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A14785	Pan his syrinx, or pipe compact of seuen reedes: including in one, seuen tragical and centicall arguments, with their diuers notes not impertinent: Whereby, in effect, of all thinges is touched, in few, something of the vayue, wanton, proud, and unconstant course of the world. Neither herein, to some-what praise-worthie, is prayse vvanting. By William Warner.	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1584 (1584)	STC 25086; ESTC S103297	106,443	242

Amongst the rest whilste this beautiful Couple prepare to offer vp their liues as pledges of their constant loue a very faire and most comly woman who heretofore had bene Nurse to Crisippus and euer after vntill that day had bene entertained in the seruice of the Marchantman his father the teares aboundantly steeming from out her amiable eyes in great anguish casteth her selfe at the feete of the two Kings and sayth I● so be mercifull or mercilesse kings you graunt vnto me a sillie woman like libertie of speech as you haue giuen cause of sorrow then shal I commend your clemensie towards me that cannot but condemne your crueltie towards these two whose answering ages combyned affections agreeble complections and what so else more then you know of gaining by equalitie loue are in either so cōcurrant as in my iudgemēt you might rather wish what is alreadie hapned then withstād that which is now helpelesse But least I also swallow vp that in scilence which vttered may perhaps rebaite from their sorrowes I shall now as inforced therevnto disclose long hidden secrets You will mutter when I shall Affirme but maruel when your selues cannot but Confirme y t Crisippus may claime no lesse Nobilitie from his Progenitors than Marpissa Honour by her Parentage that he is an Husband not vnworthie such a wife that y e Issue Selchim of thy fathers child is not of more roial blood nor y e Son Staurobates sproong from thy loines more noblier borne you wil muse I say when your selues shall auouch this that I auarre Wherefore let it not ought agrauate to his punishment that Crisippus ignorant of his right parents acknowledgeth himselfe the sonne of a Marchant or that from these homely paps of mine lesse pleasing then in times passed he hath sucked nourishment but know Selchim that he is the naturall sonne of Pheone thy neglected sister shee the contracted wife of vnconstant Staurobates he the vnnaturall father of condemned Crisippus and my selfe Selchim and Staurobates the same Pheone whom happily either of you hath longer lost than lacked and the one of you no doubt longer lacked then loued albeit Staurobates at thy departure and at the deliuerie of this Ring thy flattering tongue could then whisper That mine absence should bee bitter and the delay of my presence Death Now therefore if the one of you will deale gratiouslye with his desolate Sister the other gently with his well deseruing Louer either of you naturally with your distressed Children thē at the least be to thē meere Strangers rather than so mercilesse Parents yea remember Staurobates thou mayst not retaine Marpissa but by lust Pheone being alreadie intertained thine owne by Lawe whose life ought to stand betwixt thee and a Bigamus By this time and whilst she was yet speaking Staurobates hauing perfectly fixed in the eyes of his memorie the well knowne face and countinaunce of the amiable Oratrisse giuing a signe to the Tormentors for staye of Execution earnestly imbrased the Heroicall Nurse saying Well mayst thou deuine of the prosperous successe of thy demaund when no creature liuing can be so welcome to this place as art thou the Demaundēt Think not that the homelinesse of thine habite vnworthie thine honour or any alteration whatsoeuer hath so begiled my sences or estranged my loue but that I gladly acknowledge my selfe the husbande of Pheone thy selfe th'only she whom Staurobates accepteth for wife Ah Pheone had not thy misdeeme bene more than my misdeeds then had not not thy ielous loue hapned so much to both our preiudice But now well is me and thrise happie bee this houre wherein I re●ew whome I neuer did but loue nor euer will but honour thee my deare and only beloued Pheone And then as he aleaged in his excuse those reasonable causes before touched king Selchim no lesse ioyfull to heare tidinges of his Sister than was Staurobates glad to hau● found his wife imbrased her with as muche loue for a brother as did the other for an husband she as naturally resaluting and reconciling her selfe to either Crisippus and Marpissa were now deliuered frō bands and after many ioyfull teares their passed mariage was also gladly confirmed by either parent espe●ially Staurobates demeaned exceeding great ioy for the recouering of his vnknowne sonne of whom and of her own absence Pheone in effecte this reported That at Staurobates his departure into India shee finding herselfe ouer-taken with his daliances that had left her neither Maid widdow nor wife and not hearing from him according to appointment did therefore as well to auoide the law which was death as the shame of her fault which was her great belly leaue secretly the Court in the Desertes