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ROBERT GREENE, M.A.
Men aph on
CAMILA’s alarm to slumbering EUPHUES
in his melancholy cell
at Silexedra, etc.
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EDITED BY
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F. S. A. ETC. LATE EXAMINER IN ENGLISH
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF
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The English Works of ROBERT GREENE, GABRIEL HARVEY, and
THOMAS NASH ... - tº tº tº tº º tº e s e sº º - - - tº º e & e s vi-x
INTRODUCTION e e Q tº G tº © º e to sº º - e. e. tº e G • e e ... xi-xvi
MENAPHON, CAMILLAs alarum &c. I
ROBERT GREENE. Dedication to Lady HALES tº tº º tº º & © tº º 3
ROBERT GREENE. To the Gentlemen Readers • e - - - - * - © 4.
THOMAS NASH. To the Gentlemen Students of both Universities 5
HENRY UPCHEAR. In laudem Authoris • * * * - e. tº º º e - © I9
THOMAS BRABINE. In praise of the Author ... tº Q & tº º º © tº Q 2O
Arcadia. The reports of the Shepheards 21
The Story consists practically of eight Reports of the Shepherds, of which the
following are the principal characters.
1. DEMOCLES, MENAPHON, (SEPHESTIA) SAMELA, LAMEDON,
CARMELA e tº 9 º º tº © - - ... 2 I-40
(1) MENAPHON's Song ... * * ºr tº º º © a q tº tº º 26
(2) SEPHESTIA's Song to her child e e e • * * e - e. 27
(3) MENAPHON's Aoundelay e - © e - e. e tº e 0 - - 37
2. DORON, (MAXIMIUs) MELICERTUS, PESANA © tº tº ... 4O-55
(4) DORON's Description of SAMELA ... • * * e - - 4 I
(5) DORON's Jig ... tº º 0 • * * © tº º * @ & ºw º 43
(6) MELICERTUs's Description of his mistress ... e tº e 52
(7) MELICERTUS's Madrigal e - - - - - - 54
3. PLEUSIDIPPUS, EURILOCHUS, ROMANIO, AGENOR, ERIPIIILA ... 55–61
SAMELA, MENAPHON, PESANA... e - e. e e - • * * * - e. ... 61-67
(8) MENAPHON's Song in his bed tº º º tº º º º e º 64
(9) MENAPHON's Song before PESAN.A ... © Q - e - © C3
5. PLEUSIDIPPUs, OLYMPIA, AGENOR ... 0 & tº * - tº e - e. ... 67–70
6. DEMocles, PLEUSIDIPPUS, SAMELA, DORON, MENAPIIoN,
MELICERTUS • 6 º' © 2 tº e tº a tº º º e - ºn * - e. ... 70–85
(10) MeNAPHON's Eclogue * & © tº c & & © tº & © e 76
(II) MELICERTUS's Eclogue © e tº tº e - © º º e - © 78
7. DORON, CARMELA © e G • * * º e e • e e º e > ... 85–89
86
(12) DoRoN and CARM2LA’s Eclogues tº º º * - e.
(13) Robert GREENE. Sonnetto, What thing is Zoze # 88
8. DEMocles, MELICERTUS, SAMELA, PLEUSIDIPPUS tº € $ ... 89-92
THE ENGLISH WORKS OF ROBERT GREENE,
G. A B R I E L H A R V E Y, AND T H O M A S N A S H.
1580–1600 A.D.
Strange to say, such a Chronological List as this is still a desideratum. We
have included in it the novels of LYLY and LODGE, so as to make it represent the
principal Romance Writers of the Euphuistic School in ELIZABETH's reign.
It naturally comprises all the Works which expressed the famous Quarrel be-
tween RICHARD and GABRUEL HARVEY, and TOM NASH: in respect to which, it
must always be remembered that the HARVEYS began it, in A Theological Discourse
of The Lamb of GOD &c., 23 Oct. 1589; and that when NASH was beguiled so as
to insert an Apology, as handsome as it was honest (in the First edition of his
CHRIST's teares over Jerusalem, 8 Sept. 1593), GABRIEL HARVEY scornfully
rejected the offer, and so brought upon himself the severest invectives of one,
whom both GREENE (in his Groat's Worth, 1592), and MEREs (in his Palladis
Zamia, 1598) called the English JUVENAL.
In the following List; there comes 1st, Date of registration at Stationers' Hall,
with a reference in ( ) to the page in the Transcript of the Registers & c. 1875–6,
where the entry may be found. 2nd, The Writer, a short part of the title, and the
date of title page of First Edition, which is often of the year following that of the
registration. 3rd, The Printer or Publisher to whom the First Edition was licensed,
as G. CAWOOD.
All the concurrent MARTIN MARPRELATE books are omitted from this List.
For these, see pp. 197–200 of No. 8 of this Series.
• 1578.
2 Dec. (ii. 342). J. Lyly, M.A. EUPHUES. Anatomy of Wit. I579. G. CAWOOD.
1579.
24 July (ii. 357). J. Lyly, M.A. EUPHUES and his England. I58O. G. CAWOOD.
1580.
30 June (ii. 373). E. Spenser and Dr. G. Harvey. Three proper, and wittie, fami-
liar Letters, lately passed betweene two University men. H. BINNEMAN.
3 Oct. (ii. 378). R. Greene, M.A. MAMILLIA. A Mirrour or looking glasse for
the Ladies of England. [GREENE’s first printed Woré.] T. WOODCOCK.
1581.
20 Mar. (ii. 391): R. Greene, M.A. A Ballad. Youthe seinge all his wais so
Troublesome &-c. 1582. E. WHITE.
7 June (ii. 412). J. Yates, Servingman. The Castell of Courtesie . . . the
Holde of Humilitie, with the Chariot of Chastitie. J. WoLF.
1583.
19 Aug. (ii. 427). A. Munday. The sweete sobbes, and amorous Complaintes of
Shepardes and Nymphes in a fancye confusde. J. CHARLEwooD.
6 Sept. (ii. 428). R. Greene, M.A. MAMILLIA. The Second part of the
Triumph of PALLAs. 1584, W. PONSON BY.
II April (ii. 431). R. Greene, M.A. GWIDONIUS. The Carde of Fancie.
W. PONSONBY.
P Mot registered. R. Greene, M.A. The Mirrour of Modestle. R. WARD.
13 Aug. (ii. 434). R. Greene, M.A. ARBASTO. The Anatomie of Fortune.
H. JACKSON.
22 Sept. (ii. 435). W. Warner, Attorney in the Common Pleas. PAN his SYRINx
or Pipe compact of seven reedes, including in one, seven Tlagical and Comical
Arguments. T. PURFOOT.
1585.
? Not registered. R. Greene, M.A. Planetomachia, or the first part of the general
opposition of the seven Planets. T. CADMAN.
1586.
8 Aug. (ii. 452). R. Greene, M.A. MoRANDo. The Tritameron of Love. E. WHITE.
CHRONozog/CAz ZZST OF GREEAz's Works, &c. vii
1587.
[Wot required to be registered.] R. Greene, M.A., adds a Second Part to the new
edition of MORANDo of this year. E. WHITE.
II June (ii. 471). R. Greene, M.A. Farewell to folly. E. AGGAS.
19 June (ii. 472). R. Greene, M.A. PENELOPE's Web. E. AGGAS.
18 Sept. (ii. 475). R. Greene, M.A. EUPHUES, his censure to PHILAUTUS.
1588. E. WHITE.
29 March (ii. 488). R. Greene, M.A. PERIMIDIEs the Blacksmith. E. WHITE.
I July (ii. 493). R. Greene, M.A. PANDOSTO. The Triumph of Time. [AEe-
gistered as The complaint of tyme.] s T. ORWIN.
[...' The foundation story of SHAKESPEARE's Winter’s Tale.]
19 Sept. (ii. 499). T. Nash. The Anatomie of Absurdities. [p. xiii.] T. HACKET.
[Not however published in August 1589, see p. 18. The first and only edition
in the Author's life-time is dated 1590.]
9 Dec. (ii. 510). R. Greene, M.A. ALCIDA. Greene's Metamorphosis. J. WOLF.
1589.
I Feb. (ii. 515). R. Greene, M.A. The Spanish Masquerado. T. CADMAN.
? Mož registered. R. Greene, M.A. CICERowls Amor. TULLIE’s Love.
Printed by R. Robinson, for T. NEWMAN and J. WINNINGTON, Assigned from
WINNINGTON's widow to J. BUSBY on 30 Oct. 1595 (iii. 51).
23 Aug. (ii. 529). R. Greene, M.A. MENAPHON. CAMILLA’s alarum to slum-
bering EUPHUEs, in his melancholie Cell of Silexedra. S. CLARKE.
22 Sept. (ii. 530). T. Lodge, M.D. SCILLAES Metamorphosis, enterlaced with the
unfortunate Love of Glaucus. R. JONEs.
23 Oct., (ii. 532). Richard Harvey. A Theological Discourse of the Lamb of GOD
and his enemies. [Published after PIERCE PEN NILESSE.] 1590. W. PONSON BY.
['. Written against the Martinists; but is also the beginning of the strife between
the HARVEY'S, and LYLY, GREENE and AVASH.
With this should be considered another piece written by GABRIEL HARVEY. At
Trinitie Hall, this fift of November, 1589, entituled An Advertisement for PAP-
HATCHET and MARTIN MAR-PRELATE; which appears as pg. 69–140 of his
PIERCE’s Supererogation; which was not published by him till September 1593, four
months after PEARY had been hanged.] -
1590.
9 Feb. (ii. 539). R. Greene, M.A. ORPHARION. Wherein is discouered a
musicall concorde of pleasant Histories. E. WHITE.
15 April (ii. 545). [Registered to T. NELSON.] R. Greene, M.A. The Royal Ex-
change. Containing sundry Aphorismes of Phylosophie, and golden principles
of Morrall and Naturall Quadruplicities. I. CHARLEwooD for W. WRIGHT.
[26 June (ii. 553)? TARLTON's News out of Purgatory. T. GUBBINS and T.
NEWMAN.
? Wot registered. [?] The Cobler of Canterbury or An Invective against TARLTON's
AVews out of Purgatory. R. ROBINSON.
? A'ot registered. R. Greene, M.A. Never too Late. Or a Powder of Experience.
T. ORwin for N. Lſing] and J. BUSBy.
? Mot registered. R. Greene, M.A. FRANCESCOS Fortunes. Or the Second Part
of Mezer too Late. T. ORwin for N. LIING] and J. BUSBy.
6 Oct. (ii. 564). T. Lodge, M.D., edited by R. Greene, M.A. ROSALYND.
EUPHUEs golden legacy, found after his death in his Cell at
Silexedra. N. LING and J. BUSBY.
[..." The foundation story of SHAKESPEARE's As you like it.]
2 Nov. (ii. 567). R. Greene, M.A. Mourning Garment: given him by Repent-
ance, at the Funerals of Love. - J. WoLF.
- 1591,
7 Wot registered. T. Lodge, M.D. The famous, true and historical life of ROBERT
. . . the Diuell. [?] for N. LIING] and J. BUSBY.
viii CHRONOLOGICAZ ZIST OF GREEME's Works, &c.
? AVof registered. T. Lodge, M.D. Catharos. DioGENEs in his Singularitie.
W. Hoskins and J. DANTER for J. BUSBy.
6 Dec. (ii. 600). R. Greene, M.A. A Maidens Dream [upon the death of Sir
C. HATTON, Lord Chancellor]. [T. SCARLET for T. NELSON.
13 Dec. (ii. 600). R. Greene, M.A. A rotable Discovery of Coosnage. [T.
SCARLET for T. NELSON.
[Registered as The Art of Connye katchinge to E. WHITE and T. NELSON.]
13 Dec. (ii. 600). R. Greene, M.A. The Second Part of Conny-catching
[T. Wolf for] W. WRIGHT.
1592.
7 Feb. (ii. 603). R. Greene, M.A. The Third and last Part of Conny-catching.
T. SCARLET [for C. BURBY].
17 Feb. (ii. 604). T. Lodge, M.D. EU PHUES shadow, with the Deaf man’s
Dialogue. [A. JEFFES for N. LING and J. BUSBY.
21 April (ii. 609). Cuthbert Conny-catcher. The Defence of Connye Catchinge.
[A. JEFFES for] T. GUBBINS and J. BUSBy.
? Wot registered. [?] A Disputation betweene a He Conny Catcher, and a Shee
Conny-catcher. A. J[EFFES for] T. G[UBBINs].
1 July (ii. 614). [Registered tentatively to J. Wolf.] R. Greene, M.A. PHILo-
MEI.A. . The Lady Fitzwaſ]]ter's Nightingale. R. B. for E. WHITE.
21 July (ii. 617). R. Greene, M.A. A Quip for an Upstart Courtier. J. Wolf.
8 Aug. (ii. 619). T. Nash. PIERCE PENNILESSE his Supplication to the Deuill.
[..." The surreptitious First edition with the long Title page.] R. JONES.
? Not registered. T. Nash. PIERCE PENNILESSE his Supplication to the Divell.
[...' The authentic Second edition with the short Title..] A. JEFFES for J. BUSBy.
21 Aug. (ii. 619). R. Greene, M.A. The Blacke Bookes Messenger. Laying
open the Life and Death of NED BROWNE. J. DANTER [for T. NELson].
[29 Aug., the date of C. BIRD's letter from Saffrom Walden, in ZXr. G. HARVEY's
Foure Letters &c. (Zicensed the following 4 Dec.). It describes GREENE, as, Now
sicke as a Dog, and states that, in A Quip &c, he had attacked GABRIEL's
father, old Master AARVEY of Saffron Walden.
Robert Greene dies 4 September, 1592.
[7]ie details of his death are given by G. HARVEY in the Second of his Foure Letters
&c.; which is dated, Zondon, 5 of September, 1592].
20 Sept. (ii. 620). R. Greene, M.A. Groatsworth of Witte bought with a Million
of Repentance. W. WRIGHT.
6 Oct. (ii. 620). I?] The Repentance of ROBERT GREENE, M.A. J. DANTER.
[A copy is in the Malone Collection, in the Bodleian Library.]
4 Dec. (ii. 623). Dr. G. Harvey. Four Letters, and certaine Sonnets: espe-
cially touching ROBERT GREENE. J. Wolf.
8 Dec. (ii. 623). Henry Chettle. KIND HART's Dreame. W. WRIGHT.
? AVof registered. [?] GREENE’s Vision. for T. NEwMAN.
1593.
12 Jan. (ii. 624). T. Nash. Strange News of the intercepting certaine Letters.
J. DANTER.
[Registered as The Apologie of PIERCE PENNYLESSE, or strange newes, &c.]
3 Feb. (ii. 626). Barnaby] R[ich]. GREENE’s Newes both from Heaven and
Hell. T. ADAMS and J. OXEN BRIDGE.
[18 Apr. (ii. 630). W. Shakespeare's first publication. VENUS and ADONIs.
R. FIELD.]
John Penry hanged, 29 May, 1593.
Christopher Marlowe dies from a stab, 16 June, 1593.
30 June (ii. 633). T. Nash. The Terror of the night or a Discourse of
Apparitions. J. DANTER.
8 Sept. (ii. 635). T. Nash. First Edition of CHRIST's teares over Ierusalem.
ALICE CHARLEwooD. (but P printed by JAMES P.OBERTS for ANDREw WISE.]
CHROWozocycAz ZIST OF GREEME's Works, &c. ix
In the Epistle To the Reader, G. HARVEY having made “a slauish priuat sub-
mission "; NASH makes the ſollowing “generall publike reconciliation.”
AWil misi ſãere libet, Gentles, heere is no ioyful subject towardes, if you will
weepe, so it is. I have nothing to spend on you but passion. A hundred
vnfortunate farewels to fantastical Satirisme. In those vaines heere-to-fore
haue I mispent my spirite, and prodigally conspir'd against good houres.
Nothing is there nowe so much in my vowes, as to be at pe.ice with all men,
and make submissiue amends where I haue most displeased. Not basely
feare-blasted, or constraintiuely ouer-ruled, but purely paciſycatorie suppliant,
for reconciliation and pardon doe I sue, to the principallest of them, gainst
whom I proſest vtter enmity.
Euen of Maister Docter Æaruey, I hartily desire the like, whose ſame and
reputation, (though through some precedent iniurious proudcations, and feruent
incitements of young heads,) I rashly assailed : yet now better aduised, and of
his perfections more confirmedly persuaded, vnfainedly I entreate of the whole
worlde, from my penne his worths may receiue no impeachment. All
acknowledgements of aboundant Schollership, courteous well gouerned be-
hauiour, and ripe experienst judgement, doe I attribute vnto him. Only
with his milde gentle moderation, heervnto hath he wonne me.
Take my inuectiue against him, in that abject nature that you would doe the
ralying of a Sophister in the schooles, or a scolding Lawyer at the barre,
which none but fooles wil wrest to defame.
As the Tytle of this Booke is Christs Teares, so be this Epistle the Teares of
my penne. Many things haue I vainely sette forth, whereof aow it repenteth
me. S. Augustine writ a whole booke of his Retractations. Nothing so much
do I retract, as that wherin Soeuer I haue scandaliz'd the meanest.
No sconer was this published ; and “the scalp of Aaruey's credit, new couered
with a false periwig of commendations,” than Harvey launched after “a cunning
abuscado of confiscated idle oathes,” that which had been in preparation for some
six months, viz.,
Dr. G. Harvey's PIERCE’s Supererogation, or A new Prayse of the Old Asse.
J. WoLF.
Zn two Parts, each with a title page. The Second and larger Part was written
first, and is dated 27 Aprill 1593. Zhe first Aart is short, and dated, At London :
this 16 of Iuly, 1593. The last date in the Book, is in the Printer’s PostScript, and
is 7. THORIUS's Letter from Oxford, 3 Aug. 1593. [? Two editions.]
Respecting this work, NASH says, (Haue with you to Saffrom Walden, F. 2.
Ad. I 596) Gabriell Haruey . . . not content to haue the naked scalp of his
credit now couered with a false periwig of commendations . . . hath since that
time deepely forsworne himself in the arbitrement of peace, and after the
ancient custome of Scottish amitie, vnawares proclaimed open warres a fresh in
a whole Alexandrian Librarie of waste paper. “Piers his Supererogation, or
AWashes Saint Fame'' pretely and quirkingly he christens it; and yet not so
much to quirke and crosse me thereby, as to blesse himselfe and make his
booke sell, did hee giue it that title. Now . . . he takes a new lesson out
of Plutarch, in making benefit of his enemie, and borrows my name, and
the name of Piers Pennilesse (one of my Bookes) which he knew to be most
saleable (passing at the least through the pikes of sixe Impressions) to helpe
his bedred stuffe to limpe out of Powles Churchyard.
17 Sept. (ii. 636). [Zicensed to J. WoLF.] T. Nash. The unfortunate Traveller,
Or, the life of IACK WILTON. T. SCARLET for C. BU RBY.
1 Oct. (ii. 636). Dr. G. Harvey. A New Letter of Notable Contents. J. Wolf.
7 Dec. (ii. 641). R. Greene, M.A. A ‘‘plaie booke.” The Historie of OR-
LANDO Furioso, one of the twelve Peeres of Fraunce. J. DANTER.
Assigned by DANTER, on 24 May, 1594 (ii. 650) to C. BURBY, reserving
the right of printing of any new editions,
x CAIROMOZog/CAZ ZIST OF GREEME's Works, &c.
1594.
T. Nash. Second edition of CHRIST's Tears over Jerusalem. For A. WISE.
In this Edition NASH substitutes a new Epistle to the Reader, in which he thus
resents the malignity of HARVEY's pretended friendship.
The loue or pitie I shewed towards mine enemie, of all my ill fortunes hath
most confounded me . . . -
Cleane contrarie to my expectation it hath fallen out, for treason was
shrowded vnder termes of truce : whereas I thought to make my foe a bridge
of golde, or faire words to flie by, he hath vsed it as a high way to inuade me.
Hoc pia lingua dedit. This it is to deale plainly. An extreme gull he is in
this age and no better, that beleeues a man for his swearing. Impious Gaby fell
Aſaruey, the vowed enemie to all vowes and protestations, plucking on with a
slavish priuat submission, a generall publike reconciliation, hath with a
cunning ambuscado of confiscated idle othes, welneare betrayed me to inſamie
eternall (his owne proper chaire of torment in hell). I can say no more but
the deuill and he be no men of their words.
I Feb. § 644). R. B. Gent. Greene's Furneralles. J. DANTER.
5 Mar. ii. 645). T. Lodge, M.D., and R. Greene, M.A. A Looking Glasse for
London and England. [A Play.] T. CREED [for W. BARLEY].
14 May (ii. 648). R. Greene, M.A. The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth,
slaine at Flodden. [A Play.] - T. CREEL).
7 June (ii. 652). T. Lodge, M.D. A Spyder's Webbe. [? now lost.] N. LING.
1595.
3 Jan. (ii. 668). [?] PAN his Pipe conteyning Three pastorall Egloges in
Englishe Hexameter, with other delightful Verses. R. JONES.
1 Apr. (ii. 295). A Comedie of GEORGE A GREENE, the Primer of Wakefield.
[.. • Aſtributed to Greene.] C. BURBY.
P AVof registered. R. R. Questions concerning Cony-hood.
[...' A Copy was in CORSER's Third Sale, Mo. 399. 1870.]
1596.
? Mot registered. T. Nash. Have with you to Saffron Walden, or GABRIEL
HARVEY's Hunt is up. J. DANTER.
1597.
I 1 Oct. (iii. 92). Dr. G. Harvey. The Trimming of THOMAS NASHE, Gentle.
Iſla Il. 1599. C. BURBY.
I 1 Jan. (iii. 134). T. Nash. Lenten Stuffe. [for N. LING and J C. BURBY,
1 June (iii. 677). Archbishop WHITGIFT and BANCROFT Bishop of London,
at Croyden, give Commandments to the Maser and Warden of the Stationers
Company to seize and burn certain books. Among these, is the following:
That all NASSHes bookes and Doctor HARVYes bookes
be taken wheresoeuer they maye be found and that none
of theire bookes bee euer printed hereafter |
4 June (iii. 678). The Commandments are promulgated at Stationers' Hall;
certain books are burnt &c.; and all the printers ; list of whose names is
given) likely to be concerned in the production of such books are distinctly
warned accordingly.
1600.
28 Oct. (iii. 175). T. Nash. A pleasant Comedie called SUMMER's last Will and
Testament. S. STAFFORD for [C. BURBy and 1 W. BURRE.
T. Nash was evidently dead some time before December 1601, when the A’eturn
from Parnassus was written. See p. x. of No. 6 of this Series.
CHARLEs Fitz GEOFFREY has a Latin Epitaph to him in his Cenotophia at the
end of his Affana, printed by B. BARNFS, at Oxford, in 1601.
J. Lyly died in 1606.
I W T R O D U C T / O N.
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Fast. She does observe as pure a phrase, and use as choice figures in her ordinary
conferences, as any be in the Arcadia.
Car. Or rather in Greenes works, whence she may steal with more security.
BEN Jonson. Ezery man ozef of his humour, Act ii., sc. r. [Acted 1599 )
Printed [Ent. Stat. Hall, 8 April] 16oo.]
...: |LL the arguments that have been written on the assump-
tion that GREENE's MENAPHov (including as it does
NASH's important prefatory AEpistle), was published in
I587, are only so much waste paper. Its first edition was
thus registered at Stationers' Hall.
239 big Øttgttgti / [I589].
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• * * * * * * *
* ... *...* a e s - e º 'º -
sampson Clarkeſ Entred for his Copie, MENAPHON CAMILLUS
allarum to slumberinge EPHEWEs in his
melancholly cell at Silexedria. / Vnder the
h]andes of Master doctour STALLER and
bothe the Wardens. vjd/
Transcript of the Stationers’ Registers, ii. 529. Ed. 1875.
This precise date is not of much consequence with regard to the Novel itself;
for, like most of GREENE’s prose writings, it has not any date inside of it: but it is
material in respect to the literary career of TOM NASH, to the supposed allusions
in his Preface to SHAKESPEARE, and to its positive allusion to a tragical character
called HAMLET, as one well known at the time.
As NASH's Preface says, at p. 6,
I come (sweet friend) to thy Arcadian Menaphon,




xii A W T R o O U c 7: I o Ay.
it was evidently written subsequent to the rapid composition, probably also to the
printing of the Novel.
We have seen at £. 81 of our Introductory Sketch, No. 8 of this Series, that
the first. Martinist publication, the Epistle, came abroad in November 1588.
Consequently all allusions to A/ARTIN as “anie durty mouthed Martin’” are sub-
sequent to that date: before which month the idea conveyed in it did not exist
in our Literature.
In the following attack by NASH on those “night crows” [i.e. J. PENRY and
J. THROCKMORTON], he clearly calls PENRY an “irregular idiot.” It must be
remembered that the Martinist press had not as yet been seized, at the time when
NASH wrote this. -
A secular wit that hath liued all daies of his life by what doo
you lacke, to bee more iudiciall in matters of conceit, than
our quadrant crepundios, that spit ergo in the mouth of euerie
one they meete: yet those and these are so affectionate to
dogged detracting, as the most poysonous Pasquil, anie durtie
mouthed Martin, or Momus euer composed, is gathered vp
with greedinesse before it fall to the ground, and bought at
the deerest though they smell of the friplers lauander halfe
a yeare after : for I know not how the minde of the meanest
is fedde with this follie, that they impute singularitie to him
that slanders priuelie, and count it a great peece of arte in an
inkhorne man, in anie tapsterlie tearmes whatsoeuer, to
oppose his superiours to enuie. I will not denie but in
scholler-like matters of controuersie, a quicker stile may
passe as commendable; and that a quippe to an asse is as
good as a goad to an oxe: but when an irregular idiot, that
was vp to the eares in diuinitie, before euer he met with pro-
babile in the Vniuersitie, shall leaue pro et contra before he can
scarcely pronounce it, and come to correct Common weales,
that neuer heard of the name of Magistrate before he came
to Cambridge, it is no meruaile if euery alehouse vaunt the
table of the world turned vpside down; since the childe beats
his father, and the asse whippes his master. A. 8.
It seems thereſore clear that NASH's Preface could not have been written before
November 1588. Our belief is that he wrote it in the summer of 1589, before the
appearance of Theses Martiniana on 22-29 July of that year.
A W T & O p v c 7" ſo w. xiii
I I.
|ASH asks, at £. I7, the Gentlemen Students of both Universities “to read,”
his Preface,” favourably, to incourage me in the firstlings of my folly,
and perswade your selues” &c. This then was his first published per-
ĺºl formance. But it was not his first written work. He says on the
next page 18,
It may be, my Anatomie of Absurdities may acquaint you
ere long. . . . If you chance to meete it in Paules, . . .
Yet the Anatomie had been already thus registered at Stationers' Hall, some
eleven months before this Preface appeared.
I9 septembtig (1588].
Master hacket. Entred for his copie, The Anatomie of absur-
dyties : Aucthorised vnder Doctor STALLERs
hand, and Master Colpokes being to yt as
warrant for this entrance. vjd
Transcript, &c. ii. 499. Ed. R875.
But for NASH's own testimony above, we should have certainly inferred an edition
of the Anatomie in 1588; though the British Museum copy of an edition by
HACKET, is dated 1590: which is probably the first and only impression of the
47-atomie published in the Author's lifetime.
I I I .
T IS well known that the early tragedies of ELIZABETH's reign were,
like Ferrex and Porrex, imitations of those of SENECA; and that
later on, our dramatists abandoned the old Latin, for the new Italian
S. models.
NASH thus refers to a similar change, at p. 9.
It is a common practise now a daies amongst a sort of shift-
ing companions, that runne through euery arte and thriue by
none, to leaue the trade of Nouerint whereto they were borne,
and busie themselues with the indeuors of Art, that could
scarcelie latinize their necke-verse if they shoulde have
neede;
and then he goes on to show how these men, these famished followers of SENECA,
went on “to intermeddle with Italian translations.” With all these, he contrasts
“those men of import, that have laboured with credit in this laudable kinde of
Translation,” p. Io. So that, all the while, he is referring only to Verse
Translators: first, from the Classics; secondly, from Italian.


xiv I w T R O D v c Tro w.
It has been thought that he herein alluded to SHAKESPEARE; but the date
is too early, and our great Poet is not known to have translated anything of the
kind.
It is in connection with these Imitations of the Latin tragedies in Verse, that
NASH Says,
yet English Seneca read by candle light yeeldes manie good
sentences, as Bloud is a begger, and so foorth : and if you in-
treate him faire in a frostie morning, he will affoord you
whole Hamlets, I should say handfulls of tragical speaches.
A. 9.
Here then we have a well known dramatic character of HAMLET before
SHAKESPEARE's time.
Considerable discussion has arisen whether what is known as the First Quarto
of SHAKESPEARE's HAMLET, is a revision by him of this earlier HAMLET; or
whether it be a first draught of his own independent tragedy.
If there be any force whatever in NASH's allusion, it would appear that this point
may be easily determined.
He is speaking entirely of one who was writing plays in the style of SENECA.
“Such an one, if you stood him wine on a frosty morning, would speak you whole
HAMLETs handsfull of tragical speaches.” Is it not a fair inference that such a
I/AMLET (so familiar to, and so ready to the hand of an “English SENECA ’’) first
appeared, and became renowned in an English Play constructed on the old Latin
plan, with the long speeches, the chorus, and the dumb show 2
Is the First Quarto framed on the model of SENECA's tragedies? If so, in all
likelihood, it is the HAMLET here referred to by NASH; if not, it is SHAKES-
PEARE's own production, in its first draught 2
We leave the working out of this point to Shakespearean specialists: merely
noticing that Mr. J. O. HALLIWELL-PHILLIPs, in his Memoranda on the Tragedy
of HAMLET, p. 21, Ed. 1879, thus summarises all the extant allusions to this earlier
play.
“The preceding notices may fairly authorise us to inſer that the ancient play of
A/AMLET
1. Was written by either an attorney or an attorney's clerk, who had not received
a University education.
2. Was full of tragical high sounding speeches.
3. Contained the passage, There are things called whifts in store, spoken by
AAMLET.
4. Included a very telling brief speech by the Ghost. in the two words,
AAMLET / Revenge / - -
5. Was acted at the Theatre in Shoreditch, and at the Playhouse at Newington
Butts.
6. Had for its principal character, a hero exhibiting more general violence than
can be attributed to SHAKESPEARE's creation of AAMLET.”
A W T R O D U c TI O W. XV
I V .
Wºyz. AsH's Preface is also very interesting as a piece of Contemporary Criticism
5|| on the Learned side of Poetry, more thought of then than now ; as
{{| PUTTENHAM's Arte of Ænglish Poesie, of the same year, is of our
El Vernacular Verse.
V .
º|O BETTER or so copious specimens of Elizabethan Prose, in its virility,
º, and its grace as well, exist than may be found in the Prose Works of
tº GREENE, HARVEY, and NASH.
ñºl. A collected Edition of them, as specified at pp. 6–10 is much wanted.
NASH, who was GREENE’s intimate, thus describes him in Strange Mews, I 592.
Hee inherited more vertues than vices, a iolly long red
peake [i.e., beard] like the spire of a steeple he cherisht con-
tinually without cutting, whereat a man might hang a Iewell,
it was so sharp and pendant. -
VVhy should art answer for the infirmities of manners ?
He had his faultes, and thou [i.e., G. HARVEY] thy follyes.
Debt and deadly sinne, who is not subject to ? With any
notorious crime I neuer knew him tainted. . . . A good
fellow hee was. . . . In a night and a day would he haue
yarkte vp a Pamphlet [i.e., a Romance like the present Text]
as well as in seauen yeare, and glad was that Printer that
might bee so blest to pay him deare for the very dregs of his
W1t.
Hee made no account of winning credite by his workes, as
thou [G. HARVEY] dost, that dost no good workes, but thinkest
to bee famosed by a strong faith of thy owne worthines.
His only care was to haue a spel in his purse to coniure vp a
good cuppe of wine with at all times. E. 4.
So GREENE, with his Love Pamphlets, and DRYI)EN, with his Comedies, are both
signal examples of men of genius doing work in which they neither had any pride
nor sought any reputation. A strange and fatuous squandering of their mental
wealth !


xvi A N T R O D U c TI O W.
V I .
TN. Hough NASH denied that GREENE was his superior in anything; he
ºf excepted his dramatic plotting, wherein he considered GREENE to excel.
º *|| In this Pastoral Romance, however, there is the least possible Plot.
*Sºl The chain of Cause and Effect is of the weakest possible strength.
It is really in its form a Prose Play enlivened by Songs; and might easily be cut
up into Acts (p. v.), but for the descriptions of places, which would be now repre-
sented by scenery. The characters appear and disappear violently, at the will of the
Writer. The Story, judged by our modern tests, is full of glaring absurdities. That
MELICERTUS should woo his long-lost wife, and not come to recognize her; and
that PLEUSIDIPPUs should woo his own mother, and she not know him, is utterly
contrary to probability, and the constitution of human nature. But it is only to be
supposed that in the Golden World, these little difficulties were not thought to be
of any consequence. The incongruities of Time are even greater than those of
Fact. One can see how such a story as this would exasperate any one craving
for Oneness of Design, and convert him to the Doctrine of the Unities.
º
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Like SHAKESPEARE's As you like it, this Romance seems filled with the sun-
shine of that Golden Age which illuminated the souls of the later Poets of
ELIZABETH's reign : while, under the disguise of shepherds and shepherdesses on
the Mediterranean shores, such works have preserved to us the fine-filed talk of
the English Court. So that they are models to us of the cultivated speech of that
time.





