ENDYMION
.
The
First
Booke
.
IN
the
City
of
Heraclea
,
when
as
the
Night
was
much
advanced
,
and
drowsie
slumber
seazing
the
sences
,
had
charmed
all
cares
,
and
rendred
small
difference
betwixt
the
dead
,
and
the
greater
part
of
the
living
:
there
was
on
a
suddaine
heard
a
great
noise
of
Trumpets
and
Clarions
,
and
without
,
in
the
fields
multitudes
of
people
,
who
hastening
to
the
top
of
Mount
Lathmos
,
made
all
the
adjacent
places
resound
with
the
Eccho
of
divers
sorts
of
Instruments
,
both
of
Brasse
and
Copper
,
whereof
they
were
furnished
with
plentifull
store
:
For
the
Moone
,
who
but
a
little
before
supplyed
the
place
of
the
Sun
,
and
dimmed
the
lustre
of
the
fairest
Starres
in
the
Firmament
,
was
surprised
by
a
suddaine
defection
,
and
,
as
if
shee
herselfe
had
beene
by
some
powerfull
hand
blotted
out
of
the
list
of
the
Planets
,
her
whole
light
was
converted
into
such
a
horrible
obscurity
,
as
added
another
Night
to
the
Night
it selfe
.
The
infernall
shades
seemed
to
extend
their
limits
even
to
the
very
Heavens
,
or
else
that
Nature
becomming
blind
,
were
to
returne
to
her
former
confusion
;
every
thing
was
so
replenished
with
horrour
and
astonishment
,
that
even
the
most
prophane
were
touched
with
a
feare
of
the
Gods
.
Now
it
was
the
custome
of
the
Ancients
in
such
Accidents
,
to
make
use
of
Mettalls
of
the
shrillest
sound
they
could
get
,
as
thinking
by
that
meanes
to
recover
the
Moone
from
some
trance
,
or
deliver
her
from
the
charmes
of
the
Magitians
,
who
boasted
that
they
could
at
their
pleasure
bring
her
downe
from
Heaven
,
under
the
favour
of
Night
and
Silence
:
so
that
they
,
perceiving
her
at
length
by
little
and
little
returne
,
as
she
had
gone
,
and
in
lesse
than
a
quarter
of
an
houre
,
(
so
soone
as
the
Sunne
had
restored
her
the
light
,
which
the
shadow
of
the
Earth
had
before
robbed
her
of
,
)
appeare
in
all
her
severall
shapes
,
they
very
easily
perswaded
themselves
that
shee
was
much
therein
obliged
to
their
care
and
diligence
;
and
,
thus
pleased
,
resolved
to
imploy
the
remainder
of
the
Night
,
in
taking
the
rest
which
they
conceived
they
had
justly
deserved
at
the
hands
of
the
gods
,
by
having
travailed
themselves
in
the
rescue
of
a
Goddesse
.
But
as
one
of
them
,
named
Pyzander
,
more
curious
in
the
contemplation
of
this
faire
Starre
,
and
slow
in
his
Retreate
,
had
by
chance
stayed
on
the
Hill
a
little
while
behinde
the
rest
;
he
heard
not
farre
from
him
,
certaine
accents
of
Lamentation
,
and
such
as
that
houre
of
Night
rendred
,
as
more
sad
,
so
more
plaine
and
shrill
.
This
somewhat
affrighted
him
,
but
presently
inspired
him
with
a
greater
curiosity
of
knowing
what
it
might
be
;
so
that
softly
drawing
nearer
to
it
without
discovering
himselfe
,
he
understood
these
words
:
Is
not
this
Mount
Lathmos
?
who
is
this
,
that
in
an
instant
hath
brought
me
backe
into
mine
owne
Countrey
,
from
whence
of
late
I
was
so
farre
distant
?
And
who
is
it
,
that
together
with
my
Countrey
hath
restored
me
my
life
?
Alas
!
here
is
the
Sacrifice
,
but
what
is
become
of
the
Priest
,
or
where
is
the
Altar
?
And
what
hand
(
intending
to
doe
me
a
favour
)
hath
brought
me
from
amidst
so
great
a
people
?
Is
it
thou
Diana
,
who
as
thou
shinest
more
faire
than
ordinary
in
the
Heavens
,
so
thou
now
beholdest
me
,
if
at
least
thou
vouchsafe
to
looke
on
me
,
more
unfortunate
than
ever
?
Whether
thou
be
cruell
,
or
mercifull
,
wherefore
permittest
thou
me
not
to
die
?
Although
thou
bereavest
me
of
all
other
happinesse
,
yet
deprive
me
not
at
least
of
this
last
,
as
the
common
comfort
of
the
most
miserable
:
wilt
thou
force
me
to
live
therein
,
to
shew
the
whole
choler
of
Heaven
assembled
upon
one
man
?
doest
thou
hinder
me
to
dye
once
,
that
thou
mayst
keepe
me
alwaies
dying
,
and
that
the
memory
of
the
favours
thou
hast
heretofore
done
me
,
may
consume
me
with
sorrow
,
being
determined
(
having
lost
them
)
never
hereafter
to
preserve
any
thing
.
That
thou
hast
loved
me
Diana
,
is
witnessed
by
thy
exposing
my
life
to
so
many
dangers
,
that
I
could
not
have
expected
worse
from
thy
hatred
,
than
is
arrived
to
mee
from
thine
affection
:
Thou
hast
loved
me
,
(
I
thinke
)
intending
thereby
to
imprint
in
me
an
ill
opinion
of
the
gods
,
and
to
let
me
see
they
are
neither
constant
nor
just
.
I
should
have
judged
thy
humour
and
disposition
by
that
of
thine
Empire
,
which
Fortune
hath
given
thee
onely
over
the
lightest
and
most
insensible
things
in
the
World
.
O
yee
Mortals
,
take
mine
example
,
to
make
you
feare
the
loves
of
Goddesses
,
least
they
bring
you
to
a
tryall
of
all
wretchednesse
:
all
the
honour
and
glory
of
their
Love
,
are
but
vaine
and
silly
rewards
,
since
the
excesse
of
so
many
torments
wholly
annihilates
the
sense
of
it
.
O
yee
gods
,
sayes
Pyzander
to
himselfe
,
what
is
this
I
heare
?
me
thinkes
I
should
know
this
voice
,
but
I
understand
not
this
lamentation
:
can
Endymion
bee
in
these
parts
,
and
I
have
no
advertisement
of
it
?
and
being
returned
home
,
should
he
live
as
though
he
were
still
absent
?
and
(
seeking
rather
Desert
places
,
than
society
of
men
)
bee
more
diligent
in
visiting
this
Mountaine
,
than
his
dearest
friends
?
Thus
Pyzander
,
diversly
assaulted
,
sometimes
with
one
imagination
,
sometimes
with
another
,
continued
hearkning
,
and
Endymion
lamenting
.
I
endure
the
punishment
,
saies
he
,
O
goddesse
,
and
know
not
the
crime
I
have
committed
;
except
it
be
for
having
added
the
contempt
of
all
things
in
the
world
to
the
estimation
I
made
of
thy
good
will
.
Become
now
contrary
to
thy selfe
,
and
(
forgetting
what
thou
owest
to
my
constancy
)
take
up
against
mee
the
plea
both
of
the
gods
and
men
;
all
whom
I
have
injured
in
the
sole
desire
of
adoring
thee
:
If
thou
accusest
me
of
no
other
thing
,
thine
accusation
is
sufficient
to
justifie
me
.
Mine
offence
is
a
great
merit
,
which
makes
mee
farre
more
worthy
of
recompence
than
punishment
.
Yet
all
this
while
I
have
not
beene
able
to
advance
any
one
step
,
nor
erect
so
much
as
a
Tombe
for
my selfe
:
But
peradventure
mine
affection
is
presumptuous
,
and
my
complaint
rash
.
But
now
I
am
compelled
(
pardon
me
O
goddesse
)
to
require
it
of
thine
eyes
;
to
whom
,
as
to
thy
promises
,
I
have
beene
too
too
credulous
.
I
would
also
crave
it
of
thy
heart
and
memory
,
if
happily
they
may
bee
true
to
thee
.
Thinke
not
that
I
can
forget
my
duty
through
the
too
often
remembring
thy
favours
:
for
although
I
should
reape
no
other
fruite
of
them
,
but
the
losse
of
time
,
and
my selfe
;
yet
will
I
dare
counsell
thee
,
to
favour
thine
enemies
still
in
that
manner
.
It
is
either
Endymion
,
saies
Pyzander
,
or
his
Ghost
,
which
perhaps
wanting
opportunity
of
passage
to
the
shoare
of
the
dead
,
wanders
in
these
parts
.
Hath
he
ended
his
dayes
by
Shipwracke
,
or
some
other
accident
,
which
hath
deprived
him
of
Buriall
,
and
granted
him
none
other
Tombe
but
the
Heavens
?
So
long
as
the
Sunne
shall
behold
his
body
,
his
soule
shall
not
be
received
amongst
the
Ghosts
.
But
whither
doth
mine
astonishment
make
me
wander
?
and
what
doth
my
feare
cause
me
to
utter
?
Those
are
not
the
Discourses
of
a
dead
man
,
but
rather
of
some
one
weary
of
his
life
.
In
the
meane
time
Endymion
,
whose
complaint
,
like
his
passion
,
seemed
infinite
,
and
who
,
as
it
were
,
laboured
to
convince
a
goddesse
of
ingratitude
,
and
inconstancy
,
failed
not
(
in
continuing
his
discourse
)
presently
to
name
himselfe
,
and
thereby
gave
Pyzander
a
resolution
to
interrupt
him
.
I
must
confesse
Goddesse
,
said
he
,
that
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
least
favour
that
ever
thou
hast
done
me
;
and
that
the
consideration
of
what
I
am
,
might
justly
enjoyne
mee
silence
.
But
what
!
are
the
gods
blinde
?
or
have
they
onely
an
obscure
knowledge
of
humane
actions
?
doe
they
deliberate
without
judgement
?
or
can
they
possibly
recant
their
first
determinations
?
As
for
mee
,
I
ever
made
account
to
surpasse
all
other
men
whatsoever
in
vowes
,
and
affection
to
serve
thee
;
but
never
thought
to
exceede
a
Goddesse
in
resolution
and
constancy
:
yet
I
finde
thee
no
lesse
mutable
than
a
mortall
;
and
,
as
if
it
were
not
enough
to
change
,
thou
proceedest
from
instability
to
oblivion
.
The
name
of
Endymion
is
no
more
in
thy
mouth
,
than
the
estimation
of
him
in
thy
heart
:
thou
talkest
no
more
of
him
to
thy
Nymphes
;
no
,
not
so
much
as
to
thy
thoughts
.
At
this
name
of
Endymion
,
Pyzander
(
transported
with
his
longing
)
approaching
him
,
findes
him
laid
along
under
the
brow
of
the
Hill
with
his
armes
a
crosse
,
and
his
eyes
fixed
upon
the
Moone
;
and
thus
beginnes
to
speake
to
him
.
What
gods
are
those
,
that
being
at
once
froward
and
favourable
,
doe
make
me
heare
the
voyce
of
a
man
so
deare
to
me
,
by
a
lamentation
so
grievous
,
whereof
the
cause
is
also
unknowne
to
me
?
Have
I
so
often
desired
to
see
Endymion
againe
,
to
the
end
that
such
a
sinister
accident
should
now
make
mee
affraid
of
his
encounter
when
it
is
offred
me
?
Ah!
my
deare
Pyzander
,
saies
Endymion
,
(
rising
,
and
giving
him
his
hand
)
what
good
fortune
beginnes
to
approach
mee
,
in
restoring
me
the
presence
of
him
,
whom
my
sight
,
but
not
my
thought
hath
beene
so
long
deprived
of
?
Or
what
sad
mishap
is
this
that
increaseth
my
sorrowes
,
by
afflicting
thee
?
For
I
believe
,
none
but
the
unfortunate
,
and
such
as
watch
when
others
sleepe
,
doe
repaire
to
these
solitary
places
,
in
this
time
of
night
.
Tell
me
,
I
beseech
thee
,
what
brings
thee
hither
?
Verily
,
answers
Pyzander
,
I
have
more
cause
,
and
a
farre
greater
desire
to
heare
thy
newes
from
thy selfe
,
since
thou
findest
me
in
our
owne
Countrey
,
where
thou
leftest
us
all
,
to
goe
seeke
(
doubtlesse
)
more
strange
adventures
than
we
.
But
I
wonder
extreamly
,
Endymion
,
that
thou
seemest
ignorant
of
the
cause
of
my
comming
hither
▪
for
if
the
noyse
wee
lately
made
were
heard
by
the
Moone
,
much
more
should
it
bee
come
unto
thine
eares
,
to
awake
thee
out
of
the
deepest
slumber
thou
couldst
be
cast
into
.
So
farre
was
I
from
sleeping
as
thou
imaginest
,
saies
Endymion
,
that
I
was
in
a
place
farre
remote
from
hence
,
where
me-thought
,
I
was
cast
into
an
everlasting
slumber
:
From
whence
I
was
freed
,
like
one
that
dreames
,
finding
my selfe
in
this
place
,
without
perceiving
how
,
or
which
way
I
came
hither
.
I
confesse
there
was
even
now
a
great
noyse
,
which
did
doe
me
a
very
ill
office
,
and
made
mee
wish
that
all
things
had
beene
more
quiet
,
and
that
an
universall
slumber
had
rendred
all
the
creatures
on
earth
as
dumbe
as
those
of
the
water
.
Indeed
Endymion
,
saies
Pyzander
,
I
understand
thee
not
,
for
thy
latter
Discourses
are
more
obscure
than
thy
former
:
I
beseech
thee
therefore
keepe
me
no
longer
ignorant
of
that
which
our
friendship
should
make
common
:
Tell
me
thy
good
or
ill
adventures
;
for
thou
knowest
it
is
the
property
of
communication
to
render
contentments
more
full
,
and
increase
the
power
of
them
,
as
also
on
the
contrary
,
to
extenuate
and
ease
afflictions
and
crosses
.
Alas
!
replies
Endymion
,
where
shall
I
beginne
,
or
how
shall
I
end
?
Shall
I
robbe
thee
of
thy
rest
this
night
,
by
recounting
unto
thee
my
sufferings
,
wherein
my
owne
spirit
shunnes
the
remembrance
of
whatsoever
most
delights
it
:
so
much
am
I
grieved
to
see
fortune
,
so
unworthily
insult
over
my
torments
and
patience
.
Thus
Endymion
would
have
excused
himselfe
touching
the
Discourse
;
but
that
Pyzander
still
adding
more
intreaties
and
requests
to
his
former
,
got
him
at
length
to
sit
downe
by
him
,
and
to
begin
in
this
manner
.
Cr
Pas
inu
The
Starre
that
in
the
Forrest
raignes
,
A
thousand
favourable
straines
Vpon
thee
with
her
beames
shall
dart
,
But
in
the
end
those
shall
depart
,
And
thou
be
forc'd
to
thinke
and
tell
Inconstancy
in
the
gods
doth
dwell
.
As
the
desires
are
violent
,
Th'
attempts
are
faint
,
not
prevalent
,
'T
is
hard
the
gods
to
trace
:
A
heavy-light
enchantment
doth
Stoppe
,
and
make
thee
wander
both
,
It
kills
▪
it
gives
thee
grace
.
And
so
retiring
her selfe
,
Polydamon
told
me
,
he
thought
she
was
mad
;
for
said
hee
,
what
acquaintance
is
there
betwixt
you
?
but
I
,
instead
of
answering
him
,
pondered
what
she
had
told
me
;
and
ghessing
that
there
was
some
extraordinary
matter
in
it
,
savouring
rather
of
a
Goddesse
than
a
Woman
,
and
inclining
more
to
inspiration
than
frenzy
,
for
my
more
full
satisfaction
,
I
instantly
demanded
of
one
of
her
Neighbours
what
shee
was
?
who
answered
me
,
Art
thou
a
Grecian
,
or
a
Barbarian
,
that
thou
knowest
not
the
Virgin
Parthenopea
,
one
of
the
chiefe
of
the
Race
of
the
Iamides
,
who
usually
doe
prophesie
at
the
Olympian
Festivalls
?
But
another
told
me
,
in
more
courteous
tearmes
,
that
she
whom
we
tooke
for
a
Woman
,
was
a
Maiden
,
of
at
least
an
hundred
yeares
old
,
and
who
,
besides
that
she
was
indeed
of
that
race
of
the
Prophets
issued
of
Apollo
and
Evadne
,
having
constantly
vowed
her
Virginity
to
Diana
,
and
employed
her
whole
life
in
her
service
,
had
in
plentifull
measure
received
from
her
the
gift
of
fore-telling
things
to
come
.
The
greatest
feare
I
then
had
,
was
,
lest
I
might
have
forgotten
some
of
the
words
shee
had
spoken
to
me
,
wherein
the
measure
of
the
Verses
stood
me
in
good
stead
:
for
by
often
turning
and
repeating
them
with
my selfe
,
and
by
the
helpe
of
the
severall
parts
,
I
had
in
a
short
time
imprinted
the
whole
in
my
memory
;
wherewithall
I
could
not
enough
entertaine
me
,
for
my
spirit
already
began
to
anticipate
my
good
fortune
,
by
hope
and
a
thousand
kinds
of
differently
delightfull
imaginations
.
The
sweete
aspects
which
were
promised
me
in
the
beginning
,
did
so
fully
deprive
me
of
the
consideration
of
the
crosse
adventures
which
threatned
me
towards
the
end
,
that
the
most
rigorous
afflictions
that
could
befall
me
,
seemed
delightsome
&
honourable
,
because
they
were
to
be
for
Diana's
sake
.
From
thence
forward
mine
eyes
found
none
other
object
that
could
content
them
,
except
such
as
put
me
in
minde
of
her
;
and
shunning
all
variety
or
diversion
,
I
was
still
contemplating
either
her
Portraict
in
the
Temple
,
or
her
Starre
in
the
Heaven
.
But
chiefly
,
after
my
returne
from
Ephesus
,
I
desired
to
remaine
on
the
top
of
this
Mountaine
,
where
I
slept
the
greater
part
of
the
day
,
that
I
might
imploy
the
night
in
this
sweet
contemplation
;
which
begot
an
opinion
in
divers
,
that
I
slept
alwayes
.
By
this
course
I
saw
the
Sunne
lesse
ordinarily
than
the
Moone
,
whose
lustre
was
to
me
a
thousand
times
more
pleasing
,
than
that
of
the
fairest
dayes
:
I
did
so
seldome
let
her
goe
out
of
my
sight
,
that
I
was
able
to
give
the
world
accompt
of
the
wayes
she
held
in
the
Heaven
,
from
the
house
of
Helles
even
to
that
of
Astrea
,
or
that
of
Erigone
,
and
thence
to
Ganymedes
and
farther
:
yea
,
even
when
in
her
Chariot
drawne
by
Dragons
,
she
parts
from
the
Celestiall
Mansions
,
to
goe
take
her
walke
in
the
Countries
of
some
of
the
Daughters
of
Atlas
:
whether
on
the
one
side
she
goe
to
visite
Cassiope
,
Andromeda
,
and
the
whole
family
of
Cepheus
;
or
on
the
other
,
she
goe
to
hunt
towards
Orions
quarter
,
or
by
chance
,
in
the
hot
weather
shee
sometimes
for
her
recreation
,
retire
to
the
Caves
of
the
Centaure
,
or
in
the
coole
of
the
Evening
shee
walke
upon
the
shoare
of
the
great
Celestiall
River
,
which
is
diversly
named
,
by
some
Nilus
,
by
others
Erydanus
.
And
the
Goddesse
tooke
the
diligence
and
affection
I
had
to
make
her
glory
knowne
in
all
parts
so
well
,
that
shee
became
as
willing
to
shew
her selfe
,
as
I
was
desirous
to
behold
her
;
in
so
much
that
I
cannot
say
,
if
mine
eyes
were
either
more
comforted
by
her
favour
,
and
lesse
dazeled
by
her
light
,
or
that
by
being
accustomed
to
this
exercise
,
they
with
the
more
ease
pierced
the
Heaven
.
But
(
as
if
she
were
descended
into
the
middle
Region
of
the
Ayre
)
me
thought
I
saw
her
Chariot
rowle
upon
the
Clouds
;
and
(
to
endeare
and
gratifie
me
the
oftener
)
she
inclined
her
looke
towards
me
with
the
same
aspect
,
wherewith
shee
beholds
the
Sacrifices
that
most
delight
her
.
She
darted
for
my
sake
the
sweetest
lookes
that
her
heart
was
able
to
send
forth
through
the
passage
of
her
eyes
;
wherewith
these
places
were
so
enlightened
,
that
they
seemed
not
sensible
of
the
absence
of
the
day
:
O
wonder
of
Fate
&
Nature
!
A
Goddesse
forgetteth
all
the
Gods
,
for
the
contemplation
of
one
simple
man
,
and
finds
that
thing
on
earth
,
which
makes
her
despise
the
Heavens
.
There
is
nothing
lowlier
than
the
subject
which
ordinarily
retains
her
looks
and
thoughts
;
and
by
her
affection
she
seemeth
to
become
(
as
it
were
)
mortall
and
humane
:
And
on
the
contrary
,
a
mortall
contemplates
onely
heavenly
things
,
hath
nothing
but
a
Deity
in
his
thought
,
and
hath
his
eye
fixed
onely
upon
beauty
it selfe
,
that
is
,
on
Diana
.
But
what
an
extraordinary
proofe
did
I
receive
one
day
of
her
goodwill
,
when
as
the
Heavens
,
all
covered
with
Clouds
,
which
seemed
jealous
of
my
good
fortune
,
kept
me
from
seeing
her
:
and
how
happy
was
it
for
me
,
that
there
had
beene
some
few
dayes
so
cloudy
,
as
it
were
on
purpose
!
For
in
that
time
I
was
advertised
by
the
faithfull
relation
of
one
of
her
Nymphs
,
that
shee
was
as
much
troubled
therewith
,
as
I
,
and
that
shee
had
bemoaned
her selfe
of
it
to
the
Goddesse
Iris
in
this
manner
.
Iris
,
said
she
,
it
would
not
trouble
me
much
,
to
be
a
while
deprived
of
seeing
a
good
part
of
the
Earth
,
provided
that
I
might
at
least
behold
those
places
which
doe
most
delight
me
.
Now
I
will
tell
thee
freely
,
that
I
have
lately
taken
a
particular
affection
to
Caria
,
and
yet
it
is
full
foure
dayes
since
I
last
saw
it
:
I
had
rather
be
debarred
the
sight
of
the
Isle
Delos
,
or
of
my
native
Mountaine
,
the
name
whereof
I
beare
.
Disperse
therfore
I
pray
thee
the
Clouds
a
little
,
&
divert
them
either
towards
Lycia
,
or
Ionia
,
or
any
way
else
,
so
that
any
hand
thou
hide
not
the
City
of
Heraclea
,
nor
Mount
Lathmos
from
mine
eyes
.
Immediately
after
this
there
appeared
a
great
opening
in
the
Clouds
,
and
the
darke
vapours
vanished
at
the
presence
of
the
goddesse
,
who
beganne
to
appeare
in
her
fairest
and
most
perfect
lustre
,
and
as
if
she
had
assembled
all
her
beames
about
me
;
I
found
my selfe
in
an
instant
wholly
environed
with
light
.
O
happy
and
fortunate
Endymion
!
sayes
Pyzander
,
if
the
sweete
lookes
of
the
Moone
can
be
able
to
render
a
man
so
.
But
tell
me
,
what
couldst
thou
be
doing
?
and
how
couldst
thou
dispose
of
thy selfe
,
all
the
times
she
appeared
not
in
the
Heavens
?
Even
that
which
she
her selfe
doth
,
when
she
is
deprived
of
the
light
of
the
Sunne
,
answered
Endymion
:
Shee
attires
her selfe
in
a
blacke
vaile
,
as
if
she
could
not
misse
the
sight
of
him
one
houre
,
without
mourning
for
his
absence
.
Even
so
,
what
light
soever
shone
,
I
seemed
to
live
in
darknesse
,
and
had
no
other
exercise
,
but
a
continuall
wandring
up
and
downe
the
Woods
,
to
trye
whether
I
could
learne
any
newes
of
her
;
or
whether
my
Fate
,
or
her
favour
would
give
me
leave
to
finde
her
:
Wherein
I
laboured
a
while
in
vaine
,
but
at
length
,
as
it
is
the
custome
of
the
gods
,
sometimes
to
prevent
our
hopes
,
and
otherwhiles
to
come
when
our
expectations
are
tyred
;
so
this
good
happe
chanced
to
mee
when
I
least
thought
of
it
.
The
night
had
already
begunne
to
furle
up
her
sailes
,
and
a
gentle
coole
gale
,
the
fore-runner
of
light
,
sweetly
cherished
slumber
,
and
with
the
force
of
its
wings
,
drove
before
it
a
cleare
thinne
Cloud
,
laden
onely
with
a
light
dew
,
besprinkling
with
drops
the
whole
earth
,
like
Pearles
,
which
sparkled
even
as
little
eyes
in
the
faces
of
the
flowers
and
Plants
.
When
as
awaking
,
and
finding
an
ayre
more
pleasing
than
ordinary
,
and
such
a
one
as
the
gods
have
in
Heaven
,
or
do
bring
with
them
when
they
come
downe
to
the
earth
:
I
came
out
of
the
Cave
,
being
moved
thereunto
by
a
certaine
pleasing
violence
,
which
had
no
lesse
power
over
me
,
than
if
some
voice
had
called
me
forth
.
And
scarce
had
I
passed
the
threshold
,
when
as
I
saw
before
me
,
upon
the
edge
of
the
Hill
a
woman
,
for
such
at
first
I
tooke
her
to
be
;
but
having
a
little
nearer
observed
her
beauty
,
her
stature
,
and
more
than
humane
Majesty
,
I
knew
that
it
was
some
of
the
goddesses
.
With
what
tearmes
now
shall
I
possibly
expresse
that
,
which
then
mine
eyes
beheld
?
and
from
whence
shal
I
draw
comparisons
to
represent
unto
thee
that
which
(
being
beyond
compare
)
can
admit
none
?
I
shall
have
sooner
done
,
if
without
attempting
to
demonstrate
light
by
obscurity
,
I
bid
thee
fixe
the
eye
of
thy
imagination
(
so
farre
forth
as
thou
art
able
)
abovt
all
the
Heavens
,
and
there
behold
Beauty
it selfe
fitting
,
accompanyed
with
an
everlasting
youth
,
and
such
as
can
neither
suffer
alteration
,
or
be
impaired
by
any
accident
whatsoever
.
O
Pyzander
,
how
farre
are
the
Divine
beauties
different
from
these
here
below
!
&
how
soon
did
they
beget
in
my
soule
a
contempt
of
all
that
before
I
had
ever
seene
!
But
I
tasted
this
felicity
in
the
most
absolute
degree
of
all
,
when
perceiving
the
Bow
she
held
in
her
hand
,
and
the
Cressant
which
shone
upon
her
head
,
I
found
it
to
bee
the
goddesse
to
whom
my
heart
addressed
all
its
vowes
:
this
,
I
say
,
made
me
imagine
that
the
day
tooke
his
being
thence
,
and
not
from
the
rising
of
the
Sunne
.
Endymion
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
as
I
desire
not
to
ingage
thee
in
impossibilities
;
or
to
busie
thee
overmuch
in
a
long
and
vaine
description
of
things
which
cannot
be
represented
:
So
will
I
yet
entreate
thee
to
give
mee
some
figures
of
this
Divine
beauty
,
as
much
as
our
humane
language
can
permit
thee
.
Amongst
so
many
perfections
,
sayes
Endymion
,
I
know
not
which
I
should
first
observe
;
and
the
desire
I
had
to
behold
them
all
,
hindred
me
from
taking
particular
notice
from
any
one
,
and
was
cause
I
saw
them
but
confusedly
.
