Phillis and Amyntas (Ivychurch) (Amyntas' Pastoral) · chunk 7 of 30
Fraunce, Abraham / Tasso, Torquato · published 1591 · first performed or written 1591 (Annals) pastoral unassigned nearest T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint · 497 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
Find brave gyrls? o grief: if Amyntas find not Amyntas, How can he find others? o how shall he find bony Lasses, If that he lose himself? o how shall I seek any other, Since my settled soul and heart are like to an aged And well grounded tree, which now is come to the full groat, And will rather break, than bend, or yield to be turned. Hate augments my love; her frowns give fire to my fancy, As gentle spaniel, whom beating makes to be loving. Fear in a fearful man frets more than plagues that he feareth: Hope, and have, in time any man may gain any woman. Long time mighty Lions at length hath brought to the bridle, And wildest Tigers at length are tamed in a long tyme. Yea, but alas long time's too long for wretched Amyntas: Death must speedily speed, no wretch can abide any long tyme. Stay but a while, no doubt these things will mend in a short time: Thou know'st that women by kind are mutable ever, Soon hot, and soon cold, like and mislike in a moment, Change as a weathereock, and all as light as a feather. But let Thyrsis now know more at large of Amyntas His distressed state; for though thou toldst me a great while Since, that Love gave first occasion unto thy torments, And that proud Phillis gave fresh increase to thy sorrows, Yet whence this love sprang, who was that Phillis I knew not. And sith soemany years w'have lived so friendly together, And applied ourselus to the lores of learned Apollo, there's cause why Thyrsis should know those things of Amyntas, Which his Amyntas knows, and will show only to Thyrsis. Know o Thyrsis then, know this mine infinite anguish, Which these hills well know, which these sweet watery wells know, And yet no man knows: my fatal hour is approaching, My death draws so near, that now its time to provide some Time to provide some friend, which may and willbe reporter Of death and death's cause, which will for a friendly remembrance Death and cause of death engrave in bark of a beech tree, Hard by the damned place, where corpse of murdered Amyntas Bloodless corpse shall lie, that when that brave bony damsel That pytiles Phillis shall chance that way to be passing, Her proud foot, and yet sweet foot may joy to be treading Treading and trampling these baleful bones of Amyntas. And that serpent's tongue, thus take a delight to be vaunting, This death is my triumph, these bruised bones my trophaeum; That such strange travelers as this way chance to be wandering, And foreign Pastors that pass by the grave of Amyntas, May know this conquest, and make it known to the country. And perchance (o Noah, that's too too good for Amyntas) Yet perchance one day may once come, when bony Phillis When bony sweet Phillis, now moved with a lovely repentance,
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Finde braue gyrls? ô griefe: if Amyntas finde not Amyntas, How can he finde others? ô how shal he finde bony Lasses, If that he loose himself? ô how shal I seeke any other, Since my setled soule and hart are like to an aged And well grounded tree, which now is come to the full groath, And will rather breake, than bend, or yeeld to be turned. Hate augments my loue; her frownes geue fyre to my fancy, As gentle spaniel, whom beating makes to be louing. Feare in a feareful man frets more than plagues that he feareth: Hope, and haue, in time any man may gaine any woeman. Long time mighty Lions at length hath brought to the brydle, And wyldest Tygers at length are tam'de in a long tyme. Yea, but alas long tyme's too long for wretched Amyntas: Death must speedely speede, noe wretch can abyde any long tyme. Stay but a while, noe doubt these things will mend in a short time: Thou knowst that woemen by kinde are mutable euer, Soone hoate, and soone cold, like and mislike in a moment, Change as a weathereock, and all as light as a feather. But let Thyrsis now know more at large of Amyntas His distressed state; for though thou touldst me a great while Since, that Loue gaue first occasion vnto thy torments, And that prowd Phillis gaue fresh increase to thy sorrowes, Yet whence this loue sprang, who was that Phillis I knew not. And sith soemany yeares w'haue liu'd so friendly togeather, And apply'd ourselu's to the lores of learned Apollo, Ther's cause why Thyrsis should know those things of Amyntas, Which his Amyntas knows, and will shew only to Thyrsis. Know ô Thyrsis then, know this mine infinite anguish, Which these hills well know, which these sweete watery wells know, And yet no man knowes: my fatall howre is aproaching, My death drawes so neare, that now its time to prouide some Time to prouide some friend, which may and wilbe reporter Of death and deaths cause, which wil for a friendly remembrance Death and cause of death ingraue in barck of a beech tree, Hard by the damned place, where corps of murdred Amyntas Bloodles corps shall lie, that when that braue bony damsel That pytiles Phillis shall chaunce that way to be passing, Her prowde foote, and yet sweete foote may ioy to be treading Treading and trampling these baleful boanes of Amyntas. And that serpents tong, thus take a delite to be vaunting, This death is my triumph, these bruysed boanes my trophaeum; That such strange trauelers as this way chaunce to be wandring, And forren Pastors that passe by the graue of Amyntas, May know this conquest, and make it know'n to the countrey. And perchaunce (ô noe, that's too too good for Amyntas) Yet perchaunce one day may once come, when bony Phillis When bony sweete Phillis, now moou'd with a louely repentance,