M E N AP HON
Camillas alarum to
slumbering Euphues, in his
melancholie Cell at Si-
lexedra.
WWherein are deciphered the variable effects
of Fortune, the wonders of Loue, the
triumphes of inconstant Time.
Displaying in sundrie conceipted passions (figured in a continuate
Historie) the Trophees that Wertue carrieth triumphant, maugre
the wrath of Enuie, or the resolution of Fortune.
A worke worthie the youngest eares for
pleasure, or the grauest cenſures
for principles.
Robertus Greene in Artibus magister.
Omne tulit punctum.
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To the right Worshipfull and ver-
tuous Ladie, the Ladie Hales, wife to the late
deceased Sir Iames Hales; Robert Greene
wisheth increase of Worship and vertue.
swºr: Hen Alexander (right worshipfull) was troubled
}} with hottest feuers, Phillip the phisition broght
º/º him the coldest potions; extreams haue ther
$º Antidotes, and the driest melancholy hath a
sanguin ; wise Hortenzia, midst hir greatest
dumpes, either playd vvith hir Children, or read some
pleasant verses: such as sorrow hath pinched, mirth must
cure. This considered ; hearing (madam) of the passions
your Ladiship hath vttered a late for the losse of your
husband, a Knight in life worshipfull, vertuous, and full of
honourable thoghts; discouering by such passionate sorowes
the patterne of a louing and vertuous wife, whose ioyes liued
in hir husbands weale, and ended with his life, I thought it
my dutie to write this pastorall historie, conteyning the
manifolde iniuries of fortune, that both your Ladiship might
see her inconstant follies, and beare hir frownes with more
patience, and when your dumpes were most deepe, then to
looke on this little treatise for recreation: wherein there be
as well humors to delight, as discourses to aduise. Which
if your Ladiship shall vouch to accept, couering my pre-
sumption and faultes with your wonted courtesie; I haue
the wished end of my labors. In which hope resting, I
commit your Ladiship to the Almightie.
Yours in all humble Seruice,
Robert Greene.
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To the Gentlemen Readers,
health.
T fareth with mee, Gentlemen, as with Batillus, the
|Aº ouer bold poet of Rome, that at euerie winke of Caesar
º ¥ would deliuer vp an hundred verses, though neuer a one
* plausible, thinking the Emperours smile a priulledge
for his ignorance: so } hauing your fauor in letting passe my
Pamphlets, feare not to trouble your patience with many works,
and such as if Batillus had lived, hee might well haue subscribed
his name to. But resting upon your fauors j haue thus farre
aduentured to let you see Camillas alarum to Euphues, who
thought it necessarie not to let Euphues censure to Philautus,
passe without requitall. If Gentlemen you finde my stile either
magis humile in some place, or more sublime in another, if you
finde darke AEnigmaes or strange conceipts as if Sphinx on the one
side, and Roscius on the other were playing the wagges; thinke
the metaphors are well ment, and that I did it for your pleasures,
whereunto j euer aymed my thoughts : and desire you to take a
little paines to prie into my imagination. . Wherein if you shall
west mine, I shall euer as I haue done rest yours; and so I bid
you farewell.
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To the Gentlemen Students
of both Wniuersities.
zº Vrteous and wise, whose iudgements (not
Ší entangled with enuie) enlarge the deserts
of the Learned by your liberall censures;
vouchsafe to welcome your scholler-like
Shepheard with such Vniuersitie enter-
tainement, as either the nature of your
bountie, or the custome of your common
ciuilitie may affoord. To you he appeales that knew him ab
extrema pueritia, whose placet he accounts the plaudite of his
paines; thinking his daie labour was not altogether lauisht
Sine linea, if there be anie thing of all in it, that doth olere
atticum in your estimate. --
I am not ignorant how eloquent our gowned age is
growen of late; so that euerie moechanicall mate abhorres
the english he was borne too, and plucks with a solemne
periphrasis, his vi vales from the inkhorne; which I im-
pute not so much to the perfection of arts, as to the seruile
imitation of vainglorious tragoedians, who contend not so
seriouslie to excell in action, as to embowell the clowdes in
a speach of comparison; thinking themselues more than
initiated in poets immortalitie, if they but once get Boreas
by the beard, and the heauenlie bull by the deaw-lap.
But herein I cannot so fully bequeath them to follie, as
their idiote art-masters, that intrude themselues to our eares


6 To the Gentlemen Students. T. Nash.
Summer, 1589.
as the alcumists of eloquence; who (mounted on the stage of
arrogance) think to outbraue better pens with the swelling
bumbast of a bragging blanke verse. Indeed it may be the
ingrafted ouerflow of some kilcow conceipt, that ouer-
cloieth their imagination with a more than drunken resolu-
tion, beeing not extemporall in the inuention of anie other
meanes to vent their manhood, commits the digestion of
their cholerick incumbrances, to the spacious volubilitie of a
drumming decasillabon. Mongst this kinde of men that
repose eternitie in the mouth of a player, I can but ingrosse
some deepe read Grammarians, who hauing no more learning
in their scull, than will serue to take vp a commoditie; nor
Arte in their brain, than was nourished in a seruing mans
idlenesse, will take vpon them to be the ironicall censors of
all ; when God and Poetrie doth know, they are the simplest
of all.
To leaue these to the mercie of their mother tongue, that
feed on nought but the crummes that fal from the transla-
tors trencher, I come (sweet friend) to thy Arcadian Mena-
phon; whose attire though not so statelie, yet comelie, dooth
entitle thee aboue all other, to that temperatum dicendi genus,
which Tullie in his Orator tearmeth true eloquence. Let other
men (as they please) praise the mountaine that in seauen
yeares brings foorth a mouse, or the Italionate pen, that of
a packet of pilfries, affoordeth the presse a pamphlet or two
in an age, and then in disguised arraie, vaunts Ouids and
Plutarchs plumes as their owne ; but giue me the man, whose
extemporall vaine in anie humor, will excell our greatest Art-
masters deliberate thoughts; whose inuention quicker than
his eye, will challenge the proudest Rethoritian, to the con-
tention of like perfection, with like expedition. What is he
amongst Students so simple, that cannot bring forth (tandem
aliquando) some or other thing singular, sleeping betwixt euerie
sentence f Was it not Maros xij. years toyle, that so famed
Summer, T. Nash. 1589.
To the Gentlemen Students. 7
his xij. AEmeidos ? Or Peter Ramus xvi. yeares paines, that so
praised his pettie Logique 2 Howe is it then, our drowping
wits should so wonder at an exquisite line, that was his
masters day labour 2 Indeede I must needes say, the des-
cending yeares from the Philosophers Athens, haue not been
supplied with such present Orators, as were able in anie Eng-
lish vaine to be eloquent of their owne, but either they must
borrow inuention of Ariosto, and his Countreymen, take vp
choyce of words by exchange in Tullies Tusculane, and the
Latine Historiographers store-houses; similitudes, nay whole
sheetes and tractacts verbatim, from the plentie of Plutarch
and Plinie, and to conclude, their whole methode of writing,
from the libertie of Comical fictions, that haue succeeded to
our Rethoritians, by a second imitation : so that, well may
the Adage, Nil dictum quod non dictum prius, bee the most
iudiciall estimate, of our latter Writers.
But the hunger of our vnsatiate humorists, beeing such
as it is readie to swallowe all draffe without indifference,
that insinuates it selfe to their senses vnder the name of
delight, imployes oft times manie thred bare witts, to
emptie their inuention of their Apish deuices, and talke
most superficiallie of Pollicie, as those that neuer ware
gowne in the Vniuersitie; wherein they reuiue the olde
saide Adage, Sus Mineruam, and cause the wiser to quippe
them with Asinus ad Lyram. Would Gentlemen and riper
iudgements admit my motion of moderation in a matter
of follie, I wold perswade them to phisicke their faculties of
seeing and hearing, as the Sabatans doo their dulled senses
with smelling; who (as Strabo reporteth) ouer-cloyed with
such odoriferous sauours, as the naturall encrease of their
Countrey (Balsamum, Amomum, with Myrrhe and Franken-
cense) sends foorth, refresh their nosthrills with the vnsauorie
sent of the pitchie slime, that Euphrates casts vp, and the
contagious fumes of Goates beardes burnt; so woulde I haue
8 7 o the Gentlemen Students. sumº.
|
them, being surfetted vnawares with the sweete sacietie of
eloquence, which the lauish of our copious Language maie
procure, to vse the remedie of contraries; and recreate their
rebated witts, not as they did, with the senting of slyme or
Goates beardes burnt, but with the ouer-seeing of that
Sublime dicendi genus, which walkes abroad for wast paper in
each seruing mans pocket, and the otherwhile perusing of our
Gothamists barbarisme; so shoulde the opposite comparison of
Puritie, expell the infection of absurditie; and their ouer-rackte
Rhethorique, bee the Ironicall recreation of the Reader.
But so farre discrepant is the idle vsage of our vnexperienst
punies from this prescription, that a tale of Ihon a Brainfords
will, and the vnluckie furmentie, wilbe as soon interteined into
their libraries, as the best poeme that euer Tasso eternisht :
which being the effect of an vndescerning iudgement, makes
drosse as valuable as gold, and losse as welcome as gain, the
Glowworme mentioned in AEsops fables, namelie the apes follie,
to be mistaken for fire, when as God wot poore soules, they
hauenought but their toyle for their heate, their paines for their
sweate, and (to bring it to our english prouerbe) their labour
for their trauaile. Wherin I can but resemble them to the
Panther, who is so greedie of mens excrements; that if they
be hangd vp in a vessell higher than his reach, he sooner
killeth himselfe with the ouer-stretching of his windlesse
bodie, than he wil cease from his intended enterprise.
Oft haue I obserued what I now set downe; a secular wit
that hath liued all daies of his life by what doo you lacke, to
bee more iudiciall in matters of conceit, than our quadrant
crepundios, that spit ergo in the mouth of euerie one they meete:
yet those and these are so affectionate to dogged detracting,
as the most poysonous Pasquil, anie durtie mouthed Martin,
or Momus euer composed, is gathered vp with greedinesse
before it fall to the ground, and bought at the deerest though
they smell of the friplers lauander halfe a yeere after : for I
Summer, T. Nash. 1589.
To the Gentlemen Students. 9
know not how the minde of the meanest is fedde with this
follie, that they impute singularitie to him that slanders
priuelie, and count it a great peece of arte in an inkhorne man,
in anie tapsterlie tearmes whatsoeuer, to oppose his superiours
to enuie. I will not denie but in scholler-like matters of con-
trouersie, a quicker stile may passe as commendable ; and
that a quippe to an asse is as good as a goad to an oxe : but
when an irregular idiot, that was vp to the eares in diuinitie,
before euer he met with probabile in the Vniuersitie, shal!
leaue pro et contra before he can scarcely pronounce it,
and come to correct Common weales, that neuer heard of the
name of Magistrate before he came to Cambridge, it is no
meruaile if euery alehouse vaunt the table of the would
turned vpside down ; since the childe beats his father, and
the asse whippes his master.
But least I might seeme with these night crowes, Nimis
curiosus in aliena republica, I’le turne backe to my first text,
of studies of delight; and talke a little in friendship with
a few of our triuiall translators. It is a common practise
now a daies amongst a sort of shifting companions, that
runne through euery arte and thriue by none, to leaue the
trade of Nouerint whereto they were borne, and busie them-
selues with the indeuors of Art, that could scarcelie latinize
their necke-verse if they should haue neede; yet English
Seneca read by candle light yeeldes manie good sentences,
as Bloud is a begger, and so foorth : and if you intreate him
faire in a frostie morning, he will affoord you whole Hamlets,
I should say handfulls of tragical speaches. But 6 griefe
tempas edax rerum, what’s that will last alwaies? The sea
exhaled by droppes will in continuance be drie, and Seneca
let bloud line by line and page by page, at length must needes
die to our stage: which makes his famisht followers to
imitate the Kidde in AEsop, who enamored with the Foxes
newfangles, forsooke all hopes of life to leape into a new
IO To the Gentlemen Students. T. Nash.
Summer, 1589.
occupation ; and these men renowncing all possibilities of
credit or estimation, to intermeddle with Italian translations:
wherein how poorelie they haue plodded, (as those that are
neither prouenzall men, nor are able to distinguish of
Articles,) let all indifferent Gentlemen that haue trauailed
in that tongue, discerne by their twopenie pamphlets : and
no meruaile though their home-born mediocritie be such
in this matter; for what can be hoped of those, that thrust
Elisium into hell, and haue not learned so long as they haue
liued in the spheares, the iust measure of the Horizon without
an hexameter. Sufficeth them to bodge vp a blanke verse
with ifs and ands, and other while for recreation after their
candle stuffe, hauing starched their beardes most curiouslie,
to make a peripateticall path into the inner parts of the
Citie, and spend two or three howers in turning ouer French
Doudie, where they attract more infection in one minute,
than they can do eloquence all dayes of their life, by
conuersing with anie Authors of like argument.
But least in this declamatorie vaine, I should condemne
all and commend none, I will propound to your learned
imitation, those men of import, that haue laboured with
credit in this laudable kinde of Translation ; In the forefront
of whom, I cannot but place that aged Father Erasmus,
that inuested most of our Greeke Writers, in the roabes of
the auncient Romaines; in whose traces, Philip Melancthon,
Sadolet, Plantine, and manie other reuerent Germaines insist-
ing, haue reedified the ruines of our decayed Libraries, and
merueilouslie inriched the Latine tongue with the expence of
their toyle.
Not long after, their emulation beeing transported into
England, euerie priuate Scholler, William Turner, and who
not, beganne to vaunt their smattering of Latine, in English
Impressions. But amongst others in that Age, Sir Thomas
Eliots elegance did seuer it selfe from all equalls, although
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To the Gentlemen Students. I I
Sir Thomas Moore with his Comicall wit, at that instant was
not altogether idle : yet was not Knowledge fullie confirmed
in hir Monarchie amongst vs, till that most famous and
fortunate Nurse of all learning, Saint Iohns in Cambridge,
that at that time was as an Vniuersitie within it selfe;
shining so farre aboue all other Houses, Halls, and Hospitalls
whatsoeuer, that no Colledge in the Towne, was able to
compare with the tythe of her Students; hauing (as I haue
hearde graue men of credite report) more candles light in
it, euerie Winter Morning before fowre of the clocke, than
the fowre of clocke bell gaue stroakes; till Shee (I saie)
as a pittying Mother, put too her helping hande, and sent
from her fruitefull wombe, sufficient Schollers, both to support
her owne weale, as also to supplie all other inferiour founda-
tions defects, and namelie that royall erection of Trinitie
Colledge, which the Vniuersitie Orator, in an Epistle to the
Duke of Somerset, aptlie tearmed Colona diducta, from the
Suburbes of Saint Iohns. In which extraordinarie conception,
vno partu in rempublicam prodiere, the Exchequer of eloquence
Sir Iohn Cheeke, a man of men, supernaturally traded in al
tongues, Sir john Mason, Doctor Watson, Redman, Aschame,
Grindall, Leuer, Pilkington: all which, haue either by their
priuate readings, or publique workes, repurged the errors of
Arts, expelde from their puritie, and set before our eyes, a
more perfect Methode of Studie.
But howe ill their preceptes haue prospered with our idle
Age, that leaue the fountaines of sciences, to follow the
riuers of Knowledge, their ouer-fraught Studies, with trifling
Compendiaries maie testifie: for I knowe not howe it comes
to passe, by the doating practise of our Diuinitie dunces,
that striue to make their Pupills pulpet men, before they
are reconciled to Priscian: but those yeares, which shoulde
bee employed in Aristotle, are expired in Epitomes; and
well too, they maye haue so much Catechisme vacation, to
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rake vp a little refuse Philosophie. And heere could I
enter into a large fielde of inuectiue, against our abiect
abbreuiations of Artes, were it not growen to a newe fashion
amongst our Nation, to vaunt the pride of contraction in
euerie manuarie action: in so much, that the Pater noster,
which was woont to fill a sheete of paper, is written in the
compasse of a pennie : whereupon one merelie affirmed, that
prouerb to be deriued, No pennie, no pater noster; which their
nice curtailing, puts me in mind of the custome of the
Scythians, who if they be at any time distressed with famin,
take in their girdles shorter, and swaddle themselues streighter,
to the intent 11o vacuum beeng left in their intrayles, hunger
should not so much tirannize ouer their stomacks; euen so
these men opprest with greater penurie of Art, do pound
their capacitie in barren Compendiums, and bound their base
humors, in the beggerly straites of a hungry Analysis, least
longing after that infinitum which the pouertie of their conceit
cannot compasse, they sooner yeeld vp their youth to destinie,
than their heart to vnderstanding. How is it then, such
bungling practitioners in principles, should euer profite the
Common wealth by their negligent paines, who haue no more
cunning in Logique or Dialogue Latine, than appertains to the
literall construction of either; neuerthelesse it is daily ap-
parant to our domesticall eyes, that there is none so forward
to publish their imperfections, either in the trade of glose or
translations, as those that are more vnlearned than ignorance,
and lesse conceiuing than infants.
Yet dare I not impute absurditie to all of that societie,
though some of them haue set their names to their simpli-
citie. Who euer my priuate opinion condemneth as faultie,
Master Gascoigne is not to bee abridged of his deserued
esteeme, who first beate the path to that perfection which
our best Poets haue aspired too since his departure
[Gascoigne died in 1577]; whereto he did ascend by com-
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paring the Italian with the English, as Tullie did Graeca cum
Latinis. Neither was Master Turberuile the worst of his
time, although in translating he attributed too much to the
necessitie of rime. And in this page of praise, I cannot omit
aged Arthur Golding, for his industrious toile in Englishing
Ouids Metamorphosis, besides manie other exquisite editions of
Diuinitie, turned by him out of the French tongue into our own.
Master Phaer likewise is not to be forgot in regard of his
famous Virgil, whose heauenly verse had it not bin blemisht
by his hautie thoghts England might haue long insulted in his
wit, and corrigat qui potest haue been subscribed to his workes.
But fortune the Mistres of change with a pitying compassion,
respecting Master Stanihursts praise, would that Phaer shoulde
fall that hee might rise, whose heroicall Poetrie infired, I
should say inspired, with an hexameter furie, recalled to life,
whateuer hissed barbarisme, hath bin buried this hundred
yeare; and reuiued by his ragged quill, such carterlie varietie,
as no hodge plowman in a countrie, but would haue held as
the extremitie of clownerie; a patterne whereof, I will pro-
pounde to your iudgements, as neere as I can, being parte of
one of his descriptions of a tempest, which is thus
Then did he maže, heauens vault to rebounde, with rounce robble hobble
Of ruffe raffe roaring, with thwick thwack thurlery bouncing
Which strange language of the firmament neuer subiect
before to our common phrase, makes vs that are not vsed to
terminate heauens moueings, in the accents of any voice,
esteeme of their triobulare interpreter, as of some Thrasonical
huffe snuffe, for so terrible was his stile, to all milde eares,
as would haue affrighted our peaceable Poets, from inter-
medling hereafter, with that quarrelling kinde of verse; had
not sweete Master France by his excellent translation of
Master Thomas Watsons Sugred A mintas, animated their dulled
spirits, to such high witted endeuors.
I4. To the Gentlemen Students. [sumº.
But I knowe not how their ouertimerous cowardise hath
stoode in awe of enuie, that no man since him, durst imitate
any of the worste of those Romane wonders in english,
which makes me thinke that either the louers of medocritie
are verie many, or that the number of good Poets, are very
small : and in trueth, (Master Watson except, whom I men-
tioned before) I knowe not almost any of late dayes that
hath shewed himselfe singular in any speciall Latin Poëm,
whose A mintas, and translated Antigone may march in equipage
of honour, with any of our ancient Poets. I will not say but
wee had a Haddon (died I572] whose pen would haue challenged
the Lawrell from Homer, together with Carre (died 1568], that
came as nere him, as Virgil to Theocritus. But Tho. Newton
with his Leyland and Gabriell Haruey, with two or three other,
is almost all the store, that is left vs at this hower. Epita-
phers, and position Poets haue wee more than a good many,
that swarme like Crowes to a dead carcas, but flie like Swal-
lows in the VVinter, from any continuate subject of witte.
The efficient whereof, I imagine to issue, from the vpstart
discipline of our reformatorie Churchmen, who account
wit vanitie, and poetrie impietie; whose error although
the necessitie of Philosophie might confute, which lies
couched most closely vnder darke fables profounditie, yet I
had rather referre it, as a disputatiue plea to diuines, than
set it downe as a determinate position, in my vnexperienst
opinion. But how euer their dissentious iudgements, should
decree in their afternoone sessions of an sit, the priuat trueth
of my discouered Creede in this controuersie is this, that as
that beast, was thought scarce worthie to bee sacrifised to
the AEgiptian Epaphus, who had not some or other blacke
spotte on his skinne: so I deeme him farre vnworthie of the
name of scholler, and so consequentlie, to sacrifice his en-
deuors to art, that is not a Poet, either in whole or in a parte.
And here, peraduenture, some desperate quipperwill canuaze
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my proposed comparison plus vltra, reconciling the allusion
of the blacke spot, to the blacke pot; which makes our Poets
vndermeale Muses so mutinous, as euerie stanzo they pen
after dinner, is full poynted with a stabbe. Which their
dagger drunkennesse, although it might be excused with Tam
Marti quam Mercurio, yet will I couer it as well as I may,
with that prouerbial faecundi calices, that might wel haue been
doore keeper to the kanne of Silenus, when nodding on his
Asse trapt with iuie, hee made his moist nosecloth, the pausing
intermedium, twixt euerie nappe. Let frugale scholares, and
fine fingerd nouices, take their drinke by the ownce, and their
wine by the halpe-ſpenny] worthes, but it is for a Poet, to exa-
mine the pottle pottes, and gage the bottome of whole gallons;
qui bene vult Trotéºv, debet ante Tivetv. A pot of blew burning ale,
with a fierie flaming tost, is as good as Pallas with the nine
Muses on Pernassus top : without the which, in vaine may they
crie; 6 thou my muse inspire mee with some pen, when they
want certaine liquid sacrifice, to rouze her foorth her denne.
Pardon me Gentlemen, though somewhat merely I glaunce
at their imoderate follie, who affirme that no man can
write with conceit, except he takes counsell of the cup :
nor would I haue you thinke that Theonino dente, I arme my
stile against all, since I doo knowe the moderation of many
Gentlemen of that studie, to be so farre from infamie, as their
verse from equalitie: whose sufficiencie, were it as well
seene into, by those of higher place, as it wanders abroade
vnrewarded, in the mouthes of vngratefull monsters, no
doubte but the remembrance of Maecenas liberalitie ex-
tended to Maro, and men of like qualitie, would haue lefte no
memorie to that prouerb of pouertie. Si nihil attuleris, ibis
Homere foras. Tut, saies our English Italians, the finest
witts our Climate sends foorth, are but drie braind doltes, in
comparison of other countries: whome if you interrupt with
redde rationem, they will tell you of Petrache, Tasso, Celiano,
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Summer, 1589.
with an infinite number of others; to whome if I should
oppose Chaucer, Lidgate, Gower, with such like, that liued
vnder the tirranie of ignorance, I do think their best louers
would bee much discontented, with the collation of contraries,
if I should write ouer al their heads, Haile fellow well met.
One thing I am sure of, that each of these three haue vaunted
their meeters, with a much admiration in English as euer the
proudest Ariosto did his verse in Italian. What should I
come to our court, where the otherwhile vacations of our
grauer Nobilitie, are prodigall of more pompous, wit, and
choyce of words, than euer tragick Tasso could attain too :
but as for pastorall Poèmes, I will not make the comparison,
least our countrimens credit should bee discountenanst by the
contention, who although they cannot fare, with such inferior
facilitie, yet I knowe would carrie the bucklers full easilie,
from all forreine brauers, if their subjectum circa quod should
sauor of any thing haughtie: and should the challenge of
deepe conceit, be intruded by an forreiner, to bring our
english wits, to the tutohstone of Arte, I would preferre
diuine Master Spencer, the miracle of wit to bandie line for
line for my life, in the honor of England, gainst Spaine,
France, jtalie, and all the worlde. Neither is he, the only
swallow of our summer, (although Apollo, if his Tripos were
vp again would pronounce him his Socrates) but he
being forborne, there are extant about London, many most
able men, to reuiue Poetrie, though it were executed ten
thousand times, as in Platos so in Puritanes common
wealth ; as for example Matthew Roydon, Thomas Atchelow,
and George Peele, the first of whome, as hee hath shewed
himselfe singular, in the immortall Epitaph of his
beloued Astrophel, besides many other most absolute comicke
inuentions (made more publique by euerie mans praise,
than they can bee by my speache) so the second, hath more
than once or twise manifested, his deepe witted scholler-
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ship in places of credit ; and for the last, thogh not the least
of them all, I dare commend him to all that know him,
as the chiefe supporter of pleasance nowe liuing, the Atlas
of Poetrie, and primus verborum Artifex : whose first en-
crease, the Arraignement of Paris, might plead to your
opinions, his pregnant dexteritie of wit, and manifold varietie
of inuention; wherein (me iudice) hee goeth a step beyond
all that write. Sundrie other sweete Gentlemen I know,
that haue vaunted their pens in priuate deuices, and trickt
vp a companie of taffata fooles with their feathers, whose
beautie if our Poets had not peecte ſpecked] with the supply of
their periwigs, they might haue antickt it vntill this time vp
and downe the countrey with the King of Fairies, and dinde
[dimed] euerie daie at the pease porredge ordinarie with Delphri-
gus. But Tolossa hath forgot that it was sometime sackt, and
beggers that euer they caried their fardles on footback: and
in truth no meruaile, when as the deserued reputation of one
Roscius, is of force to inrich a rabble of counterfets; yet let
subjects for all their insolence, dedicate a De profundis
euerie morning to the preseruation of their Casar, least their
encreasing indignities returne them ere long to their iuggling
to mediocrity, and they bewaile in weeping blankes the wane
of their Monarchie.
As Poetrie hath beene honoured in those her forenamed
professours, so it hath not beene any whit disparaged by
William Warners absolute Albions. And heere Authoritie
hath made a full point: in whose reuerence insisting I cease
to expose to your sport the picture of those Pamphleters and
Poets, that make a patrimonie of In speech, and more than a
younger brothers inheritance of their Abcie.
Reade fauourably, to incourage me in the firstlings of my
folly, and perSwade your selues, I will persecute those idiots
and their heires vnto the third generation, that haue made
Art bankerout of her ornaments, and sent Poetry a begging
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vp and downe the Countrey. It may be, my Anatomie of
Absurdities may acquaint you ere long with my skill in
surgery, wherein the diseases of Art more merrily discouered
may make our maimed Poets put together their blankes vnto
the building of an Hospitall.
If you chance to meete it in Paules, shaped in a new suite
of similitudes, as if, like the eloquent apprentice of Plutarch
it were propped at seuen yeares end in double apparell,
thinke his master hath fulfilled couenants, and onely
cancelled the Indentures of dutie. If I please, I will
thinke my ignorance indebted vnto you that
applaud it : if not, what rests, but
that I be excluded from your
curtesie, like Apocrypha
from your Bibles 2
How euer, yours euer.
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*Ay In laudem Authoris,
Distichom amoris.
Elicious words, the life of wanton wit,
That doo enspire our soules with sweete content;
Why haue your father Hermes thought it fit
My eyes should surfet by my hearts consent P
Full twentie Summers haue I fading seene,
And twentie Floras in their golden guise :
Yet neuer viewd I such a pleasant Greene
As this, whose garnisht gleades, compare denies.
Of all the flowers a Lillie one I lou'd,
Whose labouring beautie brancht it selfe abroade;
But now old age his glorie hath remoud,
And Greener obiects are my eyes aboade.
No countrey to the downes of Arcadie,
Where Aganippes euer springing wells
Doo moyst the meades with bubling melodie ;
And makes me muse, what more in Delos dwelles;
There feeds our Menaphons celestiall Muse,
There makes his pipe his pastorall reporte;
Which strained now a note aboue his vse,
Foretels, he’le mere more chaunt of Choas sporte,
Reade all that list, and reade till you mislike ;
Condemne who can, so enuie be no iudge :
No reede can swell more higher, lesse it shrike.
Robin thou hast done well, care not who grudge.
H E N R I E V P C H E A R Gentleman.

