❧
TO
THE
RIGHT
NOBLE
AND
VERTVOVS
LADY
,
LVCY
,
COVNTESSE
OF
BEDFORD
,
MY
MOST
HONOVred
Lady
and
Mistresse
.
MADAME
THE
least
good
documents
,
which
we
learne
in
our
youth
,
may
in
some
part
of
our
life
serue
vs
to
vse
.
I
remember
this
sentence
in
my
Pueriles
,
Voluntas
,
vbi
desunt
vires
,
est
laudanda
:
Where
power
is
wanting
the
good
will
is
to
be
accepted
.
Which
J
presume
will
be
my
warrant
in
presenting
your
La
ship
with
this
Poeme
,
which
by
chance
J
did
see
in
my
fathers
study
,
amongst
many
other
of
his
Manuscripts
.
And
because
it
lay
idly
there
,
I
desired
him
to
giue
it
me
.
Who
then
asking
what
I
would
do
with
it
,
I
told
him
that
I
would
present
it
to
my
Lady
my
Mistresse
.
Which
humor
of
mine
he
seemed
very
well
to
like
:
but
he
answered
,
that
it
was
not
faire
enough
written
for
her
reading
.
Whereunto
J
replied
,
that
if
I
might
haue
it
,
I
would
amend
that
fault
,
and
get
it
printed
by
the
helpe
of
my
Schoole-maister
,
and
in
that
sort
offer
it
.
Whereto
my
father
said
,
that
he
liked
so
well
of
my
deuotion
to
so
noble
a
Mistresse
,
as
that
hee
would
freely
giue
it
mee
.
The
which
now
(
as
mine
owne
)
J
do
humbly
recommend
to
your
honourable
acceptance
,
as
some
testimony
of
my
deuoted
zeale
,
vntill
yeares
,
and
ability
shall
second
my
indeuours
with
parts
more
answerable
to
my
desire
.
And
in
the
meane
season
I
will
perswade
my selfe
that
this
poore
present
is
the
more
aptly
offered
,
knowing
that
the
reading
of
Heroicall
actions
do
as
properly
belong
to
noble
and
vertuous
Ladies
,
as
the
acting
of
them
to
worthy
and
valorous
Knights
.
Besides
that
,
your
Ladiship
is
an
honourable
louer
and
Patronesse
of
learning
and
the
Muses
,
an
instinct
naturally
ingrafted
in
your
excellent
spirit
,
by
that
worthy
blood
of
the
Sydneyes
,
wherewith
you
do
so
neerely
participate
,
and
whose
perfections
did
so
eminently
shine
in
that
hopefull
yong
Lord
your
late
brother
,
one
of
the
mirrours
of
our
Age.
Now
if
this
may
but
receiue
your
honourable
applause
,
as
some
pledge
of
my
Deuotion
,
J
will
neuer
thinke
that
I
need
to
be
ashamed
to
flutter
with
my
Fathers
feathers
.
And
so
am
euer
ready
to
approue
my selfe
,
Your
Ladiships
most
humble
and
faithfull
seruant
,
Carew
Gorges
.
The
Printer
to
the
Reader
.
THat
which
no
Impressions
haue
euer
been
free
from
,
were
now
needlesse
for
me
to
excuse
,
I
meane
the
faults
escaped
in
the
printing
;
which
may
appeare
the
more
harsh
,
because
the
lines
be
short
.
In
regard
wherof
,
(
to
doe
right
as
well
to
the
Translator
,
as
also
the
better
to
satisfie
the
Reader
)
I
haue
here
set
downe
the
Errata
,
with
the
page
and
lines
specified
where
the
defects
are
,
to
be
amended
with
the
more
ease
.
PAge
3.
line
22.
for
armes
read
harmes
.
pag.
4.
lin.
7.
for
time
read
twine
.
pa.
9.
li.
9.
for
brangling
read
brandling
.
p
11.
l.
35.
for
fettred
read
feltred
.
p.
16.
l.
31
for
strong
reade
stung
.
p.
33.
l.
5.
for
with
reade
which
.
p.
33.
l.
19.
for
interposing
read
interposed
.
p.
34.
l.
9.
for
Thebans
read
Theban
.
p.
34.
l.
39.
for
fettred
read
feltred
.
p.
36.
l.
6.
for
that
read
for
.
p.
37.
l.
39
for
then
r.
the.
p.
37.
l.
40.
for
clothed
,
r.
choked
.
p.
