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A23370	An excellent historie bothe pithy and pleasant, discoursing on the life and death of Charles and Iulia, two Brittish, or rather Welshe louers No lesse delightfull for varietie, then tragicall in their miserie, not hurtfull to youthe, nor vnprofitable to age, but commodious to bothe. By W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1581 (1581)	STC 980; ESTC S104464	43,054	145

was as for that tyme was fit A Posset swéete besprent with Spice for Iulia then they get She drinkes then to the Maydens all and byds them all adiew And sayth to them thus long I haue remaynd a Virgin trew But nowe farewell Virginitie the flowre of Vertues prayse God graunt you to be Virgins pure vntyll your Mariage dayes The Ladyes then from Chamber went and Charles dooth come to bed Where vsuall sportes frequented were tyll fancie waxed dead And when the force of Venus fire was quenched for a space These Loouers then to lose no time each other doo embrace To kissing then they kindly fall theyr mindes for to content But howe should I expresse theyr ioyes that lacke experiment Let it suffice what Nature wylde in such a kinde of case They bothe fulfilde and God hath wylde for man to treade that trace You Loouers that haue tryed lyke trickes with them you looued best May iudge by your forepassed ioyes they tooke but lytle rest As for my part I am but gréene my yéeres vnripe and rawe That neuer yet assayde the force of Cupids wanton lawe But let vs leaue these Loouers thus a myd theyr swéete delight That in the fruites of wedlocke bandes doo waste the wearie night The feast continewed long wherat men had no néede to fast But as each thing serues for a tyme so ende all thinges at last The feast being done the couenaunts made such bandes that tyme were framde As touching landes and Mariage goodes that néedes not héere be namde Let it suffise they had enough theyr state for to maintaine Which done Sir Gaulfride with his wife returned home againe Sir Charles then with his Sire in lawe dooth meane in Flint to dwell And resting thus with Iulia he lykes his tarying well He had not there soiorned long not past two monthes or more But that such heauy newes dyd come as made his hart full sore For Letters came his aged Sire was now departing lyfe And verie sicke his charge lay then to leaue his loouing wife Whome he alas had thought to sée when he came backe againe But Fortune gaue him his farewell which put them bothe to paine Beholde her false and flattering face that fléeres with fayned chéere Whose whyrling whéele dooth turne eache howre as now it may appéere My Muse alas dooth fayle me now my senses serue me not My quaking quyll in quiuering hand dooth make my pen to blot My teares dooth so bedew my style that I ne scarce can wright My staring haire vpon my head through feare dooth stand vpright Wherefore you furies me assist Alecto be mine ayde Maegaera grym and Tisiphon come helpe me nowe dismayde These wofull Letters being read then Charles dooth haste anone He posting rydes but ere he came his sorrowfull Sire was gone Who royally possest his graue with funerals most fit But Fortune nowe disposed was her poysoned spite to spit Charles dooth in Anglesie abyde in order to dispose His fathers goodes that lately dyed whereof the gréefes arose This Anglesie an Ilande is enuironde on each side With surging Seas an arme wherof from Wales dooth it deuide Whereto they goe in passage Boates that at the floods dooth ryse And Ferie men transport them ouer as Passengers lykewise Iulia mysliking that her Spowse dooth vse such long delay To Anglesie dooth meane to goe to knowe his cause of stay And also for to view the landes that there she dyd possesse Her comming thether was the cause of all her déepe distresse In purple Wagon she dooth ryde with all her comely rowe Vntyll she came vnto the flood that partes the Countries soe Then to a wherrie Boate she goes but marke what dyd ensew The waltring waues doo roughly ryse and boysterous tempestes blew The whyrling windes doo rayse the waues the floods in Boate doo flash And sturdy stormes of tempests straunge against theyr faces dash The Boate with sturdy stormes dooth stand in staggring state alas And neyther backe nor forward could from present perryll passe The waters styll encreasing thus the Boate was fylde to brim And Iulia then amyd her woes in washing waues dooth swim At last ouer laden with the weight of waters to the brinke The stely Iulia more the rueth in surging deepe dooth sinke The wofull wights that striue with waues on God for mercie call Theyr pitteous plaints and shriking cries dooth pearce the Ayre withall And Iulia whyle her Fardingale helde vp her carefull corse O Sauiour cryes on thy handmayde with mercie take remorse Lose me not whome thou hast redeemde with blood of thy deere hart O Charles take now my last farewell for now I must