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*Ay Thomas Brabine Gent.
in praise of the Author.
sºlome foorth you witts that vaunt the pompe of speach,
And Striue to thunder from a Stage-mans throate :
View Menaphon a note beyond your reach ; [doate :
Whose sight will make your drumming descant
Players auant, you know not to delight ;
Welcome sweete Shepheard ; worth a Schollers sight.
Smirna is drie, and Helicon exhal’d
Caballian founts haue left their springing sourse,
Parnassus with his Lawrell Stands appal’d;
And yet His Muse keepes on her wonted course :
Wonted said ºf P I wrong his paines too much,
Since that his pen before brought foorth none such.
One writes of loue, and wanders in the aire ;
Another stands on tearmes of trees and Stones :
When heauens compare yeeldes but the praise of faire,
And christall can describe but flesh and bones :
Yet countrey Swaynes, whose thoughts are faith and troth,
Will shape sweete words of wooll and russet cloth.
Mongst whom if I my Tityrus should chuse,
Whose warbling tunes might wanton out my woes;
To none more oftner would my solace vse;
Than to his Pastoralls their mortall foes.
Sweete verse, sweete prose, how haue you pleasde my vaine P
Be thou still Greene, whiles others glorie waine.
Finis.

Arc a d ? a .
The reports of the
She p he ards.
Fter that the wrath of mightie Ioue had
wrapt Arcadia with noysome pestilence,
in so much that the ayre yeelding preiu-
diciall sauors, seemd to be peremptory
in some fatall resolution. Democles soue-
raigne and King of that famous Continent
pitying the sinister accidents of his people,
being a man as iust in his censures as
royall in his possessions, as carefull for the weale of his
countrey, as the continuance of his diadem, thinking that
vnpeopled Cities were Corasiues to Princes conscience, that
the strength of his subiects was the sinnews of his dominions,
and that euery crowne must conteyne a care, not onely to
winne honour by forrayne conquests, but in mainteining dig-
nitie with ciuill and domestical insights : Democles grounding
his arguments vpon these premisses, coueting to be counted
Pater Patriae, calling a Parliament together, whether all his
Nobilitie incited by summons made their repaire, elected two
of his chiefe Lordes to passe vnto Delphos, at Apollos Oracle


22 7%e reports of the Shepheards. Å.
to heare the fatall sentence, either of their future miserie or
present remedie.
They hauing their charge, posting from Arcadia to the
Tripos where Pithia sate, the sacred Nymph that deliuered
out Apollos Dylonimas, offering as their manner is their
orizons and presents, as wel to intreate by deuotion, as to
perswade by bountie, they had returned from Apollo this
doome. -
When Neptune riding on the Southerne seas
shall from the bosome of his Lemman yeald
Th'arcadian wonder, men and Gods to please :
Plentie in pride shall march amidst the field,
Dead men shall warre, and vnborne babes shall frowne,
And with their fawchens hew their foemen downe.
When Lambes haue Lions for their surest guide,
and Planets rest vpon th'arcadian hills :
When swelling seas haue neither ebbe nor tide,
When equall bankes the Ocean margine fills.
Then looke Arcadians for a happie time,
And sweete content within your troubled Clyme.
No sooner had Pithia deliuered this scroll to the Lordes of
Arcadie, but they departed and brought it to Democles, who
causing the Oracle to be read amongst his distressed com-
mons, found the Delphian censure more full of doubts to
amaze, than fraught with hope to comfort; thinking rather
that the angrie God sent a peremptorie presage of ruine,
than a probable ambiguitie to applaud any hope of remedie :
yet loath to haue his carefull subjects fall into the balefull
laborinth of despaire, Democles began to discourse vnto them,
that the interpreters of Apollos secretes, were not the con-
ceipts of humane reason, but the successe of long expected
euents; that Comets did protend at the first blaze, but tooke
effect in the dated bosome of the destinies; that oracles were
foretold at the Delphian Caue, but were shapte out and
finished in the Counsell house. -
With such perswasiue arguments Democles appeased the
distressed thoughtes of his doubtful countrimen, and com-
.g.: The reports of the Shepheard's. 23
manded by proclamation that no man should prie into the
quiddities of Apollos answere, least sundrie censures of his
diuine secrecie, should trouble Arcadia with some sodaine
mutinie. The King thus smoothing the heate of his cares,
rested a melancholy man in his Courts; hiding vnder his
head the double faced figure of Ianus, as well to cleare
the skies of other mens conceiptes with smiles, as to
furnish out his owne dumps with thoughts. But as other
beasts leuell their lookes at the countenance of the Lion,
and birdes make wing as the Eagle flyes: so Regis ad
arbitrium totus componitur orbis : the people were measured
by the minde of the souereigne, and what stormes soeuer they
smoothed in priuate conceipt, yet they made haye, and cried
holiday in outward appearance: insomuch that euerie man
repaired to his owne home, and fell either vnto pleasures or
labours, as their liuing or content allowed them.
Whiles thus Arcadia rested in a silent quiet, Menaphon the
Kings Shepheard, a man of high account among the Swaines
of Arcadie, loued of the Nymphes, as the paragon of all their
countrey youngsters, walking solitarie downe to the shore, to
see if any of his eves and lambes were straggled downe to
the strond to brouse on sea iuie, wherfore they take speciall
delight to feede; he found his flockes grazing vpon the Promon-
torie Mountaines hardlie: whereon resting himselfe on a hill
that ouer-peered the great Mediterraneum, noting how Phaebus
fetched his Laualtos on the purple Plaines of Neptunus, as if
he had meant to haue courted Thetis in the royaltie of his
roabes: the Dolphines (the sweete conceipters of Musicke)
fetcht their carréers on the calmed waues, as if Arion had
touched the stringes of his siluer sounding instrument: the
Mermaides thrusting their heades from the bosome of Amphi-
trite, sate on the mounting bankes of Neptune, drying their
waterie tresses in the Sunne beames: AEolus forbare to throwe
abroad his gustes on the slumbering browes of the Sea God,
as giuing Triton leaue to pleasure his Queene with desired
melodie, and Proteus libertie to followe his flockes without
disquiet.
Menaphon looking ouer the champion of Arcadie to see
if the Continent were as full of smiles, as the seas were
of fauours, sawe the shrubbes as in a dreame with delightfull
harmonie, and the birdes that chaunted on their braunches
24 The reports of the Shepheards. ºº::
not disturbed with the least breath of a fauourable Zephirus.
Seeing thus the accord of the Land and Sea, casting a fresh
gaze on the water Nimphs, he began to consider how Venus
was feigned by the Poets to spring of the froathe of the Seas;
which draue him straight into a deepe coniecture of the in.
constancie of Loue : that as if Luna were his load-starre, had
euerie minute ebbes and tides, sometime ouerflowing the
banks of Fortune with a gracious look lightened from the eyes
of a fauorable louer, otherwhiles ebbing to the dangerous
shelfe of despaire, with the piercing frowne of a froward
Mistresse. Menaphon in this browne studie, calling to minde
certaine Aphorismes that Auarreon had pend downe as prin-
ciples of loues follies, being as deepe an enemy to fancie as
Narcissus was to affection, began thus to scoffe at Venus Deitie.
Menaphon thy mindes fauours, are greater than thy wealths
fortunes, thy thoughtes higher than thy birth, and thy
priuate conceipt better than thy publique esteeme. Thou art
a shepheard Menaphon, who in feeding of thy flockes, findest
out natures Secrecie, and in preuenting thy lambes preiudice
conceiptest the Astronomicall motions of the heauens: hold-
ing thy sheep-walkes to yeeld as great Philosophie, as the
Ancients discourse in their learned Academies. Thou countest
labour as the Indians doo their Chrisocolla wherwith they trie
euerie mettall, and thou examine euerie action. Content
sitteth in thy minde as Neptune in his Sea-throne, who with
his trident mace appeaseth euerie storme. When thou seest
the heauens frowne thou thinkest on thy faults, and a cleere
skie putteth thee in minde of grace; the summers glorie tels
thee of youths vanitie, the winters parched leaues of ages
declining weaknes, Thus in a myrrour thou measurest thy
deedes with equall and considerate motions, and by being a
shepheard findest that which Kings want in their royalties.
Enuie ouerlooketh thee, renting with the windes the Pine
trees of Ida, when the Affrick shrubs waue not a leafe with
the tempestes. Thine eyes are vaylde with content that thou
canst not gaze so high as ambition: and for loue. And with
that, in naming of loue, the shepheard fell into a great
laughter. Loue Menaphon, why of all follies that euer Poets
fained, or men euer faulted with, this foolish imagination of
loue is the greatest: Venus forsooth for her wanton escapes
must be a Goddesse, and her bastard a Deitie: Cupide must
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be yong and euer a boy to prooue that loue is fond and
withesse, wings to make him inconstant, and arrowes whereby
to shew him feareful : blinde (or all were not worth a pinne)
to prooue that Cupides leuell is both without aime and reason:
thus is the God, and such are his Votaries. As soone as our
shepheards of Arcadie fettle themselues to fancie, and weare
the characters of Venus stampte in their forheads, straight
their attire must bee quaint, their lookes full of amours, as
their Gods quiuer is full of arrowes; their eyes holding smiles
and teares, to leape out at their Mistres fauoures or her
frownes; sighes must flie as figures of their thoughts, and
euerie wrinckle must be tempred with a passion; thus suted
in outward proportion, and made excellent in inward con-
stitution, they straight repaire to take viewe of their Mistres
beautie. She as one obseruant vnto Venus principles, first
tieth loue in her tresses, and wraps affection in the tramels
of her haire; snaring our swains in her locks as Mars in the
net, holding in her forhead Fortunes Calender, either to
assigne dismal influence, or some fauourable aspect. If a
wrinckle appeare in her brow, then our shepheard must put
on his working day face, and frame nought but dolefull
Madrigalls of sorrowe; if a dimple grace her cheeke, the
heauens cannot prooue fatal to our kinde hearted louers; if
she seeme coy, then poemes of death mounted vppon deepe
drawne sighes, flie from their master to sue for some fauour,
alledging how death at the least may date his miserie : to
be briefe, as vppon the shoares of Lapanthe the winds con-
tinue neuer one day in one quarter, so the thoughtes of a
louer neuer continue scarce a minute in one passion; but as
Fortunes globe, so is fancies seate variable and inconstant.
If louers sorrowes then be like Sisiphus turmoyles, and their
fauours like honnie bought with gall; let poore Menaphon
then liue at labour, and make esteeme of Venus as of Mars his
concubine ; and as the Cimbrians hold their idols in account
but in euerie tempest, so make Cupide a God, but when thou art
ouer-pained with passions, and that Menaphon wil neuer loue,
for as long as thou temperest thy handes with labours, thou
canst not fetter thy thoughts with loues.
And in this Satyricall humor smiling at his owne conceipts,
hee tooke his pipe in his hand, and betweene euerie report of
his instrument sung a stanzo to this effect.
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Aug. R. Greene.
M E N A P H O N S S O N G.
º Ome say Loue
sº Foolish Loue
22: Doth rule and gouerne all the Gods,
I say Loue,
Inconstant Lotte,
Sets mens Senses farre at ods.
Some sweare Loue
Smooth'd face Loue
Is Sweetest Sweete that men can haue:
I say Loue,
Sower Loue
Makes vertue yeeld as beauties slaue.
A bitter sweete, a follie worst of all
That forceth wisedome to be follies thrall.
Loue is Sweete.
Wherein Sweete P
In fading pleasures that doo paine.
Beautie Sweete.
Is that Sweete
That yeeldeth sorrow for a gaine 2
If Loues Sweete
Heerein sweete
That minutes ioyes are monthlie woes.
Tis not sweete,
That is sweete
Nowhere, but where repentance growes.
Then loue who list if beautie be so sower:
Labour for me, Loue rest in Princes bower.
Menaphon hauing ended his roundelay, rising vp, thinking
to passe from the mountaine downe to the valley, casting his
eye to the sea side, espied certain fragments of a broken ship
floating vpon the waues, and sundrie persons driuen vpon


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the shore with a calme, walking all wet and weary vpon the
sands. Wondring at this strange sight he stood amazed; yet
desirous to see the euent of this accident, he shrowded
himself to rest vnespied til he might perceiue what would
happen: at last he might descrie it was a woman holding a
childe in her armes, and an olde man directing her as it were
her guide.
These three (as distressed wrackes) preserued by some
further forepoynting fate, coueted to clime the mountaine,
the better to vse the fauor of the Sunne to drie their drenched
apparaile; at last crawled vp where poore Menaphon lay
close, and resting them vnder a bush, the old man did
nothing but sende out sighes, and the woman ceased not from
streaming foorth riuolets of teares, that hung on her cheekes
like the droppes of pearled deaw vppon the riches of Flora.
The poore babe was the touch-stone of his mothers passions;
for when he smiled and lay laughing in hir lappe, were her
heart neuer so deeply ouercharged with her present sorrowes;
yet kissing the pretie infant, shee lightened out smiles from
those cheekes that were furrowed with continual sources of
teares; but if he cried, then sighes as smokes, and sobbes as
thundercracks, foreranne those showers, that with redoubled
distresse distilled from her eyes: thus with pretie inconstant
passions trimming vp her babie, and at last to lull him a
sleepe, she warbled out of her wofull breast this dittie.
S E P H E S T I A S S O N G T O H E R C H I L D E.
f Eepe not my wanton I smile vpon my knee
# When thou art olde, ther's grief inough for thee /
Mothers wagge, prette boy.
Fathers sorrow, fathers toy.
When thy father first did see
Such a boy by him and mee,
He was glad, j was woe.
Fortune changde made him so,
When he left his pretie boy,
Last his sorowe, first his toy.