One
while
I
was
amazed
to
see
,
that
in
so
perfect
a
stature
,
(
wherein
she
farre
surpassed
the
best
formed
of
women
)
she
seemed
to
be
of
so
tender
an
age
:
for
her
complexion
was
tenderer
and
fairer
,
than
that
which
appeares
in
the
first
bloome
of
youth
it selfe
,
being
mixed
with
certaine
darting
glances
,
which
seemed
to
participate
of
both
flames
and
flowers
,
and
accompanyed
with
a
vertue
so
Divine
,
as
that
it
defended
it
from
the
injuries
of
the
Seasons
,
and
freed
it
for
ever
from
the
jurisdiction
of
Yeares
.
Sometimes
I
admired
in
her
a
kinde
of
Majesticke
demeanour
,
which
as
it
had
force
to
attract
the
noblest
courages
,
wanted
not
also
austerity
enough
to
checke
those
whom
pusillanimity
accused
of
want
of
worth
,
and
to
prohibite
them
to
approach
her
.
Honour
and
Majesty
seemed
to
sit
in
her
Countenance
,
as
in
a
seate
of
well
polished
Ivory
,
keeping
a
perpetuall
residence
under
the
rich
ornament
of
her
faire
Tresses
,
some
whereof
were
plaited
and
wreathed
;
others
bound
up
and
curled
after
the
Laconian
manner
,
with
farre
more
grace
than
Art
,
there
being
no
neede
of
addition
either
to
their
lustre
or
number
.
Some
others
carelesly
dispersed
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
escaped
from
the
bands
and
captivity
of
the
rest
,
danced
on
her
vermillion
cheekes
,
and
faire
shoulders
;
catching
,
and
captivating
(
in
their
sporting
)
both
Love
and
Zephirus
:
round
about
her
Corrall
Lippes
appeared
the
sweetest
smiles
,
and
the
most
delicate
of
all
the
Graces
,
both
which
joyntly
with
their
attracts
and
courtings
,
did
there
manure
the
Gilly-flowers
amidst
the
Lyllies
and
Roses
.
Which
way
soever
shee
turned
her
faire
eyes
,
both
browne
and
cleare
,
the
ayre
became
in
an
instant
so
sweete
and
pure
,
that
every
thing
was
beautified
and
refreshed
therewithall
.
Those
eyes
are
really
the
two
Starres
,
who
at
their
pleasure
doe
beget
a
new
Spring
on
Earth
,
and
appease
the
Sea
when
it
rageth
and
is
troubled
.
But
what
dost
thou
embarke
me
in
Pyzander
?
and
what
is
this
that
I
undertake
?
to
speak
to
thee
of
those
eyes
,
in
whose
presence
,
there
is
none
other
able
to
looke
up
,
or
contest
never
so
little
without
being
dazelled
:
which
was
the
cause
that
I
my selfe
was
constrained
ever
and
anon
to
cast
downe
mine
eyes
,
and
let
them
fall
on
her
faire
necke
,
although
it
were
onely
a
diversion
of
them
from
flames
and
lightnings
,
to
loose
them
in
the
Snow
of
her
bosome
and
breasts
:
where
I
could
see
no
more
on
each
side
(
they
being
by
chance
halfe
covered
)
than
a
small
Cressant
of
those
two
little
(
but
truely
Celestiall
)
Globes
,
which
were
in
continuall
motion
,
and
who
,
as
scorning
to
be
restrained
of
liberty
,
forced
open
her
garment
,
as
much
as
possibly
they
could
;
so
that
if
they
could
not
fully
display
their
dazelling
whitenesse
and
beauty
,
at
least
they
gave
ample
testimony
of
the
perfection
of
their
round
forme
;
and
if
they
troubled
not
the
eye
,
yet
spared
they
not
to
shake
the
imagination
.
Herein
it
is
,
Pyzander
,
that
the
most
eloquent
would
become
dumbe
,
and
therefore
will
I
speake
no
more
of
it
,
least
the
onely
remembrance
thereof
should
render
me
speechlesse
,
and
leave
me
nothing
else
but
sighes
.
All
those
places
rejoyced
in
the
presence
of
this
Goddesse
,
who
seemed
to
have
made
another
Olympus
of
Mount
Lathmos
.
As
for
me
,
I
was
so
fraught
and
replenished
with
contentment
,
that
enjoying
whatsoever
can
in
this
life
be
most
delightfull
,
me
thought
I
then
first
began
to
live
:
I
was
wholly
ravished
with
the
wonders
of
so
rare
an
object
,
when
as
directing
towards
me
her
lookes
,
every
motion
whereof
seemed
to
bee
conducted
by
the
Graces
themselves
:
Endymion
(
sayes
shee
,
with
a
voice
so
cleare
and
pleasant
,
as
would
with
the
first
word
have
charmed
any
breast
)
thy
vowes
have
touched
me
even
in
Heaven
,
and
thine
affection
hath
beene
acceptable
to
me
.
I
know
what
care
thou
takest
to
imprint
my
glory
and
greatnesse
in
the
knowledge
of
the
Mortalls
;
if
I
should
not
be
sensible
of
it
,
thou
wouldst
have
just
reason
to
complaine
of
me
,
and
to
publish
over
all
the
World
,
that
Ingratitude
is
lodged
as
well
in
Heaven
amongst
the
gods
,
as
on
Earth
amongst
men
.
Make
use
therefore
of
thy
good
Judgement
,
and
aske
of
me
whatsoever
thou
wilt
,
wherein
I
may
have
opportunity
to
testifie
mine
acknowledgment
,
and
doubt
not
of
the
grant
:
I
(
remaining
wholly
mute
and
confounded
,
not
onely
by
seeing
her
,
and
receiving
so
great
honour
at
her
hands
,
but
also
,
for
that
admiration
and
respect
equally
enjoyned
me
silence
)
had
not
the
power
to
desire
any
thing
;
esteeming
my
paines
and
watchings
too
fully
recompenced
with
one
only
looke
of
hers
,
or
the
least
word
she
had
vouchsafed
to
speak
to
me
:
Insomuch
that
at
first
,
I
was
not
able
to
speake
at
all
;
and
although
I
could
,
I
knew
not
what
to
say
unto
her
:
and
this
forced
silence
wa●
advantagious
to
me
,
in
that
she
gave
me
(
by
an
act
of
her
accustomed
goodnesse
)
some
small
time
to
bethinke
and
recollect
me
.
I
was
once
minded
to
beg
of
her
the
same
thing
which
my
Father
obtained
of
Jupiter
;
which
was
,
to
live
,
and
dye
according
to
his
good
liking
.
At
length
finding
that
I
must
needs
speake
,
the
consideration
of
my
duty
surmounting
my
feare
,
and
furnishing
me
with
subject
of
discourse
,
in
despight
of
the
distraction
wherewith
I
was
possessed
,
I
thus
answered
her
:
Great
Goddesse
,
the
honour
thou
dost
me
,
doth
infinitely
exceed
my
condition
;
grant
me
therfore
what
thou
thinkest
fitting
;
for
what
could
I
request
of
thee
?
I
forget
all
that
is
past
,
and
can
thinke
of
nothing
for
the
future
,
being
so
throughly
possessed
with
what
I
at
present
enjoy
.
Give
me
leave
rather
to
offer
my selfe
to
thee
,
and
if
thou
gratifie
me
so
farre
as
to
receive
me
,
I
will
beleeve
thou
hast
granted
me
all
things
.
I
would
gladly
begge
of
thee
,
that
the
happinesse
I
now
enjoy
,
might
be
made
everlasting
:
but
she
,
well
observing
the
extasie
wherein
so
unwonted
a
felicity
had
cast
me
,
and
which
having
in
the
beginning
deprived
me
of
speech
,
went
on
also
to
seize
upon
my
understanding
,
replying
askes
me
,
how
wouldst
thou
be
able
,
(
said
she
)
to
endure
that
long
,
which
in
a
moment
hath
so
distempered
thee
,
as
thou
hadst
need
of
some
body
to
restore
thee
to
thy selfe
?
And
as
for
that
which
thou
requirest
,
thou
couldst
not
obtaine
it
,
albeit
thou
werest
in
the
principall
Ranke
amongst
the
Immortals
:
thinke
therefore
quickly
on
some
other
suite
,
that
I
may
be
no
longer
detained
.
Assuredly
said
I
to
her
,
mortall
men
,
who
live
so
short
a
space
,
have
great
reason
to
thinke
time
precious
,
since
the
very
gods
themselves
,
whose
Nature
is
infinite
,
are
so
tender
and
carefull
to
loose
none
of
it
.
But
whereunto
dost
thou
oblige
me
ô
Goddesse
?
for
,
considering
thee
as
Diana
,
I
doe
not
see
what
I
can
aske
of
thee
suitable
to
my
desire
,
since
the
honour
of
attendance
,
and
perpetuall
serving
of
thee
,
belongeth
onely
to
thy
Nymphs
?
and
for
me
,
I
can
esteeme
nothing
gratefull
,
that
shall
enjoyne
me
a
long
separation
from
thy
presence
:
I
will
therefore
speake
unto
thee
as
to
the
Moone
,
beseeching
thee
,
that
by
the
power
thou
hast
in
Heaven
,
thou
wilt
be
pleased
to
allow
me
some
place
amongst
the
Starres
,
and
that
I
may
be
one
of
those
,
which
goe
least
out
of
thy
sight
,
and
most
frequently
waite
on
thy
Chariot
whither
soever
thou
goest
.
Or
,
if
the
number
of
the
Starres
be
so
compleate
,
that
not
one
more
can
bee
added
thereunto
,
and
if
the
Fates
resist
me
herein
,
grant
me
at
least
,
the
priviledge
amongst
the
Mortals
,
of
rendring
thee
the
most
acceptable
Vowes
and
Sacrifices
,
and
of
employing
my
whole
life
in
thy
services
.
Hereat
the
Goddesse
(
not
content
to
testifie
her
approbation
by
a
gracious
nod
of
her
head
onely
)
with
a
smile
,
able
to
ravish
both
gods
and
men
,
added
these
words
:
Well
saies
she
,
be
it
in
Heaven
,
or
on
Earth
,
I
will
never
omit
any
occasion
of
gratifying
thee
;
neither
would
I
have
thee
doubt
of
mine
affection
or
memory
of
thee
.
Scarce
had
she
said
those
words
,
when
on
a
suddaine
I
lost
the
sight
of
her
,
and
heard
onely
a
small
noise
of
the
Arrows
,
and
Quiver
which
shooke
upon
her
shoulders
,
as
she
turned
her selfe
to
be
gone
.
In
the
meane
time
I
forgot
not
to
meditate
on
that
which
I
had
often
heard
speech
of
,
to
wit
,
that
the
gods
have
a
forme
of
going
,
different
from
that
of
men
,
and
that
without
the
trouble
of
putting
one
foote
before
another
,
they
have
power
in
the
twinkling
of
an
eye
,
to
transport
themselves
where
they
please
,
and
that
every
way
on
Earth
or
in
Heaven
is
alike
easie
to
them
.
But
alas
!
I
much
over-saw
my selfe
,
in
that
I
procured
her
not
to
sweare
by
the
River
Stix
,
an
Oath
inviolable
amongst
the
gods
.
Endymion
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
either
the
gods
are
not
,
or
else
they
are
true
,
and
doe
infallibly
acknowledge
the
love
is
borne
them
;
for
if
they
faile
us
,
whom
shall
wee
trust
?
all
things
must
faile
us
with
them
:
but
this
Hill
will
bee
sooner
converted
into
a
Plaine
or
Valley
;
and
sooner
shall
Meander
(
shunning
the
Ionian
Sea
)
runne
retrograde
,
and
stoppe
in
the
source
,
than
the
words
of
the
gods
prove
instable
;
and
chiefely
those
of
Diana
,
that
great
Ornament
of
the
World
,
who
by
ordinance
of
the
Destinies
doth
in
so
many
Countries
supply
even
the
place
of
Jupiter
himselfe
:
But
good
Endymion
,
proceede
,
for
I
am
sorry
that
I
should
imploy
the
time
in
any
thing
,
but
hearing
thee
;
so
much
I
long
to
see
the
successe
of
thine
adventures
.
The
sense
I
had
of
this
so
high
a
favour
,
was
for
a
great
while
the
onely
support
of
my
life
,
and
raised
my
contentment
to
that
height
,
that
it
admitted
no
comparison
;
no
,
not
with
the
most
fortunate
amongst
men
.
The
greatnesse
and
state
of
the
person
I
adored
,
and
who
reciprocally
graced
me
with
so
much
good
liking
,
did
place
all
the
honours
and
dignities
in
the
world
beneath
my
condition
and
glory
:
All
conversation
,
yea
,
even
that
of
my
dearest
friends
,
seemed
tedious
to
me
;
as
well
for
that
they
onely
interrupted
the
sweetest
delights
of
my
soule
,
as
for
the
scruple
I
made
to
communicate
unto
them
the
least
of
my
thoughts
.
My
memory
often
represented
this
goddesse
to
me
,
as
vively
as
if
shee
had
beene
before
mine
eyes
:
Wherein
I
tooke
more
pleasure
,
than
in
the
very
time
in
which
I
enjoyed
her
presence
;
because
,
as
then
,
the
excesse
of
my
rapture
depriving
me
of
my
sences
and
judgement
,
permitted
me
not
to
be
mine
owne
.
I
went
a
hundred
,
and
a
hundred
times
to
visit
the
place
where
I
had
seene
her
,
and
was
never
weary
of
seeking
some
new
foote-steps
of
hers
,
which
I
had
not
before
taken
notice
of
.
I
kissed
the
grasse
which
her
feete
(
accustomed
to
walke
in
Heaven
)
had
bruised
;
and
became
as
strict
a
Guardian
of
the
place
,
as
if
it
had
beene
of
a
Temple
or
Altar
.
But
as
my
thoughts
presented
her
before
mine
eyes
,
so
also
also
did
my
dreames
;
dreames
indeed
,
more
faire
,
and
more
resplendent
than
the
day
;
and
such
,
as
truely
I
never
desired
to
awake
from
.
Sometimes
me
thought
I
beheld
her
speaking
to
me
,
onely
with
the
language
of
her
eyes
,
which
looked
on
me
with
so
sweete
an
aspect
;
that
no
tongue
is
able
to
expresse
that
which
they
seemed
to
say
unto
me
.
Another
while
me
thought
she
spake
to
me
,
with
a
gesture
equalling
,
yea
,
exceeding
speech
it selfe
.
Sometimes
,
casting
my selfe
at
her
feete
,
I
endeavoured
to
stay
her
,
and
kissed
the
hemme
or
skirt
of
her
Vaile
,
and
sometimes
(
O
too
presumptuous
dreams
!
)
me
thought
I
kissed
her
hand
it selfe
.
O
to
what
altitude
of
glory
and
felicity
doth
sleepe
raise
even
the
most
wretched
!
And
how
much
greater
favours
did
it
give
me
taste
of
,
then
the
mouth
which
received
them
dares
rehearse
,
it
being
so
close
shut
,
as
if
thereby
silence
had
beene
imposed
upon
it
:
and
indeed
I
onely
discoursed
thereof
to
my
thoughts
.
Oh
Heavenly
contentments
,
said
I
,
are
you
counterfeit
or
reall
?
But
how
counterfeit
,
because
so
sensible
?
and
how
reall
,
being
onely
in
a
dreame
?
If
I
would
complaine
of
them
,
or
give
my
vowes
and
thankes
for
them
:
to
whom
should
I
addresse
my selfe
,
to
Slumber
,
or
to
Diana
,
or
to
both
at
once
?
The
one
shutteth
mine
eyes
,
the
other
seales
up
my
lippes
,
and
with
a
pleasing
violence
contrary
to
it selfe
,
steales
my
soule
from
me
,
and
yet
permits
it
not
to
issue
.
Oh
goddesse
!
if
thou
art
so
favourable
to
me
,
as
that
thou
assistest
,
and
art
really
present
in
this
sweete
Mystery
,
wherefore
dost
thou
make
use
of
the
opportunity
of
slumber
?
Or
if
thou
be
not
present
,
or
bearest
no
part
herein
▪
wherefore
then
dost
thou
suffer
sleep
to
abuse
thine
Image
for
my
sake
?
Oh
,
but
perchance
thou
causest
the
charmes
thereof
to
accompany
thine
,
that
being
thus
tempered
,
and
the
moderation
of
the
one
quallifying
the
force
of
the
other
,
my
life
may
be
preserved
.
Is
this
then
the
way
which
the
goddesses
take
,
to
communicate
most
familiarly
with
Mortals
?
And
are
their
greater
favours
of
such
disproportion
with
our
sences
,
that
they
must
be
entranced
,
before
they
can
participate
of
them
?
or
in
a
manner
halfe
dead
,
to
prevent
a
full
dying
:
It
is
to
me
indeed
a
favourable
foreseeing
,
and
diverting
of
what
might
thence
befall
me
;
for
I
doe
verily
perswade
my selfe
,
that
if
thou
(
when
thou
daignest
to
make
me
thus
happy
)
shouldest
not
take
me
in
my
sleepe
,
thou
wouldst
inflict
more
than
a
thousand
deaths
upon
me
by
an
excesse
of
contentment
,
and
so
be
as
many
times
troubled
to
restore
me
my
life
,
as
thou
hadst
before
deprived
me
of
it
:
Thus
,
Pyzander
,
I
knew
by
day
that
I
was
a
Man
,
although
the
night
rendred
me
equall
to
the
gods
.
Pardon
me
Diana
,
if
by
chance
I
discourse
freely
that
which
I
am
not
obliged
by
any
Law
to
conceale
.
The
wise
man
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
conceales
the
greatest
part
of
his
thoughts
;
but
what
rule
of
Wisdome
tyes
us
to
keepe
secret
our
Dreames
?
Every
man
takes
the
liberty
to
speake
of
them
to
whom
he
pleaseth
,
and
forbids
not
his
curiosity
to
consult
with
any
Interpreters
,
thereby
to
discover
and
obtaine
(
according
to
their
feares
or
desires
)
some
light
from
their
obscurity
,
or
some
certainty
from
their
ambiguity
:
and
besides
,
no
man
can
be
censured
for
the
follies
or
vanities
of
Dreames
,
since
to
them
all
manner
of
liberty
and
freedome
is
allowed
.
There
is
no
man
,
Pyzander
,
sayes
Endymion
,
but
in
his
sleepe
doth
sometimes
see
certaine
obscure
and
cloudy
representations
of
such
things
as
most
content
and
delight
the
minde
being
awake
:
but
to
have
(
as
I
had
)
every
Night
continuall
visions
of
Diana
,
to
see
so
cleare
,
mine
eyes
being
closed
,
and
so
sensibly
to
enjoy
(
my
whole
sences
being
charmed
)
such
pleasures
as
exceed
any
mention
I
am
able
to
make
of
them
,
is
a
secret
which
I
cannot
comprehend
.
The
end
of
the
First
Booke
.
ENDYMION
.
The
Second
Booke
.
AWhile
after
,
not
enduring
to
feed
longer
on
vaine
images
or
representations
,
how
delightfull
soever
,
at
so
great
a
distance
,
I
impatiently
longed
,
once
more
to
see
,
on
Earth
,
her
,
whom
I
only
beheld
in
Heaven
.
Wherein
,
albeit
a
Goddesse
,
and
a
very
favourable
one
,
yet
to
me
she
seemed
tedious
,
and
of
too
slow
and
small
a
resolution
.
I
durst
promise
my selfe
,
that
she
,
who
in
respect
to
the
diligence
and
care
I
had
taken
to
keepe
me
in
her
presence
,
had
beene
moved
to
wish
so
well
to
me
,
would
bee
yet
more
induced
thereunto
by
my
words
,
if
I
might
but
speak
to
her
.
And
that
I
might
lose
no
opportunity
,
I
frequented
for
her
sake
,
Hunting
and
Fishing
;
in
both
which
pastimes
I
knew
she
▪
as
Mistresse
of
those
Exercises
,
tooke
especiall
delight
.
But
all
that
was
in
vaine
;
for
whilst
I
went
to
seeke
her
in
the
most
desart
places
about
Meander
,
shee
was
perchance
on
the
Banke
of
Eurotus
or
Peneus
▪
or
else
coursing
some
Lion
in
Getulia
,
or
some
Hart
in
Creta
,
or
Tiger
in
Armenia
:
For
there
are
so
many
Rivers
,
Forrests
,
and
Mountaines
▪
more
delightfull
than
those
of
Caria
,
so
many
by-waies
and
turnings
,
and
so
many
Courriers
,
and
travailers
that
she
takes
care
of
,
as
indeed
it
had
beene
a
wonder
for
me
to
have
encountred
her
.
At
last
,
not
knowing
more
what
to
doe
,
or
with
whom
to
consult
,
I
called
to
mind
Ismen
,
with
whom
I
had
a
very
familiar
acquaintance
.
Thou
knowest
the
esteeme
she
deserves
above
all
other
women
,
and
the
great
judgment
and
insight
she
hath
both
in
divine
and
humane
things
:
Apollo
himselfe
exceeds
her
not
,
in
the
knowledge
of
the
power
and
vertue
of
Hearbs
,
and
the
Moone
will
sooner
for
her
sake
come
downe
from
Heaven
,
than
for
any
other
.
Indeed
,
saies
Pyzander
,
it
is
held
that
she
is
able
to
compasse
whatsoever
shee
will
undertake
,
and
that
Thessalia
never
had
her
equall
.
I
resolving
one
day
to
goe
see
her
,
saies
Endymion
,
and
to
use
my
uttermost
endeavours
to
charme
the
most
charming
of
Women
,
did
thus
accost
her
:
Oh
blessed
Ismena
,
sole
honour
of
thy
Sexe
,
and
thou
whose
manners
and
vertues
are
such
,
as
yeeld
no
place
to
the
Goddesses
themselves
:
What
praises
shall
I
spare
to
set
forth
thy
glory
▪
and
what
a
high
obligation
of
duty
shall
I
be
bound
to
thee
in
,
if
thou
wilt
befriend
me
so
farre
,
as
to
free
me
from
the
torment
and
affliction
wherewith
I
am
at
present
enveloped
;
for
whosoever
,
distressed
in
body
or
minde
,
labours
for
the
honour
of
seeing
thee
,
finds
thee
presently
favourable
.
Thine
encounter
is
a
good
presage
unto
all
,
and
whither
so
ever
thou
goest
,
thou
art
more
desired
than
present
:
but
as
thou
hast
power
of
doing
that
good
,
which
none
can
ever
be
able
to
requite
by
any
equall
retribution
:
so
must
it
necessarily
follow
,
that
thou
findest
the
recompence
thereof
in
the
glory
that
thou
duely
gainest
thereby
.
Besides
,
what
can
all
mine
endeavours
adde
to
the
felicity
of
her
,
who
needs
not
the
helpe
of
any
Mortall
,
and
to
whom
her
owne
vertue
is
a
sufficient
supply
of
whatsoever
she
hath
use
of
?
who
with
an
equall
power
disposeth
both
of
gods
and
men
,
and
can
at
her
owne
discretion
alter
the
course
of
Nature
and
Destiny
!
If
thou
wilt
in
all
things
exactly
imitate
the
Example
of
the
gods
,
thou
knowest
it
is
the
hurt
they
have
power
to
doe
,
which
makes
them
feared
,
but
it
is
their
clemency
and
good
deeds
which
chiefly
make
them
adored
;
and
all
power
is
fruitlesse
,
that
being
implored
,
assists
not
.
My
supplication
and
suite
is
not
of
such
a
difficult
nature
,
as
that
ever
the
Night
should
thereby
be
made
to
surprise
men
at
noone-day
,
or
the
force
of
Charmes
hinder
the
course
or
brightnesse
of
the
Starres
.
The
Rivers
shall
never
for
my
sake
,
run
backwards
to
their
sources
,
nor
their
waves
swell
in
a
calme
.
The
Husband-mans
graine
shal
not
be
thereby
transported
from
one
field
into
another
,
to
beguile
his
hopes
at
Harvest
:
and
the
Hils
or
Woods
shall
not
change
their
scituation
or
owners
.
Neither
doe
I
petition
thee
to
disquiet
the
contentment
of
the
living
,
or
repose
of
the
dead
,
nor
yet
that
the
Ghosts
should
arise
and
answer
thee
:
and
farre
lesse
that
thou
shouldst
by
any
charming
or
sinister
potions
,
create
or
extinguish
any
affection
:
No
,
I
know
thou
never
doest
abuse
thy
skill
,
and
for
that
cause
it
is
,
that
the
gods
love
thee
,
and
give
thee
a
daily
increase
thereof
,
rendring
thee
equall
to
themselves
.
But
yet
I
will
tell
thee
freely
,
that
I
have
beene
of
late
moved
by
a
just
occasion
,
to
a
continuall
visiting
of
the
most
remote
and
solitarie
places
of
the
banke
of
Rivers
,
Plaines
,
Woods
,
and
Mountaines
,
to
find
,
if
it
be
possible
,
an
opportunity
of
seeing
the
Goddesse
Diana
,
who
hath
heretofore
obliged
me
with
so
great
a
liberality
,
both
of
her
presence
and
promises
.
Wherein
first
,
I
will
presume
to
crave
thy
advice
,
and
then
afterwards
some
effect
of
thy
power
and
assistance
.
She
having
awhile
silently
considered
with
her selfe
,
lifted
up
her
eyes
which
were
before
fixed
on
the
Earth
,
and
answered
mee
thus
:
I
should
thinke
my selfe
infinitely
happy
,
Endymion
,
in
finding
any
occasion
,
wherein
I
could
be
able
to
serve
thee
,
which
as
I
have
devoutly
wished
for
,
so
I
will
not
spare
to
seeke
it
even
amidst
the
greatest
difficulties
.
I
confesse
,
there
is
nothing
so
hard
,
but
may
by
Art
and
Discretion
be
compassed
:
for
not
onely
the
Goddesse
thou
desirest
to
see
,
whether
thou
suest
unto
her
as
to
the
Moone
,
Diana
,
or
Hecatea
;
but
even
both
the
Jupiters
,
and
all
the
gods
,
must
at
length
give
place
to
the
power
of
Charmes
.
The
most
speciall
and
important
thing
now
is
,
that
care
be
employed
in
making
a
right
use
of
it
,
lest
the
abuse
bring
inseparable
revenge
with
it
.
Hast
thou
never
heard
,
that
Nemesis
(
the
punisher
of
offences
)
otherwise
called
Andrastea
,
because
shee
is
inevitable
,
hath
her
Throne
placed
upon
the
Moone
,
(
according
to
the
representation
the
Egyptians
have
made
of
her
)
that
she
may
thence
the
more
perfectly
take
a
view
of
the
actions
of
men
and
punish
such
as
are
audacious
and
rash
?
Knowest
thou
not
also
,
thot
others
figure
her
with
a
Scourge
,
in
that
hand
on
which
side
Hope
is
seated
,
to
the
end
that
none
should
thinke
to
escape
with
impunity
,
if
they
aspire
to
such
things
,
as
are
not
fit
for
them
to
desire
?
If
therefore
thou
,
instead
of
bringing
downe
the
Moone
,
wouldst
not
draw
on
thy
head
the
anger
of
Heaven
,
bee
carefull
that
thou
call
her
not
,
but
on
good
and
just
grounds
▪
and
with
the
opportunity
of
a
perfect
silence
,
and
that
when
all
things
,
even
to
the
very
leaves
of
the
Trees
,
be
at
rest
:
for
if
the
least
noyse
surprize
her
▪
before
she
have
set
foote
on
the
ground
,
she
will
presently
before
thy
face
returne
up
to
the
Heavens
with
greater
speede
than
shee
came
downe
.
The
gods
,
Endymion
,
with
difficulty
and
much
labour
are
moved
to
come
to
men
,
but
doe
returne
with
great
and
easie
haste
;
as
having
alwayes
more
cause
to
be
averse
than
favourable
to
them
:
and
the
least
inconvenience
or
hindrance
is
of
force
to
distemper
and
give
interruption
to
the
greatest
miseries
.
Especially
this
one
requireth
so
much
observance
and
dexterity
,
that
it
must
be
stolne
from
the
eyes
of
all
the
gods
and
Men
:
and
although
a
generall
slumber
should
seize
both
the
one
and
the
other
,
yet
we
are
taught
,
both
by
necessity
and
providence
,
that
Jupiter
himselfe
(
and
hee
onely
▪
)
never
sleepes
.
