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A03432	Certaine tragicall discourses written out of Frenche and Latin, by Geffraie Fenton, no lesse profitable then pleasaunt, and of like necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reapportes; Novelle. English. Selections	Bandello, Matteo, 1485-1561.; Fenton, Geoffrey, Sir, 1539?-1608.	1567 (1567)	STC 1356.1; ESTC S101952	453,531	632

CERTAINE Tragicall Discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin by Geffraie Fenton no. lesse profitable then pleasaunt and of like necessitye to al degrees that take pleasure in antiquityes or forreine reapportes Mon heur viendra ❧ Imprinted at London in Fletestrete nere to Sainct Dunstons Churche by Thomas Marshe Anno Domini 1567. To the righte honorable and vertuous Ladie the Ladye Marye Sydney Geffraye Fenton VVisheth a happie encrease of honor and yeares in this lyfe NICEPHORVS an Historiographer of greate creditt amongest the Grekes affirmeth that as euerye knowledge of it selfe deserueth commendacion so the discipline of histories is most agreable and necessarie for all ages which the Roman orator Marcus Cicero full well approueth in commending the studie thereof to al degrées and times as an exercise of moste necessitye and honor for that saith he in theim is represented as yt were an ymage or pourtraict of all thinges that haue passed since the beginning of the worlde to gether with diuersitie of instructions to all sortes of people touchinge their direction in future chaunces euen vntill the laste and extreame dissolucion of the same not doutinge also in his firste booke De oratore to add certeine peculiar titles callinge an historie testis temporis lux veritatis vita memoriae magistra vitae nuncia vetustatis For if a man be younge saith e. The readynge therof will make hym olde not in yeres with the moste parte cold be content to shyfte of and forgo but in experience and wisedom and yf he bée alredye loaden wythe the heauie burden of nature what a pleasure is it then to beholde the thinges whiche eyther he hath passed in youth or longe be fore his time were put in practise whereof as the first is veraye well proued by Euripides the Poett sainge that the remembrance of the paine that his past is swéete so th'oppinion of TVLLYE touchinge the other perswades a greate necessitie to all degrées to be preuye to the commoditie of stories for saith he to be ignoraunt in things happened or thou waste borne is as much to say as thou wilte be alwaies a childe There is required in all estates bothe a faithe and feare in God also an outwarde pollecie in wordly thinges whereof according to the philosophers y t one is to bée learned by perusinge the scripture and the other can not bée gotten but by the assistance of histories who are the onelye and true tables whereon are drawne in perfect coollers the vertues and vices of euerye condicion of man bothe their florishynge tyme whileste they embraced the firste and miserable fal when they grew in delite with the wickednes of the last yf a man be a magistrate or beare authoritie in publike affaires what labor is better bestowed then in searchinge the actes of suche as haue supplied equall dignitye and place to accomodate himselfe to their vertues and to the priuat person antiquitie giues choice of admonicions for obedience to his superiors with charge to applie and employe all his care for the commoditye of his countreye yf he bée a citizen he shall there fynde what belongeth to his proper office eyther in the seruice of his publike weale or in his peculiar affaires at hoame And to a woman what stoare of examples are there to instructe her in her dutie eyther for the maried to kepe her fayth to her husband with LVCRETIA or the vnmaried to defende her virginitye with virginya fynallye that excellent treasore and full librarye of all knowledge yeldes vs frelye presidentes for all cases that maye happen bothe for imytacion of the good detestynge the wycked auoydynge a present mischiefe and preuentyng any euil afore yt fall wherein also as in euery arte there bée certeine speciall principles and rules for the direction of suche as searche out their disposition so histories do swarme with examples of all kinde of vertues wherein both the dignitye of vertue and fowlenes of vice appereth muche more lyuelye then in any morall teachyng seinge therein is figured vnder certeine formes and shaps of men and their doyngs past al euery such diuersitye and chāge which philosophie doth teach by waie of preceptes like as also touchinge the commodityes to bee coolled oute of