings close about the solid hart Impressing a recurelesse wound his kââ¦ees then left their part And let him fall when like an Oke a Poplar or a Pine New feld by arts-men on the hils ââ¦e stretcht his forme ãâã Before his horse and chariot And as a Lion leapes Simile Vpon a goodly yellow Bull driues all the herd in heapes And vnder his vnconquerd iawes the braue beast sighing diââ¦s So sigh'd Sarpedon vnderneath this prince of enemies Cald Glaucus to him his deare friend and said Now ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã dying to Glaucus his friend Much dutie owe to fight and armes now for my loue it ãâã Thy heart in much hand to approue that warre ãâã harmefull ãâã How actiue all thy forces are this one houres act must show ãâã First call our Lycian Captaines vp looke round and bring vp ãâã And all exhort to stand like friends about Sarpedons fall And spend thy selfe thy steele for me for be assurd no day Of all thy life to thy last houre can cleare thy blacke dismay In woe and infamie for me if I be taken hence Spoil'd of mine armes and thy renowme despoil'd of my defence Stand firme then and confirme thy men This said the bounds of death Concluded all sight to his eyes and to his nosthrils breath Patroclus though his guard was strong forc't way through euery doubt Climb'd his high bosome with his foote and pluckt his iauelin out And with it drââ¦w the filme and strings of his yet-panting hart And last together with the pile his princely soule did part His horse spoil'd both of guide and king thicke snoââ¦ing and amaz'd And apt to flight the Myrmââ¦dons made nimbly to and seaz'd Glaucus to heare his friend aske aide of him past all the rââ¦st Though well he knew his wound vncur'd Confusion fild his brest The sorrow of Glaucus for Sarpedon and praier to Phââ¦bus Not to haue good in any powre and yet so much good will And laying his hand vpon his wound that pain'd him sharply still And was by Teucers hand set on from their assail'd steepe wall In keeping hurt from other men he did on Phoebus call The god of Medcines for his cure Thou king of cures said he That art perhaps in
chopping chopping still And laying on on blocks and trees so they on men laid lode And beate like noises into aire both as they strooke and trod But past their noise so full of bloud of dust of darts lay smit Diuine Sarpedon that a man must haue an excellent wit That could but know him and might faile so from his vtmost head Euen to the low plants of his feete his forme was altered All thrusting neare it euery way as thicke as flies in spring That in a sheepe-cote when new milke assembles them make wing And buzze about the top-full pailes nor euer was the eve Of Ioue auerted from the fight he viewd thought ceaslesly And diuersly vpon the death of great Achilles friend If Hector there to wreake his sonne should with his iauelin end His life and force away his armes oâ⦠still augment the field He then concluded that the flight of much more soule should yeeld Achilles good friend more renowne and that euen to their gates He should driue Hector and his host and so disanimates The mind of Hector that he mounts his chariot and takes Flight Vp with him tempting all to her affirming his insight Knew euidently that the beame of Ioues all-ordering scoles Was then in sinking on their side surcharg'd with flockes of soules Then not the noble Lycians staid but left their slaughterd Lord Amongst the corses common heape for many more were pour'd About and on him while Ioues hand held out the bitter broile And now they spoil'd Sarpedons armes and to the ships the spoile Was sent by Menaetiades Then Ioue thus charg'd the Sunne Haste honor'd Phoebus let no more Greeke violence be done Iouâ⦠to Phââ¦bus To my Sarpedon but his corse of all the sable bloud And iauelins purg'd then carry him farre hence to some cleare floud With whose waues wash and then embalme each thorough-clââ¦nsed lim With our Ambrosia which perform'd diuine weeds put on him And then to those swift mates and twins sweete Sleepe and Death commit His princely person that with speed they both may carrie it To wealthy Lycia where his friends and brothers will embrace And tombe it in some monument as fits a Princes place Then flew Apollo to the fight from the Idalian hill Apollo sends ãâã pedoââ¦s body by Sleep and Death to Lyclâ⦠At all parts putting into act his great Commanders will Drew all the darts washt balm'd the corse which deckt with ornament By Sleepe and Death those featherd twins he into Lycia sent Patroclus then Automedon commands to giue his steeds Large raines and all way to the chace so madly he exceeds The strict commission of his friend which had he kept had kept A blacke death from him But Ioues mind hath euermore outstept The mind of man who both affrights and takes the victorie From any hardiest hand with ease which he can iustifie Though he himselfe commands him fight as now he put this chace In Menaetiades his mind How much then weighs the grace Patroclus that Ioue giues thee now in scoles put with thy death Of all these great and famous men the honorable breath Of which Adrestus first he slue and next Autonous Epistorâ⦠and Perimus Pylartes Elasus Swift Menalippus Molius all these were ouerthrowne ãâã ââ¦ling the wals of Troy resisted by Phoebus By him and all else put in rout and then proud Ilion Had stoopt beneath his glorious hand he rag'd so with his lance If Phoebus had not kept the towre and helpt the Ilians Sustaining ill thoughts gainst the Prince Thrice to the prominence Of Troys steepe wall he brauely leapt thrice Phoebus thrust him thence Obiecting his all-dazeling shield with his resistlesse hand But fourthly when like one of heauen he would haue stird his stand Apollo threatned him and said Ceasse it exceeds thy fate Apollo threatens Pââ¦traclus Forward Patroclus to expugne with thy bold lance this state Nor vnder great Achilles powres to thine superiour farre Lies Troyes graue ruine When he spake Patroclus left that warre Leapt farre backe and his anger shund Hector detain'd his horse Within the Scaean ports in doubt to put his personall force Amongst the rout and turne their heads or shun in Troy the storme Apollo seeing his suspence assum'd the goodly forme Of Hectors vnkle Asius the Phrygian Dymas sonne Apollo in shape of Asius to Hector Who neare the deepe Sangarius had habitation Being brother to the Troian Queene His shape Apollo tooke And askt of Hector why his spirit so cleare the fight forsooke Affirming t was vnfit for him and wisht his forces were As much aboue his as they mou'd in an inferiour sphere He should with shame to him be gone and so bad driue away Against Patroclus to approue if he that gaue them day Would giue the glorie of his death to his preferred lance So left he him and to the fight did his bright head aduance Mixt with thâ⦠multitude and stird foule Tumult for the foe Then Hector bad Cebriones put on himselfe let go All other Greeks within his reach and onely gaue command To front Patroclus He at him iumpt downe his strong left hand A Iauelin held his right a stone a marble sharpe and such As his large hand had powre to gripe and gaue it strength as much As he could lie to nor stood long in feare of that huge man That made against him but full on with his huge stone he ran Discharg'd and draue it twixt the browes of bold Cebriones Nor could the thicke bone there prepar'd extenuate so th' accesse But out it draue his broken eyes which in the dust fell downe And he diu'd after which conceit of diuing tooke the sonne Of old Menatius who thus plaid vpon the others bane O heauens for truth this Troian was a passing actiue man Patroclus ãâã at tââ¦e fall of Cebriones With what exceeding ease he diues as if at worke he were Within the fishie seas This man alone would furnish cheare For twentie men though t were a storme to leape out of a saile And gather oisters for them all he does it here as well And there are many such in Troy Thus iested he so neare His owne graue death and then made in to spoile the Chariotere With such a Lions force and fate as often ruining Stals of fat oxen gets at length a mortall wound to sting His soule out of that rauenous breast that was so insolent And so his lifes blisse proues his bane so deadly confident Wert thou Patroclus in pursuite of good Cebriones To whose defence now Hector leapt The opposite addresse A simile expressing Patroclus encounter and Hectors These masters of the crie in warre now made was of the kind Of two fierce kings of beasts opposd in strife about a Hind Slaine on the forehead of a hill both sharpe and hungry set And to the Currie neuer came but like two Deaths they met Nor these two entertain'd lesse mind of mutuall preiudice About the
flight he saw and falling flat the compasse was too hie And made it sticke beyond in earth th' extreme part burst and theââ¦e Mars buried all his violence The sword then for the speare Had chang'd the conflict had not haste sent both th' Aiaies in Both seruing close their fellowes call who where they did begin There drew the end Priamides Aeneas Chronius In doubt of what such aid might worke left broken hearted thus Aretus to Automedon who spoild his armes and said Automedon insuiââ¦s A little this reuiues my life for him so lately dead Though by this nothing counteruail'd And with this litle vent Of inward griefe he tooke the spoile with which he made ascent Vp to his Chariot hands and feete of bloudie staines so full That Lion-like he lookt new turn'd from tearing vp a Bull. And now another bitter fight about Patroclus grew Teare-thirstie and of toile enough which Pallas did renew Descending from the cope of starres dismist by sharp-eyd Ioue To animate the Greeks for now inconstant change did moue His mind from what he held of late And as the purple bow Simile Ioue bends at mortals when of warre he will the signall show Or make it a presage of cold in such tempestuous sort That men are of their labours easde but labouring cattell hurt So Pallas in a purple cloud inuolu'd her selfe and went Amongst the Grecians stird vp all but first encouragement She breath'd in Atreus yonger sonne and for disguise made choise Of aged Phoenix shape and spake with his vnwearied voice O Menelaus much defame and equall heauinesse Pallas like Phââ¦uix to Menelaâ⦠Will touch at thee if this true friend of great Aeacides Dogs teare beneath the Troian wals and therefore beare thee well Toile through the host and euery man with all thy spirit impell He answerd O thou long-since borne O Phoenix that hast wonne Menelaus to Pallas supposââ¦d Phââ¦nix The honor'd foster-fathers name of Thetis god-like sonne b I would Minerua would but giue strength to me and but keepe These busie darts off I would then make in indeed and steepe My income in their bloods in aide of good Patroclus much His death afflicts me much but yet this Hectors grace is such With Ioue and such a fierie strength and spirit he has that still His steele is killing killing still The kings so royall will Minerua ioy'd to heare since she did all the gods outgo In his remembrance For which grace she kindly did bestow Strength on his shoulders and did fill his knees as liberally With swiftnesse breathing in his breast the courage of a flie Which loues to bite so and doth beare mans bloud so much good will That still though beaten from a man she flies vpon him still With such a courage Pallas fild the blacke parts neare his hart And then he hasted to the slaine cast off a shining dart And tooke one Podes that was heire to old Eââ¦tion A rich man and a strenuous and by the people done Much honour and by Hector too being consort and his guest And him the yellow-headed king laid hold on at his waste In offering flight his iron pile strooke through him downe he fell And vp Atrides drew his corse Then Phoebus did impell The spirit of Hector Phoenops like surnam'd Asiades Phoebus like Asiades to Hector Whom Hector vsde of all his guests with greatest friendlinesse And in Abydus stood his house in whose forme thus he spake Hector what man of all the Greeks will any terror make Of meeting thy strength any more when thou art tertified By Menelaus who before he slue thy friend was tried A passing easie souldier where now besides his end Imposde by him he drawes him off and not a man to friend From all the Troians This friend is Podes Eââ¦tions sonne This hid him in a cloud of griefe and set him formost on And then Ioue tooke his Snake-fring'd shield and Ida couer'd all With sulphurie clouds from whence he let abhorred lightnings fall And thunderd till the mountaine shooke and with this dreadfull state He vsherd victorie to Troy to Argos flight and fate Peneleus Boeotius was he that formost fled Being wounded in his shoulders height but there the lances head Strooke lightly glancing to his mouth because it strooke him neare Throwne from Polydamas Leitus next left the fight in feare Being hurt by Hector in his hand because he doubted sore His hand in wished fight with Troy would hold his lance no more Idomeneus sent a dart at Hector rushing in Idomeneus at Hector And following Leitus that strooke his bosome neare his chin And brake at top the Ilians for his escape did shout When Hector at Deucalides another lance sent out As in his chariot he stood it mist him narrowly For as it fell Caeranus draue his speedie chariot by And tooke the Troian lance himselfe he was the Chariotere Of sterne Meriones and first on foote did seruice there Which well he left to gouerne horse for sauing now his king With driuing twixt him and his death though thence his owne did spring Which kept a mightie victorie from Troy in keeping death From his great Soueraigne the fierce dart did enter him beneath His eare betwixt his iaw and it draue downe cut through his tongue And strooke his teeth out from his hands the horses raines he flung Which now Meriones receiu'd as they bestrew'd the field And bad his Soueraigne scourge away he saw that day would yeeld No hope of victorie for them He fear'd the same and fled Nor from the mightie minded sonne of Telamon lay hid For all his clouds high Ioue himselfe nor from the Spartan king They saw him in the victorie he still was varying For Troy for which sight Aiax said O heauens what foole is he That sees not Ioues hand in the grace now done our enemie Not any dart they touch but takes from whom soeuer throwne Valiant or coward what he wants Ioue addes not any one Aiax good counsell Wants his direction to strike sure nor ours to misse as sure But come let vs be sure of this to put the best in vre That lies in vs which two-fold is both to fetch off our friend And so to fetch him off as we may likeliest contend To fetch our selues off that our friends suruiuing may haue right In ioy of our secure retreat as he that fell in fight Being kept as sure from further wrong of which perhaps they doubt And looking this way grieue for vs not able to worke out Or passe from this man-slaughterer great Hector and his hands That are too hote for men to touch but that these thirstie sands Before our fleete will be enforc't to drinke our headlong death Which to preuent by all fit meanes I would the parted breath Of good Patroclus to his friend with speed imparted were By some he loues for I beleeue no heauie messenger Hath yet inform'd him but alas I see no man
