th' Woods lament Elisa's 8 Guest did unto her afford Though shee religious was a death a sword Iâ—e teach what loft you ignorant in love You wanted Art and Art doth love improve They'd never know but Cythera commands That I should teach whil'st shee before mee stands What have the wretched Girles discern'd saith shee That men are aâ—m'd and they unarmed bee Two books have made them Artists here 's a part Remain to bee instructed by thy Art Who to 's 9 Therapuean Bride reproach did raise Since on a happy Lyre hath sung her praise If you be wise don't handsome Maids disdain But whilst you live labour their grace to gain This said her head being bound with Myrtle shee Did pluck a leaf and gave some grains to mee Wee feel the sacred gift Heaven brighter shines And at this time all care my breast declines Ladies whil'st wits be ripe my Arts require What modesty her law and rites inspire Remember that old age will come and so You'â— let no time from you neglected go Whiâ—'st youthful age permits it you must play Years like to current waters steal away For to recall past streams it is in vain Nor shall an hour once past return again Lay hold on time which goes and comes no more So pleafing follows not as went before These withered stems I Violets have seen From this bare Thorn I 've got a Garland green The time will come thou that dost love deny Grown old forsaken in thy bed shalt lye i th' night thy door shall not with blows be prest Nor th' entrance in the morn with Roses drest Alas how soon the face lets furrows in And colour fades though set in purest skin Your tresses will grow thin and you will say That from a childe they ever have been gray Snakes with their skins do cast their age off too And Harts their horns being cast their strength renew Helpless your time doth post to get don't stay The flower which ungot doth soon decay Childbirth makes youth to age the sooner yeeld Continual harvests make a barren field Luna at her 10 Endimion did not blush Nor is Aurora ' sham'd of 11 Cephalus Venus to pass by Adon ' how tell mee Had'st thou Aeneas and Hermione To follow goddess waies yee mortals try Nor to desiring men your sweets deny Though they unconstant prove what do you lose No loss at all though thousand times they use Iron will wear and Flint by use grows less No fear of that parts loss doth ere oppress To light at others Torches who 'l disdain Or who the vast Sea labours to restrain Some women do not profit thus they 'l speak What is all water lost but what you take My Art none prostitutes but doth reprove Your idle fears no loss proceeds from love Soft Gales serve whil'st i th' Haven we do ride But stronger winds when in deep floods wee glide I with their dress begin trimm'd Vines abound With Wine and rank Corn grows in well till'd ground Form is Gods gift and all thereof are glad Although the greater part that gilt ne're had Care will give beauty which neglect decaies Were it like to th' Idalian goddesses Though Maids of old did not take so much care Nor men such curious apparel wear What if Andromache's cloaths did not surpass No mar'l her husband a blunt souldier was What should the wife of Ajax unto whom A sevenfold shield was made adorned come Formerly they were rude now Rome doth rise And th' wealth of all the conquer'd world injoyes The 12 Capitol with all that it hath see And you will say it might Jove's Palace be The 13 Curia worthy such a Councel gain'd Was covered with straw when Tatius reign'd These Palaces that glitter ' gainst the Sun Were places once for beasts to graze upon I 'm bâ—â—n in the last age I 'm glad of it Old 〈◊〉 please some these do my humours fit Not 〈◊〉 gold is found in the earths womb Nor ' cause that Pearâ—s from divers shoars do come Not because Marble from the Hills wee dig Nor ' cause wee Vessels to the green Sea rig But ' cause w' are civiliz'd neatness maintain Nor antient rudeness to our times remain Your cars with stones too costly do not store Which the tann'd Indian gathers on the shoar In cloth of gold grave women do not joy That wealth by which you seek us oft lay by Neatness will take your hairs in order place It is the hand that makes or marrs a face There 's more than one dress that which is most cult Mâ—ke choice of but first with your glass consult Long viâ—ag'd with a parted hair shows well Sâ— â—aodamin's tresses did excel Thâ—â—â— that round visag'd are disclose