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Vlysses in the Entry, laide his head,
And vader him, an Oxe-hide newly flead;
Aboue him Sheep fels store; & ouer those
Eurynome cast Mantles. His repose
VVould bring to sleepe yet; studying the ill
He wisht the wooers; who came by him still
VVith all their wenches; laughing, wantoning
In mutuall lightnesse, which his heart did sting;
Contending two wayes; if (all patience fled)
He should rush vp, and strike those Strumpets dead;
Or let that night be last, and take th' extreme
Of those proud wooers, that were so supreme
In pleasure of their high fed fantasies.
His heart did barke within him, to surprize
Their sports with spoiles: No fell shee Mastiue can
Amongst her whelpes, flye eagrer on a man
She doth not know; yet sents him something neare,
And faine would come to please her tooth and teare;
Then his disdaine, to see his Roofe so fil'de
VVith those fowle fashions: Grew within him wilde
To be in blood of them. But finding best
In his free iudgement, to let passion rest;
He chid his angry spirit, and beare his brest:
And said; Forbeare (my minde) and thinke on this:

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There hath bene time, when bitter agonies
Haue tried thy patience: Call to minde the day,
In which the Cyclop, which past manly sway
Of violent strength, deuour'd thy friends, thou then
Stoodst firmely bold, till from that hellish den
Thy wisedom broght thee off; whē nought but death
Thy thoughts resolu'd on. This discourse did breath
The fiery boundings of his heart, that still
Lay in that æsture; without end, his ill
Yet manly suffering. But from side to side
It made him tosse apace: you haue not tride
A fellow roasting of a Pig before
A hasty fire, (his belly yeelding store
Of fat, and blood) turne faster: labour more
To haue it roast, and would not haue it burne;
Then this, and that way, his vnrest made turne
His thoughts, and body; would not quench the fire,
And yet, not haue it heighten his desire
Past his discretion; and the fit enough
Of hast, and speed; that went to all the proofe
His well-laid plots, and his exploits requir'd;
Since he, but one, to all their deaths aspir'd.

Pallas appeares to Vlysses.

In this contention, Pallas stoop't from heauen;
Stood ouer him, and had her presence giuen
A womans forme; who sternly thus began:
Why thou most sowre, and wretched-fated man
Of all that breath! yet liest thou thus awake?
The house, in which thy cares so tosse and take
Thy quiet vp, is thine: thy wife is there;
And such a Son, as if thy wishes were
To be suffic'd with one; they could not mend.

Goddesse (said he) tis true; But I contend
To right their wrongs: and (though I bee but one)
To lay vnhelpt, and wreakfull hand vpon
This whole resort of impudents, that here
Their rude assemblies neuer will forbeare.
And yet a greater doubt imployes my care;
That if their slaughters, in my reaches are,
And I performe them; (Ioue and you not pleas'd)
How shall I flye their friends? & would stand seas'd
Of counsaile, to resolue this care in me.

Wretch (she replied) a friend of worse degree,
Might win thy credence: that a mortall were,
And vs'd to second thee; though nothing nere
So powerfull in performance, nor in care:
Yet I, a Goddesse, that haue still had share
In thy atchieuements, and thy persons guard,
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To credit any thing aboue thy powre,
And that must come from heauen; if euery houre
There be not personall apparance made,
And aide direct giuen, that may sense inuade.
Ile tell thee therefore cleerely: If there were
Of diuers languag'd men, an Army here
Of fifty Companies; all driuing hence
Thy Sheepe and Oxen, and with violence
Offer'd to charge vs, and besiedge vs round;
Thou shouldst their prey reprize, & them confound.
Let sleepe then seize thee: To keepe watch all Night,
Consumes the spirits, and makes dull the sight.
Thus pour'd the Goddesse sleepe into his eyes,
And re-ascended the Olympian skies.

VVhen care-and-lineament-resoluing sleepe,
Had laide his temples in his golden steepe;
His, wise-in-chast-wit-worthy-wife, did rise:
(First sitting vp in her soft bed) her eyes
Opened with teares, in care of her estate,
VVhich now, her friends resolu'd to terminate
To more delaies, and make her marry one.
Her silent teares (then ceast) her Orizon
This Queene of women to Diana made.

