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A06607	Euphues and his England Containing his voyage and his aduentures, myxed with sundrie pretie discourses of honest loue, the discription of the countrey, the court, and the manners of that isle. Delightful to be read, and nothing hurtfull to be regarded: wherein there is small offence by lightnesse giuen to the wise, and lesse occasion of looseness proffered to the wanton. By Iohn Lyly, Maister of Arte. Commend it, or amend it.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1580 (1580)	STC 17070; ESTC S106953	185,944	280

the birdes were appoynted to méete to talke of the Eagle there was great contention at whose nest they should assemble euery one willing to haue it at his owne home one preferring the nobilitie of his birth an other the statelynesse of his building some woulde haue it for one qualitie some for an other at the last the Swallow saide they shoulde come to his nest being commonly of filth which all the Birds disdaining saide why thy house is nothing els but durt and therefore aunswered the Swallow woulde I haue talke there of the Eagle for being the basest the name of an Eagle will make it the b●auest And so good father may I say of thy cottage which thou séemest to account of so homely that mouing but speach of thy soueraigne it will be more like a court then a cabbin and of a prison the name of Elizabeth will make it a pallace The Image of a Prince stampt in copper goeth as currant and a Crow may try Aue Caesar with-out any rebuke The name of a Prince is like the swéete deaw which falleth as well vppon lowe shrubbes as high trées and resembleth a true Glasse wherein the poore may sée their faces with the rich or a cléere streame where-in all may drineke that are dry not they onely that are wealthy Where you adde that we should feare to moue any occasion touching talke of so noble a Prince truely our reuerence taketh away the feare of suspition The Lambe feareth not the Lion but the Wolfe the Partridge dreadeth not the Eagle but the Hawk a true and faithfull heart stand 〈◊〉 ●● in awe of his superior whome he loueth for feare then of his Prince whom he feareth for loue A ●léere conscience néedeth no excuse nor feareth any accusation Lastly you conclude that neither art nor heart can so set foorth your noble Quéene as shée deserueth I graunt it and reioyce at it and that is the cause of our comming to sée hir whome none can sufficiently commend and yet doeth it not followe that bicause we can-not giue hir as much as shee is worthy of therefore we shoulde not owe hir any But in this we will imitate the olde paynters in Greece who drawing in their Tables the Portrature of Iuppiter were euery houre mending it but durst neuer finish it And being demaunded why they beganne that which they coulde not ende they aunswered in that we shewe him to be Iuppiter whom euerye one may beginne to paint but none can perfect In the like manner meane wée to drawe in part the praises of hir whome we cannot throughly protraye and in that wée signifie hir to be Elyzabeth Who enforceth euery man to do as much as he can when in respect of hir perfection it is nothing For as he that beholdeth the Sunne stedfastly thinking there-by to describe it more perfectly hath his eyes so daseled that he can discerne nothing so fareth it with those that séeke marueilously to praise those that are with-out the compasse of their iudgements and all comparison that the more they desire the lesse they discerne and the néerer they think themselues in good wil the farther they finde themselues off in wisdome thinking to measure that by the ynch which they cannot reache with the ell And yet father it can bée neither hurtfull to you nor hateful to your prince to heare the commendation of a straunger or to aunswer his honest request who will wish in heart no lesse glorie to hir then you doe although they can wish no more And therefore me thinketh you haue offered a little ●i●courtesse not to aunswere vs and to suspecte vs great iniury hauing neither might to attempt any thing which may do you harme nor mallice to reuenge where we finde helpe For mine owne part this I say and for my friend present the like I dare sweare howe boldly I cannot tell how truely I knowe that there is not any one whether he be bound by benefite or duetie or both whether linked by zeale or time or bloude or all that more humbly reuerenceth hir maiestie or meruaileth at hir wisdome or prayeth for hir long prosperous and glorious reigne then wée then whome we acknowledge none more simple and yet dare a●owe● none more faithfull Which we speake not to get seruice by flatterye but to acquite our selues of suspition by faith which is all that either a Prince can require of his subiect or a vassal yéeld to his Soueraigne and that which we ●we to your Quéene all others shoulde offer that either for feare of punishment dare not offend or for loue of vertue will not Heere olde Fidus interrupted young Euphues béeing almost induced by his talke to aunswere his request yet as one neither too credulous nor altogether mistrustfull he replyed as a friend and so wisely as he glaunced from the marke Euphues shotte at and hitte at last the white which Philautus set vp as shal appeare hereafter And thus he began MY sonnes mine age giueth me the priuilege of that terme and your honesties can-not refuse it you are too young to vnderstande matters of state and were you elder to knowe them it were not for your estates And therefore me thinketh the time were but lost in pulling Hercules shooe vppon an Infantes foote or in setting Atlas burthen on a childes shoulder or to bruse your backes with the burthen of a whole kingdome which I speake not that either I mistruth you for your reply hath fully resolued that feare or that I mallice you for my good wil may cleere me of that fault or that I dread your might for your small power cannot bring me into such a folly but that I haue learned by experience that to reason of kings or Princes hath euer bene much misliked of the wise though much desired of fooles especially where old men which should be at their beads be too busie with the court and young men which should follow their bookes be too inquisitiue in y e affaires of princes We shold not looke at y t we cannot reach nor long for that we shold not haue things aboue vs are not for vs therfore are Princes placed vnder the gods that they should not sée what they doe and we vnder princes that we might not enquire what they doe But as the foolish Eagle that séeing the Sunne coueteth to buylde hir nest in the Sunne so fond youth which viewing the glory and gorgiousnesse of the court longeth to knowe the secretes in the court But as the Eagle burneth out hir eyes with that proude lust so doth youth breake his hart with y e péeuish conceit And as Satirus not knowing what fire was would néedes imbrace it and was burned so these fond Satiri not vnderstanding what a prince is runne boldly to meddle in those matters which they know not and so féele worthely the heat they would not And therfore good Euphues and Philautus content your selues with this that to bée curious in thinges you shoulde not