was deliuered of Crisippus whome being at point otherwise to haue perished she swatheled vp decking him with muche gold and many rich Iewels and layd him in a Path by which a homely countrie Matron vsually passed to milke her Cattle in those Deserts her selfe in the meane while priuily watching the euent of this her deuise And how this good woman finding so faire a Boy and so fat a bootie presented the poore fisher-man her husband with such her findings when therevpon herselfe simply araied repairing vnto their Cottage and asking a entertainment became Nurse vnto her own sonne Thē lastly how the Fisher-man by this windfall greatly enriched long sithence become a Marchantman in that Citie not hauing any child of his own had adopted Crisippus being vtterly ignorant of any other Parentage his Son This she told a generall Plaudiat dissolued y e ioyfull assembly HEre is qd Abynados loue vpon loue and louers by huddles a discourse trust me friuolous in telling fruitlesse in hearing but most foolish in Action such loue being in my conceit so far off from loue that I rather think it a doting Frenzie and enemie to Reason rouing headlong vpō Impossibilities for were it that such louing fooles could temper their Extreame with a Meane then would they loue with more discretion or leaue with lesse domage For not improperly may loue be compared to the sore called an Oncom or Fellon which beginning at the fingers end and by sufferance falling into the Ioint doth hazard a Mahem or at the least-wise a Cure so loue beginning at the eye by sufferance descending to the hart doth threaten life or at the least-wise Reason as the one therefore at the first is to be scalded so th'other is presētly to be suppressed for without a timely violēce either Malady is incurable With such like discourses did Th'assirians cut the calme seas descrying a strange ship at anker not far off vpon occasiō did also the like riding as nere to the vnknown ship as they cold where not omitting to enquire after those in Quest of whome they thus sailed occasion of that which now ensueth was taken Deipyrus Calamus quintus Cap. 28. IT hapned that after many gentle salutations passed and repassed on either part it grew in

while driue forth the time vntil in the end not able any longer to hide that swelling sicknesse which she knew to be other than a Tympany one morning betimes she secretly windeth her selfe from out the Court in disguised apparel not to be recouered by any searche or heard of by any inquirie After which her departure within lesse than a seuen-night Duke Menophis and we ariue at Cicyona but intelligence being there had of this euill newes making short tariance there we resaile with sorrow ynough to India and certifie to Staurobates our euill aduentures on the seas with the heauie tidings of Pheone her missing Staurobates who had pitifully heard the report of our mishaps and tooke most patiently the losse of his so great treasure hearing now such newes of her whom he loued as his own life fetching pitifull sighes and eftsoones falling into perilous sownes could hardly be reuiued wanting little but that he had presently died and long after remained at point vtterly to haue forsworne wiuing by reason that Fortune had euen then so awkly adnihilated his Commencing whē hauing already his Grace he accounted himselfe a Graduate Cap. 22. BUt what is it that time doth not determine or at least wise diminish diuers yeares after he yet continuing a broken batchiler when his pensiuenes was grown from a wound to a skarre he ariued at Cicyona there familiarly to visite his old friend and brother in law that might haue bene King Selchim who gladly gaue him entertainment answerable to his magnificence During the time of Staurobates his now abode in Cicyona Marpissa King Selchim his only daughter and heire a perfit blossome of beautie a matchlesse Paragō for personage perfected by Nature and pullished by Nurture and one whome Enuie it selfe could not in any wise impeach occcupied so great a portion of now more hers than his own hart that Pheone was thē diszeased but Marpissa seazed the Aunt dismissed but the Niece admitted the one lacked but the other loued Staurobates therefore firste mouing Selchim of this match and there preuailing did secondlye make loue to Marpissa but there fayled howbeit like a wilie wenche she finely smootheth him off with such delatorie answers that cunningly she leaueth her selfe at liberty and giueth to him neuerthelesse cause to play on the bridle for hee assured himselfe of nothing more than that he had gotten a wife when she perswaded herselfe of nothing lesse then to take him for husband There was at that time in the Court attendaunt vpon a young Duke which Duke had bene in vaine a long suter to the Princesse one Crisippus knowne to be no other than a ritche Marchants sonne of the same Citie where the Court than lay but yet a youthful Gallant and a brauing Courtier he at the commaundement and in the behalfe of the Duke his maister vsed often repaire to Marpissa and had much conference with her as touching the same Duke his loue But shee careleslye neglecting the curteous proffers of the master did contemplatiuely respect