wrong to thy grieued mind my death being set so soone And neuer suffering my returne to grace of Peleus court Nor do I wish it nor to liue in any mans resort But onely that the crying bloud for vengeance of my friend Mangl'd by Hector may be stild his foes death paying his end She weeping said That houre is neare and thy deaths houre then nie ââ¦etis to Achilâ⦠Which in thy wish seru'd of thy foe succeedeth instantly And instantly it shall succeed he answerd since my fate Achilles to Theââ¦is Allow'd not to my will a powre to rescue ere the date Of his late slaughter my true friend Farre from his friends he died Whose wrong therein my eyes had light and right to see denied Yet now I neither light my selfe nor haue so spent my light That either this friend or the rest in numbers infinite Slaughterd by Hector I can helpe nor grace with wisht repaire To our deare country but breathe here vnprofitable aire And onely liue a lode to earth with all my stââ¦ngth though none Of all the Grecians equall it In counsell many a one Is my superiour what I haue no grace gets what I want Disgraceth all How then too soone can hastiest death supplant My ãâã curst life her instrument to my indignitie Being that blacke friend Contention whom would to God might die To gods and men and Anger too that kindles tyrannie In men most wise being much more sweete then ââ¦quid hony is To men of powre to satiate their watchfull enmities And like a pliant fume it spreds through all their breasts as late It stolâ⦠sterne passage thorough mine which he did instigate That is our Generall But the fact so long past the effect Must vanish with it though both grieu'd nor must we still respect Our soothed humours Need now takes the rule of eithers mind And when the loser of my friend his death in me shall find Let death take all Send him ye gods I le giue him my embrace Not Hercules himselfe shund death though dearest in the grace Of Iupiter euen him Fate stoopt and Iââ¦s crueltie And if such Fate expect my life where death strikes I will lie Meane time I wish a good renowme that these deepe-brested Dames Of ââ¦ion and Dardania may for th'extinguisht flames Of their friends liues with both their hands wipe miserable teares From their so curiously-kept cheekes and be the officers To execute my sighs on Troy when seeing my long rââ¦ate But gatherd strength and giues my charge an answerable heate They well may know t was I lay still ãâã that my being away Presented all their happinesse But any further stay Which your much loue perhaps may wish assay not to perswade All vowes are kept all prayres heard now free way for fight is made The siluer-footed Dame replide It fits thee well my sonne Thetis ãâã Achilles To keepe destruction from thy friends but those faire armes are wonne And worne by Hector that should keepe thy selfe in keeping them Though their fruition be but short a long death being neare him Whose cruell glorie they are yet by all meanes then forbeare To tread the massacres of warre till I againe appeare From Mulciber with fit new armes which when thy eye shall see The Sunne next rise shall enter here with his first beames and me Thus to her sisters of the sea she turn'd and bad them ope The doores and deepes of Nereus she in Olympus top Must visite Vulcan for new armes to serue her wreakfull sonne Thetis and thâ⦠Nymphs ãâã Achillâ⦠And bad informe her father so with all things further done This said they vnderwent the sea her selfe flew vp to heauen In meane space to the Hellespont and ships the Greeks were driuen In shamefull rout nor could they yet from rage of Priams sonne Secure the dead of new assaults both horse and men made on With such impression thrice the feete the hands of Hector seasd And thrice th' Aiaces thumpt him off With whose repulse displeasd He wreakt his wrath vpon the troupes then to the corse againe Made horrid turnings crying out of his repââ¦sed men And would not quit him quite for death A Lion almost steru'd Is not by vpland herdsmen driuen from vrging to be seru'd With more contention then his strength by those two of a name And had perhaps his much prââ¦sd will if th'airie-footed dame Swift Iris had not stoopt in hast Ambassadresse from heauen Iris ambassââ¦dresse to Achilles from ãâã To Peleus sonne to bid him arme her message being giuen By Iuno kept from all the gods she thus excited him Rise thou most terrible of men and saue the precious lim Of thy belou'd in whose behalfe the conflict now runnes hie Before the fleete the either host fels other mutually These to retaine those to obtaine amongst whom most of all Is Hector prompt hee 's apt to drag thy friend home he your pall Will make his shoulders his head forc't hee 'l be most famous ãâã No more lie idle set the foe a much more costly prise Of thy friends value then let dogs make him a monument Where thy name will be grauen He askt What deitie hath sent Thy presence hither She repli'd Saturnia she alone Not high Ioue knowing nor one god that doth inhabite on Snowie Olympus He againe How shall I set vpon The worke of slaughter when mine armes are worne by Priams son How will my goddesse mother grieue that bad I should not arme Till she brought armes from Mulciber But should I do such harme To her and dutie who is he but Aiax that can vant The fitting my brest with his armes and he is conuersant Amongst the first in vse of his and rampiers of the foe Slaine neare Patroclus builds to him All this said she we know And wish thou onely wouldst but show thy person to the eyes Of these hote Ilians that afraid of further enterprise The Greeks may gaine some litle breath She woo'd and he was won And straite Minerua honor'd him who Ioues shield clapt vpon His mightie shoulders and his head girt with a cloud of gold That cast beames round about his browes And as when armes enfold A citie in an I le from thence a fume at first appeares Simile Being in the day but when the Euen her cloudie forehead reares Thicke show the fires and vp they cast their splendor that men nie Seeing their distresse perhaps may set ships out to their supply So to shew such aid from his head a light rose scaling heauen And forth the wall he stept and stood nor brake the precept giuen By his great mother mixt in fight but sent abroad his voice Which Pallas farre off ecchoed who did betwixt them hoise Shrill Tumult to a toplesse height And as a voice is heard Simile With emulous affection when any towne is spher'd With siege of such a foe as kils mens minds and for the towne Makes sound his trumpet so
wife of Sthenelus whose race He fetch from Ioue by Perseus dwelt She was but seuenths months gone With issue yet she brought it forth Alcmenas matchlesse sonne Delaide from light Saturnia represt the teeming throwes Of his great mother Vp to heauen she mounts againe and showes In glorie her deceipt to Ioue Bright lightning Ioue said she Now th' Argiues haue an Emperour a sonne deriu'd from thee Iunos insulâ⦠after her deââ¦ipt Is borne to Persean Sthenelus Eurystheus his name Noble and worthy of the rule thou swor'st to him This came Close to the heart of Iupiter and Ate that had wrought This anger by Saturnia by her bright-haire he caught Held downe her head and ouer her made this infallible vow That neuer to the cope of starres should reascend that brow Being so infortunate to all Thus swinging her about He cast her from the fierie heauen who euer since thrust out Her forkt sting in th' affaires of men Ioue euer since did grieue Since his deare issue Hercules did by his vow atchieue Th'vniust toyles of Eurysteus thus fares it now with me Since vnder Hectors violence the Grecian progenie Fell so vnfitly by my splene whose fals will euer sticke In my grieu'd thoughts my weaknesse yet Saturnius making sicke The state my mind held now recur'd th' amends shall make euen weight With my offence and therefore rouse thy spirits to the fight With all thy forces all the gifts proposde thee at thy tent Last day by royall Ithacus my officers shall present And if it like thee strike no stroke though neuer so on thornes Thy mind stands to thy friends reuenge till my command adornes Thy tents and cofers with such gifts as well may let thee know How much I wish thee satisfied He answerd let thy vow Achilles his noble answer of Agaââ¦non Renown'd Atrides at thy will be kept as iustice would Or keepe thy gifts t is all in thee The counsell now we hold Is for repairing our maine field with all our fortitude My faire shew made brookes no retreat nor must delaies delude Our deeds expectance Yet vndone the great worke is all eyes Must see Achilles in first fight depeopling enemies As well as counsell it in court that euery man set on May chuse his man to imitate my exercise vpon Vlysses answerd do not yet thou man made like the gods Vââ¦sses Aâ⦠Take fasting men to field suppose that whatsoeuer ods It brings against them with full men thy boundlesse eminence Can amplie answer yet refraine to tempt a violence The conflict wearing out our men was late and held as long Wherein though most Ioue stood for Troy he yet made our part strong To beare that most But t was to beare and that breeds little heart Let wine and bread then adde to it they helpe the twofold part The soule and body in a man both force and fortitude All day men cannot fight and fast though neuer so indude With minds to fight for that supposde there lurks yet secretly Thirst hunger in th' oppressed ioynts which no mind can supply They take away a marchers knees Mens bodyes throughly fed Their minds share with them in their strength and all day combatted One stirres not till you call off all Dismisse them then to meate And let Atrides tender here in sight of all this seate The gifts he promist Let him sweare before vs all and rise To that oath that he neuer toucht in any wanton wise The Ladie he enforc't Besides that he remaines in mind As chastly satisfied not toucht or priuily enclind With future vantages And last t is fit he should approue All these rites at a solemne feast in honour of your loue That so you take no mangl'd law for merites absolute And thus the honours you receiue resoluing the pursuite Of your friends quarrell well will quit your sorrow for your friend And thou Atrides in the tast of so seuere an end Hereafter may on others hold a iuster gouernment Nor will it ought empaire a king to giue a sound content To any subiect soundly wrong'd I ioy replide the king ãâã to ãâã O Laertiades to heare thy liberall counselling In which is all decorum kept nor any point lackes touch That might be thought on to conclude a reconcilement such As fits example and vs two My mind yet makes me sweare Not your impulsion And that mind shall rest so kind and cleare That I will not forsweare to God Let then Achilles stay Though neuer so inflam'd for fight and all men here I pray To stay till from my tents these gifts be brought here and the truce At all parts finisht before all And thou of all I chuse Diuine Vlysses and command to chuse of all your host Youths of most honour to present to him we honour most The gifts we late vow'd and the Dames Meane space about our tents Talthybius shall prouide a Bore to crowne these kind euents With thankfull sacrifice to Ioue and to the God of light Achilles answerd These affaires will shew more requisite Achilles to Vlysses Great king of men some other time when our more free estates Yeeld fit cessation from the warre and when my splene abates But now to all our shames besides our friends by Hector slaine And Ioue to friend lie vnfetch off Haste then and meate your men Though I must still say My command would leade them fasting forth And all together feast at night Meate will be something worth When stomacks first haue made it way with venting infamie And other sorrowes late sustain'd with long'd for wreakes that lie Heauie vpon them for rights sake Before which lode be got From off my stomacke meate nor drinke I vow shall downe my throte My friend being dead who digd with wounds bor'd through both his feet Lies in the entrie of my tent and in the teares doth fleete Of his associates Meate and drinke haue litle merit then To comfort me but bloud and death and deadly grones of men The great in counsels yet made good his former counsels thus Vlysses his rââ¦ly O Peleus sonne of all the Greeks by much most valorous Better and mightier then my selfe no little with thy lance I yeeld thy worth in wisedome yet no lesse I dare aduance My right aboue thee since aboue in yeares and knowing more Let then thy mind rest in thy words we quickly shall haue store And all sacietie of fight whose steele heapes store of straw And litle corne vpon a floore when Ioue that doth withdraw And ioyne all battels once begins t'encline his ballances In which he weighs the liues of men The Greeks you must not presse To mourning with the belly death hath nought to do with that In healthfull men that mourne for friends His steele we stumble at And fall at euery day you see sufficient store and fast What houre is it that any breathes we must not vse more hast Then speed holds fit for our reuenge nor
think of a better exposition when a worse cannot be coniectured vnlesse that of Eustathius as I hope you will cleerly grant me when you heare but mine Which is this The sacrifice is not made by Agamemnon for any resemblance or reference it hath to the Lady now to be restored which since these Clerkes will needs haue it a Sow in behalfe of Ladies I disdaine but onely to the reconciliation of Agamemnon and Achilles for a sacred signe whereof and that their wraths were noâ⦠absolutely appeased Agamemnon thought fit a Bore being the most wrathfull of all beasts should be sacrificed to Ioue intimating that in that Bore they sacrificed their wraths to Iupiââ¦er and became friends And thus is the originall word preserued which together with the sacred sence of our Homer in a thousand other places suffers most ignorant and barbarous violence But here being weary both with finding faults and my labour till a refreshing come I wil end my poore Comment Holding it not altogether vnfit with this ridiculous contention of our Commentors a litle to quicken you and make it something probable that their ouersight in this trifle is accompanied with a thousand other errors in matter of our diuine Homers depth and grauitie Which will not open it selfe to the curious austeritie of belabouring art but onely to the naturall and most ingenuous soule of our thrice sacred Poesie The end of the nineteenth Booke THE XX. BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT BY Ioues permission all the gods descend To aide on both parts For the Greekes contend Iuno Minerua Neptune Mulââ¦ber And Mercurie The deââ¦ies that prefer The Troian part are Phoebus Cyprides ãâã Phoebe Latona and the foe to Peace With bright Scamander Neptune in a mist Preserues Aeneas daring to resist Achilles by whose hand much skath is done Besides the slaughter of old Priaââ¦s sonne Yong Polydor whose rescue Hector makes Him flying Phoebus to his rescue takes The rest all shunning their importun'd fates Achilles beates euen to the Ilian gates Another Argument In Ypsilon Strife stirres in heauen The dayes grace to the Greekes is giuen THe Greeks thus arm'd and made insatiate with desire of fight About thee Peleus sonne The foe in ground of greatest height Stood opposite rang'd Then Ioue charg'd Themis froÌ Olympus top To call a court she euery way disperst and summon'd vp Ioue summons all the ââ¦ties to counsell All deities Not any floud besides Oceanus But made apparance not a Nymph that arbours odorous The heads of flouds and flowrie medowes make their sweeââ¦e abodes Was absent there but all at his court that is king of gods Assembl'd and in lightsome seates of admirable frame Perform'd for Ioue by Vulean sate Euen angry Neptune came Nor heard the goddesse with vnwilling ââ¦are but with the rest Made free ascension from the sea and did his state inuest In midst of all begun the counsell and inquir'd of Ioue His reason for that session and on what point did moue His high intention for the foes he thought the heate of warre Was then neare breaking out in flames To him the Thunderer Thou know'st this counsell by the rest of those forepurposes That still inclin'd me my cares still must succour the distresse Of Troy though in the mouth of Faââ¦e yet vow I not to stirre One step from off this top of heauen but all th affaire referre To any one Here I le hold state and freely take the ioy Of eithers fate helpe whom ye please for t is assur'd