The divine poem of Musæus. First of all bookes. Translated according to the originall, by Geo: Chapman

THE DIVINE POEM OF MVSAEVS .

First of all BOOKES .

TRANSLATED According to the Originall ,

By GEO : CHAPMAN ▪

LONDON , ¶ Printed by Isaac Iaggard . 1616.

To the Most generally ingenious , and our only Learned Architect , my exceeding good Friend INYGO IONES , Esquire ; Surueigher of His Maiesties Workes .

ANcient Poesie , and ancient Architecture , requiring to their excellence a like creating and proportionable Rapture , and being alike ouer-topt by the monstrous Babels of our Moderne Barbarisme ; Their vniust obscurity , letting no glance of their trueth and dignity appear , but to passing few : To passing few is their lest apparance to be presented . Your selfe then being a Chiefe of that few , by whom Both are apprehended ; & their beames worthily measur'd and valew'd . This little Light of the one , I could not but obiect , and publish to your choise apprehension ; especially for your most ingenuous Loue to all Workes , in which the ancient Greeke Soules haue appear'd to you . No lesse esteeming this , woorth the presenting to any Greatest , for the smalnes of the wo●ke ; then the Authour himselfe hath beene helde therfore of the lesse estimation : h●uing obtain'd as much preseruation and honor , as the greatest of Others : the Smalnesse beeing supplyed with so greatly-exc●llent Inuention and Elocution . Nor lacks euen the most youngly-enamor'd affection it co●taines , a Temper graue enough , to become , both the Sight and Acceptance of the Grauest . And therefore , howsoeuer the mistaking worlde takes it ( whose left hand euer receyu'd what I gaue with my Right . ) If you freely and nobly ●ntertaine it , I obtaine my End : your Iudicious Loues continuance , being my onely Obiect : To which I at all partes commend .

Your Ancient poore Friend George Chapman .

To the Commune Reader .

WHen you see Leander and Hero , the Subiects of this Pamphlet ; I perswade my self , your preiudice will encrease to the contempt of it ; eyther headlong presupposing it , all one ; or at no part matcheable , with that partly excellent Poem , of Maister Marloes . For your all one ; the Workes are in nothing alike ; a different Character being held through , both the Stile , Matter , & inuention . For the match of it ; let but your eyes be Matches , and it will in many parts ouermatch it . In the Originall , it being by all the most Learned , the incomparable Loue-Poem of the world . And I would be somthing sorry , you could iustly taxe me , with dooing it any wrong in our English ; though perhappes it will not so amble vnder your seasures and censures , as the before publish 't .

Let the great Comprehenders , and vnable Vtterers of the Greeke elocution in other Language ; drop vnder theyr vnlodings , how humbly soeuer they please ; and the rather disclaime their owne strength , that my weaknesse may seeme the more presumptnous : It can impose no scruple the more burthen on my shoulders , that I wil feele ; vnlesse Reason chance to ioyne Arbiter with Will , and appeare to mee : To whome I am euer prostrately subiect . And if enuious Misconstruction could once leaue tyrannizing ouer my infortunate Innocence ; Both the Charity it argu'de , would render them that vse it , the more Christian ; and mee industrious , to hale out of them the discharge of their owne Duties .

OF MVSAEVS ▪ Out of the worthy D. Gagers Coll●ctions .

MVsae●s was a renown'd Greeke Poet , borne at Athens , the Sonne of Eumolpus . Hee liu'd in the time of Orpheus , and is saide to bee one of them that went the Famous voy●ge to Colchos for the Golden Fleece . He wrote of the Gods Genealogie before any other , and invented the Sphere . Whose opinion was , that all things were made of one matter , and resolued into one againe . Of whose works , onely this one Poem of Hero and Leander , is extant ; of himselfe in his sixte Booke of Aene. Virgil , makes memorable mention , where in Elisium hee makes Sybilla speake this of him . Musaeum ante Omnes ( medium nam plurima Tu●ba Hunc habet ) atque humeris extantem suspicit altis . Hee was borne in Falerum , a Towne in the middle of Tuscia , or the famous Countrey of Tuscany in Italy , cal'd also Hetruria .

