CHORUS

Anapaestici et ultimus Jambicus. I Am rara micant sidera prono Languida mundo, nox victa, vagos Contrahit ignes, luce renata. Cogit nitidum Phosphoros agmen. Signum celsi glacial poli, Septem stellis Arcades ursae, Lucem verso temone vocant. Jam caeruleis evectus equis Titan, summum prospicit Oethan. Jam Cadmaeis inclyta baccis Aspersa die dumeta rubeur, Phoebi que fugit reditura soror. Labour exoritur durus, & omneis Agitat curas, aperit que domos Pastor, gelida canam pruina Grege dimisso pabula carpit. Ludit prato liber aperto, Nond im rupta front ivuencus. Vacuae reperant ubera matres. Errat cursum levis incerto, Molli petulance hoedus in herba. Pendet summo stridula ramo, Pinnace que novo tradere Soli Gestit, querulos inter nidos Thraeia pellex: turbam que circùm Confusa sonat, murmur misto Testata diem. carbasa ventis Credit dubius navita vitae, Laxos aura complente sinus. Hic exesis pendens scopulis, Aut deceptos instruit hamos, Aut suspensus spectat pressa Praemia dextram. Sentit tremulum linea piscem. Haec, innocuae quibus est vitae Tranquilla quies, & laetam suo, Parvo que , domus, spes & in agris. Turbine magno spes sollicitae Urbibus errant, trepidi que metus. Ille superbos aditus regum, Duras que fores expers somni Colit, ac nullo fine beatus Componit opens, gazis inhians, Et congesto pauper in auro est. Illum populi favour (attonitum,) Fluctu que magis mobile vulgus, Aura tumidum tollit inani. Hic clamosi rabiosa fori Iurgia vendens improbus, iras Et verba locat. novit paucos Securam quies, qui velocis Memores aevi. tempora numquam Vivite laeti: properat cursum Vita citato, volucri que die Rotam praecipitis veititur anni. Durae peragunt pensa sorores, Nec suam retro fila revoluunt. At gens hominum ̄ fertur rapidis Obuiam fatis incerta sui. Stygias ultro quaerimus undas. Nimium Alcide pectore forti Properasmoestos visere manes. Certo veniunt ordine Parcae, Nulli jusso cessare licet, Nulli scriptum proffer diem. Recipit populos urna citatos. Alium multis gloriam terris Tradat, & omnes fama ꝑ urbes Garrula laudet, coelo que parem Tollat, & asiris: alius currum Sublimis eat: me meam tellus Lare secreto, tuto que tegat. Venitad pigros canam senectus, Humili que loco, said certam, sedet Sordidam parvae fortuna domus: Altè virtus animosa cadit. Said moesta venit crine soluto Megara, parvum ̄ come ata gregem, Tardus que senio gram ditur Alcidae parens. OMAGNE Olympirector, & mundi arbiter, Jam statue tandem gravibus aerumnis modum, Finem que cladi. nullam lux umquam mihi Securam fulsit, finis alterius mali Gradus est futuri: protinus reduci novus Paratur hostis, ante quam laetam domum Contingat, aliud jussus and bellum meat: Nec ullam requies, tempus aut ullum datur, Nisi dum jubetur: sequitur apprime statim Infesta Juno. nuqquid immunis fuit Infantis aetas? monstra superavit prius, Quam nosse posset. geminam cristati caput Angues ferebant oram, qnos contra obuius Reptavit infans, igneos serpentium Oculos remisso pectore, ac placido intuens, Arctos serenis vultibus nodos tulit: Ettumida tenera guttura elidens manu, Praelusit Hydrae. Maenali pernix feram, Multo decorum praeferens auro caput, Deprensa cursum est. Maximus Nemeaetimor Gemuit lacertis pressus Herculeis Leo. Quid stabula memore ̄ dira Bistonii gregis? Suis que regem pabulum armentis datum? Solitum que densis hispidum Erymanthi jugis, Arcadica quatere nemora Maenalium suem? Taurum que centum non levem populis metum ̄ ? Inter remotos gentis Hesperiae greges, Pastor triformis littoris Cartesii Peremptus, acta est praeda ab occasum ultimo, Notum Cithaeron pavit Oceano pecus. Penetrare jussus solis aestivi plagas, Et adusta medius regna quae torret die, Vtrin que montes solvit abrupto obice, Etiam ruenti fecit Oceano viam. Posthaec adortus nemoris opulenti domos, Aurifera vigilis spolia serpentis tulit. Quid saeva Lernae monstra, numerosummalum ̄ ? Non igne demum vicit, & docuit mori? Solitas que pennis condere obductis diem, Petrit ab ipsis nubibus Stymphalidas. Non vicit illum coelibis semper tori Regina gentis vidua Thermodoontiae. Nec and omne clarum facinus audaces manus Stabuli fugavit turpis Augiae labour. Quid ista prosunt? orb defernso caret. Sensere terrae pacis authorem suae Abesse tetris: prosperum, ac foelix scelus Virtus vocatur, sontibus parent boni. Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor. Ante oram vidi nostra truculenta manu Gnatos paterni cadere regni vindices, Ipsum que Cadmi nobilis stirpem ultimam Occidere: vidi regium capitis decus Cum capite raptum. quis satis Thebas fleat? Ferax deorum terra, quem dominum tremi E cuius arvis, ê que foecundo sinum, Stricto ivuentus orta cum ferro stetit: Cuius que muros natus Amphion Jove, Struxit canoto saxa modulatu trabens: In cuius urbem non semel diuûm parens Coelo relicto venit haec quae coelites Recepit, & quae fecit, & (fas fit loqui) Fortasse faciet, sordido premitur jugo. Cadmaea proles, civis at que Amphionis, Quo decidistis? tremitis ignavum exulem, Suis carentem finibus, nostris gravem? Qui scelera terra, qui que persequitur mari, Ac saeva iusta sceptra confregit manu, Nunc servit absens, fert que quae ferri vetat: Tenet que Thebas exul Herculeas Lycus. Said non tenebit: aderit, & poenas petet, Subitus que and astra emerger: inveniet viam, Aut faciet. adsis sospes, & remees tuis: Tandem que venias victorad victam domum. Emerge conjux, at que depulsas manu Abrumpetenebras, nullam si vetito via, Iter que clausum est, orb diducto redi. Et quicquid a nocte possessum later, Emitte tecum. dirutis qualis jugis Praeceps citato flumini quaerensiter Quondam stetisti, sciffa cum vasto imperu Patuere Tempe: pectore impulsus tuo Hunc mons, & illuc cecidit: & rupto aggere, Novam cucurrit Thessalus torrens via. Talis parents, liberos, patriam petens, Erumpe, rerum terminos tecum afferens, Et quicquid anida tot per annorum gradus Abscondit aetas, red, & oblitos sui, Lucis que pauidos antete populos age. Indignam to sunt spolia, si tantum refers Quantum imperatum ̄ est. magnam, said nimium ̄ lo quot. Ignara nostrae sortis. unde illum mihi, Quo to tuám que dextram amplectar diem Reditús que lentos, nec mei memores, querar? Tibi ò deorum ductor, indomiti ferent Centena tauri colla: tibi frugum parens Secreta reddam sancram: ribi multam side Longas Eleusi tacita iactabo faces. Tum restitutas fratribus rebor meis Animas, & ipsum regna moderantem suam Florere patrem. siqua to Mayor tenet Clausum potestas, sequimur: aut omnes tuo Defend reditum sospes, aut omnes trahe. Trahes, nec ullus eriget fractos deus. Oh Sociam nostri sanguinis, casta side Servans toru ̄ , natos que magnanimi Her culis, Meliora mente concipe, at que animum excitat Aderit profecto, qualis ex omni solet Labour, Mayor. Choriambici seu sclepradaei. Fortuna viris invida fortibus, OQuam no ̄ aquam bopis praemia dividis? Eurystheus facili regnet in otio, All mona gei us bellam per omniam, Monstris exagitet coeliferam manum: Serpentis relecet colla rocia, Deceptis referat mala sororibus, Cum somno dederit per giles genas, Po S worser itibus praepositus Draco. Intravit Scythiae multiuagas domos, gentes patri S sedibus hospitas: Cascauit que freti terga rigentia, Et mutis tacitum littoribus mare. Illic duram carent aequora fluctibus: Et quà plenam rates carbasa tenderant, Intonlis teritur semitam Sarmatis. Stat pontus vicibus mobilis annuis, Navem nunc facilis, nunc equitem patience. Illic quam viduis gentibus imperat, Aurato religans ilia baltheo, Detraxit spolium nobile corpori, Et peltam, & nivei vincula pectoris, Victorem posito suspiciens genum. Quam spe praecipites actus and inferos, Audax ire vias irremiabiles Vidisti Siculae regna Proserpinae? Illy nullam Noto, nullam Favonio Consurgunt tumidis fluctibus aequora. Non illic geminum Tyndaridae genus Succurrunt timidis sy dera navibus. Stat nigro pelagus gurgite languidum Et cum mors auidis pallida dentibus Gentes innumeras manibus intulit, Uno tot populi remige transeunt. Euincas utinam rura ferae Stygis, Parcarum que eolos irrevocabiles. Hic qui rex populis pluribus imperat, Bello cum peteres Nestoriam Pylon, Tecum conserved pestiferas manus, Telum ̄ ter geminam cuspide praeferens: Effugit tenui vulnere saucius, Et mortis dominus pertimuit mori. Fatum rumpe manu: tristibus inferis Prospectus pateat lucis, & invius Limes debt faciles and superos vias. Immites potuit flectere cantibus Umbrarum dominos, & prece supplici Orpheus, Eurydicen dum repetit suam. Quae fyluas, & aves, saxá que taxerat, Ars, quae praebuerat fluminibus moras, And cuius fonitum constiterant ferae, Mulcet non solitis vocibus inferos, Et surdis resonat clarius in locis: Deflent & lachrymis difficiles Dei: Et qui