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And I will send more after thee. ivi.'5752iO \Ssmj^ TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE THE EPISTLE ix THE GENERAL ARGUMENT xix JANUARIE. i^gloga Prima i FEBRUARIE. iEgloga Secunda 7 MARCH, i^igloga Tertia 17 APRIL, i^gloga Quarta 23 MAY. iEgloga Quinta 31 JUNE. iEgloga Sexta 43 JULY, i^gloga Septima 51 AUGUST. iEgloga Ocflava 61 SEPTEMBER, i^gloga Nona 71 OCTOBER. iCgloga Decima 81 NOVEMBER, ^gloga Undecima 89 DECEMBER, i^gloga Duodecima 99 EPILOGUE 107 NOTES 109 GLOSSARY 113 Which curdles the blood and pricks the heart: Then is your careless courage accoyed, Your careful herds with cold be annoyed: Then pay you the price of your surquedry, With weeping, and wailing, and misery. CUD. Ah! foolish old man! I scorn thy skill, That wouldst me my springing youth to spill : V'd f I deem thy brain emperished be Through rusty eld, that hath rotted thee; Or sicker thy head very totty is, So on thy corb shoulder it leans amiss. Now thyself hath lost both lop and top, Als my budding branch thou wouldest crop; But were thy years green, as now be mine, To other delights they would incline: Then wouldest thou learn to carol of love, And hery with hymns thy lass's glove; Then wouldest thou pipe of Phillis' praise; But Phillis is mine for many days; I won her with a girdle of gelt, Embost with bugle about the belt: Such an one shepheards would make full fain ; Such an one would make thee young again. THE. Thou art a fon, of thy love to boast; All that is lent to love will be lost. v^'^ CUD. Seest how bragyond bullock bears, So smirk, so smooth, his pricked ears?" His horns be as broad as rainbow bent, His dewlap as lithe as lass of Kent: See how he venteth into the wind; Weenest of love is not his mind? Seemeth thy flock thy counsel can, So lustless be they, so weak, so wan ; Clothed with cold, and hoary with frost, Thy flock's father his courage hath lost. Thy ewes, that wont to have blowen bags, Like wailful widows hangen their crags; The rather lambs be starved with cold, All for their master is lustless and old. THE. Cuddie, I wot thou kenst little good, So vainly to advance thy heedlesshood; For youth is a bubble blown up with breath. Whose wit is weakness, whose wage is death. Whose way is wilderness, whose inn penance, And stoop-gallant Age, the host of Grievance. !;?=*». ;^> But shall I tell thee a tale of truth, Which I cond of Tityrus in my youth, Keeping his sheep on the hills of Kent ? CUD. To nought more, Thenot, my mind is bent Than to hear novels of his devise; They be so ^vell thew^ed, and so wise. Whatever that good old man bespake. THE. Many meet tales of youth did he make, And some of love, and some of chivalry; But none fitter than this to apply. Now listen a while and hearken the end. ' ' There grew an aged tree on the green, A goodly Oak sometime had it been. With arms full strong and largely display'd, But of their leaves they were disarray'd: The body big, and mightily pight. Throughly rooted, and of wondrous height ; Whilome had been the king of the field. And mochell mast to the husband did yield, And with his nuts larded many swine : But now the gray moss marred his rine ; His bared boughs were beaten with storms, His top was bald, and wasted with worms, His honour decayed, his branches sere. " Hard by his side grew a bragging Brere, Which proudly thrust into th' element. And seemed to threat the firmament: It was embellish'd with blossoms fair. And thereto aye wonted to repair The shepheards' daughters to gather flowers,' To paint their garlands with his colours; And in his small bushes used to shroud The sweet nightingale singing so loud; Which made this foolish Brere wax so bold, That on a time he cast him to scold And snebbe the good Oak, for he was old. '"Why standst there (quoth he) thou brutish blocfe? Nor for fruit nor for shadow serves thy stock; Seest how fresh my flowers be spread, Dyed in lily white and crimson red, With leaves engrained in lusty green ; Colours meet to clothe a maiden queen? Thy waste bigness but cumbers the ground. And dirks the beauty of my blossoms round: The mouldy moss, which thee accloyeth, My cinnamon smell too much annoyeth: Wherefore soon I rede thee hence remove, Lest thou the price of my displeasure prove.' So spake this bold Brere with great disdain: Little him answered the Oak again, But yielded, with shame and grief adawed. That of a weed he was overcrawed. "It chanced after upon a day, The husbandman self to come that way. Of custom for to surview his ground, And his trees of state in compass round: Him when the spiteful Brere had espied, Causeless complained, and loudly cried Unto his lord, stirring up stern strife: " ' O my liege lord! the god of my life, Pleaseth you ponderyour suppliant's plaint, Caused of wrong and cruel constraint. Which I your poor vassal daily endure ; And, but your goodness the same recure, Am like for desperate dool to die, Through felonous force of mine enemy.' "Greatly aghast with this piteous plea, Him rested the goodman on the lea, And bade the Brere in his plaint proceed. With painted words then gan this proud weed (As most usen ambitious folk) His coloured crime with craft to cloak. "' Ah, my sovereign! lord of creatures all, Thou placer of plants both humble and tall, Wa^ not I planted of thine own hand, To be the primrose of all thy land; 13 } With flow'ring blossoms to furnish the prime, And scarlet berries in summer time ? How falls it then that this faded Oak, Whose body is sere, whose branches broke, Whose naked arms stretch unto the fire. Unto such tyranny doth aspire; Hindering with his shade my lovely light, And robbing me of the sweet sun's sight ? So beat his old boughs my tender side, That oft the blood springeth from woundes wide; Untimely my flowers forced to fall, That be the honour of your coronal: And oft he lets his canker-worms light Upon my branches, to work me more spite ; And oft his hoary locks down doth cast. Wherewith my fresh flow'rets be defast : For this, and many more such outrage. Craving your goodlyhead to assuage The rancorous rigour of his might; Nought ask I, but only to hold my right; Submitting me to your good sufferance. And praying to be guarded from grievance.' "To this this Oak cast him to reply Well as he couth ; but his enemy Had kindled such coals of displeasure. That the goodman nould stay his leisure, But home him hasted with furious heat, Increasing his wrath with many a threat: His harmful hatchet he hent in hand, (Alas! that it so ready should stand!) And to the field alone he speedeth, (Aye little help to harm there needeth!) Anger nould let him speak to the tree, Enaunter his rage might cooled be ; But to the root bent his sturdy stroke. And made many wounds in the waste Oak. The axe's edge did oft turn again, As half unwilling to cut the grain ; 14 c Seemed, the senseless iron did fear, , Or to wrong holy eld did forbear; , ,/ For it had been an ancient tree, Sacred with many a mystery, And often cross'd with the priests' crew, And often hallowed with holy-water dew; But sike fancies weren foolery. And broughten this Oak to this misery; For nought might they quitten him from decay, For fiercely the goodman at him did lay. The block oft groaned under the blow, And sighed to see his near overthrow. In fine, the steel had pierced his pith. Then down to the earth he fell forthwith. His wondrous weight made the ground to quake, Th' earth shrunk under him, and seemed to shake; There lieth the Oak, pitied of none! " Now stands the Brere like a lord alone. Puffed up with pride and vain pleasance; But all this glee had no continuance: For eftsoons winter gan to approach; The blust'ring Boreas did encroach, And beat upon the solitary Brere; For now no succour was seen him near. Now gan he repent his pride too late; For, naked left and disconsolate. The biting frost nipt his stalk dead. The watry wet weighed do\vn his head, And heaped snow burden'd him so sore. That now upright he can stand no more; And, being down, is trod in the durt Of cattle, and broused, and sorely hurt. Such was th' end of this ambitious Brere, For scorning eld — " CUD. Now I pray thee, shepheard, tell it not forth; Here is a long tale, and little worth. So long have I listened to thy speech. That graffed to the ground is my breech; ^ My heartblood is well nigh frorne I feel, And my galage grown fast to my heel; But little ease of thy lewd tale I tasted: Hie thee home, shepheard, the day is nigh wasted. THENOT'S EMBLEME.* Iddio, perche e vecchzo, Fa suoi al suo essempio. CUDDIE'S EMBLEMED Niuno vecchio Spaventa Jddio. i6 •MARCH- •YeRtiX- MARCH. iEGLOGA TERTIA. ARGUMENT. In thisiEglogue two Shepheards' Boys, taking occasion of the season, begin to make purpose of love, and other pleasance which to springtime is most agreeable. The special meaning hereof is, to give certain marks and tokens, to know Cupid the poets' god of Love. But more particularly, I think, in the person of Thomalin, is meant some secret friend, who scorned Love and his knights so long, till at length himself was entangled, and unwares wounded with the dart of some beautiful regard, which is Cupid's arrow. WILLY. THOMALIN. :?^ WILLY Thomalin, why sitten we so. As weren overwent with woe, Upon so fair a morrow? The joyous time now nigheth fast, That shall alegge this bitter blast. And slake the winter sorrow. THO. Sicker, Willy, thou warnest well; For winter's wrath begins to quell. And pleasant spring appeareth : The grass now gins to be refresht. The swallow peeps out of her nest, And cloudy welkin cleareth. WIL. Seest not thilk same hawthorn stud, How bragly it begins to bud. And utter his tender head? Flora now calleth forth each flower. And bids make ready Maia's bower That new is uprist from bed: Then shall we sporten in delight, 19 And learn with Lettice to wax light, That scornfully looks askance; Then will we little Love awake, That now sleepeth in Lethe lake. And pray him leaden our dance. THO. Willy, I ween thou be asset; For lusty Love still sleepeth not, But is abroad at his game. WIL. How kenst thou that he is awoke ? Or hast thyself his slumber broke ? Or made privy to the same ? THO. No; but happily I him spied, Where in a bush he did him hide, With wings of purple and blue; And, were not that my sheep would stray. The privy marks I would bewray, Whereby by chance I him knew. WIL. Thomalin, have no care forthy; Myself will have a double eye, Alike to my flock and thine; For, alas ! at home I have a sire, A stepdame eke, as hot as fire, That duly adays counts mine. THO. Nay, but thy seeing will not serve. My sheep for that may chance to swerve, And fall into some mischief: For sithens is but the third morrow That I chanc'd to fall asleep with sorrow, And waked again with grief; The while thilk same unhappy ewe. Whose clouted leg her hurt doth shew, Fell headlong into a dell. And there unjointed both her bones: Might her neck been jointed attones. She should have need no more spell; Th' elf was so wanton and so wood, (But now I trow can better good,) She might ne gang on the green. y^ WIL. Let be, as may be, that is past ; That is to come, let be forecast : Now tell us what thou hast seen. THO. It was upon a holiday, When shepheards' grooms have leave to play, I cast to go a shooting; Long wand'ring up and down the land. With bow and bolts in either hand, For birds in bushes tooting, At length within the ivy tod, (There shrouded was the little god,) I heard a busy bustling; I bent my bolt against the bush, List'ning if any thing did rush, But then heard no more rustling. Then, peeping close into the thick. Might see the moving of some quick. Whose shape appeared not; But were it faery, fiend, or snake. My courage yearn'd it to awake. And manfully thereat shot: With that sprang forth a naked swain ; With spotted wings like peacock's train, And laughing lope to a tree ; His gilden quiver at his back, And silver bow, which was but slack. Which lightly he bent at me : That seeing, I levell'd again, And shot at him with might and main, As thick as it had hailed. So long I shot, that all was spent; Then pumie stones I hast'ly hent. And threw; but nought availed : He was so wimble and so wight. From bough to bough he leaped light. And oft the pumies latched: Therewith afraid I ran away; But he, that erst seem'd but to play, # / h A shaft in earnest snatched, And hit me running in the heel: For then I little smart did feel, But soon it sore increased; And now it rankleth more and more, And inwardly it fest'reth sore, Ne wote I how to cease it. WIL. Thomalin, I pity thy plight, Perdie with Love thou didest fight ; I know him by a token : For once I heard my father say, How he him caught upon a day, (Whereof he will be wroken,)' Entangled in a fowling net. Which he for carrion crows had set That in our pear-tree haunted: Then said, he was a winged lad, But bow and shafts as then none had, Else had he sore been daunted. But see, the welkin thicks apace. And stooping Phoebus steeps his face; It's time to haste us homeward. WILLY'S EMBLEME. To be wise and eke to love. Is granted scarce to gods abone. THOMALIN'S EMBLEME. Of honey and of gall in love there is store; The honey is much, but the gall is more. (>««»vi**»i ; ^ ,..