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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08622	Ouid's elegies three bookes. By C.M. Epigrames by I.D.; Amores. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.; Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626. Epigrams. aut	1603 (1603)	STC 18931; ESTC S104532	50,037	105

affright I le thinke all true though it be feigned matter Mine owne desires why should my selfe not flatter Let the bright day-starre cause in heauen this day be To bring that happy time so soone as may be ELEGIA 12. Exultat quod amica potitus sit ABout my temples go triumphant bayes Conquer'd Corinna in my bosome layes She whom her husband guard and gate as foes Least Arte should winne her firmely did inclose That victory doth chiefely triumph merit Which without bloud-shed doth the pray inherit No little ditched townes no lowely walls But to my share a captiue damfell falls When Troy by ten yeares battaile tumbled downe With the Acrides many gainde renowne But I no partner of my glory brooke Nor can another say his helpe I tooke I guide and souldier wonne the field and weare her I was both horse-man foot-man standard-bearer Nor in my act hath fortune mingled chance O care-got triumph hither wards aduance Nor is my warres cause new but for a Queene Europe and 〈◊〉 in firme peace had beene The Lapithes and the Centautes for a woman To cruell armes their drunken selues did summon A woman for●● 〈◊〉 the Troyanes new to enter Warres 〈◊〉 La●th●s in thy king somes center A woman against late-built Rome did send The Sabine Fathers who sharp warres intend I saw how Bulls for a white Heifer striue Shee looking on them did more courage giue And me with many but yet me without murther Cupid commands to moue his ensignes further ELEGIA 13. Ad Isidem vt parientem Corinnam iuuet VVHile rashly her wombes burthen she casts out Weary Corinna hath her life in doubt She secretly with me such harme attempted Angry I was but feare my wrath exempted But sheconceiu'd of me or I am sure I oft haue done what might as much procure Thou that frequents Canopus pleasant fields Memphis and Pharos that sweet date trees yeelds And where swift Nile in his large channell slipping By seauen huge mouthes into the sea is slipping By fear'd Annubis visage I thee pray So in thy Temples shall Osiris stay And the dull-snake about thy offrings creepe And in thy pomp horn'd Apis with thee keepe Turne thy lookes hether and in one spare twaine Thou giuest my mistresse life she mine againe Shee oft hath seru'd thee vpon certaine ●●ies Where the French rout engirt themselues with ●●ies On labouring women thou doest pi●ty take Whose bodies with their heauy burthen sake Ny wench Lucina li●●creat thee fauour Worthy she is thou should'st in mercy saue her In wiues with incest ●l thine Altars greete My selfe will bring vowed gifts before thy feete Subscribing Naso with Corinna sau'd Doe but deserue gifts with this title grau'd But if in so great feare I may aduize thee To haue this skirmish fought let it suffice thee ELEGIA 14. In amicam quod abortivum ipsa fecerit VVHat helpes it Woman to be free from warre Nor being arm'd fierce troups to follow farre If without battle selfe-wrought wounds annoy them And their owne priuie weapon'd hands destroy them Who vnborne infants first to flay inuented Deseru'd thereby with death to be tormented Because thy belly should rough wrinckles lack Wilt thou thy wombe-inclosed off-spring wrack Had ancient Mothers this vile custome cherisht All humane kinde by their default had perisht On stones our stocks originall should be hurld Againe by some in this vnpeopled world Who should haue Priams wealthy substance wonne If watry Thetis had her childe fordone In swelling wombe her twinnes had 〈◊〉 kilde He had not beene that conquering Rome did build Had Venus spoilde her bellies Troyane fruite The earth of Caesars had beene destitute Thou also that wert borne faire had'st decayed If such a worke thy mother had assayed My selfe that better dye with louing may Had seene my mother killing me to day Why takest increasing grapes from vine-Vine-trees full With cruell hand why doest greene Apples pull Fruites ripe will fall let springing things increase Life is no ight price of a small surcease Why with hid irons are your bowels torne And why dire poyson giue you babes vnborne At Cholcis stain'd with childrens blood men raile And mother-murtherd● Itis thee bewaile Both vnkinde parents but for causes sad Their wedlocks pledges veng'd their husbands bad What Tereus what Ias●● you prouokes To plague your bodies with such harmefull strokes Armenian Tygers neuer did so ill Not dares the Lyone ●●●her young whelpes kill But tender Damsels doe it though with paine Oft dyes she that her paunch-wrapt child hath slaine Shee dyes and with loose haires to graue is sent And who ere●see her worthily lament But in the eyre let these words come to nought And my presages of no weight be thought Forgiue her gratious Gods this one delict And one the next fau●● punishment inflict ELEGIA 15. Ad annulum quem dono amicae d●dit THou ring that shalt my faire girles finger binde Wherein is seene the giuers louing minde Be welcome to her gladly let her take thee And her small ioynts incireling round ho●●e make thee Fit her so well as she is fit for me And of iust compasse for her knuckles be Bestring in my mistresse armes shall lie My selfe poore wretch mine owne gifts now enuie O would that sodainely into my gift I could my selfe by secret Magick shift Then would I wish thee touch my mistresse pappe And hide thy left hand vnderneath her lappe I would get off though straight and sticking fast And in her bosome strangely fall at last Then I that I may seale her priuie leaues Least to the waxe the hold-fast drye gemme cleaues Would first my beautious wenches moist lips touch Onely I le signe nought that may grieue me much I would not out might I in one place hit But in lesse compasse her small fingers knit My life that I will shame thee neuer feare Or by a loade thou should'st refuse to beare Weare me when warmest showers thy members wash And through the gemme let thy lost waters pash But seeing thee I thinke my thing will swell And euen the ring performe a mans part well Vaine things why wish I goe small gift from hand Let her my faith with thee giuen vnderstand ELEGIA 16. Ad amicant vt adrura su●veniat SVlmo Pelignies third part me containes A small but wholesome soyle with watrie veynes Although the Sunne to riue the earth incline And the Icartan froward Dog-starre shine Pilignian fields which liquid riuers flow And on the soft ground fertile greene grasse grow With corne the earth abounds with vines much more And some few pastures Pallas Oliues bore And by the rising herbes where cleare springs slide A grassie turffe the moistened earth doth hide But absent is my fire lyes I le tell none My heate is heere what moues my heate is gone Pollux and Castor might I stand betwixt In heauen without thee would I not be fixt Vpon the cold earth pensiue let them lay That meane to trauaile some long irkesome way Or