If
the
favour
of
Heaven
towards
us
,
Ismena
,
said
I
,
be
so
small
;
perchance
that
of
the
earth
may
be
greater
.
And
since
this
goddesse
doth
equally
divide
her
care
,
and
presence
to
the
one
and
the
other
,
if
we
can
encounter
her
in
the
Mountaines
or
Forrests
,
what
need
have
▪
wee
to
seeke
more
difficult
meanes
?
and
(
with
so
much
danger
of
losing
it
)
to
prevent
the
opportunity
,
which
of
it selfe
may
follow
us
?
Indeede
,
saies
she
,
that
is
the
other
meane
I
intended
to
tell
thee
of
,
which
also
wants
not
its
obstacles
or
difficulties
.
For
although
we
may
sometimes
find
her
in
Ionia
it selfe
,
or
some
other
part
of
Greece
:
sometimes
in
the
Woods
of
Merathon
,
or
Erymanthus
,
other
whiles
on
the
tops
of
Hymettus
,
Cytheron
▪
Othrys
,
or
Pindus
;
yet
we
must
oftner
expect
and
seeke
her
amongst
the
Sarmatae
,
or
Garamantes
,
or
in
some
other
the
most
secret
and
remote
place
of
the
World
.
Besides
,
she
is
most
commonly
accompanyed
of
her
Nymphes
,
whose
profession
and
exercises
have
rendred
them
for
the
most
part
so
rigorous
,
and
unfit
for
conversation
,
that
the
onely
sight
of
men
so
offends
them
,
that
a
small
provocation
would
induce
them
to
denounce
the
same
warre
to
them
which
they
have
done
to
the
most
savage
Beasts
.
But
(
which
is
yet
more
fastidious
,
and
lesse
supportable
to
those
that
desire
the
enterview
of
this
goddesse
)
some
of
them
keepe
their
eye
so
constantly
upon
her
,
as
if
Heaven
had
made
them
her
Guardians
Doris
and
Laomeda
,
ambitious
,
jealous
,
and
curious
Nymphes
,
doe
so
nearely
watch
,
and
so
strictly
besiege
her
,
that
she
is
not
onely
inaccessible
,
but
indeed
really
captive
.
Yet
,
that
they
should
aime
,
to
know
,
controle
,
and
conduct
all
were
more
tollerable
,
if
they
did
not
also
labour
to
possesse
all
.
It
is
almost
incredible
,
how
the
very
gods
themselves
,
as
well
as
men
,
by
a
secret
excesse
of
goodnesse
and
indulgence
,
are
insensibly
overswaied
by
the
desires
of
those
whom
they
favour
.
So
that
by
over-gratifying
some
one
,
or
two
,
or
three
persons
,
they
seeme
to
retrench
the
greater
part
of
their
liberality
they
owe
to
many
;
I
will
not
say
unto
all
.
And
whilst
a
small
number
doth
even
surfeit
on
their
beneficence
;
whole
multitudes
suffering
it
,
accuse
Heaven
,
and
hate
Government
,
together
with
their
owne
lives
,
and
the
light
.
Shall
we
therefore
inferre
that
the
gods
are
not
just
?
farre
be
it
,
but
let
us
rather
acknowledge
that
they
governe
all
things
by
the
will
of
Fate
,
according
to
its
innocence
,
or
the
corruption
of
the
times
.
This
I
tell
thee
,
Endymion
,
out
of
the
affection
I
beare
thee
,
to
the
end
thou
maist
remember
,
and
duely
consider
every
poynt
.
Oh
Ismena
,
said
I
,
let
me
see
Diana
and
dye
:
she
may
perchance
be
touched
her selfe
with
a
desire
to
speake
with
me
:
for
the
gaining
of
this
favour
I
am
ready
to
expose
my
life
to
all
manner
of
perills
;
and
if
I
lose
it
,
that
shall
not
at
all
grieve
me
,
if
shee
onely
may
know
it
was
for
her
sake
.
O
yee
gods
!
replyed
she
then
,
my
memory
doth
me
ill
offices
very
often
:
and
I
have
much
abused
both
the
time
and
thy
patience
:
for
my
last
nights
dreame
fore-told
me
all
that
thou
hast
recounted
to
me
;
wherein
I
saw
Diana
her selfe
,
and
received
directions
from
her
what
I
should
doe
,
and
prescription
of
meanes
,
which
but
just
now
I
was
so
much
troubled
to
finde
out
.
This
is
the
very
time
,
and
the
most
fit
,
wherein
shee
leaves
the
Heaven
to
passe
a
few
dayes
on
Earth
.
I
know
of
a
Forrest
in
the
World
,
consecrated
to
this
goddesse
,
whereunto
the
beauty
of
the
place
,
and
the
innocence
of
the
inhabitants
,
doe
often
invite
her
to
come
for
her
recreation
.
That
is
the
place
where
she
usually
keepes
her
Chariot
and
her
Armes
:
besides
the
great
number
of
wilde
beasts
doe
there
afford
her
more
different
and
acceptable
pastimes
than
in
any
other
part
.
Faile
not
thou
on
the
day
of
the
Sunne
,
towards
evening
,
to
be
at
the
toppe
of
Mount
Lathmos
:
and
the
morrow
after
,
which
will
be
the
day
of
the
goddesse
,
I
will
endeavour
to
make
thee
happy
,
if
at
least
thy
felicity
onely
consist
in
the
honour
of
seeing
her
.
This
first
Vision
was
enough
to
have
amazed
me
,
if
what
I
had
heard
concerning
the
Oracle
,
had
not
given
me
more
hope
,
than
the
first
words
feare
:
But
if
I
knew
not
what
this
name
of
Pyza
might
signifie
,
except
it
were
meant
for
the
name
of
some
Citie
,
to
be
hereafter
built
by
some
one
of
mine
off-spring
:
For
the
rest
,
I
supposed
it
was
the
Genius
of
Olympia
that
had
thus
spoken
,
or
at
least
some
Magitian
of
that
place
,
who
had
assumed
the
forme
of
some
Bird
of
Night
to
flie
in
the
darke
withall
.
So
making
way
towards
the
East
,
borne
by
a
divine
and
all
Celestiall
motion
,
I
passed
as
it
were
in
an
instant
Licia
,
a
great
part
of
Mount
Taurus
,
Licaonia
,
Tyanea
,
the
River
Melas
,
Mount
Argeus
,
and
all
Capadocia
,
even
to
Euphrates
,
which
I
began
to
discover
in
the
lesse
Armenia
,
and
immediately
after
,
in
Armenia
the
greater
I
observed
the
Sources
thereof
at
the
Hill
Periardes
,
so
famous
for
its
fertility
:
then
turning
a
little
towards
the
North
,
I
passed
the
River
Araxes
,
neare
unto
the
mouth
of
it
,
where
it
falls
into
the
Caspian
Sea
.
At
length
having
traversed
many
Hills
and
Vallies
,
I
found
my selfe
in
a
seeming
quiet
place
,
where
having
remained
awhile
in
my
former
astonishment
and
trance
,
I
felt
Ismena
,
who
taking
me
by
the
hand
,
raised
me
up
,
saying
;
Now
Endymion
,
now
is
the
time
to
goe
,
and
to
take
resolution
and
courage
with
thee
;
gird
on
thy
Sword
,
(
for
she
had
a
care
to
bring
it
along
from
the
Hill
)
draw
it
,
brandish
it
in
thine
hand
,
and
see
that
thou
be
not
much
moved
at
whatsoever
thou
encounterest
:
for
here
thou
hast
to
doe
onely
with
a
vaine
and
giddy
people
,
who
not
enduring
the
light
,
are
constrained
to
wander
in
darknesse
;
and
who
at
the
onely
glance
of
Steele
,
doe
tremble
with
feare
.
What
Monsters
soever
shall
follow
,
or
appeare
to
thee
,
suppresse
all
affright
with
this
confidence
and
assurance
,
that
their
formes
render
them
farre
more
terrible
than
their
forces
.
Goe
straight
forward
,
but
above
all
,
when
thou
commest
into
the
Forrest
,
where
thou
art
to
see
the
Goddesse
,
beware
of
cutting
,
breaking
,
or
violating
the
least
branch
or
leafe
,
for
the
place
is
sacred
,
and
thou
maist
peradventure
thereby
unwittingly
offend
some
Nymphe
,
to
whom
,
by
the
favour
of
Diana
,
a
priviledge
is
granted
to
live
a
second
life
,
and
passe
many
ages
under
the
barke
of
some
Tree
.
For
me
,
I
will
be
as
carefull
to
know
what
becomes
of
thee
,
as
I
have
beene
to
know
where
Diana
was
;
that
if
any
danger
threaten
thee
,
thou
shalt
no
sooner
have
thrice
pronounced
the
name
of
Ismena
,
but
thou
shalt
see
mee
at
hand
to
succour
thee
:
and
if
thy
hazard
be
such
,
that
my
power
alone
,
without
the
helpe
of
the
gods
,
be
not
sufficient
to
deliver
thee
,
I
will
,
rather
than
faile
thee
,
use
force
upon
the
gods
themselves
,
and
draw
the
Moone
from
Heaven
,
to
free
thee
from
the
danger
whereinto
thou
shalt
be
plunged
for
her
sake
.
By
this
time
I
began
to
discover
the
Skie
cleare
up
a
little
towards
the
East
,
and
foretell
the
rising
of
Aurora
from
one
end
of
the
Earth
to
the
other
,
when
as
all
those
other
objects
began
to
become
more
rare
,
lesse
visible
,
and
at
length
wholly
vanished
;
or
at
least
the
Sylla's
and
Medusa's
were
converted
into
Rocks
and
Trees
,
and
the
Serpents
into
broken
Reeds
.
Immediately
I
descryed
a
great
Forrest
,
which
seemed
to
rejoyce
at
the
approach
of
the
day
,
and
in
the
shade
whereof
I
was
well
advanced
,
before
the
Sun
had
displayed
his
beames
:
Since
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
that
was
the
day
,
wherein
thou
wert
to
have
the
honour
of
seeing
Diana
,
it
would
have
beene
too
much
to
behold
two
such
great
lights
in
one
day
.
The
hope
of
this
inter-view
,
sayes
Endymion
,
did
extraordinarily
move
me
,
and
the
uncertainty
of
what
might
befall
me
,
possessed
me
sometimes
with
one
thought
,
sometimes
with
another
,
because
I
neither
knew
the
time
nor
place
wherein
this
good
fortune
was
alotted
me
.
In
the
meane
while
I
observed
the
growth
&
height
of
the
Trees
,
and
the
large
extent
of
their
branches
,
which
represented
so
great
an
antiquity
,
as
that
they
seemed
to
have
beene
borne
with
the
World
.
Oh
immortall
Nymphs
said
I
to
my selfe
,
(
for
the
place
was
so
shady
and
silent
,
that
me
thought
I
was
not
free
to
open
my
mouth
,
so
much
as
to
utter
a
sigh
:
)
Oh
Hamadryades
!
how
many
long-lived
Harts
and
Crowes
have
had
leasure
to
live
and
die
,
and
how
often
hath
the
Phoenix
renewed
her selfe
since
your
birth
!
Thus
I
continued
walking
a
long
time
,
when
instead
of
finding
an
increase
of
light
,
I
seemed
to
remaine
wholly
betwixt
the
Night
and
the
Day
,
and
even
to
follow
darknesse
,
yea
,
move
with
it
,
so
much
did
the
mists
grow
thicker
and
thicker
to
my
sight
.
Silence
and
solitude
brought
with
them
a
secret
kind
of
horrour
and
affright
,
which
no
lesse
astonished
me
,
than
the
Monsters
I
had
seene
before
:
Besides
,
all
this
time
I
had
gained
so
little
on
my
way
,
that
I
knew
it
no
more
;
and
the
more
I
went
forward
,
the
more
was
I
touched
with
a
certaine
respect
of
the
places
,
which
made
me
imagine
,
that
now
,
having
lost
the
sight
of
humane
foot-steps
,
I
was
not
farre
from
the
residence
of
the
gods
.
And
indeed
,
lifting
up
my
head
I
perceived
a
Table
,
fixed
on
a
Tree
,
which
for
bulke
and
talenesse
exceeded
the
rest
,
wherein
was
this
in
Inscription
in
Capitall
Letters
.
Stay
not
long
in
this
place
,
Mortalls
,
except
you
meane
suddainly
to
suffer
the
punishment
of
your
temerity
.
I
had
scarce
read
these
words
,
when
I
felt
the
Earth
shake
and
tremble
in
such
a
manner
under
my
feete
,
that
the
toppes
of
the
Trees
were
mooved
therewithall
.
These
accidents
indeed
had
power
to
stay
me
,
but
not
so
easily
to
divert
my
course
▪
for
,
I
being
already
so
accustomed
to
Prodigies
and
Monsters
,
would
have
beene
loath
to
flye
before
the
gods
themselves
.
What
couldst
thou
thinke
to
doe
,
saies
Pyzander
,
since
thou
knowest
there
is
neither
valour
,
or
force
in
man
,
but
must
presently
give
way
to
the
threatnings
of
the
gods
?
And
whosoever
would
be
so
rash
,
as
to
make
them
the
least
resistance
,
would
onely
shew
the
excesse
of
his
desperate
resolution
to
his
owne
ruine
.
There
was
one
sole
consideration
Pyzander
,
sayes
Endymion
,
which
made
me
resolve
to
retire
thence
,
which
was
an
unfortunate
custome
I
have
(
by
some
secret
Fate
)
never
to
enjoy
,
any
more
than
the
appearances
,
beginnings
,
promises
,
and
hopes
of
any
great
felicity
.
Insomuch
,
that
I
had
a
kinde
of
feare
,
that
Heaven
(
already
tyred
with
shewing
grace
to
me
)
would
in
stead
of
Diana
,
whom
I
sought
,
have
exposed
me
to
the
encounter
of
Hecatea
,
whose
presence
alone
either
rendreth
men
astonished
,
or
,
turning
them
into
stones
,
deprives
them
wholly
of
sence
.
And
indeed
I
presently
heard
a
horrible
noyse
,
like
unto
the
howling
of
Dogges
in
the
darke
,
mingled
with
the
roaring
of
Lyons
,
the
hissing
of
Snakes
,
or
some
other
more
strange
sound
,
which
cannot
be
represented
by
the
example
of
any
voyce
.
This
encreased
more
and
more
,
advancing
like
the
winde
,
which
rising
,
murmures
,
and
ruffles
amongst
the
Trees
,
and
Woods
,
which
oppose
the
course
,
or
retard
the
violence
of
it
;
or
as
the
raine
and
tempest
,
who
have
alwaies
some
noise
going
before
them
,
seeming
to
advertise
us
,
and
give
us
time
to
take
some
shelter
,
before
they
dissolve
upon
our
heads
.
With
this
,
I
beganne
more
and
more
to
adde
feare
to
observation
;
my
face
grew
pale
,
my
haire
stared
,
and
I
became
wholly
seized
with
horrour
and
affright
.
I
was
constrained
to
leave
the
place
,
and
even
to
seeke
pathes
where
there
were
none
.
I
knew
not
which
way
to
turne
me
,
but
wandring
thus
up
and
downe
the
Forrest
,
I
began
to
dispaire
of
my
fortune
,
and
repent
me
of
mine
enterprize
.
But
when
as
we
,
poore
Mortalls
,
are
are
reduced
to
such
exigents
,
that
wee
can
doe
no
more
,
when
our
wits
and
counsailes
faile
us
,
and
our
best
wisedome
and
judgement
becomming
blind
,
remaines
in
confusion
;
then
I
say
it
is
,
that
the
gods
appeare
,
and
witnesse
themselves
both
powerfull
,
and
favourable
to
those
that
implore
their
assistance
,
and
commit
them
wholly
to
their
protection
.
And
so
it
fared
with
me
;
for
that
which
whilome
seemed
to
me
an
ominous
encounter
,
proved
now
a
meane
to
conduct
me
to
that
which
I
desired
to
finde
.
But
it
is
a
common
errour
amongst
men
,
to
place
the
meanes
which
brings
them
to
happinesse
,
in
the
ranke
of
disasters
and
misfortunes
.
For
I
had
not
gone
farre
,
when
I
perceived
before
me
a
certaine
shining
light
,
whose
silver
beames
made
as
it
were
another
day
,
and
expelling
the
Clouldy
mists
on
every
side
,
made
,
for
a
good
distance
,
round
about
the
shades
lesse
obscure
.
Immediately
hereupon
I
saw
a
Cressant
appeare
farre
clearer
than
the
Starres
,
and
to
whom
,
next
the
Sunne
,
the
greatest
honour
is
due
.
With
which
Object
mine
eyes
were
presently
dazeled
,
and
my
heart
so
moved
with
a
continuall
panting
,
that
I
could
hardly
settle
it
.
At
length
,
having
recollected
the
powers
of
my
sight
,
I
perceived
it
was
Diana
,
who
,
as
I
thought
,
had
her
eyes
fixed
upon
me
,
before
I
saw
her
;
because
,
the
feare
I
had
contracted
,
permitted
me
not
so
much
to
looke
on
what
was
before
me
,
as
to
thinke
on
what
might
follow
me
.
I
stopping
suddainly
,
found
my
soule
wholly
possessed
with
joy
,
respect
,
and
feare
.
But
observing
her
lookes
,
no
lesse
mild
now
,
than
at
other
times
,
I
tooke
the
boldnesse
,
yet
with
secresie
and
silence
,
to
advance
some
steppes
,
the
better
to
discerne
the
places
and
persons
,
because
the
branches
and
leaves
hid
the
whole
Company
from
my
sight
,
and
in
part
the
goddesse
her selfe
.
G
pas
in
Oh
it
is
the
onely
desire
of
seeing
thee
,
Goddesse
,
which
hath
made
me
expose
my
life
to
all
the
perills
of
Heaven
and
Earth
,
to
come
and
receive
my
death
at
thy
hands
!
and
have
beene
spared
by
so
many
Monsters
,
to
be
reserved
onely
to
thy
rigours
!
Who
could
ever
have
thought
that
of
all
the
dangers
which
threatned
me
,
thine
Encounter
had
beene
most
terrible
?
What
crime
have
I
committed
,
that
can
deserve
the
punishment
of
so
suddaine
a
change
,
that
it
seemes
to
me
thou
consultest
hatred
and
affection
,
to
know
which
of
them
thou
shouldest
practise
towards
me
?
How
canst
thou
accord
the
quality
of
a
Goddesse
with
thine
irresolution
and
inconstancy
?
howbeit
indeed
thou
be
but
too
too
constant
in
making
me
feele
the
smart
of
the
darts
which
flye
from
thine
eyes
and
hands
,
wherewith
thou
hast
so
wholly
covered
me
,
that
my
wound
is
generall
,
no
roome
being
left
about
me
to
receive
one
stroake
more
,
except
thou
wilt
make
other
wounds
within
these
I
have
already
.
I
request
this
onely
comfort
of
thee
,
that
dying
by
thy
hand
,
I
may
at
least
have
the
freedome
to
tell
thee
so
;
and
that
if
thou
takest
pleasure
in
my
torment
,
thou
wilt
vouchsafe
audience
to
my
lamentation
,
which
will
witnesse
unto
thee
the
violence
thereof
,
or
at
least
shew
that
thou
art
really
a
Goddesse
,
and
that
thou
readest
in
my
heart
that
which
my
mouth
might
in
vaine
labour
to
give
thee
information
of
.
In
this
wavering
estate
of
my
good
or
ill
fortune
,
Pyzander
,
wherein
the
Fates
themselves
seemed
to
be
in
doubt
how
to
dispose
of
me
,
I
esteemed
my selfe
infinitely
happy
by
having
seene
Diana
,
and
suffered
none
other
torment
than
what
her
hand
had
inflicted
.
And
although
my
felicities
were
accompanied
with
my
complaints
,
yet
the
cause
rendred
them
so
delightfull
and
honourable
to
me
,
that
whosoever
could
not
lament
in
the
same
fashion
,
seemed
to
me
to
deserve
bewayling
or
contempt
:
For
as
on
the
one
side
I
experimented
the
whole
force
of
sorrow
,
so
on
the
other
I
enjoyed
the
contentments
of
a
felicity
not
communicated
to
other
Mortalls
,
but
at
such
time
as
some
one
of
the
gods
intending
to
ravish
them
with
honour
and
delight
,
vouchsafes
them
his
sight
and
presence
.
And
indeed
,
as
if
in
the
midst
of
my
most
violent
passion
,
some
Deity
had
approached
me
,
to
drive
death
away
,
and
defend
me
against
it
,
or
as
if
the
same
hand
,
that
had
injured
me
,
had
also
cured
me
;
I
felt
a
delightfull
Aire
,
a
pleasing
winde
,
and
a
sweet
breath
,
such
as
seemed
to
issue
from
some
Divine
mouth
,
with
some
other
pleasures
,
(
which
cannot
bee
expressed
but
by
sighing
)
wherein
there
was
a
mixture
of
sweet
and
bitter
,
so
excellently
tempered
,
that
the
sower
served
onely
as
a
necessary
ingredient
to
set
the
sweet
the
better
off
Remaining
in
this
extasie
,
wherein
the
pleasures
I
found
amidst
my
sorrows
had
cast
me
,
I
heard
a
Nymph
,
who
calling
aloud
for
her
Dogge
,
cryed
sundry
times
,
Licanthe
,
Licanthe
;
and
at
length
seeking
round
about
,
drew
neare
to
me
;
and
having
awhile
beheld
me
,
called
to
me
,
saying
,
Sleepest
thou
?
or
what
doest
thou
there
?
doth
any
thing
ayle
thee
?
I
could
at
first
,
answer
her
only
with
a
sigh
:
but
she
continuing
,
said
,
Speake
to
me
I
pray
thee
,
and
tell
me
thy
griefe
:
Alas
I
said
I
,
how
canst
thou
ask
what
I
suffer
,
seeing
me
wholly
stuck
full
of
arrows
?
how
!
full
of
arrows
?
sayes
she
,
what
dost
thou
meane
?
Dost
thou
rave
?
Open
thine
eies
,
looke
on
me
,
or
indeed
,
looke
rather
upon
thy selfe
:
how
can
I
open
mine
eies
,
answered
I
,
having
more
wounds
there
than
in
any
other
part
?
Yes
for
sooth
said
she
,
and
so
stooping
opened
mine
eye-lids
with
her
fingers
,
saying
,
See
,
are
they
not
very
sore
?
Wherewith
I
,
(
but
not
without
great
astonishment
)
beheld
the
light
againe
,
whereof
I
before
thought
I
had
bin
for
ever
deprived
.
Then
she
,
taking
me
by
the
hand
,
I
endeavoured
to
rise
,
and
remaining
so
awhile
,
I
cast
mine
eies
towards
the
place
where
Diana
was
,
but
I
neither
saw
her
,
nor
any
of
her
traine
,
saving
the
Nymph
that
was
with
me
.
A
little
after
,
beginning
to
view
my selfe
somewhat
better
,
I
neither
saw
the
Arrows
,
nor
the
wounds
whereof
before
I
had
so
much
complained
;
yet
my
heart
still
feeling
their
violence
,
kept
a
continuall
sighing
.
Being
about
to
rise
,
I
was
going
to
say
,
what
have
I
done
oh
ye
gods
!
to
deserve
to
be
a
But
unto
all
Diana's
shafts
?
But
the
Nymph
interrupted
me
,
saying
,
Doest
thou
thus
acknowledge
the
grace
she
hath
done
thee
in
saving
thy
life
?
for
thou
hadst
bin
exposed
to
the
mercy
of
the
most
rigorous
Nymphs
,
and
greatest
enemies
in
the
World
to
men
,
and
such
as
never
suffer
any
that
comes
prying
about
these
Desarts
and
Fountaines
,
to
scape
without
the
punishment
of
their
curiosity
.
Then
I
intreated
her
to
recount
unto
me
what
had
passed
concerning
me
,
which
she
performed
,
according
as
I
have
already
in
part
related
to
thee
:
but
it
is
no
new
thing
sayes
she
,
to
see
the
Goddesse
so
ready
to
gratifie
thee
.
What
thinkest
thou
she
spake
the
other
day
of
thee
in
the
Assembly
of
the
Nayades
and
Nereides
,
about
the
Mouth
of
Meander
,
betwixt
Milet
and
Priene
?
when
speaking
alone
to
us
,
who
are
about
her
by
particular
service
,
she
said
,
Behold
Endymions
Countrie
,
it
is
now
a
good
while
since
I
saw
him
:
informe
your selves
to
day
of
the
Nymphs
of
these
places
,
and
of
himselfe
,
if
it
be
possible
,
where
his
usuall
residence
is
,
what
study
most
possesseth
him
,
and
what
we
may
doe
for
his
contentment
.
If
perchance
he
present
himselfe
where
we
are
in
our
most
solitary
walkes
,
and
where
men
doe
least
of
all
frequent
,
hinder
him
not
from
seeing
me
,
use
him
favourably
,
and
let
not
your
ordinary
austerity
deny
him
admittance
.
And
in
truth
said
the
Nymph
,
there
is
not
any
one
of
the
Dryades
,
Nap●ae
,
or
Oreades
,
but
knows
thy
Name
,
though
not
thy
person
,
and
that
have
not
learned
it
from
the
great
esteeme
which
Diana
hath
thee
in
:
who
talkes
of
thee
both
to
the
Silvans
and
Fawnes
,
and
conceales
not
her
respect
of
thee
from
the
celestiall
Deities
.
Faire
Nymph
said
I
,
by
what
I
now
observe
,
it
seemes
thou
knowest
that
the
Goddesse
hath
alwaies
graced
me
with
her
particular
good-will
.
O
yes
,
said
she
,
I
know
it
very
well
:
thinke
it
not
strange
then
,
said
I
,
if
from
the
same
subject
which
so
highly
delights
me
,
I
draw
also
the
cause
of
all
my
lamentations
.
For
how
can
that
consist
,
that
shee
so
long
wisheth
me
the
good
,
which
she
never
does
me
?
What
know
I
but
that
some
humour
contrary
in
it selfe
,
opposing
her
intention
,
uncertaine
of
what
she
hath
to
doe
,
and
tedious
in
resolving
,
may
at
length
wholly
deprive
me
of
that
which
she
continually
deferres
;
and
that
time
,
which
like
her selfe
attereth
every
thing
,
may
administer
so
many
diversions
unto
her
,
that
all
this
affection
vanishing
,
she
at
length
may
her selfe
forget
that
ever
she
thought
of
it
,
and
then
in
vaine
will
it
be
for
me
to
accuse
the
gods
of
mutability
,
and
breach
of
promise
as
well
as
men
.
Thinke
not
so
ill
,
sayes
the
Nymph
,
but
consider
that
the
gods
themselves
are
led
by
Fate
,
and
must
give
way
to
necessity
.
Know
,
that
she
her selfe
takes
not
the
repose
and
ease
she
gives
to
the
World
.
How
dost
thou
thinke
she
can
give
satisfaction
,
I
will
not
say
to
so
many
persons
,
but
to
so
many
different
peoples
,
who
desire
her
favour
and
presence
?
One
while
Scythia
requires
her
,
then
Greece
,
and
anon
Ethiopia
.
But
what
doe
I
say
?
the
whole
world
adores
;
what
Countrey
is
visited
with
the
Sunne
but
knowes
Diana
,
and
her
fame
?
and
if
thus
she
must
be
every
where
,
how
can
she
remaine
long
in
one
place
?
And
yet
notwithstanding
all
those
great
cares
of
the
most
weighty
affaires
of
the
world
,
thou
hast
an
exceeding
great
share
of
her
thoughts
,
and
the
merit
of
her
words
.
Besides
,
she
hath
this
day
charged
me
,
by
a
most
speciall
command
,
to
assure
thee
,
that
she
often
thinkes
particularly
on
thee
,
and
that
the
opportunity
of
witnessing
it
will
bee
exceeding
gratefull
to
her
:
if
this
suffice
thee
not
,
and
if
thou
hast
ought
to
say
to
her
,
be
to
morrow
at
high
noone
in
the
Valley
of
Pines
,
neare
the
next
mountaine
,
where
so
soone
as
I
shall
see
thee
,
I
will
draw
her
alone
from
the
rest
of
her
Nymphes
,
assuring
my selfe
she
will
afford
thee
all
the
liberty
of
speech
,
thou
canst
in
justice
desire
of
a
goddesse
.
