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The third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch Entituled, Amintas dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the pagan gods in English hexameters together with their auncient descriptions and philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fraunce.; Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch. Part 3
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Fraunce, Abraham, fl. 1587-1633.
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1592
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countreyes with curius eye to be seeing And outlandish wells and vnknowne springs to be knowing After much traueling many strange sights and many wonders At last from Lycian borders his course he directed Vnto the neighbor coasts of Caria where he ariued Hard by a cristall poole poole cristal-cleare to the bottome And so â—ransparent that a man might easily number Euery smalest stone from th' vtmost brim to the bottome There no barren reeke no pricking reede was abounding There no sedge no rush no moorish weede had abiding But with fayre green turfe pooles brinck was chearfuly bordred Green turfe with fresh flowres sweet hearbs daintily painted There no boyes pluckt flowres their gay nose gaies to be making Nor no nymphs but a nymph one nymph and only but one nymph One and only but one but no such one in a thousand For neither car'd shee farre-wounding bow to be bearing Nor with quick-sent hounds by the green-hewd woods to be hunting Nor with water-nymphs by the smiling meades to be walking Nor to Dianaes court with tuckt-vp coate to be trudging Her feallow Fayries stil prayd and dayly desired Salmacis either take thee a darte or a feathered arrow And intermingle these idle toyes with a fruitfull And commendable acte and sporte of mighty Diana Yet she neither tooke her a darte nor a feathered arrow Nor would intermingle her idle toyes with a fruitful And commendable act and sport of mighty Diana But contents her self with dayly domestical Harbor Bathes her loued limmes fit for so louly a water Sits on flowring banck and combs her sweetly beseeming Hayre lookes to the lake and guides her combe by the water Now her fayrest self with finest lawne she adorneth And fayre self fine lawne on tender grasse she reposeth Now fro the paunce to the rose fro the rose to the lilly she wandreth And herself with paunce with rose with lilly she paynteth Whilst she bepaynts her self with a paunce with a rose with a lilly Hard by the pearl-bright brooke she beheld fayre Hermaphroditus Hermaphroditus a far so like to a God to a goddes That shee wisht him a God yet feard that he might be a Goddes But when man-like roabes declar'd that he was not a woman Salmacis all on fire his diuine beautie desired Salmacis all on thornes for so sweete company longed Yet stayd though on thornes til her head face coate she had ordred And made all things fine and then to the boy she repayred O sweete boy whose more then mortall beauty deserueth For to be deemed a God what God shal I call the my sweete boy If that thou be a God thou seemst to be goodly Cupido If but a man most happy the man who might be thy father Happy the woman whom thy sweet self mad'st to be mother Happy the Nymph whom so braue brother causd to be sister Happy the nurse whose milk did feede so chearful a suckling But much more blessed but much more happy then all these Were that lasse indeede who might be thy wife be thy bed-make If thou haue any wife let mee be thy loue for a short time If thou haue no wife let mee be thy friend for a long time Whether a husband bound or whether free as a batchler Giue me a lawfull ioy or priuily doe me a pleasure Thus she bespake sweete boy but alas sweet boy was abashed Knew not what loue was but blusht yet sweetly he blushed And wel too too wel that blushing beauty beseemed Salmacis askt but a kisse when naught els might be procured And fayre Iuory neck with her Iuory handes she beclasped Either let me alone or I goe said Hermaphroditus Nay sweet friend qd shee stay here and play to thy pleasure Stay and play by the poole I le goe and so she retireth And drawes back for a while yet looks back as she retyreth Drawes back vnto a bush and there all closely she lurketh And through euery creeke to the boy shee craftily peepeth Boy vnspi'd as he thought as boys are wont was a wandring Here and there by the meade and comes at last to the water Puts of his hose and shooes and dips his feete to the anckles In the bedabling waues that seem'd his toes to be tickling By