Of Abydus and Sestus .

ABydus and Sestus , were two ancient Towns : One , in Europe , another in Asia ; East and West , opposite : On both the shores of the Hellespont . Their names are extant in Maps to this day . But in the●r places , are two Castles buile , which the Turkes call Bogazossar , that is , Castles scituate by the Sea side . Seamen nowe call the place where Sestus stood , Malido . It was likewise cal'd Possidonium . But Abydus is called Au●o . They are both renowned in all Writers , for nothing so much as the Loue of Leander and Hero .

Of the Hellespont .

HEllespont is the straits of the two Seas , Propontis and Egeum runn●ng betwixt Abydus and Sestus . Ouer which , Xerxes builte a Bridge , and ioyn'd these two Townes together , conueighing ouer his Army of seauen hundred thousand men . It is now cal'd by some , The Streights of G●llipolis . But by Frenchmen , Flemings , and others , The Arme of Saint George . It had 〈◊〉 name of Hellespont , because Helle the Daughter of Athamas K. of Thebes , was drown'd in it . And therfore of one it is called , The Virgin-killing-Sea . Of another , The Virgin-Sea . It is but seauen Italian Furlongs broade , which is one of our Miles , lacking a furlong .

MVSAEVS OF HERO & LEANDER . Goddesse relate , the witnesse-bearing-light Of Loues , that would not beare a humane sight . The Sea-man that transported Marriages Shipt in the Night ; his bosome plowing th' seas : The Loue ioyes that in gloomy cloud : did flye The cleere beames of th' immortall mornings eye . Abydus and faire Sestus , where I heare The Night-hid Nuptials of young Hero were . Leanders swimming to h●r ▪ and a Light : A Light , that was administresse of sight To cloudy Venus ; and did serue ●'addresse Night-wedding Heroes Nuptiall ( 1 ) Offices . A Light that tooke the very forme of Loue : Which had bene Iustice in aethereall Ioue , When the Nocturnal duty had bene done , T' aduance amongst the Consort of the Sunne ; And call the Starre , that Nuptiall Loues di● guide , And to the Bridegroome ( ● ) gaue , and grac't the B●ide Because it was ( 3 ) Companion to the Death Of Loues , whose kinde cares cost their dearest breath : And that ( 4 ) Fame-●reight●d ship from Shipwracke kept , Tha● such ●weet Nuptials broght , th●y neuer slept . Till Aire was with a Bitter floud inflate , That bore their firme Loues as infixte a hate . But ( Goddesse ) forth ; and Both , one ys●ue sing : The Light extinct , Leander perishing . ¶ Two townes there were , that with one Sea were wald ; Built neere , and Opposi●e : this , Sestus cald ; Abydus that : Then LOV● his Bow bent by , And at bo●h Citties , let one Arrow fly . That Two ( a Virgin and a Youth ) Infl●m'd : The Youth , was sweetly grac'● Leander nam'd ▪ The Virgin , Hero ▪ S●stus , she renownes , Abydus●e ●e , in Birth : of both which Townes Both were the Beuty-circled starres ; And Both , Grac't with like lookes , as with one Loue and Troth . ¶ If that way lye thy course , seeke for my sake , A Tower , that Se●●ian Hero once d●d make Her Watch-Tower : and a Torch stood holding there , By which , Leander his Sea-course did stere . Seeke likewise , of Abydus ancient Towres , The Roaring Sea lamenting to these houres Leanders Loue , and Death . But saie ; howe came Hee ( at Abydus borne ) to feele the flame Of Heroes Loue at Sestus ? and to binde In Chaines of equall fire , bright Heroes minde ? ¶ The Gracef●ll Hero , borne of gentle blood ▪ Was Venus Priest ; and since she vnderstood No Nuptiall Language : from her Parents , she Dwelt in a Towre , that ouer-lookt the Sea . For shamefastnesse and chastity , she raign'd Another Goddesse ▪ Nor was euer traind In Womens companies ; Nor learn'd to t●ed A gracefull Dance , to which such yeares are bred . The enu●ous spights of Women she did fly , ( Women for Beauty their owne sex enuy ) All her Deuotion was to Venus done , And to