The First Fovre Bookes of Virgil his AEneis Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, wyth oother Pohetical diuises theretoo annexed |
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THE FIRST BOOKE OF VIRGIL HIS ÆNEIS.
I that in old season wyth reeds oten harmonye whistled
My rural sonnet; from forrest flitted (I) forced
Thee sulckīg swincker thee soyle, thoghe craggie, to sunder.
A labor and a trauaile too plow swayns hertelye welcoō.
Now māhod and garbroyls J chaunt, and martial horror.
I blaze thee captayne first from Troy cittye repairing,
Lyke wandring pilgrim too famosed Italie trudging,
And coast of Lauyn: soust wyth tempestuus hurlwynd,
On land and sayling, bi Gods predestinat order:
But chiefe through Iunoes long fostred deadlye reuengment.
Martyred in battayls, ere towne could statelye be buylded,
Or Gods theare setled: thence flitted thee Latin of spring,
Thee roote of old Alban: thence was Rome peereles inhaunced.
My rural sonnet; from forrest flitted (I) forced
Thee sulckīg swincker thee soyle, thoghe craggie, to sunder.
A labor and a trauaile too plow swayns hertelye welcoō.
Now māhod and garbroyls J chaunt, and martial horror.
I blaze thee captayne first from Troy cittye repairing,
Lyke wandring pilgrim too famosed Italie trudging,
And coast of Lauyn: soust wyth tempestuus hurlwynd,
On land and sayling, bi Gods predestinat order:
But chiefe through Iunoes long fostred deadlye reuengment.
Martyred in battayls, ere towne could statelye be buylded,
Or Gods theare setled: thence flitted thee Latin of spring,
Thee roote of old Alban: thence was Rome peereles inhaunced.
My muse shew the reason, what grudge or what furye kendled
Of Gods thee Princesse, through so cursd mischeuus hatred,
Wyth sharp sundrye perils too tugge so famus a captayne.
Such festred rancoure doo Sayncts celestial harbour?
Of Gods thee Princesse, through so cursd mischeuus hatred,
Wyth sharp sundrye perils too tugge so famus a captayne.
Such festred rancoure doo Sayncts celestial harbour?
A long buylt citty theare stood, Carthago so named,
From the mouth of Tybris, from land eke of Jtalye seauerd,
Possest wyth Tyrians, in streingh and ritches abounding,
Theare Iuno, thee Princes her Empyre wholye reposed,
Her Samos owtcasting, heere shee dyd her armonye settle,
And warlick chariots, heere chiefly her ioylitye raigned.
This towne shee labored too make thee gorgeus empresse,
Of towns and regions, her drift yf destenye furthred.
But this her hole meaning a southsayd mysterie letted
That from thee Troians should branch a lineal ofspring,
Which would thee Tyrian turrets quite batter a sunder,
And Libye land lykewise wyth warlick victorye conquoure.
Thus loa bye continuance thee naues of fortun ar altred.
This Iuno fearing, and old broyls bluddye recounting,
Vsd by her Greeke fauorits, that Troian cittye repressed,
Her rancour canckred shee can not let to remember,
And Paris his scorning iudgement dooth burne in her entrayls.
Shee pouts, that Ganymed by Ioue too skitop is hoysed.
Shee bears that kinred, that sept vnmerciful hatred.
Wyth theese coals kendled shee soght al possibil engins
In surging billows too touze thee coompanie Troian.
Al the frushe and leauings of Greeks, of wrathful Achilles.
Through this wyde roaming thee Troians Italy mishing
Ful manye yeers wandred, stil crost with destenye backward.
Such trauail in planting thee Romans auncetrye claymed.
From the mouth of Tybris, from land eke of Jtalye seauerd,
Possest wyth Tyrians, in streingh and ritches abounding,
Theare Iuno, thee Princes her Empyre wholye reposed,
Her Samos owtcasting, heere shee dyd her armonye settle,
And warlick chariots, heere chiefly her ioylitye raigned.
This towne shee labored too make thee gorgeus empresse,
Of towns and regions, her drift yf destenye furthred.
But this her hole meaning a southsayd mysterie letted
That from thee Troians should branch a lineal ofspring,
Which would thee Tyrian turrets quite batter a sunder,
And Libye land lykewise wyth warlick victorye conquoure.
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This Iuno fearing, and old broyls bluddye recounting,
Vsd by her Greeke fauorits, that Troian cittye repressed,
Her rancour canckred shee can not let to remember,
And Paris his scorning iudgement dooth burne in her entrayls.
Shee pouts, that Ganymed by Ioue too skitop is hoysed.
Shee bears that kinred, that sept vnmerciful hatred.
Wyth theese coals kendled shee soght al possibil engins
In surging billows too touze thee coompanie Troian.
Al the frushe and leauings of Greeks, of wrathful Achilles.
Through this wyde roaming thee Troians Italy mishing
Ful manye yeers wandred, stil crost with destenye backward.
Such trauail in planting thee Romans auncetrye claymed.
Tward Sicil Isle scantly thee Troian nauye dyd enter,
And the sea salte foaming wyth braue flantadoe dyd harrow,
When that Iuno Godesse thee fuid most deadlye reuoluing
Thus to her self mumbled: shal J leaue my purpose vnaunswerd?
Or shal I this Troian too seize thus on Italye suffer?
Forsoth I stand lotted by fats: and clarcklye recounted.
As thogh that Pallas could not bee fullye reuenged,
Thee Greekfleete scorching, thee Greekish coompanye drowning:
And for on his faulty practice, for madnes of Aiax?
This Queene wyld lightninges from clowds of Iuppiter hurling
Downe swasht theyre nauy, thee swelling surges vphaling.
Thee pacient panting shee thumpt and launst wyth a fyrebolt,
And wythal his carcasse on rockish pinnacle hanged.
And shal J then Iuno, of Saincts al thee Princes abyding,
Both the wife and sister too peerelesse Juppiter holden,
In so great a season wyth one od pild countrey be warring?
If this geare cotten, what wight wyl yeelde to myn aulters
Bright honor and Sacrifice, wyth rits my person adoring?
Thus she frying fretted, thus deepely plunged in anger
Æolian kingdoom shee raught; where blusterus huzing
Of wynds in Prison thee great king Æolus hampreth.
Theese flaws theyre cabbans wyth stur snar iarrye doe ransack,
Greedelye desyring too rang:king Æolus, highly
Jn castel setled, theyre strief dooth pacifie wisely.
But for this managing, a great hurly burlye the wyndblasts
Would keepe on al mayne seas and lands wyth woonderus humbling.
Thee father almighty this mischiefe warelye doubting
Mewd vp theese reuelers coupt in strong dungeon hillish,
And a king he placed, throgh whose Maiestical Empyre
Theese blasts rouze forward, or back by his regal apoinctment.
Too this princelye regent her suit ladie Iuno thus opned.
And the sea salte foaming wyth braue flantadoe dyd harrow,
When that Iuno Godesse thee fuid most deadlye reuoluing
Thus to her self mumbled: shal J leaue my purpose vnaunswerd?
Or shal I this Troian too seize thus on Italye suffer?
Forsoth I stand lotted by fats: and clarcklye recounted.
As thogh that Pallas could not bee fullye reuenged,
Thee Greekfleete scorching, thee Greekish coompanye drowning:
And for on his faulty practice, for madnes of Aiax?
This Queene wyld lightninges from clowds of Iuppiter hurling
Downe swasht theyre nauy, thee swelling surges vphaling.
Thee pacient panting shee thumpt and launst wyth a fyrebolt,
And wythal his carcasse on rockish pinnacle hanged.
And shal J then Iuno, of Saincts al thee Princes abyding,
Both the wife and sister too peerelesse Juppiter holden,
In so great a season wyth one od pild countrey be warring?
If this geare cotten, what wight wyl yeelde to myn aulters
Bright honor and Sacrifice, wyth rits my person adoring?
Thus she frying fretted, thus deepely plunged in anger
Æolian kingdoom shee raught; where blusterus huzing
Of wynds in Prison thee great king Æolus hampreth.
Theese flaws theyre cabbans wyth stur snar iarrye doe ransack,
Greedelye desyring too rang:king Æolus, highly
Jn castel setled, theyre strief dooth pacifie wisely.
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Would keepe on al mayne seas and lands wyth woonderus humbling.
Thee father almighty this mischiefe warelye doubting
Mewd vp theese reuelers coupt in strong dungeon hillish,
And a king he placed, throgh whose Maiestical Empyre
Theese blasts rouze forward, or back by his regal apoinctment.
Too this princelye regent her suit ladie Iuno thus opned.
Æolus (in so much as of mankind the Emperor heaunlye
And father of thee Gods too thee the auctoritye signed
Too swage seas surging, or raise by blusterus huffling)
Thee water of Tyrrhen my foes wyth nauye doe trauerse:
Troy towne wyth tamd gods too land ek of Jtaly bringing.
Yeeld to the wynds passadge, duck downe theire fleete wyth a tēpest,
Or ships wyde scatter, wyth fluds that coompanye swallow.
Nymphs do I keepe fourteene for peerelesse bewtye renowmed,
Of theese thee paragon, for fayrenesse, Deiopeia
Too the in fast wedlock wyl I knit, thye wife onlye remayning;
Thy pheere most faythful through eendles season abyding,
Thee father of fayre brats, for this thy curtesye, making.
And father of thee Gods too thee the auctoritye signed
Too swage seas surging, or raise by blusterus huffling)
Thee water of Tyrrhen my foes wyth nauye doe trauerse:
Troy towne wyth tamd gods too land ek of Jtaly bringing.
Yeeld to the wynds passadge, duck downe theire fleete wyth a tēpest,
Or ships wyde scatter, wyth fluds that coompanye swallow.
Nymphs do I keepe fourteene for peerelesse bewtye renowmed,
Of theese thee paragon, for fayrenesse, Deiopeia
Too the in fast wedlock wyl I knit, thye wife onlye remayning;
Thy pheere most faythful through eendles season abyding,
Thee father of fayre brats, for this thy curtesye, making.
This labor is needelesse (deere Queene) king Æolus aunsward.
Thy mynd to accomplish my bounden duitye requireth.
For my mace and kingdoom through thy fast freendship I gayned.
Through thy freendlye trauaile mee dooth king Iuppiter algats
Tender: by thye labour wyth Gods at bancket J solace.
Thow madst me in tempest and blusturs loftelye ruling.
This sayd: wyth poyncted flatchet thee mountan he broached
Rush do the winds forward through perst chinck narrolye whizling;
Thee land turmoyling with blast and terribil huzing.
They skud too the seaward, from deepe profunditie raking
Too the skye thee surges, the east west contrarie doe struggle
And southwind ruffling: on coast thee chauft flud is hurled.
Crash do the rent tacklings; thee men raise an horribil owtcrye.
Thee clowds snach gloomming from sight of Coompanie Troian
Both Light and welken: thee night dooth shaddo the passadge.
