The Third part of the Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch Entituled, Amintas Dale. Wherein are the most conceited tales of the Pagan Gods in English Hexameters together with their auncient descriptions and Philosophicall explications. By Abraham Fravnce |
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[Louely Coronis kild by the balefull darts of a louer]
Louely
Coronis kild by the balefull darts of a louer,
And tale-telling Crowe made black, for a worthy requital:
Yong Æsculapius, by repenting hands of Apollo
Cut fro the mothers wombe, was carefuly sent to the schoolehouse
Of Centaure Chiron to be taught: who made him a cunning
Surgeon; so cunning, that he dead men strangly reuiued.
Whereat Ioue incenst, with thunder fram'de by the Cyclops,
Stroake him dead himselfe, who cured so many deaths-wounds.
And tale-telling Crowe made black, for a worthy requital:
Yong Æsculapius, by repenting hands of Apollo
Cut fro the mothers wombe, was carefuly sent to the schoolehouse
Of Centaure Chiron to be taught: who made him a cunning
Surgeon; so cunning, that he dead men strangly reuiued.
Whereat Ioue incenst, with thunder fram'de by the Cyclops,
Stroake him dead himselfe, who cured so many deaths-wounds.
Titan, sad to behold his son so spitefuly murdred,
On slaughtred Cyclops, his slaughter kindely reuenged.
Thundring Ioue much wroth, that such as fram'de him a thunder
Sould suffer violence, and not from death be protected,
Expelled Phœbus, for a certaine time, from Olympus.
On slaughtred Cyclops, his slaughter kindely reuenged.
Thundring Ioue much wroth, that such as fram'de him a thunder
Sould suffer violence, and not from death be protected,
Expelled Phœbus, for a certaine time, from Olympus.
Phœbus in exile now, contents himselfe with a pastors
Poore estate, and feedes Admetus flock, by the riuer
Amphrisus: so sweete and so secure is a pastors
Harmeles life: life next to the matchles life in Olympus.
Poore estate, and feedes Admetus flock, by the riuer
Amphrisus: so sweete and so secure is a pastors
Harmeles life: life next to the matchles life in Olympus.
Once in an eu'ning-tide, whilst Phœbus lay in a valley,
And with rurall pipe bestowd himself on a loues-lay,
His sheepe (sheepe indeede, that leant no eare to a loues-lay)
Through Pylian pastures chaunst heere and there to be straying.
And with rurall pipe bestowd himself on a loues-lay,
His sheepe (sheepe indeede, that leant no eare to a loues-lay)
Through Pylian pastures chaunst heere and there to be straying.
Mercury, Ioues prety Page, fine-filcher Mercury, saw them,
Caught and brought them away, and kept them close in a thicker.
Phœbus knew nothing; for no-bodie saw, but an ould churle,
One ould canckred churle, which there kept Mares by the mountains,
Called bald Battus: whome Mercury friendly saluted,
Tooke him apart by the hand, and best perswasion vsed,
Gaue him a lambe for a bribe, and prayd him so to be silent.
Feare not, alas, faire sir, qd Battus: it is but a trifle,
Tis but a trick of youth, some stragling sheepe to be taking:
Kings may spare, and lend to the poore: And this very senceles
Stone (and points to a stone) of this fact shalbe reporter
As soone, as Battus: Ioues Nuntio gladly retired,
Yet, for a further proofe, both face and fashion altred,
And, as a countrey clowne, to a countrey lowt he returned.
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Phœbus knew nothing; for no-bodie saw, but an ould churle,
One ould canckred churle, which there kept Mares by the mountains,
Called bald Battus: whome Mercury friendly saluted,
Tooke him apart by the hand, and best perswasion vsed,
Gaue him a lambe for a bribe, and prayd him so to be silent.
Feare not, alas, faire sir, qd Battus: it is but a trifle,
Tis but a trick of youth, some stragling sheepe to be taking:
Kings may spare, and lend to the poore: And this very senceles
Stone (and points to a stone) of this fact shalbe reporter
As soone, as Battus: Ioues Nuntio gladly retired,
Yet, for a further proofe, both face and fashion altred,
And, as a countrey clowne, to a countrey lowt he returned.
Gaffer, I misse viue sgore vatt wedders: zawst any vilching
Harlot, roague this way of late? canst tell any tydings?
Ichill geue the an eawe, with a vayre vatt lamb for a guerdon.
Battus perceauing his former bribe to be doobled,
Turnd his tale with a trice, and theaft to the theefe he reuealed.
Vnder yon same hill they were, yeare while, by the thicket,
And 'cham zure th' are there. Iste true, qd Mercury smiling,
Ist tr'ue, thou false knaue, and wilt thou needes be betraying
Mee to myself? and then false Battus turnd to a Tutch stone,
Tutch stone, yet true stone; which each thing truely bewraieth,
And no-man thenceforth for no bribe falsely betrayeth.
Harlot, roague this way of late? canst tell any tydings?
Ichill geue the an eawe, with a vayre vatt lamb for a guerdon.
Battus perceauing his former bribe to be doobled,
Turnd his tale with a trice, and theaft to the theefe he reuealed.
Vnder yon same hill they were, yeare while, by the thicket,
And 'cham zure th' are there. Iste true, qd Mercury smiling,
Ist tr'ue, thou false knaue, and wilt thou needes be betraying
Mee to myself? and then false Battus turnd to a Tutch stone,
Tutch stone, yet true stone; which each thing truely bewraieth,
And no-man thenceforth for no bribe falsely betrayeth.
At last, all brabling and altercation ended,
Mercury and Phœbus made friends, gaue one to another
Mutual embracements, and tokens: Pastor Apollo
Gaue his charmed staffe to the Nuntio Mercury: and the
Nuntio Mercury gaue his Lute to the Pastor Apollo.
Thus they parted friends: to the flock went Pastor Apollo;
Mercury sored aloft, til he seas'd on bewtiful Herse,
Sister of Aglauros possest with damnable enuie
And cursed Couetise, and worthily turnde to a black-stone,
Black-stone, signe of a minde all black and fowly defiled.
Mercury and Phœbus made friends, gaue one to another
Mutual embracements, and tokens: Pastor Apollo
Gaue his charmed staffe to the Nuntio Mercury: and the
Nuntio Mercury gaue his Lute to the Pastor Apollo.
Thus they parted friends: to the flock went Pastor Apollo;
Mercury sored aloft, til he seas'd on bewtiful Herse,
Sister of Aglauros possest with damnable enuie
And cursed Couetise, and worthily turnde to a black-stone,
Black-stone, signe of a minde all black and fowly defiled.
Not long after this, Phœbus with Mercury; ioyned
In faire-prowd Chione: Chione bare either a dearling:
Mercury, Autolicus did father, Apollo, Philammon;
Th' one well knowne for a theefe, and th' other fit for a fiddle;
But faire-prowde Chione was kild at last by Diana.
In faire-prowd Chione: Chione bare either a dearling:
Mercury, Autolicus did father, Apollo, Philammon;
Th' one well knowne for a theefe, and th' other fit for a fiddle;
But faire-prowde Chione was kild at last by Diana.
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