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A15035	Aurelia. The paragon of pleasure and princely delights contayning the seuen dayes solace (in Christmas holy-dayes) of Madona Aurelia, Queene of the Christmas pastimes, & sundry other well-courted gentlemen, and gentlewomen, in a noble gentlemans pallace. A worke most sweetely intercoursed (in ciuill and friendly disputations) with many amorous and pleasant discourses, to delight the reader: and plentifully garnished with morall notes, to make it profitable to the regarder. By G.W. Gent.; Heptameron of civill discourses	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1593 (1593)	STC 25338; ESTC S119821	126,076	172

Ismarito more lamented that so mighty a Monarchie erected by the Father should end by the enuie and ciuill dissention of the children Segnior Philoxenus after he had giuen a Bongiorno to the company séeing Ismarito not chayned to a companyon determined to giue his solitarinesse a disgrace by cōuersing with him in some Gentlemanly Discourse He is not alone that hath good Bookes but finding him accompanied with so swéete a companion as Mesiers Cronicles Segnior Ismarito quoth he you haue deceiued my imagination which perswaded me that you were solitarie and therefore bound me in courtesie to visite you But séeing the great personages with whome you deuise I enuie your happy contemplation But your Enuie quoth Ismarito is like that of Mutius Sceuola desirous to excel the better sort in vertue as you excéede the Rakehell multitude in courtesie This incounter and a little other priuate talke ended A most famous library in the Dukes Pallace at Florence left by Cosmos de Medicis Segnior Philoxenus lead Ismarito into a fayre Librarie beautified with such a number of goodly Bookes of all Sciences Lawes Customes Gouerments and memoriall Monuments as well ancient as moderne as it came very néere in excellency to the famous Library of Cosmos de Medicis in Florence who imitated in his Monument Ptolemey surnamed Philadelphus who had the seuenty interpreters of the Iewes to trāstate the sacred Bible into the Egyptian language and with great diligence sought to haue the seuerall Copies of all Bookes After Ismarito had well regarded the orderly sorting of of these Bookes and how by a short Kalender a Man without great paine might turne vnto any harde Question in any Science and haue large resolutions and had taken a note of the title of certaine Bookes that he had not séene and yet necessary to be reade Segnior Philoxenus lead him into his owne priuate study It belongeth to a Gentleman to be seuere in many things which was furnished with Summaries or abridgements of all Sciences which he studied with such a iudgement as there was no Arte wherein he had not a speciall knowledge which in argument he exposed with so good a wit and memorie as many times hee grounded Masters in that Science And for that in all his actions he was the true patterne for a Gentleman to imitate in honour of whome and for the benefite of such Gentlemen as will follow his example in vertue I am bound to set briefly downe the chiefest cause of his studie First and principally Diuinitie for the comfort both of his bodie and soule In Theologie he read those bookes that cleared the mistes of Ignorance and vnmasked the deceipts of the superstitious Monkes Friers c. And contemplated in the swéete comfort of those Authors that expounded the hard passages of the Scripture And for that Health is the most precious Iuell of the worlde Phisicke knowing the Constitution of his owne bodye hee studied so much in Phisick as without the direction of Doctors he knew what meate and Medicine agréed with his nature To minister Iustice vnto the ignorant multitude and to kéepe himselfe out of the Forfeits of Law Lawe he studied the ciuill Law and specially the Statutes of his Countrey And questionlesse the Gentleman that is ignorant in the Lawes of his Countrey is an enemie to himselfe and a Cipher in the common weale In Militarie knowledge he was experienced as well by seruice in the Fielde Arte Militarie as in reading Vegetius and other Authors in his study And some trauel in this Arteie néedfull as well as commendable for a Gentleman for it is not in ough for him to be Togatus as a Romane Orator nor Paliatus as a Grecian Philosopher in that he must as wel in the fielde looke his enemie in the face as imbrace his friend in the house and therefore though he bare a Pen in his eare to write his owne commentaries he is bound to weare a Sworde by his side to doo his Countrey seruice For Gouerment and Ciuill behauiours Moralitie he read Plutarches Morals Gueuaraes