August. fol.31 H.3. Perigot August. [headnote]
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Ægloga octaua octava . ARGVMENT ARGUMENT .

IN In this Æglogue is setforth set forth a delectable controuersie controversie , made in imitation of that in Theocritus: whereto also Virgile fashioned his third & and seuenth seventh Æglogue. They choose for vmpere umpere of their strife, Cuddie a neatheards boye, who hauing having ended their cause, reciteth also himselfe a proper song, whereof Colin he sayth was Authour.
VVillye Willye . Perigot. Cuddie. TEll Tell me Perigot, what shalbe the game, Wherefore with myne thou dare thy musick matche? Or bene thy Bagpypes renne farre out of frame? Or hath the Crampe thy ioynts joynts benomd with ache? Perigot. Ah Willye, when the hart is ill assayde, How can Bagpipe, or ioynts joynts be well apayd? VVillye Willye . What the foule euill evill hath thee so bestadde? Whilom thou was peregall to the best, And wont to make the iolly jolly shepeheards gladde With pyping and dauncing, didst passe the rest . . August. That Perigot. Ah Willye now I haue have learnd a newe daunce: My old musick mard by a newe mischaunce. VVillye Willye . Mischiefe mought to that newe mischaunce befall, That so hath raft vs us of our meriment. But reede me, what payne doth thee so appall? Or louest lovest thou, or bene thy younglings miswent? Perigot. Perigor. Perigot. Perigot. PERIGOT. Loue Love hath misled both my younglings, and mee: I pyne for payne, and they my payne to see. ſee, ſ[ée]. ſee. ſee. VVillye Willye . Perdie and wellawaye: ill may they thriue thrive : Neuer Never knewe I louers lovers sheepe in good plight. But and if in rymes with me thou dare striue strive , Such fond fantsies shall soone be put to flight. Perigot. That shall I doe, though mochell worse I fared: Neuer Never shall be sayde that Perigot was dared . . VVillye Willye . Then loe Perigot the Pledge, which I plight: A mazer ywrought of the Maple warre: Wherein is enchased many a fayre sight Of Beres and Tygres, that maken fiers warre: And ouer over them spred a goodly wild vine, Entrailed with a wanton Yuie Yvie twine. Thereby is a Lambe in the Wolues Wolves iawes jawes : But see, how fast renneth the shepheard swayne, To saue save the innocent from the beastes pawes: And here with his shepehooke hath him slayne. Tell me, such a cup hast thou euer ever sene? Well mought it beseme any haruest harvest Queene. Perigot. Thereto will I pawne yonder spotted Lambe, Of all my flocke there nis sike another: For I brought him vp up without the Dambe. But Colin Clout rafte me of his brother, August. fol.32 My That he purchast of me in the playne field: Sore against my will was I forst to yield. VVillye Willye . Sicker make like account of his brother. But who shall iudge judge the wager wonne or lost? Perigot. That shall yonder heardgrome, and none other, Which ouer over the pousse hetherward doth post . . VVillye Willye . But for the Sunnebeame so sore doth vs us beate, Were not better, to shunne the scortching heate? Perigot. Well agreed Willy: then sitte thee downe swayne: Sike a song neuer never heardest thou, but Colin sing. Cuddie. Gynne, when ye lyst, ye iolly jolly shepheards twayne: Sike a iudge judge , as Cuddie, were for a king.
