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A09530	Phisicke against fortune, aswell prosperous, as aduerse conteyned in two bookes. Whereby men are instructed, with lyke indifferencie to remedie theyr affections, aswell in tyme of the bryght shynyng sunne of prosperitie, as also of the foule lowryng stormes of aduersitie. Expedient for all men, but most necessary for such as be subiect to any notable insult of eyther extremitie. Written in Latine by Frauncis Petrarch, a most famous poet, and oratour. And now first Englished by Thomas Twyne.; De remediis utriusque fortunae. English	Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.; Twyne, Thomas, 1543-1613.	1579 (1579)	STC 19809; ESTC S114602	539,184	716

all whiche only vertue is opposed Sorowe I haue a dishonest wyfe Reason Notable and excellent chastitie hath made certayne matrones to arrogant She feareth nothyng who is gyltie to her selfe of nothing And therfore that discōmoditie bringeth this benefite with it that she wyl begin now hereafter to be lesse saucie and insolent For a giltie conscience abateth the swelling pride of a womans minde and commonly she that knoweth that she hath trode her shoe awrye wil be afterwarde the more seruiceable to her husband Sorowe I haue a wanton wife Reason Thou must not wonder at that if she be faire if she be foule thou needest not care for it Sorow My wife is incontinent Reason When a man bryngeth a fayre wyfe into his house he ought also to remember the saying of the Satiryke Poet Beautie and honestie do seldome dwel to geather but yf she be a foule slut and do so abuse her selfe thou mayest reioyce that thou hast founde so iuste a cause to be diuorsed from her Sorowe My wyfe hath cōmitted adulterie Reason Adulterie many tymes hapneth vpon ouerhastie desire of marriage and often tymes also it is the punyshment of another mans adulterie and the more iust if it be of many Recount with thy selfe whether thou euer diddest that vnto another whereby thou mayest thynke this worthily doone vnto thee It is an vniust and an vnreasonable complaint to be grieued to suffer that which thy selfe hast doone and the morall lawe wylleth to looke for that at another mans handes whiche thou hast doone to another and to do that vnto another whiche thou wouldest haue hym doo vnto thee truely it is so excellent a lawe that the Heathen haue commended it beyng ledde therevnto by the indifferencie and grauitie of the saying But the licentiousnesse of humane wantonnesse beyng the repealer of al holsome lawes dooth vtterly confounde al ryght and wrong And thus then it hapneth that adulterers sometyme do meete togeather who when they haue defiled theyr neyghbours wyues yet can they not abyde theyr owne wiues so much as once to be seene in open streate and yf they perceiue that any man dooth but looke vppon them they wil immediatly be redy to runne mad for iclousie So seuere vnto others so partial vnto him selfe so vndiscrete a considerer of matters is euery particuler man. Sorowe My wife hath broken her wyfely fidelitie towards me Reason See that thou breake not the same not only vnto other married men but also vnto thine owne wyfe For there be some that requyre that of theyr wyues whiche they them selues doo not performe excusyng theyr wantonnes vnder the title of dalliance punishing the same in others most seuerely as a most grieuous offence who in geuyng all libertie to them selues deny al things vnto other Most vnequal judges who beyng them selues vnchaste do geue sentence against incontinencie in others and them selues will doo what they luste without controulment and are caried away after vncertayne and wandering venerie as if they were subiect to no lawe If the poore wife doo but looke a litle awrye she is straight waies accused of whoordome as though their husbandes were theyr maisters and not theyr husbandes and they not theyr wyues and fellowes in the house and familie both of GOD and man but were rather their handmaydens taken prysoners in battayle or bought for money and as though thy wyfe ought thee more seruice or fidelitie then thou her for there ought to be lyke duetie equal loue and mutual fidelitie in marriage I excuse not wyues but I accuse husbands and put them in the greatest part of the blame And many times the husbande is an example and procurer of his wyfe vnto folly and many tymes there hath rysen the begynning of the mischief where ought to haue been the remedie although shamefastnesse be the proper ornament of a woman and wysedome and constancie the peculiar commendacion of a man And therefore all folly and lightnesse of mynde is by so muche the more foule in aman then in a woman by howe muche grauitie is the more requyred in a man. Sorowe I am heauie for my wyues whoredome Reason A common sorowe an auncient iniurie and no lesse frequented For alas I speake it with bitter griefe Mariage is not more commonly vsed then is whoredome and to speake in fewe woordes it is a thyng as one sayeth whiche can neyther be suffered nor prohibited for that honestie forbiddeth the one and letcherie the other Dooest thou looke then to haue thyne only woman wholy to thy selfe whiche thyng coulde neuer happen no not to the most cruel Tyrantes that euer were nor to the moste mightie Princes