Penelopes complaint: or, A mirrour for wanton minions. Taken out of Homers Odissea, and written in English verse, by Peter Colse
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- Penelopes complaint: or, A mirrour for wanton minions. Taken out of Homers Odissea, and written in English verse, by Peter Colse
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- Colse, Peter.
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- London :: Printed by [Valentine Simmes for] H. Iackson dwelling in Fleetstreet, and are to be sold at his shop vnder Temple-barre gate,
- 1596.
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Contents
- title page
- To the vertuous and chaste Ladie, the Ladie Edith, wife to the right worship∣full Sir Rafe Horsey knight, increase of all honourable vertues.
- In commendation of the right Worshipfull sir Raufe Horsey knight.
- An Encomion vpon the right worshipful sir Rafe Horsey knight, and the Lady Edith in Saphic verse.
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In commendation of the vertuous, prudent, and chaste virgin, mistris
Grace Horsey, daughter to the right Worshipfull, sirRaph Horsey knight, and the Ladie Edith. - Candido Lectori hexastichon.
- Amico suo charissimo P.C. S.D.
- To the Readers.
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Penelopes complaint.
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Penelope complaineth of
Vlysses departure. -
She sheweth how
Vlisses fained himselfe mad at his departure, and how he was bewraied byPalemedes. - She discommendeth her married estate, and she∣weth the toile she indures.
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Shee accuseth
Hellen of light consent. -
She controlleth
Hellen for her ill example. -
Against
Paris and his trecherie. -
Antinous interrupting her sighing, offereth his suit. - Her answere to her wooers.
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She complaineth of her wooers misrule, and feareth to write to
Vlysses, for putting him in a ielousie. -
She wisheth
Vlisses to beware of the cruel Troians. - Her supplication to the Gods.
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She accuseth
Menelaus of folly, for making warres forHellen. -
She sheweth
Vlysses worthines. -
She bewailes the want of
Vlysses in the night. - Shee sheweth her defect of beautie.
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Penelope warneth her maides to beware of hot affection. - The speech of her wooers.
- Her answere to her sutors.
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The wooers aduised
Telemachus, Vlysses son, to put his mother out of doore, and inherit the land. -
Telemachus answere to the wooers. - She debateth with her selfe of marriage.
- Her commendation of chastitie.
- The complaint of her waiting women against the wooers.
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Her speech vnto her sonne
Telemachus. -
The reply of her sonne
Telemachus, then but a childe. -
Her Epistle to
Vlysses. -
She accuseth
Antinous, that he goeth about to kil her sonne. -
The reply of
Eurymachus, in the behalfe of the wooers. -
She bewaileth the sending of her sonne
Telema∣chus to his father. -
Telemachus sheweth his fathers comming: and how he means to be reuenged of his Riuals, and she∣weth some of his fathers acts. -
Penelope readeth
Vlysses letter. -
The aduice of
Euryclea, nurse toPenelope. -
Her reply to
Euryclea. -
She bewaileth
Vlysses long tarrying. - The speech of her wooers chalenging her by promise.
- Her answere to the wooers.
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Vlysses being come home, disguiseth himselfe, and soiourning withPenelope amongst the woo∣ers, maketh this answere. -
The wooers scoffingly checke
Vlysses. -
She checketh
Antinous for abusing her ghests. -
Telemachus wisheth his mother to be silent. - The death of her wooers represented vnto hir, in a dreame of an Egle and a flocke of geese.
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She hearing
Vlysses fighting with her wooers, vnknowen to her, she feareth. - Her maide sheweth the slaughter of her wooers.
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She hearing of the death of her wooers, feareth lest
Vlysses wil slay her also. -
Vlysses making himselfe knowne, comfortethPenelope with these speeches. -
Penelope fearing to entertaineVlysses, debateth as followeth. -
Vlysses sheweth by euident tokens, he is no cose∣ning knight. - L'enuoy.
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Penelope complaineth of