45.
l.
14.
for
captiue
read
caitiffe
.
p.
46.
l.
39.
for
they
read
thy
.
p.
52.
l.
40.
for
streame
read
streames
.
p.
56.
l.
8.
for
thy
read
they
.
p.
64.
l.
19.
for
lawes
reade
sawes
.
p.
66.
l.
37.
deest
a.
p.
82.
l.
39.
for
it
read
is
.
p.
86.
l.
12.
for
this
read
these
.
p.
90
l.
40.
for
ease
read
these
.
p.
91.
l.
12.
for
euent
ready
bent
.
p.
92.22
.
for
Hernius
read
Hermus
.
p.
105.
l.
35.
for
cost
read
cast
.
p.
106.
l.
39.
for
flames
read
frames
.
p.
110
l.
3.
for
fierce
read
firme
.
p.
116.
l.
7.
for
foyle
read
soyle
.
p.
124.
l.
11.
for
either
,
read
neither
.
Ibid.
for
a
read
or
.
p.
126.
l.
23.
dele
of
.
p.
126.
l.
34.
for
To
read
The.
p.
130
l.
13.
for
fight
read
flight
.
p.
155.
l.
40.
for
the
read
these
.
p.
181.
l.
17.
deest
our
.
p.
186
l.
9.
for
Moores
read
moares
.
p.
192.
l.
24.
for
timelesse
read
time
lost
.
p.
196.
l.
6.
for
takes
delight
,
read
takes
so
great
delight
.
p.
212.
l.
1.
for
parties
read
party
.
p.
215
l.
1.
for
a
read
read
as
.
p.
225.
l.
32.
for
place
read
peace
.
p.
226.
l.
34.
for
slang
read
slaugh
.
p.
236.
l.
28.
for
suspected
read
respected
.
p.
240.
l.
6.
for
is
read
t
is
.
p.
258.
l.
2.
for
hi
read
his
.
Ibid.
l.
8.
deest
are
.
p.
260.
l.
16.
for
she
read
he
.
p.
262.
l.
20
for
no
read
now
.
p.
268.
l.
14.
for
valley
read
valley
.
p.
280.
l.
32.
for
affected
read
effected
p.
292.
l.
25
for
world
read
worlds
.
p.
300.
l.
5.
for
Pentheius
read
Pentheus
.
p.
305.
l.
3.
for
were
read
where
.
p.
306.
l.
14.
for
Achilles
r.
Achillas
.
p.
309.
l.
16.
dele
if
.
p.
313
l.
18.
for
desir'd
r.
deseru'd
.
p.
319.
l.
6.
for
None
read
Nor.
p.
319.
l.
38.
for
Palean
r.
Pelean
.
p.
329.
l.
39.
for
sucst
r.
such
.
p.
330.
l.
2.
for
stitcht
read
stickt
.
p.
333.
l.
21.
for
we
read
no.
p.
333.
l.
25.
deest
do
.
p.
335.
l.
16.
for
fathers
read
brothers
.
p.
335.
l.
20.
for
spirits
read
sprights
.
p.
337.
l.
15.
for
Thy
read
Fly
.
p.
342.
l.
37.
for
these
read
those
.
p.
343.
l.
3.
for
meant
read
went
.
p.
344.
l.
10.
for
he
read
had
.
p.
344.
l.
17.
for
resolues
read
reuolues
.
p.
344.
l.
25.
for
sip
read
ship
.
p.
347.
l.
31.
for
The
read
That
p.
348.
l.
28.
for
yet
read
earst
.
p.
360.
in
marg.
for
Comely
read
Country
.
p.
362.
l.
23.
for
(
O
griefe
)
read
of
griefe
.
p.
367.
l.
36.
for
dandling
read
dangling
.
p.
373.
l
3.
for
for
no
read
to
.
p.
378.
l.
26.
for
bitter
read
better
.
p.
383.
l.
9.
for
streaming
read
strange
.
p.
385.
l.
11.
for
wretched
read
wreathed
.
p.
390.
l.
5.
for
when
reade
whom
.
p.
399.
l.
39.
for
fury
read
fyry
.
p.
409.
l.
14.
for
he
read
they
.
p.
418.
l.
40.
for
Pollean
reade
Pelean
.
p.
419.
in
marg.
for
enuies
reade
inueighes
.
p.
424.
l.
24.
for
a
beare
,
read
beare
a.
p.
425.
l.