front nimis crimina tetrica Quaerunt, ac veteres excutiunt reos: Deflent Eurydicen Thraeiciae nurus. Flentes Eurydicen Iuridici sedent. Tandem mortis, ait, vincimut arbiter. Evade and supetos, lege tamen data, Tu post terga tui perge viri comes, Tu non ante tuam respice conjugem, Quam cum claram Deos obtulerit die, Spartani que aderit januam Taenari. Odit verus amor, nec patitur moras. Munus, dum properat cernere, perdidit. Quae vinci potuit regia cantibus, Haec vinci poterit regia viribus. OLucis alm rector, & coeli decus, Qui alterna currum spatia fla ̄ mifero am biens Illustre laetis exeris terris caput, Dam Phoebe veniam, si quid illicitum tui Videre vultus: jussus in lucem extuli Secreta mundi: tu que coelestum arbiter, Parens que , visus fulmine opposito tege. Et tu secundo maria qui sceptro regis, Imas pete undas: quisquis ex alto aspicit, Terrenam fancy pollui metuens novam, Aciem reflectar, oram que in coelum erigat, Portenta fugiens: hoc nefas cernant duo, Qui aduexit, & quae jussit. In poenas meas, At que in labores, non satis terrae patent Iunonis odio: vidi inaccessa omnibus, Ignota Phoebo, quae que deterior polus Obscuram diro spatia concessit Jovi. Et si placerent tertiae sortis loca, Regnare potui. noctis aeternae chaos, Et nocte quiddam gravius, & tristes Deos, Et fata vici, mortem contempta redii. Quid restat aliud? vidi & ostendi inferos: Dam, si quid ultra est, tam dium pateris manus Cessare nostras Juno? quid vinci jubes? Said templa quare miles infestus tenet? Limen que sacrum terror armorum obsidet? VTrúmne visus vota decipiunt meos? And ille domitor orbis, & Gtaiûm dec', Tristi silentem nubilo liquit domum? Estne ille natus? membram laetitiam stupent. Onate, certam, & sera Thebarum salus, Verúmne cerno corpus? and fallor tua Deceptus umbra? túne es? agnosco toros, Humeros que , & alto nobilem trunco manum. SAPPHICI HEN decasyllabi. NAtus Eurystheus properante partum, Jusserat mundi penetrare fundum: Decrat hoc solum numero laborum, Tertiae regem spoliare sortis. Ausus est caecos and us inire, Du to and manes v quam omotos Tristis, & sylva m enda nigta: Said frequens mag comit . Quan tus incedit p l as per urbes, And novi ludos avid theatri: Quantus Eléum coit and tonantem, Quinta cum sacrum revocavit aestas: Quantam cum longae redit horam noctis, Crescere & somnos cupiens quietos, Libra Phoebaeos tenet aequa currus, Turbam secretam Cererem frequentat, Et city's tectis properant relictis, Attici noctem celebrare Mystae: Tanta per campos agitur silentes Turbam. pars tarda gradiens senectam, Tristis, & long a satiata vita: Pars adhuc currit melioris aevi, Virgins nondum m thalamis iugatae, Et comis nondum positis ephebi, Matris & nomen modo doctus infa S. His datum solis, minus ut timerent, Igne praelato relevare noctem. Caeteri vadunt per opaca tristes: Qualis est nobis anim S, remo ta Luce, cum moestus sibi quis que sensit Obrutum totam caput esse terra. Stat Chaos densum, tenebrae que turpes, Et colour noctis malus, ac silenti Otium mundi, variae que nubes. Sera nos illò referat senectus. Nemo and id sero venit, unde numquam, Cum semel venit, potuit reuer . Quid juvat durum properare fatum? Om nis haec magnis vaga turbam terris, Ib and manes: faciet que inerti Vela Cocyto. ibi crescit omne, Et quod occasus videt, & quod ortus: Parce venturis, tibi mor paramur: Sis licet segnis, properamus ipsi. Prima, quae vitam de dit, horam carpsi Cho jambici Glyconii vers . The bis laetam die Aras tangi supplices, Pingues caedi marib Sole es agitent choros Cessent dep sito jugo Arui fertilis incolae. Pax e to Herculea manu Auroram inter & Hesperum, Et quà solemnizing medium tenens, Umbras corporib S negate. Quodcun que abluitur solum Longo Tethyos ambitum, Alcidae domuit labour. Transuectus vadam Tartari Pacatis redit inferis. Jam nullus superest timor, Nil ultra jacet inferos. Stantes sacrificus comas Dilecta teg populo. Ultrice dextram fusus adverso Lycus Terram cecîdit over: tu ̄ quisquis comes Fuerat tyranni, iacuit & poenae comes. Nunc sancram patri victor, & superis feram, Caesis que meritas victimis aras colam. To, to laborum sociam, & adjutrix preco Belligera Pallas, cuius in laeva jet Aegis feroc S over saxifico minas. Adsit Lycurgi domitor, & rubri maris, Tectam virenti cuspidem thyrso gerens: Geminúm que nume ̄ , Phœbus, & Phoebisoror, Soror sagittis