antiquityes Lyuye is of oppinyon that the pleasure and proffitt falleth out of indifferent value to suche as bestowe theyr tyme wythe vprighte iudgement in the viewe of auncient recordes for saith he nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines cognoscere quae etsi exoptabilia in experiendo non fuerūt tamen in legendo sunt iocunda and the frute and chiefe gayns deriued of suche traueile is in that wée shall sée set furthe good and who alsome lessons of all sortes whereof we maye take to our selues and benefyt of our countreye suche as we like to followe and whiche presentes vnto vs the true picture and reapport of suche enterprises as had both sinister begynnynges and much worse endes and yet is yt not sufficient for vs to iudge that the only frute consistes in readynge the noble actes of good men seinge that of the contrarye to those that studye to resemble theyr vertues th'eschewynge of the euill partes in a nomber of vicious personnes is a singuler commoditye whiche yf it were not so the continuaunce of so many hundreth yeares in all common states aswel heathen as Christened had not permitted the reading of sondrye Poetes whose commodies and tragedies importe a discription fyguratyue of the wicked liues of all degrées of men women wythout intent to perswade any ymitation that waye but rather to prouoke the multitude by familyar traines to auoyde such condicions as they sawe iustely reprehended in others And truly wyth better reason may a man put to the viewe of the worlde any auncient reapport whose profession is to declare a truthe then to preferr the fained tales of Poetes whiche yet we sée for diuerse good respectes tollerated to bée redd in all ages For lyke as in a familye or auncient house who hath bene most renowmed of all the stocke leaueth a president and desyer to his posteritye to resemble his doynges as a glasse and mirroir to theym of moste excellent vertues so when histories are published to the common proffyt of al men euery one goeth aboute to confirme himselfe to the vertuous conuersation and lyfe of suche as excelled amongst the elders wherein me seameth Nycephorus saied veray well that those whiche write Histories and kepe not that which is profitable and praise worthie as it were in their stoare house at hoame but rather beinge benefyciall to the common welthe do expose so common a profitt to the generall commoditie of all men are as it were th'executours of Gods diuine prouidence because they comprise and packe vpp in one worke or volume as in a common treasore sondrye sortes of noble deedes without inhibition or lett to any degrée

the desier of his minde tendyng to none other ende then a consommation of an honest and lawfull request But for the contrary of this honest societie I accompt hym not worthie to haue the ayre breath vpon hym who practisinge onely to seduce and corrupte the chasteye of honest Dames hath no respect to the vertue of honest and true loue but sekyng only to satisfy the appetit of his sensual luste doth embrace the exterior partes of a woman and commendes simplye the tree charged with leaues without regardyng the frut which makes it worthie of commendacion and fame Here with it can not be muche frō our purpose to enterlarde this digression with the authoritie of a brief note whiche I founde written in a frenche booke on the behalfe of the sinceritye which ought to appeare in women comparinge the younge Ladye bearynge yet the name of a mayde to the glisterynge flower in the pleasaunt springe vntill by her constancie and chaste behauior subduing vtterlie the wanton mocions of the fleshe she expose to the worlde the precious fruites deriued of so greate a vertue and giue absolute experience other vndoubted pudicitie For otherwayes saith he she is in no other degree for worthie renowme then the young soldiour whose contenaunce albeit argueth the corage of his hart yet his capteine hath no reason to gyue iudgement of his valiauntnes nor cause to reapose muche credit in him in any expedition or exploite againste thenemye tyll he see an approued effect in dede of that which he promiseth so largely by his outward apparance but when he fyndeth an absolute confirmation of the exterior likelihodes by the inward vertu and valyauntnes of the mynd it is then that he doth not only embrase hym but preferreth hym afore the rest as a speciall pattorne to ymitate his vertues Euen so besides that the Croune of immortal glorye atten des youe Ladyes who by withstandynge th assaultes and importunities of the fleshe do giue to your selfe the true title of honest women