his heauenly Mother , her great Sonne Would reconcile , with Sacrifices euer ; And euer trembled at his flaming Quiuer . Yet scap't not so his fiery shafts , her Brest ▪ For now , the popular Venerean Feast , Which to Adoni● , and great Cyprias State , The Sestians yearely vs'de to celebrate , Was Come : and to that holy day came all , That in the bordering Isles , the Sea did wall . To it in Flockes they flew ; from Cyprus these , Enuiron'd with the rough Carpathian Seas : These from Haemonia ; nor remain'd a Man Of all the Townes , in ●h'Isles Cytherean : Not one was left , that vs'de to dance vpon The 〈◊〉 of ●dorifferous Libanon : Not one of Phrygia , not one of All The Neigh●or● , seated neere the Festiuall : Nor one of opposite Abydus Shore ▪ Non● of all these ▪ that Virgins fauours wore Were absent : All such , fill the flowing way , When Fame proclaimes a solemne holy da● . Not bent so much to offer holy Flames , As to the Beauties of assembled Dames . ¶ The Virgin Hero enter'd th'oly place , And gracefull beames cast round about her face , Like to the bright Orbe of the rising Moone . The Top-spheres of her snowy cheekes pus on A glowing rednesse , like the two hu'de Rose , Her odorous Bud beginning to disclose . You would haue saide , in all her Li●eaments A Medd●● full of Ro●es she presents All ouer her she blush't ; which ( putting on Her white Robe , ( reaching to her Ankles ) shone , ( While she in passi●g , did he● feete dispose ) As she had wholly bene a moouing Rose . Graces , in Numbers , from her parts did flow : The Ancients therefore ( ●ince they did not know Heroes vnb●unde● Beauties ) fal●ely fa●n'd Onely ●hree Graces : for when Hero strain'd Into a smile , her Priestly Modestie , A hundred Graces , grew , from either ●ye . A fit o●e sure , the Cyprian Godd●sse found To be her Ministresse ; And so highly crown'd With worth , her Grace was , past all other Dames , That , of a Priest made to the Queen● of Flames A New Queene of them , She in all eyes shin'de : And did so vndermine each tender minde Of all the yong-men : that the●e was not One But wish't faire Hero wer his wife , or None . Nor could she stirre about the wel-built Phane , This way , or that ; but euery way shee wan A following minde in all Men : which their ●yes Lighted with all their inmost Faculties Cleerely confirm'd : And One ( admiring ) said ; All Spar●a I haue trauail'd , and survai'd The Citty Lacedemon ; where we heare All Beauties Labors , and contentions were : A woman yet , so wise , and delicate I neuer saw ▪ It may be , Venus gate One of the yonger Graces , to supply The place of Priest hood to her Deity . Euen tyr'de I am with sight , yet doth not finde A ●a●isfac●ion , by my si●ht ; my Minde . O could I once ascend sweete Heroes bed , Let me be straight found in her bosome dead : I would not wish to be in heauen a God , Were Hero heere my wi●e : But , if forbod To lay proph●ne hands on thy holye Priest , O Venus , with another such assist My Nuptial Longings . Thus pray'd all that spake , The rest their wounds hid , and in Frenzies b●ake Her Beauties Fire , being so supprest , so rag'd . But thou , Leander , more then all engag'd , Wouldst not when thou hadst view'd th' amasing Maide Waste with clo●e stings , and seeke no open aide ; But , with the ●●aming Arrowes of her eyes Wounded vnwares , thou wouldst in sacrifice Vent th' inflammation thy bu●nt blood did proue , Or Li●e with sacred Medicine of her Loue . ¶ Bu● now the Loue-brand in his eie-beam●s bu●n'd , And with th' vnconquer'd fire , his heart was turn'd Into a Coale : together wrought the Flame ; The vertuous beauty of a spotle●●e Dame , Sharper to Men is , then the swiftest Shaft . H●s Eye ●he way by which his Heart is caught : And from the stroke his eye sustaines , the wounde Open's within , and doth his Intrailes sounde . Amaze then ●ooke him , Impudence , and Shame