and by draw'n on by the coole and temperat humor Ofth'alluring lake himselfe stark naked he stripped But when Salmacis once had seene fayre Hermaphrodituâ— Stript stark naked alas her loue was turnd to a lusting Lust to a rage and rage to a fire and fire to a flaming Hardly she holdeth her haÌ„ds she desires him now to be haÌ„dling And all impatient his snow-white skin to be tutching Stript boy leaps to the lake lake serues as a veile to the stript boy Bright transparent veile as a glasse to a rose or a lillie Hid Nymph runs fro the bush dispoyles her selfe in a moment Casteth away her Lawnes and flings her selfe to the water Takes hold embraces clips colls clasps Hermaphroditus Striuing and strugling and wrestling Hermaphroditus Feeles his naked lims and sweete lipps all to be sucketh Sticks fast spraules and turnes and windes him about as an Yuie Creepeth along on a tree or a snake cleaues fast to an Egle Snake snatcht vp fro the ground by the gryping clawes of an Egle. Fond boy stil stil striues and stil stil Salmacis vrgeth And bowes her whole-selfe bends her whole-selfe to the fond boy Weighs him downe at last and there lies all to be wrapped All intangled lies all intermingled about him Peeuish boy qd shee now wrythe and wrest the a thousand Wayes no way shall serue for thus wil I holde the for euer O would God would God that I might so holde the for euer Her boone was graunted they liu'd so ioyntly for euer They were one not two two coopled yet not a coople Neither boy nor wench but a wench-boy now or a boy-wench Both yet none of both either yet neither of either When poore youth perceau'd this transformation and saw Whereas he entred a man that he turned back but a halfe-man Eyes and heart and hand and voyce but now not a mans voyce Vp to the heau'ns did he lift effeminat Hermaphroditus Father Mother graunt this fountayne so to be charmed That who goes in a man may thence come foorth but a half-man Hermaphroditus chaunce moude Hermes and Aphrodite And for a worthy reuenge that well they speedily charmed That who goes in a man comes alwayes foorth but a halfe-man ELpinus was as briefe as Ergastus had been tedious in his tale of his two wantons If qd he at any mans birth there be a coniunction of Venus and Mercurie it maketh him neither man nor woman both woman and man giuen to inordinate and vnnaturall lust noted by Salmacis For these two planets are so repugnant that they can neuer be well conioyned sith Venus is all for the body and Mercury onely for the minde LA secreta intelligentia di questa fauola secondo alcuni è che nelle matrici
delle donne sono sette le stanze che rioglieno il seme dell ' huomo tre dalla parte destra che producono i maschi e tre dalla sinistra che producono le femine vna nel mezzo laquale ricogliendo il seme ha forza di produrre l'uno e l'altro sesso insieme e per questa cagione vogliono dire che Hermaphrodito nascesse di Mercurio hauendo Venere raccolto il seme in quella stanza del mezzo e pero sono chiamati sono Hermaphroditi tutti quelli che sono concetti nella medesima stanza Meliboeus now lastly remayned of all the Pastors who thus sent lusting Bacchus after wanton Venus CAdmeian Semele was great with child by the thundrer Great with childe and quick Whereat Saturnian Empres Iuno frets and fumes and brawles and scoldes with her husband At last what bootes it qd shee my winde to be wasting As though in fore-times Ioue gaue any eare to my scolding Nay nay workes not wordes must plague that drabbe that adultreâ— What shall Iuno the Queene by a shameles queane be abused Iuno the Sou'raigne Queene shal I raigne in skies with a golden Mace and scepter in hand and yet parte stakes with a strumpet If that an outcome whore be my mistres why am I called Ioues wife and sister Nay sister alone for I beare this Name of a wife for a shew Ioues secret scapes to be cou'ring Secret nay shee vaunts and takes a delight in her open Shame shee 's bagd forsooth and great with childe with a vengeance And lookes euery day and howre to be called a mother Of some brat by a God by a greatest God by a thundring Ioue which scarce hath chaunc'te in so many yeares to a Iuno But let my mistres no more take mee for a Iuno If that I make her not with her owne mouth aske for her owne death If that I make not Ioue yea Ioue himselfe to be autor Of this death This sayd inclosde in a clowde she remoued And to the huswifes house in a ielous fury repayred Foltring toung hoare hayre sunck eyes legs lasily limping Face plowde with wrinckles did make her like to the olde nurse Olde Beldam Beroe Semeles nurse And of a purpose