that Trââ¦y Not one dayes conflict can sustaine against A Eacides If heauen oppose not His meere lookes threw darts enow t'impresse Their powres with trembling but when blowes sent from his fiery hand Thrice heat by slaughter of his friend shall come and countermand Their formeâ⦠glories we haue feare that though Fate keepe their wall Hee 'l ouerturne it Then descend and ceasse not till ye all Adde all your aides mixe earth and heauen together with the fight Achilles vrgeth These his words did such a warre excite As no mans powre could wrastle downe the gods with parted harts Departed heauen and made earth warre To guide the Grecian daââ¦s The names of the gods partakers with either part Iuno and Pallas with the god that doth the earth embrace And most-for-mans-vse Mercurie whom good wise inwards grace Were partially and all emploid and with them halted downe Proud of his strength lame Mulciber his walkers quite misgrowne But made him tread exceeding sure To aide the Ilian side The changeable in armes went Mars and him accompanied Diana that delights in shafts and Phoebus neuer shorne And Aphrodite laughter-pleasde and she of whom was borne Still yong Apollo and the floud that runnes on golden sands Bright Xanthus All these aided Troy and till these lent their hands The Grecians triumpht in the aide AEacides did adde The Troians trembling with his sight so gloriously clad He ouershin'd the field and Mars no harmfuller then he He bore the iron streame on cleare but when Ioues high decree ââ¦et fall the gods amongst their troupes the field sweld and the fight Grew fierce and horrible The* Dame that armies doth excite ãâã Thunderd with Clamor sometimes set at dike without the wall And sometimes on the bellowing shore On th' other side the Call Of Mars to fight was terrible he cried out like a storme Set on the cities pinnacles and there he would informe Sometimes his heartnings Other times where Simois powres on His siluer currant at the foote of high Callicolon And thus the blest gods both sides vrg'd they all stood in the mids And brake Contention to the hosts And ouer all their heads The state of the preparation to the fight when the gods were to encounter The gods king in abhorred claps his thunder rattl'd out Beneath them Neptune tost the earth the mountaines round about Bow'd with affright and shooke their heads Ioues hill the earth quake felt Steepe Ida trembling at her rootes and all her fountaines spilt Their browes all crannied Troy did nod the Grecian nauie plaid As on the sea th' infernall king that all things frayes was fraid And leapt affrighted from his throne cried out lest ouer him Neptune should rend in two the earth and so his house so dim So lothsome filthy and abhord of all the gods beside Should open both to gods and men Thus all things shooke and cri'd When this blacke bartell of the gods was ioyning thus arraied Gainst Neptune Phoebus with wing'd shafts gainst Mars the blew-eyd maid Gainst Iuno Phoebe whose white hands bore singing darts of gold Her side arm'd with a sheafe of shafts and by the birth twofold Of bright Latona sister twin to him that shootes so ãâã Against Latona Hermes stood graue guard in peace and warre Of humane beings gainst the god whose Empire is in fire The watry godhead that great flood to shew whose powre entire In spoile as th' other all his streame
on lurking ãâã trod Xanthus by gods by men Scamander cald Thus god gainst god Enterd the field Aeacides sustain'd a feruent mind To cope with Hector past all these his spirit stood enclin'd To glut Mars with the bloud of him And at Aeacides Apollo set Anchises sonne But first he did impresse A more then naturall strength in him and made him feele th' excesse Apollo instigates Aeneas to the encounter of Achilles in shape of Lycâ⦠Infusde from heauen Lycaons shape gaue show to his addresse Old Priams sonne and thus he spake Thou counseller of Troy Where now flie out those threats that late put all our Peeres in ioy Of thy fight with Aeacides Thy tongue once steept in wine ãâã to Apollo Durst vant as much He answerd him But why wouldst thou incline My powres gainst that proud enemie and gainst my present heate I meane not now to bid him blowes that feare sounds my retreate That heretofore discourag'd me when after he had rac't Lyrnesus and strong Pedasus his still breath'd furie chac't Our oxen from th'Idaean hill and set on me but Ioue Gaue strength and knees and bore me off that had not walkt aboue This center now but propt by him Mineruaes hand that held A light to this her fauorite whose beames shew'd and impeld His powres to spoile had ruin'd me For these eares heard her crie Kill kill the seed of Ilion kill th' Asian Lelegi Meere man then must not fight with him that still hath gods to friend Auerting death on others darts and giuing his no end But with the ends of men If God like Fortune in the fight Would giue my forces not with ease wing'd Victorie should light On his proud shoulders nor he scape though all of brasse he bosts His plight conââ¦steth He replide Pray thou those gods of hosts Whom he implores as well as he and his chance may be thine Thou cam'st of gods like him the Queene that reignes in Salamine Fame sounds thy mother he deriu'd of lower deitie Old Nereus daughter bearing him Beare then thy heart as hie And thy vnwearied steele as right nor vtterly be beate With onely crueltie of words not proofe against a threat This strengthned him and forth he rusht nor could his strengthening flie White-wristed Iuno nor his drifts She euery deitie Of th'Achiue faction cald to her and said Ye must haue care Iuno to the gods of Grââ¦ce Neptune and Pallas for the frame of this important warre Ye vndertake here Venus sonne by Phoebus being impeld Runnes on Achilles turne him backe or see our friend vpheld By one of vs. Let not the spirit of Aeacides Be ouer-dar'd but make him know the mightiest deities Stand kind to him and that the gods protectors of these towres That fight against Greece and were here before our eminent powres Beare no importance And besides that all we sââ¦oope from heauen To curbe this fight that no empaire be to his person giuen By any Troians nor their aides while this day beares the Sunne Hereafter all things that are wrapt in his birth-threed and spunne By Parcas in that point of time his mother gaue him aire He must sustaine But if Report performe not the repaire Of all this to him by the Voice of some immortall state He may be fearfull if some god should set on him that Fate Makes him her minister The gods when they appeare to men And manifest their proper formes are passing dreadfull then Neptune replide Saturnia at no time let your Care Neptune to ãâã Exceed your Reason t is not fit Where onely humanes are We must not mixe the hands of gods our ods is too extreme Sit we by in some place of height where we may see to them And leaue the warres of men to men But if we see from thence Or Mars or Phoebus enter fight or offer least offence To Thetis sonne not giuing free way to his conquering rage Then comes the conflict to our cares we soone shall dis-engage Achilles and send them to heauen to settle their abode With Equals flying vnder-strifes This said the blacke-hair'd god Led to the towre of of Hercules built circular and hie By Pallas and the Ilians for fit securitie To Ioues diuine * sonne gainst the Whale that draue him from the shore Hercules To th'ample field There Neptune sate and all the gods that bore The Greekes good meaning casting all thicke mantles made of clouds On their bright shoulders Th'oppos'd gods sate hid in other shrouds On top of steepe Callicolon about thy golden sides O Phoebus brandisher of darts and thine whose rage abides No peace in cities In this state these gods in counsell saââ¦e All lingring purposde fight to trie who first would eleuate His heauenly weapon High-thron'd Ioue cried out to set them on Said all the field was full of men and that the earth did grone Ioue sets on the other gods to ââ¦ight With feete of proud encounterers burn'd with the armes of men And barbed horse Two champions for both the armies then Met in their midst prepar'd for blowes diuine Aeacides And Venus sonne Aeneas first stept threatning forth the preasse His high helme nodding and his breast bard with a shadie shield And shooke his iauelin Thetis sonne did his part to the field As when the harmfull king of beasts sore threatn'd to be slaine Simile By all the countrie vp in armes at first makes coy Disdaine Prepare resistance but at last when any one hath led Bold charge vpon him with his dart he then turnes yawning head Fell Anger lathers in his iawes his great heart swels his sterne Lasheth his strength vp fides and thighes wadl'd with stripes to learne Their owne powre his eyes glow he rores and in he leapes to kill Secure of killing So his powre then rowsde vp to his will Matchlesse Achilles coming on to meeââ¦e Anchises sonne Both neare Achilles thus enquir'd Why standst thou thus alone Achilles to AEneas Thou sonne of Venus cals thy heart to change of blowes with me Sure Troyes whole kingdome is proposde some one hath promist ãâã The throne of ãâã for my life but Priams selfe is wise And for my slaughter not so mad to make his throne thy prise Priam hath sonnes to second him Is' t then some peece of land Past others fit to set and sow that thy victoââ¦ious hand The Ilians offer for my head I hope that prise will proue No easie conquest once I thinke my busie iauelin droue With terror those thoughts from your spleene Retain'st thou not the time When single on th'Idaean hill I tooke thee with the crime Of Run-away thy Oxen left and when thou hadst no face That I could see thy knees bereââ¦t it and Lyrnesus was The maske for that Then that maske too I opened to the aire By Ioue and Pallas helpe and tooke the free light from the faire Your Ladies bearing prisoners But Ioue and th' other gods Then saft thee
arm'd with two darts being set on by Xanthus angerd so For those youths blood shed in his streame by vengefull Thetis sonne Without all mercie Both being neare great Thetides begunne Achilles to Asteropaeus With this high question Of what race art thou that dar'st oppose Thy powre to mine thus cursed wombs they euer did disclose That stood my anger He reply'd What makes thy furies heate Asteropaeus ãâã Achilles Talke and seeke Pedigrees farre hence lies my innatiue seate In rich Poeonia My race from brode-stream'd Axius runs Axius that giues earth purest drinke of all the watrie sons Of great Oceanus and got the famous for his speare Pelegonus that fatherd me and these Poeonians here Arm'd with long lances here I leade and here th' eleuenth faire light Shines on vs since we enterd Troy Come now braue man le ts fight Thus spake he threatning and to him Pelides made replie With shaken Pelias but his foe with two at once let flie For both his hands were dexterous one iauelin strooke the shield Asteropaeus with two darts at once at Achilles Of Thetis sonne but strooke not through the gold gods gift repeld The eager point the other lance fell lightly on the part Of his faire right hands cubit forth the blacke blood spunne the dart Glanc't ouer fastening on the earth and there his splene was spent That wisht the body With which wish Achilles his lance sent That quite mist and infixt it selfe fast in the steepe-vp shore Euen to the midst it enterd it himselfe then fiercely bore Vpon his enemie with his sword His foe was tugging hard To get his lance out thrise he pluckt and thrise sure Pelias bard His wisht euulsion The fourth plucke he bow'd and meant to breake The Ashen plant but ere that act Achilles sword did checke His bent powre and brake out his soule Full in the nauill stead ãâã slaine by Achilles He ript his belly vp and out his entrailes fell and dead His breathlesse body whence his armes Achilles drew and said Lie there and proue it dangerous to lift vp aduerse head Achilles to the body of Asteropââ¦us Against Ioues sonnes although a flood were Ancetor to thee Thy vants vrg'd him but I may vant a higher pedigree From Ioue himselfe king Peleus was sonne to Aeacus Infernall Aeacus to Ioue and I to Peleus Thunder-voic't Ioue farre passeth floods that onely murmures raise With earth and water as they runne with tribute to the seas And his seede theirs exceeds as farre A flood a mightie flood Rag'd nere thee now but with no aide Ioue must not be withstood King Achelous yeelds to him and great Oceanus Whence all floods all the sea all founts wells all deepes humorous Fetch their beginnings yet euen he feares Ioues flash and the cracke His thunder giues when out of heauen it teares atwo his racke The racks or motion of the clouds for the clouds Thus pluckt he from the shore his lance and left the waues to wash The waue-sprung entrailes about which Fausens and other fish Did shole to nibble at the fat which his sweet kidneyes ââ¦id This for himselfe now to his men the-well-rode Peons did His rage contend All which cold Feare shooke into flight to see Their Captaine slaine at whose mazde flight as much enrag'd flew he And then fell all these Thrasius Mydon Astypilus Great Ophelestes Aenius Mnesus Thersilochus And on these many more had falne vnlesse the angry flood Xanthus out of a whirlepit to Achilles Had tooke the figure of a man and in a whirlepit stood Thus speaking to Aeacides Past all powre feeds thy will Thou great grandchild of Aeacus and past all th' art in ill And gods themselues confederates and Ioue the best of gods All deaths giues thee all places not Make my shores periods To all shore seruice In the field let thy field acts run hie Not in my waters My sweet streames choake with mortalitie Of men slaine by thee Carkasses so glut me that I faile To powre into the sacred sea my waues yet still assaile Thy cruell forces Ceasse amaze affects me with thy rage Prince of the people He reply'd Shall thy command asswage ââ¦chilles to Xanthus Gulfe-fed Scamander my free wrath I le neuer leaue pursude Prowd Ilions slaughters till this hand in her fild walls conclude Her flying forces and hath tried in single fight the chance Of warre with Hector whose euent with starke death shall aduance One of our conquests Thus againe he like a Furie flew Vpon the Troians when the flood his sad plaint did pursue To bright Apollo telling him he was too negligent Xanthâ⦠complaââ¦ns to Apollo Of Ioues high charge importuning by all meanes vehement His helpe of Troy till latest Euen should her blacke shadowes poure On earths brode breast In all his worst Achilles yet from shore Leapt to his middest Then sweld his waues then rag'd then boyld againe Against Achilles vp flew all and all the bodies slaine In all his deeps of which the heapes made bridges to his waues He belcht out roring like a Bull. The vnslaine yet he saues In his blacke whirlepits vast and deepe A horrid bââ¦low stood About Achilles On his shield the violence of the flood Beate so it draue him backe and tooke his feet vp his faire palme Enforc't to catcht into his stay a brode and loftie Elme Whose roots he tost vp with his hold and tore vp all the shore Note the continued height and ãâã expresâ⦠of Achilles glorie With this then he repeld the waues and those thicke armes it bore He made a bridge to beare him off for all fell in when he Forth from the channell threw himselfe The rage did terrifie Euen his great spirit and made him adde wings to his swiftest feet And treade the land And yet not there the flood lââ¦ft his reueate But thrust his billowes after him and blackt them all at top To make him feare and flie his charge and set the brode field ope For Troy to scape in He sprong out a darts cast but came on Againe with a redoubl'd force As when the swiftest flowne And strong'st of all fowles Ioues blacke Hawke the huntresse stoopes vpon A much lou'd Quarrie So charg'd he his armes with horror rung Against the blacke waues yet againe he was so vrg'd he flung His body from the flood and fled And after him againe The waues flew roring As a man that finds a water vaine Simile And from some blacke fount is to bring his streames through plants groues Goes with his Mattocke and all checks set to his course remoues When that runnes freely vnder it the pibbles all giue way And where it finds a fall runnes swift nor can the leader stay His current then Before himselfe full pac't it murmures on So of Achilles euermore the strong flood vantage wonne Though most deliuer gods are still aboue the powres of men As oft as th' able