Made Earthquakes in him , with their Frost and Flame : His Heart betwixt them tost , till Reuerence Tooke all these Prisoners in him : and from thence H●r mat●●less bea●ty , with 〈◊〉〈…〉 b●nds : 〈◊〉 Aguish L●ue , that len● Sh●me , and Obseruance , Licenc'st their remoue ; And wi●ely liking Im●udence in Loue : S●l●nt he went , an● stood against the Maide , And in side glances ●aintly he conuaide His craf●y eyes about her ; with dumbe showes Tempting her minde to Error . And now growes She to conceiue his subtle 〈◊〉 and ioy'd Since he was gracefull . Then herselfe imploy'd Her womanish cunning , turning from him qui●e Her Louely Count'nance ; giuing yet some Light Euen by her darke signes , of her kindling fire ; With vp and down-lookes , whe●ting his desire . He ioy'd at heart to see Loues sence in her , And no contempt of what he did prefer . And while he wish't vnseene to vrge the rest , The day shrunke downe her beames to lowest West And East : The Euen-starre tooke vantage of her shade ; Then boldly he , his kinde ap●roches made : And as he saw the Russet clouds encrease , He strain'd her Ro●●e hand , and held his peace : But sigh'd , as Silence had his bosom broke ; When She , as silent . put on Anger 's cloake ▪ And drew her hand backe . He descerning well Her would , and would not : to her boldlier fell : And her elaborate Robe , with much cost wrought , About her waste e●bracing : On he brought His Loue to ●h'in-parts of the reuerend Ph●ne : She , ( as her Loue-sparkes more and more did wane ) Went slowly on , and with a womans words Threatning Leander , thus his boldnesse bords . ¶ Why Stranger , Are you mad ? ●ll-fated Man , Why hale you thus , a Virgin Sestian ? Keepe on your way : Let go , Fea●e to offend The Noblesse of my birth-rights , ●ither Friend ; It ill become's you to solicite thus The Priest of Venus ; Hopelesse , dangerous The bar'd vp-way is to a Virgins bed . Thus , for the Maiden forme , she menaced . But he well knew . that when these Female mind●s Breake out in fury , they are certaine signes Of their perswasions . Womens threats once showne , Shewes in it , onely , all you wish your Owne : And therefore of the rubi-coloured Maide , The odorous Necke he with a kisse assaid . And stricken with the sting of Loue , he pra●'d . Deare Venus , next to Venus you must go ; And next Minerua ; ●race Minerua to Your like , with ●arthly Dames no light can show : To Io●es great Dau●hters , ● must liken you . Blest was thy great Begetter ; blest was she Whose wombe did beare thee ▪ But m●st blessedly The Wombe it selfe far'd , that thy throwes did proue . O heare my prayer : pitty the Neede of Loue . As Priest of Venus , practise Venus Rites . Come , and instruct me in her Beds del●ghts . It fits not you , a Virgin , to vow aides To Venus seruice ; Venus Loues no Maides . If Venus institutions you prefer , A●d faithfull Ceremonies vow to her , Nupt●als , and Beds they be . If her Loue bindes , Loue loues swe●t Lawes , that sof●en humane mindes . Make me your seruant : Husband , if you pleas'd ; Whom Cupid with his burning shafts hath ●eis'd , And ●un●ed to you ; As swift Hermes●raue ●raue With his Gold Rod , IOVES bold sonne to be slaue To Lydia's soueraigne virgin ; But for me ▪ Venus insulting , forc't my feete to thee . I was not guided by wise Mercury . Virgin , you know , When Atalanta fled Out of Arcadia , kinde Melanions bed , ( Affecting Virgine life ; your Angry Queene , Whom first she vs'd with a malignant spleene ) At last possest him of her compleat heart . And you ( deere Loue ) because I would auer● Your Goddesse anger ; I would faine perswade . With these Loue-luring words , conform'd he made The Maid Recusant to his bloods desire ; And set her soft minde , on an erring fire . Dumbe s●e was strooke : and downe to earth she threw Her Rosie eyes : hid in Vermillion hew , Made red with shame . Oft with