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A18331	The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina: or, The tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea Wherein is contained, besides the pleasantnesse and sweetnesse of the stile, many philosophicall sentences, and profitable instructions necessary for the younger sort: shewing the deceits and subtilties housed in the bosomes of false seruants, and cunny-catching bawds.; Celestina. English	Rojas, Fernando de, d. 1541.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1631 (1631)	STC 4911; ESTC S107195	207,517	216

Sea that swels and rages breaking it 's billowes one against another the Ayre that darteth arrowes of lightning and is moued this way and that way the flames they cracke and sparkle forth their furie the windes are at perpetuall enmitie with themselues times with times doe contend one thing against another and all against vs We see that the Summer makes vs complaine of too much heate and the Winter of cold and sharpenesse of weather So that this which seemeth vnto vs a temporall reuolution this by which we are bred vp and nourished and liue if it once beginne to passe aboue it's proportion and to grow to a greater highth then vsuall it is no better then open warre And how much it ought to bee feared is manifested by those great earth-quakes and whirlewinds by those ship-wrackes and fires as well in the ayre as the earth by the sourse of water-courses and violence of inundations by those courses and recourses those rackings to and fro of the Clouds of whose open motions to know the secret cause from whence they proceed no lesse is the dissention of the Philosophers in the schooles then of the waues of the Sea Besides among your bruit beasts there is not any one of them that wants his warre be they Fishes Birds Beasts or Serpents whereof euery kinde persecuteth and pursueth one another The Lyon hee pursues the Wolfe the Wolfe the Kidde the Dog the Hare And if it might not be thought a fable or old wifes tale sitting by the fire side I should more fully inlarge this Theame The Elephant that is so powerfull and strong a beast is afraide and flies from the sight of a poore silly Mouse and no sooner heares him comming but hee quakes and trembles for feare Amongst Serpents Nature created the Basiliske so venomous and poysonfull and gaue him such a predominant power ouer all the rest that onely with his hissing he doth affright them with his comming put them to flight and disperseth some one way some another and with his sight kills and murders them The Viper a crawling creature and venomous Serpent at the time of ingendring the Male puts his head into the mouth of the Female and shee through the great delight and sweetnesse of her pleasure straines him so hard that she kills him And conceiuing her young the eldest or first of her brood breakes the barres of his mothers belly eates out his way thorow her bowels at which place all the rest issue forth whereof she dies hee doing this as a reuenger of his fathers death What greater conflict what greater contention or warre can there be then to conceiue that in her body which shall eate out her Intralls Againe no lesse naturall dissention can we suppose to be amongst fishes for most certaine it is that the Sea doth containe as many seuerall sorts of fishes as the earth and ayre do nourish bords and beasts and much more Aristotle and Pliny doe recount wonders of a little fish called Aecheneis how apt his nature is and how prone his propertie for diuers kindes of contentions especially this one that if hee cling to a shiper Carrack he will detaine and stop her in her course though she haue the winde in the poope of her and cut the Seas with neuer so stiffe a gale Whereof Lucan maketh mention saying Non puppim retinens Euro tendente rudentes In medijs Aecheneis aquis Nor Aecheneis whose strength though Eurus rise Can stay the course of shippes O naturall contention worthy of admiration that a little fish should be able to doe more then a great ship with all the force and strength of the winds Moreouer if we will discourse of birds and of their frequent enmities we may truly affirm that all things are created in a kind of contention Your greater liue of rapine as Eagles and Hawks and your crauen Kites presse vpon our Pullen insulting ouer them euen in our own houses and offring to take them euen from vnder the Hens wings Of a bird called Roque which is bred in the East Indian Sea it is said to be of an incredible greatnesse that the like hath neuer bin heard of and that with her beake she will hoyse vp into the ayre not only one man or ten but a whole ship laden with men and merchandise and how that these miserable passengers hanging thus in suspence in the ayre till her wings waxe weary she lets them fall and so they receiue their deaths But what shall we say of men to whom all the foresaid creatures are subiect Who can expresse their wars their iars their enmities their enuies their heats their broyles their brawles and their discontentments That change and alteration of fashions in their apparell That pulling downe and building vp of houses and many other sundry effects and varieties all of them proceeding from the feeble and weake condition of mans variable nature And because it is an old and ancient complaint and vsed heretofore time out of minde I will not much maruell if this present worke shall proue an instrument of war to its Readers putting strifes and differences amongst them euery one giuing his verdict and opinion thereupon according to the humour of his owne will Some perhaps may say that it is too long some too short others to be sweet and pleasant and other some to be darke and obscure So that to cut it out to the measure of so many and such different dispositions is onely appropriate to God Especially since that it together with all other things whatsoeuer are in this world march vnder the standard of this noble Sentence For euen the very life of men if we consider them from their first and tendeer age till they grow gray-headed is nothing else but a battell Children with their sports boyes with their bookes young men with their pleasures old men with a thousand sorts of infirmities skirmish and warre continually and these Papers with all ages The first blots and teares them the second knowes not well how to read them the third which is the cheerefull liuelihood of youth and set all vpon iollity doth vtterly dislike of them Some gnaw onely the bones but do not picke out the marrow saying there is no goodnesse in it that it is a History huddled I know not how together a kind of hodgepode or gallimaufrey not profiting themselues out of the particularities accounting it a fable or old wifes tale fitting for nothing saue only for to passe away the time vpon the way Others call out the witty conceits and common prouerbs highly commending them but slighting and neglecting that which makes more to the purpose and their profit But they for whose true pleasure it is wholy framed reiect the story it selfe as a vayne and idle subiect and gather out the pith and marrow of the matter for their owne good and benefit and laugh at those things that sauour onely of wit and pleasant conceite storing vp in their memorie

