Astrophel and Stella

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WILLARD FISKE 1831-1904

LIBRARIAN OF THIS UNIVERSITY 1868-1883

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ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

Some

when they

lovers speake,

Of hopes begot by

feare, of

Of

force of heav'nly

Of

living deaths, deare

ing

Some one

fires

his

their

Muses

wot not what

beames infusing wounds,

entertaii

desires,

hellish paine,

faire stormes,

and

:

song

in

Jove and Jove's strange

tales at

Bordred with buls and swans, powdred with golden Another, humbler

wit, to

Yet hiding royall bloud

To some

f

shepheard's pipe retires,

full oft in rurall

a sweetest plaint a sweetest

While teares powre out

r;

his inke,

vaine.

stile affords,

and sighs breath

his words.

His paper pale dispaire, and paine his pen doth mov I

can speake what

But thinke that

When

all

I feele,

the

and

map

feele as

much

of my state

I

trembling voice brings forth, that

I

as they

display

do

Stella

1

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

VII.-

Wlien Nature made her chiefe worke, In colour blacke

why wrapt she beames. so

Would

she, in

Frame

daintiest lustre, mixt of shades

Or did she

Stella's eye?,

beamie blacke,

else that sober

bright

and

light

if

no

?

hue devise,

In object best to knit and strength our sight Least,

vaile these brave

;

gleames did disguise,

They, sunlike, should more dazle then delight

?

Or would she her miraculous power show, That, whereas blacke seemes beautie's contrary,

She even Both

so,

in blacke

and

thus,

doth make

all

beauties flow

?

— she, minding Love should be

Placed ever there, gave him this mourning weed

To honor

all their

?

like painter wise,-

deaths who for her bleed.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

VIII.

Love, borne in Greece, of late fled from his native place

Forc'd by a tedious proofe that Turkish hardned hart Is

not

fit

marke

to pierce with his fine-pointed

And, pleas'd with our

soft peace, staid

dart—

here his flying

rai

But, finding these north clymes too coldly

him embrac

Not usde

some

Where

he strave

to frozen clips,

to find

part

with most ease and warmth he might employ

art

At length he perch'd himself

Whose

faire skin,

Deceiv'd the quaking boy, Effects of lively heat

But she, most

in Stella'sjoyfull face.

beamy. eyes,

cold,

morning sun on

thought, from so pure

must needs

most

faire,

who

like

in nature

grow

made him thence

snc lig

:

take

flight

\To

my

close heart

;

where, while some firebrands he

lay,

le burnt unwares his wings,

and cannot

fly

away.

(

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

IX.

Queene Vertue's Court, which some

call Stella's face,

Prepar'd by Nature's choisest furniture,

Hath

his front built of alabaster pure

Gold

is

doore,

Red

porphir

by which sometimes comes is,

porches rich (which

JMarble, mixt red

name

and white, do

Looks over the world, and can

Which dare claime from Of touch they

forth her grace,

which locke of pearle makes

sure,

of cheekes endure)

enterlace.

The windowes now, through which

Which

^

the covering of that stately place.

The

Whose

;

this heav'nly guest

find nothing such.

those lights the

are, that without

name

of best,

touch doth touch,

Cupid's selfe from Beautie's mine did draw

Of touch they

are,

and poore

I

am

their straw.

:

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

Reason, in

faith

thou art well serv'd, that

still

.Wouldst_brabling_be vvith .seace-aH-d-ieve-tmne I

rather wisht thee clime the Muses'

Or reach the Or seeke

Why

fruite

hill

;

;

of Nature's choisest tree

;

heav'n's course or heav'n's inside to see

shouldst thou toyle our thornie soile to

:

till ?

Leave sence, and those which sence's objects be

;

Deale thou with powers of thoughts, leave love to

But thou wouldst,needs, fight both with love

With sword of Till

wit giving

wounds of

will.

ajad_s,e,nce.

dispraise,

downe-right blowes did foyle thy cunning fence

;

For, soone; as they strake thee with StellaZsrayes,

Reason, thou kneel'dst, and- offeredst stiaigbtto prove.

By

reason good, good reasoit her tojoxe.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

XI.

In truth,

Thou

O

-4"-^-

Love, with what a boyish kind

doest proceed in thy most serious wayes,

That when the heav'n Yet of that best thou

leav'st the best

For, like a childe that

With guilded

to thee his best displayes,

some

behind

faire boolie

doth

!

find,

leaves or colourd velume playes,

Or, at the most, on some fine picture stayes,

But never heeds the

So when thou Stella,

fruit

of writer's

mind

saw'st in Nature's cabinet

thou straight look'st babies in her eyes,

In her cheekes' pit thou didst thy pitfould

And

in

;

set,

her breast bo-peepe or couching lyes.

Playing and shining in each outward part But, fQolejieekstjiot.to get into her hart.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

V^t"- ''

XII.

Cupid, because thou shin'st in Stella's eyes,

That from her That those That her

That

in

lockes, thy day-nets,

lips sweld, so full of

svveete breath

makes

none scapes

free,

thee they bee.

oft

thy flames to

her breast thy pap well sugred

rise.

