Greene, Robert · published 1599 · first performed or written 1587 [1587-1588] (Annals) romance · Queen Elizabeth's Men (?) unassigned nearest T34 Thebes and royal catastrophe: siege, sla · 481 words
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No none but one, & that you have forsworn, As though an oath can bridle so my mind, As that I dare not break a thousand oaths, For to eschew the danger imminent. Speak good Medea, tell that way to me, And I will do it, whatsoe'er it be. Then as already you have well decreed, Pack to your country, and in readiness, Select the army of Amazones, When you have done, march with your female troop To Naples Town, to succour Amurack, And so by marriage of Iphigina, You soon shall drive the danger clean away. So shall we soon eschew Charybdis' lake, And headlong fall to Sulla's greedy gulf, I vowed before, and now do vow again: Before I wed Alphonsus, I'll be slain. In vain it is, to strive against the stream, Fates must be followed, and the God's decree Must needs take place in every kind of cause. Therefore fair maid, bridle these brutish thoughts, And learn to follow what the fates assign, When Saturn heard that Jupiter his son Should drive him headlong from his heavenly seat, Down to the bottom of the dark Avern, He did command his mother presently, To do to death, the young and guiltless child: But what of that, the mother loathed in heart, For to commit so vile a massacre. Yea Ioue did live, and as the fates did say, From heavenly seat, drove Saturn clean away. What did avail the Castle all of Steel, The which Acrisius caused to be made, To keep his daughter Danae clogged in? She was with child for all her Castles force, And by that child, Acrisius her sire, Was after slain, so did the fates require. A thousand examples, I could bring hereof. But Marble stones needs no colouring, And that which every one doth know for truth, Needs no examples to confirm the same. That which the fates appoint must happen so, Though heavenly Ioue, and all the Gods say no. Iphigina, she sayth nought but truth, Fates must be followed in their just decrees: And therefore setting all delays aside, Come let us wend unto Amazone, And gather up our forces out of hand. Since Fausta wils, and fates do so command, Iphigina will never it withstand. THus have you seen, how Amurack himself, Fausta his wife, and every other King, Which holds their sceptres at the Turk his hands, Are now in arms, intending to destroy And bring to nought, the Prince of Aragon. Charms have been used by wise Medea's art, To know before what afterward shall hap, And King Belinus with high Claramount, joined to Alphonsus, which with Princely pomp, Doth rule and govern all the warlike Moores, Are sent as Legates to god Mahomet, To know his counsel in these high affairs. Mahound provoked by Amurack's discourse, Which as you heard, he in his dream did use,
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No none but one, & that you haue forsworn, As though an oath can bridle so my minde, As that I dre not breake a thousand oathes, For to eschew the danger imminent. Speake good Medea, tell that way to me, And I will do it, what so ere it be. Then as already you haue well decreed, Packe to your countrey, and in readinesse, Select the armie of Amazones, When you haue done, march with your female troupe To Naples Towne, to succour Amuracke, And so by marriage of Iphigina, You soone shall driue the danger cleane away. So shall we soone eschew Caribdis lake, And headlong fall to Syllaes greedie gulph, I vowd before, and now do vow againe: Before I wedde Alphonsus, Ile be slaine. In vaine it is, to striue against the streame, Fates must be followed, and the gods decree Must needs take place in euery kinde of cause. Therfore faire maide, bridle these brutish thoughts, And learne to follow what the fates assigne, When Saturne heard that Iuppiter his sonne Should driue him headlong from his heauenly seat, Downe to the bottome of the darke Auarne, He did command his mother presently, To do to death, the young and guiltlesse childe: But what of that, the mother oathd in heart, For to commit so vile a massacre. Yea Ioue did liue, and as the fates did say, From heauenly seate, draue Saturne cleane away. What did auaile the Castle all of Steele, The which Acrisius caused to be made, To keepe his daughter Danae clogged in? She was with childe for all her Castles force, And by that child, Acrisius her sire, Was after slaine, so did the fates require. A thousand examples, I could bring hereof. But Marble stones needs no colouring, And that which euery one doth know for truth, Needs no examples to confirme the same. That which the fates appoint must happen so, Though heauenly Ioue, and all the Gods say no. Iphigina, she sayth nought but truth, Fates must be followed in their iust decrees: And therefore setting all delayes aside, Come let vs wend vnto Amazone, And gather vp our forces out of hand. Since Fausta wils, and fates do so command, Iphigina will neuer it withstand. THus haue you seene, how Amuracke himselfe, Fausta his wife, and euery other King, Which holds their seepters at the Turke his hands, Are now in armes, entending to destroy And bring to nought, the Prince of Aragon. Charmes haue bene vsde by wise Medeas art, To know before what afterward shall hap, And King Belinus with high Claramount, Ioynd to Alphonsus, which with Princely pompe, Doth rule and gouerne all the warlike Moores, Are sent as Legats to god Mahomet, To know his counsell in these high affaires. Mahound proupk by Amurackes discourse, Which as you heard, he in his dreame did vse,