the comly personage of the man who being scarcely xviii winters old both for actiuitie maners and well making was at y e least wise in her eye not second to any This Crisippus I say this affiansed factor fauoured Soliciter was the only sleping Endimion secretly kissed of Phoebe so far-forth as her loue wanting a second consent might extend it selfe to Galatea an Acis to Venus an Adonis and to Marpissa the first of her loue or the last of her life Wherfore after that she had with earnest long endeuour sought to resist vndesistable loue at the length taking courage boldly to persist she entreth with her-self into these Arguments What reason hast thou Marpissa to contend with Loue that is both restlesse and vnreasonable adding so to fire fewell or what standest thou vppon these ouer-curious points thy fathers displeasure Crisippus his Pettigree or thine own Modestie when the first may be pacified or else by meanes auoided for from whom we are deriued by birth to thē what can we more returne than reuerent mindes but to whome wee are driuen by loue from thē what may we lesse with-hold than our own parsōs yea Marpissa thou maist also reuerēce as a daughter and loue as a wife and yet the later not preiudicial to the first Secondly and as concerning Crisippus his Pettigree or Pouertie what is that to be respected seeing thou doest delight in his parsonage not descant of his parentage whose vertue doth counteruaile the want of Nobilitie for better the man lacking wealth then wealth lacking the man Thirdly what shouldest thou bee more nise than wise that art therefore to be pardoned because in loue and who is ignorant that loue respecteth no persons for howsoeuer in all other things hapneth a superioritie yet Nature that hath giuen to vs alone Birth one Breath and one Death in this one only thing remaineth vncorrupt and is to all alike indifferent making Phoebus a Sheapheard and Hercules a Cot-queane but admit the Discord yet mariage maketh the Concord Mariage qd I yea but all the craft in catching and cunning in keeping I marie Marpissa this was sweetly spoken if faire words might win him but Crisippus is no Pigeon to be taken with a beane nor a child to be intised with a Ball he may be perhaps a Louer but not loue for losse and will more esteeme a dowrie that is bountifull than a Kings Daughter though beautifull Alas Marpissa what dowrie canst thou bring him Ah Death if he be taken Banishment if he escape and Pouertie howsoeuer he speedeth Wherfore if thou wilt loue him then leane to loue him but that alas will neuer be except thou also leaue to liue Nay rather moue the question and afterwards dispose of thy selfe according to his answere they are more than miserable that seeke a sword to perish on the point before a salue to applie to their paine the vexed parson that in most anguish crieth out to be deliuered of greefe the same would not with the least violence be then dispatched of life speake Marpissa nowe or else neuer speede sue to him for loue that perhaps would but feares to attempt thee in the like thou shalt no doubt obtaine he is neither discurteous nor timerous so constāt a Partner shal the rather make him venterous of the perill Cap. 23. LVpus in fabula labouring yet in these passions she perceaued Crisippus dauncing attendance about the pursute of the Duke his loue whom more for that shee had now a new plea of her own to plie than vpon any will to heare the olde pleaded cause of his maister the whiche she had already both in thought by word dismissed she calleth into a withdrawing chamber where giuing him intertainment more than vsuall but yet no more than stood with modestie they enter into this Dialogue Mar. WHat newes Crisippus My Lord your Master is I hope satisfied and not offended with the returne of my late aunswere if then

neither they for fiercenesse will departe with nor we for feare dare attempt to recouer Thus mightie men speake the word and al heare them when miserable wretches shead their teares but not any help thē our Plaints must be Should Would because men y t are vnder-rule but their Pleas are Shal Wil because men that can ouer-rule Our greeuous affectiōs fatigate dull sences and tire Capacities but their golden Dum-showes are effectual euen to dimme sightes and deaffe eares one and the same course is in vs dilatorie in them orderly to vs a Dimission to them a Decree for Iudgements against them haue they Errors with them for Sentences Repreeues and for Repreeues Pardons But what alas doe we if we doe aught at all then seare Hydra her heades and sweate in Hercules his Perils plucking vpon vs twentie troubles by proceeding to one Triall and though they eate vs as bread and sell vs for shoes yet vppon whome should we complaine that either careth or not correcteth the Aduersarie so he way down right wayeth not at all the wrong the Lawyer so hee hath a fee disgesteth the foyle and fathereth the crime on the cause the Magistrate he sayth Nole me tangere angere least the incarnate God prooue an vntimelye Diuell Thus may it please your Maiestie when all were tried and I was tired and that they lacked pitie and I likely to perish I was by good happe aduertised by some that