lesse reason doe I finde for my comfort for much more miserable doe I finde my misfortune and doe not so much grieue at her death as I doe lament the manner of her death Now shall I lose together with thee most vnhappy daughter those feares which were daily wont to affright mee Onely thy death is that which makes mee secure of all suspitions and iealousies What shall I doe when I shall come into thy chamber and thy withdrawing roome and shall finde it solitary and empty What shall I doe when as I shall call thee and thou shalt not answer me Who is he that can supply that want which thou hast caused Who can stop vp that great breach in my heart which thou hast made Neuer any man did lose that which I haue lost this day Thogh in some sort that great fortitude of Lambas de Auria Duke of Genoa seemeth to sute with my present estate and condition who seeing his sonne was wounded to death tooke him and threw him with his owne armes foorth of the shippe into the sea But such kinde of deaths as these though they take away life yet they giue reputation and many times men are inforced to vndergoe such actions for to cumply with their honour and get themselues fame and renowne But what did inforce my daughter to dye but onely the strong force of loue What remedy now thou flattering world wilt thou affoord my wearisome age How wouldst thou haue me to rely vpon thee I knowing thy falsehoods thy gins thy snares and thy nets wherein thou intrap'st and takest our weake and feeble wills Tell me what hast thou done with my daughter where hast thou bestow'd her who shall accompany my disaccompanied habitation who shall cherish me in mine old age who with gentle vsage shall cocker my decaying yeeres O Loue Loue I did not thinke thou hadst had the power to kill thy subiects I was wounded by thee in my youth did passe thorow the midst of thy flames Why didst thou let me scape Was it that thou might'st pay me home for my flying from thee then in mine old age I had well thought that I had bin freed from thy snares when I once began to growe towards forty and when I rested contented with my wedded consort and when I saw I had that fruit which this day thou hast cut down I did not dreame that thou would'st in the children haue taken vengeance of the parents and I know not whether thou woundest with the sword or burnest with fire Thou leauest our clothes whole and yet most cruelly woundest our hearts thou makest that which is foule to seeme fayre and beautifull vnto vs Who gaue thee so great a power who gaue thee that name which so ill befitteth thee If thou wert Loue thou wouldst loue thy seruants and if thou didst loue them thou wouldst not punish them as thou dost If to be thy fellow were to liue merrily so many would not kill themselues as my daughter now hath infinit of vs What end haue thy seruants and their Ministers had as also that false Bawd Celestina who dy'd by the hands of the faithfullest companions that euer she lighted vpon in her life for their true performance in this thy venomous impoisoned seruice They lost their heads Calisto he brake his necke and my daughter to imitate him submitted her selfe to the selfe-same death And of all this thou wast the cause they gaue thee a sweete name but thy deedes are exceeding sowre thou dost not giue equall rewards and that Law is vniust which is not equall alike vnto all Thy voyce promiseth pleasure but thy actions proclaime paine happy are they who haue not knowne thee or knowing thee haue not cared for thee Some ledde with I know not what error haue not stickt to call thee a god But I would haue such fooles as these to consider with themselues it sauors not of a Deity to murder or destroy those that serue and follow him O thou enemy to all reason To those that serue thee least thou giuest thy greatest rewards vntill thou hast brought them at last into this thy troublesome dance Thou art an enemy to thy friends and a friend to thy enemies and all this is because thou dost not gouerne thy selfe according to order reason They paint thee blind poore and young they put a Bowe into thy hand wherein thou drawest and shootest at random but more blind are they that serue thee For they neuer taste or see the vnsauory distastful recompence which they receiue by thy seruice thy fire is of hot burning lightning which scorches vnto death yet leaues no impression or print of any wound at all The sticks which thy flames consume are the soules and liues of humane creatures which are so infinit and so numberlesse that it scarce accurreth vnto me with whom I should first begin not only of Christians but of Gentiles of Iewes and all forsooth in requitall of their good seruices What shall I speak of that Macias of our times and how by louing he came to his end Of whose sad and wofull death thou wast the sole cause What seruice did Paris do thee What Helena What Clytemnestra What Aegisthus All the world knowes how it went with them How well likewise didst thou requite Sapho Ariadne and Leander and many other besides whom I willingly silence because I haue enough to do in the repetition of mine own misery I complaine me of the world because I was bred vp in it for had not the world giuen me life I had not therein begot Melibea not being begot shee had not beene borne not being borne I had not lou'd her and not louing her I should not haue mourned as now I do in this my latter and vncomfortable old age O my good companion O my bruised daughter bruised euen all to pieces Why wouldst thou not suffer me to diuert thy death why wouldst thou not take pitty of thy kinde and louing mother why didst thou shew thy selfe so cruell against thy aged father why hast thou left me thus in sorrow why hast thou left me comfortlesse and all alone in hâc lachrimarum valle in this vaile of teares and shadow of death FINIS Lucan lib. 6. iuxta finem To the Reader LO heere thy Celestine that wicked wight Who did her tricks vpon poore Louers prooue And in her company the god of Loue Lo grace beauty desire terrour hope fright Faith falsehood hate loue musicke griefe delight Sighes sobs teares cares heates colds girdle gloue Paintings Mercury Sublimate dung of Doue Prison force fury craft scoffes Art despight Bawds Ruffians Harlots seruants false vntrue And all th' effects that follow on the same As warre strife losse death infamy and shame All which and more shall come vnto thy view But if this Booke speake not his English plaine Excuse him for hee lately came from Spaine