Reuerend Diana; let thy Darts inuade
My wofull bosome, and my life depriue,
Now at this instant; or soone after driue
My soule with Tempests forth, and giue it way
To those farre-off darke Vaults, where neuer day
Hath powre to shine; and let them cast it downe
Where refluent Oceanus doth crowne
His curled head; where Pluto's Orchard is,
And entrance to our after miseries.
As such sterne whirlewinds, rauisht to that streame,
Pandareus daughters, when the Gods to them
Had reft their parents; and them left alone
(Poore orphan children) in their Mansion.
VVhose desolate life, did loues sweet Queene incline
To nurse with pressed Milke, and sweetest wine;
VVhom Iuno deckt, beyond all other Dames
VVith wisedomes light, and beauties mouing flames:
VVhom Phæbe, goodlinesse of stature render'd,
And to whose faire hands, wise Minerua tender'd,
The Loome and Needle, in their vtmost skill.
And while Loues Empresse skal'd th' Olympian hill,
To beg of Lightning-louing Ioue (since hee
The meanes to all things knowes; and doth decree
Fortunes, infortunes, to the mortall Race)
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Of sweetest Nuptials: The fierce Harpyes prey'd
On euery good, & miserable Maid;
And to the hatefull Furies, gaue them all
In horrid seruice. Yet, may such Fate fall
From steepe Olympus, on my loathed head;
Or faire-chair'd Phœbe, strike me instant dead:
That I may vndergo the gloomy Shore,
To visit great Vlysses soule; before
I sooth my idle blood, and wed a wurse.
And yet, beneath how desperate a curse
Do I liue now? It is an ill, that may
Be well indur'd, to mourne the whole long day;
So nights sweete sleepes (that make a man forget
Both bad, and good) in some degree would let
My thoughts leaue greeuing. But, both day and night,
Some cruell God, giues my sad memory sight.
This night (me thought) Vlysses grac't my bed
In all the goodly state, with which he led
The Grecian Army: which gaue ioyes extreame
To my distresse, esteeming it no dreame,
But true indeed: and that conceite I had,
That when I saw it false, I might be mad.
Such cruell Fates, command in my lifes guide.

By this, the mornings Orient, dewes had di'de
The earth in all her colours; when the King
In his sweet sleepe, suppos'd the sorrowing
That she vs'd waking in her plaintiffe bed
To be her mourning, standing by his head,
As hauing knowne him there. VVho straight arose,
And did againe within the Hall dispose
The Carpets and the Cushions, where before
They seru'd the seats. The Hide, without the dore
He carried backe; & then, with held vp hands,
He pray'd to him, that heauen & earth commands;

O Father Ioue; If through the moyst and dry
You (willing) brought me home; when misery
Had punisht me enough, by your free doomes;
Let some of these within those inner roomes,
(Startl'd with horror of some strange Ostent)
Come heere, & tell me, that great Ioue hath bent
Threatnings without, at some lewd men within.

To this his pray'r, Ioue shooke his sable chin,
And thunder'd from those pure clouds that (aboue
The breathing aire) in bright Olympus moue.
Diuine Vlysses ioy'd, to heare it rore.
Report of which, a woman Miller bore
Straight to his eares; For neere to him, there ground
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Continuall motion, grinding Barley meale,
And wheat (mans Marrow.) Sleepe the eies did seale
Of all the other women: hauing done
Their vsuall taske; which yet, this Dame alone
Had scarse giuen end to; being of al the rest,
Least fit for labour. But when these sounds, prest
Her eares, aboue the rumbling of her Mill:
She let that stand, look't out; and heauens steepe-hill
Saw cleere, and temperate; which made her vnware
Of giuing any comfort to his care,
In that strange signe he pray'd for) thus inuoke.

O King of men, and Gods; a mighty stroke
Thy thundring hand laide, on the cope of starres;

The Miller-womans prayer to Ioue, in satisfaction of Vlysses prayer.

No cloud in all the aire; and therefore warres
Thou bidst to some men, in thy sure Ostent:
Performe to me (poore wretch) the maine euent,
And make this day, the last, and most extream,
In which the wooers pride shall solace them
With whoorish Banquets in Vlysses Roofe:
That, with sad toyle, to grinde them meale enough,
Haue quite dissolu'd my knees: vouchsafe then, now
Thy thunders may their latest Feast foreshow.