spake as they spead to appeale from those officious persons or adiourning Maiestrates that heare not without hire to the Court and Nobility there who heare such Sutors with more expedition and helpe them with lesse expences This aduise made me hardy but the accident thereof maketh mee happie in that your highnesse vouchsafeth the hearing of it in your owne person which vnworthie wretche I durst not so much as in thought to haue hoped for Opheltes most gratious Soueraigne Opheltes more fortunate to dignities than faithfull in his dealinges is the onely man giuing occasion to this my Complainte whome being present in your Court maye it please your Maiestie personally to cal to this Controuersie that hea●ing how and wherin I shall charge him by accusation ●e may I would he might cleare himselfe by aunswere for rightfull Causes feare not indifferent Trials Opheltes was then called who appearing Philargus thus proceeded Cap. 47. THe Cilician Tyrāt lately vsurping in this your kingdome most gratious Lord pursuing for what offence I know not the death of this vngratefull Gentleman inforced him for sauegard of his life secretly as a Fugitiue to skulke in euery corner in his wandring he hapned vnhappily may I say vppon my poore Cottage vnto whom vtterly vnknowne to me and the cloathes on his backe scarcely couering his bare I gaue for very pitie suche intertainment as my small abilitie woulde then suffer plucking off his olde ragges and putting on him newe Russets Now whether it were that despaire to regaine the estate he lately had forgon made him resolute or feare to goe farther and speede worser diligent or that necessitie made him vertuous being naturally vitious I know not but this I found that shortly he setled himselfe with such towardnesse to our countrie Affaires and homely fare that the best husband-man was not more cunning at his worke nor the worst Hine lesse choise of his meat so that finding him more diligent than a Seruaunt and no lesse dutifull than a Sonne by the one I receiued commoditie in the other I conceiued comfort such was poore Opheltes who then did not shame to be my seruaunt but suche is not prosperous Opheltes that now doth skorne to be my sonne in law And yet though his present Honour hath altered his former honestie this is the man and the selfe same Opheltes vnto whome not hauing a Coate to his backe Coyne in his purse Foode for his belly or Couerture for his head I gaue both Apparell Monie Meate and Harbour And more than so I haue or rather I feare me I had but one only Childe a Daughter whome Opheltes long wooed at length wone and with my consent did wedde howbeit wretched Wenche many a lustie Youth and riche Francklines sonne in seeking her beautie such as it was togethers with her inexorable loue lost their vnregarded labour only Opheltes had the happe to make her an vnhappie Wife Yea my dotage extended yet a degree farther so well did I thinke of the man that vtterlye dispossessing my selfe I wholie possessed him of mine intiere substaunce neither did I soone recant what now too late I repent but for the time was rather tickled with a vain ioye seeing him honestly to encrease his wealth hartily to intreate me and husband-like to vse my Daughter his Wife But no extremitie hath eternitie as the worlde turned to better so this Wretche changed to worser for no sooner was the Tyraunt his Foe deade and your Maiestie his Friend reseazed of your Roiall Diademe but that he suddenlye made sale of almost all that was ours and by your Highnesse means and my monie recouered his own since which time much haue we heard of Opheltes nowe the exquisite Courtier but nothing at all of Opheltes the late expert Carter pardon me I beseeche your Maiestie that notwithstanding all other iniuries woulde not thus speake to his disgrace did hee not still prosecute mee with Disdaine whiche euen Wretches disgest not There is in this Citie a stately and secrete Courtizan called Phaemonoe a faire dame in countinance but a foule diuell in conuersation aboūding in riches but abandoned of honestie whose lasciuious daliances as since my repaire hither I haue bene tolde and my selfe in part canne testifie hath so farre estranged Opheltes from the dutie of an husbande that by circumstances it may be intended he hath not so much as once remembered his Wife vnto whom since his departure hee hath not voutchsafed succor sight or sending too Mine owne pinching neede my Daughter her pitifull lamentations and his vnkinde absence from vs both roused vp mine aged Limbes vnwieldye God wot for suche iournies to seeke after him whome vnwitting to vs wee had lost and vnwilling to himselfe in the ende I founde if to loose an egge and fynde a Cockatrice may be tearmed a finding for in very troth Opheltes was so farre off from being founde the same Opheltes hee lately was that when hee with many surly lookes sterne words and scoffing aunsweres had dismissed mee his presence as a dispargement to his acquaintaunce I for the tyme not trusting mine owne Eyes began also to make a doubtfull pawse in acknowledging an vndoubted person vntill at length I perceiued it to fare with me as with the poore Sparrow that hatcheth her owne destruction Wherefore minding with pacience to beare this wrong and brooke my losse I retourned home to my comfortlesse house But here alas a greater woe had almost berefte me my wittes Alcippe woe am I my Daughter Alcippe was lacking and yet still is