After long tatling at length shee came to the name of Iupiter and then sight and sayd Deare daughter I pray God That this prooue to be Ioue but I doubt for alas many harlots Vnder a fained name of Gods haue fouly deceaued Good-naturd damsels and them with follie defiled But suppose he be Ioue yet that 's not enough for a maydens Minde vnles that he shew himselfe to be truly the thundring Ioue for a disguisde Ioue is no Ioue aske him a token Aske him a signe thereof deare childe and surely beleeue mee No signe 's sufficient vnles that he company with thee In that self-same sort as he doth with Iuno the Goddes In that Princelike guise in that maiestical order With Sou'raigne scepter with fire and thunder about him Simple soule Semele instructed thus by the Beldam Asked a boone of Ioue as soone as he came to the entry But tolde not what boone Ioue graunts sweares by the sacred Horror of hellish Stix that he would performe what he grauÌ„ted Why then qd Semele let mee kisse Ioue as a thundring And bright lightning Ioue no lesse then Iuno the Goddes Ioue would fayne haue stopt her foolish mouth but a fooles bolt Was soone too soone shot which Ioue extreamly molested For neither Semele could vnwish what she had once wisht Nor lamenting Ioue vnsweare that which he had once sworne Therefore sore displeased he gets himselfe to Olympus And with a stearne countnance and grim look heaps on a cluster Thick clowds blustring winds black storms fires fearfuly flashing And th' vndaunted dint of thunders mightily roaring And yet he makes himselfe as milde as he possibly may bee And allayes his Sou'raigne force and leaues the deuouring Fearful thunderbolt that stroke downe griefly Typhoeus There is an other kinde of thunder there is a lightning Framed much more light and of lesse might by the Cyclops Cald the second scepter this he takes and comes to the chamber Of longing Semele who prowd and vayne as a woman With fond selfe conceit drew self-destruction onwards For mortal Semele was quite consum'd in a moment By th' immortal strength and matchles might of a thundrer Yet th' imperfect fruite fro the mothers wombe he remoued And so ran the report in his owne thigh strangely receau'd it Til by continuance of time it grew to a ripenes And the apoynted time by degrres was come to a fullnes Then by his aunt Ino for a while was he charily fostred And soone after that to the Nimphs of Nysa deliu'red And good-natur'd Nymphs from Iuno warily kept him In bowres and harbors and gaue him milk for a season This same twice-borne babe at length was called Iacchus Sweete boy pleasant impe fayre lad braue yonker Iacchus Neuer sad free-tongd free-hart free-handed Iacchus And when he wanteth his horns as milde as a maiden Iacchus But when he hath on his horns as fierce as a Tyger Iacchus WHether Meliboeus bee beholding to Bacchus or Bacchus to Meliboeus I meane not to determine said Elpinus but this I haue heard that Bacchus a mightie warriour ouercame Lycurgus Pentheus and diuers others and subdued India riding thence in triumphant manner on an Elephant Yet his greatest fame was procured by his inuention of wine which hath made him painted and described accordingly a yong mery youth naked crowned with an yuy garland hauing a branch of a vine in his hand riding in a chariot drawne by Tygers and Panthers First Bacchus is mery Wine moderately taken maketh men ioyfull he is also naked for in vino veritas drunkards tell all and sometimes more then all Tygers draw his chariot druncken men are fierce and outragious Of Venus and Bacchus Priapus was borne lust comes from wine and delicacie * The pictuâ—â— of Baâ—châ—â— He is Semeles sonne that is he is borne of the vine for Semele is so câ—lled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the shaking of boughes her boughes being euer tossed and still wauering with the winde Ioue was his father for wine hath a kinde of heate naturally incident vnto it neither will vines growe in cold places He was sowed into Ioues thigh and so borne againe for wine is eftsoones pressed and troaden with feete He is a companion of the Muses wine quickeneth the wit Women be his priests women are sooner ouercome with wine then men He was of the Aegyptians called Osiris and was torne in peeces by the Titanes and enterred and yet reuiued and had his seuered limmes laid together againe For of euery twig or braunch or grift of the vinetree cut off and burieed in the earth whole vinetrees spring forth againe He hath sometimes hornes then is he intolerable and fierce like a Bull being drunke immoderately Satyres and such wantons be