•«. APRIL. iEGLOGA QUARTA. ARGUMENT. This iEglogue is purposely intended to the honour and praise of our most gracious sovereign, Queen Elizabeth. The speakers hereof be Hobbinol and Thenot, two shepheards: the which Hobbinol, beingbeforementioned greatly to have loved Colin, is here set forth more largely, complaining him of that boy's great misadventure in love ; whereby his mind was alienated and withdrawn not only from him, who most loved him, but also from all former delights and studies, as well in pleasant piping, as cunning rhyming and singing, and other his laudable exercises. Whereby he taketh occasion, for proof of his more excellency and skill in poetry, to record a song, which the said Colin sometime made in honour of her Majesty, whom abruptly he termeth Elisa. THENOT. HOBBINOL. THENOT. Tell me, good Hobbinol, what gars thee greet? What ! hath some wolf thy tender lambs ytorn ? Or is thy bagpipe broke, that sounds so sweet? Or art thou of thy loved lass forlorn ? Or be thine eyes attemper'd to the year. Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain ? Like April shower, so stream the trickling tears Adown thy cheek, to quench thy thirsty pain. HOB. Nor this, nor that, so much doth make me mourn. But for the lad. whom long I lov'd so dear, Now loves a lass that all his love doth scorn : He, plunged in pain, his tressed locks doth tear; Shepheard's delights he doth them all forswear; His pleasant pipe, which made us merriment, He wilfully hath broke, and doth forbear His wonted songs wherein he all outwent. THE. What is he for a lad you so lament? Is love such pinching pain to them that prove ? And hath he skill to make so excellent, Yet hath so little skill to bridle love ? HOB. Colin thou kenst, the southern shepheard's boy; Him Love hath wounded with a deadly dart: Whilome on him was all my care and joy, Forcing with gifts to win his wanton heart. But now from me his madding mind is start, And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen ; So now fair Rosalind hath bred his smart; So now his friend is changed for a frenne. THE. But if his ditties be so trimly dight, I pray thee, Hobbinol, record some one, The whiles our flocks do graze about in sight, And we close shrouded in this shade alone. HOB. Contented I : then will I sing his lay Of fair Elisa, queen of shepheards all, Which once he made as by a spring he lay, And tuned it unto the waters' fall. "Ye dainty Nymphs, that in this blessed brook Do bathe your breast, Forsake your watry bowers, and hither look. At my request. And eke you virgins, that on Parnass dwell, Whence floweth Helicon, the learned well. Help me to blaze Her worthy praise. Which in her sex doth all excel. ' ' Of fair Elisa be your silver song, That blessed wight. The flower of virgins; may she flourish long In princely plight! For she is Syrinx' daughter without spot. Which Pan, the shepheards' god, of her begot; 36 £ So sprung her grace Of heavenly race, No mortal blemish may her blot. "See, where she sits upon the grassy green, (O seemly sight!) Yclad in scarlet, like a maiden queen, And ermines white: Upon her head a crimson coronet, With damask roses and daffadillies set; Bay leaves between, And primroses green, Embellish the sweet violet. "Tell me, have ye seen her angelic face, Like Phoebe fair? Her heavenly haveour, her princely grace. Can you well compare? The red rose medled with the white yfere, In either cheek depeincften lively cheer: Her modest eye, Her majesty, Where have you seen the like but there ? "I saw Phoebus thrust out his golden head, Upon her to gaze; But, when he saw how broad her beams did spread, It did him amaze. He blush'd to see another sun below, Ne durst again his fiery face out show. Let him, if he dare. His brightness compare With hers, to have the overthrow. " Shew thyself, Cynthia, with thy silver rays, And be not abash'd: When she the beams of her beauty displays, O how art thou dash'd! :^=^ But I will not match her with Latona's seed; Such folly great sorrow to Niobe did breed. And she is a stone, And makes daily moan, Warning all other to take heed. "Pan may be proud that ever he begot Such abellibone; And Syrinx rejoice, that ever was her lot To bear such an one. Soon as my younglings crying for the dam, To her will I offer a milkwhite lamb; She is my goddess plain, And I her shepheard's swain, Albe forswonk and forswat I am. "I see Calliope speed her to the place, Where my goddess shines; And after her the other Muses trace, With their violins. Be they not bay-branches which they do bear. All for Elisa in her hand to wear? So sweetly they play. And sing all the way. That it a heaven is to hear. " Lo, how finely the Graces can it foot To the instrument : They dancen deftly, and singen soote. In their merriment. Wants not a fourth Grace, to make the dance even ? Let that room to my Lady be yeven She shall be a Grace, To fill the fourth place. And reign with the rest in heaven. "And whither runs this bevy of ladies bright, Ranged in a row ? 28 £ They be all Ladies of the Lake behight, That unto her go. Chloris, that is the chiefest nymph of all, Of olive branches bears a cdronal: Olives be for peace, When wars do surcease: Such for a princess be principal. "Ye shepheards' daughters, that dwell on the green, Hie you there apace: Let none come there but that virgins bene, / To adorn her grace: ^^^i, And, when you come whereas she is in place, See that your rudeness do not you disgrace: . ,, Bind your fillets fast, ^'t^^yt^f<^^ And gird in your waist, \/ gj^ r For more fineness, with a tawdry ' lace. *^ ' J^ ti " Bring hither the pink and purple columbine, v^, ^^ With gelliflowers; Bring coronations, and sops-in-wine, Worn of paramours: Strow me the ground with daffadowndillies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lillies; The pretty paunce. And the chevisance. Shall match with the fair flower delice. ■.