●●eaeth the strong-membred yong-mā in dispight yea in euerie corner was such murdering sacking captiuating racking rifling and horror what not that death seemed least damage that the poore Medes then sustained If the rehearsal of this common Calamitie will not suffice I haue also a particuler complaint against the Assirians who then in which they might not haue perpetrated greater crueltie hauing puposely made the Kinge and Queene my parentes eye-witnesses of the most miserable condicion of their Subiectes and Signorie did also euen in their sight murder seuen yonge Princes their children and least in any one thing they might seeme not to haue outraged in tyrannie with the luke-warme blood of the children they mingled also the bloode of the parentes leauing me of their frutefull issue the onelye Remaine But more then this and who was fully as deare or dearer to me then parentes brethren or country in this bloody businesse I lost by death or captiuitie I wot not which Duke Arbaces ah Arbaces my husband who not long before had made me a mother of an vnfortunate Sonne was then bereft me Also when the Assirians should depart mine harmefull beautie procured my shipping towardes Assiria for why the Emperour had in his purpose appointed me one of his Concubynes with which purpose of his I desolate I became so perplexed that from thenceforth breaking truce with my pacience I was rather to seeke of a desperate practise then a consenting 〈◊〉 to haue perished in somuch that the motherly care of my Babe then hanging on my breast had not bayled me from death if a worser occurrant had not withstood so an good occasion for by the commandement of Ascolanta the Emperisse being now enuious of my beautie and waxing iealous of her husbandes liking I was all alone set a shoare in this Ilande by which meanes I also for-went my sweete Infant and vntill now my desartes more as appeareth then your deuotions haue giuen me here intertainment It is not vaine-glory I ●peake not now to these Assirians whom I worthely maligne but to you the Inhabitants of this Iland whom vnworthely I haue profited y t moueth me thus to vaūt deserts but your owne vnthankfulnesse that will not value my merits for meete though it be that you vouche the heauens for the matter of your wealth whereof you long were ignorant yet amisse were it not to vouchsafe me a prerogatiue in y e manner and vse as first deliuered vnto you by mine inuention I founde you without Gods without Religion without Lawes or Gouernment naked wild brutish beast-like feeding on Roots harbouring in Bushes feare full of your own shadowes and to discribe you in a word Monsters wrapped in man-like habbites but in these through mine industry you haue now Reformatiō were it not that prouender doth pricke you and fulne●●●ake you foolish only you might be said an happie people and that ywis not somuch in respect the naturall pleasure and plentie of this your popilous Ilande through aterrestriall Parradise as in that mine expe●ience and plat-forme hath warned you and might haue armed you frō the Incursions of these Tyrants the cōmon Skourge to all pleople against whom not without cause as you haue heard my tongue long since hath proclaimed deadly Foade neither in seeking reueng shal mine hart breake Couenante with the diseased ghostes of my murdered friendes But on Gods name be it so that nether Media for example my selfe for merittes the 〈…〉 their mischieues our law for iustice you for duety 〈◊〉 I for authoritie be it so I say that none of these haue that waight of argument to winne you reuenging Instruments to wreake my teene vpon these Tyrantes yet at the leastwise be prouident for your owne safety and preuent your owne euilles by punishing these your apparant enemies of whom the question is not whether they all haue iumped vppon one diuelish Attempt that is the conquest of you and your Countrie all circumstances directly approuing such consequent but because according to the mind of the offendor we are to measure offences for that there may be mercy in punishing and crueltie in sparing let vs see whether of the two pittie or punishment is in this case more requisite If this offence of the Assirians had bene committed through ignorance infirmitie prouocation on our parte through rashnes for sometimes rashnesse and such like infirmities are in some men as sicknesses if priuatly against one or a few or by your known foes then I deny not but that mercie might haue borrowed of Iustice but I wil cleare them as men that wil not offend but in the highest degree of these petite faults and charge them with capitall crymes They least herein they should degenerate from Assirians of pretended mall●●● without matter haue hoysted their sayles to forren windes and vsed their vnpeaceable weapons against vnknowen people not for Enmitie but for Ambitton not ignorantly by chance but aduisedly by counsel not rashly but resolutely not against some bu● against