Iune June . [headnote]

June woodblock illustration. Ægloga sexta. ARGVMENT ARGUMENT .

THis This Æglogue is wholly vowed to the complayning of Colins ill successe ſccce[ſſ]e ſucce[ſſ]e ſucce[ſſ]e in his loue love . For being (as is aforesaid) enamoured of a Country laße lasse Rosalind, and hauing having (as seemeth) founde place in her heart, he lamenteth to his deare frend Hobbinoll, that he is nowe forsaken vnfaithfully unfaithfully , and in his steede Menalcas, another shepheard receiued received disloyally. And this is the whole Argument of this Æglogue.

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HOBBINOL. COLIN Cloute. LO Lo Collin, Collni, here the place, whose pleasaunt syte From other shades hath weand my wandring mynde. Tell me, what wants me here, to worke delyte? The simple ayre, the gentle warbling wynde, So calme, so coole, as no where else I fynde: The grassye ground gronnd grounde ground with daintye Daysies dight, The Bramble bush, where Byrds of euery every kynde To the waters fall their tunes attemper right. COLLIN. O happy Hobbinoll, I blesse thy state, That Paradise hast found, whych Adam lost. Here wander may thy flock early or late, Withouten dreade of Wolues Wolves to bene ytost: Thy louely lovely layes here mayst thou freely boste . . But I vnhappy unhappy man, whom cruell fate, And angry Gods pursue from coste to coste, Can nowhere fynd, to shroude [ſh]ouder [ſh]roud my lucklesse pate. HOBBINOLL. Then if by me thou list aduised advised be, Forsake the soyle, that so doth 18. the: thee the thee bewitch: Leaue Leave me those hilles, where harbrough nis to see, Nor holybush, nor brere, nor winding witche: And to the dales resort, where shipheards ritch, And fruictfull flocks bene euery every where to see. Here no night Rauens Ravens Rauene Rauen Rauens lodge more black 23. then: than then than pitche, Nor eluish elvish ghosts, nor gastly owles doe flee. But frendly Faeries, met with many Graces, And lightfote Nymphes can chace the lingring night, With Heydeguyes, and trimly trodden traces, Whilst systers nyne, which dwell on Parnasse hight, Doe make them musick, for their more delight: And Pan himselfe to kisse their christall faces, Will pype and daunce, when Phœbe shineth bright: Such pierlesse pleasures haue have we in these places . . COLLIN. And I, whylst youth, and course of carelesse yeeres Iune June . For Did let me walke withouten lincks of loue love , In such delights did ioy joy amongst my peeres: But ryper age such pleasures doth reproue reprove , My fancye eke from former follies moue move To stayed steps, for [ſt]eps.for [ſt]eps for [ſt]eps: for time in passing weares (As garments doen, which wexen old aboue above ) And draweth newe delightes with hoary heares. Tho couth I sing of loue love , and tune my pype Unto my plaintiue plaintive pleas in verses made: Tho would I seeke for Queene apples vnrype unrype , To giue give my Rosalind, and in Sommer shade Dight gaudy Girlonds, was my comen trade, To crowne her golden locks, but bnt but yeeres more rype, And losse of her, whose loue love as lyfe I wayd, Those weary wanton toyes away dyd wype. HOBBINOLL. Colin, to heare thy rymes and roundelayes, Which thou were wont on wastfull hylls to singe, I more delight, 51. then: than then than larke in Sommer dayes: Whose Echo made the neyghbour