Thee skyes doo thunder, thee lightnings riflye doe flush flash,
Noght breeds theym coomfort, eeche thing mortalitye threatneth.
Æneas (his lyms wyth sharp cold chillye benummed)
Dooth groane, then to skyward his claspt hands heauelye lifting,
Thus spake: O Troians, o thrise most nobil or happye
That before eune the parents wyth byckring martial ended
Your liues at townewals: of Greekes ô woorthye the strongest
Stout Diomed: bye the filds of Troy what fortun vnhappye
Mee senst from falling wyth thy fierce slaughterus handstroke.
Wheare lyes strong Hector slaughtred by manful Achilles.
Wheare stout Serpedon dooth rest, where gauntlet or helmet
In water of Simois, wyth souldours carcases harboure.
This kyrye sad solfing, thee northen bluster aproching
Thee sayls tears tag rag, to the sky thee waues vphoysing.
The oars are cleene splintred, the helme is from ruther vnhafted
Theire ships too larboord doo nod, seas monsterus haunt theym.
In typs of billows soom ships wyth danger ar hanging.
Soom synck too bottoms, sulcking thee surges asunder:
Thee sands are mounted: thee southwynd merciles eager
Three gallant vessels on rocks gnawne craggye reposed,
(Theese rancks the Italian dwellers doo nominat altars)
Lykewise three vessels the east blast ful mightelye whelmed
In sands quick souping (a sight to be deepelye bewayled)
One ship that Lycius dyd shrowd with faythful Orontes
Jn sight of captayne was swasht wyth a roysterus heapeflud.
Downe the pilot tumbleth wyth plash round soommoned headlong.
Thrise the grauel thumping in whirkpoole plunged is hooueld
Soom wights vpfloating on raisd sea wyth armor apeered.
Jn foame froth picturs, wyth Troian treasur, ar vpborne.
Also wher Jlionus was shipt, where manful Achates
And what vessel Abas possest and aged Alethes
Were bulcht by billows and boarde by forcibil entrye:
Thee storme dyd conquoure, thee ships scant weaklye resisted.
Thy mynd to accomplish my bounden duitye requireth.
For my mace and kingdoom through thy fast freendship I gayned.
Through thy freendlye trauaile mee dooth king Iuppiter algats
Tender: by thye labour wyth Gods at bancket J solace.
Thow madst me in tempest and blusturs loftelye ruling.
This sayd: wyth poyncted flatchet thee mountan he broached
Rush do the winds forward through perst chinck narrolye whizling;
Thee land turmoyling with blast and terribil huzing.
They skud too the seaward, from deepe profunditie raking
Too the skye thee surges, the east west contrarie doe struggle
And southwind ruffling: on coast thee chauft flud is hurled.
Crash do the rent tacklings; thee men raise an horribil owtcrye.
Thee clowds snach gloomming from sight of Coompanie Troian
Both Light and welken: thee night dooth shaddo the passadge.
Thee skyes doo thunder, thee lightnings riflye doe flush flash,
Noght breeds theym coomfort, eeche thing mortalitye threatneth.
Æneas (his lyms wyth sharp cold chillye benummed)
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Thus spake: O Troians, o thrise most nobil or happye
That before eune the parents wyth byckring martial ended
Your liues at townewals: of Greekes ô woorthye the strongest
Stout Diomed: bye the filds of Troy what fortun vnhappye
Mee senst from falling wyth thy fierce slaughterus handstroke.
Wheare lyes strong Hector slaughtred by manful Achilles.
Wheare stout Serpedon dooth rest, where gauntlet or helmet
In water of Simois, wyth souldours carcases harboure.
This kyrye sad solfing, thee northen bluster aproching
Thee sayls tears tag rag, to the sky thee waues vphoysing.
The oars are cleene splintred, the helme is from ruther vnhafted
Theire ships too larboord doo nod, seas monsterus haunt theym.
In typs of billows soom ships wyth danger ar hanging.
Soom synck too bottoms, sulcking thee surges asunder:
Thee sands are mounted: thee southwynd merciles eager
Three gallant vessels on rocks gnawne craggye reposed,
(Theese rancks the Italian dwellers doo nominat altars)
Lykewise three vessels the east blast ful mightelye whelmed
In sands quick souping (a sight to be deepelye bewayled)
One ship that Lycius dyd shrowd with faythful Orontes
Jn sight of captayne was swasht wyth a roysterus heapeflud.
Downe the pilot tumbleth wyth plash round soommoned headlong.
Thrise the grauel thumping in whirkpoole plunged is hooueld
Soom wights vpfloating on raisd sea wyth armor apeered.
Jn foame froth picturs, wyth Troian treasur, ar vpborne.
Also wher Jlionus was shipt, where manful Achates
And what vessel Abas possest and aged Alethes
Were bulcht by billows and boarde by forcibil entrye:
Thee storme dyd conquoure, thee ships scant weaklye resisted.
Theese vnrulye reuels, and rifrafs wholye disordred,
As broyl vnexspected, thee sea king Neptun awaked.
Sturd wyth theese motions, his pleasing pallet vpheauing
Hee noted Æneas his touzdtost nauye to wander,
And sees thee Troians wyth seas and rayne water heaped,
This spightful pageaunt of his owne syb Iuno remembring,
Thee wynds hee summond: and wroth woords statelye thus vsed.
As broyl vnexspected, thee sea king Neptun awaked.
Sturd wyth theese motions, his pleasing pallet vpheauing
Hee noted Æneas his touzdtost nauye to wander,
And sees thee Troians wyth seas and rayne water heaped,
This spightful pageaunt of his owne syb Iuno remembring,
Thee wynds hee summond: and wroth woords statelye thus vsed.
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What Syrs? your boldnesse dooth your gentilitie warrant?
Dare ye loa, curst baretours, in this my Segnorie regal,
Too raise such raksiaks on seas, and danger vnorderd?
Wel syrs: but tempest I wyl first pacifie raging.
Bee sure, this practice wil I nick in a freendlye memento.
Pack hence doggye rakhels, tel your king, from me, this errand.
Of seas thee managing was neauer alotted his empire.
That charge mee toucheth: but he may streth monsterus hildens,
Youre kennels, good syrs: let your king Æolus hautye
Execut his ruling in your deepe dungeon hardlye.
Dare ye loa, curst baretours, in this my Segnorie regal,
Too raise such raksiaks on seas, and danger vnorderd?
Wel syrs: but tempest I wyl first pacifie raging.
Bee sure, this practice wil I nick in a freendlye memento.
Pack hence doggye rakhels, tel your king, from me, this errand.
Of seas thee managing was neauer alotted his empire.
That charge mee toucheth: but he may streth monsterus hildens,
Youre kennels, good syrs: let your king Æolus hautye
Execut his ruling in your deepe dungeon hardlye.
Thus sayd, at a twinckling thee swelling surges he calmed
Thee clowds hee scatterd, and cleere beams sunnye recalled.
Cymothöe and Triton on steepe rock setled ar haling
Thee ships from danger: with forck king Neptun is ayding.
Hee balcks thee quicksands, and fluds dooth mollefye sweetly,
Hee glyds on the seafroth, with wheales of gould wagon, easye.
In mydst of the pepil much lyke to a mutenye raysed
Where barcks lyke bandogs thee raskal multitud angry,
Now stoans and fyrebrands flundge owt, furye weapon awardeth:
In this blooddye riot they soom grauet haplye beholding
Of geason pietee, doo throng and greedelye listen.
Hee tames with sugred speeches theyre boysterus anger.
In lykewise Neptun thee God, no sooner apeered
In coche: when billows theire swelling ranckor abated.
Thee weather hackt Troians to the next shoare speedely posting
On Libye coast lighted: where they theire nauye reposed.
Thee clowds hee scatterd, and cleere beams sunnye recalled.
Cymothöe and Triton on steepe rock setled ar haling
Thee ships from danger: with forck king Neptun is ayding.
Hee balcks thee quicksands, and fluds dooth mollefye sweetly,
Hee glyds on the seafroth, with wheales of gould wagon, easye.
In mydst of the pepil much lyke to a mutenye raysed
Where barcks lyke bandogs thee raskal multitud angry,
Now stoans and fyrebrands flundge owt, furye weapon awardeth:
In this blooddye riot they soom grauet haplye beholding
Of geason pietee, doo throng and greedelye listen.
Hee tames with sugred speeches theyre boysterus anger.
In lykewise Neptun thee God, no sooner apeered
In coche: when billows theire swelling ranckor abated.
Thee weather hackt Troians to the next shoare speedely posting
On Libye coast lighted: where they theire nauye reposed.
Theare stands far stretching a nouke vplandish: an Island
Theare seat, with crabknob skrude stoans hath framed an hauen.
This creeke with running passadge thee channel inhaunteth.
Heere doe lye wyde scatterd and theare cliues loftelye steaming,
And a brace of menacing ragd rocks skymounted abydeth.
Vnder hauing cabbans, where seas doo flitter in arches.
With woods and thickets close coucht they be clothed al vpward.
A cel or a cabban by nature formed, is vnder,
Freshe bubling fountayns and stoanseats carued ar inward:
Of Nymphes thee Nunry, wheere sea tost nauye remayning
Needs not too grapple thee sands with flooke of an anchor.
Hither hath Æneas with seaun ships gladlye repayred.
On sands from vessels dooth skippe thee coompanye cheereful,
Pruning theyre bodyees, that seas erst terribil harmed.
First on flint smiting soom sparcklinges sprinckled Achates,
Jn spunck or tinder thee quick fyre he kindly receaued.
With sprigs dry wythered thee flame was noourrished aptly.
Foorth do they lay vittayls, with storme disseasoned heauy.
Theyre corne in quernstoans thye doe grind and toste yt on embers
In the while Æneas too rock crept loftye, beholding
In the sea far stretching yf that knight Antheus haplye,
Were frusht, or remanent of Troian nauye wer hulling:
Or Capis, or the armours high picht of manlye Caicus.
No ships thence he scried, but three stags sturdye wer vnder
Neere the seacost gating, theym slot thee clusterus heerdflock
Jn greene frith browsing: stil he stands and snatcheth his arrows
And bowbent sharply, from kind and faythful Achates:
Chiefe stags vpbearing croches high from the antlier hauted
On trees stronglye fraying, with shaft hee stabd to the noombles
Throgh fels and trenches thee chase thee coompanye tracked,
Theyre blades they brandisht, and keene prages goared in entrayls
Of stags seun migty; with ships thee number is eeuened.
With this good venery to the road thee captayn aproched
And to his companions thee kild stags equalye sorted.
With wyne theire venison was swyld, that Nobil Acestes
In shore Trinacrian bestowd with liberal offer.
Theese pipes Æneas then among thee coompany broched
And with theese speeches theyre myndes thus he cherrished hautlye
Theare seat, with crabknob skrude stoans hath framed an hauen.
This creeke with running passadge thee channel inhaunteth.