This was the Boone, Vlysses begg'd of Ioue;

Viz. That some from within, might issue; & witnesse in his hearing, some wreakefull Ostent to his enemies frō heauen

VVhich (with his Thunder) through his bosom droue
A ioy, that this vant breath'd: Why now these men
(Despite their pride) will Ioue make, pay me paine.

By this, had other Maids then those that lay,
Mixt with the wooers; made a fire like day,
Amidst the harth of the illustrious Hall:
And then the Prince, like a Celestiall
Rose from his bed; to his embalm'd feete, tied
Faire shooes: his sword about his breast applied;
Tooke to his hand his sharp-pil'd Lance, and met
Amidst the Entry, his old Nurse, that set
His hast, at sodaine stand; To whom he said:

O (my lou'd Nurse) with what grace haue you laid
And fed my guest heere? Could you so neglect
His age, to lodge him thus? Though all respect
I giue my Mothers wisedome, I must yet
Affirme, it fail'd in this: For she hath set
At much more price, a man of much lesse worth,
Without his persons note; and yet casts forth
With ignominious hands (for his Forme sake)
A man much better. Do not faulty make
(Good Son) the faultlesse. He was giuen his seat
Close to her side; and food, till he would eat.
VVine til his wish was seru'd: For she requir'd
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Commanded her chiefe Maides to make his bed;
But he (as one whom sorrow onely fed
And all infortune) would not take his rest
In bed, and couerings, fit for any Guest;
But in the Entry, on an Oxes hide,
Neuer at Tanners; his old Limbes implide
In warme Sheep-fels; yet ouer all, we cast
A mantle, fitting, for a man more grac'st.

He tooke her answere: Left the house, and went
(Attended with his dogges) to sift th' euent
Of priuate Plots, betwixt him and his Sire
In commune counsaile. Then the crue entire
Of al the houshold Maids, (Euryclea) bad
Bestir them through the house; and see it clad
In all best Forme: gaue all their parts; and one
She set to furnish euery seate and Throne
VVith Needle-workes, and purple clothes of State;
Another set to scoure and cleanse the Plate:
Another, all the Tables to make proud
VVith porous Sponges: Others, she bestow'd
In all speed to the Spring, to fetch from thence
Fit store of water; all, at all expence
Of paines, she will'd to be: For this, to all
Should be a day of commune Festiuall;
And not a wooer now should seeke his home,
Else where then there; But all were bid to come
Exceeding early; and be rais'd to heauen,
With all the entertainment could be geuen.

They heard with greedy eares; and euery thing
Put straight in practise: Twenty to the Spring
Made speed for water; Many in the house
Tooke paines; and all, were both laborious
And skill'd in labour. Many fell to Fell
And cleaue their wood: & all did more then well.

Then troop't the lusty wooers in; and then
Came all from Spring. At their heeles, loaded men
VVith slaughter'd Brawnes: of all the Herd, the prize,
That had bene long fed vp in seuerall Sties.
Eumæus, and his men, conuei'd them there.
He (seeing now the King) began to chere,
And thus saluted him: How now, my Guest?
Haue yet your vertues found more interest
In these great wooers good respects? Or still
Pursue they you, with all their wonted ill?

I would to heauen, Eumæus (he replide)
The Deities once would take in hand their pride;
That such vnseemly fashions put in frame
In others Roofes, as shew no sparke of shame.

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Thus these; and to these came Molanthius,
Great guardian of the most egregious
Rich wooers Herds, consisting all of Goats:
VVhich he, with two more draue, & made their coats
The sounding Forticos of that faire Court.
Melanthius (seeing the King) this former sort
Of vpland Language gaue: VVhat? still stay heere?
And dull these wooers with thy wretched cheere?
Not gone for euer, yet? why now I see
This strife of cuffes betwixt the beggery,
(That yesterday assaid, to get thee gone)
And thy more roguery, needs wil fall vpon
My hands to arbitrate. Thou wilt not hence
Till I set on thee: thy ragg'd impudence
Is so fast footed. Are there not beside
Other great Banquetants, but you must ride
At anchor stil with vs? He nothing said,
But thought of ill enough, and shooke his head.