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Weepe not my wanton I smile vpon my knee 1
When thou art olde, ther's griefe inough for thee /
Streaming teares that neuer stint,
Like pearle drops from a flint,
Fell by course from his eyes,
That one anothers place supplies:
Thus he grieud in euerie part,
Teares of bloud fell from his hart,
When he left his pretie boy,
Fathers sorrow, fathers ioy.
Weepe not my wanton 1 smile vpon my knee 1
When thou art olde, ther's griefe inough for thee /
The wanton smilde, father wept ;
Mother cride, babie lept :
More he crowde, more we cride;
Nature could not sorowe hide.
He must goe, he must kisse
Childe and mother, babie blisse:
For he left his pretie boy,
Fathers sorowe, fathers ioy.
Weepe not my wanton / smile vpon my knee /
When thou art olde, ther's grief inough for thee /
With this lullaby the babie fell a sleepe, and Sephestia
laying it vpon the greene grasse couered it with a mantle,
and then leaning her head on her hand, and her elbow on
her lap she fell a fresh to poure foorth abundaunce of plaintes,
which Lamedon the old man espying, although in his face
appeared the mappe of discontent, and in euerie wrinckle was
a catalogue of woes, yet to cheere vp Sephestia, shrowding
his inward sorrow with an outward smile, he began to com-
fort her in his manner.
Sephestia, thou seest no Phisick preuailes against the gaze
of the Basilisckes, no charme against the sting of the Taran-
tula, no preuention to diuert the decree of the Fates, nor no
meanes to recall backe the balefull hurt of Fortune: Incurable
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sores are without Auicens Aphorismes, and therefore no salue
for them but patience. Then my Sephestia sith thy fal his
high, and fortune low ; thy sorrowes great, and thy hope
little : seeing me partaker of thy miseries, set all thy rest
vppon this, Solamen miseris, socios habuisse doloris. Chaunce
is like Ianus double faced, as well full of smiles to comfort,
as of frownes to dismay : the Ocean at his deadest ebbe
returns to a full tide; when the Eagle meanes to soare
highest, hee raiseth his flight in the lowest dales : so fareth
it with fortune who in her highest extreames is most vncon-
stant: when the tempest of her wrath is most fearfull, then
looke for a calme ; when she beates thee with nettle, then
thinke she will strewe thee with roses; when shee is most
familiar with furies, her intent is to be most prodigall
Sephestia. Thus are the arrowes of Fortune feathered with
the plumes of the bird Halcione, that changeth colours with
the Moone, which howsoeuer she shootes them pierce not so
deepe but they may bee cured. But Sephestia thou art daughter
to a King, exiled by him from the hope of a crowne, banisht
from the pleasures of the Court to the painfull fortunes of
the countrey, parted for loue from him thou canst not but
loue, from Maximus, Sephestia, who for thee hath suffered so
many disfauors, as either discontent or death can affoord.
What of all this, is not hope the daughter of time 2 Haue
not starres their fauourable aspects, as they haue froward
opposition ? Is there not a Jupiter as there is a Saturne 2
Cannot the influence of smiling Venus stretch as farre as
the frowning constitution of Mars 2 I tell thee, Sephestia,
Iuno foldeth in her brows the volumes of the Destinies; whom
melancholie Saturne deposeth from a Crowne, she mildlie
aduanceth to a Diadem: then feare not, for if the mother
liue in miserie, yet hath she a scepter for the sonne : let the
vnkindnesse of thy father be buried in the cinders of obedience,
and the want of Maximus be supplied with the presence of
his pretie babe, who beeing too young for Fortune, lies
smiling on thy knee and laughs at Fortune : learne by him
Sephestia to vse patience, which is like the balme in the Vale
of Iehosaphat, that findeth no wound so deepe, but it cureth :
thou seest alreadie Fortune begins to change her hiev, for
after the great storme that rent our shippe, we found a calme
that brought vs safe to shore; the mercie of Neptune was
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more than the enuie of Æolus, and the discurtesie of thy
father is proportioned with the fauour of the Gods. Thus
Sephestia being copartner of thy miserie, yet do I seeke to
allay thy martyrdome: beeing sicke to my selfe, yet do I play
the Phisition to thee, wishing thou maist beare thy sorrowes
with as much content, as I brooke my misfortunes with
patience.
As hee was readie to goe forwarde with his perswasiue
argument, Sephestia fetching a deepe sigh, filling her tender
eyes with teares, made this replie.
Sweete Lamedon, once partner of my royalties, now par-
taker of my wants, as constant in his extreame distresse, as
faithfull in higher fortunes: the Turtle pearketh not on
barren trees, Doues delight not in foule cottages, the Lyon
frequents not putrified haunts, friends followe not after
pouertie, nor hath sinister chance anie drugges from the
Phisitians, Nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes: and yet Lamedon
the misfortune of Sephestia abridgeth not our olde contracted
amitie, thou temperest her exyle with thy banishment, and she
sayling to Styx, thou ferriest ouer to Phlegeton : then Lamedon,
saying as Andromache sayd to Hector, Tu Dominus, tu vir, tu
mihi frater eris. Thy aged yeres shalbe the calender of my
fortunes, and thy gray haires the Paralells of mine actions.
If Lamedon perswade Sephestia to content, Portia shall not
exceede Sephestia in patience; if he will her to keepe a low
sayle, she will vayle al her sheete; if to forget her loues,
shee will quench them with labours; if to accuse Venus as a
foe, I will hate Cupide as an enemie : and seeing the Destinies
haue driuen thee from a crowne, I will rest satisfied with the
Countrey, placing all my delights in honouring thee, and
nursing vp my pretie wanton. I will imagine a small cotage
to [be] a spacious pallaice, and thinke as great quiet in a
russet coate, as in royall habilliments: Sephestia, Lamedon,
will not scorne with Iuno to turne hir self into the shape of
Semeles nurse, but, vnknowne, rest carelesse of my fortunes:
the hope of times returne shal be the ende of my thoughts,
the smiles of my sonne shall bee the nourishment of my hart,
and the course of his youth shall be the comfort of my yeres;
euerie laughter that leapes from his lookes, shall be the
holiday of my conceiptes ; and euerie teare shall furnish out
my greeues, and his fathers funerals. I haue heard them
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say, Lamedon, that the lowest shrubbes feele the least tem-
pests, that in the valleis of Affrica is heard no thunder, that
in countrey roomes is greatest rest, and in little wealth the
the least disquiet : dignitie treadeth vpon glasse, and honour
is like to the hearbe Symara, that when it bloometh most
gorgeous, then it blasteth : Aulica vita splendida miseria.
Courts haue golden dreames, but cotages sweet slumbres:
then, Lamedon, will I disguise my self, with my cloathes I
will change my thoughts; for being poorelie attired I will be
meanelie minded, and measure my actions by my present
estate, not by former fortunes. In saying this the babe
awakte and cride, and she fell to teares mixed with a lullabie.
All this while Menaphon sate amongst the shrubs fixing his
eyes on the glorious obiect of her face, hee noted her tresses,
which hee compared to the coloured Hiacinth of Arcadia, her
browes to the mountaine snowes that lie on the hils, her eyes
to the gray glister of Titans gorgeous mantle, her alabaster
necke to the whitenesse of his flockes, her teates to pearle,
her face to borders of Lillies interseamed with Roses: to be
briefe our shepheard Menaphon, that heeretofore was an
Atheist to loue, and as the Thessalian of Bacchus, so hee a
contemner of Venus, was nowe by the wylie shaft of Cupid
so intangled in the perfection and beauteous excellence of
Sephestia; as now he swore no benigne Planet but Venus, no
God but Cupide, nor exquisite deitie but Loue. Being thus
fettered with the pliant perswasions of fancie, impatient in
his newe affections, as the horse that neuer before felt the
spurre, he could not bridle his new conceaued amors, but
watching when they shoulde depart, perceiuing by the ges-
tures of the olde man, and the teares of the Gentlewoman
that they were distrest, thought to offer anie helpe that laie
within the compasse of his abilitie.
As thus he mused in his new passions, Lamedon and
Sephestia rose vp, and resolued to take their course which way
the winde blew ; passing so downe the mountaine to goe seeke
out some towne, at last they pacing softlie on, Lamedon,
espied Menaphon : desirous therefore to know the course of
the countrey, hee saluted him thus.
Shepheard, for so farre thy attire warrants me ; courteous,
for so much thy countenance imports: if distressed persons
whom Fortune hath wronged, and the seas haue fauored, (if
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we may count it fauour to liue and want) may without
offence craue so farre ayde as to know some place where
to rest our wearie and weather-beaten bones, your charges
shall be paid, and you haue for recompence such thankes as
Fortunes outlawes may yeeld to their fauourers.
Menaphom hearing him speak so grauelie, but not fitting his
eare to his eye, stood staring still on Sephestias face, which
shee perceiuing, flashed out such a blush from her alabaster
cheeks that they lookt like the ruddie gates of the Morning :
this sweete bashfulnesse amazing Menaphon, at last hee
began thus to answere.
Strangers, your degree I know not, therefore pardon if I
giue lesse title than your estates merit: Fortunes frownes
are Princes fortunes, and Kings are subject to chance and
destinie. Mishap is to be salued with pitie, not scorne: and
we that are Fortunes darlings, are bounde to relieue them that
are distrest : therefore follow me, and you shal haue such
Succour, as a shepheard may afford.
Lamedon and Sephestia were passing glad, and Menaphon led
the way, not content onelie to feed his sight with the beautie
of his new Mistres, but thought also to inferre some occasion
of parley, to heare whether her voyce were as melodious,
as her face beautiful, hee therefore prosecuted his prattle
thus.
Gentlewoman, when first I saw you sitting vpon the Arcadian
Promontorie with your babie on your lappe, and this old
father by ; I thought I had seene Venus with Cupide on her
knee courted by Anchises of Troy: the excellence of your
looks could discouer no less than Mars his paramour, and
the beautie of the childe as much as the dignitie of her
wanton : at last perceiuing by your teares and your childs
shrikes, that ye were passengers distrest, I lent you sighes to
partake your sorrowes, and luke warme drops to signifie how
I pitie ouercharged persons, in lieu whereof let mee craue
your name, countrey, and parentage.
Sephestia seeing by the shepheards passionate lookes, that
the swain was halfe in loue, replyed thus; Curteous
shepheard, if my blubbered cheekes did look like Venus at a
blush, it was when the woful Goddesse wept for her faire
Adonis, my boye is no Cupide but the sonne of care, Fortunes
fondling in his youth, to bee I hope her darling in his age :
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in that your lookes saw our griefe, and your thoughts pitied
our woes, our tongues shal giue thanks (the bountie of
sorrowes tenants) and our hearts praye that the Gods may be
as friendly to your flockes, as you fauourable to vs. My name is
Samela, my countrey Cipres, my parentage meane, the wife of
a poore Gentleman nowe deceased : how we arriued heere by
shipwrack, gentle shepheard inquire not, least it be tedious for
thee to heare it, and a double griefe for mee to rehearse it.
The shepheard not daring to displease his Mistres, as hauing
loues threates hanging on her lippes, he conueighed them
home to his house: as soone as they were arriued there, he
began at the dore to entertain them thus.
Faire Mistres the flower of all our Nymphes that liue heere
in Arcadia, this is my cotage wherein I liue content, and
your lodging, where (please it you) ye may rest quiet. I
haue not rich cloathes of Ægypt to couer the walls, nor store
of plate to discouer anie wealth ; for shepheards vse neither
to be proud nor couetous : you shall find heere cheese and
milke for dainties, and wooll for cloathing; in euerie corner of
the house Content sitting smiling, and tempering euerie
homelie thing with a welcome : this if ye can brooke and
accept of, (as Gods allow the meanest hospitalitie) ye shall
haue such welcome and fare as Philemon and Baucis gaue to
Iupiter.
Sephestia thankt him heartelie, and going into his house
found what he promist : after that they had sate a little by
the fire and were well warmed, they went to supper, where
Sephestia fedde well, as one whom the sea had made hungrie,
and Lamedon so plide his teeth, that all supper he spake not
one word: after they had taken their repast, Menaphon,
seeing they were wearie, and that sleepe chimed on to rest,
he let them see their lodging, and so gaue them the good
night.
Lamedom on his flocke bedde, and Sephestia on her countrey
couch were so wearie, that they slept well ; but Menaphon,
poore Menaphon neither asked his swaynes for his sheepe,
nor tooke his mole-spade on his necke to see his pastures ; but
as a man pained with a thousand passions, drenched in
distresse, and ouerwhelmed with a multitude of vnc.outh
cares, he sate like the pictures that Perseus tourned with his
Gorgons head into stones. His sister Carmela kept his house,
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(for so was the Countrey wench called) and shee seeing her
brother sit so malcontented, stept to her cupboorde and
fetcht a little beaten spice in an olde bladder, she sparde no
euening milke, but went amongst the cream bowles, and
made him a posset. But alas, Loue had so lockt vp the
shepheards stomacke, that none would down with Menaphon :
Carmela seeing her brother refuse his spicte drinke, thought
all was not well, and therefore sate downe and wept ; to be
short, she blubbered and he sightht, and his men that came
in and sawe their master with a kercher on his head
mournde ; so that amongst these swaines there was such
melodie, that Menaphon tooke his bow and arrowes and went.
to bedde: where casting himselfe, he thought to haue
beguiled his passions with some sweete slumbers. But
Loue that smiled at his newe interteined champion, sitting
on his beddes head, prickt him forward with new desires;
charging Morpheus, Phobetor, and Icolon, the Gods of sleepe,
to present vnto his closed eies the singular beautie and rare
perfections of Samela : (for so will we now call her) in that
the Idea of her excellence, forst him to breath out scalding
sighes smothered within the fornace of his thoughts, which
grew into this or the like passion. g
I had thought, Menaphon, that he which weareth the bay
leafe had been free from lightening, and the Eagles penne a
preseruatiue against thunder; that labour had been enemie
to loue, and the eschewing of idlenesse an Antidote against
fancie : but I see by proofe there is no adamant so harde, but
the blood of a Goate will make soft ; no fort so wel defenced,
but strong batterie will enter; nor anie hart so pliant to
restlesse labours, but inchantments of loue will ouercome.
Unfortunate Menaphon, that a late thoughtst Venus a strum-
pet and her sonne a bastard, now must thou offer incense at
her shrine, and sweare Cupide no lesse than a God : thou
hast reason Menaphon ; for hee that liues without loue, liues
without life; presuming as Narcissus to hate all, and beeing
like him at length despised of all. Can there bee a sweeter
blisse than beautie, a greater heauen than her heauenly per-
fections that is mistres of thy thoughts 2 If the sparkle of
her eyes appeare in the night, the starres blush at her bright-
nesse : if her haire glister in the daye, Phaebus puts off his
wreath of diamonds, as ouercome with the shine of her tresses;
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if she walke in the fields, Flora seeing her face, bids al her
glorious flowers close themselues, as being by her beautie
disgraced; if her alabaster necke appeere, then Hiems couereth
his snowe, as surpassed in whitenesse. To be shorte,
Menaphon, if Samela had appeared in Ida, Iuno for maiestie,
Pallas for wisedome, and Venus for beautie had let my Samela
haue the supremacie : why shouldest thou not then loue, and
thinke there is no life to loue, seeing the end of loue is the
possession of such a heauenly Paragon P But what of this,
Menaphon, hast thou anie hope to enjoy her person, she is a
widdow, true, but too high for thy fortunes; she is in distresse,
ah, Menaphon, if thou hast anie sparke of comfort, this must
set thy hope on fire. Want is the load stone of affection,
distresse forceth deeper than Fortunes frownes, and such as
are poore will rather loue than want reliefe, fortunes frownes
are whetstones to fancie: and as the horse starteth at the
spurre, so loue is prickt forward with distresse. Samela is
shipwrackt, Menaphon relieues her; she wants, he supplies
with wealth; he sues for loue, either must she grant, or buy
deniall with perpetuall repentance.
In this hope rested the poore shephearde, and with that
Menaphon laide his head downe on the pillow and toke a sound
nappe, sleeping out fancie, with a good slumber.
As soone as the sunne appeared the shepheard got him vp
and fed fat with this hope, went merely with his men to
the foldes, and there letting foorth his sheepe, after that hee
had appointed where they should graze, returned home, and
looking when his guests should rise, hauing Supt il the last
night went roundly to his breakfast; by that time he had
ended his desiune [i.e. dejeune], Lamedon was gotten vp, and so
was Samela. Against their rising, Carmela had showen her
cookerie, and Menaphon tired in his russet iacket, his redde
sleeues of chamlet, his blew bonnet, and his round slop of
countrey cloth, bestirred him, as euerie ioynt had been set to
a sundrie office. Samela no sooner came out of her chamber,
but Menaphon as one that claimed pitie for his passions, bad
her good morrow with a firme louers looke : Samela knowing
the fowle by the feather, was able to cast his disease without
his water, perceiued that Cupide had caught the poore shep-
heard in his net, and vnles he sought quickly to break out of
the snare would make him a tame foole : faire lookes she gaue
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him, and with a smiling sorow discouered how she grieued at
his misfortune, and yet fauoured him. Well, to breakfast
they went. Lamedon and Samela fed hard, but Menaphon like
the Argiue in the Date gardens of Arabia, liued with the con-
templation of his Mistres beautie: the Salamander liueth not
without the fire, the Herring from the water, the Mole from
the earth, nor the Cameleon from the aire, nor coulde Mena-
phon liue from the sight of his Samela; whose breath was
perfumed aire, whose eyes were fire wherein he delighted to
dallie, whose heart the earthlie Paradice wherein hee desired
to ingraffe the essence of his loue and affection: thus did the
poore shepheard bathe in a kinde of blisse, whiles his eyes
feeding on his mistres face, did surfet with the excellencie of
her perfection.
So long he gazde, that at length breakfast was ended, and
he desirous to doo her anie seruice, first put her childe to
nurse, and then led her forth to see his folds; thinking with
the sight of his flockes to inueigle her, whose minde had
rather haue chosen anie misfortune, than haue deigned her
eyes on the face and feature of so lowe a peasant. Well,
abroad they went, Menaphon with his sheephooke fringed with
cruell, to signifie he was chiefe of the Swaynes, Lamedon and
Samela after : plodding thus ouer the greene fields, at last
they came to the mountains where Menaphons flockes grazed,
and there he discoursed to Samela thus;
I tell thee, faire Nymph, these Plaines that thou seest
stretching Southward, are pastures belonging to Menaphon :
there growes the cintfoyle, and the hyacinth, the cowsloppe,
the primrose, and the violet, which my flockes shall spare for
flowers to make thee garlands, the milke of my eves shall be
meate for thy pretie wanton, the wool of the fat weathers
that seemes as fine as the fleece that Iason fet from Colchos,
shall serue to make Samela webbes withall ; the mountaine
tops shall be thy mornings walke, and the shadie valleies thy
euenings arbour: as much as Menaphon owes [owns] shall be
at Samelas command, if she like to liue with Menaphon.
This was spoken with such deepe effects, that Samela could
scarce keepe her from smiling, yet she couered her conceipt
with a sorrowful countenance, which Menaphon espying, to
make her merrie, and rather for his own aduantage, seeing
Lamedon was a sleepe, tooke her by the hand and sate downe,
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and pulling foorth his pipe, began, after some melodie, to
carroll out this roundelay.
M E N A P H O N S R O U N D E L A Y.
ſº Hen tender ewes brought home with euening Sumne
#| Wend to their foldes,
A. Sº And to their holdes
The shepheards trudge when light of day is done.
Upon a tree
The Eagle, Ioues faire bird, did pearch,
There resteth hee.
A little flie his harbor then did search,
And did presume (though others laught thereaf)
To pearch whereas the princelie Eagle sat.
The Eagle frownd, and shooke her royall wings,
And chargde the Flie
From thence to hie :
Afraid in hast the little creature flings,
Yet seekes againe,
Fearfull, to pearke him by the Eagles side.
With moodie vaine
The speedie post of Ganimede replide ;
Vassaile audnt or with my wings you die,
Ist fit an Eagle seate him with a Flie P
The Flie craude pitie, still the Eagle frownde,
The Sillie Flie
Readie to die
Disgracte, displacie, fell groueling to the ground.
The Eagle sawe
And with a royall minde, said to the Flie,
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Then seate thee heere: the ioyfull Flie vp flings,
And sate safe shadowed with the Eagles wings.
As soone as Menaphon had ended this roundelay, turning
to Samela, after a countrey blush, he began to court her in
this homely fashion ; What thinke you, Samela, of the Eagle
for his royall deede 2 That he falsified the old Prouerbe
Aquila non capit muscas 2. But I meane, Samela, are you not
in opinion, that the Eagle giues instances of a princelie reso-
lution, in preferring the safetie of a Flie before the credit of
her royall Maiestie 2
I thinke, Menaphon, that high minds are the shelters of
pouertie, and Kings seates are couerts for distressed persons;
that the Eagle in shrowding the Flie did well, but a little
forgot her honour.
But how thinke you, Samela, is not this proportion to be
obserued in loue 2
I gesse no, for the Flie did it not for loue, but for succour.
Hath loue then respect of circumstance 2
Els it is not loue, but lust; for where the parties haue no
simpathie of Estates, there can no firme loue be fixed;
discord is reputed the mother of diuision, and in nature this
is an vnrefuted principle, that it falteth which faileth in
vniformitie. He that grafteth Iillyflowers vpon the Nettle
marreth the smell ; who coueteth to tie the Lambe and the
Lion in one tedder maketh a brawle; equall fortunes are
loues fauourites, and therefore shoulde fancie bee alwayes
limitted by Geometricall proportion; least if young match-
ing with olde, fire and frost fall at a combate: and if rich
with poore there happe manie daungerous and brauing
obiections.
Menaphon halfe nipte in the pate with this replie, yet like
a tall souldier stoode to his tackling, and made this aun-
swere ; Suppose, gentle Samela, that a man of meane estate,
whome disdainefull Fortune had abased, intending to make
hir power prodigall in his misfortunes, being feathered with
Cupides bolt, were snared in the beautie of a Queene, should
he rather die than discouer his amors 2
If Queens (quoth she) were of my mind, I had rather die,
than perish in baser fortunes.
Venus loued Vulcan, replied Menaphon:
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Truth, quoth Samela, but though he was polt-footed, yet
he was a God.
Phaon enioyed Sapho, he a Ferriman that liued by his
hands thrift, she a Princesse that sate inuested with a
diadem. -
The more fortunate, quoth Samela, was he in his honours,
and she the lesse famous in her honestie.
To leaue these instances, replied Menaphon, (for loue had
made him hardie) I, sweete Samela, inferre these presupposed
premisses, to discouer the basenesse of my mean birth, and
yet the deepnesse of my affection, who euer since I saw the
brightnesse of your perfection shining vpon the mountains of
Arcadie, like the glister of the Sunne vpon the toplesse
Promontorie of Sicilia, was so snared with your beautie, and
so inueigled with the excellence of that perfection that ex-
ceedeth all excellencie, that loue entring my desire, hath
mainteined himselfe by force; that vnlesse sweete Samela
grant me fauour of her loue, and play the princelie Eagle,
I shall with the poore Flie perish in my Fortunes. He
concluded this period with a deepe sigh, and Samela grieuing
at this follie of the Shephearde, gaue him mildelie this
2.UIDSWCTé.
Menaphon, my distressed haps are the resolutions of the
Destinies, and the wrongs of my youth, are the forerunners
of my woes in age ; my natiue home is my worst nurserie,
and my friends denie that which strangers preiudiciallie
grant: I arriued in Arcady shipwrackt, and Menaphon fauour-
ing my sorrowes hath affoorded me succours, for which
Samela rests bound, and will prooue thankfull : as for loue,
knowe that Venus standeth on the Tortoys, as shewing that
Loue creepeth on by degrees; that affection is like the
Snayle, which stealeth to the top of the lance by minutes;
the grasse hath his increase, yet neuer anie sees it augment,
the Sonne shadowes, but the motion is not seene ; loue like
those should enter into the eye, and by long gradations
passe into the heart; Cupid hath wings to flie, not that loue
should be swift, but that he may soare high to auoyd base
thoughts. The Topace being throwne into the fire burneth
straight, but no sooner out of the flame but it freezeth ;
strawe is soone kindled, but it is but a blaze ; and loue that
is caught in a moment, is lost in a minute ; giue me leaue
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then Menaphon first to sorrow for my fortunes, then to call
to minde my husbands late funeralls, then if the Fates haue
assigned I shall fancie, I will account of thee before anie
shepheard in Arcadie.
This conclusion of Samela draue Menaphon into such an
extasie for ioy, that he stood as a man metamorphozed ; at
last calling his senses together, hee tolde her he rested
satisfied with her answere, and therupon lent her a kisse,
such as blushing Thetis receaues from her choycest lemman.
At this, Lamedon awakte, otherwise Menaphon no doubt
had replied, but breaking off their talk they went to view
their pastures, and so passing downe to the place where the
sheepe grazed, they searched the shepheards bagges, and so
emptied their bottles as Samela meruailed at such an vncouth
banquet: at last they returned home, Menaphon glorying in
the hope of his successe, interteining Samela still with such
courtesie, that shee finding such content in the cotage, began
to despise the honors of the Court.
Resting thus in house with the shepheard, to auoide tedious
conceipts she framed her selfe so to countrey labours, that she
oft times would lead the flocks to the fieldes her selfe, and
being drest in homelie attire, she seemd like Oenone that was
amorous of Paris.
As she thus often traced alongst the Plaines, she was noted,
amongst the shepheardes, of one Doron, next neighbour to
Menaphon, who entered into the consideration of her beautie,
and made report of it to all his fellow swaines, so that they
chatted nought in the fields but of the new shepheardesse.
One daye amongst the rest, it chaunced that Doron sitting
in parley with another countrey companion of his, amidst
other tattle, they prattled of the beautie of Samela.
Hast thou seene her, quoth Melicerius (for so was his friend
called).
I, quoth Doron, and sigtht to see her, nor that I was in loue,
but that I greeued shee Shuld be in loue with such a one as
Menaphon.
What manner of woman is shee, quoth Melicertus?
As well as I can, answered Doron, I will make description
of her.
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D 0 R O N S D E S C R I P T I O N 0 F S A M E L A.
g|Ike to Diana in her Summer weede
f| Girt with a crimson roabe of brightest die,
goes faire Samela.
Whiter than be the flockes that straggling feede,
When washt by Arethusa, faint they lie :
ts faire Samela.
As faire Aurora in her morning gray
Deckt with the ruddie glister of her loue,
ts faire Samela.
Like louelie Thetis on a calmed day,
When as her brightnesse Neptunes fancie moue,
Shines faire Samela.
Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassie streames,
Her teeth are pearle, the breast are yuorie
of faire Samela.
Her cheekes like rose and lilly yeeld foorth gleames,
Her browes bright arches framde of ebonie :
Thus faire Samela
Passeth faire Venus in her brauest hiew,
And Iuno in the Shew of maiestie,
for she's Samela.
Pallas in wit, all three if you will view,
For beautie, wit, and matchlesse dignitie
jeeld to Samela.
Thou hast, quoth Melicertus, made such a description, as
if Priamus young boy should paint out the perfection of his
Greekish Paramour. Me thinkes the Idea of her person re-
presents it selfe an obiect to my fantasie, and that I see in
the discouerie of her excellence, the rare beauties of. And
with that, he broke off abruptlie with such a deepe sigh, as it
seemed his heart should haue broken ; sitting as the Lapithes
when they gazed on Medusa.
Doron meruailing at this sodayne euent, was halfe afraid,
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vp his friend, he demanded what the cause was of this
sodaine conceipt.
Melizertus no niggarde in discouerie of his fortunes, began
thus. I tell thee, Doron, before I kept sheepe in Arcadie, I was
a Shepheard else where, so famous for my flockes, as Mena-
phon for his foldes; beloued of the Nymphes, as hee likte of
the Countrey Damzells; coueting in my loues to vse Cupids
wings, to soare high in my desires, though my selfe were
borne to base fortunes. The Hobbie catcheth no pray,
vnlesse she mount beyonde her marke, the Palme tree
beareth most bowes where it groweth highest, and Loue is
most fortunate where his courage is resolute, and thought
beyond his compasse. Grounding therefore on these prin-
ciples, I fixte mine eyes on a Nymph, whose parentage was
great, but her beautie farre more excellent, her birth was by
manie degrees greater than mine, and my woorth by manie
discents lesse than hers: yet knowing Venus loued Adonis,
and Luna, Endymion; that Cupide had boltes feathered with
the plumes of a Crowe, as well as with the pennes of an
Eagle, I attempted and courted her, I found her lookes
lightening disdaine, and her forhead to conteine fauours for
others, and frownes for me : when I alledged faith, she crost
me with Æneas ; when loyaltie, she told me of Iason; when
I swore constancie, shee questioned me of Demophoon; when
I craued a finall resolution to my fatall passions, shee filde
her browes full of wrinckles, and her eyes full of furie, turned
her backe, and shooke me off with a Non placet. Thus in
loues I lost loues, and for her loue had lost all, had not when
I neere despaired the clemencie of some curteous starre, or
rather the verie excellence of my Mistres fauours salued my
halfe despairing maladie : for shee seeing that I helde a super-
sticious opinion of loue, in honouring him for a Deitie, not in
counting him a vaine conceipt of Poetrie; that I thought
it sacriledge to wrong my desires, and the basest fortune to
inhance my fortune by falsing my loues to a woman, she left
from being so rammage, and gentlie came to the first, and
granted me those fauours shee might affoord, or my thoughts
desire. With this, he ceast, and fell againe to his sighes.
Which Doron noting, answered thus. If (my good
Melicerius) thou didst enioy thy loues, what is the occasion
thou beginnest with sighes, and endest with passions.
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Ah, Doron, there endes my ioyes, for no sooner had I
triumpht in my fauours, but the trophees of my fortunes fell
like the hearbes in Syria, that flourish in the morne, and
fade before night; or like vnto the flie Tyryma, that taketh
life and leaueth it all in one day. So, my Doron, did it fare
with me, for I had no sooner emioyed my loue, but the
heauens enuious a shepheard should haue the fruition of such
a heauenly Paragon, sent vnreuocable Fates to depriue me of
her life, and shee is dead; dead, Doron, to her, to my selfe, to
all, but not to my memorie, for so deepe were the characters
stamped in my inwarde senses, that obliuion can neuer race
out the forme of her excellence. .
And with that, he start vp, seeking to fall out of those
dumpes with Musique, (for he plaid on his pipe certaine
sonets he had contriued in praise of the countrey wenches)
but plaine Doron, as plaine as a packstaffe, desired him to
sound a roundelay, and he would sing a song, which he
carolled to this effect.
D O R O N S I I G G E.
iriº Hrough the shrubbes as I can cracke,
>\ }. A 22:\;. For my Lambes little ones,
º Mongst many pretie ones,
* Nimphes I meane, whose haire was blacke
As the crow :
Like the snow
Her face and browes shinde I weene:
I saw a little one,
A bonny prety one,
As bright, buxsome and as sheene
As was shee.
On hir knee
That lulld the God, whose arrowes warmes
Such merry little ones,
Such faire fac’d prety ones,
As dally in Loues chiefest harmes,
Such was mine :
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Made me loue. I gan to woo
This sweete little one,
This bonny prettie one.
I wooed hard a day or two,
Till she bad ;
Be not sad,
Wooe no more I am thine owne,
Thy dearest little one,
Thy truest pretie one :
Thus was faith and firme loue showne,
As behoues
Shepheards loues.
How like you this Dittie of mine owne deuising, quoth
Doron P
As well as my musique, replied Melicerius ; for if Pan and
I striue, Midas being Iudge, and should happe to giue me the
garland, I doubt not but his Asses eares should be doubled :
but Doron so long we dispute of loue, and forget our labours,
that both our flockes shall be vnfolded, and to morrow our
merrie meeting hindered. -
Thats true, quoth Doron, for there will be all the shep-
heards Daughters and countrey Damzels, and amongst them
feare not but Menaphon will bring his faire Shepheardesse,
there Melicertus shalt thou see her that will amate all our
moodes, and amaze thee, and therefore good Melicertus let vs
be going. * tº
With this prattle away they went to their foldes, where we
leaue them, and returne to Menaphon, who triumphing in the
hope of his new loues, caused Samela to tricke her vp in her
countrey attire, and make her selfe braue against the meeting:
she that thought, to be coye were to discouer her thoughts,
drest her selfe vp in Carmelas russet cassocke, and that so
quaintly, as if Venus in a countrey peticoate had thought to
wanton it with her louely Adonis.
The morow came, and away they went, but Lamedon was
left behinde to keep the house.
At the houre appointed, Menaphon, Carmela and Samela
came, when all the rest were readie making merie. As soone
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as word was brought, that Menaphon came with his newe
Mistres, all the companie began to murmur, and euery man
to prepare his eye for so miraculous an obiect: but Pesana a
heardsmans daughter of the same parish, that long had loued
Menaphon, and he had filled her browes with frownes, her
eyes with furie, and her heart with griefe ; yet coueting in so
open an assemblie, as well as shee coulde, to hide a pad in
the straw, she expected as others did the arriuall of her newe
corriuall: who at that instant came with Menaphon into the
house.
No sooner was she entred the Parlour, but her eyes gaue
such a shine, and her face such a brightnesse, that they
stood gazing on this Goddesse ; and shee vnacquainted,
seeing her selfe among so manie vnknowen Swaines, died her
cheekes with such a vermillion blush, that the countrey
maides themselues fel in loue with this faire Nimph, and
could not blame Menaphon for being ouer the shooes with
such a beautifull creature. Doron iogde Melicertus on the
elbowe, and so awakte him out of a dreame, for he was deeply
drownd in the contemplation of her excellencie ; sending
out vollies of sighs in remembrance of his old loue, as thus
hee sate meditating of her fauour, how much she resembled
her that death had depriued him off.
Well her welcome was great of all the companie, and for
that she was a stranger, they graced her to make her the
mistres of the Feast. Menaphon seeing Samela thus honoured,
conceiued no smal content in the aduancing of his Mistres,
being passing ioconde and pleasant with the rest of the
companie, insomuch that euerie one perceiued howe the
poore swayne fedde vppon the dignities of his Mistres graces.
Pesana noting this began to lowre, and Carmela winking vpon
her fellowes, answered her frownes with a smile, which
doubled her griefe ; for womens paines are more pinching if
they be girded with a frumpe, than if they be galled with a
mischiefe.
Whiles thus there was banding of such lookes, as euerie
one imported as much as an impreso, Samela, willing to see
the fashion of these countrey yong frowes, cast her eyes
abroad, and in viewing euerie face, at last her eyes glaunced
on the lookes of Melicerius; whose countenance resembled so
vnto her dead Lord, that as a woman astonied she stood
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staring on his face, but ashamed to gaze vppon a stranger,
she made restraint of her looks, and so taking her eye from
one particular obiect, she sent it abroad to make generall
suruey of their countrey demeanours.
But amidst all this gazing, he that had seene poore
Menaphon, how, infected with a iealous furie, he stared each
man in the face, fearing their eyes should feede or surfet on
his Mistres beautie: if they glaunst, he thought straight they
would be riualls in his loues: if they flatlie lookt, then they
were deepely snared in affection; if they once smiled on her,
they had receyued some glance from Samela that made them
so malepart; if she laught, she likte; and at that he began
to frowne: thus sate poore Menaphon, all dinner while, pained
with a thousande iealous passions, keeping his teeth garders
of his stomacke, and his eyes watchmen of his loues, but
Melicertus halfe impatient of his new conceiued thoughts,
determined to trie how the Damzell was brought vp, and
whether she was as wise as beautifull, hee therefore began
to breake silence thus.
The Orgies which the Bacchanals kept in Thessaly, the
Feasts which the melancholy Saturnists founded in Danuby,
were neuer so quatted with silence, but on their festiual
daies they did frolicke amongst themselues with manie
pleasaunt parlies: were it not a shame then that we of
Arcadie, famous for the beautie of our Nymphes, and the
amorous roundelaies of our shepheards, shoulde disgrace Pans
holiday with such melancholy dumpes: curteous country
Swaines shake off this sobrietie, and seeing we haue in our
companie Damzels both beautifull and wise, let vs interteine
them with prattle, to trie our wittes, and tire our time.
To this they all agreed with a plaudite.
Then, quoth Melicertus; by your leaue since I was first in
motion, I will be first in question, and therefore new come
shepheardesse first to you. At this Samela blusht, and he
began thus.
Faire Damzel, when Naereus chatted with Iuno, he had
pardon, in that his prattle came more to pleasure the
Goddesse than to ratifie his owne presumption : if I Mistres
be ouerbold, forgiue me; I question not to offend, but to set
time free from tediousnesse. Then gentle shepheardesse tell
me, if you should be transformed through the anger of the
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Gods, into some shape; what creature would you reason to
be in forme P
Samela blushing that she was the first that was boorded,
yet gathered vp her crums, and desirous to shew her preg-
naunt wit (as the wisest women be euer tickled with self loue)
made him thus answere.
Gentle shepheard, it fits not strangers to be nice, nor
maidens too coy; least the one feele the weight of a scoffe,
the other the fall of a frumpe: pithie questions are mindes
whetstones, and by discoursing in iest, manie doubts are
deciphered in earnest : therefore you haue forestalled me
in crauing pardon, when you haue no neede to feele anie
grant of pardon. Therefore thus to your question; Daphne
I remember was turned to a bay tree, Niobe to a flint,
Lampetia and her sisters to flowers, and sundrie Virgins to
sundrie shapes according to their merites; but if my wish
might serue for a Metamophosis, I would be turned into a
sheepe.
A sheepe, and why so Mistres 2
I reason thus, quoth Samela, my supposition should be
simple, my life quiet, my food the pleasant Plaines of Arcadie
and the wealthie riches of Flora, my drinke the coole streames
that flowe from the concaue Promontorie of this Continent,
my aire should be cleare, my walkes spacious, my thoughts
at ease, and can there, shepheard, be any better premisses to
conclude my replie than these ?
But haue you no other allegations to confirme your resolu-
tion ?
Yes sir, quoth she, and farre greater.
Then the law of our first motion, quoth hee, commands
you to repeate them.
Farre be it, answered Samela, that I should not doo of free
will anie thing that this pleasant companie commands:
therefore thus; Were I a sheepe, I should bee garded from
the foldes with iollie Swaines, such as was Lunas Loue on
the hills of Latmos ; their pipes sounding like the melodie of
Mercurie, when he lulld asleepe Argus: but more, when the
Damzells tracing along the Plaines, should with their eyes
like Sunne bright beames, drawe on lookes to gaze on such
sparkling Planets: then wearie with foode, shoulde I lye and
looke on their beauties, as on the spotted wealthe of the
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richest Firmament; I should listen to their sweete layes,
more sweete than the Sea-borne Syrens: thus feeding on the
delicacie of their features, I should like the Tyrian heyfer fall
in loue with Agenors darling.
I but, quoth Melicerius, those faire facde Damzells oft draw
foorth the kindest sheepe to the shambles.
And what of that, sir, aunswered Samela, would not a sheepe
so long fed with beautie, die for loue.
If he die (quoth Pesana) it is more kindnes in beasts, than
constancie in men : for they die for loue, when larkes die
with leekes.
If they be so wise, quoth Menaphon, they shew but their
mother witts; for what sparkes they haue of inconstancie,
they drawe from their female fosterers, as the Sea dooth ebbes
and tides from the Moone.
So be it sir, answered Pesana, then no doubt your mother
was made of a Weathercocke, that brought foorth such a
wauering companion: for you, master Menaphon, measure your
looks by minutes and your loues are like lightning, which no
sooner flash on the eie, but they vanish.
It is then, quoth Menaphon, because mine eye is a foolish
Iudge, and chooseth too baselie: which when my heart
censures of, it cast away as refuse.
'Twere best then, said Pesana, to discharge such vniust
Iudges of their seates, and to set your eares hearers of your
loue pleas.
If they fault, quoth Melicertus, euerie market towne hath a
remedie, or els there is neuer a Baker neere by seauen miles.
Stay curteous Shepheards, quoth Samela, these iestes are
too broade before, they are cynicall like Diogenes quippes,
that had large feathers and sharpe heads, it little fits in this
companie to bandie taunts of loue, seeing you are vnwedded
and these all maidens addicted to chastitie.
You speake well as a Patronesse of our credite, quoth
Pesana, for in deede we be virgins, and addicted to virginitie.
Now, quoth Menaphon, that you haue got a virgin in your
mouth you wil neuer leaue chaunting that word, till you
prooue your selfe either a Vestall or a Sybill.
Suppose she were a Vestall, quoth Melicertus, I had almost
said a virgine (but God forbidde I had made such a doubtfull
supposition) shee might carrie water with Amulia in a siue :
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for amongst all the rest of the virgins we read of none but
her that wrought such a miracle.
Pesana hearing how pleasantly Melicertus plaid with her
nose, thought to giue him as great a bone to gnaw Vppon, which
she cast in his teeth thus briefelie. I remember, sir, that
Epicurus measured euerie mans diet by his owne principles;
Abradas the great Macedonian Pirate, thought euerie one had
a letter of Marte, that bare sayles in the Ocean ; none came
to knocke at Diogenes tub but was supposed a Cinick; and
fancie a late hath so tied you to his vanities, that you will
thinke Vesta a flat figured conceipt of Poetrie.
Samela perceiuing these blowes woulde growe to deepe
wounds, broke off their talke with this prety digression.
Gentlemen, to ende this strife, I praye you let vs heare the
opinion of Doron, for all this while neither he nor Carmela
haue vttered one word, but sate as Censers of our pleas;
twere necessarie he tolde vs how his heart came thus on his
halfepenie.
Doron hearing Samela thus pleasaunt, made presentlie this
blunt replie; I was, faire Mistres, in a solempne doubt with
my selfe, whether in beeng a sheepe, you would be a Ram
or an Ewe ?
An Ewe no doubt, quoth Samela, for hornes are the
heauiest burden that the head can beare.
As Doron was readie to replie, came in sodainly to this
parley foure or fiue olde shepheards, who broke off their
prattle, that from chat they fel to drinking : and so after
some parley of their flocks, euerie one departed to their own
home where they talked of the exquisite perfection of Samela,
especially Melicerius, who gotten to his owne cotage, and lyen
downe in his couch by himselfe, began to ruminate on Samelas
shape.
Ah Melicertus, what an obiect of fortune this day brought
to thy eyes, presenting a strange Idata to thy sight, as appeared
to Achilles of his dead friend Patroclus, tresses of gold
like the tramels of Sephestias lockes, a face fairer than Venus,
such was Sephestia ; her eye paints her out Sephestia, her
voyce sounds her out Sephestia, she seemeth none but Sephestia:
but seing she is dead, and there liueth not such another
-Sephestia, sue to her and loue her, for that it is either a selfe
same or another Sephestia. In this hope Melicertus fel to his
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slumber, but Samela was not so content. For shee began
thus to muse with her selfe ;
May this Melicerius be a shepheard? or can a countrie cotage
affoord such perfection? doth this coast bring forth such excel-
lence 2 then happie are the virgins shall haue such suters, and
the wiues such pleasing husbands; but his face is not inchacte
ſenchased] with anie rusticke proportion, his browes containe
the characters of nobilitie, and his lookes in shepheards weeds
are Lordlie, his voyce pleasing, his wit full of gentrie: weigh
all these equallie, and consider, Samela, is it not thy Maximus?
Fond foole, away with these suppositions; could the dreaming
of Andromache call Hector from his graue 2 or can the vision
of my husband raise him from the seas 2 Tush, stoop not to
such vanities: hee is dead, and therefore grieue not thy
memorie with the imagination of his new reuiue, for there
hath been but one Hippolitus found to be Virbius, twise a man,
to salue Samela than this suppose; if they court thee with
hyacinth, interteine them with roses; if he send thee a
lambe, present him an eawe; if he wooe, be wooed ; and for
no other reason, but hee is like Maximus.
Thus she rested, and thus she slept, all parties being equally
content and satisfied with hope, except Pesana, who, fettred
with the feature of her best beloued Menaphon, sate cursing
Cupide as a parciall Deitie, that would make more daye light
in the Firmament than one Sunne, more rainebowes in the
heauen than one Iris, and more loues in one heart than one
settled passion : manie praiers she made to Venus for reuenge,
manie vowes to Cupide, manie orizons to Hymaneus, if she might
possesse the type of her desires. Well, poore soule, howso-
euer she was paid, she smothered all with patience, and
thought to braue loue with seeming not to loue; and thus
she daily droue out the time with labour, and looking to her
heard, hearing euerie day by Doron who was her kinsman,
what successe Memaphon had in his loues. -
Thus Fates and Fortune dallying a dolefull Catastrophe, to
make a more pleasing Epitazis, it fell out amongst them thus.
Melicerius going to the fields, as he was wont to doo with his
flockes, droue to graze as neere the Swaines of Menaphon as he
might, to haue a view of his new enterteined Mistres; who,
according to his expectation, came thether euerie day. Meli-
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most, could not tell how to court her; yet at length calling to
remembrance her rare wit discouered in her last discourses,
finding opportunitie to giue her both bal and racket, seeing the
coast was cleere, and that none but Samela and he were in
the field, he left his flocke in the valley, and stept vnto her,
and saluted her thus.
Mistres of al eyes that glance but at the excellence of
your perfection, Soueraigne of all such as Venus hath allowed
for louers, Oenones ouermatch, Arcadies comet, beauties
second comfort; all haile : seeing you sit like Iuno when shee
first watchte her white heyfer on the Lincen downes, as
bright as siluer Phaebe mounted on the high top of the ruddie
element, I was by a strange attractiue force drawne, as the
adamant draweth the yron, or the ieat the straw, to visite
your sweete selfe in the shade, and affoord you such companie
as a poore swaine may yeeld without offence ; which if you
shall vouch to deigne of, I shall be as glad of such accepted
seruice, as Paris first was of his best beloued Paramour.
Samela looking on the shepheardes face, and seeing his
vtterance full of broken sighes, thought to bee pleasant with
her shepheard thus. Arcadies Apollo, whose brightnesse
draws euerie eye to turne as the Heliotropion doth after her
load ; fairest of the shepheards, the Nimphes sweetest
obiect, womens wrong, in wronging manie with ones due ;
welcome, and so welcome, as we vouchsafe of your seruice,
admitte of your companie, as of him that is the grace of al
companies, and if we durst vpon any light pardon, woulde
venter to request you shew vs a cast of your cunning.
Samela made this replie, because she heard him so super-
fine, as if Ephaebus had learnd him to refine his mother
tongue, wherefore thought he had done it of an inkhorne
desire to be eloquent ; and Melicertus thinking that Samela
had learnd with Lucilla in Athens to anatomize wit, and
speake none but Similes, imagined she smoothed her talke to
be thought like Sapho, Phaos Paramour.
Thus deceiued either in others suppositions, Samela fol-
lowed her sute thus ; I know that Priamus wanton could not
be without flockes of Nymphes to follow him in the Vale of
Ida, beautie hath legions to attende her excellence if the
shepheard be true ; if like Narcissus you wrap not your
face in the cloude of disdaine, you cannot but haue some
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rare Paragon to your Mistres, whome I woulde haue you, in
some sonnet, describe; Ioues last loue, if Ioue coulde get from
Iuno.
My pipe shal presume and I aduenture with my voice
to set out my Mistres fauour for your excellence to censure
of, and therefore thus.
Yet Melicertus, for that hee had a farther reach, would not
make anie clownish description, chanted it thus cunningly,
M E L I C E R T U S D E S C R P T I O N
OF H 1 s M I S T R E S.
riºuſne on my pipe the praises of my Loue,
* § And midst thy oaten harmonie recount
24 How faire she is that makes thy musicke mount,
And euerie string of thy hearts harpe to moue.
Shall 3 compare her forme vnto the spheare
Whence Sun-bright Venus vaunts her siluer shine P
Ah more than that by iust compare is thine,
Whose Christall lookes the cloudie heauens doo cleare.
How oft haue I descending Titan seene
His burning lockes couch in the Sea-queenes lap,
And beauteous Thetis his red bodie wrap
In watrie roabes, as he her Lord had been.
When as my Nimph impatient of the night
Bad bright Atraeus with his traine giue place,
Whiles she led foorth the day with her faire face,
And lent each starre a more than Delian light.
Not Ioue or Nature should they both agree
To make a woman of the Firmament,
Of his mixt puritie could not inuent
A Skie borne forme so beautifull as she.
When Melicertus had ended this roundelay in praise of his
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better Poet than himselfe had made it, or else that his former
phrase was dissembled: wherefore to trie him thoroughly,
and to see what snake lay hidden vnder the grasse, she fol-
lowed the chase in this manner.
Melicertus, might not a stranger craue your Mistres name.
At this, the shepheard blusht, and made no reply.
How now, quoth Samela, what, is she meane that you
shame, or so high as you fear to bewray the souereign of
your thoughts P Stand not in doubt man, for be she base, I
reade that mightie Tamberlaine after his wife Zenocrate (the
worlds faire eye) past out of the Theater of this mortall life,
he chose stigmaticall trulls to please his humorous fancie.
Be she a princesse, honour hangs in high desires, and it is
the token of a high minde to venter for a Queene : then
gentle shepheard tell me thy Mistres name.
Melicerius hearing his goddesse speake so fauourably,
breathed out this sodaine replie: Too high, Samela, and there-
fore I feare with the Syrian Wolues to barke against the
Moone, or with them of Scyrum to shoot against the starres;
in the height of my thoughts soaring too high, to fall with
wofull repenting Icarus : no sooner did mine eye glance vpon
her beautie, but as if loue and fate had sate to forge my fatall
disquiet, they trapte mee within her lookes, and haling her
Idaea through the passage of my sight, placde it so deeply in
the center of my heart, as maugre al my studious indeauour
it still and euer will keepe restlesse possession : noting her
vertues, her beauties, her perfections, her excellence, and
feare of her too high born parentage, although painfully
fettered, yet haue I still feared to dare so haute an attempt
to sobraue a personage ; lest she offensiue at my presumption,
I perish in the height of my thoughts.
This conclusion broken with an abrupt passion, could not
so satisfie Samela but she would bee further inquisitiue.
At last after manie questions, he answered thus: Seeing
Samela I consume my selfe, and displease you; to hazarde
for the salue that maye cure my malady, and satisfie your
question, know it is the beauteous Samela.
Be there more of that name in Arcady beside myselfe,
quoth she.
I know not, quoth Melicerius, but were there a million,
onely you are Melicerius Samela.
But of a million, quoth she, I cannot be Melicerius Samela,
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for loue hath but one arrowe of desire in his quiuer, but one
string to his bow, and in choyce but one aime of affection.
Haue ye alreadie, quoth Melicertus, set your rest vpon some
higher personage 2 *
No, quoth Samela, I meane by your selfe, for I haue
hearde that your fancie is linked alreadie to a beautiful
shepherdesse of Arcadie. -
At this, the pore swaine tainted his cheeks with a vermillion
die, yet thinking to carrie out the matter with a iest, he
stood to his tackling thus ; Whosoeuer Samela descanted of
that loue, tolde you a Canterbury tale; some propheticall full
mouth that as he were a Coblers eldest sonne, would by
the laste tell where anothers shooe wrings, but his sowterly
aime was iust leuell, in thinking euerie looke was loue, or
euerie faire worde a pawne of loyaltie.
Then, quoth Samela, taking him at a rebound, neither may
I thinke your glaunces to be fancies, nor your greatest
protestion any assurance of deepe affection : therefore
ceasing off to court any further at this time, thinke you haue
prooued your selfe a tall souldier to continue so long at batterie,
and that I am a fauourable foe that haue continued so long a
parley; but I charge you by the loue you owe your deerest
Mistres, not to say any more as touching loue for this time.
If Samela, quoth hee, thou hadst enioyned me as Iuno did
to Hercules, most daungerous labours, I would haue discouered
my loue by obedience, and my affection by death : yet let me
craue this, that as I begunne with a Sonnet, so I may ende
with a Madrigale. .
Content Melicertus, quoth she, for none more than I loue
Musique. •
Upon this replie, the shepheard proud folowed this Dittie.
M E L I C E R T U S M A D R I G A L E.
ſº Hat are my sheepe without their wonted food P
Wº What is my life except I gaine my Loue 2
A& My sheepe consume and faint for want of blood.
My life is lost vnlesse I grace approue.
No flower that saplesse thriues:
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The day without the Sumne dooth lowre for woe,
Then woe mine eyes vnlesse they beautie see :
My Sunne Samelas eyes, by whom I know
Wherein delight consists, where pleasures be.
Nought more the heart reuiues
Than to imbrace his deare.
The starres from earthly humors gaine their light.
Our humors by their light possesse their power:
Samelaes eyes fedde by my weeping sight,
jnsues my paine or ioyes, by smile or lower.
So wends the source of loue.
It feeds, it failes, it ends.
Kinde lookes cleare to your ioy behold her eyes,
Admire her heart, desire to taste her kisses;
In them the heauen of ioy and solace lies,
Without them eu'ry hope his succour misses.
Oh how I loue to prooué
Wheretoo this solace tends.
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Scarce had the shepheard ended this Madrigale, but Samuela
began to frowne, saying he had broken promise.
Melicerius alledged if he had vttred any passion, twas sung,
not said. -
Thus these Louers in a humorous descant of their prattle
espied a farre off olde Lamedon and Menaphon coming towards
them ; whereupon kissing in conceipt, and parting with
interchaunged glaunces, Melicertus stole to his sheepe, and
Samela sate her downe making of nets to catche birds.
At last Lamedon and her Loue came, and after manie
gracious lookes, and much good parley, helpte her home with
her sheepe, and put them in the folds.
But leauing these amorous shepheardes busie in their
loues, let vs retourne at length to the pretie babie, Samelas
childe, whom Menaphon had put to nurse in the countrey.
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This infant being by Nature beautifull, and by birth noble,
even in his cradle exprest to the eyes of the gazers such
glorious presages of his approaching fortunes, as if another
Alcides (the arme-strong darling of the doubled night) by
wrastling with snakes in his swadling cloutes, should pro-
phecie to the world the approching wonders of his prowesse;
so did his fierie looks reflect terror to the weake beholders of
his ingrafted nobilitie, as if some God twise born like vnto
the Thracian Bacchus, forsaking his heauen borne Deitie,
shoulde delude our eyes with the alternate forme of his
infancie. Fiue yeres had full runne their monthly reuolution,
when as this beauteous boy began to shew himselfe among
the shepheards children, with whom he had no sooner con-
tracted familiar acquaintance, but straight he was chosen
Lord of the May game, king of their sports, and ringleader
of their reuils; insomuch that his tender mother beholding
him by chance mounted in his kingly maiestie, and imitating
honorable iustice in his gamesom exercise of discipline, with
teares of ioy took vp these propheticall termes;
Well doo I see, where God and Fate hath vowed felicitie,
no aduerse fortune may expel prosperitie. Pleusidippus, thou
art young, thy lookes high, and thy thoughtes hautie ; soue-
reigntie is seated in thy eyes, and honour in thy heart; I
feare this fire will haue his flame, and then am I vndone in
thee my sonne; my countrey life (sweete countrey life) in
thy proud soaring hopes, despoyled and disroabed of the dis-
guised aray of his rest, must returne russet weedes to the
foldes where I lefte my feares, and hast to the court my hell,
there to inuest me in my wonted cares.
How now Samela, wilt thou be a Sybil of mishap to thy
self 2 the angrie heauens that haue eternisht thy exile, haue
establisht thy content in Arcadie.
My content in Arcadie, that may not be no longer than my
Pleusidippus staies in Arcadie, which I haue cause to feare,
for the whelps of the Lion are no longer harmlesse than
when they are whelpes, and babes no longer to be awed, than
while they are babes. I but nature. And therewith she
pawsed, being interrupted by a tumult of boies, that by
yong Pleusidippus command fell vpon one of their fellowes,
and beate him most cruelly for playing false playe at nine
holes: which she espying though her lattise window, could
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not chose but smile aboue measure. But when she saw him
in his childish termes condemne one to death for despising
the authoritie bequeathed him by the rest of the boyes, then
she bethought her of the Persian Cyrus that deposed his
Grandfather Astyages, whose vse it was at like age to imitate
maiestie in like manner.
In this distraction of thoughts she had not long time staid,
but Lamedon and Menaphon calde her awaye to accompany
them to the foldes, whiles Pleusidippus hasting to the execu-
tion of iustice, dismissed his boyish session till their next
meeting : where how imperiouslie he behaued himselfe in
punishing misorders amongest his equals, in vsing more than
iesting iustice towards his vntamed copesmates, I referre
it to the Annals of the Arcadians that dilate not a little of
this ingenious argument.
In this sort did Pleusidippus draw foorth his infancie, till on
a time walking to the shore, where hee with his mother were
wrackt, to gather cockles and pebble stones, as children are
wont: there arriued on the strond a Thessalian Pirate named
Eurilochus, who after he had forraged in the Arcadian confines,
driuing before him a large bootie of beasts to his ships, espied
this pretie infant; when gazing on his face, as wanton Ioue
gazed on Phrygian Ganimede in the fields of Ida, hee exhaled
into his eyes such deepe impression of his perfection, as that
his thought neuer thirsted so much after any pray, as this
pretie Pleusidippus possession : but determining first to assay
him by curtesie before hee assayled him with rigour, he
began to trie his wit after this manner.
My little childe, whence art thou, where wert thou borne,
whats thy name, and wherefore wandrest thou thus all alone
on the shoare. -
I pray ye, what are you, sir, quoth Pleusidippus, that deale
thus with me by interrogatories, as if I were some runne
away.
Wilt thou not tell me then, who was thy father ?
Said he, Good sir, if ye will needes knowe, goe aske that of
my mother.
Hath said well, my Lord, quoth Romanio who was one of
his especiall associates, for wise are the children in these
dayes that know their owne fathers, especially if they be
begotten in Dogge daies, when their mothers are franticke with
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loue, and yong men furious for lust. Besides, who knows
not, that these Arcadians are giuen to take the benefit of
euerie Hodge, when they will sacrifice their virginitie to
Venus, though they haue but a bush of nettles for their bedde;
and sure this boy is but some shepheards bastard at the most,
howsoeuer his wanton face importeth more than appeerance.
Pleusidippus eyes at this speach resolued into fire, and his
face into purple, with a more than common courage in
children of his yeares and stature, gaue him the lie roundly in
this replie ; Pesant, the bastard in thy face, for I am a Gentle-
man ; wert thou a man in courage, as thou art a cowe in
proportion, thou wouldst neuer haue so much empayred thy
honestie, as to derogate from my honor. Look not in my
face but leuel at my heart by this that thou seest. And there-
with let driue at him with such pebble stones as hee had in
his hat, insomuch that Romanio was driuen to his heeles, to
shun this sodaine haile shot, and Eurilochus resolued into a
laughter, and in tearmes of admiration most highly extolled
so exceeding magnanimitie in so little a bodie ; which how
auaileable it prooued to the confirmation of his fancie, that was
before inflamed with his features, let them imagine, that haue
noted the imbecilitie of that age, and the vnresisted furie of
men at armeS.
Sufficeth at this instant to vnfolde (all other circumstance
of praise laid apart) that Eurilochus being farre in loue with
his extraordinarie lineaments, awaited no farther parley, but
willed his men perforce to hoyse him a shipboord, intending
as soone as euer he arriued in Thessaly, by sending him to
the Courte as a present, to makes his peace with his Lord
and Master Agenor, who not long before had proclaimed him
as a notorious Pirate throughout all his dominions.
Neither swarued hee one whit from his purpose, for no
sooner had he cast anker in the Port of Hadrionopolis, but he
arraied him in choyce silkes and Tyrian purple, and so sent
him as a prize to the King of that Country, who walking as
then in his summer garden with his Queen, the beauteous
Eriphila, fell to discourse (as one well seene in Philosophie)
of hearbes and flowers, as the sauour or colour did occasion :
and hauing spent some time in disputing their medicinable
properties, his Ladie reaching him a Marigold, he began to
moralize of it thus merely.
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I meruaile the Poets that were so prodigall in painting
the amorous affection of the Sunne to his Hyacinth, did
neuer obserue the relation of loue twixt him and the Mari-
gold : it shoulde either seeme they were loath to incurre the
displeasure of women, by propounding it in the way of
comparison any seruile imitation for head strong witues, that
loue no precepts lesse than those pertaining vnto duty; or
that that flower not so vsual in their gardens as ours, in her
vnacquainted name did obscure the honour of her amors to
Apollo; to whose motions reducing the methode of her
springing, she waketh and sleepeth, openeth and shutteth
her golden leaues, as he riseth and setteth.
Well did you forestall my exception, quoth Eriphila, in
terming it a seruile imitation; for were the condition of a wife
so slauish as your similitude would inferre, I had as leaue
be your page as your spouse, your dogge as your darling.
Not so, sweete wife, answered Agenor, but the comparison
holdeth in this, that as the Marigold resembleth the Sunne
both in colour and forme, so each mans wife ought euerie
way to be the image of her husband, framing her countenance
to smile, when she sees him disposed to mirth ; and contrari-
wise her eyes to teares, he being surcharged with melancholy:
and as the Marigold displaieth the orient ornaments of her
beautie to the resplendant viewe of none but her louer
Hyperion, so ought not a woman of modestie lay open the
allurements of her face to anie but her espoused pheere; in
whose absence like the Marigold in the absence of the
Sunne, she ought to shut vp her dores, and solemnize con-
tinuall night, till her husband, her sunne, making a happie
return, vnsealeth her silence with the ioy of his sight.
Beleeue me, but if all flowers (quoth Eriphila) affoord such
influence of eloquence to our aduerse orators, Ile exempt
them all from my smell, for feare they be all planted to
poyson.
Ofte haue I heard (replied Agenor) our cunning Phisitions
conclude, that one poyson is harmelesse to another; which
if it be so, there is no cause why a thistle should feare to be
stung of a nettle.
I can tell you, sir, you best were beware, least in wading
too farre in comparisons of thistles and nettles, you exchange
not your rose for a nettle.
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If I do, quoth Agenor, it is no more, but my gardeners
shall plucke it vp by the rootes, and throw it ouer the wal as
a weed,
To end this iest that els would issue to a iarre, What
purple flower is this in forme like a hyacinth (quoth Eriphila)
so cunningly dropped with bloud, as if Nature had inter-
medled with the Heralds arte, to emblazon a bleeding heart.
It is the flower into the which Poets doo faigne Venus
dying Adonis to be turned, a faire boy but passing infortu-
nate. *
Was it possible, quoth Eriphila, that euer Nature should
bee so bounteous to a boy, to giue him a face in despite of
women so faire: faine would I see such an obiect, and then
would I defie beautie, for imparting our excellencie to any
inferiour obiect. &
In saying these words (as if Fortune meant to present her
fancie with his desired felicitie) Romanio conducted by one of
the Lords came with yong Pleusidippus in his hand into the
priuie garden : where discoursing vnto the king the intent of
Eurilochus in presenting him with such an inestimable Iewell,
the manner of his taking in the Strond of Arcadie, with other
circumstance of vowed alleageance; all which being grate-
fully accepted of Agenor, he sealed their seuerall pardons,
and so gaue them leaue to depart.
But when he had throughly obserued euerie perfection of
yong Pleusidippus, he burst into these tearmes of passion ; Had
sea-borne Pontia then an appliable eare in our idlenesse, that
to testifie hir eternall deitie, she should send vs a second
Adonis to delude our senses 2 What euer may deserue the
name of faire haue I seen before, beautie haue I beheld in his
brightest orb, but neuer set eye on immortalitie before this
houre.
Eriphila likewise in no lesse extasie, seeing her eyes to
dazle with the reflexe of his beautie, and hir cheekes tainted
with a blush of disgrace by too too much gazing on his face,
said; that eyther the Sunne had lefte his bower to beguile
their eyes with a borrowed shape (which could not keepe in
his brightnesse) or Cupide dismounted from his mothers
lappe, left his bow and quiuer at random, to outbraue the
Thessalian dames in their beautie.
In this contrarietie of thoughts, being all plunged welnigh
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in a speachlesse astonishment, the faire childe Pleusidippus
not vsed to such hyperbolical spectators, broke off the silence
by calling for his victualls, as one whose emptie stomack
since his comming from sea, was not ouercloyed with
delicates, whereat Agenor reuiued from his trance, wherein
the present wonder had inwrapt him, demanded such ques-
tions of his name and parentage as the Pirates ignorance
could not vnfold ; but he being able to tel no more than this,
that his mother was a shepheardesse, and his owne name
Pleusidippus, cut off all their further interrogatories by calling,
after his childish manner, againe for his dinner.
Whereupon Agenor commanding him to be had in, and, vsed
in euerie respect as the childe of a Prince, began in his
solitarie walke by his countenance to calculate his Natiuitie,
and measure his birth by his beautie, contracting him in
thought heyre to his kingdome of Thessaly, and husbande to
his daughter, before he knewe whence the childe descended,
or who was his father.
But leauing yong Pleusidippus thus spending his youth in
the Thessalian Court, protected with tender affection of such
a courteous Foster-father as Agenor; returne wee where we
lefte, backe vnto Arcadie, and meete his Mother, the faire
Samela, returning from the foldes: who hauing discoursed by
the way, as she came home, to Lamedon and Menaphon, what
shee late sawe and obserued in her sonne, they both conioyned
their iudgements to this conclusion, that hee was doubtles
borne to some greater fortunes than the sheepcoates could
containe, and therefore it behooued her to further his
Destinies with some good and liberall education, and not to
detaine him any longer in that trade of life, which his fortune
withstood : but by the way to rebuke him for tyrannising so
Lordlie ouer his boies, least the neighbor shepheards might
happely intrude the name of iniurie on them being strangers,
for his insulting ouer their children. -
With this determination came she home, and calling for
Pleusidippus according to their former counsaile, he would in
no wise be found. Thereupon enquirie was made amongest
all the shepheards, diligent seach in euerie village, but stil
the most carefullest post returned with Non est inuentus.
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Which Samela hearing, thinking she had vtterly lost him
whome Fortune had saued, began in this manner to act her
Vnrest.
Dissembling heauens, where is your happinesse ? vn-
constant times, what are your triumphes 2 haue you there-
fore hethertoo fed me with honié, that you might at last
poyson me with gall P Haue you fatted me so long with
Sardenian smiles, that like the wracke of the Syrens, I might
perish in your wiles 2 Curst that I was to affie in your
curtesie, curst that I am to taste of your crueltie. O,
Pleusidippus, liuest thou, or art thou dead 2 No thou art
dead, dead to the world, dead to thy kinsfolkes, dead to
Cipres, dead to Arcadie, dead to thy mother Samela ; and
with thee dies the worlds wonder, thy kinsfolkes comfort,
Cipres soule, Arcadies hopes, thy mothers honours. Was
this the prophecie of thy souereigntie, to yeeld vp thy life to
death so vntimely 2 wretched was I of al women to bring
thee foorth to this infancie. O cruel Themis that didst
reuolue such vneuitable fate ; hard harted death to prosecute
me with such hate. Haue wee therefore escapte the furie of
the seas, to perish on the land 2 was it not inough that we
were exiled from higher prosperitie, but we must all of vs
thus sodainly be ouerwhelmed with the ouerflowe of a second
aduersitie? my husband and thy father to be swalowed in
the furie of the surge, and now thou to bee. And therewith
her eyes distilled such abundance of teares, as stopt the
passage of her plaints; and made her seeme a more than
second Niobe, bewailing her seauen fold sorrow vnder the
forme of a weeping Flint.
Menaphon who had ouer heard her all this while, as one
that sought opportunitie to plead his vnrest, perceiuing her
in that extremitie of agonie for hir sons supposed losse,
stept to hir presently, and cheerde hir vp in these tearmes;
Faire shepheardesse, might the teares of contrition raise the
dead from destruction, then were it wisdome to bewaile
what weeping might recall ; but since such anguish is
fruitelesse, and these plainings bootlesse ; comfort your self
with the hope of the liuing, and omit the teares for the dead.
Why, quoth Samela, how is it possible a woman should
loose him without griefe, whom she hath conceiued with
sorrow: he was, sweete Menaphon, the diuided halfe of my
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essence, soule to my ioyes, and life to my delights; as
beauteous in his birth, as in our bright bow-bearing God,
that played the shepheard awhile for loue, amiddest our
pleasant Arcadian Downes.
What ere he was in beautie, quoth Menaphon, proceeded
from your bountie ; who may by marriage make his like
when you please : therefore there is no cause you should so
much grieue to see your first worke defacde, that of a newe
molde can forme a farre better than euer he was.
Ah, Menaphon, nere more may his like proceede from my
loynes; I tell thee he made the chamber bright with his
beautie when he was born, and chacte [chased] the night with
the golden rayes that gleamed from his lookes : nere more
may I bee the mother of such a sonne.
Yes, Samela, (quoth the frolicke shephearde) thinke not but
if thou wilt list to my loues, I will enrich thee with as faire
increase as euer he was.
Alas, pore swaine, said she, thou hopest in vaine, since
another must reape what thou hast sowne, and gather into
his barnes what thou hast scattered in the furrowe.
Another reape what I haue sowen. Therewith he scracht
his head where it icht not, and setting his cap he could not
tell which way, in a hot fustian fume, he vtterd these words
of furie; Strumpet of Greece, repaiest thou my loue with this
lauish ingratitude 2 haue I therefore with my plentie supplied
thy wants, that thou with thy pride shouldst procure my wo P
did I relieue thee in distresse, to wound me in thy welfare
with disdaine P deceitful woman (and therewith hee swore a
holiday oath, by Pan the God of the shepheards) either
returne loue for loue, or I will turne thee, forth of doores to
scrape vp thy crummes where thou canst; and make thee
pitied for thy pouertie, that earst while wert honoured in
euery mans eye through the supportance of thy beautie. -
Belike then, quoth Samela, when you intertained me into
your house, you did it not in regarde of the lawes of hos-
pitalitie, but only with this policie to quench the flames of
your fancie; then sir, haue I mistooke your honestie, and am
lesse indebted to your courtesie.
Nay I thought no lesse, saide Menaphon, when your straggling
eye at our last meeting would bee gadding throughout euerie
corner of our companie, that you would proue such a kinde
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kistrell; but if you will needes be starting, Ile serue yee
thereafter, I warrant you : then see which of our beardlesse
yongsters will take ye in, when I haue cast you foorth.
Those, quoth she, that outcountenance Menaphon and his
pelfe, and are better able than your selfe: but howsoeuer I
finde their fauour, I henceforth defie you and your fellow-
ship.
And therewith, in great rage, she flung away into the next
chamber, where her uncle Lamedon laye a sleepe; to whome
complaining of Menaphons discurtesies, he straight inuented
this remedie :
There was a shepheard called Moron (brother to Doron)
that not long before died of a surfet, whose house and flocke
beeing set to sale after his decease, he bought them both foorth-
with for Samela, with certaine remainder of money he had,
and therein enfeaft ſenfeoffed] her, maugre the furie of Mena-
phon ; who when hee saw she was able to support her state
without his purse, became sicke for anger, and spent whole
Eclogues in anguish.
Sometime lying comfortlesse on his bedde, he would com-
plaine him to the windes of his woes, in these or such like
words: Forlorne and forsooke, since Phisicke doth loathe
thee; despayre be thy death, Loue is a God and despiseth
thee a man ; Fortune blinde, and can not beholde thy de-
sertes; die, die, fonde Menaphon, that vngratefully hast
abandoned thy Mistresse. And therewith stretching himselfe
vpon his bed, as thinking to haue slept, hee was restrained
by cares that exiled all rest from his eyes: whereuppon tak-
ing his pipe in his hande, twixte playing and singing hee
playned him thus.
M E N A P H O N S S O N G 1 N H is B E D D E.
vº. Ou restlesse cares, companions of the night,
%. That wrap my ioyes in folds of endlesse woes:
§| Tyre on my heart, and wound it with your spight,
Since Loue and Fortune proues my equall foes.
Farewell my hopes, farewell my happy daies :
Welcome sweet griefe, the subtect of my lates.

