George Chapman

Name: Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad
Author: George Chapman

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“Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad”, published in 1821, is a work by George Chapman. It explores elements such as valure, Hymen and Teras.

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ His head's rich fleece, in golden curls contorted;
And as he was so lov'd, he lov'd so too,
So should best beauties, bound by nuptials, do.
Bright Eucharis, who was by all men said
The noblest, fairest, and the richest maid
Of all th' Athenian damsels, Hymen lov'd
With such transmission, that his heart remov'd
From his white breast to hers; but her estate,
In passing his, was so interminate
For wealth and honour, that his love durst feed
On nought but sight and hearing, nor could breed
Hope of requital, the grand prize of love ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Yet for her strangeness still she pleas'd their eyes;
And for her smallness they admir'd her so,
They thought her perfect born, and could not grow.
All eyes were on her: Hero did command
An altar deck'd with sacred state should stand
At the feast's upper end, close by the bride,
On which the pretty nymph might sit espied.
Then all were silent; every one so hears,
As all their senses climb'd into their ears:
And first this amorous tale, that fitted well
Fair Hero and the nuptials, she did tell:
The Tale of Teras. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ First gold-lock'd Hymen did to church repair,
Like a quick off'ring burn'd in flames of hair.
And after, with a virgin firmament,
The godhead-proving bride attended went
Before them all, she look'd in her command,
As if form-giving Cypria's silver hand
Gript all their beauties, and crush'd out one flame;
She blush'd to see how beauty overcame
The thoughts of all men. Next before her went
Five lovely children, deck'd with ornament
Of her sweet colours, bearing torches by,
For light was held a happy augury
Of generation, whose efficient right
Is nothing else but to produce to light. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ In his dear Eucharis; for women never
Love beauty in their sex, but envy ever.
His judgment yet, that durst not suit address,
Nor past due means, presume of due success,
Reason gat fortune in the end to speed
To his best prayers: but strange it seem'd indeed,
That fortune should a chaste affection bless:
Preferment seldom graceth bashfulness.
Nor grac'd it Hymen yet; but many a dart,
And many an amorous thought, enthrall'd his heart,
Ere he obtain'd her; and he sick became,
Forc'd to abstain her sight, and then the flame
Raged in his bosom. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Love paints his longings in sweet virgins' eyes:
Rise, youths! Love's right claims more than banquets; rise!
Rise, virgins! let fair nuptial loves infold
Your fruitless breasts: the maidenheads ye hold
Are not your own alone, but parted are;
Part in disposing them your parents share,
And that a third part is: so must you save
Your loves a third, and you your thirds must have.
Love paints his longings in sweet virgins' eyes:
Rise, youths! Love's right claims more than banquets; rise!
Herewith the amorous spirit, that was so kind
To Teras' hair, and comb'd it down with wind ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Sight made him sick, and want of sight did kill him.
The virgins wonder'd where Diætia staid,
For so did Hymen term himself a maid:
At length with sickly looks he greeted them:
'Tis strange to see 'gainst what an extreme stream
A lover strives; poor Hymen look'd so ill,
That as in merit he increased still,
By suffering much, so he in grace decreas'd.
Women are most won, when men merit least:
If Merit look not well, Love bids stand by;
Love's special lesson is to please the eye.
And Hymen soon recovering all he lost,
Deceiving [2] still these maids, but himself most. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Loathing the lower place, more than it loves
The high contents desert and virtue moves.
With Love fought Hymen's beauty and his valure,
Which scarce could so much favour [5] yet allure
To come to strike, but fameless idle stood,
Action is fiery valour's sovereign good. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Nought but news common to the common'st mates.—
This told, strange Teras touch'd her lute, and sung
This ditty, that the torchy evening sprung.
Epithalamion Teratos.
Come, come, dear Night! Love's mart of kisses!
Sweet close of his [15] ambitious line,
The fruitful summer of his blisses,
Love's glory doth in darkness shine.
O come, soft rest of cares! come, Night!
Come, naked virtue's only tire,
The reaped [16] harvest of the light,
Bound up in sheaves of sacred fire.
Love calls to war,—
Sighs his alarms,
Lips his swords are,
The field his arms. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Examples profit much, ten times in one,
In persons full of note, good deeds are done.
Day was so long, men walking fell asleep;
The heavy humours that their eyes did steep
Made them fear mischiefs. ”

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George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Fifth Sestyad (1821)

“ Hero stood Hell's blackest dart:
Whose wound because I grieve so to display,
I use digressions thus to' increase the day.
The End of the Fifth Sestyad.
↑ Maia? ↑ deceived? ↑ silk, edit. 1637. ↑ So cast these virgins beauty's mortal rays. Edit. 1637. ↑ valure, edit. 1637, which makes one of Chapman's favourite jeu de
mots between valure, worth, and valure, courage. ↑ they, edit. 1637. ↑ ἀδολεσχης, garrulus. ↑ on, edit. 1606. ↑ i.e. value. ↑ ἁγνεία, pudicitia. ↑ Vid. Pausan. l. x. c. 6. ↑ scrabling, edit. 1637. ↑ their, edit. 1606. ↑ i.e. sudden strange humour, or fancy. ↑ this, edit. ”

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