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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[Whil'st lymping Vulcan did lay on loade on his anuile] |
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[Whil'st lymping Vulcan did lay on loade on his anuile]
Whil'st lymping Vulcan did lay on loade on his anuile,
With sweating Steropes, and fram'de Gradiuus a breast-peece:
Gradiuus tooke paines; and sweete Cytheræa belabr'ing,
With like endeauour made horned Vulcan a head-peece.
With sweating Steropes, and fram'de Gradiuus a breast-peece:
Gradiuus tooke paines; and sweete Cytheræa belabr'ing,
With like endeauour made horned Vulcan a head-peece.
Phœbus saw them first (Phœbus see's euery thing first)
Saw, and gree'ud very much, so shameful a sight to be seeing,
Ran to the forge straightway, and there told al to the blacksmith,
Iunoes fayre fac't childe, Cytheræa'es bewtiful husband.
Saw, and gree'ud very much, so shameful a sight to be seeing,
Ran to the forge straightway, and there told al to the blacksmith,
Iunoes fayre fac't childe, Cytheræa'es bewtiful husband.
Mulciber astonied, stood starck horne-dead for a long while:
Downe falls hart, downe falleth his head, downe falleth his hammer,
And no life, no soule, in senceles carkas apeareth.
Downe falls hart, downe falleth his head, downe falleth his hammer,
And no life, no soule, in senceles carkas apeareth.
At last, fine small nettes, and chaynes of wire he deuised,
So small and so fine, that sight must needes be deceaued;
Much more fine and small, then finest threed of a copweb:
And so craftily fram'd, and with such mysterie forged,
That, with a pluck they claspt, with a tutch they speedily cloased,
And held each thing fast, and each thing greedily grasped.
So small and so fine, that sight must needes be deceaued;
Much more fine and small, then finest threed of a copweb:
And so craftily fram'd, and with such mysterie forged,
That, with a pluck they claspt, with a tutch they speedily cloased,
And held each thing fast, and each thing greedily grasped.
These with sleight and art on adultrous couch he reposeth;
And, in a secreate place expects polluted adultresse,
And hoate raging Mars: who there lay louely together,
Either on others breast, and either in armes of another.
And, in a secreate place expects polluted adultresse,
And hoate raging Mars: who there lay louely together,
Either on others breast, and either in armes of another.
When sweete tickling ioyes of tutching came to the highest
Poynt, when two were one, when moysture fully resolued
Sought for a freer scope, when pleasure cam to a fulnes,
When their dazeling eyes were ouer-cast with a sweete cloude,
And their fainting soules, in a sleep, in a swowne, in a loue-trance:
Then was Mars fast tide, fast tide was dame Cytheræa,
Then was Mars cooled, cooled was dame Cytheræa.
Mars the adulter lay entangled with Cytheræa,
And Cytheræa lay entangled with the adulter:
Vulcans wires hold fast, they lye vnseemely together,
Either on others breast, and either in armes of another.
Poynt, when two were one, when moysture fully resolued
Sought for a freer scope, when pleasure cam to a fulnes,
When their dazeling eyes were ouer-cast with a sweete cloude,
And their fainting soules, in a sleep, in a swowne, in a loue-trance:
Then was Mars fast tide, fast tide was dame Cytheræa,
Then was Mars cooled, cooled was dame Cytheræa.
Mars the adulter lay entangled with Cytheræa,
And Cytheræa lay entangled with the adulter:
Vulcans wires hold fast, they lye vnseemely together,
Either on others breast, and either in armes of another.
Mulciber in meane time causd chamber dore to be open,
And calld Gods, to behold so strange and louely a wonder:
Some laught, some smiled, some wished so to be shamed,
No-body but Neptune could possibly pacifie Vulcan.
And calld Gods, to behold so strange and louely a wonder:
Some laught, some smiled, some wished so to be shamed,
No-body but Neptune could possibly pacifie Vulcan.
Lady Venus let loose, was spitefuly wroth with Apollo,
And his broode with lust and rage shee dayly bewitched:
Sometimes Leucothoe with an endles loue he desireth,
And sometimes Clytie, and sometimes louely Coronis.
Euery day new loue, new lust, new flames be prepared
By Cytheræaes meanes, for this tale-teller Apollo.
And his broode with lust and rage shee dayly bewitched:
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And sometimes Clytie, and sometimes louely Coronis.
Euery day new loue, new lust, new flames be prepared
By Cytheræaes meanes, for this tale-teller Apollo.
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