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Mourne heavens, mourne earth, your shepheard is forlorne;
Mourne times, and houres, since bale inuades my bowre :
Curse euerie tongue, the place where I was borne,
Curse euerie thought, the life which makes me lowre.
Farewell my hopes, farewell my happy daies,
Welcome sweet griefe, the subiect of my laies.
Was I not free ? was I not fancies aime P
Framde not desire my face to front disdaine P
3 was ; she did : but now one silly maime
Makes me to droope as he whom loue hath slaine.
Farewell my hopes, farewell my happy daies,
Welcome sweet griefe, the subject of my layes.
Yet drooping, and yet litting to this death,
j sigh, I sue for pitie at her shrine,
Whose fierie eyes exhale my vitall breath,
And make my flockes with parching heate to pine.
Farewell my hopes, farewell my happie daies,
Welcome sweet griefe, the subiect of my layes.
Fade they, die I, long may she live to blisse,
That feedes a wanton fire with fuell of her forme,
And makes perpetuall summer where shee is ;
Whiles I doo crie oretooke with enuies storme,
Farewell my hopes, farewell my happie dazes:
Welcome sweete griefe, the subject of my laies.
No sooner had Menaphon ended this dittie, but Pesana
hearing that he was lately falne sicke, and that Samela and
hee were at mortall iarres; thinking to make hay while the
Sunne shined, and take opportunitie by his forelockes,
comming into his chamber, vnder pretence to visit him, fell
into these termes; Why how now, Menaphon, hath your newe
change driuen you to a night cap f Beleeue me, this is
the strangest effect of loue that euer I saw, to freeze so
quicklye the heart it set on fire so lately.
Why maye it not bee a burning feuer as well, quoth Mena-
phon blushing 2
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Nay that can not be, said Pesana, since you shake for
colde, not sweat for heat.
Why if it be so, it is long of cold interteinment.
Why, quoth Pesana, hath your hot intertainment cooled
your courage 2
No, but her vndeserued hate quite hindered my conquest.
You knowe, said Pesana, where you might haue been let
in, long ere this, without either assault or anie such battery.
With this the Shepheard was mute, and Pesana ashamed:
but at length regathering his spirits, to bewray his martyr-
dome, and make his olde Mistris some new musicke, he
strained foorth this dittie.
|Aire fields, proud Floras vaunt, why is't you smile
~ when as 3 lauguish P
You golden meads, why striue you to beguile
my weeping anguish P
I liue to sorrow, you to pleasure spring :
why doo you spring thus 2
What will not Boreas, tempests wrathfull king,
take some pitie on vs 2
And send foorth Winter in hir rustie weede,
to waite my bemonings ;
Whiles I distrest doo tune my countrey reede
- wnto my gronings.
But heauen, and earth, time, place, and euery power,
haue with her conspired
To turne my blissefull sweetes to balefull sower,
* since fond I desired
The heauen whereto my thoughts may not aspire :
ay me vnhappie.
It was my fault timbrace my bane the fire,
that forceth me to die.
Mine be the paine, but hirs the cruell cause
of this strange torment :
Wherefore no time my banning prayers shall pause,
till proud she repent.