her foote she rac't Earths vpper part ; And oft ( as quite vngrac't ) About her shoulders gathered vp her weede . All these fore●tokens are ●hat Men shall speede . Of a perswaded Virgin to her Bed , Promise is most giu●n , when the least is said . And now she tooke in , Loues sweet bitter sti●g ▪ Burn'd in a fire , that cool'd her ●urfetting ▪ Her Beauties likewise , strooke her Friend amaz'd : For while her eyes fix't on the Pauement gaz'd , Loue , on Leanders lookes , shew'd Fury seas'd . Neuer enough hi● greedy eyes were pleas'd To view the faire glosse of her tender Necke . At last this sweet voice past , and out did brea●e A ruddy moisture from her bashfull eyes ; Stranger , perhaps thy words might exercise Motion in F●ints , as well as my soft brest . Who taught thee words ▪ that erre from East to West In their wilde libe●ty ? O woe is me : To this my Nati●e soile , who guided thee ? All thou hast saide is vaine ; for how canst thou ( Not to be trusted : One , I do not know ) Hope to excite in me , a mixed Loue ? T' is cleere , that Law by no meanes will approue Nuptials with vs ; for thou canst neuer gaine My Paren●●●races . If thou 〈◊〉 remaine Close on my shore , as outcast from thine owne ; Venus will be in darkest corners knowne Mans tongue is friend to scandall ; loose acts done In surest secret : in the open Sunne And euery Market place , will burne thine cares . But say , what name ●ustainst thou ? What soile bea●●s Name of thy Countrey ? M●ne , I cannot hide ; My farre spred name , is Hero : I abide Hous'd in an all-seene-Towre ▪ whose tops touch heauen , Built on a steepe shore , that to Sea is driuen Before the City Sestus . One sole Maide Attending ; And this irkesome life is laide● By my austere Friends wils , on one so yong ; No like-year'd Virgins nere ; No youthfull throng To meete in some delights , Dances , or so : But Day and Night , the windy Sea doth throw . Wilde murmuring cuff●s about our deafned eares . This sayd : her white Robe , hid her Cheekes like spheres . And then ( with shame-affected , since she vs'de Words , that desir'd youths ; and her Friends accus'd ▪ ) Sh● blam'd her selfe for them , and them for her . Meane space , Leander felt Loues Arrow erre Through all his thoughts ; deuising how he might Encounter Loue , that dar'd him so to fight . Minde changing Loue wounds men , and cures againe : Those Mo●tals , ouer whom he list's to raigne , Th' All-Tamer stoopes to : in aduising how They may with some ease beare the yoke , his Bow So , our Leander , whom he hurt , he heal'd : Who , hau●ng long his hidden fire conceal'd , And vex't with thoughts , he thirsted to impart , His stay he quitted , wi●h this quickest Art . Virgin , for thy Loue , I will swim a waue That Ships denies : And though with fire it raue ▪ In way to thy Bed , all the Seas in one I would despis● : The Hellespont were none . All Nights to swim to one sweet bedde with thee , Were nothing ; if when Loue had landed me , All hid in weeds , and in Veneran fome , I brought ( withall ) bright Heroes husbands home . Not farre from hence , and iust against thy Towne Abydus stands , that my Birth cal's mine owne . Hold but a Torch then in thy heauen-high Towre : ( Which I beholding , to that starry Powre May plough ●he darke Seas , as the Ship of Loue. ) I will not care to see Bootes moue Downe to the Sea : Nor sharpe Orion traile His neuer-wet Carre ; but arriue my saile Against my Country , at thy pleasing shore . But ( deere ) take heed , that no vngentle blo're Thy Torch extinguish , bearing all the Light By which my life sailes , least I lose thee quite . Would'st thou my Name know ( as thou dost my house ) It is Leander , louely Hero's Spouse . Thus this kinde couple , their close Marriage made , And friendship euer to be held in shade , ( Onely by witnesse of one Nuptiall Light . ) Both vow'd : agreed , that Hero euery Night , ●hould hold her Torch out : euery Night , her Loue The tedious passage of the Se● should proue The whole Euen of the watchful Nuptia●s spent , Against ●heir wils : the sterne powre of constraint Enforc't their parting . Hero to her Towre ; Leander , ( minding his returning howre ) Tooke of the Turret , Markes , for feare he fail'd , And to well-founded broad Abydus●ail'd ●ail'd . All Night , Both thirsted 〈…〉 O● each yong-ma●ri●d , louely Man , and Wife . And all day after , No desire shot home , But that the Chamber-decking Night were come . ●nd now , Nights ●ooty c●owd●s clap't all 〈◊〉 on , Fraught all with sleepe : yet tooke L●●●der none . But on th' oppos'd shore of the noise-full Seas , The Messenger of glittering Marriages Look't wishly for : Or rather long'd to see , The witn●sse of their Light to Misery , Farre of● discouer'd in their Couert bed . When Hero saw the blackest Curtaine spred Tha● vail'd the da●ke night : her bright Torch she shew'd . Whose Light no so●ner th' eager Lou●r vi●w'd : But Loue , his blood set on as bright a Fire . Together burn'd ●he Torch , and his Desire . But hearing of the Sea , the horrid rore , With which , the tender ayre the mad waues tore : At first he trembled : But at last he rear'd High as the storme his spir●● , and thus chear'd , ( Vsing these words to it ) his resolute minde ▪ Loue d●eadfull is ; The Sea , with nought inclinde : But Sea , is Water ; outward all his yre , When Loue lights his feare with an inward 〈◊〉 . Take fire ( my heart ) feare nought that flits and raues : Be Loue himselfe to me , despise these waues . Art thou ●o know , that Venus birth was here ? Commands the Sea , and all that greeues vs there ? This sayd , his ●aire Limbes of his weede , he strip't : Which , at his he●d , with both hands bound , he shipt . Lept from the Shore , and cast into the Sea His louely body : thrusting all his way Vp to the Torch , that still he thought did call : He Ores , he Sterer , he the Ship , and All ▪ Hero aduanc't vpon a Towre so hye , As soone would lose on it , the fixed'st eye . And like her Goddesse star , with her Light shining : The windes , that alwayes ( as at her repining , Would blast her pleasures ) with her va●le she che'kt , And from their envies did her Totch protect . And this she neuer l●ft , till she had brought Leander , to the Hauenfull shore he sought . Then downe she ran , and vp she lighted then To her T●wr●s top , the weariest of Men. First , at the Gates , ( without a syllable vs'd ) She hug'd her panting husband , all diffus'd With somy drops , still stilling from his haire : Then brought she him in to the inmost Faire O● all , her Virgin Chamber ; That , ( at best ) Was with her beau●ies , ten times better drest . His body then she clen●'d : His body oyl'd With Rosie Odors : and his bosome ( ●oyl'd With the vnsauoury Sea ) she render'd sweet . Then , in the high-made●ed , ( euen pan●ing yet ) Her selfe she powr'd about her husband● brest , And th●se words vtter'd ▪ With too much vnrest , O Hu●band , you haue bought this litl● peace : Husband , No o●her man hath paid th' encrease Of that huge sum of paines you tooke for me . And yet I know , it is enough for thee To suffer for my Loue , the fishy sau●urs The working Sea breaths ▪ Come , lay all thy labors On my all-thankfull bosome . All this said , He straight vngirdled her ; and Both parts paid To Venus , what her gentle statutes bound . Here Weddings were ▪ but not a Musicall sound , Here bed-rites offer'd , but no hymnes gaue praise : No● Poe● , sacred w●dlocks worth did ●aise . No Torches gilt the honor'd Nuptiall bed : Nor ●ny y●uths much-mouing dances led . No Father ; Nor no reuerend Mother sung . Hymen , O Hymen , blessing LOVES so yong . But when the consummating Howres had croun'd The doun-right Nuptials , a ca●me bed was found . Silence , the Roome fixt ; Darknesse deck't the Bride , But Hymnes , and such Rites , farre were laide aside . Night , was sole Gracer of this N●ptiall house : Cheer●full Auror● neuer 〈…〉 Spous● In any Beds that were ●oo broadly known , Away he fled still , to his Region , And b●eath'd insatiate of the absent Sun . ¶ Hero kept all this from her parents still ; Her Priestly weede was large , and would not fill : A Maid by Day she was , a Wif● by Night : Which both so lou'd , they wisht it neuer light . And thus ( Both ) hiding● the strong Need of Loue : In Venus secret sphere , reioyc't to moue . But soone their ●oy di'de ; and that still-tost state Of their sto●ne Nuptials , drew but l●●tle date . For when the frosty winter kept his Iusts , Rousing together all the horrid Gusts , That from the euer-whirling pits arise : And those weake deepes , that driue vp to the skie● , Against the drench't foundations , making knocke Their curled forheads : Then with many a shocke The windes and seas met ; made the stormes aloud , Beate all the rough Sea with a Pitchy cloud ▪ And then the blacke Barke , buffered with gales , Earth checkes so rudely , that in Two it fals . The Seaman flying Winters faithlesse Sea . Yet ( braue Leander ) All this be●t at thee , Could not compell in thee one fit of feare : But when the cruell faithlesse Messenger ( The Towre ) appear'd , and shew'd th' accustom'd light ; It stung thee on , secure of all ●he spight The raging Sea spit . But since Winter came , Vnhappy Hero , should haue cool'd her flame , And lye without Leander ; No more lighting Her short-liu'd Bed-starre : but strange fate exciting As well as Loue ; And both their pow'rs combin'd Entic●ng her ; In her hand , neuer shin'd The fatall Loue Torch ( but this one houre ) more . Night came : And now , the Sea against the sho●e Muster'd her winds vp : from whose Wintry iawes They belch't ●heir rude breaths out , in bitterest flawes ▪ In mid●st of which , Leander , with the Pride Of his deere hope , to boord his matchle●se Bride ▪ ●p , on the rough backe o●●he high sea , leapes : 〈◊〉 then waues thrust vp wau●s ; ●he watry heapes ●●mbled together : Sea and sky were mixt , The fighting windes , the frame of earth vnfixt . Zephire and Eurus flew in eithers face ; Notus and Boreas wrastler like imbrace , Aud tosse each other with their bristled backes . Ineuitable were the horrid crackes The shak●n Sea gaue : Ruthfull 〈◊〉 the wrackes Leander suffer'd , in the sauage gale , Th' inexorable whirlepits did exhale . Often he ●ra●'d to Venus ▪ borne of Seas : Neptune their King : And Boreas , that t' would please His Godhead , for the Nimph Aitheas sake , Not to forget , the like s●elth he did make For her deare Loue ▪ touch't then , with his sad state , But none would helpe him : Loue , compels not Fate . Euery way tost with waues , and Aires r●de breath Iustling together , he was crush't to death . No more his youthfull fo●ce his feete commands , Vnmou'd lay now his late all-mouing hands . His throat was turn'd free channel to the flood , And drinke went downe , that did him farre from good . No more the ●alse Light for the curst winde burn'd : That of Leander euer-to-be mourn'd , Blew out the Loue , and soule ; when Hero still Had watchfull eyes , and a most constant ●ill To guide the voyage : and the morning shin'd , Yet not by her Light , she her Loue could finde ▪ She sto●d distract with ●i●erable woes ; And round about the Seas broad shoulders , throwes Her eye , to second the ex●inguisht Light ▪ And tried if any way her husbands ●ight Erring in any part , she could descry . When , at her Turrets foote , she saw him lye , Mangled with Rockes , and all embru'd ; she tore About her bre●t , the curious weede she wore ▪ And with a shrieke , from off he● Turrets height , Cast her faire body headlong , That ●ell right On her dead husband : Spent with him her breath , And each won other , in the worst of death .