<^^ If " Now rise up, Elisa, decked as thou art In royal array; And now ye damty damsels may depart Each one her way. I fear I have troubled your troops too long; Let Dame Elisa thank you for her song: And, if you come hither When damsines I gather, I will part them all you among." 29 ]li THE. And was thilk same song of Colin's own making? Ah! foolish boy! that is with love yblent; Great pity is, he be in such taking, For naught caren that be so lewdly bent. HOB. Sicker I hold him for a greater fon. That loves the thing he cannot purchase. But let us homeward, for night draweth on, And twinkling stars the daylight hence chase. THENOT'S EMBLEME.* O qjmm et memorem virgo ! HOBBINOL'S EMBLEME. O Dea certe I 30 ■X6GLOGA: 'tf Or prick them forth with pleasance of thy vein, * yf Whereto thou list their trained wills entice ! ^ Soon as thou 'ginn'st to set thy notes in frame, O how the rural routs to thee do cleave ! Seemeth thou dost their soul of sense bereave, All as the shepheard that did fetch his dame From Pluto's baleful bower withouten leave; His music's might the hellish hound did tame. CUD. So praisen babes the peacock's spotted train, And wondren at bright Argus' blazing eye; But who rewards him e'er the more forthy. Or feeds him once the fuller by a grain ? Such praise is smoke, that sheddeth in the sky; Such words be wind, and wasten soon in vain. PIERS. Abandon then the base and viler clown; Lift up thyself out of the lowly dust. And sing of bloody Mars, of wars, of giusts; Turn thee to those that wield the awful crown, ' To doubted knights, whose woundless armour rusts, And helms unbruised waxen daily brown. There may thy Muse display her flutt'ring wing, And stretch herself at large from east to west; Whither thou list in fair Elisa " rest. Or, if thee please in bigger notes to sing, Advance the Worthy whom she loveth best. That first the White Bear to the stake did bring. 84 iffiS^jL r^ And, when the stubborn stroke of stronger stounds Has somewhat slack'd the tenor of thy string, Of love and lustihead then mayst thou sing, And carol loud, and lead the Miller's round, All were Elisa one of thilk same ring; So might our Cuddie's name to heaven sound. CUD. Indeed the Romish Tityrus, I hear, I Through his Mecaenas left his oaten reed, ^ \J{i^ Whereon he erst had taught his flocks to feed, And laboured lands to yield the timely ear, And eft did sing of wars and deadly dreed So as the heavens did quake his verse to hear. , . But ah! Mecaenas is yclad in clay, m fA*^ And great Augustus long ago is dead, ^^ And all the worthies liggen wrapt in lead, That matter made for poets on to play: For ever, who in derring-do were dread, The lofty verse of them was loved aye. But after Virtue gan for age to stoop, And mighty Manhood brought a bed of ease, The vaunting poets found nought worth a pease To put in press among the learned troop; Then gan the streams of flowing wits to cease, And sunbright honour penn'd in shameful coop. And if that any buds of Poesy, Yet of the old stock, gan to shoot again. Or it men's follies must to-force to feign. And roll with rest in rhymes of ribaudry ; Or, as it sprung, it wither must again; Tom Piper makes us better melody. PIERS. O peerless Po'sy! where is then thy place? If nor in princes' palace thou dost sit, (And yet is princes' palace the most fit,) 8.S Ne breast of baser birth doth thee embrace, Then make thee wings of thine aspiring wit, And, whence thou cam'st, fly back to heaven apace. CUD. Ah! Percy, it is all-to weak and wan, So high to soar and make so large a flight; Her pieced pinions be not so in plight: For Colin fits such famous flight to scan; He, were he not with love so ill bedight. Would mount as high and sing as sweet as swan. PIERS. Ah ! fon ; for Love does teach him climb so high, U .^.\^P And lifts him up out of the loathsome mire: Such immortal mirror, as he doth admire. Would raise one's mind above the starry sky. And cause a caitiff" courage to aspire; For lofty love doth loathe a lowly eye. CUD. All otherwise the state of Poet stands ; For lordly Love is such a tyrant fell, That, where he rules, all power he doth expel; The vaunted verse a vacant head demands, Ne wont with crabbed care the Muses dwell: Unwisely weaves, that takes two webs in hand. Who ever casts to compass weighty prize. And thinks to throw out thund'ring words of threat, Let pour in lavish cups and thrifty bits of meat, For Bacchus' fruit is friend to Phoebus wise ; ^' ^• And, when with wine the brain begins to sweat, ^ jV The numbers flow as fast as spring doth rise. y^ Thou kenst not, Percie, how the rhyme should rage; O if my temples were distain'd with wine, And girt in garlands of wild ivy twine. How I could rear the Muse on stately stage, And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine. With quaint Bellona in her equipage ! 86 But ah! my courage cools ere it be warm: Forthy content us in this humble shade, Where no such troublous tides have us assay'd; Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. PIERS. And, when my goats shall have their bellies laid, Cuddie shall have a kid to store his farm. CUDDIE'S EMBLEME Ai^itanie caUscimus ilio, etc. 7Z NOV£MBeR: NOVEMBER. MENT. iEGLOGA UNDECIMA. ARGU- In this xi. JEglogue he bewaileth the death of some maiden of great blood, whom he calleth Dido. The per- sonage is secret, and to me altogether unknown, albeit of himself I often required the same. This iEglogue is made in imitation of Marot his song, which he made upon the death of Loyes the French Queen; but far passing his reach, and in mine opinion all other the iEglogues of this Book. THENOT. COLIN. THENOT. Colin, my dear, when shall it please thee sing, As thou wert wont, songs of some jovisance? Thy Muse too long slumb'reth in sorrowing, Lulled asleep through Love's misgovernance. Now somewhat sing, whose endless sovenance Among the shepheards' swains may aye remain, Whether thee list thy loved lass advance, Or honour Pan with hymns of higher vein. COL. Thenot, now n'is the time of