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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10246	Argalus and Parthenia The argument of ye history. Written by Fra: Quarles.	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586. Arcadia.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1629 (1629)	STC 20526; ESTC S112006	79,656	165

if you are bent To act my Tragedy why doe you wrong Our patience so to make the play so long Your Sceanes are tedious Gainst the rules of Art You dwell too long too long vpon one part Be briefe and take aduantage of your odds One simple mayde against so many gods And not be conquer'd yet Conioyne your might And send her soule into eternall night That liues too long a day I le not resist Prouided you strike home strike where ye list Accursed be that Day wherein these eyes First saw the light Let desp'rate soules deuise A curse sufficient for it Let the Sun Ne're shine vpon it and what ere 's begun Vpon that fatall day let heauen forbid it Successe if not to ensnare the hand that did it Why was I borne Or being borne O why Did not my fonder nurses Lullaby Euen whilst my lips were hanging on her brest Sing her poore Babe to euerlasting rest O then my infant soule had neuer knowne This world of griefe beneath whose weight Igroane No no it had not He that dyes in 's prime Speeds a long businesse in a little time But Argalus whose more extreame desire Vnapt to yeeld like water-sprinkled fire Did blaze the more impatient of denyall Gaue thus an onset to a further tryall Life of my Soule By whom next heauen I breath Excepting whom I haue no friend but Death How can thy wishes ease my griefe or stand My miserie in stead when as thy hand And nothing but thy helping hand can giue me Reliefe and yet refuses to relieue me Strange kinde of Charity when being afflicted I finde best wishes yet am interdicted Of those best wishes and must be remou'd From loues enioyment why Because belou'd Alas alas How can thy wishes be A blessing to me if vnblest in thee Thy beauty 's gone thou saist why let it goe He loues but ill that loues but for a show Thy beauty is supply'd in my affection That neuer yet was slaue to a complexion Shall euery day wherein the earth does lacke The Suns reflex b'expell'd the Almanacke Or shall thy ouer-curious steps for beare A garden 'cause there be no Roses there Or shall the sunset of Parthenia's beauty Enforce my i●…dgement to neglect that duty The which my best aduis'd affection owes Her sacred vertue and my solemne vowes No no it lyes not in the power of Fate To make Parthenia too vnfortunate For Argalus to loue It is as easie for Parthenia's heart To proue lesse vertuous as for me to start From my firme faith The flame that honours breath Hath blowne nothing hath powre to quench but death Thou giu'st me leaue to chuse a fitter spouse And freedome to recall to quit those vowes I tooke VVho gaue thee license to dispense VVith such false tongues as offer violence To plighted faith Alas thou canst not free Thy selfe much lesse hast power to license me Vowes can admit no change They still perseuer Against all chance they binde they binde for euer A vow 's a holy thing no common breath The limits of a vow is heauen and death A vow that 's past is like a bird that 's flowne From out thy hand can be recall'd by none It dies not like a time beguiling I●…st As soone as vented liues not in thy brest VVhen vtterd once but is a sacred word Straight enterd in the strict and close record Of heauen It is not like a Iuglers knot Or fast or loose as pleases vs or not since then thy vowes can finde no dispensation And may not be recall'd recall thy passion Performe performe what now it is too late T' vnwish againe too soone to violate Seeke not to quit what heauen denies to free Performe thy vowes to heauen thy vowes to me Thrice dearer then my soule she thus r●…plide Mad my owne pamper'd fancy beene the guide To my affection I had condescended Ere this to your request which had befriended My best desiers too I lou'd not thee For my owne pleasure in that base degree As gluttons doe their diet who dispense With vnwash'd hands lest they should giue offence To their grip'd stomackes when a minutes stay Will make them curse occasion all the day I lou'd not so My first desires did spring From thy owne worth and as a sacred thing I alwaies view'd thee whom my zeale commands Me not prophane with these desiled hands T is true Performance is a debt we owe To Vowes and nothing's