all not because you deserue warre but because they dispise peace yea had not I fore-warned you as hauing had tryall of their trecheries you should haue fealt their woundes before you coulde haue feared their words and after they had glutted them selues with Slaughters Rauishments Sacrileges Burninges Spoylinges and all kinde of Mischieues the Ruines of your Ilande shoulde not haue priuileged the Suruiuours of you frō their intollerable Slauery If this much which might suffise for me to charge them for you to correct them be yet insufficient then haue I also Reason Honestie Coparswado●s herof Reason I say because better afew be punished then y t a multitude should perish Honestie because in y t you may and will not you take vpon your selues the Offence of the Offendoures and betray the good whilest you boulster the badde for Impunitie is the Springe of Carelesnesse the Mother of Insolencie the roote of impudencie and the Nurse of al Transgressions For shame therefore Sirs inchaunt your harmefull pittie and remember that not to correct is to consent to the Crime Better it is that I remember you of the perill then you repent you of your pitty for if you staie vntil Experience the Philosophie of Fooles hath taught you what I haue toulde you then to your costes you shall finde that the Assirians be men enemies to mankinde not to bee made your friendes by Compulsion or Composition whose enmitie commeth of Custome and not by occasion euen this disgrace if they escape that their liues liberties were in your power to giue or take is vnnaturall for their natures to digest for which were there no other cause their cankared Stomackes shal requite your sufferance with the abuse of you patience it is a thing impossible ●o reconcile an hart hardned with pride and mallice to honestie But what is it decēt that I pleade before mine own Uassails that I intreate as a Subiect whome I should commaunde as a Soueraine my

s●fferance I see is cause of your stubbornesse my curtesie of your cōtempt At my first comming when I might haue had adoration as a Goddesse I was not then so hautie as to take it and now that I should haue obedience as you Gouernesse you are not so humble as to giue it thus deale you with mee as did the Frogges with Iupiters Rafter you make me a Stock but beware these Storks And truely seeing you haue not deserued why I should be longer carefull of you and your welfare and for that by disobedience you will needes inflict vpon your selues so grieuous a punishmēt I also giue my consent a reuenge too great I confesse that these our Captiues be anon deliuered to their ships that being insufficient of them selues they may inuite frō Assiria the distruction and ruine of you your wiues your children your goodes and your whole countrie for enough haue the Assirians seene in this our Ilande to allure hether multitudes of Inuadours Cap. 55. THese her wordes had now so incensed the mindes of the Ilanders against the Assirians that euerie of them was clearely resolute in the death of his Prisoner but for that one of the two olde Captiues whom Dircilla had as before singled out and whom her wordes had now especially touched to the quicke was suddenly bereft his sences and falne in a sowne And for that the Ilanders stoode vppon expectation of some further confession to be deliuered by the seconde olde-man who was alredy in way of aunswere to Dircilla entred into some and these following speaches therefore vntill he shoulde ende the deter●●●ed slaughter receiued a seconde adiornement I protest qd this aged man by whatsoeuer God hath ●ar● of vs and this Countrie by the Sunne and the holy Fire of Caldia and as euerie of these shall in this life cōfort my withered Carcase more fit for the wormes thē the worlde and doe good to my Soule when it shall leaue the wearisome prison of this my body I shall Lady neither dissemble for feare accuse for enuie or excuse for affection but as touching that wherewithall we are nowe charged vtter all that I know and know all to be troth I shall vtter For my selfe therefore I say that most trewe and too trewe it is that the Assirians then conducted by Ninus committed such and the same before remembred outrages slaughters and spoyles in Media neither were you deceiued in guessing some of vs to bee priuie or parties to that bysines wherein to saye troth my selfe was no small parte but howe not alas as a Spoyler with the Assirians but as a Sufferer with the Meades for Media is the place of my bearth Assiria only of mine aboade And for these Assirians mine owne companie I meane I say Ladie that not charging them with the faultes of their Auncestours or any further then wherein them selues be guiltie you but especially yours haue greter cause of kindnesse then of any crueltie for proofe and better credit wherof besides my former protestation somewhat it is whom since my hither comming I haue not heard named that I know you to be Dircilla wife Ladie to the Duke Arbaces but more that I the speaker of these wordes am Orchamus brother vnto the same your husbande and more then so the man vnto whose care when suddenly at the commaundement of the Emperise you were snatched from out your Cabben