man art markt the deadly Ilion gate Must entertaine thy death O then I charge thee now take care That our bones part not but as life combinde in equall fare Our louing beings so let Death When from Opuntas towres My father brought me to your roofes since gainst my will my powres Incenst and indiscreet at dice slue faire Amphidamas Then Peleus entertaind me well then in thy charge I was By his iniunction and thy loue and therein let me still Receiue protection Both our bones prouide in thy last Will That one Vrne may containe and make that vessell all of gold That Thetis gaue thee that rich Vrne This said Sleepe ceast to hold Achilles waking to the shade of ãâã Achilles temples and the shade thus he receiu'd O friend What needed these commands my care before meant to commend My bones to thine and in that Vrne Be sure thy will is done A little stay yet le ts delight with some full passion Of woe enough eithers affects embrace we Opening thus His greedie armes he felt no friend like matter vaporous The spirit vanisht vnder earth and murmur'd in his stoope Achilles started both his hands he clapt and lifted vp In this sort wondring O ye gods I see we haue a soule In th'vnderdwellings and a kind of man-resembling idole Achiââ¦s his discourse with him selfe about the apparition of ãâã shade The soules seate yet all matter felt staies with the carkasse here O friends haplesse Patroclus soule did all this night appeare Weeping and making mone to me commanding euery thing That I intended towards him so truly figuring Himselfe at all parts as was strange This accident did turne To much more sorrow and begat a greedinesse to mourne In all that heard When mourning thus the rosie morne arose The morning And Agamemnon through the tents wak't all and did dispose Both men and Mules for cariage of matter for the fire Agamemnon sends out companies to fetch fewell for the funerall heape of which company Meriones was Captaâ⦠Of all which worke Meriones the Cretan soueraigns squire Was Captaine and abrode they went Wood-cutting tooles they bore Of all hands and well-twisted cords The Mules marcht all before Vp hill and downe hill ouerthwarts and breake-necke clifts they past But when the fountfull Idas tops they scal'd with vtmost haste All fell vpon the high-hair'd Okes and downe their curled browes Fell busling to the earth and vp went all the boles and bowes Bound to the Mules and backe againe they parted the harsh way Amongst them through the tangling shrubs and long they thought the day Till in the plaine field all arriu'd for all the woodmen bore Logs on their neckes Meriones would haue it so the shore At last they reacht yet and then downe their cariages they cast And sat vpon them where the sonne of Peleus had plac't The ground for his great sepulcher and for his friends in one They raisd a huge pile and to armes went euery Myrmidon Charg'd by Achilles chariots and horse were harnessed Fighters and charitoters got vp and they the sad march led A cloude of infinite foote behind In midst of all was borne Patroclus person by his Peeres on him were all heads shorne Euen till they couer'd him with curles Next to him marcht his friend Embracing his cold necke all sad since now he was to send His dearest to his endlesse home Arrin'd all where the wood Was heapt for funerall they set downe Apart Achilles stood And when enough wood was heapt on he cut his golden haire Achilles cuts his haire ouer his friends body Long kept for Sperchius the flood in hope of safe repaire To Phââ¦hiâ⦠by that riuers powre but now left hopelesse thus Enrag'd and looking on the sea he cried out Sperchius In vaine my fathers pietie vow'd at my implor'd returne To my lou'd countrie that these curls should on thy shores be shorne Besides a sacred Hecatombe and sacrifice beside Of fiftie Weathers at those founts where men haue edifide A loftie temple and perfum'd an altar to thy name There vow'd he all these offerings but fate preuents thy fame His hopes not suffering satisfied and since I neuer more Shall see my lou'd soyle my friends hands shall to the Stygian shore Conuey these Tresses Thus he put in his friends hands the haire And this bred fresh desire of mone and in that sad affaire The Sunne had set amongst them all had Thetis sonne not spoke Thus to Atrides King of men thy aide I still inuoke Achilles to Agamemnon Since thy Command all men still heare dismisse thy souldiers now And let them victle they haue mourn'd sufficient t is we owe The dead this honour and with vs let all the Captaines stay This heard Atrides instantly the souldiers sent away The funerall officers remain'd and heapt on matter still Till of an hundred foote about they made the funerall pile In whose hote height they cast the Corse and then they pour'd on teares Numbers of fat sheepe and like store of crooked-going steres They slue before the solemne fire stript off their hides and drest Of which Achilles tooke the fat and couer'd the deceast From head to foote and round about he made the officers pile The beasts nak't bodyes vessels full of honey and of oyle Pour'd in them laide vpon a bere and cast into the fire Foure goodly horse and of nine hounds two most in the desire Of that great Prince and trencher-fed all fed that hungry flame Twelue Troian Princes last stood foorth yong and of toward fame Twelue Princes sacrifised on the funerall pile of Patroclus All which set on with wicked spirits there strooke he there he slew And to the iron strength of fire their noble lims he threw Then breath'd his last sighes and these words Againe reioyce my friend Euen in the ioylesse depth of hell now giue I complete end To all my vowes Alone thy life sustain'd not violence Twelue Troian Princes waite on thee and labour to incense Thy glorious heape of funerall Great Hector I le excuse The dogs shall eate him These high threates perform'd not their abuse Ioues daughter Venus tooke the guard of noble Hectors Corse And kept the dogs off night and day applying soueraigne force Of rosie balmes that to the dogs were horrible in tast And with which she the body fild Renowm'd Apollo cast A cloude from heauen lest with the Sunne the nerues and lineaments Might drie and putrifie And now some powres deniââ¦e consents To this solemnitie the fire for all the oyly fewell It had iniected would not burne and then the louing Cruell Studied for helpe and standing off inuokt the two faire winds Zephyr and Boreas to affoord the rage of both their kinds To aid his outrage Precious gifts his earnest zeale did vow Powr'd from a golden bowle much wine and prayde them both to blow That quickly his friends Corse might burne and that heapes sturdy breast Embrace
Consumption Iris heard The winds were at a feast All in the Court of Zephyrus that boisterous blowing aire Iris to the winds Gather'd together She that weares the thousand-colourd haire Flew thither standing in the porch They seeing her all arose Cald to her euery one desir'd she would a while repose And eate with them She answerd No no place of feate is here Retreate cals to the Ocean and Aethiopia where A Hecatombe is offering now to heauen and there must I Partake the feast of sacrifise I come to signifie That Thetis sonne implores your aides Princes of North and West ãâã North and West wind flie to incense the fââ¦nerall pile With vowes of much faire sacrifise if each will set his breast Against his heape of funerall and make it quickly burne Patroclus lies there whose deceasse all the AchaiÌans mourne She said and parted and out rusht with an vnmeasur'd rore Those two winds tumbling clouds in heapes vshers to eithers blore And instantly they reacht the sea Vp flew the waues the gale Was strong reacht fruitfull Troy and full vpon the fire they fall The huge heape thunderd All night long from his chok't breast they blew A liberall flame vp and all night swift-foote Achilles threw Wine from a golden bowle on earth and steept the soyle in wine Still calling on Patroclus soule No father could incline More to a sonne most deare nor more mourne at his burned bones Then did the great Prince to his friend at his combustions Still creeping neare and neare the heape still sighing weeping still But when the day starre look't abrode and promist from his hill The morning Light which the saffron morne made good and sprinkl'd on the seas Then languisht the great pile then sunke the flames and then calme Peace Turn'd backe the rough winds to their homes the Thraâ⦠billow rings Their high retreate rufl'd with cuffes of their triumphant wings Pelides then forsooke the pile and to his tired limme Chusd place of rest where laide sweete sleepe fell to his wish on him When all the kings guard waiting then perceiuing will to rise In that great Session hurried in and op't againe his eyes With tumult of their troope and haste A little then he rear'd His troubled person sitting vp and this affaire referd To wisht commandment of the kings Atrides and the rest Of our Commanders generall vouchsafe me this request Achilles to Agamemnon and the other kings Before your parting Giue in charge the quenching with blacke wââ¦e Of this heapes reliques euery brand the yellow fire made shine And then let search Patroclus bones distinguishing them well As well ye may they kept the midst therest at randome fell About th' extreme part of the pile Mens bones and horses mixt Being found I le finde an vrne of gold t' enclose them and betwixt The aire and them two kels of fat lay on them and to Rest Commit them till mine owne bones seale our loue my soule deceast The sepulcher I haue not charg'd to make of too much state But of a modell something meane that you of younger Fate When I am gone may amplifie with such a bredth and height As fits your iudgements and our worths This charge receiu'd his weight In all obseruance first they quencht with sable wine the heape As farre as it had fed the flame The ash fell wondrous deepe In which his consorts that his life religiously lou'd Searcht weeping for his bones which found they conscionably prou'd His will made to Aeacides and what his loue did adde A golden vessell double fat containd them all which clad In vailes of linnen pure and rich were solemnly conuaid T' Achilles tent The platforme then about the pile they laid Of his fit sepulcher and raisd a heape of earth and then Offerd departure But the Prince retaind there still his men Employing them to fetch from fleete rich Tripods for his games Caldrons Horse Mules brode-headed Beeues bright steele brighter dames The best at horse race he ordain'd a Lady for his prise Generally praisefull faire and yong and skild in house wiferies The ââ¦ames for Patroclus funerall Of all kinds fitting and withall a Triuet that enclosde Twentie two measures roome with eares The next prise he proposde Was that which then had high respect a mare of sixe yeares old Vnhandl'd horsed with a mule and readie to haue foald The third game was a Caldron new faire bright and could for sise Containe two measures For the fourth two talents quantities Of finest gold The fift game was a great new standing boule To set downe both waies These brought in Achilles then stood vp And said Atrides and my Lords chiefe horsemen of our host These games expect ye If my selfe should interpose my most Achilles to the Grecian kings For our horse race I make no doubt but I should take againe These gifts proposde Ye all know well of how diuine a straine My horse are and how eminent Of Neptunes gift they aââ¦e To Peleus and of his to me My selfe then will not share In gifts giuen others nor my steeds breathe any spirit to shake Their airie pasterns so they mourne for their kind guiders sake Late lost that vsde with humorous oyle to slick their loftie manes Cleare water hauing cleansd them first and his bane being their banes Those loftie manes now strew the earth their heads held shaken downe You then that trust in chariots and hope with horse to crowne Your conquering temples gird your selues now fame and prise stretch for All that haue spirits This fir'd all the first competitor Was king Eumelus whom the Art of horsemanship did grace Sonne to Admetus Next to him rose Diomed to the race That vnder reines rul'd Troian horse of late forc't from the sonne Of Lord Anchises himselfe freed of neare confusion By Phoebus Next to him set foorth the yellow-headed king Of Lacedââ¦mon Ioues high seed and in his managing Podargus and swift Aethe trod steeds to the king of men Aethe giuen by Echepolus the Anchisiaden As bribe to free him from the warre resolu'd for Ilion So Delicacie feasted him whom Ioue bestow'd vpon A mightie wealth his dwelling was in brode Sicyone Old Nestors sonne Antilochus was fourth for chiualrie In this Contention his faire horse were of the Pylian breed And his old father coming neare inform'd him for good speed With good Race notes in which himselfe could good instruction giue Antilochus though yong thou art yet thy graue virtues liue Nestor to his son Antilochus giues instructions for the race with chariots Belou'd of Neptune and of Ioue their spirits haue taught thee all The art of horsemanship for which the lesse thy merits fall In need of doctrine Well thy skill can wield a chariot In all fit turnings yet thy horse their slow feet handle not As fits thy manage which makes me cast doubts of thy successe I well know all these are not seene in art of this addresse