Diall of Princes the Courtier of Count Baldazar Castillio and others And in trueth it is not so necessary to be well borne as to be wel quallited and of good behauiour wherefore the studie of Moralitie is very néedfull for a Gentleman Hee likewise studied Cosmographie Cosmography and had therein commendable knowledge which studie cannot but much please and commend a braue minded Gentleman For by the vertue thereof he shal be in his Study able to suruaye the whole worlde and with an agréeable discourse shall bound out a Stranger his owne Countrey He was a good Historiographer Historiographie and had read many rare Chronicles How pleasing this studie is to a Gentleman is liuely expressed in his owne nature greedy of newes And where may he haue better intelligence then Cronicles in which quietly in his owne Studie he may receiue knowledge of Actes done throughout the whole worlde He was a good Herauld and had read much in Armorie Armorie an Arte most néedfull for a Gentleman in that it is the cognisance of himselfe And in my opinion he that is not able to blason his owne Armes is not worthy to beare them These Gentlemanly studies he vsed intermedled with others of more pleasure which I had not leasure to regarde nor memorie to beare away but in all is actions and behauiours he exposed a Gentleman so perfect as in regarding of him but one halfe yeare Segnior Philoxenus a perfect Courner a man might haue noted downe a Courtier not inferiour to that of Count Baldezar By that time Segnior Philoxenus had sufficiently fed Ismaritoes eyes with this honourable fauour the sound of the Trumpet gaue knowledge of dinner so the Ismarito was driuen to leaue that earthly Paradise to attend honorable Philoxenus into the great Chamber against whose comming the Table stoode furnished with many dainty dishes And Quéene Aurelia and the rest of the company were readie to salute him which courtesie perfourmed she tooke her appointed place and the rest as they pleased Towards the latter end of this dinner a meane fellow guarded betwéene two Furies of the Kitchin was brought coram nobis for some pettie pilfering in the Scullerie Segnior Philoxenus referred his payne to the iudgement of the Gentlemen and Gentlewomen there present Some of the Gentlemen appoynted him some pleasaunt payne in the office where he did the trespasse some other of the Gentlewomen ouercome with a natural pitie accepted his teares in satisfaction Women are too pitiful to be Iudges and so discharged him But the Doctor more rougher then the rest tooke him vp so shorte as the poore fellow was driuen to say Sir where you may helpe hurte not The Doctor to satisfie his request and to kéepe his first determination A scoffer is many times smitten with his own weapon answered To help to hang a Thiefe is

of brauerie whom the whole troupe reuerently saluted and honorably accompanyed vnto the Chappell After Seruice Dinner and all were solemnly ended Quéene Aurelia with a chosen company Musick refresheth the wit retyred her self into a pleasant drawing Chamber to execute the reported ordenaunce But to quicken the Spirites of the company before they entred into discourse she commaunded a faire Eunuche Boy to sing some one song as he thought good who obaying her commaundement with a heauenly note vnto the Lute sung this louing lay NO ioy comes neere the heauenly ioy of loue When we imbrace the wish of our desire All pleasures els that kinde or Art may moue To loue are like the heate of painted fire Loue is the roote whereon sweet thoughts do growe Loue is the sowrce from whence content doth flow When I beholde my Misterisse in the face Loue from her eyes a thousand Graces throwes But when in armes I doe her selfe imbrace One smiling looke exileth all my woes Then straight our lips prepare themselues to fight And on ech kisse loue sets a new delight What would you more I wish me in my graue Were but my soule with halfe these pleasures crownde And heare on earth to be my Misterisse slaue I holde me free and others to be bound Wherefore I sing which I in solace proue There is no heauen to life bestowed in loue The swéet deliuery of this sonet so inchanted the harts of the hearers as for a space their sences gaue place to the contemplation of their soules In the end Madona Isabella by this motion made the whole company a passage for spéech If Loue be so swéet a passion quoth she I muse from what cause procéedeth the complaints of Louers who with showring teares bedewe the earth with misty sights dimme the aire and with shrill outcries pearse the heauens The cause quoth Soranso procéedes of our fleshly imperfectiōs which corrupts