Tydides left worst signs[165] of villainy; He first a goddess struck: another I. Yet he harmed less; whom I professed to love I harmed: a foe did Diomede's anger move. Go now, thou conqueror, glorious triumphs raise, Pay vows to Jove; engirt thy hairs with bays. And let the troops which shall thy chariot follow, "Iˆ, a strong man conquered this wench," hollow. Let the sad captive foremost, with locks spread On her white neck, but for hurt cheeks,[166] be led. 40 Meeter it were her lips were blue with kissing, And on her neck a wanton's[167] mark not missing. But, though I like a swelling flood was driven, And as a prey unto blind anger given, Was't not enough the fearful wench to chide? Nor thunder, in rough threatenings, haughty pride? Nor shamefully her coat pull o'er her crown, Which to her waist her girdle still kept down? But cruelly her tresses having rent, My nails to scratch her lovely cheeks I bent. 50 Sighing she stood, her bloodless white looks shewed, Like marble from the Parian mountains hewed. Her half-dead joints, and trembling limbs I saw, Like poplar leaves blown with a stormy flaw. Or slender ears, with gentle zephyr shaken, Or waters' tops with the warm south-wind taken. And down her cheeks, the trickling tears did flow, Like water gushing from consuming snow. Then first I did perceive I had offended; My blood the tears were that from her descended. 60 Before her feet thrice prostrate down I fell, My fearËd hands thrice back she did repel. But doubt thou not (revenge doth grief appease), With thy sharp nails upon my face to seize; Bescratch mine eyes, spare not my locks to break (Anger will help thy hands though ne'er so weak); And lest the sad signs of my crime remain, Put in their place thy kembËd[168] hairs again. FOOTNOTES: [162] Not in Isham copy or ed. A. [163] I should like to omit this word, to which there is nothing to correspond in the original. [164] Marlowe has misunderstood the original "Sic nisi vittatis quod erat Cassandra capillis." [165] "Pessima Tydides scelerum monumenta reliquit." [166] An awkward translation of "Si sinerent lÊsÊ, candidia tota, genÊ." [167] So ed. B.--Ed. C. "wanton." [168] Old eds. "keembed." ("Pone recompositas in statione comas.") ELEGIA VIII.[169] Execratur lenam quÊ puellam suam meretricis arte instituebat.