that euer raigned not in thyne age only but in any heretofore I omit late examples least haply I offende some that are lyuyng at this present it were better to stryke Hercules then a Clowne of the Countrey neyther wyl I touche al auncient examples but spare the good name and estimation of the moste dread and noble men But thou knowest them well and although they say nothyng yet represse thou thy mournyng or els peruse the Citie searche neere hande among thy neyghbours and at eche hande thou shalt find plentie that eyther lament the losse of theyr good name and the abandoned fidelitie of theyr marryage bed or that contrary to theyr opinion are laughed to scorne of the common people These thyngs are ordinarie not only to be heard with eares but also to be seene with eyes whereof thou shalt not mysse in what part soeuer of the world thou trauaylest Howbeit the greater the examples be the greater is the comfort Thynke vppon those Kynges and Lordes of the worlde whom thou hast seene and then call to mynde those of whom thou hast read or hearde of by report Looke vpon the fable of Kyng Arthure and the Hitories of other consyder of Olympias that was wyfe vnto Philip and Cleopatra to Ptolomeê and Clytemnestra to Agamemnon and Helen to Menelaus and Pasiphè to Minos Phaedra to Theseus neyther woulde I haue thee to thynke that the citie of Rome whiche in olde tyme was as it were the Temple of shamefastnesse and honestie is free from this mischiefe Cal to mynde Metella whiche was wyfe to that Sylla who yf he had knowne of his wyfes whoordome whiche was commonly spoken of not only at Rome and ouer al Italie but also at Athens and ouer all Greece veryly I suppose he woulde not haue vsurped the name of happie whiche apparteyned nothyng vnto hym Next vnto her thynke vppon Iulia the wyfe of Agrippa whom on the one syde the woorthynesse of her husbande on the other the Maiestie of her father ought to haue stayed from wickednesse and also her daughter nothing vnlyke the mother eyther in name or lasciuiousnesse and lykemyse Iulia the wyfe of Seuerus who folowed theyr steppes both in lyfe and fortune an vnluckie name I thynke for the preseruation of honestie What shall I say of Domicia the wyfe of Domician

and louers of money ye seeme to be waxed deafe vnto holsome admonition and counsell whatsoeuer hath been sayde by vertuous and learned men specially agaynst this poynt of humane madnesse Thou hast heard your Satyrike Poet protesting For he that woulde be ryche and soone be rych and vnto these woordes he addeth But what reuerence of lawes what feare or shame is there euer in the couetous man that desireth hastely to be ryche This sayeing the wyse man among the Hebrewes compriseth in fewe woordes Who so sayth he maketh haste to be ryche can not be without blame Thou hast heard also another Countreyman of yours whether he were a Satyricall or Lyricall Poet saying It is neyther house nor lande not heapes of siluer nor golde that are able to expell Feuers out of the owners diseysed bodie nor cares out of his minde The selfe same thyng this strange wyse man comprehended in fewe woordes saying Richesse doo not helpe in the day of vengeaunce But he tolde moreouer what woulde helpe Righteousnesse sayth he shall delyuer a man from death Since therefore the money whiche thou lamentest to be lost in tyme of greatest necessitie can not profite the bodye nor mynde I marueyle eyther why it shoulde so muche be wyshed for when it is gone or loued when it is present With these and suche other thynges your Oratour beyng mooued There is no signe so euident of a base and vile minde sayth he as to loue ryches But the Ecclesiastike Oratour There is nothyng sayth he more wicked then a couetous person nothing more vniust then to loue money And the aucthoritie of very many that agree in this matter from whiche there is almost none that dissent is of suche multitude and grauitie that the common peoples errour striueth to no purpose against the iudgement of the wyse And therefore as there is none more vniust so is there no desyre more ardent then the desyre of money as beyng a thyng vpon whiche men are perswaded that all thinges depende that can be wyshed for But contrariwyse the voyces of the best learned men cry out experience and trueth crieth out the multitude of auncient and new examples crieth out that great masses of money are profitable to none but haue been pernitious to many are gotten with sinne and toyle kept with feare and carefulnesse and lost with complaint and heauinesse Let the louers of money declare eyther what falshood is in these woordes or goodnesse in theyr ryches And to the ende that a thyng so much commended may be vprightly considered let euery man cal vnto his remembrance whatsoeuer he hath seene or read perfectly and sincerely concerning this matter setting apart al regard of the common peoples clamour and the glittering of the mettalles And for that all men haue not had the lyke occasion to see and trie let those thynges be called to mynde whiche are set downe in wrytyng by famous auctours whiche the learned myght alwayes reade and heare at their pleasure And is it not well knowen that money brought in newe and vnaccustomed manners and that effeminate rychesse by meanes of hatefull riotousnesse