the nature of good things and not of any defect in loue Loue simply is good for loue is a simple deuine vertue and hath his being in the soule whose motions are heauenly I haue read quoth Isabella that there be sundry kindes of loue The vse of loue are diuers quoth Soranso as in zeale towards God The distinctions of loue in duety towards our Country in obedience towards our parents and in affection towards our fréends All which motions procéede foorth of one loue although some are more vehement then the other euen as many Riuers doo run out of one Spring whereof some haue a more swift course then the other But of that passion which we ordinarily call loue the wish either tends to Mariage or wantonnes There is matter of disputation in Mariage quoth Franceschina Knowne euik are not to be defended because the estate is honorable and yet subiect to crosse fortunes But touching your conclusion of wantonnes deserues to dye in silence for known euils are to be chastened without allowing their defences Madame quoth Faliero vnlesse you reuoke this sentence we wil haue you indited at Rome as an heretick for by the Popes Canons Priests may not marry and they haue a custome among themselues not to liue chaste Well quoth Franceschina if the Pope for this opinion burne me as an heretick good men will cannonise me for a vertuous Virgin These digressions quoth Quéen Aurelia are the meanes rather to worke a confusion of our memories A necessary note then to conclude any beneficiall matter for our instruction And therefore I hold it to greater purpose substantially to handle one argument thē sieightly to ouerrun many causes where the doubts we leaue vnresolued wil be more dangerous vnto the hearer then the counsels we vse profitable vnto the follower Madame A contention whether Mariage or the single life is the worthier quoth Fabritio I hold it good we obey your direction And for that Mariage is the most honourable euent of Loue and that a Single life is the greatest testimony of Chastity A ciuill Contention to proue which is the most worthy of the two would conclude much contentment For as Yron and Flynt beat together haue the vertue to smite fire so mens wits encountring in doubtfull questions openeth a passage for imprisoned Truth Quéene Aurelia Argument decideth doubts and the rest of the company liked very well of the Subiect and studying who were the fittest to deale in this controuersie Aurelia with a glauncing eye behelde that her seruant Ismarito witsafed no greater token Wise silence worketh more regarde then foolish talke that he tooke delight in these actions then sometime the secret bestowing of a modest smile whereupon she forethought that as Floods when they are most highest make least noise euen so perchaunce his still tongue was gouerned by a flowing wit and desirous to sound his sufficiencie she quickned him with this crosse surmise Seruant quoth she your sober lookes promiseth a hope that you will vndertake Dianaes quarrell but which will serue in this question I feare me you commaund Loue so much A fault in many trauellers as you contemne Mariage And the greater is my suspicion in that you are a Trauailer the nature of which sort of people is to swell with a monsterous disdaine of Mariage The reason is say they their affections are paysoned with the knowledge of womens so hamous euils as they dare not venter of that vocation But my opinion is they haue learned so many subtilties to deceiue a shiftles woman as dandled with the imbracements of sundry Loues they forsweare Mariage who bindes them to one only wife And if you be infected with the humour of these sorte of Trauailers you may well vndertake this charge All vnmarried passe vnder the name of chast for Venus though she loue not Diana yet is she the sworn enemie of Iuno And if you be sound from this infirmitie the little haste you make to marry witnesseth you honor Hymen with no great deuotion and therfore I commaund you to vse all your possible proofs in the Defence of a Single life and for your assistance I do appoint you Lucia Bella whom this charge cannot mislike because as I vnderstand she means to be a professed Nun You are to encounter the opinions of many and therefore arme your selues with as good reasons as you may Madame quoth Ismarito I am so deepely bound vnto your commaundement as I am driuen to leaue your suggestions not answeared and my owne innocency vnexcused and only attend the incounter of him that wil maintain Mariage to be more worthy then a Single life which vocation of Mariage though I reuerently honour yet I so zealously affect the other as I hope where the Iudges are indifferent to make the glory thereof to shine as the faire white aboue euery other colour Sir Defences of Mariage quoth Soranso though white be a faire colour yet are the choyse of all other colours more rich and glorious so though

