The Forrest of Fancy Wherein is conteined very prety Apothegmes, and pleasaunt histories, both in meeter and prose, Songes, Sonets, Epigrams and Epistles, of diuerse matter and in diuerse manner. With sundry other deuices, no lesse pithye then pleasaunt and profytable [by H. C.] |
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How Altamenes hauing vnwares slaine his owne Father
Cartareus died for sorrow, when he had knowledge thereof.
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How Altamenes hauing vnwares slaine his owne Father Cartareus died for sorrow, when he had knowledge thereof.
In Crete which now we Candie calla fertill fruitfull Land,
One cartareus sometime raignde,
and Septure bare in hand.
Who had to sonne a noble youth,
a stoute and vallyaunt knight,
In prowes proude to haue no peere,
and Altamenes highte
This yong mans name, who being then
desirous for to know
What destiny should to him betide,
the Oracle did show.
That he should cause his fathers death,
which sentence when he heard,
Desyrous for to shun the same,
with speede himselfe preparde
To go and dwell at Camiros,
which towne in Rodes doth stand,
But that which God pretended hath,
no Creature may withstande:
For after in a little space,
Cartareus for to see,
His sonne desyring very muche,
such lucklesse lotte had hee,
That he by might at Camiros,
ariued on this sorte;
But with the there inhabitauntes,
as wrighters doe reporte,
His men then falling at debate,
whereby a tumult rose,
to cause his treble woes,
And slue his Father vnawares,
which when he vnderstoode,
Ashamed sore, and halfe dismayde,
he went with heauy moode.
To wander in the wildernesse,
and daungerous desertes wide,
Where after many pittious plaintes,
at last for dole he dide.
Finis.
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