Heere doe lye wyde scatterd and theare cliues loftelye steaming,
And a brace of menacing ragd rocks skymounted abydeth.
Vnder hauing cabbans, where seas doo flitter in arches.
With woods and thickets close coucht they be clothed al vpward.
A cel or a cabban by nature formed, is vnder,
Freshe bubling fountayns and stoanseats carued ar inward:
Of Nymphes thee Nunry, wheere sea tost nauye remayning
Needs not too grapple thee sands with flooke of an anchor.
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On sands from vessels dooth skippe thee coompanye cheereful,
Pruning theyre bodyees, that seas erst terribil harmed.
First on flint smiting soom sparcklinges sprinckled Achates,
Jn spunck or tinder thee quick fyre he kindly receaued.
With sprigs dry wythered thee flame was noourrished aptly.
Foorth do they lay vittayls, with storme disseasoned heauy.
Theyre corne in quernstoans thye doe grind and toste yt on embers
In the while Æneas too rock crept loftye, beholding
In the sea far stretching yf that knight Antheus haplye,
Were frusht, or remanent of Troian nauye wer hulling:
Or Capis, or the armours high picht of manlye Caicus.
No ships thence he scried, but three stags sturdye wer vnder
Neere the seacost gating, theym slot thee clusterus heerdflock
Jn greene frith browsing: stil he stands and snatcheth his arrows
And bowbent sharply, from kind and faythful Achates:
Chiefe stags vpbearing croches high from the antlier hauted
On trees stronglye fraying, with shaft hee stabd to the noombles
Throgh fels and trenches thee chase thee coompanye tracked,
Theyre blades they brandisht, and keene prages goared in entrayls
Of stags seun migty; with ships thee number is eeuened.
With this good venery to the road thee captayn aproched
And to his companions thee kild stags equalye sorted.
With wyne theire venison was swyld, that Nobil Acestes
In shore Trinacrian bestowd with liberal offer.
Theese pipes Æneas then among thee coompany broched
And with theese speeches theyre myndes thus he cherrished hautlye
O deere companions (for we erst haue tasted of hardnes)
Brawnd with woorse venturs, thee mightye God alsoe shal eend this.
Through Sicil his raging wyld frets and rumbolo rustling
On peeres you sayled, through Cyclops dangerus helcaue.
On with a fresh courradge, and bace thoghts fearful abandon.
Of peril escaped much shal thee vearye remembraunce
Tickle vs in telling: through such sharp changeable hazards
And doubtful dangers, oure course tward Italye bending,
Wee must rush forward: oure seat theare destenye pitcheth.
Theare must thee kingdoom with Troian fame be reuiued.
Stand ye to your tacklings: and wayt for prosperus eendings.
Brawnd with woorse venturs, thee mightye God alsoe shal eend this.
Through Sicil his raging wyld frets and rumbolo rustling
On peeres you sayled, through Cyclops dangerus helcaue.
On with a fresh courradge, and bace thoghts fearful abandon.
Of peril escaped much shal thee vearye remembraunce
Tickle vs in telling: through such sharp changeable hazards
And doubtful dangers, oure course tward Italye bending,
Wee must rush forward: oure seat theare destenye pitcheth.
Theare must thee kingdoom with Troian fame be reuiued.
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Thus did he speake manly, with great cares heauely loaden,
His grief deepe squatting hoap he yeelds with phisnomye cheereful.
They doe plye theire commons, lyke quick and greedye repastours
Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn.
Soom doe slise owt collops on spits yeet quirilye trembling,
Soom doe set on caldrons, oothers dooe kendel a bauen.
With food they summond theyre force: and coucht in a meddow
Theyre panch with venison they franck and quaffye carousing,
When famin had parted, the tabils eeke wholye remooued,
They theire lost feloes with long talck greedye requyred.
With feare good coomfort mingling: yf so haplye they liued,
Or that their liues thee tempest bitter had eended.
But chiefly Æneas dyd wayle for manful Orontes
And for knight Amicus, thee fats ek al heauye reuoluing
Of Lycus and of sturdye Gyan, with woorthye Cloanthus.
His grief deepe squatting hoap he yeelds with phisnomye cheereful.
They doe plye theire commons, lyke quick and greedye repastours
Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn.
Soom doe slise owt collops on spits yeet quirilye trembling,
Soom doe set on caldrons, oothers dooe kendel a bauen.
With food they summond theyre force: and coucht in a meddow
Theyre panch with venison they franck and quaffye carousing,
When famin had parted, the tabils eeke wholye remooued,
They theire lost feloes with long talck greedye requyred.
With feare good coomfort mingling: yf so haplye they liued,
Or that their liues thee tempest bitter had eended.
But chiefly Æneas dyd wayle for manful Orontes
And for knight Amicus, thee fats ek al heauye reuoluing
Of Lycus and of sturdye Gyan, with woorthye Cloanthus.
Now the eende neere streched; from seat when Juppiter heunly
Thee seas, thee regions and eeche place worldlye beholding,
On Lybye land lastly fixt his celestial eyesight.
And thus as he mused, with tears Venus heauye beblubberd.
Prest foorth in presence, and whimpring framed her errand.
Thee seas, thee regions and eeche place worldlye beholding,
On Lybye land lastly fixt his celestial eyesight.
And thus as he mused, with tears Venus heauye beblubberd.
Prest foorth in presence, and whimpring framed her errand.
O God most pusiaunt, whose mighty auctoritye lasting
Ruls gods, and mankind skeareth with thunderus humbling:
What syn hath Æneas, my brat, committed agaynst the?
What doe the poore Troians? Who with fel boucherye slaghterd
For bending passadge to the promised Jtalye, therefor
No worldly corner can theym securitye warrant.
You to me ful promist, eare that yeers sundrye wer eended,
That Roman famely should spring from the auncetrye Troian,
By whom thee worldly coompas should wholye be ruled.
Wherefor (mightye father) what dooth thy phansye thus alter?
I tooke soom coomfort, when Troy was latelye repressed,
With futur hap coomming, past fortun vnhappye requiting.
And yeet theese wretched vagabunds hard destenye scourgeth
When shal (Prince pusiant) theese dangers dryrye be canceld?
Antenor was habil, from Grekish coompanye slincking,
Too passe through Greceland saulfly to Lyburnical empyre.
Also to thee fontayn welspring of woorthye Timauus.
Where through nyne channels with mountayns murmerus hurring
Rough the sea floas forward, thee land with snarnoise enhaunting
Heere notwithstanding this founder buylded a cittye,
That Padua is cleaped, too linnadge Troian alotted.
And arms of Troytowne bearing: there he saulflie doth harboure.
Wee that ar of kinred too the, and hast shrind in Olympus,
Oure ships are whelmed through ons implacabil anger.
(A pitiful reckning) we ar touzd, and from Italye feazed.
Is this your daughters ritche dowry? her stablished empire?
Ruls gods, and mankind skeareth with thunderus humbling:
What syn hath Æneas, my brat, committed agaynst the?
What doe the poore Troians? Who with fel boucherye slaghterd
For bending passadge to the promised Jtalye, therefor
No worldly corner can theym securitye warrant.
You to me ful promist, eare that yeers sundrye wer eended,
That Roman famely should spring from the auncetrye Troian,
By whom thee worldly coompas should wholye be ruled.
Wherefor (mightye father) what dooth thy phansye thus alter?
I tooke soom coomfort, when Troy was latelye repressed,
With futur hap coomming, past fortun vnhappye requiting.
And yeet theese wretched vagabunds hard destenye scourgeth
When shal (Prince pusiant) theese dangers dryrye be canceld?
Antenor was habil, from Grekish coompanye slincking,
Too passe through Greceland saulfly to Lyburnical empyre.
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Where through nyne channels with mountayns murmerus hurring
Rough the sea floas forward, thee land with snarnoise enhaunting
Heere notwithstanding this founder buylded a cittye,
That Padua is cleaped, too linnadge Troian alotted.
And arms of Troytowne bearing: there he saulflie doth harboure.
Wee that ar of kinred too the, and hast shrind in Olympus,
Oure ships are whelmed through ons implacabil anger.
(A pitiful reckning) we ar touzd, and from Italye feazed.
Is this your daughters ritche dowry? her stablished empire?
Thee prince of mankind, father of Gods, mirrelye simpring
Lyk when he thee tempest with cheereful phisnomye calmeth,
Bust his prittye parat prating, and mildlye thus aunswerd.
Lyk when he thee tempest with cheereful phisnomye calmeth,
Bust his prittye parat prating, and mildlye thus aunswerd.
Feare ye not (ô darling) on thy syde destenye runneth.
Thee Roman towne wals thow shalt see loftelye raysed,
And thy sun Æneas his glittring glorye to luster.
This much J determyn, my mind no partye shal alter,
Thy child Æneas (for sith such care the doth anguish,
Thee fates close coouerd I wyl to the playnelye set open)
Thy sun, J say, valiant shal foster in Jtaly garboyls,
Strong and sturddye pepil with wars and victorye trampling.
Theare shal he buyld cittyes, and theare laws ciuil enacting,
Vntyl three summars shal coompas his hudge Lauyn empyre:
And, the Rutils conquourd, three wynters stormye be glyding.
But thy sun Ascanius, which is eeke surnamed Iulus,
(Ilus he was termed, whilst stood the great Ilian empyre)
Hee shal bee the regent, vntil yeers thirtye be flitted,
From the Lauin kingdoom the state and thee chiefty remoouing:
And with thick bulwarck shal he fence thee rampired Alba.
Heere thre hundred wynters shal raigne knight Hector his ofspring,
By Mars fyrye fatherd twyns tyl the Queene Ilia gender;
Romulus in forrest of wulues dugge nurrished eager
Shal take thee regiment, and towne wals statelye shal vpraise
Of Rome, thee Romans of his owne name, Romulus, highting.
This rule thus fixed no tyme shal limit, or hazard:
Endles I do graunt yt: nay further Iuno fel harted,
Thee seas, thee regions, thee skies so spightfulye moyling,
Shal cut of al quarrels, and with mee newlye shal enter
In leage with Romans, and gownesept charelye tender.
Theese thus ar establisht. Theare shal cum a season herafter,
When thee sayd famely shal crush Greeks segnorye throughly.
Thee Troian Cæsar shal spire fro this auncetrye regal,
His rule too Garamants, too stars his glorye rebounding
Iulius of valerus princely surnamed Iulus.
Thow shalt hym settle, with his east spoyls fraighted, in heunseat,
Whom with relligious good vows shal magnifye diuerse.
Thee world shal be quiet, then shal broyls bluddye be finnisht.
Then playne sound dealing with laws of woorthye Quirinus
And Remus, his broother, thee Roman cittye shal order.
Thee gates of warfare wyl then bee mannacled hardly
With steele bunch chayne knob, clingd, knurd, and narrolye lincked.