their ears And in their forâ—head a small peak appears Here one doth with her hair neglected stand Such thou art Phoebus with thy Lyre in hand Another like Diana is attir'd When sheet ' oretake a frighted beast desir'd It becomâ—s this to waft her hair i th' wind And that it doth impede her looks to binde This bedeckt with Cyllenian shells is brave And that an Apron wears like to a wave You cannot count leaves on well branching trees Nor number Alpine Beasts or Hybla's Bees Nor can I every dressing represent Each day doth several new Modes invent Neglected hair doth many grace you 'l say What 's newly comb'd was not since yesterday Art covers much Iole Alcides spies No sooner seen but I 'm in love hee cries Bacchus for thee 14 forsaken Gnossis cares Satyrs rejoycing into 's Chariot bears O how indulgent nature is to you How many waies you may things lost renew If bald or hair through age fall off as fast As leaves from trees blown with a Northern blast Or gray it may with German herbs dy'd ore Receive a better tincture than before Some women will that have their hair well grown Wear others and for gain cut off their own Shame not to buy 't in publick I 've seen some Openly ' mongst a throng of Virgins come Why stay I upon cloaths ruffs do not buy Nor Wooll that 's twice dipt in a Tyrian dye When enow colours are at cheaper rates They 're mad that on their backs wear their estates Behold the colour of the sky when clear And in the warm South no dark clouds appear Or 15 Phryxus colour choose which hee 't is said And Helle got by Ino's craft betray'd This 's like a wave and thence a name it had With this I do beleeve Sea-Nymphs are clad That yellow imitates the Goddesse shines In yellow that th' 16 light-bringing horses joyns This Purple Amethist this Paphian green As th' Thracian Crane or as white Roses seen Acorns and Almonds Amarillis pull Some kinde of wax doth give a name to wooll As many Flowers as in the Spring earth bears When Vines put forth and the cold winter wears So many Dyes wooll takes what doth become Chuse any colour sutes not well with some For brown
wanting were It was thy clownishness not bashful fear Forcing they tearm it yet that force is sweet With it against their wills they gladly meet Shee that 's of Venus will no rape forsake But let her wantonness full pleasure take And shee that may yet doth untoucht depart Though shee seem glad at it is sad at heart Both 67 Phaebe and her sister ravisht were Yet they were grateful to their ravisher Here is a story that deserves my pen How the 68 Aemonian did the Scyrian win When Venus worthy such a prize to have On Ida her unlucky 69 promise gave Which now a daughter doth to Priam fly And is receiv'd with welcomes into Troy All to revenge the injur'd husband swear And each a part do in his sufferings bear Achilles at his Mothers base request Conceals his Sex in womens cloaths is drest What dost Aeacides don 't wooll desire Titles of honour otherwaies acquire Why doth thy target-arm those baskets wear Why yarn i th' hand must Hector kill dost bear Never into that hand a spindle take Which onely should the Spear of Peleus shake By chance in the same bed a Royal Maid Who quickly found hee was a man was laid Shee by his force was overcome wee know Yet shee was willing to be forced so Oft when Achilles in the morn would rise To set his distaff spear betwixt his thighs Now where 's that forcing thou Deidamia With flattering words thy ravisher wouldst stay They 'r bashful till th' have first receiv'd it then Having once try'd they must try 't ore agen Alas too much hee to his form doth trust That doth expect his Mistress should speak first First let the man approach her and beseech Ladies will hearken to a handsome speech Speak if you would obtain shee would bee askt With words let your desires be unmaskt Jove suppliant went unto the Maids of old Deny his sure no Virgin ever could If you perceive her scorn at and disdain Your prayers forbear from her a while abslain They love what 's not at what is theirs they scoff Take their disdain away by keeping off Alwaies by courting her shee 'l never bend Sometimes go wait upon her as a friend By such an action to obtain I one To come neglected go belov'd have known Merchants should not have feminine looks but bee Made swarthy by the Sun and storms at Sea It ill-becomes a Plow-man to look fair That turns Joves earth