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A31021
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Erotopaignion, or, The Cyprian academy by Robert Baron of Grayes-Inne, Gent.
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Baron, Robert, b. 1630.
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1647
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Wing B889; ESTC R17390
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a long way as his Page did goe When Conrad gave the Matrons leave to beare From Weinsberg foe-girt town what best they lik't Each tooke up her owne husband on her backe Cornelia Annia did prostrate lye On her defunct Lords Sepulchre and dye For this cause annually a paire of Doves Are sacrific'd to their firme setled loves And happy Phillacides loyall wife From death redeemâ—d him with the losse of life But many uncertaine waies hath Phillis gone To find her runnagate Demopâ—oon Hegio Humanum est errare I confesse Both sexes then are faulty but what else Doe thy deluded eyes discover in Thy Mira that thy heart should fancy her I st for her skin-deep beauty her chiefest pride That 's but times fading flowre which as t is Most delicate is as volatious It s like unto the Colours Phidias drew Which seemed most admirable to the view But suddenly did vanish and impaire At the weake puff of each aeriall breath A wife is but a faire affliction Symonides reputed her to be The Shipwrack of a man the tempest of A house the troubler of quiet rest A prison of life a plague assiduall A sumptuous conflict a necessary evill A horrible care an ordinary battell A sayly hinderance the humane slavery A faire Aspe an inevitable paine A pleasant damage a domestick strife If then coy Mira scorne with thee to dwell On earth leave her to leade bruit Apes in hell Gripus Quote not these Accherontick Anchorites Those stollid moatheaten Foolosophers That libell against Angels those night-birds That doe defile even their owne nests nay worse That strangle sacrilegiously the fames Of their owne mothers Those ungracious brats That impiously requite with Stygian Inke The Nectar which indugently they lent them Heed not the hissing of that viperous brood Of Parricides to their own mothers names A female is the second part of man She is a male i' th the newest edition A wife 's the best of her Lords movable For such a one fierce Champions have prov'd tame The stoutest Souldiers trembled and look wan Ready to give their ghost up at a frowne The oracles of wit and Philosophy Have been loves fooles and bent their litterature But to expresse great loves Supremacie And the extent of its Dominions Nay under Venus sacred Ensignes march Etheriall troopes of high mounted gods Hegio Well each man as he likes but should the mad Disloyall Sycophant whose spheare is woe Attempt to shoot a raving shaft at me In 's many peeces I would make 't recoile Upon his corps as there be golden sands In the Pactolian or Tagean shores Gripus Cease cease good Hegio to repine at love Atlantas pace was staid by golden balls And gods themselves are oft ensnar'd by love For they have slipt beyond their skill in that They have made beauty of a greater force Then they themselves are able to resist For Laeda Jove became a wandring Swan And for Europia a loud lowing Bull And for Antiopa a Satyre rude And for bright Danae a storme of Ore Did not Apollo leave his burnish't throne Lay by his tresses and in humane shape Most humbly beg a boone at beauties gate Did not Alcides for Jole's sake With huge oft draw the slender threed He was tane captive by his captives looke She tooke the Conquerour that had her tooke Kind Paris for to steale his dainty peece Travell'd as farre as betwixt Troy and Greece And Perseus amongst the Negroes sought And faire Andromade from Inde brought Cupid can make the Regall Lyon sport In amorous dalliance with the frisking Kid. Venus can yoake the ravenous and fell kite With milder Swans in the same Chariot Immane rapacious Eagles she can linck And timorous silver-brested Doves together When she commands all animalls lay by Their contrarieties and antipathy Exit Hegio Enjoy sir your conceit but for my part I am invulnerable thou blind Boy Shalt never take me captive I am like Achilles dipt in Styx nor doe I feare Thy boy-ships shafts goe play with angry Bees And painted Butterflies and at the Wasps nest And when th' art stung in thy mams lap goe rest SCENA 2. Venus Cupid HEarke Cupid and revenge this prophane Swaine Do's slight thy quiver and blaspheme thy bow He sayes he 's shot-proofe scornes thy archery Scoffos at thy skill Cupid I le penetrate his heart I le make