Heere within al storming shal Mars bee setled on armoure
With brasse knots hundred crumpled; with sweld furor haggish
Lyke bandog grinning, with gnash tusk greedelye snarring.
Thee Roman towne wals thow shalt see loftelye raysed,
And thy sun Æneas his glittring glorye to luster.
This much J determyn, my mind no partye shal alter,
Thy child Æneas (for sith such care the doth anguish,
Thee fates close coouerd I wyl to the playnelye set open)
Thy sun, J say, valiant shal foster in Jtaly garboyls,
Strong and sturddye pepil with wars and victorye trampling.
Theare shal he buyld cittyes, and theare laws ciuil enacting,
Vntyl three summars shal coompas his hudge Lauyn empyre:
And, the Rutils conquourd, three wynters stormye be glyding.
But thy sun Ascanius, which is eeke surnamed Iulus,
(Ilus he was termed, whilst stood the great Ilian empyre)
Hee shal bee the regent, vntil yeers thirtye be flitted,
From the Lauin kingdoom the state and thee chiefty remoouing:
And with thick bulwarck shal he fence thee rampired Alba.
Heere thre hundred wynters shal raigne knight Hector his ofspring,
By Mars fyrye fatherd twyns tyl the Queene Ilia gender;
Romulus in forrest of wulues dugge nurrished eager
Shal take thee regiment, and towne wals statelye shal vpraise
Of Rome, thee Romans of his owne name, Romulus, highting.
This rule thus fixed no tyme shal limit, or hazard:
Endles I do graunt yt: nay further Iuno fel harted,
Thee seas, thee regions, thee skies so spightfulye moyling,
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In leage with Romans, and gownesept charelye tender.
Theese thus ar establisht. Theare shal cum a season herafter,
When thee sayd famely shal crush Greeks segnorye throughly.
Thee Troian Cæsar shal spire fro this auncetrye regal,
His rule too Garamants, too stars his glorye rebounding
Iulius of valerus princely surnamed Iulus.
Thow shalt hym settle, with his east spoyls fraighted, in heunseat,
Whom with relligious good vows shal magnifye diuerse.
Thee world shal be quiet, then shal broyls bluddye be finnisht.
Then playne sound dealing with laws of woorthye Quirinus
And Remus, his broother, thee Roman cittye shal order.
Thee gates of warfare wyl then bee mannacled hardly
With steele bunch chayne knob, clingd, knurd, and narrolye lincked.
Heere within al storming shal Mars bee setled on armoure
With brasse knots hundred crumpled; with sweld furor haggish
Lyke bandog grinning, with gnash tusk greedelye snarring.
Thus sayd: he foorth posted (by May borne) Mercurye downeward
That new buylt Carthage should house thee Troian asemblye.
Hee flitters swiftly with wynges ful fledgye beplumed
On Libye land seizing: ther he soone perfourmeth his erraund.
Thee Moors are sweetned by Gods forwarned apoinctement,
But chief of al Dido, thee Queene, was wroght to the Troians.
That new buylt Carthage should house thee Troian asemblye.
Hee flitters swiftly with wynges ful fledgye beplumed
On Libye land seizing: ther he soone perfourmeth his erraund.
Thee Moors are sweetned by Gods forwarned apoinctement,
But chief of al Dido, thee Queene, was wroght to the Troians.
But the good Æneas in night with care great awaked
With Phœbus rising vpgot, too ferret al vncooth
Nouks of strang country, in what coast his nauye doth harboure?
If men, or yf sauadge wyld beastes ther in onlye doe pasture.
For ther he no tillagde dyd find: thus was he resolued.
And what he discoouerd, too tel to the coompanye flatly.
His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle
Of rock deepe dented, shaded with thickleaued arbours.
Hee walcks on priuat with noane but faythful Achates
Darts two foorth bringing with sharp steele forcibil headed.
Jn the myd of forrest as he gads, his moother aprocheth,
In weed eke in visage lyke a Spartan virgin in armour
Or lyke to Herpalicee, sweeft Queene, steeds strong ouerambling,
Which doth in her running surpas thee swift flud of Hebrus.
Shee bare on her shoulders her bow bent aptlye lyke huntresse;
Downe to the wynd tracing trayld her discheaueled hearlocks;
Tuckt to the knee naked: thus first shee forged her errand.
Ho syrs, perceaud you soom mayden coompany stragling,
Of my deere sisters with quiuer closelye begyrded
Rearing with shoutcry soom boare, soom sanglier ougly?
So Venus: and to Venus thee soon thus turned his aunswer.
With Phœbus rising vpgot, too ferret al vncooth
Nouks of strang country, in what coast his nauye doth harboure?
If men, or yf sauadge wyld beastes ther in onlye doe pasture.
For ther he no tillagde dyd find: thus was he resolued.
And what he discoouerd, too tel to the coompanye flatly.
His ships hee kenneld neere forrest vnder an angle
Of rock deepe dented, shaded with thickleaued arbours.
Hee walcks on priuat with noane but faythful Achates
Darts two foorth bringing with sharp steele forcibil headed.
Jn the myd of forrest as he gads, his moother aprocheth,
In weed eke in visage lyke a Spartan virgin in armour
Or lyke to Herpalicee, sweeft Queene, steeds strong ouerambling,
Which doth in her running surpas thee swift flud of Hebrus.
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Downe to the wynd tracing trayld her discheaueled hearlocks;
Tuckt to the knee naked: thus first shee forged her errand.
Ho syrs, perceaud you soom mayden coompany stragling,
Of my deere sisters with quiuer closelye begyrded
Rearing with shoutcry soom boare, soom sanglier ougly?
So Venus: and to Venus thee soon thus turned his aunswer.
We hard of no showting, too sight no sister apered.
Ô to the, fayre Virgin, what terme may rightlye be fitted?
Thy tongue, thy visadge no mortal frayltye resembleth.
Thart, No doubt, a Godesse, too Phœbus sister, or arcted
Too Nymphs in kynred: to the lasting glorye be graunted.
Smooth this craggye trauayl: tel what celestial harbour
Coompaseth our persons: theese men, this countrye we know not.
Vs to this od corner thee wynd tempestuus hurled.
This fist shal sacrifice great flocks on thy sacred altars.
Ô to the, fayre Virgin, what terme may rightlye be fitted?
Thy tongue, thy visadge no mortal frayltye resembleth.
Thart, No doubt, a Godesse, too Phœbus sister, or arcted
Too Nymphs in kynred: to the lasting glorye be graunted.
Smooth this craggye trauayl: tel what celestial harbour
Coompaseth our persons: theese men, this countrye we know not.
Vs to this od corner thee wynd tempestuus hurled.
This fist shal sacrifice great flocks on thy sacred altars.
Then Uenus: I daigne not my self wurth sutch honor heunly.
Of Tyrian virgins too weare thus a quiuer is vsed.
And to go thus thynly with wrapt vp purpil atyred.
Thow seest large Affrick, thee Moores, and Towne of Agenor,
Thee Libye land marckmears: a country manful in armoure.
In this coast Dido, from her broother flitted, is empresse.
Tedius in telling and long were the iniurye total:
Chief poyncts I purpose too touche with summarye shortnesse.
Her spouse Sichæus was namd, too no man vnequal
In lands, her dandling with feruent passion hoatly.
Her father in wedlock took to hym this virgin vnharmed.
But then her owne broother was by right setled in empyre,
Pygmalion named; thee sinck and puddil of hateful
And furiouse cutthrots: hee murthred selly Sichœus,
With gould looue blynded iump at thee consecrat altars.
Of sisters freendship reckning; thee murther he whusted,
His syb in her mourning with long coynd forgerye feeding.
But loa, the proper image of corps vntumbed apeered
In dreame too Dido; with pale wan phisnomye staring.
His brest he vncloased, thee wound, and bluddyful altars.
Thence to flit hee wild her, not long in countrye remayning,
Tward her costlye viadge his wief to hyd treasur he poincted,
Where the vnknowne ingots of gould and siluer abounded.
Dido so wel fornisht too flee with coompanye posteth.
Such folck as the tyrant pursude with vengeabil hatred,
Or feard his regiment in thronging cluster asembled.
They snach such vessels that then were rigd to be sayling
Pigmalions riches was shipt, that pinchepeny boucher.
And of this valiant attempt a woomman is authresse.
Theare they were enshoared, wheare thow shalt shortlye se town wals,
And citty vpsoaring of new Carthago to skytoppe.
Thee plat they purchast, that place first Byrsa they cleaped
And so much as a bulhyd could coompas craftelye getting.
But syrs, whence coom you? what wights? or too what abyding
Countrye do you purpose too passe? Thee capteyn amazed,
And sobs deepe fetching, with sight ful sadlye thus aunswerd.
Of Tyrian virgins too weare thus a quiuer is vsed.
And to go thus thynly with wrapt vp purpil atyred.
Thow seest large Affrick, thee Moores, and Towne of Agenor,
Thee Libye land marckmears: a country manful in armoure.
In this coast Dido, from her broother flitted, is empresse.
Tedius in telling and long were the iniurye total:
Chief poyncts I purpose too touche with summarye shortnesse.
Her spouse Sichæus was namd, too no man vnequal
In lands, her dandling with feruent passion hoatly.
Her father in wedlock took to hym this virgin vnharmed.
But then her owne broother was by right setled in empyre,
Pygmalion named; thee sinck and puddil of hateful
And furiouse cutthrots: hee murthred selly Sichœus,
With gould looue blynded iump at thee consecrat altars.
Of sisters freendship reckning; thee murther he whusted,
His syb in her mourning with long coynd forgerye feeding.
But loa, the proper image of corps vntumbed apeered
In dreame too Dido; with pale wan phisnomye staring.
His brest he vncloased, thee wound, and bluddyful altars.
Thence to flit hee wild her, not long in countrye remayning,
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Where the vnknowne ingots of gould and siluer abounded.
Dido so wel fornisht too flee with coompanye posteth.
Such folck as the tyrant pursude with vengeabil hatred,
Or feard his regiment in thronging cluster asembled.
They snach such vessels that then were rigd to be sayling
Pigmalions riches was shipt, that pinchepeny boucher.
And of this valiant attempt a woomman is authresse.
Theare they were enshoared, wheare thow shalt shortlye se town wals,
And citty vpsoaring of new Carthago to skytoppe.
Thee plat they purchast, that place first Byrsa they cleaped
And so much as a bulhyd could coompas craftelye getting.
But syrs, whence coom you? what wights? or too what abyding
Countrye do you purpose too passe? Thee capteyn amazed,
And sobs deepe fetching, with sight ful sadlye thus aunswerd.
O gay Godesse lustringe yf I made to the largelye recital,
Or that of oure troubles you would to the summarye listen,
Thee night thee sunbeams would shrowd in clasped Olympus.
Wee coom from Troytowne (of Troyseat yf haplye the rumoure
Youre ears hath tinckled) late a tempest boysterus haggard
Oure ships to Libye land with rough extremitye tilted.