not by force or awe of constraint but by the valyaunt resistance of your most chaste and inuincible hart yet also the monumēt of your vertues being graued in pillors of eternitie and aduaunced to the height of the highist theatrey in the worlde shal remaine as a mirroer or worthy spectacle to procure all posterities not onelye to treade the pathe of semblable vertues but also to yelde you a continuall adoracion after your death by the remembraunce and viewe of your chaste verteous life wherewith wishyng you al no lesse desier to lyue wel then the most of you are gredy of glory I leaue you to the remorce of your owne consciences presentes you here withe the remeinder of my promisse touchyng the sequele of CHARLES MONTANYN who being out of prison as you haue harde repaired immediately to his house with intent to comfort her whom he knewe to be in greater dollour and distresse and as nedeful of consolacion as himselfe seamed desirous of repose being so longe forewatched in a filthy prison and knocking at the gates of his Pallais the mayd that opened the dore and saw it was her maister mounted with more speed then an ordinarie pase and tolde ANGELIQVA the deliuerye and approche of her brother wherunto what addicion or protestation her mayde seamed to make her troubled mynde wolde giue no credit suche greate impossibilitie do wee accompte in the execution of those thinges whiche we chiefly desier but seaminge no lesse amazed with the misterie thē saint Peter being soddainly taken furth of the prison of HERODE by the Aungel sloode as thoughe she had bene dreaming of the dissolution of the worlde without apparance of sence or argument of lyuely moriō in any part of her til y e presence of her brother being now in her chāber seamed to breath in her an ayre of fresh cōsolatiō lyfe dismissing frō thinstāt y e misterie of her domme traūce receiued oftsones her former vse libertie of senses wherewith cōuerting her dolorous regards teares of aunciēt dule into a passion of such sodain gladnes that being at y e point to cōgratulat his cōmig with words she felt a secōd impedimēt of spech by y e operatiō of preset ioye which she toke in beholding his face y t she fel down at his fete embrassig kissyng his knees with no lesse signes shewe of a gladsome mynde then if by som miracle he had bene raised frō death to life wherewith certaine Ladies her kynswomen assistinge her dolorous distresse hauyng restored her laste traunce and doubtyng eftsones to fal into the like passion sent for their husbādes with other the frends of MONTANYNO aswel to reioyce his happie deliuery so to auoyde al occasiōs of further traunces in his sister as also to excuse their negligēce in not assisting his late miserie but CHARLES dissimuling y t which he thought of their discourtesie towardes himself gaue thē chief thākes for their frendship in cōforting his syster which he cōstrued to as great an honor argumēt of good wil as if they had imployed it on y e behalf of himself wherwith he dismissed them deuining notwithstāding what he shold be that had made so large declaratiō of so great a vertu sorowful without measure that he knew him not to th ende he might not onely requi●e so rare a courtesie but also excede him in liberalitie by a franke offer of himself al that he hath within the world he scamed not so ignoraunt of thauthor of so greate a benefit as his syster in treble doubte on y e same behalf persuading herselfe notwithstanding that the feare of death had made him cōueigh a secret sale of his landes in the cōtrey to him which first broked it And that this doubte which seamed to trouble hym was onely a darke vaile to conceile the trothe and kepe it from her knowledge or rather his longe imprisonment with disquiet of minde duringe his trouble had stalled his sences made him raue in y t sorte wherin she was in equall doubte of them al til he resolued her to the contrary wherewith departing for that night they repaired to their seueral chābers where y e MONTANYN had more desier of slepe then hable to admit any rest for that he spent al that night in contemplatiō contrarietie of thoughtes making an assemblie in his minde of euery shape figure of such his frends as he was hable to imagin to be y e workers or cause of so great a benefit somtime preferring one somtime presēting an other without touching notwithstāding y e perfect whit or naming him that iustely had deserued the meede of so great a merite and to whome he acknowledged no lesse bonde of dutie then to them that were the first causers of his comming into this worlde wherin passing that night the pictures of a thousand men his bed seamed to serue him as a wyde large plaine or some rowmey alley or

