LYCUS

o clarum trahens Astirpe nomen regia, facilis meam Parumper aure verba patienti excipe. Si aeternam sempet odia mortales agant, Nec coeptus umquam cedat ex animis furor, Said arma foelix teneat, infoelix paret, Nihil relinquent bell tum vastis ager Squalebit arvis, subdita tectis face Altus sepultas obruet gentes cinis. Pacem reduei velle victori expedit: Victo necesse est. particeps regni veni: Sociemus animos, pignus hoc fidei cape: Continge dextram. quid truci vultum siles? Agedum, efferatas rabida voces amove: Et disce regum imper a ab Alcide patience. Ego rapta quamvis sceptra victrici gera Dextram, regam que cuncta sine legum metum Quas arma vincunt, pauca pro causam loquar Nostra: cruento cecidit in bello pater: Cecidere fratres: arma non servant modum. Nec temperari faci e, n reprimi potest Stricti ensis ira: bellam delectat cruor. Said ille regno pro suo, nos improbam Cupidine acti quaeritur belli exitus, Non causam. said nunc pereat omnis memoriam. Cum victor arma posuit, & victum decet Deponere odia. non ut inflexo genum Regna ̄ tem adores, petimus: hoc ipsum placet, Animo ruinas quod capis magno tuas. Es regem conjux dignam, sociemus toros. Telluris illum pondus immensae pre it. Oh queen That name renowned hie And title takste of regal stock, full gentle and easily A little while receive and bear my words with patient ear. If always men eternal hates should one to th'other bear, And rage beeg on, out of the heart should never fallen away, But happy still should armour hold happy Still obey, Then shall the battles nothing leave: with wide fields then the lands Shall lie vntyllde, with underlaid to housen fyrybrande Then ashes deep shall over whelm the buried people all. Expedient is to conqueror to wish that peace befall: To conquerde needful, partner of the kingdom come to me: Lets join our minds, take here this pledge of faith and truth to thee: My right hand touch. Why whishtest thou with cruel face and mood? Go oh, these fierce and furious words thou woman mad refrain: And imperies of princes learn of Hercles to sustain. Though I the sceptors got by the force of war do bear In conquryng hand, and all do rule without the law his fear Which arms subdue, a few words yet to thee now speak I shall For this my cause: thy father did in bloody battle fallen: Thy brethren fell: the weapons keep n measurable stay. For neither easily tempered be, nor yet repressed may The drawn Swords ire: the battles does the blood delight out shed. But he yet for his kingdom fought, we all together led With wicked Lust: yet end of war is now complained lo, And not the cause. but no we let all remembrance thereof go: When conqueror hath weapons left, the conquereds part should be To leave his hates. No I that thou with lowly bent knee Me reigning worship shouldst, require: Even this doth me delight, That thou thy miseries dost bear with mind so S out upright. Thou for a king a sp use art meet, lets join our bed anon. Does then thy husband drowned in hell give thee this stomach hie? The heavy payse oppresses him Of all the earth full great. Thou shalt be forced. Speak, what may rather I prepare then wedding new for that More oyall gift Then shalt mad woman die. More then my sceptors is to thee a servant loved so? Why do he he yet a king then serus, and Still ustayne his yoke? Do e thou it virtue count, to be to beasts, and monsters cast? Him great things bragging, darkness deep oh press full low. Of whom be God, the housen then of gods through pierceth he? why dooste thou sclawnder Jove? No mortal kindred ever may be mixed with heaven above. But were they ever servants yet, before they gods were made? But through all coasts he wandered not abroad as banished. Yet Phœbus did no monsters fear, or beasts of cruel might. Whom thou a myser seest, thou mayest Know him a man to be. Of this the house of Curitus destroyed doth witness bear, And virgins flocks that brutishly by him oppressed wear. No Juno did commawnde him this, Nor none Eurystheus lo. But these in deed his own works are. What is to Joan to king is leefull thing: To Jove thou gaufts a wife, thou shalt now give one to a king. And even of thee she shall it learn to be a thing not new, Her husband even approving it the better man ensue. But y she stubborn to be matched with me deny it Still, Then even by force a noble child Of her beget I will. Who all appoints with present death to have their punishment, He tyrant wotts not how to be: more sundry grieves invent. Restrain the wretched man from death, command that happy die. I, while with beams prepared to burn the pile increases hie, Will him with vowing sacrifice that rules the seas entreat. Animosne mersus inferis conjux facit? . Effare, thalamis quod novis potius parem Regale munus? Moriêre demens. Sceptro que nostro potior est famulus tibi? Cur ergo regi servit, & patitur jugum? Obiici feris, monstris que virtutem putas? Tenebrae loquentem magnatartareae prae munt. Quid violas Jovem? Mortal coelo non potest jungi genus. Said non per omnes exul erravit plagas. Fortem vocemus, cuius ex humeris Leo Donum puellae factus, & clava excidit, Fulsit que pictum veste Sidoniam latus? Fortem vocemus, cuius horrentes comae Maduere nardo? laud qui notas manus And non virilem tympani movit sonum, Mitra ferocem barbara frontem preme ̄ S? Hoc Euriti fatetur euerfi domus, Pecorum que ritum virginum oppressi greges. Hoc nullam Juno, nullus Eurystheus jubet. Ipsius haec sunt operam. Quod Jovi, hoc regi li cet: Jovi dedisti conjugem, regi dabis. Ette magistro non novum hoc discet nurus, Etiam viro probante meliorem sequi. Sin copulari pertinax taedis negate, Velex coacta nobilem partum feram. Call we him stout, from shoulders hie of whom the lion thrown A gift for maiden made, and eke his club from hand fell down, And painted side with purple weed did shine that he did wear? Or may we him call stout of heart, whose staring locks of hear With ointme ̄ to flowed? who would ̄ ds renownde and known by praises hie To sound unmeet for any man of timber did apply, With barbarous mytar closing in his forehead Round about? Because that stubbornly thou dost refuse my wedding so, And fearste a king, thou shalt know what the sceptors now may do. Enbrace thine altars, yet no God shall ever take away Thee from my hands: no not although with world upturned, may Alcides victor yet again to gods above return. The wodos on he apes together cast, let all their temples burns Even thrown upon their heads: his wife, and all his flock at last With underlaid fire, let one wood pile consume and waste. Quo patre genitus, coelitum ̄ penetrate domos Famuline fuerant antequàm fierent dei? No ̄ more ̄ stram, saeuas Phœbus aut timuit feras. Quemcun que miserum videris, hominem scias. Coniugia quoniam ̄ peruicax nostra abnuis, Regem que terres, sceptra quid possint, scies. Complectere aras, nullus eripiet deus To mihi: nec orb si remolito, queat And supera victor numina Alcides vehi. Congerite sylva's, templa supplicibus suis Injecta flagrent: conjugem, & totum grege Consumat unus igne subjecto rogus. Qui mortem cunctos luere supplicium jubet, Nescit tyrannus esse: diuersairroga. Miserum veta perire, foelicem jube. Ego, dum cremandis trabibus accrescit ro gus Sacro regentem maria votiuo rogem.