for the smart all for a kinde of a louing smacke Lette euerye one followe his fancie and say that is best which he lyketh best And so commit euerye mans delight to his own choice my selfe to all your courtesies Yours to vse Iohn Lyly Euphues and his England EVphues hauing gotten all thinges necessarie for his voyage into England accompanied onelye with Philautus tooke shipping the first of December 1579. by our English Computation Who as one resolued to sée that with his eyes which he had oftentimes heard with his eares beganne to vse this perswasion with his friende Philautus aswell to counsell him how hée shoulde behaue himselfe in England as to comfort him being n●we on the Seas As I haue sound thée willing to be a fellowe in my trauaile so woulde I haue thee ready to be a follower of my counsaile in the one shalt thou shewe thy good wil in the other manifest thy wisedome We are nowe sayling into an Iland of small compasse as I gesse by their Maps but of great ciuilitie as I heare by their matters which if it be so it behooueth vs to be more inq●isttiue of their conditions then of their countrey ● more darefull to marke the natures of their men then curiou● to note the situation of the place And surely me thinketh we cannot better bestowe our time on the Sea then in aduice how to behaue our selues when we come to the shore for greater daunger is there to ariue in a straunge countrey where the inhabitauntes be politique then to be tossed with the troublesome waues where the Marriners be vnskilfull Fortune guideth men in the rough Sea but wisdome ruleth them in a straunge land If trauailers in this our age were as warie of their conditions as they be venterous of their bodyes or an willinge to reape pros●te by their pai●e● as they are to endure peril for their pleasure they would either prefer their own soyle before a straunge land or good counsell before their owne conceite But as the young scholler in Athens went to heare Demosthenes eloquence at Corinth and was entangled with Lais beautie so most of our trauailers which pretende to gette a smacke of straunge language to sharpen their wittes are infected with vanitie by following their wils Daunger and delight grow both vpon one stalke the Rose and the Canker in one bud white and blacke are commonly in one border Seing then my good Philautus that we are not to conquer wild beasts by fight but to confer with wise mē by policie we ought to take greater héede that we be not entrapped in folly then feare to be subdued by force And héere by the way it shall not be amisse aswell to driue away the tediousnes of time as to delight our selues with talke to rehearse an old treatise of an auncient Hermit who méeting with a Pilgrime at his Cell vttered a straunge and delightfull tale which if thou Philautus art disposed to heare and these present attentiue to haue I will spend some time about it knowing it both fit for vs that be trauailers to learne witte and not vnfit for these that be Merchaunts to get wealth Philautus although the stumpes of loue so sticked in his minde that he rather wished to heare an Eelegie in Ouid then a tale of an Hermit yet was he willing to lend his care to his friende who had left his heart with his Lady for you shal vnderstand that Philautus hauing read the cooling Carde which Euphues sent him sought rather to aunswere it then allowe it And I doubt not but if Philautus fall into his olde vaine in England you shall heare of his newe deuice in Italy And although some shall think it impertinent to the historie they shall not finde it repugnant no more then in one nosegay to sette two flowers or in one counterfait two coulours which bringeth more delight then disliking Philautus aunswered Euphues in this manner MY good Euphues I am as willing to heare thy tale as I am to bée pertaker of thy trauaile yet I knowe not how it commeth to passe that my eyes are eyther heauie against foule weather or my heade so drowsie against some ill newes that this tale shall come in good time to bring me a sléepe and then shal I get no harme by the Hermit though I get no good the other that were then in the shippe flocked about Euphues who beganne in this manner THere dwell some-times in the Iland Scyrum an auncient Gentleman called Cassander who aswel by his being a long gatherer as his trade being a lewd vsurer wared so welthy that he was thought to haue almost al the money in that countrey in his owne coffers beeing both aged and sickly found such weaknesse in him-selfe that he thought nature would yéelde to death and phisicke to his diseases This Gentleman had one onelye sonne who nothing resembled the father either in fancie or fauour which the olde man perceiuing disse●ilised with him both in nature and honestie whom he caused to be called vnto his bedsid and the chamber being boyded he brake with him in these tearmes Callimachus for so was hée called thou art too young to dye and I too olde to liue yet as nature must of necessitie pay hir debt to death so must she also shew hir deuotion to thée whom I a-liue had to be y e comforte of myne age and whome alone I must leaue behynde mee for to bée the onelye maintayner of all myne honour If thou couldest aswell conceiue the care of a father as I canne leuell at the nature of a childe or wer I as able to vtter my affection towards a sonne as thou oughtest to shew thy duty to thy ●ire thē wouldest thou desire my lyfe to enioy my counsell and I shoulde correct thy life to amende thy conditions yet so tempered as neither rigor might detract any thing from affection in me or feare any whit from thée in duty But séeing my self so feeble that I cannot liue to be thy guid I am resolued to giue thée such counsell as may do thée good wherein I shall shewe my care and discharge my duetie My good Sonne thou art to receiue by my death wealth and by my counsel wisdome and I woulde thou wert as willing to imprint the one in thy heart as thou wilt be readie to beare the other in thy purse To bée rich is the gift of Fortune to be wise the grace of God Haue more minde on thy bookes then thy bags more desire of godlinesse then gold greater affection to dye wel then to liue wantonly But as the Cypresse trée the more it is watered the more it withereth and the oftner it is lopped the sooner it dyeth so vnbrideled youth the more it is also by graue aduice counselled or due correction controlled the sooner it falleth to confusion hating all reasons that woulde bring it from folly as that trée doth all remedies that should make it fertile Alas Callimachus when wealth