deadlie hate doubted whether shee shoulde vse force againste her selfe for the spite of the villainy he had don to her or persecute hym vnto deathe whose life shee vtterly detested and waueringe thus in contrarietie of opinions she soughte to appease somwhat the furye of her presente dolloure by recordynge her greete with these lamentable tearmes Alas saithe shée if this bée the rewarde of true loyaltie what assuraunce maye wee reappose in constancie or what meede to be exspected in the vertie of suche vnfained frendshippe as I professed to this vnthankeful and periured knighte haue I refused the seruice of so many gentlemenne offringe franklie to employe their times vnder the becke of my commaundemente to make my affection subiecte to one who hauinge alreadie called oute of me the frutes of his desyer smiles nowe at my simplicitie and laughes to sée mée languishe in dule Ah why were the eyes of my mynde so dymmed with the myste of fonde zeale that I colde not consider the common malice of menne now a dayes who preferring their humble seruice wyth all kinde of othes dienge a thousande times a daye for oure sakes yea offringe their lyues to all kynde of perill doo seame to remeine prisonners in the ward of oure good will vntill their fayned ymportunyties preuailyuge aboue the weake resistance of vs poore wretches do place theime in the possession of their desyer and beinge once made Lordes ouer that whyche onely colde commaunde theym afore God knowethe howe sone they reuolte torninge their seruente affection into a contempte of our fragilitie if I had as carefullie caste all argumentes of future disquiet as I was readie to open myne eares to the sugred breathe of his charmes I hadde eschewed the euill wyth the cause neyther hadde I stande as I do nowe readye to enter into the harde pennaunce of my former follie Ah moste vnthankefull PARTHONOPE howe canste thou soo easelye forgette her who was no nigarde in satysfyenge thy desyers and whose bewtie thou séemedeste earste to haue in no lesse admiracion thenne if I hadde béene sente frome aboue for thanlie solace of my lyfe hath thy presente crueltie preuailed whollie aboue the glorye of thyne aunciente vertue or haste thou vtterlie dismissed the remembraunce of thy othe and protestacion of faythe whyche oughte to call thy conscience to a remorse forcinge a performaunce of thy promisse whereof also sayeth shée castynge her waterie eyes downe to her bigge bellie thou hast lefte mée a pawne whyche witnessing no lesse thy disloyaltye agaynste mée thenne aduowching the frendeshippe thou haste founde at my hande oughte to knocke at the dore of thy conscience for some consideracion of pitie towardes her whome wythout cause thou doste shamefullie abuse Oh vnhappye and wretched Ladye that I am in what companye canne I showe my heade wherin the bignes of my bellie bringing the blodd of shame into my face will not accuse me of treason towardes my husbande beinge so longe tyme absente what wronge dothe the world to my wickednes if euery man salute me by the name of a common and arraunde strompette who defacing● her ●●nciente honour and house wyth the lasciuidus exercise of adulterous abuse deserueth to be registred in the staunderous boke of black defame w t a crown of infamy for euer wherunto like as thy subtil practises Oh ●ayty●e knyghte hath aduaunced me so thy tyrany in y e end shal take awaye the life of those ii who ought to be farr more deare vnto the then thou seamest to accompte theim wherwith fallinge into alteracions of more furye she began a cruell warre with her faire haires printinge her nailes without respecte in the rosye dye of her faire face bedewinge her bossome and skirtes of outwarde garmentes with the droppes of teares distilling from her cristal eyes and entring thus into y e pageant of rage had here plaied the laste acte of the tragedie in executinge herselfe if the presence of FYNEA had not preuented the facte who stirringe vpp rather the appitit of reuenge in her mistrys then mynistringe perswacions to patience or moderacion in her dollor incensed her by al the wicked deuises shee colde ymagyne to wreake her iuste anger vppon the villanons bodye of him that so synisterlie procured her passion of vndeserued dule whereunto albeit PANDORA gaue diligent eare with desyer to put her aduise in execution yet hauinge not vtterlie drayned her stomake of all complaints renewed estsones her exclamacion in this sort Ah. sayeth she why was not I traded in