O
faire
Nympth
,
said
I
,
thou
dost
so
much
obliege
me
,
that
thou
rendrest
my
life
eternally
subject
:
But
give
me
leave
to
tell
thee
that
which
thou
knowest
better
than
I
;
that
is
,
that
the
difference
and
inequality
betwixt
us
and
the
gods
is
so
great
,
that
we
are
so
farre
from
being
able
to
looke
on
them
,
or
desire
them
,
without
rendring
our selves
ridiculous
,
that
wee
cannot
so
much
as
love
them
,
except
they
first
affect
us
.
But
againe
,
whensoever
they
prevent
us
,
then
is
it
our
part
to
follow
them
with
all
care
and
diligence
,
and
thus
doe
I
desire
the
honour
of
speaking
with
Diana
,
having
nothing
to
say
to
her
,
but
onely
in
pursuit
of
what
she
hath
beene
formerly
pleased
to
gratifie
me
withall
,
having
beene
oftentimes
desirous
to
speak
with
me
,
without
any
other
motion
or
solicitation
,
save
onely
that
of
her
owne
inclination
and
good
will
.
If
Mischance
could
have
plaid
me
that
injurious
pranke
,
as
to
make
time
able
to
remove
that
desire
of
hers
,
then
with
good
reason
should
respect
have
taken
me
off
from
such
presumption
,
and
confined
me
to
everlasting
silence
.
O
how
happy
were
I
,
if
any
such
propitious
desire
possessed
her
,
whereof
I
will
endeavour
to
give
her
to
morrow
the
opportunity
,
according
to
the
advice
thou
givest
me
.
Well
,
said
she
,
it
is
thy
part
to
thinke
on
it
;
time
calls
me
away
,
farewell
:
So
,
shewing
me
the
way
I
was
to
goe
,
she
gave
me
from
her
hand
a
taste
of
such
delightfull
felicities
,
as
that
I
asked
her
whether
she
intended
them
to
end
my
sorrowes
,
or
to
prolong
them
into
a
further
continuance
,
and
render
me
immortall
with
them
;
whereunto
perceiving
that
she
answered
me
onely
with
a
smile
;
as
she
withdrew
her selfe
,
I
bade
her
farewell
,
saying
,
Adieu
thou
the
most
courteous
and
discreete
of
all
the
Nymphes
,
I
cannot
wish
thee
any
greater
happinesse
,
than
the
continuance
of
that
which
thou
already
possessest
,
of
being
so
neare
to
Diana
.
Thus
went
I
on
,
revolving
in
my
thoughts
a
thousand
times
all
that
had
befalne
me
,
sometimes
praising
,
and
sometimes
even
daring
to
accuse
Diana
,
since
it
being
so
easiy
to
her
to
make
me
happier
,
she
stil
kept
me
in
doubt
and
disquiet
.
In
the
mean
time
I
being
growne
weary
,
and
finding
the
day
beginne
to
encrease
,
and
the
way
to
hasten
towards
an
end
,
I
beganne
to
find
the
tracing
of
mens
foote-steps
,
which
made
me
imagine
,
by
the
appearance
,
that
I
was
not
exposed
to
any
more
danger
.
At
last
I
ended
my
dayes
work
with
the
Sunne
,
who
was
no
sooner
at
the
end
of
his
Carriere
,
than
I
was
at
the
end
of
the
Forrest
;
where
seeing
nothing
but
Mountaines
,
and
seeing
no
better
retreat
than
the
Forrest
it selfe
,
having
chosen
a
convenient
place
,
I
laid
me
downe
at
the
foote
of
a
Mirtle
,
the
Mosse
being
there
somewhat
soften
than
else
where
,
as
if
Fortune
had
conducted
me
to
the
place
where
Nature
had
long
before
prepared
a
Bed
for
my
repose
.
The
end
of
the
Second
Booke
.
ENDYMION
.
The
Third
Booke
.
G.
par
in
At
these
words
they
presently
pressed
to
stay
me
,
but
Fortune
at
first
so
favoured
my
resolution
and
courage
,
that
the
first
that
approached
me
,
soone
repented
his
diligence
;
for
I
struck
his
Horse
so
rude
a
stroke
on
the
head
with
an
Axe
that
I
had
gotten
from
the
other
,
that
the
Weapon
remained
so
fast
behind
his
eare
,
that
I
could
not
get
it
out
againe
;
and
besides
,
he
rising
an
end
,
fell
backward
with
the
man
under
him
so
violently
,
that
hee
that
next
followed
him
,
stumbling
thereat
,
cast
his
Rider
at
my
feet
,
to
the
mercy
of
mine
Armes
;
but
turning
me
with
my
Sword
in
my
hand
,
to
looke
to
that
which
more
concerned
me
,
and
finding
my selfe
equally
environed
with
horses
and
men
,
I
resolved
upon
a
desperate
attempt
as
my
last
refuge
,
and
so
laying
about
me
on
all
sides
with
more
vehemence
▪
and
promptitude
than
these
words
can
deliver
it
to
thee
,
which
way
soever
I
turned
my selfe
,
I
so
astonished
mine
enemies
,
that
I
began
to
finde
my selfe
in
a
manner
without
resistance
;
and
had
doubtlesse
made
them
leave
the
place
,
and
freed
my selfe
at
last
,
from
one
and
other
of
them
,
if
amidst
the
violence
,
wherewith
I
made
their
Weapons
flye
in
splinters
,
if
mine
owne
Sword
also
had
not
broken
at
the
hilts
,
which
gave
the
courage
to
a
young
man
who
first
perceived
it
,
to
spurre
his
Horse
so
rudely
upon
me
,
that
mine
indignation
,
seeing
my selfe
thus
affronted
,
tooke
from
me
the
consideration
of
his
youth
and
extreame
beautie
,
which
were
of
force
to
have
moved
the
most
barbarous
to
use
him
with
more
mildnesse
:
and
so
,
not
being
able
to
containe
my selfe
,
I
threw
that
piece
of
my
Sword
which
remained
in
my
hand
,
the
pummell
whereof
hit
him
(
harder
than
I
my selfe
desired
)
upon
the
bottome
of
the
stomacke
,
the
paine
whereof
made
him
suddenly
open
his
knees
,
and
fall
to
the
ground
as
if
hee
had
beene
dead
.
I
made
haste
towards
him
to
get
his
Weapons
,
but
the
others
,
who
lost
no
time
,
failed
not
to
seize
on
me
;
and
yet
in
such
wise
,
that
they
durst
not
offer
me
any
violence
:
and
when
they
had
taken
me
,
they
still
continued
so
affraid
of
me
,
as
if
indeed
they
had
beene
my
prisoners
,
and
not
I
theirs
.
Some
complained
of
their
armes
,
some
of
their
thighes
,
and
others
shewed
the
wounds
they
had
received
in
other
parts
.
But
when
they
perceived
this
faire
young
man
trembling
and
waxing
pale
,
as
if
he
had
beene
about
to
give
up
the
ghost
,
they
forget
all
their
owne
paine
through
their
sense
of
his
;
and
then
dispaire
and
rage
beginning
to
seize
them
,
I
every
moment
expected
that
they
would
have
revenged
his
death
on
me
,
before
it
happened
to
him
.
I
was
inwardly
exceeding
sorry
to
have
imployed
my
hands
towards
the
destruction
of
such
a
Master-peece
of
Nature
,
and
was
now
no
lesse
sorry
than
before
I
was
angry
,
for
the
lineaments
of
his
face
,
had
now
no
other
motion
,
than
such
as
were
able
to
stirre
pitty
in
the
most
obdurate
minds
.
The
Roses
onely
hid
themselves
under
the
Lillies
,
which
a
tender
modesty
,
upon
the
least
occasion
was
wont
to
cover
with
the
Roses
:
and
his
golden
Tresses
,
thick
,
and
naturally
curled
,
had
so
faire
a
lustre
,
that
they
seemed
even
to
dispute
with
the
Sunne
it selfe
,
insomuch
that
it
might
have
bin
said
,
that
Death
delayed
,
and
made
scruple
to
seize
on
him
,
because
so
much
beauty
and
cleare
lustre
could
not
agree
with
the
horrours
of
her
obscurity
.
At
length
he
began
by
little
and
little
to
come
to
himselfe
,
and
open
his
faire
eyes
,
whereat
all
the
Company
,
and
even
those
whom
I
had
worst
treated
,
were
no
lesse
rejoyced
,
than
if
he
had
healed
them
of
their
wounds
and
hurts
.
Their
next
care
was
to
informe
themselves
of
me
,
and
of
mine
offence
,
and
to
bring
me
backe
to
the
place
where
they
found
me
,
where
indeed
I
could
not
see
the
branch
I
had
out
,
but
the
place
of
it
was
all
covered
with
blood
,
which
issued
from
the
Myrtle
in
great
abundance
.
Then
they
cryed
out
to
me
,
O
thou
sacrilegious
wretch
,
who
brought
thee
into
this
Countrie
?
or
what
hast
thou
to
doe
amongst
us
,
thus
to
draw
hither
the
wrath
and
vengeance
of
the
gods
,
and
specially
that
of
the
Goddesse
,
our
Protectresse
?
what
Euphrates
or
Thetis
will
ever
suffice
to
wash
away
thy
crime
?
Presently
upon
this
we
perceived
the
boughs
begin
to
tremble
,
and
from
the
curled
top
we
heard
a
dolefull
voice
mixed
with
such
sighs
and
sobs
,
as
moved
us
to
compassion
and
sorrow
,
which
in
a
confused
and
ill-pronounced
tone
,
pronounced
this
lamentation
under
the
Barke
:
O
wretched
man
!
thou
that
disturbest
the
repose
of
the
soules
,
whose
new
being
should
free
them
for
ever
from
humane
passions
,
or
the
injuries
of
Fortune
;
was
there
any
suffering
behind
,
which
I
endured
not
in
my
life
,
but
was
reserved
for
me
to
receive
at
thy
hands
?
Know
therefore
,
that
both
thy
paines
and
thine
errours
are
vaine
,
and
thou
doest
herein
onely
abuse
hope
,
and
resist
the
decrees
of
Heaven
.
Whosoever
hath
at
any
time
observed
a
poore
Prisoner
,
pale
and
confounded
with
the
apprehensions
of
the
fatall
Sentence
of
his
Death
,
may
ghesse
the
estate
whereinto
this
prodigious
Spectacle
had
reduced
me
:
as
well
,
in
regard
these
words
deprived
me
of
all
hope
,
of
the
contentment
I
so
long
,
and
with
so
much
paine
and
suffering
had
sought
,
as
for
that
I
was
in
the
hands
and
mercy
of
these
Barbarians
.
This
puts
me
in
minde
of
the
Dodonean
Forrest
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
the
so
famous
residence
of
the
Oracle
of
Jupiter
Chaonian
,
where
the
Trees
give
answer
:
Indeed
,
answers
Endymion
,
it
was
also
in
my
thought
,
and
I
seemed
amongst
the
South-saying
Oakes
,
esteeming
my
Disaster
no
lesse
assured
than
if
the
Doves
of
Chaonia
had
uttered
it
.
But
this
is
not
all
Pyzander
;
for
as
they
were
doubtfully
muttering
amongst
themselves
,
sometimes
saying
it
was
the
voice
and
ghost
of
the
last
deceased
Priest
,
another
while
,
that
it
was
one
of
Diana's
Nymphs
;
Heaven
permitted
them
,
for
clearing
their
doubts
,
and
putting
them
out
of
trouble
,
to
heare
these
words
:
What
gods
and
men
have
thus
wronged
Diophania
,
who
under
this
tough
Barke
,
and
the
protection
of
so
great
a
Goddesse
,
is
yet
thus
exposed
to
their
violence
and
out-rage
.
This
was
all
we
could
comprehend
of
her
Lamentation
,
for
here
voice
failing
by
degrees
turned
it selfe
into
an
uncouth
mourning
,
and
at
length
insensibly
vanished
.
Le.
Gaultier
incidit
.
There
is
not
any
one
of
you
but
knowes
what
was
the
beauty
of
Diophania
,
the
onely
jealousie
of
Stenobia
the
Priests
Neece
,
or
what
was
her
birth
,
her
fortune
,
the
cruelty
,
and
brutishnesse
of
her
Father
,
or
the
constant
and
violent
suit
of
Amphidamas
,
but
for
ought
I
see
you
knew
not
of
the
love
of
Hermodan
;
it
was
the
name
Pyzander
of
this
poore
lover
,
who
,
as
I
have
beene
informed
was
borne
of
an
Amazone
,
having
beene
in
his
infancy
adopted
by
a
certaine
man
of
inferiour
quality
,
whose
house
was
neare
unto
that
of
Lycaspis
,
father
of
Diophania
:
Al
these
things
have
produced
the
strange
effects
,
whereof
I
am
now
going
to
give
you
account
.
You
cannot
but
know
,
saies
he
,
that
Diophania
from
her
tender
youth
frequented
usually
the
fields
,
amongst
her
Fathers
flocks
,
and
that
by
a
certaine
priviledge
of
Neighbour-hood
,
Hermodan
conducted
his
to
the
same
Pastures
,
and
so
passing
their
yonger
yeares
in
pastimes
and
exercises
,
sutable
to
that
their
age
of
Child-hood
,
they
were
so
accustomed
to
be
together
,
that
the
one
could
not
live
without
the
other
.
But
at
length
they
began
to
grow
,
and
Diophania's
beauty
tooke
an
equall
encrease
with
her
age
and
growth
:
and
howbeit
it
became
of
force
to
captivate
the
rudest
courage
,
and
tame
the
most
rebellious
opposition
,
yet
she
no
whit
perceived
its
force
,
or
the
power
of
the
Charmes
of
it
;
and
which
Hermodan
beheld
on
the
other
side
with
so
much
innocence
,
that
neither
,
the
gods
,
nor
men
,
no
nor
his
owne
Conscience
,
was
able
to
accuse
any
one
of
his
thoughts
of
the
least
crime
:
And
whether
the
continuall
seeing
her
,
made
her
seeme
to
him
lesse
rare
and
wonderfull
,
or
whether
innocency
it selfe
carry
with
it
some
kinde
of
insensiblenesse
,
hee
had
not
so
soone
knowne
she
was
beautifull
,
if
he
had
not
so
often
heard
it
divulged
by
a
generall
consent
and
report
.
But
love
,
without
whose
aide
our
sences
would
remaine
in
a
manner
uselesse
,
and
indeed
voyde
of
sence
,
layes
before
him
so
many
allurements
,
that
howbeit
hee
be
blinde
,
he
quickly
made
the
other
understand
what
use
he
was
to
make
of
his
eyes
,
but
yet
not
so
perfectly
as
that
he
knew
yet
what
was
the
force
or
manner
of
a
looke
that
pierces
the
breast
,
or
was
skilfull
enough
wittingly
to
inflict
on
Diophania
the
least
part
of
the
great
torment
,
he
innocently
made
her
suffer
:
He
contents
himselfe
with
the
contemplation
of
her
,
and
by
his
eyes
,
from
her
lookes
to
receive
the
flame
which
secretly
and
unknowne
to
him
,
slidingly
creepes
into
his
heart
:
he
is
so
farre
from
labouring
to
oppose
the
violence
of
an
enemy
he
knowes
not
,
or
from
going
about
to
master
that
,
which
perchance
in
the
beginning
was
not
untameable
,
that
hee
not
onely
not
resists
it
,
but
on
the
contrary
seemes
to
do
every
thing
that
conduces
to
strengthen
it
:
for
he
immediately
suffers
himselfe
to
be
lead
captive
as
a
triumph
to
this
secret
Conqueror
,
and
as
if
hee
tooke
delight
in
betraying
himselfe
;
he
aspires
not
so
much
as
to
the
glory
of
having
made
the
least
defence
:
In
the
meane
time
he
takes
pleasure
in
nothing
but
in
his
torment
,
and
what
before
was
wont
to
divert
and
ease
him
,
becomes
now
too
importune
and
afflict
him
.
By
night
he
longs
for
the
day
,
whose
light
neverthelesse
affords
him
no
more
contentment
than
darknesse
,
except
it
by
chance
shew
him
his
beloved
,
whom
when
he
sees
,
he
is
no
lesse
distempered
than
before
.
He
knowes
not
what
to
resolve
on
,
and
becomes
so
much
changed
from
what
he
was
,
that
Diophania
at
length
perceiving
it
,
thinkes
her selfe
engaged
by
her
friendship
to
demand
the
cause
of
this
so
suddaine
alteration
;
which
she
once
tryed
,
but
got
no
satisfaction
therein
,
in
regard
Hermodan
,
who
felt
more
than
hee
was
able
to
expresse
,
and
who
besides
,
was
no
lesse
troubled
to
dissemble
and
maske
his
griefe
,
than
to
utter
it
,
would
have
wisht
she
could
have
understood
it
by
his
eyes
,
or
at
least
would
have
contented
her selfe
,
with
the
best
language
her
mouth
was
able
to
produce
on
this
subject
,
which
were
his
fighes
:
At
last
,
she
still
more
and
more
urging
him
,
the
necessity
of
answering
,
made
him
trample
both
upon
feare
and
shame
,
which
endeavoured
to
impose
everlasting
silence
upon
him
:
Since
,
saies
he
,
Diophania
,
it
is
thy
absolute
decree
,
that
I
declare
my
griefe
unto
thee
;
if
thou
chancest
to
be
troubled
with
the
knowledge
of
it
,
remember
to
lay
the
blame
thereof
to
the
charge
of
thy
curiosity
,
and
not
of
mine
obedience
.
It
is
thy
beauty
,
Diophania
,
which
wounds
all
men
,
and
which
assuredly
will
kill
me
,
since
the
remembrance
and
consideration
of
thy
quality
and
time
,
so
farre
different
,
causes
on
my
side
a
continuall
dispaire
to
accompany
my
love
.
It
is
a
poore
enterprize
of
his
,
to
think
to
be
able
to
resist
so
many
attracts
and
charmes
;
in
what
estate
soever
he
sayes
her
,
or
beholds
her
,
he
is
not
able
to
be
Master
of
himselfe
,
or
subsist
;
and
what
action
soever
shee
imployes
her selfe
in
,
seemes
to
him
a
continuall
killing
of
him
.
So
that
one
day
,
being
surcharged
with
his
sorrow
,
he
determined
to
implore
her
pitty
,
without
which
hee
could
no
longer
live
;
or
at
least
beg
leave
of
her
to
bewaile
his
condition
:
but
she
,
not
onely
,
not
contented
her selfe
,
to
interrupt
and
refuse
audience
to
his
lamentation
,
but
under
pretext
of
sending
him
to
seeke
in
absence
the
cure
of
a
Disease
,
which
tooke
hourely
increase
in
presence
,
shee
absolutely
forbad
him
to
come
any
more
neare
her
,
which
sentence
shee
could
not
pronounce
without
some
passion
,
and
a
kind
of
cholerick
motion
,
which
rendred
her
eyes
more
fervently
darting
than
usuall
,
and
made
her
thereby
seeme
the
more
beautifull
.
At
this
instant
Love
seeming
not
content
to
use
his
ordinary
shafts
,
armed
himselfe
with
a
Thunder-bolt
,
not
onely
to
threaten
Hermodan
,
but
to
overturne
him
,
and
in
one
moment
reduce
him
to
ashes
.
Ah
woe
is
me
!
Diophania
,
sayes
he
,
that
such
an
expresse
command
requires
so
prompt
an
obedience
:
lest
therefore
my
life
may
hereafter
be
offensive
to
thee
,
accept
not
onely
the
farewell
of
separation
thou
hast
ordained
me
,
but
also
that
of
Death
,
which
I
am
going
to
suffer
.
This
being
uttered
,
his
mouth
was
not
able
in
a
long
time
to
utter
any
one
word
,
nor
his
eyes
to
shed
any
teares
;
and
yet
Diophania
had
the
heart
to
breake
company
first
,
and
leave
him
to
the
mercy
of
dispaire
and
frenzy
which
seized
him
.
He
calls
upon
Death
without
intermission
,
and
finding
himselfe
deprived
of
his
beloved
,
grows
weary
of
the
company
of
his
life
:
But
his
Fate
was
not
conformable
to
his
will
,
nor
any
way
plyable
to
his
intreaties
,
to
whom
then
shall
he
have
recourse
?
It
is
to
no
end
to
sigh
amongst
the
Woods
and
Wildernesses
;
for
in
respect
of
a
Lovers
lamentation
,
the
Desarts
,
the
Rocks
,
and
Diophania
are
all
one
,
and
have
one
and
the
same
eares
.
This
poore
Shepheard
,
who
thought
continually
on
his
Birth
and
extraction
,
and
in
whom
the
gods
had
with
noblenesse
and
generous
courage
,
supplyed
the
defects
of
his
Fortune
,
was
never
negligent
in
the
service
of
their
Altars
,
as
knowing
well
that
upon
their
conduct
and
providence
depends
the
good
or
ill
Fortune
of
men
.
But
as
on
Earth
hee
bore
an
extreame
love
to
Diophania
,
so
in
Heaven
he
performed
a
particular
Devotion
to
the
Sun
;
to
him
he
addresses
his
vowes
and
supplications
,
and
thus
falling
cut
of
one
extreamity
into
another
,
hee
,
who
whilome
invoked
the
most
dreadfull
of
the
Goddesses
,
now
againe
implores
and
calleth
upon
the
fairest
of
the
gods
.
O
great
Apollo
,
sayes
he
,
thou
Fountaine
of
life
and
light
,
which
givest
being
and
increase
to
all
things
,
if
ever
the
Oblations
,
which
I
with
an
innocent
minde
and
undefiled
hand
have
offered
thee
,
have
beene
acceptable
,
give
eare
to
my
present
request
;
and
if
there
be
any
errour
in
my
thoughts
or
wayes
,
let
the
voluntary
confession
I
make
thereof
,
expiate
the
offence
.
But
first
looke
whether
the
stroke
that
wounds
me
be
inevitable
,
and
whether
I
have
not
had
cause
enough
to
doubt
thy
sole
and
absolute
authority
.
O
thou
great
Author
of
Ages
,
grant
me
the
grace
of
being
loved
,
where
I
love
and
adore
,
to
wit
,
of
the
Sunne
and
Diophania
.
These
prayers
sent
from
a
heart
surcharged
with
passion
,
touched
the
Sunne
,
but
the
beauty
of
Diophania
had
struck
him
before
;
and
he
,
who
sees
every
thing
,
saw
nothing
more
worthy
to
bee
looked
upon
than
shee
;
as
indeed
there
was
nothing
more
like
unto
him
,
or
more
worthy
of
his
love
.
I
have
sundry
times
heard
,
that
which
I
never
yet
could
beleeve
;
that
is
,
that
love
hath
oftentimes
moved
the
gods
,
yea
,
Jupiter
himselfe
to
forsake
Heaven
,
and
come
downe
on
Earth
;
the
verity
whereof
is
so
confirmed
by
this
History
,
that
it
must
for
ever
remaine
indubitable
;
for
though
I
cannot
say
,
that
the
Magitians
charmes
are
able
to
draw
the
Moone
from
Heaven
,
yet
well
I
know
that
those
of
Diophania
have
prevailed
so
farre
upon
the
Sun
,
whose
beauty
may
be
truely
said
to
appeare
as
a
Sun
in
the
Sunne
it selfe
.
On
a
certaine
day
,
as
this
faire
,
but
over-cruell
Shepheardesse
,
avoiding
perchance
the
love
and
presence
of
her
Shepheard
,
had
driven
her
Flock
into
a
place
more
solitary
and
quiet
than
ordinary
,
not
farre
from
that
part
of
this
sacred
Forrest
,
which
is
nearest
to
the
City
,
where
she
thought
she
might
bee
most
exempt
from
the
encounter
of
any
thing
that
might
disturbe
or
molest
her
:
This
god
,
whose
eye
pierces
the
most
secret
corners
,
and
whose
darting
beames
Hell
it selfe
cannot
easily
shun
,
presents
himselfe
before
her
with
his
beauty
,
which
gives
him
the
advantage
above
all
the
rest
of
the
gods
,
and
with
a
good
part
of
that
great
lustre
,
which
renders
him
generally
knowne
;
where-with
she
was
so
surprized
,
that
her
feare
making
her
betake
her selfe
to
flight
,
she
would
have
bin
so
glad
that
any
one
would
have
lent
her
wings
to
increase
her
speed
,
that
if
Love
himselfe
had
offered
her
his
,
she
would
not
have
refused
them
.
She
runnes
a
great
way
into
the
Wood
,
where
albeit
she
was
safe
enough
at
the
first
entry
,
yet
shee
forbeares
not
to
runne
continually
;
every
shade
to
her
seemes
to
shine
,
and
on
which
,
side
soever
she
sees
any
day
,
she
thinks
she
is
pursued
.
At
length
feare
having
as
it
were
emboldened
her
,
she
thinks
there
is
no
safety
for
her
,
but
in
that
most
horrid
darknesse
and
obscurity
,
which
at
other
times
was
wont
to
affright
her
.
Take
courage
Hermodan
,
and
draw
a
good
Augury
from
this
accident
;
she
thinkes
if
thou
hadst
not
bin
separated
from
her
,
this
affright
had
not
surprised
her
;
she
repents
her
over-sight
,
and
begins
to
wish
for
thee
.
And
thou
Diophania
,
goe
boldly
out
of
these
shady
places
,
for
thy
feare
is
the
vainest
in
the
World
:
Of
all
the
gods
,
this
whom
thou
last
sawest
,
is
least
terrible
;
and
I
wonder
by
what
chance
it
happens
,
that
he
,
who
chases
away
all
affrights
,
hath
so
distempered
thee
.
In
the
meane
time
the
Sunne
,
howsoever
so
very
swift
of
foote
,
that
hee
could
easily
have
stayed
her
,
seeing
her
flye
in
such
manner
,
would
not
follow
her
:
The
example
of
Daphne
having
tempered
him
so
farre
,
that
he
then
tooke
an
Oath
,
never
any
more
to
make
any
violent
pursuit
in
the
like
case
,
and
therefore
chuseth
rather
to
worke
by
perswasions
than
constraint
:
But
hee
finding
that
his
many
faire
qualities
rendred
him
more
dreadfull
,
and
lesse
acceptable
,
and
that
the
meane
to
obtaine
favour
at
her
hands
,
was
to
abate
of
his
extraordinary
great
merit
,
and
that
his
Deity
did
prejudise
him
,
he
resolves
to
assume
the
forme
of
a
man
.
Now
although
the
gods
doe
all
things
divinely
,
yet
their
wills
governe
not
so
all
the
authorities
of
Fates
,
but
that
they
have
some
secret
reservations
,
which
they
know
not
of
.
He
perceiving
Diophania's
rigour
to
be
no
lesse
than
her
beauty
,
and
that
she
either
could
not
be
perswaded
,
or
perswaded
onely
to
a
vertuous
end
,
he
so
governes
his
undertakings
,
that
hee
intends
with
one
and
the
same
action
,
either
to
satisfie
himselfe
,
or
at
least
grant
the
request
of
him
,
who
incessantly
implores
his
assistance
.
Hee
therefore
puts
on
the
shape
of
Hermodan
,
presuming
that
his
absence
had
by
this
time
wrought
some
compunction
in
her
breast
,
imagining
that
she
might
dislike
his
so
prompt
obedience
,
or
have
conceived
an
opinion
,
that
if
hee
had
really
loved
her
,
he
could
never
have
beene
so
easily
commanded
to
a
separation
:
shee
beholds
him
curiously
as
hee
approaches
her
,
and
is
so
farre
from
starting
aside
,
or
withdrawing
her selfe
from
him
,
that
,
besides
her
feare
,
which
before
m●de
her
desire
his
presence
,
shee
discernes
something
in
him
which
renders
him
more
gracefull
than
formerly
:
O
Diophania
!
how
wilt
thou
be
able
to
oppose
the
violence
that
this
day
thou
art
assaulted
withall
,
both
by
the
gods
and
men
?
all
the
powers
and
vertues
of
the
world
are
assembled
in
one
body
to
attempt
thine
all
alone
,
and
are
so
much
the
more
fearefull
,
because
in
acknowledging
thee
Conquerour
,
they
will
render
thee
vanquished
:
They
are
the
same
eyes
thou
wert
wont
to
behold
,
and
yet
they
have
certaine
beames
and
sparklings
,
which
render
them
more
cleare
and
penetrating
than
ordinary
.