dyd peruert whose ages that before lyued most commendably And that rychesse adioyned with couetousnesse and ouerflowing pleasures through sensualitie and lasciuiousnesse brought in the desire to ouerthrowe and destroy all whiche both by wryting and effect hath often been founde to be true That the couetous man is alwayes in neede That iron is hurtful but golde more hurtfull That the wicked thyrst of golde d th enforce mens mindes vnto any mischiefe and that the spirites are weakened onely with the sight of money Is not golde able to passe through a garison of armed men and to breake stones more forcibly then a thunderbolt and dooeth not hereof spryng treason both agaynst honestie and lyfe By a golden showre of rayne Danaès virginitie was expugned and lykewyse there was one cause of the ouerthrowe of the Greeke Poet Amphiareus and his couetous wife to wit the fatall golde which being wel contemned by Argia Eriphila yll wished for and yll gotten brake vp his house and began the occasion of horrible wickednesse Is it not most truely and properly sayde that false and transitorie ryches can neyther perfourme that which they promise neyther quenche the thyrst of the minde but encrease it neyther dryue away cares but bring them nor relieue necessities but encrease them And that The loue of money encreaseth as muche as the money it selfe encreaseth And likewyse this saying may be added Money maketh no man ryche but rather contrariwyse there is no man in whom it hath not engendred a greater desire of it And no lesse this Care followeth money as it encreaseth and greater hunger of it And agayne To them that aske many thynges many thynges are wantyng and likewyse They that possesse muche doo lacke muche Finally that whatsoeuer they be they are not permanent and continuyng as beyng reposed in the handes of Fortune subiect euermore vnto variable chaunces and at leastwyse to be lost by death For when the ryche man sleepeth he shall carie nothyng away with hym yf he open his eyes he shall fynde nothyng and yet he can not leaue that nothyng to whom he woulde for why Man passeth away in an Image and vaynely troubling hym selfe he heapeth vp ryches together and knoweth not for whom he shall gather them Whyle these and a thousande suche lyke sayinges of wyse and learned men doo in suche sort sounde about our eares notwithstandyng infinite desire to haue hath made you deafe so that the rych men of this worlde are in vayne admonished not to be too hyghly wyse nor to trust in the vncertainetie of ryches but in the liuing GOD who geueth all thing plenteously to enioy them to do good and to become ryche in good woorkes for they that would be ryche namely in these ryches that are commonly wyshed for fall into temptation and snares of the Deuyll and many vnprofitable and hurtfull lustes that drench men in death and destruction For couetousnesse is the roote of all mischieues This counsayler wyll they more harken vnto then they wyll heare hym that sayeth Trust not in wickednesse neyther couet after rapine yf ryches doo abounde set not thy hart vpon them Neither him more then his sonne saying Whoso trusteth in his ryches shall come to destruction And agayne not more then all these hym that is aboue all whose heauenly doctrine can not be contemned but of mad and frantike persons who truely calleth ryches and the companions of ryches pleasures and cares by the name of thornes whiche choake the seede of holsome woordes this spake he in whose mouth was founde no guyle The lyuely trueth I say spake this and dooest thou thynke that he founde any fayth vpon the earth Surely none at all or but very litle And that whiche he tearmeth thornes the worlde calleth chiefe sweetnesse and pleasure And where as one saith that pearles and precious stones and vnprofitable gold

that a man commeth into perhaps he is to be pardoned or pitied but for the second time he is to be blamed and he that is not sufficiently plagued with one wyfe is worthie to haue many Sorowe I haue a shrewde wyfe Reason In other matters thou mayst some deale blame fortune but in choyse of a wyfe specially of a second wyfe thou canst blame none but thy selfe for thou hast procured this mischief vnto thy selfe Sorow I suffer a malapert wife Reason Set on fire wet chaffe breake thy tyles and for other matters thou art prouided for thus shalt thou haue sufficient meanes to driue thee out of thy doores to wyt smoke rayne thy shrewyshe wyfe Sorowe I haue an vntrustie wyfe Reason Then art thou not without daunger The wiues of Agamemnon and Scipio Affricane made away with their husbandes that in the meane whyle I may speake nothyng of Amphiareus of Deiphobus and of Sampson with others ouerlong and manie to be recited But as for the other sorte they are innumeble whose wiues neither constrayned their husbandes to die nor suffered them to lyue Sorowe Thou tellest me of mischiefes that are very wel knowen but I seeke for remedie Reason There be some that in this rase woulde geue thee counsel to chastice her and by correction to bryng her manners from woorse to better and in that only to apply thy diligence but what is mine opinion herein Truely to chastice her yf chastisement wyl auayle but yf it be in vayne then to arme thy selfe with patience to endeuour thy