I am kind Æneas, from foes thee snatcher of housgods
Stowd in my vessels: in skyes my glorye doth harboure.
Land I seek Italian: from Ioue my pettegrye buddeth.
I made from Troytowne with vessels twentye to seaward,
My dam myghtye Godesse gyding, I my destenye tracked.
Rackt with soure blustring seaun ships ar scantlye recoouerd
I lyke a poore pilgrim throgh desert angle of Affrick
Wander, thrust from Asian regions and fortunat Europ.
Or that of oure troubles you would to the summarye listen,
Thee night thee sunbeams would shrowd in clasped Olympus.
Wee coom from Troytowne (of Troyseat yf haplye the rumoure
Youre ears hath tinckled) late a tempest boysterus haggard
Oure ships to Libye land with rough extremitye tilted.
I am kind Æneas, from foes thee snatcher of housgods
Stowd in my vessels: in skyes my glorye doth harboure.
Land I seek Italian: from Ioue my pettegrye buddeth.
I made from Troytowne with vessels twentye to seaward,
My dam myghtye Godesse gyding, I my destenye tracked.
Rackt with soure blustring seaun ships ar scantlye recoouerd
I lyke a poore pilgrim throgh desert angle of Affrick
Wander, thrust from Asian regions and fortunat Europ.
Heere Venus embarring his tale thus sweetlye replyed.
What wight thwart, doubtlesse thee gods al greatlye doe tender
Thy state, neere Tyrian citty so lucklye to iumble.
Hence take thy passadge, to the Queenes court princelye be trudging.
Theare thy coompanions with battred nauye be landed,
With flaws crusht ruffling, with north blast canuased hurring.
Thus stand thy recknings, vnlesse me myn augurye fayleth.
Marck loa, se wel yoonder swans twelue in coompany flusshing
And the skytip percing, enchast with a murtherus eagel
Swift doe fle too landward, on ground al prest to be seazed.
As theese birds feazed, theyre wyngs with solitye flapping,
Sweepe the skye, with gladnes theyre creaking harmonye gagling,
Eunso thye companions, or now with saulftye be shoared,
Or, voyd of al danger, theyre ships are grappled at anchor.
Speedelye bee packing, keep on hardlye the playne beaten highway.
What wight thwart, doubtlesse thee gods al greatlye doe tender
Thy state, neere Tyrian citty so lucklye to iumble.
Hence take thy passadge, to the Queenes court princelye be trudging.
Theare thy coompanions with battred nauye be landed,
With flaws crusht ruffling, with north blast canuased hurring.
Thus stand thy recknings, vnlesse me myn augurye fayleth.
Marck loa, se wel yoonder swans twelue in coompany flusshing
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Swift doe fle too landward, on ground al prest to be seazed.
As theese birds feazed, theyre wyngs with solitye flapping,
Sweepe the skye, with gladnes theyre creaking harmonye gagling,
Eunso thye companions, or now with saulftye be shoared,
Or, voyd of al danger, theyre ships are grappled at anchor.
Speedelye bee packing, keep on hardlye the playne beaten highway.
This sayd shee turned with rose color heaunlye beglittred.
Her locks lyke Nectar perfumes sweet melloe relinquisht.
Her trayne syd flagging lyke wyde spread Conopye trayled.
Her whisk shewd Deity, hee finding his moother, in anger
Chauffing; thee fugitiue with theese woords sharplye reprooued.
Her locks lyke Nectar perfumes sweet melloe relinquisht.
Her trayne syd flagging lyke wyde spread Conopye trayled.
Her whisk shewd Deity, hee finding his moother, in anger
Chauffing; thee fugitiue with theese woords sharplye reprooued.
What do ye meane (moother) with an elf show, vaynelye thus often
Youre soon too iuggle? why oure hands both claspe we not hardly?
Why do we not playnely good speeches mutual vtter?
Tward citty trauayling thus he blames her forgerye masked.
But Uenus enshrowds theym with a thick fog palpabil ayrye,
Vnseen of eeche person by sleight inuisibil armed:
Least soom theyre passadge with curius article hyndring
Would learne, whence they trauayld? Too what coast ar they repayring?
Shee to her loftye Paphos with gladnesse myrrye returneth:
Wheare stands her temple with an hundred consecrat altars;
Smoaking with the encense; the loa pauement senteth of herbflowrs.
Youre soon too iuggle? why oure hands both claspe we not hardly?
Why do we not playnely good speeches mutual vtter?
Tward citty trauayling thus he blames her forgerye masked.
But Uenus enshrowds theym with a thick fog palpabil ayrye,
Vnseen of eeche person by sleight inuisibil armed:
Least soom theyre passadge with curius article hyndring
Would learne, whence they trauayld? Too what coast ar they repayring?
Shee to her loftye Paphos with gladnesse myrrye returneth:
Wheare stands her temple with an hundred consecrat altars;
Smoaking with the encense; the loa pauement senteth of herbflowrs.
In thee meane season they doe passe directlye to towneward
They trip too mountayns high typ, thee cittye but vnder
Marcking; thee castels and turrets statelye beholding.
Æneas woondreth; where dorps and cottages earst stood,
For to se such sturring, such stuffe, such gorgeus handwoorck.
Thee Moors drudge roundly; soom wals are loftelye raysing;
Soom mount high castels; soom stoans downe tumble al headlong;
Soom mearefurth platfoorms, for buylding curius houses;
Soom dooe choose the Senat, sound laws and order enacting;
Soom frame play theaters; soom deepelye dig harborus hauens;
Soom for great palaces doo slise from quarrye the chapters.
Lyke bees in summar season, through rustical hamlets
That flirt in soonbeams, and toyle with mutterus humbling.
When they do foorth carry theyre yoong swarme fledggie to gathring:
Or cels ar farcing with dulce and delicat hoonnye:
Or porters burdens vnloads, or clustred in heerd swarme
Feaze away thee droane bees with sting, from maunger, or hiuecot,
Thee labor hoat sweltreth: thee combs tyme flowrye be sprinckleth.
They trip too mountayns high typ, thee cittye but vnder
Marcking; thee castels and turrets statelye beholding.
Æneas woondreth; where dorps and cottages earst stood,
For to se such sturring, such stuffe, such gorgeus handwoorck.
Thee Moors drudge roundly; soom wals are loftelye raysing;
Soom mount high castels; soom stoans downe tumble al headlong;
Soom mearefurth platfoorms, for buylding curius houses;
Soom dooe choose the Senat, sound laws and order enacting;
Soom frame play theaters; soom deepelye dig harborus hauens;
Soom for great palaces doo slise from quarrye the chapters.
Lyke bees in summar season, through rustical hamlets
That flirt in soonbeams, and toyle with mutterus humbling.
When they do foorth carry theyre yoong swarme fledggie to gathring:
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Or porters burdens vnloads, or clustred in heerd swarme
Feaze away thee droane bees with sting, from maunger, or hiuecot,
Thee labor hoat sweltreth: thee combs tyme flowrye be sprinckleth.
O wights most blessed, whose wals be thus happelye touring
Æneas vttred: thee towne top sharplye beholding.
Hee throngs in shryne clowd (a strang and meruelus order)
Through crowds of the pepil, not seene, nor marcked of annye.
Æneas vttred: thee towne top sharplye beholding.
Hee throngs in shryne clowd (a strang and meruelus order)
Through crowds of the pepil, not seene, nor marcked of annye.
In towns myd center theare sprouted a groauecrop, in arbours
Greene weede thick shaded, wheare Moors from surge water angry
Parted, a good token dyd find: for Iuno, the Princesse,
Theare the pate, in digging, of an horse intractabil vttred.
Thee wise diuined, by this prognosticat horshead,
That Moors wyde conquest should gayne with vittayl abundant.
Heere to Iuno Godesse thee Princesse Dido dyd offer
A fayre buylt temple, with treasure ritchlye replennisht.
Thee stayrs brassye grises stately presented, here also
Thee beams with brazed copper were costlye bepounced.
And gates with the metal dooe creake in shrilbated harshing.
Greene weede thick shaded, wheare Moors from surge water angry
Parted, a good token dyd find: for Iuno, the Princesse,
Theare the pate, in digging, of an horse intractabil vttred.
Thee wise diuined, by this prognosticat horshead,
That Moors wyde conquest should gayne with vittayl abundant.
Heere to Iuno Godesse thee Princesse Dido dyd offer
A fayre buylt temple, with treasure ritchlye replennisht.
Thee stayrs brassye grises stately presented, here also
Thee beams with brazed copper were costlye bepounced.
And gates with the metal dooe creake in shrilbated harshing.
In this greene frithcops a new sight newly repressed
Long feareful dangers: Æneas freshlye beginneth
For to raise his courradge: his sharp aduersitye treading,
For whilst in temple corners hee gogled his eyesight
Wayting for Dido; the stat of thee cittye beholding,
Whilst craftmens coonning hee marckt with woonder amazed,
Hee spied on suddeyn thee conflicts Troian al ordred,
And that theire bickrings al soyls haue coompased earthly.
Hee seeth Atrides, 'Priamus, to both hurtful Achilles.
Long feareful dangers: Æneas freshlye beginneth
For to raise his courradge: his sharp aduersitye treading,
For whilst in temple corners hee gogled his eyesight
Wayting for Dido; the stat of thee cittye beholding,
Whilst craftmens coonning hee marckt with woonder amazed,
Hee spied on suddeyn thee conflicts Troian al ordred,
And that theire bickrings al soyls haue coompased earthly.
Hee seeth Atrides, 'Priamus, to both hurtful Achilles.
Fast he stood: and trickling dyd speake: what nouke (syr Achates)
In world what region do not our toyls liuelye remember?
Loa the, se king Priamus; soom crooms of glorye be resting.
Soom tears this monument and soom compassion asketh.
Pluck vp a good curradge? this fame soom saulftye wyl offer.
In world what region do not our toyls liuelye remember?
Loa the, se king Priamus; soom crooms of glorye be resting.
Soom tears this monument and soom compassion asketh.
Pluck vp a good curradge? this fame soom saulftye wyl offer.
Thus sayd, his hert throbbing with vayne dead pictur he feedeth;
Groane sighs deepe reaching with tears his lyers ful he blubbred.
Hee sees with baretours Troy wals inuironed hardly:
Heere Greeks swiftlye fleing, theym Troiyouths coompanye crushing.
Theare gad thee Troians: in coach runs helmed Achilles.
Hee weeps also, seing flags whit, with Rhesus his holding
In sleepe, whom napping, Tydides blooddye betrayed,
His fierce steeds leading to the camp, er al hungrye they grased
On Troian pasturs, or Xanth stream gredelye bibled.
Troilus hee marcked running, deuested of armour:
A lucklesse stripling, not a matche too coape with Achilles:
With steeds he is swinged, downe picht in his hudge wagon emptye,
Thee rayns yeet griping: his neck and locks fal a sweeping
Thee ground, his launce staffe thee dust top turuye doth harrow.