him be an earnest Votary Unto a marble-hearted female Saint I le melt to amorous thoughts his soule of stone I le torture 'm in loves torrid frigid Zone I le make him in the same flames freez and fry The world shall be inamour'd of his woe I le find a Shepherdesse in whom he 'le joy And this his darling I will soone infect With coynesse and with nicenesse for her sake His morning Orisons shall nothing be But numbers of innumerable sighs Which he shall count by pearly teares not beads I le make the cherries of her ruby lips The onely cordials for to sustain His loathed life and those shall be like to Fugacia poma which like Tantalus He alwaies shall desire and alwaies misse I le make him view the place where she hath set And thither he shall repaire as if he thought The place some soveraigne vertue did containe To ease him and to cure his gnawing paine Venus Let him not wander far from home to seeke Deepe streames in which to wash his frisking flockes Let such uncessant flouds flow from his eyes As may supply the want of rivolets Let his pin'd cheekes and hollow countenance Affight all wolves from his secure sheepe Let him spend all his daies in pinching griefe And melancholy discontents and looke Like to a wither'd tree o're-growne with drosse Let his illetable and pensive sighes Scare all rapacious and omenous Ravens From picking out the eyes of his young Lambs Bleating for nutriment unto their dammes Cupid Innumerable such effects as these Shall all be caus'd by this keen pointed dart When as the long-tongu'd Lord of envious light Whose presence make the day whose absence night Betray'd my mother and the god of warre Unto the sooty black club-footed dolt As he was tempering of a thunder-bolt For to revenge this wrong I made him prove The power of my golden shaft and love And I will make this Hegio soone confesse I am a god and of the starry race He shoots Now lay thy hatred downe thy spite decline And prove a votarie at Daris shrine Exeunt SCEN 3. Hegiâ— solus BUt sure I was not borne Minerva-like Nor did fond Paracelsus teach my Sire To make a man without conjunction What furious madnesse did possesse my brest To flout at love and wrong the femal sex And to requite in a sharpe Satyrs straine The roundelayes and charming lullabies That my indulgent genetrix did warble What are my braines grown dry or my bloud cold Or am I on a sudden waxen old I thought though Cupids aire-deviding shaft Soone penetrated the well tempered Corslet which the hot-halting god
of so comely personage that it is dubitable whether hee bee more indebted to nature for the lineaments of his person or to Fortune for the encrease of his possessions he is of a quick inventive and penetrating capacity without spot of morosity or colour hee is aliquis in omnibus fraught with all kinde of scientificall knowledge if you aske what countryman he is I may rather say what country man is he not he is Cives mundâ— a Citizen of the world having with the sun his fellow traveller survey'd most of habitable and hospitable regions in his travells being arrived in this happy kingdome and come to this magnificent City that powerfull dietie Love which have enkindled the hearts of mightyest monarches with the beautifull lineaments of rosie cheek't Ladies at this time have manifested its soveraignety over him who is taken in the snare of Clorinda's love and fetered with the chaine of affection The countlesse griefes which day and night he indures may be as perswasive orators to moove any pittifull nature to favour him he doubts not of successe had he but accesse which if you shall please to procure him you shall bind together with me to your self this noble Lord in the most corroborated limitts of truest affections Diaphoro replyed Sir amongst the rest of the Encomions of your Lord you might have remembred the soundnesse of judgement which I perceive and applaud in his choyce of Clorinda a Lady adorned with singular beauty and chastity excelling in the one Uenus in the other Uesta Zeuxis having before him fifty of the most eminent beauties of Sparta to include all their perfections in the simulachre of one amiable Venus said that fifty more of more excellent beauty then those would not administer sufficient beauty to shaddow the goddesse of beauty by in the like manner it fareth with me who dispaire by art to shaddow Clorinda to whom the rest of her sex serve but as foyles or by imagination to comprehend her I may say and that without a solaecisme that truth her selfe might be her Panegyrist and yet continue naked If I doe any acceptable service to Flaminius that might conduce to his obtaining her esteeme it but the