the magicall sciences of the COLCHOSE MEDEA or thytalyan CIRCE whose conninge workinge meruailous in the like affaires hath left an ymortalitie to their names to al ages certainly if the heauens had reuealed vnto me any skil in the misterie of their artes eyther sholde PARTHONOPE be myne or els would I raine the shower of vengance vppon him and her that enioyeth the mede of my merite with such ympetuosytie that the sequeile of the world shold haue no lesse cause to cronicle my doings then they seame cōmonly to confirme and allowe thactes of the it former enchaunteresses And thou FYNEA shol●est haue me to forgett him in whose loue I doate although I wishe nothing so muche as his vtter destruction And now do I see the doe rewarde of my former vnchaste conuersacion for the seruente affection whiche I beare him doth now yelde me doble vsur●e of the want on libertie wherin I haue lyued hetherunto neyther shall I be enioyned to other penance for my falte then a loathesome dispaire which attēdes if I do not recouer him whom I haue lost or haue spedie meanes to reuēge the wrong he hath don me to cut in sunder the strings of my life Wherfore beyng resolued in some parte to folowe thy aduise So muste I also vse thy traueile in th execution of my first attempte whiche is that thou goe furthwith to the vale of Cammonika in the contrey of Bressiant which as they saye is not without great stoare of conninge sorcerers amongest whom it is necessarie that thou learne what so euer it coste some enchauntement of so greate vertue that it maye not onely restore me eftesones to the frendship of hym whome I thynke hath vtterly forsaken me but by the coniuracion of theyr charme haue power to remoue the vaile of his affection from hys newe wyfe that makyng no more accompte of her he may from hensfurth dissolue the league of amytie betwene them for euer wherein if the effect of my desyer bée furthered by a successe of thy diligence assure thy selfe thy traueil shal be so thankefully imployed that chrystennynge the hensfurth by the name of my syster there shal be neither riches nor commoditye anye waye proper or due vnto me whiche shall not be common to vs both FINEA who was not so readie to obey her mystres in this deuelishe enterprise as gyuen of her selfe to bée a fyt minister of euill discending with expedicion into the vale of

of vertue was cleane contrary to the vicious pathe of ydle playe wherein he walked with more delite then belonged to the sonne of so good a father they gaue hym examples of the destruction of manye and not one that vsed that ydle exercise dyed eyther with honour wealthe or estimacion that it was the shopp and storehowse of all morders blasphemy periurye thefte glottonie whoredome with an infynitie of other mortall incōueniences and in th ende when plaie hadd lefte his purse without a lynyng and he not hable any longer to feede the vaine of that humor but by vnlawfull meanes he sholde be payde wyth the hyer of theym who without commission skowringe the plaines do pray of what the fynde and after yeldes accompte to the hangman vppon the fatall hill with a skarffe or collor of corde aboute their necke in token of glorie They required a regarde to the honour of his auncestors but chiefly not to discredit the honeste lyfe of his late father for that saye they as the vyrighte doyng of the child liuing susteyneth the renowme of the father beyng dead so there can happen no greater infamie to the sō then not to make good the vertue and ciuill partes of his father for ende they aduysed hym to dysmisse his prodigall trade of lyfe affore he were vtterly bankeroute of patrimonie and possession but he not liking to be pinched so neare the quicke and muche lesse to heare the secrettes of his falte so plainely decipherede replied accordynge to the discrecion of our wilfull youth now adaies giuen whollie to feede vppon thapetite of their foolyshe fancie that touchyng the companies he hawnted they were no worse then suche as were norished in the houses of princes and familiar compainons to the greatest lordes of the countreye and for the reste as he was not to yelde accompte of his lyfe to anye of theym so he wished theym to bestowe that care vppon their owne children for hym he was of sufficiēt yeres to gouerne hym selfe and giue conuenient order to suche affaires as belonged to his trade wherewith he stopped the further replie of tholdmen who noting tharrogante tearmes of this princkocks committed hym to the meede of his owne follie iudgynge no time conuenient to reclayme hym til he had felte the smarte of the whipp famyn