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Well I perceiue, quoth Pesana, for all she hath let you flie
like a Hawke that hath lost hir tyre; yet you meane to follow
Sute and seruice, though you get but a handfull of Smoake to
the bargaine.
Not so, said Menaphon, but perhaps I seek to returne an
ill bargaine as deare as I bought it.
If you doo so, you are wiser than this kercher dooth shew
you, quoth Pesana.
Much idle prattle to this purpose had Menaphon with Pesana
in his sicknesse ; and long it was not, but that with good
diet and warme broths, (and especially by her carefull attend-
ance) hee began to gather vp his crummes, and listen by
litle and litle to the loue he late scorned.
Leaue we them to their equall desires, as surfetting either
of others societie; and let vs looke back to Thessaly, where
Samelaes stripling (now growne vp to the age of sixteene
yeres) flourisht in honour, and feates of armes aboue all the
Knights of the Court, insomuch that the eccho of his Fame,
was the onely news talkt on throughout euerie towne in
Greece: but Olympia the Mistresse of his prowesse (for so
was the Kings daughter named) was she that most of all ex-
alted in the farre renowmed reports of his martiall perfections,
to whose praise hee did consecrate al his indeauours, to whose
exquisite forme hee did dedicate al his aduentures. But hell-
borne Fame, the eldest daughter of Erinnis, enuying the
felicitie of these two famous Louers, dismounted eftsoones
from hir brasse sounding buildings, and vnburdened hir selfe
of hir secrets in the presence of yong Pleusidippus, among
whose catalogue she had not forgot to discouer the incom-
parable beauty of the Arcadian shepheardesse : whereof the
young Prince no sooner had receiued an inckling, but he
stood vpon thornes til he had satisfied his desire with her
sight. *
Therefore on atime sitting with his Mistresse at supper, when
for table talke it was debated amongst them, what Country
bredde the most accomplisht Dames for all things 2 After
straungers and others had deliuered vp their opinions without
parcialitie, one amongst them all, who had been in Arcadie,
gaue vp his verdit thus freely;
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Gentle women (quoth hee) bee it no disgrace for the Moone
to stoope to the Sunne, for the starres to giue place when
Titan appeares; then I hope neither the Thessalians will be
moued, nor the Grecians agrieued, if I make Apollos Arcadie
beauties Meridian. Neither wil I proceede heerein as our
Philosophicall Poets are wont, that muster euery moouer in
the Zodiacke, euerie fixed starre in the firmament, euerie
elementall worde of arte in an Almanacke, to prooue that
Countrey for beautie most Canonicall where their Mistresse
abideth ; when as, God wot, had they but learned of Apelles,
Ne Sutor vltra crepidam, they would not haue aspired aboue
their birth, or talkt beyond their sowterly bringing vp. Our
Arcadian Nimphs are faire and beautifull, though not
begotten of the Suns bright rayes, whose eyes vaſujnt loues
armorie to the viewe, whose angelical faces are to the obscure
earth in steed of a Firmament : viewe but this counterfeite
(and therwithall hee shewed the picture of Samela) and see
if it be not of force to draw the Sunne from his spheare, or the
Moone from hir circle to gaze as the one did on the beautie of
Daphne, or al night contemplate as the other on the forme
of Endymion.
Pleusidippus who al this while heard his tale with atten-
tiue patience, no sooner beheld the radiant glory of this re-
splendant face, but as a man alreadie installed in eternitie,
he exclaimed thus abruptly. O Arcadie, Arcadie, storehouse
of Nimphs, and nurserie of beautie.
At which words Olympiastarting vpsuddenly, as if she, asecond
Iuno, had taken hir Ioue in bed with Alcmena : and ouer-
casting the chamber with a frown that was able to mantle the
world with an eternall night, she made passage to her choller in
these termes of contempt ; Beardlesse vpstart of I know not
whence, haue the fauors of my bounty (not thy desert) entred
thee so deeply in ouerweening presumption, that thou
shouldst be the formost in derogation of our dignitie, and
blaspheming of my beautie 2 I tell thee, recreant, I scorne thy
clownish Arcady with his inferior comparisons, as one that
prizeth her perfection aboue anie created constitution.
Pleusidippus, vppon this speech stood plunged in a great per-
plexitie, whether he should excuse himselfe mildly, or take
her vp roundly; but the latter being more leuel to his humor
\han the former, he began thus to rowze vp his furie. Dis-
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dainful dame, that vpbraidest me with my birth as it were
base, and my youth as it were boyish, know that although my
parents and progenie are enuied by obscuritie, yet the sparkes
of renowm that make my Eagle minded thoughts to mount,
the heauenly fire imprisoned in the pannicles of my crest, in-
citing me to more deeds of honor, than stout Perseus effected
with his fauchon in the fields of Hesperia, assertaineth my
soule I was the sonne of no coward, but a Gentleman : but
since my inequalitie of parentage is such an eye sore to thy
enuy, holde, take thy fauors, (and therewith he threw her
her gloue) and immortalize whom thou wilt with thy toyes ;
for I will to Arcadie in despite of thee and thy affinitie, there
either to seeke out mischance, or a new Mistres.
With this, in a great rage, he rose from the boord,
and would haue mounted himselfe to depart in that mood,
had not the Lords and gentlemen there present disswaded him
from such an vnaduised enterprise. Neither was this vn-
kindnesse kept so secret, but it came to the Kings eare as he
was new risen from dinner; who for the loue he bare to
Pleusidippus whome hee had honoured with Knighthood not
long before, and for the toward hopes he saw in him, took
paines to goe to the chamber where they were; and finding his
daughter in strange manner perplexed with the thoughts of
Pleusidippus departure, her eyes red, and her cheekes all to
be blubbered with her iealous teares, he took her vp in this
Iſla I) 11621.
Daughter, I thought I had chose such a one to be the
obiect of your eie, as you might haue euerie way loued and
honoured as the Lord of your life, and not haue controlled as
the slaue of your luste. Did I therefore grace him with my
countenance, that you should distaine him with your taunts;
peeuish girle ; I aduise thee on my displeasure, either re-
concile thy selfe betimes, and reforme thy vnreuerent tearmes,
or I will disclaime the loue of a Father, and deale by thee no
more as a daughter.
Olympia, who alreadiehad sufficiently bittenon the bridle, took
these words more vnkindly than all her former bitternesse,
which she digested but sowerly; neuerthelesse making
necessitie the present times best pollicie, shee humbled her
selfe as shee might with modestie, and desired the best inter-
pretation of what was past: Pleusidippus whose courteous
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inclination coulde not withstand this submission, in sign of
reconcilement, gaue her a stoccado des labies : yet was he not
so reconciled, but he kept on his purpose of going to Arcadie,
whereat Olympia (although she grudged inwardly, yet being
loath to offend) helde her peace, and determined to bestowe
vppon him a remembrance, whereby he might bee brought to
thinke vppon her in his absence; which was the deuise of a
bleeding heart floting in the sea waves, curiouslie stampt in
golde, with this Motto about it, Portum aut mortem; alluding
as it seemed, to the deuise in his shield, wherein (because he
was taken vp by Eurilochus on the shore) was cunningly
drawne in a field argent, the sea waues with Venus sitting on
the top, in token that his affection was alreadie fettred.
Here holde this, said she, my sweet Pleusidippus, and hang
it about thy neck, that when thou art in Arcadie, it may be
euer in thine eye; so shall these droppes of ruth that paint out
a painfull trueth, withdraw thy fancie from attracting strange
beautie. Which said, the teares gusht from her eyes, and
Agenors likewise, who gaue him nothing so much in charge,
as to make hast of his returne.
Pleusidippus, although he could haue bin content to haue
done the like for companie, yet he had such a minde on his
iourney, that he broke off such ceremonies, and hasted a
shipboord; and in a Barke bounde for Arcadie, hauing the
winde fauourable, made a short cut, so as in a daye and nights
sayling, he arriued on the shore adioyning to the Promontorie
wher he, his mother, and his uncle Lamedon were first wrackt.
Leaue we him wandring with some few of his traine that
came with him alongst the sea side, to seeke out some town or
village where to refresh themselues; and let vs awhile to the
Court of Democles, where our Historie began : who hauing
committed his daughter with her tender babe, her husbande
Maximus, and Lamedon, his vncle, without oare or mariner to
the furie of the merciles waues, determined to leaue the suc-
cession of his kingdome to vncertaine chance; for his Queene
with Sephestiaes losse (whom she deemed to be dead) tooke
such thought, that within short time after she died. Democles,
as carelesse of all weathers, spent his time Epicure-like in
all kinde of pleasures that either art or expence might affoord,
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so that for his dissolute life he seemed another Heliogabalus,
deriuing his securitie from that grounded tranquilitie, which
made it prouerbiall to the world, No heauen but Arcadie.
Hauing spent manie yeares in this varietie of vanitie, Fame
determining to applye her selfe to his fancie, sounded in his
eares the singular beauty of his daughter Samela; he, although
he were an olde colt, yet had not cast all his wanton teeth,
which made him vnder the brute of beeing sicke of a grieuous
appoplexie, steale from his Court secretly in the disguise of a
shepheard, to come and seek out Samela ; who not a little
proud of hir new flocke, liude more contented then if she had
been Queene of Arcadie, and Melicertus ioying not a little that
shee was parted from Menaphon, vsed euerie day to visite her
without dread, and courte her in such shepheards termes as
he had ; which howe they pleased her I leaue to you to
imagine, when as not long after shee vowed marriage to him
solemnly in presence of all the shepheards, but not to be
solemnized til the Prophecie was fulfilled, mentioned in the
beginning of this Historie. Although this penance exceeded
the limits of his patience; yet hoping that the Oracle was
not vttered in vaine, and might as well (albeit he knew not
which way) bee accomplished in him as in any other, was
contented to mak a vertue of necessitie, and await the vtmost
of his destinie.
But Pleusidippus, who by this time had perfected his pollicies,
exchaunging his garments with one of the heardgroomes of
Menaphon, tracing ouer the Plaines in the habit of a Shep-
heard, chanced to meete with Democles as he was new come
into those quarters; whom mistaking for an olde shepheard,
he began many impertinent questions belonging to the Sheepe-
coates, at last he askt him if he knew Samelaes sheepfold;
who answering doubtfully vnto all alike, made him halfe
angrie; and had not Samela passed by at that instant to fill
her bottle at a spring neere the foote of the Promontorie, he
should like inough haue had first handsell of our new Shep-
heards sheepehooke. But the wonder of her beautie so
wrought with his wounded fancie, that he thought report a
partiall spreader of her praises, and fame too base to talke of
such formes. Samela espying this faire sheepheard so farre
ouer-gone in his gazing, stept to him, and askt him if he knew
her that hee so ouerlookt her.
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Pardon me, faire shepheardesse, (quoth Pleusidippus) if it be
a fault, for I cannot chuse, being Eagle sighted, but gaze on
the Sunne the first time I see it.
And truely I cannot chuse but compare you to one of Æsops
Apes, that finding a Glowworme in the night, tooke it for a
fire; and you seeing a face full of deformities, mistake it for
the Sunne.
Indeede it maye be, mine eyes made opposite to such an
obiect may faile in their office, hauing their lights rebated by
such brightenesse.
Nay not vnlike, quoth Samela, for els out of doubt you
would see your way better.
Why, quoth Pleusidippus, I cannot go out of the way,
when I meete such glistering Goddesses in my way.
How now, sir Paris, are you out of your Arithmeticke, I
thinke you haue lost your witts with your eyes, that mistake
Arcadie for Ida, and a Shepheardesse for a Goddes.
How euer it please you (quoth Pleusidippus) to derogate
from my prowesse by the title of Paris, know that I am not
so farre out of my Arithmetick, but that by Multiplication
I can make two of one, in an houres warning, or bee as good
as a cypher to fill vp a place at the worst hand; for my wit
sufficeth be it neuer so simple to proue both re and voce, that
there can be no vacuum in rerum natura ; and mine eyes, (or
else they deceiue me) will enter so farre in arte, as niger est
contrarius albo, and teach mée how to discerne twixt blacke
and white.
Much other circumstance of prattle passed betweene them,
which the Arcadian Records doo not shew, nor I remember;
sufficeth he pleaded loue, and was repulst: which droue him
into such a choler, that meeting his supposed shepheard (who
lying vnder a bush, had all this while ouer heard them) hè
entred into such termes of indignation, as Ioue shaking his
earthquaking haire, when he sat in consultation of Licaon.
Wherefore Democles perceiuing Pleusidippus repulst, who
was euery way gracde with the ornaments of Nature, began
to cast ouer his bad peniworths, in whose face age had fur-
rowed her wrinckles; except hee should lay his crowne downe
at her feete, and tell her he was king of Arcadia : which in
Common wealths respectes, seeming not commodious, he
thought to turne a new leafe, and make this yong shepheard
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the meanes to perfect his purpose. Hee had not farre from that
place a strong Castle, which was inhabited as then by none
but tilsmen and heardgroomes : thither did he perswade
Pleusidippus to carrie her perforce, and effect that by constraint,
that he could not atchieue by intreatie; who listning not a
little to this counsaile, that was neuer plotted for his aduan-
tage, presently put in practise what he of late gaue in precepts,
and waiting till the euening that Samela should fold hir
sheepe, hauing giuen his men the watch word, maugre al
the shepheards adjoining, he mounted her behind him ; and
being by Democles directed to the Castle, he made such
hauocke among the stubborne. heardsmen, that will they, nill
they, he was Lord of the Castle.
Yet might not this preuaile with Samela, who constant to her
olde shephearde, would not interteine anie new loue; which
made Pleusidippus thinke all this haruest lost in the reaping,
and blemisht all his delights with a mournful drooping.
But Democles that lookt for a mountaine of gold in a Mole
hill, finding her all alone, began to discourse his loue in more
ample manner than euer Pleusidippus, telling her how he was
a King, what his reuenewes were, what power he had to
aduance her, with many other proude vaunts of his wealth,
and prodigal terms of his treasure.
Samela hearing the name of a King, and perceiuing him to
be hir Father, stoode amazed like Medusaes Metamorphosis, and
blushing oft with intermingled sighes, began to thinke how
iniurious fortune was to her showen in such an incestuous
father. But he, hot spurred in his purpose, gaue hir no time
to deliberate, but required either a quicke consent, or a present
deniall. She tolde him, that the Shepheard Melicertus was
alreadie intitled in the interest of hir beautie, wherefore it
was in vain what hee or anie other could plead in the way of
perswasion. •
He thereupon entring into a large field of the basenesse
of Shepheards, and royalties of Kings, with many other as-
sembled arguments of delight, that would haue fetcht Venus
from her sphere to disport : but Samela, whose mouth could
digest no other meate saue only hir sweet Melicertus, ashamed
so long to hold parley with her father about such a matter, flung
away to her withdrawing chamber in a dissembled rage, and
there, after her wonted manner, bewailed her misfortunes.
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Democles plunged thus in a Laborinth of restles passions,
seeing Melicertus figure was so deepely printed in the center
of her thoughts, as neither the resolution of his fancie, his
Metamorphosis from a King to a traueler, Crownes, King-
domes, preferments, (batteries that soone ouerthrowe the for-
tresse of womens fantasies) when Democles, I say, saw that
none of these could remooue Samela; hearing that the Arcadian
shepheards were in an vprore for the losse of their beautifull
shepheardesse, his hot loue changing to a bird of coy dis-
daine; he intended by some reuenge, eyther to obtaine his
loue, or satisfie his hate: wherevppon throughly resolued,
he stole away secretly in his shepheards apparaile, and got
him down to the Plaines, where he found all the swaines in a
mutinie about the recouerie of their beautifull Paragon.
Democles stepping amongst the route, demaunded the cause
of their controuersie.
Marie, sir, quoth Doron bluntly, the flower of all our
garland is gone.
How meane you that, sir, quoth he
Wee had, answered Doron, an Eaw amongst our Rams,
whose fleece was as white as the haires that grow on father
Boreas chinne, or as the dangling deawlap of the siluer Bull,
her front curled like to the Erimanthian Boare, and spangled
like to the woosted stockings of Saturne, her face like Mars
treading vpon the milke white cloudes; belieue me Shep-
heard, her eyes were like the fierie torches tilting against the
Moone. This Paragon, this none such, this Eaw, this Mistres
of our flockes, was by a wily Foxe stolne from our foldes; for
which these shepheards assemble themselues, to recouer so
wealthie a prize.
What is he, quoth Menaphon, that Doron is in such debate
with ? Fellow, canst thou tell vs anie newes of the faire
shepheardesse, that the Knight of Thessaly hath carried away
from her fellow Nymphes 2
Democles thinking to take opportunitie by the forhead :
and seeing Time had feathred his bolte, willing to assaye, as
hee might, to hit the marke, began thus.
Shepheardes, you see my profession is your trade ; and
although my wandring fortunes be not like your home borne
favours, yet were I in the groues of Thessalian Tempe as I am
in the plaines of Arcadie, the swaines would giue mee as
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manie due honors, as they present you here with submisse
reuerence. Beautie that drew Apollo from heauen to playe
the shepheard, that fetcht Ioue from heauen to beare the
shape of a Bull for Agenors daughter, the excellence of such
a Metaphysicall vertue, I meane (shepheards) the fame of
your faire Samela, houering in the eares of euerie man as a
miracle of nature, brought me from Thessaly to feede mine
eyes with Arcadies wonder: stepping alongst the shoare to
come to some sheepecoate where my wearie limmes might
haue rest, Loue that for my labors thought to lead me to
fancies pauillion, was my conduct to a castle, where a Thes-
salian knight lyes in holde, the Portcullis was let downe, the
bridge drawen, the Courte of garde kept, thether I went ;
and for by my tongue I was known to be a Thessalian, I was
enterteined and lodged: the Knight whose yeeres are yong,
and valure matchlesse, holding in his armes a Lady more
beautifull than Loues Queene, all blubbered with teares, asked
me manie questions, which, as I might, I replide vnto : but
while he talkt, mine eye surfetting with such excellence, was
detained vpon the glorious shew of such a wonderfull obiect;
I demanded what she was, of the standers by, and they said
she was the faire shepheardesse whom the Knight had taken
from the swaines of Arcadie, and woulde carrie with the first
wind that serued into Thessaly : This, shepheards, I know,
and grieue that thus your loues should be ouermatcht with
Fortune, and your affections pulde back by contrarietie of
Destinie. -
Melicertus hearing this, the fire sparkling out of his eyes,
began thus, I tell thee shephearde, if Fates with their fore-
pointing pencels did pen down, or Fortune with her deepest
varietie resolue, or Loue with his greatest power determine to
depriue Arcadie of the beautifull Samela, we would with our
blood signe downe such spels on the Plaines, that either our
Gods should summon her to Elizium, or shee rest with vs
quiet and fortunate; thou seest the shepheardes are vp in
armes to reuenge, onely it rests who shall haue the honour
and principalitie of the field.
What needs that question, quoth Menaphon, am not I the
Kings shepheard, and chiefe of all the bordering swaines of
Arcadia P
I grant, quoth Melicerius, but am not I a Gentleman,
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though tirde in a shepheardes skincote; superiour to thee in
birth, though equall now in profession.
Well from words, they had falne to blowes, had not the
shepheards parted them ; and for the auoyding of further
troubles, it was agreed that they should in two Eglogſuejs
make description of their loue; and Democles, for he was a
stranger, to sit Censor, and who best could decipher his
Mistres perfection, should be made Generall of the rest.
Menaphon and Melicertus condescended to this motion, and
Democles sitting as a Iudge, the rest of the shepheards stand-
ing as witnesses of this combat, Menaphon began thus.
M E N A P H O N S E G L O G U E .
ºloo weake the wit, too slender is the braine
2. Not one that lives (except he hap to proue)
Can tell the sweete, or tell the Secret paine.
Yet j that haue been prentice to the griefe,
Like to the cunning sea-man, from a farre,
By gesse will talke the beautie of that starre,
Whose influence must yeeld me chiefe reliefe.
You Censors of the glorie of my deare,
With reuerence and lowlie bent of knee :
Attend and marke what her perfections be :
For in my words my fancies shall appeare.
Hir lockes are pleighted like the fleece of wooll
That Iason with his Gretian mates atchiude,
As pure as golde, yet not from golde deriude :
As full of sweetes, as sweete of sweetes is full.
Her browes are pretie tables of conceate,
Where Loue his records of delight doth quoate,
On them her dallying lockes doo daily floate
As Loue full oft doth feede vpon the baite.

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Her eyes, faire eyes, like to the purest lights
That animate the Sunne, or cheere the day,
In whom the shining Sun-beames brightly play
Whiles fancie dooth on them diuine delights.
Hir cheekes like ripened lillies steept in wine,
Or faire pomegranade kernels washt in milke,
Or snow white threds in nets of crimson silke,
Or gorgeous cloudes upon the Sunnes decline.
Her lips like roses ouerwasht with dew,
Or like the purple of Narcissus flower :
No frost their faire, no wind doth wast their power,
But by her breath her beauties doo renew.
Hir christall chin like to the purest molde,
Enchac'de with daintie daysies soft and white,
Where fancies faire pauilion once is pight,
Whereas imbrac'de his beauties he doth holde.
Hir necke like to an yuorie Shining tower
Where through with azure veynes sweete Nectar runnes,
Or like the downe of Swannes where Senesse womnes,
Or like delight that doth it selfe deuoure.
Hir pappes are like faire apples in the prime,
As round as orient pearles, as soft as downe :
They neuer vaile their faire through winters frowne,
But from their sweetes Loue suckt his summer time.
Hir bodie beauties best esteemed bowre,
Delicious, comely, daintie, without staine :
The thought whereof (not touch) hath wrought my paine,
Whose faire, all faire and beauties doth deuoure.
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Hir maiden mount, the dwelling house of pleasure;
Not like, for why no like surpasseth wonder :
O blest is he may bring such beauties wnder,
Or search by sute the secrets of that treasure.
Deuourd in thought, how wanders my deuice P
What rests behind I must diuine vpon.
Who talkes the best, can say but fairer none :
Few words well coucht doo most content the wise.
All you that heare; let not my sillie stile,
Condemne my zeale : for what my tongue should say
Serues to inforce my thoughts to seeke the way
Whereby my woes and cares I doo beguile.
Selde speaketh Loue, but sighs his secret paines;
Teares are his truce-men, words doo make him tremble.
How sweete is loue to them that can dissemble
In thoughts and lookes, till they haue reapt the gaines.
Alonely I am plaine, and what % say
j thinke, yet what I thinke, tongue cannot tell:
Sweete Censors take my silly worst for well ;
My faith is firme, though homely be my laye.
After the haples Menaphon had in this homely discourse
shadowed his heauenly delight; the shepheard Melicertus,
after some pause, began in this sort.
M E L I C E R T U S E c L O G U E.
|Hat neede compare where sweete exceedes compare P
* Who drawes his thoughts of loue from senselesse things
*AAS. Their pompe and greatest glories doth impaire,
And mounts Loues heauen with ouer leaden wings.


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Stones, hearbes and flowers, the foolish spoyles of earth,
Flouds, mettalls, colours, dalliance of the eye :
These shew conceipt is staind with too much dearth :
Such abstract fond compares making cunning die.
But he that hath the feeling taste of Loue
ADeriues his essence from no earthlie toy;
4 weake conceipt his power cannot approue,
For earthly thoughts are subiect to annoy.
Be whist, be still, be silent Censors now ;
My fellow swaine has tolde a pretie tale
Which moderne Poets may perhaps allow,
Yet I condemne the termes; for they are stale,
Apollo, when any Mistres first was borne,
Cut off his lockes, and left them on her head,
And said ; } plant these wires in Natures scorne,
Whose beauties shall appeare when Time is dead.
From foorth the Christall heauen when she was made.
The puritie thereof did taint hir brow :
On which the glistering Sunne that sought the shade
Gan set, and there his glories doth auow.
Those eyes, faire eyes, too faire to be describde,
Were those that earst the Chaos did reforme :
To whom the heauens their beauties haue ascribde,
That fashion life in man, in beast, in worme.
When first hir faire delicious cheekes were wrought,
Aurora brought hir blush, the Moone hir white :
Both so combinde as passed Natures thought,
Compilde those pretie orbes of sweete delight.
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When Loue and Nature once were proud with play,
From both their lips hir lips the Corrall drew :
On them doth fancy sleepe, and euerie day
Doth swallow ioy such sweete delights to view.
Whilome, while Venus Sonne did seeke a bowre,
To sport with Psiches his desired deare,
He chose her chinne; and from that happy stowre
He neuer stints in glorie to appeare.
Desires and Joyes that long had seruëd Loue,
Besought a Holde where pretie eyes might woo them :
Loue make her necke, and for their best behoue
Hath shut them there, whence no man can vndoo them
Once Venus dreamt upon two prettie things,
Hir thoughts they were affections chiefest neasts :
She suckt and sightht, and bathde hir in the springs,
And when she wakt, they were my Mistres breasis.
Once Cupid sought a holde to couch his kisses, .
And found the bodie of my best belowde,
Wherein he closde the beautie of his blisses,
And from that bower can neuer be remoude.
The Graces earst, when Alcidelian springs
Were waxen drie, perhaps did finde hir fountaine
Within the vale of blisse, where Cupides wings
Doo shield the Nectar fleeting from the mountaine.
No more fond man : things infinite, I see,
Brooke no dimension : Hell a foolish speech;
For endles things may neuer talkèd be.
Then let me live to honor and beseech.
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Sweete Natures pompe, if my deficient phraze
Hath staind thy glories by too little skill,
Yeeld pardon though mine eye that long did gaze,
Hath left no better patterne to my quill.
I will no more, no more will I detaine
Your listning eares with dallyance of my tongue :
I speake my toyes, but yet conceale my paine ;
My paine too olde, although my yeeres be yong.
As soone as Melicertus had ended this Eclogue, they
expected the doome of Democles, who hearing the sweete
description, wherein Melicerius described his Mistres, won-
dered that such rare conceipts could bee harboured vnder a
shepheards gray clothing, at last he made this answere.
Arcadian Swaines, whose wealth is content, whose labours
are tempered with sweete loues, whose mindes aspyre not,
whose thoughts brooke no enuie; onely as riualls in affection,
you are friendly emulators in honest fancie : sith fortune (as
enemie to your quiet) hath reft you of your fayre shepheardesse,
(the worlds wonder, and Arcadies miracle) and one of you as
champion must lead the rest to reuenge, both desirous to
shew your valour as your forwardnesse in affections, and yet
(as I said) one to be sole chieftaine of the traine, I award
to Melicertus that honour (as to him that hath most curiously
portrayed out his Mistres excellence) to beare sole rule, and
supremacie.
At this, Menaphon grudged, and Melicertus was in an
extasie of ioy, so that gathering all his forces together of
stout headstrong clownes, amounting to the number of
some two hundred, he apparailed himselfe in armour, colour
sables, as mourning for his Mistres, in his shield he had
figured the waues of the sea, Venus sitting on them in the
height of all her pride. Thus marched Melicertus forward
with olde Democles, the supposed shepheard, till they came
to the castle, where Pleusidippus and his faire Samela were
resident.
As soone as they came there, Melicertus begirt the Castle
with such a siege, as so manie sheepish Caualiers could
furnish : which when he had done, summoning them in the
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Castle to parley, the young Knight stept vpon the walls, and
seeing such crue of base companions, with Iackets and rustie
bills on their backs, fell into a great laughter, and began to
taunt them thus. Why, what strange Metamorphosis is
this 2 Are the Plaines of Arcadie, whilome filled with
labourers, now ouerlaide with launces 2 Are sheepe trans-
formed into men, swaines into souldiers, and a wandring
companie of poore shepheards, into a worthie troope of
resolute champions 2 No doubt, either Pan meanes to playe
God of warre, or else these be but such men as rose of
the teeth of Cadmus. Nowe I see the beginning of your
warres, and the pretended ende of your stratagems; the
shepheardes hauing a madding humour like the Greekes to
seek for the recouerie of Helena, so you for the regaining of
your faire Samela. Heere shee is, Shepheards, and I a Priam
to defende hir with resistance of a ten yeares siege: yet for I
were loath to haue my Castle sackte like Troy, I pray you
tell me, which is Agamemnon 2
Melicertus hearing the youth speake thus proudly, hauing
the sparkes of honor fresh vnder the cinders of pouertie,
incited with loue and valor (two things to animate the most
dastard Thersites to enter combate against Hercules) answered
thus. Vnknowne yongster of Thessalie, if the feare of thy
hardie deedes were like the Diapason of thy threates, wee
would thinke the Castle of longer siege, than either our
ages would permit, or our valour aduenture: but where the
shelfe is most shallowe, there the water breakes most high ;
emptie vessells haue the highest sounds, hollowe rockes the
loudest ecchoes, and pratling gloriosers, the smallest perfor-
maunce of courage; for proofe whereof, seeing thou hast
made a rape of faire Samela, one of her vowed Shepheards is
come for the safetie of her sweete selfe to challenge thee to
single combate; if thou ouercome me, thou shalt freelie
passe with the shepheardesse to Thessaly; if I vanquish thee,
thou shalt feele the burden of thy rashnesse, and Samela the
sweetnesse of her libertie. -
Pleusidippus meruailed at the resolution of the shepheard;
but when Democles heard how if he wonne, she should be
transported into Thessaly, a world of sorowes tombled in his
discontented braine, that he hammered in his head many
meanes to stay the faire Samela,
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For when Pleusidippus, in a great choller, was readie to
throwe downe his gantlet, and to accept of the combat,
Democles stept vp, and spake thus. Worthy mirrors of re-
Solued magnanimitie, whose thoughts are aboue your fortunes,
and whose valour more than your reuenewes, know that
Bitches that puppie in hast bring forth blind whelpes; that
there is no herbe sooner sprung vp than the Spattarmia nor
sooner fadeth ; the fruits too soone ripe are quickly rotten ;
that deedes done in hast are repented at leisure: then braue
men in so weightie a cause, and for the conquest of so
excellent a Paragon, let not one minute begin and end the
quarrell, but like Fabius of Rome vse delay in such dangerous
exploytes, when honor sits on wreaths of Lawrels to giue the
victor his garland : deferre it some three daies, and then in
Solemne manner end the combat.
To this good motion not onely Pleusidippus and Melicertus
agreed, but all the companie were consenting, and vpon
pledges of truce being giuen, they rested.
But Democles seeing in couerte he could not conquer, and
that in despairing loues secrecie was no salue, he despatched
letters to the Nobilitie of his Court, with strait charge that
they should bee in that place within three dayes with tenne
thousand strong.
This newes no sooner came to the Generall of his Forces,
but leuying so many approoued souldiers, he marched secretly
by night to the place Democles in his letters had prescribed ;
and there ioyfully intertained by the King, they were placde
in ambush, readie when the signall should be giuen to issue
out of the place, and performe their Souereignes command.
Well, the third day being come, no sooner did Titan arise
from the watrie Couche of his Lemman, but these two cham-
pions were readie in the lists, accompanied with the route of
all the Arcadian shepheards, and olde Democles whom they had
appoynted for one of the Iudges.
Pleusidippus seeing Melicerius aduance on his shield the
waues of the sea with a Venus sitting vpon them, meruailed
what the shepheard should be that gaue his armes, and
Melicertus was as much amazed to see a strange Thessalian
Knight vant his armes without difference; yet being so
fraught with direfull reuenge, as they scorned to salute ech
other so much as with threates, they fell toughly to blowes.
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Samela standing on top of the turret, and viewing the combate;
the poore Ladie grieuing that for her cause such a stratageme
should arise in Arcadie, her countenance ful of sorrow, and
flouds of teares falling from her eyes, she began to breathe
out this passion. -
Unfortunate Samela, born to mishaps, and forepointed to
sinister fortunes, whose bloomes were ripened by mischance,
and whose fruite is like to wither with despaire; in thy youth
sate discontent pruning her selfe in thy forhead, now in thine
age sorow hides her selfe amongst the wrinckles of thy face :
thus art thou infortunate in thy Prime, and crossed with con-
trarie accidents in thy Autumne, as haplesse as Helena, to haue
the burden of warres laid on the wings of thy beautie. And
who must be the champion ? whose sword must pearce the
|belme of thine enemie P whose bloud must purchase the free-
dome of Samela, but Melicertus 2 If he conquer, then Samela
triumphs, as if she had been chiefe victor in the Olympiades;
if he loose, euerie drop falling from his wounds into the center
of my thoughts, as his death to him, so shall it be to me, the
end of my loues, my life, and my libertie.
As still shee was about to goe forwarde in hir passion, the
trumpet sounded, and they fell to fight in such furious sorte,
as the Arcadians and Democles himselfe wondered to see the
courage of the Shepheard, that tied the Knight to such a sore
taske. Pleusidippus likewise feeling an extraordinarie kinde of
force, and seeing with what courage the Knight of the shep-
heards fought, beganne to coniecture diuersly of the waues,
and to feare the euent of the combate. On the contrarie
parte, Melicertus halfe wearied with the heauie blowes of Pleu-
sidippus, stood in a maze howe so yong a wagge should be so
expert in his weapon.
Thus debating diuersly in their several thoughts, at length
being both wearie, they stepte backe, and leaning on their
swordes, tooke breath, gazing each upon other.
At last Pleusidippus burst into these speeches. Shepheard
in life, though now a Gentleman in armour, if thy degree be
better I glory, I am not disgracde with the combate : tel me,
how darest thou so farre wrong mee, as to weare mine Armes
on thy shield 2
Princockes (quoth Melicertus) thou liest, they be mine owne,
and thou contrarie to the Law of Armes bearest my Crest
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without difference, in which quarrell, seeing it concerns my
honour, I will reuenge it as farre as my loues. And with
that, he gaue such a charging blow at Pleusidippus helme,
that hee had almost ouerturned him : Pleusidippus lefte not the
blowe vnrequited, but doubled his force : insomuch that the
hazard of the battle was doubtfull, and both of them were
faine to take breath againe.
Democles seeing his time, that both of them were so
weakned, gaue the watchword, and the ambush leapt out,
slaughtered manie of the shepheards, put the rest to flight,
tooke the two champions prisoners, and sacking the Castle,
carried them and the faire Samela to his Court: letting the
Shepheardesse haue her libertie, but putting Melicertus and
Pleusidippus into a deepe and darke dungeon.
Where leauing these passionate Louers in this Catastrophe;
againe to Doron, the homely blunt Shephearde; who hauing
been long enamoured of Carmela, much good wooing past
betwixte them, and yet little speeding ; at last, both of them
met hard by the Promontorie of Arcadie, shee leading foorth
her Sheepe, and hee going to see his newe yearld Lambes.
As soone as they met, breaking a few quarter blowes with
such countrey glances as they coulde, they geerde one at
another louingly.
At last Doron manfully began thus. Carmela, by my troth,
Good morrow, tis as daintie to see you abroad, as to eate a
messe of Sweete milke in Iuly : you are proude such a house
doue of late, or rather so good a Huswife, that no man may
see you vnder a couple of Capons, the Church-yeard may
stand long inough ere you will come to looke on it, and the
Piper may begge for euerie pennie he gets out of your pursse:
but it is no matter, you are in loue with some stout Ruffler,
and yet poore folkes, such as I am, must be content with
porredge. And with that, turning his backe, he smiled in his
sleeue to see howe kindely hee had giuen her the bobbe :
Which Carmela seeing, she thought to be euen with him
thus. Indeede Doron you saye well, it is long since wee met,
and our house is a Grange house with you : but we haue tyed
vp the great Dogge, and when you come you shall haue greene
rushes, you are such a straunger: but tis no matter; soone
86 The reports of the Shepheards. º:
hote soone colde, hee that mingles himselfe with draffe, the
hogges will eat him : and she that lays her loue on an vnkinde
man, shall finde sorrowe inough to eate hir soppes withall.
And with that Carmela was so full stomackt that she wept.
Doron to shewe himselfe a naturall yong man, gaue her a
few kinde kisses to comfort her, and sware that she was the
woman he loued best in the whole worlde, and for proofe,
quoth he, thou shalt heare what I will praise.
And you, quoth she, what I will performe.
And so taking hand in hand, they kindly sate them downe,
and began to discourse their loues in these Eclogues.
D O R O N S E c L O G U E I O Y N E D
W I T H C A R M E L A s.
syllt downe Carmela, here are cubbs for kings,
Slowes blacke as ieat, or like my Christmas shooes,
Sit downe Carmela, let me kisse thy toes.
C A R M E L A.
Ah Doron, ah my heart, thou art as white,
As is my mothers Calfe, or brinded Cow,
Thine eyes are like the slowwormes in the night,
Thine haires resemble thickest of the Snow,
The lines within thy face are deepe and cleere
Like to the furrowes of my fathers waine :
Thy sweate upon thy face dooth oft appeare,
Like to my mothers fat and Kitchin gaine.
Ah leaue my toe, and kisse my lippes, my loue,
My lips are thine, for I haue giuen them thee :
Within thy cap tis thou shalt weare my gloue,
At foote ball sport, thou shalt my champion be.