you a fayned friend being so dangerous then an open enemie wherfore we pardon you By this time Supper and euery seruice of the Table ended Wherupon Quéene Aurelia and the whole company rose and saluted one another with a ciuill reuerence The Musick summoned the young Gentlemen and Gentlwomen to dauncing for this night they expected no other pastime vnlesse it were dicing carding or such like vnthrifty sportes And therfore as the night grew on or they waxed weary vntill the next morning they committed one another a dio MADONA AVRELIA Her second daies pleasures Containing with many other necessary Questions a large discouery of the inconueniences of forced Mariages AVrora had no sooner forsaken her husband Tithons bed A Description of the sunne rising but that Phoebus ashamed of his ouer drowsy sléeping in the darke Caues of Tartessus hastely harnesed vp his Horses in his fierie Chariot climed the mountaine Oeta the painfull trauel whereof made brighte Pyrois and sparkling Phlegon Pyrois and phlegō fained to be two of the Suns Cock horses breath flames like the burning Furnace wherein Vnlcan forgeth the Thunderboltes of Iupiter In so much as Phoebus golden rayes which beautifieth the Heauens and comforteth the earth pearced through euery small passage into Segnior Philoxenus Pallace and glimmering in the young Gentlemens faces wakened them with an imaginatiō of their mistresse beauties The bed resembleth the Graue who scorning their beds as graues which buried the one half of their pleasures the Cannapies as cloudes that shadowed the brightnes of their Load Stars now started vp to honour and salute the Images of their hearts delight to waken the Ladies gentlewomen who of the sodaine could not be attyred the tingling of a smal Bel gaue them warning of a Sermon Insomuch as by nine of the clocke Quéene Aurelia and her stately attendants entered the Chappell in such Equipage as I thinke the Preacher Laureta commonly called Loretto the great pilgrimage of Italy where is a small Chappel sometimes made by the cunning of certaine Friers and the consent of some of the Citizens of Racanati onely to bring Fraffique to their Citie destroyed by the Gothes and Vandals and in the night stole it out of the towne and spread a rumor that our Lady by Angels had brought it out of Iury the mansion house wherein she there liued which Fable a number holde for a trueth Frier Bugiardo imagined our Lady was come from Loretto to honor Segnior Philoxenus Altar and therefore to welcome her the more he so extolled our Ladies vertues and the good and pitifull woorkes of our Cannonized Matrons and Virgins if the Crowne of Heauen had stoode vpon our Ladies head and that the earth chiefely Italy was blessed for pittifull womens sake of which they could haue no greater testimonie then that our Lady by miracle had possessed them with her earthly Mansion which she dayly visiteth with a thousand blessings And therefore quoth he repaire her Churches cherish her Priests pray before her Aulters your finnes whatsoeuer shall be forgiuen O she is pittifull as a woman and can rule her sonne as a Mother and with such like olde tales Ignorance Caue the hie way to hell Tapers he lighted the people as they thought to Heauen but in very truth into blinde Ignorance Caue from whence the diuell carried them to Hell Ismarito smiled to heare the subtiltie of the Frier and sorrowed to sée the simplicitie of the people in causes that appertaine vnto the soule Italians a most subtil kind of people who in the affaires of the flesh are as wilie as Serpents whose countenance when Philoxenus beheld hée pleasantly demaunded how Ismarito liked Frier Bugiardo his sermon Ismarito merely answered it was pittie that Iudas had not heard the like after he had betrayed his Master Christ it might haue béen vpon these large promises of forgiuenes he would not so desperately haue hanged himselfe Then quoth Philoxenus these pleasing sermons bee not vnnecessary in this countrie where sinne is so grose for were not the people in hope Sinne cannot indure to hear of Gods Iustice that our Lady of pittie would pardon them anumber would follow Iudas in despayre with feare that Gods Iustice would condemne them It séemeth reason quoth Ismarito that the people beléeue what is said in the Pulpit for they vnderstand not what is read in the Church A tiranny ten times more cruel then Phalaris Bull. In this especiall case quoth Philoxenus