you commended your yong Sonne saying Ah good Orchamus if thy fortune proue better then y e destinies of al thy friends be a Parent to thy poore Nephewe whome with more griefe I leaue an Orphant thē to haue seene hi●●uried I well remember the wordes and me-thinkes I yet see those very weepinges which pearced mine heart a● this our lamentable separation Since which time Dircilla I haue not onely bene carefull to answere the same your trust but also beyonde expectation I found Fortune and oportunitie therein assisting For no sooner was the Assirian Fleete aryued at home but that Ninus not a little displeased at your losse the which by the Emperise her ministers was smoothly cloaked with a colourable excuse but that Ninus I say caused your Sonne to bee nursed and nurtured with prince-like attendance and when his age serued who then of greater credit and courage or a more notable Captaine then was Sorares amongst the Assirians But in the returne of the imperiall Nauie f●om the Bactrian warres by occasion of a sudden tempest then happening Sorares your Sonne my nephew and all the companie aboorde his ship were lost from the rest in the Sea Caspium Now when this heauie newes was bruted at Niniuie I Atys and Abynados his two Sonnes for he hath made you a grādmother of these two Gentlemen and these other his and our friends vowing our selues in his continual Quest haue three yeares alredy trauailed many Countries and Seas to find out Sorares through occasion whereof as also to take in fresh water and other necessaries and not vpon any such purpose as you pretende we are aryued in this Iland and lo yonder-same he pointed to Sorares is the man farre sought but vnluckely here founde if finding him wee loose our selues and with the ende of our labours make also an ende of our liues Cap. 56. JN few what with this talke and other more effectuall tokens Dircilla being brought to her Creede and left in de profundìs rather musing at their meeting being so straun●● then mistrusting the matter being credited or euer she might imbrace Sorares or reply to Orchamus was interrupted by the seconde Olde-man the other of the two singled-out Captiues who in a ioyfull extasie suddenly clapped her frowardly disdayning his imbracinges as not yet cooled of her former chaufe betwixte his braune-fallen armes But when he saw her lookes not vnlike to those in the picture of Proserpina newly rapted by Pluto it entered then his thought that rashly to iest with Sainctes or edg-tooles might proue daungerous wherefore as doubting the like reward that had Aesops kind Asse vnkinde-like imitating the wanton Spanniel for the time therefore charming such his kindnesse anon he founde oportunitie thus to chaunge her coynesse I giue place sayde he to the time but not to Dircilla whome these armes pythlesse though they nowe bee once coulde nay often did not violently but willingly imbrace may I so blabbe euen in the bedde of Arbaces blushe not Dircilla blushe not the sporte was lawfull howsoeuer the reporte may seeme ouer liberall and if for pouertie parteth friendes you disdaine to acknowledge such acquaintance yet at the least for Arbaces his sake deale mercifully with these your Prisoners As for my selfe could I pleade no other protection then that I am olde enough not to feare death it might suffise but nether did I hope so well as I haue here founde neyther doe I feare so ill as I am here threatned Orchamus for so your countenance promiseth a consent hath alredy founde grace because he is brother to your husbande

Arbaces and therefore not likely is it that Arbaces him selfe speaking for him selfe or rather for me shall speede worser then doth Orchamus neither do I make it a doubt but that Sorares sonne to Arbaces and you is alike deare to either parent and of the saffetie of Atys and Abynados his sonnes naturall loue I presume tendereth a warrantize but now generally and briefly as touching all these Assirians my selfe Dircilla will be their Borrowe if Arbaces his Baile may deliuer them of their Banoes To make shorte tale Dircilla now hearing and seeing sufficient to the acknowledging of her husbande vnable then to moderate her sudden ioy in respect of her yeares and whom euen now shee seemed vnlike to her selfe shee lightly clasped Arbaces as redy to imbrace as to be imbraced betwixt her armes who mutually mixing their ioyfull teares with louing kysses were either of them long time bereft the vse of their tōgues of which pleasant passions Orchamus Sorares Atys and Abynodos were also glad Copartners neither were the by-standers aswell Assirians as Ilanders exempted for idle inspectoures 〈◊〉 euill appayed Actours in this ioyfull Accident After therefore more then a little ioy on all sides ouerpassed by reason of this happie meeting thus disclosed wherein after many yeares and euerie person seuerally scattered in a sundrie Countrie the Husbande had recouered his Wife shee her Husbande both their Sonne he his Parents him his sonnes hee them the brother his brother the kinsman his kindred and the friend his friend and whiche more is after extreme miseries attaining to such inspeakeable ioyes yea and at that instant when nothing was lesse