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Montanus his Madrigall.
It was a Vallie gawdie greene,
Where Dian at the Fount was seene,
Greene it was,
And did passe
All other of Dianaes bowers,
In the pride of Floraes flowers.
Where Dian at the Fount was seene,
Greene it was,
And did passe
All other of Dianaes bowers,
In the pride of Floraes flowers.
A Fount it was that no Sunne sees,
Cirkled in with Cipres trees,
Set so nie,
As Phæbus eye
Could not doo the Virgins scathe,
To see them naked when they bathe.
Cirkled in with Cipres trees,
Set so nie,
As Phæbus eye
Could not doo the Virgins scathe,
To see them naked when they bathe.
She sate there all in white,
Colour fitting her delight,
Virgins so
Ought to goe:
For white in Armorie is plaste
To be the colour that is chaste.
Colour fitting her delight,
Virgins so
Ought to goe:
For white in Armorie is plaste
To be the colour that is chaste.
Her taffata Cassock you might see,
Tucked vp aboue her knee,
Which did show
There below
Legges as white as Whales bone,
So white and chast was neuer none.
Tucked vp aboue her knee,
There below
Legges as white as Whales bone,
So white and chast was neuer none.
Hard by her vpon the ground,
Sate her Virgins in a round,
Bathing their
Golden haire,
And singing all in notes hie:
Fie on Uenus flattering eye.
Sate her Virgins in a round,
Bathing their
Golden haire,
And singing all in notes hie:
Fie on Uenus flattering eye.
Fie on Loue, it is a toy,
Cupid witlesse, and a boy,
All his fires,
And desires,
Are plagues that God sent from on hie:
To pester men with miserie.
Cupid witlesse, and a boy,
All his fires,
And desires,
Are plagues that God sent from on hie:
To pester men with miserie.
As thus the Virgins did disdaine
Louers ioy and Louers paine,
Cupid nie
Did espie
Greeuing at Dianaes Song,
Slily stole these Maydes among.
Louers ioy and Louers paine,
Cupid nie
Did espie
Greeuing at Dianaes Song,
Slily stole these Maydes among.
His bowe of steele, darts of fire,
He shot amongst them sweete desire,
Which straite flies
In their eyes,
And at the entraunce made them start,
For it ranne from eye to hart.
He shot amongst them sweete desire,
Which straite flies
In their eyes,
And at the entraunce made them start,
For it ranne from eye to hart.
Calisto straite supposed Ioue,
Was faire and frollique for to loue.
Dian she,
Scap'd not free,
For well I wote heere-vpon,
She lou'd the Swaine Endimion.
Was faire and frollique for to loue.
Dian she,
Scap'd not free,
For well I wote heere-vpon,
She lou'd the Swaine Endimion.
Clitia, Phæbus, and Chloris eye
Thought none so faire as Mercurie.
Venus thus
Did discusse
By her Sonne in darts of fire:
None so chast to check desire.
Thought none so faire as Mercurie.
Venus thus
Did discusse
By her Sonne in darts of fire:
None so chast to check desire.
Dian rose with all her Maydes,
Blushing thus at Loues braides,
With sighs all
Shew their thrall,
And flinging thence, pronounc'd this saw:
What so strong as Loues sweete law?
Blushing thus at Loues braides,
With sighs all
Shew their thrall,
And flinging thence, pronounc'd this saw:
What so strong as Loues sweete law?
FINIS.
Ro. Greene.
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