his nor mine Iudge of with fauour him nor me lest any Grecian vse This scandall Menelaus wonne with Nestors sonnes abuse The prise in question his horse worst himselfe yet wanne the best By powre and greatnesse Yet because I would not thus contest To make parts taking I le be iudge and I suppose none here Will blame my iudgement I le do right Antilochus come neare Come noble gentleman t is your place sweare by th' earth circling god Standing before your chariot and horse and that selfe rod With which you scourg'd them in your hand if both with will and wile You did not crosse my chariot He thus did reconcile Antiloââ¦us his ironicall reply Grace with his disgrace and with wit restor'd him to his wit Now craue I patience ô king what euer was vnfit Ascribe to much more youth in me then you you more in age And more in excellence know well the outraies that engage All yong mens actions sharper wits but duller wisedomes still From vs flow then from you for which curbe with your wisedome will The prise I thought mine I yeeld yours and if you please a prise Of greater value to my tent I le send for and suffise Your will at full and instantly for in this point of time I rather wish to be enioyn'd your fauors top to clime Then to be falling all my time from height of such a grace Iroâ⦠O Ioue-lou'd king and of the gods receiue a curse in place This said he fetcht the prise to him and it reioyc't him so This Simile likeââ¦se is meerly ââ¦nicall That as corne-eares shine with the dew yet hauing time to grow When fields set all their bristles vp in such a ruffe wert thou O Menelaus answering thus Antilochus I now Though I were angry yeeld to thee because I see th'hadst wit When I thought nor thy youth hath got the mastery of thy spirit And yet for all this t is more safe not to abuse at all Great men then ventring trust to wit to take vp what may fall Mâ⦠to Antâ⦠For no man in our host beside had easely calm'd my spleene Stird with like tempââ¦st But thy selfe hast a sustainer bene Of much affliction in my cause so thy good father too And so thy brother at thy suite I therefore let all go Giue thee the game here though mine owne that all these may discerne King Menelaus beares a mind at no part proud or sterne The king thus calm'd Antilochus receiu'd and gaue the steed To lou'd Noemon to leade thencâ⦠and then receiu'd beside The caldron Next Mââ¦ones for fourth game was to haue Two talents gold The fift vnwonne renowm'd Acââ¦lles gaue To reuerend Nestor being a boule to set on either end Which through the preasse he caried him Receiue said he old friend Achilles his gift to Nestor This gift as funerall monument of my deare friend deceast Whom neuer you must see againe I make it his bequest To you as without any strife obtaining it from all Your shoulders must not vndergo the churlish whoorlbats fall Wrastling is past you strife in daââ¦s the footes celeritie Harsh age in his yeares fetters you and honor sets you free Thus gaue he it he tooke and ioyd but ere he thankt he said Now sure my honorable sonne in all points thou hast plaid Nâ⦠glorie in the gift of Aââ¦lles The comely Orator no more must I contend with nerues Feete faile and hands armes want that strength that this and that swinge serues Vnder your shoulders Would to heauen I were so yong chind now And strength threw such a many of bones to celebrate this show As when the Epiââ¦s brought to fire actiuely honoring thus King ââ¦marynceas funerals in faire Buprasius His sonnes put prises downe for him where not a man matcht me Of all the Epians or the sonnes of great-soul'd Aetolie No nor the Pilians themselues my countrimen I beate Great Clydomedeus Eââ¦ops sonne at buffets at the feate Of wrastling I laid vnder me one that against me rose Ancââ¦s cald Plââ¦ius I made Ipiclus lose The foot-game to me At the speare I conquer'd Pââ¦e And strong Phyleus Actors sonnes of all men onely bore The palme at horse race conquering with lashing on more horse And enuying my victorie because before their course All the best games were gone with me These men were twins one was A most sure guide a most sure guide The other gaue the passe With rod and mettle This was then But now yong men must wage These workes and my ioynts vndergo the sad defects of age Though then I was another man * His desire of praise pants still at that time I exceld Amongst th'heroes But forth now let th' other rites be held For thy deceast friend this thy gift in all kind part I take And much it ioyes my heart that still for my true kindnesse sake You giue me memorie You perceiue in what fit grace I stand Amongst the Grecians and to theirs you set your gracefull hand The gods giue ample recompence of grace againe to thee For this and all thy fauors Thus backe through the thrust draue he Another note of Nestors humor not so much being to be plainly obserued in all these Iliads as in this booke When he had staid out all the praise of old Neleides And now for buffets that rough game he orderd passages Proposing a laborious Mule of sixe yeares old vââ¦'d And fierce in handling brought and bound in that place where they gam'd And to the conquerd a round cup both which hâ⦠thus proclames Atrides and all friends of Greece two men for these two games Achilles proposes the game for buffets I bid stand forth who best can strike with high contracted fists Apollo giuing him the wreath know all about these lists Shall winne a Mule patient of ââ¦oyle the vanquisht this round cup. This vtterd Panopââ¦s sonne Epeus straight stood vp A tall huge man that to the naile knew that rude sport of hand And ââ¦ng the tough mule thus spake Now let some other stand Note the sharpnes of wit in our Homer if where you looke not for ãâã you can find it Forth for the cup this Mule is mine at cuffes I bost me best Iâ⦠not enough I am no souldier who is worthiest At all workes none not possible At this yet this I say And will performe this who stands forth I le burst him I will bray His bones as in a mortar fetch sââ¦rgeons enow to take His corse from vnder me This speech did all men silent make At last stood forth Euryalus a man god-like and sonne To king Mecisteus the grand child of honor'd Talaon He was so strong that coming once to Thebes when Oedipus Had like rites solemniz'd for him he went victorious From all the Thebanes This rare man Tydides would prepare Put on his girdle oxehide cords faire wrought and spent much care That he might conquer heartned him and
appaid Long since and held it as at first to Priam Ilion And all his subiects for the rape of his licentious sonne Proud Paris that despisde these dames in their diuine accesse Made to his cottage and praisd her that his sad wantonnesse So costly nourisht The twelfth morne now shin'd on the delay Of Hectors rescue and then spake the deitie of the day Apollo to the other gods Thus to th'immortals Shamelesse gods authors of ill ye are To suffer ill Hath Hectors life at all times show'd his care Of all your rights in burning thighs of Beeues and Goates to you And are your cares no more of him vouchsafe ye not euen now Euen dead to keepe him that his wife his mother and his sonne Father and subiects may be mou'd to those deeds he hath done See'ng you preserue him that seru'd you and sending to their hands His person for the rites of fire Achilles that withstands All helpe to others you can helpe one that hath neither hart Nor soule within him that will moue or yeeld to any part That fits a man but Lion-like vplandish and meere wilde Slaue to his pride and all his nerues being naturally compil'd Of eminent strength stalkes out and preyes vpon a silly sheepe And so fares this man That fit ruth that now should draw so deepe In all the world being lost in him And Shame a qualitie Shame a quality that hurts and helpes men exceedingly Of so much weight that both it helpes and hurts excessiuely Men in their manners is not knowne nor hath the powre to be In this mans being Other men a greater losse then he Haue vndergone a sonne suppose or brother of one wombe Yet after dues of woes and teares they bury in his tombe All their deplorings Fates haue giuen to all that are true men True manly patience but this man so soothes his bloudy veine That no bloud serues it he must haue diuine-soul'd Hector bound To his proud chariot and danc't in a most barbarous round About his lou'd friends sepulcher when he is slaine T is vile And drawes no profit after it But let him now awhile Marke but our angers his is spent let all his strength take heed It tempts not our wraths he begets in this outragious deed The dull earth with his furies hate White-wristed Iuno said Being much incenst This doome is one that thou wouldst haue obaid Thou bearer of the siluer bow that we in equall care And honour should hold Hectors worth with him that claimes a share In our deseruings Hector suckt a mortall womans brest Aeacides a goddesses our selfe had interest Both in his infant nourishment and bringing vp with state And to the humane Pelââ¦s we gaue his bridall mate Because he had th'immortals loue To celebrate the feast Of their high nuptials euery god was glad to be a guest And thou fedst of his fathers cates touching thy harpe in grace Of that beginning of our friend whom thy perfidious face In his perfection blusheth not to match with Priââ¦m sonne O thou that to betray and shame art still companion Iââ¦e thus receiu'd her Neuer giue these brode termes to a god Iââ¦e to ãâã Those two men shall not be compar'd and yet of all that trod The well-pau'd Iliâ⦠none so deare to all the deities As Hector was at least to me For offrings most of prise His hands would neuer pretermit Our altars euer stood Furnisht with banquets fitting vs odors and euery good Smokt in our temples and for this foreseeing it his fate We markt with honour which must stand but to giue stealth estate In his deliuerance shun we that nor must we fauour one To shame another Priuily with wrong to Thetis sonne We must not worke out Hectors right There is a ransome due And open course by lawes of armes in which must humbly sue The friends of Hector Which iust meane if any god would stay And vse the other t would not serue for Thetis night and day Is guardian to him But would one call Iris hither I Would giue directions that for gifts the Trââ¦n king should buy His Hectors body which the sonne of Thetis shall resigne This said his will was done the Dame that doth in vapours shine Dewie and thin footed with stormes iumpt to the sable seas Twixt Samos and sharpe Imbers cliffes the lake gron'd with the presse Of her rough feete and plummet-like put in an oxes horne That beares death to the raw-fed fish she diu'd and found forlorne Thetis lamenting her sonnes fate who was in Troy to haue Iris to Thetis Farre from his countrey his death seru'd Close to her Iris stood And said Rise Thetis prudent Ioue whose counsels thirst not blood Cals for thee Thetis answerd her with asking What 's the cause The great god cals my sad powres fear'd to breake th' immortall lawes In going fil'd with griefes to heauen But he sets snares for none With colourd counsels not a word of him but shall be done She said and tooke a sable vaile a blacker neuer wore A heauenly shoulder and gaue way Swift Iris swum before About both rowld the brackish waues They tooke their banks and flew Vp to Olympus where they found Satââ¦nius farre-of-view Spher'd with heauens-euerbeing states Minerua rose and gaue Her place to Thetis neare to Ioue and Iââ¦no did receiue Her entry with a cup of gold in which she dranke to her Grac't her with comfort and the cup to her hand did referre She dranke resigning it And then the sire of men and gods Thus entertain'd her Com'st thou vp to these our blest abodes Faire goddesse Thetis yet art sad and that in so high kind As passeth suffrance this I know and try'd thee and now find Thy will by mine rulde which is rule to all worlds gouernment Besides this triall yet this cause sent downe for thy ascent Nine dayes Contention hath bene held amongst th'immortals here For Hectors person and thy sonne and some aduices were To haue our good spie Mercurie steale from thy sonne the Corse But that reproch I kept farre off to keepe in future force Thy former loue and reuerence Haste then and tell thy sonne The gods are angrie and my selfe take that wrong he hath done To Hector in worst part of all the rather since he still Detaines his person Charge him then if he respect my will For any reason to resigne slaine Hector I will send Iris to Priam to redeeme his sonne and recommend Fit ransome to Achilles grace in which right he may ioy And end his vaine griefe To this charge bright Thetis did employ Instant endeuour From heauens tops she reacht Achilles tent Found him still sighing and some friends with all their complements Soothing his humour othersome with all contention Dressing his dinner all their paines and skils consum'd vpon Thetis to Achilles A huge wooll-bearer slaughterd there His reuerend mother then Came neare tooke kindly his faire hand and askt him Deare sonne
when Will sorrow leaue thee How long time wilt thou thus eate thy heart Fed with no other food nor rest t were good thou wouldst diuert Thy friends loue to some Ladie cheare thy spirits with such kind parts As she can quit thy grace withall the ioy of thy deserts I shall not long haue death is neare and thy all-conquering fate Whose haste thou must not haste with griefe but vnderstand the state Of things belonging to thy life which quickly order I Am sââ¦nt from Ioue t'aduertise thee that euery deitie Is angry with thee himselfe most that rage thus reigns in thee Still to keepe Hector Quit him then and for fit ransome free His iniur'd person He replied Let him come that shall giue The ransome and the person take Ioues pleasure must depriue Men of all pleasures This good speech and many more the sonne And mother vsde in eare of all the nauall Station And now to holy Ilion Saturnius Iris sent Go swiftfoote Iris bid Troys king beare fit gifts and content Ioues sââ¦ds Iris to Priam. Achilles for his sonnes release but let him greet alone The Grecian nauie not a man excepting such a one As may his horse and chariot guide a herald or one old Attending him and let him take his Hector Be he bold Discourag'd nor with death nor feare wise Mercurie shall guide His passage till the Prince be neare And he gone let him ride Resolu'd euen in Achilles tent He shall not touch the state Of his high person nor admit the deadliest desperate Of all about him For though fierce he is not yet vnwise Nor inconsiderate nor a man past awe of deities But passing free and curious to do a suppliant grace This said the Rainbow to her feet tied whirlewinds and the place Reacht instantly the heauie Court Clamor and Mourning fill'd The sonnes all set about the sire and there stood Griefe and still'd Teares on their garments In the midst the old king ââ¦ate his weed All wrinkl'd head and necke dust fil'd the Princesses his feed The Princesses his sonnes faire wiues all mourning by the thought Of friends so many and so good being turn'd so soone to nought By Grecian hands consum'd their youth rain'd beautie from their eyes ââ¦ris came neare the king her sight shooke all his faculties And therefore spake she soft and said Be glad Dardââ¦ides Iriâ⦠to Priâ⦠Of good occurrents and none ill am I Ambassadresse Iââ¦e greets thee who in care as much as he is distant daines Eye to thy sorrowes pitying thee My ambassie containes This charge to thee from him he wills thou shouldst redeeme thy sonne Beare gifts t' Achilles cheare him so but visite him alone None but some herald let attend thy mules and chariot To manage for thee Feare nor death let dant thee Ioue hath got Hermes to guide thee who as neare to Thetis sonne as needs Shall guard thee and being once with him nor his nor others deeds Stand toucht with he will all containe Not is he mad nor vaine ãâã witnesse of Achilles Nor impious but with all his nerues studious to entertaine One that submits with all fit grace Thus vanisht she like wind He mules and chariot cals his sonnes bids see them ioynd and bind A trunke behind it he himselfe downe to his wardrobe goes Built all of Cedar highly rooft and odoriferous That much stuffe worth the sight containd To him he cald his Queene Thus greeting her Come haplesse dame an Angell I haue seene Priam to Hecuba Sent downe from Ioue that bad me free our deare sonne from the fleet With ransome pleasing to our foe what holds thy iudgement meet My strength and spirit layes high charge on all my being to beare The Greeks worst ventring through their host The Queene cried out to heare Hecuba to Priâ⦠His ventrous purpose and replyed O whither now is fled The late discretion that renown'd thy graue and knowing head In forreine and thine owne rulde realmes that thus thou dar'st assay Sight of that man in whose browes sticks the horrible decay Of sonnes so many and so strong thy heart is iron I thinke If this sterne man whose thirst of blood makes crueltie his drinke Take or but see thee thou art dead He nothing pities woe Noâ⦠honours age Without his sight we haue enough to do To mourne with thought of him keepe we our Pallace weepe we here Our sonne is past our helpes Those throwes that my deliuerers were Of his vnhappy lineaments told me they should be torne With blacke foote dogs Almightie fate that blacke howre he was borne Spunne in his springing thred that end farre from his parents reach This bloodie fellow then ordain'd to be their meane this wretch Whose stony liuer would to heauen I might deuoure my teeth My sonnes Reuengers made Curst Greeke he gaue him not his death Doing an ill worke he alone fought for his countrie he Fled not nor fear'd but stood his worst and cursed policie Was his vndoing He replied What euer was his end Is not our question we must now vse all meanes to defend His end from scandall from which act disswade not my iust will Nor let me nourish in my house a bird presaging ill To my good actions t is in vaine Had any earthly spirit Giuen this suggestion if our Priests or Soothsayers challenging merit Of Prophets I might hold it false and be the rather mou'd To keepe my Pallace but these eares and these selfe eyes approu'd It was a goddesse I will go for not a word she spake I know was idle If it were and that my fate will make Quicke riddance of me at the fleet kill me Achilles Come When getting to thee I shall find a happy dying roome On Hectors bosome when enough thirst of my teares finds there Quench to his feruour This resolu'd the works most faire and deare Of his rich screenes he brought abrode twelue veiles wrought curiously Twelue plaine gownes and as many suits of wealthy tapistry As many mantles horsemens coates ten talents of fine gold Two Tripods Caldrons foure a bowle whose value he did hold Beyond all price presented by th' Ambassadors of Thrace The old king nothing held too deare to rescue from disgrace His gracioââ¦s Hector Forth he came At entry of his Court The Troian citizens so prest that this opprobrious sort Of checke he vsde Hence cast-awayes away ye impious crew Priââ¦ââ¦aged against his citizens Are not your griefes enough at home what come ye here to view Care ye for my griefes would ye see how miserable I am I st not enough imagine ye ye might know ere ye came What such a sonnes losse weigh'd with me But know this for your paines Your houses haue the weaker doores the Greeks will find their gaines The easier for his losse be sure but ô Troy ere I see Thy ruine let the doores of hell receiue and ruine me Thus with his scepter set he on the crowding citizens