Then came Philætius (a chiefe of men)
That to the wooers all-deuouring den
A barren Stere draue, and fat Goats, for they
In custome were, with Traffiquers by sea,
That who they would sent; and had vtterance there.
And for these likewise, the faire Porches were
Hurdles, and Sheep-pens, as in any Faire.
Philætius tooke note in his repaire,
Of seene Vlysses; being a man as well
Giuen to his minds vse as to buy & sell;
Or do the drudgery that the blood desir'd;
And (standing neere Eumæus) this enquir'd.
VVhat Guest is this, that makes our house of late
His entertainer? whence claimes he the state
His birth in this life holds? what Nation?
VVhat race? what country stands his speech vpon?
Ore hardly portion'd, by the terrible Fates.
The structure of his Lineaments relates
A Kings resemblance in his pompe of reigne
Euen thus, in these rags. But poore erring men
That haue no firme homes; but range here and there
As Need compels, God keepes in this earths sphere,
As vnder water: and this tune he sings,
VVhen he is spinning euen the cares of Kings.

Thus comming to him; with a kinde of feare
He tooke his hand; and touch't exceeding neare
VVith meere imagination of his worth)
This salutation he sent lowdly forth.

Health! Father stranger; in another world
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At feete of neuer such insulting Neede.
O Ioue, there liues no one God of thy seede
More ill to man, then thou. Thou tak'st no ruth
(VVhen thou thy selfe got him, in most truth:)
To wrap him in the straites of most distresse,
And in the curse of others wickednesse.
My browes haue swet to see it; and mine eyes
Broke all in teares; when this being still the guise
Of worthiest men, I haue but onely thought,
That downe to these ils, was Vlysses wrought;
And that (thus clad) euen he is error driuen,
If yet he liues, and sees the light of heauen.
But, if now dead, and in the house of hell,
O me! O good Vlysses! That my weale
Did euer wish: and when, but halfe a man
Amongst the people Cephalenian;
His bounty, to his Oxens charge preferr'd
One in that youth: which now, is growne a Herd
Vnspeakeable for number; and feede there
With their broad heads, as thicke, as of his eare
A Field of Corne is to a man: yet these,
Some men aduise me, that this noted prease
Of wooers may deuoure; and wish me driue
Vp to their Feasts with them; that neither giue
His Son respect, though in his owne free roofe;
Nor haue the wit to feare th' infallible proofe
Of heauenly vengeance: but make offer now
The long-lack't Kings possessions to bestow
In their selfe shares. Me thinkes, the minde in me
Doth turne as fast; as (in a stood, or Sea)
A raging whirlepit doth; to gather in
To fishy death, those swimmers in their sin.
Or feeds a motion as circulare
To driue my Herds away. But while the Son
Beares vp with life, t'were hainous wrong to ron
To other people with them; and to trust
Men of another earth: and yet more iust
It were to venture their Lawes; the maine right
Made stil their Maisters; then at home lose quite
Their right, and them; and sit and greeue to see
The wrong authoriz'd by their gluttonie.
And I had long since fled, and tried th' euent
VVith other proud Kings (since, more insolent
These are, then can be borne,) But that, euen stil
I had a hope, that this (though borne to ill)
VVould one day come from some coast, & their last
In his roofes strew, with ruines red, and vast.

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Nor lewd, nor indiscreete; and that I know
There rules in thee an vnderstanding soule,
Il'e take an oath, that in thee shall controule
All doubt of what I sweare: be witnesse, Ioue,
That swai'st the first Seate, of the thron'd aboue;
This hospitable Table; and this house;
That still holds title for the strenuous
Sonne of Laertes; that (if so you please)
Your eyes shall witnesse, Laertiades
Arriu'd at home; and all these men that raigne
In such excesses heere; shall heere lye slaine.

He answer'd: Stranger I would iust Ioue wold signe
What you haue sworne: in your eyes beams should shine
What powers I mannage; and how these my hands,
VVould rise and follow, where he first commands.

So said Eumæus: praying all the Sky
That wise Vlysses might arriue and trie.

Thus while they vow'd: the wooers sat as hard
On his Sons death: but had their counsels skar'd;
For on their left hand, did an Eaglefore;
And in her seres, a fearefull Pigeon bore;
VVhich seene; Amphinomus presa'gd: O friends,
Our Counsailes neuer will receiue their ends
In this mans slaughter: let vs therefore plie,
Our bloody feast, and make his Oxen die.

Thus came they in; cast off on seates, their cloakes;
And fell to giuing sacrificing strokes
Of Sheepe and Goates; the cheefely fat, and great;
Slew fed vp Swine, and from the Heard, a Neate.