merrimake, Nor Pan to herie, nor with Love to play; Such mirth in May is meetest for to make, Or summer shade, under the cocked hay. But now sad winter welked hath the day. And Phoebus, weary of his yearly task, Ystabled hath his steeds in lowly lay. And taken up his inn in Fishes' '" hask: Thilk sullen season sadder plight doth ask, And loatheth such delights as thou dost praise : The mournful Muse in mirth nov/ list ne mask, ) ,' As she was wont in youth and summer-days; 9' But if thou algate lust light virelays, And looser songs of love to underfong, Who but thyself deserves such poets' praise? Relieve thy oaten pipes that sleepen long. THE. The nightingale is sovereign of song, Before him sits the titmouse silent be; And I, unfit to thrust in skilful throng, Should Colin make judge of my foolery. Nay, better learn of them that learned be. And have been watered at the Muses' well; The Kindly dew drops from the higher tree, And wets the little plants that lowly dwell: But if sad winter's wrath, and season chill, Accord not with thy Muse's merriment. To sadder times thou mayst attune thy quill. And sing of sorrow and death's dreariment; For dead is Dido,^^ dead, alas! and drent. Dido! the great shepheard his daughter sheen: The fairest may she was that ever went. Her like she has not left behind, I ween: And, if thou wilt bewail my woful teen, I shall thee give yond cosset for thy pain; And, if thy rhymes as round and rueful been As those that did thy Rosalind complain. Much greater gifts for guerdon thou shalt gain. Than kid or cosset, which I thee benempt: Then up, I say, thou jolly shepheard swain. Let not my small demand be so contempt. COL. Thenot, to that I chose thou dost me tempt; But ah ! too well I wot my humble vein. And how my rhymes be rugged and unkempt; Yet, as I con, my conning I will strain. " Up, then, Melpomene! the mournful'st Muse of Nine, Such cause of mourning never hadst afore ; Up, grisly ghosts! and up my rueful rhyme! Matter of mirth now shalt thou have no more; For dead she is, that mirth thee made of yore. 92 Dido, my dear, alas! is dead, Dead, and lieth wrapt in lead. O heavy herse! Let streaming tears be poured out in store; O careful verse! "Shepheards.thatbyyourflocks ofKentish downsabide, Wail ye this woful waste of Nature's wark ; Wail we the wight, whose presence was our pride ; Wail we the wight, whose absence is our cark; The sun of all the world is dim and dark; The earth now lacks her wonted light, And all we dwell in deadly night. O heavy herse! Break we our pipes, that shrill'd as loud as lark; O careful verse! "Why do we longer live, (ah! why live we so long?) Whose better days Death hath shut up in woe.' The fairest flower our garland all among Is faded quite, and into dust ygo. Sing now, ye shepheards' daughters, sing no moe The songs that Colin made you in her praise, But into weeping turn your wanton lays. O heaVy herse! Now is time to die : nay, time was long ago: O careful verse! "Whence is it, that the flowret of the field doth fade, And lieth buried long in Winter's bale; Yet, soon as Spring his mantle hath display'd, It flow'reth fresh, as it should never fail ? But thing on earth that is of most avail, As virtue's branch and beauty's bud, Reliven not for any good. O heavy herse! The branch once dead, the bud eke needs must quail; O careful verse! 93 li !i "She, while she was, (that was, a woful word to sayn!) For beauty's praise and pleasance had no peer; So well she couth the shepheards entertain With cakes and cracknels, and such country cheer: Ne would she scorn the simple shepheard's swain; For she would call him often heme, And give him curds and clouted cream. O heavy herse! Als Colin Clout she would not once disdain; O careful verse ! "But now such happy cheer is turn'd to heavy chance, Such pleasance now displac'd by dolor's dint; All music sleeps, where Death doth lead the dance, And shepheards' wonted solace is extin(5l. The blue in black, the green in gray, is tin(rt; The gaudy garlands deck her grave, The faded flowers her corse embrave. O heavy herse! Mourn now, my Muse, now mourn with tears besprint; O careful verse! ' ' O thou great shepheard, Lobbin , how great is thy grief? Where be the nosegays that she dight for thee? The coloured chaplets wrought with a chief, ^° The knotted rush-rings, and gilt rosemary? For she deemed nothing too dear for thee. Ah! they be all yclad in clay; One bitter blast blew all away. O heavy herse! Thereof nought remains but the memory; O careful verse! "Ah me ! that dreary death should strike so mortal stroke , That can undo Dame Nature's kindly course; The faded locks fall from the lofty oak. The floods do gasp, for dried is their source. And floods of tears flow in their stead perforce: Maagu The mantled meadows mourn, Their sundry colours turn. O heavy herse! The heavens do melt in tears without remorse; O careful verse! "The feeble flocks in field refuse their former food, And hang their heads as they would learn to weep; The beasts in forest wail as they were wood. Except the wolves, that chase the wand'ring sheep. Now she is gone that safely did them keep: The turtle on the bared branch Laments the wound that Death did launch. O heavy herse! And Philomele her song with tears doth steep; O careful verse! "The water nymphs, that wont with her to sing and dance, And for her garland olive branches bear, Now baleful boughs of cypress do advance; The Muses, that were wont green bays to wear. Now bringen bitter elder branches sere ; The Fatal Sisters eke repent Her vital thread so soon was spent. O heavy herse ! Mourn now, my Muse, now mourn with heavy cheer; O careful verse! "O trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men, that swink and sweat for nought. And, shooting wide, doth miss the marked scope; Now have I learn'd fa lesson dearly bought) That n'is on earth assurance to be sought; For what might be in earthly mould, That did her buried body hold? O heavy herse! Yet saw I on the bier when it was brought; O careful verse! 