depart By this her cloathes being throwly wet dooth cause her carkase sinke Which makes my quaking hart to quayle when on her state I thinke The churlish Channell drownd her corpes whose Vertue aye dyd shine The losse of her lamentfull was that had the Seas for shrine Yea whome the floods on maynest Seas dyd suffer for to scape A broken braunche or arme thereof deuowres her seemely shape The ruethfull rumor of this chaunce was scattred héere and there When harmes begin they fall by heapes and came to Charles his eare Alas this chaunce might well be sparde for Charles already had A heauy hap the death of Sire which made his hart full sad When as he heard this ripe report he lost his senses quight In madding moode now héere now there he runnes with troubled spright If that I had ten thousand pennes I could not write his paine Which for the losse of his déere looue he dyd that tyme sustaine Whose churlish chaunce so chose by fate dooth washe my chéekes with teares That such a vertuous worthy wight should thus cut off his yeares But to be bréefe he foorthwith dooth a poysoned drinke prouide Of Hemlocke Henbaine and lyke hearbs none knewe but one beside Then two dayes thence with merry chéere he calles for Horse in haste And bade his fréendes and men to come to searche where she was cast With blowen Bealts with Boats Hooks with Drags and Ropes they goe To fishe for her whose lothed losse dyd bréede this wastlesse woe But Charles vnto a Barge ascendes and byds the Boates man tell Where as his Iulias corpes dyd sinke when surging waues dyd swell The Boate man sayd Sir Charles euē héere your Iulias body sunke With that he drewe him foorth a glasse and vp this poyson drunke All they had thought howe that it was a drinke to swage his thurst They nought supposde the force thereof would make his bowels burst With that he suddenly dooth leape into the waters déepe That men might knowe his constant hart from daunger could not créepe And there he sinkes no helpe preuayles the fates decréede his tyme No dread he had thus fancie fonde procurde his sinfull cryme The cause wherefore he drunke this drinke was least that nature should Prouoke him for to saue him selfe by swimming as he could Or if the swéetnesse of his lyfe should make him faynt through feare And so he should prolong his dayes those bytter brunts to beare The Storie sayth that they were found embracing bothe togeather And nothing straunge who once were sau'd in spight of winde and weather And no great marueyle can it be sith they in life liu'de so As neyther Seas nor landes preuaylde to part each other fro This shewes as well the force of looue as dyd the enuious state Of Etocles and Polynices expresse the force of hate They bothe were buried in one Tumbe and had one solemne shrine Theyr Funerals dyd force the teares of many wéeping eyne And being closde within the vaulte bothe in one carefull caue This Epitathe which long remaynd was grauen on theyr graue In auncient Brittishe ryme it was with Letters all of golde That euery one that passed by might theyr estate beholde Vpon our Tumbe poure foorth your plaints you fréendes that passe this way And on our Graue beholde the state of our vnstedfast stay TWo faithfull harts of noble blood sometimes we did expresse Though destenies haue thus decreede our endes without redresse And though amyd our greenest yeeres where lyfe hath hyest power The heau●nly powers decreede by death our corpes for to deuowre And that our stedfast looue alas hath 〈◊〉 our owne decay Yet that our soules in heav●● 〈…〉 O Passengers doo 〈…〉 You Loouers that doo 〈…〉 ere you goe by vou●●saue With lyfted handes and moysted teares to wet our freendly graue We haue been Loouers as you be you shall be as we are We now haue past the panges of looue you yet must suffer care If you doo looue we did the lyke and lyuing looued aye And now vnder this stone we lye closde vp in slymie claye Our pompe is past our pride is gone so is our vaine delight We are returnd to that we were and so must euery wight Our carefull mindes that could not rest are now extinct by dust And as we two are gone before so follow needes ye● must Remember therefore as you looue heereafter you shall lyue Take heede least to affection fonde your minde you wholy giue 〈…〉 in beauties beames 〈…〉 and clay And knowe that flesh at last shall vade and beauties flowre decay Let Vertue be your guide in all so shall you looue aright And fixe no fancie on the face wherein is vaine delight THis long continewed on theyr graue tyll tyme dyd it deface And so lykewise dyd tract of tyme theyr carefull graue disgrace I would all Loouers so to looue as Iulia and her Pheare Yet would I wishe them not to be so desperate as they were That Looue may haue that Looue requires excep't be sinne God sende And let all Loouers pray that Looue may haue a better ende ¶ Thus endeth the Tragicall historie of Charles and Iulia. FINIS