aptior, Phœbus lyrae: From ér que quisquis incolit coelum meus, Non ex noverca frater. hunc appellite Greges opimos, quiequid Indorum sedges, Arabés que odoris quidquid arboribus legunt, Conferte in aras: pinguis exudet vapor, Populea nostras arbour exornet comas. To ramus oleae frond gentili tegat Theseu: Tonantem nostra adorabit manus. Anapaestici, Adonii duo. Lugeat aether, magnús que parens Aetheris alti, tellus que ferax, Et vaga po ti mobilis undam. Tu que ante omnes, qui per terras, Tractus que maris fundis radios, Noctem que fugas over decoro, Feruide Titan: obitus pariter Tecum Alcides vidit, & ortus: Novit que tuas vtras que domos. Solvite tantis animum monstris, Solvite superi: rectam in melius, Flectite mentem. tu que o domitor Somne laborum, requies animi, Pars humanae melior vitae, Volucre matris genus Astreae, Frater durae languidae mortis, Veris miscens falsa, futuri Certus, & idem pessimus author: Pater o rerum, portus vitae, Lucis requies, noctis que comes, Qui par regi, famulo que venis, Placidus fessum, lenis que foues, Pavidum leti genus humanum, Cogis longam discere mortem. Preme devictum torpore gravi, Sopor in domitos alliget artus, Nec torva prius pectora linquat, Quam men's repetat pristinam cursum. En fusus humi saeva feroci Cord volutat somnia: non dum est Tanti pestis superata mali: Clauae que gravi lassum solitus Mandare caput, quaerit vacuam Pondera dextram, motum iactans Branchia vano: nec adhuc omnes Expulit aestus: said, ut ingenti Vexato Noto, servat longos Undam tumultus, & jam vento Cessante, tumet. pelle insanos Fluctus animi, redeat pietas, Virtús que viro, vel fit potius Men's vesano concita motum: Error caecus, quà coepit, eat. Solus to jam praestare potest Furor insontem: proxima puris Sors est manibus, nescire nefas. Nunc Herculeis percussa sonent Pectora palmis: mundum solitos Far lacertos, verbera pulsent Victrice manu: gemitus vastos Audiat aether, audiat atri Regina poli, vastis que ferox Qui colla gerit vincta catenis, Imo latitans Cerberus antro. Resonet moesto clamore chaos, Lati que patens undam profundi. Et qui melius, tua telam tamen Senserat, aether. Pectoratantis obsesa malis, Non sunt ictum ferienda levi. Uno planctu tria regna sonent, Et tu collo decus, ac telum Suspensam dium fortis arundo, Pharetrae que leves, date saeva fero Verbera tergo. cedant humeros Robora forts, stipés que potens Duris oneret pectora nodis. Plangant tantos arma dolores. Non vos patriae laudis comites, Ulti saevo vulnere reges: Non Argiva membram palaestra, Flectere docti forts cestu, Fortés que manu: jam tamen ausi Telum Sythici leave Corithi Missum certam librare manu, Tu ós que fugam figere cervos, Nondum que ferae terga iubatae. Item and Stygios umbrae portus, Item innocuae, quas in primo Limine vitae, scelus oppressit, Patriús que furor. item infaustum Genus o pueri, noti per iter Triste laboris. Item, iratos visit reges. Vis hic locus? quae regio? quae mundi plaga? Qubi sum? sub ortum solis, and sub cardine Glacialis ursae? nuqquid Hesperii maris Extrematellus hunc that oceano modum? Quas trahimus auras? quod solum fesso subest? Certain redimus. unde prostrata domo Video cruenta corpora? and nondum exuit Simulacra men's inferna? post reditus quo que Oberrat oculos turbam feralis meos? Pudet fateri, paveo, nescio quod mihi, Nescio quod animus gram ̄ de praesagit malum. Ubi est parens? ubi illam natorum grege Animosa coniu ? cur latus laevum vacat Spolio leonis? quonam abiit tegmen meum? Idem que somno mollis Herculeo torus? Ubi telam? ubi arcus? arma quis vivo mihi Detrahere potuit? spolia quis tanta abstulit? Ipsum que quis non Herculis somnum horruit? Libet meum, videre victorem, libet: Exurge victor. quem novum coelo pater Genuit relicto? cuius incestum stetit Nox lo ̄ gior, quam nostra? quod cerno nefas? Nati cruenta caede confectiiacent: Perempta conux: quis Lycus regnum ̄ obtinet? Quis tanta Thebis scelera moliri ausus est Hercule reverso? quisquis Ismeni loca, Actaea quisquis arva, quigemino mari Pulsata Pelopis regna Dam ̄ rdanii colis, Succurre: saevae cladis authorem indica. Ruat ira in omnes: hostis est, quisquis mihi Non monstrat hostem. victor Alcidae lates? Proceed, seu tu vindicas currus truces Thracis cruenti, sive Geryonis pecus, Libyaeu dominos, nullam pugnandi moram est. En nudus asto, vel meis armis licet Petas