groues groves to ring, And taught the byrds, which in the lower spring Did shroude in shady leaues leaves from sonny rayes, Frame to thy songe their chereful cheriping, Or hold theyr peace, for shame of thy swete layes. I sawe Calliope wyth Muses moe, Soone as thy oaten pype began to sound, Theyr yuory yvory Luyts and Tamburins forgoe: And from the fountaine, where they sat around, Renne after hastely thy siluer silver sound. But when they came, where thou thy skill didst showe, They drewe abacke, as halfe with shame confound, Shepheard to see, them in theyr art outgoe. COLLIN. Of Muses Hobbinol, I conne no skill: For they bene daughters of the hyghest Ioue Jove , And holden scorne of homely shepheards quill . . Iune June . fol.24 F.4. And For sith I heard, that Pan with Phœbus stroue strove , Which him to much rebuke and Daunger droue drove : I neuer never lyst presume to Parnasse hyll, But pyping lowe in shade of lowly groue grove , I play to please my selfe, all be it ill . . Nought weigh I, who my song doth prayse or blame, Ne striue strive to winne renowne, or passe the rest: With shepheard [ſi]ttes sittes [fi]ttes ſits not, followe flying fame: But feede his flocke in fields, where falls hem best. I wote my rymes bene rough, and rudely drest: The fytter they, my carefull case to frame: Enough is me to paint out my vnrest unrest , And poore my piteous plaints out in the same. The God of shepheards Tityrus is dead, Who taught me homely, as I can, to make . . He, whilst he liued lived , was the soueraigne soveraigne head Of shepheards all, that bene with loue love ytake: Well couth he wayle hys Woes, and lightly slake The flames, which loue love within his heart had bredd, And tell vs us mery tales, to keepe vs us wake, The while our sheepe about vs us safely fedde. Nowe dead he is, and lyeth wrapt in lead, (O why should death on hym such outrage showe?) And all hys passing skil with him is fledde, The fame whereof doth dayly greater growe . . But if on me some little drops would flowe, Of that the spring was in his learned hedde, I soone would learne these woods, to wayle my woe, And teache the trees, their trickling teares to shedde. Then should my plaints, causd of discurtesee, As messengers of all my painfull plight, Flye to my loue love , where euer ever that she bee, And pierce her heart with poynt of worthy wight: As shee deserues deserves , that wrought so deadly spight. Iune June . informed) And thou Menalcas, that by trecheree Didst vnderfong underfong my lasse, to wexe so light, Shouldest well be knowne for such thy villanee . . But since I am not, as I wish I were, Ye gentle shepheards, which your flocks do feede, Whether on hylls, or dales, or other where, Beare witnesse all of thys so wicked deede: And tell the lasse, whose flowre is woxe a weede, And faultlesse fayth, is turned to faithlesse fere, That she the truest shepheards hart made bleede, That lyues lyves on earth, and loued loved her most dere. HOBBINOL. O carefull Colin, I lament thy case, Thy teares would make the hardest flint to flowe. Ah faithlesse Rosalind, and voide of grace, That art the roote of all this ruthfull woe. But now is time, I gesse, homeward to goe: Then ryse ye blessed flocks, and home apace, Least night with stealing steppes doe you forsloe, And wett your tender Lambes, that by you trace.