The
countenance
hath
the
same
lineaments
,
but
some
attracts
and
graces
withall
,
which
it
had
not
formerly
.
It
is
indeed
the
same
voyce
and
speech
,
but
what
doth
it
not
utte
?
and
what
Charmes
doth
it
forbeare
to
inchant
thine
eares
withall
?
In
a
word
,
it
is
the
same
stature
,
the
same
body
,
but
inspired
with
a
Deity
,
of
whom
(
to
avoyd
being
perswaded
)
thou
must
shunne
the
conference
.
She
should
have
fled
him
,
as
formerly
,
but
poore
Diophania
knowes
not
that
there
are
two
Hermodans
at
once
in
the
world
;
and
that
the
counterfeit
is
farre
more
potent
than
the
reall
one
;
whilst
she
at
once
receives
such
powerfull
and
pleasing
impressions
of
him
,
as
cannot
be
afterwards
defaced
,
and
his
image
equally
assisted
with
Love
,
and
the
god
he
personated
,
enters
so
firmly
into
her
breast
,
that
she
will
for
ever
remaine
possessed
therewith
:
howsoever
she
give
no
other
exteriour
signe
or
testimony
of
it
,
than
her
patient
and
attentive
eare
to
his
words
;
wherein
also
she
used
so
much
discretion
and
reservednesse
,
that
a
Mortall
could
not
perceive
it
,
but
that
it
was
requisite
to
have
a
Divinity
to
discerne
it
.
But
Apollo
,
who
read
her
thoughts
,
finding
,
that
what
arguments
soever
he
alleadged
,
she
could
not
be
induced
to
entertaine
any
undue
affection
,
and
that
all
his
attempts
unprofitable
to
his
owne
suit
,
had
no
other
effect
,
but
to
render
more
acceptable
the
person
,
of
whom
he
bore
the
shape
,
contented
himselfe
with
the
admiration
of
Diophanias
vertue
,
and
to
grant
to
Hermodan
the
aide
he
required
so
humble
at
his
hands
.
It
now
onely
remaines
to
make
him
know
,
that
he
is
no
lesse
fortunate
,
than
he
thinkes
himselfe
miserable
:
which
he
presently
performes
before
hee
would
quit
the
shape
he
had
assumed
,
the
more
pregnantly
to
prove
to
him
,
that
notwithstanding
his
separation
had
prohibited
him
to
see
Diophania
,
yet
,
that
he
had
beene
both
seene
and
heard
of
her
▪
Hermodan
,
tyred
with
sighing
and
lamentation
,
was
by
chance
risen
from
the
foot
of
a
Tree
,
and
sitting
himselfe
to
retire
,
stood
a
while
beholding
his
flocke
,
which
seemed
sensible
of
his
anguish
and
affliction
;
when
as
from
farre
he
perceived
the
Sunne
,
like
his
second
selfe
approaching
him
,
which
so
perfectly
resembled
him
,
that
he
could
not
mistake
him
,
without
mis-knowing
himselfe
;
which
so
much
disturbed
his
thoughts
,
that
to
get
out
of
the
confusion
wherein
he
was
,
he
determined
to
goe
and
behold
himselfe
in
some
Fountaine
,
to
see
whether
he
were
not
by
some
miracle
changed
into
another
,
as
he
really
beheld
another
transformed
into
his
likenesse
:
he
could
not
understand
any
possibility
of
being
in
two
places
at
once
,
to
walke
and
stand
still
all
at
once
,
or
how
he
could
be
intire
,
and
yet
divided
.
And
although
in
this
object
,
he
saw
no
other
thing
than
what
he
had
beheld
every
day
of
his
life
;
yet
if
any
man
should
have
asked
him
the
name
of
it
,
he
would
have
beene
much
troubled
to
have
told
it
:
when
he
heard
these
words
:
Hermodan
,
I
am
the
god
whom
thou
implorest
,
and
who
have
assumed
thy
shape
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
render
thee
more
powerfull
and
acceptable
to
her
who
gloried
in
disdaining
thee
:
An
affright
she
lately
had
,
made
her
wish
for
thy
presence
,
which
I
have
this
day
granted
her
in
thine
absence
,
to
the
end
,
by
this
meanes
,
and
by
the
strongest
perswasions
,
and
most
powerfull
charmes
,
which
under
a
humane
shew
could
proceed
from
a
Divinity
to
make
her
sensible
.
Having
spoken
these
words
,
the
Sunne
retires
,
and
night
arrives
,
so
that
Hermodan
had
not
time
,
either
to
adore
him
,
or
give
him
thankes
:
And
in
that
intention
he
scarce
knew
how
to
resolve
to
demeane
himselfe
,
so
much
he
feared
to
offend
the
gods
,
in
Honouring
his
owne
Image
.
He
never
had
thought
himselfe
so
faire
or
perfect
,
that
he
could
easily
be
induced
to
take
his
owne
resemblance
for
the
Sunne
.
Here
upon
a
thousand
doubts
assaulted
his
imagination
,
especially
when
he
called
to
minde
what
had
some
few
dayes
before
been
told
him
by
an
old
Shepheard
,
who
had
the
name
and
repute
of
a
Magician
or
Sooth-Sayer
;
to
wit
,
that
to
purchase
the
love
of
the
Beauty
he
affected
,
were
required
the
qualities
of
a
god
,
under
the
appearance
of
a
man
:
Which
he
formerly
had
taken
for
a
testimony
of
Diophania's
Pride
and
Scorne
,
and
the
small
hope
hee
was
to
expect
of
her
.
But
now
comparing
these
sayings
with
the
words
he
had
last
heard
,
that
which
before
made
him
dispaire
,
gives
him
now
more
assurance
:
yet
as
the
gods
,
when
they
are
disposed
to
appeare
to
us
,
doe
accommodate
themselves
to
the
weaknesse
of
our
sences
,
and
assume
such
shapes
as
are
most
familiar
,
and
supportable
by
us
,
lest
by
presenting
themselves
in
their
owne
reall
Formes
,
the
onely
glance
of
their
presence
should
destroy
and
consume
us
:
so
also
by
too
much
disposing
themselves
in
so
gentle
a
way
,
they
often
leave
scruples
and
doubts
in
us
of
their
reality
,
and
whether
they
be
themselves
or
no
;
suggesting
by
this
meanes
to
our
blindnesse
a
thousand
Subjects
and
causes
of
incredulity
.
So
this
poore
shepheard
,
not
knowing
what
he
should
beleeve
,
vexes
himselfe
,
and
findes
his
Spirits
overwhelmed
in
the
confusion
of
his
thoughts
,
and
passing
the
night
with
a
thousand
Disquiets
,
could
not
sleepe
,
had
he
not
beene
forced
to
it
by
the
necessity
of
his
former
watching
.
The
end
of
the
Third
Booke
.
ENDYMION
.
The
Fourth
Booke
.
ON
the
other
side
Diophania
findes
not
her
sleepe
so
sweete
or
pleasing
as
she
was
wont
,
and
her
ill
rest
beginnes
already
to
make
her
awake
before
Aurora
:
she
never
ceases
to
delight
her
spirit
with
the
pleasures
which
love
usually
at
first
represents
to
those
whom
he
intends
to
ingage
in
his
service
,
and
as
yet
perceived
not
the
secret
thornes
and
prickles
,
covered
with
the
sweete
pleasing
Flowers
and
Roses
:
she
admires
the
constancy
and
loyalty
of
her
shepheards
,
and
incessantly
revolves
in
her
thoughts
his
discourses
and
his
actions
,
which
rendered
him
perfectly
amiable
.
But
as
her
beauty
acquired
her
no
fewer
servants
than
all
young
men
that
durst
looke
upon
her
;
so
amongst
others
,
Amphidamas
had
already
but
too
much
beheld
her
,
for
he
thence
found
such
inward
assaults
▪
as
deprived
him
of
his
patience
,
and
induced
him
,
with
the
day
,
to
goe
interrupt
the
quiet
of
Hermodan
with
this
language
.
Now
is
the
time
and
opportunity
Hermodan
saies
he
,
that
together
with
the
glorious
title
of
the
firmest
friend
in
the
world
,
thou
maist
in
one
instant
gaine
Amphidamas
his
fortune
;
and
whatsoever
is
his
,
if
thou
but
accord
him
one
good
office
,
which
,
also
,
no
respect
can
permit
thee
to
refuse
him
in
.
Thou
knowest
that
the
extreame
beauty
of
Diophania
,
accompanied
with
as
great
an
austerity
,
renders
her
inaccessable
to
all
men
,
except
onely
to
thee
,
whom
a
long
habit
of
acquaintance
hath
rendred
familiar
with
her
:
In
which
respect
I
●ntreat
thee
to
intimate
unto
her
my
desire
and
suite
to
serve
her
,
and
to
adde
in
my
behalfe
whatsoever
thy
good
will
or
friendship
shall
suggest
unto
thee
,
to
obliege
me
:
I
cannot
thinke
this
message
propounded
by
Hermodan
,
in
the
behalfe
of
Amphidamas
,
can
displease
her
,
except
it
be
so
that
none
but
a
Deity
onely
,
can
be
able
to
deserve
or
obtaine
the
grace
and
permission
I
sue
for
.
Hermodan
,
whose
misfortune
continually
assaults
and
traverses
his
merit
,
and
so
violently
opposes
his
felicity
,
that
even
the
gods
themselves
have
much
travile
and
difficulty
to
witnesse
by
effects
the
good
will
they
beare
him
,
would
faine
have
excused
himselfe
of
this
so
fatall
Commission
:
But
when
we
have
to
doe
with
men
,
whose
condition
so
farre
exceeds
ours
,
excuses
must
bee
well
grounded
,
and
supported
with
many
firme
reasons
,
otherwise
they
are
taken
as
refusals
,
and
injurious
discourtesies
.
But
hee
with
this
beginnes
to
conceive
,
that
this
imployment
will
give
him
a
good
pretext
to
frequent
and
accost
Diophania
with
the
more
confidence
and
be
a
meanes
for
him
to
draw
from
her
some
proofe
of
her
late
favourable
change
:
whereupon
(
through
his
excessive
desire
thereof
)
he
could
not
yet
fixe
his
hope
,
and
so
resolves
to
gratifie
this
his
irksome
Rivall
with
this
smooth
answer
:
That
he
would
most
cheerefully
and
willingly
deliver
to
Diophania
the
message
he
had
charged
him
withall
,
and
would
with
no
lesse
fidelity
and
promptitude
,
render
him
the
answer
which
he
should
receive
from
her
;
that
he
so
perfectly
Honourd
them
both
,
that
he
desired
to
render
them
equally
satisfied
of
his
obedience
:
and
that
he
would
rather
expose
himselfe
to
the
hazard
of
incurring
Diophanias
displeasure
,
than
to
omit
any
occasion
of
serving
him
.
So
Amphidamas
staied
him
no
longer
,
for
indeed
they
were
both
travailed
with
one
and
the
same
longing
:
Hermodan
to
see
Diophania
,
and
Amphidamas
to
see
him
set
forward
.
Behold
now
at
length
the
happy
day
wherein
Hermodan
beginnes
to
reassume
the
path
he
had
so
long
lost
:
But
although
hee
was
bound
to
trust
more
to
the
gods
than
to
himselfe
,
yet
his
incredulity
hourely
suggested
new
feares
,
and
kept
him
in
a
continuall
irresolution
,
untill
he
came
even
into
Diophanias
presence
,
whom
he
at
first
perceived
nothing
moved
,
or
surprized
at
his
sight
,
as
at
some
new
thing
,
which
somewhat
fortified
his
resolution
,
yet
he
endeavoured
by
these
words
to
gather
more
full
assurance
.
There
is
,
Diophania
,
saies
he
,
a
new
occasion
which
engages
me
to
make
thee
a
discourse
,
which
perchance
will
be
lesse
unpleasing
than
that
whereby
I
purchased
thy
displeasure
,
and
procured
banishment
from
thy
presence
:
Thou
now
hast
no
further
need
to
consult
thy
rigour
for
mine
answer
,
or
employ
it
to
make
me
suffer
death
,
since
the
designe
of
Amphidamas
is
more
than
enough
to
ruine
and
destroy
me
;
he
is
wholly
resolved
to
serve
thee
,
and
hath
made
me
promise
him
to
give
thee
notice
of
it
.
Whereat
Diophania
interrupting
him
,
sayes
;
Tell
me
no
more
of
this
,
sayes
shee
,
neither
let
me
any
more
heare
of
thee
,
or
Amphidamas
.
These
first
words
so
astonished
Hermodan
,
that
he
thought
himselfe
no
lesse
unfortunate
than
he
was
wont
:
Hee
inwardly
accuses
both
the
gods
and
men
,
and
imagines
that
his
evill
Genius
,
or
some
other
Devill
yet
more
fatall
to
him
,
had
assumed
his
forme
to
deceive
him
,
and
mocke
his
hope
.
Then
Diophania
thus
went
forward
:
Had
I
yesterday
the
patience
to
heare
thee
speake
thy
pleasure
of
thine
owne
affection
,
that
thereby
I
should
encourage
thee
to
thinke
that
I
would
endure
this
day
to
heare
thee
talke
so
much
of
that
of
Amphidamas
?
hast
thou
had
halfe
a
dayes
constancy
?
or
hast
thou
so
little
to
sue
for
in
thine
owne
behalfe
that
thou
must
of
necessity
either
be
silent
,
or
speake
for
another
?
Away
deceiver
,
thou
no
more
remembrest
the
words
thou
speakest
,
or
the
protestations
thou
makest
,
than
as
if
some
other
had
pronounced
them
for
thee
,
or
thou
never
hadst
thought
on
them
:
With
this
Hermodan
manifestly
perceiving
the
verity
he
had
beene
informed
,
beganne
too
late
to
repent
his
incredulity
;
yet
a
secret
joy
seizing
his
heart
,
doth
so
transport
him
beyond
himselfe
,
that
he
forgets
all
his
former
sorrowes
,
and
suffers
now
no
paine
,
but
that
of
excessive
pleasure
:
He
throwes
himselfe
at
Diophanias
feete
,
and
begges
of
her
the
pardon
he
is
sure
to
obtaine
;
for
now
all
her
rigours
are
growne
feigned
,
and
her
moth
utters
not
that
harsh
word
which
is
not
presently
contradicted
by
her
eyes
.
It
was
now
that
these
two
lovers
beganne
to
sigh
equally
for
one
another
,
and
entertaine
themselves
with
so
much
delight
and
felicity
,
that
there
was
no
day
so
long
,
which
in
this
respect
seemed
not
short
to
them
;
yet
not
their
pleasures
onely
,
but
even
their
very
desires
were
alwayes
accompanyed
of
innocence
;
and
whatsoever
violent
tryalls
love
charged
them
,
their
vertue
was
never
injured
or
impaired
in
the
least
.
And
as
they
judged
of
all
things
onely
in
favour
,
and
by
the
rule
of
their
affections
,
so
they
soone
forgat
the
inequality
of
their
fortunes
;
and
without
troubling
themselves
with
any
thing
that
might
be
able
to
crosse
their
designes
,
they
promised
themselves
that
time
would
accommodate
all
things
,
and
from
thenceforward
entertained
onely
good
hopes
thereof
.
In
the
meane
time
Amphidamas
,
whose
love
sensible
increased
by
the
difficulty
Diophania
made
in
receiving
the
advice
of
it
,
found
soone
after
an
expedient
to
procure
him
audience
:
for
by
addressing
himselfe
to
Lycaspis
her
father
,
obtained
of
him
all
that
he
could
request
at
his
hands
.
The
onely
respect
of
his
power
and
parentage
,
which
ranked
him
as
farre
above
Diophania
,
as
she
was
above
Hermodan
,
permits
him
not
to
consult
further
upon
the
poynt
,
and
thinks
his
daughter
must
needes
be
no
lesse
pleased
therewith
than
he
:
and
so
when
he
speakes
to
her
of
it
,
he
imputes
the
change
which
appeares
in
her
face
to
modesty
,
and
the
natural
bashfulnesse
,
which
in
the
like
occasion
commonly
accompanies
those
of
her
Age
and
Sexe
,
and
takes
her
silence
for
consent
;
yet
Amphidamas
pressing
more
and
more
,
Diophania
must
declare
her selfe
;
and
her
father
,
who
at
first
is
resolved
to
constraine
her
,
is
desirous
to
heare
her
inclination
thereunto
from
her selfe
.
But
her
feare
of
displeasing
him
,
makes
her
not
dare
to
tell
him
,
what
she
hath
before
sufficiently
declared
to
her
mother
▪
and
therefore
Mirtamisa
speaking
for
her
,
informes
Lycaspis
of
that
which
he
desired
not
to
have
heard
:
which
was
,
that
her
Daughters
disposition
,
would
make
her
preferre
the
condition
of
the
poorest
shepheard
of
the
World
,
before
all
the
wealth
of
him
,
whose
person
she
could
not
affect
:
Which
when
Lycaspis
heard
,
his
Barbarous
inhumanity
would
not
give
him
leave
to
reply
any
thing
,
but
words
of
reproach
.
And
as
he
never
had
the
temper
either
to
retaine
his
Choler
,
or
conceale
his
opinion
,
he
failed
not
to
acquaint
Amphidamas
,
with
the
very
words
,
which
Mirtamisa
had
reported
of
Diophania
,
and
to
advise
with
him
what
meanes
were
most
proper
to
be
used
to
gaine
her
.
Amphidamas
bearing
himselfe
violently
against
whatsoever
resists
him
,
thinking
all
things
due
to
him
upon
his
first
demand
,
is
not
able
to
support
with
patience
,
at
the
hands
of
whom
he
so
much
loves
,
words
so
full
of
disdaine
and
hatred
:
Whosoever
now
looks
upon
her
,
increases
his
jealousie
,
but
especially
Hermodan
,
who
never
forsakes
her
Company
;
insomuch
that
the
first
thing
he
counsells
Lycaspis
,
is
to
forbid
Diophania
any
more
to
see
him
,
or
admit
him
to
her
presence
.
Then
he
commands
her
to
resolve
,
and
joyne
a
voluntary
and
cheerefull
obedience
to
the
necessity
of
obeying
;
that
he
had
engaged
his
promise
therein
,
and
besides
could
not
thinke
that
she
was
so
little
carefull
of
her selfe
,
or
void
of
Judgment
,
as
to
refuse
the
greatest
honour
and
advantage
that
ever
he
should
be
able
to
procure
her
.
Lycaspis
being
farre
more
indulgent
to
the
desires
of
Amphidamas
,
than
to
those
of
his
Daughter
,
forgot
not
from
thence
forward
to
repeate
often
to
her
that
unpleasing
Oration
,
and
to
offer
her
the
choise
of
two
things
,
either
to
remaine
in
his
perpetuall
disgrace
,
or
to
give
him
satisfaction
in
that
which
he
required
.
Diophania
finding
her selfe
thus
urged
,
howbeit
she
could
not
easily
perswade
her selfe
,
that
her
determinations
were
in
every
thing
to
depend
on
her
Fathers
will
,
or
that
it
was
more
convenient
for
her
to
enter
into
an
assured
misfortune
for
her
whole
life
,
than
once
to
disobey
him
;
resolves
neverthelesse
to
tell
him
,
that
her
will
depends
wholly
upon
his
,
and
that
she
will
rather
chuse
death
than
disobedience
:
But
it
was
farre
easier
for
her
to
weepe
than
to
answer
;
and
from
those
two
or
three
words
,
which
shee
scarce
was
able
to
utter
,
shee
fell
suddenly
into
an
abundance
of
teares
;
this
is
now
all
the
exercise
she
can
imploy
her selfe
in
,
and
by
night
she
chiefly
torments
and
afflicts
her selfe
,
whilst
Hermodan
takes
his
rest
,
or
perhaps
delights
his
spirit
with
some
pleasing
hope
,
although
indeed
it
were
time
for
him
to
dispaire
.
He
longs
for
nothing
but
the
day
,
to
render
himselfe
in
these
faire
places
,
as
the
sole
witnesses
of
his
felicity
and
contentment
;
which
arrives
for
him
too
soone
,
because
with
it
he
encounters
Diophania
sad
and
desolate
,
bringing
him
this
irkesome
and
unpleasing
message
.
Ah
Hermodan
sayes
she
,
now
is
the
time
that
my
Fathers
tyranny
is
become
compleat
,
who
not
onely
commands
me
to
love
Amphidamas
,
but
with
all
forbids
me
to
see
or
speake
to
thee
:
Farewel
therefore
Hermodan
;
the
small
power
I
have
over
mine
actions
and
my selfe
,
permits
me
not
any
further
conference
with
thee
:
know
onely
that
my
life
cannot
subsist
without
the
continuance
of
thy
love
,
and
nothing
can
comfort
me
but
thy
loyalty
:
How
should
I
be
able
to
expresse
the
estate
our
poore
Lover
was
now
reduced
,
to
whom
this
change
was
so
rude
and
sensible
,
that
hee
was
not
himselfe
able
to
signifie
his
sorrow
but
by
astonishment
and
silence
?
he
knows
not
what
way
to
turne
him
,
and
seeing
her
the
whole
object
of
his
love
,
and
onely
that
which
made
his
life
acceptable
to
him
,
retire
from
him
,
if
he
could
have
thought
on
any
expedient
to
facilitate
the
approach
of
death
,
he
would
assuredly
have
made
use
of
it
.
And
Diophania
from
thence
forward
became
so
wholly
seized
with
sorrow
,
that
every
houre
she
visibly
changed
,
and
in
a
very
short
time
became
wholly
unlike
to
her selfe
;
yet
shee
continued
faire
,
for
her
beauty
was
so
perfect
,
that
neither
her
teares
or
her
sorrows
were
able
to
deface
it
.
I
observing
all
those
passages
,
and
having
before
perceived
the
affection
she
bare
to
Hermodan
,
although
I
were
not
resolved
much
to
flatter
her
passion
,
as
imagining
it
could
turne
to
no
other
thing
but
a
necessary
change
of
the
one
or
the
other
,
or
at
least
a
common
dispaire
in
both
,
yet
her
Fathers
cruelty
was
to
her
so
compleate
an
affliction
,
that
she
needed
not
the
addition
of
any
other
from
me
,
who
on
the
contrary
sought
all
opportunities
to
divert
and
comfort
her
:
And
perceiving
that
the
onely
name
of
Hermodan
had
more
power
with
her
than
any
discourse
I
was
able
to
present
her
withall
,
I
forced
my selfe
,
for
her
sake
,
as
much
as
was
possible
,
to
comply
with
her
humour
,
and
by
that
meanes
got
knowledge
of
the
whole
Story
.
If
at
any
time
I
laboured
to
reduce
her
memory
to
the
consideration
of
what
she
ought
to
doe
,
as
by
that
meanes
gently
to
draw
her
back
to
the
knowledge
of
her
duty
,
I
found
the
opposition
of
two
such
strong
passions
,
her
love
to
Hermodan
,
and
her
hatred
to
Amphidamas
,
that
the
onely
effect
of
all
my
remonstrances
was
a
renovation
of
her
teares
,
and
a
drawing
of
this
plaint
from
her
lips
.
Ah
me
!
sayes
she
,
either
our
desires
and
affections
are
blind
,
or
the
Lawes
of
Heaven
are
cruell
,
that
we
must
so
ardently
love
that
which
we
can
never
possesse
,
or
be
possessed
by
that
,
which
we
cannot
affect
:
What
likelyhood
is
there
,
that
ever
I
shall
be
able
to
perswade
my selfe
,
that
Amphidamas
,
whom
I
hate
above
all
other
men
,
should
one
day
become
my
better
part
,
or
indeed
my
second
selfe
?
If
the
gods
have
so
much
exalted
his
fortune
,
it
is
onely
to
display
his
defects
,
and
shew
the
many
wants
in
his
person
.
My
Father
is
quite
different
from
the
disposition
of
other
Fathers
,
whose
children
,
how
deformed
soever
,
seeme
faire
to
them
;
for
it
is
his
opinion
,
I
must
seeme
very
defective
and
ill-shapen
,
since
he
goes
about
to
present
me
my
Match
in
the
most
imperfect
man
of
all
others
,
and
as
if
I
were
bound
to
see
onely
with
his
eies
,
and
love
with
his
inclination
,
he
will
purchase
me
a
contentment
,
which
I
shall
not
onely
never
enjoy
,
but
rather
esteeme
it
for
a
singular
affliction
.
Wherin
have
I
ever
so
much
offended
him
,
that
he
inflicts
a
penance
on
me
no
shorter
than
my
life
?
and
whereas
others
seeke
the
good
and
contentment
of
their
Children
,
he
will
unworthily
condemne
me
to
the
sufferance
of
an
eternall
affliction
.
Shall
I
alone
in
all
the
workes
of
Nature
be
linked
to
my
contrary
?
If
it
be
a
Decree
of
Heaven
,
why
is
it
onely
particular
to
me
?
And
why
is
not
light
as
well
annexed
to
darknesse
,
and
all
other
opposites
mixed
with
a
like
confusion
?
It
is
a
vaine
proposition
they
make
to
me
,
that
even
those
,
who
in
the
beginning
are
most
odious
to
us
,
doe
become
,
when
once
the
Law
renders
them
ours
,
amiable
by
custome
,
and
the
necessity
which
is
imposed
upon
us
to
affect
them
;
Is
not
this
a
continuall
errour
that
reignes
in
us
?
Thus
the
poore
Galley-slave
becomes
enamoured
on
the
Chaine
wherewith
he
hath
bin
accustomed
to
be
continually
fettered
;
thus
the
very
poison
,
retaining
its
proper
quality
,
is
to
many
,
food
and
nourishment
:
and
thus
must
we
doubtlesse
be
growne
exceeding
ill
,
when
we
can
finde
no
taste
but
in
ill
things
,
and
that
wee
begin
to
esteeme
Vice
in
lieu
of
Vertue
.
Whilst
I
entertained
my selfe
with
those
thoughts
,
more
full
of
feare
than
hope
,
I
heard
one
open
the
doore
,
where
I
saw
enter
a
great
number
of
the
principall
,
and
the
most
ancient
of
the
City
,
who
tooke
speciall
notice
of
my
face
,
my
stature
,
and
the
whole
proportion
of
my
body
;
and
then
they
examined
me
whence
I
was
,
what
was
the
occasion
of
my
Voyage
,
and
concerning
the
accident
that
was
befalne
me
;
which
done
,
they
retired
apart
,
and
talked
a
good
while
together
,
and
by
their
gestures
they
seemed
to
me
,
all
to
consent
to
one
and
the
same
thing
:
In
the
meane
time
,
I
not
knowing
what
to
doe
,
could
conclude
no
other
thing
in
my
thoughts
,
but
that
I
was
a
lost
man
,
and
bought
and
sold
by
them
,
and
should
bee
presently
delivered
over
to
the
best
Chapman
.
I
wayted
with
longing
to
see
how
they
had
disposed
of
me
:
And
daring
to
expect
nothing
at
the
hands
of
my
misfortune
,
but
all
manner
of
disasters
,
I
resolved
my selfe
to
a
constant
suffering
of
more
torment
than
they
could
inflict
upon
me
.
But
in
stead
of
this
,
I
was
on
the
suddaine
wholly
amazed
to
see
them
,
whom
I
had
newly
so
much
incenced
;
to
treat
me
,
as
if
they
had
beene
much
oblieged
to
me
:
and
the
chiefest
of
those
that
had
taken
me
,
suddainly
turning
his
Choler
into
Courtesie
,
and
his
injuries
into
good
offices
,
was
exceeding
carefull
that
I
should
receive
all
manner
of
contentment
in
his
house
,
and
be
better
treated
than
himselfe
:
this
made
me
say
with
my selfe
,
those
people
are
not
sensible
of
injuries
,
since
they
thus
mildly
punish
sacriledges
,
and
so
ill
defend
the
cause
of
their
gods
.
