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A12231	The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia. Written by Sir Philip Sidney Knight. Now since the first edition augmented and ended; Arcadia	Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.; Sanford, Hugh, d. 1607.	1593 (1593)	STC 22540; ESTC S111872	580,659	488

haue it in my praier booke I pray you said Philoclea let vs see it read it No hast but good said Miso you shal first know how I came by it I was a young girle of a seuen and twenty yeare old I could not go thorow the streate of our village but I might heare the young men talke O the pretie little eies of Miso O the fine thin lips of Miso O the goodly fat hands of Miso besides how well a certaine wrying I had of my necke became me Then the one would wincke with one eye and the other cast daiseys at me I must confesse seing so many amorous it made me set vp my peacocks tayle with the hiest Which when this good old woman perceiued O the good wold woman well may the bones rest of the good wold woman she cald me to her into her house I remember full well it stood in the lane as you go to the Barbers shop all the towne knew her there was a great losse of her she called me to her and taking first a soppe of wine to comfort her hart it was of the same wine that comes out of Candia which we pay so deere for now adaies and in that good world was very good cheape she cald me to her Minion said she indeed I was a pretie one in those daies though I say it I see a number of lads that loue you Well said she I say no more doo you know what Loue is With that she brought me into a corner where there was painted a foule fiend I trow for he had a paire of hornes like a Bull his feete clouen as many eyes vpon his bodie as my gray-mare hath dappels for all the world so placed This monster sat like a hangman vpon a paire of gallowes in his right hand he was painted holding a crowne of Laurel in his left hand a purse of mony out of his mouth hong a lace of two faire pictures of a man and a woman and such a countenance he shewed as if he would perswade folks by those aluremēts to come thither be hanged I like a tender harted wench skriked out for feare of the diuell Well said she this same is euen Loue therefore do what thou list with all those fellows one after another and it recks not much what they do to thee so it be in secret but vpō my charge neuer loue none of them Why mother said I could such a thing come frō the belly of the faire Venus for a few dayes before our priest betweene him me had told me the whole storie of Venus Tush said she they are all deceaued and therwith gaue me this Booke which she said a great maker of ballets had giuen to an old painter who for a litle pleasure had bestowed both booke and picture of her Reade there said she thou shalt see that his mother was a cowe and the false Argus his father And so she gaue me this Booke and there now you may reade it With that the remembrance of the good old woman made her make such a face to weepe as if it were not sorrow it was the carkasse of sorrow that appeared there But while her teares came out like raine falling vpon durtie furrowes the latter end of her praier booke was read among these Ladies which contained this POore Painters oft with silly Poets ioyne To fill the world with strange but vaine conceits One brings the stuffe the other stamps the coine Which breedes nought else but gloses of deceits Thus Painters Cupid paint thus Poets do A naked God blinde young with arrowes two Is he a God that euer flies the light Or naked he disguis'd in all vntruth If he be blind how hitteth he so right How is he young that tam'd old Phoebus youth But arrowes two and tipt with gold or leade Some hurt accuse a third with horny head No nothing so an old false knaue he is By Argus got on Io then a cow What time for her Iuno her Ioue did misse And charge of her to Argus did allow Mercury kill'd his false sire for this act His damme a beast was pardon'd beastly fact With fathers death and mothers guiltie shame With Ioues disdaine at such a riuals seed The wretch compell'd a runnagate became And learn'd what ill a miser state doth breed To lye to steale to pry and to accuse Naught in himselfe ech other to abuse Yet beares he still his parents stately gifts A horned head clouen feete and thousand eyes Some gazing still some winking wilye shiftes With long large eares where neuer rumour dyes His horned head doth seeme the heauen to spight His clouen foote doth neuer treade aright Thus halfe a man with man he dayly haunts Cloth'd in the shape which soonest may deceaue Thus halfe a beast ech beastly vice he plants In those weake harts that his aduice receaue He proules ech place stil in new colours deckt Sucking ones ill another to infect To narrow brests he comes all wrapt in gaine To swelling harts he shines in honours fire To open eyes all beauties he doth raine Creeping to ech with flattering of desire But for that Loue is worst which rules the eyes Thereon his name there his chiefe triumph lyes Millions of yeares this old driuell Cupid liues While still more wretch more wicked he doth proue Till now at length that Ioue him office giues At Iunos suite who much did Argus loue In this our world a hang-man for to be Of all those fooles that will haue all they see The Ladies made sport at the description and storie of Cupid But Zelmane could scarce suffer those blasphemies as she tooke them to be read but humbly besought Pamela she would perfourme her sisters request of the other part of the storie Noble Lady answered she beautifying her face with a sweete smiling and the sweetnes of her smiling with the beautie of her face since I am borne a Princes daughter let me not giue example of disobedience My gouernesse will haue vs draw cuts and therefore I pray you let vs do so and so perhaps it will light vpon you to entertaine this company with some storie of your owne and it is reason our eares should be willinger to heare as your tongue is abler to deliuer I will thinke answered Zelmane excellent Princesse my tongue of some value if it can procure your tongue thus much to fauour me But Pamela pleasantly persisting to haue fortune their iudge they set hands and Mopsa though at the first for squeamishnes going vp and downe with her head like a boate in a storme put to her golden gols among them and blind Fortune that saw not the coulor of them gaue her the preheminence and so being her time to speake wiping her mouth as there was good cause she thus tumbled into her matter In time past sayd she there was a King the mightiest man in all his country that had by his wife the fairest