Colins Embleme. Gia speme spenta.

GLOSSE. Syte) situation and place. Paradise) A Paradise in Greeke signifieth a Garden of pleasure, or place of delights. So he compareth the soile, vvherin wherin Hobbinoll made his abode, to that earthly Pa-radise, in scripture called Eden; vvherein wherein Adam in his first creation vvas was placed. VVhich Which of the most learned is thought to be in Mesopotamia, the most fertile and pleasaunte country in the vvorld world (as may appeare by Diodorus Syculus description of it, in the hystorie of Alexanders conquest thereof.) thereof). Lying be-tweene the two famous Ryuers Ryvers (which are sayd in scripture to flovve flowe out of Pa-radise) Tygris and Euphrates, vvhereof whereof it is so denominate. Forsake the soyle) This is no poetical fiction, but vnfeynedly unfeynedly spoken of the Poete selfe, who for speciall occasion of priuate private affayres (as I haue have bene partly of himselfe Iune June . fol.25 cellencie G. informed) and for his more preferment remouing removing out of the Northparts came into the South, as Hobbinoll indeede aduised advised him priuately privately . Those hylles) that is the North countrye, where he dvvelt dwelt . N’is) is not. The Dales) The Southpartes, vvhere where he nowe abydeth, vvhich which thoughe they be full of hylles and vvoodes woodes (for Kent is very hyllye and vvoodye woodye ; and therefore so cal-led: for Kantsh in the Saxons tongue signifieth vvoodie woodie ) yet in respecte of the Northpartes they be called dales. For indede the North is counted the higher countrye. Night Rauens Ravens &c. etc. ) by such hatefull byrdes, hee meaneth all misfortunes ( VVhereof Whereof they be tokens) flying euery every vvhere where . Frendly faeries) the opinion of Faeries and elfes is very old, and yet sticketh very religi-ously in the myndes of some. But to roote that rancke opinion of Elfes oute of mens hearts, the truth is, that there be no such thinges, nor yet the shadowes of the things, but onely by a sort of bald Friers and knauish knavish shauelings shavelings so feigned; vvhich which as in all other things, so in that, soughte to nousell the comen people in ignoraunce, ignorounce, ignorance, least being once acquainted vvith with the truth of things, they vvoulde woulde in tyme smell out the vntruth untruth of theyr packed pelfe and Massepenie religion. But the sooth is, that vvhen when all Italy was distraicte into the Factions of the Gu-elfes and the Gibelins, being tvvo two famous houses in Florence, the name began through their great mischiefes and many outrages, to be so odious or rather dreadfull in the peoples eares, that if theyr children at any time vvere were frowarde and vvanton wanton , they would say to them that the Guelfe or the Gibeline came. VVhich Which vvords words novve nowe from them (as many thinge els) be come into our vsage usage , and for Guelfes and Gibelines, we say Elfes & and Goblins. No otherwise 41. then: than then than the Frenchmẽ Frenchmen vsed used to say of that valiaunt captain, the very scourge of Fraunce, the Lord Thalbot, afterward Erle of Shrevvsbury Shrewsbury ; whose noblesse bred such a ter-rour in the hearts of the French, that oft times euen even great armies vvere were defaic-ted & and put to flyght at the onely hearing of hys name. In somuch that the Frẽch French vvemen wemen , to affray theyr chyldren, vvould would tell them that the Talbot commeth. Many Graces) though there be indeede but three Graces or Charites (as afore is sayd) or at the vtmost utmost but foure, yet in respect of many gyftes of bounty, there may be sayde more. And so Musæus sayth, that in Heroes eyther eye there satte a hundred graces. And by that authoritye, thys same Poete in his Pageaunts sayth. An hundred Graces on her eyelidde eyeledde eyelid eye-lid satte. &c. etc. Haydeguies) A country daunce or rovvnd rownd . The conceipt is, that the Graces and Nym-phes doe daunce vnto unto the Muses, and Pan his musicke all night by Moonelight. To signifie the pleasauntnesse of the soyle. Peeres] Peeres) Equalles and felow shepheards. Queneapples vnripe unripe ) imitating Virgils verse. Ipse ego cana legam tenera lanugine mala. Neighbour groues groves ) a straunge phrase in English, but vvord word for vvord word expressing the La-tine vicina nemora. Spring) not of vvater water , but of young trees springing. Calliope) afforesayde. Thys staffe is is is full of verie poetical inuention invention . Tamburines) an olde kind of instrument, vvhich which of some is supposed to be the Clarion. Pan vvith with Phæbus) the tale is well knowne, howe that Pan and Apollo striuing striving for ex-cellencye Iune June . in musicke, chose Midas for their iudge judge . VVho Who being corrupted vvyth wyth partiall affection, gaue gave the victorye to Pan vndeserued undeserved : for vvhich which Phœbus sette a payre of Asses eares vpon upon hys head &c. etc. Tityrus) That by Tityrus is meant Chaucer, hath bene already sufficiently sayde, & and by thys more playne appeareth, that he sayth, he tolde merye tales. Such as be hys Canterburie tales. vvhom VVhom whom Whom he calleth the God of Poetes for hys excellencie, so as Tullie calleth Lentulus, Deum vitæ suæ .s. the God of hys lyfe. To make) to versifie. O vvhy] vvhy) why] why) A pretye Epanorthosis or correction. Discurtesie) he meaneth the falsenesse of his louer lover Rosalinde, who forsaking hym, hadde chosen another. Poynte of worthy wite] wite) the pricke of deserued deserved blame. Menalcas] Menalcas) the name of a shephearde in Virgile; but here is meant a person vnknowne unknowne and secrete, agaynst vvhome whome he often bitterly inuayeth invayeth . vnderfonge] vnderfonge) underfonge] underfonge) vndermyne undermyne vndermynde vnderminde vndermine and deceiue deceive by false suggestion. Embleme. You remember, that in the fyrst Æglogue, Colins Poesie vvas was Anchora speme: for that as then there vvas was hope of fauour favour to be found in tyme. But novve nowe being cleane forlorne and reiected rejected of her, as whose hope, that was, is cleane extinguished and turned into despeyre, he renounceth all comfort and hope of goodnesse to come. vvhich VVhich which Which is all the meaning of thys Embleme.