The
Argument
to
the
Reader
.
AN
Elizian
out-cast
of
Fortune
,
ranging
on
his
Iade
Melancholie
through
the
Desert
of
his
affliction
,
in
hope
to
find
out
some
where
either
ease
or
end
of
the
same
,
hapneth
first
vpon
Catoes
ghost
a
spirit
of
Dispair
&
self-misdoom
which
perswades
him
to
kill
himselfe
:
But
,
for
she
ended
her
Oratory
with
a
Sulphur
vanish
from
out
his
sight
,
he
misdoubted
both
her
and
her
tale
.
Then
posting
onward
through
the
residue
of
the
night
;
he
next
chanceth
on
the
spirit
of
Reuenge
:
She
perswades
him
blood
and
treacherie
against
all
his
enemies
,
as
th'
onlie
means
to
remount
to
pristin
blesse
in
despight
of
Fortune
:
But
she
likewise
manifesting
in
the
end
the
treason
of
her
tale
by
a
sudden
whip-away
from
his
eye
at
the
sight
of
break
of
day
in
the
East
,
left
him
also
conceipted
of
her
daunger
.
Thirdly
,
rapt
from
off
his
Melancholie
(
which
now
began
to
faint
vnder
him
at
the
light
of
a
new
day
of
Grace
)
he
was
suddenlie
mounted
vpon
the
Steed
of
Good
Desire
,
and
by
him
brought
to
Mount
-
Sion
the
Temple
of
Peace
;
where
by
Catechtysius
an
Hermit
(
who
greatlie
woondred
to
see
a
distressed
Elizian
in
those
partes
vnder
so
happie
daies
of
Eliza
)
he
was
by
him
in
the
house
of
Deuotion
catechized
,
and
there
also
celestially
arm'd
by
an
Angell
,
and
within
a
while
after
in-denized
by
the
high
Sacrificator
a
Champion
of
that
Temple
against
the
insults
of
Fortune
;
whom
I
haue
titled
by
the
name
of
Doblessa
in
respect
of
the
double
danger
both
of
her
luring
and
lowring
inconstancie
:
She
,
whiles
the
Sionttes
were
all
in
peacefull
adoration
of
Almightie
God
in
the
Temple
,
came
with
her
Babellonian-rout
to
assault
the
place
,
but
was
eftsoons
by
the
valure
of
those
Templers
shamefullie
repulsed
:
Feast
and
thankes
was
made
to
God
therfore
throughout
all
the
Region
;
in
which
solemnitie
the
Grace
of
God
houering
ouer
the
multitude
in
the
Procession
time
like
a
virgin
attended
vpon
with
all
the
Court
of
heauen
,
showr'd
downe
Roses
amongst
them
,
leauing
them
there
a
scambling
for
the
same
.
The
Elizian
was
one
that
scambled
his
lap-full
among
the
rest
:
and
for
he
thought
it
was
his
soueraigne
Ladie
Eliza
,
and
those
Roses
hers
,
he
was
suddenly
in
ioy
therof
rapt
home
againe
to
Elizium
.
Faultes
escaped
in
printing
.
Pag
5.
Lin
18
It
shuts
it selfe
and
as
read
Doe
shut
themselues
and
are
.
P.
8
l
3.
to
giue
thy selfe
read
.
to
giue
thy
flesh
.
P.
16.
l.
to
aw●like
read
.
aulike
.
P
64.
l.
1.
Peacefullie
aduance
.
read
.
pace-fully
aduance
.