In thee meane season Troy dames
too temple aproched
Of fretting Pallas, with locks vntressed al hanging,
With grief meeklye praying, with breast knocks humblye requesting.
Thee Godes hard louring to the ground her phisnomye drowped.
Theare thrise about Troy wals with spight knight Hector is haled.
For gould his carcasse was sold by the broker Achilles.
Heere sighs and sobbing from brest vp he mightelye rooted,
Thus too see the wagon, thee spoyl, the vnfortunat ending
Of deere companion, thee lyke cars also doe sting hym,
For to se king Priamus, with his hands owtstreched, vnarmed.
Hymself hee marcked combynd with Greekish asemblye.
Hee noted Jndye pepil, with swart black Memnon his armye.
Theare wear Amazonical woommen with targat, an haulfmoone
Lykning, conducted by frantick Penthesilêa,
No swarms or trouping horsmen can apale the virago,
Her dug with platted gould rybband girded about her.
A baratresse, daring with men, thogh a mayd, to be buckling.
Groane sighs deepe reaching with tears his lyers ful he blubbred.
Hee sees with baretours Troy wals inuironed hardly:
Heere Greeks swiftlye fleing, theym Troiyouths coompanye crushing.
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Hee weeps also, seing flags whit, with Rhesus his holding
In sleepe, whom napping, Tydides blooddye betrayed,
His fierce steeds leading to the camp, er al hungrye they grased
On Troian pasturs, or Xanth stream gredelye bibled.
Troilus hee marcked running, deuested of armour:
A lucklesse stripling, not a matche too coape with Achilles:
With steeds he is swinged, downe picht in his hudge wagon emptye,
Thee rayns yeet griping: his neck and locks fal a sweeping
Thee ground, his launce staffe thee dust top turuye doth harrow.
In thee meane season Troy dames
too temple aproched
Of fretting Pallas, with locks vntressed al hanging,
With grief meeklye praying, with breast knocks humblye requesting.
Thee Godes hard louring to the ground her phisnomye drowped.
Theare thrise about Troy wals with spight knight Hector is haled.
For gould his carcasse was sold by the broker Achilles.
Heere sighs and sobbing from brest vp he mightelye rooted,
Thus too see the wagon, thee spoyl, the vnfortunat ending
Of deere companion, thee lyke cars also doe sting hym,
For to se king Priamus, with his hands owtstreched, vnarmed.
Hymself hee marcked combynd with Greekish asemblye.
Hee noted Jndye pepil, with swart black Memnon his armye.
Theare wear Amazonical woommen with targat, an haulfmoone
Lykning, conducted by frantick Penthesilêa,
No swarms or trouping horsmen can apale the virago,
Her dug with platted gould rybband girded about her.
A baratresse, daring with men, thogh a mayd, to be buckling.
Whilst prince Æneas theese picturs woonderus heeded,
And eeche pane throghly with stedfast phisnomye marcked,
Too churche Queene Dido, thee pearle of bewtye, repayred:
Of liuely yoonckers with a galland coompanye garded.
In Cynthus forrest much lyk too swift flud of Eurot
Where Nymphs a thowsand do frisk with Princelye Diana.
On back her quiuer shee bears, and highlye the remnaunt
Of Nymphs surpassing with talright quantitye mounting.
Too se this, her spirit with secret gladnes aboundeth.
Such was Dido ioying, so she with regalitye passed,
With Princely presence thee wurcking coompanye cheering.
In the gate of the Godesse shee syts, neere temple his arches
In chayre stately throned, with clustring garrison armed.
Shee frams firmlye statuts, and task wurcks equalye parteth.
Or toyls too pioners by drawcut lotterye sorteth.
Now sees Æneas with a crowding sudden asemblye
Antheus and also Sergestus, doughtye Cloanthus,
And oother Troians with rough seas stormye besweltred,
Too soyl vnacquaynted by tempest horriblye pelted.
Hee stands astonyed, so woondreth lykwise Achates:
For to shak hands freendly fear bars, now gladnes on haleth.
But the case vnwytted theym lets, thearfor they resolued,
With darck clowd shaded, too learne theyr formor auentur,
Wheare ryde theyre vessels? why they coom? what caus is of hastning?
For they the pickt choisemen dyd cul from nauye, requesting
Mercye, to the temple trotting with meruelus houling.
When they wer in presence, of pleading pardon afurded,
Then the braue Ilionus thus stout deliured his errand.
And eeche pane throghly with stedfast phisnomye marcked,
Too churche Queene Dido, thee pearle of bewtye, repayred:
Of liuely yoonckers with a galland coompanye garded.
In Cynthus forrest much lyk too swift flud of Eurot
Where Nymphs a thowsand do frisk with Princelye Diana.
On back her quiuer shee bears, and highlye the remnaunt
Of Nymphs surpassing with talright quantitye mounting.
Too se this, her spirit with secret gladnes aboundeth.
Such was Dido ioying, so she with regalitye passed,
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In the gate of the Godesse shee syts, neere temple his arches
In chayre stately throned, with clustring garrison armed.
Shee frams firmlye statuts, and task wurcks equalye parteth.
Or toyls too pioners by drawcut lotterye sorteth.
Now sees Æneas with a crowding sudden asemblye
Antheus and also Sergestus, doughtye Cloanthus,
And oother Troians with rough seas stormye besweltred,
Too soyl vnacquaynted by tempest horriblye pelted.
Hee stands astonyed, so woondreth lykwise Achates:
For to shak hands freendly fear bars, now gladnes on haleth.
But the case vnwytted theym lets, thearfor they resolued,
With darck clowd shaded, too learne theyr formor auentur,
Wheare ryde theyre vessels? why they coom? what caus is of hastning?
For they the pickt choisemen dyd cul from nauye, requesting
Mercye, to the temple trotting with meruelus houling.
When they wer in presence, of pleading pardon afurded,
Then the braue Ilionus thus stout deliured his errand.
O Queene most pusiaunt, too whom king Iuppiter heunly
Too raise a new citty, by rare felicitye, graunted,
And to rule a countrey, with scepter of equitye, sturdy:
Wee caytiefe Troians, with storms ventositye mangled,
Doo craue thee (Princesse) from flams oure nauye to guerdon.
Yeeld pytye, graunt mercy; flowrs of gentilitye pardon.
For we hither sayld not, thee Moors with an armye to vanquish;
Or from their region with prede too gather an heardflock.
Such valerus coorradge rarely men conquered haunteth.
Theare stands a region, by Greeke bards He sperye named,
A wel known countrey, for strong and plentiful holden,
Theare dwelt th' Oenotrians; but in oure adge Italye cleaped,
So namd of captayn: too this braue countrye we mynded
Too bend oure iourney.
But with a flaw suddeyn chauffing stormbringer Orion,
Spurnt vs too the waters then sootherne swashruter huffling
Flundge vs on high shelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.
Heere then a poore remnaunt in this thy segnorye landed.
What fel beastlye pepil rest heer? such barbarus vsadge
What soyle wyld fosters? On sands they renounce vs an harboure.
They doe byd vs battayl, fro the shoare thee coompanye pusshing.
If ye doe skorne mankind, and eeche wight mortal his harming,
Let Gods sharp Iustice in soom sort yeet be remembred,
Oure king Æneas vs ruld, who for equitye rightful
Euerye man owt passed, for feats and martial armoure.
If this prince matchlesse no mortal destenye daunted,
But yet is in breathing, from tempest saulflye recoouerd:
First begin a freendshippe, for he wyl make fullye requital.
In Sicil eek region fayre towneships sundrye be setled:
In that od Isle raigneth, from Troyblud spirted, Acestes.
Graunt foorth thy warrant in docks oure nauye toe settle:
Graunt plancks from forrest too clowt oure battered inlecks;
That we our king meeting may passe tward Italye sayling.
If Libye seas raging the liefe of this captayn haue eended,
If no good coomfort dooth rest of nobil Iulus:
Suffer vs at leastwise, with iagged nauye retyring
To Sicil oure passadge too bend, too famus Acestes.
Too raise a new citty, by rare felicitye, graunted,
And to rule a countrey, with scepter of equitye, sturdy:
Wee caytiefe Troians, with storms ventositye mangled,
Doo craue thee (Princesse) from flams oure nauye to guerdon.
Yeeld pytye, graunt mercy; flowrs of gentilitye pardon.
For we hither sayld not, thee Moors with an armye to vanquish;
Or from their region with prede too gather an heardflock.
Such valerus coorradge rarely men conquered haunteth.
Theare stands a region, by Greeke bards He sperye named,
A wel known countrey, for strong and plentiful holden,
Theare dwelt th' Oenotrians; but in oure adge Italye cleaped,
So namd of captayn: too this braue countrye we mynded
Too bend oure iourney.
But with a flaw suddeyn chauffing stormbringer Orion,
Spurnt vs too the waters then sootherne swashruter huffling
Flundge vs on high shelueflats, to the rocks vs he buffeted after.
Heere then a poore remnaunt in this thy segnorye landed.
What fel beastlye pepil rest heer? such barbarus vsadge
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They doe byd vs battayl, fro the shoare thee coompanye pusshing.
If ye doe skorne mankind, and eeche wight mortal his harming,
Let Gods sharp Iustice in soom sort yeet be remembred,
Oure king Æneas vs ruld, who for equitye rightful
Euerye man owt passed, for feats and martial armoure.
If this prince matchlesse no mortal destenye daunted,
But yet is in breathing, from tempest saulflye recoouerd:
First begin a freendshippe, for he wyl make fullye requital.
In Sicil eek region fayre towneships sundrye be setled:
In that od Isle raigneth, from Troyblud spirted, Acestes.
Graunt foorth thy warrant in docks oure nauye toe settle:
Graunt plancks from forrest too clowt oure battered inlecks;
That we our king meeting may passe tward Italye sayling.
If Libye seas raging the liefe of this captayn haue eended,
If no good coomfort dooth rest of nobil Iulus:
Suffer vs at leastwise, with iagged nauye retyring
To Sicil oure passadge too bend, too famus Acestes.
This speche had Ilionus: that song his coompanye chaunted.
Brieflye then heere Dido, with downe cast phisnomye, parled.
Rest ye quiet, Troians, your thoghts from danger abandon.
In great sundrye peryls, my state set rawlye me streineth
Too keepe thus the seacoast with ward and garrison heedeful.
Who doe not Æneas, or Troian cittye remember?
Theire valor and courradge, theyre fyrebrand glorius onsets?
Wee Moors, lyke dullards, are not so wytles abyding,
Nor Phebe from oure citty dooth so far sunder his horses.
Yf ye be determynd, too sayl to old Italye Saturne,
Or to Sicil backward to the king, right nobil, Acestes,
Ile ye man, esquipping youre ships with furniture aptlye.
Or wyl you soiourne in this my feminin empyre?