35.
for
rifing
reade
rising
.
p.
427.
l.
9.
for
Falermums
,
read
Falernums
.
p.
430.
l.
18.
for
vnto
read
to
.
p.
431.
l.
19.
for
Neroe
read
Meroe
.
p.
431.
l.
33.
for
Zoylan
reade
Nylan
.
p.
434.
l.
39.
for
Neroe
read
Meroe
.
p.
435.
l.
6.
for
bands
read
bends
.
❧
THE
LIFE
OF
M.
ANNAEVS
LVCAN
.
ANnaeus
Seneca
comming
from
Corduba
,
(
a
Citty
in
the
inner
Prouince
of
Betique
Spaine
)
to
Rome
,
was
presently
aduanced
to
the
honour
of
Knight-hood
;
whose
Orations
(
al-be-it
of
great
fame
and
note
)
were
by
the
iniury
of
Time
denied
to
posterity
.
He
had
by
his
wife
Elbia
three
sons
,
whose
names
were
,
L.
Annaeus
Seneca
,
Iulius
Annaeus
Gallio
,
and
Annaeus
Mela
:
who
(
because
he
was
yongest
)
was
left
behinde
at
Corduba
.
The
other
two
(
to
wit
)
Seneca
and
Gallio
,
he
committed
to
the
tuition
of
Marullus
Grammaticus
,
Cestius
Smyrneus
,
and
Asinius
Pollio
.
Mela
when
he
came
to
yeares
of
discretion
,
was
by
his
father
made
gouernour
of
his
houshold
affaires
;
and
being
graced
as
well
as
his
other
brethren
(
by
the
fauour
of
the
Caesars
)
with
the
order
of
Knight-hood
,
he
married
C.
Acilia
,
the
daughter
of
Acilius
Lucanus
,
a
famous
Orator
in
the
Proconsuls
Court
,
and
much
esteemed
for
his
wit
among
the
better
sort
.
Bt
her
(
about
the
fourth
of
the
Nones
of
Nouember
,
in
the
second
Consulship
of
Caius
Caesar
Germanicus
with
Lucius
Cecianus
)
he
begat
Marcus
Annaeus
Lucan
;
taking
his
sur●●●e
from
his
grand-father
(
by
his
mothers
side
)
Acilius
Lucan
.
At
length
growing
weary
of
the
care
of
house-keeping
,
and
desirous
to
liue
with
his
brethren
in
more
ease
and
quiet
;
he
went
with
his
sonne
Lucan
(
being
then
but
eight
moneths
old
)
to
Rome
,
hoping
that
by
the
well
managing
of
his
wealth
which
he
had
gathered
,
it
would
in
short
space
come
so
to
passe
,
that
he
should
be
chosen
Consull
.
Now
as
he
was
iourneying
,
it
chanced
that
a
swarme
of
Bees
flying
about
the
cradle
wherein
the
childe
was
carried
(
as
it
is
reported
happened
to
Hesiodus
)
lighted
and
hung
at
his
mouth
;
signifying
(
no
doubt
)
the
sweet
and
admirable
eloquence
that
should
bee
in
that
childe
,
whereof
his
workes
giue
good
testimony
.
His
Maisters
and
Tutors
were
Rhemnius
Palemon
,
and
Flavius
Virginius
,
the
one
a
famous
Grammarian
,
the
other
a
singular
Rhetorician
:
Vnder
whom
he
profited
so
well
(
the
dexterity
of
his
wit
being
furthered
with
his
diligence
)
that
within
a
very
short
space
,
he
declaimed
both
in
Greeke
and
Latine
,
to
the
great
admiration
of
the
Auditors
.
His
Schoole-fellowes
were
Saleius
Bassus
,
and
Au.
Persius
:
he
held
a
long
time
in
the
grace
and
fauour
of
Nero
(
who
in
his
yong
yeares
was
brought
vp
vnder
Seneca
,
this
Lucans
Vnkle
)
He
was
aduanced
to
the
Office
of
Questor
before
due
age
;
at
what
time
he
set
out
such
excellent
sword-playes
,
that
by
the
peoples
fauour
,
he
was
the
next
yeare
called
to
the
Office
of
Priest
among
the
Augures
,
as
Papinius
Statius
records
.
Romam
colitur
chori
Sacerdos
.
Lucan
was
held
in
such
admire
,
That
he
became
Priest
of
the
Quire
.