95 " But maugre Death, and dreaded Sisters' deadly spite, And gates of hell, and fiery Furies' force, She hath the bonds broke of eternal night, Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Why then weeps Lobbin so without remorse ? Lobb! thy loss no longer lament; Dido is dead, but into heaven hent. O happy herse! Cease now, my Muse, now cease thy sorrows' source, O joyful verse! "Why wail we then? why weary we the gods with ^/i plaints. As if some evil were to her betight? She reigns a goddess now among the saints. That whilome was the saint of shepheards light, And is installed now in heavens' height, 1 see thee, blessed soul! I see Walk in Elysian fields so free. O happy herse! Might I once come to thee, (O that I might!) O joyful verse! "Unwise and wretched men, to weet what's good or ill, We deenr of death as doom of ill desert; But knew we, fools, what it us brings until. Die would we daily, once it to expert! No danger there the shepheard can assert; Fair fields and pleasant lays there bene; The fields aye fresh, the grass aye green. O happy herse! Make haste, ye shepheards, thitherto revert. O joyful verse! " Dido is gone afore ; (whose turn shall be the next ?) There lives she with the blessed gods in bliss, There drinks she necTtar with ambrosia mixt, And joys enjoys that mortal men do miss. 96 The honour now of highest gods she is, That whilome was poor shepheards' pride, While here on earth she did abide. O happy herse! Cease now, my song, my woe now wasted is; O joyful verse!" THE. Ay, frank shepheard, how be thy verses meint With doleful pleasance, so as I ne wot Whether rejoice or weep for great constraint ! Thine be the cosset, well hast thou it got. Up, Colin, up, enough thou mourned hast; Now 'gins to mizzle, hie we homeward fast. COLIN'S EMBLEME. La mort ny mord. (Death has lost its sting.) ^/fr^ If^ • ''^i<^ 97 AeGLOGXy DuoDecinA' COLIN 'i • ,^0^. tiJMJMTgfi , ^ DECEMBER. MENT. i^GLOGA DUODECIMA. ' ARGU- This i^glogue (even as the first began) is ended with a complaint of Colin to god Pan; wherein, as weary of his former ways, he proportioneth his life to the four seasons of the year; comparing his youth to the spring time, when he was fresh and free from love's folly. His manhood to the summer, which, he saith, was con- sumed with great heat and excessive drouth, caused through a comet or blazing star, by which he meaneth love; which passion is commonly compared to such flames and immoderate heat. His ripest years he re- sembleth to an unseasonable harvest, wherein the fruits fall ere they be ripe. His latter age to winter's chill and frosty season, now drawing near to his last end. The gentle shepheard sat beside a spring. All m the shadow of a bushy brere. That Colin hight, which well could pipe and sing, For he of Tityrus his song did lere: There, as he sat in secret shade alone. Thus gan he make of love his piteous moan. "O sovereign Pan! thou god of shepheards all. Which of our tender lambkins takest keep. And, when our flocks into mischance might fall. Dost save from mischief the unwary sheep, Als of their masters hast no less regard Than of the flocks, which thou dost watch and ward; "I thee beseech Tso be thou deign to hear Rude ditties, tun'd to shepheard's oaten reed. Or if I ever sonnet sung so clear. ?=*x 5 Hi A)^- As it with pleasance might thy fancy feed,) Hearken a while, from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. " Whilome in youth, when flower'd my joyful spring, Like swallow swift I wander'd here and there; For heat of heedless lust me so did sting, That I of doubted danger had no fear: I went the wasteful woods and forest wide, Withouten dread of wolves to be espied. "I wont to range amid the mazy thicket, And gather nuts to make my Christmas-game, And joyed oft to chase the trembling pricket, Or hunt the heartless hare till she were tame. What recked I of wintry age's waste? — Then deemed I my spring would ever last. "How often have I scaled the craggy oak. All to dislodge the raven of her nest ? How have I wearied, with many a stroke. The stately walnut-tree, the while the rest Under the tree fell all for nuts at strife? For like to me was liberty and life. "And for I was in thilk same looser years, (Whether the Muse so wrought me from my birth, Or I too much believ'd my shepheard peers,) Somedele ybent to song and music's mirth, A good old shepheard, Wrenock was his name, Made me by art more cunning in the same. "Fro thence I durst in derringto compare With shepheard's swain whatever fed in field; And, if that Hobbinol right judgment bare, To Pan his own self pipe I need not yield: For, if the flocking nymphs did follow Pan, The wiser Muses after Colin ran. "But, ah! such pride at length was ill repaid; The shepheard's god (perdie, god was he none) My hurtless pleasance did me ill upbraid, My freedom lorn, my life he left to moan. Love they him called that gave me check-mate, But better might they have behote him Hate. "Then gan my lovely spring bid me farewell, And summer season sped him to display (For Love then in the Lion's house did dwell,) The raging fire that kindled at his ray. A comet stirr'd up that unkindly heat. That reigned (as men said) in Venus' seat. "Forth was I led, not as I wont afore, When choice I had to choose my wand'ring way, But whether luck and love's unbridled lore Would lead me forth on Fancy's bit to play: The bush my bed, the bramble was my bower, The woods can witness many a woful stowre. "Where I was wont to seek the honey bee. Working her formal rooms in waxen frame. The grisly toadstool grown there might I see. And loathed paddocks lording on the same : And, where the chanting birds lull'd me asleep, The ghastly owl her grievous inn doth keep. "Then as the spring gives place to elder Time, And bringeth forth the fruit of summer's pride; All so my age, now passed youthly prime, To things of riper season self applied. And learn'd of lighter timber cotes to frame, Such as might save my sheep and me fro shame. "To make fine cages for the nightingale. And baskets of bulrushes, was my wont: Who to entrap the fish in winding sale 103 } Was better seen, or hurtful beasts to hont? I learned als the signs of heaven to ken, How Phoebus fails, where Venus sets, and when. "And tried time yet taught me greater things; The sudden rising of the raging seas, The sooth of birds by beating of their wings. The power of herbs, both which can hurt and ease, And which be wont t' enrage the restless sheep, And which be wont to work eternal sleep. "But, ah! unwise and witless Colin Clout, That kydst the