The inwards (roasted,) they disposd'e betwixt
Their then obseruers; wine in Flaggons mixt.

The bolles Eumæus brought; Philætius, bread;
Melanthus fill'd the wine. Thus dranke and fed
The feastfull wooers. Then the Prince (in grace
Of his close proiect) did his Father place
Amids the paued Entrie; in a Seate
Seemelesse, and abiect: a small boord and meate
Of th' onely inwards. In a cup of gold
Yet sent him wine; and bad him now drinke bolde;
All his approches, he himselfe would free
Gainst all the wooers: Since he would not see
His Court made populare: but that his Sire
Built it to his vse. Therefore all the fire
Blowne in the wooers spleenes, he bad suppresse;
And that in hands, nor words they should digresse
From that set peace, his speech did then proclaime.
They bit their lips, and wondred at his aime
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Though this speech (Grecians) be a meere vpbraide;
Yet this time giue it passe: The will of Ioue
Forbids the violence of our hands, to moue;
But of our tongues, we keepe the motion free:
And therefore, if his further iollity
Tempt our encounter with his Braues, let's checke
His growing insolence: though pride to speake,
Fly passing high with him. The wise Prince made
No more spring of his speech, but let it fade.

The Feast that Euryclea spoke of before, returned vnto

And now the Heralds bore about the Towne
The sacred Hecatombe: to whose renowne
The faire-haird Greekes assembl'd; and beneath
Apollo's shady wood; the holy death
They put to fire; which (made enough) they drew;
Diuided all, that did in th' end accrew
To glorious satisfaction. Those that were
Disposers of the Feast, did equall cheere
Bestow on wretched Laertiades,
With all the wooers soules: It so did please
Telemachus to charge them: And, for these
Minerua would not see the malices
The wooers bore; too much contain'd that so
Vlysses mou'd heart, yet might higher, flow
In wreakfull anguish. There was wooing there
(Amongst the rest) a Gallant, that did beare
The name of one well learn'd, in iests prophane;
His name Ctesippus, borne a Samiane:
Who proud, because his Father was so rich,
Had so much confidence, as did bewitch
His heart with hope, to wed Vlysses wife;
And this man said: Heare me, my Lords, in strife
For this great widdow: This her guest did share
Euen feast with vs, with very comely care
Of him that order'd it: For tis not good
Nor equall, to depriue Gustes of their food;
And specially, what euer guest makes way
To that house where Telemachus doth sway.
And therefore, I will adde to his receipt,
A gift of very hospitable weight,
VVhich he may giue againe, to any Maide
That bath's his graue feete; and her paines see paide;
Or any seruant else, that the diuine
Vlysses lofty Battlements confine.

Thus snatcht he with a valiant hand, from out
The poore folkes commune basket a Neat, foot.
And threw it at Vlysses: who, his head,
Shrunke quietly aside; and let it shed
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A laughter raising, most Sardinian
VVith scorne, and wrath mixt, at the Samian.
VVhom thus the Prince reprou'd; Your valour wan
Much grace Ctesippus; and hath eas'd your minde
VVith mighty profit: yet you see it finde
No marke it aim'd at; the poore strangers part
Himselfe made good enough, to scape your Dart.
But should I serue thee worthily, my Lance
Should strike thy heart through, & (in place t'aduance
Thy selfe in Nuptials with his wealth) thy Sire
Should make thy toomb heere; that the foolish fire
Of all such valors, may not dare to show
These foule indecencies to me. I now
Haue yeares to vnderstand my strength, and know
The good and bad of things; and am no more
At your large sufferance, to behold my store
Consum'd with patience: See my Cattell slaine,
My wine exhausted; and my Bread, in vaine
Spent on your license: For, to one then yong,
So many enemies were match too strong.
But let me neuer more, be witnesse to
Your hostile minds; Nor those base deeds ye do:
For, should ye kill me, in my offred wreake,
I wish it rather; and my death would speake
Much more good of me, then to liue and see,
Indignity, vpon indignity:
My Guests prouok't with bitter words and blowes;
My women seruants, dragg'd about my house
To lust, and rapture. This made silence seize
The house throughout; till Damastorides
At length the calme brake: and said; Friend, forbeare
To giue a iust speech a disdainfull eare:
The Guest no more touch, nor no seruant here.
My selfe, will to the Prince and Queene commend
A motion gratefull, if they please to lend
Gratefull receite: as long as any hope
Left wise Vlysses any passage ope
To his returne in our conceits; so long
The Queenes delayes to our demands stood strong
In cause, and reason; and our quarrels thus
With guests; the Queene, or her Telemachus;
Set neuer foote amongst our liberall Feast;
For should the King returne, though thought deceast,
It had bene gaine to vs, in finding him,
To lose his wife: But now, since nothing dim
The daies breakes out, that shewes he neuer more
Shall reach the deere touch of his countrey shore,
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That now it stands her honor much vpon
To choose the best of vs, and who giues most,
To go with him home. For so, all things lost
In sticking on our haunt so; you shall cleere
Recouer, in our no more concourse here:
Possesse your birth-right wholly; eate and drinke;
And neuer more on our disgraces thinke.