He
tooke
to
wife
Polla
Argentaria
(
the
daughter
of
Pollus
Argentarius
)
of
whom
Papinius
in
Calliope
sings
thus
:
Nec
solum
dabo
carminum
nitorem
,
Sed
taedis
genialibus
dicabo
Doctam
,
atque
ingenio
tuo
decorum
,
Qualem
blanda
Venus
,
daretque
Iuno
,
Forma
,
simplicitate
,
comitate
,
Censu
,
sanguine
,
gratia
,
decore
.
The
purer
numbers
that
I
write
,
Shall
not
with
empty
words
be
dight
:
But
to
thy
geniall
bed
I
l'e
bring
A
Bride
,
that
learnedly
can
sing
:
A
wench
,
that
Nature
fram'd
to
sit
The
swelling
torrent
of
thy
wit
.
And
such
a
milke-white
Turtle-doue
,
As
that
the
Emperesse
of
loue
,
Or
else
the
Queene
of
Maiesty
,
Might
as
a
boone
bestow
on
thee
.
She
is
so
faire
,
so
sweet
,
so
kinde
,
So
rich
,
and
of
so
noble
minde
,
So
match
esse
in
her
gracefull
port
,
So
mouing
to
Ambrosian
sport
.
But
on
a
certaine
time
there
being
a
Poeticall
Comedy
to
bee
act●d
in
Pompey's
Theater
;
and
Nero
hauing
promised
by
Chuius
Rufus
,
that
he
himselfe
in
person
would
act
the
Fable
of
Niobe
:
Lucan
(
stepping
out
vpon
the
stage
)
recited
certaine
vers●s
extempore
in
the
praise
of
Orpheus
:
for
which
he
had
a
crowne
of
Laurell
bestowed
on
him
.
Whereupon
Nero
conceiuing
a
spleene
against
him
,
forbid
him
euer
after
to
frequent
the
Market-plac●
,
and
Theater
,
or
to
make
any
verses
.
Of
which
Papinius
saith
thus
:
Ingratus
Nero
dulcibus
Theatris
,
Et
noster
tibi
praeferatur
Orpheus
.
Nero
thou
shewd'st
thy selfe
ingrate
To
dulcet
Theaters
,
for
hate
Thou
bar'st
to
him
that
did
rehearse
More
pleasing
numbers
then
thy
verse
.
Who
hoping
to
be
reuenged
on
Nero
,
he
ioyned
himselfe
to
the
Pisionian
treason
:
But
the
plot
being
discouered
,
hee
persisted
not
in
the
deniall
of
his
fault
:
but
crauing
mercy
for
himselfe
,
he
accused
his
innocent
mother
to
be
also
one
of
this
conspiracie
:
hoping
that
this
empiety
might
bee
a
meanes
to
procure
pardon
at
the
hands
of
an
impious
Prince
.
But
hauing
receiued
the
sentence
of
condemnation
,
and
liberty
giuen
to
him
to
chuse
what
death
he
would
▪
he
writ
certaine
verses
vnto
his
father
;
and
(
after
a
large
banquet
)
causing
the
veines
of
his
armes
to
be
opened
,
he
dyed
bleeding
.
But
when
his
feet
and
hands
began
to
waxe
cold
,
and
that
he
was
now
at
the
point
to
resigne
his
latest
breath
,
hee
recited
certaine
verses
of
his
,
which
hee
had
made
on
a
Souldier
in
the
same
case
.
Lib.
3.
Scinditur
avulsus
,
nec
sicut
vulnere
sanguis
Emicuit
lentus
,
ruptis
,
cadit
vndique
venis
:
Discursusque
animae
diuersa
in
membra
meantis
,
Interceptus
aquis
,
nullius
vita
perempti
Est
tanta
dimissa
via
.
His
body
made
of
fennie
mud
,
Was
torne
asunder
us
he
stood
,
So
that
his
bloud
dropt
not
so
slow
As
that
which
from
a
wound
doth
flow
.
But
from
each
broken
hollow
vaine
,
A
streame
of
crimson
gusht
amaine
.
And
that
which
wont
was
to
impart
Life
to
the
limbes
from
out
the
heart
,
With
that
same
element
was
mixt
That
earth
and
aire
lyes
betwixt
.
Neuer
did
any
dying
wight
So
many
wayes
breath
out
his
spright
.
He
ended
his
life
the
day
before
the
Calends
of
May
(
Atticus
Vestinius
,
and
Nerua
Silius
being
Consuls
)
in
the
27
yeare
of
his
age
.