Perigot. IT It fell vpon upon a holly eue eve , Willye. hey ho hollidaye, Per. When holly fathers wont to shrieue shrieve : : Wil. now gynneth this roundelay. Per. Sitting vpon upon a hill so hye, Wil. hey ho the high hyll, Per. The while my flocke did feede thereby, Wil. the while the shepheard selfe did spill: Per. I saw the bouncing Bellibone, Wil. hey ho Bonibell, Per. Tripping ouer over the dale alone, Wil. she can trippe it very well: Per. Well decked in a frocke of gray, Wil. hey ho gray is greete, Per. And in a Kirtle of greene saye, Wil. the greene is for maydens meete: Per. A chapelet on her head she wore, Wil. hey ho chapelet, Per. Of sweete Uiolets Violets therein was store, Wil. she sweeter 72. then: than then than the Uiolet Violet . . August. But Per. My sheepe did leaue leave theyr wonted foode, Wil. hey ho seely sheepe, Per. And gazd on her, as they were wood, Wil. woode Woode Wood wood as he, that did them keepe. Per. As the bonilasse passed bye, Wil. hey ho bonilasse, Per. She rovde roude at me with glauncing eye, Wil. as cleare as the christall glasse: Per. All as the Sunnye beame so bright, Wil. hey ho the Sunne beame, Per. Glaunceth from Phœbus face forthright, Wil. so loue love into my thy hart did streame: Per. Or as the thonder cleaues cleaves the cloudes, Wil. hey ho the Thonder, Per. Wherein the lightsome leuin levin shroudes, Wil. so cleaues cleaves thy soule a sonder asonder : : Per. Or as Dame Cynthias siluer silver raye Wil. hey ho the Moonelight, Per. Upon the glyttering waue wave doth playe: Wil. such play is a pitteous plight. Per. The glaunce into my heart did glide, Wil. hey ho the glyder, Per. Therewith my soule was sharply gryde, Wil. such woundes soone wexen wider. Per. Hasting to raunch the arrow out, Wil. hey ho Perigot, Per. I left the head in my hart roote: Wil. it was a desperate shot . . Per. There it ranckleth ay more and more, Wil. hey ho the arrowe, Per. Ne can I find salue salve for my sore: Wil. loue love is a curelesse carele[ſſ]e careles carele[ſſ]e sorrowe. Per. And though my bale with death I bought, bought. bought, Wil. hey ho heauie heavie cheere, Per. Yet should thilk lasse not from my thought: Wil. so you may buye gold 108. to: too to too deare. August. fol.33 I. Of Per. But whether in paynefull loue love I pyne, Wil. hey ho pinching payne, Per. Or thriue thrive in welth, she shalbe mine, mine. mine. Wil. but if thou can her obteine. Per. And if for gracelesse greefe I dye, Wil. hey ho gracelesse griefe, Per. Witnesse, shee slewe me with her eye: Wil. let thy follye be the priefe . . Per. And you, that sawe it, simple shepe, Wil. hey ho the fayre flocke, Per. For priefe thereof, my death shall weepe, Wil. and mone with many a mocke . . Per. So learnd I loue love on a hollye eue eve , Wil. hey ho holidaye, Per. That euer ever since my hart did greue. greve. greue, grieue, Wil. Will WILL now Now nowe now endeth our roundelay.
Cuddye. Cuddye, Cuddie. CVDDY. Sicker sike a roundle neuer never heard I none. Little lacketh Perigot of the best. And Willye is not greatly ouergone overgone , So weren his vndersongs undersongs well addrest. VVillye Willye . Herdgrome, I feare me, thou haue have a squint eye: Areede vprightly uprightly , who has the victorye? Cuddie. Fayth of my soule, I deeme ech haue have gayned . . For thy let the Lambe be Willye his owne: And for Perigot so well hath hym payned, To him hm him be the wroughten mazer alone. Perigot. Perigot is well pleased with the doome: Ne can Willye wite the witelesse herdgroome. VVillye Willye . Neuer Never dempt more right of beautye I weene, The shepheard of Ida, that iudged judged beauties Queene. Cuddie. But tell me shepherds, should it not yshend Your roundels fresh, to heare a doolefull verse August. Most Of Rosalend (who knowes not Rosalend?) That Colin made, ylke can I you rehearse. Perigot. Now say it Cuddie, as thou art a ladde : : With mery thing its good to medle sadde . . VVilly. Willy. Fayth of my soule, thou shalt ycrouned be In Colins stede, if thou this song areede: For neuer never thing on earth so pleaseth me, As him to heare, or matter of his deede. deede, d[ée]de. deed. Cuddie. Then listneth ech vnto unto my heauy heavy laye, And tune your pypes as ruthful, as ye may . . YE Ye wastefull woodes beare witnesse of my woe, Wherein my plaints did oftentimes resound: Ye carelesse byrds are priuie privie to my cryes, Which in your songs were wont to make a part: apart: Thou pleasaunt spring hast luld me oft a sleepe, asleepe, Whose streames