That her grace gracious makes thy wrongs, that

What words

thy fame to the skies

lifts

countest Stella thine, like those whose powers

Having got up a breach by

fighting well,

Crie " Victorie, this faire day

O So

no

;

her heart

fortified

That

she.

soere she speake, perswades for thee.

That her cleare voyce

Thou

fJT'' ^

lies,

to

win

is

such a

all is

ours

!

cittadell.

with wit, stor'd with djsdaine. it is all

the

skill

and paine.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

XIII.

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Phcebus was judge betweene Jove, Mars, and Love,

Of

those three gods, whose armes the fairest were.

Jove's golden shield did eagle sables beare.

Whose But

talents held

in vert field

Mars bare a golden

Which through a Each had

young Ganimed above

:

speare,

bleeding heart his point did shove

his creast.

Mars caried Venus'

glove,

Jove on his helme the thunderbolt did reare.

Cupid then

smiles, for

Stella's faire haire,

Where

on his crest there

her face he makes his shield.

roses gueuls are borne in silver

field.

Phoebus drew wide the curtaines of the

To

blaze these last,

lies

and sware devoutly

skies.

then,

The- first, thus matcht, were.scantly gentlemen.

:

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

14

XIV.

Alas, have

I

Upon whose

not paine enough,

my friend,

breast a fiercer Gripe doth tire

Then did on him who While Love on

me

first stale

doth

all

down

the

fire,

his quiver spend,

But with your rubarb words ye must contend.

To

grieve

me

Doth pkmge

Of

worse, in saying that Desire

my

wel-form'd soule even in the mire

sinfull thoughts,

If that

Well

If that

in ruine

end

?

be sinne which doth the maners frame,

staid with truth in

Readie of

wit,

love

is

word and

faith of deed,

and fearing nought but shame

be sinne which

A loathing of Then

which do

all

in fixt hearts

doth breed

loose unchastitie,

sinne,

and

let

me

;

sinfull be.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

XV.

You

that do search for everie

15

•

purhng spring

WTiich from the ribs of old Parnassus flowes,

And

Neare thereabouts,

Ye

which growes

everie floure, not sweet perhaps, into

that do dictionarie's

your poesie wring

methode bring

Into your rimes, running in rathng rowes

You

With new-borne

You

---

But

You

sighes

take wrong waies -

—

As do bewray

And

;

that poore Petrarch's long-deceasfed woes

;

and denisen'd

'

'_

!

.

goods do come

both for your love and

seeke to nurse at

Stella behold,

^

a want of inward tuch.

sure, at length stolne if,

wit do sing

;

those far-fet helpes be such

skill,

fullest breasts of

and then.begin

to light

your name

to endite.

Fame,

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

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XVI.

In nature apt to

like,

when

did see

I

Beauties which were of manie carrets

My

fine,

boiling sprites did thither soone incline,

And, Love,

thought that

I

I

was

full

of thee

:

But finding not those restlesse flames in rne.

Which I

others said did

their soules to pine,

thought those babes of some pinne's hurt did whine,

By my

sonle judging

But while

I

Mine eyes

— shall

Stella

:

now have

what Love's paine might

be.

thus with this young lyon plaid,

now she

In her sight I

make

I

I

is

say curst or blest?

—beheld

nam'd, need more be said

a lesson

new have

learn'd love right,

speld

and

.'

;

learn'd even so

As,who„by being poispnd doth poison-know.

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

17

XVII.

His mother deare Cupid offended -late, Because that Mars, growne slacker

in her love,

With pricking shot he did not throughly move

To keepe The boy

Who

the place of Their

threatned stripes,

But she,

in chafe,

Till thatjhis Stella's

And

in

O how And

if

he his wrath did prove

him from her

Brake bowe, brake

Of

loving state

first

refusde for feare of Marses hate,

shafts, while

grandame Nature,

;

lap did shove.

Cupid weeping sate

pittying

it,

browes made him two better bowes,

her eyes of arrowes for joy

he leapes

!

infinit.

O how

straight therewith, like

Fals to shrewd turnes ;,and

he crowes

wags new got I

was- in

his-

!

to play,

way.

:

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

i8

XVIII.

With what sharpe ;

When

:

And by just Of

all

checl^es

my

counts

in

I

into Reason's audite

I

my

do

to

Whiche unto

it

And, which But that

is

my

pay even Nature's by

birthright

I

am

shent-

gfo,

a banclcrout

selfe

those goods which heav'n to

Unable quite

selfe

me

know

hath lent

rent,

do ow

;

worse, no good excuse can show,

wealth

I

have most

idly spent

My youth doth waste, my knowledge brings forth My wit doth strive those passions to defend. Which, I

see,

I

see

for

my

reward, spoile

course to loose

it

with vaine annoyes.

my

selfe

doth bend

— and yet no greater sorow take

Then

that

Moose no more

for Stella's sake.

;

toyes

;

ASTROPHEL AND STELLA.

19

XIX. M"-'«r-v

On

Cupid's

That see

are

my wracke,

When most I

bow how

I

my

and yet embrace the same then

glorie,

heart-strings bent,

willing run, yet while

I

most shame

I feele

run repent

!

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