Annotations vpon this Poem of Musaeus .

1. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 signifies one , qui Nuptias apparat vel instruit .

2. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , est qui sponsam sponso adducit ●eu conciliat .

3. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 socius in aliquo opere .

4. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifies , Perdite amans ; and therefore I enlarge the Verball Translation .

5. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , &c.

〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , besides what is translated in the Latine ; res est mutiatur , Item mandatum a Nuntio perlatum ; Item Fama , and therefore I translate it , Fame-freighted ship , because Leander calles himselfe 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , which is translated Nauis amoris , though 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 properly signifies sulcus , or Tractus nauis , vel serpentis , vel aetherea ●●gittae . &c.

6. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , and 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , are of one s●●n●ficarion ; or haue their d●duction one ; and seeme to be deduc't 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , 1. haerere . Vt sit odium quod animo infixum haeret . For odium is by Ci●ero defin'de , ira inueterata . I haue therefore translated it acording to this deduction , because it expresses better : and taking the winde for the fate of the winde ; which conceiu'd and appointed before , makes it as inueterate or infixt .

7. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 . Colore enim membrorum cubebat . A most excellent Hyperbole , being to be vnderstood , she blusht al ouer her . Or , then followes another elegancie , as strange & hard to conceiue . The mere verball translation of the La●ine , being in th● sence either imperfect , or vtterly inelegant , which I must yet leaue to your iudgement , for your owne satisfaction . The words are

〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

— Euntis vero Etiam Rosae candidam ( induta ) tunicam sub talis splendebant puellae .

To vnderstand which ; that her white weede was al vnderlin'd with Roses , & that they shin'd out of it as shee went , is p●ssing poore and absurd : and as grosse to haue her 〈◊〉 all ouer with Rofes . 〈◊〉 therefore to make the 〈◊〉 answe●able in heighth and elegancy to the former , she ●eem'd ( blushing all ouer her White Robe , euen below her Ankles , as she went ) a mouing Ro●e , as hauing the blus● of many Roses about her .

8. 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

Apparuit vmbrosa Hesperus stella . Eregione is before ; with I English , & East . Th' Euen starre tooke vantage of her shade , v●z : of the Euening shade , which is the cause that Starres appeare .

9 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , instabiles nutus puellae . ● English , her would , and would not . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifying , Cui mens laxatae est & enerua : and of ex●remity therein , Amens , demens . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , sum 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

10 Demens sum she cals him 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , which signifies cui diffici●e fatum obtingit : according to which I English it , infelix ( being the worde in the Latine ) not expressing so particularly , because the word vnhappie in our Language hath diuers Vnderstandings ; as waggish or subtle , &c. And the other well expressing an ill abodement in Hero , of his ill or hard fate : imagining straight , the strange & sodaine alteration in her , to be fatall .

11 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , going before : it is Latin'd , Virginis ad Lectum difficile est ire . But 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifies , nullis machinis expugnabilis ; The way vnto a Virgins bedde , is vtterly bar'd .

12 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

Venerearum consuetudinum per se nuntiae sunt minoe .

Exceeding elegant . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 signifying , qui sibi nuntius est , id est , qui sine al●orum opera sua ipse nuntiat . According to which I haue English't it . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 ▪ Lusus veneri . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 also , whi●● signifies minae , hauing a reciprocall Sig. in our tongue , beeing englisht Mines : Mines , as it is priuileg'd amongest vs being English , signifying Mines made vnder the earth . I haue past it with that word , being fitte for this place in that understanding .

13 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , Corpus amorem parriens , & alicis , according to which I haue turn'd it .

14 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 .

〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifies , qui tenera & delicata est cute , tenerum ; therfore not enough expressing , I haue enlarg'd the expression , as in his place .

15 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 IS turn'd ; Variorum verborum . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifying multinagus , erroneus , or errorum plenus , intending that sort of error that is in the Planets ; of whose wandering , they are called 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 sidera erranti . So that Hero tax't him for so bolde a liberty in wordes , as er'd toto coelo , from what was fit , or becam the youth of one so gracefull : which made her breake into the admyring exclamation ; that one so yong and gracious , shold put on so experien●st and licentious a boldnesse , as in that holy temple encorag'd him to make Loue to her .

16 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , it is Translated Domo altissima ; but because it is a compound , and hath a grace superiour to the other● , in his more neere and verball conuersion ; 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifying , Coelum sua proceritate tangens , I haue so render'd it .

17 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , translated madidus Maritus , when as 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 is taken heere for 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , signifying vnum & idem cubile habeus , which is more particular and true .

18 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 , & ● . 〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉〈◊〉 signifies , La in altus aut profundus vt ab eius accessu aberres , intending the Tower vppon which Hero stoode .

FINIS .