aââ¦d boâ⦠to Ilion In one ship saild Besides by birth I breathe a Myrmidon Polystor cald the rich my sire declin'd with age like you Sixe sonnes he hath and me a seuenth and all those sixe liue now In Phthia since all casting lots my chance did onely fall To follow hither Now for walke I left my Generall To morrow all the Sunne-burn'd Greeks will circle Troy with armes The Princes rage to be withheld so idlely your alarmes Not giuen halfe hote enough they thinke and can containe no more He answerd If you serue the Prince let me be bold t'implore This grace of thee and tell me true lies Hector here at fleet Or haue the dogs his flesh He said Nor dogs nor fowle haue yet Toucht at his person still he lies at fleet and in the tent Merââ¦rie to Priam. Of our great Captaine who indeed is much too negligent Of his fit vsage but though now twelue dayes haue spent their heate On his cold body neither wormes with any taint haue eate Nor putrifaction perisht it yet euer when the Morne Lifts her diuine light from the sea vnmercifully borne About Patroclus sepulcher it beares his friends disdaine Bound to his chariot but no Fits of further outrage raigne In his distemper you would muse to see how deepe a dew Euen steepes the body all the blood washt off no slenderst shew Of gore or quitture but his wounds all closde though many were Opened about him Such a loue the blest immortals beare Euen dead to thy deare sonne because his life shew'd loue to them He ioyfull answerd O my sonne it is a grace supreme Priam to ââ¦curie In any man to serue the gods And I must needs say this For no cause hauing season fit my Hectors hands would misse Aduancement to the gods with gifts and therefore do not they Misse his remembrance after death Now let an old man pray Thy graces to receiue this cup and keepe it for my loue Not leaue me till the gods and thee haue made my prayres approue Achilles pitie by thy guide brought to his Princely tent Hermes replidâ⦠You tempt me now old king to a consent Farre from me though youth aptly erres I secretly receiue Hermes againe to Prââ¦am Gifts that I cannot brodely vouch take graces that will giue My Lord dishonour or what he knowes not or will esteeme Perhaps vnfit such briberies perhaps at first may seeme Sweet and secure but futurely they still proue sowre and breed Both feare and danger I could wish thy graue affaires did need My guide to Argos either shipt or lackying by thy side And would be studious in thy guard so nothing could be tride But care in me to keepe thee safe for that I could excuse And vouch to all men These words past he put the deeds in vse For which Ioue sent him vp he leapt to Priams chariot Tooke scourge and reines and blew in strength to his free steeds and got The nauall towres and deepe dike strait The guards were all at meat Those he enslumberd op't the ports and in he safely let Old Priam with his wealthy prise Forthwith they reacht the Tent Of great Achilles Large and high and in his most ascent A shaggie roofe of seedy reeds mowne fââ¦om the meades a hall Of state they made their king in it and strengthned it withall Thicke with firre rafters whose approch was let in by a dore That had but one barre but so bigge that three men euermore Raisd it to shut three fresh take downe which yet Aeacides Would shut and ope himselfe And this with farre more ease Hermes set ope entring the king then leapt from horse and said Now know old king that Mercurie a god hath giuen this aid To thy endeuour sent by Ioue and now away must I For men would enuy thy estate to see a Deitie Affect a man thus enter thou embrace Achilles knee And by his sire sonne mother pray his ruth and grace to thee This said he high Olympus reacht the king then left his coach ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã To graue Idaeus and went on made his resolu'd approach And enterd in a goodly roome where with his Princes sate Ioue-lou'd Achilles at their feast two onely kept the state Of his attendance Alcymus and Lord Automedon At Priams entrie a great time Achilles gaz'd vpon His wonderd at approch nor eate the rest did nothing see While close he came vp with his hands fast holding the bent knee Of Hectors conqueror and kist that large man-slaughtring hand That much blood from his sonnes had drawne And as in some strange land And great mans house a man is driuen with that abhorââ¦'d dismay Simile That followes wilfull bloodshed still his fortune being to slay One whose blood cries alowde for his to pleade protection In such a miserable plight as frights the lookers on In such a stupefied estate Achilles sate to see So vnexpected so in night and so incrediblie Old Priams entrie all his friends one on another star'd To see his strange lookes seeing no cause Thus Priam then prepar'd Priam to Achillâ⦠His sonnes redemption See in me O godlike Thetis sonne Thy aged father and perhaps euen now being outrunne With some of my woes neighbour foes thou absent taking time To do him mischiefe no meane left to terrifie the crime Of his oppression yet he heares thy graces still suruiue And ioyes to heare it hoping still to see thee safe arriue From ruin'd Troy but I curst man of all my race shall liue To see none liuing Fiftie sonnes the Deities did giue My hopes to liue in all aliue when neare our trembling shore The Greeke ships harbor'd and one wombe nineteene of those sons bore Now Mars a number of their knees hath strengthlesse left and he That was of all my onely ioy and Troyes sole guard by thee Late fighting for his countrey slaine whose tenderd person now I come to ransome Infinite is that I offer you My selfe conferring it exposde alone to all your oddes Onely imploring right of armes Achilles feare the gods Pitie an old man like thy ââ¦ire different in onely this That I am wretcheder and beare that weight of miseries That neuer man did my curst lips enforc't to kisse that hand That slue my children This mou'd teares his fathers name did stand Mention'd by Priam in much helpe to his compasfion And mou'd Aeacides so much he could not looke vpon The weeping father With his hand he gently put away His graue face calme remission now did mutually display Her powre in eithers heauinesse old Priam to record His sonnes death and his deaths man see his teares and bosome pour'd Before Achilles At his feete he laid his reuerend head Achilles thoughts now with his sire now with his friend were fed Betwixt both Sorrow fild the the tent But now Aeacides Satiate at all parts with the ruth of their calamities Achilles remorse of Priaâ⦠Start vp and vp he raisd
vse from food and sleepe haue taken the base courts Of my sad Pallace made my beds where all the abiect sorts Of sorrow I haue varied tumbl'd in dust and hid No bit no drop of sustenance toucht Then did Achilles bid His men and women see his bed laid downe and couered With purple Blankets and on them an Arras Couerlid Wast costs of silke plush laying by The women straite tooke lights And two beds made with vtmost speed and all the other rites Their Lord nam'd vsde who pleasantly the king in hand thus bore Good father you must sleepe without lest any Counsellor Achilles to Priam. Make his accesse in depth of night as oft their industrie Brings them t' impart our warre-affaires of whom should any eye Discerne your presence his next steps to Agamemnon flie And then shall I lose all these gifts But go to signifie And that with truth how many daies you meane to keepe the state Of Hectors funerals because so long would I rebate Mine owne edge set to sacke your towne and all our host containe From interruption of your rites He answerd If you meane To suffer such rites to my sonne you shall performe a part Of most grace to me But you know with how dismaid a heart Our host tooke Troy and how much Feare will therefore apprehend Their spirits to make out againe so farre as we must send For wood to raise our heape of death vnlesse I may assure That this your high grace will stand good and make their passe secure Which if you seriously confirme nine daies I meane to mourne The tenth keepe funerall and feast th' eleuenth raise and adorne My sonnes fit Sepulcher The twelfth if we must needs wee le fight Be it replyed Aeacides do Hector all this right I le hold warre backe those whole twelue daies of which to free all feare Take this my right hand This confirm'd the old king rested there His Herald lodg'd by him and both in forepart of the tent Achilles in an in most roome of wondrous ornament Whose side bright-cheekt Briseis warm'd Soft Sleepe tam'd gods and men All but most vsefull Mercurie Sleepe could not lay one chaine On his quicke temples taking care for getting off againe Engaged Priam vndiscern'd of those that did maintaine The sacred watch Aboue his head he stood with this demand O father sleep'st thou so secure still lying in the hand Mercurie appeares to Priam in his sleepe Of so much ill and being dismist by great Aeacides T is true thou hast redeem'd the dead but for thy lifes release Should Agamemnon heare thee here three times the price now paide Thy sonnes hands must repay for thee This said the king affraid Start from his sleepe Idaeus cald and for both Mercurie The horse and mules before losde ioyn'd so soft and curiously That no eare heard and through the host draue but when they drew To gulphy Xanthus bright-wau'd streame vp to Olympus flew Industrious Mercurie And now the saffron morning rose Spreading her white robe ouer all the world When full of woes They scourg'd on with the Corse to Troy from whence no eye had seene Before Cassandra their returne She like loues golden Queene Ascending Pergamus discern'd her fathers person nie His Herald and her brothers Corse and then she cast this crie Round about Troy O Troians if euerye did greet Hector return'd from fight aliue now looke ye out and meet Cassandra to the Trââ¦ians His ransom'd person Then his worth was all your cities ioy Now do it honour Out all rusht woman nor man in Troy Was left a most vnmeasur'd crie tooke vp their voices Close To Scaeas Ports they met the Corse and to it headlong goes The reuerend mother the deare wife vpon it strowe their haire And lie entranced Round about the people broke the aire In lamentations and all day had staid the people there If Priam had not cryed Giue way giue me but leaue to beare The body home and mourne your fils Then cleft the preasse and gaue Way to the chariot To the Court Herald Idaeus draue Where on a rich bed they bestow'd the honor'd person round Girt it with Singers that the woe with skillfull voices crownd A wofull Elegie they sung wept singing and the dames Sigh'd as they sung Andromache the downeright prose exclames Andromaches lamentation for her husband Began to all she on the necke of slaughterd Hector fell And cried out O my husband thou in youth badst youth farewell Left'st me a widdow thy sole sonne an infant our selues curst In our birth made him right our child for all my care that nurst His infancie will neuer giue life to his youth ere that Troy from her top will be destroy'd thou guardian of our state Thou euen of all her strength the strength thou that in care wert past Her carefull mothers of their babes being gone how can she last Soone will the swolne fleete fill her wombe with all their seruitude My selfe with them and thou with me deare sonne in labours rude Shalt be emploid sternely suruaid by cruell Conquerors Or rage not suffering life so long some one whose hate abhorres Thy presence putting him in mind of his sire slaine by thine Andromaches lamentation for Hector His brother sonne or friend shall worke thy ruine before mine Tost from some towre for many Greeks haue eate earth from the hand Of thy strong father In sad fight his spirit was too much mann'd And therefore mourne his people we thy Parents my deare Lord For that thou mak'st endure a woe blacke and to be abhorr'd Of all yet thou hast left me worst not dying in thy bed And reaching me thy last-raisd hand in nothing counselled Nothing commanded by that powre thou hadst of me to do Some deed for thy sake O for these neuer will end my woe Neuer my teares ceasse Thus wept she and all the Ladies closde Her passion with a generall shrieke Then Hecuba disposde Her thoughts in like words O my sonne of all mine much most deare Hecubas lamentation Deare while thou liu'dst too euen to gods and after death they were Carefull to saue thee Being best thou most wer 't enuied My other sonnes Achilles sold but thee he left not dead Imber and Samos the false Ports of Lemnos entertain'd Their persons thine no Port but death nor there in rest remain'd Thy violated Corse the Tombe of his great friend was spher'd With thy dragg'd person yet from death he was not therefore rer'd But all his rage vsde so the gods haue tenderd thy dead state Thou liest as liuing sweete and fresh as he that felt the Fate Of Phoebus holy shafts These words the Queene vsde for her mone And next her Hellen held that state of speech and passion O Hector All my brothers more were not so lou'd of me Hellens lamentation As thy most vertues Not my Lord I held so deare as thee That brought me hither before which I would