In towne you denisons J do make: let nauye be docked.
Troians and Tyrians I wyl with one equitye measure.
Would God your captayn with sootherne blastpuf inhurled
Heere made his arriual; but a watch tward mouth of eche hauen
Speedelye shal be placed, your chieftayn woorthye to ferret:
Wheather he through forrest dooth range, or wandreth in hamlets.
Brieflye then heere Dido, with downe cast phisnomye, parled.
Rest ye quiet, Troians, your thoghts from danger abandon.
In great sundrye peryls, my state set rawlye me streineth
Too keepe thus the seacoast with ward and garrison heedeful.
Who doe not Æneas, or Troian cittye remember?
Theire valor and courradge, theyre fyrebrand glorius onsets?
Wee Moors, lyke dullards, are not so wytles abyding,
Nor Phebe from oure citty dooth so far sunder his horses.
Yf ye be determynd, too sayl to old Italye Saturne,
Or to Sicil backward to the king, right nobil, Acestes,
Ile ye man, esquipping youre ships with furniture aptlye.
Or wyl you soiourne in this my feminin empyre?
In towne you denisons J do make: let nauye be docked.
Troians and Tyrians I wyl with one equitye measure.
Would God your captayn with sootherne blastpuf inhurled
Heere made his arriual; but a watch tward mouth of eche hauen
Speedelye shal be placed, your chieftayn woorthye to ferret:
Wheather he through forrest dooth range, or wandreth in hamlets.
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This princelye promisse boldning both manful Achates
And father Æneas, thee clowd with greedines eager
Too cleaue they coouet: to Æneas thus first sayd Achates.
And father Æneas, thee clowd with greedines eager
Too cleaue they coouet: to Æneas thus first sayd Achates.
Thow sun of heunlye Godesse, how stands thy phansye resolued?
Thow seest al cocksure, thy fleete, thy coompanye salued.
One ship is only absent, that in oure sight sanck to the bottom.
Thy moothers prophecy to the remnaunt fitlye doth aunswere.
Thow seest al cocksure, thy fleete, thy coompanye salued.
One ship is only absent, that in oure sight sanck to the bottom.
Thy moothers prophecy to the remnaunt fitlye doth aunswere.
Scant had he thus spoken, when clowd theym drossye relinquisht,
And from earthly thicknesse, too thinnesse vannished ayerye.
Theare stud vp Æneas, with glittring beautye redowning.
Godlyke in his feauture: for his heunly moother amended
His bush with trimming, his sight was yoouthlye bepurpled:
His looke sweete simpred, much lyke to the pullished iuerye
By crafts hand burnisht: or with Phœbe siluer enameld:
Or touch stoane brazed with deepe gould purelye refined.
Hee then vnexspected to the Queene thus brauelye replyed.
And from earthly thicknesse, too thinnesse vannished ayerye.
Theare stud vp Æneas, with glittring beautye redowning.
Godlyke in his feauture: for his heunly moother amended
His bush with trimming, his sight was yoouthlye bepurpled:
His looke sweete simpred, much lyke to the pullished iuerye
By crafts hand burnisht: or with Phœbe siluer enameld:
Or touch stoane brazed with deepe gould purelye refined.
Hee then vnexspected to the Queene thus brauelye replyed.
Heere do I stand present, whom you so gladlye required,
Æneas Troian from stormes defalcked of Affrick.
Of trauayl of Troians, O Queene, thee succeres only.
Wee crooms of Troians with land and seafurye moyled,
Of welth dispoyled, lyke plodding stormebeaten haglers
From natiue country, from citty exiled abyding,
For theese thy benifits too make lyke freendlye requital
J may not, Dido: nay the routs of progenye Troian
Through wyde world scatterd, can not make woorthy repayment.
Thee Gods (yf Deitee worcks of wights godlye regardeth,
If right bee raigning, yf vertue is too be rewarded)
Yeeld to the lyke kyndnesse, What world, what vertuus heunly
Both father and moother gaue breath to so peereles a daughter.
Whilst hils cast shaddows, whilst streams to the seas be reuoluing,
Whilst stars ar twinckling in the orbs of fixed Olympus,
Thy fame with thine honor shal bee by eternitye blazed
To what coast I trauayl: Theese speeches duytiful vttred
Hee shaks Ilionus with right hand, alsoe Serestus
With lefthand, so doughtye Gian, so doughtye Cloanthus.
First was Queene Dido with a sight thus sudden apaled,
Next with his hard venturs, and thus shee rendred her aunswer.
Æneas Troian from stormes defalcked of Affrick.
Of trauayl of Troians, O Queene, thee succeres only.
Wee crooms of Troians with land and seafurye moyled,
Of welth dispoyled, lyke plodding stormebeaten haglers
From natiue country, from citty exiled abyding,
For theese thy benifits too make lyke freendlye requital
J may not, Dido: nay the routs of progenye Troian
Through wyde world scatterd, can not make woorthy repayment.
Thee Gods (yf Deitee worcks of wights godlye regardeth,
If right bee raigning, yf vertue is too be rewarded)
Yeeld to the lyke kyndnesse, What world, what vertuus heunly
Both father and moother gaue breath to so peereles a daughter.
Whilst hils cast shaddows, whilst streams to the seas be reuoluing,
Whilst stars ar twinckling in the orbs of fixed Olympus,
Thy fame with thine honor shal bee by eternitye blazed
To what coast I trauayl: Theese speeches duytiful vttred
Hee shaks Ilionus with right hand, alsoe Serestus
With lefthand, so doughtye Gian, so doughtye Cloanthus.
First was Queene Dido with a sight thus sudden apaled,
Next with his hard venturs, and thus shee rendred her aunswer.
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Thow sun of hautye Godesse, what crooked dangerus hazards
Pursu thy person? what seas thee terribil hither
Haue flounst? And art thow Æneas mightye, begotten
Of thy syre Anchises, and of Uenus at Simo fountayne?
J saw king Teucer whillon too Sidon aproching
Expulst fro his regions, his right with might too recouer,
And with ayd of Belus: then my sire Belus in Jsland
Of Cyprus raigned, that land with victorie may string
From that tyme forward I knewe thee Troian auenturs,
Thee name of thee citty, what kings succeded in empyre.
Enne thee veri enimy thee Troians glorye did vtter.
And from theyre linnadge right hee deriued his ofspring.
Whearefor, freend Troians, with draw your selues to mye lodgings.
Mee the lyk hard venturs erst, and aduersitye suffring
In this new kingdoom good fortun lastlye reposed,
My self erst flighted to reliue thee flicted I learned.
Pursu thy person? what seas thee terribil hither
Haue flounst? And art thow Æneas mightye, begotten
Of thy syre Anchises, and of Uenus at Simo fountayne?
J saw king Teucer whillon too Sidon aproching
Expulst fro his regions, his right with might too recouer,
And with ayd of Belus: then my sire Belus in Jsland
Of Cyprus raigned, that land with victorie may string
From that tyme forward I knewe thee Troian auenturs,
Thee name of thee citty, what kings succeded in empyre.
Enne thee veri enimy thee Troians glorye did vtter.
And from theyre linnadge right hee deriued his ofspring.
Whearefor, freend Troians, with draw your selues to mye lodgings.
Mee the lyk hard venturs erst, and aduersitye suffring
In this new kingdoom good fortun lastlye reposed,
My self erst flighted to reliue thee flicted I learned.
Thus shee discoursed: to palaice foorth statelye she leadeth
Thee prince Æneas; when seruice godlye was eended.
Thee whilst to his nauy shee caused twentye fat oxen
Straight to be conueighed, with an hundred bristeled hudge brawns,
Of sheepe lyke number with lambs: gods mightye rewarding.
But the inner lodgings were with regalitye trimmed.
Jn mydst of chaumber thee roume for bancket is apted,
Thee wals are cloathed with massy and purpuled arras,
Of plate great cupboords, thee gould embossed in anticque
Patterns, her linnadge by long fetcht pettegre trayling
Of syers thee bedrol with natiue countrye recorded.
Then the good Æneas (for carcking natural eggeth
Thee mynd of the parent) to the vessels posted Achates,
This to tel Ascanius, conducting hym to the cittye.
Thee syre in his darlings good successe chieflye reioyceth.
Lykwise he commaunded too bring from nauye the presents
Snacht from Troy ransackt, with gould frets ritchlye bedawbed.
Also the roabe pretiouse colored lyke sausred Achantus:
Which plad vested Helen, from Greece when to Troy she flitted:
Her weeds of wedlock, that her haut dam Leda dyd offer,
Of price a rare present: also thee scepter he willed
Of the fayr Ilionee to be broght: this fayrye was eldest
Of Priamus daughters, this mace too carrye she woonted:
Thee pearle and gould crowns too bring with garganet heauye.
With this charge vttred to the vessels hastned Achates.
Thee prince Æneas; when seruice godlye was eended.
Thee whilst to his nauy shee caused twentye fat oxen
Straight to be conueighed, with an hundred bristeled hudge brawns,
Of sheepe lyke number with lambs: gods mightye rewarding.
But the inner lodgings were with regalitye trimmed.
Jn mydst of chaumber thee roume for bancket is apted,
Thee wals are cloathed with massy and purpuled arras,
Of plate great cupboords, thee gould embossed in anticque
Patterns, her linnadge by long fetcht pettegre trayling
Of syers thee bedrol with natiue countrye recorded.
Then the good Æneas (for carcking natural eggeth
Thee mynd of the parent) to the vessels posted Achates,
This to tel Ascanius, conducting hym to the cittye.
Thee syre in his darlings good successe chieflye reioyceth.
Lykwise he commaunded too bring from nauye the presents
Snacht from Troy ransackt, with gould frets ritchlye bedawbed.
Also the roabe pretiouse colored lyke sausred Achantus:
Which plad vested Helen, from Greece when to Troy she flitted:
Her weeds of wedlock, that her haut dam Leda dyd offer,
Of price a rare present: also thee scepter he willed
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Of Priamus daughters, this mace too carrye she woonted:
Thee pearle and gould crowns too bring with garganet heauye.
With this charge vttred to the vessels hastned Achates.
But Uenus in musing with caers intoxicat hudling
New sleights fresh forgeth: the face of trim prittye Cupido
Too chang with iuggling, whereby hee too Dido resorting
Jn place of Ascanius, with gyfts might carrye the Princesse
Too braynesick loouefits, to her boans fire smouldered huffling.
For Uenus haulf doubteth thee Moors sly treacherus handling:
Juno her tormenteth: by night this terror her haunteth.
This reason her sturring thus spake she to cocknye Cupido.
New sleights fresh forgeth: the face of trim prittye Cupido
Too chang with iuggling, whereby hee too Dido resorting
Jn place of Ascanius, with gyfts might carrye the Princesse
Too braynesick loouefits, to her boans fire smouldered huffling.
For Uenus haulf doubteth thee Moors sly treacherus handling:
Juno her tormenteth: by night this terror her haunteth.