up with a crooked share You should not have a Ladies smooth-skind face That on your head would Pallas Chaplet place In Lovers pining looks do most excel Though some say not yet it becomes them well Pale-face't Orion in the woods did rove So 70 Daphnis lookt for gentle Nais Love Thin looks a Lover argue sometimes wear A sickly cap upon thy well cut hair Sorrows and griefs immense with watchings late Th' effects of Love young men attenuate That you may win seem miserable so That all may say there one in Love doth go Should I advise complain right wrong allow Friendship and truth are dis-esteemed now Praise her not to a friend lest he should prove With her beleeving your report in Love Yet Patroclus ne're stain'd Achilles bed And 71 Pirithous from base Phedra fled As Phaebus Pallas 72 Hermion Pylades Or as the two Twins lov'd Tyndarides Who hopes the like may look for Plumbs to grow On Tam'rix or that streams with hony flow Baseness delights now pleasure 's all their care And those to others griefs obtained are O wicked Lovers fear no open soe Shun whom you trust and you may safely go Nor Brother nor a friend confide in just Occasion they will give you to mistrust I 've almost done what thoughts the Ladies raise Their several humours court their several waies No places for all grain convenient are That Vines this Olives others Corn will bear As many minds on earth as features known And a wise man prepares for every one As nimble 73 Proteus us'd transform'd to bee A Lion now a Boar and then a Tree Some fish with darts are caught others with th' hook And some within a hollow net are took One way will not with any age agtee Far off old women your devices see If learn'd to th' rude you seem or wanton to The chaste no more shee 'l trust her self with you Hence 't is they fearful honest men forsake And oft th' imbrace of an inferiour take Some of my work 's perform'd some's to be made And here my ship is by her Anchor stay'd The End of the first Book Annotations on the first Book OF Publius Ovidius Naso De Arte Amandi 1 Automedon in an expert Charioteer the Son of Diora and servant to Achilles Virg. Aeneid 2. equorum agitator Achillis armiger Automedon 2 Typhis the Aemonian-ship Typhis was Pilot to the first ship framed in Greece called Argo which transported the Princes Jason Hercules Theseus Castor Pollux and the rest of the Miny's to Colchos to fetch the golden Fleece called Aemonian from Mount Haemus which divideth Thessaly from Thrace from which Mountain Thessaly is often called Aemonia 3 Phillyrides to Chiren the Centaur so called from his Mother Phillyra hee to omit the fable of his procreation being grown up retiring himself to the woods to inquire into the nature of Herbs became an excellent Physician hee taught Aesculapius Physick Hercules Astrology and Achilles besides many other things to play on the Harp 4 Gods came both Cupid and Achilles Cupid from his Mother Venus and Achilles from the Goddesse Thetis 5 Clio nor The Muses nine in number begotten by Jupiter upon Mnemosyne whence they are called Mnemosynides we finde them mentioned by many other names as Heliconides Parnassides Aonides Citherides Corycides Pierides Pegasides Aganippides Hippocrenides I lissiades Libethrides Pimpleides Castalides Pateides Ardalides Maonides and Sicelides all which names are attributed to them either from their habitations or from the places consecrate unto them Their particular names are Calliope a ravishing singer Erato the Lovers Muse Thalia from her flourishing Poetry Melpomene from her delicate warbling a Tragick Muse Terpsicore from her delight in dancing Clio the celebrater of famous actions Euterpe the inventress of the Mathematicks Polyhymnia from her vast memory the Muse of History Vrania a heavenly singer the Muse of Astronomy Hesiod degenerat Deorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I english Jove had nine Girls Euterpe Thalia Clio Melpomene Polymnia Erato Urania Terpsicore And 'bove the rest famous Calliope 6 Ascrean Green a Plain in Boeotia neer Helicon such an expression hath Propertius in lib. 2. ad Musam Nondum etiam Ascreos norint mea carmina fontes 7 Vittae badge of modesty and borders a Linnen Band or Fillet which the Vestal Nuns tye up their hair with Ovid speaking of Daphne's chastity Met. 2. saith innuptaeque aemula Phoebes Vitta coërcebat positos sine lege capillos and