fames the brood Of great Anchises and the Queene that rules in Amorous blood Aeneas excellent in armes come vp and vse your steeds And looke not warre so in the face lest that desire that feeds Thy great mind be the bane of it This did with anger sting The blood of Diomed to see his friend that chid the king Before the fight and then preferd his ablesse and his mind To all his ancestors in fight now come so farre behind Diomed now finds time to make Sthenelus see better his late rebuke of memââ¦on Whom thus he answerd Vrge no flight you cannot please me so Nor is it honest in my mind to feare a coming foe Or make a flight good though with fight my powers are yet entire And scorne the help-tire of a horse I will not blow the fire Of their hoââ¦e valours with my flight but cast vpon the blaze This body borne vpon my knees I entertaine amaze Minerua will not see that shame and since they haue begun They shall not both elect their ends and he that scapes shall runne Or stay and take the others fate and this I leaue for thee If amply wise Athenia giue both their liues to me Reine our horse to their chariot hard and haue a speciall heed To seise vpon Aeneas steeds that we may change their breed And make a Grecian race of them that haue bene long of Troy For these are bred of those braue beasts which for the louely Boy That waits now on the cup of Ioue Ioue that farre-seeing God Gaue Tros the king in recompence the best that euer trod The sounding Center vnderneath the Morning and the Sunne Anchises stole the breed of them for where their Sires did runne He closely put his Mares to them and neuer made it knowne To him that heird them who was then the king Laomedon Sixe horses had he of that race of which himselfe kept foure And gaue the other two his sonne and these are they that scoure The field so brauely towards vs expert in charge and flight If these we haue the power to take our prize is exquisite And our renowne will farre exceed While these were talking thus The fir'd horse brought th' assailants neare and thus spake Pandarus Pandarus to Diomed. Most suffering-minded Tydeus sonne that hast of warre the art My shaft that strooke thee slue thee not I now will proue a dart This said he shooke and then he threw a lance aloft and large That in Tydides curets stucke quite driuing through his targe Then braid he out so wild a voice that all the field might heare Now haue I reacht thy root of life and by thy death shall beare Our praises chiefe prize from the field Tydides vndismaid Replide Thou err'st I am not toucht but more charge will be laid To both your liues before you part at least the life of one Shall satiate the throate of Mars this said his lance was gone Minerua led it to his face which at his eye ranne in And as he stoopt strooke through his iawes his tongs roote and his chinne Diomed slaies Pandarus Downe from the chariot he fell his gay armes shin'd and rung The swift horse trembled and his soule for euer charm'd his tongue Aeneas with his shield and lance leapt swiftly to his friend Affraid the Greekes would force his trunke and that he did defend Bold as a Lyon of his strength he hid him with his shield Shooke round his lance and horribly did threaten all the field With death if any durst make in Tydides raisd a stone With his one hand of wondrous weight and powr'd it mainly on The hip of Anchisiades wherein the ioynt doth moue Aeneas being sonne to Anchises The thigh t is cald the huckle bone which all in sherds it droue Brake both the nerues and with the edge cut all the flesh away It staggerd him vpon his knees and made th' Heroe stay His strooke-blind temples on his hand his elbow on the earth And there this Prince of men had died if she that gaue him birth Kist by Anchises on the greene where his faire oxen fed Ioues louing daughter instantly had not about him spred Her soft embraces and conuaid within her heauenly vaile Venus takes off Aeneas being wounded Vsd as a rampier gainst all darts that did so hote assaile Her deare-lou'd issue from the field Then Sthenelus in hast Remembring what his friend aduisd from forth the preasse made fast His owne horse to their chariot and presently laid hand Vpon the louely-coated horse Aeneas did command The horse of Aeneas made prise Which bringing to the wondring Greekes he did their guard commend To his belou'd Deiphylus who was his inward friend And of his equals one to whom he had most honor showne That he might see them safe at fleete then stept he to his owne With which he chearefully made in to Tydeus mightie race He madde with his great enemies rape was hote in desperate chase Of her that made it with his lance arm'd lesse with steele then spight Well knowing her no Deitie that had to do in fight Minerua his great patronesse nor she that raceth townes Bellona but a Goddesse weake and foe to mens renownes Her through a world of fight pursude at last he ouer-tooke And thrusting vp his ruthlesse lance her heauenly veile he strooke That euen the Graces wrought themselues at her diuine command Diomed wounds Venus Quite through and hurt the tender backe of her delicious hand The rude point piercing through her palme forth flow'd th' immortall blood Blood such as flowes in blessed Gods that eate no humane food Nor drinke of our inflaming wine and therefore bloodlesse are And cald immortals out she cried and could no longer beare Her lou'd sonne whom she cast from her and in a sable clowd Venus for anguish throweth away Aeneas whom Apollo receiues Phoebus receiuing hid him close from all the Grecian crowd Lest some of them should find his death Away flew Venus then And after her cried Diomed Away thou spoile of men Though sprung from all-preseruing Ioue These hote encounters leaue Diomed to Venus Is' t not enough that sillie Dames thy sorceries should deceiue Vnlesse thou thrust into the warre and rob a souldiers right I thinke a few of these assaults will make thee feare the fight Where euer thou shalt heare it nam'd She sighing went her way Extremely grieu'd and with her griefes her beauties did decay And blacke her Iuorie bodie grew Then from a dewy mist Iris rescues Venus Brake swift-foot Iris to her aide from all the darts that hist At her quicke rapture and to Mars they tooke their plaintife course And found him on the fights left hand by him his speedie horse And huge lance lying in a fogge the Queene of all things faire Venus to Mars Her loued brother on her knees besought with instant prayre ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã His
ââ¦ll vnthought Stole on him in Achilles shape who tooke him thence and brought To well-built Lemnos selling him to famous Iasons sonne From whom a guest then in his house Imbrius Eetion Redeem'd at high rate and sent home t' Ariââ¦ba whence he fled And saw againe his fathers court eleuen daies banquetted Amongst his friends the twelfth god thrust his haplesse head againe In t'hands of sterne Aeacides who now must send him slaine To Plutos Court and gainst his will Him when Achilles knew Naked of helmet shield sword lance all which for ease he thââ¦ew To earth being ouercome with sweate and labour wearying His flying knees he storm'd and said O heauen a wondrous thing Inuades mine eyes those Ilians that heretofore I slue Rise from the darke dead quicke againe this man fââ¦te makes eschew Her owne steele fingers he was sold in Lemnos and the deepe Of all Seas twixt this Troy and that that many a man doth keepe From his lou'd countrie barres not him Come then he now shall tast The head of Pelias and trie if stââ¦le will downe as fast As other fortunes or kind earth can any surer ãâã On his slie person whose strong armes haue held downe Hercules His thoughts thus mou'd while he stood firme to see if he he ãâã Lycââ¦ons feare to be seeâ⦠of Achilles Would offer flight which first he thought but when he had dââ¦ride He was dââ¦scried and flight was vaine fearefull he made more nie With purpose to embrace his knees and now long'd much to flie His blacke fate and abhorred death by coming in His foe Obseru'd all this and vp he raisd his lance as he would throw And then Lycaon close ran in fell on his breast and tooke Achilles knees whose lance on earth now staid did ouerlooke His ââ¦il-turn'd backe with thirst to glut his sharpe point with the blood That lay so readie but that thirst Lycaons thirst withstood To saue his blood Achilles knee in his one hand he knit His other held the long lance hard and would not part with it But thus besought I kisse thy knees diuine Aeacides Respect me and my fortunes rue I now present th' accesse Lycââ¦s ãâã intercession to Achilles for his life Of a poore suppliant for thy ruth and I am one that is Worthy thy ruth ô Ioues belou'd First houre my miseries Fell into any hand t was thine I tasted all my bread By thy gift since O since that houre that thy surprisall led From forth the faire wood my sad feete farre from my lou'd allies To famous Lemnos where I found an hundred Oxens prise To make my ransome for which now I thrise the worth will raise This day makes twelue since I arriu'd in Ilion many daies Being spent before in sufferance and now a cruell fate Thrusts me againe into thy hands I should hant Ioue with hate That with such set malignitie giues thee my life againe There were but two of vs for whom Laothoe sufferd paine Laothoe old Altes seed Alte whose pallace stood In height of vpper Pedasus neare Satnius ââ¦iluer flood And rulde the warre-like Lelegi Whose seed as many more King Priam married and begot the godlike Polydor And me accurst thou slaughterdst him and now thy hand on me Will proue as mortall I did thinke when here I met with thee I could not scape thee yet giue eare and adde thy mind to it I told my birth to intimate though one sire did beget Yet one wombe brought not into light Hector that slue thy friend And me O do not kill me then but let the wretched end Of Polydor excuse my life For halfe our being bred Brothers to Hector he halfe paid no more is forfeited Thus su'd he humbly but he heard with this austere replie Foole vrge not ruth noâ⦠price to me till that solemnitie Resolu'd on for Patroclus death pay all his rites to fate Till his death I did grace to Troy and many liues did rate At price of ransome but none now of all the brood of Troy Who euer Ioue throwes to my hands shall any breath enioy That death can beate out specially that touch at Primas race Die die my friend what teares are these what sad lookes spoile thy face Patroclus died that farre past thee nay seest thou not beside My selfe euen I a faire yong-man and rarely magnifide And to my father being a king a mother haue that sits In ranke with goddesses and yet when thou hast spent thy spirits Death and as violent a fate must ouertake euen me By twilight morne-light day high noone when euer Destinie Sets on her man to hurle a lance or knit out of his string An arrow that must reach my life This said a languishing Lycaons heart bent like his knees yet left him strength t' aduance Both hands for mercie as he kneeld His foe yet leaues his lance And forth his sword flies which he hid in furrow of a wound Driuen through the ioynture of his necke flat fell he on the ground Stretcht with deaths pangs and all the earth embrew'd with timelesse blood Then gript Aeacides his heele and to the loftie flood Flung swinging his vnpitied corse to see it swim and tosse Vp on the rough waues and said Go feed fat the fish with losse Of thy left blood they cleane will sucke thy greene wounds and this saues Thy mother teares vpon thy bed Deepe Xanthus on his waues Shall hoyse thee brauely to a tombe that in her burly breast The sea shall open where great fish may keepe thy funerall feast With thy white fat and on the waues dance at thy wedding fate Clad in blacke horror keeping close inaccessible state So perish Ilians till we plucke the browes of Ilion Downe to her feete you flying still I flying still vpon Thus in the rere and as my browes were forckt with rabid hornes The word is ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã ãâã which they translate caedens but properly signifies dissipans ut boues infestis cornibus Tosse ye together This braue flood that strengthens and adornes Your citie with his siluer gulfes to whom so many buls Your zeale hath offerd with blind zeale his sacred current guls With casting chariots and horse quicke to his prayd-for aide Shall nothing profite perish then till cruell'st Death hath laide All at the red feet of Reuenge for my slaine friend and all With whom the absence of my hands made yours a festiuall This speech great Xanthus more enrag'd and made his spirit contend For meanes to shut vp the o'pt vaine against him and defend The Troians in it from his plague In meane time Peleus sonne And now with that long lance he hid for more blood set vpon Asteropaeus the descent of Pelagon and he Of brode-stream'd Axius and the dame of first natiuitie To all the daughters that renown'd Acesamenus seed Bright Periboea whom the flood arm'd thicke with loftie reed Comprest At her grandchild now went Thetis great sonne whose foe Stood
storme He came to fleete in with his fire he handles now more soft O friends said sterne Aeacides now that the gods haue brought Achilles to the Grecians This man thus downe I le freely say he brought more bane to Greece Then all his aiders Trie we then thus arm'd at euery peece And girding all Troy with our host if now their hearts will leaue Their citie cleare her cleare stay slaine and all their liues receaue Or hold yet Hector being no more But why vse I a word Of any act but what concernes my friend dead vndeplor'd Vnsepulcherd he lies at fleete vnthought on neuer houre Shall make his dead state while the quicke enioyes me and this powre To moue these mouers Though in hell men say that such as die Obliuion seiseth yet in hell in me shall Memorie Hold all her formes still of my friend Now youths of Greece to fleete Beare we this body Paeans sing and all our nauie greete With endlesse honor we haue slaine Hector the period Of all Troys glorie to whose worth all vow'd as to a god This said a worke not worthy him he set to of both feete Achilles tyranny to Hectors person which we lay on his fury and lââ¦e to his slaine friend for whom himselfe liuing sufferd so much He bor'd the nerues through from the heele to th'ankle and then knit Both to his chariot with a thong of whitleather his head Trailing the center Vp he got to chariot where he laid The armes repurchac't and scourg'd on his horse that freely flew A whirlewind made of startl'd dust draue with them as they drew With which were all his black-browne curls knotted in heapes and fil'd And there lay Troys late Gracious by Iupiter exil'd To all disgrace in his owne land and by his parents seene When like her sonnes head all with dust Troys miserable Queene Distain'd her temples plucking off her honor'd haire and tore Her royall garments shrieking out In like kind Priâ⦠bore His sacred person like a wretch that neuer saw good day Broken with outcries About both the people prosââ¦ate lay Held downe with Clamor all the towne vail'd with a cloud of teares Priam and Hecubas miserable plight for Hector Ilion with all his tops on fire and all the massacres Left for the Greeks could put on lookes of no more ouerthrow Then now fraid life And yet the king did all their lookes outshow The wretched people could not beare his soueraignâ⦠wretchednesse Plaguing himselfe so thrusting out and praying all the preasse To open him the Dardan poâ⦠that he alone might fetcht His dearest sonne in and all fil'd with ââ¦bling did beseech Each man by name thus Loued friends be you coââ¦ent let me Priam to his friend Though much ye grieue be that pooâ⦠meane to ouâ⦠sad remedie Now in our wishes I will go and pray this impious man Author of horrors making proofe if ages reuerence can Excite his pitie His owne sire is old like me and he That got him to our giefes perhaps may for my likenesse be Meane for our ruth to him Ahlas you haue no cause of cares Compar'd with me I many sonnes grac't with their freshest yeares Haue lost by him and all their deaths in slaughter of this one Afflicted man are doubl'd this will bitterly set gone My soule to hell O would to heauen I could but hold him dead In these pin'd armes then teares on teares might fall till all were shed In common fortune Now amaze their naturall course doth stop And pricks a mad veine Thus he mourn'd and with him all brake ope Their store of sorrowes The poore Queene amongst the women wept ââ¦bas complaint for Hector Turn'd into anguish O my sonne she cried out why still kept Patient of horrors is my life when thine is vanished My dayes thou glorifiedst my nights rung of some honour'd deed Done by thy virtues ioy to me profite to all our care All made a god of thee and thou mad'st them all that they are Now vnder fate now dead These two thus vented as they could Their sorrowes furnace Hectors wife not hauing yet bene told So much as of his stay without