This reason her sturring thus spake she to cocknye Cupido.
My sweete choise bulcking, my force and my power onlye,
My baby despising thee bolts of Iuppiter angrye;
Of the request I refuge, with meeke submission humbled.
Thow knowest Æneas, by broothers byrth to the lincked,
Through seas to haue wandred by Iunoes merciles hattred:
Thow knowst thee venturs: my grief thy hert often hath anguisht.
Dido enterteigneth this guest with curtesye ciuil.
Yeet do J stil feare me theese fayre Iunonical harbours.
In straw thear lurcketh soom pad: yeet wyl she be sturring.
Thearefor her endeuours with counter craftinis hynder.
Inflame thee Princesse with looues affection earnest
That mye sun Æneas with mee shee chieflye may dandle.
This drift too coompasse let this my loare be wel heeded.
At the fathers sending thee boy to the cittye repayreth.
(Delicat Ascanius, whose forward succes I tender)
With many rich presents from Troyflams narrolye scaped.
This child fast sleeping wyl I lodge in loftye Cythera,
Els on hil Jdalium in seat sacred he shal be reposed.
Least that he this stratagem should find, or woorck wylye founder.
Thow shalt his visadge for a nights space fitlye resemble.
Thee gayboy kindlye playing, thee knowne lads phisnomye taking:
That when Queene Dido shal col the, and smacklye bebasse thee,
When quaffing wynebols, when bancquets deyntye be serued,
When she shal embrace thee, when lyplicks sweetlye she fastneth;
That then thow be suer, too plant thy poysoned hoat looue.
My baby despising thee bolts of Iuppiter angrye;
Of the request I refuge, with meeke submission humbled.
Thow knowest Æneas, by broothers byrth to the lincked,
Through seas to haue wandred by Iunoes merciles hattred:
Thow knowst thee venturs: my grief thy hert often hath anguisht.
Dido enterteigneth this guest with curtesye ciuil.
Yeet do J stil feare me theese fayre Iunonical harbours.
In straw thear lurcketh soom pad: yeet wyl she be sturring.
Thearefor her endeuours with counter craftinis hynder.
Inflame thee Princesse with looues affection earnest
That mye sun Æneas with mee shee chieflye may dandle.
This drift too coompasse let this my loare be wel heeded.
At the fathers sending thee boy to the cittye repayreth.
(Delicat Ascanius, whose forward succes I tender)
With many rich presents from Troyflams narrolye scaped.
This child fast sleeping wyl I lodge in loftye Cythera,
Els on hil Jdalium in seat sacred he shal be reposed.
Least that he this stratagem should find, or woorck wylye founder.
Thow shalt his visadge for a nights space fitlye resemble.
Thee gayboy kindlye playing, thee knowne lads phisnomye taking:
That when Queene Dido shal col the, and smacklye bebasse thee,
When quaffing wynebols, when bancquets deyntye be serued,
When she shal embrace thee, when lyplicks sweetlye she fastneth;
That then thow be suer, too plant thy poysoned hoat looue.
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Too moothers counsayl thee fyrye Cupido doth harcken
Of puts he his feathers, fauoring with gatetrip Julus.
But Venus enfuseth sweet sleepe to the partye resembled,
Too woods Idalian thee child nice cocknyed heauing
Jn seat of her boosom: neere senting delicat herbflowrs
Of pretious Maioram, with shade most temperat housed.
Of puts he his feathers, fauoring with gatetrip Julus.
But Venus enfuseth sweet sleepe to the partye resembled,
Too woods Idalian thee child nice cocknyed heauing
Jn seat of her boosom: neere senting delicat herbflowrs
Of pretious Maioram, with shade most temperat housed.
But now thee changling with gyfts dooth trudge to the cyttye
On to the court posting: his gyde was trustful Achates.
When that he too chaumber, most stately decked, aproched
Dido sat on beadsteed with curtens gorgeus hanged.
Then father Æneas with Troian cluster asembled:
On palet of scarlet they were for cossherye setled.
Thee wayting seruaunts riche basons massye doe carrye
Alsoe wyping towels: maunchets sum in pantrye doe basket
Fiftye busy damsels with charge of buttrye be tangled
With flame eke relligiouse too fire thee consecrat aultars.
Maydens, manseruaunts, of eche is there numbred an hundred,
That with princelye viand the tabils al francklye doe furnish.
Thee Tyrian lordings too Court most freshlye resorted.
On neeld wroght carpets theese guestes were al vsshered aptly.
Æneas presents they marck, they doe gaze at Julus.
His face goodlye roset, with speaking forgerye feigned.
They doe look at mantel, with roabs of saffrod Achanthus:
To futur harme lotted: but chiefllye the princes vnhappie
Is not with gazing contented fullye, but eauer
Shee doth eye thee presents: thee mopsy her phantasye lurcheth.
On father Æneas his neck thee dandiprat hangeth.
And to his great lyking his syre supposed he gayneth.
Heeskips too Dido: thee Queene with curtesye cheereful
Accepts thee princox: soomtyme she hym claspeth in armes.
Poore soule not wytting what great God her noatlye besiegeth.
But this prittye peacock, his
dames charge slilye remembring,
First of al attempteth too raze from phansye Sichaus.
With quick looue liuing fro the dead the affection haling:
Too new flamd liking her mynd, erst rustye, reducing.
When fare was finnisht the tabils eeke stately remooued
Hudge bols thick they placed, with garlands crownd the they mazars.
Al the palaice ringeth with stamp, a mutterus humming
Tinckleth through the entryes: the tapers eeke kendled ar hanging
From gold wyre glittring: thee night with brightnes is owted.
Heere thee Queene wylled that a massiue gould cup, abounding
With stoans coucht pretious, should bee presented; her owne hands
Thee goulden goblet with spirt wyne nappye replennisht.
This cup king Belus with her old syers former al vsed.
Thee rout kept a silence, theese speeches Dido dyd vtter.
On to the court posting: his gyde was trustful Achates.
When that he too chaumber, most stately decked, aproched
Dido sat on beadsteed with curtens gorgeus hanged.
Then father Æneas with Troian cluster asembled:
On palet of scarlet they were for cossherye setled.
Thee wayting seruaunts riche basons massye doe carrye
Alsoe wyping towels: maunchets sum in pantrye doe basket
Fiftye busy damsels with charge of buttrye be tangled
With flame eke relligiouse too fire thee consecrat aultars.
Maydens, manseruaunts, of eche is there numbred an hundred,
That with princelye viand the tabils al francklye doe furnish.
Thee Tyrian lordings too Court most freshlye resorted.
On neeld wroght carpets theese guestes were al vsshered aptly.
Æneas presents they marck, they doe gaze at Julus.
His face goodlye roset, with speaking forgerye feigned.
They doe look at mantel, with roabs of saffrod Achanthus:
To futur harme lotted: but chiefllye the princes vnhappie
Is not with gazing contented fullye, but eauer
Shee doth eye thee presents: thee mopsy her phantasye lurcheth.
On father Æneas his neck thee dandiprat hangeth.
And to his great lyking his syre supposed he gayneth.
Heeskips too Dido: thee Queene with curtesye cheereful
Accepts thee princox: soomtyme she hym claspeth in armes.
Poore soule not wytting what great God her noatlye besiegeth.
But this prittye peacock, his
dames charge slilye remembring,
First of al attempteth too raze from phansye Sichaus.
With quick looue liuing fro the dead the affection haling:
Too new flamd liking her mynd, erst rustye, reducing.
When fare was finnisht the tabils eeke stately remooued
Hudge bols thick they placed, with garlands crownd the they mazars.
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Tinckleth through the entryes: the tapers eeke kendled ar hanging
From gold wyre glittring: thee night with brightnes is owted.
Heere thee Queene wylled that a massiue gould cup, abounding
With stoans coucht pretious, should bee presented; her owne hands
Thee goulden goblet with spirt wyne nappye replennisht.
This cup king Belus with her old syers former al vsed.
Thee rout kept a silence, theese speeches Dido dyd vtter.
Iuppiter (of guest folcks thee stay thwart truelye reported)
Graunt that this present Tyrian with Troian asemblye
May breede good fortune to our freends and kynred heer after.
Let make sport Bacchus, with good ladye Iuno, be present.
And ye, my freend Tyrians, thee Troian coompanye frollick.
Graunt that this present Tyrian with Troian asemblye
May breede good fortune to our freends and kynred heer after.
Let make sport Bacchus, with good ladye Iuno, be present.
And ye, my freend Tyrians, thee Troian coompanye frollick.
Thus sayd, with sipping in vessel nycelye she dipped.
Shee chargeth Bicias: at a blow hee lustelye swapping,
Thee wyne fresh spuming with a draught swild vp to the bottom.
Thee remnant lordings hym pledge: Then curled Ioppas
Twangd on his harp golden, what he whillon learned of Atlas.
How the moone is trauersd; how planet soonnye reuolueth,
Hee chaunts: how mankind, how beasts dooe carrye their ofspring.
How floods be engendred, so how fire, celestial Arcture,
Thee rainebreede seunstars, with both the Trionical orders.
Why the sun at westward so tymely in wynter is housed.
And whye the night seasons in summer swiftlye be posting.
Thee Moors hands clapping, thee Troians, plaudite, flapped.
Shee chargeth Bicias: at a blow hee lustelye swapping,
Thee wyne fresh spuming with a draught swild vp to the bottom.
Thee remnant lordings hym pledge: Then curled Ioppas
Twangd on his harp golden, what he whillon learned of Atlas.
How the moone is trauersd; how planet soonnye reuolueth,
Hee chaunts: how mankind, how beasts dooe carrye their ofspring.
How floods be engendred, so how fire, celestial Arcture,
Thee rainebreede seunstars, with both the Trionical orders.
Why the sun at westward so tymely in wynter is housed.
And whye the night seasons in summer swiftlye be posting.
Thee Moors hands clapping, thee Troians, plaudite, flapped.
But with sundrye motiue demaunds Queene Dido the night space
Strecht, then vnhappy being with looues sweet poyson atached,
Verye much of Priamus demaunding and much of Hector.
Also how thee darling of bright Aurora was armed?
How Diameds horses were shapt? how strong was Achilles?
Nay guest, quod the lady, decipher from the beginning
Thee Greekish falshood, with thy owne sharp venterus hazards.
For now seun summers ar spent, sence thy trauayl hardy
On land and sayling, lyk pilgrim, causd the to wander.
Strecht, then vnhappy being with looues sweet poyson atached,
Verye much of Priamus demaunding and much of Hector.
Also how thee darling of bright Aurora was armed?
How Diameds horses were shapt? how strong was Achilles?
Nay guest, quod the lady, decipher from the beginning
Thee Greekish falshood, with thy owne sharp venterus hazards.
For now seun summers ar spent, sence thy trauayl hardy
On land and sayling, lyk pilgrim, causd the to wander.
Finis libri primi.
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