ź The reports of the Shepheard's. 87
D o Ro N.
Carmela deare, euen as the golden ball
That Venus got, such are thy goodly eyes :
When cherries iuice is iumbled therewithall,
Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies.
Thy lippes resemble two Cowcumbers faire,
Thy teeth like to the tuskes of fattest swine,
Thy speach is like the thunder in the aire :
Would God thy toes, thy lips, and all were mine.
C A R M E L A.
Doron, what thing doth mooué this wishing griefe P
D O R O N.
Tis Loue, Carmela, ah tis cruell Loue.
That like a slaue, and caitiſfe villaine thiefe,
Hath cut my throate of ioy for my behoue.
C A R M E L A.
Where was he borne P
D O R O N .
jn faith I know not where.
But I haue heard much talking of his dart.
Ay me poore man, with many a trampling teare,
I feele him wound the forehearse of my heart.
What, doo I loue 2 O no, I doo but talke.
What, shall I die for loue P O no, not so.
What, am # dead P O no, my tongue doth walke,
Come kisse, Carmela, and confound my woe.
88 The reports of the Shepheards. 1589.
Aug. R. Greene.
C A R M E L A.
Euen with this kisse, as once my father did,
I seale the sweete indentures of delight :
Before I breake my vowe the Gods forbid,
No not by day, nor yet by darkesome night.
Do R O N .
Euen with this garland made of Holy-hocks,
I crosse thy browes from euerie shepheards kisse.
Heigh hoe, how glad am j to touch thy lockes,
My frolicke heart euen now a free man is.
C A R M E L A.
I thanke you Doron, and will thinke on you,
I loue you Doron, and will winke on you.
I seale your charter patent with my thummes,
Come kisse and part, for feare my mother comes.
Thus ended this merrie Eclogue betwixte Doron and Car-
mela : which, Gentlemen, if it be stufft with prettie Similies
and farre fetcht Metaphores; thinke the poore Countrey
Louers knewe no further comparisons then came within com-
passe of their Countrey Logicke. Well, twas a good world
when such simplicitie was vsed, sayes the old women of our
time, when a ring of a rush woulde tye as much Loue together
as a Gimmon of golde: but Gentlemen, since we haue talkte
of Loue so long, you shall giue me leaue to shewe my opinion
of that foolish fancie thus.
S O N E T T 0.
vºwſ. Hat thing is Loue P It is a power diuine
WWº That raines in vs : or else a wreakefull law
KA/Ağ That doomes our mindes, to beautie to encline:
It is a starre, whose influence dooth draw
Our heart to Loue dissembling of his might,
Till he be master of our hearts and sight.

