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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21170	Cephalus & Procris Narcissus.	Edwards, Thomas, poet.	1595 (1595)	STC 7525; ESTC S113234	2,956	10

CEPHALVS PROCRIS NARCISSVS Aurora musae amica LONDON Imprinted by Iohn Wolfe 1595. To the Right worshipfull Master Thomas Argall Esquire DEere Sir the titles resyant to your state Meritorious due because my penne is statelesse I not set downe nor will I straine it foorth To tilt against the Sunne with seeming speeches Suffizeth all are ready and awaite With their hartes-soule and Artes perswasiue mistresse To tell the louely honor and the worth Of your deseruing praise Heroicke graces What were it then for me to praise the light When none but one commendes darke shady night Then as the day is made to shame the sinner To staine obscuritie inur'd supposes And mainetaine Artes inestimable treasure To blind-fold Enuie barbarisme scorning O with thy fauour light a young beginner From margining reproach Satyricke gloses And gentle Sir at your best pleasing leysure Shine on these cloudy lines that want adorning That I may walke where neuer path was seene In shadie groues twisting the mirtle greene Thomas Edwards To the Honorable Gentlemen true fauourites of Poetrie IVdiciall and courteous least I be thought in this my boldenesse to Imitate Irus that car'd not to whome he bar'd his nakednesse so hee might be clothed Thus much vnder your fauours I protest that in writing of these twoo imperfect Poemes I have ouergonne my selfe in respect of what I wish to be perfourmed but for that diuers of my friendes haue slak't that feare in me as it were heau'd me onwards to touch the lap of your accomplished vertues I haue thus boldly what in a yeare bene studiously a dooing now in one day as our custome is set to the view of your Heroicke censures Base necessitie which schollers hate as ignorance hath beene Englanddes shame and made many liue in bastardy a long time Now is the sap of sweete science budding and the true honor of Cynthia vnder our climate girt in a robe of bright tralucent lawne Deckt gloriously with bayes and vnder her faire raigne honoured with euerlasting renowne fame and Maiesty O what is Honor without the complementes of Fame or the liuing sparkes in any heroicke gentleman not sowzed by the adamantine Goate-bleeding impression of some Artist Well could Homer paint on Vlysses shield for that Vlysses fauour made Homer paint Thrise happy Amintas that bode his penne to steepe in the muses golden type of all bounty whose golden penne bode all knightes stoope to thy O thrice honoured and honorable vertues The teares of the muses haue bene teared from Helicon Most haue endeuoured to appease Iupiter some to applause Mercury all to honor the deities Iupiter hath beene found pleasant Mercury plausiue all plyant but few knowne to distill Ambrosia from heauen to feast men that are mortall on earth How many when they tosse their pens to eternize some of their fauourites that although it be neuer so exquisite for the Poeme or excellent for memoriall that either begin or end not with the description of blacke and ougly night as who would say my thoughts are obscur'd and my soule darkened with the terrour of obliuion For me this restes to wish that such were eyther dum could not speake or deafe and could not heare so not to tune their stately verse to enchant others or ope their eares to the hurt of thēselues But why temporize I thus on the intemperature of this our clymate wherein liue to themselues Schollers and Emperours esteeming bountie as an ornament to dazell the eie and telling to themselues wonders of themselues wherein they quench honor with fames winges and burne maiestie with the title of ingratitude and some there are I know that hold fortune at hazard trip it of in buskin till I feare me they will haue nothe but skin Silly one how thou tatlest of others want is it not an ordinary guise for some to set their neighbours house on fire to warme themselues beleue me courteous gentlemen I walke not in clouds nor can I shro'dly morralize on any as to describe a banquet because I am hungry or to shew how coldly schollers are recompenst because I am poore onely I am vrg'd as it were to paraphrase on their doinges with my penne because I honour learning with my hart And thus benigne gentlemen as I began so in duety I end euer prest to do you all seruice Thomas Edwards CEPHALVS and Procris FAire and bright Cynthia Ioues great ornament Richly adorning nightes darke firmament Scoured amidst the starry Canapie Of heauens celestiall gouernement well nie Downe to the euer ouer-swelling tide Where old Oceanus was wont t' abide At last began to crie and call amaine Oh what is he my loue so long detaines Or i'st Ioues pleasure Cynthia shall alone Obscure by night still walke as one forlorne Therewith away she headlong postes along Salt washing waues rebellious cloudes among So as it seem'd minding the heauens to leaue And them of light thus strangely to bereaue With that Aurora starting from her bed As one that standes deuising shakes his head Not minding either this or that to doe So are her thoughtes nor quicke nor ouerslow Phebus halfe wrothe to see the globe stand still The world want light a woman haue her will To post foorth gan another Phaeton And swore once more he should the world vppon Or as tis thought to trie th'aduentrous boy Yet some suppose he meant vpon this day A Sympathy of sorrowes to aduaunce The boy thus proude-made hotly gan to praunce And now heauens coape Ioues pallace chrystaline Downe dingeth Atlas and straight doth decline In such aboundant measure as tis said Since that same day the light of heauen's decaide A metamorphosis on earth mong'st men As touching constancy hath bene since then And this is true maidens since that same day Are saide for louers neuer more to pray But to returne Phebe in million teares Moanes to her selfe and for a time forbeares Aurora she her swift bright shining rayes On Phebus charyot tosse and oft assayes With her sweete lookes her fathers wroth t' appease But all she doth he tels her doth disease Like to the vncorrected headstrong childe That neuer felt his parentes strokes but milde Growne vp to ryper yeares disdaines a checke For nature ouergon comes to defect So now Aurora hauing felt the pride Of heauen and earth turning her selfe a side Rapt with a suddaine extasie of minde Vnto her selfe thus said Goddesse diuine How hapt that Phebus mou'd amid his chase Should such kinde frendship scorne for to imbrace I will no more quoth she godd it along Such vnaccustom'd wayes ne yet among Such as is Titan better fittes it me With Vesper still to liue then such as he Though well I wot honor is set on high Yet gentle Humilitie is best say I. No more she spake but like the swelling tide That hauing passage skymes scorning a guide Vntill the vaste receipte of Neptunes bower Kils the hoat fume euen so away she skoures Lawlesse as twere sans thought or any dread Like to banditos mong'st the mountaine heard And now vpon her gentle louely mother Bright as the morning comes the mornings honor All snowy white saue purpled heere and there So beautifull as beauty might despaire And stand amaz'd noting her wanton eie Which at a trice could all the world espie Vpon her head a coronet did stand Of seuerall flowers gathered by Titan. A vale she wore downe trayling to her thighes The stuffe whereof I gesse of such emprize As Gods themselues are doubtfull of the arte Seeming as aire with otomie disperst Her handes a meny Poets dead and gone Haue heretofore excelling wrote vpon It shall suffize Venus doth grace to her In that she waites before like to a Starre Directing of her steps along'st the zone Neuer ouertaken by the Horizon Ne yet in daunger put of any Lake The frozen Pole she warnes her to forsake And all Licurgus daughters Dion noates Base in respect of duetie and out-coates A pariphrisis of the Night * A description of the Morning * Aurora filia Titanis Terrae * An imitation taken from the Thracians called Acroconiae that vsually weare long haire downe to their wasts * Dead as mē * Pleiades the seauen starres supposed to be the daughters of Licurgus