She in her chamber close Sate at her Loome a peece of worke grac't with a both sides glosse Strew'd curiously with varied flowres her pleasure was her care To heate a Caldron for her Lord to bath him turn'd from warre Of which she chiefe charge gaue her maides Poore Dame she little knew How much her cares lackt of his case But now the Clamor flew Vp to her turret then she shooke her worke fell from her hand And vp she started cald her maides she needs must vnderstand That ominous outcrie Come said she I heare through all this crie My mothers voyce shrieke to my throte my heart bounds Ecstasie Vââ¦terly alters me some fate is neare the haplesse sonnes Of fading Priam would to god my words suspicions No eare had heard yet O I feare and that most heartily That with some stratageme the sonne of Peleus hath put by The wall of Ilion my Lord and trusty of his feet Obtaind the chase of him alone and now the curious heate Of his still desperate spirit is cool'd It let him neuer keep In guard of others before all his violent foote must step Or his place forââ¦eited he held Thus furie like she went Two women as she will'd at hand and made her quicke aââ¦nt Vp to the towre and preasse of men her spirit in vprore Round She cast her greedy eye and saw her Hector slaine and bound T' Achilles chariot manlesly dragg'd to the Grecian fleet Blacke night strooke through her vnder her Trâ⦠ââ¦ke away her feet And backe she shrunke with such a sway that off her head-tire flew Her Coronet Call Ribands Vaile that golden Venus threw On her white shoulders that high day when warre-like Hector wonne Her hand in nuptials in the Court of king Eetion And that great dowre then giuen with her About her on their knââ¦s Her husbands sisters brothers wiues ââ¦ell round and by degrees Recouerd her Then when againe her respirations found Free passe her mind and spirit met these thoughts her words did sound O Hector O me cursed dame both borne beneath one fate Andromaches complaint for Hector Thou here I in Cilician Thebes where Placus doth elate His shadie forehead in the Court where king Eetion Haplesse begot vnhappy me which would he had not done To liue past thee thou now art diââ¦'d to Putos gloomie throne Sunke through the couerts of the earth I in a hell of mone Left here thy widdow one poore babe borne to vnhappy both Whom thou leau'st helplesse as he thee he borne to all the wroth Of woe and labour Lands left him will others ââ¦se vpon The Orphan day of all friends helps robs euery mothers son An Orphan all men suffer sad his eyes stand still with teares Need tries his fathers friends and failes Of all his
fauourers If one the cup giues t is not long the wine he finds in it Scarce moists his palate if he chance to gaine the grace to sit Suruiuing fathers sonnes repine vse contumelies strike Bid leaue vs where 's thy fathers place He weeping with dislike Retires to me To me ahlas Astyanax is he Borne to these miseries He that late fed on his fathers knee To whom all knees bow'd daintiest fare apposde him and when Sleepe Lay on his temples his cries still'd his heart euen laid in steepe Of all things precious a soft bed a carefull nurââ¦s armes Tooke him to guardiance but now as huge a world of harmes Lies on his suffrance now thou wantst thy fathers hand to friend O my Astyanax O my Lord thy hand that did defend These gates of Ilion these long walls by thy arme measur'd still Amply and onely yet at fleete thy naked corse must ââ¦ll Vile wormes when dogs are fatiate farre from thy parents care Farre from those funerall ornaments that thy mind would prepare So sodaine being the chance of armes euer expecting death Andromache wrought many funerall ornaments for Hector before his death Which taske though my heart would not serue t' employ my hands beneath I made my women yet performe Many and much in price Were those integuments they wrought t' adorne thy Exequies Which since they flie thy vse thy Corse not laid in their attire Thy sacrifice they shall be made these hands in mischieuous fire Shall vent their vanities And yet being consecrate to thee They shall be kept for citizens and their faire wiues to see Thus spake shee weeping all the dames endeuouring to cheare Her desert state fearing their owne wept with her teare for teare The end of the two and twentieth Booke THE XXIII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT A Chilles orders Iusts of exequies For his Patroclus and doth sacrifise Twelue Troian Princes most lou'd hounds and horse And other offerings to the honour'd Corse He institutes besides a funerall game Where Diomed for horse-race wins the fame For foote Vlysses others otherwise Striue and obtaine and end the exequies Another Argument Psi sings the rites of the decease Ordaind by great Aeacides THus mourn'd all Troy but when at fleet and Hellespontus shore The Greeks arriu'd each to his ship onely the Conqueror Kept vndisperst his Myrmidons and ââ¦aid Lou'd countrimen Achilles to his Myrmidons Disioyne not we chariots and horse but bearing hard our reine With state of both march soft and close and mourne about the corse T is proper honour to the dead Then take we out our horse When with our friends kinds woe our hearts haue felt delight to do A virtuous soule right and then sup This said all full of woe Circl'd the Corse Achilles led and thrise about him close All bore their goodly coted horse Amongst all Thetis rose And stirr'd vp a delight in griefe till all their armes with teares And all the sands were wet so much they lou'd that Lord of Feares Then to the center fell the Prince and putting in the breast Of his slaine friend his slaughtring hands began to all the rest Words to their teares Reioyce said he O my Patroclus Thou Achilles to the person of Patroââ¦lus Courted by Dis now now I pay to thy late ouerthrow All my reuenges vow'd before Hector lies slaughterd here Dragd at my chariot and our dogs shall all in peeces teare His hated lims Twelue Troian youths borne of their noblest straines I tooke aliue and yet enrag'd will emptie all their vaines Of vitall spirits sacrifisde before thy heape of fire This said a worke vnworthy him he put vpon his ire And trampl'd Hector vnder foote at his friends feet The rest Disarm'd tooke horse from chariot and all to sleepe addrest At his blacke vessell Infinite were those that rested there Himselfe yet sleepes not now his spirits were wrought about the chere Fit for so high a funerall About the steele vsde then Oxen in heapes lay bellowing preparing food for men Bleating of sheepe and goates fild aire numbers of white-tooth'd swine Swimming in fat lay sindging there the person of the slaine Was girt with slaughter All this done all the Greeke kings conuaid Achilles to the king of men his rage not yet allaid For his Patroclus Being arriu'd at Agamemnons tent Himselfe bad Heralds put to fire a Caldron and present The seruice of it to the Prince to trie if they could win His pleasure to admit their paines to cleanse the blood sok't in About his conquering hands and browes Not by the king of heauen He swore The lawes of friendship damne this false-heart licence giuen Achilles ouerhearing vsed this abruption To men that lose friends not a drop shall touch me till I put Patroclus in the funerall pile before these curles be cut His tombe erected T is the last of all care I shall take While I consort the carefull yet for your entreaties sake And though I lothe food I will eate but early in the morne Atrides vse your strict command that lodes of wood be borne To our design'd place all that fits to light home such a one As is to passe the shades of Death that fire enough set gone His person quickly from our eyes and our diuerted men May plie their businesse This all eares did freely entertaine And found obseruance Then they supt with all things fit and all Repair'd to tents and rest The friend the shores maritimall Sought for his bed and found a place faire and vpon which plaide Achilles retreate from company to the seas short The murmuring billowes There his lims to rest not sseepe he laid Heauily sighing Round about silent and not too neare Stood all his Myrmidons when straite so ouer-labour'd were His goodly lineaments with chace of Hector that beyond His resolution not to sleepe Sleepe cast his fodaine bond Ouer his sense and losde his care Then of his wretched friend The soule appear'd at euery part the forme did comprehend Patroclus appeares to Achilles sleeping His likenesse his faire eyes his voice his stature euery weed His person wore it fantased and stood aboue his head This sad speech vttering Dost thou sleepe Aeacides am I Forgotten of thee Being aliue I found thy memorie Euer respectfull but now dead thy dying loue abates Interre me quickly enter me in Plutoes iron gates For now the soules the shades of men fled from this being beate My spirit from rest and stay my much desir'd receipt Amongst soules plac't beyond the flood Now euery way I erre About this brode-dor'd hoââ¦se of Dis. O helpe then to preferre My soule yet further here I mourne but had the funerall fire Consum'd my bodie neuer more my spirit should retire From hels low region from thence soules neuer are retriu'd To talke with friends here nor shall I a hatefull fate depriu'd My being here that at my birth was fixt and to such fate Euen thou ô god-like
sword siluerd and hatcht the blade is right of Thrace Asteropââ¦us yeelded it These armââ¦hall part their grace With eithers valour and the men I le liberally feast At my pauilion To this game the first man that addrest Was Aiax Telââ¦monius to him king Diââ¦med Diââ¦ed and Aiax combat Both in opposde parts of the preasse full arm'd both entered The lists amids the multitude put lookes on so austere And ioyn'd so roughly that amaze surprisde the Greeks in feare Of eithers mischiefe Thrice they threw their fierce darts and closde thrice Then Aiax strooke through Diomeds shield but did no preiudice His curets saft him Diomeds dart still ouer shoulders flew Still mounting with the spirit it bore And now rough Aiââ¦x grew So violent that the Greeks cried Hold no more let them no more Giue equall prise to either yet the sword proposde before For him did best Achilles gaue to Diomed. Then a stone Achilles proposes a game for hurââ¦ing of the stone or bââ¦le In fashion of a sphere he show'd of no inuention But naturall onely melted through with iron T was the boule That king Eetion vsde to hurle but he bereft of soule By great Achilles to the fleete with store of other prise He brought it and proposde it now both for the exercise And prise it selfe He stood and said Rise you that will approue Your armes strengths now in this braue strife his vigor that can moue This furthest needs no game but this for reach he nere so farre With large fields of his owne in Greece and so needs for his Carre His Plow or other tooles of thrift much iron I le able this For fiue reuolued yeares no need shall vse his messages ãâã To any towne to furnish him this onely boule shall yeeld Iron enough for all affaires This said to trie this field First Polypaetes issued next Leontaeus third Great Aiax huge Epeus fourth Yet he was first that stird That myne of iron Vp it went and vp he tost it so That laughter tooke vp all the field The next man that did throw Was Leonteus Aiax third who gaue it such a hand That farre past both their markes it flew But now t was to be mann'd By Polypetes and as farre as at an Oxe that strayes A herdsman can swing out his goade so farre did he outraise The stone past all men all the field rose in a shout to see 't About him flockt his friends and bore the royall game to fleete For Archerie he then set forth ten axes edg'd two waies Another gaâ⦠And ten of one edge On the shore farre off he causd to raise A ship-mast to whose top they tied a fearfull Doue by th'foote At which all shot the game put thus He that the Doue could shoote Nor touch the string that fastn'd her the two-edg'd tooles should beare All to the fleete Who toucht the string and mist the Doue should share The one-edg'd axes This proposde king Teucer force arose And with him rose Meriones and now lots must dispose Their shooting first both which let fall into a helme of brasse First Teucers came and first he shot and his crosse fortune was To shoote the string the Doue vntoucht Apollo did enuie His skill since not to him he vow'd being god of archerie A first falne Lambe The bitter shaft yet cut in two the cord That downe fell and the Doue aloft vp to the Welkin soar'd The Greeks gaue shouts Meriones first made a hearââ¦ie vow To sacrifice a first falne Lambe to him that rules the Bow And then fell to his aime his shaft being ready nockt before He spide her in the clouds that here there euery where did soare Yet at her height he reacht her side strooke her quite through and downe The shaft fell at his feete the Doue the mast againe did crowne There hung the head and all her plumes were ruffl'd she starke dead And there farre off from him she fell The people wondered And stood astonisht Th'Archer pleasd Aeacides then shewes A long lance and a caldron new engrail'd with twentie hewes Prisde at an Oxe These games were shew'd for men at darts and then Vp rose the Generall of all vp rose the king of men Vp rose late-crown'd Meriones Achilles seeing the king Do him this grace preuents more deed his royall offering Thus interrupting King of men we well conceiue how farre Thy worth superiour is to all how much most singular Thy powre is and thy skill in darts accept then this poore prise Without contention and your will pleasde with what I aduise Affoord Meriones the lance The king was nothing slow To that fit grace Achilles then the brasse lance did bestow On good Meriones The king his present would not saue But to renowm'd Talthybius the goodly Caldron gaue The end of the three and twentieth Booke THE XXIIII BOOKE OF HOMERS ILIADS. THE ARGVMENT IOue entertaining care of Hectors corse Sends Thetis to her sonne for his reââ¦rse And fit dismission of it Iris then He sends to Priam willing him to gaine His sonne for ransome He by Hermes led Gets through Achilles guards sleepes deepe and dead Cast on them by his guide When with accesse And humble sute made to AEacides He gaines the bodie which to Troy he beares And buries it with feaââ¦s buried in teares Another Argument Ωmega sings the exequies And Hectors redemptorie prise THe games perform'd the souldiers wholly disperst to fleete Supper and sleepe their onely care Constant Achilles yet Wept for his friend nor sleepe it selfe that all things doth subdue Could touch at him This way and that he turn'd and did renue His friends deare memorie his grace in managing his strength And his strengths gââ¦eatnesle How life rackt into their vtmost length Griefes battels and the wraths of seas in their ioynt sufferance Each thought of which turn'd to a teare Sometimes he would aduance In tumbling on the shore his side sometimes his face then turnâ⦠Flat on his bosome start vpright Although he saw the morne Shew sea and shore his extasie he left not till at last Rage varied his distraction Horse chariot in hast He cald for and those ioyn'd the corse was to his chariot tide And thrice about the sepulcher he made his Furie ride Dragging the person All this past in his pauilion Rest seisd him but with Hectors corse his rage had neuer done Still suffering it t' oppresse the dust Apollo yet euen dead Pitied the Prince and would not see inhumane tyrannie ââ¦ed With more pollution of his lims and therefore couerd round His person with his golden shield that rude dogs might not wound His manly linââ¦aments which threat Achilles cruelly Had vsde in furie But now heauen let fall a generall eye Of pitie on him the blest gods perswaded Mercurie Their good obseruer to his stealth and euery deitie Stood pleasd with it Iuno except Greene Nepâ⦠and the Maide Grac't with the blew eyes all their hearts stood haââ¦lly