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Diana of George of Montemayor

Translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong

Yong, Bartholomew (1560-1621?)

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To the same Lord.

Don Gaspar Romani to the Authour.

Don Hieronymo Sant-Perez, to George of Montemayor.

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1.

The first Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Haire in change what libertie]

[I am a louer, but was neuer loued]

[For a fauour of such woorth]

[O eies, that see not him, who look'd on yow]

[Syrenus, what thought'st thou when I was viewing thee]

[No more (O cruell Nymph) now hast thou prayed]

[How fond am I to hope for any rest]

[Foolish loue, ah foolish louer]

[Although my quiet it doth let]

[Shepherd, who can passe such wrong]

[Weepe not my dolefull eies]

[My life (yoong Shepherdesse) for thee]

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The second Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Waters that fall from top of these steepe Hils]

[To heare me wearied is the cleerest riuer]

[Goe now my thoughts, where one day you were going]

[Contents of loue]

The song of the Nymph.

Syrenus his song.

[O grant me then this short content]

[My passion (Loue) thou dost disdaine]

[Saie Shepherdesse, what hath depriued thee]

[Mistresse thou hast forgotten me]

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The third Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

Arsenius his letter.

[To see thee I lift vp my happie eies]

[Loue passed by me with his bowe vnarm'd]

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The fourth Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Well let her life that enters heere be waighed]

[The authours of subiections]

[I am Cid th' honour of Spaine]

[Hernand Gonçales of Castile I am]

[Bernard of Carpio I am]

[My greatest valours they shall see]

[I am Fonseca whose braue historie]

[Don Luys of Villanoua I am named]

Orpheus his song.

[Heere Lady Katherine entombed lies]

[Even as (O death) the Planets should remaine]

[First in Granada I vvas borne]

[If thy soft Haires be threds of shining gold]

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5.

The fifth Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[O vainest hopes, Alas, how many Daies]

[When that I poore soule was borne]

[Now Loue, and fortune turne to me againe]

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6.

The sixth Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[I see thee iolly Shepherd merry]

[Passed contents]

[If teares cannot with tendernesse relent thee]

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7.

The seuenth Booke of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Times change and shall (as we doe see)]

[Sighes, since you lighten not my hart]

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THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE SECOND PART OF Diana OF George of Montemayor.

[Who hath of Cupids cates and dainties prayed]

[Poore I that am not now for thee]

[It may fall out the heauens may turne at leisure]

[The Gods graunt you to frolicke in your hall]

[Faire Shepherdesse Diana]

[The fearefull Bat that lurks in stonie wall]

[The open fieldes, the meadovves fresh and greene]

[In this greene Meade mine Eies what doe you see]

[I am Dianes, th' Arabian bird in beautie and in grace]

[Shepherds giue eare and now be still]

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The second Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[When I, poore wretch, of all men most accurst]

[Cvpid was angrie with my merry face]

[It is a signe of valour and of might]

[In each created thing]

[That deluge of reuengement being past]

[Apollo being in this heauenly ioy]

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The third Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[First shall these christall streames their courses backward mooue]

[If to my musickes skill]

[O World, false world, and like to hell belowe]

[Daughter, that in this deere]

[Parisiles, thy dolefull song and playning]

[Who comes into this place, let her take heede]

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The fourth Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Phillis, my faire yoong Shepherdesse]

[Neuer a greater foe did loue disdaine]

[Neuer so true a subiect to great loue]

[With sorrow, teares, and discontent]

[Since all my fortunes are so ouerthwart]

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The fifth Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Ah well away how firme and suer ar]

[Stela mine onely Goddesse, and my good]

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The sixth Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Louers, record my memorie, and name]

[To Luztea faire I do belong, this collar can auouch it]

[If that a small occasion had the power]

[A faire maide wed to prying iealousie]

[If that the gentle winde]

[Faire Shepherdesse, what hast with greefe to fill me]

[Thou dost desire (My life) as thou dost say]

[Continuall greefe and sorrow neuer wanteth]

[Faire Shepherdesse, I can no more]

[Of mine owne selfe I doe complaine]

[Faustus in faith thou nill deserue]

[The rest is sweete to him that wearied is]

[Now doe I knowe at last (though to my smart)]

[Faustus if thou wilt reade from me]

[I pray thee keepe my kine for mee]

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The seuenth Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

[Let the silence of the night]

[He that doth Fortune blame]

[All you that haue vnwoorthily complained]

[It fitteth not my song]

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The eight Booke of the second Part of Diana of George of Montemayor.

Disteus his letter to Dardanea.

Dardaneas answere to Disteus.

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THE FIRST PART OF ENAMOVRED DIANA, made by Gaspar Gil Polo.

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1.

The first Booke of Enamoured Diana.

[Long haue I felt a silent paine of sorrow]

[That mighty Loue, though blinde of both his eies]

[Loue is not blinde, but I, which fondly guide]

[He that in freedome iets it proude and braue]

Prouencall Rythmes.

[I cannot be by Loues wrath more tormented]

Marcelius his letter to Alcida.

[O Sandie desart and drie barren meade]

[Now that the sunne doth hide his golden beames]

[The cause why that thou dost denie]

[End now my life, with daily paines affrighted]

[Ah such an one I euer was, since that]

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The second Booke of Enamoured Diana.

[Awake a little, light of cleerest day]

[Inconstant loue and cruell, which hast lately]

Filenus letter to Ismenia.

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The third Booke of Enamoured Diana.

[The coole fresh winde, Taurisus, that inuiting vs]

[Welcome thy friendes from swelling seas that rore]

[My greeuous sighes and sorrowfull teares]

The Song of Turia.

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The fourth Booke of the third Part of Diana.

[The faire, the fresh, the red and rosie morning]

[O eies that are not now as once tormented]

[Let now each meade with flowers be depainted]

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The fifth Booke of the third Part of Diana.

[I should haue dide, and neuer viewed thee]

[My soule doth leape for ioy to haue]

[Svch ioy I feele doth in my soule surmount]

[Tvrne thy faire eies (wherein my shame]

[Yong Shepherd) turne aside, & moue]

[If to belou'd it thee offends]

[Methinks, thou tak'st the woorser way]

[Since thou to me wert so vnkinde]

[Shepherd, why dost thou hold thy peace?]

Florisias Song.

[Poore Melibee of loue and hope forgot]

Prouençall Rythmes.

[Diana, Loue, and my faire Shepherdesse]

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[Diana, Loue, and my faire Shepherdesse]

Diana, Loue, and my faire Shepherdesse,
Did in the field their chiefest cunning trie,
By shooting arrowes at a tree neere by,
Whose barke a painted hart did there expresse:
Diana stakes her beautie mercilesse,
Cupid his bowe, Argia her libertie:
Who shewed in her shot a quicker eie,
A better grace, more courage, and successe:
And so did she Dianas beautie win,
And Cupids weapons, by which conquer'd prize
So faire and cruell she hath euer bin,
That her sweete figure from my wearied eies,
And from my painfull hart her cruell bowe
Haue stolne my life and freedome long agoe.