my tricklinge teares did ofte augment. Resort of people doth my greefs augment, The walled townes do worke my greater woe: The forest wide is fitter to resound The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, I hate the house, since thence my loue love did part, Whose waylefull want debarres myne eyes from sleepe. [ſl]eepe [ſl][ée]pe [ſl][ée]pe. ſleepe. Let stremes of teares supply the place of sleepe: Let all that sweete is, voyd: and all that may augment My doole, drawe neare . . More meete to wayle my woe, Bene the wild woddes my sorrowes to resound, 167. Then: Than Then Than bedde, or bowre, both which I fill with cryes, When I them see so waist, and fynd no part Of pleasure past. Here will I dwell apart In gastfull groue grove therefore, till my last sleepe Doe close mine eyes: so shall I not augment With sight of such a chaunge my restlesse woe: Helpe me, ye banefull banefnll baneful byrds, whose shrieking sound Ys signe of dreery death, my deadly cryes August. fol.34 I.2. to Most ruthfully to tune. And as my cryes (Which of my woe cannot bewray least part) You heare all night, when nature craueth craveth sleepe, Increase, so let your yrksome yells augment . . Thus all the night in plaints, the daye in woe I vowed haue have to wayst, till safe and sound She home returne, whose voyces siluer silver sound To cheerefull songs can chaunge my cherelesse cryes. Hence with the Nightingale will I take part, That blessed byrd, that spends her time of sleepe In songs and plaintiue plaintive pleas, the more taugment The memory of hys misdeede, that bred her woe: And you that feele no woe, | when as the sound Of these my nightly cryes | ye heare apart, Let breake your sounder sleepe | and pitie augment. Perigot. O Colin, Colin, the shepheards ioye joye , How I admire ech turning of thy verse: And Cuddie, fresh Cuddie the liefest boye, How dolefully his doole thou didst rehearse. Cuddie. Then blowe your pypes shepheards, til you be at home: The night nigheth fast, yts time to be gone.
Perigot his Embleme. Vincenti gloria victi.
Willyes Embleme. Vinto non vitto.
Cuddies Embleme. Felice chi chj puo.
GLOSSE GLOSSE. GLOSSE. Bestadde) disposed, ordered. Peregall) equall. VVhilome Whilome ) once. Rafte) bereft, depriued deprived . Misvvent Miswent ) gon a straye astraye . Ill may) according August. to Virgile. In felix Infelix o semper ouis ovis pecus. A mazer) So also do Theocritus and Virgile feigne pledges of their strife. Enchased) engrauen engraven . Such pretie descriptions euery every vvhere where vseth useth Theocritus, to bring in his Idyllia. For which speciall cause indede he by that name termeth his Æglo-gues: for Idyllion in Greke signifieth the shape or picture of any thyng, vvherof wherof his booke is ful. And not, as I haue have heard some fondly guesse, that they be called not Idyllia, but Hædilia, of the Goteheards in them. Entrailed) vvrought wrought betvvene betwene . Haruest Harvest Queene) The manner of country folke in haruest harvest tyme. Pousse.) Pousse) Pease. It fell vpon upon ) Perigot maketh hys song in prayse of his loue love , to vvhõ vvhom whõ whom VVilly Willy answereth e-uery e-very vnder under verse. By Perigot vvho who is meant, I can not vprightly uprightly say: but if it be, vvho who is supposed, his love deserueth deserveth no lesse prayse, 22. then: than then than he giueth giveth her. Greete) weeping and complaint. Chaplet) a kind of Garlond lyke a crovvne crowne . Leuen Leven ) Lightning. Cynthia) vvas was sayd to be the Moone. Gryde) perced. But if) not vnlesse unlesse . Squint eye) partiall iudgement judgement . Ech haue have ) so saith Virgile. Et vitula tu dignus, et hic &c. etc. So by enterchaunge of gyfts Cuddie pleaseth both partes. Doome) iudgement judgement . Dempt) for deemed, iudged judged . VVite Wite the vvitelesse witelesse ) blame the blamelesse. The shepherd of Ida) vvas was sayd to be Paris. Beauties Queene) Venus, to vvhome whome Paris adiudged adjudged the golden goldden Apple, as the pryce of her beautie. Embleme. The meaning hereof is very ambiguous: for Perigot by his poesie claming the cõquest conquest , & and VVillye Willye not yeelding, Cuddie the arbiter of theyr cause, and Patron of his own, semeth to chalenge it, as his devv dew , saying, that he, is happy vvhich which can, so abrupt-ly ending but hee meaneth eyther him, that can vvin win the beste, or moderate him selfe being best, and leaue leave 45. of: off of off vvith with the best.
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