By Ioue, no Agelaus: For I sweare
By all my Fathers sorrowes; who doth erre
Farre off from Ithaca; or rests in death:
I am so farre from spending but my breath,
To make my Mother any more defer
Her wished Nuptials; That Ile counsaile her
To make her free choise: And besides, will giue
Large gifts to moue her. But I feare to driue,
Or charge her hence: For God will not giue way
To any such course, if I should assay.

At this, Minerua made for foolish ioy
The wooers mad; and rouz'd their late annoy
To such a laughter, as would neuer downe.
They laught with others cheeks; eate meat oreflowne
VVith their owne bloods: their eies stood full of teares
For violent ioyes: Their soules yet thought of feares:
VVhich Theoclymenus exprest, and said:

O wretches! Why? Sustaine ye (well apaid)
Your imminent ill? A night, with which Death sees;
Your heads, and faces, hides beneath your knees.
Shriekes burn about you: your eies, thrust out teares:
These fixed wals, and that maine Beame that beares
The whole house vp, in bloody torrents fall:
The Entry full of ghosts stands: Full the Hall
Of passengers to hel: And, vnder all
The dismall shades; The Sun sinkes from the Poles,
And troubl'd aire, poures bane about your soules.

They sweetly laught at this: Eurymachus
To mocks dispos'd, and saide; This new-come-t'vs
Is surely mad, conduct him forth to light
In th' open Market place: he thinkes 'tis night
Within the house. Eurymachus (said he)
I will not aske for any guide of thee:
I both my feete enioy; haue eares, and eies,
And no mad soule within me: and with these
Will I go forth the doores: because I know,
That imminent mischiefe must abide with you;
VVhich, not a man of all the wooers here
Shall flye, or scape. Ye all too highly beare
Your vncurb'd heads: Impieties ye commit,
And euery man affect, with formes vnfit.

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This said; he left the house, and tooke his way
Home to Pyram; who, as free as day,
Was of his welcome. When the wooers eyes
Chang'd lookes with one another, and (their guise
Of laughters, still held on) still eas'd their brests,
Of will to set the Prince against his guests:
Affirming, that of all the men aliue
He worst lucke had; and prou'd it worst to giue
Guests entertainment: For he had one there
A wandring Hunter out of prouendere,
An errant Begger euery way; yet thought
(He was so hungry) that he needed nought
But wine and Victuals: nor knew how to do,
Nor had a spirit to put a knowledge to;
But liu'd an idle burthen to the earth.

Another then stept vp; and would lay forth
His lips in phrophesie, thus: But (would he heare
His friends perswasions) he should finde it were
More profit for him, to put both abord
For the Sicilian people, that afford
These

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feete of men, good price: and this would bring
Good meanes for better guests. These words made wing
To his eares idlely: who had still his eye
Vpon his Father, looking feruently
When he would lay his long-withholding hand
On those proud wooers. And, within command!
Of all this speech that past, Icartus heire
(The wise Penelope) her royall chaire
Had plac't of purpose. Their high dinner then
With all pleas'd palates, these ridiculous men
Fell sweetly to: as ioying they had slaine
Such store of banquet. But there did not raigne
A bitterer banquet Planet in all heauen,
Then that which Pallas, had to that day driuen;
And, with her able friend now, meant t'appose;
Since they, till then, were in deserts so grose.

The End of the Twentith Booke of Homers Odysses.