But
little
knew
I
that
it
was
their
custome
to
observe
the
words
and
gestures
of
their
Captives
,
and
slaves
thereby
to
discerne
,
which
of
them
was
best
inspired
to
the
discourse
of
times
,
and
events
,
and
fore-tell
things
to
come
,
and
then
to
sacrifice
them
.
And
so
walking
one
evening
with
some
of
the
principall
of
them
,
and
being
the
first
that
perceived
the
New
Moone
,
as
soone
as
she
appeared
in
the
Skye
,
I
tooke
occasion
to
discourse
of
her
,
telling
them
how
happy
I
thought
this
Countrey
,
by
being
in
the
protection
of
so
great
a
goddesse
;
and
in
pursuit
of
this
,
I
beganne
to
shew
them
her
course
,
her
motions
,
the
causes
of
her
severall
shapes
,
and
all
her
alterations
and
effects
:
Thus
,
whilst
I
precipitated
my selfe
to
my
fatality
,
these
people
heard
me
with
great
attention
,
and
admiring
that
which
they
understood
not
,
they
tooke
all
my
words
for
Oracles
:
especially
perceiving
me
so
passionately
to
rehearse
the
praises
of
the
goddesse
,
and
repeat
Hymnes
in
Honour
of
her
,
such
as
they
had
not
beene
wont
to
heare
.
Sometimes
I
seemed
to
them
to
be
transported
even
to
Heaven
;
and
that
the
performance
of
these
Discourses
,
required
,
that
either
I
must
have
an
extraordinary
inspiration
have
beene
an
eye-witnesse
of
all
her
motions
;
insomuch
,
that
they
all
unanimously
professed
,
and
with
one
voyce
said
:
this
young
man
is
questionlesse
happened
fortunately
into
our
hands
,
and
we
have
not
any
one
more
worthy
of
the
sacred
Chaine
than
he
▪
for
it
was
the
custome
to
honour
and
adorne
with
this
Chaine
,
the
person
designed
for
the
Sacrifice
)
which
I
then
understood
not
.
But
Endymion
,
saies
Pyzander
,
pardon
my
just
curiosity
,
which
oblieges
me
to
interrupt
thee
,
by
asking
thee
what
became
of
Hermodan
all
this
while
,
whom
you
lost
at
the
foot
of
the
Myrtle
?
Hermodan
,
replyed
Endymion
,
staied
there
the
whole
day
,
beholding
Diophania
in
this
new
condition
,
adoring
her
,
and
powring
out
his
lamentations
before
her
:
but
it
seemes
she
hath
neither
voyce
nor
words
more
,
and
that
her
Fate
had
already
put
a
limit
to
all
the
Discourses
she
was
for
ever
to
make
,
with
that
case
shee
had
uttered
to
us
:
neither
doe
I
thinke
that
he
received
any
other
answer
from
her
:
or
at
least
,
if
she
spoke
any
more
to
him
,
it
was
that
which
onely
served
to
increase
his
affliction
to
the
height
of
dispaire
.
At
length
perceiving
there
was
no
more
of
Diophania
left
him
,
and
that
to
see
her
in
that
estate
,
and
to
see
her
dead
,
was
one
and
the
same
thing
;
that
after
having
acquired
the
affection
of
the
rarest
beauty
in
the
World
,
and
beene
preferred
therein
,
not
onely
to
the
greatest
of
men
,
but
even
to
the
gods
themselves
,
there
remained
no
earthly
thing
fit
for
him
to
desire
:
And
besides
,
he
having
beene
the
principall
cause
of
whatsoever
had
beene
tragicall
,
and
most
deploreable
in
this
sad
adventure●
;
it
would
have
argued
a
want
of
sence
or
feeling
of
it
,
and
a
stupidity
of
courage
to
have
desired
to
live
longer
,
and
purchase
nothing
thereby
,
but
contempt
and
shame
:
So
,
finding
both
love
and
despaire
,
yea
,
and
his
very
Conscience
reproaching
him
with
every
moment
he
added
to
his
life
,
he
resolved
to
ranke
himselfe
into
the
number
of
the
dead
,
provided
,
that
in
Sacrificing
himselfe
in
her
presence
,
he
might
,
if
it
were
possible
,
procure
her
a
place
amongst
the
Deities
.
And
thus
,
having
the
whole
day
watered
and
bedewed
the
foote
of
the
Myrtle
with
his
teares
,
he
resolved
at
night
to
besprinkle
it
with
his
blood
;
but
just
as
he
was
giving
himselfe
the
mortall
stroke
,
one
by
chance
passing
by
saw
him
,
and
snached
the
Dart
out
of
his
hand
,
which
he
was
going
to
employ
in
this
fatall
execution
.
Afterwards
he
would
have
sought
some
Rocke
or
Precipice
for
the
accomplishing
of
his
purpose
,
if
he
had
not
esteemed
it
as
a
great
crime
,
from
thenceforward
any
moment
to
leave
her
presence
,
for
whose
sake
onely
in
what
estate
soever
she
were
,
hee
was
fully
determined
to
live
and
dye
.
He
therefore
implores
the
pitty
of
the
gods
,
especially
of
Apollo
,
and
conjures
them
so
unfeignedly
to
put
some
period
to
his
sufferings
,
that
the
night
following
,
when
all
creatures
were
dumbe
and
at
rest
,
they
also
stopped
the
current
of
his
lamentations
,
and
by
a
change
,
not
much
unlike
that
of
Diophania
,
granted
him
the
repose
he
had
so
much
desired
at
their
hands
.
For
the
next
morning
the
people
who
came
flocking
from
all
parts
,
to
see
this
new
Nymph
,
under
the
shape
of
a
Myrtle
,
where
wholly
amazed
with
the
sight
of
another
spectacle
before
her
,
which
was
that
of
Hermodan
,
represented
under
the
figure
of
a
wilde
Olive-Tree
,
which
Olive
and
Myrtle
were
so
neare
together
,
that
their
branches
began
to
intermixe
in
token
of
sympathy
and
affection
.
And
since
that
time
,
the
Nymphes
of
these
quarters
have
celebrated
nothing
so
much
as
the
names
of
Hermodan
and
Diophania
,
singing
continually
to
their
praises
,
as
of
two
incomparable
examples
of
love
and
fidelity
,
whom
they
have
recommended
to
everlasting
memory
and
renowne
.
There
is
one
doubt
more
,
saies
Pyzander
,
to
be
cleared
,
which
is
,
that
thou
hast
hitherto
discoursed
of
a
City
,
a
River
,
and
a
Countrey
,
without
naming
either
one
or
other
of
them
.
Indeed
saies
Endymion
,
that
question
is
easily
answered
;
they
having
all
three
almost
one
and
the
same
name
.
The
City
is
called
Alba
;
the
River
,
Alban
;
and
the
Countrey
,
Albania
.
And
this
,
as
I
suppose
,
by
reason
of
the
nature
of
the
place
,
which
produces
the
people
generally
flaxen-haird
in
their
youth
:
A
people
excelling
in
beauty
,
of
faire
stature
;
another
race
of
Cyclops
,
inhabiting
the
Confines
of
the
Caspian
Sea
,
and
Mount
Caucasus
,
for
the
most
part
shepheards
;
Galactophagi
,
simple
,
innocent
,
and
just
of
life
and
manners
,
and
in
a
word
,
really
such
as
the
Abiens
,
and
Nomadi
.
Furthermore
,
it
is
a
Countrey
of
pasture
,
the
soyle
is
so
fertile
,
that
without
any
manuring
it
produces
infinite
quantity
of
good
fruits
,
which
in
mine
opinion
is
the
cause
that
the
people
are
more
negligent
,
and
lesse
addicted
to
husbandry
;
for
indeed
they
love
no
kinde
of
labour
,
except
it
bee
immediatly
followed
with
reward
,
or
accompanyed
with
pleasure
,
as
hunting
,
also
they
imploy
more
fervency
and
affection
than
industry
.
But
in
stead
of
Art
,
Nature
hath
furnished
them
with
the
best
and
strongest
Dogges
of
the
World
,
such
as
both
fight
with
,
and
destroy
Lyons
,
and
are
not
affraid
to
set
upon
any
living
creature
.
I
cannot
give
thee
any
more
particular
description
of
it
,
save
onely
,
that
as
the
fertility
of
Egypt
is
accompanyied
with
its
Crocodiles
,
so
this
Countrey
hath
her
Serpents
,
the
teeth
whereof
are
mortall
,
and
their
poyson
of
such
a
tickling
operation
,
that
men
dye
of
it
with
continuall
laughing
.
That
is
the
place
,
Pyzander
,
where
I
(
not
sensible
of
the
disaster
,
which
not
only
threatned
but
pressed
my
life
)
have
remained
ever
since
thou
last
sawest
me
,
and
where
I
have
passed
the
greatest
part
of
my
time
at
ease
,
amidst
the
fresh
shades
,
on
the
River
sides
,
with
fragrant
and
odoriferous
Flowers
and
Hearbes
,
amongst
the
Nymphes
and
the
May-maids
,
in
the
fulnesse
of
thousands
of
delights
,
if
my
Spirit
had
then
beene
as
sensible
thereof
,
as
I
became
afterwards
,
when
I
was
reduced
to
the
like
degree
of
torment
and
affliction
.
There
were
the
feasts
,
where
I
was
treated
with
the
most
exquisite
Cates
,
with
the
Musicke
both
of
instruments
and
voyce
,
and
with
the
Dances
of
young
Gallants
,
and
faire
Ladies
:
in
a
word
,
there
was
nothing
but
pastimes
and
delights
▪
If
I
were
accompanyed
,
so
had
I
also
the
liberty
of
being
alone
when
I
pleased
;
and
so
making
dayly
choyce
of
the
recreations
that
most
pleased
me
;
I
went
usually
up
and
downe
the
Forrest
,
where
I
often
encountered
Diana
,
whose
sole
presence
made
mee
live
,
in
the
same
time
that
her
change
,
and
the
remembrance
of
the
time
past
had
even
killed
me
.
Sometimes
I
saw
her
walke
,
attended
by
the
sixty
daughters
of
Oceanus
,
and
of
twenty
other
Nymphes
,
who
have
charge
of
her
Bowes
,
her
Arrowes
,
her
Busgins
,
and
her
Dogges
.
Sometimes
I
observed
her
returning
from
her
game
,
all
haughty
,
and
triumphing
over
the
Lyons
,
Beares
,
and
other
Monsters
which
she
had
slaine
.
Sometimes
also
I
found
her
almost
all
alone
,
where
I
had
opportunity
of
seeing
,
and
being
seene
of
her
:
But
Pyzander
wilt
thou
beleeve
this
?
Oh
doe
,
for
it
is
certaine
,
howbeit
it
seeme
scarce
credible
:
Albeit
,
she
saw
me
in
the
estate
wherein
I
was
,
bearing
the
Chaine
,
which
she
knew
well
(
though
I
knew
it
not
)
to
be
the
marke
,
not
onely
of
my
Captivity
,
but
of
the
end
whereunto
I
was
designed
;
although
I
say
,
she
well
knew
I
was
to
be
sacrificed
for
her
,
yet
had
she
in
the
meane
time
the
heart
to
looke
upon
me
without
pitty
,
as
if
she
had
beene
changed
into
another
,
or
had
sudainly
lost
all
compassion
,
remembrance
,
knowledge
,
or
speech
of
me
.
If
I
had
presented
my selfe
to
the
flinty
Rocke
,
where
the
waves
of
the
Sea
are
broken
,
and
Marriners
suffer
shipwracke
;
I
might
have
obtained
as
much
comfort
:
And
yet
it
is
not
lawfull
for
me
to
say
she
is
a
little
rigorous
,
since
that
from
henceforward
there
is
no
other
contentment
left
me
,
than
to
alleadge
mine
affection
to
her
,
that
doth
not
acknowledge
it
:
Yea
,
that
Nymph
who
had
promised
me
so
much
favour
and
assistance
,
and
to
whom
I
had
vowed
so
much
service
,
had
also
forgotten
my
vowes
,
and
her
owne
promises
;
and
either
vouchsafed
not
to
looke
upon
me
at
all
,
or
else
looked
on
me
by
chance
,
or
as
it
were
upon
a
delinquent
.
Must
the
transgression
of
the
Lawes
which
Ismena
had
prescribed
me
,
cost
me
so
deare
?
and
must
I
thus
pay
for
having
beene
compelled
to
violate
things
esteemed
sacred
:
O
Endymion
,
happy
hadst
thou
bin
if
thou
haddest
not
found
any
Myrtle
in
the
Forrest
of
Diana
:
I
should
at
least
from
the
beginning
have
beleeved
the
Oracle
which
sounded
thence
,
and
which
at
length
I
found
too
true
.
I
should
have
laid
aside
the
care
of
presenting
my selfe
before
her
,
since
her
insensible
carriage
continually
frustrated
my
paines
and
expectation
.
But
that
hope
which
usually
entertaines
men
with
errour
and
vanity
,
engaging
them
after
to
force
their
Fate
,
perswaded
me
to
tempt
fortune
yet
once
more
;
yea
,
and
a
second
time
also
.
I
went
so
often
to
the
place
where
I
first
had
seene
her
,
and
received
more
than
a
thousand
Deaths
from
her
hand
,
without
dying
,
that
at
length
it
chanced
me
to
finde
her
there
,
and
participate
of
a
spectacle
farre
more
worthy
of
the
gods
than
of
men
.
The
noyse
which
these
Nymphes
made
,
to
whom
her
affection
and
goodnesse
permitted
all
manner
of
freedome
in
these
solitary
places
,
even
to
a
familiar
sporting
with
her
,
gave
me
occasion
to
hide
my selfe
in
a
thicket
,
which
I
had
before
observed
,
where
I
could
see
all
,
yet
no
body
could
see
me
;
they
stood
all
upon
their
feete
before
the
Goddesse
,
observing
heedfully
the
enterprise
which
two
or
three
of
the
chiefest
of
them
had
ingaged
themselves
in
against
her
,
which
she
resisted
onely
with
smiling
,
as
if
she
cared
not
much
,
although
they
should
overcome
her
.
One
would
have
thought
,
seeing
them
so
imperiously
to
abuse
the
power
she
had
given
them
,
that
they
had
changed
conditions
with
her
,
and
that
she
,
being
really
subject
to
them
,
had
deserved
to
be
handled
as
a
disobedient
and
criminall
person
;
for
one
bound
her
feete
,
another
her
hands
,
with
bonds
of
silke
and
gold
,
which
they
tooke
from
the
Dryades
that
stood
by
:
O
yee
gods
,
thought
I
to
my selfe
!
being
amazed
to
see
so
many
vertues
and
beauties
captive
together
;
in
what
estate
or
fashion
soever
Diana
at
it
,
and
could
not
containe
themselves
.
But
the
Nayades
onely
laughed
at
it
;
and
I
tooke
that
opportunity
to
retire
me
.
Thus
much
time
stole
away
,
and
the
Feast
of
Sacrifices
approached
:
It
was
now
that
Diana
,
ceasing
to
be
any
more
favourable
to
me
,
Ismene
might
have
beene
to
mee
in
stead
of
a
goddesse
;
if
the
knowledge
she
had
of
what
was
to
befall
me
,
and
the
remembrance
of
the
promises
she
had
made
me
,
had
mooved
her
to
have
a
greater
care
of
my
returne
,
than
I
had
of
it
my selfe
.
But
is
it
possible
,
said
Pyzander
,
that
thou
wert
not
troubled
,
concerning
the
time
and
meanes
she
should
use
to
free
thee
from
thence
?
I
was
so
farre
from
calling
her
to
mine
aide
,
or
once
naming
her
,
that
I
endeavoured
to
deny
her
admittance
into
my
thoughts
,
for
feare
least
my
thoughts
should
come
to
her
knowledge
,
and
making
some
attempt
upon
her
vertue
,
should
solicite
her
favour
towards
mee
;
as
I
had
feared
nothing
more
,
than
to
be
drawne
out
of
the
torment
wherein
I
was
:
A
blind
desire
made
me
violently
to
pursue
that
which
I
ought
to
have
avoyded
:
for
whether
Diana
were
averse
or
favourable
,
I
could
not
forbeare
to
goe
daily
to
seeke
her
:
Moreover
the
true
innocence
of
these
people
,
the
honour
and
good
entertainment
they
gave
me
,
the
beauty
of
the
place
and
the
persons
,
and
especially
of
the
women
,
who
almost
generally
had
faire
haire
▪
and
fresh
complexions
,
mingled
with
redde
and
white
,
and
the
stature
so
gracefull
and
comely
,
that
if
they
had
added
to
their
naturall
perfections
the
Art
of
setting
them
out
,
with
the
grace
and
ornaments
,
which
the
Greekish
Dames
use
,
they
would
have
seemed
goddesses
.
Those
things
which
seemed
in
a
manner
to
induce
Diana
her selfe
to
visite
them
so
often
,
might
well
make
me
for
a
while
forget
the
charmes
of
my
native
soyle
.
Amongst
other
,
the
High
Priest
,
named
Timetes
,
had
a
Neece
of
about
seventeene
or
eighteene
yeares
of
age
,
who
shared
with
him
in
the
care
of
the
sacred
things
,
and
seemed
to
vow
her selfe
wholly
to
the
service
of
Diana
:
But
her
beauty
extreamly
resisted
her
vowes
,
being
such
,
with
the
Naturall
grace
wherewith
it
was
accompanied
,
that
there
are
very
few
in
the
world
can
equall
it
,
but
none
surpasse
it
:
From
the
first
time
that
I
saw
her
;
I
thought
I
had
formerly
beheld
and
seene
her
else
where
,
or
at
least
some
shadow
,
or
resemblance
of
her
beauty
;
for
,
having
beene
alwaies
separated
with
so
many
Rivers
,
mountaines
,
and
remote
Countryes
,
there
was
no
likelyhood
that
it
could
be
the
same
:
Moreover
,
I
imagined
she
thought
the
same
concerning
me
,
because
she
continually
looked
upon
me
,
as
if
she
had
knowne
me
;
which
made
me
suddenly
beleeve
we
had
seene
each
other
in
Heaven
before
we
were
borne
into
the
World
;
and
by
consequence
might
have
some
sympathy
of
affections
:
In
the
meane
time
,
I
who
was
never
unsensible
in
the
encounter
of
such
objects
(
save
onely
since
the
Law
which
I
imposed
on
my selfe
)
to
observe
constantly
the
vowes
I
had
made
to
Diana
,
whose
onely
Idea
purifies
my
thoughts
,
and
banishes
all
earthly
&
mortall
thoughts
from
my
heart
,
would
not
engage
her
affection
by
too
much
Discourse
,
nor
promise
her
more
than
I
had
liberty
to
performe
,
having
ever
observed
that
Rule
amongst
all
sorts
of
people
,
that
my
words
should
not
in
any
thing
differ
from
mine
intentions
.
But
yet
from
my
first
view
of
her
I
endeavoured
to
render
mine
actions
acceptable
to
her
,
thereby
to
doe
me
good
will
at
her
hands
.
It
happens
usually
that
in
these
accidents
we
finde
something
within
us
which
doth
so
strongly
animate
us
,
and
stirres
up
in
us
desires
of
on
affection
so
naturall
,
that
we
have
much
adoe
to
overcome
our selves
,
and
conceale
our
passion
:
And
although
in
this
respect
,
our
owne
inclinations
were
not
of
themselves
so
prompt
,
yet
we
are
oblieged
by
discretion
and
civility
,
not
to
seeme
wholly
insensible
of
it
.
Great
beauties
have
a
secret
kinde
of
Divinity
,
more
powerfull
than
Scepters
and
Empires
:
And
our
extreame
disposition
to
love
them
,
makes
our
opinions
adde
new
force
,
and
charmes
to
them
.
They
can
so
naturally
perswade
and
constraine
;
yea
,
without
the
assistance
of
Art
,
that
their
very
silence
is
more
eloquent
than
any
Language
;
we
cannot
looke
on
them
without
amazement
and
disturbance
;
and
their
sole
presence
in
one
instant
bereaves
us
both
of
judgement
,
force
,
and
courage
:
for
by
the
eyes
issue
such
attracts
,
as
gives
us
what
inspiration
and
motion
they
please
,
and
by
invisible
Chaines
doe
so
sweetly
force
and
draw
us
,
that
they
make
us
follow
them
without
contradiction
or
resistance
.
A
smile
,
a
gesture
,
or
motion
,
ravishes
us
with
admiration
and
sighes
,
and
even
transports
us
:
what
shall
I
say
more
?
one
onely
looke
charmes
us
,
inchants
us
,
drinks
our
blood
,
transformes
and
renders
us
insensible
.
No
Pyzander
,
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
if
the
World
were
without
women
,
we
should
have
a
familiar
conversation
with
the
gods
:
for
indeed
,
what
is
there
but
they
may
command
over
our
soules
?
and
what
perswasion
,
compulsion
,
or
torture
,
is
comparable
to
the
force
of
their
attracts
?
O
Iupiter
!
wilt
thou
not
pardon
all
the
wrongs
malice
,
fraudulent
Discourses
,
artifices
,
false
oathes
,
losse
of
time
,
and
the
impertinent
paines
and
labours
they
ingaged
us
in
?
As
for
me
,
I
neither
ought
nor
could
love
any
other
earthly
thing
,
being
so
farre
engaged
in
the
service
of
a
goddesse
;
yet
wheresoever
this
faire
one
came
into
my
sight
;
I
was
much
troubled
to
keepe
my selfe
from
using
a
secret
language
of
mine
eyes
,
a
perswading
silence
,
a
gesture
and
garbe
more
eloquent
than
speech
it selfe
,
a
negligence
replenished
with
artifice
,
and
a
demeanour
discreet
and
moderate
in
it selfe
,
although
towards
others
full
of
violence
:
Whereof
at
first
,
by
reason
of
the
innocent
freedome
of
her
age
,
and
her
small
experience
she
tooke
little
heed
,
but
within
a
few
dayes
I
could
plainly
perceive
that
her
heart
was
as
tender
as
others
,
and
that
her
disposition
was
capable
of
love
,
how
carefull
soever
she
were
to
keepe
it
private
;
and
that
a
woman
more
expert
in
dissembling
her
thoughts
,
would
have
beene
harder
to
be
discovered
.
But
Stenobea
(
so
was
her
name
)
who
had
not
yet
learned
that
love
is
a
fire
,
hard
to
be
hidden
,
or
kept
from
shining
,
and
that
the
heate
of
it
causes
a
thousand
disquiets
,
which
beget
as
many
severall
motions
,
thought
her
silence
a
sufficient
Maske
to
cover
her
inward
trouble
,
as
if
love
had
had
no
other
Organ
but
the
tongue
to
expresse
it selfe
by
:
Indeed
she
betraid
not
her
thoughts
with
any
one
word
,
and
so
made
it
a
dumbe
love
,
though
not
blind
:
But
the
vaile
seemed
to
be
taken
from
her
eyes
,
onely
to
stop
her
mouth
.
How
then
couldest
thou
perceive
Pyzander
,
that
she
loved
thee
.
The
end
,
answered
Endymion
will
give
thee
proofe
of
the
truth
of
it
:
It
was
that
,
which
gave
me
assurance
of
it
my selfe
;
yet
I
will
tell
thee
what
it
was
that
made
me
of
that
opinion
from
the
beginning
,
where
I
might
reckon
the
extraordinary
care
she
had
of
me
;
the
recommendation
she
gave
of
me
to
others
,
and
the
testimonies
of
it
,
which
I
could
read
in
the
faces
of
her
servants
;
and
the
frequent
messages
,
she
sent
me
upon
all
occasions
under
the
pretexts
,
as
sometimes
sending
mee
little
Presents
,
or
demanding
where
I
was
as
soone
as
ever
I
was
out
of
her
sight
:
every
thing
smiled
,
and
looked
upon
me
with
affectionate
eyes
.
But
thou
maist
imagine
that
all
this
was
onely
in
respect
of
their
Custome
of
treating
those
well
,
who
are
designed
to
dye
for
them
.
So
I
,
not
building
much
on
those
slighter
proofes
,
was
wholly
amazed
to
see
her
in
so
short
a
time
become
unlike
to
her selfe
,
and
change
her
former
liberty
,
and
free
actions
,
the
signes
of
a
sound
mind
,
into
a
disposition
pensive
,
solitary
,
and
languishing
:
Her
face
was
become
pale
,
and
her
eyes
swolne
,
true
witnesses
of
her
watchings
and
disquiet
:
Her
lookes
were
sometimes
wandring
in
the
aire
,
and
sometimes
fixed
on
the
earth
,
like
one
in
a
deepe
frenzy
.
Sometimes
she
beganne
Discourses
,
but
ended
them
not
,
as
not
knowing
well
what
she
said
:
Otherwhiles
leaving
her
workes
undone
,
and
forgetting
her
most
pleasing
exercises
,
they
being
not
powerfull
enough
to
make
her
forget
her
torment
;
she
inclined
to
all
manner
of
change
,
she
wandred
impatiently
,
seeking
that
repose
every
where
,
which
she
could
not
encounter
in
any
one
place
:
Sometimes
as
if
she
had
perceived
that
she
discovered
her selfe
,
she
laboured
to
reprove
her selfe
,
by
employing
an
endeavour
to
resist
her
malady
,
and
putting
on
a
more
cheerefull
countenance
;
And
if
the
compassion
she
had
of
my
disaster
had
not
forbidden
her
to
adde
to
mine
affliction
,
shee
would
have
made
a
shew
of
hating
mee
,
to
prevent
the
accusation
of
loving
mee
too
much
.
But
doe
what
she
could
,
it
was
of
small
continuance
,
and
immediately
as
Conquered
,
she
relapsed
into
her
former
passion
:
she
sighed
incessantly
,
without
any
apparent
cause
of
vexation
or
sorrow
,
and
this
she
could
not
forbeare
whatsoever
she
attempted
to
suppresse
her
sighes
,
and
smother
them
in
the
Cradle
.
Besides
,
the
heart
,
by
a
secret
power
,
turnes
the
eyes
alwayes
towards
the
Object
of
its
love
:
there
was
nothing
able
to
possesse
her
so
fully
,
but
that
she
diverted
her
eyes
a
thousand
times
from
it
,
to
returne
,
without
any
occasion
at
all
,
to
the
continual
search
of
the
subject
of
her
thoughts
;
I
confesse
freely
that
I
often
observed
great
alteration
in
her
disposition
,
insomuch
that
sometimes
she
made
me
distrust
my
former
opinion
,
or
feare
that
she
esteemed
me
unworthy
of
her
affection
,
because
I
shewed
my
selfe
,
so
little
sensible
of
it
:
whereas
,
if
on
the
other
side
I
had
given
her
cause
to
perceive
,
that
my
breast
was
possessed
with
another
more
pleasing
care
,
it
would
have
beene
as
much
,
as
if
I
had
played
to
winne
her
hatred
:
for
women
are
naturally
inclined
to
fall
from
one
externity
to
another
;
and
betwixt
those
two
of
their
love
and
hatred
,
there
is
no
medium
:
whatsoever
they
will
,
they
will
absolutely
;
and
if
happily
it
be
not
granted
at
the
very
least
signe
they
give
of
their
will
,
there
is
no
hope
to
excuse
it
;
and
on
the
contrary
,
they
are
all
ready
to
proclaime
to
the
world
the
small
esteeme
they
make
of
it
,
and
conserve
their
owne
interest
to
the
very
prejudice
of
what
they
most
before
loved
.
When
once
they
have
changed
their
disposition
and
affection
,
as
they
give
themselves
what
opinion
they
please
of
things
past
,
so
they
endeavour
in
the
end
to
perswade
us
that
they
have
never
beene
:
But
when
they
perceive
that
they
cannot
beguile
our
sences
and
judgement
,
at
least
,
as
they
have
lost
the
affection
of
a
thing
,
so
would
they
have
us
lose
the
memory
of
it
,
whereof
we
dare
not
so
much
as
complaine
;
for
discretion
oblieges
us
to
silence
,
because
their
tyranny
whereunto
we
attribute
all
,
hath
so
wonne
upon
us
,
that
the
very
truth
it selfe
would
be
alwayes
imputed
to
errour
and
vanity
.
