Wells and fludds farewell, sometime the delyte of Amintas,Now shal I neuer more my sorrowes vtter among you,Now shal I neuer more with clamors vainly molest you.Must then Amintas thus but a stripling murder Amintas?O what an imperious princesse is Queene Cytheraea?For still watching loue would neuer let me be resting,Nor neuer sleeping, since Phillis went from Amintas.And no longer I can susteine these infinite horrors,And pangs incessant, which now are freshly renewed,And much augmented: therefore am I fully resoluedOf lingring lou's wound to be speedily cur'd by a deaths wound.Thus when he had contriu'd in his heart this desperate outrage,And meant fully to die, with an hellish fury bewitched;What do I stay, quoth he, now? tis losse of time to be lingring.Then with a fatall knife in a murdring hand; to the heauensVp did he looke for a while; and groan'd with a deadly resounding,VVith these words his life and Lamentation ending.Gods, and ghosts, forgiue, forget this fault of Amintas,Pardon I craue of both: this knife shall bring me to Phillis,And end these miseries, though desteny flatly deny it.Eu'n as he spake these words downe fell deepe wounded Amintas,Fowling hands and ground with streames of bloud that abounded.And good natur'd ground, pytying this fall of AmintasIn most louing wise very gent'ly receiued AmintasAnd when he fell, by the fall, in mournefull sort she resounded.Iupiter in meane time, and th'other gods of Olympus,When they saw his case (though great things were then in handling,)Yet lamented much, and then decreed, that AmintasSoule, should goe to the fields where blessed Phillis abideth,And bloody corps should take both name & forme of a faire flowreCalled Amaranthus; for Amintas friendly remembrance.VVhylst these things by the gods wer thus decreed in Olympus,Senses were all weake, and almost gone from Amintas,Eyes were quite sightles, death pangs and horror aproched:Then with his head half vp, most heauily groned Amintas,And as he gron'd, then hee felt his feete to the ground to be rooted,And seeking for a foote, could finde no foote to be sought for.For both leggs and trunck to a stalk were speedily chaunged,0