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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14285	A dyalogue defensyue for women, agaynst malycyous detractoures	Burdet, Robert.; Vaughan, Robert, fl. 1542.	1542 (1542)	STC 24601; ESTC S111468	19,831	38

¶ A Dyalogue defensyue for women agaynst malycyous detractoures ¶ The Prologue ¶ To the ryght worshypfull and his synguler good maystres Arthur Hardberde ▪ Robert Vaghane sendeth moste harty gretynge TO you maystres Arthur my seruyce premysed As reason of ryght requyreth to recompence Your gentle herte whiche hath nat despysed Afore this tyme to take with beneuolence My wrytynges vnworthye full of vayne sentence whiche kyndnes consydered good cause doth constrayne And dewty me dryueth ▪ to do my dylygence with some small gyfte for to requyte agayne ¶ Your bownteous benygnytie imboldeth my rudenes This treatyse folowynge vnto you to dedycate whiche to myne handes occurryde doubtles As I on my Iourney was rydynge but late By a frende of myne with whom I was assocyate As by chaunce I asyghted at a certayne place whiche wylled me than that I wolde algate So forth and talke with hym a lytell space ¶ Than secretly he dyd vnto me cōmyt Agaynst detraction this dyalogue defensyue For the woman sakes both necessary and fyt whan preuye reprehendeth agaynst them lyst to stryue Of whose vyce the circumstance he playnely doth dyscryue That throughe auaryce the syn insacyable Detractours swarme as bees aboute an hyue where felonous flatery to them is profytable ¶ I toke the volume and rede therin apase And well perceyued at the fyrste syght It was fayned in fauour of one in your case Howebeit I wolde nat aske hym what she hyght But vnto hym I sayde anone full ryght what is your mynde that I herin do shall For fayne I wolde yf it lay in my myght Your mynde accomplysshe what soeuer befall ¶ I wolde sayde he yf it your pleasure were That you wolde vouchsaue at my hande to take This lytell smale volume your name for to bere whose fantasye with faynynge is set for to make Lest slaunder perchaunce his sharpe sowne out shake To moue me malyce whiche onely meane rest Your name may cause suche noyses to asslake Therefore present it where as you thynke best ¶ Than in my mynde I thought that you were Your cause consydered and also your estate Moste worthy to whom I myght sende or bere It to present or els to dedycate And because it declareth howe the Pyes do prate And what them causeth suche pratynge to vse I trust in God it shall your mynde recreate Throughe to rede it yf you wyll nat refuse ¶ And of your thankes to me I requyre No parte at all sens myne is nat the payne But of your gentylnes I humbly you desyre That he may haue thankes that labours doth sustayne And as to my selfe no thake I wyll clayme Sens thanke to payne is euer consequent Yet natwithstandynge whyle lyfe doth remayne Myne herte and seruyce shall be at your cōmaundement ¶ This Dyalogue as Dyamonde derely dyght And as a weke moste worthely wrought Shynynge with eloquence as starre doth of lyght Me thynkes that you of reason moste ought As she that with payne experyence hath bought Haue in your custodye as answere for your cause As the free Fawcon hath you herin taught Your selfe to defende agaynst pyes and dawse FINIS ¶ Robert Vaghane to the reader REde gentyll Reader all rygour set aparte Onely with indyfferencye ponder this argument Be nat weyde with wylfulnes y t ofte doth trewth subuarte Enterlet no parcyallytye in iudgement Remembre this rule that Iustyce in election Taketh no place in wyll nor affection ¶ Bende nat then in Iudgement althoughe parchaunce Vnto the hath be extended a auncyent occasyon Requyrynge agaynst women to haue thy defyaunce Do nat consent to suche a lyght parswasyon Euer consyder it is a made affection To iudge all vnparfyte thoughe one lacke parfection ¶ Raylynge without reason voyde of humanytye Outragynge and lewde for lacke of intellygence Blynded throughe ygnoraunce with mystes of sensualytye Euermore the Pye setteth out her sentence Relatynge her malyce by vniust accusacyon This shall ye perceyue by the Fawcons declaracyon ¶ Bestowe nat then thy laboure to prate with the Pye Vniustly accusynge thy nowrysshe and mother Rede and recorde howe the Fawcon doth replye Defendynge the femalles with Aucthours one and other Euermore aledged and noted in the mergent The gentyll reader to satysfye and content FINIS ¶ The Aucthour speaketh IN the moneth of Decēbre whē phebus y e bright with his mocyon had entered in to y e fyrst degre Of Capricorne whan longe is the nyght And the day tyme moste in breuytie Than snowes lyeth depe vpon the hylles hye waters congyled in to yse harde and thycke Trees Plantes and Herbes seme than to dye Fewe thynges growynge appere to be quycke The wether moste bytter with wyndes sharpe and colde Causeth great company togyther to resorte Vnto the fyre syde where ale good and olde Merely they drynke theyr hertes to comforte Early in a mornynge in this moneth of Decembre From slepe I arose and to my studye went Before all thynges than I dyd remembre That tyme of euery man shuld frutefully be spent At the fyrste by chaunce I red an oracyon Moste pleasauntly set forth with flowers rethorycall Descrybynge the monstruous vyce of detraction The dowghter of eunye the furye infernall whose pestylent poyson as cankar doth crepe Amonge all people in Cytie Tower and Towne Bryngynge Innocentes in to paynes depe And from theyr good names it doth them cast downe By readynge this Aucthour I was pensyfe in my harte As one that had proued his wordes to be trewe Sorowes constrayned me to lay this boke aparte The remembraunce therof my paynes dyd renewe Anone I espyed in the Oryent That dame Aurora to me dyd apeare And the Sōne with his beames as golde resplendent To our Orizont began to drawe neare with spede than my studye and bokes I dyd forsake Intendynge all thoughtes from my mynde to expell And towarde a Forest the way dyd I take Nat far from the partyes where I dyd dwell In this Forest fayre as I walked a whyle Beholdynge hye trees with armes longe and wyde Sodaynly within the space of a myle An Arbour moste pleasaunt there I espyde To that place of pleasure for my recreacyon with spede I approched it made my herte lyght Anone I was taken with great admyracyon Of all the fayre pleasures when I had a syght This place was enuyroned with Hedgyes thre Of Hauthorne thycke thre dyches depe cast Thre waters there were whiche I dyd se In to the Arbour by them as I past Okes that were olde in the fyrste hedge were growynge And Elines in the seconde that large were and longe In the thyrde Hedge with bowes downe bowynge Many trees togyther were thruste in a thronge The Ashe and the Aspe with his leaues that do quake The Boxe and the Beyche togyther dyd stande The Corke causynge slyppers to cracke and to crake with the Ewe tre a defence to this lande The Plane and the Poplar there I dyd se The Salowe the Pyne and the Maple rownde The holy with his pryckes and