But
by
good
chance
Stenobea
had
neither
leasure
nor
opportunity
to
come
by
the
repentance
of
it
,
or
make
me
taste
her
rigours
;
for
I
kept
my selfe
alwayes
upright
in
the
termes
of
the
duty
and
honour
I
was
oblieged
to
render
her
,
yet
so
,
that
nothing
could
thereby
be
alleadged
against
me
,
in
prejudice
of
my
constancy
,
or
the
vowes
I
had
made
to
bee
Diana's
servant
for
ever
.
And
although
Stenobea
was
such
a
one
,
as
onely
the
affection
of
a
goddesse
was
to
bee
esteemed
above
hers
,
and
that
it
is
hard
to
be
loved
of
the
most
amiable
creature
of
the
world
,
without
growing
very
sensible
thereof
;
yet
I
had
so
much
power
of
my selfe
,
as
that
I
was
no
way
touched
or
moved
with
her
love
;
yet
very
much
with
her
griefe
,
and
the
sorrow
I
had
,
for
not
being
able
to
requite
her
with
the
like
affection
:
O
subject
worthy
of
a
farre
better
acknowledgment
,
and
of
an
affection
as
loyall
and
sincere
as
her
owne
!
whom
,
neither
my
Captivity
,
nor
inevitable
Death
,
nor
the
whole
multitude
of
just
reasons
which
assaulted
her
,
would
ever
be
able
to
make
her
change
conclusion
.
Have
I
not
cause
to
curse
the
day
wherein
I
found
Diana
so
ready
to
give
me
testimony
of
her
good
will
,
and
promise
me
her
favours
;
since
that
now
,
when
she
hath
made
me
contemne
and
despise
all
things
,
she
beares
me
to
the
contempt
and
losse
of
my selfe
.
The
end
of
the
Fourth
Booke
.
ENDYMION
.
The
Fifth
Booke
.
C
de
Pas
inuen
.
I
Picart
fecit
.
We
have
hitherto
observed
the
great
advantages
,
Endymion
;
which
the
gods
have
vouchsafed
unto
thee
above
other
men
;
but
there
is
yet
something
remaining
which
must
be
done
,
ere
thy
glory
can
bee
brought
to
perfection
,
and
this
is
the
solemne
day
wherein
we
are
to
see
the
strongest
proofes
of
thy
generous
courage
:
wherein
wee
have
nothing
to
desire
,
but
that
thou
appeare
alwayes
like
thy selfe
:
great
mindes
never
yeeld
to
the
assaults
of
the
strongest
adversities
,
or
encounter
any
thing
greater
than
than
themselves
:
and
to
such
all
humane
accidents
seeme
so
slight
,
that
they
disdaine
to
live
for
them
:
If
then
neither
labour
or
toyle
can
daunt
them
,
or
sorrow
wring
plaints
from
their
mouths
,
what
is
it
that
can
terrifie
them
in
death
,
whom
so
many
vertuous
men
dispise
,
so
many
also
even
contemne
,
and
with
all
men
must
once
suffice
?
The
Oracles
which
have
proceeded
from
thine
owne
mouth
,
have
taught
us
that
thou
art
farre
more
worthy
of
Heaven
than
of
Earth
,
and
that
the
goddesse
hath
made
choyse
of
thee
above
all
others
,
as
the
most
deare
and
gratefull
Oblation
wee
can
present
on
her
Altar
.
And
this
is
the
cause
why
we
have
alwaies
so
honored
thee
,
for
which
we
shall
be
amply
recompensed
,
if
thou
but
this
day
beare
thy selfe
constantly
,
and
not
feare
,
or
seeme
unwilling
to
shorten
thy
life
,
to
give
so
great
and
large
an
increase
to
thy
fame
:
Justifie
then
both
thy selfe
and
us
;
and
(
if
I
may
dare
to
say
so
)
justifie
the
goddesse
her selfe
in
the
choyse
she
hath
made
of
thee
,
and
we
shall
be
all
oblieged
to
celebrate
eternally
the
memory
of
thee
,
as
of
one
,
whose
life
and
behaviour
hath
rendred
so
deare
to
the
gods
,
and
his
death
so
wholesome
to
men
.
This
day
is
to
thee
,
Endymion
,
the
most
happy
of
all
other
,
as
that
wherein
thou
art
to
have
so
many
witnesses
of
thy
glory
;
when
thou
shalt
shew
them
that
they
doe
not
so
much
conduct
thee
to
death
,
as
to
immortality
;
make
it
therefore
appeare
,
that
thou
art
not
onely
a
man
,
but
that
thou
hast
a
great
resemblance
of
the
gods
themselves
,
who
will
bereave
men
of
thy
Company
.
At
these
words
they
all
observed
attentively
what
gesture
I
would
use
,
and
tooke
speciall
notice
of
my
first
Motions
;
which
I
laboured
to
overcome
as
much
as
lay
in
me
:
for
what
man
is
able
(
without
some
change
)
to
heare
the
report
of
my
extraordinary
and
unthought
of
accident
,
whether
it
concerne
him
or
no
,
and
though
hee
neither
gather
thence
any
particular
cause
of
joy
or
sorrow
?
Besides
,
Death
is
of
it selfe
alwayes
hideous
and
terrible
,
in
what
soothing
forme
soever
it
be
represented
:
yet
I
,
presently
resolving
,
thus
answered
them
.
Is
it
then
for
Diana's
sake
that
I
must
this
day
dye
?
Yes
sonne
,
answered
Timetes
,
it
is
for
her
,
the
fairest
,
the
greatest
,
and
the
best
of
all
the
goddesses
.
Whosoever
,
replyed
I
,
hath
beene
judged
worthy
to
dye
for
Diana
,
hath
lived
but
too
happily
:
it
is
the
most
gratefull
tydings
you
could
have
brought
me
:
doubt
not
at
all
of
mee
,
for
my
resolution
is
already
taken
,
whet
your
knives
and
freely
drench
them
in
my
blood
,
powre
it
it
out
even
to
the
last
droppe
for
her
sake
,
and
cover
her
Altar
with
the
Crimson
dye
thereof
:
for
I
am
so
farre
from
being
troubled
or
amazed
with
the
feare
of
it
,
that
I
doe
with
longing
expect
the
houre
.
This
day
,
sayes
he
,
is
yet
wholly
thine
,
and
howbeit
the
Sacrifices
of
the
Celestiall
Deities
are
usually
celebrated
in
the
presence
of
the
Sunne
,
yet
we
are
by
some
secret
Fate
appoynted
to
attend
the
night
,
to
the
end
that
this
may
be
rendred
more
famous
by
the
honour
of
the
goddesses
presence
,
of
which
secret
Fate
we
cannot
ghesse
the
cause
,
except
it
bee
,
that
thou
art
the
most
deare
and
most
acceptable
of
all
the
Sacrifices
that
ever
have
beene
offered
to
her
.
Bee
of
good
cheere
then
Sonne
,
sayes
Timetes
,
kissing
and
embracing
me
;
for
indeede
wee
held
it
fit
to
give
thee
knowledge
of
it
,
to
the
end
thou
mightest
be
the
better
prepared
.
Goe
,
goe
your
wayes
said
I
,
and
provide
for
the
rest
,
as
for
me
,
I
will
be
sooner
ready
than
you
,
and
the
delay
of
my
death
will
bee
more
tedious
to
me
than
the
death
it selfe
.
Thus
they
left
me
,
looking
one
upon
another
,
letting
loose
some
sighes
and
teares
.
Ah
Stenobea
!
said
I
then
to
my selfe
,
is
it
for
this
that
thou
hiddest
thy selfe
yesterday
?
hast
thou
had
the
heart
to
refuse
me
thy
presence
onely
on
the
last
day
,
as
if
I
had
some
suite
to
begge
at
thy
favour
:
By
this
anticipated
and
untimely
bereaving
me
of
one
of
the
sweetest
contentments
of
my
life
,
thou
art
the
first
that
beginnes
to
kill
me
.
And
thou
Ismena
,
what
is
become
of
all
thy
promises
?
is
this
the
care
thou
wilt
take
of
me
:
It
may
be
that
thou
esteemest
not
thy selfe
oblieged
to
afford
me
succour
,
since
I
demanded
not
any
at
thy
hands
:
But
whatsoever
thou
owest
not
to
my
desire
herein
,
thou
owest
at
least
to
thine
owne
promise
;
whereof
,
if
thou
labour
not
to
render
me
performance
,
thou
remainest
no
lesse
guilty
:
Alas
!
this
savage
and
Barbarous
people
have
pitty
on
my
Fate
;
those
that
are
to
kill
me
,
bemoane
me
,
and
even
he
who
is
appoynted
to
give
mee
the
sad
stroake
,
kisses
me
,
and
embraces
me
with
the
same
armes
that
are
to
plunge
the
knife
deepe
in
my
blood
,
and
open
my
Bowels
;
and
yet
all
these
things
will
not
procure
me
at
the
hands
of
Diana
the
least
signe
of
Compassion
:
she
remaines
unmoved
,
and
makes
as
slight
account
of
my
death
as
my
life
.
Is
the
Altar
the
place
then
Diana
,
where
I
must
be
presented
to
thee
,
to
gaine
thy
favour
,
and
receive
the
effects
of
thy
promises
:
must
they
be
sought
in
the
Stygian
waters
,
and
through
the
streames
of
blood
and
teares
?
Is
this
the
way
to
goe
take
possession
of
a
place
amongst
the
starres
?
and
can
we
not
without
forsaking
the
apparrell
of
this
mortall
and
earthly
body
,
arrive
at
the
honour
of
Heaven
,
or
share
in
the
glory
of
the
gods
?
Oh
no
,
I
perceive
the
mystery
of
thy
designe
,
thou
hast
onely
given
me
verball
promises
,
whereof
I
in
vaine
retaine
thy
memory
,
since
thou
art
resolved
to
take
away
my
hope
and
life
together
;
to
the
end
to
drowne
all
those
particulars
in
everlasting
oblivion
.
Thou
repentest
thee
for
having
favoured
me
with
too
much
affection
:
but
although
thou
killest
me
,
thou
shalt
not
have
power
to
make
me
repent
my
over-loyall
adoring
thee
:
And
although
thine
affection
to
mee
,
bee
wholly
blotted
out
of
thine
heart
,
yet
thou
shalt
not
be
able
to
banish
it
thy
memory
,
which
,
against
thy
will
,
will
satisfie
mee
,
with
a
continuall
reproaching
and
remonstrance
of
thy
ficklenesse
and
ingratitude
.
Adde
yet
some
new
torture
to
my
death
,
&
,
so
it
be
pleasing
to
thee
,
be
sure
I
will
embrace
it
as
a
peculiar
felicity
:
At
least
,
how
great
soever
thou
be
amongst
the
goddesses
,
I
shall
have
just
ground
to
boast
my selfe
of
having
something
more
great
,
and
divine
than
thou
,
when
I
shall
have
witnessed
a
greater
constancy
.
Whilst
I
uttered
those
words
with
a
low
voyce
,
and
a
resolved
,
but
grieved
minde
,
the
sighes
and
sobs
of
Stenobea
,
piercing
the
walls
betwixt
my
Chamber
and
hers
came
to
mine
eares
;
suddainly
imposing
silence
upon
me
,
that
I
might
give
eare
to
a
lamentation
,
which
was
to
prove
so
deare
to
me
,
and
which
more
deplored
my
calamity
than
my selfe
.
How
is
it
possible
that
I
can
this
day
behold
with
drye
eyes
so
tragicke
and
lamentable
a
spectacle
?
and
that
I
must
assist
,
and
as
it
were
consent
to
an
action
so
so
cruell
and
so
averse
to
my
life
and
tranquility
:
and
that
I
must
beare
a
part
in
the
execution
:
O
Endymion
,
Endymion
,
pardon
mee
I
beseech
thee
,
and
know
that
in
the
designe
I
had
of
delivering
thee
,
I
have
a
great
while
forgotten
my
duty
both
to
my
Countrey
,
and
my selfe
,
that
I
might
render
thee
that
which
I
never
owed
thee
,
for
who
ever
saw
any
love
so
loyally
as
I
,
having
utterly
nothing
to
expect
of
my
love
,
should
I
onely
have
turned
mine
eyes
on
a
person
pensive
,
solitary
,
and
possessed
with
some
other
thoughts
,
which
I
could
not
conceive
or
comprehend
,
and
who
onely
respected
me
so
farre
as
superficiall
civility
,
and
a
kind
of
generall
custome
of
honouring
my
Sexe
obliged
him
?
But
alas
▪
it
is
now
time
to
bewayle
,
rather
than
accuse
thee
:
know
then
,
that
if
thou
this
day
receive
the
mortall
stroke
,
I
shall
beare
the
greatest
part
in
the
suffering
,
thou
onely
wilt
endure
the
violence
for
a
moment
,
but
I
shall
thereby
feele
an
immortall
sorrow
.
O
Endymion
!
why
have
not
the
Oracles
set
me
in
thy
place
?
why
cannot
I
be
accepted
there
?
at
least
,
why
may
not
I
have
leave
to
dye
with
thee
,
since
my
misfortune
will
not
permit
me
to
live
with
thee
?
And
thou
ô
Goddesse
,
so
great
and
powerfull
,
what
advantage
wil
redound
to
thee
from
a
Disaster
,
whereunto
thou
mayest
with
so
much
facility
apply
a
remedy
?
Doth
the
glory
and
felicity
which
environs
thee
,
stand
in
want
of
our
affliction
,
to
render
them
more
compleat
?
or
doe
they
reape
any
advancement
or
perfection
from
our
sorrows
and
torments
?
Or
if
our
superstition
offer
thee
more
than
thou
requirest
,
suffer
not
our
errour
to
continue
longer
,
nor
force
not
me
,
by
this
act
of
inhumanity
,
which
hath
no
other
object
than
thy
service
,
to
witnesse
more
resentment
and
pitty
than
thy selfe
:
Content
thee
with
a
milder
sacrifice
,
and
choose
instead
of
Endymion
,
some
Hinde
,
or
some
one
of
those
stragling
Oxen
,
marked
with
the
Lampe
,
and
which
are
consecrated
to
thee
in
Persia
,
and
live
unprofitably
on
the
bankes
of
Euphrates
;
whilst
the
most
exquisite
of
men
are
sacrificed
to
thee
:
or
if
thou
lovest
one
of
these
better
,
receive
my
life
for
his
:
In
this
case
death
will
be
exceeding
welcome
to
me
,
whether
thou
dost
appoint
it
me
in
recompence
of
the
services
I
have
done
thee
,
or
for
my
punishment
,
for
having
esteemed
thee
too
cruell
.
Thus
did
poore
Stenobea
lament
,
and
the
excesse
of
her
griefe
not
being
able
to
be
smothered
,
or
retained
within
the
limits
of
any
respect
,
made
her
powre
forth
more
teares
than
words
.
It
was
a
great
honour
to
me
Pyzander
,
to
be
thus
bewailed
,
and
yet
a
greater
affliction
to
see
her
thus
torment
her selfe
;
and
both
these
extreames
together
did
so
comfort
me
,
in
torturing
me
,
that
finding
my selfe
thus
bewailed
,
I
could
have
beene
loth
to
have
dyed
:
I
had
a
perfect
cause
to
esteeme
Death
sweet
,
both
for
that
I
was
to
be
offered
to
Diana
,
and
bewailed
by
Stenobea
;
but
all
those
passages
were
onely
as
the
first
signes
of
her
despaire
.
By
this
time
it
was
broad
day
,
and
the
houre
of
arising
being
come
,
I
saw
enter
,
not
the
Slaves
,
which
were
wont
to
serve
me
,
for
they
kept
themselves
farther
from
me
,
rendring
me
no
other
duty
than
that
of
their
teares
;
but
one
of
those
who
had
the
prime
charge
of
sacred
things
,
who
brought
me
garments
whiter
than
Snow
,
the
smell
whereof
exceeded
the
sweetest
perfumes
of
Sabea
,
and
the
delights
of
the
Assyrians
;
and
having
presented
them
to
me
with
greater
respect
and
reverence
,
than
if
it
had
beene
to
the
greatest
Monarch
of
the
earth
,
hee
presently
retired
;
for
now
the
time
entered
wherein
Stenobea
was
to
execute
her
Function
:
But
besides
that
it
is
the
usuall
custome
of
Maidens
,
to
bee
long
making
them
ready
,
chiefly
on
such
daies
as
they
are
to
put
on
their
fairest
Ornaments
,
there
is
no
doubt
but
her
sorrow
rendered
her
yet
more
slow
;
for
shee
made
them
expect
her
a
good
while
,
and
at
length
appeared
in
more
magnificence
and
pompe
than
ever
I
had
seene
her
,
dressed
as
it
seemed
by
the
hands
of
the
Graces
,
who
had
not
forgotten
to
beautifie
her
Tresses
with
all
the
formes
of
adornment
that
Venus
had
taught
them
,
to
decke
her
head
with
the
most
precious
stones
,
or
crowne
it
with
the
most
beautifull
Flowers
:
Then
I
perceived
and
knew
her
,
whom
at
first
I
had
so
much
adoe
to
call
to
minde
,
and
whom
I
formerly
had
seene
in
my
Vision
in
the
sacred
Forrest
,
and
who
seemed
never
to
bee
appointed
to
appeare
before
me
in
the
Equipage
of
her
Attracts
,
but
either
to
condemne
me
,
or
put
me
to
death
.
I
knew
her
by
the
rich
dressings
of
her
head
,
her
Girdle
of
Gold
and
Emeralds
,
and
her
Gowne
embrodered
with
Flowers
,
the
ground
whereof
was
a
kind
of
white
stuffe
,
fine
,
and
shining
,
which
the
Nymphs
who
inhabite
the
shores
of
Phasis
doe
make
,
of
the
finest
wooll
in
the
world
;
shee
wanted
nothing
to
render
her
wholly
the
same
,
that
appeared
to
me
in
the
Forrest
,
but
the
Knife
she
had
in
her
hand
,
which
also
she
had
when
we
came
before
the
Altar
:
But
I
could
not
any
where
about
her
perceive
the
branch
of
Myrtle
she
had
made
me
cut
,
and
which
shee
had
promised
to
weare
for
my
sake
.
What!
sayes
Pyzander
,
diddest
not
thou
see
that
which
was
most
visible
in
her
?
why
,
this
her
extreame
but
fruitlesse
,
and
vaine
love
of
thee
was
the
true
Myrtle
,
which
was
to
flourish
long
,
and
remaine
greene
in
her
brest
,
yet
without
hope
of
any
fruit
.
This
was
not
like
the
love
of
Thetis
(
sayes
Endymion
)
the
day
shee
married
Peleus
,
nor
like
that
of
her
who
waites
upon
the
Table
of
the
Gods
;
the
day
that
by
Junoes
owne
hand
she
was
presented
to
Hercules
.
And
howbeit
poore
Stenobea
being
then
more
moved
than
ever
,
had
no
stedfast
colour
,
but
in
one
instant
often
blushed
and
waxed
pale
againe
,
and
bore
all
the
tokens
of
sorrow
,
vively
represented
in
her
face
;
yet
her
beauty
shined
in
despight
of
her
affliction
,
the
teares
upon
her
cheeks
resembled
the
Morning-dew
on
the
blushing
Roses
,
whereunto
her
very
griefe
seemed
to
adde
some
new
grace
.
She
was
followed
of
some
of
her
most
faithfull
Companions
,
all
gentile
and
properly
accoutred
,
and
of
Maids
who
carried
the
Ornaments
wherewith
shee
was
to
apparrell
me
.
The
first
thing
shee
did
,
she
besprinkled
me
as
Timetes
had
done
before
,
with
some
few
drops
of
water
,
which
were
presently
followed
with
a
whole
Torrent
of
her
teares
.
She
no
sooner
began
to
put
the
Purple-vaile
over
mine
eyes
,
and
bind
it
upon
mine
haire
with
a
trembling
hand
,
but
that
her
heart
,
swolne
with
affliction
and
bitternesse
,
over-flowes
more
than
ever
with
teares
and
sighes
.
Shee
hath
neither
power
,
or
commandement
more
of
her selfe
,
and
her
reason
losing
its
absolute
power
,
sorrow
gives
it selfe
liberty
.
In
vaine
doe
the
poore
Maydens
labour
to
make
her
compose
her selfe
againe
,
their
owne
pitty
and
compassion
prevailing
so
farre
on
them
,
that
they
are
like
to
fall
into
the
same
distemper
;
which
respect
obliged
me
to
speake
thus
to
her
.
What
meanes
this
Stenobea
,
art
thou
come
here
to
afflict
me
?
Hast
thou
more
pitty
,
than
either
my selfe
or
Diana
have
of
me
?
for
,
by
as
much
as
I
see
,
if
thou
wert
in
her
place
,
perchance
I
should
not
die
.
Hitherto
my
resolution
hath
forbidden
me
to
wonder
,
and
thou
alone
doest
now
trouble
me
;
let
me
,
I
pray
thee
,
die
in
peace
,
and
be
contented
,
that
I
tell
thee
,
I
doe
more
pitty
thy
suffering
,
than
feare
mine
owne
,
and
should
not
be
sensible
of
death
it selfe
,
but
that
thine
affliction
makes
me
feele
it
;
and
Fate
is
in
no
respect
cruell
to
me
,
but
in
afflicting
thy
beauty
for
my
sake
:
If
thou
continue
thus
,
thou
wilt
make
me
die
more
than
once
:
O
Stenobea
,
reserve
my
life
and
blood
for
the
Altar
,
and
powre
them
not
out
before
hand
in
thy
sighes
and
teares
.
I
had
no
sooner
spoken
the
first
word
,
but
she
redoubled
her
former
lamentations
,
in
such
sort
,
that
my
desire
of
comforting
her
,
seemed
to
give
addition
to
her
sorrow
:
When
I
had
finished
,
she
would
have
spoken
,
but
had
not
the
power
,
by
reason
of
the
excesse
of
griefe
wherewith
she
was
travailed
:
At
length
(
like
as
after
one
violent
undertaking
we
cannot
enterprise
another
without
some
intervall
of
repose
)
so
she
,
having
dryed
her
eyes
,
at
great
leasure
,
began
very
coldly
to
re-imbrace
her
duty
,
and
drawing
nearer
to
me
,
began
sometimes
one
thing
,
sometimes
another
,
but
could
finish
nothing
;
for
being
transported
,
and
wholly
seized
with
the
despaire
which
before
had
deprived
her
of
her
speech
,
she
lost
also
at
length
the
ease
of
teares
and
sighes
,
having
nothing
left
her
but
silent
sobs
,
to
testifie
that
there
remained
some
little
life
,
but
great
griefe
within
her
:
Insomuch
that
she
,
leaning
upon
my
bed
,
the
others
were
faine
to
put
their
hands
to
the
worke
:
some
of
which
told
me
,
Alas
!
shee
hath
done
her
uttermost
endeavour
to
cause
some
other
to
be
put
into
thy
place
;
wherein
shee
hath
beene
so
serious
,
that
shee
hath
not
for
forborne
to
consult
with
old
Women
,
whose
Art
and
Experience
shee
thought
might
have
furnished
her
with
some
invention
to
this
effect
:
Besides
,
that
her
feare
was
somewhat
diminished
,
by
the
hope
was
given
her
by
a
whispering
report
amongst
the
slaves
,
who
,
all
with
one
accord
seemed
to
prophesie
,
that
the
course
of
the
Sacrifices
should
be
altered
,
and
that
the
Goddesse
,
as
being
her selfe
a
Virgin
,
required
a
Virgin
for
Sacrifice
;
but
could
not
notwithstanding
all
this
,
finde
any
meanes
for
thy
deliverance
,
she
calls
said
I
,
the
exposing
me
to
a
thousand
torments
,
my
deliverance
;
No
,
no
,
said
I
,
since
the
Moone
is
growne
weary
of
seeing
me
,
so
I
am
also
weary
of
seeing
the
Sunne
;
but
they
tooke
no
notice
of
my
meaning
herein
,
being
three
or
foure
houres
together
busie
to
dresse
me
in
sundry
colours
,
and
binding
my
head
,
mine
armes
,
and
every
part
with
a
thousand
different
Flowers
and
Ribonds
.
After
this
Stenobea
,
being
a
little
come
to
her selfe
,
through
the
multitude
of
importunate
requests
,
and
remonstrances
they
made
her
,
passed
slightly
with
her
hand
and
eye
over
all
those
things
,
and
so
taking
a
small
Violl
of
precious
Oyle
,
she
powred
it
upon
my
head
,
and
for
conclusion
crowned
me
with
a
Garland
,
which
she
her selfe
had
prepared
for
me
.
The
Sunne
having
done
the
moiety
of
his
course
,
the
multitude
expected
me
in
Jupiters
Temple
,
where
the
people
assembled
,
and
were
to
goe
thence
unto
the
high
places
,
which
were
a
good
way
within
the
Forrest
,
and
where
the
yearely
Sacrifice
was
celebrated
.
Then
came
Timetes
,
in
a
more
venerable
and
grave
manner
than
usuall
,
with
his
Turbant
,
which
sparkled
with
the
number
of
Jewells
that
were
therein
,
and
a
Cloak
of
the
Phrigian
fashion
,
which
covered
him
from
the
head
to
the
feete
:
His
other
chiefe
ministers
with
their
Coronets
of
Flowers
,
and
all
their
sacred
Ornaments
,
came
with
him
to
fetch
me
,
and
brought
me
to
the
Temple
,
where
with
voices
and
Instruments
they
made
an
excellent
Harmony
,
untill
I
was
consecrated
before
the
Altars
,
where
usually
the
Sacrifices
were
offered
,
in
the
presence
of
the
Images
of
their
gods
,
Jupiter
,
the
Sunne
,
and
the
Moone
;
where
the
eyes
of
the
whole
Assembly
were
fixed
upon
me
:
on
the
one
side
stood
all
the
men
,
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
,
and
on
the
other
side
the
women
,
where
the
Mothers
,
the
new
married
,
and
the
Maidens
,
exposed
their
richest
and
fairest
Ornaments
to
the
publick
view
.
From
thence
wee
were
to
part
presently
,
and
goe
towards
the
high
Altar
;
whither
the
remainder
of
the
day
was
little
enough
for
our
March
:
yea
,
but
Endymion
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
thou
passest
this
very
slightly
over
,
doe
they
goe
so
without
order
,
or
any
pompe
to
their
Sacrifices
,
and
is
there
nothing
in
their
whole
Ceremony
and
State
worth
the
paines
of
Remembrance
?
Thou
mayst
well
thinke
Pyzander
sayes
Endymion
,
that
I
could
not
be
so
curious
a
Spectator
,
being
my selfe
the
greatest
part
of
the
Spectacle
,
yet
I
will
give
thee
briefly
an
accompt
of
what
I
was
able
to
observe
.
C
pas
.
in
Now
,
by
reason
of
their
slow
March
,
it
grew
late
,
and
the
Sun
was
entred
a
good
way
into
the
Ocean
,
when
wee
first
entred
the
Forrest
,
and
before
we
came
to
the
high
places
,
the
day
had
forsaken
us
:
From
thence
wee
could
see
the
City
of
Alba
,
as
from
this
Mount
Lathmos
we
can
that
of
Heraclea
;
and
the
Forrest
under
us
,
seemed
like
a
waved
valley
.
There
,
in
the
middest
of
a
large
Plaine
,
is
a
faire
and
spacious
Altar
,
a
reverend
Testimony
of
the
devotion
of
the
Ancients
,
horrible
and
frightfull
in
respect
of
the
Forrest
it selfe
;
and
is
not
higher
raised
,
than
even
with
the
Earth
,
the
place
it selfe
being
so
high
,
that
nothing
can
hinder
it
from
the
first
and
immediate
beame
of
the
Moones
light
.