all our crosses are curses So that our first restraint from reading the Scriptures could not but come from as accursed a spirit as his Alcaron a law that forbids the Turkes to dispute of Mahomet that first inuented the Turkes Alcaron for by the paine of the one Mahomets Idolatry is vnreprehended and through our ignorance in the other the Popes blasphemie is in vs vnespyed and thereby both God is dishonoured and many a Soule destroyed so that happie and thrise happie Turks to dispute of Mahomet A diuine blessing are you of England that haue the sacred Bible and the hard passages of Scripture expounded in vulgar language that your common sorte howsoeuer your Prelates liue vnderstand whether they erre or no in their doctrine And since the subiects of the Emperor Alexander Seuerus honoured their soueraignes vertues with these acclamations NOble Alexander we pray the goddes that they haue no lesse care of your Maiestie then you haue of vs A token of louing Subiects most happie be we that we haue you among vs. Noble Alexander the gods preserue you the goddes defende you proceede forth in your purpose wee ought to loue you as our Father to honour you as our Lorde and to admyre you as a God here among vs. And thereunto added Noble Emperour take what you will of our Treasure and substance to accomplish your purpose onely for building of three Hospitalles to succour the sicke bodies of the poore By how much more zeale ought you the good Quéene of Englands Subiectes adde to this Prerogatiue Doe gratious Queene Elizabeth what shall seeme to you good for your most blessed nature cannot erre or do any thing amis that you purpose who by diuine inspiratiō hath vnlocked the fountaine of grace so that the thirstie soules both of her rich and poore subiects may freely drinke the water of life Segnior Philoxenus so affected this spéech as Ismarito could not but imagine his heart abiudged him a strunger to grace and vnworthie life that was her vassaile and said not therevnto Amen The end of Fryer Bugiardos clawing Sermon Reconciliation may take away reuenge but not grudge from enemies harts broke off this priuate talke and the Gentlewomen proude of the commendation of their pytifull sexe now wished that Doctor Mossenigo had béen vnpardoned his yester-nightes trespasse towards women that the holy Frier might haue cited him before our Lady of Loretto who the greater part of dinner time

quarrels among the kindred occupieth all the neighhours with slander so the for the most part these forced mariages engendereth sorrowes for the maried disquietnesse to both their friends kindred but which stil renueth griefe the scandal of enemies endeth in neither of their wretchednesse This being said little auayled the further proofes of the contrarie part so ful was the crie Fie of forcement in mariage so that to paint out the inconueniences therof in his proper colours Quéene Aurelia commanded Faliero to confirme his sufficient reasons with the discourse of some rare Historie Whose commandement he willingly satisfied and reported as followeth The History in the reproch of forced Mariage reported by Faltero IN the famous Cittie of Cirene in Affrick dwelled sometims a rich Marchant named Tryfo This Tryfo had a welthy neighbour called Clearches who of long time entertained one another with a neighbourly affection Tryfo to inherite all his liuings had but one onely Sonne named Sicheus and Clearches one onely Daughter called Elisa The parents to establish as they imagined an euerlasting amitie between their houses concluded a mariage for their vnfortunate Children making no doubt but that they would as well inherite their affections as their liuings of which there was hope enough if the order had béene as good to establish their Lone as the haste great to solemnize the Mariage for that in their persons appéered no signe of disagréement nor in their abilities cause of exception but loue that beholdeth no more quicknesse in a Diamond then in a dym Saphyre though he take impression by sight Loue rooteth by contemplation rooteth in contemplation which deuine exercise of the soule smally delighteth gréene youth who intertain their thoughts with a thousand vaine fancies but to my purpose The Mariage day drew néere and as at the very push of Battell the wise Captain animateth his Souldiers with some plausible oration euen so the night before the Mariage Tryfo schooled his sonne Sicheus with this following aduertisement My good sonne quoth he so great are the follies of men Aduise to a booteles purpose and so cunning the deceits of women as they most especially the yonger sort will credite their lookes