inermem. cur meos Theseus fugit Pater que vultus? oram cur condunt suam? Differte fletus, quis meos de derit neci Omnes simul, profare. quid genitor siles? At tu ede Theseu, said tua Theseu idem. Uter que tacitus oram pudibunda obtegit, Furtim que lachrymas fundit. in tantis malis, Quid est pudendum? nuqquid Argivae pote ̄ S Dominator urbis, nuqquid infestum Lyci Pereuntis agmen, clade nos tanta obruit? Per to orum facinorum laudem precor Genitor, tui que nominis semper mihi Numen secundum, fare, quis fudit domum? Cui praeda iacui? The fadi ̄ g stars now shine but seeled in sighed in stipye sky, night overcome with day, Plucks I ̄ her fires, while spro ̄ g again is light y to day star draws y to clear so ̄ beams their way. The y you sign of haughty peal again, with seven ̄ stars marked y to bears of Arcady, Do call the light with overturned wain. with marble Horse now drawn his way to high Does Titan top of Detha overspread. the bushes bright that now with berries be Of Thebes strewed, by day do blush full read. and to return doth Phœbus sister flee. Now labour hard begins, and every kind of cares it stirs, the Shepherd does unfold His flocksvnpe ̄ worser, do graze their food to find & nips y to grass, with hoary frost full cold. At will doth play in open meadow fair, y to ealfe, whose brow did dam yet never tear The empty kine their udders do repair. & light with course uncertain, here & there, In grass full soft the wanton kid he flings. in top of bow does fit with chanting song, And to the son new rose to spread her wings bestirs herself, her mournful nests amo ̄ g The nightingale: & does with birds about confuse resound, with murmur mixed rife To witness day, his sails to winds set out the shipman does continued ̄ mit in doubt of life, While gale of with ̄ worser y to slack sails fills full strait he leaning over hollow rocks doth lie, . And either his beegiled hooks doth bait, or else beholds and feels the pray from hie with paysed hand. The tre ̄ blyng fish he feels with line exte ̄ to. this hope to them to whom of hurtless life, Is quiet rest, and with his own content, and little, house, such hope in fields is rife. The troublous Hope's w to rolli ̄ g whirlwi ̄ worser great & dreadful fears, their ways in cities keep. He proud repair to prince in regal seat, & harden court gates without the rest of sleep Esteems, and endless happiness to hold does gather goods, for treasure gaping more, And is full poor amid his heaped gold. the peoples favour him (astonished soar) And continued ̄ mons more unconstant then the sea, with blast of vain ren un lifts up full proud. He selling at the brawling bar his plea, full wicked, sets his yres & scolldyng loud And words to sale a few hath known of all the careless rest, who mindful howdoth tte Swift age away, the time that never shall return again do hold. while fates permit. At quiet live: the life full quickly glides with hastened course, & with the winged day The wheel is turned of year y to hedlo ̄ g lides, the sisters hard perform their tasks always, Nor mai again untwist their threads ons spo ̄ yet mankind lo unsure what way to take To meet the greedy destinies doth ron, and willingly we seek the Stygian lake. To much Alcides thou with stomach stout the sorry sprights of hell dooste haste to see. with course prefixed the fates ar brought about to none once warned to come, may respite be To none to pass their once appointed day. the tomb all people called by death does hide Let glory him by many lands away display, & same throughout all cities wide Full babbling praise, & eve ̄ with sky to sta ̄ worser advance, & stars: let him in chariot bright Full haughty go: let me my native land in safe & secret house keep close from ̄ sighed. To restful men hoar age by course does fall, and low in place, yet safe, & sure does lie The poor and base estate of cottage small: the prouder po ̄ pe of mind does fallen from ̄ hie. But sad here comes with losed locks of hear lo Megara, with little company, And slow by age draws Hercles father never Oh fortune hating men of stoutest breast, how ill rewards dost thou to good divide? Eurystheus reins at home in easy rest, Alcinena's son in every battle tried, To mu ̄ sters turns his hand y to skies did stay: and cruel necks cuts of of hydous snake, And apples brings from ̄ sisters mokt away, when ̄ e ce to sleep his watchful eyes betake, Did dragon set rich fruit to oversee. he passed Scythia ̄ bowers y stray abroad, And those that in their cou ̄ treis strangers be and hardened top of frolen freat he croade, And sylent sea with banks full du ̄ me about. the waters hard w to there their floods to flo. And where before y to ships full sails spread out is worn a path for Sarmates wild to go. The sea does stand to move in course again, now apt to bear the ship, now horsemen bold The queen y to there does over widows rain, y to girds her woe ̄ be w to girth of glittering gold, Her noble spoil from body drawn hath she & shield, & bans of breast as white as snow, Acknowledging the conqueror with knee. w to what hope drawn to hedle ̄ g hell allow, S bold to pass the unreturned ways S st thou Proserpina's rain of Sicily? With southern wid, or western there no see as arise with wave and swelling surges hie. Not there of Tyndars stock y to double brood two stars the fearful ships do aid & guide. with gulf full black does sta ̄ worser y to slothful flood and when ̄ pale death with gredyteeth so wide Unnu ̄ bred natio ̄ S hath set down to sprights with one boat man all over feryed be. God grau ̄ to thou mayest of hl subdue y to tights And vnreueked webs of sisters three, There king of many people reigneth he, who when thou didst w to Nestor's Pylos fight, Pesti erous would ̄ ds applied to match w e thee & weapon bore with triple mace of might: And pricked with little wound he fled away, and lord of death himself did fear to die. Break fate by force: & let the sight of day to sorry sprights of hell apparently, and porch unpassed show way to gods above. the cruel lords of sprights with Pleasant song And hu ̄ ble bown full well could Orpheꝰmoue while he Eurydicen them craves among. The art y to drew woods, birds, & stones at w which made delay to floods of flitting flight At sou ̄ worser whereof the savage beasts stood Still with tunes vnwo ̄ to does ghosts of hell delight And clearer doth resound in darker place: & weep with tears did gods of cruel breast: And they which faults with to severe a face do seek, & former guilt of ghosts out wrest: The Thracian daughters wails Eurydice ̄ . for her the judges weeping sit also. We continued ̄ querd ar, chief king of death said the ̄ to gods (but under this continued ̄ dition) go, Behind thy husbands back keep y thy way, look thou not back thy wife before to see, Than ̄ the to sighed of gods hath brought y to day and gate of Spartan Taenare present be. Love hates delay, nor could abide so long. his gift, he lost, while he desires the sight. The place y to could be thus subdued w e song that place may soon be overcome by might. EUrystheꝰ born w to swiftned birth in hast, did bid to bottom of the world to go: This only lackte of labours all at last, to spoil the king of third estate also. The dungeons dark to enter ventured he, where as y to way to sprights far of does bring Full sad, & wood so black & feared to be: but full with flock full great him following. As great a press as flock in cities streets, to see the plays of Theatre new wrought: As great as at Eleus thunder meets, when ̄ Summer fifth y to sacred game hath brought: As great as when ̄ comes hour of lo ̄ her night, and Willing quiet sleeps to be extent, Holds equal Libra Phœbus chariots light, a sort the secret Ceres do frequent, And from ̄ their howsen left do hast to cum, the Atticke priests the night to celebrate: Such heap is chased beneath by fields so dum, with age full slow some taking forth their gate Full sad, and filed with life so long now led: some yet do run the raze of better years, The virgins yet vnieynde to spowses bed, younglings eke on who ̄ grow yet no hears And infa ̄ to lately taught his mother's name. To these alone, (that the y less might fear) Is grau ̄ ted night to ease w to foreborne flame. the rest full sad by dark do wander there: As is our mind, when ones away is fled the light, when eke man sorry feels to be Dep overwhelmed with all the earth his head. thick Chaos stands, & darkness fowl to see, And colour ill of night and slothful state of silent world, and worser vers clouds about. Let hoary age us thither bring full late. no ma ̄ comes late to that, whence never out, When ̄ once he is come, turn again he may. to hast the hard and heavy