dearer then a Vow Yet when the gods doe rauish from our hand The meanes to keepe it ' ●…is a countermand He that hath vow'd to sacrifice each day At Iuno's Altar's bound and must obey But if being vnder vow the gods doe please To strike him with a leperous disease Or foule infection which is better now Prophane the Al●…ar or to breake the vow The case is mine where then the gods dispense We may be bold yet tender no offence Admit it were an euill 't is our be●…est Of necessary ills to choose the least The gods are good The strickt recognisance Of vowes is onely taken to aduance The good of man Now if that good proue ill We may refuse our vowes entire still I vow a mariage why because I doe Entirely affect that man my vowes are to But if some foule disease should interpose Betwixt our promis'd mariage and our vowes The strict performance of these vowes must proue I wrong and therefore loue not whom I loue Then vrge no more Let my deny all be A pledge sufficient twixt my loue and thee So ended sl●…e 〈◊〉 vehement desire That c●…n be quencht with No no more then fire With oyle and can submit to no condition Lends him new breath Loue makes a Rethoritian He speaks she answers He afresh replyes He stoutly sues As stoutly she denyes He begs in vaine and she denics in vain●… For she denies agai●…e He begs again●… At last both weary ●…e his suite adiournes For louers dayes are good and bad by turnes He bids farewell As if the heart of either Gaue but one motion they both sigh'd together She bids farewel ' and yet she bids it so As if her farewell ended if he goe He bids farewel ' bu●… so as if delay Had promis'd better farewells to his stay She bids farewell but holds his hand so fast As if that farewell should not be the last Both sigh'd both wept and both being heauy harted She bids farewell He bids farewell and parted So parted they Now Argalus is gone And now Parthenia's weeping all alone And like the widowed Turtle she bewailes The absence of her mate Passion preuailes Aboue her strength Now her poore heart can tell What 's heauen by wanting heauen and what is hell By her owne torments Sorrow now does play The Tyrants part Affection must obey And like a weathercocke her various minde Is chang'd and turn'd with euery blast of winde In desp'rate language she deplores her state She faine would wish but then she knowes not

Then crowne my ioyes thou Antidote of despaire And be as mercifull as thou art faire Nature the bounty of whose liberall hand Made thee the iewell of the Arcadian land Intended in so rare a prize to boast Her masterpeece Hid Iewells are but lost shine then and rob not nature of her due But honour her as she hath honour'd you Let not the best of all her workes lye dead In the nice Casket of a Mayd●…nhead What she would haue reueal'd O doe not smother Th' art made in vaine vnlesse thou make another Giue me thy heart and for that gift of thine Lest thou shouldst want a heart I le giue thee mine As richly fraught with loue and lasting duty As thou with vertue or thine eyes with beauty Why dost thou frowne why does that heauenly brow Not made for wrinkles show a wrinkle now Send forth thy brighter sun-shine and the while O lend me but the twilight of a smile Giue me one amorous glance why standst thou mute Disclose those ruby lips and grant my suite Speake loue or if thy doubtfull minde be bent To silence let that silence be consent Nor begge I loue of almes although in part My words may seeme t●…implead my owne desert Disdaine me not although my thoughts descend Below themselues t' enioy so faire a friend 〈◊〉 that haue o●…t with teares bin sought to sue And Queens haue bin his seruants that serues you The beauties of all Gr●…ece haue bin at strife To winne the name of great Demagoras wife And bin despis'd not worthy to obtaine So high an honour What they sought in vaine I here present thee with as thine owne due It being an honour fit for none but you Speake then my loue and let thy lips make knowne That I am either thine or not mine owne Haue you beheld when f●…esh Auroras eye Sends forth her early beames and by and by Withdrawes the glory of her face and shrowds Her checkes behind a ruddy m●…ske of clouds Which who beleeue in Erra Pater say Presages winde and blustry stormes that day Such were Partheniaes lookes in whose faire face Roses and Lillies late had equall place But now twixt mayden bash fulnesse and spleene Roses appear'd and Lillies were not seene S●…e paus'd a while till at the last she