aemulous of Phoebe chaste The Vitta her neglected hair imbrac't For the borders I take them to be the nether end of the gown which Sigonius calls Stola Cinctura astrictior denoting a modest woman 8 Perseus Andromade Andromade was Daughter to Cepheus and Cassiope who for her Mothers pride comparing her beauty with the Sea-Nymphs Nereides was by the Nymphs taken bound to a Rock and exposed to a merciless Sea-Monster yet notwithstanding was delivered by Perseus who slew the Monster and afterwards married her by the consent of her Parents Metam 4. generumque salutant Auxiliamque domus servatoremque fatentur Cassiope Cepheusque pater Cepheus and Cassiope with joy Salute him for their Son whom now they call The Saviour of their house and of them all Perseus was begot by Jupiter upon Danaë Daughter to Acrisius King of the Argives who being premonisht that his Grandchilde should kill him shut his Daughter Danaë in a strong Tower intending with her body to mure her womb up and consequently avert his foredoomed fate but when Jupiter in the form of a golden showre had begotten Perseus upon her shee with her Infant being in a small boat committed to the Sea in expectation of inevitable destruction were miraculously preserved Perseus grown up returned and unfortunately slew his Grandfather 9 From India brought India tot a serme spectat Orientem minus in latitudinem c. India saith Curtius lib. 8. lieth toward the East containing more in longitude than latitude the North parts bee mountainous and hilly but all the rest of the Land campain It hath many famous Rivers which descending down from Mount Caucasus make a delightful progress thorow the Countries Indus is more cold than any other of the Rivers whose water resembles the colour of the Sea Ganges is the greatest of all which running thorow the Southern Country until meeting with the opposition of many Rocks and Precipeeces his course is turned Eastwards where it is swallowed up of the Red Sea When other Countries be burned with the Sun India is covered over with Snow and when other places be frozen the heat is there intolerable for which appears no natural reason The Elephants in this Country be bigger and stronger than those of Africk The Rivers carry down Gold and run smoothly along and the Sea doth cast upon the shore both pearls and precious stones Stephanus saith the Trees are alwaies green that the ground bears corn twice a year that from hence comes Pepper Calamus Aromaticus and Cynamon Aelian lib. 1. Vari saith their Pigeons are of a yellow colour 10 Rome affords Rome the Metropolis of Italy and most celebrated City of the whole world of which Virgil in his first Egloge makes Tytyrus speak thus Urbem quam dicunt Romam Melibaee putavi Stultus ego huic nostrae simtlem c. Englished by Mr. Ogleby That City they call Rome I did account Fondly like this of ours where Swains are wont Yearly with care to wean their tender Lambs So I conceiv'd Whelps equal to their Dams And judg'd that Kids were as their Mothers tall So us'd I great things to compare with small But shee 'bove other Cities lifts her head As o're the Shrubs the lofty Cedars spread It was called Rome from its founder Romulus who built it on Mount Palatine in a quadrangular form which Mount hath ever since been the Seat of the Romane Emperors It is called Urbs Septi-collis from the seven hills on which it standeth their names are these the Mount Palatine the Capitolian Mount Quirinus Mount the Caelian Mount the Mount Esquilinus the Mount Viminalis and the Mount Aventine Ovid. Trist lib. 1. Sed quae de septem tot um circumspicit orbem Montibus imperii Roma Deumque locus Rome which from seven hills doth over-look The world the Gods have for their Empire took See Romulus infra 11 On Ida a high Mountain that looks towards Troy the North-side of it reaching from the Straits of Abidos to the Cyzycene Fields in the Propontis the Weft-side looks over the Hellespont the South makes a Promontory and the Eastern parts decline towards Missia Hom. lib. 8. Iliad saith that the top of it is called Gargarus where there is a Temple consecrate to Jupiter and that it hath many Springs and multitudes of wilde-beasts 12 Lesbos found in Methimna a Town of Lesbos so called from Methymna the daughter of Macharis are abundance of Vines in this place the famous Harper Orion was born 13 Of her Son of her Son Aeneas who with some Sea-beaten Trojans arrived in