without looking into their liues beléeue their words and lightly regarde their workes delight to recount their entertainments and disdaine to reckon their shrewde paiments For as the sick patient comforted with the Phisitions woords leaues to examine the qualities of his receites Euen so the wretched louer cured with the yéelding of his beautifull Mistres Loue yeelds neither to wit strength nor learning with negligence both ouerlooks his own benefite and her behauiour Salomon was deceiued Sampson subdued Aristotle derided and Hercules murthered by the illusions of errant honest women King Demetrius notwithstanding he was both wise and valiant An extreame affection was so bewitched with the wyles of the notorions strumpet Lamia as in open Schooles he raised disputations whether the loue he bare Lamia or the Iewels he bestowed vpon her were the greater or whether her merite excéeded them both or no. Yea when she dyed he caused her to be entombed vnder his bed Chamber window to the ende that with dayly teares he might worship her engraued bones who liuing was of him intirely beloued If the wisest and the worthiest be thus ouertaken in their affections what easie baites may beguile thée who in yéeres art yong of substance delicate and lustie and therefore apt to loue ready in conceit and of consideration vnperfect hotte in desire and in discretion colde My sonne by experience I know and to prenent thy ouerlikely mischaunce in choyce I haue chosen thée a wife faire to please thée rich to continue loue her Parents my assured fréends and she thy affected louer loue her well beare with her insmall faults as a woman and the weaker and bridle thy owne euill affections as a man her head and gouernour and in thus dooing God will multiply his blessings vpon you and make your aged Parents to die in peace to sée you liue in prosperitie Yong Sicheus regarded his Fathers tale as Schollers doe their Tutors who giuing them leaue to play admonisheth them with all to kéep good rule which they promise and perferme the contrary With the like affection Sicheus embraced mariage He was not so soone weary of dallying with his wife as he was ready to entertaine a Harlot so that in short space he became a common Louer and a carelesse Husband and withall grew as arrogant in defending his liberty The title of Mariage maketh youth arrogant as dissalute in his actions and behauiour If his fréends did gently aduise him he was of age to counsell himselfe if his Parents did sharpely reprehend him he would impudently aunswere he was past correction if his Wife found her selfe agréeued with his hard vsage she might well complaine but he would take no time to amend so that his dayly actions of euill tooke away all after hope of wel doing insomuch as he became odious to his fréends that beheld his lewde inclination and a plague vnto his Wife who was dayly oppressed with his monstrous vices So that the ouercharge of sorrow made her many times passage for these and such like passions O vnhappy and ouer hastie Mariage which in the pride of my youth with discontentments makest me resemble a faire Figge trée Abuse of good things worke euill effectes blasted with the after colde of an vntimely Spring but why blame I Mariage which is honourable alas because the abuse of good things worke euill effectes Roses vnaduisedly gathered prick our hands Bées vngently vsed sting our faces yet the one pleasant and the other profitable so that if there come any euill of that which is good our folly or fortune is cause thereof Ay me That which is blessing to one may be a curse to an other when I was married I was too yong to be a wife and therfore haue no reason to exclaime on folly But fortune fowle fall shée which coursest me with curses in possessing me with those things which others holde for blessings Wealth that bestoweth pleasures on many is the originall of my woe Mariage which giueth liberty to many inlargeth my Fetters and demaundeth death for my raunsome Beauty that aduaunseth many is to me a disgrace for that inioying her forme Carelesnes of the husband breedeth in the wife I am of Sicheus not fantasied of whom euery foule and common Trull is beloued But therein Fortune thou doost me no wrong for my hate towards him ouerpoyseth his light regarde of me O but my hart is continually afflicted with his euil and his finger neuer akes with my malice Yea Choller is soone quieted but forbearāce increaseth malice but Forbearance edgeth the swoord of Reuenge when Choller though it often strikes it wounds not much Raine falleth euery where yet beateth but the leaues the thunder Boult lighteth in one place but yet teareth