breakes Her long kept angry silence thus and speakes My Lord Had your strong Oratory but the Art To make me conscious of so great desert As you perswade I should be bound in duty To praise your Rhet'ricke as you prize my beauty Or if the frailty of my iudgement could Flatter my thoughts so grosly as to hold Your words for currant you might boldly dare Count me as soolish as you terme me faire If you vye Courtship fortune knowes that I Haue not so strong a Game to see the vye Alas my skill durst neuer vndertake To play the game where hearts be set at stake Needs must the losse be great when such haue bin Seldome obseru'd to saue themselues that win You craue my heart My Lord you craue withall Too great a mischiese My poore heart 's too small To fill the concaue of so great a brest Whose thoughts can scorne the amorous request Of loue sicke Queenes and can requite the vaine And factious suits of Ladies with disdaine Stoope not so low beneath your selfe great Lord To loue Parthenia Shall so poore a word Staine your faire lips whose merits doe proclaime A more transcendent fortune then that name Can giue Call downe Ioues winged Pursuiuant A●…d giue his tongue the power to enchant Some easie Goddesse in your name and treat A mariage fitting so sublime so great A mind as yours and fill the fruitfull earth With Heroes sprung from so diuine a birth Partheniaes heart could neuer yet aspire So high Her homebred thoughts durst ne're desire So fond an honour matcht with so great pride To hope for that which Queenes haue beene denyde Be wise my Lord vouchsafe not to repeat S'vnfit a suit Be wise as you are great Aduance your noble thoughts hazard no more To wrack your fortunes on so fleet a shore That to the wiser world it may be knowne The lesse y' are mine the more you are your owne Like as a guilty prisner vpon whom Offended Iustice lately past her doome Stands trembling by and hopelesse to preuaile B●…ules not for mercy but to the loath'd Iaile D●…agges his sad yrons and from thence commends A h●…sty suite to his selected friends That by the vertue of a quicke Reprie●…e The wretch might haue some few daies more to liue Euen so Demagoras whose rewounded heart Had newly felt the vnexpected smart And secret burthen of a desp'rate doome Replies not takes no leaue but quits the roome And in his discontented mind reuolues Ten thousand thoughts and at the last resolues What course to runne relying on no other But the assistance of Partheniaes mother Forthwith his fierce misguided passion droue His wandring steps to the next neighboring groue A keene Steeletto in his trembling hand He rudely grip'd vpon his lips did stand A milke white froth his eyes like flames sometimes He curses heauen himselfe and then the times Railes at the proud Parthenia raues despaires And from his head rends off his tangled hayres Curs s the wombe that bare him bans the Fates And drunke with spleene he thus deliberates Why dyest thou not Demagoras when as death Lends thee a weapon Can the whining breath Of discontent and passion send reliefe To thy distraction or asswage thy griefe Why moou'st thou not the Gods Or rather why Do'st not contemne and scorne their power and dye But stay Of whom dost thou complaine A woman To whom fond man dost thou complaine A woman And shall a womans frownes haue power to grieue thee Or shall a womans wanton smile relieue thee Fye fie Demago●…as shall a womans eye Pre●…aile to make the stout Demagor●…s dye And leaue to after times an entred name 〈◊〉 Callender of fooles Rouze vp for shame Thy wasted spirits whet thy spleene and liue To be reueng'd She she that would not giue Admittance to thy proferd loue must drinke The potion of thy hate stirre then the sinke Of all thy passion where thou canst not gaine By fairer lauguage Tarquin-like constraine But hold thy band Dem●…goras and aduise Art giues ad●…antage oft where force denyes Suspend thy fury Make Parthenia●…s mother Thy meanes One Adamant will cut another Sweeten thy lips with amorous Oratorie Affect her tender heart with the sad story Of thy deare loue Extoll Parth●…niaes beauty But most of all vrge that deserued duty Thou ow'st her vertue and make that the ground Of thy first loue that gaue thy heart the wound Mingle thy words with sighes and it is meet If thou canst force a teare to let her see 't Against thy will Let thy false tongue forbeare No vowes and though thou beest forsworne yet sweare If ere thy barren lips shall chance to pause For want of words Parthenia