Italy where hee van quished Turnus and married Lavinia 14 Leo move the Sun doth annually move through the twelve signs of the Zodiack whereof Leo is the fifth sign in the celestial Globe represented by a Lion into the first degree of which the Sun enters on or about the twelfth of July which then bears twenty degrees eleven minutes North declination from the Aequinexial line It is never seen of us here in England but is fixt in that part of the Ecliptick which extends it self over the Islands Cuba Jamaica and Hispaniola in America It is often called the Nemean and Herculean Lion because Hercules slew a Lion in the Nemean Forrest of an immense and prodigious greatness which the Poets feign to be translated into the sign Leo. 15 Livies Porch the Romans had certain walks on the side of their Delubrum which they called Porticus and in these places it was lawful to trade and confer of worldly occasions amongst which was Livia Porticus or Livies Porch so called from Titus Livius the most famous of all the Roman Historiographers 16 Where Belides the fifty daughters of Danaus so called from their Grandfather Belus with whom Aegistus the Brother to Danaus desired to marry his fifty Sons but Danaus understanding by Oracle that hee should bee slain by his Son-in-law refused yet in the end being compelled thereto by Aegistus hee consummates their marriages but privately plots with his daughters to murder their fifty husbands well steept with Wine in their marriage-beds all which too too obedient to paternal authority cruelly butchered their wretched busbands except Hypermnestra who out of compassion spared her Husband Lynceus who seeing his Brothers miserable destinies slew Danaus and invaded the Kingdome of the Argives 17 Bewais'd Adonis the Son of Cynira King of Crprus and his daughter Myrrha the darling of Venus who whilst he was hunting in the Idalian Forrest was slain by a Boar Bion. Idylium 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which I English Adonis fair doth on the Mountains lye A white tush having peirc'd his white thigh Venus laments whilst hee expires black gore Flows from his wound And a little after 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The loving Hounds do howl about the Boy The Mountain-Nymphs lament with Venus cry Whom Venus is said Metam 10. to have turned into
light colours fair Briseis sad And shee that 's ravisht is in mourning clad White becomes black it pleas'd Cepheus who In such Attire did to Seriphos go How oft I 've warn'd that lust do not prevail Nor that long hairs do your rough leggs assail I do not teach the Girls of Caucasus That drink the streams of Mysian Caicus What must I teach your teeth how to keep fair Or t' wash your mouth each morn in water clear You how with wax to make them whiter know What is not red by Nature Art makes so By Art the wrinckle of the brow 's unspyde A little leather hollow cheeks will hide Be not asham'd flames in your eyes to show With Saffron which doth nigh to Cydnus grow I 've writ one little book yet great for care In which I teach lost beauties to repair Ye blemisht Maids from hence your helps obtain My Art hath alwaies for your goods took pain Let not your Lovers finde your Boxes laid Upon the Table Art conceal'd will aid Whom will not painting of the face offend Which laid too thick doth to the bosome tend How Oesipum doth smell though sent from Greece Being dry 't is taken from a dirty fleece My advice is not openly to take Deeâ—'s marrow or your foul teeth whiter make They grace a face but odious be to sight Many things doing loathe though done delight Th' Statue which does for th' work of Myron pass Sometimes a shapeless and hard substance was To make a Ring the Gold is beaten full The clothes you wear sometime were baltered wool The stone was rough should shadow nobleness And Venus naked in a shower express Adorn your selves when fast asleep wee deem Drest by a curious hand you 'l fairer seem Why should I know the cause you look so fair Be private when you do your looks prepare Men should not all things know they hate the sight Of things that don't if unconceal'd delight The guilded streamers ore the stage behold Waving and th' wood ore-laid with thin leaf-gold No people there before 't is fram'd must sit And whil'st 't is making it will none admit I don't forbid in publick t' dress your head Nor that your locks your dainty neck