selfe to loue her and that whiche thou art constrayned to doo to doo it wyllyngly Vacro hath wrytten a Satyre ▪ whiche they cal Menippea concernyng the duetie of an husbande there shalt thou reade the short but effectual counsayle of that learned man concernyng this matter expressed in these woordes The wyues faulte must eyther be taken away that is to say corrected or suffered And this reason of the saying though short yet sine is lykewyse aleadged He that taketh away the faulte sayth he maketh his wyfe more tollerable but be that suffereth it maketh hym selfe the better Whiche saying some other writers haue thus interpreted That this fault in a mans wyfe yf it cannot be corrected must be borne withall whiche a man may well doo with honestie yenough for that an inconuenience is better then a mischiefe and this they say was only Varroes meanyng Sorowe My wyfe is malapert and vnquiet Reason Suffer her manners yf they can be chaunged and how thou shalt lyue abrode learne at home with Socrates And since that he endured twayne at once and other haue abydden moe togeather do not thou fal to the ground vnder one burden Sorowe I haue an vnquiet wyfe Reason Vnto whom may it not happen to haue an vnquiet wyfe vnlesse it be to hym that altogeather abstayneth from marriage since that Hadriane the Emperour and the moste excellent and courteous Prince Augustus the one hauyng to wyfe Sabina the other Scribonia were both troubled with crabbed and vnquiet peeces and of very rough behauiour wel deseruyng to be diuorsed and Cato lykewyse surnamed Censorius beyng a man of so seuere and inuincible a mynde as he was hapned to marrie with one called Paula a fierce and proude woman and that thou mayest marueyle the more at the matter descended of a base and obscure familie whiche I doo note the rather to the entent that no man may hope that he can escape the troubles of marryage eyther by matchyng with a wyfe of a base stocke or poore callyng other wyse then by keeping hym selfe alwayes vnmarryed but those whiche he cannot escape set hym learne to beare them with patience and not vexe hym selfe with kickyng and stryuing against them and boastyngly sha●pen that yoke whiche he hath wyllingly vndertaken Sorowe I suffer an importunate and an vntamed wyfe Reason Thou dooest well for that muste be borne whiche cannot be layde downe yea although it doo wryng Sorow I haue a most vnquiet wyfe Reason Thou hast an occasion whereby to wyn the commendacion of patience whereby to wyshe for quietnesse whereby to loue to trauayle from home and to be loath to returne where both thy tongue and thy sticke must needes be walking Of the stealing away of a mans wyfe The .xx. Dialogue SOROWE MY wyfe is stolne away Reason All violence I confesse is grieuous vnto hym that suffereth it but yf thou consyder of this matter indifferently I pray thee what cause of griefe bryngeth it forasmuche as yf thy wyfe were an vnquiet woman the losyng of her is the releasyng from a payneful hurden Sorowe My wyfe is stolne away Reason If he be rewarded that cureth some griefe of the body what is he woorthy to haue that relieueth the troubles of the mynd If a Phisition should free thee of a Tertian Feuer thou wouldest geue hym both thankes and money and what wylt thou now geue hym that hath ryd thee of a Cotidian Sorowe My wyfe is taken from me Reason Thou knowest not howe muche thou art beholden to hym that hath taken her away great care and perpetual braulyng and perhaps also no small daunger is with thy wyfe departed out of thy doores Many haue been destroyed who doubtlesse hadde lyued yf that by stealyng or otherwyse they had lost theyr wyues among the mischiefes of this lyfe there is none worse then domesticall disagreement Sorowe My wyfe is stolne away and gone Reason If she be forcibly caryed away forgeue her but yf she be gone willyngly by one deede thou art doubly reuenged For the Harlot is gone to her Knaue and he hath carried that whiche annoyed thee into his owne house For what maner of woman may her sweete hart hope that she wyll be vnto hym that hath shewed her selfe so louing and trustie to her husbande Sorowe My wife is gone willyngly with him that carried her away Reason Let hym alone awhyle it wyll not be long before he be weery of that whiche troubled thee If men woulde consider with them selues what they goe about before they commit any wicked deede they woulde not throwe them selues downe headlong so hastily into offences But nowe the repentance that foloweth them condempneth theyr feruent appetites You see nothyng but that whiche is doone your eyes are in your backe your face is blynde Sorow My wife is stolne from me Reason This kinde of miurie not so muche as kinges coulde escape for Masinissa stole away Syphax wyfe and so dyd Herode Philips Sorowe My wyfe is stolne away Reason That whiche hath once hapned vnto thee hapned twyce vnto Menelaus Of an vnchast wife The .xxi. Dialogue SOROWE I Haue an vnchast wyfe at home Reason It were better that she were stollen away or were a shrewe and of rough manners rather then of wanton and dishonest behauiour Notwithstanding who so is of a liuely spirite and valiant courage and contemneth all mortal thynges muste endure whatsoeuer may happen Mens miseries are innumerable agaynst