He
was
intombed
in
his
owne
garden
,
on
whom
might
be
ingraued
this
inscription
.
Bethis
habet
natale
solum
,
est
Annaea
propago
,
De
genitore
Mela
,
dat
mater
Acilia
terris
,
Vix
Luna
octouos
coelo
confecerat
orbes
,
Cum
me
Roma
sui
,
&c.
My
natiue
Countrey
Betique
Spaine
,
Th'
Annaean
bloud
I
did
retaine
,
My
noble
father
Mela
hight
,
Acilia
brought
me
to
the
light
.
Eight
times
had
scarse
the
nightly
Queene
,
This
massie
round
with
full
face
seene
.
When
Rome
did
wash
my
infant
sides
With
moisture
that
in
Tyber
glides
.
Then
was
I
from
the
Forum
tane
,
And
consecrate
to
Phoebus
Fane
.
Then
I
composed
Syluaes
ten
,
And
flames
of
Rome
and
Troy
did
pen
.
I
did
declaime
gainst
Sagita
,
That
fouly
murdred
Pontia
.
Then
(
that
which
moued
Nero's
hate
)
Orpheus
praise
I
and
relate
.
Next
,
hauing
tane
the
warre
in
hand
That
rau'd
throughout
Pharsalia
land
,
The
tyrant
(
that
could
not
away
My
fame
should
grow
,
and
his
decay
)
Did
quell
my
Muse
with
Enuies
blade
,
Before
the
worke
was
perfect
made
.
My
veines
in
sunder
being
shred
,
He
all
besmear'd
my
sacred
head
,
With
bloud
which
did
my
soule
set
free
,
When
from
my
body
it
did
flee
.
Papinius
saith
,
that
being
but
a
Boy
,
he
writ
the
combate
of
Hector
and
Achilles
:
he
wrot
also
the
feasts
of
Saturne
,
ten
Bookes
of
Sylues
,
the
Tragedie
of
Medea
(
not
perfected
)
the
iourney
of
Orpheus
to
Hell
,
the
burning
of
Rome
,
the
sacking
of
Troy
,
with
the
misery
of
King
Priamus
.
Hee
wrote
an
inuectiue
Oration
against
Octauius
Sagitta
,
that
murthered
Pontia
,
with
many
other
Fables
and
Epistles
.
He
vndertooke
the
ciuill
warres
of
Caesar
and
Pompey
,
but
being
preuented
by
death
,
he
wrot
but
onely
ten
Bookes
,
and
of
them
ten
perfected
but
three
,
with
the
helpe
of
his
wife
,
the
other
seuen
were
diligently
corrected
,
and
published
after
his
death
.
Fabius
Quintilian
saith
,
that
hee
was
rather
to
bee
accounted
an
Orator
then
a
Poet
,
as
being
loftie
and
vehement
in
his
stile
,
full
of
excellent
sentences
:
so
admirable
and
wittie
in
his
Orations
,
as
that
hee
seemes
to
expresse
that
singular
Elegancie
and
Maiesty
that
is
obserued
in
Virgil.
His
Epitaph
may
yet
bee
seene
in
Rome
,
graued
on
a
marble
Monument
in
old
Characters
,
thus
.
Corduba
me
genuit
,
rapuit
Nero
,
praelia
dixi
,
Quae
gessere
pares
,
hinc
gener
,
inde
socer
.
Continuo
nunquam
direxi
carmina
ductu
,
Quae
tractum
serpant
,
plus
mihi
comma
placet
.
Fluminis
in
morem
,
quae
sunt
miranda
,
citentur
,
Haec
vero
sapiet
dictio
,
quae
feriet
.
In
Corduba
I
first
drew
breath
:
By
Nero
I
was
doom'd
to
death
,
Before
I
made
an
end
to
write
Two
Riuall
Romans
ciuill
fight
:
Where
Ensignes
opposite
did
runne
,
The
Father-in-law
against
the
Sonne
.
I
haue
not
kept
a
steady
course
In
powring
out
my
Muses
source
:
But
where
the
matter
large
did
fall
,
A
Comma
pleas'd
me
best
of
all
.
When
wonders
come
,
I
make
them
slide
Like
to
a
full-brim'd
swelling
tide
.
But
that
which
beares
the
stampe
of
wit
,
Are
well-couch't
numbers
shortly
knit
.