§...". The reports of the Shepheard's. 89
Loue is a discord, and a strange diuorce
Betwixt our sense and reason, by whose power,
As madde with reason, we admit that force,
Which wit or labour neuer may deuoure.
It is a will that brooketh no consent :
It would refuse, yet neuer may repent.
Loue's a desire, which for to waite a time,
Dooth loose an age of yeares, and so doth passe,
As dooth the shadow seuerd from his prime,
Seeming as though it were, yet neuer was.
Leauing behinde nought but repentant thoughts
Of daies ill spent, for that which profits noughts.
jts now a peace, and then a sodaine warre,
A hope consumde before it is conceiude,
At hand it feares, and menaceth afarre,
And he that gaines, is most of all deceiude:
It is a secret hidden and not knowne,
Which one may better feele than write vpon.
Thus Gentlemen haue you heard my verdite in this
Sonetto, now will I returne to Doron and Carmela, who not
seeing her mother come, fell againe to a few homely kisses,
and thus it was, after they had thus amorously ended their
Eclogues, they plighted faith and troth, and Carmela verie
brisklye wiping her mouth with a white apron, sealed it with
a kisse, which Doron taking marueilous kindly, after a little
playing loath to depart, they both went about their businesse.
Leauing them therefore to their businesse, againe to Demo-
cles; who seeing no intreaties would serue to perswade Samela
to loue, neither the hope of the Arcadian crowne, nor the title
of a Queene, lastly assayed with frownes and threates, but all
in vaine: for Samela, first restrained by nature in that he was
her Father, and secondly by loue, in that Melicertus lay im-
prisoned onely for her sake, stoode still so stiffe to her tackling,
that Democles chaunging loue into hate, resolued to reuenge
that with death, which no meanes els might satisfie: so
Eac. Sch. Zie. No. 12. 8
90 The reports of the Shepheards. ..º.
that to colour his frauds withall, he gaue Samela free license
to visite Melicerius: which shee had not long done, but that
by the instigation of the old King, the gailor confederate to
his trecherie, accuseth her of adulterie: whereupon without
further witnesse they both were condemned to dye.
These two louers knowing themselues guiltlesse in this
surmised faction, were ioyfull to ende their loues with their
liues, and so to conclude all in a fatall and finall content of
mindes and passions. But Democles set free Pleusidippus, as
afraide the King of Thessalie would reuenge the wrong of his
Knight, intertaining him with such sumptuous banquets, as
befitted so braue and woorthie a Gentleman.
The day prefixed came, wherein these parties should die,
Samela was so desirous to end her life with her frieed, that shee
would not reueale either vnto Democles or Melicertus what she
was ; and Melicertus rather chose to die with his Samela, then
once to name himselfe Maximius. Both thus resolued, were
brought to the place of execution; Pleusidippus sitting on a
scaffolde with Democles, seeing Samela come forth like the
blush in the morning, felt an vnc.outh passion in his mind,
and nature began to enter combat with his thoughts: not loue,
but reuerence, not fancie, but feare began to assaile him, that
he turnd to the King, and sayd: Is it not pitie, Democles,
such diuine beauty should be wrapt in cinders ?
No, quoth Democles, where the anger of a King must be
satisfied.
At this answere Pleusidippus wrapt his face in his cloke
and wept, and all the assistants grieued to see so faire a
creature subiect to the violent rage of fortune.
Well, Democles commanded the deathsman to doo his
deuoyre; who kneeling downe and crauing pardon, readie to
giue Melicertus the fatall stroake, there stept out an olde
woman attired like a Prophetesse, who cryed out ; Villaine
holde thy hand, thou wrongest the daughter of a King.
Democles hearing the outcrie, and seeing that at that word
the people began to mutinie and murmur, demanded of the old
woman what she meant.
Now, quoth she, Democles, is the Delphian oracle per-
formed; Neptune hath yeelded vp the worlds wonder, and that
is young Pleusidippus nephew to thee, and sonne to fair
Sephestia, who heere standeth vnder the name of Samela, cast
Å. The reports of the Shepheards. 9 I
vpon the Promontory of Arcadie with her yong sonne, where
she, as a shepheardesse, hath liude in labours tempred with
loues; her son playing on the shore, was conueyed by certain
Pirates into Thessaly, where (when as he was supposed euerie
way to be dead) doing deedes of chiualrie, he fulfilled the
prophecie: your highnesse giuing the Lion, were guide vnto
the lambs in dissembling your selfe as a shepheard : planets
resting vpon the hils, was the picture of Venus vpon their
crests; and the seas that had neither ebbe nor tide, was the
combat twixte the father and the sonne, that gaue the waues
of the seas in their shields, not able to vanquish one
another, but parting with equall victorie. For know Democles
this Melicertus is Maximius, twice betrothed to Sephestia, and
Father to yong Pleusidippus ; now therefore the Oracle ful-
filled, is the happie time wherein Arcadie shall rest in peace.
At this, the people gaue a great shout, and the olde woman
vanisht.
Democles as a man rauisht with an extasie of sodaine ioy,
sate still, and stared on the face of Sephestia.
Pleusidippus in all dutie leapt from his seate, and went and
couered his mother with his roabe, crauing pardon for the
fondnesse of his incestuous affection : and kneeling at his
fathers feete submisse, in that he had drawen his sword, and
sought his life that first in this world gaue him life.
Maximius first lookt on his wife, and seeing by the linea-
ments of her face, that it was Sephestia, fell about her necke,
and both of them weeping in the bosome of their sonne, shed
teares for ioy to see him so braue a Gentleman.
Democles all this while sitting in a trance, at last calling
his senses together, seeing his daughter reuiued, whom so
cruelly for the loue of Maximius he had banisht out of his
confines, Maximius in safety, and the childe a matchlesse
paragon of approued chiualrie, he leapt from his seate, and
imbraced them all with teares, crauing pardon of Maximius and
Sephestia : and to shew that the outward obiect of his watrie
eies had a sympathie with the inward passion of his hart, he
impald the head of his yong neuew Pleusidippus with the
crowne and diadem of Arcadie : and for that his brother
Lamedon had in all distresse not left his daughter Sephestia,
he toke the matter so kindly, that he reconciled himselfe vnto
him, and made him Duke in Arcady.
92 The reports of the Shepheards. Å.
The successe of this forerehearsed Catastrophe growing so
comicall, they all concluded after the Festiuall solemnizing
of the Coronation (which was made famous with the excellent
deedes of many worthy Caualiers) to passe into Thessaly, to
contract the mariage twixt Pleusidippus, and the daughter of
of the Thessalian King.
Which newes spred through Arcadie as a wonder, that at
last it came to Menaphons ears, who hearing the high parent-
age of his supposed Samela, seeing his passions were too
aspiring, and that with the Syrian Wolues, he barkt against
the Moone, he left such lettice as were too fine for his lips,
and courted his old loue Pesana, to whom shortly after he
was married.
And lest there should be left any thing vnperfect in
this pastorall accident, Doron smudgde him-
selfe vp, and iumpde a marriage with
his old friend Carmela.
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9. [J. GAY.] The Present State of Wit. 3 May 1711. [A Survey of our
Periodical Literature at this date; including the Rezniew, Tatler, and Spectator.]
Io. [Dr. J. ARBUTHNOT.] Law [i.e. War] is a Bottomless Pit, exemplified
in the Case of the Lord STRUTT [the Kings of Spain], JoHN BULL [AEngland]
the Clothier, NICHOLAS FROG [Holland] the Linendraper, and LEWIS BABOON
[Louis XIV. of Bourbon = France]. In Four Parts. 1712.
This famous Political Satire on the War of the Spanish Succession was
designed to prepare the English public for the Peace of Utrecht, signed on II
April 1713. In part I., on 28 February 1712, first appeared in our Literature,
the character of JOHN BULL for an Englishman.
II. T. TICKELL. The life of ADDISON. 1721.
12. Sir R. STEELE. Epistle to W. CONGREVE [in reply..] 1722.
English Poetry.
13. The first printed Robin Hood Ballad. Printed about 1510.
I4. W. PERCY. COELIA. [Sonnets.] I 594.
15. G. WITHER. FIDELIA. [This is WITHER’s second masterpiece. The
Lament of a Woman thinking that she is forsaken in love..] I615.
I6. M. DRAYTON. IDEA. [Sonnets.] 1619.
17. The Interpreter. [A Political Satire interpreting the meaning of The
Protestant, The Puritan, The Papist.] 1622.
An English Garner. 7
VOL. VII.
Small Paper. Cloth, 5s, met.
English Political, Naval, and Military History,
etc. etc.
I. Sir F. VERE, General of the English troops in the Dutch service. Com-
mentaries of his Services: at (1) the Storming of Cadiz in 1596, (2) the Action at
Turnhout in 1597 (3) The Battle of Nieuport in 1600: but especially (4) the Siege
of Ostend, of which place he was Governor from II June 1601 to 7 June 1602.
§: The Retaking of The Friends' Adventure from the French by R. LYDE and
a boy. I693.
English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.
. H. PITMAN. Relation, etc. For doing noble Red Cross work at the
Battle of Sedgemoor; this Surgeon was sent as a White Slave to Barbadoes, etc.
1689.
English Life and Progress.
4. W. KEMP's [SHAKESPEARE's fellow Actor] Nine Days Wonder; performed
in a Morris Dance from London to Norwich. April 1600.
5. A series of Texts on the indignities offered to the Established Clergy, and
especially the Private Chaplains, in the Restoration Age, by the Royalist laity;
including
Dr. J. EACHARD's witty ‘Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy and
Religion.’ 1670.
English Literature, Literary History, and
Biography.
6. Another Series of Tracts, in prose and verse, illustrating the great Public
Services rendered by D. DEFOE, up to the death of Queen Anne; including:
D. DEFOE. An Appeal to Honour and Justice, etc. 1715.
D. DEFOE. The True Born Englishman. 1701.
D. DEFoE. The History of Kentish Petition, 1701.
D. DEFOE. LEGION's Memorial. I7or.
D. DEFOE. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, etc. 1702.
D. DEFOE. A Hymn to the Pillory. 1703.
D, DEFOE. Prefaces to the Rezſzew. 1704-1710.
English Poetry.
7. T. DELONEY. Three Ballads on the Armada fight. August 1588.
8. R. L. (1) DIELLA [Sonnets]; (2) The Love of Dom DIEGO and GYNEURA.
I KQ6.
; AN. Sc. DAIPHHANTUS, or the Passions of Love. I604.
See also above.
D. DEFoE. The True Born Englishman. 17OI.
D. DEFOE. A. Hymn to the Pillory. I703.
8 An English Garner.
VOL. VIII.
Small Paper. Cloth, 5s. met.
This Index Volume will, if possible, contain the following:—
English Political, Naval, and Military History,
etC. etc.
. J. PROCTOR. The History of WYATT's Rebellion. 1554.
. The burning of Paul’s Church, London. 1568.
. G. GASCOIGNE the Poet. The Spanish Fury at Antwerp. 1577.
. J. LINGHAM. English Captains in the Low Countries. I584.
. The Burial of MARY QUEEN of Scots at Peterborough Cathedral. 1 August
7.
6. T. M. The Entertainment of JAMES I. from Edinburgh to London. 1603.
7. Bp. W. BARLow. The Hampton Court Conference. 1604.
8. The Speeches in the Star Chamber at the Censure of BASTwick, BARTON,
and PRYNNE. 1637.
9. N. N. The Expedition of the Prince of ORANGE. 1688.
:
I5
English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.
Io. The strange things that happened to R. HASLETON in his ten years Travels.
I585-1595.
II. E. PELLHAM. The miraculous Deliverence of eight Englishmen left in
Greenland, anno 1630, nine months and twelve days.
English Life and Progress.
12. J. MAY. The Estate of Clothing [the manufacture of woollen Cloths] now
in England. I613.
English Poetry. ~
13. A translation [? by Sir E. DYER] of Six of the Idyllia of THEOCRITUS.
1588.
14. Verses penned by D. Gwin, eleven years a slave in the Spanish galleys,
and presented by him to Queen ELIZABETH on 18 August 1588.
15. W. SMITH. CHLORIS. [Sonnets.] 1596.
16. T. STORER. The Life and Death of Cardinal WOLSEY. I599.
17. E. W. Thameseidos. In 3 Cantos. 1600.
18. Some Collections of Posies. 1624-1679.
Chronological List of Works included in the Series.
Index.
&nglish aseprints.
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II.
I2.
I3.
I4.
I5.
I6.
I7.
I8.
I9.
2O,
2I.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
3O.
Milton
Latimer
Gosson
Sidney
IE. Webbe
Selden
Ascham
Addison
Lyly
Williers
Gascoigne
Earle
Latimer
More
Puttenham
Howell
TJqall
Mk. of Eves.
James I.
Naunton
Watson
Habington
Ascham
Tottel's
Lever
W. Webbe
Lord Bacon
Roy, etc.
Raleigh, etc.
Googe
Tert.
Areofagićica . e
The Ploughers.
The School of Aðuse
An Affology for Poetry
Zºraze/s
Taffle Talā
Toxophilus
Criticism on Paradise Lost
Æ UPH UES
7%e Rehearsal .
The Steel Glass, etc.
Micro-cosmographie
7 Sermons before EDWARD VI.
Utopia . º e e
The Art of English Poesy
Instructions for Foreign Travel
Jºozsfer Dozsfer
The Revelation, etc. .
A Counterólast to Zoëacco, etc.
Fragmenta Regalia .
Poems
CASTARA
The Schoolmaster
Miscellany [Songs and Sonnets]
Sermons : º º tº
A Discourse of English Poetry
A Harmony of the Essays
Read me, and be not wroth /
Last Fight of the “Revenge’
Eglogues, Epitaphs, and Sonneſs
I644
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I.
JOH
MILTO N.
Areopagitica,
I644.
(a) AREOPAGITICA :
A Speech of Mr. JoHN
MILTON For the
Ziberty of Vnlicenc'd
Printing, To the Par.
liament of Ængland.
2.
H U GH
LAT IM ER.
Ex-Bishop of Worcester.
The
Ploughers.
I549.
A notable Sermon
of ye reuerende father
Maste?" HUGHE
LATIMER, whiche he
preached in ye Shroud's
at paules churche in
Jondon on the acuit;
(b) A Decree of Starre-
Chamber, concerning Print-
ing, made the eleuenth of
July last past, 1637.
(c) An Order of the Lords
and Commons assembled in
Parliament for the Regulat-
*::: Printing, &c. 1643.
ORD MacAULAY. He at-
tacked the licensing system
in that sublime treatise which
every statesman should wear
as a sign upon his hand, and
as frontlets between his eyes.
- Edinburgh Review, p. 344,
* 1825.
. HALLAM. Many pas-
Sages in this famous tract are
admirably eloquent : an in-
tense love of liberty and truth
flows through it: the majestic
soul of MILton breathes such
high thoughts as had not been
uttered before.—Antzoduction
to the Literature of Europe,
iii. 660. Ed
The
. 1839.
W. H. PREscot T.
most splendid argument, per-
haps, the world had then
witnessed on behalf of in-
tellectual liberty.—History of
FERDINAND and ISABELLA,
iii. 391. Ed. 1845.
nations)
daye of Vanuarye.
SIR R. MoRISON. Did there
ever any one (I say not in
England only, but among other
flourish since the
time of the Apostles; who
preached the gospel more sin-
cerely, purely, and honestly,
than HUGH LATIMER, Bishop
of Worcester. — Apoma.aris
Calumniarume . . quibus
JOANAVES COCLEUS 3. f.
78. Ed. I537.
It was in this Sermon, that
JATIMER (himself an ex-
Bishop) astonished his gener-
ation, by saying that the Devil
was the most diligent Prelate
and Preacher in all England.
“Ye shal neuer fynde him
idle I warraunte you.”
3.
STEPHEN
GOSSON
Stud. Oxon.
The School
Of Abuse.
I579.
(a) The Schoole of
Abuse. Conteining
a pleasaunt inuective
against Poets, Pipers,
A laters, Jesters, and
such like Caterpillers
of a Common wealth,
Setting of the Flagge
of Defiance to their
mischieuous exercise,
and ouerthrowing
their Bulwarkes, by
Prophane Writers,
Maturall reason and
common experience.
I579.
(b) An Apologie of
the Schoole of Abuse,
against Poets, Pipers,
Players, and their
Excusers. [Dec.]
I579.
‘." This attack is thought
to have occasioned Sir PHILIP
SIDNEY's writing of the follow-
ing Apologie for Poesie.
Gosson was, in succession,
Poet, Actor, Dramatist, Satir-
ist, and a Puritan Clergyman,
English Reprints.
I I
4.
Sir PHILIP
SIDNEY.
An Apology
for Poetry.
[? 1580.]
An Apologie for
Poetrie. Written by
the right noble, vertu-
ous, and learned Sir
PHILIP SIDNEy,
A night. I595.
H. W. LoNGFELLow. The
defence of Poetry is a work
of rare merit. It is a golden
little volume, which the scholar
may lay beneath his pillow, as
Chrysostom did §. works
of Aristophanes. – Worth
American Rezniew, p. 57.
January 1832.
The Work thus divides itself:
The Etymology of Poetry.
The Anatomy of the Effects
of Poetry.
The Anatomy of the Parts
of Poetry.
O&ſections to Poetry an-
swered,
Criticism, % the existing
AEnglish Poetry.
5.
EDWARD
WEBB E.
A Chief Master Gunner.
TravelS.
I59o.
7%e zaze and most
wwonderful thinges
zeyhich EDWARD
WEBBE an English-
man borne, hath seeme
and passed in his
troublesome trauailes,
in the Citties of Zer-
wsalem, ZXamasko, Be-
thelem and Galely :
and in all the landes
of Jewrie, Egipt,
Grecia, Aussia, and
in the Zand of
Prester John.
Wherein is setfoorth
his extreame slauerie
sustained many yeres
togither, in the Gallies
and wars of the great
Turk against the
Mandes of Persia, Zar-
taria, Spaine, and
Aortugall, with the
manner of his release-
ment and coming to
England. [1590.]
6.
JOH
SELDEN.
Table Talk.
[1634-1654.]
Table Zală being
the ZXiscourses of JoHN
SELDEN, Esq., or his
Sence of various Mat-
ters of weight and/high
consequence, relating
especially to Religion
and State. I689.
S. T. Coleridge. There is
more weighty bullion sense in
this book than I ever found in
the same number of pages of
any uninspired writer. . . . Ol
to have been with SELDEN
over his glass of wine, making
every accident an outlet and a
vehicle of wisdom.—Literary
Remains, iii. 361-2. Ed. 1836.
H. HALLAM. This very
short and small volume gives,
perhaps, a more exalted notion
of SELDEN's natural talents
than any of his learned writ-
ings. – Introduction to the
Literature of Europe, iii. 347.
Ba. 1836.
Abozre all things, Zilleriy!
I 2
English Reprints.
7.
ROGER
ASCHAM.
TOXOphilus.
I544.
Zoºcophilus, the
Schole of Shootinge,
conteyned in two
bookes.
Zo all Gentlemen
and yomen of Eng-
Zande, pleasaunte for
theyr pastime to rede,
and profitable for theyr
use to follow both in
Zºſar and peace.
In a dialogue between
TOXOPHIE US and PHIEo.
SOGUS, ASCHAM not only
gives us one of the very best
books on Archery in our
language; but as he tells
King †enry VIII., in his
Dedication, “this litle treatise
was purposed, begon, and
ended of me, onelie for this
intent, that Labour, Honest
pastime, and Vertu might
recouer againe that place and
right, that Idlenesse, Un-
thriftie Gaming, and Vice
hath put them fro.”
8.
JOSEPH
ADDIS ON.
Criticism. On
Aaradise Zost.
I7II-I? I2.
From the Sáectator, being
its Saturday issues between
31 December, 1711, and 3
May 1712. In these #.
which constitute a Primer
to Paradise Lost, ADDIson
first made known and inter-
preted, to the general English
public, the great Epic poem,
which had then been published
nearly half-a-century.
After a general discussion
of the Fable, the Characters,
the Sentiments, the Zan-
guage, and the Defects of
MILTON's Great Poem ; the
Critic devotes a Paper to the
consideration of the Beauties
of each of its Twelve Books.
9.
JOHN LYLY,
Novelist, Wit, Poet,
and Dramatist.
Eup hues.
I579-1580.
EUPHVEs, the An-
atomy of Wit. Very
fleasant for all Gentle-
ſmen to reade, and most
necessary to remember.
VWherein are con-
teined the delights that
Wit follozeeth in his
youth, by the pleasant-
nesse of loue, and the
happinesse he reapeth
in age by the perfect-
messe of Wisedome.
I579.
EUPHUES and his
England. Contain-
ing his Zoyage and ad.
uentures, myxed with
sundry prette dis-
courses of hones? /oue,
the description of the
countrey, the Court,
and the manners
of that Zsle.
I58o.
Of great importance in our
Literary History.
English Reprints.
I3
IO,
GEORGE
VILLIERS,
Second Duke of BUCK.
INGHAM,
The
Rehearsal.
I671.
The Rehearsal, as it
was Acted at the
Theatre AEoyal.
The
II.
GEORGE
GASCOIG NE,
Soldier and Poet.
Steel
Glass, &c.
I576.
(a) A Remembraunce
of the wel imployed
/ife, and godly end, of
GEORGE GASKOIGNE,
Esquire, who deceassed
at Stalmford in Zin-
coln shire, the 7 of
October, 1577. Zhe
reporte of GEOR.
WHETSTONs, Gent.
..[1577.]
There is only one copy of
this metrical Life. It is in
the Bodleian Library.
(b) Certayne notes
of instruction concern-
ing the making of verse
or ryme in Eng-
lish. I575.
..This is our First printed
piece of Poetical Criticism.
(c) The Steele Glas.
Written in Blank Verse.
Probably the fourth printed
English Satire: those by BAR-
cLay, Roy, and Sir T. WYATT
being the three earlier ones.
(d) The Complaynt of
PHILOMENE. An
Alegie. I576.
Many of the passages of
anterior plays that were paro-
died in this famous Dramatic
Satire on DRYDEN in the char-
acter of B4 YES, are placed
on opposite pages to the text.
BRIAN FAIRfax's remarkable
life of this Duke of BuckING-
HAM is also prefixed to the
play.
The Heroic Plays, first intro-
duced by Sir W. D'AvenANT,
and afterwards greatly de-
veloped by DRYDEN, are the
object of this laughable attack.
LACY, who acted the part of
PAYES, imitated the dress
and gesticulation of DRYDEN.
The Poet repaid this compli-
ment to the Duke of Bucking-
HAM, in 1681, by introduc-
ing him in the character of
ZIMRI in his ABSOLOM and
4CHITOPHEB.
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I2.
JOHN
E A R L E,
After wards Bishop of
SALISBUR P.
Microcosmo.
graphie.
1628.
Micro-cosmographie,
or a Peece of the
World discovered; in
Assays and
Characters.
This celebrated book of
Characters is graphically de-
scriptive of the English social
life of the time, as it pre-
sented itself to a young Fellow
of Merton College, Oxford;
including A She precise Hypo-
crite, A Sceptic in Religion,
4 good old man, &c.
This Work is a notable
specimen of a considerable
class of books in our Litera-
ture, full of interest; and
which help Posterity much
better to understand the
Times in which they were
written.
I4.
English Reprints.
I3.
H U GH
LATIMER,
Ex-Bishop of WorcesTER.
Seven Ser-
monS before
Edward VI.
I549.
The ſyrste [–seuenth]
Sermon of Mayster
HUGHE LATIMER,
whiche he preached
before the Kynges
Maiestie zwythin his
graces palayce at West-
minster on each
Friday in Zent.
I549.
Sir JAMES MAckINTosh.
LATIMER, . . brave, sincere,
honest, inflexible, not distin-
guished as a writer or a scholar,
but exercising his power over
men's minds by a fervid elo-
quence flowing from the deep
conviction which animated his
plain, pithy, and free-spoken
Sermons.—History of Eng-
land, ii. 291. Ed. 1831.
I4.
Sir T H O MAS
MORE.
Translation of
Utopia.
1516-1557.
A frutefull and
pleasaunt worke of the
best state of a publique
weale, and of the new
yle called Utopia:
VVritten in Zatine
by Sir THOMAS MoRE
Anyght, and trans-
lated into Englyshe
by RALPH RobynSON.
Lord CAMPBELL. Since the
time of Plato, there had been
no composition given to the
world which, for imagination,
for philosophical discrimina-
tion, for a familiarity with the
principles of government, for
a knowledge of the springs of
human action, for a keen ob-
servation of men and manners,
and for felicity of expression,
could be compared to the
Utopia.--Lives of the Zord
Chancellors (Life of Sir 2".
More) i. 583, Ed. 1845.
In the imaginary country of
Utopia, MoRE endeavours to
sketch out a State based upon
two principles—(1) community
of goods, no private property;
and consequently (2) no use
for money.
I5.
GEORGE
Plj TT EN-
HAM,
A Gentleman Pensioner to
Queen ELIZABETH.
The Art
of English
Poesy.
1589.
The Arte of English
Aoeste.
Contriued into three
Bookes : The first of
POETs and POESIE,
the second of PRO-
PORTION, the third
of ORNAMENT.
W. Oldys. It contains
many pretty observations,
examples, characters, and
fragments of poetry for those
times, now nowhere else to be
met with. — Sir WALTER
RALEIGH, liv. Ed. 1736.
O. Gilchrist. On many
accounts one of the most
curious and entertaining, and
intrinsically one of the most
valuable, łoś. of the age
of QUEEN ELIZABETH. The
copious intermixture of. Con-
temporary anecdote, tradition,
manners, opinions, and the
numerous specimens of coeval
poetry nowhere else preserved,
contribute to form a volume
of infinite amusement, curios-
ity, and value. - Censura
Aiteraria, i. 339. Ed. 1805.
This is still also an import-
ant book on Rhetoric and the
Figures of Speech.
Bnglish Reprints.
I5
I6.
JAMES
HOWELL,
Clerk of the Council to
CHARZAES I.; afterwards
Historiographer to
CHARLES II.
Instructions
for Foreign
Travel.
1642.
Instructions for
forreine travell. Shew-
ing by what cours, and
in what compasse of
time, one may take an
exact Survey of the
Aïngdomes and States
of Christendome, and
arrive to the prac-
ticall knowledge of
the Zanguages, to
good purpose.
The MURRAY, BAEDEKER,
and Practical Guide to the
Grand Tour of Europe, which,
at that time, was considered
the ...hiº, touch to the
complete education of an
English Gentleman.
The route sketched out by
this delightfully quaint Writer,
is France, Spain, Italy, Swit.
zerland, Germany, the Nether-
lands, and Holland. The
time allowed is 3 years and 4
months: the months to be
spent in travelling, the years
in residence at the different
cities.
17.
NICHOLAS
UDALL,
Master, first of Eton College,
then of Westminster School.
ROister
DOister,
[1553-1566.]
This is believed to be the
first true English Comedy
that ever came to the press.
From the unique copy,
which wants a title-page, now
at Eton College; and which
is thought to have been printed
in 1566.
Dramatis Personae.
RALPH. Ro1STER DOLSTER.
MATTHEw MERRYGREEk.
GAWIN GooDLUCK, affianced
to Dame CUSTANce.
TRISTRAMTRUsty, his/riend.
Dobinet Doughty, “àoy” to
Roister DoistER.
ToM TRUEPENNY, servant to
Jamte CUSTANCE.
SIM SURESBY, servant to
GOODLUck.
Scrivener.
Płażar.
Dame CHRISTIAN CUSTANCE,
a widow.
MARGERY MUMBLECRUST,
Aer nurse.
TIBET TALKAPACE Åer
ANNoTALYFACE maidents
18.
A Monk of
Evesham.
The Revela-
tion, &c.
1186-141 ol. 1485.
"I Here begymnyth
a maruelous reuelacion
that was schewyd of
almighty god by sent
Mycholas to a monke
of Euyshamme yn the
days of Kynge Atchard
the ſyrst. And the
yere of owne lord.
M.C.A.<xxxvi.
One of the rarest of English
books printed by one of the
earliest of English printers,
WILLIAM DR MacLINIA; who
printed this text about 1485,
in the lifetime of C.A.YTON.
The essence of the story is
as old as it professes to be;
but contains later additions,
the orthography being of
about 141o, It is very de-
voutly written, and contains a
curious Vision of Purgatory.
The Writer is a prototype of
BUNYAN ; and his description
of the Gate in the Crystal
Wall of Heaven, and of the
solemn and marvellously sweet
Peal of the Bells of Heaven
that came to him through it,
is very beautiful.
I6
English Reprints.
I9.
JAMES I.
A COUnter-
blast to
Tobacco.
1604.
(a) The Essayes of
a Prentise, in the
Muine Arte of
Poesie.
Printed while JAMES VI.
of Scotland, at Edinburgh in
1585; and includes Azte
Schort treatise, conteining
some Reulis and Cautelis to
be obseruit and eschewit in
Scottis Poesie, which is an-
other very early piece of
printed Poetical Criticism.
(b) A Counterblaste
to Zbóacco. I604.
To this text has been added
a full account of the Introduc-
tion and Early use of Tobacco
in England. The herb first
came into use in Europe as a
medicinal leaf for poultices :
smoking it was afterwards
learnt from the American
Indians.
Our Royal Author thus
sums up his opinion :
“A custome lothsome to the
eye, hatefull to the nose,
harmefull to the braine, dan-
gerous, to the lungs, and in
the blacke stinking fume
thereof, nearest resembling
the horrible Stigian smoke of
the pit that is bottomlesse."
2O.
Sir R O BERT
N AUNTON,
Master of the Court of
Ward's.
Fragmenta
Regalia.
I653.
Fragmenta Jºe-
galia: or Observations
on the late Queen
ELIZABETH, her
7%mes and
Aſavourites.
[1630.]
Naunton writes:
“And thus I have delivered
up, this my poor Essay; a
little Draught of this great
Princess, and her Times, with
the Servants of her State and
ſavour.”
2I.
THOMAS
WATS ON,
Zondoner, Student-at-Lazv.
Poems.
I582-1593.
(a) The Éxarouzaffa
or Passionate Cen-
turie of Zoue.
AXiuided into favo
parts : whereof, the
first expresseth the
Aufhours sufferance in
Moue: the latter, his
long farewell to
Joue and all his
tyrannie. 1582.
(b) MELIBCEUs,
Siue Ecloga in obitum
Aſomoratissim? Vºri
JJomfm? FRANCISCI
WALSINGHAMI. I 590.
(c) The same trans-
Maſed into English, by
the Author. I 590.
(d) The Tears of
Aancie, or Zoue dis-
dained. I593.
From the unique copy,
wanting Sonnets 9-36, in the
possession of CHRISTIE
MILLER, Esq., of Britwell.
English Reprints.
17
22.
WILLIAM
H A B I N G-
TO N.
CaStara.
1640.
CASTARA. The third
Adition. Corrected
and augmented.
CASTARA was Lady LUCY
Herbert, the youngest child
of the first Lord Powis; and
these Poems were chiefly
marks of affection during a
pure courtship followed by a
happy marriage. With these,
are also Songs of Friendship,
especially those referring to
the Hon. GeoRGE TALbot.
In addition to these Poems,
there are four prose Char-
acters; on A Mistress, A
Wife, A Friend, and The
Holy Man.
23.
ROGER
ASCHAM.
The School-
IOaSter.
I570.
The Scholemaster,
or plaine and perſite
way of teachyng chil-
dren, to vnderstand,
write, and speake, in
Aatin tong, but spe-
cially purposed for the
priuate brynging zip
of youth in ſentlemen
and ZVoble men's
/houses, &c.
This celebrated Work con-
tains the story of Lady JANE
Grey's delight in reading
PLATO, an attack on the
Italianated Englishman of
the time, and much other in-
formation not specified in the
above title.
In it, Asch AM gives us very
fully his plan of studying
Languages, which may be
described as the double trans-
Mation of a model book.
24.
HENRY HOWARD,
Aarl of SURREY.
Sir T H O M AS
WYATT.
NIC HOLAS
G R IMA LID.
Lord VAU X.
TOttel'S
Miscellany.
5 June, 1557.
Songes and Sonettes,
zz/ritten by the right
Aonorable Zoz-de
HENRY HOWARD
late Earle of
SURREy, and other.
With 39 additional Poems
from the second edition by the
same printer, RICHARD TOT-
TEL, of 31 July, 1557.
This celebrated Collection
is the First of our Poetical
Miscellanies, and also the first
appearance in print of any
considerable number of Eng-
lish Sonnets.
Tottel in his Address to
the Reader, says:
“That to haue wel written
in verse, yea and in small par-
celles, deserueth great praise,
the workes of diuers Latines,
Italians, and other, doe proue
sufficiently. That our tong is
able in that kynde to do as
raiseworthely as ye rest, the
i. stile of the noble
earle of Surrey, and the
weightinesse of the depe-
witted Sir Thomas Wyat the
elders verse, with seuerall
graces in Sondry good Eng-
lishe writers, doe show abun-
dantly.”
I8
English Reprints.
25.
Rev. T HOMAS
LEVER,
Fellow and Preacher of St
John's College, Cambridge.
SermonS.
I55o.
(a) A fruitful! Ser-
mon in Paules church
at Zondon in the
Shroudes.
(b) A Sermon
preached the fourth
Sunday in Zent before
the Kynges Matestie,
and his honorable
Counsell.
(c) A Sermon
preached at Paul's
Crosse.
1550.
These Sermons are reprinted
from the original editions,
which are of extreme rarity.
They throw much light on the
communistic theories of the
Norfolk rebels; and the one
at Paul's Cross contains a
curious account of Cambridge
University life in the reign of
EDWARD VI.
26.
WILLIAM
WEBBE,
Graduate.
A Discourse
of English
Poetry.
1586.
A Discourse of
English Poetrie. To-
getherwith the Authors
tudgement, touching
the reformation of
our Znglish
Verse.
Another of the early pieces
of Poetical Criticism, written
in the year in which SHAKE-
SPEARE is supposed to have
left Stratford for London.
Only two copies of this
Work are known, one of these
was sold for 3664
This Work should be read
with STANYHURST's Trans-
2ation of Æneid, I.-IV., 1582,
see p. 64. WEBBE was an
advocate of English Hexa-
meters; and here translates
VIRGIL's first two Eglogues
into them. He also translates
into Sapphics, CoLIN's Song
in the Fourth Eglogue of
SPENSER's Shephard's Cal.
endar.
27.
FRANCIS
BACON,
afterwards Lord VERULAM
Viscount ST. ALBANS.
A Harmony
Of the
Assays, &c.
1597-1626.
And after my znanner, I
alter ever, when I add. So
that nothing is finished, till
all be finished.—Sir FRANCIS
BAcon, 27 Feb. 1610-III.]
(a) Essayes, Re-
ligious Meditations,
and Places of per-
swaston and disszúa-
sion. I597.
(b) The Writings
of Sir FFRANCIS
BAcon Knight the
Kinges Sollicitor
Generall in Moralitie,
Aolicie, Historie.
(c) The Essaies of
Sir FRANCIE BACON
Ánight, the Kings
Soſ/icifer General.
I612.
(d) The Essayes
or Counsells, Civil/
and Moral/of FRANCIS
Lord VERULAM, Vis-
countST, ALBAN, 1625.
English Reprints.
I9
28.
WILLIAM
ROY.
JEROME
BA R LOW.
Franciscazz Friars.
Read me,
and be not
Wroth I
[1528].
(a) Rede me and be mott
wrothe,
For I saye no thynge but
trothe.
A will ascende mtakynge my
state so hye,
That my £ompous honoure
shall newer dye.
O Caytyſe when thou thynkest
least of all,
With confusion thou shalt
haze a fall.
This is the famous satire on
Cardinal Wolsey, and is the
First English Protestant book
ever printed, not being a por-
tion of Holy Scripture. See
£. 22 for the Fifth such book.
The next two pieces form
one book, printed by HANs
LUFT, at Marburg, in 1530.
(b) A proper dya-
loge, betwene q.
Genfillman and a
husbandman, eche com-
Alaynynge toothertheir
miserable calamite,
through the ambicion
of the clergye.
(c) A compendious
old treatyse, shezelynge,
how that we ought to
haue the scripture
in Eng!ysshe.
29.
Sir WALTER
RALEIGH.
GERVASE
MARKHAM.
J. H. van LIN-
SCHOTEN.
The Last
Fight of the
“Revenge.”
I59I.
(a) A Report of the
tºwth of the fight about
the ſles of Acores, this
Jast la Sommer. Be-
twixt the REUENGE,
one of her Matesties
Shippes, and an
ARMADA of the King
of Spaine.
[By Sir W. RALEIGH.]
(b) The most honor-
able Tragedie of Sir
RICHARD GRINUILE,
A night. I 595.
[By GERVASE MARKHAM.]
(c) [The Fight and
Cyclone at the Azores.
By JAN HUYGHEN van
LINSCHOTEN.]
Several accounts are here
given of one of the most extra-
§§ Sea fights in our
Naval History.
3O.
B.A. RNABE
GOOGE.
Eglogues,
Epitaphs,
and Sonnets.
I563.
Eglogs, EAytaphes,
and Sonettes Mewly
written by BARNABE
GOOGE.
Three copies only known.
Reprinted from the Huth
Copy.
In the prefatory Wotes
of the Life and Writings of
B. GOOGE, will be found ap
account of the trouble he had
in winning MARY DARELL for
his wife.
A new Literature generally
begins with imitations and
translations. When this book
first appeared, Translations
were all the rage among the
“young England" of the day.
This Collection of original
Occasional Verse is therefore
the more noticeable. The
Introduction gives a glimpse
of the principal Writers of the
time, such as the Authors of
the Mirror for Magistrates,
the Translators of SENECA's
Tragedies, &c., and including
such names as BALDw1N,
BA v A N DE, BLUNDESTON,
NEville, North, Norton,
SAckville, and YELVERTON.
2O Works in the Old Spelling.
The English Scholar's Library.
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Any part may be obtained separately,
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following pages:–22-28.
I. WILLIAM CAXTON. Reynard the Fox, O
2. JoHN KNOX. The First Blast of the Trumpet,
. CLEMENT ROBINSON and others. A handful of
Pleasant Delights, e º º
. [SIMON FISH.] A Supplication for the Beggars,
. [Åev. JoHN UDALL.] Diotrephes,
. [?] The Return from Parnassus, o º
. THOMAS DECKER. The Seven Deadly Sins of
London, . ſº tº º * e & . 1 6
8. EDWARD ARBER. An Introductory Sketch to
the ‘Martin Marprelate ’ Controversy,
3
..
:
:
1588–1590, . º º tº o & 3 0
9. [Rev. JoHN UDALL.] A Demonstration of Dis-
cipline, . gº o 0. e g . 1 6
10. RICHARD STANIHURST. ‘Fneid I.-IV.’ in English
hexameters, 3 0
II “The Epistle,” e Q 1 6
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William
Caxton,
our 7?rst Printer.
Z%anslation of
REYNARD
THE FOX.
I48I.
[Colophon.] /
haue not added me
mynusshed but haue
Jolowed as myghe as /
can my copye which
was in dutcheſ and by
me WILLIAM CAXTON
translated in to this
rude and symple en-
głyssh in the] abbey
of westmestre.
Interesting for its own sake;
but especially as being trans-
lated as well as printed by
CAxton, who finished the
printing on 6 June 1481.
The Story is the History of
the Three fraudulent Escapes
of the Fox from punishment,
the record of the Defeat of
Justice by flattering lips and
dishonourable deeds. It also
shows the struggle between
the power of Words and the
power of Blows, a conflict be-
tween Mind and Matter. It
WaS IneCeSS for the physi-
cally weak to have Eloquence:
the blame of REYNARD is in
º frightful misuse he makes
Of it.
The author says, “There
is in the world much seed left
of the Fox, which now over
all groweth and cometh Sore
up, though they have no red
beards.”
John Knox,
the Scotch Reformer.
THE FIRST
BLAST OF THE
TRUMPET,&C.
I558.
(a) The First Blast
of the Trumpet against
the monstrous Regi-
ment of Women.
(b) The Propositions
to be entreated in the
Second BLAST.
This work was wrung out
of the heart of John KNox,
while, at Dieppe, he heard of
the martyr fires of England,
and was anguished thereby.
At that moment, the liberties
of Great Britain, and therein
the hopes of the whole World,
º the laps of four women
—Mary of Loraine, the Re-
gent of Scotland; her daugh-
ter MARY (the Queen of
Scots); Queen , MARY TU-
DoR ; and the Princess Eliza-
BETH.
The Volume was printed at
Geneva.
(c) KNOX's apolo-
getical Defence of his
FIRST BLAST, &C, to
Queen ELIZABETH.
I559.
3.
Clement
Robinson,
and dizers of hers.
A HANDFUL
OF PLEASANT
DELIGHTS.
I584.
A Handeful/ of
pleasant delites, Con-
taining sundrie meze,
Somets and delectable
Aſistories, in diuers
Áindes of Meeter.
Mewly deuised to the
nezvest tunes that are
now in vse, to be sung:
euerie Sonet orderly
pointed to his
proper Tune.
With new additions of
certain Songs, to verie
late deuised Moſes, not
commonly knowen, nor
vsed heretofore.
OPHELLA quotes from A
Mosegaie & 'c. in this Poetical
Miscellany; of which only
one copy is now known.
It also contains the earliest
text extant of the Ladie
Greensleeues, which first ap-
peared four years previously.
This is the Third printed
Poetical Miscellany in our
language.
22
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4.
[Simon
Fish,
of Gray's Inn.]
A SUPPLICA-
TION FOR THE
BEGGARS.
[? I529.]
A Supplicacyon for
the Beggars.
Stated by J. Fox to have
been distributed in the streets
of London on Candlemas Day
[2 Feb. 1529].
This is the Fifth Protestant
book (not being a portion of
Holy Scripture) that was
printed in the English Lan-
guage.
The authorship of this
anonymous tract, is fixed by
a passage in Sir T. MoRE's
Ağology, of 1533, quoted in
the Introduction,
5
[Rev. John
Udall,
Minister at Kingston on
Thames.]
DIOTREPHES.
[1588.]
The state of the
Church of Englande,
ſaid open in a con-
ference betweene DIO-
TREPHES a Byshopſ,
TERTULLUS a Papiste,
DEMETRIUSanzºsurer,
PANDOCHUS an /m/me-
Åeeper, and PAULE a
Areacher of the word
of God.
This is the forerunning tract
of the MARTIN MARPRE
LATE Controversy. For the
roduction of it, Robert
ALDEGRAVE, the printer,
was ruined; and so became
available for the printing of
the Martinist invectives.
. The scene of the Dialogue
is in PANDocHus's Inn, which
is in a posting-town on the
high road from London to
Edinburgh.
6.
[ 2 J
THE RETURN
FROM
PARNASSUS.
[Acted 1602.] 1606.
The Returne from
Aernassus: or The
Scourge of Simony.
Aubliquely acted by
the Students in Saint
Johns Colledge in
Cambridge.
This play, written by a
University man in December
16or, brings WILLIAM KEMP
and Ricºrd Bursage on to
the Stage, and makes them
speak thus:
“KEMP. Few of the vniuer-
sity pen plaies well, they smell
too much of that writer Ouid
and that writer Metamor-
£hosis, and talke too much of
Prose??ina and ... I uſ?iter.
hy herees our fellow Shake-
speare puts them all downe, I
[Ay] and Ben Monson too... O
that Ben Ionson is a pestilent
fellow, he brought vp Horace
giuing the Poets a pill, but
our fellow Shakespeare hath
given him a purge that made
him beray his credit:
“BURBAGE. It's a shrewd
fellow indeed : ”
What this controversy be-
tween SHAKESPEARE and Jon-
SoN was, has not yet been
cleared up. It was evidently
recent, when (in Dec. 16or)
this play was written.
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7
Thomas
Decker,
the Dramatist.
THE SEVEN
DEADLY SINS
OF LONDON,
&C.
I6o6.
The Seuen deadly
Sinnes of Zondon :
drawn in seuenseuerall
Coaches, through the
seuen severall Gates of
the Citie, bringing
the Plague with
them.
8.
The Ediſor.
AN INTRODUC-
TORY SEXETCH
TO THE MARTIN
MARPRELATE
CONTROVERSY.
I588–1590.
(a) The general
Episcopal Adminis-
tration, Censorship, &c.
(b) The Origin of the
Controversy.
(c) Depositions and
Examinations.
(d) State Documents.
(e) The Brief held
by Sir John PUCKER-
ING, against the Mar-
finists.
The Rev. J. UDALL (who was
however not a Martinist);
Mrs. CRANE, of Molesey; R+v.
J. PENRY; Sir R.KNIGHTLEy,
of Fawsley, near North-
ampton; HUMFREY NewMAN,
the London cobler; John
HALEs, Esq. of Coventry; Mr.
and Mrs. WEEkston, of Wol-
ston; JoB THRockMoRton,
Esq.; HENRY SHARPE, book-
binder of Northampton, and
the four printers.
(f) Miscellaneous
Information.
(g) Who were the
Writerszewhozeroſe un-
der the name of MAR-
TIN MARPRELATEP
9
[Rev. John
Udall,
Minister at Kingston on
Thaznes.]
A DEMON-
STRATION OF
DISCIPLINE.
I588.
A Demonstration of
the trueth of that dis-
cift/ine zwhich CHRISTE
hath prescribed in his
worde for the gouerne.
ment of his Church,
in all times and places,
A prose allegorical Satire,
ving a most vivid picture of
ondon life, in October 1606.
The Seven Sins are—
FRAUDULENT BANk-
RUPTCY.
LYING.
CANDLELIGHT (Deeds of
Darkness).
Sloth.
APIshness (Changes of
Fashion).
SHAving (Cheating), and
CRUELTY.
Their chariots, drivers,
pages, attendants, and fol-
lowers are all allegorically
described.
wntill the ende of
the zeror/de.
Printed with the secret
Martinist press, at East Mole-
sey, near Hampton Court, in
July 1588; and secretly dis-
tributed with the Epitome
in the following November.
For this Work, UDALL lin-
gered to death in prison.
It is perhaps the most com-
plete argument, in our lan-
guage, for Presbyterian Puri-
tanism, as it was then under-
stood. Its author asserted for
it, the infallibility of a Divine
Logic; but two generations
had not passed away, before
(under the teachings of Expe-
rience) much of this Church
Polity had been discarded.
24
The English Scholar's Library.
Richard
Stanyhurst,
the Irish. Historiazz.
Translation of
AENEID I-IV.
I582.
Thee first foure
Bookes of VIRGIL his
AEneis trans/a fed
intoo English heroical
[i.e., hexameter]
verse by RICHARD
STANYHURST, Zeyth
oother Poétical dºuises
theretoo annexed.
Imprinted at Leiden
in Holland by IOHN
PATES, An no
M. ZX, ZXXX/Z.
This is one of the oddest
and most grotesque books in
the English language; and
having been printed in Flan-
ders, the original Edition is
of extreme rarity.
The present text is, by the
kindness of Lord ASHBURN-
HAM and S.CHRISTIE-MILLER,
Esq., reprinted from the only
two copies known, neither of
which is quite perfect.
GABRIEl HARVEY desired
to be epitaphed, The Inventor
of the English Hexameter;
and STANYHURST, in imitat-
ing him, went further than
anyone else in maltreating
English words to suit the
exigencies of Classical feet.
II.
Marſ???
Maſºre/afe.
THE EPISTLE.
1588.
Oh read ouer Z).
JoHN BRIDGES, for it
is a zworthy worke:
Or an epitome of the
fyrste Booke of that
right worshipful!
volume, written a-
gainst the Puritanes,
in the defence of the
noble cleargie, by as
zºorshipfull a prieste,
JOHN BRIDGES, Pres-
byter, Priest or Elder,
doctor of ZXiuil/itie,
and ZXeane of Sarum.
Zhe Epitomeſ?. 26]
is not yet published,
but it shall be, zwhen
the Byshops are at
conuenient leysure to
wieze, the same. In
the meane time, let
them be content with
this learned Epistle.
Arinted oversea, in
Europe, within two
furlongs of a Bounsing
Ariest, at the cost and
charges of M. MAR-
PRELATE, gentleman.
I2.
Robert
Greene, M.A.
MENAPHON."
I589.
MENAPHON. CAM-
ILLAS alarum to
slumbering EUPHUEs,
in his melancholie
Cell at Sºlexedra.
VWheretre are de-
ciphered the variable
effects of Fortune, the
zwonders of Zoue, the
triumphes of incon-
stant Złme. Display-
ing in sundrie con-
ceipted £ assions
(figured in a con-
tinuate Historie) the
Trophees that Vertue
carrieth triumphant,
maugre the wrath of
Emule, or the resolu-
tion of Fortune.
One of GREENE's novels,
with ToM NASH's Preface, so
important in reference to the
earlier HAMLET, before
SHAKESPEARE's tragedy.
GREENE’s “love pamphlets”
were the most popular Works
of Fiction in England, up to
the appearance of Sir P.
SIDNEY's Arcadia in 1590.
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I3.
George Joy,
an early Protestant Reformer,
AN APOLOGY
TO TINDALE.
I535.
An Apologye made
by GEORGE JoyE to
satisfye (if it may be)
W. T.IN DALE: to
fourge and defende
Aimself ageinst so
ſmany sclaunderouse
dyes ſayned upon him
in TIN DALs wri-
charitable and Un-
sober Pystle so well
worthye to be prefixed
for the Reader to
induce him into the
vnderstanding of hys
new Testament, dili-
gently corrected and
printed in the yeare
of our Lorde I534,
in Nouember
[Antwerp, 27 Feb. 1535.]
This almost lost book is our
only authority in respect to
the surreptitious editions of
the English New Testament,
which were printed for the
English market with very
many errors, by Antwerp
printers whoknew not English,
in the interval between
TINDALE's first editions in
1526, and his revised Text
(above referred to) in 1534.
I4.
Richard
Barnfield,
of Darlaston, Staffordshire.
POEMS.
I594-1598.
Z'he affectionate
Sheffheard. Contain-
ing the Complaint of
DAPHNIs for the Zoue
of GANYMEDE.
In the following Work,
BARNFIELD, states that this is
“an imitation of Virgill, in
the second Eglogue of Alexis.”
CYNTHIA. With
Certaine Sonnets, and
the Zegend of CASS-
ANDRA. I 595.
The Author thus concludes
his Preface: “Thus, hoping
you will beare with my rude
conceit of Cynthia (if for no
other cause, yet, for that it is
the First Imitation of the
verse of that excellent Poet,
Maister Sáencer, in his
Fayrie Queene), I leaue you
to the reading of that, which
I so much desire may breed
your Delight.”
The Encomion of
Alady PECUNIA: or,
The praise of Money.
I598.
Two of the Poems in this
Text have been wrongly at-
tributed to SHAKESPEARE.
The disproof is given in the
Introduction.
I5.
TDhomas]
C[ooper].
[Bishop of WINCHESTER.]
ADMONITION TO
THE PEOPLE OF
ENGLAND.
[1589.]
An admonition to
the people of England:
VWherein are an-
sovered, not onely the
slaunderous vratrue-
thes, reprochfully viſ-
tered by MARTIN the
Aibeller, but also
many other Crimes by
some of his &roode,
objected generally
against all Bishops,
and the chiefe of the
Cleargie, purposely to
deface and discredite
the present state of
the Church.
[/an. 1589.]
This is the official reply on
the part of the Hierarchy, to
MARTIN MARPRELATE's
Epistle of [Nov.] 1508: see
No. 11 on £. 24.
It was published between
the appearance of the Eóistle
and that of the Epitomte.
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I6.
Captain John Smith,
President of Virginia, and Admiral of Wew England.
WORKS.—1608–1631.
A cornplete edition, vvith six facsimile plates.
Occasion was taken, in the preparation of this Edition, dispassionately to
test the Author's statements. The result is perfectly satisfactory. The Lincóln-
shire Captain is to be implicity believed in all that he relates of his own personal
knowledge.
The following are the chief Texts in this Volume:–
(I.) A true Relation of Occurences in Virginia. 1608.
(2.) A Map of Virginia. 1612.
(3.) A Description of New England. 1616.
(4.) New England’s Trials. 1620 and 1622.
(5.) The History of Virginia, New England, and Bermuda. I624.
(6.) An Accidence for young Seamen. 1626.
(7.) His true Travels, Adventures, and Observations. 1630.
(8.) Advertisements for Planters in New England, or anywhere.
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