fate what vails? This uva ̄ dring heap in wide la ̄ ds far away, shall go to ghosts: & all shall give their sails To slow Cocy S. all is to thee enclynde, both what the fallen, and rise of son does see: Spare us that cum, to the we death ar signde: though thou be slow, our selfs yet we. First hour, y gave the life, it loast again. TO Thebes is come the joyful day, your altars touch you humbyllye, The fat fair sacrfices slay. maids yxte with men in company Let them in sole ne flocks go roil: and now with y ache laid down let cease The tillers of the fertile soil. is with hand of Hercles peace between the morn and Hespers glade, And where son holding middle seat, doth make the bodies cast no shade. What ever ground is ouerweate with compass long of seas abowght, Alcides labour aemde full well. he over fords of Tartare brought Returned appeased being hell. there is remaining now no fear, Nought lies beyond the hell to see. Oh Priest thy staring locks of hear wrap in with loved poplar tree. WIth my reue ̄ ging right hand slain now Lycus lo the ground with groveling face hath smit: the ̄ who soever fellow Found Of tyrant was, partaker of his pains did also lie. Now to my father sacrifice and gods victor will I, And altars that deserve it, with ayne off yngs reverence. Thee, thee Oh mate of all my toils I pray and my defence Oh warrefull Pallas, in whose left hand thy clear shield Aegis shakes Fierce hretes, w to head that eke thing stone that looks upon it makes. Let amer of Lycurgus now, and of red sea be hear, That point of spear with yuye green in hand doth couerde bear: And two gods pour, both Phœbus, and his sister too I pray, The sister meeter for her shafts, but he on harp to play: And what soever brother else of mine doth dwell in sky, Not of my stepdame brother. bring you hither by and by Your plenteous flocks, what ever have all the Indians fruits brought out, And what sweet odours the Arabickes do get in trees about, To altars bring: let vapour fa e and ume smoke up full hie, Let Round about the poplar tree my hears now bewtifye. Let olive bow thee hide with branch accustomde in our land Thescu: for forthwith reverence the thunder, shall my hand. LEt the continued ̄ plain, & eke y parent great of haughty sky, & fertile lad throughout, And uva ̄ dryng wave of ever moving freate. And thou before the ̄ all, which lands about And train of sea thy beams abroad dost throe with glyttryng face, & makest y night to flee, Oh fervent Titan: both thy settings lo and rising, hath Alcides seen with thee: & known likewise he hath thy House ̄ twain. from so great yls release you now his breast, Oh gods release: to better turn again his ryghter mind. and thou Oh tamer best Oh sleep of toils, the quietness of mind, of all the life of man the better part, Oh of thy mother ast ey winged kind, of hard and pining death that brother art, With truth mingling the false, of after state The sure, but eke the worst foreteller yet: Oh father of all things, of life the gate, Of light the rest, of night and fellow fit, that comest to king, and servant equally, And gently cherishest who weary be, All mankind lo that dreadful is to die, thou dost continued ̄ strain lo ̄ g death to learn by thee. keep him fast bound w to heavy sleep oppressed, Let slo ̄ ber deps his limbs untamed bind, Nor sooner leave his unright raging breast, The ̄ former mi ̄ worser his course again may find. Lo laid on grou ̄ worser w to full fierce heart yet Still His cruel sleeps he turns: and not yet is The plague subdued of so great raging ill: And on great club the weary head of his He wont to lay, doth seek y staff to find With empty hand, his arms out casti ̄ g yet with moving vain: nor yet all rage of mind he hath laid down: but, as w to south wind gre The wave once vexed, yet after keepeth Still his raging long, & though the wind now be Assuaged, swells. shake of these mad & ill tossings of mind, return let pi tee, And virtue to the man, else let be so his mind with moving mad tossed every way: Let error blind, where it begone hath, go. for nowght else now but only madness may Thee gyltlesse make: in next estate it stands to hurtles hands, thy mischief not to know. Now strooken let with Hercules his hands thy bosoms sou ̄ worser: thine arms y world allow were woe ̄ to to bear, let greuoꝰ strips now smite with continued ̄ quryng would ̄ worser: & loud continued ̄ plaini ̄ g cries Let th'aire now here: let of dark pole & night the queen them hear, & who full fiersely lies That bears his necks in mighty chains fast bou ̄ worser, low lurking Cerberus in dep st cave. Let Chaos all with clamour sad resound, and of broad sea wide open wasting wave. And the air that felt thy weapon ̄ S better yet, But felt them though. The breasts with so great yls as these beset, with little stroke they must not beaten be. Let kingdoms three sou ̄ worser w to one play ̄ to & cry, and thou necks honour, & defence to see, His arrow strong long hanged up on hie, & quivers light, y e cruel stripes now smyght on his fierce back, his shoulders stro ̄ g & stout let oaken club now strike, & post of might w to knots full harden his breasts load all about. let even his weapon ̄ S so great woes continued ̄ plain. Not you poor babes mates of your father's w to cruel wou ̄ worser reue ̄ ging kings again ̄ : (praise, not you your limbs in Argos barriars plays, Are taught to turn w to wepo ̄ stro ̄ g to smite, & stro ̄ g of would ̄ worser: yet eve ̄ now daring lo the weapon of the Scythian quiver light With steady hand to paise see ̄ to out from ̄ bow, and stags to pierce y save the ̄ selves by flight, and backs not yet full maend of cruel beast. To Styg a ̄ havens go you of shade & night, go hurtles souls, who ̄ mischief hath oppressed Even in first porch of life but lately had, And father's fury. go unhappy kind Oh little children, by the way full sad Of tourney known. Go, see the angry kings. WHat place is this? what region or of the world what coast? Where am I? under rise of sa ne, or bond else uttermost Of ici bear? or else doth here of sea of Hesperye The farthest ground appoint a bound for Ocean sea to lie? What air draw we to weary wight what ground is underset? Of truth we are returned from bell. whence in my House down bet See I these bloody bodies? hath not yet my mind of cast Thinfernall shapes? but after yet return from hell at last Yet wander doth that helly heap before mine eyes to see? I am ashamed to grawnte, I quake, I know not what to me, I can not tell what grievous ill my mind before doth know. Where is my parent? where is she with goodly children's show My noble hearty stomakt spouse? why doth my left side lack The lyons spoil? which way is gone the cover of my back? And self same bed full soft for sleep of Hercules also? Where are my shafts? where is my bow? Them from me living who Cowlde pluck away? who taken hath the spoils so great as these? And who was he that feared not even sleep of Hercules? To see my conqueror me likes, that likes me him to know: Rise victor up, what new son hath my father got now Heaven being left? at birth of whom might ever stayed be A longer night, then was in mine? what mischief do I see? My children lo do lie on ground with bloody slaughter stain: My wife is kyllde: what Lycus doth the kingdom yet obtain? Who durst so heinous gyltes as these At Thebes take in hand When Hercles is returned? who so Ismenus waters land, Who so Acteons fields, or who with double seas beset The shaken Pelops kingdoms dost of Dardan dwell on yet, Help me: of cruel slaughter show who may the author be. Let rage my ire on all: my foe he is, who so to me Shows not my foe. dost thou yet hydd Alcides victor lie? Come forth, even whither thou revenge the cruel chariots his Of bloody Thracian king, or if thou Geryons cattle quyght, Or lords of Libya, no delay there is with thee to fight. Behold I naked stand, although even with wy weapons lo Thou me unarmed set upon. wherefore f eeth Theseus so And eke my father from my sight? their faces why hide they? Defer your weepings, and who did my wife and children slay Thus all at ones, me tell. Wherefore Oh father do thou whushte? But tell thou Theseu, but Theseu with thy accustonide trust. Eke of them sylent hides away their bashful cowntnawnces, And pryuelye they shed their tears. In so great yls as these, Of what owghte we ashamed to be? doth ruler yet of might Of Argos town, or hateful band Of sowldyars ap e to fight Of Lycus dying, us oppress with such calamytee? By praise of all my noble acts I do desire of thee Oh father, and of thy great name approude to me alway The prosperous pour, declare to me, who did my How should slay? Whose pray say I?