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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02099	Greenes farewell to folly Sent to courtiers and schollers as a president to warne them from the vaine delights that drawes youth on to repentance. Robert Greene vtriusque Academiæ in Artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1591 (1591)	STC 12241; ESTC S105962	57,357	94

Greenes farewell to Folly SENT TO COVRTIERS AND Schollers as a president to warne them from the vaine delights that drawes youth on to repentance Sero sed seriò Robert Greene Vtriusque Academiae in Artibus magister Imprinted at London by Thomas Scarlet for T. Gubbin and T. Newman 1591. TO THE HONORABLE MINDED GENTLEMAN Robert Carey Esquire Robert Greene wisheth as many good fortunes as the honor of his thoughts doe merite HAuing waded noble minded Courtier through the censures of many both Honourable and worshipfull in cōmitting the credite of my bookes to their honourable opinions as I haue found some of them not onely honourably to patronize my workes but curteouslie to passe ouer my vnskilfull presumption with silence so generally I am indebted to all Gentlemen that with fauors haue ouerslipt my follies Follies I tearme them because their subiects haue bene superficiall and their intents amorous yet mixed with such morrall principles that the precepts of vertue seemed to craue pardon for all those vaine opinions loue set downe in hir periods Seeing then worthie Maecen●… ofletters my workes haue beene counted follies and follies the fruit of youth many yeeres hauing bitten me with experience and age growing on bidding mee Petere grauiora to satisfie the hope of my friends and to make the worlde priuie to my priuate resolution I haue made a booke called my Farewell to Follies wherein as I renounce loue for a foole and vanitie as a vaine too vnfit for a Gentleman so I discouer the generall abuses that are ingrafted in the mindes of Courtiers and schollers with a Colling Card of counsell suppressing those actions that straie from the golden meane of vertue But right worshipfull some are so peremptorie in their opinions that if Diogenes stirre his stumpes they will saie it is to mocke dancers not to be want on that if the fox preach t is to spie which is the fattest goose not to be a ghost ly father that if Greene write his Farewell to Follie t is to blind the world with follie the more to shadow his owne follie My reply to these thought searchers is this I cannot Martinize sweare by my faie in a pulpit rap out gogs wounds in a tauerne faine loue when I haue no charitie or protest an open resolution of good when I intend to be priuately ill but in all publike protestations my wordes and my deedes iumpe in one simpathie and my tongue and my thoughts are relatiues But omitting these digressions right worshipful to my book which as it is the farewell to my follies so it is the last I meane euer to publish of such superficiall labours which I haue aduentured to shroude vnder the shelter of your worshippes patronage as vnder his wing whose generall loue bought with honorable deserts may defend it from the iniurie of euerie enuious enemie I can shadowe my presumption with no o●…her excuse but this that seeking to finde ou●… some one courtier whose vertuous actions had made him the hope of many honours at whose feete I might laie downe the follies of my youth bequeath to him all the profitable fruits of my ensuing age finding none that either fame could warrant me or my own priuatfancie persvvade to be of more hope then your selfe I set downe my rest and ventured boldly on your worships fauour which if as I haue found before I obtaine now I shall thinke my selfe as fortunate in getting so honorable a patrone for my new indeuours as vnhappie for blemishing my forepassed youth with such friuolous labours And thus hoping my honest resolution to do well shal be countenanst with your worships curteous acceptance I commit you to the Almightic Your worships in all humble seruice ROBERT GREENE TO THE GENTLEMEN Students of both Vniuersities health GGentlemen and Student●…s my olde fri●…ndes and companions I presented you alate with my Mourning garment howe you censure of the cloth or cut I knowe ●…ot but the Printer hath past 〈◊〉 all out of his shop and the Pedler sounde them too dea●…e for his packe that he was faine to ba●…gain for the life of Tomliuolin to wrappe vp his sweete powders in those vnsauorie papers If my garment did any Gentleman good I am glad if it offended none I am proud if good man find fault that hath his wit in his eyes and can checke what he can not amend mislike i●… I am careles for Diogenes hath taught me that to kicke an asse when he strike●… were to smell of the asse for meddling with the asse Hauing therefore Gentlemen in my opinion mourned long enough for the misdeedes of my youth least I shoulde seeme too 〈◊〉 in my fastes or like our deare English breethren that measure their praiers by the houre ●…lasse fall a sleepe in preaching of repentance I haue nowe left of the intent and am come to the effect and after my mourning present you with my Farewell to follies an vltimum vale to al youthful vanities wishing al Gentlem●…n as wel Courtiers as Schollers to take view of those blemishes that dishonor youth with the quaint shew of pleasant delights What a glorious shew would the Spring present if the beautie of hir floures were not nipt with the frostes how would Autumne boast of hir fruites if she were not disguised with the fall of the leafe and how would the vertues of youth shine polished with the ripe conceit of wit if they were not eclipsed with the cloudes of vanity Then sweete comp●…nions and louemates of learning looke into my Farewel and you shall find the poisons which infect young yeares and turning but the leafe reade the Anti ●…otes to preuent the force of such deadly confections Lay open my life in your thought and beware by my losse scorne not in your age what you hau●… learned in your Accidence though stale yet as sure as check Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cantum Such wags as haue bene wantons with me and haue marched in the Mercers booke to please their Mistris eye with their brauerie that as the frolike phra●…eis haue made the tauerne to sweat with riotous expences that haue spent their wits in courting of their sweetehearts and emp●…ied their purses by being too prodigall let them at last looke backe to the follies of their youth and with me say farewell vnto all such vanities But those young nouices that haue not yet lost the maidenhead of their innocency no●… haue not heard the melody of such alluring Syrens let them read that they may 〈◊〉 and that seeing into the depth of their follie they may the more detest that whose poysoned sweetenesse they neuer tasted Thus generally I woulde wish all to beware by me to say with me farewell to follie Then shoulde I glorie that my seede sowne with so much good will shoulde yeel●… a haruest of so great aduantage But by your leaue Gentlemen some ouer cu●…ous wi●…l carpe and say that if I were not beyond I would not be so b●…ld