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VIRGIL! S GNAT 491
But the two brethren borne of Cadmus blood, I And didst (0 monthly Virgin) thou delay
Whilst each does for the Soueraignty contend, i Thy nightly course, to heare his melodic " 460
Bhnde through ambition, and with vengeance The same was able with like louely lay
wood, 411 The Queene of hell to moue as easily,
Each doth against the others bodie bend To yeeld Eurydice vnto her fere,
His cursed Steele, of neither well withstood, Backe to be borne, though it vnlawfull were
And with wide wounds their carcases doth rend, She (Ladie) hauing well before approoued,
That yet they both doe mortdll foes remaine, The feends to be too cruell and seuere,
Sith each with brothers bloudie hand was slaine Obseru'd th'appomted way, as her behooued,
Ah (waladay) there is no end of paine, Ne euer did her ey sight tume arere,
Nor chaunge of labour may intreated bee Ne euer spake, ne cause of speaking mooued
Yet I beyond all these am carried fame, But cruell Orpheus, thou much crueller, 470
Where other powers farre different I see, 420 Seeking to kisse her, brok'st the Gods decree,
And must passe ouer to th'Ehstan plaine And thereby mad'st her euer damn'd to be
There grim Persephone encountnng mee, Ah but sweete loue of pardon worthie is,
Doth vrge her fellow Furies earnestlie, And doth deserue to haue small faults remitted,
With their bright firebronds me to ternfie If Hell at least things lightly done amis
There chast Alceste hues inuiolate,
Knew how to pardon, when ought is omitted
Free from all care, for that her husbands daies Yet are ye both receiued into bhs,
She did prolong by changing fate for fate And to the seates of happie soules admitted
Lo there hues also the immortall praise And you, beside the honourable band
Of womankinde, most faithfull to her mate, Of great Heroes, doo in order stand 480
Penelope and from her farre awayes 430 There be the two stout sonnes of Aeacus,
A rulesse rout of yongmen, which her woo'd Fierce Peleus, and the hardie Telamon,
All slaine with darts,he wallowed in their blood Both seeming now full glad and loyeous
And sad Eurydice thence now no more Through their Syres dreadfull mnsdiction,
Must tume to life, but there detained bee, Being the Iudge of all that horrid hous
For looking back, being forbid before And both of them by strange occasion,
Yet was the guilt thereof, Orpheus, in thee Renown'd in choyce of happie marriage
Bold sure he was, and worthie spirite bore, Through Venus grace, and vertues cariage
That durst those lowest shadowes goe to see, For th'one was rauisht of his owne bondmaide,
And could bdeeue that anie thing could please The faire Ixtone captiu'd from Troy 490
I ell Cerberus, or Stygian powres appease 440
But th'other was with Thetis loue assaid,
Ne feard the burning waues of Phlegelon, Great Nereus his daughter, and his loy
Nor those same mournfull kingdomes, com On this side them there is a yongman layd,
passed
Their match in glorie, mightie, fierce and coy ,
With rustie horrour and fowle fashion, That from th'Argohck ships, with furious yre,
And deep digd vawtes, and Tartar couered Bett back the furie of the Troian fyre
With bloodic night, and darke confusion, 0 who would not recount the strong dmorces
And ludgement seates, whose Iudge is deadhe Of that great warre, which Tronnes oft behelde,
dred
And oft beheld the warlike Greekish forces, 499
A iudge, that after death doth punish sore When Teucrtan soyle with bloodie nuers swelde,
The faults, which life hath trespassed before And wide Sigcean shores were spred with corses,
But valiant fortune made Dan Orpheus bolde And Stmots and Xanthus blood outwelde,
For the swift running nuers still did stand, 450 Whilst Hector raged with outragious mmde,
And the wilde beasts their furie did withhold, Flames, weapons, wounds in Greeks fleete to
fo follow Orpheus musicke through the land haue tynde
And th'Okes deep grounded in the earthly molde For Ida selfe, in ayde of that fierce fight,
Did moue, as if they could him vnderstand , Out of her mountames ministred supplies,
And the shrill woods, which were of sense And like a kindly nourse, did yeeld (for spight)
bereau'd,
Store of firebronds out of her noursenes,
Through their hard barke his siluer sound Vnto her foster children, that they might
receau'd
Inflame the Nauie of their enemies, 510
And eke the Moone her hastie steedes did stay, And all the Rhetcean shore to ashes tume,
Drawing in teemes along the starrie skie, Wherelay theships,which theydidseeketoburne