hidden kinds of many a weed. Yet kydst not one to cure thy sore heart-root. Whose rankling wound as yet does rifely bleed. Why livest thou still, and yet hast thy death's wound ? (^ Why diest thou still, and yet alive art found? "Thus is my summer worn away and wasted, Thus is my harvest hastened all-to rathe; The ear that budded fair is burnt and blasted, And all my hoped gain is turn'd to scathe. Of all the seed, that in my youth was sown. Was none but brakes and brambles to be mown. "My boughs with blooms that crowned were at first. And promised of timely fruit such store. Are left both bare and barren now at erst; The flattering fruit is fallen to ground before. And rotted ere they were half mellow ripe; My harvest, waste, my hope away did wipe. " The fragrant flowers, that in my garden grew, Be withered, as they had been gathered long: Their roots be dried up for lack of dew. Yet dewed with tears they have been ever among. Ah ! who has wrought my Rosalind this spite. To spoil the flowers that should her garland dight? 104 "And I, that whilome wont to frame my pipe Unto the shifting of the shepheard's foot. Such follies now have gathered as too ripe. And cast them out as rotten and unsoote. The looser lass I cast to please no more ; One if I please, enough is me therefore. ' ' And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedy crop of care; Which, when Ithought havethresh'din swellingsheave, Cockle for corn, and chaff for barley, bare : Soon as the chaff should in the fan be fin'd, All was blown away of the wavering wind. " So now my year draws to his latter term, My spring is spent, my summer burnt up quite ; My harvest hastes to stir up Winter stern, And bids him claim with rig,orous rage his right : So now he storms with many a sturdy stour; So now his blust'ring blast each coast doth scour. "The careful cold hath nipt my rugged rind. And in my face deep furrows eld hath pight: My head besprent with hoary frost I find, And by mine eye the crow his claw doth write : Delight is laid abed; and pleasure past; No sun now shines; clouds have all overcast. "Now leave, ye shepheards' boys, your merry glee ; My Muse is hoarse and weary of this stound : Here will I hang my pipe upon this tree, Was never pipe of reed did better sound: Winter is come that blows the bitter blast. And after winter dreary death does hast. "Gather together, ye my little flock. My little flock, that was to me so lief; Let me, ah! let me in your folds ye lock, '05 Ere the breme winter breed you greater grief. Winter is come, that blows the baleful breath, And after winter cometh timely death. "Adieu, delights, that lulled me asleep; Adieu, my dear, whose love I bought so dear; Adieu, my little lambs and loved sheep; Adieu, ye woods, that oft my witness were : Adieu, good Hobbinol, that was so true. Tell Rosalind, her Colin bids her adieu." COLIN'S EMBLEME. Vivitur ingenio : C(ztera mortis enint. (The creations of genius live; other things shall be the prey of death.) M^^^] io6 EPILOGUE. Lo! I have made a Calender for every year, That steel in strength, and time in durance, shall out- wear; And, if I marked well the stars' revolution, It shall continue till the world's dissolution. To teach the ruder shepheard how to feed his sheep, And from the falser's fraud his folded flock to keep. Go, little Calender! thou hast a free passport; Go but a lowly gate amongst the meaner sort : Dare not to match thy pipe with Tityrus his style,' Nor with the Pilgrim"' that the ploughman play'd a while; But follow them far off, and their high steps adore ; The better please, the worse despise ; I ask no more. MERCE NON MERCEDE. (For recompense, but not for hire.) NOTES. Piigi- xviii, note i. — The name of the writer of this letter is unknown. Pil^f 5, notf 2. -" Hobbinol : " the authors friend Gabriel Harvey. Pa^^d 10, note ^. — "Good Friday:" Good Friday is saiti to frown, as being a fast-day. Pa^e 16, note 4. — Thenot's emblem means, in substance, that God, who is aged Himself, being without be- ginning of days, makes those whom He loves, to be aged, like Himself; and that it is a mark of His favour to be old. Cuddie's emblem is,*" No old man fears God " — a sarcasm against Thenot. /'ii^'e 29, note 5. — " Tawdry: " is here used m its primitive sense, denoting something bought at the fair of St. Ethelred, or St. Awdrey. Page 30, note 6. — " This poesy is taken out of Virgil, and there of him used in the person of JEneas to his mother Venus, appearing to him in likeness of one of Diana's damsels ; being there most divinely set forth. To which similitude of divinity Hobbinol comparing the excellency of Elisa, and being through the worthiness of Colin's song, as it were, overcome with the hugeness of his imagination, bursteth out in great admiration, (O quam tc vumoroii rirgol) being otherwise unable, than by sudden silence, to express the worthiness of his conceit. Whom Thenot answereth with another part of the like verse, as confirming by his grant and approv- ance, that Elisa is no whit inferior to the majesty of her, of whom the poet so boldly pronounced, O Jea rerte.'" E. K. Page 35, note 7. -" Algrind : " Archbishop Grindall. 109 Page 37, 7iote 8. — " Fox," " Kid : " " By the Kid may be understood the simple sort of the faithful and true Christians ; by his dam, Christ, that hath already with careful watchwords (as here doth the Goat) warned her little ones to beware of such doubling deceit ; by the Fox, the false and faithless Papists, to whom is no credit to be given, nor fellowship to be used."— E. K. Page 41, note 9. — " Sir John : " a name applied to a Popish priest. Page 47, note 10. — " Tityrus : " Chaucer is meant. Page 53, note 11. — " Morrell : " supposed to be Elmer, or Aylmer, Bishop of London. Po-S^ 53, note 12. — "The sun:" the sun enters Leo in July. Page 59, note 13. — " An eagle : " the same story is told of the death of Eschylus. Pages 68, 69, note 14. — " The meaning hereof is very ambi- guous: forPerigotbyhisposyclaimingtheconquest, and Willie not yielding, Cuddie the arbiter of their cause, and patron of his own, seemeth to challenge it, as his due, saying, that he is happy which can ; so abruptly ending; but he meaneth either him, that can win the best, or moderate himself being best, and leave off with the best." — E. K. Page 77, note 15.