and penury with other pinching ertremities attendyng the ende of an vnthriftye life But he that scamed inuincible againste all good councel was made tractable by hym that plieth the most stronge and stubborne vppon earthe and that which men accomptes the only blindnes of y t world vnsealed the eyes of this yoūgling and so tooke awaye the vaile of his arrogante follie that acknowledging euerie pointe wherein he had offende he was not onely priuie to his owne falte but also pertaker of the penance And as one poyson driueth oute an other and no one vice that is not subiecte to the correctiō of an other falte soo by that inuincible ympression whyche the Poetes haue painted in the shape of a blynde boye properly called loue this gamster was not onely forced to a spedye chaunge and alteracion of lyfe but also after sondrie and sharpe showers of aduersatie restored to his auncient entyer and place of honour and estimacion for at the same instante within Naples soiorned a riche merchante blessed at goddes handes chiefly with a faire and vertuous doughter called Carmosyna whose only beautie made more breaches into the harte of Antonio Perrillo then the graue admonicions of thelders or any other of his frendes and albeit he was as it were soo bewitched and drowned in the deuocion of playe that all tymes seamed hatefull whyche broughte hym not fresh supplies of gamsters yet hauynge once glaunced vppon the glisteringe eyes of this younge girle he coulde not so well gouerne his encounter that not onely the desier of that ydle exercise was cleane mortefyed in hym but also he suffred hym selfe imediatly to be enrolled in the booke of loyall louers in suche sorte as he neuer delited so much in any plaie at the dise as nowe he doateth vppon the beautie of Carmosinae who for her parte notynge sondrie entisynge glées whyche nature had lente to the younge man together with his bowntefull dispocition with braue attyre and courtlyke wearing his apparell whyche as it is one chyef allurement that somons y t affection of a woman at this day so the found woman wil rather delite in his smal waste and exterior pro porcion then ymbrase the vertue and giftes of cōmendacion in a man thoughte it an effect of equal courtesie to retorne his affection with semblable loue wherefore yf he selte any tormente her passion was nothynge inferior whiche also grewe to tearmes of doble gréefe on bothe partes for that they durst neither vse y tcredit of any messinger to discouer their darke meanynge and muche lesse were they assysted with meanes of conference or accesse together for that the maides thear are bownde to a more strayte talke of libertie then in our countree but for thoppynion of their chastetie I leaue it to the iudgment of them that haue had indifferent experience of bothe the places But Perillo as moste hottly assailed and leaste hable to resiste thalaram and felynge a taste of that whereof he was ignoraunte in thoperation doubting altogether of thaccidēt til nature made him vnderstand the mistery entered into his laborinth of endles annoye rauynge and raginge with hollowe dreames with doubte which of his wittes he mighte moste boldly employe in bewraieng his vehemente affection to the newe mistrys of his harte of whose good will if he had but a symple assurance by the breath of her owne mouth he seamed not to doubte any waye the consente of her for that thinequalitie of degrée and honor rested on his side perswadyng withal that the merchant wolde willingly admit thallyaunce because the mariage wold bringe a medley of honour vnto the base and darke complexion of his howse But in this accōpt he forgatt the chiefest charge and that which at this daye is most respected in makinge of mariages I meane wealthe possessions whereof Perillo had alreadie made marchandise exchanged the moste of that whiche was his for a simple remembraunce of vaine delites passed neyther did he consider the condicion of his presente state with diminucion of his aunciente fame honestie by a general brute of his vnthristie life all which notwithstandinge loue forced hym to trie the forde and sounde the harte of the faire Carmosyna assisting him also with a meane to haue thacquaintance of an old matrone her outwarde gouernesse and inwarde credit of harte whom he dandled with suche peppered perswacions and infections of certeine crownes fallynge willingly into her pockett that she gaue assuraunce of her helpe to thuttermost both in folowing and solicityng the matter yf it were once sett a broch by hym selfe whiche he performed by her the next daye in a letter of this