hoped for then life after I say this ioyful meeting the Prisoners were all set at libertie and bountifully feasted by Dircilla and her Ilanders And then euery of the Meades seuerally reported what had befalne them since their chasing out of their countrie as before by Ninus First Arbaces tolde of their tragicall ariuall into the barren Iland and how he and his fellow suruiuing the rest after they had bene long shut vp there in great miserie did deliuer themselues from thence as in the beginning of this Booke is remembered in the ship of Sorares whome then or before this very time he knew not for his Sonne then showeth he of their safe ariuall and good intertai●ment in Sarmatia from whence hauing obtained a shippe and men as pittying the distresse wherein they had left Sorares and his Assirians and for their deliuery they againe resailed to the barren Iland then lastly how they had no sooner taken Sorares and his miserable souldiours aboord and put their ship againe to the Seas but that a sudden storme droue them perforce vpon that same pleasaunt Iland wherin this their ieoberdious ioy thus hapned Sorares Atys and Abynados did in effect no other then i●terate the former reporte of Orchamus and nowe was it come to Dircilla her turne to speake whose wordes containing a more pittiful profitable and pleasant discourse then a curious deliuerie thus follow Cap. 57. WHen Arbaces the Mariners had landed and left me post alone in this Iland the day was farre spent and my wits almost at an ebbe then was thy name rife in my mouth though also in vaine the extincte names of my dead parents and bretheren yea mine eyes with feare my hart with loue did both twain follow those enuious Sayles whereby Sorares my sonne then an Infant was carried Captiue into a straunge Countrey from mee his helpelesse mother and when mine eyes mighte no longer accompanie him through distaunce of Seas yet did my hart ariue with him euen in Assiria Anon with freshe supplies did sorrowes confusedly succeede sorrowes being in number so great and in nature so greeuous that one of my then passions might haue set twentie toungs a work one of those toungs haue cōstrained a miliō eies to teares the least cause of those teares haue killed y e wepers hart neither did it alone suffise y t I thus sorrowed for thinges past but I also feared a world of woes not vnlikly to haue followed Here perceaued I a pleasaunt Iland but vnmanured as might seeme of people retire back I could not go forwards I durst not behind me raged the wide seas before me mustered the wild Deserts and on either side heard I the vnacquainted noyse of dreadful Monsters and yet troth to saye I lesse doubted the fiercenesse of anye Monster that could but deuoure my body then the falshood of men if any were that mighte haue abused my beautie for besides that mine Attire not vnbeseming the daughter of Farnus was then very gorgious and myne age I being then in the flower of my youth answerable to mine Attire my beautie also though I say it was then sutable to both in commendation wherof thy self my Arbaces diddest in those our altian dayes affect ouer-much the figure Hyperbole with the Ilanders here was y e same not a little effectuall to winne me fauour but this braue bragge to such as now heare me and did not then see me wil no doubt seeme more audatious in report then autenticall for credit yet do I speake it in this place where erre ● cannot without controulment These feares I say and a thousande like fantasies thus oc●upying my thoughts suddenly I hearde a boysterous rushing amongst the next boughes foure of these Ilāders anon disclosing themselues vnto my vew euerye of them held in his right hand a cragged Dart and in the lefte a great quantitie of raw flesh at sight wherof and a greater horror then so when not meanly affrighted I beheld how gluttonously they crammed down their M●wes the same f●esh yet reaking in their teeth how their Chaps beardes breastes armes handes and whatsoeuer gri●●●e part of them leaues had left bare were al besmeared with blood though death was then the least of all my feares yet beleeue mee the crueltie prefigurated by this sauadge Spectacle did strike to my hart such incomprehensible terrour that if at the least sorrowes had not bereft me of sence in comparison hereof the sufferaunce of a simple death had bene no death or in no part so dreadfull Now whilst I applie this horrible presidente to feede my new feare and rather dreaded then doubted that anon their imbrewed hands should seaze their rauinous teeth tire vpon me and my flesh and I so receiue an vnnaturall buriall within their bowels the barbarous people had espied out me who then as Deare newly broughte to the stande with Countinances indifferently inclining to admiration and feare stood a great while aloofe off at gaze Anon seeing me to approch them nearer and nearer after many Satirlike freakes with nimble feet swift flight they skud awaye into the nearest woods wildly boulting through the Thickets and with incredible facilitie mounting and dismounting the sharp and steepe Roches then a strange and preposterous course mighte it seeme if not in so desparate a case that the Hare should followe