ore-spread But that you be not peevish then beware Nor do too oft untie your loosened hair I hate those Ladies that their Maids will bite Scratch them i th' face and with their Bodkins fight Being blooded it will make her curse and swear And crying lug her Mistress hateful hair Shee that 's ill-hair'd to lock her door had best Or alwaies be in some close Cloyster drest I suddenly my Mistress came upon Surpriz'd her hair she wrong side out clapt on Let such disgraces happen to my foe And the like shame to Parthian women go Lame may their cattel be their pasture bare May their trees have no leaves their heads no hair Nor Semele nor Leda need bee taught Nor 17 she whom a feign'd Oxe to Sidon brought Nor Hellen whom Atrides would regain And whom thou Trojan Paris dost detain Both fair and foul come to learn from my Art But still the fairer are the lesser part The fair to learn my Precepts have less need Their Beauty is a gift doth Art exceed The Sea compos'd Sea-men at ease may lye But when it swells must all their skill imply Most faces have some faults which hide and doo As much as may be mend your body too If low sit down lest standing you should show As though you sate or to a bed couch go Where being thrown that none your stature spy Upon your feet let some loose mantle lye Shee that 's too small may have a vail which cast About her shoulders hangs beneath her waste Shee that 's too pale with Purple dye her cheek Shee that is black the Pharian fish must seek An ill-shap't foot hide in a dainty shooe Nor from your measled leggs your strings undo Her that 's crook-shoulder'd stuffings will prefer A breast too flat's rail'd with a stomacher What ere shee saies be sure shee point at none Whose hands are fat or nails be dirty grown She must whose breath 's unsweet not fasting speak Neither a seat too neer her servant take If your teeth black or out of order grow Take heed lest you should them by laughing show who 'd think that Ladies should be taught to laugh Yet that done handsomely will set them off Let not much mirth your hollow cheeks reveal And ever with your lips your teeth conceal Your bodies with much laughter do not strain Y' are loud at any thing that 's light and vain Some will in laughing draw their mouth awry Others do frame a face as they would cry And such a ditty make with their rude voice 18 As when an Ass at th'Mill doth make a noise Whither will not Art extend women are taught And how to weep in handsome manner brought In some 't is handsome not to speak so plain But to lisp out their tongue some words constrain It is a handsome fault and pleaseth more To learn to speak less than they could before When these do profit you approve my care And with a stately step your body bear There is a state in going which doth take Carriage doth Lovers or Neglecters make This moves by Art the wind her garment swells And being proud shee in her gate excels That looking ruddy like an Umbrian Bride Doth in her walking take a spacious stride But there a rustick mode in this may be One rudely walks another leisurely Let both your shoulders and your neck be bare For them to see which your admirers are But this white skins must do at th' sight of this I use as far as it is nak't to kiss Syrens Sea-monsters with their notes could stay A floating ship if it came that away Ulysses hearing these did neer relax His body his 19 friends ears close stopt with wax All 20 learn to sing for singing is a grace The voice is oft a pander to the face Now repeat what you from the stage did bring And then a verse in wandring measures sing Ladies in 20 Musick also should have skill Their left hands hold a harp their right a quill Wilde beasts and stones at 21 Orpheus harp did stir The lake of hell and the three-headed Cur. Thou just revenger of thy Mothers fall The stones themselves at thy voice made a wall The Fish are thought the Musick to desire In the known fable of Arions Lyre Learn with your hand the Psaltery to strike To that for musick sweet no musick 's like Callimachus and Coan Poets scan Or th' Tejan wanton muse of the old man The wanton Sappho read you also may Read Geta's Father who so well could play And thou Tibullus read Propertius verse Or some of Gallus or thine own rehearse Phryxus thy Sisters golden fleece so fam'd By Varro must amongst the rest be nam'd Aeneas flight th' Original of Rome No extant work more fam'd in