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| Hendrik Goltzius Pyramus and Thisbe 1580 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
Alas what chaunce my Pyramus hath parted thee and mee?
Make aunswere O my Pyramus: It is thy Thisbe, even shee
Whome thou doste love most heartely that speaketh unto thee.
Give eare and rayse thy heavie heade. He hearing Thisbes name,
Lift up his dying eyes, and having scene hir closde the same.
But when she knew her mantle there and saw his scabberd lie
Without the swoorde: Unhappy man thy love hath made thee die:
Thy love (she said) hath made thee slea thy selfe. This hand of mine
Is strong enough to do the like. My love no lesse then thine
Shall give me force to worke my wound. I will pursue thee dead.
And wretched woman as I am, it shall of me be sed
That like as of thy death I was the only cause and blame,
So am I thy companion eke and partner in the same.
For death which only coulde alas a sunder part us twaine,
Shall never so dissever us but we will meete againe.
And you the Parentes of us both, most wretched folke alyve,
Let this request that I shall make in both our names bylive,
Entreate you to permit that we whome chaste and stedfast love
And whome even death hath joynde in one, may as it doth behove
In one grave be together layd. And thou unhappie tree
Which shroudest now the corse of one, and shalt anon through mee
Shroude two, of this same slaughter holde the sicker signes for ay.
Blacke be the colour of thy fruite and mourninglike alway,
Such as the murder of us twaine may evermore bewray.
This said, she tooke the sword yet warme with slaughter of hir love
And setting it beneath hir brest, did too her heart it shove.
Hir prayer with the Gods and with their Parentes tooke effect.
For when the frute is throughly ripe, the Berrie is bespect
With colour tending to a blacke. And that which after fire
Remained, rested in one Tumbe as Thisbe did desire.
– from book 4 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Arthur Golding (1567)
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| Hendrik Goltzius Penitent Magdalene 1585 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Mars and Venus 1588 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Portrait of a man holding flowers 1582 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Standard Bearer ca. 1582 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome) ca. 1590-91 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome) ca. 1590-91 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio Monochrome Frieze of Erotes offering sacrifice (copied in Rome) ca. 1590-91 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio Monochrome Frieze of Erotes in Procession (copied in Rome) ca. 1590-91 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Polidoro da Caravaggio Bacchus in niche (copied in Rome) 1592 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Raphael Prophet Hosea (copied in Rome) 1592 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius after Raphael Triumph of Galatea (copied in Rome) 1592 engraving Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Seated Woman and Two Soldiers ca. 1595-96 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Hendrik Goltzius Bust of a woman 1610 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |