The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia ::

The most famous and Tragicall Historie of Pelops and Hippodamia

Whereunto are adioyned sundrie pleasant deuises, Epigrams, Songes and Sonnettes. Written by Mathewe Groue

Grove, Mathew

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To the ryght Honorable, Sir Henrie Compton knight, Lord Compton of Compton hole, R. S. wisheth long life with increase of honour.

The most famous and tragicall history of Pelops and Hippodamia.

Epigrams and Sonets.

[Oh fertile soyle, thou little lande]

[When Phebus in the azure Skye]

Omnium rerum vicissitudo.

The louer being demaunded wherefore he went alwaies in black attire,

The louer hauing daunced with his Lady, in the end thereof speaketh these words.

The answere to the same.

Omne mundum positum est in malignitatem.

The restlesse estate of a Louer,

The Louer writeth to a Gentlewoman,

Here the Ladie writeth an aunswere to the letter of hir Louer, perseuering in hir stubburnesse:

The letter of a friend of a wounded Louer,

The Louer writeth once more to his friend,

The lamentation of a louer beeing refused, shewing no hellish torments to be lyke his,

The Louer hauing written manye times, almost past hope,

The louer being denied, yet singeth this song, being constant,

The Ladie by often intreatie being vanquished with loue, doth write a comfortable letter to her Louer.

The ioyfull louer hauing by earnest sute obtained her whom he loued, made this dittie following.

Tempus rerum edax.

The Louer being willed of his Ladie to attire himselfe in blacke and blewe, demaunded the reason,

The Louer writeth to his Ladie,

To him that was disappointed of his woman and louer.

The louer writeth in the praise of his Ladie

The pretie birth of a childe.

The wordes of a dame concerning her Louer,

In praise of his Ladie.

Of foure kindes of men that maie sing at didner, and other meate meales.

Of couetousnes and Lecherie together.

A perfect tricke to kill little blacke flees in ones chamber.

Each thing in his vocation.

The frailenesse of women.

To his friend of the frailenesse of dame Fortune.

The morning before the Louer went to his Ladie, made this petition to the Gods.

The foolishnes of a painter.

The grieuous complaint of him that had the hap to marie his mistresse.

The Louer by pleasant talke caused a Ladie to vnderstand how a shrew or vnhappie woman came first into the world.

Of faithfull friendship.

What daunger insueth if a man enterprise a higher place then his degree can aspire vnto.

Of parents deformed hauing a beutifull childe.

Of him that tooke a quart of wine when it was proffered by his freend, who minded to get a pottell.

To hir the Louer writeth,

Of Vnthrifts.

Of Whoredome.

Like will to like.

Of vnwittie spending.

Perit quicquid feceris ingrato.

The propertie of Reprobates.

A good man.

A perfect preseruatiue for health.

A stupendious desire.

Olde men.

Diuersitie of remembrance.

The deceites of the Foxe.

Of a womans hatred.

Of boasting and bragging.

A signe of anger.

The sudden falling into danger

The pitie of Dormice.

Of imdietie of children.

The sinnes of Kings.

Of eating of egges

To him that was angrie because the Cuckow did sing before his doore.

Of Sugar and Salt.

Of hastie wiuing.

Of despising of the poore.

Of harlots.

Of keeping companie with naughtipacks.

The Prouerbe.

Of anger without a cause.

Of husbandrie and Scholers.

Another Prouerbe.

The error of the wicked.

Of pleading where a man is not heard.

The frailnesse of youth.

Nothing is hid from God.

Of flatterie and lieng.

A faithfull frend.

Of costlie apparel.

Of Neighbourlie aide.

Of good counsell.

Of him that would fight at home, and no where els.

Of a couetous mind.

The Prouerbe.

Of wicked children.

Of vvailing for the dead.

Of parents.

Of such as had rather haue harlots than wiues

Of him that esteemeth riches more than frendship.

Of Destinie.

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The Louer by pleasant talke caused a Ladie to vnderstand how a shrew or vnhappie woman came first into the world.

Let no man muse but this was first
the ofspring of a shrowe,
As I in lynes here subsequent,
shall cause you for to know.

When as for sinne the thunderer
loue dyd the earth surround,
And ouerwhelmed aye with waues,
eche part of heauy ground:
Deucalion onely saued was,
and Pirrha then his wife,
(As Poets say) of mortals and
he longest ioyed life.
And whē perceiuerance did him take
that euery wyght was gone,
And that they two and no more
on earth were left alone,
Then pensiuely they tooke aduice
to Themis for to wend,
To wete how mankind might again
his former life entend.
This Goddesse can reply them to,
with answere on this wise,
If that Deucalion could find out
by sight of greedy eyes,
His mothers bones, and him behind
they throwen for to be,
Within short tyme they should start vp
men lyuing for to be,
This maruell much dismaide the mynds
of these two seely wights,
As though that they dyd fearefull stand,
by sight of hellish sprights:

But this Deucalion beyng wyse,
perceyued at the last,
The earth mother to be of all
things that are nowe and past:
And erst to be the spring wherehence
all mortals first did flowe.
By reason then of earth he was
(by wit) he prompt dyd knowe,
And aye her bowels for to be
the sandy crushing stones:
The marble and such like also,
appoynted her for bones.
Wherefore he threwe behynde himselfe
these stones of manifold,
Which to be men immediatly
(amasde he gan behold.)
Of these came all the men that nowe
are liuyng vnder skye:
And Pirrha mylde to play her part
behynd her by and by,
Gan throw as many stones as this
Deucalion threw before,
Which streight became a troupe of dames:
of both kindes there were store.
The reason now I guesse how that
such shrewes in earth abound,
In euery place among the men,
a number to be found,

Is this, the sea replet with salt,
dyd beate agaynst the land,
And many stones within the same
of saltish tast dyd stand,
Then to ensue, when all the earth
with sea was ouerrune,
There was no land but water all
to be seene vnder Sunne.
Decreasing yet it left such stones,
remayning on the land
As saltish were, a number sure:
perhaps to Pirrhas hand
Came one of those, and made a fem:
the salt must freat alway,
Within that wight which first was made
of salted stone or clay,
Whereby to choler it prouokes
and her in rage to fall
In frantike wise: a shrewe to be
such one we alway call.
For such was Morrell slayne,
and layde in saltish bryne,
For saltish shrewes his skyn was flayne
such shrewes in it to shryne.

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The Louer by pleasant talke caused a Ladie to vnderstand how a shrew or vnhappie woman came first into the world.