—" Saxon king: " King Edgar, in whose reign wolves are said to have disappeared in England. Page 84, note 16.—" Elisa : " Queen Elizabeth ; the " Worthy " is the Earl of Leicester. Page 87, note 17. — This emblem is portion of a Latin verse, expressing the thought of the pastoral, that poetry is a fervid glow of inspiration which animates and kindles. Page 91, note 18. — " Fishes : " the sun enters the constel- lation Pisces in November. /'a^^92, «^/^ 19.— '• Dido" and "great shepheard" both refer to real persons unknown. Page 94, note- 20. — " Wrought with a chief: " wrought into a head, like a nosegay. Page loi, note 21. — Translated freely from the French of Marot. Page 107, rii'te 22. — " The pilgrim : " perhaps the author of the " Visions of Pierce Ploughman. " ?=*^ GLOSSARY. Accloyeth, encumbfreth. Accoyed, daitnUd. Adawed, liaunttd. Adays, a'ery day. Albe, although. Alegge, assuage. Algate, at all rants. All, although. All be it, \} It hough it be. All-to, entirely. All-to rathe, too early. Als, also. Arede, declare, repeat, explain. Assayed, affected. Assert, befall. Assot, stupid. As weren overwent, as if we were o~i'ercome. At erst, at last. Attone, also. Attones, at same time. Availe, bring doicn, lower. Availes, is lowered. Babes, dolls. Bale, ruin. Balk, miss. Bate, bated, fed. Bedight, affected. Behight, behote, called. B el i V e , promptly. Bellibone {belle et bonne), good and beautiful one. Bend, band. Bene, are. Benempt, named, mentioned. Bent, obedient. Besprint, besprent, be- sprinkled. Betight, betide, happened. Bett, better. Bidding base, game of prison base. Biggen, cap. Bin, be. Black bower, i.e., hell. Bloncket \\vt.v\z^s, gray coats. Blont, unpolished. Borrell, rustic. "Bovrovj, pledge, surety, Saviour. Brace, compass. Brag, bragly, proudly. Breme, sharp. Brent, burnt. Brere, brier. Brocage, pimping. Bugle, beads. But, unless. Buxom, yielding. Can, knows. Careful, sorro-uful. Careful case, unhappy cor.- d it ion. Cark, sorroiv. Chaffred, sold or exchanged. Chamfred, -wrinkled. Charm, temper, tune. Chevisance, performajicc^ 7'e- suit, bargain. Chips, fragmefits. Collusion, amning. Con, know. Cond, learned. Confusion, destruction. Contempt, conteinned. Convenable, conformable. Corb, crooked. Cosset, lamb. Cote, sheep/old. Courage, fnind. Couth, knew how, could. Cracknels, biscuits. Crag, neck. Crank, courageous. Crumenall, ptirse. Dapper dXftxzs, pretty songs. Deed, doing, cojnpositig. Defast, defaced. Dempt, deemed. Depeincten, painted. Derring, manly deeds. Derring-do, daring deeds. Devoir, duty. Dight, adorn, prepare; adorned, prepared, dealt with. Dint, pang of grief . Dirk, darkly. Dirks, darkens. Disease, disturb. Dole, dool, sorrow, grief. Doom, judgment. Doubted, redoubted. Drent, dro^vned, perished. Eath, easy. Eft, quickly, soon. Eftsoons, immediately. Eked, increased. Eld, age. Embrave, adorn. Emprise, enterprise. Enaunter, lest, lest that. Enchased, engraved. Encheason, occasion. Entrailed, intwined. Erst, before, at once. Expert, experience. Faitours, villains, vagabonds. Falsers, deceivers. Fay, faith. File, defile. Fined, sifted. Von, fool. ¥ ond, foolish. Fondness, >//)'. Fonly, foolishly. Foresaid, banished. Foreslow, impede, obstruct. Forestall, prevent. Forhaile, distress. For-say, forsake. Forswat, spent with heat. Forswonk, overlaboiired. Forthy, therefore, 07i that ac- C02int. Frenne, stranger. Frorne, frozen. Frowy, nmsty. Galage, 7voodcn shoe. Gang, go. Gars, Diakes. Gastful, dreary. Gate, way. Gelt, a gildeii girJh: Giant, Ai/as. Giusts, tourna incuts. Go, i:;one. Gree, de^ee. Greet, wetp . ntourning. Gride, grydc, />urud. Gross, whole. Harbrough, habitation . Hask, basket. Haveour, demeanour. Heme, home. Hent, took, taken. Hentst, takest. Herdgrooms, herdsmen. Herie, hery, honour, praise. Herse, rehearsal, tale. Heydeguys, dances. Hidder and shidder,///w an,.. her. Hight, purports ; was named. Hote, mentiotied ; was called. If, unless. Ilk, the same. Inly, inwardly. Inn, abode. Jovisance, joyousness. Keep, care, charge. Ken, kninc. Kend, knenon. Kenst, kno7i>cst. Kerns, /a rmers. Kirk, church. Knack, tn'ck. Knaves, senants. Kydst, kno'west. Laid, faint. L,arded, J aliened. Latched, caught. Lays, leas, fields. 'LeaiSing, falsehood, lies. Lere, lore, lesson ; learn. Lever, rather. Levin, lightning. L,ewd, foolish. Lewdly, foolishly. Lief, dear, beloved. Lig, ligg, liggen, lie. 'L.oord, fellow. Lope, leaped. Lorn, left, lost. Lorrell, ignorant, worthless felUmi. Louted, did honour. Lust, wishest. L u st i h e d , pleasure. Lust less, languid. Maintenance, behaviour. Make, versify. Maugre, in spite of. May, maid. May-buskets, May-bushes. Mazer, bo-wl. Medle, mingle. Meint, mingled. Melling, meddli/ig. Men of the lay, laymen. \ ?=*<. \rA Merit, ?Ht?igled. Merciable, merciful. Mickle, 7ntich. Miller's round, a dance. Mirk, very obscure. Miscreance, tmbelief. Misgone, gone astray. Missay, say evil. Mister men, kind of men. Mister saying, kind of speech. Mis went, gone astray. Mizzle, to rain a little. Mochell, much. Moe, more. Most what, affairs. Most- what, /^r the most part. Musical, music. Narre, nearer. N'as, has not. Newell, novelty. Nighly, nearly so much. Nill, will not. N'is, is not. N'ote, know not. Nought seemeth,/^ unseemly. Nould, would not. Overcrawed, overcrowed. Overgone, surpassed. Overhale, draw over. Overture, open place. Paddocks, toads. Pained, exerted himself. Paramours, lovers. Paunce, pajisy. Perdie, in truth, truly. xi6 Peregall, equal. Perk, pert. Pert, open. Pieced, imperfect. Pight, put, placed. Plainful, lamentable. Prick, fuark. Pricket, buck. Prief, proof Prime, spring. Primrose, chief flower. Pumie, pumice. Purchase, obtain. Purpose, conversation. Quaint, strange. Quell, abate. Queme, please. Quick, alive. Quit, deliver. Rathe, early. Rather, born early. Record, repeat. Rede, saying; advise, tell. Reliven, live again. Ribaudry, ribaldry. "Riie, frequent. Rifely, abundantly. Rine, rind. Romish Tityrus, Virgil. Ronts, young bullocks. Roundel, roundelay. Routs, companies. Roved, shot. Sale, wicker net. Sam, together. m^ Jt Sample, example. Saye, silk. Scope, mark aimed at. Seely, simple. Sheen, bright. Shend, disgrace. Shepheard, Al'fl, p. 56 .• En- dymion, /. 5 5 ; Orpheus, p. 84 , Paris, p. 57. Shield, /tW'/