Thither
doe
repaire
,
to
render
their
most
solemne
vowes
to
the
Goddesse
,
not
onely
the
Inhabitants
of
Albania
,
but
also
many
of
the
neighbouring
peoples
,
as
those
of
Armenia
,
and
Colchos
,
the
Iberians
and
Nomades
,
even
from
Palus
Meotis
,
to
the
Caspian
Sea
.
With
this
they
made
an
end
of
their
Songs
,
and
I
expecting
every
moment
the
fatall
stroke
,
lifted
up
mine
eyes
againe
towards
the
Moone
:
And
Stenobea
gave
the
Knife
to
Timetes
,
who
had
no
sooner
looked
upon
it
,
but
turning
suddenly
towards
her
,
what
doest
thou
meane
Stenobea
,
sayes
he
,
and
what
dost
thou
here
give
me
?
are
we
wont
to
use
such
Knives
in
our
Sacrifices
?
why
this
is
so
weake
and
so
light
,
that
me
thinkes
I
have
nothing
in
my
hand
;
from
whence
proceeds
this
Novelty
?
Aske
this
Woman
,
answered
Stenobea
,
that
stands
heere
,
who
will
tell
thee
strange
things
thereof
:
Hereupon
I
turning
my selfe
to
see
who
this
might
be
,
to
my
great
amazement
and
wonder
saw
it
was
Ismene
,
who
thus
began
to
speake
.
You
shall
know
Oh
Priest
,
and
people
of
Albania
,
that
the
Goddesse
being
the
other
day
on
Hunting
in
the
Countrey
of
the
Cimmerians
,
tooke
occasion
to
goe
and
repose
her selfe
with
one
of
the
gods
of
that
Countrey
,
who
in
a
Banquet
gave
her
a
taste
of
those
rare
and
delightfull
Cates
where
with
hee
is
wont
to
charme
the
cares
both
of
the
gods
an
men
.
Afterwards
having
shewed
her
in
his
Dens
and
Caves
,
as
in
another
World
,
the
Magazin
of
all
manner
of
Rarities
,
he
presented
her
with
one
of
the
Knives
wherewith
hee
takes
his
Recreation
,
and
cuts
what
hee
pleases
in
his
Nocturnall
Exercises
;
saying
,
what
more
proper
or
fitter
Present
can
I
bee
able
to
make
to
thee
Oh
Goddesse
,
who
art
so
great
a
Lover
of
Hunting
,
then
the
best
Knife
that
ever
our
Vulcan
made
with
his
owne
hand
,
where
with
thou
maist
cut
downe
all
things
that
hinders
thee
,
and
make
thine
owne
way
through
the
thickest
forrests
.
This
gift
was
infinitely
gratefull
to
the
Goddesse
,
the
more
,
because
it
was
neatly
made
,
light
,
and
fit
for
her
hand
:
but
through
a
mischance
,
she
had
no
sooner
taken
it
,
but
going
to
feele
the
edge
of
it
with
the
thumbe
of
her
left
hand
,
she
could
not
so
gently
touch
it
,
by
reason
of
the
sharpe
and
subtile
edge
of
it
,
but
that
she
cut
her
finger
that
some
drops
of
blood
followed
;
which
he
perceiving
said
,
Alas
,
Goddesse
,
I
gave
it
thee
not
for
that
use
:
I
beleeve
it
well
,
said
shee
,
but
since
it
is
so
greedy
of
blood
,
I
will
for
thy
sake
have
it
employed
in
the
most
pleasing
and
acceptable
Sacrifice
that
ever
was
made
to
me
:
herewith
said
Ismene
,
she
gave
it
me
,
with
command
to
bring
it
hither
,
and
present
it
,
as
I
have
done
,
to
the
mayden
that
serves
at
the
Altar
:
Doubt
not
then
to
obey
the
message
of
the
Goddesse
,
and
then
you
shall
perceive
,
that
obedience
joyned
with
sacrifice
is
of
force
even
to
draw
the
Gods
from
Heaven
:
for
you
shall
presently
see
her
come
downe
(
if
ye
be
not
blinded
)
to
gratifie
with
a
gracious
acceptance
,
the
Oblation
you
offer
her
of
this
yong
man
.
She
had
no
sooner
said
this
,
but
there
was
presently
heard
a
confused
murmur
of
different
voyces
through
the
whole
assembly
;
the
greater
part
whereof
were
rejoyced
at
this
alteration
,
as
supposed
it
tended
to
my
delivery
:
but
seeing
me
appoynted
for
death
,
they
re-entred
into
their
former
fashion
of
pitty
and
compassion
.
Now
I
leave
thee
to
judge
whether
I
were
a
little
amazed
or
no
,
to
see
her
,
from
whom
onely
I
was
to
expect
life
and
delivery
,
carrying
the
Knife
wherewith
I
was
to
be
killed
.
Then
said
Timetes
with
a
loud
voyce
:
O
ye
people
of
Albania
,
lift
up
your
eyes
and
hearts
to
Heaven
,
and
give
thankes
to
the
Goddesse
who
this
day
is
so
carefull
of
you
,
&
your
Sacrifices
:
And
then
turning
towards
me
,
said
,
Endymion
,
whether
thou
hast
beene
chosen
for
the
offence
thou
hast
committed
,
or
for
the
generosity
that
is
in
thee
,
thou
thy selfe
plainly
seest
what
confirmation
the
Goddesse
gives
to
the
election
we
have
made
of
thee
:
It
is
thy
part
now
to
carry
thy selfe
with
such
resolution
,
as
that
we
may
have
no
cause
to
repent
us
of
having
offered
thee
,
nor
the
Goddesse
of
having
desired
thee
.
I
,
whom
the
feare
of
death
touched
farre
lesse
than
the
offence
,
and
suspition
I
had
conceived
of
Stenobeas
change
;
as
in
those
extreames
,
the
least
signe
of
disloyalty
we
discover
in
those
who
have
professed
love
to
us
,
is
farre
more
irksome
to
us
,
than
whatsoever
else
can
crosse
us
.
I
could
not
containe
my selfe
from
speaking
thus
to
him
:
Diddest
thou
not
observe
,
said
I
,
Timetes
,
that
the
Goddesse
gave
expresse
command
,
that
the
Knife
should
be
given
to
the
Virgin
that
served
at
the
Altar
?
wherefore
then
dost
thou
take
it
out
of
her
hand
,
and
hinder
her
from
killing
me
,
who
of
her selfe
hath
more
desire
to
doe
it
,
than
thou
hast
?
and
who
appeares
so
resolute
?
She
will
,
doubtlesse
,
acquit
her selfe
better
than
thee
,
and
the
Sacrifice
will
thereby
be
much
bettered
.
This
is
not
carryed
as
thou
imaginest
,
saies
Timetes
,
neither
is
it
the
intention
of
the
Goddesse
,
or
our
custome
:
The
stroke
must
be
given
,
Endimon
,
by
that
person
,
who
of
all
the
assembly
,
either
doth
,
or
should
love
thee
best
:
Ah
me
!
said
I
then
,
it
must
not
be
done
by
Stenobea
:
But
she
,
beholding
me
with
the
eye
of
innocence
and
amazement
,
was
mightily
surprized
at
my
uttering
of
these
words
;
and
her
receiving
unjustly
so
great
an
injury
from
one
whom
she
had
alwayes
so
highly
oblieged
;
and
to
receive
it
in
such
a
manner
,
as
that
the
opportunity
of
justifying
her selfe
,
was
for
ever
taken
away
,
by
my
going
to
death
with
this
opinion
,
which
so
vively
touched
her
heart
,
that
I
did
more
and
more
perceive
in
her
the
extreame
griefe
she
had
hereupon
contracted
;
which
also
made
her
retire
behind
Timetes
;
whether
it
were
,
that
she
would
not
see
me
any
more
,
or
that
she
desired
to
cover
the
alteration
which
appeared
in
her
looke
.
In
the
meane
time
Timetes
perceiving
that
there
was
nothing
wanting
but
my
death
,
to
the
accomplishment
of
the
sacrifice
,
lifting
up
his
hand
wherewith
he
held
the
Knife
,
said
to
me
:
Now
is
the
time
,
Endymion
,
wherein
thou
must
give
a
notable
proofe
of
that
excellent
nature
,
which
hath
beene
cause
thou
hast
beene
chosen
by
the
gods
.
He
had
no
sooner
uttered
these
words
,
but
that
suddainly
there
arose
a
great
murmuring
amongst
the
people
that
were
behind
him
,
chiefly
amongst
the
Damosells
,
who
were
about
Stenobea
,
some
of
which
hastened
to
receive
her
in
their
armes
,
seeing
her
falling
downe
,
either
dead
,
or
in
a
swone
,
griefe
,
despight
,
and
choler
all
at
once
seized
her
,
and
in
such
a
furious
and
violent
manner
suffocated
her
spirits
,
that
she
became
suddainly
unable
either
to
speake
or
breath
.
What
sacrifice
have
we
here
?
saies
poore
Timetes
,
who
was
utterly
lost
and
desperate
;
Doe
the
Gods
on
a
suddaine
require
two
in
stead
of
one
?
Endymion
for
the
Moone
,
and
perchance
Stenobea
for
the
Sunne
?
Why
then
am
not
I
,
wretched
and
miserable
man
,
as
acceptable
to
Iupiter
,
to
the
end
,
that
every
one
of
our
Gods
may
have
a
particular
Oblation
?
What
became
of
me
,
Pyzander
,
at
the
sight
of
this
dying
beauty
,
when
I
discerned
the
flower
and
ornament
of
the
whole
assembly
lying
on
the
ground
:
Woe
is
me
,
Stenobea
,
said
I
,
art
thou
then
indeed
so
sensible
of
mine
unjust
calumnies
?
and
am
I
so
little
touched
with
thy
good
offices
?
Although
I
have
not
had
just
cause
to
beleeve
thy
mutability
,
yet
I
have
at
least
had
ground
for
my
suspition
of
it
:
But
in
vaine
doe
I
confesse
a
fault
,
whereof
I
demand
no
pardon
;
I
just
now
desired
death
at
thy
Hands
,
and
have
since
given
it
thee
:
How
shall
I
alone
be
able
to
suffice
to
the
expiation
of
so
many
crimes
?
Alas
,
I
have
neede
to
have
two
lives
,
the
one
to
offer
for
Diana
,
the
other
to
powre
out
for
Stenobea
:
O
Stenobea
,
thou
teachest
me
to
dye
,
and
I
long
to
follow
thee
,
and
my
spirit
in
these
vaine
lamentations
loses
the
opportunity
of
accompanying
thine
:
Then
I
became
incensed
against
my selfe
,
and
mine
owne
Fate
:
and
being
growne
wholly
weary
and
impatient
of
life
,
I
thrice
called
upon
Timetes
,
but
he
heard
me
not
,
being
on
the
other
side
as
busie
in
the
incessant
calling
upon
her
,
as
his
daughter
,
who
indeed
was
onely
his
Neece
:
and
who
,
by
what
name
soever
hee
called
her
,
was
not
able
to
make
him
any
manner
of
answer
.
At
length
,
having
by
continuall
pulling
him
by
the
garment
,
gotten
him
to
turne
towards
me
:
Wherefore
,
said
I
,
dost
thou
lose
any
more
time
about
her
,
on
whom
thou
gainest
nothing
?
or
what
can
thy
care
adde
to
her
life
,
or
contentment
?
Dost
not
thou
know
that
it
is
unlawfull
to
interrupt
the
sacrifices
of
the
gods
for
vaine
and
unprofitable
respects
?
wilt
thou
keepe
those
alive
,
whose
death
Diana
requires
?
what
knowest
thou
but
this
may
be
a
stroke
of
her
owne
hand
:
seest
thou
not
that
shee
requires
nothing
but
death
on
every
side
?
use
then
the
knife
shee
hath
sent
thee
,
and
keepe
me
no
longer
in
languishing
,
who
am
like
to
dye
with
a
desire
and
longing
for
death
.
Timetes
pressed
with
time
,
and
mine
importunity
,
making
a
signe
with
his
hand
to
the
whole
assembly
,
to
impose
silence
upon
the
murmur
was
risen
,
by
reason
of
Stenobea's
accident
,
and
to
obliege
every
one
to
the
attention
and
respect
he
owed
to
the
Sacrifice
,
tooke
the
Knife
by
the
Ebon-haft
,
and
presented
it
to
me
.
Which
when
I
beheld
with
amazement
,
not
knowing
what
he
meant
,
and
imagining
that
his
mind
was
exceedingly
distempered
in
the
occasion
:
How
now
Endymion
,
sayes
hee
,
hast
thou
not
yet
learned
our
Lawes
and
Customes
?
knowest
thou
not
,
that
our
Sacrifices
are
most
happy
,
chiefly
when
the
person
sacrificed
dyes
cheerefully
.
Now
wee
,
who
by
the
commandement
of
the
Oracle
,
are
to
offer
men
to
the
Goddesse
,
doe
use
no
other
triall
of
their
resolution
and
constance
,
to
assure
us
of
their
willing
acceptance
of
death
,
than
in
engaging
them
to
bee
themselves
the
actors
of
it
.
This
likes
me
well
Timetes
,
said
I
,
taking
the
Knife
,
I
shall
my selfe
farre
better
know
where
my
life
lyes
hidden
,
and
shall
not
misse
my
heart
at
first
stroke
:
And
so
addressing
my
last
words
to
the
Moone
:
O
Goddesse
,
said
I
,
I
have
erred
I
confesse
;
but
my
firme
beleefe
that
the
gods
are
alwaies
true
,
and
not
subject
to
change
,
hath
beene
the
cause
of
all
mine
errors
.
This
heart
,
the
most
true
guardian
of
that
affection
and
loyalty
,
which
hath
brought
me
where
I
now
am
,
shall
presently
expiate
the
offence
I
have
thereby
committed
.
Content
thy selfe
,
O
Goddesse
,
to
see
,
that
having
forgone
all
things
for
thy
sake
,
I
yet
willingly
lay
downe
my
life
,
for
testimony
that
I
am
thine
even
unto
the
Altar
,
and
further
,
if
it
were
possible
.
Having
finished
these
discourses
,
I
strooke
the
Knife
profoundly
into
my
bosome
,
and
gave
my selfe
a
stroke
,
which
so
suddainly
cut
in
sunder
the
thred
of
my
life
,
that
I
had
onely
so
much
sence
left
me
,
as
to
heare
a
pittifull
lamentation
of
many
thousand
confused
voyces
,
just
in
the
instant
as
I
fell
downe
upon
the
Altar
.
What
is
this
thou
tellest
me
Endymion
,
sayes
Pyzander
,
taking
him
by
the
hand
,
if
from
the
beginning
I
had
not
embraced
thee
,
and
did
not
still
touch
thee
,
I
should
rather
thinke
it
were
a
Ghost
than
a
man
that
now
speakes
to
me
.
I
doe
not
my
selfe
know
,
sayes
Endymion
,
what
I
am
,
and
therefore
thou
shalt
doe
me
a
great
pleasure
,
if
thou
seest
farther
into
my
adventures
than
my selfe
,
to
give
me
some
light
;
there
is
yet
something
more
sad
and
tragicall
therein
,
there
is
yet
another
sacrifice
,
&
another
Priest
;
for
I
do
beleeve
that
the
gods
,
observing
the
smal
esteem
I
have
made
of
death
,
&
of
whatsoever
is
therein
most
terrible
,
are
againe
resolved
to
inforce
me
to
live
,
intending
to
be
more
cruell
to
me
,
and
keepe
me
in
a
continuall
torment
with
the
sorrow
and
anguish
,
wherewith
I
am
possessed
,
for
having
bin
the
cause
of
another
more
strange
&
lamentable
sacrifice
.
What
sacrifice
can
that
be
,
saies
Pyzander
,
or
what
more
strange
accident
canst
thou
recount
unto
me
?
O
Endymion
,
there
are
many
thousand
and
broad
waies
to
goe
out
of
this
life
,
but
scarce
any
one
for
return
.
How
then
,
sayes
Endymion
,
have
I
found
it
,
without
seeking
,
and
how
am
I
returned
to
my selfe
,
that
so
little
desired
it
?
O
sweet
,
but
too
short
death
?
who
,
or
what
hindred
me
from
seeing
the
Kingdome
of
the
Ghosts
?
was
it
the
sad
and
drowsie
Lord
,
or
the
inexorable
Judges
?
and
that
from
thence
I
attained
not
the
Elisian
fields
,
which
are
perpetually
watered
with
the
streames
of
milke
and
honey
,
flowing
and
running
through
the
meadowes
,
wholly
enameled
with
flowers
which
no
winter
is
either
able
to
annoy
or
wither
.
What
hindred
me
that
I
could
not
participate
in
the
delightfull
banquets
,
revellings
,
and
dances
of
the
Children
and
favourites
of
the
gods
?
I
was
at
the
bankes
of
Acheron
,
with
an
extreame
desire
to
passe
it
,
but
that
old
,
uncivil
boat-man
would
not
receive
me
into
his
Barke
;
whether
it
were
that
I
brought
not
my
passage
mony
in
my
mouth
,
like
the
rest
,
or
that
my
body
had
not
yet
bin
interred
:
I
had
the
patience
to
see
him
crosse
,
and
returne
often
,
and
as
often
to
offer
my selfe
to
him
,
out
of
a
hope
,
that
one
time
might
have
rendred
me
more
acceptable
than
another
;
but
all
my
hope
was
vaine
,
and
I
could
never
gaine
any
thing
of
him
:
At
length
,
as
I
stood
still
observing
the
multitude
of
soules
which
repaired
thither
from
al
sides
,
in
no
lesse
number
than
the
leaves
in
Autumne
use
(
after
the
first
frost
)
to
fal
from
the
trees
,
the
sad
and
unfortunate
soule
of
poore
Stenobea
,
presented
it selfe
to
me
,
with
the
selfe
same
lineaments
and
feature
which
I
had
usually
seene
in
her
,
save
onely
that
she
seemed
farre
greater
,
which
did
so
surprise
both
mine
eyes
&
thoughts
,
that
I
knew
not
what
to
thinke
of
it
,
untill
she
began
to
enter
into
this
Discourse
.
What
strange
adventure
,
Endymion
,
makes
thee
wander
in
these
obscure
and
solitary
places
,
whereunto
thy
Fate
hath
not
yet
called
thee
?
For
(
to
the
end
thou
maist
not
trouble
thy selfe
to
aske
me
the
same
question
)
I
tell
thee
;
that
it
is
not
the
will
of
Heaven
that
thou
shalt
dye
yet
,
or
that
I
should
live
any
longer
:
perchance
the
gods
,
being
now
at
length
tyred
with
crossing
me
,
doe
send
thee
hither
to
give
me
opportunity
of
justifying
my selfe
of
the
crime
thou
hast
unjustly
laid
to
the
charge
of
mine
innocence
;
the
onely
sorrow
which
had
power
to
annoy
me
even
after
death
.
Thou
diddest
me
wrong
in
the
interpreting
of
the
resolution
,
wherewith
I
beheld
thee
dye
,
and
that
I
had
so
soone
forgot
thy
losse
.
All
the
resolution
I
tooke
,
proceeded
from
the
hope
Ismene
gave
me
,
that
the
Knife
would
do
thee
no
harme
,
&
that
thy
life
was
in
far
lesse
danger
than
mine
owne
.
But
thou
esteemedst
my
joy
for
thy
deliverance
as
a
crime
,
and
thine
exclamations
were
so
highly
injurious
to
mine
affection
,
and
so
sensible
to
me
,
that
at
length
they
bereaved
me
of
sence
,
making
me
fall
downe
in
thy
presence
,
as
the
true
and
reall
Sacrifice
of
Love
first
,
and
then
of
Diana
:
All
the
care
which
the
maydens
that
were
about
me
tooke
to
remove
me
out
of
the
throng
into
the
grasse
,
produced
no
other
effect
,
than
a
transporting
me
from
one
death
to
another
,
and
under
colour
of
giving
me
more
aire
and
liberty
of
breath
,
and
seeking
a
cure
for
my
present
disease
,
they
gave
me
a
generall
cure
for
all
my
diseases
at
once
;
for
Diana
,
who
for
a
while
before
held
me
in
a
continuall
pursuit
,
had
laid
a
Serpent
in
ambush
,
which
with
his
sting
,
and
mortall
venome
had
wholly
infected
me
,
before
I
could
either
come
to
my selfe
,
or
give
any
notice
of
it
.
This
was
a
strange
kind
of
Sacrifice
,
wherein
Timetes
bore
onely
the
vaine
name
and
title
of
a
Priest
,
and
a
Serpent
performed
the
Office
.
Endymion
was
presented
,
but
Stenobea
was
accepted
.
I
had
beene
farre
more
happy
Endymion
,
if
thou
hadst
beene
lesse
curious
,
and
hadst
never
seene
Albania
;
then
none
of
the
gods
would
have
made
use
of
my
resemblance
,
to
make
thee
violate
the
sacred
Forrest
,
or
have
kindled
in
my
breast
a
fire
so
contrary
to
my
vowes
:
for
to
be
in
love
,
and
to
be
vowed
to
Diana
are
two
things
incompatible
in
one
subject
:
I
had
not
then
presented
my selfe
at
her
Altar
,
with
any
other
care
or
duty
,
than
that
which
I
owed
to
her
service
,
nor
should
have
bin
troubled
at
the
fall
of
such
other
sacrifices
as
were
made
unto
her
.
Thus
she
finding
me
more
guilty
than
thee
,
slew
me
to
preserve
thee
;
my
life
hath
redeemed
thine
,
and
now
,
the
same
image
that
made
thee
guilty
,
brings
thee
thy
absolution
.
Farewell
then
Endymion
,
but
remember
this
testimony
I
give
thee
,
even
beyond
the
grave
it selfe
,
that
I
have
loved
thee
,
more
than
I
have
loved
the
gods
themselves
.
Thou
seest
how
the
Ferry-man
presses
and
calls
upon
me
,
therefore
hinder
me
not
to
goe
looke
for
rest
after
death
,
since
thou
hast
possessed
it
in
life
.
Thy
Felicity
Endymion
,
exceeds
thy
vowes
and
thy
hopes
,
from
hence
forth
let
thine
accusing
the
gods
cease
,
for
they
give
much
better
than
men
are
able
to
demand
:
Thy
sufferings
are
this
day
crowned
with
glory
,
and
have
ranked
thee
in
the
number
of
the
Immortall
;
and
this
thou
art
obliged
to
thine
affection
for
,
or
rather
,
to
mine
.
The
names
of
the
greatest
number
of
the
Stars
are
scarse
knowne
to
the
world
,
but
as
long
as
there
shall
be
any
speech
of
the
Moone
,
or
that
shee
shall
shine
in
the
Heavens
,
thy
name
shall
remaine
in
the
mouths
and
memory
of
men
.
Thus
she
continued
rewarding
my
paines
with
winde
and
smoke
,
when
on
a
suddaine
a
shrill
noise
of
Trumpets
,
and
Clarions
,
a
confused
bruite
of
Cymballs
,
and
all
other
kinds
of
Instruments
of
Copper
,
and
Brasse
,
issued
from
the
Hills
,
and
the
Vallies
,
and
beate
the
aire
with
such
violence
,
that
it
bereaved
me
of
her
,
who
retired
and
vanished
in
an
instant
.
Then
I
opened
mine
eies
indeed
,
just
like
one
that
suddenly
starts
out
of
his
sleepe
,
and
suddenly
stretched
forth
my
head
and
hands
,
as
if
I
would
have
followed
her
,
or
called
her
backe
againe
:
but
having
wholly
lost
the
sight
of
her
,
I
looked
about
me
,
to
see
if
I
could
perceive
the
assembly
,
wherewith
I
seemed
lately
environed
,
but
neither
saw
that
,
nor
the
Priest
,
or
Altar
;
nay
,
I
could
not
see
my selfe
,
it
was
so
darke
;
and
so
making
more
use
of
my
hands
than
mine
eyes
,
I
endeavoured
by
feeling
round
about
me
,
to
finde
out
where
I
was
;
I
began
to
thinke
my selfe
shut
up
in
some
Sepulchre
:
At
length
I
discerned
a
small
light
,
which
by
little
and
little
increased
,
and
drawing
nearer
to
the
place
,
where
I
first
saw
it
appeare
,
I
found
my selfe
(
to
my
great
astonishment
)
upon
Mount
Lathmos
,
and
the
Moone
in
the
Firmament
,
to
whom
I
was
making
my
complaint
,
just
as
thou
camest
to
me
.
Verily
Endymion
sayes
Pyzander
,
if
I
be
not
deceived
,
I
begin
to
discerne
the
whole
my●●ery
of
thine
Adventures
,
and
in
mine
opinion
I
may
say
,
thou
hast
done
a
great
journey
,
without
budging
from
one
place
,
in
lying
still
thou
hast
travailed
farre
,
and
hast
seene
strange
Cities
,
peoples
,
and
large
Countries
,
all
in
one
little
Cave
:
It
was
doubtlesse
one
and
the
same
noise
that
recalled
the
Moone
from
her
swoune
,
and
thee
from
the
long
sleepe
Ismene
had
cast
thee
into
,
either
by
some
slight
of
her
craft
,
or
else
by
some
inspiration
of
the
goddesse
herselfe
;
for
since
the
time
shee
gave
thee
that
water
to
make
thee
,
as
she
said
,
rest
,
whilst
she
travailed
for
thee
,
I
have
not
observed
that
she
ever
waked
thee
:
Onely
I
have
noted
that
thou
felt'st
her
take
thee
by
the
hand
,
to
conduct
thy
March
in
the
darke
,
where
thou
encountredst
all
those
strange
Monsters
whereof
thou
madest
mention
,
which
in
effect
are
but
dreames
,
yet
images
of
the
truths
wee
this
day
see
.
Moreover
,
the
Arrows
of
Venus
Boy
,
comming
out
of
Diana's
hand
,
which
cast
thee
downe
at
the
foot
of
a
Tree
,
or
the
Knife
of
Morpheus
,
brought
as
thou
say'st
▪
from
the
Countrey
of
the
Cimmeriana
,
the
ordinary
residence
of
slumber
,
doe
of
their
owne
nature
worke
no
other
execution
,
or
kill
any
body
otherwise
than
thou
art
slaine
there
with
,
as
long
as
no
other
force
is
used
with
them
.
But
what
clearer
proofe
canst
thou
desire
of
what
I
say
,
than
the
very
words
which
the
virgin
Parthenopea
uttered
to
thee
at
the
beginning
by
way
of
Oracle
?
What
charme
can
this
be
,
but
that
of
Sleepe
,
by
the
meane
whereof
,
Ismena
to
give
thy
curiosity
some
kind
of
satisfaction
,
hath
given
thee
visions
of
thy
good
or
ill
fortune
,
of
the
estate
wherein
thou
art
with
Diana
,
and
in
a
word
,
the
very
same
things
which
thou
mightest
see
with
thine
eyes
open
,
if
thou
wouldest
well
consider
them
.
I
alwayes
imagined
Pyzander
,
sayes
Endymion
,
that
mine
adventures
would
seeme
so
little
strange
to
thee
,
that
thou
wouldest
rather
take
them
for
dreames
,
than
verities
.
By
this
time
the
Birds
began
to
raise
their
severall
notes
,
to
give
a
joyfull
welcome
to
the
approach
of
the
Morning
,
and
the
wonted
noise
of
the
Carts
,
and
men
returning
to
their
accustomed
labour
,
was
heard
on
all
sides
,
when
Endymion
at
the
earnest
request
of
Pyzander
,
came
downe
from
Mount
Lathmos
,
and
returned
to
his
Houshold-gods
in
the
City
of
Heraclea
,
and
to
a
thousand
vowes
and
prayers
which
his
friends
incessantly
offered
for
his
presence
.
From
that
time
forward
he
continued
recounting
,
and
extolling
to
all
the
World
the
praises
of
Diana
,
although
she
had
beene
the
cause
of
all
his
miseries
and
tortures
;
and
that
hee
had
spent
the
better
part
of
his
time
and
life
,
either
in
the
tedious
watchings
which
he
had
employed
in
the
contemplation
of
her
beautie
and
glory
,
or
in
the
long
sleepe
which
she
had
caused
him
to
be
cast
into
.
FINIS
.