NUNTIUS. O joyful news which I report, and bring into your ears! Philologus, that would have hanged himself with cord, Is now converted unto God with many bitter tears: By godly counsel he was won, all praise be to the Lord. His errors all he did renounce, his blasphemies he abhorr'd, And being converted left his life, exhorting foe and friend, That do profess the faith of Christ, to be constant to the end. Full thirty weeks in woful wise afflicted he had been, All which long time he took no food, but forc'd against his will Even with a spoon to pour some broth his teeth between: And though they sought by force this wise to feed him still, He always strove with all his might the same on ground to spill; So that no sustenance he receiv'd, no sleep could he attain, And now the Lord in mercy great hath eas'd him of his pain. THE RARE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND FORTUNE. EDITION. _The Rare Triumphes of Love and Fortune, Plaide before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie: wherin are manye fine Conceites with great delight. At London, Printed by E.A. for Edward White, and are to be solde at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gunne_. 1589. 4 deg. Black letter. THE RARE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE AND FORTUNE. THE FIRST ACT. _Enter_ MERCURY: _then riseth a Fury: then enter the assembly of the gods_, JUPITER _with_ JUNO, APOLLO _with_ MINERVA, MARS _and_ SATURN, _after_ VULCAN _with_ VENUS: _the Fury sets debate amongst them, and after_ JUPITER speaks as followeth_. JUPITER. Ye gods and goddesses, whence springs this strife of late? Who are the authors of this mutiny? Or whence hath sprung this civil discord here. Which on the sudden struck us in this fear? If gods that reign in skies do fall at war, No marvel, then, though mortal men do jar. But now I see the cause: thou Fury fell, Bred in the dungeon of the deepest hell, Who causeth thee to show thyself in light? And what thy message is, I charge thee tell upright?