possesseth thee But if thou wilt do it canst thou do it canst thou force thy hart Thinke with thy selfe if this man haue thee thou shalt neuer haue more part of Antiphilus then if he were dead But thus much more that the affection shal be still gnawing and the remorse still present Death perhaps will coole the rage of thy affection where thus thou shalt euer loue and euer lacke Thinke this beside if thou marrie Tiridates Antiphilus is so excellent a man that long he cannot be from being in some high place maried canst thou suffer that too If an other kill him he doth him the wrong if thou abuse thy body thou doost him the wrong His death is a worke of nature and either now or at another time he shal die But it shal be thy worke thy shamefull worke which is in thy power to shun to make him liue to see thy faith falsified and his bed defiled But when Loue had well kindled that partie of her thoughts then went he to the other side What said he O Erona and is thy Loue of Antiphilus come to that point as thou doost now make it a question whether he shall die or no O excellent affection which for too much loue will see his head off Marke well the reasons of the other side and thou shalt see it is but loue of thy selfe which so disputeth Thou canst not abide Tiridates this is but loue of thy selfe thou shalt be ashamed to looke vpon him afterward this is but feare of shame and loue of thy selfe thou shalt want him as much then this is but loue of thy selfe he shal be married if he be well why should that grieue thee but for loue of thy selfe No no pronounce these words if thou canst let Antiphilus die Then the images of each side stood before her vnderstanding one time she thought she saw Antiphilus dying an other time she thought Antiphilus sawe her by Tiridates enioyed twenty times calling for a seruaunt to carry message of yeelding but before he came the minde was altered She blusht when she considered the effect of granting she was pale when she remembred the fruits of denying For weeping sighing wringing her hands and tearing her haire were indifferent of both sides Easily she would haue agreed to haue broken all disputations with her owne death but that the feare of Antiphilus furder torments staied her At length euen the euening before the day apointed of his death the determination of yeelding preuailed especially growing vpon a message of Antiphilus who with all the coniuring termes he could deuise besought her to saue his life vpon any conditions But she had no sooner sent her messenger to Tiridates but her mind changed and she went to the two yong Princes Pyrocles and Musidorus falling downe at their feet desired them to try some way for her deliuerance shewing her selfe resolued not to ouer-liue Antiphilus nor yet to yeeld to Tiridates They that knew not what she had done in priuate prepared that night accordingly as sometimes it fals out that what is inconstancy seemes cunning so did this change indeed stand in as good steed as a witty dissimulation For it made the King as reckles as them diligent so that in the dead time of the night the Princes issued out of the towne with whom she would needs go either to die her selfe or reskew Antiphilus hauing no armour nor weapon but affection And I cannot tell you how by what deuise though Plangus at large described it the conclusion was the wonderfull valour of the two Princes so preuailed that Antiphilus was succoured and the King slaine Plangus was then the chiefe man left in the campe and therefore seeing no other remedie conueied in safety into her country Artaxia now Queene of Armenia who with true lamentations made known to the world that her new greatnes did no way comfort her in respect of her brothers losse whom she studied all meanes possible to reuenge vpon euery one of the occasioners hauing as she thought ouerthrowne her brother by a most abhominable treason In somuch that being at home she proclaimed great rewards to any priuate man and her selfe in mariage to any Prince that would destroy Pyrocles and Musidorus But thus was Antiphilus redeemed and though against the consent of all her nobility married to Erona in which case the two Greeke Princes being called away by an other aduenture left them But now me thinkes as I haue read some Poets who when they intend to tell some horrible matter they bid men shun the hearing of it so if I do not desire you to stop your eares from me yet may I wel desire a breathing time before I am to tell the execrable treason of Antiphilus that brought her to this misery and withall wish you all that from all mankind indeed you stop your eares O most happy were we if we did set our loues one vpon another And as she spake that word her cheekes in red letters writ more then her tongue did speake And therefore since I haue named Plangus I pray you sister said she helpe me with the rest for I haue held the stage long inough and if it please you to make his fortune knowne as I haue done Eronas I will after take hart againe to go on with his falshood and so betweene vs both my Ladie Zelmane shall vnderstand both the cause and parties of this Lamentation Nay I beshrow me then said Miso I will none of that I promise you as long as I haue the gouernmēt I wil first haue my tale then my Lady Pamela my Lady Zelmane my daughter Mopsa for Mopsa was then returned from Amphialus may draw cuts the shortest cut speake first For I tell you and this may be suffred when you are married you will haue first and last word of your husbands The Ladies laughed to see with what an eger earnestnesse she looked hauing threatning not onely in her Ferret eies but while she spake her nose seeming to threaten her chin her shaking lims one to threaten another But there was no remedy they must obey and Miso sitting on the ground with her knees vp and her hands vpon her knees tuning her voice with many a quauering cough thus discoursed vnto them I tell you true said she whatsoeuer you thinke of me you will one day be as I am I simple though I sit here thought once my pennie as good siluer as some of you do and if my father had not plaid the hasty foole it is no lie I tell you I might haue had an other-gaines husband then Dametas But let that passe God amend him and yet I speake it not without good cause You are full in your tittle tattlings of Cupid here is Cupid there is Cupid I will tell you now what a good old womā told me what an old wise man told her what a great learned clerke told him and gaue it him in writing and here I