shadow of what I desire to doe in the meane time let me crave your society together with Flaminius at a slender meale at my house at night not for the cates which you shall finde but for your company which I fancy what want in cost shall exceed in courtesie and welcome shall be as great as your cheere little Grisonus after due thankes returned departed from Diaphoro to certifie Flaminius his friendship who now call'd upon Phaebus to whip on his lazie teame and precipitate headlong to the west which done hee repaired to Diophoro's house where we will cover with a vaile of silence the entertainement which was royall though Flaminius best dish was the beauty of Clorinda and Clorinda's the personage of Flaminius so that they were both caught in one net and both strucke with the same dart before Phaebus was ten times brought abed their soules were knitt in an intire union and their hearts lodg'd in eithers brest but O the Remora's and obstacles that obvaricate a lovers progresse O the triâ—tfull casualties the dolorous accidents the sâ—d contingencies that waite upon an amorist for no sooner was loves sacred jubile proclaimed by these new lovers but a corrivall must step in to eclipse their joyes The glorious sun exhales the noysome vapours of the earth and the shining jet drawes to it the contemptable straw and the rare beauty of Clorinda that loadstone of love attracted the heart of Vernar and layd it prostrate at her feet To give a character of Vernar he would have made a fit standard-bearer for that gigantick troop that bad Jove battell and besieg'd the gods He halfe in despaire because of Flaminius and halfe in hope because of Decia Diaphoro's Lady whom he inserted in read letters in the catalogue of his best friends tooke his way to Chelsey to Diaphoro's house where he found Clorinda sitting in a coole arbour thatcht with sucklings and guarded by the enamoured chirping wood quire which came thither to adore her who could shew more graces then there be sands in the glasse of time She sat upon a banck of Lillies which grew pale to see themselves excell'd in whitenesse by her faire hand the arbour was lined within with Roses which blushed themselves into a fresher cornation to assimulate her cheekes the pavement was of purple violets and other redolent flowres which could bost no sweetnesse but what they derived from her by the entrance of this arbour ran a silver streame which with its bubling oratory did court the shore to dam up the torrent that it might stand still to behold Clorinda but being deny'd it went murmuring away The Nymphs and freshwater Syrens danc't and the aeriall spheares laid a side their melodious lutes to lissen whilsts Clorinda gave an aire to these more charming notes SONG 1. First shall the Bee abhor the smell of Hybla's fragrant boure And sease her thigh with balme to swell Suckt from each spicy flower 2. First shall the chastest turtle dove Forget to bill and fly From her owne mate and emblem prove of loath'd inconstancy 3. First Pan shall make a loving league betwixt the wolfes and sheep First shall the hen her broode bequeath unto the Kite to keepe 4. First shall the huge Leviaâ—han abide i' th sea no more But come to sport with active man upon the parched shore 5. First shall the Lyon weary be of solitary woods And skip into the frighted sea to wanton in the flouds 6. First North with South its place shall change Orient with West shake hand First steadfast earth shall move and range and ayre fixed stand 7. First spangled heaven below shall ly and sable hell above Ere unto my Flaminius I false or unconstant prove 8. First shall my ashes passe the fire and cloyster'd ly in urne Ere my affections expire or loves flame cease to burne 9. Love with my body shall not end that ne're shall faile or fade But shall upon my soule attend into the Sacred shade Her Song ended Uernar stept to her and thus spoke Divine Madam Divine I call you because like a diefied goddesse you monarchize over my affections the rare Idea of your beauteous portraiture and supereminent accomodations have so fired my heart that nothing but your propitious aspect can save me from becomeing loves abject Since every part of you is deck't with some particular ornament your face with etheriall beauty your head with celestiall wisdome your eyes with awfull majesty and lovely lenity make also your heart the throne of tender pitty being the most excellent rayment of the most excellent part The lustre of your resplendent eyes have kindled those fires which nothing but the showres of your mercie can mitigate you have wounded one you onely can heale me like Achilles his lance you have as